The Tin Man

The Tin Man (foaled 19 February 2012) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. A specialist sprinter, he did not race as a juvenile but showed promise as a three-year-old in 2015 when he won three minor races. He emerged as a top-class performer in the following year, taking the Leisure Stakes and the Hackwood Stakes before winning the Group 1 British Champions Sprint Stakes. He went on to win the Diamond Jubilee Stakes in 2017 before taking a second Leisure Stakes and the Haydock Sprint Cup in 2018. He failed to win in his last two seasons but did finish second in the 2019 Sprint Cup. The Tin Man retired from racing after sustaining a leg injury in 2021. Background The Tin Man is a bay horse with white socks on his hind legs bred in Hertfordshire by Elizabeth and Ken Grundy. Having failed to sell as a foal the yearling colt was put up for auction at Tattersalls in October 2013 and was bought for 80,000 guineas by Anthony Stroud Bloodstock. He entered the ownership of the Fred Archer Racing – Ormonde syndicate and was sent into training with James Fanshawe at the Pegasus Stable in Newmarket, Suffolk. After being ridden by Jim Crowley on his debut he was partnered in all of his subsequent races by Tom Queally. The horse was named after the 19th-century jockey Fred Archer. He was the most successful racehorse sired by Equiano, a dual winner of the King's Stand Stakes. The Tin Man's dam Persario showed modest racing ability, winning two minor sprint races from nine attempts but did better as a broodmare, producing the top-class sprinter Deacon Blues. She was a female-line descendant of the French mare Nokka, a full-sister to Djebel. Racing career