Camarine
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Camarine by John Frederick Herring, Sr.
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| Sire | Juniper |
| Grandsire | Whiskey |
| Dam | Rubens mare |
| Damsire | Rubens |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1828 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Robert Wilson, 9th Baron Berners |
| Owner | Robert Wilson Sir Mark Wood, 2nd Baronet |
| Trainer | H. Scott |
| Record | 14:13-1-0 |
| Major wins | |
| Newmarket Town Plate (1831) Trial Stakes (1831) Newmarket St Leger (1831) Claret Stakes (1832) Ascot Gold Cup (1832) The Whip (1832) Audley End Stakes (1832) Craven Stakes (1833) King's Plate (Newmarket) (1833) Jockey Club Plate (1833) |
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Camarine (1828 – 20 March 1841) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. After finishing second on her only start as a two-year-old, Camarine was undefeated for the next three years, winning thirteen consecutive races at distances ranging from five furlongs to two and a half miles. Her dominance over her contemporaries was compared to that of Eclipse sixty years earlier.
The filly was never entered for any of the British Classic Races but proved herself the best of her generation by beating the winners of both the Epsom Derby and the Epsom Oaks in the space of three days at Newmarket in October 1831. In the following year she won the Ascot Gold Cup, the year's most important weight-for-age race in a run-off after being held to a dead heat by the St Leger winner Rowton. From the summer of 1832, few owners were willing to try their horses against her and she won several prizes by walkover or forfeit. She was retired from racing after sustaining an injury in the spring of 1834. She made little impact as a broodmare and died in 1841.
Camarine was a dark chestnut mare with a white blaze and four white socks bred near Brandon in Suffolk by Robert Wilson, 9th Baron Berners. She was sired by Wilson's horse Juniper, a "useful" stallion, best known as the damsire of Velocipede although he may have been the sire of the 1000 Guineas winner Catgut. Camarine came from Juniper's last crop of foals and was said to bear a striking resemblance to her sire. In early 1831, Camarine entered the ownership of Sir Mark Wood, 2nd Baronet, whose other good horses included Lucetta (Ascot Gold Cup) and Galantine (1000 Guineas).
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