Four of the first 10 winners of the Gran Premio Nacional (Argentine Derby) have non-Thoroughbred or unknown elements to their pedigrees, and Osiris was one of them. His Gran Nacional win is his only significant contribution to Argentine Thoroughbred history.
Race record
Complete record unavailable
1888:
As an individual
A bay horse; no further information available.
As a stallion
Osiris does not appear to have had any influence on Thoroughbred breeding.
Connections
Osiris was bred by Guillermo Kemmis' Haras Las Rosas and raced in the colors of Caballeriza J. Quaíni. He was trained by D. Ruíz.
Pedigree notes
Osiris was sired by the French import Phoenix (or Phenix), a high-class sprinter-miler who was a son of the stakes winner Cymbal and a paternal grandson of the 1861 Derby Stakes winner, Kettledrum. Imported by Guillermo Kemmis to his Haras Las Rosas, Phoenix became the first great sire in Argentine history, leading that country's sire list six times.
Osiris is inbred 5x5 to the great 19th-century broodmare Pocahontas and 5x5 to four-time English champion sire Touchstone. His dam, the English import Lady Newberry, was sired by York from a mare by the Tadmor horse Birkenhead. Nothing more is known of her ancestry.
Fun facts
Race record
Complete record unavailable
1888:
- Won Gran Premio Nacional (Argentine Derby) (ARG, 2500m, Palermo)
As an individual
A bay horse; no further information available.
As a stallion
Osiris does not appear to have had any influence on Thoroughbred breeding.
Connections
Osiris was bred by Guillermo Kemmis' Haras Las Rosas and raced in the colors of Caballeriza J. Quaíni. He was trained by D. Ruíz.
Pedigree notes
Osiris was sired by the French import Phoenix (or Phenix), a high-class sprinter-miler who was a son of the stakes winner Cymbal and a paternal grandson of the 1861 Derby Stakes winner, Kettledrum. Imported by Guillermo Kemmis to his Haras Las Rosas, Phoenix became the first great sire in Argentine history, leading that country's sire list six times.
Osiris is inbred 5x5 to the great 19th-century broodmare Pocahontas and 5x5 to four-time English champion sire Touchstone. His dam, the English import Lady Newberry, was sired by York from a mare by the Tadmor horse Birkenhead. Nothing more is known of her ancestry.
Fun facts
- In Egyptian mythology, Osiris is the god of the afterlife and rebirth. The ruler and judge of the land of the dead, he is also associated with the annual cycles of vegetation and the flooding of the Nile.
- Osiris is one of three Gran Premio Nacional winners within five years for six-time Argentine champion sire Phoenix. The others are Surplice (1886) and San Martín (1890).
- Osiris was originally named “Lord Falkland.”