Alan Porter, August 21, 2002 –Chiselling

Image of Reality' s sire, In Reality, w as inbred 3x3 to War WEEKEND PEDIGREE PERSPECTIVES Relic, w ho in turn w as inbred 3x3 to and Fairy by Alan Porter Gold, tw o of the grandparents of Man o' War. Image of Reality' s dam w as by Cornish Prince, and his grandsire, Eight Thirty, is also inbred to Rock Sand and Fairy Gold. In tail- S.-GI, $400,000, APX, 8-17, 3yo, female line, Cornish Prince goes back t o A dargatis, a dual 1 1/4mT, 2:04, fm. classic w inner w ho w as also three-parts sist er to the great 1--CHISELLING, 121, c, 3 , by Woodman matron La Troienne. 1st Dam: (GISW -US & GSW-Eng, w as a shrew d choice to reinforce the Cornish $552,751), by El Gran Senor Prince segment of the pedigree. Whereas the dam of Cornish 2nd Dam: Image of Reality, by In Reality Prince w as by Eight Thirt y (inbred to tw o grandparents of Man 3rd Dam: Edee's Image, by Cornish Prince o' War, and having a three-parts sister to as his O/B-Juddmont e Farms Inc (KY); T-Robert ; J-K granddam) and tracing to a three-parts-sister to La Troienne, El J Desormeaux; $240,000. Lifetime Record: 7-3-2-1, Gran Senor w as out of a inbred to La Troienne through $383,760. * 1/2 to (Mr. Prospector), her granddaughter and grandson, and Mr. , GISW-US, GSW & MG1SP-GB, $1,944,314; Honest both by War Admiral. In addition, El Gran Senor also brought Lady (), GISW, $894,168; and Decarchy in , a son of Teresina and a three-parts brother to Image (Distant View), MGSW, $489,665. of Reality' s fourth dam Teret ania. Chiselling's sire, Woodman, has drifted in and out of There is no doubt that El Gran Senor w as a great commercial favor, and his record is almost the opposite of El racehorse. The son of won seven of eight starts, including a vint age renew al of the G1 2000 Guineas Gran Senor' s in that the tremendous number of he has (in w hich he defeated , and Rainbow covered has hurt his statistics and rather obscured just how Quest); the G1 , at the chief expense of Rainbow good a stallion he is (larger books to increase opportunity, but Quest; and the G1 Dew hurst Stakes. In fact, El Gran Senor because only a limited number of mares w ill have pedigrees may w ell have retired undefeated had he not gone down by and/or physiques which suit the stallion, opportunity doesn't inches t o in the G1 after being given increase in direct proportion t o the number of mares covered). w hat w as generally regarded as an over-confident ride. Although Woodman's tally of stakes w inners stands at only El Gran Senor might have also passed into hist ory as a seven percent, he comes up w ith a top horse virtually every great sire had it not been for fertility problems w hich saw him year, and they include North American champions and classic sire only 392 foals from 14 years at stud. Of those 392 foals, w inners Hansel and Timber Country; Hector Protector and no less than 52 w on black-type event s, giving a w orld-class Bosra Sham, both classic w inners and champions in Europe; 13 percent stakes w inners from foals. These included Canadian champion and classic w inner Woodcarver; champion champion sprinter Lit de Justice; , a Japanese sprinter and miler Hishi Akebono; champion French champion and classic winner in England; Helmsman, a tw o-year-old colt Way of Light, and other Group/Grade I champion at tw o in Ireland, and a GISW in North A merica; as w inners Hula Angel, Ciro and M ahogany Hall. This year, in w ell as other Group/Grade I w inners Kundalini, Senor Tomas, addition to Chiselling, he is also represented by one of Spanish Fern, , Corrazona, , Le Europe's best three-year-olds, the GI Eclipse Stakes winner Triton, and Toussaud, a remarkable haul w hen one Hawk Wing, and South African Group 1 scorer Timber Trader. considers that his fertility problems discouraged breeders Breeding Toussaud to Woodman w as a very logical move as from sending him their best mares. it not only resulted in a three-parts brother to her first foal, the It appears that El Gran Senor might also be every bit as GI Arlington Million winner Chester House (by Woodman's good a broodmare sire. His daughters have produced 98 sire, Mr. Prospector), but also strengthened the La Troienne starters to date, and no less than 18 of them have won background of El Gran Senor' s pedigree. Like El Gran Senor, graded stakes, including the Group/Grade I w inners Grand Woodman is out of a mare and like El Gran Senor, Slam, Poplar Bluff, Vicar, Honest Lady, Chester House and his dam is also inbred t o three-parts sist ers from the La this w eekend' s GI Secretariat S. w inner, Chiselling. Honest Troienne family, in his case, Busanda and Striking, w ho are Lady, Chester House and Chiselling are all out of Toussaud, 2x3 in the pedigree of Woodman's dam, Playmate. So in all, w ho now ow ns the remarkable record of producing four Chiselling has Buckpasser 3x4, and the sister/brother Striking graded-stakes w inners--including three Grade I w inners--from and Mr. Busher 5x6, w ith their three-parts sist er Busanda 4x5. her first five foals. And behind all this La Troienne is a strain of her three-parts Toussaud was also one of El Gran Senor's best on the sister, Adargatis. racetrack. Winner over colts of the G3 Van Gheest Criterion Accumulat ing the La Troienne strain also w orked w hen Stakes in England, Toussaud w on four of nine starts in North Toussaud w as bred to Seattle Slew, w ho is out of a mare America, including the GI Gamely H., GII American H. and GII inbred to the War Admiral/La Troienne cross, to get the Wilshire H. El Gran Senor actually managed to get Toussaud's excellent filly Honest Lady. A very similar mating produced dam, Image of Reality, in foal tw o years running, the first graded-stakes w inner Indygo Shiner w ho is by A.P. Indy (a mating resulting in Toussaud' s sister, the GIII Vineland H. Seattle Slew son with Buckpasser in his dam) out of victress Navarra. Toussaud's sister, Navarra. Tw o other stakes winners out of El As Image of Reality's name suggests, she w as a daughter of Gran Senor mares have inbreeding to Buckpasser, and there is In Reality. A graded stakes w inner herself in the GII Milady also a stakes w inner by Woodman's son, Mujtahid, out of a H., Image of Reality traced to the noted Aga Khan tap-root mare El Gran Senor' s son, Al Hareb, and so bred on very mare Teresina via her granddam Ortalan, a half-sister to the similar lines to Chiselling. Matron and Spinaw ay S. w inner Candalit a, and the GI Gulfstream Park H. w inner, Hail the Pirates. There is some very intelligent inbreeding and linebreeding in the pedigrees of Chiselling himself, his dam and granddam.