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I AM BEAUTIFUL (IRE), 126, F, 2, by Rip Van Winkle (Ire) Sunday, Saint-Cloud, France 1St Dam: Monevassia, by Mr

I AM BEAUTIFUL (IRE), 126, F, 2, by Rip Van Winkle (Ire) Sunday, Saint-Cloud, France 1St Dam: Monevassia, by Mr

Andrew Caulfield, July 1-Indomitable Sunday, The Curragh, Ireland PEDIGREE INSIGHTS GRANGECON STUD S.-G3, i65,000, CUR, 6-29, 2yo, B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D f, 6fT, 1:12.56, gd/fm. 1--#@I AM BEAUTIFUL (IRE), 126, f, 2, by (Ire) Sunday, Saint-Cloud, France 1st Dam: Monevassia, by Mr. Prospector GRAND PRIX DE SAINT-CLOUD-G1, i400,000, STC, 2nd Dam: , by 6-29, 3yo, f, 12fT, 2:34.83, gd/sf. 3rd Dam: Pasadoble, by Prove Out 1--sSPIRITJIM (FR), 125, c, 4, by Galileo (Ire) O-Mrs & & Flaxman 1st Dam: Hidden Silver (GB), by Anabaa Stables Ireland Ltd; B-Quay Bloodstock & The 2nd Dam: Hint of Silver, by Alysheba Niarchos Family (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Seamus 3rd Dam: Hot Silver, by Nureyev Heffernan. i42,250. Lifetime Record: 3-1-0-0, (i310,000 yrl >11 ARQOCT). O-Ecurie Hspirit. i42,910. *1/2 to (Ire) (), B-Haras des Sablonnets, Comte Herve de Ch. 2yo Filly-Eur, Hwt. 2yo Filly & G1SW-Ire & Fr, Talhouet-Roy & Bloodstock Amarvillas (FR). T-Pascal GSP-Eng, $610,963; and to Tower Rock (Ire) (Dylan Bary. J-Christophe-Patrice Lemaire. i228,560. Thomas {Ire}), MGSP-Ire. **First black-type winner Lifetime Record: 9 starts, 7 wins, 1 place, i429,560. for freshman sire (by Galileo {Ire}). Werk Nick Rating: *1/2 to Silver Frost (Ire) (Verglas {Ire}), G1SW-Fr, D. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. $610,989. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the Click for the Racing Post result or brisnet.com PPs. eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. I Am Beautiful=s success adds to the burgeoning Click for the Racing Post result or the free brisnet.com reputation of Galileo=s sons. Five of them have catalogue-style pedigree. Equidia VIDEO. now sired a total of more than 20 group winners and it The Galileo juggernaut kept on rolling during the is going to be interesting to see whether Rip Van weekend, to the extent that his prize-money total in Winkle can add to his initial success to a similar extent Britain and Ireland now exceeds ,3,500,000, with his to the impressive Darley pairing of and New nearest pursuer yet to reach ,1,300,000. Approach. Teofilo numbers an winner Thanks to three victories at The Curragh, his total of among his five Group 1 scorers, while Northern Hemisphere group/graded winners for the year has already enjoyed Classic success with Dawn has reached 13, headed by the Classic winners Approach (2,000 Guineas) and (Oaks). Australia and and their fellow Group 1 This cumulative record surely bodes extremely well winners and Spiritjim (of whom more for Galileo=s younger stallion sons, which include the later). The last two fought out a desperate finish to the peerless , the Classic winners , G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud Sunday, a day after and Roderic O=Connor and the major winner Australia led home a Galileo 1-2-3 as he strolled to . Needless to say, Australia will take high rank victory in the Irish Derby. For good measure, Galileo=s among them when the time comes for him to join top-class son Rip Van Winkle also impressed, with his Galileo and Rip Van Winkle at Coolmore. Who wouldn=t daughters I Am Beautiful and Jeanne Girl snatching first want to use a dual Derby winner whose parents were and second places in a tight finish to the G3 Grangecon excellent winners of the Derby and Oaks? Rip Van Stud S. This first-crop sire now has five winners to his Winkle couldn=t claim such impressive credentials, credit and there will surely be plenty more to come especially on the pedigree front, though his 14-race from a crop which numbers 106. career left no doubts about either his class or his versatility.

