P EDIGREE INSIGHTS in Japan for Northern Farm
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Andrew Caulfield, May 11, 2004–King Kamehameha (Jpn) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS in Japan for Northern Farm. Named King Kamehameha, the colt is busily proving that Manfath was more than BY ANDREW CAULFIELD worthy of a visit to a stallion as good as Kingmambo. Having recorded his fourth win in his first five starts Sunday, Tokyo, Japan when he took the G3 Mainichi Hai over a mile and a NHK MILE CUP-G1-JRA, ¥180,720,000, Tokyo, 5-9, quarter in March, King Kamehameha was very 3yo, 1600mT, 1:32.5, fm. impressive in taking the G1 NHK Mile Cup in very fast 1--KING KAMEHAMEHA (JPN), 126, c, 3, Kingmambo time two days ago. He came home five lengths ahead of 1st Dam: Manfath (Ire), by Last Tycoon (Ire) Cosmo Sunbeam, with Meisho Bowler nearly two 2nd Dam: Pilot Bird (GB), by Blakeney (GB) lengths further back in third. Bearing in mind that 3rd Dam: The Dancer (Fr), by Green Dancer Cosmo Sunbeam had topped last year's Japanese O-Makoto Kaneko; B-Northern Farm; T-Kunihide two-year-old classifications, with Meisho Bowler in Matsuda; J-Katsumi Ando; ¥95,864,000. Lifetime second position, it probably isn't too fanciful to wonder Record: 6-5-0-1, $1,635,044. *1/2 to The Deputy whether King Kamehameha will follow in the footsteps (Ire) (Petardia {GB}), GISW, $817,787. of El Condor Pasa, another Kingmambo colt who won Click for the jair.jrao.ne.jp chart. the NHK Mile in 1998. This colt was one of the first to highlight the tremendous progress being made by the What a difference a few months can make. In April Japanese Thoroughbred, thanks to his victories in the 1999, John McEnery sent his Last Tycoon mare Japan Cup and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and his Manfath to Titus Livius, a stallion who commanded a outstanding second to Montjeu in the Arc. fee of only IR4,000 guineas. There was nothing unusual King Kamehameha's win was part of a fine weekend in this, as Manfath had cost only 4,200 guineas at the for Kingmambo's three-year-olds. Illustrious Miss took end of 1994 and had subsequently made three visits to the G3 Totesport Chartwell Fillies' S. in excellent style low-priced stallions at the McEnery family's Rossenarra on only her second start and the very well-connected Stud. Akarem won on his second start at Leopardstown. However, one of those visits--to Petardia, who stood Akarem had finished third on his debut behind another at Ir£2,500--produced The Deputy, a colt who found Kingmambo colt, Book of Kings, who may tackle the G2 unexpected fame after his transfer from England to the Prix Greffuhle next Sunday. The Lane's End stallion's USA in the fall of 1999. Racing for Team Valor, other winning three-year-olds include Destination Dubai, Manfath's son did so well that he started second the French filly Miss Mambo, Ershaad, Erewhon, Mambo favorite behind Fusaichi Pegasus in the Kentucky Derby, Slew (Blue Norther S.) and Mambo Train (Turf Paradise having won the GII Santa Catalina S. and GI Santa Anita Derby). Add these to his 2003 two-year-old Listed Derby along the road to Churchill Downs. Unfortunately, winners King Hesperus and Rule of Law and we have The Deputy's disappointing Derby effort proved to be the makings of an impressive crop. his final appearance and he is now based at Margaux Whatever Kingmambo's 2001 crop achieves, it is fair Farm at Midway. to expect even better from his future crops. His fee By the time The Deputy won the Santa Anita Derby, jumped from $75,000 to $175,000 in 2001, following Manfath had been purchased by Barry Irwin, of Team the Grade I-winning exploits of Lemon Drop Kid, King's Valor, and the owners of Margaux Farm. After Manfath Best, Bluemamba and Okawango in 2000, and then to had produced a filly to her Titus Livius mating, her new $200,000 in 2002 and 2003 before reaching today's owners took the gamble of sending her to an entirely level of $225,000. different class of stallion in Kingmambo, whose services It is going to be interesting to see whether there is were priced at $75,000 in 2000 (up from $45,000 in any major change in the division of Kingmambo's stock 1999). Manfath appears to have changed hands once between dirt and turf. King Kamehameha is his 10th again soon afterwards, as her Kingmambo colt was born Group/Grade 1 winner from his first seven crops and he www.coolmore.com is the ninth to do his winning at the top level on turf. This bias isn't too surprising in view of the fact that the broodmare sires of the nine turf Group 1 winners include Sadler’s Wells, Kris, Nijinsky, Lombard, Danzig, Ahonoora, Alleged and Last Tycoon. The one exception, Lemon Drop Kid, is out of a Seattle Slew mare. I would have thought that Kingmambo, as a son of Mr. Prospector, should have no difficulty in siring more top-level dirt performers given more mares from a solid dirt background. Another question which may need addressing more promptly is whether King Kamehameha will prove versatile enough to win the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby), which has been mentioned as a possible target for him. You would instantly say that he would struggle over a mile and a half, judging solely on the fact that neither Kingmambo nor the colt's broodmare sire Last Tycoon was ever asked to tackle more than a mile. Indeed, Last Tycoon had never ventured beyond six furlongs prior to his victory in the 1986 Breeders' Cup Mile. However, Last Tycoon's stoutly bred dam came from a family which had produced three Derby winners in Ireland and/or France, so he was bound to sire horses which stayed much better than he did. This he did, with such as Taipan, Marju, Mahogany and Ezzoud to his credit. King Kamehameha's dam Manfath stayed well (although not well enough to win) and she was campaigned at up to two miles. She passed on a degree of that stamina to The Deputy, whose sire never won beyond seven furlongs, and King Kamehameha has already shown that he too stays further than his sire. Manfath's dam, the mile-and-a-quarter stakes winner Pilot Bird, was bred to stay well as a daughter of Blakeney, a Derby winner who went on to be second in the Ascot Gold Cup over two and a half miles. The Japanese colt's third dam, The Dancer, was third in the G1 Oaks. The Dancer was also a sister to Kazadancoa, dam of the graded winners Jacodra, Jacodra's Devil and Changing Ways, as well as being the second dam of the Kentucky Derby runner-up Tejano Run. Another of The Dancer's half-sisters, Beaming Bride, also excelled as a broodmare in the USA, producing Simply Majestic, Alwuhush and Husband. Perhaps the most relevant of these is Alwuhush, a triple Grade 1 winner at up to a mile and a half who was by Nureyev, the broodmare sire of Kingmambo. For good measure, King Kamehameha's fourth dam Khazaeen was a half-sister to Runaway Bride, the dam of Blushing Groom, so he will have plenty of appeal as a stallion if--as seems likely--he builds on his already impressive record..