A first-crop son of top miler Henrythenavigator (by Kingmambo), Pedro The Great stands at Haras de la Haie Neuve in France, he is out of the Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner Glatisant (by Rainbow Quest) and that makes him a half-brother to Group 1 2000 Guineas scorer and Group 1 sire Footstepsinthesand (by Giant's Causeway), a member of the Coolmore team.

His siblings also include Frappe (by Inchinor), who is the winning dam of Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Thakafaat (by Unfuwain), of classic-placed Grade 1 E P Taylor Stakes heroine Curvy (by Galileo) and of Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner and current freshman sire Power (by Oasis Dream), who is also at Coolmore.

Footstepsinthesand's 48 stakes winners include five who have won at the highest level: Chachamaidee, Infiltrada, Sand Bijou, Shamalgan, and Steinbeck (aka Pure Champion) - and his most recent blacktype winners include the Group 2 scorers Hesham and Kaspersky.

Power's first crop has already yielded a double-digit tally of winners, headed by the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes winner, Group 2 Railway Stakes runner-up and Group 1 Prix Morny third Peace Envoy. They also include the Group 3 Premio Primi Passi runner-up Biz Power and listed-placed La Force.

Glatisant is a daughter of the Group 2 Nassau Stakes winner Dancing Rocks (by Green Dancer), who is, in turn, out of the Premio Lydia Tesio winner Croda Rossa (by Grey Sovereign). She is a half-sister to the pattern-placed stakes winners Gai Bulga (by Kris) and Rockerlong (by Deploy) and also to three mares who achieved some notable results at stud.

Rainbow Goddess (by Rainbow Quest) is the dam of Mahler (by Galileo), the classic and Melbourne Cup-placed pattern winner getting promising results with his early National Hunt runners. Pippas Song (by Reference Point) is the dam of two listed scorers and she is the grandam of US Grade 2 scorer Lady Lara (by Excellent Art).

The third sister is Council Rock (by General Assembly) and she is the dam of the juvenile filly champion Superstar Leo (by College Chapel), who won the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and was runner-up in both the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp and Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.

The mare is also the grandam of Australian Group 1 scorer December Draw (by Medecis), of the pattern-winning sprinter Enticing (by Pivotal) and of Group 2-placed Group 3 Gallinule Stakes scorer Alexander Pope (by Danehill Dancer).

Pedro The Great is a half-brother to a notably successful stallion and to the dam of a leading freshman sire, which augurs well for his own prospects of getting blacktype horses and high-class handicappers.
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PEDRO THE GREAT (USA) – b.2010 – Henrythenavigator – Glatisant, 2 wins inc Phoenix Stakes (Gr1). Sire in France. First foals in 2015.

YEARLINGS CATALOGUED (updated)
bf - Ahdaaf (by Bahri)     Arqana     Oct     €13,000
bf – Avis Des Tempete (by Baroud d'Honneur)     Osarus     Sept     not sold
bf - Centralienne (by Dixie Union)     Arqana     Oct     €12,000
bf - Fligane (by Bering)     Arqana     Oct     not sold
bc – Help From Heaven (by Titus Livius)     Osarus     Sept     €10,000
bc - Kanonette (by Kaldoun)     Arqana     Nov     not sold
bc – Kunoichi (by Vindication)     Arqana     Aug     €34,000
bc – Leginit (by Dehere)     Arqana     Aug     €11,000
bc - Loupana (by Loup Solitaire)     Arqana     Oct     (p/s) €13,000
bf – Malacca Straits (by Cacique)     Osarus     Sept     not sold
bf – Massagena (by American Post)     Arqana     Feb     withdrawn
bf – Miss Fine (by Kaldoun)     Osarus     Sept     €20,000
bf – Mofa Bere (by Saumarez)     Osarus     Sept     €14,000
bc – Mysteryonthebounty (by Mystery Storm)     Osarus     Sept     not sold
bc – Reine Amandine (by Marignan)     Osarus     Sept     not sold
bc – Sadaliya (by Xaar)     Osarus     Sept     (p/s) €2,000
bf – Shadow Of The Day (by Until Sundown)     Osarus     Sept     €7,000
bf – Siendra (by Refuse To Bend)     Arqana     Aug     not sold
bc - Sizalia (by Dream Well)     Arqana     Oct     €26,000
bc – Toscabella (by Country Reel)     Osarus     Sept     €11,000
bc – Triple Witching (by Pulpit)     Arqana     Aug     €20,000
bc – Valera (by Acatenango)     Osarus     Sept     ​withdrawn
bc - Valera (by Acatenango)     Arqana     Nov     ​€3,000

