Coolmore America 2018

MONARCH was the broodmare sire of Harlan’s Holiday’s very fast son Majesticperfection. SEATTLE SLEW line mares supplied Harlan’s Holiday with several Graded stakes performers, with Graded winners out of daughters of DONERAILE COURT , SLEW CITY SLEW , PULPIT and TAPIT , which suggests that Practical Joke could work well with the A.P. INDY branch. Into Mischief’s Gr.2 winner Vyjack is out of a mare by STRAVINSKY , by NUREYEV , while his Gr.3 winner Can The Man is out of a DANZIG mare. Harlan’s Holiday also has a Gr.3 winner out of mare by a grandson of DANZIG , which raises the options of mares by such as WAR FRONT , WAR CHANT , BELONG TO ME , BOUNDARY , EXCHANGE RATE and HONOR GRADES . All of these could reinforce Practical Joke’s speed. Practical Joke is a member of the STORM CAT male line, but this many-times champion sire of two-year-olds will be back in the fifth generation of Practical Joke’s foals. Again this allows mares with STORM CAT blood. Harlan’s Holiday sired Graded stakes winners from mares by DYNAFORMER and SILVER HAWK , plus a Gr.2 winner out of a mare by KRIS S.’s son ARCH .

The Storm Cat line suffered two severe blows in recent years with the premature deaths of Harlan's Holiday , who passed at 14, and Scat Daddy , just 11 when he died. The line is proving resilient... …The H. Allen Jerkens resulted in a third grade 1 victory for Practical Joke , who also took the Hopeful Stakes (G1) and Champagne Stakes (G1) at 2, as well as the Dwyer Stakes (G3) earlier this year. Practical Joke is actually undefeated in five starts at a mile or less, which is clearly his forte… That combination of speed, precocity, toughness, and versatility makes Practical an alluring stallion prospect, and that allure is further increased by the fact that he is a son of the rapidly rising Into Mischief . Weekly Pedigree Analysis by Alan Porter , Bloodhorse Daily, August 30, 2017 PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: PRACTICAL JOKE With Practical Joke ’s future stallion career in mind, it is encouraging that his sire and both of his grandsires, Harlan’s Holiday and Distorted Humor , did well enough to multiply their original stud fee... With this background of precocious speed, be in demand as a stallion when his racing days are over. Andrew Caulfield , TDN, August 29, 2017

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