SIRE:
MR PROSPECTOR, the pre-potent champion
and world's leading progenitor, was
a renowned Sire of Sires and needs
no further elaboration.
DAM:
CLASSY CATHY, top weighted 3 year old
filly in the 1986 Blood-Horse Free Handicap,won
7 races $537,970 including Alabama Stakes
Gr.1, Ashland Stakes Gr.1, Gazelle
Stakes Gr. 1, etc.
2nd DAM:
TRESTLE, unraced, dam of SPORTS
VIEW $915,952, 10 wins incl. Queens
County H. Gr.3, Discovery H. Gr.3,
Aqueduct H., Gr.3, sire, MS MARGI
$247,915, second in Spinster Stakes, Gr.1.
PLACERVILLE: A winner of 3 races
and placed from 5 starts, earning £
81,889, including Prince of Wales’s
Stakes, Gr.2, Feilden Stakes, L,
second Thresher Classic Trial, Gr.3.
Sold for $400,000 at the Keeneland
July Select Sales, the Prince Khaled Abdullah
owned, Henry Cecil trained PLACERVILLE
was a late foal. He made an impressive winning
debut at 2 in The Westley Maiden Stakes
(Div 1).
As a three year old, he won the Listed
Fielden Stakes, displaying a fine blend
of speed and courage.In his next start,
PLACERVILLE overcame adverse circumstances
of a fire in his float, to run a narrow
second in the Thresher Classic Trial, Gr.3.
In the Prix Jean Prat, Gr.1, he ran
a gallant one and a half lengths fifth,
in a field that included BIGSTONE.
In the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Gr.2
at Royal Ascot, he beat 1993 Prix de l’Arc
de Triomphe, Gr.1 winner URBAN
SEA (dam of Epsom and Irish Derby winner
GALELIO) in a field which included
EZZOUD, winner of the (1993 and 1994)
Juddmonte International Stakes,GR.1
and 1994 Eclipse Stakes Gr.1, EMPEROR
JONES, LUCKY LINDY, etc.
PLACERVILLE is one of only two three-years-olds
to win this race in the last 28 years.
With the presence of PRIVATE ACCOUNT,
TOM ROLFE, ROUND TABLE and BOLD RULER
as successive broodmare sires, PLACERVILLE
offers numerous opportunities of the highest
order. MR PROSPECTOR and PLACERVILLE
have both demonstrated their outstanding
affinity for the NORTHERN DANCER
strain in the broodmares with which they
have been matched.