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Lord Clifden
Sire Line
Camel
Lord Clifden (1860)
Hampton (1872)
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Ayrshire (1885)
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Bay Ronald (1893)
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Dark Ronald (1905)
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. Son-In-Law (1911)
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Bayardo (1906)
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Gay Crusader (1914)
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Gainsborough (1915)
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Solario (1922)
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Hyperion (1930)
Petrarch
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Lord Clifden b c 1820 (Newminster - The
Slave, by Melbourne).
Sire Line Camel.
Family 2-h. Bred by
J A Hind and owned by Carnegie Robert John Jervis (1825–1879), 3rd Viscount St Vincent,
from a mare bred by HM Queen Victoria at Hampton Court,
he was a half brother to the Stewards Cup and Portland
Handicap winner Lady Clifden (b f 1858 Surplice).
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Clifden |
Newminster |
Touchstone |
Camel |
| Banter |
| Beeswing |
Doctor Syntax |
| Ardrossan Mare |
| The
Slave |
Melbourne |
Humphrey Clinker |
| Cervantes Mare |
| Volley |
Voltaire |
| Martha Lynn |
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He was described as "Melbourne all over,
only toned down" and was said to be a big horse
standing on upright forelegs with a great length
of haunch and shoulder making him a powerful
galloper. He was thought to be somewhat poorly
coupled giving rise to his difficulty in getting
up and down hill and his dislike for Ascot.
In 1862 he won the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom,
beating Lord St Vincent's The Orphan (br f 1862
Frogmore). He was promptly purchased by Captain
Christie for £4000 and quickly sold to Lord St
Vincent for 5000gs. He then won the Champagne
Stakes at Doncaster, deafeating Lord Stamford's
Armagnac (ch c 1860
Faugh-A-Ballagh) and a sweep beating E
Wilson's Bohemia (b f Weatherbit) and Lord
Falmouth's
Queen Bertha (b f 1860 Kingston).
In
1863 he lost the Derby by a head to the Two
Thousand Guineas winner
Macaroni (b c 1860
Sweetmeat),
beating Lord Glasgow's Rapid Rhone (gr c 1860
Young Melbourne) and H Savile's The Ranger (br c
1860 Voltigeur).
He then won the Doncaster Stakes, beating
William I'Anson's Borealis (b f 1860 Newminster)
and was among the field for the Grand Prix De
Paris, won by The Ranger. By all accounts he ran
the race of his life for the St. Leger at
Doncaster being at one point "fully fifty
lengths in the rear of everything" but, with all
credit due his jockey John Osborne, made his way
through the field and finally past the Oaks
winner Queen Bertha to win by half a length.
In 1864 he ran second for the Newmarket
Claret Stakes, won by Rapid Rhone, went unplaced
for the Ascot Gold Cup, won by Scottish Chief (b
c 1861 Lord Of The Isles), went unplaced for the
Chesterfield Cup at Goodwood, won by King Of
Utopia (br c 1860 King Of Trumps), walked over
for 100 sovs, and retired from the turf.
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He covered at the Moorlands stud in Yorkshire,
getting stock which were said to come mostly as
whole-coloured dark bays without markings. His
sons were thought to lack his size and power and
were "inclined to shortness". Some of his
notable offspring include Hawthornden (b c 1867)
who won the St Leger and went to Australia,
Buckden (b c 1869) who did well as a stallion in
America, Hymenaeus (b c 1869) who won the
Deutsches Derby and garnered champion sire
status for Lord Clifden in Germany, the St
Leger winner Wenlock (b c 1869), the champion
sire Hampton (b c 1872), and the Two Thousand
Guineas and St Leger winner Petrarch (b c
1873).
Mr Gee purchased Lord Clifden for his
Dewhurst Lodge Farm at Wadhurst, Sussex, for
£4000 but unfortunately lost him in February of
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Hampton (GB) |
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Hampton
Francis Charles Granville Egerton
(1847-1914), 3rd
Earl Of Ellesmere,
maintained properties at Worsley,
near
Manchester, at Stetchworth Park, near
Newmarket, and at Brackley, Northamptonshire.
He
owned Hampton for his entire stud career.
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Hampton b c 1872
(Lord Clifden - Lady Langden, by Kettledrum).
Family 10-a.
Bred at Tetsworth in Oxfordshire by Montagu Arthur
Bertie (1836-1928), Lord Norreys, who succeeded as 7th
Earl Of Abingdon, Hampton was the first foal of his dam
and said to be on the small side, standing scarcely 15.2
hands, and not likely to catch the eye in passing,
however, he was a grandson of the "scarcely taller than
a pony" Haricot (see
Queen Mary). He was sired by a St Leger winner
from a mare sired by a Derby winner, Kettledrum (ch c
1858 Rataplan) and was a half brother to a Derby winner,
Sir Bevys (br c 1876 Favonius), which seems an unlikely
pedigree for a selling plater or a hurdler.
However, whilst
passing through a number of hands Hampton contested both
types of events during his career on the turf. Some of
his owners and trainers included Mr Ireland, James
Nightingall, B C Harvey, F G Hobson, Robert Peck and
finally Lord Ellesmere, who purchased him at the end of 1878 for 7,200gs.
As Joe Palmer (see Names In Pedigrees)
succinctly put it, "His ancestry was as illustrious as
the line he founded, and perhaps Hampton is to be
regarded, not so much as an underling which got to the
top, as an aristocrat which fell for a time into bad
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| Hampton |
Lord Clifden |
Newminster |
Touchstone |
| Beeswing |
| The Slave |
Melbourne |
| Volley |
| Lady Langden |
Kettledrum |
Rataplan |
| Hybla |
| Haricot |
Lanercost |
| Queen Mary |
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He was on the turf
for 5 years, running in 33 races, not including those
over jumps. He won 19 of these. He did not contest any
classics and his finest year was 1877 when he won 8 of
10.
In 1874
running as an unnamed colt for Mr Ireland he won a
Maiden Plate at Oxford, beating Jutland (b c 1872
Denmark) by a short head. He then won the South-Western
Stakes at Hampton, beating Peep O'Day (b f 1872
Caractacus); this was a selling race and James
Nightingall paid 200gs for him and named him after the
race course. At Brighton he won the Two Years Old
Stakes, beating Pommelo (br f 1872 Lecturer) by a neck,
also a selling race but he was bought in by Nightingall
for 150gs. Still running in the name of trainer
Nightingall he was by this time owned by B C Harvey. He
next finished 3° for the Nursery Handicap at the
Warwickshire and Leamington Hunt course, won by Seymour
(br c 1872 Lord Clifden), followed by Trappist (b c 1872
Hermit) and was among the field for the Second Nursery
Handicap at the same place, won by Woodpecker (br c 1872
Orest).
In 1875 he won the Great Welcome Handicap
at Croyden, beating Industrious (b c 1871 Blair Athol)
by a head, the Great Metropolitan Stakes at Epsom,
beating Temple Bar (ch c 1872 Trumpeter) by a head, and
finished 2° for the Claremont Handicap at Sandown Park,
won by Snail (br c 1870 Esca). He was among the very
large field for the Cesarewitch at Newmarket, won by
Duke Of Parma (br c 1872 The Duke) and similarly
unplaced for the Brighton Autumn Handicap, won by Peto
(br g 1869 Adventurer). Following the flat racing season
Hampton tried his luck over hurdles, winning one race
and finishing 2° for another.
In 1876, running
for F G Hobson he won the Goodwood Stakes, beating
Admiral Byng (br c 1872 Brother To Strafford) and Finis
(b c 1871 Marsyas). He was unplaced for the Doncaster
Cup, won by Craig Millar (ch c 1872 Blair Athol) and
Controversy (b c 1871 Lambton or The Miner). He was also
unplaced for the Cesarewitch, won by Rosebery (b c 1872
Speculum) and Woodlands (ch c 1872 Nutbourne).
In
1877 he won the Northumberland Plate (2m) at
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne by a short head, beating Glendale
(ch c 1873 Blair Athol) and Mars (b g 1872 Mandrake).
Next, giving 33lb to the first horse, he was unplaced for
the Goodwood Stakes (2.5m), won by Prince George (b c
1873 Toxophilite) and Gloucester (br c 1873 Parmesan). Then he won the Goodwood Cup by a
length and a half, beating Skylark (b c 1873 King Tom)
and Charon (br c 1873 Hermit). He next was unplaced for
the Great Ebor Handicap at York ("such a sea of mud and
water"), won by Il Gladiatore (b c 1874 Gladiateur) and
the appropriately named Mrs. Pond (b f 1874 Parmesan).
He won his next 6, starting with the Doncaster Cup which
he won by 2 lengths, beating Chesterton (b c 1874
Montagnard) and Thorn (ch c 1870 King Of Trumps). He also the won the Kelso Gold
Cup, beating Strathmore (ch c 1874 Mandrake) receiving
32lb, and Glendale. Next he walked over for Her
Majesty's Plate at Edinburgh. Following this he
won a second Royal Plate at Edinburgh, beating Hunger
(ch c 1874 The Earl or Vienna) who got 35lb. Then he won Caledonian
Centenary Cup, beating First Spring (b c 1874 Parmesan) who got 29lb. He won a third Royal Plate at Newmarket by a length
and a half, beating the French-breds, Pornic (b c 1874
Dollar) and
Augusta (ch f 1873 Mortemer).
In 1878, running for Lord Ellesmere, he won Her
Majesty's Plate (2m) at Northampton by 6 lengths,
beating Sheldrake (b c 1874 Mandrake), only 2 ran. Next
he won the (1.5m) Epsom Gold Cup by a length, beating
the French-bred Jockey Club Stakes winner Verneuil (ch c
1874 Mortemer) and Lord Clive (ch c 1875 Lord Clifden).
He was last for the Ascot Gold Cup (2.5m), won by
Verneuil, the Derby and St Leger winner Silvio (b c 1874
Blair Athol), and the Grand Prix De Paris winner St.
Christophe (ch c 1874 Mortmer), only 4 started. He was
then 2° for the Goodwood Stakes (2.5m), won by Norwich
(ch c 1874 St. Albans) and beating Strathmore. Following
this he won Her Majesty's Plate at York, beating
Glendale and Childe Harold (b c 1875 Brother To
Strafford). He then finished 2° for the Doncaster Cup
(2m 5f), won by the Chester Cup winner Pageant (b g 1871
Elland), beating Kingsclere (b c 1874 Lord Clifden). He
walked over for Her Majesty's Plate at Lichfield. Then
he won Her Majesty's Plate at Newmarket by 2 lengths,
beating Verneuil and Winchilsea (br c 1874 John Davis).
Carrying the top weight he finished 4° for the
Cambridgeshire, won by the mighty Isonomy (b c 1875
Sterling) and Touchet, 38 ran. In his last race he was
unplaced for the Jockey Club Cup, won by Silvio and the
French-bred Prix Du Jockey Club winner Insulaire (bl c 1875 Dutch
Skater).
In 1879 Hampton retired
to his owner's Worseley Hall Stud Farm, near Manchester,
with a fee of 30gs. He was later moved to His
Lordship's Stetchworth Park stud and in 1885 his fee
rose to 100gs. By
1890 his fee was 150gs.
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Royal Hampton (1882) |
Merry Hampton (1884) |
Ladas (1891) |
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Hampton was considered a
fine stayer and got many high-class sons and splendid
broodmare daughters. Among these were the 2000 Guineas
and Derby winner Ayrshire (br c 1885) and, perhaps most significantly, the City And
Suburban winner Bay Ronald (b c 1893), as from the
latter came the line leading to Hyperion (ch c 1930
Gainsborough). Other notables among his sons were
(1) Royal Hampton (b c 1882),
as a two year old, won the National Breeders' Produce
Stakes at Sandown Park, placing 2° for the Richmond
Stakes at Goodwood, 3° for the Champagne Stakes at
Doncaster, and dead-heated for 3° for the Middle Park
Plate. As a three year old he finished 3° to Melton for
the Derby. As a four year old he won the City And
Suburban at Epsom beating 16 others. Bred by William
Blenkiron he stood 16 hands and girthed slightly more
than 74 inches. He covered at the Childwick Stud where
he got, among many others, Court Card (b f 1890) dam of
Irish Derby winner St. Brendan (br c 1899 Hackler),
Marcion (ch c 1890) the Ascot Gold Cup winner, and
Kirkconnel (b c 1892) the 2000 Guineas winner.
