Could you look at my TB mare's pedigree, please?

[veetiepony]

From reading this forum, I recognize In Reality and What a Pleasure as favorable for sport horses, but what about the others?
My mare is big, a very nice mover, athletic and very kind. I’ve tried to breed her once before, but she did not carry to term. I would love to have a carbon copy of her, so hopefully some day I can afford to try again.
Her previous owner, and breeder posts here occasionally, and she also owned her sire.

http://www.pedigreequery.com/miss+oakhurst

And a couple not great pictures, just for fun

Webshots - Wallpaper / Screen Savers

Webshots - Wallpaper / Screen Savers

Thanks!

[columbus]

This is a wonderful older pedigree. Foolish Pleasure amd Lt Stevens are good sport lines both top and bottom with Gold Bridge on the page through Rough Shod. In addition to the In Reality Creamette City has Precipitation. This is an older pedigree so you get back to Sir Gallahad and Spy Song, Blenheim closer up than more modern pedigrees…lots of Teddy. It is a solid sport pedigree but not flashy. PatO

[veetiepony]

Thanks for your response! Can I ask who I’m missing when you say Teddy? Lots of Teddy? Sorry!

[fish]

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Thanks for your response! Can I ask who I’m missing when you say Teddy? Lots of Teddy? Sorry![/QUOTE]

http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Teddy.html

IMO, the Teddy influence is so old and (especially in American lines) so omnipresent that it’s hardly relevant in evaluating a pedigree. Between Sir Gallahad and Bull Lea (brothers by Teddy imported and made into leading sires by Bulll Hancock) Teddy’s blood got spread pretty far and wide. Even the most humble TB’s out there are likely to have some of it if you look back far enough.

[veetiepony]

I don’t know much about pedigrees, but I agree 1936 might be a little too far… interesting for the one horse im looking at though

[camohn]

As noted, the nice thing to see here is the up close Foollish Pleasure and In Reality…along with Spy Song…a good source of soundness. It is free of the overused Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector.

[fish]

Personally, I like N. Dancer and Mr. P, which have, IMO, been much used because of their considerable merits. Meantime, it’s always nice to have outcrosses available within any breed, including TB’s. Your mare’s pedigree offers that-- which becomes, however, kind of irrelevant if you go outside TB’s, e.g. to a WB stallion to breed. If you do that, I think this pedigree about average: I see much to like in the sire (love Marfa as a sport horse type), and little of note on the bottom line (i.e., the one below In Reality). Much more important in my estimation is the mare herself. The grazing picture shows nothing (except that she eats, of course!). The jumping photo is another story: very, very nice-- enough to make me sympathize with your desire to get “a carbon copy,” and also wonder why you didn’t get more good photos!

[veetiepony]

Thanks for the responses. I put those pictures up because I’m missing an SD card with better ones. I put them up because I have pictures of her sire and dam, but can’t find them. I thought it would be fun to see all three of them, then look at her pedigree. I wonder if her breeder still posts on here, I would love to see others by her sire! The ones I’ve seen on sale websites all seem like nice sporthorses.

[vineyridge]

Actually there were at least three Teddy sons along with Teddy himself imported to the US and used as stallions, IIRC. Sir Gallahad, Bull Dog, and Quatre Bras. Teddy was and is a superlative line for sport, both from his US based descendants and his European ones. It’s entirely possible that linebreeding to multiple Teddys would intensify and consolidate his genetics even today.

[veetiepony]

Any other opinions?

[equestrianism]

To little to close is my opinion which doesn’t make her bad horse.

If you check the bloodlines way back she does come with some really great blood but as my first statement said it’s a little bit too far away.

Most important in the big scheme of picture is you. You know the mare and knows her qualities and if you think she’s worth the while to get pregnant I think you should go for it.