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diamond in the rough

30 Sunday Dec 2018

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…with sincere hope that it will promote the love of the noble creature, the horse, its breeding, and trial on the race-course.  – Burchard Von Oettingen, Trakehnen 1907

It appears (at times) where only a bare few shall take a solid appreciation from thoroughbred history.

…all very good photos of great, noble champions but is it for others (?) coming to grips via TB ancestry and evolutionary developments is horribly, kinda inconsequential ?

I myself and like many, shall gaze for hours re-living their days: racing champions, the thrill n’ passion remembering superior performances of yesteryear(s).

And of course, its soooo easy to esteem those pedigrees of superior champions. The proof is there….

Proof & evaluation…from truer-at-heart analysis to interpret the Patterns, highlighted superior individuals (as strains) that no pedigree shall ever go without. Period.

Come on…. we are no longer centring Mr Prospector, Northern Dancer- they being a ‘zero-point’. Rather, we are to notice emergent & distinctive broodmare anomalies that ‘spike’ from female family inheritances.

Oh my…. what it is to be reminded from good n’ old; the genetic routes/the genetic infusions: to the old/best/new/hottest epigenetic genes which chuck themselves out clearly & upon superior individuals from their ancestral circles.

Seeking old/best/new/hottest individuals is never plain as day but nor illusionary. The pedigree only reveals in subtle detail. Algorithms don’t show…

In TBL philosophy 🙂 these old/best/new/hottest genes are survivor strains. They are clearly not plentiful and with good reason.

Like Quality antique – the, Horse Breeding Theory & Practice had practices, principles, arriving superior quality, now forgotten or ignored in modern times.

Like three wise men, there wise words of age old perspicacity are comforting, a logic of  common sense but also comes, the vague sadness where modern breeding principles by performance and commercial productivity can liberally convey everything & Everything is soundly bred to race.

Getting a good-un horse – be it self-bred, purchased, secured on-line, or syndication shared by ownership is the horse n’ human quest for distinction.

Yet regrettably old-fashioned breeding fundamentals (and all its immense, eternal pedigree detail) to arrive upon that champion individual is veiled deep or plainly the dynamics are lost-in-time or is it, the lottery of horse-trading?

For some time we’ve being lamenting the intensified loss of diversity: the dwindling pool of broodmare numbers, the global mass-pool of descendants come, Northern Dancer ‘Y’ and the resulting TB, its phenotype.

It…. a dramatic global funnel of tightened genetics which bleeds deep.

Yet out of the social-media blue steps out an ‘ad’. A welfare/rescue 2014 born TB mare needing to be adopted & re-homed. Her name is Liberty G & by the photo she’s had it tough.

But…there IS, the bone.

https://www.pedigreequery.com/liberty+g

I assume some bloodstock investors may say garbage….

And I guess, the welfare fraternity have (on her behalf) shall rightly say, no more horse-wastage…

Yet by example it screams at disaster, how the TB broodmare genetics quietly, & disgracefully disappear because bare few comprehend the precious bloodline, as its life, lays within.

If we are serious about reducing horse-wastage or better still, a conservation-in-breeding mind-set then study this pedigree well.

https://www.pedigreequery.com/liberty+g

Should anyone not be familiar to bloodlines, family tables etc etc then let’s introduce that one and only European champion by name…. Frankel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankel_(horse)

Yep… of the Liberty G pedigree you are looking at the same female family as Frankel. (ff 1-k). Not a lot of them about is there!

Screen the Liberty G ancestry – the much fewer/lesser strains of Nearco, towards the noble old bloods, & as sorely missing (abundant wise) from many a ‘now’  evolving contemporary pedigree – namely Teddy and that of, Man O’ War.

