Alborada (8 March 1995 – February 2012) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning consecutive runnings of the Group One Champion Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse.
[2] She was sired by Alzao, a son of Lyphard who never won above Group Three level, but became a successful breeding stallion,[3] with his progeny including Maraahel (Hardwicke Stakes), Winona, Second Set and Shahtoush.
[7] Rausing therefore decided to race Alborada in her own colours and sent her into training with Sir Mark Prescott at the Heath House stable in Newmarket.
Alborada took the lead inside the final quarter mile and went clear in the closing stages to win by two lengths from Winona, with the future Oaks winner Shahtoush in fourth.
[13] On 12 September, Alborada ran in her first Group One race when she was matched against colts and older horses in the Esat Digifone Champion Stakes at Leopardstown Racecourse.
[14] On her final appearance of the season, Alborada contested the Champion Stakes over ten furlongs at Newmarket on 17 October and started at odds of 6/1, with Daylami being made the odds-on favourite.
After tracking the leaders for most of the way, Alborada took the lead approaching the final furlong and held the late challenge of Insatiable to win by a neck, with Daylami in third.
On 31 July she started the 15/8 favourite for the Nassau Stakes, (run for the first time as a Group One race) but finished fifth behind the three-year-old Zahrat Dubai.
The fifty-two-year-old Duffield tracked the leaders before sending Alborada into the lead approaching the final furlong and she won the race by 1+1⁄4 lengths from Shiva, with Kabool in third.