Queen's Plate 2021 pedigree profile: Haddassah

Haddassah

Air Force Blue – Lady Haddassah, by Whywhywhy

Bred in Ontario by Al and Bill Ulwelling

The Canadian Triple Crown demands versatility, with 3-year-olds running on synthetic, dirt, and turf during the series. Haddassah, one of the favorites on Daily Racing Form’s Queen’s Plate Watch, brings a versatile pedigree to the start of the series. He is by a young stallion from a versatile sireline, and his dam also did solid work on multiple surfaces.

Haddassah is from the first crop of Air Force Blue, a European champion juvenile who never raced on dirt and who is already the sire of turf stakes winners Chief Little Hawk and Fighting Force. Air Force Blue also has produced multiple winners on the dirt, including stakes-placed Twilight Blue.

Air Force Blue is by the versatile sire War Front, whose first American classic winner, 2019 Preakness Stakes victor War of Will, also was a Grade 1 winner on turf.

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Haddassah is out of the Florida-bred Whywhywhy mare Lady Haddassah, who was stakes-placed in mile events on both dirt and turf. She is the dam of three winners from as many starters.

This is the extended family of the speedy Star of Goshen, who won the La Troienne Stakes – now a Grade 1 event – prior to its grading. She went on to produce multiple Grade 1 winner and classic sire Pioneerof the Nile.