was exported to the United States where he died in 1841. Rowton was a dark-coated chestnut horse with no white markings who stood 15.2 hands high when fully...

Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton, Victorian philanthropist Rowton Houses, a chain of hostels founded by Lord Rowton Rowton (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse...

The Battle of Rowton Heath, also known as the Battle of Rowton Moor, occurred on 24 September 1645 during the English Civil War. Fought by the Parliamentarians...

wins): Bill Scott – Jack Spigot (1821), Memnon (1825), The Colonel (1828), Rowton (1829), Don John (1838), Charles the Twelfth (1839), Launcelot (1840), Satirist...

supporters; on 24 September the Royalists were defeated at the Battle of Rowton Heath. Shortly after this, news came of Montrose's defeat at the Battle...

Slane 1833 Royal Oak 1823 Catton* Smolensko mare Orville mare 1819 Orville Epsom Lass Receipt 1836 Rowton 1826 Oiseau Katherina Sam mare 1826 Sam Morel...

deciding heat. June 21, 1832 – in the Ascot Gold Cup, between Camarine and Rowton; Camarine won in a deciding heat. September 18, 1850 – in the St. Leger...

with the Lord Rowton, who, along with the Guinness Trust, was trying to improve housing for skilled workers in London. Byng accompanied Rowton around the...

using the papers Disraeli had bequeathed to his former secretary Lord Rowton. Though Monypenny's relative obscurity led some to question his selection...

unsuccessful, and instead was covered by another horse with similar pedigree, Heart's Cry. The horse was born in a Japanese farm called Paca Paca Farm...

Astley, with a regiment of horse under Colonel Howard in support. On the left under Sir Marmaduke Langdale were 1,500 "Northern Horse", the remnants of cavalry...

Hyperion's conformation: "[Hyperion was a] muscular, powerfully built chestnut horse...he was short-legged and long-bodied for his height [15.1 hands (61 inches...

was unbeaten in five races. In the following season, he became the first horse for thirty-five years to win the English Triple Crown, a feat that has not...

Room (1949) as 'Knucksie' Mortan, barkeeper Once a Jolly Swagman (1949) as Rowton Paper Orchid (1949) as Freddy Evans Give Us This Day (1949) as Murdin Man...

Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1886 English Triple Crown and was labelled the 'horse of the century' at the time. He also won the St. James's Palace Stakes,...

second favourite for the race with Rowton, a colt who had not run at Epsom, being made the 7/2 favourite. Rowton led almost from the start and won easily...

in defence of their property. In September, he fought in the Battle of Rowton Heath, a Parliamentarian victory that scattered the last significant Royalist...

accomplished by male horses. In her first race of the year, Dutch Oven competed in the 103rd Derby on 24 May in a field of 14 horses. A heavy rainstorm...

(imp. 1799). Jorrocks was from the colonial, C15 family and a brother to Rowton (c.1835) and a half-brother to Norna (third dam of two Brisbane Cup winners)...

Persimmon (1893–1908) was a British Thoroughbred race horse and sire. In a racing career that lasted from June 1895 to July 1897 he ran nine times and...

by the useful sire, King Fergus and was a grandson of the two undefeated horses, Eclipse and Highflyer, who was the sire of his dam Grey Highflyer. Hambletonian...

America, but failed to live up to expectations as a sire. Tulyar was a brown horse bred by his owner HH Aga Khan III. He was sired by Tehran and was the first...

considerable promise as a sire of winners in a brief stud career. Sancho was a bay horse owned and bred Colonel Henry Mellish, a veteran of the Peninsular War, who...

Rock Sand (1900–1914) was a British Thoroughbred race horse and sire. In a career which lasted from the spring of 1902 until October 1904 he ran twenty...

winner, Launcelot (br c 1837). Touchstone was described as a "peculiar horse" (according to The Druid), with an unusual conformation including fleshy...

retirement from racing he had success as a sire of National Hunt horses. Shantou was a bay horse with a white sock on his left hind leg bred in the Kentucky...

the Godolphin Arabian sire-line. West Australian was a "hard, yellow" bay horse standing 15.3 hands high with a narrow white blaze bred by John Bowes of...

1824 Jerry 1825 Memnon 1826 Tarrare 1827 Matilda ♥ 1828 The Colonel 1829 Rowton 1830 Birmingham 1831 Chorister 1832 Margrave 1833 Rockingham 1834 Touchstone...

sires, Rataplan and King Tom. The chestnut was not a particularly pretty horse; he was described by one turf writer as "the very incarnation of ugliness"...

death in 1834. Katherina became a successful broodmare, being the dam of Rowton who won the St Leger Stakes in 1829 and later became a successful sire in...