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star quality – Miss Monica (USA)

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Miss Monica’s sire & son of elite sire Gun Runner (USA), Early Voting, Early Voting – Taylor Made Stallions had a high-impacting but short race career.

2022 Withers Stakes (G3) — Winner

2022 Preakness Stakes (G1) — Winner

  • He defeated Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike and Derby runner‑up Epicenter.
  • His Preakness (G.1) win was the defining moment of his career.
  • Progeny of Early Voting, 2YO colt Early Encore, suggests aptitude to lead early, make strong pace at the front @ I’m Smokin’ Stakes.
  • Another brave effort for the Early Voting colt, He is No Lie, runner-up @ G3 Iroquis Stakes.

Grand-sire Gun Runner – 4×4 Fappiano – 4×5 Blushing Groom – 5×4 Lyphard.

Fantastic typesetter – Fappiano has broodmare sire Dr. Fager (3×4 Bull Dog/Plucky Leige by Spearmint/Carbine ). His male line heads to 4sx4d distaff’s Sandiway by Clemence, the Martha Lynn family.

Pedigree students should (?) appeal affinity & link to Carbine & his descendancy (Chicle FR) arising 5 Martha Lynn strains. Add in Teddy @ Bend Or (Tadcaster not Doncaster) corrects family distaff @Clemence/Martha Lynn. (n.b. of interest, as claimed by Jack Glencarry N.Z. author, Tesio in his youth visited Australia and New Zealand and later to another of Tesio student John Aiscan in 1987 where citing remarks to the well-chosen Spearmint daughter in Catnip, 2nd dam Nearco. Spearmint notes to breed-shaper, Northern Dancer, 5×6 Spearmint/Carbine via dam Catnip & sire, Chicle)

Nearco’s dam: the Havreasac II mare Nogara (ex Catnip, by Spearmint). The photograph was in taken in 1939 when the mare was aged 11 years. (credit: Jack Glencarry’s Racing Miscellany)

Carbine started a sire line which was to gain international recognition and make an impact on English Derby history. His greatest product was undoutedly Spearmint, who won the 1906 English Derby. A bad-legged horse who cost only 300 gns, Spearmint was from Maid of the Mint by Minting. He beat a top Derby field and also won the prestigious Grand Prix de Paris. He was retired after only five starts. Carbine won the 1890 Melbourne Cup under 10.5, 147 lbs, 66 kgs by 2,1/2 lengths – a weight-carrying record for the 3200m.

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Dr Fager carried weights up to 139 lbs. Under 134 lbs he shatters a world record.

Largely note: Miss Monica dam side – again Dr Fager @ 4th dam by Tasso by Fappiano. Her broodmare sire American Pharoah male-line 4th Fappiano.

@American Pharoah – En Gran Senor from dam Sex Appeal by Buckpasser/Tom Fool/Menow/Pharamond/Selene, a dam with 3×4 War Admiral + 4×5 La Troienne. His distaff @ Minnetoka (dam of Elliptical) 6×6 Plucky Liege as sired by Chieftan.

Typesetting: 2x Blushing Groom by Red God (Nasrullah – Spring Run by Menow) has (5x4x4 Blandford) with a strain to Menow & Bull Dog (Teddy/Plucky Leige) .

@Dam side – Miss Monica @ 2nd dam @ Cherokee Run >> Blushing Groom

Blushing Groom was the complete two year old. Outstanding two-year-old in Europe in terms of pace that he possessed the speed to beat high-class opposition at sprint distances, and outstanding in terms of stamina, in that he was able to win a top-class race over what is regarded as a stayers course for first-season performed. An attractive, well-grown individual as two year old, he had the physical development of a three-year cold. He acted well on soft going (notes F. Mathet, France 1976)

upfront Miss Monica profiles > 3x Storm Cat (Storm Bird/Northern Dancer noting Storm Bird b/m sire runs to male line Bull Lea/Bull Dog) + Secretariat & notably distaff, 4th dam Menow by Pharamond (Selene)