(2) Merry Hampton (b c 1884),
won the Derby by 4 lengths and finished 2° for the St
Leger to Kilwarlin and 4° for the Grand Prix De Paris to
Tenebreuse. Bred in Yorkshire by J Crowther-Harrison he
was purchased as a yearling by George Baird for 3,200
guineas. He never ran before the Derby. He stood 16.1
hands and his girth measured 72 inches. In the stud he
got two famous daughters, Merry Token (b f 1891) the
grandam of Man O'War (ch c 1917 Fair Play) and Merry
Wife (br f 1891), dam of Ascot Gold Cup winner Santoi
(bbr c 1897 Queen's Birthday).
(3) Ladas (b c 1891)
was bred by the 5th Earl Of Rosebery and stood a little
over 16 hands. He won 4 races as a two year old,
the Woodcote Stakes, Middle Park Plate, Champagne Stakes
and Coventry Stakes. As a three year old he won the 2000
Guineas, the Derby and the Newmarket Stakes. He finished
2° for the St Leger and Eclipse Stakes and 3° for the
Princess Of Wales's Stakes. He covered at the Mentmore
Stud, Leighton Buzzard, for a fee of 49 sovereigns.
Among others he got the St Leger winner Troutbeck (bbr c
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Hampton's noteworthy daughters include
(1) the
worthy Perdita (b f 1881), dam of Florizel (br c 1891
St. Simon), Persimmon (b c 1893 St. Simon) and Diamond
Jubliee (b c 1897 St. Simon),
(2) the 1000 Guineas and Oaks
winner Reve
D'Or (ch f 1884),
(3) Maid Marian (br f 1886), dam of
Grafton (br c 1894 Galopin) who was an outstanding
stallion in Australia and of Polymelus (b c 1902
Cyllene) who was an outstanding stallion in England and
(4)
Fota (b f 1889), dam of the Oaks winner Glass Doll (b f
1904 Isinglass) and grandam of the stallion North Star
(ch c 1914 Sunstar) who did well in America.
Hampton was champion sire in 1887 and
champion broodmare sire in 1900. In his later years he
had been plagued
by rheumatism and he was humanely destroyed December 8,
1897. |
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Ayrshire
Photograph by Clarence Hailey
William John Arthur Charles James
Cavendish-Bentinck
(1857-1943),
6th Duke of Portland, owned two of
the most significant stallions in the
latter half of
the 19th century and
the beginning of the 20th
century -
St. Simon and Carbine.
Atalanta
Photograph by W A Rouch
©
Thoroughbred
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Ayrshire b c 1885
(Hampton - Atalanta, by Galopin).
Family 8-h.
Bred by the 6th Duke of Portland, he
was a half brother to Melanion (b c 1886 Hermit) who was
later a stallion in Italy, and a full brother to Sussex
Stakes winner, the ill-fated Troon (b c 1892), who
slipped during the running of the Prince Edward Handicap
at Newmarket, fell on the rails and died instantly.
Ayshire was described as "possessed of a fine
constitution and good temper, but was exceedingly
high-couraged..."
His dam, Atalanta, "a really
fine stamp of a mare," was half sister to St. Serf (br c
1887 St. Simon), and won 5 races for the Duke. According to
the General Stud Book Atalanta was bred by Lord Rosslyn,
however, Joe Palmer (see Names In Pedigrees) says that
she was purchased as a foal with her dam: "The
foal had been badly injured and could hardly stand when
delivery was made, and there was considerable
discussion, quite good-natured, about the price to be
paid for it. Finally the foal, later to be named
Atalanta, changed hands for seven shillings and sixpence
(about $2), a wheelbarrow, and a service to Lord
Rosslyn`s boar pig." Ayrshire was her second foal.
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Hampton |
Lord Clifden |
Newminster |
| The Slave |
| Lady Langden |
Kettledrum |
| Haricot |
| Atalanta |
Galopin |
Vedette |
| Flying Duchess |
| Feronia |
Thormanby |
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Trained by George
Dawson at Heath House, Ayrshire ran for 3 years in 16
races and won 11 of them, earning £36,564. As a two year
old he started 7 times and won the last 5 in a row,
unfortunately knocking his leg in the Champagne Stakes
which left him unable to contest the Middle Park Plate.
As a three year old he won both the 2000 Guineas and the
Derby, although there was some doubt that he was good
enough to defeat
Friar's Balsam (see
Hermit) who had easily beaten him as a two year old. Following the Derby he threw a splint
that interrupted his training, and as it turned out, he
was among the field for the St Leger which was won by
Seabreeze (ch f 1885 Isonomy) who was generally conceded
to be the best horse of that year. As a four year old he
won his first 2, then broke down in Champion Stakes,
which terminated his turf career.
In 1887 he finished 3° for the
Whitsuntide Plate at Manchester, won by Briar-Root (b f
1885 Springfield) who subsequentlt won the 1000 Guineas,
and Caerlaverock (b c 1885 Isonomy). He also finished 3°
for the New Stakes at Ascot, won by Friar's Balsam (ch c
1885 Hermit) and the future St Leger winner Seabreeze. Then he won the Bibury Club
Home-Bred Foal Stakes, beating Challenge (b f 1885
Hermit) and Irgunder (ch c 1885 Hermit). Next he easily
won the Royal Plate at Windsor by 3 lengths, beating
Hark (ch c 1885 Reverberation) and Toscano (ch c 1885
Petrarch). He also won the Chesterfield Stakes at
Newmarket by half a length, beating Bartizan (b c 1885
Barcaldine) and Winkfield (ch c 1885 Barcaldine). His
next win came in the Prince Of Wales's (Post) Stakes at
Goodwood, beating Simon Pure (br c 1885 Peter) by 3
lengths and Juggler (ch c 1885 Touchet). In his last
race of the year he won the Champagne Stakes at
Doncaster by 2 lengths, beating Marmiton (br c 1885
Galopin) and Caerlaverock.
In
1888 he won the Riddlesworth (Post) Stakes at Newmarket
by 20 lengths, beating the aptly-named Disappointment (b
f 1885 Fiddler), only 2 started. He then won the 2000
Guineas by 2 lengths, beating his stable companion
Johnny Morgan (b c 1885 Springfield) and Orbit (ch c
1885 Bend Or). He also won the Derby by 2 lengths,
beating Crowberry (ch c 1885 Rosebery) and Van Diemen's
Land (ch c 1885 Robert The Devil). Although he started
favourite he was, however, unplaced for the St Leger,
won by Seabreeze and Chillington (br c 1885
Chippendale). He finished 2° for the 7f Lancashire Plate
at Manchester, won by Seabreeze, beating Le Sancy (gr c
1884 Atlantic). His final outing of the year produced a
length win in the Great Foal Stakes at Newmarket,
beating the Doncaster Cup winner Grafton (b c 1885
Galopin) and Surbiton (b c 1884 Hampton).
In 1889
he won the 1m 2f Kempton Park Royal Stakes by
three-quarters of a length, beating Seabreeze and his
half-brother Melanion (b c 1886 Hermit). Next he won the
1m 2f Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park by 2 lengths,
beating the Prince Of Wales's Stakes winner El Dorado
(br c 1886 Sterling) and Seclusion (ch f 1886 Hermit).
In his final race he finished 3° of 4 for the 1m 2f
Champion Stakes at Newmarket, won by Gold (ch c 1886
Sterling) and Antibes (ch f 1886 Isonomy), beating
Enthusiast (ch c 1886 Sterling).
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Symington (1893) |
Robert Le Diable (1899) |
Festino (1902) |
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He covered at
Egerton House, Newmarket, for a fee of 150gs. Among his
sons were
(1) Symington (b c 1893), who was bred by
Douglas Baird and won the Exeter Stakes at Newmarket as
a two year old and the Duke Of York Stakes at York as a
three year old before he was purchased by Edward Kennedy
in 1905 for 1000 guineas. He covered at the Straffan
Station stud for a fee of 98 sovereigns and went on to become a
popular stallion in Ireland. He stood 16 hands, and got
no chesnuts. He got Junior (br c 1909), winner of the
Ebor Handicap and Chesterfield and Manchester Cups.
(2) Bowling Brook (b c
1895) went to America and there won the Belmont Stakes
and the Metropolitan Handicap.
(3) Solitaire (b c
1896) won both the Champion Stakes and Queen's Vase
before travelling to America and there becoming a
stallion.
(4) Robert Le Diable (b c 1899) was
French-bred although he came to England to win the
Doncaster Cup, City And Suburban Stakes and the Duke Of
York Stakes. He got Wrack (b c 1909) before he went to
Austria-Hungary.
(5) Festino (br c 1902) was bred in
the Waldfried stud in Germany and won the Grosser Preis
Von Berlin before taking up stallion duties there.
(6) Traquair (ch c 1904) suffered from wind infirmities
but displayed brilliant form winning the July Stakes,
Woodcote Stakes, Coventry Stakes and National Stakes
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His daughters
included
(1) Airs And
Graces (br f 1895) who won the Oaks before she went to
France, and there got Jardy (b c 1902) a leading sire in
Argentina, and Fils Du Vent (b c 1906) who became a
highly regarded stallion in Poland.
(2) Our Lassie (b
f 1900) won the Oaks Stakes and became the ancestress of
Jacopo (br c 1928 Sansovino) and Khaled (b c 1943
Hyperion), both stallions in America, and 2000
Guineas winner Wollow (b c 1973 Wolver Hollow).
(3)
Ayrslave (br f 1910) became the dam of the leading sire in
Uruguay, Air Raid (bbr c 1915 Willonyx).
Ayrshire died in 1910. |
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Bay Ronald (GB) |
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Bay Ronald in France shortly before his
death,
photograph by Clarence Hailey
Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey
(1870-1958), 1st Baron
Of Apethorpe,
was a member of the Jockey Club for
60 years and elevated to the peerage
in 1938. He won
the 1000 Guineas in
1900 with Winifreda (b f 1897 St.
Simon)
but is probably better known for his
stewardship of Bay Ronald.
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Bay Ronald b c 1893
(Hampton - Black Duchess, by Galliard).
Family 3-o.
He was bred by T Phillips in the Leybourne Grange
Stud, Kent, where nearly 30 years before Sir Joseph
Hawley had bred the Derby winner Blue Gown and the Ascot
Stakes winner Rosicrucian. Bay Ronald was sent to
Doncaster sales as a yearling but failed to make his
reserve of 500gs. Trainer Thomas Jennings (the younger)
wrote to Mr Brassey and suggested he have look since he
lived close to Leybourne Grange.
His dam, Black
Duchess, was also the great grandam of Blandford (br c
1919 Swynford). After Bay Ronald won the Limekiln Stakes
in 1896 she was purchased from Mr Phillips by Lord
Brassey at a Knightsbridge sale for 500gs.
His
owner felt Bay Ronald "grew into a beautiful and most
blood-like stallion, with a very perfect head and neck".
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Hampton |
Lord Clifden |
Newminster |
| The Slave |
| Lady Langden |
Kettledrum |
| Haricot |
| Black Duchess |
Galliard |
Galopin |
| Mavis |
| Black Corrie |
Sterling |
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Trained by Tom
Jennings at Phantom House, Newmarket, Bay Ronald ran for
4 years in 26 races, won 5 of these, and earned £7,827.
He was sufficiently slow in coming to hand that he
didn't win his first race until nearly the end of his
three year old year. In a letter to A E T Watson (see
Bloodstock Breeders' Review, 1915), Mr Brassey
set forth his thoughts on Bay Ronald's racing career:
"As a five year old Bay Ronald won the City and Suburban
and the Epsom Cup, beating Newhaven II and Winkfield's
Pride. He was then trained for the Ascot Cup, in which
he ran unplaced. My action in this matter was scarcely
judicious. The horse never showed ability to stay more
than a mile and a half, and a severe preparation for the
Cup, followed by a race on hard ground, in all
probability had a permanently adverse effect. I think
Bay Ronald was never afterwards in the form he was when
he so easily won the Epsom Cup. Though Bay Ronald
achieved a fair amount of success on the racecourse one
cannot describe him as having been quite a first-class
racehorse. His form was certainly somewhat variable,
this being accounted for, I think, by the fact that his
constitution as a young horse was not of a very robust
character, and strong preparations for long distance
races may have rather taken the steel out of him later
on."
