Padula (GB)
1906 – After Spring 1924
Laveno (GB) x Padua (GB), by Uncas or Thurio (GB)
Family 8-f
1906 – After Spring 1924
Laveno (GB) x Padua (GB), by Uncas or Thurio (GB)
Family 8-f
While Colonel Edward Riley Bradley was a wealthy man, his wealth was not sufficient for him to buy European mares with excellent race records or families. To a great extent, he had to depend on his own instincts and those of his agents while shopping in the bargain basement, even in the depressed European bloodstock market just before the first World War. Those instincts served him well with some unlikely candidates for broodmare stardom, Padula among them. A daughter of the good racehorse but moderate sire Laveno, she was one of the worst racing daughters of Padua, a mare of modest racing credentials and indifferent pedigree. Nonetheless Padula proved a good broodmare for Bradley's Idle Hour Stock Farm and helped develop the breeding patterns that culminated in Blue Larkspur, one of the best horses Bradley ever bred and an excellent sire. Padula is also the ancestress of Raise a Native, the primary conduit for the male line of the great Native Dancer.
Race record
A non-winner.
As an individual
A brown mare; no other information available.
As a producer
Padula produced seven named foals in the United States, as well as at least one foal in England. Of her seven American foals, five started and won, and all had some importance on the track or in the breeding shed.
Connections
Padula was sold to Cliff Hammond, acting as agent for Colonel E. R. Bradley, for 100 guineas and was imported to the United States in 1915. There is no report of her after she produced her final registered foal, the North Star III filly Binary Star, in 1924.
Pedigree notes
Padula is inbred 4x5 to 1845 Doncaster Cup winner Sweetmeat and 5x5 to 1848 Doncaster Cup winner Chanticleer. Her sire Laveno won the 1895 Champion Stakes and Jockey Club Stakes but was a disappointing sire. Her half sister Padilla (by another good racer but bad sire, Macheath) produced juvenile stakes winner Vaila (by Fariman), who produced five stakes winners for Bradley including 1919 American co-champion juvenile filly Miss Jemima (by Black Toney) and 1922 Pimlico Futurity winner Blossom Time (by North Star III), dam of Blue Larkspur.
Padula and Padilla were produced from Padua (by Uncas or Thurio). A winner of six of 40 starts at distances ranging from 5 to 12 furlongs, Padua was tough and versatile but not very classy. Her probable sire Thurio won the 1878 Grand Prix de Paris but was a bad sire, and her dam Immortelle (by Paul Jones) had little to recommend her.
Race record
A non-winner.
As an individual
A brown mare; no other information available.
As a producer
Padula produced seven named foals in the United States, as well as at least one foal in England. Of her seven American foals, five started and won, and all had some importance on the track or in the breeding shed.
- Best Pal (1917, by Helmet) won five stakes races at age 4 and 6 including the 1921 Ben Ali Handicap. He was of no importance at stud.
- Black Servant (1918, by Black Toney) won the 1921 Blue Grass Stakes and was runner-up by a head to his stablemate Behave Yourself in that year's Kentucky Derby. He was a useful sire whose best runner was 1929 American Horse of the Year Blue Larkspur.
- Bill and Coo (1919, by Helmet) is the second dam of juvenile stakes winner Truly Yours and the third dam of stakes winners Mr. Ace and Raise You. Raise You, in turn, produced 1963 American co-champion juvenile male Raise a Native, an important sire.
- Beginner's Luck (1921, by Black Toney) produced multiple stakes winner Blind Bowboy (by Épinard) and is the second dam of the minor stakes winner Wise Bob and the third dam of multiple stakes winner Joy Boy.
- Beauty Slave (1922, by Black Toney) produced 1939 Sanford Stakes winner Boy Angler (by Burgoo King). She is the second dam of minor stakes winner Barrister Bob and the third dam of the stakes-winning steeplechaser Mumbling.
- Boot to Boot (1923, by North Star III) won the 1926 American Derby and Ohio State Derby. He was a poor sire who got just two stakes winners from 97 foals.
- Binary Star (1924, by North Star III) is the dam of juvenile stakes winner Bingo Bridget (by Brandon Mint).
Connections
Padula was sold to Cliff Hammond, acting as agent for Colonel E. R. Bradley, for 100 guineas and was imported to the United States in 1915. There is no report of her after she produced her final registered foal, the North Star III filly Binary Star, in 1924.
Pedigree notes
Padula is inbred 4x5 to 1845 Doncaster Cup winner Sweetmeat and 5x5 to 1848 Doncaster Cup winner Chanticleer. Her sire Laveno won the 1895 Champion Stakes and Jockey Club Stakes but was a disappointing sire. Her half sister Padilla (by another good racer but bad sire, Macheath) produced juvenile stakes winner Vaila (by Fariman), who produced five stakes winners for Bradley including 1919 American co-champion juvenile filly Miss Jemima (by Black Toney) and 1922 Pimlico Futurity winner Blossom Time (by North Star III), dam of Blue Larkspur.
Padula and Padilla were produced from Padua (by Uncas or Thurio). A winner of six of 40 starts at distances ranging from 5 to 12 furlongs, Padua was tough and versatile but not very classy. Her probable sire Thurio won the 1878 Grand Prix de Paris but was a bad sire, and her dam Immortelle (by Paul Jones) had little to recommend her.