ITB_January_February 2017

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2017

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2017

£4.95 • ISSUE 73

New sires for 2017 All the pedigrees and form facts

Photo competition

deadline

Top of the world

Trainer Mark Casse reflects on a superb 2016, and looks forward to the new year

Crossing the China divide

report on the HKJC’s new pre-training development inside the Chinese border

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Shalaa debuts Dual Group 1 winner begins his new career

Leading active European sires in order of % blacktype winners to runners Sire

Runners

Blacktype % Blacktype winners winners to runners

Group winners

% Group winners to runners

Group 1 winners

1

GALILEO

1352

208

15.38

136

10.06

57

2

DUBAWI

683

104

15.23

63

9.22

20

3

SHAMARDAL

724

82

11.33

45

6.22

13

4

DANSILI

1028

116

11.28

66

6.42

20

5

OASIS DREAM

929

104

11.19

49

5.27

15

6

PIVOTAL

1290

139

10.78

77

5.97

20

7

TEOFILO

513

52

10.14

25

4.87

8

8

INVINCIBLE SPIRIT

1077

90

8.36

45

4.18

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Statistics supplied by Hyperion Promotions Ltd to December 6th

2017 Fee £50,000 slf

progeny gr.1 wins

lifetime stakes winners

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• AUSTRALIA • CAMELOT • CANFORD CLIFFS • EXCELEBRATION • FASTNET ROCK • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • GALILEO • GLENEAGLES • HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • IVAWOOD • • KINGSTON HILL • MASTERCRAFTSMAN • MOST IMPROVED • NO NAY NEVER • POWER • PRIDE OF DUBAI • REQUINTO • ROCK OF GIBRALTAR • RULER OF THE WORLD • • STARSPANGLEDBANNER • THE GURKHA • WAR COMMAND • ZOFFANY •

ZOFFANY

His amazing first crop includes 5 Group 1 horses, 6 Group winners and 3 Royal Ascot-winning 2YO’s.

Yearlings in 2016 (from €7,500 nominations) sold for

€245,000, €185,000, €175,000, €150,000, €150,000 etc.

MASTERCRAFTSMAN

Sire of 3 Group 1 winners from his first crop and 21 blacktype horses in 2016 alone.

18 yearlings in 2016 sold for upwards of €100,000 while in-foal mares realised €435,000, €410,000, €350,000 etc.

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR

Sire of 9 Stakes winners in 2016.

That’s the equal of Invincible Spirit and Pivotal and more than Kodiac, Acclamation, New Approach etc.

Huge international appeal and a yearling average of 3.5 times his 2017 fee!

FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND

6 Group winners in 2016.

That’s more than Invincible Spirit, Pivotal, Exceed And Excel, Teofilo, Dansili, Kodiac etc.

Peter & Ross Doyle purchased three of his 2016 yearlings for €200,000, €110,000 and €85,000.

POWER

4 Group/Stakes winners from his first 2YO crop.

Only Galileo, Kodiac, Frankel and Dark Angel have more.

Yearlings in 2016 sold for up to €155,000.

, MAKE YOUR MARE TOO! AND MAKE MONEY

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: +353-52-6131298. Fax: +353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy. Tel: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) Tel: +44-7827-795156.

E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.

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10 First word

Paul Haigh argues that a case can be made for closing Kempton racecourse

14 News

Record-breaking Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Helsinge, the dam of Black Caviar, dies

20 He cracked it

Star chaser Thistlecrack belied his novice status and silenced the doubters when galloping away with the King George Chase on Boxing Day

30 New sires

Aisling Crowe gives her judgement on new European stallions for 2027

54 Photo comp

Closing date is nearly with us... get those entries in!

58 On top of the world

Melissa Bauer-Herzog meets US trainer Mark Casse, who enjoyed his best year in 2016 and has plenty to look forward to in 2017

66 Stallion tour de force

Jocelyn de Moubray reports on a vibrant stallion scene in France ahead of the annual Route d’Etalons stallion tour

74 Japan: a racing nation

Liz Price enjoys a day at the Japan Cup, gets to tour the JRA’s Miho Training Centre and meets Grade 1-winning trainer Takashi Kubota

80 Crossing the Chinese divide

Noel Prentice reports on the new pre-training centre being built by the HKJC right inside the Chinese border: it could be a game changer

89 Stallion stakes winners

The last list of 2016, produced by Hyperion Promotions

97 Dam sire stakes winners

The final list of 2016, produced by Hyperion Promotions

104 New Zealand setting trends

With the Karaka sale imminent, New Zealand bloodstock takes a look at the sales’s successful graduates

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106 Mare of the month

Majestic Roi, dam of Qatar Derby winner Noor Al Hawa

108 The database

Pedigrees complied by Weatherbys

122 Photo of the month

Maurice retires after Group 1 success

Shalaa courtesy of Haras de Bouquetot

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first word

Kempton Park racecourse parade ring in 1945. Much development has taken place since and the site will possibly be a housing estate in ten years’ time

Kempton: to close

Paul Haigh argues that the proposal is right move for the Jockey Club to make

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eople get sentimental about racecourses, and they do so in a way that doesn’t really happen with other human constructs.

Maybe certain fine buildings, particularly if they are old and of historical significance, attract the same passionate loyalty. Once, you could have said the same about churches. But nowadays these are almost carelessly deconsecrated and turned into retro-chic flat blocks, or simply bulldozed once the congregation’s gone, to make way for more and more-profitable shops.

Racecourses though are almost unique in the sporting world when it comes to arousing fevered indignation at their imminent demise. Football clubs can dump their old grounds, or to be more exact “cash in on their value”, and only really old codgers, who used to wave scarves and spin rattles, will raise much of a grumble.

American teams, from all the strange activities the Yanks describe as “sports” – baseball, gridiron, ice hockey, men’s netball – think little of changing stadia if economic considerations suggest it would be a good idea. In fact, they don’t mind lifting the whole damn thing and moving to another city, state or even coast.

Just raise the suggestion of closing down a British racecourse though, or simply replacing it with

Football clubs can dump their old grounds, or to be more exact, “cash in on their value”, and only really old codgers, who used to wave scarves and spin rattles, will raise much of a grumble

another somewhere else, and the woodwork empties immediately as fulminating obsessives leap to its defence, suddenly remembering what a great course it is, how much they really love it, how much the whole fabric of the sport will be changed by its removal.

Perhaps only the proposed closure of a test cricket ground – not Lord’s of course, that’s just absurd – could generate the mass indignation that’s greeted the BHA’s intention to shut down Kempton Park by 2021 and realise its value as real estate.

Swapping the Arms Park for something called The Millennium Stadium pales into relative insignificance.

The Racing Post led the howls of horror, one columnist almost audibly weeping on his laptop as he laboured to fill space under a headline that shrieked the words “treacherous” and “vandalism”.

Other writers all through the racing press, smart enough to recognise a free gift of cheap popularity when they see one, followed agonised suit. Only the often astute and invariably elegant Alastair Down, who probably loves jump racing more than any other sane person on the planet, noticed the simple and inarguable logic behind the idea of shutting down. Racing needs money. The country needs housing. The sale of prime housing land will bring both.

Nobody, of course – because nobody on the sport’s

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first word trade paper ever does anymore – pointed the finger at the people who are really responsible for the closure. If the Jockey Club, in the form of its then chairman Lord Willoughby de Broke (no, that’s not a typo) hadn’t sold the pass to the bookmaking industry 55 years ago by recommending the government adopt a set of proposals for legalising off-course bookmaking that had been dictated to him by William Hill himself, racing wouldn’t be having to sell off any racecourses at all.

The deal Hill struck with de Broke was that all his betting debts would be forgotten if only Harold Macmillan’s government could be persuaded to adopt the model for legalisation the great bookmaker liked best.

Since then racing has thrived in Britain at some levels, barely survived at others – but all in spite of the bookies, no matter what lies their PR men and the media who effectively complement their function may invite us to believe. How rich and successful the sport would be if it was properly financed through control of betting is the great taboo of racing editors. They dare not say boo to the goose that keeps its golden eggs and generously lets the sport grub about for its crumbs.

Everyone wants great racecorses to remain and if you encourage people to write passionate defences of them you will always score a few easy points. But Kempton isn’t a great racecourse. Its stands are drab and ugly.

Its crowds are generally feeble. Its conversion to AllWeather didn’t work. It’s not Ascot. It’s not Cheltenham.

It’s not even Kempton Park anymore. It’s just a dull old waste of space that once a year stages a great race.

The figure of 100 million has been bandied about as the probable value of its sale for building land.

Considering its acreage this seems a deeply conservative estimate.

But even if it does turn out only to be worth £100 million, you think British racing with its generally awful facilities, its ridiculous entry charges and its pitiable prize-money, really needs most.

Obviously the “Save Kempton!” bandwagon has already started rolling, and to try and speak against it is to risk being run over by the juggernaut.

But someone needs to say that it is not treachery or vandalism to make the most of the assets you have in order to build the core of a sport you are obligated to defend.

If you were really going to defend it you would be campaigning for the reversal of the disaster of 1961. But that conversation seems to be a no-go area.

All over the world there are great racecourses under threat from the forces of economic reality. The one that’s gone already and made me saddest was Hollywood Park where I saw my first – THE First – Breeders’ Cup. Another under imminent threat, saved from being turned into another cathedral of commercialism only by the continued existence of the man who made it great, 96-year-old Dick Duchossois, is Arlington Park, Chicago.

Do you really believe any racecourse in the world is actually safe? Only if it’s built on the sort of land so far

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Do you really believe any racecourse in the world is actually safe?

Only if it’s built on the sort of land so far from anywhere that no-one would want to live on it and there’s no chance whatsoever of anyone finding mineral wealth anywhere nearby

Arkle with Pat Taafe wins the King George Chase in 1965

from anywhere that no-one would want to live on it and there’s no chance whatsoever of anyone finding mineral wealth anywhere nearby?

Have you any idea what the land on which horses race at first glance impregnable Happy Valley is worth? At least 100 times, maybe a thousand times more than the very ordinary little course we are about to lose.

But even that loss could have been saved if the Jockey Club hadn’t made fools of us when it let the bookies take the profit that should have been racing’s.

They had a choice: Bookies? Or Prosperity? They chose bookies. On our behalf. Too late to correct the old crime? Maybe. But nobody should be applauded for whipping up cheap hysteria about tough choices unless they first explain what antique treachery made those choices inevitable.

We will be discussing the matter in greater depth in the next issue and taking opinion from all sides.

In the interim International Thoroughbred will be asking the BHA and the Jockey Club for a full cost-benefit analysis and a disclosure of the finances leading to this decision Ed

the news

Gold Coast Yearling Sale posted record-breaking figures Colts by More Than Ready and Redoute’s Choice shared the top spot at the Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January selling for A$1.3 million each.

The colt by More Than

Ready is a full-brother to Gai Waterhouse’s Golden Slipper winner Sebring and was offered

by Corumbene Stud.

He was the subject of fierce competition before selling to Waterhouse.

“Aquis Farm will be in him, John Singleton, the agent Dermot Farrington and his owners are coming into him as well as some owners from Vancouver,” said Waterhouse.

“Mr Altomonte has a great property Corumbene Stud at Dunedoo in New South Wales.

I’ve had two Golden Slipper winners off the farm – and this could be the third one.

“I saw him in the paddock and I said, ‘George I’m not leaving the sale without him!’

“He’s a magical horse. He’s very masculine, he moves so freely and he’s got a sex appeal about him.

“I should know by now – I bought Sebring, Vancouver and Pierro from this sale – this is a magical sale.”

The price was matched later by James Harron Bloodstock buying the colt out of Ballet Blue, a half-sister to six black-type runners.

“Everyone knows Redoute’s Choice and his sons. The record is there for everyone to see – Snitzel, Not A Single

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catalogue organised by Vin Cox and his able team.

Stallion Redoute’s Choice topped the averages and Zoustar was the second leading freshman sire.

His part-owner Sheikh Fahd bought five of his progeny to go into training with Chris Waller.

The Magic Millions 2YO Classic with £740,000 to the winner was won by the favourite, Houtzen. She had the widest barrier draw and her regular jockey is 55 years young.

She is by the very successful Yarraman Park stallion, I Am Invincible. He is a son of Invincible Spirit from his brief southernhemispere sojourn to Chatswood Stud, Victoria and all credit goes to the hard-working Mitchell family, who also have Hinchinbrook as an emerging stallion star.

In passing, mention must be made of the ongoing achievements of Darren Weir, the Ballarat trainer, responsible for over 200 winners already with just under half the season gone.

In Britain, headlines have been made by industry politics with the sports minister Tracey Couch revealing details of a reformed levy system, which should improve returns to the sport to around £90 million from £54.5 million.

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I can not see why one of the best jumping courses should be sacrificed, while the idea of moving the fixtures to Sandown, where both state of the ground and narrowness of the course, are always going to be issues

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anuary spent in England is more to be endured than enjoyed.

Its length and usually only negative weather, plus the fact of a birthday too close to Christmas, were good incentives to spend time down under.

However, even good things have their downside and Johnny McKeever’s Facebook account of his Saturday at Magic Millions raceday and the extent of his perspiration, brought back vivid memories of how hot and humid the Gold Coast can be.

For a long time the auditorium had no air conditioning and the racecourse stand could not accommodate the large crowd, though the bar staff did a great job with the liquid refreshment.

One day when it was well over 100 degrees, with accompanying humidity, the only place to watch was on a big screen in an air-conditioned Grand Hotel, Labrador.

Most other times Stuart Ramsay of Turangga Stud provided the best venue in his riverside house for a poolside BBQ and the best beef in Australia.

Yet again the Magic Millions Sale was a seller’s market with an impressive clearance rate and a great

It is due to be implemented in April, but the news has been overshadowed by the shock annoucement by the Jockey Club to close Kempton Park.

I remember being one of the trainers asked for input when the installation of an All-Weather track was first mooted.

At that time there was a serious suggestion that the track should be made left-handed in order to provide experience for Breeder’s Cup entrants, and even attract Breeder’s Cup involvement in Europe.

This would have involved dismantling the recently constructed stand.

My viewpoint then was that scheme was in cloud-cuckoo land and wastage on a grand scale.

Now, I can not see why one of the best jumping courses should be sacrificed, while the idea of moving the fixtures to Sandown, where both state of the ground and narrowness of the course, are always going to be issues.

The obvious replacement should be Ascot, while the Jockey Club should do something for the general benefit of racing.

Perhaps the Jockey Club is being driven by a motivation to reduce its debt level from the staggering £115

the news Doubt, Stratum and more – and hopefully he can continue the family tradition,” Harron said.

“We are in the business of buying stallions. He is what we believe is the right shape for a Redoute’s Choice and the right size.

“The Stravinsky cross works well and we have had a lot of luck buying from Arrowfield, so this was a great package.

“We had him one of the top ranked colts of the sale, just a ripping type and a fantastic mover. I wasn’t going to lose him

million that is apparently owing.

The proposed sale of Kempton for housing is coupled with a plan to develop an All-Weather track at Newmarket. The planned venue would be on The Links at the back of the racecourse stables.

I well remember using the existing uphill grass gallop in the winter for my small team of horses going to Cagnes-sur-Mer in the days before English All-Weather racing.

Newmarket trainers are well served by Chelmsford (except when it snows) and why is there the need to further cater for the more moderate racehorses from the Headquarters of Racing?

Perhaps the answer is a partial housing development like that at Newbury which would go someway to replenishing the Jockey Club coffers?

January has also seen two memorial services that I have attended and one that a longstanding commitment forced me to miss.

The latter was for Bob McCreery, an outstanding amateur rider and well depicted by Brough Scott as a “fine and highly original man that it was an honour to have known”.

Aside from his successes, both real and commercial as a breeder, he was a great art collector.

He was also much amused when Lady Rothschild named a yearling, by Big Bad Bob, McCreery and delighted when he won a Group 3 in Sydney and finished second in a Group 1 at

for the sake of one more bid.”

He will be trained by Peter and Paul Snowden.

Coolmore Stud spent A$1.2 million on a Fastnet Rock colt out of Dazzling Gazelle, dam of the dual Group 1 winner Miracles Of Life, one of just two foals to race so far out of the young mare.

“Barbara Banke [Stonestreet Farm] bought the mare and sent her back to Coolmore.

“She has bred a fantastic yearling and with Fastnet Rock we have had a lot of success with fillies like Atlantic Jewel, so we

Walter Swinburn: was remembered in a life celebration held in Newmarket

Flemington. A better track record than Lord Huntingdon so far!

The two life celebrations I have attended were Newmarket’s tribute to Walter Swinburn. and the memorial for owner John Pearce.

I was lucky enough to train Ascot Gold Cup winner Indian Queen, who was beautifully ridden by Walter. He rode quite a few of my other winners when Sir Michael Stoute allowed him off!

just need a bit of luck now,” said Tom Magnier.

“Barbara has done a great job with this filly.The dam she is great (already) producing Miracles Of Life and we were delighted that Barbara mated the mare to Fastnet Rock.”

The filly will be trained by the Hayes and Dabernig stable.

Leading bloodstock agent Guy Mulcaster purchased a SnitzelSabanci colt for A$1.1 million.

From the Arrowfield Stud draft, the colt is the second foal of an Encosta De Lago sister to

Michael Haggas gave a welljudged and well-delivered eulogy to an overflowing church on a glorious winter’s day.

John Pearce was a long-standing owner, client and friend and he died at the age of 98. I was fortunate to train Cyrano De Bergerac for him and he was unlucky to be beaten a short head in the Cork And Orrery.

We were also thwarted in our attempts to buy John a Derby runner and one to go one better than his runner-up Dragon Dancer – we were underbidders on Australia!

John spent most of his life in Hong Kong as a businessman and committee member of the Jockey Club.

He introduced me to golf rather less successfully than I introduced him to laptops and ipads, which he embraced at the age of 80!

One matter he never spoke of was his escape from a Japanese prisoner of war camp after the fall of Hong Kong in 1941.

He escaped with three others: Sir Douglas Clague, taipan of Hutchisons and chairman of the Hong Kong Jockey Club when Sha Tin was constructed, Sir Lynton White, who became chairman of the Hampshire County Council, and David Bosanquet who wrote of their exploits in “Escape through China”.

Like the late Jim Joel, his determination to breed, or buy, a Derby winner prolonged his life and even when his body may have been failing, his mind was still sound.

Tagus and half-sister to Hong Kong star Green Birdie.

“He was the colt we really wanted,” Mulcaster said. “We set about working out what we were going to do and we had a good crack at him.”

In total five lots fetched six-figure sums through a record-breaking sale in which 658 lots were sold at a record average price of A$205,226 and record gross of over A$135 million, an increase of 15 per cent on 2016. Clearance rate was 87 per cent.

Arrowfield Stud was the leading vendor, selling 38 yearlings for a total of A$10,900,000 at an average of A$286,842.

The leading sire was Snitzel, who had 41 yearlings sell for A$13,835,000 at an average of A$337,439, while I Am Invincible, who stands at Yarraman Park, acheived gross sales of of A$12,410,000, with 39 yearlings selling at an average of A$318,205.

James Harron Bloodstock was the leading buyer, purchasing 12 yearlings for a total of A$4,915,000 at an average of A$409,583.

The training partnership of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott (19 yearlings) was the secondleading buyer with a spend of A$3,665,000 at an average of A$192,895.

“People come here because of what Magic Millions put up, it is a credit to Katie [Page] and Gerry [Harvey] and the whole world is watching what is going on this week. It is a credit everyone at Magic Millions, the whole team,” said Magnier.

“The place was just heaving,” said Magic Millions managing director Vin Cox. “The tables were all full it was just a huge atmosphere.

“We are very happy. As I’d said before if we had have got somewhere near last year we would have been very happy as it was a great sale last year.”

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the news

Dam of Black Caviar put down in January Helsinge, the dam of the brilliant racemare Black Caviar, was put down in January. She was 15 and had to be euthanized after suffering an adverse reaction to medication.

The Gilgai Farm resident, a daughter of Desert Sun, had been

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in-foal to Written Tycoon.

The highlight of her broodmare career came with her first foal Black Caviar. The daughter of Bel Esprit won all of her 25 career starts, 15 of which came at Group 1 level, including multiple wins in the Lightning

....Girls aloud

he BLOODSTOCK sales rush of November and December are behind us and the Christmas decorations have been put away for another year.

It is a sure sign that the breeding season is just around the corner.

On stud farms everywhere cameras and monitors are switched on, foaling alarms are set and the night watch has kicked in.

The photos and reports of the first foals for the new generation of stallions have started appearing in the various bloodstock publications. It is both exciting and informative for breeders to see the types of stock that these young stallions are producing.

This is also the time of year when many breeders and industry professionals hit the road and get to grips with the next crop of budding stallions.

I have just started to get out and look at some of the farms’ stallion rosters and have enjoyed the hospitality that the studs put on for their visiting clients at this time of year.

Another way of getting to see many of the stallions is to go to some of the wonderful events that are organised, such as the Route d’Etalons in France, the ITM Stallion Trail in Ireland and the TBA Stallion Parade at the Tattersalls February Sale. These are all excellent ways to help breeders see prospective stallions for their broodmare bands.

One thing I have found this year is that getting to see the first-season stallions has involved a lot more time and travel than previous years with such a large number of horses retiring. I have counted more than ten horses retiring in the UK and in excess of 20 new stallions in Ireland, and that is before even taking into account France or Germany.

With all of the talk and column inches given to overproduction following the yearling, foal and breeding stock sales it is definitely surprising to see such a large number of first-season stallions retiring to stud.

You have to wonder how easy it will be for all of these budding stallions to attract the numbers of mares required to give them a fighting chance with their first runners.

Clearly pedigree, performance and conformation are all important when selecting a stallion, but a key factor to continued success for a young sire is maintaining a decent size and good quality book of mares in his first three crops.

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Stakes, the ATJ TJ Smith Stakes, the VRC Patinack Classic, and the William Reid Stakes.

She also won the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Helsinge also produced the Group 1-winning All Too Hard, now a sire at Vinery Stud, and

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Vadamos, one of approx 20 new sires standing in Ireland for the 2017 season. He is a son of Monsun and won the mile Prix du Moulin last September.

He stands at Tally-HoStud

Moshe, a brother to Black Caviar.

He is based at Sun Stud, Victoria.

In 2010, Helsinge had a winning daughter by Redoute’s Choice, in 2011 a record-selling yet ill-fated colt also by Redoute’s Choice, and in 2012 a Bel Esprit filly named Naturale.

In 2013, she produced a fullsister to All Too Hard and had a filly by Canford Cliffs last year.

Bloodstock agents Cathy Grassick and Tina Rau share our new column discussing bloodstock and racing issues.

Grassick is in charge this month

Given the large variety of pedigrees and performances among the horses retiring this year, combined with the current industry obsession with first-season sires, it is bound to take many numbers away from other young stallions.

This could greatly affect those horses either in their second or third seasons or those who have just had their first runners.

It is likely to prove difficult for these horses to maintain the size of their books if breeders still experience the effects of overproduction in the sales ring. This will be something to watch closely over the coming years, particularly at the lower end of the market.

One of the biggest things that has become clear from the large number of first-season stallions for 2017 is that there is an increase in the number of horses retiring after a successful juvenile sprint campaign. The lack of opportunities for three-year-old sprinters is still a cause of this. These horses would have had to take on their older counterparts in Group races leaving them at a disadvantage.

When a big offer is made for one of these horses it is more appealing for owners to accept it rather than risk injury or a disappointing and devaluing three-year-old campaign. Those in charge of race planning really need to take a look at how they can deal with this issue and entice more top class two-year-old sprinters to remain in training.

With current conversations in the industry about increasing racecourse attendances and improving TV viewing figures, it would only be a good thing to see the superstar two-year-olds remain in training, allowing them to capture the imagination of racing fans and develop a following so helping bring people to racecourses.

NH racing has no shortage of equine heroes due to the longevity of the racehorses, but Flat racing is under more time constraints and struggles to develop the same rapport between the public and its star performers.

We have recently seen the launch of ITV Racing and I am very impressed with how the new team has taken the bit between their teeth and brought us a new style of show.

The end of Channel 4 Racing was sad, but it is brilliant to see ITV’s passion and enthusiasm. The team, which includes my sister Sally Ann Grassick, seem to have gelled and I am looking forward to seeing how the programme develops over the coming years.

The fastest and most precocious son of Teofilo

Gr.1 winning 3yo miler, Group winning 2yo First 2yos in 2017…

COLT EX ROSLEA LADY SOLD FOR £160,000 AT GOFFS UK

COLT EX WAVEBAND SOLD FOR 200,000gns AT TATTERSALLS

COLT EX BELLE ALLEMANDE SOLD FOR 95,000gns AT TATTERSALLS

TRAINER: WILLIAM HAGGAS

TRAINER: RICHARD HANNON

TRAINER: ANDREW BALDING

“He looks like he is something a bit special.”

“Havana Gold’s yearlings are good looking and excellent walkers.”

ANGUS GOLD - PURCHASED FOR SHADWELL ESTATE CO

PETER DOYLE

“He is an attractive scopey colt with a very fluent walk and excellent temperament.”

ALASTAIR DONALD

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Lawman Sire of Group 1 Classic winner HARBOUR LAW and dual Classic placed DICTON in 2016.

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Yearlings made up to €470,000 in 2016.

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F the future is orange, the colour of Thistlecrack’s silks, then it’s certainly bright.

John and Heather Snook’s magnificent gelding belied his inexperience as a chaser with a stunning performance in the King George VI Chase on only his fourth start over fences.

Behind him the winners between them of the previous three editions of Kempton’s Boxing Day showpiece; Cue Card and Silviniaco Conti, respectfully handed the baton on.

Thistlecrack’s high cruising speed and scope over a fence were splendid to behold, and earned him hot favouritism for the Gold Cup. He became the first novice to win a King George, but though he had had only three previous starts over fences, winning them all easily, he is no callow youngster.

The Kayf Tara nine-year-old was last season’s outstanding staying hurdler and having mixed it with the best in that tough marathon division for two seasons – he took the first of his five Grade 1 prizes in the Sefton Novices’ Hurdle two years ago before adding the Long Walk, World and Liverpool Stayers’ Hurdles during last season’s unbeaten campaign – he is a battle-hardened racehorse.

His rider Tom Scudamore has no doubts.

“Between myself, my father and my grandfather we’ve had about 3,000 winners,” he said, “and this is the best of the lot.”

Thistlecrack and Cue Card, owned by Jean Bishop, are both trained by Colin Tizzard, which had produced something of a conundrum in the King George build-up.

There was the prospect of continued progress towards a £1 million bonus for Cue Card, winner of the Betfair Chase the previous month, while connections had the option of keeping Thistlecrack in novice company in the Kauto Star Chase.

But in the end sportsmanship prevailed and the stablemates took each other on.

There was pragmatism involved too, for perhaps Cue Card’s chance to take the Gold Cup, and with it the seven-figure jackpot, had come and gone the previous season.

And Tizzard had seen Thistlecrack’s homework.

“You’ve all seen what he’s capable of now,” he said after the gelding’s breathtaking display.

The Gold Cup, with the hustle and bustle of a bigger field, will be a more searching test than that posed at Kempton, but Thistlecrack

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Kayf Tara’s best to date Thistlecrack winning the King George at the now-under-threat Kempton.

He is one of the most exciting young chasers we have seen for years and could be a horse of a lifetime

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nh racing has already proved himself round the undulations of Prestbury Park, with not only the World Hurdle but also last season’s Cleeve Hurdle and a novice chase in November, amongst his 13 victories. He is also likely to have another practice on the track in the Cotswold Chase at the end of January.

And though Thistlecrack has a way to go to match the exploits of a proven superstar such as Kauto Star – he is four King Georges and two Gold Cups adrift – the great one’s trainer Paul Nicholls generously doffed his cap.

“He travels, he has the ability to be short or long, to put himself right,” he said. “He’s a proper horse and he looks like Kauto Star when he was at his best, without a shadow of a doubt.”

Thistlecrack is the best by Kayf Tara, who was also on the festive mark with classy two-miler Special Tiara in the Grade 2 Desert Orchid Chase at Kempton and responsible for close King George fourth Tea For Two. The 23-year-old son of Sadler’s Wells, resident at Overbury Stud in Gloucestershire since he signed off from the track by winning the Ascot Gold Cup in 2000, is the best jump stallion ever to have stood in Britain and goes into 2017 a close third in the sires’ table, behind deceased King’s Theatre and County Cork resident Presenting.

For Thistlecrack’s breeders Robin and Scarlett Knipe, there is the prospect of a rare Gold Cup double.

Only one man so far has bred two winners of the Cheltenham crown out of different mares – the noted Irish horseman Joe Osborne was responsible for 1951 hero Silver Fame (in partnership with Eustace Mansfield) and 24 years later Ten Up. The Knipes already have bred the 1995 winner Master Oats among the series of high-class performers produced at their Cobhall Court Stud in Herefordshire.

Thistlecrack is out of the Ardross mare Ardstown, who ran in the Knipe’s colours and was trained by them for most of her career, starting in point-to-points. She won three times between the flags and graduated to take hunter chases at Stratford, Chepstow and Leicester.

With pointing disrupted in 2001, the footand-mouth year, she briefly joined Venetia Williams to run under Rules, and produced her best performance to take a good-class 3m handicap chase at Newbury.

That race, incidentally, produced a remarkable future coincidence. Ardstown had in second place the only other mare in the field, Plaid Maid. She, of course, has gone

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....that race, incidentally, produced a remarkable future coincidence: Ardstown had in second place the only other mare in the field, Plaid Maid.

She, of course, has gone on to produce Coneygree on to produce Coneygree, winner of the 2015 Cheltenham Gold Cup as a novice, on his fourth run over fences.

Ardstown was just about the best from her distaff family to that point and continued to raise its profile in the paddocks, with three winners from her three runners.

The other two have been Kennel Bridge (Classic Cliche), who won three times before his early death, and dual winner West Approach (Westerner), one of this season’s most promising novice staying hurdlers.

The Snooks, who farm in Dorset not far from Tizzard’s yard and whose colours reflect John’s passion for old gold-clad Wolverhampton Wanderers, have become Ardstown’s biggest fans.

In 2008, they bought the mare’s second foal Quick Approach, by Kayf Tara, as a three-year-old for €31,000, and tried to buy Thistlecrack as a foal five months later but were underbidders at €32,000.

After Quick Approach broke a leg on the gallops before he could race, they sought out his young brother again and secured him for €43,000 as a three-year-old.

They also own West Approach, a £10,000 store purchase. At the Cheltenham Festival auction last March they bought Ardstown’s final produce, a three-year-old Kayf Tara filly for £165,000, a few hours after her celebrated sibling won the World Hurdle.

Native carries top-weight to Welsh success Tizzard not only has Thistlecrack and Cue Card as Cheltenham contenders, but also

unearthed a third Gold Cup prospect as Hennessy Gold Cup hero Native River followed up under top-weight in the Welsh Grand National, evoking comparisons with the days when Nicholls had the best three staying chasers in Britain – Kauto Star, Denman and Neptune Collonges – under his care.

Native River became only the second Hennessy winner to take a Welsh National in the same season after Playschool in 1987, and the first horse to successfully carry top-weight since Carvill’s Hill in 1991.

The Indian River chestnut, owned by

nh racing retired farmers Gareth and Anne Broom, does not exude the same effortless talent as his celebrated stablemate, but is a thorough stayer and when asked any question by his rider – in this case Richard Johnson – answers is willingly.

And like most Tizzard inmates, he is an excellent jumper, as he proved in the closing stages of a long-distance slog round Chepstow.

Always up with the pace, Native River swept to the lead with a fine leap four out and bounded 8l away from his rivals before the next obstacle. His nearest pursuer Raz

De Maree, who had won the Cork National in November, reduced the gap by the line, but it never looked like being bridged.

Native River is another to have already shown his liking for Cheltenham having finished second in the National Hunt Chase in March. In so doing, he became the second from his family to come close to Festival glory. His dam Native Mo is out of a half-sister to Minella Lad, who won ten races over hurdles and fences but probably produced his best performance in defeat when he ran third in the 1994 Stayers’ Hurdle as a novice.

Native Mo, by Be My Native, never raced, but produced 12 foals (and counting) for County Down-based breeder Fred Mackey, who sold Native River for just €6,000 as a foal.

She also has to her credit Orpheus River, winner of a valuable Grade A handicap at Punchestown three years ago, and promising Mahler Ten, who won on his hurdle debut in October and was by no means disgraced on his handicap debut at Leopardstown the day after the Welsh National.

Indian River, a son of France’s legendary jump stallion Cadoudal, started his career in

Native River: the Hennessy winner put in an immense weight-carrying performance to win the Welsh National, becoming only the second horse to win the two Grade 3 handicap chases in the same season

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nh racing France before transferring to Ireland, where he sired Native River during his time at Park House in County Carlow. His two best sons have both taken Hennessy Gold Cups, the French-bred Madison Du Berlais having won the Newbury feature in 2008.

Vacation adds to Tizzard holiday bonanza

Christmas was decidedly Tizzard’s season to be jolly. And just to underline the fact, he also took home the novice chase spurned by Thistlecrack. The one pulled off the bench, Royal Vacation, had seemed more of a sub than a supersub, and as Might Bite started to power away down the home straight, the 33-1 shot was booked for second.

But the runaway leader came down at the last leaving Royal Vacation, in Cue Card’s colours and like him a son of King’s Theatre, to add a Grade 1 prize to the Venn Stables roll of honour.

His success was followed up at the begining of January in the Tolworth Hurdle by yet another hugely exciting young NH performer from the Tizzard team – Finian’s Oscar who provide his £250,000 price tag worthwhile winning the Grade 1 on just his second stsrt under Rules.

He is an Oscar gelding out of a Taipan half-sister to the three-time Grade 1 chase and Champion Chase (G1) winner Finian’s Rainbow.

When you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll.

After the Christmas period, three of the top four in the Gold Cup betting were based in Britain: Thistlecrack, Native River and Cue Card, who may yet be diverted to the Ryanair Chase. The Mark Bradstock-trained Coneygree, whose Betfair Chase second was a fine return after a year’s absence, has had issue since, is not entered in the Gold Cup.

Outlander: Lexus Chase hero for late sire Stowaway

Two days after the King George, the Lexus Chase (G1) at Leopardstown went to the Gordon Elliott-trained Outlander, in the Gigginstown House colours.

But though the race proved a competitive clash between some high-class performers and a fine spectacle, it did not on the face of it throw up an outstanding Gold Cup contender.

Last year’s Elliott/Gigginstown champion Don Cossack has been retired after tendon injury failed to come right.

Outlander, a 100th winner and the first at

Grade 1 level for his 17-year-old rider Jack Kennedy, took the last upsides Don Poli and Valseur Lido, also in the maroon silks, with Djakadam just behind.

On the run-in Valseur Lido faded, putting him out of Gold Cup and into Ryanair contention, leaving Outlander to pull clear of Don Poli, rejuvenated by a spell of hunting after his sulky return at Down Royal in November.

Dual Gold Cup runner-up Djakadam, who had beaten Outlander at Punchestown 17 days before, was a head third.

The best of Ireland’s staying chasers are closely matched, but though Outlander, a Grade 1 winner as a novice, is clearly improving, Elliott was perhaps realistic when he said: “When Coneygree came out of the King George, I thought of putting Outlander in. But then Thistlecrack was confirmed a runner.”

Outlander, by Stowaway out of the Supreme Leader mare Western Whisper, was bred by Ronnie O’Neill at his Whytemount Stud in County Kilkenny, home of the nine-year-old’s sire before his sudden death two years ago.

Western Whisper – whose dam shares her second dam with the high-class hurdler Asian Maze – also has the smart performers Western Leader and Mart Lane among her other five winners by the Slip Anchor horse, best-known for beating Silver Patriarch in the Great Voltigeur Stakes.

Outlander is now Stowaway’s best; he is also responsible for such as Champagne Fever, Kilcooley and Hidden Cyclone.

Yanworth enters Champion Hurdle list

The Champion Hurdle betting is still dominated by the Willie Mullins stablemates who have won the past two runnings, Annie Power and Faugheen, whose reappearances are eagerly awaited.

Of the others who put forward credentials over Christmas, Yanworth’s victory in the Christmas Hurdle (G1) at Kempton was judged more taking by the market than Petit Outlander: bred by Whytemount Stud, which stood Stowaway, he was bought by Philip Fenton for €78,000 at the Derby Sale in 2011. He pulled up in his first two point-to-points!

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nh racing Mouchoir’s in the Festival Hurdle (G1) at Leopardstown.

It was a first Grade 1 win for Alan Kingtrained Yanworth, whose previous defeats at the top level both came at Festivals, when he was fourth in the 2015 Champion Bumper and second to Yorkhill in last year’s Neptune Novices’ Hurdle, his only reverse over obstacles.

The drop back to two miles at Kempton – occasioned by the emergence of his owner JP McManus’s Unowhatimeanharry as the season’s leading stayer – seemed no inconvenience as he readily accounted for The New One, with another former Champion Hurdle placee, My Tent Or Yours, further back.

Yanworth, a £16,000 three-year-old, gave the home side’s breeders a Grade 1 double at the meeting, the seven-year-old being bred at Wood Farm Stud, then owned by Bill Bromley and home of his sire Norse Dancer.

The gelding is out of the Galetto mare Yota,

Yanworth, a £16,000 three-year-old, gave the home side’s breeders a Grade 1 double at the meeting, the seven-year-old being bred at Wood Farm Stud who has three winners in France to her credit and also produced five-time scorer Trust Thomas (Erhaab) for the Shropshire nursery.

Norse Dancer, by Halling, is now on the roster at Yorton Farm in Powys.

Petit Mouchoir was also notching a

first top-level success when he came right away from a solid yardstick in last year’s Champion Hurdle third Nichols Canyon at Leopardstown.

Like Outlander and Don Poli, he is one of the well-documented Gigginstown transfers from Willie Mullins and is now with Henry de Bromhead. Clearly progressive, he looks the most credible Cheltenham contender should the Mullins stars falter.

The six-year-old grey, bred by Philip Gueret in France and sold for €100,000 as a three-year-old, is by 20-year-old Al Namix, resident at Haras de Mirande in Normandy and also responsible for such as Saphir Du Rheu and Grandouet.

His latest star is out of Arnette,

by Denham Red, sire of Tingle Creek Chase winner Un De Sceaux. Arnette has also produced Pravalunga (Great Pretender), easy winner of her maiden hurdle for Mullins in December.

Yanworth: the Christmas Hurdle was a first Grade 1 win for Alan King’s gelding, as well as for his sire, the promising NH stallion Norse Dancer

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The outstanding performance in Ireland over the Christmas period undoubtedly came from Mullins, who sent out 24 winners (from 56 runners) at Leopardstown, Limerick and Punchestown from Boxing Day until New Year’s Eve. Racing is undoubtedly cyclical, but the 11-times champion is not going to willingly cede his title to Gordon Elliott (and nor is Britain’s 10-times champion Paul Nicholls

the transfer from France to Grange Stud in County Cork.

Douvan set for third Festival success, Min and Altior heads Arkle market

Douvan, last season’s leading 2m novice chaser, confirmed his position as odds-on favourite for the Champion Chase with his usual verve at Leopardstown, and looks set for a third successive Festival victory, having taken the Arkle Trophy (G1) last year and the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle the year before.

Min was put in his place in the Festival opener last year

by Altior, who shades him in the market for the Arkle in March.

She put in a fine round of jumping at Leopardstown, but so did the Nicky Henderson-trained Altior at Kempton the following day, when he cruised home in the Grade 2 Wayward Lad Novices’ Chase.

Voix Du Nord’s death four years ago at the age of 12 looks a matter of some regret – he is also sire of the good horses Taquin Du Seuil, Vaniteux and Vibrato Valtat going to give up against Tizzard).

The Closutton haul included eight Graded wins of which top-level strikes came from Vroum Vroum Mag, Douvan, Min and Saturnas, the first three owned by Rich Ricci.

The wonderfully versatile Vroum Vroum Mag regained winning ways in the 3m Christmas Hurdle after being inched out

by Apple’s Jade at Fairyhouse earlier in the month, and though a repeat in the Mares’ Hurdle may be her Cheltenham target, she is also in the betting for the Ryanair and Champion Chases and the Stayers’ and Champion Hurdles.

The eight-year-old was bred in France by the Maggiar family from the Kadalko mare Naiade Mag, a half-sister to Grand National runner-up Saint Are. She provided a Grade 1 double for her late sire Voix Du Nord, also responsible for the leading juvenile hurdler Defi Du Seuil, who took his winning streak to five in the Finale at Chepstow. Voix Du Nord’s death four years ago at the age of 12 looks a matter of some regret, – he is also sire of the good horses Taquin Du Seuil, Vaniteux and Vibrato Valtat.

The only other stallion to double up at the highest level during the festive programme was Walk In The Park, sire of the French-bred pair Douvan (Paddy Power Chase) and Min (Racing Post Novices’ Chase).

The son of Montjeu and Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Classic Park ran second to Motivator in the 2005 Derby in the Michael Tabor colours and came back under the Coolmore banner last year when he made

Montjeu following in Sadler’s Wells hoofsteps?

Mullins’s fourth Grade 1 winner Saturnas put forward his Cheltenham credentials in the Future Champions’ Novices Hurdle in the colours of Wicklow Bloodstock.

The five-year-old French-bred is by the 13-year-old Montjeu horse Davidoff, who is based at Kammerholtz, near Strasbourg.

Montjeu was patently unlucky not to have

another son on the Grade 1 mark, as Might Bite, who fell at the last in the Kauto Star Novices Chase (G1) when looking assured of success, is by Scorpion, who has transferred to Shade Oak in Shropshire.

Both Davidoff and Scorpion have strong and current jumping links on the distaff side.

The former is out of a half-sister to Depeche Toi, dam of Don Cossack, and the latter’s dam is out of a half-sister to Ardross, dam sire of Thistlecrack.

French-breds held the call during the Christmas and New Year programme with the winners of seven of the 12 Grade 1 contests with Messire Des Obeaux (Saddler Maker) completing the haul in the Challow Hurdle at Newbury.

The third for Ireland came courtesy of Jessica Harrington-trained Our Duke (Oscar), game winner of the Topaz Novices’ Chase at Leopardstown.

The Champion Hurdle tends to be the race that launches a thousand chips. Just as Istabraq, by Sadler’s Wells, drew attention to the possibilities of the old block’s sons as top level jump stallions, so has Hurricane Fly done the same for his sire Montjeu, who was Sadler’s Wells’s best runner.

Up until the start of 2017, six Montjeu horses had sired a total 21 individual British and Irish Graded jumps winners, five of them responsible for Grade 1 winners.

It’s early days yet, but as a sire of jump sires Montjeu has a considerable way to go before he can match his own sire.

Sadler’s Wells is sire of an extraordinary 55 sons who have got 755 individual blacktype and Graded race winners between them, with 25 of the stallions having Grade 1 winners on their CVs.

The Sadler’s Wells 55 NH black-type producing sire sons (G1 producers in bold) Accordion Alberto Giacometti Ballingarry Barathea Basanta Beat Hollow Belmez Black Sam Bellamy Brian Boru Charente Cloudings Court Cave Curtain Time Darazari

Day Flight Dolpour Doyen Dr Massini Dream Well Dushyantor Eurobus French Glory Galileo Gold Well Golden Tornado High Chaparral Imperial Ballet In The Wings

Johann Quatz Kadeed Kayf Tara King’s Theatre Lord Of Appeal Milan Mohaajir Montjeu Morozov New Frontier Old Vic Oscar Parthian Springs Pierre

Poliglote Portrait Gallery Saddler Maker Saddlers’ Hall Saffron Walden Scenic Sea Raven Sholokhov Subtle Power Tamure Thowra Well Chosen Wolfe Tone

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SIR PRANCEALOT

Champion 1st crop sire in Europe, UK & Ireland by PRIZE MONEY - INDIVIDUAL WINNERS - TOTAL WINS Leading 1st crop Sires in Ireland & UK 2016 STALLION

WINNERS

WINS TOTAL PRIZE

Leading 2yr old Sires in Ireland & UK 2016 STALLION

2-Y-O SWRS EARNINGS

FEE

1 SIR PRANCEALOT

28

42

£532,462

1 GALILEO

7

1,698,226

PRIVATE

2 HELMET

12

19

£371,618

2 WAR FRONT

5

852,389

$250,000

3 FRANKEL

15

22

£364,587

3 KODIAC

5

679,286

€50,000

4 MAYSON

15

22

£357,091

4 ACCLAMATION

1

607,856

€30,000

5 DRAGON PULSE

16

23

£265,707

5 SIR PRANCEALOT

2

538,503

€8,000

6 ELZAAM

14

21

£240,909

6 FASTNET ROCK

2

494,414

PRIVATE

SIR PRANCEALOT FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW: 1. Progeny has made up to €260,000 in 2016 2. One of only 4 stallions with 30 OR MORE INDIVIDUAL 2YR OLD WINNERS in Europe - other 3: Dark Angel, Kodiac and Exceed & Excel

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Aisling Crowe runs through the pedigrees and form of this year’s new stallions Group 1-winning two-year-olds

SHALAA was one of the best juveniles of 2015 and was champion two-year-old in France thanks to his victory in the Group 1 Prix Morny, one of two top level triumphs for the son of Invincible Spirit.

