Grand Lodge (horse)

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Grand Lodge
Owner Gillian, Lady Howard de Walden.svg
Racing silks of Lord Howard de Walden
Sire Chief's Crown
Grandsire Danzig
DamLa Papagena
Damsire Habitat
Sex Stallion
Foaled(1991-03-06)6 March 1991
Died24 December 2003(2003-12-24) (aged 12)
CountryUnited States
Colour Chestnut
Breeder Lord Howard de Walden
OwnerLord Howard de Walden
TrainerWilliam Jarvis
Record13: 4-2-3
Earnings£449,174 [1]
Major wins
Somerville Tattersall Stakes (1993)
Dewhurst Stakes (1993)
St James's Palace Stakes (1994)
Last updated on June 22, 2007

Grand Lodge (foaled 6 March 1991, died 24 December 2003) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He was officially rated the best European two-year-old 1993. He won two Group One races; the Dewhurst Stakes in 1993 and the St James's Palace Stakes in 1994. He is best known as a successful sire. At the time of his death he was standing at the Woodlands Stud, Denman, New South Wales.

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Background

Grand Lodge was bred by his owner John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden, who also owned and bred The Derby winner Slip Anchor and the champion miler Kris

He was sired by Chief's Crown out of Lord Howard de Walden's unraced mare La Papagena. Chief's Crown won the 1984 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Male Horse. He sired several other important horses including Chief Bearheart and Erhaab. [2] La Papagena, a daughter of the Cheveley Park Stakes and Coronation Stakes winner Magic Flute, produced several other winners, the best of them probably being the Listed stakes winner La Persiana. [3]

Grand Lodge was trained throughout his career by William "Willie" Jarvis at the Phantom House stables at Newmarket, Suffolk. When Grand Lodge ran, Jarvis often wore an apricot-coloured rose as a button-hole, to match the silks of Lord Howard de Walden. [4]

Racing career

1993: two-year-old season

Grand Lodge won three of his four races as a two-year-old. On his debut he won the Granville Maiden Stakes at Ascot by six lengths. A month later at York he was beaten when odds-on favourite for the Listed Acomb Stakes, finishing third to Concordial.

At Newmarket in October he won the Somerville Tattersall Stakes, leading a furlong out and going clear to beat Colonel Collins by three and a half lengths, [5] and was then moved up to Group One class for the Dewhurst Stakes over the same course and distance two weeks later. He was made 9/4 favourite and led inside the final furlong to beat Stonehatch and Nicolotte in a driving finish. [6] Jarvis emphasised the care that he would take with his best horse by saying 'You ought to start buying shares in cotton wool because that's what this horse is going to be wrapped in." [4]

1994: three-year-old season

Despite what his trainer had said, Grand Lodge was given a demanding schedule in 1994, running nine times, eight of them in Group One company.

His only win came at Royal Ascot where he ran on under a strong ride from Michael Kinane to beat Distant View by a head in the St James's Palace Stakes. [7] After the race Jarvis called him "a very easy horse to train...Even I can't bugger him up." [8] In other starts he was beaten a short head in both the 2000 Guineas and the Champion Stakes, finished third in the Sussex Stakes and Irish Champion Stakes and was fourth in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and the International Stakes.

On his last start he ran one of his few bad races, finishing unplaced behind Concern in the Breeders' Cup Classic on his only race on dirt.

Assessment

In the International Classification for 1993, he was rated the best two-year-old colt in Europe on a mark of 120. [9] Despite this he was beaten in the voting for the Cartier Racing Award by the Middle Park Stakes winner First Trump.

At three, he was rated on 125, making him the seventh-best three-year-old in Europe, five pounds behind the filly Balanchine and three pounds below the leading colt, Distant View. [10]

Stud career

Grand Lodge was retired to stand as a stallion for the Coolmore Stud, being shuttled between their main base in Ireland, Lord Howard de Walden's Plantation Stud in England and the Woodlands Stud in Australia. [11] Grand Lodge proved to be an extremely popular stallion: between 1998 and 2003 he was covering an average of more than 300 mares a year. [12] He sired the winners of more than six hundred races including Sinndar, Grandera, Queen's Logic, Grand Couturier (Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap), Indian Lodge and Shogun Lodge (Epsom Handicap).

Notable progeny

Throughout his career Grand Lodge sired 12 individual Group One winners for a total of 25 Group One races:

c = colt, f = filly, g = gelding

FoaledNameSexMajor Wins
1996 Freemason g T J Smith Stakes, Queensland Derby, Mercedes Classic
1996 Indian Lodge c Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Prix de la Forêt
1996 Shogun Lodge g George Main Stakes, Epsom Handicap, Queen Elizabeth Stakes
1997Lovelornf VRC Oaks
1997 Sinndar c National Stakes, Epsom Derby, Irish Derby, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
1998 Grandera c Singapore Airlines International Cup, Prince of Wales's Stakes, Irish Champion Stakes
1999 Queen's Logic f Cheveley Park Stakes
2000Grand Zulug The BMW
2000Ambulanceg Sires' Produce Stakes
2002Hotel Grandc Spring Champion Stakes, Randwick Guineas
2002Shamdalaf Gran Premio di Milano
2003Grand Couturierc Sword Dancer Stakes (twice), Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes

Death

On 4 September 2003, Grand Lodge suffered a knee injury in the paddock of the Woodlands Stud. The injury did not respond to treatment and he was euthanized on 24 December. [11] He was buried at the Woodlands Stud. At the time of his death his stud fee for 2004 had already been set at €50,000. [13]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Grand Lodge (USA), chestnut stallion, 1991 [14]
Sire
Chief's Crown (USA)
1982
Danzig
1977
Northern Dancer Nearctic
Natalma
Pas De NomAdmiral's Voyage
Petitioner
Six Crowns
1976
Secretariat Bold Ruler
Somethingroyal
Chris Evert Swoon's Son
Miss Carmie
Dam
La Papagena (GB)
1983
Habitat
1966
Sir Gaylord Turn-To
Somethingroyal
Little Hut Occupy
Savage Beauty
Magic Flute
1968
Tudor Melody Tudor Minstrel
Matelda
FiligranaNiccolo dell'Arca
Gamble in Gold (family 14-b) [15]

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