page_title: Chelandry
section_title: 1896: two-year-old season
hierarchical_section_title: Chelandry / Racing career / 1896: two-year-old season
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Archibald Primrose&#32;(1847&#8211;1929)
context_page_description: Chelandry was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was the top-rated juvenile filly in England in 1896 when she won the Woodcote Stakes, Great Surrey Breeders' Foal Plate, National Breeders' Produce Stakes and Imperial Produce Stakes. In the following year she won the 1000 Guineas and finished second in both the Epsom Oaks and the St Leger. She remained in training as a four-year-old but failed to win again and was retired at the end of the year. After her retirement from racing, she became an exceptionally successful and influential broodmare.
context_section_description: In her first major race Chelandry contested the Royal Two-Year-Old Plate over five furlongs at Kempton Park Racecourse on 8 May and finished second, beaten three quarters of a length by Alfred W. Cox's colt Eager. In the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom Racecourse on 2 June the filly started the 1/3 favourite and won "easily" from Princess Anne. Two days later at the same course, the filly followed up by taking the Great Surrey Breeders' Foal Plate. In the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot two weeks later she disputed the lead for most of the way but faded in the closing stages and finished fourth behind Gorletta, Eager and Minstrel. In the National Breeders' Produce Stakes at Sandown Park in July Chelandry, who started the 9/4 joint-favourite, led from the start and won "with ridiculous ease" by two lengths from Ardeshir with the unnamed "Braw Lass colt" in third. 
  On 9 October Chelandry ended her season in the £3,000 Imperial Produce Stakes over six furlongs at Kempton Park. Starting the 4/7 favourite she drew away from her opponents in the final furlong and won "unchallenged" by three lengths from Cortegar, with Redress a head away in third.
  At the end of the season, Chelandry was rated the best juvenile filly in England, albeit eight pounds inferior to the top colt Galtee More.
caption: Chelandry's owner Lord Rosebery
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