Eremein takes GI Rosehill Guineas 12-03-05 photo courtesy Steve Hart Photographics

Saturday, 26 March 2005 Eremein - Group I Double Eremein (Timber Country - Marrego - Marscay) today scored in the GI AJC Derby at Randwick, this followed his success in the GI Rosehill Guineas two weeks earlier. The win, his sixth from twelve starts, took his prizemoney tally to $1.838 million. PEDIGREE INSIGHTS - EREMEIN While success might have been easy to predict for the Danehill/Marscay cross, the mating which produced the Australian Derby (G1) winner, Eremein, was not such an obvious one. He does, however, provide a nice continuity to the Marscay angle, as he is owned by Geoff and Beryl White, who also owned Marscay, and is trained by Allan Denham, son of Marscay’s trainer, Jack Denham. Eremein is a son of the much-travelled Woodman horse, Timber Country. A son of the great broodmare, Fall Aspen, Timber Country was the leader of his crop at two, when he captured the Champagne Stakes (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). He trained on well, and although he won only one of five starts at three, that victory came in the classic Preakness Stakes (G1), and he also took third in the Kentucky Derby (G1). Timber Country was sold to commence his stud career in Japan, where he was Leading Freshman Sire; shuttled to Arrowfield Stud, and then went to the United Arab Emirates. Prior to Eremein, his best runner has been Balletto, a UAE-sired and U.S.-raced filly who last year won the Frizette Stakes (G1) and took second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1). He’s sired three other Australian stakes winners, the Wakeful Stakes (G2) winner Timbourina; Sam Sung a Song, winner of the Liverpool City Cup (G3); and the Gosford Cup (G3) winner, West Country. He’s also had six stakes winners in Japan. Eremein’s dam, Marrego, won only once, over 1000m as a two-year-old, but she also finished second in the Silver Slipper (G2 and Reginald Allen Quality Handicap. Eremein’s grandam, Rewhite, a daughter of Vain, also won only once, but her dam, Regal For Me (by the Sir Ivor horse, Geilgud), was a tough mare who scored seven times, earning black-type with a win in the Robert A. Lee Stakes. Ermein’s fifth dam, Santa Regina, is an imported daughter of the English Derby winner, Santa Claus, Eremein’s pedigree is virtually a complete outcross at six generations, but there are some interesting connections further back. Timber Country’s sire, Woodman, is out of a mare inbred to La Troienne through the three-parts-sisters Busanda and Striking. Tucked away in the pedigree of Gielgud (sire of Eremein’s third dam) is Mr. Busher, a brother to Striking. Gielgud’s dam, the great mare Best in Show (also in the female line of Redoute’s Choice), is a Hyperion/War Admiral cross, as is the granddam of Timber Country, and she has an extremely similar background to Intriguing, the grandam of Woodman (all of which suggests trying Redoute’s Choice with mares by Woodman and Timber Country). Marscay gets into the La Troienne act too, as he has Better Self, who is by La Troienne’s only son, Bimelech, and is closely related to Busanda, Striking and Mr. Busher. In the light of this, it’s probably significant that Timber Country’s previous best Australian runner, Timbourina, goes back in tail-female line to La Troienne through Striking. As a footnote, we can also mention that Eremein’s fourth dam is by Battle-Wagon, who combines Never Say Die and Hyperion. Never Say Die is a three-quarters relative to Glamour, the third dam of Woodman, and Woodman’s grandam has a very similar background to Battle-Wagon. Battle-Wagon is also in Timber Country’s Australian graded stakes winner Sam Sung a Song. Alan Porter www.stallions.com.au

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