Breeding patterns and Heredity are unbelievably complex

Les Brinsfield in conversation to Clive Harper

The hype is real! Bob Baffert’s $3.2m colt Barnes dazzles in the Grade 2 San Vicente at @santaanitapark under @JJHernandezS19!

A proper @KentuckyDerby contender 🙌 pic.twitter.com/eQx12Yrt3D

— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) January 4, 2025

Barnes – Into Mischief by All American Dream ex- American Pharoah https://www.pedigreequery.com/barnes3 –

Barnes has Storm Cat – 4×5 , (Storm Bird from Terlingua ex-Secretariat)

Social media on racehorse and sire Secretariat re-lives 50 years on. One may remember the restlessness as Secretariat failed to produce to his superior ilk. Yet slide time to generations, those Big Red descendants, particularly the daughters surely came special.

Somethingroyal – ‘thoroughbred ‘blue-hen’ upgrader sits 7S x 8D x 6D x 8D x 7D, dam of Secretariat & Sir Gaylord

Secretariat (Bold Ruler – Somethingroyal by *Princequillo)

Barnes – @ 9x Princequillo: the sire of Quill, dam of One for All (sire’s Into Mischief distaff.) Quill takes up a strain in Second Hand, a full sister to Doncaster, thence takes up position to the true ‘might’ of thoroughbred breeding. Thence Bend Or (Doncaster) has his Identity > ✅✅@Tadcaster (Doncaster/Clemence) + (imo) draws discussion point (below) in Birdcatcher – however not ignoring illustrious Pocahontas & Whisker from Waxy from dam Maria.

Where Secretariat always goes examined to his much-distinguished phenotype further defined to the ‘X’ heart factor theory. and whether agreeing or disagreeing to the X factor, large hearts are a marvel of nature where legends are famed as was New Zealand’s bred Phar Lap. A fun fact also to the New Zealand champion sire Mellay (Never Say Die USA) whose post-mortem revealed a larger heart than Phar Lap’s.

Large heart considerations or not, the muse sits on back influences at *^Bend Or is ✅✅Tadcaster (Clemence/Martha Lynn) and further Galopin Delight not Vedette) sire, *Birdcatcher genetics from dam Guiccioli by broodmare sire Bob Booty, distaff to Ringtail Galloway. The accounts speak volumes.

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

Guiccioli is the 6th dam distaff Sister of Regulus, full sister to Regulus from Grey Robinson by Bald Galloway.

Pocahontas (daughter of Glencoe) was historically mentioned at 14 hands 3″ high. She ran 9 times without winning during her 2 – 5 year season. Her first foal was at 6 years and she lived to 33 years of age. Dam of Stockwell, Rataplan, King Tom, The Knight of Kars, Ayacanora, and more she produced 15 foals. Its been noticed The Knight of Kars is an influence to QH breeding. Her spectacular breeding success of sire of sires, was probably towards sire Glencoe, an enormous and successful influence to early American female bloodlines and went sold before British bloodstock breeders had noticed a ‘bad’ mistake letting Glencoe go to the new Colony offshore.

Of heritage importance, ‘then’ breeding books installed marvellous pheno details. It is poorly gathered to modern TB’s. By utilizing science it appears and delightfully, the source and breed.

It was discovering one pure source, Old England sire factoring to the Irish Eclipse named Harkaway where noticing the Old England mares were phenomenal weight carrier(s) and ran all day. Old England ‘set-up’ family 2 and 4. His dam is the Little Hartley Mare as re-named Amorett. The Old England daughters where generally named as Old England mare(s) and one as named Sister to Pioneer, from a Traveller mare by Traveller trails to the grand-dam of stamina blood in Beeswing & 3rd dam of Newminster, sire of Hermit and Lord Clifden.

