European Trainer - Summer 2013 - Issue 42

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European Trainer ISSUE 42 – SUMMER 2013

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THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE FOR THE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE THOROUGHBRED

JIM BOLGER

The master of Coolcullen

COLIC

How managing horses feed can reduce the risk

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THE HEATH

Newmarket’s famous training grounds

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What makes Royal Ascot so special

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GILES ANDERSON Changing the rules for better

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O THIS spring, racing has once again been flung headfirst into the mainstream media headlights with the shocking revelations about the use of steroids and the varying inconsistent rules around the rest of the world, followed by yet another corruption case involving a leading jockey and exchange betting platform players.

Whilst the two individual stories aren’t linked, they will have undoubtedly contributed to the responses given by the 1,748 adults who responded to the YouGov survey conducted by Middlesex University in May which showed that 48% of respondents thought that racing was negatively affected by cheating or a lack of fair play. Yes, the survey did indeed pose more negative than positive questions about the overall perception of sports in general but it certainly does highlight something that our industry needs to address: negative perceptions.

With betting exchanges, I feel that they are always going to be a mechanism to corrupt the corruptible and the only way to deter licensed individuals is to hand out hefty fines and penalties for proven wrongdoing.

But with steroids and medication we’ve got to get a global consensus in place. Firstly, there needs to be a very clear differential between what are performance enhancing drugs and what can be used to medicate sick or injured animals. Sometimes, the differences between the two are all too easily being confused.

Once we’ve established the differences we then need to adopt a global code of conduct to eradicate the use of performance enhancing medication. The easiest way to adopt this is through “black type.” If, as a racing nation, you want to stage “black type” races then you’ll be permitting horses to race that are going to be subject to the same rules and testing procedures wherever they compete. The analogy of there being no problem with steroids because the host country doesn’t test for it will simply be a thing of the past, and the opportunity for horses to race on prohibited medication in one jurisdiction and not in the other simply won’t happen.

With an easily enforceable set of rules and a clear code of conduct in place, the global racing industry will benefit in the long run, increasing the majority who understand that racing is indeed a sport which doesn’t engage with willful cheaters or those who don’t believe in fair play.

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Chairman’s message

CRIQUETTE HEAD The weather has been miserable this spring but fortunately the action on the racetrack has given us plenty to smile about.

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HE jumps season ended on a high note with some exceptional performances at Cheltenham, Punchestown and Auteuil, while it is excellent news for racing that the Aintree Grand National was run with no casualties. On the flat, the Classics inspire us for the forthcoming campaign during which we will hopefully finally see some sun.

On a more concerning note, the racing world has been rocked by the recent revelations of steroids use.

Although this is an isolated case, the whole industry suffers from an attack on the sport’s integrity and image, and we could well have done without this negative publicity.

I am a fervent opponent to any drugs and medication in racing, except of course to care for and cure an ill or injured horse. Our profession is the art of training a horse to attain the best possible physical (and mental) condition in order to win races, not the science of pharmacy.

I applaud the move of Sheikh Mohammed to forbid the use of all steroids in the UAE in the aftermath of this unfortunate incident as this takes us closer to a drug-free racing industry worldwide. This ideal would

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“The racing world has been rocked by the recent revelations of steroids use. Although this is an isolated case, the whole industry suffers from an attack on the sport’s integrity and image” not only provide a level playing field for professionals across the globe, but would also represent an important improvement in horse welfare as there should be no reason to give drugs to healthy horses.

We should be proud that in Europe we lead the way on this issue and hope that the rest of the world will follow our example in the future. n

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Jim Bolger

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The Hambletonians

Lissa Oliver speaks to Jim Bolger, as well known for training champions – and champion trainers – as he is for breeding them, the latest of which is Dawn Approach.

The historic Hambleton racing and training centre, which if not for its geography, could have been as important as Newmarket is today, by Tony Lindsell.

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Under starter’s orders

Like so many particulars in racing, starting stalls rules vary by country, by Lissa Oliver.

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Colic

Dr Catherine Dunnett discusses the management of a racehorse’s feed to minimise risk of colic.

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Royal Ascot James Crispe looks at what makes Royal Ascot perennially one of the most sought-after race meetings for the world’s best horses.

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Lameness

John Marshall and Celia Marr discuss technology that aids in pinpointing lameness.

Bleeding

Racehorses have had documented cases of bleeding from the nose as far back as Herod, and epistaxis remains an issue over 200 years later, by Dr Colin Roberts.

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The modern yard

Jennifer Bidgood on one trainer’s journey to building a training yard from scratch.

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Contributors

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European Trainers Federation

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TRM Trainer of the Quarter

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Product Focus

Newmarket’s training grounds are still going strong, 250 years after horses began training on them, by Emma Berry.

Stakes Schedules

The Heath

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CONTRIBUTORS Publisher & Editorial Director Giles Anderson Editor Frances Karon Circulation/Editorial Executive Suzy Crossman Picture Editor/Editorial Executive Harriet Scott Design/Production Neil Randon Advertising Sales Giles Anderson Photo Credits Ascot, Emma Berry, John Berry, Bridgeman Art Library, Joan Brown, Cranhamphoto.com, DiscoverParis.net, Emmanuel Fradin, Horsephotos.com, John Marshall, Caroline Norris, Mark Rose, Rossdale Equine Hospital/Lewis Smith, Shutterstock

Cover Photograph Caroline Norris

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Emma Berry is the Bloodstock Editor of Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder and European correspondent for Inside Racing in Austalia. She is married to trainer John Berry and lives in Newmarket with too many horses, dogs and cats.

Jennifer Bidgood was born in Leeds with ‘an inexplicable passion for persuading enough four-legged friends to win races in France to keep the French taxman happy’. She started training in Spain ten years ago and came to France in 2009.

James Crispe has been working for the International Racing Bureau in Newmarket since he graduated from Cambridge University in 1990. He is the Associate Director of the Editorial Department and is a regular guest on the Attheraces television channel. Closer to home, he has a longstanding journalistic involvement in amateur steeplchasing and is Point-To-Point Correspondent for both the Eastern Daily Press and the East Anglian Daily Times.

Dr Catherine Dunnett BSc, PhD, R.Nutr. is an independent nutritionist registered with the British Nutrition Society. She has a background in equine research, in the field of nutrition and exercise physiology, with many years spent at The Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. Prior to setting up her own consultancy business, she worked in the equine feed industry on product development and technical marketing.

Tony Lindsell is a graduate of the University of St Andrews.

His early career in journalism and publishing culminated in the position of managing editor with Samsom/Croner Publications.

He later studied for a degree in marketing and, with a lifelong love of racing, formed Atlantic Equine Ltd, a supplier of equine hoofcare and farriery products, specialising in the racing industry. He writes as a freelance whenever time permits.

Professor Celia Marr is an equine clinician at Rossdales, Newmarket. She is a RCVS and European Specialist in Equine Medicine and Honorary Professor at the Glasgow University Veterinary School. She has previously worked at veterinary schools in Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Cambridge and London and in racehorse practice in Lambourn. She is Chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board’s Thoroughbred Research & Consultation Group and Editor-in-Chief of Equine Veterinary Journal.

Lissa Oliver lives in Co Kildare, Ireland and is a regular contributor to The Irish Field and the Australian magazine, Racetrack. Lissa is also the author of several collections of short stories and two novels.

Dr Colin Roberts BVSc MA PhD FRCVS is an independent equine veterinary consultant and an Affiliated Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Cambridge. He has extensive experience in equine sports medicine. His professional areas of interest include equine internal medicine, equine upper airway disease, equine welfare and equine sports medicine.

EUROPEAN TRAINERS’ FEDERATION AIMS and OBJECTIVES of the ETF: a) To represent the interests of all member trainers’ associations in Europe. b) To liaise with political and administrative bodies on behalf of European trainers. c) To exchange information between members for the benefit of European trainers. d) To provide a network of contacts to assist each member to develop its policy and services to member trainers.

ETF REPRESENTATIVES Chairmanship:

Criquette Head-Maarek Association des Entraineurs de Galop 18 bis Avenue du Général Leclerc 60501 Chantilly FRANCE Tel: + 33 (0)3 44 57 25 39 Fax: + 33(0)3 44 57 58 85 Email: entraineurs.de.galop@wanadoo.fr

Vice Chairmanship:

Max Hennau FEDERATION BELGE DES ENTRAINEURS Rue des Carrieres 35 5032 - Les Isnes BELGIUM Tel: Fax: +32 (0)81 56 68 46 Email: mhennau@gmail.com

GERMANY

Vice Chairmanship:

Christian von der Recke Hovener Hof 53919 Weilerswist Germany Tel: +49 (0 22 54) 84 53 14 Email: recke@t-online.de

SPAIN

Erika Mäder Jentgesallee 19 47799 Krefeld Tel: +49 (0)2151 594911 Fax: +49 (0)2151 590542 Mobile: +49 (0)173 8952675 Email: trainer-und-jockeys@netcologne.de

Mauricio Delcher Sanchez AZAFRAN, 5- 3ºM MAJADAHONDA 28022 Madrid Spain Tel: +34 (0)666 53 51 52 Email: mdelcher@hotmail.com

CZECH REPUBLIC

UNITED KINGDOM

Josef Vana CZECH JOCKEYS AND TRAINERS ASSOCIATION Starochuchelska 192/16 159 00 Praha 5 - Velka Chuchle Contact: Roman Vitek Mobile: +42 (0)606727027 Email: drvitek@email.cz

Rupert Arnold NATIONAL TRAINERS’ FEDERATION 9 High Street - Lambourn - Hungerford Berkshire RG17 8XN Tel: +44 (0)1488 71719 Fax: +44 (0)1488 73005 www.racehorsetrainers.org

SLOVAKIA

ITALY

Jano Cagan SLOVENSKA ASOCIACIA DOSTIHOVYCH TRENEROV MDZ 48 942 01 SURANY Slovakia Tel: +42 19 03 165 609 Email: zuzana.caganova@gmail.com

Ovidio Pessi U.N.A.G. Via Montale, 9 20151 Milano milano@unag.it paolapezzotti@libero.it tel. +39 02 48205006 mobile: +39 348 31 33 828

Treasureship:

Jim Kavanagh IRISH RACEHORSE TRAINERS ASSOCIATION Curragh House-Dublin Road Kildare-Co.Kildare IRELAND Tel: +353 (0) 45 522981 Fax: + 353 (0) 45 522982 Mobile: + 353(0)87 2588770 Email: irishrta@eircom.net www.irta.ie

NORWAY

Sven-Erik Lilja Eventyrveien 8, 1482 Nittedal Norway Tel: +47 (0) 67 07 14 12 Mobile: +47 (0) 91 12 88 96 Email: svelilja@gmail.com

SWEDEN

Fredrik Reuterskiöld Swedish Trainers Association South Notarp 3228 S-243 92 Hoor Tel: +46 (0)413 55 00 65 Fax: +46 (0)413 55 04 95 Mobile: +46 (0)70 731 26 39 Swedish Trainers Association North Karlaplan 10 115 20 Stockholm Sweden Mail: worldracing@hotmail.com Tel: +46 (0)8 662 46 79 Mobile: +46 (0)708 756 756

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Robert Cowell with Kingsgate Native

TRM Trainer of the Quarter

ROBERT COWELL

The TRM Trainer of the Quarter award has been won by Robert Cowell. Cowell and his team will receive a selection of products from the internationally-acclaimed range of TRM supplements worth €2,000, as well as a bottle of select Irish whiskey.

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OBERT Cowell made racing history when sending out his quirky stable inmate, Kingsgate Native, to win the Temple Stakes for the second time on Saturday 25th May, making him only the second horse in history to do so.

Kingsgate Native had previously spent time with John Best and Sir Michael Stoute but when he proved frustratingly infertile while standing at Cheveley Park Stud, a change of scenery was sought and he arrived at Cowell’s Bittisham Heath Stud in June 2012 to see whether his interest in racing could be resurrected.

Cowell had only one career in mind when leaving school in Norfolk heading straight to Gavin Pritchard-Gordon’s

yard, where as a jockey he promptly landed his first win at Brighton on his second ride.

From here he moved to David ‘the Duke’ Nicholson, where he gained invaluable experience during the days of Charter Party and Waterloo Bay. Cowell then crossed the Channel to become assistant trainer to John Hammond for two seasons. It was while riding as an amateur for Hammond – and not being fluent in the local language – that he found himself heading full-pelt towards the stall handlers and, not being able to make it clear he needed their assistance to hold the horse, shot straight past them and ended up in the nearby river. Unhurt, horse and jockey were rescued downstream and went on to win their race that day.

With an end to a budding, but not too successful, career as a jockey, Cowell made the enviable and timely move to America to work for Neil Drysdale, where he enjoyeed a period of great success helping to produce both A.P Indy and Hollywood Wildcat to Breeders’ Cup glory.

Since starting up on his own in Newmarket, Cowell has become a ‘sprinter specialist’ and his tally of older horse winners is testament to his patience and the beautiful surroundings his horses spend their days.

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PROFILE

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JIM BOLGER

JIM BOLGER

The master of Coolcullen

There is nothing laid back or casual about Jim Bolger. His easygoing manner is relaxed and comfortable, sitting back in conversation at his home, but his alertness is as sharp as his features and his attention to even the most miniscule of detail is clearly visible all around.

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E HAS three major thoroughbred properties and each is as immaculate as the other. The neatly swept woodchip paths in front of the boxes at the famous Glebe House racing yard in Coolcullen, County Kilkenny, are immediately striking and the spotless Beechy Park yard, in nearby County Carlow, is equally spotless.

One gets the impression that Redmondstown Stud, in County Wexford, must be akin to an exclusive private maternity clinic. If there is just one word with which to sum up Bolger it’s perfect, and perfection starts from the bottom up.

Both Bolger and his horses scream success; even those who cannot quite match the achievements of his greatest stars are

still walking decorously round the parade ring with the sheen of their skin bouncing off their coats. They all look like stars and they are all treated as stars and given every opportunity to shine. The same can be said of the people who have arrived at Bolger’s for education. He doesn’t admit to having any special skills for bringing out the best in both people and horses, but manages to do so anyway.

The key may well lie in his clearly defined aims and sharp focus on attaining them.

Tellingly, when asked what he considers to be the most valuable background skills he brought with him as a fledgling trainer, Bolger reveals, “Growing up on a mixed farm and working as an accountant. It’s very important to keep finances right in any business.

Accountancy was a stopgap, I saw it as the best

way to try and get the capital to get started.

When originally leaving home I wanted to make enough money to buy horses.” It’s clear, both then and now, that Bolger understands the importance of getting the foundations right.

“I was undecided at that time whether I wanted to be involved with showjumping or racing, but it was easier to have showjumpers then,” he says. “I was a not good competitor, but I was a good dealer. As an example, I paid £600 for a good novice, he was a good looking horse and won a number of good classes and I was fortunate enough to sell him for £13,000.”

It’s startling when Bolger reveals that was in 1976. It’s very easy to forget that at 71 he is already a few years past retirement age, when he doesn’t actually look anywhere near close.

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PROFILE

already training his own racehorses, laying the foundations of success with success, more or less from day one.

“I already had a couple of racehorses and the week that I sold the good showjumper I had two runners in Tralee and they both won,” Bolger says. “I took out my licence in July 1976 and had four winners and an away double that season. The following season I had

“Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that the operation would become as successful as it is”

A group of two-year-olds on their way to the gallops

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22 winners, then 32 winners the season after and 44 winners the next.

“I never really intended to become a public trainer,” he continues, “I just got sidetracked for the past 30 years! Breeding and owning racehorses is a very high-risk business and not something I’d ever recommend to anyone.”

For Bolger, more than most trainers, the high risk is immense. Not only does he train, but he also owns the vast majority of his horses and each season has bred around 75 of his two-year-olds in training. “It is an expensive process and a risky one. I had to buy fillies and train them, and the ones I liked I kept. Then they had to be covered and the foals reared, and there’s the keep of the mares.

And you hope at the end of it to have a successful racehorse.”

Bolger has certainly had his share of successful racehorses and, unusually for a leading trainer, many of them he bred at his own Redmondstown Stud. It is a huge undertaking to breed, race, and train one’s own horses, but it has also proved a huge success, putting Bolger in a very enviable, and unique, position.

“I find that 80 broodmares give me enough two-year-olds,” he says. “Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that the operation would become as successful as it is.

When I first started out, I thought it would be nice to perhaps one day win the Moyglare

PROFILE

Stakes. That has happened a few times, but I haven’t bred and owned a Moyglare winner yet and that remains an ambition. I didn’t expect to breed the quality of colts that I have.

It has taken 35 years to reach this level, although I was probably more or less there ten years ago.”

Much depends on staff and facilities, and Bolger has always ensured his horses have the best of both. “I always wanted a private place, with its own gallops. The horses are very happy with their environment; there’s never been a horse who doesn’t want to go down the gallop. With our own facilities they can work any time they want to. I rented in Dublin first,

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“I always wanted a private place, with its own gallops. The horses are very happy with their environment; there’s never been a horse who doesn’t want to go down the gallop”

then bought my own place in Kilkenny in 1982.

“I make the environment as nice as possible to suit the temperament of the animals as well as the humans. The most important thing is budget. The stables in Coolcullen were designed to cause the least amount of intrusion on the environment as possible, so that’s why I looked for stables replicating Goffs Sales Complex. The airflow is very important and the top doors are left open for most of the year. I hadn’t been there long when it started to prove successful. In my first year at Coolcullen we had Flame of Tara and Give Thanks, and between them they won the

JIM BOLGER Lingfield Oaks Trial, Musidora Stakes, Lancashire Oaks, Athasi Stakes, Coronation Stakes, Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh, and the Irish Oaks.”

Bolger isn’t actively involved in the general daily running of Redmondstown, but he does plan the matings. The yearlings come up from Wexford in March, when the colts go to Beechy Park and the fillies to Glebe House.

“We take them in at the end of August to break. I might sell a few just to keep the show on the road. Some existing owners might buy a share in some. I’ve sold a few foals as well, three from the first crop of Sea the Stars – they fetched €825,000, €800,000, and €350,000. I never regret selling horses, I always hope they’ll be very lucky for their owners and their wins will enhance my pedigrees. I bred and sold the Irish Derby winner Soldier Of Fortune and I was very pleased for his owners.”

Obviously as a trainer Bolger likes to have a few good ones himself and this puts him in an ideal position as a breeder, with the ability provided by firsthand knowledge to identify potential champion sires. “I felt both Teofilo

“We’ll turn out as many as we can in the winter.

Dawn Approach wasn’t turned out – when he’s fresh he can get a bit exuberant so it was safer to keep him under wraps” and New Approach would be successful,” he says. “They both had a good pedigree and racecourse performance and they both had good constitutions and were very sound. I feel the same about Intense Focus. All three won the Dewhurst Stakes.”

Another tool on Bolger’s side is the company he helped found with Dr Emmeline Hill, the award-winning geneticist. Equinome can identify the Speed Gene and those with the CC gene are sprinter milers and two-year-old types, those with the CT gene combination tend to be 1600m-2000m types, and the TT gene is found in stayers, who are generally late maturing. “As far as recognising TTs, Equinome is invaluable for training purposes.

I would certainly recommend it,” says Bolger.

“If a mare is not worth the cost of the Equinome test then she’s not worth breeding from. The test is going to benefit her breeder for the rest of her lifetime. When our foals are born within a week they have the Equinome test. The TTs are left until last to be broken,

Stable star Dawn Approach

then they’re turned out again and not trained seriously until April or May. So there are big savings made there, in terms of training costs.

Before Equinome, a trainer had to guess. Any trainer would get it nearly right, but there are some surprises.

“We drive them for a month to six weeks, to put good mouths on them. Bearing in mind the number of races that are won by a short head, the more manoeuvrable they are the better. They’ll be brought along slowly and will gradually muscle up. For their initial starting stalls training we drive them through the stalls in long reins.

“When they’ve done some cantering we’ll walk them through with a rider and when they’re ready for it we’ll teach them to jump out and have them walk through and stand there. The March runners will do their first serious work, just a half speed, in the first or second week of February.

“One old maxim I like to follow is walk for a mile, trot for a mile and then do whatever

you like. Good riders are the key. They are very important. They get wet and cold in the winter and I really appreciate the work they put in. I’m very fortunate in that most of my staff have put down roots locally and have families close by and they take a big interest in my training operation and put in a huge effort to keep the stable successful. Whatever the class of horse you have, the biggest asset is staff and their handling of a horse. You can spoil a horse in a week.”

To his staff, and many others who have passed through Coolcullen, the biggest asset they have is Bolger. The recently run Two Thousand Guineas is a fine example of his multiple skills as a trainer. Not only did he have the winning horse in Dawn Approach, but, as he points out, “I had four champion apprentices riding in the race and a champion trainer – Aidan O’Brien!”

When young people come to him, what they take away is down to them. “I very much leave it to themselves to prove to me what they

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PROFILE GROUP 1 winneRs tRained

by JiM bOLGeR Alexander Goldrun Audi Pretty Polly S. (twice), Vodafone Nassau S., Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Cup, Prix de l’Opera Casino Barriere d’Enghien

Condessa Yorkshire Oaks

Dawn Approach Qipco 2000 Guineas, Dubai Dewhurst S., Goffs Vincent O’Brien S.

Eva Luna Heinz 57 Phoenix S.

Finsceal Beo Stan James 1000 Guineas, Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas, Prix Marcel Boussac Royal Barriere de Deauville

Give Thanks Irish Guiness Oaks

Intense Focus Darley Dewhurst S.

Ivyanna Oaks d’Italia

Jet Ski Lady Gold Seal Oaks

Loch Garman Criterium International

Lush Lashes Darley Yorkshire Oaks, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S., Coronation S.

Mantovani Heinz 57 Phoenix S.

Margarula Darley Irish Oaks

New Approach Vodafone Derby, Emirates Airline Champion S., Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion S., Darley Dewhurst S., Bank of Scotland (Ireland) National S.

Parish Hall Dubai Dewhurst S.

Park Appeal Moyglare Stud S., Tattersalls Cheveley Park S.

Park Express Phoenix Champion S.

Polonia Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp

Priory Belle Moyglare Stud S.

Saoirse Abu Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix S., Mogylare Stud S.

St Jovite Budweiser Irish Derby, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond S.

Teofilo Darley Dewhurst S., Laing O’Rourke National S.

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want to do. If they can prove to me that they want to work hard and learn then I will give them the time, if not, it won’t happen.” Bolger is considered by some to be a hard taskmaster, but those who have learnt from him have no complaints. “It’s very satisfying,” he says, “I can look back and say I didn’t do them any harm.

