Minding (horse)

Minding
Racing silks of Derrick Smith
Sire	Galileo
Grandsire	Sadler's Wells
Dam	Lillie Langtry
Damsire	Danehill Dancer
Sex	Mare
Foaled	10 February 2013[1]
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt
Owner	Derrick Smith & Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor
Trainer	Aidan O'Brien
Record	13: 9-3-1
Earnings	£2,344,930
Major wins
Moyglare Stud Stakes (2015) Fillies' Mile (2015) 1000 Guineas (2016) Epsom Oaks (2016) Pretty Polly Stakes (2016) Nassau Stakes (2016) Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (2016) Mooresbridge Stakes (2017)
Awards
Cartier Champion Two-year-old Filly (2015) Top-rated European two-year-old filly (2015) Cartier Champion Three-year-old Filly (2016) Cartier Horse of the Year (2016) Irish Horse of the Year (2016) World top-rated three-year-old filly (2016)

Minding (foaled 10 February 2013) is a champion Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who was the 2016 European Horse of the Year after winning the Epsom Oaks, 1000 Guineas, and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

She was among the leading two-year-old fillies of her generation in Europe in 2015 when she won three of her five races including the Moyglare Stud Stakes in Ireland and the Fillies' Mile in England. On her first appearance of 2016 the filly posted a decisive victory in the classic 1000 Guineas but was subsequently beaten when favourite for the Irish 1,000 Guineas. She went on to win a second classic in The Oaks in June, the first filly to complete the Guineas-Oaks double since Kazzia in 2002. She went on to take her fifth and sixth Group One races with wins in the Pretty Polly Stakes and the Nassau Stakes. She then defeated male opposition to take the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. At the end of the year she was named Cartier Horse of the Year and the world's best three-year-old filly. She won on her reappearance in 2017 but subsequently suffered an injury which led to her retirement later that year without racing again.