Stallion Profile: J J's Lucky Train - All Aboard!

Stallion Profile: J J's Lucky Train
Prepared by Jared Gollnitz
Prepared for Anna Simms, DVM

Every once in a while you come across a stallion with a female line that doesn't exactly ring a bell and are subsequently overlooked because American breeders don't recognize the names in the female family of the stallion. These families often come from Great Britain or South America. The good news is that breeders in these distant places, especially in the last 80 years, were educated, analytical minds and were fiendish linebreeders who bred their stock not only to produce runners, but also to produce future producers. Our subject stallion, Graded stakes winner and multiple stakes winner, J J's Lucky Train, (Silver Train - Delta Sensation, by Thunder Gulch) comes from such a family that was developed by foreign breeders that were fully aware of the pre-potent ancestors they had at their disposal when planning matings. The good news is that these same pre-potent ancestors exist in American pedigrees as well, and in plentiful supply.

It is no secret that great results can be had from returning a stallion's dam's best blood. Let's first go over who these ancestors are. Most important is Family 16, the descendants of Agnes. Any from this family will work, but chief among these descendants are the full sibling Ormonde and Ornament, and their close kin Kendal and Martagon. Adding to the family 16 buildups is of importance when considering crossing to the dam of J J's Lucky Train. These family members can be found in any of the sons of Plucky Leige (Bull Dog, Sir Gallahad III, Admiral Drake) and should be considered prime targets. A sire that was plentiful in these buildups was Roberto. Quantity is important, but variety is better. Third dam First of Dawn may have GB, IRE, FR, and ARG notations all over her pedigree, but she has plenty of Ornament, Martagon, and a line of hard-to-find Kendal in her pedigree. Champion 2 year-old Forty Niner's dam File is laced with four lines of Ornament. The newly-minted daughters of Boys At Tosconova and Cal Nation will be great for this purpose, once they reach breeding age. Adding more Kendal to First of Dawn should be explosive. A great source of Kendal is Caro. Caro has five (5) lines of Kendal. Descendants of Unbridled's Song could well be excellent mates for J J's Lucky Train and will provide a source of Caro. Some better options for sources of Caro would be Maria's Mon (through Super Saver and Monarchos) and mares with In Excess or Indian Charlie. Mizzen Mast should also work well here. Mares by Notional and With Approval not only add Caro, but also add more La Troienne as well as Prince John and Tourbillon, known accomplices to La Troienne. These are sounder lines that will also add stamina to the equation.

A distaff line to acquire for J J's Lucky Train is that of Yanina II, an Argentine stakes superstar imported into the U.S. Her daughters and their daughters have bred on, mostly through Peace Tech and Northern Heiress. Their bloodlines can be found throughout the Mid-Atlantic and some in Kentucky. They bring with them four (4) lines of Kendal just through Yanina II alone and any more they've picked up in subsequent generations.

Another key source of speed that is gaining more notoriety in recent years is Olympia. One line of Olympia is potent enough for speed, but he appears as a 4th or 5th damsire of many a successful female lines. Olympia appears in the pedigree of J J's Lucky Train through Old Trieste, via Crozier. Inbreeding to Olympia has been explosive in recent years, even from 5, 6, and 7 generations out. Known for his speed, Olympia tends to add speed without compromising stamina... you don't have to take my word for it... just ask Triple Crown winner American Pharoah whose dam Littleprincessemma has Olympia highly concentrated in her 2nd dam, Zetta Jet, and she got even more Olympia when she met Pioneerof the Nile. 2014 Horse of the Year and dual classic winner California Chrome also crossed Danzig on Lucky Mel, each carrying Olympia. As an added bonus, Lucky Pulpit also brings Caro to the party! Olympia can be found in the aforementioned Pioneerof The Nile, Unbridled's Song, Rockport Harbor, Smart Strike, any Dynaformer (son of Roberto). Olympia is most potent in tail-female descent. Monarchos brings in Olympia through a full sister to Dynaformer, and Caro. Can you say "home-run"?

