Pedigree Query

Fairy King sired stakes winner Bartok (IRE) who took up stud duties in the USA. Bartok from limited opportunity sired 6 stakes winners from around 200 foals, he stood at stud in California where he fashioned a respectable career though not spectacular. Bartok had a good record as a sire of useful fi...

You may have the information but if not here are some details of The Phoenix. He was a very smart horse and under appreciated. 6 lifetime starts for 5 wins and a 2nd At 2 yrs - 3 starts, 3 wins over 1000m At 3 years - 3 starts, 2 wins (Won Irish 2000 Guineas, Irish Derby and 2nd Irish St Leger ) His...

Camelot was beaten by an overconfident and arrogant ride by his jockey. Inexperience would have been the main reason. Camelot would surely have emulated Nijinsky II had he also had the benefit of the services of one Lester Piggott at his prime. The winner Encke should be given credit for a terrific ...

Here are links to this unusually marked foal. He traces back to a New Zealand bred mare Perfick by Straight Strike. About ten years ago a similarly marked filly named Legally White was born in NZ, she was by the sire I Conquer a son of Zabeel. Legally White won at her fifth start and raced nine time...

Question for Canadian breeders, has the setting up of a satellite operation in Canada by Adena Springs upset the natural order in the commercial world of stallions ? I see that the Adena stallions have taken centre stage and that some formerly commercial sires have had their service fees adjusted do...

Doesn't do it for me. There will be many more better qualified sons of Bernardini in the pipeline. IMHO his female line is too weak, solid journeyman types, doubtful sire producing qualities though.

Jorge As you have pointed out Spectacular Bid has had sons representing him in Australia, the most noteworthy being Spectacular Spy , Bite The Bullet and Shepard’s Field Interestingly Spectacular Spy and Bite the Bullet were three parts brothers. Spectacular Spy was out of the prolific mare Lassie D...

Western Red a New Zealand bred grandson of Spectacular Bid has been to stud in NZ and Australia. He has had very little patronage with around 50% winners to starters and has bred a stakes winner in Australia. Western Red is a son of Belmont Futurity GR1 winner Spectacular Love who had reasonable suc...

I actually don't have that much to gripe about B'dini's studs fee. it is whwat it is. Not to say he's worth it but if there is a sire in the country worth that much right now it's him. Posted on another site What Bernardini has shown is that he is capable of siring a very good horse. He has had one...

Oh really …. please explain. I have just given an example of a downgrading sire capable of breeding champions. Perhaps you don’t understand the concept of downgrading sires.

Fireslam - the converse may also apply, Lonhro is the sire of more poor or moderate performers out of other mares who have been more successful when mated with other stallions. Using the basis of your argument lets look at downgrader Elusive Quality and the record of the mares that bred his best win...

An interesting move. I suspect the main motivation is to breed a horse to contest and maybe win the Kentucky Derby given the dearth of stamina apptitude amongst sires in the USA. Lonhro is undoubtedly a good sire, I do however believe that he has had a huge assist from the quality of mares that he h...

Isn't it interesting when looking at the examples of durability given by other posters the almost bohemian look of the pedigrees ! The usual suspects in fashionable and sometimes fragile pedigrees are conspicuously absent ! Note some South American influence amongst the examples given by GRIFF and K...

Wilf - I have started reading Bart Cummings book and in it he talks about all three Leilani, Hyperno and Gold and Black. Back to Round Table - yes he was a fabulous horse ! Leon Rasmussen made the following observation about Round Table “When it comes to the grass context, Round Table is a Man O War...