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Andrew Caulfield, July 9-Starship Truffles Minutes after his very progressive son Moreno had PEDIGREE INSIGHTS run away with the GII Dwyer S., Ghostzapper struck B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D again when his daughters Starship Truffles and Judy The Beauty filled first and second places in the Saturday, Calder Race Course GI Princess Rooney H. PRINCESS ROONEY H.-GI, $350,000, CRC, 7-6, Then, on the other side of the continent, his daughter 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:10 2/5, ft. Schiaparelli took the GII Royal Heroine Mile S. on the @STARSHIP TRUFFLES, 116, f, 4, by Ghostzapper turf at Hollywood Park. VIDEO. 1st Dam: Bobbie Use (SW, $104,969), If Ghostzapper has a nickname, it should be by Not for Love something along the lines of Lazarus, as his stallion 2nd Dam: Truth and Beauty, by Private Terms career has undergone a spectacular resurrection over 3rd Dam: La Reine Elaine, by King's Bishop the last few years. The son of Awesome Again ($11,000 yrl '10 KEESEP; $29,000 RNA 2yo >11 appeared to be heading for rock bottom at the end of OBSAPR; $22,000 2yo >11 OBSJUN). O-Chasing 2010, when his fee for 2011 was set at $20,000--just Tails Stables; B-Sanford & Irwin Goldfarb (KY); a 10th of the $200,000 fee at which he had started T-Martin D Wolfson; J-Edgard J Zayas. $201,810. only five years earlier. Of course the economic Lifetime Record: 24-14-2-2, $433,035. downturn played its part in that rapid descent, but a Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. bigger factor was the slow start made by Ghostzapper=s Werk Nick Rating: A. first two crops. Only one of his progeny had succeeded Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or in becoming a graded stakes winner up to that point. the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO. Consequently, Ghostzapper is credited with having only It was another of those weeks when choosing a topic 43 named 2-year-olds this year, following a crop of 55 for this column was far from straightforward. 3-year-olds, conceived after his first juveniles had failed Contenders from three different continents staked their to shine in 2009. claim by siring more than one notable performer. That first graded stakes winner was Stately Victor, In Europe we saw the Irish National Stud=s Invincible winner of the GI Blue Grass S. and the Ontario Derby Spirit achieve a stakes treble thanks to his daughters on all-weather tracks in 2010. Tickled Pink (G3 Coral Charge Sprint S.), Moonlight When I reviewed this colt=s pedigree following his Cloud (G3 Prix de la Porte shock victory in the Blue Grass, I asked Awas it fair to Maillot) and Mayyadah. expect Ghostzapper to be The former German stallion matching strides in the early Silvano also excelled, achieving stages with some of his more a Group 1 double which precocious contemporaries?@ spanned both Northern and I concluded that it wasn=t, Southern Hemispheres. South citing the following evidence: Africa=s champion sire was AEven though he was pretty responsible for Heavy Metal, spectacular on his debut at who follows Bold Silvano as the Hollywood Park in the November stallion=s second winner of the of his juvenile season, Durban July, and his double Ghostzapper disappointed next was completed by Lucky Speed time and wasn=t asked to race in the Deutsches Derby. again for another six months. Nor My curiosity was also stirred was he asked to tackle stakes by the unfamiliar name of company until the end of August. Judpot, another South African He finally became a stakes winner resident. He achieved Group 1 a month later, when he trounced success with his son Forest Indigo on the same day the opposition in the GI Vosburgh that his daughter Along Came Polly was second in S. Even that impressive victory wasn=t enough to another Group 1. Judpot never raced but this 8-year-old persuade Bobby Frankel to subject him to the white-hot son of A.P. Indy has the distinction of being the last competition of the GI Breeders= Cup Sprint at that stage foal of the great Miesque. This makes him a brother to of his career. the Group 3 winner Mingun and a half-brother to the AThis patient approach paid off handsomely. Having Classic winners Kingmambo and East of The Moon, as received an International Classification of 116 for his well as the Group 1 sire Miesque=s Son. He stands at 3-year-old efforts, Ghostzapper topped the following Varsfontein Stud. year=s World Rankings with a figure of 130, earned with The weekend=s