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The Beverly D. winner is by Muhtathir (GB), out of Jimkana, by Double Bed. (See TesioPower-generated pedigree following this entry.) Muhtathir during his career was nothing if not cosmopolitan. Winner of the Prix du Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard Jacques Le Marois (Group 1, in 2000) in France, the Premio Vittori di Capua (Group 1, in 1999) and Premio Emilio Turati (Group 2, in 2000) in Italy (the former in record time), and the Tripleprint Celebration Mile (Group 2) and Hungerford Stakes (Group 3) in England, both in 1998, such success in these and other races led him to be named champion older male in England, the United Arab Emirates, and Italy (twice). Currently standing at Le Haras du Mezeray for 10,000 Euros, Mauralakana represents her sire's second major North American winner, the first one being Doctor Dino, winner of the 2007 edition of the Man O' War Stakes (gr. IT). Doctor Dino is still racing at age six, in fact, and just this past weekend finished second in the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville over one and 9/16 miles to Getaway on August 31, 2008. Other stakes winners sired by Muhtathir include Group 1 winner Satwa Queen and Group 3 winner Headache.
Muhtathir's sire, the Eclipse Stakes (Group 1-Eng) and Irish Champion Stakes (Group 1) winner Elmaamul, was not an especially prolific sire, producing (apart from Muhtathir, of course) gr. I Hollywood Derby, Eddie Read Handicap, and Charlie Whittingham Derby winner Sweet Return among a few others. Elmaamul's sire Diesis produced numerous group winners, including two-time Eclipse Stakes (gr. I Eng) winner Halling and Epsom Oaks (gr. 1 Eng) and Irish Oaks (Group 1) winner Ramruna. An excellent article on the Sharpen Up male line, which Muhtathir is a product of, is covered in Avalyn Hunter's Mahubah's Corner in the September 19, 2007 (p. 23) issue of Bloodhorse NOW, formerly produced in PDF format and which the Blood-Horse website has made inexplicably impossible to find since they have stopped producing it in the PDF format. After a bit of digging around and using my librarian searching skills, I finally found it here.
NASCAR used to have the adage "win on Sunday, sell on Monday," reflecting the effect that its stock car manufacturers had in the salesrooms of America after a win at the track. Though not quite the same, the effect is often similar in thoroughbred sales, as Muhtathir had eight yearlings cataloged in the Deauville August Yearling Sale on August 15 through August 18. The timing could not have been better. All eight sold, and as Bill Oppenheim reported in the August 20, 2008 Thoroughbred Daily News on page 9 (available to subscribers in the archives), all eight sold for an average of 135,875 euros, including a 570,000 euro filly, fifth highest price in the sale. (Hip number 148, out of Princess d'Orange.)
Looking the female side, Jimkana has produced Mauralakana's half-sister Petit Calva, who placed second in the Group 3 Prix de la Grotte in France, and won the listed stakes Prix de la Calonne and Criterium du Bequet. More noteworthy, Jimkana is the full-sister to Jim and Tonic, a gelding who like her was by Double Bed, out of Jimka, by Jim French. Jim and Tonic's wins included the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free at Nad Al Sheba at age 7 in 2001, and earlier the Hong Kong Cup, Hong Kong Mile, and Queen Elizabeth II Cup (all gr. I Jap) at Sha Tin in Japan. His winning of numerous Group 3 races in France earned him high weight older horse twice on the French Handicap at 9 1/2 to 11 furlongs, and high weight older horse on the same handicap at 7 to 9 1/2 furlongs at age 7.
In fact, Jimka, who won 7 races in France out of a jaw-dropping 76 starts, produced no fewer than six offspring by Double Bed, including Gigawatt, who produced Anabaa Republic, third in two Group 3 races in France. Double Bed, winner of the Group 2 Prix de la Cote Normande in France and second in the Group 1 Champion Stakes in England, was out of Claire's Slipper, who won the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh in 1977.
