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> There are also other things that go through 
daughters, not sons.  Scientific American had an article a few years ago 
> "When greatness skips a generation" that followed this in TB's.  It was 
> brought up because Secretariat was such a disappointing sire of fast 
> horses.  I have noticed that he is starting to show up in fast TB 
> pedigrees, but haven't looked to see if it his daughters that are responsible 
> like was predicted in the article.
Yes, Secretariat has developed quite a reputation as a broodmare sire
(Smarty Jones' grandsire, Gone West, is out of a Secretariat
daughter).  The theory, which has had at least one book written about
it (that I have not read) is that there's a gene carried on the X
chromosome which is responsible for an unusually large heart.

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