Inkerman (horse)

Inkerman was a "workmanlike, short-backed" He entered the ownership of Simon Fraser and was sent to Europe where he was sent into training with Vincent O'Brien at Ballydoyle. He was sired by Vaguely Noble who won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1968 before becoming a successful breeding stallion whose best progeny included Dahlia, Exceller and Empery. Inkerman's dam Crimea was a fast and precocious filly who won the Cheveley Park Stakes in 1963 and was a distant female-line descendant of the influential British broodmare Molly Adare. ==Racing career==

1978: three-year-old season Inkerman began his racing career in a maiden race over ten furlongs at the Curragh on 13 May and won by four lengths from his stablemate Noble Quillo. Two weeks later he was stepped up in class for the Gallinule Stakes over one and a half miles and won again, coming home six lengths clear of Encyclopedia. The colt quickly became regarded as a major contender for The Derby ten days later especially after Lester Piggott opted to ride the colt. Piggott was looking to follow up his victories on Empery 1976 and The Minstrel in 1977 and win the race for a record ninth time. Despite his lack of experience Inkerman started favourite but after racing close to the lead in the early stages he dropped away quickly in the straight and finished twenty-first of the twenty-five runners behind Shirley Heights. It was reported that the colt had "swallowed his tongue". 1980: five-year-old season In 1980 Inkerman continued to race exclusively in California. He was beaten in allowance races on his first two starts and then ran second to Bold Tropic in the American Handicap. On 21 July on his final racecourse appearance, he made his second attempt to win the Sunset Handicap. Ridden by Willie Shoemaker, he won the race, beating his front-running stablemate Obraztsovy into second place. ==Stud record==

At the end of his racing career, Inkerman was retired to become a breeding stallion in the United States. He appears to have attracted little interest from breeders and sired no winners of any consequence. His last reported foals were born in 1988. ==Pedigree==

Inkerman is inbred 4S x 5S x 5D to the stallion Hyperion, meaning that he appears fourth generation and fifth generation (via Tropical Sun) on the sire side of his pedigree, and fifth generation (via Eleanor Cross) on the dam side of his pedigree. ==References==