"Society Selection: Winner of the Test Stakes"
by Michael Ventura © 2004
Society Selection won the 7 furlong sprint Test Stakes in the mud with a strong closing kick for her 4th win in 9 starts. The famed broodmare
producing race (won by both of Secretariat's granddams) thus had its second recent winner from the A5 (Yorkville Belle) female family, the first being
Fara's Team, who got Concern when bred to Broad Brush (21-A).
Bred in Kentucky by Irving and Marjorie Cowan (best known for Hollywood Wildcat and her son War Chant), Society Selection is a daughter of
high-strung, high blooded looking Stuart Janney homebred Coronado's Quest, Remson winner at two and narrow conqueror of Victory Gallop in the
Haskell and Travers (He showed some guts, still finished up the track when against older horses, kept out of Triple Crown by possibly overly prudent
owners fearful of his reaction to large crowds, recently sold to Japan, came alive as a sire after getting shipped out).
The female family of Coronado's Quest was inherited by Stuart from his grandmother Gladys Mills Phipps via his parents Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Janney
of Ruffian fame. Glady's Wheatly Stable got its start when her brother picked out four or five choice mares (including CQ's 5th dam Erin) from the band
of Henry Payne Whitney and this is of consequence to the pedigree of Society Selection as the damlines of both sire and dam started under the aegis
of Whitney and were then sold to Wheatley. The Whitney "Touch" owed no little to his great wealth, willingness to spend some of it on top race fillies,
and the Peter Pan /Broomstick / Hamburg "three-way nick". Note that Whitney in turn stood on the shoulders of breeding giant James R. Keene.
Peter Pan was bred by Keene, his son Pennant was as well; Broomstick was a son of Keene Stallion Ben Brush, and the important Peter Pan
/Broomstick nick was perhaps in some way a continuance of the statistically potent Domino / Ben Brush nick (note that in the best of both nicks
[Equipoise, Sweep] Keene English import Belle Rose was pretty close up in there). See Black Toney for an intermediate form. (When Keene died his
stock was mostly bought by E. R. Bradley's Idle Hour Stock Farm, in 1946 his band was in turn divided by the King Ranch [see Better Self], Ogden
Phipps [see Buckpasser, Easy Goer, etc.], and John Hay Whitney's Greentree Stable [see No Robbery])
Back to the damline we find Society Selection's 7th dam Iseult was very nice Acorn stakes winning runner for the Wheatley Stable and produced
Spinaway Stakes winner Merry Lassie (by Stimulus). She was by Sir Gallahad over Broomstick over Peter Pan over All Gold over Hamburg over Miser
X . She was in turn bred to fellow Wheatley bred with Whitney roots Snark (Sire Boojum fast, infertile Hopeful winner for H. P. Whitney, 1/2 sister
Crauneen, 6th dam of Xtra Heat; Dam 8-h line of Whirlaway, became grandam of Lady Be Good when bred to Eight Thirty and then Better Self). The
result was 6th dam Arrogance, who was 2 / 3 Swizzlestick / Elf; two stakes winners sharing Broomstick, Peter Pan, and Hamburg.
I'll now Jump ahead to the 3rd dam Hoso, a grade 2 winner of half her twenty starts and a very tightly bred mare to say the least. Her sire Solo
Landing is an "inside-out" on 3rd broodmare sire Mr. Busher ; Mr. B being War Admiral over Bubbling Over and Solo Landing holding them in the third
generation. This is quite interesting as both are out of Sweep mares and Bubbling Over traces to the same Caithness female family as Snark. Also
Sir Gallahad is 3x4 in her dam Holly-O (54 starts, Black-Eyed Susans winner) through Good Morning and the aforesaid Iseult. I nearly forgot to
mention the 4x5 to Nearco, Les Brinfield would probably like that in the context of the Sir Gallahad.
