Pedigree Insights by Andrew Caulfield
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Andrew Caulfield, September 7, 2010-Lillie Langtry PEDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Saturday, Leopardstown, Ireland COOLMOORE FUSAICHI PEGASUS MATRON S.-G1, i200,000, Leopardstown, 9-4, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:39.68, gd. 1--LILLIE LANGTRY (IRE), 124, f, 3, by Danehill Dancer (Ire) 1st Dam: Hoity Toity (GB), by Darshaan (GB) 2nd Dam: Hiwaayati (GB), by Shadeed 3rd Dam: Alathea (GB), by Lorenzaccio (GB) (70,000gns wnlg >07 TATDEC; 230,000gns yrl >08 TATOCT). O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-K B Lynch; T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Johnny Murtagh; i130,000. Lifetime Record: 11-5-2-1, i1,057,020. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the Racing Post chart, the TRNi.com PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, courtesy attheraces.com. The sires= championship in Britain and Ireland may still have nearly four months left to run, but the race is surely as good as over following the Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion S. With Cape Blanco impressively defeating his paternal half-brother Rip Van Winkle, to remind us that he=s very hard to beat when on song, their sire Galileo now looks to have the championship in his pocket. According to Racing Post, the 12-year-old stallion=s progeny earnings for 2010 currently stand at ,3,904,099, a figure more than ,2-million higher than that of his nearest pursuer, Dansili. It took Aonly@ ,3,827,297 for Danehill Dancer to secure the championship in 2009 and Galileo took the 2008 title with ,3,974,492. If Galileo does indeed secure his second sires= title, it will mean that a Coolmore stallion has been champion every year since Blushing Groom topped the table way back in 1989, which amounts to an extraordinary achievement. LILLIE LANGTRY (IRE), f, 2007 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Danehill His Majesty Razyana Danehill Dancer Spring Adieu (Ire) Atan Sharpen Up (GB) Rocchetta (GB) Mira Adonde Caro (Ire) Lettre d’Amour Lianga Mill Reef Shirley Heights (GB) Hardiemma (GB) Darshaan (GB) Abdos (Fr) Delsy (Fr) Hoity Toity (GB) Kelty (Fr) unraced Nijinsky II 5Fls, 1GSW Shadeed Hiwaayati (GB) Continual unraced 12Fls, 1SP Alathea (GB) Lorenzaccio 10Fls, 2GSW Vive la Reine (GB) www.coolmore.com Although Danehill Dancer is currently down in fourth That said, there is plenty of stamina in the pedigree place, behind Galileo, Dansili and Oasis Dream, he too of Lillie Langtry, yet she has done her winning from six is having another memorable season, with his daughter furlongs to a mile, and has yet to tackle more than a Lillie Langtry providing the highlights with her Group 1 mile. The pedigree of her dam Hoity Toity features such victories in the Coronation S. and Matron S. She is one noted influences for stamina as Darshaan, Shirley of eight group winners this year for her sire, who spent Heights, Mill Reef and Nijinsky, and Lillie Langtry=s the first four years of his stallion career (1998 to 2001) fourth dam Vive la Reine was a sister to the brilliant Arc at a Coolmore substation at fees no higher than 4,000 winner Vaguely Noble. Irish guineas. Darshaan mares have enjoyed so much success with Those inexpensive crops did so well that Danehill Sadler=s Wells that they have spent much of their time Dancer became a Top 20 stallion in 2002 and 2003, visiting Sadler=s Wells or his sons. To the end of 2009 sending his fee soaring to i30,000 in 2003 and there were roughly 475 foals of racing age bred this i45,000 in 2004. However, it was his exploits in 2005 way. This emphasis on Sadler=s Wells means that that effectively catapulted him into the big time. Darshaan mares have far fewer foals by Danehill and Second to his sire Danehill among the sires of his sons--a total of 82. Lillie Langtry is the third of them two-year-olds, Danehill Dancer finished eighth on the to win at Group 1 level, following Danehill=s Grand Prix general sires= table, even though his five crops of de Saint-Cloud winner Mountain High and Rock of racing-age had all been sired at fees no higher than Gibraltar=s Hong Kong Group 1 winner Eagle Mountain. Ir,9,000. Catcher in the Rye, another of Danehill=s sons out of a That breakthrough year resulted in Danehill Dancer=s Darshaan mare, was a rather unlucky loser of the 2003 fee being boosted to i75,000 in 2006, the year his French 2000 Guineas, and is now doing well as a sire in current crop of three-year-olds was conceived. As this Argentina. crop numbers around 160 foals, it is only fair to expect Danehill Dancer has nine foals out of Darshaan it to achieve some impressive figures. So far the stakes mares, all of which have started and seven of which winner count stands at 11, with eight of them--a have won. Four of the nine have earned black type, the pleasing five percent of the crop--scoring at group level. other stakes winner being that tough Irish mare Jalmira, This total of group winners should rise higher, as three times a listed winner at around a mile. another seven members of the crop have been group Lillie Langtry=s dam Hoity Toity made only 15,000gns placed, including Remember When (third in the Oaks as a two-year-old from the Gainsborough Stud draft at after finishing a close fourth in the Irish 1000 Guineas) Tattersalls= 2002 December Sales. Her price no doubt and Shamanova (beaten a neck in the G3 Prix Minerve). owed a lot to the fact that neither Hoity Toity nor her Expectations are going to be even higher of Danehill dam, the Shadeed mare Hiwaayati, had raced. Dancer=s 2008 and 2009 crops, as they were sired at Hiwaayati also hadn=t made much of an impact up to fees of i115,000. The 2008 crop has made a bright that point, but she is now the second dam of the smart start, thanks to the dual group winner Memory, Group Winged Cupid. 1-placed Kissable and Group 2-placed Samuel Morse. As you would expect of a Gainsborough product, As this crop is a good deal smaller than its immediate Hiwaayati was very well-related, being a half-sister to predecessor, with 111 foals, it may struggle to match the very smart Nureyev colts Lead On Time (Prix the predecessor=s number of stakes winners. I am also Maurice de Gheest) and Great Commotion (Cork and wondering whether there will be a significant change in Orrery S.). the distance requirements of the horses from these very Before leaving the topic of Danehill Dancer, he now high-priced crops. has several stallion sons. One of them, Choisir, had a As Danehill Dancer gained his Group 1 wins over six setback when his accomplished son and seven furlongs as a two-year-old, he was originally Starspangledbanner disappointed as favorite in categorized by many breeders as cheap speed. That Saturday=s Betfred Sprint Cup. Another son, Monsieur natural speed helped him become champion sire of Bond, has some talented representatives in Gilt Edge two-year-olds in 2006, 2008 and 2009, but Danehill Girl, Ladies Are Forever (inbred 3x3 to Danehill) and My Dancer is now demonstrating the sort of versatility that Name Is Bond. The last named colt looked licensed to marked Danehill=s career, especially in his later crops. thrill when he landed Sunday=s G3 Prix La Rochette Danehill Dancer=s 2010 stakes winners include with much more in hand than his winning margin Contredanse (G2 Oaks d=Italiano over 1 3/8 miles), suggested. Planteur (beaten less than a length in the Grand Prix de Paris over a mile and a half), Rebel Soldier (G3 Gordon S. over a mile and a half) and Lady Eclair (a listed winner over 13.4 furlongs). The broodmare sires of these last four stakes winners are Rahy, Giant=s Causeway, Irish River and Explodent, none of whom raced beyond a mile and a quarter, so we can expect some mile-and-a-half performers among his progeny out of mares by such as Sadler=s Wells, Galileo and Montjeu. .