To a second start of her career, the filly Well Written (Written Tycoon) took victory by six and three-quarter lengths.
Purchased for NZ$80,000 from the 2024 National Online Yearling Sale @ Gavelhouse Plus to the recent high-profile purchase of a 50% share by global racing giant Yulong.
TBL profile: When one becomes aware of how superbly impacting the Byerley Turk/St Simon lines come, the pedigree shall ‘shape’. (n.b. when you get it, you get it…👉Updated TBL post who is Byerley Turk?cross examines sire type, sire haplotype with science & photos)
Her sire, Written Tycoon viz #BT lines are Milesian & Better Boy. Her Broodmare Sire, Sebring 2nd dam Lady Moulin (AUS) typesets 5×4 Djebel, where through Djebel tails Better Boy (My Babu).
To her distaff female family 3-b, the ancestral Byerley Turk’s Sister One True Blue (ref, updated post has also yesteryear accounts to the True Blue’s)
Her 3rd dam Torolosa (NZ) has 3 strains Nasrullah.
“its that we have moved the entire breed to a different conformation”
“we’ll breed to anything that produces a fast horse”
“We (the author here is Ellen Parker @ reines-de-course) have seen some very meaningful patterns in the pedigree of horses he (A.B. “Bull’ Hancock) stood at stud and the families he collected over the year. The main line he seemed to fancy was St Simon. Nasrullah was inbred to St Simon, Princequillo was St Simon line. Round Table was inbred to St Simon. The beautiful Le Fabuleux was also St Simon line.” ( ex-reference, http://www.reines-de-course.com – The Hancock Patterns)
St Simon – an original photo
Tesio never liked to give away secrets but he did mention St. Simon was a stallion who changed the conformation of the English racehorse. Tesio believed St. Simon transmitted conformational differences such as a sloping croup and different shape of hocks that gave his descendants athletic advantage. He attributed the difference in physical structure to genes transmitted from St. Simon’s broodmare sire King Tom, son of famous mare Pocahontas (by Glencoe), with noting Glencoe is of the Herod/Byerley Turk male line (credit ref https://www.stallions.com.au/2021/10/18/battle-of-the-sexes/)
Everyday breeders and researchers will look through individual pedigrees not perhaps fully comprehending the modern thoroughbred goes akin to the simple basis of either two and of other in selection, ‘types’.
Many pedigree fans simply fail to draw out the striking opposite patterning and these categorically are the competitive type to the lines of Byerley Turk/St Simon.
The comparisons how the modern breed possibly changed and whilst one cannot accurately judge, one of the unique anatomical traits of the Arabian is that it often has 𝟓 𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝟔, and 𝟏𝟕 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟖, contributing to its compact and strong frame. Simple comparisons follow –
Feature
Arabian
Thoroughbred
Stride length
Shorter
Longer ✅They rely on covering maximum ground per stride rather than rapid turnover
Stride frequency
Higher – they maintain speed without overextending
Lower – Lower stride frequency but longer stride length.
Efficiency
Energy-conserving, endurance
Speed-maximizing, sprint ✅
Best suited for
Endurance racing, uneven terrain
Flat racing, sprint distances
Racing Thoroughbreds (longer back):
Result: longer stride length, ideal for sprinting and flat racing.
Extra vertebrae allow more flexibility and extension.
Longer stride means they cover more ground per step. (*** see below)
It is breeding to Types that has coursed history: ‘certain parallels between England and Arabia to both were for centuries developing and consolidating a certain breed of horse; in Arabia for war, in England for sport’ -The Arab Horse in Europe, E. Schiele
The Byerley Turk foaled about 1680 and is said to have been brought by Captain Byerley, as his share of the booty, taken from the Turkish army before Vienna. He came to England about 1684 and was ridden by Byerley as his charger when he was stationed in Ireland in 1690.
Genes as progenitor of the English Thoroughbred, as so named of three foundational sires, the Byerley Turk today arises as the near extinct male-line to the modern era racehorse breeding.
His TB-o1 signature is a real and scientifically recognized Y-DNA haplogroup; he carries a powerful ancestral story.
