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G1 winner – RIFF ROCKET by American Pharoah

19 Sunday Nov 2023

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The Australian 2023 Victorian Derby winner (2500m) – Riff Rocket, the home-bred 3yo gelding & owned by Debbie (Winx-fame) Kepitis’s Woppit Bloodstock.

Riff Rocket has 7 starts, 4 wins, 2 places

Riff Rocket Pedigree by American Pharoah from Missile Coda (AUS) ex- Smart Missile (AUS). Missile Coda from the wonderful colonial family, ‘Rain Shadow’ f.f.C-7

Riff Rocket – an excellent well-designed pedigree, exploiting Hyperion and his dam Selene


– Fappiano 5×5, the true x-factor bred @ US elite performers. 20x St Simon, 8x Spearmint (Carbine), 5x Plucky Liege.

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/224139/oppenheim-fappiano-rising

– Reine de Course mare **Crimson Saint – Grand-dam of Storm Cat (A.P.) & dam of Royal Academy (Fastnet Rock) f.f.8c

Selene and Plucky Liege had shown godlike domination and ascendancy over the marked majority in terms of their influence on the accelerated enhancement of the thoroughbred. 2) Deserved ‘deification’ as the supreme transformers (or uplifters or transmuters) of the breed. Ross du Bourg

@ matters pedigree – no surprise that this 2023 Victorian Derby winner carries the veins of the great New Zealand Derby sire Zabeel (Sir Tristram) through his grand-son Lonhro (AUS). (Zabeel’s influence – 2006 Efficient, 2014 Preferment, 2015 Tarzino, 2020 Johnny Get Angry)

@ American Pharoah strongly suggests his female ‘blood’ went to Hyperion through his grand-son Olympia by Heliopolis by Hyperion, key-conduit to pedigree. Hyperion (Gainsborough – Selene f.f. 6e). A Key individual shall heavily contribute to elite performance breeding.

– Riff Rocket @Dam-line Missile Coda find Selene, her 4×5 influence passes to sire, Sir Tristram. Sir Tristram 6S son Marauding 5D x 4D.

Sir Tristram: Champion Sire, 45 G1 winners of 140 SWs
Sir Tristram continued to fire magic bullets with advancing age.

Ross du Bourg

The Selene strains fall to Hyperion, Pharamond, daughter All Moonshine influences descendants Sir Tristram/Zabeel, Forli > First Consul, Scuff, Special & Star Kingdom (Stardust) >Todman, Biscay. Dark Jewel. Dark Jewel, Australia’s wonder broodmare – a most humble mare with a wonderful temperament produced nine individual winners from only 10 foals to race. Her best known progeny dam of Baguette, sire of Crown Jester 4th dam sire of Missile Coda. (Dark Jewel also produced Heirloom & Birthright (winners VRC Maribyrnong Plate) – full sisters to Baguette.)

More Hyperion influence note, Comic Strip (USA) the broodmare sire of Smart Missile brings in Olympia (Heliopolis) via 2nd dam sire Creme dela Creme (USA).

By Haplotype, the family lineage as it appears by Ped Tables, f.f. 6-e, has error. #L3a1b is the Haplotype dominant character attributes the elite racehorse, a phenotype critical.

As the Haplotype affixes #L3a1b the important contributor Todman (AUS) by Star Kingdom Stardust/Hyperion/Selene male-line and dam’s distaff f.f. 1-u, again the haplotype #L3a1b.💥💥💥

Todman – photo and article credit https://sconevetdynasty.com.au/todman-conformation/. Photo also credited – The Australian & New Zealand Thoroughbred (Ross du Bourg)

Endowed with an aggressively prepotent genotype Todman was the Champion sprinter and Australasian Breeding Legend (article)


Selene @ f.f. 6e, Oceana
f.f. 1-u, Crimson Saint f.f. 8c – #L3a1b Haplotype

Riff Rocket is a master pedigree. Yet more to the point, it displays the US sire ‘out-crossing’ with reinforcement back. As above, the L3a1b Haplotype reveals yet more concealed genetic potential.

Information @subject *L3a1b👇

MITOCHONDRIA THE MAKING OF SHANGHAI BOBBY?

@L3a1b refer p.13 Table 3 Most significant candidate genes/mitochondria for impact on performance – https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-animal-020420-035235

@L3a1b – family 8 has Stud-book mare by Byerley Turk

@janebielski – researcher, The Thoroughbred Link

Ken McLean ‘classic’ Axiom.

          Genetic Influence from superior ancestors becomes diluted after one or two out crossed generations, yet when the same superior ancestors are reinforced in a single pedigree it allows for the recapture of the original source of classic speed. You must first duplicate the source, then go away from it, and then make sure it is reinforced again.

above credit – http://broodmaresinc.com/clustermares/

Pharoahs daughter – Above the Curve (USA)

30 Monday May 2022

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Above the Curve (USA) by American Pharoah from Fabulous, ex-Galileo – 3yo filly and winner of Prix Saint-Alary.

What comes round, goes round… American Pharoah pows a ‘Grand Slam’ (2015 blog) explored strains bringing Olympia by Heliopolis (his dam Drift) by Hyperion.

For each sire, better success to breeding depends on right blood to his own.

The case in point, AP’s sire, Pioneer of the Nile has 4th dam by Heliopolis & multiple to Littleprincessemma.

The direction goes Above the Curve, 6th dam Itsabet (USA), by Heliopolis.

Heliopolis was a Leading US sire in 1950 and 1954.

He sired 53 SW’s, including champions High Gun, Grecian Queen, Parlo, Berlo, Aunt Jinny. Broodmare sire of 71 SW’s.
Heliopolis also sired many great Show Jumping horses, such as Grey Eagle, the sire of A Little Bit.

