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Gainslaw
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1929 |
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| Sire: |
Winalot |
Dam: |
Margaret Burr |
| Dam Sire: |
Gainsborough |
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Horse |
| Colour: |
Brown |
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Breeder(s):
Andrew Gladstone Clark
Trainer(s):
George Frederick Leader
Owner(s):
Hebert John Simms
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Description:
Gainslaw won but a single flat race, but that was a good one - the Ascot Gold Vase. He came to the Royal meeting of 1933 as a maiden four-year-old but not bereft of staying powers as he had come within a whisker of defeating the St Leger winner Fidaussi in the previous season's Jockey Club Stakes. Hitler came to power in Germany that year, a year which claimed the lives of Gainslaw's trainer (who died on the very day of his horse's triumph) and his breeder, Andrew Gladstone Clark.
Two seasons later, having won over hurdles, Gainslaw was sold at the December sales for 900 gns to Princess Czewertynsky to stand at her stud in Poland. By 1944 the place was in the hands of the Germans and functioning as an SS remount station. There, a filly by Gainslaw was foaled. During the winter of that year, as the Russian army swept through the country, the animals on the stud were forced to make an overland trek to safety. Little of the thoroughbred horse population of Poland survived the war, but the filly, named Margaritka, flourished to win good races in Russia. Her second foal, Element, won 13 races, including the Russian Derby and was himself the sire of Anilin, the greatest horse to grace the Russian turf. |
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