Continent is a retired British champion Thoroughbred racehorse. A gelding who specialised in sprint distances he improved from handicap class to become European Champion Sprinter in 2002. In his championship season he ran thirteen times and won two Group One races; the July Cup at Newmarket and the Prix de l’Abbaye at Longchamp becoming the first gelding to win the latter race. In all he ran seventy times in a career which lasted from 1999 until his retirement at the age of eleven in 2008.
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