Another powerful accomplice to La Troienne and Domino (both prevalent throughout the pedigree of J J's Lucky Train) is Tourbillon, and more specifically, male lines of Glencoe, mostly through Vandal. Vandal can be found in his strongest form and buildup through Djeddah, but any descendant of Tourbillon will do. Johns Joy is also a potent source of Vandal. This makes daughters or granddaughters of During (by Cherokee Run) a prime target as he is packing both Djeddah and Johns Joy. Cherokee Run will also bring with him Blue Eyed Momo, who, when crossed on her full sister-in-blood Busanda, dam of the peerless Buckpasser, has had explosive results. Other sources of Blue Eyed Momo are Catienus, Honour and Glory, and Johannesburg.

Another angle is to keep piling on more La Troienne, Domino, and Discovery a key to maximizing linebreeding to Domino, since Discovery has more of Domino's family (23-b) than Domino himself. Now that he's back in the U.S., Empire Maker fits the bill perfectly, adding La Troienne, Buckpasser, and Tourbillon.

Another distaff blue hen is Maggie B. B., she the tail-female ancestress of Unbridled's Song, Silver Train, and many others. This is real sire source family. A sound, sturdy source with many lines of Maggie B. B. blood is Holy Bull, who has also historically done well with La Troienne. Holy Bull's sons Macho Uno, Flashy Bull, and Giacomo should be considered prime to meet this need.

Blue hen Boudoir II is also present through Flower Bowl's son His Majesty. Adding his full-brother Graustark to the mix should do well here also. Any distaff sources of Boudoir II will add potency and speed. This is also the female line of champion sprinter Groupie Doll and assumed 2015 Champion Juvenile filly Songbird.

Another potent cross that keeps coming up is crosses of blue hen Hidden Talent, most notably through her daughter Too Bald, dam of Capote, Baldski, Exceller, and many other stakes-producing sons and daughters. West Virginia stallion Charitable Man has already had his best stakes winner to date by doubling Too Bald in the pedigree of Charitable Annuity, winner of the $500,000 West Virginia Breeder's Classic. Charitable Man now has daughters of breeding age in the Mid-Atlantic region to cross into this line. Charitable Man is a female-line descendant of Too Bald. Daughters of Include (Broad Brush) should be prime, as Include is already doubled to Hidden Talent. New daughters of Include's son Redeemed are also worth heavy, heavy consideration once they come of age. Redeemed would give two more lines of distaff powerhouse Flower Bowl as well as Hidden Talent.

J J's Lucky Train also has inbreeding to full brothers in blood Nijinski II and Far North. Far North's full brother The Minstrel should always be considered in-play. Malibu Moon mares probably aren't ideal for adding more Nijinski II but could be considered. More ideal would be daughters of Malibu Moon mares. This configuration will give better generational alignment of Nijinski II and probably be less likely to double A.P. Indy in tail-male in both parents. Any source of Green Dancer will mesh well with Silver Train... sources like Malibu Moon, Temple City, and Officer... all have French super-mare Maximova, by Green Dancer, in common.

Any sources of Seattle Slew will also be welcome, especially through sources that are not A.P. Indy, like Officer, Stormy Atlantic, and Lemon Drop Kid as Slew brings in two La Troienne and more Domino. Officer is tail-female to Busanda and brings with him more La Troienne and many, many, lines to the sisters of Domino, mostly through his many lines of Discovery.

There are several routes to go, but this is also a stallion that a breeder can get creative with. How cool would it be to have a double of Storm Bird without touching the shortcomings of Storm Cat? As an added bonus, add two lines of Prince John (another accomplice of La Troienne and Olympia who brings more Correction, another sister of Domino), more Tourbillon and War Admiral, through a son of Street Cry with new WV sire Our Entourage, whose 1st dam is by the aforementioned Dynaformer (read "Olympia") and 2nd dam by Storm Bird.

Let your mind run wild.

J J's Lucky Train will stand in 2016 for $1,000 LFSN at Little Hawk Farm in Crozier, VA and can be found on the web at http://www.jjsluckytrain.com

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Stallion Profile: Our Entourage - Inviting You To His Crew

It is very rare that you see a stallion with only the best blood to offer, all in an undiluted package of speed, stamina, and soundness, and so it is with second-year stallion, Our Entourage (Street Cry - Sand Springs, by Dyanaformer). At first glance, he is the result of the same cross that produced a more famous daughter of Street Cry, the legendary Zenyatta. The cross is Street Cry with mares from the Roberto sire line, with added Hoist The Flag on the bottom of the pedigree. Unlike the imposing Zenyatta, Our Entourage is a moderately sized stallion with handsome looks that isn't too big, but isn't small either, standing around 16 hands high. The cross of Machiavellian and Northern Dancer sets up a very nice triple of Almahmoud (twice through Natalma). Our Entourage also flaunts doubles of Hail To Reason, Hoist The Flag, Prince John, and Nashua, with some standard-fare triples of Nasrullah and Native Dancer.

