THE now dual Grade 1 winning Ce Ce (Elusive Quality) is raced and was bred by Bo Hirsch, son of the famed Clement, and in this winner of the Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park and the Beholder Mile Stakes at Santa Anita, he has a filly who has brought top-level success to a female line that has a long and valued association with his own family.

One of seven winning offspring from her Grade 1 winning dam Miss Houdini, a daughter of Belong To Me (Danzig), Ce Ce is the first to deliver at Group or Grade 1 level. One of her siblings shaped for a long time like being another when Papa Clem (Smart Strike) won the Grade 2 Arkansas Derby, but the closest he got to the ‘big one’ was when he ran third in the Malibu Stakes. Two of his other siblings are the dams of Grade 3 winners.