ITB_December2019

DECEMBER 2019

£4.95 • ISSUE 91

Stallion Review Riding out at Hull Farm

by Melanie Wright

www.melaniewrightartist.co.uk

2019

All the facts and stats

FEATURING: Angus Gold, Bearstone Stud, Irish National Stud | STALLION FOCUS: Giant's Causeway, More Than Ready, Dandy Man

UNBEATEN GR.1 WINNER AS A 2YO 1st Middle Park Stakes-Gr.1, 6f., Curragh in the third fastest time ever 1st Round Tower Stakes-Gr.3, 6f., Curragh by 3¾ lengths 1st Maiden, 6f., Curragh by 7 lengths earning “TDN Rising Star” status

EUROPEAN CHAMPION 3YO SPRINTER ELECT 1st July Cup-Gr.1, Newmarket, 6f., by 2¾ lengths defeating the multiple Gr.1 winning sprinters Advertise and Fairyland.

BY SIRE SENSATION NO NAY NEVER

TEN SOVEREIGNS and his first 6 sires No Nay Never Scat Daddy Johannesburg Hennessy Storm Cat Storm Bird all Gr.1 winning 2YOs!

Timeform, who rated him 120p at 2 and 126 at 3

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Ten Sovereigns completed his first season with the same record as his sire, also winner of all three starts at two which culminated in a Group 1 success

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TEN SOVEREIGNS demolishes the opposition in a vintage renewal of the July Cup defeating Group 1-winning sprinters Advertise, Fairyland, Pretty Pollyanna, Brando and Limato

Fee: €25,000 Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: +353-52-6131298. Fax: +353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller, Mark Byrne, Neil Magee or Hermine Bastide. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon, Paddy Fleming or Cathal Murphy: +353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) +44-7827-795156.

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

Champion First Season Sire in GB

SIRE OF 6 STAKES

WINNERS FROM HIS FIRST CROP INCLUDING

Gr.1 winning sprinter

HAVANA GREY

Dual Gr.3 winning sprinter

TREASURING

Listed winner and Gr.2 placed

HEADWAY

Follow the Class of 2019…

WITH OVER 160 FOALS BORN THIS CROP

COLT EX SUPERSTAR LEO

COLT EX RIPPLES MAID

COLT EX NEVER IN

Out of the Champion 2yo Filly in Europe.

Half-sister to Gr.3 winner Enticing, the dam of Gr.1 winner One Master, and Listed winner Sentaril.

Half-brother to Gr.2 and Gr.3 winner Mikki Charm, out of a multiple Stakes winner.

Out of a half-sister to Stakes winner Colour of Love

FILLY EX YSPER

COLT EX SUBATOMIC

FILLY EX KELADORA

Out of a full sister to Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Vorda.

Out of a winning sister to Stakes winners Worldly, Nice Danon and Donativum, and Stakes placed Comeback Queen.

Out of a multiple Stakes placed half-sister to Gr.1 placed On Verra.

COLT EX TANDA TULA

FILLY EX STROLL PATROL

FILLY EX LITTLEMISSSUNSHINE

Half-brother to Stakes placed Lethal Steps.

Dam placed in the Gr.3 Dick Poole Stakes.

Half-sister to Stakes placed Soapy Aitken.

The best is yet to come

Contact Hannah Wall or Alice Thurtle at Tweenhills E: hannahwall@tweenhills.com / E: alice@tweenhills.com / T: +44 (0) 1452 700177

2019 ANOTHER GROUP 1 YEAR

LAURENS Six Gr.1 wins inc. Prix Rothschild in 2019

MKFANCY Winner of Gr.1 Grand Critérium in 2019

HERE’S TO THE NEXT 10 YEARS! SINCE

2009

Also LE HAVRE • AVENIR CERTAIN • CAMPROCK • HAVANA GREY PEACE ENVOY • HOME OF THE BRAVE • BATHYRHON, etc.

A LOT MORE THAN LOT S Since we began, back in 2009, we have been lucky enough to sell some very good Group 1 horses.

However, to us horses are never just lots.

Every horse in our care receives the same level of individual attention, deserving and getting respect and kindness.

When we escort them to the sale, it marks the start of a new beginning.

Now it’s your turn.

See you in Deauville for the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale

COULONCES SALES HARAS DU BOIS ROUSSEL

Anna Sundstrom: +33 6 76 74 94 74 coulonces@gmail.com

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First Word

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Fine for Dandy

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News

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Ever Ready

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Just the one

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Gold standard

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Cup of plenty

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Group 1 speed

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Giant strides

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Stallions, sales and syndicates

Paul Haigh reflects on why jockeys love winning and hate losing, the meteoric rise of Joseph O’Brien and was left feeling a little flat after this year’s Breeders’ Cup Badgers Bloodstock reminds people of the basics when buying horses, Sally advocates greater involvement by the IFHA regarding welfare and doping control Simon Rowlands reviews the Breeders’ Cup, which suffered with the lack of superstar European travellers Bricks And Mortar cemented his position as the king of Turf at the Breeders’ Cup, writes Alan Porter The Iron Horse, observes Alan Porter, is creating a substantial equine legacy, headed up in Europe by his sons Shamardal and Footstepsinthesand

Dandy Man is the best value commercial sire at stud in Ireland.

Aisling Crowe chats with Joe Foley of Ballyhane Stud, also standing new sire Soldier’s Call for 2020

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More Than Ready is closing in on 200 stakes winners sired.

Melissa Bauer-Herzog talks with Winstar Farm and Vinery Stud about their star shuttle stallion Sally Ann Grassick chats with Angus Gold, racing manager for Sheikh Hamdan for 33 years Bearstone Stud has long been a nurturing ground for speedy horses and on Arc day in October it got its rewards in the Prix de l’Abbaye Sally Ann Grassick chats with Cathal Beale, CEO of the Irish National Stud

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Blue Star strikes for home by Venita Sayer

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Stallion Review 2019

150 Trans-atlantic trade at the yearling sales 2019

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154 King is the man

Global stallions 2019

Galileo makes his way back up the table, Exceed And Excel leapfrogs into 14th courtesy of lucrative winners in Australia

100 Spread the love

There are plenty of successful stallions for 2020 for breeders to consider away from the small pool of elite sires, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

108 Top 100 European sires 2019

Statistics courtesy of Weatherbys

110 Top 100 European sires of two-year-olds Statistics courtesy of Weatherbys

112 Leading sires of stakes horses in Europe From the-racehorse.com

Jocelyn de Moubray reviews the year’s premier European yearling sales which saw increased spend from US buyers Adam Potts analyses stallion results at the yearling sales

158 Stallion averages

Stallions listed alphabetically showing colt, filly and overall averages achieved at 2019’s yearling sales Table from Weatherbys

170 Stallion covering statistics

Stallions listed alphabetically identifying book sizes and quality through numbers of winning and black-type mares Table from Weatherbys

178 Mischief makes good

Spendthrift’s stallion Into Mischief looks set to take his first North American sires’ title, reports Melissa Bauer-Herzog

184 Leading US sires

117 Bright start for Night

Adam Potts reviews the performances in 2019 of the younger European stallions

124 Leading first-season sires in Europe Statistics courtesy of Weatherbys

128 Leading sires by distance

Tables showing the leading stallions by progeny distance earnings, from the-racehorse.com

141 The master list

Hyperion’s table of European and Dubai stakes winners, listed by sire and identifying broodmare sires

186 Leading US first-season sires 186 Leading US Turf sires 188 Leading US sires of two-year-olds 192 Stud fees for major British and Irish stallions 2020 194 Race of the year

A close contest between Enable’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth victory over Crystal Ocean, and Kew Gardens’ British Long Distance Champions day success: take a look to see who won and watch the video of the race once again

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first word

Dettori’s

tears

After a wonderful 2019 for Dettori, the Melbourne Cup did not quite go to plan, writes Paul Haigh

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I just want to cry,” said Frankie Dettori when buttonholed by an Australian journalist in the immediate aftermath of his narrow defeat in the 2019 Melbourne Cup. The first reaction from this side of the world was to think “Oh come on Frankie, you’ve ridden 18 – or is it 19?– Group 1 winners this year, and that’s proper Group 1s not some handicap granted Group 1 status because it’s a national icon.”

Imagine if he’d said something like that. They would have chased him all the way to the airport. But Dettori is a clever man as well as one of the greatest-ever riders, and he knows how to please an audience, whether he’s winning – witness the flying dismounts borrowed from one of his heroes Angel Cordero – or losing – witness the cancelled grin and the air of crestfallen regret.

Or maybe he really meant it. Like most great champions he is a supreme competitor, and supreme competitors are never satisfied. He’s had a quite massive season, but he wanted more. And he’s addicted to adulation. Who wouldn’t be when you’re able to win it as often as he does? Then there’s the simple psychology of the victor who loves victory and loathes defeat.

Kieren Fallon explained that psychology on TV, just as he’d once explained it to me a couple of years ago when I was working on a book with him before falling out with his backing group and losing the gig.

“You learn to hate losing more than you love winning,” Fallon told me then in Dubai. “You’ll go to a meeting and ride three or four winners, then get beaten

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The last furlong of the Melbourne Cup: Frankie Dettori’s mount Master Of Reality (white cap) has drifted down the course causing interference to Il Paradiso (centre), while the race winner Vow And Declare gets a clear-ish run on the inside. Dettori’s horse was demoted to fourth, while Prince Of Arran (red cap behind) was upgraded to second and Il Paradiso, who finished fourth was placed third. Dettori (inset) was inconsolable

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first word on one you think you should have won on and spend the whole trip home never thinking about the winners, just that one you left behind.”

Dettori is all about confidence and maybe in Melbourne he thought he’d spotted a flaw in his technique. He has bestrode British racing like a colossus all this year, but still he confessed after winning the first four races at Ascot on that midsummer day when he threatened to repeat his own unrepeatable Magnificent Seven, that he’d kicked too early on what could have been the fifth winner and got himself caught.

Maybe he thought he’d done the same on his beloved Enable when the pair of them were seeking an unheard of third consecutive Arc. (He hadn’t, of course. She’d just run out of steam on a gluey surface after he’d asked her at just the right time).

But here it was again. He’d drawn a blank in the Breeders’ Cup. And did he go for home too early in ‘The Cup’, a race he’s had 17 shots at winning spread over 26 years and allowed himself to get caught by the Danny O’Brien trained Vow And Declare and Craig Williams?

Williams by the way would win a Willeam Dafoe lookalike contest if the American actor was famous enough to justify such a competition.

All this, of course, might have gone through Dettori’s head before he’d even heard the stewards had demoted him anyway.

Joseph O’Brien is himself Dettori-like in his extraordinary rise to fame. Apart from being champion jockey in his native Ireland before weight got the better of him, he is already the youngest trainer to have won the Melbourne Cup (Master Of Reality would have made it two at the age of 26), the youngest trainer to have trained two Breeders’ Cup winners (Iridessa gave him his second three days before the Melbourne Cup), and quite possibly the youngest ever to walk up the North Face of the Eiger (without crampons) although he doesn’t like to talk about it.

Dettori’s period in the doldrums four or five years ago made many think the days of glory for racing’s biggest extrovert were never coming back. That’s where the similarity seems to end.

If Joseph ever has even had the slightest sense of self doubt, based perhaps on the fact he had a massive head start as son of the great Aidan, who turned 50 a few weeks ago, he’s never seemed to have to confront it.

“I’m more gutted for Frankie than I am for myself,” he told the Australian press just after this year’s running of ‘The Cup’. “I’ll be back, but I don’t know if Frankie is ever going to win this race!”

Or the Breeders’ Cup Classic, which is no doubt another one Dettori would love to have on his CV after the narrow defeat long ago on Swain when he really did seem briefly to lose his head for a crucial second or two as he charged towards the line.

Do single defeats make much difference though to hugely wealthy champions or to hugely wealthy championships?

They do. For around a decade racing’s most famous horses seem to have been mares, starting with Zenyatta,

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“I’m more gutted for Frankie than I am for myself,” Joseph O’Brien told the Australian press just after this year’s running of The Cup. “I’ll be back, but I don’t know if Frankie is ever going to win this race!”

going on through Black Caviar, Treve, Winx, and now Enable who, wonderfully, will be back with her usual partner next year.

All season long in the US, as much as in Britain, the sport has been looking for a superstar to continue its promotion. In Europe, Enable had it, then, temporarily perhaps, lost it when the last half furlong of the Arc found her frailty, and also perhaps a weakness in her rider’s confidence. Did the exhausting flight across the Pacific Ocean tire him at all? Could any 48-year-old be right at the top of his game after such a gruelling journey?

In the US, they’d have been happy to identify a champion of either sex to grace Santa Anita in the first week of November. After Waldgeist’s achievement, though, no real top-class horse from Europe arrived in California.

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EITHER Enable nor her understudy Magical, trained by what we may have to start calling O’Brien Snr, raised a hoof to demand the superstar status that so often defines a Breeders’ Cup winner.

It’s ridiculous to use the word “drab” in any sentence that refers to the 2019 meeting, particularly the Friday when perfect air clarity etched every gully of the San Gabriel mountains.

But racegoers do not come to see scenery, however beautiful. They come to see stars. This year, as the best Europeans failed to turn up, and one by one the main contenders Omaha Beach, Sistercharlie, Midnight Bisou, and even Bricks And Mortar, who only just scraped home in the normally Euro-dominated Turf, failed to insist.

So the Eclipse Awards may be chosen almost by default. Vino Rosso distinguished himself and so did two fillies, Uni and Get Stormy, who drew well clear of their male rivals in the Mile. Two humans too – trainer Peter Miller, who completed an astonishing hat-trick of winners in the Sprint (plus a quinella just to prove it was no fluke) and the Lord of the Lawns, Chad Brown.

And there’s yet another filly lurking in Almond Eye whose next 2019 mission is the year’s grand finale at Sha Tin in December, and next year, who knows?

If Enable couldn’t make it, wouldn’t her presence at American racing’s annual jamboree have brought the Breeders’ Cup a little closer to the ‘World Championships’ status it craves?

Maybe next year.

The Breeders’ Cup organisers will be praying the pair of them don’t meet somewhere else first. Racing is all ifs and buts though. They both need to come back just as good as they leave for winter quarters.

Enable’s connections will need to want to send her to America one more time if she’s already won another Arc. Her 49-year-old rider will need to be as full of confidence next year as he has been this. One day Frankie may even win the Classic. One day he might even win “The Cup”.

S TALLION S 2020

ANJAAL

€5,000

BAHAMIAN BOUNTY / BALLYMORE CELEBRE

16.0HH

18 individual first crop winners include Stakes horses ABOVE, SICILIAN FOCUS and Weatherbys Super Sprint Stakes winner BETTYS HOPE. Yearlings have made up to 100,000gns.

BUNGLE INTHEJUNGLE EXCEED AND EXCEL / LICENCE TO THRILL

€12,000

16.1HH

Proven Sire Of Group Winning Sprinters 40% 2YO winners to runners in 2019 Group winners include the Gr.2 Lowther Stakes winner LIVING IN THE PAST and the Gr.3 Molecomb Stakes winner & Gr.1 Middle Park placed RUMBLE INTHEJUNGLE.

CLODOVIL

€8,000 15.3HH

DANEHILL / CLODORA

Multiple Gr.1 sire by DANEHILL Over 50 Stakes horses include NAHOODH, MORIARTY, GREGORIAN, LAUGH OUT LOUD, TUTTIPAESI, ES QUE LOVE and 2019 Group winner DUCA DI COMO.

COULSTY

€4,000 16.1HH

KODIAC / HAZIUM

Group winning sprinter by record-breaking sire of 2yos KODIAC Winner of the Gr.3 Prix de Meautry His first yearlings in 2019 are headed to trainers including Jamie Osborne, Tom Ward, Willie McCreery, Darren Bunyan, Ed Dunlop, Eve Johnson Houghton, Michael Dods, etc.

GREGORIAN

€6,000

CLODOVIL / THREE DAYS IN MAY

16.1HH

A Multiple Stakes Sire again in 2019 9% Black Type Horses in his first 2 crops including in 2019 QUEEN JO JO (won LR Kilvington Stakes), GREACH (won LR Premio Nogara), SESAME BIRAH (2nd LR Denford Stakes), IRISH TRILOGY (3rd LR Meydan Classic) & GYPSY SPIRIT (2nd LR Prix Amandine).

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PRIX MORNY at 2 PRIX ROBERT PAPIN at 2 RENAISSANCE S at 3

Brilliant Speed Son of SOCIETY ROCK Fee €5,500 1st October SLF A Cheveley Park Stud Stallion

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stallion fees

Stallion fees for 2020

Top-priced stallions: 2020 Sire Price

Lope De Vega: is now the sire of nine Group 1 and 33 Group winners

Kingman: 2019 Group 1 sire

ITH LOPE DE VEGA and Kingman joining the 100+ club, it means that eight stallions will be standing at announced six-figure sums for 2020, the most numerous since the turn of the century.

It is as recent as 2011 when no stallion commanded a listed fee over £100,000. The most expensive sires then were Oasis Dream and Sea The Stars at €/£85,000; Galileo’s price by then had moved into the private bracket, the last year his fee advertised being 2007.

For 2020 Lope De Vega has received a 25 per cent fee increase from €85,000, while Kingman has had the biggest increase percentage-wise of all bar one stallion – his fee rising from £75,000 to £150,000,

Footstepsinthesand’s good year on the track and in the sale ring has been reflected in a 20 per cent fee increase from €12,500 to €15,000.

The two new Darley sires for 2020 head the fee list of new stallions at stud: Too Darn Hot (Dubawi), the champion twoyear-old and Sussex Stakes (G1) winner entering the Dalham Hall roster at £50,000, some £5,000 ahead of the dual Royal Ascot Group 1 sprinter and Kildanganbased Blue Point (Shamardal).

Ten Sovereigns, Coolmore’s July Cup-winning son of No Nay Never, joins the Irish team at €25,000, the same starting fee for Advertise, the Prix Maurice de Gheest and Commonwealth Cupwinning son of Showcasing who retires to the National Stud.

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a 100 percentage rise The stallion with a greater percentage gain in price is at the other end of the fee spectrum – the Irish National Stud’s dual-purpose sire Elusive Pimpernel moving up from €1,000 to €3,000, a 300 per cent price rise.

The more bespoke Flat stallions with large increases are the three 2019 first-season sires who have out-performed expectations: Cable Bay has had a rise from £6,500 to £15,000, a 150 per cent increase, while Due Diligence has gone up from £4,500 to £8,000.

Night Of Thunder’s fee has risen from €16,000 to €25,000, though this is still €5,000 below his 2016 debut price of €30,000.

Sea The Stars and No Nay Never have both had upward tweaks and both now stand at £150,000, while

See pages 192-193 for the full fee list

Galileo.............................................Private Shamardal......................................Private Dubawi........................................£250,000 Frankel........................................£175,000 Kingman.....................................£150,000 No Nay Never..............................€150,000 Sea The Stars..............................€150,000 Lope De Vega..............................€100,000 Invincible Spirit.........................€100,000 Siyouni........................................€100,000 Dark Angel....................................€85,000 Kodiac............................................€65,000 Fastnet Rock.................................€60,000 Showcasing..................................£55,000 Le Havre........................................€50,000 Too Darn Hot *..............................£50,000 Blue Point *..................................€45,000 Camelot.........................................€40,000 Caravaggio....................................€40,000 Golden Horn.................................£40,000 Exceed And Excel..........................€40,000 Teofilo...........................................€40,000 Wootton Bassett..........................€40,000 Gleneagles....................................€35,000 Acclamation..................................€35,000 Almanzor......................................€35,000 Churchill........................................€30,000 Iffraaj............................................£30,000 New Approach..............................£30,000 Zoustar .........................................£30,000 Australia.......................................€27,500 Saxon Warrior ..............................€27,500 Oasis Dream..................................£25,000 Mastercraftsman.........................€25,000 Ten Sovereigns *..........................€25,000 Cracksman ...................................£25,000 Night Of Thunder.........................€25,000 Nathaniel......................................£25,000 Advertise *....................................£25,000 Shalaa...........................................€25,000 Calyx *...........................................€22,500 Magna Grecia *.............................€22,500 Starspangledbanner...................€22,500 Zoffany..........................................€22,500 Soldier Hollow..............................€22,000 Harry Angel ..................................£20,000 Ribchester.....................................€20,000 Muhaarar......................................£20,000 Waldgeist *...................................€17,500 Expert Eye ....................................£17,500 US Navy Flag ................................€17,500 * new for 2019

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the news

Enable named the Cartier Horse of the Year for a second time ENABLE WAS NAMED the 2019 Cartier Horse Of The Year at the 29th annual Cartier racing awards, European horseracing’s equivalent of the Oscars.

Bred by owner Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, the five-year-old mare

Wise words on purchasing from The Badger Possible foreword to a Bloodstock Sales Guide?

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added a further three Group 1 successes to her remarkable CV in 2019.

This is the second time Enable has been crowned Cartier Horse Of The Year, with the great mare having previously taken the top honour in 2017. She becomes just the third horse to be a two-time Cartier Horse Of The Year after Frankel (2011 and 2012) and Ouija Board (2004 and 2006).

The Nathaniel mare, the only Europeanbased filly or mare to gather career earnings of over £10 million in prize-money, remains in training for 2020.

She is also the Cartier older horse for 2019 and equals the record of the legendary Frankel, another Juddmonte homebred, in gaining five Cartier Racing Awards, having also been named Cartier three-year-old filly in 2017 and Cartier older horse in 2018.

The Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award Of Merit for 2019 went to former jockey Pat Smullen. One of the outstanding jockeys of his generation and a nine-time champion in his native Ireland, Smullen received the news of his pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2018.

It led to his retirement from the saddle,

Good value was to be had in Book 1, but buyers must always bear in mind an “exit strategy” and not buy on a whim

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HE WORD “DISCONNECTED” has been widely used in recent political commentaries to highlight the fact that our parliamentarians seem to be so out-of-sync with public opinion.

The same thoughts on being disconnected came to mind when mentally reviewing the past month of yearling and horses in training sales.

I have come to the conclusion that many buyers at Park Paddocks conveniently leave their brains in the car park and studiously avoid the multitude of facts and statistics that abound to give guidance as to where to find value in the sales ring.

For some buyers, the problems start with their diary dates. While there are some breeders and pin-hookers who

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focus on the Tattersalls October Book 2 or 3 catalogues, there is absolutely no doubt that the large majority of the best stock is offered at Tattersalls Book 1.

Admittedly, the 2019 average of 258,000gns and median of 150,000gns might frighten many potential investors, but it is our experience that this is the very best sale for getting a bargain.

Highlighting this, consider that record-breaking trainer Mark Johnston bought 14 lots for an average of 85,000gns and only one of those purchases was for more than the sale average!

Apart from value there is also the chance of winning a £25,000 sale bonus if your yearling wins a qualifying race.

Two of our own agency purchases were for less than 30,000gns, so a qualifying win would have the purchase

price back straight away.

With training fees continuing to rise but prize-money remaining static, many buyers favour the idea of buying a precocious sort who could win in the early part of a two-year-old campaign.

Yes, that may provide more immediate owner satisfaction, but it does not help the overall financial considerations.

Both training fees and capital expenditure have to be considered.

An exit strategy is essential for any venture into racing and this entails making a plan to maximise/minimise any possible capital revaluations at the end of the envisaged training period.

I suspect that this is far from prospective owners’ thoughts when entering Tattersalls to buy a future champion.

the news but the jockey has kept busy since throwing all his efforts into helping others who face the same condition.

His outstanding fund-raising efforts have resulted in over €2.5 million raised for Cancer Trials Ireland and culminated at The Curragh in September with the Pat Smullen Champions Race For Cancer Trials Ireland.

The race, part of a fabulous race day, saw stars from the past, including Sir A P McCoy and Ruby Walsh, return to the saddle.

Cartier Award winners 2019 Horse of the year: Enable (Nathaniel) Award of Merit: Pat Smullen Older horse: Enable Stayer: Stradivarius (Sea The Stars) Three-year-old colt: Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) Three-year-old filly: Starcatcher (Sea The Stars) Two-year-old colt: Pinatubo (Shamardal)

The Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award Of Merit for 2019 went to Pat Smullen, seen here with Laurent Feniou, managing director of Cartier, and Marcus Armytage of the Daily Telegraph

The double act

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... there is nothing worse than “buyer’s remorse” when awakening the day after the sale to consider in the cold light of day the damage that has been done to the bank balance!

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However, a prior visit to the Tattersalls Horses in Training Sale highlights the indisputable fact that winning horses with proven stamina are more likely to make higher prices than the sprinting equivalent.

Markets such as Australia, Hong Kong, America and our own NH sphere are opened up for horses with proven ability to stay at least a mile. Achievable prices are accordingly much higher.

There has always been a magnetic fascination for trainers to want to buy first-season sires. With the accepted figure being that only one stallion in 20 becomes successful, why would you put so much faith in finding that stallion?

Yes, there is a small chance that you might buy a yearling from the next Galileo. However, is such a premium for first-season sires justifiable?

Why not do some solid research and focus on progeny of a proven stallion?

There are several stallions who get a large number of winners, but fall just short of super-star status. Often their progeny are over-looked in the sale ring [This is where this issue of International Thoroughbred with all its stallion analysis provides vital reading!

Editor] Being aware of any industry marketing strategy that might improve the earning capacity of any yearling purchase can be valuable.

Plus Ten is being phased out, but an even-more rewarding scheme for British-bred fillies has been mooted.

Similarly, French-bred horses and NHMOPS qualifiers have added appeal. Sales bonuses and even stallion

Two-year-old filly: Quadrilateral (Frankel)

bonuses need researching, as well as qualification for various sales races.

Every little helps.

Prior familiarisation with a yearling catalogue can provide hours of entertainment.

In-depth research into results of stallions, broodmares, close relations, pedigree nicks and (importantly) breeders/vendors records can greatly improve the chances of buying a decent racehorse.

The whole procedure of buying yearlings is a “sifting” process. There are no short-cuts.

Desk work is advisable. Legwork on seeing as many yearlings as possible is

essential, with those who stay on the list being seen a few times more.

Vetting of selections can be an expensive luxury, but should not be discarded without careful consideration.

Valuing a horse before he or she goes into the ring is essential, as is sticking to a pre-considered budget.

The adrenalin-fuelled action of bidding for a horse has seen many a prospective purchaser bid far more than intended.

Believe me, there is nothing worse than “buyer’s remorse” when awakening the day after the sale to consider in the cold light of day the damage that has been done to a bank balance in the sales ring!

Importantly, be aware before the sale of any additional costs that will add to that sick feeling when seeing the invoice for your new purchase.

Sales commission, VAT, vetting and perhaps an agent’s commission must always be built in to the budget.

Most importantly, attending a yearling sale must not be considered in the same way as a day’s shooting when a blank result is considered disappointing.

There will be many more sales to find that purchase.

Patience and persistence are often well rewarded in the sales ring, while a “whim” purchase is likely to end up as an expensive memory. Stick with the plan.

And get good advice!

Buyers mustn’t treat a day the sales the same way as a day shooting

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AM NOT REALLY SURE THAT THE YEAR 2019 will be remembered as a racing stand-out. On the track we had the continued brilliance of Enable, the mare turning up time after time to win, revealing her top-class brilliance as well as a strength of mind and body that few top athletes – equine or human – can reproduce so consistently.

Unfortunately, a little like the World Cup Rugby attempt by the English team, that final challenge to win a record-breaking third Arc did not come off, by just under 2l. English Rugby has to wait another four year to revisit its challenge; with Enable staying in training for 2020 with luck and a fair wind, racing has a second chance in 11 months’ time.

The Epsom Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck, unlucky after a strong run in his Breeders’ Cup event, also stays in training, which gives the Derby a chance to make a stronger mark on the form book, maybe a feature which has been lacking over the past few years. With this year’s two 2,000 Guineas winners retiring to stud for 2020, the 2019 Classic form rests on the son of Galileo’s shoulders.

The season did see the emergence of the brilliant Pinatubo, hopefully 2020 will see the Shamardal colt continue to extend his prowess to become a generation-defining influence.

Sadly, a lot of the year’s international sport will be recalled for reasons it does not want to boast about – the injury issues at Santa Anita, the continued widespread doping and medication use by American and US trainers, the recent ABC revelations from Australia regarding the treatment of racehorses once careers are finished, and the earlier discoveries regarding the use of jiggers and electronic equipment by trainers. The whip debate exists everywhere and has intensified again.

Global racing does, as sport, need to stick together – there are so many challenges now to the role of equine sport in society that if we divide we will be conquered. If those in the British or the European sport start producing comments such as “it is not like that here” we’ll be heading down a fast-declining route.

However, it is unfair of racing authorities in jurisdictions that have had welfare or medication issues failing to meet more exacting requirements in other countries to expect unqualified support.

Those with clout in the organisations such as the British Horseracing Authority, HRI and France Galop need to inform those running racing in those countries that have welfare or doping issues that support will be lacking, unless these problems start to be addressed.

Of course, individual countries can not act in a colonial-type manner and enforce their own opinions on different jurisdictions, but if support is required, if we are going to face the wide and substantial challenges to horseracing and bloodstock with a global outlook, then all countries need to be on the same page.

Could this come under the auspices of the International Federation of Horseracing Authority (IFHA)? Could the group start to throw some weight behind a united global front to a unified stance on welfare?

The International Agreement on Breeding, Racing and Wagering is published by the IFHA and brings together a series of articles, appendices and guidelines setting out recommended best practice in significant areas of racing, including doping, drug and

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...it is unfair of racing authorities in jurisdictions that have had welfare or medication issues failing to meet the more exacting requirements in other countries to expect unqualified support from the global sport

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Sally Duckett discusses a global approach to equine welfare and a development of the IFHA’s role

medication guidelines, stud book administration and wagering common to all jurisdictions Perhaps it is time this was upgraded from best practice to enforceable rulings? And if countries fail to sign up to work towards a common level or ruling, or are found to have horsemen breaking the rules without action from the authorities, horsemen and horses from those nations are suspended from the international sport.

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HE ASSOCIATION could act in a similar way to the International Association of Athletics Federations, which formed the Independent Athletics Integrity Unit in 2017 to deal in a more rigorous and transparent way with the huge doping issues in that sport.

Its website writes, “AIU represents a new era in the management of threats to the integrity of sport. Through the formation of the Athletics Integrity Unit, athletics has become the first sport internationally to delegate complete authority for the management of its integrity programs to an independent body. Fully separated from the IAAF, and reporting through its own Board, the Athletics Integrity Unit operates with the level of rigour and transparency expected by the world’s athletes and supporters.”

Words that could equally be applied to horseracing.

Even something such as use of the whip needs greater coherence – it is banned in Denmark but has free use in Australia? How can it be argued to the wider world that both approaches are correct?

The Australian rules of racing state that the whip may not be used on more than five occasions prior to the 100m mark of a race and cannot be used in consecutive strides. In the final 100m of a race, a jockey can use the whip at his or her discretion.

Horseracing is an international sport, it needs to be managed as one. sThe same can also be said about the bloodstock industry. Once the much-talked-about review into British auction ring practices appears in the New Year, it is important that any recommendations or sensible options put forward are also considered for implementation on a global scale.

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Just the one

There were no European superstars at Santa Anita, and Iridessa was the sole winner for Europe, writes Simon Rowlands Vino Rosso (left), by Curlin, bred by John Gunther and trained by Todd Pletcher, achieved a 130 Timeform figure when winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic

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HE “WORLD THOROUGHBRED CHAMPIONSHIPS” may be a tag that the Breeders’ Cup claims yet does not really justify, but events stateside at the beginning of November serve as a useful litmus test for the strength of elite racing there and of the raiders turning up from abroad.

This year’s extravaganza took place at Santa Anita in California and saw just one European success – that of Iridessa in the Filly and Mare Turf – while between two and five (the latter in 2013) has been customary.

The only other recent year in which just one win was recorded was 2014 when the French-trained Karakontie won the Turf Mile.

It was not that the home team was especially strong, or not if judged by the Timeform ratings achieved by the winners of the 13 Grade 1s over the two days. They averaged just 0.2lb higher than in the previous five years combined.

It could be argued that the Europeans lacked real star quality – there was no Enable, Battaash or Waldgeist, while Too Darn Hot, Blue Point and Crystal Ocean were among those already retired – but similar could be said of the Americans.

It did not stop Vino Rosso (Classic, 130 rating), Mitole (Sprint, 129), Covfefe (Filly and Mare Sprint, 125), Spun To Run (Dirt Mile, 125), Blue Prize (Distaff, 125) and Uni (Turf Mile, 124) in particular from stepping up to the plate among the older home-trained horses.

Vino Rosso’s defeat of McKinzie – the latter having gone faster than ideal – would have been up to scratch in most years, but inevitably suffers by comparison with 139-rated Arrogate in 2016 and 138-rated American Pharoah the year before.

Mitole comes out as the best Sprint winner since the 130-rated Midnight Lute as far back as 2008, for all that he was another to benefit from his main rival

Mitole comes out as the best Sprint winner since 130-rated Midnight Lute (Shancelot) over-doing the paceforcing.

Covfefe and Spun To Run managed to go quite fast and hold on, the latter closed down only slightly late on by Omaha Beach, who remains on a rating of 126.

Uni was perfectly paced, according to the sectionals, in beating Got Stormy (120 on Timeform), with ex-Brit Without Parole and the Irish-trained Circus Maximus (both 119) just behind.

That run from Circus Maximus summarised the European experience in some respects.

He had been an average winner of the St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix du Moulin running to 124 and needed everything to go right for him, and even then possibly to produce a new personal best, to win the Turf Mile. It did not and he did not, but he was by no means discredited in fourth.

The Turf is usually a rich Iridessa: flew the flag for Europe

hunting ground for the raiders, but the Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck encountered troublein-running in third and could not get to Bricks And Mortar, who held off the unfancied United by a head, both running to 122.

Iridessa’s win in the Filly & Mare Turf was up to standard as she returned a 120 figure in just holding Vasilika, with a slightly below par Sistercharlie in third.

The six-year-old Belvoir Bay, who started life in Britain, proved suited by the very firm going and a switchback 5f in taking the Turf Sprint with a 121 Timeform rating.

Elsewhere, Japanese-trained horses punched their weight on the international stage with Almond Eye better than ever in winning the Tenno Sho (Autumn) at Tokyo by 3l, earning a new personal best Timeform rating of 129, while Lys Gracieux landed the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley with a 125 figure.

The latter was adding to the antipodean success of her compatriot Mer De Glace in the Caulfield Cup a week earlier.

Foreign raiders threatened to over-run the lead-in to the Melbourne Cup at Flemington with the British-trained Prince Of Arran and the Irish-trained Hunting Horn (both rated 117) winning major trials and the British-trained Chief Ironside (116) also landing the Mile at Moonee Valley.

In the event, half of the 24-runner Cup field represented Australia, while half did not and the trophy was kept at home, just, by the lightly weighted Vow And Declare (provisionally rated 116) in a sprint finish.

It is a moot point as to which horse is the best in Australia now that Winx has departed the scene.

The sprinter Santa Ana Lane (130) leads the way on Timeform ratings, but the colt who beat him in the Everest – Yes Yes Yes – and the recent Coolmore Stud Stakes winner Exceedance are both rated 125 and have emerged as legitimate contenders.

Leading Timeform horses (29.10.19) Rating Horse

Sire

Older Horses 136 BATTAASH Dark Angel 133 CRYSTAL OCEAN Sea The Stars 132 WALDGEIST Galileo 131 BLUE POINT Shamardal 131 ENABLE Nathaniel 129 BENBATL Dubawi 129 GHAIYYATH Dubawi 128 THUNDER SNOW Helmet 127 KEW GARDENS Galileo 127 STRADIVARIUS Sea The Stars 126 DEFOE Dalakhani 125 ADDEYBB Pivotal 125 FRENCH KING French Fifteen 125 INNS OF COURT Invincible Spirit 125 MAGICAL Galileo 125 MASAR New Approach 125 OLD PERSIAN Dubawi 125 MATTERHORN Raven’s Pass Three-year-olds 127 SOTTSASS Siyouni 127 TOO DARN HOT Dubawi 126p LOGICIAN Frankel 126 JAPAN Galileo 126 KING OF CHANGE Farhh 126 TEN SOVEREIGNS No Nay Never 125 ADVERTISE Showcasing 124 CALYX Kingman 124 CIRCUS MAXIMUS Galileo 124 GLASS SLIPPERS Dream Ahead 124 HELLO YOUMZAIN Kodiac 124 MAGNA GRECIA Invincible Spirit 124 QUORTO Dubawi 123 ANTHONY VAN DYCK Galileo 123 SOVEREIGN Galileo 123 TECHNICIAN Mastercraftsman 122p SANGARIUS Kingman 122+ HEADMAN Kingman 122 BROOME Australia 122 KHAADEM Dark Angel 122 LORD NORTH Dubawi 122 MADHMOON Dawn Approach 122 PERSIAN KING Kingman 122 PHOENIX OF SPAIN Lope De Vega 122 SIR DRAGONET Camelot

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Leading Timeform horses (29.10.19) Rating Horse

Kameko wins the first G1 on the All-Weather

Sire

Two-Year-Olds 134 PINATUBO

Shamardal

119

ARIZONA

No Nay Never

119

MUMS TIPPLE Footstepsinthesand

118

WICHITA

No Nay Never

117p EARTHLIGHT

Shamardal

117p MILITARY MARCH New Approach 116

AL SUHAIL

Dubawi

115p VICTOR LUDORUM 115

GOLDEN HORDE

Shamardal Lethal Force

115 MILLISLE Starspangledbanner 114p PIERRE LAPIN Cappella Sansevero 114p SISKIN 114 THREAT 113

First Defence Footstepsinthesand

RAFFLE PRIZE

111p ALBIGNA 111p MKFANCY 111p ROYAL LYTHAM 111

A’ALI

111 ALSON 111

KINGS COMMAND

Slade Power Zoffany Makfi Gleneagles Society Rock Areion Dubawi

111

MOLATHIM

113p

MONARCH OF EGYPT American Pharoah

Night Of Thunder

111

POSITIVE

Dutch Art Kameko saw off the Aidan O’Brien team to win the Futurity Stakes (G1) on the All-Weather at Newcastle

The US-trained Storm The Court

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THERE SHOULD BE LITTLE DEBATE about Godolphin’s unbeaten Pinatubo (134 with Timeform) being rated easily the best two-year-old anywhere in the world – especially on the form of his 9l National Stakes (G1) win at The Curragh in September – but which horse deserves that accolade in North America is far less clear.

The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Storm The Court (117), the Juvenile Fillies winner British Idiom (116), the Juvenile Turf winner Structor (114) and the Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Sharing (112) are all candidates.

As are some of the also-rans in those races such as Donna Veloce and Bast in the Juvenile Fillies (both went too fast), and Eight Rings (also went too fast) and Dennis’ Moment (lost chance at start) in the Juvenile.

A mention can also be made of a couple of 115p-rated Grade 1 winners who missed the Breeders’ Cup, Tiz The Law and Maxfield.

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the Breeders’ Cup ended.

Independence Hall ran away with the Grade 3 Nashua Stakes by over a dozen lengths and in a very quick time earning himself a 124 figure that is likely to have him still top in the local division come the year’s end.

Elsewhere, Mkfancy won the Criterium de Saint-Cloud in workmanlike fashion to record a 111 Timeform rating, the same as Alson nominally earned for winning a match for the Criterium International at Longchamp by 20l.

The cancellation of Doncaster’s late October meeting due to water-logging meant that the Group 1 Futurity moved from there to the All-Weather at Newcastle, where Kameko, the Andrew Balding-trained son of Kitten’s Joy, was a convincing winner in a strongly-run race under lights with a 120 Timeform assessment.

The tail-end of the year might not have seen some of the fireworks we are used to from the older horses, but the juveniles reminded us that there is plenty to look forward to in 2020.

CABLE BAY INVINCIBLE SPIRIT

Champion 1st Crop Sires in GB and IRE 2019 SIRE

GRANDSIRE

BTH

GRW

GPH

TOTAL £

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Invincible Spirit

WNRS WINS

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1

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582,494

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Night of Thunder Gleneagles Due Diligence Gutaifan Anjaal

Dubawi Galileo War Front Dark Angel Bahamian Bounty

22 16 16 23 9

30 21 27 30 15

6 5 3 1 0

1 2 2 0 0

1 3 2 1 0

482,636 440,881 333,152 327,082 255,460

To date 7th November 2019

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£320,000, £200,000, £175,000, £160,000, £150,000, £140,000, €130,000, £110,000, £105,000, £90,000 Also sire of high class 2yo’s LIBERTY BEACH, winner of the Molecomb Gr.3, KING’S LYNN, Winner of Weatherbys £150,000 2yo Stakes, Multiple group placed ROPEY GUEST, ISABEAU, second to Cheveley Park winner Millisle in the Listed Curragh Stakes etc

LAND FORCE NO NAY NEVER

LAND FORCE (IRE) (2016) A Bay Colt

No Nay Never (USA)

Theann (GB) (2004)

Scat Daddy (USA) Cat's Eye Witness (USA) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Cassandra Go (IRE)

Johannesburg (USA) Love Style (USA) Elusive Quality (USA) Comical Cat (USA) Danehill (USA) Offshore Boom Indian Ridge Rahaam (USA)

LAND FORCE (IRE): won 3 races at 2 years, 2018 and £192,225 viz Richmond Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2, Coolmore Pride of Dubai Tipperary Stakes, Tipperary, L. and Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden, Curragh, placed 4 times including third in Norfolk Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, Cold Move EBF Marble Hill Stakes, Curragh, L. and fourth in Darley Prix Morny, Deauville, Gr.1.

1st Dam THEANN (GB), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years and £74,644 including Cuisine de France Summer Stakes, York, Gr.3, second in Flame of Tara Stakes, Curragh, L., third in Greenlands Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3 and Dimitrova 1000 Guineas Trial, Leopardstown, Gr.3; dam of four winners from 5 runners and 8 foals of racing age includingPHOTO CALL (IRE) (2011 f. by Galileo (IRE)), won 6 races at 3 to 5 years at home and in U.S.A. and £544,932 including Rodeo Drive Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.1, First Lady Stakes, Keeneland, Gr.1, Violet Stakes, Monmouth Park, Gr.3 and Orchid Stakes, Gulfstream Park, Gr.3, placed 7 times including second in Beaugay Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.3, Robert G Dick Memorial Stakes, Delaware Park, Gr.3, third in La Prevoyante Handicap, Gulfstream Park, Gr.3 and Perfect Sting Stakes, Belmont Park.

LAND FORCE (IRE) (2016 c. by No Nay Never (USA)), see above.

2nd Dam CASSANDRA GO (IRE), won 6 races at 3 to 5 years and £243,262 including King's Stand Stakes, Royal Ascot, Gr.2, Tripleprint Temple Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.2, King George Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3 and EBF Lansdown Stakes, Bath, L., placed 7 times including second in Darley July Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1, Ballyogan Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, Palace House Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, Stanley Racing Summer Stakes, York, L. and third in EBF Insulpak Swinley Stakes, Ascot, L.; Own sister to Grey Eminence (FR); dam of eight winners from 10 runners and 12 foals of racing age includingHALFWAY TO HEAVEN (IRE) (f. by Pivotal (GB)), won 4 races at 2 and 3 years and £470,905 including Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1, Blue Square Nassau Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1 and Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, placed 4 times including second in Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, third in Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.1, Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, Longchamp, Gr.1; dam of winners.

