As part of our involvement in TrueNicks, Byron and I were, along with the rest of the team at TrueNicks and with the help of The Blood Horse’s Market-Watch publication, developers of a whitepaper titled “Top 10 Emerging Thoroughbred Broodmare Sires at the Keeneland November Sales”. It was a very interesting whitepaper to develop and there are some very good opportunities at the upcoming sales with these young broodmare sires.

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With the twenty-fifth Breeders’ Cup now in the books, we can have a look at the two days of action from a pedigree standpoint.

From a male line aspect there was dominant performance for the Mr. Prospector line, which was responsible for eight of the 14 winners, scoring through Chester House (twice), Street Cry, Sahm, E Dubai, Unbridled’s Song, Real Quiet and Elusive Quality. The only other male line to be represented more than once was that of Northern Dancer, with both of his winners coming via Danzig sons (Belong to Me and Anabaa). The other lines that were represented by one apiece were Seattle Slew (through Tapit), Ribot (through Albert the Great), Mill Reef (through Dalakhani), and Hyperion/Tudor Minstrel (through Cadeaux Generaux). click here to read more….

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Congratulations to Wertheimer et Frere whose whose homebred filly Goldikova has strong claims to be the best miler in the world, after her scintillating victory in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. I). Since reverting to a mile after a third in the Prix de Diane-French Oaks (gr. I), Goldikova has captured the Prix Chloe (gr. III), the Prix Rothschild (gr. I) – in which she defeated three classic winner – and the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (gr. I), where she was followed across the line by five other group one winners.
 
Goldikova is by Danzig’s very successful son, Anabaa, out of the Blushing Groom mare, Born Gold. This makes her one of only three stakes winners bred on the Anabaa/Blushing Groom cross. Note that this pair – group one winner Rouvres and group winner Marshall – gave great support for the Anabaa/Born Gold mating, as they are out of mares by Groom Dancer, who is by Blushing Groom out of a Lyphard mare, as is Born Gold. The mating also gives a double of Riverman, something that appears in seven other Anabaa stakes winners, including French Derby (gr. I) winner Anabaa Blue.

Congratulations are also in order for Eugene Melnyk who came so close to upsetting the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (gr. I) with his homebred, Sealy Hill (Point Given -Boston Twist by Boston Harbor).  Winner of three Sovereign Awards in Canada last year, one as Horse of the Year, Sealy Hill has now earned $1,747,081. She won all three legs of the Canadian Filly Triple Crown last year, and captured the Bourbonette Stakes (gr. III) on a trip to the U.S.

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We briefly mentioned how successful Giant’s Causeway has been with Danehill mares and another nick that has really emerged in 2008 and hopefully has a chance for ongoing success is Ashford stallion Tale of the Cat with mares by Red Ransom.

With 10 foals of racing age and three stakes winners (Catcominatcha, Naval Officer and Goodbye Norma Jean), and both stallions standing in Kentucky and also in Australia, there is a strong chance that these two stallions will meet again for stakes success. Physically you can see how this mating might work also. Both are similarly constructed horses with similar body length to them.

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Danehill (USA) broke another record when Intense Focus nosed out the competition and won the Dewhurst Stakes (gr. I) last weekend that got little recognition. That horse, by Giant’s Causeway, became Danehill’s 100 stakes winner as a broodmare sire.

Born in 1986, Danehill did not appear as the broodmare sire of a winner until 1998. Within 10 years he is the youngest broodmare sire to get to the 100 stakes winners (pop quiz…there is only 1 active sire that is also a broodmare sire of 100 or more stakes winners….who is it?) and with Mr. Prospector holding the current record of 349 stakes winners as a broodmare sire, it would be a brave man to suggest that he won’t run down his record within the next 10 years with his daughters at stud throughout the world. click here to read more….

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