“I absolutely loved the Kameko’s and ended up buying four! The colt out of Golden Spell was a standout at the sale.”
Michael Fitzpatrick,
Kilminfoyle House Stud“They were strikingly similar with a lot of strength and good walks.There was plenty of judges going around the sales saying they liked the Kameko’s.”
Joe Foley, Ballyhane Stud
“We bid on a few Kameko’s and what particularly appealed to us was how consistently Kameko stamped his stock with his physique and athleticism.”
Michael Gleeson, Aughamore Stud
Won a vintage renewal defeating Group 1 winners
Circus Maximus, Kameko and Siskin
A Group winner at two, three and four
SHOWCASING’S BEST SON
Official rating: 123 |
Timeform: 129
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As a fan of Mohaather who was a proper Group 1 racehorse, I was interested to see his first foals last year and they didn’t disappoint. They looked athletic and racy. I’m looking forward to seeing more of his first crop at the upcoming yearling sales. ”
Joe Foley, Ballyhane Stud“
I have always liked Mohaather and have supported him throughout. We sold some incredibly nice foals by him last year and I’m confident they will make good racehorses. He was an extremely talented Group 1-winning miler on the track with a turn of foot to match. From what I have seen, he seems to have passed his good looks and athleticism onto his stock. We are excited to be consigning some early looking and well-bred yearlings of his at the upcoming sales. ”
Tom Blain, Barton Stud“
Mohaather was a hugely talented racehorse, he showed that with a remarkable performance in a strong Sussex. He is also from a very good family. I like the stallion a lot and I’m looking forward to consigning four of his first yearlings, one in Book 1 and three in Book 2. ”
David Hodge, Llety Farms
Shamardal’s unforgettable juvenile who was Horse of the Year at two. Dominant in the G1 Dewhurst and dazzling ninelength winner of the G1 National. From the stallion-making family of Kodiac and Invincible Spirit.
FIRST YEARLINGS SELLING NOW...
He clearly has tons of speed, and he killed off the opposition in the final furlong.
GROUP WINNER UNDEFEATED OVER 5F/6F
Recording one of the fastest times ever, faster than Mabs Cross, Marsha, Profitable, Equiano, Dandy Man, etc. Higher rated than Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Dark Angel, No Nay Never & Showcasing.
Dubawi Legend Far Above King Of Change
Kuroshio Galileo Chrome
One of the best performances at 1m all season, winning with authority.
Timeform:
2nd
By a Gr.1 miler & half to a Gr.2 miler
13 Back to the future
Including our Master List with stallions listed by Timeform master ratings
16 Go For Gold
Golden Horde was the first stallion purchased by Nurlan Bizakov to stand at his newly acquired farm Haras de Montfort et Preaux, and the sire’s first yearlings hit auction rings this autumn
23 River springs
Tara Stud’s Grade 1-winning homebred River Boyne was brought back from the US to stand at his birthplace – James Thomas chats with breeder Derek Iceton
31 Foal prices
Last year’s foal sale returns
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FIRST YEARLINGS 2023
The exceptional triple Gr.1 hero by Kingman
Newmarket Autumn Stakes Gr.3 at 2
Prix de Fontainebleau Gr.3
Poule d’Essai des Poulains Gr.1
2 nd Prix du Jockey Club Gr.1
Prix du Muguet Gr.2
Prix d’Ispahan Gr.1
Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Gr.1
3 rd Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Gr.1
FROM GREATNESS TO SUCCESS, GOOD FORTUNE IS NO COINCIDENCE.
THIS YEAR HAS SPED along and, amazingly, we are already back into the yearling sales season and assessing this year’s first-crop yearlings.
Through the 2023 racing season we have enjoyed watching Blue Point, Darley’s son of Shamardal, go from strength to strength as an emerging stallion – first getting a good number of early winners on board, then claiming a Royal Ascot winner with Big Evs, who has also gone forward to win the Molecomb Stakes (G3).
Darley will be hoping that its champion and almost uniquely-rated two-year-old Pinatubo, who won the National Stakes (G1) and then the Dewhurst Stakes in such devastating fashion, and Earthlight, the winner of seven of his nine starts, including the Middle Park Stakes (G1) and the Prix Morny (G1), as fellow homebred sons of Shamardal can repeat Blue Point’s feat.
The same sentiments will be expressed at Yeomanstown – the Irish farm stands Shaman, also a son of Shamardal, bred by Wertheimer Et Frere. He was not a stakes winner as a juvenile, but went on at three to finish second in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) to Persian King, win the Prix d’Harcourt (G2) at four and finish third to the subsequent Arc winner Sottsass in the Prix Ganay (G1).
With Paddington’s thrilling performances this year, following from St Mark’s Basilica in 2020-21, Coolmore is developing a close affinity for sire Siyouni. The farm will be hoping that his son Sottsass, the White Birch Farm-owned Arc winner, can not only do himself proud as a sire with his first stock at this year’s sales and on the racecourse next season, but will also pave the way for his paternal siblings.
Sottsass collected three Group 1s over 1m4f and 1m2f, won the Arc and the Jockey-Club (from fellow three-time Group 1 winner and young sire Persian King) and only once finished out of the first four placings.
The only colt in this generation of sires to claim a Timeform rating over 130 was Ghaiyyath, the son of Dubawi the winner of the Irish Champion Stakes (G1), the International Stakes (G1), the Eclipse (G1) and the Coronation Cup (G1) in a fine run of four top-level successes as a five-year-old.
This year’s sire with first runners, the numerically second-placed Soldier’s Call, is doing his bit for his paternal sibling, the Sussex Stakes (G1) and Timeform second top-rated Mohaather, while the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) winner Without Parole has joined the growing band of sons of Frankel at stud.
Circus Maximus is one of the last sons of the former champion Galileo to become a stallion prospect.
Scat Daddy’s son Justify is clearing the path as a second-season sire on both sides of the Atlantic on both Dirt and Turf surfaces, and Whitsbury Manor Stud will be banking that Sergei Prokofiev, its own son of the late US-based sire, who had by far the most foals offered at the sales last autumn, will do a “Havana Grey”.
Van Beethoven, winner of the Group 2 Railway Stakes and runner-up in the Secretariat Stakes (G1), stands at new farm Karwin Stud.
Kitten’s Joy, a fellow US-based sire of sires but unlike Scat Daddy wholly a Turf influence, has the one representative in this draft – the 2,000 Guineas winner Kameko, also winner of the Futurity Stakes (G1).
Fellow new French sires include the tough-running Romanised (Holy Roman Emperor) and Wooded (Wootton Bassett) at Al Shaqab, Threat (Footstepsinthesand) at Haras de Mont Goubert, Persian King (Kingman) and Hello Youmzain (Kodiac) at Haras d’Etreham.
The Group 1-winning sprinter Golden Horde (Lethal Force) is featured in this issue, alongside the US Grade 1 winner River Boyne (Dandy Man).
Winner of the G1 Morny and the G1 Middle Park – in a new record time! – in a brilliant Championship-winning juvenile campaign. He’s by the sire of sensational freshman Blue Point.
SEE HIS FIRST YEARLINGS AT THE SALES...
The Group 1-winning sprinter Golden Horde retired to stand at Nurlan Bizakov’s newly acquired farm Haras de Monfort et Preaux and under the Sumbe banner
The stallion’s first yearlings are hitting sale auction rings this autumn and James Thomas chats to general manager Tony Fry to get the low down on the son of Lethal Force
NURLAN BIZAKOV’s thoroughbred interests have grown exponentially since his early forays into ownership with the likes of Askar Tau, winner of the Lonsdale and Doncaster Cups in 2009.
The following year saw the Kazakhstani businessman purchase Hesmonds Stud in East Sussex before the acquisition of Haras de Montfort et Preaux in 2019. The historic Haras du Mezeray was added to the portfolio in 2021 and the trio have since been united under the Sumbe banner, which takes its name from Bizakov’s place of birth.
The owner’s pale blue and yellow silks have been carried to some notable victories down the years, with talented fillies such as Altyn Orda, Nausha and Tomyris bred at Hesmonds, and Sumbe listed as the breeder of last year’s Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère hero Belbek.
When Bizakov bought Montfort et Preaux his team stated their intention to add to the stallion roster, which at the time was led by Le Havre, who died in March 2022, and the royal homebred Recorder.
Sumbe’s first new stallion acquisition was the Group 1-winning Golden Horde, who will pass the next important milestone in his second career when his debut crop of yearlings reach the sales later this year.
Under the tutelage of Clive Cox, Golden Horde was among the best juveniles of a generation long on two-year-old talent.
His biggest win at two came in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, but he ran to higher figures in defeat on his next two starts.
First, he finished third, less than 3l behind the French champion Earthlight, in the Group 1 Prix Morny before narrowing the gap to that rival to just a neck in the prestigious Middle Park Stakes (G1).
The Al Mohamediya Racing colour-bearer didn’t reappear until the Royal Ascot of his three-year-old season, but duly produced a performance well worth the wait. A field of 16 contested that year’s Group 1 Commonwealth Cup but Golden Horde proved a cut above as he quickened clear from a prominent position to score by a length and a half from the Wesley Wardtrained Kimari.
He ran with real credit against his elders thereafter, finishing third to Oxted in the July Cup (G1) and filling the same position behind Dream Of Dreams on his swansong in the Haydock Sprint Cup (G1). Connections had planned to keep Golden Horde in training for another season until meeting with a minor setback that forced a change of direction.
Taking up the tale of how Sumbe came to stand the Group 1-winning sprinter, general manager Tony Fry says: “There’s only a very small handful of people who own the types of horses you’d like to stand as sires. They’re all in the hands of two or three owners and they don’t sell them on.
“We’d been following Golden Horde though and we’d enquired with Clive early on in his three-year-old career.
“The owners were saying he would stay in training as a four-year-old until he got a little tweak on a tendon and that’s when Clive said the horse was on the market.
“I went over and saw him the next day, and he’d been in his box for maybe ten days at this point. Clive was in there brushing his tail and picking his feet out – I told him not to do too much as he’d be pushing the price up!
“He came out of his box and as he walked up and
Golden Horde achieved a Timeform master rating of 121 and he won over an average winning distance of 6.02f
down the yard I just thought ‘wow!’. He doesn’t have your typical sprinter’s walk and he clearly had a great mind on him so I phoned the boss up and told him this is the type of horse we want to have because he sells himself. It’s hard enough trying to stand stallions so we needed to have a horse that we believed in. He’s that sort of horse; a great racehorse, powerful-looking, athletic and with a great mind on him.”
Bizakov and his team were quick to put their money where their mouth is as they committed 20 members of their blue-chip broodmare band to Golden Horde’s first book.
“When you’re doing that you have to have faith in them,” says Fry. “It’s all well and good telling everyone else they should send their mare to your horse, but you have to have faith and confidence in what you’re standing. You’ve got to put your money where your mouth is and that’s why we’ve sent our best mares to Golden Horde.”
Among the Sumbe mares who visited Golden Horde in that first season were the likes of Albanka, dam of Bizakov’s Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes scorer and multiple Group 1 place getter Altyn Orda, Melilot, dam of the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches-placed Mageva, Ollie Olga, who defeated Sky Lantern to win the Group 3 Prestige Stakes, the Listed-winning Frankel filly Qazyna, and Tomyris, winner of the Group 3 Chartwell Fillies’ Stakes.
Quality is the one commonality among the mares Sumbe
have supported Golden Horde with, but as Fry explains they wanted to explore a range of different options to gain a better understanding of what kind of mare suits best.
“We sent big ones, small ones, grey ones, anything –we want to see what he’s going to throw for us,” says Fry. “We’ve been delighted with our first batch of foals and now our first yearlings. There’s plenty of chestnuts, but the one thing with them is they all have a great mind. That makes them very easy to deal with and I’m sure will make trainers’ and pre-trainers’ lives easier. They all walk too; they have that powerful back-end and they’re just athletic-looking horses.”
FRENCH BREEDERS also got behind Golden Horde, with the likes of Guy Pariente, owner of Haras de Colleville, amongst those who supported the up-and-comer. Another was Didier Blot, who sent Shao Line, dam of the star stayer Trueshan. Shao Line produced a filly in mid-May last year.
Golden Horde is the best runner produced by Lethal Force, the son of Dark Angel who was also trained by Cox to win the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1) and July Cup (G1) during a productive 2013 campaign.
Although Lethal Force would not figure among the stallion ranks’ most in vogue names, Fry remarks
golden hordethat a former Montfort et Preaux resident shows an unfashionable sire of sires need not necessarily be a hindrance to success at stud.
Le Havre, the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club-winning son of Noverre, rose from a humble introductory fee of €5,000 to sire five Group/Grade 1 winners and at one point was one of Europe’s most sought after stallions.
“When Le Havre started out he wasn’t fashionable,” says Fry. “Nobody wanted him. Yes, he was a good racehorse but everyone said he was by the wrong sire. He showed it is doable though.
“People will look at Golden Horde and say it’s Lethal Force, but why not? It’s about giving them the opportunity and believing in them, then sending their progeny to the right trainers. That’s the thing with our own homebreds, and I think plenty of our clients will do the same, we’ll send them to the sort of trainers who will help make your stallion. That’s a really important point.”
There are, though, two sides to every pedigree, and Golden Horde has plenty to recommend him on the female side.
He was bred by James Cloney of Clara Stud in County Kilkenny under the CN Farm banner. He is the fifth foal out of Entreat, a daughter of Pivotal from the family of American champion Serena’s Song, which makes Golden Horde a sibling to the Listed scorers Exhort and Line Of Departure. He is said to bear more than a passing resemblance to his influential dam sire.
“There’s a lot of Pivotal about him,” says Fry. “Far more educated people than me have been to see the horse and as soon as he comes out they’ve said ‘He’s Pivotal all over’. The French are trying to improve their two-year-old scene. Well, he’s a stallion that can help breeders on that front.”
The first Golden Horde yearlings will hit the market at the Arqana August Sale with Anna Sundstrom’s Coulonces Sales offering the colts out of Qamka (Lot 29) and Supporter (89).
The former is out of a sibling to no less than five black-type winners, including the Wolferton Handicap scorer Perfect Stride and Au Revoir, winner of the Group 2 Zipping Classic in Australia.
The French are trying to improve their two-year-old scene. Well, he’s a stallion that can help breeders on that front
The colt out of Supporter boasts an even bigger pedigree – his third dam is none other than the Juddmonte blue hen Hasili, meaning her offspring Banks Hill, Cacique, Champs Elysees, Dansili, Intercontinental and Heat Haze appear on the page.
This pair will be followed into the Deauville ring by seven catalogued for Arqana’s V2 Yearling Sale.
Sumbe added to their team of Golden Horde youngstock at last year’s foal sales and Fry says they will look to do so again this year, should the right opportunity present itself.
“It has to be the right horse, but we’ll certainly go and look at everything by Golden Horde at the sales,” he says. “We’ll definitely look to support him in the ring, as we would with any of our stallions. It’s important that people have confidence you’re with them for the journey. It’s not just an in-and-out situation.”
have a good batch of mares to support Mishriff, Golden Horde and hopefully there will be another new stallion or two.
“We’ve 50-plus mares now and you need that sort of number to support your own stallions, as well as sending the odd one or two out to the outside sires such as Kingman and Showcasing and Siyouni.
“It’s grown very quickly from starting off with six mares to where we are now.”
Fry confesses to being a little queasy about the kind of marketing gobbledygook that tends to surround the launch of any new sire. Fortunately for him and the team at Sumbe, the time for talking is almost over. Before long it will be up to Golden Horde to show the world what he is capable of.
Of Golden Horde, general manager
Tony Fry says:
“There’s a lot of Pivotal about him.
“Far more educated people than me have been to see the horse and as soon as he comes out they’ve said, ‘He’s Pivotal all over.’“
Photos: courtesy of Sumbe
Golden Horde is not the only new name Sumbe has added to their stallion roster with the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club, Sheema Classic (G1) and Juddmonte International (G1) hero Mishriff joining ahead of the 2023 season. Unfortunately injury prevented Prince Faisal’s homebred from commencing covering duties this year, although his loss has been Golden Horde’s gain with a number of mares bound for the son of Make Believe rerouted to his barn mate.
“Golden Horde covered another nice bunch of mares in years two and three and we had a few mares that we’d bought for Mishriff who moved on to him this year,” says Fry.
“It’ll be the same next year when we’re going to have to
“He’s going to have every chance, and that’s all you can hope for,” says Fry.
“It’s like having kids; when they go off on their own you want them to do their best.
“If you’ve given them every chance and done everything you can then the ball is in their court.
“That’s what we’ve done with Golden Horde.”
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Derek Iceton of Tara Stud is looking forward to the first yearlings by his Grade 1 homebred winner River Boyne getting out and about this autumn
OVER THE COURSE of roughly 112km the River Boyne flows north east from Carbury in County Kildare before entering the Irish Sea between the towns of Mornington and Baltray. A rather more circuitous journey has been taken by the thoroughbred River Boyne, who is aiming to pass on his Grade 1-winning talent to the next generation.
The son of Dandy Man took up residence in the stallion yard in Derek Iceton’s Tara Stud in 2021. His arrival was not the first time he had visited the County Meath farm –
Horses in Training Sale at the end of his juvenile season. River Boyne thrived for the change of environment, shedding his maiden tag by 5l on his first start for trainer Jeff Mullins in the US, and he never looked back.
His six other successes all came in stakes company, with his record including a brace of Grade 3 races and a pair of Grade 2 contests, with the latter gained during a fruitful three-year-old season. However, his biggest win came in the Grade 1 Frank E. Kilroe Mile at five, when he battled on in typically determined fashion to deny the three-time top-flight winner Got Stormy by a gutsy neck.
“But I don’t like breeding from those horses. I knew this fella was tough. His mother has bred plenty of horses rated well over 80 so they’re a tough old family. I like Dandy Man as a sire and I’m a commercial breeder at the end of the day, so I didn’t have to think twice about buying him.”
The deal to bring River Boyne back to Tara was so straightforward that, at points, Iceton wondered whether he should have done more due diligence.
“I’d heard he might be for sale, told my wife, lifted the phone and we bought him more or less straight away,” he recalls. “And this isn’t just a vanity project. Previously, I’d stayed in touch with the owners and one day they thought he’d stood on a stone or done something and I asked if they’d sell him.
“They said they would so I got him vetted and we bought him. They came back and said he was sound to keep racing if we wanted to, but I thought he’d done enough.
“I never even went out to see the horse. When he came back I thought perhaps I should’ve gone to look at him because, for a horse running in America as often as he’d run, you’d never know what lumps and bumps might’ve happened. But he hopped off the horsebox and he was just perfect.”
River Boyne was introduced at a fee of €5,000 and covered around 100 mares across his first two seasons at Tara. Iceton offers a frank assessment of the reception his horse came in for, but remains sanguine nonetheless, armed with an approach of quality over quantity.
“I was probably underwhelmed to tell you the truth as I expected to be inundated,” he says when discussing the number of mares River Boyne served. “I had a couple of sons of Dark Angel before that I got huge books to.
“Everyone who saw him thought he was a beauty, but he didn’t cover enough mares. I wasn’t going to go out and take a load of rubbish just to fill him up, though. If you look at the profile of what he has covered, he’s covered some very nice mares. I’d rather cover half a book of good mares than a book and a bit of ordinary mares.
“I was happy to send quite a few of my own good mares and I’m quite happy to put a few of these into training myself, too. It might be the smartest thing I’ve done in my life or it might be the most stupid thing I’ve done in my life! I don’t know which it’s going to be, but we’ll know in another 14 months’ time.”
Having stood four-square behind River Boyne from the get-go, the Tara paddocks are home to a dozen yearlings by the sire. The group includes a particularly well-bred individual whose half-brother is the most recent Group 1 winner to roll off the Tara production line.
“I have around 12 yearlings by River Boyne, including a half-brother to A Case Of You,” says Iceton. “He’s going to my local sale at Tattersalls Ireland at Fairyhouse. Someone from the Tatts Ireland team asked me to send them a decent horse so I said fair enough, there you go. If he doesn’t make enough money, I’ll race him.”
Expanding on the traits he has noticed across the
THE FIRST River Boyne yearlings hitting the sales is not the only thing that Derek Iceton has be excited about this autumn as he also bred the promising Selenaia, a daughter of Sea The Moon last seen running out an easy winner of the Grade 3 Honeymoon Stakes in the colours of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Madaket Stables.
Selenaia was bred after Iceton purchased her dam, Dettoria, through John Walsh Bloodstock for 12,000gns when she was offered on behalf of Gestüt Hof Ittlingen by Newsells Park Stud.
The unraced daughter of Declaration Of War is out of the Group 3-placed Lady Aquitaine, making her a sibling to three black-type performers, including the Listed-winning Lady Of Kyushu and the Listed-placed Star Fortress.
The pedigree received a further boost when another sibling, Lake Forest, ran second to Jasour in this year’s Group 2 July Stakes.
“They tell me she’s very good so hopefully she shows that on the racetrack and I can get another one at the top of the tree,” says Iceton, before expanding on how he came to buy Dettoria. “I’ve always loved pedigree so I try to buy fillies from good breeders, who will have a half-sister or the mother still around. I bought the dam of River Boyne from Usk Valley Stud, I’ve had a bit of luck with Cheveley Park Stud in the past and I’ve had a bit of luck with Newsells, and that’s where Dettoria came from. They have a couple of sisters breeding away there and maybe mummy as well.”
Dettoria delivered a colt by Space Blues earlier this year and has returned to the Kildangan Stud resident on the strength of that individual.
“She has a really lovely colt foal by Space Blues,” says Iceton. “I had a helluva foal and a client’s mare here had one by him too, and I loved the two foals so much I sent the mare back to him, which is something I would normally never do.
“ The half-brother to Selenaia will go to the December Sales and, hopefully, he’ll help pay a few bills.”
Selenaia: the Tara Stud-bred daughter of Sea The Moon, is out of the Declaration Of War mare Dettoria.
She is now a Grade 3 winner in the US and Iceton has a half-brother by Space Blues to sell at the foal sales
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I’d heard he might be for sale, told my wife, lifted the phone and we bought him more or less straight awayPhoto:
Christmas winner: River Boyne with Flavien Prat noses out Desert Stone and Giovanni Franco in the shadow of the post to win the Mathis Brothers Mile Stakes at Santa Anita on December 26, 2018
various foals and yearlings Iceton has encountered, he says: “Obviously I would say they’re nice, but they are. I’ve had the two sales companies here looking at yearlings and both have said, independently, that they’ve seen some nice ones by River Boyne. Some of them look quite precocious and they’re good walkers so they seem athletic.
“They’ve got good temperaments, too, and I think temperament trumps most things in life – in man and beast!”
TARA STUD’s history traces back over 100 years and the farm can count some major winners of yesteryear amongst its roll of honour. Think Haymaking, who struck in the Coronation and Nassau Stakes in 1966, and her descendant Wassl, hero of the 1983 Irish 2,000 Guineas and the following year’s Lockinge Stakes.
Iceton has been at the helm for over 30 years and chief among the stallions he has overseen is Key Of Luck, whose impact is felt not only as the sire of the Aga Khan’s Irish Derby and King George victor Alamshar, but as the broodmare sire of such headline talents as A Case Of You, Phoenix Of Spain, Slade Power and Society Rock. Iceton hopes that River Boyne could follow a similar trajectory.
“Key Of Luck, now there was a horse who didn’t cover a lot of mares in his first season,” he says. “But he was a champion European sire and bred some very good fillies. The longer he was at stud, the more mares he covered. He was one of those slow burners.
“He was by Chief’s Crown and won the Dubai Duty Free in the same year Cigar won the Dubai World Cup [1996], but in a faster time. The market didn’t like him at the start, but once he clicked into gear it all went gang busters.”
During his time at Tara, Iceton has witnessed a significant shift in breeders’ behaviour, not all of which has been welcome. He says the move towards spiralling book sizes and the clamour for one or two new horses each
season has made running an independent commercial operation “absolutely impossible.”
“This thing now with first-season sires covering 250 mares, I think it’s a retrograde step,” he says. “It certainly means the independent farms haven’t got much of a chance, and it also upsets the basic economics of the business.
“There were plenty of Group 3 and Group 2 horses who went to stud and did well. Just thinking about a horse like Kodiac just down the road, I wonder if that sort of horse could make it these days.
“Some of these horses are covering far too many mares, then when you get to the sales it’s like the number ten bus because there’s one around every corner. The best ones will make plenty but, particularly at the foal sales, the rest get not so much.”
While he laments the trend towards mammoth books, Iceton is fully cognisant of the paradoxical situation that commercial breeders face.
“In Ireland we have a lot of breeders who do this to make a living,” he says. “They don’t have another source of income so they have to be commercial and have to breed for what the market requires, rather than what they should be breeding.
“It’s a big open question: do you breed to win races or breed to satisfy the market? If you breed to win races, you might be out of business pretty quickly.”
It is a problem that seems unlikely to be resolved any day soon. However, for the time being, hope springs eternal that River Boyne can transmit his talent to his offspring and help keep the Tara Stud name in lights.
“There used to be a motto beneath the clock at the old Curragh racecourse,” says Iceton. “Unfortunately, when they rebuilt the place they got rid of it, but it used to say ‘Time Reveals All’.
“I thought it was the best motto you could have for a racecourse, and that’s where we’re at with River Boyne at the moment. Let’s hope we get the rub of the green.”
Dubawi’s World Champion, Horse of the Year and best ever. Among many accomplishments, he won the G3 Autumn Stakes as a juvenile in a new record time.
1. Moving at great speed
2. Acting instinctively
ANTONYMS
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2. I wish I had bought more Donny Rockets
DONCASTER PREMIER YEARLING SALE
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Stallions with recorded foal sales in 2022. Listed alphabetically and showing aggregate, average and colt and fillies’ figures from sales in Britain, Ireland and France. Compiled by Weatherbys in guineas. Dual-purpose stallions included, new sires included in this Fact Pack in bold
By Sottsass
and out of Stage Call (Camelot) this colt is from the family Group 1 winner Ransom O’War, sold as Lot 126 at the Goffs February Sale to Tally-Ho Stud for €115,000
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FROM GREATNESS TO SUCCESS, GOOD FORTUNE IS NO COINCIDENCE.
“When selling a mare of quality –it is the only option”
Patrick Mullins, Closutton Stables
Left: Hello Youmzain colt from Tinnakill House sold at Tattersalls for 38,000gns to Whatton Manor Stud. He is out of the Zaminda mare Verriya, dam of the Listed-placed Verimli and a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Verema (Lot 992)
Photos from Tattersalls online / Tinnakill House
Right: Lot 1069 at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale is this colt by Pinatubo and out of Princess Guest (Iffraaj), a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Dubai Station. He was sold by Plantation Stud to Atlas / WH Bloodstock for 140,000gns
Photos from Tattersalls online /
All yearlings o ered at Orby Book 1 and Book 2 are eligible for Go s Two Million Series.
Won 9 races from 2 to 5 years including 5 GROUP races all on turf
Won or Placed in 16 of his 18 Group/Stakes race starts incl. 5 Group 1s
Over €1 MILLION in prize money & RATED 122
Without Parole’s second highest-priced foal of last year was this filly out of Beyond The Sea (Sea The Stars), a half-sister to the Grade 1 American Oaks winner Competitionofideas. She was purchased by WH Bloodstock for €70,000 at the Goffs November Foal Sale
Hewasarealweaponofahorse,agreatlookingcolt andhewasseriouslygood”
Matt Sands Of Mali sprints to Ascot success from Harry Angel1st Gr.1 British Champions Sprint Stks. (Ascot) at 3yo, btg. 7 Gr.1 winners inc. Harry Angel, Dream of Dreams, Brando, The Tin Man, Limato etc.
“in command for an unchallenged victory”
1st Gr.2 Al Basti Equiworld Gimcrack Stks by 23/4 lengths at 2yo btg. Invincible Army, Cardsharp, etc.
“He destroyed the field”
1st Gr.2 Sandy Lane Stakes (Haydock) (Haydock) at 3yo btg. Invincible Army, Emblazoned, James Garfield, Unfortunately, Heartache etc.
“he had to be something special” TDN
1st Gr.3 Prix Sigy (Chantilly). at 3yo
“tough performance, giving weight away all round”
2nd Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup (Royal Ascot) at 3yo btg. Invincible Army, Unfortunately, Heartache, Sioux Nation etc.
“fast finishing...just held”
“nearest at the finish”
Richard FaheyAN EXCEPTIONAL GR.1 SPRINTER 5 WINS £726,177
He destroyed that field. He did it so easily.
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ARIZONA was a high-class juvenile from the No Nay Never branch of the Scat Daddy sire line which has pole position to be the major conduit for Scat Daddy blood in Europe.
An impressive winner of a Curragh maiden by 6l on his second start, Arizona followed that up with victory in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes for Ballydoyle and Ryan Moore.
The handsome colt was also placed behind Pinatubo in two Group 1 contests at two, finishing third in the National Stakes at The Curragh and getting much closer to Pinatubo when 2l second in the Dewhurst Stakes. Arizona finished his two year-old-career with fifth place in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf less than 2l behind the winner Structor. Three starts in Group 1 races at three failed to yield further success for Arizona.
Arizona foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
He is a full-brother to the Grade 2 Mrs Revere Stakes and Grade 3 Matchmaker Stakes winner Nay Lady Nay, who was also third in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Stakes.
They are the first two runners out of Lady Ederle, an English Channel half-sister to Group 3 winner Fathayer and to the dam of Dabirsim, successful in the Group 1 Prix Morny and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère.
Second dam Bright Generation is by Rainbow Quest and won the Group 1 Oaks d’Italia and was second in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes. She is a half-sister to the dam of Holy Moon, a Listed winner who has produced five Group winners, three of them at Group 1 level, including the brilliant but ill-fated Sea Of Class.
Inbreeding to Mr. Prospector is a feature in a significant proportion of
this sire line’s successful horses and Arizona is inbred 4S x 5S x 4D to the great stallion, but only two of those lines will feature in his foal’s pedigrees and in the fifth generation at that.
Scat Daddy’s success was partly due to his compatibility with a vast array of broodmare sires, with nearly as many different dam sires as Group winners. No Nay Never has demonstrated much of that versatility so far, but he has also shown a marked affinity with Danzig bloodlines –his Group 1-winning son Ten Sovereigns is out of a mare by Exceed And Excel, while the multiple Group 1 winner Alcohol Free has Hard Spun as her dam sire.
Blackbeard, who won the Group 1 Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes (G1) last season, is out of a mare by Born To Sea and his sire Invincible Spirit was the broodmare sire of another of the six Group winning juveniles sired by No Nay Never in 2022; the Flying Childers and Molecomb Stakes winner Trillium.
From the Green Desert line, Oasis Dream and Born To Sea’s three-parts brother Sea The Stars are also broodmare sires of Group winners by No Nay Never.
No Nay Never has done particularly well with mares by Danehill and his sons; as well as Ten Sovereigns he also has Land Force, Need I Say More, Never No More, Servalan and Yesterdayoncemore out of mares from this line.
Arizona’s first crop of foals averaged €21,684 for 17 sold out of 20 offered last winter with the median at €14,000. The most expensive was the half-brother to Coventry Stakes runner-up Eldrickjones, who made €60,000 to Peter Nolan when sold by Ballybin Stud at the Goffs November Foal Sale.
Ringfort Stud’s colt out of Becuille, the dam of five winners and a Redback half-sister to Bushranger, brought 45,000gns from MC Bloodstock at Tattersalls.
1st Dam
LADY EDERLE (USA), placed once in U.S.A. at 2 years and £1,913; dam of 3 winners:
NAY LADY NAY (IRE) (2016 f. by No Nay Never (USA)), won 5 races in U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years and £372,169 including Mrs Revere Stakes, Churchill Downs, Gr.2, Matchmaker Stakes, Monmouth Park, Gr.3, All Along Stakes, Laurel, L. and Parx Fall Oaks, Parx Racing, placed twice including third in Flower Bowl Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1; broodmare.
