....EMERALD CAT[USA] Bay 2002 Storm Cat – Heeremandi, by Royal Academy

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] was bred in Kentucky by Skara Glen Stables

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] was acquired by Dr. Demi O'Byrne for $ 1,500,000 as a yearling at the 2003 Keeneland September Sales for the Susan Magnier/Michael Tabor partnership.

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] was sent into training with Aidan O'Brien at the historic Ballydoyle Stables in Tipperary's Golden Vale in Ireland.

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] made his debut in a Leopardstown maiden race at 3 years in 2005, where he displayed a wonderful turn of foot over the metric mile and scored comfortably under Kieren Fallon.

•  Promoted to Pattern Race company, EMERALD CAT[USA] was unlucky to come across unsuitable soft going in the 1400 m. Rock Of Gibraltar EBF Tetrarch Stakes, Gr.3 , at The Curragh. Here he battled on tenaciously in the testing conditions until the final 200 metres, when he had to give best to Indesatchel and finished second.

•  For this effort, EMERALD CAT[USA] was rated 101 by Racing Post .

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] started twice more, but was unfortunate enough to encounter soft ground conditions again, which blunted his turn of foot.

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] was then retired and sold to stand at Capricorn Stud Farm , India.

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] is a son of the stud sensation STORM CAT , the North American-based breed-shaper and champion sire, currently the highest-priced sire in the world at a stud fee of US$ 500,000, and sire of at least 127 stakes winners worldwide, whose sire sons include:

•  GIANT'S CAUSEWAY , 9 wins, $3,077,960, incl. Juddmonte International Stakes, G1 ; leading sire

•  CAT THIEF , 4 wins, $3,951,012, incl. Breeders' Cup Classic, G1 ; sire

•  TALE OF THE CAT , 5 wins, $360,900, incl. King's Bishop Stakes, G2 ; leading sire.

•  TABASCO CAT , 8 wins, $2,347,671, incl. Preakness Stakes, G1 , Belmont Stakes, G1 ; sire

•  HENNESSY , champion 2-y-o, 4 wins, $580,400, incl. Hopeful Stakes, G1 ; leading sire

•  HARLAN , 8 wins, $403,173, incl. Vosburgh Stakes, G1 ; leading sire.

•  BLACK MINNALOUSHE , 4 wins, $490,005, in England & Ireland, incl. Irish 2000 Guineas, G1 ; sire

•  FOREST WILDCAT , 9 wins, $478,860 , incl. Maryland Breeders' Cup Handicap, G3 ; leading sire.

•  HOLD THAT TIGER , champion 2-y-o colt, 3 wins, $646,421, incl. Grand Criterium, G1 ; sire

•  ONE COOL CAT , champion 2-y-o colt, 5 wins, $564,798, incl. National Stakes, G1 ; sire

and whose daughters include:

•  STORM FLAG FLYING , champion 2-y-o filly, 7 wins, $1,951,828, incl. Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, G1

•  DENEBOLA , champion 2-y-o filly, 2 wins, $338,742, incl. Prix Marcel Boussac, G1 , Prix de Cabourg, G3

•  SWEET CATOMINE , champion 2-y-o filly, 5 wins, $1,059,600, incl. Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, G1

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] is out of one the highest-priced broodmares ever, HEEREMANDI , herself sold at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale of 2001 for $ 2,150,000.

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] 's dam, HEEREMANDI , was a very speedy stakes winner herself and is a three-parts sister to the dam of FLAWLESSLY , champion turf mare in North America.

•  Their dam was a half-sister, amongst others, to breed-shaper HALO (the influential sire of the likes of SUNDAY SILENCE , DEVIL'S BAG , etc.) and to TOSMAH (champion female in North America) and QUEEN SUCREE (dam of Kentucky Derby winner CANNONADE ).

•  The next dam, the stakes-winning COSMAH , was half-sister to NATALMA, dam of NORTHERN DANCER , and to Bubbling Beauty, dam of ARCTIC TERN .

•  EMERALD CAT[USA] is in-bred 3 x 3 to CRIMSON SAINT , 3 x 4 to NORTHERN DANCER , 5 x 4 to PRINCEQUILLO and 5 x 5 to BULL PAGE .

•  In short, EMERALD CAT[USA] owns one of the finest pedigrees in contemporary world breeding. Allied to his racecourse ability, this represents a potent brew, thus making him ideally placed to inject speed and class into bloodlines found in India today.