Andrew Caulfield, June 17, 2008–Tizdejavu P EDIGREE INSIGHTS That column was prompted by the Breeders' Cup debacle at Monmouth, and I felt sufficiently confident BY ANDREW CAULFIELD to add that: "While all-weather surfaces aren't entirely without Saturday, their own problems, they are safer and kinder to the JEFFERSON CUP S.-GII, $222,600, CDX, 6-14, 3yo, horses, as California has recognized. The welfare issue 1 1/8mT, 1:49, fm. seems sure to make a widespread switch to all-weather 1--TIZDEJAVU, 121, c, 3, by surfaces inevitable." 1st Dam: Remember When, by Dixie Brass 2nd Dam: Solo Haina, by Solo Landing 3rd Dam: Lahaina, by Native Dancer Foggy Note Cee’s Tizzy O/B-Michael L Cooper & Pamela C Ziebarth (KY); Lyphard Tizly T-Gregory Fox; J-Garrett K Gomez; $133,872. Tizna Tiznow Lifetime Record: 6-3-2-1, $271,187. Werk Nick Seattle Song Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click Incantation Cee’s Song for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com Nice Dancer Lonely Dancer catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Sleep Lonely It is only around seven months ago that I mentioned Dixieland Band in this column how difficult it is for breeders to know Mississippi Mud Dixie Brass exactly what type of horse they should be trying to Sham Petite Diable produce for tomorrow's American industry--a traditional Remember When Taste of Life 5-1-1-0, $14,200 dirt horse, or one with a pedigree geared more to First Landing 6Fls, 2Wnrs, 1GSW Solo Haina Solo Landing all-weather surfaces. MSW, 39-13-11-6 Darlin Patrice ANext year's Breeders' Cup is scheduled for Santa 10Fls, 5Wnrs, Lahaina Native Dancer Anita's Cushion Track,@ I pointed out, "but what are the 1GSW, 1GSP 12Fls, 2SW Rosa Bonheur II chances of other major events, such as the Triple Crown races, being switched to synthetic surfaces? The bloodstock industry surely needs to know how Caulfield cont. likely this is, and the timescale for any changes.@

www.coolmore.com Although Santa Anita's failure to cope with extreme He's not nearly so prominent on the turf list, but weather conditions represented a serious setback for three of this year's four stakes winners by his sire the synthetic cause, that setback has proved only Cee's Tizzy are turf horses. temporary, with the fall-out from Eight Belle's tragic It is worth bearing in mind that Tiznow's winners of loss acting as a powerful catalyst for change. There the and Belmont S. were conceived must now be an increased chance that--sooner rather when his fee was no higher than $30,000--the fee he than later--the likes of Churchill Downs, Belmont, commanded in his first four seasons. His fee went up Saratoga, Gulfstream, Monmouth, Oaklawn and Pimlico to $40,000 in 2006, after his first-crop daughter will join the nine North American tracks which have Folklore had proved herself the champion juvenile filly already converted to synthetic surfaces. of her generation, but some comparatively unexciting Obviously there are strong grounds for not rushing results in 2006 brought that fee back down to $25,000 any changes, with Santa Anita's problems sounding a for 2007. Tiznow is currently priced at $30,000 once note of caution, but wouldn't it be nice for breeders to again. Thirty thousand dollars doesn't sound like a lot know what they are aiming for before the next breeding to pay for a horse who was Horse of the Year at three season gets under way? Those 2009 matings will and champion older male at four, but Tiznow's original produce the Triple Crown horses of 2013, so will the fee reflected the fact that his parentage--by Cee's Tizzy goalposts have been moved by then? out of Cee's Song--was far from fashionable. But time One thing's for sure, any breeder who uses Tiznow has moved on and Tiznow is now one of four stakes will be covered for virtually any eventuality. The winners (three of them graded winners) produced by WinStar resident's three graded-winning three-year-olds this pairing, and his growing tally of Grade I winners from his third crop comprise Colonel John, winner of suggests that the purists should start to forget his the GI Santa Anita Derby on synthetic; Da' Tara, who humble origins. relished the dirt as he unexpectedly turned the GI Tiznow's achievements are made all the more Belmont S. into a one-horse race; and Tizdejavu, who admirable by the fact that none of his four Grade I has established himself as one of America's most winners is out of a stakes winner. Folklore's dam promising turf three-year-olds with a pair of graded Contrive is an unraced daughter of ; Tough wins. Tiz's Sis is out of a useful Texas-bred daughter of Altogether, Tiznow has five graded winners among Taylor's Falls; Colonel John is out of a winning his 2008 runners, the others being Tough Tiz's Sis, daughter of ; and Da' Tara is out of Torchera, winner of the GII Hawthorne H. over Hollywood Park's a stakes-placed daughter of Pirate's Bounty. Extend the Cushion track, and the ex-European Well Armed, who sample to include all of Tiznow's nine graded winners took the GII San Antonio H. at Santa Anita. It is from the 284 named foals in his first three crops and interesting that front-running tactics seem to bring out you'll find that none of them is out of a graded winner, the best in Da' Tara, Tizdejavu and Well Armed, as though Well Armed and Bear Now are out of Tiznow also gained some of his finest victories from the stakes-winning dams. Tizdejavu's dam Remember When front. was a minor sprint winner by Dixie Brass, but she does Of course the dual GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner have a graded-winning brother in Polished Brass. raced exclusively on dirt, before the advent of synthetic Da' Tara's female line is also notable for the fact that surfaces, but it isn't too surprising that he is adept at it produced both the first and second in the Belmont, siring winners on all types of track. For a start, he is the runner-up Denis of Cork being a grandson of inbred 4x4 to Northern Dancer, the stallion who Torchera's good sister Sound Wisdom. The dams of Da' revolutionized turf racing in Europe, and he is out of a Tara and Denis of Cork were both bred by Mr and Mrs by Seattle Song, a high-class turf horse who won Martin Wygod, with Da' Tara's second dam, Kaylem the G1 Prix de la Salamandre in France and the GI Ho, being a $32,000 purchase by Wygod at the 1986 Washington D.C. International in the U.S. Tiznow's Keeneland November Sales. other grandsire, Relaunch, enjoyed plenty of success over Del Mar's turf course, but also handled dirt well enough to finish second at Grade I and II levels. Although he was responsible for that admirable turf horse With Anticipation, Relaunch proved a typical son of In Reality in that most of his success as a stallion came with his dirt runners, such as Skywalker (Breeders' Cup Classic), Waquoit (Jockey Club Gold Cup), One Dreamer (Breeders' Cup Distaff) and Honour and Glory (Metropolitan H.). In other words, Tiznow's immediate ancestors were a varied bunch, in terms of aptitude, and this is showing in his versatility as a stallion. At the age of 11, Tiznow currently ranks second to Smart Strike on the general sires' list and holds a narrow lead over Giant's Causeway on the synthetic sires' table (with 41 percent of his earnings coming from that area).