Stonestreet Stables' Cavorting definitely has a taste for Saratoga. The winner of last year's Adirondack Handicap at the Spa, Cavorting is now 2-for-2 at Saratoga after scoring a well-deserved Grade I win in the Longines Test Stakes.

A daughter of 2006 American champion 3-year-old male Bernardini, Cavorting comes from a family that just seems to keep coming up with good horses. Her fifth dam is the Court Martial mare Goofed, who in spite of her name made few mistakes as a racer or broodmare. Winner of the 1963 Ladies Handicap and New York Handicap during her racing days, Goofed produced the top miler and great sire Lyphard to the cover of Northern Dancer. She also produced Nobiliary (by Vaguely Noble), a winner at the highest level on both sides of the Atlantic, and multiple Grade II winner Barcas (by Sailor), proving that she wasn't dependent on any one sire or sire line for broodmare success.

Dumfries, Goofed's daughter by Reviewer, failed to win and produced no stakes winners, but her daughter Dance Review (by Northern Dancer) made up for it by producing 1989 Santa Barbara Handicap (USA-I) winner No Review (by Nodouble; dam of listed stakes winner Smashing Review, by Pleasant Tap), 1992 Californian Stakes (USA-I) winner Another Review (by Buckaroo) and multiple Grade II winner Dance Colony (by Pleasant Colony). Another daughter of Dumfries, Dumfries Pleasure, is the dam of multiple Grade I winner Urbane (by Citidancer; dam of multiple Grade II winner Suave and listed stakes winner Worldly to covers by A.P. Indy).

Promenade Colony, a winning full sister to Dance Colony, kept things rolling for Dumfries' branch of the family by producing 2006 Molly Pitcher Breeders' Cup Handicap (USA-II) winner Promenade Girl, a daughter of the good sprinter and sire Carson City, and restricted stakes winner Datts Awesome (by Awesome Again). Promenade Girl, in turn, produced Cavorting as her third foal.

Cavorting almost certainly owes a good bit of her sprinting speed to Carson City, but her genetic background is a nice mix of speed and stamina elements that should stand her in good stead when she retires to the broodmare ranks. In the meantime, it will be interesting to see where she pops up next. The Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (USA-I), anyone?

Aidan O'Brien's powerful racing stable has another Group I winner in Air Force Blue, who powered his way into strong consideration for next year's European mile Classics with a good score in the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes (IRE-I). The War Front colt also brings the family of Cinegita back into the spotlight, though this is a family that has been more active on both sides of the Atlantic than many might realize.

A daughter of Secretariat and the Sadair mare Wanika, Cinegita took after her speedy broodmare sire in performance, winning the 7-furlong Railbird Stakes (USA-III) as a 3-year-old in 1980. Her best racing daughter, Storm Star (by Storm Bird), was fairly similar in proclivities but more precocious, winning the 1985 Pritchard Services Cherry Hinton Stakes (ENG-III) and placing against colts in the Gimcrack Stakes (ENG-II). Cinegita also produced the impossibly named Mr. Prospector mare Syourinomegami, a multiple Japanese stakes winner, and her Grade III-placed full brother Choctaw Ridge, a champion sire in Brazil.

Storm Star became a successful broodmare, producing 1991 Best Turn Stakes (USA-III) winner Dodge (by Mr. Prospector) and multiple listed stakes winner Captain Starbuck (by Cure the Blues), but her full sister Starlet Storm (unbeaten in two starts but not a stakes winner) did still better, producing the brilliant Flanders (by Seeking the Gold), the American champion 2-year-old filly of 1994. After capping her juvenile season with a dead-game victory over future champion Serena's Song (whose family had its own weekend triumph thanks to Honor Code's win in the Whitney Stakes, USA-I), Flanders was forced into retirement by injury but went on to produce 2000 American champion 3-year-old filly Surfside (by A.P. Indy) and 2010 New Orleans Handicap (USA-II) winner Battle Plan (by Empire Maker). Surfside is the dam of 2014 Cougar II Handicap (USA-IIIA) winner Irish Surf (by Giant's Causeway) and the second dam of 2014 Prix d'Arenberg (FR-III) winner High Celebrity, and Flanders is also the second dam of 2013 Marjorie L. Everett Handicap (USA-IIA) winner Open Water (Include---Biscayne Bay, by A.P. Indy).

Starlet Storm's other foals include Engaging (by Private Account), dam of 2007 Louisville Breeders' Cup Stakes (USA-II) winner Fiery Pursuit (by Carson City) and stakes winner Stage Trick (by Distorted Humor), and Circle of Gold, a full sister to Flanders. Circle of Gold never made it to the races and failed to produce any stakes winners, but her listed stakes-placed daughter Chatham (by Maria's Mon) has made up for her dam's failings with Air Force Blue, her fifth foal. Circle of Gold is also the second dam of 2015 stakes winner Miss Double d'Oro (Medaglia d'Oro---Lost Gold, by Dynaformer).

Returning to Cinegita, she has two other daughters worth mentioning: Western League (by Gone West), dam of multiple Grade II winner My Boston Gal (by Boston Harbor) and third dam of 2014 Eddie D. Stakes (USA-IIIT) winner Home Run Kitten, and Illustrated (by Deputy Minister), second dam of 2013 Gran Premio Nacional Augusto B. Leguia (PER-I) winner Overbrook (Flanders Fields---Mar Brava, by Cat Thief). Given the number of well-bred granddaughters and great-granddaughters of Cinegita out there, it looks as though it's only a matter of time before this family comes up with some more good ones.

This Belmont Stakes winner was one of the best 3-year-olds of his year and a full brother to a champion, yet ended his career by running seventh in a $600 claiming race at Beulah Park. Name him.

Neither his sire Sunreigh nor his dam Contessina could win, but 1928 American Horse of the Year Reigh Count more than made up for it. Sent to England in 1929, he won the Coronation Cup and was second to two-time Ascot Gold Cup winner Invershin in the Gold Cup, then England's most important race for older horses. Thoroughbred history would read very differently without Reigh Count, for he sired the great Count Fleet, an influential sire and broodmare sire.