| Color: ch Height: 15.2
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18-18-0-0, 2,149 guineas Owner: Dennis O'Kelly Breeder: Cranbourne Lodge Stud Eclipse was bad tempered and difficult to train. Made his racing debut at age 5. Racing at 5 and 6 years of age, he won all of his 26 races. His stride was computed at 25 feet and could repeat strides 2-1/3 times each second, thereby running a mile in 1:55. Upon necropsy, his heart weighed 14 pounds, almost twice the size of the average thoroughbred of his day. Foundation of the Thoroughbred and also contributed to quarter horse race horses. Over 23 years his sons and daughters won an estimated 344 races worth 520,000 pounds. Considered the greatest racehorse of the 18th century, undefeated in 18 career starts Great stallion and continued progenitor of the Darley Arabian male line from which over 95% of the world's current thoroughbreds descend 2nd in Champion Sire list 11 times 1778-1788, sire of Pot-8-Os, King Fergus, Dungannon, Saltram, Serjeant and Annette Died February 26, 1789 of colic, aged 24
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