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G1 filly class: Orange Riviera (BRZ)

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Blenheim, Gonfalon, Man O' War

By critical mass, the underlying and profound potent ‘blood’ in Man O’ War (#GB) comes to subject profile: Orange Riviera (BRZ) by Put It Back (USA) from Go To Rivirea (BRZ) ex Wild Event (USA) (pedigree). The 3 year old filly, won 2026 Grande Primio Diana (G1), with a strong homestretch finish. Orange Riviera and Torres García, in the second leg of the Rio de Janeiro’s Triple Crown.

(Half sister Fanciful (BRZ) by Wild Event is twice a G1 winner @ 1600m and 2000m)

Man O’ War influences Champions

– 2x War Relic (Honour & Glory & Beau Purple) – War Admiral (Francis S. & Swaps) – American Flag (Raise a Native) – Spotted Beauty (Relaunch) – Salaminia (Sir Ivor) – *Hostility (Ogygian, grand-dam Honour & Glory) (+) Man O War daughter Speedboat (Damascus) + Firetop (Grand Splendour/Gonfalon)

Pedigree: 4×5 Gonfalon (USA) War Admiral & *Hostility ➡️ 4×5 MOW reinforcement

*Hostility’s grand-dam – Plucky Leige by Spearmint. Orange Riviera > Plucky Leige producer of sons @5x Sir Gallahad + @6x Bull Dog. Bull Dog & 3x Man O’ War are mix potent lines! (Hostility’s 5th daughter is double-copy mare Killaloe)

3rd dam Grand Splendor’s daughters Killaloe and Gonfalon are responsible for some big names, including Ogygian, Lookinforthebigone, Fappiano, Torrential, Clabber Girl, and Keeper Hill. The 2nd dam, Farnesol, was exported to Argentina and produced G2 performer Farenboy. Frieda Fritz (ARG) by Roy, a G2 winner in Argentina has Fappiano & Ogygian. Gonfalon is the great granddam to Florida sire, Curlin’s Honor. (not rostered)

Ogygian Grade I Winner and Sire Ogygian Dies at 32 – BloodHorse

As ‘School of Varola’– Brazil and Argentina bloodlines critique sires capturing Type. “When the name of Blenheim is chosen, and Blenheim is a name that can never be absent from a list of Breed Stallions.” (credit link)

Thus we see the emergence of two distinct tendencies from this count: one is that in which attendance decreases from father to son, i.e., Swynford 47, Blandford 34, Blenheim 12. In this case, we have a sequence that must be considered together, since each of its components demonstrates that it has not transmitted its qualities to a single son, but to a plurality of descendants.

Turf and Élevage

THEORY OF RATIONAL

DOSAGES “The selection of a sire for a given breeder must be indicated by its ability to correct excesses or deficiencies due to the presence of past Breed Chiefs in the mare’s pedigree. Consequently, bringing the pedigree of the planned product as close as possible to the recommended dosage.” credit –https://purosanguedecorrida.blogspot.com/

Admirably, what the above IS, has a specific instruction, dedicating question and answer for identifying what dosage, where it is or can be preferable in the pedigree, thereof to emerge influence.

Orange Riviera – 12 x Blenheim

Mahmoud (The Axe/Relaunch, Ogygian, Northern Dancer, Mr Trouble/Lode, daughter Clovelly/Wild Again/Wild Event)– Mumtaz Begum (Nasrullah) – Free America (2x Gonfalon by Correlation)– Mar-Kell (dam line, sire PUT IT BACK)

By influences @ male line, Blenheim – Blandford- Swynford @ 7th dam sire (Idle Hour GB) – 2x Swynford merges filly’s 3rd dam Fricote, 11 x Blandford.

Obviously, other numerous highly valued contributor sire ‘lines’ & of dams are equal, to some effect. The Bay Ronald, short-coupled Son-in-Law contrasts physical type @ 8 strains – ex 4th dam Quip Mask, a champion G1 mare reminds value is continued from its heritage.

To take awareness how powerful ‘they’ still have it – these stronger diverse descendants are remarkably potent and effective. With incomparable foresight “cultural stability achieved by the maintenance of cultural variety, just as biological stability is achieved by the maintenance of biological variety.” Franco Varola.

This gradual transformation of the Thoroughbred from feudal to corporative, and from corporative to international, is not only a striking parallel to the transformations which have occurred to Western society which sponsors it.

‘School of Varola’ classic & professional.

Blandford

@ Blandford: master to South America’s

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Blandford, Blenheim, Honour and Glory

We continue to examine the significance of ‘Blandford’ genetics. (last post link)

In the context of establishing modern pedigrees, Blandford’s influences are mainly examined to standardization @ Nasrullah (specifically Mahmoud by Blenheim) and Royal Charger (notably Mumtaz Begum by Blenheim), particularly in relationship to the female family line 9-c. There, goes an appreciation with ✅Northern Dancer, Halo, et al.

