page_title: Clemmie
section_title: 2018: three-year-old season
hierarchical_section_title: Clemmie / Racing career / 2018: three-year-old season
caption_attribution_description: English: Clemmie at the 2018 Breeders' Cup
context_page_description: Clemmie is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. As a two-year-old in 2017 she was beaten in her first two races but then won the Grangecon Stud Stakes, Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and Cheveley Park Stakes, ending the year as the highest-rated juvenile filly in Europe. She failed to win in six starts in the following year and was retired at the end of the season.
context_section_description: Clemmie had a slight training setback in spring which prevented her from running in the 1000 Guineas. The filly returned from an eight-month absence to contest the Irish 1000 Guineas over one mile at the Curragh on 27 May. Ridden by Seamie Heffernan she started the 13/2 fourth choice in the betting but never looked likely to win and came home ninth of the thirteen runners behind Alpha Centauri. In the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot in June she started 4/1 second favourite but again proved no match for Alpha Centauri and finished fifth. In July she faced Alpha Centauri yet again in the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket and finished third, beaten five and a half lengths by the winner. In the Matron Stakes at Leopardstown Racecourse in September she started a 20/1 outsider and finished a close third behind Laurens and Alpha Centauri. In October she finished unplaced behind Laurens in the Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket. On her final run, Clemmie was sent to Churchill Downs for the Breeders' Cup Mile on 3 November. She finished sixth of the fourteen runners, beaten two and a half lengths by the winner Expert Eye.
caption: Clemmie at the 2018 Breeders' Cup
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