HIGHFLYER
(1774 by KING HEROD oo Rachel)
This site is dedicated to the breeding of the Thoroughbred racehorse. The information contained herein is correct to the best of my knowledge and any conjecture is clearly labelled as such.
"Guessing is how reason proceeds in the absence of facts"
Please write to me at zvonkiy@hotmail.com if you have any questions, comments or corrections.
All dates quoted on this site are Julian until 02nd September 1752 and Gregorian from the next day 14th September 1752.
All years quoted on this site are historical and no double dating has been used except in the notes.
The age of a horse was calculated from 01st May each year until 31st December 1833 at Newmarket and until 18th April 1858 elsewhere in Great Britain and Ireland.
The age of a horse has been calculated from 01st January each year since 01st January 1834 at Newmarket and since 19th April 1858 elsewhere in Great Britain and Ireland.
RACING IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
ROYAL PLATES
ROYAL PLATES
A history of the King's and Queen's Plates in Great Britain and Ireland,
from 1634 to 1765.
ROYAL
PLATE WINNERS
The winners of the King's and Queen's Plates in Great Britain and Ireland,
from 1671 to 1765, traced back in the male line.
BRITISH ROYAL
PLATES
The winners of the King's and Queen's Plates in Great Britain, from 1671
to 1765, listed chronologically.
IRISH ROYAL
PLATES
The winners of the King's and Queen's Plates in Ireland, from 1698 to
1765, listed chronologically.
CLASSIC RACES
ENGLISH CLASSIC
WINNERS
The winners of the 1000 Guineas, 2000 Guineas, Derby, Oaks and St Leger,
from 1776 to 2026, traced back in the male line.
IRISH
CLASSIC WINNERS
The winners of the Irish 1000 Guineas, Irish 2000 Guineas, Irish Derby,
Irish Oaks and Irish St Leger, from 1866 to 2026, traced back in the male
line.
OVER THE JUMPS
HURDLERS AND
STEEPLECHASERS
The winners of the principal National Hunt races in England from 1836
to 2026, traced back in the male line.
SIRES
CHAMPION SIRES
The champion sires in Great Britain from 1721 to 1849, and in Great Britain
and Ireland from 1850 to 2025, traced back in the male line.
The champion sires in Ireland from 1751 to 1849, traced back in the male
line.
The champion maternal grandsires in Great Britain and Ireland from 1899
to 2025, traced back in the male line.
NORTHERN
DANCER, SADLER'S WELLS, GALILEO AND FRANKEL
Their English Classic winning descendants for three generations to 2026,
and how their records compare with those of the other most influential
Classic sires.
THOROUGHBRED BREEDING
EARLY ANCESTORS
CONFUSED
PEDIGREES AND MISTAKEN IDENTITIES
Various articles concerning the identification and breeding of some of
the earliest ancestors of the Thoroughbred racehorse.
DARCY'S YELLOW
TURK, DARCY'S WHITE TURK AND HELMSLEY TURK
An investigation into their true identities.
GARDINER
MARE, HUTTON'S SPOT AND ALCOCK'S ARABIAN
An investigation into their true identities.
LAYTON GREY
BARB, ROCKWOOD, TAFFOLET BARB AND TREGONWELL'S BARB MARE
An investigation into their true identities.
MERLIN, SMILING
TOM, HIGHLANDER AND WOODCOCK
An investigation into their true identities.
BLACK-A-TOP,
OLD MONTAGUE MARE, PULLEINE'S CHESNUT ARABIAN AND WHITESHIRT MARE
An investigation into their true identities.
SNAKE, CONEYSKINS,
LISTER'S TURK AND BYERLEY'S TURK
An investigation into their true identities and an investigation into
the descent of Hutton's breed.
ECLIPSE
An investigation into his pedigree.
THE HALF-CROWN
CART-HORSE
The true foundation sire of the Thoroughbred. An investigation into the
influence of cart-horse blood on the Thoroughbred.
The descent of General Angerstein's breed from Emmeline and Marengo.
SELIMA,
BY GODOLPHIN ARABIAN
An investigation into her true identity.
ST SIMON
An investigation into the origin of his sire line.
BEND OR
An investigation into his true identity.
THE CHESNUT
ARABIAN AT HAMPTON COURT
An investigation into his true identity.
VERDICT
An investigation into her pedigree.
INBREEDING
INBREEDING
A selection of pedigrees, both historical and conjectural, showing some
incestuous matings of the Thoroughbred racehorse.
COEFFICIENT OF INBREEDING
An investigation into Wright's Equation and Hardiman's Method.
REGISTER OF INBREEDING
COEFFICIENTS
An alphabetical listing of the ancestors of Stockwell (1849), together
with their standard and cumulative inbreeding coefficients.
AVERAGE COEFFICIENT OF INBREEDING
An attempt to compute an average SIC and an average CIC for the Thoroughbred.
COLOUR
THE THIN GREY LINE
The descent of the grey gene in the Thoroughbred racehorse.
HORSE
RACING IN GERMANY IN 1945
Racing at Leipzig, Halle and Dresden.
