| Owner: Robert Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Walpole Breeder: Sir Philip Honeywood
12 April 1735 - King's Plate [mares] Newmarket (from Meliora)
The fifth earliest mare in the lineage of Family 7
A great broodmare, she is dam of top class racehorses Bustard (1747 King's Plate Newmarket), [Portmore's] Othello (1749 King's Plates Salisbury, Canterbury, Lewes, Newmarket, 1752 King's Plate The Curragh); and of the great Duchess, through which the maternal line of the family continues (1753 King's Plates [mares] Hambleton and Newmarket, 1754 King's Plates Nottingham, York, Lincoln, Newmarket, 1755 King's Plate Newmarket), and ancestress of many top class racehorses including Saltram (1783 Derby), Annette (1787 Oaks), Beningborough (1794 St Leger),
[Williamson's] Ditto (1803 Derby), Pan (1808 Derby),
Gustavus (1821 Derby), Mundig (1835 Derby), Cotherstone (1843 2000 Guineas, Derby), Extempore (1843 1000 Guineas), West Australian (1853 2000 Guineas, Derby, St Leger), Wild Darrell (1855 Derby), Diophantus (1861 Derby) and Feu de Joie (1862 Oaks)
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