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Winkipop

Winkipop (1907–1931) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1910 1,000 Guineas Stakes and Coronation Stakes. She raced briefly at age four and was retired from racing in 1911. As a broodmare, she produced the good racers Plymstock and Blink before she was exported to the United States in 1927. Winkipop died in 1931 at the Mereworth Stud near Lexington, Kentucky.

Winkipop
Winkipop as photographed by W.A. Rouch in 1910.
SireWilliam the Third
GrandsireSt. Simon
DamConjure
DamsireJuggler
SexMare
Foaled1907
CountryUnited Kingdom
ColourBay
BreederWaldorf Astor
OwnerWaldorf Astor
TrainerWilliam Waugh
Major wins
1,000 Guineas Stakes (1910)
Yorkshire Oaks (1910)
Coronation Stakes (1910)
Sussex Stakes (1910)
Nassau Stakes (1910)

Background

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Winkipop was foaled in 1907 at the Cliveden Stud, a Thoroughbred breeding farm owned by Waldorf Astor at his family's estate near Taplow in Buckinghamshire. Winkipop was sired by William the Third, a good racehorse and sire that was second to Volodyovski in the 1901 Derby and won the 1902 Ascot Gold Cup.[1] Lord Astor bought her dam, Conjure, for £100 when he was a student at Oxford as a potential producer of steeplechase and hunt horses.[2] The mare eventually became an integral part of his Cliveden Stud,[2] producing many top-class racers. Full-siblings to Winkipop include the filly Third Trick and the stallion Winkie. Winkie was not a successful racehorse and was exported to New Zealand as a breeding stallion, where he sired the mare Entreaty, the dam of the multiple stakes winner, Phar Lap.[1]

The Winkipops reef at popular surfing location Bells Beach in Victoria, Australia was named after the horse.

Racing career

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Winkipop was first trained by William Waugh at Kingsclere and then by Alec Taylor, Jr. at Manton, Wiltshire.[3] Winkipop won eight races and earned £11,439 during the 1910 season.[4]

1909: two-year-old season

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In the first start of her racing career, Winkipop was fifth in the Foal Plate at Lingfield Park on 10 July, running against the seasoned racehorses Yellow Slave and Greenback.[5] She started three months later at Newmarket in the Triennial Produce Stakes and finished second to the filly Santa Fina.[6] A few days later, she finished second to an unnamed colt by Broomstick in the six-furlong Alington Plate.[7] In November, Winkipop won the Theale Maiden Plate by three lengths over the colts Catrall and Pentelicus.[8]

1910: three-year-old season

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Waldorf Astor bred and owned Winkipop.

In April, Winkipop was second to Sir Jardine's filly Sanctuary in the Newmarket Biennial Stakes.[9] A few weeks later, Winkipop contested for the 1,000 Guineas Stakes against a field of 13 horses. The future Epsom Oaks winner Rosedrop and her stable companion, Maid of Corinth, also ran. Maid of Corinth was not expected to run well due to her poor condition the previous winter. Winkipop and Maid of Corinth remained side by side for most of the race, but despite surprising the crowd with her new-found stamina, the filly could not overtake Winkipop and lost by one and a half lengths. Rosedrop was soundly beaten in the running.[10] In June at Epsom, Winkipop finished sixth in the Oaks. She had maintained a sizable lead in the race until the Tattenham Corner turn when she suddenly slowed down, leading the crowd to believe that she had been struck or "bumped" by another runner. She never regained her position and finished many lengths behind Rosedrop.[11]

 
Winkipop at the Oaks.

At Ascot in June, Winkipop won the Coronation Stakes while carrying seven more pounds than the nine other contenders as a penalty for winning the 1,000 Guineas. She was not challenged by the second-place finisher Thalia, winning by a margin of three lengths.[12] She was second in the Royal Stakes held at Newbury a few weeks later, losing by three quarters of a length to Lord Villiers' colt Greenback with the future stallion Willonyx third.[13] In the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood in July, Winkipop faced off against Mr. Nelke's filly Yellow Slave over a mile and a quarter distance. Yellow Slave was noted by the crowd to be sweating profusely before the race and was never a contender in the race, fading fast and losing by five lengths to Winkipop who never broke into a gallop.[14] Her next engagement for the Durham County Produce Plate at Stockton was "an affair that [could] scarcely be called a race" where Winkipop won by two lengths and conceded 24 pounds to her opponents.[15] After winning the Yorkshire Oaks[16] Winkipop finished fifth in the St. Leger Stakes.[17] She won the Triennial Produce Stakes at Newmarket and the Royal Stakes.[18]

She trained on as a four-year-old in 1911, but developed a persistent cough early in the season.[19] She "broke a blood vessel" while participating in the Royal Hunt Cup in July and was retired from racing.[20]

Breeding career

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Winkipop was retired to the Cliveden Stud. Her most notable offspring include the mare Plymstock who produced the 1929 Oaks winner Pennycomequick by Hurry On and the colt Blink which won the Princess of Wales's Stakes and was second in the Derby.[21] After foaling Plymstock, Winkipop was repeatedly barren over the subsequent breeding seasons. Due to her infertility, an operation on her ovaries was performed in an attempt to help her conceive.[22] The operation was unsuccessful and after being barren for nine years, Winkipop was sold to Walter Salmon[23] and exported to the United States in 1927.[24] Salmon had made his fortune in the New York real estate market and leased a 600-acre farm called the Mereworth Stud in Lexington, Kentucky.[25] In 1929, Winkipop produced a colt named Swincraft to the cover of Swinburne.[23] Swincraft was the last foal Winkipop produced and was her only offspring born in the United States. Winkipop died in 1931 at the Mereworth Stud.[26]

