Blue Gown
| Blue Gown | |
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| Sire | Beadsman |
| Grandsire | Weatherbit |
| Dam | Bas Bleu |
| Damsire | |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1865 |
| Country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Sir Joseph Hawley |
| Owner | Sir Joseph Hawley C J Lefevre Princess Pless James R. Keene |
| Trainer | John Porter |
| Record | 30: 18-4-0 (incomplete) |
| Major wins | |
| Sunning Hill Stakes (1867) Fern Hill Stakes (1867) Clearwell Stakes (1867) Ascot Gold Cup (1868) Derby Stakes (1868) Fitzwilliam Stakes Craven Stakes (1868) Newmarket Biennial Stakes (1868) Epsom Trial Stakes (1869) Goodwood Craven Stakes (1869) Winchester Queen's Plate (1869) |
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Blue Gown (1865 – November 25, 1880) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse that was the winner of the 1868 Epsom Derby and Ascot Gold Cup. He was one of the best colts of his generation at two, three years and four of age, but his form declined in 1870 after an unsuccessful period in France. He was retired to stud, where he had considerable success as a sire of winners in Germany. Blue Gown died in 1880 while being shipped to the United States.
Blue Gown was a bay horse standing 15.3 hands high, sired by the 1858 Epsom Derby winner Beadsman out of the bred mare Bas Bleu. Blue Gown derived his name from the long blue gowns Scottish beadsmen would wear to collect alms for the poor in the name of the reigning monarch. Blue Gown was bred and owned by Sir Joseph Hawley. The colt was trained by John Porter, first at Cannon's Heath and then at Kingsclere.
In 1867, Blue Gown won the Sunning Hill Stakes on his debut at Ascot Racecourse in spring and then finished third to the year's outstanding two-year-old Lady Elizabeth in the Weston Stakes at Bath. At Royal Ascot in June he won the Fern Hill Stakes over half a mile, racing against older horses. After a three month break he returned for the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster in September. He finished first, beating Virtue by half a length, but was disqualified when his jockey, John Wells weighed in more than two pounds over the stipulated weight. Blue Gown finished last in a sweepstakes at the same meeting.
Blue Gown's next race of the season was held in private. In early October, Hawley tried his three best two-year-olds against each other, and Blue Gown finished third behind Rosicrucian and the previously unraced filly Green Sleeve. Blue Gown returned to form to win the Clearwell Stakes at Newmarket's Second October meeting, winning very easily by one and a half lengths from St Ronan. At the same meeting Rosicrucian won the Criterion Stakes and then finished second to Green Sleeve in the Middle Park Stakes.
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