page_title: Gohanna
section_title: 1793:three-year-old season
hierarchical_section_title: Gohanna / Racing career / 1793:three-year-old season
caption_attribution_description: English: George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) in a posthumously-created portrait surrounded by his extensive collection of artwork.
context_page_description: Gohanna was a British racehorse that was second to Waxy in the 1793 Epsom Derby and was a successful sire in the late 18th and early 19th century. Gohanna was initially referred to as "Brother to Precipitate" during his early racing career until he was officially named in 1795. Retired to stud at Lord Egremont's Petworth House in 1801 where Gohanna spent the entirety of his 14-year stud career, he sired numerous successful racehorses including the Derby winners Election and Cardinal Beaufort.
context_section_description: Gohanna did not race as a two-year-old, his first start being at the Craven meeting in April. He was second in a 20-guinea sweepstakes to "brother to Skyscraper" (later named Top Gallant) and beat Warwick in a sweepstakes race. At the Newmarket spring meeting, he won the first, second and third classes of the Prince's Stakes.
  The Epsom Derby occurred on 18 May and was attended by "as numerous a company as ever appeared on the course." Eleven horses lined up for the start, seven of them sired by Pot-8-Os. The starting odds for "Brother to Precipitate" (later named Gohanna in 1795) were near even against the field with 100 to 7 and 100 to 10 odds on Waxy (depending on the bookmaking operation). In the Tattersalls betting room Gohanna was the clear favorite with Waxy "so little thought of, that he had never been mentioned" in the betting. Gohanna took the lead in the initial strides of the race. Waxy pushed Gohanna (a "bump" in modern racing terms) at the track's first turn, taking and maintaining the lead to become an "easy winner" of the Derby. Three of the top four finishers, the exception being Gohanna, were sired by Pot-8-Os The meeting was also notable for a "dreadful accident," a collision between a servant on horseback with the colt Exiseman, the winner of the race after the Derby, and for the antics of John Lade dressed in a "loose undress of blue and white striped trowsers" asking the crowd to determine whether he was "the captain of a privateer or an ambassador from the Great Mogul."
  At the Newmarket Houghton meeting, Gohanna won a 1,400 guinea sweepstakes race, beating Druid, and at the same meeting beat the filly Caelia (the Oaks winner) in a match race.
caption: Gohanna was bred and owned by the Earl of Egremont and stood his entire stud career at Petworth House.
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