Saucy Sue

Saucy Sue won eight times from ten races in a racing career which lasted from July 1924 until October 1925. She was the top-rated British two-year-old of either sex in 1924, when she was unbeaten in three races. In her first two races the following year she won the 1000 Guineas over one mile at Newmarket and The Oaks over 1+1⁄2 miles at Epsom Downs Racecourse. Saucy Sue was defeated in her next two races and was retired from racing at the end of the season after a final win in the Atalanta Stakes at Sandown Park. The filly's sire, Swynford, was a successful racehorse and stallion, winning the St Leger Stakes in 1910 and becoming British Champion sire in 1923. Her dam, Good and Gay was a daughter of Lord Astor's broodmare Popinjay, and therefore a half-sister of the Caulfield Cup winner Magpie. Her descendants have included the 2000 Guinea winners Pay Up and Shadeed, the St. Leger winners Book Law and Provoke, and the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Swale.