Swiss Maid
| Swiss Maid | |
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| Sire | Welsh Pageant |
| Grandsire | Tudor Melody |
| Dam | Hornton Grange |
| Damsire | Hornbeam |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 13 February 1975 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Mrs J R Hine |
| Owner | Max Fine |
| Trainer | Paul A. Kelleway |
| Record | 20:5-2-2 |
| Major wins | |
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Sun Chariot Stakes (1978) Champion Stakes (1978) |
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| Awards | |
| Top-rated European three-year-old filly (1978) Timeform top-rated three-year-old filly (1978) Top-rated British older female racehorse (1979) Timeform rating 129 (1978), 121 (1979) |
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Swiss Maid (13 February 1975 – after 1992) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare, who was rated the best three-year-old filly in Europe in 1978. Unraced as a two-year-old, she won only one of her first eight races in 1978 and appeared to be some way inferior to the best horses of her generation. She then showed consistent improvement, winning her last four races of the season including the Sun Chariot Stakes and ended her year by decisively defeating a strong international field in the weight-for-age Champion Stakes. She remained in training as a four-year-old but faield to reproduce the form he had shown in the autumn of 1978. She made no impact as a broodmare.
Swiss Maid was a strongly-built, dark-coated bay mare with no white markings bred by Mrs J R Hine. She was sired by Welsh Pageant, a one-mile specialist whose wins included the Lockinge Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. Welsh Pageant's other progeny included the Arlington Million winner Teleprompter and the Ascot Gold Cup winner Longboat. Swiss Maid was the third foal of her dam, Hornton Grange, a half-sister to the dam of the Derby Italiano winner Don Orazio.
As a yearling the filly was sold for 6000 guineas and was sent into training with Paul Kelleway at his Shalfleet stable in Newmarket, Suffolk.
Swiss Maid was unraced as a two-year-old but was highly tried in the spring of her three-year old season. Her racecourse debut was scheduled for 19 April when she was to be matched against in the Wood Ditton Stakes over one mile at Newmarket Racecourse, but the filly refused to enter the starting stalls and was withdrawn. When she reappeared a few days later in the Princess Elizabeth Stakes at Epsom Downs Racecourse she was equipped with a hood and finished fourth behind the subsequently disqualified Be Sweet. She was then moved up sharply in class for the 166th running of the 1000 Guineas over the same course and distance and finished unplaced behind Enstone Spark. Moved up in distance for the Group Three Musidora Stakes at York Racecourse in May the filly finished fourth behind the Barry Hills-trained Princess of Man. Later that month, Swiss Maid ran in the Lupe Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse, which, like the Musidora Stakes, is a trial race for the Oaks Stakes. She finished second, four lengths behind the impressive winner Cistus.
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