The 2nd dam (by Mr Prospector) was a worse racemare (unraced) and much better broodmare than her mother. For some reason she even got a
grade three winner by big-time disappointment Gate Dancer. Her inbreeding was 4x4 to Nashrullah through Nashua and Victory Morn (his best was
probably Holly-O). Take a look at the hypo on Segula and Johnstown. They share Sir Gallahad, Fair Play, Rock Sand and Tea's Over; this is Significant
for subtle reasons if you remember the Hamburg over Miser on the A5 damline. The main thing though is the 2nd generation cross of Raise A Native,
check out the hypo on him and Sister Snob.
Then there's the dam herself: Love That Jazz, a young broodmare yet, runner-up to Storm Song in Juvenile Fillies, 4x4 to Native Dancer. Native
Dancer's second dam Miyako of course was John P. Grier out of a mare by Sweep. Another possible source of her racing class is her sire Dixieland
Band's powerful build-up of the Maggie B.B. line; she shared Australian, Boston, and Glencoe with Spendthrift, Fellowcraft (damsire of Hamburg), and
their full brother Miser. Compare Sister Snob and War Whisk who show up 4/5. Also of course Northern Dancer's granddam was a C.V. Whitney bred
from a H.P. Whitney developed damline.
For whatever it's worth Determine goes to the dam of Seabiscuit and Victory Morn is from the Bay Leaf line of his sire Hard Tack.
In the year 2000 Love That Jazz was finally bred to Coronado's Quest to produce the subject of the article. Besides being 4x5x5 to Nasrullah,
Coronado's Quest was also 4x4 to Native Dancer like Love That Jazz and his 4th dam Bold Irish (dam of Ruffian) is an equivalent to Love That Jazz's
6th dam Iseult, both sharing Sir Gallahad, Peter Pan, Broomstick, and Hamburg. That seems the key. (Note Phone Trick's 2nd dam Prattle, she
combined Mr. Busher with the Maggie B. B. line and the Caithness line.)
Also Coronado's damsire Damascus traces back to Caithness through Beaming Beauty and the 8-c (through dam) and 9-h (through Tom Rolfe)
makes one think War Admiral (4x4 in Hoso) on account of his damsire Sweep (8-c) and grandsire Fair Play(9-e). It's a little too early to tell though on
how Coronado is interacting with The Admiral.
Under the heading of "Recapitulation" you can file Coronado's Quest tracing to the female family of John P. Grier and Dixieland Band tracing to a full
sister of Whisk Broom II's dam. John P. Grier is 8x8x8x8x9 in Society Selection through Native Dancer and a single cross of Boojum.
Since the Test is known as the "Race Which Produces Broodmares", I should finish up with a consideration of what this mare might want from her
stallions. I would avoid yet more Mr. Prospector, seeing how she's already inbred to him 3x3. Her 11th dam Repute has an interesting pedigree and
she's a ¾ to Pamela (b.1903; 12-b); the only viable source of Pamela is Swoon's Son (found in Chief's Crown, grandsire of 13-c stallion Sinndar). The
success of Love From Mom with Fit To Fight is very interesting because of FTF's sire being a half to Tom Rolfe by Bold Ruler, plus he traces to the
same damline as Sword Dancer.
Fellow Swizzlestick decendant Tour D'Or should not be dismissed out of hand either (though he will be); the 2nd and 3rd damsires trace to the
damlines of Dixieland Band and Victory Morn, respectively. Plus his damsire traces to the grandam of Broomstick.
Sultry Song might also be worth consideration, he got his number one daughter Kirby's Song from a weakly bred A5 mare (I know you have to go back
to Thora, but still), and his dam got Stategic Mission from Mr. Prospector. The main thing would be his damline though. Packed with Vandal and his
son Virgil, Tea's Over ties into the Hamburg over Miser cross. The success of Damascus with Shenanigans (two different branches [Caithness; Belle
Rose] of the Violet line) may be partly a case of the "Same-Farm Syndrome"; but I still like the idea of simultaneous doubling to them.
