Andrew Caulfield, May 22, 2007–Curlin & Street Sense P EDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD PREAKNESS S.-GI, $1,000,000, PIM, 5-19, 3yo, 1 3/16m, 1:53 2/5, ft. 1--sCURLIN, 126, c, 3, by Smart Strike 1st Dam: Sherriff's Deputy, by Deputy Minister 2nd Dam: Barbarika, by Bates Motel 3rd Dam: War Exchange, by Wise Exchange ($57,000 yrl '05 KEESEP). O-Stonestreet Stables, Padua Stables, George Bolton & Midnight Cry Stables; B-Fares Farm Inc (KY); T-Steven M Asmussen; J-Robby Albarado; $600,000. Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-1, $1,602,800. 2--Street Sense, 126, c, 3, Street Cry (Ire)--Bedazzle, by Dixieland Band. O/B-James Tafel (KY); T-Carl A Nafzger; $200,000. Rather like darling Clementine in the famous old song, Mr. Prospector is lost and gone forever. But whereas Clementine=s untimely demise left everyone dreadful sorry, Mr. Prospector lived life to the full, being active right up to his death at the age of 29 in June 1999, and we can only celebrate his vast contribution to American breeding. As the very likeable Curlin thrust his nose ahead of Street Sense to wreck Triple Crown hopes for another year, he became no less than the 24th male line descendant of Mr. Prospector to win an American Triple Crown race. Altogether, these 24 have landed nine victories in the Kentucky Derby, 11 in the Preakness and 12 in the Belmont, and Curlin is its seventh winner of the Pimlico Classic in the eight years since Mr. Prospector=s death. This male line=s astonishing Classic dominance was achieved by three sons of Mr. Prospector, 10 grandsons, 10 great-grandsons and one great-great- grandson, and we can be confident that plenty more Triple Crown success awaits Mr Prospector=s great-grandsons. CURLIN, c, 2004 Native Dancer Raise a Native Raise You Mr. Prospector Nashua Gold Digger Sequence Smart Strike Cyane Smarten Smartaire Classy ‘n Smart Nodouble No Class Classy Quillo Northern Dancer Vice Regent Victoria Regina Deputy Minister Bunty’s Flight Mint Copy Sherriff’s Deputy Shakney Unraced Sir Ivor 5Fls, 3Wnrs, 1GSW Barbarika Bates Motel MGSW, 16-7-2-3 Sunday Purchase ,$347,253 War Exchange Wise Exchange 11Fls, 4Winrs 11Fls, 2GSW Jungle War www.coolmore.com The late lunge by Curlin (whose pedigree I reviewed Street Cry=s biggest pay day came in the Dubai World on Mar. 20) may have scuppered Street Cry=s chances Cup, a race which also fell to another of Machiavellian=s of siring a Triple Crown winner in his first crop, but it sons, Almutawakel. Coincidentally, Almutawakel was in was still a very good weekend for this grandson of Mr. the news at the weekend, as well, as his son Awelmarduk Prospector--and for some of Mr. Prospector=s other became a Group 1 winner in the Derby Italiano. stallion grandsons. Unfortunately, Almutawakel was forced into Street Cry added two more group/graded winners to retirement at the age of 11 towards the end of last year his tally, which now stands at a highly impressive six, because of an arthritic stifle. With fewer than 140 foals from a crop of 81. One aspect of Street Cry=s success in his first three Irish crops, Almutawakel was also which interests me is that his latest graded victories responsible for Silver Cup, another Italian Classic both came over six furlongs, with Street Magician winner who went on to gain a trio of Grade II victories taking the GIII Hirsch Jacobs S. at Pimlico and Per in California. He did even better in New Zealand, where Incanto taking the G3 Premio Tudini at Rome=s he sired Wahid, winner of the New Zealand Derby, and Capanelle track. With his daughters Street Sounds and Vital King, successful in this year=s Hong Kong Derby. Majestic Roi taking, respectively, the GII Beaumont S. Considering that he wasn=t expensive, Almutawakel and G3 Dubai Duty Free S. over seven furlongs earlier ranks alongside Street Cry, Medicean, Titus Livius and this year, Street Cry=s progeny are clearly capable of Vettori as an advertisement for Machiavellian=s prowess showing a lot more speed than might have been expected. as a sire of sires. Machiavellian, of course, was