Highflyer (horse)
| High flyer | |
 1785, painted by John Boultbee , in the background the property "Highflyer Hall" |
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| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Herod |
| Mother: | Rachel |
| Mother, father: | Blank |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1774 |
| Year of death: | 1793 |
| Country: | England |
| Colour: | Dark brown |
| Breeder: | Charles Bunbury |
| Owner: | Viscount Bolingbroke, Richard Tattersall |
Highflyer (* 1774 ; † October 18, 1793 ) was the most successful racehorse of the 18th century.
ancestry
Highflyers breeder was Sir Charles Bunbury (1740-1821), 6th Baronet of Mildenhall at Great Barton Hall in Suffolk . His father was the stallion Herod and his mother was Rachel, a mare owned by the Duke of Ancaster at Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire . Highflyer was born at Great Barton Stud, northeast of the well-known breeding area of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Highflyer descends on the maternal and paternal side from two of the three founding fathers of the English thoroughbred. Godolphin Arabian is 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, who took him over as a stallion for his stud in Derbyshire .
Due to the two stallions Bartlett's Childers and Flying Childers , from whom he descends in the fourth generation on the maternal and paternal side, Highflyer is a descendant of Darley Arabian , the second 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 mated twice to the mare Betty Leedes towards the end of his life. The first offspring was Flying Childers. The stallion, born in 1714, is considered one of the first true racehorses. In the six races he ran from 1721 to 1723, he remained undefeated. William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire bought him after completing his racing career for his stud. Most of today's English Thoroughbred horses are descended from Flying Childer's full brother, two years his junior. He never ran because he bled from his nostrils when he tried harder. His buyer, cloth dyer John Bartlett bought him as a stallion and was able to successfully market his breeding performance due to his illustrious relatives.
Life
As a year old , Highflyer was sold to Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke (1732–1787), who owned a racing stable with 20 horses, and started his first race as a three-year-old, although at that time only five-year-old horses were in the race sent. Two years later, Bolingbroke received an offer to buy it because of high debts, including a. also gambling debts, could not refuse. He sold Highflyer in 1779 for £ 2,500 to Richard Tattersall , who made a fortune with this racehorse in the years that followed.
However, he earned even more money when he was a highflyer after 14 races, all of which he had won, as a breeding stallion first on his farm in Damley ( Middlesex ), and in 1780 on his new country estate New Barns between Bury St. Edmunds and Ely ( Cambridgeshire ), which he renamed "Highflyer Hall". Highflyer won the championship for sire horses in England and Ireland 13 times . The price per cover rose from initially 15 guineas to 50 guineas. Highflyer was used as cover so often that critics said it was being abused to death.
The well-known horse painter John Boultbee (1753–1812) painted Highflyer in 1785. This painting later prompted other clients to have their horses also painted by Boultbee.
Pedigree
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Father Herod (GB) 1758 |
Tartar c 1743 |
Partner 1718 |
Jig |
| Curwen Barb mare | |||
| Meliora 1729 |
Fox | ||
| Milkmaid | |||
| Cypron 1750 |
Blaze 1733 |
Flying Childers | |
| Confederate mare | |||
| Salome 1733 |
Bethell's Arabian | ||
| (Graham's) Champion Mare | |||
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Mother Rachel (GB) 1763 |
Blank 1740 |
Godolphin Arabian | (unknown) |
| (unknown) | |||
| Little Hartley Mare 1727 |
Bartlett's Childers | ||
| Flying Whigg | |||
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Regulus mare 1751 |
Regulus 1739 |
Godolphin Arabian | |
| Gray Robinson | |||
| Soreheels mare | Soreheels | ||
| Makeless mare |
Highflyer descends in the third and fourth generation of Godolphin Arabian, who is one of the three founding fathers of the English thoroughbred alongside Darley Arabian and Byerley Turk . Bartlett's Childers and Flying Childers in the fourth generation are full brothers descended from Darley Arabian out of Betty Leedes.
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 . Chapter The cross streak now in being are without end. , E-book position 693.
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Gerhard Charles Rump: Horse and hunting pictures in English art. Studies on George Stubbs and the genre of "sporting art" from 1650-1830 , page 146, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1983, ISBN 3-487-07425-7 or ISBN 978-3-487-07425-2 ( digitized )