My Babu

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My Babu
Sire
HH Maharaja of Baroda
TrainerSam Armstrong
Record16: 11-2-0
Earnings£29,830
Major wins
Champagne Stakes (1947)
New Stakes (1947)
Woodcote Stakes (1947)
Craven Stakes (1948)
Sussex Stakes (1948)
Victoria Cup Handicap Stakes (1949) British Classic Race wins:
2000 Guineas Stakes (1948)
Awards
Timeform top-rated two-year-old colt (1947)[2]
Last updated on January 23, 2010

My Babu (1945–1970) was a

Bonfire, and puissance and grand prix jumper Sympatico. Also, the grand prix jumper Napur is related to him through his sire Damascus
dam Kerala. My Babu was the sire of Kerala, and therefore one of Napur's grandsires.

Racing career

During My Babu's racing career in England, the bay colt had 16 starts, 11 wins, 2 places, and 0 shows, with career earnings of £29,830. His most important win came in the 1948

John W. Hanes for over $600,000,[4][5] the highest price ever paid for a Thoroughbred imported to the United States. The stallion stood at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky
during his breeding career.

Stud record

My Babu was a sire of 47 stakes winners and was a broodmare sire of 95 winners. He earned the title of Leading Juvenile Sire in 1960. His son,

Little Current, the 1974 American Champion Three-Year-old Colt and winner of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes
.

Sire line tree

Pedigree

Pedigree of My Babu
Sire
Djebel
b. 1937 		Tourbillon
b. 1928 		Ksar
ch. 1918 		Bruleur
Kizil Kourgan
Durban
b. 1918 		Durbar
Banshee
Loika
ch. 1926 		Gay Crusader
b. 1914 		Bayardo
Gay Laura
Coeur A Coeur
ch. 1921 		Teddy
Ballantrae
Dam
Perfume
gr. 1938 		Badruddin
gr. 1931 		Blandford
br. 1919 		Swynford*
Blanche
Mumtaz Mahal
gr. 1921 		The Tetrarch
Lady Josephine
Lavendula
br. 1930 		Pharos
br. 1920 		Phalaris
Scapa Flow
Sweet Lavender
ch. 1923 		Swynford*
Marchetta (Family 1-w)

* My Babu is inbred 4D x 4D to the stallion Swynford, meaning that he appears fourth generation twice on the dam side of his pedigree.

References

  1. ^ "My Babu (Horse)".
  2. ISBN 0-85112-902-1
    .
  3. ^ My Babu Wins 2,000 Guineas, The Miami News, April 28, 1948, accessed April 13, 2010.
  4. ^ French Bred Stallion Sold For $600,000, Kentucky New Era, September 16, 1955, accessed April 13, 2010.
  5. New York Times
    , June 22, 1956, accessed April 13, 2010.
  6. ^ Nearly 50 Years On, Djebel blood to fore in Australian classic, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 21, 1988, accessed April 13, 2010.
  7. ^ Byerley Turk Line
  8. ^ Bylerley Turk Jump Sires
  9. ^ Bay Middleton Sire Line
  10. ^ Portrait: Tourbillon
  11. ^ American Classic Pedigree: My Babu
  12. ^ Prominent New Zealand Stallion Centaine Dead
  13. ^ Centaine's outstanding record
  14. ^ The Byerley Turk line set to vanish from Australia
  15. ^ Sympatico inducted into Show Jumping Hall of Fame
  16. ^ American Classic Pedigree: Precisionist
  17. ^ Hall of Fame: Precisionist
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