Gone West-Fest (Part One): Johar
By Michael Ventura, copyright 2004.
Gone West
Gone West, born in 1984, was very well bred and speedy; he took the Dwyer (GI) by 12 lengths over 1 1/8 mile, the longest race he won, besides the
Gotham (G2) over Gulch and the Withers S (G2). He also finished 2nd in the Wood (GI) and Fountain of Youth (G2) on the Derby trail for trainer Woody
Stevens.
He was by Mr Prospector from the Secretariat mare Secrettame and traced back to the Aroma-Mixed Marriage branch of the prolific Feola (2-f) female
family. This is one of the finest turf-type lines in the Twentieth Century as other descendants of Feola include Known Fact, Sharpen Up, Height Of
Fashion, Round Table, and more recently the “maternal cousins” Pulpit and Tale Of The Cat. From 14 crops of racing age, Gone West has sired 76
SW from 638 foals (9%), including Came Home, European Champion Zafonic, Mr. Greeley, Da Hoss; 2005 first year stallions Johar and Speightstown,
and finally leading 3rd crop sire Elusive Quality, the sire of Smarty Jones.
Like any son of Mr Prospector from a mare by a son of Bold Ruler, Gone West was 4x4 to Nasrullah through Nashua and Bold Ruler and 5x5 to the
great 1930’s handicap champion Discovery through Miss Disco and Geisha, two all-time great racehorse/sire throwing mares bred by Alfred G.
Vanderbilt’s Sagamore Farm. Gone West was also 5x6x6 to Bull Dog through Miss Dogwood and Tim Tam; a Calumet bred Champion 3YO Male who
was 3x3 to Bull Dog through his son Bull Lea and daughter Gaga.
The intriguing thing about Gone West is how his dam Secrettame is by Secretariat from a daughter of Tom Fool’s son Tim Tam. Secretariat’s dam
Somethingroyal also produced the very important stallion Sir Gaylord when bred to Turn-To; and Tom Fool shared Pharamond, Alcibiades, and either
Bull Dog or his full brother Sir Gallahad with an Alice Headley bred daughter of Mr. Trouble named Attica. When Secretariat’s relative Sir Gaylord was
bred to Tom Fool’s relative Attica, it resulted in his best son and her best foal, namely the great Sir Ivor. Sir Ivor won the Criterium (FR-GI), English
Derby (GB-GI), Champion S (GB-GI), and Washington D.C. Invitational (GI) before becoming an extremely important sire of fillies like Arc winner
Ivanjica and colts like 5-time leading Australian sire Sir Tristram.
Thus the dam of Gone West paralleled the great sire and broodmare sire Sir Ivor. One crossed Secretariat and Tom Fool; the other was the excellent
result of breeding Secretariat’s half-brother Sir Gaylord to Attica, a mare closely related to Tom Fool.
Inbreeding to Somethingroyal through the half brothers has worked on many and various occasions; some of the most notable being Broodmare of
the Year Weekend Surprise, the dam of AP Indy, Summer Squall, and Honor Grades; Racing Post Trophy (GB-GI) winner Be My Chief; Grand Lodge,
1993's Champion English 2YO and fine sire of horses like Sinndar and Grandera; Dual GI winning French filly Cherokee Rose; and Ashland (GI)
winner Do It With Style.
Reinforcing the ancestor cluster of Alcibiades, Pharamond, and either Sir Gallahad and Bull Dog by crossing Sir Ivor and Tom Fool has worked in
Kentucky Oaks (GI) winner Sweet Alliance (the dam of Shareef Dancer); Irish 2000 Guinieas (IRE-GI) winner Lady Capulet (dam of El Prado); Pound
Foolish, the dam of Kentucky Oaks (GI) winner and 7 x time GI winner Goodbye Halo; and Mild Intrigue, the dam of Irish Oaks (IRE-GI) winner Margarula
We're only left to check the 'criss cross'; there we find Sir Gaylord bred to a Tom Fool mare got Drone, the broodmare sire of Prix De l'Arc winner
Dancing Brave, Preakness winner Red Bullet, and Kentucky Derby winner Grindstone. (Unsurprisingly given Attica was a filly, Secretariat and Attica
have not combined with success save for the many good ones combining Secretariat and Sir Gaylord through his son Sir Ivor.)
Thus, there was ample reason to like the idea of crossing Gone West on mares tracing Sir Ivor, and in this case the empirical has come to confirm the
theoretical: Gone West bred to a granddaughter of Sir Ivor named Touch Of Greatness got Elusive Quality, world mile record (1:31.6) holder for a mile
on the turf and the leading 3rd crop sire of 2004; and Gone West's son Zafonic bred to a daughter of Sir Ivor named Monroe got Dewhurst (GB-GI) and
Prix De Salamandre (FR-GI) winner Xaar, 1997's Champion 2YO in France and England and 1998's Champion 3YO in France, England, and Ireland.
That's some pretty powerful stuff, and I didn't even mention Johar's 3rd dam.
Gone West also seems to like In Reality, who got English 2000 Guinieas (GB-GI) winner Known Fact from Gone West's 2nd dam Tamerett
Johar
I can't quite figure Johar standing for only $20,000 at Mill Ridge Farm; he has a similar phenotype to his loved of the market sire and there's nothing out
of the ordinary about a Gone West son excelling on the grass as his get includes European Champion Zafonic and two time BC Mile (GI) winner Da
Hoss.
Johar did show a lot of stamina in winning the BC Turf (GI) in a dead-heat with High Chaparral, but he also enjoyed some major successes at 1 1/8
miles; breaking the stakes record for the G2 Oak Tree Derby by winning it in a time of 1:46 flat and winning the Hollywood Derby (GI) with an incredible
kick, the last 3f going in 34 2/5. Perhaps his greatest performance for trainer Dick Mandella was his staggering stakes record time of 1:57 4/5 for a
mile and a quarter in the G2 San Marcos H. over Grammarian and The Tin Man. Of course, getting injured too late for the 2004 breeding season didn't
help matters; it's important for a stallion to retire when his accomplishments are fresh in the collective mindset.
Johar was produced from the great Champion Canadian Grass Mare/Champion Canadian Older Mare Windsharp, who won the Beverly Hills H (GI)
and enjoyed victory against the males in the 1996 San Luis Rey S (GI). She also showed some major league stamina by finishing second to the colt
Raintrap in the 1¾ mile San Juan Capistrano H (GI), the last of the great American marathons on the flat.
