Postby Mahubah » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:38 pm
Just some notes here:
Hurry On actually has some fairly significant representation in Brazil through the sons of Henri le Balafre and Baynoun. By no means an overwhelming presence, however.
Man o' War's primary base has always been in North America. The branch descended through Relic is pretty well extinct as a source of top horses in Europe, so the future of the Man o' War line in Europe now lies with the sons and grandsons of Warning. There were a few Man o' War line stallions in the Antipodes in the 1970s, but I believe those lines have fairly well played out. A possibility exists that Slew Gin Fizz may succeed in establishing a branch of this line in South America as his G1-winning sons Cafetin and Guarachero have retired there; multiple G1 winner Latency is still in training but may get the best opportunities of the three to judge by his race record to date.
Single Dawn, who is tail-male to Dark Ronald through *Grey Dawn II, sired the 2000 El Derby (Chi-G1) winner El Aragones.
Executioner (a grandson of *Mahmoud through The Axe II) and his son Grimaldi were both important sires in Brazil; any surviving *Mahmoud-line stallions most likely trace through these horses.
The great Argentine sire Cipayo was tail-male to Swynford; don't know off the top of my head if he left any notable sons, but he probably does have sons still active. Pepenador, also a tail-male to Swynford, was also a leading sire in Argentina, but I don't think he left any sire sons worth speaking of; he was, so far as I know, the last descendant of the *St. Germans branch of Swynford to lead the general sire list in a major racing nation.
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