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Pedigree profile: Tentyris
A look into the background of Australia’s newest sprint star
Black Caviar Lightning winner Tentyris is quickly becoming one of Australia's most popular gallopers and he is not the only member of his family to have endeared himself to racing thanks to immense talent and a flashy racing style.
The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained colt, now a dual Group 1 winner following his Coolmore Stud Stakes success in spring, is a grandson of one of the most popular mares of the early 2000s, Divine Madonna.
That daughter of Hurricane Sky, who was trained by Mark Kavanagh, owned a paralysing finishing burst that she has passed down a couple of generations to Tentyris.
But where Tentyris has been showcasing his at sprint trips – most notably in the Lightning, in which he peeled off a 31.5secs last 600m and 20.99secs last 400m - Divine Madonna was at her best at 1600 metres.
Half of her eight wins came at the highest level, three of them at 1600m.
The first of those came in the race now known as the Champions Mile, in 2006, while the following year she won the Toorak Handicap and Empire Rose Stakes at that trip.
Divine Madonna also won a Queen Of The Turf when that Sydney event was run at Rosehill over 1500m.
Divine Madonna entered the breeding barn in the spring of 2008, not long after being bought by Sheikh Mohammed's Darley operation for $2.7 million at the National Broodmare Sale.
The best of her eight named-foals was Maternal, a daughter of Street Cry who won a Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic, while her fifth foal was Deity, a daughter of Exceed And Excel who is the dam of Tentyris.
That son of Street Boss is one of only two to race from Deity, whose daughter of Lonhro is named Dios and has won two of 13 starts, while she has an unraced two-year-old filly by Blue Point called Parcae who is in the same yard as Tentyris.
Divine Madonna is out of the Prego mare My Madonna, whose influence on the Black Caviar Lightning ran deeper than Tentyris with Divine Madonna's half-sister Pieta the granddam of fourth placegetter Baraqiel.
Tentyris is yet another star by Street Boss, a son of Street Cry who is most famous for producing Anamoe and last year stood for $66,000 at Darley's Seymour base in Victoria.
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