Judys bet

[Jean]

A friend has this mare and was recently injured and will now only be a broodmare. Does she have any value to keep as one or should she look at getting her sound enough for a pleasure horse.

[kimberley mine]

A friend has this mare and was recently injured and will now only be a broodmare. Does she have any value to keep as one or should she look at getting her sound enough for a pleasure horse.

I don't think she has much value as a racing broodmare prospect--but she has a GREAT stamina-laden bottom line (as well as some interesting stamina horses on the top). What kind of injury did she have? Do you know if she has any jump in her? If her injury is the type that only needs time to heal, this mare should make a heck of an eventer. If she will only be sound as a broodie, then hunter or eventer foals would have a much better chance of "return on investment" (if you will) than flat-racing foals.

[Bill from WA]

Hi

I think this mare has broodmare potential. If you look at her conduit mare profile, you will see that she has excellent speed/stamina balance, which belies the extremely stamina oriented dosage. She traces tail female to the conduit mare Noowa (1910), A34, who has an aptitudinal rating of B/I (a speed influence). Noowa had 7 foals to race, 6 winners, 1 stakes winner, and 2 stakes placed. Her daughter, the unraced Diagnosis, had 14 foals, 13 raced, and 11 winners, one of which, the stakes winner Good Blood, had 7 foals to race, all winners, incuding the stakes winners and sires, Barbizon (Champion 2yo) and Hillsborough. This is a Calumet Farm family, and most of the runners in this female family were proficient sprinters, and many won at 2. One of them, Crimson Queen (3rd dam of the subject mare) by the speed influence, Crimson Satan, was the dam of the stakes winners Crimson Slew, and Dancing Liz, and the stakes placed winners, Queen of Reason and Prince Crimson. The next dam forward, Crimson Flame was the dam of the two-year-old stakes winner, Aquilla (who is G1 stakes placed), making the dam of this mare, Aspen Gold, a half sibling to a G1 stakes performer. Most of Aspen Golds progeny have fared better sprinting. This is a very solid female family, with a pedigree that offers a lot of versatility.

Bill

[Bill from WA]

I neglected to address the influence of the mare's sire, Dance Floor. He was a very good runner, being proficient at middle distances and longer (3rd in the KY Derby), and performed well as a two-year-old. He is the sire of stakes winners both in the US and New Zealand, including the stakes winning sprinter, Somethingaboutlaura, winner of 5 of 6 starts in 2005. Dance Floor is the broodmare sire of stakes winners, Dance Hero, Dancing Daggers, Pulcinella, and the Group placed (at 2) Kincharm, and just now on TVG, a daughter, Flower Flag won at Aqueduct (5.5f). (I have TVG on all day in my office).

Bill