A first-crop son of the top-class miler Henrythenavigator (by Kingmambo), George Vancouver was a smart two-year-old but unplaced in all three of his starts at three. He got off the mark at the third attempt, easily winning a six-furlong Dundalk maiden, then failed by three-parts of a length to beat Reckless Abandon in the Group 1 Prix Morny before disappointing when favourite in a Group 3 contest at the Curragh.

His final two starts that season are probably what helped to secure a place at stud for him, because they showed that his run at Deauville had not been a fluke. He finished third behind champion Dawn Approach in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket and then won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf over a mile on firm ground at Santa Anita.

Saarland (by Unbridled) was the best of his siblings, a Grade 2 Remsen Stakes winner whose notable placings included second in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap. He sired a few stakes winners from his time at Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky, but was retired after just three seasons, due to a fertility issue, and then died following a paddock accident.

His half-brother Reparations (by Forty Niner), who won a nine furlong maiden, has also sired some blacktype horses, stakes winners and six-figured earners from limited opportunities.

Being a half-brother to two blacktype sires boosts the prospects of George Vancouver, who, like them, also represents a branch of the Mr Prospector (by Raise A Native) line.

His dam, Versailles Treaty (by Danzig), was a top-class performer in the USA where she won the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes, Grade 1 Test Stakes, Grade 1 Gazelle Stakes and Grade 1 Ruffian Handicap. Her string of Grade 1 placings included two editions of the Breeders' Cup Distaff and two of the Beldame Stakes, and this made her easily the best of three blacktype-winning offspring of the Grade 2 runner-up Ten Cents A Dance (by Buckpasser).

Her Grade 1-placed half-sister Arabian Dancer (by Damascus) was the dam of the Grade 3 scorers Out of Place (by Cox's Ridge) and Lead Kindly Light (by Majestic Light), the latter a filly who became the dam of Grade 1-winning miler Gold Fever (by Forty Niner) and grandam of Grade 1 Man O' War Stakes scorer Boisterous (by Distorted Humor).

Out of Place and Gold Fever got some notable results as stallions. The first-named began his career in Florida, earned an upgrade to Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, and his 44 stakes winners included the Grade 2 scorers Orville N Wilbur's and Certain. Gold Fever, on the other hand, is responsible for the Grade 1-placed dual Grade 2 scorer Gold Mover and for Canadian champion and classic star A Bit O'Gold.

Arabian Dancer's more distant descendants include Grade 1 Wood Memorial Stakes winner and New York-based stallion Bellamy Road (by Concerto), whose 25 stakes winners include the Grade 1 scorer Toby's Corner.

His connection to George Vancouver is remote, but classic-placed multiple Grade 1 star and blacktype sire General Assembly (by Secretariat), who is a half-brother to his grandam Ten Cents A Dance, is closer.

That star's multiple Grade 3-winning half-sister Expressive Dance (by Riva Ridge) came up with Grade 1 winner and successful sire Chief Honcho (by Chief's Crown), she is the grandam of Grade 2 scorer and blacktype sire American Chance (by Cure The Blues), and her descendants also include the Group 1-winning miler and current second-crop sire Poet's Voice (by Dubawi).

