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“Pleasantly Perfect: A Deep Stud Analysis” by Michael Ventura, Copyright 2005. Owned by Gerald A. Ford of Dallas and
trained by “Patient” Richard Mandella, Pleasantly Perfect’s Globe spanning
accomplishments hardly require retelling. But
now the powerfully built son of Pleasant Colony has been retired to Lane's End
Farm in Kentucky, and there is a need on the part of mare owners and his
managers for deep analysis. Clearly Pleasantly Perfect is the last hope
to replace his late great sire Pleasant Colony and continue his male line in
America. Some of his times and his
move in the Dubai World Cup were excellent enough that I would gauge him as
having a real shot, but only if his mares are properly screened. Looking at the pedigree, we find classic
blood galore. His sire won
two-thirds of the Triple Crown; his damsire Affirmed won the whole thing.
After that it’s strong stamina influence Lyphard over Dante’s good
racing son Darius; winner of the Champagne (GB-GI) at two, Two Thousand Guineas
(GB-GI) at three, and Eclipse Stakes (GB-GI) at four.
Darius was over Champion German (read stamina) sire Neckar.
It’s rare for the sire and first two damsires on a horse to be of such
high quality; I think this is a case of pure ability trumping stamina and to be
on safe side he’ll need some speed in his mares. The female family of Pleasantly Perfect’s
grandsire His Majesty is 4-d (taproot Manganese, whose 3rd dam was
4-c taproot Maniac), and his dam Regal State is 16-a (Miss Agnes through Noor
Jahan, a full sister to Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad).
This is reminiscent of all the good horses of fairly long ago who
combined Maniac descendant Man O’ War with Bull Dog and/or his full brother
Sir Gallahad; for instance Affirmed’s damsire Crafty Admiral, Hail To
Reason’s dam Nothirdchance, or the famous
Buckpasser. And in the case of Crafty Admiral, who is found in Pleasantly
Perfect, it is an excellent example of the recapitulation/precapitulation
concept in action. Another thing that helps the sireside and
damside of Pleasantly Perfect “Fit” is the nick between his grandsire His
Majesty and his 2nd damsire Lyphard.
Though only one in five-hundred registered foals win Grade or Group One
races; including Pleasantly Perfect these two stallions have combined in eight
separate Grade/Group One winners including six multiple Grade/Group One winners,
one American Turf Champion, one American Champion Older Male, one American
Champion Steeplechaser, and a French Classic winner.
Namely: The 3/4 Brazilian brothers Absolute Ruler
and Art Variety;
the full American brothers Valiant Nature
and Tight Spot; Breeder’s Cup
Steeplechase winner Mcdynamo;
Cetewayo ; and the French Oaks Winner
Aquarelliste, a filly who also finished 2nd behind Sakhee in
the 2001 Arc. This nick may have something to do with
Lyphard’s second damsire Formor returning the Manganese (4-d) female line to
His Majesty. Pleasantly Perfect is also 3x5 Flower Bowl and Prompt Payment; two mares who crossed Hyperion and Mahmoud. The Sire Bred and owned by T. M. Evan’s Buckland
Farm and trained by Joe Campo, Pleasant Colony won the Remson at two by
disqualification and the Wood Memorial, Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Woodward
at three, he also lost the Triple Crown by finishing third in the ’81 Belmont
behind Summing and finished second in the Travers and Fountain of Youth. He was a rare source of stamina competitive in the
upper-echelon of the modern racing environment, siring eleven Millionaires until
he was pensioned in 2000 and died in 2002.
It’s also easy to see his get gets better with age. Looking at his stud record to get clues
about how his son will go we find Pleasant Colony got fully four top class
runners from Northfields mares: The full Payson brothers St. Jovite
and Lac Ouimet in the 80’s; plus Denon
and Forbidden Apple
in the
90’s. He hasn’t done all that
badly combined with Little Hut’s other son Habitat either; see Absolute Ruler
and Art Variety; who were already mentioned in another context. Are the right kind of mares with the
Northfields strain thus worth trying with Pleasantly Perfect?
