{{Short description|British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}} {{for|the Irish saint|Saint Patrick}} {{Use British English|date=May 2022}} {{Infobox racehorse | horsename = St. Paddy | image = | caption = | sire = Aureole | grandsire = Hyperion | dam = Edie Kelly | damsire = Bois Roussel | sex = Stallion | foaled = 1957 | country = Great Britain | colour = Bay | breeder = Sir Victor Sassoon | owner = Sir Victor Sassoon | trainer = Noel Murless | record = 14: 9-2-2 | earnings = £97,193 | race = Royal Lodge Stakes (1959)<br>Dante Stakes (1960)<br>Great Voltigeur Stakes (1960)<br>Jockey Club Stakes (1961)<br>Eclipse Stakes (1961)<br>Hardwicke Stakes (1961)<br>'''British Classic Race wins:'''<br>Epsom Derby (1960)<br>St. Leger Stakes (1960) | awards= | honours = Deltic locomotive 55001 was named ''St. Paddy''<ref name=DPS /> | updated= 13 May 2022}} '''St. Paddy ''' (1957–1984) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In 1960, he won both the Epsom Derby and the St Leger. His performances in both 1960 and 1961 were instrumental in making his sire Aureole the Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland for each year.
==Background== Owned and bred by Sir Victor Sassoon, he was out of the mare Edie Kelly, and sired by Aureole, a winner of the Coronation Cup and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Edie Kelly, who ran 14 times winning one small apprentice handicap, later produced Parmeila, a filly who won the Ribblesdale Stakes and the Park Hill Stakes in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pedigreequery.com/progeny/edie+kelly |title=Edie Kelly Offspring |publisher=Pedigreequery.com |access-date=2011-12-28}}</ref> St. Paddy's grandsire, Hyperion, and his damsire, Bois Roussel, both won The Derby. St. Paddy was bred and raised at his owner's Thornton Stud, Thornton-le-Street, North Yorkshire.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/thornton.htm |title=Thornton Stud |publisher=Yorkshire-racing.co.uk |date=1999-07-09 |access-date=2011-12-28}}</ref>
==Racing career==
===1959:two-year-old season=== St. Paddy finished unplaced on his debut in the Acomb Stakes at York in August. In September he won the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot.
===1960:three-year-old season=== On 27 April 1960, St. Paddy finished unplaced behind Martial in the 2000 Guineas on his seasonal debut.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=djQrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CooFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3766,4400278&dq=martial+guineas&hl=en |title= Ireland gets first English classic win|publisher=Schenectady Gazette |date=28 April 1960 |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref> He then won the Dante Stakes at York in May.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wY0jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nJsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1485,2939701&dq=dante+paddy&hl=en |title= Horse racing|publisher=Reading Eagle |date=19 May 1960|access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref>
In the Derby on 1 June at Epsom he was ridden by Lester Piggott and started at odds of 7/1. The race was run in warm, sunny weather and attracted the customary huge crowd, which included the Queen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o99RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9YMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2228,667191&dq=st-paddy+derby&hl=en |title=St. Paddy wins Derby |publisher=Youngstown Vindicator |date=2 June 1960 |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref> He was prominent from the start, took the lead three furlongs from the finish, and was never in danger, winning easily by three lengths from Alcaeus with Kythnos third. The race was marred by a fatal injury sustained by the favourite Angers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4IQtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4ZsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4268,531405&dq=st-paddy+derby&hl=en |title= St. Paddy home first in 181st Derby|publisher=Reading Eagle |date=1 June 1960 |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref>
He was narrowly beaten in the Gordon Stakes by Kipling, to whom he was conceding five pounds. He then won the Great Voltigeur Stakes at York in August.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=exg-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=OUoMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2023,5789868&dq=st-paddy+derby&hl=en |title=Test Case colt of promise |publisher=Evening Times |date= 20 August 1960|access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref> In the St Leger at Doncaster in September he stated odds-on favourite against eight rivals and won easily by three lengths from Die Hard.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ohQrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sJsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2257,3840599&dq=st-paddy+derby&hl=en |title=St. Paddy first in English race |publisher=Reading Eagle |date= 11 September 1960|access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref>
===1961: four-year-old season=== St. Paddy won the Coombe Stakes at Sandown, the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in July. In the Eclipse he led from the start and won impressively from Proud Chieftain, leading the ''Glasgow Herald'' to describe him as "the complete racehorse".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MDM1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HqYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=3060,2016858&dq=eclipse+paddy&hl=en |title=St Paddy can win again |publisher=Glasgow Herald|date=15 July 1961 |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref> He started favourite for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot one week later, but was beaten three lengths into second place by the Prix du Jockey Club winner Right Royal.
In Autumn, St. Paddy won the Jockey Club Stakes, but was beaten in the Champion Stakes.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1073131/2/index.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119162951/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1073131/2/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 19, 2013 |title=A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week - 10.23.61 - SI Vault |publisher=Sportsillustrated.cnn.com |date=1961-10-23 |access-date=2011-12-28}}</ref> His defeat meant that he failed to break the record for prize money by a British-trained horse, his final total of $272,141 placing him second behind Ballymoss.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> He was then retired to stud.
