Best Of The Bests (IRE)

Foal date
05/03/1997
Gender
Horse
Colour
Chestnut
Sire
Machiavellian
Dam
Sueboog
Breeder
Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd
Official rating
121
Career earnings
$731,148.18
    Results
    Starts 16 Wins 4 Placed 5
    Best Of The Bests (IRE) Machiavellian (USA) Mr Prospector (USA) Raise A Native (USA)
    1961
    1970 Gold Digger (USA)
    1962
    1987 Coup De Folie (USA) Halo (USA)
    1969
    1982 Raise The Standard (CAN)
    1978
    1997 Sueboog (IRE) Darshaan (GB) Shirley Heights (GB)
    1975
    1981 Delsy (FR)
    1972
    1990 Nordica (GB) Northfields (USA)
    1968
    1983 Princess Arabella (IRE)
    1978
    A high-class performer, he was an impressive winner of the Group 3 Solario Stakes at two; bought by Godolphin and switched from Clive Brittain to Saeed bin Suroor, he won the Group 2 Guillaume d'Ornano at Deauville (August 2000) before finishing third behind Giant's Causeway in the Irish Champion Stakes; his crowning moment came at five, when he won the Group 1 Prix d'Ispahan at Longchamp (1m1f55y, May 2002); beaten under half a length into third behind stablemate Grandera and Hawk Wing in the Irish Champion Stakes later that year
    Best Of The Bests (IRE) Machiavellian (USA) Mr Prospector (USA) Raise A Native (USA)
    1961
    1970 Gold Digger (USA)
    1962
    1987 Coup De Folie (USA) Halo (USA)
    1969
    1982 Raise The Standard (CAN)
    1978
    1997 Sueboog (IRE) Darshaan (GB) Shirley Heights (GB)
    1975
    1981 Delsy (FR)
    1972
    1990 Nordica (GB) Northfields (USA)
    1968
    1983 Princess Arabella (IRE)
    1978