Andrew Caulfield, November 14, 2006–Passage of Time (GB) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Of course Sadler=s Wells--soon to be 26--is still a major force, but he is rapidly being overhauled by his BY ANDREW CAULFIELD sons Galileo and Montjeu. Galileo=s fee has risen from i37,500 to i150,000 Sunday, Saint-Cloud, France (equivalent to $192,000), while CRITERIUM DE SAINT-CLOUD-G1, i250,000, Saint- Montjeu maintains his fee of Cloud, 11-12, 2yo, c/f, 1 1/4mT, 2:08.90, gd. i125,000 ($160,000). Other @sPASSAGE OF TIME (GB), 122, f, 2, by Dansili (GB) significant rises concern two of 1st Dam: Clepsydra (GB), by Sadler's Wells Cheveley Park Stud=s stallions. 2nd Dam: Quandary, by Blushing Groom (Fr) Medicean, a son of the deceased 3rd Dam: Lost Virtue, by Cloudy Dawn Passage of Time Machiavellian, has had his fee O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms; T-H Cecil; J-R www.france-galop.com raised from ,17,500 to ,30,000 Hughes; i142,850. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-0, i168,936. ($57,000) and Pivotal, a grandson of the great Nureyev, is now priced at Click for the Racing Post chart or the free brisnet.com ,85,000 ($162,000), from ,65,000. Two sons of the catalogue-style pedigree. much-missed Danehill are also on the up-and-up. Danehill Dancer, whose fee was as low as IR4,000gns The truth of the saying that nature abhors a vacuum as recently as 2001, is priced at i115,000 ($148,000) is constantly underlined in the Thoroughbred industry. for the 2007 season, whereas Dansili=s fee has been As the great stallions age and fade away, a new wave raised to ,30,000 ($57,000) from ,12,500. invariably comes through to take their place. This is being amply demonstrated at the moment in Britain and Ireland, where several sons of famous stallions are A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will rapidly scaling the heights. indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a s will denote a first-time Grade/Group 1 winner, a + will first- time starters, an (S) will be used for state-bred races, a J Watch Out for “TDN Rising Stars” J (C) will be used for maiden-claiming races and an (R) will be used for other restricted races. Purses for Stars of tomorrow grabbing the spotlight today... Canadian races are in Canadian dollars. www.coolmore.com The hike in Dansili=s fee reflects his considerable While the third-season mares were probably the best achievements during the current year. When his Dansili had received, there were fewer of them and the daughter Passage of Time defeated the colts in the group winners Passage of Time, Strategic Prince and Criterium de Saint-Cloud two days ago, she became the Thousand Words, together with the Group 1 placed third of Dansili=s progeny to pass the post first in a Supposition, come from a crop of 68. Group 1 race in France in 2006, following Price Tag Dansili=s fourth cropB-as is often the case--is his (French 1000 Guineas) and Rail Link (Grand Prix de smallest so far, but his promising results with his first Paris and the Arc). Although the stewards demoted two-year-olds in 2004 ensured that he was much busier Price Tag to third, Dansili looks assured of finishing in 2005, when he attracted more than 130 mares. He champion sire in France-Ban honor taken by Danehill in again covered a three-figure book this year. 2001 and 2002. One striking aspect of Dansili=s career to date is that The 10-year-old son of that extraordinary mare Hasili he has sired the group winners Passage of Time, Rail has also flourished in Britain and Ireland, where he Link, Price Tag, Thousand Words and Early March from ranks fifth by number of winners, with a similar mares which did not win at stakes level, and the same percentage to Danehill and Danehill Dancer. His tally of applies to his Listed winners Don=t Dili Dali, High Heel 11 stakes winners places him seventh among the sires Sneakers, Quenched and Silver Touch. Imagine what he of European stakes winners, ahead of Montjeu, Galileo is likely to achieve with the type of mare that his new and Pivotal, his biggest British earner being Strategic fee will bring