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Andrew Caulfield, October 25, 2011- (GB) PEDIGREE INSIGHTS B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D

Saturday, , Britain RACING POST TROPHY-G1, ,200,000, Doncaster, 10-22, 2yo, c/f, 1mT, 1:38.58, gd. 1--s@#CAMELOT (GB), 126, c, 2, by (Ire) 1st Dam: Tarfah (GSW-Eng, $151,683), by Kingmambo 2nd Dam: Fickle (GB), by Danehill 3rd Dam: Fade (GB), by Persepolis (Fr) (525,000gns yrl >10 TATOCT). O-Derrick Smith, & Susan Magnier; B-Sheikh Abdulla bin Isa Al-Khalifa; T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Joseph O=Brien; ,131,567. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, ,141,679. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: D+. Click for the Racing Post chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, courtesy attheraces.com.

It=s been said that no good horse has a bad name. While the history of the disproves that optimistic theory, the good names come around time after time. According to the Equineline database, 17 individual horses have been named Camelot, after the legendary castle and court associated with King Arthur. Indeed the Arthurian legend has been a highly popular source of names with racehorse owners, and there have also been multiple horses Camelot Edward Whitaker/Racing Post carrying such names as Avalon, Excalibur, Merlin, Guinevere and Morgan Le Fay. What=s more, colts named after some of the Knights of the Round Table have matched their namesakes= fame, with Sir Gallahad III becoming America=s sire on four occasions, while Sir Tristram champion sire in five times in a six-year period. Of course, Round Table was the name of America=s Horse of the Year in 1958 and champion sire of 1972. Camelot was also the name chosen for the company which operates Britain=s national lottery, and--forgive me--the equine Camelot looks a good bet to hit the jackpot. He has already shown great authority in winning the G1 Racing Post Trophy three days ago. While it isn=t easy to know the exact merit of Camelot=s performance at Doncaster, any horse who hardly comes off the bridle to win a Group 1 must have huge potential, as his odds of 3-1 for next year=s illustrate.

