As the stallion ignites further commercial interest, TBL examines those Yaupon genetics that struck ‘bullseye’ – showcasing his integrity where undeniably, an intriguing genetic uniqueness appears.💥
This is CRAZY 😅
In the final stretch of the Forego Stakes, FIRENZE FIRE attempts to BITE his rival YAUPON 😬
A formidable male sire line, in its own right, it carries on by Uncle Mo’s intermediate/classic status. From the brilliant Grey Sovereign – Fortino (FR) – Caro (IRE) – Siberian Express (USA) – brilliant/intermediate In Excess (IRE) – Indian Charlie (USA) – Uncle Mo (USA) his G.1 son & sire, Yaupon (USA).
Further, working along these governing sire lines consistency established – a speed given upon their breeding influence, and onwards developing branches or supplementary lines. It is important to observe their broader genetic possibilities, engaging those various sires that may contribute to a stronger genotype, whereby tapping into unrealized potential.
What however captured Yaupon’s early success?
distaff Yaupon arises from 9th Generation @ *St Germans (GB)
Hail To Reason pedigree finds 3rd dam sire *St Germans (GB).
🏆St Germans (GB) – a magnificent influence through 2nd dam Sceptre (GB) 1899, as her dam is Ornament, a full sister to English Triple Crown Winner, the unbeaten Ormonde. A Line, father of Orme trails down to the electrifying breeder, Teddy.
Yaupon takes up strains @Hail To Reasonvia Leo Castelli (Nothirdchance distaff) – 4×3 Vindication (USA) – Roberto – In Excess (IRE) distaff/dam Vi by Vilmorin – Gold Bridge (FR) ➡️➡️ Orby/Orme/Ormonde. Noting also, Kris S, sire of Arch (Uncle Mo) – the 3rd dam by Gold Bridge (Fr) …Orby/Orme/Ormonde
Yaupon – 7s x 7S x 7D x 6D – Nothirdchance, (dam of Hail To Reason).
Hail to Reason – his dam Nothirdchance (USA) went by crossing 3×4 Man o’ War, 2nd dam St Germans (GB)
The Legacy to Hail to Reason, left the notable sires Roberto, Bold Reason, Halo, and Stop The Music to their consistent individuality.
St Germans (GB) sources Ormonde’s full sister Ornament, dam of Sceptre. He was the sire of Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner TWENTY GRAND, and Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner BOLD VENTURE
From a formative cross, Yaupon pedigree generates..
-its undisputed, his distaff has Hastings, sire of Fair Play – Man o’ War line et al @ 8x strains folding through, additionally both Hail To Reason & 3rd dam, St Germans & Man O’ War.
As yielded, upgraded upon and profiled on tight knitting lines, Yaupon introduces a very smart outcross. Yaupon Horse Pedigree
Physically, Man O’ War was a glowing chestnut, almost red, standing 16 hands 1,5/8 inches. He measured 71,3/4 inches at the girth and weighted 1100 pounds in training. As a stallion his weight reached 1370 pounds. He was unusually long bodied and powerfully muscled in the gaskins. He sired over 300 offspring who won over 1200 races.
photo credit – The English & Irish Thoroughbred – Sceptre the foundational mare (Persimmon – Ornament) 3rd dam St Germans.
Notes: compare pedigree Do Deuce Horse Pedigree male line Hail to Reason ‘X’ Vindication, champion 2-year-old colt.
Frankel embodies excellence; his genetics culminate to a remarkable equine inheritance. As a youngster characterized by unpredictability, Henry Cecil and rider Shane Fetherstonhaugh adeptly nurtured him towards patient composure, resulting the unbeaten, 14 wins from 14 starts.
Typically, bloodlines grow and demise grows causal. It was topical to Tesio’s studies of great Derby lines to the continuation of fresh blood and ‘class’.
The once, chefs-de-race classic lines – what ‘gave’ tremendous impact, today are treated commercial remote and or with little effect.
Effectively however is the strength: phenotype and genotype constitution and these came from powerful crosses added to its deep courses, to, and with the determinable bones.
two graphs above – excerpt Credited to Pedigree Analysis by Michael Ford, Keeper of the Australian Stud Book 2012. (n.b. whilst Australian numbers where researched, the basis in effect, inclines internationally)
‘Classic’ Blandford was an entire ‘brand’ of his own.
Blandford. 3-time Leading Sire. He produced four Derby winners. BAHRAM, sold to Argentina. BLENHEIM (exported to US, the rest is history) and TRIGO. Namely, sire of the great French champion BRANTOME. Windsor Lad – Badruddin – exported to Argentina, a genetic powerhouse – Umidwar – Bokbul (fated disappearance WWII). His Grace & Blue Skies, Bulandshar sent to N.Z. in 1934 4th on the Winning Sires List in 1942-43, 1943-44 and 1946-47. As broodmare sire Chanteur (FR). Big Game, son of Bahram. By male line, Loliondo (FR) – Val de Loir (FR) – Exbury (FR) – Vadamos by Monsun et al – Idomeneo (GB)/Alycidon – Norseman (FR) from the notable Teddy daughter Tara.
