Andrew Caulfield, October 5, 2010-Workforce (GB) PEDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD QATAR PRIX DE L=ARC DE TRIOMPHE-G1, i4,000,000, Longchamp, 10-3, 3yo/up, c/f/m, 1 1/2mT, 2:35.30, vsf. 1--WORKFORCE (GB), 123, c, 3, by King=s Best 1st Dam: Soviet Moon (Ire), by Sadler=s Wells 2nd Dam: Eva Luna, by Alleged 3rd Dam: Media Luna (GB), by Star Appeal (Ire) O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms; T-Sir Michael Stoute; J-Ryan Moore; i2,285,600. Lifetime Record: G1SW-GB, 5-3-1-0, i3,224,682. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the Racing Post chart, the brisnet.com PPs the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree, or the video replay. There must have been a raised eyebrow or two when Jim Bolger announced that the triple Group 1 winner Lush Lashes was to visit Sea the Stars in 2010, to create a foal inbred 2x3 to the phenomenal Urban Sea. Sadly, Lush Lashes didn=t hold onto her pregnancy, but Arc day provided compelling evidence that there is merit to the idea of trying to reinforce Urban Sea=s influence. Not only did Lush Lashes= sire Galileo achieve a magnificent Group 1 double with his daughters Misty For Me and Lily of the Valley, but the family also struck in the Arc, with winner Workforce being a son of Urban Sea=s half-brother King=s Best. Workforce=s victory came 17 years after Urban Sea sprang a 37-1 surprise with her neck victory in the Arc, a race that also fell to her brilliant son Sea the Stars 12 months ago. Anabaa Blue, Black Sam Bellamy and Anzillero, three other Group 1 winners from the family, also contested the Arc, which underlines the family=s rare prowess over middle distances. WORKFORCE, c, 2007 Raise a Native Mr. Prospector Gold Digger Kingmambo Nureyev Miesque Pasadoble King’s Best Agio (Ger) Lombard (Ger) Promised Lady Allegretta (GB) Espresso Anatevka (Ger) Almyra (Ger) Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Soviet Moon (Ire) Special unraced Hoist the Flag 5Fls, 1GSW Eva Luna Alleged Hwt. Mare-Eur 14+ Princess Pout 9Fls, 2GSW, Media Luna (GB) Star Appeal 1SW 6Fls, 1GSW, 1SW Sounion (GB) www.coolmore.com Apparently, 24 winners of the Epsom Derby have That King=s Best was a miler rather than a attempted to win the Arc in the same season, but mile-and-a-half horse is reinforced by the fact that his Workforce is only the sixth to complete this very mature stock have an average winning distance no difficult double, following Sea-Bird II, Mill Reef, higher than 8.7 furlongs, compared, say, to Galileo=s Lammtarra, Sinndar and Sea the Stars. I reviewed 11.2 furlongs and Sadler=s Wells= 11.3 furlongs. King=s Best=s stallion career in my TDN column of June It mustn=t be forgotten that King=s Best was fairly 1 (click here), just a few days before Workforce spectacular on the day he won the 2000 Guineas over smashed the track record at Epsom, to give King=s Best a mile, bursting 3 1/2 lengths clear of Giant=s his second Derby victory of the year. Causeway and 25 others. I tend to regard him as a Of course, Workforce=s Longchamp victory ended Sir miler, and that is part of his appeal as a mate for Michael Stoute=s long wait Juddmonte Farms= Sadler=s Wells mares, along with his for his first Arc success after conformation. Juddmonte has eight animals aged three numerous good attempts. or over from this partnership and they include four The trainer=s pleasure must stakes winners, including Workforce and the smart be all the greater because he Runaway, who chased home Hurricane Run in the G2 also trained King=s Best and Prix Niel. These King=s Bests out of Sadler=s Wells King=s Best=s dam Allegretta. mares have so far outperformed Juddmonte=s other Delving into the far reaches King=s Bests, but that could change if the two-year-old Michele MacDonald of my garage, I unearthed an filly Tuscania, out of a Danzig mare, fulfills the promise interview that Stoute gave of her impressive debut win. Timeform in the spring of 1981, which underlines the From a pedigree viewpoint, King=s Best is an obvious patience and attention to detail that has earned him 10 choice for Sadler=s