PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Victor in the GI Toyota Blue by ANDREW CAULFIELD Grass S
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Andrew Caulfield, April 13, 2010-Stately Victor Then, two days later, the shock success of Stately PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Victor in the GI Toyota Blue BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Grass S. provided a landmark first graded victory for 2004 TOYOTA BLUE GRASS S.-GI, $750,000, KEE, 4-10, Horse of the Year Ghostzapper. 3yo, 1 1/8m (AWT), 1:48 3/5, ft. For good measure, it was a 1--#@sSTATELY VICTOR, 123, c, 3, by Ghostzapper former Adena Springs stallion, El 1st Dam: Collect the Cash (GISW, $430,960), by Dynaformer Prado, who was responsible for 2nd Dam: Worldly Possession, by Valid Appeal Dr. Zic EquiSport the Blue Grass runner-up, Paddy 3rd Dam: Cricket Club, by Dr. Fager O=Prado. ($110,000 RNA yrl '08 KEESEP; $250,000 2yo >09 ADNMAR). O-F Thomas & Jack Conway; B-Adena Vice Regent Deputy Minister Springs (KY); T-Michael J Maker; J-Alan Garcia; Mint Copy Awesome Again $450,000. Lifetime Record: 8-2-1-0, $493,213. Blushing Groom Primal Force *First black-type winner for sophomore sire (by Prime Prospect Ghostzapper In Reality Awesome Again). Werk Nick Rating: A. Relaunch Foggy Note Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the Baby Zip Tri Jet brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com Thirty Zip catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Sailaway Hail to Reason Roberto Bramalea Even though Adena Springs has a formidably Dynaformer Collect the Cash His Majesty impressive history, including five consecutive breeders= Andover Way GISW, 15-5-3-1, On the Trail Eclipse Awards, last week=s happenings at Keeneland $430,960 In Reality must still have been very satisfying for the Stronach 6Fls, 1GSW, Worldly Possession Valid Appeal organisation. Thursday saw the GI Vinery Madison S. 1SP MSW, 18-5-8-2 Desert Trial fall to Dr. Zic, who became the first Grade I winner for 4Fls, 1GSW Cricket Club Dr. Fager 1SP Milwaukee Brew, who is now based in Canada for the 15Fls, 1GSW, 3SW Clover Lane Adena Springs/Gardiner Farms partnership. www.coolmore.com (Pedigree Insights cont.) Dominican, who got the better of Street Sense by a I am probably guilty of British understatement when I nose in 2007, could finish only 11th behind his old rival say that Ghostzapper needed this Grade I win. Having in the Derby; Monba, the 2008 winner, trailed in last; started out at $200,000 in 2006, his fee had fallen to and General Quarters, the 2009 hero, could do no $125,000 by 2009, when his book declined to 84 better than 10th. mares, and it was then slashed to $50,000 for this Collect the Cash was conceived when Dynaformer=s year, after his second-crop yearlings averaged just fee was $17,500, but that didn=t stop her earning more under $73,000 (off a $150,000 fee). than $430,000. Although she won one of her five Clearly Ghostzapper hasn=t been fast out of the gate starts on dirt, she was much more successful on turf. as a stallion, but was it fair to expect him to be Collect the Cash=s second dam, the good broodmare matching strides in the early stages with some of his Cricket Club, was by Dr. Fager, a horse whose record in more precocious some ways resembled Ghostzapper=s. Both were fast contemporaries? Even enough to win the Vosburgh, while possessing enough though he was pretty stamina to win over a mile and a quarter at the top spectacular on his debut at level. Hollywood Park in November Dynaformer has shown an affinity for mares with Dr. of his juvenile season, he Fager blood, siring five graded winners from them. He disappointed next time and sired his first graded winner, Rabiadella, from a Dr. wasn=t asked to race again Fager mare, plus the Kentucky Derby third Blumin Affair for another six months. Nor and the dual Grade I winner Critical Eye from mares by was he asked to tackle Dr. Fager=s son Dr. Blum. Stately Victor EquiSport stakes company until the Stately Victor is the fourth Grade I winner so far out end of August. He finally of a daughter of Dynaformer. This figure is likely to rise became a stakes winner a month later, when he significantly in years to come, as Dynaformer=s fee was trounced the opposition in the no higher than $30,000 prior to 2002. His first GI Vosburgh S. Even that impressive victory wasn=t daughters sired at fees of $50,000 or more weren=t enough to persuade Bobby Frankel to subject him to the born until 2003, so the eldest progeny of these mares white-hot competition of the GI Breeders= Cup Sprint at with deeper pedigrees are only just approaching racing that stage of his career. age. They should be well worth keeping an eye on. This patient approach paid off handsomely. Having As Stately Victor has yet to win on the main track received an International Classification of 116 for his (and disappointed on a previous visit to Churchill), he three-year-old efforts, Ghostzapper topped the still has plenty to prove. One thing in his favour is that following year=s World Rankings with a figure of 130, the extra distance in the Derby is unlikely to worry him. earned with a perfect record of four wins from four He was staying on in fine style at the end of the Blue starts. Even though we saw him only once at the age Grass and he is out of a Dynaformer mare, Collect the of five, his victory in the GI Metropolitan H. was good Cash, who gained her finest victory in the GI Queen enough to secure him top weight of 128 among the Elizabeth II Challenge Cup over a mile and an eighth. older horses on the World Rankings. At this point it is well worth adding that Ghostzapper=s sire Awesome Again was another who got better and better as he matured. Assigned 117 on the International Classification as a three-year-old, Awesome Again did so well at four that his rating rose to 130, just one pound below the formidable Skip Away. Awesome Again now has 38 stakes winners to his credit, but only six of them achieved stakes-winner status at two. Ghostzapper=s broodmare sire Relaunch was another who needed a little time, waiting until the Del Mar meet as a three-year-old to score his first stakes successes. Perhaps, in the circumstances, we shouldn=t be too shocked that Ghostzapper has taken until now to come up with an important winner. And what do we make of Stately Victor after his 40-1 triumph? Although there seemed to be no fluke about his win, can he fare any better at Churchill Downs than the three previous winners of the Blue Grass since its switch to synthetic?.