His sire Mark of Esteem won the 1996 2,000 Guineas; his dam Percy's Lass won the Group 3 September Stakes in 1988 (and subsequently died of colic when Sir Percy was a foal. Sir Percy was the last of her offspring) and his damsire Blakeney won the Epsom Derby himself in 1969.
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Sir Percy was named after Sir Percy Blakeney, the hero of the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Sir | Sir Walter Scott | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Percy Grainger | Sir Robert Peel | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | Percy Sledge | Percy Greenbank | Sir Raylton Dixon | Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland | Charles H. Percy | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet | Percy | Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet | Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet | Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters | Percy Dearmer | Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland | Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever | Sir Nigel | Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet, of Kandy | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet | Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet | Sir Henry Rawlinson | Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet |
However, as soon as Sir Percy climbs up the tower and through the window where the priests are being held, he realises that he has fallen into a trap – for waiting for him in the room are a dozen members of the Committee of Public Safety and his arch enemy Chauvelin.
In the Scarlet Pimpernel adventure series by Emma Orczy, The Laughing Cavalier is a prequel recounting the story of the supposed subject of the painting, who is an ancestor of her main hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney.