Curlin/Rachel Alexandra

[prudery]

Originally Posted by smartbid09

In the case of the great Toshma, Toshma was not bred to a proven sire, in fact she was bred to a sire who was proven to not produce great offspring. Sadly this meant that her bloodline would not be carried on because she was not able to produce a horse worthy of carrying on her family line.

Tosmah--with an h, was bred to chef-de-race Ribot, certainly a proven sire , after being bred to two nothings prior .

She lived to be 30, but only had 4 foals ...

The Ribot filly died at 4 before producing anything.

Tosmah may have produced nothing capable of carrying on the line, but not necessarily because she was bred thrice to unproven stallions--she simply did not produce much, and the Ribot died, limiting what she did leave for posterity .

It is not known whether had she continued to be bred to stallions of Ribot's ilk or not if she would have generated a legacy based on such an unfortunate and small sample .. .