Sunday was a huge day for Dynaformer who scored an international “classic” group/grade one double via Wiener Walzer and Gozzip Girl, who captured the Gr. 1 German Derby and Gr. 1 American Oaks. What’s particularly interesting is that both Wiener Walzer and Gozzip Girl are out of mares by Kingmambo, as is Ocean Silk (stakes winner and group one placed, and a highweight in England). Not surprisingly, the Dynaformer/Kingmambo cross rates A++ on TrueNicks.

What this did cause us to reflect upon, however, is the broader Dynaformer/Mr. Prospector cross. When we created TrueNicks, we noted the cross of Dynaformer with Mr. Prospector line mares as one that had a rating only a little better than opportunity, but had produced some top-class horses (Barbaro, Riskaverse and Film Maker). We speculated that while the cross is a good one on pedigree (it brings together the genetic relatives Bramalea and Gold Digger, respectively dams of Roberto and Mr. Prospector), Dynaformer – a horse with a fairly unusual phenotype – might be very sensitive to the type of Mr. Prospector line mare that he covers.

Well, there are now 14 stakes winners by Dynaformer out of Mr. Prospector line mares, and a look at the broodmare sires reveals, we think, something of an aptitudinal pattern. The broodmare sires of the stakes winners are Mr. Prospector himself (three, including a grade one winner and a grade two winner), Kingmambo (three, two graded, one grade one placed), Seeking the Gold (three, two graded, one a grade one winner), Woodman (two), Carson City (Barbaro), Thunder Gulch, and Conquistador Cielo.

I’d suggest that what we are looking at here is a trend of success with the more turf oriented Mr. Prospector line mares, often with more classic or European pedigrees. Ten of these were foaled in 2002 and later, despite the fact that Dynaformer had 11 crops born before that date. So we’d suspect that before that, the majority of his Mr. Prospector line mates were less expensive, and more dirt and sprint-oriented. Looking at what might appear to be possible exceptions to the turfy Mr. Prospector theory we can note that grade one winner Film Maker is out of a Mr. Prospector mare whose dam is by turf runner, Green Dancer; Pedicure, a grade two winner out of a Mr. Prospector mare has a second dam by Topsider (by Northern Dancer out of turf Champion Drumtop, and often a grass influence); Barbaro’s dam, La Ville Rouge was a very untypical daughter of Carson City, as she was effective going long, and on turf; and Dynaman, out of a Conquistador Cielo, was only an overnight stakes winner. That leaves us with Kingmambo, Woodman and Thunder Gulch, all of whom are noted turf sires, and Seeking the Gold, who has sired a number of very good turf performers. As far as Kingmambo is concerned he also gives linebreeding to the brothers, His Majesty (broodmare sire of Dynaformer) and Graustark.

Looking at the distaff side of the pedigrees, Wiener Walzer’s dam, Walzerkoenigin, was a group winner in Germany, Italy and France, and was second in the Flower Bowl Invitational (gr. I) in the U.S. We have a slight part in this pedigree as we planned the mating for the second dam, Great Revival, and organized the repatriation of her sire, Keen (a brother to Kris and Diesis) from Australia. Great Revival is out of Prudent Girl, who was a “blue hen” for Bertram R. Firestone’s Gilltown Stud, producing Champion French Two-Year-Old Filly Play It Safe, and Washington D.C. International (gr. I) hero, Providential.

Gozzip Girl’s family is one that has emerged into the top-class from recent Washington/Northern Californian roots. Her dam, Shapiro’s Mistress – by the Tri Jet horse, Unpredictable – won the Bay Meadows Lassie Stakes. To the cover of another Roberto line stallion, Kris S., she produced stakes winner Mistress S., and Viz, runner up in the Hollywood Oaks (gr. I) and dam of two stakes winners, including the English Oaks (gr. I) third, Relish the Thought. Shapiro’s Mistress is also half-sister to another good Kris S. product, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) and Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) victor Brocco. Shapiro’s Mistress is has a pedigree that is well-suited to Turn-to, his sire, Royal Charger, and that horse’s three-parts-brother, Nasrullah. Her sire, Unpredictable brings in Ambiorix II (half-brother to the dam of Turn-to), and her broodmare sire, the English-bred Aurelius II, carries a mare called Odesa, who is by Nearco out of a mare by Badruddin (Royal Charger and Nasrullah are both by Nearco, and Mumtaz Begum, granddam of Royal Charger, and dam of Nasrullah, is a three-parts-sister to Badruddin).

By the way, we’d be remiss if we didn’t also note that Dynaformer had a third weekend stakes winner in the shape of Guantana (out of Italian Oaks (gr. I) winner Guadalupe, a daughter of Monsun), who took the Siemens-Rennen Hanshin Cup in Germany on Saturday.

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