Castelvecchio $33,000

Isn't is funny how things can happen.  Back in the day Planet Ruler was a favourite of mine. Undoubtedly the second best son of Kaoru Star after Luskin Star.

Also you might note from my ramblings that I love history.  Take one of the runners in the Oaks on Saturday.  A daughter of So You Think so she has that lovely Juliet family on the male side.  Then her female line goes back to the dam of Musket (sire of Carbine) and her dam Brown Bess (Carbine was inbred 3f x 4f to Brown Bess).  Not only that you also find Pago Pago from his time at stud in the USA.  Through the dam of Dancing Brave Navajo Princess.

Yes I like the mix of Dehere and Kris (and for that matter Biscay also but he's not in this one).  You may note that Fiesta Star and Ajax are the same 1-n/2-e mix.  Double whammy there also.

😉 Secretariat’s daughter Sister Dot came up during a recent visit with Susan Walsh, a key figure in Massachusetts racing and breeding, not that there’s much left up here. I needed a horse fix, if you will, and she obliged, showing off her four horses. A lovely 10-year-old gray mare named Dixie Frost caught my eye, and Susan pointed out that she was by Sister Dot’s son Defrere. She marveled that she once saw Sister Dot on a farm, and it was a small world that she ended up with a granddaughter of the Secretariat mare. This photo of Dixie Frost was taken during my visit.
Sister Dot was a New Jersey-bred who won or placed in 20 of 35 starts over four years. She placed several times in stakes races, happiest in minor stakes on the New Jersey/ Philadelphia circuit; her only two ventures into graded stakes company were much less successful. It was as a broodmare that Sister Dot has helped keep Secretariat’s name in pedigrees over the decades.
Her first foal was champion Dehere, the subject of my previous post. Bred right back to Deputy Minister, she produced Defrere. That colt won at first asking at three in March 1995, perhaps encouraging his connections that they could have a second straight stakes winner on their hands. He was third in his next start, the Bahamas at Hialeah, and then second in an allowance at Belmont in May. Defrere closed out his career with allowance wins that summer at Saratoga and Monmouth Park.
While not reaching the acclaim of his brother, either as a racehorse or sire, he developed his own niche in breeding. He started his stud career in Kentucky, but was later sent to New Jersey, where he was the leading sire for seven straight years, 2008 to 2014.
Sister Dot’s last seven foals were all born in Ireland, where she went to the court of Sadler’s Wells and Danehill. Her best of that group was stakes-placed Danesis.
http://www.secretariatslegacy.com/

Jeez - Arrowfield have upped the marketing intensity with this bloke, even to the point that Castelvecchio is the sponsor of the BSB news bulletin. The nomination applications can't be rolling in as quickly as hoped.