==Stud record== St. Paddy was retired after the 1961 racing season to stand at stud at Beech House Stud in Newmarket. As a sire, he met with reasonable success, notably siring Connaught, winner of the Eclipse Stakes and Jupiter Island, a multiple graded stakes race winner whose biggest success came in the 1986 Japan Cup.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EStWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x-QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5124,6917621&dq=jupiter-island+paddy+japan-cup&hl=en |title=Starkey angry at Japan Cup |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald |date=24 November 1986 |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref> St. Paddy was pensioned in 1981 and died on 16 May 1984 at the age of 27.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=St Paddy dies |magazine=Rail Enthusiast |issue=34 |date=July 1984 |page=18 }}</ref> He is buried at Beech House Stud.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tbheritage.com/TurfHallmarks/Graves/cem/GraveMattersBeechHouse.html |title=Grave Matters Beech House Stud |publisher=Tbheritage.com |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref>
==Assessment and honours== Following the London & North Eastern Railway tradition of naming locomotives after winning racehorses,<ref>{{cite book |last=Nock |first=O.S. |author-link=Oswald Nock |title=British Locomotives of the 20th Century: Volume 3 1960-the present day |year=1985 |publisher=Guild Publishing/Book Club Associates |location=London |id=CN9613 |pages=70–71 }}</ref> British Railways "Deltic" Diesel locomotive no. D9001 (later 55001) was named after this horse on 7 July 1961,<ref name=DPS>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedps.co.uk/staticpages/index.php?page=names |title=Names |date=20 January 2008 |work=Deltic Preservation Society |location=Chesterfield |access-date=12 January 2010 |quote=St. Paddy was a racehorse which won the 1960 Derby, 2000 guineas, St. Leger, Hardwick and Eclipse stakes |archive-date=29 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090829222220/http://www.thedps.co.uk/staticpages/index.php?page=names |url-status=dead }}</ref> and remained in service until 5 January 1980.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/9001.htm |title=D9001/9001/55001 |work=The Chronicles of Napier |publisher=P.A. Bettany |access-date=12 January 2010 |quote=in honour of racehorse owned by Sir Victor Sassoon, winner of the Derby, St. Leger, 2,000 Guineas, Hardwick stakes and Eclipse stakes }}</ref>
In their book ''A Century of Champions'', John Randall and Tony Morris rated St. Paddy an “average” Derby winner and the one hundred and twenty-first best British racehorse of the 20th Century.<ref name="century">{{cite book|last1 = Morris | first1 = Tony |last2=Randall|first2=John|title=A Century of Champions|publisher= Portway Press|year=1999|isbn=1-901570-15-0}}</ref>
==Sire line tree== {{tree list}} *'''St Paddy'''<!--b. 1957--><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20250213094028/https://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Sirelines/Camel.htm Sire Line: Camel]</ref><ref>[https://www.tbheritage.com/HistoricSires/SireLineschts/SireLineDANewminster.html Darley Arabian Sire Line: Newminster Branch]</ref> **St Puckle<!--b. 1963--> ***What A Nuisance<!--b. 1978--> **Connaught<!--b. 1965--> ***Sir Montagu<!--b. 1973--> ***Connaught Ranger<!--b. 1974--> ***Centurion<!--b. 1975--> ***Remainderman<!--b. 1975--> ****One Man<!--b. 1988--> ***Dukedom<!--b. 1977--> ***Playboy Jubilee<!--b. 1977--> ***Buffavento<!--b. 1978--> ***{{Interlanguage link|Lirung (horse)|lt=Lirung|de|Lirung}}<!--b. 1982--> **Jupiter Island<!--b. 1979--> ***Mr Cool<!--b. 1994--> {{tree list/end}}
==Pedigree== {{Pedigree |name = St Paddy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chef-de-race.com/classic_winners/english_derby/st_paddy.htm |title=English Derby Winner: St. Paddy |publisher=Chef-de-race.com |access-date=2011-12-28}}</ref> |f = Aureole |m = Edie Kelly |ff = Hyperion |fm = Angelola |mf = Bois Roussel |mm = Caerlissa |fff = Gainsborough |ffm = Selene |fmf = Donatello |fmm = Feola |mff = Vatout |mfm = Plucky Liege |mmf = Caerleon |mmm = Sister Sarah |ffff = Bayardo |fffm = Rosedrop |ffmf = '''Chaucer*''' |ffmm = Serenissima |fmff = Blenheim |fmfm = Delleana |fmmf = Friar Marcus |fmmm = Aloe |mfff = '''Prince Chimay*''' |mffm = Vashti |mfmf = Spearmint |mfmm = Concertina |mmff = Phalaris |mmfm = '''Canyon*''' |mmmf = Abbots Trace |mmmm = Sarita |}}
{{asterisk}} St Paddy is inbred 4S x 5D x 5D to the stallion Chaucer, meaning that he appears fourth generation once on the sire side of his pedigree, and fifth generation twice (via Prince Chimay and Canyon) on the dam side of his pedigree.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A75fkr-oReU Footage of St. Paddy winning the 1960 Epsom Derby] {{Epsom Derby Winners}} {{St Leger Winners}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Paddy}} Category:1957 racehorse births Category:1984 racehorse deaths Category:Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom Category:Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom Category:Thoroughbred family 14-c Category:Epsom Derby winners Category:St Leger winners