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PEDIGREE EVALUATION :
North American pedigrees of quality
racehorses is dominated by just a few key names. Mr. Prospector,
Seattle Slew, Northern Dancer and just a few others seem to comprises the
majority of quality racehorses. However, it is becoming obvious that
there is the need to avoid the constant close up inbreeding on these few key bloodlines.
This is evidenced by the fact that racing in the various Breeders' Cup
Races on the big day has been dominated in the last 16
Breeders' Cup races, in the past two years of 2003 and 2004, by 14 winners
who are outcross bred in the first four generations, 7 winners of
which are
outcross bred in the first five generations.
One of the most important bloodlines
in the later part of the 20th Century is that of the Turn-to line. It
seems like most bloodlines, are continued by only a few representative
sires. In the case of the Turn-to bloodline, it is seems
feasible that this important sire line will be continued with Devil His Due,
mainly through his son Roses in
May.
Roses in May
is an outcross himself being four generations free of any inbreeding.
Only Double Jay is represented in the first five generations as an inbreed,
thus making Roses in May
inbred 5S x 4D to Double Jay.
This means that
Roses in May
can be out crossed to Northern Dancer and Seattle Slew. Mr. Prospector
mares will produce a desirable inbreed to Raise a Native 5S x 3D and
with daughters of sons of Mr. Prospector an inbreed of 5S x 4D to Raise a
Native.
The general crossing of Halo line
stallions with Northern Dancer line mares accounts in large part for the
success of Sunday Silence and Brian's Time in Japan where the Turn-to
bloodline has created a line of thoroughbreds that is internationally
competitive on the top level of competition.
MALE LINE:
The male line of
Roses in May
goes back to Turn-to through the extremely resilient and
classy competitive Devil His Due. An examination of the leading earner
of the 1989 North American crop, Devil His Due race record makes the case
for racing quality.
DEVIL HIS DUE,
(1989 colt by Devil's Bag). Raced 4 years, 41 Starts, 11 wins, 12
seconds, 3 thirds, $3,920,405
1992 Won - Wood Memorial S. -G1 (500,000), Gotham S. -G2 (250,000), 2nd
Travers S. -G1 (1,000,000), 3rd Jim Dandy S. -G2 (150,000)
1993 Won - Pimlico Special H. -G1
(600,000), Gulfstream Park Handicap -G1 (500,000), Suburban Handicap -G1
(300,000), Excelsior Handicap -G2 (100,000), 2nd Philip H. Iselin Handicap
-G1 (500,000), Woodward S.-G1 (500,000), 3rd Whitney Handicap -G1 (250,000)
1994 Won - Suburban Handicap -G1
(350,000), Brooklyn Handicap -G2 (250,000), Broward Handicap -G3 (75,000),
2nd Jockey Club Gold Cup S. -G1, (750,000), Oaklawn Handicap -G1 (750,000),
Pimlico Special Handicap-G1 (600,000), Woodward S. -G1 (500,000), Whitney
Handicap -G1 (350,000), N.Y.R.A. Mile Handicap -G1 (250,000), 3rd
Metropolitan Handicap -G1 (500,000)
1995 2nd Pimlico Special Handicap -G1
(600,000), Westchester Handicap -G3 (109,600)
Devil His Due was first or second in
56.1 percent of his starts.
Roses in May
is an improvement even on his wonderful sire in that he is currently first
or second in 92.3 percent of his starts.
His victory in the 2005 Dubai World Cup
would put him ahead of Devil His Due in racetrack earnings.
Devil His Due is the best son of the
Champion Devil's Bag who was syndicated for $36,000,000. Devil's Bag
is a son of Halo, sire of two Kentucky Derby winners in Sunny's Halo and of
course the greatest global sire of the modern age in Sunday Silence.
Halo was also syndicated for $36,000,000 in his later years after
approximately 60% of his stallion life was already concluded.
