Teleprompter (horse)  Teleprompter (11 April 1980 – October 2003) was a British thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the fifth running of the Arlington Million in 1985, a victory that helped change the rules of racing in Europe. After being beaten in his only race as a two-year-old he was gelded and returned in 1983 to become a successful handicapper, winning four races. In the following year he made the transition to group races and won Pacemaker International Stakes, Desmond Stakes, Prix Quincey and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. At a time when most of the top races in Europe were not open to him, the gelding recorded his greatest success in 1985 when he traveled to the United States to win the Arlington Million, one of the most valuable horse races in the world. Teleprompter won only one race after Arlington but continued to run in major races until his retirement in 1987. He died in 2003 at the age of twenty-three. Teleprompter was a large, powerfully-built bay gelding with a large white star bred at the Woodlands stud by his owner the 18th Earl of Derby's Stanley Estate. He was sired by Welsh Pageant, a one-mile specialist whose wins included the Lockinge Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. Teleprompter's dam Ouija went on to produce Selection Board (also by Welsh Pageant), whose daughter Ouija Board was twice named Cartier Horse of the Year. Ouija was also closely related to the Australian champion Kingston Town. Lord Derby sent Teleprompter into training with Bill Watts at Richmond in North Yorkshire. Watts, whose biggest previous success had been with Waterloo in the 1972 1000 Guineas, was a great-grandson of the nineteenth century jockey John Watts. Teleprompter usually raced in a set of black blinkers and a white sheepskin noseband. On his only appearance as a two-year-old, Teleprompter finished unplaced in a race over seven furlongs. At the end of the season the horse was gelded on the instruction of his owner, who felt that the operation would improve him as a racehorse. In the following year he won a maiden race at Edinburgh Racecourse and handicap race at Carlisle, before being sent to Royal Ascot in June for the Britannia Stakes over one mile. He was towards the rear of the field in the early stages, but came through the field to take the lead in the closing stages and won by one and a half lengths from Amazon Prince and twenty-five others.