Wootton Bassett is a bay horse with a small white star bred in England by the Hertfordshire-based Laundry Cottage Stud.
[6] At York Racecourse on 19 August Wootton Bassett started 5/4 favourite for the DBS Premier Yearling Stakes, a valuable event restricted to juveniles sold at Doncaster in the previous year.
[7] In another valuable sales race, the Weatherbys Insurance £300,000 2-Y-O Stakes, at Doncaster Racecourse on 9 September, the colt defeated Galtymore Lad again, staying on strongly in the closing stages to win by a length.
[8] For his final run of the year Wootton Bassett was sent to France and stepped up in class to contest the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère over 1400 metres on very soft ground at Longchamp Racecourse on 3 October.
"[10] Wootton Bassett began his second campaign at Longchamp on 15 May when he started favourite for the Poule d'Essai des Poulains but after leading for most of the way he was overtaken in the last 200 metres and sustained his first defeat as came home fifth of the fourteen runners behind Tin Horse.
At Royal Ascot in June he made little impact in the St James's Palace Stakes as he finished seventh behind Frankel beaten fourteen lengths by the winner.