The critical mass genotype (back)…hoes n’ grows, as placed up maternal going thru the lines. Heliopolis 8S x 8S x 8S x 9S x 9S x 7d, sire Hyperion from the greatest dam Selene.


9s x 8s x 9S x 9S x 9S x 9s x 9S x 9S x 9S x 7d x 8D x 9d x 9d x 9D x 8D = inherent SELENE
Hyperion

– learned degrees are to find deepest genotype behind, which draws phenotype desired ahead.

Heliopolis line-bred for their dam’s are the mit. DNA flavours inherent. One is not without the other.

Focusing, Heliopolis dam Drift (FR) – 3×4 St Simon + 4×5 Hermit yet catalyst draws broodmare sire Neil Gow by Marco.

Sir Charles Leicester (Bloodstock Breeding) notes Neil Gow died before making a comfortable impact on the Stud Books of the world. His stallion son Re-echo was a great success in Argentina. Ramondie His daughter descendants producing sires of incredible merit e.g. Felicitation. Ramondie produced

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Attempt to cover the exclusive family genetics wide; to gather meaningful interpretation where the potency develops favourable outcome. That is the differentiating quality that strikes well over theory or algorithm.

Take… Drift’s 1/2 sister Tide-way, the Dam of Gulf Stream by Hyperion.

Gulf Stream

Champion 2-year-old Colt in England
Leading sire in Argentina in 1955, 1958 and 1959 . Genetic merits, anybody?

(Gulf Stream sire of Montparnasse (ARG) 2nd dam sire of Wishing Well, dam of Sunday Silence)

With infusions building (Above the Curve) her lines Chieftain dam How (family 9h) raising Neil Gow and Sickle aka dam-line Selene ++ Papyrus from Miss Matty by Marcovil by Marco

“always keep an eye out (pedigrees) for Neil Gow – TBL”

– her sire’s stride! 💛💥

Other material, Above the Curve & media articles here

diva, Verry Elleegant (NZ)

03 Wednesday Nov 2021

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In her own right, the remarkable star of the modern turf – her 4 L. win takes out the 2021 Melbourne Cup.

These are great racing days to remember. It was sooooo good, so genuine, so very courageous n’ bold: princess to Queen (1400m – 3200m)

  • @pedigree V.E. tribute – @ geno-factors – aka 3×3 Danehill, 4×4 sire Cotehele House he the son of the legendary producer Eight Carat female family below.

(in-set credit – pedigreequery.com)

Eight Carat’s principle progenitors of all – Man O’ War male line, 2x Nearco, Djebel, plus the Hurry On line via Precipitation and Niccolo Dellarca from Nogara, noting the dam of Nearco.

Verry Elleegant with 23 strains Nogara and principal is not Nearco, for 35 strains Gainsborough (sire of Hyperion, Solario, Mah Mahal, Bobsleigh, Naic, Artists Proof).

  • It re-sorts to pro-genitor Zabeel, grand sire of V.E.
  • Imposing (AUS) by Todman – sire and male line of Hyperion & Imposing’s 2nd dam by Landau (IRE) from a Hyperion daughter Sun Chariot

Note Dominance is detail: ……Spy Song (USA) , (Balladier/Mata Hara USA) to distaff King’ Theatre IRE) where Spy Song 3×3 Peter Pan/Command/Domino with 3dx4d Hastings, grandsire Man O’ War. (refer Sir Ivor distaff 3rd dam MOW.

  • further 5th dam by Questionnaire (USA) by Sting a crest to female family 2H with 3×4 Domino. the exclusive trait f.f. 2h is also to Danehill/Danzig aka female producers Alamahoud, Natalma = 9 strains Carbine f.f. 2h. (Plus that genotype of another in similar vein, Northern Dancer, to V.E ped, 4×4.

Examine 30 strains collective across the 9c female-family representative to Cotehele House from Eight Carat, Nasrullah, Fair Trial, Royal Charger, Mahmoud.

Of fate n’ destiny, the sire Zed, a son of Zabeel is but a story rich of NZ’s farm culture.

Zed – purchased for $400k as yearling took a damaging kick when loading onwards to Australia and his career was to remain in New Zealand under the hands of Murray Baker, whom also had trained Zed’s dam Emerald Dream.

Zed (under Baker) had 4 starts for 1 win and went duly retired with a ligament strain.

As new sire @ Little Avondale Stud for fee of $500 2 exciting gallopers broke rank – Survived and Usainity, a G3, 3yo winner at Randwick. Zed unfortunately was also a producer of late-maturing progeny and there was the problem.

He left Little Avondale for stallion duty onwards to a South Canterbury farm, Erewhon Station, there to be bred with Clydesdales, & draft horses yet he further maintained his impact as ‘breeder’. (See photo here. )

It was Stud-master Mark Corcorcan of Grangewilliam Stud (Wanganui) whom saw onwards potential, versatility and Zed’s siring ability was to prove him right.

Zed Em’ – steeple chaser and winner at Sth Australia Oakbank 33 starts, 12 wins.

Irish Flame – 2020 Ballarat Cup winner

Jimmy Mac – NZ Cup winner (3200m)

Rubusto – 2021 Avondale Cup (NZ-G2,2400m,Ellerslie) & 2020 Metropolitan Trophy (NZ-L,2500m,Riccarton)

Further progeny results & stats view here

Yes, Zed’s siring triumph, to his daughter Verry Elleegant a Melbourne Cup winner, a Caulfield Cup winner, a Oaks winner et al, 10 Group 1’s…and below👇 way-back-then the 2yo starlet on debut, at Avondale trials (June 2018), running 2nd of 7.

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