Look to the Liberty G siring line (Deer Lake, USA) that of grand sire Hold Your Peace (USA) where the writer, with others, has identified the stallion (frequently) as the superior breeding lane ⇔ Prince John (USA)/ Princequillo. See Winx – workin’ them genes

refer also – Hold Your Peace (USA) 3rd dams maternal sire: from equine gods…Kukulkan (Mex)

If we ever ‘think’ we are improving the Thoroughbred by rubbishing the reliable, consistent bloodlines and opting for modern quality from performance alone – then think again.

“bought for peanuts – won a fortune – wrecked the know all’s, to the delight of students and officials”

 

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Rekindling, fire

12 Sunday Nov 2017

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Came too late, for TBL to change his pick as horses paraded for the 2017 Melbourne cup won by Rekindling (GB), a 3 year colt, by High Chaparral out of Sitara.

Yes people… as commentary put its camera on the youngster, TBL just kind-of-knew Rekindling had ‘that-look’: an attention-grabbing, racehorse.

That’s the different look….type, bone mass, structure, vigour… essentially an economical type for high-demanding athletic performance. Something we saw in Mongolian Khan, the motion. It was like Ten thousand Diamonds: Mongolian Khan

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Mongolian Khan – photo by TBL

Ever since revising horses and pedigrees (at earliest) expanding thru to breeding & larger generation periods inside breeding/racing culture; as to observe the natural evolvement of where body type (in general) takes an evolutionary course over time. Primarily, on reflection it is the phrasing, rephrasing or fixing/refixing inwardly of the breed.

The tallish, angular, swift prototype maybe, just maybe, possibly bettered by economical: not small but compact, efficient and well balanced (scale) to produce ‘n’ th energy, tempo, rhythm, equine aptitude – all diverse factors which compel a horse to relax over distant at high-stress performance.

The ‘transition’ of an ability-to-relax and win, is more than experience/schooling/training and breeding. Its within….

It is a peculiar natural faculty of survival, under duress – a horses spine to drop/lengthen/‘extend’ & relax to conserve energy, as to make more momentum – to outrun opposition,  spontaneously escape predators.

Its thinking outside the circle….TBL respects this guru (on equine physics) http://www.scienceofmotion.com/chazot_thoughts.html. Much to think on changing.

Genotype: The Rekindled tabulated pedigree says it all again. TBL posits that the domineering female family factor which is the thoroughbred elite 5-H. (the great Sadlers Wells, Topside (USA) Lorenzaccio (GB) – hail from ancestress Simons Shoes/Goody Two Shoes .Get more insight here….Breeding Dynamics: Put the HELMET on  .

More on tabulated pedigrees Thoroughbred Breeding: A MASTER OF TIME

Just how family dynastic influential IS this family line 5-h?

Is it the ‘force-of-nature’ ? – the complex factor necessary to champions. It beckons exceptionally crafty: pick ‘em…spot ‘em…spot it.

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Breeding Dynamics: Put the HELMET on

01 Wednesday Nov 2017

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deanoTBL loves his game of chasing opportunity, feeling a ‘vibe’ through pedigree analysis and view the genetic jet-stream unfolding. It’s the hint of something ahead….something unfolding.

Our subject sire HELMET (AUS) ch. 2008 by EXCEED AND EXCEL from Accessories by Singspiel , impresses greatly. However, for any pedigree (better or worse) we might appreciate how old-breeding, to this day, can work its hand.

http://www.pedigreequery.com/helmet8

Moving away from obvious duplications i.e Native Dancer: Northern Dancer and his dam Natalma, to his sons – TBL anticipates the immersion of old German bloodlines via Antwerpen perfects the pedigree to another unique degree. It is worth observing, the cohesion of female families (4-o).

Advice: Remember to move away from reading pedigrees rectilinear. Read collective. View the greater female lines as ancestral familiarity clues inklings to source foundational. For example think, why is Nureyev/Special/Thong (5-h) dynastic?