(above 1948) Dams of Winner of all Flat Races in Great Britain & Ireland
1915-1947
(above) Dams of Winner of all Flat Races in Great Britain & Ireland
1915-1947 (printed 1948 U.K. – add Bull Dog (FR) – Admiral Drake (Fr)Plucky Liege Offspring

Plucky Liege (1912) by Spearmint out of Concertina (1896) by St Simon out of Comic Song (1884) imported into France 1915 as the immortal name of this great broodmare is dam of six great stallions, Sir Gallahad III, Bull Dog, Quatre Bras II, Admiral Drake, Bel Aethel and Bois Rousel. Sir Gallahad was champion stallion in U.S.A four times in 1930,1934, and 1940 and his full brother, Bull Dog, in 1943. Admiral Drake made history in France but the “Benjamin” among Plucky Liege progeny foaled in 1935 when she was twenty-three years old, Bois Roussel. Bois Roussel’s great win in the Epsom Derby 1938 is still history. Bred by Monsieur Leon Volterra, in whose colours Bois Roussel, a son of Vatout, won his first race, the Prix Juigne at Longchamp in a field of seventeen, and afterwards sold to Mr Peter Beatty. Bois Rousel’s only race in England was for the Derby, which he won by four lengths from Scottish Union Pasch and nineteen others. Returning to his native country to run for the Grand Prix de Paris, in which Bois Roussel finished third to Nearco. (Racing Review Annual 1952)

Where stationing Plucky Leige/Spearmint @ Miss Monica’s sire Early Voting, his distaff @3rd dam by Chieftan dam Pocahontas by Roman by Sir Gallahad. Again, 3rd dam Silken Doll b/m sire Buckpasser by Tom Fool/Menow (Bull Dog) & War Admiral, to his 3rd dam Bathing Girl by Spearmint.

Miss Monica dam-side, 3rd dam Virginia Bee, grand-sire Riverman again Roman by Sir Gallahad.

Overall, Miss Monica ‘type’ inheritances are to those individuals who were & are the remarkable ‘elite’ breeders, remarkable weight carriers, dynamic front runners holding speed and stamina.

“She’s a big filly with a beautiful stride,” Hernandez said. Miss Monica Overwhelms Opposition in Del Mar Debutante – TrueNicks.com

other references

Miss Monica Overwhelms Opposition in Del Mar Debutante – BloodHorse

Plucky Liege (horse) – American Classic Pedigrees

Plucky Liege

TBL research – Racing Review Annual 1952

Racing Annual 1976

Jack Glencarry’s Racing Miscellany

Romantic Warrior (IRE) – ‘lightning in the spine’

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“a romantic end to a flawless campaign” – multiple Group 1 wins across Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, and Dubai. He is the only horse ever to win four Hong Kong Cups and one of only three horses to complete the Hong Kong Triple Crown – 30 starts 23 wins.

Lot 975 Acclamation (GB) / Folk Melody (IRE) B.C. (IRE)
Corduff Stud, Ireland
The Hong Kong Jockey Club
300,000gns
Tattersalls October Book 2 2019

He really was a beautiful yearling –“We’re Very Proud Of Him,” – Corduff Stud Camp Delighted With Romantic Warrior

CREDIT photo FB – Tattersalls
20 October 2019 ·Newmarket, United Kingdom 


Romantic Warrior’s trainer Danny Shum saw a superior individual and made good advice to owner Peter Lau Pak-fai, as pick of them all. It was his head, his eye.

@ (youtube) vincent o’brien on conformation – “take his head for a start”

The best of the best will identify they move fluid, flexible, elastic, powerful. Intelligences to head are with inner character. They grow a stride ‘electric’.

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TBL Research and analysis explores the immeasurable impact of Musket upon the Thoroughbred – to correlate his ‘type’/phenology influence.

