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Is my horses pedigree good?

hey, this is just for fun, but if anyone is familiar with good/famous racehorses, i'd love for you to check out my horses pedigree and tell me if it's good or not. I've looked up his racing name on the Jockey Club website but my computer wont let me download the 5X Pedigree, so could someone please look at it and tell me if it's a nice pedigree or not...i'd love to know. His tattoo number is E37763 and his name is Tea with Bahri...dad's name was Bahri and his mom's was good judgement or impressive judgement? i can't remember which....anyway, please get back to me if you can :)

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1. Here's the father's pedigree: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/bahri Riverman (the paternal grandfather) of your horse was awesome! He was a good racehorse and a very popular stallion. If you look far back in the father's pedigree, you see Nasrullah and Nearco, two awesome racehorses. They are so far back in the pedigree that it doesn't matter though. I can't find his mother on the site, not sure what her bloodlines are.
2. Mom's name is Great Judgement, a daughter of Judge Smells (hate that name!). She's the dam of at least five other foals, one of which, Deacon Taylor by Maria's Mon, made 40 starts and has earned over $100,000 on the track-- it takes a sound horse to do that. Great Judgement herself made 50 starts to earn over $80K. Her sire, Judge Smells, comes from a somewhat notorious background. He was bought by Calumet Farm under the tenure of J. T. Lundy, who became the effective CEO, for lack of a better term, after the death of Lucille Markey (Lundy was married to one of Markey's daughters). Lundy was a real creep, a lowlife, and if you want to read about his trashing of Calumet farm and the possible murder of the stallion Alydar, read the book Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty, by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach. Judge Smells was one of the stakes winners by In Reality, the stallion that kept the male line of descent from Man O' War alive here in America (in Europe you find some horses with male line descent through Relic). In Reality was one of the best horses of his generation, which happened to include a better horse named Dr. Fager. In Reality raced for the Genter Stable of Francis Genter, the lady who owned Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled. Judge Smells dam, Timeforaturn, is a half-sister to the very good racemare Bold 'n' Determined, a filly who earned over $900,000 in the early eighties and who is in the hall of fame. Timeforaturn also has a connection to Seabiscuit-- her dam, Pidi, descends from Kentucky Derby winner Determine, whose dam was out of Brown Biscuit, a half-sister to Seabiscuit. Determine is virtually the only source in modern pedigrees of any connection to Seabiscuit. Great Judgement's female family comes from France. Her dam, Great Display, is sired by Great Nephew, who sired two winners of the Epsom Derby. I'm pretty sure you've heard of one of those Derby winners, a horse named SHERGAR, whose kidnapping by IRA thugs made headlines. Great Display is out of a mare sired by Bold Ruler, who is also sire of Secretariat, among others. Bold Ruler was a leading sire many times and was kept as virtually a private stallion by the Phipps family. Not many people outside the Phipps circle got to breed to him. Your horse's sire, Bahri, is a son of Riverman. Bahri was bred and owned by Sheikh Hamdan al-Maktoum and was a champion miler in England and France. Riverman was a son of US champion two-year-old Never Bend, whose progeny were perhaps better received in England and Europe than in the USA. Never Bend sired the great, immortal Epsom Derby and Arc de Triomphe winner and champion Mill Reef. Never Bend also sired a pretty smart horse named J.O. Tobin, who handed Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew his first-ever defeat on a hot afternoon at Hollywood Park when I was there. Riverman was imported to the US just before a temporary ban on importation of horses from England and Europe was imposed because of an outbreak of an equine venereal disease, Contagious Equine Metritis. He arrived here on the same plane as another European stallion, Lyphard, and a French stallion, Caro. Lots of talent on that plane. Unfortunately also a lot of CEM germs. Those three horses brought CEM to the US and came as close as never mind to causing the complete shut-down of the breeding industry in central Kentucky. (Yeah, I know you wanted to know that. Sorry.) Bahri's dam, Wasnah, was by the great English Triple Crown winner Nijinsky II. Wasnah in turn was out of the superb English racemare Highest Trump, by Bold Bidder (a son of Bold Ruler, giving your horse two crosses to this great stallion). Bahri is the sire of Ard de Triomphe winner Sakhee, but that appears to be something of a fluke, as he never sired anything nearly as good, despite being bred to some very good mares from the Maktoums' broodmare herd. Your horse has a good pedigree with a lot of quality to it. It's a pedigree that is perhaps slanted more towards speed than stamina, but with some good classic influences in it. Hope this helps!