Gloaming (horse)
| Gloaming | |
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| Sire | The Welkin (GB) |
| Grandsire | Flying Fox |
| Dam | Light (GB) |
| Damsire | Eager |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 1915 |
| Country | Australia |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Mr E.E.D. Clarke, Melton stud, Victoria |
| Owner | George D. Greenwood |
| Trainer | Dick Mason |
| Record | 67: 57-9-0 |
| Earnings | £43,100 |
| Major wins | |
| 1918 Chelmsford Stakes 1918 AJC Derby 1918 New Zealand Derby 1918 Great Northern Derby 1918 Wanganui Guineas 1918, 1919, 1920 Arc Islington Plate 1919 WRC Wellington Stakes 1919, 1921, 1922, 1924 WANGJC Jackson Stakes 1922, 1924 & 1925 North Island Challenge Stakes 1919, 1922, 1924 Craven Plate 1919 Great Northern Derby 1922 Hill Stakes 1922, 1925 Ormond Memorial Gold Cup 1924 Melbourne Stakes 1924 AJC Spring Stakes |
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| Honours | |
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Australian Racing Hall of Fame New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame (2006) Gloaming Stakes run at Rosehill Racecourse |
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| Last updated on 6 September 2010 | |
Gloaming (foaled September 1915 in Australia) was an outstanding Thoroughbred racehorse, owned, trained, and based in New Zealand. He set many records which includes the Australasian record (jointly held with Desert Gold and Black Caviar) of 19 successive wins, many in Principal Races. Gloaming was unusual that he was a champion who won many major races in both Australia and New Zealand. Gloaming still holds the Australasian record of 45 seconds for four furlongs.
He was a robust bay gelding standing 15 hands 3 inches high with a good length of rein. Gloaming was sired by the good imported racehorse and sire, The Welkin (GB) out of the unplaced mare, Light (GB), by the good sire, Eager. His paternal grandsire was the English Triple Crown champion, Flying Fox. Gloaming was a brother to seven other named horses, all by The Welkin, including Gloaming's Sister (won AJC Kirkham Stakes), but none were nearly so successful as him. Light was inbred in the third generation (3x3) to Sterling.
Gloaming was sold as a yearling in 1916 for 230 guineas to Mr H. Chisholm acting on behalf of George D. Greenwood, of Teviotdale in the Canterbury Region, New Zealand. Following the sale he made his first of 15 crossings of the Tasman Sea.
Gloaming had a long career, racing from age three to nine years, which included victories over other champion racehorses such as Desert Gold, Beauford, Kennaquhair, Whittier and The Hawk. He was successful at distances from four furlongs to a mile and a half.
He was put into work as a two-year-old, but became shin-sore, and was gelded before being spelled. In June 1918 he was shipped to Sydney, after he had showed promise in track work in New Zealand.
The front cover of the 1922 AJC Craven Plate racebook.
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