Matilda (horse)
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Matilda, a bay racehorse with her groom in a loosebox (detail) by John Frederick Herring, Sr.
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| Sire | Comus |
| Grandsire | Sorcerer |
| Dam | Juliana |
| Damsire | Gohanna |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1824 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Edward Petre |
| Owner | Edward Petre |
| Trainer | John Scott |
| Record | 9:4-2-0 |
| Major wins | |
| St Leger Stakes (1827) | |
Matilda (1824–1846) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the St Leger Stakes in 1827. In a racing career confined to racecourses in Yorkshire she ran nine times and won four races between August 1826 and October 1828. After winning three of her first four races she defeated the Derby winner Mameluke in a controversial race for the 1827 St Leger. She was retired from racing after four unsuccessful races in 1828 and became a broodmare.
Matilda was a "small, fidgety, temperamental"bay mare owned and bred by Edward Petre (1794–1848), a free-spending sportsman and gambler, who was a younger son of Robert Petre, 9th Baron Petre. Matilda was the seventh foal of Lord Egremont's mare Juliana, a daughter of Platina, the winner of the 1795 Epsom Oaks. Platina was a sister of Chestnut Skim, the female-line ancestor of Frederick, Election and The Merry Monarch. Matilda was sired by Comus, a descendant of the Godolphin Arabian who finished third in the 1812 Epsom Derby before becoming a successful sire of winners. Like the rest of Petre's horses, Matilda was trained by John Scott, who sent out the winners of 41 classics, from his Whitewall Stables at Malton in North Yorkshire.
Matilda began her racing career on 9 August 1826 in a sweepstakes at York Racecourse in which she finished unplaced behind a colt named Popsy. Two days later she reappeared for a race over the same course and distance. Ridden by Sim Templeman, she recorded her first win "in a canter" by beating the colts Moonshine (subsequently the winner of the Champagne Stakes) and Reviewer. On 21 September, at the St Leger meeting at Doncaster Racecourse, Matilda started the 4/1 second favourite for a one mile sweepstakes for two-year-olds. Ridden by Bob Johnson, she led from the start and won by a length from Popsy, with the favourite Lunacy in third place.
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