She followed up with an easy win in the Irish Oaks but was retired from racing after running poorly in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Unite was a "rangy, rather angular"[2] chestnut mare with white socks on her hind feet bred by Edmund Loder at the family's Eyresfield Stud near the Curragh in County Kildare.

Unite's dam Pro Patria was a granddaughter of My Game, whose other descendants included Marling, Marwell and the Ascot Gold Cup winner Paean.

She started odds-on favourite, but after taking the lead at half way she showed inexperience ("running green") and finished second, three lengths behind the winner White Mischief.

[5] Stoute had originally intended to run the filly in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, but after her win at Newmarket he decided that she needed further than a mile to show her full potential.

[7] On 25 July Unite contested Britain's most prestigious all-aged race, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes over one and a half miles at Ascot and started at odds of 13/2 in a field which included Reference Point, Triptych, Moon Madness, Tony Bin and Acatenango.