MAGICAL (IRE), Jt Champion 3yr old in Europe in 2018 (11-13f.), 8 races at 2 to 4 years, 2019 and £2,466,935 including Tattersalls Gold Cup, Curragh, Gr.1, Irish Champion Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.1 and Brit. Champions Fillies/Mare Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, placed 10 times including second in Coral Eclipse, Sandown Park, Gr.1, Moyglare Stud Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1, Prince of Wales's Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Darley Yorkshire Oaks, York, Gr.1 and Breeders' Cup Turf, Churchill Downs, Gr.1.

RHODODENDRON (IRE), Champion older mare in Ireland in 2018, Jt top rated 2yr old filly in Ireland in 2016, 5 races at 2 to 4 years, 2018 at home and in France and £1,363,928 including Dubai Fillies' Mile, Newmarket, Gr.1, Lockinge Stakes, Newbury, Gr.1 and Prix de l'Opera, Chantilly, Gr.1, second in Investec Oaks Stakes, Epsom Downs, Gr.1, 1000 Guineas Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf, Del Mar, Gr.1 and third in Moyglare Stud Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1. FLYING THE FLAG (IRE), 3 races at 2, 3 and 5 years at home and in U.A.E. and £125,188 including eFlow 'You First' International Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, placed 6 times including second in Galileo EBF Futurity Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2.

TICKLED PINK (IRE) (f. by Invincible Spirit (IRE)), won 3 races at 3 and 4 years and £77,734 including Connaught Flooring Abernant Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3 and The Coral Charge Sprint Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3, placed 3 times; dam of winners.

THEANN (GB) (f. by Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)), see above.

Fantasy (IRE) (f. by Invincible Spirit (IRE)), won 1 race at 2 years, 2018 and £24,413 and placed 4 times including third in John Sisk & Son Round Tower Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3 and Curragh Stakes, Curragh, L. NEVERLETME GO (IRE), won 2 races at 3 and £16,954 and placed 3 times; dam of winners.

BEST REGARDS (IRE), Champion 3yr old Sprinter in Germany in 2013, 3 races at 2 and 3 years in France and in Germany and £43,335 including Hoppegartener Fliegerpreis, Berlin-Hoppegarten, L., placed twice including third in P.Afrika Linen J Essberger Flieger Preis, Hamburg, Gr.3.

Tilthe End of Time (IRE), unraced; dam of Snazzy (IRE), 1 race at 2 years, 2018 and £26,636, third in Langleys Solicitors EBF Marygate Stakes, York, L. 3rd Dam RAHAAM (USA), won 1 race at 3 years and placed twice, from only 4 starts; dam of nine winners from 9 runners and 10 foals of racing age includingVERGLAS (IRE), won 3 races at 2 and 3 years at home and in U.S.A. including Coventry Stakes, Royal Ascot, Gr.3, second in Lexus Irish 2000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1, San Marino Handicap, Santa Anita, L.R. and third in Heinz 57 Phoenix Stakes, Gr.1; sire.

PERSIAN SECRET (FR), won 3 races at 2 and 3 years at home and in France including Prix La Sorellina, La Teste Buch, L., placed second in Ewar Stud Empress Stakes, Newmarket, L. and third in Bonusprint Champion 2yo Trophy, Ripon, L.; dam of winners.

DO THE HONOURS (IRE), Champion 3yr old Sprinter in France in 2001, 5 races at 2 and 3 years in France including Prix de Meautry Royal Barriere, Deauville, Gr.3, placed 3 times; grandam of CROSS COUNTER (GB), 6 races at 2 to 4 years, 2019 at home, in Australia and in U.A.E. including Melbourne Cup, Flemington, Gr.1, third in Qatar Goodwood Cup Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, BRODERIE (GB), 4 races at 3 and 4 years, 2019 at home, in France and in Germany including G.P. von Rossmann, Hannover, L., third in G. P. der Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Dresden, Gr.3.

SEBA (GB), 3 races at 2 and 3 years at home and in U.S.A. including Chesham Stakes, Royal Ascot, L., third in Mother Goose Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1.

Posterity (IRE), unraced; dam of FUTURE GENERATION (IRE), 6 races at 2 to 4 years at home and

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Bricks And Mortar cements his class

Alan Porter reviews the Breeders’ Cup meeting which saw Bricks And Mortar tough it out in the Turf and Vino Rosso put in a stellar performance to take the Breeders’ Cup Classic

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RICKS AND MORTAR seems an appropriate name for a horse who has steadily built himself a championship season, one brick at a time.

The five-year-old has been the epitome of consistency and not only this year – when his six straight victories, four in Grade 1s have placed him in the running for a Horse of the Year award – but throughout his entire career, a CV which shows 11 wins, seven in graded stakes five in Grade 1 events.

His late drive to the wire to take the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) – presumably his last outing before he begins his stud career in Japan – not only sealed him a champion Turf crown, but also placed him in a position as the leading contender for a Horse of the Year award.

We don’t have to look too far to find the source of Bricks and Mortar’s consistency.

His sire Giant’s Causeway – nicknamed ‘The Iron Horse’ – won nine races, and took four seconds in 13 starts, 12 of those in Group or Graded events, and ten in Group or Grade 1 contests, including a run of five straight Group 1 triumphs at three.

As a stallion, Giant’s Causeway was just as reliable and earned honours as the leading US sire in 2009, 2010 and 2012, and as leading broodmare sire in 2018.

Giant’s Causeway was an outstanding

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runner and stallion for Storm Cat, in turn the most significant individual sired by Northern Dancer’s champion European two-year-old, Storm Bird.

By way of contrast, Bricks And Mortar’s dam Beyond The Waves is sired by a far less illustrious Storm Bird son in Ocean Crest.

Another Turf performer Ocean Crest won three of 10 starts, his sole black-type victory coming with a front-running win in the Del Mar Invitational Derby (G2). From 19 crops sired in the US and Turkey (where he was exported after three seasons in Kentucky), Ocean Crest was represented by just seven stakes winners.

Of these, Beyond The Waves was almost certainly the best. She earned black-type in France with a win in the Prix des Tourelles, and she also placed in six other black-type contests, including when second in the Prix de Royallieu (G3). In the US, she added an allowance win at Keeneland, and a second in the Bewitch Stakes (G3).

At stud, Beyond The Waves, just like Bricks And Mortar and Giant’s Causeway, has been a text-book study in consistency.

Her first seven foals are all winners and, in addition to Bricks And Mortar, they include the Glen Falls Stakes (G3) winner Emerald Beech, the multiple black-type winner Beyond Smart and the stakes-placed duo of Water View and Sir Ector.

Photos courtesy of Breeders’ Cup Bricks And Mortar sees off United in a head to head for the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

It was the first try for the son of Giant’s Causeway beyond 1m2f

breeders’ cup Beyond The Waves’s dam Excedent, a daughter of Exceller, did not race, but she is also dam of Seahawk Gold, a six-time blacktype winner in California, and is second dam of three other black-type winners, headed by Bordonaro, a son of the Chilean-bred stallion Memo, who took four graded stakes events, including the Ancient Title Breeders’ Cup Stakes (G1).

There are also two well-known sires a little further in the family – fourth dam Little Blessing is also fourth dam of Pioneerof the Nile, and the sixth dam Dog Blessed appears as sixth dam of Indian Charlie.

Bricks And Mortar is the product of a pedigree pattern – the cross of a stallion over a mare from his own immediate sire line – that from a statistical viewpoint underperforms opportunity.

When we look at the specific pattern here – the mating of a grandson of Storm Bird with a mare by a son of Storm Bird – we find that there are only six stakes

Bricks And Mortar is the product of a pedigree pattern – the cross of a stallion over a mare from his own immediate sire line – that from a statistical viewpoint under-performs opportunity

winners from 223 starters, three of those in Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.

What is often apparent when this type of matings does work is that it is backed by other significant patterns, and that appears to be the case with Bricks And Mortar.

Storm Cat, who is in the male line of Bricks And Mortar, is by Storm Bird out of a mare by Secretariat (a Bold Ruler/Princequillo cross), with a second dam by Crimson Satan (a son of Spy Song).

Ocean Crest is by Storm Bird out of a mare who is not only by Seattle Slew (Bold Ruler/ Princequillo cross), but is herself a Bold Ruler/Princequillo cross, with a third dam by Mr. Music (brother to Spy Song).

Iridessa puts Ruler Of the World in lights

Iridessa may not have the flawless consistency of a Bricks And Mortar, but on her day is extremely effective as she demonstrated in a Breeders’ Cup Filly and

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breeders’ cup Mare Turf run at an end-to-end gallop. She held off America’s top hopes, the prolific west coast mare Vasilika and last year’s winner and champion Turf mare, Sistercharlie.

Iridissa already had a pair of Group 1s tucked under her girth – she’d won the Fillies’ Mile (G1) at two and the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1) this term – and came into the race off a third in the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) over a

quarter mile shorter, and on ground far softer than Santa Anita’s fast surface.

Iridissa is the only stakes winner to date from the admittedly fairly small first crop – it numbers only 44 – of Galileo’s son Ruler Of The World, the 2013 Epsom Derby (G1) hero and a half-brother to Duke Of Marmalade.

The dam Senta’s Dream is an unraced daughter of Danehill making Iridessa a

product of the now near-legendary Galileo/ Danehill cross.

The second dam Starine was a Listed winner in France, but made her name in the US where she was a three-time graded winner, most notably when preceding her grand-daughter as a Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) winner.

Starine was the only stakes winner in the

Storm led a clutch surprise juvenile winners

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N 2011 COURT VISION sprang a 65-1 shock in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), the final start of his career. Eight years on, it was the turn of his son Storm The Court to cause a Breeders’ Cup upset taking the Juvenile (G1) at 46-1 by a neck over fellow long-shot Anneau d’Or. Court Vision had a distinguished race-record with seven other graded wins on Dirt and Turf.

He is by Mr. Prospector’s champion sprinter Gulch out of Weekend Storm, a sister to the Classic winner and Classic sire Summer Squall, and a half-sister to the great sire A.P. Indy.

Despite that, he never gained traction in Kentucky and was quickly shipped to Canada where he had won the Woodbine Mile.

Since then he’s moved again – for 2019 he covered at Acadiana Equine at Copper Crowne in Louisiana at a fee of $3,500.

From seven crops, he’s been represented by eight stakes winners, mostly Canadian restricted scorers, including Mr. Havercamp, twice a champion in Canada and Court Vision’s only previous graded scorer, as well as the champion Canadian two-year-old King And His Court.

Storm The Court’s dam My Tejana Storm is a minor-winning daughter of Tejano Run (by the Caro horse, Tejano).

The grand-dam Sarah’s Settlement is a daughter of Settlement Day (Buckpasser).

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she is dam of seven winners, none were better than mediocre.

The first previous black-type in the family was that earned by A Taste of Wine, a sister to Sarah’s Settlement, who was twice second in stakes events in Panama.

Another sister to Sarah’s Settlement, T Z P Express, is dam of the Sam Houston Oaks winner Fess, who herself produced minor stakes winner Fesstune.

There is a more class, at least on the stallion side of the equation, in the next two dams.

Sarah’s Settlement is out of Sarah’s Hope, a winning daughter of Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Riva Ridge, out of Grey Ballet, a daughter of Nijinsky.

The fifth dam Pinny Gray arrived in the US from England in the late 1950s and has been an important tap-root mare, her descendants including Assertive Lad, Assertive Lass and Reset, all Grade 1 winners in Australia, South American star Fregy’s, Meisho Doto, a Grade 1 winner in Argentina, and US Grade 1 winners Queen Lib, First Approach and Spring Quality.

There is not a lot to explain Storm The Court’s improvement over the recent achievements of his branch of the family.

We can note that the cross of Mr. Prospector-line stallions with mares by Tejano Rose has outperformed opportunity with four stakes winners from 21 starters.

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mare by Storm Bird, My Tejana Storm is inbred to Nijinsky, who has a similar background to his fellow Windfields-bred son of Northern Dancer, and who often combines with him.

British bucks the trends

Although she started at much shorter odds than did Storm The Court, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) heroine British Idiom is also not one bred at the height of fashion.

She is from the second crop of the Tapit horse Flashback and is the only stakes winner for that sire who now makes his home at Diamond B Farm, Pennsylvania, having started in Kentucky.

Winner on his only start at two, Flashback won the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G2) in the spring of his three-year-old career, and then suffered injury while finishing second as favourite in the Santa Anita Derby (G1).

British Idiom has a link to Storm The Court as her dam, Rose And Shine, is by Mr. Sekiguchi, a talented but unsound son of Storm Cat. His grand-sire and grand-dam Storm Bird and Weekend Surprise are the sire and dam of Weekend Storm, the dam of Court Vision.

One of just two stakes winners for her sire, Rose And Shine took the Princess Elizabeth Stakes – one of Canada’s top races for two-yearold fillies – and the Muskoka Stakes.

She is also dam of the minor stakes winner Parade Of Roses.

Rose And Shine was acquired specifically to breed to Flashback, in part because the dam of Mr. Sekiguchi is a half-sister to A.P. Indy, the great-grandsire of Flashback.

The double of Weekend Surprise this breeding gives appears in more than 30 stakes winners, the first of which was Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) scorer Stevie Wonderboy.

In addition, Flashback’s granddam Rose Rhapsody, is bred on an identical cross to Colonial Affair, sire of British Idiom’s second dam.

Similar to Storm The Court, Rose And Shine also combines Storm Bird with Nijinsky (here four times).

Structor: three from three

The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) saw Structor, a son of Palace Malice and successful in the Pilgrim Stakes (G3) on his previous start, take his record to three-for-three.

A son of Curlin, Palace Malice won the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) and Belmont Stakes (G1) at three.

The victory in the 1m4f Classic notwithstanding, he was a better horse at shorter distances and he added four more graded wins the following year over a mile and 1m1f, most notably in the mile Metropolitan Handicap (G1).

He never ran on Turf, but is out of a mare by Theatrical’s Europeanraced son Royal Anthem and it’s notable that Palace Malice’s first crop also includes Crystalle, successful in the P. G. Johnson Stakes on the lawn.

breeders’ cup first four dams of Iridessa’s pedigree prior to the appearance of Iridessa, and you have to go all the way back to the sixth dam Cherie Noire, who took the Prix la Camargo in France.

It’s likely we can credit some inbreeding and line-breeding for the upgrading in the female line.

Starine was inbred 3x3 to Caro, and Ruler

Structor is the first foal of Miss Always Ready, a daughter of More Than Ready. She was a winner at two, but is a sister to a more notable performer in More Than Real, successful in the Breeders’ Cup Fillies (G2) and several times graded placed, including when third in the Garden City Stakes (G1).

Subsequently, More Than Real produced the Australian stakes winner Miss Debutante.

Miss Always Ready and More Than Real are out of the five-time stakes winner Miss Seffens, who was by Deputy Minister’s champion two-year-old, Dehere.

Miss Seffens’s own dam Noise Enough was a stakes winner at two, and is a sister to graded winner Katahaula County and threequarters sister to stakes winner and champion Canadian sire Bold Executive, and stakes winners Bold Anthony and Highland Ruckus.

Structor is the second stakes winner from just six starters sired

by Curlin and his sons out of More Than Ready mares.

He also has a double of Curlin’s broodmare sire Deputy Minister and that appears in eight stakes winners to date, including the Grade 1 winners Keen Ice, Curlina and Vino Rosso.

Of The World gives the famed combination of Sadler’s Wells and his three-quarters brother Nureyev (here twice).

Uni maintains winning form in the Mile

A Listed winner in France and Group 2 winner in the US at three, Uni has matured into a formidable performer at four and five.

to the three Classics, while the son of Pioneerof The Nile was also the leader of his generation at two.

What wasn’t expected is that American Pharoah would achieve his premiership through Turf performers, and primarily Turf sprinters at that. That, however, is what has happened.

American Pharoah’s first stakes winner came with Maven in the 5f Prix du Bois (G3), and the second with Another Miracle in the 5f Skidmore Stakes at Saratoga.

Still on Turf, Sweet Melania won the mile Jessamine Stakes (G2), and took third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1).

Four Wheel Drive put the seal on American Pharoah’s title. He won a minor stakes at Colonial Downs on his debut, setting a new trackrecord for five and a half furlongs.

Reappearing over 6f at Belmont, he added the Futurity Stakes (G3) in a time recorded by Trakus as an extremely rapid 1:07.89.

Going into the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), Uni had won five of six starts spread over two seasons. Her only defeat was when third in the Fourstardave Handicap (G1) at Saratoga this year and she came into the Breeders’ Cup off a career-best performance when mowing down the field to take the First Lady Stakes (G1) at Keeneland. That turn of foot was in evidence again in the Breeders’

In both those races, he stalked and pounced, but this time, despite shorting up to 5f, Four Wheel Drive was on the lead from the start, and never looked likely to be caught.

One of the things that makes this start by American Pharoah such an enigma is that he was, as his record suggests, the epitome of the North American Classic distance horse.

A long-striding, on or near pace momentum runner, a high-speed cruiser. That is very typical of his male-line going back though Pioneerof The Nile, Empire Maker and Fappiano, none of whom sired speedy Turf runners with any regularity.

We still think that – having already proved he can get class – we’re going to see plenty of Classic distance Turf runners emerge for American Pharoah.

Perhaps the answer to the current riddle lies in his distaff side with speedy

and “Turfy” strains via Storm Cat, Exclusive Native, and a female line with intense inbreeding to Fred Hooper’s swift Olympia, enabling him to respond to mares with speed and grass influences.

In Four Wheel Drive’s case, there is plenty speed and Turf through his dam, the More Than Ready mare Funfair.

She broke her maiden sprinting on her debut at two and followed up with an easy win in the 5f Colleen Stakes, both races on the lawn.

Sidelined after those two wins, she never repeated that form in two subsequent starts.

The grand-dam Fleuron is a Distant View half-sister to Dynever, a multiple graded winner, who also took second in the Dubai World Cup (G1), and also to the dam of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) scorer Furthest Land.

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Four Wheel Drives home Amercian Pharoah’s title

It’s no great surprise that American Pharoah has emerged as leading freshman sire in North America.

In addition to his feats at three – when he became the first horse in 37 years to capture the Triple Crown – he was also the first-ever to add a Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1)

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breeders’ cup Cup Mile as Uni charged from tenth to beat her Fourstardave Handicap conqueror, Got Stormy.

Uni is a record-breaking seventh Breeders’ Cup winner for her sire More Than Ready (by the Halo son, Southern Halo), who with his shuttle crops in Australia has now sired nearly 200 stakes winners.

A leading sire of two-year-olds in North America or Australia, More Than Ready also appeared as broodmare sire of Four Wheel Drive and Structor, who both scored in Breeders’ Cup events on the Friday.

Out of the Dansili mare Unaided, Uni is one of an astonishing 55 stakes winners, eight of them Grade 1 sired by More Than Ready out of mares by sons or grandsons of Danehill.

Unaided is a half-sister to the Italian Group winner Whazzis and to Wazzat, who took the Listed Chesham Stakes and is dam of the Group-winning and Group 1-placed James Garfield, a son of the Danehill horse, Exceed And Excel.

Wosaita, the grand-dam of Uni, is by Generous out of the hugely influential producer Eljazzi, dam of the French Oaks (G1) winner Rafha, and Group winner Chiang Mai. She is ancestress of more than 30 stakes winners, including the outstanding sire Invincible Spirit (out of Rafha), current two-year-old star Pinatubo, and other Group and Grade 1 winners Pride Of Dubai, Chinese White and Nayarra.

Belvoir Bay speeds to glory

Belvoir Bay’s life has not been short of adventure. The six-year-old filly has raced in England, North America and Dubai, and even more dramatically, she was caught up in the Lilac Fire that engulfed San Luis Rey Downs in December 2017 killing 46 horses, and was herself missing for two days.

Fortunately, she was retrieved little worse for wear other than some nicks.

Coming into the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint having been away from the track since finishing fourth in the Jaipur Invitational Stakes (G1) in June, Belvoir Bay put her freshness to good effect.

Drawn on the outside of the 12-horse field, she rocketed out the stalls and crossed to the rail. Once there, she blasted through fractions of 21.47s and 43.43s hitting the wire in a course record-setting time of 54.83s.

Belvoir Bay has now won 10 black-type events on Dirt and Turf over 5f to a mile.

She also demonstrated world-class short course form in this year’s Al Quoz Sprint

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Above, Wayne Lordan on Iridessa celebrates victory in the Filly And Mare Turf, below, Turf Mile winner Uni. She hails from the European-produced family of Whazzis, Wazzat and James Garfield

(G1) when she was only headed late by Blue Point, with daylight to spare over the rest of the field.

She is by another very fast horse in Equiano (Acclamation), twice winner of the King’s Stand Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot.

Equiano is already sire of the three-time Group 1 winner The Tin Man, and the Group and Graded winners Medicine Jack, Fly On The Night, Strath Burn, Lady Macapa, Baciami Piccola, King Louis, Gustavus Weston, Lady Horseowner and Dark Reckoning.

Path Of Peace, the dam of Belvoir Bay, is a daughter of Rock Of Gibraltar, and a winning half-sister to the Cherry Hinton Stakes (G2) winner Please Sing – who is by Equiano’s grandsire, Royal Applause.

She’s also half-sister to the Group 1-placed Mountain Song, and to the Group-placed Raindancing, the grand-dam of French Group winner Great Page.

Her grand-dam Persian Song is a sister to the international Group/Grade 1 performer Bold Arrangement, a European stakes winner at two who earned places in four Group/ Grade 1 events, including when second to Ferdinand in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and second in the Grand Criterium (G1).

Persian Song’s dam Arrangement is ancestress of more than a dozen stakes winners who have captured black-type events in seven different countries. In addition to those mentioned above, they also include the brilliant Australian sprinter Redkirk Warrior, a three-time Grade 1 winner.

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Vintage The Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso is a feather in the cap for his sire Curlin, now the sire of three champions and nine Grade 1 winners, reports Alan Porter

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INO ROSSO HAS THREATENED to become a star racehorse ever since he won a maiden and an allowance race in two starts at two, but a true fulfillment of that early promise has taken some time.

He did win the Wood Memorial Stakes (G2) on his third outing at three, but could do no better than ninth in the Kentucky Derby (G1) next time out, and didn’t win again until taking a minor stakes at Aqueduct on his first start at four.

Two outings later he gained a first win at the highest level taking the Gold Cup at Santa Anita (G1), but then next start he could only finish third to McKinzie and Yoshida in the Whitney Stakes (G1).

He did just get his nose in front on the wire in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1), but was disqualified to second for bumping the

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runner-up Code Of Honor.

Both times Vino Rosso has won a Grade 1 event, the distance had been over 1m2f. In the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) he not only got his preferred distance, but also a deep, stamina-testing track.

He duly left his appreciation for both undoubted, storming past McKinzie in the stretch powering clear to score by four and a half lengths.

Vino Rosso, who will be at stud in 2020, is another credit for his sire Curlin, a two-time Horse of the Year and himself a Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner.

A son of Smart Strike, Curlin was a little slow to get under way at stud, but quickly rebounded. Now a member of the US stallion elite, he will stand for $175,000 in 2020.

He has now been represented by 63 stakes winners, 30 Graded and nine Grade 1.

In addition to Vino Rosso his best include

the champion older mare Stellar Wind, the champion two-year-old colt Good Magic, the Classic-winning colts Exaggerator (Preakness Stakes (G1)) and Palace Malice (Belmont Stakes (G1)), and Keen Ice, who defeated American Pharoah to take the Travers Stakes (G1).

Vino Rosso’s dam Mythical Bride won once in 13 starts taking a maiden special weight at Sunland Park. She is, however, very well bred being a Street Cry half-sister to Commissioner, a three-time graded stakes winner who was also a close second in the Belmont Stakes (G1), and to Laugh Track, winner of the Vigil Stakes (G3) and runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1).

The second dam Flaming Heart, a daughter of Touch Gold, was a stakes winner, as was the third dam Hot Lear and the fourth dam

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Vino Rosso: trainer Todd Pletcher felt he had the son of Curlin in the best possible form going into the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The colt was bred by John Gunther out of the Street Cry mare Mythical Bride

Medicine Woman, who took the Brown & Williamson Handicap (G3).

Medicine Woman was dam of three stakes winners and grand-dam of the Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G1) scorer I’m The Tiger. A sister to Medicine Woman, Medical Affair produced Blumin Affair, a graded winner who also took second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and third in the Kentucky Derby.

The family goes back to La Tosca, the champion two-year-old filly of 1890.

Vino Rosso has a rather intriguing pedigree pattern. Curlin is by a son of Mr. Prospector, and his dam is by Deputy Minister out of a mare by the Turn-to line stallion, Sir Ivor.

His dam Mythical Bride is by a grandson of Mr. Prospector, and her dam is by a son of Deputy Minister out of a mare by Turn-to line

stallion, Lear Fan. The duplication of Deputy Minister appears to be a particularly effective one for Curlin, appearing in seven of his stakes winners, while Vino Rosso follows Keen Ice and Curalina as the third Grade 1 winner with the pattern.

Blue takes the Prize

A Grade 1 winner and Classic-placed in just four starts in Argentina, Blue Prize has been a fixture among North America’s best Dirt middle-distance fillies for the last three years.

Now a six-year-old mare and racing in the US she had, by the end of 2018, taken the Spinster Stakes (G1), the Falls City Handicap (G2), the Fleu de Lis Handicap (G2) and the Locust Grove Stakes (G3).

Fourth in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff

(G1), it seemed as if Blue Prize had lost a step or two in her first three races this term, although she placed in all three, each a graded stakes.

Confidence was not only regained with a drop to Listed class, but also regained to the point that Blue Prize might well have been better than ever on her final two starts.

The first of these saw her run down the formidable Elate – who would go to take fourth against colts in the Breeders’ Cup Classic – to take a second Spinster Stakes (G1).

On her farewell to competition, she reached a career-high taking the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) by a length and a half over champion-elect Midnight Bisou – unbeaten in seven starts this year – and Kentucky Oaks (G1) heroine Serengeti Empress.

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Mitole: the Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner is a speedy son of Eskendereya. He retires to Spendthrift Farm for 2020 at a fee of $25,000 Blue Prize is by the beautifully bred Storm Cat son Pure Prize whose most prestigious win came in the Kentucky Cup Classic (G2) on his final start at two.

A useful stallion in Kentucky, Pure Prize has earned two awards as leading sire in Argentina and is sire of nearly 90 stakes winners, including Blue Prize, Pure Clan, Hi Happy, Winning Prize and Pure Fun, all Grade 1 winners in the US, with Hi Happy, Winning Prize, Ollagua and Jumbalaya, earning championships in Argentina.

Blue Prize’s dam Blues For Sale is a multiple graded stakes-winning sprinter/ miler by Not For Sale, a son of the Caro horse, Parade Marshal.

She is also a sister to Cure For Sale, a stakes winner in Argentina, and a multiple graded winner and placed runner in the US. The third dam Dancer’s Key is out of

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Dancer’s Saga, a sister to the multiple graded winner Northern Sea, herself dam of Southern Halo, a multiple champion sire in Argentina, whose offspring include the internationally influential stallion More Than Ready.

This is the family descending from Sea Saga – who won the Ladies Handicap which was then an equivalent to a Grade 1 event – an ancestress of nearly 50 stakes winners, ten Grade 1, also including A Shin Hikari, General Challenge, Evening Jewel, Sir Beaufort and Denman’s Call.

Mitole: the speed machine

Although he didn’t make his graded stakes debut until this year at the age of four, Mitole had long given the impression that he was

one of the fastest horses in training.

Third on his only start at two, Mitole broke his maiden by 10l on his second start at three, but then put together a sequence of three impressive victories before going to the sidelines in late May. He returned in March this year and quickly demonstrated that he had lost none of his blazing speed going wire-to-wire to take an Oaklawn Park allowance by four and a quarter lengths and the Count Fleet Sprint Handicap (G3) by two and three-qaurter lengths.

The 7f Churchill Downs Stakes (G1) on the Kentucky Derby under-card saw Mitole attempt a distance beyond three-quarters of a for the first time in his career.

Neither Grade 1 company, nor the extra distance, proved a problem and the bay scored by comfortable 3l.

breeders’ cup Going a furlong further, Mitole held off the closing charge of McKinzie to capture the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) in a time just outside the race-record.

He may have been feeling the affects of that effort when a flat third in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1), but rebounded to take the 7f Forego Stakes (G1) by 3l in a fast time.

In the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) he was – most unusually for him – out-footed by a blazing pace on the deep track, but stayed on strongly to prevail by a length and a quarter.

Like Vino Rosso, Mitole will stand at Spendthrift Farm, Kentucky in 2020.

There he will stand alongside Mor Spirit, another Metropolitan Handicap-winning son of his sire Eskendereya.

Mitole and Mor Spirit are the best runners for Eskendereya. A son of Giant’s Causeway from the family of Northern Dancer and Halo, Eskendereya took the Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) and the Wood Memorial Stakes (G1) at three, and would almost certainly have started favourite in that year’s Kentucky Derby had he not suffered a careerending injury prior to the event.

Sold to Japan after the 2015 breeding season, Eskendereya has been represented by a total of 21 stakes winners from his five Kentucky-sired crops, including the graded stakes winners Isabella Sings and Eskenformoney.

Mitole is one of three winners from the first three foals out of the Indian Charlie mare Indian Miss.

She ran just twice finishing third in a maiden special weight at Keeneland on her debut at two, but she is half-sister to the Davona Dale Stakes (G2) scorer, Leap Lively.

Indian Miss’s dam Glacken’s Gal (Smoke Glacken) also made just two starts, but she won on her debut and then took the Astoria Stakes.

Going back through the next two or three generations the family has produced plenty of stakes winners, but nothing major. The sixth dam, the Damascus mare Fiesta Libre, did not win a black-type event but did take second in the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) and third in the Acorn Stakes (G1) and Alabama Stakes (G1).

She is out of Cappella, a daughter of English dual Classic winner and leading sire Crepello, who was imported in the 1960s.

In tail-male line, Mitole is a great grandson of Storm Cat, who was by a son of Northern Dancer out of a mare by Secretariat, a Bold Ruler/Princequillo cross.

His broodmare sire Indian Charlie is out

Sold to Japan after the 2015 breeding season, Eskendereya has been represented by a total of 21 stakes winners from his five Kentucky-sired crops of a mare by Leo Castelli, a son of Sovereign Dancer, a Northern Dancer/Bold Ruler cross, like Storm Cat. Smoke Glacken, the sire of Mitole’s second Spun To Run: a speedy grandson of Danzig

dam, is out of a mare by Magesterial, who is by Northern Dancer out of a mare by Bold Lad, who is both a Bold Ruler/Princequillo cross, like Secretariat, and is a three-quarters brother to the dam of Sovereign Dancer, so there is quite a build up of related strains.

Spun To Run: lives up to his figures

Prior to the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), there was a degree of the “take it with a pinch of salt” about the Beyer Speedfigure of 110 – the highest last-time-out number by any horse in the race – achieved by three-year-old Spun To Run when he won his prep, a relative minor stakes at Parx.

It turned out that the figure was a genuine indicator of Spun To Run’s talent, and he went wire-to-wire to score by two and threequarter lengths from favoured Omaha Beach, with the US-bred, but Korean-trained, Blue Chipper in third.

Spun To Run is by Danzig’s son Hard Spun, a winner of six graded events, including the King’s Bishop Stakes (G1). He was also runner-up in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1).

Hard Spun set a new record for individual first-crop stakes winners on 17, including the champion three-year-old filly Questing.

He’s sired 56 stakes winners from nine northern-hemisphere crops, including one in Japan, and, in addition to Questing and Spun To Run, they include Grade 1 winners Wicked Strong, Hard Aces, Hardest Core, Zo Impressive, Out for A Spin and Smooth Roller.

He’s also been represented by Grade 1 winners Le Romain, Gatting and Ertijaal from his Australian-sired crops.

Spun To Run is out of the Grand Slam mare Yawkey Way, a stakes winner in New York-bred restricted company, and also dam of the California Oaks scorer Tap it All. The second dam Is Kylie Good is a winning-daughter of Touch Gold, and half-sister to the Canadian stakes winners Brushing Bully and Navajo Pearl.

Is Kylie Good is out of Assombrie, a Listed winner in France, and a sister to the Arlington-Washington Futurity (G1) scorer, All Fired Up. Anjelicco, the dam of Assombrie and All Fired Up, was a minor stakes winner, but is ancestress of several more notable horses, among them juvenile Grade 1 winners Awesome Humor and Competitive Edge, and current hot US freshman sire, Constitution.

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Covfefe has looked to be a star ever since scoring by over 9l on her debut as a juvenile last year.

The bay filly – named for the rather cryptic closing of a Twitter message from none other that most indefatigable of “tweeters,” President Donald J. Trump – faded to fourth in the Frizette Stakes (G1) on her only other two-year-old effort, but has more than fulfilled the promise of that initial run this term.

Going into the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mares Sprint (G1) she had won four of her five starts in 2019, including the Miss Preakness Stakes (G3) and Test Stakes (G1).

Covfefe represents another step in the seemingly inexorable climb to the top of the ladder by sire Into Mischief, who is winning his first North American sires’ crown in 2019.

By the Storm Cat grandson Harlan’s Holiday, Into Mischief is a half-brother to Beholder – successful in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), and two runnings of

Into Mischief sired two-time Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) captor Goldencents and six other stakes winners in his first crop of 47 foals the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) – and to Mendelssohn.

Into Mischief was a fast and precocious racehorse breaking his maiden over 6f first time out, finishing second in the Hollywood Prevue Stakes (G3), and then winning the CashCall Futurity (G1) in a quick time.

He ran second to juvenile Grade 1 winner Georgie Boy in the San Vicente Stakes (G3) first time out at three, but was then sidelined until autumn.

On his return he won the 7f Damascus Stakes in a another sharp time, defeating

Georgie Boy and subsequent Grade 1 winners Dancing In Silks and Gayego, then ended his career with a second in the Malibu Stakes (G1).

Starting at a relatively inexpensive fee, Into Mischief sired two-time Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) captor Goldencents and six other stakes winners in his first crop of 47 foals.

He’s now had eight crops of runners, and 58 stakes winners, including the other Grade 1 winners Practical Joke, Audible and Mia Mischief.

Covfefe’s dam, the Unbridled mare Antics, had previously produced the Grade 2-winning and Grade 1-placed Japanese performer Albiano to Into Mischief’s sire, Harlan’s Holiday.

Antics was unraced, but was a threequarters-sister to the Empire Maker Grade 1 winner Acoma, to Arch, a Grade 1 winner and successful sire, and to Festival Of Light, who took the Godolphin Mile (G3) and was Horse of the Year in the UAE. Her dam Aurora was a stakes-winning three-quarters sister to Green Desert.

The third dam, champion two-year-old filly Althea, is out of Courtly Dee, the ancestress of 100 stakes winners, 14 of them Grade 1, including the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) victor, Bayern.

Covfefe, nearside in navy and yellow, is daughter of Into Mischief, who is winning his first North American sires’ title in 2019

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Giant strides The Iron Horse is creating a substantial equine dynasty, headed by the success enjoyed in Europe this year by his sons Shamardal and Footstepsinthesand, writes Alan Porter

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Giant’s Causeway and Mick Kinane (right) beat Kalanisi and Pat Eddery in the Juddmonte International.

It was the penultimate Group 1 success for the Iron Horse through his run of five consecutive successes at the highest level in 2000

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T IS A USUAL PRESUMPTION that great sires tend to extend their sire lines through their most accomplished son, but history proves that often isn’t so.

If that were true, we’d be talking about Secretariat’s thriving branch of Bold Ruler, or the continued impact of Northern Dancer through the Nijinsky line, or the ascendancy of Raise A Native’s line through Majestic Prince, rather than Mr. Prospector.

But we aren’t and this isn’t a new pattern – in fact it’s persisted since the very beginnings of the breed.

Around 95 per cent of all thoroughbreds descend in male line from the Darley Arabian, but, rather than through the Darley Arabian’s son Flying Childers, generally regarded as the first great racehorse, that descent is via Flying Childers’s unraced brother Bartlet’s Childers, also known as Bleeding Childers.

Flying Childer’s male line disappeared from thoroughbred pedigrees in a handful of generations.

Similarly, an overwhelming majority of those current descendants of the Darley Arabian are from the Phalaris branch of that line. Although he was an accomplished sprinter, probably the best of his year at four, Phalaris would rate as inferior to sons of his sire Polymelus, horses such as the Triple Crown winner Pommern, Parth, successful in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, and Black Jester, successful in the St. Leger and Sussex Stakes – none of whom were outstanding sires.

One case in which logical order has prevailed is that of Storm Cat – he was leading sire in North America twice, and leading sire of two-year-olds a record seven times. His son Giant’s Causeway was undoubtedly his best racehorse, but is also by someway the most important stallion son.

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Giant’s Causeway embarked on the streak that was to earn him his “Iron Horse” title, his renowned battling qualities seeing him win five consecutive Group1s whose comeback from injury was sufficiently dramatic that it became the subject of the film Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story – Giant’s Causeway was from his sire’s ninth crop.

He went three-for-three as a juvenile establishing himself as one of the leaders of his crop with victories in the Futurity Stakes (G3) and Prix de la Salamandre (G1).

At three Giant’s Causeway won the Gladness Stakes (G3) on his reappearance, but went down by three and a half lengths to the mercurial, but exceptionally talented, King’s Best in the 2,000 Guineas (G1).

He then fell a neck shy of catching Bachir, who benefited from a smart front-running ride by Frankie Dettori, in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1).

Rebounding from those defeats, Giant’s Causeway embarked on the streak that was to earn him his “Iron Horse” title, his renowned battling qualities seeing him capture five consecutive Group 1s – the St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1), the Eclipse Stakes (G1), which he took over an extremely strong field

that included Kalanisi, Shiva, Sakhee and Fantastic Light – the Sussex Stakes (G1), the Juddmonte International Stakes (G1) and Irish Champion Stakes (G1).

On his farewell Giant’s Causeway tried Dirt for the first time in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and missed by just a neck to US Horse of the Year, Tiznow. That year’s champion US older horse Lemon Drop Kid and the Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Fusaichi Pegasus were behind.

After standing one season at Coolmore in Ireland, Giant’s Causeway moved to Coolmore’s American base Ashford Stud, Kentucky, where he resided until 2018, passing after a brief illness at the age of 21.

With his one Irish crop he was the leading European first-season sire and with his first Kentucky crop he was leading sire of two-year-olds in North America.

That first Irish crop pointed to what was to come. It produced 14 stakes winners who were a pretty talented bunch – dual French Classic winner Shamardal, the undefeated 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Footstepsinthesand, Maids Causeway, who won the Coronation Stakes (G1), My Typhoon, whose ten black-type wins in the US were headed by the Diana Stakes (G1), and another US-raced performer Aragorn, who took the Shoemaker Mile Stakes (G1) and Eddie Read Handicap (G1).

From that point on it was a story of going from strength-to-strength.

The leading sire in North America in 2009, 2010 and 2012, he also took his first title as leading broodmare sire in 2018.

If including his shuttle crops, Giant’s Causeway has sired 2,575 starters, 2,017 winners, 190 stakes winners (7.3 per cent stakes winners-to-foals, 9.4 per cent to starters), 112 group or graded winners (4.3 per cent to foals, 5.6 per cent to starters) and 33 Group or Grade 1 scorers.

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different countries, and on every continent.

The triumphs at the highest level, include juvenile stars, Classic performers and older horses, and at distances from 6f to the 2m4f of the Ascot Gold Cup. Giant’s Causeway’s best include Bricks And Mortar, who is a lock-in for the champion Turf horse title in the US in 2019 and a strong contender for a Horse of the Year award, Take Charge Brandi, a champion two-year-old filly in the US, Ghanaati, successful in the 1,000 Guineas (G1), Eishin Apollon, who took the Mile Championship (G1) in Japan. There are also horses such as Dalkala, a champion older mare in France, Giant Oak, Carpe Diem, Eskendereya, Heatseeker, Imaganing, Intense Focus, First Samurai, Intense Focus, Rite Of Passage, Penelopa, Frost Giant and Carrick.

So far close to 30 of Giant’s Causeway’s sons have sired stakes winners around the world with 23 represented by Group or graded winners, with 11 having sired Group or Grade 1 winners.

In addition to Shamardal, whom we will look at in greater detail, we can also note Eskendereya, who while not living up to the highest expectations in the US, has already left one son at stud, the runaway Metropolitan Handicap (G1) victor Mor Spirit.

He also has another who will be in demand as a first-year stallion in 2020, Mitole, a leading candidate for a title of champion sprinter in the US in 2019 after his Breeders’ Cup success in November.

There is also Footstepsinthesand, who although in the shadow of Shamardal until this year, has sired six Group or Grade 1 winners.

Footstepsinthesand, standing at Castlehyde Stud for Coolmore, at a commercial fee has had a cracking year with stand-out performances from Threat landing both the Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes (G2) and an explosive display from Mum’s Tipple when winning the Goffs UK Premier

Two stallions who have flown the flag in Europe for Giant’s Causeway in 2019: above, Darley’s Shamardal, and, below, Coolmore’s Footstepsinthesand, sire of the dual Group 2 winner Threat

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Giant’s Causeway’s 2019 Breeders’ Cup-winning son and grandson: above, Bricks And Mortar wins the Breeders’ Cup Turf, below, Mitole (Eskendereya) takes the Breeders’ Cup Sprint

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Sales Stakes. Further stakes performers include as Maries Diamond, Larchmont Lad and I Am Superman.

The stakes list by sons of Giant’s Causeway is likely to extend still further, as Giant’s Causeway has young US stallions Carpe Diem (first crop now two), Not This Time and Brody’s Cause (both with first runners in 2020) waiting in the wings, while his final crop of 38 foals will be three-year-olds of 2020.

As a broodmare sire, Giant’s Causeway has already arrived at the top of the pile.

He was leading broodmare sire in 2018, and currently stands third on that list this year.

So far Giant’s Causeway’s daughters have produced 123 stakes winners, 64 Group or Graded and 17 Group or Grade 1.

They are headed by Gun Runner (Candy Ride), the US Horse of the Year, whose first foals will be yearlings in 2020.

Another young sire out of a Giant’s Causeway mare is Hawkbill, whose victories included the Eclipse Stakes (G1) and Dubai Sheem Classic (G1). He will stand at Darley Japan in 2020 after serving his first year in Europe.

But if there is one horse who deserves a chapter of his own in the Giant’s Causeway story it’s Shamardal.

From Giant’s Causeway’s only European season, Shamardal was the major contributor to Giant’s Causeway’s first-crop sire championship.

Three for three as a juvenile, he scored by 8l on his debut before taking the Vintage Stakes (G2) by an untroubled two and a half lengths from the subsequent Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) winner, Wilko.

The season was completed with a two and a half length victory over Oratorio in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1), a performance that ensured Shamardal’s standing as the European champion two-year-old.

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Sent to winter in Dubai, Shamardal initially had the Kentucky Derby (G1) as his spring target, but that plan was buried in the Nad Al Sheba sand as he finished the better part of 50l behind the winner Blues And Royals in the UAE Derby (G2).

Re-routed to the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G2), Shamardal set out to make all in his customary style, and had just enough in hand to hold on by a head and a neck from Indesatchel and Gharir.

In the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) – run for the first time over 1m2f, instead of the traditional 1m4f – Shamardal, under a shrewd ride from Frankie Dettori, once again took the initiative from the off then slowed the pace before sprinting for home with around a furlong and a half to run.

With finishing pace at a premium Shamardal just lasted home by a neck from the fast-closing Hurricane Run, a true 1m4f horse who won the Irish Derby (G1) next time.

Shamardal closed out his career back at a mile in the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1).

Adopting his usual front-running role, Shamardal quickened clear of his field 3l from home, then coasted home 3l clear of Ad Valorem.

He was then targeted at the Eclipse Stakes (G1), but fractured a front fetlock joint and was retired to stand at Kildangan Stud. He also shuttled to Australia, where he actually stood his first season before commencing his European career.

