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Will Zenyatta a/or Rachel Alexandra be bred to Curlin when they retire as broodmares?
Or even if they become broodmares? I know we can’t always expect the offspring to be just like its sire and dam but i still would like to see what the colt/filly would be like
I would have some real reservations about breeding Zenyatta to Curlin.
Breeding horses is not just an exercise in matching pedigrees. You have to consider the physical characteristics of the horses involved. And the first physical characteristic of Zenyatta that strikes you when you see her is her SIZE. She’s just huge, 17 hands and maybe a bit more.
The larger a Thoroughbred is, once you get past about 16 hands, the more difficult it becomes to keep it sound. For this reason, if I were selecting a mate for Zenyatta, I wouldn’t want to mate her to any stallion more than 16 hands in height. According to his page on the Lane’s End website, Curlin is 16.2. If you look at pictures of him, he’s built like a bull: he’s a big-boned horse, quite substantial.
I don’t think this is the kind of mate for Zenyatta, from a physical standpoint, that would produce a foal that would be sound enough to race successfully.
Another issue: neither Curlin nor Zenyatta was precocious enough to race at 2. I would want to find a mate for Zenyatta that had that precocity, and I would prefer to find a mate for her that had quality speed, miler speed.
I’m not sure who I would select as a mate for Zenyatta, but I would rule Curlin out. Physically they just aren’t a good match.
Curlin with Rachel Alexandra would be a possibility, but my personal choice for her would be Tiznow, not Curlin. I believe that Tiznow would be a better match for her, and I don’t really like the idea of breeding a mare to an unproven stallion for her first foal. Curlin was a dynamite racehorse but he’s not a proven stallion. With a mare as good as Rachel Alexandra, every single foal she produces is going to be precious, so I would want to breed her to a stallion I knew was successful. Tiznow has proven himself and I think the bloodlines would work well together.
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