him. Prince. Dansili=s family history suggests that his progeny will This very talented juvenile followed up a pair of generally improve from two to three. This bodes well Group 2 victories with a solid third behind Teofilo and for Passage of Time, as do the subsequent records of Holy Roman Emperor in the G1 Dewhurst S. Dansili the other female winners of the Criterium de Saint- has another group-winning two-year-old in Thousand Cloud. Escaline, the 1982 winner, went on to take the Words, even though juvenile prowess isn=t generally Prix de Diane, whereas Goldamix and Paita, winners in what the Hasili clan has been famous for. 1999 and 2004, were both third in the Diane. Hasili herself showed surprising precocity for a Passage of Time is the third foal, and second talented daughter of the Derby-winning Kahyasi, winning four of winner, out of Clepsydra, a minor mile-and-a-half her eight starts in the French provinces. However, winner by Sadler=s Wells. Clepsydra is one of 34 Dansili made only one appearance at two (which he representatives of the Sadler=s Wells--Blushing Groom won), and so did his outstanding sister Banks Hill and cross, none of which won a group race. However, their younger brother Champs Elysee. Hasili=s excellent Clepsydra is the second mare bred this way to have Green Desert filly Heat Haze didn=t race until she was produced a stakes winner, following Balaabel, dam of three and neither did Cacique, the fourth of Hasili=s five the Group 2-winning Darshaan filly Sayedah. foals by Danehill. The exception to the rule was Passage of Time=s second dam, Quandary, became Intercontinental, who won her first two starts before one of the last stakes winners by the exceptional tackling the colts in the Grand Criterium. Her refusal to Blushing Groom when she easily won the James settle in the first half of this G1 contest possibly cost Seymour S. over 13 miles for Henry Cecil in 1995. her victory, as she was beaten only two half-lengths Although she was talented, Quandary=s main distinction into third. was that she was a half-sister to the top-class racemare Mention of these illustrious siblings helps explain why All At Sea (Prix du Moulin and second in the Oaks). Dansili=s fortunes have been on the rise this year. Juddmonte also enjoyed group success this year with When he retired to Banstead Manor Stud for the 2001 Stronghold, an impressive-looking son of Danehill and season, his fee was set no higher than ,8,000, as he All At Sea=s daughter Insinuate. had failed to win a Group 1 race during his 14-race Quandary is also a half-sister to Quack A Doodledoo, career. There was no doubt, though, that he possessed the second dam of the champion American filly more talent than many a Group 1 winner, as he had run Banshee Breeze. The CCA Oaks figured among Banshee Giant=s Causeway to 3/4 lengths in the Sussex S. and Breeze=s five Grade I successes and it could be that this he had looked distinctly unlucky when a family, which also produced the outstanding Damascus, narrowly-beaten third in War Chant=s Breeders= Cup will enjoy further Oaks success with Passage of Time. Mile. By the time he stood his second season in 2002, his sister Banks Hill had won the Coronation S. and the Breeders= Cup Filly & Mare Turf. This resulted in his fee rising to ,10,000, at which he sired a crop of 126 foals. There had been another distinct surge in the family fortunes by the time his third season came around: Banks Hill had won the Prix Jacques le Marois; Heat Haze had finished fifth in the French 1000 Guineas; and Intercontinental had already begun to shine. This prompted another rise in fee, this time to ,12,500. PASSAGE OF TIME (GB) Northern Dancer Danzig Pas De Nom Danehill His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Dansili (GB) Ile De Bourbon Kahyasi (Ire) Kadissya Hasili (Ire) High Line (GB) Kerali (GB) Sookera Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sadler’s Wells Clepsydra (GB) Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Race Record: Special 6 starts, 1 win Red God 5Fls, 1GSW Blushing Groom (Fr) Quandry Runaway Bride 7Fls, 1SW Lost Virtue Cloudy Dawn 11Fls, 1GSW Aunt Tilt.