Andrew Caulfield, October 4, 2005–Hurricane Run (Ire) & Rumplestiltskin (Ire) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD PRIX DE L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE LUCIEN BARRIERE-G1, i1,800,000, Longchamp, 10-2, 3yo/up, c/f/m, 1 1/2mT, 2:27.40, gd/sf. 1--HURRICANE RUN (IRE), 123, c, 3, by Montjeu (Ire) 1st Dam: Hold On (Ger) (SP-Ger), by Surumu (Ger) 2nd Dam: Hone (GB), by Sharpen Up (GB) 3rd Dam: Lucy (GB), by Sheshoon (GB) O-Michael Tabor; B-Gestut Ammerland; T-Andre Fabre; J-Kieren Fallon; i1,028,520. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Ire, 7 starts, 6 wins, 1 place, i2,290,820. *1/2 to Hibiscus (Ger) (Law Society), GSW & G1SP- Ger, $194,551. Click for the racingpost.co.uk chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. PRIX MARCEL BOUSSAC-CRITERIUM DES POULICHES ROYAL BARRIERE DEAUVILLE-G1, i300,000, Longchamp, 10-2, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:37.30, gd/sf. 1--RUMPLESTILTSKIN (IRE), 123, f, 2, by Danehill 1st Dam: Monevassia, by Mr. Prospector 2nd Dam: Miesque, by Nureyev 3rd Dam: Pasadoble, by Prove Out O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Niarchos Family; B-Quay Bloodstock & Niarchos Family; T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Kieren Fallon; i171,420. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Ire & GSP-Eng, 6 starts, 5 wins, 1 place, i495,534. Click for the racingpost.co.uk chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Arc day at Longchamp provided a fairly accurate summary to the way the whole season has gone in Britain, Ireland and France this year. The very valuable Arc provided yet another rich prize--the fifth Group 1 success of the year--to a first-crop son of Montjeu. But chasing Hurricane Run home in second place came Westerner, a very versatile son of Danehill--the stallion who had achieved a remarkable Group 1 double in the feature two-year-old events earlier in the afternoon, through Rumplestiltskin and Horatio Nelson. As Danehill currently holds a lead of more than £500,000 over Montjeu on the British and Irish sires' table, it looks as though it is going to be this son of Danzig who will succeed Sadler's Wells as champion sire. The chances are, though, that Montjeu will take the title of champion sire in France--a title won by Danehill in 2001 and 2002. I have already written enough about Montjeu this year, but I need to point out the affinity he appears to have with mares whose pedigrees include Sharpen Up. Motivator, the Derby winner who finished a creditable fifth in the Arc, has a Sharpen Up mare as his second dam and so does Hurricane Run. Caulfield cont. The Arc winner's second dam, Hone, acts as a Whatever these Distaff winners achieve, they will be reminder of Sharpen Up's rise from rags to riches. Hone hard pressed to match Miesque's achievements as a belonged to Sharpen Up's first crop and was sold for producer. Her first two foals, Kingmambo and East Of only 220 guineas as a foal in 1974, at around the time The Moon, both became Classic winners and her third that eight 1975 nominations to Sharpen Up were sold foal, Kingmambo's brother Miesque's Son, failed only at public auction for an average price of £505. Yet narrowly to become a Group 1 winner. Kingmambo Sharpen Up achieved so much through the likes of Kris now has 15 Group 1 winners to his credit, while and Sharpo that he had become a resident at Gaineway Miesque's Son has sired the multiple Group 1 winner Farm by 1981. With Diesis and Pebbles adding to his Whipper. reputation, his fee rose as high as $75,000, and he Although Miesque hasn't been able to maintain this sired Trempolino, Sanglamore and Selkirk at that fee. remarkably good start, her fourth foal, Moon Is Up, As it is a daughter of Kris who ranks as the second became a Listed winner and her fifth foal, Monevassia, dam of Montjeu's Derby runner-up Walk In The Park, is the dam of Rumplestiltskin. As a daughter of Mr. Sharpen Up appears in the pedigrees of three of Prospector, Monevassia is a sister to Kingmambo and Montjeu's very best winners. This links to the success Miesque's Son. There is another sister, in the Listed- that Sadler's Wells and another of his best mile-and-a- placed Inventing Paradise, and there's a three-parts half sons, In The Wings, have enjoyed with Sharpen Up sister in East Of The Moon's Group 3-winning daughter line mares. Moon Driver, by Mr. Prospector. In The Wings has the distinction of having sired Miesque also has two young daughters by Storm Cat, Group 1 winners from daughters of Sanglamore and so there is every chance that a lot more high-class Diesis, and he has another Group 1 winner out of a performers are going to flow from this female line. The mare by Kris's son Common Grounds. In The Wings Niarchos Family is also fortunate enough to have Prix also sired the Group 2 winner Weightless from a Selkirk Marcel Boussac and Breeders' Cup Mile winner Six mare, plus a Group 3 winner from a daughter of Kris. Perfections, who is out of a half sister to Miesque. Sadler's Wells' matings with Sharpen Up mares Don't forget either that Miesque's group-winning son produced nothing better than a Group 2 winner, but Mingun will soon be embarking on his stallion career at Kris sired the dam of his top winners Moonshell and Lane's End. This royally bred son of A.P. Indy earned a Doyen, plus the second dam of the redoubtable High Chaparral. Selkirk is the broodmare sire of Quiff, the Timeform rating of 117, so represents an attractive bet Sadler's Wells filly who nearly added the St Leger to at his opening fee of $7,500. her victory in the G1 Yorkshire Oaks, so this is a tried-and-tested formula for producing top-class RUMPLESTILTSKIN (IRE), f, 2003 Nearctic mile-and-a-half horses. Northern Dancer Natalma Moving on to Rumplestiltskin--whose fairytale name Danzig is more suggestive of a colt than a filly--this daughter of Admiral’s Voyage Pas De Nom Danehill now boasts a juvenile record very similar that *Petitioner Danehill that of her magnificent second dam, Miesque. The Irish *Ribot His Majesty filly, already a Group 1 winner over seven furlongs, Flower Bowl Razyana finished very strongly to win the Prix Marcel Boussac, Buckpasser Spring Adieu in the process improving her record to five wins and a Natalma third from six starts. Nineteen years earlier we had seen Native Dancer Raise a Native Miesque--already a Group 1 winner over seven furlongs Raise You Mr. Prospector --come from last to first in the Marcel Boussac, Nashua Gold Digger improving her record to three wins and a third from four Monevassia Sequence 2-0-1-0, $10,181 starts. Northern Dancer 6Fls, 1G1SW Miesque Nureyev Rumplestiltskin's connections must be hoping that 10x Ch., 16-12-3-1 Special the similarities continue, as Miesque went on to gain a 13Fls, 4GSW, Pasadoble Prove Out further eight Group 1 victories, including two in the 1SW, 1SP 10Fls, 1Ch, 1GSW *Santa Quilla Breeders' Cup Mile. Of course it takes an extremely good filly to win on Breeders' Cup day. As I pointed out in the recent publicity for the Kingmambo-Escena filly, five of the eight fillies or mares which won the Breeders' Cup Distaff between 1988 and 1995 have so far produced Grade I winners and another, the dual winner Bayakoa, is the second dam of the multiple Grade I winner Affluent. "As Personal Ensign and Hollywood Wildcat have both bred Breeders' Cup winners," I wrote, "there is good cause for thinking that winners of the Distaff could become the foundation mares of the future-- especially as Personal Ensign's daughter My Flag has produced a third generation of Breeders' Cup winners in Storm Flag Flying.".