The greatness of his dam is of relevance to breeding Johar; if you can pick a pair of strains or clusters to reinforce where one strain or cluster is on
each side of Windsharp's pedigree, you're almost guaranteed the two or more lines nick good with each other (mares like Windsharp rarely are bred
on lines that dislike each other; though that's no excuse for lazily not checking to make sure). 'It's better to reinforce a nick, and it's better to reinforce a
nick through examples of it that worked.' Windsharp is an example of 'it' working, that leaves only the other source.
Windsharp was by the great stamina influence Lear Fan from the Sharpen Up mare Yes Shes Sharp; Yes She's Sharp was out of the Sir Gaylord
mare Yes Sir (who was bred by C.V. Whitney), Yes Sir set a track record (8.5f in 1:41 3/5) at Churchill and traced back to the great Whitney taproot
Swinging (5-j), who was the dam of Equipoise and his full sister Schwester (Johar's 7th dam).
It's very important that Windsharp is 4x4 to Turn-To through Hail To Reason and Sir Gaylord. This form of inbreeding to Turn-To has also worked in the
Champions and top American sires AP Indy (5x5) and El Prado (4x5).
El Prado is especially important as his pedigree is precapitulated by Wac, the dam of Windsharp's sire Lear Fan; Wac being by Lt. Stevens from the
mare Balthazar, and El Prado being by Sadlers Wells (3rd dam Thong a full sister to Lt. Stevens) from a mare by Sir Ivor (2nd dam Athenia bred on the
reverse cross of Pharamond and Man O' War to Balthazar). If you buy into my precapitulation theory, you won't be overly surprised that El Prado has
gotten Secretariat (GI) and Joe Hirsch (GI) winning turfer Kitten's Joy from a Lear Fan mare.
The amazing thing is that this pattern of combining either Lt Stevens or his full sister Thong with a cross of Man O' War and Pharamond doesn't overlap
with the inbreeding to Turn-To through Hail To Reason and Sir Gaylord that Windsharp and El Prado also share. Thus we have here two separate
patterns recurring with each other in two Champion runners, one of whom became a Champion sire, the other the dam of two GI winners (Johar and
Dessert, by Storm Cat) from her first two foals. (To save space, I'll avoid getting into why these two patterns liked each other so much; suffice it to say
they do.)
In my estimation, the number one broodmare sire to look for Johar is El Prado. The 3rd dam of Johar, Yes Sir, was a close relative to Sir Ivor, being by
the same sire (Sir Gaylord) and out of a mare crossing Mahmoud and Bull Dog (Sir Ivor's damsire Mr. Trouble crossed Mahmoud and Bull Dog's
brother Sir Gallahad). Johar-El Prado Mare would thus be 4x4 Yes Sir/Sir Ivor. It would also be 3x4 Lear Fan/Fairy Bridge, who share Hail To Reason
and either Lt Stevens or his full sister Thong.
In accordance to my own dicta, I should note that Lear Fan won a GI in France and became the sire of 13 Champions and 65 SW from 779 foals to
race (8.3%) and that Fairy Bridge was the top weighted 2YO filly in Ireland for 1977 and became the dam of 2000 Guinieas (GB-GI) winner Sadlers
Wells and his full brothers Fairy King (excellent sire) and Tates Gallery (won GI in Ireland).
But wait, there's more. Perhaps as a legacy of Johar's 3rd dam Yes Sir being related to Sir Ivor, the full spectrum of Johar's pedigree nicks nicely with
him:
Yes Sir was bred to Sharpen Up to produce Yes She's Sharp; Sharpen Up and Sir Ivor have combined in the GIWs Squak, Encounter, Invincible Spirit,
Embassy, Vinaka, and the GI producer Shaima, the dam of St Leger (GB-GI) winner Shantou.
Yes She's Sharp was bred to Lear Fan to produce Windsharp; Lear Fan and Sir Ivor have combined in the aforementioned GIW Kitten's Joy.
Windsharp was bred to Gone West to produce Johar; as mentioned in the introduction, Gone West and Sir Ivor have combined in Elusive Quality and
Xaar.
So all of Johar's ped likes El Prado's damsire Sir Ivor and Johar's damsire Lear Fan likes El Prado himself. But that still leaves out El Prado's sire
Sadlers Wells. Not to worry though, Sharpen Up and Sadler's Wells make an incredible nick in Europe , combining in no less than 10 GI winners!
That's an amazing figure given their ages; Sharpen Up was born in 1969 and Sadlers Wells in 1981. To give the names of the 10: They are Quiff,
Moonshell, Doyen, King's Chapel, May Ball, Motivator, Fidelite, High Chaparral, Zanzibar, and Soldier Hollow.
And from very few examples, Gone West and Sadlers Wells have combined in 2004 2YO Racing Post Trophy (GB-GI) winner Motivator (by Sadlers
Wells' Champion son Montjeu). The first GI winner from a Gone West mare, Motivator eerily enough has Sharpen Up as his 2nd damsire, making him
2x2x3 to stallions that would show up 2x3x4 in the product of breeding Johar to an El Prado mare.
AP Indy mares should also be considered, it would be at least 6x6x6x6 to Turn-To through two shots of Hail To Reason and two shots of Sir Gaylord,
besides being 4x4 to Sir Gaylord's half-brother Secretariat through Secrettame and Weekend Surprise. Also note AP Indy has Round Table, a
representative of the Feola line that produced Mixed Marriage, a mare to whom Johar is inbred 4x5. AP Indy's son Pulpit and Pulpit's relative Tale Of
The Cat are other possibilities.
Gone West-Fest (Part Two): Speightstown and Smarty Jones
by Michael Ventura, copyright 2004.
Speightstown
Sold for $2 Million as a yearling, Speightstown only started once at two, and then he ran seven times at three with middling success. Then he didn't
run at all at four and ran only twice at five; it wasn't till he was six that Speightstown lived up to his fashionable heritage; winning five out of six, including
a victory in the G2 Vanderbilt S where he equaled a 32 year old track record for Saratoga set by Spanish Riddle (1:08.00); he also won the BC Sprint in
a good time (1:08.11).
Largely on the strength of his sire (Gone West), damsire (Storm Cat), 2nd damsire (Chieftain), and dam (Champion Canadian Champion 2YO Filly
Silken Cat); Speightstown is standing for $40,000 at Winstar Farm. With a stud this inbred, allowances can be made for him being less than the
picture of soundness; oftentimes, horses bred in this fashion outsire and outdam their race records (see for instance Quiet American).
