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Originally Posted by f2tornado
It's just one item to consider in the big picture. I will likely use Maximum Security on top. He doesn't have the Buckpasser-x but does have the Raise A Native, family 1, won the race that won the most Derby renewals, and is the fastest horse per BSF.
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I like family 1. The leading branch of Family 1 Derby winners is family 1-s. Next would be family 1-x. 1-n would be next which is what Max Sec is but you have to go back quite a number of years (see my exactas below).
I think Lowe's family 4 has the most winners though. I haven't looked at it in a while.
I kinda have a thing for 23-b and the 4-m and 4-r families.
Also keeping in mind that in many years there have been no starters in a given family, so they can't be fairly represented. Also in sometimes years and years go by and there aren't enough starters in any one family to make a large enough sample size to credit or discredit that family.
Also keeping in mind that when lowe came up with his system family 1 was actually more numerous in the population to begin with. So we don't really "know" for sure, and I've never seen any pedigree expert say, if they were/are more innately superior because of this.
I like looking at it though:
Exactas last 11 years:
Justify family 1-h
Good Magic family 12-c
Always Dreaming family 4-p
Lookin at Lee family 9-e
Nyquist family 6-f
Exaggerator family 3-g
American Pharoah family 14
Firing Line family 14-c
California Chrome A4
Commanding Curve family 4-m
Orb family 8-c
Golden Soul family 1-w
I’ll Have Another family 23-b
Bodemeister family 1-n
Animal Kingdom 1-h
Nehro family 4-r
Supersaver family 1-x
Ice Box family 1-s
Mine That Bird family 23-b
Pioneerof the Nile family 4-k
Big Brown family 5-h
Eight Belles family 1-x
