Monarchy (USA)
April 22, 1957 – 1985
Princequillo (IRE) x Knight's Daughter (GB), by Sir Cosmo (GB)
Family 2-f
April 22, 1957 – 1985
Princequillo (IRE) x Knight's Daughter (GB), by Sir Cosmo (GB)
Family 2-f
A full sister to the great Round Table, Monarchy demonstrated the genetic variability that can occur between full siblings. While Round Table successfully blended his parents' best characteristics, Monarchy was her mother's daughter, showing brilliance as a juvenile but failing to train on. Where she emulated her brother most closely was in the breeding shed, where she became a good producer and an important modern foundation mare.
Race record
16 starts, 7 wins, 0 seconds, 1 third, US$85,737
1959:
Assessments
Rated at 112 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap for American juveniles of 1959, 5 pounds below juvenile champion filly My Dear Girl.
As an individual
A medium-sized bay mare, Monarchy was an elegant, rather lightly framed individual with an excellent shoulder and hip. Like her brother Round Table, she was rather sickle-hocked. Many of her foals were top-heavy and unsound, and she tended to pass on the offset knees and upright pasterns of her dam Knight's Daughter.
As a producer
Monarchy produced 12 foals, of which seven started and five won. Her important foals are as follow:
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Monarchy was bred and owned by Claiborne Farm. She was trained by Moody Jolley.
Pedigree notes
Monarchy is inbred 5x5 to Gallinule and Persimmon. Her full brother Round Table earned six American championship titles including Horse of the Year honors in 1958; he was also the American leading sire of 1972. Monarchy is also a half sister to stakes winner Love Game (by Big Game), whose stakes-winning daughter Nas-Mahal (by Nasrullah) produced six stakes winners including 1971 American champion 3-year-old filly Turkish Trousers (by Bagdad).
Monarchy's dam Knight's Daughter was sired by the top English sprint sire Sir Cosmo, himself a winner of the important July Cup. She is the 1959 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year and is a half sister to four stakes winners including 1946 One Thousand Guineas winner Hypericum (by Hyperion) and Yorkshire Oaks winner Angelola (by Donatello II), dam of 1954 English champion older male Aureole (by Hyperion). She is also a half sister to Starling (by Noble Star), dam of 1952 Argentine champion older male and three-time Argentine champion sire Sideral (by Seductor), 1953 Argentine champion 3-year-old filly Siderea (by Seductor), and Sagitaria (by Seductor), winner of the Gran Premio Saturnino J. Unzue and Premio Eliseo Ramírez.
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Feola, the dam of Knight's Daughter, ran second in the 1936 One Thousand Guineas and was third in that year's Oaks Stakes. A daughter of the speed influence Friar Marcus and the Son-in-Law mare Aloe, she is a half sister to Aroma (by Fairway), ancestress of an American branch of this family that includes two-time American champion Go for Wand, 1980 Two Thousand Guineas (ENG-G1) winner Known Fact, 2011 Preakness Stakes (USA-G1) winner Shackleford, and the important sires Gone West and Tentam. Feola is also a half sister to Sweet Aloe (by Cameronian), second dam of two-time English champion Alcide.
Books and media
Monarchy is profiled in Chapter 49 of John Sparkman's Foundation Mares: How Outstanding Female Families Shaped America's Breeding Industry (2008, Thoroughbred Times Books).
Last updated: July 10, 2024
Race record
16 starts, 7 wins, 0 seconds, 1 third, US$85,737
1959:
- Won Arlington Lassie Stakes (USA, 6FD, Arlington Park)
- 3rd Alcibiades Stakes (USA, about 7FD, Keeneland)
Assessments
Rated at 112 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap for American juveniles of 1959, 5 pounds below juvenile champion filly My Dear Girl.
As an individual
A medium-sized bay mare, Monarchy was an elegant, rather lightly framed individual with an excellent shoulder and hip. Like her brother Round Table, she was rather sickle-hocked. Many of her foals were top-heavy and unsound, and she tended to pass on the offset knees and upright pasterns of her dam Knight's Daughter.
