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|name = Epirus
|和 = エピラス
|種 = サラブレッド
|年 = 1834
|性 = 牡馬
|毛 = Chesnut / 栗毛
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|主 = Mr J. Bowes
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|駒 = '''パイラスザファースト'''（'''[[Pyrrhus the First]]'''、1846年[[ダービー]]）、'''ピッツフォード'''（'''[[Pitsford]]'''、1850年[[2000ギニー]]）、[[Citadel]]（[[ノーフォークS]]）、[[Little Harry]]（[[アスコットS]]）、[[Ephesus]]（[[ロイヤルハントC]]）
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　エピラス（Epirus）は19世紀中頃の種牡馬で、[[バイアリーターク]]＝[[ヘロド系]]に属する。現代的な観点では、この系統はウッドペッカー（[[Woodpecker]]）から[[ザテトラーク]]の系統と[[トウルビヨン]]の系統に代表されるが、エピラスはそのどちらにも属しておらず、全く別の父系を築いた。

　競走馬としては、1歳上の全兄エリス（[[Elis]]）が[[セントレジャー]]優勝馬、もう1つ上の全兄ストックポート（[[Stockport]]）が[[2000ギニー]]3着馬であるが、それらに比べると戦績は劣っていた。しかし種牡馬になるとこれらの兄を遥かに超える成功を収め、ダービー馬パイラスザファースト（[[Pyrrhus the First]]）などを出した。

==TH==
EPIRUS (1834) was bred by Lumley-Savile at Tickhill and purchased from his widow as an untried two-year-old by Malton (Yorkshire) trainer John Scott for John Bowes, the illegitimate son of the (10th) Earl Strathmore, who owned a number of high-class race horses (including 1835 Derby winner Mundig, West Australian, and two other Derby winners) and had a stud at his seat at Streatlam, Co. Durham. EPIRUS' weanling brother, EPIDAURUS (1836) was included in the sale for a total of £1700, with a contingency of £500 if EPIRUS won the St. Leger. "it needed all John Scott's eloquence, in a two hours' confab, to get them at the price."

EPIRUS, by all accounts was a beautiful horse. Mrs. Lumley-Savile called him "the young beauty" before his sale. He was referred to as "one of the most elegantly-formed thoroughbreds that ever passed through John Scott's hands," which, considering the number of classic winners Scott schooled -- forty-one (including Guineas winners) -- and other high-class race horses he trained, probably places him among the most attractive of the nineteenth century horses. But beauty is as beauty does, and while he was a game horse that ran frequently, he was not what could be considered a first-rate racehorse, certainly not as good as his brother, ELIS. He could stay "well enough, although speed was his best point," said The Druid. He won 12 of his 31 starts over five seasons, his best distance 1-1/4 miles or less. He was a more immediately successful stallion than ELIS, getting two classic winners and horses that won both high-class sprints and distance races. Several of his daughters became significant matrons in France.

Given his late start in racing, EPIRUS was kept at Scott's Whitewall establishment at Malton, and schooled on Langton Wold, tried with various reliable horses in the Whitewall stable, including the talented cup winner Cardinal Puff (1834, by Pantaloon), which he beat while giving away ten pounds. Based on reports filtering out of Whitewall, he was favored at odds of 2:1 for his first race, the 1837 Doncaster St. Leger, with thirteen in the field. The race was a disaster for EPIRUS, and other horses. Ridden by John Scott's brother, Bill, who was often his jockey, EPIRUS was among the leaders at the start. Scott favored riding his St. Leger mounts along a ditch that bordered the course, apparently for the footing, but he either miscalculated or was pushed too near the edge, and the ditch bank gave way. EPIRUS fell in the ditch, tossing Scott off in the process, unfortunately into the path of on-coming horses. EPIRUS got up and finished race riderless and unplaced; Scott was hit by The Prime Warden, resulting in a compound fracture of the collar bone. Later in the race a loose greyhound interfered with Dardanelles, who broke his stride, causing Henriade, running close behind, to fall and ruck his back. The race was won by a length by Mango in slow time. John Scott was often heard to say "Epirus could not have lost the St. Leger had he kept on his legs," and it's likely he would have known, based on his many successes, but EPIRUS' subsequent career barely supports the contention.

In 1838 EPIRUS "won" two races, both walk-overs, at Doncaster: the Doncaster Stakes and the Four Year Old Produce Stakes. Other than that, in April he was a bad second to Rat-Trap in the Port Stakes at Newmarket Craven, with five in the field, including Caravan. In June only three came out for the Ascot Gold Cup: Grey Momus won easily, out-staying EPIRUS, who was second by 1-1/2 lengths, and Caravan last. At the Doncaster meeting where he took his two walk-overs, he also ran in the Hornby Castle Stakes against his sole opponent, The Doctor; the latter won in a canter by several lengths. At Wolverhampton he met Harkaway in the Cleveland Cup (3 miles), and was beaten by the great horse by half a length in an exciting race; rumors flew around that EPIRUS, who did not have his usual rider, the still recovering Bill Scott, as his jockey, had been pulled in this race.

