Weekend Pedigree Perspectives

Alan Porter, July 21, 2004–Summer Wind Dancer WEEKEND PEDIGREE Amerigo’s Fancy, the dam of Trillionaire, was a star of the California scene in the mid-to-late sixties, setting PERSPECTIVES or equalling track records when winning the Santa by Alan Porter Barbara and Escondido Handicaps. Amerigo’s Fancy also became a more than useful foundation mare, as through DELAWARE H.-GII, $750,900, DEL, 7-18, 3yo/up, f/m, half-sisters to Trillionaire, she is also ancestress of 1 1/4m, 2:03 3/5, sy. group/graded stakes winners Discreet Hero, Triple 1--SUMMER WIND DANCER, 116, f, 4, by Siberian Summer Tipple and Bluegrass Prince. 1st Dam: Native Wind Dancer, by Incinderator Summer Wind Dancer has a number of fascinating 2nd Dam: Rich Indian, by Raise a Native patterns in her pedigree. To start with, both her 3rd Dam: Trillionaire, by *Vaguely Noble grandsire, Siberian Express and Princess Karenda (dam O-Linda Vetter & Richard & Yvette Wira; B-Richard of her maternal grandsire) are products of the Nasrullah/ & Yvette Wira, Linda Vetter & Deborah Penny (CA); Warfare cross (for good measure, Princess Karenda’s T-Jeff Mullins; J-V Espinoza; $450,000. Lifetime sire, Gummo, is by a son of Nasrullah out of mare by Record: GISP, 16-5-5-3, $865,762. Warfare’s sire, Determine). We get a second set of Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com genetic relatives via the three-quarters related Icecapade catalogue-style pedigree. and Northern Dancer, who appear here 3x3. The combination of Icecapade and Northern Dancer is Siberian Express’s son, In Excess, has established already found in at least 98 unrestricted stakes winners, himself at the top of the Californian stallion colony, but 34 graded stakes winners and eight Grade I winners, so it’s Siberian Summer, another son of Siberian Express it has already established itself as quite a prepotent one. who has been red-hot in the last couple of weeks. On July 10, his five-year-old mare Dream of Summer (out of the Skywalker mare Marya’s Dream) won the GII A Gleam H. at Hollywood Park on her stakes debut. Then, just eight days later his four-year-old filly Summer Wind Dancer captured the GII Delaware H. Siberian Express and In Excess are the only Grade I winners sired by Siberian Express. A son of Caro from the family of Mr. Prospector, the French-raced Siberian Express was an inconsistent runner, but on his day was capable of outstanding performances, such as the ones he put up to capture the G1 Prix Morny and G1 Poule de Essai des Poulains (French 2000 Guineas), two of his three victories. Oddly enough, Siberian Summer’s record was a little like that of his sire. In fact, he won only one stakes event, but that was the G1 Charles H. Strub S., which he took from that season’s champion older male, Bertrando. Dream of Summer is one of three stakes winners from his first crop, and Summer Wind Dancer is one of another three from his second crop. We’d have to give Siberian Summer a considerable share of the credit for Summer Wind Dancer’s ability, as neither her first or second dam has previously produced a stakes winner. The dam, Native Wind Dancer, is by Incinderator, an English-raced horse of modest achievement but sparkling pedigree (by Northern Dancer out of the outstanding filly Princess Karenda). A similar description could be applied to Summer Wind Dancer’s granddam, Rich Indian, an unraced daughter of Raise a Native and English group winner, Trillionaire. Winner the G3 Princess Royal S. in England, Trillionaire produced a stakes winner in the Youth filly, Lock’s Dream, who also finished third in the GIII Yerba Buena H. Lock’s Dream also has extended her branch of the family as she is dam of stakes winner Big Brown Bear (by Strike the Gold) and granddam of last year’s multiple stakes winner Lacie Girl (by Editor’s Note), and Irish two-year-old listed scorer Akanti. .

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