The pattern in this family, therefore, is that it produced top-class racehorses and it also gets colts who are capable of going on to sire stakes and pattern winners at stud. It is reasonable to suggest, therefore, that some blacktype success awaits progeny of George Vancouver. He stands at Haras de la Hetraie, in France, and one of his first yearlings sold was a €50,000 colt bought by Jean-Claude Rouget.

GEORGE VANCOUVER (USA) – b.2010 – Henrythenavigator – Versailles Treaty, 2 wins inc Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (Gr1), 2nd Prix Morny (Gr1), 3rd Dewhurst Stakes (Gr1). Sire in France. First foals in 2015.

YEARLINGS CATALOGUED (updated)
bc - Akita (by Giant's Causeway)     Arqana     Oct     ​not sold
bc - Asiana (by Westerner)     Arqana     Oct     €9,000
bf – Chickasaw (by Bertolini)     Osarus     Sept     €6,000
bc – Connaissance (by Choisir)     Osarus     Sept     €22,000
bf – Coupe Du Roi (by Kingsalsa)     Osarus     Sept    
bf - Coupe Du Roi (by Kingsalsa)     Arqana     Oct     (p/s) €7,000
bf - Desert Nights (by Desert Style)     Arqana     Oct     €3,000
bf - Diolefine (by Elusive City)     Arqana     Nov     withdrawn
chf - Diyana (by Naaqoos)     Arqana     Oct     not sold
chf - Elusive Light (by Fantastic Light)     Arqana     Oct     not sold
bf – Exhibitor (by Royal Academy)     Osarus     Sept     €12,000
bc - Fongagain (by Dr Fong)     Arqana     Nov     €3,500
bc – Got Rized (by Authorized)     Osarus     Sept     €18,000
chc - Gotdream (by Loup Solitaire)     Arqana     Oct     €65,000
bc - Gulf Stream Lady (by Cadeaux Genereux)     Arqana     Oct     €12,000
bc – Hallen (by Midyan)     Osarus     Sept     not sold
chf - Iza Bere (by Shining Steel)     Arqana     Nov     €5,000
bf – La Barbacane (by Excellent Art)     Osarus     Sept     not sold
bf - Lady Weaseley (by Zieten)     Arqana     Nov     €5,500
chf – Lamora (by Sinndar)     Osarus     Sept     not sold
chc – Landa Vision (by Lando)     Osarus     Sept     not sold
bf - Lettre Intime (by Invincible Spirit)     Arqana     Nov     €9,000
bf – Lonestar Spirit (by Invincible Spirit)     Osarus     Sept     €22,000
chc – Louve Rouge (by Gold Away)     Osarus     Sept     €10,000
bf – Lovelot (by Manduro)     Osarus     Sept     not sold
bc – Marcela Howard (by Fasliyev)     Arqana     Aug     not sold
chc - Moon Tree (by Groom Dancer)     Arqana     Oct     not sold
chc – Nazila (by Polish Precedent)     Arqana     Aug     €50,000
bf - Perstrovka (by Sadler's Wells)     Arqana     Oct     €12,000
bf – Porza (by Septieme Ciel)     Osarus     Sept     €80,000
​bc - Queen Of Malta (by Exceed And Excel)     Osarus     Nov     €8,000
bf - Queen Of Wands (by Sakhee)     Arqana     Oct     not sold
bf - Salvia (by Septieme Ciel)     Arqana     Oct     €13,000
bc - Sharp's Love (by Fasliyev)     Arqana     Oct     €10,000
bf - Shawnee (by Dashing Blade)     Arqana     Oct     not sold
bf – Siro (by Grand Lodge)     Arqana     Aug     €20,000
bf - Sky Galaxy (by Sky Classic)     Arqana     Oct     €10,000
bf – Souanke (by Desert Style)     Arqana     Aug     not sold
bf – Tolie De Soie (by Peintre Celebre)     Osarus     Sept     ​€11,000
bc - Untilside (by Until Sundown)     Arqana     Oct     €15,000