Page 30 - Speedhorse February 2020

2019 WorldChampion
HE LOOKS HOT see He Looks Hot’s pedigree on page 52 by Larry Thornton
28 SPEEDHORSE, February 2020
When someone builds a house, or any building, they start with a good
foundation. We have learned that a structure is only as strong
as the foundation on which it is built. Horsemen have learned the same thing about breeding good horses. They
have come to know that they have to start with a good foundation to develop
their breeding program. Breeders see that foundation in the mares on the bottom line of the bracket pedigree. We call this line
of mares the tail female line and every tail female line should trace to a Taproot Mare, which is the foundation of that mare family.
Many breeders have embraced the theory of mare families as the base or foundation
of their breeding program. When you look at the pedigree history of 2019 World Champion He Looks Hot, you get an example of how owner/breeder Dr. Ed Allred has adopted and built his breeding program on good mare families.
He Looks Hot is a 2012 gelding by Walk Thru Fire and out of Look Her Over. This gelding has shown a lot of heart in defying the odds when he survived two colic surgeries during his 3-year-old year. He Looks Hot was off to a good start when he won the 2014 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1. Then,
he missed his 2015 campaign with a battle against colic that took two surgeries for him to recover and survive. This series of hurdles would have forced most horses to retire or, at best, limit their future race career.