Karel Miedema’s Pedigree Evaluation PICK OF THE BUNCH Suitable mares for Twice Over could include (GB) 1. Damascus through Complete Warrior wice Over (Captain Al; Counter Action); Rollins (Jet Master); Damascus Gate; Right Observatory – Double Crossed by Caerleon Approach. 2. through Jallad, Rainbow Twice Over’s sire Observatory made his name on the track as giant- Quest (Spectrum, ), Comic Tkiller, getting the better of Giant’s Causeway who en route to his Blush, Lundy’s Liability, Kabool, sixth straight Gr1 win. The win earned Observatory a Timeform Waldoboro, Our Casey’s Boy. rating of 131, the fifth highest 3yo rating of the year, with 3. through Dancing Champ, Silvano, (134), Tiznow (133), Giant’s Causeway (133) and King’s Best (133) Lecture, Indigo Magic, Russian Fox, Victory Moon, Parade Leader, Right just marginally above him. Observatory was expected to have another Approach, Tamburlaine. great season as a 4yo, but a hairline fracture of his pelvis after Royal 4. Storm Bird through Black Minnaloushe, Ascot ended his racing career and he went to stud. Twice Over, from Windrush, Tiger Dance, Carpocrates, his third crop, is his best progeny. Manshood, Lake Coniston, Mogok. 5. Buckpasser (widespread), notably through bservatory’s pedigree makes close kin to the grandam of Buckpasser, to Lalun Al Mufti, Northern Guest, Damascus interesting reading. He’s from the (in Sadler’s Wells, Riverman), to Lassie Dear Gate, etc. same female line as Storm Bird (by Buckpasser, and dam/grandam of Al Mufti/ 6. Lalun through Sadler’s Wells (notably Fort (notably sire of Storm Cat). His AP Indy), and very close kin to Lassie Dear’s Wood, Casey Tibbs), Riverman/Irish River grandam Victoria Star and 3rd grandam Missy Baba (also 3rd dam of (Spectrum, Nysaean, West Man), Mill damO Solometeor are both close kin to Storm Sportsworld). Reef (Casey Tibbs, Almushtarak, Indigo Bird, with female line ancestor Solar Display a Kerala’s daughter Aunt Tilt is close kin to Magic). factor. influential mare Mixed Marriage. 7. Missy Baba through Al Mufti, Pedigree analysts have long regarded Storm Double Crossed is half sister to Clepsydra Sportsworld, AP Indy (Camden Park), Bird to be very close kin to Nijinsky and The (Sadler’s Wells), the dam of Gr1 winners Passage Wolfhound, Fahal. Minstrel, the relationship involving the presence Of Time (Dansili) and Timepiece (Zamindar). of Bull Page and Flares/Omaha in the pedigrees 8. Mixed Marriage through Their dam Quandary (Blushing Groom) is half (Western Winter, West Man, Count of each. Storm Bird also has a kin-relationship sister to Gr1 winner (Riverman), to with Blushing Groom, with Storm Bird’s 4th dam duBois, Dupont, Indigo Magic, Manaloj), the grandam of US Filly Banshee Sharpen Up (Dominion Royale, Dupont). Dark Display and Blushing Groom’s third dam Breeze (Unbridled; dam by Known Fact, Emali close kin. grandson of Mixed Marriage), and to the third 9. Twice Over’s bottom female line dam of US G1 winner Hilda’s Passion (Canadian (Stronghold, the imported mare Half A A glance at the pedigrees of Sixpence). Observatory’s best runners gives the Frontier; dam by Sadler’s Wells’ son El Prado). impression that most of them appear to The multiple presence of Sadler’s Wells and support the theories. Riverman (both having Lalun) is perhaps more Windrush (dam by Storm Cat; sire’s damsire is Buckpasser), Carpocrates (by Storm Cat; 4th dam Twice Over: dam by Caerleon (Nijinsky), than just coincidence. by Nijinsky), Tiger Ridge (by Storm Cat; grandam grandam by Blushing Groom. by