Pedigree Look: Zardana (BRZ)

Note: Pedigree Look is a new bi-weekly post series that I will be doing. I will be looking at a horse in depth for both the sire and the dam. 


Name: Zardana (BRZ)
Year Born: 2004
Sex: Mare
Sire: Crimson Tide (IRE)
Dam: Dear Filly (ARG)
Broodmare Sire: Southern Halo


Profile: She was a decient filly, undefeated in her native Brazil before coming to US. Zardana had already won a couple of listed stakes when she entered the gate into the G2 Bayakoa Handicap. She would win that race at 11/1.




After a 4th place finish in the Santa Maria, she was sent to the Fair Grounds to contest in the inaugural New Orleans Ladies Handicap. She was able to pull off what no filly or colt/gelding/horse could do since 2008, defeat Rachel Alexandra. While the 2009 Horse of the Year finished in front of her in the La Troienne, she possibly course of history. That being that her stablemate Zenyatta and Rachel never met in their careers. She never won again after the NOLC, and finished her career with a runner up finish in last year's Santa Maria. She saw Smart Strike for a foal to be born this year.

Her sire Crimson Tide (IRE) (Saddlers Wells) is a Group 2 winner in Germany, and had a start in North America finishing 7th in the 1998 Canadian Invitational. As a sire Zardana is his best foal, however he recently picked up a Triple Crown winner in Plenty of Kicks (the 11th overall for Brazil). His dam, Sharata (IRE) (Darshwaan (GB)) was unraced. Along with Crimson Tide, she is also the dam to G2 winner in New York Pharatta (IRE) (Fairy King). Her dam, Shademah (IRE) (Thatch) won three times and is the dam to Epsom and Irish Derby winner Shahrastani (Nijinsky).

*As bit of a sidenote: Saddlers Wells and Fairy King are full brothers by Northern Dancer. Thatch, is a full brother to their dam Special.


Zardana's dam is Dear Filly (ARG) (Southern Halo) who according to Pedigree Query appears to be unraced (although because she is not a Northern Hemisphere horse this could be wrong). Zardana is her best foal as well. Her dam My Dear Girl (ARG) (Merce Cunningham), is the dam of Group 2 winner in Brazil Minion (BRZ) (Mutakddim). Her dam is Mystque (ARG) (Logical) is the dam of Group 1 winner in Argentina, My Lad (ARG) (Southern Halo).

While I was never a fan of Zardana's, she was a horse who knew when it was time to step it up in big races. It will be interesting in how she does as a broodmare.