PEDIGREE AND SPEED
BEAT
HOLLOW is one of only a handful Sadler' s Wells'
sons which have become Group 1 winners on
both sides of the Atlantic, with the successful sires In The Wings
and Barathea featuring among the others.
Beat Hollow, like the very successful In the Wings, has the
brilliant Mill Reef in the third generation of his pedigree, and
like In the Wings is out of a high-class middle-distance mare,
namely the Irish Oaks winner Wemyss Bight. Beat Hollow didn't stay
as well as In the Wings, though, gaining his four Group 1 successes
over nine or 10 furlongs. As his family has also produced the
brilliantly speedy Oasis Dream and the Classic-winning miler Zenda,
it isn't so surprising that some of his two-year-olds are reported
to be showing speed.
His problem is going to be lack of numbers, with a crop of 38. dam
(the French Oaks winner Lacovia) and he comes from the same female
line as the very successful Miswaki.
Date: 18 April 2006