Add a Discovery for every Native Dancer plus a line of Hasty Road through Dynaformer, Discovery becomes a critical play when linebreeding for Domino, as Discovery has more of Domino's own family than Domino himself.  Other sources of Discovery that are absent from Our Entourage's pedigree are Bold Ruler and Intentionally. They should be considered power-plays in any mare brought to Our Entourage.

Further back in Our Entourage's pedigree are three lines of Tourbillon, two of them courtesy of Hoist The Flag. The multiple male lines of Glencoe via Vandal present in Tourbillon always amplify the many lines of Glencoe's legendary daughter, Pocahontas, she of the large heart gene and present throughout the Thoroughbred gene pool, but most prevalent in Domino.

While only a single line of Olympia is present in the pedigree of Our Entourage, one is enough, and any more Olympia that can be brought by his mates is pure gold. If you need proof of this, just ask Triple Crown winner American Pharoah how important the multiple lines of Olympia are to his success.

So, where is all this ultimately leading? La Troienne and her legion of ancestors are set up perfectly to return to the pedigree of this Temperence Hill Stakes winner. La Troienne is only present in Street Cry once. La Troienne is the result of the cross of full siblings, Ormonde and Ornament. Roman is present and also has the same Ormonde / Ornament cross. Ornament's legendary daughter Sceptre is present twice and will invite many returns, especially through File, dam of Kentucky Derby runner-up Forty Niner. File is laced with four lines of Ornament and will make a big impact with Our Entourage. Ormonde, Ornament, and any other crosses of Family 16, the descendants of Agnes add to the potency of the crosses. La Troienne can be found in any Seattle Slew, Numbered Account, and especially A.P. Indy. A.P. Indy has three lines of La Troienne, the most important of which is her maternal great-grandson, Buckpasser, who is a known genetic equivalent to Roberto.

Dynaformer has a couple genetic equivalents as well, one in the speedy but often fragile Dixieland Band. The other, Always Run Lucky, is not as well known but is bred on the same Traffic Judge / Warfare cross as Dixieland Band. If A is just like B, and B is just like C, then it stands to reason that there is a good chance that A is close enough to C to work well. Here is what the cross of Dixieland Band and Dynaformer looks like.

Our Entourage's 2nd dam Lovely Martha is by Storm Bird, who also has some genetic equivalents. The most prominent of these is Nijinsky II and his close kin The Minstrel. Nijinsky II can be found fairly easily. Mares with Nijinsky II and Buckpasser are prime for breeding to Our Entourage, particularly mares by Malibu Moon. If you are lucky to have them, Tapit and Corinthian mares would also work well, both of which are exemplary of the potency of doubling Nijinsky II and Buckpasser. A.P. Indy and his son Pulpit are prime targets.

To top it all off, Our Entourage provides a line of Alleged, who offers a nice double of War Admiral to go with all the War Admiral in Seattle Slew and A.P. Indy, should they be present in any of his mates. Another good pedigree play involves crossing His Majesty with his full brother Graustark, and any other members of the Boudoir II line, like Floral Park, Your Host, and Your Hostess.

So, who do I think is going to be the hottest cross with Our Entourage in the coming years? It's a tie between three sires, one whose first runners are just starting to run on the track, one of which has already managed to be exported, and, finally, a soon-to-be-retired future sire who just keeps on running. So, what do these three have in common? Who's the key? The answer is Belle De Jour. Who on earth is Belle De Jour? She is the dam of the 4th fastest Kentucky Derby winner in the history of the race, Spend A Buck.

