Blucher (horse)

Blucher
Blucher in an engraving of 1816 after a painting by James Barenger
Sire	Waxy
Grandsire	Pot-8-Os
Dam	Pantina
Damsire	Buzzard
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1811
Country	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	2nd Lord Stawell
Record	6:5-1-0
Major wins
Epsom Derby (1814)

Blucher (foaled 1811, died 1841) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire named after the Prussian General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, one of the most successful commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, but his name was invariably spelt without the umlaut.

Bred by Lord Stawell, and one of the many notable offspring of the great Waxy (1790–1818), Blucher's first year of racing was triumphant. Between July 1813 and June 1814 he ran five times and was unbeaten, his wins climaxing with the Epsom Derby of 1814. After that he had only one further race, at the beginning of the 1815 flat season, in which he placed second. He was then retired to stud at Marclaud's near Farnham.

Blucher had little success as a sire but was an ancestor in the dam's line of the double classic winner Pretender (1866).

Blucher was a bay horse bred by Henry Bilson-Legge, 2nd Baron Stawell. His sire was the Derby winner Waxy (1790–1818) and his dam Pantina. Through Waxy, Blucher was descended from the Darley Arabian.

Through his dam, Blucher was twice descended from the noble Herod, the foundation sire through whom the direct male line of the Byerley Turk survives. He was again inbred from Herod through Waxy's dam, Maria, a mare bred by Lord Bolingbroke. Herod was himself inbred from two of the offspring of the Darley Arabian, one of them being the undefeated Flying Childers.