To view back, we find ancestral wonder BLANDFORD (3-o) infusing, till time & breeding Forli (3b) infuses in to breed broodmare star SPECIAL. Bang.  We see ‘waves’, or multi-dimensional contraction working up the quantum impermeable.imagesKE9DFLQZ

Always explore new connections as to ‘why’ families are nicking/merge as to how/where lines revolutionize from lineage the pedigree spectrum offers a new and rewarding angle.

And….what is the beginners’ tool – the Bruce Lowe family numbers. Reference Thoroughbred Breeding: A MASTER OF TIME . People, you need to know key families !!!

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Debateable as family numbers are to some, it is mighty hopeless for broodmares  which aren’t geared to breed into/onto some siring bloodlines, and hence off-spring are certainly horses but not racing destined ‘true’ – miserable outcome is…..forsaken progeny.

Much conventional analysis relies on statistics, sire factors alone with racing merits – the breeding-to-sell stratagem. Or replica styled breeding, to ‘clone’ another that becomes in-breeding too early – expecting  results before genes will moderate/meld somewhere into pedigree engine-rooms, for later generational stimulus.

Analysis programs cannot establish results, till progeny numbers are on-the-ground. For many, deemed lesser sires, numbers can never be on the ground. It will only be the ONE and bare few across the collective, breeding numbers.

Shine light… on broodmare(s) with precise breeding genetics, (meaning certain stallion female gene-pools/qualities) usually spring infrequent.  If they do, they can accomplish the necessary ‘individuality’, through unique crosses.

Those ‘crosses’ are the substance.

Substance towards unique breeding, unique individuals arrive intermittently due to prior breeding upgrades and backbone maternal parentage. The variety and diversity of a country’s distinctiveness, boutique & small studs with their standing stallions left the stage yesterday but what they did and continually ‘do’, make a contributing variance.

By noticing Generational stimulus from the back-line as where pedigree ancestors converge where it matters – zones 5th & beyond: the genetic spring has to strike.

To screen Helmet’s winning progeny:

Thunder Snow (IRE) bay colt 014 from Eastern Joy – Limestone (AUS) 2014 gr filly – Archives (AUS) ch.C 013 – Lady of Course (IRE) ch.F – Anda  Muchacho (IRE) C.2014 – Taamol (IRE) C. 2014 – Eqtiraan (IRE) b.c. 2014

Split markers become evident – not always the Northern Dancer composite.

Review, 4 female family: sub-branches reveal.  As  written,  the 4-o branch is uncommon but should you remember Fred Hooper’s bred, Olympia USA) 1946aka American Pharoah pows a ‘Grand Slam’, American Pharoah genetics; Helmet’s german maternal heritage also heralds back to KATE (GB) 1849, descendant to a HIGHFLYER MARE. A very important point (if you figure).

  • Eastern Joy b. 2006 dam of Thunder Snow, female family 4-k, from ALICE HAWTHORN 1838, huge Australian staying family.
  • Sadlers Wells, Montjeu, Val-de-Loir (FR), Lorenzzaccio (GB) are the echoes, family 5-h (as discussed)
  • Princequillo all time super-matic breeding infusion. Princequillo lines , descending directly into the tail female are Impossible to be without.

Bonus sire lines: Forli, Court Martial, Caro

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Thoroughbred Breeding: A MASTER OF TIME

31 Tuesday Oct 2017

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“One of my methods is to work on the tabulation within the pedigree, With emphasis on the key producing male and female ancestors by way of duplicating then under a system using the Bruce Lowe number that they are given:.” Give a Man a Horse – the remarkable story of Sir Patrick Hogan by Diane Haworth – Harper Collins publishers.

“I always worked on duplicating the Bruce Lowe numbers, which is no different today. You don’t find Bruce Lowe numbers very often now….”

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TBL reckoned he was listening to a rock star…. This is, Sir Patrick Hogan of Cambridge Stud (New Zealand) engaged the audience ( 2017 Waikato Thoroughbred Stallion Walk) and talk of his successes via knowledge of pedigree tabulation.

