Cactus Ridge

4 5 6 7 8 9 Undefeated in four starts, all at two Cactus Ridge, captured three stakes events by a total margin of 24 lengths, and he ended his career with an easy win in the Arlington-Washington Futurity (G3). With multiple stakes winners in each of his first three crops, he is now a grade one sire, who is among top 10 third crop sire of 2009. By Hennessy, one of Storm Cats leading sire sons, Cactus Ridge is a product of the Northern Dancer/Mr. Prospector cross, and stallions bred on that cross are beginning to work well when bred back over Mr. Prospector line mares. Cactus Ridge is sire of a stakes winner out of mare by Coronado Quest (by Forty Niner). Hennessy and his sons have stakes winners out of mares descending from Mr. Prospector through Crafty Prospector, Carson City, Distant View, Geiger Counter, Gone West, Gulch, Jade Hunter, Miswaki, Unbridled and his three-parts-brother Pentelicus, and Woodman. Storm Cat line sires have also done well over Mr. Prospector through Afleet, Conquistador Cielo (and his son Marquetry), Fappiano (and sons Cahill Road, Cryptoclearance, Quiet American and Rubiano), Thunder Gulch, Kingmambo and Seeking the Gold. Mr. Prospector is a son of Raise a Native, and Storm Cat and his sons have also done well with mares descending from Raise a Native through Exclusive Native (and his son Affirmed), and Alydar. Hennessy has three stakes winners out of mares by Alydar, and two stakes winners, including a grade one winner out of a mare by Alydar's son, Saratoga Six. Other sons of Alydar who have promise here include Turkoman, Easy Goer, Alysheba, Strike the Gold, Criminal Type, Jeblar and Wheaton. Storm Cat line stallions have crossed very well over Seattle Slew line mares. Hennessy has a stakes winner out of a mare by Seattle Slew's son, Seattle Song, and other Seattle Slew sons that are broodmare sires of Storm Cat line stakes winners are A.P Indy, Capote, General Meeting, Gold Legend and Slewpy. Storm Cat and his sons have been very successful with Damascus line mares, this cross producing Hennessy's Champion, Johannesburg, who is out of a mare by Ogygian. Cactus Ridge has stakes winners out of mares descending from Damascus via mares by Time For a Change (record-breaking stakes winner Hollywood Hit) and Unaccounted For (by Private Account, also sire of the second dam of a grade one winner by Cactus Ridge); Timeless Moment (sire of Gilded Time); Eastern Echo; Crusader Sword; and Bailjumper (sire of Skip Away). The cross of Storm Cat line stallions over Blushing Groom line mares has been an extremely successful one with nearly 40 stakes winners, nine of them grade one. Cactus Ridge already has a stakes winner out of a mare by Runaway Groom (sire of Cherokee Run), and other good sources of Blushing Groom will be Rahy, and Mt. Livermore. Cactus Ridge's grade one winner Hot Cha Cha is out of a mare by Broad Brush (who is sire of Include, Concern, Best of Luck and Mongoose). He also has a stakes winner out of a mare by Phone Trick, a son of Clever Trick.