Andrew Caulfield, November 24, 2009-She Be Wild In the circumstances, I am taking the opportunity of PEDIGREE INSIGHTS looking back to She Be Wild=s victory in the GI Grey BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Goose Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies, which could easily mark a significant turning point in the career of her sire Friday, Santa Anita Offlee Wild. GREY GOOSE BREEDERS' CUP JUVENILE FILLIES-GI, When Darley America announced its stud fees for $1,818,000, OSA, 11-6, 2yo, f, 1 1/16m (AWT), 2010 prior to the Breeders= Cup, Offlee Wild was the 1:43 4/5, ft. joint-cheapest of Darley=s 16 stallions at $7,500. 1--sSHE BE WILD, 122, f, 2, by Offlee Wild 1st Dam: Trappings, by Seeking the Gold She Be Wild, f, 2007 2nd Dam: Duck Trap, by Affirmed Nearctic Icecapade 3rd Dam: Lilya's for Real, by In Reality Shenanigans Wild Again ($19,000 RNA 2yo >09 OBSAPR). O-Nancy Mazzoni; Khaled B-M & N Mazzoni (KY); T-Wayne M Catalano; J-Julien Bushel-N-Peck Dama II R Leparoux; $1,080,000. Lifetime Record: 5-4-1-0, Offlee Wild Bold Reasoning $1,311,040. *First GISW for freshman sire (by Wild Seattle Slew My Charmer Again). Werk Nick Rating: B+. Click for the Alvear His Majesty eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Andover Way Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r On the Trail Raise a Native the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, Mr. Prospector Gold Digger sponsored by Taylor Made. Seeking the Gold Buckpasser Con Game Trappings Broadway Compared to the feast of the Breeders= Cup weekend, 8-0-0-0, $4,130 Exclusive Native last week was a bit of a famine at the higher levels, 2Fls, 2Wnrs, 1GSW Duck Trap Affirmed with the possible exception of Tiznow=s son American MSW, 32-6-7-5 Won’t Tell You Lion (who, with a bit of luck, will be even more 8Fls, 3Wnrs Lilya’s for Real In Reality deserving of attention after the GI CashCall Futurity in 16Fls, 2SW Mousam River four weeks= time). Caulfield cont. www.coolmore.com The son of Wild Again had started out at double that Perhaps Kentucky breeders also remembered that fee in 2006, but the fact that he didn=t attract a they had let a very good stallion slip through their three-figure book in any of his first four seasons fingers when Wild Rush was sold to Japan for $1.5 indicates that he isn=t as highly fashionable as several million in the summer of 2003. Although the decision to of Darley=s other young stallions. sell looked highly sensible at the time, this son of Wild The explanation is that Offlee Wild isn=t a son of such Again was to salvage his reputation with numerous as A.P. Indy, Street Cry or Distorted Humor, but of Wild graded winners, headed by Stellar Jayne, Hollywood Again, winner of the inaugural Breeders= Cup Classic at Story and Dream Rush. odds of over 30-1 in 1984. Despite Offlee Wild=s record of improving with age, Don=t get me wrong. There was a great deal to his daughter She Be Wild is now the winner of four of admire about Wild Again=s stallion career. The son of her five juvenile starts, her only defeat coming when Icecapade was responsible for over nine percent stakes she was caught on the line in the GI Darley Alcibiades winners among his 943 foals, with around four percent S. Her broodmare sire Seeking the Gold raced only once winning at graded level. He just wasn=t flashy. at two, but he can surely take some of the credit for Wild Again also sired plenty of two-year-old winners, She Be Wild=s Juvenile Fillies victory, as he was directly which is pretty much essential in an industry where responsible for two previous winners of this race in arguably too much attention is paid to speed and Flanders and Cash Run (as well as for a Distaff winner precocity. However, the striking aspect of his career in Pleasant Home). Interestingly, another of Seeking the was his ability to come up with durable performers Gold=s daughters produced a regular Breeders= Cup which improved with age. For example, his sons contender in Riskaverse, a mare sired by Offlee Wild=s Elmhurst and Wild Event recorded their best victories in relative Dynaformer. the GI Breeders= Cup Sprint at the age of seven and the She Be Wild=s dam, Trappings, fell a long way short GI Early Times Turf Classic at the age of six, of Breeders= Cup standard, failing to win in eight respectively. attempts. Trappings has some strong bloodlines, Gigawatt, Chicago Six, Shine Again, Smile Again, though. In addition to being by Seeking the Gold, she is Wild Event and Winfama were sons or daughters of out of a mare by Triple Crown winner Affirmed. She Be Wild Again which gained their last graded stakes Wild=s third dam Lilya=s For Real, a sister to the smart success at the age of six, while El Amante and Madame sprinter Shananie, had two daughters which produced Pandit were five when they gained theirs. This list was graded winners, notably Lizeality, dam of the Grade I extended in 2002 and 2003 when Milwaukee Brew winner Carson Hollow. completed his fine double in the Santa Anita H. at the ages of five and six. The five-year-old Offlee Wild added his own name to this lengthy list when he defeated Tap Day and Pollard=s Vision to take the 2005 GI Suburban H. over a mile and a quarter. In the process, he became the last of Wild Again=s Grade I winners, which also included Sarava (Belmont S.), Wild Rush (Metropolitan H.), Vicar (Florida Derby) and Wild Escapade (Hopeful S.). Offlee Wild=s record had typically been one of steady progression. After breaking his maiden over six furlongs at Churchill Downs at two, he became a Grade III winner at three and a Grade II winner at four prior to his Suburban victory at five, when he also won the GII Exclesior H. Admirable though he was, I rather doubt that Offlee Wild would have won a place at a prestigious Kentucky farm, judged purely on performance. After all, he failed at four and five to reach the qualifying mark of 115 required for an American horse to be included in the World Rankings for older horses. Fortunately, there is more to stallion success than pure performance and any shortcomings on Offlee Wild=s behalf were more than compensated for by his coming from a family with an eye-catching record for producing successful stallions. His dam Alvear is a winning half-sister to Dynaformer and his second dam, the Grade I-winning Andover Way, was a half-sister to the talented stallion Darby Creek Road. Andover Way was also closely related to Kelley=s Day, dam of the highly accomplished Japanese stallion Brian=s Time..