Princely Gift
| Princely Gift | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Nasrullah |
| Grandsire | Nearco |
| Dam | Blue Gem |
| Damsire | Blue Peter |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1951 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Alfer Allnatt |
| Owner | Victor Sassoon |
| Trainer | Noel Murless |
| Record | 23:9-4-4 |
| Major wins | |
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Challenge Stakes (1954) Hungerford Stakes (1955) Portland Handicap (1955) |
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| Awards | |
| Timeform rating 137 | |
Princely Gift (1951–1973) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from 1953 until 1955 he ran twenty-three times and won nine races. After showing good, but unexceptional form in his first two seasons, he improved significantly in the summer of 1955 and ended his career with a record-breaking win in the Portland Handicap. Having been awarded one of the highest Timeform figures of the decade, Princely Gift was retired to stud at the end of the season and had considerable success as a sire of winners.
Princely Gift was a bay horse with no white markings bred by Major Alfred Allnat. He was one of the last crop of European foals sired by Nasrullah before the stallion was exported to the United States. His dam, Blue Gem was a daughter of the Epsom Derby winner Blue Peter, giving Princely Gift a pedigree more typical of a middle-distance horse rather than of the sprinter he became. As a yearling, Princely Gift was sent to the sales where he was bought for 5,000 guineas by Sir Victor Sassoon. The colt was sent into training with Noel Murless at Newmarket, Suffolk.
As a two-year-old, Princely Gift showed some useful form, notably when finishing second, beaten a short head by the future 2000 Guineas winner Darius in the July Stakes. He also finished second in a valuable race at York and won the Clearwell Stakes at Newmarket. In the Free Handicap, a ranking of the season's best British juveniles, he was given a weight of 121 pounds, twelve pounds below the top-rated Our Babu. At the end of the season he was sent to the sales but failed to reach his reserve price, and so remained in Sassoon's ownership.
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