breeders’ cup mentioned Awesome Again, as well as champion two-year-old colt Macho Uno. Some stamina comes into the pedigree through Authentic’s unraced second dam, a daughter of Wild Again. He was successful in a tumultuous finish to the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Classic. Authentic’s third dam Really Fancy, a daughter of In Reality, won
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the Anoakia Stakes (G3) at two. She was dam of three minor stakes-placed horses, but through her daughter Dixie Holiday is ancestress of the Golden Shaheen (G1) winner Reynaldothewizard (by the Gone West son, Speightstown, so bred similarly to Flawless), of the Go For Wand Handicap (G1) and Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) winner Seventh Street and to American Gal,
successful in the Distaff Stakes (G1) and Test Stakes (G1). Authentic’s fourth dam Native Fancy won the Hollywood Lassie Stakes (G2). She might be familiar to Europeans as third dam of Undrafted, who travelled from the US to win the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1). Going right back, the family arrived in the US from England in the early 1880s, and
