Gr. 1 "Wrote" x High Chaparral To Stand In FL

Patuxet · Postby **Patuxet** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:05 pm

I have it on good authority that this decisive winner of last year's BC Juvenile Turf will stand in FL next season.

He's interestingly bred -- the Rough Shod on the bottom line through a 3/4 to Nureyev feeds back into Sadler's Wells on top, along the way yielding a 4x4 RF to Special, if that matters.

http://www.breederscup.com/gallery/2011 ... enile-turf
http://www.sporthorse-data.com/d?i=10745838

Barcaldine · Postby **Barcaldine** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:25 am

Interesting.

Florida seems a mismatch for him, though. He doesn't fit the normal profile of a stallion retired to stand there. Those cowboys like a horse who can throw :10 flat speed in their babies and this guy does not appear likely to do that.

Probably would have found more action in New York.

Joltman · Postby **Joltman** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 6:59 am

Great to see that pedigree available to American breeders.

jm

Tappiano · Postby **Tappiano** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:04 pm

We don't have enough horses with under 10 lifetime starts on the stallion roster so bring em on.

erins isle · Postby **erins isle** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:14 am

Great pedigree, and that very ineresting bottom line, Special and Thong. High Chapparal is tough; the golden cross in Europe as we say Sadler's Wells x Darhaan very nice prospect for American breeders.

mehile · Postby **mehile** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:04 pm

Love the pedigree! Wish there were more like it in the US.

griff · Postby **griff** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:17 am

What about his tail-female?/

griff

Linda_d · Postby **Linda_d** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:53 am

I fail to see how this horse's pedigree is that "great" since there's a serious lack of black-type under his first three dams. None of the dams are stakes horses themselves. Wrote is his dam's only stakes horse. Al Moulatham, stakes placed once, was Desert Classic's only stakes horse. Durrah produced no stakes horses, so that's 1 stakes winner and 1 stakes placed out of 14 starters -- and these mares were bred to top stallions, too, not to proverbial Shetland ponies.

mehile · Postby **mehile** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 11:43 am

I was speaking more about the pedigree as a whole not as a stud prospect. I always like seeing Sadlers Wells in a pedigree and the inbreeding to Special is just a bonus. I'm a sucker for the turfy types though.

dublino · Postby **dublino** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:22 am

Wrote was a poor G1 winning horse and most likely will make a poor sire also.

Linda_d · Postby **Linda_d** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 6:06 am

mehile wrote:I was speaking more about the pedigree as a whole not as a stud prospect. I always like seeing Sadlers Wells in a pedigree and the inbreeding to Special is just a bonus. I'm a sucker for the turfy types though.

That's fine, but a pedigree without performance to match it is just a bunch of names arranged on a piece of paper. That's NOT my idea, but something I read somewhere years ago, and I can't remember the author, but I think it fits Wrote. If Wrote had a sibling or two that was impressive on the track, you might say that, okay, ability skipped a generation or two, but his dam's other produce looks pretty much like her dam's and her granddam's ...