Snap (horse)
| Snap | |
 Snap |
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| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Snip |
| Mother: | Sister to Slipby |
| Mother, father: | Fox |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1750 |
| Year of death: | 1777 |
| Country: | Great Britain |
| Colour: | brown |
| Breeder: | Cuthbert Routh |
| Owner: | Jenison Shafto Earl of Sandwich |
Snap (* 1750; † July 1777) was an English thoroughbred stallion . As a racehorse, he won all four of his races. As a breeding stallion he was champion of sire horses in England and Ireland several times . One of his most famous sons is the gold finder , who has also remained undefeated in races .
ancestry
Through his father Snip , Snap goes back to three main founding fathers of the English thoroughbred. Byerley Turk was part of the booty in 1688 that was taken from the Turkish army after the Battle of Buda . He then served his new owner and namesake, Colonel Robert Byerley, as a cavalry horse and came in the war of King Wilhelm III. of England against James II in Ireland. From 1701 at the latest, the stallion was available for breeding in Colonel Byerley's studs. Curwen's Bay Barb , born around 1690, was originally a gift from the Moroccan King Mulai Ismail to the French King Louis XIV . The stallion met with little enthusiasm at the French court and was sold. Darley Arabian , to whom Snap goes back in direct paternal line, was exported from Syria in 1704 by the merchant Thomas Darley and was used as a sire by the Darley family on the country estate Aldby Park , Buttercrambe . All three stallions are among the approximately 200 stallions from North Africa, the Levant and Turkey who came to England in the six decades after 1650. Cream Cheeks, on the other hand, is derived exclusively from such imported horses. On the maternal side, the proportion of ancestors from the southern and south-eastern Mediterranean is also high.
Racehorse
Snap ran its first race in the spring of 1756 in Newmarket , a place not far from London, which is famous for its horse races. In this first race he beat Marske , a descendant of Flying Childer's full brother Bleeding Childers , and won the sum of 1000 guineas , which was high for the time . The match race against Marske was repeated the following spring and Marske, from whom the exceptional horse Eclipse descended, lost again. The winnings were again 1,000 guineas. In a race in York, the only race he did not run in Newmarket, he beat the stallions Farmer and Music. His fourth and last race, which he also won, he ran in April 1757.
Stallion
After his last race, Snap was brought to Kenton, Newcastle upon Thyne, where he replaced his late father Snip as a stallion. He was champion of sire horses in England and Ireland in 1767, 1768, 1769 and 1771. 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. His most successful offspring include the stallions Latham's Spann and the undefeated Goldfinder . Among his descendants there is also the stallion Sir Peter Teazle , who won the championship of British sire horses ten times.
Pedigree
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Father Snip 1736 |
Flying Childers 1714 |
Darley Arabian 1700 |
unknown |
| unknown | |||
| Betty Leedes | Old Careless | ||
| Cream Cheeks | |||
| Sister to Soreheels |
Basto 1703 |
Byerley Turk | |
| Bay peg | |||
| Sister to Mixbury | Curwen's Bay Barb | ||
| Curwen Spot mare | |||
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Mother Sister to Slipby |
Fox 1714 |
Clumsey c. 1700 |
Skin boy |
| Miss Darcy's Pet Mare | |||
| Bay peg | Leedes Arabian | ||
| Young Bald Peg | |||
| Gipsey 1725 |
Bay Bolton 1705 |
Gray skin boy | |
| Makeless mare | |||
| Newcastle Turk mare | Newcastle Turk | ||
| Taffolet Barb mare |
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 cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 583.
- ↑ a b History of the English thoroughbred , here about the mare Old Morocco Mare, who is the mother mare of Cream Cheeks. Accessed September 22, 2017
- ^ Theo Taunton: Famous horses . Sampson Low, Marston, 1901.
- ^ A b William Pick, R. Johnson: The Turf Register . A. Bartholoman, High-Ousegate, 1803.