San Simeon | |
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Breed | Standardbred |
Sire | Captain Hook |
Grandsire | Meadow Skipper |
Dam | Leyoro Lass |
Maternal grandsire | Leyoro |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1976 |
Country | Australia |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | L. Porter |
Record | |
39: 33-2-1 | |
Earnings | |
A$383,799 | |
Major wins | |
1981 Western Australian Pacing Cup 1981 Interdominion | |
Awards | |
1982/3 Australian Harness Horse of the Year 1978/79 Australian 2yo of the Year 1979/80 Australian 3yo of the Year 1980/1 Australian Grand Circuit Champion | |
Honours | |
Best mile rate, 1:59 | |
Last updated on: 17 August 2011. |
Major wins | |
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major races won | |
Awards | |
Horse of the Year, etc. | |
Other awards | |
other than race related awards | |
Honors | |
Halls of Fames, etc. |
Black Caviar’s 130 rating is the highest score achieved by an Australian galloper, in th e World Thoroughbred Rankings since rankings were introduced. The World Top 50 rates the performances of horses for the previous six months and therefore this rating is for the period 1 October 2010 to 27 March 2011.
Phalaris br 1913
Fairway ch 1925 | Blue Peter ch 1936 | Fair Copy br 1934 | Fair Trial ch 1932 | Court Martial ch 1942 | Palestine gr 1947 | Petition br 1944 | March Past br 1950 | Queen's Hussar b 1960 | Brigadier Gerard b 1968 | Petingo br 1965 | Honeyway br 1941 | Great Nephew b 1963 | Grundy ch 1972 | Watling Street b 1939 Colorado br 1923 Manna b 1922 | Colombo b 1931 Pharamond II b 1925 | By Jimminy br 1941 | Menow br 1935 | Capot br 1946 | Tom Fool b 1949 | Buckpasser b 1963 | Tim Tam br 1955 Pharos br 1920 | Cameronian b 1928 | Firdaussi ch 1929 | Nearco br | Pharis br 1936 | Ardan b 1941 | Pardal b 1947 Sickle br 1924 Unbreakable br 1935 Polynesian br 1942
Tabulated pedigree
editSire John o'Gaunt 1901 |
Isinglass 1890 |
Isonomy | Sterling |
---|---|---|---|
Isola Bella | |||
Dead Lock | Wenlock | ||
Malpractice | |||
La Fleche 1889 |
St.Simon | Galopin | |
St.Angela | |||
Quiver | Toxophilite | ||
Young Melbourne Mare | |||
Dam Canterbury Pilgrim 1893 |
Tristan 1878 |
Hermit | Newminster |
Seclusion | |||
Thrift | Stockwell | ||
Braxey | |||
Pilgrimage 1875 |
The Palmer | Beadsman | |
Madame Eglentine | |||
Lady Audley | Macaroni | ||
Secret (Family 1-g)[1] |
Tabulated pedigree
editSire Faugh-a-Ballagh (IRE) Br. 1841 |
Sir Hercules 1826 |
Whalebone | Waxy |
---|---|---|---|
Penelope | |||
Peri | Wanderer | ||
Thalestris | |||
Guiccioli 1823 |
Bob Booty | Chanticleer | |
Ierne | |||
Flight | Escape | ||
Young Heroine | |||
Dam Pantaloon Mare 1841 |
Pantaloon 1824 |
Castrel | Buzzard |
Alexander Mare | |||
Idalia | Peruvian | ||
Musidora | |||
Daphne 1837 |
Laurel | Blacklock | |
Wagtail | |||
Maid of Honor | Champion | ||
Etiquette (Family: 14) |
Tabulated pedigree
editSire Serheed (USA) B. 1980 |
Nijinsky II B. 1967 |
Northern Dancer | Nearctic |
---|---|---|---|
Natalma | |||
Flaming Page | Bull Page | ||
Flaring Top | |||
Native Partner 1966 |
Raise a Native | Native Dancer | |
Raise You | |||
Dinner Partner | Tom Fool | ||
Bluehaze | |||
Dam North Bell Br. 1988 |
Bellwater 1982 |
Bellypha | Lyphard |
Belga | |||
Paddle | Jim French | ||
Pram | |||
North Fleur 1981 |
Far North | Northern Dancer | |