The three prime damsires are Gr. 1 Florida Derby winner and Kentucky Derby runner-up, Ice Box, Gr. 1 winner Friends Lake (exported to Saudi Arabia), and future sire, Gr. 1 turf superstar Big Blue Kitten. All of these have Belle De Jour in their pedigrees and in the right places. Ice Box has the distinct advantage of being the only one of these three that is actively covering mares in the U.S. and is by Pulpit (La Troienne, Nijinsky II, Buckpasser) out of a mare from the direct female line of La Troienne's three-quarters sister, Adargatis, with 3rd dam being Belle De Jour herself. Belle De Jour is loaded with both male and female strains of Tourbillon, and her son Spend A Buck produced Gr. 1 winner and Gr. 1 producer Antespend (dam of Friends Lake) from a mare free of La Troienne, free of Domino, but TRIPLED to Tourbillon. The importance of Tourbillon cannot be overemphasized when supporting linebreeding to La Troienne and Domino. Virginia stallion Friend Or Foe also has loads of Tourbillon, Domino, Prince John, and La Troienne and should also be an excellent match for Our Entourage, once Friend Or Foe's daughters are of breeding age.

Hopefully, Our Entourage's progeny will make a huge impact and reward his co-owners, James Anderson and John Lewis, for selecting a wonderful stallion prospect and for supporting him with a nice handful of their own mares, putting their money where their mouth is. He certainly has a pedigree replete with speed, stamina, and soundness, and has enough pre-potency to pass all of this on to his get.

Our Entourage's Bloodhorse Stallion Register pedigree page can be found here.

Stallion Profile: Talent Search - Search No More

From the family that gave us no less than the likes of Nasrullah and Royal Charger, breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey struck gold again when they bred the talented Talent Search. Not only is the direct female line duplicated from Nasrullah and several lines of Mahmoud, but family 16 (Agnes) is also well represented in La Troienne, from Francis S. - from the female line of Catienus - and from every instance of Blenheim II, every Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad III, Sardanapale, Papyrus, and many other representatives of the Agnes clan.

What's noticeably missing is Royal Charger, who is the genetic equivalent to Nasrullah. Any royal Vharger in Talent Search's mates should be explosive, particularly if they're carrying more La Troienne or her main accomplices Roman, Prince John, Olympia, or Tourbillon (any Djeddah is worth two Tourbillon). The dam of Francis S., Blue Eyed Momo is a known full sister in blood to Busanda, dam of the peerless Buckpasser and tail-female ancestress of juvenile Grade 1 winner Officer. A.P. Indy brings in plenty of La Troienne, including Busanda, and Tourbillon, along with the much-needed strain of Royal Charger.

One of the most important invites for Talent Search's mates are mares out of daughters of Dynaformer. If you need any evidence of the importance of this cross, look no further than one of only two horses to finish the run for the roses in under two minutes, Monarchos. Monarchos 2nd dam is a full sister in blood to Dynaformer. Mares by Monarchos would be ideal here. Pairing Monarchos or Dynaformer with the dam of Talent Search would also give a double of Flower Bowl through full brothers His Majesty and Graustark, a double of influential mare Bleebok, and multiples of the important Bull Dog (or Sir Gallahad III) / Nogara cross. Dynaformer is also a representative Royal Charger sire line, giving much-needed diversity of the female line of the "Flying Filly" Mumtaz Mahal.

Here is the result of the Dixieland Band / Dynaformer cross:

Another critical cross for Dixieland Band is a lesser-known stallion named Always Run Lucky. The dams of both Dixieland Band and Always Run Lucky are both by Delta Judge and out of mares by Warfare. Always Run Lucky was not only a stakes winner as a racehorse, but was also deemed to be enough of a physical specimen and of quality enough demeanor that he was heavily used in the recent development of the Trakehner warmblood horse breed. Mares with Always Run Lucky are hard to find, but they're definitely out there.

Other lines that should be considered in-play are Seeking The Gold, Miswaki, and Kitten's Joy.

I will add other favorable matches for Talent Search at a later time, but this is enough to chew on for now. Talent Search is already off to a great start and deserves to be supported by Mid-Atlantic region breeders and buyers, both large and small.

Talent Search currently stands at Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, PA.

Stallion Profile: Friend Or Foe

Stallion Profile for Friend Or Foe (Friends Lake - Unbridled Star, by Unbridled) 

Standing at Smallwood Farm in Crozet, VA 

If you take a look at Friend Or Foe's race charts, you will see for yourself that, even in his own defeat in Graded stakes company, he still out-ran a Who's Who of commercial sires / Graded stakes winners at the height of his career. 

