Spaniel (horse)
Spaniel | |
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Sire | Whalebone |
Grandsire | Waxy |
Dam | Canopus mare (1812) |
Damsire | Canopus |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1828 |
Country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Lord Egremont |
Owner | Viscount Lowther |
Trainer | Joe Rogers |
Record | 19:8-3-1 |
Earnings | £3,675 |
Major wins | |
Epsom Derby (1831) |
Spaniel (1828–1833) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. In a career that lasted from July 1830 to early 1833 he ran eighteen times and won nine races. After an unsuccessful season as a two-year-old he made significant improvement in 1831 to win his first three races, culminating in The Derby. Spaniel failed to win again for over a year but then recovered to win five races on Welsh racecourses in 1832. He died after being injured on his first start as a five-year-old in 1833.
Background
Spaniel was described as a "light, bright, airy little"
Spaniel was not an impressive young horse, being small and weak and was sold by Egremont, either as a foal or as a yearling to Viscount Lowther for 150 guineas (one source claims the price was 500 guineas[4]). According to one version of the story, the deal was done over the dinner table. Lowther had the colt trained by Joe Rogers.[5]
Racing career
1830: two-year-old season
As a two-year-old, Spaniel ran four times without success, with all of his runs being at
He returned in October when he finished unplaced ("in the ruck") in a £50 race won by an unnamed colt by Emilus. His final start of the year came in November when he ran in the Nursery Stakes, a handicap race for two-year-olds over one mile. He started 5/4 favourite under a weight of 110 pounds, but finished a remote third behind Naiad.[5] The American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine commented that a less patient trainer than Joe Rogers would not have persevered with what they described as a "little, scratching thing."[6]
1831: three-year-old season
Spaniel recorded his first win on his three-year-old debut on 4 April. Spaniel was still technically a two-year-old in this race, as horses at this time had their official "birthdays" on 1 May: the change to 1 January came in 1834.
On 19 May Spaniel started at odds of 50/1 for the Derby in a field of twenty-three runners. The favourite was
Spaniel did not run again for more than four months before starting favourite for the Trial Stakes at Newmarket on 3 October. He led for much of the way but was overtaken in the closing stages and finished second to the filly Camarine.[10] On his final start of the year he finished unplaced behind Lucetta in the Audley End Stakes over one and three quarter miles on 4 November.[11]
1832: four-year-old season
Spaniel began his four-year-old season with three defeats. He was unplaced in the Oatlands Stakes at Newmarket on 25 April, and unplaced again in a Plate race at Ascot on 20 June. Eight days later he ran in the Gold Cup at Hampton racecourse. This race was run in heats. This was an old-fashioned form of racing in which the horses ran twice over the same course. If a horse won both heats it took the prize: otherwise the two heat-winners had a deciding run-off. Spaniel finished second in both heats to a three-year-old named Sluggard.
Spaniel was then put up for sale and bought by a Mr Meyrick. He was sent to race in Wales where he faced less demanding opposition and won five of his remaining six races in 1832. On 7 August he won a £50 Plate in heats at Brecon and on 12 September he was sent to Carmarthen where he won the Tradesman's Plate in heats and the Dynevor Stakes later the same day. On 26 September at Brecon he ran six times (at least) in one day as he contested three separate "heat" races. He was beaten in the Ladies' Plate, but then won the Members' Plate and ended the day by winning a handicap race.[5]
1833: five-year-old season
On his first start as a five-year-old, Spaniel broke down injured in the first heat of the Canterbury Stakes on 31 August. He did not recover from the injury, and died later in the year.[8]
Pedigree
Sire Whalebone (GB) 1807 |
Waxy 1790 |
Potoooooooo | Eclipse |
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Sportsmistress | |||
Maria | Herod | ||
Lisette | |||
Penelope 1798 |
Trumpator | Conductor | |
Brunette | |||
Prunella | Highflyer | ||
Promise | |||
Dam Canopus mare (GB) 1812 |
Canopus 1803 |
Gohanna | Mercury |
Dundas' Herod mare | |||
Colibri | Woodpecker* | ||
Camilla | |||
Young Woodpecker mare 1804 |
Young Woodpecker | Woodpecker* | |
Eclipse mare | |||
Fractious | Mercury | ||
Woodpecker mare (Family:3)[12] |
- Spaniel was inbred 4x4 to Woodpecker, meaning that this stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree. His dam, the Canopus mare was inbred 3x3x4 to this horse.
References
- ^ a b c d The New Sporting Magazine. Vol. 1. Baldwin & Cradock. 1831. p. 352.
- ^ Patricia Erigero Thoroughbred Heritage. "Sir Hercules". Tbheritage.com. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ^ "The Baron". Bloodlines.net. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ^ a b The Sporting Magazine. Rogerson & Tuxford. 1831. pp. 76, 77.
spaniel.
- ^ a b c d Tattersall, George (1850). The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses. Henry G. Bohn. p. 5.
spaniel derby.
- ^ Skinner, John Stuart (1838). American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine. Vol. 9. J. S. Skinner. p. 411.
- ISBN 0-85112-902-1.
- ^ a b Patricia Erigero Thoroughbred Heritage. "Whalebone". Tbheritage.com. Retrieved 2012-01-21.
- ^ The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc. H. Colburn. 1831.
- ^ Whyte, James Christie (1840). History of the British Turf, From the Earliest Period to the Present Day. Colburn. p. 282.
spaniel.
- ^ Skinner, John Stuart (1833). American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine. Vol. 5. J.S. Skinner. p. 545.
- ^ "Bowes' Byerley Turk Mare – Family 3". Bloodlines.net. Retrieved 2012-01-21.