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Pedigree Insights: Velocious’s Genetic Legacy Explored

03 Thursday Apr 2025

Posted by Thoroughbred Research in 5h family, genotype breeding, pedigree analysis

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Tesio, Written Tycoon

“He was confident she could return in good style."

Last season’s boom two-year-old Velocious made her raceday return after a tie-back wind operation in stunning fashion when she stormed home to take out the (1150m) at Te Aroha on Saturday.

📖 Read more: https://t.co/F5kPkIKWwV pic.twitter.com/a7fsqczfJn

— LOVERACING.NZ (@LOVERACINGNZ) March 29, 2025
Before the race


Velocious’s development from a yearling purchased for $190k (view yearling parade ➡️➡️➡️https://www.nzb.co.nz/sales/23kaa/412 , a G1 2 yr old winner, to her ‘back-in’ 3 yr old form was last weekend witnessed at local track Te Aroha (Waikato, New Zealand) .

The filly has a Type, spectacular!

Viewing the remarkable ability of Written Tycoon’s daughter – my phone captured videos – just really don’t do her justice.

2024 analysis & Pedigree post when Velocious was G1 Sistema Stakes & Karaka Million winning 2yo, her pedigree is outbred.

Since post, a newer thesis @ 2023 Russian Thoroughbred science papers apply. (References below)

***references: a Haplotype has underlying affinity connection of family 2-N and families 9-b,e,f, h upholding a prototype produced upon Haplotype G. By hypothesis-modelling bloodline carriers: likes of Teddy ranging to Damascus, via Selene.

Having reviewed different modelling references, the pedigree constructs expressively sound.

It is this redirecting, upon a recessive-latent – ‘why’ I also believe Tesio pursued experimental refinement to a Type superior pure.

This is precisely what I {have} set out to prove. In hybrid animals, although they may be highly selected, the different physical and non-physical characters are passed on absolutely independently one from the other.

Breeding the Racehorse: Tesio

If they tell you that a horse flew, they are speaking of a chestnut

By classic breeding, besides speed or stamina elements – it is rather the characteristic latency to a ‘source’ genome variation which shall surpass. It is beyond the ‘given’ discernment to the modern Thoroughbred.

A genomic variation, the genes may be cloistered to high-adaptive stress load capacity, this from certain ancestral bred, that ultimately contributed to the hybrid-thoroughbred.

The ancestral Silk Road breeds (not simply by term Arabic horse & other) states a long, collective horse History, the long-term crossings over nomadic with cultured oriental horses. Science also has each or ‘what’ to Haplotype. To the point here, the ‘G’ Haplotype is thought of an ‘old breed thoroughbred’ before closure of General Studbook 1791.

In Type, this geno/Haplotype upholds the ‘pedigree’ to pheno capacity and its finer selection lines may appear by preferred pathways.

Whilst science will hopefully service the public something wiser, Tesio intelligently clearly understood the potential of Mendelism because he had worked out what the ‘pure’ principle went to or, from. As such, my belief has, this was to be his best kept secret.

At the beginning of the 19th century, to admit a small group of Arabian horses. The experiment raised expectations of fabulous results – the so-called re-stocking of the breed. It proved a dismal failure. The resulting products lost both speed and staying power and the new Arabian blood ended by virtually eliminating itself. Its descendants were incapable of winning good races so they were discarded and forgotten. Breeding for Speed/Breeding the Race-Horse: Tesio

The theoretical pedigree algorithm, its precedent model as replication/combination or either of the science using categories speed & stamina types, to foresee muscle fibre growth/development, remains questionable.

For mine, a ‘type’ responsible is not yet disclosed sufficiently and the science yet to find further potential.

However let’s say… it is remarkable how superior design matings shall find the zig-zag pathways. I think both pedigree and haplotype can open to superior lines and make for a reasonable probability what bloodline are carrier(s) essential.

These subtle details do continue…. Velocious by Written Tycoon – a distaff family 5-H – D1-b Haplotype. Dam-side infused @ Prince Chevalier (fam. 9-f), Damascus, strains to Secretariat ( we can better understand the magnificent Secretariat😉 and @ sire lines are Better Boy, Wilkes, My Babu through the Lavendlar/Marchetta 1-W family are likely indicating.

Strikingly the modern-classification D1-b – a cold-climate breed may also be possibly attributed to G Haplotype, been dominate of the Don breed horse. A type integrity defined by soundness, a capacity to superior quality, a race performance achieved with ease.

Nature has endowed the breed with a very strong constitution, unpretentiousness, good distance abilities, undemanding conditions for keeping and feeding, and high performance. Modern horses of the Don breed are characterized by good conformation, dry strong limbs, and strong hooves.

