Broodmare prospect for sale Sweet Baby Jane (IRE) A Listed winning daughter of Champion ROYAL APPLAUSE, out of a full sister to winner . This fine mare is from the family of Champion , as well as Irish 2,000 Guineas winner and St. Leger winner . Sweet Baby Jane's high class " background" offers a pedigree that spells class, soundness and durability. Her family has been a constant source of successful broodmares, and she has a racing record to go with it. Best timeform 87 (approximately 94 UK/IRE). Selling as her owners are not breeders.

Sweet Baby Jane (IRE) b m Royal Applause – Nebulae /

A tough and versatile performer Sweet Baby Jane ran 34 times for 8 wins and 9 placings, for an impressive 50 % top three strike rate. Listed winner at 9 furlongs, placed 5 times in Listed races (stakes class from 8-14 furlongs), all on turf. Won 3rd Semb Hovedgård Hoppeløp L., Lanwades Stud Stakes L., 9 furlongs turf, Øvrevoll, Norway 9.7 furlongs turf, Täby, Sweden Outclassed 1,000 Guineas winner Matauri Pearl, as well as Behind Breeder's Trophy winner Ede Sensation and 1,000 triple Listed winner Tatoosh. Guineas winner Matauri Pearl. Norwegian Oaks, Bloomers Vase L., 12 furlongs turf, Øvrevoll, Norway 8 furlongs turf, Täby, Sweden Beat1,000GuineasandDianalöpningwinnerSymbolofArch Behind triple Listed winner Tatoosh and Angel Light (Listed (Listed winner the following season). winner next start). Kopparmärralöpning, Norwegian St. Leger, 12 furlongs turf, Gothenburg, Sweden 14 furlongs turf, Øvrevoll, Norway Beat minor stakes winners Imagine and Tiger Goddess. Behind Bank of Burden (Scandinavian Champion Middle Erik O. Steen Memorial, Distance, winner of eight Gr.3 and four Listed races). 12 furlongs turf, Øvrevoll, Norway Lanwades Stud Stakes L., Beat Listed winner Golden Memory. 8 furlonngs turf, Øvrevoll, Norway 2nd Behind Hoku, Gr.3 and Listed placer in the UK. Semb Hovedgård Hoppeløp L., 4th 9 furlongs turf, Øvrevoll, Norway Coolmore Matchmaker Stakes L., Behind Scandinavian Champion filly Entangle (sold to 8 furlongs turf, Täby, Sweden Kentucky for 120,000 gns, Tattersalls December 2012). Behind Scandinavian Champion filly Entangle. Erik O. Steen Minneløp, 12 furlongs turf, Øvrevoll, Norway Behind Wunschkind, beating Walinda and Fair Flair. For more information, please contact: Anne Petterøe Phone: +47 958 81 973 E-mail: [email protected] Try My Best (USA) Waajib (IRE) Coryana (IRE) Royal Applause (GB) Auction Ring (USA) Flying Melody (IRE) Whispering Star (GB) SWEET BABY JANE (IRE) b m 2007 (CAN) Unfuwain (USA) Height Of Fashion (FR) Nebulae (IRE) Star Appeal (IRE) Three Stars (GB) Pirogue (GB) 1st Dam NEBULAE (Unfuwain), a beautifully bred filly, sold for 105,000 guineas as a yearling. Ran only five times, winning over 10 furlongs on her racecourse debut, and placed over 12 furlongs in Ireland, where she was trained by John Oxx for Sheikh Mohammed. Own sister to BOLAS, a top class 12 furlong-filly, bred and raced by Khalid Abdullah. Trained by , Bolas won the Irish Oaks Gr.1 at The Curragh, Gr.2 at Royal Ascot and Cheshire Oaks L. at Chester. She is the second dam of GOOD MORNING STAR, winner of the Cheshire Oaks L. and third in the Bahrain Trophy Gr.3 at Newmarket in 2012. This family is still thriving.

2nd Dam THREE STARS (Star Appeal) raced just four times and won 2 races over 12 furlongs, winning her maiden by 10 lengths. Three Stars has produced 8 winners from 12 runners, including the classic winner BOLAS (see above). STAR OF DANCE (Sadler's Wells), a smart filly who won over 12 furlongs at Saint-Cloud as a 3 year old as well as finishing 4th in a Gr.3 event at Longchamp (trained by Andre Fabre). BAILEYS BLACK TIE (Suave Dancer), winner of 2 races over 10 furlongs as a 3 year old. ONE FOR BAILEYS (Unfuwain), winner over 12 furlongs as a 3 year old and placed 3 times. THREE HILLS (Danehill), winner over 10 furlongs as a 3 year old. HUNTER'S BELT (Intikhab), winner over 11 and 12 furlongs on the flat and was a very useful jumper (1 win in NH Flat Race, 3 wins over hurdles), placed 9 times.

3rd Dam PIROGUE ( II), won the Golden Hind Stakes over a mile at Ascot as a 3 year old, where she next ran a good 4th to Northern Princess in the Ribblesdale Stakes Gr.2 over 12 furlongs at the Royal Ascot meeting. Eight of Pirogue's ten runners were winners. The best was the famous LONGBOAT (Welsh Pageant), a Champion Stayer in England who completed the "Stayers' Triple Crown”. Longboat won 9 of his 18 races, including the Gr.1, Gr.3, Gr.3, Henry II Stakes Gr.3. A tremendous performer, he was also runner-up in the Ascot Gold Cup Gr.1 once. He was trained by Major for his breeder Richard Hollingsworth. Pirogue comes from the excellent family of Torpid, Tepukei and Sloop. Pirouge was out of CUTTER, a top class filly with wins in the Yorkshire Cup Gr.2 and Park Hill Stakes Gr.3, who turned out to be a very successful broodmare. Pirogue's half-sister, Cutle (Saint Crespin), herself a dual winner, became the dam of two classic winners; the Irish 2,000 Guineas Gr.1 and Prix Jean Prat Gr.1 winner SHARP EDGE, and CUT ABOVE, the colt who beat Shergar to win the St. Leger Stakes Gr.1. Major Dick Hern trained these two horses as well.

For more information, please contact: Anne Petterøe Phone: +47 958 81 973 E-mail: [email protected] Excellent broodmare sire Royal Applause (GB)

Waajib – Flying Melody / Auction Ring Retired to Stud in 1998, and sire of the winners of 1699 races, and £20 856 012.

Royal Applause as a broodmare sire 2014 record in Europe (up to September 29th 2014): 159 runners 69 winners 43 % winners

With 43 % winners to runners, broodmare sire Royal Applause is in the same league as Pivotal, Grand Lodge, Unfuwain and . Note that his record as a broodmare sire is better than these stars: Singspiel (40 %), (38 %), Danehill Dancer (38 %), Kingmambo (38 %), In The Wings (38 %), Sadler’s Wells (34 %).

Northern Dancer (CAN) Try My Best (USA) Sex Appeal (USA) Waajib (IRE) Sassafras (FR) Coryana (IRE) Rosolini (IRE) Royal Applause (GB) b h 1993 Bold Bidder (USA) Auction Ring (USA) Hooplah (USA) Flying Melody (IRE) Sound Track (GB) Whispering Star (GB) Peggy West (IRE)

For more information, please contact: Anne Petterøe Phone: +47 958 81 973 E-mail: [email protected]

Sweet Baby Jane Photo courtesy of: Fanny Kemoff