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Camel and Banter
Sire Line
Camel
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Camel br c 1822 (Whalebone
- Mare, by Selim). Sire
Line Camel.
Family
24. Camel was bred and raced by George O'Brien
Wyndham (1751-1837), 3rd Earl of Egremont, of Petworth,
Sussex, who also bred and raced the four Derby winners,
Assassin (b c 1779 Sweetbriar),
Cardinal Beaufort (b c 1802
Gohanna),
Election (ch c 1804 Gohanna)
and Lap-Dog (b c 1823 Whalebone).
Racing for three years he won
several matches worth 200 sovereigns and the £450
Port Stakes. Although he wasn't entered for any of
the classics he defeated a One Thousand Guineas
winner. After his turf career Camel was purchased by
John Theobald.
The Stockwell Stud, Surrey (now south London), later
stood The Baron (ch c
1842 Birdcatcher)
for three seasons, prior to his export to France, getting
the immortal Stockwell
(ch c 1849) there. Following John Theobald's death in
1849 the stud was run by his son William who died in
1850. That same year John Theobald's grandaughter
Georgiana married Charles Sabine Thellusson of
Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster in Yorkshire.
Paintings of racehorses and other memorabilia of
turf success acquired by the Theobalds still remain
at Brodsworth, including the 1835 Goodwood Cup won
by Mr Theobald's Rockingham (b c 1830 Humphrey
Clinker).
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Many thanks to
Trevor Reynolds of
English Heritage and to Caroline
Carr-Whitworth, curator of
Brodsworth Hall, for information
regarding the history of the Theobald
family. |
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According to "the
Druid," the eminent surgeon Bramsby Cooper used
to visit Stockwell and maintained that he had never
seen a "more powerful piece of machinery". His
gaskins were said to be enormous, generating such
leverage that when Lowry, the stud groom, lunged him
he could "leap mid-air almost to the last". His
"cart-horse" quarters were attributed to having
fallen over backwards when a yearling. Mr Theobald referred to him as "my bit of whalebone"
after his sire who barely cleared fifteen hands, and
Camel himself measured under fifteen hands two inches.
He gained considerable
celebrity in the stud after the performances of his
son Touchstone (br c 1831), the "famous Eaton
Brown," bred by Robert Grosvenor Westminster, 1st
Marquess of Westminster. Camel was said to bring in
about £800 a year in stud fees and when Mr Theobald
was approached by American agents offering 5000
guineas for him at the age of seventeen, Mr Theobald refused
"without turning round in the box" and without
giving Lowry time enough to strip the horse.
Touchstone, a St
Leger winner and Champion Sire, was his best son, although
Camel also got his full-brother, the St Leger winner Launcelot (br c 1837). Such horses as the mighty Carbine
(b c 1885 Musket), Hermit
(ch c 1864 Newminster), Hyperion (ch c 1930 Gainsborough),
Son-in-Law (br c 1911 Dark Ronald) and Domino (br c
1891 Himyar) all trace in tail-male to Camel through
Touchstone.
Camel was Champion
Sire in 1838 and died "worn out" at Stockwell
on November 6, 1844.
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| Pedigree |
| Camel |
Whalebone |
Waxy |
Pot8os |
| Maria |
| Penelope |
Trumpator |
| Prunella |
| Selim
Mare |
Selim |
Buzzard |
| Alexander Mare |
| Maiden |
Sir
Peter Teazle |
| Phoenomenon Mare |
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| Race Record |
At 3: Collected a 50 sovereigns half-forfeit for a 100 guineas
match at Newmarket, First Spring, from the Duke of York's Peter
Proteus (b c 1822 Partisan). Finished 2nd in the Newmarket Stakes, won
by General Grosvenor's Crockery (b c 1822
Rubens),
beating the Duke of Portland's Mortgage (br c 1822 Teasdale),
the Duke of Grafton's Cramer (b c 1822 Election) and Bolero
(br c 1822 Partisan), and four others. Won 50 sovereigns at
Newmarket, Second Spring, beating the Duke of Rutland's Adeliza
(b f 1822 Soothsayer), the
Duke of Grafton's Pigmy (b f 1822 Election) and seven others. Won a 25 sovereigns sweep at Newmarket, Second October, beating
the Duke of York's Dahlia (b f 1822 Phantom), Mortgage, and the
Duke of Grafton's One Thousand Guineas winner Tontine (ch f
1822 Election). Won a 200 sovereigns match at the same meeting,
beating Colonel Udny's Tarandus (b c 1821
Sorcerer). Lost a 200 sovereigns match also at the same meeting to Mr
Stuart Wortley's Woodcote Stakes winner Scandal (b f 1822
Selim). |
At 4: Won the £450 Port Stakes at Newmarket, Craven, beating
