Young Eclipse
| Young Eclipse | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Eclipse |
| Mother: | Juno |
| Mother, father: | Spectator |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1778 |
| Year of death: | 1803 |
| Country: | Great Britain |
| Colour: | Fox |
| Breeder: | Dennis O'Kelly |
| Owner: | Dennis O'Kelly |
Young Eclipse (* 1778; circa 1803) was a son of the exceptional horse Eclipse and a well-known racehorse of the 18th century. He was the second horse to win the Epsom Derby . His racing career ended at the age of six after winning six more races. Unlike his half-brother Pot-8-os, however, he was not successful as a stallion .
ancestry
Eclipse is descended from Darley Arabian in direct paternal line . He is one of the founding fathers of the English thoroughbred . 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 . Flying Childers is one of his most successful sons , whose racing success also made his full brother Bleeding Childers (also called Bartlett's Childers) a sought-after stallion. Bleeding Childer's descendants include the exceptional horse Eclipse , the direct sire of Young Eclipse. On the maternal side, Flying Childers is one of his ancestors.
On the maternal and paternal side there is another founding father of the English thoroughbred in the ancestry of Young Eclipse. Godolphin Arabian belongs to a group of horses that the Bey of Tunis gave to the French King Louis XV. gave. The stallion was evidently not very popular 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 .
breeder
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Young Eclipse was born in 1778. His breeder was Dennis O'Kelly , owner of the father horse Eclipse , who stood at Dennis O'Kelly's stud near Epsom and for whom Dennis O'Kelly took a stud fee of 50 guineas at the time. O'Kelly was an Irish immigrant who perverted society in higher nobility after he thanks the assets of his lover, the brothel owner and London courtesan Charlotte Hayes , the officer's commission of a lieutenant-colonel in Westminster Regiment of the county Middlesex and thus the first social respectability buy could . He owed his fortune to his skill as a gambler and bettor, as well as Eclipse's stud fees. O'Kelly recognized Eclipse's racing talent early on and initially acquired a 50 percent stake in the horse and later bought it in full.
Racehorse
Young Eclipse was being prepared for its races by an unknown trainer near Epsom. During his racing horse career, he won a total of seven races, most of which were held on Newmarket racetracks . His most significant win is winning the Epsom Derby , a race that was only founded in 1780 and won by Young Eclipse in 1781. He was the first offspring of his father to win this race. In 1783 and 1784 his half-brothers Saltram and Sergeant won this race.
His racing career ended in 1785 after injuring himself in a race.
Pedigree
|
Father Eclipse (GB) 1764 |
Marske 1750 |
Squirt | Bleeding Childers |
| Sister to Old Country Wench | |||
| The Ruby Mare | Hutton's Blacklegs | ||
| Bay Bolton Mare | |||
|
Spilletta 1749 |
Regulus | Godolphin Arabian | |
| Gray Robinson | |||
| Mother Western | Easby Snake | ||
| Old Montagu Mare | |||
|
Mother Juno 1764 |
Spectator 1749 |
Crab | Alcock's Arabian |
| Siter to Soreheels | |||
| Partner Mare | partner | ||
| Bonny Lass | |||
| Horatia 1758 |
Blank | Godolphin Arabian | |
| Cupid | |||
| Sister One to Steady | Flying Childers | ||
| Miss Belvoir |
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
- ↑ Thoroughbreds with clear family relationships. In: ORF ON Science. Retrieved November 25, 2017 .
- ↑ 95% of thoroughbreds linked to one superstud . In: New Scientist , September 6, 2005.
- ↑ 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 Eclipse first, the rest nowhere , E-Book position 1034.
- ^ Robert Black: Horse-racing in England: a synoptical review . Richard Bently and Son, London 1893, p. 248.
- ↑ Young Eclipse 5x Pedigree. Retrieved January 22, 2012 .