Breeding is a speciality. It requires a mind boggling
array of information on every horse that was ever bred when you go down the
blood lines back to the three original founding horse that made the
thoroughbred. Everyone of them must have been a ‘witnessed live’ covering of
the dam by the stallion.
The dams history and the sires history as a race horse
come into play going back quite a few generations so lets see what kind of
stats one
eventually boils it down to.
Northern Dancer: https://goo.gl/0wqmgL
Winning the Derby in 1964. (Black and White) 2 minutes for 1.25 miles on the
Kentucky track. His offspring have won more major stake races than the
offspring of any other sire. They also won the most money. In Europe he sired
147 stakes winners. In the UK his most famous offspring is Nijinsky who took
the Triple Crown and then Nijinsky himself sired 155 stake/Group winners.
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| Nijinsky |
Following his line you find the undefeated Lammatarra taking
the 1995 Epsom Derby, The King Geroge VI and the Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the
Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Northern Dancer suffered colic and was humanely put down
in 1990 aged 29. Nijinsky was also humanely put down in 1992 due to “infirmities
of old age’ and laminitis.
Gone they may be but their blood lines continue to excite
us on the race tracks around the world. Long may they reign.
Jemmima J. Jones
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