BREEDING SUGGESTIONS FROM ALAN PORTER
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Sunday Break is a graded stakes winning and classic placed son of sire of sires Forty Niner, out of a Champion producing mare. His first crop yearlings realized up to $500,000 in 2006.
Sunday Break is a product of the Mr. Prospector/Northern Dancer cross as is Forty Niner’s son, Distorted Humor, and other highly-successful sires Kingmambo, Elusive Quality, Grand Slam Fusaichi Pegasus, Thunder Gulch and Smoke Glacken.
Those stallions have enjoyed considerable success when crossed back over Northern Dancer line mares and this should also work well for Sunday Break. The cross with mares from the Nijinsky II branch of Northern Dancer should be particularly good, as Nijinsky II combines very well with Storm Bird, the sire of Sunday Break’s maternal grandsire, Storm Cat. Nijinsky II’s three-parts-brothers, The Minstrel and Far North, are also broodmare sires of stakes winners out of mares by Forty Niner line stallions. Forty Niner line stallions have sired stakes winners out of mares descending from Nijinsky II through Baldski, Caerleon, Manzotti and Seattle Dancer. Other branches of Northern Dancer which have supplied stakes winners for Forty Niner line stallions include Danzig (including through Chief’s Crown and Pine Bluff), Deputy Minister (including Silver Deputy), Dixieland Band, Lyphard, Nureyev, Sadler’s Wells and Topsider. It could also be worth considering inbreeding to Sunday Break’s broodmare sire, Storm Cat, through mares by that horse’s sons, and grandsons, or trying his three-quarters relative Summer Squall. Mares by stallions bred on a Northern Dancer/Secretariat cross, such as Dehere, Chief’s Crown and Summer Squall should work particularly well.
Like most branches of Mr. Prospector, Forty Niner and his sons have done well with Seattle Slew line mares. Seattle Slew sons which are broodmare sires of Forty Niner stakes winners include A.P. Indy, Slewpy, Slewacide, Houston and Capote. Other sons which should do well include Slew o’ Gold, Fast Play, Septieme Ciel, Slew City Slew and Tsunami Slew. Seattle Slew is a Bold Ruler line stallion, through Boldnesian (whose grandson, Beau Genius is also broodmare sire of Forty Niner line stakes winners). Other branches of Bold Ruler which have worked well with Forty Niner line stallions include Bold Bidder (through Spectacular Bid and Caveat), Dewan, Chieftain, Secretariat, Bold Bidder, What a Pleasure and Raja Baba. Distorted Humor also has a stakes winner out of a mare descending from Bold Ruler’s sire, Nasrullah, via Naskra.
Forty Niner and his sons have enjoyed success with broodmare sires descending from a wide variety of branches of the Turn-to sire line. Among the most likely here are Cox’s Ridge, Roberto, Stop the Music, Halo and Sir Gaylord
Forty Niner is out of a mare by Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot. Forty Nine did well with mares which gave inbreeding to Ribot, and Distorted Humor has a grade one winner out of a mare by Alleged, a son of Hoist the Flag and a grandson of Tom Rolfe. Ribot could also be brought in through Graustark and His Majesty, with His Majesty’s son, Pleasant Colony, being a particularly promising source. As a variation on the Turn-to and Ribot themes, consider Ack Ack (out of a mare by Turn-to) and his son, Broad Brush (out of a mare by Hoist the Flag). Distorted Humor already has two stakes winners out of mares by Home at Last (dam by Ack Ack) and another out of a mare by Lost Code (a Ribot line stallion out of an Ack Ack mare). The cross of Forty Niner line stallions over mares descending from Damascus has been a very successful one, and has produced stakes winners out of mares by Private Account (and his sons Corporate Report and Personal Flag), Ogygian, Desert Wine, Cutlass and Convincingly.
Sunday Break is a Raise a Native line horse, but might cross well over mares descending from from Raise a Native’s son, Alydar (a genetic relative to Mr. Prospector) and Majestic Light (a product of a similar Raise a Native/Ribot cross to Forty Niner).
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