Alan Porter, June 1, 2005–Oratory & Ecclesiastic WEEKEND PEDIGREE Meanwhile, Pulpit, A.P. Indy’s first good son at stud, enhanced his reputation this weekend through Oratory, PERSPECTIVES who signaled his arrival near the top of the three-year- by Alan Porter old division with a stakes record setting win in the Peter Pan, and Ecclesiastic, who scored a game win in Saturday, Belmont the Jaipur. A member of the first crop sired by A.P. PETER PAN S.-GII, $200,000, BEL, 5-28, 3yo, 1 1/8m, Indy, and out of the Grade I-winning Mr. Prospector 1:46 1/5 (NSR), ft. mare Preach, Pulpit earned rave reviews when winning 1--@#ORATORY, 116, c, 3, by Pulpit four of his first five starts, including the GII Blue Grass 1st Dam: Arrested Dreams (MSW & GISP, $319,969), S. and GII Fountain of Youth S. However, Pulpit’s by Dehere career was ended by an injury sustained in his next 2nd Dam: Moment to Buy, by Timeless Moment start, a fourth in the GI Derby. 3rd Dam: Had to Buy, by Sadair Pulpit hasn’t been as prolific a foal getter as some of ($100,000 yrl '03 KEESEP). O-Darley Stable; B-Louie his contemporaries, as he’s only had 202 foals in his Roussel III (KY); T-Thomas Albertrani; J-J D Bailey; first four crops, an average of just over 50 per year. $120,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-2-0, $189,000. Despite this, he’s had high-class performers in each Click for the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. crop to date. There were four stakes winners in his first crop, headed by Essence of Dubai, a multiple graded Sunday, Belmont Park stakes winner of over $2,000,0000, and the Japanese JAIPUR H.-GIII, $111,600, BEL, 5-29, 3yo/up, 7fT, group stakes winner Pit Fighter. From his second crop 1:20 3/5, fm. came six stakes winners, including Grade I winners Sky 1--@#ECCLESIASTIC, 118, c, 4, by Pulpit Mesa and Stroll as well as graded winner Lydgate. 1st Dam: Starry Dreamer (MSW & GISP, $564,789), by Rubiano Grade I winner , last year’s Peter Pan and GII Jim 2nd Dam: Lara's Star, by *Forli Dandy S. winner Purge, as well as Ecclesiastic and 3rd Dam: True Reality, by fellow 2005 stakes winner Wend are the stakes ($500,000 yrl '02 KEESEP; $775,000 HRA 2004 winners from Pulpit’s third crop. Pulpit’s fourth crop has thus far yielded Oratory and multiple stakes winner KEEAPR). O/B-Joseph Allen (KY); T-H Allen Jerkens; Melhor Ainda. That comes to 16 stakes winners from J-C H Velasquez; $66,960. Lifetime Record: 202 named foals, or 8 percent stakes winners to foals, 18-3-4-4, $211,974. an excellent figure by current standards. Click for the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Oratory is the second foal of his dam, Arrested At a time when breeders are looking for alternative Dreams, a lightly raced but very talented daughter of male lines to cross with the near all-pervasive Northern champion two-year-old Dehere. Arrested Dreams made Dancer and Mr. Prospector strains, one of the big hopes only 12 starts in three seasons, but she won eight of is the descendants of . There have been these, including the Silver Spur, Pago Hop, Pontalba times when the prospects for this line looked rather and Thelma S. However, her best effort may well have rocky: for all his greatness as a stallion, Seattle Slew been the one she produced at two, when she came has left just two sons which were able to establish within a nose of defeating Oh What a Windfall for the themselves as major commercial sires, A.P. Indy and GI Matron S. Arrested Dreams’ dam, Moment to Buy, Capote (although he does also have champion two- by the Damascus horse, Timeless Moment, was an year-old Vindication, whose first foals arrived this even better runner. She won 10 of 18 starts, including spring). The chance of Capote’s branch of this line the Palomar H. and Hollywood Oaks. In addition to carrying on in the U.S. was greatly diminished when his being dam of Arrested Dreams, she is also granddam of best son, champion two-year-old Boston Harbor, made the multiple stakes winning and graded stakes placed a no more than useful start to