2000 1000 Guineas

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187th 1000 Guineas Stakes
Newmarket, 7 May 2000
won by Lahan (GB)

The 2000 1000 Guineas Stakes was a horse race held at Newmarket Racecourse on Sunday 7 May 2000. It was the 187th running of the 1000 Guineas.

Horse racing Equestrian sport

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Newmarket Racecourse horse racing venue in England

Newmarket Racecourse is a British Thoroughbred horse racing venue in the town of Newmarket, Suffolk, comprising two individual racecourses, the Rowley Mile and the July Course. Newmarket is often referred to as the headquarters of British horseracing and is home to the largest cluster of training yards in the country and many key horse racing organisations, including Tattersalls, the National Horseracing Museum and the National Stud. Newmarket hosts two of the country's five Classic Races - the 1,000 Guineas and 2,000 Guineas, and numerous other Group races. In total, it hosts 9 of British racing's 36 annual Group 1 races.

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The winner was Hamdan Al Maktoum's Lahan, a British-bred bay filly trained at Manton in Wiltshire by John Gosden and ridden by Richard Hills. Lahan's victory was the first in the race for her trainer. Hamdan Al Maktoum had won the race before with Salsabil (1990), Shadayid (1991) and Harayir (1996), the last of which had given Richard Hills his only previous winner in the race. It was also the first classic success for Lahan's sire Unfuwain who was also the damsire of the runner-up and the sire of the third-placed filly.

Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Deputy ruler of Dubai

Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Deputy Ruler of Dubai and the Minister of Finance and Industry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He is the second son of the late ruler Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

Lahan (horse) British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse

Lahan was a British thoroughbred racehorse. In a brief career which lasted from October 1999 until May 2000 she ran four times and won three races. On the second of her two races in 1999 she won the Rockfel Stakes at Newmarket. In the following spring she won the Classic 1000 Guineas at the same course.

Bay (horse) hair coat color of horses

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The contenders

The race attracted a field of eighteen runners, seventeen trained in the United Kingdom and one in Ireland: there were no challengers from continental Europe. The favourite was the unbeaten Michael Stoute-trained Petrushka who had won the Nell Gwyn Stakes on her most recent appearance. The Irish challenger was Amethyst, trained by Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle who had won the Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial Stakes three weeks earlier. The Godolphin Racing stable entered Bintalreef, a filly who had won her only race as a two-year-old before wintering in Dubai. The other fancied runners included Seazun, winner of the Cheveley Park Stakes and the Henry Cecil-trained High Walden, the winner of a maiden race at Leicester Racecourse. Major winners who were less well-supported included the Rockfel Stakes winner Lahan, the Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Torgau (voted Cartier Champion Two-year-old Filly of 1999), the Oh So Sharp Stakes winner Agrippina and the Sweet Solera Stakes winner Princess Ellen. Petrushka headed the betting at odds of 6/4 ahead of Bintalreef (5/2) and High Walden (9/1) with Amethyst and Seazun on 10/1. [1]

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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.

Petrushka is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse who was bred in Ireland and trained in the United Kingdom during a racing career which lasted from October 1999 to June 2001. She was named European Champion Three-Year-Old Filly at the 2000 Cartier Racing Awards. In her championship season she won four times from seven starts including Group One races is three countries. She won the Irish Oaks against other three-year-old fillies, before beating older fillies and mares in the Yorkshire Oaks in England and the Prix de l'Opéra in France. Petrushka was retired to stud after a single, unsuccessful run as a four-year-old.

The race

At the start of the race, the fillies looked likely to split into two groups on the wide Newmarket straight, but soon converged to race up the stands side (the left side from the jockeys' viewpoint). The 50/1 outsider Velvet Lady set the pace from the 200/1 shot Claranet with Torgau, Amethyst, Bintalreef, Issey Rose and Princess Ellen close behind. The field bunched a quarter of a mile from the finish, with Petrushka, Lahan, Princess Ellen, Halland Park Girl, Aunty Rose and Bintalreef being affected by the resulting congestion, while Seazun made progress on the outside. Having obtained a clear run, Lahan accelerated through the centre of the field and took the lead approaching the final furlong. Princess Ellen stayed on along the rail to emerge as the only serious challenger, but Lahan won by one and a quarter lengths. Petrushka was three lengths back in third ahead of Seaun and High Walden, Velvet Lady, Torgau and Amethyst. The second favourite Bintalreef finished last of the eighteen runners, having pulled a muscle exiting the starting stalls and never raced again. [1]

Race details

Full result

Pos.Marg.Horse (bred)JockeyTrainer (Country)Odds
1 Lahan (GB) Richard Hills John Gosden (GB)14/1
2Princess Ellen (GB) Kevin Darley Gerard Butler (GB)66/1
33 Petrushka (IRE) Kieren Fallon Michael Stoute (GB)6/4 fav
4½ Seazun (IRE) John Reid Mick Channon (GB)10/1
5¾High Walden (USA) Richard Quinn Henry Cecil (GB)9/1
6shdVelvet Lady (GB) Jimmy Fortune Paul Cole (GB)50/1
7 Torgau (IRE) Olivier Peslier Giles Bravery (GB)25/1
8nkAmethyst (IRE) Mick Kinane Aidan O'Brien (IRE)10/1
9hdChez Cherie (GB) Gerald Mosse Luca Cumani (GB)66/1
10shdIcicle (GB) Ray Cochrane James Fanshawe (GB)66/1
11shdClaranet (GB)Franny NortonKamil Mahdi (GB)200/1
12nkMoselle (GB) Jamie Spencer William Haggas (GB)100/1
13¾Agrippina (GB) Jason Weaver Alan Bailey (GB)33/1
14¾Halland Park Girl (IRE) Dane O'Neill Richard Hannon, Sr. (GB)66/1
15nkAunty Rose (IRE) Pat Eddery John Dunlop (GB)20/1
16Issey Rose (IRE)Tony ClarkTerry Mills (GB)66/1
173Miletrian (IRE) Michael Roberts Mick Channon (GB)66/1
183Bintalreef (USA) Frankie Dettori Saeed bin Suroor (GB)5/2

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, Lahan

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References

  1. 1 2 "1000 Guineas result, 2000". Racing Post. 7 May 2000. Retrieved 10 July 2014.