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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 17:45 pm

Silver Hawk ? Roberto ex Gris Vitesse x Amerigo (21a)

Lightly raced winner of G3 Craven Stakes placed in both Derby and Irish Derby. Probably best at a mile. Dam won only 2 races but these were both high class stakes in France Prix Yacowlef and Prix Jaques le Marois.

Produced about 9% Stakes winners to foals at stud which is respectable but was not always fashionable and fee fluctuated from $5,000 to $80,000. Always capable of getting a very high class horse that would generally be better at 3 years old.

He was much favoured by Shadwell Estates who bought or raised more than most of his progeny here in the UK.

AS a sire it is very easy to highlight what Silver Hawk wanted in his mares Northern Dancer and Native Dancer were prominent and as you might expect Raise a Native and Mr Prospector were not far behind.

As a broodmare sire of stakes winners the mirror would be expected but the affinity with Northern Dancer appears even stronger. 82% of Stakes winners with Silver Hawk as broodmare sire were by Northern Dancer line stallions. Of his G1 stakes winners as a broodmare sire 100% (Every single one) was by a Northern Dancer line stallion.

Staggering though that is very few stakes winners came via Northern Dancer other than through Sadler?s Wells and Nureyev which suggests the affinity is reliant more on Forli and Thong/Special.

Because there are some on the forum that get edgy about things going on deep in a pedigree I am not going to analyse further but sufficient to say there is plenty in Silver Hawk?s pedigree that Northern Dancer and his sons and grandson will readily pick up on. (Teddy, Bend Or, Sierra/Sanfoin, Arcadia/Gallinule yada yada yada?.)

Suffice to say Silver Hawks pedigree has multiple strengths that make him an ideal broodmare sire for many sire lines but particularly those involving Special I would imagine he would work well with Encosta de Lago a cross that produced Pre Eminence.
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