Andrew Caulfield, August 2, 2005– (IRE) Proclamation is proving a first-rate advertisement for P EDIGREE INSIGHTS King's Best, who earned an increase in fee to i35,000 BY ANDREW CAULFIELD this year, after achieving an impressive total of over 20 juvenile winners from his first crop, which numbers 112 Wednesday, Goodwood, Britain foals. Those 20-odd winners included the Group 3- CANTOR SPREADFAIR SUSSEX S.-G1, £300,000, Goodwood, Britain, 7-27, 3yo/up, 1mT, 1:40.16, sf. winning filly Dubai Surprise, who finished a fine second 1--sPROCLAMATION (IRE), 125, c, 3, by King’s Best when she took on the colts in the G1 Criterium 1st Dam: Shamarra (Fr), by Zayyani (Ire) International, and Elliots World, winner of the Acomb S. 2nd Dam: Shannfara (Fr), by Zeddaan (GB) Proclamation has boosted the total of stakes winners 3rd Dam: Shahana (Fr), by Wild Risk (Fr) to three and there could well be more to come from this (84,000gns yrl ‘03 TATOCT). O-H R H Princess Haya first crop, as Earl's Court, Fading Light, Sailor King, of Jordan; B-Cathal M Ryan; T-Jeremy Noseda; Oiseau Rare and Runaway have all earned black type. J-; £174,000. Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-0, £238,438. *1/2 to No Refuge (Ire) Some of these black-type performers were produced (Hernando {Fr}), MSW-UK, SW-Ger, $107,830. by the natural desire of breeders to reinforce the Click for the Racing Post race chart or the free blood of 's exceptional dam brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. . Sailor King is out of a Nureyev mare, and is When it comes to this year's top mile events in therefore inbred 4x2, whereas Runaway and Earl's Europe, I guess you could say it has been the Year of Court are out of Sadler's Wells mares, creating 5x3 the Mambo Kings. No, not the Castillo brothers of the inbreeding to and 5x4 to Special. Of celebrated novel and movie, but the descendants of Mr. course, it was Sadler's Wells mares which produced Prospector's highest-priced son. , and Kingmambo has been directly responsible for the to Kingmambo. winners of the 1000 Guineas in England and France, in the shape of Virginia Waters and Divine Proportions, and he has also made a sizeable indirect impact. His PROCLAMATION (IRE), c, 2002 broodmare daughter Vallee des Reves is the dam of Mr. Prospector , the heroic winner of the G1 Kingmambo Nureyev Coronation S., and now his Classic-winning son King's Miesque Pasadoble Best has supplied Proclamation, an impressive King’s Best Agio (Ger) last-to-first winner of last week's G1 Cantor Spreadfair Lombard (Ger) Promised Lady Sussex S. Allegretta (GB) That Sussex S. victory improved Proclamation's *Espresso Anatevka (Ger) record to four wins from five starts, his only setback Almyra (Ger) coming on his second start, when he boiled over in the (GB) Dante S. over an extended mile and a quarter. His Delsy (Fr) Zayyani (Ire) trainer, Jeremy Noseda, later said, "at York he just Shamarra (Fr) Zariya pulled and had no chance after a furlong. The only thing Unraced Zahra (Ire) to do was to come back in trip and get some pace in 5Fls, 1GSW, Shannfara (Fr) Zeddaan (GB) front of him." That ploy has worked well, with the colt 1SW MSP, 12-3-3-2, Vareta (Fr) displaying tremendous acceleration in coming through $55,575 Shahana (Fr) Wild Risk (Fr) from the rear to win three stakes, including a victory of 7Fls, 1GSP 4Fls, 2SP Princess Yasmin the G3 Jersey S. over seven furlongs. Caulfield cont. Much as this type of inbreeding appeals to pedigree Shamarra is the third non-winning daughter of pundits such as myself, I'm afraid to say that the Shanfarra to become the dam of a group winner and mating which produced Proclamation doesn't involve a she is also a half sister to Shantaroun, a Green Dancer single duplication in the first five generations. colt who was well above average in Britain and No doubt because he is grey and carries his head a Australia. little high, Proclamation reminds me of Zeddaan, the Proclamation's second dam, Shannfara, also had a sire of his second dam, a useful miler called Shannfara. distinguished half sister in Sherkala, a group-placed The two-year-old Zeddaan showed the type of winner who ranks as the third dam of the outstanding explosive speed associated with his grandsire, the miler . Sendawar numbered the French 2000 tremendously temperamental Grey Sovereign. Guineas, St James's Palace S. and Prix du Moulin Undefeated in his first five starts, from 4½ to 5½ among his wins in 1999 and it's far from impossible furlongs, Zeddaan ended his first season with two that Proclamation could end the year with a similarly seconds to older horses in five-furlong sprints. A career impressive resumé. as a sprint specialist seemed to beckon. Francois Mathet had other ideas, though, and Zeddaan began his second season with impressive victories in the French 2000 Guineas and the 9.2-furlong Prix d'Ispahan. In the process, he displayed the type of acceleration which has characterized Proclamation's triumphs. Zeddaan was sent to Japan as a 13-year-old, but not before he had sired three top-class sons in Kalamoun, Nishapour and Nadjar. Kalamoun--another grey with quite a high head carriage and a brilliant turn of foot-- had a phenomenal record as a stallion and it is interesting that his son Persepolis ranks as the broodmare sire of Fading Light, a King's Best filly who has twice finished third at Group-3 level. It is no surprise that Proclamation is highly strung. King's Best took strong exception to being restrained when he finished last as second favourite for the Dewhurst S. at the end of his first season and he was prone to sweat up. However, he settled well in the 2000 Guineas before producing a spectacular effort, which took him 3 1/2 lengths clear of Giant's Causeway. Also, Proclamation's dam, Shamarra, has four lines to the tempestuous (as well as two to the stayer Wild Risk). As might be guessed from her pedigree, Shamarra was bred by the Aga Khan. However, she never made it to the races and she was by Zayyani, a Darshaan horse who won nothing more important than the G3 Greenham S. Consequently, she was soon considered surplus to requirements and was sold for Ir55,000gns at Goffs' February Sale in 1998, when carrying her first foal, by the comparatively inexpensive Kahyasi.. To the Aga Khan, Shamarra was probably just another filly, but to her buyer, Cathal Ryan of Swordlestown Stud, she offered a chance to revive the glory days of her illustrious female line. This line traces back to Teresina, one of the foundation mares of the late Aga Khan's tremendously successful stud. Ryan immediately sent Shamarra to Danehill, whose fee in 1998 was Ir35,000gns, and the daughter of Zayyani subsequently visited the top-class racehorses Hernando, Desert Prince and King's Best. Proclamation, whose recent progress might have something to do with his May 1 birthdate, isn't her first stakes winner. That distinction went to No Refuge, Shamarra's son by Hernando. After becoming a Listed winner over 1 7/8 miles, No Refuge was sold for 180,000gns and has since become a Group-1 winner over hurdles.