Native Trail
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| Native Trail | |
|---|---|
 Racing silks of Godolphin | |
| Sire | Oasis Dream |
| Grandsire | Green Desert |
| Dam | Needleleaf |
| Damsire | Observatory |
| Sex | Colt |
| Foaled | 3 February 2019[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Le Haras d'Haspel |
| Owner | Godolphin |
| Trainer | Charlie Appleby |
| Record | 11: 6-2-1 |
| Earnings | £511,848 |
| Major wins | |
| Superlative Stakes (2021) National Stakes (2021) Dewhurst Stakes (2021) Craven Stakes (2022) Irish 2,000 Guineas (2022) | |
| Awards | |
| Cartier Champion Two-year-old Colt (2021) | |
Native Trail (foaled 3 February 2019) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He was one of the leading two-year-olds in Europe in 2021 when he was unbeaten in four races including the Superlative Stakes, National Stakes and Dewhurst Stakes.
Native Trail is a bay colt with no white markings bred in England by the Normandy-based Le Haras d'Haspel. As a foal in December 2019 he was put up for auction at the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale and was bought for €50,000 by Sam Sangster Bloodstock.[2] In October 2020 the yearling was consigned to the Tattersalls Yearling Sales and was sold to Margaret O'Toole and Oak Tree Farm for 67,000 guineas.[3] The colt made his third appearance in the sales ring in April 2021 at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale, an event which sees two-year-olds galloped in public before being auctioned. He was bought for 210,000 guineas by Godolphin and sent into training with Charlie Appleby at Newmarket, Suffolk.[4] Native Trail is a very large Thoroughbred who weighed 540 kg as a two-year-old.[5]
He was from the fifteenth crop of foals sired by Oasis Dream, a sprinter who won the July Cup and the Nunthorpe Stakes in 2003 before becoming a very successful breeding stallion. His other progeny have included Midday, Muhaarar and Power.[6] Native Trail's dam Needleleaf was an unraced full-sister to the Haydock Sprint Cup winner African Rose. Needleleaf's dam New Orchid (a half-sister to Distant Music) showed some ability in a brief racing career, winning one minor race and finishing third in the Lancashire Oaks.[7] She was a granddaughter of Populi, who was a half-sister to Temperence Hill and the dam of Vanlandingham.[8]