A full sister to Florence Nightingale, Edith Cavell was the second consecutive champion and Coaching Club American Oaks winner produced by The Nurse. She was a top-class stayer, her victories including a conquest of 1926 Horse of the Year Crusader in the Pimlico Cup (albeit with a substantial weight concession beyond her sex allowance). Unfortunately, she produced only one foal, who failed to inherit her dam's marked class.
Race record
44 starts, 10 wins, 10 seconds, 6 thirds, US$69,329
1925:
1926:
1927:
1928:
Honors
American co-champion 3-year-old filly (1926)
As an individual
Edith Cavell was a bay mare, more substantially built than her full sister Florence Nightingale and with a better shoulder. She stood over a lot of ground but was close-coupled and had a long, sloping pelvis and a strong hind leg.
As a producer
Edith Cavell produced only one named foal, the 1931 Bubbling Over filly Red Badge. She produced dead foals in 1930, 1932, 1933 and 1935 and was not covered in 1934 or 1936. The winner of 14 of her 93 starts, Red Badge is the third dam of 1974 West Virginia Derby winner Park Guard.
Connections
Edith Cavell was bred and owned by Walter M. Jeffords. She was trained by Hall of Fame member Robert A. Smith during her championship season. She died in 1937 and was buried at Faraway Farm alongside her dam, The Nurse.
Pedigree notes
Edith Cavell is inbred 5x4x5 to nine-time English champion sire St. Simon and 5x5 to Hampton. She is a full sister to 1925 American co-champion 3-year-old filly Florence Nightingale, also a winner of the Coaching Club American Oaks. She is also a half sister to stakes winner Youneed (by Ogden) and to Spoonful (by Plaudit), second dam of 1941 Pimlico Oaks winner Cis Marion.
Edith Cavell's dam The Nurse is inbred 3x4 to the important American matron Mannie Gray. She is out of Courtplaster (by Sandringham—Set Fast), making her a full sister to stakes winners Sticker and Penobscot and a half sister to stakes winner Miss Kearney (by Planudes), dam of 1923 American Horse of the Year Zev and of stakes winners Triple Crown (by Star Shoot) and Neddam (by Ormondale). Courtplaster is even more closely inbred than her daughter The Nurse as both her sire, Sandringham, and her broodmare sire, Masetto, are sons of the great St. Simon. In addition, Courtplaster's pedigree has crosses of King Tom 4x5x5x4 and Newminster 5x5.
Books and media
Edith Cavell is profiled in Chapter 5 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Fun facts
Last updated: October 27, 2024
Race record
44 starts, 10 wins, 10 seconds, 6 thirds, US$69,329
1925:
- Won Astoria Stakes (USA, 5FD, Aqueduct)
- 2nd Beldame Handicap (USA, 5FD, Aqueduct)
1926:
- Won Coaching Club American Oaks (USA, 11FD, Belmont)
- Won Latonia Oaks (USA, 10FD, Latonia)
- Won Pimlico Cup (USA, 18FD, Pimlico; new track record 3:52-1/5)
- Won Beldame Handicap (1st division) (USA, 6FD, Belmont)
- 2nd Gazelle Stakes (USA, 8.5FD, Aqueduct)
- 2nd Jerome Handicap (USA, 8FD, Belmont)
- 3rd Twin City Handicap (USA, 10FD, Belmont)
1927:
- Won Bowie Handicap (USA, 12FD, Pimlico)
- 2nd Havre de Grace Handicap (USA, 9FD, Havre de Grace)
- 3rd Pimlico Cup Handicap (USA, 18FD, Pimlico)
1928:
- Won Pimlico Cup Handicap (USA, 18FD, Pimlico)
- 3rd Bowie Handicap (USA, 12FD, Pimlico)
- 3rd Saratoga Handicap (USA, 10FD, Saratoga)
Honors
American co-champion 3-year-old filly (1926)
As an individual
Edith Cavell was a bay mare, more substantially built than her full sister Florence Nightingale and with a better shoulder. She stood over a lot of ground but was close-coupled and had a long, sloping pelvis and a strong hind leg.
As a producer
Edith Cavell produced only one named foal, the 1931 Bubbling Over filly Red Badge. She produced dead foals in 1930, 1932, 1933 and 1935 and was not covered in 1934 or 1936. The winner of 14 of her 93 starts, Red Badge is the third dam of 1974 West Virginia Derby winner Park Guard.
Connections
Edith Cavell was bred and owned by Walter M. Jeffords. She was trained by Hall of Fame member Robert A. Smith during her championship season. She died in 1937 and was buried at Faraway Farm alongside her dam, The Nurse.
Pedigree notes
Edith Cavell is inbred 5x4x5 to nine-time English champion sire St. Simon and 5x5 to Hampton. She is a full sister to 1925 American co-champion 3-year-old filly Florence Nightingale, also a winner of the Coaching Club American Oaks. She is also a half sister to stakes winner Youneed (by Ogden) and to Spoonful (by Plaudit), second dam of 1941 Pimlico Oaks winner Cis Marion.
Edith Cavell's dam The Nurse is inbred 3x4 to the important American matron Mannie Gray. She is out of Courtplaster (by Sandringham—Set Fast), making her a full sister to stakes winners Sticker and Penobscot and a half sister to stakes winner Miss Kearney (by Planudes), dam of 1923 American Horse of the Year Zev and of stakes winners Triple Crown (by Star Shoot) and Neddam (by Ormondale). Courtplaster is even more closely inbred than her daughter The Nurse as both her sire, Sandringham, and her broodmare sire, Masetto, are sons of the great St. Simon. In addition, Courtplaster's pedigree has crosses of King Tom 4x5x5x4 and Newminster 5x5.
Books and media
Edith Cavell is profiled in Chapter 5 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).
Fun facts
- Edith Cavell ran second in the Beldame Handicap in 1925, when it was a 5-furlong handicap at Aqueduct for 2-year-old fillies. The following year, the Beldame became a 6-furlong race for fillies and mares aged 3 and up at Belmont, and Edith Cavell won a division of the race under the new conditions.
- In history, Edith Cavell was an English nurse who was serving as the head of the nursing school she had founded in Brussels, Belgium, when the Germans overran the country in World War I. She provided medical care impartially to wounded men from both sides but was executed by the Germans on October 12, 1915, for hiding as many as 200 English, French and Belgian soldiers and helping them leave German-controlled territory to return to their units.
- In 1987, The Jockey Club permitted Edith Cavell's name to be reused for a filly by Spectacular Bid x Heroic Heart. The Spectacular Bid filly was a winner and produced a restricted stakes winner, the gelding First Stringer (by Twining).
Last updated: October 27, 2024