Lunn Racing and Breeding

Replay of the Fastest Ever Arima Kinen 2500m in 2:29.50 And Zenno Rob Roy in 2004 from the 2-B Family in front of the estimated 170,000 Spectators,

For a Breed Some people think was bred for battle and the successful surviving breeding pool having experienced and thrived on large scale "events" of Human adrenaline releases.

Melody Belle was beaten handily in front of no crowds during Covid

81% Of Sport Horse Stallions having recently descended from the Middle East/Central Asia region, specifically representing the Original Arabian lineage and the Turkoman horse lineage Central Asian steppe.
Based on recent genetic studies of Y chromosomes, the vast majority of modern horse breeds—including sport horses—descend from a small number of Oriental stallions brought to Europe within the last 700 years

"The Y chromosome directly reflects male genealogies, but the extremely low Y chromosome sequence diversity in horses has prevented the reconstruction of stallion genealogies. Here, we resolve the first Y chromosome genealogy of modern horses by screening 1.46 Mb of the male-specific region of the Y chromosome (MSY) in 52 horses from 21 breeds. Based on highly accurate pedigree data, we estimated the de novo mutation rate of the horse MSY and showed that various modern horse Y chromosome lineages split much later than the domestication of the species. Apart from few private northern European haplotypes, all modern horse breeds clustered together in a roughly 700-year-old haplogroup that was transmitted to Europe by the import of Oriental stallions. The Oriental horse group consisted of two major subclades: the Original Arabian lineage and the Turkoman horse lineage. We show that the English Thoroughbred MSY was derived from the Turkoman lineage and that English Thoroughbred sires are largely responsible for the predominance of this haplotype in modern horses."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOiXcCdcFXk

The Arima Kinen is a Grade I flat horse race in Japan open to Thoroughbreds three-years-old and above and the world's largest betting horserace. It is run on the fourth Sunday of December each year, over a distance of 2,500 metres (approximately 1 mile and 4+1⁄2 furlongs) at Nakayama Racecourse.
It is one of the two "All-Star" races in Japanese horse racing; the other is the Takarazuka Kinen in late June

Interesting to See that Despite Northern Dancer Appearing in 97% of all Black type Winners (more impactful mathematically than All English Derby Winners at Stud Added together) it is his Cousin Halo for this one

For those Buying off Gavelhouse Recently

Quick look back at New Zealand's Winningest 3 Horses, Gloaming 57wins Family 34, Grey Way 51Wins; Family 2-d and Black Duke 47 Wins; Family 2-c

The Fastest Horses of the Sahara were the Haymour and they looked a bit like a Zebra

Some more predetermination, this time from the Bedouins.