The 8-year-old Golden Sixty as defending his 1600m Longines Hong Kong Mile title for a 3rd time was truly exceptional.
pedigree @ Golden Sixty 4×4 Damascus – 5x6x6 Northern Dancer.
Damascus is Most Underrated Horse of all Time (Steve Haskin)
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/177542/damascus-is-most-underrated-horse-of-all-time
Golden Sixty as a youngster (below). Size-up shoulder, thick neck, hip ex- https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Angles-measured-in-lateral-views-in-thoroughbred-horses1-Angle-between-shoulder-and_fig1_279787340
More Info – https://thebreedingshed.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/golden-sixty-ten-out-of-ten-for-son-of-medaglia-doro/
The Golden Sixty ‘gears’ shall come upon careful consideration of both genetic lineage(s) & pedigree, Damascus. The Damascus Blue-blood influence positions upon an extraordinary potency ‘unmatched’.
Accounting ancestry influences, re-count the previous TBL blogs giving praise to the Irish Eclipse Harkaway – majorly to his ‘mark’ upon the St Simon pedigree via broodmare sire King Tom. And, Harkaway also influences Hastings (scientifically inconclusive to Hastings https://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Cinderella.html BUT Harkaway’s genetic influence appears - Tomahawk/King Tom/Harkaway makes for a probable line, duly morphology and trait bearing characters.
To Evolve…
Hastings sire of *Fair Play sire of Man O’ War, Chance Play, Chance Shot, Display (sire of Discovery), Dunlin, Fairmont, Mad Hatter, Mad Play, My Play, Norse King et al
There goes a superior dominant pedigree: a source & cross to reinforce.
With both pedigree and Haplotype – a bred genotype appears. By engaging optimal inheritability – its jig-saw across the affinity relationship(s) becomes more defined.
- 4×4 Damascus by Sword Dancer.
- Sword Dancer 5×6 *Fair Play – Sword Dancer male line back to St Simon’s grand-dam St Angela (as dam of St Simon, she by King Tom by Harkaway) ***St Angela daughter Angelica producer of Orme.
- @Haplotype I2a1 – encompasses Anglica dam of Orme and St Angela dam of St Simon
- The Man O’ War (#GA tail- line) & daughter Speed Boat (f.f.1-o) has Haplotype I2a1.
- Display – sire of Discovery
- mainstream family 4 has Haplotype I2a1 (ie 2 different Haplotypes exist at family 4 branch)
(note: amongst all, the Geno chiefly dominates to Haplotype I2a1, ie these above are displaying Homozygosity relationship.
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Damascus/War Admiral daughters
2024 Holy Bull Stakes winner – Hades (Awesome Slew – The Shady Lady ex-Quality Road)
https://www.pedigreequery.com/hades15
5dx5D – Damascus
5s x 6d x 7d – Buckpasser (f.f.1-x La Troienne b/m sire War Admiral (#GA/GB tail-male)
Buckpasser daughter Numbered Account @ 3s x 5d x 4d War Admiral (#GA/GB tail-male)
Numbered Account dam of Private Account by Damascus + Swaps from a War Admiral daughter Iron Maiden (f.f.A-4)
The War Admiral daughters Busher & Striking @ Seattle Slew distaff. (Check the Damascus/Seattle Slew Golden Sixty pedigree)
Hades 4th dam sire Believe It (USA) – a tail-male of War Relic (noting – f.f.1-o, W.R & Speed Boat are full Brother & Sister) +b/m sire Buckpasser
The relationship of Haplotype I2a1 appears common to female family 13 branches. The main candidate is Mr Prospector and additionally to Hades pedigree, broodmare sire Elusive Quality. Seattle Slew same.
Though yet inconclusive and subjected to Stud Book Pedigrees if ‘correct’ – the Haplotype relationship places or forwards the superior homozygosity relationship. As follows the Goldmine👇👇👇💯
- f.f. 1-o – I2a or I2a1 (aka War Relic)
- f.f. 4 branches (except 4-o, 4-i, 4-p) I2a1 (aka Man O’War)
- f.f.11 branches (except some to 11-g) I2a1 (St Simon’s female family + War Admiral + sister to Regulus)
- 1 alone branch of f.f. 12-b I2a or I2a1 (Lexington blood)
- f.f. 13 branches (except 2 of 13-a)
References – https://www.bloodlines.net/TB/PedigreeMatters/Fams/EquineGeneticGenealogy.htm
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