Andrew Caulfield-November 25, Ocho Ocho Ocho Personal Ensign also has a notable 2014 2-year-old PEDIGREE INSIGHTS descending from her in the unbeaten Ocho Ocho Ocho, B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D who collected $600,000 for his triumph in the GIII Delta Downs Jackpot S. This son of Street Sense is Saturday, Delta Downs the 11th graded-stakes winner descending from DELTA DOWNS JACKPOT S.-GIII, $1,000,000, DED, Personal Ensign and the third of 2014, another being 11-22, 2yo, Mr Speaker, who became a Grade I winner when he 1 1/16m, 1:45 2/5, ft. held off Adelaide in the GI Belmont Derby Invitational. 1--@OCHO OCHO OCHO, 119, c, 2, by Street Sense Personal Ensign went one better than Miesque in that 1st Dam: Winner, by Horse Chestnut (SAf) she produced three 2nd Dam: Pennant Champion, by Mr. Prospector individual Grade I 3rd Dam: Personal Ensign, by Private Account winners, in the ($50,000 yrl '13 KEESEP; $200,000 2yo >14 process adding OBSAPR). O-DP Racing LLC; B-Siena Farms LLC (KY); another accolade to T-James M Cassidy; J-Mike E Smith. $600,000. her astonishing Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $693,600. *1/2 to Private tally. Not only did Ensign (A.P. Indy), GSP, $124,384. Werk Nick she earn the Eclipse Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Award for older female and admission to the Personal Ensign surges past Winning A GARY YOUNG 2YO-IN-TRAINING SALES RECOMMENDATION Hall of Fame, but Colors in 1988 GI Breeders’ Cup she was also Distaff. awarded the title of Kentucky Horsephotos Click for the brisnet.com chart or the brisnet.com PPs. Broodmare of the VIDEO. Year in 1996. She also had the rare distinction of being Virtually every edition of the Breeders Cup lingers the first Breeders= Cup winner to produce a Breeders= = Cup winner, when her Easy Goer filly My Flag took the long in the memory, but anyone who attended the 1995 Juvenile Fillies (as a prelude to three further 1988 meeting at Churchill Downs can count Grade I successes, including one in the CCA Oaks). themselves especially fortunate. Among the male My Flag was the second of Personal Ensign=s Grade I contestants were numerous luminaries whose names winners. The daughter of Private Account had started are still very familiar more than 25 years later, such as her broodmare career with three rewarding visits to Mr. Alysheba, Seeking the Gold, Forty Niner, Easy Goer and Prospector. The first produced Miner's Mark, whose Gulch. However, they were arguably outshone by the finest moment came when he won the 10-furlong GI displays of some of the fillies, specifically the final Jockey Club Gold Cup. Next came the speedy, but appearances by two 4-year-olds whose brilliant careers unfortunate Our Emblem. He had to be counted were to earn them admission to the Hall of Fame. somewhat unlucky not to add to his dam=s Grade I In landing her second GI Breeders= Cup Mile--and her score, as he was beaten just a nose in the GI Carter H. 10th Group/Grade I--Miesque improved her career and two noses when third in the GI Vosburgh S. Of figures to 16-12-3-1. Less than an hour earlier Personal course, he made amends by siring War Emblem, hero of Ensign had brought down the final curtain on her career the 2002 Kentucky Derby and Preakness S. with a dramatic last-stride victory over GI Kentucky Personal Ensign=s third consecutive Mr. Prospector Derby heroine Winning Colors in the Distaff. That was foal was Ocho Ocho Ocho=s second dam, the dual her 13th win from 13 starts, even though her career winner Pennant Champion, and a later visit to the great had very nearly been ended by a fracture to a hind Claiborne stallion yielded Traditionally, winner of the pastern after her win in the GI Frizette S. at two. The GI Oaklawn H. over a mile and an eighth. fracture required the insertion of five screws in the Altogether, Personal Ensign produced 10 named pastern and three months in her box. AWe never foals. Nine raced and all nine won. She had five thought she=d race again,@ trainer Shug McGaughey daughters by five different stallions and, remarkably, admitted, but she was back in action 11 months after four of the five have already produced a graded winner the Frizette and proceeded to win all four of her (the exception being her A.P. Indy mare Possibility, who sophomore starts. has a couple of black-type winners to her credit). Racemares of this exceptional quality sometimes My Flag leads the way amongst these