Galantine (horse)

Galantine
Sire	Reveller
Grandsire	Comus
Dam	Snowdrop
Damsire	Highland Fling
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1828
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Sir Mark Wood, 1st Baronet
Owner	Sir Mark Wood, 2nd Baronet
Trainer	H. Scott
Record	11:4-2-1
Major wins
1000 Guineas (1831)

Galantine (foaled 1828) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the eighteenth running of the classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse in 1831. Running exclusively at Newmarket, the filly ran eleven times and won four races in a racing career which lasted from April 1830 until May 1831. After being beaten in both her races as a two-year-old, Galantine won a controversial race for the 1000 Guineas on her three-year-old debut, beating the odds-on favourite Oxygen. Although she was considered a lucky and sub-standard classic winner, Galantine went on to win three match races at before the end of the season. She was retired from racing after two unsuccessful runs in 1832.

Galantine was a bay mare bred by Sir Mark Wood, 1st Baronet the Member of Parliament for Gatton and owned during her racing career by his son and successor Sir Mark Wood, 2nd Baronet. She was sired by Reveller, a Yorkshire champion whose wins included the St Leger Stakes in 1818 and many other long-distance races on Northern courses. Galantine was his only classic winner, but he sired Mark Wood's Ascot Gold Cup winner Lucetta as well as The Mummer (July Stakes) and Ascot (St. James's Palace Stakes).

Galantine was the last recorded foal of Snowdrop, a daughter of Daisy who was a half sister of the St Leger winner Ambrosio. Snowdrop had previously produced Calendulae, a broodmare whose descendants included the Epsom Derby winner Pyrrhus the First.

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