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Winners mark a milestone for young sires

[First Published in February 2020] IT’S the time of year when the first crop sires’ table starts to become very interesting in the lead up to the Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper. At the top of the list on January 31 was Coolmore Stud’s high profile dual Gr.1 winner Pride of Dubai (Street Cry (IRE)-Al Anood…

ByDavid BayAugust 18, 20200Comments

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Fusaichi’s Daughters find a nick with Fastnet Rock

CHAMPION sire Fastnet Rock’s nick with Zabeel daughters and with mares carrying strains of the three-quarter brothers Nureyev (dam sire of Zabeel) and Sadler’s Wells (particularly his son Galileo) is well known, but there’s another cross that has produced two Gr.1 winners. This is with daughters of Kentucky Derby-Gr.1 hero Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) who shuttled…

ByDavid BayAugust 18, 20200Comments

Bluebloods Pedigree Analysis

Shamardal, a source of classic speed

STALLION managers in both hemispheres must surely be impressed by the rise to fame of Darley’s stallion Shamardal (Giant’s Causeway-Helsinki by Machiavellian), sire of three undefeated juvenile colts in Europe last year, namely Pinatubo, Earthlight and Victor Ludorum. He is also the sire of Blue Point, Champion English Sprinter who last year won the Royal…

ByKen McLeanAugust 18, 20200Comments

Bluebloods Pedigree Analysis

American Pharoah, starting fast on grass

THERE is nothing like a horse to make a fool of a man. That saying applies to the great ones in particular and American Pharoah (USA) (Pioneerof the Nile-Littleprincessemma by Yankee Gentleman) the first winner of the US Triple Crown in 37 years is certainly one of those. Just before he began his shuttle career, we…

ByAlan PorterJuly 22, 20200Comments

Bluebloods Pedigree Analysis

Enable, Europe’s Champion mare

An example of 3mx2f inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells JUDDMONTE Farms, based at Newmarket and Lexington, is one of the most successful thoroughbred racing and breeding enterprises in the world. Established by Prince Khalid bin Abdullah in 1977, Juddmonte Farms is the home of many champion racehorses and influential sires. Sadler’s Wells (USA) (Northern Dancer-Fairy Bridge by Bold…

ByKen McLeanJuly 22, 20200Comments

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Eight Carat and the family of Tessa Gillian

VOW and Declare (by Declaration of War), winner of the 2019 VRC Melbourne Cup-Gr.1 and Material Man (by Vital Equine) winner of the 2018 Perth Cup-Gr.1 both trace in direct female line to Royal Charger’s full sister Tessa Gillian, an elite mare who established two very strong branches of the famous Number 9 Family of…

ByKen McLeanJuly 21, 20200Comments

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Pierro always a winner

[FIRST PUBLISHED JANUARY 2020] From its inception in 1957, the Golden Slipper Stakes-Gr.1, 1200m has been a highly respected form guide for future stallion success, its inaugural winner Todman (still regarded as one of the best two-year-olds Australia has produced) setting the path with his 38 stakes winners. Since then 24 Golden Slipper winning colts…

ByDavid BayJuly 21, 20200Comments

Bluebloods Pedigree Analysis

Camelot, as hot as the summer sun

Camelot - Joseph O'Brien wins from French Fifteen - Olivier Peslier The Qipco 2000 Guineas Stakes Newmarket Guineas Meeting 5/5/2012 ©Pic Mark Cranham It’s high summer in Europe with scorching temperatures and little rain to speak of for the past six weeks. But there’s still a pervading sense that the racing season hasn’t yet come to…

ByDr StatzDecember 11, 20180Comments

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Pierro providing classic outcross for Danehill

WITH the season all but over, it’s an interesting time to reflect on the second crop sires. While they fall into what might be a predictable order, perhaps the most interesting trend is, just as with So You Think and third crop sires, that the leader is a horse who is providing a classic outcross…

ByAlan PorterDecember 11, 20180Comments

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So You Think a classic outcross for the Danehill line?

THE expression about a tough act to follow might have been applied double to High Chaparral (IRE), who retired to stud at Coolmore on the heels of superstars Montjeu (IRE) and Galileo (IRE). Those two were almost certainly the best sons of Sadler’s Wells, also sire of High Chaparral, as runners and subsequently the outstanding…

ByAlan PorterOctober 18, 20180Comments

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