Copyright: Michael Ventura © 2004
by Michael Ventura © 2004
Society Selection won the 7 furlong sprint Test Stakes in the mud with a strong closing kick for her 4th win in 9 starts. The famed broodmare
producing race (won by both of Secretariat's granddams) thus had its second recent winner from the A5 (Yorkville Belle) female family, the first being
Fara's Team, who got Concern when bred to Broad Brush (21-A).
Bred in Kentucky by Irving and Marjorie Cowan (best known for Hollywood Wildcat and her son War Chant), Society Selection is a daughter of
high-strung, high blooded looking Stuart Janney homebred Coronado's Quest, Remson winner at two and narrow conqueror of Victory Gallop in the
Haskell and Travers (He showed some guts, still finished up the track when against older horses, kept out of Triple Crown by possibly overly prudent
owners fearful of his reaction to large crowds, recently sold to Japan, came alive as a sire after getting shipped out).
The female family of Coronado's Quest was inherited by Stuart from his grandmother Gladys Mills Phipps via his parents Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Janney
of Ruffian fame. Glady's Wheatly Stable got its start when her brother picked out four or five choice mares (including CQ's 5th dam Erin) from the band
of Henry Payne Whitney and this is of consequence to the pedigree of Society Selection as the damlines of both sire and dam started under the aegis
of Whitney and were then sold to Wheatley. The Whitney "Touch" owed no little to his great wealth, willingness to spend some of it on top race fillies,
and the Peter Pan /Broomstick / Hamburg "three-way nick". Note that Whitney in turn stood on the shoulders of breeding giant James R. Keene.
Peter Pan was bred by Keene, his son Pennant was as well; Broomstick was a son of Keene Stallion Ben Brush, and the important Peter Pan
/Broomstick nick was perhaps in some way a continuance of the statistically potent Domino / Ben Brush nick (note that in the best of both nicks
[Equipoise, Sweep] Keene English import Belle Rose was pretty close up in there). See Black Toney for an intermediate form. (When Keene died his
stock was mostly bought by E. R. Bradley's Idle Hour Stock Farm, in 1946 his band was in turn divided by the King Ranch [see Better Self], Ogden
Phipps [see Buckpasser, Easy Goer, etc.], and John Hay Whitney's Greentree Stable [see No Robbery])
Back to the damline we find Society Selection's 7th dam Iseult was very nice Acorn stakes winning runner for the Wheatley Stable and produced
Spinaway Stakes winner Merry Lassie (by Stimulus). She was by Sir Gallahad over Broomstick over Peter Pan over All Gold over Hamburg over Miser
X . She was in turn bred to fellow Wheatley bred with Whitney roots Snark (Sire Boojum fast, infertile Hopeful winner for H. P. Whitney, 1/2 sister
Crauneen, 6th dam of Xtra Heat; Dam 8-h line of Whirlaway, became grandam of Lady Be Good when bred to Eight Thirty and then Better Self). The
result was 6th dam Arrogance, who was 2 / 3 Swizzlestick / Elf; two stakes winners sharing Broomstick, Peter Pan, and Hamburg.
I'll now Jump ahead to the 3rd dam Hoso, a grade 2 winner of half her twenty starts and a very tightly bred mare to say the least. Her sire Solo
Landing is an "inside-out" on 3rd broodmare sire Mr. Busher ; Mr. B being War Admiral over Bubbling Over and Solo Landing holding them in the third
generation. This is quite interesting as both are out of Sweep mares and Bubbling Over traces to the same Caithness female family as Snark. Also
Sir Gallahad is 3x4 in her dam Holly-O (54 starts, Black-Eyed Susans winner) through Good Morning and the aforesaid Iseult. I nearly forgot to
mention the 4x5 to Nearco, Les Brinfield would probably like that in the context of the Sir Gallahad.
