Kris S sons

Mood Swings · Postby **Mood Swings** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:30 pm

Philanthropist http://www.pedigreequery.com/philanthropist2 by Kris S - what does everyone think of him? What would be good crosses for sons of Kris S? Thank you.

Mood Swings · Postby **Mood Swings** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:14 am

No one out there is willing to offer an opinion . . .

kimberley mine · Postby **kimberley mine** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:15 am

The best crosses for Kris S were Danzig, Mr Prospector, and the mare My Turbulent Miss. The latter has a BC winner, a Gr-3 placed horse, a Japanese winner, and an extremely useful chaser in Ireland to the cover of Kris S, and her daughter My Turbulent Beau has a winner of over $450,000 by Kris S. Something good was going on there!

Since Philanthropist already has a cross to Mr P, I'd look for the following:

*Danzig--think Arch, etc. As a bonus Danzig crosses very well with Mr P;
*Exploit (Storm Cat ex My Turbulent Miss). He didn't pan out at stud, but he was bred to some very good mares in his first few years. It's worth trying, especially if the affinity for My Turbulent Miss carries through. Storm Cat will add speed;
*Dixieland Band;
*Out of Place (look at how many winners he has from Kris S mares).

Out in California the Flying Paster line had much better than average success with Prized, so Flying Paster and Flying Continental if you can find them. He also had a stakes horse out of a Gummo (sire of Flying Paster) mare.

Both Arch and Prized have winners of 75k or more carrying Alydar through Turkoman. Arch himself carries a strain of Alydar. This makes Benchmark mares intresting, since Philanthropist over Benchmark mare would be a cross similar to Arch.

Rokeby Forever · Postby **Rokeby Forever** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:10 am

The Hail To Reason line...live long and prosper!

What to cross him to? One word....BUCKPASSER!!!!

Respectfully,
Rokeby

hpkingjr · Postby **hpkingjr** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:25 pm

Rokeby:

Do you receive the same results when you use Tom Fool as you receive from his son Buckpasser? For example Grindstone has both Buckpasser and Tom Fool in his pedigree.

Rokeby Forever · Postby **Rokeby Forever** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:53 pm

Hi Hpkingjr,

Honestly, I don't know. But I can name so many examples of Hail To Reason/Buckpasser success stories that I wouldn't have room on this thread to list them all.

Example: Southern Halo was an absolute dud in the US until a breeder in Kentucky sent a Woodman mare to him. The result? More Than Ready. It's a nick that works!

K~2 · Postby **K~2** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:20 am

Mood Swings, I just read that Philanthropist has been nominated to the Ontario Sire Stakes on the CTHS website. Where exactly is he standing?

Mood Swings · Postby **Mood Swings** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:06 pm

Thank you kindly for the replies. The mare I am looking at sending to him has Buckpasser blood through her sire, however she is free of both Nothern Dancer and Mr.P blood. One drawback might be size - she is 17+hh and he is 16.3hh, is this crazy?

K~2 He is standing at Gardiner Farms

Apparently he has already covered 20 + mares.