| Waygood | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Tracery |
| Grandsire | Rock Sand |
| Dam | Ascenseur |
| Damsire | Eager |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1920 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Walter Raphael |
| Owner | Walter Raphael |
| Trainer | William Halsey |
| Major wins | |
| Irish Derby (1923) | |
Waygood was a British Thoroughbred race horse and sire best known for winning the Irish Derby Stakes in 1923.
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are considered "hot-blooded" horses that are known for their agility, speed, and spirit.
Waygood was bred at the Shenley Stud in Hertfordshire [1] by his owner, the London financier Walter Raphael. [2] He was sired by the American-bred St Leger Stakes winner Tracery out of Ascenseur a mare who became the female ancestor of many notable Thoroughbreds including Galatea II, Never Say Die, High Chaparral and Americain. [3] Raphael sent the colt to be trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by the former jockey Bill Halsey. [4]
Hertfordshire is one of the home counties in England. It is bordered by Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For government statistical purposes, it is placed in the East of England region.
The St Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Doncaster over a distance of 1 mile, 6 furlongs and 115 yards, and it is scheduled to take place each year in September.
Tracery (1909–1924) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for winning the St. Leger Stakes in 1912. In a career which lasted from June 1912 until October 1913 he ran nine times and won six races. After finishing third on his debut in the 1912 Epsom Derby Tracery never lost another completed race at level weights. He won the St. James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes and St. Leger Stakes in 1912 and the Eclipse Stakes and Champion Stakes as a four-year-old in 1913. He was brought down by a protester in the 1913 Ascot Gold Cup. After his retirement from racing he became a highly successful breeding stallion in Britain and Argentina.
Running in front of a large crowd [5] in the Irish Derby at the Curragh Waygood started at odds of 6/1 in a field of fifteen runners. He was ridden by Morny Wing and won by an official margin of four lengths, taking a first prize of £4,650. [6] Walter Raphael, donated £50 from his winnings to the Drogheda Memorial Fund, a charity which helped jockeys and trainers in "necessitous circumstances". [7] As a four-year-old, Waygood finished unplaced behind Parth in the Jubilee Handicap at Kempton Park Racecourse. [8]
The Curragh Racecourse, usually referred to as simply The Curragh, is one of Ireland's most important Thoroughbred racecourses. It is situated on the Curragh plain in County Kildare, between the towns of Newbridge and Kildare.
A horse length, or simply length, is a unit of measurement for the length of a horse from nose to tail, approximately 8 feet (2.4 m).
Parth was a British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1923 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
At the end of his racing career, Waygood was exported to the United States, where he served as a stallion for the U.S. Army Remount Service.
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