Week 8 - Clusters of Stallions and Great Grand Dam Sires

Castelvecchio [High Chaparral cluster] continues to produce black type winners in October - see table below.

After 8 weeks of Spring racing in Australia, the tussle continues on the BLACK TYPE "winners" leader board between Danehill and Mr Prospector clusters.

The individual Stallion with the most "black type" wins after 8 weeks of spring racing in Australia is Snitzel:

• 8 wins

  • Snitzel [Danehill - Cluster]

  
  

• 6 wins

  • Too Darn Hot [Mr Prospector - Cluster]

    
    

• 5 wins

  • I am Invincible [Green Desert - Cluster]

• 4 wins

  • Written Tycoon [Last Tycoon - Cluster]

  • Castelvecchio [High Chaparral Cluster]

  • Star Witness [Soviet Star - Cluster]

  • Pride of Dubai [Mr Prospector Cluster]

  • Fastnet Rock [Danehill Cluster]

ALL BLACK TYPE RACES - AFTER 8 WEEKS

"OVERALL" LEADING STALLION CLUSTERS - nick 24 from Origin

BLACK TYPE RACES:

• 31 wins to Danehill cluster:

  • Snitzel [8], Fastnet Rock [4].

  
  

• 26 wins to Mr Prospector cluster:

  • Too Darn Hot [6], Pride of Dubai [4], Per Incanto [3], Almanzor [3], Street Boss [3].

• 12 wins to Green Desert cluster:

  • I am Invincible [5]

• 9 wins to Last Tycoon cluster:

  • Written Tycoon [4]

• 8 wins to High Chaparral cluster:

  • Castelvecchio [4]

• 6 wins to Soviet Star cluster:

  • Star Witness [4]

• 6 wins to Galileo cluster:

• 5 wins to Encosta De Lago cluster:

  • Zoustar [3]

  
  

ALL BLACK TYPE RACES AFTER 8 WEEKS:

The Stallion Clusters [highlighted in blue] for black type winners

has been updated after 8 weeks of spring racing:

"OVERALL" LEADING FEMALE TAIL CLUSTERS - nick 19 from Origin

BLACK TYPE RACES:

• 72 wins to Pharos cluster:

  • Nearctic has 30 winners

  • Nasrullah has 24 winners

  • Royal Charger has 18 winners

• 12 wins to Star Kingdom

  
  

• 10 wins to Sickle

  
  

• 7 wins to Tourbillon [The mighty Byerly Turk stallion lineage]

• 3 wins to Fairway

• 3 wins to Pharamond

• 3 wins to Princequillo

• 3 wins to Tenerani

  
  
  
  
  
  

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ALL RESULTS of week 8 [26th October]

"Week 8" LEADING STALLION CLUSTERS - nick 24 from Origin

Danehill cluster stallions dominated week 8 - 26th October, with 17 wins and both Snitzel [4] and Playing God [3] had multiple winners

Full results below - here is a short summary of week 8:

• Danehill line stallions - 17 winners

  • Snitzel x 4

  • Playing God x 3

    
    

• Green Desert line stallions - 5 winners

  • Cable Bay x 2

• High Chaparral line stallions - 5 winners

  • Castelvecchio x 2

• Last Tycoon line stallions - 5 winners

  • Written Tycoon x 2

  
  

• Sir Ivor line stallions - 3 winners

  
  

ALL RACE RESULTS - WEEK 8 [26th October]

LEADING FEMALE TAIL CLUSTERS - nick 19 from Origin

Best performed Third Dam Sires were Lyphard [Pharos / Nearctic], Ideal Planet [Star Kingdom / ideal Planet is nick 21] and Grosvenor [Pharos / Royal Charger] :

GROSVENOR

• Randwick - El Castello

  • Stallion - Castelvecchio [High Chapparal cluster]

• Moonee Valley - Plenty of Ammo

  • Stallion - Rebel Raider [Sir Ivor cluster]

LYPHARD

• Moonee Valley - Red Aces

  • Stallion - Dundeel [High Chaparral cluster]

