Nightime
Nightime | |
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Sire | Chestnut |
Breeder | Marguerite Weld |
Owner | Marguerite Weld |
Trainer | Dermot Weld |
Record | 5: 2-0-0 |
Earnings | £162,691[2] |
Major wins | |
Irish 1,000 Guineas (2006) |
Nightime (foaled 5 April 2003) is an Irish
Background
Nightime is a chestnut mare with a broad white
She was from the first crop of foals sired by Galileo, who won the Derby, Irish Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2001. Galileo became a very successful breeding stallion and has been champion sire of Great Britain and Ireland five times. His other progeny included Cape Blanco, Frankel, Golden Lilac, Nathaniel, New Approach, Rip Van Winkle, Found, Minding and Ruler of the World.[4]
Nightime's dam Caumshinaun, who produced seven other winners, was a successful racemare who won five races including the Listed Platinum Stakes in 2001.[5] She was a distant descendant of the British broodmare Springtime (foaled 1932), the ancestor of numerous major winners including Blakeney, Morston and Classic Cliche.[6]
Racing career
2005: two-year-old season
Rather than beginning her career in a
2006: three-year-old season
On her first run as a three-year-old Nightime started the 9/10 favourite in a ten-runner maiden over eight and a half furlongs at Cork Racecourse on 16 April. Ridden by Pat Smullen, who partnered her in all her subsequent races she disputed the lead for most of the way before pulling ahead in the final furlong and winning by two lengths from Miss Dela.[8]
On 28 May Nightime was stepped up to Group One class and started at odds of 12/1 in a fifteen-runner field for the Irish 1000 Guineas over one mile on
The ground was much firmer when Nightime was sent to England to contest the
2007: four-year-old season
After an absence of more than eleven months Nightime returned to the track and was matched against male opposition in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh on 27 May. She started a 25/1 outsider and made little impact as she finished eighth of the nine runners behind Notnowcato.[12]
Breeding record
Nightime was retired from racing to become a broodmare for the Weld family. She has produced at least five winners including the multiple stakes winners Zhukova and Ghaiyyath:
- La Chapelle, a bay filly, foaled in 2008, sired by Holy Roman Emperor. Unplaced on only start.
- Sleeping Beauty, bay filly, 2010, by Oasis Dream. Won one race.[13]
- New Years Night, chestnut colt (later gelded) 2011, by Raven's Pass. Won three races.[14]
- Zhukova, bay filly, 2012, by Noblesse Stakes.[15]
- Jathab, chestnut colt, 2013, by Shamardal
- Midnight Fair, chestnut filly, 2014, by Raven's Pass. Won two races.
- Ghaiyyath, bay colt, 2015, by Dubawi. Won Autumn Stakes, Prix du Prince d'Orange, Prix d'Harcourt, Grosser Preis von Baden, Coronation Cup, Eclipse Stakes, International Stakes.
- Estrella, bay filly, 2016, by Zoffany. Failed to win in two races.
- chestnut colt, 2018, by Dubawi.
Pedigree
Sire Galileo (IRE) 1998 |
Sadler's Wells (USA) 1981 |
Northern Dancer | Nearctic |
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Natalma | |||
Fairy Bridge | Bold Reason | ||
Special | |||
Urban Sea (USA) ch. 1989 |
Miswaki | Mr. Prospector | |
Hopespringseternal | |||
Allegretta | Lombard | ||
Anatevka | |||
Dam Caumshinaun (IRE) 1997 |
Indian Ridge (IRE) 1985 |
Ahonoora | Lorenzaccio |
Helen Nichols | |||
Hillbrow | Swing Easy | ||
Golden City | |||
Ridge Pool (IRE) 1991 |
Bluebird | Storm Bird | |
Ivory Dawn | |||
Casting Couch | Thatching | ||
Drama (Family 20-c)[6] |
References
- ^ a b "Nightime pedigree". Equineline.
- ^ "Nightime – Record By Race Type". Racing Post.
- ^ "Nightime wins the Irish 1000 Guineas". Getty Images.
- ^ "Galileo stud record". Racing Post. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
- ^ "Caumshinaun – Race Record & Form". Racing Post.
- ^ a b "Palmflower – Family 20-c". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ "C L Weld Park Stakes result". Racing Post. 1 October 2005.
- ^ "Coolmore Spartacus Maiden result". Racing Post. 16 April 2006.
- ^ "Irish 1000 Guineas result". Racing Post. 28 May 2006.
- ^ Mary Schweitzer (28 May 2006). "Nightime Puts Guineas Rivals to Sleep". The Blood-Horse.
- Irish Times.
- ^ "Tattersalls Gold Cup result". Racing Post. 27 May 2007.
- ^ "Sleeping Beauty – Race Record & Form". Racing Post.
- ^ "New Year's Night – Race Record & Form". Racing Post.
- ^ "Zhukova – Race Record & Form". Racing Post.