Speightstown is the most successful horse inbred to Secretariat, to whom he bears a striking resemblance save his smaller size, so far; and both his
sire and damsire inherited a muscular physique from their damsire that was evidently intensified in Speightstown. (Speightstown might thus need
some bone.) Besides being 3x4 to Secretariat and 4x4x5 to his sire Bold Ruler, Speightstown is 5x5 to Tom Fool. Note that the three sources
(Secrettame, Silken Doll, Terlingua) of the Bold Rulers are found in concert with either Tom Fool or Tom Fool's ¾ relative First Rose. This is a pattern
found in many of Gone West's best sons and grandsons; for instance his son Grand Slam (return of the cross comes though dam Bright Candles),
and his grandsons Smarty Jones (2nd damsire Foolish Pleasure) and Cajun Beat (damsire Cure The Blues).
The interesting thing about Speightstown is that his 2nd dam Silken Doll, who threw three SWs including Ascot Hurdle S winner and Racing Post
Trophy (GB-GI) placed Juyish (by Silver Hawk) besides Speightstown's dam, shares many strong lines with AP Indy. (AP Indy being a successful
conduit for inbreeding to his damsire Secretariat, see Jump Start and Sky Mesa).
Silken Doll and AP Indy share Bold Ruler, Princequillo, Sir Gallahad, War Admiral, La Trioenne, an additional cross of Bold Ruler's ancestor Blenheim
through either Bryan G. or Jet Pilot, and either Hildene or Baby League, two very important daughters of Bubbling Over.
Speightstown-AP Indy Mare would be 4x4x5 Secretariat, 5x5x5x6x6 to his sire Bold Ruler, 5x5 Buckpasser, and 5x5x6 to Buckpasser's sire Tom Fool. It
would also be 2x3 AP Indy/Silken Doll, a potentially explosive pair of genetic relatives.
I also think Speightstown could use a little 'lowering' of his big Secretariat neck; if you look at footage of Secretariat running in slow motion, you start to
think his neck aided him because he held so low like his grandson AP Indy did.
Going on the theory that he might need more substance, the other broodmare sire I'll recommend for Speightstown is Cherokee Colony, a stamina
oriented son of Pleasant Colony from the Nijinsky mare Cherokee Phoenix. A very good thing about Speightstown is that he traces in the female line to
the great Meadow Stud broodmare Hildene through her granddaughter Copper Canyon (his 4th dam), who was inbred 2x4 to Blenhein. Blenhein and
Secretariat's 2nd dam Imperatrice made a lovely nick; they being crossed not just in Secretariat and his half-brother Sir Gaylord, but also in
Imperatrice's best racing foal Scattered (by Blenheim's son Whirlaway), who won the CCA and Pimlico Oaks. There also many good ones with
Imperatrice on one side and Blenheim on both, as Secretariat and Sir Gaylord did very well with returns of Blenheim.
This is relevant to Cherokee Colony because Copper Canyon (2x4 Blenheim) is his 2nd dam; Copper Canyon would thus be inbred to 4x5 from
breeding Speightstown to a Cherokee Colony mare. The other good thing about Cherokee Colony mares is that his damsire Nijinsky is an excellent
nick with Speightstown's damsire Storm Cat.
Mares by Honor Glide (oldest daughters b. 2004) and Victory Gallop (oldest daughters b. 2001) are other possibilities because both Honor Glide's
damsire Run The Gantlet and Victory Gallop himself return Speightstown his 6th dam Hildene through her son First Landing and Chieftain's dam
Pocahontas II through his half-brother Tom Rolfe.
Smarty Jones
Smarty Jones represents the second generation of Gone West's dam getting her pedigree returned in a statistically successful manner: Elusive
Quality's 2nd damsire Sir Ivor returns Gone West's dam Secrettame, Sir Gaylord for his half-brother Secretariat and Attica for her relative Tom Fool; this
cross is also found in the Multiple European Champion Xaar. And Elusive Quality's son Smarty Jones' 2nd damsire Foolish Pleasure returns
Secrettame her cross of Bold Ruler and Tom Fool; this pattern of returning Gone West both Bold Ruler and Tom Fool has also worked in Grand Slam
and his Champion son Cajun Beat. Smarty Jones also crosses Gone West and In Reality, which also worked in Belmont (GI) winner Commendable.
Besides being 3x3 Secrettame/Foolish Pleasure, Smarty Jones is 3x4 Foolish Pleasure/Sir Ivor, who share Mahmoud. But what they share isn't the
key thing here, it's what they don't share; one has Somethingroyal but not Bold Ruler, the sire of Somethingroyal's best foal Secretariat, and the other
has Bold Ruler without Somethingroyal. Also, one is Sir Ivor, and the other is out of a mare by Tom Fool, a relative to Sir Ivor's dam Attica with whom he
nicks beautifully (see above in Gone West section).
From none too many examples, Sir Ivor and Foolish Pleasure have also combined 3x4 in the fine Australian runner Universal Prince, who won four GIs
(including the Australian Derby) and nearly $3 Million Dollars. Another important thing to note about Smarty's pedigree is that his broodmare sire
Smile crossed In Reality and Boldnesian; this made him a precapitulation of the powerful Relaunch (by In Reality) / Seattle Slew (by Boldnesian's son
Bold Reasoning) nick which has produced GI winners like Tiznow, Officer, and the mare Passing Shot. Mares with this nick in their pedigree or in the
pedigree of their sire or dam, especially where the first ancestor with the nick had serious success, are thus extremely desirable for Smarty Jones.
An excellent older strain for Smarty Jones is 1961 Prix De Salamandre (FR-GI) winner Prudent (ped); Prudent is an even earlier precapitulation of
Relaunch/Seattle Slew nick than Smile. In fact, it's better to call him a precapitulation of the In Reality/Nasrullah nick that produced Smile himself;
Prudent being by My Babu (out of Nasrullah's close relative Perfume), and out of Providence (a daughter of War Relic's full sister War Kilt; In Reality of
course being inbred 3x3 to War Relic).
Another good thing about Prudent is that he concentrates lines which are dispersed throughout the pedigree of Smarty's dam I'll Get Along: They share
either My Babu or his close relative Ambiorix, either Nasrullah or his close relative Perfume, and either War Kilt or her full brother War Relic, who
combined with her 3x3 in 1982 Champion 2YO colt Roving Boy. A female source of Prudent is 2003 Personal Ensign (GI) winner Passing Shot, a
representative of the recently mentioned Relaunch/Seattle Slew nick.
