Född i England 1945 hos J.V. Rank. Vunnit 9 löpningar i England, prissumma £10.800. Imp. till Sverige, Flyinge, 1954. I avel i Sverige 1955-1967. Lämnade 4 stamboksförda ston samt 2 remonter eller ackordshästar.
Pappan Hyperion xx tjänade ihop $124.073. Ledande fadershingst i England 6 år totalt. Pappa till 12 champions.
Hittade lite engelsk text om honom; Eight years after Solario's birth, the Chaucer daughter Selene produced a small chestnut colt by Gainsborough. In fact, Hyperion was so small that his principals considered gelding him as a yearling.
"Hyperion had a very interesting pedigree," Abram Hewitt states in Sire Lines. "His sire, Gainsborough was a Triple Crown and Gold Cup winner which already was established as a sire of the first rank. The dam, Selene, was the best female racer of her year, out of a mare which had bred another classic winning filly, but beyond this the paternal grandsire, Bayardo, was inbred with two free generations to Galopin, while the dam was inbred with three free generations to the mare Pilgrimage (crossing inbred strains)."
No discussion of Hyperion's pedigree could be complete without mentioning the record of his remarkable dam, Selene, who was to say the very least, a "stallion mother" as the Germans would put it.
Hittar inte så mycket mer om just Hyperion.
Mvh Åsa