The highly acclaimed bloodstock writer Rommy Faversham states ➡️{*The Byerley Turk would go on to sire a number of highly influential daughters, most of whose names do not survive. These include the taproot mare for Bruce Lowe’s female families, #1, #3, #8, #17 & #41. } – (credit excerpt-*Faversham)
Dam of the Two True Blues (ancestral Sunday Silence)
The second Byerley turk mare of the dam of two grey colts by Honeywood’s arabian (also knows as Williams Turk and Sir Charles Turner’s Turk). These grey colts were foaled in 1710 and 1718 and it has lately been the custom to describe their dam as the dam of the two True Blues, the colts having been known as True Blue and Young True Blue respectively.
Between 1710 and 1718 (the exact dates not been give) the dam of the two True Blues foaled two grey fillies to Honeywood’s Arabian, and in turn the elder of these fillies bred two fillies to Bartlett’s Childers, and from her many of the best known race-horses are descended. There is no need to give a full list, but the names of the Flying Dutchman, of Stockwell, Rataplan, and King Tom, of Galopin, Isinglass, and of the famous fillies Memoir (St Simon) and full sister, La Fleche may be mentioned. (excerpts are 1901 The New Book of the Horse).
Reading a pedigree the Byerley Turk blood shall always captivate to his honourable presence. Yet it is the puzzling demise how an outstanding breed has silently coursed an exhaustion: a withering of the vine 1980’s onwards.
(ex-Faversham) We don’t really know the extent to which biodiversity is being forfeited when a sire line dies. It does, however, stand to reason that if one chooses to acknowledge the value in recognizing the spectrum of sire lines, it should in turn, be difficult to believe the breed suffers no meaningful loss when you eradicate one.
Let there be no doubt Byerley Turk Horse & Type, has structural backbone genetic or otherwise.
Milesian by My Babu @ Tb-o1
son of The Tetrarch (male line Thormanby/Herod) – compare the pheno to the Tb-o1 structural as also representive, Polish Arabian, (below).
To contemplate the genetic relationship among those Tb-o1, shall credit a ‘distinctive’ genetic ‘value’ incomparable. His relationship and value as thoroughbred originates from the Turkoman horse (Akhal- Teke). These origins to be spread widely by English Thoroughbred stallion descendants. In presence of clade Tb many European breeds has no documented influence of English Thoroughbred stallions which shall certainly demonstrate the influence of Turkoman stallions, as independent of the English Thoroughbred.
With references @ (** 2022 science publication **) see Fig 1 & Table 1 (cited below) – @ Clade T@ Tb-o1a,b,c, the given type thoroughbred alongside original arabian clades are the given Type to be critically observed. These cited and selected arabian identities (Table 1, pg 12) is to assess what Byerley Turk (Tb-o1b) gets for an ‘elite’ genetic capability.
These two photos below are representee to TB-o1.🏇✅ these are classified as Polish Arabian yet maybe comparable to other sire lines TB-o1, observing Byerley Turk ancestral type.
Kuhailan Afas’s mother – Kuhailat Afas, photo from the book “Under the Bedouin Tents”, 1933
Kuhailan purity is preserved while one may discover exquisite jewels within this heritage, prudence is essential in making acquisition.
Kuhailan Krusch, sired by the esteemed dam Kuhailat Afas, exhibits the quintessential attributes of an ideal horse. She possesses a robust physique, characterized by low-set legs, a long and well-coupled body, and remarkable withers. Her neck is elegantly elongated and noble in appearance, complemented by a refined head that embodies Arabian lineage, featuring large eyes and a delicate-skinned muzzle, albeit with slightly soft pasterns. Her hind legs are of impeccable quality.https://polskiearaby.com/en/breeding/35784-from-the-desert-to-poland-90-years-of-polish-kuhailans-part-1
The significant observations indicate that this distinguished horse @typology possesses qualities that go well beyond foundational storytelling.
The TB-o1 type characterizes a diverse breeding spectrum, which is likewise proportionately reflected to elite pedigrees.
