Gold Standard currently in training with Glen Kotzen for Drakenstein Stud and partners has won the Selangor Cup and placed in the Sun Metropolitan as a three year old. At the end of his career, he is seen as an ale replacement for the outstanding Trippi and we analyse why both in terms of pedigree and conformation

1. GOLD STANDARD
4C BY TRIPPI OUT OF OLYMPIC DAM (MODEL MAN)

2. 9 C KINBREDS
• Gold Standard has 10 lines of kinbreds that are linebred to
Mumtaz Mahal and Lady Josephine as the most important
elements in his pedigree that will stand him in good stead
• Nashua, Courtesy, Cindy Lou, Nasrullah, Tudor Minstrel, Court
Martial, Abernant, Belle of All and Daily Double
• Elliodor as an example had 9/10 Gr1 winners with mares that
had strong 9c lines

3. KINBREEDING
• In modern pedigree terms, Gold Standard is kinbred Never
Bend x Flaming Page

4. LES BRINSFIELD’S THEORY
• When the racing career of US Gr2 winner Distorted Humor came to an end, Winstar Farm
in Kentucky enlisted pedigree analyst John Prather to establish Distorted Humor’s sire
potential. Prather, together with his fellow analyst Les Brinsfield, zeroed in on the fact that
Distorted Humor has many background lines of Ormonde and his full sister Ornament.
These siblings have 14 fully related and 3 3/4 related siblings, and are prime movers also
in the pedigree of La Troienne, who does not appear in Distorted Humor’s pedigree.
Prather and Brinsfield thought La Troienne would add firepower, and made mares by
Seattle Slew prime subjects, to pick up Striking/Busher. Further advice was to get mares
by sons of Seattle Slew who have more La Troienne in their dams. John Prather suggested
to put 14 of Winstar’s mares with La Troienne to Distorted Humor in his first crop. He got
four graded winners, two Gr1, including Funny Cide, champion US 3yo after winning two
legs of the Triple Crown. The success continued like this, year after year. In May 2011
Distorted Humor reached a milestone of 100 Stakes winners, and all but one (an Irish Gr3
winner) had dams who carried La Troienne. There is a remarkable similarity between the
pedigrees of Distorted Humor and Trippi, and between the pedigrees of the best offspring
of both stallions.

5. LES BRINSFIELD’S THEORY SUMMARISED
• In Summary the key to La Troienne is the 16H family of Ormonde and
Ornament
• Distorted Humor had 14 lines to the 16H family through these two
siblings
• Brinsfield suggested sending mares 14 with high counts of 1x(La
Troienne) to Distorted Humor resulting in 4 graded winners (30%)
from his first crop
• Most Specifically daughters of Seattle Slew
• When distorted Humor reached 100 stakes winners all but one had a
line of La Troienne

6. LES BRINSFIELD’S THEORY SUMMARISED
Ormonde+
Ornament
Distorted
Humor + 1x
100 stakes
winners

8. Distorted Humor is by Forty Niner, Trippi by a son of Forty Niner. Distorted Humor’s grandam Sweetest
Chant and Trippi’s third dam Only The Loyal have a similar make-up, and are close kin. Their sires
Never Bend and Mr Leader are close kin, and the two mares share the same bottom female line (to
which Trippi’s 5th dam is inbred, to boot). It is the female line, too, of influential sire Bull Lea, who is
close kin to La Troienne. A look at the best offspring of the two sires. Distorted Humor’s Gr1 winner
Awesome Humor vs Trippi’s Green Vegas (SW; SP). Dams of both have The Axe and Cox’s Ridge close
up. Cox’s Ridge and his sire Best Turn are close kin to the kin-pair Sweetest Chant and Only The Loyal
from the two sires. The Axe is from the La Troienne female line. In the same camp belongs Trippi’s Let
It Rock (G3; SP), whose dam comes with The Axe, and is from the same female line as DH and Trippi.
Trippi is sire of Miss Macy Sue (G3, SW; SP; 3rd Breeders Cup F&M Sprint). Her dam is inbred 2x3 to
the mare Ta Wee, a daughter of Aspidistra who has as her damsire a potent La Troienne carrier, Better
Self (by Bimelech). DH multiple Gr1 winning son Commentator, out of a mare by Storm Bird, with the
next dam with The Axe and a double Buckpasser. Storm Bird’s damsire is by New Providence, by a son
of Bull Lea out of a mare from the same female line. Storm Bird is sire of the dam of Trippi’s Storm
(G2; G1/2 placed). Then there’s A Sea Trippi (SW, SP), dam inbred to Never Bend (also sire of Trippi’s
3rd dam Only The Loyal, and carrying La Troienne). Best Distictive, the 4th dam of A Sea Trippi is close
kin to Only The Loyal. She’s inbred to the mare Albania, who is close kin (and from the same bottom
line) as Bull Lea. DH’s G1 winners Awesome Humor and Forty Niner’s Son both have Quadrangle,
through Angle Light and Rokeby Venus (who is kin to the 3rd dam of DH). Quadrangle has Bull Lea as
well as La Troienne. Angle Light especially looks a beauty - in South Africa we know him as damsire of
All Fired Up. All things come together in DH 2010 Belmont Stakes winner Drosselmeyer. His dam is by
a son of Nijinsky, the second dam by Slew O’Gold, the third dam by Storm Bird, the 4th dam by
Nasomo (whose third dam is La Troienne). Trippi made great impact in the US late in 2010 and early in
2011, with a pair of classic runners, R Heat Lightning and Travelin Man, and G3 winner Gourmet

