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Thunderhead (horse)
Thunderhead (foaled 1949) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for winning the classic 2000 Guineas in 1952. He won once as a two-year-old and showed improved form in the spring of 1952, winning the Prix de Fontainebleau before recording an emphatic win over twenty-five opponents in the 2000 Guineas. He then finished second when favourite for the Poule d'Essai des Poulains and ran poorly when strongly-fancied for the Epsom Derby. He was later exported to South Africa where he had some success as a breeding stallion.
When racing in Britain he was known as Thunderhead II.
==Background==
Thunderhead was a chestnut horse, "built more as a sprinter than a stayer" with a small white star, bred in France by Jean Desbons. He was probably the best horse sired by Merry Boy who finished second in the Prix Eugene Adam in 1941. His dam Herodiade was a great-granddaughter of the broodmare Gondolette, whose other descendants included Hyperion, Sansovino and Big Game. As a yearling, the colt was bought by Eugène Constant and sent into training with Etienne Pollet.
Alan Bell, the chairman of the Victoria Racing Club, who viewed Thunderhead in the spring of 1952 said "the colt is a fine, strongly built individual, big bodied but splendidly boned to carry his big frame, with powerful hocks and gaskins, and with a beautiful shoulder and character written all over him. Seldom have I seen a thoroughbred I liked better".
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