He is the most expensive new stallion in Europe for 2017, standing at Haras de Boquetot for a fee of €27,500.

Bred by Mark Gittins and Aisling Kinane of Castlefarm Stud, Shalaa was bought for 100,000gns as a foal by Liam Norris who sold him to Charlie Gordon-Watson on behalf of Al Shaqab for 170,000gns as a yearling.

Trained by John Gosden, Shalaa won his maiden over 6f at Newmarket in May before stepping straight into Group 2 company for the July Stakes which he won comfortably under Frankie Dettori. His next outing was an easy Group 2 success, this time Goodwood’s Richmond Stakes.

After that Gosden sent him to Deauville for the Prix Morny and Shalaa once more won, this time beating Gutaifan. Favourite for his final outing as a two-year-old, Shalaa did not disappoint in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes making it four Group wins on the bounce.

Gosden had intended a sprint career for Shalaa as a three-year-old with the new Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot his first main target, however a pelvic injury kept him off the track until Ascot in October and after winning the Group 3 Benbough Stakes he was retired.

His pedigree makes for interesting reading and gives breeders plenty to think about.

Shalaa is inbred 3x3 to Danzig as this son of Invincible Spirit is out of a mare by War Chant.

The hugely successful pairing of Sharpen Up and Doubly Sure through their sons Kris, sire of Rafha the dam of Invincible Spirit, and Diesis, sire of Shalaa’s second dam Futuh also appear twice in Shalaa’s fourth generation.

Shalaa’s dam Ghurra was a juvenile winner in the US and she trained on to win at four and five. She was also placed the Grade 3 Wilshire Handicap at Hollywood Park. As well as Shalaa she has produced the winning

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Shalaa: was a stunning juvenile performer and has the pedigree to match. His two-year-old winning War Chant dam is a half-sister to Middle Park Stakes (G1) winner Hayil (Dayjur)

Montjeu siblings Dai Bando and Pearl Castle.

Ghurra is a half-sister to Hayil, who like Shalaa won the Middle Park Stakes and is now a sire. Her unraced half-sister Abyat is the dam of Poetical, who was placed in the Group 3 Concorde Stakes and is the dam of Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed juvenile Dragon Pulse (by Kyllachy and out of a Croco Rouge mare).

Futuh, the second dam of Shalaa, is a

half-sister to Rose Park, the dam of dual Grade 1 winner and sire Wild Rush and Rahy Rose who is the second dam of Graded stakes winners Lewis Bay, Winslow Homer and Misconnect.

Shalaa earned a rating of 121 after his victory in the Middle Park Stakes.

Coolmore’s new recruit from Australia is the Group 1-winning juvenile Pride Of Dubai, who has joined the team in Tipperary.

new sires Pride Of Dubai raced four times at two and was never out of the first three places. His two wins were both at Group 1 level, the first in the 6f Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield on only his second start. Stepped up to 7f for Randwick’s Sires’ Produce Stakes, the result was the same, another Group 1 win.

A son of Street Cry, Pride Of Dubai is related to two of the hottest sires in Europe in Invincible Spirit and Kodiac – his dam Al Anood, is a half-sister to Rafha, the dam of Invincible Spirit and Kodiac.

The daughter of Danehill was a winner at both two and three and has produced three

winners at stud. As well as Pride Of Dubai, she is the dam of multiple Group-winning son of High Chaparral, Enaad, and the Listed winner Al Aneed by More Than Ready.

Al Anood is out of the Artaius mare Eljazzi, a winner at two but leaving a lasting legacy as the foundation mare of a dynasty of champion

European first-season sires 2017: in order of fee Sire

Stallion

Dam

Stud

Race performance

Shalaa (IRE) 2013 The Gurkha (IRE) 2013 New Bay (GB) 2012 Awtaad (IRE) 2013 Belardo (IRE) 2012 Harzand (IRE) 2013 Pride Of Dubai (Aus) 2012 Bobby's Kitten (USA) 2011 Mehmas (IRE) 2014 Territories (IRE) 2012 The Last Lion (IRE) 2014 Ajaya (GB) 2013 Kodi Bear (IRE) 2012 Twilight Son (GB) 2012 Fascinating Rock (IRE) 2011 Scissor Kick (Aus) 2011 Vadamos (FR) 2011 Charming Thought (GB) 2012 Dariyan (FR) 2012 Adaay (IRE) 2012 Protectionist (GER) 2010 Exosphere (Aus) 2012 Markaz (IRE) 2012 Strath Burn (GB) 2012 Toormore (IRE) 2011 Anjaal (GB) 2011 Buratino (IRE) 2013 Coulsty (IRE) 2011 Estidhkaar (IRE) 2012 Ito (GER) 2011 Prince Of Lir (IRE) 2014 Goken (FR) 2012 Marcel (IRE) 2013 Bow Creek (IRE) 2011 Isfahan (GER) 2013 Pearl Secret (GB) 2009 Eagle Top (GB) 2011

Invincible Spirit Galileo Dubawi Cape Cross Lope de Vega Sea The Stars Street Cry Kitten's Joy Acclamation Invincible Spirit Choisir Invincible Spirit Kodiac Kyllachy Fastnet Rock Redoute’s Choice Monsun Oasis Dream Shamardal Kodiac Monsun Lonhro Dark Angel Equiano Arakan Bahamian Bounty Exceed And Excel Kodiac Dark Angel Adlerflug Kodiac Kendargent Lawman Shamardal Lord Of England Compton Place Pivotal

Ghurra (War Chant) Chintz (Danehill Dancer) Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar) Asheerah (Shamardal) Danaskaya (Danehill) Nazariya (Xaar) Al Anood (Danehill) Celestial Woods (Forestry) Lucina (Machiavellian) Taranto (Machiavellian) Mala Mala (Brief Truce) Nessina (Hennessy) Hawattef (Mujtahid) Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad) Miss Polaris (Polar Falcon) Back Pass (Quest For Fame) Celebre Vadala (Peintre Celebre) Annabelle's Charm (Indian Ridge) Daryakana (Selkirk) Lady Lucia (Royal Applause) Patineuse (Peintre Celebre) Altitude (Danzero) Folga (Atraf) Irish Light Danetime Out (Danetime) Ballymore Celebre (Peintre Celebre) Bergamask (Kingmambo) Hazium (In The Wings) Danetime Out (Danetime) Iota (Tiger Hill) Esuvia (Whipper) Gooseley Chope (Indian Rocket) Mauresmo (Marju) Beneventa (Most Welcome) Independent Miss (Polar Falcon) Our Little Secret (Rossini) Gull Wing (In The Wings)

Haras de Bouquetot Coolmore Stud Ballylinch Stud Derrinstown Stud Kildangan Stud Gilltown Stud Coolmore Lanwades Stud Tally-Ho Stud Dalham Hall Kildangan Stud Rathbarry Stud Rathbarry Stud Cheveley Park Stud Ballylinch Stud Haras d’Etreham Tally-Ho Stud Dalham Hall Haras de Bonneval Whitsbury Manor Stud Gestüt Röttgen Haras du Logis Derrinstown Stud Bridge House Stud Dalham Hall Rathasker Stud Kildangan Stud Rathasker Stud Tara Stud Gestut Ammerland Ballyhane Stud Haras de la Huderie National Stud Haras du Logis Gestut Ohlerweiherhof Bucklands Farm Hedgeholme Stud

G1 winner at 2yo €27,500 G1 winner, did not run at 2yo €25,000 G1 winner, did not run at 2yo €20,000 Classic winner €15,000 G1 winner at 2yo and 4yo €15,000 G1 winner, did not run at 2yo €15,000 G1 winner x 2 at 2yo in Aus €15,000 G1 winner, G1 placed at 2yo £12,500 G winner, G1 placed at 2yo €12,500 G1 winner, G1 placed at 2yo £12,000 G1 winner at 2yo, did not run at 3yo €12,000 G winner, G1 placed at 2yo €10,000 G winner, G1 placed at 2yo €10,000 G1 winner, maiden winner at 2yo £10,000 G1 winner, did not run at 2yo €10,000 G3 winner, G1 placed at 2yo €10,000 G1 winner, Listed winner at 2yo €10,000 G1 winner at 2yo £8,000 G1 winner, did not run at 2yo €8,000 G2 winner, Listed placed at 2yo £7,000 G1 winner, G3 winner at 2yo €6,500 G1 fourth, G2 winner at 2yo €6,000 G3 winner, G3 placed at 2yo €6,000 G1 placed at 2yo €5,500 G1 winner at 2yo £5,000 G winner, G1 placed at 2yo €5,000 G winner, G1 placed at 2yo €5,000 G winner, maiden winner at 2yo €5,000 Listed winner, G2 winner at 2yo €5,000 G1 winner, did not race at 2yo €5,000 G winner, G2 winner at 2yo €5,000 G1 placed, G3 winner, G1 placed at 2yo €5,000 G1 winner at 2yo £5,000 G winner €4,000 G1 winner, G3 winner at 2yo €4,000 G2 winner, maiden winner at 2yo €4,000 G2 winner, did not race at 2yo €3,000

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new sires racehorses. Eljazzi is the dam of ten winners headed by Prix de Diane heroine Rafha who is better known as the dam of Invincible Spirit and Kodiac.

Rafha is also the dam of Group 3 winner Acts Of Grace and the Listed-winning mare Massarra, who is the dam of the Group 1-winning filly Nayarra, Wonderfully, a Group 3-winning juvenile filly, Cuff, a Listed winner at two, Listed Lingfield Derby Trial winner Kilimanjaro and Mars, placed in the St James’ Palace Stakes.

The Group 3 winner Chinese White, the dam of Chiang Mai who won the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes, is also a daughter of Rafha. Her daughters have also produced the black-type winners Whazzis, Whazzat, Mount Elbrus and Master Carpenter.

The stallion careers of Invincible Spirit and Kodiac need no introduction and Pride Of Dubai is sure to appeal to breeders looking for their genes, at an affordable level.

Breeders with mares by Invincible Spirit or Kodiac could look to double up that hereditary background.

On his sire’s side he is a son of the Machiavellian stallion Street Cry, winner of the Dubai World Cup. He is the sire of Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, who is out of a Dixieland Band mare and a successful sire with five Grade 1-winning progeny so far, including Hallowed Crown, who is out of a Danehill mare.

Street Cry is also the sire of dual Grade 1 winner Street Boss, himself the sire of the 2016 Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia (dam by Mineshaft), and three more individual Grade 1 winners in America as well as Australian top level victor The Quarterback (dam by Encosta de Lago).

The Grade 1-winning juvenile Street Hero is another son of Street Cry to have sired Grade 1-winning offspring and Street Cry’s Melbourne Cup-winning son Shocking (Danehill mare) sired the Grade 1 and Classicwinning filly Fanatic (Groom Dancer mare) from his first crop.

Two of the outstanding racemares of this century are both daughters of Street Cry. Current Australian champion Winx is by the Darley stallion who died at the age of 16, and the incomparable Zenyatta (Kris S mare) is also by Street Cry. Pride Of Dubai is the first son of Street Cry to stand in Ireland and the product of a cross of Machiavellian over Danehill, which has proved particularly effective in Street Cry’s stallion line.

Darley has added a son of Oasis Dream

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Pride Of Dubai is the first son of Street Cry to stand in Ireland and the product of a cross of Machiavellian over Danehill

Pride Of Dubai: has a stallion’s pedigree

to their roster in the shape of 2014’s Middle Park Stakes winner Charming Thought.

A good-looking colt, he cost Godolphin 625,000gns as a yearling at Tattersalls in October 2013. Trained by Charlie Appleby he ran up a winning streak after making his debut over 6f in August of 2014 that culminated in his nose defeat of Ivawood in the Middle Park Stakes. Future champion sprinter Muhaarar was also among the vanquished.

As a two-year-old Charming Thought was rated amongst the best of his generation, earning an official mark of 116.

His dam Annabelle’s Charm is a Listedwinning daughter of Indian Ridge, who has produced two winners so far.

Her colt by Exceed And Excel called Spanish City was placed on both his starts as a two year-old and won twice last season. Her three-year-old colt by Dubawi is called Hold Sway and is training with Charlie Appleby.

The Goldophin colt holds an entry in this year’s Derby.

Annabelle’s Charm is a daughter of

Kylemore by Sadler’s Wells and is an ownsister to Ballingarry and Aristotle.

Ballingary is a dual Group 1 winner, successful in the Criterium de Saint Cloud at two and the Canadian International and was third in both the Irish Derby and St Leger, while Aristotle won the Racing Post Trophy.

The trio’s half-brother Starborough by Soviet Star won the St James’ Palace Stakes and the Prix Jean Prat. All three colts went to stud.

Their Sure Blade half-sister is Leaping Water, the dam of Breeders’ Cup Turf hero and globe-trotting Group 1 winner St Nicholas Abbey.

Flamenco Wave, the dam of Kylemore et al, won the Moyglare Stakes and produced four Group winners at stud.

Oasis Dream is the sire of 15 individual Group 1 winners headed by the brilliant mare Midday, who won six top level contests.

The first foals by his champion sprinter son Muhaarar are on the ground this spring and eagerly anticipated.

Group 1-winning sons of Oasis Dream such Aqlaam, Arcano as well as Group 2 winners Monitor Closely and Frozen Power all have stud careers, but Showcasing has got the best start of any of Oasis Dream’s sons at stud.

Last year he sired the dual Group 1-winning three-year-old sprinter Quiet Reflection. She is out of a Haafhd mare, and is one of six Group winners by Showcasing as well as Group 2 winners Prize Exhibit (Inchinor) and Toocoolforschool (Hector Protector) along with Cappella Sansevero (Royal Applause), Conselice (Diktat) and Tasleet(Cadeaux Genereux).

Power, winner of the Irish 2000 Guineas as well as the National Stakes as a juvenile, was one of the leading first crop sires of 2016.

His 16 individual winners included four stakes winning two-year-olds headed by the Group 3 winners Peace Envoy (Dansili), who was also third in the Prix Morny, and Pleaseletmewin (Indian Ridge).

Charming Thought will be joined at Dalham Hall by another Group 1-winning juvenile, Toormore, who is part of the Darley Club.

Toormore is the one of two Group 1 winners by the Nureyev horse Arakan, and unbeaten in his three starts as a two-year-old, Toormore ended 2013 as European champion after his victory in the Group 1 National Stakes at the Curragh.

As a three-year-old he made a winning reappearance in the Group 3 Craven Stakes where he best subsequent Group 1 winners

new sires The Grey Gatsby and Postponed. He ended 2015 with third place to Charm Spirit and Night Of Thunder in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

At four he was successful in the Group 2 Lennox Stakes over a mile and he also won the 7f International Topkapi Trophy in Turkey. Toormore was also third in the Group 1 Prix de la Forêt behind Make Believe.

On official ratings his best season was his first when he was champion juvenile and given a mark of 122. At four and five he achieved official ratings of 119, both times for his runs in the Lockinge.

The pedigree and family history of Toormore is examined under his half-brother Estidhkaar, who also retires to stud in 2017.

Toormore is a grandson of Nureyev, like one of the leading sires around Pivotal. His prowess as a stallion is discussed under his son Eagle Top, but the most successful grandsons of Nureyev at stud are mainly out of his daughters.

The brilliant Kingmambo was a grandson of Nureyev on his dam’s side while Zabeel, a superstar in the southern-hemisphere is also out of a daughter of Nureyev. Rail Link and English Channel are two more grandsons of Nureyev through their dams, while Rip Van Winkle is a great-grandson of Nureyev – his dam Looking Back is a daughter of Stravinsky.

Racing Post Trophy winner of 2015 Marcel joins the National Stud for this season.

A son of Lawman, Marcel won his maiden over 7f at Newcastle at the end of August 2015. He was stepped up to Group 1 company for his next race, only the third of his career, for the Racing Post Trophy. He took up the running with more than a furlong to run beating Johannes Vermeer and favourite Foundation.

Marcel wasn’t seen until the 2,000 Guineas last year, but an injury sustained in that race prevented him from running again.

Marcel is out of the unraced Mauresmo, a daughter of Marju. She has a filly by Bachelor Duke called First Serve and her 2015 colt by Lope De Vega was bought for 150,000gns at Tattersalls October Sale last year by Paul Makin, who owns Marcel. She has a yearling

by Lawman.

Mauresmo is a sister to Munjiz whose best performance was second place in the Group 2 Diadem Stakes. Their second dam is the three-time Grade 1 winner AnnOConnor

by Nureyev and her best foal was the Melbourne Cup, Grande Prix de Paris and

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McKinnon Stakes winner Al Talaq.

It is also the family of Arod, winner of the Group 2 Summer Mile and placed in both the Lockinge and Sussex Stakes.

Lawman is the sire of five Group 1 winners including Classic winners Just The Judge, fom a Rainbow Quest mare, and Harbour Law, out of a Pivotal mare.

His first stallion son is Most Improved, who is out of Tonnara (Linamix), winner of the St James’ Palace Stakes and standing at Coolmore.

Lawman is a son of Invincible Spirit whose prowess as a sire is discussed elsewhere in these pages. Lawman as a sire is working well with Ahonoora line mares, having sired Group winners out of daughters of Indian Ridge and Inchinor, while Invincible Spirit himself has three Group winners out of Inchinor mares.

Guineas winners

The dual Group 1 winner The Gurkha is the only son of Galileo retiring to stud in Europe this season.

Unraced as a two-year-old, The Gurkha more than made up for lost time when racing last season, winning two Group 1s and finishing second in two more.

On his first start in Group 1 company, The Gurkha was an easy winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains at Chantilly for Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore.

His second Group 1 success was on his final start in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood when he beat 2000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold, Ribchester, Awtaad and Toormore. The Gurkha also won a maiden over a mile on heavy ground on his second start.

His racing career was brought to a premature end by a displaced colon which required emergency surgery in Fethard Equine Hospital last August.

After his Classic victory, The Gurkha was given a mark of 120 and this was raised a pound following his win in the Sussex Stakes.

The Gurkha is out of the Danehill Dancer mare Chintz, who won the Group 3 CL Weld Park Stakes for the Coolmore.

She is the dam of three winners all by Galileo from three runners so far, the Gurkha is the best of them with juvenile winner Queen Nefertiti, placed at Group 3 level as a three-year-old, and Illinois, also a winner at two his full siblings.

Chintz has a two-year-old full sister to The Gurkha.

Chintz is out of the Listed winner Gold Dodger, a daughter of Slew O’ Gold, but it is under The Gurkha’s third dam where the pedigree gets interesting.

Brooklyn’s Dance is the dam of Solemia, winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 2012, and she is the second dam of Silasol, who won the Prix Morny and the Prix Marcel Boussac before finishing third in the Prix de Diane.

The Gurkha (far side) and Awtaad upsides in the St James’s Palace Stakes

new sires It is also the family of 2007 Derby winner Authorized, who is now a Group 1-winning sire in both hemispheres, as well as Group 1 winners Okawango and Quijano.

The Gurkha is a product of the enormously successful Sadler’s Wells-Danehill cross as he is by Galileo, out of a daughter of Danehill Dancer.

Sire Galileo continues to rewrite the rule book for stallions Sheikh Hamdan’s homebred Classic winner Awtaad returns to Derrinstown Stud to start his stallion career.

Trained by Kevin Prendergast, Awtaad didn’t debut until the end of the 2015 season but he did manage to win his maiden as a two-year-old, on the final day of the Turf season at Leopardstown, over 7f.

Awtaad was out early in the spring beginning a winning run which brought him to Classic glory in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, inflicting defeat on Galileo Gold.

He returned to winning ways in the Group 2 Boomerang Stakes at Leopardstown on Irish Champions Weekend, beating Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Hit It A Bomb, globe-trotting superstar Gordon Lord Byron and Custom Cut. Galileo Gold, The Gurkha and Awtaad fought out a memorable finish to the St James’ Palace Stakes in which he finishd third and he ended his racing career with fourth place in the Queen Elizabeth II behind Minding.

Awtaad is a Shadwell homebred, the first foal out of the winning three-year-old Asheerah, a daughter of Shamardal.

Her three-year-old filly by Lawman called Aneen won last year at two. Asheerah also has a two-year-old filly by Tamayuz and a yearling full-brother to Awtaad.

The second dam is Kilboy Estates Stakes winner Adaala who is a halfsister to the multiple winner in America Biggerbadderbetter. They are from the family of champion Seattle Slew and that of Nasheej, winner of the Group 2 May Hill Stakes and the Group 3 Fred Darling Stakes.

Cape Cross is one of the best Classic sires of recent years with the superb Sea The Stars the best of an elite group that includes champion racemare Ouija Board and 2015 Derby, Eclipse and Arc winner and Darley sire Golden Horn (Dubai Destination dam).

Other Group 1 winners by the now retired Darley stallion include Able One and Nayarra, both out of Danehill mares, He’s Your Man (Arazi) and Bekhabad (Kris).

Sea The Stars is the best stallion son of

The Last Lion was one of the top three juvenile colts of 2016 with an official rating of 116, bettered only by 2,000 Guineas favourite Churchill and Caravaggio Cape Cross with three Classic winners from his first four crops to race. His Deutsches Derby-winning son Sea The Moon (Monsun dam) has his first yearlings in 2017.

Awtaad’s damsire is Shamardal, the sire of Lope De Vega and Mukhadram, and with new stallions Belardo and Bow Creek retiring to Darley in 2017.

Retired as a two-year-old

DARLEY’S purchase of The Last Lion (Choisir) marked the start of a differing policy for the organisation as it immediately retired the Brocklesby and Middle Park Stakes (G1) winner to Kildangan at the end of his busy, but hugely successful two-year-old career.

Bred by Tommy Stack and Barronstown Stud, The Last Lion was the first horse in almost 130 years to complete the Brocklesby and Middle Park double. He never finished out of the places in ten starts which stretched right across the season.

As well as his Group 1 success, the son of Choisir (Danehill Dancer) won the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes also over 6f. His victories at the minimum trip came in the Brocklesby and the Listed Dragon Stakes.

The Last Lion finished a runner-up to fellow first-season sire Prince Of Lir in Royal Ascot’s Group 2 Norfolk Stakes and filled the same in both the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and Group 3 Molecomb Stakes, while he was third in York’s Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes.

The Last Lion was one of the top three juvenile colts of 2016 with an official rating of 116, bettered only by 2,000 Guineas favourite Churchill and Caravaggio.

Given his precocity and that of his family, which has produced a number of juvenile champions, it is not really that surprising Darley took the decision to retire The Last Lion for 2017, especially with the market being dominated by two-year-old speed.

A son of Choisir, who was champion two-year-old colt in his native Australia, and champion sprinter in Europe, The Last Lion is out of the Brief Truce mare Mala Mala, who was placed in both the Group 1 Cheveley Park and Moyglare Stakes.

She has clicked in the breeding sheds with sons and grandsons of Danehill as all four of her winning offspring are from his line, including the Listed-wining sprinters Russian Rock and Contest, who are by Rock Of Gibraltar and Danehill Dancer respectively.

Mala Mala is a half-sister to the Classic winning filly Tarascon (Tirol), who won the Moyglare Stakes and the Irish 1,000 Guineas, and to multiple Group winner Mister Monet (Peintre Celebre).

Their dam – Breyani – is a half-sister to the second dams of Australian Group winners Serene Majesty, Fravashi and Pure Joy. Further back it is the family of Fillies’ Mile winner Icing, who is the dam of Group 1-winning two-year-old and sire Al Hareb, and the ancestress of Myboycharlie, the Group 1 Prix Morny winner and sire of Group and Grade 1-winning fillies in both hemispheres.

As a son of Danetime, Myboycharlie is a further example of how well the family does with Danehill line sires.

Myboycharlie, who stands at Vinery Stud in Australia and reverse shuttles to Haras du Mézeray in France, was crowned champion two-year-old sire in France for 2016 and his Group 1-winning daughters Euro Charline and Peggy Jean changed hands for large sums at breeding stock sales last year while another daughter, Jameka, added the 2016 Group 1 Caulfield Cup to her Victorian Oaks triumph earlier in the season.

The Last Lion’s sire Choisir has topclass stallion sons already, including Starspangledbanner.

Like his father, the chestnut was a Royal Ascot-winning sprinter, who, despite his early fertility issues has sired his own Royal Ascot winners in The Wow Signal and Anthem Alexander.

The former went on to win the Group 1 Prix Morny and retired to Haras de Bouquetot last year where he stands beside Olympic Glory, also a son of Choisir. His first foals sold last year for an average of £39,023 with a top price of 80,000gns for a colt out of a New Approach mare, Starspangledbanner’s Group 1 winner is out of a High Chaparral mare, which makes The Last Lion of interest to breeders with daughters of the late Derby winner, as well

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new sires as Galileo and other Sadler’s Wells line mares and reinforces, yet again, how well the Danehill-Sadler’s Wells cross works.

Mehmas was among The Last Lion’s victims in 2016 and the pair are set to cross swords in their second careers as he too has been retired to stud as a juvenile.

The Al Shaqab-owned son of Acclamation joins the Tally-Ho Stud roster, a team renowned for producing stallions who pass on speed and precocity to their offspring.

Mehmas will stand alongside Sir Prancealot and Zebedee, both of whom were champion first-season sires.

Dark Angel is the template for Mehmas as another son of Acclamation to retire to the stallion ranks as a juvenile.

While Dark Angel had a Group 1 victory to enhance his CV, Mehmas begins his second career as the winner of a brace of Group 2s.

Both of those wins came over 6f – the Arqana July Stakes and the Qatar Richmond Stakes. He also won a conditions race over the same trip and broke his maiden in a 5f event at Chester.

Mehmas does possess some strong Group 1 form as he was runner-up to the aforementioned 2,000 Guineas and Derby favourite Churchill in the Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes over 6f and rounded out his career with third place in the Middle

Mehmas was among The Last Lion’s victims in 2016 and the pair are set to cross swords in their second careers Park Stakes behind The Last Lion and Blue Point. He also finished second to Caravaggio in the Coventry Stakes.

His official rating was 115, just one behind The Last Lion and two pounds lower than that of joint champions Caravaggio and Churchill.

The bay is bred on the same cross as Dark Angel being a son of Acclamation out of a daughter of Machiavellian, who is making his name as dam sire of stallions.

Tally-Ho offers Mehmas at €12,500, which is less than one-fifth the stud fee of Dark Angel making him a value alternative to the sire of Mecca’s Angel.

His dam Lucina hails from a family more noted for stamina and endurance than the precocity that Mehmas demonstrated.

The Machiavellian mare was unraced, but

Mehmas: won four and never finished out of the first three, including two placings in Group 1s

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she has bred four winners so far and is a halfsister to multiple Group 3 1m3f winner Blue Monday and Rugged Cross, a Listed winner in Australia.

Blue Monday’s brother is the Group 1-placed Lundy’s Lane, both by Darshaan.

Another half-sister Jakarta (Machiavellian) is the second dam of the dual Classic-winning filly, Avenir Certain (Le Havre).

Lunda, the second dam of Mehmas, is out of the brilliant producer Lucayan Princess, which makes Lunda a half-sister the multiple Group 1-winning middle-distance horses Luso and Warrsan, as well as to the threetimes Group 1 runner-up and sire Needle Gun. It is a page strewn liberally with blacktype – the most recent of which was added

by Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf heroine Queen’s Trust.

Her second dam, the Group 3 Nell Gwyn Stakes winner Cloud Castle, is another of Lucayan Princess’s black-type-winning offspring.

Cloud Castle (In The Wings) is also the second dam of the Group 1 second Royal Solitaire (Shamardal), who won last year’s Group 2 Badener Meile.

Acclamation’s speed mixed with the toughness of his female line seems to have come to the fore in Mehmas.

Acclamation is also the sire of Equiano, out of an Ela-Mana-Mou mare, and winner of the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes at three and again as a five-year-old. He has had three crops to race and his progeny had a good 2016, and he is the sire of a Group 1 winner The Tin Man (out of a Bishop Of Cashel mare) successful in the QIPCO British Champions’ Sprint (G1).

Medicine Jack (dam by Formidable) from Equiano’s 2016 juveniles won the Group 2 Railway Stakes and was third behind Caravaggio in the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes.

Harbour Watch out of a Woodman (Mr Prospector) mare is another son of Acclamation making a name for himself as a stallion.

He sired the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin winner Tis Marvellous (from an Oasis Dream mare) from his first crop, one of 16 individual winners in 2016 for Harbour Watch.

Dark Angel’s exploits need no rehashing, but the son of Acclamation, who has also sired Group 1 winner Lethal Force, was represented

by Group-winning juveniles Harry Angel, Nations Alexander and Dame Du Roi in 2016 and Mecca’s Angel repeated her success in the

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It could be an idea for mare owners with daughters of Inchinor or Indian Ridge to take a look at Mehmas – as descendants of Ahonoora as they would be mimicking Acclamation’s pedigree. The Mr. Prospector line as a whole looks good for breeders.

Acclamation and Dark Angel are mixing it well with Danehill and the Green Desert line (Lethal Force, Estidhkaar, Heeraat) is looking strong.

Prince Of Lir is the third Group-winning juvenile from the class of 2016 to retire to stud – look to our notes on sons of Kodiac for our report on the Ballyhane Stud stallion.

Sons of Monsun: find places at stud

THE pre-potent force in German breeding over the last two decades, Monsun’s influence has spread across the globe.

Protectionist begins his stallion career at Gestüt Röttgen where he is available for a fee of €6,500.

As well as his Australian Melbourne Cup triumph, Protectionist returned to Europe and added a further top level victory to his collection, winning the Group 1 Grosser Preis Von Berlin over 1m4f in 2016.

The seven-year-old began his racing career with victory over a mile as a twoyear-old and also finished second in a mile Group 3. His Melbourne Cup victory was the furthest distance he raced over and his other victories came at distances from 1m2f to 1m7f. Protectionist retired with an official international rating of 120.

His distaff side is a blend of two of the Wildensteins’ best families – his unraced dam Patineuse is a daughter of Peintre Celebre, out of the Listed winner Parisienne. She in turn is a daughter of Poughkeepsie, who has produced nine winners including Private Life, the dam of Group 3 winner Persian Storm.

Poughkeepsie is out of one of the best racemares of all time – Pawneese, winner of the King George, the Oaks and the Prix de Diane in 1976.

Sons of Monsun have been snapped up for places at stud, not surprising given their sire’s pre-eminence.

One of the first of these was Samum, who is out of an Old Vic mare. He emulated his sire by winning the Deutsches Derby and himself has sired a Deutsches Derby winner Kamsin, from a Winged Love mare, who is one of Samum’s four top level victors to date.

Manduro was European champion in 2007 with Group 1 wins from a mile to 1m2f. Since

retiring to stud for Godolphin, he is the sire of six individual Group 1 winners, including the 2015 Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagadere winner Ultra (mare by Nashwan) Shirocco is a classic-winning sire, having produced Irish St Leger winner Brown Panther.

Monsun’s daughters more than held their own with their paternal half-brothers.

Estimate (Darshaan mare), Silasol (Gulch) and Salve Regina (an own sister to Samum) are amongst his female Group 1 winners and they are helping Monsun become a force as a broodmare sire.

Much was made of Frankel’s daughter Soul Stirring winning the Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies’ Stakes in December, but she is out of the six-time Group and Grade 1-winning daughter of Monsun, Stacelita.

She is out of Soignee, a daughter of Dashing Blade, a descendant of Shirley Heights.

Vadamos has shown that, while Monsun is recognised as a source of stamina, he can also sire champions over shorter distances.

Recruited to Tally-Ho Stud, he was victorious in last year’s Group 1 Prix Du Moulin and won three more Group races over a mile, while his Listed success came over 1m4f.

Interestingly, he is bred on similar lines to Protectionist – his dam Celebre Vadala is also

by Peintre Celebre but out of a Linamix mare.

Celebre Vadala was a Listed winner, and she hails from a great Lagardère family. Her dam is Vadlamixa, also a Listed winner over a mile, and is the dam of Queen Anne Stakes and Prix D’Ispahan winner and sire Valixir.

She is also the second dam of Group 1 Prix Saint Alary-winning half-sisters Vaxira and Vadawina and is a half-sister to Breeders’ Cup Mile winner and Classic sire Val Royal.

Vadamos stands for a fee of €10,000, which considering there are two successful stallions in the female side of his pedigree, as well as a raft of Monsun sires, is eye-catching.

He is also free of inbreeding in his first five pedigrees and Northern Dancer only appears once, as the grandsire of Peintre Celebre, which gives mare owners plenty of freedom.

The six-year-old was second in both of his juvenile starts and won three of his six races at three, including the Listed Prix Frederic de Lagrange. Vadamos took the step up to Group winner as a four-year-old, claiming the Group 2 Darley Oettigen Rehnen over a mile.

Similarly to so many of Monsun’s progeny, Vadamos continued to improve with age and his best results came in his final season to race.

Vadamos has shown that, while Monsun is recognised as a source of stamina, he can also sire champions over shorter distances His best performance was in 2016’s Group 1 Prix du Moulin but he also won the Group 2 Prix Du Muguet, claiming the notable scalp of Ervedya and that of fellow first-season sire Territories in the Group 3 Prix Messidor.

All three wins were over a mile and he also finished runner-up to Ribchester in the Group 1 Prix Jacques Les Marois. Vadamos retires to stud with a Timeform rating of 126.

Sadler’s Wells and Darshaan daughters and grand-daughters do well with both Monsun and with Peintre Celebre

Sprinters: Scissor Kick and Strath Burn

By far the biggest group of stallions retiring for the 2017 season are those who raced over sprint distances and trips short of a mile.

Two of the new speed boys for 2017 are Scissor Kick and Strath Burn.

Scissor Kick is not a freshman at the stallion game, but he is a new stallion for European breeders.

The six-year-old has been imported to Haras d’Etreham from Australia’s Arrowfield Stud, where he stood the southern-hemisphere breeding season in 2016.

His sire, the multiple Australian champion, Redoute’s Choice, stood two seasons at Haras de Bonneval and his oldest European crop is just three.

Having proven popular with breeders in the northern-hemisphere, his sons are now on the radar and Ballyhane Stud’s Elzaam did well with his first crop of runners last year and sired the second session topper at the Part 1 of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale in 2016.

Scissor Kick himself was placed twice at Group 1 level in Australia and is a dual Group 3 winner over 6f and 6f100yds.

As a two-year-old he won Canterbury’s More Than Ready Handicap over six and half furlongs, but it was at three when Scissor Kick showed the best of himself.

He was runner-up to Darley’s Hallowed

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If ever a horse retired to stud with a stallion’s pedigree it is Scissor Kick, with his page laden with successful stallions Crown in the Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes at Rosehill and fourth behind Dissident in Randwick’s Group 1 All Aged Stakes.

He also second in the Group 2 Stan Fox Stakes, but won two Group 3 races. The Synergy FX Up And Coming Stakes and the Eskimo Prince Stakes, as well as the Listed The Rosebud at Randwick were his threeyear-old victories.

The six-year-old never raced over further, but his two years’ younger full-brother Sharkbite won over a mile.

Scissor Kick achieved his career high Racing Post Rating of 115 when narrowly beaten by Hallowed Crown in the Golden Rose.

Although the sire line is one of Australia’s most dominant, Scissor Kick hails from the Juddmonte-winning factory.

His dam Back Pass is a Quest For Fame half-sister to Three Valleys, who won the Group 2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot and was second in the Group 1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes when trained by Roger Charlton.

He moved to America to be trained by Bobby Frankel for whom the son of Diesis won the Group 2 Del Mar Breeders’ Cup Handicap.

They are out of the Niniski mare Skiable who is a half-sister to the wonderful Juddmonte blue hen Hasili.

She is the dam of Group or Grade 1 winners Intercontinental, Cacique, Heat Haze, Champs Elysees and Banks Hill, herself the dam of a Group 1 winner, as well as Group 2 winner Dansili and Deluxe, a Group 3 winner.

Another half-sister Arrive is the dam of Group 1 winner Promising Lead, while Skiable’s unraced daughter Dissemble has produced the Grade 1-winning pair of Leroidesanimaux and Uapybo.

As a sire-producing family it is one of the best around.

Dansili has sired 20 individual Group 1 winners and more than 170 black-type horses, while his son Bated Breath (out of a Distant View mare) made an excellent start to his

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stud career in 2016 with 19 first crop winners.

In addition, Dansili is earning a reputation as a broodmare sire of some note. he has goes well with Sadler’s Wells and Mr. Prospector mares, as well as dams by Bering, Efisio and from the Rainbow Quest lines.

His younger brother Champs Elysees, who will stand this season at Castle Hyde Stud after moving from Banstead Manor, is also a Group 1 sire. His son Trip To Paris (Fantastic Light dam sire) won the Ascot Gold Cup and his daughters Jack Naylor and Xcellence are both Classic-placed. The Group 2 winner Jack Naylor was sold for 800,000gns to London Thoroughbred Services at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale of 2016.

Despite having struggles with fertility, Cacique, a brother to Dansili and Champs Elysees, did remarkably well at stud. The son of Danehill sired Group 1 winners Dominant, Mutual Trust and Slumber from his first crop of just 29 foals. From four foals in his second crop he produced Group 2 winner Canticum.

Leroidesanimaux, out of a half-sister to the Group 1-producing trio of brothers, sired 19 black-type winners from his American crops before he died last May at just 16-years-old.

He is the sire of Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom (Acatenango) and the multiple Group 2 winner Always A Princess (Ashkalani mare) and his first crop of European-bred horses have just turned two.

On the sire side, Redoute’s Choice was crowned champion stallion in Australia again last season and was joined in the top 10 once more by his sons Snitzel and Not A Single Doubt.

Redoute’s Choice is the sire of 30 individual Group 1 winners, a tally bettered globally only by Giant’s Causeway and Galileo among the active stallions.

Nine sons of Redoute’s Choice have sired Group or Grade 1 winners headed by Snitzel.

In Europe, Elzaam is leading the field for Redoute’s Choice and he was one of the breakout stars of 2016.

The Group 1-placed sprinter sired an astonishing 47 per cent winners to runners with his first crop and these were headed by the Listed winner Clem Fandango. He is out of a Coronado’s Quest mare, a descendant of Mr. Prospector.

If ever a horse retired to stud with a stallion’s pedigree it is Scissor Kick, with his page laden with successful stallions.

Of interest for European breeders, one of Redoute’s Choices’ best international runners Lankan Rupee is out of a Stravinsky

(Nureyev) mare, while Miss Finland, his sixtime Group 1 winner in Australia, is from a Woodman mare.

Strath Burn becomes the first son of Equiano to retire to stud standing at Bridge House Stud in Mullingar.

He did all his winning as a three-year-old and over 6f. His best performance was his second place in the Group 1 Betfred Sprint Cup behind another of this year’s first season sires, Twilight Son. He was also finished second as a two-yearold to Kool Kompany in the Prix Robert Papin (G2) and filled the same position in the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes. He broke his maiden as a three-year-old over 6f at Doncaster and the highlight of his two career successes was victory in the Group 3 Al Basti Equiworld Hackwood Stakes at Newbury.

Toughness and soundness were part of his make-up and he returned to the track as a four-year-old, when his best result was a Listed place behind The Tin Man, who went on to become a first top-level winner for the pair’s sire Equiano.

Equiano’s oldest crop is just five, but the Newsells Park resident has sired eight Group and three Listed-winning horses from three crops of racing age.

Strath Burn is out of the Irish River mare Irish Light, twice a winner at three and the dam of seven winning foals so far.

Her son by Polar Falcon called Polar Force won eight races and was placed 22 times in a

new sires Strath Burn (left) and Twilight Son (winner) in the Sprint Cup

Equiano is one of the best sons of Acclamation to race and he has made a good impression in the early stages of his second career, siring speedy and precocious horses with the strength and durability to train on.

The strength of Acclamation’s sire line has been discussed earlier, as well as the dam sires who have been doing well with him, but one salient fact to note about Strath Burn is his lack of Northern Dancer blood in his pedigree.

His first four generations are completely free of Northern Dancer line horses, making him an excellent outcross for many mares.

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racing career that spanned seven seasons. He was third in both the Group 1 Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes and the Listed Ripon Champion Two-Year-old Trophy.

Durability seems to be in the DNA of Irish Light’s progeny as many of them have won as older horses.

Her daughter Carnival Queen by Carnival Dancer won twice and was placed 15 times, including in the Listed China Doll Stakes at Santa Anita. Opaline, winner of nine races, the seven-times winner In Salutem and Brockfield, who has won five of his starts, are all half-brothers to Strath Burn with longevity in their careers.

Irish Light is a half-sister to Solar Bound (Boundary), winner of the Listed Edgewood Stakes at Churchill Downs and twice placed in Group 3 races.

Their half-sister Bintalreef is the dam of Group 2 Galileo EBF Futurity Stakes winner First Cornerstone and Buxted, twice a Listed winner in Australia.

It is a dam line brimming with speed – second dam Solar Star is a half-sister to the multiple Group and Grade winner Gold Land and to the dams of Listed Ripon Two Year Old Trophy Winner Resplendent Cee and Pausanias, winner of the Listed European Free Handicap.

It is the further family of dual Group 1 Lockinge Stakes winner Soviet Line, as well as Quay Line, High Finale and Trade Line.

Unlucky to be beaten in a photo finish for the King George by Postponed, Eagle Top moves north from John Gosden’s yard to begin his stallion career at Hedgeholme Stud in Durham.

By Pivotal, the striking chestnut was unraced as a two-year-old but made an impact when setting foot on the racecourse at three. He won his maiden over 1m3f before beating subsequent Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes and Cox Plate winner Adelaide in the Group 2 Hardwick Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Fourth to Taghrooda in the 2014 King George, Eagle Top had his finest hour in the following year’s renewal of the 1m4f Group 1 losing out by a nose to Postponed in a very tight finish to a thrilling race.

Earlier in the season, Eagle Top had beaten Postponed, along with Group 1 winners Sheikhzayedroad, Hillstar and Red Cadeaux when runner-up to Snow Sky in the Hardwicke Stakes (G2).

Eagle Top achieved a career-high official rating of 121 after running Postponed so close in the King George, but found it difficult to replicate that form on unfavourable ground.

Trainer John Gosden felt that Eagle Top needed good ground to be at his best.

Bred and owned by Lady Bamford, he is very closely related to one of the best horses to carry her maroon silks. His dam Gull Wing is an In The Wings half-sister to English and Irish Oaks winner Sariska, who is a daughter of Pivotal.

Gull Wing began her racing career rather earlier than her son and won her maiden over a mile at Wolverhampton as a two-year-old for trainer Michael Bell.

Despite that All-Weather success her best performances were on soft or heavy ground and the going was heavy when she won the Listed Further Flight Stakes over

a mile and 6f Gull Wing has been a star in the paddocks for Lady Bamford, producing three winners from three foals to race, all by Pivotal.

The first of these was The Lark, who finished third in the Oaks and before going on to win the Group 2 Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster. Wings Of Desire emulated his older brother with a second place finish in the King George having been spoken of as a Derby contender after an impressive performance when winning the Group 2 Dante Stakes at York last May. Maycocks Bay, dam of Sariska and Gull Wing, is by Muhtarram, out of the unraced High Top mare Beacon. She is a daughter of Irish St Leger winner Mountain Lodge, who also won the Cesarewitch before producing six winners at stud.

Pivotal is a proven source of class as a Group 1-winning sprinter and as a sire and broodmare sire.

Kyllachy, a Group 1 winner who has also produced Group 1-winning sprinters, including Twilight Son, who was discussed earlier.

Sole Power by Kyllachy retired to Kildangan Stud in 2016, while Farrh, Falco, and Virtual are all among Pivotal’s sons at stud. One of his best so far is Siyouni who is the sire of Group 1 winner Ervedya and seven more Group winners from his first three crops.

The chestnut has been a star for Cheveley Park and has sired 26 Group 1 winners, including Classic winners Saoire, Sariska, Halfway To Heaven, Silvester Lady, Falco and Buzzword. As a broodmare sire, Pivotal’s daughters have foaled Group and Grade 1 winners Mayson, Rhodedendron, Main Sequence and St Leger winner Harbour Law. He has a good record with mares by Danehill, Sadler’s Wells,Green Desert, Cadeaux Genereux, Primo Dominie, Kingmambo and Night Shift.

Sons by Dark Angel and out of Danetime Out

Two sons of Dark Angel retire to stud for the 2017 breeding season giving the opportunity to breeders wishing for a little of the grey’s magic at a fraction of his now €65,000 covering fee.

