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Originally Posted by Immortal6
Let’s say I’ve got a will take charge mare looking to breed her, what sires would she cross well with?
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Without a real mare and a real brood mare sire, it's hard to say.
But since I am on vacation (use or lose leave--and nowhere to go) and have more free time than usual, I did some digging on True Nicks (which has its proponents and its detractors).
I used pedigree query to find a random Will Take Charge 4-year-old filly named Becca Takes Charge (
https://www.pedigreequery.com/becca+takes+charge). She's out of an Any Given Saturday mare.
I then ran her through True Nicks using a wide variety of sire candidates, going alphabetically and skipping some sires here and there because I was just messing around.
By the time I got through the sires starting with G, she got A++ hits with American Pharoah, Artie Schiller, Bernardini, Candy Ride, Cloud Computing, Clubhouse Ride, Coal Front, Danzing Candy, Desert Code, English Channel, Fast Anna, Fort Larned, and Gun Runner. She also had A+ hits with Blame, Bluegrass Cat, and Goldencents.
Then out of nowhere, I noticed the Candy Ride/Danzing Candy thing and decided to check Twirling Candy. Another A++.
Then I decided to pull the pedigrees for four other Will Take Charge mares from different brood mare sire lines (Langfuhr, Sky Mesa, Hold That Tiger, and Johannesburg). Candy Ride, Twirling Candy, and Danzing Candy hit A++ with all five Will Take Charge fillies, regardless of brood mare line. I thought that was curious.
I'm sure there are other sire lines that would yield similar high ratings. I might do more digging tonight. Because genetics fascinate me, and I LOVE rabbit holes.
Another thing struck me that I thought was curious... True Nicks was not at all encouraging about the prospect of the first Will Take Charge mare (Becca Takes Charge) clicking well with anything Uncle Mo or More Than Ready. Perhaps that was just isolated to her because of her brood mare line. But I was seeing B, C, and D ratings for pretty much every stallion that went back to Uncle Mo or More Than Ready. Don't ask me why.