ELITE RACING CLUB
About Us
Elite Racing Club has enjoyed immense success since the Club was launched at the end of 1992. The Club has so far achieved 438 wins (including both on the Flat and over Jumps).
The first horse to be purchased was the steeple-chaser, LUMBERJACK (trained by Charles Egerton), who set the ball rolling as our first-ever runner at Newton Abbot in January 1993, where he finished a respectable second. Within a month of that debut, we had chalked up our first winner with our second purchase, KABAYIL (Charles Egerton), who won a mares' novices' hurdle at Plumpton. This was our first milestone, and the relatively small membership was thrilled. Nobody had any idea that it would be the start of one of the biggest success stories in British horseracing.
Since then, our wonderful horses have recorded some phenomenal successes, including 8 Group 1 wins. See a few of our stars below.
We are sure that you will agree as Elite Racing Club passes 30 years of operation, the foundations are firmly in place for another 30 years of success on the racecourse. The Club boasts a superb pedigree and a proven winner-finding track record that should stand us in good stead for the next generation. Read the full Club History.
Elite Racing Club in numbers:
Club Star Soviet Song
Kalinka's second offspring was the brilliant superstar filly, SOVIET SONG (James Fanshawe). Between 2002 and 2006, she captivated Elite Racing Club Members with brilliant performances, winning nine races from 19 starts, including five wins at Group 1 level, and was the Club's first Classic runner when she finished fourth in the 1,000 Guineas in 2003. Her £1,168,670 prize money was distributed amongst delighted Club Members. She took us to places that neither the management nor Club Members could ever have dreamt of going, starting with her first Group 1 win in the Fillies' Mile at Ascot as a two-year-old. Soviet Song failed to win as a three-year-old, but returned the following year and was, quite simply, incredible. After two surprising defeats in the spring, she won four of her next five races, including the Falmouth Stakes (after a neck defeat in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot), the Sussex Stakes, and the Matron Stakes in Ireland. She returned to win the Falmouth Stakes again the following year, before winning the Windsor Forest Stakes at Royal Ascot in her final season.
Club Star Penzance
Kalinka remarkably also produced a Grade 1 winner with her next foal, and at the same time provided the Club with its first Cheltenham Festival winner. When she produced a colt by Pennekamp in 2001, we named him PENZANCE (trained by James Fanshawe and then Alan King). He was a winner first time out for Newmarket trainer James Fanshawe, who had handled his half-sister Soviet Song so successfully. It was the switch from the Flat to hurdles that would give the Club another high-profile winner, as Penzance progressed through the ranks with finesse to win the ultra-competitive Triumph Hurdle in 2005.
Club Star Ribbons
Although Kalinka sadly passed away in 2014, her legacy continued through the Group 1 winner RIBBONS (trained by James Fanshawe). Ribbons was a granddaughter of Kalinka, out of Soviet Song's ill-fated sister, SISTER ACT (James Fanshawe), who had always been held in the highest regard, but niggling soundness issues prevented her from fulfilling her potential. She managed a solitary maiden win during her own career, but Ribbons was a different story. She remained unbeaten in her first four runs, before progressing from finishing third in a Listed race and being beaten in a handicap to winning the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville's August meeting under Frankie Dettori. Ribbons was then just beaten in the Prix de l'Opera on Arc day at Longchamp. Ribbons added the Group 2 Blandford Stakes to her CV in 2015, having run superbly in defeat in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at The Curragh behind Diamondsandrubies and the three-year-old filly of the year, Legatissimo.
Club Star Marsha
Marlinka's best progeny was undoubtedly the superstar filly, MARSHA, trained by Sir Mark Prescott. The master of Heath House produced the then-two-year-old Marsha late in the summer of 2015 to win two races, before she finished third against older, seasoned sprinters on the all-weather at Dundalk. In 2016, once dropped back to five furlongs, Marsha revealed incredible speed when winning two Listed races and the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye at Chantilly, in front of a crowd of Club Members who had travelled to watch the entire Arc de Triomphe meeting. Marsha became the Club's third individual Group 1 winner, joining the illustrious pair Soviet Song and Ribbons. All three fillies were homebred by the Club, and Marsha's half-sister, MARSEILLE (Julie Camacho) has also joined the Club's breeding programme.
Club Star Judicial
The same season as Dandino became our second runner in a Classic, MARLINKA emerged as a talented two-year-old with a thrilling burst of speed. Trained by Roger Charlton, she won three races at two, including a Listed race in France, and retired to the Club's breeding programme the following season. Her first foal, JUDICIAL (Roger Charlton/Julie Camacho), also had plenty of speed. He was unbeaten in three starts as a two-year-old, and in 2019 surpassed Eisteddfod as the Club's winning-most horse. Judicial accumulated a total of 18 victories during his racing career, including the Group 3 Coral Charge at Sandown, the Group 3 Chipchase Stakes at Newcastle, the Listed Queensferry Stakes at Chester (twice), the Listed Beverley Bullet, and the Listed Golden Rose Stakes on the all-weather at Lingfield.
Club Star Tiffany
TIFFANY is a beautifully bred daughter of Farhh out of Affinity, a half-sister to the top-class Soviet Song by Sadler's Wells. A half-sister to the black type performers Zest (by Duke Of Marmalade) and Harmonica (by Pivotal), Tiffany has always been a stunning specimen. She was bred at Luke Lillingston's Mount Coote Stud and moved to the UK in the autumn of her yearling year. Her first couple of runs weren't particularly inspiring, but she won a 7f novice stakes on her third start, and steadily improved from there. Her three-year-old career resulted in four wins, including a Listed race at Hanover in September 2023. She kicked off her four-year-old career with another Listed win in Germany, followed by Group 3 success in the Hoppings Stakes at Newcastle. She then finished second in the Group 2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock in July 2024. Trainer Sir Mark Prescott is hopeful that Tifany will continue to progress and she's likely to stay in training as a five-year-old in 2025.