In 1895 he finished 3° for the Stanley
Stakes at Epsom, won by Devil-May-Care (ch c 1893
Chittabob) and Froward (br c 1893 Brag). He was then
unplaced for the Windsor Castle Stakes at Alexandria
Park, won by Cushendall (ch c 1893 Timothy) and
Attainment (b f 1893 Wisdom). He was likewise unplaced
for the Lavant Stakes at Goodwood, won in a dead heat by
both Flitters (b f 1893 Galopin) and Omladina (br f 1893
Royal Hampton). He was also among the field for the
Middle Park Plate, won by St. Frusquin (br c 1893 St.
Simon) and Omladina. He was yet again unplaced for the
Dewhurst Plate, won by St. Frusquin and Knight Of The
Thistle (b c 1893 Rosebery).
In 1896 he finished
4° for the 9f Newmarket Stakes, won by Galeazzo (b c
1893 Galopin), Balsamo (br c 1893 Friar's Balsam) and
Bradwardine (bbr c 1893 Barcaldine). He was among the
field for the Derby, won by Persimmon (b c 1893 St.
Simon) and St. Frusquin. He then finished 3° of 4 for
the 1m 4f Ascot Derby, won by Conroy (b c 1893 Bend Or)
and Positano (br c 1893 St. Simon), beating Carton
Pierre (br f 1893 Chippendale). Next he was unplaced for
the 1m 4f Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot, won by Shaddock (b
c 1893 St. Serf) and Dunrobin (b c 1893 Hampton). He was
also unplaced for the 1m 4f Jockey Club Stakes at
Newmarket, won by Persimmon and Sir Visto (b c 1892
Barcaldine). He then won the 1m 2f Lowther Stakes at
Newmarket by 3 lengths, beating Avilion (ch f 1893
Cameliard) and the Molecomb Stakes winner Rampion (ch c
1893 Amphion). He also won the 1m Limekiln Stakes at
Newmarket by a length, beating Avilion and Balsamo. For
his final race of the year he was among the field for a
1m 2f Free Handicap Sweepstakes at Newmarket, won by
Gulistan (ch c 1893 Brag) and the 1000 Guineas winner
Thais (br f 1893 St. Serf).
In 1897 he finished
2° for the 9f City And Suburban Handicap at Epsom, won
by Balsamo, beating the Oaks winner La Sagesse (b f 1892
Wisdom). Giving 14lb he then won the 1m 4f Hardwicke
Stakes at Ascot by 2 lengths, beating Lowly (b f 1894
Common) and Mr Bass's (b c 1894 St. Serf). He next
finished 3° for the 9f Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park,
won by Persimmon and Velasquez (b c 1894 Donovan). He
followed this with a 2° place finish for the 9f Champion
Stakes, won by Velasquez, beating Dosser (b c 1893
Belgrave). Then he was among the field for the 1m 4f
Cambridgshire, won by Comfrey (b c 1894 Despair) and the
American-bred St. Cloud (b c 1894 Candlemas). He was
similarly unplaced for the 1m 3f Liverpool Autumn
Handicap, won by Chiselhampton (b c 1893 Hampton) and
General Peace (br c 1894 Gallinule).
In 1898 he
won the City And Suburban Handicap by 2 lengths, beating
the Australian-bred Melbourne Cup winner Newhaven (ch c
1893 Newminster) and Craftsman (b c 1895 Crafton). After
this he won the 1m 4f Epsom Cup by 2 lengths, beating
Newhaven and Winkfield's Pride (ch c 1893 Winkfield).
Then he was among the field for the 2m 4f Gold Cup at
Ascot, won by the French-bred Elf (ch c 1893 Upas) and
the Chester Cup winner The Rush (ch c 1892 Barcaldine).
The next day he finished 2° for the 1m 4f Hardwicke
Stakes, won by Collar (b c 1895 St. Simon), beating
Cortegar (b f 1894 Galliard). He then finished 2° for
the 1m 2f Champion Stakes, won by Velasquez, beating
Goblin (b c 1895 Goldfinch), only 3 started. Two days
later he finished 3° of 3 for the Lowther Stakes at
Newmarket, won by Ninus (b c 1895 Sheen) and Batt (br c
1895 Sheen). In his final race he again finished 3° of 3
for the 2m 2f Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket, won by
the Australian-bred future Ascot Gold Cup winner Merman
(ch c 1892 Grand Flaneur) and The Rush.
He
retired to the Preston Stud Farm at Aylesford, Kent for
the fee of 24 sovereigns, with the provision that dams
of winners of 500 sovereigns would be served for free.
His fee later rose as high as 150gs. His sons and
grandsons gave evidence of staying ability and
transmitted this to their offspring. Macdonald (br c
1901), foaled in France, won the Prix Royal Oak and got
a Nemzeti dij winner in Oreg Lak (br c 1912) and a Poule
D'Essai Des Poulains winner in McKinley (br c 1916).
Dark Ronald (bbr c 1905) won a number of good races in
England and left many good offspring at home before
going to Prussia and making his mark there. Bayardo (b c
1906) was a top-class racehorse and stallion. Combourg
(b c 1908) won the Prix Royal Oak and Prix Du Cadran and
had some success in the stud in France.
His
daughters also had success, among them Rondeau (b f
1900) who foaled the Prix Des Trois Ans (a wartime
substitute for the Prix Du Jockey Club) winner Teddy (b
c 1913 Ajax) who went on to become a leading sire in
France and give America his notable sons Sir Gallahad (b
c 1920) and Bull Dog (bbr c 1927) and his daughter La
Troienne (b f 1926). Rose Ronald (b f 1901) became the
ancestress of the likes of Irish Derby winner
Panaslipper (ch c 1952 Solar Slipper) and Ascot Gold Cup
and Prix De L'Arc De Triomphe winner Levmoss (b c 1965
Le Levanstell). Ronna (br f 1905) foaled Chester Vase
winner Esplanadian (br c 1912 Amadis).
In the
aforementioned letter, above, Mr Brassey relates that at
the Newmarket December sales in 1899 that Prince Pierre
D'Arenberg and Comte De Pourtales dropped by Tom
Jenning's stables one evening, the first having just
bought Myrtledine, and were discussing her future plans.
Mr Brassey convinced them to breed her to Bay Ronald,
the result being Macdonald, winner in 1904 of Prix Royal
Oak and in 1905 of the Prix Du Conseil De Paris.
In 1905 Dark Ronald was still a foal and Bayardo was
still being carried by his dam when Mr Brassey was
persuaded to sell Bay Ronald to French interests for
5000gs.
Bay Ronald died in France in 1907 at the
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Dark Ronald
Photograph by Clarence Hailey
Edward "Cub" Kennedy (1860-1925),
combined his
property at Hazlehatch
with a farm he bought at
Baronrath, a few
miles from Straffan and the whole
became
the Straffan Station Stud. He purchased
the
French-bred Roi Hérode, having seen
him beat Dark
Ronald in 1909, and bred
The Tetrarch, one of the
most phenomenal
horses ever seen on the turf.
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Dark Ronald bbr c
1905 (Bay Ronald - Darkie, by Thurio).
Family 9-b.
A handsome substantial horse standing 16.1 hands, he
was bred in Ireland by Edward Kennedy. In 1892 Kennedy
had purchased his dam, Darkie (bl f 1899), from John
Hammond of Newmarket, who won the 1884 Derby with St.
Gatien in a dead heat with Harvester. Darkie ran 5 times
in 1891, 4 times in selling races, but 3 times managed a 3°
place fnish, including in the Ramsay
Abbey Plate at Huntingdon. In the stud Darkie was the dam of the Gimcrack Stakes winner Désirée (br f
1902 Velasquez), who was also sent to Germany. Kennedy
sold Dark Ronald to Sir Abe Bailey at the Doncaster
Yearling Sales for 1300gs. |
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Bay Ronald |
Hampton |
Lord Clifden |
| Lady Langden |
| Black Duchess |
Galliard |
| Black Corrie |
| Darkie |
Thurio |
Tibthorpe/Cremorne |
| Verona |
| Insignia |
Blair Athol |
| Decoration |
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Dark Ronald ran for 2
years, starting 7 times, winning 4 races and earning
£8,288. He ran only twice as a two year old because of
injury and then had his forelegs pinfired. He was sent
to South Africa to recuperate and did not run as a three
year old. He was back the next year and displayed a fine
turn of speed winning the Royal Hunt Cup and stamina
sufficient to stay the mile and a half of the Princess
Of Wales's Stakes.
In 1907 he won the Hurst Park Foal Plate
by a head, beating Quelpart (b c 1905 Grey Leg) and
Understudy (b c 1905 Eager). He also finished 2° for the
Great Foal Plate at Lingfield Park, won by Little
Flutter (b c 1905 Missel Thrush), beating Silent Lady (b
f 1905 Missel Thrush).
In 1909 he was unplaced in
his first race back, the 1m Newbury Spring Cup, won by
Arranmore (b c 1905 Succoth or Enthusiast) and Royal
Realm (b c 1905 Persimmon). Next he won the 9f Durham
Plate by 3 lengths, beating Huckle My Buff (b c 1906
Isinglass) and Waterbury (ch f 1906 Jaquemart). He
followed this with a smart 2 length win in the 7f+ Royal
Hunt Cup at Ascot Heath, beating Arranmore and the
Cambridgeshire winner Christmas Daisy (b c 1905 Vitez).
He started favourite of 23 runners. He also won his next
race, the 1m 4f Princess Of Wales's Stakes by 2 lengths,
beating the Hardwicke Stakes winner Primer (b c 1905 St.
Simon) and the St Leger winner Your Majesty (b c 1905
Persimmon). In his final race he finished 3° for the 2m
1f Doncaster Cup, won by the Queen's Vase winner Amadis
(b c 1906 Love Wisely) and the French-bred Grand Prix De
Vichy winner Roi Hérode (gr c 1904 Le Samaritain).
He retired to the Tickford
Park Stud of Donald Fraser at a fee of 98 sovereigns, which later rose to
148 sovereigns. He spent only 3 seasons in England but
got a number of very good horses, including the highly
successful Son-In-Law (b c 1911) who was to become an
important influence for stamina.
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Ambassador (1911) |
Brown Prince (1914) |
Magpie (1914) |
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Ambassador (br c 1911) won the
Chippenham Plate and the July Stakes and lost the
Cambridgeshire by a head, then went to Claiborne Farm in
Kentucky where he got the two year old champion
racehorse St. James (b c 1921). St. James, in turn, got
another two year old champion, Jamestown (b c 1928). In
his turn he got the Kentucky Derby and Belmont
Stakes winner Johnstown (b c 1936).
Brown Prince (br c 1914)
won the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket and the
Cambridgeshire, went to America and sired the Clark
Handicap winner Helen's Babe (b f 1923) and the Travers
Stakes winner Brown Bud (br c 1924). His daughter
Princess Adele (br f 1922) became the granddam of the
Alabama Stakes winner Compliance (br f 1945).
Dark Legend (bbr c 1914)
finished 3° in Gay Crusader's Derby, then won the Calcutta Gold Cup and the Queen Elizabeth II Cup
in South Africa, then went to stud in France and got the
Goodwood Cup winner Dark Japan (br c 1923), the 1941
leading sire in Sweden Monsieur D'Ypres (b c 1923) and
the stallion Easton (b c 1931). His daughter Rosy Legend
(br f 1931) became the dam of the Derby winner Dante (br
c 1942 Nearco) and the St Leger winner Sayajirao. He
also got the 1000 Guineas and Oaks winner Galatea (br f
1936).
Magpie (bl c 1914), a grandson of the 1000
Guineas winner Chelandry (br f 1894), was beaten only a
head for the 2000 Thousand Guineas by Gay Crusader and
then went to Australia where he got the Melbourne Cup
winner Windbag (b c 1921) and was a leading sire of
broodmares in 1952.
