Andrew Caulfield, July 15-Gallante (Ire) In addition to Gallante=s victory, Montjeu=s name also PEDIGREE INSIGHTS cropped up last week in connection with the impressive B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D G3 Bahrain Trophy winner Hartnell. This progressive colt, by Montjeu=s Derby-winning son Authorized, had Sunday, Longchamp, France previously won the Queen=s Vase at Royal Ascot, a race JUDDMONTE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS-G1, i600,000, won last year by the future St Leger and Gold Cup LON, 7-13, 3yo, c/f, 12fT, 2:41.76, vsf. winner Leading Light. Hartnell is now as short as 8-1 1--s@#GALLANTE (IRE), 128, c, 3, by Montjeu (Ire) for the St Leger in two month=s time. 1st Dam: Crazy Volume (Ire), by Machiavellian The striking aspect of Gallante=s pedigree is that he is 2nd Dam: Desert Ease (Ire), by Green Desert out of a mare by Mr. Prospector=s son Machiavellian. 3rd Dam: Easy to Copy, by Affirmed This means that Montjeu has now sired Group 1 O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; winners in Europe or Australia B-Lynch Bages Ltd & Camas Park Stud (IRE); T-Andre from mares by five different Fabre; J-Pierre-Charles Boudot. i342,840. Lifetime sons of Mr. Prospector. Their Record: 5 starts, 3 wins, 2 places, i397,490. Werk total of six Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Group 1 winners have landed a 2--Prince Gibraltar (Fr), 128, c, 3, Rock of Gibraltar (Ire)-- 2000 Guineas, two Derbys, an Princess Sofia (UAE), by Pennekamp. (i40,000 RNA Irish Derby, a St Leger and now yrl >12 ARQAUG). O-Jean-Francois Gribomont, Eric a Grand Prix de Paris, so Mr. Pokrovsky & Ecurie La Vallee Martigny; Prospector made a substantial B-Jean-Francois Gribomont (FR); T-Jean-Claude contribution to Montjeu=s Rouget. i137,160. success. 3--Teletext, 128, c, 3, Empire Maker--Conference Call Altogether Montjeu has three (GB), by Anabaa. O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Gallante Scoop Dyga group winners out of mares by Farms Inc (KY); T-Pascal Bary. i68,580. Machiavellian, a horse who Margins: SNK, 2HF, 2. Odds: 61.00, 0.90, 23.00. made his name principally as a speedy champion Also Ran: Free Port Lux (GB), Marzocco, The Grey 2-year-old. These three come from a sample of 25 Gatsby (Ire), Golden Guepard (Ire), Prince Nomad (Fr), foals, which equates to 12%, so blending the speed of Machucambo (Fr), Guardini (Fr), Auvray (Fr). Machiavellian with the stamina of Montjeu has worked Click for the Racing Post result or the free brisnet.com very well. catalogue-style pedigree. Equidia VIDEO. Whenever I mention Montjeu, I think it is well worth I believe there is currently a petition asking that the reminding everyone that this son of Sadler=s Wells was Prix du Jockey Club be restored to its traditional less prolific than Galileo, Coolmore=s other exceptional distance of 2,400 metres, instead of the 2,100 metres Sadler=s Wells stallion, Montjeu=s 11 Irish crops of of its last ten editions. Well, count me in! My main racing age number roughly 1,070 foals, whereas objection to the shorter distance is that it creates too Galileo=s first 10 Irish crops total 1,462. Sadly many hard-luck stories when full fields of around 20 try Montjeu=s current 2-year-olds, which number around to negotiate the Chantilly bends. 60, come from his penultimate crop and his final crop Also, there wasn=t too much wrong with the original numbers 26. version, whose last eight winners included Peintre Celebre, Montjeu and Dalakhani, all of whom went on Northern Dancer Nearctic to win the Arc later the same year. Another of these Sadler’s Wells Natalma eight winners, Sulamani, was a close second in the Arc. Fairy Bridge Bold Reason Montjeu and Dalakhani were both in the news again Montjeu (Ire) Special last week. Montjeu was represented by his third winner Top Ville High Top (Ire) of the G1 Grand Prix de Paris when Gallante lived up to Floripedes (Fr) Sega Ville his name in landing the race which effectively Toute Cy Tennyson (Fr) Adele Toumignon (Ire) substitutes for the old-style Prix du Jockey-Club. Raise a Native This trio of Grand Prix de Paris victories supplements Mr. Prospector Gold Digger Montjeu=s tremendously impressive tally of four wins in Crazy Volume Machiavellian Coup De Folie Halo the Epsom Derby, three in the St Leger and one in the (Ire) Raise the Standard 2,000 Guineas. Montjeu also gave us three winners of 10-1-1-2 5Fls, 1GSW Green