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Andrew Caulfield, December 5, 2006–Foxysox (GB) P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Foxysox arrived in the U.S. having failed to win in five starts in Britain. However, she had more than BY ANDREW CAULFIELD recouped her purchase price of 13,000gns when third of 30 in a very valuable sales race at Newmarket, and it BAYAKOA H.-GII, $150,000, HOL, 12-3, 3yo/up, f/m, took 40,000gns to buy her at Tattersalls= Horses in 1 1/16m, 1:41 4/5, ft. Training Sale. She has proved an excellent buy, as she 1--FOXYSOX (GB), 118, f, 3, by Foxhound has now won five of her nine starts and it by only 1st Dam: Triple Tricks (Ire), by Royal Academy a head that she was beaten by Arravale in the GI Del 2nd Dam: Tricky Note (GB), by Song (GB) Mar Oaks. 3rd Dam: Trickster (GB), by Major Portion (GB) Foxysox=s sire Foxhound is a true globe-trotter. (40,000gns 2yo 2005 TATHIT; 13,000gns yrl '04 Indeed, I made the following comment about him back TATOCT). O-Warren B Williamson; B-B J and Mrs in 2001: Crangle (GB); T-Carla Gaines; J-Victor Espinoza; AThere is no denying the potential of Foxhound, an $90,000. Lifetime Record: GISP, 14-5-2-2, extremely well-bred stallion son of , but the $448,151. question exists as to whether he has been in any one Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style place long enough to build up a sound future. His history so far is that he spent his first season in 1996 pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. in Ireland, at a fee of IR4,000gns, before being It was in 1982, at the Academy Awards ceremony in transferred to Kentucky, where he initially stood for as Los Angeles, that the English-born Colin Welland little as $4,000 at Hill =n= Dale Farms. Then Foxhound=s brandished his Oscar for his Chariots of Fire screenplay Irish crop reached the track in 1999, with several of and shouted, AThe British are coming!@ them doing so well that Foxhound was whisked back for the British movie industry, across the Atlantic to stand at Castle Hyde Stud in Welland=s forecast has proved none too accurate. But I 2000. His connections then faced the task of am pretty sure that the British will soon be flocking to maintaining interest and support in a stallion whose Hollywood--the racecourse, not the movie-making stock is racing mainly at minor tracks in the States and centre--now that the California tracks are converting to it was decided to lease Foxhound to stand the 2002 synthetic surfaces. And the British will be accompanied season in England.@ by plenty of other European turf horses, judging by a Foxhound has also stood in Chile and has spent couple of races on Hollywood Park=s new Cushion several Southern-Hemisphere seasons in , Track. which appears to have become his permanent home Dec. 1 saw the ex-French filly Phantom Rose make since 2004. her main-track debut in an allowance on the Cushion Foxhound generally covered very ordinary mares in Track and she handled the new surface extremely well, his first season in Ireland, but still managed to sire the winning with all the authority she had displayed when group winners Mount Abu (G1 Prix de la Foret) and Kier she easily won a Listed race on a softish turf track at Park and the Listed winners Scarteen Fox and Peruvian Maisons-Laffitte in May. Chief. His best representative in the USA before Two days later, the Bayakoa H. was contested over Foxysox=s arrival was probably the Grade II-placed the same course and distance. This Grade II contest USS Tinosa. attracted a dozen fillies, with the eight American-bred I fear that Foxhound=s many changes of location have defenders being opposed by one British-bred challenger, ultimately counted against him, but he had every right one Irish-bred and two Chilean-breds. Although the to be a successful stallion, as his first three dams are American team included the first two choices in the those celebrated mares Lassie Dear, Gay Missile and betting, they were out-pointed by the foreign-breds, Missy Baba. with the British-bred Foxysox just getting the better of You=ll hardly need me to recount all of this female the Irish-bred Round Heels, with the Chilean imports line=s magic moments. Suffice it to say that Missy being next across the line. Baba=s six stakes winners included champion sire Raja Interestingly, Phantom Rose is a daughter of the great Baba; that Gay Missile produced four stakes winners Danzig, whereas Foxysox is by Danzig=s son Foxhound, headed by the top-class ; and that Lassie and these two fillies lend support to the theory that the Dear also produced four stakes winners, including Danzig male line is heading for a resurgence in America, , the phenomenal producer who was as more and more tracks are changed to synthetic. voted 1992=s Broodmare of the Year. Weekend Castleton Lyons has imported Danzig=s proven son Surprise=s three eldest sons have all sired winners in the , while Coolmore has switched Danzig=s royally ultra-competitive action of Breeders= Cup day, with A.P. bred son Mull of Kintyre to Ashford, where he will join Indy being responsible for Tempera, Honor Grades for Monashee Mountain, another Danzig horse who started Adoration and for Storm Song. his career in Ireland. Adena Springs is also gearing up Weekend Surprise=s half-brother Deerhound also got for the switch away from traditional dirt, with a team into the act by siring , winner of the which includes =s Derby-winning son North Juvenile Fillies in 1997. Light. Caulfield cont. Deerhound and Foxhound are brothers and they are also closely related to Honor Grades, another son of Danzig. Incidentally, Missy Baba=s grandson Gay Mecene ranks as the broodmare sire of Anabaa, one of Danzig=s champion sprinting sons, and of Anabaa=s highly talented three-parts brother Key of Luck. A grandson of Danzig, Key of Luck sired the Derby winner . Although Foxysox was an inexpensive yearling, she comes from a sprinting family which has produced some very fast horses, including Fayruz, Jester, Averti and Reesh. Her broodmare sire Royal Academy was also an excellent sprinter, but he stretched his stamina to a mile when he scored on Breeders= Cup day. The under-valued Royal Academy is developing into a successful dam sire, this year=s top European juvenile filly Finsceal Beo being another notable winner out of one of his daughters.

FOXYSOX (GB), f, 2003 Danzig Admiral’s Voyage Pas de Nom *Petitioner Foxhound Tom Fool Busanda Lassie Dear Gay Missile Missy Baba Northern Dancer Nijinsky II Flaming Page Royal Academy Crimson Satan Crimson Saint Triple Tricks (Ire) Bolero Rose 8-0-2-2, $5,055 Sing Sing (GB) 9Fls, 1GSW Tricky Note (GB) Song (GB) SW-Eng & GSP-Ire, Intent (GB) 10-3-1-1, $25,149 Trickster (GB) Major Portion (GB) 7Fls, 4Wnrs 10Fls, 3SW Lady Jester (GB)