Triple V
07-17-2012, 07:35 PM
Just been having a look at the immediate and wider maternal family of last Saturday night's Australian Oaks winner Shake It Mama (2008).
She's a half sister to another very smart filly in Fususi (2003) & their dam is in turn a half sister to the dam of another very smart one in Lady Octavia (2004).
What's really interesting to me about this immediate family is that Black Type winner wise it basically went to sleep for 50 odd years or so before waking up around 2006 onwards, initially courtesy of the 2yo & 3yo efforts of Fususi and then Lady Octavia & now Shake It Mama, this while in those same 50 odd years other branches tracing to the same source continued to produce a number of good horses.
What is perhaps even more interesting is that now it looks as though, just as the branch that has produced the classy trio of Shake It Mama, Fususi & Lady Octavia has awoken from its slumber, the other branches that continued to produce now appear to be slowing down & looking for somewhere to take a nap themselves.
Over the years I suppose we've all readily accepted that for various reasons sirelines can ebb & flow success wise. Makes me wonder if some maternal lines are doing exactly the same thing?
She's a half sister to another very smart filly in Fususi (2003) & their dam is in turn a half sister to the dam of another very smart one in Lady Octavia (2004).
What's really interesting to me about this immediate family is that Black Type winner wise it basically went to sleep for 50 odd years or so before waking up around 2006 onwards, initially courtesy of the 2yo & 3yo efforts of Fususi and then Lady Octavia & now Shake It Mama, this while in those same 50 odd years other branches tracing to the same source continued to produce a number of good horses.
What is perhaps even more interesting is that now it looks as though, just as the branch that has produced the classy trio of Shake It Mama, Fususi & Lady Octavia has awoken from its slumber, the other branches that continued to produce now appear to be slowing down & looking for somewhere to take a nap themselves.
Over the years I suppose we've all readily accepted that for various reasons sirelines can ebb & flow success wise. Makes me wonder if some maternal lines are doing exactly the same thing?