In addition to a race-record that had earned him not only a European championship at two, but another as top miler of his crop at three, Shamardal also took to stud an impressive pedigree.

The outstanding son of Giant’s Causeway, he’s out of Helskinki, a stakes-placed full-sister to Street Cry by Machiavellian from of the Irish Oaks (G1) heroine, Helen Street.

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Shamardal has enjoyed a simply stellar 2019, represented by 20 individual stakes winners, of which five have scored at Group 1 level go. He was represented by ten stakes winners from 75 foals in his first Australian-sired crop, and was eventually responsible for 25 stakes winners, 11 graded from 293 Australianconceived foals, distributed over five crops.

Five of those scored at the highest level: Hong Kong superstar Able Friend won four Grade 1 events and was near the top of the World Racehorse Rankings, Faint Perfume’s successes included the VRC Oaks (G1) and STC Vinery Stud Stakes (G1), Maybe Discreet captured a SAJC Schweppervescence Stakes (G1), Delectation took the VRC Darley Classic (G1) and Captain Sonador earned an AJC Epsom Handicap (G1) win.

In the northern-hemisphere, Shamardal has had 117 stakes winners from 11 crops, including current two-year-olds.

Sixty-one of those are Group or graded winners, and 25 Group or gGrade 1 winners.

The best of his earlier crops included Lope De Vega, who emulated his sire with a Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) and Jockey-Club (G1) double, Dunboyne Express/Dan Excel and Pakistan Star, who were standouts in Singapore and Hong Kong, the Eclipse Stakes

(G1) victor Mukhadram, the French Group 1-winning fillies Speedy Boarding, Baltic Baroness and Sagawara, and the juvenile Group 1 winners Casamento and Lumiere.

Shamardal has enjoyed a simply stellar 2019, represented by 20 individual stakes winners, of which five have scored at Group 1 level.

One of these is the filly Castle Lady, who took the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1), but, more significantly as far as the extension of Giant’s Causeway’s influence is concerned, the other four are colts, three of whom are only two.

The older horse Blue Point, who was already established as one of the world’s top sprinters, was spectacular in 2019 with five straight wins, including the Al Quoz Sprint (G1), and Royal Ascot’s two premier sprint events, the King’s Stand Stakes (G1) and Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1).

A Group winner at two and three and also successful in the King’s Stand in 2018, Blue Point has retired to stand alongside his sire for 2020.

Although his pedigree is quite an outcross at five generations (and free of Sadler’s Wells and Danzig), Blue Point is bred on quite an interesting cross as his broodmare sire, the important speed influence Royal Applause, is a product of an extended version of the Northern Dancer/Bold Ruler cross that produced Storm Cat, who’s in the third generation of his sire line.

Shamardal’s other 2019 Group 1-winning colts – Pinatubo, Earthlight and Victor Ludorum – are all two-year-olds.

Pinatubo, out of a stakes-winning Dalakhani mare from the family of Invincible Spirit, has already achieved superstar status going undefeated through six starts, including the Chesham Stakes (L), the Vintage Stakes (G2), the National Stakes (G1) and the Dewhurst Stakes (G1).

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Earthlight, out of Winter’s Moon, a Group 1-placed New Approach daughter, with a Darshaan second dam, going back to the family of Golden Fleece and Be My Guest, is also undefeated.

He is five-for-five with successes in the Prix de Cabourg (G3), Prix Morny (G1) and Middle Park Stakes (G1).

Victor Ludorum, a half-brother to the Irish Oaks (G1) third Mary Tudor, is out of the Group-placed Antiquities, a daughter of the Kaldoun sire Kaldounevess. His second dam Historian, a stakes-winning daughter of Pennekamp, is a half-sister to Helsinki, dam of Shamardal so he is 3x3 to Helen Street.

Whatever the fate of Blue Point, Pinatubo, Earthlight and Victor Ludorum, Shamardal already has a worthy heir in Lope De Vega.

In addition to his Classic wins, Lope De Vega took to stud an interesting pedigree – his dam Lady Vettori, a juvenile Group winner and dam of three other black-type winners, is by Vettori, a son of Shamardal’s broodmare sire, Machiavellian.

Like his sire, Lope De Vega has shuttled to Australia and from his first four crops in the southern-hemisphere he has 15 stakes winners, six graded, and two Grade 1s.

His star Down Under is the sprinter Santa Ana Lane successful in five Grade 1 events and a horse with a fascinating pedigree, one that can be emulated in the northern-hemisphere.

He is out of a mare by Fastnet Rock, who is by Danehill. She is inbred to Natalma, the dam of Northern Dancer, where Machiavellian, twice in Lope De Vega’s pedigree, is out of a mare inbred to Natalma’s dam, Almahmoud. Fastnet Rock is out of a mare by Royal Academy, a close relative to Lope De Vega’s male-line ancestor Storm Cat. The pedigree also has a trio of similarlybred Northern Dancer sons Storm Bird, Nijinsky and Far North.

In the northern-hemisphere, Lope De Vega has six crops of three-year-olds and up.

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Lope De Vega now has a total of 50 northern-hemisphere sired stakes winners, 27 Group/Graded, including Phoenix Of Spain He led off with a remarkable first crop that produced 16 black-type scorers, including the European champion two-year-old Belardo (out of a Danehill mare, so another with a considerable Almahmoud build-up), successful in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and the Lockinge Stakes (G1), and The Right Man, who took the Al Quoz Sprint (G1).

Lope De Vega now has a total of 50 northern-hemisphere-sired stakes winners, 27 Group/Graded, including Phoenix Of Spain, successful in this year’s Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1). There is also Newspaperofrecord, a brilliant winner of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), the Prix d’Ispahan (G1) scorer Zabeel Prince, Capla Temptress, winner of the Natalma Stakes (G1) in Canada and Jemayel, who took the Prix Saint-Alary (G1).

Out of a mare by Key Of Luck (a Chief’s Crown three-quarters brother to Anabaa), Phoenix Of Spain retires to stand at the Irish National Stud for 2020.

Five other sons of Shamardal have also already sired stakes winners.

Casamento has had ten stakes winners in his first four crops, five Group class, including Australian Grade 1 winner Kings Will Dream,

and Italian Oaks (G2) winner Lamaire.

Another European-based son Mukhadram has A Bit Special, successful three times in US black-type contests among them the Sweetest Chant Stakes (G3).

The Australian-based Captain Sonador is represented by Hong Kong Grade 1 winner Seasons Bloom, the Gingerbread Man got the stakes-winning and Grade 1-placed Achernar Star from his first crop, and the New Zealandbased Shamoline Warrior has black-type winner (My) Nikita.

Other young Shamardal sons include Germany’s champion miler Amaron, who had first two-year-olds this year with seven winners and two stakes-placed runners, including the Prix des Reservoir (G3) runnerup Run Wild.

The French-based Prix Ganay (G1) victor Dariyan and the Group 2-winning miler Bow Creek both had first yearlings in 2019.

In Ireland, French Navy, a Group or stakes winner every year from two to seven, had his first yearlings this year.

Shamardal is also emerging as a good broodmare sire, and already appears in the pedigrees of 26 stakes winners, 11 Group/ Graded. They include the Irish Derby (G1) victor Latrobe, Pretty Pollyanna, who took the Prix Morny (G1), the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Awtaad, who has first yearlings, and the Haydock Sprint Cup (G1) scorer Hello Youmzain who will be at stud in 2020.

The development of this branch of the sire-line in Europe could lead to some interesting pedigrees, notably involving Gleneagles, who is out of a sister to Giant’s Causeway, Street Cry, the sister to the dam of Shamardal, and Invincible Spirit and his family, who seem to be a reoccurring presence here.

There is no doubt that Giant’s Causeway – the best runner and stallion for his sire – has cast a great light, and looking to the future, that light seems set to grow brighter still.

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Fine for Dandy Aisling Crowe meets Joe Foley to chat about his stallion Dandy Man, the best value stallion at stud in Europe, and to introduce new Ballyhane Stud sire Soldier’s Call

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NE OF THE MOST INTERESTING, and revealing, statistics from this year’s Weatherby’s Return of Mares was the popularity of Ballyhane Stud’s Dandy Man. The 16-year-old was the fifth busiest Flat stallion in Britain and Ireland, covering 215 mares, with only Sioux Nation, Kingman, Australia and Zoffany busier than the son of Mozart.

That increased level of demand for Dandy Man was partly driven by the success of his two-year-old daughters La Pelosa and Lady Kaya in 2018 with the former winning the Grade 1 Natalma Stakes becoming her sire’s second Group 1 winner.

Meanwhile, Lady Kaya showed herself to be a filly of the highest class with her second place in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes for the Lavery family.

“He gets more and more popular every year, we stood him at €12,500 last year and it could have been considerably more given the level of demand for him,” reveals Joe Foley,

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manager of Ballyhane Stud.

“We didn’t set out to cover 215 mares but we could have covered 350 with the demand for him!

“We had to disappoint lots and lots of people but we also had to accommodate the people who have been using him over the years and had success with him – that’s how we got to a figure of 215.

“We have raised his fee to €15,000 for 2020 this year but demand remains high.”

The clamour for Dandy Man wasn’t driven solely by his high-profiled daughters as an analysis of his own performance shows.

A Group 3 winner over 5f in the Palace House Stakes, the son of Mozart was a Group 1 performer who was unlucky not to

win at least one sprint at the highest level with podium places in the Nunthorpe and King’s Stand Stakes.

Breeders, and buyers, have recognised the talent he transmits to his offspring, and as they continue to win, Dandy Man receives better bred mares every year.

Foley concurs: “His crops have continued to improve, especially over the last four years and you can see it in each crop that he breeds. This year’s yearling crop is better than last year’s, but 2018’s yearling crop has produced some good two year-olds and he has his highest number of two-year-old wins this year.

“His three-year-old crop is very strong, too, his two-year-old crop looks strong and his

yearling crop looks stronger again so it is no surprise that people are chasing that upward curve as he increases his profile.

“He also gets very good-looking stock as well which obviously makes them popular at the sales,” he adds. “They are lovely, commercial, good-looking, good-walking, very correct and he stamps them very well so he is sort of a safe bet to breed to.

“Importantly, as well, his fillies tend to be very good and sell well so lots of people come to him and say they don’t mind whether they get a colt or a filly, there are not too many stallions you can say that about.

“Bearing all that in mind, when I think of the fee we have pitched him at compared to his yearling prices and what he can attain at

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Dandy Man’s two Group 1 winners: above, Peniaphobia and, right, La Pelosa

the sales, it is no surprise that he has been popular and continues to be popular.”

On all metrics, Dandy Man outperforms his fee and offers outstanding value for money.

He sits third in the leading sires’ table by winners in Britain and Ireland this year with the two stallions above him – Kodiac and Dark Angel – standing for multiples of the 16-year-old’s 2019 fee of €12,500, the highest he has commanded.

Behind him in the list are the elite, and expensive stallions – Galileo, Dubawi, Sea The Stars, Shamardal, Lope De Vega and Kingman – all have sired fewer winners than Dandy Man and all command significantly higher premiums.

Juvenile success, precocity and speed are the attributes most demanded of stallions in the current market.

A glance at the leading sires of two-yearolds table brings the facts into even more stark relief. Only Kodiac has sired more two-year-old winners than Dandy Man in Britain and Ireland this year and behind him sit the tried and tested, as well as the new kids on the block.

Only Kodiac has sired more two-year-old winners than Dandy Man in Britain and Ireland this year At the sales, Dandy Man comes up trumps again and again for breeders and pin-hookers alike and that is being recognised in the growing presence of Dandy Man’s yearlings in the premium sales.

At Doncaster’s Premier Yearling Sale this year the Hong Kong Jockey Club paid £170,000 for a full-brother to Group 3 winner and Group 1 Nunthorpe third Extortionist. He was on the cusp of a glorious career in Hong Kong at four, but died before he could become another Group 1 winner for Dandy Man.

Dandy Man has done exceptionally well in Hong Kong so it was no surprise to see Michael Kinane, the HKJC’s new European representative, sign for another Dandy Man colt at Tattersalls Ireland’s September Yearling Sale.

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dandy man of 2019 were sold at the Goffs Orby Sale where the sire’s average was €119,600, a seriously impressive figure when you consider that his covering fee in 2017 was just €10,000.

The top price of €220,000 was given for the first foal out of the Listed Heritage Stakes winner Lily’s Angel, purchased by Sackville Donald, and from the family of the sire’s Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint winner Peniaphobia.

Just €10,000 less was a filly out of a half-sister to Soviet Song and from the family of Marsha who went to Pattern Bloodstock.

At October Book 1 Dandy Man had two yearlings make 100,000gns and his average for the sale was 93,333gns.

Trainer Ed Dunlop paid 100,000gns for a half-brother to Listed-placed Sagaciously from the family of Group 1 winners Sagamix, Sagacity, Sageburg and Japan, while Ben McElroy bought a half-sister to Group 3-placed Alba Power, from the Aga Khan family of Shemima, Shakeel and Shimraan for the same figure.

“I think importantly Dandy Man was a very good racehorse – he may only have won a Group 3 on paper but he was a proper Group 1 horse,” reasons Foley. “He was just chinned in the King’s Stand on two different occasions; he was a horse with an awful lot of ability and was a well-bred horse out of a very fast mare who beat King Of Kings in the Anglesey and won the Molecombe, which is why I was very keen to have him.”

Foley then makes a neat segue into talking of Ballyhane Stud’s new recruit for 2020.

“That brings us to Soldier’s Call.

He has a similar profile – he was a fast horse with a lot of ability who is a Group 1 horse by a very good stallion, a potent stallion, in Showcasing and, similarly to Dandy Man, the mare was a very fast mare.

“She won the Listed Prix la Fleche and was third in the Grade 3 Railbird Stakes.

Interestingly, his second dam won her maiden by three and a half lengths and was favourite for the Molecomb, but broke down and never won again.

“His fourth dam won the Queen Mary and the Flying Childers Stakes and was placed in the Cheveley Park Stakes.”

The speed influences in Soldier’s Call’s pedigree are clear to see. His dam Dijarvo was the third-highest

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rated runner by the ill-fated Coventry Stakes winner Iceman, a Cheveley Park Stud home-bred son of the top-class sprinter and leading sire Polar Falcon, and a three-parts brother to the Lockinge Stakes winner Virtual.

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OLDIER’S CALL emulated his great-great-grandmother by winning the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and was also successful in the Group 3 Prix d’Arenberg and the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at two, a first Royal Ascot winner for trainer Archie Watson and owner Steve Parkin.

He was a neck third in the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye and at three was placed in the King’s Stand, Nunthorpe and Flying Five Stakes.

Soldier’s Call is a son of Showcasing, who is fast becoming a highly-prized progenitor of class and speed.

His leading offspring so far include this year’s leading three-year-old sprinter Advertise, and Quiet Reflection, who was his

first winner of the Commonwealth Cup (G1).

Soldier’s Call is the highest-rated son of Showcasing to retire to stud in Ireland and, as he is a member of the Oasis Dream branch of the Green Desert sire line, it makes him a valuable commodity in Ireland, where sons and grandsons of the July Cup winner are thin on the ground.

“He seems to have captured people’s imagination, he is a very good-looking horse as well so he has a lot of similarities with Dandy Man,” says Foley.

“He’s a high-class horse from a high-class speed family by a very good stallion and a similar type to Dandy Man as well.

“He is a very good-looking horse with a great action and is very correct as well, the type of horse I like buying at the yearling sales. He has a beautiful temperament to match and he had that in training too; he has a brilliant attitude and is a very relaxed horse and I think that is a huge asset in a stallion prospect,” Foley says of his new stallion.

“I am looking forward to building his career. We will support him in the breeding shed and the sales ring, but we will be very interested to see his stock selling in the ring.

Let’s hope he is lucky,” he adds.

With the established Dandy Man’s best yet to come and the exciting Soldier’s Call joining him in Leighlinbridge, it is shaping up to be a thrilling New Year for Ballyhane Stud.

Soldier’s Call: the fast son of Showcasing wins the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes

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Melissa Bauer-Herzog profiles the successful dual-hemisphere Winstar Farm and Vinery Stud stallion More And Ready, closing in on 200 stakes winners sired

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NE OF THE BEST SIRES IN HISTORY More Than Ready has continuously created new benchmarks throughout his career, and he doesn’t look like stopping any time soon.

The stallion was part of the team that trainer Todd Pletcher sent to run in the Kentucky Derby, a first attempt on the race for the trainer. More Than Ready finished fourth, 5l behind race winner Fusaichi Pegasus.

He went on to win the King’s Bishop Stakes (G1) and proved to be an extremely versatile horse when winning or placing in stakes races from 5f to 1m1f.

It was this show of versatility that led to another chapter written in More Than Ready’s book – Vinery Stud, Australia purchased breeding rights to stand the sire through the southern-hemisphere season.

Now, some 20 years later, that has led to the stallion making history – he leads all sires by number of seasons shuttled and number of winners sired.

“He loves the travel and has done it for 19 consecutive seasons,” says Adam White, Vinery Stud’s bloodstock manager.

“I think the next highest number of shuttle seasons is 15.

He just loves it and although the time will come for him to stop, I certainly believe keeping the horse active ensures he remains healthy and overall a happy horse.”

A popular stallion with breeders in both the US and Australia, More Than Ready leads all stallions by winners with 1,846 sired as of November 11.

The stallion also reached an amazing achievement in early November when his daughter Uni won the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) to become his seventh Breeders’ Cup winner.

That number puts him at the top of the Breeders’ Cup list ahead of champions such as Sadler’s Wells and Unbridled’s Song, who he has been tied with since 2017.

For WinStar Farm, More Than Ready’s northern-hemisphere home, Uni’s victory was a headlining event.

And this year’s Breeders’ Cup was made even sweeter as two of his daughters also produced winners over the tw0-day meeting.

“First, we were thrilled for the connections of Uni – Haras D’Etreham, Chad’s team and the ownership group,” said Liam O’Rourke, WinStar’s director of stallion sales.

“It was a very proud and exciting day for everyone involved in More Than Ready. It’s a massive achievement as the Breeders’ Cup is the pinnacle of racing and to win at the meeting you have to beat the world.

“He’s a remarkable horse, tough with great desire. There’s an intangible asset that he passes along, in addition to speed and quality.

It’s a great recipe.”

An even more exciting milestone is within reach of the stallion – at the time of writing, More Than Ready is just one away from the 200 stakes winners mark.

For White, the stallion’s global success comes back to the sire’s versatility.

“He was an exceptional twoyear-old and this

Uni: More Than Ready’s Breeders’ Cup Mile winner. The sire has produced seven Breeders’ Cup winners, more than any other stallion

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The son of Southern Halo has shuttled to Australia for a record-breaking 19 consecutive years

certainly helped him be such a success in the southern-hemisphere,” explains White. “He has produced two Golden Slipper winners, a Blue Diamond winner and two Magic Millions winners, as well as numerous other Group 1-winning juveniles here in Australia.

“This is so important to our industry here. The fact that he is the only stallion to be crowned champion two-year-old sire in Australia and the US is another great achievement.

“More Than Ready is not just a great sire of juveniles – he has numerous Derby and Oaks winners in both hemispheres, as well as many great milers and sprinters. His stock are versatile and this is what has made him such a wonderful stallion worldwide.”

Every year the More Than Ready stallion teams in both hemispheres have the welcome problem of dealing with too many applications from breeders.

White has been involved in his stallion career from the beginning and has enjoyed watching him rise to prominence with some of the best mares in the world visiting his court.

“In the early days it certainly created a lot of work, which was nice,” he says.

“I remember when his first crop started racing, he had some good success early and we set his fee at A$40,000.

“Soon after his daughter Carry On Cutie

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“More Than Ready is not just a great sire of juveniles – he has numerous Derby and Oaks winners in both hemispheres, as well as many great milers won the Champagne Stakes (G1) and he ended that season with a record six individual stakes winners in a first crop.

“That resulted in over 500 applications – you can imagine the work involved in sorting through that!

“But booking mares to him has certainly been a highlight of the job when you consider he has covered some of the best mares to race here in Australia such as Makybe Diva and Black Caviar.”

More Than Ready continues to have great fertility, even as he approaches his 22nd birthday, but both farms have modified how they handle his books to ensure he has the best chance of success with smaller numbers.

For WinStar that includes trying to get history to repeat itself by working with crosses the farm knows have been successful.

“We look at the patterns that he’s had success with over the years both in pedigree and physical,” says O’Rourke. “We target a certain number of mares each year that we think will suit him best and lead to the next Group and Grade 1 horses for him.

“He is extremely popular, but, unfortunately, we can’t accommodate every request for him so it can be a bit tricky in that respect. It’s fun because we get to see a lot of nice mares. Typically, stallions lose a little popularity into their 20s, but he’s only getting stronger.”

The smaller books mean both farms have to reject more mares than they accept, but White says that just having More Than Ready on the farm’s roster has been extremely important for getting mares to the younger stallions as well.

“I can not put into words what this horse has done for our farm and our brand over many, many years,” he explains.“He was a foundation stallion here at Vinery and his achievements have no doubt helped our image and also that of our stallion roster.

“I think an important part of this is that he was introduced here at a modest fee. He started in Australia at a fee of A$20,000 and quickly elevated after being crowned champion first-season sire.

“Good stallions like him make the phone ring, and when the phone rings it certainly helps us to direct some traffic to the younger stallions.”

While the management of More Than Ready and the mares he breeds changes a little depending on the hemisphere he is in, both farms’ feelings are much the same.

Both White and O’Rourke echoed each other by saying their love for the stallion is one of the reasons they are so proud of what he has achieved.

“I feel very privileged to have worked with him throughout his career,” says White.

“When I first joined Vinery he was a young three-year-old and we felt he would be perfect for the large number of Danehill line mares we had here in Australia.

“That certainly became the case and more.

He went on to win the King’s Bishop a few months after we secured him and of course the rest is history.”

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Sally Ann Grassick chats with Angus Gold, who has been racing manager for Sheikh Hamdam Al Maktoum’s Shadwell Stud for 33 years

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FTER 33 YEARS AS RACING MANAGER to Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Shadwell operation, Angus Gold is a well-known figure at racecourses and sales complexes around the globe. It is admirable longevity in a sometimes fickle business, and it was a significant role for the young 26-yearold Gold to be handed in the 1980s.

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“The fact that I am still here 33 years later is a testament to how patient and loyal Sheikh Hamdan is to have put up with me for all those years!” laughs the typically modest Gold.

“I suppose I just happened to be at the right place at the right time. I had no family in racing when I was growing up, but I always loved watching it on television and I loved riding horses. Ian Balding was the nearest

trainer to us at home so I went to ride out for him when I was about 18.

“He was very kind to me and that is where I learnt to ride a racehorse as I hadn’t a clue what I was doing! I went from there to Charlie Milbank in Chantilly where I had four fantastic months before returning to the UK where I completed the English National Stud course.

“My parents then felt it was time for me

angus gold Battaash wins the Group 2 King George Qatar Stakes for the third year in succession.

The Dark Angel gelding, bought as a yearling by Shadwell from Ballyphilip Stud for 200,000gns, really came of age in 2019.

He went on from Glorious Goodwood to win the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York setting a new course record and lowering Dayjur’s 1990 winning time by 0.26sec.

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to get a proper job so I went and did four years in the insurance world in London,” he continues. “I realised that the City life was not for me and I was very lucky when a decent man named Michael Oswald, who ran the Queen’s stud at Sandringham, took me on as a student.

“During my time there I went to the BBA for the winter, to help out at the sales, and later they asked me to

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angus gold come back and work for them; which I did for four years.

“Sheikh Hamdan happened to be looking for a racing manager, a role which until then had been covered by the two stud managers in Ireland and England. The BBA was tasked with finding someone for the job, and luckily they came up with me.”

Now with those 30-odd years working for Shadwell and having had such a close relationship with Sheikh Hamdan, Gold has the chance to reflect a little on changing times.

“I could never have imagined back then that I would still be there today. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. It was expanding so fast that I don’t think anyone knew, including Sheikh Hamdan, at that stage just how big it was going to get,” he reflects.

“I used to speak to Sheikh Hamdan every single day during the racing season but obviously Dubai has gotten much bigger and he has a very full time role now as the minister for finance.

“Nowadays I try not to bother him so much, but he is still incredibly hands on.

He seems to be more enthusiastic now than he was in the beginning, which was proven by his presence at the yearling sales over the past few months and how many horses he bought.”

The latter part of the last century saw something of a golden period for Shadwell with superstar stallions such as Green Desert, Nashwan and Unfuwain all standing at Nunnery Stud. However, as has been the case for so many studs, replacing champion sires with new champions is no easy task.

“Every stud would love to be developing stallions; you just have to look at the success of Coolmore, Juddmonte or Darley; that is what everybody would like to do,” reflects Gold, adding: “I think we have all learned over the years that it isn’t just as easy as that!

“Sheikh Hamdan’s greatest pleasure comes from his home breeding operation, but obviously that started with horses who were bought from the sales. The success of a homebred horse such as Muhaarar or Taghrooda gives him the most satisfaction, particularly as he loves to see them all as foals and yearlings the whole way along. It’s the culmination of a lot of work and planning.”

Even though Sheikh Hamdan is now so busy in Dubai with his ministerial role, the boss still makes the most important decisions himself, and loves the thrill of the autumn sales season.

“Every single mating goes through Sheikh

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Sheik Hamdan: still derives as much pleasure from going to the sales as ever and he selected the record-breaking Dark Angel filly in Book 2 purchased by Shadwell for 825,000gns

Hamdan, just the same as no yearling gets allocated to a trainer without his say so,” explains the racing manager. “For example, he was the one who personally picked out the record-breaking Dark Angel filly from Ballyhimikin Stud in Book 2 and he has instructed me that he will allocate her to a trainer himself. I think he is still so passionate about the whole business because he is so involved in it.

“Sheikh Hamdan is equally as involved in the yearling selection process and he loves to come to the sales. There is a whole team involved in the selection and he likes to see the yearlings we have come up with.”

Shadwell has been such an influence in the sale ring – each year approximately 15 yearlings are bought in October Book 1 with numbers increasing to 30-50 purchases in Book 2. Shadwell has been leading buyer through the second week of the Tattersalls October yearling sale every year since 2014.

In recent years purchases at the GoffsUK Premier Sale have also hit double figures, with a substantial handful also bought at the Goffs Orby Sale, too.

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OLD, of course, is the one who ultimately produces that short list for the Sheikh to view, and as Shadwell’s European purchasing results testify, there is a certain type of horse that Gold likes to buy.

“As for my own yearling selection process; you have to take every sale and horse on its own merits,” he explains. “If you have had luck with one particular vendor or family before then you have a tendency to go back there, but you have to like the horse as well.

“I find it fascinating to see yearlings out of a mare that I may have previously seen ten progeny out of, and to go back and look at my notes to compare them. That is part of what Sheikh Hamdan loves about the sales, too.

“He said to me once this year, while looking at a yearling, that it was much better than the yearling out of the mare the previous year!

“I was thinking how on earth does he remember that? He has an amazing memory for horses.”

Gold’s longevity at Shadwell has given him a perspective on the stud and its horses,

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“I have been lucky to work with some amazing horses during my time at Shadwell,” he recalls. “Sheikh Hamdan would say the best horse he has bred is Nashwan, he did something that no horse had ever done before.

“It was in the early days of Shadwell and he was out of Height Of Fashion, who quickly became Sheikh Hamdan’s favourite mare.

She did so much for him in also producing Unfuwain and Nayef; we still have plenty of females from the family on the stud too.

“Other highlights for me would have to be Salsabil and Dayjur, as well as Taghrooda and Muhaarar in more recent times. Enbihaar has been a bit of a star for us this year and Battaash has kept the flag flying recently,” he says.

“I find it fascinating to see yearlings out of a mare that I may have previously seen ten progeny out of, and to go back and look at my notes to compare them

Above, Sheikh Hamdan’s favourite mare Height Of Fashion. She was bought by Sheikh Hamdan from The Queen for 1.5 million guineas mid-way through her three-year-old career.

As a broodmare for Shadwell she produced the 2,000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Nashwan (below), Nayef, who won the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, the Juddmonte International, the Dubai Sheema Classic and the Champion Stakes, and Unfuwain, winner of the Princess of Wales’s Stakes and Jockey Club Stakes. She has also produced three further minor stakes horses

Of the Charlie Hills-trained rocket by Dark Angel, Gold reports: “He is on a break now and will have a similar race plan next year.

He takes a bit of minding as his knees aren’t the best. He puts so much into his races both physically and mentally that personally I don’t think he is a horse that you can run every three weeks.

“He has grown up a lot and was much calmer this year. It was wonderful to have Sheikh Hamdan there to see such a fantastic performance from him at York. Hopefully, the same enthusiasm will be there when he returns to the track next year.”

Even with the numbers of horses in training that Shadwell has on a global scale finding those stand-out runners is difficult,

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angus gold and producing Classic horses tough. With the changing horizons for breeders and greater emphasis on the commercial breeding, it is difficult to find the middle-distance horses at the sales.

“We have a huge number of horses in training worldwide and, although we had a lot of winners this year, in my opinion, we were very much down in the quality of three-yearolds,” says Gold.

“In the old days we always had seven or eight promising two-year-olds going into the winter of which two would not train on or get hurt, three of which would be just fair, three would be pretty good and two would be very good. That is generalising it a bit, but that’s what it used to feel like.

“Even somebody with the resources of Sheikh Hamdan doesn’t want to be waiting until something is a four-year-old; with the prize-money the way it is

Gold’s own stand-out horses have been Salsabil, the champion sprinter Dayjur (above) and, Taghrooda (below).

Salsabil won five Group 1 races – the Prix Marcel Boussac, the 1,000 Guineas, the Irish Derby and the Prix Vermeille.

Dayjur won the Group 2 Temple Stakes, the King’s Stand (then a Group 2), the Nunthorpe, the Sprint Cup, the Prix de l’Abbaye and famously finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

Taghrooda, by Sea The Stars, won the Oaks, the King George and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, finished second in the Yorkshire Oaks and the third in the Arc de Triomphe to Treve.

She has had one runner so far – Almighwar (Dubawi) who has had one outing in a two-year-old maiden. She had a colt foal this year by Muhaarar and is back in-foal to Dubawi.

“We haven’t had the big selection of potentially nice three-year-old Classic horses for the last two or three years. There are obviously various reasons for that, but one thing, in particular, is that at the sales it is now very hard to go out and buy lots of potentially really nice middle-distance horses.

“So many people are breeding now for the commercial market; lots of Dark Angels, Exceed And Excels and Kodiacs to name just a few because they sell well, but you’re never going to be winning Derbys with those.

“Sheikh Hamdan likes trainers to buy horses that they like at the GoffsUK Premier Sale or October Book 2 and, of course, a trainer is going to go out and find something that he thinks looks sharp.

“Even somebody with the resources of Sheikh Hamdan doesn’t want to be waiting until something is a four-year-old; with the

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angus gold prize-money the way it is in this part of the world it simply isn’t a viable proposition.

“We have to be careful to try and keep a healthy balance of our own mares to go to stallions such as Sea The Stars, Frankel, Dubawi and Lope De Vega, stallions who are potentially going to get you high-class mile upwards horses.”

Juggling that need for precocity, the requirement for prize-money earnings, as well as trying to produce Classic-type horses from a large broodmare band is a continual quest.

“It is a very fine balance because obviously those Classic races are the ones we want to be winning,” explains Gold. “We are constantly trying to find those horses, to keep the quality of our broodmares up, to mate them properly to find the right balance genetically and then hoping they can run.

“The fact that Taghrooda was already five years ago just shows that we don’t have horses like her every year sadly.”

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HADWELL’s policy has been to retire the best of the home-bred colts to the stallion roster, but if the quality of those horses is below-par, is Gold tempted to look elsewhere for new recruits?

“Over the years we have discussed buying a top colt to be a stallion and, very occasionally, Sheikh Hamdan will look at a horse with a view to buying it, but on the whole he breeds a lot and buys so many yearlings that normally he is content to let them show what they are capable Shadwell stallions: Muhaarar (below) and, right, Tasleet

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“I would sincerely love for us to come up with a good stallion for Sheikh Hamdan of,” explains Gold. “Funnily enough I do remember trying to get him to buy Hurricane Run in his three-year-old year, but, for various reasons, he didn’t at the time.

“Muhaarar was our big hope going into this year, but the perception going around the sales the past couple of months has been that he has been a bit disappointing.

“For me, his progeny looked immature as yearlings and they are proving not to be precocious on the track, but I have liked the quality of his winners and they’ve won decent races. I think next year will be his year. Although he was a champion sprinter, he often hit a flat spot in his races and looked like he would stay further, so I’m not convinced that he will be breeding sprinters on the whole.”

Shadwell currently has a very young stallion band – at Nunnery Stud, Muhaarar stands alongside fellow Group 1 winner Mukhadram, who had his first threeyear-olds this year, Tasleet, who has first foals to come in 2020, and new recruit Eqtidaar.

Derrinstown Stud in Ireland also stands young sires in Markaz and the Irish Guineas winner Awtaad, both who had first yearlings in 2019, as well as Haatef and stalwart Tamayuz.

“I think Tamayuz is one of the most

under-rated stallions at stud in Europe,” says Gold of the sire of four Group 1 winners. “He comes up with a decent horse nearly every year at a sensible fee.

“We haven’t hit the board yet with a real good stallion, but that’s what we have to strive to come up with.”

So what does the future hold for Shadwell and Gold?

“I don’t see any major shift in policy in any one direction for Shadwell in the near future. Sheikh Hamdan has put so much into the business that we all strive to get him as much success as possible. He measures his enjoyment in the success of Shadwell. I would sincerely love for us to come up with a good stallion for Sheikh Hamdan.

“You only have to look at what Prince Khalid and the Juddmonte team have done in producing so many good horses by their own stallions, it would be fantastic to be able to do that.

“We will also strive to update our broodmare band and the quality of our horses as a whole, that is where the strength of the operation will lie in years to come.”

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Phoenix Of Spain winning the Irish 2,000 Guineas by 3 lengths from Too Darn Hot, Skardu and Magna Grecia

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Bearstone Stud has long been a nurturing ground for speedy horses and the farm got its rewards with Glass Slippers’ Abbaye win in October. We chat to owner Terry Holdcroft

Glass Slippers after her Abbaye success. The daughter of Dream Ahead stays in training for 2020

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HE BEARSTONE STUD TEAM and owner Terry Holdcroft have been producing quality sprinters for over 30 years at the tranquil farm in Shropshire, but the success gained by the three-yearold Glass Slippers in this October’s Prix de l’Abbaye was the first Group 1 winner bred by Bearstone and owned by Holdcroft.

When the rains came in France this autumn, the landmark achievement might very nearly have not happened at all.

“Her first run of the season was over 7f in a Group 3 at Newbury, it was soft ground. She lost both her front shoes and trailed in last,” recalls Holdcroft of his one-time Guineas hope.

“We decided then she did not want soft ground – it was one thing that trainer Kevin Ryan said all summer ‘if there is one thing we don’t want to do, is run her on soft ground,” smiles Holdcroft.

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The filly’s form picked up after that disappointing seasonal start with a fifth and a second in Listed races and then a fourth in the Group 3 Summer Stakes. The decision to make the Group 1 entry was made in the middle of summer, and before the filly had even been successful in a stakes race.

“I rang Kevin up and said, ‘You are going to think I am absolutely bonkers, but I want you to put her in the Abbaye!’,” laughs the breeder. “He said ‘alright’ – I expected him to say I think you’re mad because I thought I was mad, her form at the time didn’t warrant the entry.

“After that she won her Listed and then a Group 3 in France. She won that in 55 seconds, which is pretty good – I don’t think Mind Games ever did that over 5f.

“She came from last to first in the last furlong, it was a far more impressive run than the Abbaye.”

After that performance the Group 1 entry

Bearstone Stud: the farm is naturally sheltered and has its own spring water used to supply the horses

proved to have been a fortuitous plan, and the sprint target on Arc weekend was set.

But the gathering clouds over France put Group 1 participation into doubt.

“The ground went soft and we thought we had no chance,” says Holdcroft, though the attractions of a weekend in Paris for the Arc helped make a decision to run.

“We had booked in the hotel so we thought we might as well go and enjoy the weekend, just go and have some fun and a good time.”

The rest as they say is history. The filly jumped the stalls quickly – unlike in most of

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speed her previous runs – went to the front of her field and was never headed.

“I was standing in the paddock and watching the race with my wife Margaret and said, ‘Where is she?’ So often Glass Slippers had been slowly out of the stalls and I was looking at the back of the field for her and could not see her, but Margaret said, ‘She’s in front!’ And then she just flew and never saw another horse. It was her day.”

Glass Slippers is a third generation Bearstone Stud-bred filly, and at the tine of writing one of an amazing 56 winners bred by

Bearstone in 2019, 879 since 1994. The vast majority of those wins have come in races under 7f; since an early ownership foray with NH horses sprinters have always been the focus of Holdcroft’s and Bearstone’s breeding operation.

“I do like the sprinters,” admits Holdcroft.

“Tim Easterby tells me if I watched a field go past a winning post twice, I’d be dizzy!”

Holdcroft bought Bearstone after having previously crossed the land on the back of his hunter, the sheltered aspect of the land and with its own spring water appealing to

him for future ownership. The farm was then just 17 acres, but has since been expanded to 350 acres and includes state-of-the-art stud buildings, found on three sites.

And while racehorse ownership began with store horse purchases in Ireland and NH horses, the injury issues involved in the jumping game led the owner to pursue Flat race ownership; a first race filly going on to becoming the foundation broodmare.

Since then the operation has expanded to include a significant broodmare band, which includes boarding mares, and has become

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bearstone stud a stallion farm in the 1980s. It possesses a longevity in the industry that means Holdcroft has seen significant changes in the stallion market.

“The first stallion we had was Pussiance,” he recalls. “And that is how things have changed – if I remember rightly he had 50 mares and he had eight winners and he was leading first-season sire!

“Then we got Mind Games and he would have had a few more mares, but not a lot more, and he was leading first-season sire, too.

“Then Indesatchel came along, and he was leading first-season sire, too, and he didn’t have a mountain of mares either.

“Then you didn’t need a mountain of mares to get the first-season sires’ title and that’s how things have changed, dramatically and in not a very long time.

“Now to be a leading first-season sire you need between 20 and 25 winners, but you can only get that if you’ve had 150 mares or more,” exclaims the stud owner, exasperatedly adding: “People in this industry, and this always amazes me, they look at how many winners a sire has had but they don’t care to look how many mares he has seen, as if that doesn’t matter. It’s crucial!

“In any business if you are looking at statistics, you should be looking at all the

“Now to be a leading first-season sire you need between 20 and 25 winners, but you can only get that if you’ve had 150 mares or more statistics before you can take a view. I never hear anyone in the industry say ‘yes that leading sire has had 20 winners but he’s had 200 mares, but, take a look at the stallion in sixth, he only had 70!’

“I think that the US Jockey Club suggestion and ideas of limiting stallions to 140 mares and not limiting the first-season sires, it doesn’t seem a ridiculous idea to me.”

Holdcroft’s former day job was as managing director of the Holdcroft Group, a car business he began as just a 20-year-old. The company has grown

Washington DC: the fast and precocious son of Zoffany saw around 80 mares last year

in tandem with Bearstone and now has 22 outlets and employs 650 staff. It has remained as a family business – Holdcroft’s son Darren is now the managing director, while his father still goes into work everyday.

“The car business is a very competitive industry, as the horse industry is,” reflects Holdcroft. “But we look at statistics a lot, a lot more carefully than the horseracing industry seems to. We have to ask all the time how many are we selling in an area? What are we selling? How long are they taking to sell?

Do the cars need moving on?

“We are measuring against proper information on a daily, weekly and certainly monthly basis – all the time,” he explains.

“In the motor industry you are lucky if you make one per cent on turnover, you have got to be on the ball. You go one per cent the wrong way and get 101 per cent on overheads, then you face losing a fortune.

“Most people who are successful in the motor industry are really big on statistics,”he adds.

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HE BUSINESSMAN has brought his expertise and money-managing skills into his bloodstock programme, and for Holdcroft breeding a successful horse cheaply still gives him enormous pleasure.

“It does give me a bit of a kick breeding them without spending a fortune, I get quite a bit of satisfaction in that!” he admits.

“The best horses we have bred have not cost a lot of money and it just shows you don’t have to pay a lot of money to breed a racehorse,” he says. “Funnily enough, when I have spent big money on nominations, I have never done very well at the sales and they haven’t been great race horses either.

“I have done better statistically and percentage-wise using my own stallions and, even when I put them in the figures at the price they are advertised at, they have not cost a lot to produce.

“Breeders often think that because they have an expensive mare, they think they have got spent a lot more money on a nomination and they are going to get something better – I admit on occasions I have felt like that too, it is a mistaken view to have.”

Holdcroft’s reasonably produced but most successful horses include Svelt, who won the 1986 Group 1 Premio Parioli. He was by African Sky, who stood at the Irish National Stud, and cost about “£3000 or £4000”.

“We bred another horse called Kornado

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“... prize-money is nearly an insult; you would be better off running for nothing!

by Superlative – he won the Group 2 Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen and the Group 1 at Dusseldorf. And Golden Nun, she was

by Bishop Of Cashel who was £1,000 nomination – she won the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes,” recalls Holdcroft.

The farm also has the significant achievement of breeding two Queen Mary winners.

“Romantic Myth was by Mind Games and he stood at three grand, Romantic Liaison, she was by Primo Domino – I had a share in him and he stood at about £5,000 or £6,000.

“There was Hearts Of Fire, a Group 1 winner of the Gran Criterium. He was by Firebreak, a stallion who was a three grand nomination.

“And Glass Slippers, she is by Dream Ahead – he was advertised at about 14 grand, but I got him cheaper because I sent two mares to Ballylinch!”

The electrically fast sprinter Mind Games is probably still the stallion Bearstone is most well-known for and his influence is still seen in many of the farm’s pedigrees – in fact, he is broodmare sire of Night Gypsy, the dam of Glass Slippers.

“Mind Games was bred by Val Hughes and

by Puissance. I had decided I wanted to buy the best by Puissance and I saw Mind Games as a foal, he was a beautiful foal, so we made sure we bought him,” says Holdcroft.

Bearstone has a number of fillies in training each year in support of the stallion operation and their pedigrees.

An exasperation to Holdcroft is the state of British prize-money, believing that funds have not improved since those racing days of Mind Games.

“Racing is a rich man’s sport end of story, and you obviously don’t expect to make a profit on it, but when you look at the prize-money in relation to training fees it is a joke,” he says.

Fountain Of Youth: the son of Oasis Dream had seven winners from his first crop through 2019 and ten placed horses from a first book of 80 mares

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“I was chatting with Jack Berry, and he said 30 years ago he was getting £2,000 for winning a race. Now you see horses still running for around £2,700 and that horse might have cost 500,000gns to buy!

“And that is what you get if you win – and you have got to win!

“And then you have the 21 per cent taken out of it too, and that is before you start to cover transport costs.

“You might as well run for nothing – in actual fact prize-money is nearly an insult; you would be better off running for nothing!

“Of course, no one has to have a racehorse, it is not compulsory like having a car to get to the office or work, but the industry desperately to improve as it so needs more owners and to encourage more breeders – it is losing both.”

Of Holdcroft’s own training programme, Bearstone aims to keep most of the fillies, depending on pedigrees and situations, and sell the colts; the farm had around about 15 in training this year.

“I think the nurturing of them is so important – there is no point on spending a fortune breeding or buying and then not looking after it properly,” says Holdcroft.

“You should do every mortal thing you can think of to do the best by that horse.