It seems so to me; linebreeding to Northern Dancer through Northfields
and Lyphard being found in Arlington Million (GI) winner Sulamani; Gran
Premio Juliano Martins (BRZ-GI) winner Tierno; and
Cheers Flower,
the dam of 2000 Japanese Champion 3YO Cheer’s Grace. Payson Farm consultant George Smith says he
was convinced shortly following the retirement of Pleasant Colony that Ballymoss
blood would cross well with him and he has the pedigrees of Lac Ouimet and
his brother St. Jovite, who won the Irish Derby in a Curragh record time, to
prove it. Ballymoss was
champion of Europe in 1958 and he won such highly prestigious races as The Arc,
The St. Leger, The Irish Derby, The Coronation Cup, and The King George and
Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. At stud, Ballymoss became the damsire of
Payson Broodmare of the Year Northern Sunset (by Northfields) and when bred to
Pleasant Colony she got the aforementioned Lac Ouimet and St. Jovite and in
addition her daughter Far North got Dry North (dam of Champion 3YO Filly Farda
Amiga [ped]) when bred to Pleasantly Perfect’s sire. Ballymoss was also the damsire of Belmont
Stakes winner Stage Door Johnny, whose daughters have a liking for Pleasant
Colony: The ill-fated 1992 Champion 2YO filly and Kentucky Oaks/Acorn winner
Pleasant Stage; her brother Stage Colony; and ’92 Champion Older Horse /Jockey
Club Gold Cup winner Pleasant Tap were all by Pleasant Colony out of Stage Door
Johnny mares. Ballymoss’s
sire Mossborough (by Nearco) has Hyperion’s 3/4 sister All Moonshine as
his dam and Ballymoss himself is 3x4 to 1918 English Triple Crown winner
Gainsborough, sire of all-time great sire Hyperion and damsire of all-time great
sire Mahmoud. Perhaps this inbreeding to the Gainsborough
has something to do with this impressive affinity between Pleasant Colony and
Ballymoss; as Gainsborough was also inbred to 3x5 in Flower Bowl, dam of
Pleasant Colony’s sire His Majesty. If
that truly underlies it then this powerful nick may continue for another
generation forward because Gainsborough was returned big-time to Pleasant Colony
by Pleasantly Perfect’s 2nd dam La Trinite
(she being inbred
to him 6x6x6x6x7x7). Pleasantly Perfect also has Nearctic through
his 2nd damsire Lyphard. Nearctic
and Ballymoss’ sire Mossborough share Nearco, Gainsborough, and Selene close
up and have combined in many good horses. Though
Ballymoss is pretty far back there by now I’d still consider him a positive in
a mare for Pleasantly Perfect. Besides being a nick with Pleasantly
Perfect’s sire; Stage Door Johnny has done pretty well with components
of Pleasantly Perfect’s mother Regal State.
From a small sample, we find SDJ and Affirmed in Tighten the Girth,
dam of Guaraira (GI winner in Venezuela) and three other stakes winners from
that country. From a larger sample
we find Graded/Group I winners Ends Well,
Rainbows For Life,
Diazo, and Irving (Brz) combining Stage Door Johnny and Lyphard.
Also SDJ’s sire Prince John was crossed 4x1 with Regal State’s dam La
Trinite in 2x GI winner Seven Springs.
All this makes Stage Door Johnny a desirable name in the pedigree of a
potential Pleasantly Perfect mate. The Dam A daughter of Triple Crown winner Affirmed
out of the Lyphard mare La Trinite (also dam of Seven Springs), Regal State
won the group one Prix Morny in France and finished second in the highly
prestigious Prix De Salamandre (GI) against colts; she also was runner-up in the
group one Prix Jacques Marois. Her sire Affirmed’s 8th dam was
hard-knocking sprinting sensation Correction (b.1888), a full sister to Domino;
and the 7th dam of Regal State herself was Noor Jahan, a full sister
to Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad. I
consider it desirable if a horse’s close-up female families “recapitulate”
the pattern or cross of an important ancestor’s pedigree.
