Hot, endless fascination – Everybody wants a ‘Winx’.
Last month, New Zealand Bloodstock had its November Ready-to-Run 2 YO sale.
With familiar interest….one stood out.
TBL wondered how many might see the pedigree, pick the genetic profile.
We loved the 2 year old filly’s genotype, her breeze-up time and that balanced efficiency of gait belonging to Winx.
The pattern of another Winx is rare occasion however those key strains clearly stepped out from the page.
To the law of probability -the magic chemistry of genetic strains through crosses, we should assess from the Winx genotype, directs, ‘shapes’ overall structure.
The filly in question & subject – by Shocking (AUS), the son of Street Cry.
Shocking – 2009 Melbourne Cup winner. http://www.richhillstud.co.nz/rich-hill-stallions/shocking/stud-record
The dam – by Tale of the Cat (USA) where the dam’s dam is by Success Express. Yes, the key strain of Troy (GB) and Success Express (USA) is the ‘X’ factor we scored Winx on.
Other bloodlines and contributors all ‘held’ intact – their own key family affiliation pliable to the complete pedigree.
– via individuals Danehill and 3rd dam sire: Bletchingly (AUS) (as noted before via TBL genotype profiling) are genetically communal. Yet, better still the zone: sire’s broodmare sire across the infusing maternal zone. Essentially, they are the speed strains.
Also noted through sire Shocking (AUS), point-to (maternally) the strain belonging to Roberto – his inbreeding to Blue Larkspur.
(*side-note See how/why Blue Larkspur ‘crosses’ along side Mr Prospector/Native Dancer read here Almond Eye (JPN)
Yes, the Robertostrain present in the maternal to Zenyatta (super star daughter of Street Cry, Winx’s other )
Silly Season (USA) – (Shocking’s 3rd dam sire); the strain infused to Winx’s broodmare sire Al Akbar (AUS).
Other interesting notes – this 2 year old, bay filly from female family 2-r. Say hello to the family trails to Sunline, Phar-Lap both ff – 2r: New Zealand exceptional racing family. Patterns of Nature: Phar Lap & Sunline
An un-named filly has the star rated quality genotype pedigree. Excellent, sweet spots
2018 Melbourne Cup race has its winner – Cross Counter (GB) by Teofilo (IRE) ex-Waitress (USA) from Kingmambo (USA) – by Mr Prospector from Miesque (USA)
Jig-saw genetics.
Miesque – best miler in Europe, winning in every country (France, U.S.A. England at 2,3,4 years of age. Racing Hall of Fame. Phenomenal.
The TBL pedigree takes emphasis upon origins, female-families, infusions – additionally, generational breeding cycles which shall organically sustain bloodlines.
Often balance in modern pedigrees is sacrifice or lost at the dictate of fashion, because of the prevailing climate of the commercial yearling market or through the blindness of breeders. Ross de Bourg
Aside from breeding principles, it would seem modern racehorse breeding has challenges towards the public front and thus all those passionate or, the not so passionate (activist welfare movements) share complex diverse opinions, facts, figures, who, how, why, what to the future(s) of sports-horses, thoroughbreds and the racing integrity.
The stayers dilemma, its speciality long-distant racing and of breeding stability requires the ‘local’ racing program as to purposefully/supportively develop the wonderful breed.
A TBL ethos by organic ‘selective’ breeding: successful breeding thrives from strains, traits component peculiarities, rather than ‘closed’ to bare few high-profiled individuals, as generally does the market guided or, of an in-breeding philosophy.
The consistent domination(s) but of narrowing bloodlines, eventually finds exhaustion. It is a natural dynamic – the feral herd domination shall die (at some point) – her bloodline refreshed by diversity, the skill to survive. Mainstream will ignore the paradox.
from the book The Australian & New Zealand Thoroughbred by Ross de Bourg
It is difficult to convince many breeders that it is possible to ‘over egg the pudding’ by concentrating too many influence for high quality in a pedigree. The result tends to be the production of too much nervous energy, producing over-excitability, nervousness or constitutional weakness. Wealthy businessmen who came into racing and breeding without any knowledge or understanding of it, often seem unable to grasp that breeding the best with the best does not necessarily result in the best…
It is difficult to narrate pedigrees, its parallel to breeding detail, at-depth. I strongly suggest true, careful, astute examination from all angles – the consideration upon pedigree, contemporary and ancestrally which undoubtedly displays exclusive ‘pattern’. Exclusivity of individuals is the name of the game, identifying key strains & those pedigree affiliations.
Cross Counter (GB) – female family 3-d
– utilizing female family indexes is extremely helpful.
Over time we’ve deduced plying with FF indexes indicate something far deeper than a given matrilineal number. In a sense, they represent a core genus which is to be appreciated beyond a conventional scope, beyond the conventional determination only three ancestral sires established the thoroughbred.
A by-gone superior genus-type suggests. However whether ‘searchable’ or not, it shall remain a TBL conjecture.
Of greater performers through the breeding, returning a familial selection intelligence.
The maternal infusions upon matri-lineal about 5th-7th removal are the nearest, possible comprehension to what is circulating as broodmare genetics.
What is ripening?
Consider possibilities?
Best genetic approximation & so forth…….
Deliberations to ascertain broodmare sire genetics…
– don’t believe mating/breeding is algorithm alone? (in that algorithms miss minor ‘finer’ detail)
Cross Counter broodmare, Waitress (USA) her maternal roots….note direct infusion Mr Prospector/Raise A Native: sets-the-genetic flavour, to set the foundational assimilation. Plus, Mr Prospector son – Kingmambo (USA) as broodmare sire – where speed and the tough get together.
