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Ribot - page 3

Intuitive thought patterns

But with Tesio's purchase of Barbara Burrini, this female line, already much in the ascendancy, now could benefit also from the inspirational and intuitive thought patterns in planning his matings that had been the hallmark of Tesio's successes for decades before. Barbara Burrini was by no means a star herself on the racecourse, but she developed into a useful stayer, an attribute that seems to have been significant in his choice of El Greco as one of the stallions with which she was mated. Tesio wanted to put Barbara Burrini to a speed sire, and particularly one by Pharos, as a foil for her abundance of stamina. He also wanted to reinforce the pedigree of Derby winner Sunstar which had attracted him to her in the first place. El Greco satisfied all those conditions.

Romanella

The result of this mating was of course Italian champion two year old Romanella, whose pedigree, possibly unbeknown to Tesio, contained multiple linebreedings in yet higher quantities to St Simon and Galopin, concentrating more powerfully still the dominant influence of the silent Voltaire. The remarkable feature of Tesio's success with this line is not so much that he produced Romanella, as to a large extent the potent influences were already in place in Barbara Burrini' s pedigree when he purchased her. It was rather that, having produced her, in just one of further generation he was able to raise the class of her own progeny by not one, but two or even three rungs up the ladder of excellence.

Tenerani

As far as we are aware it has never been properly explained why Tesio sent Romanella to Tenerani, but his thought patterns were such that he continually made mating decisions which not only fulfilled his immediate aims (such as the duplication of Sunstar in Romanella’s pedigree) but also invariably preserved, or even magnified, the underlying strengths in the pedigrees of his mares, without his having direct knowledge of what those strengths actually were. Tesio did not have the technological resources available to him that we have today, and could not possibly have known the extent to which old father Voltaire was guiding his destiny. But, for whatever reasons, in choosing Tenerani as a partner Romanella, he selected one of the few stallions worldwide at stud at that time with a pedigree which was able to match, and extends still further the multiple linebreedings to St Simon, Galopin and to a significant extent Cyllene and his sire Bona Vista, which dominated Romanella' s pedigree.

St Simon and Cyllene

For, Ribot is linebred no less than 32 times to St Simon, Cyllene, and their sires in the first eight generations of his pedigree. The isolated occurrences of these few ancestors alone, weighted by generation in which they occur, account for 30% of Ribot's entire pedigree. Such high concentrations of a small group of influential ancestors can only result from a number of successive generations of stallions and mares from similar genetic (ancestral) backgrounds, being mated in continuous reinforcement of their ancestral strengths.

Nearco

While Tesio could not possibly have known precisely what the strengths were when making mating decisions for his mares, the same intuitive thought patterns which guided him in the evolution of Ribot, had been just as effective in his creation of Nearco seventeen years earlier.

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