Owen Tudor (horse)
| Owen Tudor | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Hyperion |
| Grandsire | Gainsborough |
| Dam | Mary Tudor II |
| Damsire | Pharos |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1938 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Catherine Macdonald-Buchanan |
| Owner | Catherine Macdonald-Buchanan |
| Trainer | Fred Darling |
| Record | 13: 6-1-0 |
| Earnings | £ |
| Major wins | |
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New Derby (1941) Newmarket Gold Cup (1942) |
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Owen Tudor (1938–1966) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1940 to 1942 he ran twelve times and won six races. His most important win came as a three-year-old in the summer of 1941 when he won the “New Derby” at Newmarket. During the Second World War many British racecourses were closed either for safety reasons or because the land was needed for military use. Epsom Downs Racecourse was used throughout the war for an anti-aircraft battery, leading to the creation of a substitute or “New” version of the race. Owen Tudor went on to win a substitute “Ascot Gold Cup” at Newmarket in 1942. At the end of that season he was retired to stud where he had considerable success as a sire of winners.
Owen Tudor was bred by his owner, Catherine Macdonald-Buchanan, who had inherited considerable racing and breeding interests when her father, Lord Woolavington, died in 1935. The bay colt was sired by Hyperion out of the French-bred mare Mary Tudor II. Hyperion was an outstanding racehorse who won the Epsom Derby and the St Leger in 1933. He went on to become a successful and influential stallion, being Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland on six occasions. Mary Tudor II, who produced five winners apart from Owen Tudor, had won the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and finished second in the Prix de Diane in 1934.
Owen Tudor was sent into training with Fred Darling at Beckhampton, Wiltshire and became his trainer’s seventh and last Derby winner.
Owen Tudor began his racing career by winning the Salisbury Stakes Salisbury. In his two other races he was sent to Newmarket where he finished unplaced in the Criterion Stakes and second in the Boscawen Stakes. In the Free Handicap, a ranking of the year’s best two-year-olds, Owen Tudor was rated eighth behind Poise, who as a gelding was ineligible for the Classics.
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