HEIRS OF
THE NORFOLK TROTTER AND THE YORKSHIRE COACH HORSE
An investigation into the ancestry of the Hackney, the Standardbred, the
French Trotter, the Orlov Trotter, the Cleveland Bay, the Welsh Pony and
other related breeds.
APPENDIX
The Original Articles for the Plate run at Newmarket in October. Instituted
by King Charles the Second in 1665 and first run in 1666.
Newmarket Town Plate.
The Articles relating to Royal Plates in the reign of George II.
The naming of horses and the recording of their pedigrees in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
How old was the Godolphin Arabian when he died?
The calendar in Great Britain and Ireland.
The kings and queens in Great Britain and Ireland since the restoration of the monarchy.
OWNERS AND
BREEDERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
The creators of the Thoroughbred racehorse.
THE ANCESTORS
OF JAMES RONALD HARDIMAN
Compiler of this website. From 1969 to 1975 employed in the Pedigree Department
of the British Bloodstock Agency in London and Newmarket.
MARTHA PECK BUCKENHAM
The ancestors and relatives of Martha Peck Buckenham, that are mentioned
in the Wills of members of the Leeke, Peck and Waters families.
FAMOUS RELATIVES
Three of the grandparents of James Ronald Hardiman, the compiler of this
website, are cousins of Charles III, through John Leeke and Alice Grey
of Beccles, Suffolk. Georgina Annie Corderoy (1902) has two descents,
William Henry Hardiman (1898) has one descent and Thomas James Mitcham
(1884) has one descent. Both grandfathers are descendants of Edward I,
through George Sparrow, which makes my parents half 9th cousins once removed.
John Leeke and Alice Grey of Beccles, Suffolk, are also the ancestors of the Royal Family, Winston Churchill and Bear Grylls.
The Rev Robert Peck, and his brother Joseph Peck snr, emigrated from Hingham, Norfolk, England to Hingham, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1638. They are the ancestors of eight actors and three actresses, well known for appearing in movies and on the television. Their sister, Martha Peck Buckenham, is the ancestress of James Ronald Hardiman.
George Parkhurst is the ancestor of a further four actresses.
Oliver de Vaux and Petronilla de Craon are the ancestors of six actors and four actresses, through Margaret, Henry and Agnes Wentworth, three of the four children of Margery Despencer.
Oliver de Vaux and Petronilla de Craon are the ancestors of a further three actors and seven actresses, through Philip Wentworth, the fourth child of Margery Despencer.
Oliver de Vaux and Petronilla de Craon are the ancestors of a further three actors and eight actresses, through Maud de Roos.
The Rev Robert Peck, his brother Joseph Peck snr, and their sister, Martha Peck Buckenham, trace back further to Henry de Grey and Isolda Bardolph. They are the ancestors of a further nine actors and eight actresses, as well as Lady Jane Grey, the nine day queen in 1553.
My descent from Edward I, showing how I am related to Bear Grylls, Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough. I am also related to Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
Through Henry de Grey and Isolda Bardolph, James Ronald Hardiman, the compiler of this website, is the 19th cousin six times removed upwards of Eyre Coote, the Governor of Jamaica from 1806 to 1808. Eyre Coote is the four greats grandfather of Colin Powell, US Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. Eyre Coote is also the six greats grandfather of James Ronald Hardiman's grand nephews and nieces.
THE DESCENDANTS
OF THOMAS HARDYMAN (1781 - 1859) AND HARRIETT PLEDGE (1778 - 1860)
The compiler of this website, James Ronald Hardiman, appears in red in
the sixth generation of this descent chart.
DNA confirmed cousins of James Ronald Hardiman appear in green.
THE DESCENDANTS
OF JOHN HARDIMAN AND MARY BEMAN OF EVENLODE, WORCESTERSHIRE
The compiler of this website, James Ronald Hardiman, appears in red in
the twelfth generation of this descent chart. The actor Terrence Hardiman appears
in red in the eleventh generation.
DNA confirmed cousins of James Ronald Hardiman appear in green.
PHYSICS
REVISITED
The Theory of Continuous Creation within an Infinite Universe.
[This is NOT the Steady State Theory, which was also known as the Continuous
Creation Theory]
Earthquakes and volcanoes.
Big Bang Theory.
Plate Tectonics.
Expanding Earth Hypothesis.
Mars.
Gravity.
Tides.
Accretion and Differentiation.
Electron.
Speed of light.
Rotation of the Earth.
Orbit of the Earth.
Rotation and orbit of the Moon.
The Pioneer Anomaly.
Man on the Moon.
Suns and Black Holes.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank the following for their kind assistance in the compilation of this work : Anthony Byles, Tim Cox, Ralph Graulich, Christine Matthes, Miodrag Milovanovic, William Morgan, A G Morris, Richard Nash, E J Ross and Sandra K Snider.
My special thanks to A J Hibbard, for allowing me access to her original research into old British and Irish newspapers, and Tom Viebke, for his invaluable help with the early breeding of trotting horses.