Blank (horse)
| Blank | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Godolphin Arabian |
| Mother: | Cupid |
| Mother, father: | Bleeding Childers |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1740 |
| Country: | England |
| Colour: | brown |
| Breeder: | Earl of Godolphin |
| Owner: | Mr. Greville Mr. Haydon Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven |
Blank (1740–1770) was an English thoroughbred who was used as a breeding stallion after a short racing career. He was champion of sire horses in England and Ireland in 1762, 1764 and 1770 .
ancestry
The breeder of Blank was Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin . He bought the stallion Godolphin Arabian in 1733 . This comes from the Middle East, the exact country of origin is not certain. The stallion, born around 1724, belonged to a group of horses that the Bey of Tunis gave to the French King Louis XV. gave. The stallion apparently found no favor at the French court and came into the possession of the Englishman Edward Coke. After his death, the stallion was sold by Roger Williams to the Earl of Godolphin. The stallion is one of the three founding fathers of the English thoroughbred.
Blank is also a descendant of Darley Arabian , who is another founding father of the English thoroughbred. The Arab stallion was probably born in Syria in 1700 and exported by the English merchant Thomas Darley in 1704 to Aldby Park , Buttercrambe in North Yorkshire, England , where he was used as a sire on the Darley family estate. After his first offspring had successfully raced, he was paired twice with the mare Betty Leedes towards the end of his life. The second offspring from this combination was Bleeding Childers , who never ran because his nostrils were bleeding when he was exerting himself. However, he was a full brother of the successful racing horse Flying Childers . While Flying Childers at the stud of the Duke of Devonshire almost exclusively covered broodmares of the Duke, Bleeding Childers stood at the stud of the cloth dyer John Bartlett and was a popular stallion of various breeders because of his illustrious relatives. Mainly due to the sire performance of Bleeding Childers, 95 percent of all English racehorses can be traced back to Darley Arabian.
Racehorse
Blank ran his first race at the age of six on one of the Newmarket horse racing tracks . He ran only a few races and only won one match race, i.e. H. a race against just one other competitor.
progeny
As a breeding stallion, Blank was on a stud in Grimsthorpe , Lincolnshire . His most successful offspring include Ancaster, Antinous, Chatsworth, Chrysolite, Contest, Foxhunter, Hyder Ally, Lycurgas, Manby and Pacolet. Due to the racing success of his direct offspring, Blank won the championship for sire horses in England and Ireland three times . 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.
The mare Rachel, from whom the racing horse Highflyer was bred, also descends from Blank . Highflyer remained unbeaten as a racehorse in 14 races and as a breeding stallion was 13 times winner of the championship for sire horses in England and Ireland.
Pedigree
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Father Godolphin Arabian c. 1724 |
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Mother Little Mare |
Bleeding Childers b. 1716 |
Darley Arabian 1700 |
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| Betty Leedes | Old Careless | ||
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| Flying Whig 1721 |
Woodstock Arabian | (unknown) | |
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| Points | St. Victor's Barb | ||
| Gray Whynot |
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
- ^ A b c d William Pick, R. Johnson: The Turf Register (Volume I) . A. Bartholoman, High-Ousegate, 1803.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter "The most esteemed race amongst the Arrabs both by Syre and Dam" , E-Book position 333.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter A Groom with a View , E-Book position 700.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Introduction, e-book item 207.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter A Groom with a View , E-Book position 710.
- ↑ 95% of thoroughbreds linked to one superstud . In: New Scientist , September 6, 2005.