The next season, at age five, EPIRUS ran eight times, and won three races. He started at Ascot, running fourth to St. Francis, Sleight-of-Hand, and Domino in the Queen's Plate, with eight in the field, including Grey Momus. At Epsom he took the Craven Stakes (1 mile-2 furlongs), beating seven, including Ion, "easily" by a length, leading from start to finish. At Liverpool July he looked like he had a chance in the Tradesmen's Cup (2 miles), but in the stretch was knocked by King Cole in the crowded 16 horse field, and was third to Charles XII and St. Bennett; Lanercost and Cruiskeen were also in the field. In Nottingham's Gold Cup, he was third to Melbourne and Industry, but the race started from the wrong place and had to be re-run, and a number of runners were withdrawn, including Epirus (Melbourne ran it again and won again). At Goodwood, EPIRUS won the 1-1/4 mile Craven Stakes by a length, beating Mus, Domino and Caravan, leading from start to finish. He also took Goodwood's City Plate over a mile in two heats, beating Launchaway, but since only two started and three were required to receive the 100 sovereigns added, he won only £15 for his efforts. At the same meeting he was fifth in Harkaway's second Goodwood Cup (nine ran) in one of the fastest races on record to that time; he was carrying 9 st.-4 lbs., more weight than any other horse but Harkaway. In August he was at Wolverhampton, where he was unplaced in a field of eight in the Holyoake Stakes. At York in August he was third of four horses in the two-mile Queen's Plate, won by Bee's Wing, with Melbourne second. At Doncaster he was again third of four, in the 1-1/2 mile Fitzwilliam Stakes, with Bee's Wing the winner in the weight-for-age race. 

In 1840 EPIRUS took the first running of the six furlong Stewards' Cup at Goodwood, with twenty-four in the field, carrying the heaviest weight of 9 stone-7 lbs. It was offered as a sort of novelty race that many disparaged and most thought would not last -- as it turned out the race is today one of the most popular and successful during Goodwood. At the Pottery he won the Copeland Stakes, worth 860 sovereigns, and a stakes and the Queen's Plate at Lincoln, and the Queen's Plate at Nottingham. The next year, 1841, he took two races at Newmarket Craven. 

It's pretty clear EPIRUS could go a distance, if not usually win, in top company; his best distance was 1-1/4 miles or less, in an era where those races were just gaining in popularity, but mostly lacking in prestige. At the end of his career, Bowes sold ELIS to T.B. Potterson for £800, and Potterson installed him at his Clipston stud near Market Harborough in Leicestershire hunt country; later Potterson moved him to Pitsford, in Northampton. He was later sold to the Hall brothers and moved to their Dudding Hill farm (near London), where, in 1854, his old adversary, Harkaway, joined him and other stallions in a huge, and largely unsuccessful breeding operation. 

In the stud EPIRUS hit right off the bat, with Pyrrhus the First (1843), another handsome chestnut colt in the sire line. Bred by John Day from Fortress, by the sturdy, good broodmare stallion Defence, Pyrrhus won the Newmarket Stakes and went on to take the Epsom Derby; he later proved to be the stayer his sire was not, winning five Queen's Plates. EPIRUS led the sire list in England in 1850, when the foals bred in 1847 as a result of Pyrrhus' succsess in 1846, reached age three, including Guineas winner Pitsford. He ranked eleventh in 1851, and then disappears from the top twenty on the sire lists. While never hugely popular in England -- with the exception of the year after Pyrrhus the First won the Derby -- EPIRUS and Pyrrhus the First were appealing to early breeders who came from Australia to purchase English bloodstock. Several EPIRUS sons and grandsons (through Pyrrhus the First) went to Australia, and were successful there, having a significant impact on the developing bloodstock industry.
==情報源==
===日本語サイト===
*[http://www.jbis.or.jp/horse/0000926999/ JBIS]
===外国語サイト===
*[http://www.galopp-sieger.de/galoppsieger/en/pferd_html?pschl=EpirusLangar Gallop-Sieger]
*[https://www.equineline.com/Free-5X-Pedigree.cfm?page_state=ORDER_AND_CONFIRM&reference_number=5321094&registry=T&horse_name==Epirus%20(GB)&dam_name==Olympia%20(GB)&foaling_year=1834&nicking_stats_indicator=Y Equineline]
*[http://www.pedigreequery.com/epirus Pedigree Online]

===日本語文献===
===英字文献===
*[http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Langar.html Throughbred Heritage Langer]


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