When Supreme Fairy held off three 'got-abroad' fillies to win the Deccan Bookmakers Golconda 1000 Guineas, Gr.2, she enabled several entities to savour the thrill of success once again. M/s. Vijay Kumar Gupta and Susheel Kumar Gupta have had the pleasure of leading in winners of the race earlier though, including this time, none of them have been in their own colours. Their trainer L.V.R. Deshmukh has saddled all four winners (Attractress, Vijay Damini, Vijays Pride and Supreme Fairy) for them, the wins coming neatly in alternate years. Jockey P.S. Chouhan also has four winners to his credit and while it was Harish who was astride Attractress, he made up for it by riding Surya Lakshmi for trainer K.V. Srinivas. Razeen followed up as maternal grandsire as last year's winner Apparition was also out a daughter of his. For Usha Stud it was an eighth victory and it enabled that nursery to draw level with Poonawalla Farms. Supreme Fairy traces to Pretty Polly and it was the third triumph for the family, Priceless Polly (1981) and Twin Star (2002) being its previous winners. It now leads that category. 

For Multidimensional, however, it was his first. Yet, it enabled him to establish an all-time record and become the stallion to reach the magic figure of 10 Classic winners quickest. His Classic winners are:- 

          Amelia

          Alaindair

          Striking

          Artesia

          Winged Foot

          Snowdrift 

          Roses in Bloom

          Godspeed

          Bold Majesty

          Supreme Fairy 

It is a magic figure because photographs of stallions who have sired ten individual Classic winners are displayed on the Wall of Fame in the Stud Book Department. The recent ruling of the Turf Authorities of India not to consider the Bangalore Fillies' Championship Stakes, Gr.1 as a 'Classic' may result in Amelia not being counted in Multidimensional's ten. However, that would be bit harsh since some those 'deavlued'  races counted in the case of a few of the stallions whose photographs adorn the Wall of Fame. 

For those who may be interested (and the number of such enthusiasts may be very small), the full details of all the Wall of Fame stallions and the time it took them to qualify are given below.

In about 70 odd years since the inception of Classics in India, only 17 stallions have met the criteria so the yardstick laid down really separates the chaff from the grain. It has to be kept in mind though that for a number of years there were only 5 Classics - the Indian Classics. It was virtually impossible for some very good stallions like Sheridan Short Hand, Hyder Ali and their ilk to qualify on the basis of a yardstick that was prescribed after the 'regional Classics' had been introduced. Also, it meant that stallions like Rock of Gibraltar and Prince Pradeep took much longer to qualify than their counterparts who had the benefit a full complement of all Classics.  

The stud shown is where the stallion made his mark and a uniform date of 1 November has been shown to indicate when a stallion's first crop started racing. It is quite possible that in some cases an odd 2YO race was run before 1 November. The calculation of time taken to reach 10 individual Classic winners has been calculated manually and is thus liable to errors. 

It must be emphasised that the above table highlights a statistical achievement and is not meant to 'grade' the stallions in any way.  

PAST THE POST 

In the last Volume of the Indian Stud Book, the family which had the best representation was the Pretty Polly clan. Supreme Fairy belongs to the Pretty Polly family. Usha Stud imported the Palestine mare Tina's Way, the third dam of Supreme Fairy, in 1977.  Pretty Polly family is more than a hundred years old and there  are several branches of it. Supreme Fairy is from the Gadabout-Arabella-Polly Flinders stirps which is not the most elite branch. Still, it has done very well at Usha Stud and it is to be wondered why more mares from this stirps did not come to India.

Is it just a coincidence that Westphalia's owners bought a Galileo mare(fifth dam Gadabout) in foal to Teofilo at Goff's Sale just three days before Supreme Fairy's victory ?