The Colonel, a blaze face chestnut bred at the Wyvill Constable Burton Stud, Yorkshire, in 1825. He was by Delpini out of the mare My Lady's dam.

The Colonel was purchased by Edward Petre as a yearling and was sold after his St Leger win, to King George IV for the sum of £4,000.

The Colonel stood at stud at Hampton Court and when the King's herd was dispersed at auction in 1837 by Tattersall's was purchased for 1,550 guineas by Richard Tattersall and sent to the Tattersall farm at Dawley, near Uxbridge. He was sent to Brunswick Germany in 1838; he was returned to Tattersall in 1843 and placed at Tattersall's Willesden Paddock's in Kilburn, where he ended his racing days in 1847.

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