Big brown and eight belles?

Question

imagine the babies the two of them would of made if the philly wasnt put down on the track... BB dominated the field for the KDand the preakness and didnt have his a game at the belmont and eight belles finished in 2nd but was very impressive

Answer 1

I would much rather have seen a colt out of Eight Belles and Curlin.

By the way, Eight Belles was a Filly, not philly

Answer 2

Actually, Kmiami is right- any product of a union like this would be one fragile horse, largely because BB comes from the same atrocious genetic stock which produced the filly, who has quite rightly been described by some as a "genetic disaster waiting to happen" because she was so inbred and had such a poor bone structure.

As for BB, the Haskell is going to be the first real chance for anyone to see what he can do, now that he's been taken off the steroids and the other garbage that Dutrow had him running on. I think that the drugs were the only reason he won the Derby and the Preakness- had he not been on them, he wouldn't have gotten this far. We will see, but I am not sanguine about that colt's chances- and my concern is that because he, like Eight Belles, is so overbred and inbred, that his next race is going to be his last. I don't expect good things to happen for that horse.

Answer 3

The racehorse created by that union would certainly have some talent.  However, it would also make a very fragile creature... Eight Belles comes down the Unbridled line which has a characteristically weak bone stucture and Big Brown's weak hooves (remember the special shoes and the quarter cracks) are also hereditary.  Unfortunately in breeding, creating a fast racehorse can also mean creating a very fragile racehorse.

ps, I very much like your name "banana phone" !

Answer 4

if it were in the genes it would equal a champion