Dr Devious

Bred by Lyonstown Stud, near Cashel, County Tipperary,{{cite web|url=http://www.directoryoftheturf.com/profile.cfm/searchid/3282|title=Lyonstown Stud, Stud Farm & Stallions, Co Tipperary, Ireland|work=Directory of the Turf}} Dr Devious was sired by Ahonoora out of the mare Rose of Jericho, a daughter of two-time Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Alleged. As a son of Ahonoora,{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/profile/horse/589778/notnowcato |publisher=Racing Post |title=Notnowcato pedigree |access-date=2011-09-05}} he is a representative of the Byerley Turk sire line,{{cite web|url=http://www.tbheritage.com/HistoricSires/SireLineschts/SireLineBT.html |title=Byerley Turk Line |publisher=Tbheritage.com |access-date=2011-09-05}} unlike more than 95% of modern thoroughbreds, who descend directly from the Darley Arabian.{{cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7941-95-of-thoroughbreds-linked-to-one-superstud.html |title=95% of thoroughbreds linked to one superstud|work=New Scientist |access-date=2011-09-05}} Rose of Jericho was an unraced mare who also produced the Greenlands Stakes winner Archway.{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/profile/horse/57896/archway |publisher=Racing Post |title=Archway |date=2011-06-02 |access-date=2011-12-28}} He was purchased by Italian businessman Luciano Gaucci, owner of the Allevamento White Star breeding and racing operation who had had great success in the late 1980s with the colt Tony Bin. Dr Devious, reportedly named after a supervillain,{{cite web|url=http://www.thoroughbredinternet.com/newsmore.html?Id=16858 |title=thoroughbredinternet/newsmore |publisher=Thoroughbredinternet.com |date=2008-11-24 |access-date=2011-12-28}} was trained throughout his career by Peter Chapple-Hyam.

In the spring of 1991, the two-year-old Dr Devious won the May Maiden Stakes at Newbury, then in June ran second in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot. Ridden for the remainder of the year by Willie Carson, in July he won the Superlative Stakes at Newmarket and in August the Vintage Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse. The horse had been sold by Robert Sangster to Luciano Gaucci before the Vintage Stakes, but the agreement was that he would be leased back to Sangster for his next two races.{{cite book| title = Racehorses of 1991 | year=1992|publisher = Portway Press| pages=235–239}} Back at Newmarket, on 2 October he finished a head second to Young Senor in a crowded field in the Tiffany Highflyer Stakes then just over two weeks later (wearing the Gaucci colours for the first time) ran in the Group One seven furlong Dewhurst Stakes, Britain's most prestigious race for two-year-olds. He took the lead a furlong from the finish and won by two and a half lengths from Great Palm.{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/results/38/newmarket/1991-10-18/107522 |publisher=Racing Post |title=Results from the 3.40 race at NEWMARKET – 18 October 1991 |access-date=2011-12-28}}

American Jenny Craig purchased Dr Devious for a reported $2.5 million as a gift for her husband Sidney.{{cite web |last=Hammonds |first=Evan |url=http://www.bloodhorse.com/articleindex/article.asp?id=5226 |title=Hall of Fame: Paseana 'Strong as Steel, But Coy' |work=BloodHorse |access-date=2011-12-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050428044553/http://www.bloodhorse.com/articleindex/article.asp?id=5226 |archive-date=2005-04-28 }} In April 1992, Dr Devious finished second to Alnasr Alwasheek under the French-based American jockey Cash Asmussen in the Craven Stakes. In May of that year, the colt was shipped to Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, to compete in America's most prestigious horse race, the Kentucky Derby. Racing on dirt, Dr Devious finished seventh to winner Lil E. Tee. After the race, Sidney Craig asked the advice of his American trainer, Ron McAnally, who advised him that Dr Devious was a turf specialist and that he should send the colt back to England.{{cite web|url=http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/46264/sidney-h-craig-won-epsom-derby-dead |title=Sidney H. Craig, Won Epsom Derby, Dead |work=BloodHorse |access-date=2011-12-28}}

