Rekindling | |
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Sire | High Chaparral |
Grandsire | Sadler's Wells |
Dam | Sitara |
Damsire | Salse |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 23 March 2014[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Pocock Family |
Owner | Lloyd Williams and others |
Trainer | David Wachman Joseph Patrick O'Brien Liam Howley |
Record | 11: 4-2-0 |
Earnings | £2,409,320 |
Major wins | |
Ballysax Stakes (2017) Curragh Cup (2017) Melbourne Cup (2017) | |
Awards | |
2017/18 Australian Champion Stayer | |
Last updated on 7 November 2017 |
Rekindling (foaled 23 March 2014) is a British-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, who won the 2017 Melbourne Cup. After winning once from three starts in 2016 he developed into a high-class staying colt in the following year, winning the Ballysax Stakes and Curragh Cup as well as producing several good efforts in defeat including a second place in the Irish St Leger Trial Stakes and fourth-place finishes in the Dante Stakes and the St Leger Stakes. In November 2017 he became the youngest horse in 76 years to win the Melbourne Cup.