I AM BEAUTIFUL, f, 2012 Sadler’s Wells Galileo (Ire) Fairy Bridge Rip Van Winkle Allegretta (Ire) Nureyev Looking Back (Ire) Fire the Groom Mustique Dream Don’t Forget Me (GB) Jamaican Punch Raise a Native Mr. Prospector Raise You Nashua Monevassia Gold Digger 11Fls, 1Ch, Sequence Galileo (Ire) 1G1SW Miesque Nureyev Northern Dancer Coolmore.com Ch. MGISW Special 14Fls, 1Ch, Pasadoble Prove Out 2G1SW, 4GSW 10Fls, 2SW *Santa Quilla for him, he was a contemporary of Sea SPIRITJIM (FR), c, 2010 the Stars, but once he was out of that brilliant colt=s Northern Dancer Neartic shadow, he triumphed in two of Europe=s best mile races, as well as the Juddmonte International. That win Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Bold Reason confirmed that he stayed a mile and a quarter very well. Special Indeed he was beaten only two lengths when fourth in Galileo (Ire) Miswaki Mr. Prospector Sea the Stars= Derby, so he is doing well to sire the first Hopespringeternal and second in a Group 3 event contested over six Urban Sea Allegretta (GB) Lombard (Ger) furlongs on fast ground. Anatevka (Ger) Rip Van Winkle also offered good conformation, with Northern Dancer no major fault. If there were any doubts about him they probably centered on his first three dams, none of Anabaa Pas de Nom whom was a stakes winner. However, there was some Balbonella Hidden Silver Bamieres (Fr) reassurance in the fact that his fourth dam, House Tie, (GB) Alydar and fifth dam, the top 2-year-old Mesopotamia, were 4Fls, 2G1SW Alysheba both highly influential broodmares. Hint of Silver Bel Sheba One aspect of his pedigree which appealed to me 10Fls, 2GSW Hot Silver Nureyev was that it contained Sadler=s Wells in his second 9Fls, 2SW Her Silver generation and Sadler=s Wells=s close relative Nureyev in the third, creating 3x4 to Northern Dancer and 4x4 to I promised earlier to give a little more detail about Special. Sadler=s Wells and Nureyev, of course, rank Spiritjim, who became Galileo=s 37th Northern among the most successful of modern times, Hemisphere-bred Group 1 winner when he took the respectively achieving 13% and 17% stakes winners. Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. This 4-year-old, who has Among the other outstanding grandsons of Sadler=s suffered only two defeats in nine appearances, is also Wells o have Nureyev in the bottom half of their the 12th Group 1 winner sired by Galileo from mares by pedigrees are the triple Classic winner and the sons of Danzig. It will surprise noone that mares by five-time Australian Group 1 winner It=s A . Last Danehill have provided as many as nine of the 12. year=s Derby winner is another son also gets into the act as the broodmare of Galileo with Nureyev on the dam=s side, whereas the sire of the Oaks winner Was, whose record-priced 2010 Derby and Arc winner has Nureyev on younger sister Al Naamah won in such exciting style the top and Sadler=s Wells on the bottom. last week. Several of these top performers are linked to Nureyev However, the other two Group 1 winners--the top via , a son of Nureyev=s brilliant daughter filly Lush Lashes and Spiritjim--are out of daughters by Miesque. It is therefore interesting that Rip Van Danzig=s champion sprinter Anabaa, a stallion who will Winkle=s first group winner, I Am Beautiful, is out of always be remembered as the sire of that magnificent Monevassia, a sister to Kingmambo. This means I Am filly , as well as the broodmare sire of the Beautiful is inbred 4x3 to Nureyev, 4x5x4 to Northern similarly talented . Dancer and 5x5x4 to Special (as well as 5x2 to It is worth pointing out that the nine Group 1 winners Mr. Prospector). Incidentally, I Am Beautiful isn=t the out of Danehill mares come from a sample of more than only 2014 group winner with three lines of Special, as 150 horses aged three or more, and Was heads a Kirsten Rausing=s G3 Musidora S. winner Madame comparable team of 15 out of Green Desert mares. Chiang is inbred 5x3x4 and the 2012 Prix de l=Abbaye Daughters of Anabaa, on the other hand, have only winner Wizz Kid also had three lines. eight Galileo horses aged three or more, so they have I Am Beautiful was foaled when Monevassia was 18. done extremely well to produce two Group 1 winners. Monevassia ran only twice so had little chance to Both Lush Lashes and Spiritjim landed a Group 1 match the achievements of her older brothers victory over a mile and a half, even though Anabaa was Kingmambo and Miesque=s Son (sire of the high-class at his best as a sprinter, which underlines once again Whipper). However, she has added to the family how much stamina Galileo is capable of imparting to his fortunes, notably producing Rumplestiltskin. This highly progeny. Another example is this year=s Group 3 winner effective Danehill filly numbered the G1 Moyglare Stud Adelaide, who was second at Group 2 level over a mile S. and G1 among her five wins and a half at Royal Ascot. He is another out of a from six juvenile starts in 2005. Rumplestiltskin is now granddaughter of Danzig, this being Elletelle, a winner also the dam of a group winner, as her daughter of the G2 Queen Mary S. over five furlongs. Her sire --a representative of the famous ranked alongside Anabaa and Green Desert as Galileo-Danehill nick--was a Group 2 winner before one of Danzig=s winners of the G1 over six finishing a good second to in last year=s furlongs. Click here to share this story Moyglare Stud S. Monevassia=s unraced Sadler=s Wells filly Woman Secret also has a talented daughter in the Classic-placed Wild Wind. This family has also been in the news this year via Moon Is Up. This 3/4-sister to Monevassia is the second dam of the G1 Poule d=Essai des Poulains winner .

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