Toulon (horse)

Toulon
Racing colours of Khalid Abdullah
Sire	Top Ville
Grandsire	High Top
Dam	Green Rock
Damsire	Mill Reef
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	15 April 1988
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Juddmonte Farms
Owner	Khalid Abdulla
Trainer	André Fabre Bobby Frankel
Record	14: 5-0-2
Earnings	£323,734 in Europe $80,200 in California
Major wins
Chester Vase (1991) Prix Maurice de Nieuil (1991) St. Leger Stakes (1991) Jim Murray Memorial Handicap (1993)

Toulon (1988–1998), was a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who was bred in Britain and trained in France. In a career which lasted from October 1990 until October 1992, he ran eleven times and won four races. He recorded his most important success when winning the Classic St. Leger Stakes as a three-year-old in 1990, the same year in which he won the Chester Vase and the Prix Maurice de Nieuil as well as finishing fourth in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. In the following season he failed to win in four races in Europe and had limited success when racing in California in 1993. He was then retired to stud, where he proved to be a successful sire of National Hunt horses.

Toulon was a bay horse with a white star, bred in the United Kingdom by his owner, Khalid Abdulla's Juddmonte Farms organisation. He was one of the best horses sired by Top Ville, the Irish-bred winner of the 1979 Prix du Jockey Club. Toulon's dam, Green Rock was a daughter of Infra Green, who won Prix Ganay and produced good winners including Infrasonic (Queen's Vase) and Greensmith (second in the St. James's Palace Stakes). The colt was sent into training with André Fabre at Chantilly. He was ridden in all but his first and last races European races by the veteran Irish jockey Pat Eddery.

Toulon did not appear on a racecourse until the late autumn of 1990. On October 25 he ran against two opponents in the Prix de Sablonville over 1800m at Longchamp. Ridden for the only time by Cash Asmussen, he won by a neck from Sarajoudin.