Susan Crawford Placemats

Set 1

SERVING MATS:
Best Mate - was a famous English trained racehorse and three-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup (2002, 2003, 2004). He is considered to be one of the most loved horses in the history of horse racing.
Persian Punch - was trained in the UK and was frequently heralded by the Racing Post as the most popular horse in training during the final years of his career.  He died at the age of 10 and has a lifesize bronze statue erected in his memory at Newmarket Racecourse.

PLACEMATS AND COASTERS:
Northern Dancer - was a Canadian-bred thoroughbred and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. He has been referred to as 'one of the most influential sires in the thoroughbred history'.
Giant's Causeway - is a Kentucky bred thoroughbred who raced primarily in Europe. In 2000, he won five straight Group One races, a performance that won him European Horse of the Year honours.
Sadlers Wells - was sired by Northern Dancer and born in 1981. He had a successful racing career but his greatest success has come as a champion sire. In November 2007, a Sadlers Wells daughter, Playful Act, was sold for a world record price of US$10.5 million.
Rainbow Quest - born in 1981 and went on to have a successful racing career in Europe and was thought to be one of the best racehorses of his generation. It was no wonder then that Rainbow Quest proved so effective as a stallion.

Set 2:

SERVING MAT:
Gull Wing and Maycocks Bay - both bred and raced by Lady Bamford, Gull Wing and Sariska (see placemats) are half sisters, Maycocks Bay being their brood mare. These two offspring of Maycocks Bay are also her only stakes winners.

PLACEMATS AND COASTERS:
Sariska - foaled in 2006 in England, Sariska is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. She is best known for her win in the Epsom Oaks in 2009, a year in which she was named European Champion 3-Y-O Filly. She also won the Irish Oaks in the same year. She is now a broodmare at Daylesford stud.
High-rise - born in 1995, High-rise is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire, bred in Ireland but trained in the United Kingdom, Dubai and the United States, High-rise is owned by the cousin of the ruler of Dubai. Major wins were the Lingfield derby trial in 1998, Epsom Derby in 1998 and Dubai City of Gold in 2000.
Oasis Dream - a retired Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire, Oasis Dream was born in 2000 and trained in the United Kingdom. He was the highest-rated two-year old in the 2002 European flat racing season and won the Cartier Racing Award for European Champion Sprinter in 2003.
Dansili -foaled in 1996, Dansili is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He won five races, including the Prix du Muguet. Since retiring from racing he has become a successful stallion with his progeny including Prix de l'arc de Triomphe winner Rail Link and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Harbinger.