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Pedigree Race Record Sire Line

Pedigree – Binary Vision

Race Record – Comments from His Trainer and Juddmonte Farm

Quote from John Gosden.
“A horse with a good mind and very genuine. Strong and well made witha lot of speed and natural ability.”

Comments from Juddmonte Farm
This colt progressed very pleasingly at three and broke his maiden at York in commanding style by seven lengths. In the race he showed good speed and a particularly impressive turn of foot. To emphasise how highly rated he was he went straight to an all-aged Listed race and was only beaten just over three lengths despite fracturing his cannon bone in the race. This showed what a high class performer he was and it was of great sadness for Juddmonte that we were unable to get him back to the races. His sire DISTANT VIEW already has 2 promising young stallions at stud, most notably OBSERVATORY who got off to a really good start in 2005. This colt has all the attributes and qualities to make a high class stallion.

Teddy Grimthorpe
Racing Manager
Juddmonte Farm

STALLION CAREER – BINARY VISION

As a juvenile, Binary Vision showed the precocity we have come to expect from his family. Ready to race by the mid June, he ran out a very easy winner of a 8-furlong maiden race at York on his debut. The Racing Post commented: “An impressive debut by BINARY VISION, a nice type who is also well-related. He strode clear in the final furlong under only hand riding and looks a decent prospect, winning by 7 lengths being value for more than the winning distance.”

Unfortunately he broke his right cannon in his second start in which he still managed to finish 6th, 3 ½ lengths behind the winner in an all age group. The winner of that race is a winner of three Group3 races and three listed races, the second and the third horse are winners of a Group3 race and 2 listed races respectively.

After his last race Binary Vision was operated and screws were inserted into his right cannon and he was rested for 8 months. After that he was sent back to J.H.M Gosden and resumed training but the injury proved too much to allow the horse to run so it was decided to retire him in December 2005.

He has now been bought as a Stallion and sent to Cyprus which we have no doubt that he will have a very successful stallion career.

Binary Vision has all the ingredients which can make a top-class stallion, notably outstanding ability, a great will to win and a tough constitution, and, significantly, he comes from a female line which has already produced sires of major winners.

Perhaps Binary Vision was as good as he was because he is inbred to three stallions which were champions in their home country. He is inbred 5 x 4 to Northern Dancer, 5 x 5 to Nasrullah and 3 x 5 to Native Dancer, with none of this inbreeding being close enough to limit Binary Vision’s options as a stallion. Indeed, with his third generation featuring Raise A Native, Irish River , Blushing Groom and Nijisky, he offers breeders ample scope for reinforcing the influence of four of the world’s most outstanding male lines.

Sire Line - DISTANT VIEW

When Distant View began his stallion career in 1996, he had two sizeable obstacles to overcome. In a business where memories are remarkably short, he suffered the disadvantage of not having raced since the Breeders’ Cup Mile in November, 1994. The other hurdle he had to overcome was the cautious reception that often awaits European turf horses when they retire to stud in Kentucky, and Distant View hadn’t helped his cause by finishing seventh on his only appearance in the U.S.

Consequently, Distant View’s fee in his first season was set at only $10,000 - a bargain price for a champion son of Mr Prospector. This initial fee looks an even bigger bargain now that the 57 named foals from his first crop have had ample opportunities to prove themselves. As many as five sons from this crop – Distant Music, Observatory, Explicit, Decarchy and Fateful Dream - have become Group or Graded Stakes winners, with his daughter Averted View increasing the total of stakes winners from this crop to six.

The first to make their mark were the Juddmonte home-breds Distant Music and Observatory. Distant Music, whose dam is a non-black-type winner by Nijinsky, earned himself the title of Timeform’s champion two-year-old in 1999 with an unbeaten three-race campaign, which also made him the highest-rated British juvenile on the International Classifications. Distant Music produced a turn of foot reminiscent of his sire’s when he won the G2 Champagne Stakes and again when he defeated Brahms, a subsequent winner of the GI Hollywood Derby, in the G1 Dewhurst Stakes. Distant Music also enjoyed Group success at three and four years and has now embarked on a stallion career which will see him shuttle between Ireland and Australia .

