Shogun Lodge


Shogun Lodge was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse by American sire Grand Lodge.
Shogun Lodge won three Group One races, and remarkably ran 2nd in a further 12 Group 1 races.
On 8 November 2003, Shogun Lodge collapsed and died while competing in the Emirates Stakes. It was later revealed he died of a heart attack after suffering a lung haemorrhage during the race.

Racing career

Shogun Lodge made a winning debut in the Listed Canonbury Stakes at Randwick on 3 October 1998, and won three of his four starts prior to the Golden Slipper, in which he started favourite and finished a close third. At three and four, Shogun Lodge won his Group One races, the Epsom Handicap, the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and the George Main Stakes, in which he defeated the champion mare Sunline. Shogun Lodge won stakes races at two, three, four, five, and seven, and prize money of $4,640,315. In addition, Shogun Lodge was runner-up in 12 Group One races, including the Doncaster Handicap and the Victoria and AJC Derbies, and, since the introduction of the Group system in the late-1970s, few if any horses have been runner-up in more. These 12 races included defeats by the champions Northerly, Sunline, and Lonhro, and he lost three races by a short-half-head. In one of his greatest performances, Shogun Lodge was beaten by Sunline in head-bobbing finish to the 2002 Doncaster Handicap, in which both horses carried topweight of 58 kilos, and gave 6.5 kilos to Defier, who went on to win three Group One races at weight-for-age. At his next start, in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Shogun Lodge ran one of his worst races, finishing second-last, and, in an 'ominous' sign, was found to have had an 'irregular heart reading'.
After his first and only winless season at six, Shogun Lodge won the City Tatt's Lightning Handicap first-up as a seven-year-old, and was sent to Flemington for two further races. In the early stages of the second of these races, the Emirates Stakes, Shogun Lodge suffered a fatal heart attack. His upset trainer, Bob Thomsen, said 'Oh God... I've probably handled the best horse this country's ever had. The best horse ever to put his head through a bridle was Tulloch and I handled him... his heart weighed 14-and-a-half... I'll tell you what, Shogun wasn't far behind him...'

Race record

ResultDateRaceVenueGroupDistanceWeight JockeyWinner/2nd
4th7 Aug 1999San Domenico StakesRandwickG21000 m55S. Dye1st - Testa Rossa
4th21 Aug 1999Up and Coming StakesWarwick FarmG21200 m54S. Dye1st - Testa Rossa
3rd4 Sep 1999Ming Dynasty QualityRandwickLR1400 m58.5S. Dye1st - Hire
Won16 Sep 1999Spring StakesNewcastleG31600 m54S. Dye2nd - Perfect Paradise
Won25 Sep 1999George Main StakesRandwickG11600 m49.5S. Dye2nd - Sunline
2nd2 Oct 1999Spring Champion StakesRandwickG12000 m55.5S. Dye1st - Fairway
4th16 Oct 1999Norman Robinson StakesCaulfieldG32000 m57.5S. Dye1st - Blackfriars
2nd30 Oct 1999Victoria DerbyFlemingtonG12500 m55.5S. Dye1st - Blackfriars
5th26 Feb 2000Royal Sovereign StakesRandwickG21200 m57.5S. Dye1st - Hire
4th11 Mar 2000Hobartville StakesWarwick FarmG21400 m55.5S. Dye1st - Fairway
6th25 Mar 2000Canterbury GuineasCanterburyG11900 m55.5S. Dye1st - Fairway
Won15 Apr 2000Tulloch StakesRosehillG22000 m55.5S. Dye2nd - Now Voyager
2nd22 Apr 2000Australian DerbyRandwickG12400 m55.5S. Dye1st - Fairway
5th6 May 2000Queen Elizabeth StakesRandwickG12000 m55.5S. Dye1st - Georgie Boy
Won17 May 2000A D Hollindale StakesGold CoastG21800 m55.5S. Dye2nd - Integrate

