Gold finder
| Gold finder | |
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Gold finder |
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| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Snap |
| Mother: | Blank mare |
| Mother, father: | Blank |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1764 |
| Year of death: | 1789 |
| Country: | Great Britain |
| Colour: | brown |
| Breeder: | John St Leger Douglas |
| Owner: |
Jenison Shafto Sir Charles Sedley |
Goldfinder (* 1764; † 1789) was a racehorse and stallion of the English thoroughbred breed . As a racehorse he was unbeaten. After the end of his racing career he was used as a stallion. Unlike the stallions of his paternal line, he never became champion of sire horses in England and Ireland .
ancestry
Goldfinder goes back to Darley Arabian in direct paternal line . Darley Arabian was exported from Syria to England in 1704 by the merchant Thomas Darley and was used as a sire by the Darley family at the Aldby Park , Buttercrambe estate . Today he is one of the most influential founding fathers of the English thoroughbred.
On the maternal side, Godolphin Arabian is another founding father of the English thoroughbred. The stallion was part of a group of horses that the Bey of Tunis gave to the French King Louis XV. gave. But the horse found little enthusiasm 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 . The stallion appears twice in the Goldfinder pedigree. He is the great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather on his mother's side (in technical terms: the third and fourth father in the maternal line). The fourth father in the maternal line is also Bartlett's Childers , another son of Darley Arabian and a full brother of Flying Childers, the third father in the paternal line.
Racehorse
Goldfinder ran his first race on April 5, 1768 on a Newmarket racetrack and won 200 guineas as the winner of the race. On April 29 of the same year he was also successful in a race with six other starters. In October he won another race with a total of six starters. He was supposed to run a match race the next day against a mare owned by Sir John Moore . Moore, however, preferred to forego the race and instead pay 300 guineas to the owner of Goldfinder. In his last race as a four year old, he won the Contribution Stakes.
He ran his first race as a five-year-old on March 31, 1769, in which he prevailed over four other horses. In October he won the Challenge Cup and Whip in Newmarket. A few days later he won a match race against Duke of Ancasters Jethro. This is followed by two more wins, including the Contribution Stakes.
In October 1770 he again won the Challenge Cup and Whip in Newmarket. It was planned that he would also run against Eclipse , a stallion who, like Goldfinder, had remained undefeated in every race so far. One day after the “Challenge Cup and Whip” this race had to be canceled due to injuries to the stallion.
Stallion
In 1771 the stallion was sold to Sir Charles Medley, 2nd Baronet for 1,350 guineas. As a stallion he was at Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire . His descendants include a number of successful racing winners, including Serina, the winner of the St. Leger Stakes in 1781. After the death of Sir Charles Medley in 1778, Goldfinder was sold for 350 guineas and was from then on in Mitcham , Surrey . There he served as a stallion until 1784. He died in 1789 at the age of 25.
Pedigree
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Father Snap (GB) 1750 |
Snip (GB) 1736 |
Flying Childers (GB) 1714 |
Darley Arabian |
| Betty Leedes (GB) | |||
| Sister to Soreheels | Basto | ||
| Sister to Mixbury | |||
| Sister to Slipby (GB) | Fox 1714 |
Clumsey | |
| Bay peg | |||
| Gipsey 1725 |
Bay Bolton | ||
| Newcastle Turk mare | |||
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Mother blank mare (GB) |
Blank (GB) 1740 |
Godolphin Arabian c. 1724 |
(unknown) |
| (unknown) | |||
| Little Mare | Bartlett's Childers (GB) | ||
| Flying Whig | |||
| Regulus mare (GB) |
Regulus 1739 |
Godolphin Arabian | |
| Gray Robinson | |||
| Lonsdale Arabian mare | Lonsdale Arabian | ||
| Bonnylass |
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 I . H. Colburn, London 1840 (Retrieved May 1, 2013).
Single receipts
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter "The most esteemed race amongst the Arrabs both by Syre and Dam" , E-Book position 333.
- ↑ 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.
- ^ A b c d e f William Pick, R. Johnson: The Turf Register (Volume II) . A. Bartholoman, High-Ousegate, 1805.
- ↑ CJE Weatherby, JP Weatherby: The Racing Calendar for the Year 1869 - Races Past 1869.
- ↑ a b Goldfinder . Bloodlines.net. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
- ^ History of the English thoroughbred , here on the mare Old Morocco Mare, from which Betty Leedes descends. Accessed September 23, 2017