“Just as important then is having a good trainer who normally then has a good jockey, and then you need a bit of luck as well – you have got to have those four ingredients.

“We always have the fillies back in the winter – it does them a bit of good and helps with costs. We keep them in light exercise and turn them out depending on the weather, we don’t let them down completely,” he explains.

Bearstone employs 12 staff with many there on long-term basis – stud manager Mark Pennell has been on the farm since he was 16 and he’s now 54, while assistant Hayley Mayer can also boast double figures in years at Bearstone.

The farm is, as Holdcroft explains and not unexpectedly, “run on a commercial basis”.

The current stallions at the farm are sprinters Fountain Of Youth, a son of Oasis Dream who had first runners in 2019, and Washington DC. By Zoffany he is about to embark on his second covering season.

The former won the 5f Group 3 Sapphire Stake and is son of the brilliant dual 1,000 Guineas winner, Attraction.

“Fountain Of Youth has had the winners of seven races, but a lot of placed horses – I am sick of finishing second!” declares Holdcroft.

“Our own Gravity Force ran a good race in the Group 3 Horris Hill to finish fourth – he ran a blinder and is a decent horse.

“They have a bit of size about them and are good-looking horses – they should improve at three. They are not small, short-coupled ‘wham-bam’ type of horses, they should be able to carry weight in handicaps.

“They are the sort of horses that you just can’t rush; you would ruin them.”

Washington DC has form fitting of a Bearstone stallion with a win in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes and a second in the Phoenix Stakes (G1) at two. He went on to pick up a second placing in the Prix de l’Abbaye at three, alongside producing multiple Group-class sprint performances for trainer Aiden O’Brien.

Holdcroft says: “We are really pleased with Washington DC – he saw about 80 mares last year. He was fast horse and a good two-yearold. He has Group 1 form and just because of the numbers at Coolmore did not get a place at stud there.”

Cars, racehorses, broodmares and stallions have provided a good mix for Bearstone and the Holdcrofts over the years, and with the talented Glass Slippers promising a “fun year ahead”, the curtains will open on 2020 with anticipation.

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Sally Ann Grassick chats with...

Cathal Beale, CEO of the Irish National Stud, about sales, stallions, mare syndicates and selling Invincible Spirit foals for €330,000 SAG: The Irish National Stud had some good yearling results at the Orby Sale, and overall things were good for the yearling draft?

CB: Yes, it was a good week, the same as everyone else – highs and the lows!

Our Aimhirgin Lass colt by Invincible Spirit made €460,000 and went to Godolphin so we are delighted with that.

He comes from a really nice family of our own and is a first foal out of the mare so it is great he’ll get a chance now with Mr Gosden or Mr Appleby; he’ll get off to a great start there.

We also had a really nice Free Eagle colt who made €90,000 for a client.

We had a home-bred Harzand, who was a lovely colt and who made €95,000. It was a very good start to the week, but it did get progressively more challenging as we went on!

But we were happy to be able to say that we sold everything. We wish everyone well

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with their yearling purchases and hope they win plenty of stakes races next year!

How did you find the Orby Sale when you were talking to clients around the sales complex?

I think everyone felt that all the buyers were there – Goffs and ITB had done a great job getting everyone here.

Look, it is a challenging time at the moment in the wider world outside of our control, and I think that has to have a knock-on effect with the uncertainty that is going on geo-politically, so that is nobody’s fault.

I think we proved that if you take a really nice horse to the Orby, it will sell well.

We probably didn’t have enough really nice horses who ticked all the boxes and we were under no illusions with that.

Do you think buyers are being more choosy – they want the horse to have the page, the looks, they want everything there, they are not just buying a horse to fill orders?

Everybody wants the best horse in the sale – it’s always been the same as that, there has always been a degree of polarisation, but I think it is getting more and more defined.

The top 25 per cent seems to be selling even better than they ever have, while the bottom 75 per cent seems to be struggling more than they ever have.

The Foran Equine and Irish EBF race series in Ireland, for any horse purchased as a yearling or two-year-old at auction for €72,000 or less, has been a huge success.

There is the new Irish EBF median sires series which will have three levels of races, the majority of which will be for two-year-olds by a sire with an established median auction

irish national stud price of €60,000 or less, and the rest will be divided between a median price of €75,000 or less and €30,000 or less.

It means that those horses can race against themselves, they are not competing with the very top end with those horses they have met at the sales, they will not have to race against those horses in open maiden company in Ireland.

There will be over 50 races and they will be worth a lot of money. It means people can come and race with horses who have not made so much at the sales.

“When we set the fees for 2020 we were certainly aware that the fees have to be reasonable to try to allow breeders to make a profit Would you be worried with the way the middle and the lower end of the market is going?

Every piece of the industry is part of a circle and has a knock-on effect. So if the pin-hookers have not had a good yearling season then that will affect the foal sales; if the breeze-up guys are struggling that will have a knock-on effect on the following year’s sales.

The whole thing works in a cycle and, if breeders are struggling to make ends meet, then they will be struggling to pay to nomination fees in a year’s time when we are asking them to support our stallions.

So in 2019 we were very conscious of that and we kept our fees at reasonable rates.

We were rewarded as most of the stallions were full and covered nice books of mares.

When we set the fees for 2020 we were certainly aware that we needed to do the same again, that the fees have to be reasonable to try allow breeders to make a profit.

Ultimately that is what the INS is all about – to try and help breeders do that.

We are very conscious that it is not easy for

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irish national stud breeders to make money and there has to be enough room in the stallion fees for a margin.

We would like to think that we have left that for them, that if they send a nice mare to our stallions and get a nice foal then there is a nice profit for them.

Free Eagle is enjoying a great start and his progeny are showing lots of promise We are delighted with him. I said at the beginning of the year that if he could get to ten winners, and two or three really nice horses we’d be delighted going into 2020, and he has pretty much achieved that.

The great thing about Free Eagle is that his two-year-olds are winning a second time and are going to be even better as three-year-olds.

I think that is critical for a stallion to come back with his three-year-olds and really put it up to the good horses.

Trainer Andrew Balding has Khalifa Sat – he won his maiden at Goodwood in good style and was put away after that. He is a lovely horse and he has an entry in the Derby – we are happy with that!

The Ger Lyons-trained Justifier has won his Listed race already, Auxilia, also with Ger, is high-class and won her maiden by 5l at Naas; we are excited about her.

There are a lot of nice two-year old winners who were nice as juveniles, but are going to progress really well as three-yearolds – that’s the exciting thing about him.

Of course, a good winners-to-runners ratio is important, but you want the two-yearolds to train on and for trainers to like them.

The yearling sales have shown that trainers are coming back and buying them again – Ger bought one at Fairyhouse, Andrew Balding bought one at the Orby Sale.

Those trainers who have had a Free Eagle are coming back to buy another Free Eagle – that is important.

Now the next generation is coming through – you’ve foals coming through for Decorated Knight and National Defense They are two really exciting stallions – different types. Decorated Knight is obviously a Galileo and is the most spectacularly bred horse we have ever stood at the INS – he is by the best stallion in the world in Galileo out of a Storm Cat mare from the family of Gleneagles, Giant’s Causeway and so many more Group 1 winners.

He had a great start with his first sale horses at Goffs, including a foal belonging to his owner Imad Al Sagar who fetched

€50,000; he has also been remarkably supportive of his stallion.

This horse is his stallion, he is the pinnacle of 25 years in the bloodstock industry, and he really wants to make this horse the real deal.

We are delighted with how the foals have sold – one made €50,000, one €30,000 and his average was €36,800 for the week.

They’ve just been really good foals made in his image, selling really well, and that’s what everybody wants. We want people to be able to make a profit with their foals and most people who supported him have at least covered their costs or made money.

National Defense is the only champion two-year-old available in Ireland and England, and he is by our own Invincible Spirit. He has just been an unbelievable supplier of stallions with Kingman, I Am Invincible, Charm Spirit and Cable Bay, who has had an exceptional start.

Invincible Spirit is an incredible sire of sires and this is the next one available to breeders.

The National Defense foals are very much in his likeness; they are really good wellbalanced horses, they’re straight-forward and they are selling well with good people buying them.

Sun Bloodstock, as owners, came back and supported him. They purchased a few and were underbidders on another.

When somebody sends a good mare and produces a good foal, if everything checks out, they’re willing to put their hand in their pocket and support their star stallion.

It was a positive few days at Goffs for both our new stallions; we are really happy with how the first foals by both of them have sold so far.

he is from a wonderful family and his halfbrother made €400,000 at the Orby Sale – it is a pedigree that is getting better and better.

He is by a wonderful stallion who keeps going from strength to strength, while the Shamardal sire line in general is one that is remarkably strong at the moment.

The sire line ticked the box, the mare ticked the box, physically he ticked the box, he is a beautiful mover, he is from a very nice farm and was purchased by very good pin-hookers.

He has been in very good hands all the way through, that’s a help, raised by good people and trained by a proper trainer in Charlie Hills – he has had good people all the way through his life which is very important.

He is an exciting horse for us; he is a Classic winner and if you look at the list of Classic winners from this year there are not many outside of Coolmore or Darley going to stud.

It was a gamble to buy him – you say he is a Classic winner, but he wasn’t when you made the offer to stand him at the Irish National. Was it tough to pick a horse and put forward a horse who had not yet won a Group 1?

I prefer to use the term “calculated risk”!

Of course, it was a gamble, but as a two-yearold he had won the Acomb Stakes so he was a Group 3 winner. He was beaten a short head in a Group 1 by what we thought was a really good horse who subsequently proved he was a really good horse in Magnia Grecia, who went onto win the 2,000 Guineas.

It was very much a calculated risk because so many of the other aspects stacked up Invincible Spirit

You have Phoenix Of Spain to look forward to and the Irish National Stud’s involvement could not have got off to a better start with his 2,000 Guineas win It was a fabulous day at The Curragh and beyond our wildest expectations.

We knew he was a good horse and we thought he would be better at three, he had done enough done as a two-year-old to suggest that.

He is by Lope De Vega,

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irish national stud – the pedigree, the sire line, the dam line, the physical – they were all absolutely certain, he just needed a little bit more race record to become the real deal. Thankfully, he managed to square that circle in the Irish 2,000 Guineas.

You are trying to find a horse who ticks as many of the boxes as you possibly can based on your budget; just like us all when we are buying a foal or a yearling or a broodmare prospect.

There is a great saying in Kentucky – people say they have champagne taste but a beer budget! I think we are all a little bit like that as we all want to find the best we can for the money we can afford – thankfully with Phoenix it has worked out well.

Tell us a little about the Irish National Stud’s Mares Syndicate – you got a great result at the Goffs Foal Sale?

It was an initiative we started a couple of years back. The idea is to get people to get into a portfolio of six mares and send the mares to some really nice stallions, hopefully produce nice foals and, then, hopefully, a profit.

The existing Mares Syndicate is now in its second year and it was €16,000 for a share.

It allows investors to move portfolios of risk across multiple mares and to follow their progeny. It is an attractive opportunity for people, who may not have their own farms, to get involved at a relatively inexpensive level.

We have been selling foals from that

syndicate this year and the highlight was the sale of the Invincible Spirit colt foal out of Boldarra to Godolphin for €330,000.

We had a champagne lunch after that!

Each syndicate runs for four years, so we are halfway through the cycle. The big idea with this particular syndicate was that the foals would get the opportunity to run while the syndicate was still in existence.

We bred three mares to Invincible Spirit with the hope that those three foals would go out and win a stakes race as a two-year-old and make the mare.

The Irish National Stud draft has always been more predicated towards the yearling sales, but with the Mares Syndicate we can target the foals sales with some really nice commercially bred foals to try and make a mark in that element of the market as well.

It is a great idea – we’ve syndicates in racing, but as yet there are few on the breeding side of things...

We’ve got a great bunch of people from all over the world involved in the syndicate and that is fundamentally why the Irish National Stud exists – to try and create those opportunities for people to get involved in the bloodstock industry at whatever level they can afford to.

Our role at the Irish National Stud is to try and create as many opportunities as possible for people to get interested in the bloodstock industry at various levels.

That can be a case of just paying the €12.50 entrance fee to come in and have a walk around the stud. The next step up from that is membership of the INS Racing Club at €399 and to enjoy six horses in training.

The new Mare Syndicate that we are launching now is priced at €5,000. That involves us buying five mares for a total of around €500,000, so it will be a one per cent share for your €5,000. Then we will sell the entire portfolio of stock at the end of that four-year period.

We are running the syndicates in twoyear cycles and we felt that a lot of people who were interested in the first one may not have been able to afford to pay €16,000 for a share. Hence the reason this next one is a little bit less expensive at €5,000.

It’s already starting to sell out actually so clearly it is being well received by people. We will be staying in for at least 50 per cent of the New Irish National Stud sire, Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Phoenix Of Spain

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mares ourselves and the members will own up to 50 per cent of them. I think it is very important that the stud is completely and utterly invested in the project.

You’ve been in the job for a few years now, you’ve added some more stallions to the roster, brought in some new innovations, you obviously settled in well, are you pleased with what you have achieved so far?

That is for other people to say! The most important thing was when I joined the Irish National Stud is that it was coming from a position of strength; the foundation had been laid strongly and had been such for such a long time.

So in that situation it is easy to be innovative, be bold and try a few new things because the foundations are there.

We have a brilliant bunch of staff working and they allow me to take a flyer every now and again and try something different. If it works it works and, if it doesn’t, well we have a solid base to get us out of trouble, if and when that happens.

We tried some new things, we have our racing club, which has been really successful.

It has 350 members and we want to try and grow it again next year.

Ultimately that is about getting people racing, getting people involved in some nice horses, creating a community of people who can come together and go racing.

We had a day in the summer when we took them to John Oxx’s yard and Dermot Weld’s, we had Jim Kavanagh give us a tour of the racing lodges at The Curragh and then had a tour of RACE on the way home.

Everyone was just blown away.

We have a brilliant industry and I suppose getting that message out to the people who are interested in it – say to them ‘come in and have a look and see what we can do’.

Those of us involved in racing take what we do with the horses a little for granted, but for those people slightly out of the industry, it is remarkable.

It is amazing, faces just light up when they get to talk to John or Dermot or go into RACE to see the trainee jockeys.

We will provide lots of opportunities for people to get out, mingle with each other and see different things that perhaps they couldn’t access by themselves.

It is about that – creating opportunities for days out. We don’t promise that we are going to have six Group 1 winners, but we promise that we are going to have a good time and that we are going racing plenty.

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Pearl Secret

2yo Stakes winning sire & 26 winners in 2019

Proven source of 2yo speed

Gr.2 winning sprinter by speed sire Compton Place

SIRE OF 2YO STAKES WINNER & GR.1 PLACED SUMMER SANDS Plus Stakes performer The Cruising Lord. 26 individual winners in 2019 from limited opportunities.

SIRE OF TOP 2YO FILLY MRS DANVERS As well as 2yo Group and Stakes winners/performers Ardenode, Bonnie Grey, Hellofahaste, La Rioja, Mister Trader.

CONSISTENT 5F STAKES WINNER Won 3 Group/Stakes races and Gr.1 placed 3 times, all over 5f.

ROYAL ASCOT 2YO SPRINTER And 5f Stakes winner.

BY CHAMPION SPRINTER & SIRE OASIS DREAM Sire of sires including Showcasing.

Out of a Gr.1 sprinter.

Fee: £4,000 1st October LFFR

Summer Sands – Wins the Redcar Two Year Old Trophy L, a week after finishing third in the Middle Park Stakes Gr.1.

Chapel Stud Ltd Chapel Lane, Bransford, Worcestershire WR6 5JQ 01452 717 342 www.chapelstud.co.uk

Plus many tough, high-class multiple winning sprinters including 2019 Stakes performer Hells Babe, Quench Dolly, Little Boy Blue, Wrenthorpe, etc.

FIRST YEARLINGS REALISED £55,000, 50,000gns, 35,000gns, £32,000, £30,000, etc.

Averaging over 4x his stud fee.

2020 TWO-YEAR-OLDS SET TO BE HIS BEST EVER

In training with Michael Bell, Richard Fahey, Richard Hannon, Karl Burke, Henry Candy, Charlie Hills, Tom Dascombe, Michael Dods, David Barron, etc.

Fee: £3,000 1st October LFFR

Fee: £4,000 1st October

Mrs Danvers - Unbeaten 5-time winner including Cornwallis Stakes Gr.3, St Hugh’s Stakes L and Weatherbys Super Sprint.

“She is a very strong, athletic, good-moving filly.”

Henry Candy, re £55,000 Pearl Secret filly ex Speed Princess

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global sires

Leading A global sires 2019

FTER 2018 WHICH SAW Galileo drop down the global earnings’ table to 13th, as he closed in through 2019 on the record for lifetime Group 1 winners, his earnings improved by around $10 million. That took him back into fourth place on this table behind the usual Japanese leaders.

A big upward move was made by Darley’s Exceed And Excel into 14th. This is courtesy primarily of two James Cummings-trained runners – Microphone, winner of the Inglis Sires’ Stakes (G1) and runner-up in the Golden Slipper (G1), and Bivouac. He was a five-time winner with victories including the valuable Golden Rose Stakes (G1) beating Yes Yes Yes.

Bivouac

Leading 2019 global sires by earnings (listed by overall earnings through to November 5, 2019. Leader in each category in bold) STALLION

Country

B-T Stakes wnrs

B-T Stakes horses

Deep Impact (JPN) Japan 25 Heart’s Cry (JPN) Japan 9 Lord Kanaloa (JPN) Japan 9 Galileo (IRE) Ireland 33 Stay Gold (JPN) Japan 9 Rulership (JPN) Japan 7 King Kamehameha (JPN) Japan 6 Daiwa Major (JPN) Japan 4 Into Mischief United States 18 Dubawi (IRE) England 35 Gold Allure (JPN) Japan 3 Medaglia d’Oro United States 12 Harbinger (GB) Japan 6 Exceed And Excel (AUS) Ireland 5 Curlin United States 17 Hard Spun United States 9 Kinshasa no Kiseki (AUS) Japan 2 Street Cry (IRE) United States 5 Tapit United States 24 South Vigorous Japan - Fastnet Rock (AUS) Ireland 3 Lope De Vega (IRE) Ireland 15 Giant’s Causeway United States 7 Kurofune Japan 2 Helmet (AUS) Germany 2 Orfevre (JPN) Japan 1 Quality Road United States 8 More Than Ready United States 7 Henny Hughes Japan 2 Declaration of War Japan 12 Street Sense United States 12

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Earnings ($) 60,814,302 32,263,709 30,737,346 24,876,632 22,470,497 21,366,517 20,665,586 17,745,002 16,561,500 16,278,880 16,125,346 16,116,388 15,421,100 14,574,695 14,373,444 14,261,198 13,858,063 13,778,415 13,706,740 13,643,494 13,288,221 13,141,835 13,054,008 12,521,917 12,300,854 12,300,740 12,250,702 12,214,229 12,156,824 12,129,165 12,029,404

global sires Leading 2019 global sires by earnings (listed by overall earnings through to November 5, 2019) STALLION

Country

B-T Stakes wnrs

B-T Stakes horses

Shamardal Ireland 20 I Am Invincible (AUS) Australia - Frankel (GB) England 15 Snitzel (AUS) Australia - Speightstown United States 12 Uncle Mo United States 10 Lonhro (AUS) Australia 3 Not A Single Doubt (AUS) Australia 1 Victoire Pisa (JPN) Japan 5 Scat Daddy United States 18 Pierro (AUS) Australia 1 Manhattan Cafe (JPN) Japan 5 Kitten’s Joy United States 11 Empire Maker United States 4 Savabeel (AUS) New Zealand 1 The Factor United States 12 Pyro Japan 1 Candy Ride (ARG) United States 13 Teofilo (IRE) Ireland 8 Sea The Stars (IRE) Ireland 12 Sebring (AUS) Australia - Lookin At Lucky United States 4 Just a Way (JPN) Japan 3 Ghostzapper United States 11 Malibu Moon United States 10 Twirling Candy United States 10 Written Tycoon (AUS) Australia 1 City Zip United States 10 Hinchinbrook (AUS) Australia 2 War Front United States 11 So You Think (NZ) Ireland 1 Sinister Minister Japan 3 Smart Missile (AUS) Australia - English Channel United States 13 Zoustar (AUS) England - Black Tide (JPN) Japan 1 Ocean Park (NZ) New Zealand - Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Australia 3 Screen Hero (JPN) Japan 2 I’ll Have Another United States 1 Mastercraftsman (IRE) Ireland 7 Midnight Lute United States 8 Animal Kingdom United States 3 Zoffany (IRE) Ireland 7 Eskendereya Japan 5 Dark Angel (IRE) Ireland 8

32 2 35 - 28 22 6 1 6 29 1 6 21 4 1 24 2 23 21 30 - 13 4 23 24 19 1 27 2 27 2 4 - 24 - 2 - 7 3 2 20 13 12 23 9 35

Earnings ($) 11,451,405 11,373,279 11,244,497 11,242,250 10,911,623 10,633,936 10,542,389 10,517,792 10,416,288 10,184,209 10,092,789 10,089,477 9,847,642 9,840,481 9,621,927 9,588,422 9,351,817 9,319,904 9,254,475 9,012,787 8,971,781 8,928,345 8,797,461 8,424,599 8,394,481 8,353,849 8,206,460 8,132,071 8,107,726 8,085,439 7,879,328 7,830,380 7,743,967 7,731,801 7,682,476 7,540,370 7,475,218 7,414,939 7,376,870 7,272,796 7,196,479 7,193,119 7,147,425 6,998,110 6,968,967 6,885,827

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European breeders are focusing on a small number of elite sires, but there are good stallions further down the tables worthy of serious consideration, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

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Shamardal

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HE BREEDING BUSINESS IN EUROPE is focused on an ever-smaller number of elite sires. The 25 Flat sires who covered more than 150 mares in Europe in 2018 accounted for around 25 per cent of the total European crop of 2019. In the future this proportion is set to rise again and, by 2021, when the foals of next year’s matings are born, it will probably be closer to 33 per cent.

At the time of writing it looks as though there will be ten European sires covering at a six-figure fee in 2020 – Frankel, Dubawi, Invincible Spirit, Galileo, Kingman, Lope De Vega, No Nay Never, Sea The Stars, Siyouni and Shamardal.

If for different reasons Invincible Spirit and Shamardal cover relatively small numbers between them the big ten will probably produce more than 10 per cent of the total 2021 European foal crop.

There has been no sign in Europe of an initiative similar to the US Jockey Club’s proposal to limit the number of mares any stallion can cover to 140, and so it is safe to assume that this trend will continue over the years to come, until there is significant change

...is it in the interests of the business and the breed to focus on such a small group of stallions?

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110+

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Galileo

421

41 9.70 95 23

Dubawi

360

27 7.50 84 23

Sea The Stars

286

14

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Teofilo

258

11 4.30 38 15

New Approach

266

10

Pivotal

175

6 3.40 31 18

Tamayuz

125

4 3.20 11

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Invinicble Spirit

324

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343

10 2.90 50 15

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284

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468

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Adlerflug Kodiac

55 470

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Fastnet Rock

191

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332

5 1.50 37 11

1.60

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Oasis Dream

277

4

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20

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Le Havre

304

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Exceed and Excel

301

4

Showcasing

225

3 1.30 10

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Mastercraftsman 421

5 1.20 32

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Equiano

3 1.20 10

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Raven’ s Pass

161

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300

3 1.00 22

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22

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Soldier Hollow

198

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205

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Holy Roman Emperor

317

3

0.95

19

6

Motivator

210

2 0.95 18

8

Kendargent

362

3 0.83 26

7

Acclamation

242

2 0.83 17

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Footstepsinthesand 259

1 0.39 10

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Lawman

1 0.38 25

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Retired to stud in 2012 Wootton Bassett

107

3

2.80

10

9

Dream Ahead

243

4

1.60

14

5

Zoffany

329

4 1.20 19

6

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307

26

9 69 22

Bated Breath

335

6

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335

5 1.50 50 15

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older stallions in breeders’ outlook or an external shock.

There is no doubt that the big ten are all excellent stallions, but there has to be a question mark as to whether it is in the interests of the business and the breed to focus on such a small group of stallions.

These figures that we have included clearly suggest that the difference in commercial standing between stallions is not always justified by results on the racecourse.

The tables on these pages are based on the ratings achieved by stallion progeny as threeyear-olds.The figures, based on Racing Post Ratings, are designed to give a three-year rolling average of which European stallions are doing best in this category.

Every year a crop is removed and a new generation of three-year-olds added to the figures. It is perhaps surprising that the figures are consistent and changes happen slowly or when new sires join the ranks of older sires once they have had five crops of three-year-olds to race.

Two-year-old sires are ranked separately, again based on ratings, although in this case

as a percentage of runners as opposed to named foals for three-year-olds.

Age does not wither them

Galileo, Dubawi and Sea The Stars are once again the top three older sires.

Galileo’s consistent excellence shows no signs at all of diminishing and this year’s three-year-olds, conceived when the Coolmore sire was 17, are every bit as good as his previous crops.

It is a feature of this ranking that age appears to be no bar to excellence as, of the top ten older sires, three were born in the last century – Pivotal, Galileo and Invincible Spirit – and only Sea The Stars (2006) and Lope De Vega (2007) will be younger than 15 when the 2020 breeding season starts.

It goes without saying that of the top ten the two youngest, Sea The Stars and Lope De Vega, are the two whose records are most likely to improve. In the early part of this period both were covering smaller books at lower fees than recently.

The best of the rest

Galileo’s sons Teofilo and New Approach have both improved their record this year and are consistent high-class stallions, although neither has a particularly strong commercial record as the median price of their 2019 yearlings was 35,000gns and 60,000gns respectively.

New Approach’s stud fee was cut by 50 per cent in 2017 to £30,000, while Teofilo’s came down by 20 per cent to €40,000 the same year.

Teofilo is more of a stamina influence than New Approach, who does get some high-class milers as well as middle-distance horses, but both are among the best proven sires in Europe.

Raven’s Pass, like Teofilo and New Approach, is a Darley stallion and he had a yearling median of only 15,000gns in 2019. If his stud career has always been compromised by below-par fertility, he is a consistent, useful stallion who has always returned a high proportion of high-class horses to the number of foals he produces.

Siyouni’s fee went to six-figures for 2019, and the son of Pivotal got his third Group 1 winner with Sottsass’s victory in the Prix du Jockey-Club

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older stallions Galileo’s sons Teofilo and New Approach have both improved their record this year and are consistent high-class stallions Two other older sires whose records look sure to improve are the French-based pair of Siyouni and Le Havre.

Both stood at €20,000 in 2016 when this year’s crop of three-year-olds were conceived, having stood at significantly lower fees beforehand.

Over the next few years both Haras de Bonneval’s Siyouni and Montfort and Préaux’s Le Havre have moved up to higher fees with the latter covering at €60,000 in 2017 and 2018, while Siyouni went up to €100,000 in 2019.

The three best sires who retired to stud in 2012 all enjoyed good years in 2019.

The Haras d’Etreham’s Wootton Bassett was standing at only €4,000 in 2015, and yet his 44 three-year-olds included the Group 2 winner Beat Le Bon and several other highclass performers.

In 2020, his first two-year-olds from a €20,000 fee will reach the track and in 2019 he stood at €40,000.

Coolmore’s Zoffany was standing at €12,500 in 2015 and produced 139 foals including Fleeting, Graignes and Main Edition among others. His fee had risen to €25,000 in 2019.

The fee for Haras de Grandcamp’s Dream Ahead has moved in the other direction from €15,000 in 2015 to only €12,000 in 2019, but his three-year-olds included the Group 1 winner Glass Slippers as well as Group 1 performer Forverindreams.

Dream Ahead’s first French crop will be two-year-olds in 2020.

After three crops of three-year-olds Juddmonte’s Frankel is heading to be a stallion of a similar stature to his sire Galileo.

Not only are nine per cent of Frankel’s three-year-olds rated 110 or higher, but in

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Retired to stud in 2015 Kingman Australia Sea The Moon No Nay Never Anodin Charm Spirit Olympic Glory Toronado

103 111 99 73 92 99 109 97

6 5.80 24 23 5 4.50 11 9 2 2.00 13 13 1 1.40 13 18 1 1.10 5 5 1 1.00 8 8 1 0.91 5 4 0 0.00 7 7

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Nathaniel is another son of Galileo with an excellent and consistent record. He is the sire of a great champion in Enable, but these statistics show that the Newsells Park Stud sire is more than just that – he is one of only ten stallions in Europe with 15 per cent or more of his named foals recording a RPR of 95 or higher at three.

Nathaniel is another sire whose record is set to improve as he covered larger books of mares at a higher fee in 2018 and 2019 following the emergence of his great daughter.

Juddmonte’s Bated Breath has recovered from an average first crop of threeyear-olds with two consecutive above-average ones.

The son of Dansili is a sire of fast horses, and his progeny tend to prefer fast ground or the All-Weather.

As his best three-year-old, the multiple Group winner Space Traveller, is out of a Galileo mare he is likely to cover many more in the coming years.

Darley’s Farhh has made an outstanding

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start to his stud career with two top horses in Dee Ex Bee and King Of Change from his first two small crops of three-year-olds and several other very good ones.

The son of Pivotal’s career has, however, been compromised to date by low fertility but if he overcomes this problem he will be a very popular stallion.

Coolmore’s Camelot had nearly four times as many foals from his first two crops as Farhh, but the son of Montjeu is also a promising middle-distance sire.

Intello is another son of Galileo who has made a good start to his stud career, even if his future probably lies in France rather than Britain where he has stood four of his six seasons to date at Cheveley Park Stud.

His first crop of two-year-olds sired at the Haras du Quesnay have made an excellent start in 2019.

Tweenhills’ Havana Gold had a quiet season in 2019, but covered more than 180 mares in 2018 following the success of his first crop of two-year-olds and so is likely to be more prominent by the time of the 2022 yearling sales.

Reliable Man’s second crop included

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Progeny prize money of over £1.8 million.

The only son of SEA THE STARS at stud in England

SIR PERCY

£7,000

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Dabirsim is in a similar situation to Havana Gold as the success of his first twoyear-olds enabled him to cover 180 mares at €30,000 at the Haras de Grandcamp in 2018.

Kingman comes from a family of middle-distance mares Bahamian and Sorbus and his progeny often stay further than he did with some 40 per cent of his three-year-olds winning over 1m2f or further.

The same is true of the progeny of Lanwades’ Sea The Moon who looks like becoming an excellent middle-distance sire.

Coolmore’s Australia started his career at a significantly higher fee than Sea The Moon, €50,000 compared to £15,000, and has also made a good start to his career as his threeyear-olds included horses like Broome and Sir Ron Priestley who ran well in Classic races.

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Named foals

Rnrs

Wnrs

W/R %

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110+

%

95+

%

Fast sires Starspangledbanner 57

44

16

36

1

2.3

Zoffany

145

79

22

28

1

1.3 6 7.00

93

Showcasing

5

11.00

55

16

29

1

1.8 3 5.50

Dark Angel

160

94

27

29

0

0.0

5

5.30

Oasis Dream

84

39

12

31

0

0.0

2

5.10

Bated Breath

77

42

13

31

1

2.4

2

5.00

Acclamation

64

44

15

34

0

0.0 2 4.50

161 113

37

33

0

0.0 5 4.40

Kodiac Havana Gold

37

24

8

33

0

0.0

1

4.20

Dandy Man

116

84

31

37

0

0.0

3

3.60

75

39

12

31

0

0.0

1

2.60

78

21

27

0

0.0 1 1.30

16

0

0.0

Dream Ahead Camacho Exceed And Excel

114 67

45

7

0

0.00

Expensive sires Shamardal

62

24

10

42

4

Galileo

124

62

19

31

3

4.80 11 18.00

Frankel

73

30

11

37

1

3.30

Siyouni

139

75

28

37

0

0.00 10 13.00

Dubawi

111

43

16

37

2

4.70

5 12.00

Lope de Vega

122

66

23

35

1

1.50

7

11.00

Sea The Stars

82

28

12

43

0

0.00

2

7.00

104

54

20

37

0

0.00

3

5.60

Invincible Spirit

17.00

5 21.00 4 13.00

Others New Approach

65

24

7

29

1

4.20

3

13.00

Wootton Bassett

71

45

16

36

1

2.20

5

11.00

Holy Roman Emperor 60

32

12

38

0

0.00

3

Intello

71

24

10

42

0

0.00 2 8.30

122

37

9

24

0

0.00 3 8.10

25

8

32

0

0.00

2

8.00

25

2

3.90

4

7.80

Camelot Soldier Hollow

62

Footstepsinthesand 83

51

Teofilo

80

30

7

23

0

0.00 2 6.70

Iffraaj

85

51

13

25

1

2.00 3 5.90

Dabirsim

87

41

14

34

0

0.00 2 4.90

Kendargent

74

32

8

25

0

0.00 1 3.10

56

33

7

21

0

0.00

1

3.00

100

22

4

18

0

0.00

0

0.00

Raven’s Pass Le Havre

13

9.40

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Breeding

Galileo Dubawi Sea The Stars Shamardal Frankel Nathaniel Siyouni Dark Angel Le Havre Kodiac Lope de Vega Invincible Spirit Zoffany Kingman Camelot Kendargent Mastercraftsman Showcasing Pivotal Oasis Dream Holy Roman Emperor Dream Ahead Dandy Man Champs Elysees No Nay Never Bated Breath Footstepsinthesand Acclamation Teofilo Dansili New Approach Iffraaj Australia Exceed And Excel Rock of Gibraltar Farhh Zebedee Makfi Rajsaman Sea The Moon Areion Dutch Art Casamento Elusive City Dawn Approach Intello Motivator Wootton Bassett

Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) Cape Cross-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Giant’s Causeway-Helsinki (Machiavellian) Galileo-Kind (Danehill) Galileo-Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) Pivotal-Sichilla (Danehill) Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) Noverre-Marie Rheinberg (Surako) Danehill-Rafha (Kris) Shamardal-Lady Vettori (Vettori) Green Desert-Rafha (Kris) Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian) Invincible Spirit-Zenda (Zamindar) Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) Kendor-Pax Bella (Linamix)

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Runs

2002 221 917 2006 199 801 2010 185 767 2005 189 927 2013 127 517 2013 176 816 2011 250 1050 2008 328 1779 2010 183 893 2007 394 2149 2011 266 1186 2003 233 1228 2012 265 1382 2015 137 455 2014 184 817 2008 188 1094 Danehill Dancer-Starlight Dreams ( Black Tie Affair) 2010 221 1162 Oasis Dream-Arabesque (Zafonic) 2011 195 989 Polar Falcon-Fearless Revival (Cozzene) 1997 122 667 Green Desert-Hope (Dancing Brave) 2004 198 1079 Danehill-L’On Vite (Secretariat) 2007 180 1061 Diktat-Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) 2012 159 910 Mozart-Lady Alexander (Night Shift) 2010 266 1683 Danehill-Hasili (Kahyasi) 2010 156 837 Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 118 493 Dansili-Tantina (Distant View) 2013 196 951 Giant’s Causeway-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2006 210 1158 Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) 2004 201 1275 Galileo-Speirbhean (Danehill) 2008 175 807 Danehill-Hasili (Kahyasi) 2001 157 694 Galileo-Park Express (Ahonoora) 2009 151 608 Zafonic-Pastorale (Nureyev) 2007 221 1086 Galileo-Ouija Board (Cape Cross) 2015 118 486 Danehill-Patrona ( Lomond) 2005 209 1200 Danehill-Offshore Boom ( Be My Guest) 2003 154 847 Pivotal-Gonbarda (Lando) 2014 43 184 Invincible Spirit-Cozy Maria (Cozzene) 2011 234 1485 Dubawi-Dhelaal (Green Desert) 2011 139 781 Linamix-Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) 2013 196 1015 Sea The Stars-Sanwa (Monsun) 2015 91 380 Big Shuffle-Aerleona (Caerleon) 2001 98 606 Medicean-Halland Park Lass (Spectrum) 2008 153 935 Shamardal-Wedding Gift (Always Fair) 2013 176 871 Elusive Quality-Star of Paris (Dayjur) 2005 136 955 New Approach-Hymn of the Dawn (Phone Trick) 2014 141 557 Galileo-Impressionnante (Danehill) 2014 113 459 Montjeu-Out West (Gone West) 2006 118 620 Iffraaj-Balladonia (Primo Dominie) 2012 106 472

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Wnrs/Rnrs

95 103 93 88 64 65 95 128 84 154 104 107 105 71 79 88 85 67 54 77 74 61 109 68 49 77 84 79 53 54 57 76 39 79 54 22 91 54 56 37 53 80 62 60 40 43 37 42

Wins

SWnrs

150 42.98 33 160 51.75 23 142 50.27 12 140 46.56 19 107 50.39 14 97 36.93 6 130 38.00 11 193 39.02 7 134 45.90 11 218 39.08 9 157 39.09 14 163 45.92 10 154 39.62 8 95 51.82 15 116 42.93 13 128 46.80 6 130 38.46 6 100 34.35 4 88 44.26 5 115 38.88 6 112 41.11 5 97 38.36 6 176 40.97 4 106 43.58 8 69 41.52 11 108 39.28 8 127 40.00 3 125 39.30 4 82 30.28 6 80 34.39 2 93 37.74 9 112 34.38 4 71 33.05 8 127 37.79 4 82 35.06 3 36 51.16 7 139 38.88 3 78 38.84 3 89 28.57 0 66 40.65 5 90 54.08 5 124 52.28 5 88 35.22 3 84 44.11 1 57 28.36 3 59 38.05 7 58 31.35 3 53 39.62 2

SWs

Earnings

48 16,107,224 29 5,581,385 26 5,573,622 32 5,353,367 24 4,597,591 9 4,433,169 13 4,359,993 9 3,845,712 12 3,348,854 10 3,320,937 17 3,269,202 13 3,165,506 11 3,042,860 17 2,764,603 15 2,619,729 10 2,382,891 10 2,247,947 6 2,197,426 6 2,168,328 8 2,165,477 6 2,142,618 8 2,120,703 4 2,074,277 13 2,053,595 14 2,031,555 11 2,014,391 4 2,003,607 4 1,952,058 9 1,951,922 2 1,941,124 10 1,682,586 4 1,666,798 10 1,644,128 5 1,626,279 3 1,601,435 9 1,579,711 3 1,511,816 3 1,451,769 0 1,446,818 5 1,412,251 9 1,396,677 5 1,393,035 4 1,351,220 2 1,337,098 3 1,325,951 7 1,312,696 3 1,302,598 2 1,277,708

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Stallion

Breeding

Soldier Hollow Olympic Glory Camacho Charm Spirit Excelebration Canford Cliffs Poet’s Voice Medicean Toronado Lawman Sepoy Sakhee’s Secret Cape Cross Mayson Raven’s Pass Kyllachy Equiano Declaration of War Dabirsim Arcano Rip Van Winkle Air Chief Marshal Society Rock Fast Company Redoute’s Choice Helmet Epaulette Fastnet Rock Maxios Kheleyf War Front Manduro Sir Prancealot Evasive Lethal Force Whipper Night of Thunder Born To Sea Harbour Watch Anodin Rio de La Plata Tamayuz Slade Power Paco Boy Mount Nelson Orpen Lord of England Planteur

In the Wings-Island Race (Common Grounds) 2008 143 664 Choisir-Acidanthera (Alzao) 2015 91 381 Danehill-Arabesque (Zafonic) 2006 196 1155 Invincible Spirit-L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) 2015 123 596 Exceed And Excel-Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) 2013 118 650 Tagula-Mrs Marsh (Marju) 2012 145 777 Dubawi-Bright Tiara (Chief’s Crown) 2012 205 1091 Machiavellian-Mystic Goddess (Storm Bird) 2002 78 459 High Chaparral-Wana Doo (Grand Slam) 2015 108 502 Invincible Spirit-Laramie (Gulch) 2008 168 949 Elusive Quality-Watchful (Danehill) 2013 128 769 Sakhee-Palace Street (Secreto) 2009 129 734 Green Desert-Park Appeal (Ahonoora) 2000 125 669 Invincible Spirit-Mayleaf (Pivotal) 2013 135 810 Elusive Quality-Ascutney (Lord At War) 2009 105 511 Pivotal-Pretty Poppy (Song) 2003 151 956 Acclamation-Entente Cordiale (Ela-Mana-Mou) 2011 151 926 War Front-Tempo West (Rahy) 2014 68 396 Hat Trick-Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 129 588 Oasis Dream-Tariysha (Daylami) 2011 114 792 Galileo-Looking Back (Stravinsky) 2011 113 646 Danehill Dancer-Hawala (Warning) 2011 112 802 Rock of Gibraltar-High Society (Key of Luck) 2014 112 734 Danehill Dancer-Sheezalady (Zafonic) 2011 121 660 Danehill-Shantha’s Choice (Canny Lad) 2007 30 143 Exceed And Excel-Accessories (Singspiel) 2013 155 805 Commands-Accessories (Singspiel) 2014 120 663 Danehill-Piccadilly Circus (Royal Academy) 2009 57 260 Monsun-Moonlight’s Box (Nureyev) 2014 112 548 Green Desert-Society Lady (Mr. Prospector) 2005 135 927 Danzig-Starry Dreamer (Rubiano) 2007 80 315 Monsun-Mandellicht (Be My Guest) 2008 94 447 Tamayuz-Mona Em (Catrail) 2013 98 615 Elusive Quality-Canda (Storm Cat) 2011 111 657 Dark Angel-Land Army (Desert Style) 2014 116 627 Miesque’s Son-Myth to Reality (Sadler’s Wells) 2006 57 317 Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo) 2016 42 142 Invincible Spirit-Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2013 139 701 Acclamation-Gorband (Woodman) 2013 130 655 Anabaa-Born Gold (Blushing Groom) 2015 91 422 Rahy-Express Way (Ahmad) 2013 79 467 Nayef-Al Ishq (Nureyev) 2009 87 406 Dutch Art-Girl Power (Key of Luck) 2015 101 528 Desert Style-Tappen Zee (Sandhurst Prince) 2011 74 440 Rock of Gibraltar-Independence (Selkirk) 2009 69 417 Lure-Bonita Francita (Devil’s Bag) 2000 67 425 Dashing Blade-Loveria (Los Santos) 2007 83 424 Danehill Dancer-Plante Rare (Giant’s Causeway) 2014 74 418

Runs

Wnrs

Wnrs/Rnrs

71 31 65 51 34 46 65 28 55 53 51 55 51 53 40 50 49 39 47 52 42 47 40 48 11 61 52 16 44 47 35 30 34 30 45 19 27 42 41 25 32 27 30 25 29 32 30 20

Wins

SWnrs

105 49.65 43 34.06 102 33.16 80 41.46 52 28.81 80 31.72 98 31.70 44 35.89 83 50.92 76 31.54 86 39.84 88 42.63 81 40.80 82 39.25 63 38.09 76 33.11 85 32.45 67 57.35 61 36.43 85 45.61 66 37.16 73 41.96 69 35.71 74 39.66 26 36.66 92 39.35 77 43.33 22 28.07 58 39.28 80 34.81 48 43.75 45 31.91 52 34.69 54 27.02 66 38.79 24 33.33 41 64.28 74 30.21 62 31.53 43 27.47 52 40.50 39 31.03 48 29.70 39 33.78 47 42.02 53 47.76 45 36.14 34 27.02

8 3 1 1 4 2 0 1 4 3 2 3 4 0 3 2 3 5 2 4 2 1 3 1 2 2 3 2 1 0 4 4 2 3 1 1 5 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 3 2 2 1

