Shows TB viable as eventer though I have read a couple articles indicating the TB no longer significant. BM, off the board in three racing starts, now in his teens is the greenest horse in the USA contingent.
Paulick posted this article back in 2014. Putting two and two together, so to speak, and an informative read.
www.paulickreport.com/news/ray-s-paddock/follow-the-line-popular-thoroughbred-sires-in-sport-horses/
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Shows TB viable as eventer though I have read a couple articles indicating the TB no longer significant. BM, off the board in three racing starts, now in his teens is the greenest horse in the USA contingent.
Paulick posted this article back in 2014. Putting two and two together, so to speak, and an informative read.
www.paulickreport.com/news/ray-s-paddock/follow-the-line-popular-thoroughbred-sires-in-sport-horses/[/QUOTE]
" I’m so thankful I was on an old racehorse from Kentucky because he kept firing the whole way home. He was definitely on empty coming to the last three and he just tried his heart out and jumped every jumped."-Boyd Martin and Blackfoot Mystery
He’s sitting 6th after what’s been called the toughest xcountry since the short format was introduced, so I would argue that OTTBs are still very relevant to sport.
Wow!!! What a victory for Blackfoot Mystery! We at the Thoroughbred Rehab Center who received him after an abbreviated racing career are really thrilled! He’s certainly not the first retired racehorse we’ve rehomed, but he’s definitely the most successful (so far). Kudos to Leigh Gray who started the NBRC and finds good homes for scores of TBs to go on to varied and successful careers.
Oops. Leigh Gray started the TBRC (I’m really a bad typist).
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He’s sitting 6th after what’s been called the toughest xcountry since the short format was introduced, so I would argue that OTTBs are still very relevant to sport.[/QUOTE]
I think they are coming back around. Wonderful to see it.
USA team withdraws, but Boyd-Martin and BM, along with Dutton, still in the race for individual medals.
A lot is asked of these horses. A comparison was made on TV. Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes running on the flat at 38 mph for 1 1/2 miles winning by 31 lengths. The horses in Rio are asked to run a little less than 4 miles at an average speed of 21 mph over obstacles and difficult rolling terrain. Amazing and absolutely courageous.
Noble creatures all, but on this thread Blackfoot Mystery steals one heart.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/phillip-dutton-and-boyd-martin-last-americans-standing
with the amount of run outs and exhausted horses on the course at the Olympics yesterday just further proves that the TB is still the one for the sport. The warmbloods and warmblood crosses; although scopey, did not have the stamina to support them throughout the course. Training has a lot to do with it but the TB is still the kind of endurance in this type of competition.
TBs are still better cross country than the crossbreds. TBs are bred and born to run. Not so with warmbloods.
Thoroughbreds are essential to Eventing, especially at the top level. I would be surprised if you found a single pedigree from yesterday that didn’t have TB blood.
As an OTTB owner, of course I’m infatuated with Blackfoot Mystery. He’s an amazing horse. I loved Boyd’s quote. I haven’t been following them so I have no idea what his stadium skills are, but I’m certainly rooting for them.
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Thoroughbreds are essential to Eventing, especially at the top level. I would be surprised if you found a single pedigree from yesterday that didn’t have TB blood.[/QUOTE]
Randy Moss gave commentary on the amount of TB blood in quite a few of the horses. Of those, a lot were over 1/4 TB. So even in the warmbloods being used/bred for CC, seems they are adding in more TB blood back in the mix.
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Randy Moss gave commentary on the amount of TB blood in quite a few of the horses. Of those, a lot were over 1/4 TB. So even in the warmbloods being used/bred for CC, seems they are adding in more TB blood back in the mix.[/QUOTE]
A look at Chilli Morning’s stud page seems to give 99.9% credit to the sire, Phantomic, who “goes back to Northern Dancer, the most successful TB stallion of the 20th Century (see the page on Northern Dancer), and also has Secretariat in the line.”
Boyd-Martin and Blackfoot Mystery finish at 23rd. Top American horse!.
https://www.rio2016.com/en/equestrian-eventing-individual-jumping-qualifier
Well, Phillip Dutton and Mighty Nice won a bronze medal for the US so they were ranked higher than Boyd and his horse.
This makes me think of the little 2 y.o. filly we just brought back to the track this week. The trainer at the farm says she’ll never be a sprinter, but can run all day. I guess she’ll have to be an eventer when she eventually retires. 
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Randy Moss gave commentary on the amount of TB blood in quite a few of the horses. Of those, a lot were over 1/4 TB. So even in the warmbloods being used/bred for CC, seems they are adding in more TB blood back in the mix.[/QUOTE]
If he looked a little deeper he would have seen that most are far more than a “1/4”. A lot of “warmbloods” are more than a 1/4. Especially Eventers.
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Well, Phillip Dutton and Mighty Nice won a bronze medal for the US so they were ranked higher than Boyd and his horse.[/QUOTE]
His first first “individual” medal. Mighy Nice has strong TB connections on the owners side of things. Mighty Nice was originally imported from Ireland and owned by the late great Bruce Duchossois (son of) who we lost way too early in 2014. A group of friends bought him from his estate and he stayed with Phillip. One of the "friends: in the partnership is the daughter of Betty Moran (Brushwood Stables) Caroline Moran a very accomplished rider in her own right. He’s not a full Thoroughbred but solid Thoroughbred connections.
Sadly, Horsetelex is a large zero where Mighty Nice’s pedigree is concerned
http://www.horsetelex.com//horses/pedigree/1628929
Dam? You must be kidding me.
I was happy to see that both Bloodhorse and Paulick reported on Boyd and Red’s Olympic adventure. I think it’s excellent publicity for second careers, and I was thrilled to see that his past owner/breeder was avidly following him. I was impressed by how he handled the cross country phase and the dressage.
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