A multiple grade one winner of $4,563,500, Behrens is the leading money earning representative of the Ribot sire line. A remarkably sound, tough and durable runner, Behrens is by Champion Pleasant Colony, out of the speedy multiple graded stakes winning filly, Hot Novel.
Behrens has one strain of Northern Dancer, but this will be in the fifth generation of his foals, and he should be eminently suited by Northern Dancer line mares. Branches of the Northern Dancer male line which particularly appeal include Nijinsky II, his three-parts-brother The Minstrel, and their relative Storm Bird; Danzig; Dixieland Band; Deputy Minister; Nureyev; Topsider; and Sovereign Dancer.
Behrens is a complete outcross for mares descending from Mr. Prospector and his sire Raise a Native. Among the strains of Mr. Prospector which might work well here are Seeking the Gold, Woodman, Miswaki, Forty Niner, Crafty Prospector, Gulch, Kingmambo and Fappiano.
Behrens should do well with mares carrying Prince John. Sources of this strain include Stage Door Johnny, Silent Screen, and Speak John and his descendents Verbatim, Summing, Hold Your Peace, and Meadowlake.
There are also some female strains in Behren's pedigree which are particularly worth reinforcing. He a grandson of His Majesty, who is himself out of the outstanding mare, Flower Bowl. Flower Bowl is also dam of His Majesty's brother Graustark, and the brothers are both genetic relative to Majestic Light. Behren's broodmare sire, Mari's Book, is inbred to Almahmoud, and this invites Almahmoud's grandsons, Halo and Cannonade.
Behren's female line has a strong background of the La Troienne family, and he should be well suited by further strains of the War Admiral/La Troienne cross which appears in Striking, Busher, Searching, Mr. Busher and Blue Eyed Momo.
