Alexander mare

The Alexander mare was a bay filly foaled in the 1790s and bred by Mr. Sandiver.[1] Her sire Alexander was a son of Eclipse who raced at Newmarket for the 1st Earl Grosvenor.[2] Her dam was a daughter of the undefeated Highflyer. The Alexander mare never raced.

Throughout her career as a broodmare the Alexander mare produced a total of sixteen foals. These were:

• Calomel filly – a bay filly foaled in 1799.[1]
• Piccadilly – a chestnut colt foaled in 1800 and sired by Buzzard.[1]
• Castrel – a chestnut stallion foaled in 1801 and sired by Buzzard.[1] He won three races at Newmarket and sired Bustard, Merlin and Pantaloon. His sire line produced Epsom Derby winner Thormanby.[3]
• Selim – a chestnut stallion foaled in 1802 and sired by Buzzard.[1] On the racetrack he won six races, including the Craven Stakes and two October Oatlands Stakes. Selim was also a successful sire, with his progeny including Azor, Medora, Sultan and Turquoise and he was Champion sire in 1814.[4]
• Bronze – a brown mare foaled in 1803 and sired by Buzzard.[1] She won Epsom Oaks in 1806[5] and foaled Newmarket Stakes winner Busto.
• Buzzard mare – a brown mare foaled in 1804.[1] Her dam line produced brothers Uriel and Umbriel, who won the St. James's Palace Stakes and Great Yorkshire Stakes respectively.[3]
• Rubens – a chestnut stallion foaled in 1805 and sired by Buzzard.[1] He won the Craven Stakes and was Champion sire three times. He sired Landscape, Pastille and Whizgig.[6]
• Quiz mare – a brown mare foaled in 1808 and sired by Quiz.[1] Her dam-line eventually produced Picacero, who was a top racehorse in Argentina.[7]
• Orville mare – a brown mare foaled in 1809 and sired by Orville.[1] She was an ancestor of two-time Goodwood Cup winner Count Schomberg.[8]
• Hocuspocus – a chestnut colt foaled in 1810 and sired by Quiz.[1] He won a match against a filly by Selim and ran unplaced in St. Leger Stakes in 1813.[9]
• Sorcerer colt – a black colt foaled in 1811 and sired by Sorcerer. He died young.[1]
• Sorcerer colt – a colt foaled in 1812.[1]
• Election mare – a bay mare foaled in 1814 and sired by Election.[1] She finished second in a 100 guineas Sweepstakes at Newmarket in 1818.[10] Her dam-line produced 1867 Prix de l'Empereur winner Trocadero.[11] Through him she is an ancestor of Tracery.
• Hospitality – a bay colt foaled in 1815 and sired by Election.[1] He won the King's Plates at Ascot Heath and Winchester and the Oxford and Egham Gold Cups in 1819.[12]
• Regent – a chestnut colt foaled in 1816 and sired by Election.[1] He was later known as Admiral. He won a Handicap race at Newmarket in 1819.[12]
• Ambiguity – a chestnut filly foaled in 1818 and sired by either Election or Blucher.[1]

The Alexander mare died in 1819.[1]

Note: b. = Bay, ch. = Chestnut