Andrew Caulfield, July 22, 2003 – Wando P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Langfuhr’s yearlings didn’t meet with much favour at last year’s sales, achieving a median of only $15,000, BY ANDREW CAULFIELD probably because his winners had largely been noted more for their quantity than their quality. However, he PRINCE OF WALES S., $500,000, FEX, 7-20, (R), 3yo, is clearly capable of coming up with a very good 1 3/16m, 1:55 4/5, my. performer, given the right mare. His first crop contained 1--WANDO, 126, c, 3, by Langfuhr that very good filly Imperial Gesture, who had the 1st Dam: Kathie's Colleen (GSW, $188,097), by Woodman distinction of reaching the first three in two Breeders’ 2nd Dam: Royal Colleen, by Viceregal Cup events, in addition to gaining Grade I victories in 3rd Dam: Own Colleen, by Queen’s Own the Beldame S. and Gazelle H. O/B-Gustav Schickedanz (ON); T-Michael Keogh; Now his second crop has also come up with some J-P Husbands; $300,000. Lifetime Record: MGSW, high-profile representatives, with Wando building a 10-7-2-0, $1,474,402. record of seven wins and two seconds from 10 starts, Click for the brisnet.com chart. while Mobil boasts a similar record of six wins and two seconds. Appropriately, Wando and Mobil were bred by One new stallion guaranteed to attract a lot of Gustav Schickedanz, who also bred and owned attention at the upcoming yearling sales has to be War Langfuhr. Chant, and the prospects of this Breeders’ Cup Mile I find it interesting that Langfuhr’s three good winner can only be helped by the success currently winners are all very well suited by a reasonable test of being enjoyed by several of Danzig’s other stallion sons. stamina. Imperial Gesture and Mobil both thrived at Danehill holds second place behind Sadler’s Wells on around a mile and an eighth, and Wando is proving very the leading sires’ list in Britain and Ireland and ranks much at home at around a mile and a quarter. Langfuhr, third in France, while Green Desert has a potential star though, made his reputation as a leading sprinter-miler to his credit in the English sprinter Oasis Dream. Then on dirt after failed attempts to turn him into a Canadian there’s the French-based Anabaa, who has been in very Triple Crown horse and then a turf horse. good form throughout the year, with group winners in Langfuhr was strongly fancied to win the Queen’s the U.S., France, Germany, Ireland, Hong Kong and Plate over a mile and a quarter, following his very Australia. And Danzig has also been ably represented in narrow defeat in the Plate Trial over a furlong less, but the U.S. by Belong to Me and Langfuhr, both of whom he faded into fifth after forcing the pace. It was only rank among the top 25 sires. when Langfuhr was kept to around seven furlongs that Belong to Me’s second Kentucky crop, sired at a fee he finally began to fulfil his owner’s high hopes. His of $20,000, is busily confirming that he merited his wins, which included the GI Vosburgh S., GII Forego H. transfer from New York. Miss Houdini became the first and GI Carter H., were in line with his pedigree, which graded winner from this crop when she took the GI Del featured 3x3 inbreeding to Nearctic, an exceptional Mar Debutante last year, and since then Belong to Sea, sprinter-miler who set several track records from five Ebony Breeze and the English-trained Membership have furlongs to a mile. also become group or graded winners. Langfuhr showed that his stamina stretched to a mile For his part, Langfuhr has been dominating the when he won the Metropolitan H. as a five-year-old, Canadian scene with his very able sons Wando and but he probably needs a little help from his mares to get Mobil. These two filled first and second places in the good winners at a mile and an eighth or more. Queen’s Plate, respectively, and Wando kept alive his Wando’s dam, the Woodman mare Kathie’s Colleen, chances of taking the Canadian Triple Crown on won the GII Monmouth Oaks over a mile and an eighth Sunday, when he took the Prince of Wales S., with and was second in the Canadian Oaks. Kathie’s Peef, another son of Langfuhr, in fourth place. In the Colleen’s Grade I-winning half-brother Beau Genius was meantime, Mobil has collected the GIII Toronto Cup H. also highly effective at up to a mile and a quarter, as he www.coolmore.com showed during an exceptional season as a five-year-old, when he collected nine stakes wins from 14 starts. Wando’s next dam, the stakes-placed Royal Colleen, was by Viceregal, a sensational performer who appeared to have the Canadian Classics at his mercy when he took the title of Canadian Horse of the Year as a two-year-old. Unfortunately he suffered a career- ending injury while on the Kentucky Derby trail and was then overshadowed by his brother Vice Regent as a stallion. As Viceregal was by Northern Dancer, Wando is inbred 3x4 to this great stallion--winner of the 1964 Queen’s Plate--and 4x4x5 to Nearctic..