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Andrew Caulfield, July 8, 2003 – Dai Jin (GB) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS yearlings at the important sales in October. Sure enough, noone was prepared to pay more than BY ANDREW CAULFIELD i220,000 for any of his yearlings, with his average working out at little more than 41,000 guineas--a poor BMW 134TH DEUTSCHES DERBY-G1, i580,000, return on Peintre Celebre’s 2000 fee of 65,000 Irish Hamburg, 7-6, 3yo, c/f, 1 1/2mT, 2:33.47, sf. guineas. 1--sDAI JIN (GB), 128, c, 3, by Peintre Celebre Coolmore had little option but to reduce his fee, 1st Dam: Dawlah (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB) lowering it to i25,000, which represented a very 2nd Dam: Urjwan, by Seattle Slew tempting price for a horse of Peintre Celebre’s 3rd Dam: White Star Line, by Northern Dancer considerable racecourse achievements. Remember, his (DM95,000 yrl ‘01 BBASEP). O-WH Sport three- year-old campaign had established him as the International; B-Gestut Schlenderhan; T-A Schutz; undisputed star of the 1997 season in Europe. He won J-O Peslier; i348,000. Lifetime Record: 6 starts, the Prix Greffulhe, French Derby and Grand Prix de 3 wins, 3 places, i507,400. *First G1SW for Paris against his own age-group, but it was his sophomore sire (by Nureyev). Click for the performance in the Arc which set the seal on his free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. greatness. Quickening in terrific style, he came home five lengths clear of Pilsudski in record time. Over the years, no stud has made a bigger Peintre Celebre’s owner Daniel Wildenstein then took investment in Nureyev’s stallions sons than Coolmore. the brave decision to keep him in training at four, only With Peintre Celebre, Spinning World, Fasliyev and King to see his colt injure a tendon shortly before he was Charlemagne at its Irish farms and Stravinsky at due to reappear in the 1998 Prix Ganay. That meant Ashford, Coolmore currently has five of the great that 16 months went by between Peintre Celebre’s last stallion’s sons, with these five representing roughly a appearance and the start of his first Northern quarter of Nureyev’s Group 1-winning sons. Hemisphere season in Ireland. Such a long gap is never The scale of Coolmore’s investment could be helpful in an industry where memories are notoriously described as brave in view of the records at stud of short. some of Nureyev’s earlier Group 1-winning sons. Only Even so, he attracted around 120 mares in his first Theatrical could be described as an unqualified success, season, with that figure falling to just over a hundred in while Polar Falcon appears to have made a significant his second season. Coolmore promptly leased him to contribution to the breed by siring the remarkable Japan for the 2001 season (which means he has no Pivotal. Zilzal and Soviet Star have also had their yearling crop in the West this year). On his return, his moments, but some of the others, such as Stately Don, fee was set at 37,500 Irish guineas--just over half his Wolfhound, Alwuhush, Joyeux Danseur and Atticus, original fee--but the size of his book fell once again, to have so far done little to help Nureyev’s reputation as a around 90 mares. However, the chances are that his sire of sires. fee and his book will both be on the rise in 2004, now Perhaps it was this mixed record which had the that his progeny are well on the way to proving critics poised ready for the attack before Peintre themselves. Celebre’s first crop had had a realistic chance of What Peintre Celebre’s critics had forgotten was that proving itself last year. he hadn’t been particularly precocious. Although he Admittedly, the early signs weren’t too encouraging: made a winning debut in the August of his juvenile his figures in late September stood at only one winner, season, he raced only twice that year and was rated no Override, from his first 16 runners in Europe. Even with higher than 105 by Timeform, who increased his rating Dai Jin winning a valuable prize in Germany at the end to 137 the following year. of September, Peintre Celebre’s record was hardly The colt’s record was in line with that of his dam, guaranteed to encourage interest in his second-crop Alydar’s daughter Peinture Bleue. Last on her only start www.coolmore.com at two, Peinture Bleue did well over a mile and a quarter sire of sires. at three in France before travelling to Belmont Park to win the GII Long Island H. over a mile and a half. With many breeders sending stoutly bred mares to Peintre Celebre, he was always unlikely to sire large numbers of early juvenile winners. There is no reason, though, why he can’t sire two-year-old winners as the distances lengthen late in the season and he ended 2002 with a flourish, boosting his total of winners to nine, including the Listed winner Vallee Enchantee. Dai Jin--whose dam tackled distances of up to two and a quarter miles--has become his first Group 1 winner, following up his victory in the G2 Union-Rennen with an even better success in the German Derby. Super Celebre, who became his sire’s first group winner when he took the G2 Prix Noailles in April, had made a bold bid to win the French Derby, finishing a clear second to Dalakhani. Of course, there were some bargains to be had among Peintre Celebre’s second crop yearlings. The very shrewd English trainer Mark Johnston told readers of the Racing Post in April, “I’ve put a few of my eggs in the Peintre Celebre basket this year but, with dams like Breyani, who have already proved capable of producing an Irish 1000 Guineas winner, I shouldn’t go too far wrong.” Sure enough, he landed the Listed Chesham S. at Royal Ascot with Pearl of Love and he also looks to have another very good prospect in Breyani’s son Mister Monet, who won in style at Sandown last week. Johnston also won the valuable King George V H. at Royal Ascot with Fantastic Love, another son of Peintre Celebre. One of the most interesting aspects of Peintre Celebre’s career so far has been his winners out of the high-class mares entrusted to him by the Wildenstein family. Vallee Enchantee, a Listed winner, is inbred 2x3 to Nureyev, Loup Romain, an impressive winner on his debut at Chantilly in June, is inbred 3x2 to Alydar, Precious Pearl, third in the G3 Prix Chloe, is inbred 3x3 to Northern Dancer, and Victoire Finale, another impressive debut winner in May, is inbred 3x4 to Northern Dancer. Several of these animals have been bred with a view to doubling up on the Nantallah and Rough Shod elements in Nureyev’s pedigree. Then there’s Super Celebre, who is inbred 4x4 to Raise a Native, while Dai Jin is inbred 3x4 to Northern Dancer through Nureyev and the Kentucky Oaks winner White Star Line. Interestingly, Dai Jin’s second dam, Urjwan, is by Seattle Slew, sire also of the dam of Pearl of Love (another inbred 4x4 to Raise a Native). If Peintre Celebre can continue to sire performers of this calibre, he is going to justify Coolmore’s faith in Nureyev as a sire of sires, as is Fasliyev, judging by his very encouraging early results. With Russian Valour winning the G3 Norfolk S. at Royal Ascot and Much Faster taking the G3 Prix du Bois, Fasliyev is siring quality as well as quantity (11 winners so far). With Stravinsky also notching up some promising winners from his first crop, it looks as though there are going to be plenty of chapters to add to Nureyev’s story as a.