The Pedigree of a Champion'
Little Current, the Preakness and Belmont winner and 1974's champion 3-year-old, 
unquestionably has the 
pedigree of a champion. A son of outstanding European stakes performer, the late 
Sea-Bird, he was 
produced by Luiana, an unraced half-sister, by the 2, 000 Guineas winner and 
classic sire, My Babu, to two 
national champions— the 1962 handicap filly or mare, Primonetta, and the 1963 3-
year-old leader 
Chateaugay.
This distaff family has played a significant role in American racing in 1974. 
Primonetta, for example, is 
dam of Maud Muller, one of the season's finest 3-year-old fillies, and 
Chateaugay, who is now standing in 
Japan, is sire of True Knight, one of the year's best
handicap stars, and Infuriator, a major stakes winner in New York.  '.
Sea-Bird, who lost but once—and then narrowly—in eight lifetime starts, included 
the Epsom Derby and 
Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe among his conquests. By Dan Cupid, an American-bred 
son of Native Dancer, 
he was produced by Sicalade, a daughter of   
the marvelous French sire Sicambre, a classic winner and classic sire who gained 
chef-de-race status and 
ranks with Ribot among modern-day classic sires. Dan Cupid placed in the French 
Derby.
At stud, Sea-Bird sired such U. S. stars as Gold Standard, Sea Songster, 
Kittiwake, Shearwater, Dubassoff, 
Sea Sister, Sea Saga, Rudo Bird and Strider, but his finest performers probably 
raced in Europe. These in-, 
elude that practically faultless filly Allez France, who has beaten Dahlia 
repeatedly, captured the Prix de 
1'Arc de Triomphe this season and has been a consumate champion in France for 
three straight years. Sea-
Bird also; sired the classic-placed Byr (French Derby) and Great Heron (Irish 2, 
000 Guineas).
Banquet Bell, dam of Luiana, Chateaugay and Primonetta, was a winner of modest, 
restricted stakes. By 
chef-de-race Polynesian, she belongs to a female family which has also been 
responsible for Athene, the 
San Juan Capistrano winner by Zeus, and War Plumage, a Coaching Club American 
Oaks victor. Athene is 
the distaff ancestress of the 1974 SW Timeless Moment and War Plumage's dam, War 
Feathers, is 
ancestress of the 1974 SW North Broadway.
Little Current is inbred, 4x3, to Polynesian, sire of Little Current's 
grandsire, Native Dancer, and of Ban-
quet Bell, Little Current's second dam.
The 3-year-old champion has a dosage diagram of: 6-9-10-23-5. His classic middle 
aptitudinal group is his 
second strongest and his right wing, the stamina wing, is much stronger than his 
left wing, the speed wing.