Reel was a thoroughbred race horse , and one of the greatest American Thoroughbred broodmares in history.
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42-491: A half interest in the yearling Reel for $ 1,000, and went on to become the sole owner of the filly before she was three. As a three-year-old, she began her career winning the first two races of two miles, before claiming the Jockey Club Purse in the four-miler. As a four-year-old, she won four more races, including a match race with Miss Foote. During this time, she almost set a new record for 4 miles (7:32), which
63-499: A large star and half-stockinged hind legs. He had a long, hollow back that sagged, especially as he aged, but still had a fine head, lovely neck, sound legs, deep girth, and powerful hindquarters with wide hips, inherited from his sire. Glencoe also inherited great staying power from his grandsire, Tramp. Glencoe was started as a three-year-old, by trainer James Edwards. Edwards is still the only trainer to have won four successive 2,000 Guineas, all four horses sired by Sultan, and bred by
84-504: A very violent attack of lung fever." The British press reported: "With all his ancient pluck, he stood up bravely against spasmodic colic and lung-fever, for ten days, and died quite exhausted, from bleeding at the nose." He was buried on Richard's Farm. During his time in the United States, Glencoe was leading sire eight times in the 1840s and 1850s. Most of his offspring raced in three and four mile races. He sired more than twice
105-566: Is an error, and he was actually foaled in 1860. Glencoe I Glencoe (1831–1857) was a British bred Thoroughbred racehorse , who won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes and the Ascot Gold Cup . He was one of the earliest Thoroughbred stallions imported into the United States and was a top broodmare sire there. Several outstanding sons of Lexington were out of Glencoe mares, including Asteroid , Kentucky and Norfolk. He
126-474: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Reel (horse)#Breeding career Reel was born in Alabama at the farm of James Jackson, although both her sire and dam were imported from England . Before he was purchased by James Jackson's stud farm, Reel's sire Glencoe won the 2,000 Guineas and Ascot Gold Cup during his English racing career. Glencoe
147-562: Is not known what happened to the last of his foals, which were born during the first years of the American Civil War , and it is thought that the births of many foals were not recorded. Many of these fine horses were drafted into the war effort, on both sides. Glencoe was bred in 1836 to two mares. He continued to stand in Alabama for seven years, with a stud fee of $ 100, siring 132 offspring. After Jackson's death in 1840, Glencoe
168-532: The Earl of Jersey . Glencoe, the trainer's favourite horse, was the first of these four winners. Glencoe first ran at the 1834 Second Riddlesworth Stakes , winning a £1,400 purse and finishing in a canter. Two days later at the same Newmarket meeting, however, he ran against the highly regarded Plenipotentiary in a £100 Sweepstakes and was beaten. He then won the Desert Stakes in a canter, before winning
189-603: The London Sporting Magazine wrote: "...from his late performances he has shown himself the best horse in the world. Where is there one to be found to meet him at weight for age? Not in England, assuredly." As a four-year-old, Glencoe won his only race of the season, the 2½ mile Ascot Gold Cup . He was entered in The Whip, a four-mile challenge race, during his second season, but there were no responses to
210-675: The 1836 breeding season, arriving in New York before being sent south. James Jackson was an Irish-American emigrant who had built up a business in Nashville and started the farm Forks of Cypress in northern Alabama . Glencoe was one of the first Thoroughbreds to be imported into the United States, and had an incredible effect on the Thoroughbred bloodlines of the country, siring a calculated 481 foals during his twenty-two years at standing at stud in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky . It
231-757: The 2,000 Guineas Stakes, for a purse of 1,750 sovereigns. Glencoe's second loss in a stakes race was the Derby Stakes , to Plenipotentiary and Shillelah. He then had a walk-over in the Royal Stakes, and won the rest of his races that season: the Goodwood Cup , by four lengths at the canter and beating Colwick, the Racing Stakes, against three others, and the Garden Stakes, by four lengths and defeating Colwick. After his three-year-old season,
