Fantastic Light

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Fantastic Light
Fantastic Light 20001126R1.jpg
Japan Cup 2000. Fantastic Light (No. 10) finishes third to T M Opera O
Sire Rahy
Grandsire Blushing Groom
DamJood
Damsire Nijinsky
Sex Stallion
Foaled1996
CountryUnited States
Colour Bay
Breeder Gainsborough Farm Inc.
Owner Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Godolphin Stables
Trainer Michael Stoute
Saeed bin Suroor
Record25: 12-5-3
Earnings$8,486,957 [1]
Major wins
Sandown Classic Trial (1999)
Great Voltigeur Stakes (1999)
Arc Trial (1999)
Dubai Sheema Classic (2000)
Man o' War Stakes (2000)
Hong Kong Cup (2000)
Tattersalls Gold Cup (2001)
Prince of Wales's Stakes (2001)
Irish Champion Stakes (2001)
Breeders' Cup Turf (2001)
Awards
United States Champion Male Turf Horse (2001)
European Champion Older Horse (2001)
European Horse of the Year (2001)
Emirates World Series Racing Champion (2000, 2001)
Timeform rating: 134
Last updated on August 20, 2024

Fantastic Light (foaled February 13, 1996) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse and pensioned sire. He was foaled in the United States but was trained in England and Dubai during his racing career, which ran from August 1998 to his retirement following the Breeders' Cup Turf in October 2001. He raced in seven countries, winning Group One/Grade I races in five of them and was a dual winner of the Emirates World Series Racing Championship. He was named United States Champion Male Turf Horse, European Horse of the Year and European Champion Older Horse in 2001. He was also well known for his two races against the 2001 Epsom Derby winner Galileo. In August 2012 it was announced that he had been pensioned from stallion duty while in Japan and would return to Dalham Hall in England to live out his days as a pensioner.

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In his early racing career, when trained by Michael Stoute, he won the Sandown Classic Trial, the Great Voltigeur Stakes, the Arc Trial and the Dubai Sheema Classic. In 2000 after his transfer to Godolphin he won the Man o' War Stakes and the Hong Kong Cup. In his championship season in 2001 Fantastic Light won four of his six races; the Tattersalls Gold Cup, the Prince of Wales's Stakes, the Irish Champion Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Turf.

Background

Fantastic Light, a bay horse with an irregular white blaze and three white feet, was bred in Kentucky by Maktoum Al Maktoum's Gainsborough Stud. [2]

His sire, Rahy (1985–2011), sired the winners of over three hundred races, including more than thirty at Group One/Grade I level. Apart from Fantastic Light, his best progeny have included Noverre, Serena's Song and Hawksley Hill. [3] Fantastic Light's dam, Jood, a daughter of Nijinsky, failed to win a race, but came from a good family, being closely related to Swain. [4]

Until early 2000, Fantastic Light raced in the colours of Maktoum Al Maktoum and was trained by Michael Stoute at Newmarket, Suffolk. His ownership was then transferred to Godolphin Racing, and he was trained from that point on by Saeed bin Suroor. [5]

Racing career

1998: two-year-old season

Fantastic Light never ran in a maiden race, instead making his debut against more experienced colts in a minor stakes race at Sandown in August 1998. He started slowly and showed his inexperience ("ran green") before taking the lead in the closing stages and winning by one and three quarter lengths from Sicnee, with the future Diadem Stakes winner, Sampower Star in third. [6] He followed up in a similar event at the same course three weeks later, beating Aesops by three quarters of a length after leading close to the finish. [7] This performance attracted some attention, with one commentator identifying him as "a promising young stayer". [8] On his last start of the year he was moved up to Listed class, and finished last of the three starters in the Stardom Stakes at Goodwood. [9]

1999: three-year-old season

Fantastic Light began his three-year-old season with his first Group race win in the Sandown Classic Trial. Ridden by Daryll Holland, he took the lead a furlong out and was eased in the closing stages to win by a short head. [10] Speculation that he might develop into a Derby contender [11] ended in his next race, when he was stepped up to one and a half miles for the first time and finished fourth of the five runners in the Lingfield Derby Trial. [12]

