re: Glory de Brazil

Alan Porter — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:20:50 GMT

Hi Russ,

You're spot on. I've covered Lizard's Desire on our Pedigree Consultants blog.

It's rather amazing that in a $10,000,000 race the first and second should have very commercially obscure pedigrees, and inbreeding to genetic relatives. However, it's not as unusual as you might think for a good runner to have a sire and dam (or sire and broodmare sire) bred on the same cross. We've nicknamed it the "Parallel Pattern." It works quite well reversed too.

re: Glory de Brazil

russ f — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:08:28 GMT

No less interesting is the pedigree of the runner-up, Lizard's Desire.

His sire, Lizard Island, is a son of Lure out of a daughter of Crimson Saint . . . he's a close relative to Storm Cat.

As with the Cup winner, close genetic relatives are paired. In this case the pedigree has full siblings 4x4.

Isn't it rare to see a top runner having both sire and dam bred on the same cross? Here Lizard Island (sire) and Annsfield (dam) are both by Northern Dancer line sires, out of Bold Ruler line mares.