Spanker
| Spanker | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Darcy's Yellow Turk |
| Mother: | Old Morocco Mare |
| Mother, father: | Fairfax Morocco Barb |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1678 |
| Year of death: | unknown |
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| Colour: | brown |
| Breeder: | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham or Charles Pelham |
| Owner: | Charles Pelham |
Spanker ( '1678; year of death unknown), also Old Spanker , also because of its high proportion of Oriental blood Pelham Arabian or alluding to his brown coat color Pelham's Bay Arabian , was named a racehorse and sire, the influence on the development of the English thoroughbred had . It is said that he was the most outstanding racehorse in Newmarket during the reign of Charles II of England . Newmarket, not far from London, was already the most important English horse racing venue in its time.
ancestry
Spanker was bred more than 100 years before the General Stud Book was created , so it is not entirely clear who the breeder of this horse was. According to the History of the British Turf by James Christie Whyte, published in 1840, it was bred by Charles Pelham in Brocklesby, Lincolnshire . Other sources, however, assume that the breeder was George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Charles Pelham only acquired the stallion later.
The stallion is a son of D'Arcy's Yellow Turk, one of about 200 stallions who were imported to England from North Africa and the Middle East for breeding purposes in the second half of the 17th century. Most of the imported stallions were raised on country estates and stud farms in North Yorkshire, known for its horse breeding . D'Arcy Yellow Turk was brought to England from Damascus, Syria around 1675. Spanker is considered to be the most influential offspring of this stallion. Spanker's dam mare was Od Maroccon Mare whose name also alludes to the fact that she is a broodmare with a high proportion of Arab or Berber ancestors.
progeny
Spanker was used as a stallion from 1689. His most successful son is Careless, who was as successful on the racetrack as his father. Careless is the father of the mare Betty Leedes. At the beginning of the 18th century, she was paired twice with Darley Arabian , a stallion who was imported from Syria to Aldby Park , Buttercrambe in 1704 by Thomas Darley and was used there by the Darley family as a stallion. The stallions Flying Childers and Bleeding Childers emerged from these matings . Flying Childers was a successful racehorse and is the father of Snip, among others . His full brother Bleeding Childers, whose offspring is the exceptional horse Eclipse , had an even greater influence on the English thoroughbred breed .
Pedigree
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Mother Old Morocco Barb |
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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).
Web links
Single receipts
- ↑ Founding fathers of the English thoroughbred , accessed on September 21, 2017
- ↑ Whyte, p. 423
- ↑ Founding fathers of the English thoroughbred , accessed on September 21, 2017
- ↑ McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian . Chapter The cross strains now in being are without end , E-Book position 583.
- ↑ Website on the founding fathers of the English thoroughbred, here D'Arcy's Yellow Turk , accessed on September 21, 2017
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 95% of thoroughbreds linked to one superstud . In: New Scientist , September 21, 2005.