In the case of Regal State, it was her paternal granddam Won’t Tell You that got recapitulated as that daughter of Crafty Admiral was 2x4 to
Fighting Fox and Gallant Fox; two brothers by Sir Gallahad out of a mare by
Celt, a son of Commando, a son of Domino; and her sire’s dam was Admiral’s
Lady, who had Bull Dog sitting betwixt three crosses of Domino in the 5th.
Put another, more comprehensive way, Won’t Tell You was 3x5x6/4 Sir
Gallahad/Bull Dog and 6x7x7x7x8x8/8 Domino/Correction. Another key to Regal State’s pedigree
seems to be the 4/5 cross of Native Valor and Satenella; two daughters of
Mahmoud, one out of a Sir Gallahad mare, the other one out of a daughter of his
sister Noor Jahan. Regal State was
5x6x6 to Mahmoud. Note also that her sire was 5x5x6x6x7 to Teddy (with one cross of Gainsborough in the 6th) and her dam La Trinite 6x6x6x6x7x7 to Gainsborough (with one cross of Teddy in the 6th). That’s some powerful stuff when you consider the relationship and important affinity between those two sires. Owen Tudor and Citation are early examples
of combining Teddy and Gainsborough and Point Given is an example from the many
good modern horses strong in a Teddy/Gainsborough background. (See “Teddy/Hyperion: A Superstar Nick?” By Peter Hohlweg
[link].) Recommended Broodmare Sires for
Pleasantly Perfect Nureyev Nureyev
is inbred to Nearco and
Hyperion through Nearctic (by Nearco o/o Lady Angela by Hyperion), Aristophanes,
and Nasrullah; Pleasantly Perfect's 2nd dam La Trinite is inbred to them
through Nearctic, Rockafella, and Dante. Hyperion
and Nearco were two of true all-time greats and they were both linebred heavily
to St. Simon, the male-line ancestor of Pleasant Colony.
A further theoretical underpinning of the already successful Nureyev/La
Trinite cross is found in the pedigree of English Champion Sprinter Thatching:
this best son of Nureyev’s maternal uncle Thatch had Darius as his 2nd
damsire. It’s always good to get a broodmare sire
that nicks at least pretty well with the full spectrum of the sire’s pedigree;
cancelations should be avoided (a cancellation being the opposite of a nick).
Thus here is a table showing the high-level Nureyev has enjoyed with all
the components of Pleasantly Perfect’s pedigree save his dam Regal State (and
Nureyev's never been crossed with her!)
Danzig Like Nureyev one of the recent greats at stud and a good source of milers, Danzig’s damsire Admiral’s Voyage provides a long line of St. Marguerite for Affirmed (Sire’s dam Exclusive 4x5 to St. Marguerite’s grandson Rock Sand) and His Majesty (HM was 4x5 to Rock Sand’s son Tracery and seems to like the Baton Rouge branch of the St. Marguerite line; see Dynaformer and Risen Star’s dam Ribbon for examples of him with Hail To Reason besides the examples of him with Admiral’s Voyage through Danzig found below). He also hits key Pleasantly Perfect ancestor Crafty Admiral (Inbreeding to him through Danzig and Affirmed has worked; see chart). As is represented in this chart, Danzig nicks beautifully with His Majesty, Affirmed, and Lyphard (Graustark is included as confirmation of the Danzig / His Majesty nick):
A good example of a Danzig mare to breed to
Pleasantly Perfect is 1993 Kentucky Oaks winner and Phipps broodmare Dispute.
Her 2nd dam Lovely Morning was 1/3/3 Misty Morn / Hyperion /
Beau Pere; three horses found 3/4/4 in Pleasant Colony.
