Horse Racing

The family of double classic winner Swale carries on his legacy


With 3-year-olds trying out seven stretches during Swale Stakes (G3) on February 3 at Gulfstream ParkClaiborne Farm shared this story by B. Jason Brooks on the legacy of the double classic winner. Claiborne is sponsoring Swale Stakes.

Many Swale classics winners will be honored with a 3rd place race in his name on Saturday, February 4 at Gulfstream Park. Swale Stakes’ 38th run was sponsored by Claiborne, the ranch where the foal was raised and raised. In 1984, he won the Florida Derby (G1) at Gulfstream, en route to winning the Kentucky Derby (G1) and the Belmont Stakes (G1) and becoming a 3-year-old champion.

While Claiborne has long been recognized as one of the world’s most famous and successful ranchers—having nurtured and raised eight previous Kentucky Derby winners for other owners—Swale is the first to wear the famous orange silks of the Paris farm, Ky. winner’s circle.

Steve Crist’s New York Times story about Swale’s Kentucky Derby victory demonstrated how important the pony was to the Hancock family. In it, Claiborne’s Seth Hancock says, “I’ve always loved this pony for its mother dog, and because we’ve bred it, raised it, and beat it. It’s ours. don’t sell this horse for all the money in the world. Its father, Seattle Slew, is the most amazing dad in the world right now.”

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Despite being a healthy foal without any known medical problems, Swale would never eventually return home to become a stallion, because his life was cut. tragically short. Eight days after Belmont Stakes won, he grew up in the barn area and died of an illness that studies determined was a cardiac abnormality. There was simply nothing that could be done to save him. While Swale’s death was a great loss to the Hancocks and all of the racing, he came from a prominent Claiborne female family that went on to be successful in the United States and internationally.

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Swale .’s successful female family
While Claiborne’s influence in breeding and horse racing for more than a century is widely known for its world-class stallions, it is the rearing of important mare families—mostly crossbred. with the farm’s impressive stallions—less noticeable. Swale’s female family is an example of a family that has produced elite winners, racers in Claiborne orange silks as well as mares that have been sold and successful to other owners. .

The female family that would eventually produce Swale first appeared in Claiborne in 1950 when Arthur “Bull” Hancock Jr. enter the Lord Astor’s Highway Code, a winning mare from one of Britain’s and Ireland’s leading stallions, Hyperion. At Claiborne, Hancock bred seven Highway Code ponies, most notably Courtesy, because Claiborne’s outstanding stallion was Nasrullah, which Hancock also imported in 1950.

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Courtesy bet Claiborne and produced dozens of ponies at the ranch, including high-stakes winners Knightly Manner and Dignitas, half-brothers bred by Stalls Claiborne Round Table Round Table, both becoming stallions. Additionally, Courtesy’s Duplex foal, of Claiborne Double Jay, produced 1974 winner Frizette Stakes (G1) Molly Ballantine, by Pretense.

It is Courtesy Continue’s pony, also of Round Table, who will continue the success of her female family. Declared “Reine-de-Course” or “Queen of the Turf” by pedigree analyst Ellen Parker for her lasting impact as a stallion, Continue has produced 13 ponies , with two of them (Tuerta and File) winning class 1 races or producing families of class 1 winners campaigned by Claiborne. Five of Continue’s other ponies (Yamanin, Chain, Continuation, Furling and Plane) have won 1st place races for other owners or production families who have succeeded in 1st place for other owners.

It was Continue’s pony Tuerta, by the stallion Claiborne Forli, who made Claiborne’s breakthrough in the Kentucky Derby. On track, Tuerta won the 1973 Long Island Handicap (G3) and the 1974 Chrysanthemum Handicap (G3) for Claiborne. As a breeder, she produced Swale, the farm’s 1984 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner, as outlined above. Tuerta is also the ancestor of the best students in grade 1 in France. She is the third smasher of the 2009 Total Prix de la Foret (G1) winner, Varenar, of the Rock of Gibraltar, and the fourth beater of the Prix Royal Oak (G1) (G1) and 2017 Prix du Cadran (G1) 2015 and 2016 Vazirabad via manduro .

