Broome (horse)

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GrandsireGalileo
DamSweepstake
Broome
SireAustralia
GrandsireGalileo
DamSweepstake
DamsireAcclamation
SexStallion
Foaled8 February 2016[1]
CountryIreland
ColourBay
BreederEpona Bloodstock Ltd
OwnerDerrick Smith, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Masaaki Matsushima
TrainerAidan O'Brien
Record32: 9-6-0
Earnings£2,137,500
Major wins
Ballysax Stakes (2019)
Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial (2019)
Devoy Stakes (2021)
Alleged Stakes (2021)
Mooresbridge Stakes (2021)
Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (2021)
Hardwicke Stakes (2022)
Dubai Gold Cup (2023)

Broome (foaled 8 February 2016) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and stallion. He showed very good form as a juvenile in 2018 when he won one minor race and ran second in both the Champions Juvenile Stakes and the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère. He improved in the following year to win the Ballysax Stakes and the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial before finishing a close fourth in the Epsom Derby. After running poorly in two races in 2020 he returned to form as a five-year-old to win the Devoy Stakes, Alleged Stakes, Mooresbridge Stakes and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

Broome is a bay horse with a white blaze and a white sock on his left hind leg bred in Ireland by Epona Bloodstock. In September 2017 the yearling colt was consigned to the Goffs Orby sale but failed to reach his reserve price of €120,000[2] Two months later, the colt was sent to the Tattersalls sales in England and was bought for 150,000 guineas by Michael Magnier on behalf of his father, John Magnier's Coolmore Stud organisation.[3] He entered the ownership of the Coolmore partners Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor and Anne-Marie O'Brien, and was sent into training with Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle.

He was from the first crop of foals sired by Australia who won the Epsom Derby, Irish Derby and International Stakes in 2014.[4] Broome's dam Sweepstake showed good racing ability in England and the United States, winning the National Stakes and being placed in both the Princess Margaret Stakes and the Appalachian Stakes.[5] Her dam Dust Flicker was a full-sister to the dam of Zoffany. She was distantly descended from the influential American broodmare Etoile Filante (foaled 1918).[6]

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