Sadık Eliyeşil

Süleyman Sadık Eliyeşil (2 November 1925 – 16 June 2008) was a wealthy Turkish businessman as well as a racehorse owner and breeder, best known for his thoroughbreds' record winning of 13 races at the Gazi Race, Turkey's most prestigious horse racing event. He was a third-generation member of a rich landowner and industrialist family.

Biography Sadık Eliyeşil was born on 2 November 1925 to Şadi Bey then Şadi Eliyeşil, from a wealthy family at Tarsus, Mersin Province in southern Turkey. His ancestors were landowners and textile producers in the cotton-growing Çukurova region since the 1880s. The diverse companies owned and run by his family were incorporated in 1972 under Çukurova Holding, one of Turkey's biggest conglomerates today.

It is notable that the home of Müftüzade Sadık Pasha then Sadık Eliyeşil, Sadık Eliyeşil's paternal grandfather, in Tarsus was one of the first two houses to be electrified in the Ottoman Empire in 1902, twelve years before electricity was available in Istanbul, the empire's then capital.

He died on 16 June 2008 in Istanbul at the age of 82. Following a funeral service at the Veliefendi Race Course and a religious service at Levent Mosque, he was laid to rest in the family grave at Yeniköy Cemetery in Istanbul.

One of his paternal granddaughters, Melissa Eliyeşil, born in 1984 in Istanbul to a Colombian Catholic mother, married into the Faber-Castell family.

Horse racing Sadık Eliyeşil became interested in equestrian sport in 1943. After his return from the United Kingdom, he worked in the 1950s with his uncle, who owned a stable. In 1956, Sadık Eliyeşil entered Turkish Jockey Club (, TJK), the renowned equestrian club in the country. In later years, Sadık Eliyeşil served in the club's board of directors.