It is amazing how influential Amour Angus is in 10 of the 11 runners. Jailbird Jog is the odd one out with her pacing blood on mama's side
As I mentioned to Lucpark yesterday about the dominance of Donato Hanover and basically when you have Amour ANgus on boths sides and her sister Canne Angus who is the grandmother of Cantab Hall you see why this had to be the most dominant female trotting line of all time IMO.
Yes — and after tracing the pedigrees, your observation is even more striking than it first appeared. I went through all 11 horses in the field, and 10 of the 11 have Amour Angus in their pedigree, with several getting there through different branches.
The one exception I can find is Jailbird Jog.
The key family tree
The central mare is Amour Angus, and her three famous sons are:
Amour Angus
├── Angus Hall
├── Conway Hall
└── Andover Hall
And her first foal was Emilie Cas El, who became the dam of Trixton.
That's why this field has so many seemingly different routes back to the same mare.
The 11 fillies
PP Filly Route back to Amour Angus
1 Godusa Ready For Moni – Behold The Dream Behold The Dream → Trixton → Emilie Cas El → Amour Angus
2 Carve Captain Corey – Alpine Captain Corey → Luv U All → Angus Hall → Amour Angus; also Alpine → Creatine → Andover Hall → Amour Angus
3 Nezuko Kamado S Chapter Seven – Zefira Kronos Chapter Seven → Windsong's Legacy → Conway Hall → Amour Angus
4 Heart For Two Gimpanzee – House Music Gimpanzee → Chapter Seven → Windsong's Legacy → Conway Hall → Amour Angus
5 She's Moni Walner – That's All Moni Walner → Chapter Seven → Windsong's Legacy → Conway Hall → Amour Angus
6 Victorianas Secret Tactical Landing – Victoriana Victoriana → Donato Hanover → Andover Hall → Amour Angus
7 Madam Cheval Walner – Shake It Cerry Walner → Chapter Seven → Windsong's Legacy → Conway Hall → Amour Angus AND Shake It Cerry → Donato Hanover → Andover Hall → Amour Angus
8 Ygritte Gimpanzee – Etta Am S Gimpanzee → Chapter Seven → Windsong's Legacy → Conway Hall → Amour Angus
9 Jailbird Jog Tactical Landing – Miss Don Fanucci S No Amour Angus connection found in the pedigree branches examined
10 Islandgirl Hanover Captain Corey – Island Lily Captain Corey → Luv U All → Angus Hall → Amour Angus AND Island Lily → Chapter Seven → Windsong's Legacy → Conway Hall → Amour Angus
AE1 Days Away Muscle Hill – Danae Danae → Andover Hall → Amour Angus
AE2 Lauren's Chapter Chapter Seven – A Hopeful Prayer Chapter Seven → Windsong's Legacy → Conway Hall → Amour Angus
The pedigrees confirm, for example, that Carve's sire Captain Corey has Luv U All by Angus Hall, while her dam Alpine is by Creatine, whose sire is Andover Hall. So Carve actually gets Amour Angus twice through two completely different branches.
And Godusa is exactly the one you noticed
This one is particularly neat:
Godusa
→ Behold The Dream
→ Trixton
→ Emilie Cas El
→ Amour Angus
The catalog pedigree for Behold The Dream shows Trixton out of Emilie Cas El, and Emilie Cas El is indeed an Amour Angus daughter.
So your observation was dead-on.
The really amazing part: Madam Cheval
Madam Cheval may be the most interesting pedigree in the race from this perspective.
She gets Amour Angus twice independently:
Through her sire
Madam Cheval
→ Walner
→ Chapter Seven
→ Windsong's Legacy
→ Conway Hall
→ Amour Angus
Through her dam
Madam Cheval
→ Shake It Cerry
→ Donato Hanover
→ Andover Hall
→ Amour Angus
So Amour Angus occurs on both the sire and dam sides of Madam Cheval's pedigree.
The official Lexington material confirms Madam Cheval is Walner–Shake It Cerry, and Shake It Cerry is the daughter of Donato Hanover.
That's a very interesting linebreeding pattern.
Islandgirl Hanover is another double
This one is even more fun because the two paths come from different sons of Amour Angus.
Sire side:
Islandgirl Hanover
→ Captain Corey
→ Luv U All
→ Angus Hall
→ Amour Angus
Dam side:
Islandgirl Hanover
→ Island Lily
→ Chapter Seven
→ Windsong's Legacy
→ Conway Hall
→ Amour Angus
The Hanover Shoe Farms pedigree specifically shows Islandgirl's sire line through Captain Corey → Googoo Gaagaa → Luv U All → Angus Hall, while Island Lily is by Chapter Seven.
So Islandgirl has both Angus Hall and Conway Hall, two sons of the same mare, in her pedigree.
Carve is another double
And this is the one I initially wouldn't have spotted just from the abbreviated breeding:
Carve
Captain Corey → Angus Hall → Amour Angus
Alpine → Creatine → Andover Hall → Amour Angus
Creatine is explicitly by Andover Hall, and Andover Hall is by Garland Lobell out of Amour Angus.
So Carve also has two separate Amour Angus pathways.
Here's how I'd group the field
🟢 Conway Hall branch
These have Amour Angus through Conway Hall → Windsong's Legacy → Chapter Seven:
3 Nezuko Kamado S
4 Heart For Two
5 She's Moni
7 Madam Cheval
8 Ygritte
10 Islandgirl Hanover
AE2 Lauren's Chapter
That's 7 horses.
🔵 Andover Hall branch
Through Andover Hall:
6 Victorianas Secret — through Donato Hanover
7 Madam Cheval — through Donato Hanover
AE1 Days Away — through Danae
2 Carve — through Creatine
That's 4 horses.
🟠 Angus Hall branch
2 Carve — Captain Corey → Luv U All → Angus Hall
10 Islandgirl Hanover — same route
That's 2 horses.
🟣 Emilie Cas El branch
1 Godusa
Trixton → Emilie Cas El, who is Amour Angus's first foal.
So the astonishing number is...
10 of the 11 horses in this $400,000 final trace back to Amour Angus.
And three of them — Carve, Madam Cheval and Islandgirl Hanover — get there through TWO separate branches.
That's an extraordinary concentration around one mare.
And there's another layer that makes it even more interesting: Chapter Seven himself is a Conway Hall grandson, so when you see Gimpanzee, Walner and Chapter Seven in this field, you're essentially seeing the enormously successful Conway Hall → Windsong's Legacy → Chapter Seven branch of the Amour Angus family repeatedly represented. Nezuko's pedigree, for example, explicitly shows Chapter Seven's sire as Windsong's Legacy and Windsong's Legacy's sire as Conway Hall.
Jailbird Jog is the odd filly out. Her sire is Tactical Landing and her dam is Miss Don Fanucci S; her published pedigree goes through Muscle Hill/Southwind Serena and SJ's Caviar/Kissed By The West rather than the Amour Angus branches above.
