Andrew Caulfield, March 4, 2008–Ten Meropa P EDIGREE INSIGHTS The likes of , Sadler=s Wells, Mr. Prospector, , Blushing Groom and Seattle Slew BY ANDREW CAULFIELD have all taken the title of champion sire of broodmares in North America or Britain and Ireland, having also Sunday, Santa Anita been champion sire. BALDWIN S.-GIII, $110,050, SAX, 3-2, 3yo, a6.5fT, For some stallions, though, their widespread success 1:13, fm. can almost cause difficulties for 1--#@TEN MEROPA, 115, c, 3, by Johannesburg their broodmare daughters. With 1st Dam: Tenderly (Ire), by more and more breeders wanting 2nd Dam: Specificity, by a part of the action, more and 3rd Dam: Mandera, by * more sons and grandsons of a ($67,000 yrl '06 KEESEP; 70,000gns 2yo 2007 superstar stallion are given their TATHIT). O-A & R Stables LLC & Class Racing Stable; chance as a stallion. This can B-Desperado Stables, Inc (KY); T-Ral H Ayers; J-Tyler result in the options for the Baze; $66,030. Lifetime Record: 6-2-0-2, $77,203. superstar=s daughters becoming somewhat restricted. Danehill coolmore.com Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report and 5- It is therefore going to be cross pedigree. Click for the brisnet.com chart or the interesting to see whether Danehill is destined to enjoy brisnet.com PPs. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. significant success as a broodmare sire, having been champion sire for the last three seasons in Britain and Although there are some notable exceptions to the Ireland and for umpteen years in Australia. The rule, a brilliant stallion will normally make quite an Australian industry has become saturated with Danehill impact through his broodmare daughters, no doubt blood, to the extent that the Australian Stud Book site helped by the fact that--as a top-priced stallion--he will lists 111 stallion sons, and the Anglo-Irish industry also have covered numerous mares from the most effective has plenty of sons and grandsons, without being quite female lines. so top heavy. Caulfield cont.

www.coolmore.com Caulfield cont. Ten Meropa, a graduate of the all-weather circuit in So are there going to be enough options to allow Britain, completed a weekend double for Johannesburg, Danehill=s broodmare daughters to shine? I have my who was also represented by Gattopardo. This own reasons for wanting an answer to this question. consistent colt landed the Miracle Wood S. and will When Costume recently won the GII Buena Vista S., now step up to graded company, with the Preakness a she became the 13th group/graded winner, and the possible future target. 17th stakes winner, to emerge from the 56 Danehill Ten Meropa and Gattopardo belong to foals bred by . So, although Danehill didn=t Johannesburg=s second join the Juddmonte stallion team, he continued to do crop, which also contains extraordinarily good work for his breeder, supplying 30 Eaton=s Gift, winner of percent stakes winners. the GII Swale S. last Because of this high level of success with Danehill, month, Jupiter Pluvius, a Juddmonte has 10 daughters of Danehill already in the promising Irish Group 3 broodmare band, with the likes of Costume and the winner, and Yankadi, a Group 1-placed still to come. Several of talented English colt. them are producing impressive youngsters (including That said, this crop still , who has a striking two-year-old filly by has plenty of work to do in training with Andre Fabre), but the before it can be Ten Meropa Benoit photo truth is that Danehill=s Northern Hemisphere daughters considered as successful haven=t yet--and I stress that Ayet@--proved as as its predecessor, which has yielded 11 stakes successful as his stallion sons. winners. Don=t forget, though, that the first crop, TEN MEROPA, c, 2005 numbering 143, is quite a lot larger than the second, with its 118 named foals. Storm Bird Storm Cat Johannesburg=s total of seven first-crop Graded Terlingua Hennessy winners represents nearly five per cent of the crop, *Hawaii Island Kitty which amounts to a very impressive in T. C. Kitten Johannesburg these days of declining percentages. It is worth Damascus Ogygian remembering that Johannesburg=s first three crops were Gonfalon Myth sired at fees no higher than $30,000 and his fourth at Mr. Prospector Yarn $25,000, so it is probably asking a lot of Narrate Johannesburg=s second crop to match its predecessor=s Northern Dancer strike rate. It is going to be interesting to see what Pas de Nom Danehill happens when his first $65,000 crop reaches the track Razyana in 2010. Tenderly (Ire) Spring Adieu 5-0-1-0, $4,327 Perhaps members of his higher-priced crops will show Hoist the Flag 3Fls, 1GSW Specificity Alleged a bit more stamina than the Johannesburgs we have SW, 7-2-1-2, Princess Pout seen so far. Speed has generally been their main asset, $52,253 Mandera *Vaguely Noble with none of his four second-crop stakes winners 12Fls, 1GSW 14Fls, 3SW Foolish One scoring beyond seven furlongs up to now. Only two of the 11 first-crop stakes winners--Scat Daddy and the They have had the occasional major winner, such as French-trained Sageburg--have won a stakes race over , Europe s dominant juvenile of 2006, and the = a distance longer than 1 1/16 miles. Group 1-winning fillies and Saoirse (Irish 1000 The chances are that Ten Meropa will be another Guineas), but arguably not as many as might have been sprinter-miler, even though there is plenty of stamina in hoped. One possible explanation is that it was only in the bottom half of his pedigree. His second dam, 1997, after a year in exile in , that Danehill truly Specificity, made all to win a two-mile listed race began to emerge from the enormous shadow cast by before producing the top-class French filly Pride, who some of his stud companions at Coolmore. He had been stayed 12 miles. Specifically, another daughter of available for no more than 15,000 Irish guineas in four Specificity, was mated to Danehill=s son of the five seasons he spent in Ireland before his to produce the 1000 Guineas winner . temporary relocation to Japan, and his fee had been as Specificity=s half-brother also enjoyed low as 9,000 Irish guineas in two of those five Classic success, taking the St Legers in Britain and seasons. In other words, the mares from his Ireland, so this is a flourishing family. higher-priced crops are aged 10 or under in 2008 and it is largely these mares which carry the considerable burden of expectation. Sunday=s Baldwin S. winner Ten Meropa is the latest traded winner out of a Danehill mare. This Grade III winner is the first foal of the nine-year-old Tenderly, who failed to win in a career divided between France and the USA.