Flying Childers

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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Flying Childers (1715–1741)[1] was a famous undefeated 18th-century thoroughbred racehorse, foaled in 1714 at Carr House, Warmsworth, Doncaster, and is sometimes considered as the first truly great racehorse in the history of thoroughbreds[2] and the first to catch the public imagination.[3]

Breeding

Flying Childers was sired by the great Darley Arabian,[1] one of the three foundation stallions of the thoroughbred breed. His dam, Betty Leedes,[1] was by (Old) Careless,[1] and she was inbred to Spanker in the second and third generations (2x3). Betty Leedes was also the dam of the unraced, but successful sire, Bartlett's or Bleeding Childers who was also by the Darley Arabian. (Old) Careless was by the great stallion Spanker, and both were thought to be the best racehorses of their generation.[4] Betty Leedes was one of the few outside mares allowed to breed to the Darley Arabian, who was mostly kept as a private sire by his owner.[5]

Racing record

Flying Childers gained the name of his breeder, Colonel Leonard Childers, in addition to his owner, the Duke of Devonshire, often being referred to as either Devonshire Childers or Flying Childers or sometimes simply Childers.Template:Sfn Although the Duke received many offers for the colt, including one to pay for the horse's weight in gold, he remained the animal's owner throughout his life.

First racing at age six, the 15.2-hand colt won his maiden race, held April 1721 at Newmarket, to defeat Speedwell over four miles. He then won his second race in October, also at Newmarket, in a walk over, and his third race against Almanzor. It is said he completed this race, over the Round Course at Newmarket, in 6 minutes, 40 seconds and that he reached a speed of 82 1/2 feet per second or 1 mile per minute.Template:Sfn This was claimed to make Flying Childers the only horse on record as having matched the top speed of the unbeaten Eclipse.Template:Sfn By way of comparison, this would be nearly 40 seconds faster than the unbeaten Frankel ran the Newmarket Rowley Mile in his famous 2,000 Guineas victory of 2011, over 30 seconds faster than the current mile track record and very close to the five furlong track record set by Lochsong in 1994.[6]

As a seven-year-old, he won his one start, a race at Newmarket where he beat Chaunter. In 1723, he won both his starts by walk over, one in April at Newmarket, the other a matchrace against Bobsey, who forfeited. Flying Childers then retired to stud.

Summary

File:James Seymour - Flying Childers Galloping to Left, Bridled but not Saddled - B2001.2.1237 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg
James Seymour - "Flying Childers Galloping to Left, Bridled but not Saddled" (Yale Center for British Art)
Date Race name Dist (miles) Course Prize Odds Runners Place Runner-up
Template:Dts Match race v. Speedwell 4 Newmarket 500 guineas not known 2 1 Speedwell
Template:Dts Match race v. Speedwell not known Newmarket 500 guineas not known 2 1 forfeit
Template:Dts Trial v. Almanzor and Brown Betty 4 Newmarket none not known 3 1 not known
Template:Dts Match race v. Chaunter 6 Newmarket 1000 guineas not known 2 1 Chaunter
Template:Dts Race v. Stripling and Bridgewater's Lonsdale Mare not known Newmarket 100 guineas not known 3 1 forfeit
Template:Dts Match race v. Bobsey not known Newmarket 100 guineas not known 2 1 forfeit

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Stud record

Flying Childers stood as a private stallion at the Duke's Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire, until his death in 1741 at age 26. His offspring included several full-siblings from the Basto Mare: Blacklegs (br. 1728), a successful racehorse and sire for the Duke, Snip (b. 1736), a poor racehorse who sired the great stallion (Old) Snap, Second (br. 1732), who defeated both Sultan and Partner in 1737, Bay Basto (1729), Hip (1733), and Brown Basto (1738).

He also sired Spanking Roger (ch. 1732), who was undefeated against some of the best horses in the country except for one race where he threw his rider, Roundhead (ch. 1733), Fleec'em, Steady, and Blaze (b. 1733). Blaze was especially important, producing Sampson (his descendant Messenger is the founding sire of the Standardbred and very important in the Tennessee Walking Horse), Scrub, Childers (owned by John Tayloe II of Mount Airy Stud), and Shales (founding sire of the Norfolk Roadster, great influence on the Hackney). Lastly, Flying Childers was the damsire of the important foundation Thoroughbred sire Herod.

He died in 1741, aged 26.[1] It was said he was "the fleetest horse that ever ran at Newmarket or, as generally believed, that was ever bred in the world".Template:Sfn

Legacy

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The Flying Childers Inn, Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire

Such was the horse's fame that pubs were named after him, including at Bessacarr in his home town Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire, and Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire.

Sire line tree

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Pedigree

Pedigree of Childers (Flying), bay stallion, 1715[9]
Sire
Darley Arabian
b. c.1700 		(unknown) (unknown) (unknown)
(unknown)
(unknown) (unknown)
(unknown)
(unknown) (unknown) (unknown)
(unknown)
(unknown) (unknown)
(unknown)
Dam
Betty Leedes c.1702 		Old Careless c.1692 Spanker*
b. c.1670 		D'Arcy Yellow Turk
Old Morocco Mare*
Barb mare c.1682 (unknown)
(unknown)
Cream Cheeks c.1692 Leedes Arabian
blk. c.1685 		(unknown)
(unknown)
Charming Jenny c.1680 Spanker*
Old Morocco Mare*

Template:Asterisk Flying Childers is inbred 3D × 4D to the stallion Spanker, meaning that he appears third generation and fourth generation on the dam side of his pedigree.

Template:Asterisk Flying Childers is inbred 4D × 4D to the mare Old Morocco Mare, meaning that she appears twice in fourth generation on the dam side of his pedigree.

See also

References

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  4. ↑ Ahnert, Rainer L. (editor in chief), Thoroughbred Breeding of the World, Pozdun Publishing, Germany, 1970
  5. ↑ Tb Heritage
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  11. ↑ Studbook: Early C
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  16. ↑ Biography: Spanking Roger
  17. ↑ Foundation Sire: Blaze
  18. ↑ Biography: Blaze
  19. ↑ Foundation Sire: Sampson
  20. ↑ Biography: Sampson
  21. ↑ Foundation Sire: Engineer
  22. ↑ Biography: Engineer
  23. ↑ Foundation Sire: Mambrino
  24. ↑ Biography: Mambrino
  25. ↑ Biography: Bay Malton
  26. ↑ a b Whyte 1840
  27. ↑ Doncaster Cup Winners
  28. ↑ a b Hackney Horse
  29. ↑ Pedigree: Bellfounder
  30. ↑ Harness Museum: Hambletonian
  31. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  32. ↑ Foundation Sire: Snip
  33. ↑ Foundation Sire: Snap
  34. ↑ Biography: Snap
  35. ↑ Foundation Sire: Omnium
  36. ↑ Studbook: Early NO
  37. ↑ Foundation Sire: Snap (Latham)
  38. ↑ Foundation Sire: Snap (Chedworth)
  39. ↑ Studbook: Early M
  40. ↑ Foundation Sire: Ancient Pistol
  41. ↑ CHAPTER XVII. MESSENGER AND HIS ANCESTORS
  42. ↑ Foundation Sire: Goldfinder
  43. ↑ Biography: Goldfinder
  44. ↑ Foundation Sire: Juniper
  45. ↑ Studbook: Early S
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Sources

External links

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