Bahram (horse)

Bahram
Sire Blandford
Grandsire Swynford
Dam Friar's Daughter
Damsire Friar Marcus
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1932
Country Ireland
Colour Bay
Breeder HH Aga Khan III
Owner HH Aga Khan III
Trainer Frank Butters
Record 9: 9-0-0
Earnings £43,086[1]
Major wins
National Breeder's Produce Stakes (1934)
Rous Memorial Stakes (1934)
Gimcrack Stakes (1934)
Middle Park Stakes (1934)
2,000 Guineas (1935)
Epsom Derby (1935)
St. Leger Stakes (1935)
St. James's Palace Stakes (1935)
Awards
14th U.K. Triple Crown Champion (1935)
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)

Bahram (1932-1956)was an Irish-bred English-trained racehorse who was undefeated in his racing career winning the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, St. Leger Stakes and Epsom Derby which earned him the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

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Breeding

He was foaled at the HH Aga Khan III's stud farm on The Curragh, Ireland. Bahram was by the highly successful stallion Blandford, who got four Derby winners in seven years, plus a champion horse in France.. His dam, Friar’s Daughter was inbred to St. Simon in the third and fourth generations. Friar’s Daughter won one small race, but was a good broodmare who produced 11 winners of over £58,000.[2] Bahram was 16.2 hands high, with a good temperament, and described by equine experts as having flawless conformation.

Racing record

Bahram was trained by Frank Butters for his breeder, at Newmarket, Suffolk in England.

He won the National Breeder's Produce Stakes, Rous Memorial Stakes, Gimcrack Stakes, Boscawen, and Middle Park Stakes as a two-year-old. As a three-year-old Bahram won the Triple Crown, one of only three 20th century horses to achieve this feat in peacetime. Also that year he won the prestigious one-mile St.James' Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.[3]

Stud record

At the end of the 1935 racing season Bahram was retired to Egerton Stud in Newmarket where he stood at a service fee of 500 guineas per mare.[1] With just two crops racing Bahram became the second leading sire in 1940[1] and leading juvenile sire of 1941. Among his English progeny were Big Game (2,000 Guineas and Champion Stakes), Persian Gulf winner of the Coronation Cup and sire of the Derby winner Parthia, Turkhan, winner of the 1940 St. Leger Stakes and Irish Derby and Zabara, and the winners of 469 races.[3] Bahram was also the damsire of Noor who competed successfully in England as well as in America where he would be inducted into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Following the German occupation of France during World War II, the Aga Khan fled France to the safety of Switzerland, and in September 1940, sold Bahram for £40,000 to an American syndicate made up of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Alfred G. Vanderbilt II, James Cox Brady, Jr. and Sylvester Labrot, Jr. In 1941, the horse was brought to Vanderbilt's Sagamore Stud in Maryland then to Walter Chrysler Jr.'s North Wales Stud in Warrenton, Virginia. However, there was considerable resentment amongst British breeders against the Aga Khan for selling to overseas buyers all five of his Derby winners, particularly the three from the Blandford line, Bahram, Blenheim and Blenheim's son, Mahmoud. All of them were considered a severe loss to British breeding stock.

In the US Bahram sired the winners of 660 races worth two million dollars.[3] In 1946 Bahram was sold for a reported $130,000 to a stud farm in Argentina where he met with only modest success before his death at 24 years of age in 1956.

Tabulated pedigree

Pedigree of Bahram (IRE) (16-a), bay stallion, 1932
Sire
Blandford
Bay 1919		 Swynford
Bay 1907		 John o'Gaunt Isinglass
La Fleche
Canterbury Pilgrim Tristan
Pilgrimage
Blanche
Bay 1912		 White Eagle Gallinule
Merry Gal
Black Cherry Bendigo
Black Duchess
Dam
Friar's Daughter
Bay 1921		 Friar Marcus
Bay 1912		 Cicero Cyllene
Gas
Prim Nun Persimmon
Nunsuch
Garron Lass
Bay 1917		 Roseland William the Third
Electric Rose
Concertina St.Simon
Cosmic Song (Family: 16-a)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Leicester, Sir Charles, Bloodstock Breeding, J.A. Allen & Co, London, 1969
  2. ^ Pryor, Peter, The Classic Connection, Cortney Publications, Luton, 1979
  3. ^ a b c Ahnert, Rainer L. (editor in chief), “Thoroughbred Breeding of the World”, Pozdun Publishing, Germany, 1970

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Epsom Derby winners

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