• Doomben - Taltarni Fields

  • Stallion - Deep Field [Encosta De Lago cluster]

IDEAL PLANET 

• Randwick - Lindermann

  • Stallion - Lonhro [Sir ivor cluster]

• Doomben - Navyonthehighway

  • Stallion - Merchant Navy [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 third dam broodmare sires [in 4th Gen] - 28 winners

  • Nearctic x 19, Nasrullah x 5, Royal Charger x 4

  
  
  
  

  WEEK 8 [26th October] - All results shown here:

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BLACK TYPE RESULTS - Week 8 [26th October]

• 5 wins

  • Danehill cluster: Snitzel x 3

• 4 wins

  • High Chaparral cluster: Castelvecchio x 2

• 2 wins "each" to Sir Ivor and Last Tycoon cluster/s

  
  

"Week 8" LEADING FEMALE TAIL LINEAGE STALLION - nick 19 from Origin

Nearctic had 11, then Royal Charger had 3 and Nasrullah had 2.

Star Kingdom and sickle also had 2 in week 8.

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"OVERALL" LEADING STALLION CLUSTERS - nick 24 from Origin

After 8 weeks of Spring racing in Australia....

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 111 wins

Compare this to his closest cluster/s:

Mr Prospector, on 49 wins

Green Desert on 40 wins

Encosta De Lago on 33 wins

High Chaparral on 22 wins

Last Tycoon on 19 wins

Sir Ivor on 16 wins

Storm cat on 13 wins

Halo on 12 wins

Which Sires have produced the most wins

An interesting side note to this table of “stallion clusters” are the individual winning stallions after 8 weeks of Saturday metropolitan racing in Australia.

Here is a short list with any Stallion that has sired 4+ winners

16 - SNITZEL [Danehill]

9 - ZOUSTAR [Encosta De Lago]

9 - I AM INVINCIBLE [Green Desert]

8 - PRIDE OF DUBAI [Mr Prospector]

7 - PLAYING GOD [Danehill]

7 - PER INCANTO [Mr Prospector]

6 - DEEP FIELD [Encosta De Lago]

6 - DUNDEEL [High Chaparral]

6 - WRITTEN TYCOON [Last Tycoon]

6 - TOO DARN HOT [Mr Prospector]

6 - AMERICAN PHAROAH [Mr Prospector]

5 - FASTNET ROCK [Danehill]

5 - CABLE BAY [Green Desert]

5 - CASTELVECCHIO [High Chaparral]

5 - ALMANZOR [Mr Prospector]

5 - HARRY ANGEL [Waajib]

4 - PARIAH [Danehill]

4 - SHAMUS AWARD [Danehill]

4 - SMART MISSILE [Danehill]

4 - WANDJINA [Danehill]

4 - HELLBENT [Green Desert]

4 - TORONADO [High Chaparral]

4 - PIERRO [Sir Ivor]

4 - STAR WITNESS [Soviet Star]

"OVERALL" LEADING FEMALE TAIL CLUSTERS - nick 19 from Origin

1. Pharos [211 wins]

   1. Nearctic x 101

      1. 14 - Danehill

      2. 6 - Royal Academy

      3. 5 - Sadlers Wells

      4. 4 - Be My Guest

   2. Nasrullah x 63

      1. 5 - Darshaan

      2. 4 - Rory's Jester + Shirley Heights

   3. Royal Charger x 41

      1. 6 - Don't Say Halo

      2. 4 - Zabeel + Sir Tristram + Sound Reason + Grosvenor

      
      
      
      

2. Star Kingdom [38]

   1. 6 - Marscay

   2. 4 - Ideal Planet

      
      

3. Sickle [29]

   
   

4. Tourbillon - Byerly Turk line  [21]

   1. 4 - Twig Moss + Euclase

      
      

5. Princequillo [15]

   
   

6. Pharamond [10]

   1. 4 - Lunchtime + Snippets

      
      

7. Tenerani [10]

   
   

8. Fairway [9]

   1. 4 - Vain

      
      
   
   

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The week ahead has lots of black type races in week 9 [November 2nd].

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End of week 8