Week 7 - Clusters of Stallions and Great Grand Dam Sires
- Trevor Donaldson
- Oct 20, 2024
- 4 min read
After 7 weeks of Spring racing in Australia, the tight tussle continues on the BLACK TYPE "winners" honour board between Danehill and Mr Prospector clusters.
Danehill is on 26 wins
Mr Prospector is on 25 wins
The individual Stallion with the most "black type" wins after 7 weeks of spring racing in Australia is Too Darn Hot:
6 wins
Too Darn Hot [Mr Prospector - Cluster]
5 wins
Snitzel [Danehill - Cluster]
I am Invincible [Green Desert - Cluster]
ALL BLACK TYPE RACES - AFTER 7 WEEKS
"OVERALL" LEADING STALLION CLUSTERS - nick 24 from Origin
BLACK TYPE RACES:
26 wins to Danehill cluster:
Snitzel [5], Fastnet Rock [3].
25 wins to Mr Prospector cluster:
Too Darn Hot [6], Pride of Dubai [4], Almanzor [3], Street Boss [3].
11 wins to Green Desert cluster:
I am Invincible [5]
7 wins to Last Tycoon cluster:
Written Tycoon [3]
5 wins to Encosta De Lago cluster:
Zoustar [3]
5 wins to Soviet Star cluster:
Star Witness [3]
5 wins to Galileo cluster:
ALL BLACK TYPE RACES AFTER 7 WEEKS:
The Stallion Clusters [highlighted in blue] for black type winners
has been updated after 7 weeks of spring racing:
"OVERALL" LEADING FEMALE TAIL CLUSTERS - nick 19 from Origin
BLACK TYPE RACES:
61 wins to Pharos cluster:
Nearctic has 24 winners
Nasrullah has 22 winners
Royal Charger has 15 winners
10 wins to Star Kingdom
8 wins to Sickle
6 wins to Tourbillon [The mighty Byerly Turk stallion lineage]
3 wins to Fairway
3 wins to Pharamond
3 wins to Princequillo
ALL RESULTS of week 7 [19th October]
"Week 7" LEADING STALLION CLUSTERS - nick 24 from Origin
Danehill cluster stallions dominated week 7 - 19th October, with 15 wins and only one stallion PARIAH [Oaklands Stud - QLD @ $6,600 in 2024] had multiple winners.
Full results below - here is a short summary of week 7:
Danehill line stallions - 15 winners
Pariah x 2
Mr Prospector line stallions - 7 winners
Too Darn Hot x 2
Almanzor x 2
Green Desert line stallions - 6 winners
Cable Bay x 2
Sir Ivor line stallions - 4 winners
Pierro x 2
El Prado line stallions - 3 winners
ALL RACE RESULTS - WEEK 7 [19th October]
LEADING FEMALE TAIL CLUSTERS - nick 19 from Origin
Best performed great grand dam Sires were Sadler's Wells [Pharos / Nearctic] and
Don't Say Halo [Pharos / Royal Charger] :
DON'T SAY HALO
These 3 winners [2 of them black type] were across 3 states:
Caulfield - Too Darn Discreet
Stallion - Too Darn Hot [Mr Prospector cluster]
Morphettville - Goldrush Guru
Stallion - American Pharoah [Mr Prospector cluster]
Randwick - Willaidow
Stallion - Shamus Award [Danehill cluster]
SADLER'S WELLS
These 3 winners [1 of them black type] were across 3 states:
Caulfield - Estriella
Stallion - I am Invincible [Green Desert cluster]
Morphettville - Winning Revolution
Stallion - Winning Rupert [Last Tycoon cluster]
Ascot - Elite Missile
Stallion - Smart Missile [Danehill cluster]
As previously noted, Pharos will always be the leader in this section by sheer volume of broodmares from that stallion stem at nick 19 represented at the bottom of fourth generation [dam - grand dam - great grand dam].
The battle within of the big three lines at nick 21 is interesting and Nasrullah and Nearctic equal on 11 winners in week 7.
Pharos line broodmare sires [in 4th Gen] - 30 winners
Nearctic x 11, Nasrullah x 11, Royal Charger x 6, Infatuation x 2
WEEK 7 [19th October] - All results shown here:
BLACK TYPE RESULTS - Week 7 [19th October]
6 wins
Danehill cluster: Pariah x 2
Mr Prospector cluster: Too Darn Hot x 2
2 wins "each" to El Prado, High Chaparral and Green Desert cluster/s
"Week 7" LEADING FEMALE TAIL CLUSTERS - nick 19 from Origin
Nearctic + Nasrullah had 6, then Royal Charger had 4.
Star Kingdom also had 3 in week 7.
"OVERALL" LEADING STALLION CLUSTERS - nick 24 from Origin
After 334 races of Spring racing in Australia [7 weeks]….
Danehill dominates the “all” runner's leader board for winners
So the theory of “throw enough darts and you will hit the board more’ is true on Saturday metropolitan race meeting throughout Australia in Spring.
Danehill has 93 wins
Compare this to his closest cluster/s:
Mr Prospector, on 48 wins
Green Desert on 35 wins
Encosta De Lago on 30 wins
High Chaparral on 17 wins
Last Tycoon on 15 wins
Halo on 11 wins
Galileo on 7 wins
El Prado on 7 wins
Which Sires have produced the most wins
An interesting side note to this table of “stallion clusters” are the individual winning stallions after 7 weeks of Saturday metropolitan racing in Australia.
Here is a short list with any Stallion that has sired 4+ winners:
12 - SNITZEL [Danehill]
9 - ZOUSTAR [Encosta De Lago]
8 - PRIDE OF DUBAI [Mr Prospector]
8 - I AM INVINCIBLE [Green Desert]
6 - PER INCANTO [Mr Prospector]
6 - TOO DARN HOT [Mr Prospector]
6 - AMERICAN PHAROAH [Mr Prospector]
5 - DEEP FIELD [Encosta De Lago]
5 - DUNDEEL [High Chaparral]
5 - ALMANZOR [Mr Prospector]
4 - FASTNET ROCK [Danehill]
4 - PARIAH [Danehill]
4 - PLAYING GOD [Danehill]
4 - SMART MISSILE [Danehill]
4 - WANDJINA [Danehill]
4 - HELLBENT [Green Desert]
4 - WRITTEN TYCOON [Last Tycoon]
"OVERALL" LEADING FEMALE TAIL CLUSTERS - nick 19 from Origin
Pharos [183 wins]
Nearctic x 82
13 - Danehill
5 - Royal Academy + Sadlers Wells
3 - Be My Guest + Caerleon + Last Tycoon + Western Symphony
Nasrullah x 58
5 - Darshaan
4 - Rory's Jester + Shirley Heights
3 - Irish River + Marooned
Royal Charger x 37
5 - Don't Say Halo
4 - Zabeel
3 - Sir Tristram + Sound Reason
Infatuation x 4
Star Kingdom [34]
6 - Marscay
Sickle [23]
3 - Thunder Gulch
Tourbillon - Byerly Turk line [18]
4 - Twig Moss + Euclase
3 - Century
Princequillo [13]
3 - Pompeii Court
Pharamond [10]
4 - Lunchtime + Snippets
Tenerani [9]
Fairway [8]
3 - Vain
The week ahead has lots of black type races in week 8 [October 26th], with the main events being....
Cox Plate
Crystal Mile
MV Vase
MV Gold Cup
Tesio Stks
Spring Champion Stks
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End of week 7
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