Whereas with Speightstown the difficulty is possibly too much muscle, with Smarty Jones the problem is definitely not enough size. With that in mind I
hereby recommend Pleasant Colony (ped) mares for Smarty. He had lots of size, and linebreeding to the full brothers His Majesty and Graustark
through His Majesty's best son (Pleasant Colony) and Graustark's best daughter (Broodmare of the Year Glowing Tribute, the dam of Sea Hero and
Hero's Tribute) has already worked in Canadian Champion Grass Mare Hero's Love. In her the Glowing Tribute actually came through Hero's Tribute,
the damsire of Smarty's sire Elusive Quality; thus the Canadian Champion Hero's Love was 1x2 to ancestors who would show up 4x3 in the result of
breeding Smarty Jones to a Pleasant Colony Mare.
Again in the interest of introducing size, Smarty Jones should do well by mares by Dynaformer. Dynaformer was/is a monster and he's by Roberto (by
Hail To Reason) from Top Flight (GI) winner Andover Way (by His Majesty). This makes him a fascinating reverse on Glowing Tribute, who was by His
Majesty's brother Graustark from a Hail To Reason mare. Smarty Jones-Dynaformer Mare would be 2x4 Dynaformer / Glowing Tribute.
Seattle Slew has been recommended for Smarty Jones by Three Chimneys Matings Advisor Anne Peters and a lot of the other top bloodstock experts,
but I still think I have a right to recommend him myself since the thought of breeding Smarty Jones to Seattle Slew mares came to me even before he
won his last Derby prep, the Arkansas Derby (G2).
Seattle Slew's dam My Charmer had, like your average diploid, four grandparents. They were: Round Table (Feola, 2-f); Glamour (La Trioenne, 1-s);
Jet Action (La Trioenne); and Myrtle Charm (Frizette, 13-c).
Smarty Jones, again in the diploid mold, had four grandparents as well: Gone West (Aloe); Elusive Quality (Frizette); Smile (Pretty Dark, 8-a); and Don't
Worry Bout Me (La Trioenne). Three out four in common ain't bad; it indicates affinity between these three female lines and it's good to reinforce
affinities through successful examples of said affinities. In addition, Seattle Slew's sire returns Boldnesian and Hail To Reason to Smarty. And as I
mentioned before, Seattle Slew's nick with Relaunch was foreshadowed by Smarty's damsire Smile, making mares with that nick desirable for Smarty
Jones.
A main reason why Smarty is a valuable stud prospect is that he 'integrates' the important cross of the great broodmare Somethingroyal and either
Nasrullah or his ¾ brother Royal Charger (see Secretariat and Sir Gaylord) with the important cross of the great broodmare La Trioenne and the great
broodmare sire War Admiral (see Searching, Busher, Striking, Mr Busher, Busanda, and Blue Eyed Momo). Smarty's sire Elusive Quality being 4x5 to
Somethingroyal through Secretariat and Sir Gaylord; and Smarty himself being 5x6 to Striking and Searching, who were both by War Admiral and
daughters of La Trioenne.
Another stallion who integrates those important patterns is Seattle Slew's son AP Indy, a good broodmare sire for Smarty.
A less obvious stallion who integrates those lines is the solid regional ( New York ) sire Take Me Out. His sire Cure The Blues has Speedwell, a 3/4
sister to Secretariat by Bold Ruler from Somethingroyal's dam Imperatrice, as his 2nd dam; and Take Me Out himself is 4x5 to Better Self, a stallion
bred on the exact reverse La Trioenne/War Admiral cross to both Striking and Searching. Also Cure The Blues damsired Champion Sprinter Cajun
Beat with the aid of another (Grand Slam) son of Gone West and 'The Cure's' damsire Dr Fager is an excellent foil to Smarty's dam grandsire In
Reality. Another very good thing about Take Me Out is that he tons of size and height for Smarty.
Another contribution of probable originality that I will here set forth is the idea of breeding Smarty Jones to mares by Dancing Brave, a Prix De l'Arc de
Triumph (FR-GI) winning son of Lyphard from the Drone mare Navajo Princess.
Smarty Jones-Dancing Brave Mare would be 4x5 Drone / Sir Ivor; two sons of Sir Gaylord, one from a Tom Fool mare, the other from a mare ( Attica ),
closely related to Tom Fool. Drone and Sir Ivor have combined in the first four generations of the GI winners King Halo and Oasis Dream, both of
whom got their Drone through Dancing Brave himself.
Dancing Brave and his best sons spent the best years of their lives in Japan , where the one real source of In Reality was Real Shadai, who was out of
In Reality's Hall of Fame racing daughter Desert Vixen, a full sister to Valid Appeal. In spite of only getting a reasonable chance of working with one In
Reality line, Dancing Brave has combined with it (Real Shadai) in the 2nd generation of Tenno Sho Spring (JAP-GI) winner Ingrandire.
And Dancing Brave has success with another damside Smarty ancestor, namely his 3rd damsire Herbager, in Italian Champion and probable
Champion thrower (Dubawi) Zomaradah and Millenary, the Champion European Stayer of 2000. Dancing Brave on a mare by Smarty's sireside
ancestor Secretariat got 2xtime French GI winner Cherokee Rose. And Gone West's minor son Zamindar bred to a Dancing Brave mare got the
French Classic winning filly Zenda.
Since Smarty Jones' is 5x5x5 to Bold Ruler, it's worth noting Dancing Brave has had success with him through sources other than Secretariat and
Secretariat's maternal grandson Gone West: Italian GI winner and Arc runner-up White Muzzle, Japan Derby (JAP-GI) winner Meiner Combat, and
German Derby (GER-GI) Robertico all having Dancing Brave in the 2nd generation and Bold Ruler in the 4th.
And finally, Alleged would return Smarty Jones the *Cinq A Sept female line of Secretariat and Sir Gaylord, and he also brings in his sire Hoist The
Flag's dam Wavy Navy, a mare bred on a reverse cross of War Admiral and Tourbillon to Smarty's 4th dam Bases Full. Therefore Smarty Jones-
Alleged Mare would be 5x4 to the relatives Bases Full and Wavy Navy. Wavy Navy's son Hoist The Flag and Bases Full have already combined 3x4 in
the hardy and talented G2 winning sprinter Say Florida Sandy, who won 33 races in 98 starts and over $2 Million, making him the number one money
earner for his sire Personal Flag.
And Alleged himself shares Ribot, War Admiral, Alibhai, Sir Gallahad, Blue Larkspur, and Mahmoud with Broodmare of the Year Glowing Tribute, the
dam of Elusive Quality's damsire Hero's Tribute. Therefore, Smarty Jones-Alleged Mare would be 2x5 Alleged / Glowing Tribute; two genetic relatives
who have already combined 2x2 in 2000 Del Mar Debutante (GI) winner Cindy's Hero from very few examples. Cindy's Hero is the one GI winner for
her sire Sea Hero, making this even more impressive.
