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ENABLE (GB) – quest for supreme

03 Saturday Feb 2018

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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

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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.

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http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?query_type=horse&search_bar=horse&h=CROFTS+SPINSTER&g=4

This is the eternal co-affiliation. Note.

Now refer https://www.pedigreequery.com/enable2: Note the #9 : #4 branches & pattern.

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23 Tuesday Jan 2018

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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.

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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. *

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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.

(please do read Sir Patrick Hogan, his philosophy & comments – Thoroughbred Breeding: A MASTER OF TIME

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.

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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.

Wordy, I know….but this may help. Moving on from Danehill

There is much to think on.

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.

  • Body type or confirmation
  • Gait pattern or the way the horse gallops
  • The distance the horse races over.
  • The “style” of racing.
  • The “ability” of the horse. 

 

Knowledge folks – now that’s ya’ horse. deano

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ba dum tss: Waldo’s quest for Good Horses.

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

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I got a call from Waldo.

Waldo was excited.waldo

His excitement was over two ‘new’ mares and ‘what would you mate them with’? One mare was recently purchased and the other, a 12yr hand-me-down.

Purportedly, hand-me-down was no good.

With some research on Waldo’s new hand-me-down (breeding records) I thought it appeared & horribly apparent the mare never had the right siring opportunity. To further her bad luck, it seems the same modus operandi is to continue.

– we’ll mate her with xxxxxx

Oh dear, Waldo… pet-food breeding tasks little reason.

The newly-purchased mare had 3-4 reasonable sire options, one of which was clearly more pedigree stimulating than the other selections. Problem … no.1 choice wasn’t really commercially electrifying.

Came… the uncomfortable impasse where I shut my mouth and attempted to figure out what Waldo really wanted – $$$$$, Group 1+ or I’m-telling-ya’ -pedigree, ma’am.

From all our discussions of the ups and downs of thoroughbreds, breeding, and racing…never came the basic question & clue: How does the female pedigree work?

Put it another way: how does a pedigree advance rather than merely doubling sire lines.

Sigh…

At sucking eggs, I agreed that Waldo’s own preferred choice; newest New Zealand sire on the circuit (Mongolian Khan) has great siring potential.

Take a read here, why superior genes arise.  Ten thousand Diamonds: Mongolian Khan

I went over the M.K./broodmare ‘match’. It was evidently clear it all seemed quite wonderful. So obvious, so clear, so fine ‘in’ duplicate line.

Okay…Waldo, (I thought) it is enough BUT it’s not all the way striking where we want it as superior star-quality.

At The Thoroughbred Link, I maintain the Tradesman uses His Tools, the Best Way HE Can.

A breeder (though his philosophy) places His mares, at what has dominant worth; a value in the eye of the beholder which is entirely sensible to him.

Yet, I openly confess a struggle for the mare: for her unused potential because Waldo thinks breeding reliably is easy as tying boot laces.

True or false, one close-in duplication over another equals fantastic superior breeding.

Nupe, neither.

All pedigree chart information stands on physical record and with it displays detailed reliability of dominant families. There is a map, its configurations, its imperceptible clues going-back & taking order overtime.

Waldo…please at least, go observing pedigree history with your own eyes.

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There it lies… one cannot ever change the natural order of integral preference and inheritance in the mare’s DNA: it is to understand the travelling and on-going undercurrents of blood and type.

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That is how outcrossing can work increasing success, more so than duplication. Hybrid the thoroughbred is, and genes (those strains) remember where they belong.

Nothing novel, to ancient matrilineal horse breeding of the Bedouins.

With example  American Pharoah pows a ‘Grand Slam’ American Pharaoh pedigree takes the supreme female strain co-affiliation as model.

“….people weren’t going to go crazy about something (Pioneer of the Nile) that was unproven. ‘Oh’, Waldo said. 

One fine day, Waldo meets Senor Federico Tesio on the street and asks, “Senor what is your best secret.”

Federico responds: In seeking an explanation for these “nicks” of certain bloodlines, we must first of all be careful not to take the word “blood’ in its original biochemical sense.

  • ii) energic makeup is perhaps the result of harmonic combinations.
  • iii) The same element of harmonic vibrations which determines the almost constant success of two given strains in the race-horse.
  • Iv) selection is the element which has made the greatest contribution of developing the breed of the thoroughbred.

from Breeding the Racehorse by Federico Tesio

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Waldo affirms – “Oh Senor Tesio well n’ fine…we’ll get a good horse soon”. 