Musket hoof – made into an inkwell

Romantic Warrior: @Pedigree distaff with 4th dam sire @The Minstrel (Northern Dancer ) from Fleur 7S x 6d x 8D Trenton by Musket, 2nd dam Flaming Top (USA) & @ Nijinsky (Flaming Page) its line to Halling (USA), the 3rd dam sire. Flaming Page > 7S x 6S x 9D x 8D Musket.

Nijinsky

Acclamation, 4th paternal @ Try My Best (dam, Sex-Appeal) has 5x Musket (Carbine/Trenton) + 4 x Trenton (note, raced from 6 furlongs & 3 miles) & 7x Spearmint by Carbine.

Carbine – stood only 4 seasons in Australia before his export in 1895 to England where his influence was highlighted by his son Spearmint, winner of the 1906 English Derby in record time. From 4 Australian crops, Carbine left a host of classic winners, Wallace a resounding stud success and Amberite.

Musket was scorned for his slow development. The owner/breeder the eccentric Lord Glasgow had an uncompromising attitude, culling any stock not to his liking. Reportedly, it was to be Musket’s fate on the basis of one trial in which he got beaten. His trainer intervened.

The Australasian colony breeders said the ‘Muskets’ were a breed on their own. His stamina and stayer and strength endowed to his progeny became champions of the turf. His racing performances at two and three miles were with astonishing weights. “They gallop in all shapes” and Musket, in the front rank of stayers, built with dray-horse quarters with his bull neck deep, had weight-carrying power.

He was sent to New Zealand as carriage, stock & station sire, his racing stock struck gold yet regarded with faults & imperfection. Sire Toxopholite. a bleeder and from a family prone to wind afflictions, from an unnamed mare by West Australian. West Australian had not yet proved the great sire influence he was to become.

Whilst Musket’s get Carbine & Trenton were considered best of his progeny none could be accounted as failures. His first thoroughbred mare Syliva resulted in Martini-Henry, VCR Mares Produce Stakes, VCR Melbourne Cup, VCR Victoria Derby, VCR St.Leger Stakes. Trenton his 2nd New Zealand crop won as a two-year-old and unsoundness prevented a three-year-old campaign. 13 starts 8 wins, his races where compounded by shelly-feet, further competing against other Musket sons and though the Melbourne Cup eluded him his progeny Auraria and Revenue were successful. Against many odds in the Northern Hemisphere, he was the grand-dam sire of Gainsborough, sire of Hyperion. Musket son Maxim won three races as a two year-old and undefeated at three. Sold to the United States where he enjoyed siring success. His daughter Catherine Wheel, 3rd dam of Phar Lap, ancestress of Sunline (NZ), her broodmare sire is a son of Nijinsky (hence, Flaming Page) Western Symphony.

Machine Gun (Hotchkiss by Musket from Rubina) 33 starts – 16 wins. Rated as of one of the greatest sprinters, especially under weight, of his or any other era. When he won the CJC Randolph Handicap in 1904, for the 2nd year he carried 11 stone 5lb (72 kg)and sped over the five furlongs in 58 seconds, a New Zealand record for more than 40 years. (credit – Tapestry of the Turf – John Costello & Pat Finnegan)

Musket stock & grandsons dispersed around the world, notably USA & Latin America. Musket daughter Ante Diem family accounted for at least 19 Argentine Classic winners, among them 1931 Triple Crown winner Mineral, as well as many other winners of top races in both Argentina and Brazil.

To the deep avenues: gold potent genetics, the Musket line did not wither but rather imprinted his enormous ability duly thanks to the foresight of a trainer who did not see him as a failure.

To define Musket, his imprinted bloodline yields the high profile type-setting.

The elites have it: the Man O War son War Admiral 3rd dam by Spearmint by Carbine, noting the MOW sireline West Australian has Musket broodmare sire.

Further by geno: the sire of Phalaris, Polymelus is the similar ‘in’ vein @ distaff ‘blood’ (Toxophilite/Quiver>Brown Bess) compare i) Musket ii) Carbine 3×4 Brown Bess.

