Godolphin bred filly Desert Flower is a G1 winner at 2 and 3 years old. She was placed 3rd to winner, Minnie Hauk (Frankel) https://www.racinginsider.com/racing-news/epsom-oaks-2025-result-and-replay-20250606-0005/
https://www.pedigreequery.com/desert+flower19
Desert Flower distaff goes famous to Family 2S, her 6th dam is Blueblood hen Somethingroyal, dam of Secretariat & Sir Gaylord. She (Somethingroyal) dam of Swansea (Turn-To), been 5th dam.
Desert Flower pedigree exposes >> 5x Somethingroyal thru 4x Sir Gaylord & Swansea. https://www.pedigreequery.com/swansea
Tesio suggests the steel is tempered a metaphor between tempered steel and his breeding philosophy. Tesio believed in refining bloodlines through careful selection, much like how steel is tempered to enhance its strength and resilience.
It is thoughtfully observed profiles surely must be with & dependent to ‘G’ chromosome availability, where if or should speed aptitude go dependent on the Haplotype category. Its ‘mix’ to profiles is sourced to evolutionary bred, thus hybrid mix of old and new blood as introduced in certain development stages.
This is of exercise never simple & of course inexact science of pedigree variability -nevertheless, it seems Cyllene lineage(s) appear to be a nucleus compelling. ie family 9.
To Desert Flower the 9×7 Ribot re-echoes 7x Cyllene & his (Ribot) 16x Hermit, 11x Bend Or (Clemence factor +) impacts the pedigree >> haplo/geno branches as shown below. Ribot >> @Cyllene thru (Cicero, Seraphine, Cylgad, Polymelus, Cyclamen, Maid of the Mist) with Hermit 16x is principle.
Sir Gaylord > 6x Cyllene – 23x Hermit.
@ Pedigree to Haplotype may confuse the traditional view. A simplistic modis operandi to scope > refining carriers 9-b,9-e,9-f, 9-g, 9-h) + 2-n thence therein comes upon Dubawi distaff + Galileo + Night of Thunder distaff thru Teddy daughter Tivoli, to sire factors. (Also observe to Desert Flower dam/@distaff, Buckpasser is of the Menow > Cyllene male line – review Cyllene with Teddy to 4th dam @https://www.pedigreequery.com/buck+the+tide. (sidenote – Bull Lea is a refined example 9f/2n) – an immense strain to any pedigree)
Taking branches upon, to Cyllene, Teddy, Bay Ronald, Selene far back as Hermit – this background band of chromosomes is perhaps playing to genetics ‘transposing’ enabling the superior type. Transposition genetics, also known as transposition or transposition biology, is the study of the movement of transposable elements (TEs), which are also called “jumping genes” or “mobile genetic elements”. TEs are DNA sequences that can move from one location to another within a genome, a process that can lead to mutations, genome rearrangements, and influence gene expression. They ‘back’ up, in other words.
Having almost completed this post… yet another pedigree on the racing calelndar displayed 5×6 Sir Gaylord, Family 2S, Somethingroyal. https://www.pedigreequery.com/nitrogen9 by Medaglia D’Oro. What these geno/pheno’s capture remains long impacting..
Nitrogen (US)
- 3-year-old filly, trained by Mark Casse.
- Sired by Medaglia d’Oro, out of Tiffany Case (by Uncle Mo).
- Career record: 8 starts, 5 wins, 1 place, 2 shows.
- Major wins: 2025 Edgewood (G2), Appalachian (G2), Florida Oaks (G3), Ginger Brew (LS).
- Recently won the Wonder Again Stakes (G2) at Saratoga, marking her fifth straight victory