Exploring further Blandford/Blenheim diversity, it is lines Honour and Glory (Relaunch) when he shuttled to Australia and Argentina for 12 seasons and the remaining years at stud in Uruguay. Notably, his 3rd dam sire Correlation is from Blenheim’s male line, the pedigree also influenced to The Axe by Mahmoud/Blenheim through Relaunch.

(#Godolphin Barb) male line, Honour & Glory sired Brazil’s 2014 leading sire Put it Back, the sire of 2025 G3 winner, 4 yr old Master of Puppets (BRZ) https://www.abcpcc.com.br/noticias/post/maronas-no-sino-master-of-puppets-fatura-g3-e-vai-ao-gp-latinoamericano

https://www.pedigreequery.com/master+of+puppets4

Master of Puppet‘s broodmare sire Wild Event takes 5x Blandford – Blenheim, dam Udaipur, Reine Isaure, His Grace @ 6th dam/distaff. Sire of Wild Event, Wild Again (USA) @3rd dam Clovelly (USA) > 3×2 Blandford.

Wild Event was a five-time Champion Sire and transitioned into a top-tier broodmare sire:

  • Champion Sire titles: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018 https://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/wild-event.html

As brood mare sire (he, Wild Event) to dam Variety Lady (BRZ) gets superb G1 filly Special Do Iguassu (BRZ) by Forestry (Storm Cat) has 11x Blenheim + as above.

https://www.abcpcc.com.br/noticias/post/no-recorde-da-prova-special-do-iguassu-levanta-a-taca-de-prata

Deceased at 29 years Crimson Tide (USA) was exported to Brazil and leaves his mark to most recent G1 winner 2025 Obataye (by Courtier USA (Pioneer of the Nile) https://www.abcpcc.com.br/noticias/post/um-campeao-inesgotavel-obataye-brilha-no-gp-matias-machline-abcpcc-classica-g1. Whilst Obataye > 4×4 Unbridled, the pedigree foretells Blandford daughter Wild Violet, dam of Wild Risk (FR) sire of Le Fabuleux (FR), b/m sire Unbridled.

Through multiple, amass lines @Blandford, Crimson Tide (USA) @ 10x > Blenheim, Dalmary, Umidwar, Brantome, Armoise.

Crimson Tide –Premio Ribot (Ity-G2)[1600m,Grosser Preis von Düsseldorf (Ger-G2)[1700mT,Dus], September S. (GB-G3)[2400m.

@ Argentina racing – the three year old colt The Great Racing (ARG), winner of 2025 G1 Gran Premio, Dol Mil Guineas (1600m) by The Great Day (ARG) from a mare by Honour & Glory has https://pasionturfistica.com.ar/the-great-racing-gusto-en-el-g-p-dos-mil-guineas-g1/.

@Chile racing – three year old G1 filly @ 1500m Diosa Del Rock (Timojin USA) . 4th dam Advertising 4×4 Mahmoud by Blenheim + 4x Northern Dancer

Chefs classic-sire Blandford echoes Madame Vullier (took over Aga Khan breeding) “My magic is science. My art is genealogy. A good pedigree reads to me as a Bach fugue sounds to a musician. It’s heredity that’s winning, not the horse. What difference does it make what the horse looks like, so long as he has the correct genealogy?” Quote credit – https://time.com/archive/6832622/sport-my-magic-is-science/

these Excerpts below, also astutely observe, what is the mastering...

Blandford🏆🏆🏆

At the center of our line-up, we find precisely the classics, that is, those that achieve perfect balance, which, as everyone knows, is a very rare thing and in fact, during the whole of this century, very few products belonging to an even more restricted number of strains have managed to rise to this coveted foot:
Swynford, Blandford, Blenheim
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Isonomy has maintained its very refined classical expression and has, in this century, at least seven fundamental by – Swynford, Blandford, Blenheim (3x Isonomy), Donatello II, Alycidon, Big Game and Ticino
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We have here a situation in which it is easy to see that Blandford made his influence felt through his plurality of descendants of which Blenheim represents only one among many, although it is the most important


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Therefore, a breeder who reasons in practical terms must not only search for Blenheim’s blood but also Blandford’s and even Swynford’s, when he presents himself, by any other way than Blandford.

Above excerpts Credit, @ https://purosanguedecorrida.blogspot.com/search?q=blandford

Like no other influence – Blushing Groom (Fr) >5x4x5 Blandford + 2x Blenheim + Northern Dancer/Mahmoud by Blenheim = CANDY STRIPES (ARG). B/m sire Influence@ Gun Runner (USA) 4×5 Blushing Groom + 3x Northern Dancer. By Gun Runner, the ill-fated mare Echo Zulu (G1 filly at 2years & G1 at 4 years) thru her dam Letgomyecho 4×4 Tatan (ARG) through his broodmare sire Donatello by Blenheim + 4×5 Nasrullah + 5×4 Northern Dancer.

Let’s further examine this frame-geno – what we believe is the ‘rare’ female type that doesn’t go mentioned, if ever. Her name is Guiccoli 3x Isonomy. Blandford 3x Isonomy.

