Pedigree

                                                                      Alleged
                                        Sir Harry Lewis
                                                                      Sue Baby
Texas Tilly
2005 chesnut mare
                                                                      Erin's Hope
                                         Lindajane
                                                                      Tempo Rose

The family

Texas Tilly is home bred and is the 1st foal of the dam Lindajane, who raced for Donald in the early 2000s.
In addition to this mare, Lindajane has Nodda High Kid (a year younger gelding) also by Sir Harry Lewis, and a lovely 2008 filly by Winged Love.

By the time Lindajane joined the yard in 1998, she had already shown promise by being placed in a couple of bumpers for former Borders' trainer Zoe Green. She was a marvellous racehorse for the yard during her 6 seasons here. She won 3 races all told (2 hurdles, 1 chase) and was placed another 7 times for us.

Lindajane is one of 2 winners bred by the 2nd dam Tempo Rose.

About the sire

Sir Harry Lewis (bay horse, born 1984) won 4 races, at 3 and 4, from 1 mile 1½ furlongs to 1 mile 4 furlongs. His successes included the Irish Derby, and the listed Dee Stakes, at Chester. He was placed at Group level on a number of occasions as well as finishing fourth in the Epsom Derby,

He was retired to Stud in 1990, and been a prominent NH sire for a number of years, having sired the winners of over 200 races. And he has sired some classy individuals too, headed by The Mighty Man & Diamond Harry.

Sir Harry Lewis died in 2009.

Form Summary

You know some things just don't go according to plan

Take this mare - 7 yrs old, yet to see a racecourse but she's back in training at Dodlands for the 2012-13 season.

She's had her training problems over the last couple of years, and not just the odd niggle that seems to affect every racehorse in training. In each of the last three seasons, we've had Texas Tilly at Dodlands and at those times when the mare has been in constant work, she hasn't half been impressive.

Of course, her year younger full brother showed off the speed of this family by winning a bumper on his debut in November '11, which has probably been the driving factor in having one more go with the mare.

At the start of the 2012-13 NH season, Texas Tilly is 7 yrs old, so that means she'll be going straight over hurdles, but she jumps well and if she stays sound we hope she can make her debut in the autumn.

Oh, and the name Texas Tilly? Nodda High Kid is an outlaw foe of Quick Draw McGraw from the Hanna Berbara cartoon series, and the Mae West-esque sister of Nodda High Kid is Texas Tilly.

Season		win	2nd	3rd	4th	other
2012-13	hurdles					1

Current Season Form

11 December 12 Sedgefield : 2m 4f cond'l jockeys mares novices hurdle (Class 4) soft. 3 ran. (C Whillans) - u.r.

Tracked leaders, ran green and not fluent, lost place from 5th, 20l 3rd when awkward jump and unseated rider 6th.

Texas Tilly was naturally enough the outsider in this 3 horse race, but was quite green on her racecourse debut. She was feeling the pressure and behind when screwing in mid air leaving Callum no chance at the 6th.