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Duke of Marmalade (foaled 12 March 2004) is a retired Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. He is best known for winning five consecutive Group One races in 2008, for which he was named European Champion Older Horse. He currently stands as a stallion for Coolmore Stud, being moved between stud farms in Ireland and Australia (a practice known as shuttling). Duke of Marmalade won his first two races as a two-year-old in June 2006. He did not win again until the spring of his four-year-old season, almost twenty-two months later. During this winless period he was sometimes regarded as little more than a pacemaker for more celebrated stable companions such as Dylan Thomas. In his final year of racing he recorded wins in the Prix Ganay, the Tattersalls Gold Cup, the Prince of Wales's Stakes, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and International Stakes. He was retired in October 2008 after running in the Breeders' Cup Classic. ==Background== Duke of Marmalade is a bay horse standing 16 hands high〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stallions :: Duke Of Marmalade )〕 bred in Ireland by Southern Bloodstock.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Duke Of Marmalade )〕 a division of his owners' Coolmore Stud organisation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southern Bloodstock )〕 Duke of Marmlade weighed 540 kg during his racing career and was trained by Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle.〔 Duke of Marmalade was one of the last crop of foals sired by Danehill one of the most successful stallions of the last twenty years, producing the winners of more than a thousand races, including one hundred and fifty-six at Group One/Grade I level. Among his best offspring are Dylan Thomas, Rock of Gibraltar, George Washington and North Light.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Danehill Stud record )〕 Love Me True is a half-sister to Shuailaan (Winter Hill Stakes), Madison's Charm (Comely Stakes) and Bite The Bullet (Sanford Stakes), and, as a granddaughter of Lassie Dear, is closely related to Summer Squall, A. P. Indy and Lemon Drop Kid.〔 The name "Duke of Marmalade" is derived from a title created by Henri Christophe for a member of the new Haitian nobility following the Haitian Revolution. The name had previously been used for an Italian thoroughbred racehorse which won the Premio Roma in 1975 and 1976.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Duke of Marmalade Horse Pedigree )〕 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「Duke of Marmalade」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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