Teofilo, by Galileo infusionMiswaki
Miswaki (USA) the FF-16g, (the ancestral dam Agnes, ancestral male dose Birdcatcher strain. (n.b. Birdcatcher – grandsire to Rataplan Stockwell, Emperor of Stallions – their sire The Baron, an important ingression to note.* (see below)
Broodmare Waitress (USA), her 3rd dam sire Persian Heights (GB) (European champion 3 year old) the FF-16g, where again, the ancestral dam Agnes/Birdcatcher.
To his magnificent sire Persian Bold (GB), importantly note the FF-9h with co-affiliation to the iconic mareUrban Sea FF- 9h carrying Mit. DNA, through same, the ancestral Alveole/Ste Alvere (GB) FF-9h.
At this point, I hope readers are finding with meaning to the core, genus type generational breeding.
Secreto (USA), FF 4-d, to same reflections, same strains through individuals Danehill (His Majesty (USA), Speirbhean (IRE) dam of Teofilo via Majestic Prince (USA) where ancestrally Boudair (GB) recaptures same. However should you wish to pursue this powerful female line NOTICE a dam called Mineral (GB) inbred to Birdcatcher.
Solidarity in numbers, for sure!
Lalun (FF 19-b) 6Sx7D: only two duplications (you might think) however the powerful Djebel (FR), sire Tourbillon (FF 13C) is the KEY FACTOR conducive to Mr PROSPECTOR BLOODLINES, their genetic ancestral link, genus blue-hen Frizette.
Now you may wonder(?) why my odd omission to Northern Dancer, his dam Natalma (ff 2-d) – trait wise (I mean).
Genetically, Northern Dancer (like Nearco) globally, has set a fixed global prototype. It is like saying it is the zero-point. Whether we know or not, N.D. traits are the ‘modern’ era and with necessity, we view for specific differentiation/variants to find ‘how’ superior performers ARE throwing out ‘new’ genetic makeup by generational bred phases via this fixed prototype.
*(side-note: the N.D. ‘fixed’ trait prototype passed to his son Danehill whom by the female-family 2d i.e. XY & XX has distinctly shaped phenotype to terms – athleticism, precocity. Now, that was the course, but it changes and resilient breeding takes care of the future……)*
Similar can be said of Mr Prospector prototype however, subjective as it is, impresses individual bloodlines/trait by broodmare maternal i.e. Nashua, Count Fleet, to the tap-root matrilineal Myrtlewood (FF 13-c Frizette USA).
The strains from these individuals sum the building blocks to many a quality pedigree. It is not enough to identify them as superior, but almost, the ordered framework standing alongside Northern Dancer. However once again breeding is not algorithm pedestrian: it is reaping unidentified/identified sources via the individuals which may caste out or, reset a trait deeply hidden, in thoroughbred ancestry.
Therein lies the expansion, the evolvement, of thoroughbred breeding.
As finale (!) score Cross-Counter pedigree: Teofilo – notice a FF 10-c, namely Victoria Park (CAN) and to Waitress, 2nd dam sire Highest Honor (Fr) – to notice, same FF 10-c. Where, Bonnie Doon is the ancestral dam & last foal of Queen Mary: a family highly regarded for exceptional class & durability. (key point trait)
For further reading on Teofilo where “The superiority of a bull is where genes will knit anything…” (so said the ol’boy). Teofilo, sire of Cross Counter also sire to – Humidor (NZ), the supremacy of genetics.
Colours n’ hood of sports car fire-red, the Australian bred Redzel showed no mercy in his back-to-back Everest win.
Yep…like an antipodean hero (a Sir Edmund Hillary mountaineer quote): Redzel ‘knocked the bastard off’ and the prize-money is in the bank.
History cheers like that. Echoes for many a time to come.
Equine heroes always are something special – more than we shall ever know.
In this TBL blog we explore ‘something’ many fans out there might like to know.
Whip out the pedigree & let’s Go!
TBL aficiando spine-chills …..
Redzel by Australian sire sensation Snitzel from dam Millrich (female family 27) ex- Rubiton, the broodmare sire.
Now if you get to know bloodlines workin’ &cruisin’ them traits: they’re genes which keep pedigrees cookin’ long and slow. It is peculiar to the mitochondrial DNA; the maternal thrust & this is the most best kept secret if you wish to get about & scout a thoroughbred of your own.
Importantly, this is the meaning of Ancestry.
Devils in details: infusions built-into maternal from greater predecessors; they are the ‘predictors’. Not statistics.
TBL went time-travellin’ back through the Redzel pedigree. The greater breeders understood a phenomenon that the further you see back, the further you see forward.
At TBL we target EACH maternal as highly individualistic. The merits ‘why’ certain bred individuals ARE distinctive. Its not simple, but ‘digs’ the pedigree honest.
Remarkabley Redzel’s dam Millrich (AUS) through her furthest maternal line has New Zealand old familial roots where a sire infusion near, direct IN has the female family 2-r, from a sire called Perkin Warbeck (NZ) from none other than dam & ancestress Miss Kate.
Miss Kate is the 4th dam of Phar Lap and is one of the oldest and richest tap-root families to the antipodes.
Sunline (NZ), inductee of Australian Hall of Fame, is another Miss Kate descendant.