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The Thoroughbred Link interpretation of Tesio’s probing comments are as follows:

–          In seeking an explanation for these “nicks” of certain bloodlines (bloodlines as ‘strains’), we must first of all be careful not to take the word “blood’ in its original biochemical sense.

–          ii) energic makeup is perhaps the result of harmonic (co-affiliating female family) combinations. Combinations as complementary ‘dominant’ families

–          iii) The same element of harmonic vibrations which determines the almost constant success of two given strains in the race-horse. The original foundational ancestral mares which co-exist as major constructive strains to this very day, where these affiliation patterns still generate oddly, same.

–          iv) selection is the element which has made the greatest contribution of developing the breed of the thoroughbred. Recognized selective genes which take dominance and familiarity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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When a pedigree Winx Superior Thoroughbred

29 Thursday Oct 2015

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When one understands foundations, one understands the course of breeding development. Seth Hancock argued for strong female families more so than racing class.

Every ‘strain’ within a pedigree certainly provides introspection.

2015 Cox plate winner Winx has a pedigree with real spine. It is backed by the old greats somewhat close in the pedigree and this is highly central to note as those old bloods become naturally but are increasingly dissipated with newer predecessors with the greater emphasis towards Nearco. Continue reading →

Black Caviar: ‘diamonds’ within a pedigree

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

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An equine immortal, I often think of Black Caviar as a beautiful intelligent design – the true representative of her species in looks, size and abilities.
Black Caviar’s tap-root family belongs to 1-p. It, a founding family for Lord Astor of Astor studs (U.K.)
The underlying significance of the 1-P family branch was for some time perplexing until it was reasoned that her ancestral predecessor contributor came from King Tom (3m) a son of that blue-hen supreme, Pocahontas: a jumping gene cross-over established in the genetic mix and so enormously potent as transference to the strain.
Curiously the significant 1-P strain also echoes in Sunline’s maternal pedigree through Winkie, best known for being the dam-sire of the unforgettable Phar Lap. Winkie was a reasonably successful stallion with winners at all distances. The best Pilliewinkie (1919), a winner in New Zealand of the CJC Metrpolitan Handicap and Dunedin Cup, and in Australia of the 18 furlong Australian Cup, the VRC King’s Plate (16 furlongs), the 10 furlong Essendon Stakes, and other good races. Winkie is brother to One Thousand Guineas winner Winkipop.
The magnificent NZ sire O’Reilly (now deceased) where his maternal sire is that of Pompeii Court (USA) 1-P. Pompeii Court loved the mile distance. One of his victories (1982 Longacres mile) was a track-setting record.

*** 1-P strain, as a breeding value is overwhelmingly significant in the modern thoroughbred.

Pedigree aficionados may jump and down how, King Tom/Pocahontas (the DNA) is far too remote. Yet the point I wish to share is – these are primordial genes extraordinaire, carriers of quantum amassed energy.

Upon society’s progress, we come with the difficulty scenario, where racing/stud names of thoroughbred distract the ‘blood’ relationships of strains, where strains actually co-exist to co-jointly accentuate a genetic familiarity.
If ever an old pedigree wheel had been retained which as below, a ‘fan’ arrangement: how families folded into each other, the intricacies of families, as ‘strains’ would be far more appreciated.

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Simply, by disregarding the recti-linear approach & to largely assess upon multi-dimensional layers as accumulated in Black Caviar’s genetic make-up, provides a freshened genetic landscape to ponder.
The main strains move into view & of prime consideration are 1-P, 9-C & 9 branches, 6-e & 6 branches and all 3 branches to those timeless individuals so named. Collectively, Black Caviar progressed from these ancestral prototypes.
Court Martial 1-p (5s x 6d). His sire, Fair Trial coming from a 9-c female line through Lady Juror.
John Hislop in his book Breeding for Racing describes Court Martial as “A beautiful horse of superb quality, truly made, sound and possessed of excellent limb. Though having a measure of stamina, speed was Court Martial’s forte, which is reflected in his stock.

