Marcel Boussac – practical and astute in his approach to building his ‘brand.’ He consistently sought to identify and rectify any flawed process, correcting as fundamental policy each issue and of every matter diligently.
A nonconformist in his own way, he obstinately refuses to read notes or statistical tables. All this only serves to confuse the mind, he assures. The only thing that counts is the discussions, the inspections in the field.
With nostalgia reflected to the Boussac breeds @ pedigree comes the 2025 winner of the Arc de Triomphe. From generational ‘D’ bred females by daughter line from Boussac’s home-bred sire Djebel to arise Daryz by Sea the Stars from Daryakana. https://www.pedigreequery.com/daryz
Boussac’s breeding & by his name alone widely distributed itself to a global population.
These are the Daughters of pre-potent sires and are inheritances that time (genetics) cashes on. ‘If only’ known or ‘should’ know what or where success heads; encompassing genetics that Marcel Boussac ever so accurately bred.
Boussac the meticulous, bought the best thoroughbreds, crossed the most beautiful cracks
An old horse book (1901) covering the English thoroughbred of those times has a remark that had Herod (@#BT) held for brilliance & Eclipse for consistency. Apparently even to those times Herod (oddly) had trouble in finding his successor – all changed when St Simon came to the breeding scene.
@TBL research – a recent discovery isolates an astonishing detail to the superior and quality merit of Djebel’s breeding – the plain fact to the immensely powerful mitochondrial DNA at originating mares, and in particularly one is striking that eventually leads into Loika, Djebel’s dam. f.f. 5-j.
It is she at origin, whom unfolds with the elite type-integrity written above inbred or line bred. (n.b. this Framework will be accounted to next post @ Barnavara (Calyx)(subscribe)
For Daryz – this source dam appears via…
‘D’ distaff/Djebel – Selkirk & Sharpen Up✔️
Sea the Stars – Green Desert, Ahonoora, Miswaki ✔️
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Boussac was a leading French owner 19 times, and the leading breeder 17 times. Breeder of Pharis, whom he considered a prisoner of war when taken by enemy forces WWII. He refused to acknowledge any German bred progeny by Pharis.
Pharis was considered Le Cheval de La Ciecle [Horse of the Century] and the paradox where (seemingly) so little of Pharis blood to contemporary bred appears. However and ever profoundly…the Boussac bred Pharis did exactly influence top-class. https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/2516/was-real-horse-20th-century/
The ‘A’ distaff, female family 9-h to Galileo and Daryz’s sire Sea the Stars, is namely Allegretta. Her 4th dam is German derby winner Asterblute by Boussac’s Pharis.
In Boussac experimentation, his sire Pharis produced Phidias. At six years Phidias is exported to Argentina becoming the country’s 7x leading sire & 10x leading broodmare sire. Phidias is the half-brother of Djebel, out of Loika.
Like Boussac, the Aga Khan legacy at elite breeding are foundation families with continuous principle.
He is ranked 7th of Leading Europe sires by winners 2025 proving himself at producing classic winners, & as placed to Derby, Irish derby and Oaks racing. https://www.pedigreequery.com/taghrooda
* Sea the Stars 4 year old filly Aventure has 3 Group races won and also placed second in last year’s Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. https://www.pedigreequery.com/aventure10
⭕ #ParisLongchamp – Prix Allez France (Gr III) Aventure (F4 Sea the Stars) n’a rien perdu de sa superbe et s’impose avec classe pour sa rentrée sous la selle de Maxime Guyon ! Entraînée par Christophe Ferland, elle représente Wertheimer & Frère et devance Mme Jourdain, auteure… pic.twitter.com/e09xoZY3ic
@ Pedigree, as bred by breeding & racing business team Wertheirmer and Frere https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/tag/wertheimer-et-frere/ where they also took out the G1 Prix Ganay 2100m with colt Sosie (Sea the Stars). Their success also congratulates the Wilderstein ‘bloodstock’ family breeding of 100 years in tow.
With what can be observed to the Sea the Stars filly has a classic European type, fine, lean and vital. She is Herbager 7S x 7D x 5d x 5d, and highlights his distinct integrity focused **in-type @Dark Ronald – Selene – CYLLENE – Hermit – Teddy – Carbine ex- Martha Lynn/Clemence inclusive to her lineage. (n.b. the post Cyllene, link is a must Read).
G Haplotype thrusts the race-distant optimal engine and the listed affinity influences gain clearer than not (IMO). What always goes examined is to refine the certain Type(s) that layer beneath -a Superior prototype inheritable.
