Are you a pedigree nerd? We’ve got something to make your day with five generation pedigrees for all 12 Everest runners offering a mine of information on the dozen sprinters looking to capture the world’s richest race on turf this Saturday at Randwick.
Race favourite Ka Ying Rising (NZ) is a Kiwi bred along with Jimmysstar (NZ), War Machine (NZ) and Jedibeel (NZ), so a third of the field were not born in Australia which is world renowned as the land of the sprinter.
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Blue Hen - Ka Ying Rising (NZ) has won at 1400m and would probably run a mile if he was trained to do so, but if you keep winning at the shorter trips why mess with a winning recipe? He traces to blue hen Taiona also the fourth dam of Mr Brightside.
Double Danehill is everywhere and also in the Everest with Overpass 3 x 3, Joliestar 4 x 3 and Lady Shenandoah 3 x 4.
Joliestar has the quintessential Aussie speed on speed pedigree that is in high demand at yearling sales and she was the most expensive Everest runner having been purchased for $950,000 at Inglis Easter.
Her stablemate Lady Shenandoah has some much tougher elements in her pedigree with first two dams by Derby winners Starcraft and Nothin’ Leica Dane. She too came out of Inglis Easter at a price of $525,000.
Overpass also has an underlying current of toughness to his pedigree with grand-dam Boardwalk Bell, a half-sister Australian Horse of the Year and nine time G1 winner Northerly, who won two Cox Plates, a Caulfield Cup and an Australian Cup, that was a horse!
Harry Angel (IRE)… Try My Best– is the only sire with more than one runner and has Angel Capital and War Machine engaged. Harry Angel traces back along his direct male sireline to a stallion called Try My Best, who made a huge impact here in Australia back in the 1990’s and into the early 2000’s as the sire of Last Tycoon (IRE).
The Harry Angel branch of the line comes via Waajib, who did shuttle to Austalia for four seasons back in the 1990's, but he was no Last Tycoon! It seems amazing that Waajib should be a pivotal part of a sireline that is having a real burst of success here in the 2020's!
That Last Tycoon branch of the sireline has also given us an Everest runner in race favourite Ka Ying Rising, who is by Shamexpress.
Last Tycoon also appears in the pedigree of Joliestar as the sire of her third dam Decidity.
Oaks winners – Tempted and Magic Time have something in common. Third dam of Tempted is G1 VRC Oaks winner Bulla Borghese and third dam of Magic Time is G2 WA Oaks winner Mystic Chantry.
