Desert Encounter (IRE)
Bay Gelding / March 11th, 2012 in IRE / by Halling out of La Chicana (IRE)
$559,976
2019 earnings
119
speed figure
50%
2019 wins
racing Record
2019 Stats
Career Stats
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4
Firsts
12
0
Seconds
4
2
Thirds
7
2
Unplaced
8
8
Starts
31
$559,976
Earnings
$1,317,309
$69,997
Earnings / Start
$42,494
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Bio
A Group 3 winner in England, Desert Encounter made the most of his first trip to North America by closing powerfully to win the Grade 1 Pattison Canadian International Stakes at Woodbine on Oct. 13, 2018. He reeled in Thundering Blue in deep stretch to prevail.
Desert Encounter opened his 7-year-old campaign with a third-place finish in the Group 2 Skycargo Dubai City of Gold Stakes in March but was unplaced in the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic.
A Group 3 winner in England, Desert Encounter made the most of his first trip to North America by closing powerfully to win the Grade 1 Pattison Canadian International Stakes at Woodbine on Oct. 13, 2018. He reeled in Thundering Blue in deep stretch to prevail.
Desert Encounter opened his 7-year-old campaign with a third-place finish in the Group 2 Skycargo Dubai City of Gold Stakes in March but was unplaced in the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic.
He returned to England and finished eighth in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot before a third-place finish in the Group 2 Princess of Wales Stakes in July at Newmarket. Desert Encounter followed with three straight Group 3 wins in England in August and September. He returned to Woodbine Oct. 12 in search of a repeat victory in the Canadian International and rallied powerfully in the stretch to complete a last-to-first rally for a half-length win.
