Western Hanover versus Artsplace versus Cam Fella

There are 3 dominant top lines in Standardbred pacing plus a solid range of prominent outcross line:

Dominant Lines:

Western Hanover
Artsplace
Cam Fella

Outcross lines:

Abercrombie
/ Dontgetinmyway
/ Life Sign - Real Desire - Tell All

Matts Scooter
/ Mach Three - Somebeachsomewhere
/ Royal Mattjesty

Tyler B
/ Dragons Lair - Dragon Again

French Chef
/ Beach Towel - Jennas beach Boy - Quik Pulse Mindale

Bret Hanover
/ Warm Breeze - Falcon Seelster - McArdle

No Nukes
/ Jate Lobell - Electric Yankee

Big Towner
/ Apaches Circle - Apaches Fame

Regarding these above, the true value and longevity of the Mach Three - Somebeachsomewhere line will not be estimable until Beach has a couple of years of offspring on the tracks. It will likely become at least the premier outcross line, and more probable would be the line's elevation to the top tier.

Let's examine the dominant pacing lines, those being Western Hanover, Artsplace and Cam Fella.

All 3 of the dominant pacing stallions descend from Hal Dale, as follows:

Hal Dale - Dale Frost - Meadow Skipper - Most Happy Fella - Oil Burner - No Nukes - Western Hanover

Hal Dale - Adios - Henry T Adios - Silent Majority - Abercrombie - Artsplace

Hal Dale - Dale Frost - Meadow Skipper - Most Happy Fella - Cam Fella

Here are each of the 3 dominant pacing sire lines with prominent sons and grandsons featured:

Western Hanover sons / grandsons:

Western Ideal
/ Rocknroll Hanover
/ Allamerican Ideal
/ Amrbro Deuce


The Panderosa
/ Panspacificflight
/ Ponder
/ Shadow Play

If I Can Dream

Well Said

Badlands Hanover

Western Terror

Allamerican Ingot

Jeremes Jet

Western Maverick



Artsplace sons / grandsons:

Art Major
/ Art Official

Modern Art

Real Artist

Artiscape
/ Yankee Cruiser

Astreos

Grinfromeartoear
/ Mister Big



Cam Fella sons / grandsons:

Cams Card Shark
/ Bettors Delight
/ Four Starzz Shark
/ Shark Gesture (gelding, but what a racehorse!)
/ Whitefish Falls

Camluck

Cambest
/ Blissful Hall
/ Lis Mara

Pacific Fella
/ No Pan Intended

Presidential Ball
/ Allamerican Native

E Dees Cam


All 3 of the dominant pacing lines continue to show strength, which means that if Somebeachsomewhere and his sons are to crack the Breeders Crown stallion rankings with significant prowess, they may possibly turn the Standardbred pacer breeding world upside down. Look for sons of Beach out of mares by Western Hanover, Artsplace and Cam Fella sons to dominate the track and the shed.

Peace 2 All,

Joe Trainor

Videos and Photos of Somebeachsomewhere weanlings

Take a look at this majestic soul; Somebeachsomewhere in his paddock at Hanover Shoe Farms:



Here are some photos and video links for Somebeachsomewhere 2010 weanlings, colts and fillies. My plan is to update this page with additional photos and videos of Somebeachsomewhere weanlings as they become available.

This first one is a filly out of the Real Desire mare Desirable Cindy, a half-sister to Jenna's Beach Boy:




Check out the cute little filly weanling that magically appeared out of Illusionist, below:





Remember Rich N Elegant?




Video of Somebeachsomewhere - Bunny Lake weanling with Andover Hall - D Train foal:







Here's a video of Whatsupcuz romping in the paddock with her Somebeachsomewhere filly weanling:




Keep an eye on this Somebeachsomewhere - Vaudeville Margie weanling bay colt, the lil fella has some spark!