Tara Stud saw some good results at the foal sales in 2016 with the first crop of Alhebayeb and they have recruited another son of Dark Angel to stand alongside him in County Meath.

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new sires Like Alhebayeb, Estidhkaar is a Group 2 winner at two by Dark Angel and was one of the most expensive yearlings by the sire sold at auction in 2013 when purchased for £200,000 by Shadwell.

Estidhkaar made five starts as a juvenile and won or was placed in each, beginning with second place in a 6f maiden at Goodwood and culminating in fourth to Belardo in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes. In between those runs Estidhkaar, trained like his older half-brother Toormore by Richard Hannon, won two Group 2 races and his maiden.

Both of Estidhkaar’s Group race wins came at 7f, the first was on good to soft going in the Superlative Stakes at Newmarket beating Aktabantay. He followed that up with victory in Doncaster’s Champagne Stakes, this time on good ground. He had War Envoy and subsequent Group 1 winner Belardo behind him on that occasion.

On his reappearance at three, he ran Muhaarar, 2015’s champion sprinter, to a neck in the Group 3 Greenham Stakes at Newbury with Group One winners Dick Whittington and Belardo, as well as multiple Group 2 winner Ivawood all behind.

Estidhkaar returned for one run as a four-year-old beating Kool Kompany a neck in the Listed Marshall Stakes at Newmarket on good to firm ground. It was the first time Estidhkaar won over a mile in three starts at the trip.

At the end of his two-year-old career, Estidhkaar was rated 115 and his career high rating of 116 came after his close defeat by Muhaarar.

His half-brother Toormore, by Arakan, retires to stud this year and stands at Kildangan Stud for £5,000.

Both colts were bred by the renowned judge Jimmy Murphy of Redpender Stud.

Estidhkaar was the first six-figure yearling out of his dam Danetime Out, but with the exploits of both colts bringing much interest her two yearlings to sell since then have both sold well.

Her three-year-old filly by Sir Prancealot, Shy Audience, was bought for €100,000 by BBA Ireland as a yearling in 2015, while MV Magnier, Mayfair International and Peter and Ross Doyle paid 290,000gns for her colt by Declaration Of War at Tattersalls last October.

Danetime Out is an unraced half-sister to Easaar, who finished second in the Group 3 Dubai Duty Free at Nad Al Sheba. She has produced three winners from four runners

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Estidhkaar: Tara Stud’s son of Dark Angel, out of Danetime Out, whose Toormore is also retiring

so far, the third of these being the Majestic Missile gelding Try The Chance, twice a winner over 7f for Mick Channon and Jaber Abdullah.

Her second dam is Peace Girl, who was joint champion two-year-old filly in Ireland on the back of her win in the 5f Group 3 Curragh Stakes, so it is a pedigree that is laced throughout with speed.

Danetime Out is by Danetime, a son of Danehill, who stood at Tally Ho Stud in County Westmeath and is the sire of Group 1 winners Myboycharlie, Bushranger and Megatic. Myboycharlie is now the sire of three individual Group 1 winners, as highlighted under The Last Lion.

Dark Angel is one of the sire sensations of the last five years, working his way up to be one of the most coveted stallions at the sales.

A son of Acclamation out of a daughter of Machiavellian he won the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes before retiring to Yeomanstown Stud at the end of his juvenile career.

With star sprinters Mecca’s Angel and Lethal Force blazing to Group 1 glory for the grey, he has established himself as a potent source of speed and class, not just two-year-olds. Mecca’s Angel won her first Nunthorpe Stakes at four and her second as a five-year-old, while Lethal Force was four when he claimed his Group 1 sprint double of Diamond Jubilee and July Cup. Estidhkaar and Markaz join paternal half-brothers Gutaifan, who has his first foals on the ground in 2017, Heeraat whose first crop are yearlings this year and Alhebayeb at stud, while the late Lethal Force also proved popular as a sire with buyers during the 2016 sales.

Acclamation continues to produce speedy, precocious horses and had six individual Group or Graded stakes winners in 2016, including dual two-year-old Group 2 winner Mehmas.

Markaz is the other son of Dark Angel newly available to breeders this year and he has inherited his sire’s grey colouring, unlike Estidhkaar who is bay. Markaz is a fullbrother to the fastest filly in Europe, Mecca’s Angel, who is officially rated 122 making her the best horse sired so far by Dark Angel.

Her year younger brother was an Ascot maiden winner over 6f at two and was also second in the Group 3 Sommerville Tattersall Stakes over the same distance.

Like his older sister, Markaz improved with age and won his first Group race as a threeyear-old – the Group 3 John Sunley Memorial Criterion Stakes over 7f. He also chased home future Group 1 winner Limato in the Group 2 Park Stakes at Doncaster.

As a four-year-old in 2016 Markaz added another Group 3 victory, this time over 6f in the Chipchase Stakes at Newcastle.

He received a career-high official rating of 114 after this race and he signed off his career with second place in a Group 2 over a mile at Baden-Baden.

Markaz’s Turf victories were achieved on ground described as good to firm. He was bred by Yeomanstown Stud and purchased for £200,000 by Shadwell at Doncaster in 2013.

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Markaz is a brother to the fastest filly in Europe, Mecca’s Angel, officially rated 122 making her the best horse sired so far

by Dark Angel 400,000gns last October.

It is no surprise that Markaz and Mecca’s Angel excelled over sprint distances.

They are out of the Listed-placed Atraf mare Folga, a six-time winner from two until four. She is a daughter of Desert Dawn who won the Group 3 Prix d’Arenberg at Longchamp as a two-year-old and the Listed Trafalgar House Stakes over 5f at three.

She is the dam of 10 winners, the best of whom was Desert Kaya by Bikala, and she, too, was a Listed-winning three-year-old and is the dam of a winner.

Sons of Kodiac

Kodiac is the stallion with the most sons retiring to stud in 2017 as the Tally-Ho Stud resident is represented by four new stallions this season.

Adaay, a Group 2 winner over 6f and 7f, is the first son of Kodiac at stud in the UK. Whitsbury Manor Stud, in partnership with Adaay’s owners Shadwell Stud, stand him for a fee of £7,000, while his sire Kodiac is available at €50,000 for 2017.

Adaay won twice as a two-year-old, getting off the mark in the 6f Al Basti Equiworld Maiden Stakes at Newbury beating a fellow new sire by Kodiac – Kodi Bear.

He also won a novice stakes over the same trip at Yarmouth and was third to Limato in Newbury’s Listed Rose Bowl Stakes, again over 6f.

He won the first of his Group 2 successes in the 6f Hungerford Stakes at Haydock where he got the better of Limato. Adaay was stepped up to 7f for the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes at Newbury and he duly won, beating Coulsty, another paternal half-brother beginning his stud career in 2017. He also won the Listed Carnarvon Stakes, again over a trip of 6f.

His best placing at four was in the Group 3 Criterion Stakes at Newmarket, where he was

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second behind Breton Rock.

Adaay’s best official rating was 115 which he was given after winning the Hungerford Stakes and on his next start, he was sent off as joint-favourite for the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup, which was won by Twilight Son, who also retires to stud for 2017.

Adaay is one of five Group 2 winners by Kodiac – the others are Kodi Bear, Ardad, Prince Of Lir and Besharah, while Tiggy Wiggy is his sole Group 1 winner.

Adaay is out of Lady Lucia, a daughter of Royal Applause, who was placed at two. He is the best of six winners the mare has produced that include Mullionmileanhour by Mull Of Kintyre.

A winning juvenile who was placed in the Abernant, Cleves and Windsor Castle Stakes, all three were Listed contests, he is now at stud in the UK and has done reasonably well from limited opportunities.

Their seven-year-old half-brother Pour La Victoire has won nine races at distances of 6f, 7f and a mile every year since he was three. Lady Lucia’s five-year-old gelding by Bushranger called Bushcraft is a four-time winner over 5f and 6f Lady Lucia is a three-parts sister to Creative Mind, a winner at two and three and third in the Group 3 Chartwell Stakes at Lingfield.

Further back it is the family of Joking Apart who was third in the 1,000 Guineas and is the second dam of Group 1 winner Runyon.

It is also the family of Slumdogmillionaire, a multiple Group 1 winner in South Africa and the South African Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed mare Gibraltar Blue.

Kodiac is a son of Danehill, which has proved such a phenomenal success across the globe, and he is a half-brother to Invincible Spirit.

His daughter Tiggy Wiggy is out of a Kheleyf mare so giving repetition of Danzig, while Kodi Bear, Adaay, Coulsty are all out of mares from differing sires lines, proving that Koadic, unti lnow has matched well with a lot of differing pedigrees, something also achieved by Invincible Spirit.

The Mr Prospector line does mix it well with the Irish National Stud’s leading sire, and his son Lawman, who is out of Gulch / Mr. Prospector mare, is the best son of Invincible Spirit at stud so far in Europe. He has sired five individual Group 1 winners including last year’s St Leger winner Harbour Law (Pivotal) and Racing Post Trophy winner Marcel.

Invincible Spirit’s July Cup-winning son

Mayson, who is out of a Pivotal mare, another who has gone well with the line, sired 16 winners, three of them at Listed level, from his first crop in 2016 and Kingman (Zamindar mare) and Charm Spirit (Montjeu mare), brilliant milers by Invincible Spirit have their first yearlings in 2017.

The Group 3 winner Coulsty is one of three Irish-based sons of Kodiac to enter stud in 2017. The six-year-old stands at Rathasker Stud in County Kildare for a fee of €5,000.

He was Group race successful at 6f and won two Listed races over a furlong further.

A precocious colt, he won his maiden over 5f on his debut in May and went on to be third in the Listed Prix Francois Boutin over 7f in Deauville.

At three he again proved a liking for early summer, winning his first start of the season, this time the Listed King Charles II Stakes over 7f on good to firm ground at Newmarket.

Second place in the Listed Queensferry Stakes over 6f at Chester was the highlight of his midsummer racing before a return to Deauville for the 6f Group 3 Prix de Meautry which he won.

For the third season in a row Coulsty won first time out, the Listed King Richard III Stakes at Leicester the winning departure point of his four-year-old career. The victory was his second over 7f and showed his ground

new sires Kodi Bear, the highest-rated son of Kodiac so far, seen here when still in training with Clive Cox. The colt has been retired to Rathbarry Stud at a fee of €10,000

versatility as it was on good to firm going.

He also finished second behind Adaay in the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes in August.

That second place in the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes as a four-year-old earned Coulsty the highest rating of his career, a mark of 111.

Coulsty is the best of four winners out of the In The Wings mare Hazium, herself a winner of three races.

John Ferguson paid 130,000gns for her Ifraaj colt , now named Fortune Writer, at the 2015 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Their second dam Safe Care by Caerleon is a half-sister to the Group 3 Prix du PetitCouvert and Listed Duke Of York Stakes victor Lugana Bay. Safe Care is also a half-sister to the dam of the King’s Stand Stakes (then a Group 2) winner The Tatling, who was also three times a Group 1 placed – in the Nunthorpe Stakes and twice in the Prix de l’Abbaye.

It is also the further family of the multiple Group 1 winner and European champion Mtoto and the Prix du Jockey Club winner Blue Canari.

Kodi Bear is the highest-rated son of Kodiac so far and only the sire’s Tiggy Wiggy had a higher official rating than him.

As a juvenile Kodi Bear won a Listed 7f race at Ascot before finishing second to Belardo in

the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket.

As a three-year-old Kodi Bear’s best form was over a mile, winning a Listed race at Windsor on his seasonal reappearance before taking fourth in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat behind Territories.

Dropped back to Group 3 company for his next start, he beat the high-class Custom Cut in the Sovereign Stakes at Salisbury. He added Goodwood’s Group 2 Celebration Mile to his list of wins, beating Cable Bay and the odds-on favourite Gabrial.

In 2015 Timeform rated Kodi Bear 123, the same mark given to Group 1 winner Belardo, while his highest official rating was 118, achieved after his success in the Celebration Mile.

Kodi Bear is the best of eight winners out of Hawattef, an unraced daughter of Mujahid.

He is closely related to Lady Susy, a winning juvenile and the dam of Listed-winning brothers Rivertime and Storms Of Wind, by Tout Seul.

His half-sister by Zebedee, now named Parsnip, was purchased for 280,000gns at the 2015 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. In training with Michael Bell and owned by Lady Bamford, she won her maiden first time out over 6f.

Their second dam Madary, by Green Desert, is a two-time winner and a half-sister to the dam of Esoterique, winner of three Group 1 races and runner-up in three more in 2013.

Esoterique’s dam Dievotchka produced five other black-type winners, including Group 2 winner and sire Archange d’ Or. The fourth son of Kodiac new to the sire ranks for 2017 is Royal Ascot winner Prince Of Lir. From a fast family, the son of Kodiac was a shining example of two-year-old precocity.

A joint sale-topper at Goffs UK’s 2016 Breeze Up Sale, he was bought by agent Matt Coleman for £170,000 after putting in a sizzling time on the track.

Not long after that he made a winning debut at Beverley over 5f, beating subsequent Group 1 winner The Last Lion by a little over a length.

The pair turned up at Royal Ascot for the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes and the result was the same, with Prince Of Lir beating The Last Lion again.

After that he was sent-off favourite for the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin, but could only manage fifth on ground that was said to not be to his liking. His final start was in Doncaster’s Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes,

where he was only beaten 3l by Ardad.

Prince Of Lir comes from a family full of speed. His dam Esuvia by Whipper was a twoyear-old winner, who trained on to win again at three. Prince Of Lir is her first foal to race and she also has a two-year-old sister to him and a yearling filly by Dandy Man. Esuvia is out of the Thatching mare Aoife, who also won at two and three and is the dam of Group 3-winning sprinter and sire Resplendent Glory. Aoife is a half-sister My Funny Valentine, runner-up in the King’s Stand Stakes (G2).

Another half-sister is Dame Hester, winner at two and three, and dam of Donnerschlag

by Bahamian Bounty. The seven-year-old is a Group winner over 6f, beating Markaz, in the Group 2 Goldene Peitsche at Baden-Baden on his most recent start.

It is also the family of Group 1 winner Platinum Witness and Group winners L’Irresponsable, Chartreuse and Lucky Spin.

Prince Of Lir’s dam sire, Whipper, is by Miesque’s Son (Mr. Prospector), who is out of one of the greatest mares of all time in Miesque.

Whipper is also a three-parts brother to the brilliant filly Divine Proportions (by Kimgmambo and a grand-daughter of Mr Prospector) and on the track he won three Group 1 between 6f and a mile, including the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère.

There are a lot of Mr. Prospector connections here for breeders to make use of.

Derby winners: Harzand and New Bay

Two colts with three Derby wins between them have retired to stud for 2017, headed by the Irish and English Derby winner Harzand.

A son of Sea The Stars, Harzand began his ascent to Classic glory with victory in the Group 3 Ballysax Stakes at The Curragh, a noted Derby trial in Ireland, beating Idaho.

That horse was probably sick of the sight of Harzand’s rear end as he saw it twice more in Classic company – at Epsom and then back at The Curragh when Harzand won his second Derby in three weeks.

Harzand struck into himself in the Irish Champion Stakes and his exertions in winning his Classics had also taken their toll.

The Derby winner received his career high mark of 123 for his Epsom success and he was left on that rating after he added The Curragh race.

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new sires fourth dam Hazy Idea in the 1980s, he is a half-brother to the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed daughter of Pivotal, Harasiya.

The Listed-winning Daylami mare Hazarafa is another half-sister, while Haziyna

by Halling won twice at three and is the dam of a winning three-year-old filly herself.

Their dam Hazariya, by Xaar, also has a winning daughter of Oasis Dream called Hazaraba, and her three-year-old son of Shamardal called Haripour impressed many on his sole start at two last year, and holds entries in the Derby and Irish Derby.

Hazariya has a two-year-old daughter by Fastnet Rock and a yearling filly by Dubawi, and she was bought for 2,000,000gns by Coolmore at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2016 and is expected to be covered by Sea The Stars’s half-brother Galileo.

She is a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Hazarista, who was also placed in the Irish and Yorkshire Oaks. They are half-sisters to Hannda (Dr Devious), the dam of Group 1 winner Seal Of Approval (Authorized).

It is also the family of Australia’s champion two-year colt Decision Time and the multiple Group 1 winner in Australia, Streama.

Sea The Stars is one of the greatest racehorses of all time and he is by the breed-shaping mare Urban Sea. The Arc winner has produced two Derby winners in Sea The Stars and Galileo, who in turn have sired four more Derby winners.

The vast majority of his progeny either run once as juveniles or don’t run at all until they are three. His five individual Group 1 winners were all at least three when they won their best races and include Oaks winner Taghrooda, Deutsches Derby winner Sea The Moon and French Group 1 winners Zelzal and Vazira.

The Prix du Jockey Club winner of 2014 New Bay begins his stallion career at Ballylinch Stud where he will join relation Beat Hollow on the stallion roster.

Trained by André Fabre for owner-breeder Prince Khalid Abdullah, the biggest win of New Bay’s career came in the Jockey-Club when he beat subsequent Group 1 winner Highland Reel. New Bay followed up that performance with victories in the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano over 1m2f and the quarter mile longer Prix Niel.

As a four-year-old he won the Group 3 Prix Gontaut Biron at a trip of 1m2f.

New Bay won his maiden over a mile on his first start at three and he had been second at the same trip on his only start at two, in the November of his juvenile career.

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Bobby’s Kitten’s Grade 1 win came at the end of his three-year-old season when he beat a field full of top-class sprinters, including No Nay Never and Undrafted New Bay hails from one of Juddmonte’s deepest gene pools. He is one of four winners out of his dam Cinnamon Bay, who was a Listed winner in France. The daughter of Zamindar is a half-sister to Group 2 Prix Maurice Nieuil winner Bellamy Cay. They are daughters of Trellis Bay, a winning daughter of Bahamian, one of the best mares in Juddmonte’s history.

Her Irish Oaks-winning daughter Wemyss Bight by Sadler’s Wells, is the dam of Ballylinch Stud’s Beat Hollow, a four-time Group and Grade 1 winner who is a Classicwinning sire.

Coraline is a sister to Wemyss Bight and she is the dam of Group 1 winner and sire Reefscape, Group 2 winner and sire Coastal Path and the Group 2 winner Martaline.

Another daughter of Bahamian, Hope, is the dam of leading sire Oasis Dream and the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Zenda, who in turn is the sire of champion threeyear-old miler Kingman, whose first crop are yearlings in 2017.

On his dam’s side, New Bay descends from a family full of stallions and Group-winning racehorses.

On his sire’s side, he is a son of the brilliant Dubawi, who would have multiple sires’ championships were it not for the presence of Galileo.

Dubawi has already sired Classic winner Makfi, out of Green Desert mare, who in turn has sired Classic winner, and another Ballylinch Stud resident, Make Believe, out of a Sauve Dancer mare.

New Bay joins Night Of Thunder (Galileo mare) and Al Kazeem (Darshaan mare) as Group 1-winning sons of Dubawi at stud.

Group 1 winners at three

LANWADES STUD is home to Bobby’s Kitten, the first son of Kitten’s Joy to stand at stud in Europe.

The six-year-old won all his races on Turf in the US over trips from 6f to just over a mile, and was a Grade 3-winning juvenile over a mile after winning his maiden at Saratoga.

Bobby’s Kitten’s Grade 1 win came at the end of his three-year-old season when he beat a field full of top-class sprinters, including No Nay Never and Undrafted, to win the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita.

For his five-year-old season he was sent by owner-breeders Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey to Ireland to be trained by Dermot Weld and he was victorious on his only start, winning the Listed Cork Stakes over 6f at Cork in March 2016.

Bobby’s Kitten was also Grade 1-placed as a two-year-old, second to Outstrip in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita, and was runner-up in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile Stakes as a three-year-old.

Bobby’s Kitten is out of Celestial Woods by Forestry, a son of Storm Cat, a winner at three and four in the US. Her 2013 colt Camelot Kitten has won two Grade 2 races over a mile and 1m1f on Turf and was placed behind Deauville in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby over 1m2f.

Celestial Woods is a half-sister to Blissful Song, a two-time-winning daughter of Unbridled’s Song and the dam of Grade 1 winner Sixties Song (Sixties Icon) and Celestial Candy, a Grade 2-winning daughter of Candy Ride.

Her second dam North Of Eden is a halfsister to Theatrical, champion Turf Horse in the US and a sire. North Of Eden is the dam of three Grade 1 winners at stud – the fourtime Grade 1 winner Paradise Creek (Irish River), the Grade 1 Manhattan Handicap winner Forbidden Apple (Pleasant Colony) and Wild Event, a son of Wild Again and winner of the Turf Classic Stakes.

North Of Eden is the second dam of Grade 1 La Virgenes Stakes winner Eden’s Moon (Malibu Moon), and twice European champion David Junior (Pleasant Tap).

David Junior won the Group 1 Champion Stakes, Eclipse and Dubai Duty Free Stakes.

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He is the sire of ten Group or Grade 1 winners and the best known and most successful of these in Europe is Hawkbill (out of a Giant’s Causeway mare), winner of the Eclipse and Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes last season.

Of his runners, dual Grade 1 winner Real Solution, who is out of a Pulpit mare, and the 2016 Grade 1 winners Divisidero (Lemon Drop Kid mare) and Oscar Performace (Theatrical), winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, are his best performers on with most relevant pedigrees to European breeders.

Kitten’s Joy is a grandson of the breedshaping sire Sadler’s Wells as a son of his best US stallion son El Prado.

The Group 1 National Stakes winner in Ireland was champion sire in America and is the sire of four Grade 1 winners, who have gone on to be Grade 1 sires – Kitten’s Joy, Borrego, Artie Schiller and the champion Medaglio D’Oro. The Darley stallion is the sire of the brilliant Rachel Alexandra, crowned horse of the year, the seven-time Grade 1-winning filly Songbird, while new Coolmore sire and champion juvenile in Australia, Vancouver, are among 16 Grade 1 winners by Medaglia D’Oro. As a grandson of Sadler’s Wells and being free of Danzig blood, Bobby’s Kitten could be the next stallion to add to the legacy of the Sadler’s Wells-Danehill cross. He is also an outcross option for mares from the Green Desert line.

Darley adds another reverse shuttling star from Australia to its roster in the shape of Exosphere.

A Group 1 winner at three, Exosphere combines the best of Australian breeding and has already stood a southern-hemisphere season before flying to Haras du Logis.

The biggest win of Exosphere’s career came in the Group 1 Golden Rose over 7f at Rosehill, which he won in a track record time.

Exosphere was fourth in a couple more Group 1 races at four – the 6f Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington and over 5f in the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes.

He was crowned champion three-year-old sprinter in Australia, was rated behind only the sensational Winx and Timeform gave Exosphere a mark of 127.

His sire Lonhro was champion three-yearold of 2002 in Australia and Racehorse of the

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On his dam’s side Exosphere is a grandson of Danehill – in one stallion some of the best genes on offer from Australian racing and breeding can be accessed Year in 2004. The winner of 26 races, 11 of them Group 1s, Lonhro retired to Woodlands Stud to stand alongside his sire the champion Octagonal. When Sheikh Mohammed bought Woodlands, Lonhro was transferred to Darley Australia.

Lonhro was crowned champion sire in 2011.

His son Pierro (Daylami mare) won five Group 1 races at two and three and now stands at Coolmore Australia. Tulip (Rock Of Gibralatar) became his first winner from his first crop with a maiden win on New Year’s Eve. Darley stand another Group 1-winning son of Lonhro in Denman. The 11-year-old won the Golden Rose before retiring to stud with Fitocracy out of an Anabaa mare the best of his three crops so far.

On his dam’s side Exosphere is a grandson of Danehill – in one stallion some of the best genes on offer from Australian racing and breeding can be accessed.

Exosphere has Mr Prospector in his fourth generation, but there is no Sadler’s Wells to be found in his first four generations and Northern Dancer doesn’t make an appearance until the fifth line.

Territories was one of the stars of the show at Darley’s open day at Dalham Hall during the Tattersalls December Mares Sale and the good-looking son of Invincible Spirit joins the roster for 2017.

The highlight of Territories’s racing career came with success in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly in 2015, beating a field that included Dutch Connection, Kodi Bear and his two-year-old nemesis Full Mast. He also won the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau as a three-year-old.

He was twice a Group 1 runner-up at three, – in the 2,000 Guineas where he came up just short against Gleneagles and in the Prix Jacque Le Marois to the brilliant Esoterique.

As a two-year-old, Territories was

promoted to second in the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère after Gleneagles was demoted to third following interference.

Territories was given a Timeform rating of 123.

His dam Taranto is a two-year-old winner in France by Machiavellian and is the dam of four winners from five foals of racing age. She has a three-year-old brother to Territories in training with André Fabre, a two-year-old filly by Sepoy and a yearling full-sister to Territories.

She is out of Magna Graecia (Warning), a Group 3 winner and a half-sister to Group 3 winner Graikos (Rainbow Quest) and the Listed-winning son of Dubai Destination, Parthenon.

Their dam, Grecian Slipper, is a Sadler’s Wells half-sister to Street Cry, and is a halfsister to the dam of another leading sire in Shamardal and his half-brother Geoffrey Chaucer, winner of the Group 2 Beresford Stakes.

The prowess of Invincible Spirit is discussed earlier in this article, while Territories is another stallion out of a mare by Machiavellian to be available to breeders.

His family members Street Cry and Shamardal are two top-class Group or Grade 1-producing grandsons of Machiavellian through their dams.

Dark Angel and Zoffany are two more sires out of daughters of Machiavellian who are having an impact at the highest level at stud.

Zoffany sired his first Group 1 winner at the end of 2016 in Premio Jockey Club winner Ventura Storm, while Dark Angel is the sire of Group 1-winning sprinter Mecca’s Angel.

Group 1-winning four year olds

Belardo was Europe’s champion two-yearold of 2014 following his victory in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at the end of a debut season that encompassed three wins and two places from five starts.

Bred by Ballylinch Stud, he was purchased for €100,000 at Arqana’s August Yearling Sale by Voute Sales for Prince Faisal.

At two, his best performance of the season was his defeat of Kodi Bear in the Dewhurst, while he was also second to Estidhkaar in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster and fourth behind Ivawood in Newmarket’s July Stakes (G2).

The two best performances of his threeyear-old season came at a mile when fourth behind Gleneagles in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, while he was also second to Solow in the

new sires Belardo claimed the second Group 1 victory of his career in the Lockinge Stakes when he beat Grade 1 winner Euro Charline, future Group 1 winner Limato and Toormore, another Group 1 winner

Belardo: the champion two-year-old and Lockinge winner was Lope De Vega’s first Group 1 star

Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. He had Integral, Elm Park, Gleneagles, Territories and Kodi Bear all beaten that day.

Belardo claimed the second Group 1 victory of his career in the Lockinge Stakes where he beat Grade 1 winner Euro Charline, future Group 1 winner Limato and Toormore, another Group 1 winner.

His final start was in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot where he finished best of the rest behind champion American mare Tepin.

Twice in his career Belardo achieved an official mark of 119, both times were for his Group 1 successes. Timeform also rated him at a high of 126.

Belardo is a product of two of Ballylinch Stud’s stars in Classic winner and leading young sire Lope De Vega and Danaskaya, placed in both the Lowther (G1) and Cheveley Park Stakes (G1).

Danaskaya is the dam of the dual Scandinavian Group 3 winner Berling (Montjeu) and his sister Diamond Sky, who was placed on both her starts as a two-year-old, including in the Group 3 Debutante Stakes.

Danaskaya’s 2015 colt by Nathaniel was sold for €250,000 at Arqana last August.

She is a daughter of Danehill out of the Listed-winning mare Majinskaya, the second dam of Group 3 Lillie Langtry Stakes winner California (by Azamour) and Drumbeat (Montjeu), second in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud. She is also a half-sister to the dam of Prix de l’Abbaye (G1) winner Kistena (Miswaki).

Belardo is from the family of Mark Johnston’s Royal Ascot winner Fruits Of Love and his half-brother, the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes winner Mujadil, whose best as a stallion was the Group 1 winner Kingsgate Native.

Lope De Vega was champion three-yearold in France after winning both the Prix du Jockey-Club and Poule d’Essai des Poulains.

Belardo was the first Group 1 winner sired by the son of Shamardal, who added a second in 2016 thanks to Prix Saint-Alary heroine Jemayel.

The Aga Khan introduces a homebred son of Shamardal to breeders with the fiveyear-old Dariyan, who is out of a Group 1-winning mare.

Dariyan won two Group races during his racing career, the first of which was the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam for three-yearolds over 1m2f. As a four-year-old he won the Group 1 Prix Ganay.

He was also placed twice in Group 1 races, finishing third to Highland Reel in the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin in 2015 and second behind A Shin Hikari in the Prix d’Ispahan last year.

Dariyan is the first foal of the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase winner Daryakana, who was also placed in the Grand Prix de Paris. The daughter of Selkirk has a four-year-old son

by Dansili called Darabad, who is a Listed winner and her three-year-old colt Devamani

by Dubawi is as yet unraced.

Daryakana is out of the Night Shift mare Daryaba, who was a champion three-year-old filly in France in 1999 when she won the Prix de Diane (G1) and Prix Vermeille (G1). She is the dam of four black-type horses headed

by Daryakana. Her Rainbow Quest son Daramsar is a Group 2 winner and sire, while Daraybi (Street Cry) is a Listed winner.

They are related to Prix du Jockey Club winner Darsi (Polish Precedent) and another champion three-year-old in the family, the three-times Group 1 winner Darjina (Zamindar). Last season’s champion three-

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new sires year-old colt in Europe, Almanzor (Wootton Bassett), is also from this storied Aga Khan family.

Dariyan joins the growing ranks of sons of Shamardal at stud and the success of the descendants of Giant’s Causeway have been discussed.

Fascinating Rock came late to the Group 1 party, waiting until four to win his first race at the highest level, but he came back for more at five and in both of his Group 1 wins he beat the brilliant Found.

He was considered a Derby contender following back-to-back Group 3 successes at three, the second of which was in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown.

Fascinating Rock made the breakthrough at Group 1 level at his first attempt since his run in the previous year’s Irish Derby when tackling the Champion Stakes at Ascot on Champions’ Day. He took the return to the highest level in his stride defeating Found and Jack Hobbs, winner of the Irish Derby to claim Group 1 glory.

Kept in training as a five-year-old he once again got the better of Found in the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup. Not surprisingly, given the calibre of Found, Fascinating Rock received his highest official ratings for his two defeats of the Galileo mare. His Group 1 victories were both rated 123, while Timeform gave him a mark of 127.

Fascinating Rock is the highest-rated horse

by Fastnet Rock in the northern-hemisphere and he retired the winner of eight races, six of them Group contests.

He was bred by owners Newtown Anner Stud Farm, out of the winning Polar Falcon mare Miss Polaris, herself the dam of three winners from four runners so far.

Miss Polaris is a full-sister to the Listed winner Euro Falcon out of the winning mare Sarabah. Sarabah is a half-sister to the multiple Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Gothenburg. It is also the family of Japan’s 2015 champion two-year-old colt Leontes and his Japan Cup and St Leger winning half-brother Epiphaneia, who are out of the Grade 1 winner Cesario.

It is the further family of Group winners Theatre Critic, Sweet Salsa, Nancy From Nairobi and Amadeus Wolf.

Fastnet Rock was a champion sprinter in Australia and champion sire before he began reverse shuttling to Coolmore in Ireland.

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Fascinating Rock is the highest-rated horse

by Fastnet Rock in the northern-hemisphere and he retired the winner of eight races, six of them Group contests

Fascinating Rock: beat Found in two Group 1s

Diamondsandrubies (out of Quarter Moon (Sadler’s Wells)) and Oaks heroine Qualify (Galileo mare) are his best northernhemisphere daughters, while he looks to have even more of an influence in the future thanks to the exploits of last season’s Group 1-winning juveniles.

He is the sire of Racing Post Trophy winner Rivet and Intricately, winner of the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes. Both are out of Galileo mares.

Fastnet Rock is another successful stallion son of Danehill and, like for so many others, the Danehill line over Sadler’s Wells, has given him four of his five Group 1 winners in

the northern-hemisphere, the sole exception being Fascinating Rock.

Although he is a great-grandson of Nureyev and breeding to daughters of Galileo, Montjeu, High Chaparral et al would create in-breeding to Northern Dancer, it will be far back enough for most.

Cheveley Park Stud welcomes the fourth stallion in their line of champion sprinters with the latest descendent of Pivotal to retire to the ancestral home.

Twilight Son had an impeccable record as a juvenile with two wins from two starts, both at his favourite distance of 6f.

Twilight Son made a winning reappearance in a three-year-old handicap, and after given the summer off to mature, he stepped up to Group 1 company in the Sprint Cup. Despite the presence of Group 1 winners Gordon Lord Byron, Belardo, Tiggy Wiggy and G Force, Twilight Son made the grade, going from classy handicapper to Group 1-winning sprinter.

Gold-Fun, Undrafted, Magical Memory and The Tin Man were all among the horses conquered by Twilight Son in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes last June.

As well as his two Group 1 wins, Twilight Son was also second to Muhaarar in the Champions’ Sprint Stakes (G1). He maintained an official mark of 117 from his first Group 1 win through to his final race, but Timeform awarded him a rating of 127.

Speed is the definite influence on both sides of Twilight Son’s pedigree. He is out of Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad). She won three races at distances of five to seven furlongs and is the dam of six winners from six runners.

Her 2010 colt by Piccolo called Music Master won the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes and was third in the Sprint Cup at Haydock.

He retired to Throckmorton Court Stud in 2016 and his first foals arrive this spring.

Twilight Mistress is a half-sister to Romantic Evening by Dr Fong, who was a winner in the UK at two and in Hong Kong as a five-year-old. They are related to Queen Mary winner On Tiptoes and it is also the family of Group 3-winning sprinter Violette, Silca’s Gift, winner of the Group 3 Nell Gwyn Stakes and Listed Albany Stakes, and her Listed-winning half-sister Virginia Hall.

Twilight Son is the fourth generation of stallions descended from Nureyev to stand at Cheveley Park through Twilight Son’s sire Kyllachy, his grandsire Pivotal and greatgrandsire Polar Falcon.

He offers breeders a great outcross option.

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mark casse Mark Casse lifts the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile trophy after Classic Empire’s victory, the trainer’s second Breeders’ Cup success.

The trainer enjoyed his best-ever season through 2016 with 27 graded stakes victories and earnings of over $17 million

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On top of the

world

Trainer Mark Casse had a brilliant year through 2016 and admits that it will be hard to top, but with Kentucky Derby and Oaks hopefuls in his stable, as well as his Royal Ascot filly Tepin back in training, Melissa Bauer-Herzog finds out that he is out to beat the stats this year

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ays after ringing in 2017, trainer Mark Casse reflected back on 2016 and wasn’t shy to admit that it will be a hard one to beat.

Naming 2016 as his best year is saying a lot for Canada’s six-time Sovereign Award Outstanding Trainer, but it’s hard to argue with his reasoning for making it his top year.

In addition to winning more graded stakes in one year than any other in his career with 27 victories and topping his previous yearly best earnings by over $4.2 million, he also became the first US-based trainer to train a Queen Anne Stakes (G1) winner at Royal Ascot.

Just to add to the laurels, he ended the year with the early-book favourite for the Kentucky Derby after Classic Empire won the Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in November.

For most trainers, an early Kentucky Derby favourite in the barn would be the top horse

in the stable, but Mark Casse isn’t just any trainer.

His self-professed biggest accomplishment of 2016 wasn’t Classic Empire’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile victory, or any other victory in North America for that matter.

Instead, the biggest victory of his year – if not his career – came on British soil with champion mare Tepin.

Taking on the best at Royal Ascot seemed like a natural step after 2015’s US Champion Turf Mare beat all comers in that year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile and won every start in the first half of 2016.

While neither trainer nor horse knew exactly what they were getting in to, with Tepin running on a type of track she had never encountered in the US and never looking comfortable in the race, in the end they brought the victory back to the US when Tepin prevailed by half a length over Belardo.

“It was almost out of body, it was like it wasn’t real,” reflects Casse six months after the victory.

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Eclipse finalist and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile) is heading down the Kentucky Derby trail for 2017

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“Even to this day, it just seems unreal. We didn’t get to spend as much time over there as I would have liked. I would have liked to enjoy a little bit more of England before and after but the race was on a Tuesday, and we’d had a horse running in a Grade 1 the Saturday [before the Queen Anne] at Belmont.

“So we flew over there, got there Sunday around noon and we were in the first race on Tuesday. So there wasn’t a whole lot of time to just enjoy England, but as my wife

described it, it was the ‘Kentucky Derby on steroids’.”

Not surprisingly, Tepin has been named an Eclipse finalist again for 2016 with Classic Empire named a finalist in the Champion 2-Year-Old Male category, giving Casse two horses who look likely to be named champion in their respective divisions. [You will probably know the result of the Eclipse Awards by the time you are reading this, Ed] In addition, Casse is a finalist in the

mark casse Outstanding Trainer category, an award he has not yet won in the US. But with the excitement comes regret that three-quarters of a length cost another one of his other horses a chance at an Eclipse with Stonestreet Stable’s Valadorna finishing a late-closing second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1).

“Having two finalists is kind of a dream come true,” smiles the trainer. “Some times during the year with so much going on you don’t have time to reflect on how great the year is and to have two horses whom I think are fairly certain to win an Eclipse award is exciting.

“It’s a little disappointing because I think if Valadorna had been able to get up in the Breeders’ Cup we may have had three, but we’ll take two!”

While 2017 has a lot to live up to, this new year is already off to a good start for the Casse barn. Of the 14 horses he’d sent out in the first week of January, six hit the board, including the Queen’s Plate hopeful State Of Honor (To Honor And Serve), who finished second in the Listed mile Mucho Macho Man Stakes.

“We’re probably in a unique position in that right now we have what would be the early book favourite for the Kentucky Derby as well as for the Queen’s Plate,” said Casse.

“We have Classic Empire, he’s the established horse, but we have some three-year-olds lurking out there who, if they could step up their game, could be possibilities.”

2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.

While the rest of the route to the Kentucky Derby isn’t entirely clear for Classic Empire, if the colt makes it to the Classic, he’ll be the fourth runner in the race for Casse, who made his Derby debut in 2006 with Seaside Retreat.

Casse Training Stats (from website) Stats Lifetime 2016 Runners: 13,447 1,334 Winners: 2,175 235 Seconds: 1,988 202 Thirds 1,781 182 Prize-money won: 123,929,546 17,946,005 Wnrs to rnrs (%): 16 17 Wnrs / placed to rnrs (%): 45 45 Left, a proud Casse leading in Classic Empire at Santa Anita, and, below, his star filly Tepin wins the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot on her first trip outside of the US

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hose hopefuls include the $550,000 two-year-old purchase Takeoff (Arch), who won at Fair Grounds in December, as well as Live Oak Stud homebred Souper Tapit (Tapit).

Out of 2012 Mother Goose Stakes (G1) winner Zo Impressive, Souper Tapit was still to debut in early January but Casse has high hopes for the colt.

But for now, all eyes are on Classic Empire as he prepares for his 2017 debut.

He returned to the worktab in early January, and the Lambholm South Holy Bull Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream in early February has been identified as an early-season target for the Florida-based colt.

By Pioneerof the Nile, when Classic Empire hits the track for his first race of the year, it is likely he’ll be the second two-year-old champion in three years for his dad, also sire of the 2014 Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and

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The Casse team and owner Robert Masterson with Liz Hurley receiving the Queen Anne trophy. Tepin is the winner of six G1s and is back in training for 2017

The trainer’s best finish in the race came only two years ago when the ill-fated Danzig Moon ran a credible fifth behind American Pharoah.

As for non-Derby goals this year Casse already has ambitions in mind for some of his stable’s star fillies, including another trip outside North America.

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epin is back in training from the same barn at Palm Meadows Training Center as Classic Empire, and she returned to the work tab the same day as the colt.

Now a six-year-old, the mare will be sent to defend her 2016 victory in the Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes on February 11, before she takes on the world again.

While Casse isn’t sure yet if she’ll return to the UK for a Royal Ascot outing this year, her first major target will be the Dubai Turf at Meydan on March 25.

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The biggest goal for me is to have our entire stable, whether it’s Grade 1 horses or $25,000 claimers, just to be successful and to win Valadorna (Curlin), Casse’s major Kentucky Oaks hopeful for 2017, is looking to take up the mantle as a “Casse super filly” this winter on her way to Kentucky.

Stabled at Fair Grounds, Casse is hoping to run her in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes at Louisiana on February 25. Winning the race would be of major point

of significance for Stonestreet Stables, owner of Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year.

“We definitely would like to make the Rachel Alexandra in February.

“It would definitely be nice to win the Rachel Alexandra with a Stonestreet filly!” muses Casse.

While Casse admits topping 2016 will be hard, he says the goal every year is to do a little better than the last and that won’t change for 2017.

“It would be very, very tough to do but we’re going to give it a try and obviously we’d like to win more,” he said.

“We’d like to win the Kentucky Derby and more Breeders’ Cups. The biggest goal for me is just to have our entire stable, whether it’s Grade 1 horses or $25,000 claimers, just to be successful and to win.

“We have a lot of different owners and they’re all important to us whether they own a Classic Empire or a $20,000 claimer, so that’s it.”

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european stallions Kendargent: leading from the front

A stallion tour de force It’s all change on the French stallion scene, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

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he revival of France’s stallion business gathers steam every year and in 2017 Le Havre becomes France’s most expensive stallion since the euro was adopted at the turn of the 21st

century.

And not only is Le Havre standing at €60,000, but Siyouni is priced at €45,000, a similar level to Linamix and Anabaa, the previous two French-based stallions with an international profile.

Shalaa stands his first year at the Haras de Bouquetot at €27,500, which is as a high a fee for a French-based first season sire as has been seen this century too.

By the time the products of 2017’s matings reach the yearling sales in 2019 a great deal more will have changed, and by then the

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standing of the three sires which sparked this revival in France – Le Havre, Kendargent and Siyouni – will be established one way or another.

Kendargent: keep an eye on him

The Haras de Colleville’s Kendargent is the oldest of the three at 14 and his sixth crop are the three-year-olds of 2017, however, because the son of Kendor began his career with such small crops it will not be until 2017 and 2018 that his true potential as a stallion will be revealed.

Clearly the first five crops of three-yearolds by Kendargent were remarkable as few if any sires who stand between nothing and €4,000 manage to produce five individual Group winners as he has done.

From 2017’s two-year-olds he will have three large crops produced at fees of €15,000 and €18,000.

Kendargent has produced to date both good colts and good fillies most of whom have been sprinters or sprinter milers.

However, they have not been two-yearolds in the way of precocious British and Irish-trained juveniles, but horses who have progressed with racing and experience.

Since Kendargent began to cover more outside mares (most of his early crops were bred by his owner Guy Pariente) his progeny have started to race over a mile or further with more frequency.

Aside from the potential of 120 two-yearolds produced at a €15,000, Kendargent looks likely to have a successful season in 2017.

The best two colts from his 2013 crop

european stallions Major European sires covering history: 2009-2016 Stallion Sire Siyouni

Stud

Stats by Jocelyn de Moubray

Country 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Pivotal Boneval FR

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- 134 112 117 133 190 224

Rajsaman Linamix La Cauvinière FR

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-

Le Havre

Noverre

La Cauvinière

FR

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146

136

Dabirsim

Hat Trick

Grandcamp

GER/FR

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-

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- 184 146 219 189 156

87

179

199

189

-

142

80

161

Manduro Monsun Darley GB/IR/FR 135 111 77 158 79 92 60 143 Kendargent Kendor Colleville FR Intello

66 37 51 142 180 175 165 130

Galileo Quesnay GB/FR -

Wootton Bassett Ifraaj Etreham FR

-

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- 139 111 128

- - - 47 29 73 69 126

Sinndar Grand Lodge Bonneval FR 80 90 69 36 64 82 96 120 Olympic Choisir Al Shaqab FR - - - - - - 166 119 Rio de la Plata

Rahy

Darley

FR

-

-

-

-

68

50

62

115

Anodin Anabaa Quesnay FR - - - - - - 138 107 Authorized Montjeu Darley FR 107 149 90 91 30 95 102 92 Planteur

Danehill Dancer Al Shaqab

FR

-

-

-

-

-

117

120

83

Elusive City

Elusive Quality

FR

154

124

139

83

80

101

78

77

Etreham

Style Vendome Anabaa Al Shaqab FR - - - - - 101 79 74 Youmzain Sinndar Quesnay FR

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Silver Frost Verglas Hetraie FR

- - 107 96 76 70 59 68

Muhtathir Elmaamul Mézeray FR

- 57 42 53 113 68 44 60

French Fifteen

Turtle Bowl

Logis Saint

FR

-

-

-

-

-

65

42

52

Evasive

Elusive Quality

Grandcamp

FR

-

-

44

48

40

90

175

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Stormy River Verglas Etreham FR

- 118 79 108 90 39 71

- 65 38 65 60 42 39 52

Motivator Montjeu Quesnay GB/FR 113 59

45 136 122 98

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Orpen Lure Thenney FR 69 83 93 39 24 113 47 43 Air Chief Marshall Danehill Dancer La Cauvinière

FR

117

156

130

109

51

35

Myboycharlie Danetime Mezeray FR 68 68 103 176 52 53 Maxios

Monsun Fährhof Germany

-

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- 103 88 112

Soldier Hollow In The Wings Auequelle Germany 40 30 22 84 103 106 89 96 Reliable Man Dalakhani Röttgen Germany - - - - 56 56 66 Amaron Shamardal Etzean Germany - - - - - - 56 Pastorius Soldier Hollow Fährhof Germany - - - - 48 28 50 Adlerflug In The Wings Schlendher Germany 53 43 33 28 19 43 47 Lord of England

Dashing Blade

Etzean

Germany

37

52

67

79

52

35

29

47

Jukebox Jury Montjeu Etzean Germany - - - 73 53 57 45 Areion Big Shuffle Evershorst Germany 52 48 94 58 67 39 29 29

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european stallions produced from a €4,000 fee are Jimmy Two Times, a Group 1-placed Group-winning sprinter/miler in training with André Fabre, and Morando, a miler trained by Roger Varian. Both stay in training from 2017.

