There's a 3x3 you don't see every day- 2yo filly in VIC

G'day all,
Just been looking over some of the recent 2yo qualifiers and there's a 2yo filly in VIC that Caleb Lewis has, went around in a trial at Terang, & it's bred 3x3 to Storm Damage, being by Grinfromeartoear from a Vinter mare.
Used to see heaps of 3x3's to Albatross when old Fake Left was smashing every Vanston Hanover mare that ever lived and more recently there have been quite a few 3x3's to Nukes & so on. Seen some linebred 3x3's to Cam Fella in the last few years & soon enough we'll see more & more 3x3's to Artsplace, to Jate Lobell & so on. Beyond that when Shark Gesture comes down we'll eventually start to see 3x3's to Western Hanover. Anyway, just thought the 3x3 to Storm Damage was a bit out of the ordinary, that's all. [end of waffle] :p

No, it's not something you see every day. :)

Something more impressive, IMHO, is Smiling Shard. 3x3 to mare Blue Horizion (dam of damsire Panorama and also dam of Smile Upon, who is sire Grinfromeartoear's dam).

I am testing some female family inbreeding (hopefully, if she gets in foal) with one of the mares this season. No star, just seeing if something comes out of it :)

G'day Flashing,
I took a shot with something a lot like like that a few years back now. The foal was bred 3x3 to Bret Hanover (damsire of sire/sire of damsire) and her sire and the dam also shared the same mare, Breath O'Spring, as their respective 3rd and 4th dams. It was a filly, a nice enough type but I lost interest in her sire and sold her as a yearling. She turned out to be good gaited but she had no speed at all, just an out and out plugger. I think she might have won a couple? Anyway, she's at stud now. Interesting to see if the blood she carries will 'out' at any point and if she does anything above and beyond as a broodmare. I'll claim it if she does, I'll deftly sidestep it if she doesn't. :D:D:D:D
We're inadvertantly kind of taking a similar path with a Northern Lights mare we bred to Sutter Hanover. There's a lot of similar blood on both the sire's and the dam's sides but we're going with simply him because, for whatever reason, the dam seems to like that Dragon's Lair line. No more nor less to it than that. That sireline's not been that popular here for whatever reason but who knows?
I think sometimes you've got to go with your gut feeling and take a shot at something that's a bit outside of the usual boundary. I can't claim it though, it was my brother's idea.

I bred a Life Sign mare I had to American Ideal to give me a 3x3 to Three Diamonds...

How old is it Mighty Mo? Would love to keep track of it. :)

Triple V - my "experiement" is a breeding that has the same 4 key mares in the stallions pedigree also in the mares: Breath O Spring (Race Time & Touch O Spring); Breanna Hanover (Bret Hanover & Baron Hanover); The Old Maid (Thorpe Hanover & Tootsie Rainbow); On Time (Good Time & Adioo Time). All are half siblings and 3 are sex balanced. The stallion has an even temperment and the mare was crazy. The stallion could stay and the mare had wicked speed.

I have a gut feeling, it would be unbelievable if this turned out as the resulting foal would be by no means illustriously bred. Here's hoping :)

Mightymo
I like that cross, i have a Life Sign mare named Crowea and she just done a tendon but it's to late to go to stud but American Ideal was one of my picks for her.

Would be good to go check USTA Pathway to see if in his first crop American Ideal had much luck with Life Sign broodmares :) I can't remember my USTA License number at the minute!!

she slipped the first time, so the resultant foal has only just hit the ground...

The best performer to date bred that way is SIR JONATHAN Z TAM $ 53,188

With only 1 crop, i wont pass judgement yet

We've bred a Four Starzzz Shark filly from a mare who traces to the same maternal line as he does, they share the same mare as their respective 5th & 6th dam. Lovely foal too, really nice type, no doubt some of Bill Sheehan's hard work coming to the fore once again.