Andrew Caulfield, May 2, 2006–Bernardini P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Among the good winners since the Breeders' Cup Classic are A.P. Warrior (GII San Felipe S.), the BY ANDREW CAULFIELD high-class Australian two-year-old Mentality (G1 Champagne S.), Wild Gams (GIII Cicada S.), Spellbinder WITHERS S.-GIII, $142,500, AQU, 4-29, 3yo, 1m, (GII San Antonio H.) and now Bernadini (GIII Withers 1:35, ft. S.). This list of important winners makes even more 1--@#BERNARDINI, 116, c, 3, by A.P. Indy impressive reading when added to the previous stakes 1st Dam: Cara Rafaela (GISW, $884,452), by Quiet American winners out of Quiet American broodmares, such as 2nd Dam: Oil Fable, by Spectacular Bid Horse of the Year Saint Liam, Ugo Fire (G3 Park S.), 3rd Dam: Northern Fable, by Northern Dancer Cherry Mix (G1 Gran Premio del Jockey Club), O/B-Darley Stable (KY); T-Thomas Albertrani; Whywhywhy (GI Futurity S.), Congressionalhonor (GIII J-J Castellano; $90,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, Bay Meadows Derby), Flying Glitter (GIII Monmouth $110,480. *1/2 to Ile De France (Storm Cat), GISP, Oaks and GIII Indiana Oaks), Two Trail Sioux (GII Fleur $125,300. de Lis H.) and Lunarpal (a Grade III winner of the Bashford Manor S. and Kentucky Breeders' Cup S.). Click for the brisnet.com chart, the Video, sponsored What makes Quiet American's achievement all the by Taylor Made or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style more eye-catching is the fact that, to the end of 2005, pedigree. he had only 89 daughters with racing-age progeny and their total representation was 187 foals. You've got to After Saint Liam's win in the Breeders' Cup Classic, I admit that 13 graded winners from 187 foals is a wrote that "Quiet American's rise up the broodmare stunning achievement. Another 20 daughters come on sire list has been one of the features of this season." line this year, boosting the total number of racing-age foals out of Quiet American mares to nearly 250, so Well, that rise is continuing in fairly spectacular fashion, you're going to be hearing more from this 20-year-old with stakes winners out of Quiet American's daughters son of Fappiano. adding plenty of impressive victories to their expanding portfolio. Caulfield cont. www.coolmore.com Quiet American's achievement becomes even more It is Cara Rafaela who produced Bernadini for Sheikh admirable when I remind you that, so far, most of his Mohammed. Her best previous effort was her Storm successful broodmare daughters come from his early Cat filly Ile de France, a good third to You and Habibti crops, sired when he was far from flavor of the month. in the GI Santa Anita Oaks. Everything seemed to conspire to make life difficult As I said last fall, the most likely explanation for for Quiet American in the years leading up to his Quiet American's success as a broodmare sire is his retirement to Gainsborough Farm in 1992. For a start, very unusual pedigree. He is inbred 3x2 to the he began his racing career in Europe, a region which outstanding Dr. Fager and 4x3 to Cequillo, a mare who generally doesn't seem to bring out the best in the left a considerable legacy. Although Dr. Fager lived long Fappiano line. enough to sire only 255 foals, his daughters numbered Even a trainer as talented as Sir Michael Stoute Fappiano, Shared Interest, Cure The Blues, Too Chic struggled with Quiet American, who made his debut and Quiet American among their Grade I winners. early in his sophomore season in a nine-furlong Several of Quiet American's good broodmares are graduation race at Ripon. Quiet American vied for also inbred. Warrior Queen, the dam of A.P. Warrior, is favouritism but could finish only a modest third. Worse inbred 3x3 to Mr. Prospector and inbreeding to Mr. followed when he started second favourite for a Prospector appears in the pedigrees of several of their 12-furlong maiden at Salisbury, where he faded to other graded winners, including the Australian gelding eighth. Mentality. Other daughters, including Cara Rafaela, are Sheikh Mohammed's team quickly concluded that the inbred 4x4 to Nearctic. Two