ARIZONA (IRE), see above.
NEVER ENDING (IRE) (2020 f. by No Nay Never (USA)), won 1 race at 3 years, 2023 and £10,817 and placed once, from only 3 starts.
Determined Forever (USA) (2021 f. by Frankel (GB)).
2nd Dam
BRIGHT GENERATION (IRE), Jt 2nd top rated 2yr old filly in Ireland in 1992, Champion 3yr old filly in Italy in 1993, won 3 races at home and in Italy at 2 and 3 years and £147,844 including Oaks d’Italia, Milan, Gr.1, placed 6 times, placed second in Moyglare Stud Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1, Long Island Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.2 and Pretty Polly Stakes, Newmarket, L.; dam of 8 winners:
FATHAYER (USA) (c. by Volponi (USA)), won 8 races in Italy and U.A.E. from 2 to 4 years and £92,297 including Premio Guido Berardelli, Rome, Gr.3, placed second in Premio Botticelli, Rome, L.
HORSE GENERATION (USA), won 3 races in Italy at 3 years and placed 11 times.
ESCAPOLOGY (USA), won 3 races in Italy from 2 to 4 years and placed 10 times.
JUSTLY ROYAL (USA), won 3 races in U.S.A. at 4 and 5 years and £67,897 and placed 9 times, dam of a winner.
SHANOOAN (USA), won 2 races at 3 years and placed 4 times; dam of a winner.
OUT ON THE STREET (USA), won 2 races in U.S.A. at 5 years and placed twice.
BARAKULA (GB), won 1 race at 2 years and placed once, from only 3 starts; dam of winners.
SUNBURST (GB), won 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years; dam of winners.
Celebrate (IRE), placed 3 times at 3 years; dam of winners.
ESPOSITO (GB), 6 races in Germany to 7 years and £59,424 and placed 34 times.
CAESARINA (GB), 6 races in Germany at 3 and 5 years and placed 10 times; dam of Cabarita (GER), 1 race in Germany and £60,425, placed third in Sparkasse Holstein Cup Stuten Meile, Hamburg, Gr.3, Caesarion (GER), 12 races in Germany and £45,824, placed third in Kronimus Rennen, Baden-Baden, L.
ALLANIS (GB), 6 races in Czech Republic to 8 years.
Rumored (USA), placed twice in U.S.A. at 2 and 3 years; dam of winners.
DABIRSIM (FR) 5 races Champion 2yr old colt in France in 2011 Jt Champion 2yr old colt in Europe in 2011 in France at 2 years and £410,298 including Qatar P. Jean-Luc Lagardere-Gd Criterium Longchamp, Gr.1, Darley Prix Morny, Deauville, Gr.1 and Prix de Cabourg Jockey Club Turquie, Deauville, Gr.3, placed second in Prix de Fontainebleau, Longchamp, Gr.3; sire.
Preferred Yield (USA), 4 races in U.S.A. from 2 to 4 years and £61,342, placed second in Albuquerque Derby, Albuquerque and Charles Taylor Derby, Albuquerque and third in Walter R Cluer Memorial Stakes, Turf Paradise and Harvest Festival Futurity, Fresno.
THREE POINTER (USA), 5 races in U.S.A. to 9 years and £31,203 and placed 9 times.
POMPILIUS (FR), 2 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £63,128 and placed 10 times.
JASL DEE (USA), 2 races in U.S.A. at 3 years and placed twice.
Istriane (IRE), placed twice in France at 2 and 3 years; dam of THE CHOSEN ONE (FR), 8 races in France to 2022 and placed 13 times.
Hat (USA), ran 3 times in U.S.A. at 2 and 3 years; dam of a winner.
3rd Dam NEW GENERATION, won 3 races at 2 and 3 years, from only 5 starts; dam of 6 winners including:
BRIGHT GENERATION (IRE), see above.
NOBLE HABITAT, won 1 race and placed 5 times, from only 8 starts; dam of a winner.
Belle Heed (AUS), unplaced in Australia; dam of MABEL GRACE (AUS), 10 races in Australia including Amelia Park York Stakes, Ascot, L., Miss Andretti Ruabon Sprint Stakes, Ascot, L., Jungle Dawn Classic, Ascot, L., La Trice Classic, Ascot, L. and Matchmaker Classic, Ascot, L.; grandam of TINSNIP (AUS), 4 races in Australia at 4 and 6 years, 2022 including Montague Sires’ Produce Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, Mackenzie Brooke (AUS), 2 races in Australia, placed third in City of Belmont W. A. Oaks, Ascot, Gr.3.
Centinela (GB), ran a few times on the flat; dam of winners.
Racing Form
Ten runs, two wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 118 | Average winning distance: 6.00
Stakes form
AT 2 2nd top rated 2yr old colt in Ireland in 2019, 4th top rated 2yr old colt in Europe in 2019
Won Coventry Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, (6f. beating Threat (IRE) and Guildsman (FR))
2nd Darley Dewhurst Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Pinatubo (IRE)),
3rd Goffs V. O’Brien National Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1, (to Pinatubo (IRE)).
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HOLY MOON (IRE), 5 races in Italy including Premio EBF Terme di Merano, Merano, L., placed second in Premio Baggio, Milan, L. and Premio Giovanni Falck, Milan, L.; dam of CHARITY LINE (IRE), Top rated 3yr old in Italy in 2013 (9.5-11f.), 6 races in Italy including Premio Lydia Tesio Longines Tris Int, Rome, Gr.1 and Oaks d’Italia, Milan, Gr.2, FINAL SCORE (IRE), Champion 3yr old filly in Italy in 2014, 5 races in Italy including Premio Lydia Tesio Longines Tris Str., Rome, Gr.1 and Oaks d’Italia, Milan, Gr.2, SEA OF CLASS (IRE), Jt Champion 3yr old in Europe in 2018 (11-13f.), Top rated 3yr old in France in 2018 (11 -13f.), 4 races including Darley Irish Oaks, Curragh, Gr.1 and Darley Yorkshire Oaks, York, Gr.1, placed second in Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, CHERRY COLLECT (IRE), Champion 3yr old filly in Italy in 2012, Top rated 3yr old in Italy in 2012 (9.5-10.5f.), 8 races in Italy including Oaks d’Italia Trofeo Snai, Milan, Gr.2 and Premio Regina Elena 1000 Guineas, Rome, Gr.3, placed second in Premio Lydia Tesio Longines Tris Int, Rome, Gr.1, WORDLESS (IRE), 6 races in Italy including Premio Verziere - Memorial Aldo Cirla, Milan, Gr.3, Back On Board (IRE), 2 races in Italy, placed second in Derby Italiano Sisal Matchpoint, Rome, Gr.2, Honor And Pleasure (GB), 5 races at home and in France at 4 and 5 years, 2022, placed second in Prix Arcangues, Deauville, L., Magic Mystery (GB), 4 races in France and Italy, placed third in Premio Emanuele Filiberto, Milan, L.; grandam of SATONO GLANZ (JPN), 3 races in Japan at 2 and 3 years, 2023 including Kyoto Shimbun Hai, Kyoto, Gr.2, DIANA BRIGHT (JPN), 5 races in Japan including Queen Sho, Funabashi, L.R., MOONEY LOVE (IRE), 4 races in Germany, Italy and U.S.A. from 2 to 4 years, 2022 including Jubilaumspreis, Cologne, L., placed third in Gran Premio Jockey Club, Rome, Gr.2, WAKEA (JPN), 2 races in Japan including Ivy Stakes, Tokyo, L., placed third in Hopeful Stakes, Nakayama, Gr.1, Noble Score (JPN), 1 race in Japan, placed third in The Tulip Sho, Hanshin, Gr.2, Troublemaker (ITY), Top rated 3yr old stayer in Italy in 2016, 4 races in Italy, placed second in Premio St Leger Italiano, Milan, Gr.3, Danon Grace (JPN), 4 races in Japan, placed third in Fukushima Himba Stakes, Fukushima, Gr.3, Ranger In Paradise (IRE), 9 races in Italy from 2 to 6 years, 2023, placed third in Premio Campobello, Milan, L., Ekaterinburg (JPN), 2 races in Japan, placed third in Hagi Stakes, Kyoto, L. and Sumire Stakes, Hanshin, L.
TWICE A GROUP 1 WINNER at Royal Ascot, Circus Maximus is one of eight individual Group 1 winners bred on the excellent Galileo–Danehill Dancer cross. Successful three times at the highest level over a mile for Aidan O’Brien and his ownerbreeder the Niarchos family’s Flaxman Stables and the Coolmore partners.
He is the only foal out of the Niarchos family’s Group 2 Royal Ascot winner Duntle, who was first past the post in the Group 1 Matron Stakes and placed in the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) and Prix Rothschild (G1).
She is the best foal produced by Lady Angola, a Lord At War three-parts sister to Grade 1 Turf Classic Stakes winner Honor In War, who was twice runner-up in the Grade 1 Keeneland Turf Mile.
She is also a three-parts sister to La Guerriere (Lord At War), who won the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup and is the dam of Empire Maker’s Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes winner Icon Project, herself the
dam of Grade 2 winner Fashion Business by Frankel. La Guerriere is the second dam of the Grade 1 sire Munnings, who stands at Coolmore’s Kentucky base and is the sire of two Grade 1 winners and six Grade 1 placed winners.
Circus Maximus was a high class miler whose tenacity would surely have seen him excel in the Roman chariot racing venue for which he is named. A tough colt with enormous battling qualities who hated being headed in a race, he was out of the first four just four times in a career that lasted three seasons.
At two, he won his maiden at Gowran over a mile before finishing third behind subsequent Group 1 winners Persian King and Magna Grecia in the Group 3 Autumn Stakes and was just a length fourth to Magna Grecia and Phoenix Of Spain in the Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy.
His three-year-old season began with success in a Derby trial, winning the Listed Dee Stakes at Chester. In the Derby itself, he was far from
disgraced finishing sixth over a trip that was too far for him.
Dropped back to a mile for the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes on his next run he gained his breakthrough success at the highest level defeating King Of Change and Too Darn Hot with Phoenix Of Spain and Royal Marine further back.
Too Darn Hot beat him by half a length in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes with Circus Maximus just failing to regain the lead. He won a tight Group 1 Prix du Moulin by a nose from Romanised, with fellow Group 1 winners Line Of Duty, Olmedo and Phoenix Of Spain filling third, fourth and fifth places. He finished 2019 with fourth behind Uni in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.
He made it two Group 1 wins from two appearances at Royal Ascot with his thrilling and hard-fought victory over Terebellum in the Queen Anne Stakes, conceding 3lb to the mare. Podium positions followed in four of his five subsequent starts at four, all at Group 1 level including in the Sussex Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Mile.
Circus Maximus’ breeding combines two of the most prevalent stallions in Europe, but he is bred along similar lines to two hugely successful stallion sons of Galileo – Teofilo and Frankel, who are out of mares by Danehill.
Just ten members of the first crop by Circus Maximus were sold from the 18 offered at auction last winter, returning an average of €27,326 and a median at €22,494. The best price achieved was the 50,000gns Camas Park Stud paid for Tinnakill House Stud’s colt out of the unraced Make Believe mare Shuffle. A half-sister to the Group 3 Rose Of Lancaster Stakes and Listed Newmarket Stakes winner Mulaqat, she is descended from champion two-year-old filly Shoot Clear.
At the Goffs November Foal Sale, Whitehall Stables went to €50,000 to secure a Circus Maximus colt in-bred to Urban Sea. Consigned by Noralla Stud Farm, the half-brother to Group 3 Hoppings Stakes second Technique is out of Lifting Me Higher, a daughter of Sea The Stars and Centreofattention, who is a full-sister to Holy Roman Emperor.
Coolmore
2021: €20,000 | 2022: €12,500 | 2023: €10,000
1st Dam DUNTLE (IRE), won 5 races at 3 and 4 years and £230,861 including Duke of Cambridge Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, Desmond Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, Amethyst Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3 and Sandringham Handicap, Ascot, L., placed 3 times including second in Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.1 and third in Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1; also placed in France at 4 years and £60,357 second in Prix Rothschild, Deauville, Gr.1; dam of 1 winner:.
CIRCUS MAXIMUS (IRE), see above.
2nd Dam
LADY ANGOLA (USA), won 1 race at 3 years and placed twice; dam of 6 winners:
DUNTLE (IRE), see above.
TISLAAM (IRE), won 4 races at 3 and 4 years and placed 24 times; also won 2 races in Belgium at 6 years and placed 7 times.
RAIDING PARTY (IRE), won 2 races at 2 years and placed once; also won 3 races in U.S.A. at 4 years and £75,846 and placed 5 times.
EDMAAJ (IRE), won 3 races at 4 years and £38,205 and placed 5 times; also placed once in a N.H. Flat Race at 6 years; also won 1 race over hurdles at 6 years and placed 7 times.
LADY OF THE LAMP (IRE), won 3 races at 3 years and placed once, from only 5 starts; dam of a winner.
ALOTAIBI (IRE), 1 race at 2 years and placed 3 times; also 1 race in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 4 years, 2023 and placed twice.
ELUSIVE GOLD (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
SHIFTING GOLD (IRE), 3 races at 3 and 4 years and placed 7 times.
PADDY’S DAY (IRE), 2 races at 2 and 3 years, 2023 and placed twice.
Forge Road (IRE), placed twice at 3 and 4 years, 2022.
3rd Dam
BENGUELA (USA), placed once; also won 2 races in U.S.A. at 4 years and placed 6 times; dam of 7 winners including:
BENJI BY STORM (USA), won 7 races in U.S.A. and placed 16 times.
CATUMBELLA (USA), placed 4 times; also won 2 races in U.S.A. and placed 3 times; dam of winners.
HONOR IN WAR (USA), 11 races in Australia and U.S.A. including Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes, Churchill Downs, Gr.1, Villiers Stakes, Randwick, Gr.2, Arlington Handicap, Arlington International, Gr.3 and Fort Lauderdale Handicap, Gulfstream Park, L., placed second in Shadwell Keeneland Turf Mile Stakes, Keeneland, Gr.1 (twice).
Dynamoor (USA), 2 races in U.S.A., placed second in Fort Marcy Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.3 and third in Monmouth Stakes, Monmouth Park, Gr.3.
Cozzy Love (USA), unraced; dam of winners.
Trumpstoo (USA), 1 race; also 1 race over hurdles, placed second in Weatherbys Bank Wensleydale Juv. Hurdle, Wetherby, L.
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Racing Form
17 runs, five wins, six places | Best Timeform Rating: 125 | Average winning distance: 8.46
Stakes form
AT 2
3rd Godolphin Autumn Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, (to Persian King (IRE)).
AT 3
Won Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (8f. beating Romanised (IRE) and Line of Duty (IRE)), St James’s Palace Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (8f. beating King of Comedy (IRE) and Too Darn Hot (GB)), Homeserve Dee Stakes, Chester, L., (10f. beating Mohawk (IRE) and Fox Chairman (IRE)),
2nd Qatar Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, (to Too Darn Hot (GB)).
AT 4 Top rated older miler in Ireland in 2020
Won Queen Anne Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (8f. beating Terebellum (IRE) and Marie’s Diamond (IRE))
2nd Breeders’ Cup Mile, Keeneland, Gr.1, (to Order of Australia ((IRE)), Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, (to Mohaather (GB))
3rd Prix Jacques Le Marois, Deauville, Gr.1, (to Palace Pier (GB)), Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to Persian King (IRE)).
ONE OF SHAMARDAL’S three individual Group 1 winning two-year-olds of 2019, a feat not achieved previously in the history of the Pattern, Earthlight was a quick and precocious colt. He has a high-class pedigree and champion’s race record as a juvenile.
A Darley homebred, Earthlight was forward enough to make his racecourse debut in June of 2019. It was the first of five starts at two, and he remained unbeaten in his first six runs.
He won a 5f maiden at Maisons-Laffitte on debut and a fortnight later made it two from two when stepping up to 6f at Deauville. Less than four weeks later he won his third race, the Group 3 Prix de Caubourg, again over 6f at Deauville.
The Group 1 Prix Morny was next on the agenda and he outclassed a strong field that included Raffle Prize, Golden Horde, Arizona and A’Ali.
Trainer André Fabre sent him to Newmarket for the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and he came from behind to win a shade cosily from Golden Horde. Ordinarily two Group 1 successes in two
different countries would ensure champion juvenile status, but he was denied by the once-in-a-generation Pinatubo, another Darley homebred son of Shamardal, along with the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère winner Victor Ludorum.
Earthlight made it six wins in succession when taking the Listed Prix Kistena and was a length fourth in a blanket finish to the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest behind Space Blues, Hello Youmzain and Lope Y Fernandez and ahead of Golden Horde, Wooded and Wichita.
The three-parts of a length margin of victory in the 7f Group 3 Prix du Pin belies the ease with which he won. His final shot at Group 1 glory at three was denied by the hat-trick-winning One Master in the shadow of the Longchamp winning post in the Group 1 Prix de la Forêt, when he finished a neck second.
He was the first Group 1 winner as a broodmare sire for New Approach and, although there is stamina in his family, the precocity and speed he demonstrated should dispel doubts over his ability to get horses in his own likeness.
Dam Winters Moon was a winner at two and third in the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile and she is a half-sister to Mandaean, who won the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud at two but is a son of Manduro. She is also a half-sister to Wavering (Refuse To Bend), winner of the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary and the dam of two Group 2-placed horses by Shamardal’s close-relation Street Cry.
She is also a half-sister to Lavender And Lace, the dam of Group 2 Superlative Stakes second Maxi Boy.
Second dam Summertime Legacy is a juvenile Group winner, claiming the Group 3 Prix des Reservoirs, and she was also third in the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary. She is out of an El Gran Senor half-sister to Derby winner Golden Fleece and to Officer’s Wife (Secretariat), who was Grade 2 and Grade 3 placed and is the dam of Group 3 winner Dance Treat (Nureyev) and second dam of South Easter (Galileo), winner of the Dee Stakes (G3).
Earthlight was a hit with buyers at the foal sales where he recorded an average sale price of €59,806 for 30 sold, from 32 offered. The median was strong also at €55,896 and three of that cohort made six-figure prices.
Top price was the 100,000gns JR Bloodstock gave for the half-brother to Listed Blenheim Stakes second Born To Be at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale. Out of Duquesa, a winning daughter of Intikhab and the Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner and Prix Marcel Boussac third Love Of Silver, he was sold by Northern Bloodstock.
Goffs was the stage for the other six-figure transactions where the three-parts brother to Blue Point sold by breeders Linda and Reddy Coffey to A Whelan made €120,000. The colt is also closely related to the Railway Stakes winner Formosina, by Footstepsinthesand.
Greenville House Stud sold the most expensive filly foal by Earthlight, a half-sister to Group 3 Give Thanks Stakes winner Rumbles Of Thunder out of Blanche Neige, a Halling half-sister to the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam winner Harland and the Group 3 winner and Prix de Diane and Prix Vermeille runner-up Musis Amica, by Dawn Approach. John Connaughton went to €105,000 for the chestnut filly.
Racing Form
Nine runs, seven wins, one place | Best Timeform Rating: 120 | Average winning distance: 6.06
Stakes form
At 2 Champion 2yr old colt in France in 2019
Joint 2nd top rated 2yr old colt in Europe in 2019
Won Prix Morny, Deauville, Gr.1, (6f. beating Raffle Prize (IRE) and Golden Horde (IRE)), Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (6f. beating Golden Horde (IRE) and Summer Sands (GB)), Darley Prix de Cabourg, Deauville, Gr.3, (6f. beating Well of Wisdom (GB) and Dubai Station (GB))
AT 3
Won Prix du Pin, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (6½f. beating Tropbeau (GB) and Manjeer (IRE)), Prix Kistena, Deauville, L., (5½f. beating Wanaway (FR) and Crew Dragon (FR)), second in Prix de la Foret, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to One Master (GB)).
EARTHLIGHT
2021: €20,000 | 2022: €18,000 | 2023: €15,000
1st Dam Winters Moon (IRE), won 1 race at 2 years and £41,310, placed 4 times including third in Dubai Fillies’ Mile Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1 and germantb.com Sweet Solera Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, from only 7 starts; dam of 2 winners: EARTHLIGHT (IRE), see above.
SNOWFINCH (IRE) (2020 f. by Dubawi (IRE)), won 1 race in France at 3 years, 2023 and £12,080 and placed once. Callisto Moon (GB) (2019 f. by Shamardal (USA)), placed once at 3 years, 2022 and £1,103; also placed 4 times in France at 3 years, 2022 and £5,209. She also has a yearling colt by Lope de Vega (IRE).
2nd Dam
SUMMERTIME LEGACY (GB), won 2 races in France at 2 years and £46,578 including Prix des Reservoirs, Deauville, Gr.3, placed 3 times including third in Prix Saint-Alary, Longchamp, Gr.1 and Prix de Lieurey, Deauville, L.; dam of 8 winners:
MANDAEAN (GB) (g. by Manduro (GER)), won 3 races in France and U.A.E. at 2 and 4 years and £180,955 including Criterium de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Gr.1.
WAVERING (IRE) (f. by Refuse To Bend (IRE)), won 2 races in France at 3 years and £148,147 including Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary, Longchamp, Gr.1, placed third in Prix Cleopatre, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3; dam of winners.
LIFE IN MOTION (IRE), 5 races in France from 2 to 4 years, 2023 and £117,786 including Prix Coronation, Saint-Cloud, L., Prix Jacques Laffitte, ParisLongchamp, L. and Prix Le Fabuleux, Chantilly, L., placed second in Prix de Sandringham, Chantilly, Gr.2.
Switching (USA), 1 race in France at 3 years and £45,892, placed second in Prix de Flore, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3.
Flowrider (USA), 1 race in France at 3 years and £37,854, placed third in Prix Chloe, Chantilly, Gr.3.
MAZAGRAN (GB), 1 race at 4 years and placed once; also 2 races in U.A.E. at 4 years and placed twice. DUBAI TRADITION (USA), 2 races at 3 years and £25,881 and placed 3 times, from only 6 starts. RUEING (USA), 2 races in France at 3 years and £33,718 and placed twice.
ILES ET AILES (GB), 1 race in France at 3 years, 2023.
Wild Hurricane (IRE), placed twice at 4 and 5 years, 2023.
Winters Moon (IRE), see above.
Mister Green (FR) (g. by Green Desert (USA)), won 5 races to 7 years and £30,346, placed third in Betdaq Winter Derby Trial Stakes, Lingfield Park, L. REPERCUSSION (GB), won 2 races at 4 and 5 years and £29,661 and placed twice; also won 3 races in France at 3 and 5 years and £48,080 and placed 3 times.
ATLANTIC TIGER (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and placed 5 times.
GEORGETOWN (GB), won 1 race in France at 3 years and £39,392 and placed 11 times.
GOLDEN HERITAGE (GB), placed once at 4 years; also won 1 race in France at 2 years and placed 3 times; also placed twice over hurdles at 4 years.
Lavender And Lace (GB), unplaced on the flat at 2 and 3 years; dam of winners.
Maxi Boy (GB), 1 race at 2 years and £44,363, placed third in bet365 Superlative Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2.
ZAIN HANA (GB), 2 races at 2 and 3 years and placed 3 times.
PHILIPINE COBRA (GB), 2 races at 3 years and £26,793 and placed 3 times.
ANDONNO (GB), 2 races at 2 and 3 years and placed once.
PEBBLES PLACE (GB), 2 races in Hungary and Slovakia at 3 years.
RAJWAAN (GB), 1 race at 2 years, 2022 and placed once.
Hurricane Irene (IRE), unraced; dam of winners.
Johara (IRE), 4 races at home and in France at 3 and 5 years and £60,188, placed second in Prix de la Calonne-Fonds Euro. L’Elevage, Deauville, L. and P.de la Pepiniere-Fonds Europeen Elevage, Maisons-Laffitte, L.
HURRICANE ALI (IRE), placed twice at 3 and 4 years; also 7 races over hurdles at 5 and 6 years, 2022 and £51,347 and placed 7 times.
HAZZAAT (IRE), 1 race at 4 years and placed 7 times
FIGHT AND FIGHT (IRE), 2 races in Italy at 4 and 5 years, 2023 and placed 7 times.
NOVA ZARGA (IRE), 2 races in France at 2 years and placed twice.
3rd Dam
ZAWAAHY (USA), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 6 times, from only 8 starts; dam of 7 winners including:
SUMMERTIME LEGACY (GB), see above.
FOUR ELEVEN (CAN), won 1 race in U.S.A.; dam of winners.
INVERNESS (IRE), 2 races at 2 and 3 years, 2022 and placed twice; also 2 races in Qatar at 4 years, 2023.
L’AIGLE (IRE), 3 races in France at 2, 4 and 5 years, 2022 and placed 13 times.
Lovable (CAN), placed twice in France; dam of winners.
LE BASTAN (FR), 3 races in France at 5 and 6 years, 2022 and placed 11 times.
Quiet Waters (USA), ran 3 times in France; dam of winners.
PAS DE SECRETS (IRE), 6 races in Norway and Sweden including Songline Classic, Bro Park, L., placed third in Oslo Cup, Ovrevoll, Gr.3.
Zain Joy (CAN), ran 3 times on the flat; dam of a winner.
GO CANADA (IRE), placed 3 times in France; also 3 races over jumps in Poland from 4 to 6 years, 2023 and placed 6 times.
Zarnitza (USA), ran once on the flat; dam of winners.
ZARICA (FR), 15 races in France to 9 years, 2023 and placed 19 times.
LIGHT OF CRISTO (FR), 5 races in France and Italy from 3 to 6 years, 2022 and placed 5 times.
Lucy Cavendish (USA), unraced; dam of winners.
CAVERAN (IRE), 6 races in Italy and placed 7 times; dam of TELEPATIC GLANCES (IRE), Champion 2yr old filly in Italy in 2020, 6 races in Italy from 2 to 4 years, 2022 including Premio Dormello, Milan, Gr.2, Glimmies (IRE), 1 race in Italy, placed second in Premio Lucio Mantovani, Milan, L., Certaldo IRE), 1 race in Italy at 3 years, 2023, placed second in Premio Emanuele Filiberto, Milan, L.
IN HER STRIDE (IRE), 1 race and placed 4 times; dam of Didn’thavemuchtodo (IRE), 2 races at 3 years, 2022, placed second in Hurry Harriet Stakes, Gowran Park, L. and third in Kooyonga EBF (Listed Race), Navan, L.
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AN INEXPENSIVE YEARLING who developed into a six-figure breeze-up horse, Far Above looked an exciting embryonic sprinter until injury forced his retirement.
He is the first foal out of Dorraar, who raced six times at three, winning once over 7f and being placed twice at that trip. Her dam is a Dubai Millennium half-sister to Group 1 Prix de l’Opera and Grade 1 Flower Bowl Stakes winner Nahrain (Selkirk), who is in turn the dam of Dubawi’s Group 1 Dubai Turf winner Benbatl.
Unraced at two, Far Above made a winning debut over 7f at three and was fourth in the King Charles II Stakes on his next start. Dropped back to 6f for a Windsor novice on his next run, he showed plenty of speed to go clear in the final furlong and won the Prix Kistena at Deauville on his fourth and final run of the season.
Off the track for 11 months, he won the Group 3 Palace House Stakes at Newmarket on his only start of 2020, showing an impressive turn of foot in victory.
Far Above is one of eight Group winners by Farrh and is a grandson of Shamardal, a significant pedigree pointer as he and his sire Giant’s Causeway look like leaving a lasting mark on the breed.
Giant’s Causeway is the broodmare sire of 26 individual Grade 1 winners and counting, including young sires Verrazano and champion Gun Runner, who has made a scintillating start to his stallion career. He was leading first-season sire in North America for 2021 and has six individual Grade 1 winners from his first two crops.
The first foals by Far Above returned an average of €18,223 for 22 sold with a median of €15,500. His most expensive foal was a filly out of the Oasis Dream mare Infectious Dream, a half-sister to the Listed Chester City Plate winner Dusky Queen (Shamardal). She was sold by Greenville House Stud to Blandford Bloodstock for 52,000gns.
The bloodstock agency was also the purchaser of his most expensive colt, a €48,000 buy from Russellstown Stud at the Goffs November Foal Sale.
He is the first foal of Sageness, a Most Improved half-sister to Sagely, the dam of Commonwealth Cup, Middle Park and Prix Morny winner Perfect Power from the family of Sagamix, Sagacity, Japan and Mogul.
1st Dam
2021: €6,000 | 2022: €5,000 | 2023: €5,000
DORRAAR (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and £4,822 and placed 3 times, from only 6 starts; dam of 2 winners: FAR ABOVE (IRE), see above.
DUBAI DAWN (IRE) (2020 c. by Dawn Approach (IRE)), won 2 races at 3 years, 2023 and £9,720, from only 3 starts. She also has a 4-y-o colt by Vocalised (USA), a 2-y-o colt by Dark Angel (IRE) and a yearling colt by Dark Angel (IRE).
2nd Dam
DORRATI (USA), unraced; dam of 6 winners:
SONBOL (GB), won 7 races in France and Morocco from 2 to 4 years and placed 10 times; dam of a winner.
CITYSON FAL (MOR), 1 race in Morocco at 4 years, 2023 and placed once.
DUKHAN (QTR), won 3 races in Qatar at 4 and 5 years and £37,387 and placed 3 times.
SHALEEK (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 8 times, all her starts; dam of a winner.
SHEFNACK (KSA), 4 races in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 2 and 4 years, 2022 and £49,118 and placed twice.
Ro’ya Alkareem (KSA), placed once in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 3 years, 2023.
KABBAAS (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 4 times.
DORRAAR (IRE), see above.
DAHAKAA (GB), won 1 race at 2 years and placed once, from only 4 starts.
Rahaf Alsajaya (KSA), placed twice in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 3 and 4 years, 2022.
Bahjtee (GB), unraced; dam of winners.
TARRABB (IRE), 3 races at 3 years, 2022 and £38,324 and placed 3 times, from only 8 starts.
MUKEEDD (GB), 1 race at 2 years, 2022, from only 2 starts.
3rd Dam
BAHR (GB), won 4 races at 2 and 3 years including Ribblesdale Stakes, Royal Ascot, Gr.2, Tattersalls Musidora Stakes, York, Gr.3 and Grosvenor Washington Singer Stakes, Newbury, L., placed 3 times second in Vodafone Oaks Stakes, Epsom, Gr.1 and third in Kildangan Stud Irish Oaks, Curragh, Gr.1 and Flower Bowl Invitational Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1; dam of 6 winners including:
NAHRAIN (GB) (f. by Selkirk (USA)), won 5 races at home, in France and U.S.A. including Qatar Prix de l’Opera, Longchamp, Gr.1, Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1 and The Coral Distaff Stakes, Sandown Park, L., placed second in Emirates Airlines Breeders’ Cup F&M Turf, Churchill Downs, Gr.1; dam of winners.
BENBATL (GB), Top rated older miler in England and U.A.E. in 2018, Champion older miler in Europe in 2019, 11 races at home, in Australia, Germany and U.A.E. including Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen, Munich, Gr.1, Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes, Caulfield, Gr.1, DP World Dubai Turf, Meydan, Gr.1, Shadwell Joel Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2 (twice), Longines Singspiel Stakes, Meydan, Gr.2, Mubadala Al Maktoum Challenge 2, Meydan, Gr.2, Jebel Ali Port Al Rashidiya Stakes, Meydan, Gr.2, Hampton Court Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3 and Longines Ladies Master Singspiel Stakes, Meydan, Gr.3, placed second in Ladbrokes WS Cox Plate, Moonee Valley, Gr.1 and Emirates Airline Jebel Hatta Meydan, Gr.1.
Fooraat (IRE), 2 races, placed second in Snowdrop Stakes, Kempton Park, L. and third in Rosemary Stakes, Newmarket, L. and Lyric Stakes, York, L. MODAARA (GB), 2 races at 3 and 4 years, 2023, from only 4 starts.
Tadshin (GB), placed once at 2 years, 2022.
