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Blucher (foaled 1811, died 1841) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire named after the Prussian General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, one of the most successful commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, but his name was invariably spelt without the umlaut.〔(Blucher ) at bloodlines.net〕 Bred by Lord Stawell, and one of the many notable offspring of the great Waxy (1790–1818), Blucher's first year of racing was triumphant. Between July 1813 and June 1814 he ran five times and was unbeaten, his wins climaxing with the Epsom Derby of 1814. After that he had only one further race, at the beginning of the 1815 flat season, in which he placed second. He was then retired to stud at Marclaud's near Farnham. Blucher had little success as a sire but was an ancestor in the dam's line of the double classic winner Pretender (1866). ==Background== Blucher was a bay horse bred by Henry Bilson-Legge, 2nd Baron Stawell. His sire was the Derby winner Waxy (1790–1818) and his dam Pantina.〔''The Sporting Magazine, October 1816 (bound into vol. 49, dated 1817), (p. 1 )〕 Through Waxy, Blucher was descended from the Godolphin Arabian.〔 Through his dam, Blucher was twice descended from the noble Herod, the foundation sire through whom the direct male line of the Byerley Turk survives.〔 He was again inbred from Herod through Waxy's dam, Maria, a mare bred by Lord Bolingbroke. Herod was himself inbred from two of the offspring of the Darley Arabian, one of them being the undefeated Flying Childers.〔 Waxy had won the Derby in 1793 and had continued racing until he was injured as a seven-year-old in 1797, when he retired, going to stud the next year and becoming an influential sire. His offspring included three Derby winners, Whalebone and Whisker as well as Blucher. Waxy's own sire, Pot-8-Os, won thirty-four races during a seven-year racing career. As well as Waxy, Pot-8-Os produced Parasol, the dam of Partisan and Lottery. Waxy's full-brother, Worthy (foaled 1795), had won races and became a breeding stallion for the East India Company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blucher (horse)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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