File, by Claiborne, Tom Rolfe, produced Forty Niner, by the farm’s influential stallion, Mr. Prospector. Campaigned by Claiborne, Forty Niner won 1987 Futurity Stakes (G1) and Champagne Stakes (G1) as a teenager to win the 2-year-old male champion Eclipse Award. Forty Niner’s success continued into his sophomore campaign, winning Haskell Invitational (G1) and Travers (G1) shares in 1988 before retiring to attend his home school in Claiborne, where he it gives birth. Coronado’s Mission another Haskell and Travers winner, and influential stallion twisted humor among others.

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As for Continue’s remarkable ponies that have been successfully sold and sold to other owners, her son Yamanin, by Herbager is a graded multiple bet winner who won the Handicap. Widener in 1977 (G1). He was exported to stand in Japan the following year.

Chain, by Claiborne sire Herbager, is the dam of the Chain Bracelet, winner of the 1981 Top Flight Handicap (G1), of Lyphard, and the Chain Bracelet is the fourth dam of the 2014 Eddie Read Stakes (G1T) winner. Tom’s Tribute via lion heart . Continuing in this branch of the family, Chain’s Foal Dancing Slippers, by stallion Claiborne Nijinsky, is the second dam of 2000 winner Selene Stakes (G1) Zoftig via cozzen , and the third dam of her successful daughters. They include 2008 Acorn Stakes (G1) winner Zaftig by the son of Mr Prospector Gone West, and winner of the Mother Goose Stakes (G1) award in 2012 Impressive Zo by Claiborne’s steed’s successful son Danzig Spin hard .

Continue, by Claiborne steed Forli, was the second smash by 1985 British Two Thousand Guineas (G1) winner Shadeed, by British Triple Crown winner and stallion Claiborne Nijinsky. Continuing is also the 3rd dam of the 2005 Japanese champion Kashiwa Kinen (G1) strong bloodby Tokai Teio.

Continue’s foal Furling, by Claiborne Hoist the Flag, is the second smash by 1993 Handicap winner Whitney (G1) Brunswick, by Claiborne’s steed Personal Account. He entered Kentucky in 1996 and his son private party won the 2003 Alfred G. Vanderbilt (G2) Prize in Saratoga.

Plane, one of the other ponies of Continue Following the Round Table, is the third dam of 2006 winner of Chile’s Polla de Potrillos (G1) Bambooby Bacom.

Given the success of this Claiborne female family, it’s no surprise to see their descendants in the global sales categories and short circuit winners.

Recent success
Swale’s family of women, rooted in the Highway Code foundation, continues to thrive in the United States and internationally.

In the US, 2020 and 2020 Remington Park Oaks (G3) and 2021 Falls City Stakes (G2) winners volunteers via Uncle Mo , is a 6-year-old mare with an income of nearly $1 million. Her second to sixth dam is a Claiborne variety, from the File branch of the Highway Code.

One of the most interesting fillings in Australia, Amelia’s Gemvia Siyouni , won the 2022 Northern Stakes (G1). The 3-year-old millionaire has won six of his seven career starts, with four of those being classified bets. She has Claiborne stallions for the sixth to eight dams, from the Makeacurtsey branch of the Highway Code.

In Ireland, epona drama via Australia won a 2020 Denny Cordell Lavarack Memorial Stake (G3), a 2020 Snow Fairy Fillies Stake (G3), a 2021 Ridgewood Pearl Stake (G2) and a 2021 Park Express Share (G3). Her fifth to eighth dam is the Claiborne variety, also from the Highway Code’s Makeacurtsey branch.

While Claiborne’s Highway Code female family is responsible for making some of the Hancock family’s highs and lows in Kentucky Derby winner Swale’s hometown, it remains an active and influential family in the country. United States and internationally almost three-quarters of a century after Bull Hancock planned its first mating with his newly imported stallion Nasrullah.

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