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IN THE STUD
Spensive entered stud in 2007.
His first foals are 2-year-olds of 2010.
MATINGS ANALYSIS
By Rommy Faversham
Spensive’s pedigree demonstrates a wide array of successful American female families that are worthy of duplication within his offspring. This special emphasis of female family inbreeding also helps to explain Spensive’s own success, as one of his sire Ponche’s richest offspring.
Spensive’s paternal great-grandsire, the dominant Mr. Prospector, is from the same family as Tumiga, the somewhat obscure sire of Spensive’s grand dam. This creates inbreeding to their common matriarch, 1942 Kentucky Oaks heroine Miss Dogwood. This pattern raises the likelihood that Spensive’s foals would do well with a further strain of Mr. Prospector from his mates. Even better for him (but harder to find) would be mares with strains of Mr. Prospector’s full brothers, Search for Gold and Red Ryder.
Another contemporary dominant male line from this same family is that of Seattle Slew. Slew blood also appears to be a natural with Spensive. Broodmares with the blood of Mr. Prospector’s half-brother and former California sire Yukon would be another way to add a third family strain.
Another interesting family tie occurring within Spensive’s pedigree is that his sire Ponche is closely inbred 3x4 to Native Dancer whose sire Polynesian is from the same extended tribe as Spensive. (Spensive’s seventh dam, Black Queen, is Polynesian’s grand dam.)
The sire Air Forbes Won also descends from this family and should be considered a worthy ingredient for Spensive mares. Inbreeding to the common family of both sire and dam has long been a successful Thoroughbred mating strategy.
Spensive’s broodmare sire, Dr. Schwartzman, is a half-brother to the deceased Manila sire Bien Bien. Crossing Spensive with Bien Bien mares would create 4x3 inbreeding to their common dam, stakes winner Stark Winter. Stark Winter’s sire, Graustark, descends from a rich female family. As such, his blood has done well with that of his full brother, His Majesty, whose male line has become the most successful remaining branch of Ribot, as well as Whiskey Road, sire of Strawberry Road.
Dr. Schwartzman’s sire, Fluorescent Light, is a half-brother to the influential sire Majestic Light. Crossing Spensive with mares carrying a strain of Majestic Light creates inbreeding to his dam, Irradiate. Furthermore, Majestic Light was sired by Majestic Prince, another descendant from the family of Graustark and His Majesty.
Ponche’s broodmare sire, Nijinsky II, comes from the family that also produced the influential sire The Minstrel and his full brother, California stallion Far North. Their blood appears to be a good cross for Spensive. Additionally, the blood of Nijinsky’s sire, Northern Dancer, has always crossed particularly well with his close relative, Halo, who shares a common grand dam, the immortal Almahmood.
Another specific grandson of Northern Dancer to consider for Spensive would be mares by or carrying the blood of former California sire Anziyan — a full brother to the great shuttle stallion Danehill. Their grand dam, Spring Adieu, was a half-sister to Northern Dancer and their broodmare sire was His Majesty.
At 17.2 hands, Spensive is, obviously, a particularly big stallion. As such, it is especially important that these recommendations be correlated with the body type/conformation of the prospective broodmare.
In summary, Spensive figures to do particularly well with broodmares demonstrating the blood of the following dominant sire lines:
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MR. PROSPECTOR
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SEATTLE SLEW
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HALO
Specific sires whose blood is especially likely to do well with Spensive include:
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