Kendargent’s 120-odd three-year-olds produced from a €6,000 fee, include several promising prospects.

Two of the highest-rated are also colts trained by Fabre. Soleil Marin was bred and is owned by Elizabeth Fabre and after a modest debut at Vichy in July progressed to win his last three starts including a 7l victory over 1m2f at Saint Cloud in November.

Xaarino is owned by Prince Faisal and won two of his three starts, including a Listed over 7f on his last start in Deauville in August.

Other Kendargent’s to show promise at two in 2016 included the filly Marie d’Argent, an easy winner of her only start in Deauville, the German-trained Farshad, and Mathix,

La Cressonniere and he has about 100 two-year-olds produced from a €7,000 fee.

The Haras de Bonneval’s Siyouni went to stud a year after Le Havre, but as his first crop included the top two-year-old Erveyda his first big crop from a higher fee of €20,000 were born in 2016 and will be racing from 2018 when he will have around 130 two-year-olds.

Siyouni’s first two crops included eight Group winners, seven of them fillies, including Spectre, Volta, Siyoushake and Trixia – all stay in training in 2017.

Most of Siyouni’s progeny are sprinter/ milers although Volta finished third in the Prix de Diane and Bourree won a Group 3 over 1m2f.

Siyouni has around 64 three-year-olds in his third crop in 2017, including Kestila, the winner of three races for Rouget and the Aga Khan as well as the colt Trading Point, the winner of a maiden at Haydock for John Quinn in October.

He has around 80 two-year-olds in 2017, produced from a €7,000 fee, and around 130 two-year-olds for 2018 from a €20,000 fee.

In 2015 and 2016 Siyouni covered 414 mares and so from 2018 onwards his representation is going to be transformed by numbers.

The two leading first-season sires of 2016, Rajsaman and Rio De La Plata, attracted consistent support in their early years at stud second in a Newbury maiden in October for William Haggas.

Le Havre and Siyouni: best yet to come

Le Havre and Siyouni both have to wait until 2018 before they have large crops of well bred two-year-olds to race.

Le Havre’s fourth crop are three-year-olds in 2017 and it is the Haras de la Cauvinière’s stallion’s smallest crop with only 50 member. The most promising being the Jean Claude Rouget-trained filly La Cochere, the impressive winner of her only start to date in Deauville in August.

From 2018 Le Havre will have large crops of horses to race for him produced from fees of €20,000 and higher.

Le Havre’s best progeny to date have been fillies although two of his six Group winners have been colts and his Group winners have been over all distances from 6f to nearly two miles.

Even if Le Havre has a small group of three-year-olds in 2017 his older horses include the unbeaten champion filly

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Rajsaman and Rio: had support

If the conformation of the true level of Kendargent, Le Havre and Siyouni will be the most important development in France’s stallion market over the next couple of years, before the 2019 yearling sales there will be some other new proven sires.

The two leading first-season sires of 2016, Rajsaman and Rio De La Plata, attracted consistent support in their early years at stud and will have enough runners to make a mark over the next few seasons.

Rajsaman had around 100 foals in each of his first two crops and the son of Linamix’s first crop included the Listed winner Brametot and the Group-placed Prinz Hlodowig, as well as the promising filly Nullement.

La Cauvinière has increased Rajsaman’s fee from €4,000 to €8,000 for 2017.

There is not going to be a similar revival in Germany until there are more than 1,000 mares covered in the country every season.

The number of births in Germany every year has been around 900 for some years now and for the stallion market to prosper it will have to attract more mares from abroad.

However, over the next couple of seasons Soldier Hollow is very likely to confirm his position as the first international stallion to stand in Germany since Monsun’s death in 2012.

Soldier Hollow stands at €25,000 at Gestüt Auenquelle, but this still looks like a very reasonable fee indeed for horse with his record.

Soldier Hollow has produced ten Group winners, including three Group 1 winners, from his first five crops of three-year-olds, and this from a total of only 173 named foals.

He produced the Deutsches Derby

Our Ivanhowe: Soldier Hollow’s multiple Group 1 winner

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Numbers need to start to increase for Germany to make a real mark on the European stallion industry and Prix Ganay winner Pastorius in his first crop and the multiple German and Australian Group 1 winner Our Ivanhowe from his second crop.

His fifth crop were three-year-olds in 2016 and this generation of 56 foals produced from a €4,000 fee included the Group 1 Classic winner Serienholde, three other Group winners in Dschingis Secret, Son Macia and Wai Key Star and three other Group 1 performers in Dschingis Secret, Pagella and Kassala.

Soldier Hollow produces high-class colts and fillies, nearly all of his good horses have been Group performers at two and although some of his progeny stay 1m4f he has also produced high-class sprinters, milers and 1m2f horses.

His next three crops of three-yearolds produced at fees of €10,000, €12,000 and €15,000 are his three biggest to date and he will have 70 three-year-olds in 2017 and 2018 and 60 in 2019.

His 70 three-year-olds of 2017 include Well Spoken and Pemina, the first two home in the Preis Der Winterkonigin (G3), Germany’s top two-year-old race for fillies, the Listed winner Wilder Wein and two of the best two-year-old colts in Germany, Amun and Dia Del Sol, as well as Clear For Take Off, a winner in France for Freddy Head.

Soldier Hollow is already 17, but is a top international stallion whose progeny are more than capable of winning Group races outside Germany, if they are given the chance to do so.

Another son of In The Wings, Adlerflug, moves to Gestüt Schlenderhan for 2017 and for the first time will be able to cover a large book of quality mares.

Seven Group winners, including two Group 1 winners from his first three crops of three-year-olds has brought Adlerflug into the spotlight, but he is

Jukebox Jury (grey) made a very promising start to his stud career with his first crop in 2016

going to have few three-year-olds to run for him in 2017 and 2018.

Lord Of England is Germany’s other proven Group 1 sire, but in a similar vein to Adlerflug, Gestüt Etzean’s sire has struggled to attract consistent support and covered only 29 mares in 2015.

The future of German breeding is more likely to rest upon the four stallions whose oldest progeny will be three and two in 2017.

Gestüt Etzean’s Jukebox Jury made a very promising start with his first two-year-olds in 2016, while the first-season sires in 2017 include Maxios and Pastorius based at Gestüt Fährhof, and Reliable Man from Gestüt Rottgen.

Jukebox Jury is a son of Montjeu out of a daughter of Kenmare and his first crop produced 11 two-year-old winners including one in England and another in France.

He will be popular in 2017 and has

enough foals in his first four crops to be able to make a mark.

The three first-season sires were all multiple international Group 1 winners. Maxios has received more support than any other new stallion in Germany in recent years and both Pastorius and Reliable Man have covered enough mares to have every chance of making their reputation too.

Monsun has yet to establish a stallion son on the Flat and his last chances to do so include Maxios and Protectionist, who retires to Röttgen for the 2017 season, while Pastorius is out of a daughter of Monsun.

In the near future German breeders will have to find some outcross stallion as both Monsun and Sadler’s Wells are prominent in the pedigrees of a high proportion of the popular stallions, but then Germany is the last major breeding country where most participants are still trying to produce middle distance three-year-olds.

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european stallions Rio De La Plata covered 115 mares in 2016 meaning that his fourth crop will be his largest to date.

Some new names in France

New French sires of 2017 include Intello, who started his career in England but now stands at the Haras du Quesnay, Dabirsim, who began his career in Germany but now stands at the Haras de Grandcamp, Style Vendome and Planteur who both stand at the Haras de Bouquetot, as well as French Fifteen who stands at the Haras de Logis Saint Germain.

The first French-bred “Authorizeds” are two-year-olds of 2017.

Wootton Bassett and Evasive: make strides Next year Olympic Glory and Anodin will

have their first runners, while two other French sires whose standing is likely to change profile over the next couple of years are the Haras d’Etreham’s Wootton Bassett and the Haras de Grandcamp’s Evasive.

Wootton Bassett’s first-crop included the champion Almanzor and he will have more runners over the next couple of seasons as he has 45 two-year-olds and 37 yearlings for 2017.

Evasive’s first small crop included a Group winner and a Listed winner and he attracted 175 mares in 2015, and will have more than 100 two-year-olds to race for him in 2018.

Style Vendome: his first crop yearling average was over €26,000, and his fee for 2017 is just €5,000

Major European stallion fees 2017 Stallion

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Le Havre Siyouni Shalaa Intello Soldier Hollow Kendargent Wootton Bassett Martaline Olympic Glory Adlerflug Authorized Maxios Scissor Kick Dabirsim Dariyan Rajsaman The Wow Signal Anodin Elusive City Lord Of England Manduro Pastorius Protectionist Air Chief Marshal Exosphere French Fifteen Mutathir Reliable Man

Haras de la Cauvinière Haras de Bonneval Haras de Bouquetot Haras du Quesnay Gestüt Auenquelle Haras de Colleville Haras d'Etreham Haras de Montaigu Haras de Bouquetot Gestüt Schlenderhan Haras du Logis Gestüt Farhrof Haras d'Etreham Haras de Grandchamp Haras de Bonneval Haras de la Cauvinière Haras de Bouquetot Haras du Quesnay Haras d'Etreham Gestüt Etzean Haras du Logis Gestüt Farhrof Gestüt Röttgen Haras de la Cauvinière Haras du Logis Haras du Logis Saint Germain Haras du Mezeray Gestüt Röttgen

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Fee (€) 60,000 45,000 27,500 25,000 25,000 22,000 20,000 15,000 15,000 12,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 9,000 8,000 8,000 8,000 7,500 7,500 7,500 7,000 6,500 6,500 6,000 6,000 6,000 6,000 6,000

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Haras de la Hetraie Gestüt Etzean Haras du Logis Haras de la Huderie Gestüt Ammerland Haras du Mezeray Haras de Bouquetot Gestüt Etzean Haras de Montaigu Haras du logis Haras du Logis Gestüt Ohlerweiherof Haras de Bouquetot Haras du Logis Haras du Logis Haras du Quesnay Haras de Montaigu Haras de Saint Arnoult Haras du Thenney Haras du Thenney Haras de Colleville Haras de Montaigu Haras du Logis Haras de Montaigu Haras de Saint Arnoult Gestüt Ohlerweiherof Haras du Thenney Haras du Thenney

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Japan: a racing nation Liz Price enjoys a day out with the polite and well-mannered Japan Cup crowd before touring the JRA’s Miho Training Centre and meeting Grade 1-winning trainer Takashi Kubota

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t is impossible to go to a Japanese race meeting without being impressed by the vast number of extremely enthusiastic and well-behaved spectators, as well as the quiet efficiency and perfect organisation of the afternoon’s card.

There are no delays, no kerfuffle in the queues at the betting tills and there are far too many food outlets for anyone to go home hungry. In fact, the only chaos, if one dares even call it that, is experienced after the Japan Cup when half of the 100,000-strong crowd takes to the roads, ignoring the perfectly suitable ultra-rapid train.

Yet, even a minor traffic jam does little to dampen a first favourable impression of a day at the races in Japan.

Punctuality and politeness, these deep-

seated and central characteristics of Japanese culture, are also very apparent when visiting one of the two JRA-operated training centers.

More than 2,000 thoroughbreds are trained at the Miho training center, which is located about two hours outside Tokyo in the Ibaraki Prefecture, while another 2000 horses are trained at the Ritto training center in the Shiga Prefecture, near Osaka, in western Japan.

For centuries, horses have played a pivotal role in Japan’s history and, while some form of horseracing has always existed, it was only at the end of the 19th century that it developed into the popular and wellstructured sport as we know it today.

It means that most of its governing bodies such as the Japan Racing Association and its installations are still relatively new.

japanese racing comparison with the 2,500 acres of training grounds at Newmarket in England, yet in a country that is covered up to 72 per cent in mountains and where level ground is considered prime real-estate, it is a perfectly adequate environment for training racehorses. The Japanese raiders A Shin Hikari, Maurice and Satono Crown have proved to be perfectly prepared on several occasions in 2016.

Horseracing might have dropped slightly

“In fact, the only chaos, if one dares even call it that, is experienced after the Japan Cup when half of the 100,000-strong crowd takes to the roads In fact, the Miho training center was only opened 38 years ago, but in the consumerorientated society we live in, it is already pencilled in for some major refurbishment.

Covering 593 acres, it might pale in

in popularity over the last few years in Japan, but becoming a racehorse trainer is still very much a sought-after profession.

However, the road to obtaining a licence is littered with obstacles and requires a lot of patience. In fact, before any would-be trainer can even start to think about life at Miho, he must visit the JRA horseracing school.

Following the initial selection process, he has to take the very demanding trainers’ course that only sees a handful of people graduate each year. Once he has graduated, he will often spend years as an assistant before being allowed to set up on his own, which explains why most Japanese trainers are well into their 40s before they start making headlines.

Takashi Kubota, trainer of the Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinnen-winning mare Marialite, is rather coy when it comes to his age.

In fact, he just laughs, ignores the question completely and immediately starts telling us that he actually spent some time in England at Clive Brittain’s yard before moving to Miho.

“Clive loves the Japanese and I love him very much,” he says with a huge smile, speaking in broken English. “I was in Newmarket in 1991 when Mystiko won the 2,000 Guineas.”

He pauses before adding proudly: “I also brought Terimon to the Japan Cup.” Unfortunately, the Clive Brittain-trained Terimon was nowhere to be seen in the Japan Cup, which was won that year by the Charlie Whittingham-trained Golden Pheasant, who ironically had started his career at Clive Brittain’s yard in Newmarket.

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Kitasan Black (Black Tide) won the 2016 renewal of the Japan Cup in front of a crowd of over 100,0000

ubota is clearly proud of his stint in England and rightly so as he is one of the few trainers in Japan to have gained experience abroad. It is probably also the reason why the JRA asked him to make himself available to the contingent of foreign journalists visiting the training center.

In charge of about 50 horses, he is considered one of the more successful trainers at Miho, where the JRA only issues licences to about a 100 trainers. In fact, would-be trainers must wait until one of the older trainers has reached the compulsory retirement age of 70, before he can start his own career.

“I have 20 horses here in Miho,” he pursues. “The others are stabled outside of Miho, as the maximum one can have in Miho is 28.”

It is an unusual concept to limit trainers to

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japanese racing a certain number of boxes and Aki Akitani, the deputy general manager of the JRA, who is very familiar with the European training methods as he used to be based in Paris, explains: “The minimum number of boxes is 12 and the maximum is 20, which can be extended to 28.

“Yet that depends on the trainer’s success.

If he is successful in a season, he can add two boxes, but it never exceeds 28. He can train horses outside Miho, but if he wants to them to run, they must come to Miho at least ten days before the race.”

In a country where jockeys have to go into lock-up on the evening before a race, all in the name of integrity, it is no wonder that horses are submitted to similar procedures.

For Kubota, shuttling horses between Miho and his other training yards is not an issue.

He is very hands on and still rides out every morning.

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urprisingly, in such a documented and supervised environment, you would expect the JRA to issue training times to each yard, but that is not the case.

So with about 500 horses at the track at any given moment, there surely must be the odd pile-up, but Kubota just laughs

Frankel’s first Group 1 winner Soul Stirring winning the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies in December

and explains: “There are no set times for anyone, you can go when you want and it is not a problem.”

There are eight training tracks at Miho.

Seven of them are oval, laid out in an everMiho Training Centre: Facts increasing circle, ranging from 1,300 meters on the inside to 2,000 meters on the outside.

■ Prefecture: Ibaraki Horses are trained on every available 79km from Nakayama Racecourse surface, including sand, 125km from Tokyo Racecourse woodchip, polytrack and Turf. There is also a 6f ■ Courses uphill training course, South Track which seems to be A Course 1,370m Dirt Kubota’s favourite. When B Course 1,600m Woodchip asked though what the C Course 1,800m Turf main training difference

1,858m New polytrack is between Japan and

Europe, he sighs deeply D Course 2,000m Dirt and struggles to explain it Uphill Course 1,200m Woodchip in English. He reverts to Japanese, but despite the translator’s best North Track efforts, the result is more confusing than A Course (Steeplechase) enlightening. It has something to do with details, working harder and sensitivity, but it 1,447m Turf is impossible to discern what applies to what.

1,370m Dirt It is very clear though that the one thing B Course 1,600m Dirt he regrets not having in Japan is a bit more C Course 1,800m Dirt “nature”. The Miho training center features rows upon rows of grey coloured stables ■ Total Area: 2,234,000m2 and buildings and there is not a single tree ■ Stabling: 2,304 to be seen inside the training area. There

is one nice piece of woodland, reserved for horses who need a change of scenery, but overall, the impression remains of a rather impersonal and bleak environment.

The lack of wide-open space and variety of different-shaped tracks is difficult for someone, whom when asked what he learnt at Clive Brittain’s yard,

“Yes, I would like to win the Derby, and then the Arc!” Takashi Kubota

responds: “Keep horses happy. You have to keep horses warm and safe.”

He seems to be looking for more words before settling on “you need to keep them stable, you need to look after their mental health.”

Japanese trainers might regret not having the same training tracks as their English or French counterparts, but at least they don’t have to worry about finding new owners all the time.

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“Jockeys are stars in Japan.

Yutaka Take cannot take the subway as he would be mobbed!

Left: trainer Takashi Kubota at his stables at the Miho Training Centre, below, his Deep Impact mare Marialite winning last year’s Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinnen

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Kubota laughs when he confirms: “There are more owners than horses, so you don’t have to worry where your next horse comes from. You just need to worry that it is a good one.”

A good one for Kubota would be a Derby winner. That is what he dreams about more than anything else.

“Yes, I would like to win the Derby,” he says, before adding with a smile: “And then the Arc!” The Japanese fascination with the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe is ongoing, but Kubota wouldn’t mind going to Dubai or Hong Kong either. He is confident that it is only a question of time.

When he does have the right horse, he will get all the support from the JRA, as Akitani explains: “Jockeys are stars in Japan. Yutaka Take cannot take the subway as he would be mobbed!

“Now it’s time for the trainers. I’m here now at Miho and the next step is to promote the trainer, the unsung heroes. I want to bring the trainers to the public as they can tell the horse stories.”

Trainers form only a small part in the Miho training center. There are also 1,200 grooms, who look after the 2,000 horses, which is a ratio European trainers can only dream of.

In fact, there are more than 5,000 people directly and indirectly involved in the Miho training center, which sits like an oasis in the middle of a spidery network of roads, dominated by the constant coming and going of JRA-branded horseboxes.

Unfortunately, any foreign trainer who might be attracted by the fabulous Japanese prize-money and the abundance of owners must not get his hopes up, as Akitani explains: “We did last year for the first time give permanent licences to two jockeys [Demuro and Lemaire]. We did that to satisfy our customers who demand excellence.”

He hesitates, clearly looking for the most diplomatic statement before shyly concluding: “But for trainers that is impossible. You have to be Japanese, you have to pass the exam and you must know our culture and tradition.”

The JRA has always been protective of its sport and the people it involves. And this policy is clearly what makes the career of a Japanese trainer a rather enjoyable experience and part of the reason why unlike their European counterparts, few of them ever seek to pursue their career abroad.

So for the time being, racing in Japan remains quintessentially Japanese.

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The Hong Kong Jockey Club is part-way through building a ground-breaking pre-training centre inside the Chinese border.

It has the potential to completely change the landscape of racing in Hong Kong, which operates in a highly controlled bio-secure environment.

In December, Noel Prentice reported on progress for the South China Morning Post

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uarded convoys carrying HK$100 million of racehorses will be tracked every step of the way when the VIAs (very important animals) are whisked through the Shenzhen Bay border checkpoint and on their way to the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s new state-of-the-art training facility in Conghua, near Guangzhou, China.

Jockey Club officials will be spending the next 18 months testing all security and safety procedures in the transportation and care of the horses before the HK$3 billion facility – a cross between Andorra and Alcatraz – is up and running.

GPS tracking, security details, vets and highly trained personnel ¬– everything barring helicopters – will ensure the fourand-a-half trip from Sha Tin to Conghua (and return) goes without a hitch. And, if something does happen, Jockey Club officials are confident they have a contingency for every scenario despite the uncertainties of travelling horses on roads in mainland China.

All personnel will be searched and horse trailers scanned for any smuggled goods and

Cross-border movement of horses Government departments in mainland China and Hong Kong have developed special policies for horses to travel freely • Establishment of Hong Kong and Conghua equine disease-free status • Express border passage • Grooms allowed to accompany horses in cargo restricted zone • Simplified quarantine inspection defers to the Conghua on-site inspection unit • No import tax as horses are considered a temporary import • Equine medicines and feeds standardised Source: HKJC

then sealed before leaving Sha Tin. Once the horses arrive in Conghua, they will enter a disease-free zone where bio-security measures are heightened because of the risks and lack of quarantine and animal controls on the mainland.

Towering electric fences will keep other animals – and humans – away, while the entire complex will be under 24-hour surveillance with 1,600 cameras around the 150-hectare facility – more than twice the size of the Sha Tin complex.

Bio-security gates and airlocks, disinfectant washes, human screening – all these HKJC’s Dr Christopher Riggs is developing stringent bio-security protocols

measures will be in place to ensure a diseasefree and secure environment, says the Jockey Club’s head of veterinary clinical service, Dr Christopher Riggs.

“We are developing detailed protocols which we will refine and rehearse through extensive trial operation over the next 18 months or so. We will document and rehearse routine procedures and also emergency procedures so that we have a thorough understanding of all people involved and the routes and all the potential issues that could go wrong,” he said.

Control centres in Sha Tin and Conghua will monitor the progress of the convoys, which will be tracked on GPS, with regular reporting points.

“A lot of work has gone into identifying

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“We also want to mitigate any risks that someone uses our vehicles to smuggle goods.

“There will be very strict security on our trucks before the horses are loaded. They will be searched thoroughly and effectively sealed.

All personnel will be subjected to scrutiny and

routes and looking for safety measures to mitigate risks associated with driving along busy motorways and expressways,” said Riggs.

“Security is a very important issue and we want to make sure there is no way anyone can get to the horses between Sha Tin and

Spelling paddocks

only approved staff will be allowed access.

Grooms will remain with the horses for the entire journey .

“Horses will not go through customs inspection until they arrive in Conghua and therefore the lorries will remain sealed – not physically but metaphorically.”

Two equine swimming pools Workshop Entry ramps Rubber pavers

Pool equipment

Saddling paddock

Foot wash

Three-rail PVC fence

150 hectare site

Underwater observation deck Three-rail PVC fence

Guard rails

1,200 metre uphill gallop

Secondary access

From HK to Conghua Lorry 4-5 hours Car 3-3.5 hours High-speed rail 2.5 hours

Equine hospital & farrier

Isolation stable

Trotting rings

Future chute for 1,200m starts

Trotting rings Permanent staff training stable Trainer’s pavilion Broadcasting tower Admin & owners lounge Golf cart parking

Single and double-storey stable blocks

Government offices

All-weather tracks

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Main Turf track

Stable entrance & vehicle wash Bio security entrance

Power line & electricity

2,000metres

Hotel & Spa resort Commercial zone

Entry

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Plan of the Conghua pre-training centre

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hong kong pre-training centre Riggs said each convoy – up to four or five specially designed lorries where horses are housed in tubes – will have a security detail in front and behind. A vet will also be in the convoy, along with dedicated grooms, and the horses watched on video the whole time.

Due for a soft opening in the first quarter of 2018, the Jockey Club has broken new ground by establishing this Specific Equine DiseaseFree Zone (SEDFZ) in an area rich in hot springs and surrounded by mountains.

With land at a premium in Hong Kong and the Sha Tin facility bursting at the seams – and underground – the Jockey Club saw the potential in Conghua when it built a venue for the equestrian events at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. It spent HK$250 million on those games, laying the ground work for what is appearing today.

Considered a world leader in many aspects of horse racing, the club’s stabling environment is falling (literally) below those standards and drastic action is needed.

Built on reclaimed land more than 35 years ago next to the Shing Mun River in Sha Tin, some of the stables have sunk one-and-a-half metres and the club is very concerned about the “asset health”, says Tony Kelly, the club’s executive director of racing business and operation.

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elly was hired last year with a specific brief – to deliver the Conghua facility which is already two years behind schedule because of “construction issues”, in particular a landslip.

“One of the bigger problems in Sha Tin is the underground utilities. We have settlement issues. Drains are collapsing under many of the stables and we can’t get to them in order to repair them.

“If we were to do these without the ability to decamp horses to another site we are talking about a serious reduction in the number of racehorses being able to participate in races in Hong Kong.”

Kelly cited three stable blocks in particular that are in poor condition, with one that will be lucky to see 2020.

“Our horse population has been stuck around 1,200 to 1,250 for many years. Linked together with the asset health of Sha Tin, the capability for us to increase our horse population is very limited. That means we can’t meet the owners demands. We have a waiting list of anywhere between three-and-ahalf and four-and-a-half years.”

“There are no prizes for rushing this project and getting it wrong.

“We are not in the business of getting it wrong and putting this project at risk.

Kelly said they were planning to have 200 horses at Conghua when the site opens in 2018, and ramp up the numbers to 300 in 2019 and 420 by 2020. That will allow them to reduce the numbers at Sha Tin, carry out major reconstruction work and maintain a solid horse population for 88 race meetings per season.

Sha Tin has 22 trainers, but only about eight will be chosen in the first year to run a dual operation (Sha Tin and Conghua), increasing to 12 in year two and 18 in year three.

Only trainers with a stable strength of 55 horses or above will be considered and they will be allowed 70 horses (up from 60 now), but will have to keep 25 in Conghua.

When finished the complex will have the capacity for 764 horses, but there is room to build more stables and house 1,200 horses.

And the big sweeping track is built for the future – staging one-off meetings and one day possibly, fully fledged race meetings.

“Having a site in mainland China gives us a position maybe for the future.

“At this stage of the game all this is a training centre. No one in the club talks about

Conghua training track dimensions compared with Sha Tin (m)

this as anything other than training centre,” Kelly said.

“We expect trainers to keep most of their horses who are ready to race in Sha Tin. As the numbers begin to build and confidence in the site builds, we expect more horses to be transporting back and forth between Sha Tin and Conghua.

“There has been an awful lot of work to make this happen. This is isn’t just a building site. We are doing something in China that hasn’t been done before.

A lot of grids need to be put in place to create an equine disease-free zone and a facility that mirrors Sha Tin so there is no difference in training horses.

“There are no prizes for rushing this project and getting it wrong,” Kelly said. “We are not in the business of getting it wrong and putting this project at risk.”

John Ridley, the director of racing operations, says the club has gone to great lengths to ensure the horses will be protected – from disease and humans and vehicles.

“The health status of horses in China in some cases is almost unknown,” he said.

“They do have a lot of diseases up here – influenza is quite a big one – so we need to ensure our horses are protected.”

There are no horses in the immediate radius of Conghua and those in the vicinity will all be blood tested and their health monitored.

“There is an airlock at the gate to ensure no animals get on to the site. There is a 2.6-metre high electrified fence [around the perimeter] with cameras to ensure we don’t have a problem with monkeys or anything else trying to get on site so it is fully protected,” Ridley said.

“Bio-security measures will be stepped up the closer you get to the horses on site with disinfectant mats and coats, wheel washes for cars. Frankly you are going into a quarantine site.

“Horses and vehicles have their own roads and tunnel systems. There is complete segregation. We all know horses and vehicles and people don’t mix.”

Turf track Sha Tin Conghua

Large all-weather Sha Tin Conghua

Home straight

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Back straight

497

447

410

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Home bend

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361

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101-138

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Acclamation Aclaim (Danroad) Attendu (Green Tune) Kassia (Stravinsky) Marsha (Marju) Mehmas (Machiavellian) Queen Catrine (King’s Best) Adlerflug Iquitos (Areion) Ito (Tiger Hill) Meergorl (Tertullian) Moonshiner (Monsun) Savoir Vivre (Monsun) Air Chief Marshal Mont Ormel (King’s Best) American Post Kourkan (Keos) Nahual (Chichicastenango) Quarterback (Surumu)

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Arakan Sruthan (Mark Of Esteem) Toormore (Danetime)

L 2

Arcano Erysimum (Alhaarth) Just Glamorous (Air Express) Kathy Dream (Be My Guest) Arch Rostova (Sadler’s Wells) Syphax (Kingmambo) Archipenko Algometer (Alzao) Time Warp (Stormy Atlantic) Va Bank (Dilshaan) Areion Arazza (Lomitas)

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Articus (Medicean) Devastar (Platini) Iraklion (Nebos) Palace Prince (Tiger Hill) Shy Witch (Monsagem) Wonnemond (Surako) Aussie Rules Game Theory (Tertullian) Ground Rules (El Prado) Quelindo (Fantastic Light) Sadalmelik (Medicean) Authorized Battalion (Halling) Elite Army (Platini) Azamour Best Of Days (High Chaparral) California (Machiavellian) Hawksmoor (Danehill Dancer) Minotaur (Inchinor) Thikriyaat (Whipper) Twitch (Marju)

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Bahamian Bounty Breton Rock (Rock Of Gibraltar) Donnerschlag (Diktat)

23 2

Beat Hollow Exosphere (Danehill) Fly With Me (Highest Honor) Wicklow Brave (Rainbow Quest)

2 3L 1

Brendan Brackan (Unfuwain)

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Born To Sea Sea Of Grace (Vettori)

3

Bushranger Mobsta (Okawango) My Man (Forzando) Now Or Never (Pivotal) Ridge Ranger (Indian Ridge) Ross Castle (Byron)

2L L 3 3L 3

Byron Gordon Lord Byron (Intikhab) Cacique Colomano (Zilzal)

Contat Schang (Tertullian)

3L

3

Dai Jin Girolamo (Surumu)

L

LL

Camacho My Catch (Barathea)

L

Campanologist Langtang (Oasis Dream)

3

Canford Cliffs Al Jazi (Cape Cross) Princess Asta (Unfuwain)

3 3L

Cape Cross Always Smile (Dubai Destination) L Awtaad (Shamardal) 12L Guignol (Monsun) 1 Mister Universe (Selkirk) L Montataire (Smart Strike) L Moonlight Magic (Lammtarra) 3 Captain Gerrard Alpha Delphini (Cozzene)

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Bernstein Tepin (Stravinsky)

1

Captain Rio Champagne Or Water (Dynaformer) Jane’s Memory (Averti)

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Big Bad Bob Bocca Baciata (Desert King)

2L

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2

Call Me Big Daring Match (Arazi)

Champs Elysees Dal Harraild (Grand Lodge) Shocking Blu (Almutawakel) Way To Paris (Cozzene)

Compton Place Easy Road (Pivotal)

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Clodovil Shining Emerald (Zafonic)

Congrats Polar River (Empire Maker)

Bernardini Le Bernardin (Wild Again)

Bertolini Coprah (Selkirk)

Choisir The Last Lion (Brief Truce) 13L Yulong Baobei (Bahamian Bounty) L

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Dalakhani Alakhana (Galileo) Ayrad (Sadler’s Wells) Candarliya (Barathea) Golden Valentine (Caerleon) Moonrise Landing (Anabaa) Pacific Angel (Sadler’s Wells)

L L 2 3L L L

Dandy Man Big Time Baby (Tobougg) L Rapacity Alexander (Great Commotion) L Danehill Dancer Qemah (Rainbow Quest) 113 Smuggler’s Moon (Dubai Destination) L Dansili Bess Of Hardwick (Rainbow Quest) Come Alive (Saint Ballado) Convey (Mr Prospector) Darabad (Selkirk) Discipline (Quest For Fame) Mahsoob (Montjeu) Muntahaa (Linamix) Platitude (Sadler’s Wells) Sarandia (Dashing Blade) So Beloved (Kenmare)

L L L L L 3 L L L L

Dark Angel Ardhoomey (Orpen) Birchwood (Exceed And Excel)

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stakes-winning sires Dame Du Roi (Authorized) Divine (Common Grounds) Easton Angel (Elnadim) Estidhkaar (Danetime) Gabrial (Mtoto) Harry Angel (Cadeaux Genereux) Log Out Island (Footstepsinthesand) Markaz (Atraf) Mecca’s Angel (Atraf) Melesina (Haafhd) Nations Alexander (Whipper) Persuasive (Choisir) Realtra (Dr Devious) Sovereign Debt (Most Welcome) Vona (Dansili)

3L 3 LL L L 2 L 3 12 3 3L 3L L L L

Deep Impact A Shin Hikari (Storm Cat) Akihiro (Anabaa) Makahiki (French Deputy) Real Steel (Storm Cat)

1 3 2 1

Delegator Delectation (Pivotal)

3

Deportivo Demora (Groom Dancer)

L

Desert Prince Sun Devil (Hurricane Run)

LL

Doctor Dino Palinodie (Kouroun)

L

Dragon Pulse Aethos (Acatenango) Legendary Lunch (Hansel)

3 L

Dream Ahead Al Wukair (Machiavellian) Basileus (Hussonet)

L LL

Dubai Destination Black Sea (Royal Applause)

L

Dubawi Amazona (Monsun) Ame Bleue (Danehill) Bateel (Chief’s Crown) Calare (Storm Cat) Coronet (Darshaan) Dartmouth (Galileo) D’bai (Green Desert) Diploma (Montjeu) Gm Hopkins (Lomitas) Intimation (Pivotal) Joailliere (Linamix) Journey (Montjeu) Laugh Aloud (Singspiel) Left Hand (Singspiel) Move Up (Soviet Star) New Bay (Zamindar) Nezwaah (Dansili) Pabouche (High Chaparral) Postponed (Dubai Destination) Powder Snow (Sadler’s Wells)

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Raseed (Fantastic Light) 3 Rose De Pierre (Danehill) L Safety Check (Royal Academy) 22 Shamreen (Bahri) 2 Sheikhzayedroad (Highest Honor) 2 2 3 Skiffle (King’s Best) L So Mi Dar (Singspiel) 3L Tanaza (Dalakhani) 3 Time Test (Dansili) 23 Wuheida (Singspiel) 1 Duke Of Marmalade Big Orange (Fasliyev) 22 Duchess Andorra (Cadeaux Genereux) 3 Duke Derby (Medaaly) L Pamona (Inchinor) L Responsibleforlove (Vettori) L Simple Verse (Sadler’s Wells) 2 Sound Of Freedom (Invincible Spirit) 1 Swinging Duke (In The Wings) L Dutch Art Arthenus (Efisio) L Besotted (Barathea) L Don’t Touch (Falbrav) L Dutch Connection (Dubai Destination) 2 Eternally (Pivotal) L Evil Spell (Fasliyev) L Flanders Flame (Redback) L Zonderland (Pivotal) 3L Dylan Thomas Arya Tara (Barathea) Caspian Prince (Rainbow Quest) Dylan Mouth (Noverre) Nightflower (Peintre Celebre)

L L 2 1

Dynaformer Forever Popular (Real Quiet)

L

Elnadim Arabda (Seeking The Gold)

L

Elusive City Carpathian (Tiger Hill) Love Spirit (Indian Ridge) Magnanime (Redoute’s Choice)

L L L

Elusive Quality Ambassadorial (Discreet Cat) Fitzgerald (Slew Gin Fizz)

L L

Elzaam Clem Fandango (Coronado’s Quest)

L

English Channel Foxtrot Charlie (Storm Cat) Our Channel (Rahy)

L L

Equiano Alicante Dawn (Rock Of Gibraltar) L Medicine Jack (Formidable) 2 The Tin Man (Bishop Of Cashel) 13L Evasive Mademoiselle Marie (Miesque’s Son)

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stakes-winning sires It was something of a breakthrough year for Fastnet Rock in 2016.

Intricately (red and yellow) became his first Group 1 two-year-old winner in the northern hemisphere when taking the Moyglare Stakes.

The filly’s success was followed up by Rivet, who took the Racing Post Trophy in October.

Exceed And Excel Belgian Bill (Singspiel) Championship (Halling) Cotai Glory (Elusive Quality) Hit The Bid (Selkirk) Marenko (Pivotal) Morawij (Piccolo) Priceless (Rudimentary) Red Box (Singspiel) Shanghai Glory (Hector Protector) Signora Queen (Street Cry) Windfast (Docksider) Yalta (Elusive Quality)

L L 3 3 3 L L L L L L 3

Excellent Art Aim To Please (Anabaa Blue) Dynamic Lips (Konigstiger)

3 L

Exchange Rate Rodaini (Pulpit)

L

Falco Falconet (Woodman)

L

Famous Name Escobar (Brief Truce)

L

Fast Company Devonshire (Trans Island) 2 Jet Setting (Johannesburg) 133 Red Onion (Holy Roman Emperor) L Simmie (Intikhab) L Val Nanda (Xaar) L Fastnet Rock Cougar Mountain (Nureyev) 2 Fascinating Rock (Polar Falcon) 1 Intricately (Galileo) 1 Laganore (Royal Applause) L One Foot In Heaven (Peintre Celebre) 2 2 3 L Reset In Blue (Indian Ridge) L Rivet (Galileo) 12 Somehow (Sadler’s Wells) 3L Tres Rock Glory (Monsun) L Zhukova (Galileo) 33L Footstepsinthesand Fourioso (King’s Best) Heshem (Stravinsky) Kaspersky (Grand Lodge) Larchmont Lad (King’s Best) Onenightidreamed (Pivotal) Pas De Soucis (Whipper) Frankel Fair Eva (Observatory) Frankuus (Linamix) Queen Kindly (Rahy) Toulifaut (Darshaan) Fuisse High Alpha (Daliapour) Galileo Alice Springs (Danehill Dancer) Apple Betty (Mozart) Beacon Rock (Danehill Dancer)

LL 2 23L 3 3 L 3 3L 2 3 L

111 L 3

Best In The World (Intikhab) 3 Black Sea (Lemon Drop Kid) L Bondi Beach (Danehill) 3L Capri (Anabaa) 2L Churchill (Storm Cat) 1123L Cuff (Danehill) L Decorated Knight (Storm Cat) 3L Found (Intikhab) 13 Highland Reel (Danehill) 1 Housesofparliament (Dixieland Band) 3 Idaho (Danehill) 2 Khaleesy (Invincible Spirit) L Launched (Darshaan) LL Maniaco (Anabaa) L Midterm (Oasis Dream) 3 Minding (Danehill Dancer) 11111 Mizzou (Darshaan) 3 Order Of St George (Gone West) 1 3 L Pretty Perfect (Danehill) 3L Promise To Be True (Danehill) 3 Rhododendron (Pivotal) 12 Sandro Botticelli (Dr Fong) L Sayana (Danehill) L Seventh Heaven (Johannesburg) 1 1 L Sir Isaac Newton (Danehill) 3L Sword Fighter (Grand Lodge) 2L The Gurkha (Danehill Dancer) 11 The Major General (Danehill) L Ulysses (Kingmambo) 3 US Army Ranger (Dalakhani) 3 Waldgeist (Monsun) 1 Gio Ponti Planchart (Green Desert)

L

Greys Inn Forries Waltz (Rich Man’s Gold)

2

Haafhd Fityaan (Selkirk) Hillbilly Boy (Desert King)

3 L

Harbour Watch Tis Marvellous (Oasis Dream)

2

Hard Spun Ghaamer (Seeking The Gold) Khusoosy (Galileo) Promising Run (Know Heights)

L 3 3

Harlan’s Holiday Pretty Girl (Candy Stripes)

L

Hat Trick Toliman (Chester House)

L

Hellvelyn Mrs Danvers (Kyllachy)

3L

Helmet Thunder Snow (Dubai Destination)

1

Hernando Altesse (Selkirk)

L

High Chaparral Nazbanou (Peintre Celebre) Western Hymn (Cape Cross)

L L

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stakes-winning sires Hold That Tiger Holdthasigreen (Muhtathir)

LL

Holy Roman Emperor Flying Fairies (Sadler’s Wells) Hoku (Cadeaux Genereux) Kadra (Dalakhani) Parvaneh (Kahyasi) Rich Legacy (Galileo) Rich Tapestry (Sadler’s Wells)

L L L 23 2 3

Hurricane Cat Hurricane (Hector Protector) Hurricane Run Hurricane Red (Trempolino) Iffraaj Latharnach (Danehill) Mehronissa (Beau Genius) Muffri’ha (Dansili) Nathra (Danehill) Ribchester (Marju) The Black Princess (Cape Cross) Tickle Me Blue (Groom Dancer)

L 3L L L 3L 3 13 L L

Intense Focus Intense Life (Machiavellian)

L

Intikhab Circus Couture (Orpen) Lily’s Rainbow (Indian Rocket)

3 L

Invincible Spirit Grendisar (Mark Of Esteem) 3L Mr Owen (Theatrical) L National Defense (Kingmambo) 1 Profitable (Indian Ridge) 123 Rivellino (Pivotal) L Shalaa (War Chant) 3 Signs Of Blessing (Seeking The Gold) 1 L Spirit Quartz (Rainbow Quest) LL Spirit Raiser (Classic Cliche) L It’s Gino Rosebay (Dr Fong) Jazil Sefri (Danzig)

L 3

Jeremy Queen Blossom (Mark Of Esteem) Success Days (Roi Gironde)

3 3

Kallisto Nepal (Soldier Hollow)

2

Kendargent Jimmy Two Times (Anabaa) Restiana (Montjeu) Xaarino (Xaar) Kheleyf Plusquemavie (Sri Pekan) King’s Best Best Fouad (Riverman) Ennaadd (Singspiel)

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Kings Fete (Singspiel) Sagaroi (Linamix)

33 L

Kitten’s Joy Bobby’s Kitten (Forestry) Hawkbill (Giant’s Causeway) Taareef (Carson City)

L 13L 23

Kodiac Apex King (Rainbow Quest) Ardad (Red Clubs) Best Solution (Kingmambo) Gifted Master (Shamardal) On Her Toes (Averti) Prince Of Lir (Whipper)

L 2L 3 3 L 2

Kodiak Kowboy Cool Cowboy (Grand Slam)

3

Kyllachy Ashadihan (Malibu Moon) 3 Kyllachy Queen (King Charlemagne) L Mujadil Lachy (Daggers Drawn) LL Twilight Son (Bin Ajwaad) 1 Lando Landym (Desert Prince)

L

Lawman Chartreuse (King’s Best) Dicton (Giant’s Causeway) Double Dream (High Chaparral) Harbour Law (Pivotal)

L 3L L 1

Layman Marypop (Muhtathir)

3L

Le Havre La Cressonniere (Galileo) Qatar Power (Aldebaran) Rymska (Lend A Hand) Sotteville (Verglas) Zghorta Dance (Anabaa) Le Vie Dei Colori Tullius (Kingmambo) Lemon Drop Kid Cannock Chase (Horse Chestnut) Linngari Garlingari (Poliglote) Literato Calantha (Galileo) Kambura (Kaldoun) Lope De Vega Belardo (Danehill) Candy Store (Noverre) Eskimo Point (Daylami) Fort Del Oro (Redback) Jemayel (Homme De Loi) Navarra King (Singspiel) She Is No Lady (Cape Cross) South Seas (Mizzen Mast)

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Steel Of Madrid (Royal Applause) The Right Man (Warning) Very Special (Danehill) Lord Of England Isfahan (Polar Falcon) Near England (Galileo) Penny Lane (Surumu) Lord Shanakill My Dream Boat (Choisir) Lucky Pulpit California Chrome (Not For Love)

L 3L 22 13 33L L 13 1

Makfi Djiguite (Vettori) Maimara (Hernando) Mate Story (Giant’s Causeway) Noor Al Hawa (Street Cry) Not Only Florina (Monsun)

