Pennycomequick (horse)

Pennycomequick
Sire	Hurry On
Grandsire	Marcovil
Dam	Plymstock
Damsire	Polymelus
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1926
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Brown
Breeder	Lord Astor
Owner	Lord Astor
Trainer	Joseph Lawson
Record	6: 3-0-0
Earnings	£9,042
Major wins
Epsom Oaks (1929)

Pennycomequick (1926 – after 1943) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She showed promise as a two-year-old in 1928 when she won her only race by a wide margin. In the following year she won two races including a very impressive victory in the Epsom Oaks. She failed when made favourite for the St Leger and was retired from racing after sustaining a serious leg injury in autumn. She became a very successful broodmare, producing several major winners.

Pennycomequick was a brown mare "of great power and quality" bred in the United Kingdom by her owner Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor. She was sent into training at Manton, Wiltshire with Joseph Lawson who had inherited the stable from Alec Taylor, Jr. in 1927.

She was from the eighth crop of foals sired by the unbeaten champion, Hurry On, making her a representative of the Godolphin Arabian sire line. Apart from Pennycomequick, Hurry On sired numerous major winners including Captain Cuttle, Coronach, Call Boy and Precipitation. Pennycomequick's dam Plymstock was a daughter of the Oaks winner Winkipop and a half-sister to Blink who finished second in the Derby. Like her dam, Pennycomequick was named after a suburb of Plymouth, for which Lord Astor's wife Nancy Astor was the Member of Parliament.

On her only appearance as a two-year-old, Pennycomequick defeated seventeen opponents to win the Dalham Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse.

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