He defeated top runners and emerging sires like Ice Box (Gr. 1 Florida Derby winner and Kentucky Derby runner-up), Super Saver (Kentucky Derby winner), Mission Impazible (multiple Gr. 2 winner and multiple Gr. 1 runner-up), Morning Line (Gr. 1 winner), Musket Man (Gr. 2 winner, Gr. 1 runner-up), Rail Trip (Gr. 1 winner), and Trappe Shot (Gr. 2 winner, Gr. 1 runner-up), just to name a several. In addition to missing the Belmont track record for 1 1/16 miles by only 1.5 seconds, he also tied Eskendereya's Beyer Speed Figure of 109, the co-fastest for all 3 year old routers of the deep 2010 3-year old crop. 

Friend Or Foe is also replete with 10 lines of distaff force La Troienne (9) and her 3/4 sister Adargatis (1). That's more than Tapit (7 La Troienne), Wilburn (8 La Troienne), Wilburn's sire Bernardini (7 La Troienne) and Super Saver (7 La Troienne). When studying the pedigree of the great matron and French Oaks-winning sister, you will notice there is a full-sibling cross of Ormonde and Ornament. Re-crossing the plentiful Ormonde on himself does very little to affect a pedigree, but combining the two full siblings, and their close kin Kendal, Martagon, and closely-related St. Angelo, (all from family 16, Miss Agnes via Little Agnes) has produced the highest class race horses for close to a century. Friend Or Foe is a direct descendant of this very same 16-c female family and traces straight back to Little Agnes, tail-female.  Other known sources of Ornament include Forty Niner via his dam, File. Mares with Forty Niner should also do well with Friend Or Foe. Flushing (by Mahmoud), should also be potent as he brings Ornament, Kendal, and Martagon back to La Troienne. Need an example? See Unbridled's Song. Daughters of Unbridled's Song will be an excellent cross.  

A key ingredient that Friend Or Foe is in need of is some Nijinsky II blood as the dam of Nijinsky II, Flaming Page, is a known "genetic equivalent" to Buckpasser, whom Friend Or Foe has 3 lines. If you need proof of the effectiveness of the Nijinsky II / Buckpasser cross, look no further than the pedigrees of Tapit and Corinthian (links below). Mares with Carson City and Officer are prime to meet this need. Both are from non-A.P. Indy sire lines and pack Nijinsky II. If you don't have any Nijinsky II blood, mares with the genetically equivalent Storm Bird is close enough to a right answer. Storm Cat adds Storm Bird plus a female strain of Menow to complement the tail-male line from Buckpasser.  

While we're on the subject of genetic equivalents, rockstar sire Medaglia D'Oro is also close enough for Friend Or Foe's dam, Unbridled Star. Medaglia D'Oro's daughters are worth a ton of consideration here. 

Mares with Cornish Prince should also do well, giving a double of Adargatis. Alysheba also offers a deep, potent linebreeding opportunity with Buckpasser. 

http://www.pedigreequery.com/tapit http://www.pedigreequery.com/corinthian4 

One of the best-kept secrets in breeding is linebreeding to Olympia. More Olympia to go with the Olympia he already has in tail-female will be potent enough. Doubling Olympia is potent enough on its own without any of the other elements of Friend Or Foe's pedigree. If you need proof, just look at the pedigrees of Wicked Strong and Immortal Eyes, who also pack La Troienne in multiples. It is apparent that La Troienne and Olympia travel well together. You can exploit Olympia through commonly-found Danzig, Dynaformer, and if you want to get a really talented runner, bring him some Copelan, who not only adds two lines of Olympia, but adds more La Troienne through Cohoes. When in doubt, add more La Troienne, and give your thanks to Fred Hooper for the great gifts he left the Thoroughbred breed in Olympia and, subsequently, Copelan. Smarten, most notably via Smart Strike, is another viable source of Olympia. Need another example?  Look at the pedigree of blazingly-fast, Eclipse Champion 2 Year Old Male, American Pharoah, whose third dam Zetta Jet carries 3 lines of Olympia (3X4X4) to go with Pioneerof the Nile's tail-female line of Olympia.  

And as my pedigree mentor Les Brinsfield would say, "***LOCK THE DOORS AND HIDE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IF YOU SEND A ROCKPORT HARBOR MARE TO FRIEND OR FOE!***" Also make sure you get a wheel barrow to haul all of the winnings to take to the bank. See previous paragraph on Olympia and Copelan. 

Be careful with Danzig as he ran unsound and tends to pass on his fragile bone to his offspring, so make sure any Danzig mares are sound individuals with good bone. 

