Pyledriver | |
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Sire | Harbour Watch |
Grandsire | Acclamation |
Dam | La Pyle |
Damsire | Le Havre |
Sex | Colt |
Foaled | 14 March 2017[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Knox & Wells Limited & Roger Devlin |
Owner | Knox & Wells Ltd & Roger Devlin La Pyle Partnership |
Trainer | William Muir & Chris Grassick |
Record | 19 8-4-1 |
Earnings | £1,848,185 |
Major wins | |
Ascendant Stakes (2019) King Edward VII Stakes (2020) Great Voltigeur Stakes (2020) Coronation Cup (2021) Churchill Stakes (2021) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2022) Hardwicke Stakes (2023) |
Pyledriver (foaled 14 March 2017) is a retired British Thoroughbred racehorse. After showing promise as a two-year-old in 2019, when he won two of four races including the Listed Ascendant Stakes, he improved in the following year to become a top-class middle-distance performer, winning the King Edward VII Stakes and the Great Voltigeur Stakes as well as finishing third in the St Leger. In 2021 he recorded his first Group 1 victory in the Coronation Cup. In 2022 he registered an upset victory the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. He was ridden in fourteen of his first fifteen starts by Martin Dwyer.