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American Pharoah, led by Jimmy Barnes with trainer Bob Baffert looking on, arrives at Belmont Park for the third leg of the Triple Crown.
Question Mark, the great Quarter Horse runner that outran the great Shue Fly.
The sire of American Pharoah’s dam Littleprincessemma is Yankee Gentleman, a stakes winner of the Pirate’s Bounty with four wins in his ten race career. He earned $202,547. The sire of Yankee Gentleman
is Storm Cat, who was sired by Storm Bird by Northern Dancer. Northern Dancer was sired by Nearctic, who was out of Lady Angela, a daughter of Hyperion.
Storm Cat won $570,610 on his way to four wins in eight starts. He won the Young America Stakes-G1, a race run at 8.5 fur- longs. He became a perennial leading sire whose stud fee at one time was $500,000. His foals earned over $127 million with eight Champions and 108 stakes winners. One of those stakes winners was Tabasco Cat. Tabasco Cat won the 1994 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. The interesting part of Tabasco Cat is his pedigree. He is out of Barbique Sauce by Sauce Boat by Key To The Mint, the half-brother to Key To The Kingdom, who was the sire of Castle Eight, the second dam of Pioneerof The Nile.
The dam of Yankee Gentleman is Key Phrase, a daughter of Flying Paster. Flying Paster was a stakes winner from two to four with wins like the Norfolk Stakes, Santa Anita Derby and San Antonio Handicap. The sire of Flying Paster was Gummo by Fleet Nasrullah. Gummo was the winner of such stakes as the Swaps. The interest- ing part of Gummo’s pedigree is his dam Alabama Gal. She was sired by Determine by Alibhai by Hyperion. Determine was
a Kentucky Derby winner and the sire of Decidedly, a Kentucky Derby winner.
The dam of Key Phrase is Sown by Grenfall, who was a stakes winning son of Gaustark. Graustark was sired by Ribot and out of Heavenly Flower, who was sired Alibhai by Hyperion. This gives us another cross to Hyperion. The dam of Grenfall was Primonetta by Swaps by Khaled by Hyperion. The dam of Sown is Bad Seed, who is out of Rich And Rare. Rich And Rare is sired by Rockafella by Hyperion.
The dam of Littleprincessemma is Exclusive Rosette, who had four wins in 17 starts with one of those a win in the Florida Thoroughbred Charity Stakes. The sire of Exclusive Rosette was Ecliptical. This stal- lion, who was the winner of one start in ten races, is a graded stakes sire with foals like Ohio Derby-G2 winner Exclusive Praline.
The sire of Ecliptical is Exclusive Native, who was the sire of the Triple Crown winner Affirmed and the Kentucky Derby win- ning mare Genuine Risk. Exclusive Native
Eight. This mare had three wins and earnings of $30,355. She is the dam of one other stakes winner in Power Castle, who won such races as the Malibu Stakes-G2 and the Vernon O. Underwood Breeder’s Cup Stakes-G3.
Castle Eight is sired by Key To The Kingdom, a son of Bold Ruler, and he was out of a daughter of Princequillo. This makes Key To The Kingdom a 3/4-brother to Secretariat. Key To The Kingdom won only one stakes in the Styme Handicap at 1 1/8-mile.
The dam of this horse was Key Bridge, who was the dam of Key To The Mint, a win- ner of the mile and a quarter Travis Stakes and the mile and a half Woodward Stakes.
The dam of Castle Eight was Her Native, a mare that won five races at three and four and earned $32,491. Her Native produced only one stakes placed runner in Blackened. The sire of Her Native was Kanumera, who won only one stakes in five years of racing
in the Harvest Stakes at Fresno. His sire
was Native Dancer, the great runner that won 20 of 21 starts including the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. He was second in the Kentucky Derby, his only defeat.
The dam of Kanumera was Believe Me by Alibhai by Hyperion. Alibhai is an unraced
stallion. He is most familiar to Quarter Horse people through Dash For Cash. Alibhai is the sire of Hide And Seek, the sec- ond dam of Dash For Cash. Hide and Seek is out of Scattered, who is out of Imperatrice. Imperatrice is the second dam of Secretariat.
The dam of Her Native is the unraced mare Little Blessing, who was sired by Olympia and out of Blessed Pat by Pavot. Olympia was sired by Heliopolis by Hyperion.
The dam of Olympia was Miss Dolphin. She was sired by Stimulus and out of Tinamau by Light Brigade. Miss Dolphin has some ancestors that are very significant to Quarter Horses. Her sire Stimulus was sired by Ultimus, the intensely inbred Domino stallion. Stimulus is the sire of Captains Courageous, who sired Rey. Rey is best known as the sire of Frontera Sugar, the dam of the AQHA Hall of Fame stallion Sugar Bars.
Tinamou, the dam of Miss Dolphin, is out of Casuarina who is sired by Plaudit. This is the Plaudit that won the 1898 Kentucky Derby. He was sired by Himyar, the sire of Domino. Plaudit the Thoroughbred is the sire of King Plaudit, the sire of the Quarter Horse Plaudit. The Quarter Horse Plaudit is the sire of
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