Andrew Caulfield, August 21, 2007–Myboycharlie P EDIGREE INSIGHTS But what about Danetime, sire of the impressive Myboycharlie, who maintained his unbeaten record in BY ANDREW CAULFIELD the Prix Morny? If he were a person, Danetime would probably have been classified as working class, with DARLEY PRIX MORNY-G1, i350,000, Deauville, 8-19, the type of accent Dick Van Dyke attempted so 2yo, c/f, 6fT, 1:13.80, sf. excruciatingly as the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins. 1--sMYBOYCHARLIE (IRE), 126, c, 2, by Danetime (Ire) 1st Dam: Dulceata (Ire), by Rousillon 2nd Dam: Snowtop (Ire), by Thatching (Ire) 3rd Dam: Icing (Ire), by Prince Tenderfoot MYBOYCHARLIE, c, 2005 ( 13,000 wnlg 05 GOFNOV; 54,000gns yrl 06 Northern Dancer i > > Danzig DONSEP). O-S Magnier; B-D Noonan; T-T Stack; Pas de Nom Danehill J-K Fallon; i199,990. Lifetime Record: 3 starts, 3 His Majesty Razyana wins, i261,835. Spring Adieu Danetime (Ire) Click for brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree or for the Roberto Lear Fan Racing Post chart. Wac Allegheny River Be My Guest Allesheny (Ire) As an Englishman, I am supposed to be obsessed Bold Sands with society's class system, so let's apply it to the Never Bend Riverman stallions responsible for last weekend's Grade I winners. River Lady Rousillon It's fair to say that Kingmambo, sire of the Pacific Marshua’s Dancer Belle Dorine Classic winner Student Council, and Pulpit, who was so Dulceata Palsy Walsy Unplaced - 1 start ably represented by Rutherienne in the Del Mar Oaks, Thatch 11 Fls, 1GSW Thatching (Ire) could safely be categorized as blue-blooded aristocrats. Snowtop (Ire) Abella (GB) Each was sired by a champion stallion from a Grade SW 14 Fls, 1 SP Icing (Ire) Prince Tenderfoot I-winning mare, so they were born with the proverbial 13Fls, 2GSW, 3SW Cake (GB) silver spoon in their mouths. Orientate, whose daughter Lady Joanne took the Alabama S., is also out of a Grade I-winning mare but his sire, Mt Livermore, Caulfield cont. probably brings him down to upper middle class. www.coolmore.com Caulfield cont. This allowed him to show exactly what he was capable of, and his 2006 two-year-olds proved an Myboycharlie's Brisnet catalogue-style pedigree excellent collection, led by Vital Equine, winner of the summarises Danetime simply as a "black-type-placed G2 Champagne S., and Dhanyata, a close second in the winner of three races" but he was much more than G1 Cheveley Park S. Vital Equine went on to finish a that. Conceived in 1993 when Danehill was available fine second of 24 after trying to lead throughout in this for a mere Ir9,000 guineas, he was sold for year's 2000 Guineas and now Danetime has come up IR13,000gns as a foal and for the unexceptional sum of with an even better Classic prospect in Myboycharlie. IR36,000gns as a yearling. Bought by Demi O'Byrne on Sadly, Danetime is no longer around to reap the behalf of Michael Tabor, the youngster was sent to rewards of these solid achievements, as he died in Neville Callaghan, the trainer who had done so well 2005. His last crop of yearlings should prove popular at with Danehill Dancer, a year-older Danehill colt also the sales over the next few months. It will also be belonging to Tabor. interesting to see whether the Tally-Ho team can work Although Danetime showed promise in winning one the same magic with two more of Danehill's of his three juvenile starts, his connections apparently group-placed sons, Chevalier and Kodiac. regarded him as the type to give them a lot of fun in In comparison with Danetime, Pulpit has had things handicaps, rather than a potential group horse. Brought easy, but he too has had obstacles to overcome in along steadily in the spring of his second season, establishing himself as A.P. Indy's most accomplished Danetime became the subject of a huge gamble when stallion son. he lined up against 29 others in the six-furlong I hesitate to describe Claiborne's policy on mare Wokingham H. at the 1997 Royal Ascot meeting. numbers as an obstacle, as