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An example of pedigree chart. Date: 16 April 2008: Source: own work from Image:Pedigree-chart-example.png. Author: G YassineMrabet Talk ...
The word pedigree is a corruption of the Anglo-Norman French pé de grue or "crane's foot", either because the typical lines and split lines (each split leading to different offspring of the one parent line) resemble the thin leg and foot of a crane [3] or because such a mark was used to denote succession in pedigree charts. [4] A pedigree ...
Many sportswriters have described his pedigree as being unimpressive. Although his sire, At the Threshold, was a multiple Grade I stakes winner, he produced only eight stakes winners during his stud career. [3] Lil E. Tee's dam, Eileen's Moment, never won a race and had career earnings of $570.
Tapwrit (foaled March 28, 2014) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2017 Belmont Stakes.He first attracted attention when he set a track record winning the Tampa Bay Derby, but disappointed in the Blue Grass Stakes and Kentucky Derby.
Thoroughbred breeding theories, or racehorse theories, are used by horse breeders in an attempt to arrange matings that produce progeny successful in horse racing. Bloodstock experts also rely on these theories when purchasing young horses or breeding stock.
Nashua was the betting favorite to win the 1955 Kentucky Derby but was beaten by the second choice, Swaps. [3]In the 1955 Preakness Stakes, second leg of the Triple Crown, Swaps did not run and Nashua won by a length over a surprisingly strong challenge by Marion duPont Scott's colt, Saratoga.
The Dosage Index is a mathematical figure used by breeders of Thoroughbred race horses, and sometimes by bettors handicapping horse races, to quantify a horse's ability, or inability, to negotiate the various distances at which horse races are run. It is calculated based on an analysis of the horse's pedigree.
Exterminator (May 30, 1915 – September 26, 1945) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse, [1] the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby and in 1922 Horse of the Year honors. [ 2 ] Background