Andrew Caulfield, Jan. 31, 2012-Algorithms Thanks to Home Sweet Aspen=s victory in the Santa PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Monica S., Candy Ride now has seven Grade I winners B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D to his credit from the 306 named foals in his first three crops. His fourth crop, three years old in 2012, has yet Sunday, Gulfstream Park to score at the top level, but numbers only 56 foals. HOLY BULL S.-GIII, $400,000, GPX, 1-29, 3yo, 1m, Fortunately Candy Ride=s new crop of 2-year-olds 1:36, sy. should easily compensate for this smaller crop, as they 1--#@ALGORITHMS, 116, c, 3, by Bernardini number 137 live foals. Candy Ride=s talent for upgrading 1st Dam: Ava Knowsthecode (GSP, $156,596), his mares shines through Home Sweet Aspen=s by Cryptoclearance pedigree. Her dam failed to win and none of her next 2nd Dam: Ava Romance, by Avatar three dams earned black type. Home Sweet Aspen is 3rd Dam: Sunny Romance, by Gallant Romeo also the first graded winner descending from any of the ($170,000 yrl '10 KEESEP). O-Starlight Racing; four. B-Oakbrook Farm (KY); T-Todd A Pletcher; J-Javier The doubling of Bernardini=s fee was fueled largely by Castellano; $240,000. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, the exploits of his impressive first crop, which achieved $301,500. *1/2 to Keyed Entry (Honour And Glory), the eye-catching feat of producing four Grade I winners MGSW & GISP, $322,852; Successful Mission in Stay Thirsty, To Honor and Serve, A Z Warrior and (Successful Appeal), GSW, $332,643; Justin Phillip Biondetti. (First Samurai), GSW & GISP, $298,362. Now we have the thrilling prospect that his second Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk crop may prove similarly successful. This crop made a Nick Rating: A. bright start last year, with Gamilati winning the G2 Cherry Hinton S. and Alpha chasing home Union Click for brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the video replay. Rags in the GI Champagne S. Both of these have already made their mark this year. Alpha took the Count Two of the biggest fee increases for this year concern Fleet S. in the style of a colt who is going to flourish Bernardini, up to $150,000 from half that price, and over longer routes, whereas Gamilati put herself in line War Front, whose remarkable early results led to his fee for a tilt at the UAE 1,000 Guineas with an easy being quadrupled from $15,000 to $60,000. This year conditions win at Meydan. We have also seen Casual will also see Candy Ride covering at $50,000--twice the Trick go within half a length of winning the amount charged for his services in 2010 and four times Gulfstream Park Derby. This second crop also includes his 2009 fee. J “TDN Rising Star” J Consortium, who was Last week provided further justification for all of these conceding two pounds when he went down by a length higher-level fees. War Front=s son Warning Flag--a to Algorithms, another of Bernardini=s sons, in an group-placed listed winner in Ireland as a juvenile--won optional claimer over 6 1/2 furlongs in December. The the G1 Hong Kong Classic last Wednesday under his two met again in the GIII Holy Bull S. two days ago, and new name of Sweet Orange. In case anyone out there is when it was Algorithms who left top-weighted Hansen still tempted to underestimate the quality of Hong Kong behind in the final eighth to score by five lengths. racing, it is worth pointing out that three Hong Kong When Lucas Marquardt looked into Algorithms= horses were rated 120 or higher on the recent World background in an AIn Sharper Focus@ feature a few days Thoroughbred Rankings. after the colt=s December victory, he pointed out that Starlight Racing and partners were represented in the ALGORITHMS, c, 20009 2006 GI Kentucky Derby by Algorithm=s half-brother Bold Reasoning Keyed Entry. This son of Honour and Glory and Ava Seattle Slew My Charmer Knowsthecode had earned his place at Churchill Downs A.P. Indy Secretariat with a record-breaking win in the GII Hutcheson S. and