pedigree analysis pt2

Totilas - Stallion  2000

On a 5-generation pedigree chart Totilas looks like an outcross mating – which he is not- many horses look this way at 5 generations but have many connections a bit further back.  It is a good example of what looks like an outcross with both sides of the pedigree showing duplications in different bloodlines. 

Sire Gribaldi here shows Ibikus at 3 x 5 via daughters only – Karben and Gondola II.

Dam Lominka shows sex balanced line breeding to Farn at 4 x 5. The son is Nimmerdor, the daughter is Viola.

Inschallah - Anglo Arab stallion 1968

Inschallah shows both inbreeding and linebreeding in his 5 generation chart. He is 1 x 3 to sons of the mare Lonlaine. The sons are Israel and Xylene. Sons of a mare is a colt factor and very good for stallions to have. Inschallah is 3 x 4 to a daughter and son of the mare Falsatia – her name is highlighted. The daughter is Faribole and the son is Farceur VIII but you can see they are not full siblings.

Son and daughter of a mare is a filly factor and also good for a stallion to have – many top stallions have this extra element  and siblings are good for both sexes. Also there is sire Lotus VIII represented by 3 daughters at 3 x 4 x 5. The daughters are Lonlaine x 2 and Nitouche.

Denouste appears both sides via son and daughters at 4 x 5 x 5 the son is Lotus VIII and the daughter Kraina. 

Comtat is present via son Bagdalin and daughter Lea at 5 x 5. 

Pedigrees with this much inbreeding and linebreeding are said to be very tight or prepotent. 

Inschallah actually won the performance test in his time and is inbred enough to have worked as an outcross and bring refinement and improvement to an entirely different breed. He is an Anglo Arab and was used to help modernise the heavier old-style warmblood. 

His pedigree is good example of prepotency and how to build dominance into your breeding stock

World Cup I has three quarter sisters at 3x 3 - Abendfriede and Abendkleid - both by Abendsport out of daughters of the mare Fobuza.

3 x 3 is a very powerful position to have full or three-quarter siblings and often great breeding stock will show this type of inbreeding.

World Cup I also had three successful full brothers - World Cup II, III, and IV as well as full sisters. World Cup I produced 10 Grand Prix offspring as well as the legendary sire Weltmeyer. Weltmeyer has also become a very valuable damsire.

Morricone's dam Hartima is an example of an inbred dam - which many top stallions have.

Hartima is 3 x 3 to Rubinstein son and daughter - Rohdiamant and Halloway. 

Akzent II is present at 4 x 4 via two daughters Ruling Action and Alicante.

United Touch S is a product of very close inbreeding, and this kind of pattern - which is great for breeders who have mares from top mare lines - can work to produce an absolute stand out superstar. 

He is 1 x 1 to son and daughter of the mare Cantate Touch  -  Son Untouched and daughter Touch of class

This horse is bred on the same pattern as United Touch. 1 x 1 to son and daughter of the mare Gelbria - 007 and Tia Mabria.

This was a horse with incredible gaits - again if you have a mare line like Gelbria then such experiments can be worth it.

It is shown here as an example of very close inbreeding on the falling tail line of both halves of the pedigree.

Danehill is 2 x 2 to son and daughter of mare Natalma  - Northern Dancer and Spring Adieu who is on the falling dam line in the prime spot to pass on superior MtDNA. There is also sex balanced linebreeding to Hyperion 5 x 5

HIs pedigree shows sex balanced linebreeding to Ramiro at 4 x 5 x 5 x 3 - two sons and two daughters.

Bluetooth has sex balanced linebreeding to Donnerhall at 4 x 4 and sex balanced linebreeding to sire Arogno at 5 x 4.

This pedigree only gets better if you take it out to six generations where you will see on the tail female line of Bordeaux is Adone (Angelo/Dodona), a full sister to the dam of Rubinstein, Atine (also Angelo/Dodona).