Mare
Colour: Chestnut, semi-luna star
Breed: Thoroughbred
Type: Unknown
Foaled: 1903
Height: 14.2 hands

Sire: Kings Messenger G.S.B
Dam: Porte Bonheur G.S.B

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ENTENTE CORDIALE GSB (Vol. 20 p.671) was a chestnut filly, with a semi-lunar star, and race, a faint small snip, on both hind fetlocks, and numerous spots on coronets. She was bred by The Earl of Lonsdale, Barleythorpe, Oakham, Rutland, and foaled in 1903 while the Earl and his wife were on, what amounted to, a world tour visiting India, Singapore, the Royal Palace of Peking, Japan, Australia and America. It was a huge success and they got back in August 1903.

The Earl of Lonsdale was one of the most flamboyant figures on the, “Sporting Scene,” not least for his splendid chestnut horses for whom he had the most exacting standards, “. . . . . . The chestnuts had to be not a fraction more than 15 hands 2 inches in height and not a pound more than 9cwt. If the measurements were right, price was no object. His hunters had to submit to equally rigorous standards ; not less than 16 hands, 6 feet round the girth and 8 3/4 inches of bone. . . . .”

” . . . . Although not particularly enamoured of horse-racing himself . . . . . . . . He had always had a few horses in training, but, partly because he was not particularly interested in winning races and partly because he knew very little about breeding racehorses, he had never had any very marked success.”

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Entente Cordiale raced as a three, four and five-year-old :-
1906:
– Deadheated with Kilblair for the Arran Selling Handicap (£100) at Hamilton Park June Meeting
– Deadheated with Blue Diamond for the Stewards’ Selling Handicap (£100) at Eglington Hunt Summer meeting

1907:
– Won Arran Selling Welter Handicap (£100) at Hamilton Park July meeting
– Won Saturday Selling Handicap (£100) at Haydock Park October meeting

1908:
– Won Coila Selling Welter Handicap (£147) at Ayr Western meeting

Entente Cordiale came late to polo, trained by Miss Imogen Mary Collier and granted her Hurlingham certificate, (number 10387) in about, 1912.
She was measured at fourteen and a half hands, and entered in Volume 12 of the Polo and Riding Pony Stud Book (1911-1912) as a, “Polo and Riding Pony Mare” being given the Number 2379, which would have been awarded in 1912.
It is unclear whether Entente Cordiale actually played polo as in 1913 she produced Concordia her first foal at Foxhams.

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Produce:
1913 – Concordia by Sammy the Verger GSB (Vol.21 p.305)
1914 – Triple Entente by Revival GSB (Vol.22 p.588)

Notes:
“The Yellow Earl” The life of Hugh Lowther 5th Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., G.C.V.O. 1857-1944 by Douglas Sutherland (with a Preface by James Lowther, Rt. Hon. the 7th Earl of Lonsdale) Cassell London

A term applied to the Anglo-French, understanding of 1904 (Entente Cordiale).

L’Entente Cordiale – An illustrated monthly magazine published both in English and in French.

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