Isinglass
Sire Line
Sterling
Notable Descendants
John O'Gaunt, by Isinglass
Swynford, by John O'Gaunt
Blandford, by Swynford
Bahram, by Blandford
Blenheim, by
Blandford
Mahmoud, by Blenheim
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Isinglass b c 1890
(Isonomy - Dead Lock, by Wenlock). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 3-m.
Bred and raced by Major Henry
McCalmont, he was admired for his gameness and stoutness despite his
inherent laziness. It was said that he often left his jockey rather more
tired than he at the end of a race. A Triple Crown winner, his only
defeat came from Raeburn (b c 1890 St Simon), although an ongoing rivalry with Ravensbury (b
c 1890 Isonomy) had made his jockey work.
He was described as a
"beautifully made horse of size and substance" with a
"splendid shoulder, strong back, lengthy muscular quarters and
capital bone" although it was said that his forelegs were inferior
to those of his sire.
He went to stud at Cheveley Park,
near Newmarket, where he was twice second on the list of Champion Sires
although he did not get the best mare books. His most important son was
probably Sir John Thursby's John O'Gaunt (b c 1901) who in turn sired Lord Derby's Champion Sire Swynford (br c 1907),
the latter getting the Champion Sire Blandford (br c 1919, who in his turn got the
Derby winners Bahram (b c 1932) and Blenheim (br c 1927). Blenheim was
the sire of the Derby Italiano winner Donatello (ch c 1934) and the Derby
winner Mahmoud (gr c 1933). Isinglass died in December
of 1911.
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| Pedigree |
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Isinglass |
Isonomy |
Sterling |
Oxford |
| Whisper |
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Isola Bella |
Stockwell |
| Isoline |
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Dead Lock |
Wenlock |
Lord Clifden |
| Mineral |
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Malpractice |
Chevalier d'Industrie |
| The Dutchman's Daughter |
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| Race Record |
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| In 1892 he won a maiden plate over 5 furlongs at
Newmarket, beating Sweet Laura (f 1890), Quickly Wise (b c 1890
Wisdom) and 8 others. Won the New Stakes at Ascot over 5
furlongs and 136 yards, beating Fealar (c 1890 Prism),
Ravensbury (b c 1890 Isonomy) and 7 others. Won the Middle Park
Plate at Newmarket over 6 furlongs, beating Ravensbury, Le
Nicham (bbl c 1890 Tristan) and 12 others. |
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| In 1893 he won the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket
over 8 furlongs, beating Ravensbury, Le Nicham and 7 others. Won
the Newmarket Stakes over 12 furlongs, beating Phocion (b c 1890
Hampton), Ravensbury and 4 others. Won the Derby Stakes at Epsom
over 12 furlongs, beating Ravensbury, Raeburn (b c 1890
St Simon) and 8 others. Won
the St Leger Stakes at Doncaster over 14 furlongs and 132 yards,
beating Ravensbury, Le Nicham and 4 others. Finished 2nd for the
Lancashire Plate at Manchester over 8 furlongs, won by Raeburn,
beating the St Leger winner La Fleche (br f 1889
St Simon) and 1 other, giving Raeburn
10 pounds and La Fleche more. |
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| In 1894 he won the Princess of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket
over 8 furlongd, beating Bullingdon (b c 1891 Melton), Ladas (b c 1891 Hampton)
and 4 others. Won the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park over 12
furlongs, beating Ladas, Ravensbury and 4 others. Won the Jockey
Club Stakes at Newmarket over 12 furlongs, beating the Prix
Royal Oak winner Gouvernail (ch c 1891 The Bard), Son O'Mine (b
c 1891 Isonomy) and 4 others. |
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| In 1895 he won the Gold Cup at Ascot over about 20 furlongs,
beating Reminder (b c 1891 Melanion) and the good Irish horse
Kilsallaghan (br c 1890 Brown Prince). |
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| Notable Offspring |
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| Bridge of Sighs (GB) |
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| b f 1905 (Isinglass - Santa Brigida, by
St Simon). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 8-g. The dam of Great Yorkshire Stakes winner Light Brigade (br
c 1910 Picton) who was sent to America and there sired Preakness winner Dr
Freeland (ch c 1926), Kentucky Oaks winner Rose of Sharon (br f 1926),
and Ariadne (br f 1926) the dam of Discovery (ch c 1931 Display). |
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| Cherry Lass (GB) |
