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Andrew Caulfield, February 8, 2005–Lundy’s Liability (Brz) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS We have a reverse example in Candy Stripes, who commenced stallion duties in Argentina in 1989. Like BY ANDREW CAULFIELD many horses who retire to South America, his pedigree was arguably more impressive than his racecourse Sunday, Santa Anita achievements, even though he had been above average SAN ANTONIO H.-GII, $250,000, SAX, 2-6, 4yo/up, on the course in France. Carrying the colors of 1 1/8m, 1:49, ft. Mahmoud Fustok, Candy Stripes defeated the future 1--LUNDY'S LIABILITY (BRZ), 119, h, 5, by Candy Stripes Group winner Courtroom in a newcomers’ race at 1st Dam: Emerald Counter, by Geiger Counter Saint-Cloud in March 1985, but a poor effort on his 2nd Dam: Conjuror, by Nijinsky II next appearance led to his starting at 19-1 in the 3rd Dam: Palmistry, by *Forli French 2000 Guineas. Candy Stripes crossed the line in O-Stud TNT & Mrs M Slack; B-Stud TNT (BRZ); third place, beaten under two lengths, before being T-Robert J Frankel; J-D R Flores; $150,000. Lifetime Record: 8-5-1-0, $1,703,930. promoted to second on the demotion of the winner, 2--Truly a Judge, 118, h, 7, Judge T C--Truly Needy, River Mist. Candy Stripes appears not to have been by Yukon. ($37,000 2yo 2000 KEENOV). O-Alan easy to train because he was off the course for a year Aidekman Ailshie Gaylord & Tom Harris; B-Robert H after his next start, returning to win a minor mile race & Bea Roberts (KY); T-David Bernstein; $50,000. at Longchamp. He managed only one more start. 3--Congrats, 116, h, 5, A.P. Indy--Praise, by Mr. Candy Stripes had every right to rise to Classic level Prospector. O/B-Claiborne Farm & Adele Dilschneider in France. His sire, the extremely effective Blushing (KY); T-Richard E Mandella; $30,000. Groom, had won the French 2000 Guineas and his Margins: 1HF, 1, 4HF. Odds: 3.10, 3.70, 3.30. second dam, Prodice, had been beaten only half a length in the French Oaks after winning the main trial, Click for brisnet.com catalog-style pedigree, the G1 Prix Saint-Alary. His dam Bubble Company was brisnet.com chart or race replay. a winning sister to that ultra-tough mare Sangue, Only last week I stressed how relevant to a stallion’s winner of the GI Yellow Ribbon Invitational, and GI success is his position in the pecking order, and this Matriarch H. and GI Vanity H. Bubble Company also theory received further support with the success of produced the Japanese champion Bubble Gum Fellow Candy Stripes’ son Lundy’s Liability in Sunday’s GII San and her name recently cropped up again in Japan as the Antonio H. third dam of Shonan Peintre, winner of the G1 Hanshin Most examples of this phenomenon involve U.S. Juvenile Fillies last December. stallions, which are some way down the pecking order Apparently, Candy Stripes made his stud debut in in the USA, but whose fortunes are transformed when Maryland in 1987, but he went almost completely they head south for the second half of the year. My unnoticed, even though he was by one of the hottest interpretation is that these stallions tend to receive stallions of the 1980s, out of a sister to a triple Grade I mares of comparatively higher rank in South America. winner. Look at Spend a Buck. Disappointing results had led to It was a very different story in Argentina, where the 1985 Horse of the Year being demoted to the Texas stallion ranks, but Spend a Buck’s journey to Candy Stripes quickly established his merit as a stallion. Brazil in 1998 resulted in the U.S. Grade I winners Hard His second crop contained four group winners, Buck and Pico Central. including Seaborg, a dual Group 1 winner who took the Gran Premio Internacional Carlos Pellegrini, and Criollito. www.coolmore.com Both these colts were transferred to the U.S., where This million-dollar-winning gelding--a full brother to they were joined by Different, a champion filly from Foreseer--gained one of his Grade I wins in the 1976 Candy Stripes’ third crop. Criollito and Different proved Santa Anita H., so it would be appropriate if Lundy’s equally effective in their new base, becoming graded Liability were to follow up in the big handicap next month. winners in 1996. Different’s pair of Grade I successes were enough to earn Candy Stripes a place at Taylor Red God ‘54 *Nasrullah ‘40 Made Farm during the 1997 Northern Hemisphere Blushing Groom Spring Run ‘48 Runaway Bride Wild Risk (Fr) ‘40 season and his reputation received another boost when (Fr) ‘74 (GB) ‘62 Aimee (GB) ‘57 his imported daughter Victory Stripes became a Grade II Candy Stripes Lyphard ‘69 Northern Dancer ‘61 winner in 1999. ‘82 Goofed ‘60 Bubble Company Candy Stripes’ position in the pecking order at Taylor Prodice (Fr) ‘69 Prominer (Ire) ‘62 (Fr) ‘77 Made was somewhat different from his ranking at Euridice ‘62 Haras Abolengo in Argentina. For most of his time at Raise a Native ‘61 Taylor Made, he was in competition against Unbridled’s Geiger Counter Mr. Prospector ‘70 Gold Digger ‘62 Song and Saint Ballado. As you would expect, the ‘82 Thong ‘64 Nantallah ‘53 *Rough Shod II ‘44 Taylor Made boys initially did a pretty good job of Emerald Nijinsky II ‘67 Northern Dancer ‘61 Counter getting mares to Candy Stripes, but he was never in as Conjuror ‘84: Flaming Page ‘59 ‘95 much demand as his better-known stud companions. I 9fls, 1SW Palmistry ‘75 *Forli ‘63 suspect the overall standard of his mares was 2fls, 1GSW MSW, 13fls, 1SW Foreseer ‘69 unexceptional and his results certainly didn’t compare with his South American achievements. His four Kentucky crops produced only a handful of stakes winners, led by that smart Canadian turf filly Sweetest Thing. At the same time, his South American crops continued to shine, with City West, Tapatio, El Expresivo, Eventuail, Lundy’s Liability and Leroidesanimaux all doing very well--some on the international scene. It was a sister to City West who produced the sensational Candy Ride, winner of the 2003 Pacific Classic in a record-setting 1:59.11. Lundy’s Liability came to the USA via Brazil (where he was born in September 2000), South Africa (where he won a Group 3 contest at two) and the United Arab Emirates (where he landed the G2 UAE Derby). However, his pedigree owes little to the southern hemisphere, except that his third dam, the stakes-winning Palmistry, is by the great Argentine runner Forli. Forli appears among the eight great-grandparents of Lundy’s Liability’s dam Emerald Counter, an American-bred Geiger Counter mare. Significantly, another of the eight is Rough Shod II, who produced Geiger Counter’s dam Thong. Of course, Thong visited Forli to produce Thatch, Lisadell and Special. Although Lundy’s Liability’s second dam, Conjuror, never raced, she was a very well-connected mare. Conjuror’s second dam, Foreseer, visited Conjuror’s sire, Nijinsky II, on numerous occasions, notable producing the champion sire Caerleon (French Derby), Vision (GI Secretariat S.) and Merce Cunningham (G2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil). Foreseer was a daughter of Regal Gleam, the champion juvenile filly of 1966 who also produced Royal Glint. .