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Bucephalus was game, but Eclipse was the easy winner. His toughest challenge was a match race versus the highly regarded Bucephalus in April 1770. Eclipse won the race and covered O'Kelly's bet. His jockey was John Oakley, supposedly the only jockey who could handle Eclipse's temperamental manner and running style of holding his nose very close to the ground. At that time, a horse that was more than 240 yards behind the lead was said to be nowhere. Supposedly, at this time O'Kelly used the famous phrase "Eclipse first and the rest nowhere", before making his bets for this race, although some sources have him saying this for the second heat of the horse's debut. (50 percent in June 1769 for 650 guineas, 50 percent in April 1770 for 1,100 guineas). Īfter his second victory in a race in May 1769, Dennis O'Kelly purchased Eclipse in two stages. The race consisted of three heats of four miles each. Accordingly, when Eclipse started in his first race on May 3 1769, a £50 Plate for horses who had never won, he was 4/1 on favourite. On their way home, though, they encountered an old woman who told them she had seen a horse with a white leg being chased by another, whom she did not think would catch the horse with the white leg, even if he pursued him to the end of the world.
#Eclipse book in spanish trial#
Bookmakers, trying to verify whether rumours about the horse were true, showed up but were too late - the trial had already been run. Racing career īefore Eclipse's first start at the age of five, a trial was arranged at Epsom (although the location has also been given as Mickleham ). This treatment, rather than souring his disposition, settled Eclipse enough to allow him to be raced, although his jockeys never attempted to hold him.
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Instead he was turned over to a rough-rider, who worked him hard all day, and at night as well on poaching expeditions if the stories are to be believed. His difficult temperament was well documented, and might have led to him being gelded.
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He was sometimes criticized for having a large, unattractive head. Eclipse was a big horse for his time, just over 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm), and was an inch higher at the rump than at the withers. He had a white stocking on his right hind leg. After the death of Prince William in 1765, Eclipse was sold for 75 guineas to a sheep dealer from Smithfield, William Wildman.Įclipse was a bright chestnut with a narrow blaze running down his face. They were inbred to Snake in the fourth generation (4m x 4f) of their pedigree. Eclipse was a brother to the successful broodmare Proserpine. Eclipse's male-line great-grandsire was Bartlett's Childers, and his male-line great-great-grandsire was Darley Arabian. His dam, Spilletta (foaled 1749), was by Regulus, who was by the Godolphin Arabian. It was at this stud that his sire, the Jockey Club Plate winner Marske (by Squirt from The Ruby Mare) stood. After retiring from racing he became a very successful sire and today appears in the pedigree of most modern Thoroughbreds.Įclipse was foaled during and named after the solar eclipse of 1 April 1764, at the Cranbourne Lodge stud of his breeder, Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Prix Eclipse at Maisons-Laffitte (France)Įclipse (1 April 1764 – 26 February 1789) was an undefeated 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse who won 18 races, including 11 King's Plates. Newmarket First Spring King's Plate (1770)