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Connaught (1965 – 1987) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Noted for his difficult temperament and front-running style he won seven of his sixteen races in a track career which lasted from October 1967 to July 1970. Owned and bred by Jim Joel, he was trained by Noel Murless and ridden in most of his races by Sandy Barclay. As a two-year-old he showed great promise at home but refused to enter the starting stalls on his scheduled debut and then finished fifth in the Observer Gold Cup. In 1968 he ran poorly in the 2000 Guineas but proved himself a top class colt by running second to Sir Ivor in the Epsom Derby after looking likely to win entering the final furlong. Later that year he won the King Edward VII Stakes and Great Voltigeur Stakes but ran badly when favourite for the St Leger Stakes. As a four-year-old he won the Coronation Stakes, Prince of Wales's Stakes in the first half of the season before succumbing to a respiratory infection. At five he was unbeaten in three races, taking the Westbury Stakes and a second Prince of Wales's Stakes before ending his racing career with a win in the Eclipse Stakes. After his retirement from racing he had steady success as a breeding stallion. He died in 1987. ==Background== Connaught was a "big, burly, immensely powerful"〔 〕 bay horse with a white blaze and white socks on his hind legs〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Connaught with Sandy Barclay - Horse Racing Photograph )〕 bred in the United Kingdom by his owner Jim Joel. He was sired by St. Paddy the winner of the Epsom Derby and St. Leger Stakes in 1960. His dam Nagaika won the Solario Stakes as a two-year-old in 1956 and was bought by Joel a year later. As a broodmare she had already produced Court Sentence, who won the St James's Palace Stakes in 1962. Nagaika was the great-granddaughter of Neomenie, a mare whose other descendants included the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Nikellora.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Poinsettia - Family 4-h )〕 The colt was sent into training with Noel Murless at his Warren Place Stable in Newmarket, Suffolk. Murless had been British flat racing Champion Trainer on five occasions before taking charge of Connaught and went on to win the four more championships. The horse was ridden in all of his major races by the young Scottish jockey Sandy Barclay who had been Champion Apprentice in 1966, before becoming Murless's stable jockey in 1968. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Connaught (horse)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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