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Andrew Caulfield, July 27, 2010- (GB) It had already been a remarkable year for , PEDIGREE INSIGHTS whose total of eight individual group/graded winners BY ANDREW CAULFIELD has been bettered only by his Banstead Manor Stud companion . In addition to his Group 1 KING GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH S. winners Harbinger and Proviso, Dansili has enjoyed (SPONSORED BY BETFAIR)-G1, ,1,000,000, Ascot, 7- 2010 group success with Aviate, Famous Name, Ice 24, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT, 2:26.78 (NTR), gd. Blue, Illustrious Blue, Strawberrydaiquiri and Zoffany. 1--HARBINGER (GB), 133, c, 4, by Dansili (GB) His total of group/graded winners now stands at 26, 1st Dam: Penang Pearl (Fr), by (GB) with no fewer than 25 of them coming from Dansili=s 2nd Dam: Guapa (GB), by first six crops, all sired at fees of ,12,500 or less (he 3rd Dam: Sauceboat (GB), by (GB) started out at ,8,000). (180,000gns yrl >07 TATOCT). O-Highclere The 2006 Group 1 triumphs by in the Arc, Racing (Admiral Rous); B-Mrs A K H by Passage of Time in the Criterium de Saint-Cloud and Ooi; T-Sir ; J-; ,567,700. by Price Tag in the Matriarch S. could be said to have Lifetime Record: 9-6-1-1, ,773,930. Click for the acted as harbingers of even greater success for Dansili. eNicks report and 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for Consequently, his fee was raised to ,30,000 in 2007, the Racing Post chart, the TRN1.com pps or the free brisnet.com and this crop has already produced its first group catalogue-style pedigree. Video, courtesy attheraces.com. winner in Zoffany, who was scoring for the fourth time In America, Dansili is probably best known as a son in five starts when he took the G3 Tyros S. last week. of that extraordinary mare and as a brother to the Since then, Dansili has added to his reputation with Breeders= Cup winners and the likes of (G1 Grand Prix de ), (as well as to the Grade I winners and Champs Delegator (second to in the 2000 Elysees). But in Europe, he has made a name for Guineas) and Famous Name (a multiple group winner himself, to such an extent that he has become firmly who was a close second from a poor draw in the 2008 established as one of Britain=s highest-priced . Prix du Jockey-Club). And now Dansili has achieved international stardom as the sire of Harbinger, the incredibly easy King George winner who is being hailed as the best horse in the Caulfield cont. world.

www.coolmore.com (Pedigree Insights cont.) Dansili=s success with this line mirrors that enjoyed This consistent success has earned him some stellar by . The former Coolmore sired books of mares over the last three seasons. His current numerous Group 1 winners from the Mr. Prospector yearling crop shows that Dansili is now receiving branch, including , Landseer and powerful support not just from (the breeder Flying Spur. Other branches of the line of five of his six Group 1 winners), but also from a supplied Danehill with George Washington and Dress To wide range of other breeders. His yearlings are out of Thrill, while the Atan/ branch gave him such accomplished mares as , , and . Maryinsky, Montare, Pride and Virginia Waters--Virginia Mention of Duke of Marmalade and Dylan Thomas Waters being just one of five winners of the English or reminds me that Harbinger follows them as the third French 1000 Guineas with a Dansili yearling. member of the Danehill- The fact that Dansili=s 42 stakes winners have 34 male line to win the King different broodmare sires underlines his versatility. George in the last four However, he has enjoyed particularly encouraging years. The race has results with mares from several branches of the Native almost become the Dancer male line, which is interesting because his sire, preserve of the Northern Danehill, was inbred 3x3 to =s famous Dancer male line, and daughter . Harbinger has four lines The Atan/Sharpen Up branch has supplied five stakes to this great winners, headed by the Group 2 winner Strategic Price (4x6x5x4), plus extra and the Group 3 winner Silver Touch. Mares from the lines to =s Raise a Native branch have also worked well, largely Dansili Juddmonte dam Natalma and second from the Mr. Prospector sector. Mr. Prospector=s dam , through granddaughters have produced the group winners Danehill and Arctic Tern. Proviso, Zacinto and Zoffany and