@ Romantic Warrior

His dam Folk Melody – 5×5 Halo & of Halo – 6x Spearmint by Carbine noting Hail to Reason > 3rd dam sire St Germans, dam Hamoaze by Torpoint by Trenton.Cosmah 5×5 Spearmint

(Remember Northern Dancer has top and bottom Spearmint by Carbine via Chicle & Catnip + Hemlock, 2nd dam of Display sire of Discovery).

By genotype spectrums @ Polymelus (Toxophilite/Quiver/Brown Bess) influences Polynesian sire of Native Dancer.

Musket, dam Mersey, foal at foot Carbine

references

lot_9.pdf in Hong Kong

More Champions – Tony Arrold

Tapestry of the Turf – John Costello & Pat Finnegan

Field of chestnut Gold…Cyllene 1895

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In early days pursuing The Thoroughbred interests, there went forum outcries to the Phalaris disease. https://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11081, phalaris lines spell speed at the expense of soundness

Obviously, Phalaris male line made hay…(Nearco)

From insight the remarkable threshold, the male line at grand-father Cyllene is unbelievably staggering. Getting my hands to 1960 New Zealand stallion registries, the spell-binding breeding significance of Cyllene descendants was and is still not to be missed. His lines are seriously present.

Cyllene – Captivation sire of Kircubbin sire of Chateau Bouscaut sire of *The Phoenix & Chanteur

Cyllene sire of Cylgad, sire of Kassala, sire of Pappageno II

Cyllene sire of Bridge of Earn, sire of Bridgemount sire of Foxbridge

Cyllene sire of Polymelus

Cyllene sire of Cicero, sire of Friar Marcus

Cyllene sire of Lemberg

Cyllene sire of Helicon

Cyllene sire of Cellini

Cyllene sire of Minoru, sire of daughter Serenissima dam of SELENE

Phalaris – Pharos sire of Firdaussi

Fairway, sire of Fair Trial: his full brother Pharos sire of Nearco

The Phoenix, best son of Chateau Bouscaut won the Irish 2,000 Guineas and Derby

By references (three stallion registers) what was apparent, then the major influences, to line @Teddy, the strain @ Carbine descendants (Spearmint) and with Hyperion from his dam @Selene (further to her sire-son influences Sickle, Pharamond, Hunter’s Moon )to another @ Bay Ronald’s line through son Dark Ronald & his son Gainsborough.

At tail-male Cyllene to a Teddy cross was ‘pre-present’ to Argentina genetic-giant British Empire (GB) 1937. He was bred by Lord Glanely and sent to Argentina 1940. He won four races as a 2 year old. The Teddy daughter Rose of England won the Oaks. His son Equinox (ARG) cross broodmare sire is Hunter’s Moon (Selene), further distaff influence Carbine (Clemence) +2×3 Hampton by Lord Clifden ex The Slave, Martha Lynn.

The Teddy male-line with Spearmint cross (daughter Plucky Leige) produced Bull Dog (FR) 1927 & Sir Gallahad (FR). Half-Brother Admiral Drake (FR) by Craig an Eran (GB) has broodmare sire Cyllene.

The ‘link’ between Teddy and Cyllene is Bend Or/Tadcaster back to distaff Clemence/Martha Lynn family assigned family 2-h. The Bay Ronald link and tail-line to these superior individuals is back to The Slave distaff of Martha Lynn. (n.b. whilst Martha Lynn families has L4 haplotype, I suspect the predecessor was also part G Haplotype – a formative cross sub-variant type to many Horse breeds.

An Australian Hall of Fame chestnut Heroic was the leading sire in Australian 7 times in succession. Heroic’s racing record speaks for itself – 1st: AJC Champagne S., AJC Derby, VATC Caulfield Guineas, VATC Caulfield S., MVRC W.S. Cox Plate, VRC Newmarket H., WmtnRC Underwood S., AJC Breeders’ Plate, VRC Maribyrnong Plate, Tatt’s NSW Chelmsford S., VRC Ascot Vale (2yo) S., AJC Autumn S., VATC Memsie S. (x2), AJC Cumberland S., MVRC William Reid S., VATC St. George S., VRC King’s Plate, WmtnRC C.F. Orr S.

