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As of October 2025, Skyglider’s sire Flying Artie (Aus) has overall winners-to-runners ratio of 62.1%. This statistic includes all seasons of his progeny’s racing performance. 

Total numbers: From 306 individual runners, he has produced 190 individual winners.

  • Stake-winners: An article from June 2024 notes that his first crop produced six stakes-winners, and his second crop produced 49 winners from 72 runners, including stakes-winners.
  • Success in Australia and New Zealand: Among his notable progeny is Fierce Flight, a six-race winner in New Zealand, and Coin Toss, a Listed winner in Australia and Singapore.
  • Sire-line reputation: While Flying Artie was a high-class juvenile, he comes from a sire line known for producing horses that mature and improve with age, a trait his progeny have demonstrated. 

Winners-to-runners ratio for Flying Artie has varied by season: 

  • 2024/25 Season: 46.9% winners-to-runners (147 total wins).
  • 2023/24 Season: 46.2% winners-to-runners (146 total wins).
  • 2022/23 Season: 48.8% winners-to-runners (138 total wins). 

ref – https://www.racingandsports.com.au/thoroughbred/stallion/flying-artie/83358

Flying Artie

He is noted as Group 1 sire, – Asfoora, winning 2024 King Charles III Stakes (GB)
2025 Nunthorpe Stakes & 2025 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (Fr-G1,1000m,Lon – https://www.pedigreequery.com/asfoora & G1 performer sprinter, Artorius. https://www.pedigreequery.com/artorius8

@ Skyglider @ 2 for 2 wins

Pedigree discussions place a certain sire and tribe lineages – Almahmoud, Cosmah et al. These discussions are not critiquing better or for worse with ND; it is the scale of the thoroughbred’s ecological balance, his TB Sire Clade for that considered phenotype influence.

Northern Dancer was arguably the most successful stallion of the 20th century and his descendants have been the dominant sire lines in Australia and Europe for the last quarter century. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57389-5

Topically @ Byerley Turk what remains to Byerley Turk male & his family line determinations gets ‘tragedy of the commons’.

Breeding must Identify…

Clear as day, the Byerley Turk has unique clade branch of the hybrid-Thoroughbred – the DNA sequences are the specific allelic variant being used to identify this genetic lineage.

Figure 1 Tables (link) the specific Tb-oB1 remembering the Tb-dW (Whalebone/Darley arabian) has deepened, escalated over 176 odd years of breeding. (The global spread of Oriental Horses in the past 1,500 years through the lens of the Y chromosome where Oriental (generic term) appears its of an ancient or of Wild origin extraction per brief & reference below)

Domestic horse lineages have an ancient origin. Thus, given the 6000-year origin suggested by the archaeological record, numerous matrilines must have been incorporated into the gene pool of the domestic horse. High mtDNA
sequence diversity of horses implies an unprecedented and widespread integration of matrilines and an extensive utilization and taming of the ‘wild horse’. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.291.5503.474

The complexes of what may determine the well-bred athlete goes by observing where elite pedigrees are clearly dosed with a # BT/St Simon male line crossed to the Whalebone clade. Take that famous mare Somethingroyal (dam of Secretariat & Sir Gaylord) by Princequillo, descendant of St Simon. With running approximated @ 1 – 2% of the population St Simon male line is obviously an outstanding potent contribution to the racing thoroughbred, therefore, is the alone classic phenotype required.

Skyglider’s sire Flying Artie has 5×5 Better Boy. Octagonal My Babu/Klairon. The too-short siring life (3 years) of Dr Grace by Sir Tristram My Babu & Twig Moss (Fr) – all these are factors.

Better Boy (IRE) sired something genetically extraordinary.

(As above by Better Boy), the brilliant filly, Better Draw for 10 wins – 2 at 2 from 1000m to 2,500m. (One wonders what speed aptitude has not yet ‘discovered’ to the Byerley Turks?)

Better Boy was a 4-time Champion Sire in Australia (1965-66, 1970-71, 1971-72 and 1976-77). Sire of 35 stakes winners – Champion Broodmare Sire in Australia 1978-79.

Flying Arties 3rd dam Better Fantasy – the dam of Better Loosen Up (8 G1 races including Japan Cup)

Cox Plate @ Better Loosen Up 🎇🎆🎇

In practice the breed today is almost entirely carried forward through the Darley Arabian’s male line @ 95%. It is subjectively purported commercial breeders place Darley Arabian alike descendants because it indicates the modelling of proven numbers.

Yet as sharply distinctive that a modern pedigree captures, refines necessary genotype and phenotype quality to the Byerley Turk integrity and its accounted brilliance.

Byerley Turk post 👉 who is Byerley Turk?