Lord Exeter's July Stakes winner Redgauntlet (b c 1822 Scud),
the Duke of York's Lionel Lincoln (br c 1822
Whalebone),
Mr Dilly's Hougoumont (br c 1822 Waterloo) and one other. |
At 5: Won a 200 sovereigns match at Newmarket, Houghton, beating
Redgauntlet over the Abingdon Mile. |
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| Notable Offspring |
Black Bess (bl f
1837), dam of the Two Thousand Guineas winner Hernandez (br c
1848 Pantaloon) and the Park Hill Stakes and Yorkshire Oaks
winner Mayfair (br f 1850 Bay Middleton), 2nd dam of the Prix
du Jockey Club winner Bigarreau (b c 1867 Light). |
Brown Bess (br f
1844), taproot mare of Family
3-d, 2nd dam of the Ascot Stakes and Queen Alexandra Stakes
winner Musket (b c 1867 Toxophilite), of the Two Thousand
Guineas and Doncaster Cup winner General Peel (b c 1861 Young
Melbourne), and of the Chester Cup winner Windsor (b f 1877
Hermit). |
Camel Mare (br f
1837), dam of the Union-Rennen winner Rookeby (b c 1858
Blackdrop). |
Camel Mare (b f
1841), dam of the Cesarewitch winner Muscovite (b c 1849 Hetman
Platoff). Muscovite got the One Thousand Guineas winner Siberia
(br f 1862) and the Two Thousand Guineas winner Vauban (br c
1864). |
Caravan (br c
1834), winner of the Ascot Gold Cup, sire of Prix du Jockey Club
and Prix Royal Oak winner Souvenir (br c 1859). |
Fiammetta (b c
1838), winner of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains. |
Hester (br f
1832), dam of the Criterion Stakes and July Stakes winner
Chatham (ch c 1839 The Colonel), and Hersey (b f 1842
Glaucus), taproot mare of Family
12-d. Hester was also the 2nd dam of the St James's Palace
Stakes winner Baalbec (b c 1851 Ion), and of the Grand Prix de
Paris winner Ceylon (b c 1863 Idle Boy), and the 3rd dam of the
Royal Hunt Cup winner Canary (b c 1858 Orlando). |
Honoria (br f
1836), taproot mare of Family
14-f, and 5th dam of the Oaks and July Cup winner Geheimness
(b f 1879 Rosicrucian). A superior matron, Geheimness heads a
family that attained much success in France and central and
eastern Europe. |
Kermesse (b f
1832), 2nd dam of Prix de Diane winner Fleur de Marie (b f 1847
Attila). |
Launcelot (br c
1837), brother to Champion sire and St Leger winner
Touchstone
(br c 1831), and also a winner of the St. Leger Stakes and the
Champagne Stakes. |
Misdeal (b c
1839), winner of the St James's Palace Stakes. |
Pasquinade (b f
1839), dam of New Stakes winner Slander (b f 1844 Pantaloon),
2nd dam of King Edward VII Stakes winner Celerrima (ch f 1862
Stockwell),
3rd dam of Nagroda Przychowku winner Sedzina (b f 1879
Vancouver), and 4th dam of Nagroda Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej
winner Hektor (b c 1890 Taille Vent). Pasquinade is also the
5th dam of Goodwood Cup winner Rabelais (b c 1900
St.
Simon). |
Prism (br f 1836),
dam of the Oaks and Nassau Stakes winner Refraction (br f 1842
Glaucus), 2nd dam of the Grosser Preis von Baden winner La
Maladetta (b f 1855 The Baron),
and 3rd dam of the Prix de la Foret winner Tourmalet (br c 1862
The Flying Dutchman) and Prix Lupin winner Cerdagne (b f 1866
Newminster). |
Reel (b f 1836),
3rd dam of the Cesarewitch winner Salvanos (b c 1869 Dollar),
of the Prix du Jockey Club and Grand Prix de Paris winner
Salvator (ch c 1872 Dollar), 4th dam of the Two Thousand
Guineas and Prince of Wales's Stakes winner Galliard (br c 1880
Galopin), of the Nassau Stakes
winner Armida (ch f 1882 Childeric), and of Rattlewings (b f
1883 Galopin), the taproot
mare of Family 13-e. |
Seakale (br f
1835), 4th dam of the incomparable Kincsem
(ch f 1874 Cambuscan), winner of fifty-four races, including
the Goodwood Cup, Grand Prix de Deauville, Grosser Preis von
Baden (three times), Zukunfts-Rennen, Oesterreichisches Derby,
Trial Stakes, Egyesittet Nemzeti es Hazafi dij, Magyar Kancadij
and Magyar St Leger. |
Simoom (br c
1838), brother to Seakale, sire of the National Produce Stakes
winner Barbarian (b c 1849) and of Barbarity* (b f 1854) who
was sent to New York in 1859 and there produced the first
Belmont Stakes winner Ruthless (b f 1864 Eclipse*). Ruthless
also won the Travers Stakes. |
Wedding Day (b f
1842), 3rd dam of the Derby winner Kingcraft (b c 1867 King
Tom) and of the St James's Palace Stakes winner Great Tom
(ch c 1873 King Tom). Great Tom was sent to America and there
sired the Belmont and Withers Stakes winner Tyrant (ch c 1882).
Wedding Day was also the ancestress of the American Triple Crown
winner War Admiral (br c 1934 Man o' War). |
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