Wollow
| Wollow | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Wolver Hollow |
| Grandsire | Sovereign Path |
| Dam | Wichuraiana |
| Damsire | Worden |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1973 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Tally-Ho Stud |
| Owner | Carlo d'Alessio |
| Trainer | Henry Cecil |
| Record | 11:9-0-0 |
| Earnings | £202,806 |
| Major wins | |
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Champagne Stakes (1975) Dewhurst Stakes (1975) Greenham Stakes (1976) 2000 Guineas (1976) Eclipse Stakes (1976) Sussex Stakes (1976) Benson & Hedges Gold Cup (1976) |
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| Awards | |
| Highest Rated British Two-year-old (1975) Timeform rating 132 |
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Wollow (1973 – after 1997) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from summer 1975 to October 1976 he ran eleven times and won nine races. In 1975 he was rated the best two-year-old in Britain by a margin of five pounds and the following spring he won the Classic 2000 Guineas. He was undefeated in six races when starting favourite for the 1976 Epsom Derby but finished unplaced. Wollow won three more important races before his retirement later that year. He made little impact at stud and was exported to Japan in 1981.
Wollow was a tall bay horse bred at Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland by the Tally-Ho Stud. He was the most successful horse got by his sire Wolver Hollow, the winner of the 1969 Eclipse Stakes. His dam, Wichuraiana, showed little racing ability, but was well-bred, being a half-sister of the Goodwood Cup winner Exar, and, as a descendent of the influential broodmare Black Ray, was a member of the same Thoroughbred family as Mill Reef and Blushing Groom. As a yearling, Wollow was bought for 7,000 guineas by the Newmarket Bloodstock Agency, acting on behalf of the Italian lawyer Carlo d'Alessio, who sent the colt to be trained at Newmarket by Henry Cecil at the Marriott Stables.
Wollow was unbeaten as a two-year-old in 1976. He began his career by winning a maiden race over six furlongs at his home course at Newmarket and was then moved up in distance to win the seven furlong Fitzroy House Stakes. In September he was promoted in class and won the Group Two Champagne Stakes at Doncaster's St Leger meeting. On his final start of the season he returned to Newmarket for Britain's most prestigious two-year-old race, the seven furlong Dewhurst Stakes. He won the Group One race impressively from a field which included the Middle Park Stakes winner Hittite Glory and the leading Irish colt Malinowski. In the Free Handicap, a rating of the season's best two-year-olds, Wollow was given an official rating of 133, making him the best horse of his generation by a margin of five pounds.
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