Inspired by the quality of two-time Group 3 winner Over the Ocean, Abdullah then purchased his unraced dam Lost Virtue. Born in 1977, she was sired by relatively unknown sire Cloudy Dawn, a son of Gray Dawn II, who won the Dwyer Stakes and Arlington Park Handicap but produced only three stakes winners from 35 starters in a stud career that spanned twelve seasons. The distaff side of Lost Virtue’s pedigree was a bit more illustrious, however, as her mother, the multi-stakes Aunt Tilt, was a half-sister to the famous ‘Horse of Steel’ Damascus, champion three-year-old colt and US Horse of the Year in 1967.
Four of Aunt Tilt’s daughters became notable producers, two before Juddmonte. Stakes winner Full Virtue was never part of the Juddmonte broodmare band, but is the third dam of the 2011 Ballerina Stakes (G1) winner Hilda’s passion herself the dam of Woodward Stakes (G1) and Turf Classic Stakes (G1T) winner Yoshida . Quack a Doodledoo, born two years after Full Virtue, emerges as the foundation dam of 13 stakes winners, led by her granddaughter Banshee Breeze, champion three-year-old filly in the US in 1998.
The Blushing Groom filly Quandary, black type winner in England in the Juddmonte colours, was a stakes producer and is an ancestor of 16 stakes winners, including Group 1 and Grade 1 winners Twice Over, Passage of Time, Timepiece and Viadera.
Lost Virtue’s best offspring was the Riverman filly, All At Sea. Closely related to Full Virtue defeated All At Sea on 3 older men in the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (G1), and she also won the Musidora Stakes (G3) and Pretty Polly Stakes, and was second in the International Stakes (G1), Epsom Oaks (G1) and Nassau Stakes (G2). The Mr. All At Sea’s Prospector daughter Insinuate won the Swinley Stakes at Ascot and produced three stakes winners: two group stakes winners. Through her daughter Indication, All At Sea is also granddam of two stakes winners and third dam of Ombudsman, winner of this year’s Juddmonte International (G1) and Prince of Wales’s (G1) Stakes.
Salamis take the Hollywood Derby (G1T) and her daughter on Saturday Segesta conquer the Matriarch Stakes (G1T) Sunday.
The Hollywood Derby was the first stakes success for Salamis, who achieved just his first victory Saratoga Race Course in August during its fourth appearance. He recorded the Gio Ponti bet Aqueduct next time out, but his only other start was fifth, albeit beaten only two lengths after a wide trip in which he was reluctant to enter the gate, in the Bryan Station Stakes (G3T) at Keeneland.
Segesta, one year older, was knocking on the door of a grade 1 success. Last year she took the Wonder Again Stakes (G2T) in her fourth start and missed by three-quarters of a length in the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T). This year she captured the Matchmaker Stakes (G3T) and then finished second in the Ladies Turf Stakes (G3T) and First Lady Stakes (G1T), missing by a neck in the latter. Segesta is a son of another experienced stallion from Ghostzapper, champion older horse and Horse of the Year in 2004. Although he has never run on turf, Ghostzapper is a very effective sire of runners on that surface. Segesta is her father’s third stakes winner out of a mare from the Unbridled’s Song line; the others include the 2024 artificial turf women’s champion Moira who also earned Horse of the Year honors and Champion 3-Year-Old Filly in Canada.
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