his career and was Lord at War horse Ask the Lord, still running well as an exported to Japan. Happily, however, A.P. Indy is eight-year-old this year. showing distinct signs of become a sire of sires. To Like Oratory, Ecclesiastic is out of a talented date, A.P. Indy’s sons Pulpit, Old Trieste, Malibu Moon racemare. His dam, Starry Dreamer, a daughter of and Golden Missile have all sired graded stakes winners champion sprinter Rubiano, captured the Regret, in their early crops. Unfortunately, Old Trieste died Palisades and Gold Digger S. She also earned places in prematurely, but the other three are all going well. seven graded events, most notably the GI Gazelle H. Malibu Moon, who started inexpensively in Maryland, Starry Dreamer is half-sister to the prolific Take That already has the 2004 champion two-year-old Declan’s Step, a multiple stakes winner of 21 races, who also Moon in his second crop; and Golden Missile has took second in the GIII Hawthorne Derby, and to the graded stakes winners Inspiring and In the Gold (also minor stakes winner Star of Stars. Starry Dreams’ dam, second in the GI Kentucky Oaks) and multiple stakes Lara’s Star, won only once, but owned a more than winning and graded placed Going Wild in his first crop, respectable pedigree, as she was by Forli out of the which are three-year-olds of 2005. Another A.P. Indy graded stakes placed Round Table mare True Reality. son, Stephen Got Even, has Don’t Get Mad, a stakes Starry Dreamer’s third dam Secret Promise is the winner who finished fourth in the GI , in ancestress of numerous stakes winners, the best of his first crop of three-year-olds. which is the GI Super Derby winner Home At Last. Incidentally, when Home At Last’s graded stakes winning half-sister Niner’s Home (by Forty Niner, so like ECCLESIASTIC, c, 2001 Starry Dreamer, a Mr. Prospector-line mare) was bred to Seattle Slew A.P. Indy, the result was Indy Groove, a stakes winning A.P. Indy and Grade I-placed filly bred on very similar lines to Ecclesiastic. Lassie Dear Pulpit Oratory and Ecclesiastic are both bred on crosses Mr. Prospector which are proven for A.P. Indy. As we have said, Gold Digger Preach Oratory’s dam is by Dehere. There are already four Narrate stakes winners by A.P. Indy out of mares by Dehere’s State sire, Deputy Minister, and another out of a mare by Mr. Prospector Fappiano Deputy Minister’s son, Silver Deputy. In addition, A.P. Killaloe Rubiano Indy’s son, Old Trieste, is sire of this year’s GII San II Starry Dreeamer Ruby Slippers Fernando S. victor Minister Eric, out of a Deputy Race Record Moon Glitter Minister mare. #Fls, #Ch, #GSW, Aristophanes (GB) Lara’s Star *Forli Ecclesiastic is a product of the A.P. Indy/Mr. #SW Race Record Trevisa (Arg) Prospector cross which has produced Horse of the Year #Fls, #Ch, #GSW True Reality Round Table Mineshaft, champion two-year-old filly Tempera and #SW #Fls, #SW Secret Valley other Grade I winners Tomisue’s Delight, Jilbab and A. P. Adventure (out of a mare by Fappiano, the sire of Rubiano). Of course, Pulpit himself is out of a mare by Mr. Prospector, so Ecclesiastic has Mr. Prospector 3x4 Alan Porter may be contacted at in his pedigree, as well as a double of Nijinsky II (sire of [email protected]. Please cc TDN management the third dam of Pulpit and the dam of Rubiano). We at [email protected]. can note that when Rubiano’s 3/4-sister Tap Your Heels (by Unbridled) was bred to Pulpit, the mating resulted in the GI Wood Memorial S. winner Tapit, a horse with a very similar background to Starry Dreamer. Malibu Moon, who like Pulpit is out of a Mr. Prospector mare with Nijinsky II in the dam, has also sired champion Declan’s Moon out of mare by a stallion bred on a Mr. Prospector/Northern Dancer cross, so again giving a similar background. With regard to Ecclesiastical’s pedigree, we can also note that while Pulpit has Round Table and his sister Monarchy 5x4 in his pedigree, Ecclesiastical’s third dam is by Round Table, giving him the siblings 6x5x4.

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