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Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite
Hold on, kimosabe ...
... remember my first post on this thread ... where I said it was Mumtaz Mahal?
If you're just looking at tail-female ... then La Troienne is it ... but ...
... if you're looking at overall impact on the breed ... it's Mumtaz Mahal ... "The Flying Filly" ... by two furlongs
Her influence through male lines is pervasive ... through Mahmoud, Gallant Man, Nasrullah, Royal Charger, My Babu, Northern Dancer, Rahy, St. Ballado, and many more ... and a whole squadron of stakes-producing broodmares.
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Mahmoud, Nasrullah, and Royal Charger belong to Mumtaz Mahal's female family(9-c), but My Babu is from the Lavendula branch of the Marchetta family(1-w), Northern Dancer is from Almahmoud branch of the Mother Goose family (2-d), Rahy is from the Skylarking branch of the Lindos Ojos bunch (12-c) and so on. Mumtaz Mahal appears in their pedigrees, but so do a bunch of other good mares, including one I should have mentioned before - Frizette!
US-bred Frizette was the foundation of the Boussac stud, producing 3 SWs and founding a mighty family whose members include the great sire Tourbillon, the champion sprinter Myrtlewood (ancestress of Seattle Slew and Mr. Prospector)..., well, you get the picture.
You want to get technical, Mumtaz Mahal's mum Lady Josephine deserves some of the credit; she produced not only Mumtaz Mahal but Lady Juror, dam of 6 SWs including the important sire Fair Trial and the dam of even more important sire Tudor Minstrel.
In curiosity I took a look at Rahy and found a plethora of important broodmares and family founders, not just Mumtaz Mahal. He has multiple crosses of Selene. Black Ray, and Plucky Liege, also Alcibiades, Pink Domino, La Grelee, Uganda, Lady Juror, Lavendula, Baton Rouge, Herodias, Mother Goose, La Troienne, Betty Derr, Exalted, Vaila, and Cinna, all of whom have had an important influence on the breed.