She made an exceptional start as a broodmare, producing four stakes winners including the champion sprinter Solinus from four foals before dying at the age of eight in 1976.
Cawston's Pride was a tall, powerful[1] chestnut mare with a narrow white blaze[2] bred by her owner Len Hall at his stud near Rugby in Warwickshire.
[5] By August few owners were willing to test their fillies against Cawston's Pride,[6] and she won the Lowther Stakes at York Racecourse at odds of 8/100[5] against a single opponent.
Her behaviour delayed the race as she refused to go to the start and eventually had to be led down by a Welsh cob pony ridden by Jimmy Lindley.
In the race she started well and looked a likely winner, but she began to swish her tail and refused to go through with her run, finishing fifth of the ten runners behind Altesse Royale, who won from Super Honey.
[1] In the 1970 Free Handicap, a rating of the best two-year-olds to have raced in Britain, Cawston's Pride was the top-rated filly on 130 pounds: the leading colt were My Swallow (133), Mill Reef (132) and Brigadier Gerard (130).