Horse

1792

Diamond foaled 1792 - Sire Highflyer, Dam a mare by Matchem. Bred by Thomas Panton and sold in 1796 to Joseph Cookson under whose colours he ran 1796-99, primarily at Newmarket. He won the Jockey Club Stakes and the Jockey Club Plate at Newmarket, the Oxford Cup and various King's Plates, but his most famous race was a match against Hambletonian over the Beacon Course at Newmarket during the Craven Meeting in 1799 for 3,000 guineas. He was beaten in the last strides by a half-neck. Cookson died at the end of that year, but Diamond was run by Cookson's executors in 1800 during which time he won several matches, but lost several more; he was retired and sent to the U.S.