Credit references

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340042759_MtDNA_Haplotype_Analysis_in_Dam_Families_of_the_Thoroughbred_Riding_Horses/download?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19

https://www.duruttya.com/?mod=regarding-the-breeding-nature-of-russian-thoroughbreds

https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/5fb359a9fede71f9758845e1e8185731813cd972

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10378902/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6805228/

The Genetic Diversity of Horse Native Breeds in Russia, is a scientific publication authored by L.A. Khrabrova, A.A. Nikolaeva, N.V. Blohina, and S.I. Sorokin.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/14/12/2148

GENETIC DIVERSITY OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
HAPLOGROUPS IN THE DON HORSE BREED
L.A. Khrabrova, A.A. Nikolaeva,
N.V. Blohina, S.I. Sorokin

T-e-s-i-O & Ribot

08 Tuesday Mar 2022

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Federico Tesio, Ribot, Tesio, Thoroughbreds

Unbeaten in 16 races, Ribot was no longer allowed to participate because he ruined the bets.

Ribot: Tesio’s Crowning Glory

Federico Tesio remarks:

his head is long & heavy

his ears reminiscent of mistreated paper bags

he’s impressed by playful antics of his ‘il piccolo’

He (Ribot) develops

Inharmoniously built, and too shorter horse

The family tree – descriptive to the 3 ancestors states Ribot runs with a rabbit style like his ancestor St Simon, whom had 16 ribs and 6 lumbar vertebrae. He (Ribot) has twice the lung volume of a normal thoroughbred. After a 1800m gallop his pulse rate is 85 to 90 and after 2 hours his pulse and blood pressure are back to normal.

 As if some button had been pressed to set in motion a marvellous mechanism, the small, stocky Ribot seemed to double his pace (credit – October 15, 1956 Andre Languerre)

Tesio believes in choosing the right sire for the right mare by practically applying his own impressions regarding the size, conformation, the temperament and the individuality, as a whole, of each animal…

Varola

Tenerani who married Romanella

A Gallop from God

Milan 1957, Ribot’s last performance, Sir Winston Churchill is present. Churchill says “Don’t give your money to your children, maybe they’re wasting it, give it to a horse.

credit: blog & Spiegel 5, 1957

Tesio’s artwork.

to give his breed the myth of Invincibility

Ribot was beyond theory and the pedigree-program.

And to end it here… Fantastic overview & south American viewpoint read here.

acclaim, George Washington (BRZ)

30 Thursday Sep 2021

Posted by Thoroughbred Research in Brazil, classic thoroughbred pedigree, race horse breeding

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Penny Post, Redattore, Tesio

On our side of the globe we don’t engage much to brilliancy; South America’s breeding lines and its racing. However we should take note. US, & European with theirs, the international bloodlines.

The focus & advancement of a robust competitive, powerful stayer type is traditional set.

Their generations reflect, built from classic true – individuals around Tesio’s era aka Tracery, Rocksand, Fairway, Donatello.

The Breeding thrusts strict selectivity principles: soundness, merit, development, cultivated on lands rich minerals.

Our TBL subject: – an entire horse that takes his racing campaign with guts of a war-horse is George Washington (BRZ) – recent winner, 2021 GP Brazil, 2400m. Also honoured as Brazil’s leading 3yo colt 2018-19 8 wins of 28 starts.

Pedigree here George Washington by Redattore(BRZ) from Princess Carina (BRZ) by Know Heights (IRE)

 @ genotype George is the outcross bred.

This alike & as was, the breeding advisory of German-born USA bloodstock agent John Aiscan whom being also an apprentice of Tesio when a young man. – (ref. Upgrading Thoroughbred Families by Jack Glencarry 1995).

The article by John Aiscan does not mince words for Tesio not only master, but wise teacher.

To come down thru grand-dam genetics dagger… Heavenly Dancer (BRZ) the 3 female dosages Planetaria by Penny Post (ARG) an enormous genetic Argentinian influence . Penny Post pedigree here

Penny Post the Rock Sand/Tracery male line – the 9x St Angela dam of St Simon – distaff thru to Musket and 3×4 Melbourne. No wonder he was genetic-gold entire!

Penny Post’s daughter Planetaria – f.f. 3O dam of El Centauro (ARG) (n.b. stood in Japan ’74 – 1981), a mare of old-gold.

George’s sire Redattore (BRZ) also the outcross of female family 1-x, the famed Striking family by War Admiral.

Redattore past away May 2021 but left his …… G1 champion miler Kapo di Tutti, G1 performers Olimpo (2000m), Editore, Tizon g1 winner in Uruguay, Real Secret, mare Zara (1600 – 1800m)

Indeed compelling to learn of another genetic giant like Argentinian bred, Penny Post. Not only supremacy for his Integrity lasting….. Penny Post (credit below)

School of Jockey Apprentices of the Jockey Club – Hipódromo de San Isidro- Bs As- Argentina: Penny Post (1945, ARG) the crack of the ’40s (escueladejockeys.blogspot.com)

most influential names in pedigrees have a very powerful linebreeding content themselves – super prepotent sires & dams

Upgrading Thoroughbred Families – Jack Glengarry

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