Property of a Lady. Pero Gomez in His Stable. By E. B. Herb...

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£3,200

Property of a Lady.

Pero Gomez in His Stable. By E. B. Herberte (exhibited 1851 - 1873). 

Pero Gomez br.c 1866 (Beadsman - Salamanca, by Student). Sire Line Eclipse. Family 27-a.

Bred at Leybourne Grange, Kent, by Sir Joseph Henry Hawley (1814-1875), 3rd Baronet, Pero Gomez was a full brother to the winner Vasco di Gamma (br c 1872) who was later exported to Victoria and left some good runners in New Zealand. Hawley also bred the sire of Pero Gomez, the Derby winner Beadsman (br c 1855 Weatherbit), and owned a number of other classics winners including Teddington (ch c 1848 Orlando), Blue Gown (b c 1865 Beadsman) and Miami (b f 1844 Venison).

Described as standing fifteen hands three inches, he was said to have excellent shoulders with a fine depth of girth although he stood somewhat upright on his pasterns and was thought weak through his loins and quarters. An amiable, good-natured sort in the stable, he was thoroughly game on the race course.

One of the best two year olds of 1868, along with the speedy Belladrum (br c 1866 Stockwell) whose respiratory troubles undid him at three and Pretender (b c 1866 Adventurer), Pero Gomez won the Middle Park Plate from the future One Thousand Guineas winner Scottish Queen (ch f 1866 Blair Athol) and ran a dead-heat with the Duke of Hamilton's Wild Oats (b c 1866 Wild Dayrell) in the Criterion Stakes. At three he easily won the Biennial Stakes at Newmarket and was considered unlucky to lose the Derby, by a nod that only the judge could see, to Pretender. At Ascot he won the (Ascot) Derby and finished 2nd in the Prince of Wales's Stakes to Martyrdom (ch c 1866 St. Albans). At Doncaster he won the St Leger from the favoured Pretender, who was done after a mile, and Martyrdom, who appeared to be gaining but was easily disposed of at the end. Two days later he defeated Pretender by half a length in the Doncaster Stakes. He walked-over for the Grand Duke Michael Stakes and the Royal Stakes before finishing 3rd to Cardinal York (b c 1866 Newminster), to whom he was conceding thirty pounds, in the Free Handicap, which was his final race.

Provenance: Round Tree Gallery

Dimensions:
(Framed) 33 in (H) x 41.25 in (W)
(Canvas) 26 in (H) x 35 in (W)