Dark Ronald also sired some
good daughters, among them Vaucluse (b f
1912), who won the 1000 Guineas and foaled the Jockey
Club Stakes and Doncaster Cup winner Bongrace (b f
1923). One of his best known daughters, Popingaol (br f 1913),
was the matriarch of a very successful family, having
produced the Oaks winner Pogrom (b f 1919 Lemberg), the
St Leger winner Book Law (b f 1924) who became the dam
of the stallion Rhodes Scholar (b c 1933), Book Debt (br
f 1925) who became the dam of the 2000 Guineas winner
Pay Up (br c 1933) and Tolbooth (b f 1929) the
ancestress of the Derby Italiano winner Traghetto (ch c
1942). Breathing Spell (b f
1914) was exported to America and became the grandam of
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Prunus (1915) |
Herold (1917) |
Wallenstein (1917) |
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In 1913 Dark Ronald
was sold to the Government Of Prussia for £25,000 and
assumed his duties at Gestüt Graditz. His legacy there
was immeasurable and not limited to bloodstock breeding
as he also contributed to the evolution of the warmblood
horses. To mention only a few offspring, he got
(1)
the Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen and Deutsches St Leger winner Prunus
(b c 1915) who went on to become a leading sire 5 times
and getting, among others, the 9 times leading sire
Oleander (b c 1924).
(2) Herold (br c 1917) was a Deutsches
Derby and St Leger winner who led the sires list twice
and got another Deutsches Derby winner in Alchimist (br
c 1930) who also led the sires list twice. Alchimist's
son Birkhahn (b c 1945) was the third generation of
Deutsches Derby winners and a leading sire 3 times, and
got another leading sire in Priamos (br c 1964). Another
of Herold's sons, St Leger winner Arjaman (br c 1930),
was leading sire once; his son Olymp was a St Leger
winner and also once a leading sire.
(3)
Wallenstein (b c 1917) won the Grosser Preis Von Berlin
and became leading sire in 1930.
Dark Ronald was
a leading sire in Germany in 1921 and 1922. He died at
Gestüt Titerfeld in the spring of 1928 at the
age of twenty-three. |
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Son-In-Law (GB) |
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Photograph by W A Rouch
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Thoroughbred
Sir Abraham "Abe" Bailey (1864-1940),
1st Bt Of
Cradock, South Africa, owned many
farms in the Cape
Colony and over a span of
nearly 50 years on the turf
won all of the
important races there. In England his
racing
compatriot was Donald Fraser who owned the
Tickford Park Stud at Newport Pagnell in
Buckinghamshire. Bailey won the Oaks with
Lovely Rosa
in 1936.
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Son-In-Law br c 1911
(Dark Ronald - Mother-In-Law, by Matchmaker).
Family
5-d.
Bred by Sir Abe Bailey at the Tickford Park
Stud, Son-In-Law had no
great luminaries in his immediate family although his great
grandam, Reticence (b f 1874 Vespasian), was a half
sister to the Derby winner and 7 time champion sire
Hermit. Bailey's friend and fellow turf enthusiast,
Donald Fraser, acquired Be Cannie (ch f 1891) and her
foal in 1901 for 30 guineas
and had also owned Matchmaker, the sire of Mother-In-Law
(b f 1906). Mother-In-Law won £2,025 and produced 4
minor winners besides Son-In-Law. Donald Fraser always
claimed the General Stud Book was incorrect in
recording Bailey as the breeder of Son-In-Law,
nevertheless, Bailey owned Mother-In-Law when Son-In-Law
was foaled, the standard by which such things are
measured.
Son-In-Law was the first offspring of
both his parents. A horse with an iron constitution he
was said to have never had so much as a sniffle his
entire life. He spent a number of years in
Buckinghamshire when he first went to stud, however, he
was regarded as a Newmarket "fixture" with "remarkable
vitality and individuality" which he displayed
throughout his long tenure there. |
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Dark Ronald |
Bay Ronald |
Hampton |
| Black Duchess |
| Darkie |
Thurio |
| Insignia |
| Mother-In-Law |
Matchmaker |
Donovan |
| Match Girl |
| Be Cannie |
Jock Of Oran |
| Reticence |
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Trained by Reg Day at
Terrace House, Newmarket, he raced for 4 years. He won 8
of 18 races, all at lengths of 1m 4f or better. His
earnings amounted to £5,546 which would probably have
been higher but for WW 1. He ran in a couple of selling
plates as a two year old, but as a three year old won
the Cesarewitch, which had the largest field in some 40
years, in record time. Later that night there was a
Zeppelin raid on London.
In 1913 he finished 2° for the Two Years Old
(Selling) Plate at Newmarket First October, won by the
American-bred Tears And Smiles (ch c 1911 Broomstick),
beating Retrospect (b f 1911 Roquelaure). He was then
unplaced for the Two Years Old (Selling) Plate at
Newmarket Second October, won by Dolabella (b f 1911
White Eagle) and Deslina (b f 1911 Desmond). In his last
race of the year he was also unplaced for the Criterion
Nursery Handicap at Newmarket Houghton, won by Wild Arum
(bbr f 1911 Robert Le Diable) and Raeburn's Glass (b g
1911 Rising Glass).
In
1914 he was among the field for the 1m Wood Ditton Stakes
at Newmarket, won by Sunny Lake (ch c 1911 Sundridge)
and Lancashire Lass (b f 1911 John O'Gaunt). He
then won his first race by 8 lengths, the 1m 4f
Mildenhall Plate at Newmarket, beating Towyn (br c 1910
Llangibby) and Barium (ch c 1911 Radium). Next he was
unplaced for the 9f Newmarket Stakes, won by Corcyra (ch
c 1911 Polymelus) and Brakespear (b c 1911 Spearmint).
He followed this with a win in the 1m 4f Londesborough
Plate at York by a length and a half, beating Speron (b
g 1911 Spearmint) and Amaroseate (ch c 1911 St. Amant).
He was unplaced for the 1m Addlestone Plate at Kempton
Park, won by Gay Lally (ch c 1911 Lally) and Sunny Lake.
He next finished 3° for the 1m 4f Newbury Summer Cup,
won by Florist (b c 1910 Florizel) and Marten (ch c 1911
Marco). He was then among the field for the 2m Gold Vase
at Ascot Heath, won by Glorvina (b f 1911 Desmond) and
Cincinnatus (b c 1911 Santoi). He won the next one by a
head, the 1m 4f Dullingham Plate at Newmarket, beating
Cincinnatus and Lancashire Lass. He also won the 2m 5f
Goodwood Cup by a head, beating At Last (b f 1910 Great
Scot) and Florist. He was next unplaced for the 2m
Prince Edward Handicap at Manchester, won by Bowman (ch
c 1909) and Fiz Yama (br c 1909 Santoi). He won his
final race of the year, the 2m 2f Jockey Club Cup at
Newmarket, beating his only opponent, the French-bred
Gondovar (ch g 1910 Le Var), by 2 lengths.
In
1915 he began the year by going unplaced for the 1m 4f
June Stakes, won by the St Leger winner Black Jester (br
c 1911 Polymelus) and Passport (br c 1912 King's
Messenger). Then he had a good win in the 2m 2f
Cesarewitch, beating Eau Claire (br f Torpoint) by half
a length and the favoured Oaks winner Snow Marten (b f
1912 Martagon). In this race of 31 competitors Florist
was left standing at the post and Lady Of Asia broke her
leg. Starting as favourite he again won the 2m 4f Jockey
Club Stakes, beating Lanius (b c 1911 Llangibby) by 4
lengths and Gadabout (b c 1912 St. Denis).
In his
only race in 1916 he won the 2m+ Warren Hill Handicap at
Newmarket by a neck, beating Chelsho (b c 1911 Simon
Square) and Aboukir (b c 1911 St. Amant). He conceded
between 11lb and 43lb to the rest of the field. This was his
last race.
He retired to the Tickford
Park Stud of Donald Fraser for a fee of 98 sovereigns
with a full book. In 1923 he returned to the care of
Reginald Day at Terrace House
and his fee rose to 200gs, and in 1924 to 300gs. His
book was full every year to 1930, after which he was not
advertised. There was no Gold Cup at Ascot in either
1915 or 1916 due to the war, so Son-In-Law had no chance
to add it to his collection, but he sired 3 sons who
did, Foxlaw (br c 1922), Bosworth (br c 1926) and
Trimdon (b c 1926).
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Foxlaw (1922) |
Bosworth (1926) |
Trimdon (1926) |
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Foxlaw was bred by Donald
Fraser and won the Jockey Club Stakes and Northumberland
Plate in addition to his Gold Cup. And Foxlaw got two
Gold Cup winners as well: Foxhunter (ch c 1929) and Tiberius (br
c 1931). The French-bred Foxhunter won the Criterion
Stakes before export to Argentina where he became a
leading sire. Tiberius won the Goodwood Cup to go along
with his Ascot victory and in the stud got Szczecin (b c
1946) who won the Derby in Poland and he in turn got a
St Leger winner with Dziegiel (ch c 1957). Another son
of Foxlaw, Foxbridge (b c 1930), was a half-sister to
the 1000 Guineas winner Cresta Run and although he won
only 1 race himself went to New Zealand where he led the
sires list for 11 consecutive seasons.
Bosworth (br c 1926)
was perhaps the most successful in terms of tail-male
descendants. He won the Gold Cup
and in the stud got the Jockey Club Stakes and
Coronation Cup winner Plassy (b c 1932). Plassy got the
French-bred Vandale (b c 1943) who became a leading sire
in France, and in his turn Vandale sired the Prix Du
Jockey Club winner Herbager (b c 1956). Herbager got 3
good sire sons: Grey Dawn (gr c 1962), a popular sire in
America; Appiani (b c 1963), a winner of the Derby
Italiano and leading sire in Germany who sired the Prix
De L'Arc De Triomphe winner Star Appeal (b c 1970), the
latter got the Magyar Derby and St Leger winner Try Star
(ch c 1983); and Sea Hawk (gr c 1968) who got the Ascot
Gold winner Erimo Hawk (gr c 1968).
Trimdon
(b c 1926), not to be outdone, won the Gold Cup twice
and sired the French-bred Marsyas (ch c 1940) who won
the 2m 4f Prix Du Cadran no less than 4 times, along
with the Goodwood and Doncaster Cups and the Queen
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Beau Père (1927) |
Rustom Pasha (1927) |
Winalot (1921) |
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Another interesting offspring of
Son-In-Law,
Beau Père (br c 1927), from the 1000 Guineas and Oaks 2°
Cinna, won only 3 races worth £974 before entering the
stud. He was poorly patronised at Newmarket and sold to
New Zealand where his fortune dramatically improved. He
was a leading sire there twice and then moved to
Australia where he led their sires list 3 times.
Eventually sold to to America for $100,000 he did well
there too.
Rustom Pasha (b c 1927) was bred by HH
Aga Khan and won the Champion Stakes and the Eclipse
Stakes. He went to stud in France where he got Rustom
Mahal (gr f 1934), the dam of very speedy Abernant (gr c
1946 Owen Tudor). He was later sent to the Argentine
where he was most successful as a stallion.
Winalot (br c 1921) was purchased as a
yearling for 1,000 guineas and won the Manchester Cup
and Liverpool Summer Cup before he entered the Burton
Agnes Stud in Yorkshire. He covered for a fee of 98
sovereigns and got a number of good horses including
Coup De Lyon (ch c 1930) who did well in Ireland, and
the Cesarewitch winner Enfield (ch c 1931) who did well
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Son-In-Law had a
number of quite famous daughters, among them Lady Juror (b f 1919) and Straitlace
(b f 1921). Lady Juror won the Jockey Club Stakes, then
at 4 years was purchased for 8600gs by Lord Dewar, and
became ancestress to a host of good winners including
the 2000 Guineas winner Tudor Minstrel (br c 1944) and
the champion sire Fair Trial (ch c 1932). Straitlace won the Oaks in
1924 and was sold at auction the next year for the record
price of 17,000 guineas. Perhaps her most notable
descendant is the Irish 1000 Guineas and St Leger winner
Pidget (gr f 1969).
Son-In-Law was a champion
sire in 1924 and 1930. He outlived his
owner by a year and passed away quietly at Terrace House
Stud, Newmarket, on May 15, 1941. |
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Bayardo (GB) |
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Photograph by W A Rouch
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Thoroughbred
Alfred William Cox (1857-1919),
made his fortune with
the Broken Hill
silver mine in Australia then
returned to
England and took up horse racing. He
had little more than a dozen paddocks
at Newmarket
and from such mares as
Lady
Muncaster bought in 1888 and
Agave in 1889, he bred
Bayardo, Lemberg
and Gay Crusader. After his death
his horses
went to his brother Algernon E Cox.
