Tout Seul Saturday, Newmarket, Britain

Alan Caulfield, October 22, 2002 –Tout Seul P I EDIGREE NSIGHTS Tout Seul was entered as Lot 799 at Tattersalls’ Autumn BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Sales later this month, which suggests that his owners will consider selling him if the price is high enough. What are the chances that he will become the latest recruit to the Saturday, Newmarket, Britain free-spending Godolphin team? DARLEY DEWHURST S.-G1, £265,000, Newmarket, 10-19, The Dewhurst S. has been dominated by the Northern 2yo, c/f, 7fT, 1:23.99, gd. Dancer male line virtually from the time that Charles 1--#@sTOUT SEUL (IRE), 126, c, 2, by Ali-Royal (Ire) Engelhard’s Nijinsky II won the race back in 1969. 1st Dam: Total Aloof (GB), by Groom Dancer Appropriately, Tout Seul is by a grandson of Nijinsky II and he 2nd Dam: Bashoosh, by Danzig is inbred 4x5x4 to Northern Dancer, with the other lines 3rd Dam: Condessa (Ire), by Condorcet (Fr) coming through Lyphard and Danzig. (Ir£6,800 wnlg ‘00 GOFNOV; Ir£9,600 yrl ‘01 Ali-Royal died in January 2001, after developing severe TATIRE). O-Eden Racing; B-G Johnston King; T-Fulke laminitis during the Southern Hemisphere season in Australia. Johnson Houghton; J-Steve Carson; £153,700. Life- The son of Royal Academy had been a very good miler in time Record: 7-5-2-0, £312,896. 1997, when he took the G1 Sussex S. on the last of his 16 Veteran trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton turned back the career starts. He also had the attraction of being a brother to clock last Saturday when he won the Dewhurst S. for the the classic-winning filly Sleepytime, as well as being a half second time, 34 years after his first victory in this Group1 brother to a third Group 1 winner, Taipan. contest which often decides the year’s two-year-old Ali-Royal’s court... championship. However, their trainer is just about the only This attractive blend of pedigree and performance ensured thing that Johnson Houghton’s two Dewhurst winners have in that Ali-Royal received plenty of mares in his first season as a common. member of the Coolmore team. However, his popularity The first, Ribofilio, was a blue-blooded individual who had quickly declined, with his number of mares falling from 122 to ranked among the 10 highest-priced American yearlings of 96 and then to 68 in his third and final season in Ireland. That 1967. This colt followed Ribocco and Ribero as the third sizeable drop between his second and third seasons can be highly successful Ribot colt that the English handler had attributed partly to the fact that his first-crop weanlings, sired trained for the tremendously wealthy Charles W. Engelhart. at a fee of Ir6,000gns, achieved a median price of only 7,150 The colt started odds on for the Dewhurst on the strength of gns. impressive wins in the Chesham S. and Champagne S. Ali-Royal’s first Irish crop has so far produced only one The second, Tout Seul, was a 25-1 outsider making his stakes winner, the Italian filly Royal Rhapsody, and Tout Seul Group race debut in the Dewhurst. This son of Ali-Royal had is only the second stakes winner from his second, following been bought by his trainer for the equivalent of 9,600 English the good French juvenile Castor Troy. guineas (Ir£12,500) at the Tattersalls (Ireland Ltd) September Although Tout Seul was bought cheaply, his pedigree is by Yearling Sale at Fairyhouse, where the average price was no means bargain-basement material. His third dam, Ir£7,778. The colt became the property of a syndicate of 10 Condessa, was a very tough Irish filly who scored notable enthusiasts, who have since had a wonderful time. Tout Seul victories in the G3 Musidora S. and G1 Yorkshire Oaks, as was entitled to contest the Tattersalls Breeders S., a valuable well as finishing second in the G1 Irish Oaks. She was race confined to graduates of the Fairyhouse sale. As a reportedly sold to Craig B. Singer for more than half a million winner of three of his four races, Tout Seul started favorite dollars after her Musidora win and Singer retired her to stud in and won comfortably. the U.S., where her mates included Spectacular Bid, Mr. Tout Seul’s last appearance before the Dewhurst came in Prospector, Nijinsky II, Lyphard and Danzig. the betabet Two-Year-Old Trophy, a valuable race confined to Condessa’s first visit to Danzig resulted in Bashoosh, a horses whose sires had had at least one yearling sold at public $700,000 yearling who now ranks as Tout Seul’s second auction in 2001. The weights carried are determined by the dam. Condessa had already paid another visit to Danzig by the average price achieved by the stallion. As Ali-Royal’s average time that Bashoosh began what proved to be a very was a mere 6,394gns, Tout Seul was set to carry only 118 disappointing racing career, and the mare fared much better lbs, but he failed by a head to catch Somnus, a Pivotal gelding the second time. Her Danzig colt, Biko Pegasus, developed carrying 6lbs more. into a leading sprinter-miler in Japan, where he won two G3 One advantage that Tout Seul had over most of his races and was second in the G1 Sprinters S. Biko Pegasus’ highly-regarded opponents in the Dewhurst was that, as a success led to Bashoosh being bought for Japan in 1994, veteran of six races, he was better equipped to cope with the after she had produced two foals for Gainsborough Stud. The pressures of a 17-runner Group 1 race contested over a first, a filly by Groom Dancer named Total Aloof, won twice course with a tricky run down into the Dip a furlong from over 5 furlongs before being culled for only 6,400gns. Now, home. He also had the advantage of being able to race against as the dam of Tout Seul, she must be worth considerably the rail, while his main opponents were wandering off a true more than that. line. It is going to be interesting to see whether Tout Seul can maintain his superiority over the likes of Tomahawk and Trade Fair..

Load more