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His great-grandsons Empire Maker, Eddington and PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Afleet Alex were respectively responsible for Royal BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Delta, Secret Circle and Afleet Again. Sadler=s Wells owed his three Group 1 successes to BREEDERS' CUP JUVENILE FILLIES TURF-GII, his sons High Chaparral (Wrote), Montjeu (St Nicholas $909,000, CDX, 11-4, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:38 4/5, gd. Abbey) and Perfect Soul (Perfect Shirl), with Kitten=s 1--STEPHANIE'S KITTEN, 122, f, 2, by Kitten's Joy Joy landing a blow for the grandsons. It was Kitten=s 1st Dam: Unfold the Rose, by Catienus Joy=s daughters Stephanie=s Kitten and Sweet Cat who 2nd Dam: Bail Out Becky, by Red Ransom filled first and third places in the GII Breeders= Cup 3rd Dam: Becky Be Good, by Naskra Juvenile Fillies Turf. ($30,000 RNA yrl '10 KEESEP; $17,000 RNA 2yo However, it was the line which stole the >11 OBSAPR). O/B-Kenneth & Sarah Ramsey (KY); show when it came to the broodmare sires of Friday T-W M Catalano; J-J R Velazquez; $540,000. and Saturday=s top winners. Although the nearest that Lifetime Record: GISW, 5-3-0-2, $817,526. Click for the Storm Cat=s daughters came to a victory was with the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Juvenile Sprint runner-up Shumoos and the rather Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r unlucky Filly and Mare Turf third , his sons the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, enjoyed a tremendous time in the role of broodmare sponsored by Taylor Made. sire. The Storm Cat male line struck out at a Breeders= Cup First off the mark was Catienus, thanks to dominated by the male lines descending from Mr. Stephanie=s Kitten, and he was followed eighty minutes Prospector and Sadler=s Wells. later by Sea of Secrets, sire of the dam of the unbeaten Mr. Prospector scored via his sons Gulch (Court . Friday=s final event, the Ladies= Vision) and (My Miss Aurelia), but time is Classic, saw It=s Tricky, a daughter of a Tale of the Cat moving on and he owed a sizeable part of his success mare, take the lead entering the final eighth, but Royal to his grandsons and great-grandsons. The in-form Delta swept past to prevent her completing a significant grandsons were =s sire Distorted Humor hat trick for Storm Cat=s broodmare grand-daughters. and Amazombie=s sire Northern Afleet. Cont. p19

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Caulfield cont. The boundary for Ramsey Farm seems to go on and However, that hat trick was completed a day later, on and, according to the farm=s website, it currently thanks to Sir Cat. He sired the dam of the very game covers 1,215 acres. Hansen, who helped grand-daughters of Storm Cat The Ramseys have every reason to be delighted with complete a notable double in the Grey Goose-sponsored the return on their investment. Stephanie=s Kitten is by Juvenile dirt contests. For good their homebred stallion Kitten=s Joy, measure, Storm Cat=s sire who provided the Ramseys with also got into the act, as it was one of considerable excitement, plus his daughters who produced the Mile earnings in excess of $2 million, in winner Court Vision. developing into a champion turf Of course, Storm Cat=s impact on performer. It was only the the Breeders= Cup had already been unconsidered Better Talk Now who considerable. His progeny have done denied Kitten=s Joy victory in the so well that the Overbrook champion 2004 Breeders= Cup Turf. holds top place on the table of leading The Ramseys also raced the filly=s Breeders= Cup sires by money won, broodmare sire, Catienus, after thanks largely to Desert Stormer, Cat buying him from Sheikh Mohammed, Thief, , Sweet and they have stood this son of Catomine and . By Storm Cat in Kentucky and New