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Old 09-07-2006, 05:12 PM
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Thus Gold Mover, a winner of the Schuylerville Stakes (G2) at two and a Winner of the Princess Rooney Handicap (G2) at three and four besides winning three G3 Events, was bred on the reverse to Bellamy Road and thus provides support for the idea that this cross of Intentionally and Exclusive Dancer is playing an important causative role in his success.



But my most powerful goad to ascribing cause and effect to the relationship between Bellamy Road's 3x6 Intentionally / Exclusive Dancer cross and Bellamy Road's extraordinary abilities is that the majority of the ancestors forming the ancestor clusters trace back to lines found close up in Bellamy Road himself: Discovery and Hamburg trace to the Gallopade (23-b) Family of Bellamy Road's grandsire Chief's Crown; Fair Play and Friar Rock trace back to the Fairy Gold Family of Bellamy Road's dam grandsire Traffic Cop, Whisk Broom II traces back to the Maggie B. B. (4-m) Family of Bellamy Road's 2nd damsire Cozzene, and finally Peter Pan is a son of Commando, who traced back to the same Diana (12-B) Family as Bellamy Road's sire Concerto.



Thus not just female lines, but combinations of female lines were reinforced in Bellamy Road . And this is the key to it all both in this particular (Intentionally + Exclusive Dancer) and in a more general (i.e. Dispersed) sense.



For instance, Bellamy Road is 6x6x7x7 to Native Dancer, a stallion whose 2nd damsire John P Grier combined the female line of Queen Mary from whence sprang Bellamy Road himself through his damsire Disguise, the female line of Maggie B. B. from whence sprang Bellamy Road's 2nd damsire Cozzene through his sire Whisk Broom II, and the Gallopade female family from whence sprang Bellamy Road's grandsire Chief's Crown through his dam Wonder's 2x3 inbreeding to Domino.



And for another instance, Bellamy Road is 5x6 to the stamina influence Prince John, who combines Bellamy Road 's Queen Mary line coming through his grandsire Prince Rose and a 5th Generation cross of Black Toney with a line of Gallopade coming through his damsire Count Fleet's damsire Haste.



Also, Bellamy Road is 6x7x8x8x8x9 to Discovery, whose grandsire Fair Play traces to the Fairy Gold female line of Bellamy Road's dam grandsire Traffic Cop and whose 2nd dam Adrienne has a 4x5 to Formula One Pattern to Lady Hardaway where one source, the Gazelle Winning Filly The Butterflies, is by an early Maggie B. B. stallion named Sir Dixon and the other source, Lou Lanier, is by a stallion named Lever whose dam Levity (12-b) is actually the 12th dam of Bellamy Road's sire Concerto.



This is especially meaningful as the damsire of Adrienne is Hamburg , a very fast and important stallion who was by the 4xTime Leading American Sire Hanover, who was 3x3 to Vandal, a son of Concerto's 13th dam the Tranby Mare (12-b). Also, Hamburg himself was 4x4x5x5 to the legendary Lexington, another stallion tracing back to the Lady Grey branch of the Diana (12-b) Clan; and besides reinforcing the female line of Concerto in this powerful way, Hamburg traced back in the direct female line to the Gallopade (23-B) Family of none other than Bellamy Road's grandsire Chief's Crown.



But now is where it gets interesting, Hamburg's sire Hanover traced back to the Great Early American Taproot Selima and Selima's full sister in blood was none other than Sophia, the ancestress of the 21-A Female Family to which Bellamy Road is inbred 2x3 to through his damsire Deputed Testamony and his sire damsire In Reality (Selima's Earl of Godolphin, yes that Earl of Godolphin, bred Full Sister-In-Blood is also the ancestress of Tranby, the sire of the recently mentioned Tranby mare, and Hastings, the hot-tempered sire of Fair Play, besides many other good horses such as Broad Brush).



And to top it off, Hanover's damsire was Bonnie Scotland, a St Leger Runner-up who became the all-important beachhead of his mother Queen Mary in America when he was imported from England in 1858 (Queen Mary of course being the direct female line ancestress of Bellamy Road himself through the inbred Court Dress). Bonnie Scotland started his American Stud Career in Ohio and ended it at the Belle Mead Stud in Tennessee (where he was the Champion American Sire of 1880, the year of his death, and 1882), and he not only damsired Hanover who combined with the Gallopade line in Hamburg, but also grandsired Ben Brush, who formed a justly famous nick with Hamburg's Maternal Half-Uncle Domino (see especially Sweep and Black Toney, who additionally traced back to Queen Mary in the direct female line through her daughter Bonnie Doon).



It's also notable that Bonnie Scotland sired the great runner Luke Blackburn, a Champion 3YO Colt of 1880 who won 22 of his 24 starts at that age, from a mare named Nevada who was by the Lady Grey (12-b) stallion Lexington and out of Lexington's fellow Lady Grey female line descendant Lightsome, a full sister to Vandal and a daughter of Concerto's 12th dam Levity. Interestingly, though Luke Blackburn's influence has essentially died out and he can't be found in Bellamy Road, his dam Nevada actually shows up his 15th Generation through Swoon's Son's 2nd damsire Greenlock, a horse combining Levity through his dam, Maid of Mashem through Star Shoot, Queen Mary through St Leonards, and Gallopade through Hamburg and Domino.



It should also be noted that the Female Families of Bellamy Road recapitulate the Female Families of both his sire Concerto's 7th dam Kolinsky and Bellamy Road's own 9th dam Parade Girl, who of course combined Chief's Crown's Gallopade female family through her grandsire Domino with 4x5x5x6 inbreeding to Hurry Home Hillary's Queen Mary female line.
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