Crofts Partner Horse Pedigree

Owner: John Crofts
Breeder: Charles Pelham
Winnings: 5 Starts: 4 - 1 - 0

2 Apr 1723 - 200gns match Newmarket v Baxter (rec 28 lbs); 1 May 1723 - 200gns match Newmarket v Tipler (rec 7 lbs); 14 May 1724 - 200gns match Newmarket v Sloven (rec 10 lbs); 11 Apr 1726 - 500gns match Newmarket v Sloven

Unbeaten in 1723, 1724 and 1726 and unraced in 1725 and 1727

Ran as Partner

Champion Sire in 1737, 1740, 1741 and 1743

Sire of Tartar, sire of 8 times Champion Sire [King] Herod; top class racehorse Sedbury, winner of 4 King's Plates in 1740 and 1741; Sly, Barforth, Little Partner, Cato, Spectre, Spinster, Badger and Little John, all King's Plate winners;

[Morton's] Traveller, an influential early sire in America; Traveller, a successful sire in Great Britain; Sister 2 to Miss Partner (dam of Matchem, Champion Sire 1772, 1773, 1774); the dam of Spectator (1756 Jockey Club Plate) and of the great broodmare Julia, a key mare in the lineage of Family 1; and numerous other significant broodmares

Died at Barforth in the latter part of 1747

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