Isinglass – female family 3-m, a Byerley Turk female line. The pedigree has 3×4 Pocahontas. Isinglass is sire line of Blandford.
Twig Moss by Luthier – (influence to Australian champion sire – Fastnet Rock (since dec.) @ distaff)
TB-o1 assigns the arabian Latif 1903. He was an outstanding stallion, excelled for French bred anglo-arabian winners.
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(above) The desert-bred stallion Latif (b. 1903, by Hamdani El Samra) was imported to France in 1909, where he helped shape early 20th-century Arabian breeding with his authentic desert type—dry, balanced, and correct. He sired 38 purebred Arabians and left a lasting legacy through his chestnut son Denouste, the most influential French sire of his era (credit info- FB Arabian Horse Database)
(above) Steel won the Waxy Cup at The Curragh 1817. 4x Herod over 5 generations (Eclipse patri-line)
Bay Malton has 7x Herod (with Herod’s tail-male line) over 5 generations from a Byerley Turk distaff. @Family 35, no Haplotype records.
With reflection to Byerley Turk’s Tourbillon tail-male line – France’s most successful sire line in the mid-century, successful crosses aligned My Babu – Ambiorix – Klairon to Turn To male line where his 3rd dam Sweet Lavender complemented. The investigation into the crossing of the blood of those relatives found disproportional levels of success throughout much of each (and every) strain to worldwide pathways. (Excerpt ref. A relative Matter – Rommy Faversham – Thoroughbred Times 7/12/1996 & Inbreeding to Superior Females)
Ambiorix
By breeding horizon, The Byerley Turk appears abandoned and yet it is to ask how, what or why arose this cause n’ effect circumstance? The Byerley Turk at times appears unusually judged for slow development, problematic surrounding successive sons & sires, stayer or hurdler type and or, not appealing the commercial 2-year-old precocity type for the marketplace, hence, culminates the decline.
Although ignorance persists; it is to scientific enlightenment exactly refining what the elite racehorse has to their brilliant performance.
***– : {Elite racehorses reach peak speed by predominantly increasing stride length rather than stride frequency [15]. Over the last 200 m of any race, horses that can maintain stride length and/or frequency tend to achieve a better finishing position.} {We suggest that aptitude for superior performance is variable for each individual racehorse, relying on unique physiological factors. Furthermore, race-day performance prediction can be equally influenced by intrinsic aspects such as the sex of the horse (colts have a greater chance of winning) and their particular aptitude for race distance where stayers also more likely to win} ✅https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/9/1342
The Quest for speed dominance alone has surely made representational over-refinement. The over saturating the blood, a term of the old school breeders with insight for hybrid vigour replacement. The racing thoroughbred population has clearly become disproportionate at expense of T-C geno, where higher proportion of shorter races favor horses with sprint-type C-allele. The Darley Arabian has taken a long expanse evolving dominance @Tb-dM1a (Mambrino / Hambletonian type). (Fig 3 – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42640-w
Hambletonian – Original, from an early engraving after the painting by Francis Sartorius.
Whalebone – from the painting by J.F. Herring. The Whalebone mutation around 1800 has the haplotype TB-dW1. This genetic marker is almost fixed in modern English Thoroughbreds, with the paternal lineage of the Darley Arabian (Eclipse’s sire) now representing almost all male Thoroughbreds.
By statement (ref link) : Genetic diversity in the Thoroughbred breed has been reduced in recent decades due to the increased commercialisation of popular stallions providing large genetic contributions to the population.
Retaining high level of genetic variability is the key to robust allelic richness and a moderate heterozygosity supports genetic health of populations – the continual foundation for future breeding.
The #BT trait, its locus indicates a potential breed-specific fixation of the allele. It is the aerobic function (to sustain energy at speed) versus non-aerobic energy production, sprinter.
