Tactical Landing
With the addition of Tactical Landing to the stallion ranks
there are now 13 sons of Muscle Hill standing in North America - I hope that is
not a bad omen. As a race horse he did not have much luck until late in his
three year old season when he convincingly won back to back major stakes in the
Breeders Crown and the TVG to just get past his $800,000 purchase price. That
was not enough to get him any year-end honours but enough to justify giving him
a chance as a stallion. He is, after all, a full brother to a $1.66 million
winner in the filly Mission Brief.
His pedigree is unusual being from a mare by Italian bred
Varenne whose own stallion career has been somewhat of a disappointment and
whose broodmares are pretty much a disaster generally at 3.9% success rate in
producing $100K winners. Four out his top six credits, however, are from the
dam of Tactical Landing so she had to have something special. She was a
Breeders Crown winner at three and an X-factor double to both Speedy Crown and Stars
Pride. She was also an example of the TB pattern being by a Speedy Crown line
sire and from a dam that is inbred maternally to the same sire line.
Tactical Landing has a double/double pedigree and like many
of the best by Muscle Hill has maternal connections to Speedy Crown, Noble
Victory and Stars Pride across his pedigree. His principal sire lines
maternally are through Varenne (Speedy Somolli line) and Pine Chip (Arnie
Almahurst line). As a Valley Victory line sire that puts him in the same category
as Glidemaster whose dam was by Mr Lavec (Speedy Somolli) - Florida Pro (Arnie
Almahurst). That may not be very auspicious considering the stud career of
Glidemaster but it should give us a good model to follow.
Glidemaster's best offspring was the exceptional mare Maven, a double
millionaire and a double/double pedigree as well. Her dam, M Stewart, was by American
Winner, whose dam was by Speedy Somolli, and her second dam was by Arnie
Almahurst, third dam by a son of Stars Pride - all of the lines in Tactical
Landing worth connecting too.
Fourteen of Glidemaster's best were from non-Speedster line
dams and four of the exceptions had an Arnie Almahurst line maternally. Fifteen
of his best, including the top four, were inbred maternally to Speedster mostly
on the TB pattern. In that respect Maven was both DD and TB.
Expected Profile
Non Speedy Crown line dams that are inbred maternally to
Speedster line and have Arnie Almahurst and/or Stars Pride lines maternally.