L 3 3 33L L

Manduro Duca Di Mantova (Wolfhound) Duretto (Lando) Plein Air (Galileo) Red Stars (Galileo) Techno Queen (Priolo) Time To Choose (Orpen) Vazirabad (Linamix) Wanderina (Dashing Blade)

L 3 L L L L 1223 L

Mastercraftsman Carnachy (Tobougg) Dawn Of Hope (Sadler’s Wells) Even Song (Sadler’s Wells) Mambomiss (Kingmambo) Spring Master (Caerleon)

LL L 2 L 3

Mayson Global Applause (Royal Applause) Private Matter (Azamour) Rosie Briar (Kris)

L L L

3

Medaglia d’Oro Floodlight (A P Indy) Talismanic (Machiavellian)

3

Medecis Again Charlie (Kendor)

L

Medicean Alveena (Spinning World)

L

Milanais Damila (Marchand De Sable)

3

23 L L 1L LL L LL 1 3 L 3

L LL

Monsun Arab Spring (Darshaan) 3 Arles (Danehill) L Lopera (Anabaa) L Protectionist (Peintre Celebre) 12 The Juliet Rose (Dubai Destination) 2 3 L Vadamos (Peintre Celebre) 123 Montjeu Impressionist (Darshaan)

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Justice Belle (Woodman) Sky Kingdom (Starcraft) More Than Ready Boynton (Distorted Humor) Mokarris (Street Cry) More Aspen (Jade Hunter) Nemoralia (Came Home) Storm Belt (Thunder Gulch)

L 3 2 L L 3L L

Moss Vale Harlem Shake (Mujadil)

L

Mossman Buffering (Anabaa)

1

Motivator Banzari (Cape Cross) Pallasator (Ezzoud) Sky Hunter (Silver Hawk)

3L 3 L

Mount Nelson Berkshire (Dr Devious) L Boscaccio (Medicean) 2L Elbereth (Desert Prince) L Highlands Queen (Polish Precedent) 2 3 Maleficent Queen (Manila) L Mountain Bell (Mark Of Esteem) L Strawberry Martini (Lomitas) L Weltmacht (Sternkoenig) LL Mountain Cat Waneta (Running Stag)

L

Mr Vegas Cosmelli (Lomitas)

L

Mujahid Brex Drago (Barathea) Cleo Fan (Best Of The Bests) Penalty (Noverre)

L L L

My Risk Kontrastat (Linamix)

3

Myboycharlie Camprock (Sadler’s Wells) Cheikeljack (Giant’s Causeway) Landfall (Arch) Sweet Charity (Peintre Celebre)

3L 3 3 L

Nayef Al Wathna (Marju) Sussudio (Monsun)

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New Approach Beautiful Romance (Cape Cross) Elliptique (Kendor) Mount Logan (Distant View) Nearly Caught (Danehill) Potemkin (Big Shuffle)

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stakes-winning sires Norse Dancer Norse King (Barathea)

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Oasis Dream Growl (Storm Cat) Incahoots (Inchinor) Justineo (Montjeu) Muarrab (Wolfhound)

L L L 13

Oratorio Hawke (Sadler’s Wells)

L

Paco Boy Galileo Gold (Galileo) Rainbow Royal (Haafhd)

11 3L

Pastoral Pursuits Lightscameraction (Efisio) Spiritual Lady (Elusive City)

L L

Pivotal Alignement (Maria’s Mon) Brando (Silver Hawk) Lightning Spear (Royal Academy) Loving Things (Galileo) One Man Band (Cape Cross) Porthilly (Titus Livius) Rosental (Kingmambo) Satanicjim (Bering) Wings Of Desire (In The Wings)

L 3 2 3L 2 L L L 2

Poet’s Voice Mi Raccomando (Mtoto) Poeta Diletto (Selkirk) Poet’s Vanity (Thatching) Voice Of Love (Tale Of The Cat)

L 3 3 3L

Pounced Aury Touch (Touch Gold) Full Drago (Almutawakel)

L 2L

Pour Moi Diamonds Pour Moi (Fantastic Light) Freedom Beel (Rainbow Quest) Only Mine (Rock Of Gibraltar)

L L 3

Power Biz Power (Tobougg) Cristal Fizz (Galileo) Peace Envoy (Dansili) Pleaseletmewin (Indian Ridge)

L L 3L 3

Primo Valentino Clever Cookie (Ela-Mana-Mou)

2

Proclamation Frosty Berry (In The Wings)

L

Rail Link Chain Of Daisies (Kris) 3L Trip To Rhodos (Mark Of Esteem) L Wasir (Lomitas) 3 Rajsaman Brametot (Law Society) L Raven’s Pass Greg Pass (St Jovite)

33L

Ibn Malik (Storm Cat) Richard Pankhurst (Elmaamul) Secret Number (Alleged) Zayva (King’s Best)

L 2 L L

Rip Van Winkle Almorox (Mizzen Mast) Bravo Zolo (Bertolini) Creggs Pipes (Indian Ridge) Dick Whittington (Danehill) The Happy Prince (Oasis Dream)

L L L 3 3

Rock Of Gibraltar Jallota (Fraam) Justwantacontact (Grand Slam) Miss Infinity (High Chaparral) Ray (Rainbow Quest) Rock Of Romance (Indian Ridge) Wordless (Hernando)

3 L L L L 3L

Roderic O’Connor Haalick (Key Of Luck) Narnia Dawn (High Chaparral)

L L

Royal Applause Bridge Royal Game (Fasliyev) Nice Name (Zafeen)

L L

Saddex Bastille (Artan) Pas De Deux (Big Shuffle)

L 23

Sageburg Spain Burg (Anabaa Blue)

2L

Sakhee’s Secret Wick Powell (Cape Cross)

L

Santiago Fashion Queen (Chineur)

L

Scat Daddy Caravaggio (Holy Bull) Lady Aurelia (Forest Wildcat)

12L 12

Sea The Stars Across The Stars (Mark Of Esteem) 2 Almela (Darshaan) L Astronereus (Surako) 3 Cloth Of Stars (Kingmambo) 23 Crimean Tatar (Sadler’s Wells) L Endless Time (Fantastic Light) 2 Harzand (Xaar) 113 Lily Passion (Linamix) L Mekhtaal (Silver Hawk) 2 Mutakayyef (Pivotal) 2L Stellar Mass (Danehill) 3L Zelzal (Kingmambo) 13 Seeking The Gold Haatheq (Danzig)

L

Sehrezad Millowitsch (Fath)

3

Sepoy Baileys Showgirl (War Chant)

L

Kilmah (Act One)

3

Shamardal A Shin Erwin (Monsun) L Aljazzi (Danehill Dancer) L Alrahma (Oasis Dream) 3 Anamba (Redoute’s Choice) L Blossomtime (Cadeaux Genereux) L Blue Point (Royal Applause) 2 Dariyan (Selkirk) 1 Doha Dream (King’s Best) 2LL Gouache (Dynaformer) L Heuristique (Red Ransom) L Lord Of The Land (Vettori) L Lumiere (Tobougg) L Really Special (Monsun) L Royal Solitaire (Nashwan) 2LL Show Day (Maria’s Mon) L Speedy Boarding (Diktat) 112 Subway Dancer (Galileo) 3 Toscanini (Panoramic) 3L Tryster (Riverman) 13 Usherette (Maria’s Mon) 22 Wildpark (Mark Of Esteem) L Shantou Toe The Line (Charnwood Forest)

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Sholokhov Night Wish (Monsun)

3

Showcasing Conselice (Diktat) 3L Maximum Aurelius (Deputy Minister) L Moonlit Show (Lyphard) L Quiet Reflection (Haafhd) 1123 Tasleet (Cadeaux Genereux) 3 Silver Frost Silver Step (Danehill Dancer) Silverwave (River Mist)

3 12

Singspiel Take Cover (Magic Ring)

2L

Sir Percy Alyssa (Galileo) Cleonte (Beat Hollow) Madrileno (Zilzal) Quebee (Intikhab) Sir Prancealot Madam Dancealot (Danehill) Sir Dancealot (Danehill Dancer) Sixties Icon Czabo (Danehill Dancer) Epsom Icon (Bahamian Bounty)

L L L L 3 L L 3

Siyouni Finsbury Square (Dyhim Diamond) 3 3 Siyoushake (Giant’s Causeway) 33 Spectre (Dai Jin) 3 Trixia (Lahint) 3 Volta (Machiavellian) 2L

Slickly Apilobar (Take Risks)

L

Soave Cosachope (Indian Rocket)

3

Soldier Hollow Dschingis Secret (Platini) Serienholde (Highest Honor) Son Macia (Zinaad) Wai Key Star (Danehill) Well Spoken (Bertrando) Wilder Wein (Turtle Island)

3 1L 3 33 3 L

Soldier Of Fortune Amie Noire (Acatenango) Bokan (Desert Prince) Shutterbug (Polish Precedent)

L L L

Speightstown Hargeisa (Lomitas) Hathal (Royal Academy) Qurbaan (Zieten) Reynaldothewizard (Meadowlake)

3 3 L L

Starspangledbanner Home Of The Brave (Beat Hollow) Meliora (Noverre) Silver Rainbow (Linamix) Spangled (Pivotal)

3L L L 3

Stormy Atlantic Stormy Antarctic (Doyen) Stormy River Sans Equivoque (Malibu Moon) Storm River (Dernier Empereur) Tempete Nocturne (Desert Style)

3 23L L L

Strategic Prince Saent (Highest Honor)

2L

Street Cry Abingdon (Galileo) Pure Diamond (Platini) Tribal Beat (Mujahid)

LL L 3

Sunday Break Brownie (Mark Of Esteem) Cavale Doree (Enrique)

33L 3

Tagula Humphrey Bogart (Kahyasi) Limato (Singspiel)

L 11

Tamayuz Blond Me (Docksider) Ghaaly (Seeking The Gold) Making Light (Danehill)

2L L 3

Tapit Frosted (Deputy Minister) Lani (Sunday Silence)

2 2

Teofilo Adool (Storm Cat)

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stakes-winning sires Diplomat (Shaadi) Dubai Sand (Rock Of Gibraltar) Eziyra (Dubai Destination) Fireglow (King’s Best) Portage (Zamindar) Quest For More (Rainbow Quest) Scottish (Zieten) Special Fighter (Machiavellian) Team Talk (Seeking The Gold) Twilight Payment (Oasis Dream)

2 L 3 L L 12 3L 1 L L

Tot Ou Tard Star Victory (Kadrou)

L

Trade Fair Nameitwhatyoulike (Emarati)

L

Twirling Candy Viren’s Army (Oratorio)

L

Unbridled’s Song Market Rally (Mr Greeley)

3L 3L

War Front Bolting (A P Indy) Brave Anna (Sadler’s Wells) Guerre (Hennessy) Intelligence Cross (Unbridled’s Song) Long Island Sound (Pulpit) Roly Poly (Galileo) Royal Artillery (Dynaformer) War Decree (Street Cry) War Flag (Arch) War Pass Confrontation (Successful Appeal) Giftorm (Until Sundown)

L 13 LL 3 3 23 3 2 3

Do Re Mi Fa Sol (Singspiel)

L

Zafeen Five Fifteen (Linamix) Son Cesio (Dansili)

L 2

Zamindar Air Pilot (Dr Devious) Okana (Forest Wildcat) Our Last Summer (Dansili) Swiss Range (El Prado)

3 L L L

Tertullian Guiliani (Monsun)

3

Thewayyouare Thewayyouwish (Danetime) We Are Ninety (Sadler’s Wells)

Vale Of York Afandem (Teofilo)

L L

Verglas Let’sgoforit (Seattle Slew)

L

Whipper Settler’s Son (Darshaan) Waikika (Green Tune)

Thousand Words Opal Tiara (Fraam)

L

Vertigineux Becquamis (Septieme Ciel)

L

Wiener Walzer Skarino Gold (Lando)

Tiger Hill Fair Mountain (Silvano)

L

Vocalised Steip Amach (Noverre)

3

Windsor Knot Asidious Alexander (Cadeaux Genereux) L

Zoffany Dolce Strega (Oratorio) 3 Knife Edge (Monsun) 2 Light Up Our World (Fantastic Light) L Opinion Maker (Sternkoenig) L Ventura Storm (Haafhd) 13LL Washington DC (Shinko Forest) LL

Torrential Energia Davos (Maria’s Mon)

L

War Chant Time Chant (Tale Of The Cat)

3

Wootton Bassett Almanzor (Maria’s Mon)

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FIREBREAK

Bay 1999 15.3 h.h. by Charnwood Forest - Breakaway

Group 1 Champion Miler and Group 1 Sire

Timeform rated 125

His progeny have won over £1.6 million and include Gr.1 winning juveniles, Group winning 3yo sprinters, Group winning older milers and tough handicap sprinters

His best runners in 2016 include stakes placed winner You’re Fired and multiple winners Henry Smith (5 wins) and Breakable (3 wins including a £45,000 handicap at Chester)

Fee: £3,500 Oct 1st Special Live Foal Enquiries: Bearstone Stud, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 4HF Office: 01630 647197 • Mobile: 07974 948755 • Email: enquiries@bearstonestud.co.uk view our brochure at www.bearstonestud.co.uk

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Ajaya 2013 Invincible Spirit x Nessina (Hennessy) “AJAYA was a high-class two year-old blessed with bags of speed and a good temperament.

His performance in the Gimcrack was a top-class one, beating subsequent Group 1 winner, Ribchester, and he loved fast ground.

He is a thoroughly likeable colt who thrived on racing”.

William Haggas, Trainer • 2015 Timeform rating 117 in GB/IRE versus Gutaifan (117), Ribchester (115) in the same year

Impressive Group 2 Winning 2-Y-O

• From the family of BATED BREATH, CITYSCAPE and REDOUTE’S CHOICE

• 2nd Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin, 51/2 f. (to Gutaifan, beaten a head)

• By Leading Sire and Sire of Sires INVINCIBLE SPIRIT

• Winner of Gr.2 Gimcrack Stakes, 6f. (defeating Ribchester etc.)

• Placed Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes, 6f.

• Winner of Maiden over 51/2f. at York.

Kodi Bear 2012 Kodiac x Hawattef (Mujtahid)

“KODI BEAR was a pleasure to train and showed a lot of class right from the beginning. He was an exceptional winner of the Sovereign Stakes and confirmed that form when winning the Celebration Mile at Goodwood in tremendous style. His temperament and appetite for racing was first class and I am sure he will pass on these qualities to his offspring”.

High Class 2-Y-O & Impressive 3-Y-O Clive Cox, Trainer • 2015 Timeform rating 123 in GB/IRE versus Belardo (123), Custom Cut (122), Estidhkaar (121), Cable Bay (119), Breton Rock (118) in the same year • From the family of ESOTERIQUE and COOL CREEK and by Multiple Stakes Producing Sire KODIAC

• Winner of Gr.2 Celebration Mile, 8f. (defeating Cable Bay (IRE), Breton Rock (IRE), etc.).

• Winner of Gr.3 Sovereign Stakes, 8f. (defeating Custom Cut (IRE), etc.).

• Winner of L.R. Midsummer Stakes, 81/2f.

• Winner of L.R. Winkfield Stakes, 7f. (defeating Muhaarar (GB)).

• 2nd Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes, 7f. (to Belardo (IRE), defeating Estidhkaar (IRE)) • Placed Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat, 7f.

Rathbarry Stud, Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland • Tel +353 (0)25 36362 • rathbarr@iol.ie • www.rathbarrystud.com

INTRINSIC EAGLE TOP Bay 2010

by Oasis Dream – Infallible (Pivotal)

Chesnut 2010

by PIVOTAL – GULL WING (IN THE WINGS)

Tough and consistent sprinter, winner of ultra-competitive Stewards’ Cup.

Outstanding G1 performer and Royal Ascot winner.

NEW FOR 2017

PEDIGREE

PEDIGREE

Out of INFALLIBLE, winner of G2 Nell Gwyn S., 4th 1,000 Guineas and also 3nd in both Coronation Stakes G1 and Falmouth Stakes G1. Dam of MUTAKAYYEF (SEA THE STARS), winner and not out of the placings in all ten starts incl. 2nd Tercentenary S. G3, 2nd Darley S. G3 (twice), 2nd Strensall S. G3 etc.

Out of Gull Wing - rated 106 and three time winner including LR Further Flight stakes. Half-sister to dual Oaks G1 winner Sariska.

Dam of G2 Park Hill winner and 3rd Epsom Oaks G1 The Lark.

A Classic pedigree

By OASIS DREAM, one of the world’s leading sires of: MUHAARAR, SHOWCASING, POWER, APPROVE, GALE FORCE TEN, CAPTAIN GERRARD etc.

RACE RECORD WON WON WON WON

6f Maiden, Newcastle at 2 6f Handicap, Ascot from 18 runners 6f Handicap, Goodwood 6f Stewards’ Cup, Heritage Handicap, Goodwood from 24 runners

FEE 2017: £1,750 Oct 1st

By 6 time Champion Sire Pivotal, sire of sires including: Siyouni, Farhh, Kyllachy and G1 winners Sariska, Immortal Verse, Somnus, Regal Parade, Falco etc.

RACE RECORD (RPR 123) WON 11f Maiden, Newbury, first start WON 12f King Edward VII Stakes, G2 Royal Ascot (beating G1 winners Adelaide, Dylan Mouth etc.)

2nd 12f King George VI, G1 Ascot (btn nose to Postponed) 2nd 12f Hardwick Stakes, G2 Royal Ascot 3rd 11f Arc Trial, G3 Newbury 4th 12f King George VI, G1 Ascot FEE 2017: £3,000 Oct 1st

CONTACT

Andrew Spalding • T: 01325 730209 or M: 07990 518751 • E: andrew@hedgeholmestud.co.uk

Hedgeholme Stud, Winston, Darlington, Co. Durham DL2 3RS - www.hedgeholmestud.com

stakes-winning dam sires

The 2016 dam sires’ list

THE FINAL LIST OF DAM SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2015 Horses are listed under their broodmare sire with their sire in brackets.

Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE. Data from Hyperion Promotions

A P Indy Bolting (War Front) Floodlight (Medaglia d’Oro) Acatenango Aethos (Dragon Pulse) Amie Noire (Soldier Of Fortune) Act One Kilmah (Sepoy) Air Express Just Glamorous (Arcano) Aldebaran Qatar Power (Le Havre) Alhaarth Erysimum (Arcano) Sea Of Flames (Aqlaam) Ali-Royal Dee Dee D’or (Zebedee) Alleged Secret Number (Raven’s Pass) Almutawakel Full Drago (Pounced) Shocking Blu (Champs Elysees)

L L 3 L 3 3 L L L L L 2L L

Arch Landfall (Myboycharlie) War Flag (War Front) Areion Iquitos (Adlerflug) Artan Bastille (Saddex) Atraf Markaz (Dark Angel) Mecca’s Angel (Dark Angel) Authorized Dame Du Roi (Dark Angel) Averti Jane’s Memory (Captain Rio) On Her Toes (Kodiac) Azamour Private Matter (Mayson)

3 3 12 L 3 12 3L L L L

Bahamian Bounty Epsom Icon (Sixties Icon) Yulong Baobei (Choisir)

3 L

Bahri Shamreen (Dubawi)

2

Barathea Arya Tara (Dylan Thomas) Besotted (Dutch Art) Brex Drago (Mujahid) Candarliya (Dalakhani) My Catch (Camacho) Norse King (Norse Dancer)

L L L 2 L L

Alzao Algometer (Archipenko)

3L

Anabaa Akihiro (Deep Impact) Buffering (Mossman) Capri (Galileo) Jimmy Two Times (Kendargent) Lopera (Monsun) Maniaco (Galileo) Moonrise Landing (Dalakhani) Zghorta Dance (Le Havre)

3 1 2L 3L L L L 3

Anabaa Blue Aim To Please (Excellent Art) Spain Burg (Sageburg)

3 2L

Beau Genius Mehronissa (Iffraaj)

L

LL

Bering Satanicjim (Pivotal)

L

Arazi Daring Match (Call Me Big)

Be My Guest Kathy Dream (Arcano)

3L

Beat Hollow Cleonte (Sir Percy) L Home Of The Brave (Starspangledbanner) 3 L

Bertolini Bravo Zolo (Rip Van Winkle)

L

Bertrando Well Spoken (Soldier Hollow)

3

One Man Band (Pivotal) She Is No Lady (Lope De Vega) The Black Princess (Iffraaj) Western Hymn (High Chaparral) Wick Powell (Sakhee’s Secret)

Best Of The Bests Cleo Fan (Mujahid)

L

Carson City Taareef (Kitten’s Joy)

Big Shuffle Pas De Deux (Saddex) Potemkin (New Approach)

23 123

Bin Ajwaad Twilight Son (Kyllachy)

1

Bishop Of Cashel The Tin Man (Equiano)

13L

Brief Truce Escobar (Famous Name) The Last Lion (Choisir)

L 13L

Byron Ross Castle (Bushranger)

3

Cadeaux Genereux Asidious Alexander (Windsor Knot) L Blossomtime (Shamardal) L Duchess Andorra (Duke Of Marmalade) 3 Harry Angel (Dark Angel) 2 Hoku (Holy Roman Emperor) L Magical Memory (Zebedee) 23 Tasleet (Showcasing) 3

L

Chester House Toliman (Hat Trick)

L

Chichicastenango Nahual (American Post)

L

Chief’s Crown Bateel (Dubawi)

L

Chineur Fashion Queen (Santiago)

L

Choisir My Dream Boat (Lord Shanakill) Persuasive (Dark Angel)

L

Common Grounds Divine (Dark Angel)

3

Coronado’s Quest Clem Fandango (Elzaam)

L

Came Home Nemoralia (More Than Ready)

Cozzene Alpha Delphini (Captain Gerrard) Way To Paris (Champs Elysees)

3L

Daggers Drawn Mujadil Lachy (Kyllachy) Dai Jin Spectre (Siyouni)

Cape Cross Al Jazi (Canford Cliffs) 3 Banzari (Motivator) 3L Beautiful Romance (New Approach) 2

13 3L

Classic Cliche Spirit Raiser (Invincible Spirit)

3L 3

L

23

Charnwood Forest Toe The Line (Shantou)

Caerleon Golden Valentine (Dalakhani) Spring Master (Mastercraftsman)

Candy Stripes Pretty Girl (Harlan’s Holiday)

2 L L L L

Dalakhani Kadra (Holy Roman Emperor) Tanaza (Dubawi) US Army Ranger (Galileo)

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L LL LL 3 L 3 3

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stakes-winning dam sires Daliapour High Alpha (Fuisse)

L

Danehill Ame Bleue (Dubawi) Arles (Monsun) Belardo (Lope De Vega) Bondi Beach (Galileo) Cuff (Galileo) Dick Whittington (Rip Van Winkle) Exosphere (Beat Hollow) Highland Reel (Galileo) Idaho (Galileo) Latharnach (Iffraaj) Madam Dancealot (Sir Prancealot) Making Light (Tamayuz) Nathra (Iffraaj) Nearly Caught (New Approach) Pretty Perfect (Galileo) Promise To Be True (Galileo) Rose De Pierre (Dubawi) Sayana (Galileo) Sir Isaac Newton (Galileo) Stellar Mass (Sea The Stars) The Major General (Galileo) Very Special (Lope De Vega) Wai Key Star (Soldier Hollow) Danehill Dancer Alice Springs (Galileo) Aljazzi (Shamardal) Beacon Rock (Galileo) Czabo (Sixties Icon) Hawksmoor (Azamour) Minding (Galileo) Silver Step (Silver Frost) Sir Dancealot (Sir Prancealot) The Gurkha (Galileo)

L L 1L 3L L 3 2 1 2 L 3 3 3 2L 3L 3 L L 3L 3L L 22 33

111 L 3 L 2 11111 3 L 11

Danetime Estidhkaar (Dark Angel) Thewayyouwish (Thewayyouare) Toormore (Arakan)

L L 2

Toulifaut (Frankel)

3

Dashing Blade Sarandia (Dansili) Wanderina (Manduro)

L L

Daylami Eskimo Point (Lope De Vega) Deputy Minister Frosted (Tapit) Maximum Aurelius (Showcasing) Dernier Empereur Storm River (Stormy River) Desert King Bocca Baciata (Big Bad Bob) Hillbilly Boy (Haafhd) Desert Prince Bokan (Soldier Of Fortune) Elbereth (Mount Nelson) Landym (Lando) Desert Style Tempete Nocturne (Stormy River)

98

L L 3

Efisio Arthenus (Dutch Art) L Lightscameraction (Pastoral Pursuits) L

L

Formidable Medicine Jack (Equiano)

2

Forzando My Man (Bushranger)

L

Ela-Mana-Mou Clever Cookie (Primo Valentino)

2

French Deputy Makahiki (Deep Impact)

2

L

Elmaamul Richard Pankhurst (Raven’s Pass)

2

Galileo Abingdon (Street Cry) LL Alakhana (Dalakhani) L Alyssa (Sir Percy) L Calantha (Literato) L Cristal Fizz (Power) L Dartmouth (Dubawi) 233 Galileo Gold (Paco Boy) 11 Intricately (Fastnet Rock) 1 Khusoosy (Hard Spun) 3 La Cressonniere (Le Havre) 112L Loving Things (Pivotal) 3L Near England (Lord Of England) 3 3 L Plein Air (Manduro) L Red Stars (Manduro) L Rich Legacy (Holy Roman Emperor) 2 Rivet (Fastnet Rock) 12 Roly Poly (War Front) 23 Subway Dancer (Shamardal) 3 Zhukova (Fastnet Rock) 33L

L

2L L 3

Elnadim Easton Angel (Dark Angel)

LL

Elusive City Spiritual Lady (Pastoral Pursuits)

L

Elusive Quality Cotai Glory (Exceed And Excel) Yalta (Exceed And Excel)

3 3

Emarati Nameitwhatyoulike (Trade Fair)

L

Empire Maker Polar River (Congrats) Enrique Cavale Doree (Sunday Break)

3L 3

3

Giant’s Causeway Cheikeljack (Myboycharlie) Dicton (Lawman) Hawkbill (Kitten’s Joy) Mate Story (Makfi) Siyoushake (Siyouni)

3 3L 13L 3 33

Falbrav Don’t Touch (Dutch Art)

L

Gone West Order Of St George (Galileo)

13L

L 2 L L 3

Grand Lodge Dal Harraild (Champs Elysees) Kaspersky (Footstepsinthesand) Sword Fighter (Galileo)

L 23L 2L

Exceed And Excel Birchwood (Dark Angel)

L

Ezzoud Pallasator (Motivator)

Dr Devious Air Pilot (Zamindar) Berkshire (Mount Nelson) Realtra (Dark Angel)

3 L L

Dr Fong Rosebay (It’s Gino) Sandro Botticelli (Galileo)

L L

Fantastic Light Diamonds Pour Moi (Pour Moi) Endless Time (Sea The Stars) Light Up Our World (Zoffany) Quelindo (Aussie Rules) Raseed (Dubawi)

Dubai Destination Always Smile (Cape Cross) Dutch Connection (Dutch Art) Eziyra (Teofilo)

L 2 3

Fasliyev Big Orange (Duke Of Marmalade) 2 2 Bridge Royal Game (Royal Applause) L Evil Spell (Dutch Art) L

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Forestry Bobby’s Kitten (Kitten’s Joy)

L L L

3

Doyen Stormy Antarctic (Stormy Atlantic)

Dynaformer Champagne Or Water (Captain Rio) Gouache (Shamardal) Royal Artillery (War Front)

12 L

3 L

2

Docksider Blond Me (Tamayuz) Windfast (Exceed And Excel)

Forest Wildcat Lady Aurelia (Scat Daddy) Okana (Zamindar)

33

L

Fraam Jallota (Rock Of Gibraltar) Opal Tiara (Thousand Words)

Distorted Humor Boynton (More Than Ready)

3L L L 3L 2 23 L

Dyhim Diamond Finsbury Square (Siyouni)

3

L L

L

Distant View Mount Logan (New Approach)

Fath Millowitsch (Sehrezad) Footstepsinthesand Log Out Island (Dark Angel)

El Prado Ground Rules (Aussie Rules) Swiss Range (Zamindar)

Discreet Cat Ambassadorial (Elusive Quality)

Dansili Muffri’ha (Iffraaj) Nezwaah (Dubawi) Our Last Summer (Zamindar) Peace Envoy (Power) Son Cesio (Zafeen) Time Test (Dubawi) Vona (Dark Angel)

L 3 L L LL 3 L

2L L

3

Dixieland Band Housesofparliament (Galileo)

Darshaan Almela (Sea The Stars) Arab Spring (Monsun) Coronet (Dubawi) Impressionist (Montjeu) Launched (Galileo) Mizzou (Galileo) Settler’s Son (Whipper)

L

Dilshaan Va Bank (Archipenko)

2L

L 3

2 L

Diktat Conselice (Showcasing) 3L Donnerschlag (Bahamian Bounty) 2 Speedy Boarding (Shamardal) 112

Danroad Aclaim (Acclamation)

Danzig Haatheq (Seeking The Gold) Sefri (Jazil)

L

Postponed (Dubawi) 1112 Smuggler’s Moon (Danehill Dancer) L The Juliet Rose (Monsun) 23L Thunder Snow (Helmet) 1

Grand Slam Cool Cowboy (Kodiak Kowboy) 3 Justwantacontact (Rock Of Gibraltar) L Great Commotion Rapacity Alexander (Dandy Man)

L

stakes-winning dam sires Green Desert D’bai (Dubawi) Planchart (Gio Ponti)

L L

Green Tune Attendu (Acclamation) Waikika (Whipper)

3 1L

Groom Dancer Demora (Deportivo) Tickle Me Blue (Iffraaj)

L L

Haafhd Melesina (Dark Angel) Quiet Reflection (Showcasing) Rainbow Royal (Paco Boy) Ventura Storm (Zoffany)

3 1123 3L 13LL

Halling Battalion (Authorized) Championship (Exceed And Excel)

L L

Hansel Legendary Lunch (Dragon Pulse)

L

Hector Protector Hurricane (Hurricane Cat) Shanghai Glory (Exceed And Excel)

L L

Hennessy Guerre (War Front)

LL

Hernando Maimara (Makfi) Wordless (Rock Of Gibraltar)

3 3L

High Chaparral Best Of Days (Azamour) Double Dream (Lawman) Miss Infinity (Rock Of Gibraltar) Narnia Dawn (Roderic O’Connor) Pabouche (Dubawi)

2 L L L L

Highest Honor Fly With Me (Beat Hollow) Saent (Strategic Prince) Serienholde (Soldier Hollow) Sheikhzayedroad (Dubawi)

3L 2L 1L 223

Holy Bull Caravaggio (Scat Daddy)

12L

Holy Roman Emperor Red Onion (Fast Company)

L

Homme De Loi Jemayel (Lope De Vega)

1

Horse Chestnut Cannock Chase (Lemon Drop Kid)

3

Hurricane Run Sun Devil (Desert Prince) Hussonet Basileus (Dream Ahead) In The Wings Frosty Berry (Proclamation)

LL LL L

Swinging Duke (Duke Of Marmalade) L Wings Of Desire (Pivotal) 2 Inchinor Incahoots (Oasis Dream) Minotaur (Azamour) Pamona (Duke Of Marmalade)

L L L

Indian Ridge Creggs Pipes (Rip Van Winkle) L Love Spirit (Elusive City) L Pleaseletmewin (Power) 3 Profitable (Invincible Spirit) 123 Reset In Blue (Fastnet Rock) L Ridge Ranger (Bushranger) 3L Rock Of Romance (Rock Of Gibraltar) L Indian Rocket Cosachope (Soave) Lily’s Rainbow (Intikhab) Intikhab Best In The World (Galileo) Found (Galileo) Gordon Lord Byron (Byron) Quebee (Sir Percy) Simmie (Fast Company)

3 L 3 13 2 L L

Mambomiss (Mastercraftsman) National Defense (Invincible Spirit) Rosental (Pivotal) Syphax (Arch) Tullius (Le Vie Dei Colori) Ulysses (Galileo) Zelzal (Sea The Stars)

L 1 L 3 3 3 13

Gm Hopkins (Dubawi) Hargeisa (Speightstown) Strawberry Martini (Mount Nelson) Wasir (Rail Link)

L 3 L 3

Lyphard Moonlit Show (Showcasing)

L

King’s Best Chartreuse (Lawman) L Doha Dream (Shamardal) 2LL Fireglow (Teofilo) L Fourioso (Footstepsinthesand) LL Larchmont Lad (Footstepsinthesand) 3 Mont Ormel (Air Chief Marshal) 1L Queen Catrine (Acclamation) 3 Skiffle (Dubawi) L Zayva (Raven’s Pass) L

Machiavellian Al Wukair (Dream Ahead) California (Azamour) Intense Life (Intense Focus) Mehmas (Acclamation) Special Fighter (Teofilo) Talismanic (Medaglia d’Oro) Volta (Siyouni)

L 3 L 22 1 LL 2L

Magic Ring Take Cover (Singspiel)

2L

Know Heights Promising Run (Hard Spun)

3

Konigstiger Dynamic Lips (Excellent Art)

Malibu Moon Ashadihan (Kyllachy) Sans Equivoque (Stormy River)

L

Kouroun Palinodie (Doctor Dino)

L

Invincible Spirit Khaleesy (Galileo) L Sound Of Freedom (Duke Of Marmalade) 1

Kris Chain Of Daisies (Rail Link) Rosie Briar (Mayson)

3L L

Jade Hunter More Aspen (More Than Ready)

Kyllachy Mrs Danvers (Hellvelyn)

3L

Johannesburg Jet Setting (Fast Company) Seventh Heaven (Galileo) Kadrou Star Victory (Tot Ou Tard) Kahyasi Humphrey Bogart (Tagula) Parvaneh (Holy Roman Emperor)

L 133 11L L L 23

Kaldoun Kambura (Literato)

L

Kendor Again Charlie (Medecis) Elliptique (New Approach)

L 1

Kenmare So Beloved (Dansili)

L

Keos Kourkan (American Post)

L

Key Of Luck Haalick (Roderic O’Connor)

L

King Charlemagne Kyllachy Queen (Kyllachy)

L

Kingmambo Best Solution (Kodiac) Cloth Of Stars (Sea The Stars)

3 23

Lahint Trixia (Siyouni)

3

Lammtarra Moonlight Magic (Cape Cross)

3

Lando Duretto (Manduro) Skarino Gold (Wiener Walzer)

3 2

Law Society Brametot (Rajsaman)

L

Lemon Drop Kid Black Sea (Galileo)

L

Lend A Hand Rymska (Le Havre)

L

3 23L

Manila Maleficent Queen (Mount Nelson)

L

Marchand De Sable Damila (Milanais)

3

Maria’s Mon Alignement (Pivotal) Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) Energia Davos (Torrential) Show Day (Shamardal) Usherette (Shamardal)

L 11123 L L 22

Marju Al Wathna (Nayef) Marsha (Acclamation) Ribchester (Iffraaj) Twitch (Azamour)

2 1LL 13 L

Mark Of Esteem Across The Stars (Sea The Stars) Brownie (Sunday Break) Grendisar (Invincible Spirit) Mountain Bell (Mount Nelson) Queen Blossom (Jeremy) Sruthan (Arakan) Trip To Rhodos (Rail Link) Wildpark (Shamardal)

2 33L 3L L 3 L L L

Meadowlake Reynaldothewizard (Speightstown)

L

Linamix Five Fifteen (Zafeen) L Frankuus (Frankel) 3L Joailliere (Dubawi) L Kontrastat (My Risk) 3 Lily Passion (Sea The Stars) L Muntahaa (Dansili) L Sagaroi (King’s Best) L Silver Rainbow (Starspangledbanner) L Vazirabad (Manduro) 1223

Medaaly Duke Derby (Duke Of Marmalade)

L

Miesque’s Son Mademoiselle Marie (Evasive)

L

Lomitas Arazza (Areion) Cosmelli (Mr Vegas)

Mizzen Mast Almorox (Rip Van Winkle) South Seas (Lope De Vega)

L 3

L L

Medicean Articus (Areion) Boscaccio (Mount Nelson) Sadalmelik (Aussie Rules)

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3L 2L L

99

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stakes-winning dam sires Monsagem Shy Witch (Areion) Monsun A Shin Erwin (Shamardal) Amazona (Dubawi) Guignol (Cape Cross) Guiliani (Tertullian) Knife Edge (Zoffany) Moonshiner (Adlerflug) Night Wish (Sholokhov) Not Only Florina (Makfi) Really Special (Shamardal) Savoir Vivre (Adlerflug) Sussudio (Nayef) Tres Rock Glory (Fastnet Rock) Waldgeist (Galileo) Montjeu Diploma (Dubawi) Journey (Dubawi) Justineo (Oasis Dream) Mahsoob (Dansili) Restiana (Kendargent)

3 L 3L 1 3 2 3L 3 L L 2 LL L 1 L 13L L 3 L

Nureyev Cougar Mountain (Fastnet Rock)

2

Oasis Dream Alrahma (Shamardal) Langtang (Campanologist) Midterm (Galileo) The Happy Prince (Rip Van Winkle) Tis Marvellous (Harbour Watch) Twilight Payment (Teofilo)

3 3 3 3 2 L

Priolo Techno Queen (Manduro)

L

Pulpit Long Island Sound (War Front) Rodaini (Exchange Rate)

3 L

3

Quest For Fame Discipline (Dansili)

Observatory Fair Eva (Frankel) Okawango Mobsta (Bushranger)

2L

Oratorio Dolce Strega (Zoffany) Viren’s Army (Twirling Candy)

3 L

Orpen Ardhoomey (Dark Angel) Circus Couture (Intikhab) Time To Choose (Manduro)

2 3 L

Polish Precedent Highlands Queen (Mount Nelson) Shutterbug (Soldier Of Fortune)

Rudimentary Priceless (Exceed And Excel)

L

L

Rahy Our Channel (English Channel) Queen Kindly (Frankel)

Running Stag Waneta (Mountain Cat)

L

L 2

Rainbow Quest Apex King (Kodiac) Bess Of Hardwick (Dansili) Caspian Prince (Dylan Thomas) Freedom Beel (Pour Moi) Qemah (Danehill Dancer) Quest For More (Teofilo) Ray (Rock Of Gibraltar) Spirit Quartz (Invincible Spirit) Wicklow Brave (Beat Hollow)

L L L L 113 12 L LL 1

Sadler’s Wells Ayrad (Dalakhani) Brave Anna (War Front) Camprock (Myboycharlie) Crimean Tatar (Sea The Stars) Dawn Of Hope (Mastercraftsman) Even Song (Mastercraftsman) Flying Fairies (Holy Roman Emperor) Hawke (Oratorio) Pacific Angel (Dalakhani) Platitude (Dansili) Powder Snow (Dubawi) Rich Tapestry (Holy Roman Emperor) Rostova (Arch) Simple Verse (Duke Of Marmalade) Somehow (Fastnet Rock) We Are Ninety (Thewayyouare)

Mozart Apple Betty (Galileo)

Panoramic Toscanini (Shamardal)

L

Peintre Celebre Nazbanou (High Chaparral) L Nightflower (Dylan Thomas) 1 One Foot In Heaven (Fastnet Rock) 2 2 3 L Protectionist (Monsun) 12 Sweet Charity (Myboycharlie) L Vadamos (Monsun) 123

Real Quiet Forever Popular (Dynaformer)

Piccolo Morawij (Exceed And Excel)

Redback Flanders Flame (Dutch Art) Fort Del Oro (Lope De Vega)

Mr Prospector Convey (Dansili) Mtoto Gabrial (Dark Angel) Mi Raccomando (Poet’s Voice) Muhtathir Holdthasigreen (Hold That Tiger) Marypop (Layman) Mujadil Harlem Shake (Moss Vale) Sopran Verne (Approve) Mujahid Tribal Beat (Street Cry) Nashwan Royal Solitaire (Shamardal)

3L L L L LL 3L L L 3 2LL

Nebos Iraklion (Areion)

L

Not For Love California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit)

1

Noverre Candy Store (Lope De Vega) Dylan Mouth (Dylan Thomas) Meliora (Starspangledbanner) Penalty (Mujahid) Steip Amach (Vocalised)

LL 2 L L 3

L

Pivotal Delectation (Delegator) 3 Easy Road (Compton Place) LLLL Eternally (Dutch Art) L Harbour Law (Lawman) 1 Intimation (Dubawi) L Marenko (Exceed And Excel) 3 Mutakayyef (Sea The Stars) 2L Now Or Never (Bushranger) 3 Onenightidreamed (Footstepsinthesand) 3 Rhododendron (Galileo) 12 Rivellino (Invincible Spirit) L Spangled (Starspangledbanner) 3 Zonderland (Dutch Art) 3L Platini Devastar (Areion) Dschingis Secret (Soldier Hollow) Elite Army (Authorized) Pure Diamond (Street Cry)

3L 3 L L

Polar Falcon Fascinating Rock (Fastnet Rock) Isfahan (Lord Of England)

1 13

Poliglote Garlingari (Linngari)

23

22 L 2 L L L

L

Mr Greeley Market Rally (Unbridled’s Song)

Safety Check (Dubawi) Royal Applause Black Sea (Dubai Destination) Blue Point (Shamardal) Global Applause (Mayson) Laganore (Fastnet Rock) Steel Of Madrid (Lope De Vega)

Most Welcome Sovereign Debt (Dark Angel)

3L

23 L

Red Clubs Ardad (Kodiac) Red Ransom Heuristique (Shamardal)

L 2L

Saint Ballado Come Alive (Dansili)

L

L

Seattle Slew Let’sgoforit (Verglas)

L

L LL

Redoute’s Choice Anamba (Shamardal) Magnanime (Elusive City)

L L

Rich Man’s Gold Forries Waltz (Greys Inn)

2

River Mist Silverwave (Silver Frost)

12

Riverman Best Fouad (King’s Best) Tryster (Shamardal)

LLL 13

Rock Of Gibraltar Alicante Dawn (Equiano) Breton Rock (Bahamian Bounty) Dubai Sand (Teofilo) Only Mine (Pour Moi)

L 13 3L L L 2 L L L L 3L 3 L 2 3L L

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Tale Of The Cat Time Chant (War Chant) Voice Of Love (Poet’s Voice)

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NZB: setting the trends NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series continues to live up to its reputation for producing world-beating thoroughbreds with the past season’s success making a compelling case for why the youngsters on offer at the fast-approaching Karaka 2017 warrant a closer look.

Last season’s flurry of Group 1-winning New Zealand thoroughbreds is a potent reminder of the calibre of bloodstock to be found at Karaka.

Kiwi thoroughbreds won 25 per cent of the Group 1 races in Australia last season, yet they make up only 5.4 per cent of the racehorse population.

The Carnivals, the Cups, the Derbies, the Classics and the Miles all came under the influence of Kiwi-bred, further enhancing a reputation for delivering results in the races that count.

The primary source of these gutsy athletes is Karaka with 20 Group 1 races won by 15 individual Group 1-winning graduates of the National Yearling Sales Series last season.

Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor) led the charge at the Melbourne Spring Carnival with the Select Sale graduate and dual Derby winner taking the 2015 Group 1 Caulfield Cup.

His success was swiftly followed by victory for fellow Select Sale graduate Tarzino (NZ) (Tavistock), who swept to glory in the Group 1 Victoria Derby at Flemington.

NZB Ready to Run Sale graduate Turn Me Loose (NZ) (Iffraaj) won the Group 1 Emirates Stakes a week later.

Premier Sale graduate Prince Of Penzance (NZ) (Pentire) provided the ultimate flourish to the Carnival for NZB when he created history at Flemington with victory in the 2015 Melbourne Cup. In total, Karaka alumni took home prize-money of A$7,215,000

from the Melbourne Spring Carnival. With an average purchase price of NZ$91,875 these graduates won 20-times their combined purchase price from four Spring Carnival races alone.

But the Karaka juggernaut didn’t stop in the spring.

Sydney’s premier two-day Carnival, The Championships, staged in April saw New Zealandbred horses storming to four Group 1 wins for the third year running.

Horses from New Zealand have now won half of the Group 1 races at The Championships to date and Karaka graduates have won

new zealand bloodstock advertorial more Group 1 races at The Championships than horses sold by any other sales company.

Brave mare Lucia Valentina (NZ) (Savabeel) won the richest weight-for-age race in Australia, the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes, making it four wins from the last five for New Zealand thoroughbreds.

Another sporting the colours of JML Bloodstock, Select Sale graduate Sofia Rosa (NZ) (Makfi) made it a day to remember for owner Lib Petangna when she took the Group 1 Australian Oaks, making it three in a row for kiwi-bred fillies.

Tavago (NZ), another son of Tavistock, gave New Zealand its third Group 1 Australian Derby win in four years when he scorched to victory for trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young.

