As the stallion ignites further commercial interest, TBL examines those Yaupon genetics that struck ‘bullseye’ – showcasing his integrity where undeniably, an intriguing genetic uniqueness appears.π₯
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In the final stretch of the Forego Stakes, FIRENZE FIRE attempts to BITE his rival YAUPON π¬
A formidable male sire line, in its own right, it carries on by Uncle Mo’s intermediate/classic status. From the brilliant Grey Sovereign – Fortino (FR) – Caro (IRE) – Siberian Express (USA) – brilliant/intermediate In Excess (IRE) – Indian Charlie (USA) – Uncle Mo (USA) his G.1 son & sire, Yaupon (USA).
Further, working along these governing sire lines consistency established – a speed given upon their breeding influence, and onwards developing branches or supplementary lines. It is important to observe their broader genetic possibilities, engaging those various sires that may contribute to a stronger genotype, whereby tapping into unrealized potential.
What however captured Yaupon’s early success?
distaff Yaupon arises from 9th Generation @ *St Germans (GB)
Hail To Reason pedigree finds 3rd dam sire *St Germans (GB).
πSt Germans (GB) – a magnificent influence through 2nd dam Sceptre (GB) 1899, as her dam is Ornament, a full sister to English Triple Crown Winner, the unbeaten Ormonde. A Line, father of Orme trails down to the electrifying breeder, Teddy.
Yaupon takes up strains @Hail To Reasonvia Leo Castelli (Nothirdchance distaff) – 4×3 Vindication (USA) – Roberto – In Excess (IRE) distaff/dam Vi by Vilmorin – Gold Bridge (FR) β‘οΈβ‘οΈ Orby/Orme/Ormonde. Noting also, Kris S, sire of Arch (Uncle Mo) – the 3rd dam by Gold Bridge (Fr) …Orby/Orme/Ormonde
Yaupon – 7s x 7S x 7D x 6D – Nothirdchance, (dam of Hail To Reason).
Hail to Reason – his dam Nothirdchance (USA) went by crossing 3×4 Man o’ War, 2nd dam St Germans (GB)
The Legacy to Hail to Reason, left the notable sires Roberto, Bold Reason, Halo, and Stop The Music to their consistent individuality.
St Germans (GB) sources Ormonde’s full sister Ornament, dam of Sceptre. He was the sire of Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner TWENTY GRAND, and Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner BOLD VENTURE
From a formative cross, Yaupon pedigree generates..
-its undisputed, his distaff has Hastings, sire of Fair Play – Man o’ War line et al @ 8x strains folding through, additionally both Hail To Reason & 3rd dam, St Germans & Man O’ War.
As yielded, upgraded upon and profiled on tight knitting lines, Yaupon introduces a very smart outcross. Yaupon Horse Pedigree
Physically, Man O’ War was a glowing chestnut, almost red, standing 16 hands 1,5/8 inches. He measured 71,3/4 inches at the girth and weighted 1100 pounds in training. As a stallion his weight reached 1370 pounds. He was unusually long bodied and powerfully muscled in the gaskins. He sired over 300 offspring who won over 1200 races.
photo credit – The English & Irish Thoroughbred – Sceptre the foundational mare (Persimmon – Ornament) 3rd dam St Germans.
Notes: compare pedigree Do Deuce Horse Pedigree male line Hail to Reason ‘X’ Vindication, champion 2-year-old colt.
Arrogate died as a result of a neurological health problem at age seven. In his all to brief stallion career, Arrogate (USA) produced remarkable progeny.
2022 Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Oath from his first crop
2023 Belmont Winner and Champion Three Year-Old Colt Arcangelo
2024 Preakness winner Seize the Grey from his last crop
After a poor start, Arrogate’s running back of the field by ten lengths was a remarkable victory in the 2017 Dubai World Cup (G1). He decisively outran Gun Runner. Arrogate was a two-time World Champion in 2016 and 2017.
TBL profile – Arrogate Horse Pedigree 4×4 Mr Prospector – 5×5 In Reality – dam side 2x Northern Dancer explodes far further to a die-hard potency so penetrative.
By notable distinction it is with the great Man o’ War. He suffered his only defeat by the Whitney-owned Thoroughbred, appropriately named Upset. There was that other day, as Man o’ War raced against John P. Grier to defeat and broke his heart and spirit. (n.b. John P. Grier 2nd dam of Native Dancer)
Man o’ War was labelled a ‘half-bred’.
