Talk:Bend Or

Bend Or spots

A photo of Bend Or, showing his Bend-Or spots, would be most helpful. --Una Smith (talk) 14:36, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Maternity issues

There were well-publicised rumours that "Bend Or" had been mixed up with another colt called "Tadcaster" (out of Clemence) and that the colt who won the Derby was actually the latter. See Tigerboy1966 (talk) 17:23, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

There is also a new report that found that mitochondrial DNA from Bend Or's skeleton is compatible with DNA of Family 2 (Tadcaster's dam). So Bend Or in all likely hood was Tadcaster. Don't know if we can re-write history here. Froggerlaura ^ribbit 00:04, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

A very important correction need to be made - FAR more important than who Bend Or was - His offspring are in the pedigree of Man 'o War and Seabiscuit through Fair Play but far more in important is his great-grandson in the tail male line - Phalaris, who is in turn tail male ancestor of over 95% of all thoroughbreds alive worldwide today! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.144.139.75 (talk) 16:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, both of the colts were by Doncaster don't forget, so the sire-line remains unaltered. The immediate pedigree of Tadcaster's dam is noted in the article. By the time we get to Phalaris the pedigree would only be different by 1/32 and at the 5th generation. Edwarddutton (talk) 21:59, 10 June 2014 (UTC)