Weekend Surprise Lassie Dear with placings in the GIII Gotham S. and GI Wood Bernardini Fappiano Memorial S. Quiet American Demure The Derby distance proved too much for the Cara Rafaela Spectacular Bid free-running Keyed Entry and Marquardt pointed out Oil Fable Northern Fable that: AThe majority of Ava Knowsthecode=s offspring Mr. Prospector have been sprinters, or maybe milers at best. Her good Fappiano Killaloe son Justin Phillip (First Samurai) won the seven-furlong Cryptoclearance Ava Hoist the Flag GII Woody Stephens S. at Belmont this year and was Naval Orange Knowsthecode Mock Orange third in the seven-furlong GI King's Bishop, while GSP, 29-3-5-3 Graustark Successful Mission (Successful Appeal) notched his lone 10Fls, 4GSW, Ava Romance Avatar 1SW MSW, 56-7-11-8 Brown Berry graded win in the GIII Miami Mile H. All that makes you 8Fls, 2SW Sunny Romance Gallant Romeo wonder how far Algorithms will want to go.@ 1GSP 12Fls, 1SW Sundestine Ï Ò Ï Ò Hopes that Algorithms would break the mold are rightly based largely on the fact that Bernardini was a much more Classic type than some of Ava Knowsthecode=s previous mates. Honour and Glory=s victories included the King=s Bishop S. over seven furlongs and the Met Mile. His second visit to the Breeders= Cup was to contest the Sprint, whereas Bernardini took on the older horses in the Classic. Bernardini had previously won the GI Travers S. and GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, displaying the type of stamina one might expect in a colt whose sire and grandsire both won the GI Belmont S. The Belmont S. also features on the lengthy resume of Algorithms= broodmare sire Cryptoclearance. Although he finished second, Cryptoclearance was beaten so far by Bet Twice that there was no knowing whether he had really stayed the trip. There can be no doubt, though, that this very tough horse--a veteran of 44 races--stayed a mile and a quarter very well. In addition to a win in the GI Widener H. and 10-length victory in a Grade II, he was also second in the Travers S. and Gulfstream Park H. (beaten a nose). Together with his speedy half-brother Justin Phillip, Algorithms is inbred 4x3 to Fappiano. This might sound a few warning bells regarding stamina, especially as Fappiano was a track-record-setting stakes winner over six furlongs as a juvenile and later shone over a mile, winning the GI Metropolitan H. and GI Forego H. However, this son of Mr. Prospector was also a Grade II winner over a mile and an eighth and has made an indelible mark on the Triple Crown events. Directly responsible for one Derby winner in Unbridled, Fappiano also hit the Derby jackpot thanks to several of his stallion sons and grandsons. They have sired Real Quiet, Grindstone and Mine That Bird and there have also been Triple Crown victories from Victory Gallop, Birdstone, Summer Bird, Red Bullet and Empire Maker. Reassuringly, the inbreeding to Fappiano in Algorithms= pedigree comes via Quiet American (sire of Real Quiet) and Cryptoclearance (sire of Victory Gallop). There is also some reassurance to be found in the fact that Algorithms= second dam, Ava Romance, was a stakes winner over a mile and a quarter, showing some of the stamina that had brought her sire Avatar victories in the Belmont S. and San Luis Rey S. The main pedigree impediment standing in Algorithms= path to Grade I success is probably Crptoclearance=s overall record as a broodmare sire. His daughters have been represented by more than 1,100 runners, yet only one of them--that good filly Elloluv--has so far managed to win a Grade I race in the Northern Hemisphere. That said, Algorithms has the advantage of being out of Cryptoclearance=s most successful broodmare daughter. Ava Knowsthecode now ranks among the strictly limited number of mares with four graded stakes winners to their credit. Her achievement is all the finer because each of the four has a different sire. Perhaps she already has a fifth graded winner in the pipeline, as her 2010 Bernardini colt sold to John Ferguson for $625,000 last year.