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Stallion Review

2015

“Getting Away”

by Michelle McCullagh

All the facts and stats

Paul Haigh meets Limato’s biggest fans, trainer Henry Candy and owner Paul Jacobs

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A serious breeder

Jocelyn de Moubray chats to Willie Carson about Jack Hobbs

My Golden Year

Anthony Oppenheimer recalls his fabulous racing summer of 2015

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Strength in depth BATED BREATH

FRANKEL

2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View)

2008 b h Galileo - Kind (Danehill)

First yearlings averaged over £47,000 (for 55 sold), selling up to 230,000gns 2016 FEE: £10,000 slf

First yearlings averaged £464,000 (for 19 sold), selling up to €1.7 million 2016 FEE: £125,000 slf

CACIQUE

KINGMAN

2001 b h Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi)

2011 b h Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar)

21% blacktype performers to foals (first two crops) 2016 FEE: £12,500 slf (limited book)

80% blacktype earners/producers in his first book, including 25 Gr.1 winners/producers 2016 FEE: £55,000 slf

CHAMPS ELYSEES 2003 b h Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi)

Leading third crop sire in Europe in 2015 by % winners to runners (More than 50 runners, Hyperion Statistics 12/10/2015)

2016 FEE: £8,000 slf

DANSILI 1996 b h Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi)

Sire of 19 Gr.1 winners and over 100 stakes winners 2016 FEE: £85,000 slf

OASIS DREAM 2000 b h Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave)

Sire of four-time Gr.1 winner Muhaarar and dual Gr.1 winner Goldream in 2015 2016 FEE: £75,000 slf

Frankel.

Without equal.

Officially the greatest racehorse of the modern era.

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contents december 13 First word

Paul Haigh enjoys the best Breeders’ Cup for years

17 RIP Pat Eddery 18 News

Dubawi and Galileo: the two most expensive stallions in the world, and William enjoyed some late mornings

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22 Blitzed ‘em

Alan Porter gives a bloodstock view on a Breeders’ Cup, headlined by stallions hailing from the Unbridled line

36 My Golden Year

Anthony Oppenheimer recalls his fabulous racing summer of 2015

44 A flying year for Angel

Dark Angel ascended to the elite group of European stallions in 2015.

Lissa Oliver meets the O’Callaghan clan

52 A serious breeder

Jocleyn De Moubray chats to Willie Carson, who, with wife Elaine, bred the Irish Derby winner Jack Hobbs

58 A street fighter

Limato’s biggest fans are his trainer Henry Candy and owner Paul Jacobs.

Paul Haigh meets the pair at Candy’s Kingston Warren Stable

68 Breeding by DNA

We take a sideways look at the good, the great and the not-so-great in the bloodstock world of 2015

160 Stomach pains

The Cartier Awards

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152 Leading US stallions

Jocelyn de Moubray’s stats put the pair clear at the top of the second and third-season sires’ list

92 Coolmore duo top the table

168 Leading European stallions 176 Stallion fees

Listing 2016 prices for the major Flat stallions standing in Britain and Ireland

Zoffany and Canford Cliffs head the European first-season sires’ tables, writes Aisling Crowe

100 The master list

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Hyperion’s list of stakes-winning sires

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108 Stallion averages by fees

All the facts

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118 A world of money

Currency movements had a marked effect on this year’s yearling sales,

by Jocelyn de Moubray

127 Stallion averages From Weatherbys

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“Getting Aw ay”

and stats

by Michelle

We group stallions into fee brackets and take a look at their yearling averages

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178 Photo of the month

87 Stars and Lope stretch clear

The Gainesway stallion broke records in 2014, and is likely to do so again this year, writes Nancy Sexton

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Cloghran, dam of Robin Of Navan

144 Another stormer for Tapit

Sue Montgomery reviews the leading older European stallions, a list once again headed by Galileo

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165 Mare of the month

76 Number 7

Every major stallion covering through 2015 in Britain and Ireland

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Dr Joe Pagan gives the latest advice of dealing with stomach ulcers

137 Stallion covering stats

Dubawi tops the prize-money table, ahead of US-based sire Tapit

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158 The Golden Gavels 2015

74 Leading global stallions 2015

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Dr Stephen Harrison explains how he advises breeders using genetic technology

Stallion database

Paul Ha Limato’s big igh meets trainer gest fans – and ownerHenry Candy Paul Jacobs

A serio breedeurs

Jocelyn de moubray Willie carson about Jackchats to Hobbs

My Golden Year

Anthony Op fabulous rapenheimer recalls his cing summ er of 2015

Getting Away by Michelle McCullagh

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Dutch Art ~ £40,000

SIRE OF GROUP 1 WINNING SPRINTERS GARSWOOD AND SLADE POWER His 8 Group/Stakes winners in 2015 include DUTCH CONNECTION (Gr.3 Jersey Stakes, Royal Ascot; also Gr.1 & Gr.2 placed) and Gr.3 winners OTTONE (at 2) and LOHIT.

Garswood ~ £5,000

FIRST CROP FOALS IN 2016 GROUP 1 WINNING SPRINTER BY DUTCH ART Won 4 races, including the Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest, Gr.2 Lennox Stakes and LR Harry Rosebery Stakes (at 2). Also 3rd Gr.1 Prix de la Foret (to MOONLIGHT CLOUD).

Kyllachy ~ £15,000

CHAMPION SPRINTER AND MULTIPLE GROUP 1 SPRINT SIRE 2015 successes include the Gr.1 winners TWILIGHT SON and SOLE POWER; the Gr.2 winner STEPPER POINT and the promising 2yos KACHY (Gr.3 winner) and ZAPEL (LR x 2).

Lethal Force ~ £10,000

FIRST CROP FOALS IN 2015 THE FASTEST HORSE EVER OVER 6F AT NEWMARKET

By DARK ANGEL. Winner of the Gr.1 July Cup (in a new course record time), beating 5 Gr.1 winners, and the Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, beating 6 Gr.1 winners.

Mayson ~ £5,000

FIRST CROP 2YOS IN 2016 THE TOP RATED SPRINTER BY INVINCIBLE SPIRIT AT STUD Won 5 races, including the Gr.1 July Cup (by 5 lengths). Also neck 2nd Gr.1 Prix de l’Abbaye (conceding 4lbs), beating multiple Gr.1 winner SOLE POWER.

Medicean ~ £7,000

SIRE OF 10 INDIVIDUAL GROUP 1 WINNERS 2015 successes include Gr.3 winners YAKABA (at 2), PANAMA HAT and NORDICO; the Gr.1 placed MEDICEAN MAN and CANNDAL, and the Gr.2 placed AREO.

Pivotal ~ £45,000

SIRE OF 26 INDIVIDUAL GROUP 1 WINNERS His 17 Black Type winners in 2015 include the Gr.1 winners QUEEN’S JEWEL, AFRICAN STORY and TALCO. Sire of 125 individual Group/Stakes winners to date.

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AP came and

delivered Paul Haigh enjoyed the best Breeders’ Cup for years

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Jockey Victor Espinoza gets a high five for a job well done from owner Ahmed Zayat after American Pharoah’s peerless victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic

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he 2015 Breeders’ Cup had a lot riding on it. Of course they always do, but this was something special: the first held outside California for several years, the first this century to feature an Arc winner and, most significantly of all, the first ever to feature an American Triple Crown winner.

It wasn’t make-or-break. The meeting is a lot more solidly established than its consistent failure to live up to its “World Racing Championships” tag often implies.

But, if Keeneland’s first hosting of US racing’s annual end of term gala didn’t raise the attention levels of the US public the sport just had to be in big trouble,

First indications are that the meeting was a great success

and those who have launched hate-filled attacks and criticisms ranging from allegations of cruelty to drug addiction were bound to have been hugely encouraged.

First indications are that the meeting was a great success – almost the sensational one that everyone in racing must have been hoping for. American Pharoah was the headliner, of course, and he delivered what was required from him, in bucketloads.

Keeneland saw an attendance record of just over 50,000. It’s a picturesque venue, but with smallish capacity compared with some of the world’s other major courses.

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first word More excitingly, the TV viewing figures showed big improvement – up 53 per cent on last year and, with over 4.6 million watching NBC’s coverage at the Classic peak showing the highest numbers since Cigar won 20 years ago.

No doubt at all that “The Pharoah” must have been responsible for that. He just exudes charisma and while the second half of his name may raise a few quizzical eyebrows, the first half is exactly what Americans like for a national celebrity. There is good reason to believe that this is what he has become.

Or became, because we should not forget that now he has gone, not to his own pyramid thank goodness, but to stud at a colossal $200,000 per mare.

Is he worth it? As with all new stallions, only time will tell. But Coolmore will be more than thrilled by the performance this equine Adonis put up on his last public appearance. And if they are secretly wishing he’d never made that blemish-creating trip to Saratoga, they can have no complaints about the reputation he now takes with him to the breeding sheds.

Is that reputation deserved? There still has to be a grain or two of doubt even among those who’ve allowed their judgement to be clouded by the overwhelming gratitude they felt for the arrival of a colt who could break the 37-year Triple Crown drought and then complete the hastily invented “Grand Slam”.

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or a start he was a Dirt horse pure and simple, with a Dirt horse’s style of running that involved breaking the opposition by maintaining too strong a gallop (except once) for other horses to follow. He also beat more or less the same bunch of three-year-olds repeatedly (except once) and then retired at three.

The rest of the world’s best horses do not race on Dirt. Even in the Breeders’ Cup Classic he never met an opponent who provided any sort of line to Turf form – unless you count Gleneagles who took to the Dirt like a duck to treacle. (It does make you wonder what on earth the once-brilliant 2000 Guineas winner can have shown at Ballydoyle for the Coolmore team to have thought it worth running him against the best Dirt horses on their surface?).

But American Pharoah broke the course record by more than five seconds – that’s almost half a furlong!

Yes, but the present Keeneland surface has only been there this year, with very few 1m1f races run on it and most of those by claiming horses. And if he really did do something incredible in the Classic, then so did the 100-1 shot who followed him home and broke the “course record” himself by more than four seconds.

Purists will say that a horse needs to have run as a four-year-old before he can be called a true great; that he needs to have beaten other potential champions.

This one was deprived of the opportunity to do so by Beholder’s withdrawal. What we can say about him is

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Coolmore will be more than thrilled by the performance this equine Adonis put up on his last public appearance.

And if they are secretly wishing he’d never made that blemishcreating trip to Saratoga, they can have no complaints about the reputation he now takes with him

that he was possibly – oh all right then, probably – the best Dirt three-year-old since Secretariat, and possibly the best three-year-old to race anywhere in the world in 2015.

The other contender for that title Golden Horn almost certainly beat better horses than American Pharoah ever met when winning the Arc. The fact that he wasn’t able to replicate that performance on the rainaffected turf at Keeneland (Frankie Dettori said he was always “spinning his wheels”) threw American Pharoah’s humiliation of his Classic rivals into sharper relief.

Why connections chose to run Golden Horn on that ground after the extent to which it blunted him had been amply demonstrated at York has to be a bit of a puzzle [See our interview with Anthony Oppenheimer on page 36, a few clues there, Ed].

He didn’t need to win the Breeders’ Cup Turf to enhance his reputation. It’s not a race that approaches the Arc in terms of prestige, not in the rest of the world and certainly not in the US. Maybe the best thing to say about it is that Anthony Oppenheimer is a sportsman who’s not too hung up on preserving his horses’ records by running them only when conditions suit, and that he and John Gosden didn’t want to spoil the Breeders’ Cup party by withdrawing the meeting’s other star turn.

As it turned out there were other stars on display.

Tepin looked terrific in the Mile, showing acceleration that evoked memories of Miesque. Found got a typically great ride from Ryan Moore when wearing down Golden Horn in the Turf, another fine training performance by the Breeders’ Cup’s greatest European supporter Aidan O’Brien.

The only real sadness was that the meeting’s best story – by far – was spoilt when the owners of Runhappy slammed the lid down on the fairy tale that was Maria Borell’s training feat in winning the Sprint at her first attempt and with only the sixth winner of her career, her victories having all come with the same horse, and without the use of any drugs whatsoever – including Lasix.

Owners can do what they like with their horses, but maybe the media played a part in this by giving her achievement just too much attention. Not everybody likes that.

If that was the best story, and the most disappointing one, then there’s no doubt which was The Big Story.

This was American Pharoah. He ruled the meeting. The question now is whether he’s provided a lasting legacy or just a happy blip?

Will we look back on Breeders’ Cup 2015 and say it was the turning point for the sport in the US, the moment when everyone finally realised that casinos are essentially a pain in the butt and that racing is really the game with glamour? It would be nice to think so. But there won’t be a Triple Crown winner every year – or one with such majestic appeal.

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A selection of some of the brilliant horses ridden by the 11-time champion jockey.

From top left (clockwise): Sadler’s Wells, Kalanisi, Storm Bird, Rainbow Quest, Eddery with great trainer Vincent O’Brien, Golden Fleece, Grundy, El Gran Senor

Pat Eddery 1952-2015

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the news

Dubawi and Galileo: the most expensive stallions in the world

The most expensive stallion in the world for 2016, with a publically announced fee, will be Dubawi at £225,000.

The Darley stallion enjoyed a fantastic year through 2015 with 11 Group 1 winners around the globe, while at times he was also challenging for champion sire honours in Britain and Ireland.

It is an increase of 80 per cent from £125,000.

Record-breaking US sire Tapit is the most expensive stallion in the US at $300,000 – the equivalent of around £197,000 – new stallion American Pharoah has been introduced at $200,000, a fee matching that for War Front.

The most expensive European new sire is the four-time Group 1 winner Golden Horn.

In Europe, five stallions have six-figure fees for 2016 – Dubawi, Frankel, Sea The Stars, Invincible Spirit, and, of course, Galileo whose fee remains private. It is one less than in 2015 when

Dansili also stood at £100,000.

His fellow Juddmonte stallion Oasis Dream, sire of this year’s champion sprinter Muhaarar, has been kept at the same price of £75,000. Muhaarar has been introduced at £30,000.

This year’s leading European first-season sire Zoffany has been given the greatest percentage fee increase – going up from £12,500 to £45,000, with Dark Angel also given a large price hike – he is now priced at £60,000 from £27,500.

Those with the greatest percentage decreases include two Coolmore sires –Henrythenavigator and Rip Van Winkle – along with TallyHo’s Baltic King. All have been reduced by 50 per cent.

In total, 12 of the major stallions at stud have been given price increases, 41 decreases and 55 have had their fees kept at the same level as in 2014.

Stallion fee table on page 176-177

Leading first-season sire Zoffany has had a price increase to €45,000

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Dubawi: he and Galileo duelled through the summer of 2015 and the pair now head the global fee list.

The most expensive stallion in the US is Tapit at $300,000

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wo days of Breeder’s Cup at Keeneland and four days of the Victorian Racing Club Spring Carnival provided great international racing fare for the stay-at-home enthusiast.

The benefit of pre-recording the Australian racing has been a boon and has allowed me avoid 3am alarm calls. It has also meant that I could speed through the racing at Ipswich, Doomben and Kembla Grange to enjoy the rich sustenance of Flemington and Rosehill on Victorian Derby Day. On Melbourne Cup day, 25 race meetings were held, including at Fannie Bay in Darwin where the council have recently passed a motion to allow alcohol to be consumed at childcare centres and swimming pools, at Bundaberg (home of the rum) and at Longreach (Stockman’s Hall of Fame and the Qantas Museum).

Keeneland held the Breeders’ Cup meeting for the first time and according to all Kentuckians it “was spectacular” (well perhaps those living in Lexington) questions have to be asked about the course’s suitability as a regular venue.

The track is very tight, the turf circuit was certainly not immaculate, crowd capacity is restricted and it was fortunate that the rain fell earlier in

the week and not on racedays.

Having been to several Breeders’ Cups, the only place that I think works is Santa Anita.

But there were certainly great horses and good stories from the Breeders’ Cup 2015.

American Pharoah completely redeemed his reputation with a commanding performance in the Classic.

The two sprint races produced fairy tale results with Mongolian Saturday winning the Turf from stall 14, trained by his Mongolian-born trainer Enebish Ganbat. He only trains 12 horses and moved to the states in 2011.

The Dirt Sprint went to Maria Borell and Runhappy. The horse was the only runner in the race without medication and his trainer failed to have a winner in her first two years of training and was better known for the large tattoo of Sunday Silence on her back.

Her hour of glory was short-lived as she was fired soon after the race by Runhappy’s owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, a Texan businessman who has had few good relationships with many better known trainers.

Aidan O’Brien came to the rescue of the Europeans with Hit It A Bomb and a tenth Breeders’ Cup winner in the shape of Found, who lowered Golden Horn’s colours in the Turf.

Certainly ground conditions might

the news

Return of mares shows increasing foal numbers There has been a notable growth in foal numbers in both Britain and Ireland during the 2015 breeding year as reported in the recently published Weatherbys Return of Mares 2015.

The most significant growth has been in the number of foals registered in Ireland which by the end of September this year stood at 8,205 - up by 765 (10 per cent) on 7,440 at the same time last year.

The number of foals registered in Great Britain by September 30 totaled 4,466, an increase of 211(five per cent) at the same point in time in 2014.

Obviously 2015 foals have continued to be registered since September and complete total year foal numbers will be available in the Weatherbys Return of Mares Supplement published in early February 2016.

Ronan Murphy, Weatherbys stud book director for Britain and Ireland, commented: “It’s pleasing to see continued growth both in Ireland and Britain. The increase in foal numbers in Ireland is particularly notable as it is the highest foal crop for over five years and the third consecutive year of growth.”

Return of mares Britain and Ireland 2008 - 2015 (% change with previous year) 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 GB IRE

5,713 11,814

5,397 (-6) 9,581 (-19)

4,552 (-16) 7,128 (-26)

4,502 (-1) 6,890 (-3)

4,227 (-6) 6,884 (-)

4,302 (+2) 7,051 (+2)

4,255 (-1) 7,440 (+6)

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4,466 (+5) 8,205 (+10)

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Fiercely competitive, very cool in a race, extremely articulate and from a deeply equine background, Michelle Payne is a worthy groundbreaker

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not have been in the latter’s favour, but John Gosden might be regretting the quip he made on Friday to Bob Baffert about the pair of them being a couple of chumps for getting their champions beaten!

Gosden reported that Baffert did not find the joke very amusing; I wonder if Baffert managed to bump into Gosden after the Classic?

Flemington on Derby Day was the setting for four Group 1 races and featured a conclusive win for Tarzino in the Derby. Winner of his maiden at Ballarat at the end of August, he is a son of Tavistock, a Montjeu stallion from the family of Mrs Moss, hence the name.

His lead up race was the Vase at Moonee Valley where he finished third to Jameka, subsequently a convincing winner of the VRC Oaks.

Gailo Chop flew the flag for France in winning the Mackinnon for Terry Henderson and OTI. His record is a striking indication of ability outperforming pedigree.

The “boil-over” was Godolphin’s Exosphere, who did not get a blow in against Japonisme, a Choisir gelding who had twice finished

behind him in Sydney.

The Melbourne Cup saw another fairy tale result rivalling Damien Oliver’s victory on Media Puzzle and Bob Champion’s on Aldaniti in the Grand National.

I had visited Ballarat, in Victoria’s Western District, in my gap year as a jackaroo and remember the big hill behind the stands that now has an all-weather training track up it.

Three hundred horses are trained there and Matt Cumani is about to join Archie Alexander as expatriate English trainers.

The top trainer there is Darren Weir, who proved in the Melbourne Cup that he is not just the pre-eminent country trainer. After starting life as a farrier, he began training at Stawell, an unexciting mining town best known for the Stawell Gift, a limited handicap human sprint race run “on the collar”.

It was first won in 1878 by Bill Millard, a farmer who trained for the race by chasing kangaroos on foot!

First prize is now $A40,000.

Weir sent out 298 winners last season and is 30 clear of Peter Moody this season. He makes much use of the uphill all-weather and has three

high-speed treadmills in full use every day. He also runs a satellite yard at Warrnambool on the South Victorian coast with its sand dunes and saltwater swimming opportunities.

In the tradition of Phar Lap two of his recent champions, Puissance de Lune and this year’s Cup winner Prince Of Penzance, did much of their preparation there.

Winning jockey Michelle Payne has had riding out and race riding experience in England when she visited Europe with Stevie, her brother and Prince’s strapper.

Her mother died when she was six months old and she visited her mother’s birthplace in Switzerland.

Fiercely competitive, very cool in a race, extremely articulate and from a deeply equine background, Michelle Payne is a very worthy groundbreaker.

Ahead of the Cup, Cumani asked me some advice about training in Ballarat.

I told him not to play scrabble or sudoku with Payne, to be wary of partying with Weir and to look at Warrnambool as a stress buster for his horses. Little did I know Prince of Penzance was going to win at 100-1!

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breeders’ cup 2015

Blitzed ‘em

The Unbridled sire line had a great Breeders’ Cup meet with American Pharoah leading the way, writes Alan Porter

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he pivotal moment AHEAD of this year’s Breeders’ Cup may have been the moment in which the connections of Liam’s Map elected to run in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) rather than tackle American Pharoah in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1).

Freed from the spectre of a duel that might well have resulted in mutual destruction, it was left to these two marvellous representatives of the Unbridled line to produce the definitive performances of the two-day meet.

In the absence of Liam’s Map and another potential pace factor, the champion older mare elect Beholder, American Pharoah was left to do what he does best; reel off relentless near 12sec furlongs, remorselessly wearing away the resolve and finishing punch of his opponents.

Two lengths clear after three-quarters of a mile, and three and a half ahead at the mile, American Pharoah turned for home with a 5l advantage, and added another length to that margin before the wire.

The machine-like efficiency of American Pharoah’s stride, and the ease with which he can maintain it at pace can be judged by timing information.

After softening up his opponents with the fastest opening two quarter mile segments of the race, American Pharoah still closed off the final quarter faster than any of his rivals.

American Pharoah’s ascension to the pantheon of greats of US racing was fully achieved, and he now retires to stand at Ashford Stud, Versailles, the North American

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After softening up his opponents with the fastest opening two quarter mile segments of the race, American Pharoah still closed off the final quarter faster than any of his rivals

wing of the Coolmore operation. His stud fee is the highest for a new sire since Ghostzapper began his career at the same price of $200,000 in 2006.

American Pharoah is from the second crop of Pioneerof the Nile, runner-up to upset winner Mine That Bird in the Kentucky Derby (G1), and winner of four other graded stakes races, including the CashCall Futurity (G1) at two, and Santa Anita Derby (G1) at three.

Pioneerof the Nile has nine stakes winners in his first two crops, and although American Pharoah is his only Grade 1 scorer, the Grade 2-winning Cairo Prince was favourite for the Kentucky Derby (G1) before injury.

Another son Social Inclusion took third in the Preakness Stakes (G1).

Pioneerof the Nile is by Unbridled’s son, Empire Maker. He finished runner-up in the Kentucky Derby (G1) after an interrupted preparation, but was almost certainly the best of his crop at three defeating the Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Funny Cide for the Belmont Stakes (G1).

Empire Maker made a good start to his stud career and the announcement, which came late in 2010, that he had been sold to stand in Japan came as some surprise. As it turned out, he’s made little impact with his first two crops in that country, and this autumn he returned to the US to stand at Gainesway Farm for 2016.

The repatriation is well-deserved – Empire Maker has sired 50 stakes winners from his first seven US crops, 11 Grade 1, headed by

Grade 1 successes for a great-grandson and a grandson of Unbridled: American Pharoah (main picture) and, below, Liam’s Map, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile

three-time champion Royal Delta.

American Pharoah is out of Littleprincessemma, who is by the fast Storm Cat horse, Yankee Gentleman.

She was unplaced in two starts, but is three-quarters sister to the gradedwinning sprinters Storm Wolf and Misty Rosette.

Second dam Exclusive Rosette, a daughter of the Exclusive Native stallion Ecliptical, was also fast, gaining a stakes win at two in the 5f

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The family is one that was developed for several generations by late Florida horseman Fred Hooper, and American Pharoah’s third dam Zetta Jet is notable for being inbred 3x4x4 to Hooper’s star, Olympia. He was a Hyperion grandson who was quick enough to defeat the champion Quarter Horse mare Stella Moore over her preferred distance.

Liam makes best after poor start

The major surprise of the Breeders’ Cup Mile was not in the victory of Liam’s Map – who started at odds of 1-2 – but the style of that victory.

Rather ironically, in view of the bold front-running style which was viewed as likely to have put pressure on American Pharoah had he gone to the Classic, Liam’s Map didn’t hit the front in the Mile until the closing stages.

A step slow out of the gate, Liam’s Map was twice foiled in attempts to move up, and it wasn’t until the stretch that an opening appeared. Given the opportunity, Liam’s Map responded in breathtaking fashion, and accelerating in a manner very rarely seen in a truly run race on the Dirt, he closed out his final furlong in 11.78sec.

Unraced at two, Liam’s Map won the last three of four starts in his second season, ending the year by defeating older horses in the Harlan’s Holiday Stakes at Gulfstream Park last December.

He has won three of four this year too, his sole defeat coming when caught in the last stride by Honor Code in the Whitney Stakes (G1). He went into the Breeders’ Cup Mile off a near 5l victory in the 1m1f Woodward Stakes (G1).

Liam’s Map, who retires to stand alongside Honor Code at Lane’s End Farm, is by Unbridled’s Song, who for all his success as a sire, is still looking for his rightful heir.

He could, however, be set for a late run in that department with Liam’s Map joined as contenders by his fellow Grade 1 winners Cross Traffic, Graydar and Will Take Charge, the champion three-year-old colt of 2013.

Unbridled’s Song, like Empire Maker, is by Unbridled, and thus is a grandson of another tremendous miler, the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) victor Fappiano.

Bred, owned and trained by John Nerud – who only recently passed, and at the age of 102 – Fappiano was by Mr. Prospector out of Killaloe.

Despite a fairly short stud career, Fappiano

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Runhappy is one of eight stakes winners from the first crop of the 2010 Kentucky Derby victor Super Saver exerts an inordinate influence in modern US pedigrees as, in addition to creating his own distinct male line through Unbridled and Rubiano, he appears in the broodmare sire line of North America’s current leading commercial stallions, Tapit and War Front.

Fappiano’s dam Killaloe was by the legendary Dr. Fager, who Fappiano resembled far more than Mr. Prospector, and who Nerud trained for William McKnight of Tartan Farms.

Unbridled, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic at three, was also bred by Tartan, from a mating planned by Nerud. He was inbred to both Dr. Fager’s dam Aspidistra, who also appeared as Unbridled’s fourth dam, and to his sire Rough’n Tumble through Rough’n Tumble’s champion two-year-old daughter My Dear Girl. She was dam of In Reality, the sire of Unbridled’s second dam.

breeders’ cup 2015 Liam’s Map’s dam is the prolific sprint stakes winner Miss Macy Sue, successful in six black-type events, the most prestigious of which was the Winning Colors Stakes (G3).

She was also third in the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

In addition to Liam’s Map, she is also dam of Taylor S, a Medaglia D’Oro filly who is a stakes winner and graded stakes placed this year at three.

Miss Macy Sue is by Trippi, who is also Tartan influenced – his dam is a daughter of the In Reality horse, Valid Appeal.

Miss Macy’s Sue’s dam Yada Yada was unplaced in three starts, but had a notable pedigree. She was by yet another Tartan Farm horse, Great Above, another close relative to Dr. Fager.

Liam’s Map has a grandsire who was inbred to the sire and dam of Dr. Fager, and a grand-dam, who was inbred to a champion half-sister to Dr. Fager, once through a very close relative to that horse.

Dr. Fager was a Dirt miler without equal so it’s only appropriate that a horse with so many ties to him should capture the Dirt Mile in such spectacular fashion.

Unbridled’s influence stretches into Sprints Unbridled also featured in the pedigrees of both Dirt Sprint contests. The Breeders’ Cup

Runhappy coming wide to take the Dirt Sprint. He is out of a mare by Unbridled’s son Broken Vow

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...Unbridled line stallions over Deputy Minister line mares have been successful with other luminaries, including the 2003 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies scorer Halfbridled Sprint (G1) went to three-year-old Runhappy, who is out of a mare by Unbridled’s son Broken Vow. Just like Liam’s Map, Runhappy is a very fast horse, but he is not always the quickest out of the gate. He tracked the pace of the speedy Private Zone before wearing down that rival in the stretch to win in a 6f trackrecord.

Runhappy is one of eight stakes winners from the first crop of the 2010 Kentucky Derby victor Super Saver, who might have a shot at reviving the branch of the Raise A Native line that comes down through that horse’s son, Majestic Prince. He was hero of the 1969 renewals of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

Super Saver won the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) in race-record time at two, and he is a son of juvenile champion, Maria’s Mon. This might explain why Super Saver has already come up with a surprising number of fast and precocious runners, with Runhappy joined by Competitive Edge, who took the Hopeful Stakes (G1) at two, graded race winner Super Majesty, possibly the fastest three-year-old filly around, and another graded-winning juvenile, I Spent It. Runhappy’s dam Bella Jolie was a $220,000 yearling, but had to drop to the claiming ranks to secure her first victory, and she was claimed for $5,000 in her final win. Following Runhappy’s victory, she was sold in-foal to Cairo Prince for $1,600,000 at the Keeneland November Sales.

By Broken Vow, Bella Jolie is a half-sister to the stakes-winning and graded-placed Millennium Storm, and to the stakes-placed Merrill Gold, dam of Isabelle, a stakes winner this year and last in New York-bred company.

The fourth dam Fran Nasra is a sister to A Wind Is Rising, the dam of It’s In the Air, a champion two-year-old filly of 1979 in the US. The family has been prolific on both sides The ladies clash: race winner Stopchargingmaria and Stellar Wind come close in the last furlong of the Distaff

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of the Atlantic, but would be best known in Europe through Balanchine, a greatgrandaughter of A Wind Is Rising, who won the Epsom Oaks (G1) and Irish Derby (G1).

Bella Jolie’s sire is a product of the Mr. Prospector/Northern Dancer cross, and her dam is bred on the reverse of that cross.

Super Saver’s grand-dam, the graded winning Get Lucky, is also a Mr. Prospector/Northern Dancer cross, and we’re beginning to see

success for him with inbreeding to that cross or the reverse. The dam of Competitive Edge is a Mr. Prospector/Northern Dancer cross, and the dam of Embellish The Lace also comes close as her dam is a Mr. Prospector/ Icecapade (a three-quarters relative to Northern Dancer) cross.

Claiming events play a part in the story of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint heroine Wavell Avenue, a daughter of the beautifully bred Harlington, a son of Unbridled, and out of the Hall of Fame racemare, Serena’s Song Wavell Avenue was sold for $70,000 as an unraced three-year-old as part of an on-going dispersal of the bloodstock of her breeder Eugene Melnyk. She was dropped to a $40,000 claiming tag to break her maiden on her third try before ending the year with a win in Starter Allowance at Aqueduct.

Her form has since shown a steady upward trend, including three wins in Allowance/ Optional Claiming events, and on her most recent start she was a strong closing second to the formidable La Verdad in the Gallant Bloom Handicap (G2). With another half furlong to work with here, Wavell Avenue gained her revenge.

Her sire Harlington was a talented, but unsound runner, and won six of ten starts gaining a graded victory in the Gulfstream Park Handicap (G2).

He was a disappointment as a sire with only five stakes winners in his first four northern-hemisphere crops, and he now stands in Saudi Arabia. All his stakes winners are fillies.

The family has only been a solid regional one until we get to the sixth dam, My Poly.

She was dam of the top-class runner Grenzen, subsequent dam of Grade 1 winner and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) second Twilight Agenda, grand-dam of the Melbourne Cup (G1) hero Media Puzzle, and of 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Refuse To Bend.

The cross that produced Wavell Avenue, that of Unbridled line stallions over Deputy Minister line mares, has been successful with other luminaries, including the 2003 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies scorer Halfbridled, and the 2013 champion older horse Will Take Charge.

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Prior to the Breeders’ Cup, she had made some significant repayments finishing second in the Madison Stakes (G1), winning the Allaire Du Point Distaff Stakes (G3) and the Shuvee Handicap (G3). She then finished fourth after an unsuccessful attempt to make all in the Personal Ensign Stakes (G1).

In the Distaff she held on determinedly from Curlin’s daughter Stellar Wind, with another Curlin product, Curalina, in third.

Stopchargingmaria is by veteran Storm Cat son Tale Of The Cat. He has sired 107 stakes winners, and in the northern-hemisphere his best have also included champion older male and twice champion Turf horse Gio Ponti, champion two-year-old filly She’s A Tiger, who was disqualified from first to second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, the Kentucky Derby runner-up Lion Heart and other Grade 1 winners Tale Of Ekati, My Trusty Cat and Cat Moves.

Stopchargingmaria is out of the multiple stakes-winning and graded stakes-placed Exotic Bloom, a daughter of the Buckpasser line sprinter and speed sire, Montbrook.

The second dam, Melegant, is by Roberto’s son Kris S out of the stakeswinning Sir Ivor mare Abidjan, and is halfsister to Grade 1-placed Bunting, the dam of Belmont Stakes (G1) runner-up Vision And Verse (by Tale Of The Cat’s sire, Storm Cat).

The fouth dam Flag Waver is a stakes-winning daughter of the excellent Greentree Farm foundation mare Bebopper, dam of Champagne Stakes winner and successful sire Stop The Music, of Widener Handicap (G1) scorer Hatchet Man, and also ancestress of Yanks Music, the champion US three-year-old filly of 1996.

Tough filly Found finds her revenge over Golden Horn in the Turf In the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), run on ground labelled good but with just a little more give than would be ideal for Golden Horn, Found worried her old rival out of things inside the last furlong to take the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) by a half length.

Remarkably, this was Found’s third race in 27 days, and all three involved trips outside of her native Ireland.

Found is also as versatile as she is tough as she’s earned Group/Grade 1 placings at 6f, a mile, 1m2f and 1m4f.

There is little new to be said about Found’s sire, the remarkable Galileo. He now has well over 200 stakes winners to his name with more than 40 of them, ten of them Group/Grade 1, appearing in 2015 alone.

Found’s dam Red Evie was a highweight in Ireland at three, and in England at four. She won four Group events, including the Lockinge Stakes (G1) and Matron Stakes (G1). All five of her foals of racing age are by Galileo, and also include the Group winner Magical Dream, and the 2015 two-yearold stakes winner Best In The World.

Red Evie is by Intikhab, a horse whose sire and grandsire Red Ransom and Roberto have proved to be positive influences under Galileo. The second dam Malafemmena was a Listed winner in Italy and Group placed in France at two. She is a half-sister to the smart French sprinter/miler Export Price, and out of the Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1) third, Martinova.

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Success for Found in the Turf as she glides across the “good” surface, on the other hand, Golden Horn can clearly be seen “spinning wheels”

Top Dirt juveniles Nyquist and Songbird hold their form

The Dirt events for juveniles went to a duo who completed perfect seasons, and almost certainly nailed down Eclipse Awards.

In the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) Nyquist got knocked around at the start, and then endured a wide trip virtually throughout.

However, he made it to the lead early in the stretch, edged clear and had enough left to hold on by a half length from the $5,000 bargain basement yearling Swipe (Birdstone).

This was the fifth win in five starts for Nyquist and a few days after the race it was announced that Nyquist’s breeding rights had been acquired by Darley.

