Right Royal
| Right Royal | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Grand Critérium (1960) (1961)Poule d'Essai des Poulains (1961) Prix Lupin (1961) Prix du Jockey Club (1961) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1961) Prix Henri Foy |
| Honours | |
| British Horse of the Year (1961) | |
Right Royal (1958–1973) was a French
Background
Right Royal was a brown horse bred in France by his owner Elisabeth Couturié. He was sired by The Derby winner Owen Tudor out of Bastia, a mare who never won a race and spent most of her racing career acting as a pacemaker for her more talented stable companion Tahiti, the winner of the 1954 Prix de Diane. Couturié sent her colt into training with Etienne Pollet at Chantilly.[1]
Racing career
1960: two-year-old season
Right Royal won three of his four races as a two-year-old. He won the Prix de la Salamandre and the Grand Critérium at Longchamp. At the end of the year he was rated the best colt of his generation in France.[1]
1961: three-year-old season
On his first appearance as a three-year-old, Right Royal was beaten in the
In July, Right Royal was sent to England to contest the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in which he was matched against the 1960 Epsom Derby winner St. Paddy. Ridden by Roger Poincelet, he started at odds of 6/4 with St Paddy being made the 4/5 favourite in a race run on rain-softened turf. Right Royal tracked St Paddy until the final furlong when he was moved to the outside and easily accelerated past the English champion, winning by three lengths.[3]
In September, Right Royal returned to Longchamp to win the Prix Foy. A month later, in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Right Royal started favourite, but finished second of the nineteen runners, beaten two lengths by the Italian colt Molvedo.[4]
Assessment
Right Royal was awarded a rating of 135 by Timeform in 1961.[5]
In 1961, the Bloodstock Breeders' Review conducted their third Horse of the Year poll. Right Royal won the award, taking 50% of the votes.[5]
In their book A Century of Champions, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Right Royal the thirty-second best French horse of the 20th Century.[6]
Stud record
Right Royal had some success as a stallion. He sired the 1969 Irish Derby winner Prince Regent and Salvo, who won the Hardwicke Stakes and the Grosser Preis von Baden and finished second in both the King George and the Arc.
Pedigree
| Sire Owen Tudor 1938 |
Hyperion 1930 |
Gainsborough | Bayardo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosedrop | |||
| Selene | Chaucer | ||
| Serenissima | |||
| Mary Tudor 1931 |
Pharos | Phalaris | |
| Scapa Flow | |||
| Anna Bolena | Teddy | ||
| Queen Elizabeth | |||
| Dam Bastia 1951 |
Victrix 1934 |
Kantar | Alcanatra |
| Karabe | |||
| Victory | Swynford | ||
| Lineage | |||
| Barberybush 1934 |
Ksar | Bruleur | |
| Kizil Kourgan | |||
| Pervencheres | Maboul | ||
| Poet's Star (Family: 3-f)[8] |
References
- ^ ISBN 0-354-08536-0.
- ^ "Jockey scores Derby double". Milwaukee Sentinel. 5 June 1961. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
- ^ "Right Royal beats St Paddy". Montreal Gazette. 17 July 1961. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
- Sydney Morning Herald. 8 October 1961. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
- ^ ISBN 0-85112-902-1.
- ISBN 1-901570-15-0.
- ^ Hugh McMahon. "Right Royal". Sporthorse-data.com. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
- ^ "Maid Marian – Family 3-f". Bloodlines.net. Retrieved 2012-06-16.