Andrew Caulfield, October 12, 2010-Wickedly Perfect Their successes mean that there are now 15 graded PEDIGREE INSIGHTS winners, plus another five black-type winners, among BY ANDREW CAULFIELD the 121 foals of racing age from this ultra-popular nick. These 121 foals represent roughly 11 percent of A.P. DARLEY ALCIBIADES S.-GI, $400,000, KEE, 10-8, 2yo, Indy=s total output, but their 15 graded winners equate f, 1 1/16m (AWT), 1:46 1/5, ft. to around 19 percent of his 80 winners at that level. 1--sWICKEDLY PERFECT, 118, f, 2, by Congrats So is it any surprise that A.P. Indy=s sons from this 1st Dam: Wickedly Wise, by Tactical Cat highly effective Mr. Prospector nick are proving the 2nd Dam: Winter Display, by Cold Reception most effective as stallions? Although this select band 3rd Dam: Show Off, by Olympia accounts for less than 20 percent of A.P. Indy=s graded ($70,000 2yo >10 OBSAPR). O-STD Racing Stable, winners, they have so far supplied two thirds of all the Peter Moehrke & Rafter JR Ranch; B-Y-Lo Racing graded winners by A.P. Indy=s sons, including a similar Stables LLC (FL); T-Doug F O'Neill; J-Rafael Bejarano; proportion of their Grade I winners. $240,000. Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $404,600. These impressive figures have been compiled largely *1/2 to Ash Zee (Exchange Rate), GSP, $141,110. by Pulpit, Malibu Moon and Mineshaft, with help from **First Grade I winner for freshman sire (by A.P. Indy). Flatter, Accelerator and Indy King, and now the name Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus* Click for eNicks report & 5- of Congrats can be added to the list. His daughter cross pedigree, brisnet.com chart, brisnet.com PPs or free brisnet.com Wickedly Perfect has collected the GIII Sorrento S. and catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. GI Darley Alcibiades S., with the latter success marking We have known for a long time now that easily the the start of a profitable weekend for Vinery=s Florida- most prolific source of above-average performers by based freshman stallion. Congrats also took third place A.P. Indy has been his partnership with Mr. in the Alcibiades, thanks to Jordy Y, and third place in Prospector=s daughters. For example, this year has seen the GI Champagne S., with his son I=m Steppin= It Up. this cross ably represented by Lomaki, winner of the This fine sequence means that Congrats now holds a GIII Endeavour S., and Girolamo, who showed unusual lead of over $300,000 on the first-crop sires= table, speed for a mature son of the two-time champion sire with earnings in excess of $1 million. when he landed the GI Vosburgh S. Caulfield cont.

www.coolmore.com With Wickedly Perfect now unfortunately sidelined Having said that, I wouldn=t disagree with the with a knee chip, she won=t be heading for the comments of Brent Fernung, Cloverleaf=s general Breeders= Cup, so it remains to be seen whether manager, when he said: Congrats can hang onto his lead until the end of the AI think the breeders will agree this is a fair price for a year. He could face a serious challenge from a much millionaire son of A.P. Indy; he is the type of horse that more famous son of A.P. Indy in Bernardini, who Florida has been waiting for.@ achieved a notable Group 1/Grade I double in Italy and When Cloverleaf relocated to , Congrats the U.S. three days ago. The American win came via moved to Vinery. He initially proved very popular, A Z Warrior, who heads for the richly endowed covering 172 mares for 113 live foals in his first year, Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies. It=s possible, too, that and then covering 125 mares in his second season. The Bernardini=s Italian Group 1 winner, the English-based usual third-year decline saw his book fall to 56 mares in Biondetti, will also feature on Breeders= Cup weekend. 