By Michael Ventura, copyright 2004.
Gone West
Gone West, born in 1984, was very well bred and speedy; he took the Dwyer (GI) by 12 lengths over 1 1/8 mile, the longest race he won, besides the
Gotham (G2) over Gulch and the Withers S (G2). He also finished 2nd in the Wood (GI) and Fountain of Youth (G2) on the Derby trail for trainer Woody
Stevens.
He was by Mr Prospector from the Secretariat mare Secrettame and traced back to the Aroma-Mixed Marriage branch of the prolific Feola (2-f) female
family. This is one of the finest turf-type lines in the Twentieth Century as other descendants of Feola include Known Fact, Sharpen Up, Height Of
Fashion, Round Table, and more recently the “maternal cousins” Pulpit and Tale Of The Cat. From 14 crops of racing age, Gone West has sired 76
SW from 638 foals (9%), including Came Home, European Champion Zafonic, Mr. Greeley, Da Hoss; 2005 first year stallions Johar and Speightstown,
and finally leading 3rd crop sire Elusive Quality, the sire of Smarty Jones.
Like any son of Mr Prospector from a mare by a son of Bold Ruler, Gone West was 4x4 to Nasrullah through Nashua and Bold Ruler and 5x5 to the
great 1930’s handicap champion Discovery through Miss Disco and Geisha, two all-time great racehorse/sire throwing mares bred by Alfred G.
Vanderbilt’s Sagamore Farm. Gone West was also 5x6x6 to Bull Dog through Miss Dogwood and Tim Tam; a Calumet bred Champion 3YO Male who
was 3x3 to Bull Dog through his son Bull Lea and daughter Gaga.
The intriguing thing about Gone West is how his dam Secrettame is by Secretariat from a daughter of Tom Fool’s son Tim Tam. Secretariat’s dam
Somethingroyal also produced the very important stallion Sir Gaylord when bred to Turn-To; and Tom Fool shared Pharamond, Alcibiades, and either
Bull Dog or his full brother Sir Gallahad with an Alice Headley bred daughter of Mr. Trouble named Attica. When Secretariat’s relative Sir Gaylord was
bred to Tom Fool’s relative Attica, it resulted in his best son and her best foal, namely the great Sir Ivor. Sir Ivor won the Criterium (FR-GI), English
Derby (GB-GI), Champion S (GB-GI), and Washington D.C. Invitational (GI) before becoming an extremely important sire of fillies like Arc winner
Ivanjica and colts like 5-time leading Australian sire Sir Tristram.
Thus the dam of Gone West paralleled the great sire and broodmare sire Sir Ivor. One crossed Secretariat and Tom Fool; the other was the excellent
result of breeding Secretariat’s half-brother Sir Gaylord to Attica, a mare closely related to Tom Fool.
Inbreeding to Somethingroyal through the half brothers has worked on many and various occasions; some of the most notable being Broodmare of
the Year Weekend Surprise, the dam of AP Indy, Summer Squall, and Honor Grades; Racing Post Trophy (GB-GI) winner Be My Chief; Grand Lodge,
1993's Champion English 2YO and fine sire of horses like Sinndar and Grandera; Dual GI winning French filly Cherokee Rose; and Ashland (GI)
winner Do It With Style.
Reinforcing the ancestor cluster of Alcibiades, Pharamond, and either Sir Gallahad and Bull Dog by crossing Sir Ivor and Tom Fool has worked in
Kentucky Oaks (GI) winner Sweet Alliance (the dam of Shareef Dancer); Irish 2000 Guinieas (IRE-GI) winner Lady Capulet (dam of El Prado); Pound
Foolish, the dam of Kentucky Oaks (GI) winner and 7 x time GI winner Goodbye Halo; and Mild Intrigue, the dam of Irish Oaks (IRE-GI) winner Margarula
We're only left to check the 'criss cross'; there we find Sir Gaylord bred to a Tom Fool mare got Drone, the broodmare sire of Prix De l'Arc winner
Dancing Brave, Preakness winner Red Bullet, and Kentucky Derby winner Grindstone. (Unsurprisingly given Attica was a filly, Secretariat and Attica
have not combined with success save for the many good ones combining Secretariat and Sir Gaylord through his son Sir Ivor.)
Thus, there was ample reason to like the idea of crossing Gone West on mares tracing Sir Ivor, and in this case the empirical has come to confirm the
theoretical: Gone West bred to a granddaughter of Sir Ivor named Touch Of Greatness got Elusive Quality, world mile record (1:31.6) holder for a mile
on the turf and the leading 3rd crop sire of 2004; and Gone West's son Zafonic bred to a daughter of Sir Ivor named Monroe got Dewhurst (GB-GI) and
Prix De Salamandre (FR-GI) winner Xaar, 1997's Champion 2YO in France and England and 1998's Champion 3YO in France, England, and Ireland.
That's some pretty powerful stuff, and I didn't even mention Johar's 3rd dam.
Gone West also seems to like In Reality, who got English 2000 Guinieas (GB-GI) winner Known Fact from Gone West's 2nd dam Tamerett
Johar
I can't quite figure Johar standing for only $20,000 at Mill Ridge Farm; he has a similar phenotype to his loved of the market sire and there's nothing out
of the ordinary about a Gone West son excelling on the grass as his get includes European Champion Zafonic and two time BC Mile (GI) winner Da
Hoss.
Johar did show a lot of stamina in winning the BC Turf (GI) in a dead-heat with High Chaparral, but he also enjoyed some major successes at 1 1/8
miles; breaking the stakes record for the G2 Oak Tree Derby by winning it in a time of 1:46 flat and winning the Hollywood Derby (GI) with an incredible
kick, the last 3f going in 34 2/5. Perhaps his greatest performance for trainer Dick Mandella was his staggering stakes record time of 1:57 4/5 for a
mile and a quarter in the G2 San Marcos H. over Grammarian and The Tin Man. Of course, getting injured too late for the 2004 breeding season didn't
help matters; it's important for a stallion to retire when his accomplishments are fresh in the collective mindset.
Johar was produced from the great Champion Canadian Grass Mare/Champion Canadian Older Mare Windsharp, who won the Beverly Hills H (GI)
and enjoyed victory against the males in the 1996 San Luis Rey S (GI). She also showed some major league stamina by finishing second to the colt
Raintrap in the 1¾ mile San Juan Capistrano H (GI), the last of the great American marathons on the flat.
