Saintly

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Saintly was a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1992, he was bred and part-owned by legendary trainer Bart Cummings.

A chestnut son of Sky Chase from the Sir Tristram mare All Grace he provided Cummings with his 10th victory in the Melbourne Cup.

Saintly was aptly named as it turned out and gained the moniker the ‘Horse from Heaven’ due to his name and his partnership with jockey Darren Beadman who at the time was a proclaimed born-again Christian who the following year announced his retirement to serve God.

The winner of only one of his four two-year-old starts, Saintly then came across a vintage crop of three-year-olds in the 1995-96 season that included Octagonal, Nothin’ Leica Dane and Filante. Despite narrow defeats by Octagonal in STC Rosehill Guineas and the AJC Derby, he still won five races including the Group One VRC Australian Cup.

It was the following season that gained Saintly immortality when he won the 1996 Cox Plate (defeating Filante and All Our Mob) and the Melbourne Cup thus joining Nightmarch (1929), Phar Lap (1930) , Rising Fast (1954) and Makybe Diva (2005) as the only horses to capture these races in the same year.

Following a spell, he recorded a magnificent win in the VATC C F Orr Stakes and great things were expected.

The expectations were short-lived, however, as he damaged a tendon in training, and, despite many efforts to return him to the track, he never recovered and was retired in July 1998.

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[edit] Race Record

23 starts - 10 wins, 8 seconds, 3 thirds

[edit] Prizemoney

A$3,851,765

[edit] Group 1 Wins

Year Race Track Distance
(m)
1996 VRC Australian Cup Flemington 2000
1996 MVRC W.S.Cox Plate Moonee Valley 2040
1996 VRC Melbourne Cup Flemington 3200
1997 VATC C F Orr Stakes Caulfield 1400

[edit] Group 2 Wins

Year Race Track Distance
(m)
1996 AJC Expressway Stakes Randwick 1200
1996 STC Hill Stakes Rosehill 1900

[edit] Listed Wins

Year Race Track Distance
(m)
1995 VRC Carbine Club Stakes Flemington 1600

[edit] See also

Millionaire Racehorses in Australia

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