Another Dynaformer Weekend!

Well, after several blog posts on Dynaformer (Is the G1 Epsom Oaks the Next Stop on the Dynaformer Express? and Dynaformer Scores Trifecta at Belmont! and Dynaformer – The underrated Overachiever!) earlier this year, I said I was done writing about him for the rest of the year.

Well, as my father also told me, never say never! The grand old man at Three Chimneys has made a liar of me. There’s no way to ignore the weekend Dynaformer had!

Three Chimneys' Dynaformer

Before I proceed, many of you knew that I made a bold prediction that Dynaformer would get the Epsom Oaks winner in Rainbow View. I was wrong. I had the right idea but the wrong Oaks!

Dynaformer’s Gozzip Girl won the 1¼-mile G1 American Oaks on turf at Hollywood Park on Sunday by 3¼ lengths to become her sire’s 15th G1 winner! (Click here to view pedigree)

And if that wasn’t enough for the son of Epsom Derby winner Roberto, his German-bred son Wiener Walzer won the G1 German Derby at Hamburg over 1½ miles on turf on the same day, giving Dynaformer a unique Derby/Oaks double! (Click here to view pedigree)

Wiener Walzer is now G1 winner number 16 for Dynaformer!

Gozzip Girl and Wiener Walzer have something more in common than each being by Dynaformer and winning a G1 race on the same day. They each have a Werk Nick Rating of A++. And, it’s no wonder. They are BOTH out of Kingmambo mares. Quite extraordinary!

Dynaformer now has another Derby winner to join his G1 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, who, if you recall, also won on turf. (Click here to read Sid Fernando’s blog on Wiener Walzer).

This is what I wrote in an earlier post on Dynaformer, before Wiener Walzer and Gozzip Girl:

“To date, Dynaformer is the sire of 14 G1 winners and 93 SWs, and lately the best of them are coming from Europe. This year he actually had a heavy 1000 Guineas favorite in Rainbow View, who last year was a G1 winner in Europe. In fact, if you can recall it, last year Dynaformer got three G1-winning fillies in the span of a few weeks. Rainbow View at 2 won the G1 Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile at Ascot on Sept. 27, the same day that Dynaforce won the 1¼-mile G1 Flower Bowl on turf at Belmont. Two weeks earlier, on Sept. 14 at Longchamp, Michita had won the 1½-mile G1 Qatar Prix Vermeille!”

Granted, Dynaformer’s had such great dirt horses like Barbaro and Perfect Drift, but it makes you wonder what he would have done if breeders had figured out earlier his amazing ability to get classic-type European runners. Now, as he heads into the final furlong of his truly outstanding career at stud, Dynaformer is getting the attention of not only top American breeders who appreciate 1½-mile turf horses – George Strawbridge, owner of Rainbow View is one such owner/breeder – but also the attention of savvy European breeders.

The breeder and owner of Wiener Walzer is the leading German stud farm Gestut Schlenderhan, the same farm that stands the great European stallion Monsun. It looks like they now have another very attractive stallion prospect in Wiener Walzer.

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