Wells mares. The main trainers= championships. He had this to say of Allegretta, encouragement comes from the exceptional results that who had won over eight and nine furlongs on her first Kingmambo enjoyed with daughters of Sadler=s Wells, two starts at two, before finishing second in the one of their six Group 1 winners being the Japanese Zetland S. over a mile and a quarter: star El Condor Pasa, who failed by only half a length to AShe=s a filly that hasn=t wintered too well, and we=re take the 1999 Arc. These Kingmambo horses are inbred going to give her plenty of time. Dead honest and she 4x3 to Northern Dancer and 4x4 to Special, because he stays well, but I haven=t planned anything for her yet is out of a Nureyev mare, whereas the inbreeding for because I=m not going to put her into work until she=s Workforce is 5x3 to Northern Dancer and 5x4 to really ready for it. She=s another of those Schlenderhan Special. animals, they=re really hardy and honest. She=s a filly Workforce was one of two group winners last week that could win a nice race before the year is through.@ from Juddmonte=s Media Luna family, the other being Unfortunately, Allegretta didn=t flourish after finishing the Sommerville Tattersall S. winner Rerouted. This second in the G3 Oaks Trial at Lingfield, and she was tough Stormy Atlantic colt is out of the Miswaki mare sold for 24,000gns at the end of the year. Allegretta=s Rouwaki, a half-sister to the Kentucky Oaks and sale came a year before her brother Anno won the Alabama S. winner Flute. German St Leger. The decision to let her go possibly Soviet Moon, the dam of Workforce, never made it to reflected the fact that her dam had a weanling filly by the races, but was well-rated as a yearling. She has her sire, Germany=s two-time Horse of the Year several full siblings, most notably Brian Boru, winner of Lombard. That filly, Arionette, became the second the G1 Racing Post Trophy at two and the G1 St Leger top-rated two-year-old filly in Germany in 1983 and at three, and the two-year-old listed winner Kitty another sister, Alya, was runner-up in the German Oaks O=Shea. in 1987. Kitty O=Shea has made a bright start as a broodmare, There is plenty of stamina in Allegretta=s pedigree, with two black-type performers by Danehill Dancer, but we were never to discover exactly how far King=s including Kissable, a fine third to Misty For Me in the Best stayed. Made favorite for the Derby in the G1 Moyglare Stud S. on her latest appearance. ante-post betting, he eventually missed the race with a Workforce=s family was introduced to the Juddmonte muscle problem in his quarters. Although he recovered studbook with the purchase of his third dam Media in time to take his chance against the English and Luna a few months after she had finished second in the French Derby winners in the Irish version, he suffered a Oaks. Media Luna had only four daughters, but all four career-ending fracture of a cannon bone. As his sire produced black-type performers, the best known being Kingmambo is responsible for winners of the Belmont her Blushing Groom filly Rougeur (dam of Flute and S., Oaks and St Leger, it=s not impossible that King=s second dam of Rerouted) and Workforce=s second dam Best would have stayed a mile and a half, but his hot Eva Luna. temperament and tendency to sweat may well have prevented him from doing so. After all, he was branded a Ahead-case@ after refusing to accept restraint in the J Watch Out for “TDN Rising Stars” J 1999 Dewhurst S. Stars of tomorrow grabbing the spotlight today... A daughter of the dual Arc winner Alleged, Eva Luna gained her best victory in the G3 Park Hill S. over the St Leger course and distance at the age of four. Eva Luna became a natural to visit Sadler=s Wells after he had sired three group winners from other daughters of Alleged, including Dream Well, winner of both the Prix du Jockey-Club and the Irish Derby. The total of group winners has since risen to five, thanks to Sadler=s Flag and Brian Boru, and there is a total of eight stakes winners from 41 foals bred this way, which equates to an impressive 20 percent..