The greatness of his dam is of relevance to breeding Johar; if you can pick a pair of strains or clusters to reinforce where one strain or cluster is on
each side of Windsharp's pedigree, you're almost guaranteed the two or more lines nick good with each other (mares like Windsharp rarely are bred
on lines that dislike each other; though that's no excuse for lazily not checking to make sure). 'It's better to reinforce a nick, and it's better to reinforce a
nick through examples of it that worked.' Windsharp is an example of 'it' working, that leaves only the other source.
Windsharp was by the great stamina influence Lear Fan from the Sharpen Up mare Yes Shes Sharp; Yes She's Sharp was out of the Sir Gaylord
mare Yes Sir (who was bred by C.V. Whitney), Yes Sir set a track record (8.5f in 1:41 3/5) at Churchill and traced back to the great Whitney taproot
Swinging (5-j), who was the dam of Equipoise and his full sister Schwester (Johar's 7th dam).
It's very important that Windsharp is 4x4 to Turn-To through Hail To Reason and Sir Gaylord. This form of inbreeding to Turn-To has also worked in the
Champions and top American sires AP Indy (5x5) and El Prado (4x5).
El Prado is especially important as his pedigree is precapitulated by Wac, the dam of Windsharp's sire Lear Fan; Wac being by Lt. Stevens from the
mare Balthazar, and El Prado being by Sadlers Wells (3rd dam Thong a full sister to Lt. Stevens) from a mare by Sir Ivor (2nd dam Athenia bred on the
reverse cross of Pharamond and Man O' War to Balthazar). If you buy into my precapitulation theory, you won't be overly surprised that El Prado has
gotten Secretariat (GI) and Joe Hirsch (GI) winning turfer Kitten's Joy from a Lear Fan mare.
The amazing thing is that this pattern of combining either Lt Stevens or his full sister Thong with a cross of Man O' War and Pharamond doesn't overlap
with the inbreeding to Turn-To through Hail To Reason and Sir Gaylord that Windsharp and El Prado also share. Thus we have here two separate
patterns recurring with each other in two Champion runners, one of whom became a Champion sire, the other the dam of two GI winners (Johar and
Dessert, by Storm Cat) from her first two foals. (To save space, I'll avoid getting into why these two patterns liked each other so much; suffice it to say
they do.)
In my estimation, the number one broodmare sire to look for Johar is El Prado. The 3rd dam of Johar, Yes Sir, was a close relative to Sir Ivor, being by
the same sire (Sir Gaylord) and out of a mare crossing Mahmoud and Bull Dog (Sir Ivor's damsire Mr. Trouble crossed Mahmoud and Bull Dog's
brother Sir Gallahad). Johar-El Prado Mare would thus be 4x4 Yes Sir/Sir Ivor. It would also be 3x4 Lear Fan/Fairy Bridge, who share Hail To Reason
and either Lt Stevens or his full sister Thong.
In accordance to my own dicta, I should note that Lear Fan won a GI in France and became the sire of 13 Champions and 65 SW from 779 foals to
race (8.3%) and that Fairy Bridge was the top weighted 2YO filly in Ireland for 1977 and became the dam of 2000 Guinieas (GB-GI) winner Sadlers
Wells and his full brothers Fairy King (excellent sire) and Tates Gallery (won GI in Ireland).
But wait, there's more. Perhaps as a legacy of Johar's 3rd dam Yes Sir being related to Sir Ivor, the full spectrum of Johar's pedigree nicks nicely with
him:
Yes Sir was bred to Sharpen Up to produce Yes She's Sharp; Sharpen Up and Sir Ivor have combined in the GIWs Squak, Encounter, Invincible Spirit,
Embassy, Vinaka, and the GI producer Shaima, the dam of St Leger (GB-GI) winner Shantou.
Yes She's Sharp was bred to Lear Fan to produce Windsharp; Lear Fan and Sir Ivor have combined in the aforementioned GIW Kitten's Joy.
Windsharp was bred to Gone West to produce Johar; as mentioned in the introduction, Gone West and Sir Ivor have combined in Elusive Quality and
Xaar.
So all of Johar's ped likes El Prado's damsire Sir Ivor and Johar's damsire Lear Fan likes El Prado himself. But that still leaves out El Prado's sire
Sadlers Wells. Not to worry though, Sharpen Up and Sadler's Wells make an incredible nick in Europe , combining in no less than 10 GI winners!
That's an amazing figure given their ages; Sharpen Up was born in 1969 and Sadlers Wells in 1981. To give the names of the 10: They are Quiff,
Moonshell, Doyen, King's Chapel, May Ball, Motivator, Fidelite, High Chaparral, Zanzibar, and Soldier Hollow.
And from very few examples, Gone West and Sadlers Wells have combined in 2004 2YO Racing Post Trophy (GB-GI) winner Motivator (by Sadlers
Wells' Champion son Montjeu). The first GI winner from a Gone West mare, Motivator eerily enough has Sharpen Up as his 2nd damsire, making him
2x2x3 to stallions that would show up 2x3x4 in the product of breeding Johar to an El Prado mare.
AP Indy mares should also be considered, it would be at least 6x6x6x6 to Turn-To through two shots of Hail To Reason and two shots of Sir Gaylord,
besides being 4x4 to Sir Gaylord's half-brother Secretariat through Secrettame and Weekend Surprise. Also note AP Indy has Round Table, a
representative of the Feola line that produced Mixed Marriage, a mare to whom Johar is inbred 4x5. AP Indy's son Pulpit and Pulpit's relative Tale Of
The Cat are other possibilities.
Gone West-Fest (Part Two): Speightstown and Smarty Jones
by Michael Ventura, copyright 2004.
Speightstown
Sold for $2 Million as a yearling, Speightstown only started once at two, and then he ran seven times at three with middling success. Then he didn't
run at all at four and ran only twice at five; it wasn't till he was six that Speightstown lived up to his fashionable heritage; winning five out of six, including
a victory in the G2 Vanderbilt S where he equaled a 32 year old track record for Saratoga set by Spanish Riddle (1:08.00); he also won the BC Sprint in
a good time (1:08.11).
Largely on the strength of his sire (Gone West), damsire (Storm Cat), 2nd damsire (Chieftain), and dam (Champion Canadian Champion 2YO Filly
Silken Cat); Speightstown is standing for $40,000 at Winstar Farm. With a stud this inbred, allowances can be made for him being less than the
picture of soundness; oftentimes, horses bred in this fashion outsire and outdam their race records (see for instance Quiet American).