UPDATE September 2010:

Somebeachsomewhere - Odds On Charmaine colt





Somebeachsomewhere - Odds On Arttoheart filly





Speedy Caroline, by Somebeachsomewhere - Loving Caroline (right)




UPDATE December 2010:

Lady Joy with her Somebeachsomewhere colt




Somebeachsomehwere colt with mare L'Oiseau De Nuit (by Christian Cullen, making the foal a Direct Scooter cross)

Camluck son Mystician fires up to win Metro

Superstar pilot Jody Jamieson helmed Mystician in a 29-1 victory in last night's million dollar Metro pace for 2 year olds at Mohawk Raceway. A full brother to Camystic, Fenman and Mystic Howard, Mystician has a full sister up for sale this weekend at the 2010 Canadian Yearling Sale in the Flamboro Downs SC Pavillion. The yearling is a filly named Neudorf, and someone with both racing and breeding ambitions will likely purchase her. Mystician went for $45,000 last year, and as that looks like an extremely good deal right now, his sister may fetch a price almost twice as high.

There are 320 yearlings in this weekends sale; best wishes to all consignors and to yearling buyers, may you own some wonderful horses!!!

Peace 2 All,

Joe

Live PEI Web Cams; Charlottetown, Confederation Bridge

After hearing that this evening's races at Charlottetown Driving Park have been cancelled due to an approaching storm, I looked online for a live PEI weather cam and here are some I found:

CBC web cam on Prince Edward Island

PEI Road Conditions / Traffic Cameras website


Let's hope this storm causes minimal damage and injury.

Peace 2 All,

Joe Trainor

Standardbred Trotting Sire Lines 101 - Speedster and Volomite

During the first decade of the 21st Century of harness horse racing, Breeders Crown-calibre stallions all descend from three 20th Century Foundation sires:

Hal Dale
Speedster
Volomite

Whereas the 3 primary standardbred pacing sire lines (Western Hanover, Artsplace, Cam Fella) all come from Hal Dale, the premier trotting line (Valley Victory) descends from Speedster and the other two dominant lines (Garland Lobell, Stars Pride - Super Bowl) are from Volomite:


Speedster - Speedy Scot - Speedy Crown - Baltic Speed - Valley Victory - Muscles Yankee

Volomite - Victory Song - Noble Victory - ABC Freight - Garland Lobell

Volomite - Worthy Boy - Stars Pride - Super Bowl


Alright, now let's take a few steps back and see how these trotting lines descend from Hambletonian son Happy Medium:

Hambletonian - Happy Medium - Pilot Medium - Peter The Great - Peter Volo - Volomite

Hambletonian - Happy Medium - Pilot Medium - Peter The Great - Peter Scott - Scotland - Spencer Scott - Rodney - Speedster

Though they descend from Star's Pride, sires like SJS Caviar and Kadabra are considered outcross sires as they have emerged from the once perceived as semi-dormant Hickory Pride and Nevele Pride lines respectively.

Trotting Outcross lines:

Stars Pride - Hickory Pride - Yankee Bambino - Photo Maker - SJS Photo - SJS Caviar

Stars Pride - Nevele Pride - Madison Avenue - Meadow Raod - Primrose Lane - Kadabra

Speedster - Arnie Almahurst - Arndon - Pine Chip - Chip Chip Hooray

Speedster - Arnie Almahurst - Florida Pro - Magna Force

Breeders looking to raise a stakes-caliber Standardbred may want to do two simple calculations when choosing between two sires:

A) Count the number of appearances of Speedster and Volomite in each stallion

B) Count the number of times Valley Victory, Garland Lobell and Stars Pride appear in each stallion

Of course it is also crucial to look at conformation and the match with your mare's own breeding, plus trends in marketability of yearlings, however the process of adding more greatness to what's already there in your mare can be magnified by focusing on the most proven names in the breeding shed.

Standardbred Pacing Sire Lines 101 - Hal Dale

In the early 21st Century years of standardbred horse racing, stakes-calibre stallions all descend from three 20th Century Foundation sires:

Hal Dale
Speedster
Volomite


The dominant pacing lines are from Hal Dale and the premier trotting line is from Speedster, whereas Volomite has sired dominant trotting lines (eg. Star's Pride - Superbowl line, Garland Lobell line) and valuable outcross pacing lines (Bye Bye Byrd line, Direct Scooter line).

