Dictionary Definition
saintly adj : marked by utter benignity;
resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic benificence";
"a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my
sainted mother" [syn: angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, sainted]
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Etymology
From saint + |-ly (adjective suffix)Extensive Definition
Saintly (foaled 1992) was a champion Australian
thoroughbred
racehorse. He was bred by
legendary trainer Bart
Cummings who owned him in partnership with Malayasian
businessman Dato
Tan Chin Nam.
A chestnut
son of Sky
Chase from the Sir Tristram
mare All Grace, Saintly provided Cummings with his 10th victory in
the Melbourne
Cup.
Saintly gained the moniker the "Horse from
Heaven" due to his name and his partnership with jockey Darren
Beadman who at the time was a proclaimed born-again
Christian who the following year announced his retirement to
serve God.
The winner of only one of his four two-year-old
starts, Saintly then came across a vintage crop of three-year-olds
in the 1995-96 season that included Octagonal,
Nothin'
Leica Dane and Filante. Despite
narrow defeats by Octagonal in the STC Rosehill
Guineas and the Australian
Derby, he still won five races including the Group One
VRC Australian
Cup.
It was the following season that Saintly stood
out, when he won the 1996 Cox Plate
(defeating Filante and
All Our
Mob) and the Melbourne Cup thus joining Nightmarch
(1929), Phar
Lap (1930), Rising Fast (1954), and Makybe Diva
(2005) as the only horses to capture these races in the same
year.
Following a spell, he recorded a magnificent win
in the VATC
C
F Orr Stakes and great things were expected. Saintly looked
hopelessly placed on the home turn but he ran down down the
sprinters. Cummings declared Saintly hadn't yet reached his peak as
a racehorse.
Saintly was voted the 1997
Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year.
The expectations were short-lived, as he damaged
a tendon in training and, despite many efforts to return him to the
track, he never recovered and was retired in July 1998.
Saintly was retired to
Living Legends, the international home of rest for champion
horses (open to the public) in Greenvale,
Melbourne, Australia.
Group 1 Wins
Group 2 Wins
Listed Wins
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Christlike, Christly, Elysian, God-fearing, angelic, archangelic, beatific, beatified, blameless, blessed, blissful, canonized, celestial, cherubic, consecrated, dedicated, devoted, devout, divine, empyreal, empyrean, glorified, godlike, godly, godly-minded, good, hallowed, heavenly, holy, holy-minded, honest, in glory, just, martyred, moral, otherworldly, paradisiac, paradisial, paradisian, paradisic, pious, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, redeemed, right-minded,
righteous, sainted, saintlike, sanctified, saved, seraph, seraphic, set apart, spiritual, spiritual-minded,
straight, sublime, unearthly, unworldly, upright, upstanding, virtuous, worthy