there are no doubt benefits With Gary Stevens in the saddle, Danetime had to be gained from keeping a stallion's book well below the 150 mark, especially in the sales ring. However, difficulty in maneuvering over to the stands side from breeding is very much a numbers game these days and the number 19 draw and consequently was much it is all too easy for a stallion's achievements to be nearer last than first approaching the final furlong. obscured by his having fewer runners than many of his However, he managed to make up at least eight lengths rivals. in the closing stages, only to fail by a head to catch Pulpit currently has six crops aged three or upwards, Selhurstpark Flyer. but was never asked to cover more than 86 mares in Danetime confirmed that he was developing into a any of those six years. This means that he has 329 very useful sprinter when he gave weight and a beating named foals in these six crops, whereas Langfuhr, to the future Group 1 winner Elnadim in a handicap at another stallion who retired in 1998, has nearly 500. Newmarket before taking his chance in the Stewards' Pulpit's relative Tale of the Cat retired a year later, but Cup at Goodwood. Like the Wokingham, the Stewards' has 540 foals in his first five crops. Cup is one of Britain's most fiercely competitive This concentration on quality rather than quantity has six-furlong handicaps, and it too attracted 30 runners. paid off, though. When Rutherienne sprinted clear at Tabor, a former bookmaker, set out to recoup his Del Mar, she became the sixth Grade I winner to Wokingham losses and reportedly collected "a bit more emerge from those first six crops, and Pulpit now has than ,200,000" after Danetime had won by a neck. 16 graded winners to his credit, which works out to an From then on, Danetime raced only at stakes level, admirable 4.86 percent of his 329 named foals. but he never won again, despite being good enough to Interestingly, Rutherienne and the GII Peter Pan S. finish second behind Royal Applause in the G1 Haydock winner Sightseeing were conceived when Pulpit's fee Park Sprint Cup and third behind his old rival Elnadim in rose to $75,000 in 2003, but a comparatively the G1 July Cup. Although his efforts were good disappointing 2003 sent his fee down to $35,000 in enough to earn a Timeform rating of 121 and an official 2004 (before rising again to $60,000 and then rating of 117, Danetime's lack of a stakes victory must $80,000). It was around that time that Claiborne have seriously limited his appeal to the top stallion started to relax its numbers policy a little, and Pulpit stations. covered at least 100 mares in 2004, 2005 and 2006. However, Tony O'Callaghan of Tally-Ho Stud has He therefore has some larger crops coming on line and enjoyed plenty of success over the years, mainly by these larger numbers may eventually help him rise standing good-looking sprinters at commercial prices. higher up the general sires' list--and he is currently 10th He seized the chance to stand Danetime, who began behind his sire, by American earnings, in 2007. his career in 1999 at a fee of only IR3,000gns--a With any American stallion, we have to consider fraction of the IR50,000gns now charged for Danehill, whether he will benefit or suffer from the increasing who had boosted his Northern Hemisphere reputation number of synthetic tracks, which seem to favour the by becoming champion sire of two-year-olds on two turf breed over the traditional dirt performers. It is in occasions and by running Sadler's Wells very close on Pulpit's favour that he is capable of getting very good the general sires' list in 1997. turf performers, such as Rutherienne, Stroll, Wend, A third-place finish among the freshman sires of Melhor Ainda, Lidgate and Ecclesiastic. He also has an 2002 earned Danetime much stronger support than all-weather stakes winner this year, while A.P. Indy has before, starting with 150 mares in 2003. three, so there's every reason to think that Pulpit is well equipped to cope with the change of surface..