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  Family C-28: Woodstock
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This New Zealand family has branches today that are still active with sprinters, stayers, and classic winners.

Woodstock was a chestnut mare bred by William Lawson in New South Wales. She was by the imported British stallion Theorem (1824 by Merlin), who stood for a time at Lawson's Veteran Hall farm at Prospect, and later at the neighboring Bungarribee stud of Charles Smith. Her dam and her dam's antecedents are not now known, but she was reported to be an English thoroughbred mare, entirely possible, since Lawson imported some horses from Great Britain, including the well-known stallion "Lawson's" Emigrant (1831, by Tramp). Some mares in Lawson's stud included Fair Helen, second dam of Josephine (Family C - 19) and the second dam of Lilla (Family C - 8).

Woodstock was part of New Zealander Henry Redwood's 1852 shipment of thoroughbreds from New South Wales to New Zealand that included the famous stallion Sir Hercules, the important mare Flora McIvor, Moth (Family C-26), and other horses that later had an impact on bloodstock breeding in New Zealand. These horses were brought from the stud of Thomas Icely, who had owned Bungarribee, but by then had decamped, with his stud, to Coombing Park, his station consisting of thousands of acres at Carcoar, near Bathurst. Icely had a large stud for which poor records were kept, but over the years he bred and raced many horses important in colonial Australia, and imported a number of horses, including the famous mare Manto (1817) and the stallion Operator (1832, by Emilius), and bred or owned two stallions significant in early New Zealand breeding, Figaro (1838, by Operator) and Sir Hercules (1843, by Cap-a-pie), the latter purchased from the estate of Charles Smith, who had bought Bungarribee from Icely in 1832. William Lawson's son, William Lawson Jnr., had married Icely's daughter, Caroline, in 1832, so it is not surprising Woodstock is associated with the Icely thoroughbreds purchased by Redwood.

In New Zealand, Woodstock passed into the stud of W.R. Nicholson. She bred nine live foals, and died in 1865. Two of her offspring, Phoebe (1854, by Sir Hercules) and her brother, the gelded Wildrake (1855), were both raced by George Duppa, an early settler in Nelson and an enthusiastic sportsman. Phoebe won races at Homebush, and Duppa and Henry Redwood took some of their horses to Australia to race in 1859 - 1860, where Phoebe won five races, although she did not place in the very first inter-colonial horse race at Flemington, later known as the Champion Race, which was won by Flying Buck (Redwood's Zoe ran second, however). Wildrake apparently also won some races in Sydney and Melbourne. Another foal from Woodstock, Oliver Cromwell (1860, by Potentate), became a stallion on the Welsh brothers' stud at Opaki in the Wairarapa.

Phoebe was the Woodstock daughter that continued the female line. She produced nine foals, including three daughters that established their own branches, and Sinking Fund (1872, by Towton), a winner for Henry Redwood. Phoebe's first two daughters, Queen of the South (1862, by Camden) and Countess (first called Misfortune, 1864, by The Peer), were bred by a Mr. Newton; Henry Redwood is credited with breeding the rest of her foals. Queen of the South produced the gelding Pinfire (1874), a very good stayer that won the ARC Handicap (14 furlongs), the Hawkes' Bay Cup (14 furlongs), the Wanganui Cup (18 furlongs), and the 1880 Auckland Plate (16 furlongs), and a daughter, Minamina (1870) that bred on. A recent descendant of Queen of the South was the gelded Welcome Knight (1986, by Always Welcome), a good sprinter-miler in Western Australia; Toxeuma (1925, see below) was also from her branch of the family. Countess was a broodmare in Henry Redwood's stud, where she produced two good winners Parawhenua (1869, see below) and Ngaro (1871), but her branch died out after that.

Phoebe's daughter Renga (1869, by Diomedes), bred in Redwood's stud, established the most successful branch of this family, with a number of classic winners descending from her. Her descendants, Dashing Star (1957, see below), a champion filly, and Dashing Star's half-sister Even Break (1963) were both good broodmares with multiple producing daughters that have revitalized the family. Another daughter of Phoebe bred by Redwood, Tangi (1871, by Ravensworth), produced the 1890 New Zealand Cup winner Wolverine (1885, by Le Loup), and was third dam of Jupiter (1894, by St. Clair), a good stayer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that won the SCJC Timaru Cup and CJC Winter Cup in 1899, and the Dunedin Cup and Invercargill Cup in 1901.


