THEBLOODSTOCK IRISH RACING P OST Thursday, April 29, 2010 ISSUE 11 WEEKLY OH BOY! Jewel in the crown of a small County Louth-based breeding dynasty warms up for the year with repeat Sandown stroll Pedigree analysis, pages 2-3 p p q 2 Thursday, April 29, 2010 racingpost.com Irish Racing Post T BLOODSTOCK WEEKLY PEDIGREE ANALYSIS MATT WOOLEY/EQUISPORT PHOTOS ‘Cantankerous’ old-timer shows his mettle with dashing display sire died after a paddock MUSKETIER accident, aged 23, in 2005, Race analysis Veterans having been retired from stud dominated Friday’s Grade 2 duties two years earlier. His Elkhorn Stakes at Keeneland, youngest crop are six-year-olds with eight-year-old Musketier in 2010. beating year-older Brass Hat by Bred and owned by Gestüt a length and three-quarters. Fährhof, Acatenango was one of the best German racehorses Blushing Bear, half the of recent decades, emulating winner’s age, finished third. his sire, Surumu, by winning Musketier began his career the German Derby and in France in training with notching a sequence of 13 Pascal Bary, winning the Prix Group-race victories that tied de Conde (beating a record with Ardross and subsequent globetrotting Brigadier Gerard. Group 1 winner Doctor Dino, He continued his success in no less) and finishing fifth in the breeding shed back at the Group 1 Critérium de Fährhof, siring three German Saint-Cloud. Derby winners – Borgia, Lando He did not fulfil his promise and Nicaron – as well as a at three, failing to reach the Prix du Jockey-Club winner in first three in any of his Eight years young Musketier and John Velazquez have the Elkhorn Stakes at Keeneland in safe-keeping Blue Canari. assignments, which included A hallmark of his best the Prix du Jockey-Club and progeny is durability; Quijano Grand Prix de Paris. He fared won last year’s Gran Premio slightly better at four, winning di Milano at the age of seven, A Group 1 win worth the weight once and putting up his best Sabiango won the Charles effort when beaten a head Whittingham Memorial the International Cup on May Road To Rock was bred in cheapest progeny of Encosta second in the Group 3 Prix Handicap aged six, and now ROAD TO ROCK 16, the day after Oliver’s Australia out of Trewornan, De Lago at the 2006 Inglis Gontaut-Biron. Musketier is still going strong three-week ban for carrying who in turn was bred in Sydney Yearling Sale, when At five he won two minor Race analysis Road To Rock at eight. has been a regular face in overweight in the Doncaster Britain by champion sold for A$100,000 – is races, and it took a transfer to Musketier was bred by Handicap expires. jockey-turned trainer Pat Trewornan’s fourth foal. Her America to spur a revival in his Australian Group 1 races over Gestüt Görlsdorf out of the Pedigree When entire Road Eddery by mating one Jersey second foal, True Doubt, was fortunes. Runner-up to Spice 1m to 1m4f in the past three Linamix mare Myth And To Rock is retired to stud, he is Stakes winner, Midyan, to a Listed-placed sprinter in Route in last year’s Elkhorn seasons. In Saturday’s Queen Reality, a 7f winner in the bound to be in popular another, Miss Silca Key. Australia, while her third, Stakes, he went on to win the Elizabeth Stakes, he gained his French provinces. Maisha, his demand. His sire, Encosta De Trewornan was sold to Mike Fantastic Flash, is a triple Grade 3 Singspiel Stakes and second win from 13 starts in year-younger half-sister by Lago, has sired 16 Group 1 and Heather Slade – who winner in New Zealand. She finish runner-up to Gio Ponti top-flight company. Platini, finished third in the That tally of wins should in winners and is not only prolific enjoyed a handsome payday also has a two-year-old filly by in the Grade 1 Man o’ War Listed Prix Solitude. all probability be three, as he but versatile too, with those last year when Oasis Dancer Snitzel and a colt foal by Stakes. Myth And Reality was a was beaten only a head in top-flight winners coming over won the lucrative Tattersalls Casino Prince. Musketier, who won on half-sister to another controversial circumstances on distances ranging from 5f Timeform Million carrying Trained by David Elsworth, Friday on his first start since European