Weekend Pedigree Perspectives

Alan Porter, June 26, 2003 –Wild And Wicked WEEKEND PEDIGREE Francisco H. The following year, he gained honors as champion handicap horse with three graded stakes PERSPECTIVES triumphs, headed by the GI Californian S., in which he by Alan Porter set a new track record for nine furlongs, and the GI Oaklawn H. OHIO DERBY-GII, $300,000, TDN, 6-21, 3yo, 1 1/8m, Similarly, Wicked Witchcraft’s 1995 filly, A Lady 1:50, ft. From Dixie (by Dixieland Band), had to wait until her 1--@#WILD AND WICKED, 114, c, 3, by Wild Again four-year-old season to earn black-type, but at that age 1st Dam: Wicked Witchcraft (MSW, $218,559), she captured the GII Chula Vista H. and finished third in by Good Behaving the GI Three Chimneys Spinster S. 2nd Dam: Surrogate, by *Yatasto It’s the same story when we look at the racing career 3rd Dam: Alibhai Lynn, by *Alibhai of Wicked Witchcraft herself. A winner of 10 races and O/B-Mr & Mrs Robert David Randal (KY); T-Kenneth G $218,559, she took both her stakes wins, the McPeek; J-S J Sellers; $180,000. Lifetime Record: Governor’s Lady H. and the Marion H. Van Berg H., as 3-3-0-0, $238,480. *1/2 to Wicked Destiny (Top a five-year-old. Command), MSW, $182,880; The Wicked North (Far Wicked Witchcraft is a daughter of Good Behaving, North), Ch. Older Horse, MGISW, $1,180,750; and A winner of the Swift, Gotham and Wood Memorial S., in Lady From Dixie (Dixieland Band), GSW & GISP, the spring of his three-year-old season. Her dam $383,718. Surrogate is a daughter of the Argentinean-bred Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com Yatasto, and is half sister to the relatively minor stakes catalogue-style pedigree. winners Sight to See and Lynnheim. The next dam, the Although it has been a subject of some debate, the Alibhai mare Alibhai Lynn, was a very accomplished general consensus is that stallions tend to lose potency performer in California, when she won the Los Cerritos, with age. As a result of that belief, it’s conventionally San Mateo, Bing Crosby and Golden Poppy H., and accepted wisdom that one should not breed an older equaled Santa Anita’s track-record for six furlongs. mare to an older stallion. That, however, didn’t stop When we studied the pedigree of Wild Again’s daughter Mr. & Mrs. Robert David Randal from sending their Shine Again, we mentioned that Wild Again has worked mare Wicked Witchcraft to Wild Again, a mating which with a remarkably wide range of mares. involved parents who would both be 20 years old at the He’s now got stakes winners out of mares by 70 time the foal was born. The result of this convention- different broodmare sires and no one broodmare sire is bucking mating is Wild and Wicked, who maintained his responsible for more than three Wild Again stakes unbeaten record with a 3¼-length victory in Saturday’s winners. At the time we suggested that the key to this GII Ohio Derby. pattern is that Wild Again has a pedigree which is much Since this was only his third start, it will be no older than most of his mates, his paternal grandsire surprise if Wild and Wicked, whose connections briefly Nearctic being born in 1954 and his maternal grandsire considered pointing him for the GI Belmont S., horse Khaled was a foal of 1943. As a consequence, continues to improve. That is certainly what his strains close up in the pedigree of Wild Again--he has pedigree suggests. The offspring of Wild and Wicked’s Nearco 3x4 and Hyperion 4x3--and their backgrounds sire Wild Again often progress with age, a point are found back in a large proportion of the breed, underlined by the fact that two of his best enabling a sizeable segment of the broodmare representatives this year are six-year-olds; Milwaukee population to have the potential to supply Wild Again Brew, who took back-to-back runnings of the GI Santa with reinforcements of the key ancestors in his Anita H.; and GII Genuine Risk H. winner Shine Again. pedigree. Incidentally, the veteran sire is having another excellent Of course, Wicked Witchcraft’s pedigree is of a year as his other scorers include the GIII Hawthorne H. similar vintage to Wild Again, and she particularly victor Keys to the Heart and GIII Holy Bull S. winner reinforces the Hyperion background of the pedigree, as Offlee Wild. her dam is inbred 3x3 to Hyperion. The particularly interesting horse here is Alibhai, the sire of Wild and Like Fine Wine... Wicked’s third dam. He’s a very close relative to Lady Wild and Wicked’s dam Wicked Witchcraft has also Angela, the dam of Wild Again’s grandsire Nearctic. produced two horses who showed significant progress Lending credence to the potential effect of this with age. Her 1989 Far North colt The Wicked North connection is the fact that Wicked Witchcraft’s other didn’t take a stakes until he was a four-year-old, when graded stakes winners, The Wicked North and A Lady he captured the GIII Bing Crosby H. and GIII San From Dixie, are by sons of Northern Dancer, who like Wild Again’s sire Icecapade is a son of Nearctic..

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