Jimka's dam was the unraced Kastueuse, who also produced Tartueuse, who in turn produced Tolle Legge, dam of French Polo, winner of the listed Derby de l'Quest at Nantes in 2003. Kastueuse's dam, Vertueuse, was out of Tenebreuse, who produced in 1963 Taneb, winner of the Group 1 Gran Prix de Saint-Cloud in 1967.
With all of the black type in the 5-year-old Mauralakana's family, it is little wonder that Australian owner Robert Scarborough had plans to retire her to the breeding shed in Australia right after the race. Those plans are now on hold, since the victory in the Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" Beverly D. qualifies her for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (gr. IT-as if you needed to know). Scarborough purchased his stakes winner as hip number 495 for $900,000 at the 2007 Keeneland November Breeding Stock sale, and she has done little wrong in 2008, winning the mile and 3/8 Grade 2 Sheepshead Bay Handicap and Grade 2 New York Handicap at a mile and a quarter, both at Belmont and both on the turf. The mile and 3/16 Beverly D. represented a shortened distance from those two, but as the above pedigree overview can attest, she was bred for grass and for distance. Her dosage profile of 2-0-7-1-0 is another indicator of her being bred for distance. Inbred 5m X 4m to Northern Dancer through five generations, her six-cross pedigree shown her also shows she is inbred Tudor Minstrel through her dam, as well as to Nasrullah (6m x 6m) and Native Dancer (6m x 6f).
What does her future hold? Diesis-line mares have displayed quite a bit of affinity for Northern Dancer-line stallions, which of course is going to produce the ever-familiar inbreeding to that line. Nevertheless, this cross has produced 2001 gr. IT United Nations Handicap winner Senure, and more recently the 2006 Group I Irish Derby and 2007 Group I Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Dylan Thomas, and 2006 Group 1 St. Leger stakes winner Sixties Icon, who this year recently won the Group 3 Glorious Stakes. Using the G1 Goldmine program, the Ventura GeoScore for Northern Dancer over Sharpen Up (the sire of Diesis) is positive: 1.28 in the United States. (1.00 is the baseline; over 1.00 means the cross did better than expected.) Interestingly, using Diesis specifically on the bottom under Northern Dancer yields a lower 0.90 in the United States, though a 1.15 overall. It should also be noted, however, that the Diesis line has produced very few graded stakes winners in the U.S. to begin with (17 grade I winners, by G1 Goldmine's count).
Breeders wanting to shy away from having Northern Dancer crosses --for whatever reason--will have to look hard. One option is breeding to Raise a Native-line sires, though obviously Native Dancer blood will still be there. One such results is 2000 Group I Irish One Thousand Guineas and Gr. I Coronation Stakes winner Crimplene. Another possibility is mating to Hail to Reason-line sires, under whom this cross has produced 2007 Gr. 1 St. Leger Stakes winner Lucarno, and 2003 Canadian Gr. 2 Sky Classic Handicap winner Bowman Mill, who also placed in that year’s Grade I Hollywood Turf Cup. Again taking into account the relatively low number of Diesis-line offspring in this country, the Ventura GeoScore for this particular cross is a striking 2.09 in the United States, 1.51 overall. When broadening things out to look for the Hail to Reason sire line cross over a Sharpen Up sire line mare, the tally includes Prince Arch, winner of the 2005 gr 1T Gulfsteam Park Breeders' Cup Handicap, and 2003 gr. I Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Action This Day, who were both descendents of Kris S. on the male side, as well as gr. I Japanese winner Neo Universe, who captured the Tokyo Yushun Derby and Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) in 2003, who was by Sunday Silence.
Regardless of the prospective sires she mates with, Maurlankana promises to be a very good broodmare if all goes well.
