Opera House | |
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![]() Racing colours of Sheikh Mohammed | |
Sire | Sadler's Wells |
Grandsire | Northern Dancer |
Dam | Colorspin |
Damsire | High Top |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | February 24, 1988 |
Died | April 20, 2016[1] |
Country | Great Britain |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Meon Valley Stud |
Owner | Sheikh Mohammed |
Trainer | Michael Stoute |
Record | 18: 8-4-3 |
Earnings | £737,701 + F1,200,000 |
Major wins | |
Tattersalls Rogers Gold Cup (1992) Brigadier Gerard Stakes (1992) Cumberland Lodge Stakes (1992) Coronation Cup (1993) Eclipse Stakes (1993) K. George VI & Q. Elizabeth Stakes (1993) | |
Awards | |
European Champion Older Horse (1993) |
Opera House (February 24, 1988 – April 20, 2016) was a British thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from October 1990 until November 1993 he ran eighteen times and won eight races. Opera House was best known for his performances as a five-year-old in 1993, when he won three Group One races, including the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and was named European Champion Older Horse. Retired to stud in Japan, he developed into a top-class sire in the country, supplying seven-time Grade 1 hero T M Opera O, four-time Group 1 winner Meisho Samson and multiple Group scorer Miyabi Ranveli.