The great female families are gifts that keep on giving, and an example of this is the branch of the great Best in Show family descended through the Sir Ivor mare Monroe. Most recently highlighted in “Mares on Monday” due to the descendants of Monroe’s daughter Silver Star, which include 2023 American champion older female Idiomatic (“Mares on Monday: Idiomatic Proves Best in Show in Delaware Handicap,” July 10, 2023) and 2014 American champion older female Close Hatches and her brood (“Mares on Monday: The Monroe Doctrine Still Producing Results,” June 3, 2024; “Mares on Monday: Tacitus Writes Another Piece of History for Monroe,” March 11, 2019), Monroe--a pillar of Juddmonte Farms’s breeding program--is in the spotlight again this week through her daughter Didicoy, whose fifth-generation descendant Whitebeam won her second straight edition of the Diana Stakes (USA-G1) on July 13.
Didicoy, a daughter of Danzig, won three of six starts and placed in two stakes races, one of which was the 1988 Waterford Candelabra Stakes (IRE-G3). She spent her entire broodmare career in England, producing 14 named foals. Three stakes winners were included in that number, including Didina. A daughter of dual English Classic winner Nashwan, Didina became Didicoy’s best performer on the race course, winning the 1995 Dahlia Handicap (USA-G2) and placing in the 1995 Gamely Handicap (USA-G1) and Wilshire Handicap (USA-G2) before retiring to the paddocks at Juddmonte’s Kentucky farm.
Didina was also Didicoy’s most important daughter as a broodmare, producing multiple English listed stakes winner Tantina (by Distant View) and Chilean listed stakes winner Colonialism (by Empire Maker). She also produced stakes producers Auction Room (by Chester House) and Lilyfire (by First Defence), but Tantina was her best producing daughter, throwing 2012 Dubai Duty Free (UAE-G1) winner Cityscape (now an important sire in Argentina) and 2012 Temple Stakes (ENG-G2) winner Bated Breath by Dansili. Tantina is also the dam of Tarentaise (by Oasis Dream), dam of 2021 Meydan Sprint (UAE-G2) winner Equilateral (by Equiano).
As has been the case for previous generations in this branch of the family, the best racing daughter out of a mare’s produce has been the best producing daughter as well, and so it is with Tantina, whose listed stakes-placed daughter Scuffle (by Daylami) has carried on the family in fine style by producing four stakes winners from eight named foals: 2019 St. Leger Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Logician (by Frankel), multiple Grade 3 winner Suffused (by Champs Elysees), 2024 Gordon Richards Stakes (ENG-G3) winner Okeechobee (by Time Test), and listed stakes winner Collide (by Frankel). Scuffle is also the dam of Sleep Walk (by Oasis Dream), who produced Whitebeam (a daughter of multiple Group1 winner Caravaggio) as her third foal. Sleep Walk’s 4-year-old daughter Copy Artist (by No Nay Never) and 3-year-old daughter Inversion (by Frankel) are both winless as of this writing, but Sleep Walk has Nightwalker, a 2-year-old Frankel colt, preparing to make his racing debut and is also the dam of a yearling colt by No Nay Never.
With four daughters among her produce thus far, Scuffle is in a good position to continue this branch of Monroe’s family. As for Whitebeam, with two Grade 1 wins on her resume, one can be sure that she will be yet another jewel in Juddmonte’s paddocks when the time comes, set to produce another generation of a family that has served Juddmonte well for four decades.
Didicoy, a daughter of Danzig, won three of six starts and placed in two stakes races, one of which was the 1988 Waterford Candelabra Stakes (IRE-G3). She spent her entire broodmare career in England, producing 14 named foals. Three stakes winners were included in that number, including Didina. A daughter of dual English Classic winner Nashwan, Didina became Didicoy’s best performer on the race course, winning the 1995 Dahlia Handicap (USA-G2) and placing in the 1995 Gamely Handicap (USA-G1) and Wilshire Handicap (USA-G2) before retiring to the paddocks at Juddmonte’s Kentucky farm.
Didina was also Didicoy’s most important daughter as a broodmare, producing multiple English listed stakes winner Tantina (by Distant View) and Chilean listed stakes winner Colonialism (by Empire Maker). She also produced stakes producers Auction Room (by Chester House) and Lilyfire (by First Defence), but Tantina was her best producing daughter, throwing 2012 Dubai Duty Free (UAE-G1) winner Cityscape (now an important sire in Argentina) and 2012 Temple Stakes (ENG-G2) winner Bated Breath by Dansili. Tantina is also the dam of Tarentaise (by Oasis Dream), dam of 2021 Meydan Sprint (UAE-G2) winner Equilateral (by Equiano).
As has been the case for previous generations in this branch of the family, the best racing daughter out of a mare’s produce has been the best producing daughter as well, and so it is with Tantina, whose listed stakes-placed daughter Scuffle (by Daylami) has carried on the family in fine style by producing four stakes winners from eight named foals: 2019 St. Leger Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Logician (by Frankel), multiple Grade 3 winner Suffused (by Champs Elysees), 2024 Gordon Richards Stakes (ENG-G3) winner Okeechobee (by Time Test), and listed stakes winner Collide (by Frankel). Scuffle is also the dam of Sleep Walk (by Oasis Dream), who produced Whitebeam (a daughter of multiple Group1 winner Caravaggio) as her third foal. Sleep Walk’s 4-year-old daughter Copy Artist (by No Nay Never) and 3-year-old daughter Inversion (by Frankel) are both winless as of this writing, but Sleep Walk has Nightwalker, a 2-year-old Frankel colt, preparing to make his racing debut and is also the dam of a yearling colt by No Nay Never.
With four daughters among her produce thus far, Scuffle is in a good position to continue this branch of Monroe’s family. As for Whitebeam, with two Grade 1 wins on her resume, one can be sure that she will be yet another jewel in Juddmonte’s paddocks when the time comes, set to produce another generation of a family that has served Juddmonte well for four decades.
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