Belle Watling (CHI)
August 26, 2006 – ?
Dushyantor (USA) x Biala (CHI), by The Great Shark (USA)
Family 2-n
August 26, 2006 – ?
Dushyantor (USA) x Biala (CHI), by The Great Shark (USA)
Family 2-n
A South American counterpart to Amazons such as Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta in North America, Belle Watling cut a swath of her own through hapless males in her native Chile, winning Santiago’s Quadruple Crown series and gaining honors as Chile’s Horse of the Year during the 2009/2010 racing season. After earning another championship in Chile as an older female, she was sent to the United States but was unable to transfer her form there. She was sold to Japanese interests for broodmare duty but, unfortunately, has failed to distinguish herself in that role.
Race record
21 starts, 13 wins, 1 second, 2 thirds
2009:
2010:
Honors
As an individual
A dark bay or brown mare; no further information available.
As a producer
As of August 2023, Belle Watling has produced seven named foals. Her only winner has been Satono Butler, a 2018 son of King Kamehameha.
Connections
Belle Watling was bred by Haras Matancilla and, in Chile, raced for Stud Don Theo. Following an unsuccessful racing season in the United States, she was sold privately to Japanese interests for broodmare duty.
Pedigree notes
Belle Watling is inbred 3x4 to the great international sire Northern Dancer and 5x5 to 1955 Kentucky Oaks winner Lalun. She is a full sister to 2008 Premio Arturo Lyon Pena (CHI-G1) winner Scarlet and to 2005 Premio Carlos Campino (CHI-G2) winner Tigrita, dam of two-time Chilean champion sprinter El Tigrito (by Sir Cat) and second dam of 2022 Premio Las Oaks (CHI-G1) winner Mama Lili. Belle Watling is also a full sister to Premio General Jose Miguel Carrera Verdugo (CHI-G3) winner Clark Gable.
Biala, the dam of Belle Watling and her siblings, is a winning daughter of The Great Shark, a Storm Bird horse who ranked 10 times among Chile’s top 10 sires (including two runner-up finishes) and was also an important broodmare sire. She was produced from three-time winner Damasquera, whose sire Domineau (by Never Bend) led the Chilean general sire list twice and ranked 15 times among the country’s top 10 broodmare sires (including five runner-up finishes).The next dam in Belle Watling’s tail-female line, Discografia, was sired by the Grade 3-placed Damascus horse Damascus Silver and was produced from Secuestrada, a daughter of Chilean champion sire and champion broodmare sire Silver Moon III (by Seductor). The female line has been in Chile since Belle Watling’s 10th dam, La Lune, was sent there from Argentina in 1896.
Fun facts
Last updated: August 3, 2023
Race record
21 starts, 13 wins, 1 second, 2 thirds
2009:
- Won Premio El Ensayo-Cristal (CHI-G1, 2400m, Santiago)
- Won Premio Nacional Ricardo Lyon (CHI-G1, 2000m, Santiago)
- Won Premio Polla de Potrancas (Chilean One Thousand Guineas) (CHI-G1, 1700m, Santiago)
- Won Premio Gran Clasico Coronation (CHI-G2, 2000m, Santiago)
- Won Premio Julio Subercaseaux (CHI-G3, 1600m, Santiago)
- Won Premio Carlos Cousino G. (CHI-L, 1200m, Santiago)
- 2nd Premio Arturo Lyon Pena (CHI-G1, 1600m, Santiago)
- 3rd Premio Criadores Dorama (CHI-G2, 1600m, Santiago)
2010:
- Won Gran Premio Hipódromo Chile-Bicentenario Movistar (CHI-G1, 2200m, Hipódromo Chile)
- Won Gran Premio Asociacion Latinoamericana Jockey Clubes e Hipodromos (CHI-G1, 2000m, Santiago)
- Won Gran Premio de Honor (CHI-G2, 2400m, Hipódromo Chile)
- Won Premio Pedro del Rio Talavera (CHI-G2, 2200m, Hipódromo Chile)
- Won Premio Julio Prado Amor (CHI-L, 2000m, Hipódromo Chile)
Honors
- Chilean Horse of the Year (2009/2010)
- Chilean champion 3-year-old turf filly (2009/2010)
- Chilean champion older female (2010/2011)
As an individual
A dark bay or brown mare; no further information available.
As a producer
As of August 2023, Belle Watling has produced seven named foals. Her only winner has been Satono Butler, a 2018 son of King Kamehameha.
Connections
Belle Watling was bred by Haras Matancilla and, in Chile, raced for Stud Don Theo. Following an unsuccessful racing season in the United States, she was sold privately to Japanese interests for broodmare duty.
Pedigree notes
Belle Watling is inbred 3x4 to the great international sire Northern Dancer and 5x5 to 1955 Kentucky Oaks winner Lalun. She is a full sister to 2008 Premio Arturo Lyon Pena (CHI-G1) winner Scarlet and to 2005 Premio Carlos Campino (CHI-G2) winner Tigrita, dam of two-time Chilean champion sprinter El Tigrito (by Sir Cat) and second dam of 2022 Premio Las Oaks (CHI-G1) winner Mama Lili. Belle Watling is also a full sister to Premio General Jose Miguel Carrera Verdugo (CHI-G3) winner Clark Gable.
Biala, the dam of Belle Watling and her siblings, is a winning daughter of The Great Shark, a Storm Bird horse who ranked 10 times among Chile’s top 10 sires (including two runner-up finishes) and was also an important broodmare sire. She was produced from three-time winner Damasquera, whose sire Domineau (by Never Bend) led the Chilean general sire list twice and ranked 15 times among the country’s top 10 broodmare sires (including five runner-up finishes).The next dam in Belle Watling’s tail-female line, Discografia, was sired by the Grade 3-placed Damascus horse Damascus Silver and was produced from Secuestrada, a daughter of Chilean champion sire and champion broodmare sire Silver Moon III (by Seductor). The female line has been in Chile since Belle Watling’s 10th dam, La Lune, was sent there from Argentina in 1896.
Fun facts
- In literature, Belle Watling is a character in Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone With the Wind. The owner and madam of a house of prostitution, she has a long-standing relationship with the novel’s male protagonist, Rhett Butler. In contrast to the novel’s heroine, the well-born but willful and calculating Scarlet O’Hara, Watling is considered disreputable because of her profession but proves to be compassionate and generous as O’Hara is not. Belle Watling’s real-life model may have been Belle Bezing, a Lexington madam who was known as much for her business sense, taste, and discretion as for her profession and became the subject of a front-page eulogy in the Lexington (KY) Herald upon her death in 1940.
- The Chilean champion shared her name with an American-born daughter of Pulpit foaled in 2005. This mare managed only two third-place finishes from five starts but was a much better producer than her Chilean counterpart, producing Grade 2 winners War Story (by Northern Afleet) and Land Over Sea (by Bellamy Road) before her death in 2023.
Last updated: August 3, 2023