Description
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by H Hall
Size: 51 cm x 39 cm
The dark bay Sweetmeat son Macaroni was, like his sire, an undefeated winner at age three. Sire of four classic winners, three of which were fillies, he was, in addition to being an excellent filly-getter, an outstanding broodmare sire, the “nick” of his daughters with the Bend Or, a noted one. It is through his daughters that he is seen in pedigrees today.
Macaroni was born in 1860 at the Duke of Westminster’s Eaton Hall. He was from the Pantaloon daughter Jocose, a filly bred by Duke from Banter, the latter the dam of Touchstone. Macaroni and five other yearlings had been ill with strangles, which delayed their training, and through the auspices of their respective stud grooms, the Duke made a deal with his new neighbor, Richard C. Naylor, a former Liverpool chemist who had inherited sufficient funds to establish a new stud at Hooton Park, near Chester, two years earlier. Naylor purchased the six Westminster horses as a group for £700 as part of his effort to establish his stud and his presence on the turf. One of the other youngsters was another Sweetmeat son, Carnival, who had a respectable, but modest career on the turf, although initially he appeared to be the most promising of the lot Naylor had purchased.
Bay colt, 1860.
By Sweetmeat – Jocose by Pantaloon
Byerley Turk Sire Line
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