Andrew Caulfield, May 20, 2008– (Ire) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Tartan Bearer=s brother had started joint- favorite for the 2001 Derby on the strength of his BY ANDREW CAULFIELD last-to-first victory in the 2000 Guineas. Golan would probably have won an ordinary Derby, but he had the S.-G2, ,150,000, York, 5-15, 3yo, 10f 88ydsT, misfortune to be born in the same year as the excellent 2:09.50, gd/fm. and was beaten into second. However, Golan 1--@#TARTAN BEARER (IRE), 126, c, 3, by (Ire) subsequently confirmed his prowess over the Derby 1st Dam: Highland Gift (Ire), by (Ire) distance by taking the 2nd Dam: Scots Lass (GB), by Heights (GB) following year=s King 3rd Dam: Edinburgh (GB), by (GB) George. O/B- Farm; T-Sir : Tartan Bearer=s family--so J-Ryan Moore; ,85,155. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, skillfully developed by the ,89,190. *Full to Golan (Ire), MG1SW-Eng, GSW-Fr, Ballymacoll Stud team--had G1SP-Ire, $1,624,185. Werk Nick Rating: A++. previously won the 2004 š › Dante S. and the Derby with Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. (now a resident Click for the Racing Post chart, the brisnet.com PPs, or of Adena Springs). This the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Golan newmarketracecourses.co.uk female line traces to Belle, a sister to In a six-runner contest for the G2 Dante S., Britain=s the 1940 1000 Guineas and Oaks winner Godiva. premier Derby trial, the betting public wasn=t greatly Incidentally, it=s well worth mentioning that Coventry interested in Tartan Bearer, who drifted up to 10-1. Belle was born two years after her half-sister Her While this was a fair-enough reflection of the form of a Slipper, who ranks as the seventh dam of none other colt who had raced only in maiden company, the odds than . The possibility therefore exists that the would surely have been much much shorter had the Derby and the Derby will fall to colts from the runners been assessed purely on whether they had a same extensive Carpet Slipper family. Derby-winning pedigree. Caulfield cont.

www.coolmore.com The bottom half of Tartan Bearer=s pedigree is totally It is premature to speculate about Tartan Bearer=s saturated with Derby winners. He=s the sixth living foal possible future as a stallion (which isn=t going to be out of Highland Gift, a daughter of the runaway 1991 helped by the fact that his brother Golan is now a Derby winner Generous. His second dam, Scots Lass, is member of Coolmore=s jumping sector). However, it by , the 1978 winner, and his third dam, would be good to see a top-class recruit from this male Edinburgh, was a daughter of Charlottown, who line, as the line is struggling for survival scraped home in 1966. Altogether, Highland Gift has in Britain and Ireland. three Derby winners--, and sired numerous good sons, but his Charlottown--among her four great-grandsires, the long-term influence depends largely on his daughters, exception being , a son of the Kentucky who earned him the title of sire of Derby winner . broodmares in 2003 and 2004. Arguably his best Highland Gift jarred her knees on fast ground on her stallion son has been the Derby winner , debut, over 1 1/2 miles, but returned six months later who enjoyed another Group 1 success in last to win very easily over 1 1/4 miles on soft going. She week when his son Sarrera landed the Doomben Cup. would surely have stayed 1 1/2 miles, because she is a It is going to be interesting to see what impact half-sister to Bonny Scot, a listed winner over 1 1/4 Spectrum has on racing in South Africa--a country miles at two who also demonstrated his stamina with which also became home to Rainbow Quest=s his third in the G1 St Leger. Arc-winning son . The profile of South This concentration on excellent mile-and-a-half Africa=s horses has been boosted considerably in recent performers in the bottom half of Tartan Bearer=s years, a perfect example being Jay Peg, who recently pedigree compensates for the fact that his sire, added the G1 Singapore Airlines International Cup to his Spectrum, was probably best at up to 1 1/4 miles, as victory in the Dubai Duty Free. he showed with his victories in the Irish 2000 Guineas Jay Peg may have been bred in South Africa, but he and Dubai Champion S. Spectrum=s only attempt at 1 has an interesting international pedigree featuring 4x3 1/2 miles came in the 1995 Derby, from which he inbreeding to the exceptional broodmare Lassie Dear. emerged sore, stiff and with muscle problems in his The bloodstock world is definitely getting smaller and back. smaller. This son of Rainbow Quest was exported to South Africa in 2004 after generally failing to live up to TARTAN BEARER, c, 3 expectations during his years at Coolmore. Tartan Blushing Groom (Fr) Bearer, who is therefore a member of his final Irish Runaway Bride (GB) crop, has the potential to become the third Northern Rainbow Quest * I Will Follow Hemisphere Group 1 winner by Spectrum, following Where You Lead Golan and the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner Gamut. Spectrum (Ire) (Fr) Remarkably, all three of these colts are graduates of Irish Star (Fr) River Dancer (Ire) Ballymacoll, which maintains a broodmare team of Dancer’s Image Dancing Shadow (Ire) under 30 , and all three come from the same Sunny Valley (Ire) family. Gamut=s dam, Greektown, is a half-sister to Nijinsky II Tartan Bearer=s second dam, Scots Lass. Foreseer Generous (Ire) The original inspiration for sending Highland Gift to a Master Derby son of Rainbow Quest no doubt owed a lot to the Doff The Derby Highland Gift (Ire) Margarethen considerable success Ballymacoll enjoyed with that fine 9 Fls, 2 GSW Mill Reef Shirley Heights (GB) racemare Sought Out. This Group 1 winner was sired Scots Lass (GB) Hardiemma (GB) by Rainbow Quest from Highland Gift=s second dam 9 Fls, 1 GSW Edinburgh (GB) Charlottown (GB) Edinburgh. Sought Out, who has new fame as 9 Fls, 1 Ch., 1G1SW Queen’s Castle (GB) the dam of North Light, won four group races at up to 2 1/2 miles and she passed on a large measure of her stamina to another of her sons, the Group 3 winner Cover Up. Cover Up was by a sprinter-miler, Machiavellian, and North Light is by another in Danehill. Stamina tends to be this family=s long suit and it produced another good stayer--the Group 2 winner Multicoloured--when Edinburgh=s daughter Greektown visited Rainbow Quest. There is therefore no real cause to doubt that Tartan Bearer will cope with the extra distance when he lines up at Epsom, where he will attempt to become the fourth Dante S., winner in the last five years to win the Derby.