Assassin (horse)

Assassin
Race:	English blood
Father:	Sweetbriar
Mother:	Angelica
Mother, father:	Snap
Gender:	stallion
Year of birth:	1779
Year of death:	1794
Country:	Great Britain
Colour:	Brown
Breeder:	Lord Egremont
Owner:	Lord Egremont

Assassin (* 1779; † 1794) was a racehorse that won the Epsom Derby in 1782 .

For his breeder, Lord Egremont , this was the first success in this important horse race in Great Britain. Assassin ran races until he was five and was then used at Lord Egremont's stud on Petworth . However, this horse was not particularly successful as a stallion.

ancestry

Flying Childers, portrayed by James Seymour

Assassin goes back in direct paternal line to Bleeding Childers , a son of Darley Arabian . This was imported from Syria to Aldby Park , North Yorkshire in 1704 and served there as a breeding stallion for the Darley family. Bleeding Childers did not run any races himself as he began to bleed from his nostrils with greater exertion. Due to the racing success of his full brother Flying Childers , who mainly covered his broodmares at the stud of his owner William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire , however, he was a sought-after sire of other breeders. In the lineage of Assassin, Bleeding Childers appears as the great-great-grandfather on both the maternal and paternal side (in technical terms, the fourth father in the paternal and maternal line). Flying Childers is the fourth father in the maternal line.

Godolphin Arabian is also the fourth father in the maternal line. This stallion is another founding father of the English thoroughbred and belonged to a group of horses that the Bey of Tunis gave to the French King Louis XV. gave. However, the stallion found little acceptance at the French court and came into the possession of the Englishman Edward Coke, who took him over as a stallion for his stud in Derbyshire .

Racehorse

Assassin was trained by Frank Neale in Newmarket . During his time as a racehorse, he won a total of eight races. The most important race he won is the Epsom Derby , where he was successful in 1782. The Epsom Derby is one of the oldest English horse races and today one of the most prestigious Group 1 flat races in the world for 3-year-old stallions and mares. It runs for over 2423 meters.

Assassin also beat the stallion Pot-8-os in a match race , who like Assassin also goes back to Squirt and Bleeding Childers in direct paternal line . Pot-8-os, a son of the exceptional horse Eclipse, turned out to be the more successful sire in the long term. He sired 172 race winners.

Stallion

Assassin was a breeding stallion on Petworth until 1793. The stud fees paid for him were not very high because there were no successful racehorses among his offspring. In 1789 a fee of two guineas was taken, while ten guineas and 3 guineas were taken for the stallions Mercury and Trentham, who were also at this stud. From 1793 he was a stallion at Langley Park near Colnbrook , where from 1794 only two guinea stud fees were charged.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Assassin (GB), Brauner, 1779

Father Sweetbriar (GB) 1769	Siphon 1750	Squirt	Bleeding Childers
			Sister to Old Country Wench
		Patriot Mare	Bolton Patriot
			Crab mare
	Shakespeare Mare 1763	Shakespeare	Hobgoblin
			Cupid
		Miss Meredith	Cade
			Cupid
Mother Angelica 1761	Snap 1750	Snip	Flying Childers
			Sister to Soreheels
		Sister to Slipby	Fox
			Gipsy
	Regulus Mare 1749	Regulus	Godolphin Arabian
			Gray Robinson
		Childers Mare	Bleeding Childers
			Sister One to True Blue

literature

• Christopher McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian - High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in Twenty-Five Horses . John Murray, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-84854-984-5 .
• James Christie Whyte: History of the British Turf, from the earliest period to the present day . Volume IH Colburn, London 1840 ( openlibrary.org [accessed May 1, 2013]).

Single receipts

1. ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end. E-book position 693.
2. ^ Robert Black: Horse-racing in England: a synoptical review . Richard Bently and Son, London 1893, p. 248 ( handle.net ).
3. ↑ Patricia Erigero: Pot-8-Os. www.tbheritage.com, accessed September 23, 2017 . 
4. ^ Rainer L. Ahnert (Ed.): Thoroughbred Breeding of the World. Pozdun Publishing, Dorheim 1970.
5. ↑ Edward and James Weatherby: Advertisements of Stallions . In: Racing Calendar . tape 17 , 1789, pp. 378 ( handle.net ).
6. ↑ Edward and James Weatherby: Advertisements of stallions to cover in 1794 . In: Racing Calendar . tape 21 , 1793, pp. 353 ( google.com ).
7. ↑ Staff: Assassin 5x Pedigree. Retrieved September 24, 2017 .