Highlighting the value to be found at Karaka, these three National Yearling Sales Series

graduates collectively won over A$4.5 million in prize-money at The Championships, yet their combined total price was only NZ$185,000.

In a display of staying prowess, New Zealand bred or sold thoroughbreds have won half of all Group 1 Derbies in Australia in the last six seasons, including eight of the last 10 Australian Derbies and seven of the last 11 Victoria Derbies.

It’s not just the Derbies in which NZ three-year-olds have excelled. In March, Tarzino backed up his Victoria Derby win with victory in the 2016 Group 1 Rosehill Guineas – of which New Zealand horses have now won seven of the last eight editions.

In fact, NZ bred or sold threeyear-olds have won 32 per cent of Australian three-year-old Group 1 races in the last six seasons This figure was bolstered at the Brisbane Carnival when Premier Sale graduate Provocative

Left, Lucia Valentina wins the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick, right, dual Hong Kong Sprint winner Aerovelocity, far right, the Emirates Stakes winner Turn Me Loose, and, below, Premier Sale graduate Sacred Elixir (Pour Moi)

(NZ) (Zabeel) put in a dominant display to win the Group 1 Queensland Oaks – the fifth win by a Kiwi-produced filly in the last seven runnings of the race.

Fellow Premier Sale graduate Sacred Elixir (NZ) (Pour Moi) also shone in Queensland, sweeping to victory in the Group 1 JJ Atkins Stakes with a compelling mile performance, while Select Sale graduate Music Magnate (NZ) (Written Tycoon) won the shorter Group 1 level Doomben 10,000.

In Asia, Premier Sale graduate Aerovelocity (NZ) (Pins) spearheaded another strong season. The sprinting sensation continued his form with a win in the Centenary Cup Sprint in January and a second Hong Kong Sprint success in December.

These victories were following on from the previous season’s Group 1 treble in the Hong Kong Sprint, Takamatsunomiya Kinen and Krisflyer International

Sprint. The son of Pins has now won NZ$5,757,769 – 48 times his purchase price of NZ$120,000.

In what was a phenomenal season for hot young sire Tavistock another of his sons Werther (NZ) was crowned Hong Kong Horse of the Year off the back of his Hong Kong Derby and Group 1 HKJC Queen Elizabeth II Cup wins.

Making it a Derby double in Asia for New Zealand-bred horses, Select Sale graduate Well Done (NZ) (Falkirk) won the Singapore Derby ahead of Debt Collector (NZ) (Thorn Park), also a Select Sale graduate, who has since gone on to win two legs of the Singapore Triple Crown.

Karaka 2017’s action-packed six days of selling commences at Karaka with the Premier Sale on January 30-31, the Select Sale on February 1-3, and the one-day Festival Sale on February 5.

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The journey to the Middle East reaped rewards for trainer Andreas Wöhler and his colt Noor Al Hawa, winner of December’s Qatar Derby

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n December, Noor Al Hawa, a son of Makfi and trained in Germany by Andreas Wöhler, won the Qatar Derby by 3l from the former Marco Bottitrained now Qatar-based Gerrard’s Quest (Captain Gerrard).

It was an admirable achievement – the horse travelling from the winter European climate to Qatar in December, while not the hottest season of the year in the Middle Eastern region still one with temperatures that would have caused some equine climatic reassessement.

Noor Al Hawa was travelling, though, at the top of his game having won three races on the bounce in France and Germany since August, upgrading from a Listed win at Deauville in August to collecting two Group 3s at Dusseldorf in September and October.

He has not yet finished out of the first three placings.

Although he is a colt who has won on good ground in Europe, he had never run in Germany or France on ground with any hint of “firm” listed in the going description. In

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fact, he had run four times on good to soft, winning twice and placing twice, including once in a Group 3, showing a slight preference to a surface with a little bit of give.

While the ground was listed as “good” in Doha, you can be pretty confident that it was the fastest ground the horse had ever encountered.

Although Noor Al Hawa has an FR suffix, he is from the 2013 third-last British-bred crop of Makfi (Dubawi), produced before the stallion transferred from Tweenhills to stand at Haras de Bonneval.

He was bred by Rabbah Bloodstock, which was listed as owner until September 2015.

He then transferred to long-term racehorse owner Jaber Abdullah’s registration before being sold ahead of December’s run in Qatar to Al Wasmiyah Farm.

He is out of Majestic Roi, a talented daughter of Street Cry, who was bred by Jaber.

Trained by Mick Channon, with whom Jaber has had a long association, she won her maiden on her second start and then

collected the Fred Darling Stakes (G3) third time out. She did not race again that year, debuting at three when second in the Prix de Sandringham (G2) before finishing down the field in the Coronation Stakes (G1).

Two more runs that summer left Majestic Roi without a win or place, but the filly redeemed her career when going to the top of the tree taking the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) from Cheveley Park’s Fillies’ Mile (G1) winner Nannina. Classic winner Speciosa, Matron Stakes (G1) winner Echelon, Falmouth Stakes (G1) winner Simply Perfect, future Group 2 winner Barshiba and the Group 1-placed two-year-olds Darrfonah and Wake Up Maggie were behind her that day – it was a Group 1 of the highest quality.

Unfortunately, unlike her son, travelling the world did not appear to suit Majestic Roi and after she only beat one in the Dubai Duty Free Stakes (G1) at Nad Al Sheba in March, she never really troubled the judge again in seven further starts in Britain.

She achieved a rating high of 116, and won three races all on good to firm ground – her

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Aleagueoftheirown Danehill Damcer-Golden Coral (Slew O’Gold)

Majestic Roi: with Richard Hughes, and, right, winning the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes from the Cheveley Park duo of Naninna and Echelon

influence in this regard possibly passing to her son.

Her first foal, Majestic Jasmine, a 2011 daughter of New Approach, was retained by Jaber and was initially trained in Ireland by John Oxx. She won four races – three in a row early into her three-year-old career, the last being a handicap, which she won off a mark of 89. She transferred to Germany and under Wöhler’s stewardship for her four-year-old year collecting a Listed race in June 2014 over 1m1f at Hanover.

She was sold by Haras du Hoguenet at the 2016 Arqana July Sale for €120,000, bought

by Hugo Merry carrying a first covering to Youmzain, Jaber’s 1m4f dual Group 1 winner and the Grade 1 sire of Sea Calisi.

Youmzain, a son of the also Jaber-owned Sinndar, is sire of Majestic Jasmine’s and Noor Al Hawah’s 2014 younger brother.

Named Majestic Lord, he was purchased by trainer Ed Dunlop at the October Yearling Sale Book 1 for 145,000gns. Unfortunately, it appears that the family talent pool has not

Two more runs that summer left Majestic Roi without a win or place, but the filly redeemed her career when going to the top of the tree taking the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) from Cheveley Park’s Fillies’ Mile (G1) winner Nannina

passed his way – he was re-consigned at the Tattersalls Ireland Ascot July Sale 2016 where he fetched just £1,800, sold by Godolphin.

Siblings Long Cross (a 2011 colt by Cape Cross) and Majestic Manner (a 2012 filly by Dubawi, and so a three-quarters relation to Noor Al Hawa) only ran three times each, but both won a race and achieved significant BHA ratings of 91 and 82.

Seemingly both must have suffered soundness issues resulting in such curtailed campaigns. Majestic Manner, still in Rabbah ownership, is due to Shamardal this spring.

Majestic Roi went on to produce a colt by Dansili in 2015. Consigned in at Tattersalls Book 1 October yearling sale last autumn, by Hillwood Bloodstock – regular vendors for Rabbah – he sold to John and Jake Warren for 100,000gns.

The bay colt has joined the “Sir Steve Redgrave” Highclere syndicate and goes into training with Sir Michael Stoute.

Last summer Majestic Roi produced a Sea The Moon filly and is currently in-foal to Iffraaj.

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EUROPE Prix des Reservoirs, G3, Deauville, October 19, 1600m 1 Melesina (IRE) 2 b f Dark Angel (IRE) - Lastroseofsummer (IRE) (Haafhd (GB)) 2 Turf Laurel (IRE) 2 ch f Footstepsinthesand (GB) - Dame d'Honneur (IRE) (Teofilo (IRE)) 3 Onthemoonagain (FR) 2 f Cape Cross (IRE) - Ma Preference (FR) (American Post (GB)) Age: 2; Starts: 8; Wins: 2; Places: 2 Earnings: £34,143 Sire: DARK ANGEL. Sire of 33 Stakes winners. In 2016 - MECCA'S ANGEL Atraf G1, ARDHOOMEY Orpen G2, HARRY ANGEL Cadeaux Genereux G2, DIVINE Common Grounds G3, MARKAZ Atraf G3, MELESINA Haafhd G3, NATIONS ALEXANDER Whipper G3, PERSUASIVE Choisir G3, BIRCHWOOD Exceed And Excel LR, DAME DU ROI Authorized LR, EASTON ANGEL Elnadim LR, GABRIAL Mtoto LR, LOG OUT ISLAND Footstepsinthesand LR, VONA Dansili LR. 1st Dam: LASTROSEOFSUMMER

by Haafhd. 5 wins. Dam of 2 winners: 2013: LASTMANLASTROUND (c Azamour) Winner at 3.

2014: MELESINA (f Dark Angel) Sold 22,000gns yearling at TAOC3.

2 wins at 2 at home, France, Prix des Reservoirs G3.

2015: (c Lope de Vega)

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Broodmare Sire: HAAFHD. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2016 - QUIET REFLECTION Showcasing G1, VENTURA STORM Zoffany G1, MELESINA Dark Angel G3, RAINBOW ROYAL Paco Boy G3.

Royal Applause Acclamation Princess Athena DARK ANGEL gr 2005 Machiavellian Midnight Angel Night At Sea MELESINA b f 2014 Alhaarth Haafhd Al Bahathri LASTROSEOFSUMMER ch 2006 Ela-Mana-Mou Broken Romance Busted Flush

Worthington's OCSL St Simon Stakes, G3, Newbury, October 22, 12f 1 Duretto (GB) 4 ch g Manduro (GER) - Landinium (ITY) (Lando (GER)) 2 Mountain Bell (GB) 3 b f Mount Nelson (GB) - Shenir (GB) (Mark of Esteem (IRE)) 3 Kings Fete (GB) 5 b g King's Best (USA) - Village Fete (GB) (Singspiel (IRE)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 14; Wins: 4; Places: 6 Earnings: £113,493 Sire: MANDURO. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2016 - VAZIRABAD Linamix G1, LEONIDAS DA SILVA Val de Grace G2, BARAO DA SERRA Ghadeer G3, DURETTO Lando G3, OLYMPIC FLUKE Theatrical G3, PLEIN AIR Galileo LR, RED STARS Galileo LR, TECHNO QUEEN Priolo LR, WANDERINA Dashing Blade LR. 1st Dam: LANDINIUM by Lando. 5 wins at 3, 5 and 6 in Italy, Premio Baggio LR, Premio EBF Terme di Merano LR, 3rd Premio Memorial Mario Incisa G3 (twice). Dam of 3 winners: 2007: Pure Impulse (f Lomitas) unraced.

2008: Astragal (f Shamardal).

Broodmare.

2009: HALLINGS COMET (g Halling) 4 wins.

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2011: Nabatean (g Rock of Gibraltar) 3 wins at 3 and 4, 2nd Stowe Family Law LLP Grand Cup LR. 2012: DURETTO (g Manduro) 4 wins at 2 to 4, Worthington's OCSL St Simon S G3, 2nd Crabbie's Chester S LR. 2014: Katabatika (f Shirocco) in training.

2015: Marble Faun (f Nathaniel) Broodmare Sire: LANDO. Sire of the dams of 22 Stakes winners. In 2016 - SKARINO GOLD Wiener Walzer G2, DURETTO Manduro G3.

Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella MANDURO b 2002 Be My Guest Mandellicht Mandelauge DURETTO ch g 2012 Acatenango Lando Laurea LANDINIUM b 99 Cagliostro Hollywood Girl Holly

Worthington's Horris Hill Stakes, G3, Newbury, October 22, 7f 1 Pleaseletmewin (IRE) 2 b g Power (GB) - Jacaranda Ridge (GB) (Indian Ridge) 2 Kings Gift (IRE) 2 ch c Casamento (IRE) - Jawaaneb (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 3 Law And Order (IRE) 2 b c Lawman (FR) - Catbells (IRE) (Rakti (GB)) Age: 2; Starts: 7; Wins: 3; Places: 3 Earnings: £51,346 Sire: POWER. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2016 - PEACE ENVOY Dansili G3, PLEASELETMEWIN Indian Ridge G3, BIZ POWER Tobougg LR, CRISTAL FIZZ Galileo LR. 1st Dam: JACARANDA RIDGE by Indian Ridge. Winner at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: LA PAMPITA (f Intikhab) Winner at 4 in Qatar.

2010: SILVER RIDGE (c Verglas) 4 wins.

2011: Hebridean Princess (f Rock of Gibraltar) ran twice.

2013: Charlie No (c Bushranger) in training.

2014: PLEASELETMEWIN (g Power) Sold 34,285gns yearling at DNSIL. 3 wins at 2, Worthington's Horris Hill S G3.

2015: (c Camacho) Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 95 Stakes winners. In 2016 - PROFITABLE Invincible Spirit G1, PLEASELETMEWIN Power G3, RIDGE RANGER Bushranger G3, BOLD COMMAND Arazan LR, CREGGS PIPES Rip Van Winkle LR, DAYIM BENIM Lion Heart LR, LOVE SPIRIT Elusive City LR, ROCK OF ROMANCE Rock of Gibraltar LR, STAR COUNCILLOR Arazan LR, TEMPO MAC Antonius Pius LR. Green Desert Oasis Dream Hope POWER b 2009 Inchinor Frappe Glatisant PLEASELETMEWIN b g 2014 Ahonoora Indian Ridge Hillbrow JACARANDA RIDGE ch 2004 Lion Cavern Celtic Fling Celtic Ring

Premio St Leger Italiano, G3, Milan, October 22, 2800m 1 Dschingis Secret (GER) 3 b c Soldier Hollow (GB) - Divya (GER) (Platini (GER)) 2 Troublemaker (ITY) 3 b c Vita Rosa (JPN) - Mooney Ridge (IRE) (Indian Ridge) 3 Berghain (IRE) 3 ch c Medicean (GB) - Basilea Gold (GER) (Monsun (GER)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 1; Places: 4 Earnings: £68,345 Sire: SOLDIER HOLLOW. Sire of 21 Stakes winners. In 2016 IVANHOWE Sternkoenig G1, SERIENHOLDE Highest Honor G1, DSCHINGIS SECRET Platini G3, WAI KEY STAR Danehill G3, WELL SPOKEN Bertrando G3, WILDER WEIN Turtle Island LR.

international database 1st Dam: DIVYA by Platini. 3 wins at 4 and 5 in Germany. Own sister to DEVA. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: DSCHINGIS SECRET (c Soldier Hollow) Sold 158,730gns yearling at BBAGS. 1 win at 3 in Germany, St Leger Italiano G3, 3rd Deutsches Derby G1, Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2, G.P. Hannoverschen Derby Trial LR. 2014: (f Soldier Hollow) 2015: (c Soldier Hollow)

HEAVEN Peintre Celebre G2, MISSROCK Strategic G3, RINGO Zabeel G3, SOMEHOW Sadler's Wells G3, ZHUKOVA Galileo G3, BEWHATYOUWANNABE Beautiful Crown LR, KAEPERNICK Stravinsky LR, LAGANORE Royal Applause LR, NINTH LEGION Xaar LR, ROCKOLICIOUS Woodman LR, SERENE MAJESTY Lonhro LR, TENERIFE SONG Rainbow Quest LR, TRES ROCK GLORY Monsun LR.

Broodmare Sire: PLATINI. Sire of the dams of 28 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DEVASTAR Areion G3, DSCHINGIS SECRET Soldier Hollow G3, ELITE ARMY Authorized LR, PURE DIAMOND Street Cry LR, KOFFI LADY Samum LR, STAFETTINO It's Gino LR.

1st Dam: STARSHIP by Galileo. 3 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of 6 winners: 2008: ALEXANDER POPE (c Danehill Dancer) 4 wins at 2, 3 and 6 at home, New Zealand, Airlie Stud Gallinule S G3, 3rd King Edward VII S G2.

2009: PICKLED PELICAN (g Dylan Thomas) 5 wins.

2010: MARTIAN (g Duke of Marmalade) 3 wins.

2011: BILIMBI (g Duke of Marmalade) 3 wins.

2012: Jamm (f Duke of Marmalade) unraced. Broodmare.

2013: OUT AND ABOUT (g Fastnet Rock) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2014: RIVET (c Fastnet Rock) 3 wins at 2, Racing Post Trophy G1, At the Races Champagne S G2.

2015: (c Declaration of War)

The Soldier Hollow/Platini cross has produced: DSCHINGIS SECRET G1, KOFFI ANGEL LR. Sadler's Wells In The Wings High Hawk SOLDIER HOLLOW b 2000 Common Grounds Island Race Lake Isle DSCHINGIS SECRET b c 2013 Surumu Platini Prairie Darling DIVYA b 2006 Rainbow Quest Diana's Quest Diana Dance

Racing Post Trophy, G1, Doncaster, October 22, 8f 1 Rivet (IRE) 2 b c Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Starship (IRE) (Galileo) 2 Yucatan (IRE) 2 b c Galileo (IRE) Six Perfections (FR) (Celtic Swing) 3 Salouen (IRE) 2 b c Canford Cliffs (IRE) - Gali Gal (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) Age: 2; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £210,481 Sire: FASTNET ROCK. Sire of 101 Stakes winners. In 2016 FASCINATING ROCK Polar Falcon G1, HEROIC VALOUR Nassipour G1, INTRICATELY Galileo G1, RIVET Galileo G1, AMICUS El Moxie G2, AWESOME ROCK Giant's Causeway G2, COUGAR MOUNTAIN Nureyev G2, FIRST SEAL Scenic G2, MONGOLIAN FALCON Galileo G2, ONE FOOT IN

Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 63 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GALILEO GOLD Paco Boy G1, INTRICATELY Fastnet Rock G1, LA CRESSONNIERE Le Havre G1, RIVET Fastnet Rock G1, DARTMOUTH Dubawi G2, MONGOLIAN FALCON Fastnet Rock G2, RICH LEGACY Holy Roman Emperor G2, ROLY POLY War Front G2, VANQUISH RUN Deep Impact G2, KHUSOOSY Hard Spun G3, LOVING THINGS Pivotal G3, NEAR ENGLAND Lord of England G3, SUBWAY DANCER Shamardal G3, ZHUKOVA Fastnet Rock G3, ABINGDON Street Cry LR, ALAKHANA Dalakhani LR, ALYSSA Sir Percy LR, CALANTHA Literato LR, CRISTAL FIZZ Power LR, DREAMTIME DANCER Danehill Dancer LR, PLEIN AIR Manduro LR, RED STARS Manduro LR, HARGAM Sinndar LR. The Fastnet Rock/Galileo cross has produced: INTRICATELY G1, MAGICOOL G1, QUALIFY G1,

RIVET G1, TURRET ROCKS G1, MONGOLIAN FALCON G2, ROCK HERO G2, ZHUKOVA G3, EAGLE ISLAND LR, Sailing By G2, Shogun G2, Perfect Dare G3, Land's End LR, Special Memories LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana FASTNET ROCK b 2001 Royal Academy Piccadilly Circus Gatana RIVET b c 2014 Sadler's Wells Galileo Urban Sea STARSHIP b 2003 General Assembly Council Rock Dancing Rocks

Prix de Flore, G3, Saint-Cloud, October 23, 2000m 1 Loving Things (GB) 4 b f Pivotal (GB) - Fallen In Love (GB) (Galileo) 2 Switching (USA) 3 b f Street Cry (IRE) - Wavering (IRE) (Refuse To Bend (IRE)) 3 Furia Cruzada (CHI) 5 b f Newfoundland (USA) - Nuestra Machi (CHI) (Hussonet (USA)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 8; Wins: 3; Places: 3 Earnings: £74,871 Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 132 Stakes winners. In 2016 - LIGHTNING SPEAR Royal Academy G2, ONE MAN BAND Cape Cross G2, WINGS OF DESIRE In The Wings G2, BRANDO Silver Hawk G3, LOVING THINGS Galileo G3, ALIGNEMENT Maria's Mon LR, PORTHILLY Titus Livius LR, ROSENTAL Kingmambo LR. 1st Dam: Fallen In Love by Galileo.

Winner at 2, 2nd Lancashire Oaks G2. Dam of 2 winners: 2011: LOVING HOME (c Shamardal) 4 wins.

2012: LOVING THINGS (f Pivotal) 3 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, Prix de Flore G3, Totepool Pontefract Castle S LR, 3rd Bet 365 Lancashire Oaks G2.

2016: (c Kingman) Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 64 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GALILEO GOLD Paco Boy G1, INTRICATELY Fastnet Rock G1,

LA CRESSONNIERE Le Havre G1, RIVET Fastnet Rock G1, DARTMOUTH Dubawi G2, MONGOLIAN FALCON Fastnet Rock G2, RICH LEGACY Holy Roman Emperor G2, ROLY POLY War Front G2, VANQUISH RUN Deep Impact G2, KHUSOOSY Hard Spun G3, LOVING THINGS Pivotal G3, NEAR ENGLAND Lord of England G3, SUBWAY DANCER Shamardal G3, ZHUKOVA Fastnet Rock G3, ABINGDON Street Cry LR, ALAKHANA Dalakhani LR, ALYSSA Sir Percy LR, CALANTHA Literato LR, CRISTAL FIZZ Power LR, DREAMTIME DANCER Danehill Dancer LR, HALL OF FAME Savabeel LR, PLEIN AIR Manduro LR, RED STARS Manduro LR, HARGAM Sinndar LR. Nureyev Polar Falcon Marie d'Argonne PIVOTAL ch 93 Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida LOVING THINGS b f 2012 Sadler's Wells Galileo Urban Sea FALLEN IN LOVE b 2006 Brief Truce Fallen Star Rise And Fall

Prix Royal-Oak, G1, SaintCloud, October 23, 3000m 1 Vazirabad (FR) 4 b g Manduro (GER) - Visorama (IRE) (Linamix) 2 Endless Time (IRE) 4 b f Sea The Stars (IRE) - Mamonta (GB) (Fantastic Light (USA)) 3 Siljan's Saga (FR) 6 bl f Sagamix (FR) - Humoriste (FR) (Saint Cyrien) Age: 3-4; Starts: 13; Wins: 9; Places: 2 Earnings: £986,011 Sire: MANDURO. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2016 - VAZIRABAD Linamix G1, LEONIDAS DA SILVA Val de Grace G2, BARAO DA SERRA Ghadeer G3, DURETTO Lando G3, OLYMPIC FLUKE Theatrical G3, PLEIN AIR Galileo LR, RED STARS Galileo LR, TECHNO QUEEN Priolo LR, WANDERINA Dashing Blade LR. 1st Dam: VISORAMA by Linamix. 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Flore

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international database G3, 2nd Prix Corrida G2, 3rd Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1. Own sister to VISIONARY and Visionnaire.

Dam of 7 winners: 2006: VIDIYNA (f Danehill Dancer) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2007: VIZIYYA (f Sinndar) 2 wins at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2008: VIDAYAR (c Shamardal) 2 wins at 4 in France.

2009: VIZINGA (f Marju) 2 wins at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2010: VISOMIYA (f Rock of Gibraltar) Winner at 3 in France.

Broodmare.

2011: VISORIYNA (f Dansili) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix La Sorellina LR, 3rd Prix Perth G3, Prix de Lieurey G3.

2012: VAZIRABAD (g Manduro). 9 wins at 3 and 4 in France, UAE, Prix Royal-Oak G1 (twice), Prix Chaudenay G2, Prix Vicomtesse Vigier G2, Dubai Gold Cup G2, Prix de Lutece G3, Prix Gladiateur G3, 2nd Qatar Prix du Cadran G1.

Broodmare Sire: LINAMIX. Sire of the dams of 100 Stakes winners. In 2016 - ECTOT Hurricane Run G1, VAZIRABAD Manduro G1, FRANKUUS Frankel G3, KONTRASTAT My Risk G3, AZAZEL Snitzel LR, FIVE FIFTEEN Zafeen LR, GABELLA Archange d'Or LR, MUNTAHAA Dansili LR, SAGAROI King's Best LR, SILVER RAINBOW Starspangledbanner LR, GWAFA Tamayuz LR, ZIGA BOY Califet LR. Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella MANDURO b 2002 Be My Guest Mandellicht Mandelauge VAZIRABAD b g 2012 Mendez Linamix Lunadix VISORAMA gr 2000 Mr Prospector Visor Look

Premio Ribot Memorial Loreto Luciani, G3, Rome, October 23, 1600m 1 Greg Pass (IRE) 4 b c Raven's Pass (USA) - Baranja (USA) (St Jovite (USA)) 2 Basileus (IRE) 3 ch c Dream Ahead (USA) - Miss Mariduff (USA) (Hussonet (USA))

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3 Clockwinder (IRE) 4 b c Intikhab (USA) - Ars Nova (IRE) (Barathea (IRE)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 14; Wins: 7; Places: 3 Earnings: £110,643 Sire: RAVEN'S PASS. Sire of 15 Stakes winners. In 2016 - RICHARD PANKHURST Elmaamul G2, GREG PASS St Jovite G3, IBN MALIK Storm Cat LR, SECRET NUMBER Alleged LR, ZAYVA King's Best LR. 1st Dam: Baranja by St Jovite. 3 wins at 2 in Italy, 2nd Premio Alberto Zanoletti di Rozzano LR, 3rd Premio Regina Elena (1000 Guineas) G2. Dam of 6 winners: 2003: BIG BEA (f In The Wings) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy.

2005: BULLOC (c Desert Prince) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy.

2007: Big Creek (c Galileo) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, 2nd Premio Emanuele Filiberto LR, Premio Gardone LR. 2008: Billy Budd (c Shamardal) 6 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, 2nd Premio Signorino Mem. A Lancellotti LR, Premio UNIRE LR, 3rd Gran Criterium - C. Int G1.

2009: BABARAN (c Barathea) 9 wins at 4 and 5 in Greece, Italy.

2012: GREG PASS (c Raven's Pass) 7 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, Premio Del Giubileo G3, Premio Ribot Memorial Loreto Luciani G3, Premio Bereguardo LR, Premio Emanuele Filiberto LR, 2nd Premio Carlo Vittadini G3, 3rd Premio Ambrosiano G3.

2014: Barankla (f Rip Van Winkle) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: ST JOVITE. Sire of the dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GREG PASS Raven's Pass G3.

Gone West Elusive Quality Touch of Greatness RAVEN'S PASS ch 2005 Lord At War Ascutney Right Word GREG PASS b c 2012 Pleasant Colony St Jovite Northern Sunset BARANJA b/br 98 Lyphard's Wish Blaine Shore

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Premio Lydia Tesio, G1, Rome, October 23, 2000m

OF FREEDOM Duke of Marmalade G1, KHALEESY Galileo LR.

1 Sound of Freedom (IRE) 4 ch f Duke of Marmalade (IRE) - Paint In Green (IRE) (Invincible Spirit (IRE)) 2 Zghorta Dance (FR) 3 ch f Le Havre (IRE) - Ana Zghorta (GB) (Anabaa (USA)) 3 Laganore (IRE) 4 b f Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Lady Bones (IRE) (Royal Applause (GB))

The Duke of Marmalade/Invincible Spirit cross has produced: SOUND OF FREEDOM G1, COLLATERAL RISK LR.

Age: 2-4; Starts: 14; Wins: 5; Places: 5 Earnings: £336,954 Sire: DUKE OF MARMALADE. Sire of 32 Stakes winners. In 2016 SOUND OF FREEDOM Invincible Spirit G1, BIG ORANGE Fasliyev G2, SIMPLE VERSE Sadler's Wells G2, CAN'THELPBELIEVING Soviet Star G3, DIAMOND MADE Show A Heart G3, DUCHESS ANDORRA Cadeaux Genereux G3, DUKE DERBY Medaaly LR, PAMONA Inchinor LR, RESPONSIBLEFORLOVE Vettori LR, SWINGING DUKE In The Wings LR, SUPERB STORY Anabaa LR. 1st Dam: Paint In Green by Invincible Spirit. 7 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, 3rd Premio EBF Terme di Merano LR, Premio FIA European Breeders Fund LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2010: DRIVE TO HELL (c Manduro) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, P. Marchese Giuseppe Ippolito Fassati LR. 2011: COLLATERAL RISK (c Duke of Marmalade) 5 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy, Premio Gardone LR. 2012: SOUND OF FREEDOM (f Duke of Marmalade) Sold 42,586gns yearling at SGSEP. 5 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, Premio Lydia Tesio G1, P.Regina Elena Tris Straordin-1000 Gns G3, Premio Seregno LR, 2nd Premio Lydia Tesio G1, Derby Italiano G2, Premio Archidamia LR, 3rd Premio Verziere - Memorial Aldo Cirla G3.

2014: Into The Lane (f Excelebration) 2015: (f Nathaniel) 2016: (c Rip Van Winkle) Broodmare Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2016 - SOUND

Danzig Danehill Razyana DUKE OF MARMALADE b 2004 Kingmambo Love Me True Lassie's Lady SOUND OF FREEDOM ch f 2012 Green Desert Invincible Spirit Rafha PAINT IN GREEN b 2004 Generous Theory of Law Lettre de Cachet

Killavullan Stakes, G3, Leopardstown, October 23, 7f 1 Making Light (IRE) 2 b f Tamayuz (GB) - Instant Sparkle (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Spirit of Valor (USA) 2 b c War Front (USA) - Stone Hope (USA) (Grindstone (USA)) 3 Taj Mahal (IRE) 2 b c Galileo (IRE) - You'resothrilling (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £32,966 Sire: TAMAYUZ. Sire of 14 Stakes winners. In 2016 - BLOND ME Docksider G2, MAKING LIGHT Danehill G3, GHAALY Seeking The Gold LR, GWAFA Linamix LR. 1st Dam: INSTANT SPARKLE by Danehill. Winner at 3. Own sister to IRRESISTIBLE JEWEL. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: INSTANT UPDATE (g Pivotal) Winner at 4 in Qatar.

2013: Smokey Quartz (f Dark Angel) in training.

2014: MAKING LIGHT (f Tamayuz) 2 wins at 2, Killavullan S G3.

2015: (f Dream Ahead) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 338 Stakes winners. In 2016 - BELARDO Lope de Vega G1, DEAUVILLE Galileo G1, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G1, PRIZED ICON More Than Ready G1, TURN ME LOOSE Iffraaj G1, ENAAD High Chaparral G2,

international database EXOSPHERE Beat Hollow G2, FAATINAH Nicconi G2, IDAHO Galileo G2, NEARLY CAUGHT New Approach G2, SOLICIT Street Cry G2, VERY SPECIAL Lope de Vega G2, BONDI BEACH Galileo G3, DANISH DYNAFORMER Dynaformer G3, DICK WHITTINGTON Rip Van Winkle G3, MADAM DANCEALOT Sir Prancealot G3, MAKING LIGHT Tamayuz G3, NATHRA Iffraaj G3, PRETTY PERFECT Galileo G3, PROMISE TO BE TRUE Galileo G3, SIR ISAAC NEWTON Galileo G3, STELLAR MASS Sea The Stars G3, WAI KEY STAR Soldier Hollow G3, AME BLEUE Dubawi LR, APACHE Ad Valorem LR, ARLES Monsun LR, CHEVAUCHEE High Chaparral LR, CRACK ME UP Mossman LR, CUFF Galileo LR, DUCCIO More Than Ready LR, LATHARNACH Iffraaj LR, LONGCHAMP Tavistock LR, MAURUS Medicean LR, MULTIVICTORY Bachelor Duke LR, MY COUNTRY Poet's Voice LR, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace LR, PURELY ATOMIC Encosta de Lago LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, ROSE DE PIERRE Dubawi LR, SAYANA Galileo LR, THE MAJOR GENERAL Galileo LR, ULMANN Sebring LR, HASSLE Montjeu LR, ROCHES CROSS Whipper LR, ZABANA Halling LR. Nayef

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Height of Fashion TAMAYUZ ch 2005 Nureyev Al Ishq Allez Les Trois MAKING LIGHT b f 2014 Danzig Danehill Razyana INSTANT SPARKLE b 2004 Sadler's Wells In Anticipation Aptostar

Ittlingen Preis der Winterkonigin, G3, BadenBaden, October 23, 1600m 1 Well Spoken (GER) 2 b f Soldier Hollow (GB) - Well American (USA) (Bertrando (USA)) 2 Pemina (GER) 2 b f Soldier Hollow (GB) - Princess Lala (GER) (Royal Dragon (USA)) 3 Arazza (GER) 2 b f Areion (GER) Aloe (GER) (Lomitas (GB))

Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 1; Places: 1 Earnings: £3,456

3 Star Victory (FR) 5 b c Tot Ou Tard (IRE) - Tadrou (FR) (Kadrou)

3 Sadalmelik (ITY) 3 f Aussie Rules (USA) - Lanka (GB) (Medicean)

Sire: SOLDIER HOLLOW. Sire of 21 Stakes winners. In 2016 IVANHOWE Sternkoenig G1, SERIENHOLDE Highest Honor G1, DSCHINGIS SECRET Platini G3, WAI KEY STAR Danehill G3, WELL SPOKEN Bertrando G3, WILDER WEIN Turtle Island LR.

Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 3; Places: 3 Earnings: £170,694

Age: 2-3; Starts: 9; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £20,918

Sire: AREION. Sire of 31 Stakes winners. In 2016 - ARTICUS Medicean G3, DEVASTAR Platini G3, PALACE PRINCE Tiger Hill G3, SHY WITCH Monsagem G3, ARAZZA Lomitas LR.

Sire: CANFORD CLIFFS. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2016 - AL JAZI Cape Cross G3, PRINCESS ASTA Unfuwain G3, CLIFFS OF DOVER Galileo LR.

1st Dam: Well American by Bertrando. Dam of 6 winners: 2008: WELLISTO (c Kallisto) 4 wins at 3 and 6 in France, Germany, Spain.

2009: WELLKANTO (c Kallisto) 5 wins at 3 to 5 in Germany.

2010: WINDSOR (c Soldier Hollow) 3 wins at 3 in Germany.

2011: WELTKLASSE (f Kallisto) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2012: WELL KEPT (c Kallisto) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2013: Waramin (f Kamsin) 2014: WELL SPOKEN (f Soldier Hollow) 1 win at 2 in Germany, Ittlingen Preis der Winterkonigin G3.

2015: Wellenreiter (c Reliable Man) 2016: Well Care (f Campanologist) Broodmare Sire: BERTRANDO. Sire of the dams of 17 Stakes winners. In 2016 - MIDNIGHT STORM Pioneerof the Nile G1, WELL SPOKEN Soldier Hollow G3.

1st Dam: PALACE PRINCESS by Tiger Hill. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany. Dam of 3 winners: 2010: PALACE SECRET (f Big Shuffle) Winner in Germany.

Broodmare.

2012: PALACE PRINCE (c Areion) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Germany, Grosser Preis der Sparkasse Krefeld G3, Baden Wurttemberg Trophy - Defi du Galop G3, Prix Ridgway LR, Cagliostro Zweijahrigen Trophy LR, 2nd IDEE Deutsches Derby G1.

2013: PALACE KING (c Tertullian) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2015: Princess Zoe (f Jukebox Jury) 2016: (f Areion) Broodmare Sire: TIGER HILL. Sire of the dams of 18 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - ITO Adlerflug G2, ALMANDIN Monsun G3, PALACE PRINCE Areion G3, CARPATHIAN Elusive City LR, SOLWAY Califet LR.

Sadler's Wells In The Wings High Hawk SOLDIER HOLLOW b 2000 Common Grounds Island Race Lake Isle WELL SPOKEN b f 2014 Skywalker Bertrando Gentle Hands WELL AMERICAN b 2003 Lagunas Welluna Well Proved

Super Concorde Big Shuffle Raise Your Skirts AREION b 95 Caerleon Aerleona Alata PALACE PRINCE b c 2012 Danehill Tiger Hill The Filly PALACE PRINCESS b 2004 Lagunas Pasca Palmas

Baden Wurttemberg Trophy Defi du Galop, G3, BadenBaden, October 23, 2000m

Premio Chiusura, G3, Milan, October 29, 1400m

1 Palace Prince (GER) 4 b c Areion (GER) - Palace Princess (GER) (Tiger Hill (IRE)) 2 Devastar (GER) 4 b c Areion (GER) - Deva (GER) (Platini (GER))

1 Princess Asta (FR) 3 f Canford Cliffs (IRE) - Lune Rouge (IRE) (Unfuwain (USA)) 2 Dream Mover (IRE) 3 ch c Dream Ahead (USA) - Maramba (USA) (Hussonet (USA))

1st Dam: LUNE ROUGE by Unfuwain. Winner at 3 in France.

Dam of 3 winners: 2001: ASK FOR THE MOON (f Dr Fong) 5 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Saint-Alary G1. Dam of ASTROLOGY (c Galileo: 2 wins at 2 and 3, Dee S G3, 3rd Investec Derby S G1), SANDRO BOTTICELLI (g Galileo: 3 wins at 3 and 4, Coral Marathon Esher S LR, 2nd John Porter S G3). Grandam of Surbett (c Rock of Gibraltar: Winner at 2, 3rd Criterium Nazionale LR) 2002: A Sinda (f Sinndar).

Broodmare.

2003: Zwanze (g Mark of Esteem) unraced.

2004: MISSION APOLLO (g Lomitas) Winner at 3 in France.

2008: Lamanass (g Dalakhani) unraced.

2009: Itasca (f Dylan Thomas) ran on the flat in France. Broodmare.

2010: Linda (f Tamayuz).

Broodmare.

2013: PRINCESS ASTA (f Canford Cliffs) Sold 45,238gns yearling at AROCT. 2 wins at 3 in Germany, Premio Chiusura G3, Honda Bayerischer Fliegerpreis LR. 2015: (f Kendargent) Broodmare Sire: UNFUWAIN. Sire of the dams of 46 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - PRINCESS ASTA Canford Cliffs G3, BRENDAN BRACKAN Big Bad Bob LR. Tagula

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Twin Island CANFORD CLIFFS b 2007 Marju Mrs Marsh Drei PRINCESS ASTA f 2013 Northern Dancer Unfuwain Height of Fashion LUNE ROUGE b 96 Cure The Blues Luvia Lucaya

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Pivotal

Polar Falcon

1 Siyoushake (IRE) 4 b f Siyouni (FR) - Shakeyourbody (USA) (Giant's Causeway (USA)) 2 Crazy Horse (GB) 3 b c Sleeping Indian (GB) - Mainstay (GB) (Elmaamul (USA)) 3 Kourkan (FR) 3 b c American Post (GB) - Kourka (FR) (Keos (USA))

Fearless Revival SIYOUNI b 2007 Danehill Sichilla Slipstream Queen SIYOUSHAKE b f 2012 Storm Cat Giant's Causeway Mariah's Storm SHAKEYOURBODY b 2006 Gone West Takesmybreathaway Oscillate

Age: 2-4; Starts: 16; Wins: 4; Places: 8 Earnings: £141,954

Criterium de Saint-Cloud, G1, Saint-Cloud, October 30, 2000m

Sire: SIYOUNI. Sire of 10 Stakes winners. In 2016 - VOLTA Machiavellian G2, FINSBURY SQUARE Dyhim Diamond G3, SIYOUSHAKE Giant's Causeway G3, SPECTRE Dai Jin G3, TRIXIA Lahint G3.

1st Dam: SHAKEYOURBODY by Giant's Causeway. Winner at 3 in France. Own sister to FROST GIANT and Heavy Breathing. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: Faugueron (c Elusive City) 2012: SIYOUSHAKE (f Siyouni) Sold 38,714gns yearling at AROCT. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Perth G3, Prix Quincey - Barriere G3, Prix Ceres LR, 2nd Prix de Bagatelle LR. 2013: Pleasemetoo (f Vale of York) Winner at 2 in France, 2nd Prix d'Aumale G3.

Broodmare Sire: GIANT'S CAUSEWAY. Sire of the dams of 58 Stakes winners. In 2016 HAWKBILL Kitten's Joy G1, AWESOME ROCK Fastnet Rock G2, FAMILY TREE Smart Strike G2, GOOD STANDING Artie Schiller G2, GUN RUNNER Candy Ride G2, ROCKETAZO Spring At Last G2, BEACH GODDESS Kildonan G3, CHEIKELJACK Myboycharlie G3, DICTON Lawman G3, DONEGAL MOON Malibu Moon G3, MASK ZORRO Roman Ruler G3, MATE STORY Makfi G3, SIYOUSHAKE Siyouni G3, TIMBALINA Timely Advice G3, A TIME TO DREAM Dynasty LR, TAISEI DREAM Deep Impact LR.

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1 Waldgeist (GB) 2 ch c Galileo (IRE) - Waldlerche (GB) (Monsun (GER)) 2 Best Solution (IRE) 2 b c Kodiac (GB) - Al Andalyya (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 3 Capri (IRE) 2 gr c Galileo (IRE) Dialafara (FR) (Anabaa (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £123,787 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 245 Stakes winners. In 2016 - ALICE SPRINGS Danehill Dancer G1, CHURCHILL Storm Cat G1, DEAUVILLE Danehill G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G1, RHODODENDRON Pivotal G1, SEVENTH HEAVEN Johannesburg G1, THE GURKHA Danehill Dancer G1, THE UNITED STATES Pivotal G1, WALDGEIST Monsun G1, CAPRI Anabaa G2, IDAHO Danehill G2, SWORD FIGHTER Grand Lodge G2, BEACON ROCK Danehill Dancer G3, BEST IN THE WORLD Intikhab G3, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DECORATED KNIGHT Storm Cat G3, FAUFILER Celtic Swing G3, HOUSESOFPARLIAMENT Dixieland Band G3, MIDTERM Oasis Dream G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, PRETTY PERFECT Danehill G3, PROMISE TO BE TRUE Danehill G3, SIR ISAAC NEWTON Danehill G3, ULYSSES Kingmambo G3, US ARMY RANGER Dalakhani G3, APPLE BETTY Mozart LR, BLACK SEA Lemon Drop Kid LR, CUFF

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Danehill LR, KHALEESY Invincible Spirit LR, LAUNCHED Darshaan LR, MANIACO Anabaa LR, SANDRO BOTTICELLI Dr Fong LR, SAYANA Danehill LR, THE MAJOR GENERAL Danehill LR, SHELFORD Shirley Heights LR, WELLS Rodrigo de Triano LR. 1st Dam: WALDLERCHE by Monsun. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Penelope G3. Dam of 1 winner: 2014: WALDGEIST (c Galileo) 2 wins at 2 in France, Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1, 3rd Prix de Conde G3.

2015: (f New Approach) 2016: (c Sea The Stars) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 54 Stakes winners. In 2016 - WALDGEIST Galileo G1, KNIFE EDGE Zoffany G2, SAVOIR VIVRE Adlerflug G2, GUILIANI Tertullian G3, MOONSHINER Adlerflug G3, NIGHT WISH Sholokhov G3, A SHIN ERWIN Shamardal LR, AMAZONA Dubawi LR, NOT ONLY FLORINA Makfi LR, REALLY SPECIAL Shamardal LR, SUSSUDIO Nayef LR, SWACADELIC Adlerflug LR, TRES ROCK GLORY Fastnet Rock LR, DOMINATO Sholokhov LR, KING'S SOCKS King's Best LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta WALDGEIST ch c 2014 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella WALDLERCHE ch 2009 Mark of Esteem Waldmark Wurftaube

Criterium International, G1, Saint-Cloud, October 30, 1400m 1 Thunder Snow (IRE) 2 b c Helmet (AUS) - Eastern Joy (GB) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 2 South Seas (IRE) 2 ch c Lope de Vega (IRE) - Let It Be Me (USA) (Mizzen Mast (USA)) 3 Promise To Be True (IRE) 2 b f Galileo (IRE) - Sumora (IRE) (Danehill (USA))

Age: 2; Starts: 6; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £197,515 Sire: HELMET. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2016 - THUNDER SNOW Dubai Destination G1, ARCHIVES Canny Lad G3.

1st Dam: EASTERN JOY by Dubai Destination. Winner at 3 in France.

Dam of 4 winners: 2011: IHTIMAL (f Shamardal) 4 wins at 2 and 3 at home, UAE, Barrett Steel May Hill S G2, 3rd Shadwell Fillies' Mile S G1, Qipco 1000 Guineas G1.

2012: ALWAYS SMILE (f Cape Cross) 4 wins at 2 to 4, Betfred Hambleton S LR, 2nd Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, 3rd Tattersalls Falmouth S G1.

2013: FIRST VICTORY (f Teofilo) 2 wins at 2, Vision Oh So Sharp S G3.