daughters, as prove less effective in the role of broodmare, but this she emulated Personal Ensign=s considerable feat of replicating her Breeders Cup success as a broodmare. accusation could never be made against either Miesque = Her daughter Storm Flag Flying became the third or Personal Ensign. Miesque numbered the Classic generation of Breeders= Cup winners when she winners Kingmambo and East of the Moon among her confirmed her status as 2002=s champion 2-year-old four group winners and two of this year=s group- filly in the GI Juvenile Fillies. Appropriately Storm Flag winning 2-year-olds--the Irish-trained I Am Beautiful and Flying went on to win the GI Personal Ensign H. as a John F. Kennedy--descend from her. 4-year-old, when she was also second in the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff. Personal Ensign=s Unbridled filly Salute was also Personal Ensign numbered two victories in the above average, as she showed when placed at two in 10-furlong Beldame S. among her eight Grade I victories the GII Demoiselle S. and GIII Tempted S. She visited and her high-class brother Personal Flag took the GI Pulpit to produce Mr Speaker. Widener and GI Suburban H. over the same distance. Title Seeker, Personal Ensign=s unraced daughter by Then there=s the Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Miner=s Monarchos, made a bright start as a broodmare, her Mark, who was a brother to Ocho Ocho Ocho=s second first foal being Seeking the Title, a Grade I-placed dam Pennant Champion. No wonder Ocho Ocho Ocho winner of the GIII Iowa Oaks. stayed on so well at the end of a mile and a sixteenth Pennant Champion=s contribution was her Arch filly at Delta Downs. Animal Spirits, winner of the GIII Bourbon S. on turf as a 2-year-old. Pennant Champion also has several talented broodmare daughters. One, the Broad Brush OCHO OCHO OCHO, c, 2012 mare Broad Pennant, is dam of the smart Broken Vow Machiavellian Mr. Prospector colt Interactif (third in the GII Coup De Folie Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf Street Cry (Ire) Helen Street (GB) Troy (GB) before winning the GII Waterway (Fr) National Museum of Racing Street Sense Dixieland Band Northern Dancer Hall of Fame S.). Another, the Mississippi Mud Forestry filly Rejoicing, also Bedazzle Majestic Legend His Majesty has a smart turf performer by Long Legend Broken Vow, namely this Sadler’s Wells year=s GIII American Derby Fort Wood Horse Chestnut (SAf) Fall Aspen winner Divine Oath. Col. Pickering (SAf) The daughter of Pennant Winner London Wall (SAf) 3-1-1-1 Nalatale (SAf) Champion responsible for 7Fls, 1GSW Raise a Native Ocho Ocho Ocho is Winner, a Pennant Champion Mr. Prospector 7-2-1-2 Gold Digger Horse Chestnut mare who 13Fls, 1GSW Personal Ensign Private Account changed hands for $700,000 11Fls, 3SW Grecian Banner at Keeneland earlier this Ocho Ocho Ocho month. Royal Oak Farm made Coady Photography the successful bid for the 12-year-old, who is in foal to Bernardini. Horse Chestnut, of course, represented one of Claiborne Farm=s admirable (but ultimately unsuccessful) attempts to introduce some new bloodlines to Kentucky. They were no doubt hoping that he would develop into another Forli. Like Forli, Horse Chestnut had also shown great versatility, but in South Africa not Argentina. A grandson of Sadler=s Wells, Horse Chestnut had won eight of his nine starts in South Africa, from five furlongs to a mile and a half, in the process of earning Horse of the Year honors. Like Forli, Horse Chestnut also created quite a stir in winning his first start in the U.S., the GIII Broward H. over 1 1/16 miles on his dirt-track debut at the start of 2000. This impressive victory raised realistic hopes that Horse Chestnut was going to prove just as brilliant in his new base as he had been in South Africa, but an injury in a workout ended his career just a couple of weeks later. Horse Chestnut was returned to South Africa in 2009, his legacy in North America amounting to five graded winners headed by the Grade I turf winner Lucifer=s Stone. It remains to be seen whether Ocho Ocho Ocho possesses sufficient talent to develop into a Triple Crown contender, but there can be no doubt that he possesses enough stamina to do so. With the Kentucky Derby and GI Travers S. winner Street Sense as his sire and the South African Derby winner Horse Chestnut as his broodmare sire, he is virtually guaranteed to stay at least a mile and a quarter. .