Galicia
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Bayardo b c 1906 (Bay
Ronald - Galicia, by Galopin).
Family 10-a.
Bred
by Alfred W Cox, who raced under the nom de
course of "Mr Fairie," Bayardo was a third
generation "homebred" for Mr Cox, as he had purchased
Lady Muncaster in 1888 for £1,600 after she had won 8
races and over £3,500. See also
Galicia. Bayardo
was a half-brother to the Derby winner Lemberg (b c 1907
Cyllene).
His name was said to be derived from
the "famous steed" Bayardo who belonged to
Amadis Of Gaul and later to Rinaldo, and
it meant "bay". Once when Rinaldo was passing passing
the three stones near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, which are
called Bayaro's or Bayard's Leap, the local demon sprang
onto the horse behind him, but Bayardo "in terror took
three tremendous leaps and unhorsed the fiend".
Bayardo was a horse with strong opinions and his
owner was said to be quite fond of his "funny little
ways". Approaching the end of his three year old season
he took a dislike to passing in front of the Newmarket
stands so he was forevermore taken round the back instead. He also
had an aversion to having his ears covered, an
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Bay Ronald |
Hampton |
Lord Clifden |
| Lady Langden |
| Black Duchess |
Galliard |
| Black Corrie |
| Galicia |
Galopin |
Vedette |
| Flying Duchess |
| Isoletta |
Isonomy |
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Trained by Alec
Taylor at Manton he won 22 of his 25 races having a
value of £44,534. Unbeaten as a two year old, his only
losses as a three year old came in the 2000 Guineas and
the Derby, both to His Majesty's Minoru (br c 1906
Cyllene), who was, incidentally, a highly popular
winner. Various explanations have been put forth for his
failures. "Audax" (see Daily Racing Form, Mar
20, 1924) says he was "rapidly recovering from the
dental and feet troubles which had affected him".
Mortimer and Wilmot (see Great Racehorses Of The
World) thought Bayardo simply did not like the cold
and the "unseasonably firm" ground which hurt his
sensitive feet. Another (see Bloodstock Breeders'
Review, Volume VI) notes that at the finish, his
jockey Danny Maher was standing up, and in fact reckoned
he had lost lengths in the confusion following the fall
of the American-bred Sir Martin (ch c 1906 Ogden) on the
descent to Tattenham Corner. Bayardo lost only one other
race, by only a nose, the Goodwood Cup, which was his
final appearance on the turf, due perhaps to the "long
grass" or his jockey's misjudgment or the fact that the
winner was perfectly prepared. Regardless, Bayardo
had proved himself a splendid racehorse.
In 1908 he won the New Stakes at Ascot Heath by
a length and a half, beating Perdiccas (ch c 1906
Persimmon) and the future Oaks winner Perola (ch f 1906
Persimmon). Next he won the National Breeders' Produce
Stakes at Sandown Park by a length, beating Glasgerion
(ch c 1906 Gallinule) and Vivid (br f 1906 St.
Frusquin). His next win came in the Richmond Stakes at
Goodwood in which he defeated Vivid by 3 lengths and
Oakmere (bbr c 1906 Wildfowler). He then won the
Buckenham Stakes at Newmarket by three quarters of a
length, beating Bonnie Lassie (ch f 1906 Isinglass) and
Vivario (b f 1906 Ayrshire). He followed this with a win
in the Rous Memorial Stakes at Newmarket, beating his
solitary opponent Auceps (b c 1906 Wildfowler) by a
length and a half. He also won the Middle Park Plate at
Newmarket by a length, beating Vivid and the Gimcrack
Stakes winner Blankney (b c 1906 Flying Fox). He capped
off a stellar season by winning the Dewhurst Plate at
Newmarket by 3 lengths, beating Perola and Specimen (ch c 1906
Persimmon).
In 1909 he finished 4° for the 2000
Guineas, won by Minoru and Phaleron
(b c 1906 Gallinule). He was unplaced for the Derby, won
by Minoru and Louviers (b c 1906 Isinglass). He made up
for his first 2 losses by winning his next 11 races,
starting with the 1m 5f Prince Of Wales's Stakes at
Ascot Heath by three quarters of a length, beating
Cattaro (br g 1906 Carbine) and Verne (bl f 1906 Bill Of
Portland). Then came the 1m 2f Sandringham Foal Stakes
at Sandown Park, beating Verney (ch c 1906 Veronese) by
a length and a half and Oakmere. After this he won the
1m 2f Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park, beating Royal
Realm (b c 1905 Persimmon) by 2 lengths and Santo Strato
(b c 1905 Victor Wild or St. Frusquin). He then won the
Duchess Of York Plate at Hurst Park, beating Valens (br
c 1906 Laveno) by 2 lengths and Perola. He followed this
with a win in the 1m 6f+ St Leger Stakes, beating Valens
by a length and a half and Mirador (ch c 1906 Marco).
Next he won the 1m 4f Doncaster Stakes, beating Verney
by a length and Great Peter (b c 1906 Pietermaritzburg).
Then he won the 1m 2f Champion Stakes at Newmarket by a
neck, beating Dean Swift (ch g 1901 Childwick) and White
Eagle (ch c 1905 Gallinule). He followed this with a win
in the 1m 6f Lowther Stakes at Newmarket, beating White
Eagle by a length and a half with White Eagle giving him
12lb and the Ebor Handicap winner Rousay (b c 1904 Bay
Ronald). Next he won the 1m 2f Sandown Foal Stakes by a
length, beating Shikaree (ch c 1906 Wildfowler) who was
receiving 26lb and Legatee (bl c 1906 Dinna Forget). He
then won the 1m 2f Limekiln Stakes at Newmarket, beating
his only opponent Perseus (ch c 1906 Persimmon) by 15
lengths whilst giving him 14lb. In his final race of the
year he won the 1m 4f Liverpool St Leger, beating his
solitary opponent King Amyntas (b c 1906 Right-Away) by
half a length giving him 24lb.
In 1910 he first
won the 1m 4f Newmarket Biennial Stakes by three
quarters of a length, beating Great Peter and Cattaro
giving them each 14lb. He next won the 1m 4f Chester
Vase, beating William The Fourth (ch c 1906 William The
Third) by a head and Malpas (bbr c 1907 Mauvezin) who
was getting 38lb. He followed this with a win for the 2m
4f Gold Cup at Ascot Heath by 4 lengths, beating the
Prix Du Jockey Club winner Sea Sick (b c 1905 Elf) and
Bachelor's Double (ch c 1906 Tredennis). After this he
won the 1m 4f Dullingham Plate at Newmarket by a length,
beating The Spaniard (b c 1907 St. Simon) who was
getting 38lb and Royal Realm who was getting 7lb. In his
final race he finished 2° for the 2m 4f Goodwood Cup by
just a nose, won by Magic (ch c 1907 Martagon) who was
getting 36lb and beating Bud (gr f 1907 William The
Third) who was getting 34lb.
He retired to the
Manton House Stud at Marlborough, Wiltshire, with a full
book for a fee of 300 guineas, which was reduced for the
war by 100 guineas. He sired two triple crown winners,
Gay Crusader (b c 1914) and Gainsborough (b c 1915), a
seemingly daunting task for any stallion yet Isonomy
accomplished it with Common (br c 1888) and Isinglass (b
c 1890) as well. Bayardo also got a number of sons who
will be mostly remembered in their adoptive
countries, including Lord Basil (br c
1916) in Argentina, the St James's Palace Stakes winner Allenby (b c 1917)
in Ireland, Manton (b c 1917) in Poland where he got the
Rulera winner Wagram, and The
Ace (br c 1918) in New Zealand where he in turn got the
Auckland and New Zealand Cups winner Fast Passage.
He also sired some good fillies, among them Good And Gay (b f
1912), the dam of 1000 Guineas and Oaks winner Saucy Sue
(br f 1922 Swynford) and her full brother Swift And Sure
(b c 1923) who won the Chester Vase. Bayuda (b f
1916) won the Cheveley Park Stakes and the Oaks, and was
the ancestress of the stallion Sharpen Up (ch c 1969
Atan).
Rothesay Bay (b f 1916) won the Great Yorkshire Handicap
and was ancestress of Coronation Cup winner Plassy (b c
1932 Bosworth). Scuola D'Atene (b f 1917) was ancestress
to several good winners in Italy and to Turysta (br c
1944 Bellini) who was a first-class stallion in Poland.
Bayardo was
Champion sire in 1917 and 1918, largely due to the
efforts of Gay Crusader and Gainsborough, and a Champion broodmare sire 1925
with thanks to Saucy Sue. He died on June 4, 1917, at the age of 11, from what
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Thoroughbred
Galéottia
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Gay Crusader b c 1914
(Bayardo - Gay Laura, by Beppo).
Family 1-g.
Bred
by Alfred Cox, he was full brother to the Coronation Cup
winner Manilardo (b c 1916 Bayardo). His dam, Gay Laura
(br f 1909) had won 1 race and bred 5 winners. Cox had
purchased Agave (bbr f 1884) from Mr Houldsworth in 1889
and from her bred Galéottia (b f 1892) the 1000 Guineas
winner. |
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Bayardo |
Bay Ronald |
Hampton |
| Black Duchess |
| Galicia |
Galopin |
| Isoletta |
| Gay Laura |
Beppo |
Marco |
| Pitti |
| Galéottia |
Galopin |
| Agave |
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Trained by Alec
Taylor at Manton House, he ran for 2 years in 10 races,
winning 8 of them and earning £11,246. His two year old
debut was much deferred by sore shins and he didn't see
a race course until late in the year. After his first
race as a three year old he won the rest of them,
becoming the first triple crown winner since Pommern (b
c 1912 Polymelus) two years earlier. His stable
companion, Major Astor's Magpie (bl c 1914 Dark Ronald),
ran him to a head in the 2000 Guineas, but was sold to
Australia before the Derby. As a four year old Mr Cox
wished him to have another try at the Ascot Gold Cup but
before the race he developed tendon trouble and never
ran again. Although his opposition had been fairly
limited due to the war his jockey, Steve Donoghue, many
times a champion himself, maintained that Gay Crusader was the best horse he ever rode.
In 1916 he was unplaced for the Clearwell Stakes at
Newmarket, won by Coq D'Or (br g 1914 Fowling-Piece) and
the July Stakes winner Grand Fleet (b c 1914 Bachelor's
Double). He won his only other start this year, the
Criterion Stakes at Newmarket, beating the Cheveley Park
Stakes winner Molly Desmond (b f 1914 Desmond) and Grand
Fleet.
In 1917 he finished 2° for the 1m Column
Produce Stakes at Newmarket, won by Coq D'Or and beating
Aleli (ch c 1914 Minoru). He then won the 2000 Guineas
by a head, beating Magpie and Athdara (br c 1914
Desmond). He followed this with a win in the Derby by 4
lengths, beating Dansellon (br c 1914 Chaucer) and Dark
Legend (bbr c 1914 Dark Ronald). Next he had a 6 length
win in the 1m 6f September Stakes at Newmarket (the
wartime substitute for the St Leger Stakes at
Doncaster), beating his only 2 opponents, Kingston Black
(br c 1914 Royal Realm) and Dansellon. He then won the
2m 4f Newmarket Gold Cup (wartime substitute for the
Ascot Gold Cup) by 15 lengths, again beating only 2
opponents, Ferox (b c 1913 Willonyx) and Kingston Black.
His next win came in the 1m 2f Champion Stakes,
when he defeated Bosket (bbr c 1913 Amadis) by 6 lengths
and the Princess Of Wales's Stakes winner Nassovian (b c
1913 William The Third). He also won the 1m 6f Lowther
Stakes, beating his solitary opponent Dansellon by 4
lengths. In his final race of the year he won the 1m 2f
Limekiln Stakes, beating his only rival Quarryman (ch c
1914 Prospector) by a length and a half.
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Kincardine (1924) |
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He retired to
the Manton House Stud at a fee of 400
guineas and a full book through 1930. Following the
death of Mr Fairie his brother Algernon refused an offer
of £100,000 for Gay Crusader from J B Joel. Like his
brother before him, Algernon did not sell his horses.
