Marcel Boussac – practical and astute in his approach to building his ‘brand.’ He consistently sought to identify and rectify any flawed process, correcting as fundamental policy each issue and of every matter diligently.

A nonconformist in his own way, he obstinately refuses to read notes or statistical tables. All this only serves to confuse the mind, he assures. The only thing that counts is the discussions, the inspections in the field.

https://www.lemonde.fr/a-la-une/article/2005/03/20/la-fortune-de-monsieur-boussac_372363_3208.html

With nostalgia reflected to the Boussac breeds @ pedigree comes the 2025 winner of the Arc de Triomphe. From generational ‘D’ bred females by daughter line from Boussac’s home-bred sire Djebel to arise Daryz by Sea the Stars from Daryakana. https://www.pedigreequery.com/daryz

Boussac’s breeding & by his name alone widely distributed itself to a global population.

These are the Daughters of pre-potent sires and are inheritances that time (genetics) cashes on. ‘If only’ known or ‘should’ know what or where success heads; encompassing genetics that Marcel Boussac ever so accurately bred.

 Boussac the meticulous, bought the best thoroughbreds, crossed the most beautiful cracks

An old horse book (1901) covering the English thoroughbred of those times has a remark that had Herod (@#BT) held for brilliance & Eclipse for consistency. Apparently even to those times Herod (oddly) had trouble in finding his successor – all changed when St Simon came to the breeding scene.

@TBL research – a recent discovery isolates an astonishing detail to the superior and quality merit of Djebel’s breeding – the plain fact to the immensely powerful mitochondrial DNA at originating mares, and in particularly one is striking that eventually leads into Loika, Djebel’s dam. f.f. 5-j.

It is she at origin, whom unfolds with the elite type-integrity written above inbred or line bred. (n.b. this Framework will be accounted to next post @ Barnavara (Calyx) (subscribe)

For Daryz – this source dam appears via…

‘D’ distaff/Djebel – Selkirk & Sharpen Up✔️

Sea the Stars – Green Desert, Ahonoora, Miswaki ✔️

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Boussac was a leading French owner 19 times, and the leading breeder 17 times. Breeder of Pharis, whom he considered a prisoner of war when taken by enemy forces WWII. He refused to acknowledge any German bred progeny by Pharis.

Pharis was considered Le Cheval de La Ciecle [Horse of the Century] and the paradox where (seemingly) so little of Pharis blood to contemporary bred appears. However and ever profoundly…the Boussac bred Pharis did exactly influence top-class. https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/2516/was-real-horse-20th-century/

The ‘A’ distaff, female family 9-h to Galileo and Daryz’s sire Sea the Stars, is namely Allegretta. Her 4th dam is German derby winner Asterblute by Boussac’s Pharis.

In Boussac experimentation, his sire Pharis produced Phidias. At six years Phidias is exported to Argentina becoming the country’s 7x leading sire & 10x leading broodmare sire. Phidias is the half-brother of Djebel, out of Loika.

Like Boussac, the Aga Khan legacy at elite breeding are foundation families with continuous principle.

“French breeding and racehorses were the best in Europe after the war because owners didn’t sell their best horses, they bred from them.” https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/2516/was-real-horse-20th-century/