Date posted September 1, 2010 | Posted by Brian Russell | Filed under
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Racing and Breeding AMONG the seventy sires who were paraded for visitors to the Upper Hunter in the past week were two new ones with a lot of blood in common who captured a lot of attention. They were new shuttler Big Brown, a great American classic performer visiting Vinery, and champion Australian sprinter Nicconi, one of the eight sires at Widden.
Both Big Brown (by Boundary) and Nicconi (by Bianconi) are grandsons in male line of the awesome speed source Danzig and descend maternally from three-quarter brothers. Big margin Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Big Brown is from a mare by Nureyev, a three-quarter brother to Sadler’s Wells, the grandsire of Nicconi’s dam Nicola Lass, through his very successful sire son Scenic.
On top of this Nicconi is another star who has brought one of New Zealand’s best modern matriarches, his fifth dam Froth, to the top again. He is a three-quarter brother to Niconero, a winner of five Group 1s got by the Danzig grandson Danzero from Nicola Lass, and is a grandson of Dubai Lass, a Bletchingly mare out of Frivolous Lass, a daughter of In the Purple and Frivole, a Le Filou daughter of Froth.
A winner of the Champion Fillies Stakes in Perth, Frivolous Lass is sister to the dam of VRC Australian Guineas and WATC Rothwells Stakes winner Military Plume, a sire who started his career at Widden Stud.
Nicconi is the third representative of the Froth family to stand at Widden, the other being the 2009 deceased General Nediym. His grandam Riticella was a three-quarter sister to Frivolous Lass.
The other descendants of Froth have included world champion race mare Horlicks and her Melbourne Cup winning son Brew. Monaco Consul, the New Zealand sired son of the first crop by the now Coolmore based, High Chaparral who in the 2009-10 racing year won the Victoria Derby and AJC Spring Champion Stakes and finished third in the AJC Australian Derby.
