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There have been few better racemares trained in Sydney over the years than Neville Begg's flying grey Emancipation, who won 19 races, six of them Group I in an era when there was only one Group I event (what is now the Coolmore Classic) restricted to mares.
The daughter of Bletchingly went off to stud with a high degree of expectation, but produced just seven named foals, three of which won, highlighted by the Group II winner Royal Pardon.
The five fillies she produced, while modest on the track, have all proven to be influential at stud either leaving stakes-winners themselves or daughters that have left stakes-winners.
Animation (foaled in 1986) left Group II winner Magneto and is grand-dam of
this year's Listed VRC Winter Championships Final winner Amovatio, who resumes
at Caulfield on Saturday.Principation (1987) is the grand-dam of Group I placed stakes-winner Raid and is the third dam of Group I MRC Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes winner Stratum Star, who runs again on Saturday in the Group I MRC Toorak Handicap.
Felicitation (1992) is the grand-dam of dual South African Group I winner Rumya, UAE Oaks winner Raihana and Badawiya, who won the Group II VRC Edward Manifold Stakes last Sunday and has accepted for the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas this weekend.
Virage (1993) is the dam of dual Group I winner Virage de Fortune and Group II winner Avenue, while another of her daughters is the dam of Group III winner Slapstick.
La Suffragette (1995) is the dam of Caulfield Cup winner Railings and another of her daughters has produced Group II winner Pimms Time.
Taking in all of the above, Emancipation has produced a dynasty that has left 13 stakes-winners so far and with many family members being given commercial opportunities at stud, it's a dynasty set to grow further.
All of that from a mare that was regarded at the time as being an awful disappointment at stud.
Another former darling of the turf featured last Sunday as the grand-dam of a stakes-winner when six year-old Red Ransom (USA) mare Let's Make Adeal swept into Melbourne Cup calculations with a powerful win in the Group III VRC The Bart Cummings at Flemington.
Let's Make Adeal runs in the same ownership as her famous grand-mother Let's
Elope, who won pretty much of everything in the spring of 1991, taking the
Turnbull, Caulfield Cup, Mackinnon and Melbourne Cup.Sent to stud first in the Northern Hemisphere to visit the world's best stallions, Let's Elope achieved only moderate success with Group II winner Ustinov (by Seeking the Gold) her best result.
Sent back to Australia she produced the Group II SAJC Adelaide Cup winner Outback Joe from a mating with Elvstroem and was retired from stud duties in 2008.
Her unraced Danehill (USA) daughter Let's Get Famous is the dam of Let's Make Adeal and has a string of young High Chaparral (IRE) fillies coming through and is due to foal to Epsom Derby winner Camelot (IRE), so there may be more to come from her.
For some champion racemares, the transition to a stud career is a smooth and successful one, with European superstar Miesque setting the bar very high for all who have followed.
Champion at two, three and four back in the late eighties, Nureyev's daughter
Miesque won 12 races, 10 of them Group I including the Breeders Cup Mile twice.She left 14 named foals at stud, 10 of them raced for six winners, five of those winners being stakes-winners headed by triple Group I winner and champion sire Kingmambo.
Her descendants invariably pop up in stakes races right around the world claiming success in the US, Europe, Japan and South Africa with one of them chasing Group I glory at Randwick this Saturday.
Lightly raced three year-old Fastnet Rock colt Jadeer was an impressive last start winner at Moonee Valley and will roll the dice in the Group I ATC Spring Champion Stakes.
Prepared by Team Hawkes, Jadeer is a homebred for Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa and is from the stakes-winning Woodman mare Moon is Up (USA), a 22 year-old daughter of Miesque.
