Andrew Caulfield, July 3, 2012-Izzi Top (GB) Probably's fourth dam is Margarethen, another whose PEDIGREE INSIGHTS total of Group 1-winning descendants runs well into B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D double figures. An impressive bunch they are, too. Among them are the likes of the Arc second Trillion, the Sunday, Curragh, Ireland extraordinary Triptych, the Derby and Irish Derby winner BARCLAYS BANK IRELAND PRETTY POLLY S.-G1, Generous, the dual Classic winner Imagine and the very i190,000, Curragh, 7-1, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/4mT, fast French filly Moonlight Cloud, who gave Black 2:15.05, sf/hy. Caviar such a scare at Royal Ascot. 1--sIZZI TOP (GB), 135, f, 4, by Pivotal (GB) Interestingly, several are by Danzig line stallions, 1st Dam: Zee Zee Top (GB) (SW & G1SP-Eng, including Landseer, a Danehill colt who won the French G1SW-Fr & GSP-Ire, $272,103), by Zafonic 2,000 Guineas and Keeneland Turf Mile, and Horatio 2nd Dam: Colorspin (Fr), by High Top (Ire) Nelson, another Danehill colt who took the G1 Prix 3rd Dam: Reprocolor (GB), by Jimmy Reppin (GB) Jean-Luc Lagardere. O-Helena Springfield Ltd; B-Meon Valley Stud; T-John Pivotal's daughter Izzi Top, a stylish winner of the Gosden; J-William Buick; i114,000. Lifetime Record: Pretty Polly S., adds yet another chapter to the familiar 9-5-1-2, i337,261. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Reprocolor story. This none-too-fashionably-bred Click for eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. daughter of Jimmy Reppin was bought for 25,000gns as a yearling, in the hope of her becoming a foundation Click for the Racing Post chart, the brisnet.com PPs or mare for Meon Valley Stud. She went on to display the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, plenty of talent and courage in a career which included courtesy attheraces.com. a fourth in the Oaks. Some female lines enjoy only fleeting importance, but Whereas Margarethen was born 50 years ago and I am relieved to say that there are other families which Royal Statute as long ago as 1969, Reprocolor is the can be relied upon to produce generation after youngest of the group, with a 1976 birth date. generation of top performers. Several of last week's Consequently her total of Group 1-winning descendants Group 1 and Group 2 events in Europe fell to horses in isn't quite so impressive, Izzi Top being the ninth to win the latter category, as you will see if you visit the TDN at the top level. Nonetheless, the flow of stakes >Stakes Winning Pedigrees= section of the TDN site to winners from the Reprocolor family is impressive, and study the pedigrees of Aesop's Fables, Probably and Izzi there is already a stakes-winning 2012 2-year-old in the Top. shape of the Chesham S. winner Tha'ir. The G1 Prix Jean Prat fell to Distorted Humor's son Izzi Top is one of several good 2008 foals from this Aesop's Fables, whose fourth dam, Royal Statute, now family, others being the French 2,000 Guineas has the magnificent total of 15 Northern Hemisphere runner-up Havane Smoker and the French Group 3 Group 1 winners among her descendants, including the winner Esperita. The 2009 batch features Lyric of Light, classic winners Snow Bride, Lammtarra, Hector who accounted for the future Group 1 winners Fallen Protector, Bosra Sham, Shanghai and Pour Moi. For You and Samitar in gaining her group victories at Aesop's Fables follows the 2010 National S. winner two; Caspar Netscher, who was winning his third Group Pathfork as the second European Group 1 winner sired by 2 when he took the German 2,000 Guineas; and Distorted Humor. It probably isn't mere coincidence that Shirocco Star, who failed by only a neck to land the both figure among a sample of only 10 foals of racing Oaks last month. age sired by the WinStar stalwart from daughters of In becoming a Group 1 winner, Izzi Top followed in Sadler's Wells. It is also a Sadler's Wells mare who the footsteps of her first two dams, so she must be an figures as the second dam of another of Distorted extremely valuable broodmare prospect (even more so Humor's Grade I winners--Travers S. winner Flower because her pedigree contains no Sadler's Wells or Alley, who came so close to Triple Crown glory with I'll Danzig blood). Her dam, the Zafonic filly Zee Zee Top, Have Another. For good measure, Distorted Humor's first won the Prix de l'Opera as a 4-year-old to become the three runners out of mares by Sadler's Wells's son El