| Owner: Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet Breeder: Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet
Taproot Mare Family 5-f
The best horses which descend from this Bajazet Mare include Barbe Bleue (1882 Poule d'Essai des Poulains), Airs and Graces (1898 Oaks), Le Roi Soleil (1898 Prix Royal-Oak), Jacobite (1901 Prix Royal-Oak), Capot (1949 Preakness, Belmont) and other classic winners, particularly in central Europe
mtDNA analysis has identified that descendants of La Chica (1930), supposedly a descendant of this Bajazet Mare, have a completely different haplotype to that of the Bajazet Mare (and from the whole of Family 5),
definitively proving that La Chica does not descend from this Bajazet Mare; this removes a number of post-1930 classic winners from Family 5 (and therefore 5-f), most notably the great Native Dancer (21 wins from 22 starts including 1953 Preakness, Belmont, Travers); the pedigree error may have occurred anywhere between the dam of this Bajazet Mare and La Chica
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