Genotype
Racing Style
Optimal Distance
Muscle Profile
C:C
Sprinter
≤ 1 mile
Compact, muscular
C:T
Versatile
All distances
Balanced
T:T
Stayer & Endurance
> 1 mile
Lean, stamina-focused
Studies shall highlight how specificequus caballus Arabian genetic regions are containing unique genes vital for energy production, mitochondrial function, and motor control, these contribute to the exercise performance seen in Thoroughbreds with those of Arabian ancestry. {11 chromosomal segments unique to Arabian on ECA2, ECA3, ECA8, ECA12, ECA19 and ECA23. The Arabian (only) have selected regions contain recognizable equine exercise relevant genes inclusive COX4I129,46,47, PPARGC1A47,48 and DMRT349; all three of these genes have been identified within run of homozygosity in several horse breeds50 to indicate that stretch of DNA has been driven toward fixation of centuries of breeding.
Essentially the functions reflect superior oxidative clearance and optimal aerobic power to elite horses. Elite horses handle oxidative stress.
Gene
—
Effect on Mitochondria
Performance Impact in Racehorses
COX4I1 – Central to mitochondrial electron transport and maximal oxygen consumption – fundamental for prolonged, aerobic exercise.
↑ Complex IV assembly; ↑ VO₂ maximum aerobic capacity
+5 % endurance output; faster recovery times ✅
PPARGC1A – Master regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis, oxidative phosphorylation, fatty-acid oxidation and Capillary formation in muscle.
Science comes to ‘explain’ racehorse performance centers other phenological traits and are increasingly scrutinized. Individuals with a short-distance-suited genotype were distributed mainly between 1000 & 1800 m.
Using the very last Byerley Turk Sire Line stallion’s left in the world and what it means to the horse racing scene wherever so, can produce the brilliant quality and that particular horse with a different pedigree can flourish unexpectantly. As important are the daughters breeding and, in most instances, the #BT dam lines upon breeding today will display dynamic.
As campaigns go to save the sire, Pearl Secret (by Compton Place #BT), he went exported to Arrow Stud in Japan. https://www.pedigreequery.com/pearl+secret Yuki Shimomura, owner of Okaribe Farm in Hokkaido, hopes to save the sire line of the Byerley Turk by standing Pearl Secret at Arrow Stud.
The scarcity of his bloodline was the catalyst for the acquisition, as stated “He’s been keen on Pearl Secret for some time. Not only was he a classy sprinter, he’s one of the very few horses continuing the Byerley Turk sire line. “I think he’ll prove to be quite an interesting proposition for some Japanese”.
Those who breed desiring G1 performers, the genetic factors towards ancestral are to remain absolute. The Byerley Turk bubbles through the elite pedigree and how can he not when the science asserts his specific genotype as so described.
These below are recent 2025 winners with Byerley Turk/Tourbillon influence (n.b. other Herod lines are not mentioned ie, The Tetrarch, #BT amongst)
🏇2025 G3 winner, Shallow Now (BRZ) blk/br. F, 2020 {f.f. B3} 3rd dam Femme Fatale 3x Tourbillon through Coaraze (Fr) & Locris (Fr) Brazil’s Byerley Turk lines!
🏇Quisisana (FR) b. 5 yo mare – Prix Jean Romanet (Fr-Gr1) 2000m – 4×4 Konigsstuhl (Ger)
🏇2 year old colt Realize Sirius (JPN) – {13-b} – G3 winner, Niigata Nisai Stakes
🏇Australian sire Flying Artie > 2x Better Boy, 4-time Champion Sire in Australia (1965-66, 1970-71, 1971-72 and 1976-77). The Sire of G1 2025 Nunthorpe Stakes Asfoora (Aus). (New Post – where sky is the limit – Skyglider (AUS) by Flying Artie – refers contributions of Better Boy. 2) Well Written (Written Tycoon)
🏇3 wins from 3 starts Elle Sourit (NZ) ch. F, 2021 {5-h} – 4x4x5 Sir Tristram > My Babu + Klarion (Star Way) + Djeddah (Riverman)
🏇Twig Moss(pictured above) to deceased sire Fastnet Rock, sire of the international G1 performer & Australian based mare Via Sistina (Ire) at age 7 winning 2025 ATC Queen Elizabeth Stakes G1 2000m for 24 starts & 13 wins. Additionally noting her grand-dam is by Indian Ridge #BT.