Fantastic Light was brought back to a mile and a quarter, and produced placed efforts on his next two starts. At Royal Ascot in June, he was beaten a head by Lear Spear in the Prince of Wales's Stakes (then a Group Two race), and at Sandown three weeks later he finished third, beaten a neck and half a length behind Compton Admiral and Xaar in the Group One Eclipse Stakes. In August Fantastic Light recorded his first win at Group Two level as he led three furlongs out and ran on to win a strongly contested Great Voltigeur Stakes from Bienamado (Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes, San Juan Capistrano Handicap, Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap) and the future St Leger winner Mutafaweq. [13] A month later, he won a third important race by holding off the 1998 Epsom Derby winner High-Rise by three quarters of a length in the Listed Arc Trial at Newbury. [14]

On his final start of the season, Fantastic Light was moved up to the highest level for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and finished a remote eleventh of the thirteen runners behind Montjeu. [15]

2000: four-year-old season

Godolphin racing colours, carried by Fantastic Light from April 2000. Racing silks of Godolphin.svg
Godolphin racing colours, carried by Fantastic Light from April 2000.

Fantastic Light's first run of 2000 was also his last for the Stoute stable. He was sent to Dubai for the Sheema Classic, in which he faced a field including runners from Britain, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and Argentina. Ridden by Kieren Fallon, he took the lead in the straight ("far too soon" according to his jockey) and went clear to beat the German horse Caitano by three lengths, with High-Rise third. [16] In winning, Fantastic Light broke the Nad Al Sheba track record for one and a half miles by more than a second. [17] Shortly after the race it was announced that Fantastic Light would not return to Michael Stoute, but would be transferred to Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin Racing team and be trained by Saeed bin Suroor.[ citation needed ]

Fantastic Light was then returned to England for a summer campaign. In the Coronation Cup at Epsom in June he finished second to Daliapour and then came fifth of the eight runners behind Giant's Causeway in the Eclipse Stakes. He was then sent to Ascot for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, where he finished second, reversing the Epsom form with Daliapour, but having no chance [18] against the favourite Montjeu. [19]

In Autumn, Godolphin campaigned Fantastic Light in the United States. At Belmont Park in September he started odds-on favourite and won the Man o' War Stakes "comfortably", to record his first Grade I victory. [20] In this race he was ridden by Jerry Bailey, who claimed that he had always had the other runners "at his mercy" [21] despite having to come round the outside of the field. In all his remaining ten starts Fantastic Light was ridden by Frankie Dettori. He disappointed in a return to Belmont for the Turf Classic, finishing fourth to John's Call, a horse he had beaten in the Man o' War. He then finished to fifth Kalanisi in the Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs, although in this case he had a legitimate excuse, having been blocked twice when Dettori attempted to find space for a challenge. [22]

For his last two starts of the year, Fantastic Light was sent to East Asia. In November, in the Japan Cup he stayed on strongly in the closing stages to finish a close third, beaten a neck and a nose by T M Opera O and Meisho Doto. Dettori reportedly felt that the slow pace was the reason for his defeat. [23] Despite three successive defeats, Fantastic Light still managed to end the season with a major victory. In December he was sent to Sha Tin for the Hong Kong Cup and justified favouritism by leading in the straight and staying on strongly to beat Greek Dance and Jim and Tonic. [24] The win earned Fantastic Light top place in the Emirates World Series, a competition in which points were awarded for performances in a number of international races. [25]

2001: five-year-old season

Spring

In March he attempted to win a second Sheema Classic and almost succeeded, taking the lead a furlong out, but being caught on the line and beaten a nose by the Japanese outsider Stay Gold. [26] Despite the defeat, his connections announced that they were "delighted" with the performance. [27] As in 2000, Fantastic Light spent the middle of the season racing in Europe. At the end of May he was sent to Ireland where he won the Tattersalls Gold Cup, taking the lead a furlong from the finish and beating Golden Snake by a neck with Kalanisi third. [28] After the race, Godolphin's racing manager, Simon Crisford, said that Fantastic Light would be aimed at the top middle-distance races in Europe, calling him "very special... a fantastic horse". [29]

