Miss Andretti (A family history study )

I got to thinking miss andretti breaks the mooney valley track record.
Surely the sire must have cost alot or the dam as these horses are getting faster & faster .
Imagine my surprise after digging to find out how ordernry this mares past is!!!
Expensive sire ? no costs $4400 a serve so will be around the 3k mark
& only won a group race at 10 furlongs (2000 meters )
Expensive dam ? no 1st dam unraced & dams mother was only a standard mare herself in fact you have to go back to 1947 to find a dam that produced a stakes winner !!!

This surely goes to show what a toss up racing is you never know where the next winner will come from !!

Miss Andretti (AUS) 2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWtas_zU1uo

Side note; Miss Andretti was first foal to peggie's bid,Peggie's bid was first foal of time to bid

So has to be asked are the horses getting faster or are the tracks gettting faster ??

MISS ANDRETTI
MISS ANDRETTI
(Ihtiram - Peggie's Bid by Marooned)

This week Alan Porter looks at the pedigree of of Miss Andretti.

One would hope that a horse named Andretti would be fast. Happily, Miss Andretti – christened in honor of Mario Andretti, the most revered of the motor-racing family which also includes son Michael, grandson Mario, and nephew John – has more than lived up to her name.

Winner of 14 her 22 starts, Miss Andretti has been in stellar form this year, proving herself an outstanding sprinter with wins in the Manikato Stakes (G1), Ian McEwan Trophy (G3), Schillaci Stakes (G2) and most recently, the Lightning Stakes (G1), which she took in record time. Miss Andretti is the first to land the group one double of the Manikato Stakes and Lightning in the same season since champion filly Dual Choice 36 years earlier. The five-year-old also provided a track record in the Manikato last September, with a 1:09.29 for the Valley six furlongs.

Bred in Western Australia by Keith and Peggy Beauglehole, the mare was sold privately by her breeders, Sean Buckley later gaining a majority holding from her original trainer, David Mueller. Buckley sent her to Lee Freedman last year and the mare has blossomed, and there is a good chance she will be seen in England – where Australian sprinters have enjoyed great fortune recently – later in the year.

Exactly from where Miss Andretti inherited her extraordinary speed is something of a mystery. She is a daughter of Ihtiram (by Royal Academy), who won the listed Steventon Stakes over ten furlongs (2000m) in England, and was also fourth in the Great Voltigeur Stakes (G2) over 12 furlongs, 2400m. Brought to Australia with a Cups campaign in mind, Ihtiram never reached those heights, but he did win five of 38 races, including the Benalla Cup. Ihtiram has sired one other stakes winner, the filly Zanella, who is also a sprinter, taking the Australia Day Stakes and Jungle Dawn Classic.

Miss Andretti is the first foal of Peggie’s Bid, an unraced daughter of the Sydney Cup (G1) winner Marooned. A son of Mill Reef, Marooned became a very successful sire, getting 16 stakes winners, including Island Morn (Railway Stakes (G1)), Beat Diabetes 2 Stakes (G1) and Memsie Stakes (G2)), Hardrada (Railway Stakes (G1)), Lee-Steere Stakes (G2), Winterbottom Stakes (G2), twice), Prime Again (West Australian Champion Fillies Stakes (G2)), Gwalia Girl (J.C. Roberts Stakes (G3), Strickland Stakes (G3)), Red Eye Special (Roma Cup (G3)), Speepy Dancer (West Australian Sires Produce Stakes (G3)) and Marooned Lady (West Australian Sires Produce Stakes (G3)).

Marooned has also been a pretty good broodmare sire with 11 stakes winners including two group one winners Miss Andretti and Special Harmony, along with group winners Redwolt, King Canut and Sender.

Peggie’s Bid’s dam, Time to Bid, won two minor sprint events, and bred one very minor winner. She is by Alytime, who was a well-bred son of Alydar, but who made little impact as a runner or sire. Without Reserve, the third dam of Miss Andretti, was unraced, but was by Haulpak, a pure speed-merchant, and subsequently sire of six group one winners. We don’t find another black-type winner in the female line until we get back to Miss Andretti’s sixth dam, French Garland, who produced the two-time Port Adelaide Cup (G3) winner Jovial Knight and black-type winner Merry Knight.

Some of the mystery of Miss Andretti’s pace might be resolved when we come to study the offspring of her broodmare sire Marooned. Despite winning a grade one over two miles (3200m.) Marooned sired a lot of good horses, which were much speedier. Indeed, six of his group winners claimed events at distances of a mile (1600m.) or less. Out of mares by Haulpak sire of the third dam of Miss Andretti – and a horse bred on a reverse Princequillo/Nasrullah cross to Marooned’s sire, Mill Reef – he sired group stakes winners at 1200m. and 1400m. and listed winners at 1200m. and 1500m. It’s possible, therefore that the influence of Peggie’s Bid dam, Miss Andretti, is more towards speed than is initially apparent.

With regard to Ihtiram, we can note that he was also placed in a listed event at a mile in England, and that his sire, Royal Academy, not only took the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), but also the July Cup (G1), one of England’s most prestigious six furlong (1200m.) events. Royal Academy has sired high-class winners over a wide variety of trips, but they do include Carmine Lake, who took the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (G1) at 1000m. Royal Academy has crossed very well over Mill Reef line mares – as here – and Miss Andretti is just one of eight stakes winners on the cross (it may be that he is very well-suited by the strain of Mill Reef’s broodmare sire, Princequillo, which is doubled in Miss Andretti’s dam: Crimson Satan’s dam, Papila is by Requiebro, who is bred on the same cross as Papyrus, the broodmare sire of Princequillo).

- Catalogue style pedigree