To this End, science has given direction, but shall point out the Table below is sourced to Russian Thoroughbred Horses. However it is treated indicative that it 1) exists 2) differing at commercial science based on speed “C” optimum alone. Particularly family 2, with members fam.9
It’s deadly to realize that its nucleus reinforcement has the breeding trick and getting to know genetic sources often overlooked, is imperative.
Herbager was considered a stayer and also considered an odd choice for Bull Hancock to secure to Claibore Farm as newer siring material. The Herbager son Grey Dawn II was rated 2YO champion colt in France, defeating Sea Bird II in the 1964 Grand Criterium at Sea Bird’s jockey’ tactical misjudgement
Herbager is sire of Appiani (ITY) – Italian 3yo champion and champion sire in Germany noting sire of Star Appeal, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner. Thence Star Appeal sire Star Way, a phenomenal influence to Australia and New Zealand as a champion sire of 2 year old’s. Notably Star Way has Selene distaff.
Herbager is a Bay Ronald/Dark Ronald sire line (family 9-b). Grey Dawn II is 5×5 Teddy (b/m sire Bay Ronald), a distaff 5×5 Man O War and to note by Fair Play (fam 9e + 5×5 Hermit + Bend Or & Lord Clifden is packing one hell of quality Haplotype potency.
@Aventure pedigree…
What has not been realized (to now) however come co-affinity link @ Blushing Groom (French champion 2YO and Champion Miler) his broodmare sire Wild Risk (FR). Again to the Cyllene dynastic influences,his son Polymelus has a full sister Lady Cynosure as 5th dam in distaff of Wild Risk. When tracing to Cyllene descendants, he clearly is remarkable. Cyllene runs-the-tide to the Black Ray family (fam. 22-d) by Black Jester/Polymelus/Cyllene.
Lady Cynosure is also the distaff to Sea Hawk (by Herbager) 3rd dam sire @ Cape Cross (IRE), the sire of Sea the Stars (IRE). Ahonoora by Lorenzacchio broodmare sire The Phoenix is a male-line descendant of Cyllene.
Sea the Stars colt Sosie also rocks the familiar genetic landscape..Birkhahn, Vimy, Chanteur, Court Martial, Worden (Wild Risk), Pinza.
But really the shape of all goes …”Cyllene and his son Polymelus (+ sister, Lady Cynosure) have pedigree patterns skewed towards stamina whereas their male descendants Phalaris and Pharos have pedigree patterns reflecting a lot more fast fiber muscle, muscle type for essential for early-maturing speed.” credit quote – Ken McLean Designing Speed in the Racehorse)
Cyllene is overall balance of the two. Crossing over the co-affinity network (**in-type described above) results lethal.
Rip apart the pedigree, note what is obvious, & work through to what is not obvious, to unfold the invisible factor of an ‘aha’…..deduce what is folding in/out of the genetic mix of sires/generations. – TBL
Its a no-brainer pedigree to capitulate Nijinsky 4Dx4D with Miswaki 3sx4d. Head back further and you might just find a couple common factors, such as Native Dancer.
Should you head back even further you may find what’s turning the wheels: – Discovery (USA) And if you further turn the wheels there’s the supreme ancestress Mannie Gray (USA).
Mannie Gray is Mother Superior as was/is large-heart gene, Pocahontas.
In many ways superb potent sires Nijinsky/Miswaki may be enough to justify the whole pedigree. But its not… not for us anyway.
We are going to keep expanding out and take it up a few notches. Divulge more depth, more beautiful detail.
Namely…. how is the harmonic ‘tone’ set…?
7th dam….tapping a double-shot of French-bred Tourbillon, female family 13C* into the deep maternal roots. Interesting…
Note also the other infusion Auriban (FR) ff-13C.
Tourbillon, Auriban (american, Frizette-fame) trace to dam Shotover (GB) by HERMIT.
– yep, we are really digging out HOW indispensable traits/strains re-work upon genus type: they don’t die on ya’.
– i.e. core, nucleus mitDNA, (think about it)…… does IT make sense to see how the ‘type’ of the maternal dam is set?
The next important ‘marker’ is none other than the Princequillo of Princes siring lineage….(we, collectively place the sire lineage to a structural genetic realm all on its own). These ARE the ineffable ‘dose’. Bang, it goes…. right on, to the ‘collective’ taproot. So Im-port-tant to see elementary evolve, unravelling, spinning through.
