Most punters never consider a horse's bloodline. They forget that many owners have spent a fortune to buy a horse with first-class breeding--for a good reason.

At present, instead of using broodmares directly (there are many thousands of them) we look at the broodmare sire, which gives us a much larger sample for rating purposes. These are the statistics for ST CUTHBERT, the broodmare sire of TRAVEL NORTH.

These are all the other active runners of the broodmare sire.

Here we have broodmare sires sorted and ranked by many different criteria.

These are the active progeny of a specific dam.

Ranking of Sire/Broodmare-Sire combinations. An ideal way for breeders to find those ellusive "nicks".

THE OWNERS, BREEDERS AND THEIR HORSES