King Tom (1851–1878) was a British
Thoroughbred
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racehorse
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and a
leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland
The title of champion, or leading, sire of racehorses in Great Britain and Ireland is awarded to the stallion whose offspring have won the most prize money in Britain and Ireland during the flat racing season. The current champion is Frankel, who r ...
.
Pedigree
He was a bay horse foaled in 1851,
sired by Harkaway and out of the exceptional mare
Pocahontas
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by
Glencoe. King Tom was a half-brother to 14 of Pocahontas' foals including, Auricula (a stakes winner), plus
Stockwell
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History
The na ...
and his brother, Rataplan, both being by The Baron.
Thoroughbred Heritage: Pocahontas
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Racing record
King Tom won races at age two and at age three he was not quite recovered from an injury when he finished second by a length to Andover
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* Ando ...
in the 1854 Epsom Derby
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. He came out of the Derby with a tendon
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injury that curtailed his racing for the remainder of the year. At age four, King Tom returned to the track and won one race before breaking down.
Stud record
Retired to stud
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duty, King Tom became the foundation stallion
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for Baron Mayer de Rothschild's Mentmore and Crafton Studs
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. Between 1861 and 1877 he was one of the United Kingdom's top ten sires 14 times and the Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland
The title of champion, or leading, sire of racehorses in Great Britain and Ireland is awarded to the stallion whose offspring have won the most prize money in Britain and Ireland during the flat racing season. The current champion is Frankel, who r ...
in 1870 and 1871. King Tom sired the 1866 and 1867 Epsom Oaks
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winners, Tormentor and Hippia, as well as the 1870 Epsom Derby winner Kingcraft
Kingcraft (1867–1887) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was one of the leading British two-year-old of his generation, winning six of his nine races in 1869. The following year he finished third in the 2000 Guineas and the ...
. He also sired 1864 1,000 Guineas Stakes
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winner Tomato plus another outstanding filly
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Hannah who in 1871 won the Epsom Oaks, 1,000 Guineas and St. Leger Stakes
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. One of his most important foals was his daughter, St. Angela, dam of St. Simon
Simon the Zealot (, ) or Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Canaanean (, ; grc-gre, Σίμων ὁ Κανανίτης; cop, ⲥⲓⲙⲱⲛ ⲡⲓ-ⲕⲁⲛⲁⲛⲉⲟⲥ; syc, ܫܡܥܘܢ ܩܢܢܝܐ) was one of the most obscure among the apostl ...
and second dam of Orme.[Morris, Simon; Tesio Power 2000 - ''Stallions of the World'']
King Tom is the damsire of Favonius, winner of the 1871 Epsom Derby
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and the grandsire of the Irish Derby
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winner Umpire plus the grandsire of United States Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Ten Broeck.
King Tom died at age twenty-seven in January 1878. He was buried in the grounds of Mentmore Towers
Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George ...
beneath a life sized bronze statue by Sir Joseph Boehm
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Baronet, (6 July 1834 – 12 December 1890) was an Austrian-born British medallist and sculptor, best known for the " Jubilee head" of Queen Victoria on coinage, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Par ...
. The statue is now at Dalmeny House
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in Scotland.
Pedigree
References
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Bloodlines
1851 racehorse births
1878 racehorse deaths
British Champion Thoroughbred Sires
Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
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