Logically enough Concerto's ancestress Kolinsky was a representive of Concerto's Levity (12-b) female line; but the important thing is that she combined it with the Maggie B. B. line of Cozzene through her sire Uncle, the Selima female line so closely related to Deputed Testamony's Sophia line through her dam grandsire Hanover, and finally the Maid of Mashem tribe of Traffic Cop and Fairy Gold (to whom War Relic, who shows up 6x6x8x10 with his full sis Speed Boat in Bellamy Road, was inbred 3x3) through both her grandsire Star Shoot and damsire's damsire Peter, who was not incidentally a full brother to Pauline (the 2nd dam of Fairy Gold, who in turn is the 8th dam of Traffic Cop). Layers upon layers.



So to backtrack a bit, under Bellamy Road's 6th dam Exclusive Dancer (b. '67) we find the Graded Stakes Winners Out Of Place, Lead Kindly Light, Gold Fever, Jackpot, Versailles Treaty, Saarland, General Assembly, Chief Honcho, Gold Tiara, and American Chance.



This is a major clue in determining the source of Bellamy Road's class as his sire Concerto is by Chief's Crown (a son of Danzig tracing back to the Famous Gallopade Family [23-b]) and out of Undeniably (a daughter of In Reality tracing back to the exceptional Early American Taproot Diana [12-b] through Levity).



You see, Arabian Dancer's G3W and Multiple GI Placed son Out Of Place is by Cox's Ridge, a stallion bred on the exact female family parallel to Concerto: Cox's Ridge traces back to Diana like Concerto and Cox's Ridge's sire Best Turn traces back to Gallopade just like Concerto's sire Chief's Crown. In fact, the 2nd dam of Best Turn is Miz Clementine, a full sister of Chief's Crown's 5th dam Twosy.



This may indicate an affinity between Arabian Dancer and/or her female line and combination of these two great American Taproot lines called Gallopade (23-b) and Diana (12-b) after their founders (please see the 'Bunty Lawless, Affirmed, Deputy Minister, Ghostzapper, and Bellamy Road' section below).



A daughter of Bellamy Road's 5th dam Ten Cents A Dance, the well-nigh Hall Of Fame Quality mare Versailles Treaty is in fact by none other than Danzig, the sire of Chief's Crown and the great-grandsire of Bellamy Road; and her son Saarland brings in a strain of Concerto's damsire In Reality and a strain of Bellamy Road's 3rd damsire Mr Prospector. Thus Bellamy Road is 3x5 to Danzig and Ten Cents A Dance, the sire and dam of Versailles Treaty, and is 3x3x4x5 to Danzig, In Reality, Mr Prospector, and Ten Cents A Dance, who show up 2x4x3x2 in Versailles Treaty's son Saarland the Remson (G2) Winner.



Moving to Bellamy Road 's 6th dam Exclusive Dancer, we find that her excellent racing son General Assembly was by Secretariat, the damsire of Bellamy Road 's grandsire Chief's Crown. Thus Bellamy Road is 4x6 to the sire and dam of the Hopeful (GI), Gotham (G2), Vosburgh (G2), and Travers (GI) winner, who not incidentally was an even better racer than his victories would suggest as he had the misfortune to be born the same year as a horse named Spectacular Bid, who finished but one place ahead of him in the Champagne (GI), Kentucky Derby (GI), and Marlborough Cup (GI).



Also, Exclusive Dancer was the 3rd dam of the Brooklyn Handicap (GI) Winner Chief Honcho and his GI Producing Full Sister Bright Tiara. This is very significant as the sire of both was none other than Bellamy Road 's grandsire Chief's Crown.



Thus five out of the eleven GSW and all three of the GIWs (Versailles Treaty, Chief Honcho, and General Assembly) under the 6th dam share significant elements on their sireside with Bellamy Road 's sire Concerto.



And to summarize another way, Chief's Crown sired the GIW Chief Honcho from Bellamy Road's female line, Chief's Crown's sire Danzig sired the Multiple GIW Champion Versailles Treaty from Bellamy Road's female line, Chief's Crown's damsire Secretariat sired the Multiple GIW Champion General Assembly from Bellamy Road's female line, Concerto's damsire In Reality combined with this female line in the G2W Saarland, and finally a stallion bred on the same Gallopade (23-b)/Diana (12-b) Female Family cross as Concerto himself (Cox's Ridge) sired the G3W Out Of Place from this female line.



Bunty Lawless, Affirmed, Deputy Minister, Ghostzapper, and Bellamy Road



But why has Chief's Crown had such success with the Exclusive Dancer female family?



He's gotten the Brooklyn Handicap (GI) winner Chief Honcho and his GI Producing Full Sister Bright Tiara from Exclusive Dancer's daughter Expressive Dance and the Record Setting Wood Memorial (GI) Winner Bellamy Road from Hurry Home Hilary, a filly with Exclusive Dancer as her 5th dam.



The only sires from Exclusive Dancer with foals to race are American Chance, Out Of Place, and Gold Fever and for this reason those Three GIW or GI Producers are drawn from a very small sample. So small a sample in fact that the entire PedigreeQuery Database only has 17 Combining the two within 6 Generations and of course 2 of those 17 are Chief Honcho and Bellamy Road and another one is the GI Producer Bright Tiara. 8.5% GIWs isn't too bad, I think!



To find the answer to the question of causation with which this section was begun we must consider the Wide World of horses tracing back to Bellamy Road 's 8th dam Good Example and 10th dam Panoply. To begin: As previously stated, a half brother of Bellamy Road's 6th dam Exclusive Dancer was the Sanford Winner Exclusive Native; and Exclusive Native got his Best Offspring Affirmed from the female family of Gallopade coming through Domino's full sister Correction.



Now, Bellamy Road's 10th dam Panoply was a nice racefilly and her best two sons were a MSW and sire of Champion Steeplechasers named Annapolis (by Man O' War) and another MSW in Ladder (by another son of Fair Play in Ladkin). He was imported into Canada to stand at stud, but tragically for the breed Ladder only sired three foals before his death. Fortunately though on of those foals was the tough King's Plate Winner Bunty Lawless, and that very nice sire traced back in the female line to none other than Gallopade through Domino's dam Mannie Gray's full sister Alice Gray (AKA Domino's Maternal Aunt).



Significantly, the American Champion 2YO Colt and Two-Time Leading American Sire Deputy Minister traces back in the female line to Good Example and is 3x5 to Bunty Lawless. This means that the excellent racehorses and very important sires Affirmed and Deputy Minister both combine the Good Example (10-a) female line through either their sire or dam with either a close shot of the Gallopade (23-b) female family or inbreeding to a member of that tribe.



More recently, we find that the recent American Horse of the Year Ghostzapper is not exempt from this pattern as he has Good Example family member Deputy Minister as his grandsire and traces back in the female line to Gallopade through Affirmed's 4th dam Native Gal (note here the significant fact that Ghostzapper shares In Reality with Bellamy Road ).



And finally the Wood Memorial Winner Bellamy Road himself traces back to Good Example in the female line and has a grandsire in Chief's Crown who traces back to Gallopade through Reel through Two Bob through Miss Carmie. And of course Bellamy Road 's GIW relative Chief Honcho combines Gallopade through his sire and Good Example through his dam.



This all indicates a powerful female family affinity between Good Example and Gallopade and if we wanted to get into the whys and wherefores we could note that Panoply is inbred 3x4 to the greatest example of the Gallopade line, Domino, and in the cases of Affirmed and Deputy Minister the Gallopade came through full sisters of either Domino or his dam Mannie Gray.