Flying Childers
| Flying Childers | |
 Flying Childers |
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| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Darley Arabian |
| Mother: | Betty Leedes |
| Mother, father: | Wharton's Careless |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1714 |
| Year of death: | 1741 |
| Country: | England |
| Colour: | brown |
| Stick measure: | over 150 cm |
| Breeder: | Colonel Leonard Childers of Cantley Hall |
| Owner: | William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire |
Flying Childers is a famous racehorse from the beginning of the 18th century. 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 .
ancestry
Darley Arabian, the stallion's father, came to England like around 200 other stallions of oriental horse breeds from North Africa, the Levant or 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 Leeds bred twice by Darley Arabian at the Darley family stud. Flying Childers, the stallion born in 1714 from this combination, is considered to be one of the first true racehorses.
run
As with a number of other famous racehorses, there are also a number of legends about Flying Childers: Before his racing career, he is said to have been used as a post horse or initially only ridden in fox hunts before his perseverance lost its owner Colonel Leonard Childers convinced to train the stallion for horse racing.
Flying Childers competed in his first race when he was six. These were not races on racetracks in the current sense, but cross-country races in which the horse competed against one or two other horses. McGrath counts only two races in his horse racing history that Flying Childers officially contested, the other races were informal, albeit spectacular. There are usually six races in which Flying Childers remained undefeated.
One of the legends of Flying Childers is that he would have run 3 and 3/4 miles in six minutes and 40 seconds. William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, praised the stallion after he had bought him from his breeder Colonel Leonhard Childers. Little importance is attached to the statement today - the stallion would have run the mile faster than modern racehorses on carefully prepared racetracks over shorter distances.
progeny
The Duke of Devonshire used the stallion as a sire on his stud. Due to the racing success of his offspring in 1730 and 1736, Flying Childers was champion of sire horses in England and Ireland . 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. However, the stallion did not have a lasting influence on the breeding of the English thoroughbred horse and is considered to be one of the first racing champions who were not able to permanently pass on their performance on the racetrack to their offspring. The Duke of Devonshire had also limited the breeding classes to his own broodmares. The stallions Snip and especially Snap belong to the more successful descendants of Flying Childers . The latter was several times champion of sire horses in England and Ireland.
Flying Childers' full brother Bleeding Childers , who did not run a single official race because the racing efforts led to the horse bleeding from the nostrils , had a significantly greater influence on the breeding of the English thoroughbred . The stallion, unsuitable for racing, was sold by Leonard Childers to the cloth dyer John Bartlett from Richmond. He used the horse with the illustrious parentage and relationship as a stallion. Bleeding Childers is among other things the ancestor of Eclipse , the most important racehorse of 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 |
In the maternal line of Flying Childers there are only 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.
Betty Leeds is descended from Old Morocco Mare on both the maternal and paternal side. [Young] Spanker Mare is out of a combination of Old Morocco Mare with either her son Spanker or her grandson Young Spanier.
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
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 583.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 688.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 693.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 699.
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 700.
- ↑ a b c d 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