PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Undoing, but Trillion Had Absolutely No Problems in That B Y a N D R E W C a U L F I E L D Area
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Andrew Caulfield, June 18-Treve (Fr) Soundness--or the lack of it--quickly proved Madelia=s PEDIGREE INSIGHTS undoing, but Trillion had absolutely no problems in that B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D area. A daughter of Hail To Reason, she inherited plenty of size from this champion sire, to the extent that Sunday, Chantilly, France Timeform described her as Aa big, strapping mare.@ She PRIX DE DIANE LONGINES-G1, i1,000,000, Chantilly, also inherited plenty of the toughness that had allowed 6-16, 3yo, f, 1 5/16mT, 2:03.77 (NTR), gd. Hail To Reason to make 18 starts as a juvenile. By the 1--#@sTREVE (FR), 126, f, 3, by Motivator (GB) time Trillion was retired at the end of her 5-year-old 1st Dam: Trevise (Fr), by Anabaa campaign, she had raced 32 times. Although her lack of 2nd Dam: Trevillari, by Riverman a turn of foot made her vulnerable at the highest level, 3rd Dam: Trevilla, by Lyphard she numbered the G1 Prix Ganay among her nine (i22,000 RNA yrl >11 ARQOCT). O/B-Haras du victories and she was runner-up in no fewer than Quesnay; T-Criquette Head-Maarek; J-Thierry Jarnet; 10 other Group 1 races, once finishing a two-length i571,400. Lifetime Record: 3 starts, 3 wins, second of 18 behind Alleged in the Arc. i600,400. *1/2 to Trois Rois (Fr) (Hernando {Fr}), Bearing in mind that Trillion earned a Timeform rating SW & GSP, $194,460. Werk Nick Rating: A+. of 129, her chances of producing something better Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, Racing Post result, than herself looked somewhat slim, yet that is exactly the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Click for Equidia VIDEO. what she achieved with her second foal, Triptych. This When an unbeaten filly slices two seconds off the daughter of Riverman raced 38 times from two to six, race record in winning a Classic, you have to think that mainly at Group 1 level and often against males, whom she could develop into racing royalty. That, of course, she first defeated in the Irish 2000 Guineas. is exactly what the unexposed Treve did in the Prix de Triptych was seen at her very best as a 5-year-old, Diane two days ago, and a glance at her female line when her victories included the Prix Ganay, Coronation quickly establishes that she has every right to develop Cup, the Matchmaker International at York and the into a queen of the turf. Treve=s fourth dam Trillion Champion S. at both Phoenix Park and Newmarket. contested the Prix de Diane some 36 years earlier. Like Timeform rated her 133 that year, which put her Treve, Trillion arrived at the Chantilly classic unbeaten amongst the greatest distaffers of all time. in two starts and she too ran really well, rallying so bravely that she failed by only a head to pass the All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, faltering Madelia. unless otherwise indicated Insights cont. It is impossible to review the bottom half of Treve=s Tragically, Triptych was killed in 1989, before she pedigree without highlighting the involvement of the had produced a foal, and Trillion was also none too Head family in several generations of her pedigree. fortunate, as she died at 13, after producing only four Lyphard, the sire of third dam Trevilla, and Riverman, foals. Fortunately, all four of Trillion=s foals were fillies sire of second dam Trevillari, were both trained by Alec and the three which survived--Trevilla, Barger and Triple Head, while Treve=s broodmare sire Anabaa developed Couronne--all have at least one Group 1-winning into the champion sprinter of 1996 in the care of descendant. Criquette Head, who trained him for her mother. Barger--herself a winner of the G3 Prix Vanteaux--is Criquette also trained Anabaa=s very speedy dam the second dam of Tawqeet, winner of the Caulfield Balbonella, who in turn was by Gay Mecene, another Cup, while Triple Couronne is the second dam of alumnus of the Alec Head yard. Now Mme Amorama, twice a Grade I winner on turf at Del Mar. Head-Maarek is training Treve for Haras du Quesnay. These two were by Riverman, which made them sisters Incidentally, Treve=s dam Trevise is inbred 4x2 to to Triptych, but Trillion=s first foal, Trevilla, was by Riverman (and 3x4 to Northern Dancer). Riverman also Lyphard. appears twice (this time 4x3) in the pedigree of another Trevilla, born in 1981, began her broodmare career of the Heads= good broodmares, Funny Feerie, dam of with a visit to Vaguely Noble. The