Captain Cuttle of the Godolphin Arabian sire line. Apart from Captain Cuttle, Hurry On sired the winners of seven Classics including the Derby winners Coronach and Call Boy. His most influential son was the Ascot Gold Cup winner Precipitation, who sired four classic winners. Captain Cuttle was named after the character in Dickens' novel "Dombey and Son". Like his sire, Captain Cuttle was trained throughout his career by Fred Darling at Beckhampton in Wiltshire, and was ridden in his most important races by the leading British jockey of the era Steve Donoghue. The colt was particularly devoted to his trainer, following him
HMS Cuttle (1807) others. His gibbet joined three others across the harbour on McNabs Island who had been executed for mutiny aboard the "Cruizer"-class brig-sloop HMS "Columbine" in the same year. In 1810 "Cuttle" was under the command of Lieutenant Michael Molloy, off North America. In June 1811 she was under Lieutenant William L. Patterson, who in 1812 was with her in Portsmouth. On 24 July 1812 she captured the American vessel "Laura". "Cuttle" was then under a Lieutenant Saunders. The "Mary", which "Cuttle" had detained as she was sailing from Rio de Janeiro to New York, came into Bermuda on 15 August.