Andrew Caulfield, November 16, 2010-Snow Fairy (Ire) Snow Fairy=s outstanding ability may have been PEDIGREE INSIGHTS unexpected, but it certainly isn=t inexplicable. Take a BY ANDREW CAULFIELD look at the International Classifications of 1998, and you=ll find that her sire Intikhab the highest-rated Sunday, Kyoto Racecourse, Japan European horse of any age, with his rating of 130 QUEEN ELIZABETH II COMMEMORATIVE CUP-G1, placing him one pound below Skip Away and level with -190,900,000, Kyoto, 11-14, 3yo/up, f/m, 2200mT, Awesome Again. Timeform was even more impressed 2:12.50, fm. with him, rating him Horse of the Year with a figure of 1--SNOW FAIRY (IRE), 119, f, 3, by Intikhab 135, one pound above Skip Away. 1st Dam: Woodland Dream (Ire), by Charnwood Forest (Ire) This accolade reflected his dazzling eight-length 2nd Dam: Fantasy Girl (Ire), by Marju (Ire) victory in the Queen Anne 3rd Dam: Persian Fantasy (GB), by Persian Bold (Ire) S. Intikhab appeared to O-Anamoine Ltd; B-Windflower Overseas Holdings have the 1998 miling Inc; T-E Dunlop; J-; -93,864,000. division at his mercy, but Lifetime Record: G1SW-Eng & Ire, 12-5-2-2, a troublesome splint kept -177,664,000. Werk Nick Rating: D. him off the track for 11 Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. months, and he fractured Click for the Racing Post chart or the his pelvis on his return. free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Although Intikhab=s fee When left =s stables at the end for 2011 is no higher than Snow Fairy i5,500, he has also of 2006, the genial Englishman must have thought he Horsephotos would never see one like her again, even though he shown the occasional was then still only in his late thirties. After all, how flash of brilliance as a sire. Snow Fairy is his third often do fillies of Ouija Board=s accomplishments come Group 1 winner, one of her predecessors being Red along? Evie, who was also up to beating the males at the top The daughter of Cape Cross had won the Oaks in level, as she showed in the 2007 Lockinge S. England and Ireland, plus two editions of the Breeders= An interesting aspect of Intikhab=s career is that he Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Her efforts against the males owes much of his success to his daughters. They included victories in the Prince of Wales=s S. and Hong account for all three of his Group 1 winners, for five of Kong Vase, as well as a narrow defeat to Dylan his seven group winners and for 10 of his 16 stakes Thomas in the Irish Champion S., and thirds in the Arc winners, with none of his sons having won anything and Japan Cup. above G3 level. His sire also had plenty of When Dunlop received a young Intikhab filly from high-class daughters, two of the latest examples being the E.P. Taylor S. winner Reggane and the Australian Cristina Patino, who had bred her and races her under phenomenon Typhoon Tracy. the banner of Anamoine Ltd, I doubt whether it even The clue as to why Snow Fairy s dam, the crossed his mind that the filly could possibly develop = seven-furlong winner Woodland Dream, was sent to into another Ouija Board. When the youngster had been Intikhab lies with Red Ransom and his sire . offered as a yearling at Ireland=s December Her female line goes back to that good mare Annie Flat Sale, the bidding had stopped at 1,800 euros, well Oakley, who produced Snow Fairy=s sixth dam, the short of the 8,000 euros it had cost to breed to Coronation S. winner Aiming High, and the Ribblesdale Intikhab in 2006. It transpired that the filly had been S. winner Tender Annie. One of Tender Annie=s bought back. daughters visited Roberto=s son Robellino to produce The filly, of course, was Snow Fairy, who has the 1994 2000 Guineas winner Mister Baileys. established herself as Britain s leading middle-distance = Snow Fairy=s third dam Persian Fantasy, a 1 1/2-mile filly by emulating Ouija Board=s Oaks double and by winner who was listed-placed over two miles, visited travelling to Asia to win a very hot Group 1. Red Ransom=s son Sri Pekan with success. Their son Persian Lightning was a smart and durable performer at around a mile and a quarter. Incidentally, Sri Pekan=s J Watch Out for “TDN Rising Stars” J record was similar to Intikhab=s in that he, too, had Stars of tomorrow grabbing the spotlight today... more fillies than colts among his stakes winners.

Caulfield cont. Stakes closings at your fingertips! Now on the web at stakesdigestweekly.com Caulfield cont. Woodland Dream=s dam Fantasy Girl visited Roberto=s son Bob Back with success. Their son Big Bad Bob developed into a very useful juvenile in 2002, winning the last four of his six starts, and he also thrived at three, when he won a Listed race in France and a Group 3 in Germany over a mile and a quarter. Although Big Bad Bob seemed to have the odds stacked against him at the start of his stallion career (his sire Bob Back was best known as a sire of jumpers), he has made an eye-catching start, mainly with progeny carrying the colours of Anamoine Ltd. He had done so well that he has now joined the stallion team at the Irish National Stud. Snow Fairy=s achievements must be all the more satisfying for her owner, who also races under the name of Windflower Overseas Holdings, because she has owned several generations of the family. Snow Fairy=s fourth dam, Gay Fantasy, first made her mark through her much-travelled son Lucky Guest, who won stakes races in Germany and Turkey for Ed Dunlop=s father John. Gay Fantasy=s Sadler=s Wells filly Cara Fantasy has also been doing sterling work, producing the Group 3 winner Palavicini to Giant=s Causeway and the 2010 2000 Guineas fifth Elusive Pimpernel to Elusive Quality. As a daughter of the Derby winner Troy, Gay Fantasy was a sister to Sheer Audacity, an outstanding broodmare who numbered the 1999 Derby winner Oath and the Prix Ganay winner Pelder among her stakes winners. Gay Fantasy was also a half-sister to the G2 Ribblesdale S. winner Miss Petard, who numbers the G1 Prix de l=Abbaye de Longchamp winners Avonbridge and Patavellian among her descendants. I=m sure you=ll agree, this is hardly the pedigree of a horse worth less than i2,000 as a yearling.

SNOW FAIRY Hail to Reason Roberto Bramalea Red Ransom Damascus Arabia Christmas Wind Intikhab Mr. Prospector Crafty Prospector Real Crafty Lady Crafty Example Danzig Zienelle Past Example (GB) Charnwood Forest Slightly Dangerous (Ire) Dance of Leaves Sadler’s Wells Woodland Dream (GB) Fall Aspen (Ire) Last Tycoon (Ire) 1 Fl , 1 MG1SW Marju (Ire) Fantasy Girl (Ire) Flame of Tara (Ire) 10Fls, 5 Wnrs, 1 GSW Persian Fantasy (GB) Persian Bold (Ire) 4 Wnrs, 1 SW Gay Fantasy (Ire)

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