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San Simeon
Breed	Standardbred
Sire	Captain Hook
Grandsire	Meadow Skipper
Dam	Leyoro Lass
Maternal grandsire	Leyoro
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1976
Country	Australia
Colour	Bay
Breeder	L. Porter
Record
39: 33-2-1
Earnings
A$383,799
Major wins
1981 Western Australian Pacing Cup 1981 Interdominion
Awards
1982/3 Australian Harness Horse of the Year 1978/79 Australian 2yo of the Year 1979/80 Australian 3yo of the Year 1980/1 Australian Grand Circuit Champion
Honours
Best mile rate, 1:59
Last updated on: 17 August 2011.

Major wins
major races won
Awards
Horse of the Year, etc.
Other awards
other than race related awards
Honors
Halls of Fames, etc.

Black Caviar’s 130 rating is the highest score achieved by an Australian galloper, in th e World Thoroughbred Rankings since rankings were introduced. The World Top 50 rates the performances of horses for the previous six months and therefore this rating is for the period 1 October 2010 to 27 March 2011.

Phalaris br 1913

    Fairway ch 1925 
    |    Blue Peter ch 1936 
    |    Fair Copy br 1934
    |    Fair Trial ch 1932
    |         Court Martial ch 1942 
    |         Palestine gr 1947 
    |         Petition br 1944
    |              March Past br 1950
    |                   Queen's Hussar b 1960
    |                        Brigadier Gerard b 1968 
    |              Petingo br 1965
    |    Honeyway br 1941
    |         Great Nephew b 1963
    |              Grundy ch 1972 
    |    Watling Street b 1939 
    Colorado br 1923 
    Manna b 1922 
    |    Colombo b 1931 
    Pharamond II b 1925
    |    By Jimminy br 1941
    |    Menow br 1935
    |         Capot br 1946 
    |         Tom Fool b 1949
    |              Buckpasser b 1963
    |              Tim Tam br 1955 
    Pharos br 1920
    |    Cameronian b 1928 
    |    Firdaussi ch 1929 
    |    Nearco br 
    |    Pharis br 1936
    |         Ardan b 1941 
    |         Pardal b 1947
    Sickle br 1924
         Unbreakable br 1935
              Polynesian br 1942 

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Pedigree of Swynford (GB), brown stallion, 1907

Sire John o'Gaunt 1901	Isinglass 1890	Isonomy	Sterling
			Isola Bella
		Dead Lock	Wenlock
			Malpractice
	La Fleche 1889	St.Simon	Galopin
			St.Angela
		Quiver	Toxophilite
			Young Melbourne Mare
Dam Canterbury Pilgrim 1893	Tristan 1878	Hermit	Newminster
			Seclusion
		Thrift	Stockwell
			Braxey
	Pilgrimage 1875	The Palmer	Beadsman
			Madame Eglentine
		Lady Audley	Macaroni
			Secret (Family 1-g)

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Pedigree of Leamington (GB), brown stallion, 1853

Sire Faugh-a-Ballagh (IRE) Br. 1841	Sir Hercules 1826	Whalebone	Waxy
			Penelope
		Peri	Wanderer
			Thalestris
	Guiccioli 1823	Bob Booty	Chanticleer
			Ierne
		Flight	Escape
			Young Heroine
Dam Pantaloon Mare 1841	Pantaloon 1824	Castrel	Buzzard
			Alexander Mare
		Idalia	Peruvian
			Musidora
	Daphne 1837	Laurel	Blacklock
			Wagtail
		Maid of Honor	Champion
			Etiquette (Family: 14)

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Pedigree of Northerly (AUS), bay gelding, 1996

Sire Serheed (USA) B. 1980	Nijinsky II B. 1967	Northern Dancer	Nearctic
			Natalma
		Flaming Page	Bull Page
			Flaring Top
	Native Partner 1966	Raise a Native	Native Dancer
			Raise You
		Dinner Partner	Tom Fool
			Bluehaze
Dam North Bell Br. 1988	Bellwater 1982	Bellypha	Lyphard
			Belga
		Paddle	Jim French
			Pram
	North Fleur 1981	Far North	Northern Dancer
			Fleur
		Yoka	Triple Band
			Royal Hula (Family: No.9)