Whilst Frankel’s front profile – @ 5×5 Buckpasser – (go reminded Tom Fool/Menow/Plucky Liege) – @4×5 Natalma, the pedigree expansion details to Blandford’s contribution. A classy individual stamps likeness, thence Sadlers Wells/Thong – 5×3 Blandford.
Sadlers Wells (Northern Dancer – Fairy Bridge)
@Frankel’s dam Kind, female distaff
– Blandford son Brantome, son Caldrium (FR) @ 2nd dam, Stage Door Johnny (USA).
– 5th dam Nasira by Persian Gulf by Bahram/Blandford.
@ Galileo, Sadlers Wells/Thong – 5×3 Blandford – ‘speed’ multiples @ Blenheim (Blandford) descendants via Mahmoud, Nasrullah, Natalma. Bahram – dam sire of Expresso (6×4 Blandford), 3rd dam sire Galileo.
Breeding across, appraises where another great typealso earns desirable traits. Here, Blandford ( Simple, Complex & Remarkable- continues to the Blandford line) upon his bloodline cross to another bloodline had resulted in an extraordinary potency.
Ormonde – Orby – Orme, the male line thru time…(to Teddy)
Ormonde held undisputed sway over the most talented generation in racing history, yet he was generally compared unfavourably with St Simon, two years his senior, when discussion turned to the greatest horse of the 19th Century. Ormonde had great devouring strides. Ormonde looking as though he was enjoying himself in an exercise gallop on those following to duels between champions at racing pace throughout the finest mile race in history. Racing against Minting, it was as though the pair were staging an exhibition gallop, dictating the terms, showing why the phrase ‘poetry in motion’ was appropriate to thoroughbreds at full stretch. His final record read 16 wins over three years. Ormonde was the King.
Ormonde ®️
®️Orme by Ormonde – 18 starts/14 wins – Sire of 1899 Triple Crown winner FLYING FOX; Epsom Derby and Irish Derby winner ORBY
Speed was inherited from Orme and son Orby. Orme is out of a sister to St Simon . Tesio formula Havresac – Tracery dam Topiary = Ribot.
Apart from Brazil (Teddy line, 1! ) & New Zealand’s Rich Hill Stud standing Vadamos (FR), the hollowed out male line representation of *Teddy (Ajax/Flying Fox/Orme) or Blandford dissolved.
It is however to those Inbred lines: dam Thong (5×3 Blandford) her dam, Reine-de-Course mare Rough Shod sired by Gold Bridge @ 3×3 Orby @ distaff, Sadler Wells sire of Galileo, what paved genetics to ‘upgrade’.
Orme’s daughter Topiary, dam of Tracery (USA) sire of Papyrus, dam sire of Advocate, dam sire of Forli – 2nd dam Sadlers Wells. Prince Chevalier, brood mare sire Abbot’s Speed ➡️➡️Tracery (Orme). Prince Chevalier sire of Promised Lady inclusive to, Big Game by Bahram/Blandford, ➡️Lombard 2nd dam sire Galileo.
As above, so below: Frankel’s distaff, as mentioned above, the cross in-Type fixes again @ Nasira (GB) by Persian Gulf/Bahram/Blandford to Sir Cosmo/The Boss/Orby.
Frankel’s broodmare sire Danehill, the speed sire, through Almahmoud by Mahmoud by Blenheim/Blandford.
The presence and influence of i) Blandford and ii) Orme crossing was truly one of exceptionality. It created….
Frankel, thoroughbred gold
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Bahram raced five times as a two-year-old and won every time. He won the 1935 Triple Crown (2,000 Guineas, Derby, and the St Leger), unbeaten through his career and no horse really extended him. His trainer, Frank Butters declared that he never really knew how good the horse was because he was so lazy on the gallops and did no more on the racecourse than he needed to win his races. Although the Aga Khan never wished to sell Bahram, wartime Britain forced a decision, and he sold to America as were Derby winners Blenheim and Mahmoud to the USA. Six years later he was sold to Argentina. Bahram knew how good he was and a quirk of his was to lean against the stable walls, with legs crossed, looking disdainfully around him at lesser beings. Progeny of Bahram; son Bashir went to India but died as sire in his 1st season. Big Game champion sire of two-year-olds. Senegal (ARG) – exceptional record of 12 wins from 16 starts and multiple major stakes victories. Senegal sired on Antar (VEN) -the horse was recognised as the Champion Two-Year-Old of 1964, having won three important juvenile races (3×4 Blandford). Turkhan (GB) – 1939 : won Coventry Stakes 1940 : won St. Leger, Irish Derby @ Blandford, 5dx5d Orme.