Notable Descendants



Dashing Star f. 1957
(Star Performer - White Dash)
Owned and trained at Te Aroha by Royce Townsend, she was joint top filly in the 1960-61 New Zealand Free Handicap for 3 year olds, and in her career won 19 races to 1-3/4 miles. She was a pretty good juvenile, winning four races and placing well enough to rank third in the Free Handicap for 2 year old fillies. At age three, she won the Ralph Somers Memorial Handicap at Te Aroha, beating Fair Filou and Nerula, went on to run third in the Great Northern Oaks, second by a neck to the Great Northern Derby winner in the WRC Gloaming Stakes, and fourth in the New Zealand St. Leger, but triumphed in the Great Northern St. Leger, beating Bargoed and others by six lengths. Her other wins included the ARC Cornwall Handicap, the Taranaki Centennial Cup, The Egmont Fairfield Handicap (twice), and a number of other handicap races. Her dam, the unraced White Dash, bred seven winners, including Even Break (1963, by Messmate), a good juvenile that placed third on the 1965-66 New Zealand 2 year old Free Handicap: CJC New Zealand Winter Cup winner Zabeel's Angel (7 wins), WATC Karrakatta Plate (G1) winner Alabama Whirly (3 wins as a juvenile), Malaysian winner Ronald's Way [Hard Rock], and Fothers (see below) are among Even Break's many winning descendants in the past forty years. Dashing Star bred four winners, and a number of good stayers descend from her, including the mare Out in Front (1971), who won the ARC Queen Elizabeth Handicap, the WRC Cuddle Handicap and the Taumaruni Cup.

Fothers br.g. 1981
(Taipan - Britannia)
Champion New Zealand juvenile colt in 1983-84, and third in the Australasian juvenile classification, he won ten races, including, as a juvenile, the Avondale Stakes, the ARC Sires' Produce Stakes, the Wakefield Challenge Stakes, the ARC Great Northern Champagne Stakes, and the Wanganui Tim Rogers Stakes. His head turned when he crossed the wire in the ARC Eclipse Stakes, and thus missed, by a literal hair, winning the Ellerslie treble (Eclipse, Champagne, and Sires' Produce Stakes), which would have netted him a bonus $100,000. His half-brother, Sir Winston (1988, by Sir Tristram) won four races to 2400 meters, including the Tattersall's NSW Tattersall's Plate. His unplaced dam, Britannia, also bred Majestic Drums (12 wins) and Windsor Boy (7 wins).


Parawhenua b.g. 1869
(Diomedes - Countess)
Parawhenua and his half-sister, Ngaro, were both bred by Henry Redwood and raced by James Watt, with whom Redwood was in partnership from 1870 through the 1890s. Both horses were runners in the first two meetings held by the Auckland Racing Club in 1874, which was pretty much dominated by horses owned by the partners and Henry Delamaine. Parawhenua ran in the first Auckland Cup, held in the spring of 1874; he was second by a length to Batter, also owned by Watt and declared for. At the same meeting he was again second to the declared-for Batter in the 1-3/4 mile Autumn Handicap, in which three of the six horses that ran were nominally in Watt's ownership. In the fall Auckland meeting that year he was second by a neck to The Belle in the weight-for-age 1-1/2 mile Trial stakes, carrying 9 st.-3 lbs. to The Belle's 7 st.-3 lbs. At the same meeting he was second to Templeton by a short neck in the 1-1/2 mile Grandstand Handicap, and then he won the 1-1/2 mile Free Handicap, beating Yatterina and The Belle. In 1875 he won the CJC Great Autumn Handicap, and in 1876 the ARC Easter Handicap Stakes. His half-sister Ngaro ( 1871, by Ravenswood) was beaten by The Belle in a maiden plate at Christchurch, but the following day won the Christchurch Plate over two miles, and at the Auckland first spring meeting of 1874 won the 6 furlong Railway Plate, and was second to Templeton in the weight-for-age 1-1/2 mile Town Plate.

Toxeuma b.g. 1925
(Arrowsmith - Te Aupaki)
Toxeuma was a high class sprinter-miler and a great weight-carrier. He won the Hawkes Bay Guineas, was third in Auckland's Great Northern Derby, and was second to the great stayer Concentrate (Family C-20) in Wellington's New Zealand St. Leger by a short head, and by 1-1/2 lengths to the same horse in the Great Northern St. Leger. As a four year old he was second to Pegaway in the Easter Handicap, and then won the Huia Handicap, carrying 9 st.-8 lbs. His crowning achievement was his win in the 1930 CJC Winter Cup, carrying the huge impost of 11 st.-5 lbs., a record that stood for decades; he continued to race with some success through much of the 1930s.




