Seventeen days later, over the same course and distance, she recorded her first success when she "comfortably" won a similar event by two and a half lengths from twelve opponent. Indian Ink began her racing career by finishing unplaced in a six furlong maiden race at Newbury Racecourse in June. She was ridden in all of her races by Richard Hughes. The filly passed into the ownership of Raymond Tooth and was sent into training with Richard Hannon Sr. The price was considered disappointing for her breeder, who had paid £75,000 to have Maid of Killeen covered by Indian Ridge. Her dam, Maid of Killeen won one minor race and has also produced the Bahrain Trophy winner Feel Like Dancing.Īs a yearling, Indian Ink was sent to the Tattersalls sales in October at Newmarket where she was bought for 25,000 guineas by Peter Doyle Bloodstock. His other progeny included the Prix de l'Abbaye winner Namid and the Breeders' Cup Mile winners Ridgewood Pearl and Domedriver. Her sire, Indian Ridge, and was a sprinter who won the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in 1989 and later became one of the few successful stallions of modern times to emerge from the Byerley Turk sire-line. Indian Ink was a chestnut filly with a faint white star bred in Ireland by the County Meath-based Killeen Castle Stud. At the end of her racing career she was sold for 2,000,000 guineas and retired to stud. Throughout her racing career she demonstrated a marked preference for soft ground. In the following year she was beaten in her first two races, but then defeated a strong international field by six lengths to win the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. As a two-year-old in 2006, she won three of her seven races, culminating in a victory in the Group One Cheveley Park Stakes. Indian Ink (foaled 2004) is an Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who was the highest-rated filly trained in the United Kingdom in 2007. Top-rated British-trained three-year-old filly (2007) Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse Indian Ink