H picks 122114 A very exciting victory by B. Baffert trainee Dortmund certainly enlivened many holiday moods- fighting hard down the stretch the bog Big Brown colt lived up to his reputation making his stakes (G1) debut one to remember and putting Dortmund’s hat in the ring as a potential triple crown classic type of hoss- Big Brown x Our Josephina x Tale of the Cat is a Northern Dancer festival of line breeding as the greatest of modern studs appears 4x4x5x4!! In the first page of Dortmund’s genealogy- with Danzig a son of Northern dancer in the inbreeding vanguard @ 3x3 positioning- Dortmund has a dosage of >4-5-13-0-0 which may hinder him slightly should he grow into the shoes of a “triple crown” possible come Belmont Stakes time 2015- his female family aggregate are 9-C types and his 3rd dam Lakeville Miss was a big time filly and a large creature as I recollect her who was sired by Royal Charger agent Rainy Lake- Lakeville Miss was our champion 2yo filly in 1977- and as a 3yo placed in the Acorn and Mother Goose Stakes while winning the prestigious CCC Oaks during the NYRA version of the “filly triple crown” Lakeville Miss has founded a interesting branch of the 9-C family and her own son Mogambo was a G1 winner as a 2yo- the 9-C family is a popular variant of the Vintner mare tribe ( family 9) and recent stakes types matriculating from the 9-C ranks include Good Deed and My Redbyrd & Clear The Runway if we look some historic types from this noble line of female producers the greatest of Britain’s milers Tudor Minstrel comes to the pen- - as well as one of the true greats the ill-starred Shergar who was kidnapped by terrorists and destined never to be recovered- he was an English Derby winner of great power- and my poem “mighty Shergar” appeared in an issue of the thoroughbred record back in the 1970’s- (my 1st publication!)- Risen Star also was a9-C family star and he won the Preakness and Belmont Stakes I believe- Risen Star emanated from a superior strand of the 9-C line than Dortmund and this may be an Achilles heel for the rangy budding superstar- since his paperwork has Blink & Uncle Mac & Buckingham & Leveno amongst his array of broodmare sires- Big Brown was a mighty horse until something went very wrong in his Belmont Stakes as I recall he may have been eased up during his run in that great test of thoroughbred stamina and courage- the 5th dam sire for Dortmund is Questionnaire perhaps best known as a male line representative in the cluster that led to Dr. Fager- & Dortmund has WBH9GCF rating of “23” the 2014 Kentucky derby hero California Chrome carries a figure of “35” in that regard- Fair Grounds 1-2 2-4 3-5 4-1 5-4 6-2 7-2 8-2 9-5 Gulfstream 1-3 2-1 3-4 4-6 5-4 6-1 7-1 8-2 9-9 10-2laqh 1-4 2-3 3-4 4-2 5-2 6-6 7-1 8-6 Latb 1-1 2-3 3-2 4-6 5-7 6-6 7-2 8-1 9-8 Parx 1-4 2-2 3-1e 4-1e 5-1 6-8 7-2 8-1 9-2 Portland 1-6 2-1 3-2 4-5 5-5 6-3 7-1 8-1 9-1 10-2 Sunland 1-5 2-4 3-1 4-4 5-2 6-5 7-1 8-1 9-2 10-2 Tampa bay 1-1 2-1 3-5 4-6 5- 7x11 6-8 7-4 8-3 9-3 10-2 Turf paradise 1-1 2- (1x2x4x7) superfecta box 3-7 4-3 5-1 6-6 7-3 8-5 Turfway 1-4 2-7 3-2 4-4 5-6 6-2 7-1 8-8 9-2
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:20:06 +0000
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