THE first two-year-olds by Buratino made an excellent start in 2020, as they included 14 winners, including Snapraeterea who was also third in the Group 2 Beresford Stakes and fourth in the Group 2 Futurity Stakes, both at the Curragh. Tinochio and The Blue Panther were both placed in valuable sales races.
Buratino was a really speedy and precocious two-year-old who scored his first win on the opening day of the 2015 racing season, and this son of Exceed And Excel improved to much higher levels later that year.
He was the only horse to defeat the champion juvenile Air Force Blue that season, yet he is now standing his fifth stud season at Kildangan Stud at only €5,000.
Yorkshire trainer Mark Johnston sent Buratino to Newmarket to register his second win, this time over six furlongs, and he was even more impressive when he went to the Epsom Derby meeting for the Listed Woodcote Stakes, which he won by six lengths in a faster time than Pinotubo in 2019.
Ten days later Buratino was in action at Royal Ascot in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes, also over six furlongs, and this time he was carrying the colours of Godolphin. He won decisively again, two lengths clear of the Irish star Air Force Blue and 15 others in a time faster than Calyx in 2018.
After that, Buratino was given a short break until the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes, in which he was a close third to Air Force Blue and another Royal Ascot winner, Washington DC. Finally, Buratino took on the Prix Morny winner Shalaa in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket and he made a real battle of it, going down by only half a length. In the official European Rankings, Buratino was rated the joint third-best juvenile colt of 2015 in Europe, below only Air Force Blue and Shalaa.
Exceed And Excel, Buratino’s sire and a son of Danehill, was a champion sprinter in Australia, with two Group 1 victories including the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. He has sired the remarkable total of 177 individual blacktype winners in Europe and down under, 18 of which have Group 1 wins to their credit.
Buratino is one of five winners out of Bergamask, a listed-placed winner in France. She is by Kingmambo out of Adonesque, a daughter of Sadler’s Wells who won the Listed Blue Wind Stakes at Cork and is a half-sister to three blacktype winners, including the champion juvenile and outstanding sire Danehill Dancer.
BURATINO (IRE), Chesnut 2013. Jt 3rd top rated 2yr old colt in Europe in 2015. Won four races, £170,241, from 5 furlongs to 6 furlongs, at 2 years including, Coventry Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, Investec Woodcote Stakes, Epsom Downs, L, also placed second in Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, Cantor Fitzgerald National Stakes, Sandown Park, L, and third in Keeneland Phoenix Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1.
Retired to Stud in 2017, and sire of the winners of 20 races, and £271,513, including Snapraeterea (IRE)
Stands at: Kildangan Stud, Monasterevin, Co Kildare, Ireland.
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