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Sir Patrick Hogan, Cambridge Stud N.Z., speaking on pedigrees and breeding.

Deeply delving, the finer crafting of thoroughbred pedigree observes EXTRAdeep and wide. And, from Sir Patrick’s advice, always ‘work’ through to eight generations.

TBL has advocated for a long, long time why devils are in details: to TARGET drivers of genetic power to bring through & emerge success.

The devils are genetic monsters that intrinsically lay into the complex labyrinth of family bloodlines – genetic marvels like say, Nashua, Princequillo influences and their siring.

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However, its where to start, where to direct….seeking what holds – through, into, over: to move above the normal principle of convention (in-breeding) and choose applicable, additional genetic sire & their female/broodmare strengths.

TBL advocates sire’s broodmare sire to broodmare sire’s sire/broodmare (component families). An examination to catalyse/fortify the individuals breeding range.

Therein, lay the silent weapon to capture the hybrid continuity.

It is the impact of a bloodline melding & co-influencing other strains but to also support the stabilizer gene, which dimensionally persists onward.

A stabilizer family genetic is firstly necessary: think foundational – concentration individual, ‘specie’ extraordinary to breed effectively infinitum.

And so, in pedigree research go, go for unusual X-factors – the potential rising or new racing individual(s) with targeting unique crosses and as will, embracing those exclusive strains.

what the heck? and why all this?

TBL raises a paradox – a few points for readers, breeders/purchasers of bloodstock.

A few decades or so ago…. sire-breeding (then) was not on-mass as it is ‘done’ today. Think about this people!

It is imperative to background where possible, unique breeding individuals that are awkwardly, narrowly genetically burgeoning as co-directly, much vital ‘stock- broodmare’ diversity goes emptying from the unique breeding chambers.

TBL advises yo’ all…….re-claim the old lines (like sacred goodies they are) for this is where success begins.

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timeless…. Man O’ War

24 Wednesday May 2017

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TBL frequently reminisces ol’ tough but oh so, beautiful brutes of yesteryear.

Vintage photos which capture the physical magic presence of power, strength of ‘truth’ and the true equine being with his majestic sense of the ineffable.

The great Man O’ War was something else… out on his own. A $5000.00 yearling

a purchase by a guy called Sam Riddle – he went 21 races at 2 & 3 years old (20 won), with one 2nd placing.

A strictly private at-home stallion he met too short of average mares to produce hall-mark progeny – War Admiral, War Relic, Battleship, American Flag & more… all his history compounds together as No. 1 Horse of the Century.

MOW was pure, pure bull. Pure, pure & pure. Purity in the strictest sense…purity in origin, purity in essence. A primordial beast of the finest.

Breeding with pure bull is based long-term strength with recipe of superiority. The weak become strong: the average become champion.

     So very simple Frank, but how do ya’ tell new lines astutely…

Superior traits, superior genes are exclusive lines and not always ever direct inclusive,  so it seems.

Tricky…very tricky. deano

Depth, in the strictest sense, needs to be conveyed or ‘seized’ by both phenotype and genotype where the infusion ‘mastery’ as such is geared upon the 5th remove of pedigree. (unfortunately many pedigree enthusiasts just May…view pedigrees as ‘fixed’ as one gazes upon a linear model per program. No! you sense…think the lines working, flushing, infusing, knitting, merging working upon the impression you find).

The distinct principle wants to have purpose on a long deep cross and not merely, match-making model for benefit on commercial, investment, financial by ‘numbers’ game that race-horses are manufactured bred for a loosened gambling industry (& its investment) which doesn’t know too much accountability really.

      – mate, we’re thinkin’ we’re such long ways from Man o’ War but … doesn’t it work mighty interestin’ where superior pedigrees take a good few dosage’s from Man o’ War when he merely sired/bred to approx. 25 mares per year.

