Gusztáv Batthyány

Gusztáv Batthyány (* December 8, 1803, † April 25, 1883 in Newmarket ) was a Hungarian Count, and horse breeder. His original name was Németújvári herceg Batthyány Strattmann Gusztáv, also known as Gusztáv, 5th Prince Batthyány - Strattmann.

Life

Gusztáv or Gustavus Batthyány came from a Hungarian noble family.

In 1838 he donated his entire library including Codex Rohonczi, which is written in a language and still not identified an unknown script, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Batthyány left his homeland as a young man because of the prevailing political difficulties and moved to the UK about. It was founded in 1843 jockey and his own stud farm. In 1859 he was admitted to the Jockey Club. The colors of his racing team were initially blue and orange with black cap, later came his jockeys in green clothes on. When exactly took place the change is controversial.

His most successful coach was John Dawson. This built on, among other things galopin, a stallion who won in 1874 and 1875, ten out of eleven races and was then successfully used as a breeding horse. In anticipation of a spectacular race victory of Galopinsohnes Galliard Batthyány suffered a heart attack in the spring of 1883. One of the first men who rushed to help the dying man, was the young Duke of Portland, who bought a few months later, after the dissolution of the racing team Batthyányschen Galopinsohn St. Simon.

Pictures

Galopin (1872-1899)

St. Simon (1881-1908)

Batthyány in his later years