Refuse to Bend (Ire)
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Andrew Caulfield - May 6, 2003 – Moyglare Stud P EDIGREE INSIGHTS regularly sire an impressive percentage of stakes winners. This year the farm is using stallions in Ireland, BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Britain, France and the U.S. (where Kingmambo, Danzig, Saturday, Newmarket, Britain Gulch, Thunder Gulch, Smart Strike, Theatrical, Diesis SAGITTA 2000 GUINEAS S.-G1, £320,000, and Giant’s Causeway are the chosen stallions). Newmarket, 5-3, 3yo, c/f, 1mT, 1:37.98, gd. Moyglare’s quest for top quality (and possibly some 1--REFUSE TO BEND (IRE), 126, c, 3, by Sadler’s Wells outcross bloodlines) has also extended the search to 1st Dam: Market Slide (GSP, $127,519), by Gulch Germany, where mares are visiting Monsun, 2nd Dam: Grenzen, by Grenfall Acatenango and Big Shuffle. 3rd Dam: My Poly, by Cyclotron Not surprisingly, Moyglare has four mares visiting O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm; T-Dermot Weld; J-Pat Danehill, including Refuse To Bend’s sister Ripple of Smullen; £185,600. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Ire, Pride (a winner over 1½ miles). Refuse To Bend’s dam, 4-4-0-0, £332,360. *1/2 to Media Puzzle (Ire) Market Slide, is one of four mares booked to Sadler’s (Theatrical {Ire}), G1SW-Aus, SW & GSP-Ire, Wells and Moyglare is also using Sadler’s Wells’s top $1,554,495. sons Galileo, Montjeu, Barathea and In The Wings, plus Click for the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. his grandson Singspiel. With eight daughters of Sadler’s In these days when most of the major breeding Wells among the 57 broodmares, it is obvious that the ventures have broodmare bands numbering well over Haefners and their manager Stan Cosgrove are great 200, the Moyglare Stud Farm of Mr. and Mrs. Walter admirers of the perennial champion sire. Haefner could almost be described as a small-time For a horse who won the Irish 2000 Guineas over a operation. The farm’s studbook for 1999 listed only 48 mile and never won beyond 1¼ miles, Sadler’s Wells mares, with that total rising to 57 this year. has proved a surprisingly strong influence for stamina, Of course, anyone who closely follows international with his mature stock establishing an average winning racing will know that there has been nothing small-time distance of 11.1 furlongs in Britain and Ireland. That about the racecourse success enjoyed by Moyglare’s doesn’t mean, though, that he can’t get top-notch graduates, especially over the last 18 months. One of juveniles--Refuse To Bend was one of his three Group the stud’s Danehill fillies, the Group 2 winner Irresistible 1-winning two-year-olds last year--or horses which are Jewel, did so well last year that she was invited to highly effective over a mile. Refuse To Bend follows contest the Japan Cup, while another, Dress To Thrill, Entrepreneur and King of Kings as Sadler’s Wells’ third followed up a sparkling European campaign with a winner of the 2000 Guineas and the Coolmore king has tremendous victory in the GI Matriarch S. also sired a winner of the 1000 Guineas and two of Over in Australia, the Moyglare-bred Media Puzzle (by each of the Guineas races in Ireland. Theatrical) decisively won that country’s most Plenty has been written about Sadler’s Wells’ fruitful sought-after prize, the Melbourne Cup, and Refuse To relationship with mares from the Mill Reef line, to the Bend, Media Puzzle’s half brother by Sadler’s Wells, extent that this has possibly drawn attention away from showed tremendous potential in winning the G1 Aga his very good achievements with several mares from the Khan Studs National S. on only his second start. Now Raise a Native male line. King’s Theatre, a major winner Refuse To Bend has fulfilled that promise, improving his at two and three, is out of a mare by Raise a Native’s record to four wins from as many starts with his victory son Princely Native, while Exclusive Native is the in the Sagitta 2000 Guineas. broodmare sire of Entrepreneur and the Oaks second It is well worth pointing out that Moyglare owes its Dance A Dream. Caulfield cont. p4 recent success to using high-priced proven stallions who His 1st crop includes.....................................................................12 individual stakes horses. His 2nd crop includes..............Unbeaten Three Chimneys Juvenile S. winner LIMEHOUSE. GRAND SLAM Dual Grade I-winning juvenile by GONE WEST from the family of ALYDAR. www.coolmore.com Caulfield cont. her Be My Guest colt Go And Go won the Belmont S. Sadler’s Wells’ matings with mares by Mr. Prospector by more than eight lengths. have so far yielded nothing more important than a pair As a mile and a half should be within Refuse To of Group 3 winners, but it has been a different story Bend’s range, he has a good chance of becoming the with mares by some of his sons. Miswaki ranks as the first 2000 Guineas winner since Nashwan to go on to broodmare sire of the Group 1 winners Galileo, Black success in the Derby. What happens afterwards could be very interesting because his connections love to Sam Bellamy and Johann Quatz, and now a daughter of challenge for the top international prizes and the colt’s Gulch has produced Refuse To Bend. Incidentally, it was pedigree suggests he could well be effective on dirt. a mating between Sadler’s Wells and a daughter of Fappiano which produced the dam of Moyglare’s Irresistible Jewel. I suspect that it is more than just coincidence that Sadler’s Wells owes two of his three winners of the 2000 Guineas to mares from the Raise a Native line and this could be one of the best ways to bring out some speed and precocity in Sadler’s Wells’ stock. Refuse To Bend’s trainer Dermot Weld never made a secret of his fears that the Guineas mile might prove on the short side, but there is no shortage of speed in the bottom half of the colt’s pedigree. Refuse To Bend’s broodmare sire Gulch was the best sprinter in the U.S. in 1988, and the colt’s dam, Market Slide, never tackled more than seven furlongs during her time in Ireland, where she won the valuable Scurry Handicap over 6½ furlongs. She was third in the GIII First Lady H. over six furlongs as a five-year-old after returning to the U.S. So Market Slide possessed plenty of pace, even though her son Media Puzzle stays very well. Market Slide ought to have been effective at up to a mile and an eighth, because both Gulch and her dam Grenzen enjoyed graded success over that distance. Grenzen showed a lot of ability in each of her three seasons on the track. In addition to becoming a graded winner on dirt and turf, she earned a rating of 113 on the Experimental Free Handicap at two prior to receiving Blood-Horse Free Handicap assessments of 122 at three and 123 at four. Again, she possessed plenty of speed-- enough to equal the six-furlong track record at Santa Anita and to win the GIII Santa Ynez S. and the GII Santa Monica H. over seven furlongs. As a daughter of Grenfall and a Cyclotron mare, Grenzen was hardly fashionably bred and she produced only one stakes winner from 13 foals for Moyglare. However, that stakes winner was Twilight Agenda, who was transformed from just a talented miler on turf in Ireland into a winner of over $2,000,000, mainly on dirt, in the U.S. Grenzen’s Alleged filly Irish Edition also underlined this family’s capacity to excel on dirt when.