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Ocean Swell

British Thoroughbred racehorse

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 15, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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Ocean Swell (1941–1954) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1943 to 1945 he ran fifteen times and won six races. As a three-year-old 1944 he won the New Derby, a wartime substitute for The Derby run at Newmarket. He later developed into a specialist stayer, winning the Jockey Club Cup in the autumn of 1944 and the Gold Cup at the following summer. He was then retired to stud where he had limited success.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ocean Swell” as british Thoroughbred racehorse. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 1954, 1943, 1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ocean, Swell and British can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as british Thoroughbred racehorse. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 15, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1941, 1954, 1943 and 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ocean Swell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.