Ocean of Wisdom, born March 8, 1997 is a retired Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 racehorse

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

, bred by the Niarchos family, who are also responsible for champion race horses such as Bago

Bago (horse)

Bago was the European Three-Year-Old Champion Thoroughbred race horse in 2004. Bred by the Niarchos family, Bago is best known for winning the 2004 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe amongst his five Group One successes....

, Dream Well, Miesque

Miesque

Miesque was a champion Thoroughbred racemare, best known as the first horse to win two consecutive Breeders' Cups and racing awards in Europe and America. She was a Group one winner at two, three and four-years-old, for a total of 10 G1 wins. She produced five stakes winners.-Breeding:Miesque was...

, Six Perfections

Six Perfections (horse)

Six Perfections is a champion Thoroughbred race horse, bred by the Niarchos family. She is best known for her 2003 win in the Breeders' Cup Mile....

 and Divine Proportions.

Sired by Mr. Prospector

Mr. Prospector

Mr. Prospector was a thoroughbred racehorse foaled in Kentucky, whose descendants have been dominant in the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. He won half of his 14 career races.-Background:...

, a formidable stallion whose most remarkable feat was to sire one winner of each of the Triple Crown races.

Ocean of Wisdom’s dam is Coup de Folie, herself a group one winner and dam of three G1 winners in Machiavellian, Exit to Nowhere and Coup de Genie.

During his short racing career, Ocean of Wisdom was trained by Pascal Bary

Pascal Bary

Pascal Bary is a French racehorse trainer.He has been training since 1981, having previously worked as an assistant to François Boutin...

 and ridden by Cash Asmussen

Cash Asmussen

Cash Asmussen is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born Brian Keith Asmussen, in 1977 he legally changed his name to "Cash". From a Texas horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, operate a ranch in Laredo, Texas...

. Ocean of Wisdom was a Group 3 winner as a two year old, winning the Prix La Rochette

Prix La Rochette

The Prix La Rochette is a Group 3 flat horse race in France which is open to two-year-old thoroughbreds. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 1,400 metres , and it is scheduled to take place each year in September.-History:...

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For Ocean of Wisdom, despite impeccable breeding, his racing career was ended after 5 races due to injury during training and he was retired to stud at Niarchos family's Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard

Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard

Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard was a Thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Neuvy-au-Houlme in the Orne department in Lower Normandy purchased by Marcel Boussac in 1919. Widely respected, Marcel Boussac was called "the greatest of French breeders" by John P. Sparkman, an editor with Thoroughbred Times....

 where he continues to stand.

Along with Dream Well, Ocean of Wisdom is one of the few horses to have his own Blog.