Huge question about The Alexander Mare

[vineyridge]

The database here has the dam of Selim, Castrel, Rubens and Bronze as the 1790 Alexander Mare out of a Highflyer Mare . Bloodline.net says that the mare who produced those four to Buzzard's cover was Nike by Alexander out of Nimble. That's a totally different dam pedigree.

One of you has to be wrong, and I'm building a whole house of cards out of PQ's lineage. I tend to trust you guys, but this discrepancy is worrying.

[Bill from WA]

Hi

bloodlines.net has Alexander Mare as the dam of Selim.

http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Families/Family2n.htm

Bill

[vineyridge]

The short bio of Alexander in the alphabetical listings on bloodlines.net is where it is stated that Nike is the dam of Castrel, Selim, Rubens and Bronze.

Alexander (GB)
ch c 1782 (Eclipse - Grecian Princess, by Williams's Forester). Sire Line Eclipse. Family 13. Said to be an immense horse who got good stock, with a fine expression of head. He sired Hephestion (b c 1807) who won the Two Thousand Guineas, Nike (b f 1794) who won the Oaks Stakes, and became the dam (b f 1790) of the full siblings Bronze, Castrel, Rubens and Selim.

Maybe they left out the words "a daughter who", because Nike was born in 1794.

[Bill from WA]

Hi vineyridge.

Obviously a conflict there. Nike hailed from family #32, and the line of descent does not include Selim or his siblings. I believe the female line as listed on Pedigree Query is correct.

http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Families/Family32.htm

Bill

[vineyridge]

bloodlines.net fixed and clarified the Alexander biography.

[Bill from WA]

Thanks for the info vineyridge.

Bill