Page 35 - Speedhorse February 2018

Mary in the pedigree of Beggar Boy. We don’t want to forget that FDD
Dynasty traced in the tail female line to Grace H who has a breeding pattern of 1x2 to Cutthroat, the dam of Oklahoma Star P-6, another example of inbreeding to a mare.
So, the breeding pattern of Paula Thomasina to the sisters Jenny and Baby Ruth certainly reinforces this interesting breeding theory.
The dam of Double Snooper is Midnight Snooper. This 1945 mare earned her ROM in 1949 having earned an A rating on the track. This is a good rating for the late 1940’s and today is the equivalent of a 75 speed index. Midnight Snooper has 16 official starts with five wins, two seconds and one third earning a total of $12,212.
Midnight Snooper was purchased by Clarence Scharbauer Jr. in the early 1960’s where she would be bred to Double Bid to produce three foals: Double Snooper, Snooper Bid and Double Snipper. All three were AAA/ ROM on the track. Scharbauer also owned her daughter Indigo Bar by Lightning Bar that earned an ROM with an AAA rating, giving her four ROM runners from five starters. They would earn $42,999 with Snooper Bid being the high money earner.
Midnight Snooper was bred by V.O. Hildreth of Aledo, Texas. Hildreth may best
be known for his ties to cutting horses. He
was the Secretary-Treasurer of the National Cutting Horse Association in 1946 and 1947 in the first two years of their existence. He sold a mare named Housekeeper to Robert Corbett,
and she e
w
w
A
e
e
n
n
t
g
t
g
o
o
o
o
n
t
n
t
o
b
o
b
e
t
e
t
h
h
e
1
e
1
9
9
4
4
9
N
9
N
C
C
H
H
A
Open World Champion Cutting Horse. Hildreth owned the sire and dam of
Midnight Snooper. Her sire was Old Man, a King Ranch bred stallion. He is a sire of arena performers such as AQHA Champion and Superior Cutting Horse Aledo Red Man. Old Man sired one racing ROM in Midnight Snooper.
The sire of Old Man is Old Sorrel, the King Ranch foundation sire for their Old Sorrel line of Quarter Horses. Old Sorrel takes us back to Alice, Texas, and George Clegg. Clegg was a roper and racehorse man that raced Little Joe and sold him to Ott Adams. Clegg had bought a colt named Hickory Bill from his breeders widow
Mrs. Samuel Watkins. Hickory Bill is by noted racehorse Peter McCue, a foundation Quarter Horse sire.
Hickory Bill is the sire of Old Sorrel. The King Ranch bought Old Sorrel as a colt and he became the best cow horse they had ever come across and they wanted to perpetuate his line. They did it by inbreeding and line breeding to this great sire.
The pedigree of Old Man shows that he is by Old Sorrel and out of China, a daughter of Cardenal, a son of Old Sorrel, giving him a breeding pattern of 1x3 to Old Sorrel. Cardenal is out of a Thoroughbred mare.
The dam of Midnight Snooper is Baird Lady, a 1941 brown mare. She was bred by Fred Cutbirth of Baird, Texas. The sire of this mare is Fred Bailey, who was sired by Old Joe Bailey.
O
O
d
l
l
d
J
d
J
o
o
e
B
e
B
a
a
i
i
l
l
e
e
y
w
y
w
a
a
s
k
s
k
n
n
o
o
w
w
n
a
n
a
s
W
s
W
e
e
a
a
t
t
h
h
e
e
r
r
f
f
o
o
r
r
d
Joe Bailey and should not be confused with Gonzales Joe Bailey, who is registered in the AQHA Studbook as Joe Bailey P-4.
Old Joe Bailey is by Eureka, a son of Shelby by Tom Driver who was a son of Steel Dust. The dam of Shelby is Mittie Stephens by Shiloh Jr by Shiloh. Jennie Capps, the dam of Eureka, shows the same breeding, as she is by Dash by Little Jeff Davis by Shiloh, and she is out of Bay Puss by Mounts by Steel Dust.
Susie McWhorter is the dam of Old Joe Bailey and is sired by Ben Burton by Blind Barney by Steel Dust, and she is out of Aury by Old Dutchman by Lock’s Rondo, who
is sired by Whalebone by Old Billy. The dam of Lock’s Rondo is Mittie Stephens. This gives Old Joe Bailey a breeding pattern of 3x5 to Mittie Stephens and another line breeding to an outstanding female. Here is another one: Susie McWhorter is by Ben Burton and he is out of a daughter of Bailes’ Brown Dick. The dam of Susie McWhorter is Aury who is out of a mare by Bailes’ Brown Dick, another line breeding to mares with the two daughters of Bailes’ Brown Dick. The dam of Baird Lady is a Fred Cutbirth mare whose breeding is unknown.
Some might think that we have gone a long way back in the pedigree for this look at our repeat World Champion Jessies First Down, but this trip back has given us some insight into the power of the mare. It also shows how linebreeding to that power has influenced not only Jessies First Down, but
t
t
.
h
h
e
b
e
b
r
r
e
e
e
e
d
a
d
a
s
w
s
w
e
e
l
l
l
l
.
Jessies First Down scored an authoritative 2 1/2-length victory in the All American Gold Cup-G1.
SPEEDHORSE, February 2018 33
SPEEDLINES