| Owner: 1) Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet 2) Prince William, Duke of Cumberland Breeder: Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet Winnings: 5 Starts: 3 - 1 - 1
April 1750 - 50 guineas match versus Captain Shafto's filly; 3 October 1750 - £50 Plate Bishop Auckland; 17 August 1751 - King's Plate [mares] Hambleton (from Camilla)
17 July 1750 - 3rd £50 Prize Durham; 3 April 1752 - 2nd King's Plate [mares] Newmarket (to Camilla)
Grandam of high class racehorse Pretender, of useful racehorse Gnawpost, winner between 1770 and 1774; 3rd dam of high class racehorse Oliver Cromwell, winner of 11 races including the 140 Guineas Stakes and the 4yo division of the Jockey Club Plate in 1783; of No Pretender (1792 King's Plate Burford, 1793 King's Plates Salisbury, Warwick); of Pandolpho (1794 King's Plate Salisbury);
and of top class racehorse Cavendish (1789 Great Subscription Purse [6yo+ division] York, King's Plate Carlisle, 1790 King's Plate York)
Half sister to Spilletta, dam of the great racehorse and sire Eclipse, the greatest racehorse of the 18th century and perpetuator of the Darley Arabian direct male line from which over 95% of the world's current thoroughbreds descend
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