We’ve documented on more than one occasion that More Than Ready loves more Buckpasser. This is scarcely surprising as his broodmare sire, Woodman, is out of a Buckpasser mare who is inbred to La Troienne through the three-parts-sisters Busanda (dam of Buckpasser) and Striking, and that his own fourth dam is inbred 3 x 2 to La Troienne.

The latest example is Mary’s Follies, a three-year-old filly who took Boiling Springs Handicap (gr. III) on her turf debut. She is out of a mare by Miswaki, who is particularly intriguing with More Than Ready: Miswaki is a Mr. Prospector/Buckpasser cross, which makes him a three-quarters relative to Woodman, and his third dam, Lea Lane, is a three-parts-sister to Shama, the third dam of More Than Ready’s sire, Southern Halo. In Mary’s Follies’ case, the situation is intensified, as her second dam is by Wavering Monarch, who like Woodman and Miswaki, is a Raise a Native/Buckpasser cross (so she has Raise a Native/Buckpasser crosses 3 x 2 x 3). Wavering Monarch is also broodmare sire of More Than Ready’s English graded stakes winner La Chunga, and broodmare sire of the dam of his U.S. juvenile star, Ready’s Image. Makes us think that mares by Maria’s Mon, Military or more interestingly Petionville could be interesting mates with More Than Ready in the future.

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