9. Capote, a son of Seattle Slew. G2 winner Travelin Man’s dam West Side Dancer is by Gone West, while
his 3rd dam Lassie’s Lady is by Alydar out of Lassie Dear. West Side Dancer is kinbred 2x2 Secrettame
x Lassie’s Lady. That cross includes a treble of Bull Lea and Buckpasser, who brings La Troienne. There
also is a double of 3-part brothers Sir Gaylord and Secretaqriat, who are from the same female line as
Cure The Blues (in R Heat Lightning).

10. Going on Trippi’s strengths according to Brinsfield, we can historically analyse his strength and the
success this created.
Bear in mind Trippi’s dam Jealous Appeal has three lines of 1s , so building on this would breed a
superior horse
Gr2 winner Lord of the Sea had two lines through Never Bend and Bimelech
Gr3 placed Cab had Bimelech and Busher
Gr2 Placed Jealous Profit a double Bimelech
Gr2 placed Miss Macy Sue a line of Bimelech and two other lines of 1s
Listed winner Gold Trippi multiple lines through Seattle Slew – Poker, Jet Action and Buckpasser as
well as Absurd and Hessian

11. TRIPPI’S TOP 10 BLACKTYPE PERFORMERS
AND THEIR 1X/1S CORRELATION
• Inara- 4 lines of 1x/1s
• R Heat Lightning – 2 lines of 1x through Seattle slew
• Real Princess - Bimelech + paradox = 2 lines of 1s (1 1x)
• Deo Juvente - Complete Warrior is 1x family member
• For the Lads – 1s through Will Sommers
• Afrikaburn – 1s through Bimelech in Never bend

12. TRIPPI’S TOP 10 BLACKTYPE PERFORMERS
AND THEIR 1X/1S CORRELATION
• Lobos’s legend –Paradox
• Hammies Hooker – Buckpasser and Paradox
• Trip to heaven – 2 lines of 1x through Seattle Slew
• Lanner falcon – 1x through Bimelech in Jabneh

13. TRIPPI OVER THE NEVER BEND LINE
(BIMELECH)
• Most notably Inara
• 12 foals
• 11 starters (92%)
• 10 winners (91%)
• Blacktype horses 2 (18%)
• Inara
• A sea Trippi
• Ziparana(G1sp)

14. TRIPPI OVER CAPTAIN AL (DOUBLE 1X)
• 12 foals
• 10 starters(83%)
• 9 winners(90%)
• 2 black type horses (20%)
• Sir Duke
• Flying Myth

15. TRIPPI OVER SEATTLE SLEW(SONS AND
GRANDSONS) (2 LINES OF 1X)
• 32 foals
• 28 starters(88%)
• 22 winners(82%)
• 2 Black type Horses( 7%)
• Gold Trippi
• Splendid Sound

16. TRIPPI OVER NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (
BUCKPASSER)
• 23 Foals
• 17 starters (74%)
• 13 winners(76%)
• 3 Blacktype horses (18%)
• Live life
• Franny (never bend)
• Agra

17. GOLD STANDARD
ANGLE 106.26

18. GOLD STANDARD
BALANCE SCORE
7,71 (AVERAGE IS 6.9)

19. TRIPPI ANGLE
99.92

20. TRIPPI
BALANCE
SCORE 8,14
(7,14)

21. MARES RECOMMENDED FOR GOLD
STANDARD
• Captain Al (2 lines of 1s + 7 lines of 9c)
• National assembly ( 1 line of 1s + 4 lines of 9c)
• Jay peg ( 6 lines of 1s + 7 lines of 9c)
• Judpot ( 3 lines of 1s + 6 lines of 9c)
• Kahal ( never bend)
• Querari ( double never bend)
• Western Winter (5 lines of 9c)