third Group 1 scorer produced by Reprocolor's Irish Prado are all stakes winners, including the Grade I winner Oaks winner Colorspin. The others were the top-class Bit of Whimsy. In other words, just about everything Sadler's Wells colts Opera House, whose wins included about Aesop's Fables' pedigree suggests that he is well the Coronation Cup, Eclipse and King George, and the qualified to build on his first Group 1 success. stamina-packed Kayf Tara, a dual winner of both the Sadler's Wells also fills the position of broodmare sire Gold Cup and Irish St Leger. Colorspin's daughter in the pedigree of Probably, who followed in the foot- Spinning The Yarn--a three-parts-sister to Opera House steps of several future Group 1 winners, such as King and Kayf Tara--became the dam of the precocious of Kings, George Washington, Holy Roman Emperor, Darshaan filly Necklace, winner of the G1 Moyglare Mastercraftsman and Alfred Nobel, in winning the G2 Stud S. Railway S. Two of these--Mastercraftsman and Alfred The family wasn't nearly so successful prior to Nobel--share the same sire, Danehill Dancer, as Reprocolor's emergence, but Izzi Top's fourth dam, Blue Probably. Queen, was a half-sister to the champion sprinter Sandford Lad. Caulfield cont. Although Reprocolor obviously deserves some of the Izzi Top (GB), f, 2008 credit for Izzi Top's talent, we mustn't overlook Northern Dancer Nureyev Pivotal's role. Special Polar Falcon You'll hardly need me to remind you that this Marie D’argonne Jefferson (GB) specialist sprinter spent his first five years at Cheveley (Fr) Mohair (Fr) Pivotal (GB) Park Stud at fees of ,6,000 or ,5,000. He did so well Caro (Ire) Cozzene that he eventually became the highest-priced stallion Fearless Revival Ride the Trails based in England, his fee being ,85,000 when Izzi Top (GB) Bustino (GB) Stufida (GB) was conceived. Zerbinetta (GB) Considering that Pivotal had to work his way up the Mr. Prospector Gone West pecking order, he has done extremely well to sire at Secrettame Zafonic least one Group 1 winner in all but one of his first The Minstrel Zee Zee Top (GB) Zaizafon 11 crops. In fact those crops produced 17 Group 1 G1SW-Fr, G1SP- Mofida (GB) winners. Pivotal has never shuttled, but his coverings to Eng Derring-do (GB) Colorspin (Fr) High Top (Ire) Southern Hemisphere time have also yielded Group 1 5Fls, 1G1SW Race Record Camanae (GB) winners in Australia and South Africa. 16Fls, 2Ch, Reprocolor (GB) Jimmy Reppin (GB) He could have another Group 1 winner in the pipeline 3GS1W 1Ch, 3GSW Blue Queen (GB) in the shape of the lightly-raced Farhh, whose luckless third in the Prince of Wales's S. has encouraged Godolphin to supplement him to Saturday's Eclipse S. As yet there is no Group 1 winner among Pivotal's 3-year-olds from his 12th crop but his French son Saint Baudolino did well to finish a close second in a very messy Prix du Jockey-Club, after being baulked early in the stretch. Pivotal will be 20 years old next year, so it is time to expect some good results from his stallion sons. Kyllachy currently holds 14th place on the Anglo-Irish leading sires' table, nine places below Pivotal. Kyllachy has the leading sprinters Sole Power and Krypton Factor among his 2012 representatives, plus Group 2- winning miler Penitent, the French Group 3 winner Dragon Pulse and Italian Group 3 winner Noble Hachy. Pivotal's latest Group 1 win came on the same day that his 2008 French 2,000 Guineas winner Falco was represented by his first group winner from his first crop. This was Snowday, winner of the G3 Prix du Bois over five furlongs. As a Group 3 winner Snowday doesn't have his catalogue-style pedigree on the TDN site, but I can assure you that his female line is another example of a top-class family which remains very effective. His fourth dam South Ocean--best known as the dam of Storm Bird--is also the fourth dam of Sunday's G3 Grangecon Stud S. winner Sendmylovetorose Pivotal's broodmare daughters are also getting into the act. One of them, Beauty Is Truth, came up with a very promising winner when The United States, her grandly-named son by Galileo, shaped like a future group winner in making a successful debut two days ago. Beauty Is Truth is also the dam of the fast Dansili filly Fire Lily. Other Pivotal mares have produced this year's good sprinter Mayson and the Derby second Main Sequence, so there are encouraging signs that Pivotal's broodmare daughters are making amends for what has been a rather slow start..