HASILI - BROODMARE OF THE YEAR 2004
The voting for OBI's 2004 Broodmare of the Year resulted in a
landslide victory for Juddmonte Farms great matron Hasili. This
comes as no surprise, as there can be few broodmares in the world
today with a record to rival that of Hasili. With her first five
foals, this remarkable producer of five group/graded stakes
winners, three of which are group or grade one winners, and two of
which are multiple Champions or Highweights.
Four of Hasili's offspring are by Danehill. The first of these
Banks Hill, earned Championship honours in both the US and Europe,
her victories including the Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1);
the second, DANSILI,
was Co-Highweighted Older Horse in England and Highweighted Older
Horse in France at 7-9 1/2 furlongs, and captured three group
events, as well as earning places in six group/grade one events, he
now stands at Juddmonte Farms Banstead Manor Stud, near Newmarket;
the fourth, Cacique, a three year old of 2004, has taken the Prix
Daniel Wildenstein (G2) and Prix Daphnis (G3), and finished second
in the Prix Jean Prat (G1) and Grand Prix de Paris (G1); while the
third of the Danehill quartet, Intercontinental captured the
Matriarch Stakes (G1) at Hollywood Park. Hasili has not been
completely dependent on Danehill, however, as to another Danzig
horse, Green Desert, She produced Heat Haze, heroine of four graded
stakes, including the Beverley D Stakes (G1) and Matriarch Stakes
(G1).
Although Hasili's background gives her a legitimate right to be a
good producer, it would have been extremely hard to predict this
level of success when she retired to stud. Winner of the listed
Prix des Sablonnets, Hasili is by Kahyasi, an Epsom Derby (G1) and
Irish Derby (G1) winner, who has been a more than respectable sire,
but has never been a commercially popular horse. At the time she
retired to stud, the distaff side of Hasili's pedigree would have
been more accurately described as respectable rather than
outstanding, but it has improved considerably recently. A
sister to the listed winner, Arrive, Hasili is also half-sister to
the listed placed Skiable (by Niniski, a son of Kahyasi's
grandsire, Nijinsky II) dam of the 2003 Coventry Stakes (G3)
winner, Three Valleys, now campaigning in the US. Another
half-sister to Hasili, Dissemble, a daughter of Ahonoora, was sold
for only 3,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sales. In Brazil, she
has produced the group winning Disport; Uapybo, hero of the Gran
Brazil Sao Paulo (G1); and Leroidesanimaux, a grade one winner in
his native country, and winner of six straight in the U.S,
including the Citation Handicap (G1) and Frank Kilroe Mile (G1).
Dissemble is now at stud in the US and her War Chant weanling
realized $625,000 at the recent Keeneland November Sales.
Hasili's granddam Sookera, a member of the first crop sired by
Roberto, won the Cheveley Park (G1) and Chesham Stakes, and was
Champion Two-Year-Old Filly in Ireland. She Subsequently produced
three stakes winners, including Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) victor So
Factual. and July Stakes (G3) winner Bold Fact. She's also third
dam of Hawksley Hill, a winner of nearly $1,500,000. His dam
Gaijin, is Nijinsky II's son, Caerleon, so is bred on similar lines
to Hasili. Sookera's third dam, Itsabet, is third dam of another
notable Roberto daughter in Immense, a graded stakes winner who is
now best known as granddam of Giant's Causeway. We can also note
that, unlike many great producers, Hasili has a pedigree which is a
complete outcross at five generations.
Date:
16 June 2005