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King Ban (GB)

1875 – 1887

King Tom (GB) x Atlantis (GB), by Thormanby (GB)

Family 3-b

​A heavy-topped horse whose racing career was compromised by unsoundness, King Ban ran only three times and failed to win, though he placed in two minor stakes events. He was exported to the United States following his racing career and did well as a stallion there, getting both speedy juveniles and several good staying runners. Unfortunately, he died young. His name survives in pedigrees through several daughters.


Race record

3 starts, 0 wins, 2 seconds, 0 thirds


1877:
  • 2nd Granby Stakes (ENG, Newmarket)

1878:
  • 2nd Coffee Room Stakes (ENG, 10FT)


As an individual

A chestnut horse, King Ban was strongly made and muscular but was too heavily built for his poorly constructed legs to carry at racing speed.


As a stallion

Clio Hogan's Index to Stakes Winners 1865-1967 credits King Ban with 11 stakes winners.


Notable progeny

Ban Fox (USA), Bandala (USA), Jewel Ban (USA)


Connections

King Ban was bred and owned by Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth. Following his racing career, he was exported to the United States and became a stallion at Major Barak G. Thomas' Dixiana Farm. He was sufficiently successful for James Ben Ali Haggin to offer US$30,000 for him, which was refused. King Ban died at Dixiana in 1887.


Pedigree notes

King Ban is inbred 4x5 to six-time English champion sire Sultan and to the influential 19th-century sire Muley. He is a half brother to Happy Land (by Musket), whose son Leolantis (by Leonlinus) was an important winner in New Zealand. King Ban's dam Atlantis, a minor stakes winner, is a full sister to 1874 Two Thousand Guineas winner Atlantic and is by 1860 Derby Stakes winner and 1861 Ascot Gold Cup winner Thormanby out of 1862 One Thousand Guineas winner Hurricane (by 1855 Derby Stakes winner Wild Dayrell). Hurricane, in turn, was produced from the Scutari mare Midia, also the dam of 1858 St. James's Palace Stakes winner Cynricus (by Ambrose) and1860 Oaks Stakes runner-up Avalanche (by Wild Dayrell).


Fun facts
  • King Ban's 1887 son King Thomas, a full brother to 1885 American champion 2-year-old male Ban Fox, set a new record price for a yearling sold at public auction, fetching US$38,000 in 1888. Unfortunately, King Thomas proved a high-priced failure and won only a single race before vanishing from the records.



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