Summer

Despite this result, Kalanisi was made favourite when the horses met again in the Prince of Wales's Stakes (by this time a Group One race) at Royal Ascot, a contest that was expected to be one of the best of the meeting. [30] Fantastic Light raced behind the leaders before being moved up by Dettori to take the lead in the straight. He soon went clear with what The Daily Telegraph described as a "ruthless display of speed", [31] and although Kalanisi attempted to challenge, Fantastic Light stayed on to win "comfortably" by two and a half lengths. [32] After the race, Sheikh Mohammed talked confidently about a meeting with the unbeaten Derby winner Galileo. [31]

Fantastic Light and Galileo did meet at Ascot in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, for which the Aidan O'Brien-trained three-year-old was sent off the 1/2 favourite ahead of Fantastic Light at 7/2. The race was the subject of considerable advance publicity, and was portrayed as a clash between the two most powerful forces in European racing; Godolphin, represented by Fantastic Light, and Ballydoyle/Coolmore represented by Galileo. [33] As in the Prince of Wales's Stakes, Dettori settled Fantastic Light in the early stages before moving him out to challenge in the straight. Galileo had already taken the lead but Fantastic Light moved up and went level a furlong out. The two horses raced side by side for several strides, but Galileo then pulled ahead to win by two lengths. [34]

Autumn

The second meeting between Fantastic Light and Galileo was scheduled for the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown in September and was highly anticipated. [35] This time Dettori rode Fantastic Light more positively as part of an agreed Godolphin plan, [36] sending him past the Ballydoyle pacemaker to take the lead two furlongs out. Michael Kinane immediately brought Galileo to challenge and the two horses raced alongside each other all the way to the line. Galileo appeared to gain a slight advantage, but Fantastic Light, stayed on strongly under pressure to regain the lead and win by a head in a "thrilling" [37] contest. [38] The British Horseracing Authority described the event as "one of the greatest races witnessed throughout the current decade", [39] whilst readers of the Racing Post placed it seventh (the third highest for a flat race) in their list of the 100 Greatest Races. [40] [41]

For Fantastic Light's final start, he was sent back to America for a second attempt at the Breeders' Cup, held in October 2001 at Belmont Park. It was expected that he would run against Galileo again [42] in the Classic, while Godolphin's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner, Sakhee was aimed for the Breeders' Cup Turf. Shortly before the race, however, the two Godolphin horses switched targets, the rationale apparently being that Sakhee would be better suited by the dirt surface. [43] In the Turf, Dettori placed Fantastic Light just behind the pace as the race was led first by With Anticipation and then by Timboroa. Making his challenge in the straight, Fantastic Light took the lead just over a furlong out and held off the strong late challenge of the St Leger winner Milan to win by three quarters of a length, with the rest of the runners more than five lengths further back. [44] The time of 2:24.36 was a new course record. [45] Summarising Fantastic Light's career, Crisford called him "the ultimate modern-day racehorse." [46]

A projected run in the Japan Cup did not materialise [47] and his retirement was announced shortly afterwards. He had already amassed sufficient points to secure a second Emirates World Series. [48] [49]

