Perfect Mandate
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Sire of 11 Stakes Horses,
Earners of More Than $2,700,000

By the Great Sire Gone West, 
Sire of 74 Stakes Winners
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Out of Graded Stakes-Placed
Performing Arts (Ire), Dam of
Three Graded Stakes Winners 
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Perfect Mandate is a horse with near-perfect conformation. As a yearling, he sold at Keeneland for $550,000. As a 2-year-old, he went on to show his speed at the races with impressive fractions of :21.1 and :43.4 in his first start. 

Perfect Mandate ran second in the $75,000 Sunny Slope Stakes at Santa Anita in his second start, but then an injury ended his highly promising racing career.
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Perfect Mandate is the sire of 43 winners, 11 of them stakes horses, including three weighted on the Experimental Free Handicap. 
 

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Perfect Mandate
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Gone West--Performing
Arts (Ire), by The Minstrel
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Fee: $7,500
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To request a 2008 breeding contract online, click here.
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Chestnut, 1996, by Gone West--Performing Arts (Ire), by The Minstrel
Native Dancer
Raise a Native
Raise You
Mr. Prospector
Nashua
Gold Digger
Sequence
Gone West
    (1984) Bold Ruler
Secretariat
Somethingroyal
Secrettame
Tim Tam
Tamerett
*Mixed Marriage
  Perfect
      Mandate Nearctic
Northern Dancer
Natalma
The Minstrel
Victoria Park
Fleur
Flaming Page
Performing Arts
    (Ire)    (1987) Restless Wind
On Your Mark 2nd
Super Scope
*Noble Mark 2nd
Pall Mall
Noble Joan
Rhena Belle
 

Perfect Mandate stands at Old English Rancho, 
461 North Piedra Road, Sanger, CA 93657
Inquiries to Patsy Berumen or Jennifer Mulgrew
Telephone (909) 947-3911 / Fax (909) 947-7368
Farm managers: Craig Allen and Pete Hilvers
E-mail  patsy@oldenglishrancho.com
Perfect Mandate's 2008 stud fee is $7,500, live foal
Nominated to the Breeders' Cup
and California-Bred Awards Program

For an isolated pedigree page for convenience in printing, click here.
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RACE RECORD
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Age          Starts          1st          2nd         3rd         Earned
   2                2                0             2             0           $22,280
     At 2: 2nd Sunny Slope S. (L) at Santa Anita (6 furlongs).

For an explanation of stakes designations, click here.
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IN THE STUD
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     Perfect Mandate's first foals reached racing age in 2003. He is the sire of 44 winners, 11 stakes horses, and earners of more than $2,700,000. They have an Average Earnings Index of 1.31 and a Sire Production Index of 1.27, both among the best in California. His winners include (sex/sire of dam):

TEMPTING DATE (f/Something Lucky). 9 wins, 2 to 5, 2007, $363,817, Adena Springs Matchmaker Turf Sprint S. (O--Remington Park), Bold Ego H. (O--Sunland Park), Czaia H. (O--Sunland Park), California Cup Distaff H. (LR--Santa Anita), Chamisa H. (O--Albuquerque)..
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ALLSWELLTHATNSWELL (f/Something Lucky). 4 wins, 3 to 5, $308,392, E. B. Johnston S. (O--Fairplex Park), Stanford S. (O--Bay Meadows), 2nd Las Madrinas H. (L--Fairplex Park), Mount Tam S. (O--Golden Gate Fields), Rockridge S. (O--Golden Gate Fields), 3rd A Gleam Invitational H. (G2--Hollywood Park), Rancho Bernardo H. (G3--Del Mar), Manhattan Beach S. (L--Hollywood Park), Monrovia H. (L--Santa Anita), Tuzla S. (O--Hollywood Park), Desert Stormer H. (L--Hollywood Park).

RAZEN HAZEN  (g/Stately Cielo). 6 wins, 2 to 5, $200,409, Cavonnier Juvenile S. (O--Santa Rosa), 2nd San Mateo S. (O--Bay Meadows), 3rd Earlene McCabe Derby (O--Sacramento).

TWO TO GET READY (f/Bold Badgett). 3 wins at 2 and 3, $136,596, Pio Pico S. (O--Fairplex Park), 2nd Fairfield S. (O--Vallejo).

FLYING FIRST CLASS (c/Flying Sensation). 2 wins at 3, 2007, $111,096, Derby Trial S. (L--Churchill Downs).

WISE MANDATE (c/Bold Badgett). 2 wins at 2, 2007, $108,060, Jack Goodman S. (L--Santa Anita). Weighted on the Experimental Free Handicap.

RUN BROTHER RON (c/Bold Badgett). 3 wins at 2, 2007, $102,607, Beau Brummel S. (O--Fairplex Park), Everett Nevin Alameda County Futurity (OR--Pleasanton), 2nd Willard L. Proctor Memorial S. (L--Hollywood Park). Weighted on the Experimental Free Handicap.

Bachelorette One (f/Debonair Roger). 4 wins at 3 and 4, 2007, $162,175, 2nd Irish O'Brien S. (L--Santa Anita).

Perfect Mode (c/Ruhlmann). 2 wins at 4, $109,060, 2nd Quicken Tree S. (LR--Hollywood Park), Pepper Oaks Farm S. (NR--Hollywood Park), 3rd Pepper Oaks Farm S. (NR--Hollywood Park).

Badgett's Mandate (c/Bold Badgett). Winner at 2, $97,400, 2nd California Breeders' Champion S. (LR--Santa Anita), Golden Bear S. (O--Golden Gate Fields), Everett Nevin Alameda County Futurity (OR--Pleasanton).

