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Mr Jess Perry is Scoopie Fein by Sinn Fein by Three Oh’s. The dam of Scoopie Fein is Legs La Scoop by Scooper Chick.
When we take a closer look at Streakin Six, we see that he is by 1974 Sun Country Futurity and 1975 Kansas Derby winner Easy Six, who is by Easy Jet. The dam of Easy Six is Peggy Toro by Hijo The Bull TB by Spotted Bull. The dam of Peggy Toro is Prescott Peggy Joe by Double Joe H. The dam of Prescott Peggy Joe is Peggy N by Clabber.
What makes the pedigree of Easy Six so interesting comes into focus when we look at the pedigree of Diamond For Leigh. Her sire, Cameronian, is out of Peggy Toro. This makes Cameronian a half-brother to Easy Six. This also gives the pedigree of Apocalyptical Jess a breeding pattern of 5x3 to these half-brothers as well as a breeding pattern of 6x4 to Peggy Toro.
When you discuss pedigrees and pedigree patterns with Miller, you get a sense that a lot goes into his evaluation of the pedigree and how he observes such things as the nicks that he is seeing. When he discusses Cassandra Crest, he sees how she has crossed with Mr Jess Perry sons and grandsons to form a nick that produces good runners and quality individuals.
Apocalyptical Jess serves as the prime example of the nick between sons of Mr Jess Perry and Cassandra Crest. Miller reinforces how he sees this nick with Apollitical Crest, a 2016 full brother Apocalyptical Jess. This colt was sold last year at the Heritage Place Yearling Sale for $105,000, making him the fourth highest seller for the sale. The sale price for this colt shows the quality from this cross. Sadly he died before he was able to contribute to the nick as a racehorse.
We can also look at CC Kachina Eagle, the stakes placed daughter out of Cassandra Crest and by One Famous Eagle by Mr Jess Perry. Cassandra Crest has also produced the ROM runners CC La Blue by Jess Louisiana Blue by Mr Jess Perry, and CC Spittin Image by Spit Curl by Jess Mr Jess Perry. CC La Blue was a finalist
in the Manuel Lujan Stakes, giving Cassandra Crest five race age foals from this cross with four starters/ROM, one stakes winner and one stakes placed runner-all sired by sons of Mr Jess Perry.
When we add Cassandra Crest’s stakes winning daughter CC Seis to the list, we see her sire Tres Seis. This allows us to make an interesting observation. Tres Seis is by Sixarun by Streakin Six by Easy Six. This reinforces how Peggy Toro provides Easy Six and Cameronian with a blood affinity and how we see blood affinities in many of the good nicks.
The dam of Apollitical Jess is 2005 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly, 2006 Champion Aged Mare and 2006 Champion Aged Horse Apollitical Time. She had 35 starts, winning
14 races, including 10 stakes events and racked up earnings of $904,242. Her wins include the 2005 Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1, 2005 Governor’s Cup Derby-RG1, 2006 Mildred N Vessels Memorial Handicap-G1 and the 2006 Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1.
2010 AQHA Broodmare of the Year Apollitical Time has produced nine foals with eight starters and six ROM with three having a speed index above 90 and three with a speed index above 100. Her foals have earned over $1.5 million and include stakes placed runner Rock And Roll, who has seconds in the 2015 Quarter Racing Journal Stakes and 2016 Tallahassee Stakes, and who was a finalist in the 2015 West Texas Maturity-G3 and the Sam Houston Championship Challenge-G2. He earned $50,886 on the track.
The sire of Apollitical Time is Apollo TB. Winner of the 1990 San Miguel Stakes, and the 1991 California Breeders’ Champion Stakes and the Baffle Stakes, Apollo had 23 starts with five wins, four seconds and four thirds earning $354,475. Apollo is by Falstaff and out of Tumble Along by Tumble Wind.
Apollo is the sire of Quarter Horses that have won approximately $8 million, including 1999 Champion 3 Year Old and Champion 3-Year-Old Gelding Old Habits, who won
the 1999 All American Derby-G1 and Los Alamitos Derby-G1 and earned $680,966.
Half Time Attraction is the dam of Apollitical Time. She placed in the 1999 The Classics Futurity and the California Juvenile Challenge-G3, earning $14,734. She is the dam of 11 ROM, including In His Dream,
a stakes placed runner in the Denim N Diamonds Handicap.
Half Time Attraction is by First Down Dash and out of Favorite Attraction by Easy Jet. This makes Half Time Attraction and Holland Ease 3/4-siblings, representing a collateral linebreeding pattern to First Down Dash and an Easy Jet mare in the pedigree of Apocalyptical Jess.
This then takes us to the breeding pattern “returning of the blood” we find so common in our horses today, where the linebreeding pattern comes together with common ancestors coming to the foal through his dam and the dam of
his sire. This increases the influence of the sire’s dam and her pedigree on the foal because of the linebreeding. In this case, we see the linebreeding with the First Down Dash/Easy Jet cross.
It is interesting that Danny Joe Miller didn’t even know that Quarter Horses were racehorses when he started out. But once he got the fever, he tells how he set out to build a breeding program. His breeding program has developed good racehorses and his patience and persistence has paid off to win the All American Futurity.
Apocalyptical Jess has a breeding pattern of 5x3 to half- brothers Cameronian and Easy Six and a breeding pattern of 6x4 to Peggy Toro.
Peggy Toro, the dam of Cameronian.
Cameronian, is the sire of Diamond For Leigh, the dam of Cassandra Crest, who is the dam of Apocalyptical Jess.
World Champion broodmare sire Easy Six.
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