Pedigree

|   |   |   POPLAR LANES SAMSON - I 00334    

|   |   |   |[00/00/1970:S:SSR:DC:31.000]

|   |   BOONES LITTLE BUCKEROO - A 03047

|   |   |[05/22/1978:S:SBS:BD:30.500]

|   |   |   |   |   LIGHTNING BUG -UNREG

|   |   |   |   GOLD MELODY BOY - I01031B 

|   |   |   |   |[06/10/1962:S:SPA:DC:33.000]

|   |   |   |   |   GINNS MELODY -UNREG

|   |   |   JOHNSTONS VANILLA - R01827P

|   |   |   |[06/23/1975:M:SPA:34.000]

|   |   |   |   |   MERRYS GOLDEN MOHAWK -UNREG

|   |   |   |   VANILLA 3RD - I 00093B

|   |   |   |   |[04/20/1971:M:SPA:33.500]

|   BOONES LITTLE BUCKEROO 2ND - IT03129    

|   |[02/11/1983:S:DBS:BD:31.500]

|   |   SHERIDALES QUARTER PINT - R00541P

|   |   |[00/00/1965:M:SCS:34.000]

WINNERS CIRCLE BZ BELLAGIO - A 103865   

|[04/29/1999 : S : SBS : DN : -  : 32.000]

|   |   |   POPLAR LANES SAMSON - I 00334

|   |   |   |[00/00/1970:S:SSR:DC:31.000]

|   |   BOONES LITTLE BUCKEROO - A 03047 

|   |   |[05/22/1978:S:SBS:BD:30.500]

|   |   |   |   |   LIGHTNING BUG -UNREG

|   |   |   |   GOLD MELODY BOY - I01031B

|   |   |   |   |[06/10/1962:S:SPA:DC:33.000]

|   |   |   |   |   GINNS MELODY -UNREG

|   |   |   JOHNSTONS VANILLA - R01827P

|   |   |   |[06/23/1975:M:SPA:34.000]

|   |   |   |   |   MERRYS GOLDEN MOHAWK -UNREG

|   |   |   |   VANILLA 3RD - I 00093B

|   |   |   |   |[04/20/1971:M:SPA:33.500]

|   SPICE OF LIFE SAFFRON - A 06425    

|   |[05/15/1983:M:SGL:DN:33.500]

|   |   BOONES LITTLE SUZZIE - I00704B

|   |   |[06/00/1975:M:SGL:DC:34.000]

I guess you could say Bellagio is an M&MS Farms "reference sire by default".

When we purchased Winners' Circle Prima Donna from Winners' Circle Ranch, Prima was reported in foal to one of our most favorite stallions of all time: Winners' Circle Adonis.  Prima delivered her son.  And we proceeded to register the foal, complete with DNA Parentage certification, of course.  Nothing special here.  We take that step with virtually all babies born at M&MS Farms.  But... that's where "routine" ended.

The AMHA Registry Department called to tell me  Adonis was definitely not the colt's sire.  With Registry staff and Barb Norman's help, we solved the "who's my daddy" mystery.

Prima's very first foal is the son of Winners' Circle BZ Bellagio (by Boone's Little Buckeroo 2nd X Spice Of Life Saffron).  Obviously, somehow/someway, Prima sneaked her own "visitations" with Bellagio, while she was being hand bred to Adonis!

Be it by default or not, M&MS Farms is fortunate to have one of Bellagio's two American born get, and his only American born son.  That special colt is MMS Prima BZ Deal Me In. 

Winners Circle BZ Bellagio now lives in Switzerland.