Descent Chart


Bold=winners of stakes races and important handicap and weight-for-age races

T.B. Mare
 Woodstock (ch.f. 18-) by Theorem
  Phoebe (ch.f 1854) by Sir Hercules
  | Queen of the South (b.f. 1862) by Camden
  | | Minamina (b.f. 1870) by Ravensworth
  | | | Rewi (g. 1877) by Mute
  | | | Sydney (b.f. 1878) by Javelin
  | | | | Huerfana (f. 1886) by Vasco di Gama
  | | | |  Heiress (b.f. 1897) by Gold Reef
  | | | |  Orpheline (f. 1898) by Somnus
  | | | |   Shellshock (f. 1914) by Glen Albyn
  | | | |    Stirrup Cup (f. 1929) by Little England
  | | | |     Stirelio (f. 1943) by Orelio
  | | | |      Calm Spirit (f. 1957) by Calm Courage
  | | | |       Kauere Lad (c. 1969) by Aureate
  | | | Frederica (b.f. 1879) by Hero
  | | |  Hinewhata (b.f. 1889) by Vasco di Gama
  | | |   Hinetaura (f. 1897) by Robinson Crusoe
  | | |   Timua (b.f. 1909) by Birkenhead
  | | |    Te Aupaki (ch.f. 1912) by Merry Moment
  | | |     Huiarau (ch.f. 1923) by King Mark
  | | |     | Mersine (b.f. 1942) by Lang Bian
  | | |     | | Mesmerize (b.f. 1948) by Red Mars
  | | |     | |  Whiti Te Ra (b.c. 1964) by Broie Martia
  | | |     | Bian Rouge (ch.f. 1943) by Lang Bian
  | | |     |  Tikorangi (b.r. f. 1953) by Beau le Havre
  | | |     |   Tel Aviv (ch.f. 1964) by Pakistan
  | | |     |    Disraeli (b.g. 1974) by Entrepreneur
  | | |     Toxeuma (b.g. 1925) by Arrowsmith
  | | |     Hine Wehi (f. 1928) by Arausio
  | | |     | Sir Crusoe (c. 1936) by Defoe
  | | |     | Mashine (f. 1940) by Lang Bian
  | | |     |  Sawdust (c. 1950) by Milling
  | | |     Hine Maurea (f. 1932) by Arausio
  | | |      Hine Rei (f. 1941) by Lang Bian
  | | |       Choral (f. 1950) by Boissier
  | | |        Fordyce (f. 1958) by Makarpura
  | | |         Nubian Lass (f. 1969) by Privilege
  | | |          Hegemonic (f. 1977) by Gay Gambler
  | | |           Welcome Knight (b/br.g. 1986) by Always Welcome
  | | |           Gay Dolphin (f. 1990) by Benefit Performer
  | | |           | Happy Johnson (c. 2000) by Dr. Johnson
  | | |           Don Pasquale (c. 1991) by Don't Say Halo
  | | Pinfire (g. 1874) by Dead Shot
  | Countess (b.f. 1864) by The Peer
  | | Parawhenua (b.g. 1869) by Diomedes
  | | Ngaro (ch.f. 1871) by Ravenswood
  | Renga (b.f. 1869) by Diomedes
  | | Hannah (b.f. 1874) by Traducer
  | | | Discard (f. 1882) by Musket
  | | | |  Arihi (f. 1892) by Malua
  | | | Torment (b.f. 1883) by Musket
  | | | | Miss Nelson (f. 1892) by Nelson
  | | | | | Miss Alison(f. 1906) by Soult
  | | | | Tiresome (f. 1907) by Seaton Delaval
  | | | |  Archie (g. 1916) by Marble Arch
  | | | Jeuzail (b.f. 1884) by Musket
  | | |  Undine (b.f. 1892) by Quilt
  | | |   Moodine (br.f. 1907) by Sir Laddo
  | | |    Moony (f. 1915) by De Witte
  | | |    | Lady Flyer (f. 1925) by Gasbag
  | | |    |  Strategic (f. 1940) by Night Attack
  | | |    |   Nursing Sister (f. 1951) by Calm Courage
  | | |    |    Sorella (f. 1964) by Tira Mink
  | | |    |     Charity (f. 1976) by Sucaryl
  | | |    |      Antico (b.c. 1986) by Big Spender
  | | |    Aloft (f. 1917) by Mountain Knight
  | | |    | Miscue (f. 1925) by Lord Quex
  | | |    |  Lady Astrid (f. 1934) by Siegfried
  | | |    |  | White Dash (f. 1949) by Trench Fight
  | | |    |  | | Dashing Star (f. 1957) by Star Performer
  | | |    |  | | | Brightest (f. 1968) by Bucentaur
  | | |    |  | | | | Pagan Star (f. 1976) by Decies
  | | |    |  | | | | | Shu Star (f. 1986) by Tom's Shu
  | | |    |  | | | | |  Glendara (g. 1993) by Gold and Ivory
