Pedigree

                                                                      Freedom Cry
                                        Califet
                                                                      Sally's Room
Unnamed
2016 bay mare
                                                                      Old Vic
                                        Rose Vic
                                                                      Greek Melody

The family

This filly is the 5th foal out of the unraced mare Rose Vic, a daughter of the excellent NH sire Old Vic, and a half sister to Paper Promise and Paper Roses who are both in training at Dodlands Steading.
Paper Promise is a dual bumper winner and winning hurdler, while the fair hurdler Paper Roses, although a maiden, has been runner up 6 times!
Rose Vic also has bumper/hurdle/chase winner Way Out West (b 2013 by Westerner) and colts (b 2017 & 2018) by Jet Away.
The grand dam, Greek Melody, was placed in 4 bumpers before prevailing in a similar event over 2½ miles at Dundalk in the mid 90s. She followed that up with a 3rd place again over 2½ miles in her sole hurdle race. As a broodmare, she has bred 3 winners who all achieved black type - the mare Best Wait (placed in a Royal Bond), Grade 3 placed Spartan Angel and Grade 1 placed Arrive Sir Clive.
The 3rd dam Kazama, placed in France, is an excellent broodmare, with 7 individual winners from 8 foals. Best of these was 6-time winner Kiora, Group 3 placed on the level, Listed placed over hurdles.

About the sire

Califet (bay horse, born 1998) raced for 4 seasons, running from 2-4 years for Guy Cherel in France then, after finishing a close up 4th in the 2002 Arc, joined Godolphin for a couple of races as a 5 year old .
Winner of a Listed event as a 3 year old, Califet really blossomed at 4 winning a Group 3 over 12 furlongs at Longchamp before winning a Group 2 again over 12 furlongs at Saint-Cloud.
A sparely-made colt who improved with age, he was a high-class racehorse, rated 126 by Timeform.

Retired to stud in 2005, Califet spent the first few years in France before switching to Boardsmill Stud in Ireland in 2014. Sire of over 50 winners on the Flat and 150 (and rising) over jumps, his fee has reflected his growing success as an NH Sire rising to €6,000 in 2019. A proven Grade 1 sire, his best progeny are Blue Dragon (multiple Graded winner in France over hurdles and fences), Gordon Elliott's Clarcam (Grade 1 winning chaser), and WP's Grade 1 winning hurdler Cilaos Emery. Most recently his son Carriacou won the 2019 Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris.

Form Summary

Season 2021-22 outlook

This filly is a half sister to a couple of fine mares who raced for the yard in recent times - Paper Roses and her full sister Paper Promise. She was acquired at the 2019 Tatts Ireland August NH Store Sale. She was at Dodlands for a short spell last season.
'Emily' re-entered Dodlands Steading at the beginning of the summer along with the year younger So Many Roads.
This provided the opportunity to re-acquaint the filly with the morning exercise routine. The two horses have spent several weeks at grass before coming back in for the 2021-22 season at the end of September.

Aim to make a debut in a bumper round about the turn of the year.

Previously....
Having bought Paper Roses in 2014 and her full sister Paper Promise two years later, it wouldn't have been difficult to imagine that, at the Tattersalls (Ireland) August 2019 NH Store Sale, this filly - a half sister to the 'Papers' - would be prominent on our Inspection List.
As it turned out, it was late in the evening on Day 2 of the 3-day sale, that she entered the ring. She's a well-made filly, though not overbig but any notion we had of achieving an uncontested acquisition proved groundless. She cost a wee bit more than we had planned but nevertheless ours was the final bid at the fall of the hammer, and delighted we were too.

During the 2019-20 season, although slightly later than her peers, she had the planned couple of weeks in the yard to gain experience of our morning routine on the gallops. The initial period entailed nothing more than a gentle canter each day, being led 'Up-the-Middle' by one of her new stablemates.
She then spent most of the winter months with Greg Aitken in a local yard, as she strengthened and matured.

'Emily' returned to the yard mid August '20, where as expected she proved a wee bit of a handful for the early season work riders. We were patient with this nice, athletic filly as we know how much ability the family holds so we again roughed off the filly for the winter months.

Season		win	2nd	3rd	4th	other
2021-22	NH Flat

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