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ORATORIO SIDELINED HEADLINE ...p3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2004 ELUSIVE QUALITY’S FEE UPPED TO $100,000 P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Third-crop stallion Elusive Quality (Gone West--Touch of Greatness, by Hero’s Honor), sire of Kentucky Derby BY ANDREW CAULFIELD winner Smarty Jones and current leader on the general DARLEY DEWHURST S.-G1, £263,400, Newmarket, sire list, will stand the upcoming breeding season for 10-16, 2yo, c/f, 7fT, 1:27.16, sf. $100,000 at Gainsborough 1--sSHAMARDAL, 126, c, 2, by Giant’s Causeway Farm in Kentucky. The 11- 1st Dam: Helsinki (GB) (SP-Fr), by Machiavellian year-old stood for $50,000 in 2nd Dam: Helen Street (GB), by Troy (GB) 2004. Owned by Darley Stud, 3rd Dam: Waterway (Fr), by Riverman Elusive Quality currently has (50,000gns yrl ‘03 TATHOU). O-Gainsborough Stud; five 2004 stakes winners and B-Brilliant Stable; T-Mark Johnston; J-Kevin Darley; progeny earnings of over $10 £152,772. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, £198,819. million. “Obviously, he’s done Click for the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. great on the racetrack,” said Dan Pride, the director of stal- Elusive Quality Tony Leonard OWEN BROWN ROCKFEL S.-G2, £70,000, Newmarket, lion operations for Darley in the U.S. “The horse was 10-16, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:28.93, sf. booked full this year before Smarty Jones even really 1--MAIDS CAUSEWAY (IRE), 124, f, 2, by Giant’s Causeway 1st Dam: Vallee des Reves, by Kingmambo got on the radar screen in the spring.” Asked if the 2nd Dam: Venise, by Nureyev announcement of Smarty Jones’ stud fee, which is also 3rd Dam: Virunga (Fr), by Sodium (Ire) at $100,000, was considered when setting Elusive O-Martin S Schwartz; B-The Vallee des Reves Quality’s fee, Pride said, “We look at Syndicate; T-Barry Hills; J-Michael Hills; £40,600. all stud fee factors--from Gone West Lifetime Record: G1SP-GB, 7-3-3-1, £129,225. going from $125,000 to $150,000, Click for the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. and then Smarty Jones retiring at $100,00--but as big a factor as any- With his spectacular weekend treble boosting his lead thing was the commercial success over Dubai Millennium to more than £200,000, Giant’s that the yearlings had from the July Causeway now looks guaranteed to take the title of sale at Fasig-Tipton all the way leading freshman sire in Britain and Ireland in what has through [Keeneland] September. All been a high-quality competition. of those yearlings were bred in his Of course, a great deal was expected of Giant’s fourth year, when the horse was ad- Causeway, especially after his vertised at $10,000. So that’s what daughter My Typhoon had set Smarty Jones record figures for a weanling filly Horsephotos really gave us an optimistic view that the market is very much behind this at Tattersalls’ 2002 December Sale and another daughter, Mona horse.” Elusive Quality is slated to breed a book num- Lisa, had topped the European bering between 130 to 140 in 2005, which includes yearling sales in 2003. mares from the Darley operation. Pride indicated that We will no doubt be hearing a Darley has averaged about 30 mares to Elusive Quality lot more of these fillies, as My Giant’s Causeway the past several years, a number that will likely remain www.coolmore.com Typhoon was impressive on her the same, but the quality of mares has risen the last debut at Saratoga and Mona Lisa, in my opinion, was two seasons. “Both last year and this year, he’s been unlucky not to go close to winning last month’s G1 supported by mares that you’d want in a stallion’s Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile--she was stopped in her book, for sure,” he said. tracks at a crucial stage before rallying for fourth place. To submit your ask listings, please contact one of our members TODAY! Click here for the Equine Commerce member roster. (859) 422-4222 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/19/04 • PAGE 2 of 5 Pedigree Insights cont. His second dam, Helen Street, was an Irish Oaks However, it wasn’t all smooth sailing in the sales winner by the Derby-winning Troy--a very powerful ring. I mentioned in my first-crop sire review earlier in influence for stamina--and his dam Helsinki is a sister to the year that “the universal admiration [Giant’s Cause- Street Cry, who was so