Karel Miedema’s Pedigree Evaluation ildonan K Rich Man’s Gold – Cathay Firth by Philippi

Figuring out what might make a future stallion tick often resembles a giant jigsaw puzzle. All the pieces are there. What remains is to simply to fit them together, dear Watson. Where to start? Next a look at the kin- breeding in Kildonan’s best The best progeny of the stallion’s sire (and his immediate female line relatives. family), plus the best runners from the young sire’s female Kildonan: 4x4 Romanita x Welsh line carry all the clues. In the case of Kildonan’s sire Rich Pageant, 3x5x4 Honest Pleasure Man’s Gold there’s plenty to draw on, notably under his x Tudor Melody x Free For All, 3x5 Dimashq x Never Bend, 4x5 third dam Romanita. x Never Bend Kale: 2x3 Ellida x Pentland Firth; hampion 2yo filly in pedigrees make interesting read- different gene-pools. Or are they? 4x4x5 Martial Loan x Free For the US in 1956, ing. A look at some of the pedigrees. All x Pharis (x Joy Ride) ; 4x3 Romanita won 11 Vimy x Croix du Risque Bought for $1.6 million as a year- Rich Man’s Gold: 4x3 Pocahontas x races during her ling, European Champion 2yo Romanita, and 2x3 Mr Prospector Carry On Katie: 5x5x5x5x4x5 career, including five notable C Minardi is half brother to Tale Of x What a Pleasure Mixed Marriage x Nearctic x stakes races. She was a daughter The Cat and to the dam of Court Martial x Nearctic x Turn Isola Piu Bella (CHI), Champion of once-raced Mablen, who in . His pedigree shows To x Free For All (x Pharis x Joy 3yo filly: 4x3(4) Romanita x turn was by influential sire kin-breeding through the female Ride) Reason to Earn (Hail to Reason) Blenheim out of closely inbred lines of his sire & dam, 3x2 Ponte Sound of Rhum: 3x3 Abadan x Free mare Golden Manda, 2x3 to Fair Vecchio x Narrate (the latter is France Soir (CHI), Champion 3yo For All (x Affair x Joy Ride) Play & a full sister. In Golden known locally as the dam of sire filly: 3x2 File x Salt Marsh (5x4x4 Manda’s pedigree Fair Play is Lecture). Pocahontas x Romanita x the sire of her sire Man O’War. Pocahontas) In the pedigree build-up of Big Brown, winner of two legs of Mablen’s make-up, in other Kildonan’s female line, the mare the US Triple Crown in 2008, also Twingo (CHI), Champion 2yo colt: words, provided a highclass Joy Ride appeared to hold the shows kin-breeding through his sire 3x4 Dimashq x Never Bend foundation. aces. Her pedigree makes her kin & dam’s female lines: 2x3 Edge x Kildonan, Champion 2yo colt: 4x4 to Pentland Firth’ dam Free For Romanita was given every Syrian Circle. Romanita x Welsh Pageant, chance at stud. She visited Bold All. When the two came together, To summarise, Boundary is kin- 3x5x4 Honest Pleasure x Tudor Ruler three times, for two stakes in Caprica Firth, the number of bred 2x2 Northern Dancer x Terentia Melody x Free For All, 3x5 winning fillies. She twice went topclass descendants increased (by , and a daughter of Dimashq x Never Bend, 4x5 to Bold Ruler’s son Bold dramatically. We note that Romanita), Minardi’s kin-line is What a Pleasure x Never Bend Reasoning (whose main claim to Caprica Firth is kinbred 2x3x5 through Terentia’s daughter Ponte Lucky Find: 2x5 Honest Joy x fame is as sire of ), Free For All x Pharis x Joy Ride, Vecchio (by Round Table), Big Leucothea getting two stakes placed colts. 2x3 Free For All x Abernant and Brown’s kin-line is through Ponte Royal Vintage: 3(4)x5 Dimashq And with Damascus she got 3x5 Donatello x Joy Ride. Vecchio’s daughter Edge (by (Romanita) x Bold Reason; 4x4 Dimashq, grandam of Rich Man’s Kildonan got the best of all Damascus). Romanita Rules, it What a Pleasure x Jungle Cove Gold. The best of Romanita’s worlds, because his sire Rich seems. 92% Bold Rulers was highclass stakes Man’s Gold’s key-ancestor On to Rich Man’s Gold and winner Terentia who produced Pirate’s Gold: 4x2 Romanita x Romanita is kin to Joy Ride, and his progeny. three stakes winners by Round Cordoba; 4x3 What a Pleasure x he also has a kin-link to Free For Table, two colts and filly. That By Bold Ruler’s grandson Honest Gay Senorita; 4x5 Romanita x All. Pleasure, Rich Man’s Gold is out of Never Say Die; 3x4x3 Mr filly, Gr2 winning Ponte Vecchio, Interesting in this context is the mare Dimashq, by Damascus Prospector x What a Pleasure x visited Damascus to produce Elliodor, whose dam is kin to out of Romanita. He started his Gay Senorita Edge, the Gr3 winning dam of Pentland Firth. From Elliodor and studcareer in Chile in 1996 before Gr3 winning sire Boundary. Made Of Money: 4x5x4 Romanita son Model Man, Cathay Firth’s coming to South Africa five years A son of Danzig, Boundary x Portage x Little Hut; 3(4)x5 daughter Kyle produced SA Derby later. That gives an opportunity to produced two spectacular colts, Dimashq (Romanita) x Bold winner Kale and Majorca/ evaluate him against two radically Minardi and Big Brown. Their Reason Paddock Stakes placed Pratique.

