Weekend Pedigree Perspectives
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Alan Porter, June 29, 2005–Smuggler WEEKEND PEDIGREE The distaff side of Smuggler's pedigree is equally impressive, although she has already outperformed her PERSPECTIVES dam Inside Information on one score, winning the GI by Alan Porter Mother Goose, a race in which Inside Information could only finish third. Still, Smuggler has a way to go to match Inside Information’s overall record. Winner of the MOTHER GOOSE S.-GI, $300,000, BEL, 6-25, 3yo, f, GI Acorn, GI Ashland and GII Bonnie Miss S. at three, 1 1/8m, 1:48 2/5, ft. Inside Information was even better at four when she 1--#@sSMUGGLER, 121, f, 3, by Unbridled captured the GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff, GI Spinster S., 1st Dam: Inside Information (Ch. Older Mare, GI Ruffian H., GI Shuvee H., GII Molly Pitcher H. and MGISW, $1,641,805), by Private Account GIII Monmouth Park Breeders' Cup H., and earned 2nd Dam: Pure Profit, by Key to the Mint honors as champion older mare. Overall, she boasted a 3rd Dam: Clear Ceiling, by Bold Ruler record of 14 wins, one second and two thirds in 17 O-Phipps Stable; B-Ogden Mills Phipps (KY); T-Claude starts, for earnings of $1,641,805. R McGaughey III; J-E S Prado; $180,000. Lifetime Inside Information is half sister to another very Record: 6-4-2-0, $334,600. accomplished filly in Educated Risk (by Unbridled’s Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Click for the brisnet.com chart or grandsire Mr. Prospector), whose victories included the the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. GI Frizette S. and GI Top Flight H. Diamond, a brother to Educated Risk, was a minor stakes winner and is The victory of Smuggler in this weekend’s GI Mother now a sire in Maryland, where his first crop includes Goose S. was a reminder of the magnitude of the loss Silmaril, who earlier this year defeated champion suffered by the breeding industry when Smuggler’s sire Ashado in the GIII Pimlico Breeders’ Cup Distaff H. Unbridled died at the early age of 14. Hidden Reserve, a multiple graded-stakes placed Three-year-old Smuggler is a member of the last crop sister to Educated Risk and Diamond, is the dam of last of foals sired by Unbridled, and so far is the only one of year’s GIII Laurel Futurity victor Defer, a stable Unbridled's foals of 2002 to win a stakes event. That, in a way, is something of a microcosm of Unbridled's companion to Smuggler. stud career. He was never the most prolific sire of There are more notable fillies in the next generation stakes winners--although his score of 43 black-type of this pedigree as Smuggler’s dam, the Key to the Mint winners for 582 foals (seven percent) is more than mare Pure Profit, is half sister to the G1 English 1000 respectable by current standards--but what made him a Guineas heroine Quick as Lightning; the English juvenile standout was the quality of his best performers, as no group winner Stratospheric, and the stakes-winning and less 12 of those 43 (27 percent) were Grade I winners. Grade I placed Infinite (also a stakes producer). Another Unbridled’s chances of continuing his branch of the half sister to Pure Profit, How High the Moon, was only Fappiano line has also met with some hiccups. His a modest runner and producer, but when her daughter champion two-year-old son Anees died before his first Double Sunrise was bred to Java Gold (a son of Pure offspring even reached the track, and his GI Travers S. Profit’s sire Key to the Mint), the result was champion winner Unshaded was a gelding. sprinter Kona Gold. Smuggler’s third dam Clear Ceiling However, he has left a legitimate heir in the shape of is by Bold Ruler out of the great tap-root mare Grey GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile victor Unbridled's Song and Flight. She also is a sister to twice champion sire What he has another Grade I-siring son in his Kentucky Derby a Pleasure and two other stakes winners, and winner Grindstone (responsible for the 2004 GI Belmont three-parts sister to champion two-year-old colt Bold S. hero Birdstone). There are also several notable Lad. Unbridled sons who have yet to have runners. The GI Smuggler, GIII Tampa Bay Derby victor Wheelaway Preakness S. winner Red Bullet (out of a Caro mare, and listed scorer Greed is Good, are the only and bred on the same cross as Unbridled’s Song) has unrestricted stakes winners by Unbridled and his sons first yearlings in 2005; GI Belmont S. winner Empire out of Damascus line mares, and overall the Maker’s first foals arrived this spring; and this year's GI Fappiano/Damascus cross has produced just eight Pimlico Special hero Eddington will retire to stud for unrestricted stakes winners, four graded. Of these, 2006. We can also note other graded-stakes winning Smuggler is the only one out of a mare by Private Unbridled sons Malabar Gold (a close relative to Account or one of his sons. That said, there is plenty Unbridled's Song, who has first yearlings 2005); Broken about Inside Information’s pedigree to fit with Vow (first runners 2005); Saarland (first foals 2006); Unbrilded. To start with, Unbridled’s third dam Magic is and Wheelaway (first yearlings in 2005), as well as by Buckpasser, who also appears as broodmare sire of Navesink River and Mustanfar, who are both still at the Private Account. Private Account’s dam Numbered track. Account (another champion filly) has Buckpasser’s dam As for Smuggler, we can note that she joins a string Busanda and her three-parts sister Striking, 2x3. This of outstanding Unbridled daughters, which includes pair is both by War Admiral out of daughters of La champion three-year-old filly Banshee Breeze; champion Troienne. If we look at Unbridled’s pedigree, we see he two-year-old filly Halfbridled; Manistique and Exogenous. has a double of the great Tartan Farm mare Aspidistra. Porter cont. She was a daughter of Better Self, who was by La Troienne’s only son, Bimelech, out of a War Admiral mare, and therefore had a very similar background to Busanda and Striking. So, Smuggler has five crosses of La Troienne, all through related strains. Incidentally, with Unbridled as her sire and Private Account and Key to the Mint as the sires of her dam and granddam, Smuggler has a pedigree which promises improvement with time and distance. It’ll be interesting, therefore, to see if she eventually develops into as formidable filly as her dam. Alan Porter may be contacted at [email protected]. Please cc TDN management at [email protected]. Raise a Native Mr. Prospector Gold Digger Fappiano Dr. Fager Killaloe Grand Splendor Unbridled Wild Risk (Fr) *Le Fabuleux Anguar (Fr) Gana Facil In Reality Charedi Magic Sword Dancer Damascus Kerala Inside Private Account Buckpasser Information Numbered Account Ch. Older Mare, Intriguing MGISW, Graustark Pure Profit Key to the Mint $1,641,805 Race Record Key Bridge 7Fls, 1 GISW 9Fls, 1Ch, 2GSW Clear Ceiling Bold Ruler 1SW 15Fls, 3SW Grey Flight.