Sweetmeat | |
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Sire | Gladiator |
Grandsire | Partisan |
Dam | Lollypop |
Damsire | Starch or Voltaire |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1841 |
Country | England |
Colour | Bay or brown |
Breeder | Major Yarburgh |
Owner | Mr A. W. Hill James Cookson |
Record | 22: 19 -1-0 |
Major wins | |
Doncaster Gold Cup (1845) [1] | |
Last updated on 11 July 2011 |
Sweetmeat (foaled 1841) was a successful English Thoroughbred racehorse that won 16 consecutive races (including walk-overs) as a three-year-old, including the Doncaster Gold Cup, and was a useful sire of the early 19th century.