Gay Crusader was well patronised by English supporters
but the mark his sons made was far
from home. Among them were
(1) Bright
Knight (b c 1921) who was sent to America and got a number
of winners there, including the Beeders' Futurity winner
Gallant Knight (br c 1927).
(2) Caissot (ch c 1923),
son of the St Leger winner Keysoe, won the
Prince Of Wales's Stakes before he was sent to Hungary
in 1928 and was there a top-class leading sire for many
years.
(3) Kincardine (b c 1924) won both the St James's
Palace Stakes and the Jersey Stakes before export to New
Zealand where he was a valuable sire, getting, among
others, the New Zealand Derby winner Kindergarten (b c
1937).
(4) Hot Night (b c 1924) finished 2° for both the
Derby (won by Call Boy) and the St Leger (won by Book
Law). In the stud he got the dam of the Cambridgeshire
winner Fleeting Moment (ch c 1946 Signal Light), Carissa
(ch f 1934) who won the Portland Handicap, and
Mulligatawny (ch f 1936) the ancestress of Jimmy Reppin
(ch c 1965 Midsummer Night). Jimmy Reppin won the
Celebration Mile, the Sussex Stakes and the Queen
Elizabeth II Stakes during his career on the turf. He
was later exported to Sweden and left many top
Scandinavian-bred winners behind there. Hot Night was
later sent to India.
The daughters of Gay
Crusader were probably more famous.
(1) Indolence (b f
1920) was the dam of Prince Rose (b c 1928 Rose Prince)
who won the Grand Prix De Saint-Cloud and led the sires
list in both France and Belgium. Prince Rose sired the
top American stallion Princequillo (b c 1940) and the
top French stallions Prince Bio (b c 1941) and Prince
Chevalier (b c 1943).
(2) Hellespont (gr f 1921) was
the grandam of
the Derby and St Leger winner Airborne (gr c 1943
Precipitation).
(3) Loika (ch f 1926) became the dam
of Djebel (b c 1937 Tourbillon), winner of the 2000
Guineas, the Poule D'Essai Des Poulains and the Prix De
L'Arc De Triomphe and twice leading sire in France.
Another son Phidias (br c 1941 Pharis) won the Prix du
Jockey Club and the Grand Prix De Paris before embarking
on a stud career that saw him leading sire in 1944.
Later in life Gay Crusader had become nearly blind
and he was destroyed September 14, 1932 at the Manton
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Gainsborough (GB) |
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Thoroughbred
Lady James Douglas (1915-1945),
purchased Harwood in
1910 on the
advice of John Porter. She bred the
Oaks winners Bayuda and Rose Of England
as well as
Gainsborough. She sold Harwood
to Mr Blagrave with
the proviso that
Gainsborough remain there for the
rest
of his life.
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Gainsborough b c 1915
(Bayardo - Rosedrop, by St. Frusquin).
Family 2-n.
Bred by Lady James Douglas, Gainsborough, named
after a town in Lincolnshire, was the son
of the Oaks winner Rosedrop (ch f 1907) and his
half-sister the American-bred Rosern (ch f 1927 Mad Hatter) was the dam of
the stallion Sunglow (ch c 1947 Sun Again), who
in turn got the Belmont Stakes winner Sword Dancer (ch c
1956).
Rosaline, his grandam, was sired by the
New Zealand-bred Trenton who was brought to England as a
fifteen year old after a successful career on the turf,
having won 8 of his 13 races, and an equally successful
career in the stud, his stock having won 404 races worth
£101,933.
Said to be "an individual of almost
faultless conformation and most charming temperament,"
Gainsborough was offered for sale as a yearling but
was passed over on his reserve of 2,000 guineas. He
turned out to be, as happens every now and then, both an
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Bayardo |
Bay Ronald |
Hampton |
| Black Duchess |
| Galicia |
Galopin |
| Isoletta |
| Rosedrop |
St. Frusquin |
St. Simon |
| Isabel |
| Rosaline |
Trenton |
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He was first trained
by Colledge Leader, who went off to war, so he was sent
to Alec Taylor at Manton. He ran only for 2 years mostly
in wartime substitutes, however his victories amounted
to a wartime "triple crown". He started 9 times and won
5 of these, earning the aforementioned wartime value of
£14,080.
In 1917 he finished 4° for the Thurlow
Plate at Newmarket, won by Giant Killer (b c 1915
Polymelus) and Merovingian (b c 1915 St. Amant). In his
next outing he finished 3° for the Ramsey Plate at
Newmarket, won by Violinist (ch c 1915 Neil Gow) and
Scatwell (ch c 1915 Marcovil). He followed this with a 2
length win in the Autumn Stakes, beating Freesia (ch f
1915 Lochryan) and Roideur (ch c Roi Hérode).
In
1918 he was unplaced for the Several Stakes, won by
Syndrian (b c 1915 Sunder) and Soap Bubble (br c 1915
Picton). He then won the 2000 Guineas by a length
and a half, beating Somme Kiss (ch c 1915 Sunstar) and
the Princess Of Wales's Stakes winner Blink (br c 1915
Sunstar). Starting favourite for the Derby, he
beat Blink by a length and a half, and Treclare (ch c
1915 Tredennis). Favoured again, he won the
Newmarket Gold Cup (wartime substitute for the Ascot
Gold Cup), beating his only 2 opponents, Planet (b c
1914 St. Frusquin) by half a length and Dansellon (br c
1914 Chaucer). Next he won the September Stakes
by 3 lengths (wartime substitute for the St Leger),
beating the Oaks winner My Dear (b f 1915 Beppo) by 3
lengths and Prince Chimay (ch c 1915 Chaucer). In
his last outing he finished 2° for the 1m 6f Jockey Club
Stakes, won by Prince Chimay, beating the Goodwood Cup
winner Queen's Square (b f 1915 Chaucer).
He was
rested as a four year old and entered his owner's stud
in 1920. His colts were generally thought to be
better than his fillies. His two outstanding colts were Solario (b c 1922)
and Hyperion (ch c 1930). Others included the St Leger
winner Singapore (b c 1927, the French-bred Champion
Stakes winner
Goyescas (b c 1928) and the 2000 Guineas winner Orwell (b c 1929)
who was later a champion sire in Ireland.
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Among his
daughters Gainsborough Lass (b f 1934) was perhaps the
most successful, winning the Coronation Stakes. As
broodmares his daughters fared much better. Una
Cameron (b f 1922) was the dam of the 2000 Guineas and
Derby winner Cameronian (b c 1928 Pahros). Imagery (b f 1923)
was the dam of the Irish triple crown winner Museum (b c
1932 Legatee) and the Irish 2000 Guineas and Irish Derby
winner Phideas (b c 1934 Pharos). And Mah Mahal
(gr f 1928) was the dam of the Derby winner and leading
sire in America Mahmoud (gr c 1933 Blenheim).
Gainsborough was Champion sire
1932 and 1933 and Champion broodmare sire 1931. He died at
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Thoroughbred
Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin
(1841-1926), 4th Earl Of
Dunraven
And Mountearl was a turf compatriot
of
Lord Randolph Churchill, who died
in 1895. One of
their first purchases was
L'Abbesse De Jouarre in
1887, dam of the
famous Festa and her half-brother
Desmond.
He had property in Ireland and
Glamorganshire, including the Fort Union Stud at Adare
where
Double Hackle was foaled.
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Solario b c 1922
(Gainsborough - Sun Worship, by Sundridge).
Family 26.
Bred by the 4th Earl Of Dunraven, Solario was a full
brother to Imagery (b f 1923), the dam of the Irish
triple crown winner Museum (b c 1932 Legatee) and the
Irish 2000 guineas and Derby winner Phideas (b c 1934
Pharos). He was purchased by Sir John Rutherford at the
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Gainsborough |
Bayardo |
Bay Ronald |
| Galicia |
| Rosedrop |
St. Frusquin |
| Rosaline |
| Sun Worship |
Sundridge |
Amphion |
| Sierra |
| Doctrine |
Ayrshire |
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Trained by Reg Day he
ran for 3 years winning 6 races of 12 and earning
£20,935. He had major wins in the 1925 St Leger Stakes
and Princess Of Wales's Stakes, and in the 1926 Ascot
Gold Cup and Coronation Cup.
In 1924, running unnamed, he
finished 3° for the Chesham Stakes at Ascot Heath, won
by Poor Scats (b g 1922 Rochester) and J B Joel's
(unnamed b g 1922 Sunstar). He then won the Exeter
Stakes at Newmarket by a head, beating Chang-Chia (br c
1922 Santoi) and Skysignal (ch c 1922 Sky-Rocket). Now
named Solario, in his final outing of the year he
finished 2° by a length and a half for the Middle Park
Stakes, won by Picaroon (br c 1922 Beppo), beating the
future 2000 Guineas and Derby winner Manna (b c 1922
Phalaris) by a neck.
In 1925 he finished 3° for
the 1m Craven Stakes at Newmarket, won by Picaroon and
the Newmarket Stakes winner Cross Bow (br c 1922 Gay
Crusader). Then he finished 4° for the 1m 2000 Guineas,
won by Manna, St. Becan (br c 1922 Hurry On) and Oojah
(ch c 1922 Bachelor's Double). He also finished 4° for
the 1m 4f Derby Stakes at Epsom, won by Manna, the Irish
Derby winner Zionist (b c 1922 Spearmint) and The Sirdar
(br c 1922 McKinley). He then won the 1m 4f Ascot Derby
by a length and a half, beating the Greenham Stakes
winner Sparus (b c 1922 Gainsborough) and Manna. He
followed this with a win in the 1m 4f Princess Of
Wales's Stakes at Newmarket, beating the Northumberland
Plate winner Obliterate (br c 1921 Tracery) by a length
and half, and the Coronation Cup winner St. Germans (b c
1921 Swynford). Starting co-favourite with Manna he also
won the St Leger at Doncaster by 3 lengths, beating the
St James's Palace Stakes winner Zambo (bbr c 1922
Sunstar), the future Champion Stakes winner Warden Of
The Marches (ch c 1922 Phalaris) and Picaroon.
In
1926 he won the 1m 4f Coronation Cup at Epsom by 15
lengths, beating Zambo and the Prince Of Wales's Stakes
winner Warminster (ch c 1922 Louvois). Starting
favourite he followed this with a 3 length win in the
Ascot Gold Cup, beating the Prix De L'Arc De Triomphe
winner Priori (b c 1922 Bruleur) and the Ebor Handicap
winner Pons Asinorum (br c 1922 Tredennis). In his final
start, also as favourite, he was disqualified after
passing the post in 2° place for the 1m 6f Jockey Club
Stakes at Newmarket, won by Foxlaw (br c 1922
Son-In-Law) and Hardwicke Stakes winner Foliation (ch f
1923 Tracery).
In 1927 he retired to the Terrace House
Stud of Reg Day at Newmarket, along side Son-In-Law, for
a fee of 500 guineas with a full book. After the death
of Sir John Rutherford in 1932 he was sold to a
syndicate, whose principal members were Lords Derby and
Glanely, for 47,000 guineas, at that time the highest
figure ever given for a stallion at auction.
Some
of his memorable sons include Dastur (b c 1929),
"a horse of fine quality and conformation," bred and
raced by HH Aga Khan, won 7 races with a value of
£11,626, including the Irish Derby,
the 1933 Champion Stakes (D-H with Oaks winner
Chatelaine) and the Coronation Cup. He finished 2° for
the 2000 Guineas to Orwell, 2° for the Derby to April
The Fifth, 2° for the St Leger to Firdaussi, and 2° for
the 1932 Champion Stakes to Cameronian. In the St Leger
the Aga Khan's 4 runners finished in the top 5 places.
Dastur covered first at the Egerton Stud, Newmarket,
then at the Barton Stud near Bury St. Edmonds and from
1940 at the Old Connell Stud in county Kildare. His fee
was reduced during the war but went as high as 250
guineas in 1945. His offspring included the Dewhurst
Stakes and Ascot Gold Cup winner Umiddad (b c 1940),
Dhoti (ch c 1936) who was highly successful in the stud
Australia, Gold Nib (b c 1939) who was equally as
successful in New Zealand, and Darbhanga (br c 1942) a
leading sire in Sweden. He also got numerous daughters
who performed well in the stud. Dastur was champion sire Ireland
in 1943 and died at Newbridge in 1952.
