Snip

Snip
Race:	English blood
Father:	Flying Childers
Mother:	Basto mare
Mother, father:	Basto
Gender:	stallion
Year of birth:	1736
Year of death:	1757
Country:
Colour:	brown
Breeder:	3. Duke of Devonshire
Owner:	3. Duke of Devonshire

Snip (1736 - † May 8, 1757) was a British racehorse and breeding stallion of the English thoroughbred breed . Snip was successful only once in his racing career. After completing his racing career, however, he became a successful breeding stallion. His most important offspring is his son Snap , who remained unbeaten in his four races and was a multiple champion of sire horses in England and Ireland .

ancestry

Flying Childers

Byerley Turk

Snip was a Brauner , who at the farm of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire was drawn. His father was the stallion Flying Childers , who in turn was descended from Darley Arabian . This stallion was exported from Syria by the merchant Thomas Darley in 1704 and was used as a breeding stallion by the Darley family at the Aldby Park , Buttercrambe estate . Some of his early offspring were successful in races and caught the attention of breeder Leonard Childers, who was one of the few breeders outside the Childers family who had mares covered by Darley Arabian. Flying Childers comes from the first mating of the mare Betty Leedes and Dailey Arabian, who remained unbeaten in his racing career. After completing his racing career, he was sold to William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire , who died in 1729 and who bequeathed this stallion to his son, among other things.

On the maternal side, Snip also goes back to the founding fathers of the English thoroughbred with Byerley Turk and Curwen's Bay Barb . In 1688 Byerley Turk was part of the booty 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 . Similar to the stallion Godolphin Arabian around 40 years later , the horse aroused little enthusiasm at the French court and was sold. He was one of around 200 stallions from North Africa, the Levant or Turkey who came to England in the six decades after 1650.

Racing career

Snip ran his first race in Suffolk in 1741 , where he beat five other horses. He also ran races in the town of Newmarket , famous for its horse racing , but was unsuccessful here.

Breeding career

Despite his only moderately successful racing career, Slip found favor due to his parentage and exterior . He was a breeding stallion on a stud farm in Northumberland . One of his offspring is Snap , who is unbeaten in races and has been champion of sire horses from Great Britain and Ireland four times. Prince T'Quassaw, Judgment, Fribble, Swiss and Havannah are among the other offspring. Slip died on May 8, 1757.

Today 95% of all English thoroughbreds go back to the stallion Darley Arabian in the paternal line. Snip and his father Flying Childers are only marginally involved in this. The more successful sire among the descendants of Darley Arabian is Bleeding Childers , a full brother of Flying Childers, whose descendants include the exceptional stallion Eclipse .

Pedigree

Pedigree by Snip, Brauner, 1736

Father Flying Childers (GB) 1715	Darley Arabian	(unknown)	(unknown)
			(unknown)
		(unknown)	(unknown)
			(unknown)
	Betty Leedes	Careless	Spanker
			Barb mare
		Cream Cheeks	Leedes Arabian
			Spanker mare
Mother Basto mare (GB)	Basto	Byerley Turk	(unknown)
			(unknown)
		Bay peg	Leedes Arabian
			Spanker mare
	Curwen Bay Barb mare	Curwen's Bay Barb	(unknown)
			(unknown)
		Curwen Spot mare	Curwen Spot
			White-legged Lowther 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 .

Single receipts

1. ↑ ^{a b} The General Stud Book . JS Skinner, Baltimore, 1834 (Retrieved January 15, 2013).
2. ↑ Flying Childers . Bloodlines.net. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
3. ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 583.
4. ^ William Pick, R. Johnson: The Turf Register . A. Bartholoman, High-Ousegate, 1803.
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ 95% of thoroughbreds linked to one superstud . In: New Scientist , September 6, 2005. 
7. ↑ History of the English thoroughbred , here on the mare Old Morocco Mare, who is the dam of Cream Cheeks. Accessed September 22, 2017