Desert Danzig the Irish Derby, one of the Irish Oaks and two of the Desert Ease Foreign Courier AJC Australian Derby. His ability to impart stamina to 13Fls Easy to Copy Affirmed his progeny also resulted in winners of the St Leger 13Fls, 1GSW Talking Picture equivalents in Ireland and France, plus two in the Gold Cup and one in the Melbourne Cup. Only 10 of these last-crop yearlings are colts, which Danehill, on the other hand, was a strong sprinter, have traditionally done much better than Montjeu=s with a powerful rear end and stronger-looking hocks daughters, so any which appear in the sales ring over than Dalakhani=s. In other words, Danehill=s daughters the next few months will surely attract considerable can supply any missing strength and bone, in much the attention. same way as they have with Galileo, another top Moving on to Dalakhani, he isn=t, of course, a son of mile-and-a-half horse. Sadler=s Wells, but the fact that he was sired by Coincidentally, Dalakhani and Galileo are both out of Darshaan ensured that he would have a very close Miswaki mares. This may be relevant to Terrubi, who working relationship with the 14-time champion sire became Dalakhani=s second group winner of last week once he retired to Gilltown Stud. Remember, daughters when he won the G2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil over a mile of Darshaan produced eight Group 1 winners to Sadler=s and three-quarters. Terrubi=s dam Altruiste is an Wells and they also have Group 1 winners by Galileo, unraced half-sister to Galileo=s magnificent dam Urban Montjeu, Refuse To Bend and Entrepreneur, the last Sea, who not only won the Arc, but also bred an Arc two being among Sadler=s Wells=s less successful winner in Sea The Stars. Altruiste is also a half-sister to stallion sons. Montjeu=s Group 1 winner with a dam by the 2000 Guineas winner King=s Best and to Allez Les Darshaan was the Derby-winning Pour Moi and now his Trois, dam of the Prix du Jockey-Club winner Anabaa sons Motivator and Authorized have also sired Blue, so Terrubi has every right to be well above Group 1 winners from Darshaan mares. Incidentally, average. Pour Moi has 13 of his first-crop yearlings in Arqana=s Altruiste is by that excellent broodmare sire Diesis, August Yearling Sale. who ranks among the broodmare sires of the classic Expectations that Dalakhani would make an ideal winners by Galileo. Click here to share this story mate for Sadler=s Wells mares gathered strength when his first crop contained no fewer than four group winners out of daughters of the great Coolmore stallion. One was Conduit, who retired as a winner of the St Leger, the King George and of two editions of the GI Breeders= Cup Turf, and another was Chinese White, winner of the G1 Pretty Polly S. The end result is that 113 of Dalakhani=s 630 foals of racing age--some 18%--have dams by Sadler=s Wells, but this cross hasn=t maintained its momentum. Its only subsequent group winner was Reliable Man, winner of the Prix du Jockey-Club in 2011, and the nick=s percentage of stakes winners stands no higher than Dalakhani=s overall figure of 6%. It is therefore very well worthwhile pointing out that Dalakhani has 11% stakes winners out of daughters of Danehill--a statistic which could help restore Dalakhani=s flagging popularity (he has only 37 2-year-olds this year and he covered around 50 mares both in 2012-13). In fact all three of Dalakhani=s stakes winners from 28 foals out of Danehill mares are group winners, namely Shemiyla, Duncan and Integral. Duncan won the G1 Irish St Leger in 2011 and now Integral has become the cross=s second top-flight winner thanks to her dominant victory in last week=s G1 Falmouth S. I touched briefly on Integral=s pedigree in my June 24 article, following her win in the G2 Duke of Cambridge S. at Royal Ascot. Suffice it to say that-- despite being by a mile-and-a-half horse--Integral has inherited all the finishing speed which brought her dam Echelon six group wins at up to a 1 1/8 miles, including the G1 Matron S. It is easy to understand why Danehill mares are suiting Dalakhani. The stallion is a quality middle- distance horse with quite a light frame, and Timeform went so far as to say he was Ano great physical specimen, being quite attractive but rather finely made.@ As Sadler=s Wells=s daughters were often also light of bone, breeders probably need to bear this in mind instead of obliviously following the nick.