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Our series on some of the horses that made the 2010s produced a virtuoso performance. The early pace was strong. Frankie so special for Johnston Racing this month recalls Dettori had Artigiano at the head of affairs Steeler, whose golden moment came on Newmarket’s on the far side, but he was soon joined by Martin Lane on Birdman closer to the Rowley Mile course in September 2012. stands side of the track. had Steeler racing between the leading pair, just off the pace. Tenacity OME of us of a certain age will on his debut at Haydock, the colt pounced leader, Fantastic Moon had won the forever associate the Royal late under Kieren Fallon to land a Solario Stakes at Sandown, while Henry Steeler improved from the halfway S Lodge Stakes with Ascot. The competitive maiden race over seven Cecil’s Al Waab looked a progressive sort; mark and was in front with three furlongs race was established in 1946 and furlongs. having won two of his three races, both at to run. Artigiano was travelling strongly named after Royal Lodge, a royal Newmarket, he had gone down by just a Impeded for Dettori, however, and passing the residence located in Windsor Great Park head to the subsequent Tattersalls Stakes furlong marker the Godolphin silks and thus on Ascot’s doorstep. Originally winner, Havana Gold, in Haydock’s seemed to be in a narrow lead. Displaying run over five furlongs, the distance of the Stepped up to Group 3 company in Ascendant Stakes. Godolphin’s Artigiano, what commentator Richard Hoiles referred race was extended to a mile in 1948, and York’s Acomb Stakes in August, Steeler second in the Vintage Stakes at to as his ‘trademark tenacity’, Steeler Charlie Johnston with Steeler and groom, the late Hari Singh Bhati, after the race the event was then restricted to colts and was impeded by the winner, Dundonnell, Goodwood, had strong claims, too. Kieren responded generously to Fallon’s urgent geldings in 1987. in the closing stages when finishing Fallon took the ride on Steeler, and drive, and pulled away in the closing The Royal Lodge Stakes was second, but returned to the winner’s stages to score by a length from Artigiano, owner, Steeler’s win in this Group 2 race connections as Steeler’s next target. The transferred to Newmarket in 2011 as part enclosure when landing the Peter Willett with Al Waab finishing third, beaten a gave his sire, Raven’s Pass, the Queen colt acquitted himself well at Doncaster, of the reorganisation of races arising from Stakes (Listed) at Goodwood at the further three and a half lengths. Elizabeth II Stakes winner, despite soft ground on which he was the institution of British Champions Day. beginning of September. The decent early pace, his first Group race untried. On what proved to be his final Mark Johnston had already won the race The colt’s manner of running suggested combined with Steeler’s strong winner. start for the yard, Steeler took over twice by then. Memorably, Paul Venner’s he would be suited by stepping up to a finishing burst, meant that the The Group 1 from Trading Leather in the lead took the race in 1993, mile at Newmarket. In the Royal Lodge, winning time for the race (1 Racing Post with three furlongs to run, but was ridden by , while Alan Steeler faced seven rivals. The market min 35:67 secs) set a new Trophy was run out of things by Kingsbarns in Spence’s was the winner in juvenile course record. nominated the closing stages, going down by 2008, partnered by Royston Ffrench. Equally importantly for his by a length and three-quarters. Steeler, a Raven’s Pass colt out of the Darshaan mare, Discreet Brief, and owned by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, burst on to the juvenile scene in 2012 at Glorious Goodwood. After running green

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