Alexander mare

Background

Stud career

• Calomel filly – a bay filly foaled in 1799.
• Piccadilly – a chestnut colt foaled in 1800 and sired by Buzzard.
• Castrel – a chestnut stallion foaled in 1801 and sired by Buzzard. He won three races at Newmarket and sired Bustard, Merlin and Pantaloon. His sire line produced Epsom Derby winner Thormanby.
• Selim – a chestnut stallion foaled in 1802 and sired by Buzzard. On the racetrack he won six races, including the Craven Stakes and two October Oatlands Stakes. Selim was also a successful sire, with his progeny including Azor, Medora, Sultan and Turquoise and he was Champion sire in 1814.
• Bronze – a brown mare foaled in 1803 and sired by Buzzard. She won Epsom Oaks in 1806 and foaled Newmarket Stakes winner Busto.
• Buzzard mare – a brown mare foaled in 1804. Her dam line produced brothers Uriel and Umbriel, who won the St. James's Palace Stakes and Great Yorkshire Stakes respectively.
• Rubens – a chestnut stallion foaled in 1805 and sired by Buzzard. He won the Craven Stakes and was Champion sire three times. He sired Landscape, Pastille and Whizgig.
• Quiz mare – a brown mare foaled in 1808 and sired by Quiz. Her dam-line eventually produced Picacero, who was a top racehorse in Argentina.
• Orville mare – a brown mare foaled in 1809 and sired by Orville. She was an ancestor of two-time Goodwood Cup winner Count Schomberg.
• Hocuspocus – a chestnut colt foaled in 1810 and sired by Quiz. He won a match against a filly by Selim and ran unplaced in St. Leger Stakes in 1813.
• Sorcerer colt – a black colt foaled in 1811 and sired by Sorcerer. He died young.
• Sorcerer colt – a colt foaled in 1812.
• Election mare – a bay mare foaled in 1814 and sired by Election. She finished second in a 100 guineas Sweepstakes at Newmarket in 1818. Her dam-line produced 1867 Prix de l'Empereur winner Trocadero. Through him she is an ancestor of Tracery.
• Hospitality – a bay colt foaled in 1815 and sired by Election. He won the King's Plates at Ascot Heath and Winchester and the Oxford and Egham Gold Cups in 1819.
• Regent – a chestnut colt foaled in 1816 and sired by Election. He was later known as Admiral. He won a Handicap race at Newmarket in 1819.
• Ambiguity – a chestnut filly foaled in 1818 and sired by either Election or Blucher.

Pedigree