Pedigree Insights B Y a N D R E W C a U L F I E L D
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Andrew Caulfield, Feb. 14, 2012-Kinglet PEDIGREE INSIGHTS B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D Thursday, Meydan, United Arab Emirates UAE 2000 GUINEAS (SPONSORED BY DUBAL)-G3, $250,000, Meydan, 2-9, NH/SH3yo, 1600m (AWT), 1:37.72, stn. 1--#@KINGLET, 121, c, 3, by Kingmambo 1st Dam: Karen=s Caper (MGSW & GISP-US, GSW & G1SP-Eng, $622,136), by War Chant 2nd Dam: Miss Caerleona (Fr), by Caerleon 3rd Dam: Miss d=Ouilly (Fr), by Bikala (Ire) O-Godolphin; B-Darley; T-Mahmood Al Zarooni; J-Mickael Barzalona; $150,000. Lifetime Record: 6-3-1-2, $172,531. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the Racing Post chart or the video replay. It=s a measure of how much things have changed that Habitat--a leading Irish stallion whose book was sometimes a little higher than the norm during the 1970s--is credited with 695 foals during a career which lasted until he was 20. Sadler=s Wells, on the other hand, notched up 2,295 foals, while Storm Cat bowed out with 1,412, Mr. Prospector with 1,178 and Danzig with 1,075. Plenty of today=s established stallions already have four-figure totals to their credit. Using the Blood-Horse=s AEI table, Smart Strike has 1,024 named foals of racing age; Dynaformer 1,211; Unbridled=s Song 1,088, Giant=s Causeway 1,168; Tale of the Cat 1,178; Stormy Atlantic 1,088; Holy Bull 1,046; Grand Slam 1,227; and Thunder Gulch 1,158. Of course several of these stallions also have Southern Hemisphere stock to their credit. Sadly, one stallion whose total will never reach four figures is Kingmambo. Because health problems reduced his ability to cover towards the end of his career, Kingmambo has just under 900 named foals to his credit, his final foal being a 2-year-old of 2012. He was retired after failing to impregnate his single mate in 2010, at the age of 20. Kingmambo has only 11 3-year-olds in his 2009 crop but one of them, Kinglet, added to his substantial total of stakes winners when he finished well to take last week=s G3 UAE 2,000 Guineas. The question now is whether this Godolphin colt can progress to become Kingmambo=s first Group 1 Kinglet (white cap) A Watkins winner since his excellent 2005 crop, which featured Henrythenavigator, Thewayyouare, Campanologist and the Australian Group 1 winner (My) Kingdom of Fife (GB). Caulfield cont. www.coolm ore.com Of course the Lane=s End stallion=s highly impressive Kinglet=s victory came a day after Godolphin had worldwide tally of Grade I/Group 1 winners features announced the retirement of that grand filly Blue such notable sons as Lemon Drop Kid, King=s Best, Bunting. Coincidentally, both of these Godolphin Alkaased, Student Council, El Condor Pasa and King performers come from the same female line, each of Kamehameha, as well as such outstanding fillies as them having the French filly Miss Satin as their fourth Russian Rhythm and Divine Proportions. King dam. Kamehameha has been Japan=s champion sire for the I am glad to have the opportunity to write about this last two years, while King=s Best has sired Derby female line, as Blue Bunting=s achievements of winning winners in Britain and Japan, so Kinglet should have a last year=s G1 1,000 Guineas, G1 Irish Oaks and future as a stallion if he can build on his Meydan group G1 Yorkshire Oaks marked her out as something success. special. At the time I opted to write about other horses, Kingmambo sired that tough and talented filly Voodoo as I had already written about two other members of Dancer from a Danzig mare and Kinglet is out of a Dynaformer=s 2008 crop. grand-daughter, by the GI Breeders= Cup Mile winner Miss Skyscraper, the fifth dam of Kinglet and Blue War Chant. Bunting, was one of the foundation mares of the late War Chant=s record as a stallion has to be considered Jean-Luc Lagardere=s highly successful racing and disappointing in view of the opportunities he originally breeding operation. Even though this tough filly had received. He has only two winners at the highest level won the Kempton 1,000 Guineas Trial and earned a on the flat to his credit in the major racing countries, Timeform rating of 110, she was bought for as little as one being last year=s GI Santa Anita Derby winner 7,600gns. She rewarded her buyer with the Group 2 Midnight Interlude, the other being the G1 National S. winner Mister Ski and with Miss Satin, who produced winner Kingsfort. However, Kinglet=s dam Karen=s Caper the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois winner Miss Satamixa to very nearly became a third Grade I winner for him in the Linamix, who also sired Blue Bunting=s dam Miarixa. years she carried the colors of Stonerside Stable. Miss Satin=s daughters also included Mrs Annie, who Having won the G3 Nell Gwyn S., one of the main trials produced group winners to three different stallions, plus for the G1 1,000 Guineas, Karen=s Caper finished a a Group 1 performer to a fourth. The Group 1 respectable fourth of 20 in the Classic. She then lost performer, Mrs Arkada, is the second dam of Blue the G1 Coronation S. by the narrowest margin and later Bunting. suffered a similar fate on her American debut, when she Miss Skyscraper=s family continues to flourish. just failed to catch Sweet Talker in the GI Queen Bonfire, the highly regarded English colt who featured in Elizabeth II S. Karen=s Caper went on to add a couple of a TDN >In Sharper Focus= piece Jan. 26 (click here), is Grade III successes as a 4-year-old, at up to out of a granddaughter of Miss Satin. Bonfire=s second 1 1/16 miles, and this consistent filly has to be dam Miss d=Ouilly is the third dam of Kinglet. considered unlucky not to have won something better. Kinglet=s family arrived in the U.S. with the purchase of his second dam, Miss Caerleona. Only a listed-placed KINGLET, c, 2009 winner in France, this daughter of Caerleon did well in Native Dancer her new home, notably winning the GIII Cardinal H., and Raise a Native Raise You she was also runner-up in a Mr. Prospector Nashua Grade II over a mile and a half. Gold Digger Sequence Miss Caerleona continued the good work after she Kingmambo Northern Dancer joined the Stonerside broodmare band, producing the Nureyev Special Grade II winner Miss Coronado in addition to Karen=s Miesque Prove Out Caper. Pasodoble Santa Quilla (Fr) Kinglet has yet to tackle more than a mile, but there=s Northern Dancer good reason to think that he will stay a mile and a Danzig Pas de Nom quarter. After all, Kingmambo=s Grade I/Group 1 scorers War Chant Karen’s Caper Kris S. include winners of the Belmont S., St. Leger, Japanese Hollywood Wildcat MGSW & GISP-US, Miss Wildcatter Derby, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, Epsom Oaks, Japan G1SP-GB Nijinsky II Cup, Pacific Classic and Caulfield Cup. $622,113 Miss Caerleona (Fr) Caerleon 3Fls, 1Str, 1GSW GSW-US & SP-Fr, Foreseer $259,991 Miss D’ouilly (Fr) Bikala (Ire) PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... 8Fls, 5Wnrs, 2GSW 10Fls, 1GSW, 4SP Miss Satan (Fr) Get pedigree expert Andrew Caulfield=s take A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will on racing=s newsmakers! indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a s will You can find all of Caulfield=s columns in denote a first-time Grade/Group 1 winner, a + will the TDN Archive. indicate first-time starters, an (S) will be used for state- bred races, a (C) will be used for maiden-claiming races and an (R) will be used for other restricted races..