DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS European Group 1s 47 POULE D’ESSAI DES Make Believe was well qualified to b f by Medaglia d’Oro - Hachita (Gone West) who was second in the Gr3 Prix POULAINS P.LE PARISIEN G1 contest a Guineas race, as his dam O- Mr K. Abdullah B- Juddmonte Farms Inc Vanteaux over an extended nine Rosie’s Posy is a half-sister to Tante TR- A. Fabre furlongs as a three-year-old. LONGCHAMP. May 10. 3yoc. 1600m. Rose, who contested the 1,000 Margins 0.75, Neck. Time 1:36.48. The fact that Elva was retained 1. MAKE BELIEVE (GB) 9-2 £243,620 Going Good to Soft. b c by Makfi - Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) Guineas after winning one of the shows that the Aga Khan hasn’t lost O- Prince A. A. Faisal B- Aston Mullins Stud trials, the Fred Darling Stakes. Their Age Starts Wins Places Earned faith in this female line, even though TR- A. Fabre dam My Branch had taken fourth 2-3 7 5 2 £372,488 Ervedya is the first stakes winner 2. New Bay (GB) 9-2 £97,465 place in the 1996 1,000 Guineas produced by any of the first three ch c by Dubawi - Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar) before finishing third in the Irish Sire : SIYOUNI . Sire of 4 Stakes winners. dams. However, the further reaches of O- Mr K. Abdullah B- Juddmonte Farms Ltd TR- A. Fabre equivalent. There are also some 1st Dam : Elva by King’s Best. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in this female line provided Marcel 3. Mr Owen (USA) 9-2 £48,733 Classic connections further back in France, 2nd Prix Vanteaux G3 . Dam of 3 winners : Boussac with some of his finest b c by Invincible Spirit - Mrs Lindsay (Theatrical) Make Believe’s female line, which 2009 : ELMAL (c Dalakhani) 3 wins. winners, including Ervdya’s eighth O- M. Offenstadt & Mme S. Jenney B- Derry Meeting Farm once did sterling work for the late Jim 2010 : Elayouna (f Dr Fong) unraced. dam Esmeralda, winner of the TR- Francois Rohaut Joel. His fifth dam Ash Lawn, in 2011 : ENNAYA (f Nayef) 2 wins at 3 in France. Pouliches in 1942 and dam of the Margins 3, 1.5. Time 1:36.85. Going Good to Soft. 2012 : ERVEDYA (f Siyouni). 5 wins at 2 and 3 in addition to being a sister to the France, Prix Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1 , 1949 dead-heater Coronation, who Age Starts Wins Places Earned Hardwicke Stakes winner Selhurst, Prix de Cabourg Jockey Club de Turquie G3 , went on to win the Arc. 2-3 4 3 1 £280,607 was a half-sister to the 2,000 Prix Imprudence G3 , 2nd Total Prix Marcel The family also did well for the Aga Guineas and Derby winner Royal Boussac G1 , 3rd Darley Prix Morny G1 . in the years following the purchase of Sire : MAKFI . Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MAKE Palace and to Glass Slipper, dam of 2013 : (f Exceed And Excel) the Boussac broodmares in 1978. BELIEVE Suave Dancer G1, MARKY MARK Testa Rossa G1, CORNWALLVILLE Cadeaux Genereux LR. the Classic winners Fairy Footsteps 2nd Dam : EVORA by Marju. 1 win at 2. Dam of Elva Ervedya’s fourth dam, the Top Ville (1,000 Guineas) and Light Cavalry (St (f King’s Best, see above) mare Euliya, won the Gr3 Prix de 1st Dam : ROSIE’S POSY by Suave Dancer. Winner at Leger). Ash Lawn’s third dam Picture Royallieu over 12.5 furlongs and was 2. Dam of 3 winners : Play won the 1944 1,000 Guineas. Broodmare Sire : KING’S BEST . Sire of the dams of a half-sister to Erdelistan, a Gr1 2004 : Crown of Roses (f Tobougg) unraced. Make Believe is also inbred 4 x 4 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ERVEDYA Siyouni G1, winner in Italy and third in the Prix du 2005 : GENEROUS THOUGHT (c Cadeaux KARAKTAR High Chaparral G3, BE SAFE Holy Genereux) 3 wins at 2 and 3. to Green Valley. This distinguished Roman Emperor LR, MOSTANEER Dutch Art LR, Jockey-Club. 2007 : DUBAWI HEIGHTS (f Dubawi) 5 wins at 3 broodmare produced the Poule MULTITUDE Multidimensional LR. and 4 in USA, Yellow Ribbon S G1 , Gamely S d’Essai des Poulains winner Green 49 PREMIO PRESIDENTE DELLA G1 , 2nd Beverly D S G1 . Broodmare. Dancer, as well as Irish Valley, who REPUBBLICA G1 2008 : Welsh Dancer (g Dubawi) became the dam of the champion ERVEDYA b f 2012 2009 : Red Coast (c Cape Cross) ran on the flat in ROME. May 10. 4yo+. 