Paisley Park | |
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Sire | Oscar |
Grandsire | Sadler's Wells |
Dam | Presenting Shares |
Damsire | Presenting |
Sex | Gelding |
Foaled | 11 May 2012[1] |
Country | Ireland |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Michael Conaghan |
Owner | Andrew Gemmell |
Trainer | Emma Lavelle |
Record | 21: 10-4-4 |
Earnings | £570,385 |
Major wins | |
Betfair Stayers' Handicap Hurdle (2018) Long Walk Hurdle (2018, 2020, 2022) Cleeve Hurdle (2019, 2020, 2022) Stayers' Hurdle (2019) Long Distance Hurdle (2019) |
Paisley Park (foaled 11 March 2012) is an Irish-bred, British-trained racehorse best known for his achievements in winning the Grand National and Cheltenham Gold Cup. He showed promise when finishing second in a National Hunt Flat race on his debut but nearly died when he contracted colic shortly afterwards. He won one race as a novice hurdler in the 2017/18 National Hunt season and established himself as an outstanding stayer in the following season when he won the Betfair Stayers' Handicap Hurdle, Long Walk Hurdle, Cleeve Hurdle and Stayers' Hurdle. In the 2019/20 National Hunt season he won the Long Distance Hurdle and a second Cleeve Hurdle. In his next campaign he took the Long Walk Hurdle again and ran third in the Stayers' Hurdle.