| Pedigrees explained |
| Not familiar with pedigree charts, well let me explain. Firstly the basic layout, sires (fathers, grandfathers etc) are alway positioned above the mares, dams (mothers and grandmothers etc.) |
| Casual (GB) bay mare foaled 1957 name of horse, country foaled in, colour, sex and year foaled |
| Solar Slipper (GB) 1945 sire |
| Affair (GB) 1942 dam, 1st dam |
| Windsor Slipper (GB) 1939 grandsire, sireline, tail-mail line |
| Solar Flower (GB) 1935 sire's dam |
| Fair Trial (GB) 1932 dam's sire |
| Araminta (GB) 1933 2nd dam, granddam, damline, tail-female line |
| All the known TB families have numbers asociated with it from numbers 1 to some 50 plus familes, these days many of the higher numbers are now extinct. Mostly are British foundation families though there are a number of American families too. When families where given numbers they were numbered according to levels of success on the racetrack. For example family number 1. had the highest number of classic winners at the time these tables where composed, family number 2. had the second highest number of classice winners and so on. Today the most successful horses are mostly from families 1-23. A family consists of all the direct decendants of a particular mare, so that's the daughters and sons, and continuing female lines to the latest offspring. The male doesn't carry on the family number just the females. The pedigree chart above of the mare Casual is a direct decendant of the famous racemare Pretty Polly from family number 14. The foundation mare of family number 14 is Oldfield Mare by Hales Turk. In other words every horse that is a direct decendant through all the female lines are classed as from family number 14. Oldfield Mare's daughter Old Lady Mare was foaled in 1710. |
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| This site is a public pedigree database, where pedigrees can be found or added, going right back to the earliest known horses. |