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Andrew Caulfield, July 16, 2002 – Margarula P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Daylami was destined to return to his stud, even though the colt was by then campaigning in the BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Godolphin colours. And His Highness also knew that Doyoun had attracted only around 40 mares, including DARLEY IRISH OAKS-G1, i369,390, Curragh, 7-14, quite a few of his own, during the 1998 season, when 3yo, f, 1 1/2mT, 2:37.40, sf. Doyoun's fee was a comparatively modest 7,000 Irish 1--#@sMARGARULA (IRE), 126, f, 3, by Doyoun (Ire) guineas. 1st Dam: Mild Intrigue, by Sir Ivor However, Doyoun has continued to turn around his 2nd Dam: Mild Deception, by Buckpasser fortunes. Two of those 40 mares were represented by 3rd Dam: Natashka, by Dedicate their Doyoun fillies in Sunday's G1 Darley Irish Oaks (Ir£33,000 yrl ‘00 GOFORB). O-Mrs J S Bolger; and they supplied the first and fourth. It was Airlie B-Airlie Stud; T-Jim Bolger; J-Kevin Manning; Stud's Mild Intrigue who came up with the very i225,340. Lifetime Record: 12-4-1-2, i278,532. unexpected winner, Margarula. Although this tough filly had gained all three of her previous wins in handicaps, According to a Thoroughbred Times report last she proved very well suited by a return to 1 1/2 miles in December, the Turkish Jockey Club had received--and the Oaks, staying on to become the third filly to beat rejected--two offers to sell Doyoun, the 1988 2000 the luckless Quarter Moon into second place in a Guineas winner who has had a remarkably successful Classic. time since he stood his last season in Ireland in 1998. Margarula's win is likely to have the bloodstock Since his sale in the fall of that year, the son of the agents trying to secure the return of Doyoun from the great Mill Reef has reeled off plenty of important Izmit Pension Stud, approximately 60 miles southeast victories, thanks to Daylami (whose four Group 1 wins of Istanbul. However, agent Jean Pierre Deroubaix, who in 1999 included the King George and the Breeders' has pulled off some notable coups for the Turkish Cup Turf), Kalanisi (G1 Dubai Champion S. and GI Jockey Club, thinks the 17-year-old is destined to Breeders' Cup Turf in 2000), Manndar (a dual Grade I remain in Turkey. winner on turf in 2000), Takarian (twice winner of the "The Turkish Jockey Club will never sell him," GII American H.) and Akbar (this year's G2 Henry II Deroubaix claimed last year. "The purpose of S.). purchasing stallions was to offer local breeders good A list of this length might suggest that the people quality horses at very reasonable fees. Doyoun is a who sold Doyoun have been left with egg on their good one." faces. Not in this case, though. As I wrote after Another good one is Distant Relative, the Habitat Daylami's victory in the 1998 Eclipse S., Doyoun's horse who has had several Group and Graded winners “record as a stallion would look disappointing but for in recent years. Coincidentally, Distant Relative Daylami's efforts. Although Doyoun has a perfectly descends from Natasha, a daughter of Nasrullah and respectable proportion of black-type performers to his the champion American racemare Vagrancy, and so credit--around 12 percent to the end of 1997--only does Margarula. four of them--Daylami, Manntari, Dalara and Adaiyka-- Margarula, who cost Jim Bolger only IR£33,000 as a have managed to win a Group race. This has to be yearling, must now be a very valuable proposition as a considered a disappointing record for a stallion who broodmare. Not only does she come from a terrific has enjoyed the support of the Aga Khan's female line, but she also has a pedigree free from outstanding team of broodmares.” Northern Dancer blood. The Aga Khan was also safe in the knowledge that www.coolmore.com Pedigree Insights cont. She is closely related to Wild Heaven, a two-year-old Listed winner over 1 1/8 miles who resulted from Mild Intrigue's mating with Mill Reef's grandson Darshaan. Now owned by the top Irish jockey Michael J. Kinane, Wild Heaven started her broodmare career with visits to Sadler's Wells and Giant's Causeway. Margarula possibly owes her toughness to her broodmare sire, Sir Ivor, who had the type of record to which all top-class horses should aspire. Constantly travelling from his base in Ireland as a three-year-old, Sir Ivor won the 2000 Guineas, the Derby and the Champion S. in England and the Washington D.C. International in the U.S., as well as finishing second in the Irish Derby and the Arc. Margarula's dam, Mild Intrigue, was an above average winner over 1 1/4 miles and she had a couple of talented half brothers in Grimesgill and Determined Bidder. Apart from Distant Relative and his top-class half brother Ezzoud, the Natasha family owes its fame largely from the descendants of Natasha's top-class daughter Natashka. This daughter of Dedicate became a broodmare in a million, producing five individual Group or Graded winners. She did especially well with Ribot and his son Graustark, producing Classic-placed Arkadina, unbeaten Blood Royal and Group 1 winner Gregorian. Arkadina visited Mill Reef to produce the Group 2 winner South Atlantic, possibly planting the seed for the idea of sending Mild Intrigue to several Mill Reef-line stallions. However, the most interesting of Natashka's winners where Margarula is concerned is her Test S. winner Ivory Wand. With Sir Ivor as her sire and Natashka as her dam, Ivory Wand was closely related to Margarula's dam, who was sired by Sir Ivor from Natashka's Buckpasser filly Mild Deception. Ivory Wand produced Gold And Ivory, a top-class middle-distance colt in Europe, but is perhaps better known nowadays as the second dam of Anees (Breeders' Cup Juvenile) and of Gone West's record-setting son Elusive Quality, who is making an eye-catching start with his first runners..