Sweet Solera
| Sweet Solera | |
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| Sire | Solonaway |
| Grandsire | Solferino |
| Dam | Miss Gammon |
| Damsire | Grandmaster |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1958 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Mrs D. M. Walker |
| Owner | Mrs Magnus Castello |
| Trainer | Reginald Day |
| Record | 8: 6-1-1 |
| Earnings | £40,165 |
| Major wins | |
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Cherry Hinton Stakes (1960) 1,000 Guineas Trial Stakes (1961) Thirsk Classic Trial (1961) 1000 Guineas (1961) Epsom Oaks (1961) |
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| Honours | |
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Timeform top-rated European three-year-old filly (1961) Timeform rating: 129 Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket |
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Sweet Solera (1958–1978) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career lasting from June 1960 until June 1961, the unfashionably-bred filly ran eight times and won six races. As a two-year-old she was beaten in her first two races, but her five-lengths win in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse was enough to see her rated among the best juveniles of the year. Sweet Solera was unbeaten in four races including the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket and Oaks at Epsom. She was then retired to stud, and had some success as a broodmare.
Sweet Solera was a "big, handsome" chestnut filly with a broad white blaze and a long white sock on her left hind leg, bred in Ireland by Mrs D. M Walker. Her sire, Solonaway won the Irish 2000 Guineas over a mile, but was better known as a sprinter. In the year of Sweet Solera's birth he was exported to Japan, where he became Champion sire in 1966. Her dam, Miss Gammon, won three minor races and was a half-sister of Royal Rasher, who won the Del Mar Oaks in 1957. She was a member of Thoroughbred Family 11-f which also produced Colombo, Aunt Edith and Meadow Court. An unusual feature of Sweet Solera's pedigree was the presence in the fourth generation of Call Boy: the 1927 Epsom Derby winner was almost sterile and sired very few foals.
Sweet Solera's pedigree was not considered an impressive one and when she was sent as a yearling to the October sales at Newmarket she was bought for 1,850 guineas by the trainer Reg Day, acting on behalf of Mrs S. M. Castello. Day, who began training racehorses as a teenager in 1900, prepared the filly for racing at his Terrace House stables at Newmarket, Suffolk.
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