In an increasingly commercial world it is becoming more and more evident that particular sire lines -- and more specifically, one stallion and his sons -- can, at least from a commercial sense, quickly dominate the broodmare population of a given country. It then becomes a race for the next sire...

Mineshaft and his family were major winners over the Feb. 24-25 weekend. On Saturday, Little Belle took the Busher Stakes at Aqueduct. A daughter of A.P. Indy, she is out of Dubai Belle, a Mr. Prospector mare who is three-parts sister to Prospectors Delite, the dam of Mineshaft (Dubai Belle is by Mr...

The 6-year-old Giant’s Causeway horse Angliana, who captured his first stakes with a win in last week’s Aqueduct Handicap, has a very clever pedigree pattern. Out of the graded stakes winning Jade Hunter mare Pratella, he earns an A TrueNicks score on the basis of the extremely successful Giant’s Causeway...