Nyquist is from the first crop of Uncle Mo, himself one of the most impressive Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) winners of recent times.

Illness interrupted Uncle Mo’s career at three, but his brilliance was undimmed when defeating older horses over a mile in the Kelso Handicap (G2), producing the fastest Beyer Speedfigure of the year by a three-yearold, and missing by just a nose in the King’s Bishop Stakes (G1).

Uncle Mo is by the prematurely deceased Indian Charlie, an excellent runner and sire who was a son of the Irish-bred In Excess, a long-time dominant factor in the Californian stallion colony. In Excess’s sire was the Caro horse Siberian Express, winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1).

Nyquist’s victory propelled Uncle Mo to the top of the US list of leading two-year-old sires, and he’d been a long-time leader of the freshman sire division, in which he’s now set a new earnings record. His first crop has already produced five other stakes winners, including the Grade 1-winning filly Gomo, and graded-winning and Grade 1-placed Uncle Vinny.

Nyquist is the first foal of the winning Forestry mare, Seeking Gabrielle. The granddam Seeking Regina, a daughter of Seeking The Gold, was also a precocious two-year-old, taking the Adirondack Stakes.

Seeking Regina is a sister to the stakes winner and stakes producer Oxford Scholar, three-quarters sister to Tutorial. She was a minor stakes winner who produced the Arlington-Washington Futurity (G3) scorer Dixie Band, and half-sister to stakes-placed Liberty School, dam of the graded stakeswinning Just Jenda.

This is a speedy and precocious pedigree, and it’s hard to escape the conclusion that

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“Songbird’s so talented and she gives you so much confidence” reported jockey Mike Smith

Songbird is a product of the same Medaglia D’Oro and Forty Niner cross as Rachel Alexandra Nyquist is going to be better around a mile than over the 1m2f of the Kentucky Derby trip, however, time will tell!

There will be no such doubts surrounding Songbird, who won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) by 5l, adding to previous scores in the Chandelier Stakes (G1) and Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1), while running the 8f100yds over a second faster than Nyquist.

Songbird is by one of North America’s

premier stallions, Medaglia D’Oro, who is by Sadler’s Wells’ son, El Prado.

A Grade 1 winner at 1m2f, and runner-up in the Belmont Stakes (G1), Medaglia D’Oro is generally an influence for stamina. He has 81 stakes winners to his name, 14 of them Group or Grade 1, and his place in the history books is already secure through his marvellous daughter, Rachel Alexandra. She just happens to be the dam of Rachel Valentina, runner-up to Songbird.

Songbird’s dam Ivanavinalot is a Floridabred daughter of West Acre, a Forty Niner half-brother to the dam of Pulpit, which means Songbird is a product of the same Medaglia D’Oro and Forty Niner cross as Rachel Alexandra.

The third dam Torsion Belle is a sister to the dam of the Italian Derby winner Prorutori, and her grand-dam Floral Park is a sister to Flower Bowl, the dam of champion

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All smiles for connections after Breeders’ Cup regular Stephanie’s Kitten took the Filly And Mare Turf

Bernstein won the Railway Stakes (G3) and Concorde Stakes (G3), although those bare results don’t reveal the high regard in which he was held at one point by his connections Bowl Of Flowers, and of the influencial sires, Graustark and His Majesty.

Tepin: a Breeders’ Cup star for sire Bernstein

A filly also ruled in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Mile (G1); the four-year-old Tepin has been a different horse this term winning five of seven starts, including the Just A Game Stakes (G1), First Lady Stakes (G1) and Churchill Distaff Mile Stakes (G1).

Tepin’s sire, the Storm Cat horse Bernstein, won the Railway Stakes (G3) and Concorde Stakes (G3), although those bare results don’t reveal the high regard in which he was held at one point by his connections at Ballydoyle.

A good sire in the US, and a dominant one with his shuttle crops in Argentina, Bernstein unfortunately died at the early age of 14. In addition to Tepin, he sired three other Group 1 winners, headed by Karakontie, whose successes included the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1), the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (G1) and last year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1).

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Tepin’s dam, the unraced Stravinsky mare Life Happened, is dam of another high-class Storm Cat line progeny, the Into Mischief gelding Vyjack, a three-time graded winner who has earned over $1,000,000.

The third and fourth dams, Capp It Off and Turn Capp, were both durable stakes winners, and Turn Capp is also third dam of champion US sprinter Smoke Glacken.

Stephanie’s win a real Joy for the Ramseys

Stephanie’s Kitten has been a fixture in high-class turf events for females for the better part of five years.

A graded stakes winner every year from two to six, she’s won Grade 1 races in four of those five campaigns. Her first Breeders’ Cup visit came in 2011 when she captured the Juvenile Fillies Turf (G2) having previously gained her first Grade 1 victory in the Alcibiades Stakes, then run over Keeneland’s All-Weather surface.

Her best Breeders’ Cup effort since then

had been a second in last year’s Filly and Mare Turf (G1). She went one place better this year, coming home clear of the European three-year-olds Legatissimo and Queen’s Jewel.

Following her victory, Stephanie’s Kitten went through the ring at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Sales. She was led out unsold at $2,950,000, but was subsequently purchased by Japan-based Northern Farm for $1,800,000.

Stephanie’s Kitten was campaigned by her breeders Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey, and is by their home stallion Kitten’s Joy. Although he earned honours as champion US grass horse, the staying turf performer Kitten’s Joy was not initially in much demand as a sire.

The stud career of the son of El Prado may have withered on the vine had it not been for Ramseys’ heavy commitment to him, and in his early years they were virtually his sole supporters. Their faith has been amply rewarded, not only with a string of stakeswinning turf horses, but he also achieved leading sire crown. He who now stands for a fee of $100,000 and is patronised by some of the world’s leading breeders.

Stephanie’s Kitten’s dam Unfold The Rose is an unraced daughter of another Ramsey sire, the Storm Cat horse Catienus. She is half-sister to Ransom The Kitten, a Kitten’s Joy product who was a champion in Puerto Rico, and to the dam of Fly Lexis Fly, a champion in Peru.

The grand-dam Bail Out Becky, a daughter of Red Ransom, numbered the Del Mar Oaks (G1) amongst her victories.

She is a half-sister to the dam of More Than Ready, a top-class two-year-old and sprinter/miler who is the only horse ever to be leading sire of two-year-olds in both Australia and the US. Third dam Becky Be Good is a half-sister to the dams of Grade 1 winners Seldom Seen Sue and Cutlass Reality, and the family goes back to the great foundation mare, La Troienne.

Mongolian Saturday crosses barriers

The international flavour of the Breeders’ Cup was given a new twist when the owner and trainer of Mongolian Saturday, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1), accepted the trophy in traditional Mongolian attire.

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31st start caused an upset holding off the fast-closing filly Lady Shipman to record his first stakes victory.

Mongolian Saturday is by Any Given Saturday, a Distorted Humor son who was a member of the same illustrious crop as Curlin, Street Sense and Hard Spun, and who scored his most important triumph in the Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1).

Retired to Darley, Any Given Saturday now stands in Korea – as that might suggest, he’s not lived up to expectations as a sire.

To date he has 17 stakes winners from five US crops, only four graded, with Mongolian Saturday joining Clark Handicap (G1) scorer Hoppertunity as a Grade 1 winner.

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Retired to Darley, Any Given Saturday now stands in Korea – as that might suggest, he’s not lived up to expectations as a sire A wonderful result for trainer Enebish Ganbat

War Front and City Zip add to their laurels with juvenile winners In the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1), Euro invader Hit It A Bomb came from last in the straight to score by a neck from the favourite, Airoforce.

Like European champion twoyear-old elect Air Force Blue, Hit It A Bomb is by the Danzig stallion War Front. A minor stakes winner over 8f100yds at three, War Front was a graded stakes-winning and multiple Grade 1-placed sprinter at four.

Retired to stud at a fee of $10,000, War Front has since sired 39 stakes winners, 21 Group or Graded, in his first six crops, including other Group or Grade 1 scorers Declaration Of War, The Factor, Data Link, War Command, Lines Of Battle, Jack Milton, Summer Soiree and Peace And War. He’ll stand at $200,000 for 2016, making him the secondmost expensive sire in the US equal with American Pharoah, and behind only Tapit.

Hit It A Bomb, who was conceived when War Front stood at $60,000, is out of Liscanna, a Sadler’s Wells daughter who proved to be a somewhat atypical product of her sire, her principal victory coming in the 6f Ballyogan Stakes (G3).

Ryan Moore timed it to perfection on Hit It A Bomb in the Juvenile Turf

Liscanna is out of the stakeswinning and group-placed Danehill Dancer mare Lahinch, also dam of the Group winner The Bogberry.

The family goes back to Hit It A Bomb’s fifth dam Paint The Town, a Vaguely Noble mare who defeated colts to take the Grand Prix d’Evry (G2). She is ancestress of several stakes winners on both sides of the Atlantic, and is third dam of Passion For Gold, a champion two-year-old colt in France.

Hit It A Bomb is the third stakes winner from eight starters

by War Front out of mares by Sadler’s Wells and sons. He is also inbred to War Front’s sire Danzig, a pattern that has appeared in two other War Front group/graded winners.

Like War Front, City Zip began his stud career at a modest stud fee, and if he hasn’t risen to the exalted heights of War Front, he certainly has become a prolific source of stakes winners.

At the last Breeders’ Cup, City Zip was represented by a pair of winners in Dayatthespa and Work All Week, both of whom earned Eclipse Awards

in their respective divisions.

This year, City Zip added another Breeders’ Cup scorer in Catch A Glimpse, who took over after tracking the early pace to prevail in the Breeders Cup Fillies’ Juvenile Turf over Irish invader Alice Springs.

A winner of three of four starts, Catch A Glimpse had previously won the Natalma Stakes (G2).

Out of the stakes-winning Irish River mare Halo River, Catch A Glimpse is half-sister to graded stakes winner Old Forester, a three-time leading sire in Canada.

The grand-dam All Hallows is by Halo out of Leap Lively, an English-raced daughter of Nijinsky who won the Fillies’ Mile (G3) and Johnnie Walker Oaks Trial (G3), and who also took second in the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and third in the Epsom Oaks (G1).

Leap Lively also appears as the dam of the champion two-yearold filly and Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1) heroine Forest Flower, subsequently the fourth dam of 2,000 Guineas (G1) victor Night Of Thunder, and of Scoop The Gold, a minor stakes winner who produced the three-time Grade 1 winner High Yield.

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Sire of Gr.2 winner and highly promising Classic prospect DONJUAN TRIUMPHANT Also sire of Gr.3 winner FINAL FRONTIER and Gr.2 placed horses BASILEUS and RAUCOUS “Dream Ahead was an outstanding racehorse.......(he) has made a fantastic start with his first crop of runners and we are very happy to support him” JOHN FERGUSON buyer of €360,000 yearling colt ex. LAKE MOON in 2015

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20 Group/Stakes horses including Gr.1 winner BELARDO and the Gr.1 placed CONSORT and ENDLESS DRAMA More Group horses in his first crop than SHAMARDAL, INVINCIBLE SPIRIT and DARK ANGEL at the same stage of his career Outstanding 2015 yearlings made up to 400,000gns, €520,000, 300,000gns, 250,000gns etc.

Sire of serious Classic prospect MARCEL, another Gr.1 winning 2yo in 2015 Also sire of 31 Stakes horses to date Yearlings in 2015 realised 450,000gns, 440,000gns, 230,000gns etc. to buyers including MV Magnier, Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock, Stroud Coleman Bloodstock, John Warren and Shadwell Estate Co., etc.

RECORD BREAKING CLASSIC WINNER

OUTSTANDING DUAL-PURPOSE SIRE

RECORD BREAKING 2YO AND GROUP 1 SIRE

New for 2016

MAKE BELIEVE

BEAT HOLLOW

INTENSE FOCUS

Fee: €20,000

Fee: €6,000

Fee: €5,000

A CLASSIC WINNING MILER WITH SPEED TO BURN

THE BEST DUAL PURPOSE SIRE in Europe and the natural successor to KING’S THEATRE

SIRE OF A GR.1 WINNING 2YO WITH HIS FIRST CROP

By DUBAWI’S Champion son MAKFI

Top horses in 2015 include Gr.1 performers BEATEN UP and WICKLOW BRAVE and Gr.3 winners FLY WITH ME and RIGHT CONNECTION

Winner of the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains and the Gr.1 Prix de la Forêt in record time Defeated Gr.1 winners including MUHAARAR, NEW BAY, TOORMORE, HIGHLAND REEL and GORDON LORD BYRON A three parts brother to Gr.1 winner DUBAWI HEIGHTS out of a half-sister to Gr.1 sprinter TANTE ROSE

Full brother to COURT CAVE out of a Champion and Gr.1 Irish Oaks winner

The fastest winner of the Gr.1 Dewhurst for 46 years, faster than FRANKEL, NEW APPROACH and SHAMARDAL Sire of top Gr.1 sprinter ASTAIRE and 2015 Stakes 2yo’s MISS ELIZABETH & SPECIAL FOCUS

From the outstanding family of KINGMAN, OASIS DREAM and MARTALINE First Ballylinch bred 3yo’s in 2016

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His yearlings have made up to €300,000

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Timeform said it was the highest rating they had ever given a two-year-old who had only run once.

That was quite exciting – we knew then he was good

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espite the dark winter days of December 2015 taking us towards the year end, with the bright dazzling summer days seemingly a thing of past times, one man’s eyes are still shining brightly with the memories of a wonderful racecourse year, and gleaming at the promise of so much more too.

Owner-breeder Anthony Oppenheimer enjoyed a rare year in 2015, his wonderful Cape Cross colt Golden Horn taking him, his family and Hascombe & Valiant Studs to the rarefied heights visited only by a lucky few. It is the culmination of effort, as well as an enduring love of the sport of horseracing and the industry of breeding racehorses established by Oppenheimer and before him his father, Sir Philip.

“Yes, it has been a wonderful year,” says Oppenheimer with a satisfied twinkle in his eye, adding that far from it all coming to a

winter’s end, the colt’s future stud plans are opening a whole new chapter. “You could say it is beginning again, once he starts getting mares in foal, it is a new world, new horizons.

“I am a breeder rather than a racing man and I could never see him running as a fouryear-old; he has won the Arc and the Eclipse and I am sure if we planned to go to Ascot, it would rain again just to be difficult!

“Anyway, I am not getting younger, I really would like to see his produce. It is all terribly exciting.”

We met in November to discuss the brilliant year the horse had produced; a chance to give Oppenheimer the opportunity to sit back and review the journey he and his dark bay horse have enjoyed from the Dante at York in May to Keeneland in November.

Our visit was slotted into Oppenheimer’s busy schedule and followed a visit from his insurance company, now dealing with matters no longer concerning on a racecourse but factors more vital to a stallion’s success.

Oppenheimer and new part-owner Sheikh Mohammed and Darley Stud won’t fully know until the spring, but his breeder is confident that Golden Horn, with his temperament that saw him travel to Ireland, France and the US “without turning a hair”, will enjoy the delights of female company.

“He has a wonderful temperament, he has always been like that,” smiles the indulgent owner. “He will nip you occasionally – I think all the best ones do, they take a little bite!

“And he does roll his eyes when he sees the girls, which is quite encouraging for the stud!

At York, he was quite happy and relaxed in his second spot in the winners’ enclosure, but when Arabian Queen walked by him,

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anthony oppenheimer his eyes went like this [a roll of the head and a flutter of eyelashes from Oppenheimer] – we all noticed it! Yet no other horse interested him.”

In addition, it seems that the horse is rightly aware of his kingly status – albeit that Oppenheimer believes it is touched with some humility.

“He wants to notice what is going on everywhere. He knows what is happening, he counts all the horses, he doesn’t miss a single thing ever,” he recounts. “Of course, he knows he is good. When he goes out with the other horses, he doesn’t swank, but I think there is a sort of attitude, an aura – and they all know.”

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olden Horn’s nearly impeccable race record began as a juvenile at Nottingham last October, his only visit to a racecourse at two. It was an effort that impressed not only his owner, but also those who make a living out of rating the abilities of racehorses.

“After we won his two-year-old race, Timeform rated him 107+. The runner-up Storm The Stars was given a mark in the 90s, despite there being just a head difference at the line,” says Oppenheimer. “We got in touch and asked them why on earth they rated them so differently? Apparently, it was on the finishing times and he finished the last furlong so fast.

“Timeform said it was the highest rating they had ever given a two-year-old who had only run once. That was quite exciting – we knew then he was good.”

The plan had been to train him for the Guineas, and accordingly the horse had been ungraded to the stable vacated that winter

by Kingman, but after Frankie Dettori sat on Golden Horn in a couple of pieces of work, he advised that the horse was too immature to cope with that early Classic. Dettori told the connections that while Golden Horn might be capable enough of winning the 2,000 Guineas, they might not be left with a horse for the rest of the season.

Plans were reworked and after a racecourse sighter in the Listed Fielden Stakes at Newmarket, he won the Group 2 Dante Stakes, the traditional prep race for the Derby.

Oppenheimer had been convinced early in the year that his horse would not stay the Derby trip hence no entry had been made, but Golden Horn’s victory in the Dante

Golden Horn won a further three Group 1s, but the Derby victory gave his owner the biggest thrill

caused a revision of opinion.

“After the Dante I did my maths: most people think the race is 1m2f – in fact it is actually 1m2f100yds.

“They were asking me to put up the money to supplement him for the Derby, but I wanted to watch the race recording two or three times before making my decision. The first thing I saw straight away was that the jockey had a hell of a time trying to pull him up after the Dante winning post.

“I thought that if he was struggling to stop him over the 1m2f100yds, he must be able to run over 1m3f – so we’d better go for it.

“It actually makes me look a second-rate breeder as I can’t get the right distance for my horses!” he laughs, adding: “I don’t mind!

“But, really, he is not bred to get that trip – he really isn’t, and ahead of the Derby I could still see him fading in the last furlong.

“It was the most thrilling moment to be

proved totally wrong – and Frankie still couldn’t pull him up at the end – he ran into the fence to stop!”

For the Jockey Club member, even after the year Oppenheimer has subsequently enjoyed, the victory at Epsom was the peak of the year.

“It was definitely the highlight, and by miles,” he says. “In the end the season really was like having a really delicious cake without any filling or top, the Arc and the Eclipse wins put the rest on.”

As his summer path unwound, the colt took in the shorter 1m2f Eclipse Stakes, and it was perhaps the first time we all saw the colt’s heated desire to win races.

“The Eclipse was a really interesting race, the second horse is a very good horse indeed – a fast horse. It was 1m2f, a very good race, I watched it again yesterday,” admits Oppenheimer. “Now that we know the Golden Horn you can see him looking across to his rival saying ‘Yeah, bring it on!’; he gets a

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“Golden Horn liked to win races, that was the only problem with him, you had to be careful that he didn’t get the bit between his teeth and go. The skill was to settle him.”

Perhaps at York that plan did not go to plan, and in the Irish Champion Stakes Dettori had to work out a tactical strategy to beat the opposition; so he went forward and settled in front.

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n France, a beautiful ride from the jockey produced a memorable performance from Golden Horn, one of the best Arc-winning performances in years.

“Frankie’s ride in the Arc was brilliant – when he went sideways from the stalls, I thought the reins had broken or something… I couldn’t believe it!

“Frankie and John hadn’t said before that they were going to do that – and I was actually a bit cross with them for not telling me,” confides Oppenheimer in mock anger.

“It did give me quite a nasty shock; he peeled away as though he were going back to the stable yard – we had a filly who had done that five weeks before and I thought ‘Oh no, the same is happening again.’ ” After the European glory of the Arc, the decision was taken to go to Keeneland for the Breeders’ Cup Turf, another marked change of stance on Oppenheimer’s behalf.

“There was no pressure from Darley whatsoever, he was just so fit and well and boiling over to run – we had to go,” says Oppenheimer, adding that, “We also got the entry fee from winning the Irish Champion Stakes – that helped a bit too!”

In the end Golden Horn was beaten by his old foe Found and the ground, but the decision to head stateside is not viewed with regret.

“Not at all – he was so courageous, he was like a lion. We were so proud of him, if only it had been a year that the meeting was staged at Santa Anita,” he says, with slight regret. “It was not so much that the ground was soft, but he just couldn’t get a grip, he got wheel spin, you can see him spinning wheels, particularly first time round.

“We think he ran a wonderful race, and he was beginning to gain ground. I don’t think he would have won, the filly would have held.

“We went to Keeneland having been beaten at York – I think it would have more disappointing in the US if we had

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He was so courageous, he was like a lion. We were so proud of him, if only it had been a year that the meeting was staged at Santa Anita...

gone there unbeaten.”

The race was taken in with half an eye on his future stud career, the journey undertaken to give US breeders an opportunity to see the horse.

As has been frequently reported in glowing tones in the racing press, the horse was campaigned strongly by Gosden; and indeed it is infrequent when reviewing a top threeyear-old’s career that so many races need to be discussed.

“Frankie and John have handled him brilliantly,” says Oppenheimer. “It was not the plan from the beginning to be so busy, the horse let us train him like that.

“Both John and myself said that Golden Horn would always tell us whether he wants to run or not, whether he wants to go to the US or France, and, if he was not right, we wouldn’t send him.

“But he just kept taking it, taking his work and putting on more weight. John said he was the most incredible horse, that he had never

had a horse in his life like it – the more he raced, the better he got.

“He has grown to 16.2hh now, and is a powerful horse. To have developed like that with the campaign he had is extraordinary.”

Stud plans were announced just prior to the Arc, with Darley Stud securing half the horse. “We had a few other options,” recounts Oppenheimer, “but this made sense, particularly as I had said through the summer that I wanted him to stay in Newmarket.”

The owner will obviously patronise the stallion in his new career, and reckons that he has four or five mares who “will suit”, and might possibly add to the elite few with one other purchase at the December Sale.

“The target for him is 120 mares, he won’t be capped at that, and if he covers as well as he races, we might go up, but not too far,” says Oppenheimer. “We want the best ladies, a hard core of really top mares to come to him.”

So now it is all over, how does Oppenheimer view the year?

“It was very enjoyable – after each race! I suppose the pressure was quite considerable,” he says. “We went all the way up so soon that you ‘feel’ for the horse. And feel for John too – we were all really in love with the horse.

“We have had some good horses in our time, but never one who has really caught us as he did, it was like having your favourite dog for all your life. Now we have to say goodbye to him – but he is going to be around still and having babies.”

The colt has a great temperament, but Oppenheimer thinks that he certainly has an eye for the ladies!

W 016 NER 2 FO Best sprinter of his generation as a 2yo Higher rated as a 2yo than Oasis Dream, Dark Angel, Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Showcasing, Zoffany, etc.

Highest rated runner by Iffraaj Stud Fee: £7,000 October 1st SLF

Stud Fee: £8,500

Stud Fee: £7,500

October 1st SLF

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The fastest and most precocious son of Teofilo Gr.1 winning miler, out of multiple 5f Group winner First yearlings in 2016 from a book of 130 quality mares

Unbeaten Timeform Champion 2yo The highest rated 2yo son of Acclamation, higher than Dark Angel, Equiano, etc.

First yearlings averaged £37,000 for 64 yearlings sold (to 14/10/15)

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THE BREEDERS’ CUP INTERNATIONAL STALLION PROGRAM All stallions around the world are now eligible to participate directly in the Breeders’ Cup program. Stallions standing in the Northern Hemisphere outside of North America contribute 50% of their stud fee and the resulting foals are all automatically eligible to the racing programs of the Breeders’ Cup without any further nomination payments due.

These automatically nominated foals are eligible for the Breeders’ Cup Challenge program as well as the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

THE BREEDERS’ CUP CHALLENGE WIN & YOU’RE IN PROGRAM This Win and You’re In global stakes program features nearly 80 graded or group stakes in 13 countries. All international starters will receive a travel award of $40,000 upon starting in any Breeders’ Cup World Championship race. For the complete Challenge schedule, please visit members.breederscup.com. Every winner of nearly 80 Win & You’re In Challenge Races receives free entry fees and an automatic selection in to the Championships. The 2016 Challenge Schedule will be released in March of 2016.

THE BREEDERS’ CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS November 4-5, 2016

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The 2016 Breeders’ Cup World Championships will be hosted by Santa Anita Park in beautiful Arcadia, California. The world’s best will compete in 13 Grade I Championship races on November 4-5 for $26 million in purses and awards.

Participants in the Breeders’ Cup World Championships are treated to an amazing weekend filled with world class hospitality and equally incredible racing. To find out how you can participate on racing’s greatest stage, please call Dora Delgado, Senior Vice President of Racing, +1 859 514 9422 or e-mail dora@breederscup.com.

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yeomanstown stud Gay O’Callaghan

A flying year for Angel Yeomanstown Stud’s Dark Angel has taken himself into Europe’s elite band of stallions.

Lissa Oliver meets proud owners, the O’Callaghan family

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Dark Angel’s 2015 Group 1-winning daughter, the Haydock Sprint star Mecca’s Angel

alf an hour or so from Dublin city centre, nestled between the busy towns of Newbridge, home of The Curragh racecourse, and Naas, with its own racecourse and Punchestown, Yeomanstown and Morristown Lattin Studs couldn’t be any more centrally located.

The tranquil 600 acres sit peacefully along the banks of the River Liffey; it is rural Ireland at its best and seated on the finest pasture the country has to offer.

This is thoroughbred country and Yeomanstown Stud, established in 1923 by the Levins-Moore family, already has its place in history.

The brilliant Tudor Melody was bred here, as was the top-class M-Lolshan and, since its purchase by Gay and Annette O’Callaghan in 1981, the roll of honour continues.

Top class two-year-olds Capricciosa, Bad

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Anything we buy, we buy with the mindset of ‘would we want to race the horse ourselves?’

As I Wanna Be and Dark Angel; Definite Article, Passion For Gold and the great stayer Vinnie Roe; Hong Kong star Dim Sum and Prix Maurice de Gheest hero Garswood; the tough sprinter Sovereign Debt and top-class Mecca’s Angel; Pipalong, Flanders and Sandhurst Goddess – the list of those bred at Yeomanstown continues to grow, and grow ever more impressive.

The adjoining Morristown Lattin Stud is home to the successful stallions Dark Angel, Camacho and, new addition, Gutaifan.

Gay O’Callaghan made the decision to stand stallions in 1989 and gained a reputation for success with sires popular in the sales ring.

Common Grounds set the bar, becoming one of Europe’s most prolific sires of two-year-olds, his progeny including the Group 1 Prix Morny winner Bad As I Wanna Be. Then came the ill-fated Pips Pride, a major loss to the industry after just three crops, which included another Yeomanstownbred Group 1 winner, Pipalong.

Yeomanstown Stud, run by Gay and Annette’s son David, his wife Rolline, with David’s brother Robert an integral member of the team, remains the base for the commercial business of selling yearlings and offspring from a band of 50 broodmares.

The draft is always supplemented with astute pin-hooks to comprise a formidable consignment of around 60 yearlings each season.

“It’s a healthy mix of 50/50 or 60/40,” says David of the homebreds and pin-hooks heading to the sales.

“It’s nice to have both, the pin-hooks to supplement the breeding side. We try to buy a few more nice horses to enhance our string and add a bit more diversity to the group from proven and first-season sires and families we like.

“Anything we buy, we buy with the mindset of ‘would we want to race the horse ourselves?’ We are looking for good racehorses, not horses which are perceived as good value.”

This summer and autumn developed into a breakthrough season for Dark Angel Gutaifan: the dual Group 2 winner and Group 1 runner-up starts off at a fee of €12,500

Camacho: the 13-year-old son of Danehill had his biggest crop of foals this spring

THE FASTEST WINNER OF THE HACKWOOD STAKES SINCE 2001 faster than INVINCIBLE SPIRIT and 5 other Group 1 winners of the race!

Heeraat Bay 2009, 16.1hh (1.65m) DARK ANGEL – THAWRAH (GREEN DESERT)

Won 5 races, £128,161 from 2-4 years; also placed 9 times.

Won

Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes, 6f, Newbury, 2013, in the fastest time since 2001 beating Gr.1 winner KRYPTON FACTOR (at levels).

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Maiden Stakes, 6f, Pontefract, at 2, by an easy 11 lengths.

2nd (nk) Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes, 6f, Newbury, 2014, beating Gr.2 winner ES QUE LOVE (at levels).

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City Walls Stakes, 5f, York, to Gr.1 Nunthorpe Stakes winner JWALA (rec. 5lbs), beating two other Gr.1 winners.

Defeated 43 Stakes winners (5 Gr.1 winners) Rated 5lbs superior to DARK ANGEL

by Timeform Racehorses of 2013

“Heeraat was a thoroughly genuine colt blessed with a fabulous temperament and plenty of ability. He handled all types of ground.”

– WILLIAM HAGGAS

“Heeraat is a very good looking horse who has been admirably tough and consistent.

If he passes on his looks and tremendous attitude, he will do very well as a stallion.”

– ANGUS GOLD

Fee 2016:

£4,000 SLF

By DARK ANGEL out of a half sister to Gr.1 winning sprinter and Gr.1 sire MALHUB Half brother to Stakes winner AMBIANCE (TFR 103) out of a GREEN DESERT half sister to Gr.1 Golden Jubilee Stakes winner MALHUB (TFR 126) and full sister to the dam of multiple Group winner and Gr.1 Classic placed YELLOW ROSEBUD (TFR 117), etc.

From the top sprinting family of DANDY MAN, ANTHEM ALEXANDER and SUDIRMAN, etc.

His half brother by Iffraaj fetched 380,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2014.

The same successful cross as Champion Sprinter LETHAL FORCE HEERAAT was very well received in his first season in 2015, covering a full book of over 100 mares.

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It’s been a really good year – any time we sell a Group winner it’s a very good day and if we bred it, it’s better again As a result, Yeomanstown continues to be one of the premier consignors at the major European yearling sales each autumn.

“Selecting the most suitable sale for the yearlings bred at Yeomanstown is vital,” says O’Callaghan. “You need to send good horses to every sale.

“We follow them all and we’ve had a good year on the track this year. Fanciful Angel was second in the German Guineas and won a Listed race, Endless Drama was second in the Irish 2000 Guineas, and Log Out Island won the Redcar Two Year Old Trophy, as well as finishing second in both the Group 2 Norfolk

Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes.

“Easton Angel was second in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot, Pearl Secret won the Temple Stakes and Mecca’s Angel became the joint top-rated sprinter in Europe, having blitzed her rivals in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes,” recounts O’Callaghan, adding more to the list.

“Mecca’s Angel’s brother Markaz won the Group 3 Criterion Stakes before finishing second in the Group 2 Park Stakes, while our homebred Promised Money, in training with Eddie Lynam, won the Listed Tipperary Stakes.

Robert O’Callaghan with the Dark Angel colt out of Folga; he sold for 825,000gns at Tattersalls

“It’s been a really good year – any time we sell a Group winner it’s a very good day and if we bred it, it’s better again.”

Yeomanstown is very much a family affair and, as it now passes into the hands of the next generation, there remains a wealth of experience to draw upon.

“We were always involved in the stud’s daily running,” says O’Callaghan, his brothers Guy and Peter equally successful in the thoroughbred industry.

“It was a choice – we weren’t expected to be involved, or forced to come home and be part of the family business, but when you grow up here, it’s part of life. I’ve been back home for 15 years and Robert is also here.

Guy and Peter have their own farms, but we’re all involved with each other and we’re always ready to help each other.”

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he stallions are a major part of the operation and Dark Angel has enjoyed phenomenal success this year.

Standing alongside Camacho, with his son Gutaifan set to join them for 2016, he was bred here by the O’Callaghans. Still a young sire, Dark Angel has already sired 42 stakes performers, including 11 Group winners and 10 Listed winners, the best of which so far is the champion sprinter Lethal Force from his all-conquering first crop.

Last season, Dark Angel sired 15 individual Group and stakes performers. This season, having sired 26 individual Group and stakes horses, he is in the top ten sires’ list behind the likes of Galileo, Dubawi and Cape Cross, his progeny earning over £2.75m.

He is second only to Kodiac as a sire of two-year-olds with a higher percentage (43 per cent) of winners to runners than both Kodiac and his own sire, Acclamation.

Dark Angel has taken himself this year into the rare, elite category of stallions.

“We could talk all day about him,” O’Callaghan rightly enthuses. “He has been a success story from the start. We bred him, we brought him back here and he has climbed up the ranks every year and is one of the leading two-year-old sires this year.

“He’s a good-looking horse and he breeds a good-looking horse. They all have a lot of scope and keep improving. They’re good twoyear-olds, better three-year-olds and better again as four-year-olds.”

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repeated in the sale ring this autumn. He had a top price of 825,000gns given by Oliver St Lawrence in the October Book 1 catalogue for the colt out of Folga, through Book 1 and Book 2 29 lots by him sold for 100,000gns or more and he was leading Book 2 sire on aggregate – at 4,115,000gns, he was 2 million guineas clear of his closest pursuer Kodiac.

At the DBS Premier Sale he had the second-best lot and two in the top five, as well as two lots fetch more than €300,000 at the Orby Sale.

All of this was achieved off a 2013 covering fee of €12,500.

Alongside Dark Angel is Camacho, whose biggest crop of foals hit the ground this year.

The strike-rate of winners to runners for the Juddmonte-bred son of Danehill stands at 34 per cent and in 2013 he was the leading sire of individual two-year-old stakes winners.

This led to him seeing his best books of quality mares in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, covering 125 and 130 mares respectively.

A half-brother to Showcasing, he is a reliable sire of juveniles and sprinters, Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes hero Green Door among them, and he has the distinction of being the leading active sire of black typewinning sprinters over a five-year period.

“Camacho has always been a great source

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Gutaifan offers breeders a chance to breed to a precocious and high-class racehorse and the top-rated two-year-old son of Dark Angel of speedy juveniles for us, and simply brilliant at upgrading his mares; there is not a better stallion out there to provide a breeder with a black-type two-year-old than Camacho!” enthuses O’Callaghan. “Having had great support for the last two seasons he looks sure to have continued success in the years ahead.”

Joining them both for next season will be Gutaifan, who will be hoping to repeat the success of his sire, Dark Angel.

Sharing a similar profile of precocity, the Richard Hannon-trained dual Group 2 winner retires at the end of an exceptional two-year-old career in which he was never out of the first two in six of his seven starts, winning the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes in record time and Group 2 Prix Robert Papin either side of running second to Shalaa in the Group 1 Prix Morny.

Family O’Callaghan: Main picture (from left) Guy, Peter and Robert, centre, Annette, and, above, David, recently married to Rolline Kavanagh Photos courtesy of Tattersalls

“He’s a striking grey and shares many of the same attributes as his sire – he won four times over 5f and 6f and on all types of ground from good-to-firm to soft,” says Gay O’Callaghan.

“Gutaifan offers breeders a chance to breed to a precocious and high-class racehorse and the top-rated two-year-old son of Dark Angel.

“We’re excited to have acquired him, he’s a great looking horse with tremendous action and he’s precocious, tough and sound – he reminds me a lot of his father.”

Having proven stallions on their own doorstep is a great benefit, especially when the O’Callaghans are busy at the sales while most breeders are planning matings. The reduced stress, injury and infection risk of not travelling mares is also an advantage.