resultant filly, Sine the Grade I winners Full of Gold and Fuisse. That means Labe, made her mark by producing Tamarisk, a first-rate that Trevise=s Fuisse colt has four lines of Riverman. sprinter who sadly proved to be largely infertile. But the Before leaving the topic of Treve=s female line, I successes of Triptych and Barger soon had Trevilla should point out that Trillion was a sister to Hail heading not to Vaguely Noble, but to Riverman, another Maggie, as well as being a half-sister to Doff The of Gainesway=s European stars. Her first two visits act Derby, all three being daughters of Margarethen. Hail as a reminder that, if a breeder has faith in a particular Maggie produced the Grade I-winner Sabona and also mating, he or she should be prepared to persevere. ranked as the third dam of Landseer, winner of the Trevilla=s first Riverman filly, Trevillari, failed to fulfil the French 2000 Guineas and Keeneland Turf Mile. promise she showed at two and was still without a win Landseer=s second dam Flood was a sister-in-blood to after 13 starts spread over three seasons. However, Triptych. Doff The Derby=s contribution to the family Trevilla=s second daughter by Riverman was Treble, fortunes was even more considerable, as her winner of the G1 Prix Saint-Alary. descendants include the Derby and Irish Derby winner Trevillari made up for her failings on the track by Generous, the dual Classic winner Imagine and the producing nine winners. The best of them was her high-class French filly Moonlight Cloud. Anabaa colt Tsigane, who was once beaten less than The Prix de Diane also paid tribute to the two lengths when third in the GI Shoemaker Mile S. It much-missed Montjeu, as Treve is by his son Motivator is Tsigane=s sister Trevise--a sprint winner on her and the runner-up, the inexperienced Chicquita, is by 2-year-old debut--who is now the dam of the exciting Montjeu himself. Despite siring fillies of the calibre of Treve. Trevise=s Hernando colt Trois Rois also scored at Montare, Miss Keller and Sarah Lynx, Montjeu was stakes level, over a mile and a quarter. Trevise=s next rightly considered a better sire of colts. Oddly, the two foals are Trophee, a 2-year-old colt by Mr. Sidney, reverse seems to be happening with Motivator. In and a yearling colt by Fuisse. Mr Sidney and Fuisse are addition to Treve, he has been very ably represented by two of the stallions at the Head family=s Haras du two other French daughters. Ridasiyna provided him Quesnay, which also became the home this year of with his first Group 1 success last October, when she Treve=s sire Motivator, who had previously been based proved much too good for those fine fillies Izzi Top and at the Royal Studs in England. Giofra in the Prix de l=Opera. More recently, his daughter Ferevia has won the G3 Prix Penelope before finishing an excellent third in the G1 Prix Saint-Alary. TREVE (FR), f, 2010 Treve is his eighth group winner from his first four Northern Dancer crops and six of those eight are fillies. Add in his listed Sadler’s Wells winners and the imbalance between the sexes Montjeu (Ire) Fairy Bridge Top Ville (Ire) continues, with 10 fillies, as opposed to two colts and Floripedes (Fr) three geldings. I guess that owner-breeders won=t Motivator (GB) Toute Cy (Fr) Mr. Prospector object to that sort of record. Gone West The picture could change a little with help from his Out West Secrettame Sharpen Up (GB) son Sky Hunter, who suffered the first defeat of his Chellingoua career when an encouraging third to Intello in the Prix Uncommitted du Jockey-Club. Danzig Northern Dancer The emergence of Treve, Sky Hunter and Ferevia Pas de Nom Anabaa from the 82 foals in Motivator=s fourth crop make it all Gay Mecene Trevise (Fr) Balbonella (Fr) the more unfortunate that the 2005 Derby winner has Winner Bamieres (Fr) suffered a catalogue of problems which have begun to Never Bend 5Fls, 2SW, 1GSW Trevillari Riverman restrict his opportunities. Race Record River Lady He went lame in his off-hind while being prepared for 11Fls, 1SW Trevilla Lyphard the Breeders= Cup Turf and the problems continued 8Fls, 1 G1SW Trillion when his first season at the Royal Studs was brought to a premature halt after he had slipped in his paddock. Consequently he was unable to cover all of the mares booked to him and his first crop totalled 63 foals, which put him at a numerical disadvantage. He had no such problems in the next two seasons, siring 103 foals in both his second and third crops. Motivator=s next problem came in the autumn of 2009, when he suffered a tendon injury to his left-hind which prevented him covering at all in 2010.