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Glass Doll
Oaks Stakes
(1906)

Glass Doll (1904–1922) was a British

25/1
, much to the surprise of her owner and trainer. She never won again and was retired from racing at the end of the year. She had some influence as a broodmare through the descendants of her daughter Ocean Light.

Background

Glass Doll was a bay mare bred in England by Jack Barnato Joel who also owned her during her racing career. She was trained by Joel's private trainer Charles Morton at Wantage in Berkshire.[2] Glass Doll was a small and unprepossessing filly: the writer "Vigilant" described her as "a pony in height" with "no bone, no substance [and] no muscle".[3]

Her sire

2000 Guineas winner Louvois. Glass Doll's dam Fota produced at least seven other winners including the Great Metropolitan Handicap winner Congratulation. She was a great-granddaughter of the influential British broodmare Young Alice.[4]

Racing career

1906: two-year-old season

Glass Doll ran five times as a two-year-old in 1906. She was placed three times but recorded her only victory in October at Nottingham Racecourse in the seven furlong Sherwood Forest Nursery Plate.[5]

1907: three-year-old season

On 7 of June Glass Doll made her first appearance as a three-year-old the 129th running of the Oaks over one and a half miles at

1000 Guineas winner Witch Elm started 2/1 favourite ahead of Mimosa (9/2), with Maya, Lady Hasty, Altitude and Laodamia among the other fancied runner. Ridden by Herbert "Bert" Randall, Glass Doll was not among the early leaders as Lady Hasty set the pace before giving way to Laodamia in the straight. A furlong from the finish Glass Doll emerged from the pack with a "remarkable" burst of speed, caught Laomedia in the last fifty yards and won by half a length with Lady Hasty three quarters of a length away in third place.[6] Jack Joel chose not to escort his filly to the winner's enclosure, and a stable lad led in the winner amid what was described as a "chilly silence".[7] Glass Doll's winning time of 2:42.0 was two seconds faster than that recorded by Orby in winning the Epsom over the same course and distance two days previously.[8]

At

Royal Ascot later in June Glass Doll was dropped back in distance for the Coronation Stakes over one mile but was beaten into third place by Frugality and Laomedia. She carried a seven-pound weight penalty in the race and was not expected to win.[9] Shortly after her Oaks win Glass Doll had been covered by the stallion Bill of Portland and then by Sundridge.[3]
She did not conceive, however and returned to the racetrack.

At Doncaster Racecourse in September Glass Doll was matched against colts in the St Leger but, despite attracting some support in the betting market, she made no impact and finished unplaced behind Wool Winder.[10]

Glass Doll ended the season with earnings of £4,950.[11]

Assessment and honours

In their book, A Century of Champions, based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Glass Doll a "poor" winner of the Oaks.[12]

Breeding record

At the end of her racing career Glass Doll was retired to become a broodmare for Joel's stud. She produced at least five foals between 1910 and 1917:

  • My Dolly, a bay filly, foaled in 1910, sired by Sundridge
  • Dolly Varden, bay filly, 1911, by Sundridge
  • Broken Doll, bay filly, 1913, by Sunder
  • Dolly, brown filly, 1915, by Sunstar
  • Ocean Light, brown filly, 1917, by Sunstar. Female-line ancestor of
    Italian Derby).[4]

Glass Doll died in 1922.[13]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Glass Doll (GB), bay mare, 1904[1]
Sire
Isinglass (GB)
1890 		Isonomy
1875 		Sterling Oxford
Whisper
Isola Bella Stockwell
Isoline
Dead Lock
1878 		Wenlock Lord Clifden
Mineral
Malpractice Chevalier d'Industrie
The Dutchman's Daughter
Dam
Fota (GB)
1889 		Hampton
1872 		Lord Clifden Newminster
The Slave
Lady Langden Kettledrum
Haricot
Photinia (IRE)
1881 		Uncas (GB) Stockwell
Nightingale (IRE)
Fair Alice (GB) Cambuscan
Young Alice (Family: 4-k)[4]

Glass Doll was inbred 3 × 4 to Lord Clifden, meaning that this stallion appears in both the third and fourth generations of her pedigree. She was also inbred 4 × 4 to Stockwell.

References

  1. ^ a b "Glass Doll pedigree". Equineline.
  2. ISBN 0-354-08536-0
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  3. ^ a b c "The Turf in England". The New Zealand Herald. 3 August 1907. p. 7 – via Papers Past.
  4. ^ a b c "Sweet Hawthorn - Family 4-k". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
  5. Evening Star
    . 8 June 1907. p. 6 – via Papers Past.
  6. ^ "Turf Talk from the South". Auckland Star. 24 July 1907. p. 7 – via Papers Past.
  7. ^ "Racing Reflections". The Evening Star (Western Australia). 15 July 1907. p. 4 – via trove.nla.gov.au.
  8. The Australasian
    . 20 July 1907. p. 21 – via trove.nla.gov.au.
  9. ^ "Racing in England". Sydney Mail. 31 July 1907. p. 311 – via trove.nla.gov.au.
  10. ^ "The Racing World". Auckland Star. 23 October 1907. p. 7 – via Papers Past.
  11. ^ "Sports of All Kinds". Evening Star. 8 February 2018. p. 3 – via Papers Past.
  12. ISBN 1-901570-15-0
    .
  13. ^ Wetherby (1925). "Glass Doll". The General Stud Book. 25: 327.


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