Dylan Mouth

Dylan Mouth (foaled 13 March 2011) is an Irish-bred, Thoroughbred racehorse who has been trained in Italy and England. He has won 12 of his 14 races in Italy but has been beaten in all four of his starts outside the country.

Background

Dylan Mouth is a bay colt bred in Ireland by the Italian breeding company Azienda Agricola Mariano. He was sired by Dylan Thomas, who won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 2007.^[2]

Dylan Mouth was sent into training with Stefano Botti in Italy. He has been ridden in all but one of his races by Fabio Branca.

Racing career

2013: two-year-old season

Dylan Mouth made his racecourse debut in a maiden race over 1700 metres at the Capannelle Racecourse in Rome in October and won by four lengths. In November he followed up in the Premio Furigolo at the same course, beating Mewat by five lengths.^[3]

2014: three-year-old season

Dylan Mouth began his second season in Rome, winning the Premio Lodi Vecchio in March and the Listed Premio Emanuele Filiberto in April. He was moved up in class in May for the Group Two Derby Italiano at San Siro Rcecourse in May. He started the 2.1/1 favourite and took the lead in the lasr 50 metres to win by one and a half lengths from his stablemate Autre Qualite.^[4] He was then sent to England for the King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot but failed to cope with the firm ground and finished unplaced behind Eagle Top.

In September, Dylan Mouth returned to Italy and won the Group Two Premio Federico Tesio, beating Biz The Nurse by three lengths. On his final appearance of the season he started odds-on favourite for the Group One Gran Premio del Jockey Club over 2400 metres at San Siro on 19 October. He took the lead 700 metres from the finish and won by four lengths from Duca di Mantova with a gap of fourteen lengths back to Biz The Nurse in third.^[5]

2015: four-year-old season

On his debut as a four-year-old, Dylan Mouth started 1/5 favourite for the Group Three Premio Carlo d'Alessio at Capannelle and won by three lengths from Bertinoro. In the Group One Gran Premio di Milano on 7 June, he again started at long odds-on and won by five lengths from Billabong.^[6]

On his second venture outside Italy, Dylan Mouth was sent to England to contest the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot. He finished last of the seven runners behind Postponed. In September he completed a second victory in the Premio Federico Tesio with a five length victory over Bertinoro.^[7] He ended the season in excellent form, finishing second in the Gran Premio del Jockey Club in October and winning the Premio Roma in November.

2016: five-year-old season

For the 2016 season Dylan Mouth was transferred to England where he was trained by Stefano Botti's brother, Marco Botti, at Newmarket. On his first appearance of 2016 he was back in Italy and won the Gran Premio di Milano by five and a half lengths but on his second start of the season was beaten into tenth of eleven runners in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. He was subsequently well beaten in the Grosser Preis von Baden and Gran Premio del Jockey Club.

Pedigree

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