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Thunder Gulch

America

Thunder Gulch

Chesnut 1992 15.3 hh
Gulch - Line Of Thunder
Distance won over: 6f. to 12f.


Champion sire of Classic winners, Breeders’ Cup winners, G1 winning 2-y-o’s, G1 winning colts, G1 winning fillies, G1 winning older horses etc. These include BALANCE (triple G1 winner), CIRCULAR QUAY (Saratoga Hopeful S. G1), BETTER NOW (1st Tempted Stakes-Gr.3), SEDUCTIVELY (two time G3 winner). His recent yearlings made $475,000, $460,000 etc.

Fee for 2009: $15,000

Thunder Gulch sired the CCA Oaks winner Tweedside and the Santa Anita Oaks winner Balance from mares by ROBERTO and Roberto's son KRIS S. His good daughter Thunder Days is out of a mare by SILVER HAWK, another son of Roberto, so this cross merits serious consideration. He could suit daughters of Roberto's big son DYNAFORMER.

Inbreeding to RAISE A NATIVE helped provide Thunder Gulch with some of his greatest successes. The Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes winner Point Given is out of a mare by Alydar's son TURKOMAN and is therefore inbred 4x4 (the stakes-winning Class is out of an ALYDAR mare). The fast French colt Mon Pote Le Gitan is inbred 4x4 to Raise a Native, with an AFFIRMED mare as his dam. Mares by EASY GOER, ALYSHEBA and SARATOGA SIX merit consideration.

With a CONQUISTADOR CIELO mare as his dam, the Kentucky Derby second Invisible Ink is inbred 3x3 to Mr. Prospector, while the Gr.3 winner Better Now is inbred 3x4, the latter's dam being a daughter of UNBRIDLED. More mares from the MR. PROSPECTOR line are called for.

NORTHERN DANCER line mares seem an obvious choice. Thunder Gulch's very successful daughter Mystic Lady is inbred 4x3 to Northern Dancer, her dam being by Compliance, a brother to EL GRAN SENOR. Graded winners inbred 4x4 to Northern Dancer include Thunder Bertie, whose dam is by Alwuhush, a son of NUREYEV, Stylish, whose dam is by THEATRICAL, another son of NUREYEV, Sense of Style, whose dam is a grand-daughter of NIJINSKY, and Veil of Avalon, whose dam is by the LYPHARD horse ALZAO. The latest advertisement for inbreeding to Northern Dancer through Thunder Gulch is the Gr.1-winning Circular Quay. This Hopeful Stakes winner is out of a mare inbred 3x4 to Northern Dancer, through DANZIG's son BELONG TO ME and NIJINSKY's son SHADEED. Thunder Gulch's Australian Group winners include Tempest Morn, a
Gr.1 winner inbred 4x4 to Northern Dancer. The 2007 stakes winner Over The Edge is out of a mare by STORM CAT.

A BLUSHING GROOM mare produced the very smart C'Est L'Amour. Four stakes winners by Thunder Gulch have VAGUELY NOBLE blood, through Regal And Royal, Gay Mecene and Vaguely Noble himself. This ties in with the Hyperion blood in his pedigree.

Thunder Gulch's half-brother Battleline (by the DAMASCUS horse OGYGIAN) was a leading dirt performer in Japan, so mares by PRIVATE ACCOUNT, another son of Damascus, are worth trying -Spain¹s second dam is by Private Account.
Mares by SHARPEN UP also appeal, and so do mares by his sons DIESIS and TREMPOLINO.