Pointedly, Birdcatcher’s sire Sir Hercules is of dam, in distaff Old England mare, designated family 2-t. The Birdcatcher & Harkaway strains cross in distaff to Papyrus thru mare Philomath and Papyrus is the broodmare sire of *Princequillo.

daughters of Papyrus upgraded female line, just like those of Princequillo

Ken McLean

Extracting more detail on what strains govern for a strong ‘Type’ alongside their unmatched performances to the formative era’s has an interesting statement++ ” in spite of the enormous increase of Thoroughbred breeding after 1850, we do not find any examples in the second half of the nineteenth century which showed better performances“.

https://www.pedigreequery.com/dr+syntax, a legendary racehorse won more than 36 races from 1814 to 1823, sire of https://www.pedigreequery.com/beeswing, dam of Newminster

Bee’s Wing by Dr Syntax – Ardrossan, born 1833, from 2 to 9 years old, a splendid race, ran 64 times, won 51 times. First foal at 11 years old, 8 foals, amongst which were Nunnykirk and Newminster and three splendid Foundation mares in Family 8. Bee’s Wing stood 15 hands 2″ high. Dr Syntax stood at 15 hands. Newminster 15 hands 2″. Newminster’s chief points of merit were his immense brisket, finely-set shoulders and his grand quarters, which were of great reach and a model of strengths down to the hock. His head, set on a neck singularly lean but muscular, was very attractive and he had prominent eyes with a longish muzzle. He stood well on his legs and had a great stride, sweeping along close to the ground with elegance and power.

These earlier extraordinary RH horse(s) make for hardiness and endurance of the pure Thoroughbred and especially a resisting capacity from its foundation. The ancestral upon Newminster & Bee’s Wing family 8-c + Bend Or/Tadcaster✅ (Clemence/Martha Lynn) + Harkaway (family 2) unfolds @ Barnes, 4×5 Storm Cat they come on down thru @ Terlingua’s distaff. Plus Bold Ruler from Miss Disco distaff sire thru to 19x Newminster. Particularly, Miss Disco – 6×6 Laveno (Bend Or) is quite significant, as Laveno will be further found to Storm Cat’s sire Storm Bird, to his distaff in 4th dam by Display thru broodmare sire Nassovian (William the Third)

On Bend Or/Tadcaster inscribed: The most striking impression formed of Bend Or/Tadcaster is the remarkable consistency of his formation. He is of a nice length, his shoulders well placed, strong, muscular, and beatuifully moulded at their points; while his chest is the proper width and fulness, with a light yet muscular neck of nice length, and a particularly well set-on head of sufficient breadth between the eyes, which are prominent, with nice sized ears well pricked. His sire Doncaster is the true type of an english thoroughbred horse. At Newmarket July 1879, Bend Or/Tadcaster first appearance as a two year old, easily defeated 10 opponents.

Further assuring these identities, the science in graphics ^*Figure 2 (reference below) informs what gains necessary Haplotype/Genotype similarity upon clade clustering at lineages 2,8,16.

Consider that nucleus; ‘mapping’ effect, likened train-route from stations, and there it shall be observed the clustering, a trail links what goes far to half-bred family B3 (British Native Mares) before the GSB development @ female family individuals.

Barnes distaff family 7-f, a 5th dam by Secretariat. Further back in distaff is the Bend Or son Orvieto, and most significantly he is a full brother to Laveno, as above commented to Storm Bird & Miss Disco. Beautiful…

Well...what of the Barnes racing phenotype? Huge girth, powerful hindquarters, a strong head. He’s immense and that’s the point and or, shall we say the very heart of it.

references

^* Figure 2 Page 6 https://www.plusvital.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Resolving-the-identity-of-the-founding-elite-thoroughbred-racehorses.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1aUIw5BCy3udD5QTm2g3MVcYKP2x6qBVzid4cUlbyf92gRiPCshI-Rv84

Click to access Thoroughbred-racehorse-mitochondrial-DNA-demonstrates-closer-than-expected-links-between-maternal-genetic-history.pdf

Click to access Remer_Viktoria.pdf

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/282002/barnes-leads-into-mischiefs-attempt-at-seventh-title?utm_source=BHTW&utm_medium=social

https://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/somethingroyal.html

The Horse-Breeders Handbook – Jos. Osborne

Quest for a Classic Winner – Ken McLean

The Thoroughbred Breeders Handbook – Clive Harper