{"id":12333,"date":"2019-05-27T09:12:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12333"},"modified":"2019-05-27T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T15:12:15","slug":"early-nomination-broodmare-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/early-nomination-broodmare-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Nomination for Broodmare of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Though the pedigree of Country House has already been discussed in depth here, it\u2019s worth noting that Country House\u2019s half-sister (closer to three-quarters, actually), Mitchell Road, won the Gallorette S.-G3 on Preakness Day at Pimlico, putting their deceased dam, Quake Lake, by War Chant, on the radar in the space of two weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

Mitchell Road is a four-year-old filly, a year older than Country House, so Quake Lake had two graded stakes winners from two years\u2019 produce, a remarkable achievement. What\u2019s particularly interesting is that the sires of both graded stakes winners are sons of the late, great Smart Strike, so clearly Mr. and Mrs. Shields had a vision about how to breed Quake Lake, and it has come to fruition in a big way. In both cases, inbreeding to Hail to Reason and Turn-to were sought out, as was inbreeding to Northern Dancer.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s interesting is that, in breeding to Looking at Lucky to get Country House, the Shields got a classic distance dirt horse. And in breeding to English Channel, they got a turf filly. This speaks more to Smart Strike\u2019s versatility as a sire than anything else, and to the way his sons are carrying that on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth noting that Search and Destroy, the winner on the same day of the Soaring Softly S.-G3 at Belmont, gorgeous young stallion Verrazano\u2019s first graded stakes winner, is also out of a War Chant mare. Though War Chant may have been a bit of a disappointment as a sire, it would seem that he\u2019s turning into a first-rate broodmare sire, and seems to frank the more and more popular inbreeding to Danzig we are seeing in pedigrees, as was seen in Country House.<\/p>\n

— Roberta Smoodin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"Though the pedigree of Country House has already been discussed in depth here, it\u2019s worth noting that Country House\u2019s half-sister (closer to three-quarters, actually), Mitchell Road, won the Gallorette S.-G3 on Preakness Day at Pimlico, putting their deceased dam, Quake Lake, by War Chant, on the radar in the space of two weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodstock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}