“We divide most of the mares between our own stallions, not many are sent away,” explains O’Callaghan Jnr. “In Acclamation’s first season we sent him three mares and we got Dark Angel from that! This year we’ve used Charm Spirit and Showcasing, but predominantly the mares stay at home.”

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illie Carson is a serious breeder, serious in his intent, and by his results, but his place in racing history was, of course, secured long before he retired from race riding in 1996.

As a jockey Carson won 3,828 races, and he is one of only nine European jockeys to have won more than 100 Group 1s.

In recent years he has, however, achieved success at the highest level as both an owner and a breeder.

In 2013, Chriselliam, owned by him in partnership with Chris Wright and Emily Asprey, won the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket and the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf at Santa Anita. This year Jack Hobbs, bred by Willie and Elaine Carson’s Minster Stud, won the Irish Derby by a wide margin, and finished runner-up to Golden Horn in the Derby at Epsom.

“There is,” Carson says, ‘“nothing better in life than having the winner of a top race.

Owning the winner of a top race is good, better than riding one, but breeding the

winner of a top race is better still.

“When you breed a horse it becomes part of the family. You basically create it, spend hours and days thinking and arguing about which stallion to use, and then you live through all of the ups and downs from the day it is born to the day it leaves to go to the sales and on to a training stable.”

The daily risks of looking after young horses are a sensitive subject in early November, only weeks before the Tattersalls December Foal Sale where Minster Stud is due to offer ten foals, including a half-sister to Jack Hobbs by Sepoy, and a Mayson filly out of Mrs Greeley, a half-sister to Jack Hobbs.

“There is always the possibility of an accident,” Carson says, “and they always seem to happen to the ones you don’t want it to happen to!

“I remember Jack Hobbs had a problem about six weeks before he was due to go to the October Yearling Sale in Newmarket and he had spent a few days inside. I wanted him to go out to the paddock again, but when I turned him loose he galloped back to the gate and just caught his off-hind on the bottom

Minster Stud’s Classic winner: Jack Hobbs (Halling) takes the Irish Derby by 5l under William Buick

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Despite the dank autumn day that Debbie turned up for our photo shoot at Minster Stud, the stud’s foals, many of which were catalogued at Tattersalls December Sale, looked in great heart

rung. If you look at him closely there is a still a small white mark there today.

“The next few days weren’t easy as he didn’t want anyone getting close to the cut.

Every time I went to dress it he would look at me as if to say, ‘Don’t touch me – I hurt!’ ” The Jack Hobbs story began in January 2007 when Carson decided to look for a mare at the Keeneland January Sale.

“I didn’t go myself,”’ he remembers, “but I asked James Delahooke to have a look at three or four in the catalogue for me. I can’t even say if Swain’s Gold was one of my picks, but in any event he pointed me in her direction and called me when she was in the ring.

“She wasn’t my first choice, but she was the first of them to go through the ring and

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There is nothing better in life than having the winner of a top race. Owning the winner of a top race is good, better than riding one, but breeding the winner of a top race is better still

we bought her for $180,000 in-foal to Afleet Alex.”

Swain’s Gold is a daughter of Swain and Golden Pond, who won a Listed race in France and two Grade 2s in Florida.

“I was told she had been a sprinter and she won three of her four starts, but nobody could tell me where exactly and it can’t have been anywhere fancy as she won less than $30,000 in total,” laughs Carson.

The Carsons decided to breed her to Mr. Greeley, who was then the hottest sire in the state, and bring her home in-foal.

Swain’s Gold was not an immediate success. Neither of her first two foals succeeded in winning a race and the Mr. Greeley filly was led out unsold at Newmarket

minster stud I felt that Sharpen Up line stallions work well on Ahonoora line mares such as Swain’s Gold,” explains the breeder.

In 2013, six years after buying the mare and after significant costs and not much in the way of returns, things started to look up.

Niceofyoutotellme, the Hernando colt, won a couple of good handicaps for trainer Ralph Beckett, and as the 2013 yearling sales approached Carson started to look at the Halling colt in a different way.

“We liked him when he was a foal, but he was just an ‘alright horse’ for at least the first nine months,” he recalls. “It was when we started prepping him for the sales that we began to notice him.”

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espite trying to injure himself on the gate, the Halling colt out of Swain’s Gold made it to the sales and was bought by Blandford Bloodstock for John Gosden

as both a foal and a yearling.

“I wasn’t going to let her go for less than I had paid to go to her sire,” Carson continues, “and so I leased her and she went to be trained by Eve Johnson Houghton. She won a few races and was fourth in a Listed at Ascot at the end of her four-year-old career. I probably should have kept her in training at five as she was just a late developer and she continue to grow – she was far better looking when she came out of training than she had been went she first left the stud.”

Meanwhile, Swain’s Gold had a Hernando colt, who was sold for only 19,000gns as a yearling, and in 2011 she visited Halling.

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for 60,000gns.

“Gosden had three of my yearlings that year,” Carson recalls. “All three won and Snoano was fourth in the Racing Post Trophy.

I heard on the grapevine quite early on that Jack Hobbs could be good and although we have bred some other good ones he has to be the best of those I have reared.

“And look at his pedigree – when he goes to stud he will be able to cover nearly every mare in the country! He has no Danzig, no Danehill, no Sadler’s Wells and Northern Dancer only appears once in the fifth generation of his pedigree.

“I did, of course, get the mare wrong and thought she should be going to sprinters, but next year Swain’s Gold will go to one of the top Classic stallions – we haven’t decided yet, but we have talked about Dubawi or Golden Horn.”

Carson has, he is keen to point out, been breeding racehorses for a long time. “I kept the first mare I owned in my back garden on the Snailwell Road in Newmarket in 1969!” he says.

He then kept mares at Barleythorpe and Red House Stud before setting up his own Minster Stud in Gloucestershire. His first Classic sucess came in 1988 when Minster Son won the St Leger for Lady Beaverbrook, ridden by his breeder.

Al Shemali, who won a Group 1 in Dubai and more than £2 million in prize-money, has been another of the highlights of Carson’s breeding career.

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minster stud The Carsons have about 15 mares and tend now to offer most of their progeny for sale as foals. “I do this to make a profit, but it is also a way of life. We have always been hands-on and do most things ourselves and so now it makes sense to sell at the foal sales,” he explains.

If the Jack Hobbs story started at a sale in the US, the Chriselliam one began in the restaurant at the sales in Newmarket.

“I was drinking red wine with my friend Chris Wright during the sales. There was an unsold yearling by Beat Hollow who people were telling us about and for some reason we agreed to buy her together,” he says.

“We called her Janiceellaine after our wives Janice and Elaine and she was trained

by Barry Hills. She actually won first time out ridden by my grandson Willie Carson at Warwick.

“We got a good offer from the US for her and that looked as though that would be the end of the story. A few years later a half-sister

by Iffraaj was bought at the yearling sales by Alastair Donald, not for us at all, but a few weeks later he called and asked if we would be interested.

“We went down to the Charlie Hills yard and liked what we saw and agreed to buy her together with another friend of Chris’s, Emily Asprey, and we called her Chriselliam.”

Chriselliam won on her second start at Warwick and then went to run in a Group 3 in Deauville, and finished ninth of 12!

“We couldn’t believe it,” Carson says. “We flew over as we were sure that we were going to win – we knew she was really good. There was no obvious reason or explanation.”

Three weeks later she was narrowly beaten at Haydock after the jockey ignored Carson’s instructions, which were given from the ambulance room as he had been taken ill on arriving at the track.

“I told him to wait until the last possible moment, and he took it up with more than a furlong to run, but by that time they had taken me to hospital so I wasn’t there to be angry after the race!” he jokes.

Fully recovered Carson and Chriselliam went to Newmarket three weeks later and the filly won the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile at 28-1.

Carson with Jack Hobbs’s half-sister, a daughter of Sepoy

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We have always been hands-on and do most things ourselves and so now it makes sense to sell at the foal sales

“We got Richard Hughes to ride her and he came to lead in the final 50 yards,” Carson remembers, at which point he was dancing in the view of the television cameras at the edge of the paddock.

A month later the filly and her owners travelled to Santa Anita for the Breeders’ Cup and she came with a brilliant run to win by an easy two and a half lengths.

“I did not ride a Breeders’ Cup winner,” he remembers, “that shadow at Belmont got in the way for Dayjur and myself.

“But now I have owned a Breeders’ Cup winner. We had turned down a huge offer for her while we were in the plane on the way over and the win felt very good indeed.”

For Chriselliam the end was sadly just around the corner. The filly picked up an infection in a hoof and despite every

effort by the best vets in Newmarket she had to be put down when she should have been preparing for a Classic career.

“I still think sometimes who we could have bred her to,” says Carson with regret, before adding: “But you have to keep looking forward.”

For the time being Carson is looking forward to the foal sales, while there are also the matings for 2016 to plan with Swain’s Gold as the annual major conundrum to be solved.

“We do spend a lot of time thinking about matings,” he admits. “We look for nicks, and then argue about whether with this or that stallion they will turn out to be too big, or too small, too tall or too short legged. All these things we throw back and forth before we finally get around to signing the contract.”

For 2016 Jack Hobbs stays in training and hopefully will continue his career with every chance of adding further Group 1s to the accomplishments of Minster Stud, and Willie and Elaine Carson.

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ome horses get more attention than their performances deserve. No names: there’s no point looking for trouble unnecessarily, but we can all think of a few – well-bred colts in particular – who seem to have been born hyped and somehow retain their gloss without ever quite having lived up to it. The rest just have to make their reputations by consistent demonstration of ability.

No one would really accuse Limato of being well-bred, either in the literal sense or in the old fashioned one that meant “having lovely manners”. His actual breeding doesn’t exactly scream class, but breeder Seamus Phelan’s combination of Tagula and a Singspiel mare has certainly produced a horse with both talent and “attitude”.

If he was a human he’s probably be a biker with his leather collar turned up rather than the sort who travels round in whispering limousines and has doors opened for him by flunkeys. And he’s little too. Not one of these tall elegant types. Maybe his T shirt would have a few stains on it and he’d be drawing heavily on a stub end before flicking it into a nearby gutter.

He can move though. As a two-year-old he started out modestly at Kempton then won all his four races with fairly contemptuous ease.

He wasn’t talked about in Classic terms, but everyone couldn’t help noticing him. This year as a three-year-old he’s shown another level of ability.

He’s been beaten three times, but one of those defeats came from Muhaarar, by common consent the best three-year-old sprinter trained in this country at least since Dayjur; and another by the Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Make Believe – in both cases after he’d given ground away with an indifferent start.

His distinct preference for fast ground had already been exemplified. In his first race of the season he’d comfortably beaten Adaay in a Group 3 at Ascot.

Next time out on ground described as “good”, but actually two seconds slower than at Ascot, Adaay turned the tables. Even then he showed unmistakeable determination.

No horse, however good he may be, has yet been running away from Limato at the end of a race.

How good he might be is something we’re going to find out in 2016. But on a line through Make Believe in the Prix de la Forêt he is at least the equal, at distances short of a mile, of Prix du Jockey-Club winner New Bay who finished third to Golden Horn in the Arc. Why isn’t he more celebrated then? Well actually, among the cognoscenti, he is. Sitting round Henry Candy’s kitchen table with owner Paul Jacobs and the trainer himself you get a better idea of who the horse is and what the world has come to think of him.

You’re also reminded that a Flat horse’s popularity seldom has anything to do with the amiability of his connections.

Candy, a man long renowned for his approachability and his absolute refusal ever to play the grandee, is the possessor of the broadest grin among top flight trainers (unchallenged really, now Clive Brittain’s retired) and he uses it often as he likes to see the funny side of things wherever possible.

Jacobs is slightly less of a beamer, but no less interesting. He made his money in banking, as a trouble shooter really.

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Left: Limato, a horse with “attitude” as well as talent, right, his “approachable” trainer Henry Candy

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Paul Jacobs at Ascot with his diminutive hero Limato after winning the Pavillion Stakes (G3). Jacobs has turned down substantial offers for the horse

I thought, ‘You’ll never, as a smallish owner, have another horse even approaching this one so make the most of him while you’ve got him’ he helped sort out the affairs of the Banco Ambrosiano whose founder, Roberto Calvi, known as “God’s banker” after dealings with both the Vatican and the Mafia, famously ended his days in 1982 hanging from scaffolding under Blackfriars Bridge.

Since then Jacobs doesn’t seem to have looked back. He first developed an interest in racing as a child in Kenya where his parents were involved in the local turf club. He shared ownership at one point of Coronation Stables in Newmarket when the yard was run by Neil Graham and his wife Leslie. In the early 2000s he stepped back from racing for a few years while he cared for his then elderly parents. Now he has 23 horses in training, jumps and Flat.

The pair of them have the same wry humour.

They’re obviously friends as well as owner and trainer – neighbours, too, if you don’t count a couple of miles of convoluted South

Oxfordshire / North Berkshire road.

How Limato came to be trained by Candy is a convoluted one, too. It involves his fairly recent marriage to a local lady; an anecdote about Richard Hannon Snr once trying to sell him a horse he already owned; Candy saying he couldn’t take any horses because he was “choc-o-bloc’, then finding a few he’d got were desperately slow and deciding he could “just fit one or two in”.

The reputation Limato has earned for himself among the knowledgeable was made clear by the arrival of huge offers for him as his three-year-old career drew to a close.

“Mainly from the Middle East and Hong Kong,” says Jacobs.

No, he didn’t feel like saying how much, but they were the sort not many but the wealthiest owners would even think about refusing.

Wasn’t he even tempted?

“No. I thought, ‘You’ll never, as a smallish owner, have another horse even approaching this one so make the most of him while you’ve got him,’ ” says Jacobs.

“And not many people take that view,” adds Candy, “but thank goodness some do!”

Then Candy tells how John Moore, doyen of Hong trainers as well as their champion of champions, came cheque book at the ready, to have a look at Limato.

“I made the mistake of leading him out of his box,” relates Candy. “I’m 6ft4in so perhaps I wasn’t the perfect man for the job! But you should have seen John’s face when he saw him.

After a while he said: ‘So he’s a Mini with a Ferrari engine, eh?’. I said ‘Yep!’ ”.

“Strangely that’s almost exactly what Andrea Atzeni said when he got off him after winning at Doncaster,” adds Jacobs. “He said ‘He’s not very big, but he’s a Ferrari.’ ” The cheques might, of course, have been even more bulky, but for Limato’s development of a trifling personality disorder as he grew to maturity.

“He’d become a little badly behaved,” says Jacobs, “so my wife Linda and Henry came to an executive decision.”

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Limato was a fast-finishing second to the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) winner Make Believe in the Prix de Forêt (G1) Photo by racingfotos.com

“Eating head collars was one of his problems,” remembers Candy, “and then any human who came within reach was a second course.”

“So,” says Jacobs, solemnly, “he became a gelding.”

Neither man has any feeling of regret about that, partly because Limato probably wouldn’t have been able to achieve what he has without the operation; partly because with his diminutive stature and relatively humble ancestry he probably wouldn’t have had good opportunities at stud.

“There’s so much overproduction in the breeding industry already,” Candy points out.

“And now he’s a happy horse. He could go on racing as long as he’s happy doing it, and now he’s out there in the field with a mate enjoying a good mental and a physical rest after what’s been a long season. You couldn’t do that with a colt.”

It may have been a long season, but it wasn’t a particularly busy one in terms of races run.

Limato raced only five times in 2015. The reason was simple. He needed fast ground to deliver his form. If he didn’t get it, he didn’t run. But that meant, because of the inevitable vagaries of the British climate, that he was in an almost constant state of readiness from mid-April until October.

“He’s been up all season, but the ground kept going against him,” says his trainer.

Some trainers would have lost patience and sent him out to run on ground that might have damaged his enthusiasm. Some owners might have lost patience and got sick of the waiting too.

Not Jacobs.“It’s been a hell of a training feat

by Henry,” he says. “He’s been like the Grand Old Duke of York with him, always

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I don’t think it would be a sensible plan to travel halfway across the world to find out if he gets a mile when we can go to Newbury and do it!

marching him up to the top of the hill then marching him back down again!”

Even after his second in the Forêt at Longchamp, Candy was still reproaching himself for perhaps having asked too much of the horse.

“We only ran him at Doncaster because the ground had come right for him. If we’d known it was going to be ‘Limato-ground’ again for the Arc meeting we might have waited until then.”

So what is the plan now for this now precious little gelding? Neither man has any great fondness for intercontinental competition, but in view of the tendency for US Turf to be firm were they tempted by the Breeders’ Cup ?

“No, not at all,” says Candy. “He’d already had a long year. We’re quite high up here anyway and a lot of ours had begun to break their coats.”

(A good decision considering how the turf at Keeneland turned out).

Nor is either man particularly interested in long distance travel in order to chase the sort of ground Limato would like.

Next year first of all they want to find out whether a mile is within his scope. So will he be trained differently with that end in mind? Would they think at all about, say, the

Champions Mile in Hong Kong in early May? “There are a lot of myths about training,” says Candy. “One of them is that you can somehow train stamina into a horse. The fact is that a horse will always get as far as it’s going to get. That’s decided by the genes.

“People do try and persuade them to run out of their comfort zones, particularly three-yearold sprinters who they’d like for the Guineas.

“But more often than not it just doesn’t work, and then when they try and drop him or her down in trip again, the horse just raises one finger to them.”

So isn’t Candy worried that might happen to Limato?

“No, because we’re only going to try him once to see if he’s up to Group 1 standard as a miler, and if the answer’s no we won’t persist.

“We’ll be looking at the Lockinge and hoping the ground is right for him then. He has a very relaxed way of racing, so I’m not worried that will do him too much harm.

“But I don’t think it would be a sensible plan to travel halfway across the world to find out if he gets a mile when we can go to Newbury and do it!”

Both take inspiration from the example of Solow as a gelding who’s established himself as the world’s leading miler. But Solow was a middle-distance horse dropping back to the mile, while Limato will be stretching out.

They won’t be disheartened though if he shows it’s not for him.

“There are plenty of chances for geldings in the Sprint pattern now,” says Jacobs.

This might, of course, bring Limato into conflict with his stable companion Twilight Sun, the nearly-unbeaten winner of this year’s Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup. It’s a confrontation that’s so far been avoided, though not deliberately. “It’s just happened that way,” says Candy.

The two horses often work together, but he hasn’t been able to decide from that work which of them would be likely to win if they went head to head over 6f at level weights.

Perhaps the ground would be the deciding factor. The other point Candy makes is that Limato will need to learn to be quicker out of the gate if he’s going to make a champion sprinter now his 2015 nemesis Muhaarar (“a really terrific colt”) has safely departed to stud.

Whatever the future holds for little gelding Limato, you can’t help hoping it will be one full of hot summers, firm ground and great success at whichever distance he shows he prefers.

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Dr Stephen Harrison explains how genetic technology can be used practically to give breeders advice on their mating plans

What is does your company do?

Thoroughbred Genetics Ltd (TGL) is a racehorse DNA and data analysis company based in Canterbury, UK. It was founded by in 2000 off the back of family interests in thoroughbred racing and a PhD and career

in genetics research. It’s tests and databases are now supplied to a range of breeders and owners, both large and small and on a global basis. TGL’s objective is to help bring blacktype success to clients.

So how is this achieved?

This is done by direct DNA testing of horses and data and observations derived from 15 years of testing of thousands of thoroughbreds.

Correlations are made with performance and breeding outcomes, and advice is given on breeding, sales and racing strategies.

TGL is more an agency or consultancy than a mass DNA testing body so all clients’ results are thoroughly interpreted. The production and selection of thoroughbred racehorses is clearly multi-factorial processes. We work closely with owners, agents, vets and trainers to provide a bespoke service and help create the best

possible outcome.

Specifically, TGL contributes quantifiable, objective genetic information to the melting pot and provides a genetics-based probability model for thoroughbred breeding and selection.

What’s the underlying genetic theory?

The rationale behind our breeding and selection processes is that the thoroughbred, rather than being too inbred, is in fact something of a “mongrel breed”.

We use a series of genetic tests and data to help manage this “mongrelism” to ensure that horses are bred or selected to do a specific job in the best possible genetic health.

Unlike strictly agricultural animals, thoroughbreds aren’t selected for specific characteristics such as live weight gain, milk yields etc. Successful horses come in variable shapes and sizes, run over different distances and it’s usually difficult to argue a common genetic reason for their success.

This means no uniform selection pressure and therefore, higher genetic variability.

Contributing further to genetic variability is the fact that in reality many broodmares haven’t been “selected” at all.

Many have entered breeding careers early because they’ve broken down, have physical problems or haven’t performed well.

Positive gene selection is done generally via a limited number of top-class colts entering stud. Breeding from comparatively lesser mares diminishes selection and fixation of positive gene versions in the breed as a whole.

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breeding by genetics Genetic variability is a good thing in terms of genetic health, but it doesn’t do much for job specialisation or the fixing of genes to do these jobs. If it’s based partly on retaining lower quality animals in the population, it’s counter-productive.

What can be done about genetic variability?

Fortunately, poor quality genetic fixation and mongrelism isn’t rife throughout the breed.

Wealthier, established or more organised breeders naturally retain better race mares for breeding – they’ve been selected properly.

Typically, the likes of the Aga Khan and Juddmonte use highly structured breeding programmes over a number of horse generations.

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Therefore, unlike the general population, there is extensive genetic fixation within this elite premier division.

Although thoroughbreds do all belong to the same stud book, there is effectively more than one thoroughbred gene pool in existence. Smaller breeders could do worse than buy into affordable breeding stock coming to the sales from the premier organisations.

You analyse both genetics and pedigrees?

Whether we are talking about helping to breed horses for owners or selecting pre-existing animals from the sales, we work on the basis that we want animals that are not

too genetically variable but adapted to do a specific job whilst being healthy.

We seek to consolidate and progress this within the premier breeding division or helping smaller and newer breeders emulate this model in the most effective, quickest and cost-efficient manner.

Pedigree information is also useful and we’ve found a number of correlations between DNA results and pedigree profiles. Similarly, certain performance and breeding data have strong DNA related correlations.

This has allowed us to develop databases that can relatively predict some genetic characteristics, even in the absence of DNA tests. However, even taking this into consideration, there are numerous instances where “on-paper” information can’t predict genetic status or outcomes in the thoroughbred.

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Inbreeding is also the best way of fixing consistent useful genetic characteristics, but only if you can avoid duplication of the less desirable ones Genetic data and DNA analysis is used to follow the inheritance of actual genes and genetic markers of importance.

Following extraction of DNA from blood or hair samples, we employ a series of DNA tests and genetic data to help co-ordinate, fix or identify genetic combinations that support common speed, stamina and precocity objectives – helping to produce or select horses that are complete, targeted and uniform packages assembled to do specific racing jobs with higher levels of success.

Which genetic assessments are employed?

From available evidence in horses and humans it’s obvious that athletic performance is controlled by multi-gene complexes, not just single genes.

Generally, we don’t believe that single gene approaches for the selection and breeding of horses are appropriate. It could lead to

the overlooking of other useful genes, loss of genetic health and, for instance, breeders shying away from using certain stallions with genotypes perceived to be associated with unfashionable characteristics such as extended stamina.

Relatedness / cluster analysis: Using 750 selected primary DNA markers we graphically cluster horses into relatedness, precocity and stamina groups with known animals in our databases.

For example, use of this analysis on a mare gives us an accurate idea of whether she carries an adapted or mixed batch of genes and if she is likely to produce stamina or speed-orientated progeny.

This gives us a better indication of how to fix co-ordinated stamina genes and identify suitable crosses for her.

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In the graph on page 69 we can see the assessed mare (red triangle) compared with a large number of good quality horses of varying stamina and precocity leanings. A useful comparison can be made with mares of known, similar genetic status (pink circles).

For new mares, comparison with those that have already produced runners allows us to see which sires have been producing the best results with similar mares.

Determination of inbreeding levels heterozygosity and homozygosity: A better indication of the level of inbreeding in a particular horse is provided by use of multiple marker DNA analysis to measure gene duplication. This was one of the first tests we employed back in 2000.

Substantial data has been collected from this and some strong correlations have been observed with various breeding and performance traits. Inbreeding leads to an increase in homozygosity (gene duplication).

Inbreeding is also the best way of fixing consistent useful genetic characteristics, but only if you can avoid duplication of the less desirable ones.

Using DNA markers we have been able to determine that there is an optimum amount of gene duplication that occurs in the best performers and breeders. This varies depending on whether we are talking about stayers or sprinters – the former being more outbred.

A pedigree might indicate that an animal is inbred whereas often the converse exists and vice versa. We believe that inbreeding is beneficial, but only when applied under the right circumstances.

Through use of DNA assessment, we can obtain a clearer picture of how close this can be carried out and whether it should be avoided or increased. It’s more accurate to use a DNA sample to determine this, but we’ve also collected DNA data that allows more accurate prediction of on-paper pedigree inbreeding.

Assessment of respiratory/energy release genes: As first described in our 2006 academic paper*, which links specific genes to racehorse performance, we analyse transmission of eight mitochondrial (structures within cells that convert the energy from food into a form that cells can use) genes, including the important ATPase6 gene.

These genes form part of three muscular

energy-release complexes. Strong stamina and performance correlations exist with the varying gene versions carried by different horses.

From this it is possible to derive DNAbased stamina indices, which have important application to all areas, including breeding and training.

Many stallions also produce better progeny when crossed with mares from specific mitochondrial gene groups. Databases can give indications of which stallions are better used with specific mares and also of the likely effect on the stamina of the progeny.

This is not something that can be derived from a normal pedigree. This is a type of complex “nicking” based on actual genes rather than pedigree and can be refer to as mitochondrial or molecular nicking.

Because we’ve classified so many horses using mitochondrial DNA, we can identify most family lines and can now do this straight from the pedigree without sampling genetic material.

The graph opposite is taken from a 2006 research publication* and illustrates the correlation in Racing Index with racing distance for five different genetic types of horse.

So how can breeders use this information?

Breeding and progeny: The three DNA test areas listed above make up the panel that we call “EQ Profile”.

Applying the tests to mares enables us to determine how genetically variable they are and whether they have particular aptitude strengths that should be re-enforced.

A weighted genetic scoring system has been developed that allows us to provide

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Many stallions also produce better progeny when crossed with mares from specific mitochondrial gene groups a selection of stallions that will produce offspring that are more adapted, have better genetic fixation and are less genetically variable.

Similarly, application of the tests to existing racing or young stock will tell us how their genetic status will affect racing, aptitude, performance and breeding potential. As far as the northern hemisphere is concerned right now is a busy time of year.

Sales: Sales-specific computer databases have been produced and they score sales lots based on trends viewed from years of DNA testing.

A weighted scoring system classifies animals on a number of factors, including respiratory gene grouping, sire complementation of dams from specific mitochondrial groups and potential inbreeding.

Animals get an overall score for genetic status and racing merit together with distance indices for a range of distances.

Return of Mares: These genetic assessments can be applied to a study of the reproduction records for first and second-season sires.

This has particular application to the winter foal sales. This provides a highly effective tool for early identification of the

breeding by genetics freshman sires most likely to produce better two-year-old and three-year-old progeny, allowing better pin-hooking selection of foals and prediction of stud-fees.

For example, it is possible to provide genetic scores for all of the potential progeny of new sires with two-year-olds due to run in a coming season. In conjunction with scores for the foal sales, this helps to identify the best pin-hooking or investment opportunities.

It also provides us with an indication of the best commercial sire opportunities for future breeding seasons.

Training & Racing: Using our extrapolated and/or actual DNA tests, it is possible to provide owners and trainers with advice on likely optimum racing distances and help in the planning of racing strategies.

What’s for the future?

Making genetic assessments more widely and quickly available and affordable is an objective for TGL. The development of publically accessible databases that incorporate both wider performance and genetic data will inevitably become essential breeding and racing tools.

In conjunction with Bloodstock Evaluator Ltd and Timeform, TGL is moving towards providing select types of genetic information without having to DNA test animals.

It is hoped that this becomes a major step forward allowing owners and breeders instant online access to genetic information about their own stock or animals for sale. www.thoroughbredgenetics.com *Stephen Paul Harrison & Juan Luis Turrion-Gomez, 2006.

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Leading global sires 2015

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hese ACCOMPANYING tables highlight the inconsistencies in prize-money funds between Europe and the US, as well as the type of races at which money is directed, but the two do give a useful indication and seomething of a measure by which to compare stallions based in Europe and the US. Of course, Prince Bishop’s victory in the Dubai World Cup really helped to take Dubawi to the top of this list, but, as is discussed further through this issue the Darley sire enjoyed a fantastic year. He and Galileo get such a variety of types of horses that can adapt to differing racing environments, that as long as they are siring plenty of horses and getting plenty of runners, they will continue to remain near the top of this list. The pair are doing particularly well as European-based sires with lesser prizemoney on offer.

Interestingly, Dubawi had less stakes winners than Galileo, but he still is clear on prize-money – indicating perhaps that the majority of Galileos do most of their racing in Europe. No wonder Coolmore are keen to take his progeny to the States when they can.

Tapit, with the most general winners overall but the least stakes winners in the top five, is consolidating his position as a leading US sire, which translates to a leading global sire.

The continuing importance of the threeyear-old Classics and major races in both regions is indicated by the positions of the young stallion Pioneerof the Nile, sire of “Grand Slam” winner American Pharoah, and Golden Horn’s sire Cape Cross.

Shamardal’s progeny won 27 stakes races and he is behind only Galileo on that score, but he is some way down the list on earnings – his runners were not campaigned in the richest global races ast year.

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Runners

Winners

Data from equineline, November 5, 2015

Stakes Winners

Dubawi 275 132 Tapit 303 161 Galileo 301 125 Medaglia D’Oro 238 118 Pioneerof the Nile 110 53 Kitten’s Joy 278 127 Candy Ride 273 143 Cape Cross 228 103 Giant’s Causeway 317 138 Curlin 204 107 Speightstown 224 113 Scat Daddy 237 119 City Zip 265 134 Malibu Moon 298 137 Hard Spun 235 110 Bernardini 252 87 Harlan’s Holiday 273 132 Street Sense 222 113 Singspiel 72 29 Azamour 157 65 Ghostzapper 166 85 Invincible Spirit 281 116 Distorted Humor 206 103 Oasis Dream 250 106 Tale of the Cat 243 101 Flatter 201 99 Dansili 197 78 Wildcat Heir 228 135 Shamardal 284 140 Danehill Dancer 182 79 Lemon Drop Kid 223 97 War Front 145 54 More Than Ready 228 113 Congrats 239 130 Bernstein 177 89 Dark Angel 229 97 Unbridled’s Song 173 90 Yes It’s True 176 100 Smart Strike 217 100 Tiznow 219 92 Teofilo 208 87 Any Given Saturday 198 104 Mineshaft 158 84 Pivotal 208 89 Afleet Alex 175 89 Big Brown 148 64 Duke Of Marmalade 193 67 Mastercraftsman 202 71 Sky Mesa 227 105 A.P. Indy 49 28

Earnings ($)

24 20,292,987 21 15,838,785 38 15,058,637 23 12,249,467 4 11,017,602 10 10,284,894 14 10,124,639 11 10,017,563 15 9,648,267 11 9,345,701 13 8,908,469 24 8,332,453 11 7,861,402 8 7,857,191 10 7,585,132 7 6,997,705 13 6,834,031 13 6,779,513 2 6,773,406 5 6,737,475 13 6,523,870 15 6,470,081 8 6,440,999 13 6,274,548 6 6,217,053 10 6,051,568 13 6,012,697 4 5,985,819 27 5,973,875 10 5,951,402 10 5,913,181 12 5,776,950 12 5,776,164 4 5,663,254 5 5,625,841 14 5,599,373 6 5,459,377 5 5,296,242 8 5,224,009 10 5,222,451 16 5,110,917 5 5,082,481 4 4,999,842 14 4,940,685 5 4,855,319 5 4,716,703 8 4,716,662 14 4,703,795 4 4,697,102 8 4,610,319

global sires Leading 2015 global first-season sires by earnings Name

Runners

Winners

Data from equineline

Stakes Winners

Uncle Mo 49 19 Zoffany 74 26 First Dude 37 13 Girolamo 38 14 Twirling Candy 33 17 Dream Ahead 44 16 Canford Cliffs 71 30 Big Drama 28 10 Roderic O’Connor 43 15 Archarcharch 43 11 Giant Surprise 8 3 Gone Astray 31 7 Court Vision 27 6 Paddy O’Prado 53 9 Society’s Chairman 6 3 Brooks ‘n Down 3 2 Trappe Shot 27 7 Poet’s Voice 57 16 Cape Blanco 55 7 Sidney’s Candy 39 5 Friesan Fire 21 7 Wilburn 45 10 Haynesfield 32 9 Tizway 22 4 Lilbourne Lad 65 20 American Lion 21 5 Gio Ponti 38 4 Frozen Power 62 16 Courageous Cat 10 2 Shame On Charlie 2 2 Wootton Bassett 15 5 Crown of Thorns 11 4 Custom for Carlos 14 5 Drosselmeyer 26 4 Tiz the One 17 6 Here Comes Ben 15 5 Ez Dreamer 8 4 Sehrezad 1 1 Pour Moi 23 6 Dublin 15 2 Slew’s Tiznow 12 2 Never On Sunday 9 4 Dick Turpin 28 3 Regal Ransom 14 5 Indygo Mountain 3 3 Ice Box 17 3 D’ Funnybone 10 2 Sierra Sunset 12 3 Informed 4 3 Albertus Maximus 7 3

Earnings ($)

6 3,013,671 5 1,177,356 1 859,614 1 802,329 0 801,958 2 752,275 3 681,514 1 675,187 2 597,544 1 588,271 2 550,949 2 538,115 0 475,651 0 469,854 1 405,882 0 399,170 0 368,781 2 328,071 0 324,948 0 323,371 0 320,772 0 312,030 1 307,930 2 303,714 0 285,069 0 243,398 0 229,775 0 223,872 1 214,710 2 210,145 1 191,930 0 185,535 0 177,668 0 170,564 0 167,789 0 165,885 1 156,469 0 153,797 1 148,259 0 145,406 0 144,655 0 137,584 0 123,624 0 122,953 1 121,423 0 120,412 0 120,327 0 109,333 0 107,665 1 97,542

Of the European sires, Dark Angel’s good year has been reflected in the table – he is the youngest European sire listed here.

The two big earners for Singspiel and Azamour - Solow and Dolniya – both gained their big prizes in Dubai in March.

Uncle Mo and Zoffany dominate the first-season sires list

The importance of juvenile racing in Europe – particularly in Britain – is revealed here as, despite Uncle Mo heading the chart, the British and Irish-based sires are represented in just about equal numbers.

Just Uncle Mo and Zoffany broke the seven-figure earnings barrier, and are clear leading sires on prize-money totals. It will be interesting to see where they list next year once the more “three-year-old” type sires get their representatives earning for them.

Zoffany and Canford Cliffs, as befits a Coolmore sires, both had a weight of numbers playing for them – the pair easily most well represented on the track and with the highest number of winners to back that up.

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Sue Montgomery reviews 2015’s leading older stallions, a list once again topped by Galileo Tables from Weatherbys data, see pages 168-169

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here was just a moment during the summer of 2015 when it seemed that Galileo’s quest for a seventh sires’ title might be thwarted.

