Bleeding Childers
| Bleeding Childers | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Darley Arabian |
| Mother: | Betty Leedes |
| Mother, father: | Wharton's Careless |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1716 |
| Country: | England |
| Colour: | brown |
| Breeder: | Colonel Leonard Childers of Cantley Hall |
| Owner: | John Bartlett |
Bleeding Childers , also known as Bartlett's Childers , was an early English thoroughbred stallion. He is a son of the Arabian stallion Darley Arabian , imported from Syria by Thomas Darley to Aldby Park , Buttercrambe in 1704 , who is one of the three founding fathers of the English thoroughbred alongside Byerley Turk and Godolphin Barb . Darley Arabian, via Bleeding Childers, is the ancestor of 95 percent of all English thoroughbreds living today.
Surname
The stallion is named after his breeder Leonard Childers. It was called "bleeding" because it bleeded from its nostrils when exerted a lot. He was therefore unsuitable for racing and was - while his successful brother Flying Childers was sold to the Duke of Devonshire - sold by Leonard Childers to the cloth dyer John Bartlett. The stallion is therefore also called Bartlett's Childers.
ancestry
Darley Arabian, the stallion's father, came, like around 200 other stallions of oriental horse breeds, to England from North Africa, the Levant and Turkey after 1649. Most of the imported stallions, like Darley Arabian, were on country estates and stud farms in North Yorkshire, which is known for its horse breeding . At Aldby Park, Darley Arabian mainly covered broodmares owned by the Darley family, with only about 20 of the foals being included in the General Stud Book founded in 1791 . Aleppo and Almanzor were among the offspring of this stallion that stood out very early in horse races, both of whom did well in races and were later successfully used in breeding. Whistlejacket was even more successful, winning a horse race in York in 1712 and then being sold by the Darley family to breeder Leonard Childers. Childers was so impressed with Whistlejacket that he had his mare Betty Leedes bred twice by Darley Arabian at the Darley family stud. Flying Childers, the stallion born in 1714 from this pairing, is considered one of the first true racehorses and was very well known in England for the spectacular bets that were placed on him. Bleeding Childers comes from the second mating of Darley Arabian and Betty Leedes.
Breeding stallion
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John Bartlett, who bought the stallion from Leonard Childers, which was not suitable for racing, also used him as a stallion. While Flying Childers was at the stud of the Duke of Devonshire after completing his racing career and almost exclusively covered mares owned by the Duke, a number of breeders had their mares covered by Bleeding Childers, because Bleeding Childers not only descended from the same parents, but also comparatively low stud fees.
Bleeding Childers was champion of sire horses in England and Ireland in 1742 due to the racing success of his offspring . The total winnings of his sons and daughters in the past year are determined for each stallion . Prize money is counted which the sons and daughters have won in flat races in England and Ireland. In doing so, he proved that a stallion does not necessarily have to run successfully in order to produce outstanding racehorses. His offspring include the horses Squirt and Marske . From this in turn comes Eclipse , the dominant horse in the second half of the 18th century.
Pedigree
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Father Darley Arabian 1700 |
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Mother Betty Leedes |
Old Careless |
Spanker about 1678 |
Darcy's Yellow Turk |
| Old Morocco Mare | |||
| Barb mare | (unknown) | ||
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| Cream Cheeks | Leedes Arabian ca. 1685 |
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| [Young] Spanker Mare | Spanker or Young Spanker | ||
| Old Morocco Mare |
The maternal line of Bleeding Childers only includes horses that were either imported to England from the southern or southeastern Mediterranean, like D'Arcy's Yellow Turk, or - like Old Morocco Mare - were bred in Great Britain with such imported horses. Old Morocco Mare is descended from an Arab and a Berber mare.
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 .
Single receipts
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 95% of thoroughbreds linked to one superstud . In: New Scientist , September 6, 2005.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 583.
- ↑ a b c History of the English Thoroughbred , here on the mare Old Morocco Mare, accessed on September 21, 2017
- ^ History of the English Thoroughbred , here on the mare Old Morocco Mare, accessed on September 21, 2017
