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Sweetbriar
Sire Line
Darley Arabian
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Sweetbriar ch c 1769 (Syphon -
Mare, by Shakespeare). Sire Line
Darley
Arabian. Family 15. Bred by Richard Grosvenor
(1731-1802), 1st
Earl Grosvenor, he was undefeated on the turf, winning well over £3000.
After walking over for the Gold Cup at Ascot in 1775 he retired to Lord
Grosvenor's stud at Oxcroft Farm, near West Wratting, in Cambridgeshire,
where he stood along with Gimcrack (gr c
1760 Cripple), Mambrino (gr c 1768 Engineer)
and Sweetwilliam (ch c 1768
Syphon). Although he
covered very few mares besides Lord Grosvenor's, Sweetbriar
sired over thirty winners, with a fee as high as 30 guineas in
1778 and 1779. He covered privately in 1780, and was sold at
Tattersall's in 1790 for 20 guineas. At the age of twenty-five
he stood at Mr Bott's farm at
Totteridge, near Barnet, Hertfordshire, for 5 guineas.
| Sweetbriar |
Syphon |
Squirt |
Bartlet's Childers |
| Sister to Old Country Wench |
| Patriot
Mare |
Bolton Patriot |
| Crab
Mare |
| Shakespeare Mare |
Shakespeare |
Hobgoblin |
| Amorett |
| Miss
Meredith |
Cade |
| Amorett |
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| Race Record |
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| At 4: won a 50 guineas sweep at Newmarket in October, beating Lord
Ossory's Chalkstone (b c 1769 Herod), the
Honourable Richard Vernon's Milliner (b f 1768
Matchem),
and Mr Ogilvy's Consul (br c Warren's Sportsman) over the Beacon
Course, won a match against Lord Ossory's Chalkstone over the Beacon
Course, with Lord Grosvenor staking 1000 guineas to 500 guineas, won a
match over the Beacon Course against Mr Ogilvy's Porsenna (br c 1769
Blank),
with Lord Grosvenor staking 650 guineas to 400 guineas. |
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| At 5: all at Newmarket, won a 1000 guineas match against Chalkstone over
the Beacon Course, giving him 8 pounds, won a 1000 guineas match against
Mr Blake's Firetail (b c 1769 Squirrel) over the Beacon Course, won
the 140 guineas subscription, beating the Duke of Grafton's Lamplighter
(ch c 1769 Antinous), won a 20 guineas each sweep, beating Mr Vernon's Telemachus (b c 1770 Herod) and Lord Farnham's
Jonquille (b c 1770 Squirrel) over the Round Course, collected 100
guineas forfeit from each of Mr Vernon's Prudence (br c 1769 Swiss)
and the Duke of Grafton's Damper (b c 1769 Spectator), paid 150 guineas
forfeit to Lord Foley's Firetail (previously owned by Mr Blake). |
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| At 6: walked-over at the Newmarket October Meeting
for the Gold Cup, over the Beacon Course, collecting 100
guineas forfeit from Mr Pigott's
Shark (br c 1771
Marske).
This was his final appearance on the turf. |
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| Notable Offspring |
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| Assassin
b c 1779 (Sweetbriar - Angelica, by
Snap).
Sire Line Darley
Arabian. Family 3-a.
Bred by the 3rd Earl of Egremont, he won the Derby Stakes and a
300 guineas match against Pot8os (ch c
1773 Eclipse) over the Beacon Course
at Newmarket. Assassin stood at Lord Egremont's Petworth stud in
Sussex, along with Mercury
(ch c 1778 Eclipse) and
Trentham
(b c 1766 Gower's Sweepstakes), where he sired Mr Graeme's
Gunpowder (br c 1791) and Lord Egremont's Rag (b f 1786). |
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| Chocolate (ch c 1777),
sire of the good Irish stallion Cornet (b c 1792), and of Chocolate
Mare (ch f 1796), ancestress of Alicante (ch f 1887
Hermit), winner of
the Cambridgeshire Stakes, Prix de la Foret, Prix Jean Prat twice and
the Prix Royal Oak, and Torcicollo (ch c 1918 Signorino), winner of the
Premio Parioli. Chocolate also sired Young Lalage (ch f 1797), dam of
De Vere (b c 1824 Feramorz). |
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| Flyer (ch f 1777), dam of
two Derby winners, Daedalus (b c 1791 Justice) and Rhadamanthus (b c
1787 Justice), and ancestress of St Leger winner, Robert the Devil
(b c 1877 Bertram). |
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| Hare (f 1794), 3rd dam of
the Derby winner Phosphorus (b c 1834 Lamplighter), two One Thousand
Guineas winners, Firebrand (ch f 1839 Lamplighter) and May-Day (ch f
1831 Lamplighter), and the Ascot Gold Cup winner Camarine (ch f 1828
Juniper). |
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| Medea (b f 1778),
full-sister to the Derby winner Assassin, and 2nd dam of the stallion
Totteridge (br c 1791 Dungannon) and his
full-sister Totterella (b f 1792 Dungannon),
the dam of the July Stakes winner Little Sally (ch f 1804
Buzzard). |
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| Rose (br f 1780), 4th dam
of Flora McIvor (b f c1828 Rous' Emigrant), the great Australian
matriarch and ancestress of Strawberry Road (b c 1979 Whiskey Road). |
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| Shift (ch f 1779), 2nd dam
of the three Irish stallions, Buffer (b c 1798 Prizefighter), Escape
(ch c 1802 Commodore) and Rugantino (ch c 1803 Commodore). |
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| Violet (b f 1778), 6th dam
of the Australian stallion Yattendon (br c 1861 Sir Hercules), winner
of the AJC Derby, AJC St Leger and the Sydney Cup. |
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