He faced a determined challenge from Dubawi, who actually headed him on the leader board at one point. But once the reigning champion took an inch of rein going into the autumn, what has been the natural order of things every year bar one since 2008 was restored.

Galileo has a way to go before he matches the record 14 titles held by his own sire Sadler’s Wells, but he is now half-way there, even if a year behind schedule.

He has already surpassed many of Sadler’s Wells’s achievements, his latest milestone coming when Found supplied his 100th top-level victory in the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Sadler’s Wells had 16 crops running before he made the century; Galileo has done it with 11.

The current King of Coolmore has been helped by the growth of in number and value of elite purses, and that the racing world is now a smaller place. Of Sadler’s Wells’s victories at the highest level, 16 per cent came outside Europe. For Galileo, that strike-rate is 23 per cent. And for Dubawi, it’s a whopping 56 per cent.

Galileo added 13 Group or Grade 1 victories to his tally during 2015, with nine new names among his ten individual winners. Five of his successes came in the US – before Found and her epic defeat of Golden Horn at Keeneland, there were Highland Reel (Secretariat Stakes), Mondialiste (Woodbine Mile), Photo Call (Rodeo Drive Stakes) and Curvy (EP Taylor Stakes).

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Galileo has already surpassed many of Sadler’s Wells’s achievements, his latest milestone coming when Found supplied his 100th top-level victory in the Breeders’ Cup Turf The year proved something of a middledistance hiatus in Europe, for the first time since his first crop were three in 2006 he did not have a Group 1 winner over 1m2f or 1m4f.

Gleneagles took the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes, his highest-rated three-year-old colt was the stayer Order Of St George, runaway winner of the Irish St Leger. Order Of St George will race on next year, while Gleneagles will pick up his sire’s baton at Coolmore.

Among his two-year-olds, Galileo has his usual collection of Classic contenders, particularly fillies. His daughter Minding led home her paternal half-sisters Ballydoyle and Alice Springs in the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1), and went on to a most impressive victory in the Fillies’ Mile. Ballydoyle subsequently won the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) and Alice Springs a valuable Newmarket sales race, before a narrow defeat in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1).

Johannes Vermeer, Galileo’s 54th individual top-level winner and his 101st on the wins list, was his only Group 1-winning two-year-old colt in 2015, but there were performances full of promise in lesser Group races from such as Deauville, Beacon Rock and Port Douglas. His highest-rated youngster not in training at Ballydoyle was the Listed Acomb Stakes winner Recorder, bred by The Queen.

Aidan O’Brien knows Galileo’s stock better than anyone and once said that their great assets is that they are have “minds of concrete”.

Witness such as Found, who became the sire’s highest earner of the year and within 28 days travelled to Longchamp for the Arc (ninth), Ascot for the Champion Stakes (second) and Keeneland for her day of days in the Breeders’ Cup Turf. And Johannes Vermeer, who took in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (fourth) on Arc day, the Racing Post Trophy (second) and, eight days later, ground out his Criterium International victory by a head in the Saint-Cloud mud.

In 2015, Galileo finished well clear of Shamardal and Dubawi at the top of the

European stakes winners table in terms of winners and wins, with a wins-to-runs strike rate of 18 per cent.

So near for Dubawi

It is now more than a quarter of a century since the champion sire stood not merely outside Ireland (the last based elsewhere was Blushing Groom, who took the 1989 title from Gainesway), but outside Coolmore.

But for more than half the year hopes were high at Dalham Hall as Dubawi produced a stunning series of global results.

Dubai Millennium’s only stallion son brought his 2015 score to 12 top-level victories with Red Dubawi in the Premio Vittorio di Capua, his 11th individual Group or Grade 1 winner of the year in six countries and two hemispheres and his 23rd in all. His highest earner during the year was Prince Bishop (Dubai World Cup), followed by New Bay (Prix du Jockey-Club), his highest-rated performer was Postponed (King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes) and his headline result was Arabian Queen’s defeat of Golden Horn in the York International.

There were also contributions from Erupt (Grand Prix de Paris), Night Of Thunder (Lockinge Stakes), Al Kazeem (Tattersalls Gold Cup), and further afield from Shamal Wind, Srikandi and Hunter’s Light and, just below the top level, from Time Test and Journey.

His two-year-olds are a slower burn – he has yet to have a top-level European juvenile winner – with the most promising of 2015 the fillies Tanaza, who took the scalps of Minding and Alice Springs during the summer and Left Hand, fourth in the Boussac, as well as the colt Muntazah, third in the Royal Lodge Stakes.

Dubawi’s runner-up spot was his second in three years, and though Galileo finished well clear on the domestic leaderboard, things were very much closer on the table in Europe.

He operated at a 17 per cent European stakes wins-to-runs rate, was responsible for the highest-priced yearling of 2015, the 2.1 million-guineas filly, and his 2016 fee of £225,000 is a hike of a cool £100,000.

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Shamardal Acclamation Invincible Spirit Exceed And Excel Kodiac Dubawi Galileo Dark Angel Cape Cross Iffraaj Holy Roman Emperor

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Acclamation Shamardal Galileo Invincible Spirit Dubawi Exceed And Excel Kodiac Cape Cross Iffraaj Oasis Dream Dark Angel

278 121 226 115 260 111 238 106 203 105 220 99 243 95 191 94 205 94 214 89 206 87

Leading stallions in Europe by nos of runners Stallion Acclamation Galileo Kodiac Invincible Spirit Shamardal Exceed And Excel Oasis Dream Dark Angel Iffraaj Dubawi Rock Of Gibraltar

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Golden Horn may have been Cape Cross’s sole Group 1 winner of 2015, but no matter; a high-class performer who can get a horse markedly better than himself is one to be celebrated and this one – also responsible for 2009 superstar Sea The Stars – has now done it twice.

Cape Cross was a miler, but his best progeny have shone over middle-distances, Ouija Board and Behkabad being two others.

In winning the Derby, Eclipse Stakes, Irish Champion Stakes and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Golden Horn repeated most of Sea The Stars’s exploits.

The year’s European champion was never defeated by a colt – his perfect record was spoiled only by fillies, Arabian Queen in

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Doyen Mujahid Lope De Vega Monsun Dubawi Shamardal Gold Away Verglas Oratorio Cape Cross Pivotal

46 60.86 89 58.42 98 54.08 59 52.54 203 51.72 226 50.88 68 50.00 133 49.62 117 49.57 191 49.21 168 48.80

Oasis Dream’s 14th Group 1 winner and his first champion sprinter, Shadwell Stud’s Muhaarah

the York International, and Found in the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

At 21, Cape Cross – who had the best winsto-runs European stakes strike-rate of any in the 2015 top flight at 20 per cent – is the oldest still-active son of Green Desert, who died in honoured retirement at Nunnery Stud this year at the grand age of 32.

Two more sons for Green Desert’s legacy

Two others taking the influential little stallion’s legacy forward, the high-class sprinters Invincible Spirit and Oasis Dream, took their customary places in the top ten.

Invincible Spirit started 2015 as he had 2014 – with a 2,000 Guineas runner-up.

Territories could not follow Kingman as a champion miler, but did notch a Group 1

prize, the Prix Jean Prat, before beating all bar Esoterique in the Prix Jacques le Marois.

He will be testing his mettle in the division again next year.

There were also Group 2 successes from Muthmir (Prix du Gros-Chene & King George Stakes, third in the Abbaye) and Cable Bay (Challenge Stakes).

It was a two-year-old, though, who earned most of the superlatives for the Irish National Stud’s flagbearer, the first-season champion of 2006. Shalaa won five from six, including the Group 1 Prix Morny (beating subsequent Flying Childers winner Gutaifan) and the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes (beating Coventry Stakes winner Buratino) to mark himself as a top-class young sprinter. There was back-up in the division from Gimcrack

Leading stallions in Europe by average £ Stallion

Rnrs £

Singspiel Dubawi Cape Cross Galileo War Front Danehill Dancer Siyouni Fastnet Rock Duke Of Marmalade Teofilo Motivator

38 46,961 203 32,676 191 31,830 260 27,659 43 26,747 140 23,612 83 20,197 127 19,674 167 17,894 176 17,019 82 17,016

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Pivotal: the consistent Cheveley Park Stud stallion has a leading winners to runners ratio of 48.8 per cent

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NEW in 2016 . €8,000 LF

Starspangledbanner & Muravka (High Chaparral) Group One & Royal Ascot winning juvenile.

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Stakes (G2) winner Ajaya.

Oasis Dream finally has an outstanding champion to add to his list of high-class performers, a total of 14 of whom have won at the top level from 5f to 1m4f.

His 2015 star Muhaarar was one in his own image – the three-year-old blazed a Group 1 speed trail in the Commonwealth Cup, the July Cup, the Prix Maurice de Gheest and the British Champions Sprint.

As well as rare, blistering pace and acceleration, the colt showed a commendably determined attitude – he won the July Cup by a nose in the last stride, completing in the process a notable family treble. Oasis Dream had won the 6f summer showpiece as a threeyear-old in 2003, following Green Desert’s example in 1986.

The sire also supplied six-year-old Goldream, who won two of the other five sprint Group 1s available in Europe, the King’s Stand Stakes and Prix de l’Abbaye.

There were Group 2 victories over further from Cladocera (the Cape Verdi and Balanchine Stakes, and a second in the Matron Stakes) and Free Port Lux (Prix Dollar).

Unusually, Oasis Dream did not have an obvious star among the juvenile ranks – he has had eight individual Group 1 or 2 winners from the youngest generation – but there was promise from horses such as True Solitaire and Hayadh. The Banstead Manor Stud stallion’s fee remains at £75,000.

Dark comes into the limelight

The mover on the leader board was the youngest among them, Dark Angel, in fourth place on the Great Britain and Irish earnings.

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Dark Angel worked his way up the two-year-old ranks and now makes his first appearance in the senior top ten The 10-year-old son of Acclamation, based at Morristown Latin, was a tough, highclass juvenile sprinter, winner of the Middle Park Stakes, and, had the newly-instigated Commonwealth Cup then existed as a target, he might have raced on.

But as it was, he retired to stud after his first season. Dark Angel worked his way up the two-year-old ranks and now makes his first appearance in the senior top ten, with five crops running.

He also took high rank on the 2015 juvenile table – he is responsible for Group 2 winners Gutaifan (Flying Childers Stakes, second in the Prix Morny) and Birchwood, winner of the Superlative Stakes, third in the National Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, but his best performers have improved with time and he now has a second top-class senior sprinter to his credit in three seasons.

Mecca’s Angel, heroine of the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes, followed the Group 1 example of Lethal Force, winner of the Diamond Jubilee Stakes and July Cup in 2013.

Their sire is by no means one-dimensional, though; there were also earnings contributions from Gabrial, twice placed in Group 1 mile contests, and former dual

Leading sires in Europe of 2yos by nos of wnrs Stallion

Rnrs Wnrs

Kodiac Dark Angel Acclamation Canford Cliffs Zoffany Exceed And Excel Royal Applause Showcasing Shamardal Equiano Zebedee

104 34 69 31 88 31 68 29 75 28 68 28 57 23 52 22 49 22 63 22 78 22

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Rnrs Races

Kodiac Dark Angel Acclamation Zoffany Canford Cliffs Exceed And Excel Showcasing Equiano Shamardal Invincible Spirit Galileo

104 59 69 44 88 40 75 39 68 38 68 38 52 37 63 35 49 32 56 31 53 31

Leading sires in Europe of 2yos by % wnrs to rnrs Further sires with 2015 Group 1 winners in Britain and Ireland Stallion Stud

Stallion Winner

Azamour deceased Covert Love Champs Elysees Banstead Manor Trip To Paris Duke Of Marmalade South Africa Simple Verse Dylan Thomas Coolmore jumps Pether’s Moon High Chaparral deceased Free Eagle Kyllachy Cheveley Park Stud Twilight Son Lawman Ballylinch Marcel Mastercraftsman Coolmore Amazing Maria Purim Richland Hills Undrafted Singspiel deceased Solow War Front Claiborne Air Force Blue

Scat Daddy War Front Ramonti Pounced Turtle Bowl Siyouni Desert Prince Lord Of England Lope De Vega Country Reel Dark Angel

Rnrs % 9 77.77 17 58.82 7 57.14 16 56.25 24 50.00 29 48.27 19 47.36 17 47.05 30 46.66 11 45.45 69 44.92

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Kodiac’s two-year-olds were headed by tough filly Besharah, who finished her seven-race campaign with victory in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes Cambridgeshire winner Bronze Angel. His 2016 fee has more than doubled, up to €60,000 from €27,500.

Teofilo and Shamardal give Darley numbers After Dubawi and Cape Cross, the Kildangan studmates Teofilo (whose fee remains at €50,000) and Shamardal (€70,000 in 2015, private in 2016), both now established firmly in the top echelon, gave the Darley operation four horses in the 2015 top ten, both of them Fascinating Rock, Champion Stakes winner, one of three Group 1 winners for Fastnet Rock in the northern hemisphere in 2015

with superior wins-to-runs percentages.

Teofilo, by Galileo, was another highclass juvenile who did not appear at three, though due to injury, not choice. The latest of the 11-year-old’s eight individual Group or Grade 1 winners is Pleascach, who proved herself one of the best of a vintage batch of three-year-old fillies with victories in the Irish 1,000 Guineas (beating Found) and Yorkshire Oaks (beating Covert Love) before her fourth behind Golden Horn, Found and Free Eagle in the Irish Champion Stakes.

Her sire’s top global earner was his star three-year-old colt in Australia, Kermadec, likewise a dual Group 1 winner; his top-rated performer Arod, a Group 2 winner in the Summer Mile and Group 1-placed in the Lockinge and Sussex Stakes, and his best juveniles Massaat and Sanus Per Aquam, who chased home Air Force Blue in the Dewhurst.

Shamardal’s Group 1 strike in Europe in 2015 came with top-class filly Lumiere, heroine of the Cheveley Park Stakes, and he also had a juvenile colt full of promise in the effortless Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Emotionless.

On a wider stage the 13-yearold’s Hong Kong star Able Friend added three top-level prizes to his tally at the start of the year, Dan Excel scored in Singapore and towards the end Delectation became his sire’s 14th individual Group 1 winner at Flemington.

Kodiac: a best season so far

Kodiac, based at Tally-Ho Stud, rose to his best-ever position on the overall leaderboard, with three Group 2 winners and a top-level near-miss in 2015. Among his older brigade were Kodi Bear, winner of the Celebration Mile, and Adaay, who took the Sandy Lane and Hungerford Stakes.

Kodiac’s two-year-olds were headed by tough filly Besharah, who finished her seven-race campaign with victory in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes with a better performance in defeat, a

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Stallion War Front Galileo Teofilo Invincible Spirit Elnadim Scat Daddy Hard Spun American Post Country Reel Dark Angel Showcasing

Rnrs £ 17 45,001 53 31,320 24 18,579 56 18,494 16 18,070 9 18,040 5 16,641 25 15,366 11 14,609 69 14,475 52 13,462

close third to her York victim Lumiere and Illuminate in the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1), with Alice Springs fourth.

Kodiac’s next-best was the gelding Gifted Master, who quickened away from Group 2 Norfolk Stakes winner Waterloo Bridge in a valuable Newmarket sales race, and confirmed that promise with a Group 3 win in the Autumn Stakes.

Their sire retired with four handicap wins to his name in 2006, the year his older halfbrother Invincible Spirit’s highly promising first crop appeared.

In 2015 he finished second to Galileo on the European earnings table, a place ahead of his celebrated sibling. No horse had more juvenile winners and wins in Europe than Kodiac, and only Galileo more juvenile stakes winners. He first stood at €5,000 – ten years on, his fee will be €45,000

Fastnet joins the European stakes race

The top ten earnings’ table was completed by another 14-year-old son of Danehill, the Australian champion Fastnet Rock, whose fee for next year is listed as private.

The Coolmore resident had an excellent season with his second northern hemisphere crop, which included three Group 1 winners in Fascinating Rock, who finished his season with a flourish in the Champion Stakes, and the fillies Qualify (Oaks) and Diamondsandrubies (Pretty Polly Stakes).

The trio added to the 19 top-level winners he has had in Australia.

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Stars and Lope stretching clear Jocelyn de Moubray analyses 2015’s second and third crop European sires

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ll the players in the bloodstock market would like to know how to predict which new sires are going to be successful.

If that is too much of an ask, at least to be able to identify the successful ones as quickly as possible.

Predicting stallion success is, as these

statistics show unequivocally, far from straightforward. The initial stud fee, the numbers of mares covered and the average price of the first crop of yearlings; none have “got it” right every time for these examples.

Once a stallion’s progeny begin to race things become clearer, but even then the picture can change rapidly. The market as

Third-season sires by % of runners rated 110+: 2011 foal crop Stallion

2010 Fee

2011 Foals

Sea The Stars 85,000 Le Havre 5,000 Mastercraftsman 20,000 Champs Elysees 12,000 Archipenko 9,500

110 95 132 82 48

110+

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Stallion

2011 Fee

2012 Foals

Sea The Stars 85,000 Archipenko 6,000 Champs Elysees 10,000 Le Havre 5,000 Mastercraftsman 17,500

66 46 70 87 111

110+

%

2011 Fee

2012 Foals

Lope de Vega 15,000 Siyouni 7,000 Showcasing 6,000 Equiano 9,500 Paco Boy 10,000 Makfi 30,000 Rip Van Winkle 20,000 Zebedee 5,000 Silver Frost 6,000 Approve 5,000 Fast Company 5,000

101 75 79 91 97 109 111 115 73 82 98

95+

% 24 15 18 12 8

Data by Jocelyn de Moubray

95+

%

4 6.10 20 30 1 2.20 4 8 1 1.40 3 4 1 1.10 4 4 0 0.00 8 7

Second-season sires by % of runners rated 110+: 2012 foal crop Stallion

Data by Jocelyn de Moubray

8 7.30 26 4 4.20 14 5 3.80 24 2 2.40 10 1 2.10 4

Third-season sires by % of runners rated 110+: 2012 foal crop

a whole is so keen to jump on a bandwagon that it tends to forget the statistical truth that all variables tend to revert to the average over time.

Or to put it in bloodstock terms – a stallion whose first two-year-olds are fantastically successful could be the next top stallion, or could just be lucky and its figures will revert

110+

%

Data by Jocelyn de Moubray

95+

6 5.90 25 2 2.70 10 2 2.50 8 2 2.20 7 2 2.10 14 2 1.80 12 2 1.80 13 2 1.70 5 1 1.40 3 1 1.20 4 0 0.00 4

% 25 13 10 7 14 11 12 4 4 4 4

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The problem with sober analysis is that once a stallion has produced consistently superior results over a number of years it is too late to get a great bargain back to the average over the next couple of seasons.

A successful stallion is one which returns better than average results, consistently, over a number of years.

The problem with sober analysis is that once a stallion has produced consistently superior results over a number of years it is too late to get a great bargain as all the players in the market will be aware of its qualities!

The market is not foolish or irrational to look for wagons to jump onto; it is just looking for the fantastic returns which those who jump onto the right one can look forward to.

Star leading third-season sires

Among the third-crop European sires the Aga Khan Studs’ Sea The Stars has maintained his position and looks assured of a place among Europe’s elite stallions.

His second crop did not include any champions such as Sea The Moon or Taghrooda, but the unbeaten filly French Dressing looked very good and then the colts Storm The Stars, Star Storm and Migwar were not far behind the best of their generation.

The German-trained Quasillo might have been the best of the lot, but he didn’t run after winning a Derby trial in May. Where Sea The Stars has been the least consistent is in attracting mares to cover – he went from 140 in his first year at stud to only 87 the second. As a result Sea The Stars had fewer runners, a lower profile and his yearlings did not sell quite as well as they had in 2014.

Le Havre’s stallion career has followed a very different path and having started out at €5,000 covering fee with few believers, the Haras de la Cauviniere’s son of Noverre will

Third-season sires by % of winners to runners: (2015 runners from 2013 crop)

Data by JdeM

Stallion Runners Winners

% 95+ %

Le Havre 27 Archipenko 20 Champs Elysees 24 Mastercraftsman 34 Sea The Stars 32

44 40 33 15 12

12 8 8 5 4

7 26 1 5 2 8 1 2 2 6

Second-season sires by % of winners to runners:

(2015 runners from 2013 crop) Data by JdeM

Stallion Runners Winners

% 95+ %

Lope De Vega 27 Siyouni 26 Showcasing 50 Fast Company 34 Makfi 43 Equiano 57 Zebedee 71 Approve 33 Paco Boy 42 Rip Van Winkle 33 Silver Frost 11

48 7 26 46 4 15 42 7 14 41 2 5 37 3 7 32 5 8 28 2 2 33 0 0 31 2 4 21 2 6 18 0 0

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stand at €35,000 in 2016.

His second crop was not as spectacular as the first, but was still better than you would expect for a horse at his fee as it included two high-class fillies in Saint Amarante and Queen Bee. Le Havre’s third crop is very promising indeed and his owner Gerard Augustin Normand has had several decent looking winners, including the unbeaten stakeswinning filly La Cressonniere, an unbeaten colt in Villebaudon, another colt Barou, who won his only start to date by 10l in Paris, as well as a stakes winner in Noce. The other good two-year-old prospects by the stallion include Qatar Power and Zghorta Dance, both impressive Paris winners.

Le Havre’s yearlings have sold well, but the best of them have yet to come on the market as he received relatively little outside support during his first three years at stud.

If Sea The Stars and Le Havre have established their positions it is still hard to say where exactly in the market the other three sires from this generation will be in three years’ time.

Mastercraftsman’s first crop was outstanding with three top horses in The Grey Gatsby, Amazing Maria and Kingston Hill, but his second crop was nowhere near as good.

Coolmore’s sire has covered large books since 2013, and off a fee of €35,000 and €40,000 in 2014 and 2015, and so has been given every chance to prove his merit.

Juddmonte’s Champs Elysees was not held in high regard by the market before his runners reached the track, and he covered only 50 mares in 2013. The following year he covered 169!

His best product to date is the Gold Cup winner Trip To Paris, but his first two crops each included a high-class two-year-old filly in Xcellence and Jack Naylor.

His full-brother Dansili’s stud career got off to a slower start and so, if Champs Elysees produces from his big crops, he could still be a bargain.

Like Sea The Stars and Mastercraftsman Champs Elysees produces mainly middledistance horses – for all three around 75 per cent of their three-year-old winners have come over 1m2f or further.

Le Havre and Archipenko’s progeny are more versatile. For Le Havre around 50 per cent of his three-year-old wins have been over 1m2f or further, against 60 per cent for Archipenko.

young stallions Lanwades’s Archipenko has struggled to get the support needed to make a mark as a stallion, however he has produced a Group 1 winner in Madame Chiang and several good two-year-old winners helped his yearlings sell well in 2015.

Lope De Vega posting big results

There is, of course, even less to go on when trying to assess second-crop sires. At this point it is safe to say that Lope De Vega is established as a stallion and both Siyouni in France and Showcasing in Britain have performed far better than expected.

Makfi and Rip Van Winkle have yet to confirm the high expectations of the market, although both could yet bounce back, particularly Makfi who has been given a new opportunity in France.

Of the others Paco Boy, Equiano, Zebedee and Fast Company have all produced highclass horses and could all still maintain their place at stud with the right results in 2016.

Ballylinch Stud’s Lope De Vega has sired only one Group 1 winner to date, but, for the time being anyway, the son of Shamardal is getting results way better than the average.

In recent years the only sire standing at a similar fee who came close to matching the results of Lope De Vega’s first crop was Yeomanstown Stud’s Dark Angel. Others who overall achieved a similar success rate include Dubawi, Shamardal and Oasis Dream, who all started their careers standing at around the €40,000 mark, some two and half times more than Lope De Vega.

His second crop looks as though it will include a similar percentage of high-class horses – already it can boast of the Group winner Blue De Vega, the Group-placed fillies Elegant Supermodel and Jemayel, and promising maiden winners such as Rajkumar, Moon Trouble, Special Season, Steel Of Madrid and El Loco.

To date Lope De Vega’s best horses have been sprinter/milers, but it will interesting to see what horses like Blue De Vega, Moon Trouble and Rajkumar, who are all out of staying mares, achieve as three-year-olds.

The Haras de Bonneval’s Siyouni has come a long way since starting out covering at €7,000 in 2011.

His first crop included the juvenile Groupwinning fillies Erveyda and Bourree, both of whom trained on and improved from two to three, as well as several other Group and stakes performers, mainly sprinter/milers.

Showcasing: has continued to show ability as a sire with his second crop and is definitely an influence for speed – 92 per cent of his winners have won over less than a mile

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In recent years the only sire standing at a similar fee close to matching the results of Lope De Vega’s first crop was Yeomanstown’s Dark Angel Bourree, who dam is by Lomitas, improved when she was stepped up to 1m2f so it is likely Siyouni will get middle-distance performers when mated with staying mares.

His second crop looks to be equally good and is headed by the unbeaten Group-winning filly Trixia and other promising winners such as the dual-winning colt Siyounor.

Astonishingly, for the relatively cheap

French-based sire Siyouni was back in 2013, six of his third crop of yearlings were sold for more than €200,000 headed by a colt John and Jake Warren purchased for the equivalent of €470,000 at October 1 from Baroda Stud.

Whitsbury Stud’s Showcasing’s career has followed a similar path, even if the lack of a Classic horse has meant that the son of Oasis Dream’s yearling average has increased by 150 per cent from €29,000 to €70,000, whereas Siyouni’s has risen by nearly 300 per cent from €29,000 to €110,000.

The two stars of Showcasing’s first crop Toocoolforschool and Cappella Sansevero showed nothing at three, so it would not have been surprising if his results had begun to revert back towards the average in 2015.

If anything the trend has instead been upwards and his second crop has had good winners from March onwards.

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young stallions Quiet Reflection and Tasleet showed highclass form in England and both No Education and Maximum Aurelius were not far behind the best of their generation in France.

Showcasing is above all a sire of sprinters, he has had only one winner to date over 1m2f, and 92 per cent of his wins have been over less than a mile.

Makfi and Rip Van Winkle have yet to confirm the expectations their initial stud fees and yearling averages suggested. Part of the explanation may be that they are both producing a fair proportion of middledistance horses – around 35 per cent.

Makfi moved to the Haras de Bonneval after four seasons at Tweenhills in Britain and to date he has had more success in France than in England – his best two horses, Make Believe and Maimara are trained there.

Paco Boy, Equiano and Zebedee are held in similar regard by the market and have

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Equiano appears to produce mainly fast horses and his first crop included two of the best sprinters of their generation

produced two or three top horses each.

Paco Boy’s first crop was headed by Peacock, who didn’t run after Royal Ascot, and then by the Group 1 performer Galileo Gold.

These two are both out of staying mares, but are an exception to the majority of their sire’s progeny who are fast horses.

Equiano appears to produce mainly fast horses and his first crop included two of the best sprinters of their generation in the The Tin Man and Strath Burn, while his second

Sire of Winners of over 319 races & £4.1m Prizemoney ‘Gilt Edge Girl’ Sold for €550,000 (Goffs 2013) ‘Bond’s Girl’ Winner of 2yr Old Doncaster Race Winning £275k Breakthrough Stallion 2011 (Racing Post Bloodstock awards) Group 3 Winner ‘Move In Time’ Prix du Petit Couvert 2015

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includes the Group/stakes winners Fly On The Night and Waipu Cove.

Zebedee’s best two progeny to date are the Group 1 performers Ivawood and Magical Memory. All three are still priced in the €5,000-€10,000 range, where they have to compete with new sires for mares.

A big Group 1 winner and/or just slightly better overall results would see any of the trio moving up into a more comfortable €10,000–€15,000 bracket.

For a sire to have a long term place at stud, he has to attract in the region of 75+ mares a year at €10,000s or higher, otherwise the market and the mare owners will move on to something fresher.

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Coolmore duo top the table

Aisling Crowe assesses this season’s results from the list of European first-season sires

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IVALS for the crown of leading first-season sire probably eyeball each other every day, passing each other as they are led out for exercise or turned out in their paddocks at Coolmore’s Tipperary base.

Zoffany and Canford Cliffs, both Coolmore residents, are the latest to vie for the title and Zoffany just about shaded the contest on points. His stunning Royal Ascot treble allied to Foundation’s victory in the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes gave him the edge by prize-money earned over the enemy within.

The victories of Illuminate in the Albany Stakes (G3), Waterloo Bridge in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes and Washington DC in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at the Royal meeting in June, took Zoffany to the stratosphere.

Illuminate added the Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes to her Royal Ascot success before finishing second in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes, while Washington DC went on to finish runner-up in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes to Air Force Blue.

The emergence of Foundation later in the season proved that Zoffany, a winner over 6f to a mile, could potentially sire a Classic prospect. The John Gosden-trained Foundation won the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes and ended the season third in the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster.

The Listed Rochestown Stakes winner Argentero is the fifth black-type winner from Zoffany’s first crop, which were conceived when the stallion cost just €7,500. After a first promising yearling sales season, Zoffany’s fee was increased to €12,500, but his scintillating start to stallion duties has brought about a significant hike in his 2016 fee.

His yearlings were in demand at the sales this autumn with a top price of 240,000gns

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Illuminate: the daughter of Zoffany finished second in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes

and an average of 54,000gns.

Next year the son of Dansili will stand for a price of €45,000, which is more than three times his 2015 fee.

With that in mind, it must be assumed that Zoffany will continue to remain a potent source of winners as the quality of mares in his book must be on the upgrade now that he is operating at such a level.

Despite the increase in fee, he is still an attractive proposition for mares who may have visited Dansili, who stands for £85,000 at Banstead Manor in 2016, the son proving an able alternative.

Zoffany topped the charts in Europe on stakes winners and prize-money earned, but the freshman sire with the most individual winners in 2015 was his Coolmore rival Canford Cliffs.

A winner at three Royal meetings and described by Richard Hannon the Elder as “the best horse I have ever trained”, Canford Cliffs was acquired for stallion duties by Coolmore after a career at the highest level over a mile.

Winner of the Irish 2000 Guineas as well as the St James’s Palace Stakes, the Queen Anne, Sussex and Lockinge Stakes, the five-time Group 1 winner’s first crop was conceived at a fee of €17,500.

From that he sired three black-type winners in 2015 with Group 2 Railway Stakes victor Painted Cliffs the first to win a stakes race. Most Beautiful, winner of the Group 3 Balanchine Stakes and French Listed winner Aktoria the others to shine for Canford Cliffs.

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Canford Cliffs’s ratio of winners to runners was better than Zoffany’s with 30 winners from 69 runners for a strike-rate of 43 per cent

young stallions Coolmore’s third freshman sire acquitted himself well considering he was a middledistance performer and would not be expected to provide a source of precocity and speed. Derby winner Pour Moi lies just outside the top 10 of Europe’s leading firstseason sires, but has performed admirably from a much smaller representation than either of his Coolmore companions.

Pour Moi had 23 runners in 2015 with six horses gaining eight wins between them,

Painted Cliffs: picked up a Group 2 victory and a Group 1 fourth placing for sire Canford Cliffs

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anford Cliffs’s ratio of winners to runners was better than Zoffany’s with 30 winners from 69 runners for a strike-rate of 43 per cent.

For that promising start to his second career, Coolmore has returned Canford Cliff’s fee for 2016 to its original mark of €17,500 having dropped it by €5,000 for 2014.

The change reflects his success with his first crop of two-year-olds, but how he does with those conceived at the lower fee over the past two years will affect his standings on the track, in the sales ring and on breeders’ perceptions.

Unlike Zoffany, he also appears to be without a standout three-year-old prospect and may be reliant on getting classy juveniles to keep his name in lights for the next couple of seasons.

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La Rioja - Won Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes Gr.3, storming clear of the field under hands and heels to win by 4½l

Bonnie Grey - 2nd Prestige Stakes Gr.3, Goodwood

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I expect her to be an outstanding sprinter.”

Henry Candy, trainer

headed by Listed winner Only Mine. Joseph Murphy’s filly was also placed twice at Group 3 level during the season.

A son of Montjeu out of a Darshaan mare, who never won over less than 1m1f, Pour Moi was not an obvious candidate for a source of two-year-old winners so that the fact that he has managed to sire a black-type performer from his first crop bodes well for the future.

His progeny are likely to blossom as threeyear-olds over a mile and further so Pour Moi is one to watch over the next couple of years as conditions come more in his favour as a sire.

Sandwiched between Zoffany and Canford Cliffs at the top of the charts is Dream Ahead.

He is the third Ballylinch Stud stallion to leave his mark on the first-season statistics following in the hoofprints of Lope De Vega and Intense Focus.

A winner of five Group 1s over 6f and 7f, Dream Ahead comes from a speedy family with his first three dams all Group-class sprinters.

After a strong first yearling sale season the son of Diktat looked primed to take a leading part with his debut crop and so it proved with

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Dream Ahead’s winner to runner ratio of 35 per cent was just slightly less than that of Zoffany but, on earnings, Dream Ahead claimed second place two stakes-winning juveniles amongst his winners in 2015.

French Group 2 winner Donjuan Triumphant and the Jessica Harringtontrained Final Frontier, who won the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes, were the leading lights for Dream Ahead in his first crop.

Dream Ahead’s winner to runner ratio of 35 per cent was just slightly less than that of Zoffany but, on earnings, Dream Ahead claimed second place ahead of Canford Cliffs despite siring “only” 16 individual winners.

A sprinter’s pedigree and performance, allied to his successful debut season and an

young stallions ability to get good-looking “sales” horses, should ensure that the Ballylinch Stud resident continues to provide precocious juveniles well into the future.

Ballyhane Stud was the home of two of the leading first-season sires in Europe this year with Irish 2000 Guineas winner Roderic O’Connor winning that private battle with Frozen Power.

Group 2 winner Biz Heart and Great Page, a Group 3-winning filly, helped Roderic O’Connor to a 33 per cent stakes winners-torunners figure with the son of Galileo ending up fourth in the standings overall.

Roderic O’Connor sired 17 individual winners from 48 runners in 2015 with a strike rate of 35 per cent. His initial success has come from a small fee – a visit to the son of Galileo costing just €7,500 in 2015.

The quality of the mares in his future books is likely to increase as he demonstrated his ability to provide black-type performers in his first crop.

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young stallions extended top class family of Detroit.

Now standing at the National Stud at £9,000, there is no reason why Roderic O’Connor isn’t set for a prosperous second career and it will be interesting to see how he works in Britain.

Four places behind his ex-Ballyhane team mate is Frozen Power, winner of the German 2000 Guineas in 2010 and an Oasis Dream half-brother to champion three-year-old filly Finsceal Beo. He, too, sired 17 winners of 24 races, but from almost 20 more runners than Roderic O’Connor. However, that represented a healthy return of 26 per cent winners to runners, led by the winner and Listed placed Madrinho.

Dubawi excelled once again in 2015, siring 11 Group/Grade 1 winners and Darley’s star stallion also provided Sheikh Mohammed’s organisation with the best British-based first-season stallion in 2015.

Queen Elizabeth II winner Poet’s Voice was the highest-rated juvenile by Dubawi and the second of his sons to make a good start as a stallion, following Makfi, who is third in the table for Europe’s leading second-crop sires.

Amongst the 16 individual winners sired

by Poet’s Voice are Italian Group 2 victor Voice Of Love and the Mark Johnston-trained Whitman, successful at Listed level.