I encourage staff to become proficient at skills other than riding; I never limit their experience. I would say 99% of their skills are gained in the yard.

“Aidan O’Brien was with me for three-anda-half years, and he was successful from the word go. Willie Mullins was with me for two years and he has become Ireland’s most successful jump trainer. When young people come to me to learn the business they have to commit to three-and-a-half years. They must work just like everyone else and they’ll get increased responsibility as they become ready for it.”

Bolger’s horses, too, are expected to work

hard. “I agree with the maxim ‘no pain, no gain.’ To get horses fully fit they’re going to have to work. The secret is in getting them to do as much work as necessary without them finding out! They’ll do 20 minutes walking, then 15 minutes trotting, then do whatever work is needed, finishing with 20-30 minutes on the walker, about an hour and a half altogether. That’s the routine for six days a week; on Sunday we’ll ride out any running the following week or that are prone to set fast.

“They like routine and they’re creatures of habit. If everything is right for them they don’t get bored. They only come from Coolcullen to Beechy Park to learn how to gallop. The grass gallop at Beechy Park is very good. Coolcullen has a grass gallop, all weather woodchip gallop and all weather sand gallop. Most fast work is done on the woodchip and they’ll have two or three spins at Beechy Park.

“The horses in training are not turned out,

JIM BOLGER they would get too many scratches and scrapes. We’ll turn out as many as we can in the winter. Dawn Approach wasn’t turned out – when he’s fresh he can get a bit exuberant so it was safer to keep him under wraps. With Dawn Approach we put him on a treadmill four days a week and he was ridden out the other three, just a trot and a hack canter on both.”

As one would expect, feeding is also an important issue. “They are fed on Gain only, we don’t use supplements,” Bolger says. “We take blood samples of every horse before they begin their fast work and make sure the blood count is adequate for young horses going into fast work, and might put them onto iron tonic if necessary. They all get linseed oil, all of the time.

“The horses are fed three times a day and they have their big feed in the evening time, with haylage ad lib. We’ve been making our own haylage since 1992, using Italian Rye

grass. It’s very hardy and is ten inches high at the moment [in early May after a severe winter]. It will have its first cut before the end of the month. The second cut will be in late July, early August, and the haylage taken will be all for the horses. The late cut, in late September, is only for cattle.”

With such attention to detail, the combination of stud and stable works well.

“It’s a huge advantage having homebreds,” Bolger admits, “I’ll keep an open mind on the individual, but it helps to know the family and quirks.” He is also astute when it comes to pedigrees and improving a mare. “When you look at the breeding of Dawn Approach, nothing on the dam’s side had been covered by a bad sire. Phone Trick, Pleasant Colony, Alydar and Sea-Bird II. A champion mare is not too far away, in Miss Oceana, a full sister to Kittihawk Miss. Kittiwake [third dam of Hymn of the Dawn] was sold for $3.8 million as a 17-year-old.”

With an accountancy background, Bolger is more aware than most of the importance of the racing industry to the Irish economy and it’s hardly surprising that he is annoyed by the poor levels of prize-money. “The one thing the industry needs is a proper level of prize money, it’s the lifeblood of the industry,” he says, not for the first time. “Owners need to win to help ease the burden of costs and the levels are not where they need to be. The industry has 20,000 employees and they need to be kept in employment.” It’s interesting to note that Bolger and neighbour Willie Mullins are the biggest employers, in any sector, within a 20-mile radius.

Jim Bolger has made a huge impact on horseracing as a trainer. And as a breeder. And as an owner. As an educator he is second to none. Little wonder that young up and coming trainers aspire to his standards. Racing has served him well. And Jim Bolger, the Master of Coolcullen, has served racing well. n

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STARTING STALLS

Under starter’s orders

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RELAND’S Starter Joe Banahan, like all of his colleagues, is tasked with one of the most thankless and least considered jobs on the racecourse. When things run smoothly we are unaware of their presence. When something goes wrong, the starter is suddenly the focus of all attention.

“When I first get to the start I check the stalls and do a trial test start, so that I’m happy they are functioning properly,” Banahan reveals of his race day routine.

Journalist and photographer Gabriella Vonczem suggests that new technology could be causing problems in Hungary when she reveals, “The starting gates bought from France often break down. Some stalls open late, or do not open at all. Perhaps this is a question of money, competence or quality. Ten years ago we used the 20-30-year-old starting gates and there were never problems.”

Whatever the issues in Hungary, trainers elsewhere have no complaints with the various stall types in operation. German trainer Christian von der Recke points out, “In Switzerland and Ireland they are a bit more open and bigger, I think, but the stalls themselves are not a problem. The difficult horses tend to be also quite difficult to travel with, so don’t go abroad so much.”

UK trainer Mark Johnston puts up a slightly different argument, however, when he reveals, “Twenty-six years ago, when I first started training, if you had a difficult horse then you tended not to want to travel abroad with it. But now it’s almost the opposite case. They are much more likely to get a difficult horse into the stalls in France or Germany than they are here in the UK. If I had a difficult horse I would run it in France or Germany rather than in the UK.” He suggests the reasons are due to staff and the more relaxed regulations. “The stalls handlers in France and Germany, in particular, are very good, very patient with horses and keen to get them in. The rules have been tightened up here in the UK and not necessarily for the better in many cases. For example, in the UK if a horse requires a blindfold to be loaded, an attempt has to first be made to get it loaded before it can have the blindfold! I feel the rules have been tightened to the detriment of the horse.”

While Johnston might be happy with the extra patience of stalls handlers, others are not.

Obviously the starter must give due consideration to both a miscreant horse and those already loaded, but while a trainer might not like to see his horse left behind, there are others who don’t like to see their horse left standing in the stall for too long, as French trainer Gina Rarick points out. “In the UK they’re very quick to declare a horse a nonrunner, while here in France the stalls handlers are more inclined to take their time. In fact, I think they take too much time. A well-behaved

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Over the years we have looked at various differences in racing regulations across Europe, but there can be no better place to start than literally at the beginning – starting procedures. The various racing nations may find it hard to agree on many aspects, but there are surprisingly few differences in starting procedures and, more surprising still, few trainers seem to have complaints!

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horse is penalised by the bad horse. In an 18runner race they could end up standing in the stalls for ten minutes waiting for an unruly horse to be loaded.”

“We normally allow one minute per eight horses to be loaded,” says Banahan. “I can see when a horse is being difficult or whether it’s just stubborn. If a horse is stubborn, it just takes a bit of push, push, push, but they’ll go in, so I

“The rules have been tightened in the UK and not necessarily for the better. If a horse requires a blindfold to be loaded, an attempt has to first be made to get it loaded before it can have the blindfold!”

Mark Johnston

put them in first and allow two minutes extra, before we begin to load the others. If we have a horse that’s fractious or takes fright at the stalls we normally have someone to hold them. If that doesn’t work and the horse is a danger to itself and the handlers, it will be withdrawn.”

In the main, there are no direct rules governing the time allowed for loading and, where there are, it is up to the starter’s discretion to extend that time. “The starter is the most important person,” confirms Pawel Goclowski of the Polish Turf Club, “According to the rules the horses have five minutes to be loaded, but the starter can make it ten minutes if he feels it is necessary.”

In Norway horses seldom get more than three minutes. In Hungary there is a maximum of four minutes to be loaded, but, as Vonczem points out, “Hungary is very tolerant with horses, they try everything possible to get the difficult horses loaded and it sometimes takes as much as 10-15 minutes.” Former Czech trainer Roman Vitek explains that, “During the last few years time was strictly limited to four minutes, but it has changed now and the starter is responsible.”

Von der Recke suspects that time constraints are due to more commercial reasons. “In England they are short on time because of the number of races for television and bookmakers,” he suggests. “In France they only have the two meetings, with races only every 15 minutes, so the handlers have more time and are not worried if there is a delay to the race.”

Joe Banahan insists that the whole thing is to give everyone a chance, and it’s a delicate balance. “If a horse is proving difficult, we’ll maybe give it two minutes and try it with a blindfold, but if it rears up or loses its jockey, it’s withdrawn.” Much also depends upon the team of stalls handlers available to the starter.

“It could take 8-15 minutes to load 30 horses,” he explains. “The biggest issue we have is cutbacks and we could certainly do with more handlers. We’ll have 12 on a normal day – two sets of pullers at the back, six for leading in and one ‘jumper,’ designated to jump up and hold a fractious horse in the stall. There’s also a team leader, who issues instructions, which come from the starter. It’s the bare minimum

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“We have a list of horses who have caused trouble in the past and they go in last. Requests to be loaded last are done on the day” Joe Banahan amount of men and an extra set of pullers would help. The more men we have, the quicker the loading process and the less danger posed to horse, rider, and handlers.”

In that respect Ireland would seem better off than some countries. “In Germany there are less stalls handlers at the start and they have less experience and they don’t know the horses so well,” complains von der Recke. “It helps a lot when you know the horse and what it wants.

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minutes. There is too much work to do for a small team of handlers.

“In England and France the stalls teams are much better,” he believes. “They are a proper team, working on it every day, and they know the horses. In Italy and Holland they make sure the people from the horse’s yard are at the start.

They have less handlers, but the horses’ own grooms, which is a big advantage. A difficult filly is led in by her own girl, who talks to her

and knows how to keep her calm.”

In Ireland trainers can request permission from the starter to have their own groom at the start; the starter runs it by the stewards, which is never an issue. This is also the case in Poland, though it rarely happens. In France a trainer needs to ask the stewards’ permission to lead a horse by hand to the start or to have their own assistant at the start, obtained at the time of the 48-hour declaration, but the groom may not go near the stalls. Grooms are only allowed at the start under special circumstances in Sweden and Norway.

Grooms can go to the start by special request in Hungary, but in neighbouring Austria and Slovakia it is an actual requirement that grooms be there. “In Slovakia,” says Vonczem, “if you have a difficult horse and you need one other person to hold your horse’s ears or head, the owner has to pay €8 extra.” A fee wouldn’t be unusual, as Vitek reveals that in the Czech Republic, “If you have a horse who needs its own groom you can ask permission and there is a charge of £10.” Previously there were no professional stalls handlers in the Czech Republic and the grooms and trainers did the loading themselves.

Of course, getting every horse loaded is no guarantee that every horse will start, and in the few seconds when all the horses are in the stalls, the starter’s job is often fraught. In the UK and Ireland he cannot give the signal to start until the team leader has given approval and ensured that all handlers are safely away from the stalls, which can lead to a five or six second delay – long enough for a difficult horse to give more trouble.

“In the UK, if a horse pushes forward with its nose and the door opens, the horse is

STARTING STALLS automatically withdrawn,” says Banahan, “but we wouldn’t be so severe here in Ireland.

Providing the horse is unhurt and the stall has not been damaged, the horse will be returned to the loading process.” The loading process itself would appear to be straightforward, done in order of draw. Interestingly the Czech Republic differs slightly, with horses randomly allocated racecard number by computer and that number is also the draw. But the process can become a contentious issue if difficult horses are moved into an alternative stall.

“We have a list of horses who have caused trouble in the past and they go in last,” says Banahan. “Requests to be loaded last are done on the day. Any that are on the list or whose trainer has requested to be loaded late, go in last, while a stubborn horse goes in first.

“The only time we’ll change a horse’s stall position is if damage has been done to the stall, then it will be switched to the wide outside.

This recently caused a problem, as the trainer would have preferred to withdraw the horse than see it run from a wide draw from which it had no chance.”

Moving a difficult horse to an outside stall may be seen by some as more of an advantage than a problem. “It’s up to the starter’s discretion to load an unruly horse in the outside stall,” says Rarick of the France, “which is a very controversial rule, as the draw can make a big difference on many tracks. If a trainer requests

“The inexperienced handlers don’t know the horse and they can’t ask the jockey – he might be riding it for the first time and he doesn’t have a clue either!”

Christian von der Recke that a horse be loaded last, which must be done at the 48-hour declaration, the horse is automatically put on the list of problem horses and is always loaded last thereafter, which many trainers see as an advantage, because the horse doesn’t have to be kept waiting in the stalls.”

Von der Recke agrees. “In Germany a trainer can apply for the outside stall, and at courses such as Hoppegarten that can be a big advantage, so many trainers apply!” This problem is avoided in Norway, where a trainer is able to request a horse to be loaded last, but not ask for the outside draw. In Hungary

trainers can request not only an outside draw for a difficult horse, but also to be loaded last, and can request the inside stall, too. Vitek says of the Czech rules, “If you know your horse is difficult you can ask for the last draw number and to be loaded last. Sometimes two or three will ask for it! There is a cost of £10 for this. I like the way the Germans have a list and if the horse is a troublemaker they put him in stall one, so we hope for this regime here.”

Goclowski says that in Poland, “All horses are well known by the starter and he has his own notes about their character. If he knows of a problem he can change the loading position.”

The break sees the end of the starter’s many responsibilities and it is left to the jockeys to hold their line for the first 150m in France, Germany, Ireland, Czech Republic, and the UK; 80m in Poland; 50-100m in Hungary; and in Norway and Sweden 75-200m. Few will consider the vital role the starter has played just a few seconds earlier, when little reliance can be placed on the rulebook and so much depends upon personal common sense. No wonder that throughout Europe the process is so similar and the complaints so few. It’s a good start to a unified racing world. n

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COLIC

Stacking the odds in your favour

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NDOUBTEDLY, we strive to keep the diet and management of horses in training as near to nature as possible. However, the high energy and nutrient requirements for training represents a huge conflict of interest in this respect and so we struggle to achieve this. Colic is clearly not a single condition and there are many different forms including spasmodic, impaction, displacement or torsion, and intussusceptions. Despite the very different nature of these disease subtypes, epidemiological studies have managed to identify a number of common risk factors for the disease, many of which are related directly or indirectly to feeding: l High starch diets. l Limited grazing. l Change in forage or grazing.

Within a large population of horses, such as in a race training yard, probability says that you will experience a certain number of colic cases per year. Research suggests that in the general population, four to ten cases of colic for every 100 horses would not be unusual. But if you are presented with a higher incidence of colic than you care for, it may be time to go looking for potential underlying factors. Certainly nutrition and feed management should be focused upon and this will be the theme of this article.

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Excess rapidly fermentable fibre.

Any management change that precipitates a sudden change in diet

Disruption to gut microflora is probably the common denominator in colic There is a common denominator between all of these risk factors – the gut microflora. The horse’s digestive tract, particularly the hindgut (caecum and colon) is inhabited by a large and diverse population of bacteria, involved principally in the fermentation of dietary fibre. These bacteria ferment fibre to produce short chain or volatile fatty acids (VFA), acetic, butyric, and propionic acids, which serve as a major energy source to the horse.

In addition, the pattern of fermentation and absorption of subsequent VFAs produced also affects the re-absorption of water and the amount of gaseous bi-products produced such as hydrogen and methane. Certainly it is now accepted that maintaining the stability of a normal healthy population of bacteria as well as the pattern of fermentation is a key factor in maintaining intestinal health (see Figure 1).

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Racehorses are at heightened risk of colic due to their high starch diet A high dietary intake of starch is a well established risk factor for colic. Researchers suggest that horses fed a daily concentrate intake of over 5kg, which would include most racehorses in hard work, are exposed to a six-fold increase in the risk of colic. The level of risk posed by a particular high starch diet will depend on the proportion of that starch that reaches the hindgut. Whilst high-energy concentrate feeds can be regarded as an occupational hazard for horses in training, there are a number of steps that can be taken to mediate the risk. With the advent of racing feeds with a high digestible fibre and oil content, the overall reliance on cereal starch can be moderately reduced. In addition, small meals and an insistence on feeding cooked cereal ingredients can reduce the amount of starch that escapes digestion in the small intestine.

Traditionalists will be pleased to note that in the small intestine, oats have the most easily digested starch, when compared to other uncooked cereals such as barley, wheat, or maize. Research in Australia has shown that synthetic amylase and amyloglucosidase enzymes can be added to the horse’s diet to improve the efficiency of starch digestion in the small intestine. Unfortunately, there are no such additives approved for use in horses in Europe to date.

A pick of grass is a double-edged sward Limited access to grazing as experienced by most horses in training also increases the risk of colic significantly. The gentle exercise associated with grazing and the very high water content of grass means that impaction in grass fed animals is relatively rare, except where voluntary water intake is reduced during cold weather or snow. A recent change in type or duration of grazing represents a further risk. Grass contains fructan, a carbohydrate that cannot to all intense and purpose be digested in the small intestine but which can be very rapidly fermented in the large intestine. Fructan has the potential to abruptly change the population of microflora and the pattern of fermentation. This generally doesn’t occur in horses grazed for a consistent length of time, but could potentially be an issue for horses in training that are suddenly given access to pasture, perhaps as a result of an injury or layoff. It is difficult practically to introduce grazing gradually, as horses have a tendency to gorge

themselves when given the opportunity. The most realistic way of achieving this is to restrict both grazing area, perhaps using a playpen, as well as grazing time by gradually lengthening the time spend at grass over a period of one week.

Mature stemmy forage can be problematic One of the other main dietary components with a high risk factor for colic is forage.

Even a horse in training receives a significant portion of its diet as forage. An increased number of bacteria capable of fermenting starch is inevitable in horses in training due to the high starch intake and the likely proportion that escapes digestion in the small intestine. These are generally lactate producing bacteria, i.e. they rapidly ferment starch to produce lactic acid resulting in a fall in hindgut pH. This hindgut acidosis is very inhospitable to the cellulolytic or fibredigesting bacteria. Mature stemmy forage with a low digestibility, whether hay or haylage,

“I learnt a lot from Alain, and his method of training. He is very patient, and knows exactly how to read horses and treat them as individuals” increases the risk of impaction. As guidance, low digestibility forage may be stemmy and contain many seed heads. On analysis this type of hay normally has a very low protein and high fibre content. Alfalfa, which is considered very digestible, can increase the risk of obstruction of the colon with enteroliths or stones if fed to excess. This is due to its high calcium content, but the quantities concerned are very high (typically 70% of the total diet).

A sudden change of forage type, including simply switching from one batch to another, is risky, and measures to smooth the transition are sensible. Good hygienic quality of hay is also important and microbiologically, lowquality hay again is associated with an increased risk of colic. Measures such as laboratory analysis of moulds prior to purchase and steaming can help.

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NUTRITION (Saccharomyces sp) have been shown to be beneficial for hindgut health, as have short chain fructo-oligosaccharides (ScFOS) prebiotics. In other species, mannanoligosaccharides (MOS) have been shown to have a beneficial effect on mucosal integrity. Other ingredients such as beta glucan and glutamine may also be useful.

However, supplements are not a substitute for good feeding management, which can reduce the odds ratio of colic significantly

Tight junctions that become loose

Figure 1: Schematic of the pathophysiological events triggered by ingestion of excessive NSC (non-structural carbohydrate, which includes starch and fructan) culminating in colic.

Durham, 2013 (Equine Applied and Clinical Nutrition)

Don’t overdo the oil From experience, overzealous use of oil within a racing diet can contribute to digestive disturbance, which may lead to colic. It is likely that overconsumption of oil leads to some reaching the hindgut.

Here its fermentation produces bactericidal fatty acids, which have been shown to suppress fibre fermentation. It is easy to misjudge the amount of oil in the diet, as it accumulates from many different sources. My recommendation would be for a ceiling of

20% of the total energy content of the diet being derived from oil. For a horse in moderate to hard work, this means about 600ml of oil in total from all of these different sources. For example, 6kg of hay provide ~100ml, 6kg of a 6% oil racing feed would provide ~360ml and 500g of a 20% oil rice bran product would provide ~200ml – a total of 550ml.

Prebiotics and probiotics are extremely popular for maintaining normal digestive processes, and certainly live yeasts

Knowledge of the pathophysiological mechanisms behind colic may provide insight into other conditions observed in horses in training. A change to the balance of microflora in the gut and the subsequent fall in hindgut pH can result in cell death of certain bacteria.

Dying bacteria release a cocktail of undesirable substances including exotoxins, lipopolysaccharides, and vasoactive amines.

These harmful substances can contribute to colic through changes in blood flow, pain, and effects on gut motility.

Additionally, they may initiate a cycle of inflammation, which ultimately results in a loosening of the normally tight junctions or spaces that exist between the absorptive cells in the gut. These tight junctions normally present a formidable barrier to undesirable substances, as well as to undigested or partially digested food material. Once leaky, however, they may be absorbed, leading to systemic effects in the body, and they may even trigger an allergic immune response in certain circumstances. Certainly this is interesting in the context of the chronic loose droppings, skin reactions or hives, or filled legs that are intermittently observed in horses in training and that are often attributed loosely to the plane of nutrition being too high.

A picture is emerging to show that dietary factors that disrupt the balance and harmony of bacteria within the digestive tract present a particular problem and potentially exacerbate the risk of colic and other conditions related to the digestive tract.

As research progresses in humans, horses, and other animals it becomes apparent just how influential the digestive tract is as an organ, with far reaching effects on allergy and immunity, metabolic disease, and lameness associated with laminitis. Our feeding strategy for horses in training must aim to maintain a healthy balance of microflora in the digestive tract and to minimise its disruption, whilst providing the energy and nutrients required for training and racing. n

Prebiotics and probiotics are extremely popular for maintaining normal digestive processes, and certainly live yeasts have been shown to be beneficial for hindgut health�

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What makes Royal Ascot special?

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If you want to try to get to the bottom of the ever-increasing global appeal of Royal Ascot, you could do worse than listen to Ken Ramsey (pictured), one of America’s leading owner-breeders, whose love of the fixture knows no bounds.

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HE history and tradition of the place are what make it so special; it has been going since the early eighteenth century,” says Ramsey, who has been involved in ownership since 1969 and numbers the 2005 Dubai World Cup among the long list of big races he has plundered.

“I have twice had horses placed at the meeting and if I won there it would have to be right up there with winning in Dubai. You could say that I have a burning desire to check Royal Ascot off my bucket list.”

A self-made man who sold up his real estate and mobile phone businesses in 1994 for an estimated $39 million, Ramsey is also an ardent royalist. “After Cannonball was second in the Golden Jubilee Stakes in 2009 I was invited to have tea with The Queen and it was the highlight of all my Royal Ascot trips,” he reveals.

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the most engaging, delightful conversation on many subjects, though she really clearly knows her horses. I will always cherish the moment – I never thought the day would come when a country boy from a small town in Kentucky would take tea with the Queen of England!”

Ramsey’s fervour for both our monarch and her racecourse is underlined by the fact that he signs off our conversation with four resounding words: “Long Live The Queen.”

