Tagalie

Tagalie
Tagalie in 1915 with Sunstar filly, Mabella.
Sire	Cyllene
Grandsire	Bona Vista
Dam	Tagale
Damsire	Le Sancy
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1909
Country	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Colour	Grey
Breeder	Walter Raphael
Owner	Walter Raphael
Trainer	Matthew Dawson Waugh
Record	13: 10-0-1
Earnings	£
Major wins
1000 Guineas (1912) Epsom Derby (1912)

Tagalie (1909–1920) was British Thoroughbred racehorse. She was one of only six fillies to win the Epsom Derby, and was also the second of only four greys to have won the race. She achieved this feat as a three-year-old in 1912, a year in which she had already won the 1000 Guineas. Although her Derby win was easy and impressive, she failed to reproduce her winning form in her three subsequent races.

Tagalie was a small, lightly framed grey filly ("more like a greyhound then a racehorse"), bred by her owner, the financier Walter Raphael. She was sired by Cyllene, an Ascot Gold Cup winner, who went on to become a highly successful stallion. In addition to Tagalie, he sired three other winners of the Epsom Derby and through his grandson, Phalaris, he is the direct male-line ancestor of most modern thoroughbreds. Her dam was the French-bred mare Tagale, from whom she inherited her grey coat. In addition to Tagalie, Tagale also produced the Gimcrack Stakes winner Blankney II.

Raphael sent the filly to his private trainer Matthew Dawson Waugh at his Somerville Lodge Stable at Newmarket, Suffolk.

Tagalie showed some promise as a juvenile in 1911, despite not appearing on a racecourse until October. She won the Boscawen Post Stakes and was then sent to Newmarket for the Cheveley Park Stakes, the most important race of the season for British two-year-old fillies, in which she finished third to Belleisle. On her third and final start of the season she ran unplaced in a race at Sandown.

On her three-year-old debut, Tagalie was sent straight for the 1000 Guineas on May 3 for which she started a 20/1 outsider. Ridden by the New Zealand jockey Les Hewitt she led from the start and won by one and a half lengths from Alope, with Belleisle third. Her winning time of 1:39.6 was the second fastest recorded up to that time. In the Newmarket Stakes on May 15 she proved herself capable of racing against colts when overcoming interference to finish an unlucky second to Cylgad.