I’d want Oriental Sea. Superlative tail female. The Sire’s damline is equally superlative. Acatenango is Dark Ronald Tail Male, and he’s a GREAT German TB who is beginning to show up in sport horses. He has seven or eight approved sons in different registries. I seem to recall that Fannie Mae’s TB mare is either a daughter or granddaughter of Acatenango. I like the inbreeding to Lis, in the tail male sire and sire’s tail female. Golden Bowl was bred by Paul Mellon, and owned by the Firestones; and her daughter in GB, Orange Bowl got sent to Germany, where she was bred to Acatenango twice, Big Shuffle 4 times, and Lando once. Both Mellon and the Firestones are/were extremely knowledgeable horse people. Oriental Flower was also the dam of Oriental Tiger who was one of the best race horses in Germany. Oriental Flower was killed by lightning in 2007, and Oriental Tiger (2003) died in 2008 in his stall. News story that I found said cause was unknown.
Big Shuffle exported to Germany for TB breeding, and he has had at least one Hanoverian approved TB grandson.
This mare is filled to the brim with black type–and one thing about TBs is that the better bred they are in general, the better they are likely to be for sport. These horses have athleticism bred in. German racing is still turf, and German horses are bred for that. They are the OLD style TB, and as such, they are increasingly being exported to the UK and Ireland to add soundness and stamina.