Military Mandate (c/Moscow Ballet). Winner at 2, $59,400, 3rd Best Pal S. (G2--Del Mar), Graduation S. (LR--Del Mar). Top-weighted California-bred colt on the Experimental Free Handicap of 2003.

My City by the Bay (c/Publicity). 3 wins at 4, 2007, $117,720.

Hardmoney Road (c/Cryptoclearance). 5 wins at 3 and 4, $68,030.

He Has It All (c/Prospective Star). 5 wins at 5, $50,320.
 
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SIRE LINE

     By Gone West (1984), stakes winner of 6 races, $682,251. Sire of 74 stakes winners, more than $59,000,000, including Zafonic (Horse of the Year in Europe, champion 2- and 3-year-old on European Free Handicap, $663,984), Royal Abjar (champion 4 times in Germany), Gone Prospecting (champion in Trinidad), Da Hoss ($1,931,558), Zafolia (in Japan, $1,847,073), Lassigny ($1,204,498), West by West ($1,038,123), Grand Slam ($971,292), Commendable ($907,470), etc.
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FEMALE LINE
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     Out of a mare by The Minstrel (1974), Horse of the Year. Sire of 58 stakes winners, $18,639,378. Sire of the dams of 115 stakes winners, including Grey Swallow (Ire) (champion, $1,125,753), Zafonic (Horse of the Year in Europe, champion 3 times in Europe and France), Flat Top (champion twice), Key Change (champion in Ireland), Darnay (champion in England), Don Matias (champion in Peru), Ajanta (Horse of the Year, champion twice), Blu Air Force (Ire) (champion), Musical Prospect (champion), Tinners Way ($1,849,452), Unaccounted For ($998,468), Semoran ($860,035), etc.
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1st dam
Performing Arts (Ire) (1987 f. by The Minstrel). In England, 2 wins at 2, $64,625, 
..........2nd Firth of Clyde S., 3rd Goffs Irish 1000 Guineas (G1), Queen Mary S. 
..........(G3). In the U. S., winner at 4, $14,625. Sister to THE NOBLE PLAYER. ..........Dam of--
.....PERFORMING MAGIC (c. by Gone West). 3 wins at 3, $699,055, Illinois 
...............Derby (G2), Remington Park Derby (G3), Derby Trial S. (G3), 2nd 
...............Baldwin S. (G3), Indiana Derby, 3rd Del Mar Breeders' Cup H. (G2), 
...............Gotham S. (G3); in England, 2 wins at 2, $24,367.
.....WOODBOROUGH (c. by Woodman). In Ireland and England, 2 wins at 2, 
...............$142,910, Anglesey S. (G3), 2nd Heinz 57 Phoenix S. (G1), Middle Park 
...............S. (G1), 3rd Tripleprint Temple S. (G2); in France, placed at 2, $15,624,
...............3rd Prix de la Salamandre (G1).
.....DANCE TRICK (f. by Diesis-GB). 2 wins at 2 in England, $33,905, Vodata 
...............Woodcote S.
.....Perfect Mandate (c. by Gone West). Stakes-placed, see above.
.....Choir Master (g. by Red Ransom). In England, $20,677, Autumn S.; in U. S., 3
...............wins at 5, 2005, $15,471.
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2nd dam
*NOBLE MARK 2ND (1971 f. by On Your Mark 2nd). Second highweight filly 
..........on Irish Free Handicap. In Ireland, 4 wins at 2, Phoenix S. (G2), Curragh S. 
..........(G3); in England, winner at 3, Duke of York S. (G3), 2nd Ascot One 
..........Thousand Guineas Trial S. (G3), Lowther S. (G3), 3rd King's Stand S. (G1), 
..........Temple S. (G3). Dam of--
.....THE NOBLE PLAYER (c. by The Minstrel). In England, 4 wins at 2 and 3, 
...............2nd Chesham S., Washington Singer S., 3rd Royal Lodge S. (G2); in 
...............France, placed at 2, 3rd Grand Criterium (G1); in U. S., 3 wins at 4 and 5, 
...............$243,750, San Matean H., 2nd Arlington H. (G1), Tanforan H. (G3) twice, 
...............Inglewood H. (G3), Escondido H., 3rd Santa Gertrudes H. 
.....Performing Arts (Ire) (f. by The Minstrel). Stakes-placed winner, see above.
.....Adagio (f. by Monteverdi-Ire). In England, winner at 3, $14,259; in U. S., 3 wins 
...............at 4, $36,667, 3rd Pageant S. Dam of--
..........CAPTIVA (f. by *Sir Tristram). In Australia, Silver Jubilee S., 2nd Edward 
....................Manifold S.(G2), Qantas Wakeful S. (G2),  Tranquil Star S., 3rd The
....................Thousand Guineas (G1), Crown Casino Oaks (G1), etc. 
..........ADAGIETTO (f. by Sackford). In Australia, Waltzing Lily Quality H., 
....................Laurent-Perrier S., 2nd Bounding Away Quality H.
Wild Applause (f. by Sadler's Wells). In England, winner at 3, $5,049. Dam of Zingo.
.....Woodman's Myth. Dam of LUT'S CHOICE (in Brazil).
.....Other winners: Border Guard, Royal Troubador, Noble Dudley, Traviata, 
......... ......Victor's Boat, Storm Hero, Lamu Lady.

3rd dam
NOBLE JOAN (1963 f. by Pall Mall). Unraced. Dam of--
.....*NOBLE MARK 2ND. Stakes winner, see above.
.....*Reservoir Road. 4 wins at 2 and 3, $16,825. Dam of--
..........CASTLE ROAD. 4 wins, 2 to 5, $87,109, New Jersey Futurity.
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