Andrew Caulfield, August 19, 2008– (Ire) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD

Sunday, Leopardstown, Ireland BALLYGALLON STUD DEBUTANTE S.-G2, i125,000, Leopardstown, 8-17, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:33.15, hy. 1--#@AGAIN (IRE), 124, f, 2, by Dancer (Ire) 1st Dam: Cumbres (Fr), by (Ire) 2nd Dam: Floripedes (Fr), by (Ire) 3rd Dam: Toute Cy (Fr), by Tennyson (Fr) O- & Susan Magnier; B-Southern Bloodstock; T-; J-; i81,250. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, i92,997. *3/4 to Arkadina (Ire) (Danehill), GSP-Ire. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree or for the Racing Post race chart. Video courtesy attheraces.com. If you think the weather has been bad at Saratoga, spare a thought for Europe. When the doom-mongers started to warn about global warming, we Northern Europeans consoled ourselves with the selfish thought that we wouldn=t have to travel to Spain or Greece to enjoy a long, hot summer. Unfortunately, that interpretation seems to be well wide of the mark. Instead of extra sunshine, read extra rainfall. Consequently the ground has often been soft at this year=s Deauville meeting and the forecast for today=s York showpiece is for the ground to be as heavy as it was two days ago at Leopardstown (where the number of group races was bolstered to five by the addition of three held over from a waterlogged meeting at The Curragh).

AGAIN, f, 2006 Pas de Nom Danehill His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu (Ire) Atan (GB) Rocchetta (GB) Mira Adonde Caro (Ire) Lettre d’Amour Lianga II Roseliere Kahyasi (Ire) Cumbres (Fr) Kadissya unraced Kalkeen (Ire) 9Fls, 1GSW, (Ire) Floripedes (Fr) Top Ville (Ire) 1GSP 5-2-1-1, $95,930 Sega Ville 10Fls, 1Ch, 1GSW Toute Cy (Fr) Tennyson (Fr) 1SW 7Fls, 2GSW Adele Toumignon A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a s will denote a first-time Grade/Group 1 winner, a + will indicate first-time starters, an (S) will be used for state- bred races.

www.coolmore.com I=ve always thought that fewer horses are capable of Michael Tabor then bought a major share in , reproducing their best form on heavy turf than on very and the partnership was rewarded with six Group 1 firm, but one stallion whose progeny rarely seem victories, including the Derby, , Arc and King inconvenienced by very soft ground is Danehill Dancer. George. He enjoyed a group race treble at Leopardstown, thanks At around the same time, Kahyasi=s most famous to Snaefell in the G3 Phoenix Sprint, Again in the G2 broodmare daughter, , was beginning her Debutante S. and Caribbean Sunset in the G3 Desmond extraordinarily successful partnership with Danehill, S. Snaefell=s victory in a close finish was at the main with their first two foals, and , expense of another son of Danehill Dancer highlighting this cross=s potential. Consequently (Georgebernardshaw) and a granddaughter (Kyniska), Cumbres was transferred to Ireland, where she had and Danehill Dancer also sired the third in the produced two foals by Danehill and two others by his Desmond. sons Desert King and Danehill Dancer. Her winning This excellent treble was gained over six, seven and Danehill filly Arkadina has been placed twice in mile- eight furlongs, which is pretty much what one might and-a-half stakes races this year, including at Group 3 expect of a stallion who was a Group 1 winner over six level, but this is one occasion where Danehill Dancer and seven furlongs at two, and who never tackled more has done better than his exceptional sire. than a mile. There is another side to Danehill Dancer, The Danehill-Kahyasi cross has been further though, as his daughters Anna Pavlova and Ice Queen advertised by the group successes of , have demonstrated this year. Anna Pavlova--a , , and renowned mudlark--won the G2 Lancashire Oaks over Danelissima, but Kahyasi mares also have 2008 1 1/2 miles, whereas Ice Queen failed by only a short G1 winners by Zamindar (the exciting ) and head to land the G1 Irish Oaks over the same distance. Indian Ridge, plus a Group 3 winner by Oasis Dream With the unbeaten (G1 Phoenix S.) (like Danehill Dancer, a grandson of Danzig). also to his credit, Danehill Dancer currently ranks third Again=s second dam Floripedes established herself as behind and Montjeu on Britain and Ireland=s a fine stayer by winning the G3 Prix de Lutece over general sires= list (one place above his sire Danehill), and 1 7/8 miles and by finishing an admirable second he also heads the two-year-old table. against the males in the Prix Royal-Oak (French St While I should point out that Danehill Dancer has had Leger). The next dam Toute Cy was by Tennyson, more runners than any of his competitors, I should also winner of the Grand Prix de over nearly two miles, mention that there=s a distinct possibility that the best and Toute Cy passed on plenty of stamina to her son is yet to come from this stallion, whose fee was once Dadarissime. Even though he was inbred to the very as low as IR3,500gns. He stood the 2006 season at fast Zeddaan, Dadarissime developed into an i75,000 and both the 2007 and 2008 seasons at accomplished stayer, with three group victories over i115,000, whereas his three group winners on Sunday distances just short of two miles. Toute Cy=s were sired during a period when his fee ranged from distinguished brother Le Mamamouchi also showed very i30,000 to i45,000. smart form at around two miles in France. Again, who carries the colors of Michael Tabor, ranks American racegoers will know this family through alongside Mastercraftsman, Westphalia and Abbeyside Montjeu=s half-brother Le Paillard, runner-up in the San as one of four stakes winners from Danehill Dancer=s Juan Capistrano H., and through Toute Cy=s half- current crop of juveniles. As she gained her first brother Dear Doctor, a group winner from 1 1/4 to 1 success over a mile, she will have appreciated the 1/2 miles in four different countries, including the USA, testing conditions when dropped back to seven furlongs where he won the GI Arlington Million and was second at Leopardstown. Indeed, there=s every reason to think in the Turf Classic. she will eventually stay as well as Ice Queen and Anna As several of Danehill Dancer=s daughters, such as Pavlova, as her dam Cumbres has a stamina-packed Alexander Tango, Callwood Dancer, Caribbean Sunset pedigree. and Good Mood, have performed well in North America, Cumbres=s career has undergone quite a it=s possible that Again may one day also be seen in transformation. Born in 1993, she never made it to the action in a major American prize. races and her sire, the dual Derby winner Kahyasi, was being shamefully neglected by breeders in the second half of the >nineties (when his progeny were becoming popular in the jumping world). When Cumbres made her debut as a broodmare as a three-year-old, the stallion selected for her was Sin Kiang, a Group 3 winner also belonging to her owner Sir James Goldsmith (who was to die in 1997). The picture started to change in 1998, when Cumbres= half-brother Montjeu showed Classic potential in winning his first two starts in the colors of Tsega Ltd, a company owned by Goldsmith=s friend Laure Boulay de la Meurthe.