Solario

Solario (1922–1945) was a successful British Thoroughbred racehorse and influential sire.

Background

Bred in

Solario was sold as a yearling for the huge sum of 47,000 guineas to a British syndicate.^[2] Sir John Rutherford employed Reginald Day to condition the colt for racing.

Racing career

At age two, Solario won the 1924 Exeter Stakes and was second to Picaroon in the Middle Park Stakes. As a three-year-old, he finished fourth in the first two British Classic Races then won the third, the St Leger Stakes. At Ascot Racecourse he won the 1925 Ascot Derby. At age four, Solario ran away from the field while winning the 1926 Coronation Cup by fifteen lengths then won the Ascot Gold Cup.

Stud career

Solario commenced

Solario died at the age of twenty-three in 1945 having sired the winners of £270,000 in stakes.[2] He is buried at Tattersalls' Park Paddocks in Newmarket.

Selected notable offspring

• Sunny Devon (f. 1928) – won Coronation Stakes, Champion Three-Year-Old Filly in England
• Dastur (f. 1929) – won 1931
  Irish Derby, Ascot Derby Stakes, Sussex Stakes, in 1933 won Coronation Cup, Champion Stakes
• Silversol (f. 1930) – won the: 1936 Irish Oaks
• Tai-Yang (f. 1930) – won 1933 Jockey Club Stakes
• Raeburn (f. 1933) – won the 1936 Irish Derby
• Sind (f. 1933) – Leading sire in Argentina in 1950
• 1000 Guineas, Epsom Oaks
• Mid-day Sun (f. 1934) – won Epsom Derby, Hardwicke Stakes, Lingfield Derby Trial [1]
• Solar Flower (f. 1935) – won Coronation Stakes, dam of Solar Slipper
• Sadri II (f. 1936) – won 1941 Durban July Handicap
• Straight Deal (f. 1940) – won 1943 Epsom Derby

Solario was the

• Escamillo (f. 1939) – winner of the 1943 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud
• Solar Slipper (f. 1945) – won the 1948 Champion Stakes and 1949 John Porter Stakes
• American Classic, the Belmont Stakes
• Indiana (f. 1961) – won St Leger Stakes

Honours

In 1925 the