impressive in winning the way] generated on the track didn’t extend to all of his Dubai World Cup over a mile and a quarter. Remember, first yearlings, with some judges complaining that he too, that Giant’s Causeway won over an extended mile hadn’t stamped his stock.” and a quarter in the Juddmonte International. Among the yearlings that struggled were a colt out of Incidentally, Helsinki is to be sold at Keeneland on Helsinski, whose price of 50,000gns made him the Nov. 10, in foal to Cherokee Run, and she will be ac- cheapest Giant’s Causeway to find a buyer at the companied by her Unbridled’s Song filly. Houghton Sale, and a filly out of Vallee des Reves, who Moving on to Maids Causeway, she has an interest- was bought in for 25,000gns at Tattersalls’ December ing pedigree in that her dam Vallee des Reves is inbred Sale. The colt is now known as Shamardal, who kept 3x2 to Nureyev, through his daughters Miesque and his unbeaten record intact in Saturday’s G1 Dewhurst Venise. S., not long after the G2 Rockfel S. had fallen to Maids This Kingmambo mare never raced and must have Causeway, the filly who couldn’t find a buyer at retired early, as she was already in foal to Danehill when she was sold for 320,000gns as a three-year-old. 25,000gns. As her price indicates, this is an excellent family and Both are out of mares by sons of Mr. Prospector and Maids Causeway follows the likes of Vallee Enchantee, both have interesting backgrounds. Another with an Volga and Vespone as the sixth group winner produced intriguing pedigree is Footstepsinthesand, who com- by daughters of Venise. pleted his sire’s weekend treble with an impressive Vallee Enchantee has the distinction of being inbred maiden-race victory over Olympic, the Danzig colt who 2x3 to Nureyev, as is her group-placed brother was last year’s highest-priced yearling colt. Vassilievsky. The German Oaks winner Silvester Lady is There had been very high hopes when the Helsinki another inbred to this exceptional stallion, this time colt was consigned to the Keeneland Sale as a 3x3, and I suspect we will be seeing more examples of weanling, but the Eaton Sales offering was led out this type of inbreeding over the next few years. After unsold at $475,000. Even though he didn’t sell, it was all, why not try to reinforce the influence of a stallion hard to understand how he came to be sold for the who sired 17 percent stakes winners? equivalent of $87,680 as a yearling. Michael Goodbody Moving on to Footstepsinthesand, he could hardly supplied the explanation on Saturday when he revealed have been more impressive in winning a 20-runner that Shamardal had been the subject of an insurance maiden race easing up. While it could be dangerous to claim after he’d been diagnosed as a wobbler. How- read too much into a win in a Naas maiden, this colt ever, the colt made a miraculous recovery and it was showed an encouraging amount of speed to lead all the apparently the insurance company which sold him as a way over six furlongs. Footstepsinthesand’s dam, the yearling. group-winning Glatisant, is bred to the same Rainbow Shamardal is now a clear favorite for the 2000 Guin- Quest--Green Dancer cross as the Derby winner Quest eas, but the bookmakers seem less sure about his For Fame, so here is another colt who should eventually Derby prospects. These reservations no doubt stem stay a mile and a quarter. from the fact that his grandsires are Storm Cat and Machiavellian, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, that he could last a mile and a half. unless otherwise indicated www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/19/04 • PAGE 3 of 5 Pedigree Insights cont. Bearing in mind that Storm Cat’s matings with grand- P R E S U L T S P daughters of Blushing Groom have produced not just Giant’s Causeway, but also the multiple Group 1 winner Sunday, Kyoto, Japan Aljabr, breeders were bound to try Giant’s Causeway SHUKA SHO-G1-JRA, ¥174,420,000, Kyoto, 10-17, with mares with more Blushing Groom blood. 3yo, f, 2000mT, 1:58.4, fm. Anthony Oppenheimer, of the Hascombe and Valiant 1--SWEEP TOSHO (JPN), 121, f, 3, by End Sweep Studs, took this one step further by sending a Rainbow 1st Dam: Tabatha Tosho (Jpn), by Dancing Brave Quest mare to Giant’s Causeway. Rahy, the broodmare 2nd Dam: Samantha Tosho (Jpn), by Tosho Boy (Jpn) sire of Giant’s Causeway, is by Blushing Groom and has 3rd Dam: Marble Tosho (Jpn), by Dandy Lute (Fr) a Herbager mare as his second dam.