Andrew Caulfield, October 1, 2002 – Where Or When

she is also the dam of All The Way, a Shirley Heights colt P EDIGREE INSIGHTS who collected the 2000 Singapore Derby for Godolphin, having finished a creditable fifth in the previous year’s BY ANDREW CAULFIELD for Where Or When’s trainer, Terry Mills. Future Past had been carrying All The Way when she was Saturday, Ascot, Britain sold for only 14,500 guineas in 1995. QUEEN ELIZABETH II S.-G1, £300,000, Ascot, 9-29, Where Or When has played a major role in turning the 3yo/up, 1mT, 1:41.37, gd/fm. spotlight onto his young sire, Dancer. This son of Danehill proved a great bargain at the 38,000 Irish guineas 1--sWHERE OR WHEN (IRE), 123, c, 3, by (Ire) he cost as a yearling, carrying Michael Tabor’s colors to 1st Dam: Future Past, by victory in four of his first five starts. Danehill Dancer won 2nd Dam: Afasheen (GB), by Sheshoon (GB) the G1 Heinz 57 Phoenix S., the G1 National S. and the G3 3rd Dam: Aimee (GB), by * Greenham S., as well as finishing second in the G1 (Ir£26,000 wnl ‘99 GOFNOV; 26,000gns yrl ‘00 Dewhurst S. Unfortunately, the second half of Danehill TATOCT). O-John Humphreys (Turf Accountants) Dancer’s racing career was much less distinguished and he Ltd; B-Mrs Ann Egan; T-Terry Mills; J-Kevin Darley; finished no closer than third in any of his last six starts. £178,500. Lifetime Record: 13-5-0-0, £276,089. Humble Beginnings at Stud for Danehill Dancer... *1/2 to All the Way (Ire) (Shirley Heights {GB}), SW-Mal. Consequently, his earlier achievements had been tarnished by the time he started his Northern Hemisphere One of the first lessons to be learned by any budding stallion career in 1998 at Kilsheelan Stud, a Coolmore bloodstock agent is never underestimate the latent power substation. His fee of only 4,000 Irish guineas ensured that of the bloodlines developed by the Aga Khan’s famous he received strong numerical support, but many of the studs. This must have been foremost in the mind of the mares had no pretensions to producing anything better BBA (England) representative who bid a modest $20,000 than a run-of-the-mill winner--something which was at Keeneland’s 1990 November Sale to buy Future Past, a reflected in his median price of only 8,000 guineas when six-year-old mare by Super Concorde out of the Aga his first yearlings sold in 2000. Khan-bred Afasheen. Needless to say, there were some excellent buys among Future Past had earned less than $34,000 in a 59-race them, such as Ziria, a 27,000-guinea filly, who has won career spanning five years on the track, and the fact that the G3 Prix du Bois and the G3 Prix du Petit Couvert. This she had gained only four wins, compared to 12 seconds, fast filly is inbred 4x3 to and 5x5x4 to rather suggested that she was lacking in either finishing Natalma. speed or enthusiasm. However, Future Past’s ordinary Also in that first crop were Lahinch, his top-priced racing record was of almost secondary importance to the yearling, who has justified her price with Listed wins at bottom line of her pedigree, which featured such illustrious two and three and a head second in the G2 Rockfel S.; the broodmares as her fourth dam Éclair (dam of the excellent Group-winning Lady Dominatrix, who has established stallion Khaled) and her accomplished second dam Aimee. herself as one of England’s fastest three-year-old fillies Although Aimee provided the Aga Khan with three stakes despite having cost as little as 2,000 Irish guineas; the winners--Flaming Heart, Afayoun and Adjarida-- her greatest Listed winner Bright Edge, who cost 4,000 guineas (and is talent was her ability to produce excellent broodmares. inbred 3x3 to ); and the 26,000-guineas Where Five of her seven daughters produced at least one stakes Or When, who now has three stakes wins to his name and winner, the finest examples being Runaway Bride, dam of a growing reputation as one of the best milers in Europe. the exceptional ; Flaming Heart, dam of the Although Danehill Dancer’s second Irish crop is smaller, it very good miler Maroun; Khazaeen, dam of the Oaks third too is producing some above-average performers, such as The Dancer; and Zannira, dam of the Italian Oaks winner St Pancras (a good second to the highly regarded Zabarella. Almushahar in the G2 Champagne S.), Monsieur Bond (a Future Past’s dam, the non-winning Afasheen, was one close second in the G2 Mill Reef S.), Miss Takeortwo (a of the two daughters of Aimee which failed to produce a Listed-placed triple winner) and Daganya (a creditable stakes winner, but the strength of her bloodlines has also fourth in the G1 Phoenix S.). enabled Afasheen to make a lasting impression through her The success of Danehill Dancer’s first crop ensured that own daughters. Future Past’s buyers in 1990 would have he was in great demand this year in Ireland, where he been well aware that the mare’s half-sister On The Tiles covered 196 mares at a fee of Ir£9,000, and he is was responsible for Air de Rien, a cheap yearling who currently in Australia, where his representatives include the developed into one of the best three-year-old fillies in Group winners Jar Jar Binks and . Now, with three France in 1990, when she won the G1 Prix Saint-Alary. Group winners in his first crop, he is likely to be more Afasheen’s last foal Sheena’s Gold, who was sold for only popular than ever when he returns to Ireland at the end of $19,000 as a yearling, is also the dam of a Grade 1 the year. winner, in the shape of The Groom Is Red, the 1998 Champagne S. winner who is inbred 4x3 to Aimee. Now Future Past has become the third daughter of Afasheen to become the dam of a Group 1 winner, thanks to Where Or When, the impressive conqueror of in the Queen Elizabeth II S. It could be claimed that Future Past had already achieved that distinction because