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| b f 1902 (Isinglass - Black Cherry, by Bendigo). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 3-o. Bred and owned by William Hall Walker (Lord Wavertree), she won ten races including the Anglesey
Stakes, the One Thousand Guineas Stakes, the Oaks Stakes, the St
James Palace Stakes and the Nassau Stakes. She produced only
four foals before her untimely death at the age of twelve. One
of them, Absolute (b c 1909 Gallinule), won the Northern Derby
before he was sent to Italy and there got the Oaks d'Italia
winner Sorbita (b f 1918). |
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| Confection (GB) |
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| b f 1909 (Isinglass - Miramar, by Martagon). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 8-d. The dam of
the Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner Pendennis (b c 1917
Rabelais), and the 4th dam of
the good French winner and stallion Fine Top (br c 1949 Fine Art). |
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| Cornfield (GB) |
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| b f 1904 (Isinglass - Landrail, by St Serf). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 4-c. The dam of
Lord Manton's Oaks winner Love in Idleness (bbr f 1918
Bachelor's Double), and the grandam of Marshall Field's Middle
Park Stakes and July Cup winner Golden Corn (b f 1919 Golden
Sun). |
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| Coronation (GB) |
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| b f 1908 (Isinglass - Sceptre, by Persimmon). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 16-h. Ancestress of numbers of winners in France and
Italy, including Francois Dupre's good French winner Match (b c 1958
Tantieme), Match's brother, the Prix du Jockey Club winner
Reliance (b c 1962 Tantieme), their half brother, the Derby
winner Relko (b c 1960 Tanerko) and also of the Derby Italiano
and Gran Premio d'Italia winner Torbido (br c 1941 Ortello). |
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| Glasalt (GB) |
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| b f 1898 (Isinglass - Broad Corrie, by Hampton). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 3-l. The dam of
Lord Derby's One Thousand Guineas winner Canyon (b f
1913 Chaucer), the latter dam of his Two Thousand Guineas winner Colorado (br c 1923
Phalaris). Glasalt was also dam of
Lord Derby's Dewhurst Stakes winner King William (b c 1908
William the Third),
and 4th dam of Calumet Farm's American Triple Crown winner Citation
(b c 1945 Bull Lea). |
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| Glass Doll (GB) |
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| b f 1904 (Isinglass - Fota, by Hampton). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family
4-k. Bred by Jack Joel and trained by Charles Morton, she won
only two races, the first a minor race as a two year old and the
second, as a three year old and far from favourite, the Oaks Stakes.
She is ancestress of a host of winners including Derby Italiano
winner Central Park (ch c 1995 In the Wings), Tattersalls Gold
Cup winner Rebelline (b f 1998 Robellino), Poule d'Essai des
Pouliches winner Houseproud (bb f 1987 Riverman), Irish St Leger
winner Magnetic North (b c 1953 Borealis), and Irish Two
Thousand Guineas winner Mighty Ocean (ch c 1947 Coup de Lyon). |
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| Goody Two-Shoes (GB) |
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| b f 1899 (Isinglass - Sandal, by Kisber). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family
5-h. Bred by Major Harry McAlmont she was the dam of the
Ascot Gold Vase winner Charles O' Malley (bbr c 1907 Desmond),
and ancestress of such good stallions as Nureyev (b c 1977 Northern
Dancer) and Sadler's Wells (b c 1981 Northern Dancer). |
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| Jacobite (FR) |
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| ch c 1898 (Isinglass - Mistress Gilly, by Frontin). Sire
Line
Sterling.
Family 5-f. Won the Prix
Royal Oak and the Grand Prix de Deauville. |
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| John o' Gaunt (GB) |
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| b c 1901 (Isinglass - La Fleche, by St Simon). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 3-e. Owned by Sir
John Thursby and ridden by his half brother, the amateur jockey
Sir George Thursby, he won only one small race although he
managed to finish second to St Amant (b c 1901 St Frusquin) for
both the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby. He sired the good
Italian horse, Premio Parioli, St Leger Italiano, and Gran
Premio di Milano winner Burne Jones (br c 1915). He also got the
Dewhurst Stakes and Two Thousand Guineas winner Kennymore (b c 1911).
