{"id":12619,"date":"2019-11-04T16:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12619"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T11:28:55","slug":"iridessas-stunning-win-breeders-cup-filly-mare-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/iridessas-stunning-win-breeders-cup-filly-mare-turf\/","title":{"rendered":"Iridessa\u2019s Stunning Win in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Filly and Mare Turf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Given her three Group One wins in Ireland, Iridessa seemed a huge overlay in the Filly and Mare Turf-G1. Then again she was up against one of the horses, along with Midnight Bisou and Omaha Beach – Sistercharlie, who seemed a mortal lock to close out her unbeaten season with a win, even with the loss of her scratched rabbit, Thais. Iridessa, along with her young trainer Joseph O\u2019Brien and her jockey Wayne Lordan, had other ideas, and paid $28.40 to those intelligent enough to bet $2 on her nose.<\/p>\r\n

Iridessa is from the first crop of Ruler of the World, who stands at Coolmore Ireland for a mere 8,000 Euros. Perhaps a surfeit of sons of Galileo dictated this paltry price, because Ruler won over a million pounds, was Champion Three-Year-Old Colt in Europe and Top Rated Older Horse in Ireland at four. He won the Group One Investec Derby at Epsom, and also took the Group Two Qatar Prix Foy at Lomgchamp and the Group Three Chester Vase. He is also a half-brother to Champion and successful sire Duke of Marmalade. A very un-Galileo-looking stallion, he is small, stout, short-backed and chestnut.<\/p>\r\n

Ruler of the World\u2019s pedigree, however, is enormous. His dam, Love Me True, is by Kingmambo, featuring, of course, the stellar Breeders\u2019 Cup winning mare Miesque, who provides tail female Rough Shod II through Nureyev\u2019s dam Special, who also appears in Galileo\u2019s pedigree through her daughter, Galileo\u2019s dam, Fairy Bridge, making the young stud inbred to Special\/Rough Shod II on the zigzag. Miesque also features a dose of Graustark, twinned with his full brother, His Majesty, in Iridessa\u2019s dams\u2019 side, a wonderful stamina influence.<\/p>\r\n

Love Me True\u2019s dam is Lassie\u2019s Lady, from the same tail-female family that created A.P. Indy. Lassie\u2019s Lady provides Buckpasser, complementing the same stallion in Urban Sea\u2019s pedigree in Galileo, and a dose of My Babu, which reaches out to the multiple doses of Hail to Reason\/Turn-to in Iridessa\u2019s pedigree. It must also be noted that Ruler is inbred to Mr. Prospector on the zigzag, through Urban Sea, a granddaughter, and Kingmambo, a son. Add to that Alydar, like Mr. P a son of Raise a Native, and a strong North American influence can be seen.<\/p>\r\n

The dams\u2019 side of Iridessa\u2019s pedigree may be every bit as potent as her sire\u2019s side. Her dam, Senta\u2019s Dream, is by Danehill, whose dam, Razyana, provides riches in the form of the aforementioned His Majesty, another dose of Buckpasser to match the two in Ruler, and tail-female Natalma, the dam of Northern Dancer, this time through her daughter Spring Adieu. Inbreeding to Northern Dancer, through Sadler\u2019s Wells, Nureyev, Danzig, and Nureyev\u2019s son Theatrical make this pedigree a wealth of Northern Dancer blood, and of Natalma influence. The top and bottom inbreeding to Nureyev (5 x 5) is unusual, but, as we see so often in this pedigree, works because it too is on the zigzag, through a daughter and a son. This also provides another dose of Special\/Rough Shod II on Iridessa\u2019s dams\u2019 side.<\/p>\r\n

Finally, one more zigzag\u2014Caro, through his daughter, Brorita, and his son, Kaldoun, through the filly\u2019s second dam, Starine. And we can\u2019t forget the cameo appearance, in the sixth position, of Somethingroyal, through her son Sir Gaylord. By Princequillo, and surely one of the most influential mares of the twentieth century as she is also the dam of Secretariat, Somethingroyal\u2019s Princequillo reaches out to the Princequillo mare Rose Bower in Urban Sea\u2019s pedigree.<\/p>\r\n

The mare power in Iridessa\u2019s pedigree is amazing. Adding to it are the multiple appearances of the Spearmint mare Plucky Liege, five times through her son Bull Dog, and once through her less known son Bois Roussel. The combination of sons and daughters of Plucky Liege strengthens any pedigree, and is common in North American pedigrees.<\/p>\r\n

With Iridessa, Joseph O\u2019Brien becomes the youngest trainer ever to win a Breeders\u2019 Cup race, just as he was the youngest jockey ever to do so. It also puts him in the stellar company of Freddie Head as the only other person to win Breeder\u2019 Cup races as both jockey and trainer. Talk about pedigree: Joseph O\u2019Brien is, of course, the son of longtime Coolmore trainer Aiden O\u2019Brien, a sire line as potent as Galileo\u2019s.<\/p>\r\n

— Roberta Smoodin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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\"\"Given her three Group One wins in Ireland, Iridessa seemed a huge overlay in the Filly and Mare Turf-G1. Then again she was up against one of the horses, along with Midnight Bisou and Omaha Beach – Sistercharlie, who seemed a mortal lock to close out her unbeaten season with a win<\/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-12619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodstock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619","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=12619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}