It is an oft-repeated phrase that Americans appear to love our royal family more than we do ourselves, suggesting Ramsey’s pro-Ascot stance may not be reciprocated in other parts of the globe.

Not so. Trainer Lee Freedman gained a reputation as a ‘true blue Aussie’ during a long

and successful career training in Australia, which culminated in his guiding Makybe Diva to her historic third straight Melbourne Cup victory in 2005.

However, after Miss Andretti scorched home in the King’s Stand Stakes in 2007 his words were unequivocal. “I’ve lived all my life to do this,” Freedman said. “To win at Royal Ascot has been a lifetime goal and to come here and take on the best and beat them – simply there are no superlatives that can describe it.”

The main secret to the meeting’s success is really no secret at all, as it is contained in the first word of its title - ‘Royal.’ Royal patronage marks Ascot out from other big international events and makes it sound superior.

ROYAL ASCOT

“The Queen made me feel very special and we had the most engaging, delightful conversation on many subjects, though she really clearly knows her horses. I will always cherish the moment” Ken Ramsey

But the link with the royal family would add much less kudos were it not for the widely-held regard in which that family, in particular its current head, Queen Elizabeth II, is kept.

Endorsements for the House of Windsor come from unlikely sources. For example, Jens Hirschberger, who was responsible for the first ever German-trained winner at the meeting when Energizer lifted the 2012 renewal of the Tercentenary Stakes, tells of how our royals are followed on a day-to-day basis by most popular German newspapers.

“Here, just as in England, some people

think that in this day and age you no longer need kings and queens,” he admits before going on to make his own opinion crystal clear.

“I think that it’s great that these traditions are kept alive.”

Danny O’Brien, who this year will be making the 21,000-mile round trip from Australia to Ascot for the third time, this time with sprinter Shamexpress, having gone close with Star Witness (in 2011) and not so close (in 2006) with Glamour Puss, has this to say on the subject:

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RACING “As was shown when we voted not to become a republic and keep The Queen as our head of state some 15 years ago, there is the most immense respect for Queen Elizabeth and the way she conducts herself among Australians.”

Returning to less political matters, O’Brien adds: “The fact that The Queen comes to the paddock, appreciates the horses and enjoys the racing really adds to other people’s enjoyment.

She appears to be getting as big a kick out of it as everyone else.”

Ken Ramsey is a trifle more over the top.

“Without doubt the people of the USA think that Her Majesty The Queen is the most loved and respected person in the world who should be cherished and looked up to,” he insists.

“Presidents and Prime Ministers come and go but The Queen transcends all of them and offers a unique link back to the times when Kings and Queens actually ruled the world.

When members of her family present the trophies it gives the common man a chance to rub shoulders with royalty.”

Lest we forget, the history and tradition that everyone talks about dates back to 11th August, 1711 when, on the suggestion of Queen Anne, Ascot staged its first ever race.

Her Majesty’s Plate was worth 100 guineas and attracted a field of seven, but there was no hint of the speed-orientated sport of the current era. The race was run in three separate heats, each four miles long, and the emphasis was firmly upon stamina.

The precise origins of the Royal Meeting are unclear but the fixture became a four-day event in 1768 and continued to operate within that

format until a fifth day was added in 2002.

One aspect of the meeting that continues to put stamina above all other equine attributes is its most important race, the Gold Cup. Founded in 1807 and thus Ascot’s oldest surviving race, it is still run over fully two and a half miles, an extreme distance that has most participants in the bloodstock industry rolling their eyes.

“The fact that The Queen comes to the paddock, appreciates the horses and enjoys the racing really adds to other people’s enjoyment” Ken Ramsey The fact that its showpiece event is run over such an archaic distance just adds to Royal Ascot’s charm and refusal to conform to modern trends.

Most apparent of these old-fashioned traditions is the dress code. With the solitary exception of Derby Day at Epsom, Royal Ascot is the only British meeting where top hat and tails are a must for the gentlemen and headwear, while a dress or skirt of ‘modest length’ is de rigueur for the ladies.

Dress regulations are rigorously policed in the Royal Enclosure and, although they are not

mandatory elsewhere, a large number of racegoers choose to comply with them on a voluntary basis. Both O’Brien and Hirschberger single out the dress code as one of their favourite things about the meeting, helping to create an unrivalled atmosphere.

Another unique feature of the event is the royal procession. Instigated as long ago as 1825

by King George IV, the monarch leads a fivecoach horse-drawn procession of family and guests, who have lunched together at nearby Windsor Castle, up the centre of the racecourse in front of the crowds a few minutes before the first race of the day.

With the horses and accompanying footmen and servants bedecked in ceremonial regalia, it is a throwback to a world where transport, for all sections of society, meant horses and not horsepower.

Ramsey says: “I think it is a wonderful way for the royal family to make a public appearance, a highlight of the pomp and pageantry,” while Hirschberger sums it up succinctly by saying: “The procession is a great moment, even if you are not an Englishman.”

Numerous other incidental aspects, unconnected to racing, help give Royal Ascot its reputation. The lack of advertising in a world where sport has become big business helps give proceedings a touch of class. Only the logo-free Wimbledon Tennis Championships offer a similar visual impact.

On the other side of the commercial coin, the well-publicised betting market surrounding the colour of The Queen’s hat each day seems to prompt interest and amusement from a large section of the crowd.

Hong Kong trainer Danny Shum planned six months in advance when bringing Little Bridge to Royal Ascot for last year’s King Stand Stakes

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ROYAL ASCOT The post-racing community singing around the bandstand, instigated some 40 years ago, also adds to the old-fashioned feel of the event.

Many racegoers decline to take part (either worried about exposing their own lack of musicality or perhaps too sober to lose their inhibitions) but, as they continue to party and picnic in the car parks while waiting for the traffic to abate, the raucous singsong is an endearing audio background.

And so to picnicking. The picnic plays a central role in most people’s Ascot experience, and the Owners and Trainers Car Park is not exempt from being a hive of al fresco dining and imbibing.

Most picnics are far from merely functional and some have been known to include butler, silver service, and candelabra. One recent survey discovered that Royal Ascot is the South of England’s most popular picnic spot and the most popular sporting occasion at which to picnic in the entire country.

One important adjunct to the meeting that does seem to pass the average member of the racing industry by is the fashion angle. Maybe it is because they are often more interested in the turnout of their horses rather than themselves.

Also, although Ascot just about retains its preeminence as the racecourse to be seen in all your finery, other venues have caught up with ‘Ladies Day‘ (a term first given to Gold Cup day at Ascot) promotions, and ‘Best Dressed Racegoer’ competitions now ubiquitous.

Having a catwalk and a fashion show taking place between races no longer seems unusual.

Returning to the racing, advances in

intercontinental equine travel together with the work of Nick Smith, Ascot’s Head of Communications and International Racing, have meant that Royal Ascot has evolved into one of the world’s greatest international race meetings.

It seems incredible that 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the first horse trained outside Europe winning at Royal Ascot. That

“Having the opportunity to train at Newmarket and win at Royal Ascot has been the highlight of my career. An experience of a lifetime” Danny Morton horse was the Australian-trained Choisir, who landed both the King’s Stand and the Golden Jubilee Stakes.

Nowadays, runners from Australia, America, and the Far East are the rule rather than the exception, and eight different individual horses from foreign continents have won at June’s Berkshire bonanza.

Smith and his team actively recruit the best horses from around the globe and help their owners and trainers with all aspects of their visit to England, including the stabling and training of the horses from the moment they set

foot on British soil.

The reaction of trainers to their Royal Ascot adventures has been universally positive. For instance, after his 2009 King’s Stand triumph with Scenic Blast, Danny Morton said: “Having the opportunity to train at Newmarket and win at Royal Ascot has been the highlight of my career. An experience of a lifetime.”

And Hong Kong resident Danny Shum, trainer of last year’s King’s Stand hero, Little Bridge, revealed: “I began planning to come six months in advance. It was very important to me as a trainer to win an international race in Britain.”

O’Brien plays down the problems some might associate with bringing a horse halfway across the world to take on the locals on their home ground. “I haven’t found it a difficult proposition as far as travel is concerned,” he says.

“In fact, my horses thrived and did very well in themselves. The meeting falls at the right time of year for us here in Australia as we don’t have any more big Group 1 races at home until September or October.”

In a mark of the esteem in which the meeting is held, when questioned about how the event could be improved, racing professionals from around the globe struggle to come up with areas in which it needs changing.

O’Brien’s reaction of: “It’s been done for 300 years, I don’t think you need any advice,” is typical of many responses.

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Fashion plays an important social role during the five days of Royal Ascot

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Can it be measured?

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VETERINARY

No sooner does a trainer ask his or her vet, “Do you think this horse is sound?” before asking the potentially much more difficult question: ‘Where is it sore?’ While physical examination and observation of movement remain essential to lameness diagnosis, recent advances in technology can aid vets in objectively answering both of these questions.

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RECENT research study by orthopaedic surgeons based at Glasgow University Veterinary School has shown that a computerised sensor-based system can measure the response of horses to flexion tests, a common procedure in lameness examinations. The research was reported in a special issue of Equine Veterinary Journal produced in partnership with the American Association of Equine Practitioners, and the findings of this study may help vets and trainers more accurately investigate equine lameness and quantify the results of diagnostic tests.

Traditional lameness examination Throughout the history of horsemanship, we have used observation to identify lameness.

While our understanding of the way in which horses move has grown and the process of observation has been refined and improved, the fundamental concepts have remained the same. The traditional lameness examination begins with feeling the horse’s limbs and visual evaluation at rest. This is followed by observation of the horse moving at a walk and trot in a straight line and often a circle. It may be necessary to examine the horse’s movement on different surfaces, or during ridden exercise. In horses with subtle or imperceptible lameness, flexion tests are used routinely to exacerbate the problem and make it apparent to the observer. This involves applying a short period of pressure to the joints of the limb before re-examination and evaluating any change in gait.

If the cause of the lameness is not apparent at this point in the process, nerve blocks or diagnostic anaesthesia are sometimes employed to localise the source of pain. Both flexion tests and nerve blocks rely on the ability of the observer to identify and interpret changes in the horse’s gait and in that respect these tests are subjective and not necessarily consistent between observers.

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Although traditional lameness examination has developed and improved over many years, the process relies on our ability to identify and interpret sometimes very subtle signs of lameness. When different people inspect the same lame horse, there can be low levels of agreement on the affected limb and severity of lameness, even among experienced equine vets. In addition, we know that diagnostic tests such as nerve blocks are strongly influenced by preconceived ideas or opinions on what is most likely the cause of lameness, which can influence interpretation and

LAMENESS

The Lameness Locator is a practical and portable computer-based system for inertial sensor-based gait analysis that can readily be used in a training yard setting

diagnosis. An instrument that allows the accurate measurement of a horse’s gait which could aid in the identification of lameness and the interpretation of diagnostic tests could revolutionise lameness assessment by adding a degree of objectivity to this notoriously subjective art. An objective approach to documenting lameness examination will also allow accurate measurement of changes following treatment, and an unbiased method of communicating findings between vets, trainers, farriers, and other professionals.

Kinematics and Kinetics In 1887, Eadweard Muybridge published his revolutionary study on animal movement: ‘Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements; 1872-1885.’

Muybridge used multiple cameras to capture the movement of a horse and prove that all four feet are temporarily suspended during the gallop. Today, the science of kinematics, the study of motion, has developed greatly but would still be instantly recognisable to Muybridge. State of the art multiple slow-motion camera systems are used to capture and analyse the motion of equine athletes and even their riders. Although such systems can very accurately examine the movement of a horse, the gait and number of strides analysed relies on

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VETERINARY Head sensor (far left), sacrum sensor (below left), and right fore sensor (left) – the system requires three lightweight movement sensors are mounted on the head, pelvis and right forelimb.

They transmit data to a tablet PC via Bluetooth

Locator®, which was developed at the University of Missouri in the US. The system is comprised of three movement-measuring sensors, two accelerometers, and a gyroscope, mounted on the head, pelvis, and right forelimb respectively. The data is transmitted wirelessly using Bluetooth to a tablet PC that collects, stores, and analyses the information using a specialised software program.

The report contains objective information such as the symmetry of movement for each limb and the average position of the head and pelvis in millimetres during the stride. The Lameness Locator is designed for use at a trot, the most common gait for lameness examination, and can assess the horse in a straight line or circle on any surface.

Lameness is identified as asymmetry of movement or differences in the head or pelvic position between limbs. the availability of multiple cameras or a treadmill. The result is that for the foreseeable future kinematics will remain a research discipline.

An alternative method of examining a horse’s movement utilises the science of kinetics, the study of forces – in this case, the force with which a horse’s limbs contact the ground, or ground reaction force. The horse is trotted over a sensor or force plate, which measures ground reaction force created by the impact of the hoof and ground. Although this is an accurate technique, again the requirement for equipment and specialised computing have generally limited its use to experimental studies.

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Inertial sensor-based gait analysis

Objective lameness examination

In order to make objective lameness examination routinely possible, we need a system that requires only minimal equipment, is portable, and can be conducted at the training yard or practice. To meet these requirements, researchers have developed systems using small, wireless sensors. These inertial systems use small, lightweight sensors fixed to the horse to measure motion.

Information about their position and movement is wirelessly transmitted to a portable computer that analyses the data and generates a report to be interpreted by the user.

One of these systems is the Lameness

Since it is now possible to objectively measure the horse’s movement, the question becomes how do we incorporate this process into the lameness examination? At the Weipers Centre Equine Hospital in Glasgow University Veterinary School, the Lameness Locator has been in use since 2011. Objective examination does not replace observation but rather enhances the process by quantifying the gait abnormalities.

The process begins by attaching the sensors to the horse and entering the patient’s data into the software system. The sensors are quickly and easily attached to the head collar, right forelimb, and pelvis using

LAMENESS neoprene bumper, pastern wrap, and Velcro tape respectively. During the examination, we are able to use the information generated by the Lameness Locator to identify or confirm lameness, investigate possible compensatory lameness, and quantify the response to flexion tests and nerve blocks, before deciding what further diagnostic procedures or treatment is required.

Importantly, the information becomes an accurate medical record, allowing future comparison to be easily performed.

diagnosis. Using the Lameness Locator system, the team of orthopaedic surgeons were able to accurately measure the significant increase in asymmetry of movement and change in pelvic movement or ‘hip drop’ observed following a positive response to a flexion test. However, there were limitations to our study including the number of horses, which was restricted to a small group of 17 horses. These horses were all of a draft cross or warmblood type and were 13 years of age on average.

Lameness research at the University of Glasgow

Can this study help racehorses today?

A recent study published in Equine Veterinary Journal described the use of inertialsensor analysis of flexion tests performed at the University of Glasgow and demonstrated the use of this system in routine lameness

Lameness is the most frequent reason that horses in training do not race. The Glasgow research team has received generous support of the Geoffrey Serth Charitable Trust and the Horse Trust and are now examining the use of

objective gait analysis in lameness diagnosis, particularly nerve blocks, as an aid in determining the effectiveness of various treatment methods. The Glasgow group’s next project, planned for this summer, will use this system to examine thoroughbred racehorses with the aim of establishing the baseline data needed for objective measures of soundness for use by vets and trainers.

Dr Jim Moore, who edited the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ special issue for Equine Veterinary Journal, described the work as “a really practical step towards de-mystifying lameness.” He said, “This technology is already becoming available to vets and trainers in the US and throughout the UK and Scandinavia. I hope to see much more of this technique as its objectivity offers great potential for assessing which medications really help our horses.” n

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THE HEATH Newmarket Heath has been fiercely protected by the Jockey Club as training grounds for some of the world’s best racehorses for more than 250 years.

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N THESE days of non-stop housing development, it says much for the power and resolution of Jockey Club Estates that 2,500 acres of prime East Anglian heath land stand largely untouched surrounding the town that has earned its label as the historic headquarters of horseracing.

Sporting endeavour has been at the heart of Newmarket’s success for a little over 400 years, when James I first became a regular visitor to indulge his passion for hunting and coursing. By the time Charles II was crowned, the idea of racing the offspring of Arabian equine imports had taken root. A keen horseman, Charles II laid down the rules of the Town Plate – the first race to be run under written rules – in either 1664 or 1665 with the decree that it was “to be run forever.”

While the 3m6f race for amateurs continues as an annual curtain raiser for one of Newmarket’s August meetings, the serious business of a multi-million pound thoroughbred industry in and around the town continues to be the lifeblood of ‘HQ.’ Following the initial royal patronage, the major factor in Newmarket remaining at the forefront of horseracing in England, as described in Richard Onslow’s wonderful book The Heath and the Turf, was “the decision of a select group of young bucks and old rakes to make their headquarters there. These men were the founder members of the Jockey Club.” Thus, since 1750, through land acquired and bequeathed, the heath has remained under the direction of the group, now known as Jockey Club Estates, that Onslow ascertained had a “vested interest in maintaining it for the purposes of racing.”

Jockey Club Estates’ training grounds manager Nick Patton is charged with ensuring that Newmarket’s world-famous facilities remain in pristine condition throughout the year, a job which brings with it myriad challenges.

“There’s no respite on the heath,” says Patton, the former clerk of the course at Market Rasen and Nottingham racecourses who joined Jockey Club Estates in 2010 on the retirement of John Taylor.

“Trainers need to exercise their horses 365 days a year. I want to keep Newmarket on the map and we do that by making sure our trainers are as successful as possible by giving them everything they need on the training side.”

Naturally, Patton does not patrol the vast heath alone. He has a team of 25 heathmen, split into two groups covering ‘Bury Side,’ including the iconic Warren Hill, and ‘Racecourse Side,’ a great flat swath of turf, which, as the name implies, borders the town’s two racecourses. There’s also the schooling

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Newmarket is a busy town with 2,276 registered horses in training last year

“The heath represents a massive chunk of history.

The Jockey Club has been in charge of it for more than 250 years and my job is to nurture it and get the best out of it” Nick Patton (pictured) ground for the jumping fraternity, known as the Links.

Patton says of his team: “Some of them have been here for more than 20 years and without them I couldn’t do my job. I have three great foremen in Colin Driver, Mick Hewitt, and Rob Achner at the Links.

“They are the unsung heroes within Jockey Club Estates and they are so passionate about their own individual areas of the heath. Colin said to me that the highlight of his time

working here is that Frankel was able to retire uninjured, that’s how seriously he takes his job.”

Train travellers on the meandering shuttle from Cambridge to Newmarket are afforded ringside seats for the minute or so it takes to pass the Links but they are out of luck once the train reaches Newmarket’s hub around Warren Hill. In another reminder of the enduring power of the heath and its protectors, the railway was forced to tunnel underneath the training grounds’ crown jewels, the hills, and it was a similar story when the A14, which skirts Newmarket, was built.

Nowadays, out on the heath in the quiet of an afternoon, dog walkers will feel the tremor of a train beneath their feet and those of a fanciful nature could well imagine that the deep, distant rumble is the ghostly echo of galloping hooves of the many champions to have been honed to perfection on that ancient cushioned turf. Back in the real world, the drumming of hooves is constant each morning from sun up to around midday.

“It’s great that the heath is open and that people can pull up and watch the horses in

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action but that can also present problems,” says Patton. “The heath is a place of work for horse, rider, and trainer and there’s no other place of work where you’d have members of the public being able to wander through. We ask people to respect the rules of the heath until 1pm but after that it’s there for people to enjoy. It is private land but the Jockey Club kindly allows access.”

Despite this openness, morning exercise passes largely untroubled by onlookers. Those cognisant of the routine of Sir Henry Cecil’s string would have been able to see Frankel most mornings he was in training if they’d so desired. The fact that the most talked-about horse of modern times was able to go about his daily training with the minimum of fuss is testament to the fact that Newmarket Heath remains one of racing’s best-kept secrets.

There are no clockers and few real workwatchers these days.

Watchers of old were said to be able to identify every horse on the heath through notebooks denoting their markings in pictorial shorthand. Whether or not that was true in the days when the horse population ran only to hundreds is debatable but now it

“The key thing about training in Newmarket is that without doubt it has the finest facilities for developing young horses” John Gosden is in the thousands it would be impossible. In 2012, there were 2,276 horses registered in training in Newmarket, a near four percent increase on the previous year.

“Horse numbers in Newmarket have held up really well,” confirms Patton. “With 2,500 acres, there’s so much maintenance to do and obviously we’re restricted with time – we can’t just crack on in the morning because of the movement of the horses in the town.

“Mornings are horse and rider first so we try to keep our activities to a minimum. We patrol

the heath making sure everything’s safe and responding to any emergencies. During the afternoons there’s more time for routine maintenance along with preparing the gallops for the following morning. When it’s dry we start at 4.30am to water the walking grounds so they’re not too dusty. During the winter we keep similar hours gritting the horsewalks, roads, and crossings.”

As Patton outlines, the remit of the team stretches beyond the grassy boundaries of the heath itself. During severe cold snaps the horsewalks which run adjacent to roads and pavements connecting the different areas of the heath are routinely kept ice-free, while along with harrowing the all weather canters and gallops, the orange sand tracks about the heath, known as the walking grounds, are also tended daily.

Patton says: “We got through winter but only just. It was testing and pretty stressful.

We’re always trying to come up with better ways to cope with the conditions, such as new techniques for harrowing the artificial surfaces.”

He is rightly proud, however, that not a day’s exercise was missed by the town’s

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Racecourse Side

The heath is open to the public and onlookers could have watched superstar Australian mare Black Caviar prior to her Royal Ascot run

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inhabitants and that the accessibility of the heath has attracted several high profile visitors during bad winters, such as a team of ten from Nicky Richards’ Cumbrian stable in 2010, including multiple Grade 1-winning steeplechaser Monet’s Garden.

He says: “The jumps population in the town is not the biggest and we’d love it if there were another 50 horses using the facilities. It’s all there at the Links – a two-mile grass gallop, a gallop round the golf course, poles, logs, tyres, baby hurdles, French hurdles, regular hurdles and fences, a loose school.”

Primarily, however, Newmarket is associated with champions on the level, from those whose names are woven into racing’s folklore, such as St Simon, Hyperion and Bahram, through to more recent stars such as Shergar and Frankel.

“I see my job as being the heath’s guardian,” says Patton. “The heath represents a massive chunk of history. The Jockey Club has been in charge of it for more than 250 years and my job is to nurture it and get the best out of it. It needs to be developed, but in the right way.”

With all-weather meetings meaning Flat racing is now a year-round pursuit, a steady core of the equine population remains active throughout the winter, a time at which extra excitement is provided by the freshly broken yearling crop. With 19 miles of artificial surfaces open throughout the year, the 50 miles of turf gallops are used in seasonal shifts.

