Mare named Gazelle, breeding ponies circa 1970

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Mare named Gazelle, breeding ponies circa 1970

Postby vineyridge » Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:44 pm

Said to be a British TB, but they aren't always pure blood in sport. Not in the JC database, and the Allbreed pedigree for her is so screwed up that you really can't make any sense of it. I just edited it with info available here.

Sire was the 1949 Blarney Stone by Historic out of Molly Malone. Dam was a Mystery mare named Peggy O'Neil, by Perion out of Westthorpe Peggy. The JC lists Peggy O'Neil but everything except the sire is "no info on file".

Can you come up with anything solid about Gazelle? It's possible she could have had a name change, I suppose, when she went into pony breeding.
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Peggy O'Neil

Postby thistle-c » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:49 am

Peggy O'Neil(GB) was foaled in 1951, she is in Prior's H-B Stud Book.
Bred by Gr-Captain H.I Hanmer.

Peggy O'Neil unraced.

Gazelle Foaled 1958(Chestnut)


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More info

Postby thistle-c » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:55 am

Peggy O'Neil is in the Half-Bred book as Perion is only listed as Half bred with the G.S.B. Westhorpe Peggy is a T.B - G.S.B Vol 32,p.948.

Later many of Perion's offspring were registered with the G.S.B.

Gazelle probably was only used for pony and show breeding purposes.

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Postby vineyridge » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:10 am

Thanks so much for the information.

Is Weatherby's not fixated on "pure blood" for registry in the GSB?
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Postby thistle-c » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:53 am

Yes, they do prefer pure blood, but they also had until about the 1940/50's pure arabs registered with the G.S.B, and also AngloArabs. When I worked as a stud groom, part-bred horses with T.B blood were often registered as Non T.B in the Non Thoroughbred Register (NTR), these horses often have their names followered by the roman numerals VII.
The register is known now as Weatherbys N.T.R.

A lot of the horses in the Miss Prior's Half-Bred books, were often crossed back to T.B's and eventually were accepted into the G.S.B. Many of the old National Hunt lines can be found in there too.

Also many Thoroughbred stallions in the U.K were registered in the old days with the Hunter Improvement Society (H.I.S), these horse were crossed with the likes of Irish and Cleveland Bay to produce the hunter, or on the continent the warmblood. This society is now known as Sporthorse (GB), the Irish horses as Irish Sportshorses.

It can be complicated.

Hope this helps.