Andrew Caulfield, August 26, 2003 – Sons Of Nureyev P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Humbel and Showlady among his sizeable number of foals out of Seattle Slew mares. Seattle Slew himself BY ANDREW CAULFIELD sired three stakes winners from a relatively small number of foals out of Nureyev mares, while Nureyev’s SONS OF NUREYEV matings with Pearl of Love’s dam Aunt Pearl resulted in Social Charter, a dual Grade III winner at up to 1 3/16 A few weeks ago I wrote in this column that “if miles, and the Group-placed Kalidasa. Peintre Celebre can continue to sire performers of this To get back to Balmont and Pearl of Love, it is calibre, he is going to justify Coolmore’s faith in interesting that Pearl of Love’s third dam, the Nureyev as a sire of sires, as is Fasliyev, judging by his celebrated Native Street, is also the third dam of very encouraging early results….With Stravinsky also Balmont’s sire Stravinsky. Native Street, of course, was notching up some promising winners from his first crop, a daughter of Native Dancer, a stallion who has exerted it looks as though there are going to be plenty of a powerful influence in the pedigrees of each of the chapters to add to Nureyev’s story as a sire of sires.” juveniles under review. Well, last week provided one of those chapters, with Carry On Katie is inbred 3x3 to Mr. Prospector, and each of these three Nureyev stallions being represented 5x5x5x6 to his grandsire Native Dancer, while Balmont by a high-class juvenile winner. Stravinsky got off the is inbred 5x6x5x5x6 to Native Dancer, including 5x4 to mark at Group level when his son Balmont won the G2 Mr. Prospector’s sire Raise A Native. For his part, Pearl Gimcrack S., then Fasliyev notched up his fourth Group of Love is inbred 4x4 to Raise A Native and 5x5x5x4 to winner from his remarkable first crop when Carry On Native Dancer. Katie maintained her unbeaten record in the G2 Lowther I have pointed out before that, to my eye, Fasliyev S. Finally, Peintre Celebre completed an extraordinary bears a much stronger physical resemblance to his treble when Pearl of Love ran out an impressive winner broodmare sire Mr. Prospector than to Nureyev. It of the G3 Futurity S. already looks as though doubling up on Mr. Prospector With the future in mind, it could pay to take a look at is going to play an important part in Fasliyev’s success each of these three very talented two-year-olds, story, because his other very fast juvenile daughter, especially as there are some strong links between them. Much Faster, is inbred 3x4 to Mr. Prospector and so is I apologise in advance if the explanation of these links his son Sgt Pepper, a stylish winner of a Listed race becomes a little hard to follow. over a mile earlier this month. The most obvious of these connections is that The second line of Mr. Prospector has come through Balmont and Pearl of Love each has a Seattle Slew his sons Woodman (Carry On Katie), Gone West (Much mare as his dam and each has a grand-daughter of Faster) and Hello Gorgeous (Sgt Pepper). Woodman Raise A Native as his second dam (Balmont’s is the also appears as the broodmare sire of Super Celebre, Alydar mare Altair, while Pearl of Love’s is Mr. whose second in the French Derby confirmed his Prospector’s daughter Mr. P.’s Girl). The Seattle Slew standing as one of the best members of Peintre connection looks all the more significant in view of the Celebre’s first crop. fact that one of Fasliyev’s Group scorers, the Breeders using sons of Nureyev are bound to try to impressive Russian Valour, is out of a mare by Seattle reinforce the influence of Nureyev’s dam Special, who Slew’s son Septieme Ciel. also ranks as the second dam of Sadler’s Wells and Fairy King. Fasliyev already has a Listed winner, Strong ties to Seattle Slew.. Needles And Pins, out of a Fairy King mare, while I would have struggled to predict the scale of this Peintre Celebre has sired the very good colts Fantastic successful link between Nurevey’s sons and Seattle Love and Carpanetto from daughters of Sadler’s Wells. Slew line mares, even though Theatrical, Nureyev’s These animals are inbred 3x3 to Northern Dancer and most accomplished stallion son, has the likes of Astra, 3x4 to Special. Sadler’s Wells also sired Miss Profile, www.coolmore.com the second dam of Carry On Katie, so there is plenty of encouragement for further experimentation with this type of cross. Special’s dam Thong was a sister to Ridan, Moccasin and Lt. Stevens, which has allowed the Wildenstein family to try doubling up on their parents, Nantallah and Rough Shod. They have sent Peintre Celebre mares by Lear Fan and Alysheba, who were produced by a pair of sisters by Lt. Stevens, and their Group 2 winner Vallee Enchantee is out of a Lear Fan mare. Perhaps we should be careful in attributing all the credit for Carry On Katie and Much Faster to their inbreeding to Mr. Prospector because they are also inbred to Northern Dance (3x4 and 3x5 respectively). Balmont is also inbred 3x4 to Northern Dancer. All three winners under review also have at least one famous name in their bottom line. I have already mentioned that Pearl of Love’s third dam is Native Street, while Balmont’s fourth dam is none other than Queen Sucree, dam of the Kentucky Derby winner Cannonade. Perhaps less well known, but equally worthy of mention, is Carry On Katie’s fourth dam, Cawstons Pride, who won the Lowther S. some 33 years before her highly-strung great-great-grand-daughter. Although she was unfashionably bred, Cawston’s Pride showed exceptional ability in winning all eight of her juvenile starts and she extended her sequence to nine at three, before her temperament got the better of her. Cawston’s Pride lived only long enough to produce four foals but they included the champion sprinter Solinus and the dam of the champion American mare Kostroma..