For reasons well known…historical bloodstock narration was directed largely towards English thoroughbred ‘imperialism’. It discounted unfavourably to stigmatize American exclusions as half-bred. It was a lengthy disheartening period for the American RH and additionally, French (RH), all selected well-built lines and ‘pools’ significantly managed out. (Executed detail, Kirsan’s book).
The Americans strongly objected. A long history and contribution left to be as rightly defended in altruism; a sincere desire to consider and improve the Thoroughbred as a world product and not an animal from any one locality or nation was dismissed. The formative commercialism restricting a market for American bred both in England and in other parts of the world. Pedigrees denied, pride hurt, confidence eroded that really ultimately American Stud Books were just as justified as the English, though neither recognised perfect.
{Well, the battle raged lustily…until the British began to wonder if the “Exclusion Act” instead of helping to improve British bloodstock was perhaps working to its disadvantage. Then came some rather shocking news: the American-bred Battleship, a son of Man o’ War (the half-bred), won the Grand National, most difficult jumping race in Europe, and the American bred Flares (full brother Omaha) won the Ascot Gold Cup, premier distance race of the work…and the great Italian horse Nearco began to assert his leadership and he too had the cursed American cross that made him a technical “half-bred” to his sixth dam by Lexington (on a Lexington/Glencoe cross). The British clearly saw the light and the “Exclusion/Jersey Act” was rescinded}. (H. Finny)
Behind ‘protectionism’, a discontinuing critique for defined Function. True purpose bred,versus notions placed upon ‘purity’ (the beautiful sham) that progressed or updated commercial appeal with fault.
The leading principles faltering, warped in time. Superior typology punches below and above, phenotype ποΈ genotype.
Contemporary pedigrees come the two familiar determinations ie Mr P & N.D. They fire Native Dancer, fire Discovery, and thence if there is Discovery, it stands to full reason his grand-sire Fair Play & sire of Man o’ War – himself a transformative breed shaper, a trans-cross by America – English lines that so came to bear his fruit.
Man o’ War’s distaff had blending strengths of Herod – Godolphin Arabian & Eclipse via his descendant 3x Beningbrough, being of family 61 strains formulated to branch & breeds standardbred/trotter ex- Mambrino/Hambletoniandescendancy.
M o’ W overall to note, @t 14x Orville by Beningbrough – integral crosses for two-three types of speed, scoped to constitution, conformation and disposition.
Its expanse, ever dominant are of siring line(s) stamping afar. One naturally is not far from the other. Hastings β‘οΈ Fair Play (Man o’ War)β‘οΈDisplay (Discovery) either & onwards descendants American Flag, War Admiral, War Relicβ‘οΈβ‘οΈβ‘οΈβ‘οΈIn Reality. War Relic, the pedigree re-counts, daughter/dam selection to Lexington, the wheel rolls its ‘Typology’.
Varola’s typology went to consider a finer assessment work – not so much towards line-bred contributary factors but by functional; he calculated considered traits to the effects of breeding performance i) sire, or of ii) dam’s broodmare sire.
Varola – one ascribes the trait to War Admiral’s own grandsire Fair Play. The mention of Fair Play is not entirely out of order, because one of the recordable cases of split personality is precisely that of the great American racehorse and sire Man o’ War by Fair Play, out of Mahubah, by Rock Sand.
Man O’ War split his produced, broadly into a Fair Play type and a Rock Sand type. His most signficant runners and sires where of the Rock Sand type,
War Relic, a chestnut out of a chestnut dam, a small horse and distinctly hollow-backed
War Admiral, a brown out of a bay mare, in size little over 15 hands weighed 400 kilograms as against about 540 kilograms of Discovery.
Battleship, a chestnut out of a brown mare, a minuscule horse who won the Grand Nation in England and bred good jumpers in the US as well as some mares who bred on.
(i) above and ii) – Typology of The Racehorse – Franco Varola excerpts
Man o’ War
Man o’ War (Fair Play – Mahubah by Rock Sand) with his devoted groom Will Harbut. America’s “mostest hoss” was a product of the potent cross which was responsible for such high-class stakes winners, many of them good sires, as Mad Hatter, Mad Play, Chatterton, My Play, Sporting Blood, Blind Play, Broadside, Ordinance, Festival and Playfellow. Man o’ War was himself a leading sire of winners, two-year-olds, ‘chasers’ and broodmares. (extraction: Humphrey S. Finney)
The old timers tell of the Lexington-Glencoe ‘nick’. Of later years, evidences came to hand of a “nick” between the Fair Play tribe and the descendants of Roi Herode.
