Pedigree

                                                                   Danehill
                                        Indian Danehill
                                                                   Danse Indienne
Allegheny Valley (IRE)
2008 brown gelding
                                                                   Sovereign Water
                                         Polyanthus Jones
                                                                    Cindie Girl

The family

This gelding is the first foal of Polyanthus Jones, who was trained in England by Henry Daly. She showed a fair level of form in just 6 outings, finishing runner-up in a bumper before being placed in a hurdle race.
Acquired by breeder Patrick Barry for €12,000 in November 2006, Polyanthus Jones was sent to Indian Danehill in the spring of the following year. Indian Danehill was standing at Glenview Stud in Ireland at that time.
The second dam, Cindie Girl won on the flat and over hurdles (4 times) and gained her black type by finishing 3rd in Newbury's Challow Hurdle, She, herself, has bred 4 winners, the best of which has been prolific NH winner Dorans Gold, as well as bumper winner and listed placed Mini Mandy.

About the sire

Indian Danehill (bay horse, 1996) was a very consistent, top class horse trained by Andre Fabre in France.
He raced between 8 - 10.5 furlongs, and showed his best form on soft and heavy ground, as was the going when Indian Danehill won the Group 1 Prix Ganay in 2000.
He was retired to stud in 2001, and for the following 5 seasons stood at the Irish National Stud. As a sire, he wasn't an immediate success on the flat, his progeny generally improving with age. He does though have a couple of group winning sons in Australia - Rodgers Anchor & Zip Baby Zip.
Indian Danehill moved over to England to stand at Yorton Farm for a couple of seasons as a jump sire, and in 2012 relocated to France.

Form Summary

The massive catalogue of over 800 lots made a fair thump through the letter box in August 2011.
But lot 486, of Tattersalls Ireland August NH Stores sale, a brown gelding by Indian Danehill, took out eye and was placed on the short-list. The page contained a fair amount of black type, so maybe the horse would be out of the price range.

And indeed, this good looking son of Indian Danehill did find his way back to Dodlands Steading after the sale.
This gelding was given a couple of weeks to settle in at Dodlands following his journey over the Irish Sea. Together with fellow Tattersalls Ireland acquisition (a Classic Cliché gelding), the education process began.

Allegheny Valley has been in training since the early part of 2012, and has grown a fair bit, so we've taken our time with him and on looks he has developed into a striking individual, well-made with bags of scope. Probably the best looking horse in the yard.
However, he has been quite a backward sort on the gallops. We took him up to Musselburgh in February 2013 for on eof the post-race bumpers that the executive allow after the last meeting of the NH season. He was in 'division II' of that race, quite a hot event as subsequent race form turned out. Our gelding didn't fare too badly, and stuck on to his task in the home straight, without ever troubling the leaders.
We remain convinced that there is inherent ability, and he has shown more in his work this year. He shapes a stayer, and can only improve with racing experience but we'll give him a couple of outings in bumpers before the turn of the year.

Season		win	2nd	3rd	4th	other
2013-14	NH Flat

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