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The otherwise unsung stallion Zalophus begat 1962 Grand National winner Kilmore. His owners, who included Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy, producers of the early Carry On films, trousered about £25,000 from that victory.
Furthermore, I seem to recall reading somewhere or other that Kilmore was the only winner Zalophus got in the 1961/1962 jumps season. I suggest that Zalophus’s double was (a) siring a Grand National winner and (b) finishing top of the NH sires money list in the same season with prize money collected from just one horse. Or maybe just one race, given that I’m ignorant of Kilmore’s form in races other than the Grand National in 1961/62.
As ever, I’m prepared to be totally incorrect.
That’s a good attempt, and it is very interesting, but not the answer.
This stallion is responsible for two very different winners in the same season, one being a winner of a grade one ‘chase around the same time Kilmore took the Grand National (given a year).This is a good question, Crepello.
If one element of the double is not a racehorse it may be a showjumper. Beethoven won the Foxhunter Cup at the Horse of the Year Show in 1962. His sire was a thoroughbred stallion named Roi D’Egypte. Even if all that is correct I’m still short of a Grade 1 chase winner, sired by Roi D’Egypte, around that time.
I’m less optimistic about this answer than the previous one.
You are definitely getting warmer Seasider, but Roi D’Egypt isn’t the stallion I am thinking about and the second horse was not a show jumper but wasn’t a racehorse either.
Happy Monarch with Cocky Consort (not sure which race it was though) and Merely-A-Monarch winning Badminton?
Happy Monarch would have a similar profile but it isn’t him.
A clue: A very unusual double, I would think nigh on impossible for it to be done these days.I’m comprehensively stumped.
I think we’re gonna need a bigger clue.
Yup!
Perhaps Crepello will return one day and give us the answer.
In the meantime, what is the connection between (a) a character in Macbeth who is not listed in the dramatis personæ but is mentioned by name in the play and (b) a famous horse who was around in the eighteenth century.
There’s a slight difference in the spelling in the name of the connection.
Well the answer is Erin’s Pride sire of both Pas Seul 1960 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner and the champion under 14-2 hh show pony, Tara, at the Royal International Horse the same year.
Erin’s Pride, a brown by Fairfax was foaled in 1945. He stood under the Hunter Premium scheme and also was sire of Rouge Croix and Silverin, both big winners in the show ring.
http://www.sporthorse-data.com/d?z=eDaYwl&d=Erin%27s+Pride&x=27&y=13
http://www.sporthorse-data.com/d?i=10557814
http://www.sporthorse-data.com/d?i=10350608^ Thank you.
In the play the character is not human. Neither is it a horse.
The 18th century horse was foaled about 1724 in an area then known as Southern Arabia.
The horse is indeed the Godolphin Arabian, previously known as Sham (or Shami or Scham).
There is no character in Macbeth named Sham and nobody refers to a sham in the play, as far as I’m aware.
To add further detail, below is a painting of the Godolphin Arabian.
https://www.janeausten.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Godolphin_Arabian.jpg
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