Andrew Caulfield, July 2- now has four Group 1-winning sons to his PEDIGREE INSIGHTS credit from his first two crops and Darley is in the very B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D fortunate position of having two sons of --the other being --which have Saturday, Curragh, Ireland wasted no time in establishing their ability to sire DUBAI DUTY FREE IRISH -G1, i1,250,000, Classic performers. New Approach, of course, has the Curragh, 6-29, 3yo, c/f, 1 1/2mT, 2:27.17, gd/fm. Classic winners and in his first 1--sTRADING LEATHER (IRE), 126, c, 3, by Teofilo (Ire) crop. 1st Dam: Night Visit (GB), by (Ire) It is going to be fascinating to watch the progress of 2nd Dam: Moonlight Sail, by Irish River (Fr) Galileo's other stallion sons. Recently we saw the 3rd Dam: Cadeaux d=Amie, by Lyphard second stakes winner from the comparatively small first O-Mrs J S Bolger; B/T-Jim Bolger; J-; crop by Galileo's St Leger winner , plus the i725,000. Lifetime Record: GSW-Eng, 8-4-2-1, first winner by Galileo's son Soldier of Fortune, another winner bred by Bolger. i869,506. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Next in line is the very talented Rip Van Winkle, whose eldest progeny are now yearlings. Then come Click for the Racing Post result, the brisnet.com PPs or the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Roderic O'Connor, the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, whose first foals were born this year. Based at courtesy attheraces.com. Ballyhane, the stud currently doing well with the During Fidel Castro=s long time in power, excellence first-crop sire Dandy Man, Roderic O'Connor represents in the field of sport considered the perfect way to the same Galileo- cross as Teofilo. It almost advertise the virtues of Cuba's austere Communist goes without saying that the incomparable is regime. There were another representative of this cross. There is also the probably no better admirable to look forward to, so Galileo's advertisements reputation as a tremendously promising sire of sires than a couple of looks set to grow and grow. Olympic gold We mustn't forget that Kentucky breeders now also medalists in the have two sons of Galileo available to them in Cape 1970s. One, the Blanco and Midas Touch, a pair who fought out a close long-striding finish to the 2010 Irish Derby. Alberto Juantorena, To get back to Teofilo, his double at the weekend became something highlights his versatility, with Havana Gold scoring over Trading Leather of a legend by a mile and Trading Leather over a mile and a half. This Racing Post winning both the reflects the fact that Teofilo's own pedigree represents 400 metres and a combination of stamina, through his sire Galileo, and 800 metres at Montreal in 1976. However, the an element of speed, via his dam Speirbhean, a talented poster-boy for Cuban sport was undoubtedly Teofilo miler by the Group 1-winning sprinter Danehill. Stevenson, the hard-hitting boxer who became one of It is my belief, though, that Teofilo is always going to the all-time greats of Olympic boxing by taking the sire more good performers over a mile and a quarter or heavyweight gold at Munich, Montreal and Moscow. more than at shorter distances, unless breeders The big, handsome boxer provided the inspiration for suddenly start sending him many more mares as fast as the naming of a big, handsome Galileo colt who also Havana Gold's dam, the five-furlong Group 3 winner developed into a champion for his breeder and trainer Jessica's Dream. Jim Bolger. The equine Teofilo earned his place at stud after an unbeaten juvenile campaign and now quite a TRADING LEATHER (IRE), c, 2010 few of his progeny bear names which link, one way or Sadler’s Wells another, to his human namesake. Galileo (Ire) Fairy Bridge His son Havana Gold, winner of the G1 Prix Jean Prat two days ago, is one of several with names which Teofilo (Ire) Allegretta (GB) reference the Cuban capital. And the colt who initiated Danehill a tremendous Group 1 double for the Kildangan Stud Speirbhean (Ire) Razyana stallion by taking Saturday's G1 Irish Derby is Trading Saviour Majestic Light Leather, whose name reflects the leather gloves used Victorian Queen when fighters trade punches. Other Teofilos with Chief’s Crown boxing names include such as Heavy Weight, Light Sinndar (Ire) La Papagena (GB) (GB) Heavy, Stevenson, Frazier, Punch Bag, Queensberry Night Visit (GB) Sinntara (Ire) Rules and Ring Craft. unraced Sidama (Fr) Light Heavy, a member of Teofilo's first crop, was 4Fls, 1GSW Moonlight Sail Irish River (Fr) Riverman third in last year's Irish Derby, so the Galileo stallion is 2-1-0-0 Irish Star (Fr) making quite an impact on the Curragh classic. 8Fls, 3Wnrs Cadeaux d’amie Lyphard 13Fls, 1Ch, 2GSW Tananarive (GB) Caulfield cont. Havana Gold is inbred 4x4 to the great Danzig through Danehill and , two Group 1 winners over six furlongs by the legendary Claiborne stallion. But Amira's Prince, the Teofilo colt who was in such good form in America early this year, is inbred 4x3 to Danzig via the same stallions and he stays quite well, as he showed in taking the GII Mac Diarmida S. over 1 3/8 miles. Amira's Prince is one of 10 stakes winners among the 116 foals in Teofilo's first crop, which also includes (G1 Dewhurst S.), Light Heavy (G2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial) and Remember Alexander (G3 Tyros S.). His larger second crop--136 foals-- promises to do even better, as it has already produced Trading Leather, Havana Gold and a third Group 1 winner in Loch Garman (Criterium International). Incidentally, six of Teofilo's seven group winners are colts, but he has several listed-winning and group-placed daughters, so this imbalance is likely to change. In winning the Irish Derby, Trading Leather could be said to have fulfilled his destiny, as his grandsires, Galileo and Sinndar, were also successful in this Classic, scoring in 2001 and 2000, respectively. Trading Leather's dam Night Visit was bred by Stud Management, but was sold as a 2-year-old and never raced. Her dam Moonlight Sail, a winner at two in France, was a sister to Maktoum Al Maktoum's outstanding racemare . This daughter of Irish River won the G1 1000 Guineas and Champion S., plus the GI Beverly D. S. in the U.S., where she was second in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf. Moonlight Sail's brother Irish Prize was another who shone in the U.S., where his best victory came in the GI Shoemaker Mile. Trading Leather's third dam, the Lyphard mare Cadeaux d'Amie, cost $925,000 as a yearling. She won at up to a mile and a quarter and was a half-sister to the wonderfully versatile Mrs Penny, whose victories included the Cheveley Park S., and . Cadeaux d'Amie's listed-winning daughter Insijaam visited Sinndar to produce the Oaks third Pictavia, who is a three-parts-sister to Trading Leather's dam. Incidentally, the good-moving Trading Leather is yet another reminder of how much full siblings can vary. His year-older brother Night Invader showed little ability in three starts.