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Landscape (1813–1834) was a British
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that won the
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at
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in 1816. The
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's entire racing career consisted of one run in 1815 followed by three races in the space of thirteen days in June 1816. After winning the Oaks on her second racecourse appearance, she finished first and second in races at
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. Already pregnant at the time of her classic success, Landscape was retired from racing after Ascot and produced her first foal in the following spring.


Background

Landscape was a bay mare bred by her owner General John Leveson Gower. The general had won the Oaks with Maid of Orleans in 1809. Her sire, Rubens was a successful racehorse, who at the time of Landscape's conception was covering mares at Wheeler's Farm near
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in
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at a fee of 15
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. He sired two other classic winning fillies in
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, who won the 2000 Guineas and Oaks in 1816 and
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, who won the 1000 Guineas in the same year. Rubens was champion sire in 1815, 1821 and 1822. Landscape's dam Housemaid (also known as Iris) produced several other good winners including Raphael, who finished second to
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in the 1815
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and Rainbow, who became a successful stallion in France.


Racing career


1815: two-year-old season

Until 1913 there was no requirement for British racehorses to have official names (two-year-olds were allowed to race unnamed until 1946). On her only run as a two-year-old, "Gen. L. Gower's b. f. sister to Raphael" ran in the
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at
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on 10 July. She was not among the favourites and finished unplaced behind the
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's filly Belvoirina.


1816: three-year-old season

The General's filly had been officially named Landscape when she made her three-year-old debut in the Oaks Stakes over one and a half miles at Epsom on 1 June. The race attracted eleven runners from an original entry of forty-eight, and despite her lack of previous experience, General Gower's filly was made 2/1 favourite. The next horses in the betting were Duenna, Guendolen and
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, the fillies who had finished second, third and first respectively in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket a month earlier. Ridden by Sam Chifney, Jr., Landscape won the 1425
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prize from Duenna, with Mr Walker's unnamed filly taking third place. Landscape's two remaining races came at
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less than two weeks later. On 11 June she was entered in a 600 guinea sweepstakes over the New Mile Course in which she started odds on favourite and won from Ginger Sal, the only horse who appeared to oppose her. Two days later she contested another sweepstakes over the same course and distance in which, as the winner of the Oaks, she was required to carry a seven
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weight penalty. She started favourite but finished second of the four runners behind Duenna. General Gower died later that year and Landscape was sold to Lord Lowther.


Stud record

Landscape had been covered by the stallion Woful as a three-year-old and was retired from racing to become a broodmare at the end of the year. In the following spring she produced her first foal, a filly named Perspective (later known as Katherina). She produced a further fourteen foals for a variety of owners before her death in 1834. Katherina became a successful broodmare, being the dam of Rowton who won the
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in 1829 and later became a successful sire in
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.


Pedigree


References

{{Epsom Oaks Winners 1813 racehorse births 1834 racehorse deaths Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom Thoroughbred family 29 Byerley Turk sire line Epsom Oaks winners