Andrew Caulfield, February 1, 2011-Switch Caulfield cont. PEDIGREE INSIGHTS Indeed, his total of 18 graded winners in the U.S. and BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Europe divide very unevenly between the sexes, with fillies outnumbering the Sunday, Santa Anita males by 13 to five. As many SANTA MONICA S.-GI, $250,000, SAX, 1-30, 4yo/up, as eight of Quiet American=s f/m, 7f, 1:20 3/5, ft. daughters have scored at 1--SWITCH, 123, f, 4, by Quiet American either Grade I or Grade II 1st Dam: Antoniette (GSW, $399,140), by Nicholas levels, whereas only two of 2nd Dam: Queen of Women, by Sharpen Up (GB) his sonsB-Real Quiet and Fifty 3rd Dam: Tash, by Never Bend StarsB-have achieved that ($150,000 yrl '08 KEESEP). O-C R K Stable; high standard. B-Calumet Farm (KY); T-J W Sadler; J-J Rosario; And it looks as though $150,000. Lifetime Record: 12-5-3-2, $782,600. Quiet American Quiet American=s legacy to Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. darleyamerica.com the breed is going to be largely through his Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free broodmare daughters. Although Real Quiet=s champion brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. sprinter Midnight Lute has attracted three-figure books in his first two years at Hill >n= Dale, he will do well to match the contribution that Quiet American=s daughters Even though he sired Real Quiet, who went are making to the breed. The Grade I-winning Cara desperately close to landing the 1998 Triple Crown, Rafaela seems to have hit the jackpot in producing the there seems every chance that Quiet American will highly promising young stallion Bernardini, while the always be best remembered for his daughters. Whereas stakes-winning Quiet Dance also excelled in producing Real Quiet remains his sire=s only Grade I-winning son, Saint Liam. This winner of the Breeders= Cup Classic Quiet American now has four Grade I-winning and the Horse of the Year title left only 90 foals, but daughters, thanks to the recent victories of Switch in three of them, including the very talented Havre de the La Brea S. and Santa Monica S. Grace, have so far become graded winners. www.coolmore.com Caulfield cont. Quiet American=s five-year-old campaign ended after To a British observer like myself, it is somewhat only one start and he was retired in May, too late for surprising that the veteran son of Fappiano will shortly the 1991 season. Quiet American was therefore six commence his 20th season at stud. On the evidence of when he covered his first mares. He quickly justified his what we saw on British racetracks, Quiet American chance, with the GradeI-winning fillies Cara Rafaela and was far from worthy of starting a stallion career. After Hidden Lake emerging from a first crop of only 32 being bought for $300,000 as a yearling by Sheikh named foals. Now he has justified the continued Mohammed, Quiet American went into training with support of breeders, with his 2007 crop--conceived Michael Stoute at Newmarket. Although the colt when he was 20--producing shaped well when second in a newcomers= race at not only Switch, but also Goodwood on his only start at two, he failed to fulfil Quiet Temper, winner of the that promise in two starts in modest company at three. GII Fair Ground Oaks in Timeform rated his sophomore efforts no higher than 2010 and back in the 78, some 59 pounds below the year=s best winner=s circle at Gulfstream three-year-old. two days ago. The problem no doubt lay in the fact that his pedigree Switch was bred by was geared far more towards American dirt than Calumet Farm, which used Switch Benoit Photography European turf. He was, after all, inbred 3x2 to Horse of to be home to her the Year Dr. Fager, who ventured onto the turf only broodmare sire Nicholas. The career of this very once in a 22-race career, and he is also inbred 4x3 to well-connected son of Danzig was the reverse of Quiet Cequillo. American=s. Starting in his native U.S., he scored over Fappiano, the sire of Quiet American, was a dirt sprint distances on dirt at the ages of two, three and performer with a dirt pedigree. At 16.3, he was also four before being transferred to England. He carried bigger than many Europeans like, but his success with Henryk de Kwiatkowski=s colors to three more his American runners meant that Europeans were successes, notably taking Germany=s top sprint, the G2 forced to take note. He had 27 runners in Britain and Goldene Peitsche. Although lightly used on his Ireland, but his only stakes winner was Defensive Play, retirement to stud in Britain, he sired the fast Irish filly who went on to greater achievements on his return to Lidanna, now dam of the smart British gelding Yaa the U.S. Wayl. Nicholas returned to Calumet, but his total Naturally, this comparative lack of European success output was 187 foals, and his only group/graded for Fappiano reflected on his stallion sons, and such as winners were Lidanna and Antoniette, the dam of Unbridled and Cryptoclearance had only limited Switch. numbers of runners in Britain and Ireland. Quiet A multiple winner both on dirt and turf, Antoniette American=s links to the Maktoum family ensured his was hard to beat as a four-year-old, when her six stock were given a greater chance of proving victories from nine starts for Calumet featured the themselves in Europe, and two of his daughters did well GIII Athenia H. over 1 1/16 miles on turf. at two, with Loving Pride winning the G3 Prix d=Aumale Nicholas certainly received some help in siring a filly and Warrior Queen finishing a close third in the G3 as talented as Antoniette. Her dam Queen of Women Queen Mary S. Even so, turf has played a minor role in was out of Tash, producer of four stakes winners, his success story, providing nothing better than a including the high-class European miler Mukaddamah. handful of Grade III winners. This is very much in line The next dam was Natashka, an Alabama S. and with Quiet American=s own career, which saw him Monmouth Oaks winner who became one of those very show dramatic improvement when he was given his rare mares with five group winners to her credit. For chance on American dirt. good measure, Switch=s fifth dam Natasha was a He completed his three-year-old campaign with two daughter of the champion racemare Vagrancy. The victories at around nine furlongs in California, which top-class performers descending from this family earned him promotion to graded company at four. After include Distant Relative, Gold And Ivory and Ezzoud in a promising second in the GI Charles H. Strub S., Quiet Europe, and such as Anees, Elusive Quality and Grand American suffered a back strain that kept him out of Couturier in the U.S., so it isn=t too surprising that action for over three months. However, he returned to Switch is developing into such a formidable performer. defeat Bayakoa in the GIII San Diego H. in August before confirming his improvement with a second in the GI Woodward H. PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... Trainer Gary Jones then aimed Quiet American for the GI Breeders= Cup Classic, only to be denied a place in Get pedigree expert the line-up by the selection committee. Instead he Andrew Caulfield’s take turned out in the GI NYRA Mile a week later, when on racing’s newsmakers! Quiet American defeated some of America=s best You can find all of Caulfield’s columns sprinters by nearly five lengths in a time of 1:32.80. in the TDN Archive. SWITCH, f, 2007 Raise a Native Mr. Prospector Gold Digger Fappiano Dr. Fager Killaloe Pasadoble Quiet American Rough‘n Tumble Dr. Fager Aspidistra Demure Nearctic Quiet Charm Cequillo Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Nicholas Tom Rolfe Antoniette Lulu Mon Amor GSW, 19-9-0-2 Sister Shu 8Fls, Atan Queen of Women Sharpen Up (GB) 4 Wnrs, 1 GISW 15-2-2-0 Rocchetta (GB) 14 Fls, 8 Wnrs, Tash Never Bend 1 GSW 16 Fls, 2 GSW Natashka.