Mango (horse)

Mango
'Mango', Winner of the St Leger, 1837 by John Frederick Herring
Sire	Emilius
Grandsire	Orville
Dam	Mustard
Damsire	Merlin
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1834
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Brown
Breeder	Thomas Thornhill or Charles Greville
Owner	Charles Greville
Trainer	Richard Prince Montgomery Dilly
Record	13: 9-2-0
Major wins
Ascot Derby (1837) Match against Wisdom (1837) Great St Leger Stakes (1837) Newmarket St Leger (1837) Claret Stakes (1838)

Mango (foaled 1834) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1837. He won nine of his thirteen races in a racing career which lasted from October 1836 until October 1838. Mango was well-beaten in his only race as a two-year-old and finished unplaced in the Epsom Derby but won three races at Royal Ascot in June. In September he won an exceptionally rough race for the St Leger at Doncaster Racecourse and then won the Newmarket equivalent a month later. Mango won twice in the following year, but became increasingly temperamental and difficult to manage. He was retired to stud at the end of 1838 but proved a failure as a sire.

Mango was a powerfully-built, dark-coated brown horse with a small white star who stood 15 hands, three and a half inches high. According to the New Sporting Magazine he was an honest, but lazy horse who required "considerable exertion on the part of his jockey" to show his best form. According to the General Stud Book he was bred by Charles Greville although other sources state that he was bred by Thomas Thornhill and then sold to Greville.

Mango's sire, Emilius, won the Derby in 1823 and went on to become a successful stallion at the Riddlesworth stud which was owned and run by Thomas Thornhill. Apart from Preserve, Emilius’s best winners included Priam, Plenipotentiary, Oxygen, Riddlesworth (2000 Guineas) and Preserve: he was British Champion sire in 1830 and 1831.

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