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Spread Eagle (horse)
Spread Eagle Exportation and stud career
Sire Volunteer Spread Eagle was exported in August 1798 to the United
Grandsire Eclipse States[3] by James Hoomes and was used as a breeding
stallion in Virginia.[4] Spread Eagle died in 1805 at the
Dam Highflyer Mare
age of thirteen years in Kentucky.[5] His most notable off-
Damsire Highflyer spring was Maid of the Oaks, a chestnut mare foaled in
Virginia in 1801, that is the ancestress of the female line
Sex Stallion
of Commando and subsequently is present in the pedi-
Foaled 1792 grees of some modern racehorses.[6]
Country Great Britain
Colour Bay
References
Breeder Sir Francis Standish
[1] ^ Weighton, Market (June 1798). The Sporting
Magazine, Volume 12. pp. 121.
Owner 1) Sir Francis Standish http://books.google.com/
2) James Hoomes
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Trainer Richard Prince [2] Murray, John (1878). Handbook for England and Wales;
alphabetically arranged. pp. 166.
Record 5 wins
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Major wins books?id=wwoHAAAAQAAJ&dq=epsom+derby+%22spread+eagle%2
[3] Sporting Magazine, Volume 12. August 1798. pp. 275.
Prince’s Stakes (1795)
Epsom Derby (1795) http://books.google.com/
King’s Plate (1798) books?id=-58aAQAAMAAJ&q=spread+eagle#v=onepage&q=spread%
[4] Skinner, John S. (ed.) (August 1826). "Annals of the
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)
caballus)
turf". The American Farmer 8 (23): 183.
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Spread Eagle (1792–1805) was a British Thoroughbred
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racehorse that won the 1795 Epsom Derby and was later
Retrieved 12 May 2011.
imported into the United States to factor into the pedi-
[5] Anderson, James Douglas and Balie Peyton (1916).
grees of early American racehorses.
Making the American thoroughbred: especially in
Tennessee, 1800-1845. The Plimpton Press. pp. 63.
Pedigree and racing career http://books.google.com/
Spread Eagle was sired by Volunteer out of an unnamed books?id=ChdDAAAAIAAJ&q=spread+eagle#v=snippet&q=spread%
mare by Highflyer in 1792.[1] His dam also produced Eagle [6] Leach, Dr. M. M. (March 29, 1915). "Imported stars
(also later imported to the US). and the 1796 Derby win- in stud". Daily Racing Form. http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/
ner Didelot. He was named after an inn at Epsom that t/text/pageviewer-
was frequented by racing officials during the week of the idx?c=drf1910s;cc=drf1910s;g=drf;xc=1;q1=spread%20eagle;op2=an
Derby.[2] First raced at age three, Spread Eagle won 100 Retrieved 12 May 2011.
guinea race at Newmarket in 1795, followed by wins in
the Prince’s Stakes (second class) and the Epsom Derby.
Illness in the later part of 1795 prevented him racing un-
til 1796. In 1796 he won one race, a 100-guinea stakes race
at York and won the King’s Plate as a six-year-old in 1798.
He was retired to stud in 1798 and stood briefly in New-
market for a fee of 12 guineas per mare before being ex-
ported.[1]
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