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Andrew Caulfield, June 20, 2006–Dionisia P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Consequently, the son of Caro had limited ammunition in his first two crops and was still awaiting BY ANDREW CAULFIELD his first stakes winner when his third-crop yearlings, including Tejano Run, came on the market in 1993. Sunday, Milan, Italy Tejano was eventually sold to India in 1997, despite OAKS D’ITALIA-G1, i489,600, Milan, 6-18, 3yo, f, Tejano Run’s developing into one of the best of his 1 3/8mT, 2:14.50, gd. generation. 1--sDIONISIA, 123, f, 3, by Tejano Run To be fair to Tejano Run’s forebears, his yearling 1st Dam: Essie’s Maid, by Linkage price wasn’t a fair reflection of the quality of his 2nd Dam: Essie Bs Venture, by Intentionally bloodlines. His unraced dam Royal Run, who was later 3rd Dam: Choke Point, by Irish Lancer to become the dam of More Royal (GII Jersey Derby) ($13,000 yrl ‘04 FTKOCT). O-Razza Dell’Olmo; B-E H and second dam of Palace Episode (G1 Racing Post Beau Lane III; T-Riccardo Menichetti; J-Christophe Trophy), was a very well-connected mare, from the Soumillon; i291,840. Lifetime Record: 14 starts, same illustrious female line as the exceptional Blushing 9 wins, 2 places, i635,280. Groom. This very accomplished family has also produced performers of the calibre of Alwuhush, Simply Click for free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree or Majestic and Husband and, more recently, two Derby for the racingpost.co.uk chart. winners in The Deputy, who took the Santa Anita variety, and King Kamehameha, who excelled in the Know that phrase about being born with a silver Japanese version. spoon in one’s mouth? Well, it didn’t apply to Tejano Tejano Run’s dam is a half-sister to three graded Run, as you might guess from his price-tag of only stakes winners out of Kazadancoa, but two of the $20,000 as a yearling. three–-the Grade II winner Changing Ways and Grade III For a start, Tejano Run came on the market when his scorer Jacodra’s Devil--came along after Tejano Run young sire Tejano was already reaching crisis point in had been sold. Tejano Run was also born too soon to his stallion career. Tejano had been the second-best benefit from a link with 1995’s champion juvenile two-year-old of 1987, when he set record earnings for Maria’s Mon, who was by Wavering Monarch out of a a juvenile, but a winless second season had detracted daughter of Caro, whereas Tejano Run is by a son of from his appeal. Caro out of a daughter of Wavering Monarch. www.coolmore.com Tejano Run is connected to plenty of good juveniles This pairing produces 3x5x4 inbreeding to Northern and not even a May 5 birthday could stop him from Dancer and 4x5x4 to Special. Although this formula establishing himself among the best young colts of appears to have worked well with Corum, it didn’t 1994, when he won three of his five starts, starting when Vallee des Reves visited Sadler’s Wells himself. with a victory on April 17; more than two weeks before That mating resulted in Dream Valley. A filly inbred his actual second birthday. Like Tejano before him, 2x5x4 to Northern Dancer and 3x5x4 to Special, but Tejano Run filled the show spot in the Breeders’ Cup she retired without any earnings after six starts. Juvenile before enduring a winless second season. It will be interesting to see what Alec Wildenstein However, Tejano Run showed he had retained his does with Vallee des Reves’ relative Vallee Enchantee in ability by finishing second to Thunder Gulch in the the years to come, as this high-class racemare is inbred Kentucky Derby and he held his form well enough to 2x3 to Nureyev. add to his graded successes at four (on turf) and five. Corum’s pedigree puts me in mind of the outstanding Unfortunately, the stigma of being a son of Tejano Japanese horse El Condor Pasa, who was inbred 4x3 to (who had only one other graded stakes winner among Northern Dancer and 5x5x4 to both Forli and Thong, his 191 foals) made things difficult for Tejano Run with two of these lines coming via Special and the when he retired to Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms at a fee of other via her sister Lisadell. The other top winner with a $5,000 in 1998. A reduction in his fee to $4,000 didn’t similar pedigree was Lisadell’s short-lived son stop his book falling to 41 mares in 1999, then to 35. Fatherland, who was inbred 4x2 to both Forli and Although his career revived briefly in 2002, when he Thong, through Special and Lisadell. attracted 93 mares on the strength of a first crop which Corum is also inbred 4x3 to Mr. Prospector, through featured the smart Canadian performers Anglian Prince Miswaki and Kingmambo, so he could develop into and Shaws Creek, he was soon struggling again. He another advertisement for doubling up on both Northern has now left Kentucky for Canada, where his daughter Dancer and Mr. Prospector. One For Rose became a champion. As his first crop produced five stakes winners from 43 named foals, there was always a chance that his fifth crop-–his largest–-would come up with something of note. This it has done in the form of the tough Italian filly Dionisia, who was winning for the ninth time in 14 starts when she proved much too good for challengers from Britain and Germany in the Oaks d’Italia. She has now won seven stakes races, which is a tremendous achievement for a filly who cost as little as $13,000 at Fasig-Tipton. You could be forgiven for expecting a $13,000 filly to have very little pedigree, but Dionisia’s dam Essie’s Maid is a half-sister to the Florida Derby third Linnleur and to three minor stakes winners, their dam being the good Canadian racemare Essie Bs Venture. Sandown Park, 5.45, Mdn, £7,000, 3yo, 10f 7yT, 2:10.12, gd/fm. CORUM (IRE) (c, 3, Galileo {Ire}--Vallee des Reves, by Kingmambo) Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, £4,534. O-H R H Princess Haya of Jordan; B-The Vallee des Reves Syndicate; T-John Gosden. Ï Ò Judging by the way Princess Haya’s Corum powered away to win a maiden race at Sandown last Saturday, this twice-raced son of Galileo may one day be good enough to merit a whole article of his own. Until that day, though, I will have to content myself with a quick appraisal of his unusual pedigree. His dam Vallee des Reves, who has already hit the Group 1 target with her Giant’s Causeway filly Maids Causeway, has the distinction of being inbred 3x2 to Nureyev (by Northern Dancer out of Special). It was therefore a bold move to select Galileo as her 2002 mate, this impressive Derby winner being a son of Nureyev’s three-parts brother Sadler’s Wells. .