Missy Baba's sire?
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Missy Baba's sire?
I was reading the TTimes article on A.P. Indy and it listed her as sired by Tulyar or My Babu. I think I remember reading where Uvira II was bred to both and it was the practice to list all the sires that covered a mare during a breeding season before DNA testing. I just don't remember how they settled on My Babu. Do any of you know this story?
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Generally, the second covering sire is assumed to be the actual sire -- usually the mare won't come back into heat if the first mating took. There are exceptions, though, and there have been occasions when a mare was bred to different sires on the same heat cycle.
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Missy Baba was a foal of 1958. I know they were blood typing in the mid 1970's, but I'm not sure about when they started that. DNA testing started in the 1980's if my memory is right.
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It's a good thing they do have DNA typing now, because occasionally a mare does come into heat while in foal -- sometimes very late in foal. In his book Bloodstock Breeding, Sir Charles Leicester cited one case in which a mare named Agnostic was mated twice to the stallion Vanoc in 1934 and was thought barren. She came into season in June 1935 and was mated to another stallion, Friendship. About two weeks after that mating, she produced a normal colt by Vanoc; seems she wasn't open after all. Needless to say, her mating with Friendship didn't take.
I think Missy Baba was too far back for DNA typing, though I suppose blood typing could have been done. Her forte while racing (such as it was, since she wasn't a terribly successful runner) was early speed which would tend to fit more with the speedy *My Babu as sire than with the staying *Tulyar.
It's a good thing they do have DNA typing now, because occasionally a mare does come into heat while in foal -- sometimes very late in foal. In his book Bloodstock Breeding, Sir Charles Leicester cited one case in which a mare named Agnostic was mated twice to the stallion Vanoc in 1934 and was thought barren. She came into season in June 1935 and was mated to another stallion, Friendship. About two weeks after that mating, she produced a normal colt by Vanoc; seems she wasn't open after all. Needless to say, her mating with Friendship didn't take.
I think Missy Baba was too far back for DNA typing, though I suppose blood typing could have been done. Her forte while racing (such as it was, since she wasn't a terribly successful runner) was early speed which would tend to fit more with the speedy *My Babu as sire than with the staying *Tulyar.
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher...You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse." C. S. Lewis