SWs

Earnings

10 1,204,779 4 1,179,960 1 1,149,544 2 1,147,992 6 1,144,597 2 1,136,022 0 1,135,174 1 1,126,836 4 1,116,889 3 1,106,713 2 1,097,054 7 1,095,960 4 1,081,978 0 1,074,559 3 1,069,652 4 1,067,179 4 1,060,876 6 1,050,400 2 1,042,740 5 1,034,100 2 1,026,580 1 1,021,507 5 985,276 2 927,911 7 918,454 3 915,901 3 906,236 2 905,420 1 904,864 0 903,275 4 899,481 6 898,367 3 891,241 3 889,227 1 873,350 1 856,685 5 856,513 1 851,836 1 840,774 0 832,614 2 822,048 2 815,037 2 814,864 3 788,542 5 788,176 2 766,326 2 762,275 1 760,615

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Breeding

Shamardal Galileo No Nay Never Night of Thunder Siyouni Zoffany Cable Bay Footstepsinthesand Areion Lope de Vega Dandy Man Wootton Bassett Gleneagles Kingman Dark Angel Kodiac Frankel Starspangledbanner Bated Breath War Front Sakhee’s Secret Showcasing Invincible Spirit Gutaifan Lethal Force Due Diligence Anjaal Slade Power Charm Spirit Iffraaj Camacho Make Believe Alhebayeb Epaulette Society Rock Toronado Holy Roman Emperor Dabirsim Intello Ivawood Dubawi Bungle Inthejungle Acclamation First Defence Makfi Outstrip Australia Poet’s Voice

Giant’s Causeway-Helsinki (Machiavellian) 2005 22 Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2002 65 Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 65 Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo) 2016 42 Pivotal-Sichilla (Danehill) 2011 76 Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2012 77 Invincible Spirit-Rose de France (Diktat) 2016 61 Giant’s Causeway-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2006 51 Big Shuffle-Aerleona (Caerleon) 2001 11 Shamardal-Lady Vettori (Vettori) 2011 66 Mozart-Lady Alexander (Night Shift) 2010 87 Iffraaj-Balladonia (Primo Dominie) 2012 45 Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) 2016 54 Invincible Spirit-Zenda (Zamindar) 2015 60 Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) 2008 93 Danehill-Rafha (Kris) 2007 114 Galileo-Kind (Danehill) 2013 29 Choisir-Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) 2011 44 Dansili-Tantina (Distant View) 2013 43 Danzig-Starry Dreamer (Rubiano) 2007 32 Sakhee-Palace Street (Secreto) 2009 41 Oasis Dream-Arabesque (Zafonic) 2011 56 Green Desert-Rafha (Kris) 2003 55 Dark Angel-Alikhlas (Lahib) 2016 81 Dark Angel-Land Army (Desert Style) 2014 42 War Front-Bema (Pulpit) 2016 49 Bahamian Bounty-Ballymore Celebre (Peintre Celebre) 2016 61 Dutch Art-Girl Power (Key of Luck) 2015 35 Invincible Spirit-L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) 2015 44 Zafonic-Pastorale (Nureyev) 2007 50 Danehill-Arabesque (Zafonic) 2006 79 Makfi-Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) 2016 44 Dark Angel-Miss Indigo (Indian Ridge) 2015 28 Commands-Accessories (Singspiel) 2014 40 Rock of Gibraltar-High Society (Key of Luck) 2014 26 High Chaparral-Wana Doo (Grand Slam) 2015 31 Danehill-L’On Vite (Secretariat) 2007 32 Hat Trick-Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 42 Galileo-Impressionnante (Danehill) 2014 24 Zebedee-Keenes Royale (Red Ransom) 2016 46 Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) 2006 43 Exceed And Excel-Licence To Thrill (Wolfhound) 2015 29 Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) 2004 44 Unbridled’s Song-Honest Lady (Seattle Slew) 2009 1 Dubawi-Dhelaal (Green Desert) 2011 16 Exceed And Excel-Asi Siempre (El Prado) 2016 58 Galileo-Ouija Board (Cape Cross) 2015 35 Dubawi-Bright Tiara (Chief’s Crown) 2012 51

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Runs

Wnrs Wnrs/Rnrs

56 160 227 142 185 244 255 164 35 150 377 140 144 137 311 406 63 171 133 95 143 174 146 321 145 172 252 108 139 131 348 138 145 161 122 108 104 119 54 199 113 109 152 4 37 196 79 150

8 21 28 27 28 24 23 13 7 22 31 17 23 27 27 35 10 16 13 14 18 16 20 26 15 18 16 6 15 12 22 13 10 14 7 15 12 15 10 14 16 10 15 1 6 17 8 14

Wins

SWnrs

20 36.36 29 32.30 39 43.07 41 64.28 35 36.84 28 31.16 36 37.70 25 25.49 14 63.63 30 33.33 48 35.63 20 37.77 29 42.59 34 45.00 34 29.03 41 30.70 13 34.48 23 36.36 20 30.23 17 43.75 26 43.90 18 28.57 22 36.36 33 32.09 20 35.71 29 36.73 27 26.22 10 17.14 19 34.09 18 24.00 28 27.84 20 29.54 20 35.71 22 35.00 11 26.92 25 48.38 18 37.50 18 35.71 14 41.66 18 30.43 21 37.20 15 34.48 17 34.09 4 100.00 9 37.50 23 29.31 13 22.85 17 27.45

4 5 5 5 4 1 1 2 2 4 1 2 3 4 1 0 1 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 1 1 3 2 1 2 0 2 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 0

SWs

Earnings

9 1,460,650 7 1,219,674 6 1,099,070 5 856,513 4 772,510 2 749,013 2 683,836 3 671,842 5 595,606 4 592,746 1 591,729 2 580,732 3 552,401 4 545,609 1 515,313 0 498,501 1 476,851 2 445,691 4 435,213 2 432,373 2 388,295 2 386,652 0 385,324 0 379,216 1 374,540 4 371,585 0 367,455 2 358,823 0 350,429 1 346,020 1 342,539 4 340,344 3 336,303 1 303,226 4 302,629 0 288,929 2 288,441 0 287,813 1 287,134 2 285,287 2 283,179 1 281,841 0 275,839 3 265,574 1 249,637 1 249,100 3 248,777 0 238,934

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Breeding

Coach House Mayson Oasis Dream Victory Gallop Kitten’s Joy Zebedee Sea The Moon American Pharoah Camelot Sir Prancealot Dutch Art Penny’s Picnic Requinto Kheleyf Sidestep Dream Ahead Power Sommerabend Sepoy Kendargent Galiway Brazen Beau Anodin Dragon Pulse New Approach Muhaarar Hot Streak Rajsaman Canford Cliffs Free Eagle Golden Horn Hurricane Cat War Command Raven’s Pass Dawn Approach Rio de La Plata Heeraat Casamento Center Divider Mukhadram Teofilo Blu Air Force Sir Percy Planteur Manduro Pedro the Great Elzaam Exceed And Excel

Oasis Dream-Lesson In Humility ( Mujadil) Invincible Spirit-Mayleaf (Pivotal) Green Desert-Hope (Dancing Brave) Cryptoclearance-Victorious Lil Vice Regent) El Prado-Kitten’s First (Lear Fan) Invincible Spirit-Cozy Maria (Cozzene) Sea The Stars-Sanwa (Monsun)

To Stud

Rnrs

2015 26 2013 36 2004 39 2000 3 2006 21 2011 55 2015 25 Pioneerof the Nile-Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman) 2016 10 Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) 2014 38 Tamayuz-Mona Em (Catrail) 2013 33 Medicean-Halland Park Lass (Spectrum) 2008 26 Kheleyf-Zerky (Kingmambo) 2014 23 Dansili-Damson (Entrepreneur) 2013 28 Green Desert-Society Lady (Mr. Prospector) 2005 22 Exceed And Excel-Dextrous (Quest for Fame) 2016 21 Diktat-Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) 2012 38 Oasis Dream-Frappe (Inchinor) 2013 33 Shamardal-Sommernacht (Monsun) 2015 18 Elusive Quality-Watchful (Danehill) 2013 32 Kendor-Pax Bella (Linamix) 2008 32 Galileo-Danzigaway (Danehill) 2016 9 I Am Invincible-Sansadee (Snaadee) 2016 38 Anabaa-Born Gold (Blushing Groom) 2015 28 Kyllachy-Poetical (Croco Rouge) 2013 41 Galileo-Park Express (Ahonoora) 2009 23 Oasis Dream-Tahrir (Linamix) 2016 42 Iffraaj-Ashirah (Housebuster) 2016 41 Linamix-Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) 2013 40 Tagula-Mrs Marsh (Marju) 2012 31 High Chaparral-Polished Gem (Danehill) 2016 35 Cape Cross-Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) 2016 38 Storm Cat-Sky Beauty (Blushing Groom) 2007 13 War Front-Wandering Star (Red Ransom) 2015 42 Elusive Quality-Ascutney (Lord At War) 2009 32 New Approach-Hymn of the Dawn (Phone Trick) 2014 32 Rahy-Express Way (Ahmad) 2013 19 Dark Angel-Thawrah (Green Desert) 2015 24 Shamardal-Wedding Gift (Always Fair) 2013 42 Giant’s Causeway-Meridiana (Lomitas) 2013 7 Shamardal-Magic Tree (Timber Country) 2015 31 Galileo-Speirbhean (Danehill) 2008 31 Sri Pekan-Carillon Miss (The Minstrel) 2004 17 Mark of Esteem-Percy’s Lass (Blakeney) 2008 19 Danehill Dancer-Plante Rare (Giant’s Causeway) 2014 10 Monsun-Mandellicht (Be My Guest) 2008 17 Henrythenavigator-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2014 9 Redoute’s Choice-Mambo in Freeport (Kingmambo) 2013 26 Danehill-Patrona (Lomond) 2005 45

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Runs

Wnrs Wnrs/Rnrs

108 113 124 9 60 208 70 28 77 147 90 101 128 103 88 119 105 71 127 103 37 139 83 173 52 110 160 121 115 98 81 38 129 84 99 86 120 121 21 91 78 71 58 47 41 37 93 124

7 9 12 1 5 14 8 5 8 11 11 7 10 9 9 11 5 7 11 9 5 12 6 9 6 13 9 4 8 11 6 6 8 7 8 4 6 8 4 7 7 8 5 3 6 3 5 8

Wins

SWnrs

10 26.92 1 13 25.00 0 17 30.76 1 5 33.33 1 6 23.80 1 18 25.45 1 11 32.00 1 5 50.00 1 9 21.05 1 17 33.33 0 16 42.30 1 10 30.43 0 15 35.71 2 11 40.90 0 12 42.85 1 16 28.94 0 9 15.15 0 8 38.88 0 15 34.37 0 10 28.12 0 8 55.55 1 14 31.57 1 8 21.42 0 11 21.95 0 10 26.08 2 13 30.95 0 10 21.95 1 4 10.00 0 9 25.80 0 14 31.42 1 8 15.78 2 10 46.15 0 11 19.04 0 10 21.87 1 9 25.00 0 6 21.05 1 10 25.00 1 10 19.04 1 6 57.14 0 8 22.58 1 8 22.58 0 10 47.05 0 5 26.31 0 4 30.00 1 7 35.29 0 5 33.33 1 8 19.23 0 9 17.77 0

SWs 1 0 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0

Earnings 236,652 231,712 230,312 228,817 216,167 213,251 212,810 209,739 209,459 208,030 203,294 198,304 198,189 195,678 189,870 188,109 182,982 181,019 180,401 178,243 177,955 166,226 164,104 161,894 160,328 159,279 159,067 156,312 153,515 150,056 140,942 137,337 131,770 131,190 130,374 128,209 127,380 122,043 118,719 117,909 117,713 117,238 116,767 116,389 115,919 115,674 112,708 111,967

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Rnrs

Galileo Dubawi Shamardal Kingman Lope De Vega Camelot Frankel Sea The Stars Le Havre No Nay Never Invincible Spirit Siyouni Kodiac New Approach Bated Breath Champs Elysees Soldier Hollow Australia Dark Angel Farhh Zoffany Intello Dream Ahead Kendargent Mastercraftsman Nathaniel Oasis Dream Areion Declaration Of War Dutch Art Holy Roman Emperor Pivotal Teofilo Deep Impact Night Of Thunder Arcano Cape Cross Dandy Man Exceed and Excel Iffraaj Sea The Moon Showcasing Toronado War Front Excelebration Acclamation Scat Daddy Alhebayeb

215 32 15 26 197 23 12 13 184 19 10 8 137 15 11 11 259 14 5 10 180 13 7 8 124 13 10 17 181 12 7 17 175 11 6 7 117 11 9 7 230 10 4 11 245 10 4 13 382 9 2 8 149 9 6 6 195 8 4 3 147 8 5 3 137 8 6 9 115 8 7 3 325 7 2 25 43 7 16 1 250 7 3 13 113 7 6 2 152 6 4 4 187 6 3 6 208 6 3 11 164 6 4 5 193 6 3 7 93 5 5 6 67 5 7 1 148 5 3 3 166 5 3 7 118 5 4 6 173 5 3 13 17 5 29 1 40 5 13 4 109 4 4 3 119 4 3 4 256 4 2 5 204 4 2 7 217 4 2 5 87 4 5 8 193 4 2 9 107 4 4 2 76 4 5 7 113 4 4 1 193 4 2 11 42 4 10 1 89 3 3 0

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Stakes placed

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Stakes wins

Group wnrs

47 29 32 17 17 15 23 26 12 14 13 12 10 10 11 13 10 10 9 9 10 7 8 10 10 9 8 9 6 5 6 6 8 5 5 5 4 4 5 4 4 6 4 4 6 4 4 4

21 14 13 6 8 6 12 9 5 7 4 7 4 7 5 5 2 5 2 3 3 2 2 3 2 5 4 3 3 2 3 3 3 1 3 1 1 2 1 2 3 3 0 3 1 0 2 1

Group placed 19 14 4 12 10 6 8 13 7 3 7 9 3 1 2 3 5 1 9 0 10 2 4 4 5 4 7 4 1 2 4 5 8 2 0 1 2 2 2 0 5 6 1 7 1 6 1 1

G1 wnrs 9 3 5 1 2 0 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

RELIABLE MAN 2008, grey, 163 cm by Dalakhani - On Fair Stage (Sadler´s Wells)

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Bright start for

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Night Of Thunder: his runners put in some exceptionally strong stats in year one

Adam Potts reviews the early and ongoing progress being made by 2019’s batch of first, second and third-season stallions

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OMENTUM BUILDS SUCCESS. A first-season stallion gathers momentum with winners and stakes horses. The stallion who fails in this goal is destined for lower demand for his following year’s book. Momentum swings both ways.

Exceeding expectations creates a powerful formula of higher quantity and quality of mares in future books so leading to superior stock. The snowball effect then takes effect.

Night Of Thunder is the obvious success story of this season’s first-season sires. The dual Group-1 winning 2,000 Guineas hero retired to Darley’s Kildangan Stud at a fee of €30,000, and was available for the last two breeding seasons at just £15,000 when transferred to Dalham Hall.

The form of his Guineas win was ultra-strong with Kingman — the world’s hottest young sire – and the talented Australia, filling the placings.

Night Of Thunder is a son of Dubawi, the

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young sires most successful stallion to stand in Britain, and is out of a Galileo mare. The two best active sires in Europe are within close reach of his pedigree.

The outstanding statistic for Night Of Thunder is that 21 per cent of his runners achieved black-type, while he is also hitting an exceptional winners-to-runners strike-rate of 64 per cent.

His best to date includes the Princess Margaret (G2) winner Under The Stars, also the winner of a sales race at Newmarket.

Pocket Square, a Juddmonte-owned filly for Roger Charlton who built on her maiden win with success in the Group 3 Prix de Reservoirs, achieved a Racing Post Rating (RPR) of 107 and looks like a contender for next year’s Classics.

Simon Crisford’s Group 2 winner Night Colours and Sheikh Hamdan’s Listedwinning Molatham, who ran below-par on testing ground in the Autumn Stakes, look an exciting horsed for next year.

Over half of Night Of Thunder’s runners have an RPR of at least 80 making his 2020 stud fee of €25,000 (where he returns to Kildangan Stud) seem good value.

Yeomanstown Stud’s Gutaifan led the way by number of winners, having covered a vast book of mares to give him plenty of ammunition, but to his credit Night Of Thunder was just one winner behind him with half the number of runners.

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Due Diligence’s filly Good Vibes proved remarkably durable winning a Listed race in May continuing to build on that form to win the Cornwallis Stakes Cable Bay also emerged from 2019 with an enhanced reputation. A 114-rated juvenile, Cable Bay was second to War Command in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes going on to win the Challenge Stakes at four.

By Invincible Spirit, who is becoming an increasingly successfully sire of sires through the likes of Kingman and I Am Invincible, Cable Bay retired to Highclere Stud at a fee of £6,000.

Considering his small price tag, Cable Bay deserves plenty of credit for producing seven stakes

performers in his first crop, leaving him jointsecond with Gleneagles.

He’s shown he is capable of producing fast, precocious horses such as the Molecomb Stakes (G3) winner and Lowther Stakes (G2) runner-up Liberty Beach. It is easy to see why his stud fee has more than doubled to £15,000 next year.

Another inexpensive sire whose fee is double for 2020 from £4,000 to £8,000 is Whitsbury Manor’s Due Diligence.

The fast son of War Front, who finished runner-up in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1) at three, sired three stakes winners.

Due Diligence’s filly Good Vibes proved remarkably durable winning a Listed race in May and continued to build on that form to win the Cornwallis Stakes (G3) in October.

Both races are over the minimum trip and the filly started eight times in all.

Another Group winner for the stallion was Clive Cox’s Streamline, who won the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes on his final start this year.

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The same can be said for Gleneagles’ Group 2 Royal Lodge winner Royal Dornoch. He’s been particularly progressive and is bound to have a crack at a Classic These Group race wins have come from just 50 runners, and Whitsbury Manor already has form in the book for making a stallion from inexpensive beginnings – the farm’s flagship stallion Showcasing stands for £55,000 next year having started out at £5,000.

Gleneagles also has had a price rise, his fee going from €30,000 to €35,000 after siring two Group 2 winners and a Royal Ascot winner in his first year.

His Group 2 July Stakes winner Royal Lytham was beaten just a length in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes by Siskin. He earned a rating of 113 and is poised to target Group 1s next year.

The same can be said for Gleneagles’s Group 2 Royal Lodge winner Royal Dornoch.

He’s been particularly progressive and is bound to have a crack at a Classic at three.

The racing cliché “whatever he does this year is a bonus” is well-worn, but it does apply to Derby and Arc hero Golden Horn, who produced a handful of winners, among them some exciting prospects who will thrive from two to three. He will come into his own next year.

The same can also somewhat be said for Muhaarar. The widely held view that sprinters will get precocious horses means many expected him to have made more of an impact with his juveniles, but it must be remembered that Muhaarar himself improved markedly from two to three.

He also received a star-studded book of mares and the offspring of such mares usually peak at three and four, when the majority of stakes races are in the calendar.

Sires of 2015-2016 crops ranked by percentage of runners rated 110 or more Sire

Foals (15-16)

110+

%

95+

By JdM

%

Retired to stud in 2015 Kingman

103

6 5.80 24 23.00

Australia

111

5 4.50 11 9.90

Sea The Moon

99

2

2.00

13

13.00

No Nay Never

73

1

1.40

13

18.00

Anodin

92

1 1.10 5 5.40

Charm Spirit

99

1

1.00

8

8.10

1

0.91

5

4.60

Olympic Glory Toronado

109 97

0 0.00 7 7.20

Kingman and No Nay Never dominate second-season sires THE SECOND-CROP SIRES’ TABLE is a chance for the early stars to elevate into the big-time and bag a Group 1 winner, and for the middle-distance sires to gather momentum as conditions for their progeny turn more favourable.

The sires with their first three-year-olds in 2019 look to be a particularly strong group.

The two standouts of the 2018 first-season sires’ table, Kingman and No Nay Never, maintained their high status in 2019.

Kingman, whose fee rose to £75,000 for 2019 after an exceptional start made with his first crop, got his Group 1 winner with Persian King, the André Fabre-trained colt, who won the Poule d’Essai des Poulains before going close in the Prix du Jockey-Club.

That may have been Kingman’s single top-flight winner, but his other runners showed as much if not more.

The hugely talented King Of Comedy went close in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes, and Juddmonte’s Headman created such an Kingman: star stallion

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young sires impression when winning two French Group 2s that many fancied him to topple the mighty Magical in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes.

Calyx, Kingman’s Group 2 Coventry Stakes-winning juvenile, has retired to Coolmore at a fee of €22,500.

His price is just arrived by his form and ability, but also is due to him being a son of Kingman.

The young Juddmonte Farms’ sire produced by far the most winners this year from any of the second-season sires and took his total tally to 17 stakes winners — an impressive 11 per cent of his runners.

He is one of the hottest sires in Europe right now. He already ranks behind only

Galileo, Dubawi and Frankel in terms of the proportion of high-rated three-year-olds. He has covered a lot of mares in recent seasons, more than 200 in 2019, and will surely consolidate his standing as one of Europe’s best sires.

Ten Sovereigns raised No Nay Never’s profile with an explosive display in the Group 1 July Cup. The sire also made headway with his second crop of two-year-olds with Arizona winning the Group 2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot prior to placing behind Pinatubo in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1).

Arizona got going too late in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf over mile, but stayed on late and was nearest at the finish in fifth.

Ten Sovereigns raised No Nay Never’s profile with an explosive display in the Group 1 July Cup

Sires of two-year-olds in Europe by percentage of runners rated 95+ Sire

Named foals

Rnrs

Wnrs

W/R %

110+

By JdM

%

95+

%

Second-season sires No Nay Never 110 67 29 43 3 4.5 12 18.00 Kingman 102 61 27 44 0 0.0 10 16.00 Australia 90 32 7 20 0 0.0 3 9.00 Sea The Moon 69 24 8 33 0 0.0 2 8.30 Charm Spirit 68 43 15 35 0 0.0 3 7.00 Bungleinthejungle 34 29 10 34 1 3.4 2 7.00 Toronado 70 30 15 50 0 0.0 1 3.00 Anodin 36 28 5 18 0 0.0 0 0.00 Olympic Glory 41 14 4 29 0 0.0 0 0.00 Sommerabend 34 18 6 33 0 0.0 0 0.00

First-season sires Night Of Thunder 85 42 26 62 0 0.00 8 19.00 Gleneagles 98 53 24 45 2 3.80 8 15.00 Cable Bay 89 60 23 38 0 0.00 7 11.00 Amaron 40 19 6 32 0 0.00 2 11.00 Galiway 30 9 4 44 0 0.00 1 11.00 Golden Horn 83 38 6 16 0 0.00 3 7.90 Make Believe 70 44 13 30 0 0.00 3 6.80 Due Diligence 67 49 18 37 0 0.00 3 6.10 Free Eagle 68 34 11 32 0 0.00 2 5.90 Ivawood 75 45 14 31 0 0.00 2 4.40 Gutaifan 126 79 26 33 0 0.00 3 3.80 Muharaar 95 42 13 31 0 0.00 1 2.40 Outstrip 81 57 18 32 0 0.00 1 1.80 Anjaal 96 60 16 27 0 0.00 1 1.70

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young sires Twenty-eight per cent of his runners have achieved a RPR of at least 90, and another high-performing year has seen his fee rise from €100,000 to €150,000 — a stratospheric rise when one considers his fee was just €17,500 in 2017.

No Nay Never looks like an excellent sire of two-year-olds, while his three-year-olds look to be sprinter/milers rather than outand-out sprinters.

The sample for sires with only one three-year-old crop is still small but at this stage No Nay Never’s progeny seem to act particularly well on soft ground.

A sire who gave signs that he was going to prosper once his progeny turned three was Deutsches Derby winner Sea The Moon.

The Lanwades Stud resident managed to sire four stakes performers from a relatively limited number of runners in his first crop, and he hugely improved on this to finish fourth in the second-season earnings’ table.

Highlights included Alpine Star, Alpha Centauri’s half-sister, who earned a rating of 107 for her Debutante Stakes (G2) win and there’s every chance she could end up an Oaks filly next year.

The Aga Khan-owned Hamariyna won the Irish 1,000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown and Quest The Moon was fourth in the Deutsches Derby (G1) before placing in a Group 1 in a Munich. He appears to be a solid Group horse going forward.

In all, Sea The Moon has had 18 stakes

A sire who gave some signs that he was going to prosper once his progeny turned three was Deutsches Derby winner Sea The Moon horses from 100 runners. A son of Sea The Stars, he is from a stout family out of a Monsun full-sister to the Group 1 winners and stallions Samum and Schiaparelli.

His fee remains at £15,000 next year, and he looks worth every penny of it.

Olympic Glory and Ruler Of The World both managed to sire Group 1-winning fillies in the Royal Ascot winner Watch Me and Iridessa — the latter of whom has won three Group 1s, including the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf on her final start this season. Ruler Of The World will join Olympic Glory at Al Shaqab’s Haras de Bouquetot in 2020.

His fee is set at €6,000 with Olympic Glory on €8,000.

Farhh’s King Of Change stays in training for next year and can add to the Group 1 success

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Camelot: building his realm Camelot

THE THIRD-SEASON SIRES’ TABLE at this time of year really illustrates how difficult it is to make a stallion. A quick glance reveals most will struggle to fill a decent-sized book in 2020, or have already been sold abroad to carry on covering in lesser racing jurisdictions.

Camelot, however, is going from strength to strength as a sire and he remains at €40,000 in 2020.

Sir Dragonet managed a rating of 117 having gone off favourite for the Epsom Derby. A similarly good effort in the St Leger suggests he could provide Camelot with his fourth Group 1 winner in 2020, joining the likes of Irish Derby winner Latrobe.

Camelot has produced 38 stakes horses to date, and looks set to stay on the Coolmore roster.

Demand for Farhh has been high since he began to show signs of being a capable stallion.

Subfertility has stunted how much Darley can utilise this demand for him. Those who do have a mare in-foal to him will have been delighted with King Of Change’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes win, providing the son of Pivotal with a breakthrough Group 1 success.

His daughter Move Swiftly gained a Royal Ascot win in the Group 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes and, if had not been for Stradivarius, Dee Ex Bee would be the best stayer around.

Farhh has always been to the top of the table in terms of black-type winners to runners. He’s only had the 63 runners to date, but 17 per cent have earned black-type and over a quarter have a RPR of at least 90.

He’s producing outstanding numbers which can be helped by the greater selectivity in his book of mares. He will stand for £12,000 next year — a terrific price at face value.

It’s whether one can tolerate the risk of a negative result when pregnancy testing.

Soldier’s Call Retires to

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2020 Stud Roster

A chAmpion 2yo

Fastest colt of his generation Exceptional looker by the brilliant Showcasing From a top Juddmonte speed family

2020 Fee: €10,000

Dandy Man

one of europe’s leAding stAllions Lady Kaya, La Pelosa, Dandhu, River Boyne, Dr Simpson, Lord of the Lodge in ‘19 2019 Yearlings made €220,000, 210,000, 205,000 etc.

2020 Fee: €15,000

Elzaam

“A sire who upgrAdes his mAres” Gr.3 winner Waitingfortheday and Hong Kong Derby candidate Playa Del Puente in ‘19 Yearlings have made 175,000 145,000 140,000 etc.

2020 Fee: €4,000

Prince of Lir

royAl Ascot norfolk stAkes winner 1st crop made up to €300,000 and in training with Wesley Ward, A Watson, T Dascombe, R Hannon, K Burke etc.

2020 Fee: €4,000

Ballyhane Stud Leighlinbridge, Co.Carlow, Ireland.

Joe Foley: +353 86 252 4135 Office: +353 59 972 2068 Web: www.ballyhane.com

Jane Foley: +353 86 806 6000 Email: info@ballyhane.com

leading first-season stallion stats Leading European first-season sires 2019: (by prize-money earned to November 5, 2019) Stallion

Breeding

Night Of Thunder Cable Bay Gleneagles Gutaifan Due Diligence Anjaal Make Believe Ivawood Outstrip American Pharoah Sidestep Galiway Brazen Beau Muhaarar Hot Streak Free Eagle Golden Horn Cappella Sansevero Amaron Karakontie French Navy Hallowed Crown Fountain of Youth Red Dubawi Kingston Hill Hunter’s Light Prince Gibraltar The Wow Signal Mustajeeb Intrinsic Wilshire Boulevard Evasive’s First Summer Front Music Master Machucambo Supplicant Fulbright Amarillo Jimmy Mack Dogma Noir Daredevil Bathyrhon Kenbest Romantic Wave Competitive Edge Shooting To Win Mr Speaker Ransom Hope

Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo) Invincible Spirit-Rose de France (Diktat) Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Dark Angel-Alikhlas (Lahib) War Front-Bema (Pulpit)

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Runs

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Wnrs/Rnrs Wins

2016 42 142 27 2016 61 255 23 2016 54 144 23 2016 81 321 26 2016 49 172 18 Bahamian Bounty-Ballymore Celebre (Peintre Celebre) 2016 61 252 16 Makfi-Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) 2016 44 138 13 Zebedee-Keenes Royale (Red Ransom) 2016 46 199 14 Exceed And Excel-Asi Siempre (El Prado) 2016 58 196 17 Pioneerof the Nile-Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman) 2016 10 28 5 Exceed And Excel-Dextrous (Quest for Fame) 2016 21 88 9 Galileo-Danzigaway (Danehill) 2016 9 37 5 I Am Invincible-Sansadee (Snaadee) 2016 38 139 12 Oasis Dream-Tahrir (Linamix) 2016 42 110 13 Iffraaj-Ashirah (Housebuster) 2016 41 160 9 High Chaparral-Polished Gem (Danehill) 2016 35 98 11 Cape Cross-Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) 2016 38 81 6 Showcasing-Madam President (Royal Applause) 2016 19 63 6 Shamardal-Amandalini (Bertolini) 2016 18 46 6 Bernstein-Sun Is Up (Sunday Silence) 2016 9 22 4 Shamardal-First Fleet (Woodman) 2016 12 41 3 Street Sense-Crowned Glory (Danehill) 2016 23 84 2 Oasis Dream-Attraction (Efisio) 2016 32 106 4 Dubawi-Maredsous (Homme de Loi) 2016 7 28 1 Mastercraftsman-Audacieuse (Rainbow Quest) 2016 10 39 4 Dubawi-Portmanteau (Barathea) 2016 13 31 3 Rock of Gibraltar-Princess Sofia (Pennekamp) 2016 8 24 2 Starspangledbanner-Muravka (High Chaparral) 2016 4 20 2 Nayef-Rifqah (Elusive Quality) 2016 6 18 2 Oasis Dream-Infallible (Pivotal) 2016 6 23 1 Holy Roman Emperor-Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2016 4 17 1 Evasive-Zalia (Oasis Dream) 2016 5 17 1 War Front-Rose of Summer (El Prado) 2016 3 11 1 Piccolo-Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad) 2016 5 16 2 Anabaa Blue-Materialiste (Zafonic) 2016 1 6 1 Kyllachy-Pious (Bishop of Cashel) 2016 6 22 1 Exceed And Excel-Lindfield Belle (Fairy King) 2016 13 42 1 Holy Roman Emperor-Alte Kunst (Royal Academy) 2016 6 13 0 Eishin Dunkirk-Delta Downs (Deputy Minister) 2016 1 5 1 Iffraaj-Patruel (Rainbow Quest) 2016 4 19 0 More Than Ready-Chasethewildwind (Forty Niner) 2016 2 8 1 Monsun-Be My Lady (Be My Guest) 2016 1 3 0 Kendargent-Maybe (Dashing Blade) 2016 3 8 0 Rock of Gibraltar-Eurirs (Indian Ridge) 2016 1 3 1 Super Saver-Magdalena’s Chase (Cape Town) 2016 1 6 0 Northern Meteor-Listen Here (Elusive Quality) 2016 5 11 0 Pulpit-Salute (Unbridled 2016 1 1 0 Red Ransom-Field of Hope (Selkirk 2016 1 5 0

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SWs

Earnings

41 64.28 5 5 856,513 36 37.70 1 2 683,836 29 42.59 3 3 552,401 33 32.09 0 0 379,216 29 36.73 3 4 371,585 27 26.22 0 0 367,455 20 29.54 3 4 340,344 18 30.43 2 2 285,287 23 29.31 1 1 249,100 5 50.00 1 1 209,739 12 42.85 1 1 189,870 8 55.55 1 2 177,955 14 31.57 1 1 166,226 13 30.95 0 0 159,279 10 21.95 1 1 159,067 14 31.42 1 1 150,056 8 15.78 2 2 140,942 9 31.57 1 1 109,413 6 33.33 0 0 94,208 6 44.44 1 1 79,076 3 25.00 0 0 72,670 2 8.69 0 0 58,329 5 12.50 0 0 55,590 1 14.28 0 0 41,931 4 40.00 0 0 41,187 3 23.07 0 0 38,993 2 25.00 0 0 35,092 2 50.00 0 0 34,966 3 33.33 0 0 25,456 2 16.66 0 0 23,264 1 25.00 0 0 22,857 1 20.00 0 0 22,810 1 33.33 0 0 21,084 2 40.00 0 0 18,181 1 100.00 0 0 16,805 1 16.66 0 0 14,601 1 7.69 0 0 11,526 0 0.00 0 0 9,356 1 100.00 0 0 8,186 0 0.00 0 0 6,613 1 50.00 0 0 5,339 0 0.00 0 0 4,198 0 0.00 0 0 3,908 1 100.00 0 0 3,340 0 0.00 0 0 1,828 0 0.00 0 0 1,149 0 0.00 0 0 1,068 0 0.00 0 0 934

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The best 5f performer of his generation at two and three RACING POST

Ballyhane

Showcasing-Dijarvo

France’s ChampIOn 2yo Colt Europe’s FastEst 2yo Colt Europe’s FastEst 3yo Colt

“

He showed brilliance right from the start and he was a joy to train.

He’s such a good-looking colt with a wonderful temperament and attitude.

Archie Watson

Gr.2 Flying Childers “Best 5f performance by a colt in more than a decade” Ballyhane Stud Leighlinbridge, Co.Carlow, Ireland.

Joe Foley: +353 86 252 4135 Office: +353 59 972 2068 Web: www.ballyhane.com

Jane Foley: +353 86 806 6000 Email: info@ballyhane.com

BALLYLINCH STALLIONS 2020

Fascinating Rock Fee: €7,000 DUAL GROUP 1 WINNER, TFR 127 ● Won the Gr.1 Champion Stakes and Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup (defeating FOUND in both) ● Champion over 10f in both 2015 & 2016

FIRST 2YO S

2020

● First Yearlings in 2019 were extremely well received making €160,000, 140,000gns, etc.

Lope De Vega Fee: €100,000 ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING SIRES ● Over 100 career Black Type horses including 2019 Gr.1 Classic winner, PHOENIX OF SPAIN and 4 individual Stakes winning 2yos in 2019 ● Yearlings in 2019 made up to 750,000gns with an average of J205,000

Make Believe Fee: €12,000 RECORD BREAKING CLASSIC WINNER AND NOW A LEADING FIRST CROP SIRE ● Won the Gr.1 Prix de la Forêt in record time and the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains ● First crop winners included dual Gr.3 winner ROSE OF KILDARE, Gr.3 winner OCEAN FANTASY and Listed winner TAMMANI ● His yearlings have made up to 210,000gns

New Bay Fee: €15,000 A CLASSIC WINNING SON OF DUBAWI, TFR 128 ● Winner of the sire producing Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club, just like SHAMARDAL, LE HAVRE and LOPE DE VEGA ● From the immediate family of KINGMAN and OASIS DREAM

FIRST 2YO S

2020

● First yearlings in 2019 made up to 300,000gns with an average of 350,000

Waldgeist Fee: €17,500 AN OUTSTANDING SON OF GALILEO, TFR 132 ● Winner of 4 Group 1s and a Group 1 winning 2yo ● Impressively won a vintage Arc from 9 Group 1 winners including ENABLE, SOTTSASS and JAPAN

NEW IN

2020

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leading sires by distance Top 100 European sires of sprinters (5f-6f) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019) STALLION Dark Angel (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Dream Ahead (USA) Shamardal (USA) Showcasing (GB) Dandy Man (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Zebedee (GB) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Acclamation (GB) Equiano (FR) Bated Breath (GB) Siyouni (FR) Kyllachy (GB) Mayson (GB) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Society Rock (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Cable Bay (IRE) Camacho (GB) Lope De Vega (IRE) Slade Power (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Lethal Force (IRE) Dutch Art (GB) Starspangledbanner (AUS) Kheleyf (USA) Zoffany (IRE) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Power (GB) Coach House (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Sepoy (AUS) Gutaifan (IRE) Kingman (GB) Sir Prancealot (IRE) Charm Spirit (IRE) War Front (USA) Excelebration (IRE) Raven’s Pass (USA) Due Diligence (USA) Iffraaj (GB) Swiss Spirit (GB) Scat Daddy (USA) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Anjaal (GB) Dubawi (IRE)

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Runners

Winners

160 235 93 54 118 192 86 102 164 122 121 123 106 86 104 95 77 77 41 50 130 59 64 70 73 68 42 61 78 69 43 66 56 58 50 76 61 37 58 53 35 32 37 40 79 97 12 26 46 29

44 76 35 18 35 69 30 32 57 44 33 30 38 27 25 28 23 21 18 22 34 17 13 18 19 26 15 23 21 16 15 16 17 17 17 17 22 11 12 15 10 7 12 11 16 27 7 12 11 10

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W/R % 28 32 38 33 30 36 35 31 35 36 27 24 36 31 24 29 30 27 44 44 26 29 20 26 26 38 36 38 27 23 35 24 30 29 34 22 36 30 21 28 29 22 32 28 20 28 58 46 24 34

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Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

538 973 385 194 425 918 246 377 777 537 527 539 367 260 484 400 267 347 205 171 578 200 228 263 278 243 149 281 219 271 168 258 213 201 150 285 218 80 239 190 99 108 112 116 229 359 36 69 157 95

65 102 60 28 46 117 40 52 82 71 47 54 51 33 36 41 32 36 27 31 51 24 23 28 29 41 21 39 27 25 21 26 25 23 19 29 29 14 20 20 13 13 19 20 26 33 8 15 17 13

5 4 8 9 3 2 6 8 3 3 1 4 5 3 4 0 1 4 1 2 0 2 2 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 4 1 0 1 5 2 4 1 0 2 1 0 1

1,762,126 1,723,115 1,597,193 1,557,967 1,323,105 1,277,249 1,209,768 1,191,642 897,705 879,651 818,906 809,463 773,184 708,575 697,512 665,181 614,656 608,041 564,053 557,320 530,831 521,075 500,859 476,208 474,711 430,448 406,009 404,278 393,805 388,196 372,788 355,427 346,561 341,169 337,343 337,002 333,182 331,377 326,945 325,828 319,220 317,345 315,241 305,811 305,783 300,098 297,491 292,355 287,179 282,366

leading sires by distance ...continued European sires of sprinters (5f-6f) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019) STALLION Approve (IRE) Epaulette (AUS) Dabirsim (FR) First Defence (USA) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Bahamian Bounty (GB) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Arcano (IRE) Harbour Watch (IRE) Poet’s Voice (GB) Toronado (IRE) Pastoral Pursuits (GB) Gleneagles (IRE) Requinto (IRE) Piccolo (GB) Evasive (GB) Compton Place (GB) Orpen (USA) Heeraat (IRE) Alhebayeb (IRE) Sommerabend (GB) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Canford Cliffs (IRE) Ivawood (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB) Captain Gerrard (IRE) Sayif (IRE) Sidestep (AUS) Fast Company (IRE) Helmet (AUS) Frozen Power (IRE) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Areion (GER) Make Believe (GB) Captain Marvelous (IRE) Intense Focus (USA) Outstrip (GB) Garswood (GB) Blu Air Force (IRE) Clodovil (IRE) Es Que Love (IRE) American Pharoah (USA) Brazen Beau (AUS) Hot Streak (IRE) Lilbourne Lad (IRE) Gregorian (IRE) Royal Applause (GB) Gale Force Ten (GB) George Vancouver (USA) Elzaam (AUS)

Runners

Winners

32 58 42 4 68 25 30 32 59 59 32 40 19 56 37 33 34 22 52 40 19 11 54 37 32 43 11 14 49 56 32 50 26 25 16 29 35 33 37 43 19 7 33 36 25 32 25 23 22 43

11 15 10 1 23 8 10 16 12 11 12 15 7 16 12 5 11 8 9 10 5 1 10 10 8 12 2 5 15 12 12 9 8 6 5 7 10 9 11 8 6 3 8 6 9 8 8 4 5 9

W/R % 34 26 24 25 34 32 33 50 20 19 38 38 37 29 32 15 32 36 17 25 26 9 19 27 25 28 18 36 31 21 38 18 31 24 31 24 29 27 30 19 32 43 24 17 36 25 32 17 23% 21%

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Earnings

127 211 84 14 256 157 91 204 177 203 93 256 38 254 202 102 202 107 225 156 62 28 193 112 74 218 39 45 143 180 150 139 74 67 90 138 98 117 139 170 59 11 110 125 116 148 156 56 67 124

14 21 11 4 31 12 12 22 16 18 19 22 8 21 16 14 15 12 14 15 7 2 16 12 9 21 3 8 17 14 22 13 10 10 7 8 12 12 14 8 12 3 9 7 18 10 12 8 7 12

1 0 1 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0

282,009 276,537 275,039 272,641 261,372 249,413 245,140 244,841 244,592 244,355 238,019 235,200 232,630 231,742 226,596 216,209 186,424 185,362 184,537 181,589 173,509 171,947 168,811 165,960 161,403 159,006 157,700 151,280 148,197 144,812 144,634 143,021 142,103 141,582 140,664 138,584 138,356 137,026 136,064 135,963 135,006 132,966 128,896 128,311 125,136 123,976 123,744 121,881 121,542 119,844

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leading sires by distance Top 100 European sires of milers (7f-8f) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019) STALLION Shamardal (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Lope De Vega (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Frankel (GB) Kodiac (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Kingman (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Farhh (GB) Bated Breath (GB) Acclamation (GB) Areion (GER) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Wootton Bassett (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Le Havre (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) New Approach (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Showcasing (GB) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Dandy Man (IRE) Whipper (USA) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Dansili (GB) Dutch Art (GB) Kendargent (FR) Soldier Hollow (GB) Poet’s Voice (GB) Olympic Glory (IRE) Excelebration (IRE) Makfi (GB) Charm Spirit (IRE) Canford Cliffs (IRE) Tamayuz (GB) Toronado (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Paco Boy (IRE) War Front (USA) Sepoy (AUS) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Sir Prancealot (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Teofilo (IRE)

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Starts

Wins

131 118 105 160 186 223 160 181 58 249 107 100 125 21 130 124 76 139 71 142 73 71 83 100 109 27 153 30 98 76 96 114 86 139 52 87 71 83 91 62 89 25 55 60 84 133 63 66 83 85

51 57 33 46 47 62 56 45 21 60 31 42 37 10 29 34 27 40 18 30 17 15 28 27 22 7 31 10 29 19 30 25 32 30 11 17 21 27 23 18 29 12 13 19 26 24 17 18 17 18

39 48 31 29 25 28 35 25 36 24 29 42 30 48 22 27 36 29 25 21 23 21 34 27 20 26 20 33 30 25 31 22 37 22 21 20 30 33 25 29 33 48 24 32 31 18 27 27 20 21

433 336 244 449 514 800 575 615 158 815 423 240 370 61 409 506 295 475 205 430 183 183 207 425 308 104 527 101 334 208 317 399 251 459 114 305 246 259 315 194 261 58 204 135 297 431 236 252 243 267

74 79 43 58 70 89 77 60 33 82 42 52 46 15 38 57 39 57 22 40 25 20 41 34 28 10 39 12 44 23 36 34 41 44 12 21 30 40 36 22 38 20 19 24 37 32 23 25 20 28