Fleur | |||
Yoka | Triple Band | ||
Royal Hula (Family: No.9) |
Tabulated pedigree
editSire Halo Br/bl. 1969 |
Hail to Reason Br. 1958 |
Turn-to B. 1951 |
Royal Charger |
---|---|---|---|
Source Sucree | |||
Nothirdchance | Blue Swords | ||
Galla Colors | |||
Cosmah 1953 |
Cosmic Bomb | Pharamond | |
Banish Fear | |||
Almahmoud | Mahmoud | ||
Arbitrator | |||
Dam Wishing Well 1975 |
Understanding 1963 |
Promised Land | Palestinian |
Mahmoudess | |||
Pretty Ways | Stymie | ||
Pretty Jo | |||
Mountain Flower 1964 |
Montparnasse | Gulf Stream | |
Mignon | |||
Edelweiss | Hillary | ||
Dowager (Family: 3-e) |
Tabulated pedigree
editSire Squirt 1732 |
Bartlet's Childers 1716 |
Darley Arabian | unknown |
---|---|---|---|
unknown | |||
Betty Leedes | Old Careless | ||
Cream Cheeks | |||
Snake Mare 1713 |
Snake | Lister Turk | |
unknown | |||
Grey Wilkes | Hautboy | ||
Pet Mare | |||
Dam Blacklegs Mare |
Hutton's Blacklegs 1725 |
Hutton's Bay Turk | unknown |
unknown | |||
Coneyskins Mare | Coneyskins | ||
Clubfoot | |||
Bay Bolton Mare 1728 |
Bay Bolton | Grey Hautboy | |
Makeless Mare | |||
Fox Cub Mare | Fox Cub | ||
Coneyskins Mare (Family: 8) |
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Ben Brush | |
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Saddling up for the Kentucky Derby | |
Sire | Bramble |
Grandsire | Bonnie Scotland |
Dam | Roseville |
Damsire | Reform |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1893 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Runnymede Farm |
Owner | H. Eugene Leigh & Edward D. Brown Michael F. Dwyer James R. Keene (at stud) |
Trainer | Edward D. Brown Hardy Campbell, Jr. |
Record | 40: 24-5-5[2] |
Earnings | $65,108[2] |
Major wins | |
Champagne Stakes (1895) Kentucky Derby (1896) Suburban Handicap (1897) Latonia Derby (1897) Brighton Handicap (1897) | |
Awards | |
American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1895) Leading sire in North America (1909) | |
Honours | |
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1955) |
Ben Brush (1893–1918) was a high class Thoroughbred racehorse who was the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby at its modern distance of 1¼ miles. He was later a very successful sire.
Breeding
editHe was bay stallion by Bramble (1879 champion handicap horse) his dam Roseville (a sister to Azra, the 1892 Kentucky Derby and Travers Stakes winner) was by Reform. Ben Brush was bred by Clai and Woodford.[2]
Racing record
editAt two years
editBen's dam Roseville was purchased by Colonel Catesby Woodford and Colonel Ezekial Clay of Runnymede Farm near Paris, Kentucky in 1891 from the horseman H. Eugene Leigh. At the time she was in foal to Leigh's La Belle Stud stallion, Bramble. When the resulting colt was offered for sale by Clay and Woodford, Leigh and his new partner, the African-American Hall of Famer Ed Brown, bought him for $1,200. Brown named him Ben Brush in honor of the superintendent of the old Gravesend Race Track at Sheepshead Bay in Gravesend on Coney Island, New York who'd allowed them scarce, therefore valuable, stall space. The original Ben Brush was a strict disciplinarian, but ever after, Leigh and Brown found him very lenient when it came to his namesake. When others complained of his double standard, the human Brush said, "Not a damn one of you fellows ever named a horse Ben Brush!"