The 2nd dam (by Mr Prospector) was a worse racemare (unraced) and much better broodmare than her mother. For some reason she even got a
grade three winner by big-time disappointment Gate Dancer. Her inbreeding was 4x4 to Nashrullah through Nashua and Victory Morn (his best was
probably Holly-O). Take a look at the hypo on Segula and Johnstown. They share Sir Gallahad, Fair Play, Rock Sand and Tea's Over; this is Significant
for subtle reasons if you remember the Hamburg over Miser on the A5 damline. The main thing though is the 2nd generation cross of Raise A Native,
check out the hypo on him and Sister Snob.
Then there's the dam herself: Love That Jazz, a young broodmare yet, runner-up to Storm Song in Juvenile Fillies, 4x4 to Native Dancer. Native
Dancer's second dam Miyako of course was John P. Grier out of a mare by Sweep. Another possible source of her racing class is her sire Dixieland
Band's powerful build-up of the Maggie B.B. line; she shared Australian, Boston, and Glencoe with Spendthrift, Fellowcraft (damsire of Hamburg), and
their full brother Miser. Compare Sister Snob and War Whisk who show up 4/5. Also of course Northern Dancer's granddam was a C.V. Whitney bred
from a H.P. Whitney developed damline.
For whatever it's worth Determine goes to the dam of Seabiscuit and Victory Morn is from the Bay Leaf line of his sire Hard Tack.
In the year 2000 Love That Jazz was finally bred to Coronado's Quest to produce the subject of the article. Besides being 4x5x5 to Nasrullah,
Coronado's Quest was also 4x4 to Native Dancer like Love That Jazz and his 4th dam Bold Irish (dam of Ruffian) is an equivalent to Love That Jazz's
6th dam Iseult, both sharing Sir Gallahad, Peter Pan, Broomstick, and Hamburg. That seems the key. (Note Phone Trick's 2nd dam Prattle, she
combined Mr. Busher with the Maggie B. B. line and the Caithness line.)
Also Coronado's damsire Damascus traces back to Caithness through Beaming Beauty and the 8-c (through dam) and 9-h (through Tom Rolfe)
makes one think War Admiral (4x4 in Hoso) on account of his damsire Sweep (8-c) and grandsire Fair Play(9-e). It's a little too early to tell though on
how Coronado is interacting with The Admiral.
Under the heading of "Recapitulation" you can file Coronado's Quest tracing to the female family of John P. Grier and Dixieland Band tracing to a full
sister of Whisk Broom II's dam. John P. Grier is 8x8x8x8x9 in Society Selection through Native Dancer and a single cross of Boojum.
Since the Test is known as the "Race Which Produces Broodmares", I should finish up with a consideration of what this mare might want from her
stallions. I would avoid yet more Mr. Prospector, seeing how she's already inbred to him 3x3. Her 11th dam Repute has an interesting pedigree and
she's a ¾ to Pamela (b.1903; 12-b); the only viable source of Pamela is Swoon's Son (found in Chief's Crown, grandsire of 13-c stallion Sinndar). The
success of Love From Mom with Fit To Fight is very interesting because of FTF's sire being a half to Tom Rolfe by Bold Ruler, plus he traces to the
same damline as Sword Dancer.
Fellow Swizzlestick decendant Tour D'Or should not be dismissed out of hand either (though he will be); the 2nd and 3rd damsires trace to the
damlines of Dixieland Band and Victory Morn, respectively. Plus his damsire traces to the grandam of Broomstick.
Sultry Song might also be worth consideration, he got his number one daughter Kirby's Song from a weakly bred A5 mare (I know you have to go back
to Thora, but still), and his dam got Stategic Mission from Mr. Prospector. The main thing would be his damline though. Packed with Vandal and his
son Virgil, Tea's Over ties into the Hamburg over Miser cross. The success of Damascus with Shenanigans (two different branches [Caithness; Belle
Rose] of the Violet line) may be partly a case of the "Same-Farm Syndrome"; but I still like the idea of simultaneous doubling to them.
Copyright: Michael Ventura © 2004
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