#aboyeur

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Réserve du Pont de Gau, Bouches du Rhône, 26 avril 2023

Deux chevaliers face à face

Chevalier noir : Chevalier arlequin

Collègue en gris : Chevalier aboyeur

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Ariège, Domaine des Oiseaux de Mazères, 19 mai 2023

Chevalier aboyeur

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Péninsule de Falsterbö, Suède, 17 septembre 2022

Chevalier aboyeur

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Mot du jour : « aboyeur »

Mot du jour : « aboyeur »

Mot du jour : « aboyeur »

Suite à la reproche de Ravi Rutnah à une de nos consoeurs qui avait utilisé le mot « aboyeur » à son égard, nous avons voulu connaître la signification du mot en question pour mieux comprendre la réaction du député.

Selon Larousse, un « aboyeur », c’est un huissier qui annonce les invités aux réceptions ou un portier de boîte de nuit.

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1913 Epsom Derby winner Aboyeur.

Born in Ireland in 1910, he was sired by 1898 Coventry Stakes and July Stakes winner Desmond, a son of St. Simon. Aboyeur's dam was Pawky, an unraced daughter of Morion.

Aboyeur's career on the track lasted from 1912 to 1913. He raced seven times; won two. In 1912, as a two-year-old, he ran tree times, won the Champagne Stakes at Salisbury. He did not place in the other two, including the Free Handicap at Newmarket, wich future 1,000 Guineas winner Jest won, dam of the 1921 Epsom Derby winner Humorist.

In his three-year-old debut in 1913, his only start before the Derby, he finished unplaced in a race at Kempton at Easter time. In the Derby, on 4 June, Aboyeur started at odds of 100-1, while Craganour, champion two-year-old of 1912, started as favourite at 6 to 4, in a field og fifteen.

The race went out as a drama in more than one way. Emily Davison, a prominent campaigner for women’s suffrage, ran out in front of the King’s horse, Anmer (read more here). And Aboyeur was awarded the race on the disqualification of Craganour: "Aboyeur, ridden by Edwin Piper, took an early lead which he maintained into the straight, where he ran about three horse-widths away from the inside rail to his left. Several challengers emerged: Craganour challenged the leader on his immediate outside (right), with Nimbus and Great Sport further out, while Shogun, Louvois and Day Comet moved up on the inside. The initial interference occurred when Craganour, ridden by Johnny Reiff, hung left, bumping Aboyeur who in turn veered towards the rail, badly hampering Shogun, Louvois and Day Comet. Piper, then struck his horse with his whip in his left hand, causing Aboyeur to hang sharply back to the centre of the track, colliding with Craganour and attempting to bite him. Throughout the final furlong Reiff, with his whip in his right hand, and Piper, with his whip in his left, continued to drive their horses into each other, leading to repeated bumps as the other horses drew nearer. Craganour crossed the line first in a blanket finish, just ahead of Aboyeur, Day Comet, Louvois, Great Sport and Nimbus, with Shogun, Sun Yat and Bachelor's Wedding finishing just behind."

At the end of the season Aboyeur was sold and exported to Russia. After two seasons at stud, he disappeared during the Russian Revolution and Cavil War, around 1917. Reports read, that he had been “rescued from the Bolsheviks” and taken to Constantinople. Rumours says, that “he had been evacuated to Serbia disguised as a cart horse”. His final fate is unknown. 

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