Lovely Morning and Pleasant Colony have combined in 315K SW Memory Tap
and 2003 Flash (GII) runner-up Hasslefree from a small sample. Lovely Morning’s sire Swaps combined with
fellow Darby Dan stallion His Majesty in Oh So Fair (the dam of English Filly
Triple Crown winner Oh So Sharp), Mehmet, Valley Crossing, Hollywood Story, etc. Swaps combined with Lyphard in Only Seule (Dam of 2xGI winner Occupandeste), Lyphard Gal (Dam of 2xGI winner Heritage Of Gold), Mean Eyes (dam of 3x Aussie GI winner Grand Archway), and Queen’s Court Queen (2xGI winner). Swaps combined with Affirmed in British Banker (winner of The Nearctic H. (Can-GI) and the Panamanian Horse of the Year Viva Pancho. (Note on Danzig and Nureyev: They have
combined in Irish Champion Desert King, Aussie Group One winner Danestorm, and
top grass mare Voodoo Dancer. She’s
a descendant of the great 19th century taproot mare Miss Agnes like
Pleasantly Perfect and would be an especially excellent mare to breed to him.) Irish River Irish River was an excellent broodmare sire and when bred to Pleasantly Perfect’s granddam La Trinite he got Seven Springs; a dual French group one winner and dam of the GIW Distant View, a Champion Miler and sire of Sightseek. Besides Seven Springs, Irish River and La Trinite’s sire Lyphard have combined in the first two generations of Hatoof (Won English 1000 Guineas, Champion St., and the Beverly D. over Hall Of Famer Flawlessly), Irish Prize (a GI winning brother to Hatoof), Agathe (GI placed dam of Aquarelliste; a GIW filly who was runner-up to Sakhee in the 2001 Arc), and Winona (Irish Oaks winner). Also Aquarelliste herself (a 3xGI
winner) was sired by His Majesty’s grandson Danehill and thus crossed Irish
River and Lyphard with Pleasantly Perfect’s grandsire His Majesty. And also an Irish River mare bred to Affirmed got Isle of
Glass; the dam of Grand Prix De Paris (Fr.-GI) winner Limpid (ped). Quiet American Quiet American won the NYRA Mile (GI) in an excellent time of 1:32 4/5 (The World-Record on dirt is 1:32 1/5, shared by Dr. Fager and Najran), and became to the surprise of many a big-time sire of such horses as Real Quiet, Cara Rafaela, and Hidden Lake. A highly inbred horse Quiet American is 2x3
to Dr. Fager and 3x4 to Cequillo. (If your going to inbred that closely, do it
like John Nerud did here; to an excellent racehorse+sire and a very well-bred
and successful broodmare [Note her two best foals started 73 and 41 times], who
had already combined with each other in the 1978 Sprint Champion Dr. Patches, a
gelding who once upset Seattle Slew.) Pleasantly Perfect’s grandam La Trinite would be an especially good match-up with Quiet American: La Trinite’s 3rd dam Prompt Payment and Quiet American’s 2nd dam Demure both have Hyperion and Prompt Payment’s dam Satenella is a very interesting cross with Demure’s 2nd dam Boldness; both were by Mahmoud out of a daughter of a Bull Dog / Sir Gallahad full sister (Noor Jahan or Marguerite De Valois). And La Trinite’s sire Lyphard is a surprisingly wonderful nick with Dr. Fager, his daughter Killaloe, his grandson Fappiano, and for that matter Fappiano’s great-granddam Cequillo from sources beside her world-famous great-grandson. Consult the following chart:
