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Karel Miedema’s Pedigree Evaluation PICK OF THE BUNCH Suitable mares for iesque’s Approval (USA) Miesque’s Approval could include 1. Mares with La Troienne duplications, Miesque’s Son - Win Approval by With Approval notably Seattle Slew (AP Indy) M 2. Mares with Buckpasser (Al Mufti) or others from his affinity group, incl “Anything that has worked so well for Nijinsky (Dancing Champ), Blushing a century is not apt to suddenly stop Groom, Dinner Partner (Caesour), etc. 3. Mares with Hoist The Flag (Alleged, working - the gene pool cannot react Sportsworld (!), Joshua Dancer, that fast,” Ginistrelli, etc.) 4. Mares with Tourbillon/Count Fleet (Mr P., -Kentucky pedigree analyst Les Brinsfield Never Bend/Mill Reef/Bold Reason) 5. Mares with Gold Bridge, notably the ○○○○○○○ Rough Shod female line (Sadler’s Wells, Brinsfield refers to the art of predicting successful broodmare sires. His focal point is Nureyev, Golden Thatch, Lt Stevens, how the remarkable sire Domino and his daughters have shaped history. It goes like notably Houston Connection) this. 6. Mares with Hail To Reason (Bold Reason, Domino mares produced stallion sons Ultimus, High Tiem and Sweep. Roberto, etc) Ultimus is the damsire of Case Ace (damsire of Raise a Native) and second 7. Mares with Gulf Stream (Soho Secret, damsire of Roman. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ London News) High Time is the damsire of Eight Thirty. 8. Mares with male lines of Sweep, as in Sweep is the damsire of Bubbling Over and War Admiral. Bold Ruler (notably Jungle Cove), Best Turn (Best By Test) Now follow the latter tribe. War Admiral got Mr Busher from Bubbling Over mare Baby League, as well as full sisters Striking and Busher. genetic sibling Count Fleet (Never War Admiral got the dams of Better Self, Buckpasser and Hoist The Flag. Bend-Mill Reef, Mr P.). Brinsfield Better Self is the damsire of Dr Fager and Silent Screen (from an Eight Thirty draws attention to the fact that Never mare). Bend, Nashua and Nantallah are Buckpasser and Hoist The Flag are damsires of horses as good as it gets. genetically close, and that Never Bend and Bold Reason are closer. “Now”, says Brinsfield, “Comes the easy part, which some smarties have been doing for Miesque’s Approval has two of the decades. Start accumulating gaggles of mares by sires out of Buckpasser or Hoist The Flag mares. There are dozens of maternal grandsons of Buckpasser and Hoist The Flag - their three in his sire Miesque’s Son, and daughters will go producing more future damsires.” should like the third, Never Bend. Brinsfield gives the example of a sire whose damsire is out of a Buckpasser mare and whose Follow this to a logical conclusion, second dam is by Hoist The Flag. The horse in question is Our Emblem, a multiple Gr1 placed and a mare with Sadler’s Wells over son of Mr Prospector. He surprised the world by siring Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes Never Bend should be first prize winner War Emblem in 2002, from his second crop. He’s too young to properly have for Miesque’s Approval. It certainly producing daughters yet, but somewhere out there something is waiting to explode onto the was for his sire Miesuqe’s Son, scene, the pedigree showing the combined legacy of the daughters of Domino. whose best runner Whipper (now a stallion) is out of a mare by Sadler’s Wells from a Mill Reef daughter. he example of Our Brinsfield theorem holds that Seattle Slew out of Lassie Dear by The same mare produced Gr1 filly Emblem leads Miesque’s Son might do well with Buckpasser. Lassie Dear is the dam Divine Proportions from a mating seamlessly to Miesque’s mares by Seattle Slew, or sons of of Al Mufti, who has shown a real to Miesque Son’s full brother Approval. His dam Win Seattle Slew, preferably those who Buckpasser affinity, notably with Kingmambo. It’s easy when you T know how! Approval is by With Approval pack La Troienne in their dam. Dancing Champ and Complete (dam by Buckpasser) out of There are other influences to Warrior. Then there’s Gulf Stream, in Negotiator (by Hoist The Flag). His consider. Interesting to note that Miesque Miesque’s Approval’s third dam. sire Miesque’s Son is by Mr He’s three-parts to Heliopolis, and Buckpasser’s equivalent Hail To Approval’s Gr2 winning brother Prospector. The picture is clear: could be exploited in our context - Reason, and his son Bold Reason. Revved Up is by Sultry Song. The Our Emblem all over again. latter’s dam is by a son of he’s found with Bold Ruler and The affinity group which So if Miesque’s Approval has Buckpasser, while his grandsire Best Bubbling Over in Jungle Cove. encompases Buckpasser, Nijinsky, what it takes in terms of potential, Turn has a son of Sweep. That’s one step. Two steps further Blushing Groom, and others. is Jungle Cove’s grandson London how can it be maximised? Also interesting to see that Any Gold Bridge, notably the News, son of Soho Secret. She’s by In Brinsfield’s world offspring Miesque Approval’s broodmare sire Rough Shod tribe, leading to Special Regent Street (son of Gulf Stream) of La Troienne is first prize, added With Approval has a highclass son (dam of Nureyev, grandam of out of a mare by First Landing (dam to which sons of Sweep work like Talkin Man, whose dam is by Sadler’s Wells, with Bold Reason Hildene by Bubbling Over). clockwork with Buckpasser and Miswaki (Mr P. x daughter of added). Look at Natal sire Houston Hoist The Flag. That leads Buckpasser). Connection, by Alysheba out of unfailingly to Seattle Slew, who has Lassie Connection. Alysheba’s dam More. SCOTT BROS both (a son of Sweep from Bold Enquiries: Robin Scott, is by Lt Stevens (Nantallah x Rough Hoist The Flag carries a daughter Ruler, double War Admiral with Tel: 033 266 6918 • Fax: 033 266 6920 Shod), the second dam by War of Tourbillon, who can be email: [email protected] La Troienne in the dam). The Admiral. Lassie Connection is by duplicated straight, or through Owner: Property of KwaZulu-Natal Breeders Syndicate and Scott Bros 2007 Sires Handbook - Raceform.

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