Green Forest
| Green Forest | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Shecky Greene |
| Grandsire | Noholme |
| Dam | Tell Meno Lies |
| Damsire | The Axe |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 18 February 1979 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | James G. Bell |
| Owner | Mahmoud Fustok |
| Trainer | Mitri Saliba |
| Record | 10:5-2-0 |
| Major wins | |
|
Prix Morny (1981) Prix de la Salamandre (1981) Grand Criterium (1981) Prix du Moulin (1982) |
|
| Awards | |
| Top-rated European two-year-old (1981) Top-rated French-trained horse (1982) Timeform top-rated horse (1982) Timeform best miler (1982) Timeform rating: 130 (1981), 134 (1982) |
|
Green Forest (18 February 1979 – 2000) was an American-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. The best colt of his generation in France at two and three years of age and the best miler in Europe in 1982, he won five of his ten races in a track career which lasted from May 1981 until September 1982. In 1981, he won four races including the Prix Morny, Prix de la Salamandre and Grand Criterium. In the following year, he ran poorly in the early part of the season but then produced his best performance to defeat a strong field in the Prix du Moulin. He was retired to stud at the end of 1982 and had moderate success as a sire of winners.
Green Forest was a chestnut horse with a white blaze and a white sock on his right forefoot bred by James G. Bell at the Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. He was one of the best horses sired by Shecky Greene, the American Champion Sprint Horse on 1973. Green Forest's dam, Tell Meno Lies, also produced the Fair Grounds Oaks winner Honest and True and the Prix Perth winner Green Paradise. As a descendant of the broodmare Bold Irish, Tell Meno Lies was also related to Ruffian, Pine Bluff, and Fusaichi Pegasus.
In 1980, the yearling (horse) Green Forest was sent to the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Selected Summer Sales and was sold for $100,000 to the Lebanese businessman and horse breeder Mahmoud Fustok. The colt was sent to Europe where he was trained in France by Mitri Saliba. He was ridden in all of his major races by Alfred "Fredo" Gibert.
...
Wikipedia