Sweetmeat (horse)

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Sweetmeat
Sweetmeat (GB).jpg
SireGladiator
GrandsirePartisan
DamLollypop
DamsireStarch or Voltaire
Sex Stallion
Foaled1841
Country England
ColourBay or brown
BreederMajor Yarburgh
OwnerMr A. W. Hill
James Cookson
Record22: 19 -1-0
Major wins
Doncaster Gold Cup (1845) [1]
Last updated on 11 July 2011

Sweetmeat (foaled 1841) was a successful English Thoroughbred racehorse that won 16 consecutive races (including walk-overs) as a three-year-old, including the Doncaster Gold Cup, and was a useful sire of the early 19th century.

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Background

He was a bay or brown colt foaled in 1841 that was sired by Gladiator, who became an important sire in France. Sweetmeat's dam, Lollypop was sired by either Starch or Voltaire, as recorded in the General Stud Book, with Voltaire listed in second position, which indicates he was the last stallion to cover the mare and therefore the most likely sire of Lollypop. If Lollypop was indeed by Voltaire she was incestuously inbred to Blacklock, who was the sire of both Voltaire and Belinda (the dam of Lollypop).

Racing record

At two years

In July 1844 Sweetmeat won the Stanley Stakes at Liverpool. He then won a £220 sweep at Wolverhampton, and a 60 sovereign race at Wrexham, defeating three other horses. In the Two Year Old Stakes at Nottingham, he finished second.

At three years

Sweetmeat was undefeated in his 16 starts, including a number of walk-overs, as a three-year-old, which included victories in the Ascot Gold Vase and the 2¼ mile Doncaster Gold Cup defeating Alice Hawthorne who had twice previously won the race.

At four and five years

Sweetmeat only started once at four, in the Chester Cup in which he was unplaced. At five he started once again, at Chester in the Cheshire Stakes, and was again unplaced.

Sweetmeat finished his racing career with 22 race starts for 19 wins, 1 second and 2 unplaced runs.

Stud record

In 1847 James Cookson purchased Sweetmeat for 300 guineas as a sire for his Neasham Hall Stud near Darlington. It was here that Cookson bred the great Formosa who won in 1868 the 1,000 Guineas Stakes, 2,000 Guineas Stakes, St. Leger Stakes, Epsom Oaks and Newmarket Oaks. Seven years earlier Cookson bred both Dundee and Kettledrum, who finished first and second in The Derby. Sweetmeat stood at this stud until 1861 when, aged 19 and blind, he was sold for 800 guineas and exported to Russia. [2]

His progeny included:

Sire line tree

Pedigree

Pedigree of Sweetmeat, brown stallion, 1842 [7]
Sire
Gladiator (GB)
br. 1833
Partisan (GB)
b. 1811
Walton
b. 1799
Sir Peter Teazle
Arethusa
Parasol
1800
Pot-8-Os
Prunella
Pauline (GB)
br. 1826
Moses
br. 1819
Seymour
Gohanna mare
Quadrille
1815
Selim
Canary Bird
Dam
Lollypop (GB)
ch. 1836
Voltaire (GB)
b. 1826
Blacklock*
ch. 1814
Whitelock*
Coriander mare*
Phantom mare
1816
Phantom
Overton mare
Belinda (GB)
gr. 1823
Blacklock*
ch. 1814
Whitelock*
Coriander mare*
Wagtail
gr. 1818
Prime Minister
Orville mare

Note: b. = Bay, br. = Brown, ch. = Chestnut, gr. = Grey

* Sweetmeat is inbred 3D x 3D to the stallion Blacklock, meaning that he appears third generation twice on the dam side of his pedigree.

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