Dr. Fager and Pleasantly Perfect’s damsire Affirmed haven’t done as well, though Affirmed’s son Persevered got Raen (Ven), who won the second leg of the Venezuelan Triple Crown, from a granddaughter of Consequential, who was a ¾ sister to both Fappiano’s dam Killaloe and Quiet American’s dam Demure. At last turning to Quiet American in the context Pleasantly Perfect’s sireside; we find success there as well. Pleasant Colony got Ruffian H. (GI) winner and top-flight broodmare Shared Interest from a Dr. Fager mare. His sire His Majesty combined with Dr. Fager 2/3 in Charm A Gendarme (G3 winner and dam of Tout Charmant) and her full brother Charmonnier ($566K winner), 2/4 in Stephen Foster (GI) winner Colonial Colony, and 3/3 in Critical Eye (Gazelle (GI)+Hempstead (GI) winner) and Blumin Affair (G3W of $866K). In addition His Majesty combined 3/2 with Fappiano in Albert The Great. Pleasant Colony’s great-grandam Misty Morn is a blue hen by Princequillo over Mahmoud like Cequillo; they would be crossed 5/4x5 in a foal by Pleasantly Perfect out of a Quiet American mare. And Real Quiet, Quiet American’s best son so far, had Your Hostess (a ¾ sister to HM’s dam Flower Bowl) as his 3rd dam. Quiet American’s best daughter is probably 1997 Champion Handicap Mare Hidden Lake and she would be an interesting mare to breed to Pleasantly Perfect. Her damsire Round Table nicked very well with Affirmed in Hall of Famer Flawlessly, the good broodmare La Affirmed, and Champion Italian 2YO Tibullo. Hidden Lake’s 2nd dam Really Trying was obscurely bred but strong (4x5x5x5) to Teddy. In spite of her fairly obscure sire and very obscure damsire Really Trying's 3rd dam is the great English broodmare Carpet Slipper (The very same Carpet Slipper whose great-granddaughter Northern Sunset has had such an important role in the stud career of Pleasantly Perfect’s sire Pleasant Colony). Un Fappiano’s son Unbridled
was out of
a Le Fabuleux mare and that French-bred source of stamina was an excellent nick
with Lyphard. His Majesty tended to
throw top-heaviness though and I’m therefore somewhat dubious about Unbridled
mares for Pleasantly Perfect. Still
Unbridled did have a lot of Domino (42 crosses; a lot for an ’87 born
stallion) for Affirmed’s Correction female family and His Majesty combined 2/3
with Unbridled’s 2nd dam Magic in Santa Anita Derby winner and
Derby runner-up Cavonnier. Especially
careful attention will have to be paid to conformation for this cross to be
well-advised though. Princess Rooney Stakes winner Scenic Point is good example on pedigree of an Unbridled mare to breed to Pleasantly Perfect; her damsire is Riverman and her 4th dam Fallow was 3x4 to Gainsborough’s son Solario and 4x4 to Teddy (remember Regal State’s sire being strong to Teddy and Regal State’s dam being strong to Gainsborough). Honour and Glory Winner of Met Mile in a stakes-record 1:32.81 and the 7 furlong King’s Bishop in 1:21.78; Honour and Glory has lots of speed and tons of Teddy and Man O’ War blood. Like Quiet American he traces to Noor Jahan’s full sister Marguerite De Valois; and much as Quiet American got his best son Real Quiet from a great-granddaughter of Flower Bowl’s ¾ sister Your Hostess; Honour and Glory got his best daughter Caressing from a mare (Lovin Touch) 3x3 to Your Hostess and her full brother My Host. Pleasantly Perfect on an Honour and Glory
mare would be 5x5 Misty Morn/Cequillo (Princequillo over Mahmoud) and 4x5 to
Lyphard through his Multiple GI Producing daughter La Trinite and Prix
D’Ispahan (FR-GI) winning son Al Nasr. Broad Brush Broad Brush picks up Ribot, Princequillo,
and Nasrullah when matched up with Pleasant Colony and so far he’s got
Champion 3YO filly Farda Amiga from the Pleasant Colony mare Dry North. Also note Pleasant Colony’s paternal uncle Graustark
combined 4/1 with Broad Brush in Pompeii. Peter Pan winner Best Of Luck was sired by Broad Brush from a granddaughter of Affirmed’s sire Exclusive Native. And Broad Brush would also provide some much
