Lottery (1820 – 1845) was a British racehorse and sire. He won 11 races during his career, then was a successful sire.

Background Lottery was a talented horse that did not live up to expectations due in part to mismanagement and temperament issues.

Racing career Lottery won 11 races during his career, including the King's Plate at Newcastle, Fitzwilliams Stakes, York Cup, and Doncaster Cup.

Stud career Lottery's influence on jumping horses was notable with no less than eight winners of the Grand National within six generations.

Notable offspring: Chorister (1828) - won 1831 St Leger Stakes Lottery (1829) - won 1839 Grand National Sheet Anchor (1832) - continued the Joe Andrews branch of the Eclipse sire line

Sire line tree

LotteryDarley Arabian Sire Line: Joe Andrews BranchBiography: Lottery ChoristerPortrait: Chorister Consul Hamlet Joe Chalmers Tetotum Lottery Satin Septimus Porus Saturn Idle Boy Pretty Boy Gabier Alteruter Meudon Inheritor Godfrey The Best Of Three Sheraton Testator Red Rover Zohrab Cavendish Lucifer Luck's All Sheet AnchorPortrait: Sheet Anchor Arcanus Sirikol WeatherbitPortrait: WeatherbitStudbook: Early W Weathergage Misty Morn Drumour BeadsmanPortrait: Beadsman The PalmerPortrait: The Palmer Blue GownPortrait: Blue Gown RosicrucianPortrait: Rosicrucian Pero GomezPortrait: Pero GomezBiography: Pero Gomez Alvarez Bethnal Green Saxon Coeruleus Vasco Di Gama Jolly Friar Kelpie FireworksAustralian Racing Museum: FireworksLegendary stories of the VRC derbyVictoria Derby, in Defence of Tradition1867 – Fireworks Explodes Upon the Scene! Kingfisher Newbold Warlock Uncle Ned Neptunus Young Apropros Neptun Beldemonio Fechter Brown Bread Whitebait Hilarious Toastmaster Hominy Simnel Sweetbread Fair Wind Mandrake Sheldrake Warlike Rataplan Collingwood Potenate Regno Sultan The Admiral Malton Sylvain Black Eyes Biron Crown Prince Pride Of Prussia The Carpenter VerulamStudbook: Early UV Vulcan Volcano Grimston Wanderer

Pedigree

Lottery is inbred 4S x 5S x 3D to the stallion Eclipse, meaning that he appears fourth generation and fifth generation (via Mercury)^ on the sire side of his pedigree and third generation on the dam side of his pedigree.

^ Lottery is inbred 5S x 3D to the stallion Woodpecker, meaning that he appears fifth generation (via Woodpecker mare)^ on the sire side of his pedigree and third generation on the dam side of his pedigree.

Lottery is inbred 4S x 4D to the stallion Trentham, meaning that he appears fourth generation on the sire side of his pedigree and fourth generation on the dam side of his pedigree.

^ Lottery is inbred 5S x 5S x 6S x 4D to the stallion Herod, meaning that he appears fifth generation twice (via Highflyer and Sister to Challenger)^ and sixth generation once (via Woodpecker mare)^ on the sire side of his pedigree and fourth generation once on the dam side of his pedigree.

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