Hal Dale was a decendant of Hambletonian's son Electioneer, as follows:

Hambletonian - Electioneer - Chimes - The Abbe - Abbedale - Hal Dale

As Speedster and Volomite are both descendants of Hambletonian son Happy Medium via great grandson Peter The Great, the old adage that all standardbreds are descended from five sons of Hambletonian can now be refined: Premium Standardbred sire lines now descend from just two sons of Hambletonian, Electioneer and Happy Medium. Legacy lines like George Wilkes (represented today by Sierra Kosmos) and Dictator (last big splash was Steady Star) often survive by a single thread, and these almost inevitably break at some point. The trotting world success of Kadabra does illustrate that a line can be revived as an outcross option with a chance to compete for dominance.

Back in the 1980s there was concern in the harness racing world that too many eggs were being placed in the Meadow Skipper basket, as his grandsons by Albatross, Most Happy Fella and others were dominating stakes races. This situation corrected itself in three ways:

A) The dominant Albatross - Niatross - Nihalator faded out as the daughters of this powerful line went to Most Happy Fella, Abercrombie and outcross sires.

B) Most Happy Fella emerged as the new dominant line via Cam Fella and then No Nukes / Western Hanover

C) Abercrombie's son Artsplace re-affirmed Abercrombie / Artsplace as the dominant non-Meadow Skipper line

So today we have 3 dominant lines in pacing, and all trace to Hal Dale:

No Nukes - Western Hanover

Abercrombie - Artsplace

Cam Fella

You can argue who the fourth dominant line is (I'd prefer to call it the top outcross line and would suggest Mach Three / Somebeachsomewhere may solidify this position over the next two years), however I challenge any reader to suggest a 4th pacing sire line that is as successful as the 3 above, which we will now call Western Hanover line, Artsplace line and Cam Fella line. Here's how they descend from Hal Dale:

Hal Dale - Dale Frost - Meadow Skipper - Most Happy Fella - Oil Burner - No Nukes - Western Hanover

Hal Dale - Adios - Henry T Adios - Silent Majority - Abercrombie - Artsplace

Hal Dale - Dale Frost - Meadow Skipper - Most Happy Fella - Cam Fella

When Western Hanover passed at a relatively young age, I was concerned that it could affect his legacy, however he is a bona fide sire of sires and his sons and grandsons have already proven they are the ones to beat.


Pacing outcross sire lines:

Volomite - Sampson Hanover - Sampson Direct - Direct Scooter - Matts Scooter - Mach Three - Somebeachsomewhere

Meadow Skipper - Most Happy Fella - Tyler B - Dragons Lair - Dragon Again

Meadow Skipper - French Chef - Beach Towel - Jennas Beach Boy - Quik Pulse Mindale

Adios - Bret Hanover - Warm Breeze - Falcon Seelster - McArdle


The key to predicting the future is understanding which outcross sire will benefit most from daughters of Western Hanover, Artsplace and Cam Fella line stallions, and being a Maritimes-affiliated (PEI, NB) Canadian, my heart and mind are watching the offspring of Somebeachsomewhere; Which way to the Beach!!!

Part Shark SIZZLES in 1:51 Gold Cup and Saucer victory

Four Starzzz Shark son Part Shark (out of Pop Art by Artsplace) wins PEI's premier race

Most Happy Fella cross proves up Cam Fella line yet again




Rick Zeron drove Part Shark (trained by Wayne Preszcator) to a Gold Cup and Saucer victory in a record time of 1:51!!! This was the 51st running of the Charlottetown PEI's Gold Cup and Saucer race, now sponsored by premier Maritimes grocer Sobey's.




Stonebridge Terror, driven by Scott Coulter, Placed in 1:51:1, while the Show position went to Panda Bear driven by Anthony MacDonald in 1:51:1.

Watch online video of Part Shark winning 2010 Gold Cup and Saucer, Charlottetown PEI