SOOKERA raced in the colours of Robert Sangster and won three of her five starts as a juvenile, the only season she raced. Born on May 18th, she nonetheless made her first start two months shy of her actual second birthday, winning the season-opening Castrol Stakes at the now defunct Phoenix Park.

Bred in the USA by the British Bloodstock Agency and Robert Sangster, she was actually offered for sale as a yearling at Saratoga but found no takers at $20,000. She was sent to be trained in Ireland, but not by Vincent O’Brien as you might have expected, but rather by Dermot Weld.