Andrew Caulfield, November 9, 2004–Soldier Hollow (GB) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS However, four of these seven daughters now have a Group 1-winning descendant, the latest being BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Lisadell’s unraced Hoist The Flag filly Inisfree, who ranks as the third dam of Soldier Hollow. This PREMIO ROMA SIS-G1, i366,750, Rome, 11-7, German-trained son of the much-missed In The 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 2:02.70, hy. Wings was recording his fifth Group success when 1--SOLDIER HOLLOW (GB), 128, c, 4, by In The Wings (GB) he proved too good for the British raiders in Sunday’s 1st Dam: Island Race (GB), by Common Grounds (GB) Premio Roma. 2nd Dam: Lake Isle (Ire), by Caerleon The interesting aspect of the success of this 3rd Dam: Inisfree, by Hoist The Flag Lisadell line is the way the family’s ability keeps (75,000gns yrl ‘01 TATOCT). O-Gestut Park re-emerging, just as it looks to be fading away. Wiedingen; B-Car Colston Hall Stud; T-Peter Schiergen; J-William Mongil; i182,400. Lifetime The first of the line’s Group 1 winners was El Record: MGSW-Ger, 13-7-2-0, i398,100. Condor Pasa, the Japanese star who earned a Timeform rating of 136 in 1999, when he won the Click for the racingpost.co.uk chart or the free Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and made Montjeu work brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. hard for his Arc success. Lisadell is the third dam of this son of Kingmambo, the connecting links being Virtually everyone involved in today’s her unraced Seattle Slew filly Glenveagh (who failed Thoroughbred industry must be familiar with the to produce a winner among her three foals) and enormous legacy left by Special. This once-raced Glenveigh’s moderate Sadler’s Wells filly Saddlers daughter of Forli and Thong found lasting fame as Gal. the dam of one spectacular stallion, Nureyev, and as Saddlers Gal’s visit to the yearling sales suggested the second dam of another, Sadler’s Wells (plus his that her prospects were poor. The bidding stopped at highly effective brother Fairy King). only IR22,000gns in a year when Sadler’s Wells’ But what about Lisadell, Thong’s other daughter by yearlings averaged 225,817gns, so it came as no Forli? Although not nearly as well known as Special, surprise when she failed to reach the first four in any this mare has also left a rich legacy. of her nine appearances. Her rating from Turform, the Of course, Lisadell had every right to become a Irish counterpart of Timeform, was a mere 45. major force. Not only was she a sister to Thatch, a The family’s next Group 1 success came in 2000, sprinter- miler who retired with a Timeform rating of when the English-trained Endless Hall was much too 136, but she was also a half-sister to two other colts good for the opposition in the Gran Premio di Milano. who distinguished themselves during their time with Endless Hall’s talent wasn’t so surprising, as he Vincent O’Brien, namely King Pellinore (Timeform traced to Lisadell through Endless Joy, a two-year-old 127) and Marinsky (130). Lisadell didn’t let the side Group 3 winner; La Joyeuse, a useful daughter of down. After winning the G3 Athasi S. in Ireland, she Northern Dancer; and Rosa Mundi, Lisadell’s travelled to the 1974 Royal Ascot meeting, where Listed-placed Secretariat filly best known as the dam she won the G2 Coronation S. without being of the Grade II winner Sword Dance and the seriously challenged. champion American steeplechaser Correggio. During a lengthy career as a producer, Lisadell The other branch of the family to produce a Group produced five sons and seven daughters. Although 1 winner is the one descending from Lisadell’s three of the sons became stakes winners, none of daughter Lisaleen. Cont. the fillies achieved that distinction. www.coolmore.com This Northern Dancer filly did pretty well on the track, winning two of her three starts for O’Brien and finishing third at Group 3 level in the other. However, Lisaleen produced only one Group winner--her Forty Niner filly Miss Tobacco, who won a German Group 3--before dying at 18. Lisaleen’s Seattle Slew filly Gossamer didn’t manage to win until she was four and earned less than $50,000 in 15 starts, but her powerful bloodlines asserted themselves this year, with her Miswaki colt Bachelor Duke defeating top-class colts Azamour and Grey Swallow to win the Irish 2,000 Guineas. Soldier Hollow’s third dam, Inisfree, never raced and failed to cut much ice as a broodmare, producing only minor winners despite being mated to such successful stallions as Caerleon, Alzao and Fairy King. Her Caerleon filly Lake Isle won a seven-furlong maiden race at Gowran Park. Despite being a winning grand-daughter of Lisadell, Lake Isle made no more than 33,000gns as an in-foal four-year-old and was later sold to Japan, leaving three minor winners behind her in England. One of those winners, the speedy Island Race, has produced Soldier Hollow as her first foal. One recurring theme in this family history is the success enjoyed with Sadler’s Wells and his sons, with the matings all producing two lines of Forli and Thong. Soldier Hollow (who is inbred 3x5x5 to Northern Dancer) is by In The Wings, whereas Endless Hall (who is inbred 3x3 to Northern Dancer) is by Saddlers’ Hall. Sadler’s Wells also crops up as the sire of El Condor Pasa’s dam Saddlers Gal, who is inbred 4x3 to both Forli and Thong. Mating Saddlers Gal to Kingmambo, whose broodmare sire is Nureyev, produced 4x3 to Northern Dancer, plus 4x4 to Special and 5x5x4 to both Forli and Thong. Lisadell herself had two foals by Sadler’s Wells and another by Fairy King, easily the best of the three being her Sadler’s Wells colt Fatherland. Fatherland became a Group 1 winner when he caught Maroof in the National S. and he very nearly caught Barathea in the following year’s Irish 2000 Guineas. Sadly he later broke a pastern in the Hollywood Derby. I have always wondered what Fatherland might have achieved as a stallion, had he lived. He was inbred 4x2 to both Forli and Thong, and he surely couldn’t have failed to make his mark. His three-parts brother Yeats, by Nijinsky, sired numerous stakes winners in Australia, headed by the multiple Group 1 winners Our Poetic Prince and Poetic King, but he didn’t have the close inbreeding to Forli and Thong that made Fatherland so unusual..