Auguste Rodin (Deep Impact) champion 3yo in GB & Ireland. G1 winner at 2, 3, 4 years 7 – 12 furlongs. Female Family 3-d, the Byerley Turk foundation.
Additional Notes
Observing Byerley as of the Turk breeds – has both lean body mass and or musculature type. It needs pointing out that the Turks are of ‘type’ several, noting there appears 3 Haplotype clades @Tb-o1 > (a, b,✅& c) separate & distinct from Godolphin Arabian (TB-03Bb) and Darley Arabian (Tb-d). (cited – Y Chromosomal Insights etc, below…).
Problematic – blue print thoroughbred types. Clearly, they are not viz. Whalebone as pictured above.
The execution is to appreciate that necessary aerobic & essential circadian, mitochondrial functions are implicated by T/C geno.
Without what diversity remains, rare variants go lost and what places perfection is the overall balance, the distribution of all 3 contributors crossed. It is discussed to Bluebood article: Herod’s vanishing sire line by Rommy Faversham
Our TBL evaluation has cross-referenced numerous science publications & the most significant are cited below.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42640-w Figure 2, The third founder, Byerley Turk, born in 1680, was newly characterised by an allelic variation of the tetranucleotide microsatellite fBVB (GATA14/GATA15; Supplementary Table S8) that defines the Tb-oB1 clade + (Figure 3)
Bluebloods 2021 – Issue 4, hard-copy publication: Herod’s vanishing sire line by Rommy Faversham. (excellent article with graphed siring lines through Europe, Australasia and USA (Diomed/Glencoe/Hanover – demonstrates relationships dovetailing)
(be patient and absorb details about Ancestors because the information lays a foundation for what follows……..certain ancestors need to be mentioned) Ken McLean – Australian bloodstock writer.
Haplotype L4 or I2a2
family 2
41x Godolphin Arabian #GA/GB
30x Crofts Partner
21x Sister One to Mixbury (founder family 9e, 9f, 9g, 9h)
Harkaway – the Irish Eclipse, King of the Curragh, & “the terror of all Ireland”
It is remarkable where contemporary bloodstock literature does not adequately consider the full impact of Harkaway in comparison to mainstay genetics of Eclipse and Herod, Whalebone, Whisker.
The Irish Eclipse Harkaway was not an ordinary individual. He was truly exceptional, a marvel. It is to consider well, that he may be the pinnacle of any pedigree, transmitting a distinction from the sole inheritable factor of one ancestral mare.
With performances as noted, she will be highly praised alongside those Matriarch notables.
Alice Hawthorn – 3 to 7 year old, a splendid racer, ran 71 times and won 50+ times inclusive of 17 King’s Plates. First foal at 11 years old, and had 7 foals without a break. 3 Splendid foundation mares, Lady Hawthorn and Sweet Hawthorn + dam of Thormanby.
Catherina by Whisker out of Alecto – a splendid racer. Ran 2-11 years old 176 times and won 81 times. 12 times as an 11 year old. First foal at 16 years old, 9 foals of which 6 where good racers. At 22 years foal Young Catherina/Nagara and at 27 years the last foal a winner at 3years.
Maria – dam of Waxy (1793 Derby, Champion Sire 1810, sire of 190 winners, of Wowski (2nd 1800 Oaks); of top class stayer Worthy, winner of 6 King’s Plates between 1799 and 1801; grandam of Mother Shipton (2nd 1797 Oaks); and of Smolensko (1813 2000 Guineas, Derby). Died 1797, about a fortnight after foaling Wowski. Doric Stakes (2-mile heats) carried 9st 7lbs, winning 3 1lbs over her nearest rival.
