| Owner: King William IV / Lord Stradbroke / John Greatrex & John Forth / Mr. William Theobald / 3rd Marquis of Exeter Breeder: Royal Stud at Hampton Court
At 2: 2nd Criterion Stakes (behind a DH)
Foundation mare of Family 3n.
Pocahontas was perhaps the most influential horse in history, producing three great sons - Stockwell, Rataplan, and King Tom - and five viable daughters. Stockwell is the most notable of the three, as he appears in the pedigrees of Phalaris, Nearco, and Native Dancer.
In all, she produced 15 foals, the last at the age of 25. It is believed that, along with her roaring trait, Pocahontas may have carried the "X-factor," a gene mutation for large hearts. This may be because she had 13 crosses to Eclipse in her pedigree. Many stallions have had multiple crosses to Pocahontas, including: The Tetrarch (7), Man o' War (9), Precipitation (27), Nearco (37), Raise A Native (175), Secretariat (249), Northern Dancer (272) and Mr. Prospector(353).
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