Arabian Dancer



Arabian Dancer was bred to Mr Prospector to produce Bellamy Road 's 3rd dam Rub Al Khali . She was unraced and hasn't produced much besides a $133K Earner named Pitkin County from the cover of Danzig's son Pine Bluff , a winner of the Houston Juvenile Stakes named Gallant Talent, and a winner of the East Coast Rockingham Stakes (Eng) named Resounder. The mare is actually still in production and produced a 2003 colt by the expensive stallion Giant's Causeway .



More importantly, Rub Al Khali was inbred 3x4 to Native Dancer through his son Raise A Native and his daughter Exclusive Dancer. This is interesting as Raise A Native sired Exclusive Native to the cover of Exclusive Dancer's dam Exclusive. Also, the paternal half-siblings Raise A Native and Exclusive Dancer possessed dams returning Fair Play to Native Dancer, whose damsire Discovery had Fair Play as his grandsire and the Gallopade line that Panoply likes so much as his female line.



Anyway, this inbreeding to Native Dancer was very important to the next link in the chain of breedings that led to Bellamy Road . For Rub Al Khali was bred to a stallion named Cozzene to produce Bellamy Road 's granddam Ten Cents A Turn.



An excellent grass horse who finished second in the 11f Man O' War (GI) and United Nations (GI) Handicaps at 3 and first in the Breeder's Cup Mile at 4, Cozzene took after his white sire Caro in appearance and may be accounted the masterpiece of John Nerud's semi-autumnal years save for the great Fappiano (note well that Nerud was also the mind behind the creation of Concerto's damsire In Reality).



In his stallion career Cozzene has shown consistent excellence and his AEI/CI of 2.56/1.79 is hard to beat. He has doubtless been aided in achieving this impressive figure by siring Twelve Millionaires from only 16 Crops of Racing Age so far.



Cozzene seems to have quite a thing for Ribot as the BC Classic (GI) Winner Alphabet Soup, the Malibu S (GI) Winner Mizzen Mast, the Eclipse S (GB-GI) Winner Environment Friend, and the Breeder's Cup Turf (GI) Winner Tikkanen all are by Cozzene and have Ribot within the first 3 generations of the dam's pedigree.



But more relevant to the pedigree of Bellamy Road 's 2nd dam Ten Cents A Turn is that Cozzene traced back in the female family of the Great 19th Century American Taproot Maggie B. B. through his 4th dam Portage . For this reason Ten Cents A Turn is 4x5 to Raise You and Portage, two mares sharing Case Ace, Man O' War, and either Whisk Broom II or his full sister Afternoon.



Also, Ten Cents A Turn was 5x5 to Count Fleet through Cozzene's damsire Prince John and Mr Prospector's 2nd dam Sequence and 5x5 to Nasrullah through Grey Sovereign and Nashua . A very nice thing about the Count Fleet linebreeding is that the Count had a shot of Domino's full sister Correction coming through his damsire Haste. This is interesting both because Correction is the 8th dam of the triple Crown Winner Affirmed (who was sired by Exclusive Dancer's half brother Exclusive Native) and because Count Fleet's damsire Haste actually combined a sire tracing back to Maggie B. B. with a dam tracing back to Gallopade through Correction.



The female family combination of Haste could thus be recapitulated by the combination of Ten Cents A Shine (who already has a Maggie B. B. line coming through the direct female line of her sire Cozzene) with a recent stallion tracing back to the Gallopade Female Family. This was accomplished when Ten Cents A Turn's daughter Hurry Home Hillary was bred to a stallion named Concerto to produce Bellamy Road as the sire of Concerto was Chief's Crown, yet another descendant of the Gallopade family.



Thus Bellamy Road is 2x3 to Chief's Crown and Cozzene, respectively a descendant of Gallopade and a descendant of Maggie B. B. This recapitulates Haste, who was by Maintenant and out of Miss Malaprop, respectively a descendant of Maggie B. B. and a descendant of Gallopade.



This matters as Ten Cents A Shine was bred to the 1983 Preakness (GI) and Haskell (GI) Winner Deputed Testamony to produce Bellamy Road's dam Hurry Home Hilary and Deputed Testamony returned Ten Cents A Shine her 5x5 to Count Fleet with a nice close up shot of him through his sire Traffic Cop (who was from a Count Fleet mare). Thus Hurry Home Hillary was 4x6x6 to Count Fleet, whose damsire was of course Haste.



