Winter (horse)

Winter
Racing silks of Sue Magnier
Sire	Galileo
Grandsire	Sadler's Wells
Dam	Laddies Poker Two
Damsire	Choisir
Sex	Filly
Foaled	15 February 2014
Country	Ireland
Colour	Grey
Breeder	Laddies Poker Two Syndicate
Owner	Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor
Trainer	David Wachman Aidan O'Brien
Record	9:5-2-2
Earnings	£1,089,592
Major wins
1000 Guineas (2017) Irish 1000 Guineas (2017) Coronation Stakes (2017) Nassau Stakes (2017)

Winter (foaled 15 February 2014) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. She won one minor race from three starts as a two-year-old in 2016, but made considerable improvement in the following spring and won the 1000 Guineas on her fifth racecourse appearance. She went on to record further Group 1 victories in the Irish 1000 Guineas, Coronation Stakes and Nassau Stakes.

Winter is a grey filly bred in Ireland by the Laddies Poker Two Syndicate, a horse breeding company associated with the Coolmore Stud. The filly was sent into training with David Wachman at Goolds Cross, County Tipperary. Like many Coolmore horses, the official details of her ownership have changed from race to race but she is usually described as being owned by a partnership of Derrick Smith, Michael Tabor and Susan Magnier. She has been ridden in all of her races by Wayne Lordan.

She was sired by Galileo, who won the Derby, Irish Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2001. Galileo is now one of the world's leading stallions and has been champion sire of Great Britain and Ireland eight times so far. His other progeny include Cape Blanco, Frankel, Golden Lilac, Nathaniel, New Approach, Rip Van Winkle, Found, Minding and Ruler of the World. Winter's dam Laddies Poker Two, from whom she inherited her grey colour, was a lightly-raced sprinter best-known for winning the Wokingham Stakes at Royal Ascot as a five-year-old in 2010. She was a great granddaughter of the Prix Morny winner Ancient Regime, who was closely related to Scottish Rifle and many other good winners descended from the British broodmare Radiopye (foaled 1954).