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Forli was horse of the year in South America in 1966, and is a good if not brilliant sire; his son Forceten was considered a very good prospect for last year's Derby. Hyperion, Forli's grandsire, is one of the finest tail-male lines in racing...
Lady Golconda's sire, Hasty Road, was a good racer (he won over $500,000) and a notable sire. He is by Roman, who was twice leading Juvenile sire and once leading broodmare sire. Roman is in turn by Sir Gallahad III, one of the greatest sires of all time, the sire of triple crown winner Gallant Fox, and the grandsire of triple crown winner Omaha. Hasty Road's maternal grandsire is Discovery, a champion racer and an excellent sire. Other daughters of Discovery include Miss Disco, Bold Ruler's dam, and Geisha, the dam of Native Dancer. Discovery...
Childhood endowed Ernst with a rich compost of obsessions. His father was a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, an amateur painter who taught in a school for deaf-mutes in the Rhineland town of Brühl. Little Max briefly persuaded this eccentric sire that he was the child Jesus. Memories of this sort underlie Ernst's most notorious thrust of anticlerical wit, a spanking Madonna entitled The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses (1926). When his baby sister was born and his favorite bird, a pink cockatoo, died on the same day in 1906, a whole...
...Sham." So many horsemen agreed that only three other three-year-olds were entered in the race, making it the smallest Belmont field in 30 years. Johnny Campo, trainer of Twice a Prince, talked bravely of a major upset, making the familiar point that Bold Ruler, Secretariat's sire, was not known for producing horses of lasting stamina...
...theory that you can breed a brilliant sire of young speedballs with the daughter of a line of gallant and tireless plodders and thereby produce a superhorse may be entirely wrong. Indeed, many people think that all breeding theories are wrong. "What you really need to get a good foal," one expert has said, "is a male horse, a female-and a lot of luck...