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Stakes wins 14 15 12 3 6 4 3 5 8 5 2 5 8 3 5 3 6 3 1 3 4 4 6 0 3 1 2 1 5 0 3 2 5 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 4 3 3 1 1 2 1 3 3

Earnings 2,878,518 2,834,019 2,833,886 1,603,038 1,457,587 1,431,208 1,411,681 1,281,541 1,243,148 1,210,828 1,210,769 1,190,266 1,186,786 979,295 963,871 903,397 888,134 807,252 783,297 747,135 653,034 632,752 624,258 605,756 600,755 598,002 590,741 581,084 579,978 575,779 561,146 557,756 531,606 530,088 524,929 518,369 506,027 498,160 495,629 492,824 488,614 487,662 483,595 483,406 478,601 478,158 453,841 449,957 432,498 431,799

leading sires by distance ...continued European sires of milers (7f-8f) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019) STALLION Helmet (AUS) Sea The Stars (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Camelot (GB) Champs Elysees (GB) Declaration Of War (USA) Clodovil (IRE) Zebedee (GB) Raven’s Pass (USA) Arcano (IRE) Rajsaman (FR) Epaulette (AUS) Lawman (FR) Mukhadram (GB) Dabirsim (FR) Roderic O’connor (IRE) Dream Ahead (USA) Camacho (GB) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Lethal Force (IRE) Australia (GB) Intello (GER) Sea The Moon (GER) Elzaam (AUS) Rio de La Plata (USA) George Vancouver (USA) Harbour Watch (IRE) Evasive (GB) Ruler Of The World (IRE) Dawn Approach (IRE) Anodin (IRE) Scat Daddy (USA) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Gleneagles (IRE) Kyllachy (GB) Mayson (GB) Famous Name (GB) Cape Cross (IRE) Lilbourne Lad (IRE) Slade Power (IRE) Intense Focus (USA) Alhebayeb (IRE) Kheleyf (USA) Style Vendome (FR) Power (GB) Pedro The Great (USA) Casamento (IRE) Havana Gold (IRE) Leroidesanimaux (BRZ)

Runners

Winners

103 70 83 65 79 45 36 66 134 67 67 92 94 99 62 89 53 98 113 54 68 64 61 46 60 50 60 84 72 21 94 55 32 51 41 79 78 20 56 46 66 45 72 81 51 59 34 99 76 21

31 23 23 19 18 8 15 14 24 21 21 12 25 17 20 17 16 18 25 14 24 13 8 12 14 10 16 20 12 5 17 13 10 13 12 22 19 7 15 13 13 13 12 13 8 12 7 15 18 7

W/R % 30 33 28 29 23 18 42 21 18 31 31 13 27 17 32 19 30 18 22 26 35 20 13 26 23 20 27 24 17 24 18 24 31 25 29 28 24 35 27 28 20 29 17 16 16 20 21 15 24 33

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Stakes wins

Earnings

344 154 280 207 182 120 131 256 438 225 279 281 296 349 153 225 192 338 358 193 232 128 127 109 205 165 211 272 240 60 240 137 96 208 85 325 287 78 215 189 217 189 227 324 162 188 104 254 239 60

43 27 31 25 24 11 22 19 32 28 31 15 30 22 27 20 24 22 33 18 31 19 13 16 20 13 22 29 14 8 22 17 10 20 17 33 26 9 21 20 18 20 17 20 12 16 10 20 25 10

2 1 1 1 2 3 2 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 3

427,633 424,728 423,873 421,087 405,520 386,782 369,585 362,653 359,709 354,343 349,862 349,532 348,504 341,094 337,946 336,904 334,095 327,145 321,213 320,987 319,084 313,040 310,965 309,115 304,261 303,803 303,449 302,511 291,857 291,093 290,639 282,667 281,937 281,804 280,252 278,057 269,808 267,603 264,815 257,178 255,520 252,168 247,461 245,447 241,947 238,295 233,956 230,296 229,009 228,462

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leading sires by distance Top 100 European sires of intermediate runners (9f-10f) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019) STALLION Galileo (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Kingman (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Camelot (GB) Frankel (GB) Pivotal (GB) Lope De Vega (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Mastercraftsman (IRE) New Approach (IRE) Harbinger (GB) Dansili (GB) Rajsaman (FR) Intello (GER) Dark Angel (IRE) Makfi (GB) Australia (GB) Olympic Glory (IRE) Motivator (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Teofilo (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Sea The Moon (GER) Soldier Hollow (GB) Lawman (FR) Anodin (IRE) Champs Elysees (GB) Cape Cross (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Dabirsim (FR) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Planteur (IRE) Toronado (IRE) Raven’s Pass (USA) Oasis Dream (GB) Dawn Approach (IRE) Arcano (IRE) Casamento (IRE) Born To Sea (IRE) Campanologist (USA) Charm Spirit (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)

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Runners

Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

89 118 113 85 85 42 91 108 111 61 40 112 96 75 113 85 2 77 115 64 94 74 69 59 76 93 16 63 85 68 43 77 88 63 83 61 65 60 66 46 41 32 73 66 52 84 62 37 46 62

24 41 35 16 16 18 29 31 26 20 11 33 25 18 29 23 1 17 19 19 19 14 14 14 18 23 5 19 18 19 13 25 17 10 14 14 11 13 16 12 14 5 17 12 15 19 13 12 14 10

27 35 31 19 19 43 32 29 23 33 28 29 26 24 26 27 50 22 17 30 20 19 20 24 24 25 31 30 21 28 30 32 19 16 17 23 17 22 24 26 34 16 23 18 29 23 21 32 30 16

187 256 330 207 187 100 171 330 248 122 97 266 253 164 306 170 5 178 310 151 230 217 144 132 221 252 41 145 199 214 98 197 244 157 198 179 182 168 261 146 102 83 204 138 171 259 157 122 104 154

30 57 48 22 19 22 33 44 33 27 16 38 34 23 41 31 1 21 26 23 24 15 19 18 23 28 9 21 21 23 20 34 21 13 21 22 14 15 20 17 17 8 19 14 21 22 21 18 18 13

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Earnings 4,040,292 1,965,382 1,660,130 1,241,701 1,222,318 1,108,379 959,155 945,017 927,223 890,492 733,325 725,172 677,695 661,360 548,839 546,553 541,134 518,241 495,261 491,840 453,862 445,055 434,638 431,708 430,468 422,206 390,860 384,936 381,767 370,775 334,298 324,650 322,346 318,596 316,605 315,358 298,151 297,638 294,756 290,566 282,440 267,301 257,973 253,278 244,391 240,991 239,600 225,830 225,295 221,514

leading sires by distance ... continued European sires of STALLION Spirit One (FR) Style Vendome (FR) Orpen (USA) Evasive (GB) Rio de La Plata (USA) High Chaparral (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Myboycharlie (IRE) Rip Van Winkle (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Mount Nelson (GB) Slickly (FR) Wootton Bassett (GB) Alhebayeb (IRE) Ruler Of The World (IRE) Areion (GER) Authorized (IRE) Kingsalsa (USA) Lord of England (GER) Pour Moi (IRE) Bated Breath (GB) Helmet (AUS) Sepoy (AUS) Tin Horse (IRE) Showcasing (GB) George Vancouver (USA) Dutch Art (GB) Declaration Of War (USA) Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Poet’s Voice (GB) Sommerabend (GB) Harbour Watch (IRE) Excelebration (IRE) Manduro (GER) Maxios (GB) French Fifteen (FR) Aussie Rules (USA) Henrythenavigator (USA) Zanzibari (USA) Reliable Man (GB) Mujahid (USA) Intense Focus (USA) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Tertullian (USA) Epaulette (AUS) Linngari (IRE) Pedro The Great (USA) Deep Impact (JPN) King’s Best (USA) Muhtathir (GB)

intermediate runners (9f-10f) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019)

Runners

Winners

34 43 30 62 42 29 65 45 67 68 31 41 41 42 17 47 41 27 50 50 44 63 33 47 50 51 45 36 22 86 20 40 46 43 68 18 36 33 29 38 43 25 31 42 30 36 25 6 24 22

9 9 8 7 10 6 13 11 12 13 12 8 9 9 3 16 9 7 12 10 9 15 6 8 12 7 13 12 7 14 3 6 7 9 15 7 8 9 6 9 14 8 6 6 10 5 7 1 5 5

W/R % 26 21 27 11 24 21 20 24 18 19 39 20 22 21 18 34 22 26 24 20 20 24 18 17 24 14 29 33 32 16 15 15 15 21 22 39 22 27 21 24 33 32 19 14 33 14 28 17% 21% 23%

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Stakes wins

Earnings

112 126 96 191 144 93 173 173 159 146 97 166 96 119 43 145 83 106 127 128 103 146 93 142 126 152 148 85 84 216 57 89 134 116 176 66 104 118 84 80 142 84 89 145 83 121 76 13 88 70

12 12 17 12 14 10 13 16 16 17 19 8 10 10 3 25 12 12 14 15 11 17 11 10 15 7 19 14 11 17 4 8 10 11 16 9 14 15 8 9 19 12 9 9 14 5 9 2 8 7

0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0

221,502 219,446 216,649 211,789 209,699 209,572 209,485 204,703 203,943 202,125 202,009 186,448 184,282 184,245 183,953 183,313 179,739 177,881 175,731 175,097 174,388 174,156 170,273 168,990 168,426 165,578 165,016 164,019 163,748 161,345 160,684 157,709 155,023 153,887 153,185 150,680 149,756 149,184 148,870 148,422 145,687 143,373 142,953 140,369 136,868 135,729 134,254 133,133 132,971 130,791

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leading sires by distance Top 100 European sires of middle-distance runners (11f-13f) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019) STALLION Galileo (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Frankel (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Camelot (GB) Champs Elysees (GB) Siyouni (FR) Dawn Approach (IRE) Medicean (GB) Le Havre (IRE) Teofilo (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Casamento (IRE) Dalakhani (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Maxios (GB) Rip Van Winkle (IRE) Australia (GB) Scalo (GB) Motivator (GB) New Approach (IRE) Authorized (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Dansili (GB) Intello (GER) Makfi (GB) Lope De Vega (IRE) Declaration Of War (USA) Sea The Moon (GER) Rajsaman (FR) French Fifteen (FR) Doctor Dino (FR) Manduro (GER) Campanologist (USA) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Canford Cliffs (IRE) Reliable Man (GB) Shamardal (USA) Soldier Hollow (GB) Planteur (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Born To Sea (IRE) Lawman (FR) Al Kazeem (GB) Sir Percy (GB) Sixties Icon (GB) High Chaparral (IRE)

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Runners

Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

100 95 92 53 54 97 102 36 37 37 95 80 119 66 38 52 59 58 57 8 58 52 45 53 51 56 52 52 54 32 35 81 18 21 45 34 49 32 32 37 50 33 58 31 40 65 5 49 32 40

37 27 27 22 18 31 27 9 6 6 30 17 28 21 8 8 18 14 12 1 11 12 13 16 18 18 10 15 15 10 10 15 6 4 8 10 15 7 10 7 15 7 13 6 12 14 1 16 7 9

37 28 29 42 33 32 26 25 16 16 32 21 24 32 21 15 31 24 21 13 19 23 29 30 35 32 19 29 28 31 29 19 33 19 18 29 31 22 31 19 30 21 22 19 30 22 20 33 22 23

250 259 234 142 114 251 262 85 69 105 230 201 326 158 89 145 155 150 133 22 171 136 131 120 151 144 112 168 132 85 89 228 51 57 155 94 199 71 76 94 99 102 133 73 123 182 15 151 96 122

49 29 36 31 22 40 37 12 10 7 39 21 34 29 9 11 21 21 16 4 15 17 17 17 23 22 12 19 19 15 13 20 9 8 10 12 17 9 10 11 16 11 15 11 15 18 2 23 11 14

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Earnings 7,437,989 2,521,510 1,896,842 1,127,938 1,039,125 923,705 740,450 735,178 684,527 678,274 661,775 610,827 600,478 582,485 524,203 490,104 480,577 468,356 453,497 431,685 415,597 388,232 367,083 365,817 356,997 345,209 336,892 326,036 314,226 292,118 278,484 274,153 255,154 252,263 240,405 234,118 223,033 222,705 215,684 214,845 212,673 208,006 207,197 201,980 197,388 196,887 196,465 193,837 192,573 189,815

leading sires by distance ... continued European sires of middle-distance runners (11f-13f) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019) STALLION Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Youmzain (IRE) Kitten’s Joy (USA) Cacique (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Noble Mission (GB) Rio de La Plata (USA) Zambezi Sun (GB) Mount Nelson (GB) Silver Frost (IRE) Muhtathir (GB) Halling (USA) Tamayuz (GB) Jukebox Jury (IRE) American Post (GB) Paco Boy (IRE) Evasive (GB) Zanzibari (USA) Anodin (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Stormy River (FR) Slickly (FR) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Pour Moi (IRE) Orpen (USA) Aussie Rules (USA) Linngari (IRE) Tin Horse (IRE) Pedro The Great (USA) Dark Angel (IRE) Kamsin (GER) Archipenko (USA) Dutch Art (GB) Big Bad Bob (IRE) Duke of Marmalade (IRE) Intense Focus (USA) Sinndar (IRE) Arcano (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) Style Vendome (FR) Peintre Celebre (USA) Kentucky Dynamite (USA) Whipper (USA) Epaulette (AUS) Poet’s Voice (GB) Dabirsim (FR) Spirit One (FR) Raven’s Pass (USA) Kingman (GB) Fast Company (IRE)

Runners

Winners

16 26 15 22 48 10 28 17 33 25 22 17 19 33 23 12 28 21 30 42 27 28 31 41 20 26 29 31 16 42 24 33 33 36 22 26 33 33 45 22 12 19 24 19 41 26 25 21 15 34

5 6 4 6 8 3 10 8 8 5 6 3 2 8 6 2 8 5 5 8 8 7 5 10 7 6 7 7 5 6 9 10 9 10 5 5 8 3 6 6 5 5 6 6 7 9 4 6 5 8

W/R % 31 23 27 27 17 30 36 47 24 20 27 18 11 24 26 17 29 24 17 19 30 25 16 24 35 23 24 23 31 14 38 30 27 28 23 19 24 9 13 27 42 26 25 32 17 35 16 29 33 24

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Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

39 79 38 67 141 19 73 75 94 75 54 39 51 103 103 30 77 72 69 115 76 110 67 114 58 87 95 100 52 103 68 82 106 100 69 76 87 79 108 62 30 62 83 39 108 66 88 54 25 105

8 8 4 9 11 3 13 8 10 7 7 6 5 11 10 2 10 7 6 12 11 11 5 11 9 7 12 8 6 6 12 13 12 11 5 6 8 4 9 7 8 6 6 6 7 10 9 6 5 12

2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0

176,733 169,847 167,871 166,860 161,163 160,195 157,099 153,013 152,410 150,457 150,051 149,315 142,535 137,323 137,211 133,355 130,123 128,462 123,670 123,178 121,623 121,060 120,726 120,169 116,927 116,354 116,136 114,985 114,579 114,090 110,089 108,948 108,706 108,177 107,781 106,700 105,995 105,610 104,657 102,408 100,104 99,862 98,575 95,017 94,830 94,159 93,548 £93,484 £93,037 £91,862

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leading sires by distance Top100 European sires of stayers (14f+) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019) STALLION Galileo (IRE) Frankel (GB) Sea The Stars (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Champs Elysees (GB) Farhh (GB) Nathaniel (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Dansili (GB) Australia (GB) Teofilo (IRE) Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Camelot (GB) Hold That Tiger (USA) Pivotal (GB) Sir Percy (GB) Henrythenavigator (USA) Motivator (GB) Jeremy (USA) Sea The Moon (GER) Le Havre (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Declaration Of War (USA) Cacique (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Casamento (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Dunaden (FR) Duke of Marmalade (IRE) Muhtathir (GB) Rajsaman (FR) Maxios (GB) Rip Van Winkle (IRE) Samum (GER) Lawman (FR) Pour Moi (IRE) Manduro (GER) Intello (GER) Stormy River (FR) Sixties Icon (GB) Makfi (GB) Beat Hollow (GB) Medicean (GB) King’s Theatre (IRE) Authorized (IRE) Archipenko (USA) High Chaparral (IRE) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Siyouni (FR)

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Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

69 22 29 63 61 10 51 21 23 26 41 9 43 3 9 32 11 17 8 16 23 19 16 17 26 21 17 21 6 6 10 23 17 25 7 20 16 21 17 10 15 19 8 22 2 25 14 29 16 9

17 7 9 11 20 5 19 8 4 5 6 3 11 2 5 9 4 3 1 4 4 0 7 6 10 3 4 4 2 1 2 5 3 2 1 2 3 3 4 3 3 3 2 3 1 6 2 3 3 2

25 32 31 17 33 50 37 38 17 19 15 33 26 67 56 28 36 18 13 25 17 0 44 35 38 14 24 19 33 17 20 22 18 8 14 10 19 14 24 30 20 16 25 14 50 24 14 10 19 22

173 51 80 130 182 32 148 61 62 58 81 23 86 10 34 101 21 38 18 31 59 35 58 43 58 41 31 57 12 16 21 38 32 57 15 31 36 34 38 22 53 45 20 65 5 39 36 68 34 21

19 11 13 20 29 7 23 9 8 14 8 5 14 3 7 10 7 4 1 8 5 0 9 10 13 4 5 5 3 1 3 6 4 4 1 3 3 4 4 3 3 3 2 3 2 8 3 3 5 3

7 3 5 2 2 3 1 3 0 1 2 2 1 2 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1,583,823 1,201,202 1,015,930 501,064 496,408 425,139 411,418 405,890 404,851 400,348 399,598 301,286 271,688 248,139 214,980 193,385 160,123 159,471 158,313 153,040 149,641 146,713 138,359 138,150 128,347 122,028 121,475 116,722 109,175 101,990 95,397 91,426 91,031 89,081 86,720 84,446 82,644 78,045 74,599 73,780 70,149 65,336 63,011 62,520 61,607 60,895 60,773 59,153 58,134 55,956

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leading sires by distance ... continued European sires of stayers (14f+) in 2019 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2019) STALLION Delegator (GB) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Olympic Glory (IRE) Doctor Dino (FR) Canford Cliffs (IRE) War Command (USA) Jukebox Jury (IRE) Mount Nelson (GB) Fame And Glory (GB) Sakhee (USA) New Approach (IRE) Deep Impact (JPN) Getaway (GER) Librettist (USA) Vision D’Etat (FR) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Milan (GB) Adlerflug (GER) Helmet (AUS) Kamsin (GER) Shirocco (GER) Campanologist (USA) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Dark Angel (IRE) Poseidon Adventure (IRE) Rio de La Plata (USA) Gold Away (IRE) Big Bad Bob (IRE) Palace Episode (USA) Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Honours List (IRE) Poet’s Voice (GB) Magician (IRE) Youmzain (IRE) Great Journey (JPN) Masterstroke (USA) So You Think (NZ) No Risk At All (FR) Dalakhani (IRE) Born To Sea (IRE) Oscar (IRE) Reliable Man (GB) Animal Kingdom (USA) Winged Love (IRE) Exchange Rate (USA) Linda’s Lad (GB) Hurricane Run (IRE) Hannouma (IRE) Speightstown (USA) Sinndar (IRE)

Runners

Winners

W/R %

9 4 44 4 2 50 7 2 29 7 2 29 17 2 12 6 3 50 16 1 6 10 3 30 1 1 100 5 2 40 19 1 5 2 2 100 5 2 40 2 1 50 12 1 8 8 2 25 3 2 67 8 2 25 11 3 27 13 2 15 12 3 25 9 2 22 12 2 17 15 1 7 2 1 50 8 1 13 5 1 20 16 3 19 3 1 33 5 2 40 1 1 100 10 1 10 2 1 50 10 2 20 3 1 33 5 1 20 11 1 9 6 2 33 13 3 23 20 2 10 1 1 100 6 1 17 3 1 33 3 1 33 3 1 33 3 2 67 7 3 43 4 1 25 2 1 50 12 2 17

Starts 27 12 14 13 29 16 32 34 9 18 40 4 15 6 25 25 5 21 27 18 37 16 24 33 5 14 17 30 5 10 13 23 2 13 9 15 19 10 38 34 2 16 10 5 10 10 24 14 3 23

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Stakes wins

5 2 3 2 3 5 1 4 6 2 1 2 5 3 1 2 2 2 4 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 4 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 3 3 2 1 1 3 1 2 3 4 1 1 3

0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

Earnings 55,839 54,937 54,756 53,894 51,863 51,017 50,843 49,613 46,273 45,378 45,118 44,434 44,352 44,264 41,260 41,124 40,445 40,408 39,240 39,167 38,827 38,390 38,042 37,881 37,001 34,936 34,848 34,317 33,516 33,428 33,293 31,007 30,529 29,851 29,572 29,535 29,165 28,862 28,774 28,710 27,938 27,426 27,051 26,966 26,209 26,158 25,783 25,578 25,564 25,221

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DECORAT

Exceptional Dam Line

1st Dam own sister to GIANT’S CAUSEWAY (USA), etc.

2nd Dam, dam of eight winners including- GIANT’S CAUSEWAY (USA), Champion sire.

YOU’RESOTHRILLING (USA) Gr.3 winner; dam of winners.

GLENEAGLES (IRE) HAPPILY (IRE), four Gr.1 wins MARVELLOUS (IRE) Gr.1 winner

Triple Group 1 winner Won 8 races at 3 to 5 years, 2017 at home and in U.A.E. and £1,325,886 including Tattersalls Gold Cup, Curragh Gr.1 QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.1 Emirates Airline Jebel Hatta, Meydan, Gr.1

Irish Champion Stakes

Born, bred, raised and raced by

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Where dreams are born...

ED KNIGHT

Leading First Season Covering Sire In foal mares sold for 675,000gns, 425,000gns, 370,000gns, 220,000gns

First crop foals 2019 ‘Decorated Knight with his quality performance, quality pedigree and his quality foals makes him an exciting prospect’ Tony Nerses

Standing at

Fee: €9,000 (£7,750) 1st Oct.

Contact: Gary Swift or Patrick Diamond at Irish National Stud • Tel: +353 (0)45 521251

ESTIDHKAAR B. 2012, 16.00HH, by DARK ANGEL ex DANETIME OUT (DANETIME)

Dual Gr.2 winning 2yo sprinter

Fee:

€5,000 (1st Oct.)

Brilliant 2-Y-O Speed • Rated 121 by Timeform Won the Gr.2 Champagne Stakes and the Gr.2 Superlative Stakes at 2 First yearlings in 2019 were hugely popular at the sales making

140,000gns, 120,000gns, £110,000, 60,000gns, 50,000gns, £50,000 x2, etc.

Buyers included top trainers R. Varian, R. Hannon, R. Fahey x3, G. Lyons, C. Cox, K. Burke, C. Hills, A. Balding, M. Botti, J. Osborne, B. Meehan, etc.

Also bought by Shadwell x3, P. Doyle, BBA Ireland, B. O’Ryan, etc.

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stakes sires

The master list SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2019

Horses are listed under their sire with the respective broodmare sire in brackets.

Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including October 30, 2019 Data from Hyperion Promotions Academy Award Captain America (Mujadil)

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Acclamation Garrus (Medicean) Magical Dreamer (Indian Ridge) Pretreville (Fusaichi Pegasus) Tabarrak (Intikhab)

L L L L

Afleet Alex Dolkong (Broken Vow)

L

Air Chief Marshal Red Torch (Fasliyev)

L

Al Kazeem Aspetar (Dansili) Alhebayeb Abama (Iffraaj) Aurelius In Love (Red Ransom) Talk Or Listen (Noverre) American Pharoah Maven (Any Given Saturday) American Post Robin Of Navan (Muhtathir) Appel Au Maitre Appelina (Hernando) Approve El Astronaute (Footstepsinthesand) Arcano Secret Sharp (Acclamation) Shenanigans (Mujadil) Spinning Memories (Hard Spun)

Arch Estihdaaf (Ghostzapper)

Areion Alson (Galileo) Emerita (Green Tune) Itobo (Lomitas) Rubaiyat (Lomitas) Sun At Work (Royal Solo)

13 L 23 23L L

Australia Bangkok (Darshaan) 3 Broome (Acclamation) 33 Buckhurst (Green Desert) 33 Cayenne Pepper (Elusive Quality) 3 King Carney (Dansili) L Mohican Heights (Shirley Heights) L Sir Ron Priestley (Danehill Dancer) 3 Western Australia (Cadeaux Genereux) L

12 Authorized Ashrun (Areion) L L L

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2

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L

L L 3L

3

Bated Breath Breathtaking Look (Iffraaj) Daahyeh (Oasis Dream) Faccio Io (Manduro) Les Hogues (Peintre Celebre) Maid In India (Indian Ridge) Space Traveller (Galileo) Viadera (Beat Hollow) Worth Waiting (Sadler’s Wells) Beat Hollow Diamond Hill (Sabrehill) Bernardini Capezzano (Unbridled’s Song)

Blu Air Force Thunderman (Unbridled’s Song) Zan O’bowney (Fasliyev) Brazen Beau Avengers Queen (Showcasing)

3L

3 23 L L 3L 23 L 2

Bungle Inthejungle Living In The Past (Cadeaux Genereux) 2 Cable Bay Liberty Beach (Avonbridge) Cacique Colomano (Zilzal)

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Camelot Accon (Dubawi) 3 Alexander James (Hard Spun) L Alounak (Rail Link) 3 Degraves (Danehill Dancer) 3 Downdraft (Trempolino) LL Goddess (Green Desert) 3L Lady Wannabe (Duke Of Marmalade) L Latrobe (Shamardal) 3 Pink Dogwood (Shamardal) L Sir Dragonet (Oasis Dream) 3 Skyward (Giant’s Causeway) L Wait Forever (Holy Roman Emperor) L

Malotru (Dubawi) Champs Elysees Being Alive (Pursuit Of Love) Billesdon Brook (Manduro) Dame Malliot (Galileo) Durance (Lando) Elisa Again (Shirocco) Spirit Of Appin (Barathea) Way To Paris (Cozzene) Withhold (Fantastic Light) Charm Spirit Kick On (Marju) Choisir Psychedelic Funk (Galileo) Clodovil Duca Di Como (Elusive Quality) Shining Emerald (Zafonic)

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3LL L

Coach House Summer Sands (Ishiguru)

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Croco Rouge Monsieur Croco (Dananeyev)

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Canford Cliffs Cliffs Art (Areion) Salouen (Galileo)

L L

Dabirsim Pizzicato (Touch Down) Rose Flower (Lomitas)

L L

Cape Cross Cartiem (Zamindar) Mixology (Marju) Vivid Diamond (Hurricane Run)

3 L L

Campanologist Django Freeman (Acatenango) Rolando (Lomitas) Winterfuchs (Lomitas)

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1

LL L

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Cappella Sansevero Pierre Lapin (Cadeaux Genereux) Casamento Communique (Kris S) Lamaire (Kalanisi)

2

22 2

Dalakhani Defoe (Pivotal)

12

Dandy Man Dandhu (Cape Cross) Dr Simpson (Singspiel) Lady Kaya (Singspiel) Nitro Boost (Whipper)

3 3 3 L

Dansili Bristano (Pivotal)

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stakes sires Mootasadir (Galileo) Dark Angel Battaash (Lawman) Dark Lady (Oasis Dream) Fanaar (Royal Academy) Fox Power (Kyllachy) Happy Power (Selkirk) Khaadem (Footstepsinthesand) Shelir (Dalakhani) Thammin (Desert Style) Dawn Approach Dadoozdart (Bernardini) Dariyza (Selkirk) Madhmoon (Haafhd) Declaration Of War Agincourt (Royal Applause) Assiro (Red Ransom) Bayshore Freeway (Fasliyev) Olmedo (Pivotal) Valdermoro (Empire Maker) Deep Impact Bartaba (Anabaa) Fancy Blue (Sadler’s Wells) Love So Deep (Sadler’s Wells) Muette (Peintre Celebre) Savarin (Refuse To Bend)

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L L 3

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L L L L 3

Desert Prince Coccoloba (Orpen)

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Dialed In Strive For Glory (You And I)

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Doctor Dino Villa Rosa (Kahyasi) Dragon Pulse Legendary Lunch (Hansel) Dream Ahead Archer’s Dream (Acclamation) Donjuan Triumphant (Tagula) Dream Of Dreams (Dansili) Forever In Dreams (Green Tune) Glass Slippers (Mind Games) Raucous (Acclamation) Dubawi Al Dabaran (Manduro) Al Hilalee (Authorized) Anna Nerium (Old Vic) Benbatl (Selkirk) Coronet (Darshaan) D’bai (Green Desert) Duneflower (Shamardal) Ghaiyyath (Galileo)

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Glorious Journey (Dansili) 2 Gm Hopkins (Lomitas) 3 Ispolini (Giant’s Causeway) 33 King’s Command (Octagonal) 3 Lah Ti Dar (Singspiel) 2 Magical Touch (Machiavellian) L Mashael (Galileo) L Moonlight Spirit (Monsun) 3 Muntazah (Rahy) 33 Nashirah (Galileo) L North America (Yankee Victor) 22 Old Persian (Singspiel) 12 Plumatic (Anabaa) 2 Poetic Charm (Danehill) 22 Queen Of Desire (Invincible Spirit) L Royal Line (Lammtarra) 3 Space Blues (Noverre) L The Revenant (Excellent Art) 223L Too Darn Hot (Singspiel) 11 Uae Jewel (Galileo) L Due Diligence Good Vibes (Compton Place) Sir Boris (King’s Best) Streamline (Compton Place)

3L L 3

Duke Of Marmalade Marmelo (In The Wings)

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Dutch Art Exhort (Pivotal) Mabs Cross (Pivotal) Perfection (Pivotal) Positive (Makfi) Volfango (Peintre Celebre) Eishin Dunkirk I Kirk (Johannesburg)

King Of Change after his Queen Elizabeth II Stakes success on British Champions Day. He was the first Group1 winner sired by Farhh, the young son of Pivotal, who has also had two Group 2 winners and two Group 3 winners from small crops of foals.

King Of Change is out of an Echo Of Light mare

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L 1 L L 13L L

L 2 3 2 11 2 L 12

Elnadim Mr Lupton (Docksider) Elusive City King David (Montjeu)

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Elzaam Playa Del Puente (Galileo) Waitingfortheday (Lagunas)

L 3

Epaulette Insignia Of Rank (Dixie Union) Lapulced’acqua (Authorized) Stela Star (Sea The Stars)

L 3 3

Equiano Dakota Gold (Mark Of Esteem) Equilateral (Oasis Dream) Gustavus Weston (Cape Cross)

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Evasive Quindio (Dyhim Diamond)

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Singstreet (Sinndar) Trois Mille (Mujadil)

L 3

Rebecca Rocks (Pivotal) L Royal Intervention (Jeune Homme) 2 3 Secret Ambition (Singspiel) 3

Exceed And Excel Likala (Motivator) Magnetic Charm (Maria’s Mon)

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Excelebration Barney Roy (Galileo)

L

stakes sires Far Above (Shamardal) King Of Change (Echo Of Light) Move Swiftly (Bertolini) Wells Farhh Go (Galileo)

L 1L 2 L

Fast Company Safe Voyage (Mujadil)

3L

Fastnet Rock One Master (Pivotal) Orlaith (Piccolo)

1 L

Field Commission Drafted (Darn That Alarm) Finjaan Brian Ryan (Kheleyf) First Defence Siskin (Oasis Dream) Footstepsinthesand Elaire Noire (Exceed And Excel) Marie’s Diamond (Kalanisi) Threat (Birdstone) Frankel Anapurna (Montjeu) Delaware (Oasis Dream) Dream Castle (Dubawi) Elarqam (Efisio) Fount (Chester House) Learn By Heart (Danehill Dancer) Logician (Daylami) Master Of Reality (Darshaan) Mehdaayih (Gone West) Mirage Dancer (Green Desert) Obligate (Oasis Dream) Quadrilateral (Mizzen Mast) Sun Maiden (Kingmambo) Suphala (Kingmambo) Veracious (Pivotal) Free Eagle Justifier (Invincible Spirit) French Fifteen French King (Halling) Sestilio Jet (Fasliyev) Fuisse Tour To Paris (Kendor)

Inverleigh (Fast Company) Speak In Colours (Verglas) The Conqueror (Noverre) Excellent Art Above The Rest (Tiznow)

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Primitivo (Danehill Dancer) Farhh Blue Sky Dreamer (Teofilo) Dee Ex Bee (Seeking The Gold) Elegiac (Singspiel)

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11L 3L 123 2LL 3 3 12 3 2L L 2L 1 3L 3L 1

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Constantinople (Danehill) 3 Falcon Eight (Danehill) L Giuseppe Piazzi (Xaar) L Hermosa (Pivotal) 11 Innisfree (Fastnet Rock) 2 Japan (Danehill) 112 Kew Gardens (Desert King) 2 Klassique (Footstepsinthesand) 3 Lancaster House (Oasis Dream) L Love (Pivotal) 13 Magical (Pivotal) 11123 Mogul (Danehill) 2 Mohawk (Encosta De Lago) 3 Mount Everest (Celtic Swing) L Nayef Road (Danehill Dancer) 3 Norway (Kingmambo) 3 Peach Tree (Pivotal) 3 Sapa Inca (Holy Roman Emperor) L Search For A Song (Danehill) 1L Solage (Cape Cross) L South Sea Pearl (Darshaan) L Southern France (Anabaa) 3 Sovereign (Danehill Dancer) 1 Up Helly Aa (Aussie Rules) L Waldgeist (Monsun) 112

Galiway Kenway (Kendargent)

3L

Gladiatorus Presley (Celtic Swing)

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Gleneagles Royal Dornoch (Danehill Dancer) Royal Lytham (Anabaa) Southern Hills (Invincible Spirit) Golden Horn Festive Star (Diesis) West End Girl (Dansili) Gregorian Greach (Marju) Queen Jo Jo (Siphon)

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L L

Halling Desert Encounter (Invincible Spirit) 3 3 3 Harbinger Deirdre (Special Week)

1

Harbour Watch Pyledriver (Le Havre)

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Heeraat Aberama Gold (Band On The Run)

L

L

Galileo Anthony Van Dyck (Exceed And Excel) 1 L Armory (Danehill Dancer) 23 Birch Grove (Danehill) L Blenheim Palace (Storm Cat) 3 Blissful (Danehill) L Cape Of Good Hope (Danehill) L Circus Maximus (Danehill Dancer) 1 1 L

Helmet Anda Muchacho (Shamardal) 33 Swedish Dream (Giant’s Causeway) L

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stakes sires Thunder Snow (Dubai Destination) Henrythenavigator Called To The Bar (Unfuwain)

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Hold That Tiger Holdthasigreen (Muhtathir)

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Holy Roman Emperor Fullness Of Life (Stravinsky) Piece Of Paradise (Indian Ridge) Richenza (King’s Best) Roman Turbo (Monsun) Romanised (Indian Ridge)

3 L L 3 12

Hot Streak Flaming Princess (Marju)

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Iffraaj Beshaayir (Mister Baileys) Fountain Of Time (Kheleyf) Judicial (Marju) Mythical Magic (Octagonal) Powerful Breeze (Echo Of Light)

2 L L 2 2

Intello Folamour (Selkirk) In Front (Shirocco) Pao Alto (Dashing Blade) Regal Reality (Medicean) Slalom (Selkirk) Tresorerie (Anabaa)

L L L 3 3 L

Intense Focus Awesometank (Lawman) Just Sherry (Viking Ruler) Invincible Spirit Aloe Vera (Galileo) Beauty Filly (Malibu Moon) Big Brothers Pride (Green Tune) Firebird Song (Pivotal) Inns Of Court (Seeking The Gold) Invincible Army (Diktat) Lethal Promise (Elusive Quality) Magna Grecia (Galileo) Make A Challenge (Street Cry) Trethias (Selkirk)

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L L 3 L 2L 23L L 1 L L

Kantharos X Y Jet (Lost Soldier) Kendargent Eleni (Danehill Dancer) Famous Wolf (More Than Ready) Ken Colt (Mujahid) Morando (Indian Rocket) Skalleti (Muhaymin) Soleil Marin (Montjeu)

King’s Best King Malpic (Verglas) Pump Pump Palace (Kendor) Kitten’s Joy Dramatic Queen (Dubawi) Edisa (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Kuroshio Kurious (Cozzene) Kyllachy Kachy (Dubai Destination) Soffia (Amadeus Wolf)

Jukebox Jury O’juke (Peintre Celebre)

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Lawman Be My Sheriff (Machiavellian) Forest Ranger (Anabaa) Monica Sheriff (Montjeu)

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Kodiac Barys (Mr Greeley) L Fairyland (Pivotal) 1 Fox Champion (Red Rocks) 2 Hello Youmzain (Shamardal) 12 Jash (Dutch Art) L Shades Of Blue (Verglas) L Silk Forest (Sadler’s Wells) L Silva (Dutch Art) 3L Sporting Chance (Giant’s Causeway) L Tifosa (Acclamation) L

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3L 3 L

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Kingman Alligator Alley (Cape Cross) L Alocasia (Kingmambo) L Boomer (Singspiel) 3 Calyx (Observatory) 3 Fox Chairman (Galileo) L Headman (King’s Best) 22 King Of Comedy (Selkirk) L Nausha (Galileo) 3 Persian King (Dylan Thomas) 13 Private Secretary (Darshaan) L Raakib Alhawa (Sea The Stars) L Sangarius (Empire Maker) 3 Summer Romance (Statue Of Liberty) L Twist ‘N’ Shake (Danehill Dancer) L

Ivawood Chares (Titus Livius) Sopran Ival (Elusive City)

Kamsin Ladykiller (Lord Of England) Lips Queen (Zinaad) Nica (Santiago)

1

Le Havre

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Cherisy (Grand Slam) Normandel (King’s Best) Olendon (Sunday Break) Platane (Nayef) Roman Candle (Sunday Break) Suedois (Singspiel) Surrey Thunder (Indian Ridge) Tapisserie (Dutch Art) Urwald (Observatory) Villa Marina (Peintre Celebre) Volskha (Montjeu) Le Vie Infinite Armageddon (Altieri)

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Lemon Drop Kid Funny Kid (Danzig) Red Verdon (Choisir)

L 3

Leroidesanimaux Zaaki (Sadler’s Wells)

33L

Lethal Force Golden Horde (Pivotal)

2

Librettist Pretending (Machiavellian)

3

Lilbourne Lad Surrounding (Doubletour) Literato Sagauteur (Linamix) Lonhro Mountain Hunter (Daylami)

Lord Of England Kabir (Midyan) Kronprinz (Sholokhov)

Luxor Finesse (Eagle Eyed)

2

Make Believe Ocean Fantasy (Dansili) Rose Of Kildare (Sixties Icon) Tammani (Sadler’s Wells)

3 33 L

Makfi Anna Magnolia (Slip Anchor) Mkfancy (Muhtathir) Petit Fils (Orpen)

L 1 3

Manduro Good Question (Olden Times) L High As A Kite (One Cool Cat) L Square De Luynes (Dashing Blade) 3 3 3 Time To Choose (Orpen) L Mastercraftsman Agente Segreto (Diktat) L Agrotera (King’s Best) L Master’s Spirit (Sicyos) L Still Standing (Giant’s Causeway) L Technician (Sadler’s Wells) 123L Vintager (Orpen) 23 Maxios Diamanta (Fantastic Light)

1

Medicean Namos (Areion)

3

Mizzen Mast Flambeur (Kingmambo)

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Motivator Hopeful (Monsun) Madeleine Must (Compton Place) Palpitator (Take Risks)

3 L L

Mount Nelson Iskra (Bartok) Spirit Of Nelson (Invincible Spirit) Yulong Gold Fairy (Dutch Art)

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Lope De Vega Antonia De Vega (Duke Of Marmalade) L Duke Of Hazzard (Invincible Spirit) 2 3 L Ecrivain (Danehill Dancer) 3 Feliciana De Vega (Oratorio) 3 Four White Socks (Green Desert) 3 Lope Y Fernandez (Dansili) 3 Max Vega (Dalakhani) 3 Noor Sahara (Van Nistelrooy) L Palomba (Monsun) L Phoenix Of Spain (Key Of Luck) 1 Platinum Star (Acclamation) L Raise You (Galileo) L Tosen Gift (Montjeu) L Zabeel Prince (Unbridled’s Song) 13 Lord Kanaloa Almond Eye (Sunday Silence)

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1

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Muhtathir Mille Et Mille (Monsun)

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Mujahid Close Your Eyes (Galileo) Dirk (Docksider)

L 3

Mukhadram Romsey (Kheleyf)

L

Naaqoos Bakoel Koffie (Dyhim Diamond)

L

stakes sires Lady Galore (Johannesburg) Matterhorn (Darshaan) Raven’s Corner (Oasis Dream)

L L 3

Red Jazz Snazzy Jazzy (Byron) Urban Beat (Blues Traveller)

L L

Redoute’s Choice Danceteria (Cadeaux Genereux) 1 3 L Enbihaar (Trempolino) 222L Spotify (Green Tune) 3

Dashing Willoughby: one of six 2019 stakes winners for Nathaniel, four of which are out of Danehill-line mares

Nathaniel Amorella (Dubawi) 2L Channel (Dansili) 1 Dashing Willoughby (Dylan Thomas) 2 Enable (Sadler’s Wells) 111 Mutamakina (Danehill) L Tamniah (Rock Of Gibraltar) 3 Nayef Musa D’Oriente (Mujahid) New Approach Flop Shot (Dansili) Hey Gaman (Dubawi) Impulsif (Kingmambo) Jalmoud (Danehill Dancer) Military March (Danehill) New York Girl (Giant’s Causeway) Potemkin (Big Shuffle) Sameem (Dubai Destination) Telecaster (Shirocco) Night Of Thunder Molatham (Pivotal) Night Colours (Green Desert) Pocket Square (Dansili) Thunderous (Dalakhani) Under The Stars (Invincible Spirit)

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3 3L 3 L 3 3 3 L 2

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No Nay Never Arizona (English Channel) 2 Art Du Val (Rainbow Quest) L Chestnut Honey (Chester House) 2 L L Mystery Power (Haafhd) 2 Never No More (Catcher In The Rye) L

Servalan (Oratorio) Shadn (Sadler’s Wells) Tango (Galileo) Ten Sovereigns (Exceed And Excel) Wichita (Dashing Blade) Noble Mission Spanish Mission (Street Cry) Oasis Dream Azano (Hurricane Run) Imaging (Dubai Destination) Polydream (Green Tune) Sharja Bridge (Acatenango) Shine So Bright (Sir Percy) Well Of Wisdom (Sunday Silence) Olympic Glory Lucky Lycra (Pivotal) Phoceene (Helissio) Watch Me (Galileo) Orpen Le Baol (Beat Hollow) Pretty Baby (Gold Away) Oscar True Self (Mukaddamah) Outstrip Flippa The Strippa (Verglas) Paco Boy Beat The Bank (Diktat) Mission Boy (Second Empire)

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Paddy O’Prado Plata O Plomo (Cherokee Run)

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Pastorius Master Bloom (Miesque’s Son)

3

Pedro The Great Happy Bere (Kaldoun) Pedro Cara (Akarad)

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Peintre Celebre Power Euro (Galileo) Sword Peinture (Haafhd)

L L

Penny’s Picnic Ilanga (Big Shuffle)

3

Pivotal Addeybb (Kingmambo) Broderie (Hard Spun) Hereby (Hernando) Keystroke (Selkirk) Siyarafina (Azamour)

