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Aus.Id.: 449827
Dam of Precipitation. Highly influential sire of both sport and race horses.
Also Dam of Persian Gulf & Doubleton.
Double Life, the foundation mare of one of Britains most famous studs, Someries Stud near Newmarket. Double Life was a wiry, insignificant looking, washy chestnut with a plain head, and she never measured more than 15.3 hands. She was a good racehorse, an even better broodmare. She had eight foals, the second of which was the chestnut colt, Precipitation, born in 1933. Precipitations sire, Hurry On, was coming to the end of his life, but in the 1920s he had sired three English Derby winners. Precipitation won seven races for 18,419 in stakes. At stud, he was a huge success as a sire of racehorses but more importantly for our story, several of his sons became enormously influential performance horse sires.
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