{{Short description|Thoroughbred racehorse}}
{{Infobox racehorse | horsename = Thrown In | image_name = | caption = | sire = Beau Bill | grandsire = [[William the Third (horse)|William the Third]] | dam = La Vargo | damsire = Long Tom | sex = [[Gelding]] | foaled = 1916<ref name="pedigree">{{cite web|url=http://www.pedigreequery.com/thrown+in|title=Thrown In pedigree |publisher=Pedigree Online |date=2016-03-19 |accessdate=2016-03-19}}</ref> | country = United Kingdom | colour = [[Chestnut (coat)|Chestnut]] | breeder = | owner = [[Baron Stalbridge|Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Stalbridge]] | trainer = Owen Anthony | record = | earnings = | race = [[Cheltenham Gold Cup]] (1927) |awards= |honours = |updated= }} '''Thrown In''' (foaled 1916) was a British racehorse who won the 1927 [[Cheltenham Gold Cup]]. He won several other races but failed in two attempts at the [[Grand National]].
==Background== Thrown In was a chestnut gelding bred in England. He was the only horse of any consequence sired by Beau Bill, a son of the [[Ascot Gold Cup]] winner [[William the Third (horse)|William the Third]]. His dam Va Largo was a descendant of the successful broodmare Elf.<ref name="tbl">{{cite web |url=http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Families/Family4g.htm |title=Queen of the May - Family 4-g |publisher=Thoroughbred Bloodlines |date= |accessdate=2012-06-30 |archive-date=2012-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717081015/http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Families/Family4g.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Racing career== Thrown In was originally owned by Fred Gunt before being acquired by G. Sanday for whom he won seven races before being bought by Lord Stalbridge for £1000 in 1925.<ref name="odn"/> After being [[gelded]] he was sent to the stable of Owen Anthony who trained for Stalbridge at Pounds Farm at [[Eastbury, Berkshire|Eastbury]] in [[Berkshire]]. Anthony had been a successful amateur jockey before taking up training and winning the 1922 [[Grand National]] with Music Hall.<ref name="Harman"/> Thrown In won a further seven races as well as finishing seventh in the [[1926 Grand National]].<ref name="Green">{{cite book|last=Green|first=Reg | title=The History of the Grand National: A Race Apart| publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|year=1993|isbn = 0-340-58515-3}}</ref> In the same year Stalbridge reportedly turned down an offer of 4000 [[Guinea (British coin)|guineas]] from America for the gelding.<ref name="odn"/>
In the fourth running of the Cheltenham Gold Cup on 9 March 1927 he was ridden by his owner's son Hugh Grosvenor, a relatively inexperienced amateur who was recovering from a broken [[collar bone]].<ref name="odn">{{cite web|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT19270512.2.28&srpos=1&e=01-01-1927-31-12-1927--10--1----0%22Thrown+In%22+Stalbridge--|title=Sporting|date=12 May 1927|publisher=[[Otago Daily Times]]}}</ref> The favourite was Silvo, the winner of the [[Grand Steeplechase de Paris]] who started at odds of 13/8 ahead of Amberwave and the five-year-old [[Grakle]] with Thrown In starting a [[Fractional odds|10/1]] outsider in an eight-runner field. After Amberwave fell early in the contest, the race was dominated by Thrown In, Grakle and Silvo before the favourite began to struggle two fences out. Thrown In outjumped Grakle at the final fence and drew away to win by two lengths.<ref name="odn"/><ref name="Harman"/> Just over two weeks after his win in the Gold Cup, Thrown In started 100/8 third favourite for the [[1927 Grand National]] but fell early in the race.<ref name="Green"/>
Thrown In was sold again at the end of the 1927 season and was exported to Denmark.<ref name="Harman">{{cite book | last = Harman | first = Bob | title = The Ultimate Dream: The History of the Cheltenham Gold Cup| publisher=Mainstream Publishing | year = 2000| isbn = 1-84018-381-0}}</ref> Hugh Grosvenor, who rode him to his greatest success, was killed in an air crash in January 1930.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19300107.2.71.2&srpos=6&e=01-01-1930-31-12-1930--10--1----2Hugh+Grosvenor--|title=Captain Grosvenor|date=7 January 1930|publisher=[[Evening Post (New Zealand)]]}}</ref>
==Assessment and honours== In their book, ''A Century of Champions'', based on the [[Timeform]] rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Thrown In a "poor" Gold Cup winner.<ref name="century">{{cite book|last1=Morris| first1=Tony|last2=Randall|first2=John|title=A Century of Champions|publisher= Portway Press|year=1999|isbn=9781901570151}}</ref>
==Pedigree== {{Pedigree |name = Thrown In (GB), chestnut gelding, 1916<ref name="pedigree"/> |f = Beau Bill (GB)<br />1911 |m = Va Largo (GB) <br />1910 |ff = [[William the Third (horse)|William the Third]] (GB)<br />1898 |fm = La Belle France (GB)<br />1904 |mf = Long Tom (GB)<br />1899 |mm = Bess Demdyke (GB)<br />1902 |fff = [[St Simon (horse)|St Simon]] |ffm = Gravity |fmf = [[Melton (horse)|Melton]] |fmm = Silver Sea |mff = [[Ladas (horse)|Ladas]] |mfm = Fuse |mmf = [[Sir Hugo]] |mmm = Elf |ffff = '''[[Galopin]]''' |fffm = St Angela |ffmf = '''Wisdom''' |ffmm = Enigma |fmff = [[Master Kildare]] |fmfm = Violet Melrose |fmmf = [[Hermit (horse)|Hermit]] |fmmm = Stray Shot |mfff = [[Hampton (horse)|Hampton]] |mffm = Illuminata |mfmf = [[Bend Or]] |mfmm = Fusee |mmff = '''Wisdom''' |mmfm = Manoeuvre |mmmf = '''Galopin''' |mmmm = Queen of the Meadows (Family 4-g)<ref name="tbl"/> }}
*Thrown In was [[inbreeding|inbred]] 4 × 4 to Galopin and Wisdom, meaning that both of these stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Cheltenham Gold Cup winners}}
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