In my previous blog I noted Big Jim’s own maternal family in one of Shadow Play’s good 2yo filly performers. Now Big Jim’s first winner happens to be another 2yo filly who brings some familiar names to the match from her mother’s side.
From Alabar’s e-newsletter: Big Jim has sired his first two year old winner with Icthelight Hanover taking out at $18,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots division at Mohawk in 1:54.8. The two year old filly sprinted home best to get home in a tight finish. Fellow Big Jim daughter Bernadette dead heated for second to make it a quinella for the son of Western Ideal.
Wheres Sarah, the grandam of Icthelight Hanover, is not just “some Sarah somewhere” – she is that Sarah, and she’s in the same place as she sits in the pedigree of Somebeachsomewhere.
Wheres Sarah was bred to Beach Towel to produce the dam of Somebeachsomewhere, and was bred to Artsplace to produce the dam of Icthelight Hanover. That mare (Ifyoucouldcwhati C) was a very good racehorse, earning almost $350,000 and going 1.50.2, whereas the dam of Somebeachsomewhere (Where’s The Beach) was an unraced mare.
Overall it is a solid maternal family, that certainly seems to be nicking well over time with some speed sires to keep the line on the rise. And maybe Big Jim is going to be one of those.
See here for a good review of Somebeachsomewhere as a sire and brief review of his maternal line (on Harnesslink).
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