[1] Chester House was a dark bay horse bred by his owner, Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms breeding operation.
Chester House was sent to be trained in England by Henry Cecil at his Warren Place stable in Newmarket, Suffolk.
[5] The best of his European runners was Phoenix Tower Standing at $25,000 for a guaranteed live foal, Chester House offered the Mr. Prospector blood line at a much lower price than similar stallions like Kingmambo or Fusaichi Pegasus.
Further test showed these were secondary sicknesses as he had developed a type of cancer called Myelodysplastic Syndrome.
Chemotherapy began at once in order to save his life, but the illness progressed so rapidly that Juddmonte Farms managers decided to euthanise the horse on June 28, 2003.