Family B-2: Maggie Lauder

Like several other half-bred families, an early mare in this family -- Red Ribbons -- was listed in the General Stud Book (Volume VIII), and later expunged because her female line could not be traced. Red Ribbons was bred by G. Wilson in 1839; she was by the Velocipede son Valparaiso, sent after the 1839 breeding season to the U.S. Her dam was listed as Maggie Lauder, by Orville son Dinmont (1812), "...whom old Tom Dawson, the famous trainer at Middleham, said he remembered seeing run in Scotland." Dawson had owned Red Ribbons from 1857 until her death in 1859, having bred her daughter, Lincoln's Inn (1857), who was listed in Volume X of the GSB, but removed, along with her half-sister Gros de Naples in the second edition, because they were "believed to be half-bred."

The family included a number of good flat racers, and some jumpers, all descending from Full Cry, the 1854 daughter of Red Ribbons, by Sir Tatton Sykes, a "strong, useful-looking bay mare on short legs, but wide and roomy," purchased at a bloodstock sale at Reading in 1860-61 by Lord Feversham of Duncombe Park at Helmsley, Yorkshire. Her offspring, which included the colt Gone Away, a winner of the Thirsk Cup and two other races, were all bred at Duncombe Park, and Feversham also bred all the produce of her prolific daughter, Queen of Diamonds, a winner of four hunters' flat races, who continued the family line.

Queen of Diamonds, purportedly the only half-bred mare ever covered by the great stallion St. Simon (she came up barren), produced twelve foals, mostly to the cover of Lowlander and Galopin (sire of St. Simon), seven of them winners. Alice Maud, by Loiterer, won four races; Rough Diamond, by Lowlander won a small race, and his brother, Bransdale, won ten steeplechases, and sister, Queen of the Dale won nine races. Put to Galopin, she dropped Galloping Queen, a winner of eight races; Benvenuto, winner of the Epsom Grand Prize, worth £2,120, who was sent to South Africa around 1894 and later shipped to the U.S.; Queen of the Riding, a winner of one good race (see Hulcot, below); and the unraced Queen of Hearts (see King Crow, below).

Queen of the Dale won nine races, including the Great Lancashire Handicap, for Feversham in thirty-three starts over five seasons. At Duncombe Park she bred twelve foals, five of them winners. Her son Worsthorne, by Minting, won six races and later was a sire of hunters in Nottinghamshire; son Uncle Sol, by Florizel II, won three races and was later a hunter sire in Yorkshire; Cliviger, a brother to Worsthorne, won seven races, but died early at age six; Rievalux, by St. Angelo, won the Wynyard Plate and the Lowther Stakes and two other races. Her daughter Foxtones, by Galopin son Grafton, won six of her eight races, and placed in the Prince of Wales' nursery stakes. Foxstones was a broodmare in the Cranborne, Salisbury, stud of George Thursby and then at Sir John Thursby's Blink Bonny Stud in Malton, Yorkshire, where she produced five winners, including Blowing Stone (11 races); Slinkaway (2 races), Harestones (2 races), Mintstone (a winner in Italy), and Red Vixen, who won a race in England and then was purchased to South Africa where she won a number of races.

Queen of Diamond's daughter Galloping Queen won the Portland Plate at Doncaster, the Subscription Stakes and Harewood Handicap at age five, and six other races in her twenty-nine starts. She bred six winners for Leopold de Rothschild at Leighton Buzzards, Bucks. Son Cottesloe, by Crafton, won the Staffordshire Foal Plate; Gunilda won the Fitzwilliam Stakes and two other races; Quisisana won two races; Lador won a race worth £262 and after one season at stud in England was sold to Argentina as a stallion. Galloping Queen's daughter Gualala won one race and placed second in the Tathwell Plate in her five starts as a juvenile, and was sold to Belgium, where, for R. Visart de Bocarme, she produced two good flat race winners in Guatemala and Guadalguivir, and Guadeloupe, sent back to England, won two hurdle races. Galloping Queen's daughter Rubra, by Martagon, one won race in thirteen starts at ages two and three, and in the stud at Leighton Buzzard bred Rubicond, winner of the Wolverhampton Foal Plate.

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