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SPEEDLINES
The influence of Domino in the Thoroughbred and American Quarter Horse is astonishing and almost unbelievable.
He sired just 19 named foals and yet it is exceedingly difficult not to find him in a pedigree. He raced from 1893 to 1895, with 25 starts and 19 wins. He won eight stakes, all at five and six furlongs at two, including the Futurity Stakes at six furlongs and the Great American Stakes at five furlongs. He won four stakes at three, including the Withers Stakes at 8 furlongs and the Flying Stakes
at six furlongs. He won two stakes at four, including the Coney Island Handicap at six furlongs and the Sheepshead Bay Handicap
at eight furlongs. He earned $193,650 and was the Horse of the Year in 1893. Among his 19 foals are seven stakes winners, including Disguise, Commando, Running Stream and Noonday. These four foals have carried the load for much of Domino’s contribution to the two breeds. His daughter, race winner Pink Domino, produced Sweep by Ben Brush which has become a noted contributor to the Domino legacy.
Disguise won the Jockey Club Stakes in England as a 3 year old and sired 15 stakes winners including Maskette, who won 12 of her 17 starts with 10 stakes races including
the Spinaway Stakes where she set a New Track Record for the seven furlongs. She was the Champion Filly at two and three and was never beaten by fillies and mares. Disguise is best known to us as the sire of Bulse, the sire of Gossip Avenue the dam of Percentage the sire of Three Bars.
Commando was like his sire Domino in that he lived a short life. He was the winner of seven of his nine starts, breaking down at the age of three. He won five stakes races at two, all at six furlongs including the Zephyr Stakes. He won the Belmont at three going 10 furlongs. He was the Horse of the Year
in 1900 and 1901 and earned $58,196. The pedigree of Commando is interesting based on what we have profiled so far, and he has a breeding pattern of 4x5x5x5x5 to Lexington.
Commando died from tetanus and
sired only 27 foals and 10 stakes winners, including Colin and Celt. Colin is considered by many to be one of the great racehorses of all time. He won 15 of 15 starts, including 14 stakes races. He won
11 stakes races at two, with nine of them being stakes races of five to six furlongs. The other two were seven-furlong races. He won three stakes at three, including the Belmont Stakes at a 1 1/2 miles. He earned $180,912.
Celt is the winner of four of his six starts earning $29,585. His stakes wins came in the Junior Championship a two and the Brooklyn Handicap at three. The year Celt won the Brooklyn, it was run at 1 1/4 miles.
It is through Commando and his sisters Running Stream and Noonday that we see
a great deal of the influence of Domino passed on to the next generation. Running Stream is a stakes winner, including the July Cup at Newmarket. She produced Ultimus by Commando, and Runnymede by Voter. Ultimus is the sire of Luke McLuke, the broodmare sire of Three Bars. Runnymede is the sire of Morvich, the sire of Morshion who is the second dam of Rocket Bar. Noonday, a stakes winner in the Bell Stakes, is the dam of High Time, the great source of speed that appears in pedigrees of horses like Joe Reed II and many others.
Peter Pan, by Commando, is another stallion that has had an interesting impact on the Domino influence on the Quarter Horse. We have already seen him show up in some other horses we have covered. He was foaled in 1904 and lived until 1933.
He had 17 starts on the track with 10 wins, three seconds and one third and earnings of $115,450. Peter Pan won nine stakes races,
PIGGIN STRING (pictured) is the sire of seven stakes winners, including 3-time Champion Rukin String.
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