contrast, only three of his sons have York. Kitten=s Joy=s dam Kitten=s First Stephanie’s Kitten managed to sire a Breeders= Cup was mated to Catienus when Kitten s Horsephotos = winner, namely Joy was just a yearling and the (Sprint winner Dancing in Silks), Giant=s Causeway mating resulted in Precious Kitten. This high-class turf (Marathon winner Man of Iron) and Hennessy (the performer achieved three Grade I victories and no doubt remarkable Juvenile scorer ). sowed the seeds for the idea of sending a daughter of Judging by this year=s Cup, perhaps it is going to be Catienus to Kitten=s Joy, to produce Stephanie=s Kitten. Storm Cat=s female descendants which are going to exert the greater long-term influence. One interesting aspect of the treble by Storm Cat=s STEPHANIE=S KITTEN grand-daughters is that none of them was sired by a Sadler’s Wells Grade I winner. Sea of Secrets, sire of My Miss Fairy Bridge (Ire) Aurelia=s dam, won the GII San Vicente S.; Sir Cat, the Lady Capulet broodmare sire of Hansen, numbered a pair of Grade IIs Cap and Bells Kitten’s Joy among his five graded victories; and Catienus, the sire Lear Fan of Stephanie=s Kitten=s dam, didn=t even manage a Wac Kitten’s First graded success (though that seemingly damning fact L’Enjouleur That’s My Hon tells nothing like the whole story, as he was Grade I One Lane placed and was once beaten only half a length at the Storm Bird Grade II level). Catienus and Sea of Secrets share the Storm Cat Catienus Terlingua distinction of being products of Storm Cat=s very fruitful Mr. Prospector partnership with Mr. Prospector mares, which yielded Unfold the Rose Diamond City unraced Honey’s Flag 13 graded winners. Roberto 3Fls, 1GISW Red Ransom Anyone who has driven the road between Lexington Bail Out Becky Arabia and Harrodsburg will appreciate the size of the GISW 11Fls, 1SP Becky Be Good Naskra investment that Ken and Sarah Ramsey have made in 13Fls, 1GISW Good Landing their breeding and racing venture. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/8/11 • PAGE 20 of 24 • thoroughbreddailynews.com

Insights cont. The efforts of these graded performers have helped earn Kitten=s Joy seventh place on the general sire=s list This filly ranks alongside Banned, , --one place above El Prado=s other notable stallion son Derby Kitten and Holiday For Kitten as one of five 2011 Medaglia d=Oro--and he also ranks second among the graded winners by Kitten=s Joy, who also has such able turf sires, with 59 per cent of his earnings coming on graded performers as Celestial Kitten, Coalport, Cozy the grass. Kitten=s Joy is also easily the leading Kitten, Dean=s Kitten, Kitten=s Kid, Queensplatekitten, third-crop sire by 2011 earnings. Suntracer and Sweet Cat representing him this year. All Stephanie=s Kitten=s dam Unfold The Rose never bar Sweet Cat and Suntracer were bred by the raced, but she has the distinction of having a Grade I- Ramseys, who still own quite a lot of them. Talk about winning dam in Bail Out Becky. This winner of the Del making a stallion! Mar Oaks was sired by Red Ransom. As Kitten=s Joy=s " " " dam Kitten=s First was by Lear Fan, Stephanie=s Kitten is inbred 4x4 to Roberto, as well as 4x5 to Northern Dancer. No wonder she is shining on turf, having also won the GI on all-weather. It is well worth adding that Holiday For Kitten is inbred 3x3 to Lear Fan, whereas Big Blue Kitten and Suntracer are others inbred 4x4 to Roberto. This is clearly a strategy worthy of further exploration. Bail Out Becky, in turn, was a half-sister to the dam of More Than Ready, who has enjoyed Breeders= Cup success on turf with Pluck, More Than Real and Regally Ready. This is also the family of the Grade I dirt winners Seldom Seen Sue, Cutlass Reality and Ten Most Wanted, so it will be interesting to see how Stephanie=s Kitten fares if and when she is tried on the main track.