Alpine Star (horse)
Alpine Star | |
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Niarchos family | |
Owner | Niarchos family |
Trainer | Jessica Harrington |
Record | 7: 3-3-1 |
Earnings | £511,803 |
Major wins | |
Debutante Stakes (2019) Coronation Stakes (2020) |
Alpine Star (foaled 24 March 2017) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. She showed very good form as a juvenile in 2019, winning two of her three races including the Debutante Stakes. On her first run of 2020 she won the Coronation Stakes.
Background
Alpine Star is a chestnut filly with no white markings bred in Ireland by the Niarchos family. She was sent into training with Jessica Harrington at Moone, in County Kildare.
She was from the second crop of foals sired by the 2014 German Horse of the Year Sea The Moon, who won four of his five races before his racing career was ended by injury.[2] Alpine Star's dam Alpha Lupi was unraced but came from a very successful female bloodline which has been in the ownership of the Niarchos family for several generations: she was a daughter of East of the Moon who was in turn a daughter of Miesque. In 2015 she had produced Alpha Centauri.[3]
Racing career
2019: two-year-old season
Alpine Star was ridden in all of her races as a two-year-old by
Three weeks after her win at Galway Alpine Star was stepped up in class to contest the Group 2 Debutante Stakes at the Curragh and started the 2/1 second choice in the betting behind Love in a nine-runner field which also included Soul Search. After tracking the leaders, Alpine Star made steady progress in the last quarter mile and overhauled Love in the final strides to win by a short head.[6] After the race Harrington said "She’s tough, isn’t she. She’s all heart and stays really well. Shane said they went hard the whole way and she got a little bit lost in the middle of the race, but when she got upsides all she wanted to do was stick her head out. She's tough and needs a mile."[7] The filly was expected to end her season with a trip to France for the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp Racecourse in October but was pulled out of the race after sustaining a muscle injury.[8]
In the official rating of Irish two-year-olds for 2019 Alpine Star was rated the fifth-best juvenile filly of the year behind Millisle, Albigna, Love and Cayenne Pepper.[9]
2020: three-year-old season
The flat racing season in England and Ireland was disrupted by the
On 5 July Alpine Star was sent to France to contest the Prix de Diane over 2000 metres at
In the 2020 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, Alpine Star was rated on 119, making her the equal 57th best racehorse in the world.[14]
Pedigree
Sire Sea The Moon (GER) 2011 |
Sea The Stars (IRE)2006 |
Cape Cross | Green Desert (USA) |
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Park Appeal | |||
Urban Sea (USA) | Miswaki | ||
Allegretta (GB) | |||
Sanwa (GER) 2004 |
Monsun | Königsstuhl | |
Mosella | |||
Sacarina (GB) | Old Vic | ||
Brave Lass | |||
Dam Alpha Lupi (IRE) 2004 |
Rahy (USA) 1985 |
Blushing Groom (FR) | Red God (USA) |
Runaway Bride (GB) | |||
Glorious Song (CAN) | Halo (USA) | ||
Ballade (USA) | |||
East of the Moon (USA) 1991 |
Private Account | Damascus | |
Numbered Account | |||
Miesque | Nureyev | ||
Pasadoble (Family: 20)[3] |
References
- ^ a b "Alpine Star pedigree". Equineline.
- ^ "Sea The Moon stud record". Racing Post.
- ^ a b "Daffodil's Dam - Family 20". Thoroughbred Bloodlines.
- ^ "Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden result". Racing Post. 11 July 2019.
- ^ "James's Gate Irish EBF Median Auction Maiden result". Racing Post. 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Debutante Stakes result". Racing Post. 23 August 2019.
- ^ "Alpine stars for Harrington in Debutante Stakes". www.goracing.ie. 23 August 2019.
- ^ "Setback ends Alpine Star's campaign". Racing TV. 4 October 2019.
- ^ "Irish two-year-old Classification 2019" (PDF). Horse Racing Ireland.
- ^ "Coronation Stakes result". Racing Post. 20 June 2020.
- ^ Boylan, Mark (20 June 2020). "Alpine Star Turns Back Sharing in Coronation Stakes". The Blood-Horse.
- ^ "Prix de Diane result". Racing Post. 5 July 2020.
- ^ "Prix de l'Opera result". Racing Post. 4 October 2020.
- ^ "The 2020 World Thoroughbred Rankings". Horseracingintfed.com. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
External links
- Career 1-2-3 Colour Chart – Alpine Star