Ben Brush raced 40 times, won 25 of those races, placed in five, and showed in 5, earning a career total of $65,208. Yet Joe Palmer said of him in his "Names in Pedigrees," that he was "not a particularly impressive-looking animal." The colt was a "rather small horse, a bit longer for his height than Bramble, almost equally coarse about the head."
Under trainer Ed Brown, Ben Brush began racing in Louisville. In his first race at two, he was an easy winner by five lengths. In his second start, he came home by three lengths. His third effort saw him easily galloping home ahead of the good horse Nimrod. Ben then went on to Ohio, winning the Emerald Stakes and the Diamond Stakes.
After five wins in five starts he went to New York where he ran third at Sheepshead Bay, but then easily won an overnight handicap giving away 19 pounds to his nearest rival. He then lost to the high class Requital in the Flatbush Stakes. He ran out of the money for the first time in the Great Eastern Handicap, but won the Holly Handicap. The Eastern elites mocked him as an "overrated little goat." At this point he was sold to the famous gambler Mike Dwyer who had, with his brother, raced his sire Bramble as well as the champions Hindoo, Hanover, Miss Woodford, and Luke Blackburn. Ben Brush would be the last champion to carry Mike's colors. The reported sum was $18,000. (A race for three-year-olds, the Dwyer Stakes, held at Belmont Park since 1918, was named in their honor.)
Now ridden by the great Hall of Famer Willie Simms, an African-American considered one of the greatest riders of his day, and trained by Hardy Campbell, Jr., Ben Brush went on to win six more races as a two year old. All in all, as a virtual baby Ben earned $21,398 with 13 wins in 16 starts. In 1895, he was Champion 2-year-old. At this point the deeply impressed Walter Vosburgh said he "could have beaten any three-year-old of that season." Not bad for a "goat." Easterners were suitably rebuffed. (Wille Simms also rode in England, where he was the first to introduce the short-stirrup style. After his stint in Europe, he was retained by Dwyer as his stable rider, but such was Simms's stature that he had the freedom to accept mounts from other stables as well. The nation's leading rider of 1893-94, he remains the only African-American jockey to have won the Derby, Preakness and Belmont.)
At three years
editBen's first race in his 1896 season was the Kentucky Derby. Without benefit of a prep race and having never run farther than seven furlongs in his career, he stumbled badly coming away from the barrier, nearly unseating Simms. By the time they recovered the race seemed over for Ben Brush and Willie Simms. But Ben made a tremendous move on the backstretch, caught First Mate on the turn for home, and then battled fiercely with Ben Elder down the stretch before winning by a nose. The correspondent for the "Spirit of the Times" wrote, "Simms made one last and desperate rally with Ben Brush, displaying as vigorous a piece of riding as was ever seen, and gradually but surely gaining on the other Ben, he finally beat him out by a nose in a terrific and hair-raising finish, which elicited a wild and spontaneous shout from the grandstand." When Simms saw how deeply his spurs had cut his game mount, and that his sides were covered in blood, he cried with shame. (Col. Clark, the guiding force behind the development of Churchill and then serving as the track's presiding judge, credited Simms with the victory. "It was a great race—one of the greatest I ever saw," Clark said. "There was no doubt in the world about the finish. Simms simply lifted Brush a foot or so in front at the last jump.") It was the first time the white and pink roses were darped over the shoulders of the victor.
Ben Brush finished his season with four wins and almost $27,000 in earnings.
At four years
editAt four Ben Brush was simply brilliant. In the view of many, it was Ben Brush's 1897 campaign that as Palmer put it, "perhaps put the stamp of greatness on him more unmistakably than did his performances at two and three." During this last racing season, Ben Brush met Ornament, the Champion Three Year Old Colt and 1897's Horse of the Year, giving Ornament nine pounds and still winning by three lengths. He beat the 1895 Preakness and Belmont winner Belmar; 1896 Belmont hero Hastings, later to gain immortality as the grandsire of Man o' War; 1897 champion three-year-old Ornament, the winner of 20 of 33 lifetime starts himself; and the elder statesman of the handicap set, the high class Clifford, who twice managed to defeat the great Henry of Navarre and Domino in 1894-95.