Caulfield cont. Camelot is a son of Montjeu, a stallion I have written She didn=t live up to expectations, though, producing about on a couple of other recent occasions. I wouldn=t only three winners from 13 foals, the best of which was normally shower so much attention on one stallion, but Tom Seymour, a multiple group winner at up to Montjeu has enjoyed a sensational run of Group 1/Grade 1 7/8 miles in Italy. She was tried with a wide range of I success over the last six months, thanks to , stallions, including and Persepolis, two Group St Nicholas Abbey, , , 1-winning sons of , a remarkable but , Miss Keller, Sarah Lynx, and now short-lived stallion. It is One Over Parr=s unraced Camelot. This total of eight winners at the highest level Persepolis filly Fade who ranks as Camelot=s third dam. earns Montjeu a very honorable second place among the Mention of Kalamoun is a reminder that mares whose sires of Northern Hemisphere Group 1/Grade I winners, pedigrees include his sire Zeddaan have played a very behind , who leads the way with a team of 10. important role in Montjeu=s success story. Montjeu=s No other stallion has sired more than three Group third dam Adele Toumignon was by Zeddaan and 1/Grade I winners this year. It is worth pointing out that Montjeu=s second dam Toute Cy produced a Group Montjeu owes his figure to a total of 194 runners, 2-winning stayer inbred 4x3 to Zeddaan. compared to Galileo=s 270. Montjeu has numerous stakes winners with two lines Camelot is Montjeu=s fourth winner of the Racing Post of Zeddaan in the first five generations of their Trophy, even though the stallion has had only eight pedigrees. Camelot doesn=t quite scrape into this crops of 2-year-olds. You won=t need me to remind you category, as his second line to Zeddaan is in the sixth that the first two, and , went on to generation, but it is worth mentioning that Kalamoun victory in the Epsom Derby, while St Nicholas Abbey sired the second dam of Montjeu=s St Leger winner missed the Derby, but went to Epsom a year later to and that Kalamoun=s son Kenmare is the win the G1 over the Derby course and broodmare sire of the Irish St Leger winner Jukebox distance. Although St Nicholas Abbey missed the main Jury. Then there=s Kalamoun=s grandson Kendor, who event, Montjeu boosted his total of Derby winners to sired the dam of the Group 1-winning brothers Corre three from his first seven crops when Pour Moi staged Caminos and Recital. his spectacular last-to-first effort in June, so Camelot is Camelot=s second dam Fickle won the Virginia S. over ideally qualified for Epsom. a mile and a quarter to become one of three stakes Coincidentally, Camelot=s female line has already winners out of Fade, another being the Lingfield Oaks shone in an Epsom Classic, as his fourth dam was a Trial winner Birdie. Fickle stayed quite well for a sister to Polygamy, winner of the 1974 Oaks for her daughter of Danehill, a stallion who sired the dam of breeder Louis Freedman. Polygamy had earlier failed by Montjeu=s recent Canadian International winner Sarah only a short head to catch the Queen=s fine filly Lynx. in the 1,000 Guineas. Fickle started her broodmare career in the U.S., with a Incidentally, having mentioned the topic of names visit to Kingmambo. The resultant filly, Camelot=s dam earlier in this piece, I have no hesitation in nominating Tarfah, won five races, the longest being her Group 3 Camelot=s fourth dam, One Over Parr, as one of the victory in the Dahlia S. over a mile and an eighth. cleverest names ever given to a racehorse. Her dam, the Tarfah is being given every chance as a broodmare, smart middle-distance performer Seventh Bride, visiting Galileo, Montjeu, Cape Cross and Pivotal in her presumably owed her name to her being a daughter of first four years. Her Galileo filly, Ideal, has won over a the American import Royal Record II. The record number mile and a quarter. of wives for an English king was Henry VIII=s total of six. The sixth wife was Catherine Parr, so a seventh CAMELOT (GB), c, 2009 bride would have been One Over Parr. One Over Parr was a year younger than Polygamy, so Sadler’s Wells a lot was expected of her after she had won both her Bold Reason Fairy Bridge juvenile starts in the year of her sister=s Classic success. Special Montjeu (Ire) Unlike Polygamy, One Over Parr didn=t contest the (Ire) (Ire) 1,000 Guineas and was soon racing over a mile and a Sega Ville Floripedes (Fr) half. Although she disappointed in the Oaks and Irish Tennyson (Fr) Toute Cy (Fr) Oaks, she was good enough to win the Cheshire Oaks Adele Toumignon and , collecting a rating of Raise a Native Mr. Prospector 114 in the process. Her owner=s Cliveden Stud had the Gold Digger Kingmambo great misfortune to lose Polygamy in her first year as a Tarfah Nureyev Miesque broodmare, but One Over Parr was expected to make an GSW-Eng, 8-5-1-0, Pasadoble $151,643 excellent substitute. Danzig 4Fls, 2 Wnrs Fickle (GB) Danehill 1G1SW SW-Eng Razyana All horses in TDN Headline News and TDN American edition 6Fls, 2Wnrs Fade (GB) Persepolis (Fr) are bred in North America, unless otherwise indicated 1GSW 10Fls, 3SW, 1GSP One Over Parr (GB) There are several aspects of Tarfah=s pedigree which suggested that she would do very well with Montjeu. As a daughter of Kingmambo, she is a granddaughter of Mr. Prospector. Another granddaughter, this one by , produced the Derby-winning Motivator and another, this time by Woodman, produced his winner Frozen Fire. Partly as a consequence of Kingmambo having Nureyev=s brilliant daughter Miesque as his dam, Camelot is inbred 3x5x5 to Northern Dancer and 4x5 to Special. Kingmambo, of course, enjoyed excellent results with the broodmare daughters of Montjeu=s sire Sadler=s Wells. There can be little doubt that Camelot has a pedigree worthy of a Classic winner, but which Classic? Apparently the 2,000 Guineas hasn=t been ruled out, which is fair enough in view of Sadler=s Wells= victory in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and Kingmambo=s in the French version. Danehill, the sire of his second dam, was responsible for two winners of the 2,000 Guineas. Although the stoutly bred Montjeu has yet to sire a Classic winner over a mile, Camelot must have a fair chance of being the first, as his fellow 2-year-olds don=t appear to be a vintage collection at this stage and he didn=t look short of speed at Doncaster.