With his victory in the Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I), Misremembered took the number of grade one winners from the exceptional first crop sired by Candy Ride to three. Misremembered was preceded as a winner at this level by the La Brea Stakes (gr. I) captress Evita Argentina, and by Capt. Candyman Can, who took the King’s Bishop Stakes (gr. I). Candy Ride now has nine first crop stakes winners, six graded, and his second crop includes promising three-year-old Sidney’s Candy, successful the San Vicente Stakes (gr. II) last time out. click here to read more….

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It was quite a week for Fastnet Rock. First it was announced that he would cover a stellar book of mares in his first European season, and then his son, Wanted gave him his second grade one winner from his freshman Australian crop. click here to read more….

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Having only worked on dirt for the first time a few days earlier, Awesome Act showed his appreciation for the surface with a stylish dirt-maiden victory in the Gotham Stakes (gr. II). Bred in the U.S., Awesome Act began his career in England, and broke his maiden impressively on his fourth outing. He pulled too hard for his own good when he finished unplaced in the Dewhurst Stakes (gr. I), but flew home for fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. I) on his U.S. debut. click here to read more….

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Dubai’s winter racing certainly provides us with a mix of international pedigrees, and “Super Thursday,” the preview to World Cup Day, provided another example, in Presvis, who took the Jebel Hatta (gr. II). click here to read more….

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In a week that was relatively light for major stakes action and classic preps, some of the most interesting results were in maiden special weight and allowance events. At Gulfstream, the much-vaunted Christine Daae wisely skipped a meeting with the speedsters in the Davona Dale Stakes (gr. II), and stretched out to nine furlongs for a comfortable win in nine furlong allowance race the following day. click here to read more….

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More than one shrewd commentator has noted that through the centuries, sire lines have frequentent been advanced through individuals from certain powerful female lines, frequently through inbreeding to them. The phenomenon goes right back to the late 1600s and the famed Spanker Mare. Her son, Jigg, was by The Byerley Turk, and is one of the links that extended that founding father’s male line to Herod, whose male line is most notably represented in the Northern Hemisphere by descendents of Ahonoora and Indian Ridge; she is the third dam of Bartlett’s Chiilders, who was by the Darley Arabian, and through his great-granson Eclipse, is male-line ancestor of probably way more than 90% of modern thoroughbreds; and fourth dam of Cade, a son of The Godolphin Arabian, who sired Matchem (whose line principally survives through the In Reality branch of Man o’ War). click here to read more….

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