Buckpasser). & full sister Helleborine: dam by Where From Here Quest For Fame (who is by Blushing Groom’s Buckpasser is widespread, incl Northern Guest son , out of a mare by Nijinsky’s Suitable Lines for Twice Over could be drawn (dam by Buckpasser, grandam Best In Show is 3rd son ), grandam by Nijinsky. from the affinities in the pedigree of sire dam of Observatory’s SW Star Cluster), Al Mufti (by , also damsire of Observatory; dam Violette: dam by Pursuit Of Love (who is by Observatory and/or those from his female line. Lassie Dear by Buckpasser). Blushing Groom’s son Groom Dancer, out of a They include Damascus, Nijinsky, Blushing mare by Nijinsky’s son Green Dancer). Groom, Storm Bird, Buckpasser, Lalun, Missy Lalun is the dam of Bold Reason (in Sadler’s Sottone: grandam by Local Suitor (son of Baba, Mixed Marriage. Wells), and of Never Bend (in Riverman, Mill Blushing Groom). Reef). Sadler’s Wells’ best SA-son Fort Wood is Some ideas: interesting, as his grandam Change Water is close Sebastian Flyte: third dam is by Far North (full Damascus leads to Complete Warrior brother to ) and is very close kin kin to Kerala’s dam Blade Of Time (from the same (damsire of Captain Al, by Roberto’s son Al female line is Kabool, whose sire Groom Dancer is to Observatory’s grandam. Mufti), Rollins (dam full sister to Roberto; by Blushing Groom). Riverman is sire of Irish River The Grey Berry: dam by Bin Ajwaad (son of damsire of Jet Master); Right Approach (damsire (with Rainbow Quest in Spectrum). Rainbow Quest, by Blushing Groom). Shadeed by Nijinsky out of Damascus mare); Armand: dam by Nijinsky. Damascus Gate (dam by Buckpasser). Missy Baba is female line ancestor of Al Mufti, AP Indy, Sportsworld – among others. Blushing Groom is sire of Jallad, Rainbow Quest (Spectrum, Saumarez), Comic Blush, and Mixed Marriage is female line ancestor of Gone On to Twice Over’s female line and its West and half brother Known Fact. Gone West is Gr1 winners. is in Lundy’s Liability (sire by Blushing Groom; grandam by Nijinsky). sire of Western Winter, whose dam Chilly Hostess Double Crossed, the dam of Twice Over, is by is close kin to the grandam of Observatory, to Caerleon (by Nijinsky), out of Quandary (by Nijinsky is in Silvano, Lecture (grandam by Storm Bird, and very close to The Minstrel. Gone Blushing Groom). She is kinbred through bottom Nijinsky, sire’s damsire is Buckpasser), Indigo West is also sire of (whose full brother female line ancestors, 5x5 No Fiddling x Blade Magic (dam by Caerleon), Russian Fox, Victory Zamindar sired Gr1 winner Timepiece, the latter Of Time. Moon (by Al Mufti, dam by Nijinsky’s son half sister to the dam of Twice Over) – Zafonic is Dancing Champ), Parade Leader, Lundy’s Twice Over’s fourth dam Aunt Tilt is half out of a mare by The Minstrel, and is sire of Count Liability (sire by Blushing Groom), Royal duBois and Dupont (the latter’s dam by Sadler’s sister to sire Damascus, their dam Kerala close Academy. kin to Blushing Groom’s 2nd dam Aimee (the Wells, and 2nd dam by Sharpen Up, a noted Mixed pair 3x3 in Quandary). Storm Bird is found in Black Minnaloushe Marriage carrier). (by Storm Cat; dam by Nijinsky’s son Green Twice Over’s female line also produced SA-sire Twice Over’s significant female line ancestors Dancer), Tiger Dance (by Storm Cat, dam by are Kerala and her dam Blade Of Time. Kerala is Stronghold, who is a grandson of Gr1 winning son of Blushing Groom out of mare by Roberto), mare All At Sea (by Riverman).

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