ResultDateRaceVenueGroupDistanceWeight JockeyWinner/2nd
3rd9 Sep 2000Theo Marks StakesRosehillG21300 m55.5D. Beasley1st - Hire
5th23 Sep 2000George Main StakesRandwickG11600 m57.5D. Oliver1st - Adam
Won2 Oct 2000Epsom HandicapRandwickG11600 m56G. Boss2nd - Landsighting
2nd14 Oct 2000Yalumba StakesCaulfieldG12000 m57D. Oliver1st - Sky Heights
11th28 Oct 2000Cox PlateMoonee ValleyG12040 m56.5D. Oliver1st - Sunline
5th2 Dec 2000Festival StakesRosehillLR1300 m59G. Boss1st - Adam
8th17 Dec 2000Hong Kong CupSha TinG12000 m57S. Dye1st - Fantastic Light
Won17 Mar 2001Canterbury StakesCanterburyG21200 m57.5G. Boss2nd - Assertive Lad
2nd31 Mar 2001George Ryder StakesRosehillWon1500 m58G. Boss1st - Landsighting
2nd14 Apr 2001Doncaster HandicapRandwickWon1600 m58G. Boss1st - Assertive Lad
Won28 Apr 2001Queen Elizabeth StakesRandwickWon2000 m58G. Boss2nd - Go Flash Go
Won16 May 2001A D Hollindale StakesGold CoastG21800 m58G. Boss2nd - Camarena
2nd26 May 2001Doomben CupDoombenWon2020 m58G. Boss1st - King Keitel

ResultDateRaceVenueGroupDistanceWeight JockeyWinner/2nd
3rd18 Aug 2001Warwick StakesWarwick FarmG21300 m58G. Boss1st - Lonhro
Won8 Sep 2001Theo Marks StakesRosehillG21300 m60G. Boss2nd - Fouardee
2nd22 Sep 2001George Main StakesWarwick FarmG11600 m58G. Boss1st - Viscount
2nd13 Oct 2001Yalumba StakesCaulfieldG12000 m58G. Boss1st - Northerly
7th1 Dec 2001Festival StakesRosehillLR1400 m60D. Beadman1st - Nanny Maroon
5th16 Dec 2001Hong Kong MileSha TinG11600 m57S. Dye1st - Eishin Preston
3rd2 Mar 2002Canterbury StakesCanterburyG21200 m57.5G. Boss1st - Empire
2nd16 Mar 2002George Ryder StakesRosehillG11500 m58G. Boss1st - Lord Essex
2nd30 Mar 2002Doncaster HandicapRandwickG11600 m58G. Boss1st - Sunline
12th13 Apr 2002Queen Elizabeth StakesRandwickG12000 m58G. Boss1st - Defier

ResultDateRaceVenueGroupDistanceWeight JockeyWinner/2nd
3rd17 Aug 2002Premiere StakesRosehillG21200 m57.5P. Payne1st - Century Kid
4th7 Sep 2002Chelmsford StakesRandwickG21600 m58C. Brown1st - Lonhro
5th28 Sep 2002George Main StakesRandwickG11600 m58C. Brown1st - Defier
9th5 Oct 2002Epsom HandicapRandwickG11600 m58G. Boss1st - Excellerator
4th1 Mar 2003Frederick Clissold StakesRosehillG31200 m60H. Bowman1st - Gordo
2nd15 Mar 2003Chipping Norton StakesWarwick FarmG11600 m58H. Bowman1st - Lonhro
6th5 Apr 2003George Ryder StakesRosehillG11500 m58H. Bowman1st - Lonhro
7th26 Apr 2003All Aged StakesRandwickG11600 m58P. Payne1st - Arlington Road
6th10 May 2003A D Hollindale StakesGold CoastG21800 m58S. Seamer1st - Bush Padre
7th24 May 2003Doomben CupDoombenG12200 m58S. Seamer1st - Bush Padre

ResultDateRaceVenueGroupDistanceWeight JockeyWinner/2nd
Won18 Oct 2003City Tattersalls Lightning HcpRandwickLR1000 m61R. Quinn2nd - Marchioness
3rd1 Nov 2003Yallambee Stud StakesFlemingtonG31400 m58.5G. Boss1st - Scenic Peak
Died8 Nov 2003Emirates StakesFlemingtonG11600 m56.5G. Boss1st - Titanic Jack

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