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TUESDAY, 4 JULY, 2017 PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: ZARAK THE WEEKLY WRAP By Andrew Caulfield One of the bitterest lessons a racehorse owner must learn is that a brilliant racemare isn=t necessarily destined to become a brilliant broodmare. Fortunately some do. Personal Ensign, a Breeders= Cup Distaff winner who was undefeated in 13 starts, produced three GI winners headed by My Flag (Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies) and one of Personal Ensign=s sons sired a Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner. Similarly, the great European mare Dahlia--a veteran of 48 races--showed no ill effects from her demanding career, producing four Group I winners and a pair of Group II scorers in a career which saw her produce her final foal at the age of 26. But there have been a few horror stories too. The 1980 Kentucky Derby winner Genuine Risk was 16 years old before she produced the first of her two live foals, while Coronation V, winner of the 1949 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe, was barren in each of her ten years as a broodmare. Cast your eyes down Horse Racing Nation=s list of the top 250 Wings Of Eagles cantering to post at The Curragh | Racing Post Fillies & Mares of All Time and you will find Horse of the Year Lady=s Secret in seventh place. A winner of 25 of her 45 starts, By Emma Berry this daughter of Secretariat had no problems producing foals B The hopes of seeing the Derby winner go on to confirm himself she had 12 in the space of 15 years B but none of them managed as a top-class horse at three and beyond were dealt a double to earn black type. Coronation V wasn=t the only Arc-winning blow over the weekend when Wings Of Eagles (Fr) (Pour Moi filly who experienced problems. The great Allez France was ten {Ire}) was first narrowly beaten by his stablemate Capri (Ire) before she produced a foal and only two of her five foals were (Galileo {Ire}) and Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in the G1 Irish winners (but one, the Nureyev filly Action Francaise, won at Derby and then retired from racing after sustaining a Group 3 level). Of the other Arc-winning fillies, Ivanjica proved career-ending injury. The fact that he fractured his sesamoid in very disappointing but Three Troikas and All Along respectively running a huge race which saw him finish so close to horses who produced the Group 3 winner Three Angels and the Group 2 started at significantly shorter prices than he did at Epsom hints winner Along All. On a much more positive note, the 1980 Arc that Wings Of Eagles had plenty of heart to go with his imposing winner Detroit produced three Group winners headed by good looks. However, the sharp-tongued curmudgeons of Carnegie, who followed in his dam=s Arc-winning footsteps in Twitter have already consigned the Classic winner to the 1994. The 1981 winner Gold River produced three stakes National Hunt ranks, pointing to the fact that his own winners from four foals before being struck by lightning in Derby-winning sire Pour Moi--who was also the sire of Kentucky. Cont. p4 Saturday's Listed sprint winner Only Mine (Ire)--was last year moved from Coolmore's Flat division to Grange Stud. There's no doubt that the jumps brigade has long had a IN TDN AMERICA TODAY fondness for sons of Montjeu (Ire), with the recently deceased Irish Derby winner Fame And Glory (GB) and Derby runner-up STEVENS HOPES FOR FIREWORKS WITH OM Walk In The Park (Ire) among those to have received serious GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint runner-up Om (Munnings) returns from a 7-month layup in Tuesday’s GIII American S. at Santa support in recent years, but let's give his grandson Wings Of Anita. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Eagles a chance first. Cont p.2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 4 JULY, 2017 Weekly Wrap cont. The 16-year-old has covered bumper books since being moved to Ireland's Glenview Stud in 2014, predominantly on the If there's no room for another Derby strength of his outstanding daughter, the winner in Tipperary alongside Galileo (Ire), champion hurdler Annie Power (Ire). Camelot (GB), Australia (GB) and Ruler Of However, members of Shirocco's final few The World (Ire), how about standing this crops conceived at Dalham Hall Stud gave year's winner in France, where the local him something of a last hurrah on the Flat stallion industry is once again booming and on Sunday when Windstoss (Ger) emulated which recently lost Walk In The Park to his sire by taking the G1 Deutsches Derby Ireland? In fact, why