a As a winner at up to 13.4 furlongs, Harbinger clearly great-granddaughter, by , produced Zambezi stays much better than Dansili, who only once ventured Sun. The Native branch also produced a beyond a mile. The fact that Harbinger=s first two dams Group 1 winner, with Price Tag being out of an are daughters of mile-and-a-half Derby winners has Affirmed mare. Harbinger=s dam Penang Pearl is by clearly helped him, but there is no shortage of speed in Bering, whose male line traces to Native Dancer via his female line. Arctic Tern, Sea-Bird II and Dan Cupid. This means that His sixth dam, Blackberry, was described in four of Dansili=s Group 1 winners are out of Native Racehorses of 1954 as Aa very speedy filly and a quick Dancer-line mares. It is worth adding that Dansili=s first beginner, and she is one of the best sprinters in eight foals out of Bering mares also include Handsome training.@ suggested that five furlongs was Maestro, a group-placed with a Timeform rating of probably her best distance. 115. Mating Blackberry to Grey , a notoriously temperamental sprinter, resulted in an even faster filly Harbinger (GB), c, 2006 in Harbinger=s fifth dam, Queensberry. This big, Northern Dancer muscular filly reeled off wide-margin victories in the Pas de Nom Molecomb, Lowther and Cheveley Park S. to earn Danehill second place among the fillies on the 1959 Free Razyana Spring Adieu Handicap. Although Queensberry stayed well enough to Dansili (GB) take the 1000 Guineas Trial on her reappearance at (Ire) Kadissya three, her performance in the Classic suggested that a Hasili (Ire) High Line (GB) mile was beyond her, and she never raced . Kerali (GB) Queensberry=s owner Colonel Hornung decided to try *Sea-Bird to inject some stamina into her offspring by sending her Arctic Tern Bubbling Beauty mainly to stallions that had shone over a mile and a half Bering (GB) or more. One of her first mates was the versatile Beaune (Fr) Penang Pearl (Fr) Barbra (Fr) , who won the 2000 Guineas and Derby in SW, 16-3-5-1 Northern Dancer 1957 to help his legendary trainer Sir 9Fls, 1GSW Shareef Dancer Guapa (GB) Sweet Alliance record the first of his eight trainers= championships. 8-2-2-0 7Fls, 1SW Sauceboat (GB) Connaught (GB) 11Fls, 2GSW Cranberry Sauce Caulfield cont. Queensberry=s Crepello filly Cranberry Sauce went into training with Murless and helped him to another trainers= championship in 1967. She proved to have inherited a measure of her dam=s speed, as she showed when she comfortably won the Nell Gwyn S. over seven furlongs, but she also possessed some of Crepello=s stamina, as she demonstrated with mile-and-a-quarter victories at Newmarket in the Pretty Polly and Sun Chariot S. and in in the Prix Fille de l=Air. Timeform insisted that Cranberry Sauce didn=t get the trip when narrowly beaten in the over a mile and a half. Cranberry Sauce in turn was mated to Connaught, a big, burly horse whose difficult temperament tested Murless=s skills to the limit. Although Connaught had looked to be on his way to victory in the Derby until swept past, he was probably at his most effective when galloping his rivals into submission over a mile and a quarter. Consequently, it was no surprise that Sauceboat, his daughter out of Cranberry Sauce, also a mile and a quarter her limit. Indeed, she did most of her winning over a mile, and was good enough over that distance to defeat the males in the Lockinge S., only to be disqualified. Sauceboat produced winners of two races that nowadays carry Group 1 status, with her Welsh Pageant colt of Hush taking the 1982 Prince of Wales=s S. and her Kris filly Dusty Dollar winning the 1986 Sun Chariot S. Both were suited by a mile and a quarter. It was a visit by Sauceboat to Shareef Dancer that resulted in Harbinger=s second dam Guapa, who was trained by Michael Stoute before he received his knighthood. She wasn=t one of the leading lights in the Stoute yard and had to be dispatched to Hamilton and Wolverhampton to gain her victories. Although her sire won the , Guapa did all her racing at around a mile, which suggests she inherited a measure of her female line=s speed. It was a similar story with Harbinger=s dam, Penang Pearl. She, too, was sired by a mile-and-a-half Classic winner in Bering, winner of the Prix du Jockey-Club, but her finest moment came when she won the October S. on her return to a mile, having raced at up to 1 5/16 miles.