Pride to be bred to Monsun

The world-class mare PRIDE (Peintre Celebre), who

closed out her

stellar career with a thrilling victory in last Sunday's Hong Kong

Cup (HK-G1), will be bred

to leading sire Monsun in 2007, according to

www.galopponline.de.

Monsun,

who

stands at Baron Georg von Ullmann's Gestut Schlenderhan near Koln, Germany, has

had his

stud fee raised to €120,000 next year. The 16-year-old stallion was represented

by four

Group 1 winners this season: Shirocco (Ger), Gentlewave, Floriot and Schiaperelli .

Pride retires with nine

victories in 26 starts and earnings of more than $3.9 million. A highweight in Britain

and France in

2005, the six-year-old mare defeated Hurricane Run (Ire) this year in both the Grand Prix de

Saint-Cloud (Fr-G1)

and the Champion S. (Eng-G1) and just missed when finishing second by a neck in the Prix de l'Arc

de Triomphe (Fr-G1).

Her dam, Specificity (Alleged), is a descendant of Bold Ruler's dam Miss Disco

and sold for

$150,000 at Keeneland November in 1996 to Patrick Barbe on behalf of Sven Hanson's NP

Bloodstock.

Pride was her fourth foal since arriving in Europe, but her 1994 filly,

Specifically (Sky Classic),

has held her own this year as well.

Sold abroad in 2000, Specificity's second foal

Major Rhythm

(Rhythm) developed into a Grade 3 winner this year at age seven, and her

2003 filly by Danehill Dancer, Speciosa, has already scaled the heights. She was a

Group 2 winner

last fall, when her dam did not obtain her reserve for €320,000 at Goff's

November sale. But a victory in the One Thousand

Guineas (Eng-G1) in May saw Specifically's value skyrocket. Carrying a full sibling to

Speciosa, the bay

sold for 1.85-million guineas earlier this month at Tattersalls.