2001 1000 Guineas

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188th 1000 Guineas Stakes
Newmarket, 6 May 2001
won by Ameerat (GB)

The 2001 1000 Guineas Stakes was a horse race held at Newmarket Racecourse on Sunday 6 May 2001. It was the 188th running of the 1000 Guineas.

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Newmarket Racecourse horse racing venue in England

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The winner was Ahmed Al Maktoum's Ameerat, a British-bred bay filly trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by Michael Jarvis and ridden by Philip Robinson. Ameerat's victory was the first in the race for her owner and trainer and the second for Robinson who had won on Pebbles in 1985.

Major General Sheikh Ahmed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Deputy Chairman of Dubai Police & Public Security. He is the current Chairman of the Al Wasl FC club located in Dubai.

Ameerat is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from August 2000 to October 2001 she ran seven times and won two races. After winning once from three starts as a two-year-old, she won the Classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse on her first appearance of the 2001 season. Her subsequent career was disappointing, as she finished unplaced in her three remaining races. At the end of her three-year-old season she was retired from racing to become a broodmare. Ameerat was not regarded as one of the better classic winners.

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The contenders

The race attracted a field of fifteen runners: thirteen trained in the United Kingdom, one in Ireland and one in France. The favourite was the Michael Stoute-trained Karasta who had won the May Hill Stakes and finished second in the Prix Marcel Boussac in 2000. She was accompanied by her stable companion Enthused, winner of the Princess Margaret Stakes and Lowther Stakes. The Irish challenger was Toroca, trained by Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle who had won a maiden race at the Curragh two weeks earlier. The Godolphin Racing stable entered Muwakleh, a filly who had won both her races in Dubai including the UAE 1000 Guineas. France was represented by the Criquette Head-trained Stunning, winner of the Prix Imprudence. The other fancied runners included the undefeated Crystal Music, winner of the Fillies' Mile, and the Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Dora Carrington. Karasta headed the betting at odds of 9/2 ahead of Crystal Music (5/1), Enthused (6/1), Muwakleh (13/2), Stunning (9/1) and Toroca (10/1). Ameerat, whose only previous win had come in a maiden race at Goodwood Racecourse nine months earlier, was next in the betting at 11/1. [1]

Sir Michael Ronald Stoute is a Barbadian British thoroughbred horse trainer in flat racing. Stoute, whose father was the Chief of Police for Barbados, left the island in 1964 at the age of 19 to become an assistant to trainer Pat Rohan and began training horses on his own in 1972. His first win as a trainer came on 28 April 1972 when Sandal, a horse owned by Stoute’s father, won at Newmarket Racecourse in England. Since then, he has gone on to win races all over the globe, including victories in the Dubai World Cup, the Breeders Cup, the Japan Cup and the Hong Kong Vase.

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The race

The starting stalls were placed on the stands side (the left side from the jockeys' viewpoint) of the wide Newmarket straight and the field raced up that side of the course throughout the race. Muwakleh was sent to the front by Frankie Dettori soon after the start, and was followed by Sayedah with Ashlinn, Arhaaff, Ameerat and Autumnal as the fillies remained closely grouped until the final quarter-mile. Crystal Music made progress on the outside, but was unable to sustain her effort, leaving Ameerat as Muwakleh's only serious challenger. Ameerat gradually wore down the Godolphin filly, gaining the advantage 50 yards from the finish to win by a neck. Toroca stayed on well in the closing stages to take third place ahead of Crystal Music and Enthused. Stunning finished in seventh place whilst Karasta was thirteenth of the fifteen runners. [1]

Frankie Dettori Italian jockey

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Ameerat's victory gave Jarvis his first British classic winner in a thirty-three-year training career. [2] He described the moment as "a great thrill", while Robinson described the winner as a "remarkable filly". [3]

Race details

Full result

Pos.Marg.Horse (bred)JockeyTrainer (Country)Odds
1 Ameerat (GB) Philip Robinson Michael Jarvis (GB)11/1
2nkMuwakleh (GB) Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor (GB)13/2
31¾Toroca (USA) Mick Kinane Aidan O'Brien (IRE)10/1
41Crystal Music (USA) Richard Hughes John Gosden (GB)5/1
51½Enthused (USA) Johnny Murtagh Sir Michael Stoute (GB)6/1
62½Arhaaff (IRE) Craig Williams Mick Channon (GB)25/1
71Stunning (USA)Olivier Doleuze Criquette Head-Maarek (FR)9/1
8shdSantolina (USA) Jimmy Fortune John Gosden (GB)20/1
91½Autumnal (IRE) Brett Doyle Brian Meehan (GB)50/1
10nkPeaceful Paradise (GB) Michael Hills John Hills (GB)50/1
11½Mameha (GB)Basil Marcus Clive Brittain (GB)100/1
122½Sayedah (IRE) Richard Hills Marcus Tregoning (GB)20/1
131½Karasta (IRE) Kieren Fallon Sir Michael Stoute (GB)9/2 fav
14¾Ashlinn (IRE) Dane O'Neill Richard Hannon, Sr. (GB)100/1
15½Dora Carrington (IRE) John Reid Peter Harris (GB)12/1

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, Ameerat

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References

  1. 1 2 "1000 Guineas result 2001". Racing Post. 6 May 2001. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Ameerat claims 1,000 Guineas". BBC News. 6 May 2001. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "Ameerat Upsets Muwakleh for One Thousand Guineas Win". BloodHorse.com. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
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