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Wootton Bassett’s success is all the more striking considering the son of Ifraaj stood at just €4,000 last year, with his first crop bred from a fee of €6,000

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oet’s Voice stands at Dalham Hall alongside his sire, but with Dubawi set to cost breeders £225,000 for 2016, his eightyear-old son may prove an attractive alternative for breeders looking to grab some of the Dubawi magic for five per cent of the price.

Darley’s Australian champion sire Lonhro had his first northern hemisphere runners in 2015 and from just ten to make it to the track, he returned five individual winners. Lonhro had the best strike-rate of any first-season sire in Europe with ten runners or more.

The Group 1-winning juvenile Wootton Bassett is Europe’s leading French-based freshman sire and the Haras d’Etreham

Elusive Pimpernel at the Irish National Stud. The son of Elusive Quality has a 33 per cent strike-rate

resident has a potential Classic prospect from his first crop.

Almanzor won the Listed Criterium de Bordeaux and is being spoken of as a Prix Du Jockey-Club colt for 2016, having won three starts in 2015 for trainer Jean Claude Rouget.

Wootton Bassett’s success is all the more striking considering the son of Ifraaj stood at just €4,000 last year, with his first crop bred from a fee of €6,000. His fee has been returned to that figure now, but he could still be a value option, particularly if he gets a French Classic winner in 2016!

Winner of the Prix Jean Luc Lagadère during his only season to race, Wootton Bassett was represented by 15 runners in 2015 with five of them winning eight races, although Almanzor is responsible for almost half of his sire’s successes this season.

A strike rate of 33 per cent from a limited first book of runners is an encouraging sign for the former Richard Fahey-trained stallion.

A successful juvenile himself, he has proven to be a source of two-year-old winners and with an affordable fee could continue his fine start to his stud career.

The Irish National Stud has not been forced to seek winners here and there for their first-season sire Elusive Pimpernel.

From just 18 runners the seven-year-old has sired six individual winners of eight races.

That puts the son of Elusive Quality on a strike rate of 33 per cent winners to runners and he stands for a fee of just €1,000.

From such a small base, Elusive Pimpernel has made a small splash and with his bestbred runner still to come, there is a chance that he can continue to make ripples.

His most regally-bred foal so far, and an intriguing choice of mating by owner Christina Patino, won’t be seen on a track until 2017 at the earliest. Her globe-trotting superstar Snow Fairy visited Elusive Pimpernel in 2014 and the six-times Group 1 winner is from the same family as this season’s surprise package stallion.

Winner of the Group 3 Craven Stakes, Elusive Pimpernel is also related to Big Bad Bob and further back it is the family of Avonbridge. He may not be the most fashionable of stallions around nor attract the largest book of quality mares, but Elusive Pimpernel has made a better start to his stud career than many of his contemporaries.

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The master list SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2015

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 November 1, 2015 Data from Hyperion Promotions Academy Award Ragazzo (Pips Pride) Acclamation Absolutely So (Selkirk) Attendu (Green Tune) Johnny Barnes (Danehill) King Of Rooks (Lycius) Queen Catrine (King's Best) Adlerflug Ito (Tiger Hill) Nordic Flight (Diktat) Shivajia (Monsun) Wunder (Dashing Blade) Air Chief Marshal Rougeoyant (Agnes World) Alhaarth Fearless Hunter (Lomitas) Amadeus Wolf Avabin (Linamix) American Post Money Maker (Singspiel) Quarterback (Surumu) Robin Of Navan (Muhtathir) Anabaa Blue Simba (Baryshnikov)

LL L 3 3 L L 12L L 2 L L 3L L L L 13L L

Approve Waady (Jade Robbery)

3L

Aqlaam Full Rose (Aljabr)

2L

Araafa Aeolus (Mind Games) Arakan Toormore (Danetime) Arcano Shadow Hunter (Shamardal)

3

Incantator (Polar Falcon) Iraklion (Nebos) Palace Prince (Tiger Hill) Queenie (Fantastic Light) Shy Witch (Monsagem) Aussie Rules Bertinoro (Galileo) La Vacanza (Mozart) Pretorio (Lure)

L L L

Authorized Answered (Lear Fan) Autor (Kahyasi) Battalion (Halling) Lacy (Oasis Dream) Rose Rized (Catcher In The Rye) Toujours L'amour (Dansili)

L 3 L L L L

Avonbridge Avon Pearl (Compton Place)

L

Azamour Covert Love (Hawk Wing) Dolniya (Indian Ridge) Hawksmoor (Danehill Dancer) Letters Of Note (Almutawakel) Zannda (Dalakhani)

11L 1 3 L 3L

Bahamian Bounty Blue Bayou (Barathea) 3 Code Red (Montjeu) L Donnerschlag (Diktat) 3 Eastern Impact (Xaar) 3L Great Minds (Pivotal) LL New Providence (Giant's Causeway) 3 Baltic King Gracious John (Lujain)

L

Beat Hollow Fly With Me (Highest Honor) Not So Sleepy (Marju) Right Connection (Miswaki Tern)

Archipenko Algonquin (Alzao) Medrano (Lomitas) Time Warp (Stormy Atlantic)

L L L

Big Bad Bob Bocca Baciata (Desert King) Brendan Brackan (Unfuwain) Tashweeq (Dansili)

Areion Dhaba (Medicean)

3

Big Shuffle Fly First (Inchinor)

22

3 L 3L 3 L

L 3LL L LL 3L L L L

Broken Vow Tristesse (Sadler's Wells)

L

Byron Gordon Lord Byron (Intikhab)

L

Call Me Big Daring Match (Arazi)

L

Canford Cliffs Aktoria (Zafonic) Most Beautiful (Cape Cross) Painted Cliffs (Kyllachy)

L 3 2

Canyon Creek Menardais (Rahy)

L

Cape Cross Agent Murphy (Dansili) 3L Balty Boys (Elusive Quality) 3 Convergence (Nayef) 3L Don't Be (Fasliyev) LL Golden Horn (Dubai Destination) 1 1 1 1 2 L Jordan Princess (Barathea) L Karpino (Sadler's Wells) 23 Lamar (Cozzene) L Moonlight Magic (Lammtarra) L Talmada (Galileo) L Captain Rio Ainippe (Darshaan)

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Caradak El Topo (Daggers Drawn)

L

Celtic Swing Ottawa (Loup Solitaire)

L

Champs Elysees Harlem (Nayef) Jack Naylor (Nashwan) Trip To Paris (Fantastic Light)

L 3 1

Choisir Monsieur Joe (Compton Place)

L

Clodovil Shining Emerald (Zafonic)

23

Cockney Rebel Redstart (Pursuit Of Love)

3

Compton Place Easy Road (Pivotal) Pearl Secret (Rossini) Shifting Power (Alzao) Country Reel Tourny (Slickly) Dalakhani Alex My Boy (Sadler's Wells) Ayrad (Sadler's Wells) Candarliya (Barathea) Guardini (Dynaformer) Second Step (Sadler's Wells) Dandy Man Orvar (Grand Lodge)

3L 2 L 3 23 L 23L 2 12 L

Danehill Dancer Affaire Solitaire (Alzao) Amabelle (Bahri) Chika Dream (Loup Solitaire) Esoterique (Dancing Brave) Jazzi Top (Zafonic) Legatissimo (Montjeu) Osaila (Entrepreneur) Sumbal (Linamix)

3 L L 11 2L 111L 3L 2

Dansili Alzubra (Pivotal) Ashlan (Linamix) Bilissie (Singspiel) Carla Bianca (Linamix) Dormello (Selkirk) Favulusa (Dubai Destination) Iromea (Pivotal) Mahsoob (Montjeu) Martlet (Selkirk) So Beloved (Kenmare) Victory Song (Sadler's Wells) Words (Dalakhani)

L L L 3 3 L L L L 3 L 3

Dark Angel Birchwood (Exceed And Excel) Boomshackerlacker (Barathea) Delizia (Whipper) Divine (Common Grounds) Fanciful Angel (Groom Dancer) Gutaifan (Lahib)

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stakes-winning sires Heaven's Guest (Tagula) L Log Out Island (Footstepsinthesand) L Markaz (Atraf) 3 Mecca's Angel (Atraf) 13 Promised Money (Primo Dominie) L Realtra (Dr Devious) 3L Sovereign Debt (Most Welcome) 3 L L L Stormfly (Lomitas) 3 Deportivo Gailo Chop (Marignan)

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Desert Prince Lili Moon (Acatenango)

LL

Dutch Masterpiece (Foxhound) Evil Spell (Fasliyev) Lady Dutch (Montjeu) Lohit (Love The Groom) Mostaneer (King's Best) Ottone (Alzao) Zarwaan (Pivotal) Dylan Thomas Dylan Mouth (Noverre) Finidaprest (Montjeu) Nightflower (Peintre Celebre) Pether's Moon (Tirol) Porsenna (Hussonet)

L L L 3L L 3 L 123 L 12 1 L

Desert Style Venecia Style (Dixie Union)

L

Diktat First Selection (Mozart)

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Dynaformer Almoonqith (Carson City) Flying Officer (Diesis) Intilaaq (Orpen)

Distorted Humor Surfer (Ocean Crest)

2

Eddington Secret Circle (Dixieland Band)

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Dobby Road El Valle (Danehill)

3

Elnadim Zuhoor Baynoona (Shamardal)

L

Doyen Turfdonna (Big Shuffle) Vif Monsieur (Big Shuffle) Virginia Sun (Lomitas) Wild Chief (Acatenango)

1 L 3 2

Elusive City Exclusive Potion (Marju) Helisa (Linamix) Quatorze (Rainbow Quest) Zylpha (Cherokee Run)

L L L L

Elusive Quality Light Music (Danehill Dancer) Maverick Wave (Stormy Atlantic) Momayyaz (Pivotal) Royalmania (Lode)

L 3 L L

Empire Maker Brooch (Dansili)

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Dream Ahead Donjuan Triumphant (Tagula) Final Frontier (Pivotal) Dubawi Al Kazeem (Darshaan) Almanaar (Bahhare) Arabian Queen (Barathea) Bawina (Sadler's Wells) Best Of Times (Rahy) Crystal Zvezda (Mark Of Esteem) Deuce Again (Unfuwain) Dubday (Daylami) Erupt (Caerleon) Hunter's Light (Barathea) Journey (Montjeu) Katawi (Mountain Cat) Lady Of Dubai (Montjeu) Mubtaahij (Pennekamp) New Bay (Zamindar) Night Of Thunder (Galileo) Postponed (Dubai Destination) Prince Bishop (Prospect Bay) Red Dubawi (Homme De Loi) Safety Check (Royal Academy) Tanaza (Dalakhani) Time Test (Dansili)

2L 3 12 33L 13 2 L L L 3 13L 1L LL L L 2L 122 1 12 1 1 22 3 23

Duke Of Marmalade Big Orange (Fasliyev) 22 Nutan (Peintre Celebre) 1 Orange Sun (Sadler's Wells) L Simple Verse (Sadler's Wells) 113 Sound Of Freedom (Invincible Spirit) 3 L Star Of Seville (Selkirk) 13 Dutch Art Dutch Connection (Dubai Destination) 3

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Equiano Fly On The Night (Green Desert) Strath Burn (Irish River) Waipu Cove (Noverre)

3 2L 3L

3L 3 L

Evasive Piment Rouge (Marignan)

L

Even Top Cirrus Des Aigles (Septieme Ciel)

1

Exceed And Excel Aboulie (Indian Ridge) Buratino (Kingmambo) Cielo Canarias (Sadler's Wells) Cotai Glory (Elusive Quality) Gamgoom (Noverre) Out Do (Cadeaux Genereux) Passaggio (Generous) Pensierieparole (Pursuit Of Love) Rouleau (Mark Of Esteem)

3L 2L L L L L L 3 3

Excellent Art Aim To Please (Anabaa Blue) Excilly (Belong To Me)

L L

Exchange Rate Bragging (Kris S)

2

Falco Falconet (Woodman)

L

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Fastnet Rock Cougar Mountain (Nureyev) 3 Diamondsandrubies (Sadler's Wells) 1 L Fascinating Rock (Polar Falcon) 1 3 3 L Kosmische (Sadler's Wells) L La Saldana (Singspiel) 3 Qualify (Galileo) 1 Reset In Blue (Indian Ridge) L Turret Rocks (Galileo) 2 Zhukova (Galileo) L First Defence Antonoe (Dynaformer) Tombelaine (Danehill) Footstepsinthesand Kaspersky (Grand Lodge)

3 L 23L

Onenightidreamed (Pivotal) Rosso Corsa (Woodman)

3 3

Fracas Smash Williams (Pivotal)

3

Galileo Aloft (Storm Cat) Ampere (Sri Pekan) Ballydoyle (Storm Cat) Best In The World (Intikhab) Big Blue (Anabaa) Bondi Beach (Danehill) Coolmore (Storm Cat) Curvy (Inchinor) Deauville (Danehill) Dirgam (Seattle Slew) Easter (Stravinsky) Eye Of The Storm (Shirley Heights) Faufiler (Celtic Swing) Fields Of Athenry (Danehill)

L 2 12 L L 3 3 23 3 L L L L 3L

stakes-winning sires Found (Intikhab) 3 Gleneagles (Storm Cat) 111 Gospel Choir (Pivotal) L Gretchen (Danehill) 2L Highland Reel (Danehill) 3 Iltemas (Danehill) L Johannes Vermeer (H. R. Emperor) 1 3 Kind Of Magic (Danehill Dancer) L Kingfisher (Halling) L Kissed By Angels (Danehill Dancer) 3 Minding (Danehill Dancer) 11 Mizzou (Darshaan) 3 Mondialiste (Kaldoun) 3L Order Of St George (Gone West) 13 Outstanding (Mozart) L Port Douglas (Kingmambo) 2 Recorder (Danehill Dancer) 3 Secret Gesture (Danehill) 2 Silver Galaxy (Pivotal) 3 Telescope (Darshaan) L

The Corsican (Danehill) Wedding Vow (Danehill Dancer) Gentlewave Billabong (Vettori) Vangaug (Marchand De Sable) Gold Away Golden Wood (Pivotal) Great Journey Max Dynamite (Monsun) Halling Jack Hobbs (Swain) Jutland (Darshaan) Loresho (Gulch) Romsdal (Singspiel) Thunder Teddington (Anabaa)

3L 2 L L LL 2 13 L 3 L L

Hard Spun Maftool (Mr Greeley) 3

Pether’s Moon, seen here picking up his Group 1 in the Coronation Cup at Epsom, has retired to stud at Yorton Manor.

Sire Dylan Thomas has had four career Group 1 winners – three of which have come in 2015!

Moviesta (A P Indy) Promising Run (Know Heights)

3 2

Harlan's Holiday Postulation (Dansili)

Shalaa (War Chant) Territories (Machiavellian) That Is The Spirit (Acatenango)

L

Ishiguru Amulet (Dr Fong) Liber (Vettori)

L L

It's Gino Forgino (Lead On Time)

L

Hawk Wing Bank Of Burden (Pivotal)

3L

Heliostatic Ella Diva (Equerry)

L

Hellvelyn La Rioja (Elusive Quality)

3

Hernando Alwilda (Alzao)

L

High Chaparral Beautiful Heroine (Kingmambo) Free Eagle (Danehill) Karaktar (King's Best) Kilimanjaro (Dalakhani) Mr Singh (Danehill) Western Hymn (Cape Cross)

3 1 33L L 3 33

Jeremy Baino Hope (Highest Honor) Kool Kompany (Indian Ridge) Success Days (Roi Gironde) Kallisto Anna Katharina (Desert Style) Si Luna (Generous) Kendargent Goken (Indian Rocket) Kheleyf Line Of Reason (Phone Trick) Majestic Queen (Danehill) Tennessee Wildcat (In The Wings)

1122 13 L

2 3 33 3 3 3 L 3 L

Holy Roman Emperor Amarillo (Royal Academy)

L

Hurricane Cat The Turning Point (Hussonet)

L

Hurricane Run Gabrial's King (Platini) Hurricane Red (Trempolino) Vent De Force (In The Wings) Wekeela (Grand Lodge)

L 3 3 3

Iffraaj Blhadawa (Soviet Star) Iffranesia (Anabaa) Magic Artist (Cape Cross) Peace Society (Sholokhov) Ribchester (Marju)

L L 3 L 2

Indesatchel Mattmu (Namid)

3

Indian Charlie Shaishee (Smart Strike)

Kouroun Metramo (Welkin)

3

Intense Focus Astaire (Dansili)

3

Kyllachy Kachy (Dubai Destination) 3 Kyllachy Queen (King Charlemagne) L Sole Power (Distant View) 12 Stepper Point (Compton Place) 2 Twilight Son (Bin Ajwaad) 1 Zapel (Dubai Destination) LL

Intikhab Circus Couture (Orpen) Clockwinder (Barathea) Invincible Spirit Ajaya (Hennessy) Arctic Gyr (Kris S) Cable Bay (Diktat) Extremis (In The Wings) Grendisar (Mark Of Esteem) Impassable (Green Tune) Local Time (Medicean) Mr Owen (Theatrical) Muthmir (Danehill) Pretend (Indian Ridge) Profitable (Indian Ridge) Rivellino (Pivotal)

3L L 2 L 23 L L 22 33L L 22 L L L

King's Best Bernay (Bering) Meleagros (Royal Academy) Ming Dynasty (Sadler's Wells)

LLL 3L 2L

Kodiac Adaay (Royal Applause) Azzeccagarbugli (Desert Style) Bear Cheek (Kyllachy) Besharah (Dixie Union) Coulsty (In The Wings) Dhahmaan (Big Bad Bob) Gifted Master (Shamardal) Kodi Bear (Mujtahid) Shaden (Namid) Whatdoiwantthatfor (Hernando)

22L LL 3 23 L L 3 23L 3 L L

Lawman La Berma (Vindication) Laviniad (Intidab) Marcel (Marju)

L L 1

Layman Gammarth (Indian Ridge)

3

Le Havre Diego Valor (Bahhare) L La Cressonniere (Galileo) L Noce (Dynaformer) L Queen Bee (Kyllachy) L Sainte Amarante (Cadeaux Genereux) L L

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By European Champion Sprinter and leading sire influence OASIS DREAM

NEW FOR 2016

Out of European Champion 2YO and five-time Group 1 winner ATTRACTION

art m s : lt o c g n o r t S performer

“

Timeform

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“Fountain of Youth was all speed which is not surprising considering how fast his parents were. His form over 5 furlongs was excellent. At 2 he won his maiden by 4 lengths and was beaten less than a length in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot while at 3 he beat older horses in the Sapphire Stakes-Gr.3 at the Curragh.” Aidan O’Brien

Rated 111 by Timeform at 3 years, higher than Oasis Dream’s most Cost successful sire son Showcasing Fee: £5,000 Oct 1st Live Foal Free Return

420,000gns as a yearling

Enquiries: Bearstone Stud, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 4HF, UK Tel: 01630 647197 Mobile: 07974 948755 Email: enquiries@bearstonestud.co.uk www.bearstonestud.co.uk Contact Tina Dawson: Tel: 01832 205116 Mobile: 07776 165854 e-mail: tina.dawson@tdbloodstock.com

stakes-winning sires Sea Front (Freedom Cry) Suedois (Singspiel) Transsylvania (Mull Of Kintyre) Le Vie Dei Colori Tullius (Kingmambo)

L 3L L 2L

Lemon Drop Kid Cannock Chase (Horse Chestnut)

L

Lope De Vega Blue De Vega (Montjeu) Consort (Unbridled's Song) Fort Del Oro (Redback) Hero Look (Daylami) Meteoric (Tiger Hill) Mojo Risin (Galileo) Ride Like The Wind (Kafwain)

3 L L 3 L L 3

Lord Of England Alberto Hawaii (Highland Chieftain) Isfahan (Polar Falcon) Olorda (Desert King) Lord Shanakill My Dream Boat (Choisir) Lucky Story Lucky Kristale (Pivotal) Makfi Cornwallville (Cadeaux Genereux) Maimara (Hernando) Make Believe (Suave Dancer) Noor Al Hawa (Street Cry) Mamool Early Morning (Danzig Connection) Manduro Fractional (Royal Academy) Ribbons (Marju) Techno Queen (Priolo) True Story (Darshaan) Ultra (Nashwan) Vazirabad (Linamix) Marju Miss Marjurie (Groom Dancer) Ramone (Night Shift) Martaline Night Run (Ashkalani) Martino Alonso Goldstream (Darshaan) Mastercraftsman Amazing Maria (Tale Of The Cat) Dessertoflife (Spectrum) Icecapada (Trempolino) Iveagh Gardens (War Chant) Mambomiss (Kingmambo) Master Apprentice (Hawk Wing) Mutatis Mutandis (Darshaan) Nakuti (Five Star Day) Off Limits (Efisio) Restorer (Rainbow Quest) Vague Nouvelle (Mr Greeley) Victoria Regina (Singspiel)

L 3 3 3L L L 3L 11 L 3 3 2 LL L 1 123 3L 3 L 2L 112 3 LL 3 L 3 L 3L L L L 3

Medaglia d'Oro Mexican Gold (Gone West)

3

Medicean Nordico (Diktat) Panama Hat (Rock Of Gibraltar) Yakaba (Anabaa)

3 3L 3L

Monsieur Bond Alfred Hutchinson (Wolfhound) Move In Time (Machiavellian)

L 3

Monsun Arab Spring (Darshaan) Bathyrhon (Be My Guest) Manatee (Galileo) Sarrasin (High Chaparral) Shimrano (Daylami) Vadamos (Peintre Celebre)

3 2 2 L 2L 2

Montjeu Berling (Danehill) Hans Holbein (Shirley Heights) Walzertakt (Kingmambo)

3 3 2

Montmartre Bello Matteo (Sendawar)

33

More Than Ready Sonnerie (Danzig) Motivator Felician (Inchinor) Pallasator (Ezzoud) Sky Hunter (Silver Hawk) The Twisler (Polish Precedent) Treve (Anabaa)

L 3 2 2 L 112

Mount Nelson Holy Moly (Lomitas) Reine Magique (Half A Year) Weltmacht (Sternkoenig) Muhtathir Little Nightingale (Peintre Celebre) Mille Et Mille (Monsun) Zack Hall (Dancing Brave) Mujadil Kingsgate Native (Indian Ridge)

L L L 3 1L L L

Mujahid Brex Drago (Barathea) Cleo Fan (Best Of The Bests)

LL 1

Nayef Forgotten Rules (Danehill) Mustajeeb (Elusive Quality) Scalambra (Hernando) Snow Sky (Dansili) Sparkling Beam (Nureyev)

3 2 L 22 L

New Approach Beautiful Romance (Cape Cross) Connecticut (Slip Anchor) Elliptique (Kendor) Glamorous Approach (R Of Gibraltar) Herald The Dawn (Phone Trick) Potemkin (Big Shuffle) Tha'ir (Green Desert) Waldnah (Mark Of Esteem)

L 2L 3 L 2 3 LL L

Notnowcato Custom Cut (Danehill) Thanksfortellingme (Green Desert) Oasis Dream Cladocera (Pivotal) Ertijaal (Seeking The Gold) Free Port Lux (Monsun) Goldream (Machiavellian) Important Time (Muhtathir) Mirza (Primo Dominie) Moohaarib (Selkirk) Muarrab (Wolfhound) Muhaarar (Linamix) Naadirr (High Chaparral) Pearly Steph (Pivotal) Polybius (Selkirk)

23 L

22 L 2 113 L L L L 11113 L L L

One Cool Cat Catcall (Polish Precedent)

L

Oratorio Eshera (Dubai Destination) Pentagono (Skip Away)

L L

Orpen Growing Glory (Dr Fong) Testa O Croce (Cape Cross)

L L

Paco Boy Galileo Gold (Galileo) Lexington Times (Dubai Destination) Making Trouble (Dr Fong) Peacock (Rainbow Quest)

2 L L L

Pastoral Pursuits Catalina Bay (Marju) Rooke (Cape Cross)

L L

Peintre Celebre Silwana (Anabaa)

L

Phoenix Reach Elm Park (Dashing Blade)

L

Pivotal African Story (Gone West) Big Baz (Orpen) Dream Child (Seeking The Gold) Evita Peron (Ela-Mana-Mou) Koora (Darshaan) Maarek (Indian Rocket) Marsh Daisy (Lammtarra) Penmaen (Orpen) Queen's Jewel (Lode) Racing History (Lando) Sahrawi (High Chaparral) Solar Magic (Rainbow Quest) Via Pisa (Medicean) Poet's Voice Voice Of Love (Tale Of The Cat) Whitman (Sunday Silence)

1 L L L 3 L L L 13 3 L L L L L

Point Given Energia El Gigante (Pitu Da Guanabara) L Pounced Cassina De Pomm (Danehill Dancer) 3 L

Pour Moi Only Mine (Rock Of Gibraltar) Primo Valentino Clever Cookie (Ela-Mana-Mou)

L 3L

Purim Undrafted (French Deputy)

1

Rail Link Chain Of Daisies (Kris) Ephraim (Niniski) Trip To Rhodos (Mark Of Esteem)

L 3 L

Ramonti Dry Your Eyes (Benny The Dip) Uniram (Pursuit Of Love)

LL L

Raven's Pass Aquila Solitaria (Oasis Dream) Greg Pass (St Jovite) Kataniya (Darshaan) Malabar (Nashwan) Riflescope (Selkirk) Secret Number (Alleged)

L L 3L 3 L L

Refuse To Bend Falest (Sabrehill)

3L

Rip Van Winkle Princess Charm (Key Of Luck)

L

Rock Of Gibraltar Ajaxana (Lycius) Lateran Accord (Monsun) Prince Gibraltar (Pennekamp) Tony Curtis (Lomitas) Toungi (Sendawar)

LL L 1 L L

Rockport Harbor Over The Ocean (Mt Livermore) Roderic O'Connor Biz Heart (Tobougg) Great Page (Refuse To Bend) Royal Applause Sir Maximilian (Lujain) Yajamila (Red Ransom)

L 2 3L 3 L

Saddex Pas De Deux (Big Shuffle)

33

Sagamix Siljan's Saga (Saint Cyrien)

2

Sakhee's Secret Fine Blend (Efisio)

L

Samum North Mum (Desert King)

L

Scat Daddy Acapulco (End Sweep)

2

Sea The Stars All At Sea (Alzao) Astronereus (Surako) Cloth Of Stars (Kingmambo) Endless Time (Fantastic Light) French Dressing (Halling) Night Of Light (Sunday Silence)

LL L 3 L L L

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3 L 3 2L L L 3 L 23 3 2 2 L 2 3 L 3 L 1 L L L 3 L L L 3 3 L L L 2 L

Showcasing Maximum Aurelius (Deputy Minister) L Quiet Reflection (Haafhd) 3L Tasleet (Cadeaux Genereux) L Silvano Vercingetorix (National Assembly) 2 Silver Frost Royal Dolois (Linamix) Silverwave (River Mist) Silver Train Silver Ocean (Mt Livermore) Singspiel Solow (Highest Honor) Take Cover (Magic Ring) Sinndar Eye In The Sky (Linamix) Sir Percy Lady Tiana (Danehill Dancer) Newsletter (Anabaa) Persona Grata (Kaldoun) Wake Forest (Lomitas)

LL 3 3L 11111 L 3L 2 L L 3

Sixties Icon Epsom Icon (Bahamian Bounty) L

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Pleascach (Thunder Gulch) 113 Round Two (Kingmambo) L Sanus Per Aquam (Peintre Celebre) 3 Scottish (Zieten) L Vin Chaud (Night Shift) L Yaazy (Darshaan) L Tertullian Guiliani (Monsun) Kerosin (Monsun)

1L L

Thousand Words Top Notch Tonto (Moment Of Hope) Tiger Hill Lovelyn (Acatenango)

Home Of The Brave: one of two 2015 stakes winners for Starspangledbanner Siyouni Bourree (Lomitas) Ervedya (King's Best) Lady Sybil (Tirol) Trixia (Lahint)

3 1113 L 3L

Home Of The Brave (Beat Hollow)

3L

Verglas Glass Office (Pursuit Of Love) Let'sgoforit (Seattle Slew) Steps (Vettori)

2 3 3

War Chant Time Chant (Tale Of The Cat)

L

War Front Air Force Blue (Maria's Mon) Hit It A Bomb (Sadler's Wells) War Dispatch (Unbridled's Song)

111 L 3L

Wootton Bassett Almanzor (Maria's Mon)

L

Youmzain Sea Calisi (Surumu) Suits You (Oasis Dream)

2 L

Street Boss Bebhinn (Hennessy)

L

Smart Strike Green Sweet (Green Desert) Lady Of Kyushu (El Prado)

L L

Street Cry Urban Castle (In The Wings)

L

Soldier Hollow Nymeria (Silver Hawk) Shadow Sadness (Lando)

Sunday Break Frankyfourfingers (Kendor)

2

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L

3

Turtle Bowl Candide (Key Of Luck) Katie's Diamond (Anabaa)

Wiesenpfad Island Storm (Slip Anchor)

Slickly Mot De Passe (Desert Style)

Starspangledbanner Anthem Alexander (Night Shift)

3

L L

3

Solon Solojorie (Sky Lawyer) L Speightstown Hathal (Royal Academy) L Reynaldothewizard (Meadowlake) 3 L Tamarkuz (Lemon Drop Kid) 233 Tropics (Taj Alriyadh) L

Torrential Energia Davos (Maria's Mon)

3 3 L

L

Strategic Prince Saent (Highest Honor) Volatile (Souvenir Copy)

L L L

122

Whipper Kalsa (Desert King) Mayhem (Cozzene) Zipzip (Danehill Dancer)

Sternkoenig Alaskakonigin (Unfuwain)

Sleeping Indian Crazy Horse (Elmaamul)

Soldier Of Fortune Amie Noire (Acatenango) Bokan (Desert Prince) Fire Fighting (Anabaa)

L

Tagula Limato (Singspiel)

23

Tamayuz Blond Me (Docksider) Fadhayyil (Danehill Dancer) Tupi (Rakti)

L L LL

Teofilo Arod (Rahy) Fireglow (King's Best) First Victory (Dubai Destination) Flight Risk (Nordico) General Sherman (Machiavellian) Loritania (Irish River) Moi Meme (Warning) Parish Hall (Montjeu)

23 LL 3 3 L 3 L L

Zafeen Son Cesio (Dansili) Val D'hiver (Sadler's Wells) Zamindar Air Pilot (Dr Devious)

3L L 3

Zanzibari Baghadur (Stravinsky) Thank You Bye Bye (Desert King)

3L L

Zoffany Argentero (Pivotal) Foundation (Polish Precedent) Illuminate (Green Desert) Washington DC (Shinko Forest) Waterloo Bridge (Dr Fong)

L 2L 23 L 2

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stallion averages by fees

Euro stallion sales stats

In the tables below and on the next few pages, we’ve listed stallions by average (£), grouped into covering fee bands (converted into £). Also included is the 2013 covering fee, the number offered, the number sold, percentage sold, average price, percentage sold over fee, as well as top colt and top filly (stallions included with more than four yearlings sold) Data from www.theracehorse.com Stallions standing at £4,999 or below (by average, all figures converted to £) Stallion

2013 fee

2015 fee

Offered

Sold

%

Average

% over fee

Top colt

Top filly

Showcasing 4,500 15,000 34 31 91 50,014 97 346,500 89,250 Youmzain 2,507 2,340 8 7 88 43,689 71 152,250 56,328 Le Havre 4,179 15,600 14 12 86 40,342 83 53,042 77,354 Wootton Bassett 4,179 3,120 10 8 80 38,364 88 58,624 77,451 Casamento 4,179 3,900 97 81 84 35,229 98 200,000 210,000 Tin Horse 3,343 3,120 12 9 75 30,555 100 50,400 30,941 Requinto 4,179 3,120 41 37 90 29,228 95 225,312 49,830 Zebedee 4,179 7,800 68 65 96 29,180 94 146,560 294,000 Famous Name 3,343 3,120 37 34 92 22,400 94 205,184 38,000 Dandy Man 3,343 5,070 61 53 87 21,233 92 85,000 94,500 Rajsaman 3,343 3,120 34 28 82 20,248 93 49,359 44,202 Elzaam 3,343 2,730 57 47 82 19,856 83 126,000 36,835 Sayif 3,000 3,000 13 12 92 19,344 92 52,500 58,624 Kallisto 3,343 3,120 5 5 100 18,982 100 23,450 Adlerflug 4,597 4,290 11 9 82 18,448 67 49,098 20,518 Lord Of England 3,761 4,290 20 16 80 18,402 88 42,502 29,312 Intikhab 4,597 4,680 24 20 83 18,311 95 55,000 31,500 Zanzibari 836 1,950 6 5 83 18,171 100 31,685 13,997 Fast Company 4,179 5,850 59 46 78 17,875 85 62,288 32,415 Elusive Pimpernel 780 780 12 9 75 17,536 97 87,936 24,915 Evasive 2,507 4,680 6 5 83 17,518 100 22,101 17,603 Tagula 3,343 3,120 35 32 91 17,374 97 90,000 23,574 Firebreak 3,500 3,500 6 5 83 17,124 80 35,000 3,675 Hurricane Cat 2,507 2,340 9 8 89 15,982 88 36,613 21,123 After Market 3,130 2,202 6 5 83 15,177 100 51,103 6,522 American Post 3,343 2,730 5 4 80 13,837 100 12,000 19,154 Approve 4,179 3,900 37 31 84 13,459 87 72,000 21,000 Sageburg 2,507 2,340 19 16 84 12,891 81 21,123 28,164 Thewayyouare 3,343 3,900 10 10 100 11,919 80 30,778 4,763 Piccolo 3,000 3,000 10 9 90 10,846 78 28,000 2,100 Intense Focus 4,597 5,460 41 37 90 10,713 81 40,304 36,640

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i n f o @ l a n w a d e s . c o m • w w w. l a n w a d e s . c o m • Te l : + 4 4 ( 0 ) 1 6 3 8 7 5 0 2 2 2 • F a x : + 4 4 ( 0 ) 1 6 3 8 7 5 1 1 8 6

LANWADES

and a Leading Sire of 2yo’s in Europe 2014 – 2015 by % winners to runners

• GROUP ONE sire with his first crop

and over $3 million in prize money

• Won 6 races at 2, 3, 4 and 5 years

with an unbeatable pedigree

• GROUP ONE winner,

(Kingmambo – Bound, by Nijinsky)

ARCHIPENKO

stallion averages by fees ...Stallions standing at £4,999 or below continued (by average, all figures converted to £) Stallion

2013 fee

2015 fee

Offered

Sold

%

Average

Majestic Missile 2,507 N/A 4 4 100 Tai Chi 2,925 2,730 7 7 100 Kamsin 4,179 3,120 17 12 71 Linngari 2,925 3,900 10 8 80 Scalo 2,925 2,730 8 5 63 Major Cadeaux 3,500 3,500 8 6 75 Air Chief Marshal 2,507 2,340 10 9 90 Vale of York 2,507 2,340 22 18 82 Arakan 2,925 3,120 13 10 77 Lord Shanakill 4,179 3,900 17 17 100 Literato 4,179 2,340 8 4 50 Naaqoos 3,761 1,950 18 13 72 Mawatheeq 4,000 n/a 8 5 63 Haatef 2,507 1,560 4 4 100 Captain Gerrard 3,000 3,500 13 9 69 It’s Gino 2,507 2,340 8 8 100 Vocalised Private n/a 7 6 86

