12 Pedigree fun facts: Pappacap
Jan 14, 2022 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com
What can Horse of the Year Gun Runner do to follow up his record-setting season as a freshman sire? After rocketing to the top of the juvenile sire charts with more than $4 million in progeny earnings – a North American record for a first crop – he has prominent players on the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Oaks (G1) trails.
6. Quiet Giant is an exquisitely-bred half-sister to Horse of the Year Saint Liam, who clinched top honors in the 2005 Breeders’ Cup Classic. A daughter of “Iron Horse” Giant’s Causeway, Quiet Giant is also a half to five other stakes performers, most notably 2018 United Nations (G1) upsetter Funtastic. They are all out of Grade 2-placed Quiet Dancer, by Quiet American. (Because Quiet American is yet another son of Fappiano, Gun Runner is inbred to that superb stallion.) Quiet Dancer’s ancestress, Hall of Famer Gallorette, hails from the same female line as 1935 Triple Crown winner Omaha along with fellow Hall inductee Johnstown.
7. Pappacap is out of a mare by Scat Daddy, the sire of 2018 Triple Crown champion Justify. Scat Daddy raced exclusively on dirt, with his biggest wins coming in the 2006 Champagne (G1) and 2007 Florida Derby. But the son of transatlantic champion Johannesburg has sired top turf performers as well, including Royal Ascot celebrities Lady Aurelia, No Nay Never, and Caravaggio. Pappacap’s dam, Pappascat, is among Scat Daddy’s turf performers as she placed in the 2014 Cardinal (G3) at Churchill Downs.
8. Scat Daddy descends from the Storm Cat branch of the Northern Dancer sire line. Because Storm Cat is also the sire of Giant’s Causeway (aforementioned ancestor of Gun Runner), Pappacap’s pedigree sports a duplication of Storm Cat.
9. Pappascat’s dam, Redmeansgo, is closely inbred to Roberto. The 1972 Epsom Derby winner named after baseball legend Roberto Clemente, Roberto handed the great Brigadier Gerard his only career loss in the Benson & Hedges Gold Cup. He factors on the paternal side in both halves of Redmeansgo’s pedigree. Her sire, Red Ransom, and broodmare sire, Dynaformer, are sons of Roberto. Dynaformer is best known for siring 2006 Kentucky Derby hero Barbaro.
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