Dominican breeding?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by JJP

Sammy Sosa has Dominican breeding.....

I laughed.

And speaking of people from the sporting world....Domincan's 4th dam just so happens to be Chris Evert.

The equine version of Chris Evert won the filly triple crown, and is in the thoroughbred racing Hall of Fame. She had enough endurance to win the 12 furlong Coaching Club American Oaks. She finished 3rd against boys in the Travers.

Chris Evert was the 2nd dam of Chief's Crown, who like Domincan, won the Blue Grass. CC also won the BC Juvenile, and was on the board in all three triple crown races, before a 4th in the BC Classic at age 3.

Anyway, the stamina in Domincan's pedigree is there in the most important, and least visable line of all pedigrees, that being the tail-female line.

All the pedigree stuff aside---Domincan's stock just seems to always be improving. He sold for $37,000 at a JAN yearling sale, came back 10 months later and sold for $70,000 at an OCT yearling sale, came back five months later and worked an 1/8th in 10 2/5ths at OBS and sold for $150,000 at a March 2yo sale. He had a fairly productive 2yo season, got over his testicle issue, and has won two stakes from his two starts this year--rallying past two legit Derby candidates to win the Blue Grass last time out.

He just seems to always be getting a little better and better--that said, I don't want him in the Derby.

[Pedigree Ann]

El Corredor was a sprinter/miler with a tremendous late kick. (Like Lit de Justice in the BC Sprint). If Dominican has been able to graft that late kick onto the damside staying power, he could be a real threat. Chief's Crown, by the way, also won the Travers by a pole.

His pedigree attracted me to Hard Spun, too. His dam won a 12f turf stakes at Pimlico and was out of a half-sister to Belmont winner Little Current. You can't find a much better 'foundation' on which to use a speedy miler-type sire like Danzig with to get a classic-type horse.

[Downthestretch55]

Oh boy! I can't wait for the comments about this.
Here's my humble view......
Seems that too much emphasis is placed on "dosage". Pedigree does have a little consideration. I've bred some of mine to restore the Alydar, Round Table, Native Dancer and Northern Dancer genes. Did I mention Deputy Minister and Swaps?
Take that for what it's worth, put it in your pipe, smoke it, and I hope it gets you high.
The point I'm trying to make is that despite the very best genes that Dr Romans can quantify, it all comes down to how the horse's potential, yes,
POTENTIAL, is trained up to the race that the trainer deems suitable.
Put that all together with how the track is playing on any given day (which is a very big consideration, imo), and it's still a "crap shoot". Also factor "medications", legal and otherwise.
Watch the trainer and the training up. Some cycles make sense, some not.
OK...glad I got that off my chest.
Now I'll be quiet.
thanks for tolerating my little rant.