TesioPower Pedigree for Mauralakana
Mauralakana (2003) - F - 1-l
by Muhtahir out of Jimkana by Double Bed to 6 generations
| Muhtahir 1995 | Elmaamul 1987 | Diesis 1980 | Sharpen Up 1969 | Atan 1961 | Native Dancer Mixed Marriage | 1950 - 5-f 1952 - 2-f |
| Rocchetta 1961 | Rockefella Chambiges | 1941 - 7-a 1949 - 5-i | ||||
| Doubly Sure 1971 | Reliance 1962 | Tantieme Relance | 1947 - 20-a 1952 - 16-h | |||
| Soft Angels 1963 | Crepello Sweet Angel | 1954 - 16-d 1955 - 2-o | ||||
| Modena 1983 | Roberto 1969 | Hail To Reason 1958 | Turn-To Nothirdchance | 1951 - 1-w 1948 - 4-n | ||
| Bramalea 1959 | Nashua Rarelea | 1952 - 3-m 1949 - 12-c | ||||
| Mofida 1974 | Right Tack 1966 | Hard Tack Polly Macaw | 1955 - 19-c 1959 - 10-a | |||
| Wold Lass 1960 | Vilmorin Cheb | 1943 - 7-d 1948 - 9-e | ||||
| Majmu 1988 | Al Nasr 1978 | Lyphard 1969 | Northern Dancer 1961 | Nearctic Natalma | 1954 - 14-c 1957 - 2-d | |
| Goofed 1960 | Court Martial Barra II | 1942 - 1-p 1950 - 17-b | ||||
| Caretta 1973 | Caro 1967 | Fortino II Chambord | 1959 - 4-r 1955 - 3-o | |||
| Klainia 1960 | Klairon Kalitka | 1952 - 1-w 1954 - 4-r | ||||
| Affirmative Fable 1981 | Affirmed 1975 | Exclusive Native 1965 | Raise A Native Exclusive | 1961 - 8-f 1953 - 10-a | ||
| Won't Tell You 1962 | Crafty Admiral Scarlet Ribbon | 1948 - 8-c 1957 - 23-b | ||||
| Fairway Fable 1971 | Never Bend 1960 | Nasrullah Lalun | 1940 - 9-c 1952 - 19-b | |||
| Fairway Fun 1962 | Prince John Fast Line | 1953 - 14-f 1958 - 4-m | ||||
| Jimkana 1992 | Double Bed 1983 | Be My Guest 1974 | Northern Dancer 1961 | Nearctic 1954 | Nearco Lady Angela | 1935 - 4-r 1944 - 14-c |
| Natalma 1957 | Native Dancer Almahmoud | 1950 - 5-f 1947 - 2-d | ||||
| What A Treat 1962 | Tudor Minstrel 1944 | Owen Tudor Sansonnet | 1938 - 10-b 1933 - 9-c | |||
| Rare Treat 1952 | Stymie Rare Perfume | 1941 - 1-h 1947 - 8-c | ||||
| Claire's Slipper 1974 | Welsh Saint 1966 | St Paddy 1957 | Aureole Edie Kelly | 1950 - 2-f 1950 - 14-c | ||
| Welsh Way 1954 | Abernant Winning Ways | 1946 - 9-c 1945 - 9-h | ||||
| Semislipper 1967 | Seminole II 1959 | Nasrullah Banish | 1940 - 9-c 1945 - 14-f | |||
| Sayaslipper 1960 | Sayajirao Dusky Slipper | 1944 - 3-n 1948 - 22 | ||||
| Jimka 1978 | Jim French 1968 | Graustark 1963 | Ribot 1952 | Tenerani Romanella | 1944 - 6-d 1943 - 4-l | |
| Flower Bowl 1952 | Alibhai Flower Bed | 1938 - 6-d 1946 - 4-d | ||||
| Dinner Partner 1959 | Tom Fool 1949 | Menow Gaga | 1935 - 8-g 1942 - 3-j | |||
| Bluehaze 1945 | Blue Larkspur Flaming Swords | 1926 - 8-f 1933 - 7 | ||||
| Kastueuse 1970 | Kashmir II 1963 | Tudor Melody 1956 | Tudor Minstrel Matelda | 1944 - 9-c 1947 - 1-n | ||
| Queen Of Speed 1950 | Blue Train Bishopscourt | 1944 - 3-o 1945 - 9-c | ||||
| Vertueuse 1961 | Verrieres 1953 | Palestine Serre Chaude | 1947 - 3-e 1944 - 5-g | |||
| Tenebreuse 1949 | Teleferique Macreuse | 1934 - 20-a 1938 - 1-l |
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