If there’s a better horse in the world, I’d like to know who it is.
Just annexed his fifth G1 in a row…
2000 Guineas
Derby
Eclipse
Juddmonte
Irish Champion Stakes.
This is a magnificent animal, the likes we haven’t seen in a long time.
Here’s a collection of his highlights… doesn’t include today’s win in the Irish Champion Stakes, where he made the best of Ballydoyle look very ordinary, but I imagine that will be on youtube tout suite.
Pretty awesome…
The quality of the video isn’t great, but here’s a replay of his win in the Irish Champion Stakes today at Leopardstown.
Next stop Longchamp on the first Sun in Oct for the Arc.
Thanks for that.
Looking forward to the Arc.
He is an awesome horse, and a lovely victory for him! Here’s looking to the Arc!
Hello there, I’ve got the Irish Champion Stakes video on my site now - the only place anywhere that has it … go to www.preconderotous.blogspot.com where you’ll find many UK and European races posted. Regards, So Cruise
OK see you’ve already got it!
re: Sea The Stars Irish Champion Stakes today
Highly unlikely Sea The Stars will go for the Arc
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The quality of the video isn’t great, but here’s a replay of his win in the Irish Champion Stakes today at Leopardstown.
Next stop Longchamp on the first Sun in Oct for the Arc.[/QUOTE]
Ground at Longchamp in early October will be soft more likely or not and connections will not let him run on anything worse than yielding (today at Leopardstown was a borderline decision) so DON’T back it ante-post.
I think the whole Longchamp in Oct being soft thing is a bit of an urban myth (forgive the pun!!). If you look at the last ten runnings, there have only been three times that the race has come up with a rating that would not suit STS. John Oxx has already said he’d run on ground that had “Good” in the description.
2008 - Good-Sft
2007 - Good-Sft
2006 - Good
2005 - Good-Sft
2004 - Good
2003 - Holding
2002 - Good
2001 - Holding
2000 - Good
1999 - Heavy
Timeform have just given Sea the Stars a 140 Timeform rating for his performance in the Irish Champion stakes on Sat!!! Holy gamolie, that puts him in some rarefied air.
Sea The Stars has joined the list of all-time greats after his stunning Irish Champion Stakes win at Leopardstown, according to world-renowned ratings organisation Timeform - and there is the mouth-watering prospect of better to come.
Timeform have provisionally given John Oxx’s colt a huge rating of 140, which puts him alongside Shergar, Dancing Brave and Dubai Millennium as the third best horse since 1970.
Only Brigadier Gerard (144) and Mill Reef (141) have been allotted bigger ratings by Timeform since 1970.
Timeform’s Flat Editor Jamie Lynch commented: "Mastercraftsman (130) appears to have run his race in third, and there is also good reason for believing that Fame And Glory deserves a rating of 135, and to be bracketed in the same league as Sinndar (134), Galileo (134) and St Jovite (135).
"Therefore the form of the race looks solid, and we have given Sea The Stars a provisional rating of 140.
"Furthermore, Sea The Stars again didn’t look all out, leaving the impression there could be an even better performance in him if ever comes up against something able to test him fully.
“He should now be classed as one of the all-time greats.”
Timeform Ratings Since 1970
Brigadier Gerard 144
Mill Reef 141
Sea The Stars 140
Dubai Millennium 140
Dancing Brave 140
Shergar 140
Here’s some post race footage and analysis of the Irish Champion.
What a lovely looking animal he is, very refined and regal, almost a throwback. Race didn’t seem to take much out of him.
Yeah, he does have a great action about him and looks very classy in a finish. Hope he gets to take his chance in the Arc. Shame I won’t be there to see it this year! Ah well!
Amazing! What a great horse.:yes:
John Oxx talks about the fairytale it’s been training STS in an article in the RP.
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/john-m-oxx-longchamp-longchamp-training-sea-the-stars-is-a-great-fairytale-for-oxx/639360/top/
Excerpts
Oxx compared the Tsui family’s superstar to Bolt, the record-breaking sprinter, and reporters from both national television stations, RTE and TV3, were there to hear it, along with colleagues from radio stations.
Ireland’s latest equine star was paraded before them, and Oxx said: “We’ll have a rider sit up on him tomorrow. He will canter again on Wednesday, so they don’t get too much time to rest after these big races. You wouldn’t be surprised if he got a nick or two but, thankfully, he has none.”
With Sea The Stars now embedded in the national consciousness, Oxx said: "He’s the Usain Bolt of the equine world. To have a horse that has captured the wider audience is something else, and it’s great to have a horse that has excited people so much.
"Even talking to his owner [Christopher Tsui] after the Eclipse, he said to me this horse now belongs to the public.
“It’s been a great fairytale.”
Oxx is in the running for Irish sports personality of the year. Though I think STS might win the award ahead of his trainer!
Looking towards the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Oxx said: “My instinct is it’s late in the year and is probably a big ask.”
Before then there could an addition to the trophy cabinet, in the shape of the RTE Sports Personality of the Year award. Oxx was cut to 7-2 second favourite on Monday by William Hill, having been 10-1 before the Arc.
Collection of the replays of his races this years
2000 Guineas, G1, 8f, 3yo, Newmarket
Derby, G1, 12f, 3yo, Epsom
Eclipse Stakes, G1, 10f, 3yo+ WFA, Sandown
Juddmonte Intl, G1, 10.5f, 3yo+ WFA, York
Irish Champion Stakes, G1, 10f, 3yo+ WFA, Leopardstown
Prix de l’Arc, G1, 12f, 3yo+ WFA, Longchamp
So just curious what purchase price would likely be pegged on Sea The Stars?
Would Sheikh Mohammed offer Christopher Tsui and his family a dollar amount (US$) at or near $100 million as The Times says he’d be worth?
A nice opinion piece in the Independent: “If only sport’s two-legged competitors would take a lesson from Sea The Stars”
Sh Mo has been making overtures all year long and Tsui has rebuffed them all. This horse is simply amazing and I expect that he will retire and stand at stud at 4. No stud plans have beenannounced but rumor is that the Irish national Stud is a leading contender to stand Sea the Stars. His dam, the great Urban Sea lived there until her death earlier this year.
Does anyone know if STS is the only Arc winner produced by (not sired by) and Arc winner?
Drvmb1ggl3,
Thanks for posting the links. Obviously I have heard of Sea the Stars, but I hadn’t seen him run. Breathtaking! Now that, is a race horse.
I am stunned by him.
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