Royal Palace (horse)
| Royal Palace | |
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| Sire | Ballymoss |
| Grandsire | Mossborough |
| Dam | Crystal Palace |
| Damsire | Solar Slipper |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1964 |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Jim Joel |
| Owner | Jim Joel |
| Trainer | Noel Murless |
| Record | 11: 9-0-1 |
| Earnings | ₤166,063 |
| Major wins | |
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Acomb Stakes (1966) Royal Lodge Stakes (1966) 2000 Guineas Stakes (1967) Epsom Derby (1967) Coronation Stakes (1968) Coronation Cup (1968) Prince of Wales's Stakes (1968) Eclipse Stakes (1968) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1968) |
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| Last updated on 26 July 2008 | |
Royal Palace (1964–1991) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which lasted from June 1966 until July 1968 he ran eleven times and won nine races. After being rated the best English-trained two-year-old of 1966, he won the first two legs of the Triple Crown, the 2000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby in 1967. He returned for an unbeaten four-year-old season in 1968 when he won four races which are now Group One events.
Royal Palace was a dark-coated bay horse with a white star and one white foot, bred and raced by Jim Joel, whose father and uncle were both major forces in British horse racing. He was sired by Ballymoss, the leading European racehorse of 1958 and a grandson of one of the most influential stallions in history, Nearco. His dam Crystal Palace was a successful racemare who won the Falmouth Stakes and the Nassau Stakes in 1959. She was also an important broodmare, producing Prince Consort (Princess of Wales's Stakes), Selhurst, (Hardwicke Stakes) and Glass Slipper, the dam of the Classic winners Light Cavalry, (St. Leger Stakes) and Fairy Footsteps, 1000 Guineas. Joel sent the colt into training with Noel Murless at his Warren Place stables in Newmarket, Suffolk.
Royal Palace made his first racecourse appearance in the Coventry Stakes over six furlongs at Royal Ascot in June. He showed good early speed before finishing unplaced behind the Irish colt Bold Lad. After a break of two months, Royal Palace reappeared at the Ebor meeting at York Racecourse, where he won the Acomb Stakes. On his final run of the year, the colt returned to Ascot for the Royal Lodge Stakes over one mile. He was left behind at the start and was still in last place on the final turn, but then quickened past his opponents to win by one and a half lengths from Slip Stitch. In the Free Handicap, an assessment of the year's best two-year-olds, Royal Palace was ranked second, three pounds below Bold Lad.
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