Menedict (CAN)
March 30, 1960 – c. 1983
Ménétrier (FR) x Queen’s Statute (GB), by Le Lavandou (FR)
Family 22-b
March 30, 1960 – c. 1983
Ménétrier (FR) x Queen’s Statute (GB), by Le Lavandou (FR)
Family 22-b
One of six stakes winners produced from Windfields Farm foundation mare Queen’s Statute, Menedict won one stakes race in each season she raced. Her biggest score was the 1963 Canadian Oaks, which she won by five lengths. Her produce record was not outstanding, but she is the second dam of 1988 Canadian champion juvenile male Mercedes Won. Her family has bred on with some success in Australia and New Zealand.
Race record
38 starts, 12 wins, 7 seconds, 3 thirds, US$66,610
1962:
1963:
1964:
Assessments
Rated at 110 pounds on the Canadian Free Handicap for juveniles of 1962, 9 pounds below the highweighted filly, Cesca.
Rated at 110 pounds on the Canadian Free Handicap for 3-year-olds of 1963, 2 pounds below co-highweighted fillies Cesca and Glory Hill.
Rated at 115 pounds on the Canadian Free Handicap for older runners of 1964, sharing the best rating for a filly or mare with Etimota.
As an individual
A bay mare; no further information available.
As a producer
Menedict produced 13 named foals. Of these, seven started and five won. Her only important foal is unraced Bye Bye Mercedes (by Roman Line), dam of 1988 Canadian champion juvenile male Mercedes Won (by Air Forbes Won). Bye Bye Mercedes is also the second dam of 2000 New Zealand Oaks (NZ-G1) winner She’s Country and New Zealand Group 3 winner Country Lane and the third dam of multiple Australian Group 3 winner Augusta Proud and New Zealand Group 3 winner She Rules. Bye Bye Mercedes’s more distant descendants include Australian Group 2 winners Doull and Lazzago, Grade 2 winner Zeitlos, and Australian Group 3 winners Aryaaf, Khulaasa, and Thyme for Roses.
Connections
Foaled in Ontario, Menedict was bred by E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm. She raced in the colors of Hugh Grant and was trained by C. F. Chapman. She was ridden to her Canadian Oaks win by Paul Bohenko. After producing five foals for Grant, Menedict passed to the ownership of Angus Glen Farm and produced five more foals for that entity. In 1978, Menedict sold for US$17,500 through the Keeneland November mixed sale, covered by Kennedy Road. She ended her broodmare career as the property of Oscar Penn. She is last recorded in the produce records as having slipped her foal in 1983, two years after the birth of her last live foal.
Pedigree notes
Menedict is outcrossed through five generations. She is a half sister to three-time Canadian champion Dance Act (by Northern Dancer) and to the excellent broodmare Royal Statute (by Northern Dancer), whose family includes champions Awaasif, Bosra Sham, Golden Sixty, Hector Protector, and Lammtarra. Menedict is also a half sister to stakes winners Court Royal (by Chop Chop), Down North (by Victoria Park), Epic Queen (by Epic), and North of the Law (by Northern Dancer). In addition, Menedict is a half sister to Falafel (by Northern Dancer), dam of 1985 Premio Parioli (Italian Two Thousand Guineas, ITY-G1) winner Again Tomorrow (by Honest Pleasure) and 1992 St. James’s Palace Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Brief Truce (by Irish River) and third dam of multiple Japanese Group 3 winner Makoto Brillar. Finally, Menedict is a half sister to stakes-placed Queen’s Law (by Queen’s Own), dam of Canadian stakes winners Queen’s Splendour (by Impressive) and Queen’s Answer (by Northern Answer), second dam of Grade 2 winner With the Flow, and third dam of multiple Venezuelan Group 1 winner Mantle.
Queen’s Statute, the dam of Menedict and her siblings, was imported to Canada in 1956 after being purchased for E. P. Taylor for 3,500 guineas from the 1955 Tattersalls October yearling sale. Sired by 1946 Prix d’Arenberg winner Le Lavandou (by Djebel), she never raced but is a full sister to English stakes winner Grand Statute.
Queen’s Statute is out of the Son-in-Law mare Statute, winner of the 1939 Brighton Autumn Cup. Statute, in turn, was produced from the juvenile winner Nina, whose sire, Prince Galahad, won the 1919 Dewhurst Stakes. The next dam in Royal Statute’s tail-female line, unraced Giannina, was by John o’ Gaunt, an unsound horse who was runner-up in the 1904 Two Thousand Guineas and Derby Stakes but is best known as the sire of champion and important sire Swynford.