needed speed without sacrificing durability. Sons and Grandsons of Nureyev Kingmambo A son of Mr. Prospector out of Nureyev’s 2 time Breeder’s Cup Mile winner Miesque; Kingmambo stands at Lane’s End for $225,000. His grandam Pasadoble was not only the dam of Miesque but also grandam of Breeder’s Cup Mile winning filly Six Perfections and Pasadoble crossed Graustark/Satanella 2/4. Pleasantly Perfect won the Breeder’s Cup Classic and the Dubai World Cup and crossed Graustark’s full brother His Majesty and Satanella 2/6. This got me thinking that maybe something’s going on here and sure enough, Graustark and Sanctus (a grandson of Satanella) also combined in the good broodmare Saintre Colere, who was G3 placed and the dam of Gamely H. (GI) winner La Koumia. From an even smaller sample His Majesty and Satanella’s daughter Prompt Payment also combined in Mortlock, a son of Danehill who won a turf mile Allowance at Hollywood Park in 1:34 3/5. If the combination of Ribot-Flower Bed with Satanella is playing a significant role in the success of an excellent broodmare like Pasadoble and a world-beater like Pleasantly Perfect it strikes me as quite desirable to reinforce it through said top-class horses. Another positive with Kingmambo is that he hails from the female family (Now What) of Affirmed’s best son Peteski and his dam Miesque is bred on a similar cross to Peteski’s dam Vive. Note also the success Kingmambo has had with the His Majesty mare Battle Creek Girl and Misty Morn’s sharing Princequillo and Mahmoud with Santa Quilla. As previously mentioned, a good mare by
Kingmambo to breed to Pleasantly Perfect would be Voodoo Dancer. Spinning World A young son of Nureyev, who so far has had more success as a sire in the Southern Hemisphere, out of the Riverman mare Imperfect Circle; Spinning World won The Irish Two Thousand Guineas, The Prix Jacques Marois (Fr.-GI) twice, and the 1997 Breeder’s Cup Mile. The sire of previously recommended broodmare sire Irish River; Spinning World’s damsire Riverman is a good nick with Pleasantly Perfect’s grandsire His Majesty (see 2xTime Melbourne Cup winning filly Makybe Diva, the top Miler Landseer, and the French Oaks winning filly Aquarelliste); his 2nd dam La Trinite (see Distant View); and in an overlap his 2nd damsire Lyphard. That leaves Spinning World’s 2nd dam; 1985 Irish Champion 3YO filly and excellent broodmare Aviance: To the cover of Pleasantly Perfect’s sire Pleasant Colony she produced Hollywood Derby (GI) and Manhattan (GI) winner Denon. Besides Denon, mares by her sire Northfields got European Horse of the Year St. Jovite, his full brother Lac Ouimet; and Manhattan H. (GI) winner of $1.7 Million Forbidden Apple (Who once ran a mile at Belmont in 1:33.41) when bred to Pleasant Colony. Sons and Grandsons of Danzig Danehill His Majesty has already been successfully inbred 3x3 to through Danehill and Pleasant Colony in Keeper; winner of the SJAC Goodwood St. (AUS-GI) and joint third on the 2000-01 Australasian 3YO classification (Sprint). And if you look back at the “Danzig” chart you’ll see Dress To Thrill (out of Affirmed mare) and Aqaurelliste (out of mare by Lyphard’s son Manilla), who were both by Danehill. Sea Hero A classic winning son of a broodmare like Glowing Tribute like Sea Hero should make a good sire of broodmares. His Majesty’s best son Pleasant Colony and his full brother Graustark’s best daughter Glowing Tribute have already combined 2/2 in the Champion Grass Mare of Canada, Hero’s Love. And another nice thing