Warning (horse)

Warning
Racing colours of Khalid Abdullah
Sire	Known Fact
Grandsire	In Reality
Dam	Slightly Dangerous
Damsire	Roberto
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	13 April 1985
Country	United States
Colour	Dark Bay or Brown
Breeder	Juddmonte Farms
Owner	Khalid Abdulla
Trainer	Guy Harwood
Record	14:8-3-0
Major wins
Richmond Stakes (1987) Champagne Stakes (1987) Sussex Stakes (1988) Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (1988) Queen Anne Stakes (1989)
Awards
Top-rated European two-year-old colt (1987) Timeform top-rated two-year-old (19878) Top-rated European horse (1988) Timeform top-rated horse and Horse of the Year(1988) Timeform rating 136

Warning (13 April 1985 – December 2000) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the leading two-year-old colt in Europe in 1987 when he was unbeaten in four races including the Richmond Stakes and the Champagne Stakes. As a three-year-old he missed the British Classic Races but proved himself to be an outstanding specialist miler, winning the Sussex Stakes and the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. He was less successful in 1989, but added a win in the Queen Anne Stakes. He was retired to stud at the end of that year and became a successful sire of winners in Britain and Japan.

Warning was a dark bay or brown horse with a narrow white stripe and a white sock on his left hind leg bred by Juddmonte Farms, the breeding organisation of his owner Khalid Abdulla. The colt raced in Abdulla's green, pink and white racing silks and was trained at Pulborough, West Sussex by Guy Harwood. Warning was ridden in all his races by the Irish jockey Pat Eddery.

He was sired by the 2000 Guineas and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Known Fact and thus was a male-line descendant of the Godolphin Arabian, unlike more than 95% of modern thoroughbreds, who trace their ancestry to the Darley Arabian. Warning's dam Slightly Dangerous finished second in the 1982 Epsom Oaks and later became an outstanding broodmare. Apart from Warning she produced The Derby winner Commander in Chief, the Derby runner-up Dushyantor, the Irish Derby runner-up Deploy and the Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes winner Yashmak. She was also a sister of I Will Follow, the dam of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Rainbow Quest.