Eremein won the Ranvet, BMW and QEII Stakes, fighting back from injury and severe colic

Eremein was a notable Australian thoroughbred racehorse. He was a chestnut gelding foaled in 2001 and bred by Bhima Stud in New South Wales. Eremein was by Timber Country (USA). Eremein’s dam Marrego is by the wonderful Golden Slipper winning stallion Marscay. Marrego was a highly talented galloper herself having finished 2nd to Danehill mare Camarena in the 1998 Reginald Allen Handicap and 2nd to the flying Iglesia in the 1998 Silver Slipper.

Eremein was an outstanding performer in 2005 and 2006 where he won five Group one races in Sydney for prominent NSW owners Geoff and Beryl White. Trained by Allan Denham at Rosehill in Sydney, Eremein won 12 of his 27 starts including five Group I wins in 2005 and 2006. Eremein won the Rosehill Guineas and Australian Derby in 2005 as a three-year-old. After a long campaign that also took in a trip to Queensland to run in the 2005 Gold Coast Guineas, which he won, Eremein ran second in the Rough Habit Plate. In the Derby on a bog at Randwick, Corey Brown gave the 4-1 second favorite the best journey of the 12 entrants over the 2400 metres, parking him fourth with cover. It was just as well Eremein gained the run of the race as he only had a neck to spare over Stella Grande at the wire. It was a remarkable win six months after Eremein nearly died after suffering a severe bout of colic, a testimony to the tough as teak three-year-old. 

The son of Timber Country returned in the autumn of 2006 to win the Ranvet, BMW (Tancred Stakes) and Queen Elizabeth Stakes treble. Eremein returned in the spring of 2006 to win the Chelmsford Stakes before missing 18 months of racing due to injury, a nine-month stint on the sidelines recovering from an operation to remove bone-chips from his knee. His startling transition from invalid to Group 1 winner says plenty about the horse’s constitution as not many thoroughbreds wouldn't be able to cope with these type of demands in elite company after such a setback. In winning the $2 million Gr.1 BMW at Rosehill Gardens with a powerful and authoritative performance worthy of the prestigious event, the Allan Denham trained Eremein proclaimed himself as the new star of Australian weight-for-age racing. “The best weight-for-age horse in Australia” was the handle jockey Glen Boss placed on Eremein after the five-year-old won the $200,000, Gr.2, WFA Chelmsford Stakes (1550m) at Randwick by a nose. Eremein won his last race. He scored an easy win in the Listed Festival Stakes (1500m) in January 2008 at his final appearance.

Eremein lived in retirement on the White's property, Invermien, on the edge of Scone and close to the racecourse. He was bred on Invermien and retained by the Whites as the result of a decision taken in 2002 to keep the horses they bred rather than selling them. The former brilliant galloper Eremein died in 2020 at the age of 18.

RACE RECORD - 27: 12-7-2

EARNINGS - A$4,260,445

Rosehill Guineas (2005)

Australian Derby (2005)

Ranvet Stakes (2006)

The BMW Stakes (2006)

AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2006)

Chelmsford Stakes (2006)

Festival Stakes (2008)