The Danzig influence through his celebrated sire son Green Desert has been highlighted in Australia for the 2018/19 season via his grandson I Am Invincible, responsible for siring the most Group 1 winners around the nation.
The chosen "mate" for mighty mare Winx at her first stud season this year, I Am Invincible sired four Group 1 winners Oohood, Invincibella, Viddora, and Voodoo Lad.
Another Green Desert sireline branch but via the Cape Cross European champion and Galileo half-brother is the Ireland based Sea The Stars, who sired Irish import Shraaoh, who won the Sydney Cup in April.
But this season's 74 Group 1 winners are again dominated via Danzig's massive Australian influence, Danehill.
Leading the way are Danehill's stud sons Redoute's Choice (sire of The Autumn Sun and Galaxy Star), Exceed And Excel (Microphone), Fastnet Rock (Prince Fawaz), and Commands (Manuel).
Four sire sons of Redoute's Choice each sired a Group 1 winner - Not A Single Doubt (sire of Kenedna and Qafila), his stable companion Snitzel (Trapeze Artist), Time Thief (In Her Time) and Stratum (Land Of Plenty).
Snitzel sire son Shamus Award, sired Mr Quickie, who won the Queensland Derby.
Exceed And Excel was represented with stud son Sidestep, sire of Golden Slipper winning filly Kiamichi.
Fastnet Rock sire sons Smart Missile and Hinchinbrook each sired a Group 1 winner - Maid Of Heaven and Spright, respectively.
Danzig sire War Front was also represented with US bred Homesman (MRC Underwood Stakes), and former shuttler Declaration Of War, sire of Winning Ways (Queensland Oaks).
While produced from an Exceed and Excel mare, Alizee represents another iconic and global influence in Mr Prospector, the mare being by champion Australian galloper Sepoy, a son of Gone West's former US shuttle horse Elusive Quality.
While Sepoy stands at Godolphin, Aberdeen, six other Mr Prospector line horses that sired Group 1 winners were previous shuttle stallions - including Street Cry (Winx), Teofilo (Humidor), Iffraaj (Jungle Cat), and Poet's Voice (Trap For Fools).
The Sadler's Wells sireline was also represented with Group 1 winners, this being highlighted by Coolmore Stud's late High Chaparral and his sire sons So You Think and Dundeel.
Thanks to Lonhro and his champion son Pierro and coupled with NZ champion Savabeel, the Sir Tristram sireline continues to emerge with Group 1 winners.
The line had six with Lonhro and Pierro two each, with Savabeel and his sire son Zed, also one each.
Encryption retires to Eureka
Talking of champion sire Lonhro and the good news that he was represented with two Group 1 winners this season, another of his top performing sons Encryption has been retired to the McAlpine family's Eureka Stud near Cambooya in Queensland.
Encryption burst onto the racing scene as a pre-Christmas juvenile finishing second in Melbourne's heralded VRC Maribyrnong Plate-G3 before taking Canberra's celebrated Black Opal Stakes-G3.
As a three-year-old he won the VRC Danehill Stakes-G2 at Flemington, and had four other stakes placings including second in the renowned Caulfield Group 1 sprint Oakleigh Plate. Encryption's family is also full of stakes winners including his dam's half-brother Ghibellines, who is now a young sire in NZ.
First winner for The Brothers War
While War Front's US bred gelding Homesman won the MRC Underwood Stakes-G1 and was second in the Caulfield Cup-G1, former War Front shuttle horse Declaration Of War was responsible for Winning Ways, winning this year's Queensland Oaks-G1.
This is good news for connections of Kooringal Stud as they stand young War Front sire The Brothers War.
The Brothers War was represented with his first winner when the Kooringal bred juvenile filly All In War recently won an open maiden handicap at Gundagai.
The Brothers War was produced from the Group 2 winner Moon Queen (by Sadler's Wells), a daughter of Group 1 winner Infamy (by English Derby winner Shirley Heights) and producer of four stakes winners.