19-3 - ? - ?
2nd: Punchestown Military Steeplechase
Taproot Mare Family 14-b
A great broodmare, she bred 13 foals in 13 years, 9 being winners
Ancestress of a host of top class winners, the best being her daughter the great Pretty Polly (22 wins from 24 starts including 1904 1000 Guineas, Oaks and St Leger, Taproot Mare Family 14-c, ancestress of the magnificent Brigadier Gerard (winner of 17 of 18 career starts), of Neartic (sire of the great prepotent stallion Northern Dancer), and of many classic winners
In addition to her descendants via Pretty Polly, the best horses which descend from Admiration include Why Hurry (1943 Oaks), Tehran (1944 St Leger, 1952 Champion Sire),
Toro (1957 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches), Mincio (1960 Poule d'Essai des Poulains), Mistigo (1968 Irish 2000 Guineas), Hard to Beat (1972 Prix du Jockey Club), Foolish Pleasure (1975 Kentucky Derby), Mrs. McArdy (1977 1000 Guineas), Dancing Maid (1978 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches) and many other wor