Floreal (USA)
1906 – 1917
Alloway (GB) x Anyday (USA), by Locohatchee (USA)
Family 19-c
1906 – 1917
Alloway (GB) x Anyday (USA), by Locohatchee (USA)
Family 19-c
Floreal did not mark herself as anything special at 2, and her favoritism for the 1909 Kentucky Oaks was largely due to several more promising contenders having been shelved by an illness sweeping the stables based in central Kentucky. She got the job done easily in the Oaks over a substandard field but for most of her racing career had no pretensions to being anything other than a selling plater, and was not overly successful even at that level. She was a moderate success as a broodmare.
Race record
Unknown
1909:
As an individual
A bay mare, Floreal was described as “a fine big filly, with plenty of bone” by the Cincinnati Enquirer of December 20, 1908. She typically did her best running from off the pace. She did not care for heavy going.
As a producer
Floreal produced five named foals. Her best runner was Green Jones (by Handsel), a juvenile stakes winner.
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Floreal was bred by Fletcher Driver. She raced in the colors of W. H. Fizer, her trainer. Following her racing career, she returned to Driver's ownership. She was owned by A. B. Hancock of Claiborne Farm when she died in 1917.
Pedigree notes
Sired by 1890 Prince of Wales' Stakes winner Alloway (by Springfield), Floreal is inbred 4x5x5 to seven-time English champion sire Stockwell, who won the 1852 Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger Stakes. She was the only foal of any importance produced from Anyday, a daughter of multiple stakes winner Locohatchee out of the 1891 English importation Happy Day, by the useful handicapper Coeruleus. The third dam of Floreal, the Cremorne mare Rosherville, is a half sister to Rosemary (by Skirmisher), dam of 1886 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) winner Upas (by Dollar), and to an unnamed Skirmisher mare who is the second dam of two-time English/Irish champion sire Gallinule and the third dam of 1897 Irish Oaks winner Dabchick.
Last updated: September 28, 2022
Race record
Unknown
1909:
- Won Kentucky Oaks (USA, 8.5FD, Churchill Downs)
- 3rd Latonia Oaks (USA, 10FD, Latonia; third of 3)
As an individual
A bay mare, Floreal was described as “a fine big filly, with plenty of bone” by the Cincinnati Enquirer of December 20, 1908. She typically did her best running from off the pace. She did not care for heavy going.
As a producer
Floreal produced five named foals. Her best runner was Green Jones (by Handsel), a juvenile stakes winner.
Connections
Foaled in Kentucky, Floreal was bred by Fletcher Driver. She raced in the colors of W. H. Fizer, her trainer. Following her racing career, she returned to Driver's ownership. She was owned by A. B. Hancock of Claiborne Farm when she died in 1917.
Pedigree notes
Sired by 1890 Prince of Wales' Stakes winner Alloway (by Springfield), Floreal is inbred 4x5x5 to seven-time English champion sire Stockwell, who won the 1852 Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger Stakes. She was the only foal of any importance produced from Anyday, a daughter of multiple stakes winner Locohatchee out of the 1891 English importation Happy Day, by the useful handicapper Coeruleus. The third dam of Floreal, the Cremorne mare Rosherville, is a half sister to Rosemary (by Skirmisher), dam of 1886 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) winner Upas (by Dollar), and to an unnamed Skirmisher mare who is the second dam of two-time English/Irish champion sire Gallinule and the third dam of 1897 Irish Oaks winner Dabchick.
Last updated: September 28, 2022