given £1,000 to Tom French for his ride on Favonius, with an additional £200 annuity for life. In July, Favonius won the Midsummer Stakes at Newmarket. On...

Favonius can refer to: Favonius (wind god), one of the Anemoi; the west wind in Roman mythology Favonius (butterfly), a genus of butterflies Favonius...

other wind gods. His equivalent in Roman mythology and religion is the god Favonius. The ancient Greek noun ζέφυρος is the word for the wind that blows from...

Jockey Club. In 1871, his horses won four of the five "classic" races: Favonius won The Derby and "Hannah" won The Oaks, the 1,000 Guineas and the St....

Derby Stakes, also known as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies. It is run at Epsom...

was unbeaten in five races. In the following season, he became the first horse for thirty-five years to win the English Triple Crown, a feat that has not...

Angela, dam of St. Simon and second dam of Orme. King Tom is the damsire of Favonius, winner of the 1871 Epsom Derby and the grandsire of the Irish Derby winner...

mythology) is the north wind and bringer of cold winter air, Zephyrus (Favonius in Latin) is the west wind and bringer of light spring and early-summer...

Rothchild’s foundation mares and also produced Zephyr, dam of Derby winner Favonius. Hannah was a slender bay filly, light of bone, and was put into training...

surgery earlier that year. Galileo was a 16 1⁄2 hh (64.5 inches, 164 cm) bay horse with a narrow white blaze and a white sock on his near hind leg. He was...