Spinning Queen (foaled 27 March 2003) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for her emphatic victory over a top-class field in the 2006 Sun Chariot Stakes.
In September 2006 she ended her racing career with a nine-length over Soviet Song, Alexander Goldrun and Red Evie in the Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket.
Spinning Queen is a chestnut mare with a narrow white blaze bred in England by her owners Richard A. N. Bonnycastle & the Oxfordshire-based Marston Stud.
[5] Three weeks later she was dropped in class for the Listed King Charles II Stakes over seven furlongs at Nemarket and finished third behind the colt Jeremy and the filly Wake Up Maggie.
Wake Up Maggie started favourite whilst the other fancied runners included Violette (Firth of Clyde Stakes) and the Jim Bolger-trained Modeeroch.
After racing towards the rear of the field, Spinning Queen began to make progress in the last quarter mile, took second place a furlong out and caught Wake Up Maggie in the final stride to win by a head.
[9] In the Oak Tree Stakes at Goodwood on 4 August Spinning Queen could not recover after being hampered in the final furlong and finished fifth, four lengths behind the winner Red Evie.
Fifteen days later, on 30 September, Spinning Queen started the 12/1 outsider in a five-runner field for the Group One Sun Chariot Stakes over one mile on good to soft ground at Newmarket.
[10] In a change of tactics Michael Hills sent the filly into the lead from the start and Spinning Queen produced a career-best performance, drawing away from her opponents in the final furlong to win by nine lengths from Soviet Song.
Despite strong interest from the representative of Darley Stud she was bought by the bloodstock agent James Wigan for a sale record price of 3,000,000 guineas,[13][14] on behalf of the Rothschild family.