Yeats (horse)
| Yeats | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Sadler's Wells |
| Grandsire | Northern Dancer |
| Dam | Lyndonville |
| Damsire | Top Ville |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 23 April 2001 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Barronstown Stud & Orpendale |
| Owner | Sue Magnier & Diane Nagle |
| Trainer | Aidan O'Brien |
| Record | 22: 14-2-1 |
| Earnings | £1,146,977 |
| Major wins | |
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Ballysax Stakes (2004) Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial (2004) Coronation Cup (2005) Goodwood Cup (2006, 2008) Ascot Gold Cup (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) Vintage Crop Stakes (2007, 2008) Saval Beg Stakes (2007) Irish St. Leger (2007) Prix Royal-Oak (2008) |
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| Awards | |
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European Champion Stayer (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) |
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Yeats is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who won seven Group One (G1) races and is the only horse ever to win the Ascot Gold Cup four times in succession.
Yeats is a dark-coated bay horse with a small white star and white socks on his hind legs foaled on 23 April 2001 at Barronstown Stud. Yeats is by Sadler's Wells, out of Lyndonville (also owned by Barronstown Stud) by Top Ville. He is owned by Ballydoyle and Coolmore Stud boss John Magnier. He is named after the painter Jack Butler Yeats.
Yeats began his racing career as a two-year-old with a win by four lengths in a maiden race, over eight furlongs, at the Curragh.
Yeats was unbeaten in his next two starts, including the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial in May 2004, and was hot favourite for the Epsom Derby, but met with a setback just days before the race and missed the rest of the season, returning almost 1 year later, finishing 2nd in a Group 3 in Ireland on heavy ground.
Yeats' next start came at Epsom in the Coronation Cup, taking on subsequent Japan Cup winner Alkaased, Bandari and dual Coronation Cup winner Warrsan. Jockey Kieren Fallon adopted front-running tactics on the colt, and pulled away in the final quarter-mile to win by more than 2 lengths. The win made Yeats the first Irish-based horse to win the Coronation Cup since Roberto in 1973. Yeats attempted to follow up in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud over the same distance, with new jockey Jimmy Fortune adopting hold-up tactics, but they failed to pay off, and Yeats trailed in 9th, 20 lengths behind the winner Alkaased.
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