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by
Miodrag Milovanovic ©
This article continues our efforts
to analyze world best horses by scrutinizing winners of world
Group/Grade 1 races.
First such
article appeared on PedigreePost site, in February 2002.
Horses analyzed in that articles were winners of Group/Grade
1 races in countries accepted by the International
Cataloguing Standards Commitee: Argentina, Australia,
Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland,
Italy, New Zealand, United States of America, Hong Kong,
United Arab Emirates. I've included in that list G1 races in
Japan accepted by Japan Association for International Horse
Races, because of it's quality. Also, because of lack of
data, in that first article, horses from Chile, Peru, South
Africa were excluded.
In this
second article of that kind, all Group/Grade 1 winner in
countries accepted by the International Cataloguing
Standards Commitee are included, again with added winners of
G1 races in Japan, accepted by Japan Association for
International Horse Races.
Races
|
Country
|
G1 races
|
Total # Races
|
%
of G1 to Total
|
|
Argentina
|
48
|
7100
|
0,68
|
|
Australia
|
64
|
22000
|
0,29
|
| Brazil
|
34
|
5800
|
0,59
|
|
Canada
|
5
|
5600
|
0,09
|
|
Chile
|
21
|
5100
|
0,41
|
|
France
|
26
|
3800
|
0,68
|
|
UAE
|
4
|
250
|
1,60
|
|
GB
|
28
|
4400
|
0,64
|
|
Germany
|
7
|
2400
|
0,29
|
|
Hong
Kong
|
5
|
650
|
0,77
|
|
Ireland
|
10
|
800
|
1,25
|
|
Italy
|
8
|
4800
|
0,17
|
|
Japan
|
21
|
18200
|
0,12
|
|
New
Zealand
|
22
|
2650
|
0,83
|
|
Peru
|
11
|
1800
|
0,61
|
|
South
Africa
|
34
|
4100
|
0,83
|
|
USA
|
100
|
55100
|
0,18
|
|
Total
|
448
|
144550
|
0,31
|
Horses
The total
number of analysed G1 races is 448. There are 349 different
winners of these races. Horses with greatest number of wins
are:
|
Horse
|
Wins
|
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Miss Terrible
|
7
|
|
Azeri
|
5
|
|
Rock Of Gibraltar
|
5
|
|
Free My Heart
|
4
|
|
Sunline
|
4
|
|
You
|
4
|
|
Beat Hollow
|
3
|
|
Eclipse West
|
3
|
|
Falbrav
|
3
|
|
Freddy
|
3
|
|
High Chaparral
|
3
|
|
Kazzia
|
3
|
|
Laisserfaire
|
3
|
|
Marienbard
|
3
|
|
Mister Phone
|
3
|
|
Northerly
|
3
|
|
Storm Flag Flying
|
3
|
|
War Emblem
|
3
|
|
Wild Spirit
|
3
|
|
With Anticipation
|
3
|
Sires
and Broodmare Sires
These 349
horses were sired by 200 different sires and 215 broodmare
sires. Sires with greatest number of winners (more than 3)
are:
|
Sire
|
#
G1
|
Broodmare
Sire
|
#
G1
|
|
Danehill
|
10
|
Ahonoora
|
4
|
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Sadler's Wells
|
10
|
Danzig
|
4
|
|
Roy
|
4
|
Darshaan
|
4
|
|
Spend A Buck
|
4
|
Marscay
|
4
|
|
Storm Cat
|
4
|
Sir Tristram
|
4
|
|
Affirmed
|
3
|
Ahmad
|
3
|
|
Brian's Time
|
3
|
Centaine
|
3
|
|
Golden Voyager
|
3
|
Cox's Ridge
|
3
|
|
Gone West
|
3
|
Dancing Brave
|
3
|
|
Machiavellian
|
3
|
Dancing Champ
|
3
|
|
National Assembly
|
3
|
Ghadeer
|
3
|
|
Scenic
|
3
|
Miswaki
|
3
|
|
Sunday Silence
|
3
|
Rainbow Quest
|
3
|
|
|
|
Riverman
|
3
|
|
|
|
Seattle Slew
|
3
|
|
|
|
Storm Cat
|
3
|
|
|
|
Strawberry Road
|
3
|
|
|
|
Woodman
|
3
|
Dual serving
Danehill (Danzig) is again first on the sire list with 10
individual winners, the same number as last year, but this
time he had more winners from Northern Hemisphere. But this
time he is not alone, as Sadler’s Wells has same number of
G1 winners, but all on Northern Hemisphere.
Foundation
Sires
The situation
in regards to preserving the Byerley Turk and Godolphin
Arabian sire lines is still pretty grim. The following table
shows that less than 4% of the world's top horses are from
these two sirelines.
|
Sireline
|
#
|
%
|
Broodmare
Sireline
|
#
|
%
|
|
Darley Arabian
|
337
|
96.56
|
Darley Arabian
|
325
|
93.12
|
|
Byerley Turk
|
7
|
2.01
|
Byerley Turk
|
18
|
5.16
|
|
Godolphin Arabian
|
5
|
1.43
|
Godolphin Arabian
|
6
|
1.72
|
Modern
Sirelines
Taking a step
ahead, and looking at more recent branches of the dominant
Darley Arabian sireline there is evident dominance of the
Northern Dancer sireline with more than one third of all G1
winners sired by his descendants.
|
Sireline
|
#
|
%
|
Broodmare
Sireline
|
#
|
%
|
|
Northern Dancer
|
127
|
36.39
|
Northern Dancer
|
88
|
25.21
|
|
Mr Prospector
|
65
|
18.62
|
Mr Prospector
|
27
|
7.74
|
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Hail To Reason
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