Country Star is by Empire Maker (no dirt slouch) - Unbridled - Fappiano - Mr. Prospector (dirt sire) combined with Le Fabuleux (France). Toussauds family has turf influence through El Gran Senor, but she produced both G1's Empire Maker and Chester House. Dams side, Seattle Slew over a full brother of Mr. Prospector? Plenty of dirt in that pedigree.
As far as her running style, I'll take powerful, long, low strides as perfect for a dirt horse anytime. She looks alot like her sire in that respect.
We'll see. I hope she does turn out to be something amazing.
As an aside, Barbaro started on the turf, and against the conventional thought of his pedigree, did just fine on dirt. With a different running style than Country Star.
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