Persian Gulf was winner of 4 races including the Coronation Cup, 1 1/2 miles and Fen Ditton Stakes, 2m. Persian Gulf ranked seven times among the top 10 English sires.
®️ @ The Thoroughbred Link,other as Credited, noted or linked
(Orme lines through i) Crimson Satan aka Royal Academy & Storm Cat ii) Star Kingdom (GB) / Makarpura (GB) -b/m sire Biscay (Aus)
note, Ormonde’s full sister Ornament is dam of Sceptre by Persimmon. Sceptre Horse Pedigree, an extraordinary mare, she won four of the five classic races.
references –
Great Moments in Racing – Tony Morris
author, Ken McLean books
Bluebloods September 2012.
Britain and Ireland’s Top 30 Racehorses of all Time
By examining bloodline characteristics, essential criteria can be identified. It remains to the astute observer to acknowledge inherent traits that shall persist and define the horse.
Humphrey S. Finney was an admirer of John F. Wall’s Thoroughbred Bloodlines (1930’s) stating: It is a weakness of our pedigree keeping that we do not record more of the “constitution, conformation, and disposition’ of its component animals.
The trainer also detected a special quality in St Simon, saying that he was fuller of electricity than any horse he had known
excerpt: Notable English & Irish Thoroughbreds (Alister Taylor)
As blood-vital over breeding decades, the #BT – Herod – St Simon is largely pivotal by either male-line or female admix to breeding profiles. Historically accounted #BT, Turkmen and its ancient characteristics of skeletal conformation are seen to photos below.
#BT – the English Thoroughbred – GSB
Identification of Genetic Variation on the Horse Y Chromosome and the Tracing of Male Founder Lineages in Modern Breeds (***The “Arabian” Blanket Term: Western buyers—including agents for the English aristocracy looking for racing stock—frequently used “Arabian” or “Turk (Turkoman)” interchangeably based on the port of export rather than the exact genetic origin of the horse. Market places Allepo, Syria. ⚠️The cited 2013 paper does not include 13 breeds and exclusive of data, Barb, however, view the interbreeding to other horse breeds inclusive breed as English thoroughbred. @The Barb or Berber are @ origins Layton’s Barb mare to Nearco and Man o’ War. Foundational, Taffolet Barb, Tregonwells Natural Barb, @ Family 1 by Byerley Turk. As was once considered by Bruce Lowe Breeding System – a Barb mare dam of Old Bald Peg, a Barb mare the dam of Dodsworth where seven Barb mare went recorded Vol.XVII. Lowe’s work, whilst rather discredited or erased in a number of genetic cases – it is interesting he noted Tregonwell’s Natural Barb mare, Burton’s Barb mare and Layton’s Barb mare having won nearly one-third of the English classic races. It shows the types are 1st crosses, as developed & foundational ‘head’).
Turkmene 15.1 h.h. (brown bay with golden tint, white markings; black, gey and dun with silver tint. Medium head, straight face long neck; high head carriage – fairly prominent withers – long neck – pronounced croup and sloping quarters – flat ribs running up – iron hard legs. Of exceptional stamina and endurance – fearless, obedient and very fast. The Turkmene (Achal-Teke) of ancient origin, valued for his speed 1,000 years B.C.
Achal-Teke 14.2 to 15h.h. (light head with long face, large expressive eyes – large fine nostrils – neck long and thin and set high – long high withers – long back and loins – croup pronounced – narrow chest and not deep – flat ribs and long sloping shoulders – legs, long – hard, strong tendons – hooves small with hard horn. A lively temperament and sound constitution. A horse known to cross 900 miles of desert without water to drink.
The science applied research to the racing thoroughbred to maintain causal speed, distance & stamina @ MSTN muscle type. The breeder’s logic may draw closer at type, body size and conformation: morphological equilibrium as any breed is designed to its efficiency, specialist sport performance.
It seems a genetic framework of *genes FRZB, MATN1, COL1A2, ACAN and IGF1 form a particularly interesting cluster because they all function & relate to skeletal growth, cartilage quality, soundness and athletic durability, traits that are highly relevant in riding horses, racehorses and sport horses*
Interestingly, the Gidran breed, Austro-Hungarian Empire studs (the Ottoman Empire) developed as derived through old-Spanish, Arabian, English Thoroughbred that makes positive contribution in Thoroughbreds. The candidate gene function influences exercise physiology, aerobic capacity & racing performance. Further to the Gidran breed is its chestnut ‘fixed’ coat (gene, MCIR) – Genome-Wide Homozygosity Patterns and Evidence for Selection in a Set of European and Near Eastern Horse Breeds – (*n.b. @link – AI crunched to genes)
To more practical and layman consideration constitution, conformation, and disposition – Jimmysstar’s sire Per Incanto, @Ahonoora possessed blistering early speed. He gained victory in the Spring Championship G2 and G3 King George Stakes over the minimum five furlongs. Ahonoora initially attracted little attention from breeders but managed to get top class runners over a wide variety of distances.