% over fee

Top colt

Top filly

9,885 75 24,915 5,775 9,807 100 17,587 14,656 9,204 67 19,053 3,298 8,834 63 9,577 22,838 8,462 100 11,787 9,526 8,415 67 30,000 2,310 8,288 100 12,458 14,734 8,126 78 26,756 14,656 8,098 90 20,628 6,595 7,095 59 22,000 7,350 6,687 100 - 8,449 5,704 62 11,787 4,420 5,346 60 8,794 7,875 4,891 75 9,160 2,931 4,783 56 8,794 11,550 4,669 75 - 3,814 - 7,328 3,664

Stallions standing at £5,000 to £9,999 (by average, all figures converted to £) Stallion

2013 fee

2015 fee

Offered

Sold

%

Siyouni 5,851 15,600 36 30 83 Kodiac 6,269 19,500 93 85 91 Zoffany 6,269 9,750 67 62 93 Bated Breath 8,000 10,000 64 54 84 Soldier Hollow 5,015 11,700 30 22 73 Iffraaj 8,358 17,550 40 33 83 Champs Elysees 5,000 10,000 12 10 83 Born To Sea 8,358 7,800 69 58 84 Motivator 5,851 11,700 33 26 79 Kendargent 5,015 14,040 64 47 73 Helmet 7,055 7,800 65 53 82 Choisir 8,358 n/a 35 25 71 Rio de La Plata 5,851 4,290 24 13 54 Archipenko 6,000 10,000 20 14 70 Mayson 8,000 6,000 46 37 80 Bahamian Bounty 8,500 8,500 38 33 87 Sir Percy 7,000 7,000 36 27 75 Muhtathir 5,851 5,460 9 7 78 Harbour Watch 7,500 7,500 99 83 84 Manduro 8,358 5,460 18 17 94 Campanologist 5,850 5,850 24 18 75

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% over fee

Top colt

Top filly

84,624 100 336,000 225,312 64,274 100 378,000 147,000 59,401 94 252,000 178,500 48,079 85 241,500 70,410 46,951 100 146,560 117,248 46,632 97 136,500 99,750 46,575 90 168,000 14,734 44,736 93 234,496 183,066 42,023 92 98,574 315,000 40,104 94 190,107 176,025 40,056 - 262,500 109,920 36,513 84 157,500 84,492 36,172 92 176,025 29,468 35,814 79 115,500 24,182 33,742 76 150,497 54,600 32,850 67 136,500 56,700 31,907 74 109,920 178,500 31,806 86 44,202 55,253 30,965 90 115,500 95,264 29,601 94 103,138 51,569 29,003 - 147,000 33,709

The independent option

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LANWADES

210,000 gns

• Sire of 100 individual 2yo winners • Yearlings have made up to

(FIESOLANA, Matron Stakes)

• GROUP ONE sire

dual GROUP ONE winner; by a legendary sire

• Classic winning miler;

(Danehill – Last Second, by Alzao)

AUSSIE RULES

stallion averages by fees Stallions standing at £5,000 to £9,999 (by average, all figures converted to £ ) Stallion

2013 fee

2015 fee

Paco Boy 8,000 9,000 Footstepsinthesand 8,358 7,800 Myboycharlie 5,433 3,900 Aussie Rules 5,000 7,000 Dragon Pulse 5,015 4,680 Foxwedge 7,500 7,000 Clodovil 6,269 7,800 Sinndar 5,015 3,510 Sir Prancealot 5,015 4,680 Mount Nelson 6,000 6,000 Equiano 8,000 8,000 Authorized 7,000 7,800 Camacho 5,850 Royal Applause 9,000 N/A Arcano 5,015 3,900 Compton Place 6,500 5,500 Nayef (USA) 9,000 5,000 Big Bad Bob 5,015 7,020 Roderic O’Connor 8,358 5,850 Whipper 6,686 3,900 Soldier Of Fortune 8,358 4,680 Sakhee’s Secret 5,500 3,900 Monsieur Bond 5,000 5,000 Pastoral Pursuits 5,500 4,000 Hurricane Run 7,522 11,700 Delegator 5,000 4,000 Areion 6,686 6,240 Sixties Icon 8,500 6,000 Dick Turpin 5,000 4,000 Stormy River 6,269 2,730 Yeats 6,686 4,680 Lilbourne Lad 6,269 5,850 Kheleyf (USA) 6,000 3,000 Falco (USA) 6,269 1,950 Silver Frost 5,015 3,510 Desert Prince 5,433 3,900 Bushranger 6,269 3,900

Offered 42 25 62 5 70 45 51 7 90 19 56 5 12 44 58 27 8 53 27 7 12 11 11 17 4 41 22 13 10 7 5 42 40 5 15 4 42

Sold 35 22 51 5 57 37 45 7 72 15 44 4 9 30 53 25 7 44 23 4 10 8 6 14 4 26 9 12 8 6 4 32 30 5 12 4 38

% 83 88 82 100 81 82 88 100 80 79 79 80 75 68 91 93 88 83 85 57 83 73 55 82 100 63 41 92 80 86 80 76 75 100 80 100 90

Average

% over fee

Top colt

Top filly

28,535 69 100,000 280,000 28,103 73 162,750 22,101 28,046 90 223,150 70,410 27,656 100 60,900 26,747 95 105,000 80,000 25,905 81 63,000 94,500 24,447 82 185,000 72,000 23,505 100 49,098 25,785 23,491 93 94,500 105,000 23,244 73 84,000 25,648 22,443 70 99,750 136,500 21,735 25 6,300 78,750 21,569 70,000 25,200 20,172 70 65,952 77,000 19,274 85 89,250 65,952 18,721 68 75,000 32,000 18,398 71 57,750 3,684 17,933 91 57,750 30,941 17,211 74 54,960 47,632 16,827 75 26,052 19,154 16,394 70 51,569 21,251 16,120 63 51,296 22,717 14,925 50 52,500 21,000 14,798 64 52,000 35,000 13,740 50 33,709 13,190 13,712 65 57,750 26,250 13,651 89 31,510 17,587 13,340 67 28,350 15,000 11,488 63 30,000 26,000 11,124 83 19,154 21,123 10,938 75 20,280 10,259 10,715 59 29,400 14,656 10,678 70 28,350 25,200 9,865 80 18,418 8,840 9,149 75 15,490 15,471 7,694 100 7,328 8,794 6,693 32 31,685 10,992

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First European crop yearlings 2016

4 other STAKES winners in 2015

• Sire of 3 STAKES winning 2yos and

and Dubai World Cup winner ANIMAL KINGDOM

• Sire of Kentucky Derby

3 x GROUP ONE’s on Turf & Dirt, at 6 ½ to 8 ½ f

• Winner of 9 races, including

Leading Sire in USA

• Eclipse Turf CHAMPION,

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stallion averages by fees Lawman: the Ballylinch Stud-based sire sold the top-priced filly in this bracket of stallions who covered at a fee between £10,000 - £19,000 in 2013

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2013 fee

2015 fee

Offered

Sold

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Dutch Art 18,000 40,000 66 58 88 Dark Angel 10,030 21,450 140 123 88 Lope De Vega 10,448 31,200 58 47 81 Sepoy 15,000 15,000 54 47 87 Cacique 12,000 12,500 12 11 92 Holy Roman Emperor 16,716 15,600 75 55 73 Excelebration 18,806 13,650 65 51 78 Lawman 16,716 19,500 90 76 84 Canford Cliffs 14,627 9,750 54 50 93 Dream Ahead 14,627 11,700 66 53 80 Rock Of Gibraltar 14,627 9,750 34 29 85 Pour Moi 14,627 9,750 25 20 80 Kyllachy 12,500 15,000 65 54 83 Mastercraftsman 10,448 31,200 90 69 77 Poet’s Voice 12,000 12,000 52 41 79 So You Think 14,627 9,750 34 29 85 Medicean 10,000 8,000 34 28 82 Power 10,448 6,240 60 50 83 Tamayuz 12,537 11,700 30 25 83 Rip Van Winkle 14,627 19,500 72 58 81 Elusive City 10,448 7,800 28 23 82

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% over fee

Top colt

Top filly

100,652 95 367,500 316,845 95,963 98 399,000 866,250 91,315 96 420,000 315,000 84,019 96 315,000 262,500 74,151 91 78,750 189,000 61,296 75 225,312 263,808 60,363 82 498,750 105,000 57,948 76 136,500 472,500 57,077 88 252,000 210,000 52,738 75 263,808 212,512 49,090 76 262,500 87,936 44,397 70 157,500 54,960 44,040 81 210,000 105,000 42,433 83 215,250 315,000 41,528 83 140,000 210,000 39,403 76 105,000 77,451 38,850 75 110,250 120,750 37,466 82 168,000 189,000 34,828 92 73,280 146,560 31,948 78 157,500 59,849 30,825 70 262,500 70,410

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stallion averages by fees Raven’s Pass enjoyed a very strong yearling sale season.

Progeny by the son of Elusive Quality sold at an average price just over £185,000, produced off a fee of €30,000 in 2013.

His price dropped to €20,000 for 2015 and he will be available at €15,000 through 2016

Stallions standing at £20,000 and above (by average, all figures converted to £) Stallion

2013 fee

Dubawi Frankel Galileo Dansili Oasis Dream Shamardal Invincible Spirit Raven’s Pass Sea The Stars New Approach Exceed And Excel Nathaniel Fastnet Rock Teofilo High Chaparral Pivotal Cape Cross Acclamation Dalakhani Makfi Henrythenavigator Samum

75,000 125,000 125,000 125,000 Private Private 80,000 100,000 80,000 75,000 41,790 54,600 54,327 78,000 25,074 15,600 71,043 97,500 50,000 80,000 35,000 31,200 20,000 20,000 Private Private 29,253 39,000 20,895 23,400 45,000 45,000 29,253 15,600 29,253 27,300 20,895 13,260 25,000 13,650 25,074 11,700 20,895 3,510

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Sold 13 19 32 4 26 31 55 26 23 20 48 52 46 37 38 34 41 68 7 34 45 8

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% over fee

Top colt

Top filly

81 73 82 33 90 84 90 90 70 74 87 78 74 74 84 81 89 88 70 81 85 67

787,782 100 1,830,660 2,205,000 462,529 95 787,500 1,245,760 442,237 - 1,312,500 1,365,000 315,000 100 273,000 493,500 273,367 81 1,155,000 472,500 226,577 94 577,500 656,250 225,326 84 985,740 735,000 185,371 88 441,000 1,465,600 175,352 74 682,500 551,250 159,679 75 420,000 351,744 123,090 85 630,000 346,500 111,985 88 708,750 630,000 108,265 - 446,250 652,189 89,404 81 190,528 273,000 89,193 89 315,000 199,500 84,182 65 250,000 346,500 81,333 76 446,250 441,000 64,746 78 231,000 210,000 57,367 86 110,250 73,500 40,204 62 63,369 115,500 17,625 13 91,600 30,000 14,687 38 29,312 26,381

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yearling sale review

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Jocelyn de Moubray analyses the 2015 yearling sale trends and finds that currency movements had a marked effect at the top of the market Photos courtesy of Tattersalls and DBS

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he bloodstock market rarely stays in one place and the announcement of stallion fees for 2016 coming at the end of the yearling cycle confirmed the current upward trend across

Europe.

In real terms at both Tattersalls October 1 and 2, as well as at Arqana’s August and October sales combined, the aggregate and average price reached a new peak. It surpassed the previous high set in 2007 in Newmarket and 2008 in Deauville, the August sale in 2008 coming, of course, before the fall of Lehman brothers.

The demand at the very top of the European yearling market has never been stronger.

Eight years ago the Al Thani family was only just beginning to show an interest in bloodstock and the top of the market was more or less the Maktoum family and the Coolmore partnership, who each focused on their own share of what was on offer.

Both the Maktoum family and Coolmore have maintained their stake in the market and they have been joined by the Al Thani family, and over the last few seasons by the Mayfair Speculators partnership from South Africa headed by Markus Jooste, the China Horse Club and Dubawi’s owner Mohammed Obaida.

The new major buyers bought around 300 yearlings in England, Ireland and France spending more than €100 million and buying at an average price of nearly €400,000.

The rest of the market was very different as the other 2,500 yearlings sold at the major European yearling sales averaged only €80,000, or five times less.

Currency movements have always had

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At the top of the market, the usual protagonists were busy – John Ferguson (top, left) for Sheikh Mohammed, and below, the Coolmore team, but buyers such as Markus Jooste (above) of Mayfair Speculators added their purchasing power to the mix

a large influence on bloodstock sales. The major buyers are very international and few, if any, are focused on the local currency at any particular sale.

In recent years the two major trends have been the strength of the dollar against both sterling and the euro, as well as the relative strength of sterling against the euro.

Since the beginning of the 2014 sale season the US dollar has gained eight per cent against sterling and 21 per cent against the euro, while over the same period sterling has gained 12 per cent against the euro.

In dollar terms, the average price fell at every major European sale, down eight per cent at Tattersalls Book 1 and 2 combined, a similar amount at Arqana’s August and October sales combined, and down 16 per cent at Goffs Orby.

There has to be a strong possibility that some, if not all, of the major buyers at these sales were watching the dollar price when

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The chosen few yearlings sold exceptionally well, but vendors had to be able to adjust expectations quickly if their offerings didn’t make it onto the right lists

deciding whether or not to have another bid.

There were few US buyers of yearlings, Richard Santulli and Jon Kelly did buy at Tattersalls, but if overall the prices were reasonable in dollar terms, the very top of the market was strong in any currency and people don’t come across the Atlantic to buy ordinary horses.

At every sale domestic buyers found it difficult to compete at the top of the market.

There were some who managed to buy – Moyglare Stud, Cheveley Park Stud, Lordship Stud, Craig Bennet, Steve Parkin among others in Newmarket – but many who were looking to buy were consistently outbid.

Tattersalls October 1 and 2 did not feel like a boom market, the combined average price was slightly down on 2014, because the demand was strong but very selective.

The chosen few yearlings sold exceptionally well, but vendors had to be able to adjust expectations quickly if their offerings didn’t make it onto the right lists. The best sale in Britain by comparison with 2014 was the Doncaster Premier Sale where the average price was up by 16 per cent.

Both Shadwell and Darley spent more at Doncaster than they had in 2014 and with the Al Thani family, and the Hong Kong Jockey Club also active, the market was up.

Major European sale averages 2007 - 2015: comparison with real and actual prices Tattersalls Foal Sale 2007 £

In 2014 £

In real $

2013 £

2013 $

2014 £

2014 $

38,000

46,000

90,000

46,000

80,000

43,000

66,000

Difference between 2007 & 2014 in real $ -27%

Tattersalls October Book 1 and 2 2007 £

In 2014 £

In 2014’s $

2014 £

2014 $

2015 £

2015 $

95,000

120,000

240,000

130,000

210,000

125,000

192,000

2015 $

Diff 2007 - 2015 in real $ Diff 2007 & 2015 in £ -20%

4.20%

BBAG September 2007 €

In 2014 €

In real $

2014 €

2014 $

2015 €

43,000

49,000

70,000

49,000

60,000

43,500

48,000

Diff 2007 - 2015 in real $ Diff 2007 & 2015 in € -31%

-11%

Arqana August and October 2007 €

In 2014 €

In real $

2014 €

2014 $

2015 €

2015 $

Diff 2007 - 2015 in real $ Diff 2007 & 2015 in €

63,000

71,000

100,000

73,000

95,000

78,000

87,000

-13% 10%

2015 $

Diff 2007 - 2015 in real $ Diff 2007 & 2015 in £

DBS Premier and St Leger 2007 £

In 2014 £

In real $

2014 £

2014 $

2015 £

37,000

45,000

90,000

37,000

60,000

43,000

2007 €

In 2014 €

In real $

2014 €

2014 $

2015 €

2015 $

11,000

125,000

180,000

110,000

140,000

105,000

118,000 -34%

67,000 -26%

-4.40%

Goffs Orby Diff 2007 - 2015 in real $

Diff 2007 & 2015 in € -16%

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yearling sale review The most expensive yearling sold in the world this year: the filly by Dubawi and out of Loveisallyouneed fetched 2.1 million guineas at Tattersalls Book 1

In Britain the domestic market is focused on likely two-year-olds types, and above all on horses who will have a resale value if they prove, quickly, to be above average.

The weakness of the euro does not make it easy for Goffs to maintain the quality of its Orby catalogue, many domestic Irish vendors prefer to sell in England at either Doncaster or Tattersalls.

The average price dipped slightly at the Orby Sale, despite the presence of several buyers who didn’t go elsewhere. The problem would appear to be more one of supply than demand.

There is not the same effect in France as the premiums and the Haras des Monceaux keep most of the best French-bred commercial yearlings at home.

Haras des Monceaux has come to dominate the Arqana August Sale. In 2015 the Henri Bozo-run stud sold 27 yearlings in

August for more than €12 million, nearly a third of the total aggregate.

In comparison, at October Book 1, Newsells Park Stud had a fantastic sale making around 7.5 million guineas from 16 yearlings, but this Other major yearling purchasers 2015(€) amounted to less than 10 per cent of the total.

Another feature of the Arqana August

Nos Agg Sale in 2015 was the return in force of the China Horse Club 20 12.4m Maktoum family.

MV Magnier 19 15.8m Shadwell purchased a few after not Al Shaqab 57 17m participating in 2014, while Darley’s spending Shadwell 82 19.8m was up by almost €5 million to nearly €7 million making it the leading buyer some Darley 69 27m €4.5 million ahead of Bertrand Le Metayer, M Obaida 18 5.3m buying on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed Al Mayfair Speculators 19 9.2m Thani.

Combined 284 110m Although the overall trend remains Average 390,000 upwards, the yearling market is always hard to predict. The consensus among vendors at All other buyers 2,479 196 m the beginning of the year was that October Average 80,000 Book 1 would be the best sale because the

Shadwell and Darley yearling buying trends 2014 and 2015 (€)

Tatts Oct Bk1 + 2 Deauville August Goffs Orby DBS Premier

Shadwell 14 Shadwell 14 Shadwell 15 Shadwell 15 Darley 14 Darley 14 Darley 15 Darley 15 No Agg No Agg No Agg No Agg 49 0 8 17

12.3m 0 3.4m 1.8m

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54 3 4 21 82

14.2m 1.48m 900,000 3.2m

52 12 9 2

24.4m 2.1m 1.3m 240,000

42 11 11 5

16.9m 6.9m 1.75m 1.37m

19.8m 75 28m 69 27m

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In Britain the domestic market is focused on likely two-year-olds types and above all on horses who will have a resale value

leading buyers would be there in person.

As is so often the case the consensus turned out to be half right. The top of the market was fantastic in Newmarket, but for different reasons neither Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum nor Sheikh Johann Al Thani attended the sale.

Few of those outside the concerns themselves would have predicted the spending of either China Horse Club or the Mayfair Speculators in Newmarket.

With the cost of using the right commercial stallions, and of buying mares with the potential to produce select sales yearlings rising sharply, commercial breeding is starting to look like as risky a business plan as buying expensive foals to resell.

It is possible to make spectacular returns pin-hooking expensive foals, and there were several examples where foals were resold for

European Sale company annual yearling returns: 2007 Sale Tattersalls 1 & 2 BBAG Sept Arqana A + O Goffs Million Doncaster St Leger

No sold 983 171 777 487 424

Aggregate ($, millions) 236 12 77 87 38

% of total 52 2 17 19 8

Combined 2,842 452 Av. price: $160,000 European Sale company annual yearling returns: 2015 Sale

No sold

Tattersalls 1 & 2 BBAG Sept Arqana A + O Goffs Orby Doncaster Premier

1,053 148 781 371 410

Aggregate ($, millions) 201 $7 68 38 27

% of total 59 2 20 11 8

Combined 2,763 342 Av. price: $124,000

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Commercial breeding remains a capital intensive and high-risk business. Things change all the time and any trend in the business can quickly reverse

300 or 400 per cent more than they had cost a year earlier, but overall more than 50 per cent were either listed as not sold or sold at a loss.

Commercial breeding remains a capital intensive and high-risk business. Things change all the time and any trend in the business can quickly reverse.

If there is a stabiliser it comes from the stallion market. High prices at yearling and breeding stock sales lead to high stud fees, and much of this money will be fed back into the system.

Most of the leading buyers have investments in stallions, and we can safely assume, for instance, that both China Horse Club and the Mayfair Speculators will be hoping to secure a larger share of this in the medium term.

Frankel: all will be revealed next season

Leading 2015 stallions by yearling average (gns) Sire Dubawi Frankel Galileo Street Cry Dansili Oasis Dream Invincible Spirit Shamardal Redoute's Choice Raven's Pass Sea The Stars New Approach Exceed And Excel Lonhro Nathaniel Kitten's Joy Dutch Art Dark Angel Fastnet Rock High Chaparral

Nos Sold

Data from Weatherbys Aggregate

Dubawi was easily the most popular sire at the yearling sales this autumn – the average price given for his yearlings is 300,000gns higher than the next stallion in this list.

Runner-up to him is Frankel – an astonishing result for a first-season stallion, especially considering the mixed reviews people gave his sale results. His top price came at the Goffs Orby Sale – €1.7 million given for the colt out of Alexander Goldrun, bought by the China Horse Club.

The first crop of northern hemisphere-produced yearlings by the reverse shuttle sire Redoute’s Choice was well-received, and new sire Nathaniel got plenty of positive shouts too.

He had four fetch over 500,000gns and his top-priced yearling was his colt out of Danehill Dreamer, who cost MV Magnier 675,000gns.

Leading 2015 stallions by number of yearlings sold (gns) Sire Dark Angel Harbour Watch Kodiac Casamento Lawman Sir Prancealot Mastercraftsman Acclamation Zebedee Myboycharlie Zoffany Dutch Art Born To Sea Dragon Pulse Holy Roman Emperor Rip Van Winkle

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Average

13 9,929,527 763,809 19 8,659,847 455,781 31 13,587,568 438,308 4 1,613,000 403,250 4 1,200,000 300,000 26 6,867,435 264,132 55 12,213,119 222,056 31 6,863,152 221,392 24 5,005,469 208,561 26 4,675,246 179,817 23 3,870,826 168,296 20 3,132,670 156,633 48 5,713,678 119,034 6 683,083 113,847 52 5,632,961 108,326 6 619,403 103,233 58 5,686,907 98,050 126 11,558,549 91,734 42 3,823,232 91,029 37 3,297,379 89,118

Nos Sold 126 86 85 81 75 73 71 69 65 65 63 58 58 58 57 57

Data from Weatherbys

Aggregate

Average

825,000 91,734 110,000 29,830 360,000 62,060 200,000 33,925 450,000 57,138 100,000 22,836 300,000 40,821 221,483 61,352 280,000 28,241 219,489 25,191 240,000 57,810 350,000 98,050 236,249 43,876 100,000 25,925 265,780 59,634 150,000 31,308

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ArCtIC tACK Stud Newbawn, Foulksmills, Co. Wexford Contact: Eoin Banville & Peter Nolan P: +353 (0)51 565625 M: (Eoin): +353 (0)86 8558907 M: (Peter): +353 (0)86 1569089 E: arctictackstud@hotmail.com W: www.arctictackstud.com STALLIONS: AIZAVOSKI (IRE) ARCADIO (GER) • JET AWAY (GB) LE FOU (IRE)

BALLyhAne Stud Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow Contact: Joe Foley P: +353 (0)59 9722068 E: joe@ballyhane.com W: www.ballyhane.com STALLIONS: ARAKAN (USA) BATTLE OF MARENGO (IRE) DANDY MAN (IRE) • ELZAAM (AUS) FROZEN POWER (IRE) • RED JAZZ (USA)

BALLyLInCh Stud Thomastown Stud, Co. Kilkenny Contact: John O’Connor P: +353(0)56 7724217 E: joc@ballylinchstud.ie W: www.ballylinchstud.ie STALLIONS: BEAT HOLLOw (GB) DREAM AHEAD (USA) INTENSE FOCUS (USA) LAWMAN (FR) • LOPE DE VEGA (IRE)

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BrIdge houSe Stud Compas Stallions, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath Contact: Micheál Orlandi M: + 353 (0)83 809 2299 (ROI) OR + 44 (0)7535 263388 (UK) E: info@compasstallions.com W: www.compasstallions.com STALLIONS: CAPPELLA SANSEVERO (GB)

BurgAge Stud Address: Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow Contact: Victor Connolly P: +353 (0)86 2681899 E: vconnolly@eircom.net STALLIONS: SHANTOU (USA)

CAStLehyde Stud Fermoy, Co. Cork Contact: Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon & Cathal Murphy P: +353 (0)25 31966 E: info@castlehyde.com W: www.coolmore.com STALLIONS: ALFRED NOBEL (IRE) DYLAN THOMAS (IRE) • KINGSTON HILL (GB) FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND (GB) MOST IMPROVED (GB) REQUINTO (IRE) • SCORPION (IRE) STARSPANGLEDBANNER (AUS) WESTERNER (GB) • IVAwOOD (IRE) YEATS (IRE) • ZOFFANY (IRE) KINGSTON HILL (GB)

CooLAgoWn Stud Coolagown, Fermoy, Co. Cork Contact: David Stack P: +353 (0)25 36642 E: info@coolagown.ie W: www.coolagown.ie STALLIONS: CARLOTAMIX (FR) FROZEN FIRE (GER) • SHANTARAM (GB)

CooLMore Stud Fethard, Co. Tipperary Contact: Christy Grassick P: +353 (0)52 6131298 E: info@coolmore.ie W: www.coolmore.com STALLIONS: AUSTRALIA (GB) CAMELOT (GB) • POUR MOI (IRE) CANFORD CLIFFS (IRE) EXCELEBRATION (IRE) FASTNET ROCK (AUS) • GALILEO (IRE) HENRYTHENAVIGATOR (USA) HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) MASTERCRAFTSMAN (IRE) NO NAY NEVER (USA) • GLENEAGLES (IRE) POWER (GB) • RIP VAN WINKLE (IRE) ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (IRE) RULER OF THE WORLD (IRE) SO YOU THINK (NZ) • WAR COMMAND (USA)

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gILLtoWn Stud Kilcullen, Co. Kildare Contact: Julie White & Lynne Dempsey P: +353 (0) 45 481216 E: lynne.dempsey@agakhanstuds.com E: Julie.white@agakhanstuds.com W: www.agakhanstuds.com STALLIONS: BORN TO SEA (IRE) SEA THE STARS (IRE)

gLenvIeW Stud Castlelyons, Co. Cork Contact: Paul Cashman P: +353 (0)25 36701 E: glenstud@iol.ie W: www.rathbarrystud.com STALLIONS: ROBIN DES CHAMPS (FR) PRESENTING (GB) • MALINAS (GER) SHIROCCO (GER) • SHOLOKHOV (IRE)

grAnge Stud Fermoy, Co. Cork Contact: David Magnier & Albert Sherwood P: +353 (0)25 33006 E: info@grangestud.com W: www.coolmore.com STALLIONS: FAME AND GLORY (GB) GETAWAY (GER) • MILAN (IRE) LEADING LIGHT (IRE)

IrISh nAtIonAL Stud Tully, Co. Kildare Contact: John Osborne, Gary Swift, Sinéad Hyland or Helen Boyce P: +353 (0)45 521251 E: stud@irishnationalstud.ie W: www.irishnationalstud.ie STALLIONS: BIG BAD BOB (IRE) DRAGON PULSE (IRE) ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL (IRE) FAMOUS NAME (GB) • PALAVICINI (USA) GALE FORCE TEN (GB) INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (IRE) WORTHADD (IRE) • FREE EAGLE (IRE)

KILdAngAn Stud Monasterevin, Co. Kildare Contact: Gerry Duffy, Eamon Moloney or Anthony O’Donnell P: +353 (0)45 527600 E: gduffy@darleyireland.com W: www.darleystallions.com STALLIONS: CAPE CROSS (IRE) DAwN APPROACH (IRE) EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) RAVEN’S PASS (USA) • FRENCH NAVY (GB) SHAMARDAL (USA) • FULBRIGHT (GB) SLADE POwER (IRE) TEOFILO (IRE) • EPAULETTE (AUS) NIGHT OF THUNDER (IRE) HALLOWED CROWN (AUS) SHOOTING TO WIN (AUS)

KnoCKhouSe Stud Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny Contact: Sean and Janet Kinsella P: +353 (0)51 885170/885363 M: +353 (0)85 7852067 E: seankhstud@eircom.net W: www.knockhousestud.com STALLIONS: NOTNOwCATO (GB) PRINCE FLORI (GER) • LIBERTARIAN (GB) TOUCH OF LAND (FR)

MorrIStoWn LAttIn Stud Naas, Co. Kildare Contact: Gay, David or Guy O’Callaghan P: +353 (0)45 897314 E: yeomanstownstud@eircom.net W: www.yeomanstown.com STALLIONS: APPROVE (IRE) CAMACHO (GB) • DARK ANGEL (IRE) GUTAIFAN (IRE)

rAthASKer Stud Kilcullen Road, Naas, Co. Kildare Contact: Maurice or Madeline Burns P: +353(0)862500687 (Maurice) P: +353(0)863774430 (Madeline) E: info@rathaskerstud.ie & madeline@rathaskerstud.ie W: www.rathaskerstud.com STALLIONS: CLODOVIL (IRE) BUNGLE INTHEJUNGLE (GB) ES QUE LOVE (IRE)

rAthBArry Stud Fermoy, Co. Cork Contact: Catherine Cashman P: +353 (0) 25 36362 E: rathbarr@iol.ie w: rathbarrystud.com STALLIONS: ACCLAMATION (GB) LILBOURNE LAD (IRE) • XTENSION (IRE) MOOHAAJIM (IRE) • TAGULA (IRE)

roSSenArrA Stud Goodwinsgardens, Kells, Co. Kilkenny Contact: John McEnery P: +353 (0)57 7728319 M: +353 (0)86 2123779 E: john@rossenarrastud.com W: rossenarrastud.com STALLIONS: wINDSOR KNOT (IRE)

SunnyhILL Stud Kilcullen, Co. Kildare Contact: Michael Hickey P: +353 (0)45 481201 E: sunnyhillstud@eircom.net W: www.sunnyhillstud.com STALLIONS: DOYEN (IRE) LUCKY SPEED (IRE)

tALLy-ho Stud Mullingar, Co. Westmeath Contact: Tony, Roger or Henry O’Callaghan P: +353 (0) 44 9348450 E: info@tallyhostud.com W: www.tallyhostud.com STALLIONS: BALTIC KING (GB) KODIAC (GB) • MORPHEUS (GB) SIR PRANCEALOT (IRE) SOCIETY ROCK (IRE) ZEBEDEE (GB) • G FORCE (IRE)

tArA Stud Tara, County Meath Contact: Derek Iceton P: +353 (0) 46 9025203 M: +353 (0)87 2323566 E: derekiceton@tarastud.com W: www.tarastud.ie STALLIONS: ALHEBAYEB (IRE) ALJAMAAHEER (IRE)

the BeeCheS Stud Lismore, Co. Waterford Contact: Robert & Bobby McCarthy P: +353 (0)58 56254 W: www.coolmore.com STALLIONS: ASK (GB) MAHLER (GB) • OCOVANGO (GB) FLEMENSFIRTH (USA) IMPERIAL MONARCH (IRE) SANS FRONTIERES (IRE)

BEARSTONE STUD Choose a C:C Certified Stallion What is a C:C? Fast, Speedy, Sprint Type Best distance 5f - 1mile ~ www.equinome.com

FIREBREAK

FEE: £4,500 Oct 1st LFFR

Group 1 Millionaire Miler - Group 1 Sire

In 2015 the sire of You’re Fired (3 wins and Listed placed), Fire Ship (Gr.3 and twice Listed placed), Ashpan Sam (winner of the big sprint handicap at Epsom on Derby Day) etc.

Proven and versatile sire of Gr.1 juveniles, Group winning 3yo sprinters and Group winning older milers Since his first runners in 2009, he has produced a higher ratio of Group winners to runners than Dutch Art, Iffraaj, Equiano, Royal Applause and Kyllachy.

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH

FEE: £5,000 Oct 1st LFFR

NEW FOR 2016 Group Winning Sprinter

Cost 420,000gns as a yearling

Group winning sprinter by Champion sprinter and leading sire influence OASIS DREAM Out of Champion 2yo and Classic winner ATTRACTION Rated 111 by Timeform at 3 years, higher than Oasis Dream’s most successful sire son Showcasing “Fountain of Youth was all speed which is not surprising considering how fast his parents were. His form over 5 furlongs was excellent.” Aidan O’Brien

MAJOR CADEAUX

FEE: £3,500 Oct 1st LFFR

Top class sprinter/miler and multiple Group winner

By the oustanding stallion and sire of sires Cadeaux Genereux His first two crops, in 2011 and 2012, have produced 57% winners to runners - superior to Medicean, Mount Nelson, Paco Boy, New Approach and Equiano. His third crop includes promising Group placed juvenile Mr Wizard.

Sire of multiple winners Latenightrequest (6 wins SP), Cadmium (5 wins), Divine Law (4 wins), Winning Moment (4 wins), Bishop’s Leap (3 wins in 2015), Margrets Gift (3 wins), Mythmaker (3 wins), Regiment (3 wins), Savannah Beau (3 wins), Scarlet Emperor (3 wins).

