Article: World of breeding: Toying with names deep in pedigrees is strictly for the birds.(Sports)

Byline: Tony Morris

IT'S a fact that there are any number of valid ways of trying to interpret a pedigree, but spare me from this sort of nonsense, from a contributor to a web discussion group over the weekend in relation to Thursday's Superlative Stakes winner Horatio Nelson: ``Interesting to note how his sire Danehill reinforced Imagine's very strong background of St Marguerite.

``Firstly we have Danehill 6 x 5 to War Admiral (by Man o' War, whose maternal grandsire Rock Sand is by Sainfoin out of a daughter of St Marguerite). Next we have Admiral's ...

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