Crimplene (horse)

Crimplene
Sire	Lion Cavern
Grandsire	Mr Prospector
Dam	Crimson Conquest
Damsire	Diesis
Sex	Mare
Foaled	11 January 1997
Country	Ireland
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Marwan Al-Maktoum
Owner	Marwan Al-Maktoum
Trainer	Clive Brittain
Record	16:6-1-4
Earnings	£511,397
Major wins
German 1000 Guineas (2000) Irish 1000 Guineas (2000) Coronation Stakes (2000) Nassau Stakes (2000)

Crimplene (11 January 1997 – 2005) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from May 1999 until November 2000 she competed in seven different countries and won six of her sixteen races. In the summer of 2000 she produced her best form, winning the German 1000 Guineas, Irish 1000 Guineas, Coronation Stakes and Nassau Stakes. She was retired to stud at the end of the year and died in 2005 at the age of eight.

Crimplene was a dark-coated chestnut filly with a white blaze bred in Ireland by her owner Marwan Al-Maktoum. She was one of the best horses sired by Lion Cavern, an American-bred stallion who won the Horris Hill Stakes and the Greenham Stakes when trained in France. Apart from Crimplene, the best of his offspring was the Australian sprinter Apache Cat. Crimplene's dam, Crimson Conquest, who won one minor race as a two-year-old, was descended from Bayrose, ancestor of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains winners Blue Tom and Fast Topaze.

The filly was sent into training with Clive Brittain at his Carlburg stables at Newmarket, Suffolk and was ridden in most of her races by Philip Robinson.

Crimplene began her racing career by finishing second in a maiden race at Pontefract Racecourse on 18 May and then recorded her first success when taking a similar event at Redcar two weeks later. At the end of June, the filly was moved up to Listed class to finish third in the Empress Stakes over six furlongs at Newmarket. Despite her defeat, she was stepped up in class again in August, when she was sent to York Racecourse for the Lowther Stakes. Starting a 40/1 outsider, she pulled hard in the early stages before weakening to finish seventh of the nine runners behind the locally-trained Jemima. Crimplene was then dropped in class for a minor stakes race at Salisbury Racecourse and won by a head from Forever Midnight. For her final start of the year, Crimplene was moved into the highest class when she contested the Group One Cheveley Park Stakes. Ridden by Frankie Dettori she again pulled hard in the early stages but finished strongly to finish third behind Seazun and Torgau. At the end of the season, representatives of Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin organisation purchased Brittain's Teggiano, the winner of the Fillies' Mile, but showed no interest in Crimplene.

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