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Bury Side

At the top of Warren Hill on a cold January morning

“Warren Hill grass opens in February until May, then the grass on Long Hill is open,” explains Patton. “Then there’s the Limekilns in drier conditions, and the Peat Moss opens shortly after that. If it’s still dry then the Watered Gallop opens over on Racecourse Side.”

Several gallops benefit from the biannual addition of peat moss for extra cushioning, a process which takes place on the Limekilns and also at the infrequently used sheltered gallop known as ‘Between the Banks’ on Racecourse Side.

Building up to the Derby and Oaks, potential Classic runners are allowed to use the Round Gallop on the Limekilns in the

reverse direction, which is said to mirror the turning downhill run of Tattenham Corner. It was a training tactic that paid off for Sir Michael Stoute’s 2010 Derby winner Workforce.

Champion trainer John Gosden, who has served two stints in Newmarket since taking out his licence and now trains from Clarehaven Stables, says: “The key thing about training in Newmarket is that without doubt it has the finest facilities for developing young horses. The development of horses at two and three, given that they don’t mature fully until they are four or five, is very important.

“Having trained in the city in America, I

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Ed Dunlop’s string in the snow

know that it’s tough and demanding to bring on young horses there.”

He adds: “The Jockey Club Estates team puts an awful lot of work into the facilities.

They are always upgrading and improving. As a trainer you have scope and the choice of where your horses go, and you have it all on your doorstep.”

Horses in training in the town are liable for a monthly ‘heath tax,, which works out at roughly £4 a day per horse. It’s a price worth

BRANCHING OUT Primarily associated with Newmarket, in 2006 Jockey Club Estates bought the Mandown Gallops in Lambourn.

Significant investment has been committed to the Berkshire training centre, including a £500,000 revamp of the Long Gallop.

“Lambourn is still in its infancy as far as we’re concerned,” says Nick Patton.

“As well as Mandown we also lease three other gallops, giving us 16 miles of grass gallops and eight miles of artificial surfaces.”

Last year saw a nine percent increase in horse numbers on the Lambourn training grounds, from 478 to 522.

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paying, according to John Berry, now in his nineteenth year training a small dual-purpose string. He says: “I’m not from Newmarket but once you come here, if you’re involved in horses, it would be hard to leave. If I trained elsewhere and had to organise my own facilities, I couldn’t offer my owners anything like such a good deal.”

With close to 80 trainers large and small operating on the heath, there can be the odd moments of friction amid a naturally competitive bunch. The Heath Committee, chaired by Sir Mark Prescott, has worked with Jockey Club Estates to establish a code of conduct.

“The heath rules are effectively a code of good conduct. They are not necessarily strictly enforced but we want the trainers to know what they are and abide by them,” says Patton.

“I get plenty of feedback from the trainers – they are quick to tell me if something’s wrong but rightly so.”

Most refreshing of all, perhaps, where strings of racehorses vary in number from two to 200, is the lack of any obvious hierarchy. On the training grounds, a selling plater is every bit as important as a potential Derby winner.

Patton says: “When I was interviewed by Sir Mark Prescott for the job he laid down three golden rules – that every horse is treated equally, every trainer is treated equally, and the horse always comes first. That’s what we try to live by.” n

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THE HAMBLETONIANS

THE HAMBLETONIANS The history behind the former racecourse and training centre

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TRAINING The Hambleton House stables in 1972

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ISTORICALLY, it is no exaggeration to suggest that, but for its geographical location, Hambleton would have rivalled Newmarket as a dedicated racing and training centre in the U.K. From at least the early 17th century, there was a racecourse at Hambleton frequented by the northern noblemen and gentry with the royal Gold Cup (later the 100 Guineas) as the feature race each year. Black Hambleton (as it was known, after the peak several miles to the north in the Hambleton Hills) was the only other racecourse to be mentioned along with Newmarket in an act of parliament of 1740 and records show that, certainly from the 18th century, a number of trainers were based around the moor, while many others came to Hambleton to fine tune their horses.

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If the turf at Hambleton had a voice, it would tell a long and colourful story – of aristocracy riding up onto the hill and men coming down the drover’s road from the north to race, of a royal trophy, of secret trials in the hours before dawn, of the stride of great horses and the deeds of great trainers.

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The earliest written race records from Black Hambleton are from 22 August 1715, when Mr Gage’s bay mare Who Would Have Thought It won His Majesty’s 100 Guineas.

However, reference is made by a Thomas Chaytor, in his diary of 1612, to racing there in that year – an equivalent timeframe to Newmarket’s origins under James I. Horses were clearly to be found in the area,

whether racing or working, long before this, as illustrated by the stirrups (see photograph) dated as far back as the 15th century, found on the moor.

Perched at over 1,000 feet above sea level on top of the steep Sutton Bank, the Hambleton moor provided a natural arena for a racecourse and gallops. The map (see page ) shows an old road layout, but the position of

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The Hambleton Hotel in the early 1900s. With extensive stables the Hotel retained its importance as a training centre after the races moved to York

A pair of medieval stirrups that were found on Hambleton Gallops

the racecourse is clear. There was also a straight three-mile gallop to the north and south of the oval course on top of the bank where match races were often held.

The prominence of Hambleton was probably not only the result of its natural features but also because it formed part of the Helmsley estates owned by the Dukes of Buckingham. Although it may not have had the personal patronage of the monarch as did Newmarket, the Gold Cup testifies to the royal support it had won very early in the history of the turf. This was no doubt in large part due to the close association of the first Duke of Buckingham with James I and Charles I and then of the second Duke with Charles II. The winning post was known as the Dialstone and became the iconic image of Hambleton racecourse. It was located close to Dialstone House and took the form of a stone

obelisk with a sundial. The jockeys’ scales were attached and the Gold Cup was placed on top as depicted in Wootton’s painting.

The King’s Gold Cup continued for many years, albeit officially listed later on as His Majesty’s 100 Guineas and also sometimes known as the Royal Plate. Queen Anne changed the rules of entry such that the race became eligible for five-year-old mares only over four miles carrying ten stone, and in 1719 the race established a record for the biggest field in any turf event with 31 runners.

Under the rule of George II (1727-60), fun was at a premium and all forms of gambling, drunkenness, and idleness were frowned upon and legislated against. In 13 George II c.19 ‘An Act to restrain and prevent the excessive Increase of Horse Races,’ the preamble explained that ‘the breed of strong and useful horses hath been much prejudiced’ by the proliferation of low-value races.

It was therefore enacted that, from 24th June 1740, no race could be run for under the value of £50; and that ‘no person or persons whatsoever shall start or run any match… for any sum of money plate prize or other things whatsoever, unless such match shall be started or run at Newmarket Heath or Black Hambleton, or the said sum of money plate prize or other thing be of the real and instrinsic value of £50 or upwards.’

In 1775, the royal 100 Guineas was transferred in alternate years to York and Richmond and this marked the beginning of the end of Hambleton as a racecourse. Its last moment of glory came in 1795 when the great Hambletonian won his first race in a sweepstake for three-year-old colts over two miles. Although named after the area, Hambletonian – who went on to win the St Leger and many other big races and, in 1799, to beat Diamond in a match at Newmarket

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TRAINING who went on to race till she was eight and won 50 out of 69 races.

In the very early 19th century, John Scott was apprenticed to a trainer at Hambleton. He was himself listed as a trainer there in 1823 and, though he later became the ‘Wizard of Malton,’ he would bring the best of his string over to Hambleton to do strong work in the summer months. Most of his extraordinary 40 classic winners would have finished off their preparation on the Hambleton gallops. From Scott to Sir Noel Murless, Hambleton was acclaimed over the years as the best training ground in the north, if not the whole country.

After the Hesseltines, the name of Stebbing became synonymous with Hambleton. The Stebbing family had in fact originated in Newmarket and were connected to a bookmaker named B. Green. The brothers James and Henry Stebbing lived in the Hambleton Hotel and held the licence as well as training. William Stebbing continued to train there after their deaths and it was in his ‘care’ that a horse called Vatican stood at Hambleton.

Vatican had been a good horse on the racecourse, coming third in the St Leger and subsequently winning the Ascot Stakes amongst other good races. But he was a ferocious, mad, and carnivorous horse and,

“Trainers continued to come and go in the early part of the 20th century culminating in the arrival of Noel Murless in 1935” worth the huge figure of 3,000 guineas – was not actually trained at Hambleton.

There had never been any stand or shelter at Hambleton and though there was a last attempt to resuscitate racing there in 1811, it came to nothing. York, Richmond, and Malton were more accessible for transport and had the accommodation needed for visitors, servants, and horses. The balls, dinners, and assemblies that now ran alongside racing could more easily flourish in these places, too.

Though the moor seceded racecourse preeminence in the north, the 19th century was a golden era for Hambleton as a training centre.

Trainers based themselves around the moor in Hambleton House, at the Hambleton Hotel (in a yard, now long gone, to the side and in boxes on the other side of the road), in Dialstone House (sometimes known as Dialstone Inn and now known as Dialstone Farm), and in High House (now High House Farm). Hambleton Lodge was probably built in the early-mid 19th century. One wall

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adjoins the inn and a now bricked-up door linked the two buildings. The lodge was used as a trainer’s house, stable staff house, and for hotel guests at various times but did not become a training establishment in its own right until the 20th century.

Around 1800, a rubbing house was built at Hambleton. The sweating gallop (or Yorkshire gallop), involved two-, three-, or four-mile gallops in heavy rugs. The horses were brought to the rubbing house after the gallop, and their rugs were then removed, the sweat scraped off, and the horses rubbed dry.

Hesseltine is a name that goes down in Hambleton folklore. It is thought that an early Hesseltine was ‘training groom’ to the second Duke of Buckingham. A succession of Hesseltines followed as jockeys, trainers, and innkeepers. Probably the most famous was Lenny Hesseltine who died in 1842, having just taken on the training of Alice Hawthorne.

Bob Hesseltine, his brother, took over both the training and the riding of the great mare

after injuring a number of both men and mares, a special box was built for him with rings in each corner securing his limbs. But the worst was yet to come. After Vatican had bitten off the head of a donkey that was put in his box to keep him company, a vet was called from Thirsk. The horse was anaesthetised and, with a heated iron, the vet set about burning Vatican’s eyes out.

Some of the trainers that followed the Stebbings included the Dawson brothers; William l’Anson, who was credited with greatly improving the gallops; and William Sanderson. Then in the early 1880s came Tom Stebbing Green, son of James Stebbing, based first at the Dialstone Inn and later at the hotel.

Tom Green was a real sporting character, who would turn his hand to boxing, coursing, cricket, or billiards as the hour required.

Concurrent with him at Hambleton House through the 1890s was Joseph Vasey but it was at this time that the High Moor, part of the old racecourse, was closed to trainers by

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Hambleton Races with the Dialstone and jockeys’ scales in the background depicted by a painting by George Stubbs dated 1720 (Reproduced by kind permission of the owner)

the new owner Sir Matthew SmithDodsworth. He had joined a non-conformist sect and considered racing sinful. A belt of trees was deliberately planted across the gallops in 1901 (and subsequently felled in 1938) and a stone wall built.

Trainers continued to come and go in the early part of the 20th century culminating in the arrival of Noel Murless in 1935. He moved into Hambleton Lodge with five horses stabled in the old yard at Hambleton House.

The lodge was nicknamed ‘The Ritz’ by the bachelor establishment who stayed and lived there in honour of its rather spartan amenities.

Even in those relatively recent days, Sutton Bank was a challenge. On one occasion, Murless had to dig his way through the snow down Sutton Bank in the middle of the night, his head man leading March Brown, his Cheltenham Foxhunters candidate (and subsequent winner), in order to get to the horsebox.

Murless put a lot of money and effort into the Hambleton gallops and restored the facilities that had been denied to trainers there for some decades. In 1937 he was joined by another trainer who was to attain legendary status – Ryan Price, who trained from the hotel yard until the war intervened.

The war also meant a move to Middleham

for Murless as Hambleton was turned into a dummy airfield and one hundred and twenty acres were ploughed up for crops, but in 1945 he moved back again with his new family, this time to live at Hambleton House. From here his career continued on an upward curve until his move to Beckhampton in 1947.

SOURCES Northern Turf History – Vol. 1 Hambleton and Richmond, by J. Fairfax-Blakeborough The Cox Library The Guv’nor – Tim Fitzgeorge Parker An Historical List of all the Plates and Prizes run for at York and at Black Hambleton – first publ. J. Jackson 1748.

Early Horse Racing in Yorkshire and the Origins of the Thoroughbred – David Wilkinson ACknOwlEdgEmEntS Bryan and Victoria Smart Kevin and Jillian Ryan Yvonne Mee (née Carr, daughter of Joe Carr) Joan Calvert Brown (also née Carr, first marriage to Jack Calvert) Paul Cooper (Proprietor, Hambleton Inn)

Incumbents after Murless included Jack Calvert in Hambleton House (1955-83); and Joe Carr, who lived in Hambleton Lodge and built the existing front yard there in 1958, using the stable doors from the old Manchester racecourse.

Eventually, Les Eyre bought Hambleton House. It was he who first put in an allweather gallop, but when he sold the property in 2002, the training ground was divided at the Cold Kirby road. Thus there are now two gallops – those on the eastern side being Bryan Smart’s from Hambleton House, and those on the western side, climbing up to a copse at the top of the hill and overlooking the countryside below, are Kevin Ryan’s from Hambleton Lodge. The lower section of the old oval course, where horses were racing four hundred years ago, was somewhere very close to the bottom end of Kevin Ryan’s gallop.

Both Bryan Smart and Kevin Ryan have had great success at Hambleton and have sent out multiple group winners. Kevin Ryan started his training career there in 1998 with a dozen horses and now has ten times that number.

“It’s a real old-fashioned, relaxed place with the right facilities to train racehorses, “ says Smart. “It’s been a very successful establishment over the years, and why should it not continue to be?” n

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POST-RACE BLEEDERS

A deeper cause for concern?

It has been recognised for centuries that a small percentage of racehorses suffer nose bleeds during races. One famous early example was the great 18th century racehorse and highly influential stallion Herod, who was reported to have suffered in this fashion when he was badly beaten in a race at York.

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WORDS: DR COLIN ROBERTS PHOTOS: ROSSDALES/LEWIS SMITH

OR many years, it was believed that when horses bled from their nostrils (a condition known medically as epistaxis) during or shortly after racing, the blood was coming from the upper airways and it was only as recently as the 1970s that Robert Cook, FRCVS, PhD, currently Professor of Surgery Emeritus at Tufts University in the US, proposed that the blood in these cases was in fact coming from the lungs.

In a large survey of around a quarter of a million starters in Japanese horseraces (of which around 98% were thoroughbred), epistaxis was found in 0.15% of runners. It occurred more frequently in steeplechasers than in Flat racehorses and it was seen more commonly in horses that had raced at distances of less than a mile compared with those competing over 8-10 furlongs. A not dissimilar frequency of epistaxis of 0.083% was reported in British racehorses over a three-year period in the UK with, again, the prevalence being higher amongst runners in hurdle and steeplechase races.

However, the results of large-scale, postrace endoscopic surveys around the world have demonstrated that the horses with epistaxis represent merely the tip of the iceberg as far as lung haemorrhage during racing is concerned. Indeed, wherever such surveys have been performed, the frequency with which horses have been found to bleed into their lungs during races was between

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40% and 75% and there is evidence that EIPH will probably occur in all racehorses that are in fast work for any significant length of time.

In the early 1980s, the term exercise-induced pulmonary haemorrhage (EIPH) was given to this condition.

EIPH is not a phenomenon that is confined to the thoroughbred, it has been reported to occur in a large proportion of racing standardbreds, quarter horses, Arabians, and appaloosas, as well as polo ponies, show jumpers, and eventers. The only type of high

“The horses with epistaxis represent merely the tip of the iceberg as far as lung haemorrhage during racing is concerned” performance horse in which EIPH is not seen to any significant degree appears to be the endurance horse. It seems that this latter type of animal, whilst performing prolonged strenuous exercise, does not generally work at a sufficiently acute level to induce the condition. As well as in horses, EIPH has been reported in greyhounds, racing camels, and humans, but it is in the horse that it appears to be seen most frequently and in which it is of greatest concern from the points of view of

both welfare and performance.

The cause of EIPH is still uncertain but, whilst other theories exist, the majority of clinicians and scientists in this field now believe that it occurs due to a phenomenon known as pulmonary capillary stress failure, a term first used with respect to EIPH by Dr John West, a professor at University of California - San Diego, and colleagues in 1993. In the lungs, gas exchange between blood and inspired air occurs (oxygen entering the blood and carbon dioxide leaving it) across the extremely thin barrier formed jointly by the cells lining the pulmonary capillaries (myriad, tiny blood vessels) and the alveoli (the millions of ‘air sacs’ into which air is drawn during respiration). In order for gas exchange to be efficient, this so-called ‘blood-gasbarrier’ must be extremely thin.

During strenuous exercise, the blood pressures in the horse’s pulmonary circulation become very high, probably at least in part to the long-term selection of horses for athletic ability. In the pulmonary capillaries, the blood pressures have been shown to be high enough to cause rupture of the blood-gas barrier and hence haemorrhage into the airways. In addition, the pressure within the alveoli during the inspiratory phase of respiration becomes negative, i.e. a partial vacuum is created to draw air into the lungs. This negative pressure in the alveoli summates with the already high positive pressure in the capillaries to produce transmural pressures (pressures across the blood-gas barrier) that

BLEEDING are more than adequate to cause EIPH. Having considered the magnitude of the transmural pressures likely to occur across the blood-gas barrier of the strenuously exercising horse, West and his co-workers suggested that the surprising thing is not that EIPH occurs commonly in racehorses, but that it does not do so with even greater frequency.

Important implications of this explanation for the cause of EIPH are that the bleeding does not come from a single vessel, or even two or three vessels, but from a multitude of them, and also that since the condition is explicable as a physiological phenomenon rather than one that results from disease, it is very unlikely that it will be possible to prevent it without applying a rather modest speed limit to horse races.

It is also uncertain why some horses bleed more severely than others, but it is possible that this occurs due to differences in pulmonary blood pressures between horses or due to the effects of respiratory disease

“The source of the bleeding in EIPH is almost invariably the dorsocaudal region of the lungs, the part of the lung that is uppermost and rearmost in the standing horse” worsening the normal, ever-present tendency for some degree of EIPH to occur. Such diseases might include disorders of the lungs themselves or conditions of components of the upper airways such as the larynx.

The source of the bleeding in EIPH is almost invariably the dorsocaudal region of the lungs, the part of the lung that is uppermost and rearmost in the standing horse. Whilst blood pressures within the pulmonary blood vessels are greatest in the lower regions of the lungs, it has been reported that there is preferential redistribution of blood flow to the dorsocaudal area during exercise and lesions in the vasculature in that region have been reported both at post mortem and using techniques such as nuclear scintigraphy (the mode of imaging used for bone scanning).

One study has reported thickening of small veins in the lungs of horses that had suffered severe EIPH; such lesions might have an obstructive effect on blood flow and thus increase pulmonary capillary blood pressure, making the affected horse more likely to bleed. At this stage however, it is uncertain whether these lesions are a cause of EIPH or a secondary change following haemorrhage that might render the horse more prone to a

Blood in the larynx

recurrence of the condition.

A common finding in the various racecourse surveys of EIPH around the world has been an increase in the risk of EIPH as horses get older. For example, in a survey of EIPH in flat racehorses in the UK that I performed with Dr Chris Hillidge some years ago, 40% of two-year-old runners had EIPH, compared with 64% of three-year-olds and 82% of older horses. However, it is uncertain whether this is due to the effects of aging itself or of repeated racing. A study of factors influencing the prevalence of endoscopically detected EIPH in a large sample of racehorses in Melbourne by University of Melbourne’s Professor Ken Hinchcliff and colleagues suggested that it may be racing intensity, demonstrated by factors such as number of starts that actually explains the apparent increased risk of EIPH with age.

The effect of ambient environmental temperature on the risk of EIPH occurring has been relatively little investigated. In the study

by Hinchcliff and co-workers mentioned above, it was found that EIPH was more likely to occur when the air temperature was less than 20°C. The temperature range encountered in this study was quite narrow (12.9 to 22.9°C) but, whilst an earlier study of

Australian standardbred horses racing over a fairly similar range of temperatures did not find this effect, in standardbred horses in Quebec racing over a wider range of temperatures (-15 to 25°C), an increased risk of EIPH in colder weather was reported. The cause of this link between lower environmental temperature and an increased risk of EIPH is uncertain but it is known that breathing cold air (-5°C) can cause airway inflammation in horses.

The treatment of EIPH has long been problematic, and whilst numerous forms of therapy have been used, it is probably true to say that no treatment has been demonstrated to be adequately efficient. Since EIPH appears to be a condition that is inevitable to some degree in racehorses, the aim of therapy should be to attempt to return the more severely affected animals to the usual level of bleeding seen in the general population. Rest does not generally seem to be helpful for horses that have severe, recurrent EIPH; when such horses go back into training, they usually show a similar level of bleeding as before.

In America, the most frequently used treatment for EIPH is the diuretic agent furosemide (Salix), which is typically administered about four hours before racing

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Blood in the trachea

or strenuous training. Furosemide causes an increase in urine production and this is associated with a reduction in plasma volume (plasma being the liquid phase of blood, i.e. the part that is not made up of blood cells), as well as a reduction in blood pressure in the pulmonary artery (the vessel that takes blood from the heart to the lungs to be oxygenated) and the pulmonary capillaries.

Whilst furosemide does not prevent the occurrence of EIPH, it has been shown to reduce its severity, although it is difficult to quantify with certainty the degree to which it does this as there is still no way of accurately

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measuring the volume of blood that is lost in EIPH. Furosemide is a permitted medication during racing in North America and some other parts of the world, but its use during racing is forbidden in the United Kingdom, although it is frequently used here during training.

In a recent publication, University of Kentucky professor Dr. Thomas Tobin and his colleagues pointed to data that indicate that following the approval of the use of furosemide prior to racing in New York in 1995, the prevalence of cases of epistaxis there fell by 80%. The authors went on to

suggest that of the use of furosemide might similarly decrease the prevalence of sudden racecourse death associated with EIPH, thereby having a significant welfare value to the horse and a safety benefit to jockeys.

However, this assertion is based on the notion that sudden death associated with haemorrhage from a large pulmonary vessel has the same cause as the more common form of EIPH, i.e. non-fatal, less severe bleeding confined to the airways, and this has not been demonstrated to be the case.

