BARGAIN BRED RACING SERIES & BREEDING CORNER

Buddha – is by Unbridled’s Song. His dam sire is Storm Cat and his dam’s dam is The Axe. He was pretty dazzling is his four career starts. He won three of them including a very good victory in the Wood Memorial over Medaglia D’Oro. Injury sidelined him just before the Derby and ultimately forced his retirement in October that year.

His pedigree has the famous Mr. Prospector X Northern Dancer cross, which could make it a little difficult to find a good match. Mr. Prospector and Northern Dancer will appear in the fifth generation of Buddha’s off spring. That means a son or Mr. Prospector or Northern Dancer would create a 3X5 inbreeding and a grandson would produce a 4X5 inbreeding. So it could be very easy to create a weird or overly inbred offspring, which may work sometimes but I prefer to stay away from. Having said all that the usual suspects would seem to make good fits as dam sires. Seattle Slew,  Ribot, In Reality, Nasrullah and Turn-To.

Buddha has produced only two stakes winners. In both cases Northern Dancer line dam sires were used Belong To Me and Danehill. His fastest runner to date is a three-year-old filly that posted a 102-speed figure going 9.5 furlongs. Her dam sire is Dixieland Band. Other than her his fastest runners have been sprinting. Buddha has enough stamina present to produce better route horses so simmers may not be placing his offspring correctly.

 Notice horse #58593 Budfly’s Indy. A.P. Indy is the dam sire and this horse has never raced in a route? He is a front runner type in sprints but the dam won all her races in routes, A.P. Indy’s offspring prefer routes and Buddha himself has a good deal of stamina. This horse may be the exception and prefer sprinting but to never try him in a route? Also Seattle Slew was not used once as a dam sire that’s amazing. Over all he has been very disappointing so far as a sim stud.

He has nineteen two year olds this year. Four have run a 70+ another eight have run a 58+ speed figure. That is pretty good from nineteen runners. Looks like the two year olds are better bred than his three year olds so maybe he will have a good sophomore class. He stands at Hill N Dale farms and their website has hypo mating available. Despite his lack of success his is still an expensive sim sire.