Remarkably Heroic has 3Sx3 Cyllene, 3x Hampton by Lord Clifden from The Slave/Martha distaff + 4x Bend Or/Tadcaster as prior mentioned. https://www.pedigreequery.com/heroic

TBL favourite character Court Martial (Fair Trial) by @Winkiepop distaff many a time profiles to Australian bred – do note Court Martial has >> 5×5 Cyllene + 5×5 Bay Ronald.

5×5 Cyllene + 5×5 Bay Ronald. Broodmare sire of Lyphard!

Re-evaluation upon Cyllene – Bay Ronald and affinities Teddy & Selene goes central. Our antipodean great sire Sir Tristram (Sir Ivor) tail-male Polymelus/Cyllene – 2x Princequillo >Minoru/Cyllene + Bayardo/Bay Ronald + Selene distaff. Sir Tristram’s best son Zabeel from Lady Giselle 2x Hyperion/Selene + 3×4 Sunny Boy > Teddy, 3x Bay Ronald + distaff Friar Marcus/Cicero/Cyllene.

What’s the Nutshell?

Since research here has of late, explores G haplotype in connection of formatting superior Types it is pretty much conclusive what the superior, bred Elite direction is. However, hooking into G Haplotype prepare to be befuddled at Ped. Tables, with literature side-stepping the greater picture; a hybrid-Thoroughbred framework as alone Northern European British bloodstock recorded goes clearly not that simple.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Haplogroup-tree-of-HVR-1-sequences-from-the-studied-horses-Mutations-were-shown-on-the_fig2_3255114

What we need to realize and exploit where probability arises….its pretty obvious by now why, to the Galileo potency. There are more…

As much taken by this sire Isfahan (Ger) https://www.ohlerweiherhof.de/deckhengste/deckhengst_isfahan.php the key-markers are reasonably evident. Leading Juvenile sire in England, among the leading Broodmare Sires in N.A. — Sire of 83+ SW and 10 Champions – headlines 4×4 Sharpen Up, himself of the Sickle/Selene tail-male 5×3 Hyperion/Selene + Carbine (fam.2-h) thru Felstead & Bois Roussel, sire Atan distaff 3rd dam by Fairway, Fair Play through Discovery, Rocchetta’s 4th dam by Pharos. The ‘band’ of ‘G’ genetic Players are all to see viz. Bay Ronald/Dark Ronald ie Birkhahn (Ger), Sickle (particularly Sea Bird),

In an era when we rarely concern ourselves with names beyond the fifth generation, we hardly ever encounter Cyllene. He is further back in pedigrees, and it is no exaggeration to state in all pedigrees. His Derby winners played their part, but the star turn was unquestionably Polymelus, five times champion at stud and sire of Phalaris, the most influential of all 20th century stallions. by Tony Morris https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/3714/tony-morriss-100-shapers-breed-sire-who-became-staple-ingredient/

Cyllene a symmetrical chestnut colt, inherited a wonderful temperament. Cyllene sired four English Derby winners in 1909 and 1910 and also led the Sires List in Argentina. He was a horse that could accelerate more than once during a race and he was able to pass this gift to many of his progeny, especially to his tall son Polymelus. Ken McLean – Quest for a Winner

Cyllene never stops… to be one of the most penetrative potent influences ever and to end this dissertation (its never completed) the most important dam-line to sires in making is designated Reine-de-Course mare Striking (family 1-x). https://www.pedigreequery.com/striking To be Noted, Fair Play – Spearmint – Teddy – Cyllene

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2019 Japan Champion Two-Year-Old Colt 2020 Japan Champion Three-Year-Old Colt 2021 Japan Champion Older Horse 8th Japanese Triple Crown winner (3rd undefeated winner) – Contrail (JPN)

https://www.pedigreequery.com/contrail10

Additional research

https://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Cyllene.html