Breeding Counts a LOT; top racemares

[SeattleSlew]

Breeding certainly counts!!
Just a few of the great race mares and broodmares who sired some of the top horses who WON the top races

Sylvia Hanover - Shyaway (dam of Western Hanover)
Antognoni S - Bouncing Bax (winner of over $400,000)
R Dutchess (DQ) - The Ice Duchess (1:51.1, $775,000)
Loua Dipa - Looks Good in a Romper (1:52.3H, $300,000+)
Emoticon Legacy - Emoticon Hanover (1:50.2, $1.8mm)
Apex- Mission Brief (1:50.2, $1.6mm; many still feel top female trotter EVER)

AND even though it was not a "feature race" on the card: Calico Jack Hanover - Charisma Hanover (1:49, $800,000)

So you can talk about the "gas" all you want, but you better be filling the tank of a Mercedes and not a Yugo.

[Muggsy Mitty]

Actually the mother of Western Fame, but still a great racehorse himself, bloodlines are the key for sure.

[seen2much]

On occasion a top mare produces a good/great horse. More often than not the opposite happens.

[Brown jug]

you need to distinguish hat you classify as a top mare
a mare that was great/good on the track or one that has deep pedigree
if they are both than you have it all

[Lance]

Let’s not forget about all those great studs out there.

[JIDGE]

On the flip side of the coin the outstanding 2yr. old Beau Jangles' dam make a little over 36K lifetime and his second dam make a little over 8K -- you have to go back to his third dam to find the outstanding race mare Bunny Lake who made over 3 million dollars -- yet out of 13 foals she was unable to produce a million dollar winner.

[oh canada]

Let’s not forget about all those great studs out there.

Very true , lets hear it for all the Studs out there doing Gods work !!

[Brown jug]

the first dam of beau jangles is a full sister to major hill who made $700k
bunny lake had a $800k winner and a $700k winner and a few average horses
one of her daughters bodacious hanover ( dragon again) is the dam of captain luke