BAHARAH (USA) (f. by Elusive Quality (USA)), won 5 races including Transformer/Rectifier EBF Valiant Stakes, Ascot, L. and ladbrokes.com EBF Fleur de Lys Stakes, Lingfield Park, L., placed second in Bet at Ladbrokes Churchill Stakes, Lingfield Park, L. and digibet.com Ladybird Stakes, Kempton Park, L.; dam of winners. PROUD ARCHI (IRE), 7 races to 8 years, 2022 and placed 17 times.
GEORGE MORLAND (GB), 4 races at 3 and 4 years, 2022 and placed 4 times.
SARRSAR (GB), won 4 races and placed 5 times; also won 2 races in U.A.E. and placed twice.
NAADDEY (GB), won 1 race and placed 7 times; also won 2 races in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. and placed 5 times.
IN DUBAI (USA), won 1 race and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
GO BEARS GO (IRE), Jt top rated 3yr old sprinter in Ireland in 2022, 4 races at 2 and 3 years, 2022 including Railway Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2, Phoenix Sprint Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3 and Pavilion Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, placed third in Phoenix Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1 and Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes, Churchill Downs, Gr.2.
Five runs, four wins | Best Timeform Rating: 122 | Average winning distance: 6.01
Stakes form
AT 3
Won Qatar Prix Kistena, Deauville, L., (6f. beating Duhail (IRE) and We Go (FR)).
AT 4
Won Palace House Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, (5f. beating Judicial (IRE) and Major Jumbo
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GHAIYYATH WAS THE WORLD’s highest-rated racehorse of 2020, earning him the title of Cartier Horse of the Year following Group 1 triumphs in the Coronation Cup, Eclipse and International Stakes.
Great things were expected of the Dubawi horse from birth and indeed he immediately gave notice of his immense potential when topping the Goffs November Foal Sale in 2015 selling for €1.1m,
the highest-price given for a colt foal in the world that year.
Winner of the Group 3 Autumn Stakes at two for Godolphin and Charlie Appleby, Ghaiyyath was restricted to just a single start at three but it was a successful one with a trip to Longchamp yielding victory in the Group 3 Prix du Prince d’Orange.
Stepped into Group 1 company at four he was third behind subsequent Arc winner Waldgeist and Study Of Man, victorious in the Group 1 Prix
Racing Form
13 runs, nine wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 133 | Average winning distance: 10.02
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Won Godolphin Autumn Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, (8f. beating Dream Today (IRE) and Purser (USA)).
AT 3
Won Prix du Prince d’Orange, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (10f. beating Sacred Life (FR) and Folamour (GB)).
AT 4
Won Longines Grosser Preis von Baden, Baden-Baden, Gr.1, (12f. beating Donjah (GER) and Laccario (GER)), Prix d’Harcourt, Parislongchamp, Gr.2, (10f. beating Soleil Marin (IRE) and Intellogent (IRE))
3rd Prix Ganay, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to Waldgeist (GB)).
AT 5 Champion older horse in Europe in 2020.
Won Coronation Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1, (12f. beating Anthony Van Dyck (IRE) and Stradivarius (IRE)), Coral-Eclipse Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.1, (9½f. beating Enable and Japan (GB)), Juddmonte International Stakes, York, Gr.1, (10f. beating Magical (IRE) and Lord North (IRE)), Jaguar Dubai Millennium Stakes, Meydan, Gr.3, (10f. beating Spotify (FR) and Privilegiado (GB))
2nd Irish Champion Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.1, (to Magical (IRE)).
du Jockey-Club, in the Prix Ganay before making the breakthrough at the highest level in the Grosser Preis von Baden (G1).
He came into his own at five warming up for his triumphant final season with success in the Group 2 named for his grand sire at Meydan before beating Group 1 winners Anthony Van Dyck, Stradivarius and Defoe in Epsom’s Coronation Cup (G1).
Dropped back to 1m2f for the Eclipse, he put in an impressive frontrunning performance to defeat Enable, Magical and Japan and made it a hat-trick of Group 1 victories in the International at York. His final start was in the Irish Champion Stakes in which Magical exacted her revenge.
The eight-year-old is bred on the excellent Dubawi-Galileo cross that is responsible for Ghaiyyath’s stud-mate Night Of Thunder.
He is a half-brother to Zhukova, successful in the Grade 1 Man O’War Stakes, and out of Nightime, the first Classic winner by Galileo when successful for the Weld family in the Irish 1,000 Guineas.
Night Of Thunder has continued his early success and is now the sire of three individual Group 1 winners, including Highfield Princess winner of the Nunthorpe, the Flying Five and Prix Maurice de Gheest.
Dubawi was crowned champion sire last season for the first time and his second wave of stallion sons are making a splash. In addition to Night Of Thunder he is also the sire of New Bay, who has also sired three Group 1 winners from his first two crops of runners.
The Aga Khan’s homebred Group 1 winner Zarak is bred on the same Dubawi-Zamindar cross as New Bay and he has supplied nine Group winners from 14 stakes winners with just three crops of racing age.
Ghaiyyath’s first foals were unsurprisingly popular at the sales with 21 of the 23 that went under the hammer selling for an average of £99,661 with the median coming in at £72,021.
His most expensive first-crop daughter was bought by Shadwell for 375,000gns at Tattersalls from Norelands Stud. A three-parts sister to the Group 3 Silver Flash and Fairy Bridge Stakes winner Tanaza and a half-sister to Taniyar, who won the Group 3 Prix du Pin, she is out of Dalakhani’s Listed Galtres Stakes winner Tanoura.
The top-priced colt, bought by JR Bloodstock for 240,000gns, was Kellsgrange Stud’s half-brother to the Somerville Tattersall Stakes (G3) third Harrow out of the winning Invincible Spirit mare School Run. The family is that of Group 1-winning sprinters Dream Ahead and Fairyland.
GHAIYYATH
8yo | Dubawi-Nightime (Galileo) Kildangan Stud
2021: €30,000 | 2022: €25,000 | 2023: €25,000
1st Dam NIGHTIME (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and £162,691 including Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1; dam of 7 winners: GHAIYYATH (IRE), see above.
ZHUKOVA (IRE) (2012 f. by Fastnet Rock (AUS)), won 6 races from 3 to 5 years and £170,923 including Irish National Stud EBF Blue Wind Stakes, Naas, Gr.3, KPMG Enterprise Kilternan Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, Ardilaun Hotel Oyster Stakes, Galway, L., coral.ie Alleged Stakes, Curragh, L. and Irish Stallion Farms EBF Noblesse Stakes, Cork, L. and placed 3 times; also won 1 race in U.S.A. at 5 years and £203,252, Man O’War Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1; dam of 2 winners.
First Ruler (GB) (g. by Dubawi (IRE)), 2 races at 3 years, 2022 and £48,817, placed 4 times including second in Tapster Stakes, Goodwood, L.; also 1 race in U.A.E. at 4 years, 2023 and £79,292, placed twice including second in His Majesty The King’s Cup, Rashid Equestrian & Horseracing Club, L. IMPERIAL EMPEROR (IRE), 1 race at 2 years, 2022 and £5,400, his only start.
Sleeping Beauty (IRE) (2010 f. by Oasis Dream (GB)), won 1 race at 3 years and £9,269, placed third in Irish Stallion Farms EBF Salsabil Stakes, Navan, L.; dam of 3 winners.
Irish Territory (IRE) (c. by Declaration of War (USA)), 1 race in U.S.A. at 3 years and £55,916, placed once second in With Anticipation Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.3.
PRINCE OF EAGLES (IRE), 2 races at 3 years and £8,424 and placed once.
Beau Noir (IRE), placed twice in U.S.A. at 2 and 3 years, 2022 and £4,283.
NEW YEAR’S NIGHT (IRE) (2011 g. by Raven’s Pass (USA)), won 3 races at 3 and 4 years and £24,798 and placed 6 times, from only 11 starts.
AL NAFIR (IRE) (2019 g. by Dubawi (IRE)), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years, 2022 and £76,738 and placed twice, from only 6 starts.
MIDNIGHT FAIR (IRE) (2014 f. by Raven’s Pass (USA)), won 2 races in France at 3 years and £20,000 and placed once; dam of.
Music Day (IRE), placed 3 times in France at 3 years, 2023 and £5,973.
KNIGHT TO KING (IRE) (2020 c. by Kingman (GB)), won 1 race at 3 years, 2023 and £6,527, his only start.
Khaiz (IRE) (2018 c. by Dubawi (IRE)), placed twice at 3 years and £4,076.
La Chapelle (IRE) (2008 f. by Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)), ran once in France at 3 years; dam of 5 winners.
SOMETHING ENTICING (IRE) (f. by Fascinating Rock (IRE)), 4 races at 3 and 4 years, 2022 and £89,691 including Gillies Stakes, Doncaster, L., placed 7 times including second in Gillies Stakes, Doncaster, L. and Tapster Stakes, Goodwood, L.
MAUIEWOWIE (GB) (f. by Night of Thunder (IRE)), 2 races at 2 years, 2022 and £43,016 including Curragh Stakes, Curragh, L., placed twice second in Marwell Stakes, Naas, L. and Polonia Stakes, Cork, L., from only 5 starts.
MY ONLY HOPE (IRE), 3 races in Italy at 3 and 4 years and £26,924 and placed 15 times.
SAINTE COLETTE (GB), 1 race at 4 years, 2023 and £4,380.
L’Eglise (GB); dam of THREE DIAMONDS (GB), 4 races in Qatar at 3 and 4 years, 2023 and £33,637 and placed twice, WASDALE (GB), 3 races at 2 and 3 years, 2023 and £14,451 and placed once. Duraji (IRE) (2021 c. by Dubawi (IRE)).
2nd Dam
CAUMSHINAUN (IRE), Champion older mare in Ireland in 2001, won 5 races at 3 and 4 years and £80,491 including Turtle Island Platinum Stakes, Cork, L. and placed 4 times; dam of 9 winners:
NIGHTIME (IRE), see above.
Mermaid Island (IRE) (f. by Mujadil (USA)), won 1 race at 2 years, placed second in ISF Victor McCalmont EBF Stakes, Gowran Park, L.; dam of winners.
ONDINA (AUS), 3 races in Australia and $106,460 including Mittys Laelia Stakes, Morphettville, L.; dam of PEAK ROAD (AUS), 2 races in Australia and placed 4 times.
Holy Cow (AUS), 3 races in Australia at 4 and 5 years and £61,530, placed third in MAC Drink Driving Centaurea Stakes, Morphettville, L.; dam of PLUS FOURS (AUS), 2 races in Australia to 2022 and placed 7 times.
DATA POINT (AUS), 2 races in Australia at 3 and 5 years and £81,512 and placed 13 times.
OCEAN MAGIC (AUS), 2 races in Australia at 4 and 5 years and £39,146 and placed 8 times.
Poinsettia (IRE), placed twice at 2 years; dam of DALTON HIGHWAY (IRE), 6 races and £121,786 and placed 9 times; also 1 race over hurdles and placed once.
STRAIGHT TALK (IRE), won 3 races in U.A.E. at 5 years and £30,543 and placed twice.
GUNGA DIN (IRE), won 2 races at 4 and 5 years and placed 4 times.
PHAENOMENA (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and placed 3 times; dam of winners.
KING OF KOJI (JPN), 6 races in Japan at 3, 4 and 6 years, 2022 and £1,239,128 including American Jockey Club Cup, Nakayama, Gr.2 and Meguro Kinen, Tokyo, Gr.2, placed third in Kyoto Daishoten, Kyoto, Gr.2.
HARAJUKU (IRE), 2 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £180,889 including Prix Cleopatre, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, placed second in Prix d’Aumale, ParisLongchamp, Gr.3 and Orchid Stakes, Gulfstream Park, Gr.3 and third in The Very One Stakes, Gulfstream Park, Gr.3.
MYSTICAL LAND (JPN), 2 races in France at 4 years and placed 3 times.
CHICHEN ITZA (GB), placed 3 times at 2 and 3 years, 2022; also 2 races in France at 3 and 4 years, 2023.
OLYMPIAD (IRE), won 2 races at 4 years and £26,928 and placed twice.
NEPTUNE (IRE), won 1 N.H. Flat Race at 4 years and placed 3 times, from only 5 starts.
SEAGULL (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed twice, from only 4 starts; dam of winners.
MONBAHER (IRE), 2 races at 3 years and placed once; also 2 races in Australia at 3 years and £70,269 and placed twice.
SAVVY KNIGHT (IRE), 4 races at 3 and 4 years, 2023 and £37,763 and placed once.
TAJRIBA (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed once, from only 3 starts; dam of winners.
Wishfully (IRE), 1 race in France at 3 years and £41,397, placed second in Prix Casimir Delamarre, Parislongchamp, L. and third in Coolmore Baden-Baden Cup, Baden-Baden, L. and P. Casino Baden Baden Kolner Stutenpreis, Cologne, L.
SENSE OF WISDOM (GB), 1 race at 3 years, 2022 and placed once; also placed once in U.A.E. at 4 years, 2023.
3rd Dam
RIDGE POOL (IRE), won 1 race at 2 years and placed once, from only 4 starts; dam of 2 winners including: CAUMSHINAUN (IRE), see above.
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THE GROUP 1 COMMONWEALTH CUP winner Golden Horde strongly resembles his broodmare sire Pivotal and, if he proves to be even one quarter of the sire that Pivotal has been, then he will handsomely reward Nurlan Bizakov’s faith in him.
The Kazakh-born owner and breeder purchased the chestnut to be the first stallion to stand under the Sumbe banner when amalgamating Hesmonds Stud with Haras de Monfort et Preaux.
Bred by James Cloney’s Cn Farm, Golden Horde is the first Group 1 winner by the Diamond Jubilee and July Cup winner Lethal Force, who moved to France for the 2020 breeding season.
Bought for £65,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale by Lethal Force’s trainer Clive Cox, Golden Horde was more successful as a juvenile than his precocious sire, who was fourth in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes.
Although he finished one place lower in the Coventry than his sire, Golden Horde went on to become one of the best of his peers at two.
Winner of the Group 2 Richmond Stakes over 6f he then engaged in a rivalry with Earthlight that saw him lose out to the son of Shamardal in both the Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes (both G1).
Cox sent Golden Horde straight in to the deep end at three, beginning his season in the Commonwealth Cup, and it proved a master stroke as he ran out the convincing winner of the 6f Group 1.
He contested the July Cup on his next start and was a good third, a length and a half behind Oxted – the Group 1 winner Hello Youmzain was in behind.
His only race over further than 6f came in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest and his finishing position of fifth doesn’t tell the entire story as he
was just a length and a half behind the winner Space Blues.
On his final start, in the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock, he finished third behind another Cn Farm-bred horse, Dream Of Dreams, and the subsequent Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint winner Glen Shiel.
He is a half-brother to the Listed Cathedral Stakes winner Line Of Departure (Mehmas) and Exhort, a daughter of Dutch Art who won the Listed Pipalong Stakes, and they are out of Entreat.
Golden Horde comes from the outstanding family of Serena’s Song; his second dam River Saint is a Riverman half-sister to the great champion who became a brilliant broodmare.
Winner of 11 Grade 1 races, she went on to foal Sophisticat, successful in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes and is the second dam of Group 3 winner Suphala.
Serena’s Song’s colt by Unbridled named Harlington won the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap and is the broodmare sire of Group 1 Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes winner Grenadier Guards (Frankel).
Her Listed-winning Mr. Prospector daughter Serena’s Tune is the dam of Jim Bolger’s Group 3 winner and sire Vocalised and the second dam of Grade 1 Whitney Stakes and Metropolitan Handicap winner and promising young stallion Honor Code, sire of Grade 1 winner Honor AP in his first crop.
In Europe, the most successful branch of this family has been that of Roundhill Stud’s Princess Serena, an Unbridled’s Song mare out of Serena’s Sister, a full-sister to the Hall of Fame inductee.
Princess Serena is the dam of ten winners, including the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner Zabeel Prince (Lope De Vega), the Group 2 winner and
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Swettenham Stud sire Puissance De Lune, a son of Shamardal, and his full-sister Queen Power, who won the Group 2 Middleton Stakes.
She is also the second dam of Group 1 Moyglare Stud and Coronation Stakes winner Rizeena, a daughter of Iffraaj, and Summer Romance (Kingman), who won the Group 2 Balanchine Stakes and was second in the Just A Game Stakes and the Diana Stakes (both Grade 1s).
Just two foals from Golden Horde’s first crop were sold from three offered. At Tattersalls, Genesis Green Stud consigned the halfbrother to Superlative Stakes third Dhabab out of Habbat Reeh, an unraced Mastercraftsman half-sister to the Listed Prix Saraca winner Boomshackerlacker by Dark Angel. He was bought by CD Bloodstock for 28,000gns.
A price of €16,000 secured for Sumbe the filly out of Everloving, a Myboycharlie half-sister to Listed Prix du Cercle winner Cox Bazar, who was offered by Haras des Granges at Arqana last December.
Ten runs, three wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 121 | Average winning distance: 6.02
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Won Qatar Richmond Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2, (6f. beating Threat (IRE) and Royal Dornoch (IRE))
2nd Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Earthlight (IRE))
3rd Darley Prix Morny, Deauville, Gr.1, (to Earthlight (IRE)).
AT 3 Top rated 3yr old sprinter in England in 2020
Won Commonwealth Cup, Ascot, Gr.1, (6f. beating Kimari (USA) and Ventura Rebel (GB))
3rd Haydock Park Sprint Cup, Haydock Park, Gr.1, (to Dream of Dreams (IRE)), Darley July Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Oxted (GB)).
6yo | Lethal Force-Entreat (Pivotal) Sumbe
2021: €10,000 | 2022: €8,000 | 2023: €8,000
1st Dam ENTREAT (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and £5,330 and placed 4 times; dam of 7 winners, including:
GOLDEN HORDE (IRE), see above.
EXHORT (GB) (2015 f. by Dutch Art (GB)), won 5 races from 2 to 4 years and £96,986 including Weatherbys TBA Pipalong Stakes, Pontefract, L., placed 10 times; broodmare.
LINE OF DEPARTURE (IRE) (2018 g. by Mehmas (IRE)), won 4 races at 2 and 3 years and £162,658 including Cathedral Stakes, Salisbury, L. and placed twice.
She also has a yearling colt by Wootton Bassett (GB).
2nd Dam
RIVER SAINT (USA), placed 3 times at 3 years; dam of 5 winners:
PRODUCER (GB) (c. by Dutch Art (GB)), won 8 races at home and in Turkey from 2 to 4 years and £465,867 including International Topkapi Trophy, Veliefendi, Gr.2, bet365 Criterion Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, Greene King Supreme Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, EBF Kg.Richard III Leicestershire Stakes, Leicester, L. and Investec Surrey Stakes, Epsom Downs, L., placed second in Totepool Sovereign Stakes, Salisbury, Gr.3.
Font (GB) (g. by Sadler’s Wells (USA)), won 1 race at 4 years; also won 3 races over hurdles at 5 and 8 years and £40,070 and won 2 races over fences at 6 and 10 years, placed second in Betfair Newton Novices’ Hurdle, Haydock Park, L. ENTREAT (GB), see above.
Spiralling (GB), unraced; dam of winners.
3rd Dam
IMAGINING (USA), won 2 races in U.S.A. at 4 years and placed 4 times; dam of 5 winners including:
SERENA’S SONG (USA) (f. by Rahy (USA)), Champion 3yr old filly in U.S.A. in 1995, won 18 races in U.S.A. including Beldame Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Hempstead Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Haskell Invitational Handicap, Monmouth Park, Gr.1, Mother Goose Stakes, Belmont Park, , Oak Leaf Stakes, Santa Anita, , Santa Maria Handicap, Santa Anita, Gr.1, Santa Monica Handicap Santa Anita, Gr.1, Santa Anita Oaks, Santa Anita, Gr.1, Gazelle Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Starlet Stakes, Hollywood Park, Gr.1, Las Virgenes Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.1, dam of winners.
SOPHISTICAT (USA), JT 2nd top rated 2yr old filly in Ireland in 2001, JT 2nd top rated 3yr old filly in Ireland in 2002, 3 races at home and in France including Coronation Stakes, Royal Ascot, Gr.1 and Prix de la Grotte, Longchamp, Gr.3; dam of SEFROUA (USA), 3 races in France including Prix de Lieurey-Shadwell, Deauville, L., placed third in Noble Damsel Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.3 Pursuit of Glory (IRE), 1 race, placed third in 32red.com Cheveley Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1; grandam of SUPHALA (FR), 4 races in France including Arqana Prix Chloe, Chantilly, Gr.3, SIVOLIERE (IRE), 3 races in France including Criterium du Bequet - Ventes Osarus, La Teste De Buch, L., placed third in Longines Prix du Calvados, Deauville, Gr.3, COSMIC KID (TUR), 1 race in Turkey at 2 years, 2022, Caldiran Stakes, Veliefendi, L., placed third in Erkek Tay Deneme Stakes, Veliefendi, L., El Toranado (AUS), 13 races in Australia, placed second in Bulmers Dalrello Stakes,Doomben, L., Tactical Pursuit (IRE), 6 races in U.S.A., placed third in Not Surprising Stakes, Gulfstream Park; third dam of Doctor Carl (GB), 3 races in France at 3 and 4 years, 2022, placed second in Grand Prix Anjou Bretagne, Nantes, L.
HARLINGTON (USA), 6 races in U.S.A. including Gulfstream Park Handicap, Gulfstream Park, Gr.2; sire.
GRAND REWARD (USA), 4 races at home and in U.S.A. including Oaklawn Handicap, Oaklawn Park, Gr.2, placed second in Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes, Newbury, Gr.2 and third in Scottish Equitable Gimcrack Stakes, York, Gr.2; sire.
SCHRAMSBERG (USA), 6 races in U.S.A. including John B Connally Turf Handicap, Sam Houston, Gr.3, Remington Green Stakes, Remington Park, L. and Omaha Stakes, Horsemen’s Park.; sire.
SERENA’S TUNE (USA), 7 races in U.S.A. including La Habra Stakes, Santa Anita, L..; dam of VOCALISED (USA), 4 races including Bathwick Tyres Greenham Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3 and Dylan Thomas EBF Tetrarch Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3; sire, SERENA’S CAT (USA), 4 races in U.S.A. including Klassy Briefcase Stakes, Monmouth Park; grandam of HONOR CODE (USA), Champion older horse in U.S.A. in 2015, 6 races in U.S.A. including nyra.com Metropolitan Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Whitney Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1, Remsen Stakes; sire, NOBLE TUNE (USA), 4 races in U.S.A. including American Turf Stakes, Churchill Downs, Gr.2 and Pilgrim Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.3, placed second in Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (c&g), Santa Anita, Gr.1, DECLARATIONOFPEACE (USA), 3 races at home and in U.S.A. including Qatar Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes, Del Mar, L., Lady Serena (USA), 2 races in U.S.A., placed third in Barely Even Stakes, Gulfstream Park, R.
SERENE MELODY (USA), 4 races in U.S.A. including Wintergreen Stakes, Turfway Park; dam of WAR AT SEA (USA), 3 races in U.S.A. at 3 years, 2022 including Cinema Stakes, Santa Anita
Arbitrate (USA), 5 races in U.S.A., placed second in Dr Fager Stakes, Arlington International; sire. Pure Symmetry (USA), placed twice in U.S.A.; dam of Miner’s Cat (USA), 3 races in U.S.A., placed second in Holiday Inaugural Stakes, Turfway Park; grandam of Geometrical (IRE), 2 races, placed third in Galileo Irish EBF Futurity Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2.
VIVID IMAGINATION (USA) (f. by Raise A Man (USA)), won 4 races in U.S.A. including Golden Rod Stakes, Churchill Downs, Gr.3 and Martha Washington Handicap, Oaklawn Park, L.; dam of winners.
Serena’s Sister (USA), ran twice in U.S.A.; dam of winners, including: PRINCESS SERENA (USA), 1 race in U.S.A. and placed once; dam of ZABEEL PRINCE (IRE), 6 races at home and in France including Prix d’Ispahan, Parislongchamp, Gr.1 and bet365 Earl of Sefton Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, PUISSANCE DE LUNE (IRE), 8 races in Australia and France including Blamey Stakes, Flemington, Gr.2, P B Lawrence J J Liston Stakes, Caulfield, Gr.2 and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Flemington, Gr.3, placed second in Makybe Diva Stakes, Flemington, Gr.1 and Turnbull Stakes, Flemington, Gr.1 and third in Makybe Diva Stakes, Flemington, Gr.1, NZ Bloodstock Memsie Stakes, Caulfield, Gr.1 and Turnbull Stakes, Flemington, Gr.1, QUEEN POWER (IRE), 3 races including Middleton Stakes, York, Gr.2, Majesty (IRE), 5 races at home and in Australia, placed second in Takeover Target Pacesetter Stakes, Gosford, L.; grandam of RIZEENA (IRE), Champion 2yr old filly in Ireland in 2013, Jt 4th top rated 3yr old filly in Ireland in 2014, 5 races including Coronation Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Moyglare Stud Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1 and Queen Mary Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, placed second in Shadwell Fillies’ Mile Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, Qipco Falmouth Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1 and Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.1 and third in Darley Prix Morny, Deauville, Gr.1, SUMMER ROMANCE (IRE), 4 races at home and in U.A.E. including Balanchine Stakes, Meydan, Gr.2 and Princess Elizabeth Stakes, Epsom Downs, Gr.3, placed second in Diana Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1 and Just a Game Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, ZANBAQ (IRE), 3 races at 2 and 3 years, 2022 including Rosemary Stakes, Newmarket, L.; third dam of Daneh (GB), 1 race, placed second in Prestige Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3.
HELLO YOUMZAIN IS THE first son of Kodiac at stud in France and the first Group 1-winning sprinter by him to retire to stud.
Kodiac’s stallion sons have made promising starts to their stud careers with Ardad siring the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup, Middle Park Stakes and Prix Morny winner Perfect Power in his first crop.
From small initial crops Coulsty has sired the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Stakes winner Shantisara amongst four stakes winners, while Kodi Bear is responsible for the Group 2 Railway Stakes winner and Phoenix Stakes (G1) second Go Bears Go, the Listed winner and Oaks runner-up Mystery Angel and Measure Of Magic, a Listed winner who was placed in the Commonwealth Cup (G1) amongst his six stakes winners.
Given that Hello Youmzain was a better racehorse than all of those and is in possession of a better pedigree, it is natural to think that Hello Youmzain should do well in his second career.
Hello Youmzain only once finished out of the first five in his 12 career starts, winning five of them including two Group 1 sprints.
At two, he made a winning debut over 6f in late August and was beaten a short head on his second start. Kevin Ryan then sent him to France for the 6f Group 2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte, his first foray into Group company and he defeated Group 3 Firth Of Clyde Stakes winner Queen Of Bermuda with ease.
A spread plate didn’t help his cause in the Group 3 Greenham Stakes on his seasonal
**ROSE MELODY (FR) bay filly ex Dezba (GB) (Kingman (GB)) (27th March 2022)
* bay filly ex Welsche (FR) (Wootton Bassett (GB)) (27th January 2022)
bay filly ex Valkyries (FR) (Le Havre (IRE)) (14th February 2022)
ex Azameera (IRE) (Azamour (IRE)) (2nd April 2022)
filly ex Full Rose (GB) (Aqlaam (GB)) (28th March 2022)
HELLO
7yo | Kodiac-Spasha (Shamardal)
Haras d’Etreham
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Racing Form
12 runs, five wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 120 | Average winning distance: 5.98
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.2, (6f. beating Queen of Bermuda (IRE) and Graignes (FR)).
AT 3
Won Betfair Sprint Cup Stakes, Haydock Park, Gr.1, (6f. beating The Tin Man (GB) and Waldpfad (GER)), Armstrong Sandy Lane Stakes, Haydock Park, Gr.2, (6f. beating Calyx (GB) and Royal Intervention (IRE))
3rd Commonwealth Cup, Ascot, Gr.1, (6f to Advertise)
AT 4
Won Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (6f. beating Dream of Dreams (IRE) and Sceptical (GB)),
2nd Prix Maurice de Gheest, Deauville, Gr.1, (to Space Blues (IRE)).
1st Dam SPASHA (GB), unraced; dam of 6 winners: HELLO YOUMZAIN (FR), see above.
ROYAL YOUMZAIN (FR) (2015 c. by Youmzain (IRE)), Champion 2yr old colt in Italy in 2017, Top rated 3yr old colt in Germany in 2018 (9.5-11f.), won 4 races in Germany and Italy at 2 and 3 years and £332,362 including Premio Gran Criterium, Milan, Gr.2, pferdewetten.de Bavarian Classic, Munich, Gr.3 and Ittlingen Derby-Trial - Fruhjahrs Preis, Baden-Baden, Gr.3, placed 9 times including second in pferdewetten.de Grosser Hansa Preis, Hamburg, Gr.2, Grosser Preis der Badischen Wirtschaft, Baden Baden, Gr.2 and G.P.von Engel & Volkers Junioren-Preis, Dusseldorf, L. and third in Deutsches Derby, Hamburg, Gr.1, Longines Grosser Preis von Berlin, Berlin-Hoppegarten, Gr.1 and Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe, Baden-Baden, Gr.3.
SAGLAWY (FR) (2014 g. by Youmzain (IRE)), won 1 race at 5 years and £10,649; also won 1 race in France at 2 years and £30,208, placed 4 times including third in Prix Maurice Caillault, Fontainebleau, L.; also won 2 races over hurdles at 4 years and £53,089 including BoyleSports Juvenile Hurdle, Fairyhouse, Gr.2.
ZUHOOR BAYNOONA (IRE) (2012 f. by Elnadim (USA)), won 3 races at 2 and 3 years and £44,354 including Whitsbury/EBF Stallions Lansdown Stakes, Bath, L., placed twice including third in Langleys Solicitors EBF Marygate Stakes, York, L.; dam of 3 winners.
CONSERVATIONIST (GB), 1 race at 2 years, 2022 and £14,855 and placed twice, from only 5 starts.
Hala Hala Athmani (GB) (2019 f. by Dabirsim (FR)), won 1 race at 2 years and £8,084, placed third in Firth of Clyde Stakes, Ayr, Gr.3.
HELLO ROYAL (FR) (2018 c. by Dragon Pulse (IRE)), won 1 race in France at 3 years and £12,634 and placed.
Jehangeer (IRE) (2021 c. by Kodiac (GB)), placed once at 2 years, 2023 and £2,535.
Youm Jameel (IRE) (2020 g. by No Nay Never (USA)), ran once on the flat at 3 years, 2023.
2nd Dam
SPA (GB), unraced; dam of 11 winners:
PERSIAN MAJESTY (IRE) (g. by Grand Lodge (USA)), won 8 races at home, in France, Germany and Jersey to 8 years and £89,895 including Hampton Court Stakes, Ascot, L., placed third in Hardwicke Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2.
DYLANKA (IRE), won 6 races in Czech Republic and Slovakia at 2 and 3 years and £28,655 and placed 7 times; also won 5 races overjumps in Czech Republic at 4, 6 and 7 years, 2022 and placed once.
ROCKING SPA (ITY), won 6 races in Italy from 3 to 5 years and £69,149 and placed 12 times.
reappearance at three, but he still managed fourth behind Mohaather.
Dropped back to 6f for the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes he lowered the colours of Calyx and was less than 2l behind Advertise in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot, finishing third ahead of Ten Sovereigns, who went on to win the July Cup.
Given a mid-season break he was next seen in the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock, his first Group 1 success, defeating previous top level winners The Tin Man, Brando, Fairyland and Dream Of Dreams. After that triumph he was sold by Jaber Abdullah to Haras d’Etreham and Cambridge Stud.
Retained in training at four he made his seasonal debut in Royal Ascot’s Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes and prevailed over Dream Of Dreams and Sceptical in a thrilling finish. The final 100yds of the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest appeared to stretch his stamina resources and he was nabbed in the shadow of the post by Space Blues.
Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock out of the Shamardal mare Spasha, he is a half-brother to the Group 2-winning two-year-old Royal Youmzain, who was third in both the Deutsches Derby and Grosser Preis von Berlin (G1).