There is more… exclusive stuff. The Millrich, female-family 27 (further back) derives from Rataplan, his dam Pocahontas (GB) & Rataplan was full-brother to Stockwell. In essence, these are great, great greater grand-daddies sum total of thoroughbreds.
It was the work of a writer & pedigree analyst (since deceased) Marianna Haun through her study of the great Secretariat which stunned the equine world; the bigger heart of superior runners with her X-heart gene thesis. reference http://www.horsenation.com/2015/06/04/secretariats-genetic-x-factor-the-secret-to-the-triple-crown/
In a nutshell Secretariat sourced X-factor mightiness from Pocahontas.
Miss Kate/Rataplan,Stockwell/Pocohontas are the Mitchondrial DNA back-bone to Redzel’s dam, Millrich.
Now many sceptic-nature, might just scoff that ancestry just cannot spike genes to the immediate here n’ now.
So we shall explore the direct pedigree from a 5th-remove landscape. 5th remove is where the ripe genetic action is.
In simple form Redoute’s Choice (sire of Snitzel) via Danzig, and his broodmare sire Canny Lad via his sire Bletchingly (AUS) are the traits to the one n’ same ancestressMowerina.
And so IS – Millrich 2nd dam sire Millionaire (IRE)….ancestress Mowerina.
Scout deep a pedigree to Mowerina daughters and you shall see plentiful duplications to Stockwell/Pocahontas.
It is no wonder Mowerina ancestry via modern female family 7a configurations propels pedigrees and individuals to turf magnificence.
That’s how stars come out. That’s how stars are made. Heart n’ soul stuff.
She teases, she thrills & the mare dapples racing immortality.
We shall never have enough of Winx – the larger than life, legend.
We attempt to fathom more – that pedigree, the progeny of Street Cry (IRE).
Let us repeat…spectacular, superior and the more ‘champion’ of pedigrees are often more soooo deep, than not.
It is through ‘time’ and only ‘time’ we see the greater breeding expanse – sires and broodmares, champions and even with the ordinary, how they breed from a forgotten place.
We shall see Ancestry, is also the future writing.
The electrica Winx propulsion – a supernatural velocity without touching turf, impresses where her sire Street Cry transmitted make em’ tough upon many of his progeny. This trait I attribute to his broodmare sire Troy (GB), Europe’s champion 3 year colt. Further back, notice another phenomena, speed strain, that of Hornbeam.
Troy won the 200th Derby by a remarkable seven lengths.
Hornbeam, of the female family 1-P, as also indexed to Black Caviar’s maternal line. Black Caviar: ‘diamonds’ within a pedigree. Take note Hornbeam, doubles his genetic presence via Al Akbar, Winx’s broodmare sire.
– (Al Akbar (AUS) by Success Express) What has the trait that places an almost obscure stallion, standing his years at Grangewilliam stud, Wanganui, New Zealand & came infused with his bloodlines to a phenomenal star performer.
But just for a mere moment, put the spotlight on Mossman (AUS) – Success Express (USA) from Lichen Lady (AUS), from the familial matron Lady Josephine i.e. FF 9c. Further note where the familial reinforces from double dosage (refer Solario (IRE) & Lady Josephine) by Sundridge **(read on below)
(additionally: if you like Success Express bloodlines, explore sire, Savabeel (AUS) by Zabeel, ex- Savannah Success by SUCCESS EXPRESS.)
A genetic pattern laid….& as they continually do!
*A Gr.1 winner at 2, Mossman placed in two legs of the 2yo Triple Crown. A truly exceptional sire. Tough and genuine, Mossman is the sire of Gr.1 winners PLUCKY BELLE, BUFFERING, MISS MOSSMAN, OFCOURSEICAN and MOSSFUN and was the Champion 2YO Sire in 2013/14. He has so far sired over 35 individual SWer’s, not bad for a stallion with an average foal crop of less than 60. credit source, Vinery Stud
Though its ‘common’ – (contemporary sire lines profusely limited to Northern Dancer, Mr Prospector), I find it personally beyond comprehension to find ‘how’ a precious impacting sire line, which descends ‘direct’ Prince John/Princequillo – a genetic all-time domination so beyond itself. Importantly these traits which find co-affinity, its infinity to that of Nasrullah.
The Nasrullah/Princequillo genetic mix remains a force to be reckoned with in the pedigrees of Group and Graded stakes winners. Ken McLean
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Before Winx, there was another girl-power machine. She exhibited similar super racing abilities. Let’s see if we can twig-it.
The Eclipse champion older female 2008/09/10 – Zenyatta by Street Cry, ex-Vertigineux (USA) from Kris S.
Yes, different mare lines & yet to seek what must transcend ordinary into extraordinary is to comprehend the soul of superior performers. Again always the puzzle, to not only join genetic traits & dots but find n’ figure the genus where deeper central potential sits and waits.
I am not able to discuss statistics nor sciences, nor shall try – ONLY the very aim, where every pedigree sighted will demonstrate its ‘affinity’ construction, specifically.
Winx highlights a genetic dynamite via maternal ancestry. (Refer my article True Colours to reference an ancestor called **Sundridge.
And profoundly, Zenyatta through broodmare sire Forli also carries Sundridge. Plus, Forli’s sire IS Aristophanes (GB) Lady Josephine as I explain here.
In an instant the comprehension of genetic patterning layering is apparent. The sire ancestry Sundridge classic-genes, his daughter classy Lady Josephine, her daughter Mumtaz Mahal (aka The Flying Filly) formulate those same family roots akin to Nasrullah/Royal Charger.