about Sea Hero is that the damsire of his sire Polish Navy, Tatan, was out of Valkyrie and she combined Blenheim the sire of Mahmoud with Teddy the sire of Sir Gallahad and Noor Jahan (Pleasantly Perfect being 3x5 to Flower Bowl and Prompt Payment, who of course crossed Mahmoud with either Sir Gallahad or his sister Noor Jahan). Sea Hero’s best daughter Cindy’s Hero is out an Alleged mare and Alleged got Thousand Guineas St. (GB-GI); English Oaks (GB-GI); and Prix Marcel Boussac (FR-GI) winner Midway Lady from a His Majesty mare. Green Desert A July Cup (GB-GI) winner and top-notch sire of sprinters like Sheikh Albadou in Great Britain who may be best know as the paternal grandsire of the International Super-Mares Sunline and Ouija Board; Green Desert is a son of Danzig out of a Sir Ivor sired daughter of blue hen mare Courtly Dee. He would give Pleasantly Perfect speed; perhaps too much to be compatible but it might be worth a shot. Green Desert got two Group One winning
sprinters (Oasis Dream and Tamarisk) from granddaughters of Lyphard and to a
granddaughter of His Majesty he got Prix Robert Papin winner (FR-GII)
Greenlander. From the Affirmed mare Isle of Glass he sired Mejiro Darling; who finished second in the Sprinters St. (JAP-GI). And his 2nd damsire Never Bend was the sire of Riverman (analyzed in connection with Irish River and Spinning World) and his damsire Sir Ivor returns Princequillo, Mahmoud, and Sir Gallahad to Pleasantly Perfect. Tulle, the 3rd dam of Green Desert, is by Affirmed’s damsire Crafty Admiral’s damsire War Admiral out of a mare by Beau Pere, the 2nd damsire of His Majesty. Tulle also combined the Maniac (4-c) line through Man O’ War in the 2nd generation and the Miss Agnes (16-a) line through Sir Gallahad in the 3rd. Remember Pleasantly Perfect’s grandsire His Majesty (4-d) and dam Regal State (16-a). Pine Bluff A Preakness winner and fairly disappointing sire, Pine Bluff is 5x5 to Fighting Fox and 4x4 to Almahmoud. He’s also 3/3 Hail To Reason/Admiral’s Voyage; who both had Baton Rouge as their 4th dam. Baton Rouge was in turn 3/4 to Rock Sand and his 7/8 relative Trefle. Recall that Exclusive and Flower Bowl were inbred to either Rock Sand or his son Tracery and that Fighting Fox and his full brother Gallant Fox traced back to the same St. Marguerite female line. Recall also the powerful bringing together
of Affirmed (linebred heavily to Teddy) and La Trinite (linebred heavily to
Gainsborough) in Regal State because Pine Bluff’s 2nd damsire
Rambunctious was by Rasper; a sire inbred 3x3 to Gainsborough and 4x4 to Teddy
and tracing back to the Miss Agnes line like Pleasantly Perfect. Pine Bluff was also 5x6 to Brilliant Sprinter and strong source of speed Fair Trial; to whom Pleasantly Perfect was linebred 6x6 through Court Martial and Cockrullah (that 6x6 is probably a real key to Pleasantly Perfect not being too over the top in terms of stamina). Additional Recommend Broodmare Sire are
Gilded Time; Bien Bien; and Roberto or his sons Dynaformer, Brian’s Time, and
Lear Fan. Conclusion Of Course, the pedigree, conformation, and temperament of the individual mare is of paramount importance in any breeding decision. And if Pleasantly Perfect makes it as a sire he will no doubt get some good horses from broodmare sires unrepresented in this article. Yet I think the 20 or so broodmare sires listed are, things being equal, far more likely to succeed with him than almost all others. This article is, in part, an attempt to predict the future; and as such its validity may in a few years be objectively evaluated. |
