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dam of 2002 Mile third-place finisher Good Journey. Another daughter, Nijinsky’s Best, is the dam of 1998 Breeders’ Cup Turf runner-up Yagli.
Best in Show
Kerali and Hasili
Best in Show’s Group 3-winning daughter Monroe was a private acquisition by Juddmonte from Robert Sangster. The mare produced stakes-placed Silver Star, who, in turn, begat the Storm Cat daughter Rising Tornado. The mare underachieved on the track, but her first foal was Close Hatches, from the first crop of Juddmonte homebred First Defence. “The really distinct feature that these families have is soundness as well as brilliance,” O’Rourke said. “They’ve endured through generations because there are good ones, and mediocre ones, but when they’re all sound, you can breed back to a brilliant stallion, and that trait of soundness just keeps going through the whole family from generation to generation. “In Close Hatches’s case, her dam, Rising Tornado, was a lovely filly, who we thought should have been, on looks, a classic prospect. So we scratched our heads a bit when she didn’t show the family speed, nor the Storm Cat speed. Breeding back to First Defence, we had a lot of success – it worked tremendously.” Best in Show, a stakes-winning daughter of Traffic Judge bred by Philip Connors, was represented by several other productive daughters. The most well-known branch of her family was launched by 1982 Kentucky Oaks winner Blush With Pride – whose triumph in that Grade 1 race helped earn her dam Broodmare of the Year honors. Blush With Pride produced 2007 Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour, dam of Belmont Stakes winners Rags to Riches and Jazil, as well as 2009 Breeders’ Cup Marathon winner Man of Iron. Best in Show’s daughter Sex Appeal is the third dam of 2002 Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Domedriver. Sex Appeal further cemented her dam’s influence by producing prominent sire El Gran Senor, who counts 1996 Sprint winner Lit de Justice among his stakes horses. El Gran Senor is also the sire of Juddmonte’s 2002 Broodmare of the Year, Toussaud, dam of four Grade 1 winners. Those include Honest Lady, dam of First Defence, himself a Grade 1 winner. Best in Show’s daughter Minnie Hauk is the second dam of Imperfect Circle, who produced Spinning World, winner of the 1997 Mile after finishing second the year prior. Minnie Hauk is also the third
A Juddmonte homebred by High Line, Kerali is best known as the dam of the stellar broodmare Hasili. The stakeswinning Kahyasi mare has produced two Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winners in Banks Hill (2001) and Intercontinental (2005), and five additional graded/group stakes winners. “They all ran as 2-year-olds, as 3-yearolds, as 4-year-olds, as 5-year-olds,” O’Rourke said of Hasili’s offspring. “They always showed up and they were tremendously consistent.” Hasili’s Group 2-winning son Dansili now stands at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket, England. The sire will be represented in this year’s Filly and Mare Turf by Grade/Group 1 winners Dank and Laughing, while another, The Fugue, is likely for the Turf. Kerali’s contributions are not limited to Hasili’s offspring. Her daughter Dissemble produced 2005 Mile runner-up and champion Leroidesanimaux. Another daughter, Arrive, produced Visit, third in the 2008 Filly and Mare Turf.
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Special A Claiborne homebred from the family of prominent producer Rough Shod II, Special is responsible for three Breeders’ Cup winners in the last decade through her daughters, as well as two prominent sires. Chief among the Forli mare’s recent representatives is Claiborne’s and Adele Dilschneider’s Blame, winner of the 2010 Classic over champion Zenyatta in Claiborne’s centennial year. The horse was produced by stakes-placed 2010 Broodmare of the Year Liable, who is out of Special’s daughter Bound. “It was like a storybook ending,” Hancock said. “Coming from a family like that, that you’ve bred all along, that has been here at the farm for that many years. [Blame’s] weanlings and yearlings are selling so well. We have a lot of optimism for him and his 2-year-olds selling next year. We’re very excited about that. It has been a good family.” Another of Special’s daughters, multiple Grade 2 winner Number, is the grandam of Multiply. That unraced mare produced inaugural Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Corinthian. Special is also
the fourth dam of 2011 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Wrote. Special is the dam of Nureyev, and, through daughter Fairy Bridge, grandam of Sadler’s Wells. Nureyev sired three individual Breeders’ Cup winners, including two-time Mile winner Miesque and the aforementioned Spinning World. Sadler’s Wells, the third-highest earning stallion in Breeders’ Cup history, is the sire of five individual winners, including two-time Turf winner High Chaparral. That stallion, who sired Wrote, is one of five sons of Sadler’s Wells to sire a Breeders’ Cup winner, along with El Prado, Galileo, Perfect Soul, and Montjeu.
Primal Force and Sweet Life These two mares, along with Hasili, are the only producers represented by multiple individual Breeders’ Cup winners. Both were Broodmare of the Year honorees. Primal Force, a winning Blushing Groom mare bred by Bertram Firestone, was later purchased by Frank Stronach and produced 1998 Classic winner Awesome Again and 2000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Macho Uno for his Adena Springs operation. Both have gone on to successful stallion careers at Adena and have major contenders in this year’s Classic. Awesome Again, whose four Breeders’ Cup winners include 2004 Classic victor Ghostzapper, will be represented by potential race favorite Game On Dude, as well as Grade 1 winner Paynter. Macho Uno’s representative is Grade 1 winner Mucho Macho Man. Ghostzapper is the sire of possible Classic starter Moreno. Sweet Life produced 2004 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Sweet Catomine and 2009 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic winner Life Is Sweet. Both were campaigned by Marty and Pam Wygod, who bred the stakes-winning Kris S. mare.
Sequence In her most notable contribution to the breed, Sequence – a stakeswinning daughter of Count Fleet bred by Brownell Combs – produced multiple stakes-winning filly Gold Digger, dam of Mr. Prospector. The prominent sire was represented by three Breeders’ Cup winners in his own right, but also launched his own successful male line. His sons and grandsons to sire multiple Breeders’ Cup winners include Elusive Quality, Fappiano, Gone West, Seeking the Gold, Smart Strike, Street Cry, and