Next marker: theancestress La Troienne (FR) ff-1x & as represented by Caerleon (USA), sired by Nijinsky) & grandam sire to subject, Sea of Class and ) + the dams sire of Miswaki, Buckpasser (ff-1x)
– Hope you shall see how knitting comes together!
NEXT up
Stradivarius (IRE) – Sea the Stars from Private Life (FR) by Bering (GB)
note again the legacy….Prince Bio (FR) 9Sx7Sx7Sx8Dx8D
Discovery (USA) 9Xx8Sx8dx7dx9dx8d
So far, TBL has failed yet to mention Nasrullah (ff – 9C). Pivotal to global breeding the melodies of pedigree, are well-infused by his, & nearest genetic relations.
That’s immortality folks, where inclusively crossed by Princequillo traits, which other good analysts already know. We won’t re-invent the pedigree wheel here….!!!!
Genetic frame-work to Miswaki (USA) exposes ‘marker’s’ and telling of the future.. again and again the pedigree grid revolves in ‘time’.
Identifying genetic connections with in pedigrees helps us to understand why some lines are perpetuated while others disappear. (If) …our objective is to design stakes-winning pedigrees, perhaps the next step towards achieving this goal is to identify valuable genes transmitted by influential mares. Ken McLean Designing Speed in the Racehorse
It is only by intense scrutiny of high performance individuals, the template they supply, a truer appreciation unfolds and reveals. There lies the truest thoroughbred in all its finery: the original genus trait so needed for its ability, existence, survival. – TBL
The work is 99.9% near done!
Now folks… despite all homework, frame-work here,….there goes the on-going complexity that ‘same’ is not about more of producing ‘same’.
Expression of parentage traits through their contemporary descendants is also comprehending a meticulous observation where a repressed gene may live to resurrect.
Hybrid vigour wants to be superior than what is already given. Its course is often unpredictable, defiant, working or un-working any finest pedigree yet stages ‘other’ plans to produce the perfect specimen from the ‘unknown’.
We notice the smallest miniscule ‘strain’ detail is possibly relevant; the ever slight detail which appears almost meaningless.
The ‘new’ generation is transfiguration, the place for bold breeders & breeding.
At TBL we’ve prior referred to scarcity. The mere fleck of DNA gene-dust that holds light appearing as ‘if’ sacrosanct, there is no real ‘defining’, nor can be accounted.
Its appeal…belongs to unconventional exclusivity, that of superior pedigree craftsmanship.
However in TBL fashion, I attempt to explain breed, the genus throw back, through historical insights belonging to thoroughbred antiquity.
Bold as paint & as sound as a bell of brass.
His good looks, excellent performances, and that he is full of the most successful winning blood of the day. (Of this distant genus)… finest and most perfect-shaped horses ever foaled.
He has been well described as “multum in parvo”; and most of his progeny were of the same character, having great power on short legs.
Of valuable addition(s) to the British stud – Gohanna’s blood comes down with great éclat to our time.
(his brother) one of the worthies that helped to lay the foundation of the American Turf.
The “classic” races fell to six of his progeny, viz., The Baron, Daniel O’Rourke, Knight of St. George, Warlock, Imperieuse, and Songstress, where BIRDCATCHER blood has also been transmitted to our time.
AND to this unique breeding interpretation….
That one has to fight against this production of the beautiful sham, even in the breeding of Thoroughbreds, one can see in many English studs which breed for the yearlings markets.
…..showy stock very seldom become also (best) breeding stock: they’re merely on account of the race tests. In any case, that breeding stock which has an important influence on the breeding of Thoroughbreds – it is a pity that through human sin muchgood material is wasted which was destined by Divine Nature to be chosen material.
What TBL concluded through enjoyable reads, was that from Eastern Europe, the tough breeders recognized the ‘lightness’ of the thoroughbred ‘blood’ as failing at survival; dose of robustness (in its truest sense) was Essential to maintain the species. Basically their observations came from Russian cavalry war-horse breeding. The problem was and still is, to an extent how those extreme bench-marks could be re-enacted.
How this weighs-in now… is to ‘recognise’ unique individualism – the law of averages (AEI) is misleading a dam’s potential, her ability to ‘unveil’ the hidden gem.
TBL returns this enlightenment to the subjects Sea of Class & Stradivarius. You are to remember pedigrees are not fixed, there is a momentum/progression of genus traits lifting.
To simplify refer their pedigrees – focus to the ff-20a to @ origins GHUZNEE.
elementary evolve, unravelling, spinning through.
TBL