Guiccioli (Bob Booty) – 2-6 years old a very good racer. Ran as a 6-year-old after foaling and again in foal producing a healthy foal, six times, won twice in the King’s Plates over 4 miles with heats in September in curragh and in Northumberland Handicap in October amongst such good horses as Skylark, a 3-year-old and Napoleon, a 5-year-old. First foal at 6 years old. 13 foals amongst where Birdcatcher and Faugh-a-Ballagh. At 21, living twins, one which was Gramachree, Foundation mare in family 11-d and at 24 years St John, later Carlow, a good race 2-7 years old. (n.b. Guiccioli 9x to **Siberia > Curlin (USA)
🐴🐴🐴 Alice Hawthorn, Catherina, Maria, Guiccioli. Not merely sources to great dams of great sires where these genetics are power house. The ‘discovered’ mare produced a phenotype that evidently goes overlooked and it was only through Harkaway himself as passed to his son King Tom & his descendants, that distinguishes an ultimate contribution.
But firstly, another well-known mare Pocahontas – esteemed breeder of Stockwell & Rataplan & King Tom. Pocahontas never won a race of 9 starts.
Pocahontas:2-5 year old ran 9 times without winning. First foal at 6 years,13 foals amongst which were Stockwell, Rataplan, King Tom, The Knight of Kars, Ayacanora, Knight of St Patrick, Auricula (dam of Nuncham & Blanford, Araucaria (dam of Wellingtonia, Camelia, Chamont and Rayon d’Or. Lived to 33 years of age. (n.b. 1909 referenced **)
Comprehending Harkaway – his nucleus: The Godolphin Arabian, the sire of Old England, from Amorett, also known as Little Hartley mare, a Royal mare. One of Old England’s grand-daughters is Mother Brown.
*Mother Brown by Trunnion-Old England. At 4-12 years old, ran 39 races and won 20. As 8 year old, and in foal, she won a race over 4 miles. As a 9 year old, after foaling, ran again four times and won four times (amongst which was a King’s Plate). As a 10 year old ran 6 times, winning twice. As a 12 year old, ran once, not placed. Had 6 foals. At 21, Toby a good racer in Ireland, At 25, Jerry Sneak, a splendid racer in Ireland and won as a 13 year old and was sire of many good racehorses. At 26, Mare by Bagot, the grandmother of Nabocklish, family 4. About 30years old, had last foal. Mother Brown, dam of Bacchus, winner of 31 races between 1791 and 1796 including 3 King’s Plates
Nabocklish – 1815, 1816 x 2, 1817 King’s Plate The Curragh. The Nabocklish mare and only recorded daughter Fanny Dawson is the dam of Harkaway.
Bloodstock writer, George Tattersall (1817-1849) impresses Harkaway was exploited and whether from aristocrat jealously towards the roguish character in owner, Mr Ferguson, it does appear Harkaway attracted an unnecessary misfortune. Harkaway received heavy weights to his racing performances and Stewards would adjudicate faulty starts. Under such harsh conditions to his running, Harkaway earned much respect and praise afar after his triumphant races.
The name of Harkaway is sacrificed to the disgusting practices of an unprincipled third ‘party’.
all these successes made the Americans ever on the alert cast a jealous eye upon Harkaway and Messrs Tattersalls having been commissioned to send him to the New World, at a price, wrote to Mr Ferguson what sum was asked for him and whether he was in work “the price of Harkaway is Six Thousand Quineas and I hunt him twice, and thrice times a week”
Harkaway in splendid form won in the merest canter beating the best horses of his year amongst them Deception, The Doctor and Epirus.
Harkaway game as steel, came again, and won a magnificent race amid the most intense excitement by a short half length.
Goodwood Cup – one of the fastest races on record, Harkaway made the running throughout winning easily by two lengths.
Harkaway was certainly one of the most extraordinary ‘cracks’ whose feats has been our task to chronicle. Setting aside the tales about his being ridden as a hack about the farm, to fetch the letters, to do anything and everything; this one thing is certain that if this horse had being fairly dealt by figuring…(?)
Harkaway was the best and most successful racehorse of his day. He was not in the Derby or St Leger (he wasn’t entered) but won 21 races of 28 in which he started up to the end of his 4 year old, including eight King’s Plates, the Goodwood Cup and the Royal Whip beating all the best horses on the Irish and English Turf, carrying the top weights. He also won the Goodwood Cup at 5 years with 130 lbs. (1883 – S.D. Bruce)
At stud in his first year, Harkaway only served 3 mares. He served the following season in Newmarket to later return to Ireland, and he produced a good number of quality winners. King Tom was considered much like Harkaway. Harkaway daughters were considered very good and turf writers greatly admired them. Even so, rapidly his stud career did decline as breeding services preferred The Baron, to sire Stockwell and Rataplan.
