Music (horse)
| Music | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Waxy |
| Grandsire | Potoooooooo |
| Dam | Woodbine |
| Damsire | Woodpecker |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1810 |
| Country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton |
| Owner | George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton |
| Trainer | Robert Robson |
| Record | 7:1-1-1 |
| Major wins | |
| Oaks Stakes (1813) | |
Music (foaled 1810) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic Oaks Stakes at Epsom Downs Racecourse in 1813. Music's success in the Guineas was the only win in a seven race career and gave her owner George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton the first of twenty classic wins. Music was sold and exported to Ireland at the end of her three-year-old season.
Music was a bay mare bred by Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton at his stud at Euston Hall in Suffolk. On the third Duke's death in 1811 ownership of the stud and the yearling filly passed to his son George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton. Her dam, Woodbine was a half-sister to the good broodmare Hornby Lass and herself produced several other winners including the 1815 Oaks winner Minuet. Music was sired by the 1790 Epsom Derby winner Waxy, who became an influential and important stallion, siring two additional Oaks winners and four winners of the Derby. Grafton sent the filly to be trained at Newmarket by Robert Robson, the so-called "Emperor of Trainers".
Music began her racing career on 20 April 1813 at the Newmarket Craven meeting where she started 5/6 favourite for a five furlong Sweepstakes for three-year-old fillies. She finished last of the three runners behind Poodle (owned by the Duke of Grafton's cousin General Thomas Grosvenor and the Duke of Rutland's unnamed chestnut filly who ran a dead heat. At the next Newmarket meeting two weeks later, Music was moved up in class and matched against colt's in the fifth running of the 2000 Guineas over the Rowley Mile course (the 1000 Guineas for fillies was not established until a year later). Music was one of the outsiders in the twelve runner field but exceeded expectations to finish second to the "very easy" winner Smolensko, a colt who went on to win the Epsom Derby. On the following day Music challenged Smolensko again in the Newmarket Stakes but on this occasion she finished out of the first four.
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