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==Racing career== |
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Kincsem's career began in [[1876]]. She was entered for ten races in Hungary, [[Germany]] and [[Austria]] as a two-year-old and won them all. |
Kincsem's career began in [[1876]]. She was entered for ten races in Hungary, [[Germany]] and [[Austria]] as a two-year-old and won them all. |
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There is a life sized statue of her near the stadium at [[Kincsem Park]] in Budapest where the Kincsem Museum is located. |
There is a life sized statue of her near the stadium at [[Kincsem Park]] in Budapest where the Kincsem Museum is located. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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* [[Repeat winners of horse races]] |
* [[Repeat winners of horse races]] |
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Revision as of 14:26, 9 June 2009
| Kincsem | |
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| Sire | Cambuscan |
| Dam | Water Nymph |
| Damsire | Cotswold |
| Sex | Filly |
| Foaled | 1874 |
| Country | Hungary  |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Ernst von Blaskovich |
| Owner | Ernst von Blaskovich |
| Trainer | Robert Hesp |
| Record | 54: 54-0-0 |
| Earnings | Not found |
| Major wins | |
| Hungarian Two Thousand Guineas (1877) Hungarian One Thousand Guineas (1877) Hungarian Oaks (1877) Hungarian Autumn Oaks (1877, 1878, 1879) Hungarian St. Leger (1877) Austrian Derby (1877) Austrian Kaiserpreis (1877) Grosser Preis von Hanover (1877) Grosser Preis von Baden (1877, 1878, 1879) Staatspreis Eister Classe (1878) Goodwood Cup (1878) Grand Prix de Deauville (1878) | |
| Honours | |
| Kincsem Park in Budapest, Hungary Kincsem Museum, Budapest, Hungary Kincsem Horse Park, Tápiószentmárton, Hungary Kincsem Hotel, Kisbér, Hungary Kincsem Farm, Archer, Florida Life-sized statue at Kincsem Park, Budapest | |
| Last updated on June 9, 2009 | |
Kincsem (Hungarian for "my treasure") (1874-1887) was the most successful Thoroughbred race horse ever, having won 54 races for 54 starts! Born in Hungary over 100 years ago (in Kisbér), she is a national icon, and is revered in other parts of the world too. Over four seasons she won all her races against both female and male company at various race tracks across Europe, a record that's still unbeaten.
Pedigree
Kincsem's sire, Cambuscan, was owned by Queen Victoria. He was sold to Hungarian interests in 1873 and was brought to stand at the Hungarian National Stud, Kisber. Cambuscan, second in England's St. Leger Stakes in 1864, was descended from a daughter of the British sire Slane. Kincsem was out of the Hungarian mare Waternymph, a daughter of the English horse Cotswold, descended from Sir Hercules.
A perhaps apocryphal story surrounds the beginnings of Kincsem. Running with a group of fifty horses on the grounds of her owner's ancestral Hungarian home, she alone was lanky and ungainly. She would stand with her head low and her eyes half-opened. One night she went missing...and when found again, was with a band of gypsies. "Why," asked her puzzled owner of the thief, "steal this horse when there were so many better to chose from?" "Because," answered the gypsy, "The other horses may be better looking, but she was the best of the lot. She'll be a champion." [1]
Racing career
Kincsem's career began in 1876. She was entered for ten races in Hungary, Germany and Austria as a two-year-old and won them all.
As her unbeaten streak against Europe's best horses continued, Kincsem attracted great interest from the European racing public. Emperor Franz Josef was known to be a fan. As a three-year-old she won the Two Thousand Guineas in Pozsony, the One Thousand Guineas and the Oaks in Budapest, not to mention the Austrian Derby, the Kaiserpreis in Vienna and the Grosser Preis von Hanover and Grosser Preis von Baden. In all she had seventeen victories.
Her four-year-old campaign was equally successful, beginning with nine straight victories. She travelled to England to take part in the Goodwood Cup, but injury to the fancied Verneuil meant it was an easier challenge than expected.
As a four-year-old Kincsem won the Grand Prix de Deauville and the Grosser Preis von Baden again (after a run-off following a dead-heat).
Kincsem had her fiftieth victory in Frankfurt the next year. Her last race was the Hungarian Autumn Oaks which she won for the third time.
She retired at the age of seven.
She died on her fourteenth birthday March 17, 1887 from a colic attack. Newspapers across Hungary edged their pages in black the day she passed. Flags were flown at half mast.[2]
There is a life sized statue of her near the stadium at Kincsem Park in Budapest where the Kincsem Museum is located.