  | | |    |  | | | | Out in Front (f. 1978) by Frontal
  | | |    |  | | | Delemont (f. 1969) by Shy Boy
  | | |    |  | | | Star Pak (f. 1972) by Pakistan II
  | | |    |  | | | | Kelly O'Riley (f. 1983) by Moss Trooper
  | | |    |  | | | |  Paddy O'Riley (c. 1991) by Mr. Mcginty
  | | |    |  | | | Star of Shifnal (f. 1975) by Shifnal
  | | |    |  | | | | Selena (f. 1991) by Touching Wood
  | | |    |  | | | |  Sun Hawke (g. 1999) by Desert Sun
  | | |    |  | | | Dashing Daisy (f. 1977) by Music Teacher
  | | |    |  | | |  Escalation (c. 1984) by Le Monarc
  | | |    |  | | Admiral Dash (c. 1961) by Messmate
  | | |    |  | | Even Break (f. 1963) by Messmate
  | | |    |  | | | Mardiarna (b.f. 1971) by Copenhagen
  | | |    |  | | | | Marina Myth (f. 1978) by Beau Sovereign
  | | |    |  | | | | | Joy of the Jungle (ch.f. 1984) by Jungle Boy
  | | |    |  | | | | Somardia (f. 1979) by Beau Sovereign
  | | |    |  | | | |  Sobrica (f. 1984) by Cantabrian
  | | |    |  | | | |  | Alabama Whirly (ch.f. 1993) by Bold Rancher
  | | |    |  | | | |  Silk Shadow (f. 1986) by Inceptor
  | | |    |  | | | |   Eastern Zone (b.f. 1992) by Warring Nations
  | | |    |  | | | Britannia (f. 1976) by Ruling
  | | |    |  | | | | Fothers (br.g. 1981) by Taipan
  | | |    |  | | | | Sir Winston (br.c. 1988) by Sir Tristram
  | | |    |  | | | Trim Trio (f. 1979) by Zamazaan
  | | |    |  | | | | Night Skies (f. 1989) by Straight Strike
  | | |    |  | | | |  Midnight Avenue (b.g. 1997) by Scenic
  | | |    |  | | | Xmas Eve (f. 1980) by Taipan
  | | |    |  | | |  Zabeel's Angel (b.f. 1996) by Zabeel
  | | |    |  | | Fair Dash (f. 1966) by Neanderthal
  | | |    |  | | | Saintette (f. 1977) by St. Puckle
  | | |    |  | | |  Enshrine (f. 1988) by Marscay
  | | |    |  | | |   Hierogram (f. 1999) by Octagonel
  | | |    |  | | Dash of Gold (f. 1973) by Belmura
  | | |    |  | |  Green Queen (f. 1987) by King Delamere
  | | |    |  | |   Crown Prince (g. 1997) by Vice Regal
  | | |    |  | Flying Satchel (f. 1950) by Trench Flight
  | | |    |  Bonhomie (f. 1937) by Oration
  | | |    |   Bonny Dink (f. 1941) by Dink
  | | |    |    BonnyFilou (f. 1955) by Le Filou
  | | |    |     Rowan Filou (ch.f. 1966) by Fair's Fair
  | | |    |      Captain Filou (ch.g. 1975) by Captain Hayes
  | | |    Lucky Bag (blk.f. 1925) by Lucullus
  | | |     Lucky Charm (f. 1934) by Lackham
  | | |     | John Gilpin (c. 1948) by Gilpin
  | | |     Lucky Dip (br.f. 1939) by Defoe
  | | |      Gipsy Dancer (br.f. 1950) by Gilpin
  | | |      | Roman Consul (b.c. 1962) by Agricola
  | | |      | Pasa Doble (g. 1964) by Agricola
  | | |      | Fairview Park (f. 1971) by Oncidium
  | | |      |  Bold Diplomat (b.c. 1976) by Diplomatic Agent
  | | |      |  Fairview (f. 1977) by Brigand
  | | |      |  | Ascot Lane (b.c. 1984) by Prince's Gate
  | | |      |  Diplomatquie (f. 1984) by Biscay
  | | |      |   Haayil (c. 1992) by Danehill
  | | |      Happy Warrior (g. 1953) by Gilpin
  | | Nellie (f. 1878) by Mute
  | | | Van Dieman (g. 1885) by Vasco di Gama
  | | Cinderella (f. 1881) by Javelin
  | |  Cinder Ellen (b.f. 1891) by Trenton
  | |   Cinders (b. 1901) by Florizel II
  | Tangi (b.f. 1871) by Ravensworth
  | | Tangi II (f. 1877) by Cassivelaunus
  | |  |Evening Star (f. 1885) by Le Loup
  | |  | Jupiter (g. 1894) by St. Clair
  | | Wolverine (ch.c. 1885) by Le Loup
  | Sinking Fund (ch.c. 1872) by Towton
  Wildrake (b.g. 1855) by Sir Hercules
  Oliver Cromwell (ch.c. 1860) by Potentate








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