3L L L 3 1

Planteur Plegastell (Muhtathir)

Reliable Man Akribie (Haafhd) Ernesto (Niniski)

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Requinto Great Scot (Mr Greeley) Only Time (Nayef)

3 L

Rio De La Plata Do It In Rio (Agnes World) Paloma Ohe (Big Shuffle)

L L

Rip Van Winkle Keep On Fly (Duke Of Marmalade) Shailene (Cozzene)

2 L

Rock Of Gibraltar Kastasa (Galileo) Matematica (Galileo) Ziyad (Sillery)

3 L 2

Roderic O’Connor Miss O Connor (Lujain)

3L

Ruler Of The World Iridessa (Danehill)

11

Sageburg Qualisaga (Konigstiger)

L

Sakhee Red Tea (Pivotal)

2

Sakhee’s Secret Eagleway (Street Cry) Out Of Time (Rainbow Quest) Rose Secret (Celtic Swing)

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L Samum Abadan (Dalakhani)

Poet’s Voice Montsarrat (Entrepreneur)

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L

Point Of Entry Plus Que Parfait (Awesome Again) Raven’s Pass Gorgeous Noora (Invincible Spirit)

Scalo Laccario (Lomitas)

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2

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Scat Daddy Divine Image (Ishiguru) Hidden Message (Green Desert)

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stakes sires Etoile (Authorized) Laurens (Cape Cross) Maqsad (Galileo) Nice To See You (Johannesburg) Sottsass (Galileo) Tertius (Shamardal) Walk In Marrakesh (Shamardal) Slade Power Raffle Prize (Pivotal) Society Rock A’ali (Motivator) Band Practice (Zafeen) Corinthia Knight (Grand Lodge)

Sottsass: Jockey-Club winner was a new Group1 star in 2019 for Siyouni

Qabala (Empire Maker) Sergei Prokofiev (Tapit) So Perfect (Songandaprayer)

3 L 3

Sea The Moon Alpine Star (Rahy) Hamariyna (Danehill Dancer) Preciosa (Areion) Privilegiado (Singspiel) Quest The Moon (Rock Of Gibraltar)

2 3 L L 3

Sea The Stars Call Me Love (Rainbow Quest) 3 Crystal Ocean (Mark Of Esteem) 1 3 3 Fanny Logan (Manduro) 3LLL Lavender’s Blue (Danehill Dancer) 3 Raa Atoll (Sadler’s Wells) 2 Rakan (Teofilo) L Sextant (Sadler’s Wells) L Soudania (Monsun) 3L Star Catcher (Horse Chestnut) 1112 Star Terms (Exceed And Excel) L Stradivarius (Bering) 11222 Terebellum (Elusive City) 2 Sepoy Indian Blessing (Halling) Lanana (Dylan Thomas) Shamardal Alzire (Galileo) Aviatress (Unbridled’s Song) Blue Point (Royal Applause) Cape Byron (Mark Of Esteem) Castle Lady (Elusive Quality) Di Fede (Caerleon) Earthlight (New Approach) Hazapour (Daylami)

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Ickworth (Interprete) L Morgan Le Faye (Lomitas) 23L Pinatubo (Dalakhani) 112L Queen Power (Unbridled’s Song) L Shafran Mnm (Oasis Dream) L Shaman (Green Desert) 3L Skardu (Iffraaj) 3 Subway Dancer (Galileo) 2 Tarnawa (Cape Cross) 233 Victor Ludorum (Kaldounevees) 1 Waldpfad (Mark Of Esteem) 33 Showcasing Advertise (Pivotal) Lady In France (Compton Place) Mohaather (Inchinor) Tropbeau (Dansili) Sidestep Real Appeal (Green Desert) Silver Frost Cnicht (Cape Cross) Mc Queen (Darshaan) Silverwave (River Mist) Sir Prancealot Copper Knight (Oasis Dream) Sir Dancealot (Danehill Dancer) Sixties Icon Nagano Gold (Monsun) Siyouni Al Raya (Bahamian Bounty) City Light (Kendor) Devil (Lope De Vega) Dream And Do (Librettist)

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Soldier Hollow Amarena (Tiger Hill) Axana (Sleeping Indian) Ghislaine (Doyen) Joplin (Samum) Pelligrina (Monsun) Serena (Big Shuffle) Shalona (Lord Of England) Wish You Well (One Cool Cat) Speightstown San Huberto (Rail Link)

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Torok Rhythm Divine (Unaccounted For)

2

Toronado Alwaab (Compton Place) Stone Tornado (Danehill Dancer) Taos (Sunday Break) Wasmya (Danehill Dancer)

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L 33 L L 3 L L LL

Vocalised Cimeara (Galileo)

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Voix Du Nord Line Des Ongrais (Midyan)

L

War Command Isaan Queen (Invincible Spirit)

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LL

War Front Etoile (Sadler’s Wells) Fort Myers (Galileo) Happen (Sadler’s Wells) Munitions (Tapit)

3 L 3 3

Whipper Lord Glitters (Homme De Loi)

1

Wiener Walzer Nacida (Banyumanik)

L

Wootton Bassett Helter Skelter (Soave) Wootton’s Colt (Dansili)

L L

Zamindar Air Pilot (Dr Devious)

L

Zebedee Adelinda (High Chaparral) Buonasera (Oratorio) Major Jumbo (Mizzen Mast)

L 3 L

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Stay Thirsty Coal Front (Mineshaft)

2

Street Sense Bye Bye Hong Kong (Tiznow) Style Vendome Diamond Vendome (Kendargent) Style Presa (Pleasant Tap) Tagula Limato (Singspiel)

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3

3

Tamayuz Mustashry (Green Desert)

12

Tapit Wissahickon (Nureyev)

3L

Teofilo Amazing Red (Peintre Celebre) Cross Counter (Kingmambo) Donjah (Mt Livermore)

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1L

Stormy Atlantic Stormy Antarctic (Doyen)

Eliade (Dansili) Flight Risk (Nordico) Guaranteed (Toccet) Twilight Payment (Oasis Dream) Tertullian Ismene (Monsun)

Starspangledbanner Millisle (Indian Ridge)

Tai Chi Nancho (Paolini) L 22

3 1 L L 12L L L

L 2 2

Zoffany Albigna (Selkirk) Dolphin Vista (Mozart) Encapsulation (Iffraaj) Gold Tyranny (Hennessy) Main Edition (Woodman) Pensiero D’Amore (King’s Best) Verde E Rosa (Giant’s Causeway) Who’s Steph (Verglas) Supplied by Hyperion Promotions Ltd

12 L L L 2L L L 3L

FIRST FOALS 2020

Camacho

The Gr.1 Classic Sire

Dark Angel

The Gr.1 Champion Sprinter Sire

El Kabeir

Gr.2 winning son of Scat Daddy

NEW FOR 2020

Gutaifan

Dual Gr.2 winning 2YO

Invincible Army Group 2 winning son of Invincible Spirit

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THE BREEDERS’ CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS November 6-7, 2020

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This year’s most expensive European-sold yearling was the Dubawi colt ex Alina, the half-brother to the 2,000 Guineas winner Barney Roy, sold by Hazelwood Bloodstock to Godolphin for 3.6 million guineas

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OR THE SECOND YEAR running the major European sales returned very similar final statistics to the preceding year.

In current US dollars the turnover at the seven selected sales in England, Ireland, France and Germany was between $355 million and $358 million every year from 2017-2019.

The combined average price has fallen by about four per cent from $132,000 to $127,000 with an extra 80 yearlings recorded as sold.

For the first time, though, in this period the sales which saw the biggest progression were in

France and Germany.

Arqana’s August Sale reached a new all-time high aggregate and average price after three slightly disappointing years.

The average price rose by 17 per cent and the median by 16 per cent. Godolphin was the biggest buyer with eight purchases for nearly €5 million, but others who were more active in Deauville than at any of the other sales included Amanda Skiffington, Phoenix Thorougbreds, Shawn Dugan, as well as the French-based buyers Jean-Claude Rouget, Paul Nataf, Gerard Larrieu and Meridian Bloodstock.

There were major buyers from

US buyers at the 2019 European yearling sales made an impact: Mick Ryan (right), White Birch Farm and Klaravich bought 47 horses for a spend of $13 million

yearling sales Japan in Mitsu Nakauchida and Satomi Bloodstock, while US buyers included White Birch Farm, Oceanic Bloodstock, as well as Kenny McPeek, Justin Casse and others. The sale was once again dominated by the Haras des Monceaux which sold 30 yearlings for more than €10 million, about 25 per cent of the aggregate.

Godolphin was also the major buyer at Baden-Baden in September purchasing four of the top five lots including a Sea The Stars filly at €820,000 and a Kingman colt at €700,000.

They were the two most expensive horses sold at the sale in recent years.

There was also plenty of domestic demand from IVA Alles, Panorama Bloodstock and HFTB among others, while the Australian-based Bahen Bloodstock and Australian Bloodstock were also active.

Stroud Coleman and

Godolphin’s buying in France and Germany set a trend which continued into the major British and Irish sales – at the end of the season the team had bought some 30 fewer yearlings than had been the case in 2018 but for close to the same amount of money.

Rabbah Bloodstock, and Roger Varian and Kevin Ryan on behalf of Mohammed Obaid, spent more or less the same, and while Shadwell bought more yearlings for more money than it had in 2018, the total similar to 2017.

Shadwell is not active in France or Germany.

Looking at the major buyers over the last three years, the two who have greatly reduced spending are Phoenix Thorougbreds, and Alastair Donald on behalf of King Power.

The most significant rise came from US agent Mike Ryan and his clients, who include Klaravich Stables, and White Birch.

Klaravich and White Birch bought 12 yearlings between them at the 2017 Tattersalls October Book 1 and the success of these horses, headed by Newspaperofrecord, has been a major boost.

Ryan and the other US

Major yearling purchasers by $ spend in millions: 2017 Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millons)

26

18.7

Coolmore & partners

Godolphin 58 31.7 HKJC K Radcliffe R Varian

27 6.7 4

4.5

21

11.8

Rabbah 75 7.7 Sackville/Donald 106

27.3

Shadwell 87 25.4 Combined 404

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Major yearling purchasers by $ spend in millions: 2018 Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millons)

Stroud/Coleman/Godolphin 98

42

Shadwell 74 21 Rabbah 55 5.4 Roger Varian

9

4.2

Hillen/Devin/Ryan 20

6.1

MV Magnier

19

25

SackvilleDonald 92

16

Phoenix Thoroughbreds 24

12

David Redvers

16

8.3

Hong Kong Jockey Club 21

5.1

Combined 434

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Major yearling purchasers by $ spend in millions: 2019 Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millons)

Godolphin/Stroud/Coleman 61

40

Shadwell 89 27 Rabbah 49 5.4 Varian/Kevin Ryan

21

9.9

Sackville Donald

54

12

MV Magnier/Westerberg 18

15

David Redvers

18

7.6

Hong Kong Jockey Club

12

3.6

Ryan/White Birch/Klaravich 47

Combined 369

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yearling sales Demand was more competitive at the level around the average price and was also made up of buyers with different perspectives and looking for different types of horses agents present bought more than 50 horses in Book 1 and this expanded trans-Atlantic trade will have significant effects on commercial breeding in Europe.

US buyers brought a wide-range of horses, many by proven sires such as Galileo, Dubawi, Lope De Vega, Sea The Stars, Siyouni and Invincible Spirit, but also some by other younger stallions – Cable Bay, Shalaa and Belardo.

The average price of the American buys in Book 1 was 250,000gns, close to the overall sale average, and few if any were bought over 500,000gns.

The Tattersalls October Yearling Sale has succeeded in maintaining its dominant position in the European yearling market, however, it is hard to talk about stability when this position rests upon a weak domestic currency and the continued support of the Maktoum family.

The rise of the US buyers and the possibility of more success for Tattersalls graduates in the US as two

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and three-year-olds adds a new dimension to the sale.

The very top of the market was weaker than it had been in 2017 and 2018, as the fact that the average price of yearlings by Galileo and Dubawi fell by 20 per cent and 29 per cent respectively demonstrates.

However, demand was more competitive at the level around the average price and was also made up of buyers with different perspectives and looking for different types of horses.

The stallions whose yearling average progressed the most from 2018 to 2019 were, of course, the successful first-season sires with Cable Bay +137 per cent and Night Of Thunder +39 per cent leading the way.

As always it is difficult to make any reasonable predictions for the market in 2020 in a world so focused on the short term.

Currency movements and of course other changes in the terms of trade between Britain and the rest of Europe will have an effect.

All things being equal one would expect to see stronger catalogues at both Arqana August and Baden-Baden September, while Tattersalls October will continue to hold strong attraction for those hoping to sell at the top of the market.

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Major European sales 2016-2019 in domestic currency Sale & year

Nos sold

Aggregate (m)

Average

Tattersalls Book 1 and 2 (£) 2016

979 133.0 136,000

2017

962 158.0 164,000

2018 1,023 163.0 159,000 2019 1,017 158.0 156,000 % +/- 2018-19

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BBAG September (€) 2016 174 7.9 45,900 2017 165 7.6 46,600 2018 157 6.0 38,500 2019 136 7.9 58,600 % +/- 2018-19

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Arqana August and October (€) 2016 830 63.4 76,400 2017 842 64.4 76,500 2018 805 60.4 75,000 2019 853 65.9 77,200 % +/- 2018-19

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Goffs Orby (€) 2016 401 42.9 107,000 2017 373 40.7 109,000 2018 326 43.4 133,000 2019 362 42.8 118,000 % +/- 2018-19

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GoffUK Premier Sale (£) 2016 394 17.4 44,100 2017 376 19.6 52,000 2018 400 18.6 46,600 2019 376 17.8 47,500 % +/- 2018-19

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Left: Georg Von Opel of Westerberg was busy buying at many of the 2019 premier yearling sales, frequently purchasing with Coolmore

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ACECOURSE RESULTS aren’t all that matter to the commercial breeder.

They need to be financially rewarded to remain in business, and they are constantly seeking to identify the next batch of in-demand sires – before buyers do.

The two stand-out second-crop sires of 2019, Kingman and No Nay Never, both performed well in the sales ring. Using a sire in his third year at stud raises the stakes, but if it pays off the increased risk means increased rewards.

Kingman placed third behind Galileo and Dubawi by average price. He further enhanced his credentials as the most exciting young sire to stand in Britain with an average of over 316,000gns, nearly six times his 2017 covering fee of £55,000 (which rose to £75,000 in 2019).

Highlights included two seven-figure lots selling to both the powerhouses: a colt out of a full-sister to Fame And Glory was sold to Godolphin for 2.3 million guineas, while another colt out of the speedy Australian Group winner One Last Dance went to Coolmore for 1.8 million guineas.

Kingman has 138 yearlings to race next year, and we will be hearing a whole lot more from him, especially as he was the busiest sire in Britain and Ireland (outside of Coolmore ownership) in covering 235 mares.

The fact that No Nay Never stood for €17,500 helped propel

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Many of the breeders who took a punt on Kingman and No Nay Never in year three were richly rewarded at the yearling sales, writes Adam Potts his yearling average/stud fee ratio.

His average of 155,000gns equated to nearly nine times his 2017 stud fee. It was extremely good foresight from the breeders who sent mares to him in that year – his fee has rapidly increased and he stood for €100,000 for 2019.

Helped by Ten Sovereigns becoming Timeform’s top-rated three-year-old sprinter for his dominant display in the Group 1 July Cup, No Nay Never’s fee increases again for 2020 to €150,000.

Next year’s yearlings will have been bred off a €25,000 fee, and, given that his first six-figure year was this year, there may be fireworks at the 2020 yearling sales for his progeny.

Shalaa leads the new batch of sires

Of those sires with their first-crop of yearlings this year Shalaa, the most expensive first-crop sire with a fee of €27,500, achieved the highest average of nearly 110,000gns and median tight to

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that figure on 80,000gns.

An 88 per cent clearance rate also suggests demand was strong for his stock right the way through. He also had 31 yearlings make at least €100,000, headed by a €600,000 colt out of the Group 2 winner Maiden Tower sold to Emmanuel de Seroux of Narvick International.

The John Gosden-trained 121-rated Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes winner stands at Al Shaqab’s Haras de Bouquetot He has had a €3,000 fee increase to €25,000 next year after posting these solid yearling sale figures. Shalaa has also been numerically well supported, with 116 yearlings to race for him in 2020.

The Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Awtaad, the best performer of this batch of stallions at the foal sales, carried through his popularity to his yearlings averaging nearly 80,000gns for his 51 lots sold.

From a €15,000 book, it was notable that a quarter of his lots offered sold for €100,000 or more.

His owner Sheikh Hamdan

gave him plenty of support buying nine yearlings — all of whom cost a six-figure sum and were headed by a half-brother to this year’s Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Phoenix Of Spain.

Awtaad has 94 horses to go into training next year for him and, given that he didn’t peak until he was three, we can expect his progeny to mature similarly.

Other first-season sires whose first yearlings exceeded expectations included The Gurkha – his yearling average was double that of his first foals in 2018 – Protectionist, who had the fourth-best average of all first-season sires.

Both Harzand and Vadamos recorded yearling averages 75 per cent or more higher than their first foal averages.

Morandi: one to keep an eye on

Going off the beaten track, a cheap sire with just a small crop of first of yearlings did very well.

Morandi, a 7l winner of the Group 1 Criterium de SaintCloud and runner-up to Intello in the Prix du Jockey Club, had just a handful of yearlings offered.

Bred off just a €3,000 fee at Haras du Mont Goubert, three

by Morandi made in excess of €40,000, topped by a colt selling to Jean-Claude Rouget at the Osarus Yearling Sale for €52,000 and closely followed by two fillies who fetched €50,000 and €42,000.

These are splendid results,

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Bred off just a €3,000 fee at Haras du Mont Goubert, three by Morandi made in excess of €40,000, topped by a colt selling to Jean-Claude Rouget for €52,000 which led to an average of 25,000gns — more than nine times his fee.

France Galop reports that he has 60 yearlings on the ground and it will be interesting to see how the grey son of Holy Roman Emperor fares next year.

Racing results for Siyouni and Lope De Vega reflected

Most of the racing season has taken place by the time the yearling sales come around, and the pecking order amongst those stallions with first runners has been fairly well established.

That, of course, greatly effects how their second crop of yearlings will sell.

It was little surprise to see Cable Bay achieve prices well in excess of a typical £5,000 book.

After producing seven stakes performers in his first crop of 62 runners, eight yearlings sold for £100,000 or more.

Mike Ryan went to 320,000gns for a filly by the son of Invincible Spirit and a granddaughter of Massarra, Invincible Spirit’s three-parts sister.

Cable Bay’s clearance rate of 94 per cent was commendable, and showed that vendors were receiving strong demand at every price tier.

Golden Horn achieved the highest average and median levels, closely followed by Gleneagles and Muhaarar — all of whom hit median levels in and around 70,000gns.

Night Of Thunder, the first-season sire sensation, stood for considerably less than the

three aforementioned stallions at €25,000, and he achieved an average price of 85,000gns for his progeny.

Those who sent mares to him last year for just £15,000 will be excited about their upcoming prospects.

A top price of 425,000gns, combined with nearly a third of his lots offered making at least €100,000, shows he is on the cusp of a breakthrough.

The lag time between the time of cover and the yearling sales

means comparing the hammer price with the covering fee a good way of comparing progress in the interim.

Siyouni and Lope De Vega did particularly well in this regard, and it is little surprise to find that their 2019 fees are a good deal higher.

Siyouni’s 2019 yearlings were bred off a €45,000 fee (since risen to €100,000), and he boasted his first seven-figure lot sold to MV Magnier for €1.3 million.

Shadwell also purchased a pair of colts for 600,000gns and 800,000gns.

This helped his average climb to over 200,000gns.

This was close to Lope De Vega’s average of 190,000gns achieved off a €50,000 fee (which rose to €80,000 for 2019).

Having produced Newspaperofrecord, who ran one of the most astonishing races

in Breeders’ Cup history in the 2018 Juvenile Fillies’ Turf, and Phoenix Of Spain to win the Irish 2,000 Guineas since the previous year’s yearling sales, it was little surprise to see many of the largest racing operations tap some more into his progeny.

At one time Siyouni’s fee dropped as low as €7,000 and Lope De Vega dipped to €12,500.

Both have risen through the stallion ranks together and their profiles have now fully matured into being two of Europe’s most sought-after stallions.

They serve as the goal to aspire to for stallion owners.

Other sires whose average progressed by more than 20 per cent included the middledistance sires Sea The Stars, Soldier Hollow and Sea The Moon as well as Dark Angel and Le Havre, whose better bred progeny are starting to come through the ranks now.

Siyouni’s first seven-figure lot was the half-bother to Magna Grecia who fetched 1.3 million guineas

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stallion yearling averages Shalaa led the way for the European-based stallions with first yearlings offered in 2019 – the son of Invincible Spirit had 72 yearlings sold for an average price of 94,522gns

Top sires in Europe by yearling averages in 2019

(gns)

Sire Average Galileo 623,379 Dubawi 553,624 Frankel 400,827 American Pharoah 296,713 Kingman 270,678 Shamardala 263,571 Street Sense 205,520 Sea The Stars 198,022 Invincible Spirit 177,955 Siyouni 170,173 Lope De Vega 163,460 Dark Angel 150,630 Dansili 147,482 No Nay Never 136,212 Medaglia D’oro 129,350 Fastnet Rock 110,500 Air Force Blue 108,662 Le Havre 105,487 Shalaa 94,522

Stallion yearling averages

Stallions with two or more lots sold, listed alphabetically and showing aggregate, average and colt and fillies’ figures from sales in Britain, Ireland and France. In guineas, compiled by Weatherbys. Some dual-purpose stallions included Sire Name

Sold

Acclamation Adaay Adlerflug Affinisea Air Chief Marshal Air Force Blue Ajaya Al Kazeem Al Shemali Alhebayeb Amarillo Amaron American Devil American Pharoah Animal Kingdom Anjaal Anodin Appel Au Maitre Arcano Archipenko Areion

82 63 22 4 5 4 19 11 6 24 4 22 2 4 2 34 22 10 9 9 10

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Total 4,607,126 1,540,947 547,610 21,061 10,725 434,649 298,088 175,406 27,880 119,170 37,323 255,255 22,308 1,186,852 22,308 256,160 388,183 255,876 202,488 759,861 169,884

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Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

56,184 24,459 24,891 5,265 2,145 108,662 15,688 15,946 4,646 4,965 9,330 11,602 11,154 296,713 11,154 7,534 17,644 25,587 22,498 84,429 16,988

300,000 200,000 120,120 9,438 3,432 214,500 55,770 36,036 13,769 26,598 13,728 77,220 18,018 502,232 12,870 58,000 68,640 74,584 46,332 425,000 47,190

44 29 10 3 1 2 11 6 3 13 3 14 0 1 2 24 10 6 3 7 5

57,038 34,613 35,498 5,791 858 137,280 12,616 21,019 6,310 4,871 9,867 15,535 0 350,000 11,154 8,431 9,860 23,522 24,024 106,621 15,444

38 34 12 1 4 2 8 5 3 11 1 8 2 3 0 10 12 4 6 2 5

55,196 15,798 16,051 3,688 2,466 80,044 19,912 9,858 2,982 5,076 7,722 4,719 11,154 278,950 0 5,381 24,131 28,686 21,736 6,756 18,532

stallion yearling averages Sire Name

Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

Arrigo Ask Australia Authorized Awtaad Barely A Moment Barocci Bated Breath Bathyrhon Battle Of Marengo Beat Hollow Belardo Bernardini Black Sam Bellamy Blu Constellation Blue Bresil Bobby’s Kitten Boris De Deauville Born To Sea Bow Creek Brazen Beau Bungle Inthejungle Buratino Cable Bay Califet Camacho Camelot Canford Cliffs Cannock Chase Captain Chop Captain Gerrard Carlotamix Casamento Champs Elysees Charm Spirit Charming Thought Cityscape Clodovil Cloudings Clovis Du Berlais Coach House Cockney Rebel Cokoriko Coulsty Court Cave Dabirsim Dandy Man Dansili Dariyan Dark Angel Davidoff Dawn Approach Declaration Of War Desert Prince

3 2,574 858 858 1 858 2 858 2 6,864 3,432 4,290 2 3,432 0 0 54 4,242,643 78,567 450,449 30 92,420 24 61,251 5 140,712 28,142 51,480 3 35,750 2 16,731 61 4,065,341 66,644 350,000 33 78,452 28 52,728 2 2,573 1,286 1,715 2 1,286 0 0 2 32,701 16,350 29,833 1 29,833 1 2,868 38 806,345 21,219 90,090 23 19,310 15 24,147 2 9,438 4,719 6,006 1 6,006 1 3,432 3 10,293 3,431 5,576 3 3,431 0 0 6 77,647 12,941 24,882 5 14,671 1 4,290 65 2,063,179 31,741 200,000 33 43,527 32 19,586 2 59,761 29,880 30,000 2 29,880 0 0 5 26,759 5,351 15,714 2 11,190 3 1,459 7 30,030 4,290 8,580 3 7,293 4 2,037 13 224,791 17,291 47,619 12 18,605 1 1,523 41 518,807 12,653 61,904 23 14,343 18 10,494 2 15,444 7,722 12,012 0 0 2 7,722 2 14,757 7,378 13,728 1 13,728 1 1,029 7 40,326 5,760 8,580 4 6,220 3 5,148 25 408,226 16,329 60,000 14 16,331 11 16,325 13 325,135 25,010 80,000 4 27,932 9 23,711 55 570,188 10,367 57,142 33 11,910 22 8,051 45 2,095,422 46,564 320,000 27 43,144 18 51,695 8 92,406 11,550 21,450 6 13,613 2 5,362 51 1,308,032 25,647 154,440 30 29,380 21 20,314 75 6,142,018 81,893 557,700 36 100,306 39 64,896 6 69,925 11,654 42,900 3 6,720 3 16,588 6 21,667 3,611 5,714 5 3,904 1 2,145 5 30,888 6,177 8,580 2 6,006 3 6,292 2 4,500 2,250 3,500 2 2,250 0 0 2 13,505 6,752 7,500 2 6,752 0 0 2 8,857 4,428 7,142 2 4,428 0 0 13 283,448 21,803 65,000 11 24,793 2 5,362 50 1,107,945 22,158 111,540 28 24,695 22 18,929 23 316,013 13,739 85,714 8 6,651 15 17,519 6 58,582 9,763 24,000 5 11,564 1 761 15 220,789 14,719 62,000 7 27,977 8 3,118 2 8,664 4,332 6,864 1 6,864 1 1,800 9 65,437 7,270 23,809 5 11,087 4 2,499 10 53,095 5,309 16,000 8 6,101 2 2,142 7 28,998 4,142 13,728 5 5,479 2 800 2 22,308 11,154 15,444 2 11,154 0 0 27 239,515 8,870 40,000 17 8,911 10 8,802 6 31,145 5,190 13,299 3 6,292 3 4,089 67 1,224,767 18,280 85,800 30 18,360 37 18,214 94 3,048,843 32,434 188,760 53 36,372 41 27,344 9 1,327,340 147,482 380,000 5 124,000 4 176,835 31 628,913 20,287 98,670 14 21,756 17 19,077 95 14,309,939 150,630 1,050,000 52 128,423 43 177,486 3 21,450 7,150 11,154 2 9,867 1 1,716 53 734,022 13,849 55,000 24 16,024 29 12,049 5 213,640 42,728 64,350 1 64,350 4 37,322 9 95,667 10,629 32,604 6 8,723 3 14,443

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Sold

Diamond Boy Doctor Dino Doyen Dragon Pulse Dream Ahead Dubawi Due Diligence Dunaden Dunkerque Dutch Art Dylan Thomas Earl Of Tinsdal Elusive City Elusive Pimpernel Elvstroem (Aus) Elzaam (Aus) Epaulette (Aus) Equiano Es Que Love Estidhkaar Evasive Exceed And Excel Excelebration Exosphere (Aus) Famous Name Farhh Fascinating Rock Fast Company Fastnet Rock Feuerblitz Flamingo Fantasy Flemensfirth Flintshire Footstepsinthesand Fountain Of Youth Frankel Free Eagle French Fifteen French Navy Fulbright Gale Force Ten Galileo Galiway Garswood Gatewood Gemix Gentlewave Geordieland George Vancouver Getaway Gleneagles Goken Golden Horn Great Pretender

5 6 8 56 23 30 20 4 3 16 3 5 6 5 13 55 33 63 7 58 11 54 30 13 4 8 27 66 41 2 5 4 13 67 41 44 42 16 10 10 4 34 14 32 3 3 2 2 5 9 52 25 40 3

Total 61,467 163,878 86,656 670,016 555,124 16,608,747 395,855 11,427 43,758 618,081 27,284 18,876 57,474 13,466 230,373 514,112 251,962 1,068,561 31,964 955,637 54,054 3,790,447 282,023 193,908 59,371 310,561 708,121 1,616,470 4,530,506 2,574 18,018 91,977 729,677 2,575,750 180,758 17,636,402 942,141 128,271 58,499 68,363 15,269 21,194,890 252,252 238,462 9,866 63,492 1,713 2,094 85,800 80,437 4,303,257 442,728 3,370,227 28,914

Average 12,293 27,313 10,832 11,964 24,135 553,624 19,792 2,856 14,586 38,630 9,094 3,775 9,579 2,693 17,721 9,347 7,635 16,961 4,566 16,476 4,914 70,193 9,400 14,916 14,842 38,820 26,226 24,491 110,500 1,287 3,603 22,994 56,129 38,444 4,408 400,827 22,431 8,016 5,849 6,836 3,817 623,379 18,018 7,451 3,288 21,164 856 1,047 17,160 8,937 82,754 17,709 84,255 9,638

Highest 22,857 38,610 34,320 62,000 72,929 3,600,000 71,428 5,714 25,740 200,000 14,586 8,580 12,870 6,605 85,800 59,047 30,030 150,000 15,238 140,000 10,296 368,940 55,769 23,166 42,900 115,000 140,000 200,000 725,000 1,287 8,580 36,036 107,249 240,240 55,000 3,100,000 125,000 24,024 25,740 30,000 8,580 2,574,001 53,196 49,523 5,147 38,610 952 1,333 34,320 23,809 400,000 42,900 300,000 19,047

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

4 2 6 34 10 18 15 1 1 8 3 2 3 4 8 36 21 35 2 42 5 30 13 8 2 4 13 34 18 0 4 1 7 42 26 29 22 11 8 8 1 16 8 19 2 3 1 1 3 7 38 16 25 1

13,865 28,314 13,799 11,235 24,023 632,435 20,184 5,714 15,444 53,487 9,094 3,646 8,866 3,152 20,645 11,545 8,713 19,245 9,334 19,988 4,633 78,915 8,369 15,873 21,878 55,000 20,638 31,887 132,088 0 2,359 19,047 58,755 40,688 2,779 446,739 32,498 9,243 6,865 7,020 8,580 422,602 20,270 8,287 2,359 21,164 761 1,333 6,578 10,142 74,771 18,339 105,622 8,580

1 4 2 22 13 12 5 3 2 8 0 3 3 1 5 19 12 28 5 16 6 24 17 5 2 4 14 32 23 2 1 3 6 25 15 15 20 5 2 2 3 18 6 13 1 0 1 1 2 2 14 9 15 2

6,006 26,812 1,929 13,090 24,221 435,409 18,619 1,904 14,157 23,773 0 3,861 10,292 857 13,041 5,182 5,748 14,106 2,659 7,256 5,148 59,290 10,189 13,384 7,807 22,640 31,415 16,633 93,605 1,287 8,580 24,310 53,065 34,673 7,232 312,063 11,358 5,319 1,786 6,100 2,229 801,847 15,015 6,230 5,147 0 952 761 33,033 4,719 104,425 16,588 48,643 10,167

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stallion yearling averages Sire Name Gregorian Guiliani Gutaifan Hallowed Crown Hallucinate Hard Spun Harzand Havana Gold Heeraat Hellvelyn Helmet (Aus) Hillstar Holy Roman Emperor Hot Streak Hunter’s Light Iffraaj Imperial Monarch Intello Intrinsic Invincible Spirit Isfahan Ito Ivawood Joshua Tree Jukebox Jury Juniper Tree Kahyl Kalanisi Kallisto Kayf Tara Kendargent Kheleyf Kingman Kingston Hill Kitten’s Joy Kodi Bear Kodiac Laverock Lawman Le Havre Le Vie Infinite Leading Light Lemon Drop Kid Lethal Force Lightning Moon Literato Lope De Vega Lord Of England Lucayan Lucky Lion Mahler Make Believe Malinas Manduro

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Sold 16 4 83 7 2 3 34 34 22 10 43 2 61 22 15 70 4 60 4 34 32 3 13 3 15 6 3 7 5 8 51 8 71 5 3 66 118 2 43 48 2 5 2 33 2 6 58 17 10 3 9 28 8 10

Total 123,594 46,332 1,222,002 11,219 8,031 190,180 1,325,478 568,754 84,784 40,877 629,025 7,464 2,291,469 256,966 127,310 4,381,129 4,803 2,085,373 8,810 6,050,502 274,560 39,039 139,508 17,160 162,230 121,617 36,143 25,137 61,776 205,573 1,372,171 153,582 19,218,195 37,321 225,000 1,095,600 10,220,325 1,543 1,224,466 5,063,391 29,172 22,307 23,148 492,299 2,858 74,646 9,480,703 272,261 96,096 29,172 48,304 567,004 46,168 110,395

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Average 7,724 11,583 14,722 1,602 4,015 63,393 38,984 16,728 3,853 4,087 14,628 3,732 37,565 11,680 8,487 62,587 1,200 34,756 2,202 177,955 8,580 13,013 10,731 5,720 10,815 20,269 12,047 3,591 12,355 25,696 26,905 19,197 270,678 7,464 75,000 16,600 86,612 771 28,475 105,487 14,586 4,461 11,574 14,918 1,429 12,441 163,460 16,015 9,609 9,724 5,367 20,250 5,771 11,039

Highest 15,444 27,456 90,476 4,000 4,589 128,700 130,000 125,000 9,523 11,428 44,616 5,577 180,000 34,285 29,172 250,000 2,574 137,280 4,285 600,000 31,746 27,456 48,047 10,296 42,042 59,667 29,833 8,580 39,468 55,238 154,440 64,350 2,300,000 13,728 150,000 85,800 550,000 1,029 525,000 825,000 17,160 6,864 18,000 77,220 2,000 18,018 750,000 68,640 19,734 18,018 15,015 70,000 15,238 24,024

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

7 3 44 1 1 1 16 20 9 4 22 1 26 11 12 36 2 40 3 19 13 1 8 1 6 3 2 6 4 5 28 7 41 4 2 33 57 2 26 22 1 4 0 19 1 1 29 13 4 2 5 17 6 5

8,897 6,292 15,311 1,904 3,442 10,000 46,357 20,893 2,263 3,047 13,625 5,577 45,473 12,018 9,679 61,996 1,801 36,761 1,508 198,429 8,877 27,456 11,915 10,296 11,841 14,148 16,350 4,003 5,577 34,638 27,399 19,243 347,796 8,686 87,500 19,619 106,614 771 16,038 71,235 12,012 4,933 0 16,560 858 8,580 179,267 12,738 10,296 10,510 8,271 25,648 7,194 13,899

9 1 39 6 1 2 18 14 13 6 21 1 35 11 3 34 2 20 1 15 19 2 5 2 9 3 1 1 1 3 23 1 30 1 1 33 61 0 17 26 1 1 2 14 1 5 29 4 6 1 4 11 2 5

6,812 27,456 14,059 1,552 4,589 90,090 32,431 10,777 4,954 4,781 15,679 1,887 31,690 11,342 3,718 63,213 600 30,746 4,285 152,023 8,376 5,791 8,836 3,432 10,131 26,391 3,442 1,115 39,468 10,793 26,304 18,876 165,284 2,574 50,000 13,580 67,922 0 47,498 134,469 17,160 2,573 11,574 12,689 2,000 13,213 147,653 26,666 9,152 8,151 1,737 11,907 1,501 8,179

stallion yearling averages Sire Name Marcel Markaz Martaline Martinborough (Jpn) Masked Marvel Mastercraftsman Masterstroke Maxios Mayson Medaglia D’oro Mehmas Milan Monsieur Bond Montmartre Moohaajim Morandi Morpheus Most Improved Motivator Mount Nelson Muhaarar Muhtathir Mujahid Mukhadram Mustameet Myboycharlie Nathaniel Nayef New Approach New Bay Night Of Thunder No Nay Never Notnowcato Nutan Oasis Dream Ocovango Ol’ Man River Olympic Glory Outstrip Paco Boy Parish Hall Pastorius Pearl Secret Pedro The Great Peer Gynt (Jpn) Penny’s Picnic Pether’s Moon Pistachio Pivotal Poet’s Voice Pomellato Pounced Pour Moi Power

Sold 8 57 4 6 3 36 4 29 58 2 100 7 2 5 8 9 11 2 8 14 58 2 9 19 3 43 26 3 32 54 50 69 4 7 41 6 3 68 42 5 5 14 26 16 3 26 8 2 19 12 12 4 3 26

Total 47,029 670,058 175,890 66,066 23,166 1,700,458 39,039 529,458 905,360 258,700 2,796,672 135,561 13,808 71,900 37,916 173,316 20,849 18,018 344,058 187,160 4,165,985 18,018 97,383 334,910 10,296 851,998 1,081,134 188,125 2,420,051 1,993,186 3,673,472 9,398,662 13,898 22,103 3,011,773 21,225 34,489 1,650,850 273,277 74,818 19,815 228,657 415,983 424,710 64,350 305,448 54,212 5,736 1,447,776 109,886 149,721 27,885 35,486 296,677

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

5,878 11,755 43,972 11,011 7,722 47,234 9,759 18,257 15,609 129,350 27,966 19,365 6,904 14,380 4,739 19,257 1,895 9,009 43,007 13,368 71,827 9,009 10,820 17,626 3,432 19,813 41,582 62,708 75,626 36,910 73,469 136,212 3,474 3,157 73,457 3,537 11,496 24,277 6,506 14,963 3,963 16,332 15,999 26,544 21,450 11,748 6,776 2,868 76,198 9,157 12,476 6,971 11,828 11,410

12,000 62,000 98,670 21,450 12,012 205,920 20,592 161,904 100,000 130,000 247,619 37,751 7,142 24,024 10,724 44,616 6,863 14,586 145,860 29,172 360,000 10,296 25,740 61,776 6,006 145,860 145,860 120,120 320,000 300,000 425,000 900,000 6,005 8,151 350,000 7,293 30,030 343,200 42,900 50,000 8,580 68,640 52,380 81,510 38,610 30,030 21,904 3,442 200,000 34,320 45,474 15,444 24,761 42,900

3 35 2 3 1 15 4 16 37 0 48 5 1 4 7 5 6 1 1 11 29 0 6 10 3 20 18 0 22 28 25 38 2 5 25 5 3 37 20 4 2 6 17 8 1 12 5 1 15 8 5 3 3 13

8,003 13,547 22,308 11,440 12,012 46,739 9,759 23,171 14,998 0 34,014 23,680 7,142 16,731 4,190 16,816 2,602 14,586 34,320 15,649 80,373 0 10,653 10,825 3,432 20,498 33,750 0 90,839 36,185 87,568 153,547 3,432 3,217 79,072 4,107 11,496 16,906 7,157 17,632 8,150 23,666 17,027 33,998 38,610 14,443 9,271 2,294 82,112 8,682 11,840 9,009 11,828 14,367

5 22 2 3 2 21 0 13 21 2 52 2 1 1 1 4 5 1 7 3 29 2 3 9 0 23 8 3 10 26 25 31 2 2 16 1 0 31 22 1 3 8 9 8 2 14 3 1 4 4 7 1 0 13

4,603 8,904 65,637 10,582 5,577 47,588 0 12,208 16,685 129,350 22,384 8,579 6,666 4,976 8,580 22,308 1,047 3,432 44,248 5,005 63,280 9,009 11,154 25,184 0 19,218 59,203 62,708 42,158 37,692 59,370 114,962 3,517 3,008 64,684 686 0 33,074 5,914 4,290 1,171 10,832 14,057 19,090 12,870 9,438 2,618 3,442 54,023 10,105 12,931 858 0 8,453

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stallion yearling averages Sire Name

Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Presenting 2 41,184 20,592 24,024 Pride Of Dubai 71 1,628,193 22,932 188,760 Prince Gibraltar 7 104,676 14,953 55,770 Prince Of Lir 45 515,053 11,445 260,000 Protectionist 17 419,133 24,654 81,510 Rajsaman 27 181,878 6,736 34,320 Raven’s Pass 16 302,134 18,883 75,000 Red Jazz 18 74,207 4,122 15,444 Reliable Man 15 296,738 19,782 57,486 Requinto 9 95,873 10,652 23,809 Rio De La Plata 2 4,290 2,145 2,574 Rock Of Gibraltar 8 56,839 7,104 17,160 Ruler Of The World 18 148,380 8,243 34,320 Sageburg 5 29,942 5,988 12,441 Sakhee’s Secret 2 22,308 11,154 12,870 Sayif 4 25,000 6,250 11,000 Scalo 2 25,311 12,655 24,024 Scissor Kick 20 404,547 20,227 51,480 Scorpion 3 24,379 8,126 19,047 Sea The Moon 43 1,829,162 42,538 145,860 Sea The Stars 76 15,049,744 198,022 875,000 Sepoy (Aus) 33 316,187 9,581 85,800 Shalaa 72 6,805,594 94,522 514,800 Shamardal 7 1,845,000 263,571 500,000 Shantou 5 143,286 28,657 51,480 Shirocco 4 62,941 15,735 43,809 Sholokhov 4 13,640 3,410 6,435 Showcasing 66 5,625,856 85,240 360,360 Sidestep 16 291,714 18,232 47,190 Sir Percy 19 443,204 23,326 100,000 Sir Prancealot 31 356,449 11,498 77,220 Sixties Icon 2 11,047 5,523 8,000 Siyouni 77 13,103,368 170,173 1,300,000 Slade Power 25 474,335 18,973 160,000 Soldier Hollow 36 1,354,353 37,620 128,700 Soldier Of Fortune 11 122,959 11,178 21,450 Sommerabend 9 175,461 19,495 51,480 Soul City 2 20,592 10,296 14,586 Spanish Moon 6 48,691 8,115 23,809 Sri Putra 5 38,610 7,722 12,012 Starspangledbanner 53 2,068,740 39,032 140,000 Stimulation 2 24,500 12,250 22,000 Stormy River 7 45,474 6,496 9,438 Strath Burn 5 36,033 7,206 25,740 Street Sense 2 411,040 205,520 326,040 Style Vendome 15 162,228 10,815 68,640 Supplicant 3 49,764 16,588 30,030 Swipe 2 53,929 26,964 29,833 Swiss Spirit 31 186,638 6,020 18,018 Tagula 5 28,927 5,785 15,443 Tai Chi 12 114,371 9,530 52,338 Tamayuz 34 669,855 19,701 100,000 Telescope 10 106,471 10,647 38,095 Teofilo 23 1,283,159 55,789 343,200

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

2 37 3 25 7 16 9 12 7 7 1 4 11 4 1 2 0 15 2 29 37 25 34 5 5 3 1 40 11 9 20 0 41 12 18 7 5 1 2 4 27 2 7 4 2 9 3 0 22 4 7 17 7 11

20,592 0 0 26,029 34 19,561 23,166 4 8,794 17,531 20 3,837 30,826 10 20,334 8,739 11 3,822 24,644 7 11,476 4,432 6 3,502 30,826 8 10,118 12,164 2 5,362 2,574 1 1,716 10,971 4 3,238 7,626 7 9,212 7,357 1 514 9,438 1 12,870 3,000 2 9,500 0 2 12,655 18,961 5 24,024 11,809 1 761 47,255 14 32,769 233,924 39 163,962 8,933 8 11,604 98,135 38 91,289 296,000 2 182,500 28,657 0 0 17,806 1 9,523 6,435 3 2,401 92,758 26 73,672 21,059 5 12,012 30,895 10 16,514 13,832 11 7,254 0 2 5,523 194,314 36 142,680 13,821 13 23,729 43,686 18 31,555 14,460 4 5,433 28,314 4 8,472 14,586 1 6,006 15,765 4 4,290 8,151 1 6,006 44,147 26 33,721 12,250 0 0 6,496 0 0 8,794 1 857 205,520 0 0 8,452 6 14,359 16,588 0 0 0 2 26,964 5,334 9 7,698 7,017 1 857 13,544 5 3,912 24,827 17 14,576 12,448 3 6,443 46,688 12 64,131

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stallion yearling averages Le Havre: his fillies performed really well at the 2019 sales, achieving an average price of 134,469gns, above the 71,235gns achieved by his colts.

