Big Brown’s Sire Reaches Boundary of Life
10-02-2012
BOUNDARY, the Danzig sire who died in America this week at the age of 22, was not an exceptional racehorse or sire, but in his second last season of use, 2004, impregnated a modest Nureyev winner named Mien, resulting in a foal who under the name of Big Brown awed the world with his ability and who could, in the near future, have a big input into Australian racing and breeding.
A visitor from the Three Chimneys Farm stud in Kentucky, Big Brown has been used over two quality books of 131 (2010) and 124 last season at the Vinery stud, Segenhoe valley, Scone, including good support from Gerry Harvey, one of the stud’s owners, and John Singleton. Big Brown followed up a win by 11.3 lengths at his only start at two, with six successes, four Group1s, in seven outings at three, his only other appearances.The only time he lost was when he was pulled up before the finish of the third leg of the Triple Classic Crown, the Belmont Stakes. In progression, his wins at three were in a handicap (8.0 fur., by 12.8 lengths), the Florida Derby-Gr.1 (9 fur., 5.0 lengths), Kentucky Derby-Gr.1 (10.0 fur., 4.8 lengths), Preakness Stakes-Gr.1 (9.5 fur., 5.3 lengths), Haskell Invitational Stakes-Gr.1 (9.0 fur.,1.8 lengths) and finally the $500,000 Monmouth Stakes (9.0 fur., turf).
He has been easily the best of the offspring of Boundary, the source from eleven crops of 265 winners of over 1000 races and $37million. His 23 stakes winners included three successful at Group1 level, two of them, Big Brown and Minardi, used in Australia. Now a resident at Secret Hills Farms, Beaudesert, Qld, Minardi was a champion European 2-year-old, winning Group1 races in England and Ireland, and a prominent 3-year-old miler, finishing third in the Irish Two Thousand Guineas and fourth in the English Guineas.
A resident at Vinery, Florida, the other Boundary Group1 winner is Pomeroy, a leading American sprinter who ran18 times for seven wins, including two Group1s. In 2011, a year his oldest were three, Pomeroy supplied 43 winners (six won eleven stakes) and earners of $2,182,000. He had 25 first crop 2-year-old winners in 2010. Another son of Boundary at stud in America is Straight Line, a winner of ten races 6 to 8 furlongs, including five stakes. He is out of a daughter of Strawberry Road, an Australian Horse of the Year and also a leading performer in Europe and America. Used at stud solely in America, Strawberry Road included 35 successful in stakes (six Gr.1), among his 245 winners.
Boundary has been a good source of tough, sound gallopers who can win often, a quality that could have as its foundation two great modern forces in America, Damascus and Round Table. His dam Edge was a Group 3 winner got by Damascus from a Round Table Group 2 winner. They also appear in the maternal pedigree of Big Brown – third dam by Damascus and from a Round Table mare, and Minardi’s fourth dam Monarchy was a sister to Round Table. Unraced at two, Boundary appeared eight times over the next two years for six wins at six furlongs, two Group 3s, and a second and a third in Group 2 events.
Courtesy of Brian Russell Bloodstock Media Service
