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20 Jul 2012

Tuttipaesi (pronounced two tee pie A.Z.) which translated from the Italian means “all countries,” a name that not only fittingly describes her own international pedigree, but the international outlook of its connections as well.

 

Valor Ladies chose Tuttipaesi, the highest ranked 2-year-old of either sex to have raced in Italy this season. Tuttipaesi has raced 4 times, finishing a close third in her debut and winning her next 3 races. She narrowly dropped her debut, broke her maiden against winners, then won two stakes, first in a sprint and next in a route. Her last two wins came in stakes races and both were run on the grass. Yet, by far her most eye- catching win came when she broke her maiden against winners when she won by 5 lengths on an all-weather surface.

 

Tuttipaesi’s full record follows:

 

·            She missed by half a length behind two fillies that dead-heated for the win sprinting 5 furlongs on heavy turf in her first start, a race restricted to debutantes.

 

·            The Irish-bred bay filly returned 2 1⁄2 weeks later against winners on an all-weather track in Rome and spread-eagled her field, winning by 5 lengths going 6 furlongs. Her eye-popping win was a revelation to Americans that are not used to seeing horses—especially unseasoned young fillies—deliver that type of performance on a slow, deep synthetic course.

 

·            Next time out Tuttipaesi got a turf course rated “good” for a 5 1⁄2-furlong test at Cappanelle race course in Rome, where she was second choice in the season’s first black-type race of the season for juveniles, the Premio Alessandro Perrone. Tuttipaesi stalked fairly close up, found her best stride in the final 100 yards and pulled away to win by a length.

 

·            Major Italian racing shuts down during the summer because the heat is unbearable and on July 1 the 2-year-old fillies and colts had their traditional test as the first half of the season came to a close. Last year, Lucky Chappy won the colt race impressively enough to attract Barry Irwin’s seasoned eye. This year, the filly equivalent of the race Lucky Chappy won was captured in taking fashion by this new acquisition Tuttipaesi.

Like Lucky Chappy, Tuttipaesi raced over 7 1⁄2 furlongs and to nobody’s surprise, the 3 to 1 favorite in the field of 11 juvenile fillies prevailed like the quality animal she is. Tuttipaesi runs with a hood (in America we stuff cotton in their ears), which makes the movement of her ears more visible. But it was obvious by her body and ear language that Tuttipaesi did only the bare minimum to win the Premio Mantovani. She reported home three-quarters of a length on top, yet gave the distinct impression that it could easily have been triple that margin.

 

Barry Irwin said “She answered one of the biggest questions our sport can pose when she showed another dimension by proving that she can route. One thing I’ve noticed about Italian form is that the fillies that show form at 2 generally train on at 3 and continue to pace the filly division.“This year’s top 3-year-old fillies are dual Classic winner Cherry Collect, the Champion at 2 last year; this year’s Guineas runner-up Last Night Show was second to Cherry Collect last year in the Criterium Femminelle and this year in the Classic Guineas; and Rosa Eglanteria was second versus colts in the Group 1 Criterium and in her only start at 3 this season was a close up third in the Classic Italian Oaks.”

 

Timeform rates Tuttipaesi at 97p, which is a strong early summer figure and is 1 point higher than the number earned in the same race last season by Cherry Collect, who went on to Championship honors and a pair of Classic wins this season. Little wonder that of all the 2-year-olds to have raced in Italy this season, the Timeform clone in Italy rates Tuttipaesi the number one juvenile regardless of gender.

 

Tuttipaesi is an Irish-bred and sold daughter of Clodovil, best in 5 of 8 career outings, his best score coming in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai de Poulains—the French version of the Two Thousand Guineas. Although standing in Ireland for a modest fee of less than $10,000, Clodovil is enjoying a lot of success. Although best known as the sire of the top-class filly Nahoodh, winner of the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes and the Group 2 Lowther Stakes, Clovodil this year not only has one of the fastest juvenile fillies in Europe in Tuttipaesi, but he also is the sire of Laugh Out Loud, winner in Paris of the Group 2 Prix de Sandringham.

 

Tuttipaesi hails from a female family developed in North America by the late Louis Wolfson of Harbor View, who was the owner/breeder of the last Triple Crown winner in Affirmed. Wolfson’s sons bred It’s in the Air, who is the fourth dam of Tuttipaesi. It’s in the Air was a daughter of Mr. Prospector, the most influential speed sire in the world. Mr. Prospector was sired by Wolfson’s stallion Raise a Native. It’s in the Air was the Champion Filly at 2 in North America. When she retired, she was a winner of no less than five Grade 1 races—all won after the age of 2 and all over a distance of ground. As a broodmare, It’s in the Air produced three good stakes winners, as well as Try to Catch Me, a winner that is the third dam of Tuttipaesi.

As a mare, Try to Catch Me produced Storming Home, whose earnings of $1,536,392 were almost double that of his illustrious grandam It’s in the Air. Storming Home won the ultra-prestigious Group 1 Champion Stakes at Newmarket, as well as an additional three Grade 1 races in Southern California.Try to Catch Me produced a good daughter that was represented by Group 3 Irish stakes winner Dubai Prince and another daughter is the dam of Tuttapaesi.

 

Ruby Ridge, the unraced dam of double stakes winner Tuttipaesi, was sired by Acatenango (right), who is also the broodmare sire of Team Valor International’s all-time great Animal Kingdom, winner of the Kentucky Derby. Acatenango, a legendary racehorse and sire in Germany, has left an international legacy behind. As far as his impact on Tuttipaesi is concerned, the filly can be expected to race farther than one would expect from a daughter of the Classic Miler and speed sire Clodovil.

 

Tuttipaesi had been on Barry Irwin’s radar for quite awhile before he felt comfortable enough in the knowledge that she would route. But the Acatenango influence came to the fore in her first try beyond a sprint and this is what prompted him to pull the trigger this week.

 

Article from July 2012, Pictured with this news item is Tuttipaesi winning one of her two stakes triumphs in Italy.

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