Although yearling buyers are forever in search of high-quality individuals by stallions they believe to be sires of sires, success in the breeding shed is never guaranteed, and sire lines often take unpredictable twists and turns on the road to immortality. French champion, classic winner, and leading sire Caro was just as successful in the U.S. after his importation to Spendthrift Farm in 1977, siring champions Winning Colors, With Approval, and Cozzene to add to his six European champions. Cozzene led the U.S. sire list in 1996, but though there are remnants of Caro’s sire line hanging on in France through Kaldoun and in South America through With Approval, it appeared certain to eventually die out until the emergence of his fourth-generation descendant Uncle Mo (by Indian Charlie, by In Excess, by Siberian Express, by Caro) as the leading freshman sire of 2015. Uncle Mo has more than validated that fast start with subsequent crops, raising his total to 44 black-type winners with two more new stakes winners over the weekend. But Uncle Mo was not the only son of Indian Charlie to make noise. His paternal half-brother Adios Charlie gained his second graded stakes winner when his son Patternrecognition captured the Grade 2 Kelso Stakes at Belmont Park. :: DRF BREEDING LIVE: Real-time coverage of breeding and sales Like too many of our current stars, Adios Charlie was a very good racehorse for a very short time. Bred in Florida by J.D. and Phyllis Bryant’s Brylynn Farm, he is the only stakes winner out of the Bryants’ homebred Aspidistra Stakes winner Teak Totem, by Northern Afleet, a full sister to Grade 1 winner Teaks North and a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Wooden Phone, by Pick up the Phone. Eisaman Equine purchased Adios Charlie for $75,000 at the 2009 Keeneland September yearling sale, and resold him for $400,000 to Robert Sahn and agent Stanley Hough at the 2010 OBS March sale. Adios Charlie showed promise in his only start at 2, running a length second to Economic Summit in a seven-furlong maiden at Belmont Park in October 2010, and won his first start at 3 with an easy six-length romp in a 6 ½-furlong maiden race at Gulfstream Park for trainer Hough. Shipped to Aqueduct for the Grade 2 Jerome, he outran Grade 3 winner Astrology by 2 ½ lengths to win, with Grade 1 winner Justin Phillip third. Adios Charlie ran well again a month later, just failing by a head to hold off the closing charge of another emerging sire, Alternation, in the Grade 2 Peter Pan. A month after that, he chased Dominus throughout the Grade 2 Dwyer, finishing second again, 1 ¾ lengths behind. Given a five-month break, Adios Charlie returned in December with an easy win in a mile allowance race at Gulfstream Park, then finished fifth as the favorite behind Mucho Macho Man in the Sunshine Millions Classic. And that was it. Adios Charlie was retired immediately to Ocala Stud at a fee of $3,500. His credentials were plenty good enough for a Florida sire, but he was never going to attract many mares after his late retirement, and sired only 23 foals from his first crop in 2013. Patternrecognition is the second black-type winner from those 23 foals, following 2016 restricted stakes winner R Luckey Charlie (out of Thatswhatshesaid, by Lion Heart). Shane’s Girlfriend (Western Tornado, by Proud Citizen), from his second crop, became his first graded winner when she captured the Grade 3 Delta Princess in 2016 and added the Grade 3 Iowa Oaks last year. Patternrecognition, who was bred in Florida by Ocala Stud, is Adios Charlie’s sixth black-type winner from 122 foals age 3 and up, a better strike rate than many more highly hyped young sires. Patternrecognition is the first foal and second stakes winner out of the winning High Cotton mare Almost a Valentine, whose third foal, Florida Fuego, by Kantharos, has won the Liza Jane Stakes and Sophomore Fillies Stakes this year. Patternrecognition’s 2-year-old full sister Lovesick won her first start on Aug. 19 at Gulfstream Park, and Almost a Valentine has yearling and weanling colts by The Big Beast and was bred back to Uncaptured. Patternrecognition is from a female family that has been threatening to produce a really good horse for several recent generations and succeeded last year when Battle of Midway, by Smart Strike out of Almost a Valentine’s stakes winning half-sister Rigoletta, by Concerto, won the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. Patternrecognition’s second dam Almost Aprom Queen, by another Ocala Stud stalwart, Montbrook, is a half-sister to two stakes winners, and the family traces to Good Example, second dam of the great sire Exclusive Native and third dam of another great sire Deputy Minister. Like Adios Charlie, Patternrecognition was an expensive 2-year-old, attracting a $420,000 bid from L R K at the 2015 OBS April sale, and he races for Klaravich Stable and William H. Lawrence and trainer Chad Brown.