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Uncle Abbie (13880)

 

Time to kick off the 2005 Breeding Corner series.  We will get things started with a sire currently standing in my home state of Texas. Uncle Abbie is a bargain sire with a great pedigree.  He has already produced a couple of solid runners from a limited number of offspring. The only thing I do not like about this guy is his name. Uncle Abbie?

 

Real Life- Uncle Abbie is by Kingmambo. His dam sire is Seattle Slew and his dam’s dam sire is Buckpasser. That may seem familiar to you. His pedigree is virtually identical to Lemon Drop Kid’s pedigree. The only differences in the pedigrees are the dams. The dams are full sisters Charming Lassie (Lemon Drop Kid) and Lassie Connection (Uncle Abbie). Lemon Drop Kid was a more talented runner though.

 

Uncle Abbie was a solid racehorse running well at the allowance level at Saratoga, Belmont, and Churchill earning over one hundred thirty thousand dollars. As a two year old he finished a respectable fifth in the grade I Futurity Stakes. He entered stud in 2002 so his real life progeny will be hitting the track for the first time this year. Uncle Abbie stands at the Key Ranch in Texas and can be found at Keyranch.com. They have a nice website but there is no hypo mating.

 

Sim Life – Uncle Abbie has eighteen sim runners. Only four of those are three year olds the rest are all four or five years old. He has produced one stakes winner #36346 Uncle Cecil. Uncle Cecil has earned just over $200,000 in nineteen career starts running the best on turf although his two dirt tries were not horrible. Uncle Abbie has produced four more allowance winners besides Uncle Cecil. #1016 Honest Bid has been a solid allowance sprinter. #14459 Facts Unknown is in claimers now but has earned over $150,000 in the sim.

 

His sim runners are pretty solid especially when you consider most of these guys are bargain breds. His worst runners appear to be the four three year olds. He has produced dirt runners and turf runners although the better speed figures seem to be on turf. He has produced a couple of solid sprinters but for the most part his runners excel in route races. 

 

Breeding Suggestions – We can actually take a look at Lemon Drop Kid and what works with him in theory should work with Uncle Abbie. In fact when you look at the top runners for both Uncle Abbie and Lemon Drop Kid there are some striking similarities.

 

Northern Dancer or Mr. Prospector line dam sires have worked very well. The key is to use the Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector lines along with the Ribot, Bold Ruler, and Turn-To lines. Two older lines that appear in several of the good runners are Hyperion and Princequillo.

 

For example the dam sire for Uncle Abbie’s stakes winner is Norquestor. Norquestor is by Conquistador Ceilo and Conquistador Cielo has both Bold Ruler and Turn-To in his pedigree. With Norquestor you get the added bonus of Northern Dancer as a dam sire. Hero’s Honor is a dam sire of another solid Uncle Abbie horse and he is Northern Dancer X Graustark (Ribot) X Hail to Reason (Turn-To). Society Max is another dam sire used with Uncle Abbie and he is Mr Prospector X Hoist the Flag (Ribot) X Bold Ruler.

 

With Lemon Drop Kid you find some of the same things. Both times Sovereign Dancer (Northern Dancer X Bold Ruler) was used with the Kid the runners have been good. Pine Bluff, Gone West, Miesque’s Son, Forty Niner and The Minstrel have all worked well. One of the very few dam sires to produce well with Lemon Drop Kid not from the Northern Dancer or Mr. Prospector lines was Eastern Echo. Really that should not be a surprise though because Eastern Echo is Damascus X Northern Dancer X Ribot.

 

So I would concentrate on Northern Dancer or Mr. Prospector line dam sires with Ribot, Bold Ruler and Turn-To somewhere in the pedigrees. Two Northern Dancer sires that do not quite fit that mold have produced well. The Minstrel and Lyphard. In each case that they were used the dam’s dam sire contained Ribot, Turn-To, or Bold Ruler.

 

Uncle Abbie (13880) X Conquistador Cielo (1271) X Arts and Letters (337)

 

Uncle Abbie (13880) X Sovereign Dancer (6087) X Halo (2663)

 

Uncle Abbie (13880) X El Prado (IRE) (1900) X Bold Lad (IRE) (719)   

 

 

Bargain Bred – Uncle Abbie is truly a bargain falling down to about 17 BPs at the end of the week. There are many bargain dam sire prospects with the crosses discussed above.  The combinations could be endless. He has had success with bargain dam sires so it definitely worth a shot.

 

Uncle Abbie (13880) X Jules (3210) X Mambo (3773)

 

Uncle Abbie (13880) X Our Emblem (4602) X Globe (2447)

 

Uncle Abbie (13880) X Zafonic (7242) X Hay Halo (2725)

 

What to Expect – Uncle Abbie runners should be versatile. They could like either surface and just about any distance from 6f-10f. The runners will probably tend to develop a little later than most maybe not running their best until mid to late three-year-old season, although there is no reason not to have a solid two year old. For the most part his runners seem to run best at distances over a mile. Try out his progeny everywhere you might be surprised.