Pay Up (horse)
Pay Up | |
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Sire | 2000 Guineas (1936) |
Pay Up (1933 – 16 July 1960) was a British
Background
Pay Up was a "stylish" brown horse bred and owned by Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor. He was trained throughout his racing career by Joseph Lawson at Manton, Wiltshire.[2]
Pay Up was sired by
Racing career
1935: two-year-old season
Pay Up began his racing career by finishing third behind Yesta and Doublure in the Sorrel Plate over five
1936: three-year-old season
Pay Up made a successful first appearance as a three-year-old when he won the Free Handicap
Pay Up's win in the Guineas elevated him to the top of the betting for the Epsom Derby, a race in which Lord Astor's horses had finished second on five occasions.[9] On 27 May Pay Up started favourite for the Derby over one and a half miles on hard ground but after tracking the leaders for most of the way he finished fourth behind Mahmoud, Taj Akbar and Thankerton.[10] After the race Pay Up was badly lame and his retirement from racing was announced two months later.[11]
Assessment and honours
In their book, A Century of Champions, based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Pay Up an "inferior" winner of the 2000 Guineas.[12]
Stud record
Pay Up began his stud career in 1937 at an initial fee of 250
Pedigree
Sire Fairway (GB) 1925 |
Phalaris (GB) 1913 |
Polymelus | Cyllene |
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Maid Marian | |||
Bromus | Sainfoin | ||
Cheery | |||
Scapa Flow (GB) 1914 |
Chaucer | St Simon | |
Canterbury Pilgrim | |||
Anchora | Love Wisely | ||
Eryholme | |||
Dam Book Debt (GB) 1925 |
Buchan (GB) 1916 |
Sunstar | Sundridge |
Doris | |||
Hamoaze | Torpoint | ||
Maid of the Mist | |||
Popingaol (GB) 1913 |
Dark Ronald | Bay Ronald | |
Darkie | |||
Popinjay | St Frusquin
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Chelandry (Family 1-n)[3] |
References
- ^ a b "Pay Up pedigree". Equineline.
- ^ ISBN 0-354-08536-0.
- ^ a b "Chelandry - Family 1-n". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
- Evening Post (New Zealand). 25 July 1935. p. 6 – via Papers Past.
- ^ "English Racing". Auckland Star. 30 April 1936. p. 22 – via Papers Past.
- ^ "The Two Thousand". Evening Post (New Zealand). 30 April 1936. p. 11 – via Papers Past.
- New Zealand Herald. 21 May 1936. p. 15 – via Papers Past.
- ^ "The Two Thousand". Evening Post (New Zealand). 26 May 1936. p. 13 – via Papers Past.
- ^ "English Derby". New Zealand Herald. 12 May 1936. p. 7 – via Papers Past.
- ^ "Ambition Realised". Evening Post (New Zealand). 28 May 1936. p. 10 – via Papers Past.
- ^ a b "Stable and Track Notes". Auckland Star. 5 August 1936. p. 20 – via Papers Past.
- ISBN 1-901570-15-0.
- ^ Weatherby (1961). "Obituary of Stallions". The General Stud Book. 36: 925.