Talk strains collectively, – Mumtaz Mahal , Mumtaz Begum/Mahmoud/Fair Trial: the female family index 9C.
In genotype/phenotype terms, this is what I define as genus.
It’s aficionado chills, where to collect & recollect Sundridgetraits through pedigrees of Count Fleet(the 2nd dam sire to Mr Prospector) Prince John, Blue Larkspur, Eight Thirty. Get them collectively as per, the Success Express sire – Hold Your Peace(USA)….boom!
They are not-so-far-ago predecessors. Like, genetic ‘informants’ and also recycle loud n’ clear through Zenyatta’s broodmare sire Kris S.(USA) – 2nd dams sire Forli (USA) .
The BIG BANG genetics.
Those traits actually seize dominant homozygoisity; they qualify a natural determination of what is naturally integral to displace the heterozygoisity in the breed. With my research, gratefulness & tribute, to the late and great Australian bloodstock writer & analyst Ross du Bourg who wrote ” The explosion in the world’s breeding population (allied with a much higher turnover of breeding stock and an increased reproduction rate) in the twentieth century has led to a savage and ongoing escalation of heterozygosity in the breed.”
Yet, the personal story is – Winx raises our admiration and an instinctive interest to what remarkable racehorses can be. As did, Zenyatta for her American racing fans.
Will there be another Winx?
Yes – but the oddity is, they will come forth from a non-fashion, not-hot broodmare sire, a non-commercial affordable: its genetics fired slow thereby marginalized statistically to inferiority class.
Impermeable genes, they serve singlehandedly and such sires quietly graze in a paddock just as I drove past Al Akbar, way back then.
Of our subjects 1) Sea of Class (IRE) – ch. filly and 2) Stradivarius, (IRE) ch. C : sire Sea the Stars, do note Urban Sea as dam.
https://www.pedigreequery.com/sea+of+class
Rip apart the pedigree, note what is obvious, & work through to what is not obvious, to unfold the invisible factor of an ‘aha’…..deduce what is folding in/out of the genetic mix of sires/generations. – TBL
Its a no-brainer pedigree to capitulate Nijinsky 4Dx4D with Miswaki 3sx4d. Head back further and you might just find a couple common factors, such as Native Dancer.
Should you head back even further you may find what’s turning the wheels: – Discovery (USA) And if you further turn the wheels there’s the supreme ancestress Mannie Gray (USA).
Mannie Gray is Mother Superior as was/is large-heart gene, Pocahontas.
But, can you see how…? https://www.pedigreequery.com/mannie+gray
In many ways superb potent sires Nijinsky/Miswaki may be enough to justify the whole pedigree. But its not… not for us anyway.
We are going to keep expanding out and take it up a few notches. Divulge more depth, more beautiful detail.
Namely…. how is the harmonic ‘tone’ set…?
7th dam….tapping a double-shot of French-bred Tourbillon, female family 13C* into the deep maternal roots. Interesting…
Note also the other infusion Auriban (FR) ff-13C.
Tourbillon, Auriban (american, Frizette-fame) trace to dam Shotover (GB) by HERMIT.
– yep, we are really digging out HOW indispensable traits/strains re-work upon genus type: they don’t die on ya’.
– i.e. core, nucleus mitDNA, (think about it)…… does IT make sense to see how the ‘type’ of the maternal dam is set?
The next important ‘marker’ is none other than the Princequillo of Princes siring lineage….(we, collectively place the sire lineage to a structural genetic realm all on its own). These ARE the ineffable ‘dose’. Bang, it goes…. right on, to the ‘collective’ taproot. So Im-port-tant to see elementary evolve, unravelling, spinning through.
Next marker: theancestress La Troienne (FR) ff-1x & as represented by Caerleon (USA), sired by Nijinsky) & grandam sire to subject, Sea of Class and ) + the dams sire of Miswaki, Buckpasser (ff-1x)
– Hope you shall see how knitting comes together!
NEXT up
Stradivarius (IRE) – Sea the Stars from Private Life (FR) by Bering (GB)
https://www.pedigreequery.com/stradivarius15
– again, the TBL methodology – expand tap-root maternal pedigree, note the similar peculiarities as above. They flow from, and In, to infuse. CLICK.
7th dam – Norseman (FR) ff-13C, Worden (FR) ff-13C,
note again the legacy….Prince Bio (FR) 9Sx7Sx7Sx8Dx8D
Discovery (USA) 9Xx8Sx8dx7dx9dx8d
So far, TBL has failed yet to mention Nasrullah (ff – 9C). Pivotal to global breeding the melodies of pedigree, are well-infused by his, & nearest genetic relations.
That’s immortality folks, where inclusively crossed by Princequillo traits, which other good analysts already know. We won’t re-invent the pedigree wheel here….!!!!
Genetic frame-work to Miswaki (USA) exposes ‘marker’s’ and telling of the future.. again and again the pedigree grid revolves in ‘time’.
Identifying genetic connections with in pedigrees helps us to understand why some lines are perpetuated while others disappear. (If) …our objective is to design stakes-winning pedigrees, perhaps the next step towards achieving this goal is to identify valuable genes transmitted by influential mares. Ken McLean Designing Speed in the Racehorse
It is only by intense scrutiny of high performance individuals, the template they supply, a truer appreciation unfolds and reveals. There lies the truest thoroughbred in all its finery: the original genus trait so needed for its ability, existence, survival. – TBL
The work is 99.9% near done!
