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Andrew Caulfield, December 2, 2008–Old Fashioned P EDIGREE INSIGHTS If Old Fashioned, this year=s impressive winner, develops into a top-class three-year-old--and there=s BY ANDREW CAULFIELD every reason to think he will--perhaps the Graded Stakes Committee will have to consider restoring the Saturday, Aqueduct Remsen to Grade I. REMSEN S.-GII, $200,000, AQU, 11-29, 2yo, 1 1/8m, The Taylor Made team is one outfit that won=t be 1:50 1/5, ft. worrying whether the Breeders= Cup Juvenile winner or 1--#@OLD FASHIONED, 116, c, 2, by Unbridled=s Song the Remsen winner makes the bigger impact next year, 1st Dam: Collect Call (MGSW & MGISP, as Midshipman and Old Fashioned are both sons of $434,000), by Meadowlake Unbridled=s Song. This 15-year-old stallion has been in 2nd Dam: Negative Pledge, by Alleged great form with his two-year-olds in recent weeks, and 3rd Dam: Laredo Lass, by Bold Ruler Old Fashioned was one of four juvenile winners by him ($800,000 yrl '07 KEESEP). O-Fox Hill Farms Inc; last Saturday. Altogether nine juveniles by Unbridled=s B-Rod & Lorraine Rodriguez (KY); T-J Larry Jones; Song won 10 races at maiden level or above during J-Ramon A Dominguez; $120,000. Lifetime Record: November and they have helped boost their sire=s 3-3-0-0, $173,280. Werk Nick Rating: A (1 SW). juvenile earnings to nearly $2 million. One of them, Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Rockport Harbor=s sister Song of Solomon, achieved Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r J “TDN Rising Star” J status at Philadelphia when the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, she streaked home nearly 14 lengths clear. Old sponsored by Taylor Made. Fashioned had also been nominated a Rising Star after he=d put even more daylight between himself and the Winners of the Breeders= Cup Juvenile may have a opposition at Delaware on his second start. virtual stranglehold on the Eclipse Award for two-year- old colt, but--with the notable exception of Street OLD FASHIONED, c, 2006 Sense--they have struggled to make an impact on the Mr. Prospector Fappiano Kentucky Derby. The same can=t be said of the Remsen Killaloe Unbridled S., which has provided five Derby winners in the last *Le Fabuleux Gana Facil 50 years, thanks to Carry Back, Northern Dancer, Unbridled’s Charedi Pleasant Colony, Go For Gin and Thunder Gulch. Song Fortino (Fr) Caro (Ire) Of course, only the last two won the Remsen after Chambord (GB) Trolley Song the Breeders= Cup came into existence, but the last 25 Lucky Mel Lucky Spell editions of the Aqueduct contest also feature such Incantation notable winners as Java Gold (Travers S., Whitney H.), Speak John Hold Your Peace Scan (a dual Grade I winner at three), Pine Bluff Blue Moon Meadowlake (Preakness S.) and Coronado=s Quest (Haskell Raise a Native Collect Call Suspicious Native Invitational and Travers S.). Importantly, the most GSW & MGISP, 17- Be Suspicious recent winners were Bluegrass Cat (Haskell Invitational 3-3-5, $434,000 Hoist The Flag Alleged and second in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont), Nobiz 3Fls,, 1GSW Negative Pledge Princess Pout 2-0-0-0, $0 Like Shobiz (Wood Memorial) and Court Vision (winner 8Fls, 1GSW Laredo Lass Bold Ruler of the Hollywood Derby two days ago). Not bad going, 13Fls, 1GSW Fortunate Isle I=m sure you=ll agree, for a race which was downgraded from Grade I to Grade II as long ago as 1987. Caulfield cont. www.coolmore.com Caulfield cont. Old Fashioned also sold very well, for $800,000, but Old Fashioned possesses enough speed to be able to his year-younger half-brother by Ghostzapper was take a good early position, and he=s also shown no unsold at $635,000 in September. Even with that shortage of stamina. He setback, Collect Call has proved a wonderful purchase appears to be a for Rod and Lorraine Rodriguez, who paid $250,000 to conventional-sized acquire Collect Call in the September of her individual, even though two-year-old season, at the Marshall Naify estate his bloodlines had the dispersal. potential to produce Perhaps the best thing about Collect Call is that she something very big. is bred along similar lines to that fine racemare Unbridled=s Song is 17 Mitterand. This winner of the GI La Canada S. was by hands, which is Hold Your Peace out of Bold Ruler=s daughter Laredo understandable for a Lass, whereas Collect Call is by a son of Hold Your colt whose sire Peace out of a daughter of Laredo Lass. Mitterand is Unbridled, grandsire nowadays best known as the dam of French Deputy, a Old Fashioned & trainer Larry Jones Fappiano and broodmare good racehorse and an even better stallion. The Sarah K Andrew sire Caro were all Japanese star Kurofune and the top-class, but advertised as standing 16.3 hands. Seth Hancock has said in the past that he short-lived, Left Bank headed the impressive number of wishes he had bred more big mares to Unbridled, who graded winners sired by French Deputy before his sale seemed to be suited by breeding type to type. Old to Japan in 2000. Fashioned=s breeders may have taken a similar view, as The presence in his pedigree details of a proven the colt=s dam, the Kentucky Oaks third Collect Call, is stallion of French Deputy=s achievements will prove an by another 17-hands stallion in Meadowlake. invaluable help when the time eventually comes for Old Unfortunately, Meadowlake=s size was accompanied Fashioned to retire. Before then, though, I=m expecting by soundness problems. The story goes that this son of to see him continue to justify his Rising Star status, and Hold Your Peace was bought by his owner because he it will be fascinating if both he and Midshipman make thought he looked like Secretariat. The resemblance the line up next May 2. seemed to be more than just a fancy when Meadowlake sailed home 22 lengths clear in a six-furlong maiden on his debut. This stunning debut led to his being pitched straight into Grade I company less than three weeks later, in the Arlington-Washington Futurity, and Meadowlake again drew comparisons with Secretariat by easing home the winner by nearly 9 lengths. Unfortunately he was seen out only once more, when he won a six-furlong allowance in the June of his second season. Meadowlake=s stallion career got off to a great start when Meadow Star, a member of his small first crop, achieved champion status by winning the Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies. It wasn=t until Greenwood Lake emerged from his 10th crop that he came up with another Grade I winner, but he finished his career with a flourish, siring the Grade I-winning fillies Wildcat Bettie B, Meadow Breeze and Sutra in his last few crops. The best winner out of a Meadowlake mare prior to Old Fashioned was that eyecatching sprinter Henny Hughes. I described Old Fashioned=s dam Collect Call as a Kentucky Oaks third, but she was much more than that. Her May 20 birthday didn=t stop her becoming a minor stakes winner at two, and she then progressed so well that she won the GIII Santa Ysabel S. on her sophomore debut and the British Columbia Oaks. She was also placed twice at Grade I level at four, when she mixed it with the likes of Azeri, Affluent and Starrer. As she raced a total of 17 times, she was clearly much sounder than her sire. Collect Call=s first foal, the Fusaichi Pegasus filly Kauai Calls, sold for a session-topping $2 million as a Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling in 2005. .