Race record

DateRaceDist (f)CourseClassPrize (£K)OddsRunnersPlacingMarginTimeJockeyTrainer
2 August 1998Carshalton Novice Stakes7 Sandown 48/1511.751:33.35 John Reid Michael Stoute
22 August 1998Sun Conditions Stakes8 Sandown 47/2510.751:44.02 John Reid Michael Stoute
11 September 1998Stardom Stakes8 Goodwood Listed 139/4332.51:44.70 Ray Cochrane Michael Stoute
24 April 1999 Sandown Classic Trial 10 Sandown 33913/271Short head2:15.73 Darryll Holland Michael Stoute
8 May 1999 Lingfield Derby Trial 12 Lingfield 3323/1546.752:30.31 Darryll Holland Michael Stoute
15 June 1999 Prince of Wales's Stakes 10 Ascot 28814/182Head2:04.37 Gary Stevens Michael Stoute
3 July 1999 Eclipse Stakes 10 Sandown 11746/1830.752:06.42 Gary Stevens Michael Stoute
17 August 1999 Great Voltigeur Stakes 12 York 2574/1711.252:29.05 Gary Stevens Michael Stoute
19 September 1999 Arc Trial 11 Newbury Listed 289/4610.752:21.51 Kieren Fallon Michael Stoute
3 October 1999 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 12 Longchamp 153833/11411292:38.50 John Reid Michael Stoute
25 March 2000 Dubai Sheema Classic 12 Nad Al Sheba 373116132:27.70 Kieren Fallon Michael Stoute
9 June 2000 Coronation Cup 12 Epsom 11507/4420.752:41.83 Chris McCarron Saeed bin Suroor
8 July 2000 Eclipse Stakes 10 Sandown 12165/1856.252:05.32 John Reid Saeed bin Suroor
29 July 2000 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes 12 Ascot 143512/1721.752:29.98 John Reid Saeed bin Suroor
9 September 2000 Man o' War Stakes 11 Belmont 118213/208112:17.44 Jerry Bailey Saeed bin Suroor
7 October 2000 Turf Classic Invitational 12 Belmont 12747/51243.52:28.58 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor
4 November 2000 Breeders' Cup Turf 12 Churchill Downs 1786119/1013522:26.96 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor
26 November 2000 Japan Cup 12 Tokyo 1150479/101630.252:26.10 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor
17 December 2000 Hong Kong Cup 10 Sha Tin 162819/101411.752:02.20 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor
24 March 2001 Dubai Sheema Classic 12 Nad Al Sheba 28007/4162Nose2:28.23 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor
27 May 2001 Tattersalls Gold Cup 10.5 The Curragh 11005/461Neck2:13.40 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor
20 June 2001 Prince of Wales's Stakes 10 Ascot 1145100/30912.52:04.40 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor
28 July 2001 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes 12 Ascot 14357/212222:27.71 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor
8 September 2001 Irish Champion Stakes 10 Leopardstown 13849/471Head2:01.80 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor
27 October 2001 Breeders' Cup Turf 12 Belmont 17417/51210.752:24.20 Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor

[50]

Assessment, honours and awards

From the mid-1990s the International Classification Committee (representing Europe) and the North American Rating Committee drew up an annual International Classification which included all horses who raced in Europe, North America and Japan. These ratings did not include Southern Hemisphere horses and were not therefore, "World" rankings. [51]

In the 2000 International Classification, Fantastic Light was assessed at 124, placing him fourteenth in the ratings (eighth in Europe), ten pounds below Dubai Millennium. [51] In the 2001 International Classification Fantastic Light was assessed at 129 (equal with Galileo ), making him the third highest rated horse behind Sakhee and Point Given. [52]

Fantastic Light was assessed at 134 by Timeform. [53] A rating in excess of 130 is considered the mark of an above average Group One winner.[ citation needed ]

In 2001 he was named European Champion Older Horse and European Horse of the Year at the Cartier Racing Awards. [54]

In February 2002 Fantastic Light was voted the Eclipse Award for American Champion Male Turf Horse in the Eclipse Awards, [2] beating Val Royal and With Anticipation in the voting. [55]

Stud career

Retired at the end of the 2001 racing season, Fantastic Light stood for the Darley Stud stud at Dalham Hall [5] in Newmarket, England, before being moved to their Japanese base in Hokkaido for the 2007 season. [56] He has also been shuttled to stand in Australia for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season. [57] During five seasons at stud in Australia he was the sire of 427 live foals. [58]

He has sired the winners of more than three hundred races including Scintillo, winner of the Winter Derby, the Gran Criterium and the Grand Prix de Chantilly (Group 2). [59] His only other Group 1 winner was Mission Critical who won the New Zealand International Stakes in 2008. [60]

Fantastic Light was pensioned from stud duties in August 2012. [61]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Fantastic Light (USA), bay stallion, 1996 [62] [63]
Sire
Rahy (USA)
1985		 Blushing Groom
1974		 Red God Nasrullah*
Spring Run
Runaway Bride Wild Risk
Aimee
Glorious Song
1976　		 Halo Hail To Reason*
Cosmah
Ballade Herbager
Miss Swapsco
Dam
Jood (USA)
1989		 Nijinsky
1967　		 Northern Dancer Nearctic*
Natalma
Flaming Page Bull Page
Flaring Top
Kamar
1976		 Key To The Mint Graustark
Key Bridge
Square Angel Quadrangle
Nangela* (Family: 14-c) [64]

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