Without doubt his most important son was Lord Derby's St Leger
winner and Champion Sire Swynford (br c 1907). |
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| Lady Lightfoot (GB) |
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| b f 1900 Isinglass - Glare, by Ayrshire). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family
1-m. The dam of William Hall Walker's St Leger and Ascot
Gold Cup winner Prince Palatine (b c 1908 Persimmon), who in
turn sired Captain Whitworth's Irish Derby winner He Goes (br c
1917). |
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| Louviers (GB) |
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| b c 1906 (Isinglass - St Louvaine, by Wolf's Crag). Sire
Line
Sterling.
Family 1-s. A full
brother to Louvois and a winner of the Coventry Stakes and the Newmarket Stakes
himself,
he sired the Deutsches Derby winner Landgraf (b c 1914), the
latter the sire of many good winners in Germany including the Deutsches
Derby winners Ferro (br c 1923) and Hausfreund (b c 1919). The
line descends tail-male to the Deutsches Derby winner and
stallion Orsini (b c 1954 Ticino) and beyond. |
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| Louvois (GB) |
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| b c 1910 (Isinglass - St Louvaine, by Wolf's Crag). Sire
Line
Sterling.
Family 1-s. Bred by Walter Raphael, he won the Dewhurst
Stakes, the Two
Thousand Guineas Stakes and the Prince of Wales's Stakes. He covered at
the Confey Stud in 1915 to 1918 and at Loughbrown Stud, Curragh,
in 1919 to 1924. He was the sire of James Maher's Two Thousand
Guineas winner St Louis (b c 1919),
and Harpsichord (bbr f 1918), she the dam of Eclipse Stakes winner Royal Minstrel (gr c
1925 Tetratema) and the ancestress of HH the Aga Khan's Gallant Man (b c 1954 Migoli). |
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| Lygie (FR) |
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| ch f 1900 (Isinglass - Livie, by Silvio). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family
17-b. Finished 2nd for the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches to
Semendria (gr f 1897 Le Sancy) and
later the dam of the Prix de Diane and Prix Royal Oak winner Medeah (ch
f 1906 Masque). Lygie is also
ancestress of the American Triple Crown winner Omaha (ch c 1932 Gallant
Fox) and the
Kentucky Derby winners Decidedly (gr c 1959 Determine) and Johnstown (b c 1936
Jamestown). Also among her descendants are Champion Stakes
winner Northern Baby (b c 1976 Northern Dancer) and Two Thousand
Guineas winner Mark of Esteem (b c 1993 Darshaan). |
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| Malatesta (GB) |
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| ch f 1898 (Isinglass - Parisina, by St Simon). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 4-e. The dam
of Grand Prix de Paris winner La Farina (ch c 1911 Sans Souci) he the sire of
the Prix de Diane winner Dorina (ch f 1923), the Poule d'Essai
des Pouliches winner La Dame de Trefle (ch f 1922), the Poule
d'Essai des Poulains winner Tapin (b c 1921), and the Prix Lupin
winner Bubbles (ch c 1925). Among her descendants are Kentucky
Derby winner Gallahadion (b c 1937 Sir Gallahad) and Blue Grass
Stakes winner Busy American (b c 1919 North Star). |
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| Mrs. Despard (GB) |
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| b f 1905 (Isinglass - Cri de Guerre, by McMahon). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 19-b. The dam of
(1) the Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner McKinley (bbr c 1916
Macdonald) who got the dam of the Prix d'Ispahan winner
Menetrier (br c 1944 Fair Copy), and
(2) the Derby Roman winner Zori-de-Zi (b c 1910 Collar), the
latter a highly successful stallion in Romania. |
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| Star Shoot (IRE) |
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| ch c 1898 (Isinglass - Astrology, by Hermit). Sire Line
Sterling.
Family 9-f. Bred at the
Eyrefield Lodge Stud by Major Eustace Loder, wind problems
affected his turf career, however he won several minor races and
ran a dead heat with Ian (b c 1898 St Serf) for the
National Stakes at Sandown Park. Sent to America in 1901 he was a
Leading Sire there from 1911 to 1917 and again in 1919. He got,
among others, the 1921 Horse of the Year Grey Lag (ch c 1918),
the American Triple Crown winner Sir Barton (ch c
1916), the Kentucky Oaks winner Wing Ting (b f 1904), and the Coaching
Club American Oaks winner Wistful
(ch f 1914). He died at John E Madden's Hamburg Place stud in November
of 1919. |
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