Tout Seul | |
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Sire | Ali-Royal |
Grandsire | Royal Academy |
Dam | Total Aloof |
Damsire | Green Dancer |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 4 February 2000 |
Country | Ireland |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | G Johnston King |
Owner | Eden Racing |
Trainer | Fulke Johnson Houghton |
Record | 20: 6-2-1 |
Earnings | £386,953 |
Major wins | |
Shergar Cup Juvenile (2002) Tattersalls Breeders Stakes (2002) Dewhurst Stakes (2002) Leicestershire Stakes (2004) |
Tout Seul (foaled 4 February 2000) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He is best known for his performances as a two-year-old in 2002 when he won five of his seven races including the Shergar Cup Juvenile, Tattersalls Breeders Stakes and Dewhurst Stakes, as well as finishing second in the Two-Year-Old Trophy. In the following year he failed to win in six races but finished fourth in the 2000 Guineas and third in the Irish 2000 Guineas. In 2004 he recorded his first victory in eighteen months when he won the Leicestershire Stakes but was well beaten in his remaining races and was retired at the end of the year. He has made little impact as breeding stallion.
Tout Seul is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Ireland by G. Johnston King. As a foal he was offered for sale at Goffs in November 2000 and was bought for IR£6,800 by the bloodstock agent Sheena Collins. As a yearling in September 2001 at Tattersalls Tout Seul was again put up for auction and was bought for 12,500 guineas by the trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton. The colt entered the ownership of the Eden Racing syndicate and was trained throughout his racing career by Johnson Houghton at Woodway stable at Blewbury in Berkshire. He was ridden in most of his races by Steve Carson.
Tout Seul was probably the best horse sired by Ali-Royal, a consistent, top-class miler who won the Sussex Stakes as a four-year-old in 1997. Tout Seul's dam Total Aloof won two minor races as a three-year-old in 1996. and was a granddaughter of the Yorkshire Oaks winner Condessa. The Racing Post's breeding correspondent Tony Morris wrote that the colt was "unfashionably bred" and that Tout Seul was "better than he could have been predicted to be, based on our knowledge of his immediate antecedents".