IT JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER FOR DANSILI
One of the compensations for the premature loss of Danehill has
been his development as a sire of sires.
One of his sons who has particularly emerged this year has been
Dansili, who with three crops of runners has been represented by
the subsequently disqualified Poule d’Essai des Pouliches Gr.1
victress Price Tag; Grand Prix de Paris Gr.1 scorer Rail Link;
Listed winners Don’t Dili Dali; Quenched and Home Affairs and
the recent July Stakes Gr.2 and Vintage Stakes Gr 2 winner
Strategic Prince.
Dansili was a miler, but his offspring have already won
black-type events at distances between 5f and 1m4f. Strategic
Prince’s pedigree suggests that he will get a mile or even a little
further.
The best previous runner for his dam Ausherra, was Yorkshire. He
won the Aston Park St over 11f, and finished second in the marathon
Queen Alexandra St over 2 1/2m.
Yorkshire may well have gained a measure of stamina from his
sire, the English and Irish Derby winner Generous, but there is
considerable endurance in the female line.
Ausherra, a daughter of Diesis won the Oaks Trial over 10f, and
finished third in the 1m4f Lancashire Oaks Gr.3. She is sister to
an even better filly, Ramruma who won the 3 version of the Oaks –
the English, Irish and Yorkshire, as well as finishing second in
the St.Leger. Royal Scimitar, brother of Ausherra and Ramruma, took
the Chester St over 13f.
Strategic Prince’s grand-dam, Princess Of Man, was by the
sprinter Green God, but she won the 1m2f Musidora St Gr.3. She
presumable got her stamina from her broodmare sire Preciptic, a
winner at 13f and a son of the Ascot Gold Cup winner Precipitation,
and from her broodmare sire, the Derby and St Leger winner
Tulyar.
Dansili must have looked like an obvious choice for Ausherra, a
daughter of Diesis. He brings in Nijinsky (grand-sire of Dansili’s
dam, and of Generous, the sire of Yorkshire and also gives a double
of Red God (excellent with Nijinsky), a pattern in another Dansili
stakes winner and two of his stakes placed horses.
In addition, this also gives the prolific Danzig / Sharpen Up
cross. There are more than 50 stakes winners bred on this cross,
and more than 20 by Danehill and his sons including this year’s
Irish Derby Gr.1 winner Dylan Thomas.
Date:
31 August 2006