Pedigree

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Pedigree of Winkipop (GB), Bay Mare, 1907[27]
Sire
William the Third (GB)
Bay, 1898 		St. Simon
1881 		Galopin Vedette
Flying Duchess
St. Angela King Tom
Adeline
Gravity
1884 		Wisdom Blinkhoolie
Aline
Enigma The Rake
The Sphnx
Dam
Conjure (GB)
Brown, 1895 		Juggler
1885 		Touchet Lord Lyon
Lady Audley
Enchantress Scottish Chief
Lady Love
Connie
1884 		Pero Gomez Beadsman
Salamanca
Hilarity King Tom
Nightingale (Family 1-p)[28]

References

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  1. ^ a b Martiniak, Liz. "William the Third". Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  2. ^ a b Staff (1937). "Bloodstock bargains". Country Life. 82: xxiv.
  3. ^ Phillipos (1919). "Thoroughbreds at the Cliveden Stud". Country Life. 46: 420. hdl:2027/njp.32101079523286.
  4. ^ "Racing. The Past Racing Season". The Times. 10 November 2012. Monday, Nov 28, 1910; pg. 17; Issue 39441; col E.
  5. ^ Staff. "Racing: Past And Future". The Times. 13 October 2012. Monday, Jul 12, 1909; pg. 17; Issue 39009; col A.
  6. ^ Staff. "Racing". The Times. 13 October 2012. Friday, Oct 01, 1909; pg. 19; Issue 39079; col A.
  7. ^ Staff. "Racing. The Newmarket Meeting, Tuesday". The Times. 13 October 2012. Wednesday, Oct 13, 1909; pg. 20; Issue 39.
  8. ^ Staff. "Racing. The Newbury Meeting, Thursday". The Times. 13 October 2012. Friday, Nov 05, 1909; pg. 21; Issue 39109; col A.
  9. ^ Staff. "Racing. The Newmarket Craven Meeting". The Times. 10 November 2012. Apr 13, 1910; pg. 22; Issue 39245; col A.
  10. ^ "Racing. The Newmarket First Spring Meeting, Friday., The One Thousand Guineas". The Times. 10 November 2012. Saturday, Apr 30, 1910; pg. 18; Issue 39260; col A.
  11. ^ Staff. "Sporting Intelligence. Racing., The Epsom Summer Meeting, Friday., The Oaks Day". The Times. 10 November 2012. Saturday, Jun 04, 1910; pg. 18; Issue 39290; col A.
  12. ^ Staff. "Racing. The Ascot Meeting. Wednesday., The Royal Hunt Cup". The Times. 11 November 2012. Thursday, Jun 16, 1910; pg. 17; Issue 39300; col E.
  13. ^ Staff. "Racing. The Newbury Summer Meeting, Tuesday". The Times. 11 November 2012. Wednesday, Jun 22, 1910; pg. 21; Issue 39305; col D.
  14. ^ Staff. "Racing. The Goodwood Meeting, Friday". The Times. 11 November 2012. Saturday, Jul 30, 1910; pg. 18; Issue 39338; col A.
  15. ^ Staff. "Racing. The Stockton Meeting, Thursday". The Times. 11 November 2012. Friday, Aug 19, 1910; pg. 16; Issue 39355; col A.
  16. ^ Staff. "Racing. The York Meeting, Tuesday". The Times. 11 November 2012. Wednesday, Aug 24, 1910; pg. 16; Issue 39359; col E.
  17. ^ "Racing. The Doncaster Meeting, Wednesday., Race For The St. Leger". The Times. 11 November 2012. Thursday, Sep 08, 1910; pg. 15; Issue 39372; col A.
  18. ^ Staff. "Racing. The Newmarket First October Meeting, Wednesday". The Times. 11 November 2012. Thursday, Sep 29, 1910; pg. 17; Issue 39390; col B.
  19. ^ Staff. "Racing. The King At Newmarket". The Times. 14 October 2012. Monday, May 8, 1911; pg. 13; Issue 39579; col A.
  20. ^ Staff (24 August 1911). "Sporting news". The Advertiser. 11 November 2012.
  21. ^ Staff. "Winkipop". The National Horseracing Museum. 11 November 2012.
  22. ^ Staff. "Racing Notes. Horses And Dogs., The Cliveden Stud". The Times. 10 September 2012. Monday, Aug 22, 1927; pg. 4; Issue 44666; col A.
  23. ^ a b The Jockey Club (1932). "Winkipop". The American Stud Book. XV: 906.
  24. ^ Weatherby (1929). "Winkipop". The General Stud Book. XXVL: 1121.
  25. ^ Martiniak, Liz. "Grave Matters: Mereworth Stud, Lexington, Kentucky". Thoroughbred Heritage. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  26. ^ The Jockey Club (1936). "Winkipop". The American Stud Book. XVI: 997.
  27. ^ Staff. "Winkipop 5x Pedigree". Equineline.
  28. ^ Staff. "Dam of the Two True Blues Taproot Branches". Thoroughbred Heritage. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
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