Black Jester
| Black Jester | |
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| Sire | Polymelus |
| Grandsire | Cyllene |
| Dam | Absurdity |
| Damsire | Melton |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1911 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Brown |
| Breeder | Jack Barnato Joel |
| Owner | Jack Barnato Joel |
| Trainer | Charles Morton |
| Record | 23: 9–6–1 |
| Earnings | £15,000 |
| Major wins | |
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Molecomb Stakes (1913) Richmond Stakes (1913) Sussex Stakes (1914) St Leger Stakes (1914) City and Suburban Handicap (1915) June Stakes (1915) |
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Black Jester (1911–1928) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for winning the Classic St Leger Stakes in 1914. The colt won nine times from twenty-three races in a track career which lasted from 1913 until October 1915. Black Jester was one of the leading two-year-olds of 1913 when he won both Molecomb Stakes and the Richmond Stakes at Goodwood. As a three-year-old he finished third in the 2000 Guineas and was unplaced in the Epsom Derby before winning the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood and the St Leger at Doncaster in September. In 1915 he won the City and Suburban Handicap and the June Stakes, a wartime substitute for the Coronation Cup. He became increasingly difficult to train and at the end of the season he was retired to stud where he became a successful sire of broodmares.
Black Jester was a brown colt bred by his owner Jack Barnato Joel, the South African mining magnate and three-time British flat racing Champion Owner. Joel sent his colt to his private trainer Charles Morton at Letcombe Bassett in Berkshire. He proved to be a temperamental and difficult colt, and could not be relied upon to produce his best form. Black Jester was described as "not a very big colt", but "very truly made" and "a sparkling mover".
Black Jester was sired by Polymelus, who won the Champion Stakes in 1906, and went on to much greater success as a stallion. Apart from Black Jester, he sired the Derby winners Pommern, Humorist and Fifinella and through his son Phalaris is the direct male-line ancestor of most modern Thoroughbreds. He was the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland on five occasions. Black Jester's dam was Absurdity, one of the foundation mare's of Joel's Childwick Bury stud: in addition to Black Jester she produced seven other winners including Jest (Epsom Oaks) and Absurd (Middle Park Stakes, champion sire in New Zealand). Her later descendants included the classic winners Royal Palace, Fairy Footsteps (1000 Guineas) and Light Cavalry (St Leger).
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