Late last week I had a long time client showing interest in purchasing a share in our Commands / Making Fey filly. However before he parted with his hard earned money, he had an interesting question for me.
Exactly how good is the
COMMANDS / ZABEEL cross going with fillies compared to colts?
With full due diligence the only way to answer this request for information properly was to go to the Australian Stud Book files and draw down all fillies by Commands that are daughters of either Zabeel or his son Octagonal.
No other Zabeel sons at stud have daughters that have been covered by Commands. This also includes both Lonhro and Niello. There daughters are too young yet to have Commands progeny to race.
The following information highlights the remarkable genetic relationship between Commands and Zabeel and how particularly successful fillies have been from the cross.
COMMANDS
There have been
27 daughters of Commands from both
Zabeel and Octagonal mares to race.
12 from Zabeel Mares & 15 from Octagonal Mares
They have produced the following incredibly good stats:
ZABEEL
12 ZABEEL mares
2 Stakes Winners
PURPLE – Gr1
ROYAL COMMANDS – Gr3
1 Stakes Placed
WABEEL – Gr3
7 Standard Winners:
COMMANDING JEWEL *
IN ERROR
MADAME ADMIRAL
MOWTOWN LADY
PRINCESS OBEY
REDESIGN
ZATTICA
0 Placed
2 Unplaced
Cool Command (1 start)
Honesty (2 starts)
15 OCTAGONAL mares
1 Stakes Winner
ALTAR – Gr2
10 Standard Winners
AUSSIE SPORTS STAR
CLIQUES
DEMEANOUR
DISPATCH
EIGHT COMMAND
EVENTUAL
HEX
LOVE ATTACK
LOVE ATTACK
SURGE DRAW
2 Placed
Takemealltheway
Zara’s Balcony
2 Unplaced
Karyini (2 starts)
Parsiminous (5 starts)
* COMMANDING JEWEL is being spruiked as the next superstar. She is the ½ sister to Atlantic Jewel
ZABEEL = From 12 Commands Fillies to race
10 Total Winners (83.3%)
3 Black Type Class Runners (25%)
2 Stakes Winners (16.4%)
1 Stakes Placed (8.3%)
OCTAGONAL = From 15 Commands Fillies to race
11 Total Winners (73.3%)
1 Stakes Winner (6.6%)
13 Have earned prizemoney (86.6%)
2 Placed (13.3%)
TOTAL RESULTS ON CROSS
27 to Race
23 earned prizemoney (85.1%)
21 individual winners (77.8%)
4 Stakes Class Performers (14.8%)
3 Stakes Winners (11.1%)
1 Stakes Placed (3.7%)
4 Non performers (14.8%)
SUMMARY: Daughters of Commands from Zabeel line mares significantly outperform industry standards.
His daughters bred on this line have added 3 Stakes Winners (8.3%) of his total Stakes Winners whilst Commands sons have only produced 1 stakes winner (2.1%)
Whilst the comparison cross when including the boys is just as interesting. Its very much a 50/50 split. This is important because the base cross for Commands colts v fillies is 60/40. So the fillies on the Zabeel cross outperform the mating compared to all other sires.
Commands just with Zabeel (Total Cross including the colts)
25 runners = 12 Fillies / 13 colts
19 winners = 10 Fillies / 9 colts
3 stakes winners 2 Fillies / 1 colt
2 stakes placed 1 Filly / 1 colt
I trust that you will be as impressed as we are !
COMMANDS
Our Filly by
COMMANDS / MAKING FEY (by ZABEEL)
Bred on this Super Cross and a 1/2 sister to Gr1 Winner
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