Stud record
editBen Brush was a tremendous success at stud, so much so that he became one of the fundamental building blocks of the American Thoroughbred. Although his direct male line no longer exists, he continues to influence the breed. Ben Brush appears in the pedigrees of 48 of the last 50 Derby winners, including every Derby winner from 1972 onward. The leading sire of 1909, Ben Brush produced Delhi, the 1904 Belmont Stakes winner and Champion Three Year Old Colt; Pebbles, the Juvenile Champion of 1914; Broomstick, who won the 1904 Travers Stakes, set a new American record for a mile and a quarter in the Brighton Handicap, and then going on himself to lead the Sires's List from 1913 until 1915 (siring Regret, the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby as well as ranking 71 in the top 100 U.S. Thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century by Blood-Horse magazine; and Sweep, twice leading sire, winner of the 1910 Belmont Stakes, and a champion at two and three. Ben's most influential daughter was Belgravia, who produced the renowned sire Black Toney, sire of Black Gold.
Ben Brush died in Versailles, Kentucky on June 8, 1918 at the age of 25. His headstone erroneously reads 1917.
Ben Brush was one of the first handful of horses inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1955.
Tabulated pedigree
editSire Bramble 1875 |
Bonnie Scotland 1853 |
Iago | Don John |
---|---|---|---|
Scandal | |||
Queen Mary | Gladiator | ||
Plenipotentiary Mare | |||
Ivy Leaf 1867 |
Australian | West Australian | |
Emilia | |||
Bay Flower | Lexington | ||
Bay Leaf | |||
Dam Roseville 1888 |
Reform 1871 |
Leamington | Faugh-a-Ballagh |
Pantaloon Mare | |||
Stolen Kisses | Knight of Kars | ||
Defamation | |||
Albia 1881 |
Alarm | Eclipse II | |
Maud | |||
Elastic | Kentucky | ||
Blue Ribbon (Family: A1) |
References
editExternal links
editTabulated pedigree
editSire Sir Hercules (GB) 1826 |
Whalebone 1807 |
Waxy | Potoooooooo |
---|---|---|---|
Maria | |||
Penelope | Trumpator | ||
Prunella | |||
Peri 1822 |
Wanderer | Gohanna | |
Catherine | |||
Thalestris | Alexander | ||
Rival | |||
Dam Guiccioli 1823 |
Bob Booty 1804 |
Chanticleer (GB) | Woodpecker |
Chanticleer's dam | |||
Ierne | Bagot | ||
Gamahoe mare | |||
Flight 1809 |
Escape | Highflyer | |
Squirrel mare | |||
Young Heroine | Bagot | ||
Heroine (Family: 11-d) |
See also
editReferences
edit
Tabulated pedigree
editSire St. Simon 1881 |
Galopin 1872 |
Vedette | Voltigeur |
---|---|---|---|
Mrs.Rid gway | |||
Flying Duchess | The Flying Dutchman | ||
Merope | |||
St.Angela 1865 |
King Tom | Harkaway | |
Pocahontas | |||
Adeline | Ion | ||
Little Fairy | |||
Dam Perdita II 1881 |
Hampton 1872 |
Lord Clifden | Newminster |
The Slave | |||
Lady Langden | Kettledrum | ||
Haricot | |||
Hermione 1875 |
Young Melbourne | Melbourne | |
C larissa | |||
La Belle Helene | St.Albans | ||
Teterrima (Family: 7-f) |
Tabulated pedigree
editSire Sadler's Well s (USA) B. 1981 |
Northern Dancer (CAN) B. 1961 |
Nearctic (CAN) | Nearco |
---|---|---|---|
Lady Angela | |||
Natalma (USA) | Native Dancer | ||