As a producer
Monarchy produced 12 foals, of which seven started and five won. Her important foals are as follow:
- Envoy (1962, by Bold Ruler) never raced due to defective sesamoids. He became a good regional sire in California, getting 27 stakes winners from 385 named foals.
- Isobella (1963, by Bold Ruler) won one race from five starts. She is the second dam of English Group 2 winner Robellino, a good sire, and Grade 3 winner Peruvian. She is also the third dam of Argentine Group 2 winner Achaparrada, multiple Grade/Group 3 winner Inner City, and English Group 3 winner Venture Capitalist.
- Blade (1966, by Bold Ruler) was stakes-placed on the track. A good speed sire, he begot 51 stakes winners from 606 named foals.
- Title (1967, by Bold Ruler) won the 1970 Silver Anniversary Stakes at Atlantic City. She is the dam of stakes winner Caption (by Riva Ridge).
- Cherry Valley (1969, by Bold Ruler) never raced but is the second dam of 1988 English champion 2-year-old filly Tessla.
- Tssesebe (1970, by Buckpasser) is the third dam of 1997 Underwood Stakes (AUS-G1) winner Always Aloof, Grade 2 winner Dance Parade, and Grade 3 winner Ocean Queen.
- Fabled Monarch (1973, by Le Fabuleux) won a division of the 1976 Lexington Handicap (USA-G2). He sired nine stakes winners from 253 named foals.
- State (1974, by Nijinsky II) won three of her 34 starts. She is the dam of 1993 Del Mar Breeders' Cup Handicap (USA-G2) winner Region (by Devil's Bag); Grade 3 winners Narrate (by Honest Pleasure), Double Feint (by Spectacular Bid), and Announce (by Forty Niner); and listed stakes winner Dibs (by Spectacular Bid). She is the second dam of 1991 Frizette Stakes (USA-G1) winner Preach and Grade 2 winner Simmard. She is also the third dam of 2000 English and Irish champion 2-year-old male Minardi, multiple Grade 2 winner and successful sire Pulpit, and Grade 2 winner and successful sire Tale of the Cat.
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Monarchy was bred and owned by Claiborne Farm. She was trained by Moody Jolley.
Pedigree notes
Monarchy is inbred 5x5 to Gallinule and Persimmon. Her full brother Round Table earned six American championship titles including Horse of the Year honors in 1958; he was also the American leading sire of 1972. Monarchy is also a half sister to stakes winner Love Game (by Big Game), whose stakes-winning daughter Nas-Mahal (by Nasrullah) produced six stakes winners including 1971 American champion 3-year-old filly Turkish Trousers (by Bagdad).
Monarchy's dam Knight's Daughter was sired by the top English sprint sire Sir Cosmo, himself a winner of the important July Cup. She is the 1959 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year and is a half sister to four stakes winners including 1946 One Thousand Guineas winner Hypericum (by Hyperion) and Yorkshire Oaks winner Angelola (by Donatello II), dam of 1954 English champion older male Aureole (by Hyperion). She is also a half sister to Starling (by Noble Star), dam of 1952 Argentine champion older male and three-time Argentine champion sire Sideral (by Seductor), 1953 Argentine champion 3-year-old filly Siderea (by Seductor), and Sagitaria (by Seductor), winner of the Gran Premio Saturnino J. Unzue and Premio Eliseo Ramírez.
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Feola, the dam of Knight's Daughter, ran second in the 1936 One Thousand Guineas and was third in that year's Oaks Stakes. A daughter of the speed influence Friar Marcus and the Son-in-Law mare Aloe, she is a half sister to Aroma (by Fairway), ancestress of an American branch of this family that includes two-time American champion Go for Wand, 1980 Two Thousand Guineas (ENG-G1) winner Known Fact, 2011 Preakness Stakes (USA-G1) winner Shackleford, and the important sires Gone West and Tentam. Feola is also a half sister to Sweet Aloe (by Cameronian), second dam of two-time English champion Alcide.
Books and media
Monarchy is profiled in Chapter 49 of John Sparkman's Foundation Mares: How Outstanding Female Families Shaped America's Breeding Industry (2008, Thoroughbred Times Books).
Last updated: July 10, 2024