Now folks… despite all homework, frame-work here,….there goes the on-going complexity that ‘same’ is not about more of producing ‘same’.
Expression of parentage traits through their contemporary descendants is also comprehending a meticulous observation where a repressed gene may live to resurrect.
Hybrid vigour wants to be superior than what is already given. Its course is often unpredictable, defiant, working or un-working any finest pedigree yet stages ‘other’ plans to produce the perfect specimen from the ‘unknown’.
We notice the smallest miniscule ‘strain’ detail is possibly relevant; the ever slight detail which appears almost meaningless.
The ‘new’ generation is transfiguration, the place for bold breeders & breeding.
At TBL we’ve prior referred to scarcity. The mere fleck of DNA gene-dust that holds light appearing as ‘if’ sacrosanct, there is no real ‘defining’, nor can be accounted.
Its appeal…belongs to unconventional exclusivity, that of superior pedigree craftsmanship.
However in TBL fashion, I attempt to explain breed, the genus throw back, through historical insights belonging to thoroughbred antiquity.
Bold as paint & as sound as a bell of brass.
His good looks, excellent performances, and that he is full of the most successful winning blood of the day. (Of this distant genus)… finest and most perfect-shaped horses ever foaled.
He has been well described as “multum in parvo”; and most of his progeny were of the same character, having great power on short legs.
Of valuable addition(s) to the British stud – Gohanna’s blood comes down with great éclat to our time.
(his brother) one of the worthies that helped to lay the foundation of the American Turf.
The “classic” races fell to six of his progeny, viz., The Baron, Daniel O’Rourke, Knight of St. George, Warlock, Imperieuse, and Songstress, where BIRDCATCHER blood has also been transmitted to our time.
AND to this unique breeding interpretation….
That one has to fight against this production of the beautiful sham, even in the breeding of Thoroughbreds, one can see in many English studs which breed for the yearlings markets.
…..showy stock very seldom become also (best) breeding stock: they’re merely on account of the race tests. In any case, that breeding stock which has an important influence on the breeding of Thoroughbreds – it is a pity that through human sin muchgood material is wasted which was destined by Divine Nature to be chosen material.
What TBL concluded through enjoyable reads, was that from Eastern Europe, the tough breeders recognized the ‘lightness’ of the thoroughbred ‘blood’ as failing at survival; dose of robustness (in its truest sense) was Essential to maintain the species. Basically their observations came from Russian cavalry war-horse breeding. The problem was and still is, to an extent how those extreme bench-marks could be re-enacted.
How this weighs-in now… is to ‘recognise’ unique individualism – the law of averages (AEI) is misleading a dam’s potential, her ability to ‘unveil’ the hidden gem.
TBL returns this enlightenment to the subjects Sea of Class & Stradivarius. You are to remember pedigrees are not fixed, there is a momentum/progression of genus traits lifting.
To simplify refer their pedigrees – focus to the ff-20a to @ origins GHUZNEE.
Screen excellence & the exercise is not to go by racing sires, mares, individuals as to discover HOW dynamics work, stay on like a wave patterns circulating through generational alike proximity. In a nutshell, its genotype patterns of ‘workability’. Thus….
quoted & credited to Ross du Bourgs book The New Zealand & Australian Thoroughbred: upon a study & essay by Thomas and Donald Lesh as published in the British Racehorse 1968
…therefore that heterosis or hybrid vigour is not the crucial factor in superior racecourse performance.
Homozygotes and heterozygotes are fundamental concepts in the science of genetics and the practice of breeding. Defined at their simplest, a homozygous individual has genes that are alike, while a heterozygous individual has genes that are unlike. The Leshes found that the homozygous individual could produced noticeably more enzymes.
Thus the homozygous individual would seem to have a more efficient metabolism, having, for instance, greater energy resources or quicker recovery from fatigue; In short, the Leshes conclude ‘ the potential to perform with greater ease than the ordinary horse and to be better able to profit from a training regimen.
Beautiful.
For the moment forget speed, forget stamina and let’s just say I want to apply a solid genetic framework which reflects the best possible specimen called a thoroughbred.
Our subject Masar, a pedigree deeply paralleled with Galileo, Sea the Stars (Cape Cross) but namely the dam’s line of Urban Sea (USA) from formerly German-bred, Anatevka – the female family 9h.
German breeding (its history) forced a heavy use of the female family 9h & if you look to Anatevka’s daughter Allegretta (GB) you shall see her numerous strains of this 9h family back-sired by Alchimest (GER).
Similar outcrossing procedures involving blends of typical German strains with strains drawn fro the main stream of European thoroughbred evolution have proved their worth as sources of Classic quality on numerous occasions. Peter Willett, The Classic Racehorse
The golden key turning the density as female strains, influences, are beautifully set.
It should now, be no secret, where Galileo strikes well or equally with his sires female family ‘Special” USA , the female family 5-h given to Sadlers Wells.
Many articles on these mighty horses take obvious bits of information without penetrating particular peculiarities which greatly seam the genetics. The dam’s family ‘connections’ which keeps the knitting together. Exceptional ‘dam’ strain (family 9-h)intertwines another exceptional ‘dam’ strain (5-h), the most potent proliferating thoroughbred strains in existence where it is also to gauge their genetic prowess on the constant evolutionary move of the thoroughbred.
Now…welcome (if following other pedigrees) Lorenzaccio (GB) , Nureyev, Val-de-Loir or, other generation individuals of Special and the 5h, frame-work becomes more so obvious.
