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Faugheen (foaled 2 May 2008) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who competes under National Hunt rules. After winning a Point-to-point race as a four-year-old and a National Hunt Flat race a year later he emerged as a leading Novice hurdler in the 2013/2014 National Hunt season, winning all five of his races including the Liberty Insurance Novice Hurdle, Baring Bingham Novices' Hurdle and Herald Champion Novice Hurdle acquiring the nickname "The Machine" in the process.〔 For the next season Faugheen was kept over hurdles and contested his first three races in Britain. The first two victories came in the Ascot Hurdle and the Christmas Hurdle and followed those with a win at the highest level in the Champion Hurdle, defeating a strong field which included 2 previous champions. Faugheen finished the 2014/2015 National Hunt term with a perfect record by taking the Punchestown Champion Hurdle and was marked by the Anglo-Irish and Timeform handicappers as the highest rated hurdler in training. ==Background== Faugheen is a bay gelding with a white blaze and white socks on his hind legs bred in Ireland by Dr John Waldron. He was sired by Germany, an American-bred, German-trained horse who won the Grosser Preis von Baden and the Bayerisches Zuchtrennen in 1995. As a breeding stallion he sired several good National Hunt horses including Captain Cee Bee whose win have included the Supreme Novices' Hurdle and the Ryanair Novice Chase.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Germany - Stud Record )〕 Faugheen's dam Miss Pickering was an unraced daughter of the leading National Hunt sire Accordion and a descendant of the broodmare Meraline, making her a distant relative of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Saumarez.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Miss Agnes - Family 16-a )〕 Faugheen is the only winner she has produced to date and hails from the family of the 1973 Group Three Premio Royal Mares winner Ombra Del Sol, herself the dam of the 1981 Old Newton Cup winner Dogberry, and the seven furlong Listed winning pair Borderline and Sapper. In 2008 as a foal, he was consigned to the Tattersalls Ireland Sale and bought for €4000 by Peter Quinlan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale )〕 In June 2011, his brother Tom Quinlan sent the three-year-old gelding to the Goffs National Hunt sale and was bought for €12,000 by Meadowview Stables.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Goffs June NH Sale )〕 He ran his first race in a point-to-point circuit in the colours of Thomas Hassett, who named him after a church near the Bohernamuck crossroads in County Waterford called Faugheen Chapel. After impressing on his debut Faugheen moved on to Rich and Susannah Ricci ownership in the summer of 2012 and was sent into training for Willie Mullins yard. 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「Faugheen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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