The stallion’s highest-priced yearling in 2019 was the filly out of Phiz sold at Tattersalls for 825,000gns by Minster Stud to MV Magnier Photo by Zuzanna Lupa

Sire Name Territories Tertullian The Gurkha The Last Lion The Wow Signal Tin Horse Toronado Triple Threat Twilight Son Universal Vadamos Vale Of York Valirann Vancouver Vanishing Cupid Vendangeur Vocalised Waldpark Walk In The Park Walzertakt War Command Well Chosen Westerner Wiesenpfad Wilshire Boulevard Wootton Bassett Workforce Worthadd Zanzibari Zebedee Zoffany

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Total

Average

Highest

Colt

81 3,526,452 43,536 223,080 43 6 71,643 11,940 34,320 3 65 3,247,171 49,956 450,450 37 32 996,341 31,135 170,000 17 5 173,515 34,703 51,480 4 2 21,450 10,725 12,012 1 44 1,312,931 29,839 180,180 35 2 6,864 3,432 4,290 2 90 2,445,387 27,170 130,000 59 2 5,909 2,954 5,148 2 76 1,881,147 24,751 154,440 48 5 39,468 7,893 15,444 4 3 12,139 4,046 9,438 1 2 115,000 57,500 90,000 2 3 32,604 10,868 14,586 1 4 17,759 4,439 14,157 2 5 28,310 5,662 12,870 2 12 90,519 7,543 29,172 7 15 289,589 19,305 41,184 11 2 14,586 7,293 8,580 1 17 233,374 13,727 35,000 14 3 10,124 3,374 5,577 2 6 51,221 8,536 16,301 5 2 26,598 13,299 24,024 0 3 79,173 26,391 41,308 2 55 3,648,378 66,334 266,666 26 3 14,157 4,719 8,580 2 6 13,809 2,301 8,580 1 4 34,320 8,580 12,870 2 8 61,655 7,706 29,172 5 111 6,389,375 57,561 400,000 65

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Filly

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53,209 38 32,590 18,876 3 5,005 60,039 28 36,632 32,045 15 30,104 34,798 1 34,320 12,012 1 9,438 25,318 9 47,419 3,432 0 0 30,434 31 20,960 2,954 0 0 29,365 28 16,842 8,151 1 6,864 9,438 2 1,350 57,500 0 0 10,296 2 11,154 8,193 2 686 12,869 3 857 5,393 5 10,553 21,769 4 12,530 8,580 1 6,006 11,889 3 22,307 3,861 1 2,402 9,128 1 5,577 0 2 13,299 34,997 1 9,179 74,843 29 58,705 5,362 1 3,432 1,372 5 2,487 11,583 2 5,577 11,044 3 2,144 54,437 46 61,976

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Stallion covering stats 2019

The covering sire table includes any sire who has covered 20+ mares in England or Ireland in 2019.

Some dual-purpose sires are included (and the figures will include their NH mares) From Weatherbys Stallion Acclamation (GB) Aclaim (IRE) Adaay (IRE) Anjaal (GB) Ardad (IRE) Australia (GB) Awtaad (IRE) Bated Breath (GB) Belardo (IRE) Berkshire (IRE) Bobby’s Kitten (USA) Brazen Beau (AUS) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Buratino (IRE) Cable Bay (IRE) Camacho (GB) Camelot (GB) Caravaggio (USA) Charm Spirit (IRE) Churchill (IRE) Cityscape (GB) Cotai Glory (GB) Cracksman (GB) Dandy Man (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Dawn Approach (IRE) Decorated Knight (GB) Dick Whittington (IRE) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Due Diligence (USA) El Kabeir (USA) Elusive Pimpernel (USA) Elzaam (AUS) Equiano (FR) Estidhkaar (IRE)

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2018 Standing IRE GB GB IRE GB IRE IRE GB IRE IRE GB GB IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE GB IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE GB GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE

Mares Covered 2018 98 101 84 47 77 228 89 73 88 191 63 108 109 126 29 150 166 141 92 214 83 118 147 215 174 74 79 43 131 162 30 89 186 119 47 58

Winners 60 57 49 22 43 142 48 41 44 21 39 54 63 58 17 77 104 78 60 139 53 51 106 113 140 36 39 20 55 138 18 40 52 53 32 26

BT Mares 18 12 4 1 5 63 11 7 7 3 10 7 13 3 2 12 57 29 19 60 8 14 61 18 99 6 11 2 8 113 2 8 3 6 3 4

BT Winning Mares 7 5 2 1 1 35 9 2 2 2 7 3 9 2 2 2 29 19 11 35 3 31 5 59 1 2 101 1 1 2 3 3 1

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Exceed And Excel (AUS) 2004 Expert Eye (GB) 2019 Farhh (GB) 2014 Fascinating Rock (IRE) 2017 Fast Company (IRE) 2011 Fastnet Rock (AUS) 2005 Footstepsinthesand (GB) 2005 Fountain of Youth (IRE) 2016 Frankel (GB) 2013 Free Eagle (IRE) 2016 Frontiersman (GB) 2019 Fulbright (GB) 2016 Galileo (IRE) 2002 Galileo Gold (GB) 2018 Gleneagles (IRE) 2016 Golden Horn (GB) 2016 Gregorian (IRE) 2015 Gustav Klimt (IRE) 2019 Gutaifan (IRE) 2016 Harbour Law (GB) 2019 Harry Angel (IRE) 2019 Harzand (IRE) 2017 Havana Gold (IRE) 2014 Havana Grey (GB) 2019 Hawkbill (USA) 2019 Heeraat (IRE) 2015 Highland Reel (IRE) 2018 Hillstar (GB) 2016 Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 2007 Hot Streak (IRE) 2016 Iffraaj (GB) 2007 Intello (GER) 2014 Invincible Spirit (IRE) 2003 Ivawood (IRE) 2016 James Garfield (IRE) 2019 Kessaar (IRE) 2019 Kingman (GB) 2015 Kingston Hill (GB) 2016 Kodi Bear (IRE) 2017 Kodiac (GB) 2007 Kuroshio (AUS) 2014 Lightning Spear (GB) 2019 Lope de Vega (IRE) 2011 Make Believe (GB) 2016 Marcel (IRE) 2017 Massaat (IRE) 2019 Mastercraftsman (IRE) 2010

2018 Standing IRE GB GB IRE IRE IRE IRE GB GB IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB GB IRE GB GB GB GB IRE IRE IRE GB GB GB IRE IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE

Mares Covered 2018 96 139 66 62 135 64 184 26 153 93 63 31 155 93 182 100 73 117 81 37 139 94 79 145 39 29 100 93 137 52 101 56 125 45 68 97 235 217 50 215 108 55 207 75 47 84 172

Winners

BT Mares

64 30 101 45 44 10 28 8 57 18 38 21 91 18 18 1 127 102 48 13 18 - 9 1 129 113 43 12 111 38 66 30 34 5 53 9 36 11 15 1 88 29 31 6 49 14 91 11 22 4 11 1 62 23 10 68 23 34 6 68 28 39 20 85 50 19 1 41 5 39 6 194 146 33 3 31 7 114 48 46 5 32 7 171 116 44 14 9 51 11 107 55

BT Winning Mares 19 29 2 4 7 15 7 1 77 4 96 3 23 20 2 4 3 1 16 3 6 4 1 1 13 12 3 15 8 31 1 1 2 123 1 2 29 2 2 80 4 4 29

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Bay 2014 by Kodiac – Kathoe (Fayruz)

GROUP WINNING SPRINTER

BY KODIAC

By Kodiac, record-breaking Champion Sire of 2YOs out of Kathoe, by leading sprint sire Fayruz. From the immediate family of Champion 2YO Woodstream.

RACE RECORD Won 2 races at 2 & 3, 6f and placed twice incl. Gr.3 Chipchase S, 6f, Newcastle, beating Aeolus (Gr.3) and 5 other Stakes Winners.

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Bay 2011 by Dansili – Mooakada (Montjeu)

FIRST YEARLINGS 2020 By sire of sires Dansili, out of MOOAKADA by Champion and outstanding broodmare sire MONTJEU.

RACE RECORD Won 5 races including 9f Earl of Sefton Stakes, Gr.3 Newmarket and 10f Wolferton Stakes, LR Royal Ascot.

Timeform Rated 120

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INTRINSIC

Bay 2011 by Oasis Dream – Infallible (Pivotal)

OFF TO A GOOD START AT STUD Sire of dual winner Najm and multiple placed horses from his first few runners. From a Stakes winning family including MUTAKAYYEF and INTIMATION and half-sisters VERACIOUS (won Atalanta S. Gr.3) and ALAADEL (3-time winner incl. on debut at 2).

RACE RECORD Winner of the Glorious Goodwood, Stewards’ Cup – in record 1 min 10.27 secs A race he won in a faster time than LOCHSONG or DANETIME.

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covering statistics Stallion

First year at stud

Mayson (GB) 2013 Mehmas (IRE) 2017 Mondialiste (IRE) 2018 Mount Nelson (GB) 2009 Muhaarar (GB) 2016 Mukhadram (GB) 2015 Nathaniel (IRE) 2013 National Defense (GB) 2018 New Approach (IRE) 2009 New Bay (GB) 2017 Night of Thunder (IRE) 2016 No Nay Never (USA) 2015 Oasis Dream (GB) 2004 Order of St George (IRE) 2019 Outstrip (GB) 2016 Pearl Secret (GB) 2017 Pether’s Moon (IRE) 2016 Pillar Coral (GB) 2018 Pivotal (GB) 1997 Poet’s Word (IRE) 2019 Postponed (IRE) 2018 Pour Moi (IRE) 2012 Prince of Lir (IRE) 2017 Profitable (IRE) 2018 Rajasinghe (IRE) 2019 Raven’s Pass (USA) 2009 Ribchester (IRE) 2018 Roaring Lion (USA) 2019 Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) 2003 Ruler of The World (IRE) 2015 Saxon Warrior (JPN) 2019 Sea The Moon (GER) 2015 Sea The Stars (IRE) 2010 Shamardal (USA) 2005 Showcasing (GB) 2011 Sioux Nation (USA) 2019 Sir Percy (GB) 2008 Sixties Icon (GB) 2009 Smooth Daddy (USA) 2019 Soldier of Fortune (IRE) 2010 Starspangledbanner (AUS) 2011 Tamayuz (GB) 2009 Tasleet (GB) 2019 Telescope (IRE) 2016 Teofilo (IRE) 2008 Territories (IRE) 2017 The Gurkha (IRE) 2017

2018 Standing GB IRE GB IRE GB GB GB IRE GB IRE GB IRE GB IRE GB GB GB IRE GB GB GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE GB IRE GB GB IRE IRE IRE IRE GB GB IRE GB IRE

Mares Covered 2018 90 85 65 123 123 43 112 55 102 94 105 180 148 261 105 53 47 78 52 30 40 47 45 143 33 51 143 133 30 77 165 164 186 58 160 241 62 54 71 261 168 75 107 182 103 99 60

Winners 50 30 34 25 83 26 67 23 72 56 71 117 103 62 49 33 11 8 36 14 25 12 19 63 18 26 83 104 9 41 111 97 146 44 117 129 34 32 32 37 89 45 67 52 60 57 31

BT Mares 5 8 3 3 43 6 31 5 31 27 16 79 43 5 5 3 1 1 13 1 11 3 3 17 1 9 27 66 4 9 51 37 103 25 51 33 3 2 5 3 19 19 17 6 21 11 8

BT Winning Mares 2 2 1 1 29 3 17 2 21 15 8 50 26 2 2 1 1 10 1 6 2 1 6 2 10 46 1 1 33 23 78 22 28 14 1 3 7 10 10 3 10 3 3

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2018 Standing

Mares Covered 2018

GB GB IRE GB GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE GB

Winners

93 71 119 104 52 84 22 50 67 72 216 149

BT Mares

64 14 39 7 58 22 70 28 28 3 24 1 10 1 15 5 33 5 10 124 50 112 60

BT Winning Mares 8 2 13 19 2 1 1 1 15 39

Zoustar: Tweenhills Stud’s new reverse shuttle stallion for 2019, saw 112 winning mares, 60 black-type mares and 39 black-type winners

Busiest Flat stallions in spring 2019 Stallion Order Of St George (IRE) Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) Sioux Nation (USA) Kingman (GB) Australia (GB) Kingston Hill (GB) Zoffany (IRE) Dandy Man (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Churchill (IRE) Lope de Vega (IRE) Berkshire (IRE) Elusive Pimpernel (USA) Sea The Stars (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Gleneagles (IRE) Telescope (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Dark Angel (IRE)

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Stallions who saw most winning mares in 2019

Stallions who saw most b-type winners 2019

Stallion

Stallion

Kingman (GB) Lope De Vega (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Australia (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Churchill (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Sioux Nation (USA) Frankel (GB) Zoffany (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Showcasing (GB) Kodiac (GB) Dandy Man (IRE) Zoustar (AUS) Gleneagles (IRE) Saxon Warrior (JPN) Mastercraftsman (IRE)

Mares 194 171 146 142 140 139 138 129 129 127 124 117 117 114 113 112 111 111 10

Kingman (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Frankel (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Roaring Lion (USA) Zoustar (AUS) Australia (GB) Churchill (IRE) Saxon Warrior (JPN) Cracksman (GB) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Camelot (GB) Expert Eye (GB)

Mares 123 101 96 80 78 77 59 50 46 39 35 35 33 31 31 29 29 29 29

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us stallions Into Mischief: produced 18 stakes winners in 2019, headed by two Grade 1 stars, the most well-known being Covfefe

Mischief makes good

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N WHAT IS QUICKLY FEELING like a golden era for North American sires, Spendthrift Farm’s Into Mischief is set to earn his first North American sires’ title. He has picked up over $2.3 million more in progeny earnings than second-placed Curlin.

His success continues a top year for his dam, the blue hen mare Leslie’s Lady. She was consistently in the headlines this autumn after her yearling daughter by American

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Pharoah sold for a record $8.2 million at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, while her older son Into Mischief was racking up success on the track.

Into Mischief has sired 18 stakes winners this year, including two Grade 1 winners with Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner Covfefe leading the charge, while also becoming a public sensation.

Named after a famous typo by the US president, Covfefe’s November win saw her

mentioned on talk shows and in mainstream articles around the nation after the Breeders’ Cup. With two Grade 1 victories to her name, Covfefe has made a strong case to be her sire’s first Eclipse champion, which would make this first champion sires’ title sweeter still.

Not surprisingly, farms have been eager to add sons of Into Mischief to their rosters over the last few years.

His first major son to retire to stud was

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Curlin comes from the strongest stallion crop we’ve seen this century two-time Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Goldencents and that stallion was second on the first-season sires’ list last year and currently looks like he’ll take the secondseason sires’ title too, with a $500,000 lead over Noble Mission as of November 11.

The young sire is still looking for his first Grade 1 winner, but he did have one of the most talked about three-year-old colts this year in Mr. Money, who reeled off four straight graded stakes victories and came within a neck of winning the Pennsylvania Derby (G1) in September.

He’ll join his sire and grand-sire on the Spendthrift roster at the conclusion of his career – the farm bought shares in him after the Pennsylvania Derby.

This year Spendthrift Farm will also add Into Mischief’s Grade 2-winning son Maximus Mischief to its roster, while WinStar Farm has his Grade 1-winning son Audible to stand for 2020.

Progeny by sons of Into Mischief have proven to be popular with buyers – Coolmore America’s young stallion Practical Joke had two of the most expensive weanlings at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Sale, and averaged $102,600 for his weanlings during the first week of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Curlin continues to remain amongst the leading sires with two-time Grade 1 winner Vino Rosso his top performer from 18 stakes winners.

Retiring to Spendthrift after his Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) victory in November, Vino Rosso helped Curlin make history as one of only two father-son duos to win the Classic, Curlin having taken the 2007 renewal.

Curlin’s record of having a three-yearold in a Triple Crown race every year of his stallion career ended in 2019 with no runners in the Classics at all, but with 11 graded stakes winners – leading all established sires – he easily made up for that omission.

Those who bred to Curlin the last few years were rewarded in the sales ring in 2019 with

his yearling average rising 35 per cent to $590,887.

The stallion had the most expensive colt at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale with his son out of Bounding selling for $4.1 million, while two of his sons tied for the top spot at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale at $1.5 million. He had eight seven-figure yearlings through 2019’s yearling season.

Curlin’s big moment came at Gulfstream in March when his two-year-old colt out of Achieving sold for $3.65 million to become the most expensive two-year-old sold in North America since 2006.

Curlin comes from the strongest stallion crop we’ve seen this century with Hard Spun, Street Sense, and the late Scat Daddy all born in the same year (though it should be noted Curlin retired a year after the others), although the class of 2017 is looking to take that title shortly.

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T WAS EXPECTED that Triple Crown winner American Pharoah would have a strong first crop due to the quality mares he’s bred, but he’s exceeded everyone’s expectations as the leading freshman sire.

The Coolmore sire has had multiple weekends where he’s sired two or more

winners with an international treble on November 9 with winners in Japan and the US. The stallion’s 23 winners also include four stakes winners – led by Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) winner Four Wheel Drive – and nine stakes horses overall. He has yet to have a Grade 1 winner, but three of those stakes horses have been placed in Grade 1 company.

Trainer Bob Baffert often said that American Pharoah would excel on the Turf if they tried him on the surface and his offspring are proving that he is passing on that untapped Turf potential.

All of his stakes winners have come on the Turf, while his successful Breeders’ Cup saw all three of his Breeders’ Cup runners win or place in Turf races.

Close behind American Pharoah is WinStar Farm’s Constitution – if continuing the way he has set out, he is on track to become Tapit’s best stallion son.

The Grade 1 winner has sired 19 winners with four graded stakes winners – one more than American Pharoah.

The sire already has a Grade 1 winner Tiz The Law taking out the Champagne Stakes (G1) in October, and he has another impressive two-year-old graded winner in Independence Hall, who won the Nashua

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Nos State

Justify 252 KY Mendelssohn 252 KY Into Mischief 241 KY Uncle Mo 241 KY Goldencents 239 KY Bolt d’Oro 214 KY Munnings 202 KY Practical Joke 200 KY Sharp Azteca 195 KY Cross Traffic 188 KY Klimt 187 KY American Pharoah 178 KY Mor Spirit 176 KY Cloud Computing 171 KY Kantharos 171 KY Violence 171 KY West Coast 168 KY Accelerate 167 KY Gun Runner 166 KY Always Dreaming 165 KY Good Magic 164 KY Good Samaritan 162 KY Candy Ride (ARG) 161 KY Collected 156 KY Nyquist 156 KY Hard Spun 155 KY Union Rags 155 KY Quality Road 154 KY Tapwrit 154 KY Twirling Candy 154 KY Cairo Prince 152 KY Arrogate 149 KY Girvin 149 FL Kitten’s Joy 149 KY Stay Thirsty 147 CA Street Sense 147 KY Uncaptured 147 FL City of Light 146 KY Frosted 144 KY Mo Town 144 KY California Chrome 143 KY Mastery 143 KY Speightstown 142 KY Army Mule 140 KY Honor Code 138 KY Jimmy Creed 138 KY

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Breeders’ Cup success for sires with first crops: above, Four Wheel Drive won the Sprint for American Pharoah, below, Structor took the Juvenile Turf for sire Palace Malice

Liam’s Map’s first yearlings averaged over four times his $15,000 stud fee at an average of $64,920

Stakes (G2) by an impressive 12l in early November.

While most of his stakes winners came after the yearling sales season, he was rewarded by buyers at the sales and his average jumped 28 per cent from $68,152 last year to $87,603 in 2019.

Three Chimney Farm’s freshman sire Palace Malice looks to have a potential two-year-old champion on his hands in his first crop after Structor won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) to stay undefeated in three starts with two graded stakes wins.

us stallions One of the best sons of Curlin as a racehorse, Palace Malice had every excuse to wait until his first crop turned three to be among his generation’s leading sires, but he’s hit the ground running.

The Belmont Stakes (G1) and Metropolitan Handicap (G1) winner is the sire of two stakes winners and four stakes horses to sit third on the freshman sires’ table by earnings.

And just like American Pharoah, he is also proving to have success on both Dirt and Turf.

The Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner Liam’s Map may only have three stakes horses but he’s gotten stakes winners where it counts – in Grade 1 races.

The young stallion has had two Grade 1 winners – Frizette Stakes (G1) winner Wicked Whisper and Hopeful Stakes (G1) winner Basin. He has had the most Grade 1 winners of any sire from his generation.

Liam’s Map’s success bodes well for his dam Miss Macy Sue’s legacy as a producer of sires. The young Grade 3-winning mare is also the dam of Grade 3 winner Not This Time, who stands at Taylor Made Farm and has first runners next year.

Liam’s Map’s first yearlings averaged over four times his $15,000 stud fee at an average of $64,920.

The surprise of the first-season sires’ rank is Florida stallion Khozan, who may be one looking for a spot on a Kentucky roster in a few years.

A half-brother to champion Royal Delta, Khozan got off to a fast start this year and at one point was leading the way. He is currently sitting at 14 winners – putting him above some of the top Kentucky stallions – and has had three stakes winners from six stakes horses.

The stallion is the only son of stakes winner

and top broodmare Delta Princess standing at stud on the east coast with her stakes-placed son Empire Way standing in California.

Delta Princess is the dam of three Grade 1 winners and her Grade 1-winning son Delta Prince was slated to stand at Adena Springs in Kentucky before succumbing to complications from colic and laminitis.

A hard luck family with Royal Delta also dying after producing only one foal – a filly by Galileo – it won’t be a surprise if Khozan finds his way to Kentucky in the next few years.

We have seen multiple stallions head to Kentucky after establishing themselves at stud with the newest being Take Charge Indy, who was sold to South Korea in 2016.

After having Kentucky Derby runners in his first two crops, the stallion was repatriated to WinStar Farm in October and returns to their roster in 2020 as the leading third-season sire of 2019.

Khozan: the well-related son of Distorted Humor had a fine time with his first runners – he has bagged three stakes winners from six stakes horses

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bay 2008, 16.1hh by Dubawi - Kazeem (Darshaan) Four-time Gr.1 winner by DUBAWI Won Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 2015 Won Gr.1 Coral-Eclipse, 2013 Won Gr.1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes, 2013 Won Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 2013 Joint Champion Older Horse in Europe in 2013 (9.5f-10.5f ) Timeform rated 128 in three consecutive seasons Sire of ASPETAR, Gr.1 Preis von Europa and Gr.2 Grand Prix de Chantilly (new race record), black type sprinter GOLDEN SPELL (RPR 103) and promising two-year-old filly FINERY 56% winners to runners from his first two crops 9% black type horses to foals from his first crop STANDING AT OAKGROVE STUD Oakgrove Estate, St Arvans, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, NP16 6EH For Nominations Contact: David Hilton: 07595 951248 Email: david@oakgrovestud.com

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Gr.1 Preis von Europa winner ASPETAR in action at Chantilly

us stallion tables Leading US sires 2019: (by prize-money earned to November 5, 2019) Stallion Into Mischief Curlin Tapit Giant’s Causeway Quality Road Medaglia D’Oro Speightstown Hard Spun Kitten’s Joy Street Sense Candy Ride Uncle Mo Scat Daddy More Than Ready Ghostzapper Twirling Candy The Factor City Zip Malibu Moon English Channel Lookin At Lucky War Front Midnight Lute Munnings Eskendereya Kantharos Majestic Warrior Distorted Humor Stay thirsty Congrats Pioneerof the Nile Shackleford Take Charge Indy Arch Empire Maker Bernardini Flatter Declaration Of War Lemon Drop Kid Shanghai Bobby Tiznow Paynter Sky Mesa Goldencents Temple City Dialed In Mineshaft Tapizar

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Rnrs

Wnrs

BT Swnrs

360 192 261 134 275 125 186 87 213 107 222 96 219 120 280 135 365 158 237 124 213 110 270 128 240 123 264 118 212 113 209 118 264 148 237 134 246 129 216 109 181 87 206 84 180 104 232 133 183 87 181 97 229 125 193 96 175 96 266 138 188 85 204 109 151 81 109 54 257 111 210 91 193 88 182 92 204 103 185 91 176 83 180 92 170 87 144 75 223 96 120 60 180 89 197 94

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17 17 24 7 9 12 12 9 10 12 13 10 19 7 11 10 12 10 10 13 4 11 7 10 5 6 6 4 4 4 5 7 4 7 4 5 4 12 6 7 5 4 8 4 5 6 4 5

GSWs 6 11 11 3 5 8 6 6 6 6 9 6 7 5 5 5 2 3 1 5 3 6 2 1 1 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 1 5 2 1 2 5 2 1 2 1 1 2 3 - 1 2

G1SWnrs 2 1 - 1 4 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 - 1 1 1 2 1 - 1 2 - - 1 - - - - 2 1 1 - 1 - - - - 1 - 2 - - -

Chief earner

Earnings

Covfefe 16,235,964 Vino Rosso 14,171,489 Tacitus 13,027,475 Bricks And Mortar 12,604,994 City Of Light 12,179,251 Higher Power 10,221,043 Sharing 10,001,624 Spun to Run 9,718,471 Henley’s Joy 9,606,567 McKinzie 9,516,218 Vekoma 9,318,608 Bast 8,942,512 Mr Melody 8,485,700 Uni 8,335,064 Guarana 8,282,785 Concrete Rose 8,271,929 Cistron 8,187,403 Snapper Sinclair 8,105,687 Come Dancing 8,032,321 Channel Maker 7,702,183 Country House 7,539,757 War Of Will 7,283,461 Midnight Bisou 7,098,820 Om 6,775,098 Mitole 6,628,951 X Y Jet 6,449,622 Air Almas 5,965,237 Quip 5,919,556 Coal Front 5,797,809 Pat On the Back 5,623,736 Moonhak Chief 5,536,169 Promises Fulfilled 5,427,403 Long Range Toddy 5,286,305 Preservationist 5,227,676 Eight Rings 5,173,079 Capezzano 5,172,096 Avie’s Flatter 5,108,907 Peace Achieved 5,053,858 Dyna Passer 5,036,788 Shancelot 5,003,317 Blue Chipper 4,965,974 Headland 4,918,556 Perfect Alibi 4,914,061 Mr. Money 4,873,433 Annals of Time 4,854,583 Gunnevera 4,817,665 True Timber 4,812,378 Jeltrin 4,804,720

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DEMONSTRATE OUTSTANDING VALUE

MUHAARAR (GB) % winners to runners - 33% (36 runners/12 winners) Highest price made at auction - £378,000 Combined median at auction - £74,550 2020 stud fee - £20,000

CABLE BAY

% winners to runners - 42% (57 runners/24 winners) Individual stakes winners - 1 Highest price made at auction - £336,000 Combined median at auction - £68,250 2020 stud fee - £15,000

DUE DILIGENCE % winners to runners - 36% (45 runners/16 winners) Individual stakes winners - 3 Highest price made at auction - £75,000 Combined median at auction - £15,500 2020 stud fee - £8,500

GOLDEN HORN (GB) % winners to runners - 18% (28 runners/5 winners) Individual stakes winners - 2 Highest price made at auction - £315,000 Combined median at auction - £78,750

OUTSTRIP (GB)

2020 stud fee - £40,000

% winners to runners - 29% (55 runners/16 winners) Individual stakes winners -1 Highest price made at auction - £20,000 Combined median at auction - £3,750 2020 stud fee - £5,000

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us stallion tables Leading first-season US sires 2019: (by prize-money earned to November 5, 2019) Stallion American Pharoah Constitution Palace Malice Liam’s Map Competitive Edge Khozan Tapiture Bayern Wicked Strong Summer Front Carpe Diem Fast Anna Race Day

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Wnrs

BT Swnrs

54 20 53 17 53 13 36 10 41 14 34 14 58 18 40 14 53 16 41 9 44 11 30 11 26 10

4 4 2 2 4 2 1 - 1 2 - 3 4

GSWnrs

BT SHs

3 4 1 2 - - - - - 1 - - -

Chief earner

9 Four Wheel Drive 6 Tiz the Law 3 Structor 3 Wicked Whisper 5 My Italian Rabbi 5 Liam’s Lucky Charm 4 Axiomo 2 Biddy Duke 3 Wicked Warrior 2 Fighting Seabee 2 Bella Aurora 3 Been Studying Her 5 Josie

Earnings 2,329,408 1,629,496 1,396,681 1,064,077 1,050,976 967,405 900,210 888,897 751,990 677,686 672,752 650,252 612,408

Leading US Turf sires 2019: (by prize-money earned to November 5, 2019) Stallion

Rnrs

Giant’s Causeway Kitten’s Joy English Channel More Than Ready Scat Daddy City Zip The Factor Medaglia D’Oro Hard Spun Tapit Into Mischief Twirling Candy Speightstown Temple City Uncle Mo Get Stormy Lemon Drop Kid Ghostzapper Artie Schiller Animal Kingdom Street Cry Stormy Atlantic Declaration Of War Street Boss Pioneerof The Nile Galileo Square Eddie Arch Skipshot

110 247 172 151 132 142 162 116 106 123 160 121 101 142 134 70 130 91 87 88 35 72 75 77 107 18 52 61 32

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BT SWnrs

Chief Earner

6 Bricks And Mortar 8 Henley’s Joy 13 Channel Maker 5 Uni (GB) 8 Valid Point 7 Snapper Sinclair 8 Bandua 7 Cambier Parc 4 A Thread of Blue 8 Princesa Carolina 6 Corruze 3 Concrete Rose 4 Sharing 4 Annals of Time 4 Moon Colony 3 Got Stormy 4 Dyna Passer 5 Holy Helena 3 Bowies Hero 3 Regal Glory 3 Zulu Alpha 3 El Tormenta 6 Peace Achieved 4 Social Paranoia 2 Nolde 1 Magic Wand 3 Eddie Haskell 4 Arklow 1 Vasilika

Earnings 10,129,027 6,822,378 6,562,226 4,830,186 4,054,435 4,000,358 3,898,523 3,691,926 3,205,857 3,164,803 3,117,379 3,117,151 3,008,310 2,925,576 2,870,679 2,857,582 2,817,394 2,744,768 2,714,303 2,650,335 2,645,274 2,403,183 2,283,183 2,219,954 2,066,926 1,973,431 1,949,682 1,940,239 1,933,732

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us stallion tables Leading US sires of two-year-olds 2019: (by prize-money earned to November 5, 2019) Stallion

Rnrs

Into Mischief American Pharoah Uncle Mo Declaration of War Constitution More Than Ready Munnings Flashback Palace Malice Speightstown Kitten’s Joy Sky Mesa Court Vision Liam’s Map Twirling Candy Competitive Edge Goldencents Khozan Tapit Street Sense City Zip Cairo Prince Tapiture Bayern Gemologist Verrazano Midshipman The Factor Wicked Strong Shackleford Hard Spun Bodemeister Congrats War Front Shanghai Bobby Brethren Summer Front Ghostzapper Carpe Diem Medaglia d’Oro Uncaptured Bernardini Fast Anna Algorithms Honor Code Tonalist Paynter Race Day

86 34 63 23 58 18 44 17 57 19 43 22 62 25 26 7 55 15 29 10 55 20 26 10 12 4 37 13 47 18 44 19 55 20 35 14 36 12 41 10 38 11 52 18 62 21 45 15 48 25 52 22 35 17 48 13 58 19 32 13 43 10 52 19 59 17 52 18 42 15 29 10 45 10 29 10 47 11 31 8 29 12 39 11 37 11 38 10 37 12 42 10 42 14 27 12

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BT Swnrs

BTSHs

3 9 4 9 1 2 4 8 4 8 4 8 4 9 1 1 2 4 3 3 3 5 4 6 1 2 2 3 3 6 4 5 1 5 2 7 1 4 2 4 1 6 1 2 1 4 - 2 3 4 1 4 2 10 2 6 1 3 2 7 1 2 1 3 1 2 2 6 2 5 - 4 2 2 1 2 - 2 - 1 1 1 1 5 3 3 2 3 - - - 1 1 2 4 5

Chief earner

Frank’s Rockette Four Wheel Drive Bast Peace Achieved Tiz the Law Scabbard Kimari British Idiom Structor Sharing Jezebel’s Kitten Perfect Alibi Storm the Court Wicked Whisper Fore Left My Italian Rabbi Newstome Liam’s Lucky Charm Enforceable Maxfield Billy Batts Buy Land and See Axiomo Biddy Duke Liberate New York Groove Leucothea Cofactor Wicked Slider Moonlit Mission Green Light Go Critical Value Naked Avenger Fort Myers Big City Bob Filly Jean King Fighting Seabee Nucky Bella Aurora Anneau d’Or Two Sixty Art Collector Been Studying Her South Bend Corsi Lucky Jingle Lazy Daisy Josie

Earnings

2,613,388 2,437,805 1,930,628 1,787,353 1,739,367 1,705,098 1,644,464 1,581,346 1,559,124 1,478,038 1,313,966 1,306,512 1,289,223 1,228,660 1,166,557 1,164,694 1,075,019 1,052,243 1,033,867 1,026,035 1,016,513 1,010,752 997,315 954,718 954,393 954,126 950,564 909,416 862,601 857,593 845,196 834,873 821,177 819,387 802,022 765,710 747,724 722,927 712,323 695,978 692,116 689,489 673,749 673,605 666,670 662,546 653,280 631,494

By European Champion Sprinter and leading sire influence OASIS DREAM out of European Champion 2YO ATTRACTION Successful first crop sire standing at a stud which produces Group 1-winning sprinters

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Wins and places from his first crop runners including GRAVITY FORCE 4th Horris Hill Stakes, Gr.3 His second crop of yearlings sold for up to 55,000gns

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They contain information on sales prices, trainer, official ratings, winning distances, sire covering fees and more. The Thoroughbred Sales guides can be bought as a wire-o-bound book or in a PDF and are available to order before the sales and on site at the sales.

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The guides can be purchased as and when needed, or can be purchased in packages, with attractive discounts applied, packages include: • February Sale Package • Breeze-Up Sale Package • Yearling Sale Package • Foal and Breeding Stock Package • Complete Sale Package All packages can be purchased in either book or PDF format.

or you can call Lauren Beetson on +44 (0)1933 440077 or email lbeetson@weatherbys.co.uk

stallion fee tables Fees for major British & Irish Flat stallions 2019-2020 (inc % change 2019 to 2020 *first-season sires) (European fees will be published in next month’s issue) Stud / stallion

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Ballyhane Stud Dandy Man €12,500 €15,000 20 Elzaam €4,000 €4,000 Prince Of Lir €4,000 €4,000 Soldier’s Call * - €1,000 Ballylinch Stud Fascinating Rock €7,500 €7,000 -6 Lope De Vega €80,000 €100,000 25 Make Believe €12,000 €12,000 New Bay €15,000 €15,000 Waldgeist * - €17,500 Banstead Manor Stud Bated Breath £10,000 £12,500 25 Expert Eye £20,000 £17,500 -12 Frankel £175,000 £175,000 Kingman £75,000 £150,000 100 Oasis Dream £30,000 £25,000 -16

Batsford Stud Harbour Law £4,000 £2,500 -37 Swiss Spirit £3,000 £2,500 -16

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Galileo Private Private Gleneagles €30,000 €35,000 16 Gustav Klimt €7,500 €6,000 -20 Highland Reel €17,500 €12,500 -28 Holy Roman Emperor €15,000 €15,000 Magna Grecia * - €22,500 Mastercraftsman €30,000 €25,000 -16 No Nay Never €100,000 €150,000 50 Rock Of Gibraltar €7,500 €6,000 -20 Saxon Warrior €30,000 €27,500 -8 Sioux Nation €12,500 €12,500 Starspangledbanner €17,500 €22,500 28 Ten Sovereigns * - €25,000 The Gurkha €17,500 €12,500 -28 US Navy Flag €25,000 €17,500 -30 Zoffany €25,000 €22,500 -10

Dalham Hall Stud Charming Thought £6,000 £5,000 -16 Cracksman £25,000 £25,000 Dubawi £250,000 £250,000 Farhh £10,000 £12,000 20 Golden Horn £50,000 £40,000 -20 Harry Angel £20,000 £20,000 Bearstone Stud Iffraaj £35,000 £30,000 -14 Fountain Of Youth £4,500 £3,500 -22 Masar * - £15,000 Washington DC £6,000 £5,000 -17 New Approach £30,000 £30,000

Outstrip £5,000 £5,000 Compas Stallions Postponed £15,000 £10,000 -33 Capella Sansevero €4,000 Private - Territories £12,000 £12,000 Kuroshio €6,000 €6,000 Too Darn Hot • - £50,000 My Dream Boat €4,000 €4,000

Smooth Daddy €5,000 €5,000 - Derrinstown Stud Strath Burn €4,000 €4,000 - Awtaad €15,000 €15,000 Haatef €2,000 €2,000 Chapel Stud Markaz €6,000 €6,000 Coach House £3,000 £4,000 +33 Tamayuz €12,500 €10,000 -20 Helvellyn £3,000 £3,000 -

Pearl Secret £4,000 £4,000 - Elwick Stud

Mondialiste £6,000 £6,000 Cheveley Park Stud

Dutch Art Private Private Gilltown Stud Mayson £6,000 £5,000 -16 Harzand €10,000 €8,000 -20 Pivotal Private Private Sea The Stars €135,000 €150,000 11 Twilight Son £8,000 £7,000 -11

Ulysses £17,500 £15,000 -14 Hedgeholme Stud

Intrinsic £1,750 £1,750 Coolmore Stud Mahsoob £2,000 £1,250 -37 Australia €35,000 €27,500 -21 Koropick £2,500 £2,000 -20 Calyx * - €22,500 Camelot €40,000 €40,000 Highclere Stud Caravaggio €35,000 €40,000 14 Cable Bay £6,500 £15,000 130 Churchill €35,000 €30,000 -14 Land Force * - £6,500 Fastnet Rock €70,000 €60,000 -14

Footstepsinthesand €10,000 €15,000 50

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Irish National Stud Overbury Stud Decorated Knight €12,000 €9,000 -25 Ardad £6,500 £6,500 - Dragon Pulse €6,000 €6,000 Cityscape £5,000 £5,000 Elusive Pimpernel €1,000 €3,000 200 Le Brivido * - £7,000 Free Eagle €12,500 €12,500 Invincible Spirit €120,000 €100,000 -16 Rathasker Stud National Defense €8,000 €8,000 Anjaal €5,000 €5,000 Phoenix Of Spain * - €15,000 Bungle Inthejungle €12,000 €12,000

Clodovil €10,000 €8,000 -20 Kildangan Stud Coulsty €4,000 €4,000 Belardo €10,000 €10,000 Gregorian €6,000 €6,000 Blue Point * - €45,000 Buratino €5,000 €5,000 Rathbarry Stud Dawn Approach €15,000 €10,000 -33 Acclamation €40,000 €35,000 -12 Exceed And Excel €50,000 €40,000 -20 Kodi Bear €6,000 €6,000 Fast Company €12,000 €12,000 James Garfield €7,000 €6,000 -14 French Navy €4,000 €4,000 Tagula €4,000 €4,000 Fulbright €4,000 €4,000 Night Of Thunder €15,000 €25,000 66 Tally-Ho Stud Profitable €12,000 €12,000 Cotai Glory €5,000 €5,000 Raven’s Pass €10,000 €10,000 Galileo Gold €10,000 €7,500 -25 Ribchester €25,000 €20,000 -20 Inns Of Court * - €7,500 Shamardal Private Private Kessaar €8,000 €6,000 -25 Slade Power €7,500 €7,500 Kodiac €65,000 €65,000 Teofilo €40,000 €40,000 Mehmas €10,000 €7,500 -25 The Last Lion €7,500 €7,500 Vadamos €7,500 €6,000 -20

Lanwades Stud Tara Stud Bobby’s Kitten £10,000 £8,000 -20 Alhebayeb €5,000 €5,000 Sea The Moon £15,000 £15,000 Estidhkaar €5,000 €5,000 Sir Percy £7,000 £7,000

Study Of Man * - £15,000 The National Stud

Aclaim €9,500 €9,500 Mickley Stud Advertise * - €25,000 Heeraat £4,000 £4,000 Flag Of Honour * - €4,500 Massaat £5,000 £5,000 Rajasinghe £5,000 £5,000 Time Test £8,500 £8,500 Newsells Park Stud

Equiano £6,000 £6,000 Tweenhills Farm and Stud Nathaniel £25,000 £25,000 Charm Spirit £17,500 £8,500 -51

Havana Gold £15,000 £10,000 -33 Norman Court Stud Hot Streak £7,000 £5,000 -28 Sixties Icon £6,000 £6,000 Lightning Spear £8,000 £5,000 -37

Zoustar £25,000 £30,000 20 Nunnery Stud

Eqtidaar * - £6,500 Whitsbury Manor Stud Muhaarar £30,000 £20,000 -33 Adaay £5,000 £5,000 Mukhadram £6,000 £6,000 Due Diligence £4,000 £8,500 125 Tasleet £6,000 £6,000 Havana Grey £8,000 £6,500 -18

Showcasing £55,000 £55,000 Oak Grove Stud Al Kazeem £12,000 Private Yeomanstown Camacho €12,000 €10,000 -16 Oak Lodge & Springfield Dark Angel €85,000 €85,000 Unfortunately £7,500 €5,500 -26 El Kabeir €8,000 €8,000

Gutaifan €10,000 €6,000 -40 Invincible Army * - €10,000 -

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race of the year

International Thoroughbred’s race of 2019 Race: British Champions Long Distance Cup Winner: Kew Gardens OUR CHOICE FOR RACE OF THE YEAR was a close-run thing between Enable v Crystal Ocean in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and the battle between Stradivarius and race winner Kew Gardens for the British Champions Long Distance Cup. We went with the latter – Kew Gardens showing admirable tenacity to overcome the Sea The Stars horse.

Of interest, both races fall into the middle-distance or stayers’ categories, yet both race divisions are currently struggling to find support by the bloodstock industry, agents / trainers and buying racehorse owners. Just proves that concentrating the game of sprint races and sprint breeding might not be the answer if we wish to keep a race-going and TV-watching audience (professionals included) engaged with the sport.

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PHOENIX OF SPAIN

Winner of a vintage renewal of the Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes-Gr.1 at 2, from subsequent Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Phoenix Of Spain…

Runaway 2,000 Guineas winner at 3, from subsequent Queen Elizabeth II Stakes-Gr.1 winner King Of Change…

KING OF CHANGE

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• Out of a daughter of GALILEO, just like NIGHT OF THUNDER • His dam CABARET is a Group-winning 2YO over 7 furlongs

Fee: €22,500

New for 2020

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

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