Though considered unfashionably bred, Ahonoora son Indian Ridge, a sprinter, captured the King’s Stand Stakes G2 and G3 Jersey Stakes where he turned out to be an exceptional sire of milers and sprinters.
(5×5) Sir Ivor, Lestor Piggott claimed he was the best horse he ever rode (apparently the jockey was not known for effusive praise). It was Piggott on Sir Ivor for the Washington DC International Derby, the 2000 Guineas and the Champion Stakes plus two other of the horse’s eights wins, as well as to be second in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Sir Ivor to his racing, went well off the pace, only to deliver a devastating turn of foot and take the win.
Tom Fool undefeated at four and 10 wins in his 1953 season. He proved so formidable that wagering was cancelled the four times he ran. He ran twice in the Suburban H. and won both times. 1953 Horse of the Year, Champion Handicap Horse, Champion Sprinter, his genetics are seen to Try My Best – Danehill – Stop The Music as noted to – Jimmysstar b/m sire Zed.
Note, Sir Ivor and Tom Fool take genetic affinity through chestnut mare Alcibiades dam of Tom Fool’s sire Menow and to Sir Ivor’s 4th dam.
Broodmare sire, Zed – notable sire of mare Verry Elleegant – 2021 Australian Racehorse of the Year, winner and stayer of Melbourne Cup. Zed has 10x Selene through her family as are noted to New Zealand breeding leading sires Sir Tristram and Star Way (discussed below)
Disciplines for inbreeding crosses continue to this very day is finding the duplication to Selene viz., Hyperion, Pharamond II, Sickle, Hunter’s Moon and through her daughter’s son Mossborough by Nearco. Mossborough’s dam All Moonshine the 3/4 family affinity to Hyperion. It’s worthwhile to remember and note Selene grand-sire St Simon and the downward ‘multiple’ strains of St Simon reinforce one superior performer.
Selene – credit source unknown
He was a strongly built chestnut standing 16 hands – Star Way sired by Star Appeal by Appiani the Italian Derby winner. Star Appeal won 11 races, including the Prix del’Arc Triomphe and Eclipse Stakes G1. Star Way sired 5 G1 winners in his 1st season: classic standard and middle-distance stamina to the likes of New Zealand’s champion, the chestnut gelding Waverley Star, multiple G1 winner & sire Sky Chase, and champion stayer mare Smiling Like.
His son Star Board won the Sires Produce Stakes Gr.1 at Awapuni (N.Z.) and headed the two-year-old Free Handicap with 58.5 kg. Star Board emulated his sire’s precociousness at the same age.
Pentire – an excellent sire for tough progeny producing middle distance to stayer, Melbourne Cup winner Prince of Penzance, 3rd place-getter Melbourne Cup Xcellent & Australian standing sire Xtravagant (NZ)
Jimmysstar distaff is more renowned to Argentina bloodlines & producers. His 4th dam by Climber (USA) noting #BT sire line + 2x Hyperion/Selene. He was an exceptional genetic sire for Argentina breeding. Another genetic monster in sire Penny Post (ARG) & further back Old Man 1901 (ARG). The family distaff heads @ Ante Diem (GB) a daughter of the ‘powerhouse’ male line by Musket. (*Pedigree Query notes – The ANTE DIEM family has accounted for at least 19 Argentine Classic winners, among them 1931 Triple Crown winner MINERAL, as well as many other winners of top races in both Argentina and Brazil)
Jimmysstar (NZ) on his powerful win Manikato Stakes, is again entered for TAB The Everest and will challenge Ka Ying Rising (NZ).
Ole’ to the wonders of those gene powerhouses.
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references & credits – The Thoroughbred, Stallions and Stud of New Zealand by Bill Cox
Horses of the World – Daphne Machin Goodall
*** with acknowledgement to Janice Winterhalter, who has also provided – Cultural Politics of Thoroughbred Horses in the Ottoman and British Empire – 9d5f73c1-fa7b-3180-9b2b-1c3ef02b66e4
acknowledgment to Gilberto Junqueria – From 1415 onwards, conditions were created for a constant flow of new specimens coming from North Africa to Portugal, and the constant attempts at territorial expansion in Morocco also meant a significant number of equines making the same crossing, but in the opposite direction. In any case, it became clear that the introduction of horses from North Africa had a huge impact on the “Royal Stables” that at that time represented, to a good extent, the standard of the equine breed in Portugal, before the current concepts of breed even existed. (The International Circulation of Horses Fostered by the Portuguese Crown between the Late 15th and Early 16th Centuries) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7634-7559
