Pero Gomez br.c
1866 (Beadsman - Salamanca, by Student). Sire Line Eclipse.
Family 27-a.
Bred at Leybourne
Grange, Kent, by Sir Joseph Henry Hawley (1814-1875),
3rd Baronet, Pero Gomez was a full brother to the winner
Vasco di Gamma (br.c. 1872) who was later exported to
Victoria and left some good runners in New Zealand.
Hawley also bred the sire of Pero Gomez, the Derby
winner Beadsman (br.c. 1855 Weatherbit), and owned a
number of other classics winners including Teddington
(ch.c. 1848 Orlando), Blue Gown (b.c. 1865 Beadsman) and
Miami (b.f. 1844 Venison).
Described as
standing fifteen hands three inches, he was said to have
excellent shoulders with a fine depth of girth although
he stood somewhat upright on his pasterns and was
thought weak through his loins and quarters. An amiable,
good-natured sort in the stable, he was thoroughly game
on the race course.
One of the best
two year olds of 1868, along with the speedy Belladrum
(br.c. 1866 Stockwell)
whose respiratory troubles undid him at three and
Pretender (b.c. 1866 Adventurer), Pero Gomez won the
Middle Park Plate from the future One Thousand Guineas
winner Scottish Queen (ch.f. 1866 Blair Athol) and ran a
dead-heat with Wild Oats (b.c. 1866 Wild Dayrell) in the Criterion Stakes. At three he
easily won the Biennial Stakes at Newmarket and was
considered unlucky to lose the Derby, by a nod that only
the judge could see, to Pretender. At Ascot he won the
(Ascot) Derby and finished 2nd in the Prince of Wales's
Stakes to Martyrdom (ch.c. 1866 St. Albans). At
Doncaster he won the St. Leger from the favoured
Pretender, who was done after a mile, and Martyrdom, who
appeared to be gaining but was easily disposed of at the
end. Two days later he defeated Pretender by half a
length in the Doncaster Stakes. He walked-over for the
Grand Duke Michael Stakes and the Royal Stakes before
finishing 3rd to Cardinal York (b.c. 1866 Newminster),
to whom he was conceding thirty pounds, in the Free
Handicap, which was his final race.
Sold in 1871 for
3000 guineas he entered the Bonehill Stud. His best son was the
Two Thousand Guineas winner Peregrine (br.c. 1878),
although his son Pontiac (bl.c. 1881), exported in
utero, won the Suburban Handicap and other races in
America and became a useful stallion there. His best
daughter was probably Connie (b.f. 1884), 2nd dam of the
Ascot Gold winner Santoi (bbr.c. 1897 Queen's Birthday),
from whom most of Family
1-p descends.
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