Tribal Rule, Unusual Heat Dominate Horse Racing in California
Written by Alan Porter 1 | Apr 30, 2009 |
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In a big weekend for Cal-breds, two
sires had a particularly good time. The blazingly fast but
lightly-raced Storm Cat son Tribal Rule (TrueNicks,SRO)
was represented at Hollywood Park by Rule the Storm, who
took the Warren's Thoroughbreds Stakes, and by Tribal Justice, successful
in the Grey Memo Stakes. In his first three crops, Tribal Rule -- a close genetic relative to [YankeeGentelman] -- now has 12 stakes winners from just 91
starters. Rule the Storm is out of a mare by Falstaff and Tribal Justice
out of a mare by Danzig (both rated A++ by TrueNicks), which means that
Tribal Rule now has four stakes winners (also including grade I winner
Georgie Boy) out of Northern Dancer-line mares, even though he's a
great-grandson of Northern Dancer himself.
The Nureyev stallion Unusual Heat
was represented by Pretty Unusual and Beltene, who took first and
third in the Melair Stakes, and Unusual Smoke and Apoplectic, who
occupied the same positions in the TVG Khaled Stakes.
Pretty Unusual (TrueNicks rated A++) is
out of a mare by Siphon (BRZ) (TrueNicks,SRO), and is interesting as her second dam has
Nearctic and Forli, the two grandsires of Unusual Heat's sire Nureyev, in the
first three generations of her pedigree. Unusual Smoke -- also rated A++ -- is
out of a mare by Red Bishop, a son of Silver Hawk, and is the
third stakes winner sired by Unusual Heat out of a Roberto-line mare. By
strange coincidence, both Pretty Unusual and Unusual Smoke have second dams by Time
to Explode (a son of the Nearctic son Explodent). \
All told Unusual Heat has 23 stakes
winners, six graded, including grade I winner Golden Doc A, and grade II scorers Lethal Heat and Tucked Away.
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