Postby Mahubah » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:54 pm
Very interesting pedigree for Folklore, with a sex-balanced 4x4 to In Reality as a "wrap" around the 5x5x4 cross to Northern Dancer. I had been thinking when Tiznow went to stud that Storm Bird and Royal Academy might make effective crosses for Tiznow -- Lyphard/Storm Bird and Lyphard/Nijinsky are among the stronger Northern Dancer doublings, and both sires carry Crimson Satan, a son of Tiznow's t/f ancestress *Papila. Still, this mating carries other interesting elements with the presence of Fappiano (generally quite compatible with In Reality) and the In Reality daughter along the tail-female line, so it will be interesting to see other winners emerge for Tiznow and give further clues as to what he may be throwing best with.
"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