2014: THUNDER SNOW (c Helmet) 2 wins at 2 at home, France, Criterium International G1, 2nd At the Races Champagne S G2, Qatar Vintage S G2.

2015: (f Shamardal) Broodmare Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2016 POSTPONED Dubawi G1, THUNDER SNOW Helmet G1, DUTCH CONNECTION Dutch Art G2, THE JULIET ROSE Monsun G2, EZIYRA Teofilo G3, SILENT SEDITION War Chant G3, ALWAYS SMILE Cape Cross LR, SMUGGLER'S MOON Danehill Dancer LR. Danehill Exceed And Excel Patrona HELMET ch 2008 Singspiel Accessories Anna Matrushka THUNDER SNOW b c 2014 Kingmambo Dubai Destination Mysterial EASTERN JOY b 2006 Nureyev Red Slippers Morning Devotion

GP der Besitzervereingung Herbst Preis, G3, Hannover, October 30, 2200m 1 Son Macia (GER) 3 b f Soldier Hollow (GB) - Sinaada (GER) (Zinaad (GB))

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Pivotal

Polar Falcon

1 Siyoushake (IRE) 4 b f Siyouni (FR) - Shakeyourbody (USA) (Giant's Causeway (USA)) 2 Crazy Horse (GB) 3 b c Sleeping Indian (GB) - Mainstay (GB) (Elmaamul (USA)) 3 Kourkan (FR) 3 b c American Post (GB) - Kourka (FR) (Keos (USA))

Fearless Revival SIYOUNI b 2007 Danehill Sichilla Slipstream Queen SIYOUSHAKE b f 2012 Storm Cat Giant's Causeway Mariah's Storm SHAKEYOURBODY b 2006 Gone West Takesmybreathaway Oscillate

Age: 2-4; Starts: 16; Wins: 4; Places: 8 Earnings: £141,954

Criterium de Saint-Cloud, G1, Saint-Cloud, October 30, 2000m

Sire: SIYOUNI. Sire of 10 Stakes winners. In 2016 - VOLTA Machiavellian G2, FINSBURY SQUARE Dyhim Diamond G3, SIYOUSHAKE Giant's Causeway G3, SPECTRE Dai Jin G3, TRIXIA Lahint G3.

1st Dam: SHAKEYOURBODY by Giant's Causeway. Winner at 3 in France. Own sister to FROST GIANT and Heavy Breathing. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: Faugueron (c Elusive City) 2012: SIYOUSHAKE (f Siyouni) Sold 38,714gns yearling at AROCT. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Perth G3, Prix Quincey - Barriere G3, Prix Ceres LR, 2nd Prix de Bagatelle LR. 2013: Pleasemetoo (f Vale of York) Winner at 2 in France, 2nd Prix d'Aumale G3.

Broodmare Sire: GIANT'S CAUSEWAY. Sire of the dams of 58 Stakes winners. In 2016 HAWKBILL Kitten's Joy G1, AWESOME ROCK Fastnet Rock G2, FAMILY TREE Smart Strike G2, GOOD STANDING Artie Schiller G2, GUN RUNNER Candy Ride G2, ROCKETAZO Spring At Last G2, BEACH GODDESS Kildonan G3, CHEIKELJACK Myboycharlie G3, DICTON Lawman G3, DONEGAL MOON Malibu Moon G3, MASK ZORRO Roman Ruler G3, MATE STORY Makfi G3, SIYOUSHAKE Siyouni G3, TIMBALINA Timely Advice G3, A TIME TO DREAM Dynasty LR, TAISEI DREAM Deep Impact LR.

1 Waldgeist (GB) 2 ch c Galileo (IRE) - Waldlerche (GB) (Monsun (GER)) 2 Best Solution (IRE) 2 b c Kodiac (GB) - Al Andalyya (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 3 Capri (IRE) 2 gr c Galileo (IRE) Dialafara (FR) (Anabaa (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £123,787 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 245 Stakes winners. In 2016 - ALICE SPRINGS Danehill Dancer G1, CHURCHILL Storm Cat G1, DEAUVILLE Danehill G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G1, RHODODENDRON Pivotal G1, SEVENTH HEAVEN Johannesburg G1, THE GURKHA Danehill Dancer G1, THE UNITED STATES Pivotal G1, WALDGEIST Monsun G1, CAPRI Anabaa G2, IDAHO Danehill G2, SWORD FIGHTER Grand Lodge G2, BEACON ROCK Danehill Dancer G3, BEST IN THE WORLD Intikhab G3, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DECORATED KNIGHT Storm Cat G3, FAUFILER Celtic Swing G3, HOUSESOFPARLIAMENT Dixieland Band G3, MIDTERM Oasis Dream G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, PRETTY PERFECT Danehill G3, PROMISE TO BE TRUE Danehill G3, SIR ISAAC NEWTON Danehill G3, ULYSSES Kingmambo G3, US ARMY RANGER Dalakhani G3, APPLE BETTY Mozart LR, BLACK SEA Lemon Drop Kid LR, CUFF

Danehill LR, KHALEESY Invincible Spirit LR, LAUNCHED Darshaan LR, MANIACO Anabaa LR, SANDRO BOTTICELLI Dr Fong LR, SAYANA Danehill LR, THE MAJOR GENERAL Danehill LR, SHELFORD Shirley Heights LR, WELLS Rodrigo de Triano LR. 1st Dam: WALDLERCHE by Monsun. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Penelope G3. Dam of 1 winner: 2014: WALDGEIST (c Galileo) 2 wins at 2 in France, Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1, 3rd Prix de Conde G3.

2015: (f New Approach) 2016: (c Sea The Stars) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 54 Stakes winners. In 2016 - WALDGEIST Galileo G1, KNIFE EDGE Zoffany G2, SAVOIR VIVRE Adlerflug G2, GUILIANI Tertullian G3, MOONSHINER Adlerflug G3, NIGHT WISH Sholokhov G3, A SHIN ERWIN Shamardal LR, AMAZONA Dubawi LR, NOT ONLY FLORINA Makfi LR, REALLY SPECIAL Shamardal LR, SUSSUDIO Nayef LR, SWACADELIC Adlerflug LR, TRES ROCK GLORY Fastnet Rock LR, DOMINATO Sholokhov LR, KING'S SOCKS King's Best LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta WALDGEIST ch c 2014 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella WALDLERCHE ch 2009 Mark of Esteem Waldmark Wurftaube

Criterium International, G1, Saint-Cloud, October 30, 1400m 1 Thunder Snow (IRE) 2 b c Helmet (AUS) - Eastern Joy (GB) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 2 South Seas (IRE) 2 ch c Lope de Vega (IRE) - Let It Be Me (USA) (Mizzen Mast (USA)) 3 Promise To Be True (IRE) 2 b f Galileo (IRE) - Sumora (IRE) (Danehill (USA))

Age: 2; Starts: 6; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £197,515 Sire: HELMET. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2016 - THUNDER SNOW Dubai Destination G1, ARCHIVES Canny Lad G3.

1st Dam: EASTERN JOY by Dubai Destination. Winner at 3 in France.

Dam of 4 winners: 2011: IHTIMAL (f Shamardal) 4 wins at 2 and 3 at home, UAE, Barrett Steel May Hill S G2, 3rd Shadwell Fillies' Mile S G1, Qipco 1000 Guineas G1.

2012: ALWAYS SMILE (f Cape Cross) 4 wins at 2 to 4, Betfred Hambleton S LR, 2nd Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, 3rd Tattersalls Falmouth S G1.

2013: FIRST VICTORY (f Teofilo) 2 wins at 2, Vision Oh So Sharp S G3.

2014: THUNDER SNOW (c Helmet) 2 wins at 2 at home, France, Criterium International G1, 2nd At the Races Champagne S G2, Qatar Vintage S G2.

2015: (f Shamardal) Broodmare Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2016 POSTPONED Dubawi G1, THUNDER SNOW Helmet G1, DUTCH CONNECTION Dutch Art G2, THE JULIET ROSE Monsun G2, EZIYRA Teofilo G3, SILENT SEDITION War Chant G3, ALWAYS SMILE Cape Cross LR, SMUGGLER'S MOON Danehill Dancer LR. Danehill Exceed And Excel Patrona HELMET ch 2008 Singspiel Accessories Anna Matrushka THUNDER SNOW b c 2014 Kingmambo Dubai Destination Mysterial EASTERN JOY b 2006 Nureyev Red Slippers Morning Devotion

GP der Besitzervereingung Herbst Preis, G3, Hannover, October 30, 2200m 1 Son Macia (GER) 3 b f Soldier Hollow (GB) - Sinaada (GER) (Zinaad (GB))

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2 Racing History (IRE) 4 b c Pivotal (GB) - Gonbarda (GER) (Lando) 3 Hawkbill (USA) 3 ch c Kitten's Joy (USA) - Trensa (USA) (Giant's Causeway (USA))

Age: 3; Starts: 8; Wins: 2; Places: 4 Earnings: £69,559

Age: 3-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 3; Places: 4 Earnings: £106,852

Sire: SOLDIER HOLLOW. Sire of 23 Stakes winners. In 2016 IVANHOWE Sternkoenig G1, SERIENHOLDE Highest Honor G1, DSCHINGIS SECRET Platini G3, SON MACIA Zinaad G3, WAI KEY STAR Danehill G3, WELL SPOKEN Bertrando G3, WILDER WEIN Turtle Island LR, SILSOL Groom Dancer LR. 1st Dam: SINAADA by Zinaad. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany. Dam of 4 winners: 2009: SANTILLANA (f Konigstiger) 5 wins at 4 and 5 in France, Germany.

2011: SON SEVERA (f Konigstiger) Winner at 3 in France.

2012: SA CALOBRA (f Soldier Hollow) Winner at 3 in France.

2013: SON MACIA (f Soldier Hollow) Sold 19,047gns yearling at BBAGS. 2 wins at 3 in Germany, GP der Besitzervereingung Herbst Preis G3, 2nd Nutan Rennen Hamburger Stuten Preis G3, 3rd Oaks d'Italia G2.

2015: Son Pardo (c Wiesenpfad) Broodmare Sire: ZINAAD. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2016 - SON MACIA Soldier Hollow G3.

Sadler's Wells In The Wings High Hawk SOLDIER HOLLOW b 2000 Common Grounds Island Race Lake Isle SON MACIA b f 2013 Shirley Heights Zinaad Time Charter SINAADA b 2001 Konigsstuhl Seta Pura Secret Success

Pastorius Grosser Preis von Bayern, G1, Munich, November 1, 2400m 1 Guignol (GER) 4 b c Cape Cross (IRE) - Guadalupe (GER) (Monsun)

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Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 112 Stakes winners. In 2016 AWTAAD Shamardal G1, GUIGNOL Monsun G1, MOONLIGHT MAGIC Lammtarra G3, ALWAYS SMILE Dubai Destination LR, MISTER UNIVERSE Selkirk LR, MONTATAIRE Smart Strike LR. 1st Dam: GUADALUPE by Monsun.

Jt Champion 3yr old filly in Germany in 2002. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Italy, Oaks d'Italia G1, 2nd Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1, 3rd Ostermann - Diana Deutsches Stuten Derby G1. Own sister to GETAWAY and Guardia.

Dam of 6 winners: 2004: Guendalina (f Kingmambo) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: GUANTANA (f Dynaformer) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Monsun Oster Stutenpreis LR, Siemens Rennen - Hanshin-Cup LR, 2nd Walther J Jacobs Stutenpreis G3. Dam of GUARDINI (c Dalakhani: 4 wins at 3 to 5 in Australia, France, Germany, Gerling Preis G2), GOUACHE (f Shamardal: 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Preis vom Berliner Schloss Stutenpreis LR), Guizot (g Tertullian: Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd Preis des Winterfavoriten G3) 2006: Glicine (f Tiger Hill) unraced.

Broodmare.

2007: GUIANA (f Tiger Hill) Winner at 3 in Germany. Broodmare.

2008: Guenea (f Sinndar) unraced.

Broodmare.

2010: GLEE (f Dansili) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2011: GUILIANI (c Tertullian) 5 wins at 3 to 5 in France, Germany, Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1.

2012: GUIGNOL (c Cape Cross) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Pastorius Grosser Preis von Bayern G1, 3rd Longines Grosser Preis von

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Berlin G1, Grosser Hansa Preis G2, Preis von Dahlwitz LR. 2013: Gauguin (c Tertullian) Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd Prix Ridgway LR. 2015: (f Lawman) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 55 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GUIGNOL Cape Cross G1, WALDGEIST Galileo G1, KNIFE EDGE Zoffany G2, SAVOIR VIVRE Adlerflug G2, GUILIANI Tertullian G3, MOONSHINER Adlerflug G3, NIGHT WISH Sholokhov G3, A SHIN ERWIN Shamardal LR, AMAZONA Dubawi LR, NOT ONLY FLORINA Makfi LR, REALLY SPECIAL Shamardal LR, SUSSUDIO Nayef LR, SWACADELIC Adlerflug LR, TRES ROCK GLORY Fastnet Rock LR, DOMINATO Sholokhov LR, KING'S SOCKS King's Best LR. The Cape Cross/Monsun cross has produced: GUIGNOL G1, Capo Maximo G3.

Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Ahonoora Park Appeal Balidaress GUIGNOL b c 2012 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella GUADALUPE br 99 Unfuwain Guernica Greenvera

Prix de Seine-et-Oise, G3, Maisons-Laffitte, November 1, 1200m 1 The Right Man (GB) 4 br c Lope de Vega (IRE) - Three Owls (IRE) (Warning) 2 Porthilly (FR) 6 ch f Pivotal (GB) Ricine (IRE) (Titus Livius (FR)) 3 La Rioja (GB) 3 b f Hellvelyn (GB) Talampaya (USA) (Elusive Quality) Age: 2-4; Starts: 15; Wins: 8; Places: 5 Earnings: £133,789 Sire: LOPE DE VEGA. Sire of 22 Stakes winners. In 2016 BELARDO Danehill G1, JEMAYEL Homme de Loi G1, FRENCH FERN Strategic G2, VERY SPECIAL Danehill G2, NAVARRA KING

Singspiel G3, SANTA ANA LANE Fastnet Rock G3, SOUTH SEAS Mizzen Mast G3, THE RIGHT MAN Warning G3, CANDY STORE Noverre LR, ESKIMO POINT Daylami LR, FORT DEL ORO Redback LR, SHE IS NO LADY Cape Cross LR, STEEL OF MADRID Royal Applause LR. 1st Dam: THREE OWLS by Warning. Winner at 3. Dam of 6 winners: 2002: Black Velvet (g Inchinor) Winner at 2, 2nd Rose Bowl S LR. 2003: Tellini (c Generous) ran on the flat in Italy.

2004: Baby Dordan (f Desert Prince) 2006: Three Moons (f Montjeu) Winner at 3, 2nd stanjames.com Pretty Polly S LR. Dam of TASHAAR (c Sea The Stars: 3 wins at 3, Sakhee Godolphin S LR, 3rd Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial G3) 2007: HONG KONG ISLAND (g Alhaarth) 3 wins at 3 and 4.

2008: FIRE IN BABYLON (g Montjeu) 6 wins at 4, 6 and 7.

2009: Mystic Melody (f Montjeu) ran once. Broodmare.

2010: Three Choirs (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2011: STEVE ROGERS (g Montjeu) 6 wins at 4 and 5.

2012: THE RIGHT MAN (c Lope de Vega) Sold 24,777gns yearling at AROCT. 8 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix de Seine-et-Oise G3, Prix de Bonneval LR, 2nd Prix de Meautry G3, Prix Hampton LR. 2013: Test (f Dansili) unraced to date.

2014: Ribble (f Motivator) unraced to date.

2015: Oykel (f Kendargent) Broodmare Sire: WARNING. Sire of the dams of 51 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - THE RIGHT MAN Lope de Vega G3.

Giant's Causeway Shamardal Helsinki LOPE DE VEGA ch 2007 Vettori Lady Vettori Lady Golconda THE RIGHT MAN br c 2012 Known Fact Warning Slightly Dangerous THREE OWLS b 97 Arctic Tern Three Terns Three Troikas

international database Prix Miesque, G3, MaisonsLaffitte, November 1, 1400m 1 Dame du Roi (IRE) 2 b f Dark Angel (IRE) - Uruguay (IRE) (Authorized (IRE)) 2 Kambura (FR) 2 b f Literato (FR) Tambura (FR) (Kaldoun (FR)) 3 Thais (FR) 2 b f Rio de La Plata (USA) - Tianshan (FR) (Lahint) Age: 2; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £77,206 Sire: DARK ANGEL. Sire of 33 Stakes winners. In 2016 - MECCA'S ANGEL Atraf G1, ARDHOOMEY Orpen G2, HARRY ANGEL Cadeaux Genereux G2, DAME DU ROI Authorized G3, DIVINE Common Grounds G3, MARKAZ Atraf G3, MELESINA Haafhd G3, NATIONS ALEXANDER Whipper G3, PERSUASIVE Choisir G3, BIRCHWOOD Exceed And Excel LR, EASTON ANGEL Elnadim LR, ESTIDHKAAR Danetime LR, GABRIAL Mtoto LR, LOG OUT ISLAND Footstepsinthesand LR, SOVEREIGN DEBT Most Welcome LR, VONA Dansili LR. 1st Dam: URUGUAY by Authorized. Winner at 3 in France.

Dam of 1 winner: 2014: DAME DU ROI (f Dark Angel) Sold 73,827gns yearling at ARAU1.

3 wins at 2 in France, Prix Miesque G3, Prix Saraca LR, 2nd Prix Thomas Bryon G3.

2015: (f Thewayyouare) Broodmare Sire: AUTHORIZED. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DAME DU ROI Dark Angel G3.

Royal Applause Acclamation Princess Athena DARK ANGEL gr 2005 Machiavellian Midnight Angel Night At Sea DAME DU ROI b f 2014 Montjeu Authorized Funsie URUGUAY b 2009 Efisio Uruk Lili Cup

Premio Roma GBI Racing, G1, Rome, November 6, 2000m 1 Potemkin (GER) 5 b/br c New Approach (IRE) - Praia (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA)) 2 Robin of Navan (FR) 3 ch c American Post (GB) - Cloghran (FR) (Muhtathir (GB)) 3 Elliptique (IRE) 5 br c New Approach (IRE) - Uryale (FR) (Kendor (FR)) Age: 3-5; Starts: 14; Wins: 9; Places: 5 Earnings: £301,091 Sire: NEW APPROACH. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2016 ELLIPTIQUE Kendor G1, POTEMKIN Big Shuffle G1, BEAUTIFUL ROMANCE Cape Cross G2, MESSI Dashing Blade G2, NEARLY CAUGHT Danehill G2, NEW PREDATOR Fastnet Rock G2, SWORD OF LIGHT King's Best G3, CHARLEVOIX Red Ransom LR, MOUNT LOGAN Distant View LR, ROYAL RUMBLE French Deputy LR. 1st Dam: Praia by Big Shuffle.

Winner at 3 in Germany, 2nd Grosser Preis der Stadtsparkasse LR, Grosser Preis der Dr. Duve Inkasso LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2009: PARAISA (f Red Ransom) Winner at 2 in Germany, GP vom Gestut Burg Eberstein Brummerhof LR, 3rd Preis der Winterkonigin Rennen G3, K.Baronin von Ullmann Schwarzgold Rennen G3.

Broodmare.

2010: PATUCA (f Teofilo) Winner at 3 in Germany. Broodmare.

2011: POTEMKIN (c New Approach) Sold 142,857gns yearling at BBAGS. 9 wins at 4 and 5 in France, Germany, Italy, Premio Roma GBI Racing G1, Qatar Prix Dollar G2, Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft G3, pferdewetten.de 25 P. Deutschen Einheit G3, 2nd Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe G3, 3rd Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1.

2012: PRINCESS ALBA (f Lando) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2014: Pealer (c Campanologist) 2016: (f Australia)

Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2016 - POTEMKIN New Approach G1, PAS DE DEUX Saddex G2, KREACHER Dehere LR. Galileo

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Urban Sea NEW APPROACH ch 2005 Ahonoora Park Express Matcher POTEMKIN b/br c 2011 Super Concorde Big Shuffle Raise Your Skirts PRAIA b/br 2004 Lagunas Prada Pradera

Premio Guido Berardelli, G3, Rome, November 6, 1800m 1 Aethos (IRE) 2 ch c Dragon Pulse (IRE) - Quela (GER) (Acatenango (GER)) 2 Holy Water (FR) 2 b c Falco (USA) - Miss Bikini (IRE) (Titus Livius (FR)) 3 Lunastorta (USA) 2 b f Brilliant Speed (USA) - Limerick (USA) (Black Minnaloushe (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 5; Wins: 2; Places: 2 Earnings: £37,660 Sire: DRAGON PULSE. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2016 - AETHOS Acatenango G3, LEGENDARY LUNCH Hansel LR. 1st Dam: QUELA by Acatenango.

Winner at 4 in Germany. Dam of 6 winners: 2005: Valdambra (f Alkalde) 2006: Ponticelli (c King Charlemagne) 7 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, 2nd P.MediterraneoMemorial Francesco Faraci LR. 2008: CROISETTE (c Desert Style) Winner at 3 in Italy.

2009: QUEZON LOVE (f Ivan Denisovich) 2 wins at 3 in Italy.

2011: SAKHALIN STAR (g Footstepsinthesand) 2 wins at 3 and 4.

2012: (c Lope de Vega) 2013: VIA ALPINA (f Arakan) Winner at 3 in Spain.

2014: AETHOS (c Dragon Pulse) 2 wins at 2 in Italy, Premio Guido Berardelli G3, 2nd Premio Rumon LR. 2015: (f Most Improved)

Broodmare Sire: ACATENANGO. Sire of the dams of 65 Stakes winners. In 2016 - TUTTIPAESI Clodovil G2, AETHOS Dragon Pulse G3, BICHE Deep Impact G3, QUIDURA Dubawi G3, AMIE NOIRE Soldier of Fortune LR, HENRY HIGGINS Jeremy LR. Pivotal Kyllachy Pretty Poppy DRAGON PULSE ch 2009 Croco Rouge Poetical Abyat AETHOS ch c 2014 Surumu Acatenango Aggravate QUELA ch 99 Nebos Queen of Love Queen of Realm

Premio Carlo e Francesco Aloisi, G3, Rome, November 6, 1200m 1 Kathy Dream (IRE) 4 ch f Arcano (IRE) - Katy Guest (IRE) (Be My Guest (USA)) 2 Zapel (GB) 3 b c Kyllachy (GB) Viadeigiardini (GB) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 3 Evil Spell (GB) 4 b f Dutch Art (GB) - Yajala (GB) (Fasliyev (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 31; Wins: 11; Places: 15 Earnings: £104,357 Sire: ARCANO. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2016 - JUST GLAMOROUS Air Express G3, KATHY DREAM Be My Guest G3, ERYSIMUM Alhaarth LR. 1st Dam: KATY GUEST by Be My Guest. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy.

Dam of 10 winners: 1998: KATHY COLLEGE (f College Chapel) 11 wins at 2 to 5 in Italy, Premio Omenoni G3. Dam of ROSENDHAL (c Indian Ridge: 12 wins in France, Italy, Premio Carlo e Francesco Aloisi G3 (3 times)) 1999: KATHY PEKAN (f Sri Pekan) 10 wins at 2 to 5 in Italy, Premio Alessandro Perrone LR. Dam of PLUSQUEMAVIE (c Kheleyf: 12 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy, Premio Tudini G3, Premio Carlo e Francesco Aloisi G3), Ici La Cote (c Invincible Spirit: 10 wins at 2 to 6, 2016 in Italy, 3rd Premio Alberto Giubilo LR, P. Divino Amore LR)

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2001: Kathy Tolfa (f Sri Pekan) unraced. Broodmare.

2002: Kathy Kab (f Intikhab). Dam of Kaspirit (f Invincible Spirit: 2 wins, 3rd Premio Alessandro Perrone LR) 2003: KATHY SUN (f Intikhab) Winner at 2 in Italy. Broodmare.

2004: KATHY SLAP (f Alhaarth) 2 wins at 3 in Italy. Broodmare.

2005: Kathy Best (f King's Best) ran on the flat in Italy. Broodmare.

2006: KATHY RIDGE (f Indian Ridge) 5 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy.

Dam of Stright Way (f Distant Way: 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, 2nd Premio Carlo Chiesa - Trofeo Jill Pratt LR) 2007: First Lady (f Indian Ridge) unraced. Broodmare.

2008: NON PIU DIVA (f Invincible Spirit) Winner at 3 in Italy.

Broodmare.

2009: COMET GRAY (c Verglas) 9 wins.

2010: KATY SPIRIT (f Invincible Spirit) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2011: CASHMERE GUEST (c Kheleyf) 8 wins at 3 and 5 in Italy.

2012: KATHY DREAM (f Arcano) 11 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, Premio Carlo e Francesco Aloisi G3, Premio Citta' di Napoli LR. 2014: Seseglio (c Born To Sea) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: BE MY GUEST. Sire of the dams of 123 Stakes winners. In 2016 - KATHY DREAM Arcano G3.

Green Desert Oasis Dream Hope ARCANO b 2007 Daylami Tariysha Tarwiya KATHY DREAM ch f 2012 Northern Dancer Be My Guest What A Treat KATY GUEST b 93 Law Society Sweet Justice Hilo Girl

GP von Link in Krefed Herzog von Ratibor, G3, Krefeld, November 6, 1600m 1 Colomano (GB) 2 b c Cacique (IRE) - Codera (GER) (Zilzal (USA))

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2 Kastano (GER) 2 b c Nathaniel (IRE) - Kastila (GER) (Sternkoenig) 3 Enjoy Vijay (GER) 2 b c Nathaniel (IRE) - Enjoy The Life (GB) (Medicean (GB)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 0; Places: 1 Earnings: £12,132 Sire: CACIQUE. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2016 - COLOMANO Zilzal G3.

1st Dam: CODERA by Zilzal.

Winner at 3 in Germany. Dam of 5 winners: 2007: Codoor (g Sabiango) 2 wins at 3 in Germany, 3rd Henkel Trophy LR. 2008: Cross Avenue (g Black Sam Bellamy) 2009: COLLODI (g Konigstiger) 9 wins.

2010: CASSAIA (f Silvano) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2012: CARITAS (f Shirocco) 2 wins over jumps at 3 and 4 in France.

2014: COLOMANO (c Cacique) Sold 31,746gns yearling at BBAGS. GP von Link in Krefed Herzog von Ratibor G3.

2015: (c Nathaniel) Broodmare Sire: ZILZAL. Sire of the dams of 34 Stakes winners. In 2016 - COLOMANO Cacique G3, MADRILENO Sir Percy LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana CACIQUE b/br 2001 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali COLOMANO b c 2014 Nureyev Zilzal French Charmer CODERA b 2002 Windwurf Comprida Colatina

G.P. Rondo Food Niederrhein Pokal, G3, Krefeld, November 6, 2000m 1 Amazona (GER) 4 f Dubawi (IRE) - Amarette (GER) (Monsun (GER)) 2 Palace Prince (GER) 4 b c Areion (GER) - Palace Princess (GER) (Tiger Hill (IRE)) 3 Devastar (GER) 4 b c Areion (GER) - Deva (GER) (Platini (GER))

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Age: 3-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £18,391 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 127 Stakes winners. In 2016 - ERUPT Caerleon G1, JOURNEY Montjeu G1, LEFT HAND Singspiel G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, WUHEIDA Singspiel G1, DARTMOUTH Galileo G2, MOVE UP Soviet Star G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, SHAMREEN Bahri G2, SHEIKHZAYEDROAD Highest Honor G2, TIME TEST Dansili G2, AMAZONA Monsun G3, NEW BAY Zamindar G3, QUIDURA Acatenango G3, RASEED Fantastic Light G3, SO MI DAR Singspiel G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3, AME BLEUE Danehill LR, BATEEL Chief's Crown LR, CALARE Storm Cat LR, CORONET Darshaan LR, D'BAI Green Desert LR, DIPLOMA Montjeu LR, GM HOPKINS Lomitas LR, INTIMATION Pivotal LR, LAUGH ALOUD Singspiel LR, NEZWAAH Dansili LR, PABOUCHE High Chaparral LR, POWDER SNOW Sadler's Wells LR, ROSE DE PIERRE Danehill LR, SKIFFLE King's Best LR, THE BLUE EYE Cherokee Run LR. 1st Dam: AMARETTE by Monsun.

3 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, P. der Diana Deutsches Stuten Derby G1. Own sister to Arras. Dam of 4 winners: 2006: Anno Amadeo (c Tiger Hill) ran on the flat in Germany.

2007: AMARINDA (f Tiger Hill) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2008: Ametrin (c Tiger Hill) Winner at 4 in Germany, 2nd Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2.

2009: ASSISI (f Galileo) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2011: Amazone (f Adlerflug) unraced.

2012: AMAZONA (f Dubawi) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, G.P. Rondo Food Niederrhein Pokal G3, SolarWorld Grand Prix-Aufgalopp LR, 3rd Kolner Stutenpreis Gestuts Winterhauch LR. 2013: Allalin (c Tertullian). died as a yearling.

2015: Accessor (c Exceed And Excel) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 55 Stakes winners. In

2016 - GUIGNOL Cape Cross G1, WALDGEIST Galileo G1, KNIFE EDGE Zoffany G2, SAVOIR VIVRE Adlerflug G2, AMAZONA Dubawi G3, GUILIANI Tertullian G3, MOONSHINER Adlerflug G3, NIGHT WISH Sholokhov G3, A SHIN ERWIN Shamardal LR, NOT ONLY FLORINA Makfi LR, REALLY SPECIAL Shamardal LR, SUSSUDIO Nayef LR, SWACADELIC Adlerflug LR, TRES ROCK GLORY Fastnet Rock LR, DOMINATO Sholokhov LR, KING'S SOCKS King's Best LR. The Dubawi/Monsun cross has produced: AMAZONA G3, QUANZHOU LR, BABAWI LR, Kazimiera LR. Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher AMAZONA f 2012 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella AMARETTE b 2001 Kings Lake Avocette Akasma

Prix Fille de l'Air, G3, Toulouse, November 11, 2000m 1 Powder Snow (USA) 3 ch f Dubawi (IRE) - Snow Ballerina (GB) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) 2 Restiana (FR) 3 b f Kendargent (FR) - Restia (FR) (Montjeu (IRE)) 3 Rosental (GB) 4 b f Pivotal (GB) Rose Trail (USA) (Kingmambo) Age: 2-3; Starts: 13; Wins: 4; Places: 4 Earnings: £60,185 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 127 Stakes winners. In 2016 - ERUPT Caerleon G1, JOURNEY Montjeu G1, LEFT HAND Singspiel G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, WUHEIDA Singspiel G1, DARTMOUTH Galileo G2, MOVE UP Soviet Star G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, SHAMREEN Bahri G2, SHEIKHZAYEDROAD Highest Honor G2, TIME TEST Dansili G2, AMAZONA Monsun G3, NEW BAY Zamindar G3, POWDER SNOW Sadler's Wells G3, QUIDURA Acatenango G3, RASEED Fantastic

international database Light G3, SO MI DAR Singspiel G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3, AME BLEUE Danehill LR, BATEEL Chief's Crown LR, CALARE Storm Cat LR, CORONET Darshaan LR, D'BAI Green Desert LR, DIPLOMA Montjeu LR, GM HOPKINS Lomitas LR, INTIMATION Pivotal LR, LAUGH ALOUD Singspiel LR, NEZWAAH Dansili LR, PABOUCHE High Chaparral LR, ROSE DE PIERRE Danehill LR, SKIFFLE King's Best LR, THE BLUE EYE Cherokee Run LR. 1st Dam: Snow Ballerina by Sadler's Wells. ran a few times at 2 and 3. Own sister to Abhisheka.

Dam of 5 winners: 2009: EQUITY CARD (f Dubai Destination) Winner at 2.

Broodmare.

2010: FLORESTAN (c King's Best) Winner at 2 in France.

2011: SNOW SQUALL (g Dansili) 3 wins.

2012: Svalbard (g King's Best) 2013: POWDER SNOW (f Dubawi) 4 wins at 3 in France, Germany, Prix Fille de l'Air G3, Kolner Stutenpreis - Gestuts Winterhauch LR, 2nd Coolmore Stud BadenBaden Cup LR. 2014: Sea of Snow (f Distorted Humor) 2 wins at 2, 3rd Investec Woodcote S LR. 2015: (f Street Cry) Broodmare Sire: SADLER'S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 394 Stakes winners. In 2016 - BLAZING SPEED Dylan Thomas G1, BRAVE ANNA War Front G1, FLINTSHIRE Dansili G1, EVEN SONG Mastercraftsman G2, LIBRAN Lawman G2, RASA LILA Darci Brahma G2, SIMPLE VERSE Duke of Marmalade G2, CAMPROCK Myboycharlie G3, POINT PIPER Giant's Causeway G3, POWDER SNOW Dubawi G3, RICH TAPESTRY Holy Roman Emperor G3, SOMEHOW Fastnet Rock G3, AYRAD Dalakhani LR, FLYING FAIRIES Holy Roman Emperor LR, GALIPHAN Halling LR, HAWKE Oratorio LR, HERE TO FLY Luxor LR, PACIFIC ANGEL Dalakhani LR, PLATITUDE Dansili LR, ROSTOVA Arch LR, WE ARE NINETY Thewayyouare LR, WOMAN OF THE TURF Rebuttal LR, ANCIENT SANDS Footstepsinthesand LR, EBANOUR

Indian Ridge LR, FOOTPAD Creachadoir LR, TOP GAMBLE Presenting LR, TUK TUK Sinndar LR. The Dubawi/Sadler's Wells cross has produced: BAWINA G1, FOX HUNT G3, POWDER SNOW G3, PRINCE GAGARIN G3, Irish History G1.

Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher POWDER SNOW ch f 2013 Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge SNOW BALLERINA b 2004 Blushing Groom Snow Bride Awaasif

USA SYCAMORE STAKES, G3, Keeneland, October 20, 12f 1 Renown (GB) 5 ch g Champs Elysees (GB) - Fame At Last (USA) (Quest For Fame) 2 Bigger Picture (USA) 5 ch g Badge of Silver (USA) - Glory Dancer (CAN) (Honour And Glory) 3 Bullards Alley (USA) 4 b/br c Flower Alley (USA) - Flower Forest (USA) (Kris S (USA)) PIN OAK VALLEY VIEW STAKES, G3, Keeneland, October 21, 8f 110yds 1 Quidura (GB) 3 b f Dubawi (IRE) Quetena (GER) (Acatenango) 2 Linda (USA) 3 gr/ro f Scat Daddy (USA) - Beautiful Noise (USA) (Sunny's Halo (CAN)) 3 My Impression (USA) 3 b f Sky Mesa (USA) - Impressionism (USA) (Broad Brush (USA)) LEXUS RAVEN RUN STAKES, G2, Keeneland, October 22, 7f 1 Lightstream (USA) 3 b f Harlan's Holiday (USA) - North Beach (USA) (Arch (USA)) 2 Malibu Stacy (USA) 3 b/br f Tizway (USA) - Malibu Pier (USA) (Malibu Moon (USA))

3 Coniah (USA) 3 b/br f Harlington (USA) - Pretti Woman (USA) (Lord At War (ARG)) ROOD AND RIDDLE DOWAGER STAKES, G3, Keeneland, October 23, 12f 1 Elektrum (IRE) 5 b f High Chaparral (IRE) - Carolines Secret (GB) (Inchinor (GB)) 2 Apple Betty (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) - Absolutelyfabulous (IRE) (Mozart (IRE)) 3 Swear by It (USA) 5 ch f Broken Vow (USA) - Jesse's Justice (USA) (Lear Fan (USA)) ATHENIA STAKES, G3, Belmont Park, October 23, 8f 110yds 1 Roca Rojo (IRE) 4 b f Strategic Prince (GB) - Lucy Diamonds (IRE) (Orpen (USA)) 2 Stormy Victoria (FR) 4 gr/ro f Stormy River (FR) - Dakota Go (GB) (Anabaa (USA)) 3 Mexican Gold (USA) 4 b f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Hachita (USA) (Gone West (USA)) AUTUMN MISS STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, October 29, 8f 1 Cover Song (USA) 3 b f Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Misty For Me (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) 2 Danilovna (IRE) 3 b/br f Dansili (GB) - Hoity Toity (GB) (Darshaan) 3 Barleysugar (IRE) 3 b f Kyllachy (GB) - Caster Sugar (USA) (Cozzene (USA)) HAGYARD FAYETTE STAKES, G2, Keeneland, October 29, 9f 1 Noble Bird (USA) 5 ch c Birdstone (USA) - Anyhow (USA) (Tiznow (USA)) 2 Divining Rod (USA) 4 b/br c Tapit (USA) - Precious Kitten (USA) (Catienus (USA)) 3 Hawaakom (USA) 6 ch c Jazil (USA) - Nafisah (IRE) (Lahib (USA)) TURNBACK THE ALARM HANDICAP, G3, Belmont Park, October 29, 8f 110yds 1 Lewis Bay (USA) 3 b f Bernardini (USA) - Summer Raven (USA) (Summer Squall (USA))

2 Flora Dora (USA) 3 ch f First Dude (USA) - Aidan (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Eskenformoney (USA) 4 b/br f Eskendereya (USA) - But for Money (USA) (Not For Love (USA)) BOLD RULER HANDICAP, G3, Belmont Park, October 29, 7f 1 Stallwalkin' Dude (USA) 6 b g City Place (USA) - Chelle Spendabuck (USA) (Dare And Go (USA)) 2 Threefiveindia (USA) 3 ch c Street Hero (USA) - Palacio de Amor (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Economic Model (USA) 3 b c Flatter (USA) - Queen of America (USA) (Quiet American (USA)) TWILIGHT DERBY, G2, Santa Anita, November 4, 9f 1 Frank Conversation (USA) 3 b c Quality Road (USA) - Rushen Heat (USA) (Unusual Heat (USA)) 2 Free Rose (USA) 3 b/br c Munnings (USA) - Birdie Birdie (USA) (El Prado (IRE)) 3 Blackjackcat (USA) 3 b/br g Tale of The Cat (USA) - Bootleg Annie (USA) (Go For Gin (USA)) MARATHON STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, November 4, 14f 1 Scuba (USA) 5 gr/ro g Tapit (USA) - Cuaba (USA) (Smoke Glacken (USA)) 2 Hard Aces (USA) 6 b c Hard Spun (USA) - All In With Aces (USA) (Quiet American (USA)) 3 Blue Tone (USA) 7 b g Birdstone (USA) - Princess Cart (USA) (Cartwright (USA)) LONGINES BREEDERS' CUP DISTAFF, G1, Santa Anita, November 4, 9f 1 Beholder (USA) 6 b f Henny Hughes (USA) - Leslie's Lady (USA) (Tricky Creek (USA)) 2 Songbird (USA) 3 b/br f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Ivanavinalot (USA) (West Acre (USA)) 3 Forever Unbridled (USA) 4 b f Unbridled's Song (USA) - Lemons Forever (USA) (Lemon Drop Kid (USA))

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international database CLARK HANDICAP, G1, Churchill Downs, November 25, 9f 1 Gun Runner (USA) 3 ch c Candy Ride (ARG) - Quiet Giant (USA) (Giant's Causeway (USA)) 2 Breaking Lucky (CAN) 4 ch c Lookin At Lucky (USA) - Shooting Party (USA) (Sky Classic (CAN)) 3 Shaman Ghost (CAN) 4 b c Ghostzapper (USA) - Getback Time (USA) (Gilded Time (USA)) TROPICAL TURF HANDICAP, G3, Gulfstream Park West, November 26, 8f 110yds 1 Lubash (USA) 9 b c Freud (USA) Nasty Cure (USA) (Cure The Blues) 2 Rose Brier (USA) 7 b g Mizzen Mast (USA) - Mexicali Rose (USA) (El Gran Senor (USA)) 3 Coalport (USA) 7 ch c Kitten's Joy (USA) - Ballade's Girl (USA) (Saint Ballado (CAN)) MY CHARMER HANDICAP, G3, Gulfstream Park West, November 26, 8f 110yds 1 Isabella Sings (USA) 4 ch f Eskendereya (USA) - Isobel Baillie (GB) (Lomitas (GB)) 2 Sea Coast (IRE) 5 b f Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) - Varna (GB) (Efisio) 3 Dad's Princess (USA) 4 b f Mineshaft (USA) - Rooneys Princess (USA) (Deputy Minister) BERKELEY HANDICAP, G3, Golden Gate, November 26, 8f 110yds 1 Stryker Phd (USA) 7 b c Bertrando (USA) - Striking Scholar (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN)) 2 G G Ryder (USA) 5 ch c Chhaya Dance (USA) - Stormy Gigi (USA) (Storm Boot (USA)) 3 Tamarando (USA) 5 b/br c Bertrando (USA) - Tamarack Bay (USA) (Dehere (USA)) SEABISCUIT HANDICAP, G2, Del Mar, November 26, 8f 110yds 1 Ring Weekend (USA) 5 ch c Tapit (USA) - Free The Magic (USA) (Cryptoclearance (USA))

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2 Vyjack (USA) 6 b g Into Mischief (USA) - Life Happened (USA) (Stravinsky (USA)) 3 Om (USA) 4 ch c Munnings (USA) - Rare Cat (USA) (Tabasco Cat (USA)) JIMMY DURANTE STAKES, G3, Del Mar, November 26, 8f 1 Journey Home (USA) 2 b/br f War Front (USA) - Soul Search (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) 2 Defiant Honor (USA) 2 b f Speightstown (USA) - Honor Bestowed (USA) (Honor Grades (USA)) 3 With Honors (USA) 2 b f War Front (USA) - All Her Class (USA) (Street Cry (IRE)) KENTUCKY JOCKEY CLUB STAKES, G2, Churchill Downs, November 26, 8f 110yds 1 McCraken (USA) 2 b c Ghostzapper (USA) - Ivory Empress (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) 2 Wild Shot (USA) 2 b c Trappe Shot (USA) - Ranter (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Warrior's Club (USA) 2 b/br c Warrior's Reward (USA) - Thirty Eighth St (USA) (Citidancer (USA)) GOLDEN ROD STAKES, G2, Churchill Downs, November 26, 8f 110yds 1 Farrell (USA) 2 b/br f Malibu Moon (USA) - Rebridled Dreams (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 2 Daddys Lil Darling (USA) 2 b f Scat Daddy (USA) - Miss Hot Salsa (USA) (Houston (USA)) 3 Ever So Clever (USA) 2 b/br f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Foxy Danseur (USA) (Mr Greeley (USA)) REMSEN STAKES, G2, Aqueduct, November 26, 9f 1 Mo Town (USA) 2 b c Uncle Mo (USA) - Grazie Mille (USA) (Bernardini (USA)) 2 No Dozing (USA) 2 b c Union Rags (USA) - Stay Awake (USA) (Pulpit (USA)) 3 Takaful (USA) 2 b/br c Bernardini (USA) - Sablah (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA))

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DEMOISELLE STAKES, G2, Aqueduct, November 26, 9f 1 Miss Sky Warrior (USA) 2 b/br f First Samurai (USA) - Sky Minister (USA) (Conquistador Cielo (USA)) 2 Jamyson 'n Ginger (USA) 2 b f Bernardini (USA) - Ginger Brew (CAN) (Milwaukee Brew (USA)) 3 Bonita Bianca (USA) 2 ch f Curlin (USA) - Friendly Michelle (USA) (Artax (USA)) COMELY STAKES, G3, Aqueduct, November 26, 9f 1 Verve's Tale (USA) 3 b f Tale of Ekati (USA) - Verve (USA) (Unbridled (USA)) 2 Lewis Bay (USA) 3 b f Bernardini (USA) - Summer Raven (USA) (Summer Squall (USA)) 3 Going For Broke (USA) 3 b f Blame (USA) - Support The Cause (USA) (Put It Back (USA)) CIGAR MILE HANDICAP, G1, Aqueduct, November 26, 8f 1 Connect (USA) 3 b/br c Curlin (USA) - Bullville Belle (USA) (Holy Bull (USA)) 2 Divining Rod (USA) 4 b/br c Tapit (USA) - Precious Kitten (USA) (Catienus (USA)) 3 Realm (USA) 3 b/br g Haynesfield (USA) - Shawnee Country (USA) (Chief's Crown) NATIVE DIVER STAKES, G3, Del Mar, November 27, 9f 1 Midnight Storm (USA) 5 b/br c Pioneerof the Nile (USA) - My Tina (USA) (Bertrando (USA)) 2 Point Piper (USA) 6 b c Giant's Causeway (USA) - Imagine (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) 3 Hard Aces (USA) 6 b c Hard Spun (USA) - All In With Aces (USA) (Quiet American (USA)) HOLLYWOOD DERBY, G1, Del Mar, December 3, 9f 1 Annals Of Time (USA) 3 b c Temple City (USA) - Lemon Haze (USA) (Distant View (USA)) 2 Beach Patrol (USA) 3 b/br c Lemon Drop Kid (USA) - Bashful Bertie (USA) (Quiet American (USA))