Almahmoud | |||
Fairy Bridge (USA) B. 1975 |
Bold Reason (USA) | Hail to Reason | |
Lalun | |||
Special (USA) | Forli | ||
Thong | |||
Dam Floripedes (FR) b. 1985 |
Top Ville (IRE) 1976 |
High Top (IRE) | Derring-Do |
Camanae | |||
Sega Ville (FR) | Charlottesville | ||
La Sega | |||
Toute Cy (FR) 1979 |
Tennyson (FR) | Val de Loir | |
Tidra | |||
Adele Toum ignon (IRE) | Zeedaan | ||
Alvorada (Family: 1-u) |
Tabulated pedigree
editSire The Tetrarch Gr. 1911 |
Roi Herode 1904 |
Le Samaritan | Le Sancy |
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Clementina | |||
Roxelane | War Dance | ||
Rose of York | |||
Vahren 1897 |
Bona Vista | Bend Or | |
Vista | |||
Castania | Hagioscope | ||
Rose Garden | |||
Dam Scotch Gift 1907 |
Symington 1893 |
Ayrshire | Hampton |
Atalanta | |||
Siphonia | St. Simon | ||
Palmflower | |||
Maund 1898 |
Tarporley | St. Simon | |
Ruth | |||
Ianthe | The Miser | ||
Devonshire Lass (Family: 14-a) |
Sire Spendthrift Ch. 1876 |
Australian 1858 |
West Australian | Melbourne |
---|---|---|---|
Mowerina | |||
Emilia | Young Emilius | ||
Persian | |||
Aerolite 1861 |
Lexington | Boston | |
Alice Carneal | |||
Florine | Glencoe | ||
Melody | |||
Dam Cinderella 1885 |
Tomahawk 1863 |
King Tom | Harkaway |
Pocahontas | |||
Mincemeat | Sweetmeat | ||
Hybla | |||
Manna 1874 |
Brown Bread | Weatherbit | |
Brown Agnes | |||
Tartlet | Birdcatcher | ||
Don John mare (1848) (Family: 21-a) |
Thoroughbred family 17
edit- Byerley Turk Mare(Byerley Turk) -- F-No.17
- Bald Galloway Mare(Bald Galloway)
- The Wharton Mare(Lord Carlisle's Turk)
- Old Lady(1715, Bald Galloway)
- Warlock Galloway(1728, Snake)
- Cottingham Mare(1745, Cottingham)
- Snip Mare(1758, Snip)
- Regulus Mare(1762, Regulus)
- Syphon Mare(1771, Syphon)
- │Maid of All Work(1786, Highflyer) -- 17-a
- │ Musidora(1804, Meteor)
- │ Idalia(1815, Peruvian)
- │ Biddy(1839, Bran) -- F-No.17-b
- │ The Gem(1851, Touchstone)
- │ Regalia(1862, Stockwell) -- F-No.17-c
- │Rachel(1790, Highflyer) -- F-No.17-d
Tabulated pedigree
editSire Blenheim Brown 1927 |
Blandford Brown 1919 |
Swynford Br. 1907 |
John o'Gaunt |
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Canterbury Pilgrim | |||
Blanche | White Eagle | ||
Black Cherry | |||
Malva Bay 1919 |
Charles o'Malley | Desmond | |
Goody Two-Shoes | |||
Wild Arum | Robert Le Diable | ||
Marliacea | |||
Dam Dustwhirl Bay 1926 |
Sweep Brown 1907 |
Ben Brush | Bramble |
Roseville | |||
Pink Domino | Domino | ||
Belle Rose | |||
Ormonda Chestnut 1916 |
Superman | Commando | |
Anomaly | |||
Princess Ormonde | Ormondale | ||
Ophirdale F-No . 8-h |
Tabulated pedigree
editSire Camel Brown 1822 |
Whalebone 1807 |
Waxy | Pot 8O's |
---|---|---|---|
Maria | |||
Penelope | Trumpator | ||
Prunella | |||
Selim mare 1812 |
Selim | Buzzard | |
Alexander mare (1790) | |||
Maiden | Sir Peter Teazle | ||
Phoenomenon mare (24) (1788) | |||
Dam Banter Brown 1826 |
Master Henry 1815 |
Orville | Beningbrough |
Evelina | |||
Miss Sophia | Stamford | ||
Sophia | |||
Boadicea 1807 |
Alexander | Eclipse | |
Grecian Princess | |||
Brunette | Amaranthus | ||
Mayfly (family: 14) |