Simply they all follow the ancestress Simon Shoes (GB). Yes, the female family 5h stages globally Derby winning families.
The 9h and the 5h family patterns X and Y – strains made in heaven.
Heavenly horses ? Long before thoroughbred ancestry stud book recordings THE THOROUGHBRED FRAMEWORK IMMORTALITY began to take shape.
…one dominant (quality) is defined. The one genus, is above the rest.
No-kidding…
How to put this… horses because of blood group complexity, will come irregular and since our TBL blog is biased towards best of the best superior performers, a bare few equine monsters tier above everything else.
They were & are the likes of St. Simon, Princequillo grand-daddy siring i.e. Prince Rose, Man O’ War
Why, why, why?
To the deep roots of the magnificence, the quality thoroughbred where as much formulated by trade, war, commerce and travel via the Ottoman empire.
The horse was the most important means of travel (and battle) among the Turkish tribes of Central Asia for millennia. They were bred for speed, strength, calmness and intelligence, among the attributes required at various times. These horses, known as Turkoman, are now considered extinct, but they undoubtedly left their genetic legacy behind. source: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/the-ottomans-and-their-love-of-horses-65556
finally to the very earliest traceable ancestor who carried the large heart gene, Hautboy, one of the founding thoroughbred bloodlines in the mid-seventeenth century. source: http://www.horsenation.com/2012/05/21/horses-in-history-the-x-factor/
Sometime, belonging to the Ottoman Empire, the writer read where the English aristocracy where completely awe struck to the beauty, the strength, the size and the agility of these striking horses. Sound familiar?
In far lesser degree, similar lines appeared to Masar (IRE).***(below)
How so, with such divergent individuals?
IT IS THE quality determinants of breed, of type, of genus . We call it Mating for Superiority
Ottoman Turk horses transported over time, to our subject pedigree Masar we all can agree the greats are not average and clearly differentiate from the rest.
Their genetic layers are quality dominant, not quantity dominant.
Further refer the greater tap-root maternal influences to Masar’s 5th dam & beyond.(Snow Bride (USA)⇒Blushing Groom ⇒Red God, Misaki (USA)/Hopespringeternal/Mr Prospector/Buckpasser.
***again refer Alpha Centauri – e.g. compare (as above) via Rahy⇒Blushing Groom⇒Red God, Miswaki/Buckpasser A Star born – Alpha Centauri
One might say there is plenty of ‘space’ to these two, but essentially, are they?
The relevancy to think-on, is not just superior families sticking the glue, but more so following the familiar patterns, as nature supplies them, to establish your own selected individual is complemented to itself.
Bored by wintry-blues, TBL went to the local race meeting.
Strode into the main entrance and spotted horse no.6. Eye appeal was enough.
Took a bet & it was a good start to the day. Brought myself lunch (not so good there) and walked by the den of punters, and on through to the outside, where the small crowd of owners and connections socialized from the cold.
As pondering the who’s who of owner-partnership fraternity, where the parties eagerly hung to jockeys & trainers view of events…my friend said, ‘things don’t change’ and TBL chuckled knowingly.
‘If’, if, if you see… has the longest word in the human book and ‘if’ that horse wasn’t in a bad position, it would of been in-the-money, having made up its ground.
TBL remembered the ol’ Russian proverb: ‘hope is the mother of all fools’.
Next race and coming into the birdcage was a nervous mare. Surprised at the astonishingly elongated back pastern where the fetlock almost appeared ready to collapse beneath. Her awkwardness upset TBL’s idealism of the perfect specimen. (joke) How could it have a show?
Galileo mare
WHAT(?)…effortlessly, she flew past the post – a smooth gliding action which touched invisibly upon the turf.
The mare was by the great Galileo.
– yeah, TBL got this wrong. It was a message to reboot and remind. Think & think again, what-is(?) well-bred correctness?
Ultimately, breeding is Get the Best. The best thoroughbred where its poetry is swiftness: a beautiful ‘natural’ easy momentum speed surging through veins of a classic thoroughbred animal.
The clues of careful breeding come upon a genotype pedigree which yields to deeper layering – the familial ‘groups’ (in-breeding) as belonging to the individuals (as ‘race’-named): these hierarchal like-tiers which imperceptibly, preside through thoroughbred breeding.
It persists in generations what is potential – the aim to procure an above normal individual. A horse (in flesh) may be ugly, unlikeable, something physically incorrect etc, but never mind, the ‘X’ factor is gait, motion and speed.
This is what beauty of racing actually is – to watch and experience it. Shivers go down your spine.
By identifying (again & again) the KPI’s (of pedigrees) follow the family by viewing family-tables working structure. Family tables are like post-codes that profile exactly the genetic engine. Specifically, tap-root(s) maternal, its generational unfolding, upgrading to the present individual.
The family wheels keep going smooth, providing the KPI’s are substantially in place.
GALILEO, SEA THE STARS, Epsom Derby winner MASAR
Many articles on these mighty horses take obvious bits of information without penetrating particular peculiarities which greatly seam the genetics. The dam’s family ‘connections’ which keeps the knitting together. Exceptional ‘dam’ strain (family 9-h)intertwines another exceptional ‘dam’ strain (5-h), the most potent proliferating thoroughbred strains in existence where it is also to gauge their genetic prowess on the constant evolutionary move of the thoroughbred.
Opportunity lies in hidden details which populist breeding propaganda fails to inform detail, detail, detail.
