Andrew Caulfield, August 4, 2011-Coil wasn=t without speed, as he showed by PEDIGREE INSIGHTS going close to the track record in winning the BY ANDREW CAULFIELD six-furlong Tallahassee H. as a 4-year-old, while =s dam, Turko=s Turn, was fast enough to win a HASKELL INVITATIONAL S.-GI, $1,020,000, MTH, stakes race over 5 1/2 furlongs as a juvenile. 7-31, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 1:48 1/5, ft. So why was I worried? Someone once assured me 1--sCOIL, 118, c, 3, by Point Given that some broodmare sires effectively act as a 1st Dam: Eversmile, by Theatrical (Ire) handbrake in a stallion=s quest for success. The stallion 2nd Dam: Avasand, by he cited was Vaguely Noble, a very disappointing sire 3rd Dam: Sandy Blue, by Windy Sands of sires in the Northern Hemisphere. Vaguely Noble also O-Karl Watson, Michael E Pegram & Paul Weitman; figured as the broodmare sire of quite a few less-than- B-Glen Hill Farm (FL); T-; J-Martin Garcia; notable stallions, such as Dahar, Local Talent, $600,000. Lifetime Record: 6-4-1-1, $748,560. Werk L=Emigrant, Homebuilder, Touching Wood, Fools Holme, Nick Rating: A++. Local Suitor and the short-lived Golden Fleece. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Just about all you need to know about Turkoman as a sire is that he started out at a fee of $60,000 at a Click for brisnet.com chart, brisnet.com PPs or brisnet.com major farm in Kentucky, and that his fee had sunk as catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. low as $3,500 before he was moved to California. From over 700 foals, Turkoman sired only six domestic When Point Given gave weight and a beating to five graded-stakes winners, his only Grade I winners being opponents in the 2001 GI Haskell Invitational H., his the turf horses Turk Passer and Man From Wicklow. future looked extremely bright. His Monmouth success Of course, Turkoman wasn=t the only high-class improved his impressive record to eight wins and three colt who failed to transfer his excellence to stud. seconds from 12 starts, and the son of Thunder So I wondered about Point Given, who, at around had matched his sire by taking two legs of the Triple 17 hands, appeared to have taken more after Crown. Twenty days later, Point Given crushed the Turkoman, who stood 16.3 hands, than the diminutive opposition in the GI Travers S., with The Blood-Horse . stating that this victory had catapulted him into I must admit this theory is possibly flawed, as Hard superstardom. But there was a major downside to his Spun, another sizeable, top-notch performer out of a Saratoga victory. A tendon strain in his left foreleg was Turkoman mare, is making a pleasing start with his first detected five days after the Midsummer Derby, and the runners. He numbers the smart English colt Red Duke decision was taken to retire him. among his seven winners. Although forced to miss the Breeders= Cup, Point Point Given=s career, though, has run along similar Given had done enough to take the titles of champion lines to Turkoman=s. After starting out at $125,000 in 3-year-old colt and Horse of the Year. As he had also 2002, his fee has fallen steadily, reaching $10,000 in finished runner-up to Macho Uno in the Eclipse voting 2010 and $7,500 this year. Inevitably, given the for 2-year-old male, there was little fault to be found support he initially received, there have been a few high with the racing record of the six-time Grade I winner. points, including Grade I victories by Go Between and But a top-class stallion prospect also needs to offer a Point Ashley, but his son Coil became only his seventh fashionable pedigree and the right conformation. His individual graded winner when he won the GIII sire Thunder Gulch was still in vogue, commanding an H. in June. Now, of course, Coil has become Grade I $80,000 fee in 2002, having sired in his first winner number three, emulating his sire in the Haskell. crop and Point Given and the GI CCA Oaks winner Point Given=s fee had still been as high as $30,000 in Tweedside in his second. 2007, the year of Coil=s conception, following some It was a somewhat different story, though, regarding good 2006 results by Go Between, Point Ashley, Point the bottom half of Point Given=s pedigree. My main Determined and . concern was that Point Given=s broodmare sire was Coil=s breeders, Glen Hill Farm, had another incentive Alydar=s son Turkoman. Not that there had been much for using him. Point Given=s second dam, Turbo Launch, to criticize during Turkoman=s racing career. Renowned was a stakes-winning daughter of , who had for being a powerful stretch runner, Turkoman was raced for Glen Hill=s founder Leonard Lavin. Glen Hill effective over 1 1/4 miles and 1 1/2 miles, just as Farm also owed a debt to Relaunch for his daughter Alydar had been. Turkoman=s achievements included a One Dreamer, winner of the Breeders= Cup Distaff. record-breaking effort in the GI Widener H., a victory in Relaunch made quite an impact on the Breeders= Cup, the GI Marlboro Cup Invitational H. and a second in the also siring the Classic-winning son Skywalker and 1986 GI Breeders= Cup Classic. He did so well that he appearing as the broodmare sire of Ghostzapper and was voted the champion older male of 1986. Forever Together.

All European post times in the TDN are local time " " " It would be interesting to speculate how much Coil would have fetched as a yearling in 2009. Four of the six Point Given yearlings sold that year made $5,000 or less, with the other two selling for $40,000 apiece. Coil would no doubt have proved more popular, as his dam Eversmile had cost $275,000 as a yearling. This daughter of the accomplished Theatrical was only a minor turf winner, but her half-sister Possibly Perfect had carried off the Eclipse Award for Turf Mare in 1995, when her five wins included Grade I triumphs in the Beverly D., Ramona H. and Gamely H. There is every reason to think that Coil could have further improvement in him, especially if he steps up to 1 1/4 miles or more. Point Given won the Belmont S. and so did his sire Thunder Gulch. The Belmont also represented the main victory by Avatar, the stallion responsible for Coil=s second dam, Avasand. Theatrical is another major 1 1/2-mile winner close up in Coil=s pedigree, so the Haskell winner did well to win over six furlongs as recently as May. Coil=s third dam Sandy Blue won the Hollywood Oaks over 1 1/18 miles. She also ranks as the second dam of Miserden, winner of the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud over 1 1/4 miles as a 2-year-old, and third dam of Eddington, whose finest moment came in the GI Pimlico Special over 1 3/16 miles.

COIL, c, 2008 Mr. Prospector Gulch Jameela Thunder Gulch Line of Thunder Point Given Alydar Turkoman Taba Turkos Turn Relaunch Turbo Launch Davids Tobin Nureyev Special Theatrical (Ire) Tree of Knowledge Sassafras (Fr) Eversmile (Ire) Sensibility 10-1-1-0 Graustark 4Fls, 1GSW Avatar Avasand Brown Berry 7-2-2-2 10Fls, 1Ch, 2GSW Sandy Blue Windy Sands 13Fls, 1GSW Blue Nola