Observatory made sure that Distant View’s name was kept well to the fore in the summer of 2000. Improving with every race, this very determined colt won two G3 races, including the Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot, before finishing a rather unlucky second in the G2 Celebration Mile. These efforts earned him a shot against some of Europe’s top milers in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and Observatory proved more than equal to the task. Running on with great enthusiasm, he proved too strong for the wonderful Giant’s Causeway and denied the Irish colt his sixth consecutive G1 success by half a length. The compilers of the International Classifications paid tribute to Observatory’s performance by rating him the best miler of the 2000 season, superior at this distance to such as Giant’s Causeway, King’s Best, and War Chant. Observatory started his four-year-old campaign where he left off, putting up another very courageous display to win the Gr.1 Prix d’Ispahan.

Decarchy and Fateful Dream both became Graded winners on turf in California after winning in Europe but Distant View is also capable of getting very good dirt horses, as Explicit has shown. This very fast horse – now at stud in Kentucky - established himself as one of America ’s best 6-furlong performers with a sequence of excellent performances, including his victories under top weight in the GII True North Handicap and the GIII Count Fleet Sprint Handicap in 2002. Another good dirt performer from Distant View’s first crop was his very tough son General Grant, who once failed by only half a length to snatch victory in the GIII Fred W. Hooper Handicap over 1 1/8 miles.

In addition to Distant View’s five Graded Stakes winners, his first crop also produced Summer View, who received an International Classifications rating of 110 after winning his first two starts and finishing a close second in a Listed race over 1 1/8 miles at Newmarket . Another who went close to becoming a stakes winner was the French-trained filly Serene View, who ended her career with a half-length second in the Prix Ceres over a mile and a head second in the Prix Isola Bella over 7 furlongs.

One notable link between four of Distant View’s first-crop Graded Stakes winners is that Explicit, Decarchy, Observatory and Distant Music are all inbred 5 x 3 to Northern Dancer and 4 x 5 to Native Dancer. Observatory is also inbred 4 x 4 to Nashua , 1955’s Horse of the Year.

Distant View inevitably found it harder and harder to attract quality mares in his second, third and fourth seasons, but that hasn’t stopped him underlining his potential. His second crop produced Dr Brendler, a Listed winner in Ireland who has developed into a very good turf performer in the USA , where his wins include the GII Dixie Handicap. Dr Brendler was also a good third in the GI Manhattan Handicap.

Like Distant Music, Dr Brendler has Nijinsky in his pedigree and so does Sightseek, the outstanding filly who leads Distant Music’s 1999 crop. When this impressive filly strode away from Gold Mover to land her third Graded victory in the GI Humana Distaff Handicap in 2003, she improved her record to five wins and four seconds from her first nine starts, in the process confirming her status as one of America ’s finest dirt females.

Sightseek is one of seven Graded stakes winner to emerge from the 170 named foals in Distant View’s first three crops, which equates to over 4 per cent. Few stallions – and even fewer who began their career at a fee of $10,000 – prove this effective at the top level.

Distant View’s early successes should translate into excellent results on the track from 2003. His 2001 crop, sired at an increased fee of $15,000, is by far his largest to date, numbering over 80 live foals, and his fee rose again to $20,000 in 2001 and 2002. His yearlings of 2002 included a filly which sold to Shadwell for the equivalent of $430,000 and five others which achieved prices of more than $100,000.

Juddmonte supported Distant View with some of the best mares in 2000 and was rewarded with a uniformly attractive group, featuring a sister to Distant Music (named Dashiki), a brother to Observatory (named Star Magnitude) and a brother to Sightseek (named Viziership). There is also an impressive half-sister to Danehill, Eagle Eyed, Harpia and Shibboleth named Far Shores with Andre Fabre; a good-looking daughter of the Oaks winner Reams of Verse named Ithaca with Henry Cecil; a half-sister to the Listed winner Comfy called Devore with Michael Stoute; and Spacecraft, a half-sister to the classic-placed Etoile Montante, in training with Criquette Head-Maarek. Juddmonte also has 11 yearlings by Distant View in 2003, including sisters to Sightseek and Distant Music and youngsters out of the stakes winners Flaming Torch, Nidd, Storm Dove and Super Staff.