Touching Wood

Touching Wood
Racing colours of Maktoum Al Maktoum
SireRoberto
GrandsireHail To Reason
DamMandera
DamsireVaguely Noble
SexStallion
Foaled11 May 1979
CountryUSA
ColourBrown
BreederPin Oak Stud
OwnerMaktoum Al Maktoum
TrainerHarry Thomson Jones
Record9-3-4-2
Major wins
Welsh Derby (1982)
St Leger Stakes (1982)
Irish St. Leger (1982)
Awards
Timeform: 91p (1981), 127 (1982)

Touching Wood (1979–2004) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1982. Touching Wood was still a maiden when he finished second to Golden Fleece in the 1982 Epsom Derby. In the autumn of 1982 he became the first horse in 53 years to win both the St Leger Stakes and the Irish St. Leger and was the first classic winner owned by a member of the Maktoum family.[1] He was retired to stud and had some success as a sire of winners before his death in New Zealand in 2004.

  1. ^ "Obituary: Tom Jones". Daily Telegraph. 27 December 2007. Retrieved 2013-05-25.