Traffic Cop also traced in the direct female line to Fairy Gold (9-e), a very important broodmare inbred 3x4 in Hurry Home Hillary's 7th dam Good Example. And it also should be noted that Traffic Cop's sire Traffic Judge was out of a mare by Discovery, who was also the damsire of Native Dancer, to whom Hurry Home Hilary's granddam Rub Al Khali was inbred 3x4 (Hurry Home Hillary was thus 5x7x8 to the stout Gallopade line stallion Discovery through Traffic Judge and Native Dancer).

This made the obscure son of Traffic Judge a 'Triple Use' ancestor (providing inbreeding to Count Fleet, linebreeding to Discover, and female family reinforcement of Fairy Gold through his female line), and these kind of Multiple Use Ancestors are the best.



Interestingly, Discovery traces in the direct female line to Gallopade and Count Fleet's damsire Haste does as well. Thus Hurry Home Hillary is 5x7x8 to Discovery and 4x6x6 to Count Fleet, and this along with the Good Example's previously discussed affinity for 23-b prepared the way for a return of the Gallopade line.



Bellamy Road



Perhaps the most important thing that can be said about Bellamy Road's pedigree is simply that the three most intense inbreedings or linebreedings in him are Discovery (to whom he is 6x6x7x8x8x8x9x9), Princequillo (to whom he is 6x6x7x7x8), and Count Fleet (to whom he is 5x7x7x8). If we go by the Degree of Blood, this means that the average expected result for this level of inbreeding is for 5.47% of Bellamy Road's genes to have came from Discovery and 5.08% each from Princequillo and Count Fleet (this puts them at the top of the list for Bellamy and the next two under them are Discovery's grandson Native Dancer and Prince John, a son of Princequillo and a Maternal Grandson of Count Fleet)..



Both Discovery and Princequillo were tremendous broodmare sires, Mondo stamina influences, and excellent targets for deep linebreeding (the successful examples of the two techniques being too numerous to list). The first thing that makes Bellamy Road stand out from this large crowd to quite a great degree though is how he is strongly linebred to both Discovery and Princequillo at the same time. And the second (and this is the thing that really makes Bellamy Road stand out) is the related and even profounder point that Bellamy Road's pedigree represents not merely the coexistence of the technique of deep linebreeding with the technique of female family recapitulation, but rather the integration of the two things.



You see, the female family of Discovery is the Gallopade (23-b) female family of Chief's Crown and the female family of Princequillo's sire Prince Rose is the Queen Mary (10-a) female family of Bellamy Road's dam Hurry Home Hillary. Thus the mating (Chief's Crown's son Concerto + Hurry Home Hillary) that led to Bellamy Road recapitulated the female families of two horses combined in Bellamy Road through deep linebreeding.



It is here worth noting that one of the earlier combiners of Discovery and Princequillo in Bellamy Road is Secretariat, who as previously mentioned sired the Multiple GI Winner General Assembly from Bellamy Road 's 6th dam Exclusive Dancer.



General Assembly thus had a sire in Secretariat who was 3x3 to the Queen Mary line stallion Prince Rose and the Gallopade line stallion Discovery, and a dam in Exclusive Dancer who combined these two lines through a 3rd generation cross of Discovery and a direct tail female line of descent to Queen Mary herself. I note this primarily to point out that the combination of the Queen Mary and Gallopade lines in Secretariat has been successfully reinforced in the past. Other examples of this pattern working are provided by the cross between Secretariat and Bellamy Road's female line relative Deputy Minster (who has Queen Mary coming through the female lines of both his sire and dam combined with a 3x5 to the interesting Gallopade stallion Bunty Lawless), as Deputy Minister has combined with 'Sec' in the GIWs Dehere, Well Chosen, Request For Parole, and El Corredor.



Since it was the Bold Ruler/Princequillo cross that led to Secretariat forming the female family combo between Queen Mary and Gallopade, it's also well worth noting that Deputy Minister combined 2x3 with Bold Monarch, who was by Bold Ruler and from a Princequillo mare, in the Spinaway (GI) winning filly Cashier's Dream.



