Crop Analysis Summary
Crop Count	Foals	Runners	Winners	Stakes Winners	Graded Stakes Winners

4 5 6 7 8 9 A multiple graded stakes winning two-year-old and graded stakes winning three-year-old, THE CLIFF'S EDGE is bred on the same Gulch/Northern Dancer cross as Champion, classic winner and Champion Sire, Thunder Gulch. This is also a version of the Mr. Prospector/Northern Dancer cross which has also produced Distorted Humor and Fusaichi Pegasus (both, like THE CLIFF'S EDGE, out of Danzig mares), as well as Kingmambo, Elusive Quality, Grand Slam, End Sweep, Smoke Glacken and Victory Gallop. Stallions bred on this pattern have done very well when bred back over Northern Dancer line mares. Northern Dancer lines which have done particularly well under Gulch include Storm Bird (sire of Storm Cat, who should work particularly well here, and of Summer Squall), Lyphard, Nureyev and Nijinsky II. Inbreeding to the broodmare sire of a stallion is another pattern which can pay dividends, and it could well be worth considering breeding THE CLIFF'S EDGE to mares by sons of his own maternal grandsire, Danzig. Gulch and Danzig have both enjoyed success with mares descending from Ribot, with Gulch working over mares from the Graustark, His Majesty and Tom Rolfe branches of the Ribot sire line. Gulch and his sons have four stakes winners, two graded, out of mares from the Blushing Groom line, and this is another strain which has combined successfully with Danzig. Mt. Livermore particularly appeals. Another strain which appeals here from the standpoint of both Gulch and Danzig is that of Roberto, the broodmare sire of CCA Oaks winner Tweedside by a son of Gulch. Thunder Gulch's outstanding son, Point Given, was inbred to Gulch's grandsire, Raise a Native, with the second strain coming via Turkoman, a son of Mr. Prospector's genetic relative, Alydar, and Alydar looks a very good strain to try here. RECOMMENDED BROODMARE SIRE LINES ALYDAR MT. LIVERMORE STORM BIRD BLUSHING GROOM NIJINSKY II STORM CAT DANZIG NORTHERN DANCER SUMMER SQUALL GRAUSTARK NUREYEV TOM ROLFE HIS MAJESTY RIBOT LYPHARD ROBERTO