Alan Porter, June 26, 2002 – Raging Fever

for her dam Letty's Pennant, a daughter of Bold Forbes. WEEKEND PEDIGREE However, Letty's Pennant, who gained some minor black type with a second in the Peach Blossom S., is a PERSPECTIVES half sister to champion two-year-old filly Sacahuista and by Alan Porter to the good stakes winner Far Flying, who is also dam of GIII Rebel S. and GIII S. winner Dalhart, and Saturday, Belmont Park granddam of Geri, a Grade I winner of over OGDEN PHIPPS H.-GI, $300,000, BEL, 6-22, 3yo/up, $1,700,000. f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:41 3/5, ft. Raging Fever's third dam Nalees Flying Flag never 1--RAGING FEVER, 120, f, 4, by Storm Cat ran, but was extremely well-bred, as she was by Hoist 1st Dam: Pennant Fever, by the Flag out of Nalee, winner of the Black-Eyed Susan 2nd Dam: Letty’s Pennant, by Bold Forbes S. and Santa Ynez S. and herself a sister to the great 3rd Dam: Nalees Flying Flag, by Hoist the Flag mare Shuvee, twice conqueror of colts in the Jockey O/B-Edward P Evans (KY); T-Mark Hennig; J-J R Club Gold Cup. Velazquez; $180,000. Lifetime Record: 15-10-3-1, The cross of Storm Cat with mares by Seattle Slew is $1,176,365. *Full to Stormin Fever, GSW & one which has worked rather well, as, in addition to MGISP, $484,664. Stormin Fever and Raging Fever, it has also produced Storm Cat seems to have been a little out of the group/graded stakes winners Statue of Liberty and limelight this season, perhaps because of not having China Storm and stakes winner Stormy Atlantic. A a three-year-old classic contender. However, while more distant version of the cross is found in the most eyes have been on the Triple Crown scene, pedigree of Night Patrol, a recent graded-stakes winner Storm Cat has quietly gone about becoming the who is by Storm Cat's son Storm Boot out of a mare by season's leading sire by both stakes winners and Seattle Song. stakes wins, and is fast closing on the 100-stakes The success of the Storm Cat/Seattle Slew cross is winners mark. The most recent week was a not surprising when one considers that Storm Cat's particularly good one for Storm Cat as he was broodmare sire is also broodmare sire of represented by two winners at England's Royal Ascot Seattle Slew's most important son A.P. Indy. meet: Sophisticat, who defeated the winners of the Secretariat was the greatest product of the direct Bold Irish and French 1,000 Guineas in the G1 Coronation Ruler/Princequillo cross, and Seattle Slew is bred on an S.; and the two-year-old Statue of Liberty, who extended version of the same cross. In addition, Seattle maintained his unbeaten record in the G3 Coventry Slew's broodmare sire Poker is by a son of Princequillo S.; and by the GI Ogden Phipps (formerly out of a mare by 's sire . The Storm Hempstead) H. heroine, Raging Fever. Cat/Seattle Slew cross therefore gives a double of Bold Four-year-old Raging Fever has been a model of Ruler, and Raging Fever actually has a third cross of consistency, 15 starts bringing her 10 wins, three Bold Ruler. This passes without comment these days, seconds and one third, and a bankroll of $1,176,365. but at one time the wisdom of inbreeding to Bold Ruler Her only unplaced effort has been a sixth in the 2000 was as hotly debated, much as more recent times have GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Oddly, prior to the seen much discussion regarding duplicating Northern Ogden Phipps, that was Raging Fever's last try in a Dancer. Grade I event and her last at a distance beyond a mile. We can't leave Raging Fever without mentioning that She had, however, proved that she could handle both she traces to the renowned tap-root mare, Bourtai that class and the 1 1/16-miles distance with a juvenile (granddam of Nalee). Bourtai was three-parts sister to win in the GI Frizette S. Sun Again, who is in the male line of , and The fourth foal and second winner for her dam, the either Bourtai or Sun Again (usually through Damascus) Seattle Slew mare Pennant Fever, Raging Fever is a appear in at least 20 of Storm Cat's stakes winners. sister to the colt Stormin Fever. Although a little slower CORRECTION: Last week when listing stakes winners maturing than Raging Fever, the elder brother set the bred on the /Northfields cross, I cited trend for being both speedy and versatile. A winner I'm Very Irish as a Grade I winner. I'm Very Irish is a over six furlongs, Stormin Fever gained his sole stakes stakes winner and graded-stakes placed performer, but victory in the seven-furlong GIII Sport Page H. and was the Grade I credit belongs to Forbidden Apple, a twice second in the GI Vosburgh S. at the same multiple graded stakes winner of over $1,000,000 who distance, but he stayed 1 1/8 miles well enough to captured last year's GI Manhattan H., and also took come within inches of defeating Skip Away in the GII second in the GI Breeders' Cup Mile. -Alan Porter Philip H. Iselin H. Now standing at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Kentucky, Stormin Fever is represented by first-crop yearlings in 2002. Pennant Fever, who earned black type when third in the GIII Golden Rod S., was the only stakes performer