What springs at TBL…is that beautiful thingy…about zenith superiority ‘worms’ its way through successfully, & takes, & naturally so, the top-tier into exclusivity. 

TBL has always considered the superior are componentry of purity: of female-maternal, of bloodline essence, which conduits or transmits the primal order where an originating founder re-mem-bers itself, as source.

This factor is sourcing the best, for the best; a task turning over many a countless pedigree gathering its merits of what potential is to appear, where it needs to appear.

Before you head outdoors to the sales , just Bulls-eye… the ‘detail’ of Man o’ War…..COMPARE – WORK N’ THINK.

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Doesn’t this, give breeding/selecting an idea, an inspiration, a target. Can the exceptional MOW genetic landscape twist itself again and again? Seems it can.

Yes, what remains is that ineffable factor, that treasure, that earnest love for a super good horse and where, somewhere in its genetic heritage it returns the love of a desert spirit.

 always seek, always pursue….

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Crunchin’ pedigrees by Iffraaj (GB)

01 Monday May 2017

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Spotting dominant strains are pointers to speculate the ‘purer’ pedigree.

The Female tables as ‘Strains’ are not only means of identification but a view to the strong network as support within compounds of pedigree.

Sourcing horse and pedigree like so, simplifies the key-strength and how they infuse to impress the nick especially so by broodmare over broodmare back-lines.

Consistently and importantly female-strains complement co-relationship families, and by our TBL ‘book’ are usually configuring ‘same’ by many pedigree comparisons.

Many, many researchers go by stallion by stallion aka ‘name’ adoption/recognition as the guiding factor influencing bloodlines. Indeed yes/true  – it is however not near enough & to go scounting the 4th generation backline/beyond has the ‘crunch’.

In TBL’s backyard (New Zealand) we’ve being long sold on the European Godolphin bred stallion Iffraaj as the man. Now standing at Haunui Farm (N.Z.)  – a champ sire of 2YO’s his progeny credentials are increasingly attractive.

Gingernuts – 2017 NZ Derby & Rosehill Guineas winner.

Jon Snow – 2017 ATC Australian Derby winner

Turn Me Loose – Australian G1 winner, NZ Sprinter & Middle Distance Horse of the Year.

Xiong Feng – 2016 Karaka million winner

Wyndspelle – G1 Diamond Stakes runner up

Ribchester – Europes leading 3YO colts 

Scanning pedigrees through our TBL analysing techniques we see Iffraaj carrying the infinite genetic affinities that claim the proweress to essentially arrive, as Raise A Native, The Ministrel, Nijinsky and also akin to Blue Larkspur.

Such strains are always in proximity to O/Reilly/ Last Tycoon, Mr Prospector. Darshaan, Seattle Slew.

But, that is not all,,,,,

The ebb’s & flow’s of genetic tides are ‘importing’ the broodmare strengths where  appropriated to herself, almost suggesting the family within family stays.

Northern Dancer sire Nearctic reigning through Sadlers Wells/ High Chapparral remoulds the classic racing type.

How a stallion pedigree weaves, threads softly but distinctly should invigorate and further Impress the breeding purposes.

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que sera sera

09 Thursday Mar 2017

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A short while ago, on forum I wrote a reply.  One particular member took to ‘gas-lighting’:  where I was expressing too much about how better quality horses MAY undeservingly fail to unsuspecting lesser industry resources untoward ‘right’ practices.

It was pretty dam hostile – think …Pit-bull on Chihuahua’s head by way of accusations, heated on-line, ’cause somehow TBL nipped at a nerve.

I make a lot of observation: listening, thinking, wondering, comparing and as it comes by way of experience – a sort of life-lesson ‘teacher’.

Then came, one’s own ‘D’ day to stand over – me & my lovely 5 year mare and it was despairingly awful.

A 22oom race, from an outside draw she was driven across, onto the rail where she led until the last 600m and ‘swamped’ to be placed 7th. The track was deemed a Dead 4 – (actually hard as) … the jockey terribly non-strategic contradicting trainers instructions.