of their best winners, colt would stand a better chance of realising his Bernadini and A.P. Warrior, are by A.P. Indy, a horse potential in America. Two races at around nine furlongs inbred 4x3 to Bold Ruler. in California completed Quiet American's three-year-old It may also be valuable to remember that Quiet campaign and he won them well enough to earn a American mares have already produced group/graded considerable step up in class as a four-year-old. After a winners to Bluebird, a son of Storm Bird, and to Storm promising second in the GI Charles H. Strub S., Quiet Cat's sons Forestry, Forest Wildcat and Tale of the Cat. American suffered a back strain which kept him out of As Ile de France was by Storm Cat himself, this adds action for over three months. However, he returned to up to a compelling motive for sending Quiet American defeat Bayakoa in the GIII San Diego H. in August mares to Storm Bird line stallions, especially if the Quiet before confirming his improvement with a second in the American mare has a line of Northern Dancer. GI Woodward H. In concentrating on Quiet American, I risk overlooking Trainer Gary Jones then aimed Quiet American for Bernardini himself. This lightly raced colt has every right the Breeders' Cup Classic, only to be thwarted by the selection committee who denied him a place in the to develop into a Triple Crown contender, as he is by a over-subscribed line-up. This decision incensed Jones, champion sire out of a Grade I winner from a leading and the racing world learned why a week later when family. His third dam is Northern Fable, a Grade III- Quiet American swept home nearly five lengths clear of winning daughter of Fairway Fable, and his fifth dam is some of the U.S.'s best sprinters in the GI NYRA Mile Fairway Fun, a stakes-winning daughter of the H., in a time of 1:32.80. outstanding producer Fast Line. Quiet American's mixed fortunes continued at five. Fast Line produced the 1972 Prix Morny winner Something presumably went wrong after he had Filiberto, but it has been her daughters which have kept finished fourth on his reappearance, as he was retired her name to the fore. Her unraced daughter Trick Chick in May, with his arrival too late for the 1991 season. produced the top performers On The Sly and Northern Quiet American was therefore six when he covered Trick, while Trick Chick's smart sister Fairway Fun his first book of mares and he maintained a fee of only founded the very successful branch responsible for the $10,000 through his first five years. Despite being top miler Muhtathir and Cara Rafaela. Fast Line's reasonably priced, he had only 32 named foals in his Kentucky Oaks winner White Star Line has established first crop, 22 in his second and 27 in his third. His another flourishing branch, and the CCA Oaks winner popularity only began to rise in 1995, when his first Magazine and the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner crop surprised many people. It was by less than Mirio descend from other daughters of Fast Line. $30,000 that he failed to take the freshman sire title from Farma Way, who had 40 runners compared to Quiet American's 14. But among those 14 were Cara Rafaela, Hidden Lake (later to become the champion older filly of 1997), Quiet Dance (now the dam of Saint Liam) and American Tango. Cara Rafaela ranked third behind My Flag and Golden Attraction among the fillies on the Experimental Free Handicap, having won the GII Alcibiades S. and GI Hollywood Starlet S. on either side of her second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. She was second or third in five more Grade I events during a luckless three-year-old season. BERNARDINI, c, 2003 Boldnesian Bold Reasoning Reason to Earn Seattle Slew Poker My Charmer Fair Charmer A.P. Indy Bold Ruler Secretariat Somethingroyal Weekend Surprise Buckpasser Lassie Dear Gay Missile Mr. Prospector Fappiano Killaloe Quiet American Dr. Fager Cara Rafaela Demure GISW Quiet Charm 6 Fls, 5 Wnrs, Bold Bidder Oil Fable Spectacular Bid 1 GSW, 1 GSP Wnr Spectacular 12 Fls, 7 Wnrs, Northern Fable Northern Dancer 2 GSW, 1 SP 12Fls, 7Wnrs, 1GSP Fairway Fable.