2000m. two-year-old Alhaarth and second Polar Falcon Nureyev Japan. Marie d’Argonne 1. CLEO FAN (ITY) 4 9-2 2010 : Hazy Days (g Green Desert) ran and ran a few dam of Makfi. The Green Valley family Pivotal b c by Mujahid - Cuprea (Best of The Bests) Fearless Revival Cozzene times over hurdles. has also produced a Derby winner in Stufida O- Dioscuri Srl B- Fanti Giuliano 2012 : MAKE BELIEVE (c Makfi) 3 wins at 2 and 3 SIYOUNI b 07 Authorized and an Arc winner in Danehill Danzig TR- Stefano Botti in France, Poule d’Essai des Poulains P.le Razyana Solemia. Sichilla 2. Magic Artist (IRE) 4 9-2 £37,519 Parisien G1 , 2nd Prix Djebel G3 . Slipstream Queen Conquistador Cielo b/br c by Iffraaj - Artisti (Cape Cross) 2013 : Estikmaal (c Oasis Dream) unraced to date. Make Believe’s dam Rosie’s Posy Country Queen O- Stall Salzburg B- Darley TR- W Figge 2014 first distinguished herself with her Kingmambo Mr Prospector : (c Frankel) Miesque 3. Wake Forest (GER) 5 9-2 Dubawi filly Dubawi Heights. Sold for King’s Best b h by Sir Percy - Wurfspiel (Lomitas) Allegretta Lombard 2nd Dam : MY BRANCH by Distant Relative. 4 wins at Anatevka O- Klaus Allofs & Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof 75,000gns after showing useful form ELVA 2 and 3 Shadwell Stud Firth of Clyde S LR , Kyoto b 04 B- Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof TR- A Wohler at two, Dubawi Heights developed Marju Last Tycoon Sceptre S LR , 2nd Shadwell Stud Cheveley Park S G1 , Flame of Tara Margins Neck, 2. Going Good. into a Gr1 winner over nine and ten Evora 3rd Airlie Coolmore Irish 1000 Guineas G1 . Dam of Eviyrna The Minstrel TANTE ROSE (f Barathea: Stanleybet Sprint Cup G1 ), furlongs on turf in America. She was Euliya Age Starts Wins Places Earned BAY TREE (f Daylami: Sweet Solera S LR , 3rd resold soon afterwards for 2-4 11 4 6 £178,048 When I studied the entries for Tattersalls Musidora S G3 ), Melodramatic (f Sadler’s $1,600,000, for export to Japan, LR France’s four Classics in the April Wells: 2nd Lord Weinstock Mem. Ballymacoll S ). where she produced a Deep Impact Sire : MUJAHID . Sire of 27 Stakes winners. In 2015 - Grandam of GOTHIC DANCE , Rose Diamond . issue, I pointed out that the Aga CLEO FAN Best of The Bests G1, BREX DRAGO filly in 2013. Khan’s Siyouni has a team of ten Barathea LR. Broodmare Sire SUAVE DANCER Rosie’s Posy was also sold, for : . Sire of the dams individuals – a statistic that sounds all of 15 Stakes winners. 400,000gns in 2012, carrying 1st Dam : CUPREA by Best of The Bests. 7 wins at 2 to the more impressive when I add that Estikmaal, an Oasis Dream colt which 4 in Italy. Dam of 3 winners : they come from a crop numbering no in turn made 400,000gns when 2010 : CATNIP FAN (f Johnny Red Kerr) 2 wins at 2 MAKE BELIEVE b c 2012 more than 80 and that this crop was and 3 in Italy. offered as a yearling in 2014. Rosie’s sired at a fee of only €7,000. If you 2011 : CLEO FAN (c Mujahid) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in Dubai Millennium Seeking The Gold Posy’s next foal is a colt from the first Colorado Dancer attribute Siyouni’s impressive total of Italy, Premio Presidente della Repubblica G1 , Dubawi crop by Frankel. Premio Villa Borghese Memorial Cadoni LR , Zomaradah Deploy Jawaher Classic entrants to his having been G1 MAKFI b 07 Rosie’s Posy’s year-younger half- 2nd Premio Roma GBI Racing , Premio Danzig heavily supported by the Aga Khan, G3 LR Green Desert sister Tante Rose was sold as part of Ambrosiano , Premio Campobello . Foreign Courier you would be wrong. Only one of the 2012 : Cassiano Fan (c Until Sundown) 3 wins at 2 Dhelaal the complete dispersal of Wafic Said’s Irish Valley Irish River ten was owned by the Aga, but that and 3 in Italy, 3rd Criterium Partenopeo LR . Green Valley Addison Racing in 2003. She realised Green Dancer Nijinsky one – Ervedya – was good enough to Green Valley 350,000gns, whereas her Listed- Broodmare Sire : BEST OF THE BESTS . Sire of the Suave Dancer give her breeder yet another French dams of 1 Stakes winner. Suavite Alleged winning half-sister Bay Tree made Guinevere’s Folly Classic success, with a stylish ROSIE’S POSY b 99 450,000gns. Their dam My Branch Distant Relative Habitat success in the Poule d’Essai des Royal Sister II had sold for 420,000gns a year My Branch Pouliches. CLEO FAN b c 2011 Pay The Bank High Top earlier. Tante Rose justified her price Zebra Grass Ervedya wasted no time in showing Northern Dancer Nearctic by winning the Gr1 Sprint Cup at Natalma that she had inherited plenty of the Danzig Haydock. Pas de Nom Admiral’s Voyage One common denominator between two-year-old ability which had brought Petitioner My Branch is also a half-sister to MUJAHID b 96 Dubai Millennium, his son Dubawi and Siyouni four wins from six juvenile Storm Cat Storm Bird Galileo’s son Celestial Halo, who Terlingua grandson Makfi was that all three starts, including the Prix Jean-Luc Elrafa Ah developed into a high-class hurdler Fappiano succeeded in winning the Prix Lagardere.