Winkipop

Winkipop
Winkipop as photographed by W.A. Rouch in 1910.
Sire	William the Third
Grandsire	St. Simon
Dam	Conjure
Damsire	Juggler
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1907
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Waldorf Astor
Owner	Waldorf Astor
Trainer	William Waugh
Major wins
1,000 Guineas Stakes (1910) Yorkshire Oaks (1910) Coronation Stakes (1910) Sussex Stakes (1910) Nassau Stakes (1910)

Winkipop (1907–1931) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1910 1,000 Guineas Stakes and Coronation Stakes. She raced briefly at age four and was retired from racing in 1911. As a broodmare, she produced the good racers Plymstock and Blink before she was exported to the United States in 1927. Winkipop died in 1931 at the Mereworth Stud near Lexington, Kentucky.

Winkipop was foaled in 1907 at the Cliveden Stud, a Thoroughbred breeding farm owned by Waldorf Astor at his family's estate near Taplow in Buckinghamshire. Winkipop was sired by William the Third, a good racehorse and sire that was second to Volodyovski in the 1901 Derby and won the 1902 Ascot Gold Cup. Lord Astor bought her dam, Conjure, for £100 when he was a student at Oxford as a potential producer of steeplechase and hunt horses. The mare eventually became an integral part of his Cliveden Stud, producing many top-class racers. Full-siblings to Winkipop include the filly Third Trick and the stallion Winkie. Winkie was not a successful racehorse and was exported to New Zealand as a breeding stallion, where he sired the mare Entreaty, the dam of the multiple stakes winner, Phar Lap.

Winkipop was first trained by William Waugh at Kingsclere and then by Alec Taylor, Jr. at Manton, Wiltshire. Winkipop won eight races and earned £11,439 during the 1910 season.

In the first start of her racing career, Winkipop was fifth in the Foal Plate at Lingfield Park on 10 July, running against the seasoned racehorses Yellow Slave and Greenback. She started three months later at Newmarket in the Triennial Produce Stakes and finished second to the filly Santa Fina. A few days later, she finished second to an unnamed colt by Broomstick in the six-furlong Alington Plate. In November, Winkipop won the Theale Maiden Plate by three lengths over the colts Catrall and Pentelicus.