Landscape (horse)

Landscape
Sire	Rubens
Grandsire	Buzzard
Dam	Housemaid (Iris)
Damsire	Brush
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1813
Country	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	John Leveson Gower
Owner	John Leveson Gower
Record	4: 2-1-0
Earnings	£2,126
Major wins
Oaks Stakes (1816)

Landscape (1813–1834) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic Oaks Stakes at Epsom Downs Racecourse in 1816. The filly's entire racing career consisted of one run in 1815 followed by three races in the space of thirteen days in June 1816. After winning the Oaks on her second racecourse appearance, she finished first and second in races at Ascot. Already pregnant at the time of her classic success, Landscape was retired from racing after Ascot and produced her first foal in the following spring.

Landscape was a bay mare bred by her owner General John Leveson Gower who had won the Oaks with Maid of Orleans in 1809. Her sire, Rubens was a successful racehorse, who at the time of Landscape's conception was covering mares at Wheeler's Farm near Wokingham in Berkshire at a fee of 15 guineas. He sired two other classic winning fillies in Pastille, who won the 2000 Guineas and Oaks in 1816 and Whizgig, who won the 1000 Guineas in the same year. Rubens was champion sire in 1815, 1821 and 1822. Landscape's dam Housemaid (also known as Iris) produced several other good winners including Raphael, who finished second to Whisker in the 1815 Epsom Derby and Rainbow, who became a successful stallion in France.

Until 1913 there was no requirement for British racehorses to have official names (two-year-olds were allowed to race unnamed until 1946). On her only run as a two-year-old, "Gen. L. Gower's b. f. sister to Raphael" ran in the July Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse on 10 July. She was not among the favourites and finished unplaced behind the Duke of Rutland's filly Belvoirina.

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