![]() ![]() ![]() The question now is whether Uncle Mo can maintain his progress. However, six of Uncle Mo’s representatives also reached that level, with Nyquist on top with 126. It could be argued that Tapit at least shared the honours, as seven of his eight qualifiers, including the exciting Mohaymen, were rated 110 or higher. His nearest pursuers, with eight, were Scat Daddy and Tapit, with Bernardini next with a figure of six. Once again Uncle Mo proved to be the most prolific sire of qualifiers, with a total of ten. Next came the publication of the official two-year-old rankings, the Experimental Free Handicap. The only others to achieve double figures were Bernardini (13), Candy Ride (12), the deceased Smart Strike (11) and Flatter (10). With 19 nominees, Uncle Mo topped the list, his nearest pursuer, on a mark of 16, being the 300,000-dollar Tapit. The next indication of Uncle Mo’s potential came towards the end of January, when the entries for America’s Triple Crown events were published. He had spent his first two years at $35,000, his third at $27,500 and his fourth at $25,000. This eye-catching start resulted in Uncle Mo’s fee soaring to $75,000. The telling blow came when Uncle Mo’s unbeaten son Nyquist followed in his sire’s footsteps to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. However, Uncle Mo was able to cut him down with a late flourish which took his total of stakes winners to seven, including three at Graded level. He had, after all, been represented by six individual juvenile Graded stakes winners by early October and had earned himself a rise in fee from $35,000 to $100,000 (only to die in December at the age of 11). Even so, he has made a tremendous start, coming out top in three different measures of class.Īt one stage it looked as though Scat Daddy was uncatchable in the race to become America’s champion sire of two-year-olds. In typical Ashford Stud manner, Uncle Mo had numbers on his side when his first crop reached the track in 2015, with the American Jockey Club crediting him with 167 live foals from 211 mares covered in 2012. Uncle Mo has made a tremendous start at stud, coming out top in three different measures of class ![]() And for any European brave enough to use a dirt horse, he has no Sadler’s Wells/Galileo and no Danehill or Green Desert (though Danzig appears in the fifth generation of Uncle Mo’s foals). and Dixieland Band, so he doesn’t create close duplications with the vast majority of mares.įrom an American viewpoint, breeders must love the fact that Uncle Mo has no Mr Prospector, Storm Cat, A.P. His sire is Indian Charlie, his grandsires are In Excess and Arch and his great-grandsires are Siberian Express, Leo Castelli, Kris S. No doubt some would argue that a horse with three lines of Northern Dancer isn’t exactly an outcross, but only one is as close as Uncle Mo’s fourth generation. The early signs are that the syndicate which owns Uncle Mo is in that enviable position. Uncle Mo: pedigree free of Mr Prospector blood ![]()
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