Race bred but eventer friendly

[Aussie_2020]

Somewhere on the Eventing forum there was a discussion about someone’s horse and Blushing Groom came into the conversation. Several posters chimed in with their BG grand babies stories (I was one of them). In reading the coth article on the “throughbred mare gallops and jumps her way to the top of the YEH championship” they gave the mares registered name. So I looked her up and she has Blushing Groom in her dam line. This mares is back to the great grandsire so perhaps the influence is not what I believe. There are other nice horses in her line. But it’s a fun connection for me to follow! https://www.pedigreequery.com/rose+traveler

At what point is it considered to be too far away from the horse standing in front of you? Three maybe four back? I think I’ve seen pedigrees showing up to five generations.

[anonevent]

I mostly focus on the actual sire and damsire. You can sometimes make an educated guess about what traits of the grandparents or great-grandparents etc. that the breeder was hoping to maintain.

Blushing Grooms immediate offspring were super inconsistent. He was bred to tall mares. Sometimes that worked brilliantly, sometimes it flopped. If the successful kids were bred to the right horse, it makes a lot of sense that the grandbabies would be back on track, so to speak.

[Aussie_2020]

Very interesting! I wonder why the focus on tall. My mare was 17h and substantial as was her dam. And the two BG geldings I rode were also very tall and heavy bodied.

[anonevent]

Blushing Groom was a tiny guy. He was at a real disadvantage on length of stride.

[LaurieB]

You may be interested in following TB stallion Collected, who has 4th generation crosses to both Blushing Groom and his family, and who bears a striking resemblance to him. (Allicance on the bottom side of the pedigree is Blushing Groom’s half-sister.)

Two of Collected’s offspring, Thought Process (filly) and Iron Man Cal (colt) are entered to run in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf races next week.

Collected - Stallion Register Online

[Aussie_2020]

Thank you for the link!
Breeders Cup had gone flat for me with Idiomatic out, now I’ve got some races to watch.

[LaurieB]

@Aussie_2020

Thank you for the link!
Breeders Cup had gone flat for me with Idiomatic out, now I’ve got some races to watch

You’re welcome! We have a mare in foal to Collected for next year (she also has a cross to Blushing Groom through Street Boss) so I’ve been following his offspring too. So far (he’s a 3rd crop stallion) he has sired some very good racehorses.

[Aussie_2020]

Well the fillies was very exciting for 3/4 of the race! Thought Process led but was swallowed by the pack at the far turn. Bummer, her odds were good so I hope she’d do better.

I never found Iron Man Cal’s race. I didn’t watch Breeders Cup live, just on YouTube. So maybe he was scratched.

[LaurieB]

@Aussie_2020

I never found Iron Man Cal’s race. I didn’t watch Breeders Cup live, just on YouTube. So maybe he was scratched.

Iron Man Cal finished a great 2nd in his race, the BC Juvenile Turf. He was just a neck behind the favorite, Henri Matisse.

Here’s the race chart: DMR110124USA10.pdf

[Aussie_2020]

The Juvenile Turf has been the best race I’ve watched so far! Many cheers for Iron Man Cal, that was a well ridden. And dang Motor City was on fire. The winner was doing mach 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etq5Ll4e7GQ&t=21s

[SPRINGBORO]

Lovely European distaff line and New York’s top turf sire - this filly has my attention. It doesn’t hurt that her own 1/2 sister, Rosie O’Prado, just produced a G2 winner for Chad Brown. Is she available?