In an international multi-centre study of sudden death in racehorses, although pulmonary haemorrhage was seen in 70% of 268 cases, it was considered to be the cause of death in only 18%. Whilst the decision as to whether the cause of death was pulmonary haemorrhage was down to the opinion of the individual pathologist conducting the post mortem, it is interesting to note that the authors of this study stated that �haemosiderophages (indicators of chronic haemorrhage) were not frequently recorded in horses with acute pulmonary haemorrhage, suggesting that these cases were not fulminant [sudden and very severe] cases of chronic/recurrent EIPH.� There is a need for further investigation into whether sudden death due to pulmonary haemorrhage is actually a severe manifestation of EIPH as seen in the majority of racehorses or a separate condition. At this stage however, there does not seem to be a truly demonstrable justification for the use of furosemide during racing on welfare grounds.

EIPH is a condition that is of great concern to the racing world in terms of its possible welfare consequences, its effects on performance (of which space has not permitted a discussion here) and its effect on the public perception of racing. In this article I have only been able to consider a few aspects of this interesting condition including some of the recent work that has helped us to understand it a little more. There is an urgent need for still more work in this area in order that we might manage EIPH more efficiently. n

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BUILDING A MODERN YARD

GRAND DESIGNS

Creating the perfect training centre

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Opting to invest in property rather than renting a yard, Jennifer Bidgood (pictured) decided to have her modern training centre designed and built from scratch at Château Gassard, near Saint Samson in Normandy.

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Y PARTNER, John Spouse, and I moved to Château Gassard near Saint Samson in 2012.

Why? I had started training in Spain, firstly in Mijas and then Madrid, before moving to Haras de Bouquetot in Normandy in 2009. Prior to this I had worked with show jumpers, hunters and racehorses, working for employers and latterly running my own business. Haras de Bouquetot had been the perfect yard to start my training career in France but following management/ownership changes, it was put on the market. After a great season I had a rush of blood to the head and decided to invest in property rather than continue to pay rent. I also enjoy the lifestyle and, having learnt the language, I felt the time was right to build on my experiences from Spain and from Haras de

Bouquetot and create my ‘perfect’ training centre.

Location is absolutely vital in France. It’s a big place and being based in Normandy, there are always great places for sale but many of those I saw were just too isolated. The need to be close to a good road network without stressing the horses by having to travel long distances down winding country lanes to and from the races was paramount. Château Gassard was absolutely stunning: a beautiful old house in need of renovation and more than 43 hectares of gently rolling land which lent itself perfectly to my vision. Next to a fairly major road with easy access to the A13 autoroute to Paris and 15km from the busy city of Caen with its shopping malls, restaurants, and port, which has daily sailings to the UK. Conveniently, we are only 26km from gallops at Deauville racecourse – and the seafood there is sensational!

The lay of the land was ideal for the

The style chosen meant the build went from girders and metal sheets to a building in a month

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development I had in mind. The area we chose for the building was flat; it could be drained and it lay perfectly within the plot with the paddocks and gallops around it. Buying property in France is different to the UK but it went pretty smoothly and I found the Société Générale Bank in Caen extremely supportive and their support has been ongoing through the difficult first year. It is imperative to get sound advice from good French accountants and someone who knows the peculiarities of the French legal and tax system.

We looked at a lot of yards and noted down points we liked but over the years as I worked and trained in different places I had created a vision of how careful placement of the installations can allow the daily routine of a stable to flow easily. Eventually I decided that to reach the standard I wanted, I needed to start from scratch. The excellent estate agency, France Equestre, had shown me one stable previously occupied by the show jumper Rodrigo Pessoa, with everything under one roof and I fell in love with that concept.

My brother, who had been in the family construction business, drew up the original plans, which I tweaked until I was happy. I kept asking him what was possible and he said, “We put a man on the moon in the 1969 so everything is possible!”

We designed a building with three spans – 30 metres, 20 metres and 30 metres. The length of the building is 60 metres. One span contains 10 quarantine boxes with outside outlook, hay and feed store, and indoor school. The central span is feed house, tack room, laboratory, wash room, eight staff apartments, and offices. The third span contains 57 stables, of which 20 have an outside outlook through openable Monarch windows – the horses love looking out and watching the world go by. I do believe these small points help keep the horses happier. We put in roof lights

BUILDING A MODERN YARD throughout, which are also insulated, and electric strip lighting where needed. The height of the building is important, much more so than the pitch of the roof. Too low and it is not healthy for the horses. Too high and it is too cold. We have height of five metres at the rafters and seven metres at the central point.

We chose Kingspan panels, which are two metal sheets sandwiched with three-inch foam insulation to stop any condensation and keep out the winter cold and the heat in summer.

They lend themselves very well to equine installations because they stop any problems that occur with the heat rising from the horses meeting the cold roof. The stable block is lovely and cosy in the winter and super cool on hot summer days. The indoor school is invaluable for breaking and backing the babies and for the Normandy weather. The Activ-track, the same as the gallops, performs very well indoors and we have no dust and no need for watering.

I then purchased the sectional pieces of the buildings in a kit form and found another company to erect them. It sounds scary, but I would recommend that anyone looking to build a large building investigate this approach carefully rather than handing everything over to one firm. I did employ a French advisor to help me negotiate a lot of good discounts with local building suppliers, which I couldn’t have done alone.

I also spent a day at a plant machinery auction, purchasing diggers, compactors,

“The height of the building is important, much more so than the pitch of the roof. Too low and it is not healthy for the horses. Too high and it is too cold” dumper trucks, cherry pickers, and other pieces of equipment – a slightly different experience to the equine sales! This was invaluable as the purchase price of the equipment outweighed long periods of plant rental costs, and I still have the equipment to sell. Once the build was in progress it seemed to come on in leaps and bounds – no doubt due the style of the building chosen – and it was from piles of girders and metal sheets to a building within a month.

For the internal stable fittings we plumped for a high quality product as this is the showcase for the business, so it needed to look good and it certainly does. We used Monarch stable fronts and breeze blocks for the dividing walls to make 30 boxes of 3m x 3m and 27 boxes of 3.5m x 3m, rendering them with a lime mix as this has antiseptic properties. This was a very costeffective option. I also used the Monarch swivel mangers for ease of use and cleaning using the

Jennifer Bidgood’s brother drew up the plans for the building

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The block of 51 Monarch-fronted stables has ventilation holes in the upper sheets of the roof creating good air circulation

The Activ-track surface, the same as the gallops, performs very well indoors with no dust and no need for watering

front opening shoots to feed hay through. This does save an enormous amount of time and is safer for everyone.

I like water drinkers with the push attachment for each stable as opposed to the plate ones to ensure that the horses constantly get clean, fresh running water because there is a chance of bacterial growth in the latter. I absolutely did not want any drains running under the barns so ours were channeled on the outside. In Mijas, we had drains running under the barns and I believe they were great harbourers of bacteria sitting right under the horses’ noses.

Closing this huge area up warmly and securely gave me a bit of headache. I dithered on the external barn doors prior to installing insulated roller shutter doors, which were an expensive option but have worked brilliantly.

These are the main doors to the barn and being insulated they keep the barn warm and draught free and are really convenient to use – a great success.

We designed the quarantine block away from the main yard allowing me to keep new horses isolated, and it is also used for horses out of training.

I kept the hay barns away from the horses and closed off from the main barn. I invested in the Haygain hay steamers and all of our hay is

“The Activ-track has a lot of rubber in it, which makes it very springy and forgiving. This past winter we used it in temperatures of -10ºC with no problems” steamed before it enters the main barn area. We had initial teething problems with respiratory issues and the Irish Equine Centre were fantastic in helping me resolve these. They took swabs and air samples from all over the barn and tested the all hay and feed. From these results and on their advice we changed the ventilation in the barn, raising the centre of the roof and adding ventilation holes in the upper sheets, which helped create a good air circulation in the roof area above the horses. Since then, we have not looked back. Thinking back, I should have got them involved at the planning stage, but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Finally, paddocks are vital to the way I train and their layout was planned around the main barn. I used a single thick rail with tornado high tensile wire as we had used a similar fence at Haras de Bouquetot, reducing the paddock injuries the horses had previously suffered from slipping under and through the traditional post and rail fencing. We put in paddocks of around 1.2 hectares (3 acres), which I find a good size

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for groups of four turnout horses. They are turned out purely for exercise and recreation whilst in training and this size gives enough space for them to move around freely and get out of each other’s way if they want to.

I strongly believe in keeping them in the most natural way I can and this is a really important part of the ethos of my training regime. The fillies and geldings normally settle in small groups and we have ‘buddy’ paddocks for the colts where they can see, but not touch, each other. In the barn I wanted to replicate as much of the herd mentality as I could, planning the layout accordingly.

Then the all important gallops. We decided upon the Martin Collins Activ-track surface as I had previously used Softtrack but found it too firm for training – it also froze at -1ºC. The Activ-track has a lot of rubber in it, which makes it very springy and forgiving, and it has a lower freezing temperature. This past winter we used it in temperatures of -10ºC with no problems.

Martin Collins came and planned the gallop

with us, advising on the layout and all important drainage, making the best of the natural gradients. We designed a 500-metre round canter with a 200-metre hill canter off one shoot, and a 1,110-metre long gallop off another. I have used a straight gallop in the past and found the horses get stressed and can start to nap when turning round for their second canter. One gallop has both a right- and lefthand bend as I feel it is very important for horses to turn well. We also incorporated different gradients throughout including a small downhill stretch, as the premier Paris racecourses all have a downhill section. Sometimes it is easy to keep going uphill and forget horses need to learn to balance themselves downhill as well.

We built a long walkway around the outside of the property for the horses to walk round and relax on the way home and we have made use of the hills to create decent inclined walk and trot paths.

We incorporated an eight-horse Claydon horse walker close to the barn for ease of use. I

flinched a bit at the cost of the roof for it then got my builders to make a bespoke one. To be honest, though, I think it took about the same time and cost the same in the end so I probably should have just written the cheque to Claydon.

I did look at all sort of ‘green’ options from biomass boilers to solar heating but felt that the technology, particularly with the biomass boilers and the use of equine waste, was not quite perfected enough to invest in.

Budget-wise, we did OK! We did go over by 25% because the depth of concrete we needed for the base of the barn was underestimated and we had a few issues with our first group of constructors (who got into financial difficulty and relieved me of some cash), so we had to go back cap in hand to the Société Générale.

Fortunately they were supportive.

So, I have created my little piece of heaven on earth and enjoy working daily with my relaxed bunch of horses so much that I ALMOST forget the old adage: “Take what you want and then pay for it!” n

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Chill dosages should be customized to each horse's needs and given roughly one hour ahead of the anticipated behavioural issues while the horse is still calm.

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Chill Ultra™ goes a step further than original Chill™ to help relax the mind and the muscle with the addition of B1 and Magnesium added to the Chill™.

Horses prefer steamed hay to haylage – it’s official Independent research projects carried out at the Royal Agricultural University and Writtle College offer exciting new results on how steaming affects nutritional content, palatability and the hygienic quality of hay and haylage, according to papers presented at the annual British Society of Animal Science Conference held at Nottingham University in April 2013.

Palatability tests revealed that horses preferred steamed hay to haylage, while the nutritional study reported no loss of valuable minerals after steaming in the Haygain HG 1000. Studies showed how steaming haylage improves the hygienic quality of the fodder and this improvement lasts for 4 days, thereby enhancing the ‘shelf life’ of open bales.

All three papers were praised for their usefulness to the horse owner and the questions posed to presenters

showed that professionals and students alike were keen to learn more about the benefits of steaming hay and haylage in a HAYGAIN. The papers presented were: Hay for Horses: The nutrient content of hay before and after steam treatment in a commercial hay steamer, presented by Rebecca James and Meriel Moore-Colyer

from Royal Agricultural University The effect of steam treatment on the bacteria, yeast and mould concentrations in haylage for horses, by Polly Leggatt and Meriel Moore-Colyer from Royal Agricultural University.

An Investigation to determine the palatability of steamed hay, dry hay and haylage, by E, Brown, S, Tracey & I, Gowers from Writtle College.

Dr Meriel Moore-Colyer, Senior Lecturer at RAU commented: “The research was very well received with lots of people attending the sessions. The audience consisted of university scientists and professionals from the equestrian industry, who were all keen to learn about the latest results and asked lots of questions.”

For further information please contact HAYGAIN hay steamers on 0333 200 5233 or www.haygain.com

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STAKES SCHEDULES 2013 RACES Races are divided by distance and the relevant surface is indicated as follows: AWT - All Weather Track D - Dirt T - Turf European counties covered in this issue are: Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and United Kingdom. The indexes also include Grade 1 races from North America as well as major races from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Races highlighted in purple indicate the race is a Breeders’ Cup win and you’re in race.

closing dates for Listed races but we have been advised to set race closing dates ten days in advance of the race.

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Please check International entry dates with the relevant issue of The Racing Calendar. The Italian authority (UNIRE) do not publish

Whilst every effort has been made to publish correct information, the publishers will not be held liable for any omission, mistake or change to the races listed in all published indexes.

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Track Chantilly Haydock Park Berlin-Hoppergarten Maisons-Laffitte Maisons-Laffitte Sandown Park Cork Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Ayr Deauville Curragh Chantilly Sandown Park Sandown Park York Tipperary Naples Vichy Goodwood Deauville Goodwood Tipperary Deauville Newbury York York Curragh Curragh Beverley Doncaster Doncaster Longchamp Rome Ayr Ascot Ascot Longchamp Milan Milan Dundalk Longchamp

Race Name & (Sponsor) Prix du Gros Chene Achilles St (Piper-Heidsieck) Hoppegartener-Sprintpreis La Fleche Hampton Scurry St Midsummer Sprint King’s Stand St Windsor Castle St Queen Mary St Norfolk St Land O’Burns St (EBF) Yacowlef Sapphire St (Woodies Diy) Bois Dragon St (Bank of New York Mellon) Sprint St (Coral) City Walls Tipperary St Citta di Napoli Reves d’Or - Jacques Bouchara Molecomb St (Bet365) Cercle King George (Tanqueray) Abergwaun St La Vallee d’Auge St Hugh’s St (Bathwick Tyres) Nunthorpe St (Coolmore) Roses St (Julia Graves) Flying Five St (www.bettor.com) Curragh St Beverley Bullet Sprint St (totesport) Scarbrough St Flying Childers St (Polypipe) Petit Couvert (Qatar) Divino Amore Harry Rosebery St Cornwallis St (Jaguar Xj) Rous (Macquarie Group) Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (Qatar) Cancelli Premio Omenoni Mercury St Criterium de Vitesse

GB

Newbury

World Trophy (Dubai Airport)

Breeders Cup

Turf Sprint

Class Gp 2 L L L L L L Gp 1 L Gp 2 Gp 2 L L Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L L L L Gp 3 L Gp 2 L L L Gp 1 L Gp 3 L L L Gp 2 Gp 3 L L Gp 3 L Gp 1 L Gp 3 L L

Race Date 02/06/2013 07/06/2013 09/06/2013 11/06/2013 11/06/2013 15/06/2013 16/06/2013 18/06/2013 18/06/2013 19/06/2013 20/06/2013 22/06/2013 27/06/2013 29/06/2013 30/06/2013 05/07/2013 06/07/2013 13/07/2013 13/07/2013 14/07/2013 16/07/2013 30/07/2013 01/08/2013 02/08/2013 09/08/2013 15/08/2013 16/08/2013 23/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 31/08/2013 11/09/2013 13/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013 20/09/2013 05/10/2013 05/10/2013 06/10/2013 06/10/2013 20/10/2013 25/10/2013 27/10/2013

Value €130,000 £37,000 €22,000 €55,000 €52,000 £37,000 €45,000 £350,000 £55,000 £75,000 £75,000 £40,000 €55,000 €62,500 €80,000 £25,500 £60,000 £40,000 €42,500 €55,000 €55,000 £50,000 €52,000 £100,000 €40,000 €55,000 £25,500 £250,000 £50,000 €57,500 €37,500 £40,000 £40,000 £70,000 €80,000 €41,800 £30,000 £37,000 £37,000 €350,000 €41,800 €61,600 €40,000 €55,000

5f (1000m) Age Surface Metres 3+ T 1000 3+ T 1000 3+ T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ T 1000 3 T 1000 3+ T 1000 3+ T 1000 2 T 1000 2F T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ F&M T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ T 1000 2 T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ T 1000 3+ T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ T 1000 2 T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ T 1000 3+ T 1000 3+ T 1000 2 T 1000 2F T 1000 2+ T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ T 1000 2+ T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ T 1000 2 T 1000 2 T 1000 2 T 1000 3+ T 1000 2+ T 1000 3+ T 1000 3+ T 1000 2+ AWT 1000 2 T 1000

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5.15f (1030m) £55,000

3+

T

1030

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Alessandro Perrone Giubilo Alberto Arenberg Pilgrim St Bonneval Miss Grillo St

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L L Gp 3 Gr 3 L Gr 3

02/06/2013 02/06/2013 10/09/2013 06/10/2013 07/10/2013 07/10/2013

Furlongs Closing 5 15/05/2013 5 01/06/2013 5 07/05/2013 5 03/06/2013 5 03/06/2013 5 10/06/2013 5 11/06/2013 5 23/04/2013 5 5 14/06/2012 5 15/06/2012 5 17/06/2013 5 19/06/2013 5 22/05/2013 5 12/06/2013 5 29/06/2013 5 01/07/2013 5 08/07/2013 5 08/07/2013 5 5 08/07/2013 5 24/07/2013 5 24/07/2013 5 27/07/2013 5 05/08/2013 5 07/08/2013 5 10/08/2013 5 25/06/2013 5 19/08/2013 5 17/07/2013 5 19/08/2013 5 26/08/2013 5 05/09/2013 5 07/09/2013 5 28/08/2013 5 5 14/09/2013 5 30/09/2013 5 30/09/2013 5 28/08/2013 5 5 19/09/2013 5 21/10/2013 5

5.15 16/09/2013

5.5f (1100m) €55,000 €41,800 €80,000 $150,000 €52,000 $150,000

2F 2 C&G 2 2 3+ 2F

T T T T T T

1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5

28/08/2013 21/09/2013 21/09/2013

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Taby Varsprint Taby Open Sprint

Breeders Cup

NOR

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Waba Europaller Sprintlop (Norsk Jockeyclub Sprintlop)

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Epsom Downs Windsor Naas Naas Haydock Park Haydock Park Milan Leopardstown Salisbury Milan Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Deauville Newcastle Newmarket Curragh Curragh Milan Hamburg Calder

Woodcote St (Investec) Leisure St (Windsor Racecourse) EBF Rochestown St Sandy Lane St (Blue Square) Cecil Frail St (EBF) Bersaglio Ballyogan St Cathedral St Crespi V. Coventry St Albany St Diamond Jubilee St Prix de Ris-Orangis Chipchase St (totesport.com) Empress St Railway St (Dubai Duty Free) Balanchine St (Grangecon Stud) Premio Primi Passi Hamburg Flieger Trophy Smile Sprint H’cap

Class L L

Race Date 11/06/2013 15/09/2013

5.75f (1150m)

Value SEK 400,000 SEK 400,000

Age 4+ 3+

Surface Metres T 1150 T 1150

NOK 250,000

3+

T

1170

2 3+ 2F 2 3 3 + F&M 3+ 3+ F 3+ 2F 2 2F 3+ 3+ 3+ 2F 2 2F 2 3+ 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T D

1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

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Sprint

L L L L L L L Gp 3 L L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 2

01/06/2013 03/06/2013 03/06/2013 03/06/2013 08/06/2013 08/06/2013 09/06/2013 13/06/2013 16/06/2013 16/06/2013 18/06/2013 21/06/2013 22/06/2013 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 30/06/2013 30/06/2013 03/07/2013 06/07/2013

Furlongs Closing 5.75 13/05/2013 5.75 19/08/2013

5.85 13/05/2013

6f (1200m) £30,000 £37,000 €57,500 €60,000 £37,000 £47,000 €41,800 €60,000 £42,500 €41,800 £85,000 £60,000 £500,000 €80,000 £60,000 £26,000 €95,000 €52,500 €61,600 €55,000 $350,000

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

27/05/2013 28/05/2013 29/05/2013 29/05/2013 03/06/2013 03/06/2013 08/05/2013 10/06/2013 12/06/2013 15/06/2012 23/04/2013 12/06/2013 24/06/2013 24/06/2013 22/05/2013 25/06/2013 30/05/2013 07/05/2013 22/06/2013

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Track Calder Newmarket Newmarket York Newmarket Fairyhouse Newbury Naas Ascot Belmont Park Saratoga Deauville Del Mar Goodwood Chester Saratoga La Teste de Buch Berlin-Hoppergarten Curragh Curragh Jagersro

Race Name & (Sponsor) Princess Rooney H’cap July (TNT) Cherry Hinton (Irish Thoroughbred Marketing) Summer St (Tyregiant.com) July Cup (Darley) Belgrave St Rose Bowl St Sweet Mimosa EBF St Princess Margaret St (Juddmonte) Prioress St Prioress Cabourg (Jockey Club de Turquie) Bing Crosby S Richmond St (Audi) Queensferry St Alfred G Vanderbilt H’cap Criterium du Bequet Hoppegartener- Flieger-Preis Phoenix St (Keeneland) Phoenix Sprint St (Patrick O’Leary Memorial) Zawawi Cup

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Deauville Pontefract York York Newmarket Deauville Baden-Baden Hakodate Ripon Baden-Baden Curragh Salisbury Haydock Park Kempton Park York Milan Curragh Ayr Newmarket Belmont Park Curragh Milan Nakayama Keeneland Ascot Newmarket Redcar Keeneland Santa Anita Newmarket York Woodbine Curragh Doncaster Rome Newmarket Maisons-Laffitte Maisons-Laffitte Doncaster Rome Lingfield Park Fontainebleau Fontainebleau Siracusa

Prix Morny (Darley) Flying Fillies’ St (EBF) Lowther St Gimcrack St (Irish Thoroughbred Marketing) Hopeful St Meautry (Lucien Barriere) Goldene Peitsche Keeneland Cup Ripon Champion Two-Year-Old Trophy 2013 Kronimus-Rennen Go and Go Round Tower St Dick Poole St (EBF) Sprint Cup (Betfred) Sirenia St (Betfred Bonus King) Garrowby Eupili Renaissance St Firth of Clyde St (Laundry Cottage Stud) Cheveley Park St Vosburgh Invitational Blenheim St Criterium Nazionale Sprinters St Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Bengough St (John Guest) Boadicea St (EBF) Two-Year-Old Trophy Thoroughbred Club of America S The Santa Anita Sprint Championship (Ancient Title S) (Prov date) Middle Park St (Emaar) Rockingham (Coral.co.uk) Nearctic S Waterford Testimonial St Doncaster Ubaldo Pandolfi Bosra Sham St (EBF) Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte Seine-et-Oise Wentworth St (Betfred) Premio Carlo & Francesco Aloisi (Ex Umbria) Golden Rose St Contessina Zeddaan Criterium Aretuseo