His Elnadim half-sister Zuhoor Baynoona won the 5f Listed Lansdown Stakes at three and was third in the Marygate Stake (L) as a two-year-old.
Their dam Spasha has produced four stakes winners from four runners as her seven-year-old Youmzain gelding Saglawy took third in the Listed Prix Maurice Caillault on the Flat and won a Grade 2 juvenile hurdle for Willie Mullins.
Spasha is an unraced half-sister to the Royal Ascot winner Persian Majesty out of Spa, an unraced Sadler’s Wells half-sister to the Grade 2 Hardwick Stakes winner Sandmason, sire of NH Grade 1 winners Black Ops.
Spa is also a half-sister to the Machiavellian mare Subterfuge, whose branch of the family has been very successful in Australia and New Zealand, which partly explains the attraction of Hello Youmzain to Cambridge Stud.
She is the dam of Group 2 winner and Group 2-placed Shania Dane and amongst her many black-type winning descendants is the Group 1 Sires Produce Stakes winner Summer Passage by Encosta de Lago.
The first foals by Hello Youmzain recorded an average of €55,472 from 17 sold with a median of €46,421. There were two six-figure prices among them and both were sold at Arqana last December.
Stauffenberg Bloodstock bought the €150,000 half-sister to Coeursamba, who won the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches. Also, a half-sister to the Listed third Lady Sidney, she was sold by Julie Mestrallet.
Another well-bred filly made €100,000; Haras des Loges offered the half-sister to Grade 3 winner and Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) second Lady Shipman, the dam of Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) winner Golden Pal; and she was bought by Haras de Meautry.
SPA’S DANCER (IRE), won 4 races from 3 to 6 years and £76,519 and placed 27 times; also placed 3 times over hurdles at 5 and 8 years.
APRIL EIGHTEEN (IRE), placed twice at 3 years; also won 3 races in France at 3 and 4 years and placed 6 times; dam of a winner.
MISS MANZOR (GB), 1 race in France at 2 years, 2022 and placed once.
FITZROY (IRE), won 2 races at 3 and 4 years and £26,820 and placed 11 times.
SINE SPA (ITY), won 2 races in Italy at 3 years and £28,566 and placed 11 times.
ASTUTE BOY (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 4 times.
SPAMIX (IRE), won 1 race in France at 3 years and £35,598 and placed 3 times.
SELKSPA (GB), won 1 race in Poland at 2 years and placed 3 times.
MONSPA (GB), won 1 race in France at 3 years; dam of a winner.
Minoris (FR), unraced; dam of MYLADY (GER), 4 races in Germany and U.S.A. from 2 to 4 years, 2023 and £181,240 including Dr Busch Memorial, Krefeld, and The Very One Stakes, Gulfstream Park, placed third in Preis der Diana Gr.3 Gr.3 - German Oaks, Dusseldorf, Gr.1.
JOHNNY REBEL (GB), 4 races in Serbia at 3 and 5 years.
3rd Dam
SANDY ISLAND, won 2 races at 3 years, Lancashire Oaks, Haydock Park, Gr.3 and Pretty Polly Stakes, Newmarket, L., placed twice second in Ribblesdale Stakes, Royal Ascot, Gr.2 and third in Musidora Stakes, York, Gr.3, from only 5 starts; dam of 5 winners including:
SANDMASON (GB) (c. by Grand Lodge (USA)), won 2 races including Hardwicke Stakes, Royal Ascot, Gr.2, placed second in Sagitta Jockey Club Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2.
SARDEGNA (f. by Pharly (FR)), won 2 races including Crawley Warren Pretty Polly Stakes, Newmarket, L., placed second in Tattersalls Musidora Stakes, York, Gr.3, from only 5 starts; dam of winners.
SARDONIC (GB), 2 races including Abingdon Stakes, Newbury, L.; dam of Sunchii (GB), 10 races in Italy.
Samoa (GB), 1 race, placed second in Ribblesdale Stakes, Royal Ascot, Gr.2, from only 4 starts. Sinistra (GB), ran once on the flat; dam of God’s In Him (AUS), 5 races in Australia, placed second in Leonay Plumbing Shannon Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.2.
Satirical (GB), unraced; dam of Satirical Boy (AUS), 5 races in Australia, placed third in Schweppervecence T L Baillieu Handicap, Rosehill, Gr.3; grandam of Smart As You Think (AUS), 1 race in Australia, placed third in UBET South Australian Fillies Classic, Morphettville, Gr.3. SUBTERFUGE (GB), won 1 race and placed twice, all her starts; dam of winners.
SHANIA DANE (AUS), 5 races in Australia including Prolock Phar Lap Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.2, Bankstown Sports Club Premiere Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.2, Tramway Handicap, Randwick, Gr.3 and South Pacific Classic Stakes, Randwick, Gr.3, placed second in George Main Stakes, Randwick, Gr.1 and third in Telegraph All Aged Stakes, Randwick, Gr.1, Emirates Cantala Stakes, Flemington, Gr.1, Bellerive Stud Queen of the Turf Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.1 and Myer Classic Empire Rose Stakes, Gr.1. SCINTILLATION (AUS), 12 races in Hong Kong including Chinese Club Challenge Cup, Sha Tin, L., The Centenary Sprint Cup, Sha Tin, L. (twice), Mercedes Benz Hong Kong Classic Mile, Sha Tin, L., Sha Tin Sprint Trophy, Sha Tin, L. and HSBC Premier Bauhinia Sprint Trophy, Sha Tin, L.
RISK AVERSION (AUS), 5 races in Australia including Akalan Projects Juanmo Stakes, Eagle Farm, L.. Danevade (AUS), 3 races in Australia, placed third in The Hilton Int. Matriarch Stakes, Flemington, Gr.2; dam of NORTHWEST PASSAGE (AUS), 5 races in Australia including Schweppes Tasmanian Derby,Hobart, L., Kevin Sharkie Hobart Guineas, Hobart, L. and Advanced Mailing Solutions MV Night Cup, Moonee Valley, L., placed second in bet365 Geelong Cup, Geelong, Gr.3; grandam of Douceur (AUS), 2 races in Australia, placed second in VRC Oaks, Flemington, Gr.1 and third in Epona Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.3.
Liatris (AUS), 3 races in New Zealand, placed second in Robin, Duke of Bedford Breeders’ Stakes, Matamata, Gr.2; grandam of PACIFIC DRAGON (NZ), 3 races in New Zealand including Ryder Stakes, Te Rapa, L., placed second in Eclipse Stakes, Ellerslie, Gr.2.
Puzzle Book (AUS), 4 races in Australia, placed third in Gosford Classic, Gosford, L. Sequin (AUS), dam of ORDER OF THE SUN (AUS), 11 races including Victoria St Leger, L. and Colonial Chief Stakes, Kranji, L., BEAUTY (AUS), 5 races in Australia including Harrolds William Crockett (L)
KAMEKO is a son of the seven-time champion Turf sire of North America Kitten’s Joy, who was also crowned North America’s champion sire of 2018. Bobby’s Kitten was the first son of his to retire to stud in Europe and the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner made a good start to his stallion career at Lanwades, with 25 per cent winners to runners from his first crop.
Although born and bred in Kentucky, Kameko’s female family is European – his dam Sweeter Still was bred by Ann-Marie O’Brien and the daughter of Rock Of Gibraltar is a half-sister to the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy winner Kingsbarns (Galileo). The Grade 3 Senorita Stakes winner is also a half-sister to the Group 3 Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial winner Belle Artiste and she’s a full-sister to Jessica Harrington’s talented 2m hurdler Gimli’s Rock.
The deeper reaches of the pedigree bring in a host of talented performers, including the three times Group 1 winner and sire Rip Van Winkle and the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup winner Danish, who is the second dam of African Story, winner of the Dubai World Cup (G1).
Bred by Calumet Farm, Kameko cost just $90,000 as a yearling at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale and was sent into training with Andrew Balding. He made a winning debut over 7f at Sandown in the July
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of 2019 and returned to the track for his second start when he finished a nose second in the Group 3 Solario Stakes. Upped in class and trip for the Group 2 Royal Lodge he was again a close second, this time a neck behind Royal Dornoch.
The Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy was transferred to Newcastle’s All-Weather because of bad weather but the changed circumstances didn’t inconvenience Kameko, who was a comfortable winner over the Group 2 Beresford Stakes winner Innisfree and subsequent Group 1 winner Mogul.
Having emulated his dam’s half-brother in winning the final juvenile Group 1 of the season, hopes were high that he could improve on that relation’s record at three.
His seasonal reappearance came in the 2,000 Guineas and he was a narrow winner, finishing a neck ahead of Wichita, with the champion twoyear-old Pinatubo in third.
Much discussion preceded his run in the Derby with stamina doubts and stallion considerations aired publically, but he was allowed to take his chance. The runaway nature of Serpentine’s win didn’t fully answer those stamina questions for Kameko, who was just half a length and a nose behind the second Khalifa Sat in fourth, with Mogul once again behind.
He was dropped back to a mile for his next start, the Group 1 Sussex Stakes in which he clashed with Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Siskin, the dual Royal Ascot Group 1 winner Circus Maximus, Wichita and Mohaather. Stuck for room at a vital stage in the race he was fourth, eased down by Oisin Murphy.
The 1m2f of the Juddmonte International at York looked tailor made for Kameko and he travelled well into the race, but the ground seemed to have gone against him and he ended up fourth behind Ghaiyyath, Magical and Lord North.
Dropped in class and trip for the Group 2 Joel Stakes, Kameko returned to winning ways with a comfortable success over a field that included Group 1 winners Benbatl and Zabeel Prince. He ended his racing career back in the state of his birth, running behind Order Of Australia in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.
A striking colt, Kameko’s stock were popular with buyers at the foal sales where they averaged £42,471 for 22 sold from 27 offered. The median was £29,925 and a pair of colts achieved six-figure sales.
The highest price was 145,000gns for a colt out of the multiple Listedplaced Golden Spell (Al Kazeem). Consigned by Tweenhills, and from the family of this year’s Ascot Gold Cup winner Courage Mon Ami, he was purchased by Goodwill Bloodstock.
David Howden bought the Kameko close relation to his Listed Pretty Polly Stakes winner Running Lion, by Roaring Lion, for 100,000gns. A half-brother to Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes winner Majestic Glory, he is from the family of St James’s Palace Stakes winner Zafeen.
A Kameko colt out of Beach Belle, a half-sister to Roaring Lion’s Group 1-winning two-year-old Dubai Mile, is one to look out for at this year’s sales.
A half-brother to Group 2 winner Surf Dancer and out of the Listed Naas Juvenile Sprint Stakes winner and Phoenix Stakes (G1) fourth, he brought a winning bid of 90,000gns from Aughamore Stud and Howson and Houldsworth Bloodstock.
Ten runs, four wins, two places | Best Timeform Rating: 128 | Average winning distance: 7.76
Stakes form
AT 2 Jt 2nd top rated 2yr old colt in Europe in 2019
Won Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes, Newcastle, Gr.1, (8f. beating Innisfree (IRE) and Year of The Tiger (IRE)),
2nd Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2, (to Royal Dornoch (IRE)), Betway Solario Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3, (to Positive (GB)).
AT 3 Jt 2nd top rated 3yr old colt in Europe in 2020
Won 2000 Guineas, Newmarket, Gr.1, (8f. beating Wichita (IRE) and Pinatubo (IRE)), Joel Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2, (8f. beating Regal Reality (GB) and Benbatl (GB)).
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Tweenhills Farm & Stud
2021: £25,000 | 2022: £20,000 | 2023: £15,000
SWEETER STILL (IRE), placed once at 2 years and £1,571; also won 5 races in U.S.A. at 3 and 5 years and £160,727 including Senorita Stakes, Hollywood Park, Gr.3, Sandy Blue Handicap, Del Mar, L., China Doll Stakes, Santa Anita, L. and Light Hearted Stakes, Delaware Park, placed 3 times including second in Providencia Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.2 and third in Honeymoon Handicap, Hollywood Park, Gr.2; dam of 2 winners: KAMEKO (USA), see above.
MOZU GOLD BARREL (USA) (2019 f. by Optimizer (USA)), won 3 races in Japan at 2 and 4 years, 2023 and £277,418 and placed twice.
Dreaming of Stella (IRE) (2013 f. by Giant’s Causeway (USA)); dam of 2 winners.
KATS BOB (GB), 4 races at 3 and 4 years, 2022 and £28,321 and placed 8 times.
REBEL KING (TUR), 1 race in Turkey at 3 years, 2023 and £4,789.
Kingsclere (USA) (2021 f. by Kitten’s Joy (USA)), in training.
She also has a yearling filly by Kitten’s Joy (USA).
2nd Dam
BELTISAAL (FR), placed 5 times in France at 3 years; dam of 10 winners:
KINGSBARNS (IRE) (c. by Galileo (IRE)), 2nd top rated 2yr old in Europe in 2012, won 2 races at 2 years and £278,924 including Racing Post Trophy, Doncaster, Gr.1, placed third in Qipco Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1; sire.
SWEETER STILL (IRE), see above.
BELLE ARTISTE (IRE) (f. by Namid (GB)), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years and £72,209 including Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial, Leopardstown, Gr.3.
GIMLI’S ROCK (IRE) (g. by Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)), won 3 races from 3 to 5 years and £109,133.
Elizabethofaragon (IRE) (f. by Galileo (IRE)), won 2 races at 3 years and £33,442, placed second in River Eden Stakes, Lingfield Park, L..
PESSE (IRE), won 7 races in Italy at 2, 3 and 6 years and £41,116 and placed 24 times; dam of winners.
SAYESSE (GB), 9 races to 6 years and £70,528 and placed 17 times.
SUPER AURORA (GB), 5 races in Italy at 2 and 3 years and placed 7 times.
GAINSAY (GB), 4 races at 3 and 4 years and placed 5 times.
EGYPTIAN WARRIOR (IRE), won 2 races at 4 and 5 years and placed 3 times; also placed once in a N.H. Flat Race at 4 years; also won 2 races over hurdles at 5 years and placed twice.
BELPASSO (IRE), placed once at 2 years; also won 3 races in U.A.E. at 3, 6 and 7 years and £33,075 and placed 9 times.
TOBEROGAN (IRE), won 3 races at 4, 7 and 8 years and placed 9 times.
QUARTZ (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and placed once, all his starts.
Sharpe (FR), placed once in Italy at 3 years; dam of a winner.
LIMPOPO TOM (IRE), 1 race at 4 years.
Sweet Lemon (IRE), unraced; dam of winners.
MUKHA MAGIC (GB), 10 races from 3 to 7 years, 2023 and £69,447 and placed 18 times.
BOLD KNIGHT (GB), placed 4 times at 3 years; also 2 races in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 4 and 5 years and £32,886 and placed 4 times.
On Ice (IRE), unraced; dam of a winner.
GALLERIA BORGHESE (IRE), 2 races at 3 years, 2022 and £55,600 including Naas Oaks Trial, Naas, , placed L. third in Blandford Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2.
3rd Dam
ITTISAAL, placed 4 times at 2 and 3 years; dam of 7 winners including:
KAFHAR (GB) (c. by In The Wings), Top rated 3yr old in Italy in 1996 (9.5-10.5f.), won 3 races in Italy including Premio Botticelli, Rome, L., placed third in Premio Guido Beradelli, Rome, Gr.2; sire.
TOHO VENUS (JPN), won 1 race in Japan and placed 8 times; dam of winners.
TOHO CHASER (JPN), 8 races in Japan including NST Sho, Niigata, L.
KING OF CHANGE is the first of two Group 1 winners sired so far by Farhh, who has excellent statistics from his small crops. The Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner is one of 23 stakes horses from just 152 runners by Farhh, who has a 7.25 per cent stakes winners-to-runners ratio.
One of the best three-year-old milers of his generation, King Of Change never finished out of the first two in his six starts, all at around a mile. Trained by Richard Hannon, he was second on both his runs at two which came at the tail end of the season.
He belied his inexperience in the 2,000 Guineas, in which he finished second to Magna Grecia despite having only won his maiden less than a
month previously and never having run in a Group race prior to contesting the Classic.
Given a break after his Classic exertions, he next ran in the Listed Fortune Stakes at Sandown in September and made the breakthrough at black-type level there. He followed that up with a return to Group 1 company and victory over a mile at Ascot on British Champions’ Day, beating a field that included Veracious, Mohaather, Phoenix Of Spain, Magna Grecia, Lord Glitters, Benbatl, Accidental Agent and his own half-brother, the Group 2 Celebration Mile winner Century Dream, who is by Cape Cross.
That was to prove his sixth and final start, efforts to return him to the
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racecourse as a four-year-old failing.
He is one of four winners out of Salacia, a daughter of Echo Of Light and the Group 3 Prix Fille de l’Air winner Neptune’s Bride (Bering). It’s an international family with Neptune’s Bride producing stakes-placed winners in Japan, France and the UAE. Third dam Wedding Of The Sea by Blushing Groom won the Group 3 Prix de Ris-Orangis.
Of the 23 stakes performers sired by King Of Change’s sire Farrh, he has done well with the Machiavellian and Seeking The Gold lines of Mr. Prospector.
King Of Change is bred this way as his sire Echo Of Light is from the only crop of Dubai Millennium and his Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed son Dee Ex Bee is out of a full-sister to Dubai Millennium. The Listed winner Fa Ul Sciur has Dubai Destination as her broodmare sire, while Machiavellian’s son Storming Home is the dam sire of the Group 2-placed Makawee.
Pivotal and Galileo go together like rhubarb and custard and Farhh has a Group 3 winner and a Group 3-placed winner out of Galileo mares as well as last season’s Group 1 Criterium International third Salt Bay.
Nathaniel is the broodmare sire of Farrh’s multiple Group winner Tribalist, who was third in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, while Teofilo is the broodmare sire of Farhh’s Listed winner Blue Sky Dreamer and the Group 3-placed Sky Defender.
Foal buyers were impressed with the first crop of King Of Change with the ten who changed hands at auction last winter averaging €23,569 and a top price of €50,000, which was achieved at Goffs.
Peter and Ross Doyle bought the colt consigned by Mareshah Stud out of Stylish Design, an unraced Henrythenavigator half-sister to Group 3 Starlish and the Listed winners Solent and Staros from the family of Tirol.
That price was almost matched by Ballyduane Stud’s half-sister to the Listed-placed Live out of the Group 3 fourth Living Art, a Trippi half-sister to American Stakes winners V Formation, Avare and My Silver Charm.
Racing Form
Six runs, three wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 126 | Average winning distance: 8.11
Stakes form
AT 3 Jt 4th top rated 3yr old colt in England in 2019
Won Qipco Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (8f. beating The Revenant (GB) and Safe Voyage (IRE)), Chasemore Fortune Stakes, Sandown Park, L., (8f. beating Turgenev (GB) and Silver Line (IRE))
2nd Qipco 2000 Guineas Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Magna Grecia (IRE)).
1st Dam
SALACIA (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and £4,542 and placed 4 times; dam of 4 winners:
KING OF CHANGE (GB), see above.
CENTURY DREAM (IRE) (2014 c. by Cape Cross (IRE)), won 10 races to 7 years and £422,977 including Celebration Mile, Goodwood, Gr.2, Investec Diomed Stakes, Epsom Downs, Gr.3 (twice), Celebrate Commonweath Paradise Stakes, Ascot, L. and Midsummer Stakes, Windsor, L., placed 9 times including second in Summer Mile, Ascot, Gr.2, Diomed Stakes, Epsom Downs, Gr.3 and Price Bailey Ben Marshall Stakes, Newmarket, L. and third in Qipco Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1; also placed 4 times in France, U.A.E. and U.S.A. at 4, 5 and 7 years and £124,182 including second in Al Tayer Zabeel Mile, Meydan, Gr.2 and Prix Perth, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3.
THAWRY (GB) (2015 g. by Iffraaj (GB)), won 3 races at 4 and 5 years and £33,174 and placed 19 times; also placed 5 times in France at 2 and 3 years and £10,122.
BANNA (GB) (2017 f. by Pivotal (GB)), won 1 race at 3 years and £3,429, from only 2 starts; broodmare. Royal Event (IRE) (2018 f. by Golden Horn (GB)), placed once at 3 years and £3,566.
Queen of Change (IRE) (2019 f. by Sea The Stars (IRE)), placed once at 3 years, 2022 and £2,049.
2nd Dam
NEPTUNE’S BRIDE (USA), won 5 races in France at 3 years and £112,995 including Prix Fille de l’Air, Toulouse, Gr.3, Prix La Sorellina, La Teste Buch, L. and Prix Occitanie, Toulouse, L., placed 6 times including second in Black Helen Handicap, Gulfstream Park, Gr.2 and third in Premio Bagutta - Memorial Sergio Cumani, Milan, Gr.3 and Bayou
Breeders’ Cup Handicap, Fair Grounds, L.R.; dam of 9 winners:
Sea Chariot (USA) (c. by Seeking The Gold (USA)), won 6 races in Japan at 2 and 3 years and £795,262, placed second in Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun, Kawasaki, L.
Melicertes (GB) (c. by Poet’s Voice (GB)), won 3 races in France and U.A.E. at 3 and 6 years, 2022 and £68,135, placed second in Grand Prix du Nord, Chantilly, L.
Submariner (USA) (g. by Singspiel (IRE)), won 5 races at home and in U.A.E. at 4 and 5 years and £57,875, placed third in Derrinstown Stud Jebel Ali Stakes, Jebel Ali, L.
G K CHESTERTON (IRE), won 3 races at 2 and 4 years and £39,267 and placed twice.
POSEIDON’S BRIDE (USA), won 2 races in France at 3 years and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
Dream Child (IRE), 5 races at 3 and 4 years and £66,672, placed second in Betfred EBF Daisy Warwick Stakes, Goodwood, L., Newsells Park Stud Aphrodite Stakes, Newmarket, L. and Nottinghamshire Oaks, Nottingham, L.
LATAMAH (QA), 7 races in Qatar to 8 years, 2023 and £160,303 and placed 10 times.
ANATOLIAN (GB), 3 races at 3 years and £26,341 and placed twice; also 2 races in U.A.E. at 5 years and £105,406.
AJS RASHEED (QA), 1 race in Qatar at 3 years, 2022.
Ajs Shagran (QA), placed once in Qatar at 3 years, 2023.
Candleberry (GB), ran once in France; dam of OOH IS IT (GB), 4 races at 3 and 4 years, 2022 and £26,845 and placed 6 times.
PYTHEAS (USA), won 1 race at 4 years and placed 10 times.
SALACIA (IRE), see above.
MARSHLAND (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 3 times.
EVENING AFFAIR (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed once, all her starts; dam of winners.
LUMINOUS COMMANDER (JPN), 7 races in Japan at 3, 4 and 6 years and £123,786 and placed 16 times.
BEST AINA (JPN), 3 races in Japan from 2 to 4 years and placed 14 times.
MUGUNGHWA (JPN), 1 race in Japan at 4 years, 2022 and placed 7 times.
Shogun (JPN), placed 3 times in Japan at 3 and 4 years, 2023.
Good Evening (JPN), unraced; dam of TAIKI EXCELLENT (JPN), 3 races in Japan to 2022.
Intrigue (JPN), unraced; dam of KITANO SOLOMON (JPN), 3 races in Japan to 2023 and placed 4 times.
Sea Palm (GB), placed 4 times in France at 3 years; dam of winners.
SOPRAN PALKER (ITY), 2 races in Italy at 2 and 3 years and placed 8 times.
Wavebreak (GB), unraced; dam of winners.
KOURVOISIER (IRE), 2 races at 3 years.
Let’s Have A Flyer (IRE), placed once at 2 years, 2022.
3rd Dam WEDDING OF THE SEA (USA), 2 races in France at 2 and 3 years including Prix de Ris-Orangis, Evry, , placed won Gr.3 placed 6 times including second in Criterium du Bequet, Bordeaux, L., Prix du Pont-Neuf, Longchamp, L. and Prix Zeddaan, M’-Laffitte, L. and third in Prix du Gros-Chene, Chantilly, Gr.2 and Jacobs Goldene Peitsche, Baden-Baden, Gr.2; dam of 7 winners including:
SEA DART (USA) (c. by Diesis), won 4 races at home and in Bahrain (OLD) including Goffs International Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2.
NEPTUNE’S BRIDE (USA), see above.
CLEMENCEAU (USA), won 7 races in Italy and placed 5 times.
MARTELLO TOWER (USA), won 5 races in U.A.E. and placed 3 times.
EXTRAVAGANZA (FR), won 2 races in France and U.A.E. and placed 3 times.
Polyandry (USA), unraced; dam of a winner.
DUBAI ESCAPADE (AUS), won Tattersall’s Cup, Ascot, L., second in Strickland Stakes, Belmont, Gr.3.
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Racing Form
Eight runs, five wins, one place | Best Timeform Rating: 129 | Average winning distance: 7.21
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Molson Horris Hill Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, (7f. beating Azano (GB) and Almufti (GB)).
AT 3
Won Watership Down Greenham Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, (7f. beating Great Scot (GB) and Urban Icon (GB)).
AT 4 Top rated older miler in England in 2020.
Won Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, (8f. beating Circus Maximus (IRE) and Siskin (USA)), Summer Mile, Ascot, Gr.2, (7½f. beating San Donato (IRE) and Duke of Hazzard (FR)).
MOHAATHER IS A HANDSOME SON of Showcasing, bred by Gaie Johnson Houghton from a family she has nurtured to the very highest level.
He is out of her Inchinor mare Roodeye, who has produced the multiple American Grade 2 winner Prize Exhibit, also third in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks, and a full-sister to Mohaather. Prize Exhibit is the dam of last year’s Group 3 Cornelscourt Stakes winner History (Galileo).
Roodeye is also the dam of the stakes-placed Harbour Master (Harbour Watch) and the second dam of Accidental Agent, successful in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes and third in the Lockinge Stakes (G1).
Third in the Listed Dick Poole Stakes and successful over 5f at two, Roodeye is one of five black-type performers out of Roo, second in the Listed Firth Of Clyde Stakes over 5f.
Amongst those black-type performers out of the Rudimentary halfsister to Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner Bannister is the Group 1 Prix Morny and Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes second Gallagher.
Roo is also a half-sister to the unraced dam of Astaire, winner of the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes.
Mohaather has a pedigree brimming with juvenile talent and precocity and was no slouch himself. Sold by Hillwood Stud to Shadwell for 110,000gns at Book 2, he was sent into training with Marcus Tregoning and made three quick starts at the end of the 2018 Flat season.
Second on debut over 6f at Newbury, he went one better on his second start and then took the Group 2 Horris Hill Stakes in fine fashion.
He returned in the Greenham Stakes (G3) at three and was a cosy winner of the 7f Guineas trial at Newbury. Mohaather made just one other start at three in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) six months later.
At four, he started his season in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot where he met trouble in running but enjoyed a much happier return to Ascot and the winners’ enclosure after his impressive success in the Group 2 Summer Mile.
Luck was on his side in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood when he managed to extricate himself from trouble and finally get a run demonstrating what he was capable of with an exciting burst of speed seeing off Group 1 winners Circus Maximus, Siskin and Kameko.
Sadly that was to be his final race, injury forcing his retirement to stud.
There was strong trade for the first foals with the average and median figures almost identical; the former was £39,805 and the latter £39,900 for 25 foals sold from 30 offered. The most expensive was the colt out of Time Of Change, an unraced Exceed And Excel full-sister to Taajub, who was placed in the Gimcrack and Cornwallis Stakes at two.
Offered by Barton Stud, the first foal of his dam made 110,000gns to Shadwell at Tattersalls. Shadwell was also the purchaser of the next highest-priced Mohaather foal – the 90,000gns half-brother to stakesplaced Sweet Dragon Fly by Mohaather’s grandsire Oasis Dream. They are out of the Listed Bosra Sham Fillies’ Stakes winner Sweet Cecily by Kodiac.
Nunnery Stud
2021: £20,000 | 2022: £15,000 | 2023: £15,000
1st Dam Roodeye (GB), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years and £29,496, placed 8 times including third in EBF Irish TB Marketing Dick Poole Stakes, Salisbury, L.; dam of 8 winners: MOHAATHER (GB), see above.
PRIZE EXHIBIT (GB) (2012 f. by Showcasing (GB)), won 2 races at 2 years and £18,378, placed 4 times including third in TriConnex Oh So Sharp Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3; also won 5 races in U.S.A. from 3 to 5 years and £452,403 including San Clemente Handicap, Del Mar, Gr.2, Monrovia Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.2, Senorita Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.3 and Megahertz Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.3, placed 5 times including second in Yellow Ribbon Handicap, Del Mar, Gr.2, Osunitas Stakes, Del Mar, R. and Wishin Well Stakes, Santa Anita and third in Del Mar Oaks, Del Mar, Gr.1; dam of a winner.
HISTORY (IRE) (f. by Galileo (IRE)), 2 races at 2 and 3 years, 2022 and £61,600 including Cornelscourt Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, placed 3 times including third in Ribblesdale Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2.
Harbour Master (GB) (2014 c. by Harbour Watch (IRE)), won 2 races at 2 years and £11,886 and placed 3 times; also won 2 races in U.S.A. at 3 and 6 years and £107,636, placed 7 times including second in Mecke Stakes, Gulfstream Park and Let it Ride Stakes, Del Mar, R.
MUST BE ME (GB) (2010 f. by Trade Fair (GB)), won 1 race at 2 years and £3,174 and placed twice; also won 5 races in Italy from 3 to 5 years and £47,178 and placed 10 times; dam of 3 winners.
POLLY POTT (GB) (f. by Muhaarar (GB)), 4 races at 2 years, 2022 and £109,028 including May Hill Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2.
HOONOSE (GB) (2009 g. by Cadeaux Genereux), won 2 races at 4 years and £4,422 and placed twice.
ROODLE (GB) (2007 f. by Xaar (GB)), won 2 races at 2 and 4 years and £15,879 and placed twice; dam of 3 winners.
ACCIDENTAL AGENT (GB) (g. by Delegator (GB)), 7 races to 8 years, 2022 and £747,352 including Queen Anne Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, placed 12 times including second in Tattersalls Sovereign Stakes, Salisbury, Gr.3 and Dubai Duty Free Cup Stakes, Newbury, L. and third in Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes, Newbury, Gr.1, Sky Winter Hill Stakes, Windsor, Gr.3, Price Bailey Ben Marshall Stakes, Newmarket, L., Celebrate Commonweath Paradise Stakes, Ascot, L. and EBF Hyde Stakes, Kempton Park, L.
MADAME TANTZY (GB) (f. by Champs Elysees (GB)), 5 races from 3 to 5 years and £68,915 including Hyde Stakes, Kempton Park, L. and placed 5 times.
ROOFUL (GB), 4 races from 3 to 5 years, 2023 and £18,192 and placed 4 times.
CHAINSAW (GB) (2011 c. by Pastoral Pursuits (GB)), placed twice at 2 years and £1,886; also won 1 race in Sweden at 3 years and £6,921 and placed 5 times.
SUPER SIXTEEN (GB) (2013 g. by Showcasing (GB)), won 1 race in Hong Kong at 3 years and £85,156 and placed twice.
2nd Dam
Roo (GB), won 2 races at 2 years, placed 10 times including second in Faucets Firth of Clyde Stakes, Ayr, L.; dam of 10 winners:
Gallagher (GB) (g. by Bahamian Bounty (GB)), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years and £135,290, placed second in Darley Prix Morny, Deauville, Gr.1.
Quick Wit (GB) (g. by Oasis Dream (GB)), won 7 races at home and in U.A.E. to 6 years and £216,235, placed second in Greene King Foundation Stakes, Goodwood, L. and Ian/Kate Hall Macmillan Ganton Stakes, York, L.
New Day Dawn (IRE) (f. by Dawn Approach (IRE)), won 1 race at 3 years, placed second in Smarkets EBF Stallions Dick Hern Stakes, Haydock Park, L..
Roodeye (GB), see above.
