Pedigree Query

Hi Roguelet, I can see by this breeding you have to fly abit by the seat of your pants. The dams of this mare do not have a lot of foals to base your decisions on. I have to say I do like Strodes Creek and I have always thought that he was a much better race horse than his records reflect. Something...

Hi All I think the answer to your question lies in nicks. When you make an especially strong nick such as Secretariat's Princequillo and Nearco nick your culmination has produced the best race horse possible but you may pay on the breeding stock end of the business temporarily. In the cattle industr...

Hi Texas,

Sorry I see now where you put the grays.

EK

Hi All, With the risk of overloading a thirteen year old, I would recommend that she learns to always move quietly around the horse with no sudden movements. However the horse must always know where she is. When I was around that age ,I had a job of Bringing dairy cattle into the milking parlors fro...

Hi Texas,

Not to diminish your great posts, but I do believe that Gato Del Sol was a gray horse who won the derby.

Sincerely EK

And hopefully the dehydrated horses will have the strength to leave the burning barn as everyone throws chunks of ice at the fire.

EK

Hi Texas,

By the information that you have graciously extended to us, I would have to say that their must be more classic horses coming out of Grindstone and perhaps even a derby winner. After all he is only eleven years old.

Sincerely EK

Hi Everyone, I would like to add something to st louis kid post if I may. When the show Sea Biscuit came out I thought it was so well made and surely would be a block buster. The book is great and also the film is so well made.[For hecks sake they have Spider Man riding the great horse.] When I walk...

Hi All I can remember well the great trainer Laz Barrera talking about his scar for heart surgery as his triple crown scar. Three of the best three year olds are retired because of the difficulties of a three year old year. To run a three year old against older horses is a quantum leap. I don't reme...

Hi Everyone, I have usually found that in intensely inbred individuals the variables are usually in the mares. Like probably a few of you I have a mare who is intensely inbred to Domino. Her grand dam is 5X5 High Time. The pedigree of High Time shows how they successfully produced good horses out of...

Hi All, I think another factor that people have to consider is the competiveness of todays racing. I have looked at many win pictures which belonged to horsemen who ran horses fifty years ago. They had stakes wins at six furlongs in times of one thirteen, one twelve and change and etc. These horses ...

Hi All This is the bargain of the year. The only thing wrong the folks in Kentucky know this fact also. Every farm is going to send their best mares to this horse so it will be very competitive to breed to him.[The only horse to beat the horse of the year.] Birdstone has the right sire, the right da...

Hi Texas, You have brought up many valid points on the leads of horses. I would like to just add that many horses have their fastest favourite lead. Also if a horse hesitates in changing a lead, this is often a sign of an injury in the specific structure that is peculiar to that lead. For a jockey t...

Hi All,

This woman, Marylou Whitney is a real classy person. In a year of whining olympians and athletes in all pro sports acting ashamedly, she had the humility to actually apologize for winning the Belmont. I shall never forget it.

Sincerely EK

Hi All, I can only say that if I had a really good horse, I sure would hate to go against a horse ridden by Jerry Bailey. I think that F. Pegasus quest for the triple crown was thwarted by a clever ride by Jerry Bailey in the Preakness. One of my friends who is a real hot head, Had a horse in a race...