Notable Speech

Notable Speech (foaled 10 March 2021)^[1] is a Thoroughbred racehorse. He is trained in Great Britain by Charlie Appleby and owned by Godolphin. He gained major international success when winning the Breeders' Cup Mile in 2025, having earlier achieved his breakthrough victory in the 2000 Guineas Stakes in April 2024, ridden by William Buick. Notable Speech won the 2000 Guineas in his first race on turf, and became the first horse since 1938 to win the race without running as a two-year-old.^[2]

Notable Speech was sired out of Dubawi, a champion racehorse who found several wins in his two years of racing including the 2005 Irish 2,000 Guineas and the Prix Jacques Le Marois. After retirement, Dubawi has seen much success as a sire, with 4 of the last 5 Breeders' Cup Mile winners having him as their sire.^[3] Additionally, Dubawi has sired 63 Group 1 stakes winners, as well as over 200 group winners.^[4] Notable Speech's grandsire, Dubai Millennium, was also a dominant racehorse, winning 9 out of his 10 races with his only loss coming at the Derby. For his performance, Dubai Millenium was awarded a Timeform rating of 140, one of the highest that the organization has given out.^[5] Dubai Millenium only produced one crop of foals before contracting grass sickness, and was euthanized under anesthesia due to no prospect of recovery.^[6]

• Notable Speech is inbred 3s x 4d to Seeking the Gold, meaning that the stallion appears in the third generation on the sire side and fourth generation on the dam side in Notable Speech's pedigree.