Averoo (GB) (g. by Averti (IRE)), won 7 races at home and in U.S.A. from 3 to 6 years and £63,377, placed second in Riot in Paris Stakes, Hollywood Park.
ROODOLPH (GB), won 2 races at 2 and 4 years and placed 8 times; also won 1 race over hurdles at 6 years and placed 3 times.
COCKNEY DANCER (GB), won 3 races at 2 and 3 years; dam of winners.
Lambeth Walk (GB), 2 races at 2 years, placed second in EBF Ripon Champion Trophy Stakes, Ripon, L. PATTY PATCH (GB), placed twice at 3 years; also 4 races in Germany at 4 and 7 years, 2022 and placed 15 times.
PEARL REEF (GB), 1 race at 3 years, 2022 and placed once.
Pjanoo (GB), placed 3 times at 2 and 3 years, 2023.
TSCHIERSCHEN (IRE), won 1 race at 2 years and placed 4 times, from only 6 starts; dam of a winner. Perotto (GB), 4 races at 2 and 3 years and £120,927, placed third in Sovereign Stakes, Salisbury, Gr.3. Olivetti (GB), placed once at 3 years, 2022.
DAZZLE THE DUEL (IRE), won 1 race at 4 years and placed twice.
FOX HAPPY (IRE), placed twice at 3 years; also won 1 race in Greece at 3 years.
Soteria (IRE), placed twice at 2 years; dam of a winner.
Imperial Yellow (IRE), 3 races at 2 and 3 years and £35,981, placed third in Rose Bowl Stakes, Newbury, L., from only 6 starts.
Safety First (GB), placed once at 3 years, 2022; also placed once in Belgium at 3 years, 2022.
3rd Dam
SHALL WE RUN (GB), placed once at 2 years; Own sister to Fire Top; dam of 7 winners including:
BANNISTER (GB) (g. by Inchinor (GB)), won 2 races including Scottish Equitable Gimcrack Stakes, York, Gr.2. Roo (GB), see above.
PEACE LILY (GB), won 1 race and placed 3 times; dam of winners.
PERCY WILLIS (GB), 3 races at 4 years, 2022 and placed 10 times; also placed once over hurdles
RUN OF THE DAY (GB), won 1 race; dam of a winner.
DESERT MARATHON (GB), placed 5 times; also 1 race in Belgium at 4 years, 2022 and placed once. Runway Dancer (GB), unraced; dam of winners.
ASTAIRE (IRE), 5 races including vision.ae Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, Irish TB Marketing Gimcrack Stakes, York, Gr.2 and Connaught Flooring Abernant Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, placed third in Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1.
SHOSHONE WARRIOR (IRE), 2 races at 3 and 5 years, 2022 and placed 3 times.
ACLASSIC-WINNING colt from a richly endowed Wildenstein family, Persian King was a Group winner at two, three and four and is a member of the globally influential Invincible Spirit sire line as a son of Kingman.
Bred by Dayton Investments and trained by André Fabre, Persian King won twice at two in France before travelling to Newmarket for the Group 3 Autumn Stakes in which he defeated the subsequent 2,000 Guineas winner Magna Grecia. He made a winning seasonal reappearance at three in the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau over a mile, a warm-up for his Classic success in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1). His bid for a Classic double was denied by Sottsass, who finished 2l ahead of Persian King in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1).
As a four-year-old, he returned to win the Group 2 Prix de Muguet over a mile at Saint Cloud, a precursor to his victory in the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan. On his next start he was fourth in the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois to Group 1 winners Palace Pier, Alpine Star and Circus Maximus but returned to winning ways in the Prix du Moulin, beating Pinatubo, Circus Maximus, Siskin, Victor Ludorum and Romanised.
An ambitious attempt at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) was next on the agenda, the first time Persian King ran over 1m4f. The four-yearold was 2l third to Sottsass, the same distance that separated them in the Jockey-Club of 2019.
Persian King was the most expensive new stallion to retire to stud in France for the 2021 season, and the first by Kingman who has made such an impressive start to his own stallion career.
The son of Invincible Spirit is now the sire of eight Group/Grade 1 winners, including in Australia where his two-year-old son King Colorado won the JJ Atkins. In Europe, Feed The Flame impressed with victory in the Grand Prix de Paris and Kingman is now the sire of 41 individual Group winners, 68 stakes winners and counting.
Kingman’s first winner and first Group winner – Calyx – has made a promising start to his own stud career with the Coventry Stakes (G2) winner the first of this year’s first-season sires to have a Group winner in the shape of Persian Dreamer, successful in the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes (G2), and one of three Group 2 performers sired by Calyx so far.
Persian King’s own pedigree has two strains of Danzig as he has the champion Dylan Thomas as his broodmare sire and he is also inbred to the full-brothers Kris and Diesis – the latter is the dam sire of Dylan Thomas and the former is broodmare sire to Invincible Spirit.
His dam Pretty Please was a winner at three and is a close-relation to the Group 1 Prix Ganay winner and sire Planteur and is a half-sister to
Persian King foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
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Racing Form
13 runs, eight wins, four places | Best Timeform Rating: 127 | Average winning distance: 8.11
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Godolphin Autumn Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, (8f. beating Magna Grecia (IRE) and Circus Maximus (IRE)).
AT 3
Won Emirates Poule d’Essai des Poulains, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (8f. beating Shaman (IRE) and San Donato (IRE)), Prix de Fontainebleau, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (8f. beating Epic Hero (FR) and Duke of Hazzard (FR))
2nd Qipco Prix du Jockey Club, Chantilly, Gr.1, (to Sottsass (FR)).
AT 4 Champion older miler in Europe in 2020.
Won Prix d’Ispahan, Chantilly, Gr.1, (8½f. beating Stormy Antarctic (GB) and Pogo (IRE)), Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (7½f. beating Pinatbo (IRE) and Circus Maximus (IRE)), Prix du Muguet, Saint-Cloud, Gr.2, (7½f. beating Pretreville (FR) and Skalleti (FR))
2nd Prix de Montretout, Chantilly, L., (to Magny Cours (USA))
3rd Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to Sottsass (FR)).
Pilote D’Essai, a dual Listed winner in Australia by Oasis Dream.
They are out of Plante Rare, an unraced Giant’s Causeway half-sister to the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville winner and sire Policy Maker by Sadler’s Wells, the Group 2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil winner and sire Pushkin and the Group 3 Lancashire Oaks winner Place Rouge. His fourth dam is a full-sister to the brilliant mare Pawneese, who is the ancestress of the brilliant Stradivarius and Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist.
At last winter’s foal sales, 16 of the 20 offspring of Persian King who came up for auction were sold resulting in an average price of €68,393 with the median at €54,000.
Top of the charts was a colt out of the Siyouni mare Miss Monde, an unraced half-sister to the Group 3 winner Mask Of Time out of Mission Secrete. She is a Galileo half-sister to 1,000 Guineas winner Miss France and to Miss Hawai, the unraced granddam of last season’s Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1) winner Dubai Mile.
Third dam Miss Tahiti won the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) and was Group 1 placed in the Prix de Diane, Prix Saint-Alary and Prix Vermeille. The first foal out of Miss Monde, he was bought by Elliott Bloodstock Services for €160,000 from Arcadia Elevage.
The only foal by Persian King offered at Tattersalls last December commanded a six-figure price tag with Fairway Partners going to 130,000gns for the colt consigned by Newsells Park Stud. He is the second foal produced by the Nell Gwyn (G3) winner and 1,000 Guineas (G1) third Qabala by Scat Daddy, who is a granddaughter of the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes and Kentucky Oaks winner Flute.
7yo | Kingman-Pretty Please (Dylan Thomas)
Haras d’Etreham
2021: €30,000 | 2022: €30,000 | 2023: €25,000
1st Dam
PRETTY PLEASE (IRE), won 1 race in France at 3 years and £14,167; dam of 1 winner:
PERSIAN KING (IRE), see above.
Pretty Spirit (GB) (2015 f. by Invincible Spirit (IRE)), placed once in France at 3 years and £4,425; dam of. SO SPIRIT (FR), I race in France at 3 years, 2023 and placed once Prophetie (GB) (2020 f. by Kingman (GB)), placed once in France at 3 years, 2023 and £3,584. She also has a yearling colt by Kingman (GB).
2nd Dam
PLANTE RARE (IRE), unraced; dam of 6 winners:
PLANTEUR (IRE) (c. by Danehill Dancer (IRE)), won 7 races at home and in France to 6 years and £2,261,581 including Prix Ganay - Prix Air Mauritius, Longchamp, Gr.1, Prix d’Harcourt, Longchamp, Gr.2, Prix Noailles, Longchamp, Gr.2, Sheila Madden’s Winter Hill Stakes, Windsor, Gr.3 and Blue Square Bet Winter Derby Trial, Lingfield Park, L., placed second in Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris, Longchamp, Gr.1, Prix d’Ispahan, Longchamp, Gr.1 (twice) and Prix du Jockey Club, Chantilly, Gr.1 and third in Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup, Meydan, Gr.1 (twice); sire.
PILOTE D’ESSAI (GB) (c. by Oasis Dream (GB)), won 6 races in Australia and France at 3 and 4 years and £250,795 including Superior Food Pakenham Werribee Cup, Pakenham, L. and Ballarat Cup, Ballarat, L., placed second in Sportsbet Ballarat Cup, Ballarat, L.
PARLEMENT (IRE), won 1 race in France at 3 years and £28,122 and placed 4 times.
PEPPER BERRY (IRE), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed twice, dam of a winner.
POLYNESIENNE (GB), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed once.
PRETTY PLEASE (IRE), see above.
3rd Dam
PALMERAIE (USA), placed once in France at 2 years; dam of 10 winners including:
POLICY MAKER (IRE) (c. by Sadler’s Wells (USA)), won 7 races in France including Grand Prix de Deauville Lucien Barriere, Deauville, Gr.2, Grand Prix de Chantilly, Chantilly, Gr.2 (twice), Prix Foy Gray d’Albion Barriere, Longchamp, Gr.2 and Prix de Reux-P. du Haras de Monceaux, Deauville, L., placed second in Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Gr.1 (twice); sire.
PUSHKIN (IRE) (c. by Caerleon (USA)), won 4 races in France including Prix Maurice de Nieuil, Maisons Laffitte, Gr.2, Prix du Carrousel, Longchamp, L. and Prix Michel Houyvet, Deauville, L., placed second in Prix du Cadran, Longchamp, Gr.1.
PLACE ROUGE (IRE) (f. by Desert King (IRE)), won 3 races at home and in France including Bet365 Lancashire Oaks, Haydock Park, Gr.3 and Prix Petite Etoile, Saint-Cloud, L., placed second in Irish National Stud Blandford Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3.
Pinacotheque (IRE) (f. by In The Wings), won 1 race in France, placed third in Prix Charles Laffitte, Chantilly, L.; dam of winners.
Elyod (GB), 2 races in Norway, placed third in Skanska Faltrittklubbens Jubileumslopnig, Jagersro, L. Plumbago Blue (GB), ran a few times on the flat.
PLACIDIA (IRE), won 2 races and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
SOFT WHISPER (IRE), 9 races at home and in U.A.E. from 2 to 5 years, 2023 including Rosemary Stakes, Newmarket, L., October Stakes, Ascot, L., Queen Charlotte Stakes, Chelmsford City, L. and UAE 1000 Guineas, Meydan, L.
Pulcheria (IRE), placed once; also placed twice in France at 2 and 3 years, 2022.
PALME ROYALE (IRE), won 1 race in France and placed 6 times; dam of winners.
The Famous Five (FR), 2 races in France, placed third in Prix de l’Avre, ParisLongchamp, L. PERSTROVKA (IRE), won 1 race in France; dam of winners.
PACIFIC ANGEL (IRE), 2 races in France including P.de la Pepiniere-Fonds Europeen Elevage, Maisons Laffitte, L.
CATCH THE STARS (FR), 2 races in France at 3 years, 2023.
DROVKA (FR), 1 race in France at 3 years, 2022 and placed 4 times.
Pepiniere (IRE), placed 3 times in France; dam of winners.
Peribsen (IRE), 3 races in Australia and France, placed third in Schweppes Chairman’s Quality Handicap, Randwick, Gr.2.
RAPINOE (NZ), 1 race in Australia at 5 years, 2022 and placed 4 times.
Pendante (AUS), placed once in Australia at 2 years, 2022.
Populist (IRE), unraced; dam of.
Popular Dream (GB), placed once at 2 years, 2022.
THE HIGHEST-RATED two-year-old since Celtic Swing, by one of the great sires and from a stallion-producing family, Pinatubo is an exciting stallion prospect.
Unbeaten in a six-race juvenile career that culminated in his coronation as Europe’s champion two-year-old with a lofty rating of 128, Pinatubo was a breathtaking winner of the Group 1 National Stakes for Godolphin, Charlie Appleby and William Buick.
He ended a season that began with a debut maiden success with victory in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes, having also won Goodwood’s Group 2 Vintage Stakes and the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Never out of the first three in his ten starts, Pinatubo added the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at three when dropped back to 7f following placed efforts over a mile in the 2000 Guineas, St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix du Moulin.
He is the only son of the brilliant Shamardal on Darley’s Dalham Hall team providing British breeders with easy access to an outstanding sire line.
** second foal)
Shamardal, who was European champion two-year-old, winning the Dewhurst and Vintage Stakes just like Pinatubo, has sired 27 individual Group/Grade 1 winners and is the broodmare sire of six more and has established his branch of the Giant’s Causeway line as one of the best stallion lines in the world.
His son Lope De Vega, who emulated Shamardal by winning the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix du Jockey-Club, is amongst the global elite stallions as the sire of 18 individual Group/Grade 1 winners and counting.
Blue Point, Shamardal’s heir at Darley’s Kildangan Stud, has made an exciting start to his stallion career. The triple Royal Ascot Group 1 winner is the sire of MOlecomb Stakes (G3) winner Big Evs is one of the main contenders for the first season sires’ title this year.
Pinatubo’s maternal line is a noted stallion-producing family; he is out of Lava Flow, a winning Dalakhani half-sister to the Group 1-placed juvenile Strobilus, and his third dam El Jazirah is an unraced full-sister to the Group 1 Prix de Diane winner Rafha, who is the founding matriarch
Racing Form
Ten runs, seven wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 127 | Average winning distance: 6.72
Stakes form
AT 2 Champion 2yr old colt in Europe in 2019.
Won Darley Dewhurst Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (7f. beating Arizona (IRE) and Wichita (IRE)), Goffs V. O’Brien National Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1, (7f. beating Armory (IRE) and Arizona (IRE)), Qatar Vintage Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2, (7f. beating Positive (GB) and Lope Y Fernandez (IRE)), Chesham Stakes, Ascot, L., (7f. beating Lope Y Fernandez (IRE) and Highland Chief (IRE)).
AT 3 Jt 2nd top rated 3yr old colt in Europe in 2020
Won Prix Jean Prat, Deauville, Gr.1, (6½f. beating Lope Y Fernandez (IRE) and Malotru (GB))
2nd Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to Persian King (IRE)), St James’s Palace Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (to Palace Pier (GB))
3rd 2000 Guineas, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Kameko (USA)).
of a dynasty that includes Group 1 winners Invincible Spirit, Mishriff, Nayarra and Uni, as well as the half-brothers Invincible Spirit, who is the sire of 22 individual Group 1 winners, and the record-breaking Kodiac. He is now the sire of seven individual Group 1 winners, following the victory of Good Guess in the Prix Jean Prat. This family has also produced Pride Of Dubai, who was champion first-season sire in Australia.
Pride Of Dubai’s early success should be a positive omen for Pinatubo as the exciting young sire is a son of Street Cry, who is a full-brother to Shamardal’s dam Helsinki.
Just ten foals from the first crop of Pinatubo came on the open market last year and seven of them sold for an average of £140,358, which is more than four times their mare’s covering fee. What is noteworthy about the statistics is Pinatubo’s foals had a higher median than average at £147,000.
The most expensive member of the septet was Petches Farm’s colt out of Vivianite, who made 270,000gns to Godolphin at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.
He is the second foal of the Listed Conqueror Stakes third, who is a Teofilo half-sister to Glesga Girl. A daughter of Lope De Vega, she was placed in the Guisborough Stakes, the Flying Fillies Stakes and the Distaff Stakes. Their dam Crystany was placed in both the Kilvington Stakes and Cecil Frail Stakes and is a daughter of Green Desert and Fillies’ Mile winner Crystal Music.
Pinatubo’s priciest filly foal was sold at Arqana’s December Breeding Sale. She is a half-sister to the Listed Fairway and James Seymour Stakes winner Ottoman Fleet and out of a half-sister to Lockinge winner and sire Keltos, the Group 2 winners Krataios and Loxias, the Group 3 winner Kavafi and the Listed winner Iridanos. She made €320,000 to Ballybush Farm from Haras de la Louvière.
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1st Dam LAVA FLOW (IRE), won 2 races in France at 3 years and £38,179 including Prix de la Seine, Longchamp, L. and placed once; dam of 4 winners: PINATUBO (IRE), see above.
SUNDORO (IRE) (2018 f. by Sea The Stars (IRE)), won 4 races in France at 3 and 4 years, 2022 and £125,060 including Grand Prix de Marseille, Marseille-Borely, L. and Prix Urban Sea, Le Lion-d’Angers, L., placed 6 times including second in Grand Prix de Vichy, Vichy, Gr.3 and Prix Bertrand de Tarragon, Chantilly, Gr.3 and third in Prix Charles Laffitte, Compiegne, L. and Prix Lyphard, Deauville, L.
AL MUREIB (IRE) (2016 g. by Dubawi (IRE)), placed 10 times at 2 and 3 years and £14,868; also won 1 race in U.A.E. at 5 years and £25,483 and placed 4 times.
ANTISANA (GB) (2015 f. by Dubawi (IRE)), won 1 race in France at 4 years and £19,685 and placed 4 times; broodmare.
Javakheti (IRE) (2019 f. by Teofilo (IRE)).
Act of Nature (IRE) (2020 g. by Shamardal (USA)), in training.
Panarea (IRE) (2021 f. by Lope de Vega (IRE)), in training.
She also has a 2-y-o filly by Lope de Vega (IRE) and a yearling filly by Lope de Vega (IRE).
2nd Dam
MOUNT ELBRUS (GB), won 3 races at home and in France at 3 and 4 years and £26,792 including Prix Petite Etoile, Saint-Cloud, L. and placed 3 times; dam of 9 winners:
LAVA FLOW (IRE), see above.
Hunterview (GB) (g. by Reset (AUS)), won 3 races at 2 and 3 years; also won 3 races over hurdles at 4 and 5 years and £37,286, placed third in Totescoop6 Swinton Handicap Hurdle, Haydock Park, Gr.3.
Strobilus (GB) (g. by Mark of Esteem (IRE)), won 2 races at 2 years and £43,635, placed twice, placed second in Gran Criterium, Milan, Gr.1.
ALBORZ (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 9 times; also won 4 races in Belgium at 5, 6 and 10 years and £25,371 and placed 11 times; also won 2 races over hurdles at 3 years and placed twice.
SHKHARA (IRE), won 4 races in France at 3 years and placed once; dam of.
Tommy Lee Horn (FR), placed once in Czech Republic at 2 years, 2022.
BARANSKY (GB), placed 3 times at 2 years; also won 2 races in U.A.E. at 5 years and placed 3 times.
MORNING WONDER (IRE), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years and placed twice; also placed twice in Kuwait at 4 years.
NDAAWI (GB), won 2 races at 2 years, 2022 and placed once, from only 5 starts.
YA HALA (IRE), won 1 race at 2 years, from only 3 starts.
Montello (GB), ran 3 times in N.H. Flat Races at 4 years; dam of a winner.
MOTOWN LAKE (IRE), 2 races over fences at 6 years, 2022 and placed twice; also placed once in a point-to point at 5 years.
3rd Dam
EL JAZIRAH (GB), unraced; Own sister to RAFHA; dam of 5 winners including:
MOUNT ELBRUS (GB), see above.
FRINGE (GB), won 1 race and placed 6 times; also placed once in France; dam of winners.
MASTER CARPENTER (IRE), 7 races at home and in France including Prix Daphnis, Chantilly, and Cantor Gr.3 Fitzgerald Heron Stakes, Sandown Park, L., placed third in P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de Maisons-Laffitte), Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.2; sire.
Breeders
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Racing Form
21 runs, nine wins, ten places | Best Timeform Rating: 118 | Average winning distance: 8.39
Stakes form
AT 3
Won Mathis Brothers Mile Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.2, (8f. beating Desert Stone (IRE) and Combatant (USA)), Twilight Derby, Santa Anita, Gr.2, (9f. beating Have At It (USA) and Desert Stone (IRE)), La Jolla Handicap, Del Mar, Gr.3, (8½f. beating Arawak (USA) and Calexman (USA)), Pasadena Stakes, Santa Anita, L., (8f. beating Inscom (USA) and La La Land (IRE)), Rainbow Sakes, Santa Anita, L., (9f. beating Blame The Rider (USA) and Arawak (USA))
2nd Hollywood Derby, Del Mar, Gr.1, (to Raging Bull (FR))
3rd Del Mar Derby, Del Mar, Gr.2, (to Ride a Comet (USA)).
AT 4
2nd Shoemaker Mile Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.1, (to Bolo (USA)), San Francisco Mile Stakes, Golden Gate, Gr.3, (to Blitzkrieg (USA))
3rd Seabiscuit Handicap, Del Mar, Gr.2, (to Next Shares (USA)), Lure Stakes, Santa Anita, L., (to Ronald R (IRE)).
AT 5
Won Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.1, (8f. beating Got Stormy (USA) and Next Shares (USA)), Thunder Road Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.3, (8f. beating Camino Del Paraiso (USA) and True Valour (IRE)), third in Cotton Fitzsimmons Mile Hand cap, Turf Paradise, L., (to Ohio (BRZ)).
8yo
2021: €5,000 | 2022: €5,000 | 2023: €5,000
1st Dam CLYTHA (GB), ran a few times on the flat at 2 and 3 years; dam of 6 winners:
RIVER BOYNE (IRE), see above.
HAROME (IRE) (2014 g. by Bahamian Bounty (GB)), won 6 races from 2 to 5 years and £75,680 and placed 14 times.
INCENDIARY (IRE) (2009 c. by Excellent Art (GB)), won 2 races at 3 years and £7,933 and placed 7 times; also placed twice in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 4 years and £3,616; also placed once over hurdles at 3 years.
KEUKENHOF (IRE) (2013 f. by Dutch Art (GB)), won 2 races at 3 years and £10,922 and placed 5 times; broodmare.
BROSNAN (IRE) (2012 f. by Champs Elysees (GB)), won 1 race at 3 years and £20,335 and placed 12 times; broodmare.
RIVER USK (IRE) (2020 g. by Dandy Man (IRE)), won 1 race at 3 years, 2023 and £8,553 and placed 3 times.
Firion (IRE) (2017 c. by Anjaal (GB)), placed 3 times in Italy at 2 years and £2,773; also placed once over jumps in Italy at 3 years and £2,474.
Xerxes (IRE) (2010 f. by Key of Luck (USA)), ran a few times on the flat at 2 years; dam of a winner. MOUTRAKI (IRE), 3 races in France from 3 to 5 years, 2023 and £47,068 and placed 6 times. Stelios (IRE), placed once at 3 years, 2023 and £2,030.
Kanae (IRE) (2019 f. by Divine Prophet (AUS)).
She also has a yearling filly by Dandy Man (IRE).
2nd Dam
INDIA ATLANTA, unraced; dam of 9 winners:
VENTIQUATTROFOGLI (IRE) (c. by Persian Bold), Top rated 3yr old miler in Italy in 1993, 2nd top rated 3yr old in Italy in 1993, won 7 races at home, in Germany, Italy and U.S.A. at 2, 4 and 5 years and £320,553 including Colonel F W Koester Handicap, Santa Anita, Gr.2, Ostermann Pokal, Koln, Gr.3, Premio Rumon, Rome, L. and Premio Toscana, Firenze, L., placed third in St James’s Palace Stakes, Royal Ascot, Gr.1; sire.
IRISH FIGHTER (IRE) (c. by Persian Heights), won 8 races in Belgium and Germany to 8 years including Preis Vom Grafenberg, Dusseldorf, L.
Portmeirion (GB) (f. by Polish Precedent (USA)), won 3 races at 4 and 5 years, placed second in Betdaq Henry Gee Stakes, Chester, L.; dam of winners.
POWER OF THE CROSS (GB), 2 races in France at 3 years and £35,926 and placed 8 times.
Suspiria (IRE) (f. by Glenstal (USA)), won 1 race in Italy at 2 years and £27,906, placed second in Premio FIA Breeders’ Cup, Naples, L.; dam of winners.
ZENNUBE (GB), 4 races in Turkey from 2 to 4 years and £37,062.
Delta Irish (IRE), placed 3 times in Italy at 2 and 3 years; grandam of PALAEDRAS (ITY), 10 races in Italy and £53,483 and placed.
Elysian Fields (IRE), ran twice on the flat at 2 years; dam of Emil (DEN), 7 races in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and £92,257, placed second in Polar Cup, Ovrevoll, , KAISER SUZEK (DEN), 7 races in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and Gr.3 placed 21 times, SECOND TO NONE (DEN), 4 races in Denmark and placed 3 times, EMMA (DEN), 3 races in Denmark and Norway and placed 3 times; grandam of ACEY DUCEY (DEN), 3 races in Denmark and placed.
FAIRY HOOF (GB), won 7 races in France and Italy from 3 to 6 years and £25,778 and placed 25 times.
GIZMONDO (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed twice; also placed 4 times over hurdles at 5 and 6 years.
CHEERLEADER (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 3 times; dam of winners.
THE FIRST SON of the internationally successful stallion Dandy Man to retire to stud River Boyne is one of three top level winners by his sire.
Successful in the Grade 1 Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes at Santa Anita in 2020, River Boyne finished outside the first four just three times in a 21-race career which lasted four seasons.
Trained initially by Gordon Elliott, River Boyne ran three times for his Irish connections at two before he was sold to Red Baron’s Barn and Rancho Temescal at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale.
His new owners shipped him to California and the Jeff Mullins barn at Santa Anita where he made a winning debut, still just two.
At three, he won the Grade 2 Twilight Derby over a mile and the Matthis Brothers Mile (G2), the Grade 3 La Jolla Handicap and two Listed contests. He was also second to Raging Bull in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby.
As a four-year-old he took second in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile Stakes and was kept in training at five when he won the Grade 1 Frank E Kilroe Mile and the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes. He won nine stakes races, seven of them Group contests, between a mile and 1mf.
He is not the first member of his family to find gold in California as his dam’s half-brother Ventiquattrofogli won the Grade 2 Colonel FW Koester Handicap at Santa Anita after a successful European racing career that included success in the Group 3 Ostermann Pokal and third in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes.
She is also a half-sister to the Listed winner Irish Fighter and the dam of Listed winner and the Group 3-placed sire Elasos. Second dam India Atlanta is a half-sister to Group 3-winning miler Sinyar and to the winning dam of Group 3 winner Campfire Glow.
One of 24 individual stakes winners for Dandy Man, his top-priced foal was a half-brother to Listed Premio Divino Amore runner-up Live On Stage who made €28,000 to Peter and Ross Doyle at Goffs.
Out of a Manduro half-sister to Irish Oaks and Prix de l’Opera winner Covert Love, he was sold by Tara Stud.
3rd Dam
LEADER OF THE LAND (IRE), 4 races at 3 and 4 years and placed 6 times; also 1 race over hurdles at 6 years and placed once.
REINE DES MIRACLES (GB), placed 3 times at 5 years; also 3 races in Germany at 5 years and placed 8 times; also placed once in a N.H. Flat Race at 3 years.
JOYFUL FRIEND (GB), 1 race at 3 years, from only 2 starts; dam of Mindwillandfry (IRE), 1 race in Italy, placed third in Premio Seregno, Milan, L.
NIGHT AURORA (GB), won 1 race at 2 years and placed twice.
BIG JOHN (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed once.
Shikasta (IRE), placed twice at 3 years; dam of winners.
ELASOS (FR), 9 races in France from 3 to 8 years and £196,148 including G.P. de Bordeaux-Etape du Defi du Galop, Bordeaux Le Bouscat, L., Grand Prix de Compiegne, Compiegne, L. and Grand Prix de la Ville de Nantes, Nantes, L., placed second in Prix Exbury, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3 and Prix Andre Baboin G.P.des Provinces), Lyon-Parilly, Gr.3; sire.
Nikodamos (GR), 2 races in France at 4 years and placed 3 times; also placed once over jumps in France at 5 years third in Prix Rohan Hurdle, Auteuil, L.
ELIMIOS (FR), 8 races in France and Greece to 9 years and £77,313 and placed 23 times.
AKASTI (IRE), 1 race in France at 3 years and placed 3 times; dam of FEROE D’ILLIAT (FR), 5 races in Belgium, France and Germany and placed 15 times.
Adriana La Cerva (GB), ran twice on the flat at 2 years; dam of winners.
FRESNO (TUR), 2 races in Turkey at 2 years, 2022 and £25,509 including Inonu Fillies Stakes, Veliefendi, L. Fair Mont (TUR), 10 races in Turkey from 2 to 5 years and £170,589, third in Yunus Emre, Bursa, L. LIFE IS LIVE (TUR), 2 races in Turkey at 2 and 4 years and placed once.
PLACE OF HONOUR, won 1 race at 3 years, from only 2 starts; dam of 7 winners including:
SINYAR (IRE) (c. by Machiavellian (USA)), won 7 races in Germany including Badener Meile, Baden-Baden, Gr.3, placed second in Preis der UNESCO - Dr Busch-Memorial, Krefeld, Gr.3 and Oettingen-Rennen, Baden-Baden, Gr.3.
Imco Law (c. by Law Society (USA)), won 2 races in Italy, placed second in Premio del Piazzale, Milan, L. PRINCESS MILETRIAN (IRE), won 1 race and placed 3 times; dam of winners.
Amaze Me (GB), placed third in Tweenhills Pretty Polly Stakes, Newmarket, L.
TETOU (IRE), won 1 race and placed once; dam of a winner.
SKI LODGE (IRE), won 1 race; dam of winners.
CAMPFIRE GLOW (IRE), 2 races including Ballygallon Stud Debutante Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2. Cassilis (IRE), unraced; dam of winners.
THE LAST STAND (GB),3 races; also 5 races over hurdles including Winter Festival Juvenile Hurdle, Fairyhouse, Gr.3.
Gold Guest (GB), 7 races, placed third in Prix du Haras de la Huderie, Deauville, L.; also 1 race over hurdles and placed 4 times.
ROMANISED IS FROM ONE of the great Moyglare Stud families and is a dual Group 1-winning miler by Holy Roman Emperor who could be considered unlucky not to have three top level triumphs to his name.
An attractive dark bay, Romanised was a precocious juvenile winning on his debut in April for trainer Ken Condon. He was also second to subsequent Derby hero Masar in Sandown’s 7f Group 3 Solario Stakes.
At three, he showed plenty of pace and determination when overcoming a poor start to win the Irish 2000 Guineas from US Navy Flag and Gustav Klimt with Elarqam further down the field.
At four, he won the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois from Shaman, Line Of Duty, Watch Me and Study Of Man and was just a hair’s breadth behind Circus Maximus in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin.
That year he also won the 7f Group 2 Minstrel Stakes at The Curragh and was fourth in both the Group 1 Lockinge and Queen Anne Stakes.
At five, he won the Minstrel Stakes for a second time to round out a 20-race career boasting five wins and five top four finishes.
He is a three-parts brother to Holy Roman Emperor’s Hong Kong champion and four-time Group 1 winner Designs On Rome, who was also second in the Group 1 National Stakes at The Curragh at two when trained by Pat Flynn.
His dam Romantic Venture is an Indian Ridge full-sister to Sights On Gold, winner of the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes and the Newbury Arc Trial, who was also second in the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase. She is also a half-sister to the Grade 2 American Derby winner and Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes fourth Simple Exchange (Danehill).
