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The Dukes of Grafton: Prunella and her Family
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Prunella was the star of the Grafton stud, and is today considered one of the most significant mares in the history of the breed. The racing and breeding success of her offspring by Waxy is acknowledged, but she also bred important horses by other stallions. When bred to Waxy, Prunella produced three top broodmares, each of whom produced a classic winner, a top racehorse, an important broodmare, or a significant sire, or all four.
Daughter Parasol won thirty-one races for the Graftons. She was by Pot-8-Os, Waxy's sire, and produced the classic winners Pindarrie and Pastille, a good racing son Picaroon (1815 by Merlin), and sweepstakes winning daughter Parapluie (1823, by Merlin). Her most significant foal for the Grafton stud was the good racehorse and sire Partisan, who in turn produced some top racehorses and two important sire sons, Venison and Gladiator.
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 | | PARASOL, Prunella's daughter by Pot-8-Os, an excellent race mare and dam of two classic winners, Pastille and Pindarrie, and of the good sire Partisan.
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 | | | PENELOPE, Prunella's daughter by Trumpator, Good race mare and unparalleled broodmare, when bred to Waxy she produced three classic winners, and a number of sons and daughters who had a significant impact on the breed.
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| | When bred to Whiskey, Prunella produced the classic winner Pelisse and Pioneer, sire of the speedy race mare Advance and grandsire of the extremely fast classic winning filly Galata (1829, Sultan-Advance by Pioneer). Pioneer also stood as a hunter sire for the 4th Duke at Wakefield Lodge, and was known for producing "wonderful hunters but bad hacks."
Prunella's line extending from daughter Piquet, by Sovereign, eventually led to the 1887 French War Dance and his sons and daughters. When bred to Trumpator Prunella produced the 1808 filly Pawn, who won the Epson Stakes. Pawn was dam of the classic winning filly Problem ( 1823, Merlin-Pawn) and all her progeny, and of Pawn Junior (1817, by Waxy). Pawn Junior, who won the 2,000 Guineas, produced the 2,000 Guineas winner Dervise, Daemon (1824, Amais) winner of the Huntingdon Gold Cup, Destiny (1829, by Centaur) who foaled the Prix du Jockey Club winner Royal Oak, and Divan (1830) and Dardanelles (1834), both bay colts by Sultan who won major races. Pawn Junior was ancestress in tail-female descent to the important broodmares Paradigm (1852, Paragone-Ellen Horne by Redshank) and Rouge Rose (1865, Thormanby-Ellen Horne by Redshank).
Pope Joan, a Prunella-Waxy daughter (1809) produced a number of good racehorses, including 1,000 Guineas winner Tontine (1822 by Election), the winning race fillies Trictrac (1814 by Dick Andrews), Tredille (1815 by Walton) and Tiara (1821 by Soothsayer), and the good running colts Trance (1817 by Phantom), Titian (1818 by Rubens) and Talisman (1820 by Soothsayer).
Prunella's daughter Prudence produced a slew of "R" named foals who were good racehorses, among them Rebecca (1821, by Soothsayer), who was one of the best of her generation; Rufus (1822, by Election) who won the Jockey Club Plate and placed in the Derby; Roderick (1824, by Rubens) who won several sweepstakes, and Rowena (1817, by Haphazard) another top race filly won won the 1,000 Guineas.
The most productive of all her Prunella's stellar daughters was Penelope (1798, by Trumpator), about whom volumes could be filled with regards to her progeny. This mare ran for five years, and won a number of races and matches against colts, as well as the best fillies of her time. When she was retired to the Grafton stud she was repeatedly mated to Waxy, an indisputable nick of the first order. A review of the chart below will summarize the offspring of her daughters in the first few generations. By Waxy she got Whalebone, one of the most influential sires in the history of the breed, his brother Whisker, also a significant stallion, and Woful, who could run a route and later sired two classic winners. Penelope's foals by other stallions were also successful. Son Waterloo (1814, by Walton), produced the outstanding race filly in the north, Maria (Belvoirina by Stamford), a great favorite of George IV, who was "as partial to the stock of Waterloo as he had been to that of Trumpator and Gohanna." Daughter Whizgig (1819, by Rubens) was a classic winner and dam of the classic winner Oxygen, and ancestress of the stallions St. Germain and Trumpeter. Waltz, an 1822 daughter by Election, was the progenitor of winners in Germany, through her daughter Die Freude, and of the many winners descending from Bonny Blink, England's Beauty and Vitula, all daughters of The Prairie Bird (1844, Touchstone-Zillah). |
 | | Grafton Derby winner WHALEBONE (1807, Waxy-Penelope), an important sire in the General Stud Book, fathered Sir Hercules, Camel and Defence, among other top racehorses and sires, and is tail-male progenitor of such luminaries as Touchstone, Carbine, Monarque.