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Mid-Day Sun (1934) |
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Sind (b c 1933),
also bred by HH Aga Khan, ran 7 times and won 2 races
worth £3,366, including the St George Stakes by 2
lengths and the Atlantic Cup by 3 lengths, both at
Liverpool. He also finished 2° for the Prince Of Wales's
Stakes at Ascot and 3° for the Ormonde stakes at
Chester, the latter won by Obliterate. In France he
finished 2° for the Grand Prix De Paris to Mieuxcé. In
1937 he went to stud in France. He got Pierot (b c 1939)
a stallion in Czechoslovakia, Sans Tares (ch f 1939),
the dam of the Washington DC International winner Worden
(ch c 1949 Wild Risk) who was a leading broodmare sire
in England in 1975 and 1976, and Mirabelle (b f 1940)
ancestress of 2000 Guineas winner Nebbiolo (ch c 1974
Yellow God). He was sent to Argentina and was a leading
sire there in 1950.
Mid-Day Sun (br c 1934)
was purchased privately as a yearling for 2,000
guineas after he had failed to reach his reserve at the
Newmarket First October Sales. As a two year old he won
only once, the Ditch Mile Nursery at Newmarket, from 8
starts. He did much better as a three year old,
finishing 3°in the 2000 Guineas to Le Ksar and Goya, and
winning both the Derby Trial Stakes at Lingfield and the
Derby itself, beating Sandsprite and Le Grand Duc. He
then won the Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot and the Manton
Stakes at Salisbury before starting favourite for the St
Leger in which he finished 3° to Chulmleigh and Fair
Copy. Although he was kept in training as a four year
old he did not race again due to his dislike for hard
ground. He earned £15,748. He retired to the Wyck Hall
Stud at Newmarket for a fee of 300 guineas and moved
after the war to Upend Stud. His fee was reduced for the
war to 199 sovereigns and later to half that. He had
very few opportunities during the war, was not favoured
after, and was sold in
1950 to Sir James and Mr C T Fletcher of the Alton Lodge
Stud in New Zealand where he died in 1954. His best
earner was Cambridgeshire winner (twice) Sterope (b c
1945). He also got Alonzo (br c 1943), sire in New
Zealand of the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups winner
Rising Fast (b g 1949).
Straight Deal (b c 1940),
a "stong, well-made individual," standing 15.2+ with a
girth of 71 inches, was bred and owned by the Hon
Dorothy Wyndham Paget. As a two year old he won 2 races
and finished 2° to Nasrullah for the Coventry Stakes and
2° to Umiddad for the Dewhurst Stakes. As a three year
old he went unplaced for the 2000 Guineas, won the
Derby, beating Umiddad and Nasrullah, won the Upper
Sixpenny Stakes and White Waltham Stakes and placed 3°
for the St Leger won by the 1000 Guineas winner
Herringbone and the Middle Park Stakes winner Ribbon. He
retired to the Benham Stud, near Newbury, for a fee of
£248 which later rose to £348 and then dropped to £98.
In 1953 he moved to his owner's Ballymacoll Stud Farm at
Dunboyne, County Meath, and then to the Balfstown Stud
in County Dublin. He was well patronised for nearly a
decade although later in life he was popular as a jumper
sire. He did not get any superlative sons but his
daughters are well known. Double Deal (b f 1946) was the
dam of Silly Season (br c 1962 Tom Fool); Above Board (b
f 1947) herself the winner of the Cesarewitch and the
dam of Doutelle (ch c 1954 Prince Chevalier) and Above
Suspicion (b c 1956 Court Martial); Capital Issue (b f
1947) the dam of the Irish 2000 Guineas winner Kythnos
(b c 1957 Nearula); Ark Royal (b f 1952) winner of the
Yorkshire Oaks and the dam of the Coronation Stakes
winner Ocean (br f 1961 Petition) and Hermes (b c 1963
Aureole). Straight Deal was leading sire in 1956/57
under National Hunt Rules and died in 1968.
Solario got numerous
good fillies, such as
(1) Serial (gr f 1932) the dam
of Ballyogan (ch c 1939 Fair Trial),
(2)
Traffic Light (b f 1933) the winner of the Coronation
and Park Hill Stakes and ancestress of the Oaks winner Ambiguity
(b f 1950 Big Game) and the Irish Derby and St Leger
Stakes winner
Sodium (b c 1963 Psidium),
(3) Exhibitionnist (b f 1934)
who won the 1000 Guineas and Oaks,
(4) Stafaralla
(b f 1935) winner of the Park Hill Stakes and dam of the
St Leger winner Tehran (b c 1941 Bois Roussel),
(5)
Solar Flower (br f 1935) winner of the Coronation Stakes
and dam of Champion Stakes winner and Irish champion
stallion Solar Slipper (b c 1945 Windsor Slipper) as
well as grandam of
Derby winner and champion broodmare sire Arctic Prince (br c 1948 Prince Chevalier)
to name just a few.
Solario was Champion sire in Ireland
in 1936, in England in 1937 and
Champion broodmare sire in England in 1943, 1949 and 1950.
He died about 3 months before his sire on March
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Thoroughbred
Selene
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Hyperion ch c 1930
(Gainsborough - Selene, by Chaucer).
Family 6-e.
Bred by the 17th Earl Of Derby he was half-brother to
Sickle (br c 1924 Phalaris), Pharamond (br c 1925) and
Hunter's Moon (b c 1926 Hurry On), the first two famous
in America and the latter in Argentina. His dam, the
petite Selene (b f 1919), won 16 races (one of these a
dead-heat) of 22 herself and earned £14,651. She won
from 1m 2f to 1m 6f+ and by all accounts was a tough
genuine race mare. In the stud she did even better and foaled 10 winners
of 30 races with a value of £47,345.
Said to be
the smallest horse to win the Derby since Little Wonder
93 years earlier, Hyperion measured half an inch over 15.1
hands and 68 inches around the girth. His lack of height
was attributed to a number of possible factors including
short cannon bones, the generally smaller size of horses
in this line from Touchstone on down and the fact that
Selene was small and so was her sire Chaucer.
The
female line of Hyperion spent 4 generations in France.
William Blenkiron purchased his 6° dam Fenella (ch f 1869)
from Comte De Lagrange. He bred a number of foals from
her, including Douranee (b f 1877), and in 1878 sold
Fenella to Austria-Hungary. Douranee won 11 races for
the Duke Of Westminster and he repatriated Fenella from Austria. He
eventually sold her to Argentina along with Ormonde (b c
1883 Bend Or). But luckily he kept Douranee, from whom
he bred Dongola (b f 1883), the dam of Gondolette (b f
1902). Gondolette, the dam of Great Sport (b c 1910) and Let Fly
(b c 1912) for Lord Wavertree, was purchased by Lord Derby for
1550 guineas carrying Serenissima (b f 1913) at the December Sales of
1912. Gondolette also got the Derby winner Sansovino (b
c 1921). Besides Selene, Serenissima produced the Ascot
Gold Cup winner Bosworth.
Hyperion was considered to be a great character and said
to be interested in bird watching. While in Yorkshire
during the war he would observe the pheasants in his
paddock and when a sufficient number had gathered he
would gallop over and frighten them all away (see
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Gainsborough |
Bayardo |
Bay Ronald |
| Galicia |
| Rosedrop |
St. Frusquin |
| Rosaline |
| Selene |
Chaucer |
St. Simon |
| Canterbury Pilgrim |
| Serenissima |
Minoru |
| Gondolette |
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Never a tall horse,
Hyperion was considered small enough to be held back
from training with the other yearlings, but George
Lambton liked him sufficiently to give him a chance.
Lambton had also trained both Selene and Chaucer. After
Lambton retired at the end of the 1933 season he was trained by Colledge Leader, who
became private trainer to Lord Derby at Stanley House.
He ran for 3 years winning 9 races of 13 and earning
£29,509. He was not entered for the 2000 Guineas. Officially he won the Derby by 4 lengths, however,
in a photograph of the finish the winning
margin appears to be more.
In 1932 he was unplaced for the Zetland Maiden Plate
at Doncaster, won by Aidetta (b f 1930 Phalaris) and
Hello Peggy (ch f 1930 Grand Parade). He then won the
New Stakes at Ascot Heath by 3 lengths, beating Nun's
Veil (br f 1930 Friar Marcus), Outrider (ch c 1930 Hurry
On) and 19 others. Next he ran a dead-heat with Stairway
(b f 1930 Sansovino) for the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at
Goodwood, beating Haystack (br c 1930 Papyrus). Then he
finished 3° for the Boscawen (Post) Stakes at Newmarket,
won by Manitoba (b c 1930 Manna) and Tavern (b c 1930
Papyrus), beating Moti Begum (gr f 1930 Gainsborough).
In his last race of the year he won the Dewhurst Stakes
at Newmarket by 2 lengths, beating Jesmond Dene (br c
1930 Gainsborough) and Lochiel (b c 1930 Coronach).
In 1933 as favourite he won all 4 of his races,
starting with the 1m 4f Chester Vase by 2 lengths,
beating Shamsuddin (br c 1930 Solario) and Franz Hals
(ch g 1930 Gainsborough). He followed this with a win in
the 1m 4f Derby by 4 lengths, beating King Salmon (b c
1930 Salmon-Trout) and Statesman (br c 1930 Blandford).
Then he won the 1m 5f Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Ascot
Heath by 2 lengths, beating Shamsuddin and Belfry (b c
1930 Solario). His final win came in the 1m 6f+ St Leger
by 3 lengths, beating the Middle Park Stakes winner
Felicitation (b c 1930 Colorado) and Scarlet Tiger (b c
1930 Colorado).
In 1934 he won the 1m 2f March
Stakes at Newmarket by a neck, beating Angelico (b c
1930 Solario) and Felicitation. He next won the 1m 4f
Burwell Stakes at Newmarket by three quarters of a
length, beating King Salmon and Harinero (b c 1930
Blandford). Then he finished 3° for the 2m 4f Gold Cup
at Ascot, won by Felicitation (by 8 lengths) and the
Prix Du Jockey Club winner Thor (b c 1930 Ksar). In his
final race he lost the 1m 4f Dullingham Stakes at
Newmarket by a "short head" to his only opponent
Caithness (ch c 1931 Coronach).
He retired to
Lord Derby's Woodland Stud at Newmarket with a full
book. During the war years he spent summers at the
Thornton Stud in Yorkshire and for 3 years he covered at
the Plantation Stud at Newmarket. His fillies were
generally considered more successful on the racecourse than
his colts, nevertheless his sons made a name for
themselves all over the world.
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Alibhai (1938) |
Owen Tudor (1938) |
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Heliopolis
(b c 1936) was a full brother to the 1000 Guineas and
Oaks winner Sun Stream (ch f 942) and a half-brother to
the 1000 Guineas winner Tide-Way (br f 1933 Fairway). He
won the Imperial Produce Stakes at Kempton Park, the
Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Ascot Heath, the Princess Of
Wales's Stakes at Newmarket, and the Chester Vase before
his purchase by C B Shaffer for a reputed $20,000 and
export to America. He covered at his owner's Coldstream
Stud near Lexington, Kentucky. Among his offspring were
4 champion fillies, including the Demoiselle Stakes
winner Aunt Jinny (ch f 1948), the CCA Oaks winner
Grecian Queen (bbr f 1950), the Alabama Stakes winner
Parlo (ch f 1951), and the CCA Oaks winner Berlo (br f
1957). Heliopolis also sired a number of good colts,
such as the Belmont Stakes winner High Gun (br c 1951)
but his best stallion son was the Wood Memorial winner
Olympia (b c 1946). In 1951 Heliopolis was sold to Henry
Knight and moved to his Almahurst Farm near
Nicholasville where he died in 1959.
Alibhai (ch c 1938)
was bred in the Sheshoon Stud by HH Aga Khan and was a
half-brother to the Irish Oaks winner Theresina (ch f
1927 Diophon). He was sold as a yearling at Newmarket to
Louis B Meyer for $13,440. He never ran, having broken
both front sesamoids in training. He established himself
well enough as a stallion that in 1948 he was purchased
for a record price of $500,000 by a syndicate headed by
Leslsie Combs II. Some of his more notable offspring
include Kentucky Derby winner Determine (gr c 1951),
Flower Bowl (b f 1952), the dam of Graustark (ch c 1963
Ribot), and Metropolitan Handicap winner Traffic Judge
(ch c 1952). The latter got Traffic Cop who in turn got
the Preakness winner Deputed Testamony (b c 1980).
