"Old" Pedigree

[QUOTE=Foxtrot’s;5368605]
Raise a Native aside - we as sporthorse breeders - are looking for elegance in looks, beautiful movement, staying power and jump with style…and fast does not necessarily produce that. GB and French breeding is always a good sign.[/QUOTE]

shrug I don’t pay much attention to what sport breeders breed for. I only know some good TB names for it from COTH. I’d only ever breed to race if I had the money to be in breeding, with sport homes being just where you sell washouts.

[QUOTE=cmdrcltr;5345625]
Not a regular poster in the Racing thread, but…

A friend of mine just acquired a 10 y.o. OTTB mare. Although she and her daughters have much experience retraining OTTBs for eventing, they are not so much pedigree readers. I am not an OTTB person–know my riding and handling limits–but I find pedigrees interesting, regardless of the breed. So, I find this mare’s pedigree interesting, “old-fashioned” even. Maybe I’m wrong and some of you who are experts can correct me. Wouldn’t it be uncommon to find such a young horse with Ribot in the third generation and War Admiral and Hyperion in the fifth?[/QUOTE]

Ribot that close up? yes. War Admiral and Hyperion, not really.
Here is my best mare. She is old but her last foal is coming 3 this year so I do still have her bloodlines going here
http://www.pedigreequery.com/pirates+widow
I have Hail To Reason and The Axe in the second generation!

probably the most similar horses you will find currently to the OPs would be from Hoist The Flag lines
http://www.pedigreequery.com/hoist+the+flag

Quite a regal tail-female line! Everyone of their sires a major stakes-winner except maybe Third Brother but even he hit the board with the best.

Cinteelo sired Tumble Dry and Squelch, both OTTB’s that became 4 star horses.