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Andrew Caulfield, November 22, 2005–Your Tent or Mine P EDIGREE INSIGHTS That colt, Your Tent Or Mine, provided Forest Camp with his first major victory as a sire three days ago, BY ANDREW CAULFIELD when he quickened impressively between horses to take the GIII Hollywood Prevue S. by two and a half HOLLYWOOD PREVUE S.-GIII, $100,000, HOL, 11-19, lengths. Another of Forest Camp’s sons, The Pharaoh-- 2yo, 7f, 1:21, ft. who had previously chased home Stevie Wonderboy in 1--#@YOUR TENT OR MINE, 118, c, 2, by Forest Camp the Del Mar Futurity--filled third place to turn the Prevue 1st Dam: Shes Got the Look (MSP, $182,333), by Prospector's Music into something of a milestone for the Airdrie stallion. 2nd Dam: Hord, by Private Account The GI Hollywood Futurity is the likely next step for 3rd Dam: Acquire, by Spectacular Bid Your Tent Or Mine, now unbeaten in two starts. As ($310,000 yrl '04 KEESEP; $250,000 2yo 2005 that Grade I event carried a first-prize last year of over FTFFEB). O-Anthony Speelman; B-R C Durr & George $250,000, it could have a sizeable impact on the Budig (KY); T-Neil D Drysdale; J-P A Valenzuela; year-end first-crop sire standings. Forest Camp, though, $60,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $91,800. looks to have too much ground to make up on the Click for Brisnet.com chart or Brisnet.com Catalogue-Style Pedigree current leaders Tiznow (sire of the GI Breeders’ Cup Video, sponsored by Taylor Made Juvenile Filly winner Folklore) and El Corredor (sire of Nearly four years ago, when Brereton C. Jones the GI Frizette winner Adieu). Songandaprayer is by no announced the purchase of Forest Camp for stallion means out of it, either, even though his strong team of duties, the Airdrie Stud supreme had the following to stakes horses was severely depleted by the death of his say: best son What A Song. “I’ve been a big fan of this horse since he annihilated Forest Camp notched his 13th winner from 26 a top field in the GII Del Mar Futurity. He won by 5 1/2 starters when his daughter Yachats won a maiden at pulling away. It was an extremely brilliant race. He beat Aqueduct two days ago, with that win increasing his Dixie Union, Captain Steve, Anees, Commendable. He earnings to $717,172. This filly’s victory was yet beat them all.” another for a first-time starter by this hot young Jones also had this to say about the son of Deputy stallion. Minister: Forest Camp’s fee is beginning to climb, having risen “This is no secret--the racehorses that are the brilliant first to $15,000 in 2004 and now to $20,000 for next two-year-olds by the right sires have the right sire year. It is going to be interesting to see how he fares in success. He was a top two-year-old and Deputy Minister is a sire of sires.” the long term. Robert and Beverly Lewis obviously have The former Governor of Kentucky clearly had no no doubts about his potential, as they happily paid problems in persuading breeders to share his $1,000,000 for one of his yearling sons at Keeneland in enthusiasm for Forest Camp. Although the horse didn’t September. arrive at Airdrie until the last day of 2001, by which By my reckoning, Forest Camp is no less than the time plans for many mares had already been finalised, 18th son of Deputy Minister to sire a graded-stakes 127 mares were soon heading in Forest Camp’s winner in North America and he will soon be bidding to direction. become the 10th to sire a Group 1 winner, following Forest Camp’s fee had been set at only $10,000 and Awesome Again, the soon-to-be repatriated Dehere, he proved excellent value at that figure. Eighteen Deputy Commander, French Deputy, Salt Lake, Service first-crop weanlings averaged $67,417 and then 39 Stripe, Silver Deputy, Touch Gold and Victory Speech. yearlings achieved an average of just under $90,000, Looks like Jones was right to describe Deputy Minister with a high of $450,000. The demand for his stock as a sire of sires! continued at the two-year-old sales, with the highest Deputy Minister was champion sire on two occasions price the $250,000 paid by Shawn Dugan on behalf of in North America, where he has also been champion Anthony Speelman for a colt out of Shes Got The Look. sire of broodmares, so he has left a rich legacy. www.coolmore.com Fortunately this legacy looks likely to prove Your Tent or Mine, c, 2003 long-lasting, now that his team of Grade I-winning Northern Dancer grandsons available to breeders include Ghostzapper, Vice Regent Victoria Regina Toccet, Ten Most Wanted, Midas Eyes and Mass Deputy Minister Bunty’s Flight Media. Mint Copy Shakney The aspect of Forest Camp’s story which interests Forest Camp Speak John me most is that he shares the same broodmare sire-- Hold Your Peace Blue Moon Hold Your Peace--as French Deputy, with Forest Camp La Paz Crafty Drone Classy Craft being out of the stakes-winning La Paz, while French Classy Stamp Deputy’s dam was the Grade I-winning Mitterand. Raise a Native Mr. Prospector Incidentally, Forest Camp’s son The Pharaoh is inbred Gold Digger Shes Got The Prospector’s Music 3x3 to Hold Your Peace. The Minstrel Hold Your Peace packed 39 races into his three years Look Minstrella 31-5-3-5, Flight Dancer on the track and this durability extended to his $182,334 Damascus Private Account daughters, with Mitterand and La Paz making 17 and 3Fls, 1GSW Hord Numbered Account 26 appearances, respectively. However, French Deputy Unraced 9Fls, 1SP Acquire Spectacular Bid and Forest Camp weren’t as hard-wearing, as French 9Fls, 1SW Disco Diane Deputy managed only six starts in two seasons and Forest Camp never had more than four starts in any of his three years in training, racing a total of 11 times. Speed was the main asset of both of these sons of Deputy Minister and the Airdrie team must be hoping that the similarities between Forest Camp and French Deputy continue to grow (but not in every respect). You may remember that French Deputy was sold in December 2000 to the Shadai Corporation in Japan, his sale coming after he had been represented by only a pair of Grade III winners--one in England and one in the U.S.--from his first two crops. He had had only one minor stakes winner among his first runners in 1999. The situation looked very different only a year after French Deputy’s sale. When the International Classifications for the 2001 season were published, he was represented by the outstanding Japanese colt Kurofune (125), Left Bank (120), the Japanese-trained Grass Eiko O (111) and Queue (110). Leaving aside his top Japanese runners, which also included the smart Nobo Jack, French Deputy’s contribution to American breeding amounted to 11 graded winners, from five crops containing just over 300 foals. They included three Grade I winners and another three at Grade II level. It was a great shame that his best American son, Left Bank, succumbed to colic after his stunning victory over Street Cry and Lido Palace in the 2002 GI Whitney H. French Deputy’s male line may well live on, though, as Kurofune eventually joined him at Shadai. (Kurofune’s son wins Japanese Group 3 p2) Forest Camp will do well to match his close relative’s achievements, but he has a bright prospect in Your Tent Or Mine. The Prevue winner is out of Shes Got The Look, a stakes-placed mare by Mr. Prospector’s non-winning son Prospector’s Music. As Shes Got The Look was conceived at a fee of $2,500, you could jump to the conclusion that this is a moderate family. However, the next three mares in Your Tent Or Mine’s female line are daughters of Private Account, Spectacular Bid and Tom Rolfe, so his bloodlines carry the Claiborne hallmark..