2009, and his fee was subsequently chopped from It is going to be interesting to see whether Congrats= $10,000 to $4,500. connections leave him in Florida, or whether they will Considering that Pulpit, another of A.P. Indy=s sons decide that he has done enough to take his chance in out of a Mr. Prospector mare, has sired Grade I winners Kentucky, in much the same way that Malibu Moon=s from daughters of Storm Cat, Hennessy and Tabasco bright start earned him a transfer from Maryland. Cat, it comes as little surprise that Congrats sired The 10-year-old stallion started out at a fee of Wickedly Perfect from a granddaughter of Storm Cat, $12,500 at Cloverleaf Farms II in Florida, after by the disappointing Tactical Cat. Cloverleaf bought him from the Hancock family. Although he didn=t become a stakes winner until he His exploits for the Claiborne-Dilschneider partnership was four, Congrats was reasonably precocious for a included a victory in the GII San Pasqual H. and a good horse who stands 16.2 hands, scoring over 6 1/2 second, dividing Rock Hard Ten and Borrego, in the furlongs at Saratoga from two starts. Perhaps Wickedly GI Santa Anita H. These efforts earned Congrats a trip Perfect owes some of her two-year-old talent to to Dubai for the 2005 World Cup, in which he finished Tactical Cat, who numbered victories in the GIII fifth of 12 to Roses In May (Devil His Due). Tremont S. and GI Hollywood Futurity among his nine Even so, there were a few important shortcomings on juvenile starts. It=s also worth pointing out that his resume. For a start, he hadn=t become a stakes Wickedly Perfect=s third dam, Show Off, was a fast and winner until he was four, or a graded winner until he precocious filly. She earned an Experimental Free H. was five, and he failed to achieve that all-important weight of 114, with victories in the Fashion S., Astoria Grade I win. To compound these shortcomings, he had S. and a division of the Astarita S., and was also nothing better than a Grade III placing to show for his second in the Alcibiades S. (then over seven furlongs). final year on the track, in 2006, which never helps For anyone considering using one of these A.P. Indy launch a stallion career. stallions with a Mr. Prospector dam, I should point out that they have generally enjoyed success with mares PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... from the Danzig line, including with daughters of Get pedigree expert Andrew Caulfield’s Danzig himself, Danehill and Chief=s Crown, and also take on racing’s newsmakers! with Deputy Minister and his sons French Deputy and You can find all of Caulfield’s columns Dehere. Topsider is another Northern Dancer line horse in the TDN Archive. who has worked well. Rahy mares have produced Grade I winners to Pulpit and Malibu Moon. There are also two Grade I winners out of Easy Goer mares, plus two graded winners out WICKEDLY PERFECT, f, 2008 of daughters of Affirmed. Some of these stallions have good winners inbred to Mr. Prospector, especially through Forty Niner. The A.P. Indy Grade I winner Malibu Prayer is out of a Grand Slam Lassie Dear mare, so is inbred 3x4, and so is Declan=s Moon, out of Congrats a Norquestor mare. The same applies to the two graded Mr. Prospector Gold Digger winners out of Rubiano mares and the two out of Praise Northern Dancer Unbridled mares. Wild Applause Glowing Tribute Mares by sons of Roberto, such as Red Ransom, Kris Storm Bird S. and Major Impact, feature prominently. Congrats is Storm Cat Terlingua one of two of these stallions which have graded Tactical Cat Caro (Ire) performers out of mares by Fly So Free. This list isn=t Wickedly Wise Terre Haute Placed Mia Dancer meant to be comprehensive, but others that feature 5Fls, 1GSW, Secretariat include Broad Brush, Lord At War, Wild Again, Pleasant Cold Reception 1GSP Winter Display Cold Comfort Colony and his son Pleasant Tap. Wnr 11Fls, 1SW, 1SP Show Off Olympia 10 Fls, 1SP Look Ma Caulfield cont. Although I have pointed out how much A.P. Indy owes his reputation as a sire of sires to his sons out of Mr. Prospector mares, there is no reason why he shouldn=t also make his mark through some of his younger stallion sons. Bernardini, after all, is out of a Mr. Prospector line mare, by Quiet American (who has 20 percent graded winners among his daughters= foals by A.P. Indy). A.P. Indy has 14 percent stakes winners among his foals out of mares by Seeking the Gold, including four graded winners, the best of which was the GI Hopeful S. winner Majestic Warrior. The first foals by this Ashford resident were born this year, and his weanlings should be worth close inspection at the breeding stock sales.