British Breeder Magazine May 2020
Magazine for breeders of British bred sport horses. Includes breeding industry news, updates, interviews, profiles and reports.
Magazine for breeders of British bred sport horses. Includes breeding industry news, updates, interviews, profiles and reports.
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NEWS - OBITUARIES<br />
Kings Temptress<br />
Dies from<br />
complications<br />
after foaling.<br />
We are sad to report that Kings<br />
Temptress, Mary King’s home-bred 2011<br />
Kentucky winner, has died following<br />
complications after foaling. Her foal,<br />
King Vincent, is with a foster mare.<br />
The 20 year old mare, known<br />
affectionately at home as ‘Tess’, was<br />
the product of Mary’s early breeding<br />
programme. By Primitive Rising, she<br />
was the most successful of 5 foals out of<br />
Kings Mistress (x Louella Inschallah II).<br />
After an inauspicious start, her illustrious<br />
eventing career really started to shine<br />
as she climbed the levels. In her third<br />
season she won 3 Intermediates and had<br />
double clear at Le Lion CCI2*.<br />
The following year she was 16th at<br />
Bramham CCI3* and 17th at Boekelo<br />
CCI3*, and in 2009 she finished 4th at<br />
Luhmuhlen CCI4* and 18th at Burghley<br />
CCI4*, completing her second season<br />
without a fault XC. She completed five<br />
4* events (now 5*) in her career and<br />
Burghley was a particularly good<br />
hunting ground, where she finished<br />
seventh in 2010 and third in 2011. But<br />
her career highlight came at Kentucky<br />
4* in 2011 which she won.<br />
She retired shortly after Badminton<br />
in 2015 where Mary withdrew after<br />
dressage on finding that the mare was<br />
not quite sound. They later found that<br />
the mare had some arthritic changes. In<br />
an interview with Horse & Hound, Mary<br />
said: “She was the third horse I bred<br />
out of Kings Mistress and when I started<br />
jumping Kings Gem and Kings Fancy<br />
they were really neat and organised<br />
from the start. When I started jumping<br />
Tess, she really couldn’t do it and I<br />
thought, ‘What have I bred?’”<br />
“But when she got to intermediate level<br />
she started to learn to get high enough<br />
and she went on to become really<br />
confident. It’s amazing she did what she<br />
did. Her two older sisters both reached<br />
four-star, but she’s the one who won<br />
one.”<br />
Tess had a foal by Mednight Mahout<br />
when she was four, who was bred with<br />
the intention of being a suitable<br />
teenager’s horse for Emily. Initially called<br />
King Casper, he was later renamed<br />
Everys King and competed with Mary<br />
and then Emily until she went on to<br />
bigger things, when he was sold on.<br />
While competing, Tess has had five<br />
embryo transfer offspring, who all stayed<br />
with Mary — King Robert, now<br />
competing with Mary at 4*, Kings<br />
Ginger has reached 2*, and Kings Tilly,<br />
who won the 5yo class at Much Marcle<br />
last year, all by Chilli Morning; Kings<br />
Rose by Grafenstolz and King Cyrus by<br />
Future Gravitas. After her retirement from<br />
competition she went on to have three<br />
foals of her own, Kings Kizzy and Kings<br />
Belief by Cevin Z, and this year’s foal,<br />
King Vincent, by Van Gogh.<br />
In a statement on her Facebook page,<br />
Mary said, “I am absolutely devastated<br />
to have lost her. I was so lucky to have<br />
bred such a wonderful mare, who gave<br />
so much to me and others through her<br />
life to the end.”<br />
“She has left me with a beautiful boy,<br />
Vinnie,” continued Mary in the<br />
statement. “He is by the stallion Van<br />
Gogh whose Christian name was<br />
Vincent … so King Vincent he is!” The<br />
healthy colt has been paired up with a<br />
foster mare in Warwickshire following a<br />
plea on facebook. Our thoughts are with<br />
the King family at this sad time.<br />
Watch Mary King and Kings Temptress<br />
complete their copybook round at<br />
Kentucky 4* in 2011<br />
https://youtu.be/FJaiD1OJSmQ<br />
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