owned by London Racing PartnershipsHappy Fleet
7 year old bay mare by Beat All out of Fleeting Affair
owned by London Racing Partnerships
Follow this link to see Happy Fleet's career in the Racing Post form database: RACING POST FORM
Happy Fleet finds a good way to warm down after a spin on the gallops is trout tickling. Others are easily drawn into the chess game between mammal and fish.
Having challenged Dawn to a race to lunch at Towcester, Happy Fleet wins but becomes confused by the claims of spiritual significance to be found in a grilled sausage. Either that or she is contemptuous of the fashion heretic wearing a green jacket. How dare people be individuals!
Feb10: Stepped up to 2 miles in handicaps, Happy Fleet came close to breaking her duck at Kempton, going down by half a length in a big field. On that showing, she is definitely capable of achieving what we hoped for - a flat win to tide her over until the faster jumps ground.
Jan10: Was cunningly placed to run in what turned out, for no special reason, to be unusually strong mile and a half maidens for older horses, but if she runs up to her effort in the second, Happy Fleet should find a race to win on the artificial surfaces sooner rather than later.
Dec09: She is not comfortable with the ground over jumps of late, which means she is destined for a summer campaign, but her home work is encouraging thoughts of a try out in the all-weather flat scene.
Aug09: Has shown glimpses of the ability that we believe she has stored inside, most noticeably when running a blinder for all but the last two furlongs at Market Rasen, but she has been one of those affected by EHV, and has been off whilst being treated.
Jan09: Alexander Beetle recently became her fifth half-sibling to win, impressing on his bumper debut. Hopefully, she will be able to make it the round half-dozen for Fleeting Affair's offspring when the ground dries out.
Dec08: Made her UK debut in unsuitably icky ground at Towcester, but ran well until she made a right mess of the fourth last and third last. With a vain slog up the hill facing her, she was pulled up, but there was not much wrong with the effort prior to that.
Sep08: We first encountered Happy Fleet when we went over to see Maderson Blue at Gerry Burke's. He was adamant that she was better than any of the other horses that we have picked up from him - all of which have been winners - and she has already had some runs for experience. Unfortunately hampered and unseating her rider on her debut, Happy Fleet then ran well in a couple of bumpers, including a £10,000+ one, before being given some more time to mature.
Her breeding is from the very top of the jumping tree. Fleeting Affair is a half-sister to Cheltenham Festival winner Flown, and herself won 3 times, and was placed in a Grade 3 race. Her offspring have won over 50 races between them - details below:
1st
Dam
Fleeting
Affair,
won three races at three years and £18,942 and placed eight times
including second
in Galtres Stakes, York, L., third in Mappin & Webb Henry II Stakes,
Sandown Park, Gr.3 and
March Stakes, Goodwood, L.; Own sister to FLOWN.
Dam
of eight winners, 12 runners, from 13 foals of racing age:
TRUMP
(GB) (1989 c. by Last Tycoon), won fourteen races, £41,162: won two
races at three years
and £5,074 and placed twice; also won twelve races over hurdles at four
to eleven years,
£34,883 and placed twelve times and placed three times over fences at eight
years.
FIRST
CRUSH (GB) (1992 f. by Primo Dominie), won four races at two and three
years and £15,324
and placed four times.
INFATUATION
(GB) (1993 c. by Music Boy), won four races at four to six years and £45,751
and
placed fourteen times.
HARMONY
HALL (GB) (1994 c. by Music Boy), won six races, £51,318: won two
races at four
and seven years and £35,763 and placed twenty five times; also won four
races over hurdles
at five and nine years, 2003 and £15,555 and placed three times.
RUDI
KNIGHT (GB) (1995 c. by Rudimentary (USA)), won seven races, £51,383: won
two races
at three years and £7,400 and placed twice; also won three races over
hurdles at four to
six years and £32,080 and placed eleven times and won two races over
fences at eight years,
2003 and £11,903 and placed three times.
CLANDESTINE
(GB) (1996 f. by Saddlers' Hall (IRE)), won five races, £28,896: won one
race
at three years and £4,170 and placed once; also won four races over
hurdles at three to six
years, 2002 and £24,726 and placed seven times; broodmare.
SAICHANIA
(GB) (1997 f. by Saddlers' Hall (IRE)), won ten races at two to four
years and £261,135
in Turkey and placed once.
Kwaheri
(GB) (1998 f. by Efisio), placed once at two years; broodmare.
Unfaithful
Thought (GB) (1999 f. by Mind Games (GB)), placed once at two years, her only start.
Alannico
(GB) (2000 f. by Overbury (IRE)), unraced to date.
TROTTERS
BOTTOM (GB) (2001 c. by Mind Games (GB)), won one race at two years, 2003
and £6,805 and placed four times.
2002
c. by Kayf Tara (GB).
2nd
Dam
MY
OWN II, won four races at three and four years and £3,392 and placed
three times.
Dam
of seven winners:
HAUL
KNIGHT,
won thirteen races and £100,070 at home and Italy including Premio Federico
Tesio, Milan, Gr.2, third in Champion Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1;
sire.
FLOWN,
won six races: won three races at four years and £16,254 and
placed three times; also won
three
races over hurdles at five and six years and £62,220 including Trafalgar House Supreme
Novices' Hurdle, Cheltenham, L. and placed five times; also placed
six times over jumps in U.S.A. including third in Palmetto Federal Imperial Cup
Chase, Aiken, L.
Fleeting
Affair,
(see above).
EXPEDITIOUS,
won eight races, £23,409: won one race at three years and £2,577
and placed twice;
also won one race over hurdles at five years and £971 and placed twice
and won six races
over fences at seven, nine and ten years and £19,861 and placed eleven times.
SWOPPED,
placed once at two years; also won seven races and £3,576 in Belgium.
LULLABY
BABY, won three races, £8,019: won two races at three years and
£5,722 and placed
five times; also won one race over hurdles, £2,297, placed five times;
broodmare.
HONRIETTE,
won one race at three years and £2,150 and placed twice; broodmare.
3rd
Dam
BEES
AND HONEY, ran three times on the flat at two years.
Dam
of eight winners including:
IDIE
II, won three races in Spain and placed twice; dam of four winners including:
Taical
(SPA),
winner, placed third in Premio Capitan General Franco, Madrid, L.
Gerry Burke shows Happy Fleet for the camera, and it appears that she had not previously noted how tall he is, and the realisation has slightly bemused her