proceedings in the U.S. were a perfect record of four wins from four starts. Even dominated by Ghostzapper, with the 2004 Horse of the though we saw him only once at the age of five, his Year making his mark with a tremendous graded stakes victory in the GI Metropolitan H. was good enough to treble. secure him top weight of 128 among the older horses on the World Rankings. AAt this point it is well worth adding that For example, don=t expect a high-grade two-year-old. Ghostzapper=s sire Awesome Again was another who He is still awaiting his first graded winner at two and got better and better as he matured. Assigned 117 on quite a few of his 17 graded winners, such as Mystical the International Classification as a 3-year-old, Star, Arena Elvira, Pacific Ocean, Za Approval, Hunter=s Awesome Again did so well at four that his rating rose Bay, La Cloche, Schiaparelli and Starship Truffles, didn=t to 130, just one pound below the formidable Skip gain their first graded win until they were four or five. Away. Awesome Again now has 38 stakes winners to Still, I=m sure many owners would prefer a horse his credit but only six of them achieved stakes-winner capable of progressing with age, rather than one which status at two. burns bright but briefly at two. AGhostzapper=s broodmare sire Relaunch was another Ghostzapper and his sire raced exclusively on dirt, who needed a little time, waiting until the Del Mar meet but quite a few of his progeny, such as Better Lucky, as a three-year-old to score his first stakes successes. Schiaparelli and Za Approval, have done well on turf, Perhaps, in the circumstances, we shouldn=t be too with others proving very much at home on synthetics. shocked that Ghostzapper has taken until now to come Here it seems that there isn=t much difference between up with an important winner.@ Ghostzapper and his half-brother City Zip, who ranks as The subsequent three years have supported this one of America=s most effective turf sires. theory. The Ghostzappers, generally, are a very One of Ghostzapper=s attractions as a stallion is that different type from Ghostzapper=s celebrated Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector appear no closer half-brother City Zip, who--with the benefit of having than the fifth generation of his progeny=s pedigrees, Carson City as his sire--was a quadruple stakes winner which allows him plenty of options. Last week=s treble at two. suggests he is suited by mares from the Seattle Slew With the help of last week=s trio, Ghostzapper=s tally line, as both Schiaparelli and Moreno are out of of graded/group winners from his first four crops has granddaughters of the Triple Crown winner. In fact soared to a much more pleasing total of 17, from a Moreno is his second graded winner from an A.P. Indy total of 309 named foals in those four crops. That mare (from a sample of 27 foals). He also sired the equates to 5.5%, which is the type of strike rate one Grade II winner Mystical Star from a Capote mare, plus would hope to see from a racehorse as brilliant as a stakes winner from only three foals out of daughters Ghostzapper. It is worth mentioning that his of Seattle Slew. comparatively small crop of 3-year-olds has already Inevitably, plenty of his good winners, including all produced a pair of Grade II winners in Hear The Ghost three of last week=s graded scorers, have at least two and Moreno, plus the speedy filly Elghayoor. lines of Mr. Prospector. Several others, including the It is important not to forget that these four crops Grade I winners Contested and Stately Victor, possess were all sired during the years when Ghostzapper two lines of In Reality. commanded a six-figure fee. It is going to be interesting to see whether he can maintain his current momentum when his cheaper crops reach the track. His current crop of juveniles was sired at $30,000 and his yearlings and foals were sired at $20,000, before his resurgence boosted his price back up to $40,000. I am hopeful that he will continue to succeed, as breeders and trainers now have a much clearer idea of what to expect from him. STARSHIP TRUFFLES, f, 2009 Deputy Minister Vice Regent Awesome Again Mint Copy Primal Force Blushing Groom Prime Prospect Ghostzapper Relaunch In Reality Foggy Note Baby Zip Tri Jet Thirty Zip Sailaway Mr. Prospector Raise a Native Not For Love Gold Digger Northern Dancer Bobbie Use Dance Number SW Numbered Private Account 5Fls, 1GISW Truth and Beauty Private Terms Race Record Laughter 9Fls,1SW La Reine Elaine King’s Bishop GSW, 7Fls, 2SW Silver Betsy.