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Pedigree of Sunday Silence (USA), brown or black stallion, 1986

Sire Halo Br/bl. 1969	Hail to Reason Br. 1958	Turn-to B. 1951	Royal Charger
			Source Sucree
		Nothirdchance	Blue Swords
			Galla Colors
	Cosmah 1953	Cosmic Bomb	Pharamond
			Banish Fear
		Almahmoud	Mahmoud
			Arbitrator
Dam Wishing Well 1975	Understanding 1963	Promised Land	Palestinian
			Mahmoudess
		Pretty Ways	Stymie
			Pretty Jo
	Mountain Flower 1964	Montparnasse	Gulf Stream
			Mignon
		Edelweiss	Hillary
			Dowager (Family: 3-e)

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Pedigree of Marske

Sire Squirt 1732	Bartlet's Childers 1716	Darley Arabian	unknown
			unknown
		Betty Leedes	Old Careless
			Cream Cheeks
	Snake Mare 1713	Snake	Lister Turk
			unknown
		Grey Wilkes	Hautboy
			Pet Mare
Dam Blacklegs Mare	Hutton's Blacklegs 1725	Hutton's Bay Turk	unknown
			unknown
		Coneyskins Mare	Coneyskins
			Clubfoot
	Bay Bolton Mare 1728	Bay Bolton	Grey Hautboy
			Makeless Mare
		Fox Cub Mare	Fox Cub
			Coneyskins Mare (Family: 8)

Ben Brush
Saddling up for the Kentucky Derby
Sire	Bramble
Grandsire	Bonnie Scotland
Dam	Roseville
Damsire	Reform
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1893
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Runnymede Farm
Owner	H. Eugene Leigh & Edward D. Brown Michael F. Dwyer James R. Keene (at stud)
Trainer	Edward D. Brown Hardy Campbell, Jr.
Record	40: 24-5-5
Earnings	$65,108
Major wins
Champagne Stakes (1895) Kentucky Derby (1896) Suburban Handicap (1897) Latonia Derby (1897) Brighton Handicap (1897)
Awards
American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1895) Leading sire in North America (1909)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1955)

Ben Brush (1893–1918) was a high class Thoroughbred racehorse who was the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby at its modern distance of 1¼ miles. He was later a very successful sire.

Breeding

He was bay stallion by Bramble (1879 champion handicap horse) his dam Roseville (a sister to Azra, the 1892 Kentucky Derby and Travers Stakes winner) was by Reform. Ben Brush was bred by Clai and Woodford.

Racing record

At two years

Ben's dam Roseville was purchased by Colonel Catesby Woodford and Colonel Ezekial Clay of Runnymede Farm near Paris, Kentucky in 1891 from the horseman H. Eugene Leigh. At the time she was in foal to Leigh's La Belle Stud stallion, Bramble. When the resulting colt was offered for sale by Clay and Woodford, Leigh and his new partner, the African-American Hall of Famer Ed Brown, bought him for $1,200. Brown named him Ben Brush in honor of the superintendent of the old Gravesend Race Track at Sheepshead Bay in Gravesend on Coney Island, New York who'd allowed them scarce, therefore valuable, stall space. The original Ben Brush was a strict disciplinarian, but ever after, Leigh and Brown found him very lenient when it came to his namesake. When others complained of his double standard, the human Brush said, "Not a damn one of you fellows ever named a horse Ben Brush!"

Ben Brush raced 40 times, won 25 of those races, placed in five, and showed in 5, earning a career total of $65,208. Yet Joe Palmer said of him in his "Names in Pedigrees," that he was "not a particularly impressive-looking animal." The colt was a "rather small horse, a bit longer for his height than Bramble, almost equally coarse about the head."

