Australasia's 100 greatest female racehorses

Here's a few other good mares and fillies in reverse chronological order:

Northwood Plume (1991) won 3 G1s all against her own sex and age group. She won 9 of 18 starts.

Maidenhead (1956) was a curiously named mare which won 9 of 30 starts. She was a great wet-tracker pretty useless on anything firm, but she won the Sydney Cup, the Chipping Norton and the BMW as well as the Chelmsford Stakes. Hardly a champion, but not a bad record.

Tarien (1948) more famous for her positive swab and subsequent DQ after winning the 1953 Doncaster. She also won the Ranvet, Warwick Stakes, George Main and Craven Plate amongst her 12 wins from 40 starts according to Go to Whoa. She also won a race in England. 

De La Salle (1944) was a NSW country performer which came out of nowhere to strike a rich vein of form in 1948 winning the George Main, the Epsom and the Caulfield Stakes. She won 16 from 35 starts and is covered in the book, Go to Whoa.

Amiable (1934) was another mare covered in Go to Whoa. She won 12 of her 86 starts in a far-too-long-extended career. Her biggest win was over High Caste and Ajax in the 1940 C.M. Lloyd Stakes where she set the Flemington mile record of 1min 34.75 seconds which lasted until metric conversion. She also won the William Reid Stakes.

Gay Blonde (1931) was another which was named in different times. She was a NZ champion which came across to Australia and won the George Ryder, the Mackinnon Stakes and the Craven Plate in 1936 amongst her 4 Australian wins. Her NZ record was 13 wins from 25 starts.

Sarcherie (1930) was placed 3 times in the Melbourne Cup from 4 starts. Her two G1s were the Ranvet and the Doncaster carrying 55.5.

Maple (1923) came out of WA where she won many good races including the Derby before her victory in the 1928 Caulfield Cup, one of 13.5 wins.

Anna Carlovna (1909) was a NZ mare which won the Caulfield Stakes and Melbourne Stakes as well as 2 Eclipse Stakes amongst her 5 Australian wins from 15 starts. Her opposition wasn’t great though.

Calumny (1869) was an exact contemporary of Lurline and was almost of the same class, winning the NZ Derby and 6 in a row in Australia, including the Newmarket in 1875, before Lurline hit form.

Winfreux was ridden by Jim Jonston and it was noted that Johnston had won all 6 WFA races run in Melbourne that Spring.  He rode Tobin Bronze to win the Cox Plate to make it seven, and again to win the Mackinnon to make it 8 !  Then he won the Linlithgow on Oaks day on Legal Boy to make it 9 from 9.  

His amazing run came to an end in the CB Fisher Plate when John Miller rode Galilee to beat Tobin Bronze by 2½ lengths. In the following race Chantal was fourth behind Storm Queen in the George Adams Hcp. 

She won her Epsom very impressively but George Moore was booed by the crowd when she was beaten three lengths and a short half-head third behind Winfreux and Light Fingers as odds-on favourite in the 1966 Caulfield Stakes. Chantal was retired after sustaining an injury during Storm Queen's George Adams Mile victory at her next start.

She certainly ranks with many of the others listed.

Excellent.   You are always surprising me with your data.  I have done my fair share of Troving so I appreciate what you have done. 

And I couldn't agree more.

She is probably more famous than she deserves to be.  She beat the even more famous than he deserves to be Drongo  and they cleared away from the rest who were completely forgettable with the sole exception of King Carnival.  While he was by Comedy King from a Wallace mare it appears he did not stay.  He was beaten by the NZ visitor Ballymena in the Randwick Derby and turned it up at Flemington as well.  

Frances was third in the VRC St Leger behind Sandringham and Drongo.  Sandringham was a Woorak colt who really shouldn't have got the trip.  And Drongo never ever won a race.  I'd have to say it was a weak 3YO crop. 

I can inform you all, Benbatl has won the "Grosser Dallmayr - Bayrisches Zuchtrennen" easily. One more win for "La Mer" at Group I Level.

 

regards, Ticino

If you have any corrections or additions feel free.

I was half way through my reply when there was a 'BANG!' and a power outage.  

Thankfully my data is safe but the reply was lost including the second half of a list of New Zealand mares.  This is the first half :

Unfortunately I don't have the same resources for New Zealand racing and doing the list justice would be hard work.  A lot raced in Australia though and quite a few are detailed in Peter Pring's 'Analysis of Champion Racehorses' so I'll put it on my list of things to do.

Also, the earlier idea of listing Australasia's greatest broodmares has been on my to do list for quite some time and could be next project.  I have a database of around 500 well performed horses with their breeding and family numbers - more than that now after tabling the fillies and mares.  It may be useful as the basis of broodmare list.

Best of luck to Benbatl to fly the flag for La Mer tomorrow,

maybe it's a bit offtopic.

 

Benbatl (Dubawi-Nahrain by Selkirk) has a connection with your work, because his 4th dam is none other than"La Mer". He will race tomorrow in the "Grosser Dallmayr - Bayrisches Zuchtrennen",

Group I, 2000 meter, Munich, Germany. This season he had won 3 races at Dubai, including the "Dubai Turf". His Connection is planning to send him to Australia for the "Cox Plate".

 

Yes, I can Imaging how manmy hours you have spent resesrch and writing about your Topic. I did it myself for much lesser breeding-and racing subject, Totonan.

 

regards, Ticino