As well as Romanised, she is also the dam of three further winners, including the Group 3 winner Rock Of Romance by Rock Of Gibraltar and Listed winner Fictional Account by Stravinsky.
Romanised’s sire Holy Roman Emperor is a truly internationally successful stallion with 54 individual Group winners and 424 Listed winners. He is the sire of 14 individual Group 1 winners in countries including Ireland, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, American and Brazil.
Nine foals from Romanised’s first crop were sold last year, and from 13 that were offered they achieved an average of €14,833 with a median at €10,000. Top price of €38,000 was for a half-sister to the Group 2 Oppenheim-Union-Rennen winner Boscaccio at Arqana’s December Breeding Stock Sale, bought by Broadhurst Agency and Equos Racing from Haras du Hoguenet. The family is that of the brilliant dual Arc heroine Treve.
Arqana’s December Sale also produced the highest-priced colt from Romanised’s first crop, a €28,000 half-brother to the Group 3 Jebel Ali Mile winner Sefri out of a granddaughter of Salsabil purchased by RPG Bloodstock.
Romanised foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
ROMANISED
Haras de Bouquetot
2021: €7,000 | 2022: €7,000 | 2023: €7,000
Racing Form
20 runs, five wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 120 | Average winning distance: 7.17
Stakes form
AT 2
2nd BetBright Solario Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3, (to Masar (IRE)).
AT 3
Won Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1, (8f. beating U S Navy Flag (USA) and Gustav Klimt (IRE)).
AT 4 Top rated older miler in Ireland in 2019.
Won P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois, Deauville, Gr.1, (8f. beating Shaman (IRE) and Line of Duty (IRE)), P. Power Minstrel Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2, (7f. beating Hey Gaman (GB) and Safe Voyage (IRE))
2nd Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to Circus Maximus (IRE)).
AT 5
Won Minstrel Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2, (7f. beating Lancaster House (IRE) and Surrounding (IRE)).
1st Dam
ROMANTIC VENTURE (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and £6,808; also won 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years and £13,060 and placed once; Own sister to SIGHTS ON GOLD (IRE); dam of 6 winners, including:
ROMANISED (IRE), see above.
ROCK OF ROMANCE (IRE) (2010 c. by Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)), won 5 races in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland from 3 to 6 years and £103,733 including Premio St Leger Italiano, Milan, Gr.3 and Langer Hamburger, Hamburg, L., placed 11 times including second in Premio St Leger Italiano, Milan, Gr.3 and Oleander Rennen, Berlin-Hoppegarten, Gr.3, third in Grosser Preis Von DSW21 St Leger, Dortmund, Gr.3.
FICTIONAL ACCOUNT (IRE) (2005 f. by Stravinsky (USA)), won 6 races from 3 to 6 years and £94,154 including Ire.Field Leger Trial Ballycullen Stakes, Curragh, L. and SIS Live Fenwolf Stakes, Ascot, L., placed 6 times including third in Challenge Stakes, Leopardstown, L. and Vintage Crop Stakes, Navan, L.; also placed in Australia and £14,671 second in Japan Racing Association Stakes, Moonee Valley, L.; dam of 2 winners.
NARRATED (AUS), 4 races in Australia at 3 and 4 years and £102,620 and placed 10 times.
SHARK IN THE WATER (AUS), 2 races in Australia and placed twice.
TIMELY PRODUCTION (IRE) (2006 c. by Peintre Celebre (USA)), won 4 races in Sweden at 3 years and £24,128.
LIFETIME JOURNEY (USA) (2004 c. by Thunder Gulch (USA)), placed once at 3 years; also won 1 race in Kingdom
2nd Dam
SUMMER TRYSTING (USA), placed 8 times at 3 years; dam of 10 winners:
DESIGNS ON ROME (IRE) (g. by Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)), Champion older horse in Hong Kong in 2013-14, won 11 races at home and in Hong Kong from 2 to 6 years and £5,032,948 including The Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup, Sha Tin, Gr.1 (twice), Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup, Sha Tin, Gr.1, Longines Hong Kong Cup, Sha Tin, Gr.1, The Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy, Sha Tin, Gr.2, BMW Hong Kong Derby, Sha Tin, L., The Centenary Vase, Sha Tin, L. and The Hong Kong Classic Cup, Sha Tin, L., placed second in Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1.
SIMPLE EXCHANGE (IRE) (c. by Danehill (USA)), won 4 races at home and in U.S.A. at 2, 3 and 5 years and £171,293 including American Derby, Arlington International, Gr.2, The Sportsman Magnolia Stakes, Kempton Park, L. and El Gran Senor Stakes, Cork, L., placed third in Ballycorus Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3 and Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe, Baden-Baden, Gr.3.
SIGHTS ON GOLD (IRE) (g. by Indian Ridge), won 6 races from 2 to 5 years and £434,627 including betfair.com Brigadier Gerard Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3, Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial, Newbury, Gr.3 and Lyons Gold Blend Kilternan Stakes, Leopardstown, L., placed second in Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase, Sha Tin, Gr.1.
SUBLIME TALENT (IRE), won 2 races at 4 years and placed 3 times.
TEMPTING PARADISE (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 3 times.
BEAT THE HEAT (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 11 times.
LOVE IN THE SUN (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and placed twice; dam of winners.
BLUE FOR YOU (IRE), 3 races from 2 to 4 years, 2022 and £137,561 and placed 4 times. FORGETMENOTBLUE (IRE), 1 race at 4 years, 2023 and placed 7 times.
MINSKY MINE (IRE), won 1 race at 4 years and placed 10 times.
ROMANTIC VENTURE (IRE), see above.
ANTIQUE PLATINUM (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 5 times, from only 7 starts; dam of winners.
COSA SARA (IRE), 4 races at 4 and 5 years, 2023 and placed 6 times.
GRAPPA NONINO (IRE), 1 race at 4 years, 2023 and placed twice.
Platonic Chat (IRE), unraced; dam of winners.
EL NINO (TUR), won Fehmi Simsaroglu Stakes, Izmir, L., Kubilay Stakes, Izmir, L. and Akdeniz Derbisi Stakes, Adana, L., placed second in Ege Derbisi Stakes (Aegean Derby), Izmir, L. (twice), Temmuz Sehitleri Beyoglu Stakes, Veliefendi, L. and Alsancak Stakes, Izmir, L.
LAST EXIT (TUR), 7 races in Turkey from 3 to 5 years and £150,926 and placed 10 times.
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3rd Dam
SEASONAL PICKUP (USA), won 5 races from 2 to 4 years including British Bloodstock Agency Sprint Stakes, Phoenix Park, L., Midsummer Scurry Handicap, Curragh, L., Sean P Graham Ballycorus Stakes, Leopardstown, L. and Evelyn Solomon Carna Stakes, Naas, L., placed 6 times second in Mount Coote Stud Athasi Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, Baroda Stud Phoenix Sprint, Phoenix Park, Gr.3 (twice) and Orchardstown Stud Stakes, Phoenix Park, L. and third in C. B. A. Greenlands Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3 and Osunitas Stakes, Del Mar, R.; dam of 4 winners including: Smooth Performance (USA) (c. by Seattle Slew (USA)), 3 races, second in Dwyer Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.2. JUST SOCIETY (USA), won 2 races and placed twice, from only 6 starts; dam of winners.
SEASONAL STYLE (IRE), 2 races and placed twice; also 1 race in U.S.A. and placed twice; dam of Perfect Casting (USA), 11 races at home and in U.S.A., placed third in Lights and Music Stakes, Belmont Park, L. and Father Bill Daly Stakes, Belmont Park, L.R.; grandam of Infinity One (SPA), 4 races in Spain, placed second in Gran Premio Memorial Duque de Toledo, Zarzuela, L. Glympse (IRE), placed once; dam of winners.
AL GALAYEL (IRE), 9 races at home and in Australia including JRA Cup, Moonee Valley, Gr.3.
SUPERCHARGED (IRE), 1 race and placed 5 times; dam of ENCAPSULATION (IRE), 2 races including William Hill Doonside Cup Stakes, Ayr, L.
Rekindled Affair (IRE), unraced; dam of winners.
REKINDLED INTEREST (AUS), 3 races in Australia including Dato Tan Chin Nam John F Feehan Stakes, Moonee Valley, Gr.2 and AAMI Moonee Valley Vase, Moonee Valley, Gr.2, placed second in Daily Telegraph George Ryder Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.1 and third in Longines LKS Mackinnon Stakes, Flemington, Gr.1 and Tattersall’s WS Cox Plate, Moonee Valley, Gr.1.
WHERE WE LEFT OFF (GB), 7 races in U.S.A. including Matchmaker Stakes, Monmouth Park, Gr.3, My Fair Lady Stakes, Suffolk Downs and London Lil Stakes, Calder, placed second in Glens Falls Handicap, Saratoga, Gr.3; dam of Stay de Night (IRE), 2 races, placed third in Owenstown Stud Whitehead Mem. Stakes, Naas, L.; grandam of Super Falcon (IND), 7 races in India, placed second in The Darley Arabian Million, Hyderabad, L.
PORTICCIO (IRE), 2 races in France including Grand Prix Inter Regional des 3 Ans, Toulouse, L. Rekindled Alliance (AUS), 1 race in Australia, placed second in Spotless Phar Lap Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.2 and Myer Tulloch Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.2.
Rekindled Applause (GB), 4 races in Italy, placed second in Criterium Femminile - Darley, Rome, L., Premio Coolmore, Milan, L. and Premio Seregno, Milan, L. and third in Premio Vittorio Crespi, Milan (San Siro), L.; dam of GIGA KICK (AUS), 7 races in Australia at 2 and 3 years, 2022 including All Aged Stakes, Randwick, Gr.1, Doomben 10,000, Doomben, Gr.1, Danehill Stakes, Flemington, Gr.2 and Vain Stakes, Caulfield, Gr.3, Rekindled Power (AUS), 1 race in Australia, placed third in Arrowfield Royal Sovereign Stakes, Randwick, Gr.2, Shuffle Up (AUS), 3 races in Australia, placed second in Cactus Carbine Club Stakes, Randwick, Gr.3; grandam of ALABAMA EXPRESS (AUS), 4 races in Australia including Neds C F Orr Stakes, Caulfield, Gr.1.
6yo | Gleneagles-Gotlandia (Anabaa) Irish Emerald Stud
2021: €4,000 | 2022: €2,500 | 2023: €2,500
THE Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed juvenile Royal Lytham was the first son of Gleneagles to retire to stud in Ireland.
Royal Lytham stood for €4,000 in his first season in 2021 at Clongiffen Stud, but he subsequently moved to stand at Irish Emerald Stud in County Kildare where he’s been available for €2,500 for the past two years.
Royal Lytham retired the winner of two of his seven races with both of those victories coming at two. He made a winning debut for Aidan O’Brien and Coolmore partners in a June 5f Naas maiden, staying on well inside the last furlong and in doing so beating his better-fancied stablemate United Front into fourth.
That performance was good enough for his connections to allow him to be turned out just ten days later in Royal Ascot’s Group 2 Coventry Stakes. Despite veering right from the stalls, and being slightly impeded when making his effort inside the final furlong, he was only beaten less than 4l by stablemate Arizona.
Time will tell how important that Coventry Stakes was in stallion terms –four of the first seven horses home retired to stud at the end of their second season and all have their first yearlings due to sell this autumn – Arizona (1st), Threat (2nd), Golden Horde (5th) and Royal Lytham (7th).
Next seen at Newmarket a month later, Royal Lytham won the Group 2 July Stakes staying on well after being held up and getting up on the line to deny Godolphin’s Platinum Star with odds-on Visinari in third.
His final start at two could again be considered unlucky – in the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Sprint Stakes at The Curragh jockey
Donnacha O’Brien reported his saddle slipped on leaving the stalls and yet Royal Lytham battled gamely inside the final furlong and was narrowly beaten into third just over three-quarters of a length behind Siskin and Congratulation.
Royal Lytham made three starts as a three-year-old, but finished down the field in each, namely the Irish 2,000 Guineas, the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup and the Lacken Stakes at Naas.
Royal Lytham is out of the Anabaa mare Gotlandia and was a €180,000 Arqana August Yearling from Logis St Germain to MV Magnier.
Gotlandia was twice a winner from 19 starts and the first of those wins was in a November heavy-ground Maisons-Laffitte maiden as a two-yearold over a mile. She had one further start that year when fourth in the Listed Prix Isonomy at Saint-Cloud again over a mile.
Six starts at three yielded just one victory in her final race of 2010 in the 7f Listed Prix de Saint-Cyr on a return to Maisons-Laffitte, although she also placed second in the Group 3 Prix de la Grotte and the Prix de la Cocherre (L), with two additional third-placings in the Prix la Camargo and Prix Coronation both over a mile.
Kept in training at four, she had six races, all black-type but failed to trouble the judge in any.
Royal Lytham’s sire Gleneagles has an outstanding stallion’s pedigree being by Galileo out of You’resothrilling, an own-sister to the champion Giant’s Causeway and was herself a Group 2 and Group 3 winner at two.
You’resothrilling is dam of two Classic winners in Marvellous (Irish 1,000 Guneas) and Joan Of Arc (Prix de Diane).
Gleneagles is sire of the two Group 1 winners in Loving Dream (Group 1 Prix de Royallieu and Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes for John Gosden) and Highland Chief, winner of the Grade 1 Man ‘O War Stakes for Graham Motion. Loving Dream is out of Kissable by Danehill Dancer, while Highland Chief is out of the Montjeu mare Pink Symphony.
Other notable Gleneagles winners are Royal Scotsman, Paul and Oliver Cole’s Group 2 Richmond Stakes winner, third in this year’s 2,000 Guineas and out of the Pivotal mare Enrol, Shavasana, winner of the Group 2 Italian Oaks and Group 3 Italian 1,000 Guineas and out of a mare by Duke Of Marmalade, and Novemba, seven and a half length winner of the German 1,000 Guineas (G2). She is out of a mare by Dubai Destination.
He has covered double-figure mares in both seasons reported so far.
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Seven runs, two wins, one place | Best Timeform Rating: 110 | Average winning distance: 5.87
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Tattersalls July Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2, (6f. beating Platinium Star (IRE) and Visinari (FR))
3rd Keeneland Phoenix Stakes, The Curragh, Gr.1, (to Siskin (USA))
1st Dam
GOTLANDIA (FR), won 3 races in France at 2, 3 and 5 years and £114,273 including Prix de Saint-Cyr, Maisons-Laffitte, L., placed 9 times including second in Prix de la Grotte, Longchamp, Gr.3 and Prix de la Cochere, Longchamp, L. and third in Prix Coronation, Saint-Cloud, L. and Prix La Camargo, Saint-Cloud, L.; dam of 4 winners: ROYAL LYTHAM (FR), see above.
SPIRIT OF DANCE (IRE) (2016 g. by Charm Spirit (IRE)), won 9 races in France from 3 to 7 years, 2023 and £106,779 and placed 18 times.
SHAREEF STAR (GB) (2015 g. by Sea The Stars (IRE)), won 1 race at 4 years and £10,592 and placed 3 times; also won 4 races over fences at 6 and 7 years, 2022 and £23,510 and placed 8 times.
GOTT (IRE) (2018 c. by Siyouni (FR)), won 2 races in Czech Republic at 4 years, 2022 and £2,406 and placed twice.
Baggala (FR) (2021 f. by Gleneagles (IRE)).
She also has a 4-y-o filly by Ribchester (IRE) and a yearling filly by Pinatubo (IRE).
2nd Dam GRENADE (FR), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed 7 times; Own sister to GLOROSIA (FR); dam of 6 winners: GOTLANDIA (FR), see above.
Gaiete (FR) (f. by Kentucky Dynamite (USA)), won 2 races in France at 2 and 4 years and £54,268, placed third in Prix Saraca, Maisons-Laffitte, L., dam of a winner.
TEL AVIV (FR), won 2 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £36,947 and placed twice; also won 1 race over jumps in France at 5 years and placed once.
GLORIEUX (FR), won 2 races in France and Hong Kong at 3 and 5 years and £137,464 and placed 10 times. GERBOISE (FR), won 1 race in France at 2 years and placed 4 times.
GONDOLIER (FR), won 1 race in France at 4 years and placed once.
3rd Dam
GOLDEN SEA (FR), won 4 races in France at 2 and 4 years and placed 9 times; dam of 9 winners including:
GLOROSIA (FR) (f. by Bering), 4th top rated 2yr old filly in England in 1997, won 3 races including Fillies’ Mile Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, placed third in Prix de Malleret, Longchamp, Gr.2; dam of winners.
GHIZAO (GER), 2 N.H. Flat Races including Richard Davis Awards N.H. Flat Race, Cheltenham, L.; also 1 race over hurdles and 3 races over fences including Ind. Newspaper November Nov. Chase, Cheltenham, Gr.2, placed second in John Smith’s Maghull Novices’ Chase, Aintree, Gr.1 and third in Betfair Ascot Chase, Ascot, Gr.1, Amlin 1965 Chase, Ascot, Gr.2 and W. Hill Levy Board Peterborough Chase, Kempton Park, Gr.2; also 3 point-to-points.
GENTLE TIGER (GER), 2 races in Germany including Grosser Preis der Dr Duve Inkasso GMBH, Hannover, L., placed second in Grosser Mercedes-Benz Preis, Baden-Baden, Gr.2.
GOLD HONOR (FR), won 1 race and placed 5 times; also won 5 races in Belgium and France and placed 13 times; also won 3 races over jumps in France and placed 6 times.
GASSIN (FR), won 6 races in France and placed 18 times; also won 1 race over jumps in France and placed once.
GARANCIERE (FR), won 1 race in France and placed twice; dam of winners.
I Love Me (GB), 1 race, placed third in Rockfel Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2.
FIRST CROWD (GB), 1 race in Spain at 3 years, 2022 and placed twice.
Gerone (FR), placed 3 times in France; dam of winners.
GO COUNTRY (FR), 2 races in Germany including Wettenleip Junioren Preis, Dusseldorf, L. Pennylove (FR), unraced; dam of VESLOVE (FR), 5 races in France including Prix Delahante, Marseille Borely, L.
FROM THE FIRST CROP of Bungle Inthejungle, the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes winner and Group 1 Middle Park Stakes third was bred to be fast. His sire won the Cornwallis and the Molecomb, both 5f Group 3 contests, and his dam Guana is an unraced daughter of Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Dark Angel.
Furthermore, Rumble Inthejungle is from a family of precocious and quick horses – his dam is a three-parts sister to Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner and Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf-placed Birchwood, who is at stud in France.
Second dam Guana Bay is an unraced Cadeaux Genereux three-parts sister to Prince Sabo, who won the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and the Group 3 Palace House Stakes and was the sire of Fire Up The Band.
She is also a half-sister to the Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chene and Group 3 Molecomb Stakes and Prix du Petit Couvert winner Millyant (Primo Dominie), who is the dam of dual Group 3 Prix du Petit Couvert winner Mirza, a daughter of Oasis Dream.
Guana Ba’s Never So Bold half-sister Bold Jessie was a Listed winner and produced the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner and sire Abou Zouz and the Listed Surrey Stakes winner Jentzen, both by Miswaki.
Rumble Inthejungle foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
Third dam Jubilee Song by Song was a winner at three and is a full-sister to the multiple Group and Graded placed Shark Song, who is the third dam of Australian Group 2 winner and Group 1 third Rosden.
She is also a half-sister to the third dam of Lady Macapa, yet another winner of the Group 3 Prix du Petit Couvert in the family of Rumble Inthejungle.
The grandson of Exceed And Excel is one of five stakes winners from the first three, relatively small crops, of Bungle Inthejungle who is the sire of the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes and Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes winner Winter Power, the Lowther Stakes winner Living In The Past and this season’s Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes winner Givemethebeatboys, who sold for £1.1m the night before he ran fourth in the Coventry Stakes in June.
They are three of the nine stakes winners that Bungle Inthejungle has sired to date, with his biggest crop of two-year-olds numbering 65 running this season.
Two foals from the 22 registered in the first crop of Rumble Inthejungle came under the hammer last winter with one, a filly out of Excellent World, an Excellent Art half-sister to the Listed Premio Toscana winner Six Hitter, selling for 1,000gns privately from Mickley Stud at Tattersalls.
Racing Form
Nine runs, two wins, one place | Best Timeform Rating: 109 | Average winning distance: 5.00
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Markel Insurance Molecomb Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, (5f. beating Life of Riley (GB) and Soldier’s Call (GB))
3rd Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Ten Sovereigns (IRE)).
1st Dam GUANA (IRE), unraced; dam of 5 winners: RUMBLE INTHEJUNGLE (IRE), see above.
RUMBLE
Norman Court Stud
2021: £3,500 | 2022: £3,500 | 2023: £3,500
Great Prospector (IRE) (2015 g. by Elzaam (AUS)), won 1 race at 2 years and £111,003, placed 7 times including third in bet365 Superlative Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2 and Racing UK Guisborough Stakes, Redcar, L.; also won 8 races in Spain from 5 to 7 years, 2022 and £105,308 and placed 3 times.
CARIBBEAN SUNSET (IRE) (2018 g. by Twilight Son (GB)), won 1 race at 2 years and £7,432 and placed once.
STORM FOX (IRE) (2020 f. by Bungle Inthejungle (GB)), won 1 race at 3 years, 2023 and £8,244 and placed.
RED GUANA (IRE) (2014 f. by Famous Name (GB)), won 1 race at 2 years and £4,686 and placed once, from only 3 starts; broodmare.
Gun Salute (IRE) (2019 g. by Bated Breath (GB)), ran twice on the flat at 3 years, 2022.
Nariko (IRE) (2021 f. by Night of Thunder (IRE)), in training.
2nd Dam
GUANA BAY (GB), unraced; Own sister to My Cadeaux (GB); dam of 3 winners:
Enrika’s Gift (IRE) (f. by Orpen (USA)), won 2 races in Italy at 2 years and £26,768, placed third in Premio Alberto Giubilo, Rome, L. and Premio Eupili-Trofeo Tattersalls, Milan, L.; dam of winners.
HAPPY PATRICK (AUS), 8 races in Australia and Macau to 7 years and £242,221 including Gaming Equipment Association Sprint Cup, Taipa, L., placed second in De Bortoli Wines Gosford Guineas, Gosford, L. and Macau Summer Trophy, Taipa, L.
COSTA OESTE (AUS), 3 races in Australia and placed 8 times.
INDIAN DANCER (AUS), 2 races in Australia at 5 years and placed 3 times.
ENCOSTAS GIFT (AUS), 2 races in Australia.
LAYLA JAMIL (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
BIRCHWOOD (IRE), 4 races at 2 and 3 years and £216,771 including bet365 Superlative Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2 and Corbettsports City Plate, Chester, L., placed third in Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1 and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, Keeneland, Gr.1; sire.
LEAFHOPPER (IRE), 3 races at 2 and 3 years, from only 5 starts.
DESERT FROST (IRE), 2 races at 3 and 4 years and placed 6 times.
JAZIRAT (IRE), 1 race at 3 years and placed 4 times; also placed 5 times in U.A.E. to 8 years, 2023.
PELICAN KEY (IRE), won 1 race at 2 years and placed once; dam of winners.
SHARED EQUITY (GB), 5 races at 3, 4 and 7 years and £138,605 and placed 12 times.
GLORIOUS POLITICS (GB), 2 races at 3 and 4 years and placed twice.
MOTHER SHIPTON (GB), 1 race in Belgium at 3 years, 2022.
Starlight June (GB), placed once at 3 years; dam of MONTE DELLA SFIDA (GB), 3 races in Italy and placed. Valandraud (IRE), unraced; dam of winners.
Final Answer (GB), 7 races at home and in Hong Kong from 2 to 5 years and £387,890, placed third in The Sprint Cup, Sha Tin, L. RIO THER (GB), 8 races in Italy at 2, 5 and 6 years and £47,017 and placed 22 times.
ELECTRIC QATAR (GB), 5 races at 3, 5 and 6 years and placed 16 times; also 1 race in Netherlands at 7 years and placed 5 times.
BIG IMPACT (GB), 3 races from 3 to 5 years, 2022 and placed 8 times.
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3rd Dam
JUBILEE SONG, won 1 race at 3 years and placed once; Own sister to Shark Song and Band On The Run; dam of 6 winners:
MILLYANT (GB) (f. by Primo Dominie), 6 races at home and in France Top rated older sprinter in Ireland in 1995 won including Prix du Gros-Chene, Chantilly, Gr.2, Philip Cornes Molecomb Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, Prix du Petit Couvert, Longchamp, Gr.3 (twice) and Prix Hampton, Evry, L., placed third in Arthur Guinness Flying Five, Leopardstown, Gr.3 (twice); dam of winners.
MIRZA (GB), 11 races at home and in France including Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert, Longchamp, Gr.3 (twice), Galtee Midsummer Sprint Stakes, Cork, L. and Prix du Cercle, Deauville, L. (twice), placed second in Coral Charge Sprint Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3 and third in Coral Charge Sprint Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3, Betfred Chipchase Stakes, Newcastle, Gr.3 and Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert, Longchamp, Gr.3.
Millybaa (USA), 1 race, placed second in Waterford Testimonial Stakes, Curragh, L. and www.victor chandler.com Woodlands Stakes, Naas, L. and third in Tote Exacta Kilvington Stakes, Nottingham, L.
Fatal Attraction (GB), placed 3 times; dam of Take A Deep Breath (GB), 1 race, placed second in Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3; grandam of HURRICANE IVOR (IRE), 6 races at home and in France to 6 years, 2023 including World Trophy Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3. Milly-M (GB), unraced; dam of Mimisel (GB), 1 race, placed third in totesport.com Eternal Stakes, Warwick, L.
PRINCE SABO (c. by Young Generation), won 4 races including Flying Childers Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2 and Palace House Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, placed third in Prix Robert Papin, M’-Laffitte, Gr.1; champion sire.
BOLD JESSIE (GB) (f. by Never So Bold), won 1 race, Tattersalls Breeders Stakes, Curragh, L.; dam of winners. ABOU ZOUZ (USA), 3 races including Scottish Equitable Gimcrack Stakes, York, Gr.2; sire.
JENTZEN (USA), 3 races including Vodafone Surrey Stakes, Epsom Downs, L., placed third in Prix du Palais Royal, Longchamp, Gr.3.
My Cadeaux (GB) (f. by Cadeaux Genereux), won 2 races, placed twice, placed second in Kolner Sprint Preis, Koln, L.; dam of a winner.
MILLY FLEUR (GB), 1 race and placed twice; dam of Bespoke Boy (GB), 1 race, placed second in Vodafone Woodcote Stakes, Epsom Downs, L.
SOLO ARTIST, won 3 races and placed twice.
SWELLEGANT (GB), won 1 race and placed once; dam of winners.
Super Swellegant (GB), 2 races in Italy, placed second in Criterium del Mediterraneo, Siracusa, L. Racina (GB), 1 race, placed third in Prix d’Arenberg, Chantilly, Gr.3.
Miss Swansong, ran a few times on the flat; dam of winners.
Sous Le Nez (GB), 1 race, placed third in Criterium du Bequet, La Teste Buch, L.
AGROUP 1-WINNING SPRINTER by a grandson of Mr. Prospector and with a broodmare sire from the Ahonoora line, Sands Of Mali offers something different from many of his contemporaries at stud and yet genes that are proven as some of the best in the world.
A fast horse and a very impressive looker, which was reflected in his position as the third most expensive horse at the Tattersalls Ascot BreezeUp Sale where he was purchased by Matt Coleman for the Cool Swan Partnership, Sands Of Mali developed into a top-class sprinter.
Sent to Richard Fahey’s yard, he made the step into Group company for the Gimcrack Stakes (G2) at York having won his maiden over 6f on just his second start. His performance in winning the Gimcrack showed he belonged at the top beating Invincible Army and Cardsharp, who had previously won the Group 2 July Stakes.
At three, he won his first two starts – the Group 3 Prix Sigy and Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes – and failed by a nose to win the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup when winning the race on the stands’ side but Eqtidaar hung on in the centre.
His final start of the season in the British Champions’ Sprint brought him Group 1 Glory, defeating Harry Angel by a length with fellow Group 1 winners Brando, The Tin Man, Limato, Librisa Breeze and Dream Of Dreams all behind. He was placed twice over 6f at four, his optimum trip.
He is by Panis, who was a Group winner over 1m in France and is by
Miswaki. He was a Group 1 winner at two who was also second in the Group 1 Prix Morny.
Miswaki’s best stallion son is Black Tie Affair, who is better known as the broodmare sire of Group 1 winner and multiple Group 1 sire Mastercraftsman. Miswaki’s main influence in pedigrees is through his brilliant daughter Urban Sea, dam of Galileo and Sea The Stars.
Sands Of Mali is out of a mare by Indian Rocket, who is also the dam sire of Goken, a Group 3-winning sprinter who was placed in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes and became champion first-season sire in France three years’ ago. Goken is the sire of seven black-type winners, including the Listed Midsummer Stakes winner Go Athletico, one of three Group 3 winners sired by Goken.
The first foals by Sands Of Mali made an impressive debut at auction with an average price that was three and a half times their covering fee at €22,897. As the median came in at €23,000 it gives an indication of how strong trade was for the 13 sold by Ballyhane’s first-crop sire.
Two of that group made at least €50,000 and both those sales were at Goffs – Summerhill Stables sold a half-brother to Dandy Man’s Group 3 Coral Charge and Listed Windsor Castle Stakes winner Extortionist, who was also third in the Nunthorpe, for €60,000 to Joe Foley, while Vinsgrove Stud’s colt out of a half-sister to the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap winner and Grade 1 Turf Classic Stakes third Astronaut made €50,000.
8yo | Panis-Kadiania (Indian Rocket)
Ballyhane Stud
2021: €6,500 | 2022: €5,000 | 2023: €5,000
Racing Form
18 runs, five wins, two places | Best Timeform Rating: 99 | Average winning distance: 6.02
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Al Basti Equiworld Gimcrack Stakes, York, Gr.2, (6f. beating Invincible Army (IRE) and Cardsharp (GB) and Headway (GB)).
AT 3
Won Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (6f. beating Harry Angel (IRE) and Donjuan Triumphant (IRE)), Armstrong Aggregates Sandy Lane Stakes, Haydock Park, Gr.2, (6f. beating Invincible Army (IRE) and Emblazoned (IRE)), Prix Sigy, Chantilly, Gr.3, (6f. beating Alistair (FR) and Absolute City (FR)) 2nd Commonwealth Cup, Ascot, Gr.1, (to Eqtidaar (IRE)).
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1st Dam
KADIANIA (FR), unraced; dam of 3 winners: SANDS OF MALI (FR), see above.
KADRIZZI (FR) (2013 g. by Hurricane Cat (USA)), won 4 races at 2 and 3 years and £99,327 and placed 14 times.
FLAWLESS JEWEL (FR) (2016 f. by Kheleyf (USA)), won 1 race at 2 years and £9,357 and placed once, from only 4 starts; dam of a winner.
PILLOW TALK (IRE) (f. by Kodiac (GB)), 1 race at 2 years, 2022 and £53,687, Marygate Stakes, York, L., placed twice including second in Westow Stakes, York, L., from only 5 starts.
El Bodon (IRE), placed once at 2 years, 2023 and £3,803.
From Deauville (FR) (2019 f. by Panis (USA)), placed once in Japan at 3 years, 2022.
Bertorizzia (FR) (2014 f. by Bertolini (USA)); dam of 2 winners.
BAL MASQUE (GB), 1 race in Italy at 3 years, 2023 and £10,751 and placed 4 times.
Man of Steel (FR) (2022 c. by Gutaifan (IRE)).
2nd Dam
Kapi Creek (FR), won 12 races in France to 8 years and £75,070, placed 42 times including second in Grand Criterium de Bordeaux, Bordeaux B’scat, L. and third in Prix La Sorellina, La Teste Buch, L.; dam of 3 winners:
SUCH A MAJ (FR), won 5 races in France at 2, 3 and 5 years and £83,015 and placed 9 times.
