Isinglass (horse)

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Isinglass


caption = Isinglass winning the 1893 Epsom Derby
by Harrington Bird
sire = Isonomy
grandsire = Sterling
dam = Dead Lock
damsire = Wenlock
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1890
country = Great Britain flagicon|UK
colour = Dark Bay
breeder = Harry L. B. McCalmont
owner = Harry L. B. McCalmont
trainer = James Jewitt
record = 12: 11-1-0
earnings = £58,655 ($291,275)
race = New Stakes (1892)
Middle Park Plate (1892)
Newmarket Stakes (1893)
2,000 Guineas (1893)
Epsom Derby (1893)
St. Leger Stakes (1893)
Eclipse Stakes (1894)
Princess of Wales's Stakes (1894)
Ascot Gold Cup (1895)
awards= 6th U.K. Triple Crown Champion (1893)
honours =
updated= December 22, 2006

Isinglass (1890-1911) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who dominated during his time in racing and won the English Triple Crown.

Trained by James Jewett, who had trained the winner of the 1876 Grand National Steeplechase, Isinglass was sent to the track at age two and won all three races entered. Racing at age three, Isinglass captured the 1893 2,000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the St. Leger Stakes making him only the 6th horse to win the English Triple Crown. That same year, he lost the only race of his career when he finished second in the Lancashire Plate. He was ridden in all his races by Tommy Loates.

At age four, Isinglass was limited to three starts and won all of them. Brought back the next year only for the prestigious Ascot Gold Cup, a race his sire Isonomy won back-to-back in 1879 and 1880, the five-year-old Isinglass scored an easy three-length victory. Retired after a career that saw him win races at distances from ⅝ of a mile to as much as 2½ miles, his world record for career earnings remained unbroken in England for fifty-seven years. Sent to Cheveley Park Stud near Newmarket for breeding duty, Isinglass sired three British Classic Race winners, Cherry Lass, Glass Doll, and Louvois. He also was very successful as a sire of broodmares, notably as the damsire of Prince Palatine.

Isinglass died at Cheveley Park Stud on December 5, 1911. His skeleton is at the Natural History Museum in London.

Pedigree

Pedigree for Isinglass
1890 Bay colt

Pedigree
name =Isinglass
inf =
f = Isonomy
b. 1875
m = Dead-lock
ch. 1878
ff = Sterling
b. 1868
fm = Isola Bella
ch. 1868
mf = Wenlock
b. 1869
mm = Malpractice
ch. 1864
fff = Oxford
ch. 1857
ffm = Whisper
b. 1857
fmf = Stockwell
ch. 1849
fmm = Isoline
ch. 1860
mff = Lord Clifden
b. 1860
mfm = Mineral
ch. 1863
mmf = Chevalier Dindustrie
b. 1854
mmm = The Dutchman's Daughter
b. 1854
ffff = Birdcatcher
fffm = Honey Dear
ffmf = Flatcatcher
ffmm = Silence
fmff = The Baron
fmfm = Pocahontas
fmmf = Ethelbert
fmmm = Bassishaw
mfff = Newminster
mffm = The Slave
mfmf = Rataplan
mfmm = Manganese
mmff = Orlando
mmfm = Industry
mmmf = The Flying Dutchman
mmmm = Red Rose|

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/isinglass Islinglass' pedigree and racing stats]
* [http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=840 Isinglass at the United Kingdom's National Horseracing Museum]