Pedigree Query

A right-handed oval track of a mile and five furlongs in circumference, with an uphill run from the home turn of three and a half furlongs, and chutes for mile and a quarter and mile and three-quarters contests. There is a separate straight course of five furlongs running diagonally across the cent...

The way some people go on, you'd think that the horse was being sent to race on the moon! To try and put people's minds at rest... ...The round mile at Ascot is against the collar the whole way, but free of surface undulations, so a flat, slightly upward-sloping course. For a UK track the straight o...

truehoncho wrote:In my opinion, the best sire in Europe other than Galileo.

Nothing like as good a sire as Dubawi, who some argue is on a par with, or even better than, Galileo.

Rich Tapestry, lasix-free (yes!!) winner of the G1 Santa Anita sprint championship, has the mystery stallions Grenfall and Cyclotron in the 4th and 5th removes of his pedigree.

http://www.pedigreequery.com/rich+tapestry

Michael Dickinson had the first 5 home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup.

He was a cracking sire, though never particularly fashionable, and did even better as a broodmare sire.

He got a fair number of fast horses like Victorina, but his last top flight performer was the top class stayer, Prince Hansel (owned by the Magniers).

Champion Stakes and Irish 2000 Guineas winner, Hugh Lupus (1952), and successful sire (UK classic winners Hethersett and Pourparler) has a pretty tasty pedigree for inbreeding buffs to get ther teeth into.

http://www.pedigreequery.com/hugh+lupus

Phalaris was supposed to have had a very pleasant temperament.

Great Voltigeur and Gordon Stakes winner, Stowaway http://www.pedigreequery.com/stowaway2 , who stands at the Whytemount Stud in Ireland, covered 312 mares in 2011.

Close behind was the first season Monsun horse, Getaway http://www.pedigreequery.com/getaway7, who weighed in with a book of 274.

To me, Phalaris was fast, sound, tough and with a good temperament. However, for those who feel otherwise, take heart from this year's Grand National winner, Neptune Collonges http://www.pedigreequery.com/neptune+collonges. Is there a top class racehorse anywhere today with less Phalaris blood than ...

Georgerz wrote:Has there ever been a 18 hands or bigger race winner, ever?

Yes, the 1992 Grand National winner, Party Politics, stood 18 hands.

Must put in a word for The Tatling, former Group 2 and Group 3 winning sprinter, who at the age of 14 ran in his 178th, and final, race at Wolverhampton today on the polytrack. Miraculously, he managed to get up in the last stride to win the 5f handicap under top weight. He retires with earnings of ...

I've always thought Ellen Parker's articles had the feel of a sly gossip column. Rather than dealing with fact. She also claims Graustark was sired by Swaps. :roll: Quite. Parker's argument regarding Graustark goes as follows: Apart from Graustark, all of Ribot's top class offspring were bay/brown....

From 1973--1995 i researched the mares male sire line that were bred to our leading stallions. The Hyperion sire line bred the most winners & SW when bred to those Ph. stallions during that time frame. Some of those Hyperion sire line TB were: Tudor Minstrel, Forli, Vaguely Noble, Nodouble, Aur...

Phalaris as well as being an absolutely top class sprinter, had all the attributes you'd want to see in a racehorse, toughness, soundness, determination, an excellent temperament, an ability to shoulder spine-bending weights, and he kept on improving throughout his four year career. He didn't have a...