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SPEEDLINES
Ballot Midway
Thirty-Third
Bulse Gossip Avenue
Voter
Cerito
Sir Dixon
High Degree Disguise Nethersole Magneto
Rose Tree Commando Running Stream Trenton
Sandfly
Ben Brush Sandfly Carlsbad Semper Victoire St Frusquin
Lady Loverule Cyllene
Scene
Henry Young Quiver Renssalaer Wantage
Voter
Running Stream Dr. Leggo Georgia Girl Yankee Fancywood Martinet
Agnes Brennan
Percentage
Three Bars
Luke McLuke
Civil Maid
Atwell
Polly H
Morvich
Cushion
Rosewood Ultimus Midge Patriot Civil Rule St Amant Doro Heno
Polly Runnymede Hymir Nonpareil Hassock
Myrtle Dee
Cartago
Golden Rocket
Morshion
Club Stakes in England. He was raced in England as Disguise II. Disguise is by the great speed sire Domino. The dam Bulse is Nethersole by Tournament.
Myrtle Dee, the dam of Three Bars, set a New Track Record for 5 1/2-furlongs at the Coney Island Track in Cincinnati. She had 15 starts with five wins, earning $5,509. She is the dam of eight foals, seven starters, six winners and one stakes winner in Three Bars.
The sire of Myrtle Dee is Luke McLuke, an important source of speed for the American Quarter Horse. His influence often comes from the dam’s side of the pedigree, with him being the broodmare sire of Three Bars serving as a great example. Luke McLuke had two daughters that have proven important in their sire’s record and showing the speed he passed on to his foals. The first is Anita Peabody, the 1927 winner of the Belmont Futurity at 6 furlongs, over the colts. She actually won seven of her six starts, including another important race in the 6 furlong Churchill Downs Debutante Futurity. She was the 1927 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly. Anita Peabody died after producing only three foals with two of them sired by Reigh Count, the sire of Triple Crown winner Count Fleet. They are: Our
Count, earner of $37,215 and a multiple stakes winner including in the Dallas Handicap and Pontiac Handicap; and Our Reigh, winner of $20,675 and several stakes, including the Pontiac Handicap.
Nellie Morse is the other foal out of Anita Peabody, and she won the 5 furlong Fashion Stakes, and was second in the 6 furlong Matron Stakes and Spinaway Stakes. She came back at three to be the Champion Three-Year-Old Filly with wins in the Pimlico Stakes (now the Black Eyed Susan) and the Preakness Stakes, against the colts. Nellie Morse is the dam of Nellie Flag, the 1934 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly. She won races like the Selima Stakes at 5.5 furlongs and the Matron Stakes at six furlongs. She stretched out to win the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at 1 1/16 mile.
Luke McLuke is a son of unraced Ultimus, who is the sire of a number of other runners including Stimulus, an earner of $67,598 who showed his speed with wins
in the Hartsdale Stakes at 5.75 furlongs
and the Oceanus Handicap at six furlongs and a second in the Belmont Futurity at 6 furlongs. He also won the Pimlico Futurity at 8 furlongs. He didn’t race at three due to an injury. Ultimus is by Commando by Domino
and out of Running Stream by Domino. The Domino breeding in Luke McLuke fives Three Bars his second and third cross to Domino. This gives Three Bars a 5x5x5 breeding pattern to Domino.
Myrtle Dee is out of Civil Maid by Patriot. The race record for Patriot is a mystery, as some sources show he was a “multiple winner” of what we can’t find. He doesn’t even show up on his dam’s equineline.com produce record. When we go to equineonline.com and Equibase, we find lots of mystery. Patriot is
a son of Ben Brush. Myrtle Dee’s Domino/ Ben Brush breeding accounts for much of her sprinting ability. The Domino/Ben Brush cross is found in such speed producers as
the legendary sire Top Deck. Chicaro, the broodmare sire of Top Deck, is out of Wendy and she carries the blood of Domino and Ben Brush in her pedigree.
Myrtle Dee is inbred to *Sandfly, who was bred to Trenton to get Midge – the dam of Luke McLuke *Sandfly was bred
to Ben Brush to get Patriot, the sire of Civil Maid, the dam of Myrtle Dee. Thus, Myrtle Dee is 3x3 linebred to *Sandfly, who is a link between the Domino and Ben Brush breeding found in Myrtle Dee. She apparently crossed well with both lines.
Then we look at the pedigree of *Sandfly and we see that she has a breeding pattern
of 3x3 to Stockwell. Her sire Isonomy is out of Isola Bella by Stockwell, and her dam Sandaway is by Doncaster by Stockwell. Stockwell is a son of Pocahontas, the great foundation mare by Glencoe, who figures prominently in the pedigree of Domino as his dam Mannie Gray is out of Lizzie G who has a breeding pattern of 3x4x4 to Glencoe. The dam of the Quarter Horse foundation sire Peter McCue is Nora M, who has a breeding pattern of 3x4x3 to Glencoe.
The breeding pattern of *Sandfly in the pedigree of Three Bars allows us to focus on the theory about “inbreeding to superior females” with the 3x3 breeding pattern
that comes to Three Bars through his dam. We see it again in Domino and his full sister Correction. Their second dam Lizzie G has the breeding pattern of 3x4x3 to Glencoe, with two of these Glencoe crosses coming through the mare Reel, a daughter of Glencoe. This is inbreeding to Reel and another case of “inbreeding to superior females.” The third cross to Glencoe is through his daughter Julia.
Golden Rocket is by Cartago and out of Morshion by Morvich. Golden Rocket won the Washington State Futurity at Longacres Racetrack in 1942 in 1:06.20 for 5 1/2 furlongs. The produce record for Golden
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