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[Pedigree Ann]

Okay, I've been out of town helping my 86yo mom for a week and am now getting caught up with things. Can't find every thread posted in the meantime.

Blush Rambler was a good runner in Europe (SW, G1-placed), well-bred, and has been a top sire in Brasil (a Derby winner plus other SWs). His damsireTumble Lark made a huge impact in Brasil, with champions like Dark Brown and Big Lark. He was a US-bred, too, by turf champ T. V. Lark. The sires on down the damline - Henri le Balafre and Locris and Sunny Boy - were top runners in France and influential sires in Brasil. And of course the family traces to Emocion, winner of both of the Brasilian Oaks races (Gavea and Cidade Jardim), a full sister to champion Emerson (classic sire in France), and dam of Embuche, one of the greatest mares in Brazilian racing history; another daughter of Emocion went to Argentina and produced at G1 winner and the second dam of current star Latency. The colt's third dam Emigrette was a full sister to Emerald Hill, another dual Oaks winner who is on the same list with Embuche.

The most iintriguing thing about the colt's pedigree (to the pedigree geek) is the inbreeding to the mare Tumbling, dam of Tumble Lark and third dam of Alleged, damsire of Blush Rambler. Reinforces the distance/turfiness of the pedigree. Filly later.