Andrew Caulfield, March 29, 2005–Blues and Royals P EDIGREE INSIGHTS In the circumstances it came as no surprise that the median price for these 2003 yearlings was only a little BY ANDREW CAULFIELD higher than their sire's 2001 fee, with only five of the 75 offered achieving six-figure sums. In fact, only two Saturday, Nad al Sheba, Dubai of Honour and Glory's yearlings made more than UAE DERBY-G2, $2,000,000, NAD, 3-26, NH/SH 3yo, $180,000, with one colt selling for $245,000 and 1800m, 1:50.05, ft. another for $400,000. 1--#@BLUES AND ROYALS, 121, c, 3, by Honour and Glory That $400,000 colt had the distinction of being a half 1st Dam: Dixieland Blues, by brother to , one of the stars of the early 2nd Dam: Blue Jean Baby, by Mr. Prospector juvenile races in 2003, with 3rd Dam: Jones Time Machine, by Current Concept victories to his name in the ($400,000 yrl ‘03 KEESEP). O-; B-Cheryl A Three Chimneys Juvenile S. Curtin (FL); T-; J-K McEvoy; and the GIII Bashford Manor $1,200,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, $1,216,980. S. Unfortunately for his *1/2 to Limehouse (), MGSW & GISP, buyers, the Honour and Glory $827,435. colt--Blues and Royals--didn't Click for the Emirates Racing chart or the free achieve nearly as much as brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Limehouse as a juvenile. Limehouse Equi-photo Indeed, his starting price of What more can you hope for than that a new 33-1 in last Saturday's UAE stallion sires a Breeders' Cup winner in his first crop? Derby reflected the fact that he had won only one of Honour and Glory did exactly that in 2000, when his his three starts in England last year and had finished daughter won the Juvenile Fillies on her last of four on his latest appearance. No doubt some expected Blues and Royals' role to be pacemaker to his way to collecting an Eclipse Award. stablemate , an unbeaten champion who was One immediate consequence of Caressing's on trial for the Derby. triumph was that Honour and Glory's fee jumped Neither of these Godolphin colts had previously raced from $17,500 in 2000 to on sand and the change in surface--plus the application $40,000 for 2001 and of blinkers to Blues and Royals--produced a totally breeders rushed to use him, unpredictable result. Whereas the free-running sending him more than 200 Shamardal eventually trailed home ninth of 11, some mares. It therefore seemed 14 lengths behind the eighth-placed Durban Thunder, fair to think that the 2002 Blues and Royals romped home 12 lengths clear in this crop by this GI Met Mile very valuable Group-2 event, booking himself a ticket to winner would be the one to in the process. So, if all goes to plan, Blues and Royals' dam, Honour and Glory establish his true worth. Unfortunately, by the time Dixieland Blues, will have the distinction of being www.coolmore.com this 2002 crop reached the represented in consecutive editions of the . Limehouse performed very creditably in last yearling sales, Honour and Glory's second and third year's race, moving into third place entering the crops had failed to replicate the success of that first stretch, only to run out of stamina when it mattered. crop, which also contained Name Value (G1 Teio Sho He held onto fourth place, eight lengths behind Smarty in Japan), Put It Back (GII Riva Ridge S.), Discreet Jones. Hero (GIII Round Table S.) and a handful of other stakes winners. Caulfield cont.

www.coolmore.com The question now is whether Blues and Royals will last the final furlong any better than his distinguished My Dear Girl half brother. He showed no signs of stopping at the end The Axe II Foggy Note of the UAE Derby and his pedigree is probably no more Silver Song Honour and Glory lacking in stamina than those of many other (Fr) modern-day Kentucky Derby candidates. Caretta (Ire) Fair to All Dixieland Blues' racing record doesn't supply much Francis S. Gonfalon information, as she ran only once, when second in a Grand Splendor sprint. However, she is bred to a very well known pattern, being one of nearly 70 animals sired by Dixieland Band Dixieland Band from Mr. Prospector mares. Delta Judge Mississippi Mud That this cross has been tried so many times is a Dixieland Blues Sand Buggy 4Fls, 2GSW reflection of its success. Dixieland Band has so far sired Raise a Native Mr. Prospector five group/graded winners from daughters of Mr. Blue Jean Baby Gold Digger GSW, 10-5-1-0 Prospector (as well as , whose second dam 11Fls, 1SW Jones Time Current Concept is by Mr. Prospector). Speed has been the main asset of Machine 14Fls, Daunt’s Girl some of these winners, such as the high-class sprinter 1GSW Chimes Band, the fast French colt Didyme and the Grade III six-furlong winner Love That Jazz. However, Southern Rhythm won the GII Lexington S. over 1 1/16 miles and Jazz Club took the GIII Ben Ali S. over 1 1/8 miles. The doubt still remains about a mile and a quarter. This doubt is all the more real when the Mr. Prospector mare in question is Blue Jean Baby. This quick-maturing filly won the Colleen S. over five and a half furlongs and the GII Sorority S. over six furlongs in the summer of 1987. Lightly raced subsequently, Blue Jean Baby gained her only other stakes success over six furlongs. Her only stakes winner, the Ogygian filly Denim Yenem, was a very effective sprinter and Blue Jean Baby has also achieved the unusual feat of producing a sprinter to Silver Hawk. This isn't too surprising, as she was sired by a high-class sprinter from Jones Time Machine, a prolific stakes winner whose only graded success came in the Distaff H. over seven furlongs. So, if Blues and Royals is going to be ideally suited by a mile and a quarter, he will need to have inherited some stamina from the top half of his pedigree. There are similarities between his sire Honour and Glory and Limehouse's sire Grand Slam, in that both possessed first-rate speed, coupled with a measure of stamina. Honour and Glory will always be best remembered as a winner of the GII King's Bishop S. and the GI Metropolitan H., but he stayed well enough to win the GII Breeders' Futurity over 1 1/16 miles as a two-year-old and to finish second in the GI Santa Anita Derby at three. It is worth remembering that his sire, the versatile Relaunch, went close to winning the GI San Luis Rey S. over a mile and a half and that his grandsires are In Reality (Florida Derby) and Al Nasr (Prix d'Ispahan). It's in Blues and Royals’ favour that Honour and Glory already has a Group 1 winner over a mile and a quarter to his credit, namely the Japanese mare Name Value, winner of the Teio Sho (G1-NAR) on dirt in 2003. So he is in with a chance of lasting the distance, but we also need confirmation that this colt is as good as his Dubai performance suggests.