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Flamingo
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| Foaled: |
1925 |
Died: |
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| Sire: |
Flamboyant |
Dam: |
Lady Peregrine |
| Dam Sire: |
White Eagle |
Sex: |
Horse |
| Colour: |
Bay |
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Breeder(s):
Sir John Robinson
Trainer(s):
Sir John Layton Jarvis
Owner(s):
1st Baron Milford
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Dates & jockeys of important wins:
Description:
A neat bay colt, Flamingo won the 2000 Guineas by inches from the much bigger and more imposing grey, Royal Minstrel. The Derby was a disaster, however. The best horse of that year, Fairway, was unsettled on his way to the pre-race parade by a mob of admirers, some of whom plucked tail hairs as souvenirs, and failed to run at all well as a result. This should have given Flamingo, the second favourite, a chance, but his jockey raced neck and neck from the off in a seemingly private duel with Gordon Richards (later Sir Gordon Richards) on Sunny Trace, at a pace which they could not possibly sustain. With two furlongs to go Sunny Trace dropped back beaten, and Flamingo had nothing in reserve when Felstead came up to challenge him below the distance. Felstead won by a length and a half, while Flamingo was second, a clear six lengths ahead of the third, Black Watch.
Flamingo was not very successful as a sire, although he got the 1939 Gold Cup winner Flyon, and Flamenco, who won the St James's Palace Stakes and the Lincoln and was later a good sire of jumpers.
Flamingo's owner, Sir Lawrence Philipps, was later the 1st Baron Milford. Flamingo died in about 1948. |
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