Under trainer Ed Brown, Ben Brush began racing in Louisville. In his first race at two, he was an easy winner by five lengths. In his second start, he came home by three lengths. His third effort saw him easily galloping home ahead of the good horse Nimrod. Ben then went on to Ohio, winning the Emerald Stakes and the Diamond Stakes.

After five wins in five starts he went to New York where he ran third at Sheepshead Bay, but then easily won an overnight handicap giving away 19 pounds to his nearest rival. He then lost to the high class Requital in the Flatbush Stakes. He ran out of the money for the first time in the Great Eastern Handicap, but won the Holly Handicap. The Eastern elites mocked him as an "overrated little goat." At this point he was sold to the famous gambler Mike Dwyer who had, with his brother, raced his sire Bramble as well as the champions Hindoo, Hanover, Miss Woodford, and Luke Blackburn. Ben Brush would be the last champion to carry Mike's colors. The reported sum was $18,000. (A race for three-year-olds, the Dwyer Stakes, held at Belmont Park since 1918, was named in their honor.)

Now ridden by the great Hall of Famer Willie Simms, an African-American considered one of the greatest riders of his day, and trained by Hardy Campbell, Jr., Ben Brush went on to win six more races as a two year old. All in all, as a virtual baby Ben earned $21,398 with 13 wins in 16 starts. In 1895, he was Champion 2-year-old. At this point the deeply impressed Walter Vosburgh said he "could have beaten any three-year-old of that season." Not bad for a "goat." Easterners were suitably rebuffed. (Wille Simms also rode in England, where he was the first to introduce the short-stirrup style. After his stint in Europe, he was retained by Dwyer as his stable rider, but such was Simms's stature that he had the freedom to accept mounts from other stables as well. The nation's leading rider of 1893-94, he remains the only African-American jockey to have won the Derby, Preakness and Belmont.)

At three years

Ben's first race in his 1896 season was the Kentucky Derby. Without benefit of a prep race and having never run farther than seven furlongs in his career, he stumbled badly coming away from the barrier, nearly unseating Simms. By the time they recovered the race seemed over for Ben Brush and Willie Simms. But Ben made a tremendous move on the backstretch, caught First Mate on the turn for home, and then battled fiercely with Ben Elder down the stretch before winning by a nose. The correspondent for the "Spirit of the Times" wrote, "Simms made one last and desperate rally with Ben Brush, displaying as vigorous a piece of riding as was ever seen, and gradually but surely gaining on the other Ben, he finally beat him out by a nose in a terrific and hair-raising finish, which elicited a wild and spontaneous shout from the grandstand." When Simms saw how deeply his spurs had cut his game mount, and that his sides were covered in blood, he cried with shame. (Col. Clark, the guiding force behind the development of Churchill and then serving as the track's presiding judge, credited Simms with the victory. "It was a great race—one of the greatest I ever saw," Clark said. "There was no doubt in the world about the finish. Simms simply lifted Brush a foot or so in front at the last jump.") It was the first time the white and pink roses were darped over the shoulders of the victor.

Ben Brush finished his season with four wins and almost $27,000 in earnings.

At four years

At four Ben Brush was simply brilliant. In the view of many, it was Ben Brush's 1897 campaign that as Palmer put it, "perhaps put the stamp of greatness on him more unmistakably than did his performances at two and three." During this last racing season, Ben Brush met Ornament, the Champion Three Year Old Colt and 1897's Horse of the Year, giving Ornament nine pounds and still winning by three lengths. He beat the 1895 Preakness and Belmont winner Belmar; 1896 Belmont hero Hastings, later to gain immortality as the grandsire of Man o' War; 1897 champion three-year-old Ornament, the winner of 20 of 33 lifetime starts himself; and the elder statesman of the handicap set, the high class Clifford, who twice managed to defeat the great Henry of Navarre and Domino in 1894-95.

