Born in London on March 22, 1948, composer and theatrical producer Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted for services to the arts in 1992, created Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire, in 1997 and appointed Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG) in 2024. As far as horse racing is concerned, alongside his wife, Madeleine, Lloyd Webber founded Watership Down Stud, near Sydmonton, Hampshire, in 1992 and purchased Kiltinan Castle Stud, near Fethard, County Tipperary, in 1996.
As an owner, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber enjoyed notable success on the racecourse with the Night Shift colt Struggler, trained by Carlos Laffon-Parias in Chantilly, who won the Listed Prix Cor de Chasse at Evry in April 1995 and followed up in the Group 3 Prix de SaintGeorges at Longchamp just over a month later. Following his life peerage, Lord Lloyd-Webber continued to prosper as an owner, chalking up his first Group 1 winner, Crystal Magic, trained by John Gosden and ridden by Frankie Dettori, in the Fillies’ Mile at Ascot in September 2000.
Further success at the highest level followed, courtesy of Dar Re Mi, who won the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh and the Yorkshire Oaks in 2009, followed by the Dubai Sheema Classic in 2010, and The Fugue, who won the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood in 2012, the Yorkshire Oaks (again) and the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown in 2013 and the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2014. More recently, Lord Lloyd-Webber continued lucrative winning ways with the homebred Too Darn Hot – by Singspiel out of the aforementioned Dar Re Mi – who won the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket in 2018, as a two-year-old, and the Qatar Prix Jean Prat at Deauville and the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood in 2019, as a three-year-old.