P Edigree Insights

Andrew Caulfield, August 24, 2004–Divine Proportions P EDIGREE INSIGHTS The reverse cross, Nureyev on top and Sadler’s Wells on the bottom, is also showing up, a good example BY ANDREW CAULFIELD being Carry On Katie, last year's winner of the G1 Cheveley Park S. She has a Sadler’s Wells mare as her PRIX MORNY CASINOS BARRIERE-G1, i250,000, second dam and her sire is Nureyev’s son Fasliyev, who Deauville, 8-22, 2yo, c/f, 6fT, 1:12.80, vsf. has also sired a stakes winner from a Fairy King mare. 1--sDIVINE PROPORTIONS, 122, f, 2, by Kingmambo However, the biggest incentive for doubling up on 1st Dam: Myth To Reality (Fr) (MSW & GSP-Fr, Northern Dancer and Special is being provided by $114,752), by Sadler’s Wells Kingmambo and his brother Miesque’s Son, who are out 2nd Dam: Millieme (Ire), by Mill Reef of Nureyev’s magnificent daughter Miesque. 3rd Dam: Hardiemma (GB), by Hardicanute (GB) A poorly performed daughter of Sadler’s Wells visited O-Niarchos Family; B-Flaxman Holdings Ltd; T-Pascal Kingmambo in his first year at Lane’s End Farm and Bary; J-Christophe-Patrice Lemaire; 142,850. i highlighted the potential of this cross by producing the Lifetime Record: 4 starts, 4 wins, i248,200. *1/2 to exceptional Japanese horse El Condor Pasa, who earned Assos (Alleged), SW & GSP-Fr, $122,072; 3/4 to Whipper (Miesque’s Son), MG1SW-Fr, $706,276. a very high Timeform rating of 136 after his transfer to France in 1999. Click for the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Inevitably, plenty of other Sadler’s Wells mares have since headed to Kingmambo’s door, including the Be warned: the next few years are going to see the Niarchos Family’s Myth To Reality. She visited the emergence of more and more good horses with French 2000 Guineas winner in 2001, with a foal at pedigrees featuring two lines of Northern Dancer and foot by Miesque’s Son. Bearing in mind that the two more to that extraordinary broodmare Special. Miesque’s Son colt, Whipper, sold for only $4,000 as a Of course it was Special who combined with Northern weanling, it is almost unbelievable that these visits Dancer to produce the great Nureyev and it was resulted in foals which, in the space of eight days, have Special’s daughter Fairy Bridge whose visits to Northern collected two Group 1 contests at the highly Dancer yielded the magnificent Sadler’s Wells and the competitive Deauville meeting. Whipper took the Prix highly accomplished Fairy King. All three of these Jacques le Marois almost a year after his shock success stallions succeeded in siring winners of the Arc and they in the Prix Morny and now this year’s Prix Morny has collectively have so many descendants throughout extended the unbeaten run of Myth To Reality’s Europe that breeders have every opportunity to inbreed Kingmambo filly Divine Proportions. This pair are inbred to Northern Dancer and Special, if they so wish. 4x3 to Northern Dancer and 4x4 to Special. There has already been a trickle of group winners with Incidentally, Miesque suffered one of her rare defeats Sadler's Wells in the top half of their pedigree and in the 1986 Prix Morny, but went on to win two Nureyev in the bottom, including Well Being, La Sylphide, Trumbaka and Puppeteer. This year’s G1 Prix runnings of the Jacques le Marois, a race which has Saint Alary nearly fell to Asti, a Sadler's Wells filly with also been won by her daughter East of the Moon. a Nureyev mare as her second dam. Kingmambo was beaten only a head and a neck in the www.coolmore.com 1993 contest and last year’s winner Six Perfections is She is the main contributor to Sadler’s Wells’ fine out of Miesque’s half sister Yogya. No wonder the 2004 record as a broodmare sire. Other daughters of Niarchos family is happy to sponsor this contest in the the Coolmore champion have produced American Post, name of their French stud, Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard. winner of the French 2000 Guineas, and Musical As a group winner over five, 5 1/2 and six furlongs, Chimes, winner of the GI John C. Mabee H. It was Divine Proportions obviously possesses plenty of speed, another Sadler’s Wells mare who produced the but there is no reason why she shouldn’t stay well outstanding Arc winner Sakhee for Sheikh Hamdan. enough to become a contender for next year’s Jacques Needless to say, Sheikh Hamdan is now testing the le Marois. water by sending him a few mares with Nureyev blood, For a start, Kingmambo has been represented this including two winning daughters of Nureyev's Irish year by King Kamehameha, winner of the Japanese 1000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf. Derby, and Rule Of Law, whose victory in last week’s As I said earlier, be prepared for plenty more good G2 Great Voltigeur S. made him one of the favorites for winners inbred to both Northern Dancer and Special. the St Leger. Then there’s Myth To Reality’s stamina-packed background. She gained two of her three stakes wins over a 1 1/2 miles and her brother Casamasa stayed even better, being group-placed at up to 1 7/8 miles. Myth to Reality’s earlier visits to Kingmambo resulted in Indigo Myth, a talented performer at up to 1 1/2 miles, and Mambo Jambo, whose daughter Ocean Silk was Group 1-placed at 1 1/2 miles. As you might expect of a filly bred by Flaxman Holdings, Divine Proportions comes from a family which has done very well in recent generations. It was a rather different story 30 years ago, when her third dam Hardiemma visited the brilliant Mill Reef. Hardiemma had been an ordinary racemare, a winner of two small races in Scotland, and it cost only 9,000gns to buy this daughter of the none-too-successful Hardicanute at the end of her racing career. Her price rose to 12,000gns a year later when Lord Halifax, a shareholder in Mill Reef, bought her as an in-foal four-year-old. Her main distinction was that her second dam, Blue Cross, was a three-parts sister to a high-class miler called King’s Bench. Lord Halifax used his Mill Reef season on the seemingly undeserving Hardiemma and his boldness was rewarded with the dual 1978 Derby winner Shirley Heights, who was to prove a major asset to Britain’s breeding industry. Lord Halifax had sold Hardiemma, again in foal to Mill Reef, for only 15,000gns in 1976. This time she produced a filly, Millieme, who was recruited to the Niarchos empire at a cost of 250,000gns after Shirley Heights’ classic victories. Mill Reef has also played his part in some of this family’s other major successes. Um Lardaff, a sister to Millieme and Shirley Heights, is the second dam of the Group 2 winners Miletrian and Mr Combustible. Mill Reef also did well when he was mated with Hardiemma’s slow daughter Bempton, siring the G2 Ribblesdale S. winner Gull Nook, who in turn produced Pentire, winner of the 1996 King George. Divine Proportions’ dam Myth To Reality is a reminder that by no means all good broodmares are at their most effective in the first flush of youth. Whipper and Divine Proportions are comfortably her best representatives (although she has also produced the useful Assos) and she produced them at the ages of 15 and 16..

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