Andrew Caulfield, April 30, 2013-Sugar Boy (Ire) I=ve warned often enough in the past of the dangers PEDIGREE INSIGHTS of being too hasty in assessing a stallion=s merits, and B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D this year=s action is providing further examples. Two of the most striking are members of Darley=s Friday, Sandown, Britain worldwide team. As my colleague Bill Oppenheim BET365 CLASSIC TRIAL-G3, ,60,000, Sandown Park, pointed out last week, Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}) is 4-26, 3yo, 10f 7ydsT, 2:12.26, gd. having a breakthrough season. With a fee of $75,000, 1--@SUGAR BOY (IRE), 126, c, 3, by Authorized (Ire) Street Sense was the highest-priced new stallion of 1st Dam: Steel Princess (Ire) (GSW-Fr), by Danehill 2008, but his first crop had produced just a couple of 2nd Dam: Champaka (Ire), by Caerleon Grade III winners--the 2-year-old Motor City and the 3rd Dam: Fleur Royale (Ire), by Mill Reef 3-year-old Castaway--by the time it was announced in O-Richard Barnes; B-Grangecon Stud; T-Patrick October 2012 that Street Sense would be heading for Prendergast; J-Chris Hayes; ,34,026. Lifetime Record: SW & GSP-Ire, 8-4-2-1, ,92,844. *3/4 to Japan, not the U.S. That move came after he had Sarah Lynx (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), GISW-Can, GSW-Fr, completed his fifth Southern Hemisphere season in $1,101,404. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the Australia. eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. A ticket to Japan often seems to kick-start a stallion=s 2--Eye of the Storm (Ire), 126, c, 3, Galileo (Ire)-- career and Street Sense promptly came up with his first Mohican Princess (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB). graded winner from his second crop, when Unlimited (i95,000 yrl >11 GOFSPT). O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Budget took the GII Demoiselle S. at the end of Smith & Susan Magnier; B-K Molloy; T-Aidan O=Brien; November. Unlimited Budget has played a leading part ,12,900. in ensuring the that the revival continues this year, with 3--Galileo Rock (Ire), 126, c, 3, Galileo (Ire)--Grecian Aubby K, Cigar Street and Ice Cream Silence adding to Bride (Ire), by Groom Dancer. (i150,000 yrl >11 the momentum with their graded successes. GOFSPT). O-Michael O=Flynn; B-Rockfield Farm; Over in Britain it has been a similar story with T-David Wachman; ,6,456. Authorized (Ire) (Montjeu). Like Street Sense, Margins: HD, HF, 8. Odds: 4-1, 2-1, 8-1. Authorized had been an impressive winner of one of his Also Ran: Libertarian (GB), Fantastic Moon (GB), Al country=s most important juvenile races, and--like Street Waab (Ire), Woodstock (Ire). Click for the Racing Post chart or Sense--he had gone on to take his country=s Derby. the brisnet.com PPs. VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK. Unfortunately, he too got off to a slow start, to the An eye-catching aspect of Authorized=s good recent extent that he was still awaiting his first group winner results is that two of his good 3-year-olds, Rehn=s Nest after having runners for two seasons. There had been and We=ll Go Walking--are out of daughters of Galileo. signs, though, that Authorized was about to turn the This means that they are inbred 3x3 to Sadler=s Wells corner. His first-crop 3-year-olds achieved Timeform through his best stallion sons, Montjeu and Galileo. ratings of 114 (Guarantee), 113 (Tenenbaum), 109 We=ll Go Walking=s dam Senora Galilei (Ire) (Galileo) is a (Ambivalent), 103 (Surprise Moment) and 101 (Colima). winning sister to the champion 2-year-old and There were also some encouraging performances by promising stallion Teofilo (Ire), whereas Rehn=s Nest=s 2-year-olds from Authorized=s second crop, which--at dam is the 2-year-old winner Solas Na Greine (Ire). 90 foals--is smaller than its 119-strong predecessor. As Incidentally, Jim Bolger also has the high-class Parish a great admirer of Authorized=s sire Montjeu, I am Hall (Ire) (Teofilo), who is another inbred 3x3 to Sadler=s happy to report that this second crop looks capable of Wells via Galileo and Montjeu, but this Dewhurst restoring faith in the 2007 Derby winner. That said, winner is by a son of Galileo out of a daughter of there is still plenty more work for Authorized to do. Montjeu. Expect to see these two exceptional classic Last week saw his son Sugar Boy defeat two sons of sires cropping up together in the pedigrees of plenty Galileo (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells) to take the G3 Bet365 more future stakes winners. Classic Trial, which represented the colt=s fourth win in Rehn=s Nest and We=ll Go Walking are among the his last five starts. Sugar Boy above average performers which had been beaten to the suggest that Galileo has a very distinction of being bright future as a sire of Authorized=s first group winner broodmares. Indeed it is tempting by the filly Rehn=s Nest (Ire), to hope that he may one day who defeated the dual prove as influential as his Group 3 winner Yellow amazing sire Sadler=s Wells. This Rosebud (Ire) (Jeremy) to take 14-time champion sire has so far the G3 Park Express S. Rehn=s added seven broodmare Nest=s trainer, Jim Bolger, also championships. Galileo, with his appears to have another eldest daughters just 10 years old potential group winner by in 2013, is still in the fledgling Authorized in We=ll Go Sugar Boy stage of his career as a Walking, who gave the smart Caroline Norris broodmare sire. However, his Caponata (Selkirk) a good fight daughters already have good in a listed race Apr. 28. winners in Ireland, Britain, France, Germany, the U.S. Of course, a slow start by a stallion is unlikely to go and Australia. The German winner is Chopin (Ger) unpunished by breeders. Although Street Sense was (Santiago {Ger}), who recently ran out an impressive re-directed to Darley=s Japanese division, Darley have winner of the G3 Dr Busch Memorial, a race which has persevered with Authorized by keeping him at Dalham often been used as a stepping stone to greater success. Hall. However, the son of Montjeu will have to cope Authorized=s other good 3-year-old Sugar Boy is with some smaller crops in a year or two, and his fee inbred 4x5x4x5 to Sadler=s Wells= sire Northern Dancer, this year--,7,000--is less than a third of the fees he his dam being Danehill=s Group 3-winning daughter commanded during his first two seasons (the first spent Steel Princess. This mare had previously visited in England at ,25,000, the second in Ireland at Authorized=s sire Montjeu with great success, producing i25,000). the 2011 GI Canadian International winner Sarah Lynx (Ire). Sugar Boy should have no difficulty staying a mile SUGAR BOY (IRE), c, 2010 and a half, as his second and third dams are daughters of Caerleon (Nijinsky II) and Mill Reef (Never Bend). The Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Mill Reef mare, Fleur Royale, was second in the G1 Irish Montjeu (Ire) Fairy Bridge Oaks, and the next dam, Sweet Mimosa, was a Floripedes (Fr) Top Ville (Ire) Classic-winning sister to Levmoss, a winner of the Arc Authorized (Ire) Toute Cry (Fr) de Triomphe and Ascot Gold Cup. Saumarez (GB) Rainbow Quest Funsie (Fr) Fiesta Fun (GB) Vallee Dansante Lyphard Green Valley II Danzig Northern Dancer Danehill Pas De Nom Steel Princess Razyana His Majesty (Ire) Spring Adieu 5-3-0-0 Nijinsky II 6Fls, 2GSW Champaka (Ire) Caerleon 5-3-0-0 Foreseer 12Fls, 1GSW Fleur Royale (Ire) Mill Reef 9Fls, 2SW Sweet Mimosa.