Alibhai died in his stall at Spendthrift Farm on June 9,
1960, having suffered a heart attack.
Owen Tudor (br c 1938),
full-brother to Chester Vase winner Edward Tudor (ch c
1943), was bred by the Hon Mrs R Macdonald-Buchanan from
the French-bred Mary Tudor II, a winner of the Poule
D'Essai Des Pouliches and 2° for the Prix De Diane. Her
father, Lord Woolavington, had purchased the high-class
filly shortly before he died. Owen Tudor won the Derby
and the Ascot Gold Cup. He ran 13 times, won 6, and
earned £7,670 (wartime) from 5 furlongs to 2 miles 2
furlongs. He retired to the New England Stud at a fee of
250gs but moved in 1945 to the Egerton Stud at Newmarket
where his fee rose to 300gs. Two of his best earners
were the very fast Middle Park Stakes winner Abernant
(gr c 1946), and the Prix Du Jockey Club and Poule
D'Essai Des Poulains winner Right Royal V (br c 1958).
His best stallion son was probably Tudor Minstrel (br c
1944) who won the 2000 Guineas and his grandson Kashmir
(br c 1963 Tudor Melody) won the same race in 1966.
Tudor Minstrel was later exported to America and also
did well there. Owen Tudor died near the end of March in
1966 at the Egerton Stud.
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Aureole
(ch c 1950), Hyperion's best earner, raced by HM the
Queen, won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
and the Coronation Cup earning £36,225 and was later champion sire in
England in 1960 and 1961. In the stud he got the Derby
and St Leger winner St. Paddy (b c 1957) and the Prix De
L'Arc De Triomphe winner Saint Cespin (ch c 1956).
Sons of Hyperion did sterling duty in Argentina. Selim
Hassan (b c 1938) was leading sire in 1951 and 1952
getting, among others, the Argentine derby winner
Yatasto (br c 1948). Gulf Stream (b c 1943) was a
leading sire in 1955, 1958 and 1959 and among his
offspring were the Derby winners Manantial (br c 1955)
and Mamboreta (b c 1956). Aristophanes (ch c 1948),
leading sire in 1960, got the Derby and 2000 Guineas
equivalent Forli (ch c 1963) who went to America and was
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In fact sons
of Hyperion went nearly everywhere and stamped their
excellence wherever they went - Stardust (ch c 1937) in
Ireland whose son Star Kingdom (ch c 1946) went to
Australia; Helios (b c 1937) in Australia too and
leading sire in 1949; Deimos (bc 1940) in South Africa; Ruthless (b c 1941)
in New Zealand; Khaled (b c 1943) in America where he
got the Kentucky Derby winner Swaps (ch c 1952); Aldis
Lamp (ch c 1943) a perennial leading sire in Belgium;
Sky High (b c 1943) a Chester Vase winner and well
regarded stallion in France; Hyperbole (b c 1945) a
champion sire in Ireland and later in Sweden; Hornbeam
(ch c 1953) champion broodmare sire in England and later
a high-class stallion in Sweden as well.
Daughters of Hyperion were spectacular on the
racecourse: (1)Godiva (b f 1937) won the 1000 guineas
and Oaks, (2) Sun Chariot (br f 1939) won the 1000
Guineas, Oaks and St Leger, (3) Hycilla
(ch f 1941) won the Oaks and Champion Stakes, (4) Sun
Stream (ch f 1942) won the 1000 Guineas and Oaks and (5) Hypericum (b f 1943)
won the Dewhurst Stakes 1000 Guineas and was ancestress
of the champion three year old colt Unfuwain (b c 1985
Northern Dancer), the 2000 Guineas and Derby winner
Nashwan (ch c 1986 Blushing Groom) and the champion
three year old colt Nayef (b c 1998 Gulch).
The
daughters were just as good in the breeding shed: (1) Aurora (ch f 1936) dam of
Ascot Gold Cup winner and champion sire Alycidon (ch c 1945 Donatello),
(2) Helia (ch f 1937) dam of Ascot Gold Cup winner Supertello
(ch c 1946 Donatello); (3) Hydroplane (ch f 1938) dam of
American triple crown winner Citation (b c 1945 Bull Lea);
(4) Lightning (b f 1950) dam of Derby winner Parthia
(b c 1956 Persian Gulf); and (5) Neutron (ch f 1948)
dam of Court Harwell (br c 1954 Prince Chevalier) a
champion sire in 3 countries, England, Ireland and
Argentina.
Hyperion was champion sire in England
in 1940,
1941, 1942, 1945, and 1946 and champion broodmare sire 1948,
1954 1957, 1967, and 1968.
Lord Derby told the press
that Hyperion had contracted laminitis at the beginning
of the winter and a special shelter was built for him in
his paddock. However, his circulation began to fail
after a cold snap, and his time ran out on December 9,
1960 at the Woodland Stud.
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Petrarch (GB) b c
1873 (Lord Clifden - Laura, by
Orlando).
Family 10.
Bred at the Hollist Stud Farm, near Midhurst, Sussex, by J W
Gosden, who raced under the nom-de-course
"Mr Spencer," Petrarch was from Laura, who was half
sister to the Oaks winner Tormentor (b f 1863 King Tom).
Laura also produced Proto-Martyr (ch c 1869 St. Albans)
who went to Australia, Rotherhill (b c 1872), a full
brother to Petrarch, who went to America and Laureate
(br c 1879 Rosicrucian) who did likewise.
On the
advice of John Dawson (brother of Mathew) Petrarch was
purchased by George Robert Hay-Drummond (1849-1866),
Viscount Dupplin, for £10,000 after he had beaten
Dupplin's Kaleidoscope in the Middle Park Plate. He was
sold after his St Leger victory to the 4th Lord Lonsdale, and
again to the 5th Baron Calthorpe after he won the Rous
Memorial Stakes for a reputed 5,000 guineas.
Sydenham Dixon ("Vigilant") wrote of
Petrarch that he "possessed more elegance and quality
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Lord Clifden |
Newminster |
Touchstone |
| Beeswing |
| The Slave |
Melbourne |
| Volley |
| Laura |
Orlando |
Touchstone |
| Vulture |
| Torment |
Alarm |
| Glencoe Mare |
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Petrarch was
initially trained by William Goater at Michel Grove, however, following
his purchase by Lord Dupplin he was under the care of
John Dawson at Warren House, Prince Batthyany's private
stable at Newmarket. He ran for 4 years, starting 16
times and winning 8 races worth £18,260. After he lost
the Derby there was much discussion of his erratic form
which was later attributed to a kidney ailment and
perhaps to a lack of stamina, however since he
subsequently won both St Leger and Ascot Gold Cup there
can have been little substance to the latter.
In
1875 he won his only race of the year, the Middle Park Plate, by 4 lengths, beating
Madeira (ch f 1873 Thunderbolt) and the French-bred
Heurtebise (ch f 1873 Honesty or Optimist). Also among
the 27 other starters were the Buccaneer-Mineral Colt (b
c 1873) who was later named Kisbér, the favoured
French-bred Lollypop (ch c 1873 Souvenir) and
Kaleidoscope (b c 1873 Speculum).
In 1876,
running for Lord Dupplin, he won the Two Thousand
Guineas by 3 lengths, beating Julius Caesar (b c 1873
St. Albans) and the favourite, Kaleidoscope. Although
starting favourite he was among the field for the Derby,
won by Kisbér and Forerunner (b c 1873 The Earl or The
Palmer). He then won the Prince Of Wales's Stakes by a
length, beating Great Tom (ch c 1873 King Tom) whilst
giving him 12 lb, and
Julius Caesar. He was 4° and last for the Ascot Biennial
Stakes, won by Coltness (b c 1873 King Tom) and King
Death (ch c 1873 King Tom). Next he finished 3° of 4 for
the Ascot Triennial Stakes, won by Morning Star (b c
1873 Parmesan) and Correggio (br c 1873 Parmesan). In
his last outing of the year he won the St Leger by a
neck, beating the French-bred Wild Tommy (b c 1873 King
Tom) and Julius Caesar. Also among the field were Kisbér
and Coltness.
In 1877, running for Lord Lonsdale,
carrying 8st 13l he was unplaced for the Lincolnshire
Handicap, won by the Coronation Stakes winner Footstep
(ch f 1873 See Saw) who got 23lb, and Poursuivant (b c
1872 Lord Lyon). Next he walked over for a Sweepstakes
at Newmarket. Then, carrying 8st 12lb he won the
High-Level Handicap at Epsom, beating the French-bred
Rabagas (b c 1872 Ruy Blas) and the Ebor Handicap winner
Lilian (b f 1869 Wingrave). He also won the Ascot Gold
Cup by a length, beating the Queen's Vase winner Skylark
(b c 1873 King Tom) and the Chesterfield Cup winner
Coomassie (b f 1872 King Tom or North Lincoln). He then
finished 2°for the Liverpool Summer Cup, beaten a head
by The Snail (br c 1870 Esca) who got 19lb, and Advance
(b g 1873 Speculum). Petrarch "lost ground by jumping a
path close to home". In his last race of the year he was
unplaced for the Goodwood Cup, won by Hampton (b c 1872
Lord Clifden) and Skylark.
In 1878 he was
unplaced for the City And Suburban carrying 9st 4lb, won
by Sefton (b c 1875 Speculum) carrying 5st 8lb, and
Advance. He then won the Rous Memorial at Ascot, beating
the 1875 City And Suburban winner Dalham (br c 1871) and
Touchet (br c 1874 Lord Lyon). In his final race,
running for Lord Calthorpe, he was unplaced for the
Champion Stakes, won by Jannette (b f 1878 Lord Clifden)
and Silvio (b c 1874 Blair Athol).
Petrarch
retired to Bushy Paddocks at Hampton Court and covered
for a fee of 100 guineas along with Springfield (b c
1873 St. Albans) whose fee was the same. In 1882 he
moved to Lanwades Stud, near Newmarket, for a fee of 50
guineas which was back to 100 guineas in 1886. In the
stud got a number of good horses, the best of whom was
doubtlessly The Bard.
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The Bard (ch c 1883),
owned by General Owen Williams and Robert Peck, won 22
races and finished 2° twice earning about 12,000 guineas
for 25 races. As a two year old he was undefeated 16
consecutive times and as a three year old he ran 2° to
the mighty Ormonde for the Derby before winning the Doncaster
and Goodwood Cups. With both speed and staying power he
was also remembered for his gameness and ability to
carry weight. He was said to stand anywhere from barely
15 hands to 15.3 and noted for the Birdcatcher ticks
throughout his coat. He was sold to Henri Say for 10,000
guineas and sent to his Lormoy Stud in 1887. He got
numerous good horses including the the Prix Du Jockey
Club winner Saxon (ch c 1898) and was a leading sire in France in 1894 and 1901.
Laureate
(ch c 1886) won the Cambridgeshire and Royal Hunt Cup
and got a Stewards' Cup winner in Northern Farmer (b c
1894).
Hackler (b c 1887) was a champion sire in Ireland in 1900,
1901, 1902 and 1906 and also a highly regarded jumper sire.
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Petrarch's daughters did equally well.
Busybody (b f 1881) won the 1000 Guineas and the Oaks Stakes,
then got
Meddler (b c 1890 St. Gatien) who won the Dewhurst Stakes
and became a
leading sire in America in 1904 and 1906. Poetry
(b f 1881) became the dam of the 1000 Guineas winner Thais
(br f 1893 St. Serf). Italy (b f
1882) won the Magyar Kancadij (Hungarian Oaks). Miss Jummy (b f 1883)
won the 1000
Guineas and Oaks, and not least, Throstle (b f 1891) won
the St Leger and became the dam
of Missel Thrush (br c 1897 Orme).
In 1893
Petrarch was purchased by Comte De Saint-Phalle for 820
guineas and scheduled to stand in France in 1894 for
a fee of 2,000 french francs. In 1894 Vicomte D'Harcourt
purchased a half-share and Petrarch moved to the Haras
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