MAJIK CHARLY (FR), won 2 races in France at 3 and 4 years and £53,701 and placed 17 times.
KAPIA DU DESERT (FR), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed once; also placed once over jumps in France at 3 years.
3rd Dam
Kirigane (FR), won 1 race in France, placed 6 times including third in Prix Belle de Nuit, Evry, L.; dam of 4 winners including:
Kapi Creek (FR), see above.
KIRIDANCE (FR), won 5 races in France; dam of winners.
Roncha (FR), unraced; grandam of Breizh Eagle (FR), 5 races in France from 2 to 4 years, 2022, placed third in Poule d’Essai des Poulains, ParisLongchamp, Gr.1.
KALKIDIKI (FR), won 2 races in France and placed 4 times.
7yo
SERGEI
Whitsbury Manor Stud
2021: £6,500 | 2022: £6,000 | 2023: £6,000
Racing Form
14 runs, four wins, two places | Best Timeform Rating: 113 | Average winning distance: 5.13
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Godolphin Cornwallis Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, (5f. beating Well Done Fox (GB) and Barbill (IRE)), Coolmore War Command Rochestown Stakes, Naas, L., (5f. beating Andre Amar (IRE) and Offline (IRE))
3rd Coventry Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, (to Calyx (GB)).
AT 3
Won Won Cork Stakes, Navan, L., (5½f. beating Chessman (IRE) and Smash Williams (IRE)).
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AQUICK AND PRECOCIOUS COLT from the final crop of Scat Daddy, Sergei Prokofiev was a popular sire at the foal sales in 2022 with the latest recruit for Whitsbury Manor Stud selling very well.
A powerfully built sort and with a fascinating pedigree, the Canadian-bred himself cost $1.1m when bought by MV Magnier at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in 2016, illustrating just how handsome a colt Sergei Prokofiev has always been.
He was an early two-year-old making his debut in April and finishing second to subsequent Group 1 Moyglare Stakes winner Skitter Scatter at Dundalk over 5f. Less than a fortnight later, he won a 5f maiden by more than 7f and then took the Listed Rochestown Stakes again at the minimum distance.
The 6f of the Group 2 Coventry Stakes didn’t faze him and he was just a neck behind Advertise on the far side, the pair a length behind winner Calyx, who raced on the near side. Two further attempts over 6f, albeit in Group 1 company, were unsuccessful, but returned to his favoured 5f for the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes, Sergei Prokofiev was once more a winner, despite a tricky passage.
He finished the season in the Listed Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Stakes, in which he never was a factor.
On his seasonal reappearance at three he won the Listed Cork Stakes over an extended 5f at Navan and he was fourth behind Mabs Cross in the Group 3 Palace House Stakes. He had two more starts in quick
1st Dam
ORCHARD BEACH (CAN), placed once in Canada at 3 years and £4,421; dam of 1 winner: SERGEI PROKOFIEV (CAN), see above.
Sahlabiya (CAN) (2019 f. by Medaglia d’Oro (USA)), , placed 5 times in Canada and U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years, 2023 and £72,569 placed third in Woodbine Oaks, Woodbine, R. King Elvis (CAN) (2020 c. by Medaglia d’Oro (USA)), placed once in Canada at 2 years, 2022 and £13,854. She also has a 2-y-o filly by Justify (USA).
2nd Dam SONG AND DANZ (USA), ran once in U.S.A. at 4 years; dam of 4 winners:
NECESSARY EVIL (USA) (f. by Harlan’s Holiday (USA)), won 2 races in U.S.A. at 2 years and £81,667 including Hollywood Juvenile Championship Stakes, Hollywood Park, Gr.3, placed second in Sorrento Stakes, Del Mar, Gr.3; dam of winners.
OBLIGATORY (AUS), 5 races in Australia at 3 and 4 years and £54,329 and placed 8 times.
ROCKNESS ANGEL (AUS), 2 races in Australia and placed 6 times.
GREATER GOOD (AUS), 1 race in Australia at 4 years and placed twice; dam of Just A Care (IRE), 1 race in U.S.A. at 3 years, 2023 and £53,500, second in Melody of Colors Stakes, Gulfstream Park.
TWO STEP SATURDAY (USA), won 3 races in U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years and placed 10 times.
ONTHEOTHERHAND (USA), won 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years and placed 6 times.
Back To Love (CAN), unplaced on the flat at 3 and 4 years; dam of. NARA (CAN), 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years, 2023 and placed once.
3rd Dam
DANZIG TIL DAWN (USA), unraced; dam of 2 winners:
FOREST DANZ (USA) (g. by Forestry (USA)), won 6 races including Fasig Tipton Turf Dash, second in Criterium Stakes, Calder, L.
succession at three and ran twice at four, all over sprint trips, but he failed to recapture his earlier form.
There is a lot of Mr Prospector in Sergei Prokofiev’s pedigree; he is inbred 5S x 3s x 5D to him and inbred 4D x 4D to his grandson Unbridled. He is also inbred 4S x 4D to the full-sisters Preach and Yarn, as is Scat Daddy’s Triple Crown-winning son Justify.
Yarn’s daughter Myth is the dam of Scat Daddy’s sire Johannesburg and her daughter Preach is the dam of Pulpit whose son Tapit is the broodmare sire of Sergei Prokofiev.
Sergei Prokofiev is also inbred 4S x 5D to Nijinksy but he is free from any Sadler’s Wells influence.
Danzig appears once, in the fourth generation of Sergei Prokofiev’s pedigree, and therefore are a generation further back in his foals.
His first foals averaged more than four times their covering fee, coming in at £27,841 for 52 sold with the median at £22,575.
Six of that initial crop made in excess of £50,000 and the most expensive was the first foal of Listed Premio Vittorio Crespi winner Avengers Queen.
A Brazen Beau half-sister to the Sandy Lane Stakes and Spring Cup winner El Caballo her colt was sold by Whitsbury Manor to Chasemore Farm for 95,000gns at Tattersalls.
At the same sale, Tally-Ho Stud went to 82,000gns to secure a halfbrother to three winners out of the Nell Gwyn runner-up Squash, sold by Kirtlington Farm.
Racing Form
16 runs, five wins, six places | Best Timeform Rating: 119 | Average winning distance: 8.29
Stakes form
AT 2
2nd Prix Francois Boutin, Deauville, L., (to Pure Zen (FR))
3rd Prix des Chenes, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (to Anodor (FR)).
AT 3
Won Prix La Force, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (9f. beating Rockemperor (IRE) and Roman Candle (GB)), Prix Omnium II, Saint-Cloud, L., (8f. beating Sagauteur (FR) and Go To Hollywood (FR))
2nd Emirates Poule d’Essai des Poulains, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to Persian King (IRE)), P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois, Deauville, Gr.1, (to Romanised (IRE))
3rd Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein, Parislongchamp, Gr.2, (to The Revenant (GB)).
2nd Darley July Cup Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Ten Sovereigns (IRE)).
AT 4
Won Prix d’Harcourt, Parislongchamp, Gr.2, (9½f. beating Way To Paris (GB) and Simona
3rd Prix Ganay, Chantilly, Gr.1, (to Sottsass (FR)).
SHAMAN HAS A STALLION’s pedigree as a son of the brilliant Shamardal from the Wertheimer’s brilliant Only Seule branch of Fall Aspen’s family, and yet he is the most affordable son of Shamardal at stud in Ireland
Trained by André Fabre, the Wertheimer homebred ran five times at two winning twice including on debut over 7f at Chantilly and at over seven and a half furlongs in Deauville.
He was also second in the Listed Prix François Boutin and third in the mile Group 3 Prix des Chenes.
At three, he won the Group 3 Prix La Force and Listed Prix Omnium before his length second to Persian King in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains. He was also second to Romanised in the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois beating Group 1 winners Line Of Duty, Watch Me and Study Of Man, and was third in the Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein on Arc weekend.
He stepped up in trip for his last season and won the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt over 1m2f, defeating Group 1 winners Trip To Paris and Sottsass, and was third to that pair in the Group 1 Prix Ganay.
Shaman has a wonderful pedigree – he is out of the Green Desert mare Only Green, a Listed winner and Group 3-placed half-sister to the champion Occupandiste, who is the dam of Group 1 winner and sire Mondialiste and second dam of Group 1 winner and Group 1 sire Intello.
She is also the second dam of Kalahara (Frankel), a Group 3 winner at two in France. Second dam Only Seule is a winning half-sister to the July Cup (G1) winner and sire Elnadim and the 1,000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf, who is the third dam of Ribchester.
His third dam is Elle Seule, winner of the Group 2 Prix d’Astarte and a half-sister to the Group 1 winners and sires Hamas, Fort Wood and Timber Country and to the Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Colorado Dancer, the dam of Dubai Millennium.
His fourth dam is the Grade 1 Matron Stakes winner and blue hen Fall Aspen, dam of eight Graded winners and the Listed winner and Kentucky Derby third Prince Of Thieves.
His first crop achieved an average of €13,400 for 30 sold with the median in close proximity at €12,055.
The best price was for the colt out of Dalakhani mare Oatmeal who made 28,000gns to Yeomanstown Stud at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale. Consigned by Prospect Stables, he is a half-brother to Pearl Glory, who was second in both the Chartwell Fillies’ Stakes and Dick Poole
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1st Dam
ONLY GREEN (IRE), won 3 races in France at 3 years and £114,570 including Prix de Saint-Cyr, Chantilly, L. and Prix du Pont-Neuf, Longchamp, L., placed twice including third in Prix Imprudence, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3; dam of 7 winners: SHAMAN (IRE), see above.
GREEN SWEET (USA) (2012 c. by Smart Strike (CAN)), won 3 races in Australia and France at 2, 3 and 5 years and £179,161 including Prix Omnium II, Saint-Cloud, L. and Commercial Club Albury Gold Cup, Albury, L., placed 15 times including third in Prix Lyphard, Deauville, L.
Situveux (IRE) (2019 f. by Siyouni (FR)), won 1 race in France at 2 years and £41,692, placed second in Prix de Bagatelle, Chantilly, L.
MERIKHA (GB) (2014 c. by Shamardal (USA)), won 6 races in France at 3, 5 and 6 years and £65,491 and placed.
FRESH STRIKE (IRE) (2013 f. by Smart Strike (CAN)), won 2 races in France at 3 years and £25,638 and placed 3 times; dam of 2 winners.
My Kurkum (GB) (g. by Dariyan (FR)), 2 races in France at 2 and 4 years, 2022 and £45,937, placed 4 times including third in Prix des Chenes, ParisLongchamp, Gr.3.
BOONDOGGLE (GB), 1 race at 2 years and £5,688 and placed once; also placed twice in Italy at 3 and 4 years, 2023 and £1,363.
YOU ALONE (IRE) (2015 f. by Frankel (GB)), won 1 race in France at 3 years and £24,273 and placed 4 times; dam of a winner.
NOT ALONE (IRE), 1 race in France at 3 years, 2023 and £22,591 and placed twice.
CORDOVA (IRE) (2017 f. by Galileo (IRE)), won 1 race in France at 3 years and £12,889 and placed; broodmare. Sitoi (GB) (2021 c. by Siyouni (FR)).
Zodia (GB) (2022 f. by Dubawi (IRE)).
2nd Dam
ONLY SEULE (USA), won 1 race in France at 2 years and placed once; dam of 9 winners:
OCCUPANDISTE (IRE) (f. by Kaldoun (FR)), Champion older mare in France in 1997, won 6 races in France at 2 and 4 years and £197,378 including Prix de la Foret, Longchamp, Gr.1, Prix Maurice de Gheest, Deauville, Gr.1, Prix de la Porte Maillot, Longchamp, Gr.3 and Prix des Reservoirs, Longchamp, Gr.3, placed second in Prix Casimir Delamarre, Longchamp, L.; dam of winners.
MONDIALISTE (IRE), 5 races at home, in Canada, France and U.S.A. from 4 to 6 years and £1,255,008 including Arlington Million, Arlington, Gr.1, Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes, Woodbine, Gr.1, Betfred Strensall Stakes, York, Gr.3 and Skybet Y’shire Festival Pomfret Stakes, Pontefract, L., placed second in Breeders’ Cup Mile, Keeneland, Gr.1 and third in Prix Jean Prat, Chantilly, Gr.1; sire.
IMPRESSIONNANTE (GB), 3 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £175,390 including Prix de Sandringham- Mitsubishi Motors, Chantilly, Gr.2, placed second in Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Longchamp, Gr.1 and Prix d’Astarte, Deauville, Gr.1; dam of INTELLO (GER), Jt 3rd top rated 3yr old colt in Europe in 2013, Top rated 3yr old in France in 2013 (9-11f.), 6 races at home and in France and £1,359,934 including Prix du Jockey Club, Chantilly, Gr.1, Prix du Prince d’Orange, Longchamp, Gr.3 and Prix Messidor, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3, placed third in Poule d’Essai des Poulains Le Parisien, Longchamp, Gr.1, Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Longchamp, Gr.1 and P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois, Deauville, Gr.1; sire, Ilic (IRE), 1 race in France at 3 years, 2022 and £66,027, placed second in Prix du Prince d’Orange, ParisLongchamp, Gr.3.
ONLY ANSWER (GB), 5 races in France at 3 and 4 years and £127,989 including Prix de Saint-Georges, Longchamp, Gr.3, Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert, Longchamp, Gr.3 and Prix du Cercle, Deauville, L., placed third in Prix de Ris-Orangis, Deauville, Gr.3.
PLANETAIRE (GB), 2 races in France at 3 years and £71,602 including Prix Pelleas Prix Ecole Blondeau, Clairefontaine, L., placed third in La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3.
ACTIVISTE (IRE), 4 races in France at 2, 4 and 5 years and £93,746 and placed 16 times.
SPARTAKISTE (IRE), 2 races in Spain at 3 and 4 years and placed 5 times.
DESERTISTE (GB), 2 races in France at 3 years; dam of , 2 races in France and £71,891 including KALAHARA (GB) Prix d’Arenberg, ParisLongchamp, Gr.3, SASPARELLA (FR), 2 races in France and £57,929 including Prix Eclipse, Chantilly, Gr.3.
ONLY GREEN (IRE), see above.
Onlyman (USA) (c. by Woodman (USA)), won 2 races in France at 2 and 4 years and £28,216, placed second in Prix Djebel, Maisons-Laffitte, L.
Seulement (USA) (g. by Rahy (USA)), won 5 races in France and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to 6 years and £71,924, placed third in Prix Matchem, Maisons-Laffitte, L.
ONLY HIM (GB), won 2 races in France and U.S.A. at 3 and 6 years and £25,393 and placed 5 times.
ETRANGER (GB), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed once.
ENSEMBLE (FR), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed once; dam of winners.
Desert Haze (GB), 3 races at 3 years and £46,083, placed second in Irish Stallion Farms EBF Cooley Stakes, Dundalk, L. and third in Betfred Conqueror Stakes, Goodwood, L.; dam of CALIGINE (IRE), 2 races in France at 3 years, 2022 and £36,751 and placed 6 times.
Quick Change (GB), 4 races from 2 to 4 years, 2023 and £33,012, third in Prix de la Calonne, L.
FELIX THE POET (GB), 2 races at 2 years and placed 4 times; also 2 races in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 4 years and £27,493 and placed twice.
UNIFIED (GB), 1 race at 3 years and placed 3 times, from only 5 starts; dam of SYNONYMOUS (GB), 2 races in Germany at 4 years, 2023 and placed 4 times.
LONELY TYCOON (FR), won 1 race in France at 2 years and placed once.
BUCK ASPEN (USA), won 1 race in France at 3 years; dam of winners.
PAZZESCO (IRE), won Premio Staffe d’Oro Chase, Milan, Gr.3.
Indian Chief (IRE), 5 races at 3, 6 and 7 years and £54,372, placed third in Betfred Dante Stakes, York, Gr.2.
Crassus (IRE), 2 races at 4 years; also 1 race over hurdles at 3 years, placed third in Winning Fair Juvenile Hurdle, Fairyhouse, Gr.3.
PLEASE RETURN (USA), 8 races in France to 9 years and £60,680 and placed 8 times.
BATHALA (IRE), 2 races in Argentina at 4 years and placed 3 times.
ASSABAA (FR), 2 races in Spain at 4 years and placed twice.
Only Together (IRE), placed once in France at 2 years; dam of ONLY FOOLS (IRE), 2 races in France at 3 years, 2022 and placed 3 times; also placed once over hurdles at 4 years, 2023.
Solosole (USA), unraced; dam of winners.
Rock of Nassau (FR), 8 races in France to 7 years and £182,226, placed second in Grand Prix de la Riviera Cote d’Azur, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, L.
OKALEA (IRE), 1 race in France at 3 years; dam of MENEAS (FR), 10 races in France and £139,209 including Criterium du Fonds Europeen de L’Elevage, Deauville, L.
AN ARC AND PRIX DU JOCKEYCLUB winner bred on a variation of the outstanding Galileo-Pivotal cross, Sottsass was an exciting recruit to the Irish stallion ranks in 2021 and the cross has only become more attractive with the passing years.
Bred by Ecurie des Monceaux he was the most expensive Siyouni yearling sold at the 2017 Arqana August Sale making €340,000 to Oceanic Bloodstock on behalf of Peter Brandt’s White Birch Farm, who had privately purchased his three-year-old half-sister Sister Charlie after her second place in the Group 1 Prix de Diane.
Sottsass was a member of Siyouni’s most expensively bred crop at that stage, which was €20,000. He now commands a fee of €150,000.
A good-looking colt who really took the eye, he was sent into training with Jean-Claude Rouget and won his maiden on the second of his two runs that season. At three he won the Listed Prix des Suresnes on his way to victory in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club in which he defeated the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) winner Persian King.
He was then given the traditional Arc preparation for a three-year-old colt with a break after his Classic success before returning to win the Group 2 Prix Niel. In the Arc itself he was third to Waldgeist and Enable and ahead of Japan, Magical and Ghaiyyath.
Kept in training at four, he beat Way To Paris and Shaman in the Group 1 Prix Ganay back at 1m2f and was fourth behind Magical and Ghaiyyath in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes before his return to Paris and his second, successful, shot at Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe glory.
He is out of a mare who made a stunning
Sottsass foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
Coolmore
2021: €30,000 | 2022: €25,000 | 2023:€25,000
Racing Form
12 runs, six wins, two places | Best Timeform Rating: 127 | Average winning distance: 10.48
Stakes form
AT 3 Champion 3yr old colt in Europe in 2019.
Won Qipco Prix du Jockey Club, Chantilly, Gr.1, (10½f. beating Persian King (IRE) and Motamarris (IRE)), Qatar Prix Niel, Parislongchamp, Gr.2, (12f. beating Mutamakina (GB) and Mohawk (IRE)), Prix de Suresnes, Chantilly, L., (10f. beating Battle of Toro (IRE) and Dave (FR))
3rd Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to Waldgeist (GB)).
AT 4 Top rated older horse in France in 2020 (9.5-11f. & 11-14f.).
Won Prix Ganay, Chantilly, Gr.1, (10f. beating Way To Paris (GB) and Shaman (IRE)), Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (11½f. beating In Swoop (IRE) and Persian King (IRE))
2nd Prix Gontaut-Biron, Deauville, Gr.3, (to Skalleti (FR)).
start at stud – Starlet’s Sister is a Galileo full-sister to Group 3 Prix Cleopatre winner Leo’s Starlet and a half-sister to Listed winner and Grade 1 Clement L Hirsch and Prix Saint Alary-placed Anabaa’s Creation, who is the dam of the Group 3-placed Create A Dream.
Starlet’s Sister has excelled as a broodmare – her first foal is the US champion Turf female Sister Charlie , winner of seven Grade 1 contests, including the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf for Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm, and her third foal is the Group 3 winner and Grade 1 Flower Bowl Stakes second My Sister Nat.
Her two-year-old colt is a full-brother to Sottsass and he was bought for €2.1m by Yoshito Yahagai from Ecurie des Monceaux at Arqana last August.
Sottsass’s sire Siyouni has achieved pre-eminence through the exploits of Sottsass, St Mark’s Basilica and Paddington in the last three seasons and he is now the sire of ten individual Group/Grade 1 winners from 37 Group winners and a total of 70 individual Stakes winners and counting.
St Mark’s Basilica, bred on the same cross as Sottsass which has produced six black-type winners from 45 runners so far, was Europe’s joint-champion three-year-old of 2021 with Group 1 victories in the Irish Champion Stakes, the Eclipse Stakes, the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and the Prix du Jockey-Club, a first in the race for trainer Aidan O’Brien.
Last year Tahiyra, a Siyouni half-sister to the multiple Group 1 winner Tarnawa, won the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes for the Aga Khan and Dermot Weld and so far this season the filly has added the Coronation Stakes and Irish 1,000 Guineas to her trophy haul.
Paddington, who has Montjeu as his dam sire, is in pole position for champion three-year-old honours this year for Siyouni following victories in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes.
The first foals by Sottsass made a mark at the sales where three of the 14 to sell did so for in excess of €100,000 helping their sire to an average of €61,317 with the median at €52,000.
Two of the trio were purchased at the Goffs November Foal Sale were a colt out of the Listed Newbury Fillies Trial winner We Are Ninety brought €180,000 from JC Bloodstock. Offered by Grenane House Stud, he is a half-brother to the Listed Guisborough Stakes winner I’m A Gambler from the family of Group 1 winners Listen, Sequoyah, Henrythenavigator, Magician, Saffron Walden and Dolphin Street.
Oakfield Lodge and Springfield House Stud sold the €105,000 halfsister to the Listed winner and the Group 2 Gran Premio del Jockey Club third Mooney Love.
Out of Mooney Ridge, an Indian Ridge half-sister to the brilliant Sea Of Class, Group 1 winners Charity Line and Final Score and the Group winners Cherry Collect and Wordless, she was bought by Mags O’Toole.
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1st Dam STARLET’S SISTER (IRE), placed once in France at 3 years and £4,917; Own sister to LEO’S STARLET (IRE); dam of 6 winners:
SISTERCHARLIE (IRE) (2014 f. by Myboycharlie (IRE)), won 10 races in France and U.S.A. from 2 to 5 years and £2,872,279 including Diana Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1 (twice), Flower Bowl Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Beverly D Stakes, Arlington, Gr.1 (twice), Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes, Keeneland, Gr.1, Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, Churchill Downs, Gr.1 and Prix Penelope, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, placed 7 times including second in Prix de Diane Longines, Chantilly, Gr.1, Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1 and NYRA Bets New York Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.2 and third in Diana Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1, Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, Santa Anita, Gr.1 and Ballston Spa Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.2; broodmare.
SOTTSASS (FR), see above.
MY SISTER NAT (FR) (2015 f. by Acclamation (GB)), won 4 races in France and U.S.A. at 3, 5 and 6 years and £864,241 including Prix Bertrand de Tarragon, Parislongchamp, Gr.3 and Waya Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.3 (twice), placed 13 times including second in Flower Bowl Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, Del Mar, Gr.1, New York Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.2, Glens Falls Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.2 (twice), Prix Chloe, Chantilly, Gr.3 and Long Island Stakes, Aqueduct, Gr.3 and third in Flower Bowl Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1, Shadwell Prix de la Nonette, Deauville, Gr.2 and New York Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.2; broodmare.
PARLIAMENT (GB) (2018 g. by Fastnet Rock (AUS)), won 1 race in France at 4 years, 2022 and £12,563 and placed 4 times.
PURE DIGNITY (GB) (2019 f. by Dubawi (IRE)), won 1 race at 3 years, 2022 and £7,910 and placed once, all her starts.
SNOWPARK (FR) (2020 f. by Dubawi (IRE)), won 1 race in France at 2 years, 2022 and £15,062 and placed once.
Shin Emperor (FR) (2021 c. by Siyouni (FR)). She also has a yearling colt by Siyouni (FR).
2nd Dam Premiere Creation (FR), won 2 races in France and U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years and £60,306, placed 3 times including second in Prix Chloe, Chantilly, Gr.3 and third in Del Mar Oaks, Del Mar, Gr.1; dam of 6 winners:
LEO’S STARLET (IRE) (f. by Galileo (IRE)), won 3 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £71,544 including Prix Cleopatre, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, placed second in Prix de Malleret, Saint-Cloud, Gr.2; dam of winners.
ALLSTARS (JPN), 4 races in Japan at 4 and 5 years, 2023 and £36,181 and placed 4 times.
LEONARDO (JPN), 3 races in Japan at 2 and 4 years and £271,772 and placed 3 times.
ANABAA’S CREATION (IRE) (f. by Anabaa (USA)), won 3 races in France and U.S.A. at 2 and 5 years and £186,403 including Prix Isonomy, Saint-Cloud, L., placed second in Clement L Hirsch Stakes, Del Mar, Gr.1 and third in Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary, Longchamp, Gr.1; dam of winners.
CREATE A DREAM (USA), 2 races at home and in U.S.A. at 2 years and £67,085 including Chelsey Flower Stakes, Belmont Park; dam of Phosphorescence (FR), 1 race in U.S.A. at 3 years, 2023 and £57,860, placed second in California Derby, Golden Gate.
Respect The Code (USA), 2 races in U.S.A. at 2 and 3 years, 2022 and £86,717, placed third in Clocker’s Corner Stakes, Santa Anita, R.
Striking Creation (IRE), placed 3 times in France at 3 years; dam of FIRST CREATION (FR), 3 races in France at 3 and 5 years, 2023 and £39,541 and placed 5 times, ULTIME CREATION (FR), 2 races in France at 3 years, 2022 and placed 3 times.
TRUE LOYALTY (USA), won 4 races in U.S.A. at 2, 4 and 5 years and £101,411 and placed 8 times.
JUENESSE DOREE (USA), won 2 races in U.S.A. at 2 and 4 years and £59,691 and placed 4 times.
DE ZAVALA (IRE), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed once.
BESHAYER (FR), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed once.
Danish Delight (IRE), unraced; dam of a winner.
3rd Dam
WIENERBROD (FR), 2 races in Japan at 2 and 3 years and £117,209 and placed 3 times.
ALLWAKI (USA), unraced; dam of 2 winners:
Premiere Creation (FR), see above.
FIRST CHOICE (FR), won 4 races in France and placed 3 times; dam of winners.
ROAD TO ARC (FR), 4 races in Italy including Gran Premio Jockey Club, Rome, Gr.2 and Premio Conte Felice Scheibler, Rome, L.
First Dream (FR), 2 races over jumps in France, placed second in Prix Robert Weill Ketch Handicap Hurdle, Auteuil, L.
First Charm (FR), 2 races in France, placed second in Prix des Tourelles, Chantilly, L.; dam of SANDY’S CHARM (FR), 3 races in France including Prix de Lieurey, Deauville, Gr.3.
First Soldier (FR), placed twice over hurdles at 4 and 6 years, 2022.
Suvretta Queen (IRE), placed 3 times in France; dam of winners.
MARY’S PRECEDENT (FR), 3 races in France including Prix de Bagatelle, Chantilly, L., placed second in Prix Volterra, Chantilly, L. ; dam of Mary’s France (FR), 1 race in France, placed second in Prix La Sorellina, La Teste de Buch, L.
Lovemedo (FR), 3 races in France, placed second in Prix La Sorellina, La Teste De Buch, L.; dam of CROWN PRINCESSE (FR), 2 races in France at 3 years, 2023 including Prix Cleopatre, SaintCloud, Gr.3, placed third in Prix Saint-Alary, ParisLongchamp, Gr.1.
IDOLE ROYALE (FR), 3 races in France and Spain at 4 and 5 years, 2023 and placed 6 times.
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Nine runs, three wins, two places | Best Timeform Rating: 114 | Average winning distance: 6.01
Stakes form
AT 2
Won Pommery Champagne Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2, (7f. beating Royal Crusade and Juana Elcano), Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Gimcrack Stakes, York, Gr.2, (6f. beating Lord Of The Lodge and Repartee)
2nd Qatar Richmond Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2, (to Golden Horde (IRE)), Coventry Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, (to Arizona(IRE)).
THREAT
Haras du Mont Goubert
2021: €6,000 | 2022: €4,000 | 2023: €4,000
1st Dam FLARE OF FIRELIGHT (USA), placed twice at 2 and 3 years; also placed in France at 3 years and £1,083; dam of 3 winners: THREAT (IRE), see above.
GIFTED GOLD (IRE) (2019 f. by Galileo Gold (GB)), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years, 2022 and £9,048.
MOBILISE (GB) (2020 g. by Footstepsinthesand (GB)), won 1 race at 3 years, 2023 and £8,429 and placed twice. Torch Relay (GB) (2021 c. by Frankel (GB)).
She also has a yearling filly by Frankel (GB).
2nd Dam
SHIVA (JPN), Champion older mare in Europe in 1999, Champion older mare in Europe in 2000, won 4 races from 3 to 5 years and £228,637 including Tattersalls Gold Cup, Curragh, Gr.1 and Weatherbys Earl of Sefton Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, placed twice second in Dubai Champion Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1 and third in Coral Eclipse Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.1; Own sister to LIMNOS (JPN); dam of 5 winners, including:
THAT WHICH IS NOT (USA) (f. by Elusive Quality (USA)), won 3 races in France at 3 and 4 years and £85,39 including Prix Zarkava-Fonds Europeen de L’Elevage, Saint-Cloud, L., placed second in Prix Corrida, Saint-Cloud, Gr.2; dam of a winner.
PIZ BADILE (IRE), 2 races at 2 and 3 years, 2022 and £245,710 including Ballysax Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, placed second in Irish Derby, Curragh, Gr.1 and third in Tattersalls Gold Cup, Curragh, Gr.1 and Mooresbridge Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2.
Yosemite Valley (GB), placed once at 2 years, 2022 second in Anglesey Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3
YANGON (USA), won 3 races in France at 4 years and £62,147 and placed 10 times.
SPUTNIK PLANUM (USA), won 2 races at 4 years and placed 6 times.
Eccentricity (USA), placed once at 3 years; dam of winners.
Alder (IRE), 2 races at 2 and 3 years, 2023 and £49,543, placed second in Dee Stakes, Chester, L. and third in Golden Fleece Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.2, from only 5 starts.
Radiantly (GB), 1 race at 2 years and £39,498, placed second in Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial, Leopardstown, Gr.3.
Tymora (USA), ran a few times on the flat at 3 years; dam of winners.
L’ASTRONOME (GB), 4 races in France at 3 and 4 years, 2023 and £109,950 including Prix Hocquart, Gr.2. Eltezam (IRE), 1 race at 2 years and £35,368, placed third in Coventry Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2.
Proserpine (USA), unraced; dam of.
DESERT VOICE (GB), 2 races at 3 years, 2023, from only 4 starts.
Imperial Cult (IRE), placed once at 4 years, 2023.
THREAT WAS A HIGH-CLASS JUVENILE and hails from a beautiful Niarchos family with relatives already embarking on stud careers in Europe.
Bred at Ringfort Stud, Threat was the most expensive foal by Footstepsinthesand sold at auction in 2017 making 100,000gns to Capital Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Sale.
He was trained by Richard Hannon for Cheveley Park Stud and was a precocious racehorse making a winning debut over 5f at Newmarket’s Guineas meeting. He ran six times at two, winning three times, adding the Group 2 Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes to his debut success.
Threat was also a close second to Arizona in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes and three-quarters of a length second to Golden Horde in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes.
His best result in three runs at three was fifth in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes and his victories came over 5,6 and 7f.
Threat is the first foal out of Flare Of Firelight, a Birdstone half-sister to Listed winner That Which Is Not out of the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Shiva (Hector Protector).
She is a half-sister to Light Shift, who gave the late Henry Cecil his final Oaks winner, and is the dam of the Group 1 Eclipse and International Stakes winner Ulysses (Galileo). His oldest crop are four and he has sired five stakes winners and this season’s Group 2 Superlative Stakes and Listed Chesham Stakes third Oddyssey, one of ten stakes performers for Ulysses.
Shiva is also a half-sister to Burning Sunset, a Listed winner and dam of Group 2 winner Smoking Sun and of Group 3-placed Ikat, who produced the triple Grade 1 winner and champion Main Sequence by Aldebaran.
