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Avonbridge is a retired British Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. He won three Group races including the Group One Prix de l'Abbaye in a career which lasted from 2002 to 2005. In his final year he was named European Champion Sprinter at the Cartier Racing Awards. He currently stands as a stallion in Hampshire. ==Background== Avonbridge, a bay horse standing 16 hands high, was bred at the Fawley House Stud in Oxfordshire by his owner, John Deer. Avonbridge’s sire, Averti, was a sprinter who won the King George Stakes at Goodwood in 1997. He sired the winners of over two hundred races, with Avonbridge being his most important winner. As a son of Averti, Avonbridge is a male-line descendent of the Godolphin Arabian, unlike more than 95% of modern thoroughbreds, who descend directly from the Darley Arabian. His dam, Alessia won one race as a two-year-old and became a successful broodmare, producing, in addition to Avonbridge, the Prix de l’Abbaye winner Patavellian. She was also a half sister to the Park Hill Stakes winner, Casey. Avonbridge was sent as a weanling to the Tattersalls sales in November 2000 where was sold for 29,000gns. Although his vendor was listed as the Fawley Stud and his buyer was given as the BBA (British Bloodstock Agency), he was in fact “bought in” by his breeders, meaning that his ownership did not actually change. Avonbridge was trained throughout his career by Roger Charlton at Beckhampton, Wiltshire and was ridden in sixteen of his twenty-two races by Steve Drowne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avonbridge (horse)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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