Taproot Mare Family 5-g

The best horses to descend from Skypeeper include Ventre Saint Gris (1858 Prix du Jockey Club), Fille de l'Air (1864 Oaks, Prix de Diane, Prix Royal-Oak), Reine (1872 1000 Guineas, Derby), Mademoiselle de Senlis (1882 Prix de Diane), Regain (1883 Poule d'Essai des Poulains), Chambertin (1897 Prix Royal-Oak), Hindus (1900 Belmont), Elwood (1904 Kentucky Derby), Sir Huon (1906 Kentucky Derby), Combourg (1911 Prix Royal-Oak), Twenty Grand (1931 Kentucky Derby, Belmont, Travers), Bagheera (1949 Prix de Diane), Gilles de Retz (1956 2000 Guineas), Avatar (1975 Belmont), Escaline (1983 Prix de Diane),

Hours After (1988 Prix du Jockey Club), Vettori (1995 Poule d'Essai des Poulains), Victory Note (1998 Poule d'Essai des Poulains), Afleet Alex (2005 Preakness, Belmont), George Washington (2006 2000 Guineas) and other classic winners

See The Massey Mare, Foundation Mare Family 5, for mtDNA errors identified affecting family 5-g

Died in 1806 in foaling, her foal also dying