Pall Mall (horse)
Pall Mall | |
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Sire | 2000 Guineas (1958) Lockinge Stakes (1958, 1959) |
Awards | |
Timeform rating 132 |
Pall Mall (1955–1978) was an Irish-bred, British-trained
Background
Pall Mall was a dark-coated chestnut horse with a white
Pall Mall was the only British classic winner sired by the 1950 2000 Guineas winner
Racing career
1957:two-year-old season
Pall Mall's first racecourse appearance came in May 1957 when he won a
1958:three-year-old season
In April 1958, Pall Mall began his three-year-old season by finishing fourth on soft ground behind Aggressor in the 2000 Guineas Trial at Kempton Park Racecourse, leading some observers to write him off as a sprinter with no classic prospects.[7] Two weeks later, he won the Classic Trial Stakes at Thirsk by a length. In the 2000 Guineas, run over the Rowley Mile course at Newmarket on 30 April, Pall Mall started a 20/1 outsider in a field of fourteen runners. He was ridden by Doug Smith as Harry Carr had elected to ride the stable's other runner, Bald Eagle, who was made 7/4 favourite.[8] Pall Mall took the lead a furlong and a half from the finish and won by half a length from Major Portion (ridden by Smith's older brother Eph), with Nagami three lengths further back in third. The win was a first classic for Boyd-Rochfort and a second for the Queen, who missed the race through illness.[9]
Carr resumed his association with Pall Mall in the inaugural running of the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury Racecourse a month later. The Guineas winner was made the 4/6 favourite and won easily. At Goodwood in July met Major Portion again in the Sussex Stakes and was beaten a length in his final race of the year.[3]
1959:four-year-old season
As a four-year-old, Pall Mall won a second Lockinge Stakes, starting the 1/2 favourite and winning from the Scottish-trained three-year-old Rexequus (later to win that season's Cambridgeshire Handicap). At Royal Ascot, raced in handicap company for the only time, when he was assigned top weight of 133 pounds in the Royal Hunt Cup. He started 5/2 favourite and finished second of the twenty-three runners, beaten one and a half lengths by Faultless Speech, a four-year-old to whom he was conceding 20 pounds.[10] At the Newmarket July meeting, Pall Mall won his last race by taking the Midsummer Stakes.[3]
Assessment
The independent Timeform organisation awarded Pall Mall a peak annual rating of 132.[6] In their book A Century of Champions, based on a modified version of the Timeform system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Pall Mall an "average" winner of the 2000 Guineas.[11]
Stud record
Pall Mall had some success as a breeding stallion. The best of his offspring was probably
Pedigree
Sire Palestine (GB) 1947 |
Fair Trial (GB) 1932 |
Fairway | Phalaris |
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Scapa Flow | |||
Lady Juror | Son-in-Law
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Lady Josephine | |||
Una (IRE) 1930 |
Tetratema | The Tetrarch | |
Scotch Gift | |||
Uganda | Bridaine | ||
Hush | |||
Dam Malapert (GB) 1946 |
Portlaw (IRE) 1928 |
Beresford | Friar Marcus |
Bayberry | |||
Portree | Stefan the Great | ||
Saddlemark | |||
Malatesta (GB) 1937 |
Sansovino | Swynford | |
Gondolette | |||
Tetranella | The Tetrarch | ||
Bettyhill (Family 7-d)[4] |
- Pall Mall was inbred 4 × 4 to The Tetrarch, meaning that this stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.
References
- ^ "Pall Mall image". sporthorse-data.com. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- ^ "Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort". Horseracing History Online. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
- ^ ISBN 0-354-08536-0.
- ^ a b "Thoroughbred Bloodlines – Jeu d'Esprit – Family 7-d". Bloodlines.net. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- Evening Times. 21 August 1957. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- ^ ISBN 0-85112-902-1.
- ^ "We have no answer to Bella Paola". The Bulletin (Glasgow). 14 April 1958. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- Schenectady Gazette. 1 May 1958. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- Montreal Gazette. 1 May 1958. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- Evening Times. 17 June 1959. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- ISBN 1-901570-15-0.
- ^ "Pall Mall pedigree". Equineline. 8 May 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2013.