Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire (foaled 20 February 2013) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. Unraced as a juvenile he made a considerable impact in the spring of 2016 by winning the Dante Stakes on his third appearance. He finished fourth when second favourite for the 2016 Epsom Derby. This was followed by a second place in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes Background Wings of Desire is a chestnut horse bred in England by his owner Carole, Lady Bamford. His sire Pivotal was a top class sprinter who won the King's Stand Stakes and the Nunthorpe Stakes in 1996. He went on to become an "excellent" sire, getting the winners of more than a thousand races across a range of distances including Sariska, Somnus, Kyllachy (Nunthorpe Stakes) and Excellent Art. Wings of Desire's dam Gull Wing won two of her fifteen races including the Listed Further Flight Stakes but, like her half-sister Sariska, was a temperamental filly who refused to race on her final appearance. She was the great-granddaughter of the Irish St. Leger winner Mountain Lodge. Lady Bamford sent her colt into training with John Gosden at Newmarket, Suffolk. Racing career