Andrew Caulfield, April 12, 2011-Lilacs and Lace However, there was one encouraging aspect to PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Saturday=s unexpected results. Two of the three BY ANDREW CAULFIELD surprising Grade I three-year-old winners--Toby=s Corner and Lilacs and Lace--are respectively members of the Saturday, Keeneland first crops by Bellamy Road and Flower Alley. The CENTRAL BANK ASHLAND S.-GI, $400,000, KEE, 4-9, cumulative earnings of these two stallions place them 3yo, f, 1 1/16m (AWT), 1:42 3/5, ft. among the top dozen of an increasingly interesting 1--@LILACS AND LACE, 121, f, 3, by Flower Alley batch of second-crop stallions. They rank even higher 1st Dam: Refinement, by by this year=s earnings, with Bellamy Road now holding 2nd Dam: Stella Madrid, by second place behind War Front, ahead of Bernardini, 3rd Dam: My Juliet, by Gallant Romeo Congrats, Pomeroy and Silver Train, with Flower Alley ($35,000 RNA yrl '09 KEESEP). O-James Covello, in seventh. Bellamy Road, with fewer runners than some of his Judy Hicks & Kathryn Nikkel; B-Judy Hicks & Kathryn higher-profile rivals, now has two graded winners to his Nikkel (KY); T-John P Terranova II; J-Javier credit, thanks to Position Limit, winner of the Castellano; $240,000. Lifetime Record: 8-3-2-0, GII Adirondack S., and Toby=s Corner. He is also $340,300. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the responsible for Zoebear, runner-up in the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the brisnet.com chart, the GIII TVG Illinois Derby, and for the stakes winners brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Embellished and Bellamy Jones. My in-depth review of Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Bellamy Road, written after Position Limit=s win last August, is available on the TDN Archive. Shock results in the major trials for the Flower Alley started his career at twice the price as Derby and Oaks, such as what happened three days Bellamy Road--$25,000, as opposed to $12,500. The ago, can be somewhat disillusioning. For example, fact that both are standing the 2011 season at those who expected Uncle Mo to build on his exciting $10,000 suggests that Flower Alley has made the juvenile exploits must now wonder--at least temporarily- slower start, but Flower Alley has the advantage of -whether he is yet another Breeders= Cup Juvenile steadier support than Bellamy Road. winner destined to disappoint at three. Caulfield cont.

www.coolmore.com Caulfield cont. Lilacs and Lace was RNA=d at $35,000 in the depressed days of the 2009 September Sales, even Their total of mares for their first four years read though she comes from a highly successful female line 114, 95, 66 and 99 for Flower Alley, as opposed to and is out of a daughter of the great Seattle Slew. The 137, 90, 50 and 46 for his Pauls Mill rival. presence of Seattle Slew in her pedigree is significant, This is probably a reflection of the fact that one is a as Distorted Humor has sired five graded winners, son of Distorted Humor, a stallion consistently among headed by Funny Cide and Any Given Saturday, from the leading sires, while the other is by Concerto. grand-daughters of Seattle Slew, plus the Irish Group 2 Flower Alley was among the runners in 2005 and winner Gaudeamus from a daughter. 2006 which helped boost Distorted Humor=s fee to six The Ashland S. winner=s dam, Refinement, is by figures. Appropriately, his finest victory came when he Seattle Slew out of an Alydar mare, and is bred to the defeated Bellamy Road by 2 1/2 lengths in the same cross as the dam of Eskendereya. Refinement GI Travers S., a race which had previously fallen to was sold by the Wygods for $50,000 in 2005, but the Distorted Humor=s sire Forty Niner and to Forty Niner=s family produced a much bigger price when a yearling son Coronado=s Quest. colt by out of Lilacs and Lace=s fourth Flower Alley later added to his reputation with his dam, My Bupers, sold in 1983. This was the famous second to Saint Liam in the Breeders= Cup Classic. occasion when the electronic board at Keeneland ran These performances made Flower Alley a finalist for the out of digits, when the colt=s price soared to more than for 3-year-old male, which proved to be double the previous record of $4,250,000. His final a landslide victory for Afleet Alex. With Afleet Alex price of $10.2 million proved a total write-off, as the retired, Flower Alley looked to have prospects of an colt----failed to race and then had fertility even better time in 2006 but he didn=t reappear until troubles. June 24, nearly eight months after the Breeders= Cup. However, My Bupers also produced the champion Although he made a successful reappearance, American sprinter My Juliet and the very good English comfortably winning the GIII Salvator Mile S., he colt Lyphard=s Special. My Juliet won 24 of her 36 knocked some of the gloss off his fine record with starts before producing the Grade I-winning fillies Stella below-par efforts in the GI Whitney H., GI Woodward Madrid and Tis Juliet to Alydar. Stella Madrid--the S. and GI Breeders= Cup Classic. second dam of Lilacs and Lace--collected three Grade I In retiring to Three Chimneys, Flower Alley shared victories as a two-year-old, plus another in the Acorn S. with Sharp Humor the distinction of being one of the at three. Stella Madrid produced the Grade III winner first sons of Distorted Humor to stand in Kentucky. Isle de France to Nureyev before being sold to Japan, Sharp Humor, who started out at $12,500, currently where she became the dam of the champion mare ranks seventh among the second-crop sires by Diamond Biko, winner of several Group races at around cumulative earnings and 11th by 2011 earnings, so a mile. both sons of Distorted Humor are showing some My Bupers= other notable descendants include the top promise. Japanese colt Heart=s Cry, the Irish Oaks winner As Flower Alley ran only once at two and earned his , the South African champion Kimberley Mine biggest paychecks over a mile and a quarter, he was and the Hollywood Derby winner Super Quercus, so never likely to be one of the front runners among the Lilacs and Lace wouldn=t have been such a longshot to new sires of 2010. However, he first enjoyed Graded become a Grade I winner if judged purely on her success with Bouquet Booth, when she won the bloodlines. GIII Delta Downs Princess S. last November. Bouquet LILACS AND LACE, f, 2008 Booth filled fourth place behind Lilacs and Lace when Mr. Prospector Lilacs and Lace led throughout to score her 48-1 Forty Niner File success in the GI Ashland S. Distorted Humor Danzig The most striking aspect of Flower Alley=s pedigree is Danzig’s Beauty Sweetest Chant his 3x3 inbreeding to Mr. Prospector, coupled with 4x4 Flower Alley Mr. Prospector inbreeding to Northern Dancer. Lilacs And Lace=s Lycius Lypatia pedigree includes 5x5x4 inbreeding to Mr. Prospector=s Princess Olivia Sadler’s Wells sire Raise A Native, whereas Bouquet Booth is out of a Dance Image (Ire) mare with two lines of Northern Dancer, creating Diamond Spring Boldnesian 5x5x5x4 to that exceptional stallion. Bold Reasoning Reason to Earn Other stallions inbred within four generations to Seattle Slew Poker Mr. Prospector include Tapit, El Corredor, the Fair Charmer French-based Elusive City, Read The Footnotes, Refinement 10fls, 1GSW Raise a Native Storming Home, Roman Ruler, Limehouse and Alydar Stella Madrid Sweet Tooth Whywhywhy. Tapit=s 2011 Grade I winner Zazu is one MGISW Gallant Romeo with a third line of Mr. Prospector (4x5x4), as is his 6Fls, 1Ch, 2GSW My Juliet 10Fls, 2GISW Grade I-winning daughter Laragh (4x5x5). My Bupers