GB GB

Newbury Newbury

Hackwood St (Shadwell) Mill Reef St (Dubai Duty Free)

IRE

Curragh

Anglesey St (Jebel Ali Stables & Racecourse)

Breeders Cup

Turf Sprint

Juv F Turf

Sprint

Sprint

F&M Sprint Sprint

Turf Sprint

Class Gr 1 Gp 2 Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 1 L L L Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 3 Gr 1 Gp 2 L Gr 1 L L Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 3

Race Date 06/07/2013 11/07/2013 12/07/2013 12/07/2013 13/07/2013 14/07/2013 19/07/2013 24/07/2013 27/07/2013 27/07/2013 27/07/2013 28/07/2013 28/07/2013 02/08/2013 04/08/2013 04/08/2013 05/08/2013 11/08/2013 11/08/2013 11/08/2013 11/08/2013

Value $350,000 £60,000 £60,000 £60,000 £500,000 €40,000 £25,500 €54,000 £50,000 $300,000 $300,000 €80,000 $300,000 £75,000 £40,000 $400,000 €55,000 €22,000 €190,000 €60,000 SEK 600,000

Gp 1 L Gp 2 Gp 2 L Gp 3 Gp 2 G3 L L Gp 3 L Gp 1 Gp 3 L L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 1 Gr 1 L L Gr 1 Gr 3 Gp 3 L L Gr 2 Gr 1 Gp 1 L Gr 1 L L L L Gp 2 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L L L L

18/08/2013 18/08/2013 22/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 25/08/2013 25/08/2013 25/08/2013 26/08/2013 29/08/2013 01/09/2013 05/09/2013 07/09/2013 07/09/2013 08/09/2013 08/09/2013 14/09/2013 21/09/2013 27/09/2013 28/09/2013 29/09/2013 29/09/2013 29/09/2013 04/10/2013 05/10/2013 05/10/2013 05/10/2013 05/10/2013 05/10/2013 12/10/2013 12/10/2013 13/10/2013 13/10/2013 26/10/2013 27/10/2013 01/11/2013 05/11/2013 05/11/2013 09/11/2013 10/11/2013 16/11/2013 21/11/2013 21/11/2013 08/12/2013

€350,000 £50,000 £150,000 £200,000 £40,000 €80,000 €70,000 $985,000 £27,000 €20,000 €52,500 £35,000 £250,000 £40,000 £37,000 €41,800 €57,500 £50,000 £170,000 $400,000 €40,000 €41,800 $2,470,000 $175,000 £70,000 £40,000 £150,000 $200,000 $250,000 £170,000 £45,000 CAN300,000+ €40,000 £25,500 €41,800 £30,000 €190,000 €80,000 £37,000 €61,600 £37,000 €52,000 €55,000 €41,800

6f (1200m) Age Surface Metres 3+ FM D 1200 2 C&G T 1200 2F T 1200 3+ F T 1200 3+ T 1200 3+ T 1200 2 T 1200 3+ F&M T 1200 2F T 1200 3F D 1200 3F D 1200 2 T 1200 3+ AWT 1200 2 C&G T 1200 3+ T 1200 3+ D 1200 2 T 1200 3+ T 1200 2 CF T 1200 3+ T 1200 3+ D 1200

2 CF 3+ F&M 2F 2 C&G 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 2 2 2F 3+ 2 3+ 2F 3+ 2F 2F 3+ 2 2 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 2 3+ F&M 3+ 2C 2 3+ 3+ 2 2F 2F 2 3+ 3+ 2+ 3+ 3+ 2 2F

T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T T T T D T T T AWT T T T AWT D T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T T

1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

£60,000 £65,000

3+ 2

T T

1210 1210

€52,500

2

T

1260

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20/06/2013 21/09/2013

20/07/2013

Maisons-Laffitte Deauville Munich Maisons-Laffitte

Marchand D’Or Prix Maurice de Gheest Bayerischer Fliegerpris Saraca

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L Gp 1 L L

11/06/2013 04/08/2013 15/09/2013 20/09/2013

31/07/2013 12/08/2013 09/07/2013 02/07/2013 19/08/2013 07/08/2013 09/07/2013 16/07/2013 20/08/2013 20/08/2013 27/08/2013 30/08/2013 09/07/2013 02/09/2013 02/09/2013 07/08/2013 16/09/2013 23/07/2013 14/09/2013 24/09/2013 13/08/2013 18/09/2013 30/09/2013 30/09/2013 30/09/2013 18/09/2013 TBA 30/07/2013 07/10/2013 TBA 08/10/2013 21/10/2013 26/10/2013 16/10/2013 16/10/2013 04/11/2013 10/10/2013 11/11/2013

6.05 15/07/2013 6.05 30/07/2013

6.3f (1260m)

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6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

6.05f (1210m)

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Furlongs Closing 6 22/06/2013 6 05/07/2013 6 05/07/2013 6 05/07/2013 6 07/05/2013 6 09/07/2013 6 13/07/2013 6 18/06/2013 6 22/07/2013 6 13/07/2013 6 13/07/2013 6 10/07/2013 6 18/07/2013 6 26/07/2013 6 29/07/2013 6 20/07/2013 6 29/07/2013 6 09/07/2013 6 17/04/2013 6 03/07/2013 6 08/07/2013

€55,000 €250,000 €20,000 €55,000

6.3

15/07/2013

6.5f (1300m) 3 3+ 3+ 2

T T T T

1300 1300 1300 1300

6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5

03/06/2013 10/07/2012 03/09/2013

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Polar Cup

Breeders Cup

Class Gp 3

Race Date 01/08/2013

6.8f (1370m) Value NOK 500,000

Age 3+

Surface Metres T 1370

Furlongs Closing 6.8 03/06/2013

Thursday August 1st – to close on June 3rd

POLAR CUP (GR 3) 1370 m / 6.85 f turf – 500.000 NOK 300.000 NOK to the winner. For 3-year-olds and upwards

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Longchamp Milan Naas Haydock Park Leopardstown Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Warwick Newmarket Hollywood Park Fairyhouse Longchamp Maisons-Laffitte Longchamp Newmarket Chester Hollywood Park Leopardstown Cologne Curragh Vichy Sandown Park Leopardstown Deauville Ascot Munich Goodwood Goodwood Galway Goodwood Tipperary Newmarket Deauville Curragh Deauville Newbury Newbury York Tipperary Saratoga Goodwood York Curragh Saratoga Saratoga Goodwood Del Mar Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Del Mar Saratoga Curragh Saratoga Saratoga Del Mar Longchamp Longchamp Doncaster Doncaster Doncaster Doncaster Curragh Newbury Newmarket Newmarket Curragh Cologne Ascot Redcar Longchamp Longchamp Chantilly Dundalk Newmarket Newmarket

Palais Royal Nogara Whitehead Memorial John of Gaunt St (Timeform Jury) Ballycorus St Jersey St Chesham St Eternal St Criterion St Triple Bend H’cap Brownstown St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF) Porte Maillot Amandine Roland de Chambure Superlative St (32Red.com) City Plate A Gleam H’cap Silver Flash St Kolner Zweijahrigen Trophy Minstrel St Jouvenceaux et Jouvencelles Star St (Weatherbys Vat Services) Tyros St Six Perfections Winkfield St Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy Lennox St (Bet 365) Vintage St (Veuve Clicquot) Corrib EBF Oak Tree St Coolmore Canford Cliffs Sweet Solera St (Germanthoroughbred.com) Francois Boutin Debutante St (Keeneland) Calvados (Haras des Capucines) Hungerford St Washington Singer St (Denford Stud) Acomb St Fairy Bridge Ballerina St Prestige St (Whiteley Clinic) City of York St Futurity St (Galileo EBF) Test Foxwoods King’s Bishop Supreme St Pat O’Brien H’cap Zukunfts-Rennen Coolmore Stud Baden-Cup Del Mar Debutante Forego Moyglare Stud St Spinaway St Three Chimneys Hopeful St Del Mar Futurity Pin La Rochette Sceptre St (JRA) Flying Scotsman Champagne St Park St Vincent O’Brien National St Cup (Dubai Duty Free) Somerville St (Tattersall) Oh So Sharp St (Sakhee) Park St (CL Weld) Kolner Herbst Preis October St (Miles & Morrison) Guisborough St Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium Prix de la Foret (Qatar) Herod Star Appeal EBF St Dewhurst St Rockfel St (Vision.Ae)

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Dirt Mile

F&M Sprint

F&M Sprint

Dirt Mile

Juv F Turf

Juv Turf Mile

Gp 3 L L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 L L Gp 3 Gr 1 Gp 3 Gp 3 L L Gp 2 L Gr 2 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L L Gp 3 L L L Gp 2 Gp 2 L Gp 3 L Gp 3 L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 2 L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 1 Gp 3 L Gp 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 3 Gr 2 Gp 3 L Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gp 2 Gp 2 Gp 1 L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 L L L Gp 1 Gp 1 L L Gp 1 Gp 2

01/06/2013 02/06/2013 03/06/2013 07/06/2013 13/06/2013 19/06/2013 22/06/2013 27/06/2013 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 03/07/2013 06/07/2013 07/07/2013 13/07/2013 13/07/2013 13/07/2013 13/07/2013 18/07/2013 21/07/2013 21/07/2013 25/07/2013 25/07/2013 25/07/2013 27/07/2013 27/07/2013 28/07/2013 30/07/2013 31/07/2013 01/08/2013 02/08/2013 09/08/2013 10/08/2013 11/08/2013 11/08/2013 17/08/2013 17/08/2013 17/08/2013 21/08/2013 22/08/2013 23/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 25/08/2013 25/08/2013 28/08/2013 28/08/2013 31/08/2013 31/08/2013 01/09/2013 01/09/2013 02/09/2013 04/09/2013 08/09/2013 08/09/2013 12/09/2013 13/09/2013 14/09/2013 14/09/2013 15/09/2013 20/09/2013 26/09/2013 27/09/2013 29/09/2013 03/10/2013 05/10/2013 05/10/2013 06/10/2013 06/10/2013 07/10/2013 11/10/2013 12/10/2013 12/10/2013

€80,000 €41,800 €42,500 £60,000 €60,000 £70,000 £55,000 £37,000 £60,000 $250,000 €77,500 €80,000 €55,000 €55,000 £60,000 £40,000 $200,000 €47,500 €20,000 €57,500 €55,000 £25,500 €47,500 €55,000 £25,500 €20,000 £150,000 £75,000 €55,000 £60,000 €42,500 £50,000 €55,000 €95,000 €80,000 £90,000 £25,500 £60,000 €57,500 $500,000 £40,000 £50,000 €95,000 $500,000 $500,000 £60,000 $250,000 €55,000 €20,000 $300,000 $500,000 €225,000 $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 €80,000 €80,000 £60,000 £25,500 £75,000 £100,000 €200,000 £37,000 £40,000 £40,000 €55,000 €20,000 £37,000 £40,000 €350,000 €300,000 €55,000 €47,500 350000 £60,000

7f (1400m) 3+ 3F 3+ 4+ 3+ 3 2 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3F 2 2 3+ 3+ FM 2F 2 3+ 2 2F 2 2F 2 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 3+ F 2 2F 2 2F 2F 3+ 2 2 3+ F&M 3+ FM 2F 3+ 2 3F 3 3+ 3+ 2 3+F 2F 3+ 2F 2F 2 2 3+ 2 3+ F 2 2 C&G 3+ 2 CF 3+ 2 C&G 2F 2F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 2 CF 3+ 2 2 2 C&F 2F

T T T T T T T T T AWT T T T T T T AWT T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T D T T T D D T AWT T T AWT D T D D AWT T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T

1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400

7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

15/05/2013 29/05/2013 03/06/2013 08/05/2013 14/06/2012 17/06/2013 21/06/2013 24/06/2013 20/06/2013 29/05/2013 19/06/2013 28/06/2013 05/07/2013 13/07/2013 08/07/2013 04/07/2013 11/07/2013 10/07/2013 12/06/2013 17/07/2013 19/07/2013 18/07/2013 19/07/2013 22/07/2013 18/06/2013 24/07/2013 25/07/2013 25/07/2013 27/07/2013 05/08/2013 05/08/2013 02/08/2013 03/07/2013 31/07/2013 30/07/2013 12/08/2013 15/08/2013 17/07/2013 10/08/2013 19/08/2013 19/08/2013 17/07/2013 10/08/2013 10/08/2013 19/08/2013 15/08/2013 09/07/2013 09/07/2013 07/06/2013 17/08/2013 29/05/2013 17/08/2013 17/08/2013 07/06/2013 21/09/2013 21/08/2013 06/09/2013 07/09/2013 23/07/2013 23/07/2013 29/05/2013 14/09/2013 20/09/2013 21/09/2013 24/09/2013 24/09/2013 30/09/2013 30/09/2013 28/08/2012 28/08/2013 07/10/2013 30/07/2013 07/10/2013

STAKES SCHEDULES Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com Country GB FR GB GB IRE GER GER ITY IRE FR FR

Track Newmarket Longchamp Newbury Newbury Leopardstown Hannover Hannover Milan Leopardstown Maisons-Laffitte Fontainebleau

Race Name & (Sponsor) Challenge St Saint-Cyr Horris Hill St (Worthington Highfield Social Club) Radley St Killavullan St Neue Bult Youngster Cup Neue Bult Stuten Sprint-Preis Premio Chiusura Knockaire St Miesque Ceres

GB

Sandown Park

Solario St

Breeders Cup

Class Gp 2 L Gp 3 L Gp 3 L L Gp 3 L Gp 3 L

Race Date 12/10/2013 16/10/2013 26/10/2013 26/10/2013 26/10/2013 27/10/2013 27/10/2013 02/11/2013 03/11/2013 05/11/2013 21/11/2013

7f (1400m) Value £100,000 €55,000 £37,000 £23,000 €47,500 €20,000 €20,000 €61,600 €40,000 €80,000 €55,000

Age Surface Metres 3+ T 1400 3F T 1400 2 C&G T 1400 2F T 1400 2 T 1400 2F T 1400 3+F T 1400 2+ T 1400 3+ T 1400 2F T 1400 3F T 1400

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Gp 3

31/08/2013

7.05f (1410m) £40,000

2

T

1410

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore IRE

Tipperary

Concorde St (Coolmore Stud Home of Champions)

Gp 3

06/10/2013

Milan Milan Naples Livorno Rome Cologne Milan Rome Milan Rome Pisa Deauville Deauville

De Montel Luciano Mantovani Criterium Partenopeo Criterium Labronico Repubbliche Marinare Winterkonigin Trial V. Riva (ex del Dado) Rumon Coolmore Criterium Femminile Criterium di Pisa Luthier Miss Satamixa

L L L L L L L L L L L L L

FR GER JPN FR FR NOR USA ITY SWE GB FR ITY GB GB GB FR IRE GB GB GER IRE USA FR FR FR GB FR GB SWE

Chantilly Dusseldorf Tokyo Longchamp Chantilly Ovrevoll Belmont Park Milan Taby Galopp York Chantilly Milan Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot La Teste de Buch Leopardstown Royal Ascot Windsor Hamburg Curragh Hollywood Park Chantilly Nantes Deauville Sandown Park Maisons-Laffitte Pontefract Taby Galopp

Prix de Sandringham German 1,000 Guineas Yasuda Kinen Lilas Paul de Moussac Polar Mile Cup Just a Game St D’Estate Bloomers’ Vase Ganton Prix Bertrand du Breuil Longines Royal Mares Queen Anne St Windsor Forest St Sandringham H’cap La Sorellina Glencairn St Coronation St Midsummer St (Betfred) Hamburger Stutenmeile Celebration St Shoemaker Mile Prix Jean Prat Grand Prix d’Anjou Bretagne Saint-Patrick Distaff St (Coral) Messidor Pipalong St Swedish Open Mile

GB GB GB FR FR NOR

Newmarket Newmarket Ascot Vichy Chantilly Ovrevoll

Stubbs Falmouth (Etihad Airways) Summer Mile (Transformers and Rectifiers) Jacques de Bremond Bagatelle Lanwades Fillies Stakes

30/06/2013 30/06/2013 21/07/2013 11/08/2013 15/09/2013 22/09/2013 22/09/2013 22/09/2013 29/09/2013 03/11/2013 08/12/2013 14/12/2013 29/12/2013

€65,000

3+

T

1490

€41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €20,000 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €52,000 €52,000

7.4

28/08/2013

7.5f (1500m) 2 C&G 2F 2 2 2F 2F 2C 2C 2F 2F 2 3+ 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T AWT

1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500

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Mile

7.05 26/08/2013

7.4f (1490m)

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Furlongs Closing 7 17/09/2013 7 7 21/10/2013 7 19/10/2013 7 21/10/2013 7 15/10/2013 7 15/10/2013 7 03/10/2013 7 29/10/2013 7 16/10/2013 7

7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5

10/09/2013

8f (1600m)

Gp 2 Gp 2 Gr 1 L Gp 3 L Gr 1 L L L Gp 3 L Gp 1 Gp 2 L L L Gp 1 L Gp 3 L Gr 1 Gp 1 L L L Gp 3 L L

02/06/2013 02/06/2013 02/06/2013 04/06/2013 08/06/2013 08/06/2013 08/06/2013 09/06/2013 11/06/2013 15/06/2013 16/06/2013 16/06/2013 18/06/2013 19/06/2013 19/06/2013 20/06/2013 20/06/2013 21/06/2013 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 30/06/2013 01/07/2013 05/07/2013 06/07/2013 07/07/2013 09/07/2013 09/07/2013

€130,000 €125,000 $2,600,000 €55,000 €80,000 NOK 250,000 $500,000 $41,800 SEK 400,000 £37,000 €80,000 €41,800 £350,000 £100,000 £55,000 €55,000 €40,000 £250,000 £37,000 €55,000 €50,000 $300,000 €400,000 €52,000 €55,000 £37,000 €80,000 £40,000 SEK 400,000

3F 3F 3+ 3F 3 CG 3+ 3+ F&M 3 3+ F&M 3+ 4+ 3+ F&M 4+ 4+ F 3F 3F 4+ 3F 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3 CF 4+ 3 C&G 3F 3+ 4+ F&M 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

23/04/2013 30/04/2013 13/06/2013 12/06/2013 13/06/2013 23/04/2013 24/06/2013 07/05/2013 24/06/2013 20/06/2013 12/06/2013 24/06/2013 27/06/2013 01/07/2013 19/06/2013 03/07/2013 10/06/2013

L Gp 1 Gp 2 L L L

11/07/2013 12/07/2013 13/07/2013 20/07/2013 25/07/2013 25/07/2013

£37,000 £160,000 £100,000 €52,000 €55,000 NOK 250,000

3 3+ F 4+ 4+ 3F 3+

T T T T T T

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

8 8 8 8 8 8

05/07/2013 18/06/2013 08/07/2013 12/07/2013 17/07/2013 27/05/2013

15/05/2013 12/03/2013 23/04/2013 27/05/2013 22/05/2013 15/04/2013 25/05/2013 13/05/2013 10/06/2013 22/05/2013

Thursday July 25th – to close on May 27th. Supplementary closing – June 10th

LANWADES STUD FILLIES STAKES (L) 1600 m / 8 f turf – 250.000 NOK. Supplementary fee – 120.000 NOK 125.000 NOK to the winner. For 3-year-olds and upwards fillies and mares

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STAKES SCHEDULES Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com Country GB FR GB GER GB GB FR IRE GB FR FR FR GB IRE GER SPN FR GB FR IRE GER GB GB FR FR GB GB IRE IRE USA GER ITY TKY FR GB CAN CAN CAN FR GER GER IRE IRE SWE

Track Ascot Deauville Pontefract Munich Goodwood Goodwood Deauville Cork Haydock Park Deauville Deauville Deauville Salisbury Leopardstown Dusseldorf San Sebastian Deauville Goodwood Deauville Killarney Baden-Baden Salisbury Sandown Park Chantilly Toulouse Haydock Park Haydock Park Leopardstown Leopardstown Churchill Downs Hannover Milan Veliefendi Chantilly Doncaster Woodbine Woodbine Woodbine Longchamp Munich Dusseldorf Curragh Curragh Taby Galopp

Race Name & (Sponsor) Valiant St (EBF) Prix de Rothschild Pomfret St Dallmayr Coupe Lukull Sussex (Quipco) Thoroughbred St (Rsa) Tourgeville Platinum St Dick Hern (EBF) Prix Jacques le Marois (Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard) Grand H’cap de Deauville Lieurey Sovereign St (totepool) Desmond St Grosser Preis der Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf Gobierno Vasco Criterium du F.E.E. Celebration Mile (Betfair) Quincey (Lucien Barriere) Ruby St Darley Oettingen-Rennen Stonehenge St (Weatherbys Bank) Atalanta St La Cochere Prix Millkom Superior Mile Ascendant St (Betfred) ICON BC Juv Turf Trial (Golden Fleece St) Matron St (Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus) Iroquois St (Prov race date) Grosser Preis der Metallbau Burckhardt GmbH Bessero Pietro International Topkapi Trophy Aumale May Hill St (Barrett Steel) Natalma S Summer S Ricoh Woodbine Mile Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Grosse Europa-Meile Junioren-Preis Solonaway (Moyglare Stud) Flame of Tara EBF St Nickes Minneslopning

GB FR GER FR FR GB GB GB GB GB USA IRE ITY ITY FR USA USA USA FR FR FR GB GER GER GER IRE ITY SPN GB IRE GER IRE ITY ITY GB

Sandown Park Longchamp Cologne Lyon-Parilly Saint-Cloud Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Belmont Park Curragh Milan Milan Longchamp Belmont Park Belmont Park Keeneland Longchamp Saint-Cloud Chantilly Newmarket Munich Cologne Munich Curragh Milan Zarzuela Ascot Cork Baden-Baden Naas Milan Milan Pontefract

