Stellar mares producing stellar foals

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Looks like the spelling is Kincsem …

Hesp was no proponent of keeping his horses in cotton wool. They ran often, and Kincsem was no exception. Her career started in 1876, when as a two-year-old, she ran ten times in ten cities in three countries–Germany, Austria, and Hungary–and won each contest. Her season started on June 21 in Berlin and ended October 29 in Prague. Inbetween were victories in Hanover, Hamburg, Doberan, Frankfort, and Baden-Baden in Germany, the Hungarian cities of Sopron and Budapest, and Vienna in Austria.

Kincsem raced seventeen times at three, before fans in Hungary, Austria, Germany, and what is now Czechoslovakia. As the season progressed and her unbeaten skein lengthened, she attracted larger and larger crowds to each racecourse appearance. Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, a partisan of steeplechasing, became a tremendous fan, never missing an opportunity to see Kincsem perform. And after each victory, the Emperor would send for Kincsem’s owner to personally congratulate him.

more at
http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Kincsem.html

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Another one who has to be mentioned here is Pretty Polly. She won everything in the UK just about.
http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/PrettyPolly.htm

And she started a branch of her female family (previously undistinguished) that is still producing excellent racehorses. She was one of those mares who produced superlative broodmares.
http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/PrettyPolly.htm

Sceptre, another mare who won everything in sight for a couple of years, also produced very decent broodmares.
http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Sceptre.html

Neither of these great mares ever produced a race horse of her own class, but her daughters did.

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Got to mention Fanfreluche, Canadian champ winner of 11 of 21 races, only out of the money 2x in her career. Dam of L’enjoleur, D’Accord, La Voyageuse, Red Alydar among others.

La Voyageuse is my mare’s maternal grandmother.

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Got to mention Fanfreluche, Canadian champ winner of 11 of 21 races, only out of the money 2x in her career. Dam of L’enjoleur, D’Accord, La Voyageuse, Red Alydar among others.

La Voyageuse is my mare’s maternal grandmother.[/QUOTE]

When bred to Sir Ivor, she produced Family Ties, who was not a good racehorse, but when sent Down Under became one hell of a good sport horse sire. Sire of the last full TB on a US Olympic Team and sire of several 4* event horses.

Here’s another spectacular race mare who was also a spectacular producer:

The oldest [Ascot] Gold Cup winner [at 2 1/2 miles] was the astounding nine-year-old mare Beeswing (1842), who was hailed as the “Pride of Northumberland” and the “Flower of the North.” Victorious in 51 of 64 starts, Beeswing amassed four Doncaster Cups, six Newcastle Cups, three runnings of the Fitzwilliam S. and two Stockton Cups, to list only a few of her trophies. The little bay, who stood just 15.2 hands tall, was a perennial fan favorite, and she thrilled her loyalists with a game victory at Ascot. Beeswing forged to the front early, was headed, but roared back to score by a half-length. She closed out her illustrious career next time out, demolishing the field by six lengths in the Doncaster Cup. Beeswing was just as remarkable as a broodmare. To the cover of fellow Cup star Touchstone, she produced two classic winners, notably Newminster, hero of the St Leger, a two-time leading sire in Britain, and the vehicle for much of Touchstone’s lasting influence.