Three Northern Dancers don't bother me, since two of them are through E. P. Taylor's Windfields Farm bloodlines - those solid as teak Canadian families, full of Teddy and Fair Play. If you are going to inbreed with ND, the safest way, IMHO, is to include at least one Windfields-bred.
Three Raise a Natives can be problematical, but at least all three crosses are from top quality sources - Mr. Prospector, Alydar, and Exclusive Native. The latter two sires have been influences more for stamina than speed and their offspring in CQ's pedigree were high-class and sound - Magic Circle, by Alydar won 5 of 28 races, allowance level winner and SP; Belonging, by Exclusive Native, won 5 of 37, a listed SW. And Mr. Prospector's son Gulch, thanks to his regional-bred dam, was sound enough to race 32 times in his career.
But when this guy goes to stud, there are going to be a lot of mares who should NOT visit his court, ie. those whose pedigrees look too much like his.
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03-11-2007, 08:58 PM
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