Dylan Thomas (horse)

Dylan Thomas (foaled 23 April 2003) is a retired Irish

Background

Dylan Thomas is a bay horse bred in Ireland by Tower Bloodstock. He was trained in Ireland by

In late September 2006, Coolmore took the unusual step of sending Dylan Thomas to run in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park, his first (and only) race on dirt where he raced against top US dirt 3yo Bernardini. He never took to the surface and struggled from the break, trailing in a distant last.

2007: four-year-old season

As a four-year-old in 2007, Dylan Thomas won the Prix Ganay at Longchamp in France, and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, the latter under Johnny Murtagh. On 8 September 2007 he became the first two-time winner of the Irish Champion Stakes and rider Kieren Fallon became the first jockey to win the race three times in succession. He crowned this season with a win in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on soft ground. The victory stood after a half-hour stewards enquiry into interference was caused because Dylan Thomas veered sharply to the right halfway up the home straight, thereby coming across two other runners. Prior to this race, Fallon had described Dylan Thomas as the best horse he had ever ridden.

After the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Dylan Thomas was entered in the John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf, but he did not contend. After he was withdrawn from the Japan Cup, his last race was the Hong Kong Vase, in which he finished 7th. Dylan Thomas retired to Coolmore Stud in Ireland before the end of the year. He raced for Michael Tabor and Susan Magnier, whose husband, John Magnier, is Coolmore's managing partner.

Assessment

Dylan Thomas was named Horse of the Year at the annual Irish Horse Racing Awards in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin on Monday 10 December 2007.[3]

Stud career

He was retired at the end of 2007 to stand as a "shuttle stallion" for Coolmore, serving mares at the main Coolmore farm in Ireland during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season and at Coolmore's Australia farm during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season. The most successful of his first crop of foals was the German-trained 4 year old filly Nymphea who won the Group One Grosser Preis von Berlin in 2013. In May 2014, Dylan Thomas added two more major successes as Dylan Mouth won the Derby Italiano and Blazing Speed won Hong Kong Champions & Chater Cup. In 2015 Pether's Moon won the Coronation Cup. In 2018, Ladies First won the Auckland Cup.

In 2020 he relocated permanently to Haras Don Alberto in Chile, where he continues to be an active sire. His first chilean crop born in 2014 includes champion filly Penn Rose, who won the 2017 edition of "Las Oaks" G1 and graded stakes winners Tavernera, Bicampeon Chileno and Sensa Paura, while his second crop born in 2020 includes multiple listed stakes winner Gigio L'Amico.

Pedigree

• Like all of Danehill's offspring Dylan Thomas is inbred 4x4 to the mare Natalma. This means that she occurs twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.

References

External links

• Career 1-2-3 Colour Chart – Dylan Thomas