Alan Porter, October 26, 2005–Honey Ryder WEEKEND PEDIGREE Cuando Quiere herself was never able to win a race. She does, however, own a very interesting pedigree. PERSPECTIVES Her fifth dam, Level Best, was a top-class mare whose by Alan Porter numerous stakes victories included the Coaching Club American Oaks. Level Best was a daughter of the great E. P. TAYLOR S.-GI, $843,959, WOX, 10-23, 3yo/up, horse Equipoise and Cuando Quiere has Equipoise and f/m, 1 1/4mT, 2:06 3/5, yl. his sister Schwester 5x5x6. The connection gets even 1--sHONEY RYDER, 123, f, 4, by Lasting Approval closer with Cuando Quiere’s third dam, the Lafayette 1st Dam: Cuando Quiere, by Affirmed and Debutante S. winner, Bright Silver. She was by 2nd Dam: Quatre Saisons, by Court Recess Native Dancer, with Level Best (by Equipoise) as her 3rd Dam: Alpine Peak, by Olympia third dam, while Cuando Quiere’s grandsire, Exclusive brisnet.com chart or brisnet.com catalog-style pedigree. Native, was by a son of Raise a Native out of a mare by In the very first James Bond film, Dr. No, Honey a son of Equipoise. Bright Silver produced the Juvenile Ryder, in the alluring screen form of Ursula Andress, S. winner Prize Silver, but Cuando Quiere’s granddam, makes a stunning entrance as she emerges from the the Olympia mare, Alpine Peak, was only a winner. She Jamaican seas. On Sunday at Woodbine, the equine did better at stud, however, producing three stakes Honey Ryder, surged through a sea of rivals to claim winners, headed by Sun and Snow, a daughter of the GI E.P. Taylor S. The win, which saw Honey Ryder Hawaii, who captured the GII Kentucky Oaks and GII take her earnings to over $1,000,000 crowns a season Ashland S. Sun and Snow subsequently produced a pair in which the four-year-old has captured five of seven of stakes winners and is ancestress of seven more, starts, including the GII The Very One H., GII Orchid H. including the GIII Miss Preakness S. victress Belong to and GIII Glens Falls H. Sea; Chilly Billy, winner in England of the G2 Gimcrack Honey Ryder is one of two stakes winners sired by S.; and the Italian group winner, Fisich. the With Approval horse, Lasting Approval. With Another of Alpine Peak’s stakes winners was Cuando Approval has primarily made his name as a sire of turf Quiere’s dam Quatre Saisons, a daughter of Court horses, and Lasting Approval was no exception, Recess (who had Equipoise and his sister Schwester capturing the Cumberland S., Seattle Slew S. and GII 4x5). Quatre Saisons never produced a stakes winner, Oak Tree Derby on the grass at three, and the GIII but Cuando Quiere is not the only one of her daughters Maker’s Mark Mile at four. He also captured seconds in to become the dam of a graded stakes winners, as a pair of Grade Is, the GI Hollywood Derby at three and Quatre Saisons’ unplaced Dynaformer filly Dnya Peak is the GI Early Times Classic at four. the dam of the GIII Valley View S. winner Dyna Da Honey Ryder’s dam Cuando Quiere, a daughter of Wyna. Affirmed, had already made her name as a producer Honey Ryder is a complete outcross at five well before Honey Ryder was foaled. Her first two foals generations. We can, however, note that Lasting were Cuando, a three-time listed stakes winner, who Approval has Busanda and her three-parts sister also earned places in four graded stakes; and Cuando Searching 4x4. They are by War Admiral out of Puede, heroine of the GIII Arlington Heights Oaks. Her daughters of La Troienne, the greatest producing third foal, Cuanto Es, didn’t capture a stakes, but did daughter of Teddy. Cuando Quiere’s sire Affirmed take second in the GIII Ballston Spa Breeders’ Cup H. carries something of a reverse of this cross through his One would have thought that those achievements broodmare sire Crafty Admiral, who is by a grandson of would have earned Cuando Quiere a visit to a stallion Teddy out of a War Admiral mare. We can also note rather more fashionable than Lasting Approval, whose that Honey Ryder is by a Caro-line stallion out of an stud fee the year Honey Ryder was concieved stood at Exclusive Native line mare. The Caro/Exclusive Native $6,500. However, at the time, commercial cross produced the Grade I winning two-year-old considerations were not at the forefront of her Tejano, and the pair crop up together in a number of breeders’-- Wimborne Farm--and as far as breeding a other good runners, including the Group/Grade I winner racehorse was concerned, there was a “method in the Occupandiste and Songandaprayer, and the group and madness.” Cuando and Cuando Puede had been sired graded scorers Belle Cherie, Firm Pledge, Rapid by Lord At War. A grandson of the great British Selection, Royal Spy, Wings of Erin, Bernimixa, Logia, racehorse, Brigadier Gerard, Lord At War was a Majmu and Miraculous. champion in his native Argentina, and subsequently a top-class runner, and very effective sire in North America. With Lord At War no longer available, it was an enterprizing move to breed the mare to Lasting Approval, who was out of a daughter of Lord At War. Ultimately, the decision proved to be a very reasonable one from a commercial standpoint, as Honey Ryder realized $70,000 as a yearling at the Wimbledon Farm dispersal in July, 2002. Fortino (Fr) Caro (Ire) Chambord (GB) With Approval Buckpasser Passing Mood Lasting Cool Mood Approval General (Fr) Lord At War (Arg) Luna de Miel (Arg) La Gueriere Secretariat Lady Winborne Priceless Gem Raise a Native Exclusive Native Exclusive Affirmed Crafty Admiral Cuando Quiere Won’t Tell You 7-0-1-0, $4,160 Scarlet Ribbon 10#Fls, 2GSW, Traffic Judge Quatre Saisons Court Recess 1SW, 1GSP SW, 41-9-8-6, Recess $130,787 Alpine Peak Olympia 9Fls, 3Wnrs 12Fls, 1GSW, 2SW Bright Silver