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yearling averages

Stallion yearling averages 2015 Includes all stallions with three or more yearlings sold in Britain or Ireland to October 25, 2015 Figures do not include vendor buy-backs Figures supplied by Weatherbys (gns) Sire Name

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Arctic Cosmos Acclamation Adlerflug Air Chief Marshal Alfred Nobel American Post Appel Au Maitre Approve Aqlaam Arakan Arcadio Arcano Archipenko Areion Art Connoisseur Aussie Rules Authorized Azamour Bahamian Bounty Bated Breath Beat Hollow Bertolini Big Bad Bob Binary File Black Sam Bellamy Born To Sea Bushranger Byron Cacique Camacho Campanologist Canford Cliffs Cape Blanco Cape Cross Captain Gerrard Casamento Center Divider Champs Elysees Choisir (Aus) Clodovil Cockney Rebel

3 69 9 14 6 6 6 31 20 10 5 55 14 10 6 5 4 6 33 55 3 9 44 10 6 58 39 3 11 9 20 50 5 40 9 81 9 12 26 47 3

Total 4,058 4,233,320 167,215 139,841 20,945 83,371 67,725 409,172 193,678 79,394 25,318 1,011,043 480,040 144,513 47,247 135,611 82,800 268,092 1,036,413 2,533,042 21,120 77,515 782,256 82,423 27,426 2,544,838 258,976 8,636 786,440 185,200 532,706 2,807,109 214,000 3,197,148 41,734 2,747,995 75,292 470,184 938,043 1,090,998 72,444

Average 1,352 61,352 18,579 9,988 3,490 13,895 11,287 13,199 9,683 7,939 5,063 18,382 34,288 14,451 7,874 27,122 20,700 44,682 31,406 46,055 7,040 8,612 17,778 8,242 4,571 43,876 6,640 2,878 71,494 20,577 26,635 56,142 42,800 79,928 4,637 33,925 8,365 39,182 36,078 23,212 24,148

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

1,623 221,483 49,464 17,875 7,142 19,195 29,792 68,571 31,000 20,671 7,751 85,000 110,000 31,746 14,027 58,000 75,000 95,976 130,000 230,000 8,859 13,289 55,000 25,820 9,523 236,249 33,222 5,537 180,000 66,666 140,000 240,000 140,000 425,000 11,000 200,000 19,861 160,000 150,000 176,190 44,296

2 29 5 7 4 4 5 16 13 8 3 28 10 9 6 5 1 3 18 25 3 2 26 5 3 31 27 2 6 4 12 25 3 22 6 49 4 9 18 25 1

1,549 73,557 25,839 9,725 4,000 11,430 12,651 17,940 9,433 9,001 7,062 20,810 44,398 14,088 7,874 27,122 6,000 37,450 44,769 67,419 7,040 10,704 21,508 8,738 6,904 54,311 7,141 3,211 53,624 28,893 33,767 66,080 20,666 91,007 4,572 42,915 7,177 48,558 40,916 29,277 6,000

1 40 4 7 2 2 1 15 7 2 2 27 4 1 0 0 3 3 15 30 0 7 18 5 3 27 12 1 5 5 8 25 2 18 3 32 5 3 8 22 2

Average 959 52,503 9,504 10,252 2,472 18,825 4,468 8,141 10,148 3,691 2,066 15,865 9,015 17,718 0 0 25,600 51,913 15,370 28,252 0 8,015 12,390 7,745 2,237 31,895 5,513 2,214 92,938 13,925 15,936 46,204 76,000 66,387 4,766 20,161 9,316 11,051 25,193 16,321 33,222

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Compton Place Court Cave Dalakhani Dandy Man Danehill Dancer Dansili Dark Angel Delegator Deportivo Desert Prince Diamond Green Dick Turpin Distant Music Doyen Dragon Pulse Dream Ahead Dubawi Duke Of Marmalade Dutch Art Dylan Thomas Eishin Dunkirk Elnadim Elusive City Elusive Pimpernel Elusive Quality Elzaam (Aus) Equiano Evasive Exceed And Excel Excelebration Exchange Rate Fair Mix Falco Fame And Glory Famous Name Fast Company Fastnet Rock (Aus) Firebreak Flemensfirth Footstepsinthesand Foxwedge (Aus) Frammassone Frankel Frozen Power Fuisse Galileo Geordieland Getaway Gold Well Haatef Hamond Harbour Watch

25 5 7 53 3 4 126 26 4 4 6 8 4 4 58 53 13 9 58 3 12 9 26 9 4 47 47 12 48 51 7 5 6 9 34 46 42 5 11 24 38 3 19 23 3 31 3 13 5 4 6 86

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Total 447,774 31,962 391,432 1,097,309 208,931 1,200,000 11,558,549 342,853 31,744 31,006 70,133 88,505 6,199 46,214 1,503,660 2,744,706 9,929,527 108,153 5,686,907 207,283 128,001 117,344 714,430 158,723 145,686 911,820 1,022,392 195,638 5,713,678 3,042,811 370,962 14,622 51,676 154,177 752,439 803,131 3,823,232 82,512 135,383 666,126 935,953 7,233 8,659,847 179,820 28,791 13,587,568 9,808 96,791 23,916 19,710 13,211 2,565,392

Average 17,910 6,392 55,918 20,703 69,643 300,000 91,734 13,186 7,936 7,751 11,688 11,063 1,549 11,553 25,925 51,786 763,809 12,017 98,050 69,094 10,666 13,038 27,478 17,635 36,421 19,400 21,753 16,303 119,034 59,662 52,994 2,924 8,612 17,130 22,130 17,459 91,029 16,502 12,307 27,755 24,630 2,411 455,781 7,818 9,597 438,308 3,269 7,445 4,783 4,927 2,201 29,830

Highest 71,428 8,489 105,000 90,000 147,655 470,000 825,000 55,000 13,289 8,859 25,839 28,571 2,214 19,195 100,000 265,780 2,100,000 22,148 350,000 115,000 32,085 35,437 250,000 88,593 45,773 120,000 130,000 26,578 600,000 475,000 130,000 5,714 18,456 65,000 206,718 62,753 425,000 33,333 40,604 155,000 90,000 3,839 1,255,075 25,839 22,148 1,300,000 5,714 19,195 8,120 9,228 2,953 110,000

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

12 5 5 34 2 3 60 16 0 2 2 7 1 3 33 30 6 4 33 2 9 4 13 5 3 24 31 6 28 30 2 4 4 6 22 24 17 3 8 12 20 3 14 15 2 12 3 8 2 2 3 41

26,415 6,392 55,886 21,253 30,638 243,333 112,148 16,088 0 6,644 7,013 9,106 1,771 15,257 30,409 63,015 767,421 17,164 120,152 66,728 12,787 17,854 37,919 21,409 40,895 31,037 21,447 20,056 131,884 73,849 87,500 3,249 10,150 24,060 26,805 23,979 115,025 25,270 14,306 42,374 29,003 2,411 390,966 9,790 12,734 498,433 3,269 10,058 8,120 7,197 2,362 39,354

13 0 2 19 1 1 66 10 4 2 4 1 3 1 25 23 7 5 25 1 3 5 13 4 1 23 16 6 20 21 5 1 2 3 12 22 25 2 3 12 18 0 5 8 1 19 0 5 3 2 3 45

10,060 0 56,000 19,719 147,655 470,000 73,176 8,544 7,936 8,859 14,026 24,761 1,476 442 20,006 37,140 760,714 7,899 68,874 73,827 4,303 9,185 17,036 12,919 23,000 7,257 22,345 12,550 101,045 39,396 39,192 1,623 5,536 3,272 13,559 10,346 74,711 3,350 6,977 13,135 19,771 0 637,264 4,119 3,322 400,335 0 3,265 2,558 2,657 2,041 21,152

yearling averages Sire Name

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Hat Trick (Jpn) Hellvelyn Helmet (Aus) Helsinki Henrythenavigator High Chaparral Holy Roman Emperor Hurricane Cat Hurricane Run Iffraaj Intense Focus Intikhab Invincible Spirit It’s Gino Jeremy Jukebox Jury Kallisto Kamsin Kayf Tara Kendargent Kentucky Dynamite Kheleyf Kingsalsa Kingsfort Kitten’s Joy Kodiac Kyllachy Lawman Le Cadre Noir Le Havre Lilbourne Lad Linngari Literato Lonhro (Aus) Lope De Vega Lord Of England Lord Shanakill Mahler Majestic Missile Major Cadeaux Makfi Malinas Mamool Manduro Martaline Mastercraftsman Mawatheeq Mayson Medicean Merchant Of Venice Midnight Legend Milan

7 7 53 3 47 37 57 16 4 32 37 21 55 8 8 21 5 12 6 53 7 33 3 4 6 85 56 75 6 14 33 10 5 6 47 17 17 5 4 6 35 7 3 18 8 71 7 37 28 12 5 8

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Total 236,568 47,738 2,055,990 37,736 829,887 3,297,379 3,399,183 283,122 55,369 1,477,151 396,700 380,617 12,213,119 37,426 105,789 349,195 95,236 110,957 112,093 1,995,547 38,017 345,676 15,871 14,394 619,403 5,275,182 2,319,563 4,285,373 15,722 523,314 343,044 106,382 30,230 683,083 4,181,709 300,840 118,066 28,787 39,459 48,453 1,396,147 45,616 54,631 525,277 261,317 2,898,304 40,528 1,197,049 1,065,944 92,090 38,568 71,951

Average 33,795 6,819 38,792 12,578 17,657 89,118 59,634 17,695 13,842 46,160 10,721 18,124 222,056 4,678 13,223 16,628 19,047 9,246 18,682 37,651 5,431 10,475 5,290 3,598 103,233 62,060 41,420 57,138 2,620 37,379 10,395 10,638 6,046 113,847 88,972 17,696 6,945 5,757 9,864 8,075 39,889 6,516 18,210 29,182 32,664 40,821 5,789 32,352 38,069 7,674 7,713 8,993

Highest 66,445 11,428 250,000 23,834 92,284 310,077 265,780 38,390 33,960 130,000 40,605 52,380 1,033,591 8,859 40,604 62,753 42,820 20,671 40,000 199,335 13,289 27,000 11,074 4,798 230,000 360,000 200,000 450,000 6,275 77,519 28,000 22,886 8,859 184,569 400,000 42,820 20,952 7,381 25,101 28,571 118,124 14,285 40,605 103,359 62,753 300,000 8,859 148,027 115,000 23,834 23,809 16,980

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

5 5 26 0 20 23 31 9 1 17 21 12 33 2 5 16 5 9 4 30 2 20 3 1 4 53 36 46 4 6 21 3 1 5 33 13 11 5 3 4 11 4 2 13 5 33 4 21 18 9 2 6

39,931 6,500 48,437 0 22,549 97,618 71,806 17,759 33,960 50,316 9,870 22,031 231,785 5,721 19,415 19,379 19,047 11,565 25,714 44,023 4,060 10,456 5,290 4,798 136,947 67,167 51,835 35,038 3,506 22,620 12,387 8,293 3,322 99,702 96,404 18,484 8,620 5,757 11,319 11,363 40,670 9,285 26,208 30,581 41,115 43,062 4,691 43,517 34,284 8,623 14,285 10,675

2 2 27 3 27 14 26 7 3 15 16 9 22 6 3 5 0 3 2 23 5 13 0 3 2 32 20 29 2 8 12 7 4 1 14 4 6 0 1 2 24 3 1 5 3 38 3 16 10 3 3 2

18,456 7,618 29,504 12,578 14,033 75,153 45,122 17,612 7,136 41,451 11,838 12,914 207,463 4,330 2,903 7,825 0 2,288 4,618 29,341 5,979 10,503 0 3,198 35,806 53,603 22,673 92,193 848 48,449 6,908 11,643 6,727 184,569 71,455 15,134 3,873 0 5,500 1,500 39,532 2,825 2,214 25,544 18,579 38,874 7,254 17,698 44,881 4,825 3,332 3,948

yearling averages Sire Name

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Mingun Monsieur Bond Morozov Motivator Mount Nelson Mr Sidney Muhtathir Multiplex Myboycharlie Naaqoos Nathaniel Native Ruler Nayef Never On Sunday New Approach No Risk At All Notnowcato Oasis Dream Oscar Paco Boy Palace Episode Panis Pastoral Pursuits Peer Gynt Peintre Celebre Philomatheia Piccolo Pivotal Poet’s Voice Pounced Pour Moi Power Presenting Rajsaman Raven’s Pass Red Rocks Redoute’s Choice Requinto Rio De La Plata Rip Van Winkle Rock Of Gibraltar Roderic O’connor Royal Applause Sageburg Sakhee’s Secret Salutino Samum Sans Frontieres Sayif Scalo Schiaparelli Scorpion

12 6 7 32 15 3 8 7 65 13 52 3 7 5 20 4 4 26 7 39 3 4 14 3 3 6 9 34 41 3 21 51 8 38 26 5 24 37 17 57 29 23 31 21 9 5 9 5 12 5 9 5

Total 74,977 85,285 25,836 1,220,580 336,578 21,256 237,722 19,468 1,637,418 85,370 5,632,961 3,427 126,242 89,330 3,132,670 71,611 62,571 6,867,435 90,049 984,632 54,631 25,468 198,466 48,724 49,463 72,776 92,963 2,774,370 1,635,541 15,872 919,097 1,880,630 108,638 708,998 4,675,246 53,521 5,005,469 1,073,664 554,605 1,784,568 1,408,185 390,481 601,339 296,777 129,474 8,522 119,377 14,687 225,950 42,449 36,066 25,672

Average 6,248 14,214 3,690 38,143 22,438 7,085 29,715 2,781 25,191 6,566 108,326 1,142 18,034 17,866 156,633 17,902 15,642 264,132 12,864 25,246 18,210 6,367 14,176 16,241 16,487 12,129 10,329 81,599 39,891 5,290 43,766 36,875 13,579 18,657 179,817 10,704 208,561 29,017 32,623 31,308 48,558 16,977 19,398 14,132 14,386 1,704 13,264 2,937 18,829 8,489 4,007 5,134

Highest 25,820 50,000 6,275 300,000 80,000 11,074 55,370 4,761 219,489 11,917 675,000 1,714 55,000 29,531 400,000 34,699 42,000 1,100,000 30,476 266,666 38,390 8,859 49,523 31,007 33,222 26,607 26,666 330,000 200,000 8,121 162,421 180,000 47,987 49,464 1,476,559 36,913 725,000 236,249 184,569 150,000 250,000 55,370 73,333 50,203 51,679 3,321 29,531 4,060 59,062 14,765 13,333 11,428

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

7 3 6 16 9 2 4 4 39 11 36 2 5 1 9 1 2 14 6 25 1 3 8 2 0 2 7 24 19 1 13 33 5 22 15 2 11 16 10 38 19 15 15 6 4 3 5 1 9 2 5 4

5,143 18,571 4,183 31,030 30,529 6,937 29,161 2,630 28,270 7,089 110,261 1,237 23,919 29,531 220,491 4,429 10,000 316,371 14,553 21,919 38,390 7,874 18,282 18,087 0 15,259 12,880 71,704 45,731 8,121 57,499 38,576 18,479 20,855 108,712 5,905 226,671 44,437 43,057 34,015 53,146 18,094 18,587 15,011 23,200 2,657 12,757 4,060 17,474 13,288 6,056 6,141

5 3 1 16 6 1 4 3 26 2 16 1 2 4 11 3 2 12 1 14 2 1 6 1 3 4 2 10 22 2 8 18 3 16 11 3 13 21 7 19 10 8 16 15 5 2 4 4 3 3 4 1

7,794 9,857 738 45,255 10,301 7,382 30,269 2,982 20,571 3,691 103,971 952 3,322 14,949 104,386 22,394 21,285 203,186 2,731 31,188 8,120 1,845 8,700 12,550 16,487 10,564 1,400 105,346 34,847 3,875 21,451 33,755 5,413 15,635 276,778 13,903 193,237 17,269 17,718 25,894 39,841 14,882 20,158 13,780 7,334 275 13,897 2,656 22,893 5,290 1,445 1,106

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Sea The Stars Sepoy (Aus) September Storm Shakespearean Shamardal Shantou Shirocco Sholokhov Showcasing Silver Frost Sinndar Sir Percy Sir Prancealot Sixties Icon Siyouni Slickly So You Think Soave Soldier Hollow Soldier Of Fortune Soul City Special Quest Storm Mist Stormy River Stowaway Street Cry Sulamani Sunday Break Tagula Tai Chi Tamayuz Teofilo Tertullian Thewayyouare Tin Horse Tobougg Vale Of York Vertigineux Vinnie Roe Vocalised Westerner Whipper Windsor Knot Wootton Bassett Yeats Youmzain Zaahid Zambezi Sun Zamindar Zanzibari Zebedee Zoffany

23 48 6 4 31 3 6 4 32 15 7 27 73 13 34 6 28 5 24 11 5 5 3 13 7 4 9 13 32 7 25 35 4 10 18 3 18 5 3 6 4 8 5 9 9 6 6 3 8 5 65 63

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Total

Average

Highest

3,870,826 168,296 650,000 3,840,471 80,009 300,000 16,827 2,804 5,905 34,697 8,674 18,456 6,863,152 221,392 625,000 24,073 8,024 14,026 64,881 10,813 26,578 32,666 8,166 14,285 1,522,415 47,575 330,000 142,849 9,523 16,242 178,659 25,522 49,464 835,259 30,935 170,000 1,667,042 22,836 100,000 174,217 13,401 27,000 2,654,675 78,078 320,000 52,046 8,674 24,363 1,052,668 37,595 100,000 24,360 4,872 7,382 1,063,636 44,318 147,655 172,747 15,704 51,679 41,341 8,268 14,027 23,335 4,667 13,903 11,442 3,814 4,429 128,455 9,881 22,148 83,480 11,925 29,530 1,613,000 403,250 800,000 47,365 5,262 14,285 290,138 22,318 55,370 543,626 16,988 85,714 69,026 9,860 17,718 857,405 34,296 147,655 3,072,288 87,779 260,000 104,538 26,134 62,753 120,026 12,002 31,007 364,714 20,261 49,464 3,097 1,032 1,106 145,600 8,088 28,054 77,517 15,503 29,531 16,240 5,413 11,812 22,957 3,826 7,382 45,837 11,459 20,000 108,998 13,624 27,316 45,402 9,080 26,578 335,911 37,323 81,210 71,550 7,950 19,933 268,291 44,715 145,000 23,082 3,847 7,434 9,964 3,321 5,167 212,882 26,610 62,753 93,759 18,751 33,222 1,835,722 28,241 280,000 3,642,053 57,810 240,000

Colt

Average

13 169,464 27 83,150 6 2,804 2 6,644 16 276,233 2 11,298 4 14,599 2 11,756 17 60,221 8 8,166 5 26,872 16 33,764 38 25,637 9 14,714 21 69,741 2 19,564 13 40,826 2 4,244 12 47,170 9 15,256 3 8,859 1 2,979 2 3,875 8 11,212 5 14,447 2 146,500 6 7,164 7 25,312 22 19,946 3 9,351 15 32,882 16 90,957 3 32,237 8 13,831 9 26,825 0 0 9 10,408 1 29,531 3 5,413 3 4,822 3 13,925 2 16,795 3 5,659 5 36,175 4 11,650 3 54,239 6 3,847 1 2,214 4 27,869 3 23,378 39 30,650 40 65,046

Filly

Average

10 166,779 21 75,972 0 0 2 10,704 15 162,894 1 1,476 2 3,242 2 4,577 15 33,243 7 11,073 2 22,147 11 26,821 35 19,795 4 10,446 13 91,545 4 3,229 15 34,795 3 5,290 12 41,466 2 17,718 2 7,382 4 5,089 1 3,691 5 7,751 2 5,621 2 660,000 3 1,459 6 18,825 10 10,480 4 10,243 10 36,417 19 85,103 1 7,825 2 4,687 9 13,698 3 1,032 9 5,769 4 11,996 0 0 3 2,829 1 4,060 6 12,567 2 14,211 4 38,759 5 4,989 3 35,191 0 0 2 3,875 4 25,351 2 11,812 26 24,629 23 45,225

SHADWELL STALLIONS Standing at Nunnery Stud UK

NEW FOR 2016

MUHAARAR Oasis Dream - Tahrir Quadruple Gr.1 winner.

European Champion Sprinter.

2015 Fee - £30,000 (1st JAN, SLF)

MUHAARAR

Applications close 2nd December

MUKHADRAM Shamardal - Magic Tree

MUKHADRAM

Beat: 2 Classic winners & 24 Gr.1 winners during his career.

80% of first season mares were winners/producers of winners.

Only Gr.1winning son of SHAMARDAL to stand in the UK. 2015 Fee - £7,000 (1st JAN, SLF)

FIRST FOALS IN 2016 Book now closed for 2015

NAYEF

NAYEF

Gulch - Height Of Fashion Sire of 4 Stakes winners 2015.

Sire of 7stakes winners 2014.

31% Stakes winners/runners (Europe 2015).

49% winners/runners strike rate in 2015.

33% strike rate with 2YOS of 2015.

2015 Fee - £5,000 (1st JAN, SLF)

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2015 Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup

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Al Kazeem bay 2008, 16.1hh by Dubawi - Kazeem (Darshaan) Joint Champion Older Horse in Europe in 2013 (9.5f-10.5f) Winner of 10 races at 2 to 7 years including 4 Gr.1 races

By DUBAWI – sire of 23 Gr.1 winners including Classic sire MAKFI From the stallion producing family of IN REALITY, KNOWN FACT and RELAUNCH Timeform rated 128 in three consecutive seasons “He was a gentleman from the outset, full of class and tough as they come” Roger Charlton

THE GREY GATSBY

FASCINATING ROCK

Won 8 Group races and £1,573,596 including: WON Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 10.5f, 2015 Gr.1 Coral-Eclipse, 10f, 2013 Gr.1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes, 10f, 2013 Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 10.5f, 2013 Gr.2 Qatar Bloodstock Jockey Club Stakes, 12f, 2012 (his only start) Gr.2 Prix d'Harcourt, 10f, 2015 2nd Gr.1 Qipco Champion Stakes, 10f, 2014 Gr.1 Prix Ganay, 10.5f, 2015 Gr.1 Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes, 10f, 2013 3rd Gr.1 Juddmonte International Stakes, 10.4f, 2013 STANDING AT OAKGROVE STUD

Fee: £12,000 Oct 1st SLF (Limited Book)

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SIXTIES ICON Bay, 2003, (16hh)

by Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) ex Love Divine (Diesis)

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Stallion covering stats 2015

Covering returns featuring the major Flat stallions standing in Britain and Ireland, giving some idea as to the quality of the book each stallion received this spring From Weatherbys Stallion Acclamation Albaasil Alhebayeb Approve Arabian Gleam Arakan Arcano Archipenko Aussie Rules Australia Avonbridge Bahamian Bounty Baltic King Bated Breath Battle Of Marengo Beat Hollow Big Bad Bob Black Sam Bellamy Bungle Inthejungle Burwaaz Cacique Camacho Camelot Canford Cliffs Cape Cross Captain Gerrard Casamento Champs Elysees Charm Spirit Cityscape Clodovil Coach House Compton Place Dalakhani Dandy Man Dansili Dark Angel

Foal Year

First Reg Year

Mares covered

1999 2004 2008 2015 2010 2015 2008 2011 2004 2011 2000 2006 2007 2011 2004 2010 2003 2007 2011 2015 2000 2006 1994 1998 2000 2008 2007 2013 2010 2015 1997 2003 2000 2006 1999 2004 2010 2015 2009 2015 2001 2007 2002 2006 2009 2014 2007 2012 1994 2000 2005 2010 2008 2013 2003 2010 2011 2015 2006 2014 2000 2004 2011 2015 1994 1999 2000 2004 2003 2010 1996 2001 2005 2008

Winning Mares

BT performers

78 51 11 6 176 73 27 8 8 5 55 11 27 12 74 49 41 20 178 131 11 7 15 10 5 2 139 88 118 54 68 21 66 33 69 18 119 55 20 10 40 22 118 52 198 123 120 62 114 71 20 6 169 85 114 72 138 95 55 27 46 27 108 59 46 25 55 37 192 97 107 94 225 130

19 1 9 14 7 80 1 1 28 8 8 10 1 7 9 70 17 28 18 21 48 6 8 4 2 19 21 63 51

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covering stats Stallion Dawn Approach Desideratum Dick Turpin Dragon Pulse Dream Ahead Dubawi Dunaden Dutch Art Dylan Thomas Eastern Anthem Elusive Pimpernel Elzaam Equiano (Fr) Es Que Love Exceed And Excel Excelebration Famous Name Fast Company Finjaan Firebreak Footstepsinthesand Foxwedge Frankel Frozen Power Gale Force Ten Galileo Garswood Gregorian Haafhd Haatef Harbour Watch Havanna Gold Heeraat Hellvelyn Helmet Henrythenavigator Holy Roman Emperor Iffraaj Indian Haven Intello Intense Focus Intikhab Invincible Spirit Kheleyf Kingman Kingsbarns Kodiac

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Foal Year

First Reg Year

Mares covered

2010 2014 2002 2007 2007 2012 2009 2013 2008 2012 2002 2006 2006 2015 2004 2008 2003 2008 2004 2012 2007 2012 2008 2013 2005 2011 2009 2015 2000 2005 2008 2013 2005 2013 2005 2011 2006 2014 1999 2006 2002 2006 2008 2013 2008 2013 2007 2012 2010 2015 1998 2002 2010 2015 2009 2015 2001 2005 2004 2009 2009 2013 2010 2014 2009 2015 2004 2011 2008 2013 2005 2009 2004 2007 2001 2007 2000 2005 2010 2014 2006 2010 1994 2000 1997 2003 2001 2005 2011 2015 2010 2015 2001 2007

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152 11 47 101 146 160 97 97 259 11 78 94 79 68 122 125 57 106 19 19 165 58 116 98 160 181 100 120 22 8 92 84 97 15 128 49 128 166 6 111 16 29 149 1 145 38 233

BT performers

94 3 29 41 94 143 52 68 46 7 29 40 55 34 90 77 24 55 10 11 82 31 94 38 73 145 61 51 10 4 52 44 49 7 65 37 66 122 5 80 3 13 111 1 116 19 129

37 1 7 27 112 5 38 4 6 12 5 46 30 5 14 5 2 18 4 73 5 12 121 16 7 7 11 6 10 9 27 67 1 52 1 79 86 1 42

covering stats New sire for 2015, Kingman was visited by 116 winning mares and 86 black-type performers

Stallion Kyllachy Lawman Lethal Force Lilbourne Lad Lope De Vega Lord Shanakill Major Cadeaux Mastercraftsman Mawatheeq Mayson Medicean Monsieur Bond Morpheus Most Improved Mount Nelson Mr Medici Mukhadram Multiplex

Foal Year

First Reg Year

Mares covered

1998 2003 2004 2008 2009 2014 2009 2012 2007 2011 2006 2011 2004 2010 2006 2010 2005 2011 2008 2013 1997 2002 2000 2005 2010 2015 2009 2014 2004 2009 2005 2015 2009 2015 2003 2008

Winning Mares

BT performers

83 56 107 60 101 58 95 45 187 147 19 7 2 1 164 106 13 8 117 72 39 28 54 30 142 67 64 27 57 30 11 1 118 74 32 11

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covering stats Stallion Nathaniel Native Ruler Nayef New Approach No Nay Never Norse Dancer Notnowcato Oasis Dream Paco Boy Pastoral Pursuits Phoenix Reach Piccolo Pivotal Poet’s Voice Pour Moi Power Proclamation Raven’s Pass Red Jazz Requinto Rip Van Winkle Rock Of Gibraltar Roderic O’Connor Royal Applause Ruler Of The World Sakhee Sayif Schiaparelli Sea The Moon Sea The Stars Sepoy Shamardal Shantaram Shirocco Showcasing Sir Percy Sir Prancealot Sixties Icon Slade Power Sleeping Indian So You Think Stimulation Sulamani Swiss Spirit Tagula Tamayuz Teofilo

Foal Year

First Reg Year

Mares covered

2008 2013 2006 2012 1998 2004 2005 2009 2011 2015 2000 2007 2002 2008 2000 2004 2005 2011 2001 2006 2000 2007 1991 1996 1993 1997 2007 2012 2008 2012 2009 2013 2002 2007 2005 2009 2007 2014 2009 2013 2006 2011 1999 2003 2008 2012 1993 1998 2010 2015 1997 2003 2006 2013 2003 2011 2011 2015 2006 2010 2008 2013 2002 2006 2009 2014 2001 2007 2007 2011 2003 2008 2010 2013 2003 2009 2009 2015 2001 2007 2006 2013 2005 2011 1999 2005 2009 2014 1993 1997 2005 2009 2004 2008

Winning Mares

135 36 50 112 146 47 68 130 70 41 55 25 73 155 121 72 14 55 63 93 120 100 92 5 79 7 14 69 132 159 132 131 74 267 131 60 70 39 148 3 68 10 16 120 52 78 120

BT performers

91 7 28 88 77 11 8 100 41 24 21 16 54 107 63 31 2 32 32 34 75 52 45 4 41 1 8 15 94 122 90 101 6 59 85 39 22 23 99 2 39 7 5 76 20 48 73

38 4 65 28 1 74 8 1 1 26 34 19 4 14 3 5 31 16 12 13 2 41 91 26 67 2 25 5 3 4 49 4 1 9 2 16 40

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covering stats Stallion Thewayyouare Tobougg Toronado Universal Vale Of York War Command Westlake Windsor Knot Worthadd Xtension Yeats Zebedee Zoffany

Foal Year

First Reg Year

Mares covered

2005 2011 1998 2003 2010 2015 2009 2014 2007 2011 2011 2015 2004 2014 2002 2008 2007 2014 2007 2015 2001 2010 2008 2011 2008 2012

Winning Mares

BT performers

37 18 16 2 152 97 51 18 22 8 152 74 13 3 13 4 16 13 31 13 288 63 183 86 220 115

3 38 2 2 24 3 2 3 21 40

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Busiest Flat stallions through 2015

Stallions with most winning mares 2015

Stallions with most BT performers 2015

Stallion

Stallion

Stallion

Mares

Mares

Mares

Kodiac

233

Lope De Vega

147

Galileo

121

Dark Angel

225

Galileo

145

Dubawi

112

Zoffany

220

Dubawi

143

Sea The Stars

91

Camelot 198

Australia* 131

Lope De Vega

88

Dandy Man

192

Dark Angel

130

Kingman* 86

Lope De Vega

187

Kodiac

129

Australia* 80

Zebedee

183

Camelot 123

Invincible Spirit

79

Galileo

181

Iffraaj

122

Oasis Dream

74

Australia* 178

Sea The Stars

122

Frankel

73

Alhebayeb* 176

Kingman* 116

Camelot 70

Casamento

169

Zoffany

115

Iffraaj

67

Iffraaj

166

Invincible Spirit

111

Shamardal

67

Footstepsinthesand

165

Poetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voice

107

New Approach

65

Mastercraftsman

164

Mastercraftsman

106

Dansili

63

Dubawi

160

Shamardal

101

Mastercraftsman

56

Gale Force Ten*

160

Oasis Dream

100

Intello* 52

Sea The Stars

159

Slade Power*

99

Dark Angel

51

Poetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voice

155

Dandy Man

97

Slade Power*

49

Dawn Approach

152

Toronado* 97

Charm Spirit*

48

Toronado* 152

Charm Spirit*

95

Exceed And Excel

46

War Command*

152

Dawn Approach

94

Kodiac

42

Invincible Spirit

149

Dream Ahead

94

Sea The Moon*

41

Slade Power*

148

Sea The Moon*

94

Zoffany

40

Dream Ahead

146

Frankel

94

Teofilo

40

No Nay Never

146

Dansili

94

Toronado* 38

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T Some of this year’s leading performers by Tapit, showing the sire’s ability to get a range of horses.

Above, Tonalist, Jockey Club Cup Stakes winner, left, Grade 1 Turf winner Ring Weekend, and, below, the three-year-old Frosted, winner of the Wood Memorial Stakes, Kentucky Derby fourth and Belmont Stakes runner-up

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APIT’S position as North America’s leading sire was confirmed once again in no uncertain style during 2015.

Last year, Gainesway Farm’s flagship sire set a single season earnings record thanks to the winners of $16.813 million. It was a colossal figure, boosted by the presense of Grade 1 winners such as Tonalist and Untapable. Yet at the time of writing, with six weeks to go until the end of play, it seemed increasingly likely that he would break his own record and set a new benchmark.

It was a year that again offered an insight into Tapit’s versatility. Last year’s Belmont Stakes winner Tonalist returned to Belmont Park to successfully defend his title in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. Another older horse Constitution took the Donn Handicap (G1), while a leading light of last year’s fillies’ division, Untapable, landed the Apple Blossom Handicap (G1).

Three-year-old Frosted won the Wood Memorial Stakes (G1) before running fourth in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and second in the Belmont Stakes (G1). There was also a Grade 1 winner on Turf in Ring Weekend, successful in the Frank E Kilroe Mile.

In all, he had five Grade 1 winners, more than any other North American-based sire in the northern-hemisphere.

Champion two-year-olds and older horses, Grade 1 winners on Dirt and Turf – Tapit has supplied a varied group of top-class runners since starting out at $15,000 at Gainesway in 2005. Little wonder that the son of Pulpit will be once again North America’s most expensive sire in 2016 at $300,000.

Now the hunt is on for an heir. Trappe Shot has yet to set the world on fire with his first two-year-olds, although it is worth remembering that he only ran once as a twoyear-old.

Next under the spotlight will be Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tapizar and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Hansen, whose first crops hit the track next year.

Commercially, Tapit continues to rule the roost alongside War Front, whose own season was highlighted by the victories of sons Hit It A Bomb in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf and Jack Milton in the Maker’s 46 Mile Stakes.

With War Front’s season in Europe also comprising Air Force Blue, it was no surprise to see his yearlings sell for an average $587,750 across North America and Europe.

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Another storming year for Tapit

The Gainesway Farm stallion broke the sires’ earning record last year, and he is likely to do the same in 2015, writes Nancy Sexton

However, despite that lofty figure, he was marginally outdone in that department by Tapit, whose yearlings averaged $615,290.

Tapit was just one of the success stories to emanate from the powerful line belonging to his grandsire A.P. Indy in 2015.

The stallion, now living in retirement at Lane’s End Farm, was himself represented by Grade 1 winners Honor Code, whose furious late rally clinched victory in the Whitney Handicap, and Spinster Stakes heroine Got Lucky, one of just 36 foals from his final crop.

Meanwhile, son Bernardini has two exciting prospects for 2016 in Champagne

Stakes (G1) winner Greenpointcrusader and Spinaway Stakes (G1) winner Rachel’s Valentina. Both are out of exceptional mares – Rachel’s Valentina is the second foal out of Rachel Alexandra, a former Horse of the Year, while Greenpointcrusader is out of Avaknowsthecode and therefore a halfbrother to Grade 1 winner Justin Philip and Grade 2 winner Keyed Entry.

Bernardini was also represented in 2015 by Grade 1-winning fillies Cavorting and Dame Dorothy.

Tapit was one of six stallions to have broken the $10 million earnings barrier by midNovember, compared to five overall in 2014.

The American Pioneer

Pioneerof The Nile owes his prominence in third primarily to the exploits of Triple Crown hero American Pharoah, who supplied $8,288,800 of the $11.08 million earned by his progeny.

American Pharoah hails from Pioneerof The Nile’s second crop of 58 and was accompanied by two other minor stakes winners during 2015 for the stallion in Courtier and Catch My Drift.

The WinStar resident has a relatively few 61 two-year-olds on the ground, but numbers and quality aren’t likely to be a problem in the future given his fee has been more than doubled to $125,000 for 2016.

Pioneerof The Nile also ended the season as the champion third-crop sire by a wide-margin, although admittedly over an underwhelming group of peers. Given his success, the repatriation of his sire Empire Maker to Gainesway Farm from Japan for the 2016 season has understandably been warmly received by breeders.

Candy enjoyed a fine ride in 2015

The Triple Crown hero: American Pharoah, son of Pioneerof The Nile

Overall, it was an excellent year for the Fappiano sire line, also responsible for another member of the $10 million club in Candy Ride.

Champion Shared Belief was his sole Grade 1 winner when successful in the Santa Anita Handicap (G1) before injury intervened in March, but another son, Red Vine, ran third in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), while Chocolate Ride was a Grade 2 winner.

The Fappiano baton has long been held by the late Unbridled’s Song, who added another two Grade 1 winners to his record in Liam’s Map, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and Woodward Stakes, and Unbridled Forever, who captured the Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga for her owner-breeder Charles Fipke.

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Coach House breaks the juvenile course record at Royal Ascot when finishing 2nd in the Norfolk Stakes Gr.2 to No Nay Never

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COACH HOUSE OASIS DREAM EX LESSON IN HUMILITY (MUJADIL)

110 mares in his first book Excellent start with 100 mares in-foal

Precocious & fast Royal Ascot and 2yo Stakes winner over 5f

By a Champion sprinter & sire The most precocious son of Oasis Dream, out of a Gr.1 sprinter

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us stallion review Sons of Unbridled’s Song continue to compile a mixed record at stud, but hopes will be high for the prospects of Liam’s Map, who will stand his first season at Lane’s End Farm next year for $25,000.

