Galopin (horse)
| Galopin | |
 - Galopin - |
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| Father: | Vedette |
| Mother: | Flying Duchess |
| Mother, father: | The Flying Dutchman |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1872 |
| Year of death: | 1899 |
| Country: | Great Britain |
| Colour: | Brown |
| Breeder: | William Tayler Sharpe |
| Owner: | Gusztáv Batthyány |
| Record: | 11 starts, 10 wins |
Galopin (* 1872 ; † June 3, 1899 ) was a successful racing and breeding horse, which won the English Derby of 1874.
Life
Galopin was bred in Lincolnshire by William Tayler Sharpe. He was a full brother of the mare Vex, who was bred in 1865. The brown one with the little white star and later shoulder height of 15 hands and 3½ inches was sold to the Hungarian Prince Gusztáv Batthyány at the Middle Park Yearling Sale in 1873 at a price of 520 guineas .
At the age of two to three he was trained as a racehorse and began a successful racing career; among other things, he won the Derby Stakes in 1874. On April 29, 1874 he was awarded the victory in his first race after the disqualification of Cachmere at the Hyde Park Stakes in Epsom ; that same year he won the Fern Hill Stakes at Ascot by a margin of five horse lengths. In Newmarket he was third behind Plebeian and Per Se after a collision in October 1874 at Middle Park Plate. A day later, he won the sweepstakes by two horse-lengths. In total, he won five of the six races in which he competed in this racing season.
In 1875 he won the Newmarket Second in the spring, the Derby Stakes at Epsom in May, the Fern Hill Stakes at Ascot in June and the Newmarket Second in October and the Newmarket Derby. This made him the winner of all five races he ran this season.
Although he was in good shape, he stopped running as a four-year-old. This was due to his owner's health problems or concerns about overstraining the best horse in the stable. He was therefore used as a breeding stallion by William Barrows, initially without any particular success.
After the prince's death in the spring of 1883 - Batthyány suffered a heart attack while watching a race by Galopin's son Galliard - the horse was owned by Henry Chaplin at a cost of 8,000 guineas. As a breeding stallion, Galopin was now in the stable at Blankney Hall in Sleaford in Lincolnshire. He was named "Champion Sire" in 1888, 1889 and 1898. Galopin was the father of numerous successful racing and breeding horses, including the mares Aida (* 1898), Angelica (* 1879), Atalanta (* 1878), Bonnie Gal (* 1889), Corrie Roy (* 1878), Galeottia (* 1892), Galicia (* 1898), Galopin Mare (* 1887), Satchel (* 1882) and Vampires (* 1889).
His sons included Disraeli (* 1895), Galliard (* 1880), Galeazzo (* 1893), War Dance (* 1887) and, probably the most famous son, St. Simon (* 1881).
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Father Vedette |
Voltigeur | Voltaire | Blacklock |
| a phantom daughter | |||
| Martha Lynn | Mulatto | ||
| Leda | |||
| Mrs. Ridgeway | Birdcatcher | Sir Hercules | |
| Guccioli | |||
| Nan Durrell | Inheritor | ||
| Nell | |||
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Mother Flying Duchess |
The Flying Dutchman | Bay Middleton | sultan |
| Cobweb | |||
| Barbell | Sandbeck | ||
| Darioletta | |||
| Merope | Voltaire | Blacklock | |
| a mime daughter | |||
| Juniper Mare | Juniper | ||
| a sorcerer's daughter |