Another half-sister is the dam of champion and Group 1 winner Cloth Of Stars by Sea The Stars and she is also a half-sister to the Group 2 winner and sire Limnos.
The 2,000 Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand is from the only European crop of Giant’s Causeway and one of two main conduits for the Iron Horse in Europe, the other being Shamardal.
The only foal by Threat to sell in Ireland was also his most expensive with Larry Stratton going to €19,000 for the son of Listed Prix la Fleche third Siderante, consigned by Oghill House Stud at Goffs.
The Vaughan family’s Moanmore Stables bought the highest-priced Threat colt sold in France last year, going to €11,000 for the son of Havianas who is an Elusive Quality half-sister to the Grade 2 winner and multiple Grade 1-placed Qurbaan by Speightstown.
3rd Dam
LINGERIE (GB), placed 6 times in France at 2 and 3 years; dam of 10 winners including:
SHIVA (JPN), see above.
LIGHT SHIFT (USA) (f. by Kingmambo (USA)), , 4 races including 4th top rated 3yr old filly in England in 2007 won Vodafone Oaks Stakes, Epsom Downs, Gr.1 and Weatherbys Bank Cheshire Oaks, Chester, L., placed second in Darley Irish Oaks, Curragh, Gr.1 and third in Blue Square Nassau Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1; dam of winners.
ULYSSES (IRE), Champion older horse in Europe in 2017, 5 races including Juddmonte International Stakes, York, Gr.1, Coral Eclipse Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.1, Beringice Gordon Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3 and bet365 Gordon Richards Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3, placed second in King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1 and third in Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1 and Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Chantilly, Gr.1; sire.
LIMNOS (JPN) (c. by Hector Protector (USA)), won 4 races in France including Prix Foy, Longchamp, Gr.2, P. Jean de Chaudenay-G. P. du Printemps, Saint-Cloud, Gr.2 and Prix Le Fabuleux, Saint-Cloud, L., placed second in Prix Maurice de Nieuil, M’-Laffitte, Gr.2; sire.
BURNING SUNSET (GB) (f. by Caerleon (USA)), won 2 races at home and in France including Prix Solitude, Saint-Cloud, L., placed third in Prix d’Harcourt, Longchamp, Gr.2; dam of winners.
SMOKING SUN (USA), 11 races in France and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including Prix d’Harcourt, Longchamp, Gr.2, Prix Pelleas, Compiegne, L. and Prix Lyphard, Deauville, L., placed second in Singapore Airlines International Cup, Kranji, Gr.1.
ZHIYI (USA), 4 races in France including Prix de Saint Patrick, Deauville, L., placed third in Prix Guillaume d’Ornano-Logis St Germain, Deauville, Gr.2.
Ikat (IRE), 1 race in France, placed second in Prix d’Aumale, Chantilly, Gr.3; dam of MAIN SEQUENCE (USA), Champion older horse in U.S.A. in 2014, 9 races at home and in U.S.A. including Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1, United Nations Stakes, Monmouth Park, Gr.1, Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf, Santa Anita, Gr.1, Mac Diarmida Stakes, Gulfstream Park, Gr.2 and Betfred Derby Trial Stakes, Lingfield Park, Gr.3, placed second in Investec Derby Stakes, Epsom Downs, Gr.1.
COSMIC FIRE (FR), 1 race in France and placed 6 times; dam of Ray’s The Bar (GB), 3 races at home and in U.S.A., placed third in Pilgrim Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.3.
Hyades (USA) (c. by Aldebaran (USA)), won 2 races at home and in U.S.A., placed second in Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap, Hollywood Park, Gr.1.
Erewhon (USA) (c. by Kingmambo (USA)), won 1 race in U.S.A., placed second in Pasadena Stakes, Santa Anita, L. and La Puente Stakes, Santa Anita, L.; sire.
LIGHT BLOW (USA), won 1 race and placed twice, from only 5 starts; dam of winners.
EXPLODE (USA), 9 races in Canada to 6 years, 2022 including Canadian Derby, Century Mile, Gr.3, Ascot Graduation Stakes, Hastings Park, L. and Chris Loseth Handicap, Hastings Park, placed second in British Columbia Derby, Hastings Park, Gr.3 and third in BC Premier’s Handicap, Gr.3.
SOLE VOLANTE (USA), 4 races in U.S.A. including Sam F Davis Stakes, Gr.3 and Pulpit Stakes
Light of Joy (USA), 4 races, placed second in EBF & Sir Henry Cecil Galtres Stakes, York, L. Corviglia (USA), 2 races, placed third in Ingabelle Stakes, Leopardstown, L., from only 5 starts. Strawberry Fledge (USA), placed once in France; dam of winners.
CLOTH OF STARS (IRE), Champion older horse in Europe in 2017 (11-13f.), Champion older horse in France in 2017, 7 races including Prix Ganay, Saint-Cloud, Gr.1, Prix d’Harcourt, Gr.2, Prix Greffulhe, Saint-Cloud, Gr.2, Prix des Chenes, Longchamp, Gr.3, Prix Exbury, Gr.3 and Prix La Force- Figaroscope, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, placed second in Criterium de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Gr.1 and Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Chantilly, Gr.1 and third in Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris, Gr.1, Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Gr.1, P.Ganay L’Inauguration de Parislongchamp, G1,Longines Dubai Sheema Classic, Meydan, Gr.1; sire.
Molasses (FR), unraced; dam of winners.
MAGADAN (IRE), 3 races including Prix d’Hedouville, Longchamp, Gr.3 and Prix Lord Seymour, Longchamp, L., placed third in Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris, Longchamp, Gr.1.
VAN
2021: €6,000 | 2022: €6,000 | 2023:€4,000
THE GROUP 2 RAILWAY STAKES winner from the final crop of Scat Daddy, Van Beethoven now stands at Karwin Stud. He is a powerfully-built horse, who looks like the precocious and fast two-year-old that he was. Van Beethoven ran eight times in his juvenile season making his debut in a 5f Newmarket maiden during the Craven meeting and winning on his second start, over 6f at Naas.
He was then second in the 6f Listed Marble Hill Stakes at The Curragh to Fairyland, who went on to win the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes and Flying Five Stakes.
He went on to finish fourth to Soldier’s Call in Royal Ascot’s Listed Windsor Castle Stakes before returning to winning ways in the Railway Stakes. In three more races at two, his best result was fourth in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster behind Group 1 winners Too Darn Hot and Phoenix Of Spain.
In seven starts at three he took second in the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes over a mile at Arlington. At the end of his three-year-old season, he was transferred from Ballydoyle to Chad Brown’s barn in the US for a four-yearold campaign.
Although Canadian-bred and with a top-class US female family, Van Beethoven has many facets of his pedigree that will be familiar to European breeders, not least the success of his sire Scat Daddy with his Turf runners, and the success of No Nay Never and now Justify.
Van Beethoven is out of the winning Montbrook mare My Sister Sandy, who is a full-sister to Listed winner and Grade 3 third Exotic Bloom, the dam of triple Grade 1 winner Stopchargingmaria by Tale Of The Cat.
My Sister Sandy is also a half-sister to the Listed winner and Grade 3 Knickerbocker Stakes second See Tobe and the Listed-placed filly See Alice.
Second dam Melegant is a winning Kris S half-sister to Lady Tabitha, a Listed-winning daughter of Lyphard. Their dam is a Listed-winning daughter of Sir Ivor and is a half-sister to the dam of the Grade 1-placed pair Vision And Verse and Distorted Legacy.
Although he covered 71 mares in his first season, only two filly foals from Van Beethoven’s first crop were offered for sale last year and neither reached their consignors’ valuations.
At Arqana the first foal out of Holy Ruler, a winning daughter of Holy Roman Emperor out of Ruler Of My Heart, a Listed winner and half-sister to leading NH sire Al Namix, was unsold at €9,000.
Offered on iwantthewinner.com and unsold at €16,000 was a filly out of Koskia Line, a daughter of Martaline and placed over fences. Her dam is a Cadoudal half-sister to brilliant race and broodmare Kotkita.
Racing Form
15 runs, two wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 113 | Average winning distance: 6.00
Stakes form
AT 2
Won GAIN Railway Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2, (6f. beating Marie’s Diamond (IRE) and Certain Lad)
2nd Cold Move Irish EBF Marble Hill Stakes, Curragh, L, (to Fairyland (IRE)).
AT 3
2nd Secretariat Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Valid Point (USA)).
1st Dam
MY SISTER SANDY (USA), won 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years and £4,670 and placed twice; Own sister to EXOTIC BLOOM (USA); dam of 2 winners: VAN BEETHOVEN (CAN), see above.
HASTA LA BYEBYE (CAN) (2015 g. by Tale of The Cat (USA)), won 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years and £25,103 and placed twice.
Chiquito Baby (USA) (2019 c. by Verrazano (USA)), placed once in U.S.A. at 3 years, 2022 and £3,903. City of Chicago (IRE) (2020 c. by Justify (USA)), ran once on the flat at 3 years, 2023. Keller (IRE) (2021 f. by No Nay Never (USA)). She also has a yearling filly by No Nay Never (USA).
2nd Dam
MELEGANT (USA), won 1 race in U.S.A. at 3 years and placed once; dam of 5 winners:
EXOTIC BLOOM (USA) (f. by Montbrook (USA)), won 6 races in Canada and U.S.A. from 3 to 5 years and £164,602 including Windward Stakes, Presque Isle Downs, L. and My Charmer Stakes, Turfway Park, placed third in Seaway Stakes, Woodbine, Gr.3; dam of winners.
STOPCHARGINGMARIA (USA), 9 races in U.S.A. from 2 to 4 years and £1,883,967 including Alabama Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1, TVG Coaching Club American Oaks, Saratoga, Gr.1, Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff, Keeneland, Gr.1, Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, Pimlico, Gr.2, Demoiselle Stakes, Aqueduct, Gr.2, Shuvee Handicap, Saratoga, Gr.3, Tempted Stakes, Aqueduct, Gr.3 and Allaire du Pont Distaff Stakes, Pimlico, Gr.3, placed second in Beldame Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Spinaway Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1 and Madison Stakes, Keeneland, Gr.1 (twice) and third in Frizette Stakes, Belmon Park, Gr.1; dam of FIFTY CHEVY (USA), 2 races in Japan to 2022 and placed 4 times.
Vindictive (USA), 3 races in U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years, 2022 and £178,674, placed second in Pimlico Special Stakes, Pimlico, Gr.3.
SEE TOBE (USA) (g. by Concerto (USA)), won 4 races in U.S.A. at 4 and 5 years and £146,629 including Japan Racing Association Stakes, Laurel, L., placed second in Knickerbocker Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.3.
See Alice (USA) (f. by Distorted Humor (USA)), won 6 races in U.S.A. at 2 and 3 years and £64,200, placed third in What A Summer Stakes, Laurel; dam of winners.
SURFLINER (USA), 9 races in U.S.A. from 3 to 8 years and £64,908 and placed 26 times.
NOW YOU’RE IT (USA), 4 races in U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years and placed 7 times.
DISTORTED ALICE (USA), 2 races in U.S.A. at 4 and 7 years and £45,996 and placed 6 times.
MY SISTER SANDY (USA), see above.
BETHESDA (USA), won 1 race in U.S.A. at 3 years and placed once
3rd Dam
ABIDJAN (USA), won 6 races in U.S.A. at 3, 4 and 6 years including Delicada Stakes, Louisiana Downs, placed 5 times including third in Blush With Pride Stakes, Louisiana Downs, L. and Castle Forbes Stakes, Meadowlands; dam of 4 winners including:
LADY TABITHA (USA) (f. by Lyphard (USA)), won 4 races in U.S.A. including Holiday Inaugural Stakes, Turfway Park, L., placed third in Weekend Delight Stakes, Turfway Park, L.; dam of winners.
Sophie’s Salad (USA), 2 races in U.S.A., placed second in Klassy Briefcase Stakes, Monmouth Park; dam of INDRIYA (USA), won Grande Premio Independencia, Cidade Jardim, Gr.3, placed third in Assoc Brasil de Criadores Cavalo Corrida, Cidade Jardim, Gr.1, Khaleesi (BRZ), 1 race in Brazil, placed second in Grande Premio Immensity, Cidade Jardim, Gr.1, Real Deal (BRZ), placed in Brazil third in C. Presidente Herculano de Freitas, Cidade Jardim, placed third in C. Presidente L. Lollita (BRZ) Luiz Alves de Almeida, Cidade Jardim, L.; grandam of RIVARA (JPN), 2 races in Japan at 2 years, 2022 including KBS Kyoto Sho Fantasy Stakes, Hanshin, Gr.3.
L’ABIDJANAISE (USA), won 2 races in U.S.A. and placed 9 times; dam of winners.
Thou Swell (USA), 4 races in U.S.A., placed second in Nat.Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.2.
Dynabid (USA), placed once in U.S.A.; dam of NINFA DEL CIELO (VEN), Champion 3yr old filly in Venezu la in 2014, won Clasico Hipodromo La Rinconada, La Rinconada, L., Premio Prensa Hipica Nacional, La Rinconada, L., Clasico General Joaquin Crespo, La Rinconada, L., Clasico Internacional del Caribe, La Rinconada, L., Clasico Manuel Fonseca Arroyal, La Rinconada, L., Clasico Gustavo Avila, La Rinconada, L. and Clasico Senegal, La Rinconada, L., BUKOWSKI (VEN), Champion 3yr old colt in Venezuela in 2018, 5 races in Venezuela including Clasico Jose Antonio Paez, La Rinconada, L., C. Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela, La Rinconada, L., Clasico Propitarios La Rinconada, La Rinconada, L. and Clasico Canonero, La Rinconada, L., NEWMARKET (VEN), 3 races in Venezuela Clasico Blondy, La Rinconada, L., Clasico General Joaquin Crespo, La Rinconada, L., Clasico Gustavo J Sanabria, La Rinconada, L. and Clasico Gelinotte, La Rinconada, L.
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NATURALLY MUCH of the focus on Without Parole has been on his sire Frankel, and the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes winner was just the second son of the champion to retire to stud in England. Without Parole, however, also has a formidable female family, which provides a strong foundation on which he can build a successful stallion career.
Bred by John and Tanya Gunther at Newsells Park in the same year that they bred Justify in Kentucky, Without Parole is out of the Lemon Drop Kid mare Without You Babe, which makes him a half-brother to the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tamarkuz.
The Shadwell Farm sire made an impressive start to his stud career in Kentucky from a small first crop of 29 two-year-olds in 2020. From just 14 runners the son of Speightstown sired five winners, including the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes winner Red Flag.
Without You Babe is also the dam of Listed Violet Stakes winner She’s Got You (Kingman) and the unraced First Samurai mare Lemon Gin, whose first foal to race is the stakes winner Best Of Me by Super Saver.
Her half-brother by Bernadini is the Grade 1 Cigar Mile and Travers Stakes winner Stay Thirsty, who is the sire of the Grade 1 winners Mind Control, Golden Leaf and Jack Of Hearts.
Stay Thirsty is one of two Grade 1 Belmont Stakes runners-up out of the Storm Bird mare Marozia, the other being Andromeda Hero (Fusaichi Pegasus). He won the Grade 3 Fred W Hooper Handicap and was placed four times at the highest level.
Marozia also foaled the Listed winner and
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Racing Form
15 runs, four wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 120 | Average winning distance: 8.00
Stakes form
AT 3
Won St James’s Palace Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (8f. beating Gustav Klimt (IRE) and Wootton (FR)), Matchbook Heron Stakes, Sandown Park, L., (8f. beating Gabr (GB) and Vintager (GB)).
AT 4
3rd TVG Breeders’ Cup Mile, Santa Anita, Gr.1, (to Uni (GB)).
AT 5
3rd Shoemaker Mile Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.1, (to Raging Bull (FR)), Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes, Keeneland, Gr.1, (to Ivar (BRZ)).
Grade 1 Champagne Stakes third Superfly (Fusaichi Pegasus), so Without Parole’s female line has an affinity with the branches of the Mr Prospector sire line.
Without Parole’s third dam Make Change (Roberto) was placed in no less than nine Grade 1 contests, including the American Oaks and Mother Goose Stakes. Her best runner was the Listed Prix Isola Bella winner Time Changes (Danzig).
From his first crop of foals, 21 were offered for sale with 19 of them changing hands at an average of £28,285 and the median at £24,150. The top price for a daughter of Without Parole came at the Goffs November Foal Sale where WH Bloodstock went to €70,000 for a filly inbred 4x3 to Urban Sea. C
Consigned by Baroda Stud, she is the third foal out of Beyond The Sea, who was fourth in the Group 3 Prix de Psyche and is a Sea The Stars half-sister to Grade 1 American Oaks winner and Beverly D Stakes third Competitionofideas, out of the Grade 3 winner Devil By Design, a daughter of Medaglia D’Oro.
A pair of colts by Without Parole sold for in excess of 50,000gns at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.
IDK Bloodstock secured a half-brother to Listed Dickson Stakes winner Mubtasimah for 58,000gns from Silfield Bloodstock. Their dam Midnight Hush is an unraced Anabaa full-sister to the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes winner Miss Anabaa and a half-sister to Midnight Oasis, the dam of Prix Robert Papin winner Ventura Tormenta from the family of July Cup winner Owington.
The Without Parole half-brother to Listed Coupe de Trois Ans winner Al Malhouf was bought by Hugo Merry Bloodstock for 52,000gns. Out of the Listed Chester Handicap winner Lady Éclair, a Danehill Dancer fullsister to Savethisdanceforme, he was consigned by Newsells Park Stud.
2021: £10,000 | 2022: £8,000 | 2023: £7,000
1st Dam WITHOUT YOU BABE (USA), unraced; dam of 5 winners: TAMARKUZ (USA) (2010 c. by Speightstown (USA)), won 3 races at 2 and 3 years and £17,422 and placed twice; also won 5 races in U.A.E. and U.S.A. at 5 and 6 years and £1,193,401 including Las Vegas Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, Santa Anita, Gr.1, Meydan Sobha Godolphin Mile, Meydan, Gr.2, Emirates Holidays Burj Nahaar, Meydan, Gr.3 and Land Rover Firebreak Stakes, Meydan, Gr.3, placed 3 times including second in Priority One Jets Forego Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1 and Kelso Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.2; sire.
WITHOUT PAROLE (GB), see above.
SHE’S GOT YOU (GB) (2016 f. by Kingman (GB)), won 3 races at 2 and 3 years and £44,827, placed 4 times including second in Tasleet British EBF Rosemary Stakes, Newmarket, L. and third in Ladbrokes Fleur de Lys Stakes, Lingfield Park, L.; also won 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years and £63,921, Violet Stakes, Monmouth Park, L., placed twice including third in Athenia Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.3; broodmare.
TEMPIETTO (USA) (2012 g. by Bernardini (USA)), won 7 races in U.S.A. from 4 to 6 years and £73,745 and placed 19 times.
ALWAYS ON MY MIND (USA) (2013 f. by Congrats (USA)), won 3 races in U.S.A. at 3 years and £85,546 and placed 3 times; broodmare.
Rebel Red (GB) (2020 c. by Frankel (GB)), placed once at 2 years, 2022 and £2,408.
Lemon Gin (USA) (2011 f. by First Samurai (USA)); dam of 2 winners.
BEST OF ME (USA) (f. by Super Saver (USA)), 4 races in U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years and £122,838 including Washington State Legislators Stakes, Emerald Downs, placed twice second in Zia Park Distaff Stakes, Zia Park and third in Beverly J Lewis Stakes, Los Alamitos.
NINJA WARRIOR (USA), 1 race in U.S.A. at 3 years, 2022 and £16,413. Favorable Scenario (USA), placed once in U.S.A. at 3 years, 2023 and £5,833. She also has a 2-y-o colt by Frankel (GB) and a yearling colt by Kingman (GB).
2nd Dam
MAROZIA (USA), won 1 race at 4 years and placed 3 times; dam of 7 winners:
STAY THIRSTY (USA) (c. by Bernardini (USA)), won 5 races in U.S.A. from 2 to 4 years and £1,239,371 including Travers Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1, Cigar Mile Handicap, Aqueduct, Gr.1, Jim Dandy Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.2 and Gotham Stakes, Aqueduct, Gr.3, placed second in TVG Jockey Club Gold Cup Inv. Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Belmont Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1 and Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1 and third in Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1; sire.
ANDROMEDA’S HERO (USA) (c. by Fusaichi Pegasus (USA)), won 4 races in U.S.A. from 2 to 4 years and £452,236 including Fred W Hooper Handicap, Calder, Gr.3 and Sam F Davis Stakes, Tampa Bay Downs, L., placed second in Belmont Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1 and third in Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Suburban Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1 and Donn Handicap, Gulfstream Park, Gr.1; sire.
SUPERFLY (USA) (c. by Fusaichi Pegasus (USA)), won 1 race in U.S.A. at 2 years and £100,415, Whirling Ash Stakes, Delaware Park, placed third in Champagne Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1; sire.
KING RAMA (USA), won 7 races at 5 and 6 years and £72,798 and placed 5 times; also won 3 races over hurdles at 7 years and placed 4 times over fences at 9 years.
HERO’S EMPIRE (USA), won 5 races in U.S.A. from 3 to 6 years and £63,215 and placed 8 times.
BUNTLINE (USA), won 3 races in Japan at 3 and 5 years and £184,338 and placed 7 times.
ROMAN MISTRESS (USA), won 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years; dam of winners.
BERNIE’S MISTRESS (USA), 2 races in U.S.A. at 4 and 5 years and £68,067 and placed twice.
ROMAN D’ORO (USA), 2 races in Canada at 2 and 3 years and £72,283 and placed twice.
Smart Change (USA), ran twice in France at 3 years; dam of a winner.
3rd Dam
DADDY FRANK (GB), placed twice at 2 years; also 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years, 2022 and £25,138.
MAKE CHANGE (USA), 5 races in U.S.A. from 2 to 4 years including Miss Liberty Stakes, Meadowlands, placed won 11 times second in Alabama Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1, Hempstead Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Ladies Handicap, Aqueduct, Gr.1, Monmouth Oaks, Monmouth Park, Gr.1, Mother Goose Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1 and Molly Pitcher Handicap, Monmouth Park, Gr.2 third in Coaching Club American Oaks, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Ruffian Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Gazelle Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Bonnie Miss Stakes, Gulfstream Park, Gr.2 and Long Look Handicap, Meadowlands, Gr.2 and fourth in Acorn Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1 and Shuvee Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1; dam of 5 winners including:
TIME CHANGES (USA) (f. by Danzig (USA)), won 2 races in France including Prix Isola Bella, Saint-Cloud, L.; dam of winners.
Age of Reason (UAE), 5 races at home, in Qatar and U.A.E., second in Gran Premio di Milano, Gr.1. Vitus (USA) (g. by Bering), won 2 races; also won 2 races over hurdles placed third in Fighting Blindness Novice Chase, Fairyhouse, Gr.3.
Monetary (USA), unraced; dam of winners.
Coins (AUS), 2 races in Australia, placed third in Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes, Flemington, Gr.3.
The first Group 1-winning sprinter by Wootton Bassett to retire to stud, Wooded is young stallion by a sire who is being propelled to even further heights with each passing year, Wooded is one of only a trio of three-year-old colts to win the Prix de l’Abbaye in the past 30 years; the others being Dayjur and Total Gallery.
Bred by Gestüt zur Kuste when Wootton Bassett’s stud fee was just €6,000 (it is now €150,000) he made €90,000 to Al Shaqab at the Arqana October Yearling Sale.
Wooded was sent into training with Francis-Henri Graffard and made four starts at two, all over 7f. His first victory came on his second start, in a maiden at Deauville’s August meeting, and he followed that up with a narrow defeat to Kenway in the Group 3 Prix La Rochette. Wooded’s final run at two ended with third place in the Group 3 Prix Thomas Byron.
Wooded foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
Dropped back to 6f for his seasonal reappearance, Wooded claimed his first black-type success in the Group 3 Prix Texanita and he then was fourth to Pinatubo in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat over 7f in his first attempt at the top level.
He ran just twice over the minimum trip – his first attempt resulted in second place to Air De Valse in the Group 3 Prix de Petit Couvert and then he enjoyed a triumphant swansong at Longchamp when he defeated the previous year’s winner Glass Slippers, who went on to win the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, by a neck.
Wooded is the second foal of his dam Frida La Blonde, who was placed three times in her career at 6f and 7f.
Her first foal Beat Le Bon is a full-brother to Wooded and was second in the Listed Redcar Two-Year-Old Trophy and the Group 3 Sovereign Stakes.
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WOODED
6yo | Wootton Bassett-Frida La Blonde (Elusive City)
Haras de Bouquetot
2021: €15,000 | 2022: €15,000 | 2023: €12,000
Racing Form
Nine runs, three wins, four places | Best Timeform Rating: 120 | Average winning distance: 5.97
Stakes form
AT 2
2nd Prix La Rochette, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (to Kenway (FR))
3rd Prix Thomas Bryon J.C. de Turquie, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, (to King’s Command (GB)).
AT 3
Won Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (4½f. beating Glass Slippers (GB) and Liberty Beach (GB)), Prix Texanita, Chantilly, Gr.3, (5½f. beating Alocasia (GB) and My Love’s Passion (FR))
2nd Prix du Petit Couvert, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (to Air De Valse (FR)).
Bucanero Fuerte, a juvenile full-brother to Wooded and Beat Le Bon, won the Group 2 Railway Stakes at The Curragh having finished third to River Tiber, another colt by Wootton Bassett, in the Coventry Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot.
Robson Aguiar’s €165,000 Arqana August purchase was part of a standout Royal meeting for Wootton Bassett, who also sired King Edward VII Stakes winner King Of Steel, a narrow Derby runner-up for Amo Racing.
Interestingly Wooded’s broodmare sire, the Group 1 Prix Morny winner Elusive City, is out of a mare by Dayjur.
Frida La Blonde is a full-sister to Fred Lalloupet, who was a Listed winner at 6f in France and placed at Listed and Group level from 5f to 6f.
She is also a half-sister to Mon Pot Le Gitan by Thunder Gulch, who was a Listed-winning sprinter.
Their dam Firm Friend was bred by Ballymacoll Stud and sported their famous silks in the early part of her career. The daughter of Triple Crown winner Affirmed was a black-type performer from 6f to a mile, winning the Listed Criterium d’Evry.
She is from the family of the Norfolk and Cornwallis Stakes winner and Prix de l’Abbaye third Magic Ring.
A dozen foals from the first crop of Wooded went through Europe’s sales ring last winter with three-quarters of them listed as sold. They averaged €20,888 for nine sold with the median at €17,000.
The top price of €42,000 was achieved twice with John Davis going to that mark for the three-parts sister to Listed Prix Yacowlef third Ernesto De La Cruz, who was offered at the Arqana Breeding Sale by J K Thoroughbreds.
They are out of Green Empire, an unraced half-sister to La Coupe de Maisons-Lafitte (G3) winner and Prix Ganay third Pallodio.
Wooded’s most expensive son was bred along similar lines to Al Riffa, the Group 1 Vincent O’Brien National Stakes winner of 2021 by Wootton Bassett. Offered by Castle Hill Stud at Goffs, the colt out of Salwa, a Galileo half-sister to Listed Empress Stakes winner City Image from the family of Elusive Wave, was bought by JC Bloodstock for €42,000.
1st Dam
FRIDA LA BLONDE (FR), placed 3 times in France at 3 and 4 years and £6,342; Own sister to FRED LALLOUPET (GB); dam of 4 winners: WOODED (IRE), see above.
BUCANERO FUERTE (GB) (2021 c. by Wootton Bassett (GB)), won 2 races at 2 years, 2023 and £89,237 including Railway Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2, placed third in Coventry Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, all his starts. Beat Le Bon (FR) (2016 g. by Wootton Bassett (GB)), won 4 races at 3 years and £246,225, placed 8 times including second in Sovereign Stakes, Salisbury, Gr.3 and Racing UK Redcar Two Year Old Trophy, Redcar, L. and third in King Richard III Stakes, Leicester, L.; also won 1 race over jumps in U.S.A. at 7 years, 2023 and £19,000 and placed once.
CASK SECRET (GB) (2018 f. by Ajaya (GB)), won 1 race in France at 3 years and £10,089. Finefleur (FR) (2019 f. by Intello (GER)), ran twice in France at 3 years, 2022. She also has a yearling filly by Dubawi (IRE).
2nd Dam
FIRM FRIEND (IRE), won 4 races in France and U.S.A. at 2 and 5 years and £121,037 including Criterium d’Evry, Evry, L., placed 14 times including second in Premio Regina Elena (1000 Guineas), Rome, Gr.2, Premio Libero Perlini, Naples, L. and Politely Stakes, Monmouth Park and third in Prix de la Porte Maillot, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, Prix Eclipse, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, Prix du Pin, Longchamp, L. and Premio Seregno, Milan, L.; dam of 7 winners:
FRED LALLOUPET (GB) (c. by Elusive City (USA)), won 5 races in France from 3 to 5 years and £215,413 including Prix Servanne, Maisons-Laffitte, L. and Prix Cor de Chasse, Fontainebleau, L., placed second in Prix de Ris-Orangis, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3 and Prix de Seine-et-Oise, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3.
MON POTE LE GITAN (USA) (c. by Thunder Gulch (USA)), won 3 races in France at 3 and 4 years and £53,988 including Prix Servanne, Chantilly, L., placed third in Prix de Cabourg, Deauville, Gr.3.
MON POTE FREDO (USA), won 2 races in France at 3 years and placed 3 times.
FRIDOLINE (FR), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
DIABLOTINE (IRE), 2 races in France at 2 years and £38,840 including Prix des Reves d’Or, Vichy, L. FLAMBYSISTER (FR), 2 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £53,541 and placed 9 times.
FELD MARECHALE (FR), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed 3 times; dam of winners.
MAXIMUM AURELIUS (FR), Jt top rated 3yr old miler in Italy in 2016, 6 races in France to 7 years and £161,704 including Prix Matchem, Maisons-Laffitte, L., P. Reaute Chocolat Prix du Point Du Jour, Craon, L. and Prix des Sablonnets, Nantes, L., placed third in Prix Daphnis, Chantilly, Gr.3.
MUNAWWAR (GB), 4 races in France from 4 to 7 years and £62,287 and placed 16 times.
AMIGO FREDO (USA), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed once.
VERUSKA (FR), won 1 race in France at 3 years.
3rd Dam
CHERE AMIE (FR), won 1 race in France and placed 6 times; dam of 2 winners:
FIRM FRIEND (IRE), see above.
GREEN DANUBE (USA), won 2 races, dam of winners.
AS WE WENT TO PRESS, Blue Point is leading this season’s first-season sires race numerically (19) and by stakes winners (3).
His latest new black-type winner is his son Rosallion, owned and bred by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum and trained by Richard Hannon, an impressive winner of the Pat Eddery (Winkfield ) Stakes (L).
The subsequent Racing Post analysis wrote: “Rosallion is going to be a contender for some of the better two-year-old races in the autumn judged on this impressive performance, cruising into contention and soon clear once shaken up.
“It'll apparently be the National Stakes at The Curragh next, followed by the Dewhurst.”
Rosallion holds early stage entries in the National Stakes (G1) and the Champagne Stakes (G2).
He comes from a long-term Darley / Obaid-produced pedigree and is the fourth foal out of Rosaline (New Approach), an unraced sister to the mile Group 2 winner Ostilio, closely related to 1m2f Group 1 winner Ajman Princess and to the mile Group 3 winner Triple Time.
It is the extended family of the Canadian Grade1 winner French Glory.
Fantastic Moon
August Online-Sale: 18th August 2023
Premier Yearling Sale: 1st September 2023
October Mixed Sales: 13th and 14th October 2023
Triple Group 1-winning miler by GALILEO
Out of top-class miler DUNTLE
Coventry Stakes winner and Dewhurst Stakes runner-up by NO NAY NEVER
World Champion 3YO by SIYOUNI
Half-brother to 7-time Gr.1 winner SISTERCHARLIE SOTTSASS
