Give Notice  Give Notice (foaled 18 May 1997 – after 2004) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He showed no discernible promise as a juvenile in 1999 but over the next two seasons he made steady progress, winning five times in handicap races over extended distances. He emerged as a top-class stayer in 2002 when he won the Sagaro Stakes and the Prix du Cadran. Apart from his victories he finished second in the Goodwood Cup and third in the Cesarewitch  Give Notice was a bay horse bred in England by his owners Ian Stewart-Brown and Michael Meacock. He was gelded before the start of his racing career and was sent into training with John Dunlop at Arundel, West Sussex. He sired by Warning, the top-rated European racehorse of 1988 who stood as a breeding stallion in Europe before being exported to Japan. The best of his other progeny included Diktat, Piccolo, Charnwood Forest (Queen Anne Stakes) and Annus Mirabilis (Dubai Duty Free). Warning was a male-line descendant of the Godolphin Arabian, unlike more than 95% of modern thoroughbreds, who trace their ancestry to the Darley Arabian. Give Notice's dam Princess Genista won two minor races from eleven attempts but did better as a broodmare as her other foals included Times Up, the dual winner of the Doncaster Cup. She was descended from the Italian broodmare Violetta, whose other descendants included Teenoso, Sir Percy, Rule of Law, Give Thanks and Harayir. In his first racecourse appearance Give Notice contested a maiden race over seven furlongs on 12 October at Leicester in which he started at odds of 10/1 and finished sixth of the nine runners, seventeen lengths behind the winner. Fifteen days later he came home ninth in a similar event over the same distance on good-to-soft ground at Yarmouth Racecourse. He followed up with wins in minor handicaps at Haydock Park and Kempton in July but when moved up in class he finished towards the rear of the field in more valuable events at Goodwood and York. On his three-year-old debut Give Notice ran unplaced in a maiden over one mile at Leicester Racecourse on 30 March. The gelding spent the rest of his season competing in handicap races. After finishing sixth over ten furlongs at Redcar in May he was stepped up in distance and recorded his first success over fourteen furlongs at Yarmouth Racecourse a month later.