Speightstown is the most successful horse inbred to Secretariat, to whom he bears a striking resemblance save his smaller size, so far; and both his
sire and damsire inherited a muscular physique from their damsire that was evidently intensified in Speightstown. (Speightstown might thus need
some bone.) Besides being 3x4 to Secretariat and 4x4x5 to his sire Bold Ruler, Speightstown is 5x5 to Tom Fool. Note that the three sources
(Secrettame, Silken Doll, Terlingua) of the Bold Rulers are found in concert with either Tom Fool or Tom Fool's ¾ relative First Rose. This is a pattern
found in many of Gone West's best sons and grandsons; for instance his son Grand Slam (return of the cross comes though dam Bright Candles),
and his grandsons Smarty Jones (2nd damsire Foolish Pleasure) and Cajun Beat (damsire Cure The Blues).
The interesting thing about Speightstown is that his 2nd dam Silken Doll, who threw three SWs including Ascot Hurdle S winner and Racing Post
Trophy (GB-GI) placed Juyish (by Silver Hawk) besides Speightstown's dam, shares many strong lines with AP Indy. (AP Indy being a successful
conduit for inbreeding to his damsire Secretariat, see Jump Start and Sky Mesa).
Silken Doll and AP Indy share Bold Ruler, Princequillo, Sir Gallahad, War Admiral, La Trioenne, an additional cross of Bold Ruler's ancestor Blenheim
through either Bryan G. or Jet Pilot, and either Hildene or Baby League, two very important daughters of Bubbling Over.
Speightstown-AP Indy Mare would be 4x4x5 Secretariat, 5x5x5x6x6 to his sire Bold Ruler, 5x5 Buckpasser, and 5x5x6 to Buckpasser's sire Tom Fool. It
would also be 2x3 AP Indy/Silken Doll, a potentially explosive pair of genetic relatives.
I also think Speightstown could use a little 'lowering' of his big Secretariat neck; if you look at footage of Secretariat running in slow motion, you start to
think his neck aided him because he held so low like his grandson AP Indy did.
Going on the theory that he might need more substance, the other broodmare sire I'll recommend for Speightstown is Cherokee Colony, a stamina
oriented son of Pleasant Colony from the Nijinsky mare Cherokee Phoenix. A very good thing about Speightstown is that he traces in the female line to
the great Meadow Stud broodmare Hildene through her granddaughter Copper Canyon (his 4th dam), who was inbred 2x4 to Blenhein. Blenhein and
Secretariat's 2nd dam Imperatrice made a lovely nick; they being crossed not just in Secretariat and his half-brother Sir Gaylord, but also in
Imperatrice's best racing foal Scattered (by Blenheim's son Whirlaway), who won the CCA and Pimlico Oaks. There also many good ones with
Imperatrice on one side and Blenheim on both, as Secretariat and Sir Gaylord did very well with returns of Blenheim.
This is relevant to Cherokee Colony because Copper Canyon (2x4 Blenheim) is his 2nd dam; Copper Canyon would thus be inbred to 4x5 from
breeding Speightstown to a Cherokee Colony mare. The other good thing about Cherokee Colony mares is that his damsire Nijinsky is an excellent
nick with Speightstown's damsire Storm Cat.
Mares by Honor Glide (oldest daughters b. 2004) and Victory Gallop (oldest daughters b. 2001) are other possibilities because both Honor Glide's
damsire Run The Gantlet and Victory Gallop himself return Speightstown his 6th dam Hildene through her son First Landing and Chieftain's dam
Pocahontas II through his half-brother Tom Rolfe.
Smarty Jones
Smarty Jones represents the second generation of Gone West's dam getting her pedigree returned in a statistically successful manner: Elusive
Quality's 2nd damsire Sir Ivor returns Gone West's dam Secrettame, Sir Gaylord for his half-brother Secretariat and Attica for her relative Tom Fool; this
cross is also found in the Multiple European Champion Xaar. And Elusive Quality's son Smarty Jones' 2nd damsire Foolish Pleasure returns
Secrettame her cross of Bold Ruler and Tom Fool; this pattern of returning Gone West both Bold Ruler and Tom Fool has also worked in Grand Slam
and his Champion son Cajun Beat. Smarty Jones also crosses Gone West and In Reality, which also worked in Belmont (GI) winner Commendable.
Besides being 3x3 Secrettame/Foolish Pleasure, Smarty Jones is 3x4 Foolish Pleasure/Sir Ivor, who share Mahmoud. But what they share isn't the
key thing here, it's what they don't share; one has Somethingroyal but not Bold Ruler, the sire of Somethingroyal's best foal Secretariat, and the other
has Bold Ruler without Somethingroyal. Also, one is Sir Ivor, and the other is out of a mare by Tom Fool, a relative to Sir Ivor's dam Attica with whom he
nicks beautifully (see above in Gone West section).
From none too many examples, Sir Ivor and Foolish Pleasure have also combined 3x4 in the fine Australian runner Universal Prince, who won four GIs
(including the Australian Derby) and nearly $3 Million Dollars. Another important thing to note about Smarty's pedigree is that his broodmare sire
Smile crossed In Reality and Boldnesian; this made him a precapitulation of the powerful Relaunch (by In Reality) / Seattle Slew (by Boldnesian's son
Bold Reasoning) nick which has produced GI winners like Tiznow, Officer, and the mare Passing Shot. Mares with this nick in their pedigree or in the
pedigree of their sire or dam, especially where the first ancestor with the nick had serious success, are thus extremely desirable for Smarty Jones.
An excellent older strain for Smarty Jones is 1961 Prix De Salamandre (FR-GI) winner Prudent (ped); Prudent is an even earlier precapitulation of
Relaunch/Seattle Slew nick than Smile. In fact, it's better to call him a precapitulation of the In Reality/Nasrullah nick that produced Smile himself;
Prudent being by My Babu (out of Nasrullah's close relative Perfume), and out of Providence (a daughter of War Relic's full sister War Kilt; In Reality of
course being inbred 3x3 to War Relic).
Another good thing about Prudent is that he concentrates lines which are dispersed throughout the pedigree of Smarty's dam I'll Get Along: They share
either My Babu or his close relative Ambiorix, either Nasrullah or his close relative Perfume, and either War Kilt or her full brother War Relic, who
combined with her 3x3 in 1982 Champion 2YO colt Roving Boy. A female source of Prudent is 2003 Personal Ensign (GI) winner Passing Shot, a
representative of the recently mentioned Relaunch/Seattle Slew nick.
