We were talking about Miracle Rouge having good blood, but that flowing through Mistoffelees is surely tainted with gold. A Northern Dancer cross (4Sx4D), this handsome colt was sired by Dance In The Dark, who won the Japanese St Leger, and had Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Sunday Silence as his father. The damsire was none other than Nijinsky, my favourite racehorse who won the British Triple Crown, as well as the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Irish Derby.
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On the mother's side, Kitten Tricks was never raced, but she has produced some excellent sons and daughters, passing on a combination of Northern Dancer and Majestic Prince blood (both Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winners), as well as that of Hall of Famer Buckpasser and a certain horse called Secretariat - the famous US Triple Crown winner (you may remember I wrote about the Secretariat movie a while back).
Although Mistoffelees had been wonderful in training, probably being ready to race even quicker than Tenshinramman, he had more than his fair share of hold-ups, from skin complaints to a typical problem of tiredness that often kicks in when training young horses. The Saito Stable at Miho Training Centre (where Mosto Verde is also based) were careful to release him only when he was good and ready to show his full potential, and that showed with an amazing second place first time out, when he took on the pace from start to finish. With a 0-1-0-2 record, it doesn't reflect his ability on turf, for although he was an unexplained 13th in his second race, he was fourth at Tokyo in his latest outing. Watch this space!
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