Fortune St Chenes Kolner Stutenpreis Criterium de Lyon Coronation Fillies’ Mile (Shadwell) Joel St (Nayef) Rosemary (Mawatheeq) Royal Lodge St (Juddmonte) Sun Chariot St (Kingdom of Bahrain) Kelso H’cap Beresford St (Juddmonte) Premio Vittorio di Capua Premio Sergio Cumani Prix Daniel Wildenstein (Qatar) Foxwoods Champagne Frizette St Shadwell Turf Mile Prix Marcel Boussac (Total) Thomas Bryon Ranelagh Autumn St Winterfavoriten Weidenpescher Stutenpreis Preis des Winterfavoriten Silken Glider (Staffordstown) St Gran Criterium Gran Premio de la Hispanidad Queen Elizabeth II St (Quipco) Navigation St Winterkonigon Garnet EBF St Premio Dormello Del Piazzale Silver Tankard St (totepool)

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Mile

Juv Turf Juv

Juv F Turf Juv Turf Mile

Juv Turf Dirt Mile

Juv Juv F Mile

8f (1600m)

Class L Gp 1 L L Gp 1 Gp 3 L L L Gp 1 L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 L L L Gp 2 Gp 3 L Gp 2 L Gp 3 L L Gp 3 L Gp 3 Gp 1 Gr 3 L L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L L

Race Date 26/07/2013 28/07/2013 28/07/2013 28/07/2013 31/07/2013 02/08/2013 06/08/2013 06/08/2013 10/08/2013 11/08/2013 11/08/2013 15/08/2013 15/08/2013 15/08/2013 18/08/2013 18/08/2013 20/08/2013 24/08/2013 25/08/2013 28/08/2013 29/08/2013 30/08/2013 31/08/2013 04/09/2013 07/09/2013 07/09/2013 07/09/2013 07/09/2013 07/09/2013 07/09/2013 08/09/2013 08/09/2013 08/09/2013 10/09/2013 13/09/2013 14/09/2013 14/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013

Value £37,500 €300,000 £40,000 €20,000 £300,000 £60,000 €55,000 €40,000 £47,000 €600,000 €100,000 €80,000 £62,500 €57,500 €30,000 €47,600 €122,000 £100,000 €80,000 €40,000 €70,000 £27,500 £60,000 €55,000 €55,000 £60,000 £25,500 €60,000 €190,000 $100,000 €20,000 €41,800 €459,000 €80,000 £70,000 CAN200,000+ CAN200,000+ CAN1,000,000+ €450,000 €55,000 €20,000 €57,500 €50,000 SEK 400,000

L Gp 3 L L L Gp 1 Gp 2 L Gp 2 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 2 Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 3 L Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L Gp 1 L Gp 1 L Gp 3 L Gp 3 Gp 3 L

18/09/2013 21/09/2013 22/09/2013 26/09/2013 27/09/2013 27/09/2013 27/09/2013 27/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 29/09/2013 29/09/2013 29/09/2013 05/10/2013 05/10/2013 05/10/2013 05/10/2013 06/10/2013 10/10/2013 10/10/2013 12/10/2013 13/10/2013 13/10/2013 13/10/2013 13/10/2013 13/10/2013 13/10/2013 19/10/2013 19/10/2013 20/10/2013 20/10/2013 20/10/2013 20/10/2013 21/10/2013

£37,000 €80,000 €20,000 €55,000 €55,000 £170,000 £100,000 £37,000 £100,000 £160,000 $400,000 €95,000 €209,000 €61,600 €200,000 $400,000 $400,000 $600,000 €300,000 €80,000 €52,000 £40,000 €155,000 €20,000 €155,000 €42,500 €209,000 €45,900 £1,000,000 €40,000 €105,000 €50,000 €88,000 €61,600 £40,000

Age Surface Metres 3+ F&M T 1600 3+ F T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+F T 1600 3+ T 1600 3 T 1600 3 C&G T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+ CF T 1600 3+ T 1600 3F T 1600 3+ C&G T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+ F&M T 1600 3+ T 1600 2 T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+ T 1600 2 T 1600 3+ F&M T 1600 3F T 1600 3 T 1600 3+ T 1600 2 T 1600 2 T 1600 3+ F T 1600 2 D 1600 3+F T 1600 3+ F&M T 1600 3+ C&F T 1600 2F T 1600 2F T 1600 2F T 1600 2 T 1600 3+ T 1600 3 + CF T 1600 3+ T 1600 2 T 1600 3+ T 1600 2F T 1600 3+ D 1600

3+ 2 CG 3+ F 2 3F 2F 3+ 3+ 2 C&G 3+ F 3+ 2 3+ 3+ F 3+ 2 2F 3+ 2F 2 3+ 2 2 3+ F 2 2F 2 C&F 3+ 3+ 3+ 2F 3+ F&M 2F 3+ 2

T T T T T T T T T T D T T T T D D T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

Furlongs Closing 8 20/07/2013 8 10/07/2013 8 22/07/2013 8 18/06/2013 8 28/05/2013 8 27/07/2013 8 29/07/2013 8 01/08/2013 8 8 24/07/2013 8 02/08/2013 8 24/07/2013 8 09/08/2013 8 10/07/2013 8 25/06/2013 8 18/07/2013 8 12/08/2013 8 09/07/2013 8 07/08/2013 8 22/08/2013 8 09/07/2013 8 24/08/2013 8 26/08/2013 8 8 8 8 02/09/2013 8 02/09/2013 8 03/07/2013 8 TBA 8 27/08/2013 8 8 31/07/2013 8 28/08/2013 8 07/09/2013 8 TBA 8 TBA 8 TBA 8 28/08/2013 8 23/07/2013 8 03/09/2013 8 07/08/2013 8 10/09/2013 8 19/08/2013

8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

12/09/2013 04/09/2013 10/09/2013

23/07/2013 03/09/2013 21/09/2013 23/07/2013 23/07/2013 14/09/2013 21/08/2013 29/08/2013 29/08/2013 28/08/2013 21/09/2013 21/09/2013 18/09/2013 28/08/2013 25/10/2013 07/10/2013 05/02/2013 01/10/2013 CLOSED 08/10/2013 12/09/2013 05/09/2013 06/10/2013 14/10/2013 CLOSED 15/10/2013 19/09/2013 15/10/2013

STAKES SCHEDULES Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Country FR FR GB GB FR FR IRE GB GB ITY FR FR JPN FR FR GB USA ITY JPN JPN

Track Deauville Nantes Doncaster Lingfield Park Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Dundalk Newmarket Newmarket Rome Compiegne Toulouse Kyoto Chantilly Chantilly Kempton Park Aqueduct Siracusa Hanshin Nakayama

Race Name & (Sponsor) Reservoirs (Haras d’Etreham) Sablonnets Trophy (Racing Post) Fleur de Lys St (EBF) Criterium International Perth Cooley EBF St Ben Marshall St (Novae Bloodstock) Montrose St (EBF) Premio Ribot Isola-Bella Criterium du Languedoc Mile Championship Tantieme Isonomy Hyde St Cigar Mile H’cap Criterium Mediterraneo (ex Ippodromi e Citta) Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Asahi Hai Futurity St

FR FR

Craon Craon

Criterium de l’Ouest Point du Jour

USA GER USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA GER USA USA GER

Belmont Park Krefeld Del Mar Hakodate Parx Racing Santa Anita Santa Anita Santa Anita Keeneland Keeneland Dusseldorf Keeneland Keeneland Krefeld

Mother Goose St Meilen Trophy Clement L. Hirsch S Elm St Cotillion St The Zenyatta St (Lady’s Secret) (Prov race date) The Frontrunner Stakes (Norfolk Stakes) (Prov race date) The Chandelier St (Oak Leaf S) (Prov race date) Darley Alcibiades S Dixiana Breeders’ Futurity Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf Bourbon S JP Morgan Chase Jessamine S Herzog von Ratibor-Rennen

SWE

Jagersro

Margareta Wettermarks Minneslopning

GER

Dortmund

Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft

Breeders Cup

Class Gp 3 L Gp 1 L Gp 1 Gp 3 L L L Gp 2 L L Gr 1 L L L Gr 1 L Gr 1 Gr 1

Race Date 23/10/2013 26/10/2013 26/10/2013 31/10/2013 01/11/2013 01/11/2013 01/11/2013 02/11/2013 02/11/2013 03/11/2013 04/11/2013 11/11/2013 17/11/2013 19/11/2013 19/11/2013 20/11/2013 30/11/2013 08/12/2013 08/12/2013 15/12/2013

8f (1600m) Value €80,000 €55,000 £200,000 £37,000 €250,000 €80,000 €50,000 £37,000 £30,000 €104,500 €52,000 €55,000 $2,600,000 €52,000 €55,000 £40,000 $400,000 €41,800 $1,687,000 $1,832,000

Age Surface Metres 2F T 1600 2 T 1600 2 C&F T 1600 3+ F&M AWT 1600 2 CF T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+ F&M AWT 1600 3+ T 1600 2F T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+ F T 1600 2 T 1600 3+ T 1600 3+ T 1600 2 T 1600 3+ AWT 1600 3+ D 1600 2 T 1600 2F T 1600 2 No G T 1600

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09/09/2013 23/09/2013

8.32f (1650m) €55,000 €52,000

2 3+

T T

1650 1650

$300,000 €70,000 $300,000 $911,000 $1,000,000 $250,000 $250,000 $250,000 $400,000 $400,000 €55,000 $100,000 $150,000 €55,000

3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3F 3+ F&M 2 2F 2F 2 3+ 2 2F 2

D T AWT D D D D D AWT AWT T T T T

1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700

SEK 400,000

3+ F&M

D

1730

3+

T

1750

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F&M Classic Juv Juv F Juv F Juv Juv Turf Juv F Turf

Gr 1 Gp 2 Gr 1 G3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gp 3

22/06/2013 14/07/2013 03/08/2013 24/08/2013 21/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 04/10/2013 05/10/2013 06/10/2013 06/10/2013 10/10/2013 03/11/2013

11/08/2013

23/06/2013

York

Strensall St (Sky Bet Mobile)

Gp 3

23/08/2013

8.6

Churchill Downs Hollywood Park Klampenborg Chantilly Milan Compiegne Del Mar Saratoga Berlin-Hoppergarten Curragh Leopardstown Saratoga Hakodate Monmouth Park Saratoga Clairefontaine Salisbury Gowran Park Del Mar Ovrevoll

Stephen Foster H’cap Vanity H’cap Dansk Pokallob Chloe Del Giubileo Prix Darphnis Eddie Read S TVG Coaching Club American Oaks Internationales Superhandicap Kilboy Estate Meld St Diana St Hokkaido Shimbun Hai Queen St Haskell Invitational (INV) Whitney H’cap Luth Enchantee Upavon St (EBF) Hurry Harriet EBF St Del Mar Oaks Marit Sveaas Minnelop

Mile

Classic

Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gr 1 G3 Gr 1 Gr 1 L L L Gr 1 Gp 3

15/06/2013 15/06/2013 30/06/2013 30/06/2013 30/06/2013 01/07/2013 20/07/2013 20/07/2013 21/07/2013 21/07/2013 25/07/2013 27/07/2013 28/07/2013 28/07/2013 03/08/2013 12/08/2013 14/08/2013 14/08/2013 17/08/2013 25/08/2013

08/07/2013

8.75 30/04/2013

8.95f (1790m) £75,000

3+

T

1790

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08/06/2013 21/05/2013 25/07/2013 16/07/2013 06/07/2013 TBA TBA TBA 18/09/2013 18/09/2013 13/08/2013 18/09/2013 25/09/2013 13/08/2013

8.75f (1750m) €55,000

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8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5

8.6f (1730m)

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8.32 8.32

8.5f (1700m)

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Furlongs Closing 8 09/10/2013 8 8 13/08/2013 8 25/10/2013 8 16/10/2013 8 16/10/2013 8 28/10/2013 8 28/10/2013 8 28/10/2013 8 03/10/2013 8 8 8 01/10/2013 8 8 8 14/11/2013 8 16/11/2013 8 8 22/10/2013 8 05/11/2013

$500,000 $250,000 DKK 250,000 €80,000 €61,600 €80,000 $300,000 $300,000 €80,000 €100,000 €60,000 $600,000 $911,000 $1,000,000 $750,000 €48,000 £42,500 €50,000 $300,000 NOK 1,300,000

8.95 17/08/2013

9f (1800m) 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3F 3+ 3 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3 3+ 4+ 3+ F&M 3+ F&M 3F 3+

D AWT T T T T T D T T T T T D D T T T T T

1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800

9 9 9 9 8 9 9 9 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

01/06/2013 06/06/2013 12/03/2013 12/06/2013 30/05/2013 12/06/2013 11/07/2013 06/07/2013 07/05/2013 12/06/2013 19/07/2013 13/07/2013 18/06/2013 20/07/2013 05/08/2013 08/08/2013 08/08/2013 08/08/2013 24/06/2013

Sunday August 25th – to close on June 24th

MARIT SVEAAS MINNELOP (GR3) 1800 m / 9 f turf – 1.300.000 NOK 800.000 NOK to the winner – For 3-year-olds and upwards USA

Saratoga

Personal Ensign Inv St

F&M Classic

Gr 1

25/08/2013

$600,000

www.ovrevoll.no 3+ FM

D

1800

9

10/08/2013

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Sapporo Nisai St The Woodward Berenberg Bank Cup Dance Design St Garden City St Canadian S Automne - FEE Foundation St The Awesome Again St (Goodwood St) (Prov race date) Beldame Invitational M.Se Ippolito Fassati Jamaica H’cap Juddmonte Spinster S Le Fabuleux Darley St Conde Casimir Delamarre Defi du Galop Premio Guido Berardelli Campobello Eyrefield St Delahante Japan Cup Dirt

IRE

Gowran Park

Denny Cordell Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Fillies St

Breeders Cup

F&M Turf

Classic F&M Classic

F&M Classic

Class G3 Gr 1 L Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 L L Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gp 3 Gp 3 L L Gp 3 L L L Gr 1

Race Date 31/08/2013 31/08/2013 01/09/2013 01/09/2013 14/09/2013 15/09/2013 21/09/2013 25/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 29/09/2013 05/10/2013 06/10/2013 08/10/2013 12/10/2013 20/10/2013 20/10/2013 20/10/2013 01/11/2013 02/11/2013 03/11/2013 10/11/2013 01/12/2013

9f (1800m) Value $780,000 $750,000 €20,000 €67,500 $300,000 CAN300,000+ €128,000 £40,000 $250,000 $400,000 €41,800 $400,000 $500,000 €55,000 £55,000 €80,000 €55,000 €20,000 €88,000 €41,800 €37,500 €55,000 $3,392,000

Age Surface Metres 2 T 1800 3+ D 1800 3+F T 1800 3+ F T 1800 3F T 1800 3+ F&M T 1800 3+ F T 1800 3+ T 1800 3+ D 1800 3+ F&M D 1800 3 T 1800 3 T 1800 3+ F&M AWT 1800 3 T 1800 3+ T 1800 2 T 1800 3F T 1800 3+ T 1800 2 T 1800 2 T 1800 2 T 1800 2 T 1800 3+ D 1800

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22/09/2013

9.4f (1890m) €70,000

3+ F

T

1890

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Hannover Arlington Park Bordeaux Deauville Deauville

Grosser Preis der VGH-Versicherungen Beverly D. St Grand Criterium de Bordeaux Lyphard Petite Etoile

SWE SWE

Taby Galopp Taby Galopp

IKC Fonder Stockholm Stora pris Lanwades Stud St

Gp 3 L

FR SWE

Longchamp Taby Galopp

Prix Dollar (Qatar) Stockholm Fillies And Mares St

Gp 2 L

GB

Goodwood

Nassau

F&M Turf

L Gr 1 L L L

4+F 3+ FM 2 3+ 3F

T T T AWT AWT

1900 1900 1900 1900 1900

11/06/2013 15/09/2013

SEK 1000000 SEK 400,000

4+ 3-5 F&M

T T

1950 1950

9.75 13/05/2013 9.75 19/08/2013

05/10/2013 13/10/2013

€200,000 SEK 400,000

3+ 3+F&M

T T

1950 1950

9.75 28/08/2013 9.75 16/09/2013

3+ F

T

1970

03/08/2013

Merano Matchem Melisande Bwin Sachsen Preis Woodford Reserve Manhattan H’cap Charles Whittingham Memorial H’cap Diana Trial Silver St La Coupe Ballymacoll Stud St (Lord Weinstock Memorial) Warwickshire Oaks (Voute Sales) Prince of Wales’s St (150th Anniversary) Tercentenary Wolferton H’cap Premio Mario Incisa Ridgway Grand Prix de Compiegne Naas Oaks Trial (EBF) Hoppings St (EBF) International St Pretty Polly St (Stobart Ireland) Gala St (Ambant) Hamburg Trophy Hollywood Gold Cup American Oaks Barvaria-Preis

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L L L L Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 2 L Gp 3 L L Gp 1 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L L L L Gp 3 Gp 1 L Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 L

02/06/2013 05/06/2013 05/06/2013 08/06/2013 08/06/2013 08/06/2013 09/06/2013 09/06/2013 10/06/2013 13/06/2013 17/06/2013 19/06/2013 20/06/2013 21/06/2013 23/06/2013 24/06/2013 25/06/2013 26/06/2013 28/06/2013 28/06/2013 30/06/2013 05/07/2013 05/07/2013 06/07/2013 13/07/2013 14/07/2013

9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5

04/06/2014 20/04/2013

9.75f (1950m)

9.85f (1970m) £200,000

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14/08/2013

€20,000 $750,000 €55,000 €52,000 €55,000

16/06/2013 17/08/2013 09/10/2013 03/12/2013 03/12/2013

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9.4

9.5f (1900m)

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Furlongs Closing 9 16/07/2013 9 17/08/2013 9 09/07/2013 9 24/07/2013 9 31/08/2013 9 TBA 9 9 19/09/2013 9 TBA 9 14/09/2013 9 9 21/09/2013 9 18/09/2013 9 9 07/10/2013 9 02/10/2013 9 9 08/10/2013 9 03/10/2013 9 9 29/10/2013 9 9 08/10/2013

€41,800 €55,000 €55,000 €20,000 $500,000 $200,000 €70,000 €40,000 €80,000 £37,000 £37,000 £500,000 £70,000 £55,000 €61,600 €55,000 €60,000 €50,000 £37,000 €57,500 €200,000 £37,000 €55,000 $500,000 $350,000 €20,000

9.85 09/07/2013

10f (2000m) 3 3 C&G 3F 4+ 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ 4+ 3F 4+ F 4+ 3 4+ 3F 3 C&G 4+ 3 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3F 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T

2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

28/05/2013 28/05/2013 28/05/2013 25/05/2013 30/05/2013 16/04/2013 04/06/2013 22/05/2013 07/06/2013 11/06/2013 23/04/2013 15/06/2012 15/06/2013 23/05/2013 17/06/2013 20/06/2013 22/06/2013 22/05/2013 24/04/2013 29/06/2013 14/05/2013 27/06/2013 04/07/2013 02/07/2013

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Track Vichy Vichy Newbury Delaware Park Maisons-Laffitte Maisons-Laffitte Compiegne York Deauville Munich Deauville Curragh Le Lion d’Angers Deauville Arlington Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Saratoga Deauville Hannover Hakodate Deauville Baden-Baden Saratoga Del Mar Longchamp Marseille Borely Toulouse Leopardstown Leopardstown Curragh Yarmouth Maisons-Laffitte Longchamp Ayr Belmont Park Belmont Park Santa Anita Rome Chantilly Hoppegarten Hoppegarten Longchamp Saint-Cloud Munich Milan Taby Galopp

Race Name & (Sponsor) Vichy - Auvergne Madame Jean Couturie Steventon St (Shadwell Beech House Stud) Delaware H’cap Prix Eugene Adam La Pepiniere Pelleas Lyric St (EBF) Psyche Grosser-Dallmayr Preis Gontaut-Biron (Hong Kong Jockey Club) Royal Whip St (Keeneland) Grand Prix du Lion d’Angers Prix Guillaume d’Ornano (Haras du Logis Saint Germain Arlington Million XXXI Armerican St Leger St Secretariat Stakes Alabama Prix Jean Romanet (Darley) Grosse Audi Preis Sapporo Kinen Nonette (Shadwell) Sparkassen- Finanzgruppe Travers TGV Pacific Classic Boulogne Coupe de Marseille Occitanie Irish Champion St (Red Mills) Kilternan St Blandford St (Moyglare Stud) John Musker (EBF) La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte Prince d’Orange Doonside Cup (williamhill.com) Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational St Flower Bowl Invitational St Rodeo Drive St (Prov race date) Archidamia Charles Laffitte 21st Westminster Deutschen Einheit Deutschen Einheit Prix de l’Opera (Longines) Dahlia Nereide-Rennen Premio Verziere (Memorial A. Cirla) Songline Classic

IRE GB IRE ITY ITY JPN GB ITY FR FR GB FR GER ITY GB GB

Dundalk Ascot Leopardstown Rome Rome Tokyo Newmarket Rome Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Doncaster Marseille Borely Frankfurt Rome Lingfield Park Lingfield Park

Carlingford St Champion (Quipco) Trigo St Premio Lydia Tesio Conte Felice Scheibler Tenno Sho (Autumn) James Seymour Premier Roma Criterium de Saint-Cloud Solitude Gillies St (EBF) Grand Prix de Marseille Hessen-Pokal G, Valiani (ex Buontalenta) Churchill St Quebec St

GB GB

Sandown Park Windsor

Eclipse St (Coral) Winter Hill

Breeders Cup

Turf

Classic

Turf

Classic F&M Turf F&M Turf

F&M Turf

10f (2000m)

Class Gp 3 L L Gr 1 Gp 2 L L L Gp 3 Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gp 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 3 G2 Gp 2 Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 L L L Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 2 L Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 L L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 1 L L Gp 3 L

Race Date 17/07/2013 18/07/2013 20/07/2013 20/07/2013 21/07/2013 21/07/2013 22/07/2013 26/07/2013 27/07/2013 28/07/2013 10/08/2013 11/08/2013 12/08/2013 15/08/2013 17/08/2013 17/08/2013 17/08/2013 17/08/2013 18/08/2013 18/08/2013 18/08/2013 20/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 25/08/2013 01/09/2013 06/09/2013 07/09/2013 07/09/2013 07/09/2013 14/09/2013 18/09/2013 20/09/2013 21/09/2013 21/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 28/09/2013 29/09/2013 02/10/2013 03/10/2013 03/10/2013 06/10/2013 10/10/2013 13/10/2013 13/10/2013 13/10/2013

