3yo b. gelding Warmonger (War Decree – Princess Stephanie by Savabeel) wins by 10.4 lengths in the 2024 Queensland Derby https://www.pedigreequery.com/warmonger5
The global impacting War Front, is sire of War Decree, standing at Inglewood Stud, New Zealand. War Decree female family hails to Royal Academy and Storm Cat from Secretariats daughter Terlingua where these lines, in action, can be well observed below.
Princess Sapphire (dec.) by Savabeel (Aus) a 1400m – 1560m winner (race video). Her breeding is 3×4 Sir Tristram, a female family to Selene, Hyperion’s dam, with the Hyperion factor observed to Forli’s male line being 2nd dam of War Front.
Princess Sapphire is the New Zealand distaff family 13-a and noted to #Haplotype L2b1a with significant factor to Harkaway through Vaguely Noble and distaff Philomena, a most distinctive, integral NZ pedigree to King Tom – Angelica – Dreadnought – Musket.
The dam Gem Flight takes critical mass to 3x Hyperion/Selene. Further the 4x3Aurora from Rose Red: the Marchetta 1W family backgrounds to King Lud, a grandson of Harkaway. Additionally, 3x Hermit – leading sire in Britain seven straight years, 1880-1886. He was in the top ten in the broodmare sire lists in England for sixteen years.
Gem Flight her great staying sire Mellay – introduced to New Zealand, the Champion New Zealand sire 1972/73, 2d 1973/74, 3rd 1971/72. A post mortem revealed a heart weighing 15+lbs, bigger than Phar Lap.
Both Mellay and Noble Bijou were unraced. Like many New Zealand studmasters, Brian Anderton did not have the budget to import high class racetrack performers. Instead, he had to take the punt that a top pedigree would compensate for a lack of proven racetrack ability. In the case of Mellay and Noble Bijou, he hit the bullseye. Mellay, a son of Never Say Die, was from the Epsom Oaks and One Thousand Guineas winner Meld. Mellay came to New Zealand in 1965 and the following year his half-brother Charlottown helped the cause by winning the Epsom Derby and being named England’s Horse of the Year. Mellay, who died when 13, was twice champion sire and was the leading broodmare sire five times. Mellay left a host of good stayers, including dual NZ Cup winner Princess Mellay, Swell Time (Caulfield Cup), Rose Mellay (Auckland Cup) and Trelay, while both Mayo Mellay and Bahrain were runner-up in the NZ Derby. (Source and credit: LoveRacingNZ) Further notice: Mellay is 3x Blandford thru Blenheim and Bahram & 5×5 Scarpa Flow (dam of Fairway & Pharos)
Princess Sapphire 3rd Dam by Noble Bijou. Noble Bijou served his first book in 1975, was a Vaguely Noble half-brother to the outstanding race mare, Allez France, who won eight Group I races, including the Arc de Triomphe. Noble Bijou had an even better record, heading the NZ sires’ premiership four times, winning the Dewar Trophy (combined NZ and Australian earnings) once, and, like Mellay, was five times champion broodmare sire. Noble Bijou is also the only stallion in modern times to have been New Zealand’s leading sire and leading broodmare sire in the same season. Noble Bijou owed much of his success to being regularly mated with Mellay mares, a cross that produced six Group I winners – Prince Majestic, Alibhai (four Grp I wins), Powley, Our Sophia, Allez Bijou and Be Noble (dual Grp I winner in South Africa). Noble Bijou also left the talented brothers The Phantom (1994 NZ Horse of the Year) and The Phantom Chance (Cox Plate and NZ Derby) and Caulfield Cup winner Lomondy.
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additional: 🐴Warmonger has similar distaff to filly, Princess Calla (SAF) (post) BUT alone by studbook pedigree where it is subject to Haplotype. The Warmonger distaff appears Haplotype L2b1a is same to Marchetta family, f.f. 1-w as noted above to Warmonger’s 4th dam Gem Flight