Cadland

Cadland
Cadland and Jem Robinson. Painting by John Ferneley.
Sire	Andrew
Grandsire	Orville
Dam	Sorcery
Damsire	Sorceror
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1825
Country	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Colour	Brown
Breeder	John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland
Owner	5th Duke of Rutland
Trainer	R. D. Boyce
Record	27:17-4-5
Major wins
2000 Guineas (1828) Epsom Derby (1828) Grand Duke Michael Stakes (1828) Newmarket St Leger (1828) Oatlands Stakes (1829) Audley End Stakes (1829) Jockey Club Plate (1830) The Whip (1830)

Cadland (1825–1837) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from April 1828 to 1831 he ran twenty-five times and won fifteen races, with several of his wins being walkovers in which all of his opponents were withdrawn. In the summer of 1828 he ran a dead heat with The Colonel in the Derby, before winning the race in a deciding run-off. He went on to have a long and successful racing career, winning a further eleven races before his retirement, and developing a notable rivalry with his contemporary Zinganee. Cadland was disappointing as a sire of winners in England and was exported to France, where he was much more successful. He died in 1837.

Cadland was a brown horse standing 15.3 hands high bred by his owner the Duke of Rutland. His dam was the Duke's highly successful racemare Sorcery, who won the Epsom Oaks in 1811 and several other important races. As a broodmare, however, she had been a disappointment and had been barren for two years before being sent to a cheap and undistinguished stallion named Andrew in 1824. Andrew, a well-bred but not particularly successful racehorse, had attracted little attention as a sire, and was covering at a fee of one guinea when Sorcery was one of only three or four Thoroughbred mares sent to him in the year of Cadland's conception.

The colt who would become Cadland was unraced at two and was still unnamed at the start of 1828, being known as "The Sorcery Colt" after his dam. His racing career was scheduled to begin at the Craven meeting at Newmarket in April 1828 with a run in a match race but his opponent, a colt named Segar was withdrawn, allowing his owners to collect the £100 forfeit. At the next Newmarket meeting he ran as "Cadland" for the first time to win a two-runner Produce Stakes on 21 April, running away from his only opponent. He then reappeared the following day for the 2000 Guineas. Racing on soft, muddy ground, he started at odds of 5/1 and won by a head from Lepanto, with the favourite Navarino finishing well beaten. At the same meeting he recorded his first official walkover when the other eight runners in a Sweepstakes were withdrawn by their owners.