Chapter Two-(2013 series of articles)

NOTES for Breeders Cup, New Zealand Yearling Sales, Champion Sires

1….One mile…Turf… 1m 38.90…Won by ¾ length, 1 ¼ lengths.

2……Stephanie’s Kitten  and Stopshoppingmaria were very close together at the end of the mile race, and both shared the same number of points (51) over all the principles we checked out. The third horse just over a length behind on the racecourse  just pipped them on points, (49) but again the principles sorted out the best three, and 4^th and 5^th placegetters were well behind on points as well, with 73 and 62 respectively.

3…..This is the 2^nd of 30 Breeders Cup races run at the 2011 and

2012 meetings. All the pedigrees have been compiled, and the principles

searched for and recorded. Just need to find the time to get them

published on the Blog over the next few months.

2011 – Juvenile FilliesTurf-Prize money=$1,190,500-Nov 4, 2011

Fin Position----Horse---- Level-----Close-----Bal--------Blue----Chains

1-STEPHANIES KIT’---18.883**1--4x4**1--65**3----8**1----738**1

2-STOPSHOPPINGM’--16.063**4--5x4**3--61**5----5**2=--692**3

3---SWEET CAT---------17.532**2--6x5**5--56**2----4**4----727**2

4---UP----------------------14.008**5--5x6**4--76**1----5**2=--660**5

5---HARD NOT TO L’--16.727**3--3x5**1--62**4----3**5----665**4

The winner had the most line-breeding, was equal closest on distance,

first on Blue method as well as being first with the most lines back to

important common ancestors.

Fin Position----Horse----- Intro-----Fem4-----Match-----F4------3Gen

1---STEPHANIES KIT’--12**3=  90**2----146**1   21**2=   3.33**5

2---STOPSHOPPINGM’-13**2…59**5----126**3…23**1…4.67**3

3---SWEET CAT----------10**5…79**4----140**2…21**2=--3.67**4

4---UP-----------------------14**1…112**1----81**5…13**4…5.00**2

5---HARD NOT TO L’---12**3=…85**3----94**4…12**5…5.40**1

Again the winner was best in the above five principles. Surprising, she had less wins in her ancestors to 3 generations. Speed and crosses must

have tapped some very good ancestry sources.

Fin Position----Horse------ 5Gen-----TMale-----TFemale-----AMale-----

1---STEPHANIES KIT’--- 6.70**4    30**2----19**3-------  9.71**4

2---STOPSHOPPINGM’---7.43**1…31**1----23**1-------10.74**2

3---SWEET CAT------------7.43**1---30**2----19**3-------11.10**1

4---UP-------------------------5.00**5---30**2----16**5--------9.42**5

5---HARD NOT TO L’-----6.78**3—30**2-----21**2--------9.87**3

2^nd and 3^rd horses cleaned up in this area. Mostly recording 1^st or 2^nd

places for the highest index scores, and the way they have raced here, and in other races, we can see they got benefit from their higher scores. 

Fin Position----Horse------ AFemale-----DamW-----DamS----DamSW---

1---STEPHANIES KIT,--- 3.90**3=-----11w **3=--17**2--- 3SW**4=

2---STOPSHOPPINGM,---4.35**1-------21w**1----27**1----6SW**1

3---SWEET CAT------------4.00**2-------11**3=------9**4=--4SW**3

4---UP-------------------------2.81**5-------12**2------14**3----5SW**2

5---HARD NOT TO LIKE-3.90**3=------11**3=-----9**4=---3SW**4=

The fighting 2^nd horse Stopshoppingmaria cleaned up across this group

and was best rated horse in all 4 principle areas. No wonder she showed

a lot of ability and ran a great 2^nd.

Fin Position----Horse------ Pre%-----15G-----Ped/SW

1---STEPHANIES KIT,-----73**2…63**2…1224/1198=2422**2

2---STOPSHOPPINGM,----71**3…62**3…1137/549=1686**5

3---SWEET CAT-------------61**4---48**4….1318/1311=2629**1

4---UP--------------------------50**5---40**5….1317/705=2022**4

5---HARD NOT TO L,------75**1…71**1…979/1059=2038**3

The winner showed good specs for hitting prepotency, and crosses to

15 generations, and had the 2^nd most SW by all her sires. The 31

nearest sires in her pedigree had an impressive record where they

are recorded from various sources as siring 2,422 SW or superior gallopers. We have now found the Stakes Winners for over 7,700

stallions around the world, and when we compile a pedigree, it

very quickly shows the highly successful and less successful

stallions in the pedigree, and gives another dimension for comparing

and assessing pedigrees.

SUMMARY…The first 3 horses had the best combined record over

all the principles by a good margin.