Destiny's only competitive victories came at the First Spring meeting at Newmarket in 1836, when she won a Sweepstakes and the 1000 Guineas: her only other success was a walkover at Lincoln Racecourse that autumn.
Apart from Destiny he sired seven classic winners including the Bay Middleton, Galata, Glencoe, Green Mantle, Achmet, Ibrahim and Augustus.
In the Riddlesworth Stakes over the Abingdon Mile course she finished third of the six runners to Bay Middleton[7] a colt who went on to win the 2000 Guineas and The Derby.
At the next Newmarket meeting two weeks later Destiny recorded her first win when she defeated Lord Exeter's filly Toga, her only opponent in a Sweepstakes over the Ditch Mile.
Ridden as usual by John Barham Day, Destiny raced in third place before moving up to challenge the leaders Toga and Zenana inside the final furlong.
In the last quarter of a mile, she was one of five fillies who broke clear of the field and after a "grand struggle" she finished second by half a length to the favourite Cyprian.
In the two and a half mile Nottingham Cup she finished second to General Yates's colt Sylvan, with the 1835 Derby winner Mundig in third.