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Pit-bull thought I was blaming trainer/jockey or sticking to an excuse not to look at my own blaming faults. Problem for me really…I am too over-analytical or too abundantly aware of where things DO go wrong in unexpected places.

As you might appreciate, the way it is with racing horses, is the nature of the undetermined event: action of quantum space n’ time. As an owner, you are a gambler, a showman, a ‘sport’ & at mostly in no-mans land paying the bill.

Humour is essential.

But weeping …she is a bloody good horse & a lot of people recognize like Three experienced ex-jockeys riding track work in awe of that rare ‘feel’ she holds.

Taking stock of the situation… though I realized hubby and I had had bought the right pedigree, right horse (for price) and put in all best resources we ever possibly could – especially time and patience since the breeding is to ‘stay’ & also make that explosive staying Zabeel power when riding ‘right’ allowed, it had missed.

Financially we couldn’t do it anymore, not essentially the ‘finances’ per say tho’ influential of course, but the standards of racing. i.e. conditions of tracks, distances & short programmes, a lack-lustre of professionalism within riding to be the best and a licensing authority & a punting industry who couldn’t care less.

We in NZ have ordinary ‘every day’ jockeys earning way more ahead than small-trainers on doing a job.

My hope, my ‘expectation’ even Experience had sorely tricked me – all things outside of one’s control.

So I thought Pit-bull would be p*ssing on the forum-post. Yet, he came back & thought  about his on-line comments and gave me a *like*.

Days later the phone went. Bloodstock agent was hunting. They had watched the race, observed much the same sentiment thank-goodness.

Story goes…the ‘want’ of these bloodlines are in demand. evolution

There is not many of this line about. They go back to Cinna. Tarzino & the Cinna ‘strain’. A breeder wants them/her. Are you ready to consider an offer?

The silver lining of a cloud…arrived.

Of course, I already know of breeding value, both intrinsic and the physical from original purchase price as a yearling of $13,500.00.

Yep…thankfully authentic bloodstock breeding ‘eyes’ know it to. nyme31478829496

Elite families go on – the investment sticks like glue. There’s the point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mate, it’s a ZEN thing…

27 Monday Feb 2017

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Some of the time, looking at bloodstock yearling sales is like going through a car sales lot – what make n’ model takes your fancy when they are all spankin’ new’.

I’m Rockin’ Up rock-n-rollto Karaka NZ yearling sales. TBL takes much thought as many bloodstock people do: we are all searching through the ‘eyes-of-the-beholder’.

I’ll scratch my TBL head where that nice looking horse, the one which walks and prances the ‘I’m it’ x-factor but sadly, attracts little bidding attention.

Then those with interesting ‘paper’ pedigree but the physical product don’t match, yet somebody else thought it did and hey, it SOLD.

And then there is the ‘bottom-drawer’ lot; lesser stallions with not so interesting broodmares.

Going through countless pedigrees you see the familiar roll over Reproduction lines. Yes… they are boringly okay & carry that effective slogan which heads well-bred, but it sort of gets… you know outta hand, even meaningless.

The question begs “what do we really purpose for & where’s that coffee ?”coffeesmoke

It appears too many purchasers are merely going after the reliable pedigree like a reliable recipe that just can’t fail.

But it does.

Repetitive known crosses or, tried and true reproduction on repeat certainly helps the commercial vendor and bloodstock auctioneer. And of cause, the horse is naturally a good looker ’cause the pedigree is there to prove it.

Mate…your horses are beautiful creatures, regardless 😉

Hmmm.

Anyway back home, in my messy studio, cross-eyed with numb brain yawning – I came across the unique oddity at the back Festival pages.

How can I say this…. a pedigree that doesn’t comply with anything you’ve ever met before. The heart races….