1-P also through Hornbeam at 6th remove. He, the great grand-dam sire of Lunchtime, the sire of Snippets. Hornbeam was a son of Hyperion (6-e) and his maternal sire Nasrullah (9-c). Hornbeam was 1st Great Voltigeur Stk, 2nd St Leger, At stud in England then sent to Sweden. Hornbeam, the sire of St. Leger winner Intermezzo.
With impact, the complete representation of core-nucleus strains takes a representation by individuals within their collective families.
The 9-C strain at 6th remove, where Nasrullah via grand-dam Mumtaz Begum & her grandson Kurdistan, Migoli via his grand-dam, Mah Mahal, Tudor Minstrel via dam Sansonnet, Fair Trial via Lady Juror, Mahmoud are interlocking keys of genetic families.
Also of major importance is the 6-e strain, tracing back to Gondolette through Selene, dam of Hyperion and Pharamoud .
Myrobella (6-e) also traces through to Gondolette.
Silly Season (5d x 5d) sired by Tom Fool 3-j, an influential horse & sire (Buckpasser & Tim-Tam) but sadly not really highly optimized for his true breeding worth even with his highly notable race-track successes.

Yet here we are today, Tom Fool always appears in best, well-bred pedigrees. He was & is a key-maker.
n.b. (checkout Ouija Board (by Cape Cross) GB m. 2001, notice maternal family is highlighted by Silly Season & Court Martial). Boom!

Other sub-branches of the 3, 9 & 6 female families both contribute genetic ‘structure’ because they are core foundational relationships. Constructively at 7th remove upon the tail-female line, Right Royal 3-f, a French sire of inestimable strength but thought limited, as a stallion. He was the best two-year-old in France in 1960 and his wins included the Grand Criterium. He was the dominant three-year-old of his generation in Europe in the spring and summer of 1961, winning the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, Prix du Jockey Club and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Interestingly, Right Royal profiles in the same zone of pedigree for Dundeel – the New Zealand/Australian multiple G.1 winner and when Dundeel ran his final 400 metres of the Australian Derby, did so faster than Black Caviar in the 1200-metre T.J. Smith Stakes the same day.

Was it that Right Royal had a highly inheritable & necessary trait? I reckon so….
Right Royal is the 3-f family strain. His maternal pedigree is highly infused with 3 branches.

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Right Royal (Fr) 1958

Black Caviar traces majorly to Gainsborough sire of sons Hyperion 6-e, Mah Mahal 9-c, Solario – 26.
Over 7 generations, Black Caviar’s pedigree has merged & re-emerged highly influential breeders. It is a distinctive pedigree at the front, and tight at the engine-room beyond.

(n.b. It is notable the range of Gainsborough still stamps many contemporary high-achievers but also somewhat declining in itself as Nearco overtakes (as a global cycle). Nearco seemingly underpins the global thoroughbred programs for young high-performing stock. Franco Varola (Typology of the Racehorse) noted Nearco’s sons developed a certain dislike of further training at the end of their three-old season and though mostly brilliant as a sire, Nearco was not consistent where not one of his sons took a win of a major weight-for-age race as a four-year old. However, what maybe more alarming and what can be suggested is that the thoroughbred ‘pool’ has disturbingly decreased, losing diversity and also with the loss of broodmares as the main economies shorten, alongside breeding sustainability.)

Genetic dominance, like key markers construct a potent balance which is evident as they navigate & circulate to originating lines.

To realize how ‘strains’ are dynamically revolving through inter-changing lines and also at best, assess how/where they strike may prevent unnecessary breeding and restore confidence.

There is a bygone expression: all things return to originating source – All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. Ecclesiastes 1:7

The annotation may seem too bewilderingfor the thoroughbred world, yet Nature herself, reveals such an order where bulb flowers with hybrid colouration can return to white and a grafted weeping maple emerges off-shoots, which if developed are not same.

Does it seem silly, to suggest Nature even with controlled-selective breeding is the truer, modernizer of breeding?
I would have no hesitation in saying those Sunline’s, Frankel’s and Black Caviar’s are prime examples of genetic dominance and of natural balance.

Selected for optimal speed, the thoroughbred has been on a long, inexact breeding journey: that of a threesome base of oriental-eastern progenitors.

The soul of better breeding is alongside Nature’s science upon a horse. The character of a true champion can be a natural freak or designed equally from the breeding equation.

You just need to know where the diamond in the pedigree lies…..

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For more information/resources
www.pedigreequery.com
http://thevaulthorseracing.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/just-call-me-nelly-australias-black-caviar/
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/78248/analysis-finding-a-match-for-black-caviar
http://pedigreeconsultants.com/2012/02/11/deconstructing-black-caviar

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