Karel Miedema’s Pedigree Evaluation PICK OF THE BUNCH Suitable mares for ight Approach Right Approach could include 1. Mares with Blushing Groom (Jallad, Machiavellian - Abbey Strand by Shadeed Rainbow Quest) R 2. Mares with Mixed Marriage (Gone West, The right approach to kin-breeding is to match Zafonic), Sharpen Up (Fine Edge), etc; sires and dams with closely related bottom-female 3. Mares with Swaps/Flower Bowl, line ancestors, and to keep doing this for Graustark/His Majesty (notably Danehill, successive generations. Caesour) 4. Mares with Court Martial, Martial Loan The first step is to identify a key ancestor in the bottom (Elliodor, Busted) female line of a mare to be mated. The second step is to see 5. Mares with Sir Ivor (Alzao, Sir Tristram) 6. Mares with Vilmorin (Zafonic, Mexico/ which sires have been successful with the family members of Harry Hotspur) that ancestor. Commonalities will soon become evident, and 7. Mares with Damascus can be utilized to good effect, time and again. 8. Mares with Hail to Reason through Halo (Rakeen, Jet Master), Hail to Reason through Roberto, Hail to Reason n the pedigree of Right Approach the key ancestor in the bottom through Bold Reason (Sadler’s Wells, female line appears to be his fourth dam Hypericum. Highly notably Fort Wood) spirited, Hypericum had plenty of racing ability. As a 2yo she won 9. Mares with Mill Reef/Shirley Heights Ithe Dewhurst Stakes against the colts, and was less than a length 10. Mares with Nijinsky (Dancing Champ), second to Khaled in the Middle Park Stakes. She went on to win the The Minstrel (Zafonic), Storm Bird; etc. 1000 Guineas at 3 (this after first dumping her rider and galloping the course). Hypericum was by Hyperion out of 1000 Guineas runner-up Feola, an Pause for a moment to look at influential broodmare. Feola was by Friar Marcus out of Aloe, who other big runners from the female Where From Here failed to win from ten starts. Aloe was by Son In law out of Alope. The line ancestors descending from Following the thought of kin- latter, born when her sire Gallinule was 25 years old, was 1000 Guineas Highlight. breeding to bottom female line runner-up. No lack of overall ability in this family! The successive kin- Highlight’s daughter Highclere ancestors, suitable mares for Right breeding leading to Hypericum goes like this, all through bottom female takes centre-stage. Winner of the Approach should kin-link to line mares: 1000 Guineas and French Oaks, equivalents of Hypericum/ Alope: 2x1 Moorhen x Altoviscar. she’s by Queen’s Hussar, giving kin- Highlight. That means finding Aloe: 2x3x2 Mother in Law x Moorhen x Altoviscar. breeding 3x2 Fairy Jane x descendants of Alope, Aloe and Feola: 2x1 Prim Nun x Aloe (and 2x3x4x3 Prim Nun x Mother-in-Law Hypericum (Queen’s Hussar is 3x3 Feola – combined with Selene. x Moorhen x Altoviscar). Permavon x Light Tacle, dam of Fairy The latter is widespread, as she’s Hypericum: 2x1 Selene x Feola. Jane). the dam of sires Hyperion, Pharamond, and Sickle, and of Interesting to note that close kin-breeding of this kind was common Highclere’s daughter Burghclere the mare All Moonshine (who is sixty or-so years ago, but is seldomly practiced by modern breeders. (by Busted, and kinbred 3x4x3 kin to Feola, and appears with Martial Loan x Fairy Jane x Halo’s equivalent Sir Ivor in Sir Hypericum) got Epsom Oaks runner- ypericum visited Borealis, a Flaring Top x Blade Of Time x High- Tristram). up Wind In Her Hair (by Alzao, and son of Hyperion-mare way Code. These connected with kinbred 2x4 Lady Rebecca x From Alope come sire-son Aurora. Borealis is kinbred the mare’s kin-breeding to give Hypericum). The latter in turn is Foxlaw and daughter Aloe. From H3x3x3x3 Rondeau x Aquarelle x 5x6x5x3 Blade Of Time x Highway dam of Japanese Horse of the Year Aloe come daughters Aroma, Selene x Marchetta. The resulting Code x Versicle x Hypericum. No Deep Impact, whose all-conquering Feola, Sweet Aloe. Aroma goes to filly Highlight is kinbred 2x1 Aurora surprise, perhaps, as Blade Of Time sire Sunday Silence is kinbred 1x3 highly influential granddaughter x Hypericum. Highlight won two is by Sickle, and Highway Code by Halo x Edelweiss. In Deep Impact Mixed Marriage. Feola leads to maiden races before running Sickle’s half brother Hyperion. this extends into 2x4x3x4(5) Halo x sires Aureole, Round Table, unplaced in the Oaks, earning a Final step, Right Approach, by Edelweiss x Lady Rebecca x Sideral. Sweet Aloe goes to respectable rating of 107. Machiavellian. Not quite so clear- Highlight (Hypericum). Alcide, by Alycidon, which Following the female line thread cut as the previous generations. reminds us: Alycidon is half Another daughter of Highclere in the pedigree of Right Approach, Machiavellian’s dam is by Halo, who brother to Borealis and Acropolis, is Champion filly Height Of Fashion Highlight was mated to highclass turns out to be the universal key. It their dam Aurora kin to (TFR 124; by Busted’s son Bustino), sprinter So Blessed (Timeform 130). seems that most of Machiavellian’s Hypericum. kinbred 2x2 Shipyard x Highlight. The kin-link came from the third best runners have kin-breeding Height Of Fashion produced three Another way to find suitable dam of So Blessed, Versicle, by involving Halo. Street Cry: 3x4x4 major sons. There’s 2000 Guineas & mares would be to concentrate on Hyperion’s half brother Sickle. The Halo x Hornbeam x Never Bend. Epsom Derby winner Nashwan (TFR the sires who have done well with kin-breeding in the resulting Medicean: 3x3 Halo x Cocarde. 135, by Blushing Groom), kinbred Right Approach’ female family. daughter Christchurch is 4x3x2 Storming Home: 3x3 Halo x A Wind 3x3 Aimee x Highlight (Aimee x This is on the assumption that if Versicle x Aurora x Hypericum. Is Rising. Almutawakel: 3x5 Halo x Feola x Feola). There’s King George they worked here, then other of Attica (dam of Sir Ivor). Rebecca On to Right Approach’s dam runner-up Unfuwain (TFR 131, by their offspring may well carry the Sharp: 3x4 Halo x Courtessa. Abbey Strand. To get her, Northern Dancer), kinbred 3x4 same suitable kin-lines. Christchurch visited 2000 Guineas Right Approach has not just one Lady Angela x Hypericum. And winner Shadeed, a ‘magnificent kin-link through Halo, but three: multiple Gr1 winner Nayef (TFR WILGERBOSDRIFT STUD mover with great freedom of action’, 3x4 Halo x Hypericum; 3x4 Halo x 129, by Gulch), kinbred 3x3 Jehan Malherbe - Tel: 021 510 1455 rated 135 by Timeform. Shadeed is Flaming Page; 3x5 Halo x Kerala. Rambunctious x Highlight. email: [email protected] by Nijinsky, and kinbred 3x4x5 2007 Sires Handbook - Raceform.