Continuously PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Stallion, but Especially So for One Who Will Be Priced at $30,000 for an 11Th Consecutive Season Next Year
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Andrew Caulfield, November 25, 2003 –Continuously PEDIGREE INSIGHTS stallion, but especially so for one who will be priced at $30,000 for an 11th consecutive season next year. BY ANDREW CAULFIELD One of the reasons why Diesis is so reasonably priced is that his offspring have enjoyed many of their finest HOLLYWOOD TURF CUP S.-GI, $250,000, HOL, 11-22, moments on turf, usually in Europe. His daughters 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT, 2:29, fm. Diminuendo, Ramruna and Love Divine have all won the 1--s@#CONTINUOUSLY, 126, c, 4, by Diesis (GB) Epsom Oaks and he has enjoyed group success this 1st Dam: Play On and On, by Stop the Music year with Sea Dart in Ireland and with Magistretti and 2nd Dam: Heavenly Blue, by Raise a Native Three Valleys (one of Europe's best two-year-olds) in 3rd Dam: Our Mims, by *Herbager England. According to the latest Blood-Horse Stallion O-Saud bin Khaled; B-Palides Investments N V Inc Register, no less than 92 percent of his progeny (KY); T-Robert Frankel; J-A Solis; $150,000. Lifetime earnings had been gained on turf, and this naturally Record: 12-4-1-1, $167,154. limits Diesis' appeal to breeders intent on producing dirt Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com performers for the American market. catalogue-style pedigree. Diesis has shown, though, that he can be a very It didn't take long for the numbers to start flashing sound choice, not just for owner-breeders, but also for after four horses had blazed across the line, separated commercial breeders. For example, his yearling average by only three-parts of a length, at the end of Saturday's stood at $176,240 in 2000 and $152,223 in 2001. Hollywood Turf Cup. Whatever the stewards decided, This year the star of his yearlings was a colt out of there were going to be claims that justice had not been Danehill's daughter Kitza which set a new record at done, but one man with less cause to worry than most Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when he sold for was Dr. John A. Chandler. 1,000,000 guineas ($1,648,920) to Demi O'Byrne. If the stewards decided to leave Epicentre as the There could be more good prices for Diesis at winner, that would have been another Grade I success Tattersalls' December Sales, as his triple Group 1 in a remarkable year for Juddmonte Farms, for whom winner Ramruna is among the Diesis mares on offer Chandler handles the North American racing division. next week. Bowman Mill is one of six group winners And if the stewards decided to take down Epicentre's out of Diesis mares this year, with Honor in War (GI number after his altercation with Bowman Mill early in Woodford Reserve Turf Classic) among the others. the stretch, there would be compensation for Chandler. There are now 10 Group 1 winners out of Diesis' Continuously, the runner-up who had avoided any trouble, is by Diesis, an excellent stallion based at John daughters, including the outstanding British juvenile filly and Alice Chandler's Mill Ridge Farm, while the Queen's Logic, Senure, Crimplene, Cetewayo and third-placed Bowman Mill is a homebred belonging to Manndar. none other than Dr. John A. Chandler. To get back to Continuously, this late-bloomer Of course, the stewards came to the conclusion that follows Storm Trooper as Diesis' second winner of one Epicentre had to be placed behind Bowman Mill, so of Hollywood's major turf events. Continuously's win Continuously was the chief beneficiary, with Bowman makes him easily the best winner out of Play On and Mill moving up to second. On, a Stop the Music mare who gained her only win in Chandler wasn't the only thread running between 24 starts as a five-year-old. Play On and On in turn is horses in the first three: Bobby Frankel trains Epicentre out of Heavenly Blue, an unraced Raise a Native mare and Continuously; Kris S. sired both Epicentre and who produced nothing out of the ordinary. Bowman Mill; and Diesis was responsible not only for Although Continuously is the first black-type Continuously, but also for the dam of Bowman Mill. performer produced by either of his first two dams, he By my reckoning, Continuously is the 42nd individual qualifies as a well-bred horse because his third dam is group/graded winner on the flat by Diesis and his 81st the outstanding Our Mims--a name which takes us back stakes winner, which are remarkable totals for any to the glory days of Calumet Farm. www.coolmore.com As a daughter of Herbager, Our Mims was bred to stay quite well and this she did, as she showed by winning the CCA Oaks over a mile and a half and the Alabama S. and Delaware H. over a mile and a quarter. Her efforts made her the champion three-year-old filly of 1977, a year which saw her year-younger half-brother, Alydar, rank second to Affirmed among the juvenile colts. Alydar, of course, was by Raise a Native, so Continuously's second dam was a three-parts-sister to him. Our Mims' broodmare career could be politely described as anti-climatic, although disastrous might be a more appropriate adjective. Mated to the likes of Raise a Native, Best Turn, Roberto, Spectacular Bid, Seattle Slew and Woodman, she produced 11 foals, of which only four were winners and none were black-type earners. However, one of her Raise a Native fillies, Mimbet, produced Elmhurst, winner of the Breeders' Cup Sprint, and her Seattle Slew colt Slewvescent hit the Grade I target as a sire through Tout Charmant, Lazy Slusan and Ringaskiddy. This suggests that--as often seems to happen with top-class racemares--Our Mims' ability skipped a generation, and now it has emerged once again in her great-grandson Continuously. With a Stop the Music mare as his dam, this four-year-old is another example of Diesis' fruitful relationship with mares from the Hail to Reason line. Diesis sired the top mile-and-a-quarter colt Elmaamul and the Group 3 winners Defacto and Duck Row from Roberto mares, plus the Group 1 winner Knifebox from a daughter of Hail to Reason. As he also sired Diadella from a Dynaformer mare and Sacred Song from a Red Ransom mare, it is clearly more than just coincidence that a mating between Kris S. and a Diesis mare produced Bowman Mill..