Pedigree Query

What are ones thoughts on breeding Lady Wrong Song to Hunting Hard who is by Seeking The Gold-Oh What a Windfall by Nijinsky II. Lady Wrong Song is by El Prado-Wrong Song by Jeblar. I also have another mare named White Wedding who is by Siphon-Miss Diana A by Cormorant. Any thoughts on which mare I should send to Hunting Hard.

Keith

hi keith

Why Hunting Hard?

Are you open to other possibilities...I hope.

Respectfully

I bought a season in Hunting Hard but I do have two mares to breed. My Siphon mare is the better runner of the two and has a stronger female family. My El Prado mare is the better looking mare as far as conformation and has a very nice looking filly by Tri Line. I would love to breed my El Prado mare to a son of Storm Cat or Gone West but it is hard to find a nice stud in my price range. I bought Lady Wrong Song off of the person standing Hunting Hard. Hunting Hard would give me 4x5 Raise a Native through Mr. Prospector and Alydar, 4x4 Northern Dancer through Sadlers Wells and Nijinsky II as well as 5x5 Tom Fool through Buckpasser and Cap and Bells. I have even thought breeding to a son of Grand Slam would make a nice cross with Lady Wrong Song. I need to breed her to a stallion that can run where she did not have a successful race record. As far as Lady Wrong Song I would like to double up on certain mares in her pedigree like Lalun, Special, Sweet Tooth,Striking, Somethingroyal, and Natalma. I have thought Leestown would make an interesting cross with Lady Wrong Song line breeding Plum Cake 5x6, Striking 5x6, Northern Dancer 4x4, and Nasrullah 6x6x6x6, and Baby League 6x7x7. If I had my choice I would breed Lady Wrong Song to Johar but he is definitely way out of my price range. I have thought a cross of Pleasant Tap and White Wedding would be an interesting cross line breeding His Majesty 3x4 through sons Pleasant Colony and Cormorant, 4x4 Prince John through Stage Door Johnny and Goodish and 5x5 Nasrullah through Never Bend and Rullah Good but Pleasant Tap is out of my price range. I have thought about breeding White Wedding to Sundance Ridge line breeding Mumtaz Begum 6x6x7x7 through Nasrullah and Royal Charger by line breeding Royal Charger 5x5 and Nasrullah 5x5. I would also line breed Boudoir 6x7. I would also be line breeding Lady Josephine 8x8x8x9x9. Breeding to Hunting Hard I would be doubling up on the lines of Sweetheart by line breeding Sweetheart 7x7x8 through Case Ace and very influential mare Warrior Lass. I would also be line breeding Hyperion 7x7x7x7x7 through Barley Corn,Alibhai, Owen Tudor, Heliopolis, and Lady Angela. I am always open to options and I am not dead set on who I am going to breed my mares to next year. I do not know which mare I may breed to Hunting Hard because Siphon has done well with Mr. Prospector, Nijinsky II, and Riva Ridge and my mare has the bloodlines of His Majesty which has also done well with Siphon.

Keith

hi keith

You wrote "I would love to breed my El Prado mare to a son of Storm Cat or Gone West but it is hard to find a nice stud in my price range."

Indian Ocean...who's by Stormy Atlantic (Storm Cat) out of a Halo daughter that's out of a Gone West mare might fit that bill perfectly.

G3 winner IO was a quality race horse and his sire Stormy Atlantic looks like he's getting hot as a firecracker...current examples: his brilliant undefeated 2-yo stakes-winning son What's Your Edge and his 2-yo stakes-winning daughter She Says It Best (recent winner of the $400,000 G2-Alcibiades at Keeneland). Reportedly her next stop is the Breeders Cup.

Reports are that Indian Ocean is a grand looking colt (in the flesh) and will stand for a very reasonable stud fee. He's one that should probably be considered a possibility.

Respectfully

Hi Two Gone West's sons in NY in that price range are Gone for Real and Western Borders.

Hi keith I can't tell you which mare to send to HH, but I have a filly from him out of a colonial affair mare. The filly looks nothing like her mother and I have not seen HH in person but the filly has a nice long set of legs, straight, maybe a little lite on bone, she is also has a hot temperment, and she has a sweet arabian looking head. The mare is about 15.2 med bone, straight,easy temperment, average head. So he must stamp his foals. I don't know if this helps any but I allways like to know what a stallions foals look like.. him or the mare....or both..