Andrew Caulfield, November 23, 2010-Gourmet Dinner The Mr. Prospector line has been so successful for so PEDIGREE INSIGHTS many years that I guess American breeders are BY ANDREW CAULFIELD increasingly finding that inbreeding to the great son of is becoming harder to avoid. I note with Saturday, Delta Downs interest that Bouquet Booth and Gourmet Dinner are by DELTA DOWNS JACKPOT S.-GIII, $1,000,000, DED, no means the only two-year-old group/graded winners 11-20, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:45 1/5, ft. of the 2010 season with two lines of Mr. Prospector in 1--@GOURMET DINNER, 119, c, 2, by Trippi the first four generations. There have been successes 1st Dam: Potluck Dinner, by Pentelicus for Misty For Me, Wonderlandbynight, Rogue Romance, 2nd Dam: Romantic Dinner, by Who's for Dinner French Navy (all inbred 4 x 3), Kantharos, Dubai Prince 3rd Dam: Victorious Meg, by Soy Numero Uno and Split Trois (all 4 x 4) and there is even Lou Brissie, ($40,000 2yo >10 OBSAPR). O-Our Sugar Bear who is inbred 4 x 4 x 4. Stable; B-Ocala Stud & William J Terrill (FL); T-Steven To these we can add Awesome Feather, A Z Warrior, W Standridge; J-Sebastian O Madrid; $600,000. J.B.=s Thunder, Position Limit, Saamidd, Irish Field, To Lifetime Record: 5-4-1-0, $809,660. *1/2 to Honor And Serve, Laughing Lashes and Soldat, all of I=mroyallymecke=d (Mecke), SP, $178,325. whom are inbred to AMr. P@ within five generations. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. With Gourmet Dinner and R Heat Lightning to his Click for the brisnet.com chart or the brisnet.com PPs. credit, 2010 has proved an excellent year for Trippi, Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. who also has the stakes-winning Flying Trip among his juveniles. Trippi now ranks third behind More Than Last week=s Delta Downs meet developed into a Ready and Indian Charlie among the sires of juveniles, celebration of the former Claiborne Forty Niner. but he is no longer in Florida to capitalise on his The Delta Mile S. fell to Z Humor, a grandson of Forty success. He was sold in the summer of 2008 to South Niner by ; the GIII Delta Downs African interests. Then 11 years old, he had spent Princess S., won by Bouquet Booth, provided the first seven years at J. Michael O=Farrell=s Ocala Stud, and graded stakes success for Distorted Humor=s son has already been champion sire in Florida. Flower Alley in his role as stallion; and the GIII Delta AIt was a substantial offer and ultimately it was a Downs Jackpot was won in good style by Gourmet business decision,@ Farrell said at the time. AWe thought Dinner, a colt by Forty Niner=s grandson Trippi. it was in everyone=s best interest if we sold him. He has Trippi=s sire End Sweep had been in the news the served us very well.@ previous weekend, via his son Precise End. This former Trippi covered 114 in >08 at a fee of $12,500, New York stallion enjoyed a stakes double in New York so his last American crop reaches the races next year. and Tokyo, thanks to his sons Driven By Success and His sire End Sweep also left Florida for foreign climes. Glorious Noah, the latter taking his second Grade 3 The son of Forty Niner made a spectacular start to his victory of the year on dirt. stallion career, taking the title of 1998=s leading An interesting aspect of these successes is that all freshman sire, both by progeny earnings and by number five of the stakes winners mentioned above have at of winners, with a record total of 33. least two lines of Mr. Prospector in their pedigree He was sold soon afterwards, leaving his base at (Driven By Success and Glorious Noah are both 4 x 3, Z Mockingbird Farm after completing his fifth season. His Humor 3 x 5 and Gourmet Dinner 4 x 4, while Bouquet new role was to shuttle between Arrowfield in Australia Booth is by a stallion inbred 3 x 3 to Mr. Prospector). and Shadai Farm in Japan. End Sweep was nearing the And they=re not alone, as last week=s stakes winners end of his third Japanese season when he suffered a also included Aruna (3 x 4), Turbulent Descent (3 x 4) fall which resulted in his being put down at the age of and Eminent Tale (4 x 4). 11. Of course there=s nothing new about Mr. Prospector End Sweep came to the notice of Japanese breeders inbreeding involving the Forty Niner branch of the male early in his career, as one of his 33 first-crop winners line, with the likes of Society Selection, , was the Japanese colt South Vigorous, who achieved a Fourty Niners Son and Flower Alley being among the string of group sprint successes at the ages of six and Grade I winners which originally encouraged breeders to seven. follow this route. Vineyard Haven is a more recent Another of his first crop=s durable performers was example and we have now seen the first Grade I winner Nany=s Sweep, winner of the GI Santa Monica H. as a inbred to Forty Niner himself, thanks to R Heat five-year-old. End Sweep went on to take the titles of Lightning. This winner of the Spinaway S. is inbred 3 x leading second- and third-crop sire, thanks largely to 3 to the sire of Coronado=s Quest, Distorted Humor, the Grade I winners Trippi and Swept Overboard. Editor=s Note, Ecton Park, Gold Fever, Roar, Sunday Trippi enjoyed a magnificent three-year-old campaign Break, etc. after being unraced at two, winning seven of his 10 In Europe a certain amount of inbreeding takes place starts including five graded stakes. Although he simply because it is very difficult to avoid some of the possessed enough stamina to win the Flamingo S. over dominant influences, such as Danzig and Northern a mile and an eighth, he was something of a Dancer. Of course some of the inbreeding is deliberate, seven-furlong specialist and he made all to beat More such as the duplications to Danehill which are beginning Than Ready in the GI Vosburgh S. to creep in. Caulfield cont. End Sweep=s premature death looks especially regrettable with the emergence of the outstanding Japanese performers , and . Trippi=s American exploits suggest that he could prove similarly important to his adopted country.

GOURMET DINNER, c, 2008 Mr. Prospector Forty Niner File End Sweep Dance Spell Broom Dance Witching Hour Trippi In Reality Valid Appeal Desert Trial Jealous Appeal Cougar (Chi) Jealous Cat Only The Loyal Mr. Prospector Fappiano Killaloe Pentelicus In Reality Potluck Dinner Charedi 8 Fls , 6 Wnrs, Magic 1 GSW, 1 SW, Native Charger Who’s For Dinner 1 SP Romantic Dinner Expectancy 9 Fls, 7 Wnrs, 2 SW Victorious Meg Soy Numero Uno 7 Fls, 1 GSW Cricket Club