Partner (also known as Croft's Partner or Old Partner) was a British
Thoroughbred
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racehorse and
sire. He won six of his seven races before being retired to stud where he was the
Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland
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four times, and continued the
Byerley Turk sire-line.
Racing career
Partner's breeder sold him to Mr. Cotton of Sussex, who in turn sold him to Lord Halifax. Lord Halifax raced the colt with great success over four mile courses. He was unbeaten in 1723 and 1724, taking the following year off to come back to the track in 1726, beating Sloven in a match race. His only loss was in a race in 1728 to Smiling Ball, after which he was sold to John Croft to begin his breeding career.
Stud career
His most important son was
Tartar, who went on to sire the very influential
Herod. He also sired Cato, Golden Ball, Sedbury, Morton's Traveller, (b c 1746 - exported to
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and a good sire there) and Traveller (1735), as well as the dam of
Matchem, before his death at 29.
Sire line tree
*Partner
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**Partner (Grisewood)
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**Partner (Moore)
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***Soldier
***Alfred
***Tantivy
**Golden Ball
**Merry Andrew
**Badger
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** Tartar
***Miner
****Quibbler
***Beaufremont
*** Herod[Herod Sire Line](_blank)
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**** Florizel
*****Moustrap
*****Crookshanks
***** Diomed
*****Ulysses
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*****Fortunio
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***** Eager
*****Slapbang
***** Tartar
***** Ninety-three
****Magnet
*****Ringwood
*****Poker
*****Shoveler
*****Dare DevilWoodpecker
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*****Delpini
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*****Highflyer (Hyde)Noble
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***** Sir Peter Teazle
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*****LambinosRhadamanthus
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*****Daedalus
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****Il' Mio
*****Blandish
*****Minos
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*****Commodore
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****Bagot[Studbook: Early S](_blank)
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*****Brother to Vivaldi
***Tartar (Wildman)
**Traveller (Old)
***Dainty Davy
****David
****Hambletonian
****Gilkicker
****Pilot
*****David
****Pine-Apple
***Squirrel
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****Firetail
****Dasher
**Traveller (Morton)
***Ariel
***Partner (Lightfoot)
***Yorick
****Junius
****Polyphemus
****Cub
***Bellair
***Silverlegs
***Tristram Shandy
***Traveller (Lloyd)
****True Briton
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Pedigree
* Partner is inbred
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3S × 4S to the mare ''Old Morocco mare'', meaning that she appears once third generation and once fourth generation on the sire side of his pedigree.
See also
* List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses
References
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1718 racehorse births
Thoroughbred racehorses
Racehorses trained in the Kingdom of Great Britain
Racehorses bred in the Kingdom of Great Britain
Thoroughbred family 9-a
Byerley Turk sire line