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Danehill half-sister to the Group 1 winner and sire Slickly (Linamix).
Siyouni sired this year’s Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner Sottsass, one of three Group 1 winners by the Aga Khan Stud-based stallion. His previous winners at the highest are the multiple Group 1 winner Laurens and Ervedya, a triple Group 1 winner.
Siyouni is also the sire of the Group winners and Group 1 performers Siyoushake, Volta, Spectre and Le Brivido.
Sottsass has Galileo as his dam-sire, while Laurens is out of a Cape Cross mare and Ervedya is a grand-daughter of King’s Best. Volta’s dam-sire is Machiavellian, the grand- sire of King’s Best, which suggests that line works well with Siyouni.
Daughters of Cape Cross and his sire Green Desert, along with his sire sons such as Oasis Dream and Invincible Spirit, are also an option for City Light.
Given that there is no Sadler’s Wells blood in City Light’s first five generations although he is a representative of the Nureyev sire line, he offers a valuable cross for daughters and granddaughters of Galileo, especially as Siyouni’s dam-sire is Danehill.
Considering the Slickly connection then mares by Linamix or his sons might be a good option for City Light, too.
Best Solution
Kodiac – Al Andalyya (Kingmambo)
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A Group 1 winner over 1m4f, Best Solution demonstrated that progeny by Kodiac are not just all about speed and precocity, although he did break his maiden over 6f at two and won the Group 3 Autumn Stakes over a
mile as a juvenile before finishing second to this year’s Arc hero and fellow new stallion Waldgeist in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud.
Behind him that day were future
Group 1 winners Capri, The Taj Mahal, Rekindling and Wings Of Eagles, who went on to win the Derby.
Trained by Saeed bin Suroor for Godolphin, a stint in Dubai for Best Solution beckoned between his first and second seasons which saw him run twice at Meydan before winning the Listed Lingfield Derby Trial on his first start back in England.
The highlight of his three-year-old career was a second place behind Iquitos in the Group 1 Grosser Dallmayr Preis and he ended the year with victory in the Group 3 St Simon Stakes.
The blend of Kodiac’s speed with
the stamina influences of
his maternal line produced the middle-distance performer
Best Solution
At four, Best Solution came into his own. After another winter in Dubai which saw him win one of four starts at Meydan, he returned to England better than ever, racking up four wins in a row.
That run of success started with the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes. He then went on a European tour securing his first Group 1 win in the Grosser Preis von Berlin and adding a second in the Grosser Preis von Baden, defeating a field that included Defoe, Iquitos, Windstoss and Dschingis Secret.
He then travelled Down Under to take the Group 1 Caulfield Cup in a tight finish before running a creditable eighth in the Melbourne Cup (G1).
Kept in training at five he made two starts, but failed to show his former sparkle.
Bred by Cecil and Martin McCracken,
he was a 32,000gns Tattersalls December Foal Sale purchase by Emerald Bloodstock. Offered for sale by Tom Hassett’s Monksland Stables as a yearling at the Tattersalls October Book 2 Yearling Sale he made 90,000gns bought by John Ferguson on behalf of Godolphin.
His yearling full-brother made 175,000gns as a foal in 2018 and was subsequently sold by Timmy Hyde’s Camas Park Stud for 200,000gns at Book 1.
Best Solution boasts a fine pedigree with his third dam the top-class Juddmonte producer Eva Luna.
The Park Hill Stakes (G2) winner is the dam of the Sadler’s Wells pair: the Group 1 St Leger winner and sire Brian Boru and the Listed winner Kitty O’Shea. She is the dam of Listed winner and Group 1-placed Kissable (Danehill Dancer), who is herself the dam of
Grade 1 American Oaks third Amandine. Her Beat Hollow son Sea Moon, who is
standing his fourth season at stud in Ireland in 2020, won the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes and Hardwick Stakes (G2) and was placed in the Group 1 St Leger and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf.
Eva Luna’s Group 2 Prix de Royallieu- winning daughter Moon Search is by Rainbow Quest and the unraced Soviet Moon, another daughter of Sadler’s Wells, is the dam of the Derby and Arc winner Workforce.
Best Solution’s second dam Kushanrenkova is a full-sister to Soviet Moon, Brian Boru and Kitty O’Shea.
Trained by Aidan O’Brien, she won the Group 3 Noblesse Stakes over 1m4f and
is the dam of four winners, including the Listed Preis Winterkonigin Trial-winning filly Kosmische (Fastnet Rock) and her full- brother, the Group 2 Prix Hocquart second Cape Clear Island.
Her Kingmambo daughter Al Andalyya is the dam of Best Solution.
Best Solution’s dam-sire, the brilliant Kingmambo, has excelled in that role with
his daughters producing the likes of Group
1 winners Camelot, Midday, Cloth Of Stars, Ulysses, Ruler Of The World, Zelzal, National Defense, Cross Counter, Big Arthur Maids Causeway, Duke Of Marmalade and Buratino.
Camelot, Ruler Of The World and Duke Of Marmalade have all sired Group/Grade 1 winners at stud, with Camelot full of promise at this stage of his career.
As a sire Kodiac is noted for precocious and speedy offspring, demonstrated once more by his position as champion European sire of two-year-olds by winners and holding the world record for the most two-year-old winners in a year.
Best Solution is one of four Group 1 winners sired so far by the Danehill half- brother to Invincible Spirit, with the others – Tiggy Wiggy, Fairyland and Hello Youmzain – all winning over 5f or 6f.
The blend of Kodiac’s speed with the stamina influences of his maternal line produced the middle-distance performer Best Solution, who, on official ratings is the best horse by Kodiac.
Kodiac’s daughter Fairyland is out of a Pivotal mare, while Hello Youmzain and Group 3 winner Gifted Master have dams by Shamardal.
It would therefore seem logical that mares by Pivotal, who is the outstanding broodmare sire currently alive, and daughters of Shamardal and his son Lope De Vega would suit Best Solution.
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