NOTE: Mares with Dynaformer will also give you the ever-increasing Roberto / Buckpasser cross, in addition to the Olympia cross. 5 out of 6 Gr. 1 winners by Kitten's Joy in 2013 contained doubles of Roberto and Buckpasser. 

A strong broodmare sire to consider is Distorted Humor - by the aforementioned Forty Niner out of a mare by the also-aforementioned Danzig - who had a strike rate of 35% (7 out of 20) stakes winners from his first crop when bred to mares with La Troienne. Even crazier is the fact that it took 8 years at stud for Distorted Humor to produce a stakes winner void of La Troienne. The inverse should work as well, given the number of lines of La Troienne and Adargatis that Friend Or Foe is packing. Distorted Humor mares are in plentiful supply and should be fairly easy to obtain. A good number of them should have La Troienne. 

Mares by Cherokee Run or his sons should also do well. Not only is Cherokee Run doubled to La Troienne, but he is also of similar running style to Friend Or Foe, favoring 7 to 9 furlongs. 

Other sires packing Buckpasser in multiples include Ready's Image and his sire More Than Ready (via Woodman), and Aptitude. However, it should be noted that mares from the sire line of A.P. Indy will probably be avoided, unless the strike rate improves. As of the writing of this profile, there are no black-type winning or placed horses from nearly 70 tries of the A.P. Indy / A.P. Indy sire-broodmare sire line cross. 

Mares with Not For Love, Polish Numbers, and Maria's Mon (via Kentucky Derby winners Monarchos and Super Saver) will also be potent here. Any stallions with the great mare Numbered Account, such as Not For Love and Polish Numbers should be considered prime targets. Polish Numbers gives both Buckpasser and Danzig, giving more of La Troienne and Olympia.  

The 2014 Horse of the Year and dual classic winner California Chrome gave us a glimpse at what happens when all of these genetic tools are combined. Yes, my friends, the lesser-spoken partner of Team Chrome, Perry Martin, knew exactly what he was doing when he planned this mating of an $8,000 claiming mare and a $2,500 stallion. Even Nijinsky II is present via Pulpit's 3rd dam, State, as well as a double of Olympia via Lucky Mel and Danzig (sex-balanced even), and anchored with an overwhelming number of La Troienne. 

http://www.pedigreequery.com/california+chrome   

BOTTOM LINE: Any of La Troienne or Adargatis and their known accomplices like Roman, Nasrullah, Royal Charger, Mahmoud, plus Olympia will work. Domino, through sources like Hildene, should also be considered in-play via daughters of War Pass and Speightstown. Speightstown has plenty of offspring and is an excellent known source of Hildene and packs the multiple world record-setting Bolero via Storm Cat. Speightstown also packs Buckpasser and a double of Secretariat, who, by the way, carries two lines of Martagon, a known accomplice to La Troienne, through Nasrullah and Caruso. For Mid-Atlantic Region folks, Speightstown has a successful unraced half-brother sire standing in WV named Fiber Sonde, by Unbridled's Song, also packing Olympia via Lucky Mel. Mares by Fiber Sonde will also fit the bill as Fiber Sonde is double to aforementioned Flushing and doubled to Buckpasser. Friend Or Foe should also thrive on returns of Seattle Slew and his siblings Lomond and Seattle Dancer, all of which add two La Troienne via their dam, My Charmer. Seattle Dancer is by Nijinsky II as an added bonus. Try to get My Charmer as much on the distaff portion of the mare's pedigree as possible. 

Don't let Friend Or Foe's excellent jumping ability, low introductory fee, or his racing stat summary fool you as far as a breed-to-race prospect. He has the goods. If you're breeding to get a racehorse, he is as qualified as any sire in the Mid-Atlantic region as a sire and could potentially turn commercial after his first runners hit the track. 

As for conformation, artist Richard Stone Reeves, whose talented paintbrush has captured many of our greatest racehorses, considered Buckpasser the perfect physical specimen, of whom Friend Or Foe carries three lines.  NYRA veterinarian Manuel Gilman agreed, saying, "It is said that every horse has 100 faults of conformation, but I would defy anybody to pick a flaw in Buckpasser." Friend Or Foe will always appreciate more Buckpasser through his mares and will aid in maintaining a good conformation and top-notch classic speed in his offspring.