BREEDING SUGGESTIONS FROM ALAN PORTER
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With 15 stakes winners in his first four crops, Songandaprayer has established himself as the leading sire son of Unbridled’s Song.
Songandaprayer is free of Northern Dancer, and there are several Northern Dancer strains which appear to have considerable potential here. He has already sired the brilliant sprinter Songster out of a mare by French Deputy (by Deputy Minister), and Deputy Minister line mares have been very good with both Unbridled and Unbridled’s Song. Unbridled’s Song also has stakes winners out of mares descending from Northern Dancer through Nijinsky II (out of a mare by Caerleon), Danzig (who is potentially particularly interesting through Belong to Me), and Sadler’s Wells (sire of El Prado).
Unbridled and Unbridled’s Song have both done very well with Storm Bird line mares, particularly with Storm Cat, and Songandaprayer already has a stakes placed horse out of a mare by a son of Storm Bird. Other branches of Northern Dancer to work well with Unbridled and Unbridled’s Song include Nijinsky II, Danzig, Nureyev, Lyphard, The Minstrel, Magesterial and El Gran Senor. From the Icecapade branch of the Nearctic (sire of Northern Dancer) line, Unbridled’s Song sired the brilliant Zensational out of a mare by Phone Trick (by Clever Trick), a horse who is also broodmare sire of a grade one winner by Unbridled.
Songandaprayer’s brilliant but ill-fated dual two-year-old graded stakes winner, What a Song, is out of a mare by Tough Knight, a member of the Never Bend branch of the Nasrullah sire line. What a Song’s dam is also inbred to another Nasrullah son, Bold Ruler. Another branch of the Bold Ruler line which has produced a stakes winner for Unbridled’s Song is that of Bold Ruckus.
Songandaprayer’s record-breaking graded stakes winner He’s Got Grit, is also out of a mare from the Nasrullah sire line. His dam is by With Approval, a son of Caro, and He’s Got Grit is inbred to both Caro and to Bold Ruler’s grandson, Well Decorated. This also suggests that Caro through Cozzene, Dr. Carter and Siberian Express (sire of In Excess and grandsire of Indian Charlie) might work well. The cross of Unbridled’s Song with mares descending from Nasrullah via Blushing Groom has produced stakes winners out of mares by Mt. Livermore and his son Housbuster (suggesting trying mares by Orientate), Rahy and Runaway Groom (sire of Cherokee Run). Unbridled’s Song also has two stakes winners out of a mare descending from Nasrullah through Olympio (by Naskra).
Nasrullah’s three-parts brother Royal Charger, is most frequently found in North America through Turn-to. Unbridled’s Song has three stakes winners, one graded, out of mares descending from Turn-to’s son, Sir Gaylord (via Sir Ivor, Lord Avie and Drone), and a stakes winner out of a mare by Turn-to’s grandson, Halo. Mares by Stop the Music, and particularly his son, Cure the Blues, should also be interesting.
Songandaprayer is a grandson of Unbridled, and a great-grandson of Fappiano, and this male line has a history of working very well with mares carrying In Reality. Unbridled’s Song has grade one winners out mares by In Reality sons Valid Appeal (whose son, Mighty Appealing is broodmare sire of a stakes winner by Songandaprayer), and Taylor’s Falls, a graded winner out of a mare by Known Fact; and a stakes winner out of a mare by a son of Relaunch.
Out of mares from the Mr. Prospector line, Songandaprayer is sire of stakes winners out of mares by Tactical Advantage (by Forty Niner) and West By West (by Gone West). He also has stakes winners out of mares by Holy Bull, Boston Harbor (by Capote), You and I (by Kris S., from the Roberto line), Devil’s Bag (by Halo), Overskate and Proud Birdie.
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