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10k sire – Shisospicy (Mitole) USA

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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

Coal Battle (USA) – the Rebel

24 Monday Feb 2025

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Goes Humbling for a stallion as advertised @US$5k to new 2025 stud fee of $US 2k.

Coal Battle has been making waves in the racing world, winning several key races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. He went purchased for $70,000 at the Texas Thoroughbred Association Yearling Sale.

he’s just different, he’s kind of unique

Coal Front (USA) 11 yr old sire of 3yo colt Coal Battle fires the pedigree across mare Wolfblade by Midshipman for 6x Seattle Slew lines.

https://www.pedigreequery.com/coal+battle

Seattle Slew’s dam My Charmer is inbred 3×3 to the sisters Striking and Busher who are both by War Admiral from Baby League, a daughter of La Troienne. Concentrations of **Blue Larkspur in Seattle Slew geno: sourced to Alablue, Nothirdchance, and Myrtlewood.

Ken McLean

With heroes and their yarns, Life is on the qui vive, there comes the man and horse “A horse has got 216 bones in his body, and they’ve all got to work,” Lonnie Briley states (credit LINK)

As so to, the qui vive mating goes much satisfying for the deceptive non-commercial sire with mare.

Coal Battle’s dam Wolfblade has Caro’s 4s x 5d x 5d, a 1971 French champion older male, sire-line of Cozzene, Siberian Express (Uncle Mo (USA), Winning Colors and With Approval and as broodmare sire Unbridleds Song.

🐴Caro (IRE) as strain, was bred with Fortino the sprinter & the stayer dam was a Varola design for breeder, Countess Margit Batthyany

Caro…. destined no doubt to influence future pedigrees on the distaff side https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/taking-stock-varola-hewitt-discuss-vaguely-noble-caro/

CARO – (cr FB Horse Racing History & News)

5s x 5d Roberto – Roberto is the strain to 4×4 **Blue Larkspur, the commanding three year old colt considered to be a super horse. Sired by Black Servant from the very fast Blossom Time to the inbreeding of 3×4 imported Padua. A test-mating of the times…to see ‘if’ it would provide a racehorse with classic speed, as then designed by Olie Gentry.

Olin Gentry highly esteemed Blue Larkspur as one of the all time genuine greats of American racing. Sire of several champions he was considered a prepotent sire transmitting his own sound type.

“Olie Gentry – was responsible for the mating that produced Roberto, winner of the English Derby and Benson and Hedges Gold Cup, & Coronation Cup. Olie Gentry’s success due to applying commonsense and being aware of how to manipulate pedigrees and raise a classic winner” Ken McLean

The genetic fruits of another’s home-bred labour – Coal Battle colt profile distinguishes remarkably.

references:

Ken McLean – Quest for a Winner

https://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/caro-ire.html

Seattle Slew

Roberto

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/282857/coal-battle-continues-to-prove-himself-with-rebel-win

Coal Front photo – https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/horses/card/9700651

racing royalty: Idiomatic (Curlin)

13 Sunday Oct 2024

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no catching this gal – Idiomatic – (Curlin – Lockdown (USA) from First Defence (USA) https://www.pedigreequery.com/idiomatic2

In days before the ‘official’ studbook & official thoroughbred racing, went fiercely competitive ‘match’ running heats. These races had horses competing multiple times a day and for top performers more matches, as they were required to maintain performance to determine a winner. Ultimately it became, nation versus nation.

These races validated their esteemed breeders, gentlemen of the turf(s) reflecting their ownership colours representative of their homebred sire and mare lineage. Training methods where adapted and refined to take a competitive advantage.

Gladiateur 1862 shocked the English to ‘up their game’ (in breeding winners) as did so equally the American bred.

The French bred Gladiateur – English Triple Crown winner 1865

The finest strains are represented in Curlin – Grandmaster (GB) by Gladiateur (FR) 4th dam of Double Jay (USA) sire of Jota Jota & Curlin’s 5th dam. Again @ Curlin, Double Jay is the broodmare sire of Nodouble (USA) – 6sx6d. The Australian stayer influences (of old) arrives in Foulshot NZ (Musket), Darebin (Aus) placed to Double Jay’s 5th dam distaff. Double Jay was a Champion 2 year old colt & 4x leading US broodmare sire.

near enough to being a perfect specimen, Traducer was the most successful of New Zealand thoroughbred sires until the advent of Musket. Traducer is the broodmare sire of Darebin (Aus) 5th dam sire of Double Jay. (note, Darebin (Aus) is also broodmare sire of Commando (USA), family A15. (credit reference Proud Silk, New Zealand Racing History – M. Redwood)

As examining racing horse development, the question arises, what improved? Fortunately, old timer bloodstock writers provided wholesome details and today the science – https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/evolution-driving-improvements-in-racehorse-speed-study-shows/#:~:text=Over%20sprint%2C%20middle%2Ddistance%20and,middle%20and%20long%20distances%20respectively.

Even so, let’s say speed is massively backed up with the natural stamina pedigree yet unfortunately somewhere a context to stamina has somehow slowly perceived slow development, when supremacy are the fuel-efficient alleles.

Whilst athleticism Genetics has filled the gap – a fundamental morphological capacity appraises racehorse ‘character’ and Function. Analysis still in strains/traits seeking speed determinant and stamina determinant cross. Performance follows.

In pursuit of more speed, better explosive speed, & over our time a softening in race distance to integrate the fast punter experience (money earns stakes) has eventually yielded a racing product of lesser distant capability.

This MSTN variant has been associated with sprinting ability and with precocity29,30,31. Therefore, this result may be the consequence of selection during the last 5 generations for horses that are sprinters rather than stayers. These observations, however, require re-evaluation in a truly random sample of the population. Credit reference https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-73645-9 North American thoroughbreds spanning 5 generations.

Yet cleverly, speed and stamina distance, these two very formative or inexact factors shall so remain and for what makes classic runners genuine.

To Idiomatic: enter the Chestnut and classic sire Curlin. https://www.hillndalefarms.com/curlin#curlin/conformation

Broodmare Sire – First Defence (USA) a top class sprinter

Influence of mare lines @ Idiomatic’s dam Lockdown – a full sister Close Hatches, 2014 Eclipse champion older female & dam of sire Tacitus (Tapit) https://paulickreport.com/news/bloodstock/bloodlines-lockdowns-future-appears-wide-open

The defective historical records at pedigree are to figure well the US mercurial speed foundations that gave a lightning phenotype – Mr Busher (recognising his full sister Racing Hall of Fame, Busher) that started this, of His, spectacular male family 8-f dynasty. His line in daughter Stolen Hour, her daughter Best in Show (the distaff of Idiomatic) as same El Gran Senor (Northern Dancer) 2nd dam sire of Idiomatic’s broodmare sire First Defence (USA).

(Mr Busher below: & Australia/NZ note, what is responsible to the male line Written Tycoon (AUS))

credit photo – sportshorsedata.com/California Thoroughbred cover
  1. Stamina and 2. Speed / Stamina and Speed gets bred-cross

phenotype – the ancestry Janus.

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full circle

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Janus most influential offspring does not appear in the GSB, a colt who ran under the name of Stiff Dick and/or Little Janus and was exported to the U.S., there racing and standing under the name Janus. Credit Reference – https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/janus

the US sprinting breed came from Janus an electrifying type. Note, the picture @ phenotype worth a thousand words. (photo credit Thoroughbred Style, Lambton/Offen)

@The Thoroughbred Link – Jane Bielski (researcher)