Last updated: May 14, 2026
Race record
38 starts, 12 wins, 7 seconds, 3 thirds, US$66,610
1962:
- Won Boniface Stakes (CAN-R, 5.5FD, Fort Erie)
1963:
- Won Canadian Oaks (CAN-R, 9FD, Woodbine)
1964:
- Won Belle Mahone Stakes (CAN-R, 9FT, Woodbine)
- 2nd Canadian Maturity (CAN-R, 10FT, Woodbine)
- 2nd Nettie Handicap (CAN, 9FD, Woodbine)
- 3rd Duchess Stakes (CAN, 8.5FT, Fort Erie)
Assessments
Rated at 110 pounds on the Canadian Free Handicap for juveniles of 1962, 9 pounds below the highweighted filly, Cesca.
Rated at 110 pounds on the Canadian Free Handicap for 3-year-olds of 1963, 2 pounds below co-highweighted fillies Cesca and Glory Hill.
Rated at 115 pounds on the Canadian Free Handicap for older runners of 1964, sharing the best rating for a filly or mare with Etimota.
As an individual
A bay mare; no further information available.
As a producer
Menedict produced 13 named foals. Of these, seven started and five won. Her only important foal is unraced Bye Bye Mercedes (by Roman Line), dam of 1988 Canadian champion juvenile male Mercedes Won (by Air Forbes Won). Bye Bye Mercedes is also the second dam of 2000 New Zealand Oaks (NZ-G1) winner She’s Country and New Zealand Group 3 winner Country Lane and the third dam of multiple Australian Group 3 winner Augusta Proud and New Zealand Group 3 winner She Rules. Bye Bye Mercedes’s more distant descendants include Australian Group 2 winners Doull and Lazzago, Grade 2 winner Zeitlos, and Australian Group 3 winners Aryaaf, Khulaasa, and Thyme for Roses.
Connections
Foaled in Ontario, Menedict was bred by E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm. She raced in the colors of Hugh Grant and was trained by C. F. Chapman. She was ridden to her Canadian Oaks win by Paul Bohenko. After producing five foals for Grant, Menedict passed to the ownership of Angus Glen Farm and produced five more foals for that entity. In 1978, Menedict sold for US$17,500 through the Keeneland November mixed sale, covered by Kennedy Road. She ended her broodmare career as the property of Oscar Penn. She is last recorded in the produce records as having slipped her foal in 1983, two years after the birth of her last live foal.
Pedigree notes
Menedict is outcrossed through five generations. She is a half sister to three-time Canadian champion Dance Act (by Northern Dancer) and to the excellent broodmare Royal Statute (by Northern Dancer), whose family includes champions Awaasif, Bosra Sham, Golden Sixty, Hector Protector, and Lammtarra. Menedict is also a half sister to stakes winners Court Royal (by Chop Chop), Down North (by Victoria Park), Epic Queen (by Epic), and North of the Law (by Northern Dancer). In addition, Menedict is a half sister to Falafel (by Northern Dancer), dam of 1985 Premio Parioli (Italian Two Thousand Guineas, ITY-G1) winner Again Tomorrow (by Honest Pleasure) and 1992 St. James’s Palace Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Brief Truce (by Irish River) and third dam of multiple Japanese Group 3 winner Makoto Brillar. Finally, Menedict is a half sister to stakes-placed Queen’s Law (by Queen’s Own), dam of Canadian stakes winners Queen’s Splendour (by Impressive) and Queen’s Answer (by Northern Answer), second dam of Grade 2 winner With the Flow, and third dam of multiple Venezuelan Group 1 winner Mantle.
Queen’s Statute, the dam of Menedict and her siblings, was imported to Canada in 1956 after being purchased for E. P. Taylor for 3,500 guineas from the 1955 Tattersalls October yearling sale. Sired by 1946 Prix d’Arenberg winner Le Lavandou (by Djebel), she never raced but is a full sister to English stakes winner Grand Statute.
Queen’s Statute is out of the Son-in-Law mare Statute, winner of the 1939 Brighton Autumn Cup. Statute, in turn, was produced from the juvenile winner Nina, whose sire, Prince Galahad, won the 1919 Dewhurst Stakes. The next dam in Royal Statute’s tail-female line, unraced Giannina, was by John o’ Gaunt, an unsound horse who was runner-up in the 1904 Two Thousand Guineas and Derby Stakes but is best known as the sire of champion and important sire Swynford.
Last updated: May 14, 2026