Twilight Son

Twilight Son
Racing silks of Godfrey Wilson
Sire	Kyllachy
Grandsire	Pivotal
Dam	Twlilight Mistress
Damsire	Bin Ajwaad
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1 April 2012
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Caroline Wilson
Owner	Godfrey Wilson & Cheveley Park Stud
Trainer	Henry Candy
Record	10: 6-1-0
Earnings	£725,150
Major wins
888Sport Charity Sprint (2015) Betfred Sprint Cup (2015) Diamond Jubilee Stakes (2016)

Twilight Son (foaled 1 April 2012) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Bred and owned by Caroline and Godfrey Wilson and trained by Henry Candy he was a specialist sprinter who won six of his ten races in a racing career which lasted from August 2014 until October 2016. He won both of his races as a two-year-old and his first three races as a three-year-old including a victory in the Group One Betfred Sprint Cup. As a four-year-old in 2016 he recorded his second Group One success when he defeated a strong international field in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes. He was retired at the end of the season to become a breeding stallion.

Twilight Son is a bay horse with white star and white coronet markings on his hind feet bred in England by Caroline Wilson and owned during his racing career by her husband Godfrey Wilson. Twilight Son was sent into training with the veteran Henry Candy at Kingston Warren in Oxfordshire where he was soon joined by a gelding named Limato.

He was sired by Kyllachy, a top-class sprinter who won the Nunthorpe Stakes in 2002. At stud Kyllachy has sired many successful horses including Sole Power, the Dubai Golden Shaheen winner Krypton Factor and the Chairman's Sprint Prize winner Dim Sum. His dam, Twilight Mistress was a durable but moderate racemare who won three minor handicap races from 36 starts between 2000 and 2003. She was descended from Pennyweight, a half-sister to the Irish 2000 Guineas winner Wassl.

Twilight Son began his racing career in a six furlong maiden race at Salisbury Racecourse on 13 August and started the 5/1 third favourite in a nine-runner field. Ridden by Fergus Sweeney he took the lead inside the final furlong and won by half a length from the favoured Desert Force. Four weeks later, with Sweeney again in the saddle when the colt was assigned a weight of 131 pounds for a Nursery (a handicap race for two-year-olds) at Thirsk Racecourse. Starting the 4/7 favourite he started slowly and had problems obtaining a clear run but went to the front 75 yards from the finish and won by half a length.