inbred Street Cry himself showed plenty of speed early in 3x4 to Native Dancer and 4x4 to Almahmoud, the pair his career, when he won over 62 furlongs and failed by responsible for Northern Dancer=s dam Natalma. This only a head to land the GII Del Mar Futurity, but he must be relevant, as Danehill, an exceptional stallion quickly graduated to distances of a mile or more. His who is also shining as a sire of sires, was inbred 3x3 to finest performances came over 1 1/8 and 1 1/4 miles. Natalma. His dam, Helen Street, won the Irish Oaks over 1 1/2 The other grandson of Mr. Prospector to excel over miles, showing the sort of stamina we came to expect the weekend was Gone West=s son Zamindar, who was of her Derby-winning sire Troy. The stamina in the discussed here a week ago. I am considering changing bottom half of Street Cry=s pedigree seemed to have roles to that of tipster, as last week I wrote: dominated the precocious speed shown by his sire AThe chances are that there are more stakes winners Machiavellian, and Street Sense=s Kentucky Derby to come from Zamindar=s 2004 crop, which also victory over a mile and a quarter was in line with my includes the Italian stakes winner Sweet Wind Music. expectations of Street Cry=s progeny. His highly regarded daughter Coquerelle is among the I am now having to revise my expectations. Both of entries for next Sunday=s G1 Prix Saint-Alary, the main Street Cry=s parents were very accomplished juveniles-- trial for the Prix de Diane, having won her last three as was Machiavellian=s champion sister Coup de Genie-- races in fine style. One of her wins was gained at the and this speed can clearly emerge in Street Cry=s expense of Cinnamon Bay, who is also expected to step progeny, especially if he receives a little help from his up to stakes company.@ mares. Per Incanto is out of a very speedy daughter of Cinnamon Bay duly gained her first stakes success in the sprinter Indian Ridge, while Street Magician is out impressive style four days later, and then the of a daughter of Meadowlake. well-related Coquerelle took the Saint-Alary to become Zamindar=s second Group 1 winner in the space of eight STREET SENSE, c, 2004 days, following Darjina=s triumph in the French 1000 Raise a Native Guineas. Mr. Prospector Gold Digger Zamindar and his brilliant brother Zafonic had The Machiavellian Halo Minstrel as their broodmare sire, so it was inevitable Coup de Folie Raise the Standard that breeders would try sending them mares with pedigrees Street Cry (Ire) Petingo (GB) containing The Minstrel=s three-parts-brother Nijinsky II. Troy (GB) La Milo (GB) Zafonic had more than 20 foals out of mares by Helen Street (GB) Riverman Nijinsky=s top-class son Caerleon, which created 4x4 to Waterway (Fr) Boulevard (Ire) Northern Dancer and 5x4 to Flaming Page. His best Nearctic result was the Group 2 winner Zipping, fourth in the Northern Dancer Natalma 2002 2000 Guineas, but Zamindar has done even Dixieland Band Delta Judge better with Caerleon mares, which are responsible for Bedazzle Mississippi Mud 22-4-4-3, Sandy Buggy the unbeaten Coquerelle and the useful French $197,455 *Ribot three-year-old Lost Ark. Majestic Legend His Majesty 3Fls, 1Ch, 1GSW SW, 42-7-7-1, Flower Bowl In comparing Zafonic and Zamindar, it is interesting 13Fls, 8wnrs, 1SW Long Legend Reviewer that Zamindar now has three Group 1 winners among 16Fls, 1GSW, 1SW Lianga the 263 foals in his first six crops (he has another 51 coming on line in his 2005 crop). Zafonic, on the other hand, sired four Group 1 winners among the 633 named foals in his nine crops, the last of which is four Caulfield cont. years old in 2007. This statistic suggests strongly that Zamindar has the potential to be a better sire than his older brother, even though Zafonic had comfortably the better form (Timeform rated Zafonic fully 14 pounds superior to Zamindar). This also supports the view that Zamindar (always held in very high regard by Andre Fabre) never revealed the full extent of his talent on the racecourse, largely because of a reluctance to settle as a juvenile..