Sentence examples for modest pedigree from inspiring English sources
A New York-bred gelding with a modest pedigree, he had captured only one of his last six races, an allowance, since winning the Preakness.
It lost Wednesday by a single goal against Odense, a team with plenty of determination but limited skill and a modest pedigree.
The best guess is that even with his modest pedigree (by Boundary out of Mien) and short career, Big Brown will command $125,000 to $150,000 for the first two years, maybe more.
Despite his modest pedigree, California Chrome proved yet another point: racehorse owners don't have to invest big to win big.
NEW ORLEANS — While Sunday's Super Bowl will feature two quarterbacks from colleges with relatively unheralded football programs, it would be incorrect to say that either Baltimore's Joe Flacco, who went to Delaware, or San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick, who played at Nevada-Reno, have the most modest college pedigree in the game.
They had pretty modest antecedents, in both pedigree and performance.
However, multivariate genetic analyses of data from natural populations are challenging because of modest sample sizes, incomplete pedigrees, and missing data.
"It's because there's no pedigree there," Tortorella said of Girardi's modest reputation.
That the place actually has a singular Protestant pedigree is not much discussed, in keeping with the reticent style of a modest village on a hill.
Big Brown does not have a particularly fashionable pedigree: his sire, Boundary, stood for $10,000 for 11 seasons before being pensioned, and he produced a modest 16 stakes winners, mostly sprinters.
