Champion two-year old Group 1 Colt in Ireland Half-brother to spectacular source of winners “TALE OF THE CAT”Half-brother to the dam of World Champion 2YO “JOHANNESBURG”MINARDI” a US $1,650,000 Yearling Closely related to “Pulpit” and his fourth dam “MONARCHY” a sister to the great American racehorse and sire “ROUND TABLE”

Champion and Classic placed Minardi joins the ranks of Palmaday Stallions for 2006.A US$1,650,000 yearling, Minardi is by Danzig’s son Boundary out of Yarn, by Mr. Prospector, making him a half brother to spectacular source of winners TALE OF THE CAT and to the dam of World Champion 2YO JOHANNESBURG who like Minardi won the G1 Middle Park Stakes and the G1 Phoenix Stakes.Minardi has the all powerful breeding of being by a Danzig sire and from a Mr. Prospector winner in Yarn.Besides also being the dam of Tale Of The Cat and the grandam of Johannesburg, she is a sister to Preach, a Mr. Prospector Group 1 winner who is the dam of another superior American sire, the A.P. Indy product Pulpit, now standing at the famous Claiborne Stud, Kentucky, and had earners of over US $ 5.6million in 2005 with the contributors including 10 stakes winners. MINARDI has the conformation of a Champion, was a Champion on the race course, and has an immediate pedigree full of Champions;What better qualifications for a sire?