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by Miesque
Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:52 am
Forum: Mating Advice
Topic: Danzig (Northern Dancer) linebreeding
Replies: 8
Views: 6788

I suppose I should admit she's in foal to Teo already...not by my choice but via my partner's stallion selection. I'll follow up with foal photos when she pops.
by Miesque
Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:17 pm
Forum: Mating Advice
Topic: Danzig (Northern Dancer) linebreeding
Replies: 8
Views: 6788

She's more Fairy King than Danehill, very much a smaller stouter version of Sadler's to the eye. Her weaknesses include poor front feet and a slightly straight shoulder.
by Miesque
Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:48 pm
Forum: Stallions
Topic: ITBOA Stallion Season Auction
Replies: 17
Views: 6210

I just re-checked the link you posted and Bob and John, and others you listed, are not on the list. Bob and John is on the very last page of the stallion season category (I found it looking for War Chant) Alternatively put "Bob and John" into the search box and it pops right up. O even easier, clic...
by Miesque
Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:44 pm
Forum: Mating Advice
Topic: Danzig (Northern Dancer) linebreeding
Replies: 8
Views: 6788

Danzig (Northern Dancer) linebreeding

What would you, hypothetically, think of breeding a Danehill x Fairy King x Rheingold mare to Teofilo (Danehill damsire)? Danehill: 3S x 2D Northern Dancer: 4S x 5S x 4D x 4D Fairy Bridge: 4S x 4D Danzig: 4S x 3D Razayana: 4S x 3D Nearctic: 5S x 5D x 5D Natalma: 5S x 5D x 5D x 5D Bold Reason: 5S x 5...
by Miesque
Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:43 am
Forum: Sales
Topic: Conformation flaws you'd overlook in a racehorse
Replies: 20
Views: 10169

Most any minor deviation can be overlooked if the horse is really well balanced and glides "through" the flaws. One of the mistakes made in this biz is surgically straightening - the horse was made that way and crooked here usually has an offset crooked there somewhere that CAN't be straightened an...
by Miesque
Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:22 pm
Forum: Sales
Topic: Conformation flaws you'd overlook in a racehorse
Replies: 20
Views: 10169

I'm new here...but I'll jump in anyway. What would I over look in a stallion? Whatever I felt was excusable in his offspring and (hopefully) correctable by my mare's conformation. I'd be more likely to use something with dodgy front legs if the mare had exemplary ones. Mostly he should look like wha...
by Miesque
Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:30 pm
Forum: Stallions
Topic: The Green Monkey!
Replies: 59
Views: 17039

Patuxet wrote:
Does anybody know how this horse came by his God-awful name?


TGM?

Named after a hole on Magnier's Barbados golfcourse.