Because the late Major August Belmont had Fair Play in his stud as his head sire at the same time that he had a number of daughters of Rock Sand, he naturally bred a large number of the latter mares to the stallion and the results were such that everyone with a Rock Sand mare wanted to breed her to Fair Play to get some more Man o’ Wars and Mad Hatters, etc. (Humphrey S. Finney)
Chasing the Grey (roan) in Arrogate
Sire Unbridleds Song – dam Trolleys Song by grey Caro β‘οΈβ‘οΈGrey Sovereign & Myrobella by Tetratema. @ Dam’s Distaff – by Native Dancer dam Geisha, 4th dam La Grisette by Roi Herode (Fr).
The Herod blood in Greys…
*- Chanter, 1820, (renamed Skeleton when sent to Australia 1827). His brother Drone, traces down to the French horse Le Sancy, and back through Herod to the Byerley Turk. Drone was by Master Robert, 1811, sent to Ireland, by Florizel, sent to America, by Herod, 1758 by Tartar, 1743, by Partner, 1718, by Jig, by the Byerley Turk.
*Drone, 1823, a grey horse, got Whim, a grey mare, who foaled Chanticleer, a grey horse by Birdcatcher, who got Souvenir, a grey mare, who foaled Strathconan, a grey horse by Newminster, and he got Gem of Gem, dam of Le Sancy.
Le Sancy – Le Samaritain – Roi Herode – The Tetrarch – Tetratema – Mr Jinks et al
(* excerpts – Polo breeder Gerald M. Browne; His ‘Grey Wall’ are pictures – 1967 Humprey Finney)
Arrogate – an exceptional runner. A true champion whose spirit ignited the racetrack leaving his progeny to do the rest.
*Hostility’s grand-dam – Plucky Leige by Spearmint. Orange Riviera > Plucky Leige producer of sons @5x Sir Gallahad + @6x Bull Dog. Bull Dog & 3x Man O’ War are mix potent lines! (Hostility’s 5th daughter is double-copy mare Killaloe)
3rd dam Grand Splendorβs daughters Killaloe and Gonfalon are responsible for some big names, including Ogygian, Lookinforthebigone, Fappiano, Torrential, Clabber Girl, and Keeper Hill. The 2nd dam, Farnesol, was exported to Argentina and produced G2 performer Farenboy. Frieda Fritz (ARG) by Roy, a G2 winner in Argentina has Fappiano & Ogygian. Gonfalon is the great granddam to Florida sire, Curlin’s Honor. (not rostered)
As ‘School of Varola’– Brazil and Argentina bloodlines critique sires capturing Type. “When the name of Blenheim is chosen, and Blenheim is a name that can never be absent from a list of Breed Stallions.” (credit link)
Thus we see the emergence of two distinct tendencies from this count: one is that in which attendance decreases from father to son, i.e., Swynford 47, Blandford 34, Blenheim 12. In this case, we have a sequence that must be considered together, since each of its components demonstrates that it has not transmitted its qualities to a single son, but to a plurality of descendants.
DOSAGESΒ “The selection of a sire for a given breeder must be indicated by its ability to correct excesses or deficiencies due to the presence of past Breed Chiefs in the mare’s pedigree. Consequently, bringing the pedigree of the planned product as close as possible to the recommended dosage.” credit –https://purosanguedecorrida.blogspot.com/
Admirably, what the above IS, has a specific instruction, dedicating question and answer for identifying what dosage, where it is or can be preferable in the pedigree, thereof to emerge influence.
Orange Riviera – 12 x Blenheim
Mahmoud (The Axe/Relaunch, Ogygian, Northern Dancer, Mr Trouble/Lode, daughter Clovelly/Wild Again/Wild Event)– Mumtaz Begum (Nasrullah) – Free America (2x Gonfalon by Correlation)– Mar-Kell (dam line, sire PUT IT BACK)
By influences @ male line, Blenheim – Blandford- Swynford @ 7th dam sire (Idle Hour GB) – 2x Swynford merges filly’s 3rd dam Fricote, 11 x Blandford.
Obviously, other numerous highly valued contributor sire ‘lines’ & of dams are equal, to some effect. The Bay Ronald, short-coupled Son-in-Law contrasts physical type @ 8 strains – ex 4th dam Quip Mask, a champion G1 mare reminds value is continued from its heritage.
To take awareness how powerful ‘they’ still have it – these stronger diverse descendants are remarkably potent and effective. With incomparable foresight “cultural stability achieved by the maintenance of cultural variety, just as biological stability is achieved by the maintenance of biological variety.” Franco Varola.
This gradual transformation of the Thoroughbred from feudal to corporative, and from corporative to international, is not only a striking parallel to the transformations which have occurred to Western society which sponsors it.
