Monash Stakes Winner Supido Comes From Outstanding Family
After third placings in Group One and Group Two contests, Supido’s success was both well deserved and well anticipated by punters who cheered as he unleashed a powerful finishing sprint to defeat runner-up Daytona Grey (Artie Schiller) by three quarters of a length with third placed Murt The Flirt (Murtajill) a neck further away in the smart time of 1:03.58.
Raced by a group of owners and trained by Michael Kent, Supido is another quality product of Rick Jamieson’s Gilgai Farm, breeder of unbeaten Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) and Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) winner Jameka (Myboycharlie). While he has some way to go to match their deeds, Supido, a five-year-old entire, carries his trainer’s hopes to soon win a Group One which would make him even better qualified to stand at a leading stud.
Gilgai Farm sold Supido for $190,000 in the Three Bridges consignment at the 2013 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale in Melbourne. He is the third foal of Japanese bred mare Lady Succeed (Brian’s Time), a winner in Japan of two races at 1700 metres and 1800 metres.
The mare’s first foal Kung Hei Fat Choy (Elusive Quality) was conceived in the United States and won nine races up to a mile in Britain.
Lady Succeed’s first foal in Australia was the filly Lavenham (Hussonet), winner of two sprint races, and following Supido she produced Kevin’s Time (Flying Spur), a winner of two races at 1200 metres and 1600 metres. After Supido, Lady Succeed foaled his unraced sister Lady Balmain (Sebring), unraced colt Chisoku (Smart Missile) and last season another Sebring (More Than Ready) filly before missing to her 2016 cover by Sebring.
Brian’s Time (Roberto), the US-born sire of Lady Succeed, was among the leading sires in Japan 11 times between 1995 and 2005 but found his contemporary, Sunday Silence (Halo), impossible to overcome in the quest to be champion Japanese sire. This Florida Derby (Gr 1, 9f) winner and Preakness Stakes (Gr 1, 9f) runner-up, though, left two Japanese Horses of the Year and a string of champions and classic winners. He has also achieved considerable success as a broodmare sire, his daughters producing 30 stakes winners including five Group One winners.
Supido’s dam Lady Succeed is thoroughbred royalty; a half-sister to two stakes winners and a member of one of the most dynamic female lines in modern international breeding, one that was developed in the Niarchos studs after their purchase of her third dam Raise The Standard (Hoist The Flag), a half-sister to breed shaping sire Northern Dancer (Nearctic).
Hydro Calido (Nureyev), Supido’s second dam, is one of the lesser lights among the many black type winners descending from Raise The Standard but more particularly those produced by and descending from her dam Coup De Folie (Halo).
While Hydro Calido won the Prix d’Astarte (Gr 2, 1600m) at Deauville and a Listed race at Evry, her performances were no match for those of her half-brother Machiavellian (Mr Prospector), champion juvenile of his year in Europe and one of the most influential sires in the world over the past 20 years and best known as the father of champion sire Street Cry.
Other half-relations to Hydro Calido are French Group One winner and sire Exit to Nowhere (Irish River), Ocean of Wisdom (Mr Prospector), a Group Three winner and Group One placegetter in France, and Victorian sire Fomalhaut (Spinning World), a handy winner who placed in four black type events in France.
But it is another of Hydro Calido’s half-relations, Machiavellian’s brilliant sister Coup De Genie (Mr Prospector), who has most boosted the female line in recent years. Coup De Genie was the best two-year-old filly of her year in France, taking both the Prix Morny (Gr 1, 1200m) and the Prix de la Salamandre (Gr 1, 1400m), before producing the equally talented Group One-winning filly Denebola (Storm Cat) and three more Group or Graded winners. Denebola’s granddaughter Senga (Blame) has further lifted the family in 2017 by winning the Prix de Diane (Gr 1, 2100m) at Chantilly.
Among many other notable members of the Coup De Folie branch of this exceptional family are Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Gr 1, 2400m) winner Bago (Nashwan), also successful in four other Group One events and a sire, multiple Group One winner Maxios (Monsun), just starting out as a sire in Europe, Admiralofthefleet (Danehill), former NSW sire Way Of Light (Woodman), winner of the Grand Criterium (Gr 1, 1600m), and Canadian star Calgary Cat (Cowtown Cat).
As well as tracing in tail female to Northern Dancer’s dam Natalma (Native Dancer), Supido carries four lines of Northern Dancer (Nearctic) in his background and is linebred 4m x 4f to Halo (Hail To Reason) whose dam Cosmah (Cosmic Bomb) is a half-sister to Natalma from Almahmoud (Mahmoud). Also present in Supido’s pedigree is a third line of Halo’s sire Hail To Reason (Turn-to) via Roberto while the brothers Graustark (Ribot) and His Majesty (Ribot) are also duplicated 4f x 6f in a powerful genetic cocktail.
Supido last Saturday became stakes winner number 31 for prominent Widden Stud-based stallion Sebring who two days earlier illustrated his distance versatility by supplying all-the-way Grafton Cup (Listed, 2350m) winner Supply And Demand. It has been another fine season for Sebring whose daughter Egg Tart captured the 2017 SAJC Schweppes Oaks (registered as Australasian Oaks) (Gr 1, 2005m)/ BRC Queensland Oaks (Gr 1, 2200m) double.