Family C-9: Young English Mare

A moderately successful family in the last decades of the nineteenth century, it began a slow decline thereafter, and by the 1950s had few representatives left. The Young English mare was in John Lee's Bylong stud (see Family C-1 and Family C - 8.). Barrie, in The Australian Bloodhorse, makes a case for her being by Camerton (1842, by Egremont), rather than by the more famous imported Bay Camerton, as stated in the second and third volumes of the Australian Stud Book. Her dam was an English thoroughbred of unknown breeding, imported by Aspinall, Brown and Company, an agricultural and commercial firm that owned a great deal of land at Cabramatta and Prospect, and in the Hunter River area at Glanmire, and in the Wellington Valley. The firm imported a number of thoroughbreds from England, including the famous early stallion Steeltrap. Lee purchased the imported mare sometime in the 1840s, and for them she produced Young Marquis, who figures early in Family C- 8. Her daughter, called the Young English Mare, was also born sometime in the 1840s.

In the Lee stud at Bylong, the Young English Mare produced Black Bess (1856), Governess (1858) and a colt, The Gift (1860), all by Little John II, and a filly, Gazelle (1862, by Sir Hercules). Black Bess had some good running descendants, but her female line tailed off before the end of the nineteenth century. Governess was the filly to continue the family. Nowra Maid's offspring, the siblings Fille Fogi (1904), winner of the 1910 AJC Challenge Stakes, and Nandillyan Maid (1906), an AJC Gimcrack Stakes winner, were among the last stakes winning representatives. Tippler Maid (1931), a descendant of Nandillyan Maid, was a winner of handicaps in Western Australia, and was among the last of the family's useful descendants.

Notable Descendants