Short Story (horse)

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Short Story
Alec Taylor, Jr.
Record7: 2-2-3
Major wins
Epsom Oaks (1926)

Short Story (1923 – 1939) was a British

1000 Guineas in the following spring and then won the Epsom Oaks by four lengths. She never won again but was placed in the Nassau Stakes, Yorkshire Oaks and Park Hill Stakes
. As a broodmare she produced one good racehorse, but otherwise made little impact as a dam of winners.

The stable lad that took care of Short Story and rode her on work mornings was Ernest Sparrowhawk.

Sir Alfred Munnings painted Short Story together with Alec Taylor and Ernest Sparrowhawk. The painting is in the National gallery.

Background

Short Story was a bay mare bred in the United Kingdom by her owner

Alec Taylor, Jr. at his stable at Manton, Wiltshire.[2]

She was sired by Buchan, who won the

2000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby. As a breeding stallion he made his mark as a sire of fillies including Book Law and the dams of Airborne and Sun Castle.[2] Her dam, Long Suit, finished third in the Oaks in 1921 and was a half sister to the influential broodmare Pinprick.[3]

Racing career

1925: two-year-old season

Short Story ran twice as a two-year-old in 1925, winning the British Dominion Plate over five

Sandown Park on her debut in July.[4] On her only other start she finished second to Legionnaire in the Buckenham Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse in October.[5]

1926: three-year-old season

On 30 April 1926 Short Story contested the

Epsom Racecourse. She won the race by four lengths from Resplendent with two lengths back to Gay Bird in third place.[8]

In July Short Story finished third to Foliation and Part Worn in the Nassau Stakes over ten furlongs at Goodwood. In the following month she contested the Yorkshire Oaks and ran second to Doushka. On her final appearance of the season she came home third behind Glasheen and Part Worn in the Park Hill Stakes over fourteen furlongs at Doncaster Racecourse in September.[2]

Assessment and honours

In their book, A Century of Champions, based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Short Story a "poor" winner of the Oaks.[6]

Breeding record

Short Story was retired from racing to become a broodmare for Lord Astor's Cliveden Stud. Short Story was euthanised in 1939.[9] She produced at least four foals and one winner between 1928 and 1939:

Pedigree

Pedigree of Short Story (GB), bay mare, 1923[1]
Sire
Buchan (GB)
1916 		Sunstar (GB)
1908 		Sundridge Amphion
Sierra
Doris Loved One
Lauretta
Hamoaze (GB)
1911 		Torpoint Trenton (NZ)
Doncaster Beauty
Maid of the Mist Cyllene
Sceptre
Dam
Long Suit (GB)
1918 		Lemberg (GB)
1907 		Cyllene Bona Vista
Arcadia
Galicia Galopin
Isoletta
Third Trick (GB)
1906 		William the Third
St Simon
Gravity
Conjure Juggler
Connie (Family 1-p)[3]
  • Short Story was inbred 3 × 4 to Cyllene, meaning that this stallion appear in both the third and fourth generation of her pedigree.

References

  1. ^ a b "Short Story pedigree". Equineline.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-354-08536-0
    .
  3. ^ a b "Hilarity - Family 1-p". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  4. ^ "Sporting". The Press. 3 May 1926. p. 10 – via Papers Past.
  5. ^ "Sporting". The Press. 7 June 1926. p. 12 – via Papers Past.
  6. ^
    ISBN 1-901570-15-0
    .
  7. ^ "Racing News". Auckland Star. 11 June 1926. p. 11 – via Papers Past.
  8. Evening Post (New Zealand)
    . 7 June 1926. p. 5 – via Papers Past.
  9. ^ Weatherby (1941). "Short Story". General Stud Book. 29: 819.


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