Connemara

In the 10th race at Turfway Park on Sunday Oct. 4th 2009 we might have seen a future star emerge. The horse in question is Connemara by Giant's Causeway-Satin Sunrise by Mr. Leader.
You would have to have seen the race to realise how impressive it was. He had the TVG commentators singing his praise considering how many races they watch. The colt was left at the post, raced wide around the first turn and down the backstretch, continued five wide around the far turn and won by 5 lengths. Since his sire is currently the Leading sire in North America this colt could well develop into a classic contender.

He has some interesting pedigree traits. 1st he traces in tail female to one of the great matriarch's of the breed Queen Mary. If you've never heard of her she was owned my a trainer named William I'Anson back in 1850. After producing her first foal she was sold to a farmer in Scotland to produce work horses. I'Anson kept her foal and used her as a hack. One day while riding her across the gallops to the post office he decided to let her run. By the time he reached the post office he was desperate to find her dam, Queen Mary. He finally located her in Scotland and had to pay a premium to get her back because she was in-foal to a Clydesdale stallion. The foal, later to be named Haricot was a mulitiple stakes winner and an even better producer. Her daughter Caller Ou won the St. leger Stakes and her son Sir Bevys won the Epsom Derby. She is also the granddam of leading sire Hampton. I'Anson was lucky beyond belief to reacquire his cull because for him she produced 10 Stakes winners including Blink Bonny who won the Derby and the Oaks and produced Derby winner Blair Athol who won the Derby and St. leger and was leading sire in England 4 times. If that wasn't enough Queen Mary is also the dam of Leading sire in North America, Bonnie Scotland.

If you remember my last post I showed that Urban Sea's breeding ability may be the result of reinforcing a strong female family with a male line tracing to it. This happened over and over again with the descendants of Queen Mary. Black Toney, who was a surprisingly good stallion dispite being a mediocre racehorse was out of a mare bred along the lines of Urban Sea. His dam Belgravia was a great granddaughter of Queen Mary while Belgravia's sire was a grandson of Queen Mary's Son, Bonnie Scotland. Black Toney sired two Kentucky Derby winners in Black Gold and Brokers Tip as well as Bimelech who was unbeaten at two and a champion at three. Check out Belgravia's pedigree Http://www.pedigreequery.com/belgravia

Another thing I like about Connemara's pedigree is the fact that he is linebred 3x5 to Djeddah. Take a look at Djeddah's pedigree and compare it to Belgravia's and Urban Sea's Http://www.pedigreequery.com/Djeddah

Hope that gives you alot to think about