Whereas with Speightstown the difficulty is possibly too much muscle, with Smarty Jones the problem is definitely not enough size. With that in mind I
hereby recommend Pleasant Colony (ped) mares for Smarty. He had lots of size, and linebreeding to the full brothers His Majesty and Graustark
through His Majesty's best son (Pleasant Colony) and Graustark's best daughter (Broodmare of the Year Glowing Tribute, the dam of Sea Hero and
Hero's Tribute) has already worked in Canadian Champion Grass Mare Hero's Love. In her the Glowing Tribute actually came through Hero's Tribute,
the damsire of Smarty's sire Elusive Quality; thus the Canadian Champion Hero's Love was 1x2 to ancestors who would show up 4x3 in the result of
breeding Smarty Jones to a Pleasant Colony Mare.
Again in the interest of introducing size, Smarty Jones should do well by mares by Dynaformer. Dynaformer was/is a monster and he's by Roberto (by
Hail To Reason) from Top Flight (GI) winner Andover Way (by His Majesty). This makes him a fascinating reverse on Glowing Tribute, who was by His
Majesty's brother Graustark from a Hail To Reason mare. Smarty Jones-Dynaformer Mare would be 2x4 Dynaformer / Glowing Tribute.
Seattle Slew has been recommended for Smarty Jones by Three Chimneys Matings Advisor Anne Peters and a lot of the other top bloodstock experts,
but I still think I have a right to recommend him myself since the thought of breeding Smarty Jones to Seattle Slew mares came to me even before he
won his last Derby prep, the Arkansas Derby (G2).
Seattle Slew's dam My Charmer had, like your average diploid, four grandparents. They were: Round Table (Feola, 2-f); Glamour (La Trioenne, 1-s);
Jet Action (La Trioenne); and Myrtle Charm (Frizette, 13-c).
Smarty Jones, again in the diploid mold, had four grandparents as well: Gone West (Aloe); Elusive Quality (Frizette); Smile (Pretty Dark, 8-a); and Don't
Worry Bout Me (La Trioenne). Three out four in common ain't bad; it indicates affinity between these three female lines and it's good to reinforce
affinities through successful examples of said affinities. In addition, Seattle Slew's sire returns Boldnesian and Hail To Reason to Smarty. And as I
mentioned before, Seattle Slew's nick with Relaunch was foreshadowed by Smarty's damsire Smile, making mares with that nick desirable for Smarty
Jones.
A main reason why Smarty is a valuable stud prospect is that he 'integrates' the important cross of the great broodmare Somethingroyal and either
Nasrullah or his ¾ brother Royal Charger (see Secretariat and Sir Gaylord) with the important cross of the great broodmare La Trioenne and the great
broodmare sire War Admiral (see Searching, Busher, Striking, Mr Busher, Busanda, and Blue Eyed Momo). Smarty's sire Elusive Quality being 4x5 to
Somethingroyal through Secretariat and Sir Gaylord; and Smarty himself being 5x6 to Striking and Searching, who were both by War Admiral and
daughters of La Trioenne.
Another stallion who integrates those important patterns is Seattle Slew's son AP Indy, a good broodmare sire for Smarty.
A less obvious stallion who integrates those lines is the solid regional ( New York ) sire Take Me Out. His sire Cure The Blues has Speedwell, a 3/4
sister to Secretariat by Bold Ruler from Somethingroyal's dam Imperatrice, as his 2nd dam; and Take Me Out himself is 4x5 to Better Self, a stallion
bred on the exact reverse La Trioenne/War Admiral cross to both Striking and Searching. Also Cure The Blues damsired Champion Sprinter Cajun
Beat with the aid of another (Grand Slam) son of Gone West and 'The Cure's' damsire Dr Fager is an excellent foil to Smarty's dam grandsire In
Reality. Another very good thing about Take Me Out is that he tons of size and height for Smarty.
Another contribution of probable originality that I will here set forth is the idea of breeding Smarty Jones to mares by Dancing Brave, a Prix De l'Arc de
Triumph (FR-GI) winning son of Lyphard from the Drone mare Navajo Princess.
Smarty Jones-Dancing Brave Mare would be 4x5 Drone / Sir Ivor; two sons of Sir Gaylord, one from a Tom Fool mare, the other from a mare ( Attica ),
closely related to Tom Fool. Drone and Sir Ivor have combined in the first four generations of the GI winners King Halo and Oasis Dream, both of
whom got their Drone through Dancing Brave himself.
Dancing Brave and his best sons spent the best years of their lives in Japan , where the one real source of In Reality was Real Shadai, who was out of
In Reality's Hall of Fame racing daughter Desert Vixen, a full sister to Valid Appeal. In spite of only getting a reasonable chance of working with one In
Reality line, Dancing Brave has combined with it (Real Shadai) in the 2nd generation of Tenno Sho Spring (JAP-GI) winner Ingrandire.
And Dancing Brave has success with another damside Smarty ancestor, namely his 3rd damsire Herbager, in Italian Champion and probable
Champion thrower (Dubawi) Zomaradah and Millenary, the Champion European Stayer of 2000. Dancing Brave on a mare by Smarty's sireside
ancestor Secretariat got 2xtime French GI winner Cherokee Rose. And Gone West's minor son Zamindar bred to a Dancing Brave mare got the
French Classic winning filly Zenda.
Since Smarty Jones' is 5x5x5 to Bold Ruler, it's worth noting Dancing Brave has had success with him through sources other than Secretariat and
Secretariat's maternal grandson Gone West: Italian GI winner and Arc runner-up White Muzzle, Japan Derby (JAP-GI) winner Meiner Combat, and
German Derby (GER-GI) Robertico all having Dancing Brave in the 2nd generation and Bold Ruler in the 4th.
And finally, Alleged would return Smarty Jones the *Cinq A Sept female line of Secretariat and Sir Gaylord, and he also brings in his sire Hoist The
Flag's dam Wavy Navy, a mare bred on a reverse cross of War Admiral and Tourbillon to Smarty's 4th dam Bases Full. Therefore Smarty Jones-
Alleged Mare would be 5x4 to the relatives Bases Full and Wavy Navy. Wavy Navy's son Hoist The Flag and Bases Full have already combined 3x4 in
the hardy and talented G2 winning sprinter Say Florida Sandy, who won 33 races in 98 starts and over $2 Million, making him the number one money
earner for his sire Personal Flag.
And Alleged himself shares Ribot, War Admiral, Alibhai, Sir Gallahad, Blue Larkspur, and Mahmoud with Broodmare of the Year Glowing Tribute, the
dam of Elusive Quality's damsire Hero's Tribute. Therefore, Smarty Jones-Alleged Mare would be 2x5 Alleged / Glowing Tribute; two genetic relatives
who have already combined 2x2 in 2000 Del Mar Debutante (GI) winner Cindy's Hero from very few examples. Cindy's Hero is the one GI winner for
her sire Sea Hero, making this even more impressive.
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