Regal Parade, (foaled 8 March 2004) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. In a track career which lasted from January 2007 until October 2016 he contested 104 races, winning 13 times and being placed on 27 occasions. He won three minor races as a three-year-old in 2007 and improved in the following year to win the Buckingham Palace Stakes and the Ayr Gold Cup. In the next two years he showed top class form over sprint distances, taking the City Plate and Haydock Sprint Cup in 2009 and the Hackwood Stakes and Prix Maurice de Gheest in 2010. He remained in training until the age of twelve but never returned to the highest class and won only three minor races before being retired from racing, Background Regal Parade is a chestnut horse with a narrow white blaze bred in England by the Hampshire-based Highclere Stud and Harry Herbert. As a yearling in October 2015 the colt was put up for auction at Tattersalls and was bought for 430,000 guineas by John Ferguson Bloodstock on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed. He was sent into training with Mark Johnston at Middleham Moor, North Yorkshire. Regal Parade was gelded before he began his racing career. 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, Farhh, Kyllachy and Immortal Verse. Regal Parade's dam Model Queen showed modest racing ability, winning one minor race from eight attempts. As a granddaughter of the broodmare Mofida (foaled 1974), she was closely related to many good winners including Zafonic, Midday, Elmaamul and Reams of Verse. Racing career 2007: three-year-old season Regal Parade did not race until he was three years old but he made an immediate impact. He won a maiden race over seven furlongs on the synthetic Polytrack surface at Wolverhampton Racecourse in January and followed up a month later by taking a handicap over the same distance at Southwell Racecourse. He was switched to the turf on 6 May for a handicap at Newmarket Racecourse in which he was ridden by Kevin Darley and started at odds of 4/1. Carrying 123 pounds he completed his hat-trick as he took the lead a furlong out and won by two lengths from the filly