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 | | WOFUL (1809, Waxy-Penelope) won a number of sweeps and matches for the 4th Duke between 1812 and 1814, usually at distances of two miles and up; he broke down during a 200 gs. match against Teasdale and was retired to stud. He sired the 1,000 Guineas-winning fillies Zinc (1820, Woful-Zaida) and Arab (1824, Woful-Zeal) for the 4th Duke of Grafton, and the classic winning filly Augusta (The Oaks, Newmarket St Leger) and the classic winning colt, Augustus (2,000 Gs, Newmarket St Leger) for Lord Exeter.
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| Penelope 1798 x Trumpator |
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| Whalebone 1807 x Waxy |
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| Web 1808 x Waxy |
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| Middleton 1822 x Phantom |
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| Trampoline 1825 x Tramp |
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| *Glencoe 1831 x Sultan |
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| Glencairne 1838 x Sultan |
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| Glengowrie 1851 x Touchstone |
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| Joanina 1835 x Priam |
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| Jill 1841 x Touchstone |
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| The Princess 1841 x Slane |
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| Odessa 1845 x Sultan |
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| Bay Middleton1833 x Sultan |
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| Achmet 1834 x Sultan |
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| Clementina x Venison |
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| Woful 1809 x Waxy |
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| Wilful 1810 x Waxy |
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| Theresa 1831 x The Moslem |
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| Shenbally 1852 x Burgundy |
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| Head and Pluck 1845 x Tearaway |
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| Kick Up The Dust 1848 X Star of Erin |
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| The Kitten 1842 x Bay Middleton |
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| Rust 1830 x Master Robert |
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| Rush 1831 x Humphrey Clinker |
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| Bran 1831 x Humphrey Clinker |
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| Scutari 1837 x Sultan |
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| The Deformed 1850 x Harkaway |
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| My Niece 1853 x Cowl |
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| Conceit 1856 x Pyrrhus the First |
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| Vexation 1845 x Touchstone |
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| Bas Bleu 1858 x Stockwell |
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| Clarinda 1846 x Sir Hercules |
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| Whisker 1812 x Waxy |
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| Waterloo 1814 x Walton |
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| Currency 1837 x St. Patrick |
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| St. Germain 1847 x Attila |
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| Jouvence 1850 x Sting |
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| Trumpeter 1856 x Orlando |
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| Caveat 1852 x Cowl |
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| The Prairie Bird 1844 x Touchstone |
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| Die Freude 1839 x Morisco |
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| Partisan 1811 x Walton |
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| Pindarrie 1817 x Phantom |
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| Pastille 1819 x Rubens |
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| Aether 1836 x St. Patrick |
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| Esmerelda 1835 x Zingaree |
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| Diomedia 1856 x Weatherbit |
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| Child of the Mist 1848 x St. Francis |
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| Delhi 1838 x Plenipotentiary |
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| Ellen Horne 1844 x Redshank |
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| Paradigm 1852 x Paragone |
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| Rouge Rose 1865 x Thormanby |
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| Theorem 1824 x Merlin |
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| Blameless 1837 x Reveller |
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| Sunflower 1847 x Bay Middleton |
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| Sunbeam 1855 x Chanticleer |
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| Crocus 1866 x Thormanby |
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| Mayflower 1864 x Thormanby |
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| Tritac 1814 x Dick Andrews |
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| Jericho 1842 x Jerry |
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| Utopia 1839 x Jerry |
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