3 Frank Conversation (USA) 3 b c Quality Road (USA) - Rushen Heat (USA) (Unusual Heat (USA)) BAYAKOA HANDICAP, G2, Del Mar, December 3, 8f 110yds 1 Vale Dori (ARG) 4 b f Asiatic Boy (ARG) - Valerina (ARG) (Halo Sunshine (USA)) 2 Wild At Heart (USA) 4 b f Indian Charlie (USA) - Lady Cerise (USA) (Honor Grades (USA)) 3 Moyo Honey (USA) 4 b f Mizzen Mast (USA) - Charming Lauren (USA) (Meadowlake (USA)) GO FOR WAND HANDICAP, G3, Aqueduct, December 3, 8f 1 Highway Star (USA) 3 ch f Girolamo (USA) - Stolen Star (USA) (Cat Thief (USA)) 2 High Ridge Road (USA) 4 b f Quality Road (USA) - Detect (USA) (Devil's Bag (USA)) 3 Wonder Gal (USA) 4 b/br f Tiz Wonderful (USA) - Passe (USA) (Dixie Union (USA)) VALEDICTORY STAKES, G3, Woodbine, December 4, 2800m 1 Bangkok (CAN) 5 b c Street Hero (USA) - Get It Straight (USA) (Black Minnaloushe (USA)) 2 Melmich (CAN) 5 ch g Wilko (USA) - Little Swoon (USA) (You and I (USA)) 3 Ethical Funds (CAN) 4 ch c Giant Gizmo (USA) - Twilight Gallop (USA) (Victory Gallop (CAN)) MATRIARCH STAKES, G1, Del Mar, December 4, 8f 1 Miss Temple City (USA) 4 b/br f Temple City (USA) - Glittering Tax (USA) (Artax (USA)) 2 Roca Rojo (IRE) 4 b f Strategic Prince (GB) - Lucy Diamonds (IRE) (Orpen (USA)) 3 Stays In Vegas (USA) 3 ch f City Zip (USA) - Double Jackpot (USA) (Broken Vow (USA)) STARLET STAKES, G1, Los Alamitos, December 10, 8f 110yds 1 Abel Tasman (USA) 2 b f Quality Road (USA) - Vargas Girl (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN))

international database 2 American Gal (USA) 2 b f Concord Point (USA) - American Story (USA) (Ghostzapper (USA)) 3 Mopotism (USA) 2 b f Uncle Mo (USA) - Peppy Rafaela (USA) (Bernardini (USA)) LOS ALAMITOS CASH CALL FUTURITY, G1, Los Alamitos, December 10, 8f 110yds 1 Mastery (USA) 2 b/br c Candy Ride (ARG) - Steady Course (USA) (Old Trieste (USA)) 2 Irap (USA) 2 b c Tiznow (USA) Silken Cat (CAN) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Dangerfield (USA) 2 b c Into Mischief (USA) - Amusingly (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) SUGAR SWIRL STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, December 17, 6f 1 Dearest (USA) 3 ch f Midshipman (USA) - Keowee Clai (USA) (Cherokee Run (USA)) 2 You Bought Her (USA) 6 ch f Graeme Hall (USA) - Striking T (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN)) 3 Stonetastic (USA) 5 gr/ro f Mizzen Mast (USA) - Special Me (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) RAMPART STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, December 17, 8f 1 Eskenformoney (USA) 4 b/br f Eskendereya (USA) - But for Money (USA) (Not For Love (USA)) 2 Curlin's Approval (USA) 3 b/br f Curlin (USA) - Withmom'sapproval (USA) (With Approval (CAN)) 3 Genre (USA) 4 b f Bernardini (USA) - French Park (USA) (Ecton Park (USA)) HARLAN'S HOLIDAY STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, December 17, 8f 110yds 1 Stanford (USA) 4 b c Malibu Moon (USA) - Rosy Humor (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) 2 Keen Ice (USA) 4 b c Curlin (USA) - Medomak (USA) (Awesome Again (CAN)) 3 Awesome Slew (USA) 3 b c Awesome Again (CAN) Slewfoundmoney (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA))

SAN SIMEON STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, December 26, 6f 110yds 1 Bettys Bambino (USA) 7 b/br g Unusual Heat (USA) - Brite Betty (USA) (High Brite (USA)) 2 Stormy Liberal (USA) 5 b c Stormy Atlantic (USA) - Vassar (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) 3 Richard's Boy (USA) 5 gr/ro g Idiot Proof (USA) - Marissa's Joy (USA) (Cee's Tizzy (USA)) MATHIS BROTHERS MILE STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, December 26, 8f 1 Conquest Enforcer (CAN) 3 b c Into Mischief (USA) - Keen Victory (USA) (Victory Gallop (CAN)) 2 Mittersill (IRE) 3 b c Acclamation (GB) - Bobbie Soxer (IRE) (Pivotal (GB)) 3 Moonlight Drive (ITY) 3 b/br c Red Rocks (IRE) - Tina Donizetti (IRE) (Monsun (GER)) MALIBU STAKES, G1, Santa Anita, December 26, 7f 1 Mind Your Biscuits (USA) 3 ch c Posse (USA) - Jazzmane (USA) (Toccet (USA)) 2 Sharp Azteca (USA) 3 b/br c Freud (USA) - So Sharp (USA) (Saint Liam (USA)) 3 Ten Blessings (USA) 3 b c Smart Strike (CAN) - Indian Blessing (USA) (Indian Charlie (USA)) LA BREA STAKES, G1, Santa Anita, December 26, 7f 1 Constellation (USA) 3 ch f Bellamy Road (USA) - For Royalty (USA) (Not For Love (USA)) 2 Finley'sluckycharm (USA) 3 b/br f Twirling Candy (USA) - Day of Victory (USA) (Victory Gallop (CAN)) 3 Enola Gray (USA) 3 gr/ro f Grazen (USA) - Unsung Heroine (USA) (More Than Ready (USA)) MIDNITE LUTE STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, December 31, 6f 110yds 1 St Joe Bay (USA) 5 b/br g Saint Anddan (USA) - Dream Ride (USA) (Honor Glide (USA))

1 Solid Wager (USA) 6 b g Birdonthewire (USA) - G Ma (USA) (Valid Wager (USA)) 3 Tough Sunday (USA) 5 b c Grazen (USA) - Sunday Dress (USA) (General Meeting (USA)) MIDNITE LUTE STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, December 31, 6f 110yds 1 St Joe Bay (USA) 5 b/br g Saint Anddan (USA) - Dream Ride (USA) (Honor Glide (USA)) 1 Solid Wager (USA) 6 b g Birdonthewire (USA) - G Ma (USA) (Valid Wager (USA)) 3 Tough Sunday (USA) 5 b c Grazen (USA) - Sunday Dress (USA) (General Meeting (USA)) AMERICAN OAKS, G1, Santa Anita, December 31, 9f 1 Decked Out (USA) 4 ch f Street Boss (USA) - Once Around (CAN) (You and I (USA)) 2 Sassy Little Lila (USA) 4 b f Artie Schiller (USA) - Sharp Apple (USA) (Diesis) 3 Lady Valeur (IRE) 4 b f Multiplex (GB) - Hawk Eyed Lady (IRE) (Hawk Wing (USA))

ROW Yulong Park Sir Rupert Clarke Inv.Stakes, G1, Caulfield, September 24, 1400m 1 Bon Aurum (AUS) 4 ch c Bon Hoffa (AUS) - Goldsmobile (AUS) (Promontory Gold (USA)) 2 Voodoo Lad (AUS) 5 b g I Am Invincible (AUS) - O'Fortuna (AUS) (Gilded Time (USA)) 3 Fast 'n' Rocking (AUS) 6 b c Fastnet Rock (AUS) - For The Good Times (AUS) (Hennessy (USA)) Sire: BON HOFFA. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2016 - BON AURUM Promontory Gold G1.

1st Dam: Goldsmobile by Promontory Gold. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: BON AURUM (c Bon Hoffa) Sir Rupert Clarke Inv. Stakes G1, Caulfield Guineas Prelude G3, Exford Plate LR, Tontonan S LR.

Broodmare Sire: PROMONTORY GOLD. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2016 - BON AURUM Bon Hoffa G1.

Danzig Belong To Me Belonging BON HOFFA ch 2002 Manila Asian Reef Golden Cay BON AURUM ch c 2012 Gone West Promontory Gold Possibly Perfect GOLDSMOBILE 2004 Hula Chief Nomadic Mauritania

Hyland Race Colours Underwood Stakes, G1, Caulfield, September 24, 1800m 1 Black Heart Bart (AUS) 6 b g Blackfriars (AUS) - Sister Theresa (AUS) (At Talaq (USA)) 2 He Or She (AUS) 6 ch g Kendel Star (AUS) - Danessa (AUS) (West Point (AUS)) 3 Lucia Valentina (NZ) 6 br f Savabeel (AUS) - Staryn Glenn (NZ) (Montjeu (IRE)) Sire: BLACKFRIARS. Sire of 33 Stakes winners. In 2016 - BLACK HEART BART At Talaq G1, YOUNG LIONEL Marooned LR. 1st Dam: SISTER THERESA by At Talaq. 6 wins in Australia. Dam of 3 winners: 2001: KENJASPER (g Success Express) 3 wins in Australia.

2002: SISTER TIME (f Gilded Time) Winner in Australia. Broodmare.

2003: Noble Consort (f Viscount) unraced. Broodmare.

2004: Star In The East (f Secret Savings) 2005: Rebel Sister (f Falbrav) unraced. Dam of REBELSON (g Snippetson: 8 wins in Australia, Aquanita S LR, Fairetha S LR, XXXX Gold Northam Cup LR), REBEL KING (g Universal Ruler: 6 wins in Australia, H G Bolton Sprint LR) 2006: Wherever (g Al Maher) unraced.

2007: Stanrose (f Stratum) unraced.

2009: Chivalrous (g Hurricane Sky) unraced.

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international database 2010: BLACK HEART BART (g Blackfriars) 12 wins in Australia, Darley Goodwood G1, Memsie S G1, Underwood S G1, Lee Steere S G2, Victoria H G3, Northerly S G3, Carbine Club of W. A. Easter S LR, Birthday S LR, Aph Contractors Bunbury S LR, Cyril Flower S LR, Schweppes Summer Scorcher LR, Chaff City Pinjarra Classic S LR, 2nd S All Aged S G1, Makybe Diva S G1, Newmarket H G1, AAMI Stradbroke H G1, C B Cox S G2, Auto Classic Asian Beau S G3, Magic Milllion Yearling Challenge S LR, R S Crawford S LR, 3rd Schweppes J C Roberts S LR, Lex Piper T J Smith Trophy LR.

1st Dam: Extremely by Hussonet. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2010: Raise No Doubt (g Not A Single Doubt) 7 wins in Singapore, 3rd Garden City Trophy LR. 2011: AMERICAN HUSSLER (g All American) 7 wins in Australia.

2012: SCRUM (f Flying Spur) 2 wins in Australia.

2013: EXTREME CHOICE (c Not A Single Doubt) 3 wins in Australia, Charter Keck Cramer A J Moir S G1, Ladbrokes Blue Diamond S G1, Chairman's S G3, Inglis Nursery LR. 2014: (f Duporth) 2015: (c Smart Missile)

Broodmare Sire: AT TALAQ. Sire of the dams of 37 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - BLACK HEART BART Blackfriars G1.

Broodmare Sire: HUSSONET. Sire of the dams of 55 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - EXTREME CHOICE Not A Single Doubt G1, LE KEN Easing Along G1, KEBEDE Redoute's Choice G2, HONESTY PREVAILS Redoute's Choice G3, SELENIA Not A Single Doubt G3, BASILEUS Dream Ahead LR, ICHIBAN Swiss Ace LR, LUCKY BUBBLES Sebring LR, MR RODRIGO Hurricane Cat LR, STRATURBO Stratum LR.

Danzig Danehill Razyana BLACKFRIARS b 96 Grosvenor Kensington Gardens Tilly Foster BLACK HEART BART b g 2010 Roberto At Talaq My Nord SISTER THERESA br 94 Semipalatinsk Alma Mater Sweetie

Charter Keck Cramer A J Moir Stakes, G1, Moonee Valley, September 30, 1000m 1 Extreme Choice (AUS) 3 ch c Not A Single Doubt (AUS) - Extremely (AUS) (Hussonet (USA)) 2 Heatherly (AUS) 4 br f Lonhro (AUS) - Dancing Heather (AUS) (Danzero (AUS)) 3 Wild Rain (AUS) 5 ch f Manhattan Rain (AUS) - North Flower (AUS) (Rory's Jester (AUS)) Sire: NOT A SINGLE DOUBT. Sire of 34 Stakes winners. In 2016 EXTREME CHOICE Hussonet G1, SINGLE GAZE Intergaze G1, DON'T DOUBT MAMMA Fantastic Light G2, FELL SWOOP Fasliyev G2, INTO THE RED Clay Hero G3, SECRET AGENDA Red Ransom G3, SELENIA Hussonet G3, CLEARLY INNOCENT Zabeel LR, LET IT SLIP General Nediym LR, SOUTHERN LEGEND Carnegie LR.

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The Not A Single Doubt/Hussonet cross has produced: EXTREME CHOICE G1, SELENIA G3, Raise No Doubt LR. Danehill Redoute's Choice Shantha's Choice NOT A SINGLE DOUBT b 2001 Rory's Jester Singles Bar Easy Date EXTREME CHOICE ch c 2013 Mr Prospector Hussonet Sacahuista EXTREMELY 2005 Nasty And Bold Going to Extremes Ole Bow Wower

TAB Epsom Handicap, G1, Randwick, October 1, 1600m 1 Hauraki (AUS) 5 b c Reset (AUS) Youthful Presence (AUS) (Dehere) 2 Dibayani (IRE) 6 b g Shamardal (USA) - Dibiya (IRE) (Caerleon) 3 Mackintosh (NZ) 4 b g Pins (AUS) - Lolly Scramble (NZ) (Generous) Sire: RESET. Sire of 30 Stakes winners. In 2016 - HAURAKI Dehere G1.

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1st Dam: Youthful Presence by Dehere. unraced. Dam of 6 winners: 2002: Shibata (f Testa Rossa) unraced. Broodmare.

2003: DELEDIO (c Testa Rossa) 6 wins in Australia, Hill-Smith S LR. 2005: JUVENILES (g Octagonal) 6 wins in Australia.

2006: KIDNAPPED (g Viscount) 5 wins in Australia, betfair.com South Australian Derby G1.

2007: Energetic (c Octagonal) unraced.

2008: TEENAGER (f Canny Lad) Winner in Australia.

2009: ACADEMUS (g Lonhro) 4 wins in Australia, Sky Racing Western Australian Guineas G2, 3rd Patinack Farm T J Smith G1.

2010: Young (c Street Cry) unraced.

2011: HAURAKI (c Reset) 2 wins in Australia, TAB Epsom H G1, Tattersalls Club Tramway S G2, Tulloch S G2, 2nd BMW Australian Derby G1, Hardy Brothers Doomben Cup G1, Colgate George Main S G1, Ranvet Rawson S G1, Cellarbrations Phar Lap S G2, New Jaguar F-Pace A D Hollindale S G2, APN Outdoor Craven Plate G3, 3rd Precise Air Chipping Norton S G1, Optus Business Apollo S G2.

2012: Vernal (f Bernardini) unraced.

2014: (f Sepoy) Broodmare Sire: DEHERE. Sire of the dams of 62 Stakes winners. In 2016 - HAURAKI Reset G1, GREENGRASSOFYOMING Quest G3, BLACK MODEL Great Hunter LR, RAGEESE Street Cry LR, ZAMZAM Redoute's Choice LR. The Reset/Dehere cross has produced: HAURAKI G1, REBEL RAIDER G1, SET FOR FAME G1, CADILLAC MOUNTAIN G2, Jetoomy LR. Zabeel RESET b 2000

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Zeditave Assertive Lass Sommes Sound HAURAKI b c 2011 Deputy Minister Dehere Sister Dot YOUTHFUL PRESENCE b 97 Old Vic Young Vic Loralane

Sydney Airport Flight Stakes, G1, Randwick, October 1, 1600m 1 Global Glamour (AUS) 3 b/br f Star Witness (AUS) - Spectacula (AUS) (Testa Rossa (AUS)) 2 Yankee Rose (AUS) 3 b/br f All American (AUS) - Condesaar (AUS) (Xaar (GB)) 3 Sezanne (AUS) 3 b f More Than Ready (USA) - Champagne Harmony (AUS) (Choisir (AUS)) Sire: STAR WITNESS. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GLOBAL GLAMOUR Testa Rossa G1, STAR TURN Made of Gold G3.

1st Dam: Spectacula by Testa Rossa. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: Koonibba (g Domesday) unraced.

2013: GLOBAL GLAMOUR (f Star Witness) Sydney Airport Flight S G1, 3rd Fast & Furious S G2.

Broodmare Sire: TESTA ROSSA. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GLOBAL GLAMOUR Star Witness G1, SNIPPETS LAND Snippetson G3, FELTRE Show A Heart LR, STONEDANCE Red Giant LR. Soviet Star Starcraft Flying Floozie STAR WITNESS ch 2007 Lion Hunter Leone Chiara Chiara GLOBAL GLAMOUR b/br f 2013 Perugino Testa Rossa Bo Dapper SPECTACULA br 2004 Success Express Western Success Western Cent

McGrath Estate Agents The Metropolitan, G1, Randwick, October 1, 2400m 1 Sir John Hawkwood (IRE) 7 b g Sir Percy (GB) - Athene (IRE) (Rousillon (USA)) 2 Antonio Giuseppe (NZ) 4 br g Shocking (AUS) - Crystalthecowgirl (NZ) (High Chaparral (IRE)) 3 Allergic (AUS) 5 b g Street Cry (IRE) - Cajou (AUS) (Encosta de Lago (AUS)) Age: 3-7; Starts: 27; Wins: 7; Places: 9 Earnings: £340,459

international database Sire: SIR PERCY. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2016 - SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD Rousillon G1, WAKE FOREST Lomitas G1, ALYSSA Galileo LR, CLEONTE Beat Hollow LR, MADRILENO Zilzal LR, QUEBEE Intikhab LR. 1st Dam: ATHENE by Rousillon.

Winner at 3. Dam of 9 winners: 1996: SIDE SADDLE (f Saddlers' Hall) 3 wins at 2 to 4 in France, USA, Prix de Royaumont G3, 2nd Prix de Malleret G2. Broodmare.

1997: LAST ROMAN (g Salse) 5 wins at 3 to 5 in France.

1998: Polish Palace (f Polish Precedent) unraced. Broodmare.

1999: SALT CELLAR (g Salse) Winner over hurdles.

2000: MACHINIST (g Machiavellian) 8 wins.

2002: ATHENS (c Saddlers' Hall) Winner at 3.

2003: GREEK RENAISSANCE (c Machiavellian) 5 wins at 3 and 4 at home, UAE, Igloos Bentinck S G3.

2005: World View (f Golan) ran 3 times. Broodmare.

2008: ADONE (g Araafa) 2 wins at 3 in Sweden.

2009: SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD (g Sir Percy) 7 wins to 2016 at home, Australia, The Metropolitan G1, Sky High S G3, Christmas Cup LR, 2nd Brisbane Cup G2, Schweppes Chairman's H G2, Kingston Town S G3, Chairman's H G3, Tattersalls Club Cup LR, 3rd Neville Sellwood S G3.

2010: SUPERNOVA HEIGHTS (f Oasis Dream) Winner at 2.

Broodmare.

2012: Areiopagos (g Lawman) ran twice and ran on the flat in France.

2014: Olive Branch (f Arcano) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: ROUSILLON. Sire of the dams of 21 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD Sir Percy G1.

Darshaan Mark of Esteem Homage SIR PERCY b 2003 Blakeney Percy's Lass Laughing Girl SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD b g 2009 Riverman Rousillon Belle Dorine ATHENE br 91 Ela-Mana-Mou Gay Hellene Gaily

Livamol Classic Ormond Memorial, G1, Hastings, October 1, 2000m 1 Cazals (IRE) 8 gr g Aussie Rules (USA) - Secrete Marina (IRE) (Mujadil (USA)) 2 Humidor (NZ) 4 b g Teofilo (IRE) Zalika (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ)) 3 Hasselhoof (NZ) 5 b g Tavistock (NZ) - Alpine (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ)) Age: 2-7; Starts: 21; Wins: 5; Places: 8 Earnings: £833,859 Sire: AUSSIE RULES. Sire of 25 Stakes winners. In 2016 - CAZALS Mujadil G1, GAME THEORY Tertullian LR, QUELINDO Fantastic Light LR, SADALMELIK Medicean LR, IRISH CAVALIER Bustino LR. 1st Dam: Secrete Marina by Mujadil. 6 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, 3rd Premio Ubaldo Pandolfi LR. Dam of 5 winners: 2005: ALEPH (c Night Shift) 3 wins at 3 in Italy.

2006: Lady Joe (f Spinning World).

Broodmare.

2007: JOANNA (f High Chaparral) Champion 2yr old filly in Italy in 2009. 6 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Italy, Prix de Sandringham G2, 2nd Prix Maurice de Gheest G1, 3rd Total Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Poule d'Essai des Pouliches G1.

Dam of RAFAADAH (f Oasis Dream: 2 wins at 2 in France, Gd. Criterium de Bordeaux HK Jockey Club LR) 2008: CAZALS (g Aussie Rules). 5 wins at 2, 3 and 5 in Hong Kong, Italy, Livamol Classic Ormond Memorial G1, Premio Merano LR, Premio Gardone LR, 2nd Longines Hong Kong Vase G1, Derby Italiano G2, The Queen Mother Memorial Cup LR, Standard Chartered Chpns. & Chater Cup LR, The Sa Sa Ladies' Purse LR, 3rd Hanui Farm Karaka Classic Metric Mile LR. 2009: JAVIER (c Ad Valorem) 4 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy.

2010: NIDINA (f Hurricane Run) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2011: Snow (f Galileo) ran twice.

2012: Blue Marine (f Danehill Dancer) unraced. Broodmare.

2013: Josapha (f High Chaparral) in training.

2015: (f Galileo)

Broodmare Sire: MUJADIL. Sire of the dams of 29 Stakes winners. In 2016 - CAZALS Aussie Rules G1, HARLEM SHAKE Moss Vale LR, INFERNO Bushranger LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana AUSSIE RULES gr/ro 2003 Alzao Last Second Alruccaba CAZALS gr g 2008 Storm Bird Mujadil Vallee Secrete SECRETE MARINA b 99 Riverman Marina Lady Amenity

Sprinters Stakes, G1, Nakayama, October 2, 1200m 1 Red Falx (JPN) 5 gr c Swept Overboard (USA) - Vermouth (JPN) (Sunday Silence (USA)) 2 Mikki Isle (JPN) 5 b c Deep Impact (JPN) - Star Isle (IRE) (Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)) 3 Solveig (JPN) 3 ch f Daiwa Major (JPN) - As de Coeur (JPN) (Jungle Pocket (JPN)) Sire: SWEPT OVERBOARD. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2016 - RED FALX Sunday Silence G1.

1st Dam: VERMOUTH by Sunday Silence. Winner in Japan. Own sister to STINGER and SILENT HAPPINESS. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: Lady Be Good (f White Muzzle) 2005: Air Papa Gateau (c Agnes World) unraced.

2006: TOSEN ROMANEE (c Tanino Gimlet) 6 wins at 3, 5 and 6 in Japan.

2007: Sky Surfer (c Swept Overboard) unraced.

2008: RED SCHNEID (c French Deputy) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Japan.

2011: RED FALX (c Swept Overboard) Sprinters S G1, CBC Sho G3, Keyaki S LR. Broodmare Sire: SUNDAY SILENCE. Sire of the dams of 165 Stakes winners. In 2016 LOGOTYPE Lohengrin G1, RED FALX Swept Overboard G1, CECCHINO King Kamehameha G2, CRYPTOGRAM King Kamehameha G2, DURAMENTE King

Kamehameha G2, LANI Tapit G2, AWARDEE Jungle Pocket G3, BAKUSHIN TEIO Sakura Bakushin O G3, DANCE DIRECTOR Aldebaran G3, VOUS ETES JOLIE Lohengrin G3, YOUNG MAN POWER Snitzel G3, AMOUR BRILLER Smart Strike LR, IMPULSE HERO Kurofune LR, JEALOUSY Harbinger LR, NAMURA ANNE Empire Maker LR, SANACION Symboli Kris S LR. The Swept Overboard/Sunday Silence cross has produced: RED FALX G1, FLORENTINO G2, Belle Lumiere G2, Kyoei Storm G3, Snow Angel G3, Iron Duke LR, Miorichan LR, Not Authority LR. Forty Niner End Sweep Broom Dance SWEPT OVERBOARD gr/ro 97 Cutlass Sheer Ice Hey Dolly A RED FALX gr c 2011 Halo Sunday Silence Wishing Well VERMOUTH b 97 Affirmed Legacy of Strength Katonka

Yellowglen Turnbull Stakes, G1, Flemington, October 2, 2000m 1 Hartnell (GB) 5 b g Authorized (IRE) - Debonnaire (GB) (Anabaa (USA)) 2 Jameka (AUS) 4 b f Myboycharlie (IRE) - Mine Game (AUS) (General Nediym (AUS)) 3 Tally (AUS) 4 b c Street Cry (IRE) Itemise (USA) (Kris S (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 25; Wins: 9; Places: 8 Earnings: £1,012,946 Sire: AUTHORIZED. Sire of 32 Stakes winners. In 2016 HARTNELL Anabaa G1, MAYGROVE Zabeel G2, SIGNOFF Gone West G3, ELITE ARMY Platini LR, ZUBAYR Dalakhani LR. 1st Dam: DEBONNAIRE by Anabaa.

2 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2010: ROZ (f Teofilo) 2 wins at 2, Weatherbys VAT Services Star S LR, 2nd Shadwell Fillies' Mile S G1.

Broodmare.

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international database 2011: HARTNELL (g Authorized) Sold 45,000gns yearling at TAOC2.

9 wins at 2 to 5, 2016 at home, Australia, Turnbull S G1, H E Tancred S G1, Chelmsford S G2, Hill S G2, Bahrain Trophy G3, McGrath Estate Agents Sky High S G3, Queen's Vase LR, 2nd Chipping Norton S G1, Warwick S G2, betfred.com Derby Trial S LR, 3rd Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1.

2012: PHYLLIS MAUD (f Halling) 4 wins at 2 and 3.

2015: (c Frankel) 2016: (f Frankel) Broodmare Sire: ANABAA. Sire of the dams of 73 Stakes winners. In 2016 - BUFFERING Mossman G1, ENGLISH Encosta de Lago G1, HARTNELL Authorized G1, BLACKTYPE Dunkerque G2, CAPRI Galileo G2, AKIHIRO Deep Impact G3, JIMMY TWO TIMES Kendargent G3, NAUTICAL Niello G3, QUEENS RING Manhattan Cafe G3, ZGHORTA DANCE Le Havre G3, HANDFAST Street Cry LR, LOPERA Monsun LR, MOONRISE LANDING Dalakhani LR, MURPHY'S DELIGHT Hurricane Run LR, PRINCE MAG Zamindar LR, SEBRING SALLY Sebring LR, THROSSELL Captain Sonador LR, SUPERB STORY Duke of Marmalade LR. Sadler's Wells Montjeu Floripedes AUTHORIZED b 2004 Saumarez Funsie Vallee Dansante HARTNELL b g 2011 Danzig Anabaa Balbonella DEBONNAIRE b 2005 Rahy Ultra Finesse Suavite

Moet & Chandon Spring Champion Stakes, G1, Randwick, October 8, 2000m 1 Yankee Rose (AUS) 3 b/br f All American (AUS) - Condesaar (AUS) (Xaar (GB)) 2 Swear (AUS) 3 b c Redoute's Choice (AUS) - Crossyourheart (NZ) (Show A Heart (AUS)) 3 Prized Icon (AUS) 3 br c More Than Ready (USA) - Tropical Affair (AUS) (Danehill (USA))

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Sire: ALL AMERICAN. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2016 - YANKEE ROSE Xaar G1, ZEBULON Saint Ballado LR. 1st Dam: Condesaar by Xaar. ran on the flat in Australia. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: GREAT DANSAAR (f Choisir) 3 wins in Australia.

2011: COLLEGE GIRL (f All American) Winner in Australia.

2012: Aldesaar (g Magic Albert) 2013: YANKEE ROSE (f All American) 3 wins in Australia, Inglis Sires' Produce S G1, Moet & Chandon Spring Champion S G1, 2nd Sydney Airport Flight S G1, Longines Golden Slipper S G1.

2015: (f Magic Albert) Broodmare Sire: XAAR. Sire of the dams of 20 Stakes winners. In 2016 - HARZAND Sea The Stars G1, YANKEE ROSE All American G1, ADJUSTED Montjeu G2, TSARITSA Dane Shadow G2, NINTH LEGION Fastnet Rock LR, THE ALFONSO Magnus LR, VAL NANDA Fast Company LR, XAARINO Kendargent LR. Roberto Red Ransom Arabia ALL AMERICAN br 2005 Strawberry Road Milva Tersa YANKEE ROSE b/br f 2013 Zafonic Xaar Monroe CONDESAAR br/bl 2004 El Gran Senor Condescendance Condessa

Grande Premio Jockey Club de Sao Paulo, G1, Cidade Jardim, October 8, 2000m 1 Salto Olimpico (BRZ) 3 b c Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) - Sarada (BRZ) (New Colony (USA)) 2 Maraton (BRZ) 3 b c Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) - Virgo Dancer (BRZ) (Fantastic Dancer (BRZ)) 3 Boris Do Jaguarete (BRZ) 3 b c Amigoni (IRE) - Golden Medal (BRZ) (Roi Normand (USA)) Sire: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR. Sire of 58 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DESIGNS ON ROME Alleged G1, MARATON Fantastic Dancer G1,

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SALTO OLIMPICO New Colony G1, PARVANEH Kahyasi G2, RICH LEGACY Galileo G2, IXQUENTA Choctaw Ridge G3, RICH TAPESTRY Sadler's Wells G3, SHEIDEL Metal Storm G3, EMPEROR MAX Strategic LR, GENTLEMAN ONLY Ali-Royal LR, HOKU Cadeaux Genereux LR, HOLY BYBLOS Shudanz LR. 1st Dam: Sarada by New Colony. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2005: Sagacita (f Redattore) 3rd G. P. Zelia Gonzaga Peixoto de Castro G1. Dam of MANDINGA (f Top Hat: C. Pres.Jose Bonifacio Coutinho Nogueira G2, 2nd Org.Sulamericana Fomento P.S. de Corrida G1) 2009: Fantastic Four (c Giant Gentleman) unraced.

2010: Signore Trovattore (c Redattore) unraced.

2011: The Best Sarada (c Macho Uno) unraced.

2013: SALTO OLIMPICO (c Holy Roman Emperor) Grande Premio Jockey Club de Sao Paulo G1.

Broodmare Sire: NEW COLONY. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners. In 2016 - SALTO OLIMPICO Holy Roman Emperor G1.

Danzig Danehill Razyana HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR b 2004 Secretariat L'On Vite Fanfreluche SALTO OLIMPICO b c 2013 French Colonial New Colony Newfoundland SARADA b 99 Baligh Sweet Mind Sweet Honey

Grande Premio Henrique de Toledo Lara, G1, Cidade Jardim, October 8, 1800m 1 Kiss Me Now (BRZ) 3 ch f T H Approval (USA) - Augusta Girl (BRZ) (A Good Reason (BRZ)) 2 Pista Olimpica (BRZ) 3 b f Agnes Gold (JPN) - Paola Rubia (BRZ) (Clackson (BRZ)) 3 Exhibition (BRZ) 3 b f Wild Event (USA) - Red Tulip (BRZ) (Roi Normand (USA)) Sire: T H APPROVAL. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2016 - KISS ME NOW A Good Reason G1.

1st Dam: Augusta Girl by A Good Reason. 3 wins in Brazil, 3rd C. Presidente Joao Tobias de Aguiar LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: KISS ME NOW (f T H Approval) Grande Premio Henrique de Toledo Lara G1.

Broodmare Sire: A GOOD REASON. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2016 - KISS ME NOW T H Approval G1.

Caro With Approval Passing Mood T H APPROVAL gr/ro 2001 Potrillazo Potrichal Chaldee KISS ME NOW ch f 2013 Purple Mountain A Good Reason Met Blade AUGUSTA GIRL ch 2002 Midnight Tiger Crazy People Cole Slaw

Schweppes The 1000 Guineas, G1, Caulfield, October 8, 1600m 1 Global Glamour (AUS) 3 b/br f Star Witness (AUS) - Spectacula (AUS) (Testa Rossa (AUS)) 2 I Am A Star (NZ) 3 b f I Am Invincible (AUS) - Star Band (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Whispering Brook (AUS) 3 br f Hinchinbrook (AUS) - Artful Whisper (USA) (Machiavellian) Sire: STAR WITNESS. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GLOBAL GLAMOUR Testa Rossa G1, MELLA MARIA Keep The Faith G2, STAR TURN Made of Gold G2.

1st Dam: Spectacula by Testa Rossa. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: Koonibba (g Domesday) unraced.

2013: GLOBAL GLAMOUR (f Star Witness) Sydney Airport Flight S G1, Schweppes The 1000 Guineas G1, 3rd Fitzy & Wippa's Fast & Furious S G2.

Broodmare Sire: TESTA ROSSA. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GLOBAL GLAMOUR Star Witness G1, SNIPPETS LAND Snippetson G3, FELTRE Show A Heart LR, STONEDANCE Red Giant LR. Soviet Star

international database Starcraft Flying Floozie STAR WITNESS ch 2007 Lion Hunter Leone Chiara Chiara GLOBAL GLAMOUR b/br f 2013 Perugino Testa Rossa Bo Dapper SPECTACULA br 2004 Success Express Western Success Western Cent

Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes, G1, Caulfield, October 8, 2000m 1 Winx (AUS) 5 b f Street Cry (IRE) - Vegas Showgirl (NZ) (Al Akbar) 2 Black Heart Bart (AUS) 6 b g Blackfriars (AUS) - Sister Theresa (AUS) (At Talaq (USA)) 3 He Or She (AUS) 6 ch g Kendel Star (AUS) - Danessa (AUS) (West Point (AUS)) Sire: STREET CRY. Sire of 105 Stakes winners. In 2016 - WINX Al Akbar G1, GLENVILLE GARDENS Storm Cat G2, SHE'S NOT HERE Aljabr G2, SOLICIT Danehill G2, TALLY Kris S G2, ALLERGIC Encosta de Lago G3, HEAVENS ABOVE Germano G3, TRIBAL BEAT Mujahid G3, ABINGDON Galileo LR, ALUCINARI Redoute's Choice LR, FITOU Hennessy LR, HANDFAST Anabaa LR, MACDUFF Spectrum LR, PURE DIAMOND Platini LR, RAGEESE Dehere LR, TELPERION Redoute's Choice LR. 1st Dam: VEGAS SHOWGIRL by Al Akbar. 7 wins in Australia, New Zealand, NZ Bloodstock 2yo Fillies S LR, Leila Macdonald Soliloquy S LR, 2nd Hawkeye @ Stoney Bridge Evergreen S G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: Miss Atom Bomb (f Encosta de Lago) unraced.

2011: WINX (f Street Cry) 13 wins in Australia, Chipping Norton S G1, Star Doncaster Mile H G1, Epsom H G1, George Main S G1, George Ryder S G1, Queensland Oaks G1, WS Cox Plate G1, Caulfield S G1, Apollo S G2, Phar Lap S G2, Theo Marks S G2, Warwick S G2, Furious S G2, XXXX Sunshine Coast Guineas G3, 2nd Australian Oaks G1, Coolmore Flight S G1, Coolmore Tea Rose S G2.

2012: (c Fastnet Rock) 2013: EL DIVINO (c Snitzel) 2 wins in Australia, Kindergarten S G3.

2014: (c Snitzel)

Broodmare Sire: AL AKBAR. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - WINX Street Cry G1, EL DIVINO Snitzel G3, KICK BACK Bahhare LR. Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie STREET CRY b/br 98 Troy Helen Street Waterway WINX b f 2011 Success Express Al Akbar Gala Night VEGAS SHOWGIRL b 2002 Voodoo Rhythm Vegas Magic Vegas Street

Ladbrokes Caulfield Guineas, G1, Caulfield, October 8, 1600m 1 Divine Prophet (AUS) 3 b c Choisir (AUS) - Prophet Jewel (AUS) (Encosta de Lago (AUS)) 2 Seaburge (AUS) 3 ch c Sebring (AUS) - Polska (AUS) (Encosta de Lago (AUS)) 3 Hey Doc (AUS) 3 b c Duporth (AUS) - Heyington Honey (AUS) (General Nediym (AUS)) Sire: CHOISIR. Sire of 77 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DIVINE PROPHET Encosta de Lago G1, THE LAST LION Brief Truce G1, JAPONISME Encosta de Lago G2, BIG MONEY Humam G3, DEFCON Encosta de Lago G3, OBVIOUSLY Montjeu G3, CHOICE BRO Palace Music LR, ELOPING Rory's Jester LR, SECRET WEAPON Montjeu LR, YULONG BAOBEI Bahamian Bounty LR, ZARANTZ Johannesburg LR, ZENALICIOUS Fantastic Light LR. 1st Dam: Prophet Jewel by Encosta de Lago. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: PROISIR (c Choisir) CocaCola Spring S G3, 2nd Royal Randwick Guineas G1, Spring Champion S G1.

2011: (f Dylan Thomas) 2013: DIVINE PROPHET (c Choisir) Caulfield Guineas G1, Primo Smallgoods Up And Coming S G3, 2nd Stan Fox S G2, 3rd Moet & Chandon Champagne S G1.

Broodmare Sire: ENCOSTA DE LAGO. Sire of the dams of 56 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DIVINE

PROPHET Choisir G1, PEEPING Redoute's Choice G1, SOFIA ROSA Makfi G1, THE QUARTERBACK Street Boss G1, CATCH A FIRE Sebring G2, IMPENDING Lonhro G2, INTO THE MIST Redoute's Choice G2, JAPONISME Choisir G2, SEABURGE Sebring G2, ALLERGIC Street Cry G3, DEFCON Choisir G3, TEMPT ME NOT Strategic Maneuver G3, DIVINE CENTURI I Am Invincible LR, NOT LISTENIN'TOME Dylan Thomas LR, TUDOR Strategic LR, GOLD MEDALS Elvstroem LR. The Choisir/Encosta de Lago cross has produced: DIVINE PROPHET G1, JAPONISME G1, PROISIR G1, DEFCON G2, FRESPANOL LR, Resistant LR. Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde CHOISIR ch 99 Lunchtime Great Selection Pensive Mood DIVINE PROPHET b c 2013 Fairy King Encosta de Lago Shoal Creek PROPHET JEWEL br 99 Centaine Factor Imperial Bride

2016 - OUR ROKKII Roc de Cambes G1, WAKE FOREST Sir Percy G1, HARGEISA Speightstown G3, ISABELLA SINGS Eskendereya G3, WASIR Rail Link G3, ARAZZA Areion LR, COSMELLI Mr Vegas LR, GM HOPKINS Dubawi LR. Roberto Red Ransom Arabia ROC DE CAMBES b/br 2004 Fairy King Fairy Lights Gay Fantastic OUR ROKKII b g 2012 Niniski Lomitas La Colorada CLERIHEW b 2003 Soviet Star Clerio Lady of The Sea

BMW Caulfield Cup, G1, Caulfield, October 15, 2400m 1 Jameka (AUS) 4 b f Myboycharlie (IRE) - Mine Game (AUS) (General Nediym (AUS)) 2 Scottish (IRE) 4 b g Teofilo (IRE) Zeiting (IRE) (Zieten (USA)) 3 Exosphere (GB) 4 b c Beat Hollow (GB) - Bright And Clear (GB) (Danehill (USA))

IG Markets Toorak Handicap, G1, Caulfield, October 8, 1600m 1 Our Rokkii (NZ) 4 b g Roc de Cambes (NZ) - Clerihew (GB) (Lomitas (GB)) 2 Great Esteem (AUS) 6 b c Redoute's Choice (AUS) - Park Esteem (IRE) (Singspiel (IRE)) 3 Tivaci (AUS) 4 b c High Chaparral (IRE) - Breccia (NZ) (Fastnet Rock)

Sire: MYBOYCHARLIE. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2016 - JAMEKA General Nediym G1, CAMPROCK Sadler's Wells G3, CHARLIE BOY Falbrav G3, CHEIKELJACK Giant's Causeway G3, LANDFALL Arch G3, BLUEBERRY HILL Falbrav LR, SWEET CHARITY Peintre Celebre LR.

1st Dam: Clerihew by Lomitas. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: ALUMINIUM BIKERACK (f Fantastic Light) 3 wins in New Zealand.

2012: OUR ROKKII (g Roc de Cambes) 1 win in Australia, IG Markets Toorak H G1, TJS Frank Packer Plate G3, Carbine Club S G3, 2nd Taranaki Classic G3.

1st Dam: Mine Game by General Nediym. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: Logovardi (c Nadeem) unraced.

2012: JAMEKA (f Myboycharlie) BMW Caulfield Cup G1, Crown Victoria Oaks G1, Sires' Produce S G2, Dilmah Teas Moonee Valley Vase G2, Naturalism Cup G3, 2nd Australian Derby G1, The 1000 Guineas G1, Turnbull S G1, 3rd Sky Racing Rosehill Guineas G1, Schweppes 1000 Gns Tranquil Star Prelude G2, RL Inglis 2yo Premier S LR, Telestra Atlantic Jewel S LR. 2013: Nikitas (c Snitzel) 2nd Jeep Magic Millions 2yo Classic LR, 3rd Mitavite BRC Sires' Produce S G2.

Broodmare Sire: LOMITAS. Sire of the dams of 39 Stakes winners. In

Broodmare Sire: GENERAL NEDIYM. Sire of the dams of 16

Sire: ROC DE CAMBES. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2016 - OUR ROKKII Lomitas G1.

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photos of the month: Maurice wins on final start

Japan’s favourite horse Maurice

brought his career to an end at the top when he won the 1m2f Group 1 Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin’s International meeting in December.

The Screen Hero colt was winning at Sha Tin for the third time having previously won the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile in 2015 and the Champions Mile (G1) last May.

Jockey Ryan Moore won four races – all Group 1 or Grade 1 races – on the Noriyuki Hori-trained six-year-old, winning every time he was on board aside from his first ride on him in a juvenile when sixth in a Grade 2 at Tokyo.

Maurice retires to stud the winner of over £5,600,000 in earnings.

Moore must had a soft spot for the brilliant horse – a sign of which is revealed in the picture on our right.

Understandably, the jockey is loved in Japan (where jockeys are idolised) and Hong Kong, and, above, he is signing his autograph for his one of his many fans.

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THE LEADING FIRST SEASON SIRE IN FRANCE IN 2016

2 CLASSIC PROSPECTS FOR 2017 : BRAMETOT – winner of Listed Grand Criterium de Bordeaux (like ALMANZOR in 2015) PRINZ HLODOWIG – 2nd Gr.3 Prix de Conde (ahead of Gr.1 winner Waldgeist)

PRINZ HLODOWIG 2nd Gr.3 Prix de Condé

BRAMETOT – Listed Critérium de Bordeaux

“BRAMETOT is definitely one of my Classic prospects for 2017” Jean-Claude Rouget

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“ PRINZ HLODOWIG is a horse we hold in very high regard” Mikel Delzangles

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At 2: 1

Sires’ Produce Stakes-Gr.1, Randwick, 7f.

1st Blue Diamond Stakes-Gr.1, Caulfield, 6f.

2nd Blue Diamond Prelude-Gr.3, Caulfield, 5½f. st

At 3: Suffered a career-ending injury on his only start

I would not be an expert on Australian horses, but people I respect rave about a horse who is reverse shuttling to Coolmore; ironically, he’s called Pride of Dubai, and he’s by Street Cry. He won Group 1’s at six and seven furlongs as a 2-year-old in Australia, and his dam is closely related to Kodiac and Invincible Spirit, plus he’s said to be gorgeous; he’s €15,000.

Bill Oppenheim, TDN, 7 December 2016

The fastest 2YO by champion sire STREET CRY. Very closely related to INVINCIBLE SPIRIT and KODIAC. Out of a DANEHILL mare like FRANKEL, TEOFILO and SIYOUNI.

New for 2017

Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh Tel: +353-52-6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy. Tel: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) Tel: +44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com