The next sire is the Champion Two Year
Old and cornerstone stallion, Hail to Reason sire of Halo and 18 other Grade
or Group One winners including Roberto, Priceless Gem (dam of Allez France),
Bold Reason (broodmare sire of Sadler's Wells), Proud Clarion (Kentucky
Derby), Personality (Preakness), Hail to All (Belmont Stakes), Regal Gleam,
Straight Deal, Trillion (dam of Triptych, Group One winner for five
consecutive years), etc.
Looking at the impact of Turn-to, one would
wonder what the thoroughbred world would be like without him. There
would be no Sadler's Wells, no Sunday Silence and no Roberto.
Many great moments in international classic racing history never would have
occurred.
Thus one can easily appreciate the value of continuation
of the Turn-to bloodline.
FEMALE LINE:
Roses in May
descends from the quality stakes family of Retirement, the third dam of
Roses in May. Retirement is the dam of the quality stakes winning performer
Secret Retreat and second dam of
Roses in May,
and two stakes placed runners.
Secret Retreat showed that she could
produce a sire of note when her unraced son Aferd (by Hoist the Flag) sired
1998 Oaklawn Handicap-G1 winner and near $2,000,000 earner Precocity
She is also the dam of Tell a Secret, another quality stakes perform like
herself and the dam of Roses in
May.
Tell a Secret is also the dam of
stakes winner Lisamore Lass and stakes placed Oscar Max G.
What is most interesting about the
female family of Roses in May is that stakes horses in the pedigree are from a
wide variety of sires to include, Vigors, Wynslew, Septieme Ciel, Temperence
Hill, Dynaformer, Johnny Appleseed, Goldgalliano, Stormy Atlantic, Petrone,
Grand Central, and of course Clandestine and Speak John. This is
further indication that Roses
in May will be a stallion that
will cross successfully with virtually any broodmare line.
Speak John is the broodmare sire of
Roses in May.
This Elmendorf Del Mar Derby winner was a successful sire for Elmendorf
siring Champion Talking Pictures, Verbatim (Whitney Stakes, etc.), and Text,
etc. for the Maxwell Gluck owned nursery. Other major stakes winners
by Speak John include Hold Your Peace, Improviser and Big John Taylor.
Speak John is a son of the cornerstone
broodmare sire Prince John who carries the Blue Larkspur X Factor gene.
BREEDING TO ROSES IN MAY:
In
Roses in May,
we have a horse who fits a very special niche in the thoroughbred stallion
market. It is already a known entity that the Turn-to line stallions
work everywhere in the world and have commanded record stallion prices as
evidenced by Halo, and Devil's Bag. The direct influence of Turn-to is
significant outside of North America as seen in Sunday Silence as a direct
male descendant and with Sadler's Wells through his dam by Bold Reason.
There are volumes written about the
importance of Almahmoud and her influence on the world landscape of the
thoroughbred. Horses inbred to Almahmoud include Leading Sire Danehill,
Belmont Stakes winner Stephan's Odyssey, Grade One Winners, Lotka,
L'Emigrant Champion Miler in France), and Salpinx, and the influential
stakes winning mare Coup De Folie, the dam of Machavellian-G1. With the importance of Almahmoud, there
is strong evidence as well that inbreeding to Halo works. Thus,
besides the obvious known success of crossing Northern Dancer lines with
Halo to inbreed to Almahmoud, one might conclude that Sadler's Wells line
mares and even Sunday Silence line mares would produce distinguished
important runners when mated with
Roses in May.
AVAILABILITY -
SOLD TO A PROMINENT
JAPANESE HORSEMAN:
Roses in May
will stand the 2006 Northern Hemisphere
Breeding Season in Japan, as indicated above.
Roses in May
represented an opportunity for Japanese
breeders to have a stallion prospect that has many physical traits of their
highly revered deceased super stallion,
Sunday Silence.
Rose in May fits the
new millennium and seems destined to be a breed shaping animal for the
Japanese and follow in the footsteps of
Sunday Silence. Great runners
like
Sunday Silence make great stallions,
and have a way of leaving their mark on the breed. Such is going to be the destiny
of Roses in May. |