Value €80,000 €55,000 £37,000 $750,000 €130,000 €52,000 €55,000 £40,000 €80,000 €155,000 €80,000 €95,000 €55,000 €400,000 $1,000,000 $400,000 $500,000 $600,000 €250,000 €55,000 $1,687,000 €130,000 €55,000 $1,000,000 $300,000 €52,000 €55,000 €55,000 €750,000 €57,500 €100,000 £40,000 €80,000 €80,000 £50,000 $1,000,000 $600,000 €41,800 €55,000 €85,000 €85,000 €400,000 €48,000 €20,000 €61,600 SEK 400,000

L Gp 1 L Gp 1 L Gr 1 L Gp 1 Gp 1 L L L Gp 3 L L L

18/10/2013 19/10/2013 26/10/2013 27/10/2013 27/10/2013 27/10/2013 02/11/2013 03/11/2013 09/11/2013 09/11/2013 09/11/2013 10/11/2013 10/11/2013 10/11/2013 16/11/2013 21/12/2013

€40,000 £1,300,000 €40,000 €209,000 €41,800 $3,437,000 £37,000 €209,000 €250,000 €55,000 £37,000 €60,000 €55,000 €41,800 £37,000 £37,000

Age Surface Metres 3+ T 2000 3F T 2000 3+ T 2000 3+ FM D 2000 3 T 2000 4+ F&M T 2000 3 C&G T 2000 3+ F&M T 2000 3F T 2000 3+ T 2000 4+ T 2000 3+ T 2000 3 T 2000 3 T 2000 3+ T 2000 3+ T 2000 3yo T 2000 3F D 2000 4+ F T 2000 3 T 2000 3+ T 2000 3F T 2000 4+ T 2000 3 D 2000 3+ AWT 2000 4+ T 2000 3 T 2000 3F T 2000 3+ T 2000 3+ T 2000 3+ F T 2000 3+ F&M T 2000 3+ T 2000 3 T 2000 3+ T 2000 3+ D 2000 3+ F&M T 2000 3+ FM T 2000 3+ F T 2000 3F T 2000 3+ T 2000 3+ T 2000 3+ F T 2000 4+ F T 2000 3+ F T 2000 3+ F T 2000 3+ D 2000

3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 CF 3F 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+

AWT T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT AWT

2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000

3+ 3+

T T

2010 2010

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06/07/2013 24/08/2013

York Haydock Park York

York St (Sky Bet) Rose of Lancaster St (Betfred) International St (Juddmonte)

FR FR GER GER FR

Chantilly Chantilly Dusseldorf Dusseldorf Longchamp

Prix du Jockey Club Prix de Diane (Longines) BMW-Preis Henkel-Trophy Liancourt

Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 1

27/07/2013 10/08/2013 21/08/2013

02/06/2013 16/06/2013 22/06/2013 04/08/2013 01/09/2013

14/10/2013 06/10/2013 21/10/2013 26/09/2013 10/09/2013 28/10/2013 03/10/2013 24/10/2013 04/11/2013 06/11/2013 11/11/2013 16/12/2013

10.05 30/04/2013 10.05 19/08/2013

10.04f (2080m)

£100,000 £60,000 £750,000

3+ 3+ 3+

T T T

2080 2080 2080

€1,500,000 €1,000,000 €20,000 €20,000 €55,000

3 CF 3F 3F 3+ 3F

T T T T T

2100 2100 2100 2100 2100

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10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

10.05f (2010m) £425,000 £60,000

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Furlongs Closing 10 03/07/2013 10 10/07/2013 10 15/07/2013 10 08/07/2013 10 03/07/2013 10 12/07/2013 10 15/07/2013 10 20/07/2013 10 10/07/2013 10 07/05/2013 10 02/08/2013 10 03/07/2013 10 05/08/2013 10 24/07/2013 10 20/04/2013 10 20/04/2013 10 13/04/2013 10 03/08/2013 10 31/07/2013 10 26/06/2013 10 02/07/2013 10 31/07/2013 10 09/07/2013 10 10/08/2013 10 15/08/2013 10 10 10 10 22/05/2013 10 31/07/2013 10 07/08/2013 10 12/09/2013 10 04/09/2013 10 04/09/2013 10 16/09/2013 10 14/09/2013 10 14/09/2013 10 TBA 10 10 10 06/08/2013 10 06/08/2013 10 28/08/2013 10 10 03/09/2013 10 12/09/2013 10 16/09/2013

10.4 22/07/2013 10.4 05/08/2013 10.4 25/06/2013

10.5f (2100m) 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5

20/02/2013 20/02/2013 11/06/2013 23/07/2013

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Track Strasbourg Dundalk Saint-Cloud Le Croise-Laroche Toulouse

Race Name & (Sponsor) Grand Prix de la Region d’Alsace Diamond St Flore Grand Prix du Nord Fille de l’Air

Breeders Cup

IRE GER GER ITY JPN GER GER USA USA GB GER ITY GER GB USA GER GER GB ITY GER ITY GB GER JPN GER

Leopardstown Cologne Bremen Milan Hanshin Hamburg Hamburg Monmouth Park Belmont Park Hamilton Park Dusseldorf Merano Hannover Windsor Del Mar Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Newbury Milan Hannover Rome Newmarket Hannover Kyoto Dresden

Nijinsky St Oppenheim Union-Rennen SWB Derby Trial Paolo Mezzanotte Takarazuka Kinen Hamburger Stutenpreis Hanshin-Cup United Nations St Man o’ War BC St Glasgow St Henkel Preis der Diana German Oaks EBF Terme di Merano Neue Bult Cup August St Del Mar H’cap Baden Racing Stutenpreis Mercedes Benz Stutenpreis Arc Trial (Dubai Duty Free) Premio Federico Tesio Herbst Stuten-Preis Villa Borghese Memorial F. Cadoni Pride (TRM) Neue Bult Stuten-Steher-Cup Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup Grosser Dresdner Herbstpreis

ITY

Naples

Unire

FR ITY

Le Lion d’Angers Siracusa

Urban Sea Francesco Faraci

GB GB

Haydock Park Haydock Park

Pinnacle St (New Approach Grosvenor Casinos) Lancashire Oaks (bet365)

Class L Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gp 3

Race Date 29/09/2013 04/10/2013 29/10/2013 02/11/2013 11/11/2013

10.5f (2100m) Value €52,000 €57,500 €80,000 €55,000 €80,000

Age 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3 3+ F

Surface Metres T 2100 AWT 2100 T 2100 T 2100 T 2100

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Turf

Turf

Turf

L Gp 2 L L Gr 1 Gp 3 L Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gp 1 L L L Gr 2 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gp 3 L L L Gr 1 L

07/06/2013 16/06/2013 23/06/2013 23/06/2013 23/06/2013 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 13/07/2013 19/07/2013 04/08/2013 15/08/2013 18/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 31/08/2013 31/08/2013 21/09/2013 22/09/2013 29/09/2013 29/09/2013 05/10/2013 27/10/2013 10/11/2013 20/11/2013

€40,000 €70,000 €20,000 €41,800 $3,437,000 €55,000 €20,000 $500,000 $600,000 £40,000 €400,000 €41,800 €20,000 £37,000 $200,000 €55,000 €55,000 £60,000 €104,500 €55,000 €41,800 £37,000 €20,000 $2,352,000 €20,000

11f (2200m) 3 3 3 4+ F&M 3+ 3F 4+ F 3+ 3+ 3 C&G 3F 3+ F&M 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T

2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200

€41,800

3+

T

2250

€48,000 €41,800

3F 3+

T T

2300 2300

£60,000 £90,000

4+ F 3+ F

T T

2380 2380

€130,000 €80,000 $1,000,000 €209,000 €55,000 €60,000 €80,000 €82,500 £125,000 £150,000 £200,000 2 500 000 K_, €400,000 €150,000 £40,000 €55,000 £37,000 €1,250,000 €70,000 €55,000 148750 PLN NOK 1,000,000 €500,000 14 million HUF €40,000 £100,000 €600,000 €55,000 €52,000 €55,000 £40,000 €400,000 €175,000 €60,000 £1,000,000 £75,000 £60,000 £37,000 DKK 500,000 €77,500

4+ 3F 3 3+ 3 4+ 3 CG 3+ F 3F 3 C&G 4+

T T D T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T

2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

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22/12/2013

04/06/2013 01/12/2013

07/06/2013 06/07/2013

Grand Prix de Chantilly Royaumont Belmont St Gran Premio Milano Derby du Languedoc Grand Prix de Lyon Prix du Lys longines Noblesse St (Kerry Group) Ribblesdale St King Edward VII Hardwicke St _eské derby Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud Abu Dhabi Malleret Pontefract Castle St (totepool) Gran Premio d’Italia Fred Archer St Irish Derby (Dubai Duty Free) IDEE Hansa Preis Derby de l’Ouest-Grand Prix de l’Asselco PREZYDENTA RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ POLSKIEJ Oslo Cup Sparda Deutsches Derby Magyar DERBY Lenebane Princess of Wales’s St (Sportingbet.com) Grand Prix de Paris (Juddmonte) Thiberville Louis Desdoubet Frederic de Lagrange Aphrodite St (Newsalls Park Stud) Irish Oaks (Darley) Grosser Preis Von Berlin Slovak Derby King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Betfair) Gordon St (Bet365) Glorious St (Coutts) Chalice St (EBF) Lanwades Scandinavian Open Championship Give Thanks St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF)

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Turf

Turf

Gp 2 Gp 3 Gr 1 Gp 1 L L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gp 2 Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 1 Gp 2 L L L Gp 1 Gp 2 L Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 1 Gp 3 L Gp 2 Gp 1 L L L L Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gp 3 Gp 3

02/06/2013 02/06/2013 08/06/2013 09/06/2013 14/06/2013 15/06/2013 16/06/2013 16/06/2013 20/06/2013 21/06/2013 22/06/2013 23/06/2013 23/06/2013 23/06/2013 23/06/2013 23/06/2013 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 30/06/2013 01/07/2013 01/07/2013 06/07/2013 07/07/2013 07/07/2013 08/07/2013 11/07/2013 13/07/2013 13/07/2013 14/07/2013 15/07/2013 20/07/2013 20/07/2013 21/07/2013 21/07/2013 27/07/2013 31/07/2013 02/08/2013 04/08/2013 05/08/2013 06/08/2013

07/05/2013 14/05/2013 25/06/2013 22/06/2013 29/06/2013 13/07/2013 CLOSED 06/08/2013 19/08/2013 15/08/2013 09/07/2013 09/07/2013 16/09/2013 22/08/2013 06/08/2013 30/09/2013 15/10/2013 01/10/2013 12/11/2013

11.25

11.5 27/05/2013 11.5

11.9f (2380m)

Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com FR Chantilly FR Chantilly USA Belmont Park ITY Milan FR Toulouse FR Lyon-Parilly FR Chantilly IRE Cork GB Royal Ascot GB Royal Ascot GB Royal Ascot CZECH REP Praha FR Saint-Cloud FR Saint-Cloud GB Pontefract ITY Milan GB Newmarket IRE Curragh GER Hamburg FR Nantes POLAND Nagroda NOR Ovrevoll GER Hamburg HUNGARY Kincsem Park IRE Roscommon GB Newmarket FR Longchamp FR Longchamp FR Vichy FR Vichy GB Newmarket IRE Curragh GER Hoppegarten SLOVAKIA Bratislava GB Ascot GB Goodwood GB Goodwood GB Newbury DEN Klampenborg IRE Cork

03/06/2013 26/03/2012 11/06/2013

11.5f (2300m)

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11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

11.25f (2250m)

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Furlongs Closing 10.5 10.5 28/08/2013 10.5 09/10/2013 10.5 10.5 23/10/2013

11.9 03/06/2013 11.9 01/07/2013

12f (2400m)

4+ 3F 4+ 3 4+ 3 CF 3+ 3 3+ 3 CF 3+ 3+ 3 CF 3F 4+ 3 3+ F&M 3F 3+ 3+ 3 4+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

15/05/2013 15/05/2013 26/01/2013 09/05/2013 06/06/2013 07/06/2013 22/05/2013 08/05/2013 30/04/2013 30/04/2013 30/04/2013 05/06/2013 05/06/2013 17/06/2013 24/06/2013 CLOSED 07/05/2013 24/06/2013 13/05/2013 CLOSED 03/07/2013 18/06/2013 20/02/2013 05/07/2013 05/07/2013 08/07/2013 15/07/2013 CLOSED 30/04/2013 11/06/2013 25/07/2013 27/07/2013 29/07/2013 05/08/2013 03/07/2013

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Track Leopardstown Munich Jagersro

Race Name & (Sponsor) Ballyroan St Grosser Pries Von Bayern Land Rover Swedish Derby

Breeders Cup

SPN USA GB GB GB FR

San Sebastian Saratoga York York York Clairefontaine

Copa de Oro de San Sebastian Sword Dancer Invitational St Great Voltigeur St (Neptune investment management) Yorkshire Oaks (Darley) Galtres St (EBF) Grand Prix de Clairefontaine

F&M Turf

12f (2400m)

Class Gp 3 Gp 1 L

Race Date 08/08/2013 11/08/2013 11/08/2013

Value €57,500 €155,000 SEK 1,870,000

L Gr 1 Gp 2 Gp 1 L L

15/08/2013 17/08/2013 21/08/2013 22/08/2013 22/08/2013 24/08/2013

€68,000 $600,000 £150,000 £325,000 £50,000 €55,000

Age 3+ 3+ 3

3+ 3+ 3 C&G 3+ F 3+ F&M 3

Surface Metres T 2400 T 2400 D 2400

T T T T T T

2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

Furlongs Closing 12 03/07/2013 12 21/05/2013 12 CLOSED

12 12 12 12 12 12

18/07/2013 03/08/2013 02/07/2013 25/06/2013 16/08/2013 16/08/2013

Sunday August 25th – to close on June 24th

ERIK O. STEENS MEMORIAL 2400 m / 12 f turf – 400.000 NOK 200.000 NOK to the winner. For 3-year-olds and upwards fillies and mares NOR Ovrevoll GER Baden-Baden HUNGARY Kincsem Park TKY Veliefendi FR Craon IRE Galway FR Saint Cloud GB Chester FR Longchamp FR Longchamp FR Longchamp SWE Taby Galopp

Scandic Norwegian Derby Longines Grosser Preis von Baden Kincsem díj Bosphorus Cup Grand Prix de Craon Oyster St Tourelles Stand Cup (Star Sports) Prix Vermeille (Qatar) Prix du Niel (Qatar) Prix Foy (Qatar) Stockholm Cup International

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Godolphin Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational St Cumberland Lodge St (Grosvenor Casinos) Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Qatar) Panacee Finale St Conseil de Paris Baden-Wurttemberg-Trophy Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro Grand Prix de la Ville de Nantes St Simon St (Worthington’s Champion Shield) Gran Premio Memorial Duque de Toledo Falck G. Floodlit St Grand Camp Japan Cup Wild Flower St Max Sicard

GB

Epsom Downs

Diamond Jubilee Coronation Cup

Turf

Turf

L Gp 1 L Gp 2 L L L L Gp 1 Gp 2 Gp 2 Gp 3

25/08/2013 01/09/2013 01/09/2013 08/09/2013 09/09/2013 09/09/2013 10/09/2013 14/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013 15/09/2013

NOK 1,200,000 €250,000 7.4 million HUF €306,000 €52,000 €50,000 €52,000 £40,000 €350,000 €130,000 €130,000 SEK 1,000,000

L L L Gp 1 L L

16/09/2013 18/09/2013 19/09/2013 22/09/2013 26/09/2013 26/09/2013

L Gr 1 Gp 3 Gp 1 L L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 1 L Gp 3 L L L L Gr 1 L L

27/09/2013 28/09/2013 05/10/2013 06/10/2013 11/10/2013 13/10/2013 20/10/2013 20/10/2013 20/10/2013 26/10/2013 26/10/2013 27/10/2013 02/11/2013 06/11/2013 15/11/2013 24/11/2013 27/11/2013 08/12/2013

3 3+ 3+ C&F 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F 3 CF 4+ CF 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T

2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

€55,000 €42,500 €55,000 €155,000 £37,000 SEK 400,000

3F 3+ 3 C&G 3+ 3+ 3+

T T T T T D

2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

12 12 12 12 12 12

£37,000 $600,000 £60,000 €4,000,000 €52,000 €40,000 €130,000 €55,000 €209,000 €60,000 £60,000 €56,100 €41,800 £37,000 €52,000 $6,512,000 £37,000 €60,000

3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ CF 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T AWT T

2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

4+

T

2410

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01/06/2013

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£350,000

05/03/2013 11/06/2013 31/07/2013 04/09/2013 09/09/2013 28/08/2013 28/08/2013 28/08/2013 19/08/2013

12/09/2013 02/07/2013 20/09/2013 26/08/2013

21/09/2013 14/09/2013 30/09/2013 15/05/2013 08/10/2013 02/10/2013 27/08/2013 19/09/2013 21/10/2013 05/09/2013 31/10/2013 08/10/2013 21/11/2013

12.05f (2410m) 12.05 02/04/2013

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Derby (Investec)

Breeders Cup

Class Gp 1

Race Date 01/06/2013

12.05f (2410m) Value £1,325,000

Age Surface Metres 3 C&F T 2410

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore SPN FR FR FR FR FR FR FR JPN

Zarzuela Deauville Deauville Deauville Deauville Longchamp Deauville Saint Cloud Nakayama

Gran Premio de Madrid Osaf Prix de Reux Prix de Pomone (Haras d’Etreham) Minerve Grand Prix de Deauville (Lucien Barriere) Prix Royallieu (Qatar) Vulcain Belle de Nuit Arima Kinen (The Grand Prix)

GB GB GB

Newmarket Chester Lingfield Park

Trophy St (Bahrain) Chester H’cap River Eden St (EBF)

GB

Newbury

Geoffrey Freer St

L L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gp 2 L L Gr 1

30/06/2013 04/08/2013 10/08/2013 11/08/2013 25/08/2013 05/10/2013 23/10/2013 14/11/2013 22/12/2013

Furlongs Closing 12.05 07/12/2010

12.5f (2500m) €85,000 €80,000 €130,000 €80,000 €200,000 €250,000 €55,000 €52,000 $5,200,000

3+ 3+ 3+ F 3F 3+ 3+ F 3 3+ F 3+

T T T T T T T T T

2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500

£60,000 £40,000 £37,000

3 3+ 3+ F&M

T T AWT

2600 2600 2600

£60,000

3+

T

2660

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11/07/2013 31/08/2013 31/10/2013

17/08/2013

Saval Beg St Curragh Cup (attheraces) Maurice de Nieuil Silver Cup H’cap (John Smith’s) Challenge St Lillie Langtry St (I-Shares) March St (Windflower) Ballycullen St Preis der Casino Baden-Baden Deutsches St Leger Bratislava Oaks St Leger (Irish) Scaramouche Noel Murless (Keltbray) St Leger Italino Roma Vecchia

GB GB

Doncaster Doncaster

Park Hill St (DFS) St Leger (Ladbrokes)

GER FR FR FR FR FR IRE FR

Cologne Chantilly Maisons-Laffitte Deauville Deauville Longchamp Curragh Longchamp

Silbernes Band des Rheinlandes La Moskowa Carrousel Michel Houyvet Prix du Kergorlay (Darley) Lutece Loughbrown St Prix Chaudenay (Qatar)

FR FR FR

Longchamp Longchamp Saint-Cloud

Gladiateur (Qatar) Prix Royal-Oak Denisy

GB GB GER GB GB

Royal Ascot Sandown Park Hamburg Goodwood Newmarket

Queen’s Vase St Esher St (Coral) Langer Hamburger Goodwood Cup (Artemis) Rose Bowl St

L Gp 3 Gp 2 L L Gp 3 L Gp 3 L Gp 3 L Gp 1 L L Gp 3 L

07/06/2013 30/06/2013 13/07/2013 13/07/2013 18/07/2013 01/08/2013 24/08/2013 24/08/2013 25/08/2013 08/09/2013 08/09/2013 15/09/2013 04/10/2013 04/10/2013 26/10/2013 10/11/2013

12/09/2013 14/09/2013

€47,500 €62,500 €130,000 £40,000 €40,000 £60,000 £40,000 €40,000 €20,000 €55,000 €21,000 €220,000 €52,000 £37,000 €61,600 €41,800

4+ 3+ 4+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 3+ 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T

2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800

£90,000 £600,000

3+ F 3 C&F

T T

2920 2920

16/06/2013 24/06/2013 24/07/2013 15/08/2013 18/08/2013 08/09/2013 29/09/2013 05/10/2013

€20,000 €52,000 €52,000 €55,000 €130,000 €80,000 €40,000 €200,000

4+ 4+ 4+ 3 3+ 3 3 3

T T T T T T T T

3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000

15/09/2013 28/10/2013 14/11/2013

€80,000 €250,000 €52,000

4+ 3+ 3+

T T T

3100 3100 3100

21/06/2013 06/07/2013 07/07/2013 01/08/2013 26/09/2013

3 4+ 4+ 3+ 3+

T T T T T

3200 3200 3200 3200 3200

£60,000 £37,000 €20,000 £100,000 £37,000

York

Lonsdale Cup (Weatherbys Insurance)

Gp 2

23/07/2013

Doncaster

Doncaster Cup (Stobart)

Gp 2

13/09/2013

£150,000

3+

T

3280

Royal Ascot Longchamp

Gold Cup Prix du Cadran (Qatar)

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Gp 1 Gp 1

20/06/2013 06/10/2013

28/09/2013 26/09/2013

14.6 06/09/2013 14.6 23/07/2013

15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15

04/06/2013 17/06/2013 16/07/2013 07/08/2013 31/07/2013 21/08/2013 24/09/2013 28/08/2013

15.5 28/08/2013 15.5 09/10/2013 15.5

16 16 16 16 16

16/06/2012 01/07/2013 25/06/2013 26/07/2013 20/09/2013

16.4 19/08/2013

18f (3600m) £100,000

3+

T

3600

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22/05/2013

16.4f (3280m)

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03/06/2013 22/05/2013 26/06/2013 08/07/2013 11/07/2013 26/07/2013 19/08/2013 17/07/2013 13/08/2013 16/07/2013

16f (3200m)

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14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14

15.5f (3100m)

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13.5 12/08/2013

15f (3000m)

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05/07/2013 26/08/2013 25/10/2013

14.6f (2920m)

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13 13 13

14f (2800m)

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05/11/2013

13.5f (2660m)

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CLOSED 10/07/2013 24/07/2013 24/07/2013 07/08/2013 28/08/2013

13f (2600m)

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12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5

£350,000 €300,000

18

07/09/2012

20f (4000m) 4+ 4+

T T

4000 4000

20 20

23/04/2013 28/08/2013

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