Dream Ahead is in the early days of his stud career, with seven stakes winners and 15 stakes place getters to-date. While there are already some favourites emerging, there will still be many more angles from which mare owners can attack. His pedigree contains several patterns which can be dynamically reversed or repeated for great […]

Domesday is from the BEST IN SHOW branch of the TORPENHOW family. This is also the family of REDOUTE’S CHOICE, EL GRAN SENOR, GIELGUD, XAAR, MASTERCLASS, THE MINSTREL, TRY MY BEST (sire of LAST TYCOON), HURRICANE SKY and UMATILLA.  Their daughters and granddaughters will create highly desirable line breeding to this family.  For instance, his […]

Benfica traces on tail female line to DEMOCRATIE. This is also the family of Champion Sire, SHOWDOWN.  Linebreeding to DEMOCRATIE is an option in matings with Benfica. These days, Showdown is most readily sourced through ZEDITAVE (and his sons STRATEGIC and MAGIC ALBERT). Benfica is already showing a liking for mares by STRATEGIC, having produced […]

With very healthy statistics at time of writing of over 90% runners to foals, 65.5% winners to runners and 5% stakes winners to runners, Artie Schiller is a very appealing sire. Top class two year old FLYING ARTIE is out of a RUBITON mare, tracing to BETTER BOY via CENTURY.  Flying Artie’s dam is actually […]

With Al Maher being an established successful sire, we can examine the pedigrees of his best performed runners to determine to which elements of his pedigrees mares are responding – a good technique for predicting future success. A direct descendant of TORPENHOW via taproot mare BEST IN SHOW, Al Maher also carries Nijinsky II through […]

Written April 2017 American Pharoah has a pedigree which includes infrequently seen ancestors that can be married with more commonly found family members in broodmares, for great effect. American Pharoah is relatively light in the ALMAHMOUD family, with only two presences of Northern Dancer on his fifth remove.  This opens up avenues for the myriad […]

Written April 2017 Air Force Blue is a European Champion 2 year old by world class sire War Front. His sire’s proven patterns can be exploited in potential matings while in addition, Air Force Blue’s dam carries several features which can also be utilised with Australian broodmares. Air Force Blue carries a duplication of LA […]

Rebel Dane is a stallion with a strongly line bred pedigree to which broodmares should respond well in matings. Rebel Dane carries LA TROIENNE family members More Than Ready, Woodman, Buckpasser (twice), Poker, Jet Action and Beau Brummel. CONGRATS, PRIVATE ACCOUNT, NOBLE BIJOU, BELONG TO ME, RHYTHM, BUPERS, FRANCIS S, HOOK MONEY, CORNISH PRINCE, MR. […]

Written April 2017 By world class sire Medaglia D’Oro out of a Thunder Gulch mare, Mshawish is bred on the highly successful Medaglia D’Oro / Mr. Prospector line cross. In fact, Mshawish’s dam is inbred to Mr. Prospector. An impressive proportion of Medaglia D’Oro’s Group / Grade 1 winners are bred on this combination, however […]

Written May 2015 Verrazano is a stallion with a strongly line bred pedigree, and therefore carries several Blue Hen mares which should respond well to reinforcement in matings. Verrazano carries LA TROIENNE family members More Than Ready, Woodman and Buckpasser. CONGRATS, PRIVATE ACCOUNT, BUPERS, FRANCIS S., HOOK MONEY, CORNISH PRINCE, MR. BUSHER, PARDAL, THE AXE […]