you notice his third dam is by Tudor Minstril http://www.pedigreequery.com/tudor+minstrel
Tudor Minstril has a fascinating pedigree to go along with the Buckpasser in the X position. His sire Owen Tudor is by Hyperion whose dam Selene is by Chaucer, his broodmare sire Pharos is out of Scapa Flow also a Chaucer daughter. Getting back to Buckpasser we see that he is Phalaris line stallion, through Pharamond. Pharmond is sired by Phalaris out of Selene; a Chaucer daughter, as is his full brother Sickle, as is his 3/4 relative Pharos also by Phalaris and out of a Chaucer daughter.
Every time Nasrullah or Royal Charger or Pharamond, or Sickle is in the pedigree, this Phalaris over a Chaucer daughter is being repeated. The Phalaris over a Chaucer daughter changed the modern thoroughbred. It was a good cross. Tudor Minstril's dam is by Sansovino, who is a 1/2 brother to Selene's dam Serenissima, so we're getting the added bang of repeating siblings/ 1/2 siblings and gentic equvilents; through the Chaucer daughters bred to Phalaris in this pedigree. It's beautiful!
If you are a paying subscriber to this forum, look at the equivilant's in Basket Weave's pedigree
http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php? ... d=&x=0&y=0 It's just astounding.
If I could afford another broodmare, think I'd bee looking for a Basket Weave. Especially for a Halo line stallion, I think it could be a home run kind of nick.
Jeff