It is to ‘conserve’ , source, support bloodlines. However from this ol’ TBL book of mine….family-table ‘pairing’ of strains takes the ‘map’ but appropriately revise from the oldest bloodlines now barely visible (some are rare); they from the cultural/economic/political history of horses ‘lost & hidden in time’.
“Birkhahn began his stallion career at the Graditz National Stud in East Germany, where he was leading sire of winners five times. He was bought by Baroness Gabrielle von Oppenheim of the Schlenderhan Stud in 1960 and although he died five years later, he was leading West German sire of winners three times posthumously.” Peter Willet – The Classic Racehorse
“His sire Alchimist (family 9-h) won the Grosser Preis von Baden-Baden, Grosser Preis von Berlin, Grosser Preis von Kohn and was the leading sire in Germany. Unfortunately, when the Russians swept into Germany at the end of the war, Alchimist was slaughtered for food”. Ken McLean – Designing Speed in the Racehorse
And, as for the subject mare above, well what-do-you-know….Birkhahn merges onto the maternal tap-root line.
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It goes…. thoroughbred pedigrees (as analysis) is open to any reasonable interpretation.
I will say however, the superior potential racehorse with quality pedigree are a bare few. Most are average material, race able but working for it. Within, I like to see a credible plus factor which strongly pushes a button, towards ‘artisan’ bred and overturning hybrid breeding complexity.
These pedigrees work unifying. Maybe outcross, in-bred, templates or patterns noted, yet not always conforming to replications (i.e. nicking crosses) but which yields accumulated evolutionary progression.
Not all pedigrees can be explained…but I do find spectacular $ failures are pedigree/blood-type confusion, through the outcross (say to many families) or towards two major type relationships not melding for its present generation. Yet, the precociousness phenotype may convey magnificence in the sale ring.
Notably, the ‘clean’ balanced genotype template shall not always equate to ‘flesh’ . The horse has to offer ‘captivation’.
A few weeks ago, I went to see the in-foal broodmare (maiden).
She looked fair, good in a potential, honest way. Fit. Well. Strong.
TBL & mare…
I left the paddock happy, assured, on-track.
So I’m gonna say, (after the homework) work out your own x-factor ‘thing’ – the hidden eloquence of the thoroughbred horse. It is to see through walk, type, size, age. Are ‘we’ impressed….? – ‘go’ over and above the ‘record’.
Here are some ‘things’ I genuinely believe. The horse at any age has to remind one of its verve, its ‘will’, its ‘eye’, its fire ‘within’. Horse on fire.
Remember? Green Monkey, Plavius, Rockstardom are $$$$$$$$$$ bungled examples and were seemingly strong family & sire, correct pedigrees with equally, striking athletic constitution. But a oh-no scenario.
Then ponder the genotype trickster….one becomes a stallion with its Australian G.1 racing credentials. The other, is dud.
I saw Tarzino (NZ), (Tavistock from Zarzino) at stud, and I remember also viewing his younger full brother Bulwark as yearling, to race at tail-end of the field. Then, I saw another yearling colt by another sire but with same maternal family displaying his similar ‘zing’ as Tarzino, only to go under the hammer under $10k. (the bloodlines, family 5-h factoring) would still kick the ‘nick’. Astonishing, were my thoughts…..
To my mind what marks out the phenotype individual, is natural temperament, the intelligent ‘eye’ of thoroughbred spirit, the bounce step, the ‘together’ package. Bulwark (affectionately raised as Walter)
Pedigree analysis discovers the truer nature -of-genetic patterns: strains and traits within.
It is a Aficionados passion where/how/why pedigrees are the family bloodlines returning through their descendants.
Knowledge folks, now that’s ya’ horse. explaining how resourceful genotype via family tables bring us powerful pedigrees like Enable (GB) – (Nathaniel (IRE) x. Concentric (GB) + 2017 Cartier European Horse of the Year & European 3 yr old filly.*Her latest American 2018 victory, Breeders Cup Turf win.
http://www.pedigreequery.com/enable2
Enthusiasts will note the close (3s x 2d) breeding to Sadlers Wells (USA) – a dynastic gene empire all on its own. Sadlers Wells, the female family 5-h.
Other noted strains infused to Sadlers Wells, re: blue-hen Lalun (USA) the female family 19-b. She produced Bold Reason (USA) and Never Turn (USA) , sire of Mill Reef, sire of Shirley Heights (GB), the grand-dam sire of Enable. Thus Lalun 5sx5Dx6D
Lalun (photo source unknown)
time period 1951 – 1997 : if my assumption is right, that during the last seventy years breeders have not made much use of intensive inbreeding, then I think it is really remarkable what great horses have been produced in the last seventy years by this method. Barcaldine, Flying Fox, Ksar, Havresac II, at once spring to mind, all racehorses of the very highest class- all stallions who have left an indelible impression on modern pedigrees, all in-bred in the second and third generation. Surely it is worth trying this intense inbreeding more frequently, providing the breeder is prepared to confine his inbreeding to the very greatest names, and nothing else will do, he stands a far better chance of producing good racehorses than by confining his methods solely to outcrossing, although it is quite understandable that breeders for sale will be reluctant to accept the risks involved. – Nesbit Waddington, text quoted from Inbreeding to Superior females by Rommy Faversham & Leon Rasmussen
The study to ancestry covering evolutionary phases, helps to ‘organize’ or ‘arrange’ an appreciation of co-affiliation branches.
Thus, Enable reflects a ‘patterned’ pedigree that infuses the genetic pathway passage to strike, as applied with female-family tables, pedigree is ‘visible’.
