DAMS OF CLASSIC WINNERS Leather SIGNED Michael Church
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DAMS OF CLASSIC WINNERS
By Michael Church
Bound in blue leather, with gilt lettering to front and spine, all edges gilt, 608 pages. Landscape 24 x 18cm.
Book No. 35 of 1101 dedicated to COTHERSTONE winner of the 1843 Two Thousand Guineas - SIGNED BY MICHAEL CHURCH
Published by RACING POST LTD. 1994.
A stallion may cover 100 mares or more in the course of a five month breeding season, earning vast amounts for his owners, while the broodmare, limited by Mother Nature to one foal a year, funds his lifestyle and provides him with opportunities to attain further riches and glory.
The science of genetics revealed long ago that at any conception, potential to influence the offspring is equally divided between the parents. Inevitably, there are many cases when mare owners pay for the privilege of a mating at which an expensive sire contributes less the the product than the mare herself.
Man's commercial exploitation of the facts of equine life has itself been natural, and though the glory is generally granted to the sires, successful breeders have never been slow to credit their mares.
This book goes some way towards redressing the balance of the sexes, focussing on the formerly undervalued distaff contributions to classic winners through the ages. Just how undervalued that contribution once was may be gauged from the fact that Michael Church has been unable to begin at the beginning; the identity of the first St Leger winner's dam went unrecorded, seemingly regarded as insignificant at the time.
But all the rest are here, their pedigrees painstakingly compiled to four generations, with a mass of data on their overall breeding records, plus some fascinating analyses.
Tony Morris
CONTENTS
PART ONE - THE CLASSIC RACES
The Origins and records of the classics
Titles, Courses, Distances and Weights
Classic Results
PART TWO - THE DAM'S PEDIGREES AND NOTABLE PRODUCE
Dams of Classic Winners 1777-1993
Major races of the past and present
Newmarket Courses 1799 and 1899
Value of the £ 1690 - 1990
PART THREE - THE ANALYSIS
First foals
Number of foals born
Sisters and half-sisters
Age of the dam
Inbreeding in the dams
Dams inbred three times or more to the same horse
Dams of more than one classic winner
Classic winners out of Classic winners
Best sires for dams of Classic winners
Index to best sires
Sires of dams of Classic winners
Index to sires of dams
Dams of Classic winners sired by a Classic winner and a Leading sire
Most contributions in two generations
Index to Notable Produce
Index to Dam's Pedigrees
EXCELLENT CONDITION - WILL BE POSTED FIRST CLASS RECORDED
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