Stud record

Ben Brush was a tremendous success at stud, so much so that he became one of the fundamental building blocks of the American Thoroughbred. Although his direct male line no longer exists, he continues to influence the breed. Ben Brush appears in the pedigrees of 48 of the last 50 Derby winners, including every Derby winner from 1972 onward. The leading sire of 1909, Ben Brush produced Delhi, the 1904 Belmont Stakes winner and Champion Three Year Old Colt; Pebbles, the Juvenile Champion of 1914; Broomstick, who won the 1904 Travers Stakes, set a new American record for a mile and a quarter in the Brighton Handicap, and then going on himself to lead the Sires's List from 1913 until 1915 (siring Regret, the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby as well as ranking 71 in the top 100 U.S. Thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century by Blood-Horse magazine; and Sweep, twice leading sire, winner of the 1910 Belmont Stakes, and a champion at two and three. Ben's most influential daughter was Belgravia, who produced the renowned sire Black Toney, sire of Black Gold.

Ben Brush died in Versailles, Kentucky on June 8, 1918 at the age of 25. His headstone erroneously reads 1917.

Ben Brush was one of the first handful of horses inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1955.

Tabulated pedigree

Pedigree of Ben Brush (USA) bay stallion, 1893

Sire Bramble 1875	Bonnie Scotland 1853	Iago	Don John
			Scandal
		Queen Mary	Gladiator
			Plenipotentiary Mare
	Ivy Leaf 1867	Australian	West Australian
			Emilia
		Bay Flower	Lexington
			Bay Leaf
Dam Roseville 1888	Reform 1871	Leamington	Faugh-a-Ballagh
			Pantaloon Mare
		Stolen Kisses	Knight of Kars
			Defamation
	Albia 1881	Alarm	Eclipse II
			Maud
		Elastic	Kentucky
			Blue Ribbon (Family: A1)

External links

• Ben's Kentucky Derby
• Ben Brush's Hall of Fame page

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Pedigree of Faugh-a-Ballagh (IRE), brown stallion, 1841

Sire Sir Hercules (GB) 1826	Whalebone 1807	Waxy	Potoooooooo
			Maria
		Penelope	Trumpator
			Prunella
	Peri 1822	Wanderer	Gohanna
			Catherine
		Thalestris	Alexander
			Rival
Dam Guiccioli 1823	Bob Booty 1804	Chanticleer (GB)	Woodpecker
			Chanticleer's dam
		Ierne	Bagot
			Gamahoe mare
	Flight 1809	Escape	Highflyer
			Squirrel mare
		Young Heroine	Bagot
			Heroine (Family: 11-d)

See also

List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses

References

• Dahlia at the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame

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Pedigree of Persimmon, bay stallion, 1893

Sire St. Simon 1881	Galopin 1872	Vedette	Voltigeur
			Mrs.Rid gway
		Flying Duchess	The Flying Dutchman
			Merope
	St.Angela 1865	King Tom	Harkaway
			Pocahontas
		Adeline	Ion
			Little Fairy
Dam Perdita II 1881	Hampton 1872	Lord Clifden	Newminster
			The Slave
		Lady Langden	Kettledrum
			Haricot
	Hermione 1875	Young Melbourne	Melbourne
			C larissa
		La Belle Helene	St.Albans
			Teterrima (Family: 7-f)

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Pedigree of Montjeu (IRE), brown horse, 1996

Sire Sadler's Well s (USA) B. 1981	Northern Dancer (CAN) B. 1961	Nearctic (CAN)	Nearco
			Lady Angela
		Natalma (USA)	Native Dancer
			Almahmoud
	Fairy Bridge (USA) B. 1975	Bold Reason (USA)	Hail to Reason
			Lalun
		Special (USA)	Forli
			Thong
Dam Floripedes (FR) b. 1985	Top Ville (IRE) 1976	High Top (IRE)	Derring-Do
			Camanae
		Sega Ville (FR)	Charlottesville
			La Sega
	Toute Cy (FR) 1979	Tennyson (FR)	Val de Loir
			Tidra
		Adele Toum ignon (IRE)	Zeedaan
			Alvorada (Family: 1-u)

