{"id":12439,"date":"2019-08-25T17:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12439"},"modified":"2019-08-25T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:25:13","slug":"stud-notes-noble-missions-travers-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/stud-notes-noble-missions-travers-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Stud Notes: Noble Mission\u2019s Travers Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"At first, it seemed that Noble Mission\u2019s sole claim to fame was being the great champion Frankel\u2019s full brother. Having run only on grass in Europe, the Group One winning millionaire seemed an odd choice for Lane\u2019s End in Versailles, Kentucky, to import to add to its stallion roster in 2015. However, it would seem that doubting the stallion acumen of the masters of Lane\u2019s End, William Farish, the elder, and former Ambassador to England, and William Farish, the younger, who has run the farm for the past decade, is utter foolishness.<\/p>\r\n

The Travers S.-G1, on dirt, the premier three-year-old event at Saratoga, proved the Farish\u2019s commitment to Noble Mission, as his son, Code of Honor, bred and owned by the elder Mr. Farish, won the race with brilliance, beating tiring favorite Tacitus and becoming the first Grade One winner in his sire\u2019s freshman crop. Noble Mission began his career at stud with a $25,000 stud fee, which was lowered this year to $15,000. I\u2019m guessing it will once again rise.<\/p>\r\n

Code of Honor, who now adds the Travers to his list of accomplishments which includes being promoted to second in the Kentucky Derby-G1, has now earned $1,885, 820 in his career of eight starts, four wins, two seconds, and a third. His dam is the graded stakes winning Dixie Union mare, Reunited, making Code of Honor triple-bred to Northern Dancer through Sadler\u2019s Wells, Danzig and Dixieland Band. The most interesting aspect of his pedigree, however, is something noted in my last column: inbreeding to the great Blushing Groom. Noble Mission\u2019s and Frankel\u2019s dam is Kind, by Danehill, but out of a Rainbow Quest mare, the first appearance of Blushing Groom, on the stallion\u2019s side. Reunited\u2019s dam, Tivli, is by Mount Livermore, the second appearance of Blushing Groom, also through one of his daughters, on Code of Honor\u2019s dams\u2019 side. Code of Honor is therefore 5 x 4 Blushing Groom. This important grass influence in Code of Honor\u2019s pedigree is balanced by American dirt influence, with his sire being double-bred Buckpasser, and Capote, a son of Seattle Slew, on the dams\u2019 side.<\/p>\r\n

The lesson here: never underestimate the Lane\u2019s End brain trust, nor the continuing influence of Blushing Groom on 21st<\/sup> century American racing. Noble Mission now stands at number two on the second crop sires list, behind only golden boy Goldencents.<\/p>\r\n

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

\"\"At first, it seemed that Noble Mission\u2019s sole claim to fame was being the great champion Frankel\u2019s full brother. Having run only on grass in Europe, the Group One winning millionaire seemed an odd choice for Lane\u2019s End in Versailles, Kentucky, to import to add to its stallion roster in 2015. However, it would seem that doubting the stallion acumen of the masters of Lane\u2019s End, William Farish, the elder, and former Ambassador to England, and William Farish, the younger, who has run the farm for the past decade, is utter foolishness.<\/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-12439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodstock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439","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=12439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}