Equality (GB)

Dual winner Equality has earned a top rating of 94. He won on his third start and then faced some serious opposition and slightly lost his way. However he is a sprinter with a big engine and serious potential so we decided to keep him in the squad to race this year as a four-year-old. He wintered well and returned to Charlie’s in early January and made a winning return at Windsor in fine style. He looks very exciting for the year ahead.

Equality is by the dual King’s Stand (Group 1) winner Equiano who was trained by Barry Hills. Equiano has made up into a useful stallion since through the likes of multiple Group 1 winner, The Tin Man, as well as Strath Burn and Equilateral who have both been trained by Charlie. It is indeed a sire line in which the Hills’ Faringdon Place has become hugely adept with – not least via Equiano’s paternal half–brother, Dark Angel (by Acclamation), who also won at Group 1 level before establishing himself as one of the best sires around.

The dam, Penny Drops, was a high class mare herself, gaining black type on numerous occasions for William Haggas. Her first foal, a three-year-old named Badri (a son of Dark Angel), is in training with Charlie Hills and is well-regarded. Penny Drops is a daughter of another black type mare in Penny Cross, herself a half-sister to the Celebration Mile (Group 2) winner, Priors lodge.