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Classy ‘geno’ for 3 year old filly, Full Keynote (ARG)

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Grey Sovereign – A Train Express – Grey Sovereign & Vilmorin powerhouse continues profile Grey Sovereign (via Caro).

The male direct stamps Full Keynote (Full Mast) the winner @ Gran Premio Miguel A. Martínez de Hoz (G1) 2026 @ Hipódromo de San Isidro, Argentina. https://www.pedigreequery.com/full+keynote

Full Keynote latest win 🏇race reel – https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUee8hSgPNA/

🐎 Sire Full Mast

  • Breed: Thoroughbred
  • Color: Bay
  • Sex: Stallion
  • Foaled: 9 May 2012, USA
  • Breeder: Juddmonte Farms
  • Sire: Mizzen Mast (Caro- Grey Sovereign)
  • Dam: Yashmak (by Danzig) –5×5 Native Dancer from Geisha (by Discovery f.f. 23-b ✅ ) ➡➡️➡️ La Chica dam (Sweep/Domino)✅ – La Grisette (IRE by Roi Herode (FR) ➡️➡️➡️Le Sancy dam Gem of Gems ➡️ Strathconan (GB) by (Newminster/Chanticleer) *** DRONE ✅✅ (as discussed further below)

Full Mast retired to stud in Argentina, currently stands https://www.turfdiario.com/post/de-la-breeders-cup-al-ring-de-ventas-gran-mu%C3%B1eca-da-un-nuevo-paso-en-su-historia Haras Gran Muneca

The G1 winner Full Mast arrives at Haras Chenaut. (2017 X- Twitter)

🏆 Racing Career Highlights

Major Wins

  • G1 Prix Jean‑Luc Lagardère (1400m) — awarded the win after stewards’ inquiry
  • G3 Prix La Rochette (1400m)
  • Prix du Val Sery (Deauville)

Other Notable Performances

  • Close 4th in the G1 Woodbine Mile behind Tepin (2016)
  • Competed in France, the U.S., and Canada

Career Record (France, USA, Canada)

  • 10 starts: 4 wins, 1 second, 1 third
  • Earnings: €376,007

Full Mast (USA) reine-de-course broodmares Ride the Trails, Mrs Peterkin, Petitioner & Slightly Dangerous. Their inheritances – simply superior corresponding to ‘stamina and heart’ (ARTICLE link) (additional, Standard bred pdf @XH, TB origins LINK

Dam Keila (ARG) by Pollard’s Vision (USA) @ f.f. 23-b! – a G2 winner high-class 1m-9f dirt winner at 3-4 years & the sire of Eclipse champion 3 YO – Blind Luck (Pollard’s Vision – Lucky One).

Pollard’s Vision “little, one-eyed & huge on courage” https://oldfriendsequine.org/horse/pollards-vision/

His daughter, Blind Luck deceased September 2024 –https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/champion-blind-luck-dead/

Full Keynote, a 2nd dam by Argentina’s genetic powerhouse Fitzcarraldo (ARG) primarily the genotype alike, Hyperion/Selene’s family via Serenissima (GB) 1913. Credentials – https://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/fitzcarraldo-arg.html. Co-affinity with the Selene family via sire Full Mast distaff @ Noblesse by Mossborough (GB) (Nearco – All Moonshine from Selene).

@ bottom distaff female family 9-g; family Ante Diem dam & daughter of the great antipodean sire Musket evolves further as family of the great Argentina sire Congreve

@3rd dam Kefallinia – 5×5 Fair Trial – 5×5 Prince Bio a spectacular genotype to this distaff…@ Fair Trial ex- Lady Josephine/Americus Girl + the ‘S’ family Sainfoin & Sundridge additional Mirza (Fr) (Blenheim/b/m sire The Tetrarch, daughter Mumtaz Mahal) as is Migoli (GB) (Bois Roussel/Mah Iran/Mumtaz).

Kefallinia @ 2x Prince Bio >5×5 St Simon with notable Grey Leg by Pepper and Salt (f.f.23a) 3rd dam by Rust by Master Robert. The Tetrarch direct male line Le Sancy (Fr) Chanticleer 1843 (family 23) (Birdcatcher/Whim by ***Drone by Master Robert.

Lyphard (Northern Dancer/Native Dancer – Goofed/Court Martial (Fair Trial/Lady Josephine + 5×5 Chouberski + 5×5 Basse Terre. – @ distaff @ Alcantara (Fr) find Barcaldine 4×5 Whim by Drone as is Chanticleer distaff Whim by Drone via crossing thru Le Sancy & also noting 2x Basse Terre has Chanticleer, he the 2nd dam sire St Gatien.

@ Drone by Master Robert

3x Cygnet mare by Cygnet dam Godolphin Blossom.

Origin thoroughbred, quietly unaccounted, it appears Drone mares are influencing super-elite thoroughbreds.

The influence spread: Bruce Lowe family 19-a, dam Southdown the 2nd dam of Cambuscan (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 1872, stood at Kisber Imperial Stud) SIRE OF KINSCEM 54 starts, 54 wins.

Cambuscan influences are Ajax, sire of Teddy – Ajax dam/daughter Havresac (Fr) b/m sire Nearco

Also, the influence of thoroughbred strain to French Trotter via Ada (GB), f.f. 19-a 1824, 4th dam Ministere 1875 sire of Intendante (1886 French Trotter) & broodmare sire Jaguar III 1887 – 8th dam french trotter, Idao de Tillard

As named lines Le Sancy (Fr) & Ajax thru Orange Peel 1919 (TB) has the siring-line Alme Z (@breed Selle Francais) well-famed & breeder to sports and jumping lines (noting please, sports bred horses are not my forte!) however majorly exposes potent genes are absolutely all-round competitive.

