• Fusaichi Pegasus
  • Fusaichi Pegasus
  • Fusaichi Pegasus
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Fusaichi Pegasus

America

Fusaichi Pegasus

Bay 1997 16.1½ hh
Mr. Prospector - Angel Fever
Distance won over: 6f. to 10f.   

One of the fastest & easiest G1 Kentucky Derby winners ever. 28 Stakes horses from his first 3 crops including G1 Blue Grass Stakes winner BANDINI, G1 Haskell Invitational H’cap winner ROMAN RULER, G1 Belmont Stakes runner-up ANDROMEDA’S HERO and the G1 placed juveniles SECRET CODE and SUPERFLY.  Yearlings in 2007 made up to $700,000.

Fee for 2009: $30,000

Fusaichi Pegasus works very well with NORTHERN DANCER line mares, having sired the Gr.1 winner Bandini from a DIXIELAND BAND mare and the Belmont Stakes runner-up Andromeda’s Hero from a STORM BIRD mare. He also has several black-type performers out of daughters of STORM CAT. NUREYEV sired the second dams of two of his Gr.3 winners, including Ravel.

The sires of the first two dams of Fusaichi Pegasus’ black-type winners include NIJINSKY and his descendants GENEROUS, SEATTLE DANCER, SHADEED and BALDSKI.

Fusaichi Pegasus has an Australian Gr.2 winner out of a mare by DANEHILL, which is inbred 3 x 3 to DANZIG. This 3 x 3 inbreeding to DANZIG also appears in his Gr.2-placed son The Roundhouse, out of a mare by BELONG TO ME.

He obviously likes DEPUTY MINISTER having sired the Gr.1 winner Roman Ruler from a SILVER DEPUTY mare and the 12 ½-length stakes winner South Bay Cove from a daughter of SALT LAKE.

Two of his black-type winners are out of SEATTLE SLEW line mares, Bandini’s second dam is by SEATTLE SLEW and Gr.3 winner Ravel is out of a daughter of A.P. INDY.

Inbreeding to MR. PROSPECTOR is another option as Roman Ruler is inbred 2 x 4.

His stakes winner, Witten, is out of a RED RANSOM mare, and DYNAFORMER appears as the broodmare sire of another of his stakes winners. ROBERTO sired the second dam of Andromeda’s Hero.