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273-514: The challenge. Glencoe was then retired, with this record: Glencoe stayed in Britain for a short time after his retirement, standing at Tattersall's Dawley Wall Farm in Middlesex for his first stud season. He covered three Jersey and forty outside mares for a fee of $ 80, producing 30 foals. One of these mares, Marpessa, had raced against Glencoe earlier in his career. She produced his daughter,
294-1396: The farm of J.R. Gross, in northern Kentucky , where she was boarded with the rest of Well's horses. Reel's blood is found in later champions: Chris Evert (CCA Oaks), Winning Colors ( Santa Anita Derby , Santa Anita Oaks , and the Kentucky Derby , 2nd Breeders' Cup Distaff, 3rd Preakness Stakes ), Two Lea , Tim Tam (winner of the 1958 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and 2nd in the Belmont Stakes ) due to an injury, Sweet Native , and Chief's Crown , ( Breeders' Cup Juvenile, 2nd Preakness Stakes). 1844 : Lincoln (chestnut colt by Leviathan) 1845 : Stafford (gray colt by Leviathan) 1846 : Captain Elgee (gray colt by Leviathan) 1847 : Bob Green (gray gelding by Ambassador) 1848 : Ann Dunn (gray filly by Sovereign) 1850 : Lecomte (chestnut colt by Boston ) 1851 : Ashland (gray colt by Wagner) 1853 : Prioress (bay filly by Sovereign) 1854 : Calvit (gray colt by Yorkshire) 1855 : Starke (chestnut colt by Wagner) 1856 : Dentley (gray colt by Yorkshire) 1858 : Fanny Wells (gray filly by Sovereign) 1859 or 1860 : War Dance (chestnut colt by Lexington ) Note: The American stud book lists War Dance as foaled in 1859, but some claim that this
315-454: The great filly Pocahontas . Pocahontas is said to be the greatest broodmare in the history of racing, producing three outstanding sons— Stockwell , Rataplan , and King Tom . During his first year, Glencoe also sired Darkness, an Ascot Stakes winner, who is the third dam of the French sire, Plutus. Bought by American, James Jackson, Glencoe was then shipped to the United States at the end of
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357-699: Was a chestnut stallion who was foaled at his breeder's stud, located in Middleton Stoney , Oxfordshire . Glencoe was by Sultan , a versatile stallion who won races from six furlongs to over three miles. Sultan raced until the age of eight, and was leading sire in Great Britain for six consecutive years (1832–1837). The dam of Glencoe Trampoline (by Tramp), was a fairly good racemare, and an even better producer of racehorses, foaling not only Glencoe, but also Glenara and Glencaire (all by Sultan). Glencoe stood 15 hands 1¾ inches (1.57 m) high, with
378-559: Was held by Fashion. She lost once in her career, as a five-year-old, after she took a bad step and could not catch the leading colt, George Martin. She retired after that race, with 7 wins out of 8 starts. Reel is one of the greatest American broodmares of the 19th century. During her breeding career, she produced 13 foals to 7 different stallions, 10 of which were top classic runners. Reel passed on not only her running ability, but also her color (eight of her offspring were gray). Reel lived most of her breeding career (from 1845 onward) at
399-449: Was imported to Canada in 1836, before James Jackson purchased her. Her sire, Catton, was also sire to Trustee (father of the mare Fashion and other great horses). Galopade was one of the most productive mares ever bred. Her three great daughters—Fandango, Cotillion, and Reel—extend into the bloodlines of many winners of today. General Thomas Jefferson Wells , brother of Louisiana Governor James Madison Wells , purchased
420-641: Was not only the sire of Reel, but also of the great broodmare Pocahontas , considered to be one of the most important female lines in history. Through Pocahontas, his is the blood that runs through three great sires and racehorses: Stockwell , Rataplan , and King Tom (horse) . In America, Glencoe was the leading sire in 1847, 1849, 1850 and from 1854 to 1858, inclusive. During his first American season in 1837, Glencoe covered Galopade. She had already produced two fillies that would become successful broodmares when crossed to Glencoe: Fandango and Cotillion (both by Leviathan). Galopade had been bred by Colonel King, and
441-646: Was sent to stand in Nashville, Tennessee , for a fee of $ 50. He was sold in 1848, at the age of seventeen, to W.F. Harper of Midway, Kentucky , for the price of $ 3,000. Harper sent the horse to his Nantura Stud in 1855, and raised the stallion's stud fee to $ 100, where the chestnut produced 21 live foals from his 1855 covers, and 15 from his 1856 covers. Glencoe was sold again in 1857, at the age of twenty six, to Alexander Keene Richards, owner of Blue Grass Park in Georgetown, Kentucky . Glencoe died in August, "...from
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