Also, the very important and powerful technique of cluster breeding is integrated with female family recapitulation in Bellamy Road as well. One way in which this was done has already been discussed (BR's 3x6 to the equivalents In Reality and Exclusive Dancer, who share many ancestors from female lines recombined in Bellamy Road), but another way is through his 4x4 cross of the equivalents Come On (the 2nd dam of Deputed Testamony) and My Dear Girl (the dam of In Reality).



Come On was 2x2x3 to Bull Dog, Questionnaire, and Clonaslee; My Dear Girl was 3x3x3 to the same. This makes for a very nice piece of cluster breeding, but there's more at work here as Questionaire was 3x2 to King James and Disguise, who are both excellent female family precapitulaions of Bellamy Road himself.



King James's 1 / 1 / 2 combination of his sire Plaudit, dam Unsightly, and damsire Pursebearer foreshadowed Bellamy Road's 2 x 3 / 1 / 1 combination of the Wagtail (21-a) female family of both Deputed Testamony and In Reality with the Queen Mary (10-a) female line of Bellamy Road himself and the Diana (12-b) family of Concerto. And Disguise, a son of Domino tracing back in the female line to Queen Mary, was a foregleam of Bellamy Road's close up combination of the Gallopade (23-b) and Queen Mary (10-a) female lines.



Interestingly, Disguise is found 8x9x9x10x10x11x11x11x11x12x12x12x12x13 in Bellamy Road through his 5x7 linebreeding to Somethingroyal (a source of Disguise's son Harmonicon), his 6x6x7x7 to Native Dancer (a source of the Disguise mare Wonder), his 6x7 to Questionnaire (a son of Disguise's daughter Miss Puzzle), his cross of the Argentenian bred Endeavor (who traced in the female line to Disguise's closely inbred daughter Mystify), his sire Concerto's 4x5 inbreeding to Bold Ruler (whose 5th dam was the Disguise mare Cloak), his 12th dam Court Dress (who was by Disguise), and also a cross of Disguise's son Helmet coming through Raise A Native's damline and a cross of Disguise's other son Bulse coming through Intentionally's 2nd damsire Percentage.



Thus Disguise comes through 8 distinct sources in Bellamy Road (which is significantly more than usual) and when you add up the inbreeding you get a 'Degree of Blood' value of 7x8x10x13, which sets Disguise as the source of 1.28% of Bellamy Road's genes if the averages held ('It could be more, it could be less'). In contrast, a search to the 12th Generation of his 19 future competitors in the 2005 Kentucky Derby reveals that the 18 who actually have linebreeding to Disguise got an average of about 0.62% of their genes from him (with not one breaking 1%).



Perhaps this demonstrates better than anything else just how deeply and perfectly the concepts of linebreeding and female family recapitulation have been integrated in Bellamy Road .



The basic theory of pedigree analysis is to integrate the sireside and the damside of the future foal through this and/or that technique (inbreeding, linebreeding, cluster breeding, nicking, etc). But Bellamy Road 's pedigree has taken this to another level as in him the sire and dam are tied together by the same complex of overlapping techniques and patterns that hold together his generations.



(Note: Suggested Stains for Bellamy Road are Deputy Minister, French Deputy, Awesome Again, Affirmed, Alydar, Bold Ruckus, Riverman, and Kris S.)

BR,
Thanks for putting that breeding post up. For some it might be a tough read.
For me, very interesting.
I have a nice yearling filly, grand dad is Deputy Minister. The mare has My Babu, Bold Reasoning, and Swaps. Her new weanling is by a nice stallion whos sire was Dehere, dam Spinet. This brings the Deputy Minister/Secretariat blood via Dehere, and Spinet is by Nureyev (Northern Dancer) whos dam was Special Key (Key to the Mint/Graustark), her dam sire was Buckpasser.
Hope this one runs like she looks.
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A) You are making insenuations...I'm not...
B) I don't interview people..I'm an Editor, my staff handles any interviews...
C) Storm Flag Flying couldn't warm up Sweet Catomine or the big Unbrilded filly of Mandella's (name escapes my mind) in her prime....

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This thread is getting very old.

Ateam or Steve, please delete this or move it to the "I dont care" forum. Its an eyesoar.

Hey Boss hows it going boss dont let them get awy with that boss come down here and talk to me boss your the greatest boss.

I agree ...

... but it's an hour and a half later ... and it's still here ... and probably will be until tomorrow.

So ... what shall we talk about next? Hey ... how about that Paris Hilton getting busted for drunk driving? Was that something ... or what?

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