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MATING SUGGESTIONS: When the votes were tallied for the 2021 Eclipse Award for 2YO male, Corniche was declared a runaway winner, with 214 votes compared to 12 for his nearest rival. His potential had been so obvious when he breezed a furlong in :10 flat at the Ocala Breeders’ Sale in April that his price soared to a sale-topping $1,500,000. He went unbeaten in three 2YO starts, commencing with an easy win over 5½ furlongs at Del Mar in September. Less than four weeks later Corniche had earned G1SW status, with a dominant display in the American Pharoah Stakes. Drawn 11 of 11 in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, he was fast enough to clear the field by the first turn and he maintained his speed to remain unbeaten. Although Corniche excelled on dirt, he has a pedigree which should allow him to sire smart winners on all surfaces. Twenty of his dam Wasted Tears’ 22 starts were on turf, on which she won 12 times, including 5 times at Graded Stakes level. His sire Quality Road was versatile enough to set a track record over 6½ furlongs and two more over a mile and an eighth. He has done so well, with 16 G1SWs to his credit, that he has long ranked among Kentucky’s elite stallions. The chances are that Quality Road will found a flourishing male line, as City of Light, another of his best sons, has already sired Fierceness, winner of the 2023 Eclipse Award for 2YO males before going gaining further impressive G1 victories at three and four. Bearing in mind that recent winners of the Eclipse Award for 2YO male include Uncle Mo, American Pharoah, Nyquist and Good Magic, Corniche can be expected to pass on his considerable ability and his first yearlings received a very warm welcome at the 2025 sales. His pedigree allows him endless options being free of such as A.P. INDY, TAPIT, CANDY RIDE, SMART STRIKE, CURLIN, DANZIG, WAR FRONT, STORM CAT, GIANT’S CAUSEWAY, MEDAGLIA D’ORO, INDIAN CHARLIE, AWESOME AGAIN and DISTORTED HUMOR , and he has only one line of MR PROSPECTOR , who will be in the fifth generation of his foals’ pedigrees. His sire Quality Road has enjoyed marked success with STORM CAT blood, siring GSWs from daughters of STORM CAT, HENNESSY (3), TABASCO CAT, GIANT’S CAUSEWAY (2), SCAT DADDY and INTO MISCHIEF . One of Quality Road’s inexpensive stallion sons, Klimt, has GSWs out of mares by Storm Cat’s son Consolidator and Storm Cat’s grandson Johannesburg. Mares by INTO MISCHIEF, PRACTICAL JOKE, SCAT DADDY, JUSTIFY and NOT THIS TIME are likely to reinforce Corniche’s precocious talent. SMART STRIKE mares have 16% GSWs with Quality Road. Two sons of UNBRIDLED’S SONG featured among the broodmare sires of Corniche’s high-priced first-crop yearlings. Quality Road thrives with daughters of DIXIE UNION , broodmare sire of three of his G1SWs, including KLIMT . Quality Road’s Gr.1 winners out of grand-daughters of A.P. INDY include two out of mares by BERNARDINI and one out of a MALIBU MOON mare. Five of Corniche’s first-crop yearlings which sold for $300,000 or more have second dams from the SEATTLE SLEW line, including two by MINESHAFT . DEPUTY MINISTER mares had two G1SWs, including champion Abel Tasman, among their small number of foals by Quality Road, who also sired the top-class City of Light from a mare by Deputy Minister’s son DEHERE . Quality Road also owes two of his G1SWs to grand-daughters of DANZIG , with Bleecker Street having a dam by EXCHANGE RATE and Illuminant being out of a POLISH NUMBERS mare. The SADLER’S WELLS line must also be considered for Corniche. Quality Road’s Preakness Stakes winner National Treasure has a dam by MEDAGLIA D’ORO , and Quality Road’s first 19 starters out of mares by GALILEO include two Graded/Group winners. Quality Road has also had G2 success with Road To Success (out of a TIZNOW mare) and Agate Road (out of a mare by Tiznow’s son GEMOLOGIST ).
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