The interesting huh-huh gut ‘hunch’…that its got bit of a girl-Winx factoring to it.

See…the beautiful thing with pedigree is that when you study without ‘aids’ – one’s eye picks up something the computer analysis doesn’t. Remember computers want data, stats and a program to define. But that folks, is History goooone.

Me, I want the ‘fire’. I want the unseen beauty. I want the mystery. I want the ‘beauty of mysterious genetics’ to come forth…deano

The miracle of self-study or self-taught is that you shall process and build skill to uniquely identify or stamp a signature upon something. In the same vein, this is how a pedigree says ‘x’ factor waiting. Knock, knock backdoor genetics.

The way-crazy wild thing about genetics is that they don’t want to be known until the time is ripe for them. They ‘cure’ just like slow-cured French ham with unknown seasoning.

See here…what makes cruisin’ with pedigree so right dam intriguing… is that when broodmare sire ‘strikes’ his phenomenal gold, & say when that sire was not-so-popular back then, but now genetically….see, he is one of a special kind with very, very short broodmare numbers availability & upon pedigree in the zone where you attentively ‘size’ it.

And, the pedigree must crack-its-whip where the particular dynamism & winning cross raises attention & focus. Boom!

Think Winx, think NZ stallion Savabeel (by Zabeel), expressively scan Success Express, as sire of Al Akbar (what specifically puts those genetic markers together as to where the ‘strike’ occurs towards the sire) is so very rarely viewed.

So off we go and spot the filly where nobody is looking. There she is… cheeky, smart, attitude, athletic, certainly would be ready as a 2-year old. She, by Zed from a Al Akbar mare. Who is Zed by….answer Zabeel. Get it? Check.

Too strong- can’t be missed.

Too right….I’ll be watching her next year. nyme31478829496

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tapping into – TAPIT

24 Tuesday Jan 2017

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Ghostly. Surreal. Perfection…this is Tapit

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His ability to breed winners is dynamic. Let’s for a moment…. forget about the numbers, forget about the earnings. We’ll go n’ explore the pedigree which offers only the best – crème de la cream.

It is the ideal; perfection to attain – that is the message in all – the depth & breeding.

TBL repeats over and over of strain-theory. Why? because it is the gold-dust: the gene which substantiates everything….as it configures and formulates the female family. Strains & maternal families

Whilst we may view the ancestry, at generations back, we shall also find the pedigree beautifully unfolds – coming together from 5th remove and through, like a genetic jig-saw puzzle at completion.

First TBL impressions are often the best: yep…the 13/8 cross-strain. Works wonders, works TBL magic all the time.

At this stage, I’m not going to go n’ tell all the intellectual-property but shall hint that pedigree enthusiasts take another examination called something like ‘evolutionary contributors’ & there you may see modus operandi. Either that, or you can leave me to my best eccentric self 😉 

So.

“When Boussac sent Tourbillon (13-c) or any stallions carrying his blood to the family of Frizette (13-c) it created inbreeding patterns to the already celebrated tail-female line (13-c). It would be a recipe for success that would last or decades to come. ” Leon Rasmussen from Inbreeding to Superior Females.

In similar application the golden thread is Seattle Slew, Mr Prospector (Frizette maternal line) and familiarize Le Fabuleux (FR) as at a lesser degree the female line follows ancestral-matriarch Kite. Remember people… strains – strains – strains & Strains!!!

Now the important silver: 8f strain, via Nijinsky 5s x 3D is co-relation strain. Familiarize these details – they are patterns.

Yet another distinctive to the threading strain configuration is that of 1-X. See The Axe, Poker and Buckpasser surging from blue hen French bred mare La Troienne.

The period of inbreeding to the La Troienne family within five generations has been extended by influential descendants who, themselves, have become sources to inbreed to. Leon Rasmussen

Of peculiar interest, Tapit’s tail-female the 3-o strain reveals the great, great dam Foggy Note as homozygous grey. All her progeny where grey – her best Relaunch by In Reality (n.b. Tapit pedigree 5dx4d).

