Shoe worn by the racehorse Kalanisi.

Shoe worn by the racehorse Kalanisi,
mounted on a wooden plaque with easel support and set with engraved metal plaque, 20 by 15cm.

Provenance: The Ray Goddard Collection (lots 97 to 178). For further information on Ray Goddard and the collection see lot 144.

Kalanisi was a bay or brown colt foaled in 1996 by Doyoun out of Kalambra (Green Dancer). He was bred and raced by H.H. The Aga Khan.

The colt was trained with trademark patience by Sir Michael Stoute and had only ran three times at the end of his three-year-old season, having been unraced at two. In 2000 as a four-year-old Kalanisi recorded a notable hat-trick with victories in the Queen Anne Stakes, the Champion Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup Turf.   filly won 8 of her 11 races and was unbeaten in five as a two-year-old. Her most important victory was in the 1959 St Leger. Other notable wins came in the Royal Lodge Stakes, the Cheshire Oaks and the Ribblesdale Stakes. Kalanisi was retired as a five-year-old following an injury in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.

At Stud, he was the sire of 35 winning racehorses but would eventually be retired due to fertility issues.