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(US) $10K stallion Mitole (f.f. 11-d) sires TDN rising star, 3 yr old filly Shisospicy – {f.f. 2-n} https://www.pedigreequery.com/shisospicy

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/288154/shisospicy-seeks-history-in-breeders-cup-turf-sprint

“She’s run so well in all of her starts.” https://obssales.com/blog/2025/05/12/shisospicy-earns-first-graded-win-to-lead-stakes-winning-obs-grads/

SHISOSPICY a 3-length winner dominating – $2,000,000 Music City (G2) at Kentucky Downs

3rd season sire Mitole (USA) credentials https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/287414/mitole-omaha-beach-representing-third-crop-sires

TBL Pedigree Profile

Shisospicy @ Mahmoud – dam’s distaff has @ 7th dam by Mahmoud. To follow back into Mahmoud via Northern Dancer @ his 2nd dam Almahmoud. Same to Halo >> Harlan, Harlan’s Holiday, Into Mischief

Haplotype @ L1, 9-c female family hence Nasrullah & Tudor Minstrel, 2nd dam sire Blushing Groom (FR).

6×5 Caro – male line Indian Charlie (Mitole) & broodmare sire Unbridleds Song.

Caro (IRE) – considered a good sort of colt, lengthy and strong. Commented to stay a mile and a half so well that the distance was not thought the limit of his stamina. Said to act on any going. His noted qualities were gameness and consistency. His sire Fortino was a sprinter and dam Chambord a good stayer galloping the opposition into the ground – 1st Royal Standard Oaks, Newmarket Oaks, 2nd Yorkshire Oaks and 3rd Park Hill Stakes. (TBL photo)

Research notes: @ Mitole distaff (f.f.11-d) his 7th dam features the French bred @ Capella 5×4 Asterus remarkable Marcel Boussac’s breeding *Ardan (by Pharis, 3x Cyllene, 2x St Simon) a champion at 3 and 4. He stood at Spendthrift Farm, Lexington, Kentucky. Lifetime sire of 183 foals, 152 starters, 124 winners, 11 stakes winners – Lifetime AEI = 1.35.

Pharis – photo credit https://www.rimondo.com/en/horse-details/191396/pharis-ii-xx

Mitole‘s 4th dam Merces Miss > 5×5 *Ardan (Pharis) daughters with Nasrullah X.

Boussac’s Pharis was finest bred although limited as a classic sire, marginalized by WW II.

Bearing Cyllene in mind…5×6 Storm Cat from Secretariat daughter Terlingua Secretariat – as never seen before & Field of chestnut Gold…Cyllene 1895. Cyllene # G haplotype (family 9). Science figures speed chromosome on # ‘G’ (also 2N) though complex as it is, fathoming why the quality is ‘up’ for another deep enquiry.

Cyllene sired four English Derby winners – Cicero, Minoru. Lemberg and filly Tagalie. Leading sire in England 1909/1910 and also leading sire in Argentina. Here was horse that could accelerate more than once during a race and he was able pass this gift to many of his progeny. Ken McLean – Designing Speed in the Racehorse

(n.b. At this point acknowledgment to American researcher Kathleen Kirsan whose valuable work is about to be released (date to be advised). In short, her work on American sporting horse lines has evaluated extraordinary history before the thoroughbred. For my work here, it has been a ‘turning point’ and makes for more germane evaluation before the 1791 Studbook, thoroughbred records.

Establishing how pedigrees may ‘step-up’ or upgrade the layer in Type the indications find the Mitole filly Shisospicy inherits an obscure profile as early befuddled names by the earliest studbook; the pre-thoroughbred females.

By Shisospicy sire distaff (f.f. 11-d) and dam distaff (f.f. 2-N) may amass some non-coincidental co-affinity ancestrally through two sisters.

***Sr Mathew Pearson’s little Bay Mare, full Sister to his sorrel Running Mare; which sorrell Mare was Old Merlin’s Dam

***out of Sr Mathew Peirson Running maire wch was the most famouse maire in my time

you reach the stage where you finally begin to understand the real ancestors that supply strength and speed.

Ken McLean

These mares DNA thread their way through the studbook. The conclusion has their unique female consanguinity exposes a powerful biological wonder.

It accounts like this “Ormonde sired a brilliant son named Orme, a colt out of a mare named Angelica, sister to champion St Simon. Orme sired a Triple Crown winner from his initial foal crop, the high-class Flying Fox. Flying Fox was the leading sire in France and his male line flourished via Ajax’s son Teddy, the champion 3 year old in France, sire of the inluential brothers Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad III, (see Shisospicy >>Gold Liaka distaff) also Asterus, Sun Teddy and the elite mare La Troienne.

Who would have thought a couple of running mares had so much influence on the thoroughbred.

***horses supposedly bred at Hampton Court during this period were, in fact, bred at Sedbury

Let’s hope breeders recognize Boussac bloodstock is not a thing of the past but has the essential thoroughbred itself.

@ The Mighty Mitole (USA) – Use it or lose it…

***Credit references @ ancestry

https://www.thoroughbredracehorse.co.uk/investigation.htm

Ken McLean quotes Designing Speed in the Racehorse