Breeding Digest: Striking Gold in Parallel Seams

Jock Whitney was so interested by the favorite for the 1949 Spinaway Stakes that he watched her being saddled instead of his own filly, Sunday Evening. After all, Striking was equine royalty: by War Admiral out of La Troienne's daughter Baby League, therefore a full-sister to Busher. Baby League had been carrying Striking when Colonel Bradley died in 1946, and Ogden Phipps was duly delighted when landing her in the distribution of Idle Hour breeding stock among a consortium additionally comprising Greentree Stud and King Ranch.