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Pedigree of Tetratema

Sire The Tetrarch Gr. 1911	Roi Herode 1904	Le Samaritan	Le Sancy
			Clementina
		Roxelane	War Dance
			Rose of York
	Vahren 1897	Bona Vista	Bend Or
			Vista
		Castania	Hagioscope
			Rose Garden
Dam Scotch Gift 1907	Symington 1893	Ayrshire	Hampton
			Atalanta
		Siphonia	St. Simon
			Palmflower
	Maund 1898	Tarporley	St. Simon
			Ruth
		Ianthe	The Miser
			Devonshire Lass (Family: 14-a)

Pedigree of Hastings (USA) (21-a), brown stallion, 1893

Sire Spendthrift Ch. 1876	Australian 1858	West Australian	Melbourne
			Mowerina
		Emilia	Young Emilius
			Persian
	Aerolite 1861	Lexington	Boston
			Alice Carneal
		Florine	Glencoe
			Melody
Dam Cinderella 1885	Tomahawk 1863	King Tom	Harkaway
			Pocahontas
		Mincemeat	Sweetmeat
			Hybla
	Manna 1874	Brown Bread	Weatherbit
			Brown Agnes
		Tartlet	Birdcatcher
			Don John mare (1848) (Family: 21-a)

Thoroughbred family 17

• Byerley Turk Mare（Byerley Turk） -- F-No.17
• 　Bald Galloway Mare（Bald Galloway）
• 　　The Wharton Mare（Lord Carlisle's Turk）
• 　　　Old Lady（1715, Bald Galloway）
• 　　　　Warlock Galloway（1728, Snake）
• 　　　　　Cottingham Mare（1745, Cottingham）
• 　　　　　　Snip Mare（1758, Snip）
• 　　　　　　　Regulus Mare（1762, Regulus）
• 　　　　　　　　Syphon Mare（1771, Syphon）
• 　　　　　　　　│Maid of All Work（1786, Highflyer） -- 17-a
• 　　　　　　　　│　Musidora（1804, Meteor）
• 　　　　　　　　│　　Idalia（1815, Peruvian）
• 　　　　　　　　│　　　Biddy（1839, Bran） -- F-No.17-b
• 　　　　　　　　│　　　　The Gem（1851, Touchstone）
• 　　　　　　　　│　　　　　Regalia（1862, Stockwell） -- F-No.17-c
• 　　　　　　　　│Rachel（1790, Highflyer） -- F-No.17-d

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Pedigree of Whirlaway (USA), chestnut stallion, 1938

Sire Blenheim Brown 1927	Blandford Brown 1919	Swynford Br. 1907	John o'Gaunt
			Canterbury Pilgrim
		Blanche	White Eagle
			Black Cherry
	Malva Bay 1919	Charles o'Malley	Desmond
			Goody Two-Shoes
		Wild Arum	Robert Le Diable
			Marliacea
Dam Dustwhirl Bay 1926	Sweep Brown 1907	Ben Brush	Bramble
			Roseville
		Pink Domino	Domino
			Belle Rose
	Ormonda Chestnut 1916	Superman	Commando
			Anomaly
		Princess Ormonde	Ormondale
			Ophirdale F-No . 8-h

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Pedigree of Touchstone (GB), br.h. 1831

Sire Camel Brown 1822	Whalebone 1807	Waxy	Pot 8O's
			Maria
		Penelope	Trumpator
			Prunella
	Selim mare 1812	Selim	Buzzard
			Alexander mare (1790)
		Maiden	Sir Peter Teazle
			Phoenomenon mare (24) (1788)
Dam Banter Brown 1826	Master Henry 1815	Orville	Beningbrough
			Evelina
		Miss Sophia	Stamford
			Sophia
	Boadicea 1807	Alexander	Eclipse
			Grecian Princess
		Brunette	Amaranthus
			Mayfly (family: 14)