This application demonstrates a strong familiar pattern and type formulation which TBL noted many a time and as noted to the European breeding operations through history.
Key strains, key families, key genus roots-at-origins…the female family #9:#4 maternal affiliation. Like building-blocks, the ff#9:#4 are keys, are strains factoring. They ‘remember’ the familial evolutionary relationship – if one cares to trace the foundations. (see below)
Utilizing maternal foundations capitalizes on the xx inheritances where we begin to source natural evolvement. A core fundamental to understand someway, how the thoroughbred ecology has transpired.
Returning to the subject – Enable, it is helpful to view upon 5th remove and beyond.
Enable – the female #4m family.
We have prior noted, where communal #4 branches concentrate the XX origins, mitochondrial DNA.
Such application sources the composite in cohesive degrees. Thus, the origins emerge.
IN memory lane…. of The New Zealand Horse of the Year 2006/07/08: Seachange (NZ) ex-Cape Cross (IRE) from Just Cruising (AUS) & so it was way back then, TBL said ‘for sure, another genuine champion on the rise’.
– yep folks, no hesitation even when Seachange with her bent knobbly knees, that almost waved to every doubtin’ Thomas on course before her 7 Group 1 wins.
Seachange – photo credit: The Oaks Stud,
TBL’s pedigree stance was then job, half-done, but with just enough at foot: ‘figuring’ his clues went entirely away from acceptable convention.
How?
*Take note: #14c – Nearctic, St Paddy, Donatello, Cape Cross transiting. Each deriving from matriarchal ancestress Pretty Polly (IRE). http://www.pedigreequery.com/seachange. With TBL principle, take note where these strains impact – Cape Cross ‘Y’, XX – St Paddy, maternal broodmare sire ‘strain’ and Donatello matri-linear 7th remove. Rather than viewing separately, treat these as a collective band-width. *
Pretty Polly (IRE)
TBL recalls Seachange pedigree reviews, – ‘The duplications that are present further back are nothing special and certainly nothing for pedigree gurus to wax on about.’
Seemly, unable to fathom the outcross pedigree beyond 5th remove, the devils in details are commonly 5th – 7th remove where many mainstream theorists shall point over the seemingly obvious: usually close in-breeding through to the somewhat expectation that all family relationships are replicated, repeat, closely upon dosage. Yes n’ No, at-times but….
Not near enough. As it was and still TBL tired of elusive articles: this one is related to that one and this full sister to….. if you get the drift. (Every sire & mating changes!)
Such conclusions are agreeable (of families) but vague. It does not reveal the ‘genie’ – what puts together great, superior thoroughbred breeding; the immeasurable called genetics.
The very timeworn, old, forgotten and discredited Australian Bruce Lowe figuring system: the Tesio design/principles, written & researched did not or could not reveal any exactness. Yet, it remarkably dawns what the elementary is.
It was transcribed… the Australian Bruce Lowe would walk into any breeders paddock and instantly recognize the family and the ‘type’. The little vintage book is worth reading patiently. But,….you shall need to further analyse to older origins by maternal.
Federico Tesio, though having written a few rare books never divulged his ‘secret’. The problem it seems was for others to solve. Still is.
One ‘Tesio’ factor overlooked where his darling wife Lydia, and business partner, whom sought the investor investment: she whom was secretary and also ‘took record’ of female lines (traceability) and they together must of realized unavoidable features which also had clues in civil war(s), history, culture and sociology demonstrating purposeful horse-breeding.
Tesio’s co-contribution to the Bobinski tables
These shall ‘clue’ evolutionary courses before the Thoroughbred Registry & also within it, as thoroughbred breeding phrases underwent ‘fixing’.
Other sport-horse pedigree aficionados have also touched upon IT in a similar way.
TBL reckons it is not only ‘strain’ but type or recognizing ‘type’ within. Not bloodlines….but the Blood-Line-group, natural and primal to itself which favourably takes lead and where breeding was & folds through. That is helpful or unhelpful to the broodmare herself.
In so many varied ways, breeding is ecological development.
It can be appreciated social media does not inform: it creates ‘buzz’. The impression of laidback success, the blurred lines of racing reliability, the breeding morphed & re-classified as profitable commerciality and the gambling media network supports a delightful ignorance which continually intensifies and complicates and begs at lady-luck’s mercy.
Opportunity is infinite and finding its jig-saw pieces has rewards.
Albeit abstract, TBL distinguishes there an Expressive-Intelligent link remaining true to this day. It undoubtedly lifts pedigree to potential-marked. She is….funny little, Mannie Gray http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/MannieGray.html
Why? to keep the thoroughbred, as species, surviving ‘best’. Reference point, explore pre-American bloodstock breeding.
Essentially intricacy is to comprehend ‘pedigree’ as quantum waves carrying structure and moreover, the heightened dynamic velocity ‘within’ (genotype) upon the individual as phenotype.
Here we transcribe from the then, very informative Australasian Thoroughbred Science Review – January 1987.
The thoroughbred is not a homogeneous breed; it comes in many shapes, and sizes and shows great variations in racing performance. The term “best racehorse” is not very meaningful, unless it is qualified by the type of horse. E.g. “best sprinter”, “best stayer” etc. Any further consideration of the racehorse requires a systematic subdivision into types. A scientific consideration demands that the type of racehorse can be specified. An ideal system would describe a race horse with respect to five qualities.
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In a nutshell, its genotype patterns of ‘workability’. Thus….
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