Gentlemen

About Gentlemen

Gentlemen was an Argentine Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the Champion Three-Year-Old Colt in Argentina and then raced successfully in the United States.

Born: October 1, 1992
Country: Argentina

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Gentlemen (foaled 1992) was an Argentine Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the Champion Three-Year-Old Colt in Argentina and then raced successfully in the United States.

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Background

Gentlemen was a chestnut horse bred at the Haras de la Pomme in Argentina. He was sired by Robin des Bois, an American-bred, French-trained son of Nureyev.

Racing career

Racing at age three in 1995, Gentlemen won the Gran Premio Dos Mil Guineas, Gran Premio Nacional (Argentine Derby), and Gran Premio Polla de Potrillos (Argentine 2000 Guineas). He also finished 4th in the Gran Premio Jockey Club.

Gentlemen was brought to race in the United States in 1996, under California trainer Richard Mandella. Although he was ineligible for the Breeders' Cup, Gentlemen met with considerable success.

Gentlemen's first start in United States was a dirt allowance race at Hollywood Park in which he finished last after leading down the backstretch. He won his next start, a turf allowance at Del Mar. Later that year, he won the Grade 3 Native Diver Handicap by nine lengths in track record time.

Notable quotes

“The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just and amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great employment and concern of him who covets as well to be wise and good, as agreeable and polite.”
— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), "Miscellany III".
“I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.”
— Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore (1604), Part I, Act IV, scene 2.
“In whatever society he might find himself, the humblest citizen should therefore so order his behaviour that when he left the table men would say "A gentleman was here."”
— Alice Stopford Green, Town Life in the Fifteenth Century (London: Macmillan & Co., 1894), Vol. II, Ch. I: "Town Manners", p. 9.
“Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a gentleman that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, he had found himself driven to act as in that stupid, conventional brain of his he thought a gentleman must act. No longer knowing the difference between sham and real, he had sacrificed his life to a spurious heroism.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, "The Lion's Skin" (1937), in Collected Short Stories 1, p. 283.
“A gentleman born, master parson; who writes himself 'Armigero;' in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, 'Armigero.'”
— William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (c. 1597; published 1602), Act I, scene 1, line 9.
“Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne.”
— Juliana Berners, Heraldic Blazonry.

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Gentlemen

Gentlemen

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Notable quotes

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