Andrew Caulfield, February 3, 2009–Pasar Silbano (Ire) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Fall Aspen=s sale came just a couple of days after her son Timber Country BY ANDREW CAULFIELD had added the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile to his earlier success in the GI LA HABRA S.-GIII, $100,000, SAX, 2-1, 3yo, f, Champagne S. Fall Aspen therefore a6 1/2fT, 1:12 3/5, fm. became a shoo-in for the title of 1994 1--@PASAR SILBANO (IRE), 122, f, 3, by Elnadim Broodmare of the Year, but she wasn=t 1st Dam: Give A Whistle (Ire), by Mujadil finished yet. 2nd Dam: Repique, by Sharpen Up (GB) 3rd Dam: Repetitious (Ire), by Northfields Benoit (i25,000 yrl '07 GOFMIL). O-Three Chimneys Racing LLC; B-Denis J Reddan (IRE); T-James M Cassidy; PASAR SILBANO (IRE), f, 2006 J-Mike E Smith; $60,000. Lifetime Record: SW-Ire, Nearctic 8-5-0-1, $252,977. Werk Nick Rating: B. Northern Dancer Natalma Click for the eNicks report and 5-cross pedigree. Danzig Admiral’s Voyage Click for the brisnet.com chart or the brisnet.com PPs. Pas de Nom Petitioner Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Elnadim Raise a Native Even in the depressed days of 1994, when only one Exclusive Native Exclusive yearling made more than a million dollars, there was Elle Seule Pretense still huge interest when an 18-year-old broodmare came Fall Aspen under the hammer at Keeneland. The mare in question Change Water Northern Dancer was that extraordinary producer Fall Aspen, and it took Storm Bird South Ocean a bid of $2.4 million from John Magnier to secure her. Mujadil Secretariat The Grade I-winning daughter of Pretense had already Give a Whistle Vallee Secrete staked her claim to being the most accomplished (Ire) Midou 9-2-1-0 Repique Atan broodmare of recent decades, with her record standing 5Fls, 1GSW Sharpen Up (GB) at seven group or graded winners from her first 10 6-2-1-0 Rocchetta (GB) foals of racing age. 13Fls, 7Strs, Repetitious (Ire) Northfields 2Wnrs 15Fls, 3GSW, 1SW Nanette (GB) Fall Aspen was unlucky not to notch up her eighth Pasar Silbano is typical of Elnadim=s good runners in graded winner with her 1993 foal Prince of Thieves, that she showed a lot of ability as a two-year-old, who died soon after his very close second in the GII winning four of her six starts in Ireland. Although she is Lexington S. and his good third in the Kentucky Derby. one of only 30 foals in Elnadim=s 2006 crop, it has also Bianconi, Fall Aspen=s first foal for her new owners, produced Elnawin, conqueror of Square Eddie in the G3 succeeded where Prince of Thieves had failed, Sirenia S., and three other black-type performers. Previous becoming her eighth individual group winner when he crops produced the very useful sprinter Wi Dud (a Group took the G2 Diadem S. in 1998. 2 winner at two and also runner-up in the G1 Middle Park Since then, Fall Aspen=s daughters and S.), Elletelle (G3 Queen Mary S.), Caldra (G3 Autumn S. granddaughters have produced a string of important at two) and the good sprinters Al Qasi and Almass. winners. Her Grade II winner Colorado Dancer arguably Elnadim certainly has the potential to be one of the takes pride of place, as the dam of the exceptional best stallions from the Fall Aspen family. There has Dubai Millennium, but Colorado Dancer faced stiff been the occasional disappointment apart from Hamas, competition from the likes of Dance of Leaves and Elle such as Medaaly and Bianconi, but Fort Wood regularly Seule. ranks among the leading sires in South Africa. Elle Seule, a Grade II winner by Exclusive Native, Circumstances have made it hard to assess several of proved a worthy daughter of Fall Aspen. Not only did the family=s other stallions. Charnwood Forest died at she become the dam of three group winners, including the age of 10, but not before he=d sired the high-class two Group 1 winners, but she also produced the dam international miler Firebreak, and Dubai Millennium left of another Group 1 winner. Both of her Group 1 three group-winning sons in Dubawi, Echo of Light and winners, the Irish 1000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf and Belenus, despite dying during his first season. Timber the July Cup winner Elnadim, were by sons of Northern Country also had his moments, with Group 1 winners in Dancer and, as a son of Danzig, Elnadim was a three- Japan, Australia and the U.S. (that high-class filly Balletto, parts brother to Fall Aspen=s fast sons Hamas and who was sired during Timber Country=s time in the UAE). Bianconi. With only five juveniles in his current crop of two- This relationship to Hamas was to prove something year-olds, Elnadim won=t find it easy to add significantly of a thorn in Elnadim=s side. Winner of the G1 July Cup to his record in 2009, but I expect Pasar Silbano to in 1993, five years before Elnadim landed the same continue being a good ambassador for this extremely prestigious race, Hamas retired to the Derrinstown Stud well-related stallion. of his owner, Sheikh Hamdan. Unfortunately he struggled to make an impact, his only group winner being Mitcham, winner of the G2 King=s Stand S. in 1999. Although Elnadim was a better racehorse than his close relative, both at three and four, would breeders in Britain or Ireland be prepared to give him a fair chance after Hamas=s disappointing results? His connections decided to send him to the States towards the end of 1998, initially to receive treatment for micro-fractures in his hind pasterns. The possibility of racing him in the States wasn=t ruled out and he duly returned to action for three races in 2000, but without recapturing his best form. The next step for Elnadim was to stand at Shadwell=s Kentucky branch, where he met a distinctly lukewarm reception at a fee of $15,000. With only 19 foals in that crop, Elnadim was immediately switched to Derrinstown. Although the move revived breeders= interest in him, it eventually began to fade, to the extent that he has only 30 foals in his 2006 crop and a mere five in his 2007 crop. Despite all his vicissitudes, Elnadim has shown himself to be worthy of much stronger support than he has generally received--especially at the i6,000 fee he is advertised at for 2009. There are only 229 foals in his first five Northern Hemisphere crops, but he increased his number of graded/group winners to six when his ex-Irish daughter Pasar Silbano proved too fast for her opponents (most of whom received six pounds) in the GIII La Habra S. at Santa Anita Sunday.