[2] Her sire Dark Ronald won the Royal Hunt Cup and Princess of Wales's Stakes in 1909 and went on to become a very successful breeding stallion.

Valve also produced Verve, who was the female-line ancestor of numerous major winners including Greek Money, Pentire, Shirley Heights, Sanglamore and Divine Proportions.

[4] On her first run as a three-year-old Vaucluse contested the Tudor Plate at Sandown Park but slipped up and fell in a race that she looked likely to win.

[6][7] With Rickaby again in the saddle, Vaucluse started 11/10 favourite for the New Oaks over one and a half miles at Newmarket on 17 June but finished unplaced behind the outsider Snow Marten who won "in a canter".

[8] After an absence of almost ten months, Vaucluse returned to the track for one final race in April 1916, and finished second by a neck to Cerval in the Spring Cup at Newbury Racecourse.