King's Theatre | |
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![]() Racing colours of Sheikh Mohammed | |
Sire | Sadler's Wells |
Grandsire | Northern Dancer |
Dam | Regal Beauty |
Damsire | Princely Native |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1991 |
Country | Ireland |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Michael Poland |
Owner | Michael Poland (1993) Sheikh Mohammed (1994–1995) Godolphin (1996) |
Trainer | Henry Cecil (1993–1994) Bill Mott (1995) Saeed bin Suroor (1996) |
Record | 17: 5-3-3 |
Earnings | £756,921 |
Major wins | |
Racing Post Trophy (1993) Craven Stakes (1994) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1994) | |
Awards | |
European Champion Three-year old colt (1994) Leading jump racing sire in Britain & Ireland (2011–12, 2013–14) | |
Last updated on June 22, 2007 |
King's Theatre (1 May 1991 – 13 June 2011) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was trained in the United Kingdom and the United States during a racing career which lasted from July 1993 to June 1996, winning five of his seventeen races. He is best known for winning the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1994, a year in which he was named European Champion Three-year old colt. King's Theatre later became a sire of both flat racers and jumpers.