Vandal (USA)
1850 – 1872
Glencoe (GB) x Tranby Mare (USA), by Tranby (GB)
Family 12-b*
1850 – 1872
Glencoe (GB) x Tranby Mare (USA), by Tranby (GB)
Family 12-b*
Probably the best sire son of eight-time American champion sire Glencoe, Vandal was a fairly good racehorse in the heat racing that predominated in the American racing scene prior to the American Civil War. He sired the first Kentucky Oaks winner, Vinaigrette, and the first Preakness Stakes winner, Survivor, but his greatest claim to fame was siring Virgil, the American champion sire of 1885 and the sire of three Kentucky Derby winners.
Race record
Unknown
1855:
As an individual
A dark bay horse, Vandal inherited the hollow back of his sire Glencoe.
As a stallion
Vandal was runner-up to 16-time American champion sire Lexington on the American general sire list of 1862. Clio Hogan's Index to Stakes Winners 1865-1967 credits him with nine stakes winners.
Notable progeny
Survivor (USA), Vandalite (USA), Vinaigrette (USA), Virgil (USA)
Connections
Vandal was bred and owned by Robert Alexander. He later became the property of F. T. Kinkead, who in 1869 sold Vandal to General William G. Harding, master of Belle Meade Stud Farm in Tennessee. Vandal stood two seasons in Harding's ownership before dying in 1872.
Pedigree notes
Vandal was sired by 1834 Two Thousand Guineas and 1835 Ascot Gold Cup winner Glencoe, an eight-time American champion sire and sire of the great broodmare Pocahontas before leaving England. He is a full brother to Volga, second dam of 1882 Alabama Stakes winner Tolu. He is also a half brother to the notable matron Levity (by Trustee), whose descendants include the 19th-century National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame members Luke Blackburn and Salvator, 1876 Travers Stakes winner Sultana and 1886 Preakness Stakes winner The Bard and in more remote removes include Classic winners from around the globe.
Vandal's dam was an unnamed daughter of the English import Tranby, a stakes-winning son of 1829 English champion sire Blacklock. She was produced from Lucilla, a daughter of Badger's Trumpator and the Orphan mare Lucy. This female line traditionally has been traced to a mare foaled in the early to mid-1760s by Jack of Diamonds out of Diana, a 1754 mare by the Cullen Arabian who is considered to be the foundation mare of Bruce Lowe family 12-b. However, modern research into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is passed only through the direct female line, indicates that an error occurred in the recorded female line somewhere in the eight generations between Diana and the Tranby Mare. Adding to the confusion, a second line of descent erroneously attributed to Diana also traces to a daughter of Jack of Diamonds who cannot be either identical to or a full sister of the mare who is the ancestor of Vandal because the two’s known descendants have different mtDNA haplotypes.
Fun facts
Last updated: October 27, 2024
Race record
Unknown
1855:
- Won Jockey Club Purse (USA, 3-mile heats, Lexington)
As an individual
A dark bay horse, Vandal inherited the hollow back of his sire Glencoe.
As a stallion
Vandal was runner-up to 16-time American champion sire Lexington on the American general sire list of 1862. Clio Hogan's Index to Stakes Winners 1865-1967 credits him with nine stakes winners.
Notable progeny
Survivor (USA), Vandalite (USA), Vinaigrette (USA), Virgil (USA)
Connections
Vandal was bred and owned by Robert Alexander. He later became the property of F. T. Kinkead, who in 1869 sold Vandal to General William G. Harding, master of Belle Meade Stud Farm in Tennessee. Vandal stood two seasons in Harding's ownership before dying in 1872.
Pedigree notes
Vandal was sired by 1834 Two Thousand Guineas and 1835 Ascot Gold Cup winner Glencoe, an eight-time American champion sire and sire of the great broodmare Pocahontas before leaving England. He is a full brother to Volga, second dam of 1882 Alabama Stakes winner Tolu. He is also a half brother to the notable matron Levity (by Trustee), whose descendants include the 19th-century National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame members Luke Blackburn and Salvator, 1876 Travers Stakes winner Sultana and 1886 Preakness Stakes winner The Bard and in more remote removes include Classic winners from around the globe.
Vandal's dam was an unnamed daughter of the English import Tranby, a stakes-winning son of 1829 English champion sire Blacklock. She was produced from Lucilla, a daughter of Badger's Trumpator and the Orphan mare Lucy. This female line traditionally has been traced to a mare foaled in the early to mid-1760s by Jack of Diamonds out of Diana, a 1754 mare by the Cullen Arabian who is considered to be the foundation mare of Bruce Lowe family 12-b. However, modern research into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is passed only through the direct female line, indicates that an error occurred in the recorded female line somewhere in the eight generations between Diana and the Tranby Mare. Adding to the confusion, a second line of descent erroneously attributed to Diana also traces to a daughter of Jack of Diamonds who cannot be either identical to or a full sister of the mare who is the ancestor of Vandal because the two’s known descendants have different mtDNA haplotypes.
Fun facts
- The Vandals were a Germanic people that rampaged through Gaul (modern France), the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., establishing kingdoms in Iberia and in the old Roman province of Africa. They also sacked the city of Rome in 455 A.D. but were conquered by Emperor Justinian I of the Eastern Roman Empire in the early sixth century. While the Vandals were no more barbaric or destructive than other Germanic tribes of the same period, their sack of Rome led to the survival of their name as a term for a person who engages in senseless or malicious destruction.
- The Vandal Stakes is a Canadian stakes race restricted to Ontario-sired 2-year-olds. First contested in 1956, the race is run at 6.5 furlongs on turf.
Last updated: October 27, 2024