Teona
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| Teona | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Sea The Stars |
| Grandsire | Cape Cross |
| Dam | Ambivalent |
| Damsire | Authorized |
| Sex | Filly |
| Foaled | 13 March 2018[1] |
| Country | Ireland |
| Color | Bay |
| Breeder | Rabbah Bloodstock |
| Owner | Ali Saeed |
| Trainer | Roger Varian |
| Record | 6: 3-1-1 |
| Earnings | £341,291 |
| Major wins | |
| August Stakes (2021) Prix Vermeille (2021) | |
Teona (foaled 13 March 2018) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. She showed promise as a two-year-old in 2020 when she won the second of her two races by nine lengths. In the following spring she ran disappointingly in the Musidora Stakes and the Epsom Oaks but developed into a top-class middle distance performer, winning the August Stakes and the Prix Vermeille.
Teona is a bay filly with a white stripe bred in Ireland by Rabbah Bloodstock. As a yearling in October 2019 she was consigned to the Tattersalls sales and was bought for 280,000 guineas by Hugo Merry Bloodstock.[2] She entered the ownership of Ali Saeed, and was sent into training with Roger Varian at Newmarket, Suffolk.
She was from the eighth crop of foals sired by Sea the Stars who won the 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 2009. His other major winners have included Baaeed, Harzand, Taghrooda, Stradivarius, Sea of Class and Sea The Moon.[3] Teona's dam Ambivalent was a top-class racemare whose wins included the Pretty Polly Stakes and the Middleton Stakes.[4] She was a half-sister to the dam of the Prix de l'Abbaye winner Total Gallery and, as a descendant of the broodmare Meinhart, she was also distantly related to the Grand National winner Lord Gyllene.[5]