not stand Wings Of several hours before Tuvalu (GB) won the Eagles at the place of his birth, Haras de Listed Gran Premio de Madrid, one of only Montaigu, which has a long-running three remaining black-type races in Spain. tradition as a good stallion farm? Just a Windstoss, who is inbred 3x3 to the thought. German Triple Crown winner Konigsstuhl (Ger), is the third Derby winner for his Shirocco Still Blowing Hot On owner-breeder Gestut Rottgen, the Cologne-based stud which employs Markus The Flat Klug as trainer. The continuing importance Another stallion to make a similar move of the German Derby to the local breeding from the Flat to the jumps ranks was industry should not be underestimated. At Shirocco (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}), whose Rottgen, it is symbolised by a solitary Group 1 wins included the Deutsches picture hanging in the palatial indoor ride The print at Gestut Rottgen of their first Derby Derby, Coronation Cup and Breeders' Cup winner Palastpage | Emma Berry used by Klug's horses. The framed print Turf and enticed Darley to buy him from shows the stud's first winner of the race in his breeder Baron Georg von Ullmann of Gestut Schlenderhan. 1932, Palastpage (Ger). TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 4 JULY, 2017 Beckford A Boon For Small Breeder VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] Beckford winning the Railway S. | Racing Post European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry When Newmarket Racecourses' stable manager Joyce [email protected] Wallsgrove is on duty her attention is usually fully focused on Associate International Editor the action on the Rowley Mile or July Course. But the breeder Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN could have been forgiven for allowing her mind to wander to the Curragh on Saturday where Beckford (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}), Contributing Editor whom she bred from her mare Whirly Dancer (GB) (Danehill Alan Carasso Dancer {Ire}), enhanced his unbeaten record by winning the G2 Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Railway S. Not only did the 2-year-old colt put down an Sean Cronin Tom Frary important marker as the first Group winner for his sire and for [email protected] National Hunt trainer Gordon Elliott, but it was also the first black-type victory for his breeder, who keeps two mares at Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Brook Stud, just outside Newmarket. A dual winner for Henry Cecil, Whirly Dancer was bought by Regular Columnists Wallsgrove from the Tattersalls February Sale of 2012 for Bill Oppenheim Andrew Caulfield 9,500gns. Even before Beckford started racing, she was looking John Berry incredibly well bought. The pedigree of the great Kevin Blake grand-daughter of Inchmurrin (GB) (Lomond) has enjoyed Tom Peacock numerous updates during the last five years, including two Send Press Releases to: Group 3 victories for her half-sister Malabar (GB) (Raven's Pass), [email protected] who was also fourth in the G1 1,000 Guineas, and three victories and a runner-up finish in this year's G3 Huxley S. for half-brother Poet's Word (Ire) (Poet's Voice {GB}). Furthermore, G3 Irish St Leger Trial winner Ursa Major (Ire) (Galileo {GB}) is a half-brother to Whirly Dancer's dam Whirly Bird (GB) (Nashwan), while last year's G1 St Leger winner Harbour Law (GB) (Lawman {Ire}) is a son of Inchmurrin's grand-daughter Abunai (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). "I didn't think I'd be able to afford to buy her so I really just went along to see what she'd make," said Wallsgrove. "I set my limit at 10,000gns so when she was knocked down I was on my last bid. She's the most lovely mare. She's very hardy and she seems to put that into her stock--her foals are always very bold." TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 4 JULY, 2017 Both Whirly Dancer's offspring of racing age have now won at who was bought privately from breeder Haras du Logis as a foal two, with Beckford's half-brother Lagenda (GB) (Dick Turpin for i14,000 and subsequently sold for an undisclosed sum to {Ire}) having struck for Kevin Ryan in a Wetherby maiden on his Godolphin after two successful runs in Theresa Marnane's third start. The brothers were both sold as foals at Tattersalls, as colours, won her second consecutive listed race when taking the was their half-sister, a first-crop daughter of Mukhadram (GB), Prix Amandine. As a youngster the filly doubtless appealed to who will be returning to the sales ring next month at the DBS Marnane because she is a daughter of his most famous Premier Yearling Sale.