BARGAIN BRED RACING SERIES & BREEDING CORNER

Star Trace (13280)

This week I am taking on the sire Star Trace. He is one tough horse to find information about. It took several emails but I was able to get some of the real life information about this pretty solid guy. If you are a fan of Maryland racing you probably know all about this guy who stands for a measly $500 a live foal.

Real Life- Star Trace is by Star de Naskra. His dam sire is Turn to Reason and his dam’s dam sire is The Big Boss. His pedigree is sprinter through and through.  He actually ran well up to a mile and a sixteenth. Star Trace won and placed in several restricted stakes races as a three, four, five, six and seven year old. He finished third to Richter Scale in the grade III  Maryland Breeder’s Cup. He also ran against Kelly Kip a few times. He ran well on both turf and dirt. He is a third year sire in the sim this year and his real life runners will not hit the track until next year 2005.

Sim Life – He must have several sim fans or one big sim fan. For a sire whose real life information is not easy to track down and whose breeding is not what one might call royal he has an awful lot of progeny. 54 runners to be exact with four stakes winners. Easy Goer is the dam’s dam sire in three of the four stakes winners. The one stakes winner that does not have Easy Goer as dam’s dam sire is his only turf stakes winner (Rubiano X Cox’s Ridge).

His runners are better sprinters but his top sprinters can all run well at a mile or mile and a sixteenth. He has a few solid turf runners but for the most part his runners prefer the dirt. The Raise a Native line through Alydar  appears to produce very well.  

He has eighteen two year olds. His best two year old is horse #60862 Storm Trace (Thunder Gulch X Storm Cat). He looks like a very solid runner. He cleared his fist allowance condition recently with an 84-speed figure. He has one other solid two year old and the rest are only average to below average to this point. He has been paired with solid dam sire types like A.P. Indy although none of those offspring look like much right now.

Breeding Suggestions – Several of his fastest runners had Alydar somewhere in the pedigree. Some dam sires and dam’s dam sires are sons of Alydar and some are from different sire lines but have Alydar as a dam sire. The Turn-To line has seemed to work as well. Really he should fit well with Northern Dancer line sires, Seattle Slew line sires, Raise a Native, In Reality, Roberto, Nasrullah. Just about any sire lines you can think of. I would think even if you bred him to lots of stamina he may never produce a ten-furlong horse but adding stamina to his speedy pedigree could not hurt.

Star Trace (13280) X Strike The Gold (6297) X Never Bend (4306)

Star Trace (13280) X Affirmed (83) X Mill Reef (3979)

Bargain Bred – Star Trace gets down to about 45 BPs by weeks end. That makes him a good candidate to produce a solid bargain bred.

Star Trace (13280) X Just A Cat (3223) X Sensitive Prince (5706)

What to Expect –Star Trace did not debut until he was three so his two year olds may take time to develop. In all his better runners it took them a while to run their best. A couple were good two year olds but most were just average. His runners could run on either surface so be sure to try both. His runners should be best from 5 furlongs to 8.5 furlongs.