🏇🏇 … why Grey Sovereign blood?

The ancestral distaff (f.f.6-f) @ Fancy full sister to Diomed by Florizel from a Cygnet mare by Cygnet, dam Godolphin Blossom. His up-front profile i) 4×5 The Tetrarch ii) Havresac via Ajax distaff Cambuscan Drone Mare + iii) Lady Josephine/Americus Girl by Americus >> Boston 5×5 Diomed by Florizel from Cygnet mare/Cygnet. Americus Girl also to her 2nd dam sire/grand-sire Solon 3rd dam Whim by Drone.

Godolphin Blossom dam of Cripple & Cygnet

Gimcrack pedigree
‘phenotype’ Gimcrack – Sire of outstanding American stallion Medley, sire of top class Bell-Air (sire of dam of top class Sir William and grandam of great racehorse Henry), Grey Diomed (sire of dam of Duroc, sire of great racehorse and outstanding sire American Eclipse); and of 3rd dam of American Eclipse (a painting by George Stubbs)

A Train Express – Grey Sovereign & Vilmorin powerhouse

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Determining influences are the criteria towards establishing how a classy-Type goes bigger than pedigree.

After the 2026 New Zealand & Australia yearling bloodstock sales buyers cited their athletic or scopey type purchases.

Another view took hip and depth/hindquarter wide was consistent by certain sires.

With a pedigree overview of stallion lines, the emergent and prime genetic influences for their supremacy is featured.

First distinguishment is Grey Sovereign. His global breeding impact thereof numerous notable branches(see) https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/pdf/cau/cau020521.pdf where each developed on and re-created male dynasty line to grand-son Caro, to deceased sire Uncle Mo (USA).

Grey Sovereign was a champion breeding sire of two-year-olds. He was notorious for ill-temperament (history notes to Chanticleer (IRE) 1843 by Birdcatcher) yet nevertheless, the line truly flourished –

Sovereign Path by Grey Sovereign, also a leading sire of 2-year-olds, sire of winners of 421 races.

Grey Sovereign’s coat 2x The Tetrarch, (link The Tetrarch) undoubtedly a Individual type and speed influence impelled like no other strain. Whether G gene coat, a constitution, or ‘speed’ endurance an ancestor mare factors considerably Godolphin Blossom. > see Chanticleer/Drone/Master Robert).

The determination of great sires appears and re-appears much to that nucleus mare, and the work is often finding what are carriers.

Second significant influence – Vilmorin (GB) through the Deep Impact males.

Vilmorin, 16 hand horse sired Quorum and there rolls in the ‘magic’ of astonishing racehorses, sire of immortal Red Rum, Grand National Steeplechase (thrice), 2nd twice, Scottish Grand National

Vilmorin, his daughter/dam Jojo (GB) dam of Queens Hussar and she, sire of Brigadier Gerard. Queens Hussar profile 3×3 Fair Trial (hence Lady Josephine f.f.9-c) + The Tetrarch + Vilmorin catalyses one genetic powerhouse.

@ Australasian breeding, there generated the fabulous family – Denises Joy (Aus) by Seventh Hussar (FR).

The Grey Sovereign and Vilmorin cross with homozygous grey coat bred Zeddaan (GB), his grandson Kenmare (FR) sire of Virage (Aus), black-type producer (Virage de Fortune, Glasnots, Avenue).

Virage de Fortune is 3rd dam of rising star and grey-colt Hidrix (Extreme Choice). Further in brief, the 6th dam by Gunsynd influences Hidrix’s profile & ancestrally same to Grey Sovereign, Florizel mare Fancy 1780 being a full sister to Diomed.

Photo Credit – FB Racehorses Australia/post Peta-Anne Tenney > Fenwick *GB grey 1962 (Vilmorin – Heliographic by Coup de Lyon) Rushlands Stud, Toowoomba, QLD. Photo: Peta-Anne Miller, 1969

@ Master Robert (IRE) 1811 – Drone (IRE) 1823

3x Cygnet mare – an exceptional broodmare CYGNET MARE  (GB) gr. M, 1761 {5}

Dam of 1) the outstandingly successful stallion Florizel, sire of at least 175 winners of £75,901, the sire of a) top class racehorse and outstanding sire Diomed (1780 Derby, sire in America of the top class racehorses Lavinia, [Ball’s] Florizel, Duroc (sire of the great American Eclipse), [Wilkes’] Wonder (sire of [Tennessee] Oscar), and sire of the dams of the great Henry and top class Sir Alfred; however, his crowning achievement was as sire of great racehorse Sir Archy, one of greatest stallions in American turf history); b) Eager (1791 Derby); c) Tartar (1792 St Leger); and d) Ninety-Three (1793 St Leger);

full brother – Bourdeaux (1774 Jockey Club Plate [4yo division] –

https://www.pedigreequery.com/drone2

Again, the female family origin – Grey Sovereign distaff comes from a Florizel mare Fancy 1780 being full sister to Diomed.

Below examples Uncle Mo son, Arabian Knight (f.f. 23-b) Mannie Gray family – 3×3 Lexington. Further back 11 lines Florizel, 12 lines Diomed, 3x Gimcrack.

Through his sire line @ In Excess (IRE) has 2nd dam by Vilmorin, daughter Vi.

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