HASILI - BROODMARE OF THE YEAR 2004

The voting for OBI's 2004 Broodmare of the Year resulted in a landslide victory for Juddmonte Farms great matron Hasili. This comes as no surprise, as there can be few broodmares in the world today with a record to rival that of Hasili. With her first five foals, this remarkable producer of five group/graded stakes winners, three of which are group or grade one winners, and two of which are multiple Champions or Highweights.

Four of Hasili's offspring are by Danehill. The first of these Banks Hill, earned Championship honours in both the US and Europe, her victories including the Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1); the second, DANSILI, was Co-Highweighted Older Horse in England and Highweighted Older Horse in France at 7-9 1/2 furlongs, and captured three group events, as well as earning places in six group/grade one events, he now stands at Juddmonte Farms Banstead Manor Stud, near Newmarket; the fourth, Cacique, a three year old of 2004, has taken the Prix Daniel Wildenstein (G2) and Prix Daphnis (G3), and finished second in the Prix Jean Prat (G1) and Grand Prix de Paris (G1); while the third of the Danehill quartet, Intercontinental captured the Matriarch  Stakes (G1) at Hollywood Park. Hasili has not been completely dependent on Danehill, however, as to another Danzig horse, Green Desert, She produced Heat Haze, heroine of four graded stakes, including the Beverley D Stakes (G1) and Matriarch Stakes (G1).

Although Hasili's background gives her a legitimate right to be a good producer, it would have been extremely hard to predict this level of success when she retired to stud. Winner of the listed Prix des Sablonnets, Hasili is by Kahyasi, an Epsom Derby (G1) and Irish Derby (G1) winner, who has been a more than respectable sire, but has never been a commercially popular horse. At the time she retired to stud, the distaff side of Hasili's pedigree would have been more accurately described as respectable rather than outstanding, but it has improved considerably recently. A sister to the listed winner, Arrive, Hasili is also half-sister to the listed placed Skiable (by Niniski, a son of Kahyasi's grandsire, Nijinsky II) dam of the 2003 Coventry Stakes (G3) winner, Three Valleys, now campaigning in the US. Another half-sister to Hasili, Dissemble, a daughter of Ahonoora, was sold for only 3,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sales. In Brazil, she has produced the group winning Disport; Uapybo, hero of the Gran Brazil Sao Paulo (G1); and Leroidesanimaux, a grade one winner in his native country, and winner of six straight in the U.S, including the Citation Handicap (G1) and Frank Kilroe Mile (G1). Dissemble is now at stud in the US and her War Chant weanling realized $625,000 at the recent Keeneland November Sales.

Hasili's granddam Sookera, a member of the first crop sired by Roberto, won the Cheveley Park (G1) and Chesham Stakes, and was Champion Two-Year-Old Filly in Ireland. She Subsequently produced three stakes winners, including Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) victor So Factual. and July Stakes (G3) winner Bold Fact. She's also third dam of Hawksley Hill, a winner of nearly $1,500,000. His dam Gaijin, is Nijinsky II's son, Caerleon, so is bred on similar lines to Hasili. Sookera's third dam, Itsabet, is third dam of another notable Roberto daughter in Immense, a graded stakes winner who is now best known as granddam of Giant's Causeway. We can also note that, unlike many great producers, Hasili has a pedigree which is a complete outcross at five generations.

Date: 16 June 2005