©️Guiccioli 1823 (Bob Booty) – 2-6 years old a very good racer. Ran as a 6-year-old after foaling and again in foal producing a healthy foal, six times, won twice in the King’s Plates over 4 miles with heats in September in curragh and in Northumberland Handicap in October amongst such good horses as Skylark, a 3-year-old and Napoleon, a 5-year-old. First foal at 6 years old. 13 foals amongst where Birdcatcher and Faugh-a-Ballagh. At 21, living twins, one which was Gramachree, Foundation mare in family 11-d and at 24 years St John, later Carlow, a good racer 2-7 years old. ©️

The breaking of classic unity, which occurred in the Swynford Line during World War II, and from which this line never quite recovered was certainly the most dramatic happening in the Thoroughbred breed during the Century, and it is symbolic of the crisis in Western society which was precipitated by the corresponding political events. In the space of a few years, an impressive chain of events took place which it would have been impossible even for the keenest soothsayer to predict.

ref ⬆️Typology of the Racehorse – Varola ⬆️

The Phalaris line occupies the ‘vacuum’ left weakened by the Blandford line. (Varola)

Blandford – greatest classic sie of the early 20th century and the embodiment of the very notion of classicity. (Varola)

Romantic Warrior (IRE)

29 Monday Apr 2024

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Acclamation, Blandford, Chicle, GA, Haplotypes, Hurry On, Le Fabuleux, Spearmint, Street Cry

Tough. Subject super star gelding Romantic Warrior – (Acclamation – Folk Melody by Street Cry) 18 starts, 13 wins.

“I’m speechless, he’s awesome. He was beaten at the 600m but he just finds a way. It’s incredible. I dead-set didn’t have one thing go my way. I had 10 riders dead-set against me and the horse. I just had no favours. 1000m from home, I was finally having a rest and one took off and at the 600, he was off the bridle and struggling in the ground a tad and he just picks up. I’m just in disbelief.” James McDonald on Romantic Warrior (credit FB Racing World)

Acclamation sire of sire, Dark Angel – https://www.pedigreequery.com/dark+angel9 & Mehmas https://www.pedigreequery.com/mehmas and comparable to Romantic Warrior, goes cross, the blood of Machiavellian, sire of Street Cry.

– family assigned f.f.8-f at #Haplotypes L3a1b and or, N1 pending integrity of pedigree. Individuals are Try my Best (Acclamations tail-male line) – Raise a Native (Street Cry tail-male line) – The Minstrel 4th dam sire – Nijinsky (thru Halling, 3rd dam sire) noting matriarch Flaming Page & further back, Blue Larkspur.

@ **5×5 Halo (family 2-d) akin to Northern Dancer places 6x Almahmoud by Mahmoud by Blenheim by Blandford. 🐴7x Mahmoud > 11x Blenheim by Blandford

*Blenheim II was one of the most significant sires imported into America in the 1930s and the first of three Derby winners sold by the Aga Khan to America. A proven sire in Europe, he is one of the few stallions to have offspring win both the English Derby (*Mahmoud) and Kentucky Derby (Whirlaway and Jet Pilot) https://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Blenheim.html

– Cohoes (USA) by Mahmoud > (Singspiel, 2nd dam sire) + Nasrullah from the Blenheim mare Mumtaz Begum & Royal Charger’s 2nd dam + Lorenzaccio’s 4th dam Dalmary by Blandford & again Blandford grand-son tail Big Game, Lorenzaccio’s 2nd dam sire ++ Blandford daughter Wild Violet dam of Wild Risk sire of Le Fabuleux 5th dam sire.

Incredible genetics upon Sans Tares dam line of Le Fabuleux & Worden 4th dam sire of Street Cry. (note Sans Tares influence @ blog, Zoustar (Aus) sire of – Zougotcha)

🐴Romantic Warrior @ mare distaff emerges from an unrivalled potency – reine-de-course mare Exclusive, she >10x King Tom by Harkaway, 4×4 Fair Play (sire of Man O’War, 4×6 Spearmint (son Chicle), 5×4 Rock Sand, 4×4 Peter Pan.

@Chicle (top & bottom influence) thus factors Northern Dancer. 2x Halo has Turn-To 5×4 Spearmint + influences Nearco’s 2nd dam, Catnip.

**5×5 Halo by Hail To Reason takes 3 x Spearmint daughter Plucky Leige, 5×6 Fair Play. The dam Cosmah – 5×5 Spearmint via sons Chicle & Over There (IRE)

Hurry On – English TB & #GA male line extinct… was/is potent sire which factors b/m sire Court Martial, Sassafras > Precipitation, 8x Hurry On > Coryana dam of Wajaab. Hurry On daughter Devon Lass is 7th dam to sire Acclamation.

With Heart of the Dragon, the true potency finds jockey James McDonald in disbelief. He is the ultimate racehorse perfect called Romantic Warrior.

What a phenomenal win from ROMANTIC WARRIOR in the QEII Cup! 🙌 🏆 🤩@HKJC_Racing | @HongKong_Racing | #HKRacing | #HKChampionsDay pic.twitter.com/cBcNhEDE6q

— World Horse Racing (@WHR) April 28, 2024

@janebielski (TBL researcher)

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