émigré who his previous start over the (Sacred Kingdom) to 1m4f their colours – for 32,000gns, Miss Silca Key was a talented October, when he returned flourished in America. same course a week earlier in (Princess Coup). but failed to develop into a but inconsistent performer, sore after battling through Miatuschka won three races in the Doncaster Handicap, his Another eyecatching name Royal Ascot contender beating Mystery Ship to win bottomless going in the France and later won the jockey Damien Oliver carrying in Road To Rock’s pedigree is herself, winning her maiden at the Jersey Stakes but then Grade 1 Turf Classic, is Grade 2 Las Palmas Handicap one kilogram overweight. his dam’s grandsire Miswaki, two but then being soundly finishing down the field in the reported to be a tricky and finished third in the Oliver, with the correct who in Europe has proved to beaten in her three subsequent Hungerford Stakes and Diadem customer by his trainer Roger Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon weight on Saturday, settled be of huge importance in starts in handicap company. Stakes. Attfield, who calls him Invitational Handicap. Road To Rock towards the rear maternal families. Miswaki Trewornan was later She was owned by locksmith “a cantankerous guy”. Back to The mare’s third dam is of the eight-runner field, with currently boasts four sets of exported to America and then and security businessman Eddie full fitness, Musketier could be Marlia, who produced the Group 1 Victoria Derby winner brothers out of his daughters moved to Australia carrying to Aldridge, breeder of the ‘Silca’ a force to be reckoned with on Classic-winning siblings Monaco Consul making the at stud in Europe – Black Sam Rahy – the resultant foal being empire of horses – Golden good or firmer going in Marduk and Mata Hari by running. Road To Rock and Bellamy, Galileo, Sea The Stars Lady Cliquot, who was sold in Silca, Silca-Cisa, Silca’s Sister, America’s top turf contests. Orsini. Marduk won three eventual runner-up Triple and Urban Ocean; Dalakhani foal to Footstepsinthesand for et al. He bred Miss Silca Key’s Pedigree Musketier is a last Group 1 races, including the Honour, the 2008 Doncaster and Daylami; Dr Fong and A$24,000 to Korean interests first four foals, including hurrah in the late Acatenango’s German Derby, while Mata Handicap winner, pounced late, Lucky Story; and Adnaan, at the 2006 Inglis Easter Trewornan’s sister Central City, stud career. The ace German Hari won the Poule d’Essai with Oliver’s mount stretching Eleos and Hernando. broodmare sale. winner of the Group 3 Prix de des Pouliches. clear for a two-length win. Road To Rock – one of the Seine-et-Oise and dam of US MUSKETIER gr/ro h 2002 Monaco Consul folded but ROAD TO ROCK b h 2004 Grade 3 winner Rochester, and Literat hung on for third, ahead of Northern Dancer Race Sydney City Lexus the Listed-placed pair Surumu Fairy King Queen Elizabeth Stakes Surama Race Fifth Third Bank another Group 1 winner, Vosne Fairy Bridge Consigliere and Silca An’ Key. Acatenango Romanee, in fourth. Last year’s Encosta De Lago (Randwick 1m2f, Miss Silca Key’s subsequent b 1982 Elkhorn Stakes b 1993 Aggressor Star Way Group 1, good) Aggravate (Keeneland 1m4f, Princess of Wales’s Stakes Shoal Creek six foals were bred by Eddery Raven Locks Grade 2, firm) winner and 2008 Derby fourth Rolls Breeders and included Group 3 Princess Dr Chris Rogers Mendez Breeder Doctor Fremantle disappointed Miswaki Margaret Stakes runner-up Linamix Midyan and Jason Abrahams Lunadix Gestüt Görlsdorf on his second start in Country Dream Miss Zafonic. Trewornan has Myth And Trewornan Owners Reality Owner Johanna Louise Australia, beaten five lengths b 1997 been her most significant b 1996 Caro Welsh Saint Anthony Cummings Melite Glen-Teven into seventh. Miss Silca Key offspring in terms of keeping Maestra Tremiti Thoroughbreds Syndicate Five-year-old Road To Rock et al her dam’s name alive in will now head to Singapore for pedigrees. Congratulations to WELL CHOSEN by Sadler’s Wells KEDRAH HOUSE 4yr old “Lucky Landing” by WELL CHOSEN (2nd crop) sells for £34,000 at Cheltenham. 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