swale1984 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:50 pm
Nenikikamen23 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:36 pm
Cilla -> Jackie's Warrior
According to Equineline, that's a C+ match. Enicks rates her at an A cross with most of the Taylor Made roster, so why not try to get her into the very proven Not This Time? Or go to Volatile at Three Chimneys and double up on the Lucky Spell genes? She's an A+ or A++ with Palace Malice and Gun Runner as well.
Help this decision make sense, someone!
They want to breed to Jackie's Warrior or like most commercial breeders they want to get in a first crop stallions book? Maybe they are going for a sprinter, since Cilla was a sprinter herself. Nicks are just a tool to use, nothing more. C+ is average, that isn't a bad cross, its 6% SW to starters. But in my opinion, the rating for this cross isn't going to hold much meaning. Chrome is too young to have starters as a broodmare sire. I highly doubt any Lucky Pulpit mares made it to Kentucky to be crossed to MacLean's Music or Cloud Computing(his only son with foals of racing age). So they have to be pulling the nick from Distorted Humor and his sons/grandsons crossed with daughters of Pulpit and his sons/grandsons.
As for the stallions you mentioned, Not This Time and Gun Runner are producing more Classic types. Volatile is going into his 3rd season at stud, it would be unwise of them to send her to him. This is a commercial breeder who wants to sell the foal. The verdict will be out before her foal would make the sales. But Jackie's Warrior does bring in Lucky Spell himself as MacLean's Music's broodmare sire is UBS.
And NO ONE is using Palace Malice. He bred 12 mares in 2022 and 14 in 2021. Can't believe he hasn't been sold yet.