| Blucher | |
|---|---|
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Blucher.jpg) Blucher in an engraving of 1816 after a painting by James Barenger | |
| Sire | Waxy |
| Grandsire | Pot-8-Os |
| Dam | Pantina |
| Damsire | Buzzard |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1811 |
| Died | 1841 (aged 29–30) |
| Country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | 2nd Lord Stawell |
| Record | 6:5-1-0 |
| Major wins | |
| Epsom Derby (1814) | |
Blucher (1811–1841) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire named after the Prussian General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, one of the most successful commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, but his name was invariably spelt without the umlaut.[1]
Bred by Lord Stawell, and one of the many notable offspring of the great Waxy (1790–1818), Blucher's first year of racing was triumphant. Between July 1813 and June 1814 he ran five times and was unbeaten, his wins climaxing with The Derby of 1814. After that he had only one further race, at the beginning of the 1815 flat season, in which he placed second. He was then retired to stud at Marelands near Farnham, Surrey.
Blucher had little success as a sire but was an ancestor in the dam's line of the double classic winner Pretender (1866).