Eventing dam line--April The First

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I found her by accident today. She had two offspring on the Olympic gold medal 1972 British Eventing Team--The Cornishman and Cornish Gold. She had a daughter Tregea, who was bred to the best of the best eventing sires and was a good producer herself. The goodness seems to have gone down through generations of event horses, although perhaps not to the very, very highest levels.

I'd really like to know a lot more about April The First and her family through tail female. The Cornishman at Munich was Cornishman V, but Sport Horse breed Database also has her with another Cornishman--this one a stallion who was a SJ and also 4th and 9th at Badminton. Is there some confusion? Are the two Cornishmen really just one horse?

Can anyone help? I've checked NED and Sport Horse Breed database, and neither April The First or Tregea have NED records.
 
Cornishman V was NOT out of April The First. The Cornishman stallion was a pure TB out of Alley Cat and owned by Louella. Sporthorse Breed Database was just wrong on these.

I'd still like to know more about April The First's descendants. Bridget Parker seems to have owned Tregea, since she bred the 4* horse Cornish Envoy from her.
 
According to one of my old horse magazines from November 1968 there was a Cornishman, 10-year-old black gelding, 15.3 h.h. by the Premium stallion Whiteway placed 7th at Burghley Horse Trials. He was owned by Mrs C. M. Parker and ridden by S/Sgt R. S. Jones.
There is also a picture of him jumping fence 26.
This one a Grade A showjumper and half-brother to Cornish Gold a chestnut by Nuage Dore.

S/Sgt R. S. Jones also rode 8th placed Cornishman V, 9 year-old bay gelding, 16.3 h.h. by Golden Surprise out of Polly IV at the same event. This is the famous one owned by Brig. M. Gordon Watson.
 
Trying to find April The First and/or Tregea in my Hunter Stud Books (got Vol XIII-XXIII) or in my Half-Bred Stud Books (Prior's got complete set) but no luck yet.
 
Something not right on Sport-horse data base record of Tregea's breeding, check years.
April the First born later than her own off-spring.
 
According to The Register of Non-Thoroughbred Mares;

Returns for 1974;
TREGEA, b/br, 1968, Breeder L. H. Cock. by Four Burrow out of Dam Unregistered by Damsire Unregistered.
1974 (Jun 2) b. c. by Rugantino Breeder Mrs C. M. Parker

1975 (May 18) br. c. by Abyss Breeder Mrs C. M. Parker

1976 (Apr 29) b/br. f. by Right Flare Breeder Mrs C. M. Parker

1977 Slipped foal by Right Flare

1978 Barren to Master Spiritus

1979 Don't know haven't got register

1980 (Mar 27) ch. f by Master Spiritus

Hope this helps.
 
Thanks. It does help, since it comes from an Official source. :)

This mare line has been a British National Treasure and should be so recognized.
 
Violet said:
According to The Register of Non-Thoroughbred Mares;

Returns for 1974;
TREGEA, b/br, 1968, Breeder L. H. Cock. by Four Burrow out of Dam Unregistered by Damsire Unregistered.
1974 (Jun 2) b. c. by Rugantino Breeder Mrs C. M. Parker

1975 (May 18) br. c. by Abyss Breeder Mrs C. M. Parker

1976 (Apr 29) b/br. f. by Right Flare Breeder Mrs C. M. Parker

1977 Slipped foal by Right Flare

1978 Barren to Master Spiritus

1979 Don't know haven't got register

1980 (Mar 27) ch. f by Master Spiritus

Hope this helps.
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Horse Name YOF Sex Pedigree
My Cornish Spirit 1979 F Master Spiritus - Tregea
 
The line is still going, Katie Burton, nee Parker is currently eventing Cornish Daybreak, homebred a greatgrandson of April 1st, he has 8 siblings and I am sure with further searches there will be a continuation of the family.
 
There is another thread about this mare on another forum. So in answer to Cornish Legend (reg name with Weatherbys) Cornish Legend II with BE. According to Weatherbys records she had the following unnamed offspring

2000 unnamed colt by Its Without Doubt
2001 unnamed filly by Its Without Doubt
2003 unnamed gelding by Its Without Doubt
2004 unnamed colt by Its Without Doubt
2005 unnamed filly by Its Without Doubt

Weatherbys dont show the dam, so no confirmation there that she was April the First. Futures website has her YOB incorrect as it is 1968.
 
magic104 said:
A link to the breeding http://www.futuresporthorses.co.uk/Future_CornishIllusion.html
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Not sure if the info re April the First is correct there.

NLHBS has got her down as being APRIL I and by "a Timoshenko Arab". Her daughter CORNISH COTTAGE (HSB 13856) a full sister to Cornishman and Cornish Gold is registered with them. They were bred by L.H. Cock, Cornwall.

I put breeding details on here;
http://www.sporthorse-data.com/d?i=10418918

As Cornishman was born 1958 the mare must have been born in the 40's early 50's and the first Horse of the Year Show was held in 1949. So she must have won the Puissance between then and 1957 but I have not been able to find any record of her doing it yet.
I would have thought that if an arab cross jumped 7' it would have been mentioned in the literature from those years.

In some write ups about these horses it mentions Cornishman as a Grade A showjumper after the name April the First so perhaps someone has misundersod it?
 
Violet said:
Not sure if the info re April the First is correct there.

NLHBS has got her down as being APRIL I and by "a Timoshenko Arab". Her daughter CORNISH COTTAGE (HSB 13856) a full sister to Cornishman and Cornish Gold is registered with them. They were bred by L.H. Cock, Cornwall.

I put breeding details on here;
http://www.sporthorse-data.com/d?i=10418918

As Cornishman was born 1958 the mare must have been born in the 40's early 50's and the first Horse of the Year Show was held in 1949. So she must have won the Puissance between then and 1957 but I have not been able to find any record of her doing it yet.
I would have thought that if an arab cross jumped 7' it would have been mentioned in the literature from those years.

In some write ups about these horses it mentions Cornishman as a Grade A showjumper after the name April the First so perhaps someone has misundersod it?
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I think it is safe to say she didn't. There are no dates and I am sure if you knew that info you would confirm it with the date. Also how can you quote the YOB for Tregea as 1976 it is just another error. Katie May, well Weatherbys shows a Katie May as being born 1973. She could of been a TB, but unlikely. And that would have made April the First an AA so yes there would have been a record of this somewhere! Timoshenko, again an AA with no mention, which is strange when he is supposed to be the sire of a 7ft Puissance horse. Whatever her breeding, it cant take away what Tregea's offspring did acheive.
 
I did quote Tregea's year of birth as 1968 and her breeder according to the N.T.R. registers I got in my possesion.
I've also listed Cornish Cottage as she is entered in H.S.B she was out of April I and the same breeder as Tregea's.

I wouldn't qoute anything I did not have proof of. I have been searching for April I in the show-jumping results from those years but no luck so far. April I (April the First) does not seem to be registered in the H.S.B.
No mention of a Katie May anywhere either...
 
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Violet said:
I did quote Tregea's year of birth as 1968 and her breeder according to the N.T.R. registers I got in my possesion.
I've also listed Cornish Cottage as she is entered in H.S.B she was out of April I and the same breeder as Tregea's.

I wouldn't qoute anything I did not have proof of. I have been searching for April I in the show-jumping results from those years but no luck so far. April I (April the First) does not seem to be registered in the H.S.B.
No mention of a Katie May anywhere either...
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I was talking about the website not your post.
 
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