Dr Devious returned to England to run in the Epsom Derby on 3 June. Starting the 8/1 second favourite in a field of eighteen, he took the lead a furlong from the finish and held off the challenges of St Jovite and Silver Wisp to win by two lengths.{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/results/17/epsom/1992-06-03/109298 |publisher=Racing Post |title=Results from the 3.45 race at EPSOM – 3 June 1992 |access-date=2011-12-28}}

Three and a half weeks after his Epsom win, Dr Devious met St Jovite again in the Irish Derby at the Curragh. Dr Devious was made odds-on favourite but was never able to make a serious challenge to St Jovite, who won by twelve lengths in record time.{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/results/178/curragh/1992-06-28/109939 |publisher=Racing Post |title=Results from the 3.30 race at CURRAGH (IRE) – 28 June 1992 |access-date=2011-12-28}} Dr Devious finished fourth in the International Stakes at York in August and then ran against St Jovite for a third time in the Irish Champion Stakes over ten furlongs. The two horses raced head-to-head down the straight, with Dr Devious moving ahead near the post and winning by a short head.{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/results/187/leopardstown/1992-09-13/111821 |publisher=Racing Post |title=Results from the 4.30 race at LEOPARDSTOWN (IRE) – 13 September 1992 |access-date=2011-12-28}}

Dr Devious ran three more times without recovering his best form. He finished sixth in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, fourth in the Breeders' Cup Turf, and unplaced on his final start in the Japan Cup.{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/results/315/tokyo/1992-11-29/112760 |publisher=Racing Post |title=Results from the 6.20 race at TOKYO (JPN) – 29 November 1992 |access-date=2011-12-28}}

Retired to stud in Japan in 1993-96 and Coolmore Ireland in 1997–2001, he was eventually sent to Italy for stud duty at Allevamenti della Berardenga in 2002-16. Pensioned from stud duties in 2016, he was the leading sire in Italy on two occasions. His most successful offspring has been the gelding Collier Hill, a multiple winner of major international stakes whose victories include the 2004 and 2006 Stockholm Cup International, the 2005 Gerling-Preis and Irish St. Leger Stakes, and the 2006 Canadian International Stakes and Hong Kong Vase. He was also the sire of the Prix de l'Opéra winner Kinnaird.{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/profile/horse/66694/dr-devious |publisher=Racing Post |title=Dr Devious | Stud Record | Bloodstock Stallion Book | Racing Post |date=2011-11-09 |access-date=2011-12-28}} Dr Devious died in Sardinia on 7 March 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/news/news/the-best-i-trained-says-chapple-hyam-as-he-pays-tribute-to-dr-devious/322322|title='The best I trained' says Chapple-Hyam as he pays tribute to Dr Devious – Horse Racing News|work=Racing Post}}

{{Pedigree

|name = Dr Devious (IRE), chestnut stallion, 1989{{cite web|url=http://www.chef-de-race.com/classic_winners/english_derby/dr_devious.htm |title=English Derby Winner: Dr Devious |publisher=Chef-de-race.com |access-date=2011-12-28}}

|inf =

|f = Ahonoora (GB)
1975

|m = Rose of Jericho (USA)
1984

|ff = Lorenzaccio
1965

|fm = Helen Nichols
1966

|mf = Alleged
1974　

|mm = Rose Red
1979

|fff = Klairon

|ffm = Phoenissa

|fmf = Martial

|fmm = Quaker Girl

|mff = Hoist the Flag

|mfm = Princess Pout

|mmf = Northern Dancer

|mmm = Cambrienne

|ffff = Clarion

|fffm = Kalmia

|ffmf = The Phoenix

|ffmm = Erica Fragrans

|fmff =Hill Gail

|fmfm = Discipliner

|fmmf = Whistler

|fmmm = Mayflower

|mfff = Tom Rolfe

|mffm = Wavy Navy

|mfmf =Prince John

|mfmm = Determined Lady

|mmff =Nearctic

|mmfm = Natalma

|mmmf = Sicambre

|mmmm = Torbella (Family: 1-t)}}

{{reflist}}

• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnVpo7nznvs Video at YouTube with pre Arc de Triomphe commentary and highlights of the three previous meetings between Dr Devious and St Jovite]

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