2008 Sires Handbook - Raceform PICK OF THE BUNCH Suitable mares for Kildonan could include: 1. Mares with Elliodor, Model Man; Saumarez; Second Empire 2. Mares with Fairy King or full brother Sadler’s Wells (Second Empire, Casey Tibbs, Fort Wood, Ernani) 3. Mares with Golden Thatch, Royal Prerogative 4. Mares with National Assembly (National Emblem, Announce), Jungle Cove 5. Mares with Al Mufti, Captain Al, Complete Warrior 6. Mares with Lecture, Windrush 7. Mares with Western Winter, Count duBois 8. Mares with Cordoba, Northern Guest

Where From Here Thatch. One such sire is Royal Prerogative (damsire of Female Line build-up Goldmark), another National Assembly (sire of Historic (the term ‘kinbred’ is used to identify close genetic The very best opportunities for Kildonan relatives; a benchmark percentage of about 90% is Lady, Bold Thatch). required to qualify; for each dam the kinbreeding should be with well performed mares who percentage is shown as well) provide kin-links into his two grandams, Royal Prerogative’s dam Bride Elect is kin to Free 6th dam Honest Joy and Caprica Firth, keeping in mind For All, his second dam Netherton Maid links to Grande Corniche (86%) (by Panorama What A Pleasure. 87%) the influential grandams of those mares, kinbred 2x1 Happy Climax x Joy Ride Romanita and Free For All. National Assembly looks most interesting. He’s by 92% Elliodor and his son Model Man have been Danzig (sire of Boundary), his dam Renounce is by 5th dam successful with Kildonan’s female line, as Buckpasser out of Bold Princess (Bold Ruler x Grey Grande Cornette (83%) (by Kingsway outlined earlier. Elliodor’s dam is close kin to Flight, and thus a full sister to What A Pleasure). 87%) That makes Renounce kin to Rich Man’s Gold’s dam kinbred 2x3x3x2 Fairway x Yane x Happy Pentland Firth. Climax x Joy Ride 89-92% Honest Joy. Any mare who has National Assembly Saumarez’ dam Fiesta Fun is a key horse in together with Jungle Cove (a successful combo) would 4th dam his own pedigree. Fiesta Fun, a daughter of get an additional kin-link from Jungle Cove. Cormorant (83%) (by Abernant 84%) Welsh Pageant, is kin to Caprica Firth. kinbred 3x3x3 Hyperion x Fairway x Joy Hail to Reason looks important. He’s kin to both Ride 90-93% Welsh Flame, the grandam of Second Empire Romanita and Free For All, and is well represented in is by Welsh Pageant out of Crepello mare 3rd dam the population. Hail to Reason is sire of Bold Reason, Belle Caprica (84%) (by Alcinus 83%) Electric Flash. Welsh Flame is kin to Caprica of Reason to Earn (mentioned earlier as dam of sire kinbred 2x4 Pharis x Joy Ride 90% Firth. Also noted is that Second Empire is a kinbred 1x3 Alcinus x Kingsway 92% Bold Reasoning). He’s also sire of Roberto, which leads son of Fairy King, full brother to Sadler’s kinbred 2x3 Pharis x Owen Tudor 90% to Al Mufti. That link continues to Lecture, in a Wells. The brothers are sons of the mare Fairy nd connection mentioned earlier when discussing 2 dam Bridge, by Bold Reason out of Special. Bold Caprica Firth (84%) (by Pentland Firth Boundary. Al Mufti’s son Captain Al looks the part: Reason is kin to Dimashq, noted earlier 84%) his damsire Complete Warrior is kin to Honest Joy, kinbred 2x3x5 Free For All x Pharis x Joy through Rich Man’s Gold interaction with Ride 90-92% while his third dam Beylic is kin to Free For All. kinbred 2x3 Free For All x Abernant 90% Sadler’s Wells (Fort Wood, Ernani). Dimashq kinbred 3x5 Donatello x Joy Ride 90% makes up a trio with Bold Reason and 3-part Western Winter is interesting, as he is the sire of stakes filly Carry On Katie, from Kildonan’s female st brother Never Bend, leading to Mill Reef. We 1 dam line. Carry On Katie is kin-bred through Free For Cathay Firth (78%) (by Philippi 80%) note Casey Tibbs, by Sadler’s Wells out of a kinbred (3)4x3 (Welsh Pageant) Tudor mare by Mill Reef, with his third dam Feemoss All. With Kildonan and Western Winter there is Melody x Free For All (89%) 92% kin to Free For All. additional kin-breeding Forty Niner x Gone West, kinbred 3(4)x4 Welsh Pageant (Tudor plus Honest Pleasure with the dam of Gone West. Melody) x Abernant 90% (94%) A variation on the Fairy King/Sadler’s Wells kinbred 5x4 Lalun x Tanis 90% Another Gone West-line stallion is Count du Bois. His scenario comes through one whose sire and dam Madame du Bois provides two kin-links to Kildonan (75%) (by Rich Man’s Gold dam are both from the same (Dalmary) female Pentland Firth, through her two grandams Lupe and 81%) line. That is Golden Thatch, whose dam Abella kinbred 3x5x4 Honest Pleasure x Tudor Milly Moss. Melody x Free For All 89-90% is kin to Free For All, to Welsh Pageant, and kinbred 4x4 Romanita x Welsh Pageant also to Pia (grandam of Philippi) and Tularia Cordoba was noted earlier, as the damsire of Rich 90% (NB Romanita = 91% Joy Ride) Man’s Gold’s son Pirate Gold. Cordoba’s sire El Gran kinbred 4x5 What a Pleasure x Never (dam of Honest Pleasure). A potentially Senor is kin to What A Pleasure, and is a full brother Bend 90% explosive mix, especially if it can be mixed with something that worked well with Golden to Northern Guest who must count for that reason.

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