Coolmore Ireland Brochure 2024

“I’m a very rare sort of bear,” declared Michael Bond's marmalade sandwich-loving ursine icon who would go on the join the Queen for afternoon tea at Buckingham Palace. Some 65 years after these words were written our own Paddington has proven himself ‘a very rare sort of horse’. The Irish 2,000 Guineas, the St James’s Palace Stakes, the Eclipse Stakes and the Sussex Stakes, all in the space of just 68 days, earning him ‘the modern ironhorse’ moniker. “It's a hard thing to say but Paddington gives you the feel that he might be as good a horse as I've ridden,” said Ryan Moore to the assembled press at Goodwood. “He's exceptional.”

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