Leading Light [SEP] father
Light is a bay horse with a broad white blaze and a white coronet on his right foreleg bred in Ireland by Lynch-Bages Ltd. He is one of many top-class horses sired by Montjeu. Others include the Derby winners Motivator, Authorized, Pour Moi and Camelot, the St Leger winners Scorpion and Masked Marvel, and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Hurricane Run. Leading Light's dam Dance parade was a top-class racemare whose wins included the Queen Mary Stakes and the Fred Darling Stakes.
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), known as Lady Lavinia Charlotte Sarah Townshend from December 1823 to 1843.
br6. Cecil Mina Bolivar Dunn-Gardner (born 1825, d.1903), formerly of the 13th light Dragoons, known as Lord Cecil Townshend from birth to age 21 (a second private act forbidding him to use that name and style was then passed). His death is recorded, 7 September 1903. This Cecil Dunn-Gardner was the father of two sons, Robert Cecil,born 18 Sep. 1868, Francis Cyril, bapt.