INBREEDING TO SUPERIOR FEMALES
By Rommy Faversham and Leon Rasmussen

This is an extremely rare out of print book. It's 514 pages and is richly illustrated with color photographs, charts and tables. Additionally, the book contains hundreds of five generation pedigrees of history's great Thoroughbreds demonstrating the Rasmussen Factor. These pedigrees have all been uniquely highlighted in color to accentuate the distinct female family inbreeding patterns.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Rasmussen Factor

·         “Inbreeding / to Superior / Female Families / Through Different Individuals”

·         Successful forms of female family inbreeding outside RF criteria

·         Special formations of the Rasmussen Factor: The Formula One and Delta Pattern

·         How the inbreeding work? The Genetics

·         Why does inbreeding work? The Herd Model

·         Why is female family inbreeding not more common?

·         How can female family inbreeding be applied?

·         How can the Rasmussen Factor be evaluated?

·         Examining a sire’s best offspring

·         Analyzing female families

·         Testing Thoroughbred populations

Chapter 2: The Spanker Mare: “The Ancestral Mom”

·         Her Breeding

·         Her Family

·         The Great Sire lines of THE DARLEY ARABIAN - THE BYERLEY TURK - THE GODOLPHIN ARABIAN

·         DIOMED and the American Connection

·         YOUNG GIANTESS: Diomed’s English Legacy

·         Resistance toward the Spanker Mare’s Influence

·         The estranged branches of the Spanker Mare

Chapter 3: The English Classics

·         Introduction

·         Pedigrees and Profiles of English Classic Winners demonstrating the Rasmussen Factor

·         Condensed Tables

·         Time Lines of Male and Female Inbreeding in the English Thoroughbred

Chapter 4: Female Family Inbreeding in America

·         The Eighteenth Century: Imported Stallions

·         The Nineteenth Century:

o    The Sireline of DIOMED and SIR ARCHY

o    LEXINGTON

o    The Early American Families:
CUB MARE - LADY GREY and LADY THOMPKINS - GALOPADE - MAGNOLIA - SALLY WRIGHT

o    What made “Lucky” Baldwin so lucky?

·         The Twentieth Century:

o    The First Quarter:

o    The Sire lines of FAIR PLAY - BEN BRUSH – DOMINO

o    The Second Quarter:
Marked influx of influential European stallions
The progeny of MAN O’ WAR and BULL LEA

o    The Third Quarter:
The development of Phalaris and Non-Phalaris lines
Inbreeding to CANTERBURY PILGRIM - SELENE - PLUCKY LIEGE - MUMTAZ MAHAL

o    The Fourth Quarter:
Contemporary Patterns of female family inbreeding
Analyzing North American Graded Stakes Winners

Chapter 5. Female Family Inbreeding in Australasia

·         Origins

·         Major Australian Stakes Winners with the Rasmussen Factor

·         Hall of Fame Thoroughbreds of Australia

·         STAR KINGDOM - SIR TRISTRAM – DANEHILL

Chapter 6. Female Family Inbreeding in Germany

·         The Great German Sirelines: DARK RONALD

·         The Great German Families:

·         FESTA - AVERSION - ATHENE - ORSOVA - NUMA - NELLA DA GUBBIO KAISERWURDE - LIS

Chapter 7. Female Family Inbreeding in Italy / The Artistry of Tesio

·         Federico Tesio: Master Breeder

·         The 30 Tesio-breds who were their sire’s best offspring

·         Tesio’s inbreedings to superior English families

·         The Catnip Family: Inbreeding to the family of Nearco

Chapter 8. Female Family Inbreeding in France:

·         Marcel Boussac & the Family of Frizette

·         Marcel Boussac’s French branches of Frizette
DURZETTA - FRIZELLE - DURBAN – HELDIFANN

·         The American branches of Frizette
PRINCESS PALATINE - FRIZEUR

Chapter 9. Female Family Inbreeding in Japan

·         Foundation Stallions of Japan:

o    HINDOSTAN - PARTHOLON - NORTHERN TASTE - SUNDAY SILENCE

·         Contemporary Patterns of female family inbreeding in Japan

·         The Japan Cup

Chapter 10. Female Family Inbreeding in Russia

The Family of GLORY, ANILIN and GORACI

Chapter 11. Appendix

·         Chefs-de-Race Table

·         The Top Group One Producing Broodmares

·         Important Thoroughbreds who demonstrated the

·         Formula One Pattern

·         Important Thoroughbreds who demonstrated the Delta Pattern

·         European Group Stakes Winners with the Rasmussen Factor
(1991-1996)

·         Winners of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe with the Rasmussen Factor

Biography / Author’s own success

PHOTOS / BIOGRAPHIES / PEDIGREES of APOLLO and NANNETTA

DRF article: “Fulfilling Dreams” 11/17/94

Index

Photographs / General / Box Pedigrees Index