Relaunch was the sire of 89 stakes winners and said to be built like a tank with plenty of fast twitch muscle fiber. (credit – Designing Speed in the Racehorse by Ken McLean.)

Remember Ghostzapper?? fetch n’ find, who but Relaunch, Ghostzappers broodmare sire.

Isn’t it marvellous how pedigrees keep revolving, revolving on similar female genetic forces.

Isn’t it sad  where the value and importance of realizing the heftiness of female families is almost like lost knowledge or a dying art in favour of today’s stallion hype.

Ouch.

Before I close ‘shop’, it is also meaningful the looong linebreeding factoring & overall deep blood, is the Man O’ War element.

TBL takes this as significant because depending which country you are breeding/racing from, that real genetic armoury is going almost collectively rare. Those great old-bloods are rather forgotten, weighed out by namely, Nearco’s over dosage. Suggesting the greedy breeding want of early maturing two year olds is only to satisfy a quick-return.

Ouch.

The Crème de la crème come from the genuine truer giants of breeding.

Tap (deep) into it……

Cheers for now,

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the Avante-Garde Pedigree

09 Monday Jan 2017

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The special racehorse comes from an unsuspecting pedigree.

Yet it is the preferred ‘safe’ trend for modern horse ownership to seek its assurance: racing type ability from immediate dam-line as covered by the preferred stallion.

The thought… it is too easy for individuals to fall into land of lost opportunity or to be found by the astute judge making his fortune.

All things aside, theory and pedigree predict a fair skilled probability, a map utilizing necessary strains to direct potential.nature-genes

Myself, I  am not one for statistical, the order arrived from mathematical which started from zero.

Pedigree at TBL is finding-the-future: the one principle, the ‘new’ honey-spot.

The ‘future’ horse is the evolutionary to unfold through its ancestral.

The supreme has the innovative. The examples, TBL wrote: American Pharoah, American Pharoah pows a ‘Grand Slam’ Californian Chrome how chrome, turns to Gold: California Chrome, Winx Winx’s phenomena and Black Caviar Black Caviar: ‘diamonds’ within a pedigree… present new outlooks on pedigrees to illuminate strains as significant ‘must’ contributors. These weave a dominant band to inter connect families.

‘Sparkle’ the pedigree within, and overall.

The pedigree map shall unwind at the 5th remove. Don’t view the obvious. Seek the depths of the unobvious. Key links: key strains, key strengths.

Application is to source the guts of the pedigree. It creates an maximum understanding to realize strains almost program ‘backwards’ as a spiralling cycle drawing strengths from generations removed.spiral

TBL shoots for a trait/strain/seed as containing a DNA code. It is an atomic seed.

Life essence.

The seed is primordially arranged, always a genetic catch/draw back which cannot disappear. It the chief chromosome/DNA in wait.

A focus through the 5th remove emerges the setting. Particularly broodmare across broodmare, peculiar strengths which the individual takes its weight from.

Equally, other dynamics which ‘fuel’ the pedigree -as viewed from an angle which suggests the breeding is staying true to itself: related and co-related families which renew the individual as a hybrid thoroughbred.

I realize many pedigree articles speak old-school upon dam to female tap-root relationship. Okay – you may be very acquainted & knowledgeable, and ably get the breeding-record BUT it is a slim portion of pedigree and not of all.

We want to combine sires genetic workability to harness the individual complete.

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When the phenotype is viewed the physical assessment must be in line to conformation expectation/standard as sighted, as required. Remember the genotyped pedigree is the engine within.

Via your pedigree software, here is a yearling colt pedigree which attributes the features –

Epaulette (AUS) / Highlight by High Chaparral as offered by Phoenix Park at Karaka’s New Zealand Bloodstock 2017 Select salnyme31478829496e.

All best, TBL