Chester (horse)

Chester (horse)
Chester
Chester 1874.jpg
Sire Yattendon
Grandsire Sir Hercules
Dam Lady Chester (GB)
Damsire Stockwell
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1874
Country Australia
Colour Brown
Breeder Hon. Edward King Cox
Owner Hon. James White
Trainer Etienne de Mestre
Record 29: 19-6-1
Earnings $53,000[1]
Major wins
Champagne Stakes (1877)
Melbourne Cup (1877)
LKS Mackinnon Stakes (1878, 1880)
Victoria Derby (1878)
Craven Plate (1878)
AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1878, 1879)
Awards
Leading sire in Australia
(1888, 1890, 1892, 1893)
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)
Last updated on 18 May 2009

Chester (1874–1888) was a good Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and a leading sire. He defeated some of the best horses in training over distances ranging from five furlongs to three miles.[2] He was the Leading sire in Australia on four occasions.

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Breeding

Chester, on the side of his sire, was a third generation colonial-bred Australian stallion. Chester's sire was the influential stallion Yattendon, who was serving mares while still racing.[3] His dam Lady Chester (GB) was by Stockwell from Austrey by Harkaway.[1] Stockwell was out of the breed-shaping broodmare, Pocahontas.

Racing career

Chester's illustrious racing career began on New Year's Day 1877 in the Sydney Tattersall's Two Year Old Stakes, in which he came a close second to Viscount. After that, Chester won three consecutive races, all in the same week, and was spelled to await his three year old season. He was ridden in these three wins by jockey, G.Donnelly. Chester was then sold to James White.[4]

As a flying three year old, Chester won seven of his ten starts, setting three race records. He placed short-head second in the AJC Derby. Two starts after the AJC Derby, he started in the VRC Derby, he won, and claimed a track record – 2:43 – a record that held itself until 1897 by Amberite. His next race, just three days after his Derby triumph, was the gruelling two-mile (3,200m) Melbourne Cup over a slippery, muddy track. Chester held on to beat the lightly weighted Savanaka by a half-head in the record time of 3:33½.

He took a long and deserving spell after his spring campaign, and didn't return to racing until the April 1878. During his return, he won the AJC Autumn Stakes and two days later took second to Savanaka in the two-mile Sydney Cup, giving Savanaka twelve pounds. He won the AJC Cumberland Stakes over two miles, the next day winning the three-mile AJC Plate.

Lame for the majority of his next season, Chester ran twice. He won the AJC Spring Stakes over 12 furlongs, and came third in the AJC Craven Plate. A year later, he ventured out for the VRC Melbourne Stakes, which he won, despite being lame. He was entered in the Melbourne Cup two days later, assigned with top weight of 9st.6lb., but sore and out of condition for the two-miler, he placed sixth, with yet another Yattendon son, Grand Flaneur, taking the money.

Stud record

By the time Chester had retired to stand at Kirkham Stud,[1] near Camden, his owner, James White, had purchased a number of well-bred colonial broodmares. He began to build up a high-quality broodmare band through the 1880s, including Chester's dam, Lady Chester. White had also purchased Martini-Henry, by Musket, as a stallion for Kirkham, and he used as a cross with Chester daughters with some success. His best son, Abercorn (AJC Derby), defeated Carbine several times.[1] Chester sired 26 stakeswinners for 104 stakeswins, including Camoola (AJC & VRC Derbies), Carlyon, Dreadnought, Stromboli (AJC Derby, Sydney Cup), Titan and Uralla.[5]

Chester led the sire's list in Australia in 1887–88, 1889–90, 1891–92 and 1892–93, the latter two posthumous placings since Chester died on the 21 November 1891, aged seventeen from rupturing his bowel. He was buried at Kirkham Stud.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Ahnert, Rainer L. (Ed. in Chief), “Thoroughbred Breeding of the World”, Pozdun Publishing, Germany, 1970
  2. ^ Pring, Peter; "Analysis of Champion Racehorses", The Thoroughbred Press, Sydney, 1977, ISBN 0-908133-00-6
  3. ^ ASB: Yattendon (AUS) Retrieved 2011-1-23
  4. ^ a b Barrie, Douglas M., The Australian Bloodhorse, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1956
  5. ^ ASB - Chester Retrieved on 2009-7-27

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