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STALLIONS
PLACERVILLE (USA)
Bay 1990 - 2011 by MR. PROSPECTOR - CLASSY CATHY by PRIVATE ACCOUNT
PEDIGREE
Mr. Prospector Raise a Native Native Dancer Polynesian
Geisha
Raise You Case Ace
Lady Glory
Gold Digger Nashua Nasrulla
Segula
Sequence Count Fleet
Miss Dogwood
Classy Cathy Private Account Damascus Sword Dancer
Kerala
Numbered Account Buckpasser
Intriguing
Trestle Tom Rolfe Ribot
Pocahontas
Ponte Vecchio Round Table
Terentia

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.