In this light – one may appreciate how TB History took the evolutionary path.
Finer breeding models are generally to St Simon the Byerley Turk male line. To his pedigree, it maybe comprehended to Harkaway, a Godolphin Arabian/Barb specimen, was a dynamic cross of its time & further St Simon’s dam, St Angela, tap-root family 11-c where his 5th dam Jerboa reveals 7x Godolphin Arabian & 4x Crofts Partner. However, it is not the only aspect influencing. Among those bred-in strains, *Mother Brown (Trunnion – Old England mare) contributes an exemplary trait.
With this focus, what maybe catalysed to any breeding model may be determinable by understanding exactly whom Harkaway has given influence to, & also to Harkaway’s son King Tom through his few descendants outside of St Simon.
Harkaway influences
St Simon
Hastings, > Fair Play, > Man o War > War Relic, Speed Boat
Display
Discovery
Spearmint
Vaguely Noble – 28 strains St Simon, 5x5x6 Spearmint, Harkaway daughter Chaseaway designated, female family 1-d. The great sire of Gay Mecene, Dahlia, Empery, Nobiliary and more…
Vaguely Noble was European Horse of the Year in 1968, when at three he won the Gr 1 Prix de l’ Arc de Triomphe by 3 lengths from SIR IVOR – one of the bester winners of the ‘Arc’ in modern times.
Lombard (GER), sire of Allegretta – female family 1-d
sire, Toronado (Ire) – female family 1-d
sire, Curlin (US) thru mare Siberia (4×5 Harkaway)
Papyrus – female family 16-f, Harkaway daughter Queen Bee. Influences Great Nephew, Ribot, Princequillo, Star Kingdom, Relance, Brigadier Gerard, Deputy Minister (CAN)
Australian sire Zoustar, female family 8-k Harkaway daughter Austrey and same, Australia’s wonder horse, Chautauqua
Shadea (NZ) dam of Australian Hall of Fame sire Lonhro (dec.) female family 8, through Harkaway’s daughter Austrey, dam of sire Chester, sire of Dreadnought his daughter Miss Rose
Steeplechaser Easter Hero (the first of a new breed…handsome, full of quality, seldom out of the headlines) a pedigree which is influenced to a Harkaway daughter.
Harkaway daughter Irish Queen, thru sire Lozenge (IRE) influences the Black Ray family specifically Mill Reef.
Harkaway grand-son King Lud, influences Alycidon and My Babu, Hotfoot, Turn-To et al, all noted from the Marchetta family 1-W.
Pivotal (GB) – Harkaway @ The Golden Horn, 4th dam of Volodyouski (GB)
The Bard – Idle Boy by Harkaway: The Bard’s 2nd dam sire Chouberski sire of Ksar (#Byerley Turk Tourbillon descendants et al)
family 1-P – mare Hilarity (King Tom) influencing Court Martial, Black Caviar (AUS), sires, All Too Hard (AUS), Ole Kirk (AUS)
Nearctic (CAN) 9x Harkaway.
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@ TBL – Jane Bielski (researcher) – All Rights Reserved, link researcher Credit where due.
references: Horse Breeding in Theory and Practice by B. Von Oettingen
additional – The Haplotype alternative of two above, are considered 2 possibilities by the author. TBL research of right type and cross to the Godolphin Arabian are deemed I2a: case in point are Sister to Regulus and War Relic, full-sister Speed Boat (Man O’ War) to family 1-O, #Haplotype I2 or I2a1. I understand I2a or I2a1 or I2a2 are sub-variants Iberian.
War Relic and Speed Boat have 5th dam by King Ban by King Tom by Harkaway.
The Haplotype L4 are elements to its line yet appears (imo) upon weight-carrier, classic speed and stamina and Distance phenotype.
Should you discover Harkaway influences or references please contact TBL.
