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Druid (ARG)

1898 – c. 1920

Sargento (GB) x Devonshire Lass (GB), by Farnese (GB)

Family 14-f
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​Druid was the first horse from the male line of Matchem to win the Gran Premio Nacional, and he proved himself the best stayer of his generation by also winning the Gran Premio Internacional (later known as the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini), Argentina's most important race for horses 3 and up. He was a fairly successful sire.


Race record

Complete record unavailable

1901
  • Won Gran Premio Nacional (Argentine Derby) (ARG, 2500mD, Palermo)
  • Won Gran Premio Internacional (ARG, 3000m, Palermo)


As an individual

A chestnut horse; no other information available.


As a stallion

Druid did reasonably well at stud, his progeny including three runners who won races later accounted as Argentine Classics.


Notable progeny

Avicenia (ARG), Brilla (ARG), Cabaret (ARG), Oasis (BRZ), Vadarkblar (ARG)


Connections

Druid was bred and owned by Biaus' and Tiscornia's Haras El Carmen. His last foals appear to have been born in 1921.


Pedigree notes

Druid is inbred 4x5 to 1853 English Triple Crown winner West Australian, 5x4 to 1852 English dual Classic winner and seven-time English champion sire Stockwell, and 5x5 to Stockwell's dam, the great matron Pocahontas. Sired by Sargento, a Barcaldine horse who was exported to Argentina from England in 1890, he was produced from Devonshire Lass, an English import of 1889.

Devonshire Lass was produced from an unnamed daughter of 1860 St. Leger Stakes winner St. Albans who was a half sister to Nameless (by Blinkhoolie), dam of 1882 Oaks Stakes winner Geheimniss (by Rosicrucian). Geheimniss, in turn, produced Geier (by Flageolet), dead-heat winner of the 1893 Deutches Derby (German Derby)., as well as 1895 English champion 2-year-old filly Omladina (by Royal Hampton) and two other stakes winners. The next dam in the tail-female line, No Name (by 1851 Derby Stakes winner Teddington) is out of Queen of Beauty, by two-time English champion sire Melbourne.



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