One of the lesser lights of the Unbridled branch of the Fappiano line, the Saudi Arabian-based Harlington, also enjoyed his time in the sun during Breeders’ Cup weekend as the sire of Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) winner Wavell Avenue and Grade 2 scorer Uzziel.

Medaglia D’Oro: a wannabe champion?

Medaglia D’Oro’s fee for 2016 leapt to $150,000 off the back of an excellent year, one which would have earned him championship honours in seven of the past ten years.

The undoubted star was unbeaten twoyear-old Songbird, whose wide-margin victories in the Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1), Chandelier Stakes (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) displayed a dominance reminiscent of the stallion’s first real star, Rachel Alexandra.

Another 20 runners by the stallion won stakes races up to mid-November in North America, among them Mshawish, winner of the Gulfstream Park Turf Club Handicap (G1), and the Grade 1-placed fillies Gold Medal Dancer, Sentiero Italia and Yahilwa.

Kitten turning into a tiger

Another son of El Prado, former champion sire Kitten’s Joy, also surpassed $10 million in earnings, in his case for the third consecutive year.

Once again, he reaped the benefits of the support of his owners, Ken and Sarah Ramsey in whose colours Stephanie’s Kitten successfully defended her title in the Flower Bowl Invitational (G1) before capturing the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) and Big Blue Kitten won the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational (G1).

Their successes contributed to a prizemoney haul of approximately $8.7 million, making him the dominant leading Turf stallion of North America, a title he has held since 2013. Medaglia D’Oro was next best thanks to the earners of just over $4.3 million.

The Ramseys have campaigned each of Kitten’s Joy’s six Grade 1 winners to date, but with some big and expensive crops in the pipeline, success for outside breeders is

Carpe Diem, by Giant’s Causeway out of an Unbridled’s Song mare, won the Blue Grass Stakes (G1)

starting to filter through.

Kitten’s Joy’s first $50,000 crop, now rising three, includes Cymric, a colt bred by Jamm Ltd who came within a neck of landing the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère. Kitten’s Joy’s first $100,000 crop are currently foals and he is set to command the same figure in 2016.

Galileo the boss in the US

In what was a memorable year Stateside for the Sadler’s Wells line, Galileo was represented by a quartet of Grade 1 winners, namely Found (Breeders’ Cup Turf), Highland Reel (Secretariat Stakes), Mondialiste (Woodbine Mile) and Photo Call (Rodeo Drive Stakes).

As a result, he ended the year as the third-leading sire on Turf (despite having barely 35 runners), thereby providing sons and grandsons of Sadler’s Wells with a clean sweep of the top three spots.

Causeway remains the Giant

The ever-reliable Giant’s Causeway, North America’s champion sire of 2009, 2010 and 2012, is also likely to have accumulated over $10 million by the time the year draws to a close.

Incidentally, both his Grade 1 winners scored at Keeneland, with Carpe Diem lighting up the spring meeting by capturing the Blue Grass Stakes and two-year-old Brody’s Cause becoming the stallion’s 31st Group or Grade 1 winner when successful in the Breeders’ Futurity in October.

Curlin and Scat Daddy move up a grade

Last season will also be remembered as the breakthrough year for proven stallions Curlin and Scat Daddy.

Curlin, a two-time Horse of the Year, the highest North American money earner

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us stallion review of all time, hit the Classic mark in his first crop when Palace Malice landed the 2013 Belmont Stakes. However, the son of Smart Strike really took off in 2015 when his notable winners included Keen Ice, who claimed the scalp of American Pharoah in the Travers Stakes (G1), Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) winner Curalina, Santa Anita Oaks (G1) heroine Stellar Wind and Saratoga Special Stakes (G1) winner Exaggerator.

Such results vindicated the decision of John Sikura of Hill ’n’ Dale Farm to purchase a 20 per cent share in Curlin in partnership with Elevage II for $6,218,160 in June. The share had previously been held by dis-barred attorneys Shirley Cunningham and William Gallion.

As a result, Curlin has been relocated from Lane’s End to Hill ’n’ Dale Farm, where he will stand for $100,000 in 2016. Among the mares set to visit him is champion Take Charge Brandi, purchased for $6 million by Hill ’n’ Dale at the Keeneland November Sale.

Curlin shares his sire Smart Strike with the California-based Square Eddie, whose reputation received a welcome boost through his son Ralis, a member of his 38-strong third crop, who took the Hopeful Stakes (G1) at Saratoga.

Scat Daddy, meanwhile, headed into December as the sire of no fewer than eight stakes-winning juveniles in North America and Europe that hail from a crop of 154 bred following the success of his first runners.

The octet are led by Nickname, the easy winner of the Frizette Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park. Acapulco ran out the devastating winner of the Queen Mary Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot, while Pretty N Cool pulled off a Grade 2 double in the Sorrento and Matron Stakes. Azar and Conquest Daddyo were other Grade 2-winning two-year-olds who should represent their sire to good effect next season.

Unsurprisingly, Scat Daddy’s progeny were highly sought after at the sales this year – his yearlings averaged $195,515 – while his fee has leapt from $35,000 to $100,000.

Speightstown becomes sire of sires

It was also another good year for WinStar Farm’s Speightstown, not just because he supplied top sprinter Rock Fall, but also in that his son Munnings led the second-season sires’ list and earned a fee boost to $25,000 as a result.

Rock Fall burst on to the sprinting scene with victories in the Alfred G Vanderbilt

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Curlin: took his stallion career to the next level in 2015 with Keen Ice, Curalina and Exaggerator

Handicap (G1) and Vosburgh Stakes (G1).

Sadly, however, he suffered a fatal injury while training towards the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

Super Saver heads the second-season list

Coolmore’s Munnings held a reasonable lead over Super Saver at the head of the secondseason leading sires’ list thanks to 16 stakes winners led by Cotillion Handicap (G1) heroine I’m A Chatterbox and Twilight Derby (G1) winner Om, also remembered as the colt

who defeated American Pharoah first time out at Del Mar last summer.

Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver gained plenty of followers by siring three Grade 1 winners in his first crop, an achievement rarely accomplished.

The first sign of things to come emerged last summer when Competitive Edge and I Spent It led home a one-two for the stallion in the Hopeful Stakes (G1) . This summer, two further stars followed in Runhappy, a leader of the sprint division by virtue of easy victories in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) and

us stallion review King’s Bishop Stakes (G1), and Embellish The Lace, who took the Alabama Stakes (G1) at Saratoga. As a result, Super Saver will stand for an increased $65,000 in 2016.

Further down the second-season sires’ list is Airdrie Stud’s Majesticperfection, who became another son of Harlan’s Holiday to make his presence felt alongside Into Mischief as the sire of Kentucky Oaks heroine Lovely Maria.

Airdrie is also home to Divine Park, whose brilliant daughter Lady Eli capped her unbeaten six-race career by taking the Belmont Oaks Invitational. Shortly following that performance, her career was cruelly cut short by a severe bout of laminitis.

Darley duo have price hikes

The Darley duo of Hard Spun and Street Sense, both of whom have spent a season in Japan in recent seasons, will each stand for an increased fee of $45,000 following a strong year.

Three Grade 1 winners came the way of

Hard Spun in Hard Aces (The Gold Cup at Santa Anita), Hard Not To Like (Diana and Gamely Stakes) and Smooth Roller (Awesome Again Stakes), while Street Sense was responsible for two high-class fillies in Callback (Las Virgenes Stakes) and Wedding Toast (Ogden Phipps Handicap and Beldame Stakes).

At $12,500, Gainesway’s Afleet Alex is one of the cheaper stallions in Kentucky but he too enjoyed a memorable year as the sire of Florida Derby (G1) winner Materiality and Del Mar Oaks (G1) heroine Sharla Rae. Another of his three-year-olds, the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red, also landed the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes during an interrupted campaign.

Once again, sons of Baby Zip assumed prominent positions on the leading sires’ list and continued to further their influence.

For City Zip, who was sitting in 11th at the time of writing, the year was highlighted by the win of his daughter Catch A Glimpse in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1)

- his third winner of a Breeders’ Cup event in the past two years. A versatile stallion, the son of Carson City also counted Ready For Rye, a Grade 2 winner on Dirt, and Alert Bay, a Grade 2 winner on Turf, among his six Graded stakes winners.

Not to be outdone, his half-brother Ghostzapper was represented by five Graded stakes winners including La Troienne Stakes (G1) heroine Molly Morgan, helping him assume another top 20 finish.

It continued to be a productive year for progeny of the Tricky Creek mare Leslie’s Lady. Her daughter Beholder, one of only two Group or Grade 1 winners by Henny Hughes, swept through her five-year-old campaign by adding the Pacific Classic, Zenyatta Stakes and Clement L. Hirsch Handicap to her record.

Meanwhile, it was later revealed that her half-brother Into Mischief covered 210 mares during the spring to make him North America’s busiest stallion. Although he didn’t sire a Grade 1 winner in 2015, his runners did include Grade 3 winner Strict Compliance.

Record-breaking Uncle Mo gives Coolmore 1st-season sire honours in the US Tapit wasn’t the only stallion to dominate his peers in 2015.

A remarkable first crop of juveniles propelled Coolmore’s Uncle Mo past the $3 million barrier by earnings and on to a record figure for an American freshman sire.

At the time of writing, his progeny had amassed nearly $3.2 million, making him not only the overwhelming leader of his division but also champion two-year-old sire ahead of his stud-mate Scat Daddy.

The unbeaten Nyquist led the way by pulling off the same FrontRunner Stakes (G1) and Del Mar Futurity (G1) double as American Pharoah before emulating his sire by taking the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) at Keeneland.

He is trained by Doug O’Neill on behalf of J. Paul Reddam’s Reddam Racing LLC, as is another quality Uncle Mo youngster in Gomo, who became her sire’s second Grade 1 winner in the Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland.

Uncle Vinny, meanwhile, won the Grade 3 Sanford Stakes on the disqualification of Magna Light, while there were also minor

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stakes wins for Forevamo, Mo Tom and Uncle Brennie.

With close to 170 foals in his first crop, Uncle Mo has not lacked for opportunity. But his swift emergence as a Grade 1 sire could become regarded as a particularly important development for the American Thoroughbred given he is a son of the much-missed Indian Charlie and therefore an increasingly rare American member of the Grey Sovereign sire line.

First Dude, a son of Stephen Got Even who stands at Double D Farm in Florida, was close to reaching $1 million in earnings by mid-November.

He struck the exacta in the Florida Sire My Dear Girl Stakes in October thanks to the fillies Flora Dora and Enterprising Lady.

Twirling Candy, who stands alongside sire Candy Ride at Lane’s End, also made a promising start.

First juveniles by the stallion averaged $374,167 at the select twoyear-old sales in Florida and California in the spring and that hype had materialised into 17 winners and five stakes horses.

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Rnrs

Tapit Medaglia d’Oro Pioneerof the Nile Kitten’s Joy Candy Ride Giant’s Causeway Curlin Speightstown Scat Daddy Malibu Moon City Zip Hard Spun Harlan’s Holiday Bernardini Street Sense Ghostzapper Distorted Humor Tale Of The Cat Wildcat Heir Flatter Lemon Drop Kid More Than Ready War Front Smart Strike Congrats Unbridled’s Song Bernstein Yes It’s True Tiznow Any Given Saturday Mineshaft English Channel Bluegrass Cat Afleet Alex Sky Mesa Big Brown Empire Maker Arch A.P. Indy Street Cry Tiz Wonderful Langfuhr Indian Charlie Elusive Quality Freud Broken Vow Munnings Northern Afleet

305 163 241 118 111 55 278 127 273 144 322 142 204 107 225 115 239 121 300 140 269 139 239 110 275 132 255 89 222 114 167 87 208 105 243 101 228 138 203 102 226 99 230 115 145 54 218 100 243 132 175 92 177 90 179 101 220 92 199 105 161 85 149 61 236 133 176 90 227 106 149 64 290 119 165 80 49 28 202 97 185 85 223 118 131 63 228 95 167 75 192 95 99 59 200 106

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SRunners

22 23 4 10 14 16 11 13 24 8 11 11 13 7 13 13 8 6 5 10 10 12 12 8 4 6 5 5 10 5 5 8 7 5 4 5 5 4 8 9 7 5 9 14 6 6 11 4

SWs

27 33 10 18 20 22 15 21 32 9 19 15 22 12 18 17 11 9 10 13 14 16 16 9 5 9 9 10 11 5 6 12 11 6 8 8 6 5 15 13 8 5 11 14 8 6 16 6

GSWs

16 13 1 5 4 11 7 7 14 2 6 9 9 6 6 5 6 3 1 4 7 3 7 1 - 3 2 2 3 2 1 4 2 3 3 3 3 3 5 6 1 - 3 5 1 1 3 1

G1

5 2 1 2 1 2 3 2 6 - 1 3 - 5 3 1 - 1 1 - 1 - 4 - - 2 1 - 1 1 - 2 1 2 - 1 - 1 2 2 - - - - - - 1 -

Earnings

16,606,023 12,442,838 11,095,753 10,596,158 10,266,345 9,926,252 9,568,646 9,132,458 8,510,925 8,182,390 8,071,074 7,927,175 7,582,673 7,271,507 7,234,600 6,722,090 6,620,243 6,611,322 6,413,123 6,200,871 6,079,327 6,079,091 6,040,230 5,962,246 5,903,947 5,763,934 5,721,920 5,378,475 5,336,090 5,320,408 5,290,830 5,177,959 4,901,017 4,883,496 4,764,513 4,762,105 4,751,162 4,646,986 4,619,703 4,563,859 4,546,538 4,544,746 4,505,501 4,453,852 4,416,546 4,379,732 4,353,703 4,321,049

BLUE DIAMOND STUD was established in 2010 as the breeding operation of Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar. The stud, during its short history, has bred and raised stakes performers such as: AJAYA - winner of Gimcrack Stakes - Gr.2, 2015 (pictured) RAUCOUS - 3rd Gimcrack Stakes - Gr.2, 2015 YUFTEN - Gr.1- placed 3yo of 2014 DECORATED KNIGHT - 3rd Joel Stakes - Gr.2, 2015 Plus Listed winners: JUSTINEO, LADY NOUF, NOURIYA

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us stallion stats: first-crop and Turf sires Leading US first-crop sires 2015: (by prize-money earned in $, to November 10, 2015) Stallion

Uncle Mo First Dude Twirling Candy Girolamo Big Drama Archarcharch Giant Surprise Gone Astray Court Vision Paddy O’Prado Society Chairman Brooks ‘n Down Trappe Shot Sidney’s Candy Tizway Cape Blanco Wilburn Friesan Fire Haynesfield

Rnrs

Wnrs

53 21 38 14 36 17 38 16 28 10 45 10 8 4 32 7 29 6 53 9 7 3 3 2 28 7 41 6 24 4 56 7 48 10 22 7 32 9

SWs

6 1 - 1 1 1 2 2 - - 2 - - - 2 - - - 1

GSw

3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

SHs

7 2 4 3 5 3 3 2 4 2 3 2 1 1 3 1 - 3 1

Chief Earner

Nyquist Flora Dora Annie’s Candy She’s All Ready Tribal Drama Toews On Ice Sudden Surprise It’s High Time Crumlin Spirit Above Fashion Caren Silent Prayer Fish Trappe Road Sooner Time Tiz Imaginary Look Who’s Talking Berniestrike Morning Fire C U at Eau Claire

Earnings

3,117,676 915,829 846,408 827,864 700,712 612,266 586,699 557,894 486,635 473,099 446,849 418,870 368,866 349,933 349,733 340,038 334,464 332,262 313,370

Leading US Turf sires 2015: (by prize-money earned in $, to November 10, 2015) All surfaces

Turf

Stallion

Rnrs Wnrs

SWrs

Kitten’s Joy Medaflia D’Oro Galileo Giant’s Causeway Bernstein Scat Daddy Tapit English Channel Lemon Drop Kid City Zip War Front More Than Ready Arch Speightstown Smart Strike Harlan’s Holiday Hard Spun Candy Ride Freud Unusual Heat Distorted Humor Any Given Saturday Broken Vow Langfuhr Mizzen Mast

243 114 197 101 31 8 254 120 155 81 214 107 276 151 135 56 192 92 259 134 99 38 182 95 121 59 178 91 172 82 258 123 180 86 254 138 165 74 117 66 164 91 172 92 174 87 208 113 130 67

9 20 5 13 4 15 21 8 10 11 9 8 4 9 5 7 7 11 5 3 7 4 5 5 3

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Rnrs Wnrs

212 75 123 38 30 8 181 58 100 27 134 48 137 44 110 33 138 39 150 40 81 24 126 45 89 27 87 27 118 42 144 37 104 29 140 34 104 29 96 36 77 25 98 31 98 31 120 38 85 26

SWrs

9 8 5 7 4 6 8 8 8 4 8 6 3 2 1 3 4 7 3 2 5 2 5 2 2

Earnings

8,649,006 4,353,900 3,978,863 3,774,602 3,636,443 3,596,057 3,550,619 3,393,733 3,213,633 3,135,243 3,121,477 3,002,052 2,845,604 2,746,341 2,501,105 2,421,043 2,419,715 2,182,633 2,169,753 2,097,084 2,020,762 1,998,517 1,994,504 1,919,374 1,904,698

Acclamation

Creating His Own Legacy • Top Class Gr.1 Sire & Champion 1st Crop Sire • Sire of Sires incl. DARK ANGEL, EQUIANO, HARBOUR WATCH & LILBOURNE LAD • The Leading Sire in GB/IRE in 2015 with 129 Individual Winners • 2015 Stakes Winners include 2YOs ATTENDU and KING OF ROOKS, also JOHNNY BARNES, QUEEN CATRINE, ABSOLUTELY SO, etc.

• 2015 yearlings sold for €310,000, €300,000, €280,000 x 3, €200,000, €180,000, €160,000, €140,000, etc.

Lilbourne Lad

Like Father Like Son

• Third Leading European First Crop Sire (in order of individual winners worldwide) with 24 winners of 28 races • Principal winners include LIL’S JOY (Multiple winner & Gr. placed), SPINAMISS (Winner and 4th Gr.3), DINOZZO (Maiden winner) ‘He’s as green a 2YO as I’ve sent racing. He’s a big, scopey horse who will get further and there will be exciting times with him.’

Ger Lyons, trainer of Dinozzo) • By Champion ACCLAMATION - Sire of Sires - DARK ANGEL, EQUIANO, etc.

Tagula

A Classic Sire • Proven source of precocious speed *SHZZPJ ZPYL VM *HUMVYK *SPќ Z • Sire of the highly-rated LIMATO, Multiple Gr. Winner and Gr.1 placed with earnings of over €560,000 (6 wins and 3 seconds from 9 runs) • 2015 yearlings sold for €126,000, €50,000, €46,000, €45,000, €40,000, €30,000 x 2, etc.

Service to Breeders

STALLIONS FOR 2016 Moohaajim

Bred on the same lines as Golden Horn Group 2 Winning & Dual Group 1 Placed 2-Y-O by Group 1 Champion Sire Cape Cross out of a Kingmambo mare A Leading 2-Y-O in GB/IRE โ ข Winner of Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes over 6f โ ข 2nd Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes (to Reckless Abandon, btn a neck) โ ข Placed in Gr.1 Prix Morny โ ข Rated 116 as a 2-Y-O in GB/IRE versus Reckless Abandon (117), Olympic Glory (116) in the same year

FIRST CROP FOALS 2016

A Classic 3-Y-O Contender โ ข Placed Gr.3 Greenham Stakes โ ข Retired due to injury sustained in 2000 Guineas at Newmarket

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Dual Gr.1 Winning Miler

Dual Group 1 Winning Miler in Hong Kong for John Moore & Gr.2 Winning 2-Y-O in UK for Clive Cox A Leading 2-Y-O in GB/IRE โ ข Winner of Gr.2 Vintage Stakes over 7f ย UK .Y *V]LU[Y` : [V *HUMVYK *SPั Z โ ข 3rd Gr.1 Dewhurst S. (btn neck & nose) โ ข Winner of Maiden over 6f at Goodwood โ ข Rated 116 as a 2-Y-O in GB/IRE versus Showcasing (117) and Siyouni (117) in the same year A Classic Performing 3YO โ ข Placed in Gr.1 2000 Guineas, Gr.1 Irish 2000 Guineas and Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat A Dual Group 1 Winning Miler โ ข Winner of Gr.1 BMW Championโ s Mile in Hong Kong in 2011 and 2012, defeating Lucky Nine (Triple Gr.1 Winner) in 2011, and Gr.1 Winners Glorious Days, Lucky Nine, Ambitious Dragon, Able One, Cityscape, etc. in 2012

Rathbarry Stud, Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland.

Tel +353 (0)25 36362 rathbarr@iol.ie www.rathbarrystud.com

FIRST CROP FOALS 2016

Contact: Catherine Cashman, Paul Cashman, Frannie Woods, Niamh Woods, Micheรกl Fahy or Paul McCarthy

the golden gavels 2015

The Golden Gavels The annual bloodstock awards for the great, the good and the not so good through 2015

Marketing pitch of the year: Newsells Park Stud’s Deauville August sunglasses campaign Apart from it being a great social media campaign, “sunglasses” revealed just how much those in racing and bloodstock (ourselves included) love a chance to dress up their obliging horses and dogs as humans.

Resurgent sires of the year

Disappointing TV coverage of the year:

Last year in the Golden Gavels we noted that Makfi and Equiano had lost their way at the yearling sales and we hoped (reckoned) that both would resurface with their three-year-old crop... both stallions took heed of our words.

Seemingly, the channel did not send any of its own film crew or reporters over to the US (how much is cross-Atlantic air time?) as there was no on-the-ground, of-the-moment interviews and the channel relied on the US feed.

Makfi got a first (dual) European Group 1 winner courtesy of Make Believe, while Marky Mark became his first winner at the highest level in the southern hemisphere. The stallion’s European winners-to-runners ratio was over 49 per cent.

Equiano just missed out at the top, but came close with Strath Burn’s Group 1 runner-up spot in the Haydock Sprint Cup, and The Tin Man’s fourth in the Champions Sprint.

You’ve shown ‘em boys!

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Breeders’ Cup: attheraces

Fine... but when there is no sound relayed to the UK audience after one of the biggest and momentous events in US racing for years, American Pharoah’s “Grand Slam”, the occasion was deflating. The twitter-reported huge cheer for the horse as he returned to the winners’ spot was not heard, the horseback “after-thewin” interview with the jockey not covered. Instead we had to listen to the studio pundits, who did their best in the circumstances but by then had run out of things to say – especially as they had no live interviews to bounce ideas off.

Melbourne Cup: no live coverage on attheraces or RacingUK

Sales trend of 2015:

Big buyers forming partnerships

Worrying sales trend of 2015: A distinct lack of a middle market

Happy Xmas!

the golden gavels 2015

Wishing all the best to:

Joseph O’Brien as he reduces his Flat riding commitments and trains the pointers – hope you enjoy the mud and rain Joseph, gonna be a bit different than Royal Ascot in June...!

Sire of the year:

Motivator

Dark Angel

Most popular person at Tatts this year: Laura Green, whose photography skills were a hit with sales visitors

Hope of the year: Training performance of the year

Nick Rust

Family day of the year:

the Sunday between October Yearling Sale Book 1 and Book 2 was full of visiting children seeing absent parents stuck in the autumn sale bubble.

Tattersalls really ought to put on some entertainment and lay on a crèche

Unknown of the year: Plus 10

Motivator

Does anyone really understand how this scheme works yet?

Ad of the year: At your Beck and Call

Horse we fell in

LOVE

with: Golden Horn

Sarah Hayden with her vital sales yard Hat, Gloves and Sock Shop Go to: The Stable Yards, DBS & Tatts

Run-unhappy

Worst things we read on social media this year:

You go and out-ride ‘em girl!

Stevie Payne

Entrepreneur of the year:

Maria Borell’s training of Breeders’ Cup winner Runhappy, a story which sadly became

comments regarding Victoria Pendleton’s race-riding challenge.

The guy we fell in LOVE with:

(out of sales season: visit Conker, The Maltings, Salisbury)

AT YOUR BECK AND CALL Haras d’Omméel

Successful vendors of quality winning racehorses year after year after year Hubert Honoré • Mobile: +33 (0)607 424 037 • Home: +33 (0) 2 33 67 45 98 • email: hubert.honore@orange.fr ITB full pg Onmeel Aug 15.indd 1

Ambition of the year

Tattersalls (Ire)

for its international takeover of Brightwells Bloodstock

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equine nutrition

Stomach pains Gastric ulcers in horses is a widespread but manageable disease, reports Dr Joe Pagan

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HE DELICATE NATURE of the equine digestive tract is appreciated by veterinarians and horsemen alike. One of the most frequent problems that affects the digestive health of horses is gastric ulceration. Thankfully, numerous studies have resulted in more thorough understanding of the problem, risk factors, preventive measures, and development of effective treatments.

Prevalence of gastric ulcers

The high incidence of ulcers seen in performance horses is primarily a man-made problem resulting from the way horses are fed and managed.

Many studies since the mid-1980s have documented the prevalence of gastric ulcers in racehorses. An early study in Hong Kong of 195 racehorses showed that 80 per cent in active training had ulcers, whereas the incidence of ulcers in horses retired from

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racing for one month or longer dropped to 52 per cent.

Murray and colleagues examined the stomachs of 187 horses ranging in age from one to 24 years and found that 92 per cent with clinical problems were affected.

Surprisingly, 52 per cent of horses displaying no clinical signs also had lesions, though horses displaying clinical signs had lesions of greater severity. Racehorses in training had a higher incidence of ulcers (89 per cent) than those not in training (59 per cent).

In the 1990s, two particular studies evaluated the incidence of gastric ulcers in California racehorses.

In one study of 169 horses in training, 88 per cent of thoroughbreds had ulcers.

A gastroendoscopic study of 202 thoroughbreds in training showed that 81 per cent had ulcers. Each of these studies revealed that 80-90 per cent of racehorses in training showed lesions.

Standardbreds are similarly affected as

shown by a Swedish study in which lesions were present in 70 per cent of the horses.

In this study, researchers also found that horses in preparatory training or who had raced within a month were more affected than fit horses that hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t raced recently.

A 2001 field survey of horses in race training in Florida, Kentucky, and California showed an overall prevalence rate of 90 per cent, demonstrating that, despite the widespread use of anti-ulcer medications, incidence of gastric ulcers in thoroughbred racehorses remains very high.

More recently, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned that incidence of ulcers in broodmares may be much higher than anticipated, with an overall incidence of 71 per cent on the farm studied.

The vast majority of these lesions occur in the nonglandular region of the stomach, with very few lesions in the glandular portion.

Symptoms and diagnosis

Signs of gastric ulceration in the horse may

equine nutrition be varied and vague. These may include (but are certainly not limited to) rough coat, mild weight loss, poor appetite, depression, grouchiness, stereotypical behaviours, poor performance and abdominal pain or colic.

The only definitive way to diagnose Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS) is by endoscopic examination of the stomach.

Assignment of a relevant severity score based on one of the established scoring systems below should be made to characterise the degree of ulceration and chart improvement in subsequent examinations.

left dorsal colon pelvic flexure

small colon

transverse colon kidney small intestine duodenum stomach esophagus

cecum ileum

right dorsal colon

Gastric acid: major cause

The upper half of the horseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stomach consists of squamous epithelial cells that are very similar to the tissue found in the esophagus.

Ulcers in this part of the stomach are more similar to esophagitis (heartburn) in humans than the ulcers that occur in the glandular region of the human stomach. Research has shown that equine gastric ulcers are not caused by Helicobacter pylori bacteria, a common cause of ulcers in humans.

However, DNA from the relatively recently discovered Helicobacter equorum have been found in the faeces of foals, as well as in horses with gastric ulcers and gastritis. Other evidence suggests that bacterial growth on the ulcers may delay ulcer healing, so antibiotic treatment may be advisable.

The major cause of gastric ulcers in horses is prolonged exposure of the squamous mucosa to gastric acid and a pH less than 4.

Unlike the glandular portion of the stomach, the squamous mucosa does not have a mechanism to protect itself from acidinduced damage. The only protection that this portion of the stomach has from gastric acid and pepsin comes from saliva production.

If adequate saliva is not produced to buffer the gastric acid and coat the squamous epithelium, then gastric irritation occurs and lesions may develop.

Recently, we have become aware of the fact that other acids such as volatile fatty acids (VFAs) may also contribute to the damage caused by gastric (hydrochloric) acid.

Volatile fatty acids are produced through the fermentation of sugars and starches in concentrate meals within the stomach.

Treatment and Prevention

It is easy to see why racehorses have such a high incidence of ulcers. Most horses in training are confined for most of the day and

left ventral (large) colon right ventral (large) colon

The anatomy of the equine stomach

fed large grain meals. Often, racehorses are fasted for an extended period before exercise, allowing gastric acid to accumulate in the stomach.

Treating ulcers involves either inhibiting gastric acid secretion or neutralising the acid produced. The two most common classes of drugs that can be used to inhibit gastric acid secretion in horses include histamine type-2 antagonists (H2 antagonists), such as cimetidine and ranitidine, and proton pump inhibitors, of which only omeprazole (GastroGardÂŽ) is licensed for horses in many countries.

Because these are drugs, they must be prescribed by a veterinarian, may be quite expensive, and require at least 28 days of treatment.

However, acid rebound is a threat when using these drugs. Reported in both humans and horses, acid rebound occurs after treatment with proton-pump inhibitor drugs such as omeprazole. In the days after treatment, a surge in acid production may happen, causing a significant drop in gastric pH and leaving the horse vulnerable to formation of new ulcers and digestive discomfort.

Nutritionists and veterinarians often recommend feeding a digestive health supplement in combination with anti-ulcer medications and continuing supplementation as long as the risk of ulcers persists.

Feeding and Management Changes

Proper management of horses prone to digestive upset is key in reducing development and recurrence of gastric ulcers.

Management strategies include offering a diet that keeps gastric ulcers at bay, one composed of free-choice forage and lowstarch feed with elevated fermentable fibre and fat, giving several small meals throughout the day, maximising the amount of daily turnout, and minimising physical and emotional stress.

Certain feeds may help reduce the incidence of gastric ulcers. One natural way to reduce the risk of gastric ulcers is through the use of alfalfa (lucerne) as part of the diet.

Alfalfa contains indigestible compounds in its cell wall that provide better buffering capacity than grasses. Research comparing alfalfa or grass hay fed with grain showed higher pH (less acidity) in gastric fluid and fewer lesions with less severity in the horses fed the alfalfa-based diet. Researchers have found that offering a small amount of alfalfa hay or chaff prior to exercise (30 minutes) can be beneficial in buffering the stomach acid and provides a fibrous mat that may protect the sensitive part of the stomach (nonglandular) from coming into contact with gastric acid.

Because high-starch diets can contribute to increased gastric acid and VFA production,

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equine nutrition use of feeds with more moderate starch levels, typically due to the inclusion of higher levels of fat and fermentable fiber sources, is advisable in horses prone to gastric ulceration.

This will serve to reduce the risk of starch fermentation in the stomach, as well as help to maintain a calmer demeanor. Plus, there are some benefits to the addition of omega-6 fatty acids to diets of horses with gastric ulcers. Useful sources of fat include corn oil and stabilized rice bran, both of which are rich in omega-6 fatty acids.

An alternative to suppression of acid production is to neutralise excess stomach acid and protect the squamous mucosa from exposure to acid.

The natural buffering mechanism in the horse is saliva production and indeed the most effective way to treat ulcers is simply to turn the animal out on pasture. In situations in which this is not possible, administration of antacids may be a useful adjunct to acid suppression therapy in horses.

Antacid supplements, such as RiteTrac, developed by Kentucky Equine Research, offer protection by neutralising the excess acid, but they do not affect the amount of acid produced, so there is no acid rebound effect and no impact on protein digestion.

Effective digestive supplements are those that can help the horse maintain a more favourable gastric pH for a significant period of time after feeding. In addition to antacids, supplements containing coating agents offer

Table 1: Equine Gastric Ulcer Council grading system Grade

Appearance of gastric mucosa

0 1 2 3 4

Intact epithelium Intact mucosa, evidence of hyperkeratosis or hyperemia Small, single or multifocal lesions Large, single or multifocal lesions or extensive superficial lesions Extensive lesions with areas of apparent deep ulceration

Table 2: Number/Severity scoring system

Grade Number of Lesions Severity 0 None Normal 1 1-2 localized lesions Appears superficial 2 3-5 localized lesions Deeper structure involved (more than mucosal) 3 6-10 lesions Multiple lesions and variable severity 4 >10 lesions Same as Grade 2 though with an active appearance 5 n/a Same as Grade 4 though with active hemorrhage or

adherent blood clot

direct protection to the stomach lining against prolonged contact with acid.

Careful management of a horse’s routine, environment, and nutrition, including limiting the use of anti-inflammatory drugs and reducing stress, are all important in minimising the risk of equine gastric ulcer syndrome (EGUS).

The identification of high-risk periods, with appropriate, well-timed intervention, can be challenging, as there are numerous triggers that cause ulcers to form quickly.

Make appropriate changes to diets as needed and consider the addition of a digestive health

Risk Factors Gastric ulcers tend to be most common in horses with limited access to pasture or placed in stressful or unfamiliar situations, such as those that travel often, experience changes in diet, compete in unfamiliar places, and spend most of their time in a confined area.

Diet: Horses evolved as wandering grazers with digestive tracts designed for continual consumption of forage. Horses secrete acid continually whether they are fed or not.

The pH of gastric fluid in horses that were not fed for several hours has consistently been measured to be 2 or less , and compared to fasted horses, those with free-choice access to hay have significantly higher (less acidic) gastric pH values.

When fed hay or fresh grass, a horse will typically produce about four to five times the forage’s weight in saliva.

Conversely, the amount of saliva produced in response to a grain meal is half as much. Additionally, grains and pelleted concentrates also increase the production of gastrin, a hormone that stimulates gastric acid production.

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supplement for additional protection against acid damage and to support the maintenance of an optimal gastric environment.

Remember, avoiding long periods of time without hay or feed is vital to maintaining digestive health and function. Dealing with EGUS may be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive, but the rewards in terms of your horse’s health and performance are well worth the investment.

For more information on equine nutrition, please visit www.ker.com. Saracen Horse Feeds are the exclusive KER Team Members in the UK

ulcers as meals of grain or extended periods of fasting lead to excess acid output without adequate saliva production.

Management, Travel, Training: Compared to being kept on pasture, stall

confinement is a major risk factor . A Purdue University group found that transport is another risk factor, with gastric ulceration occurring in 58% of show horses in active training that had been transported to an event at least once within the prior 30 days .

Intense exercise is also strongly linked to the development of EGUS. This is due to the mechanics of the horse’s movement and resulting compression of the stomach by the other abdominal organs and diaphragm, which leads to splashing of the gastric acid onto the nonglandular portion of the stomach.

NSAIDs: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) therapy is not

uncommon in intensely worked or high-performance athletes.

Administration of both phenylbutazone and flunixin meglumine have been linked to gastric ulceration, though usually when high or frequent doses are administered.

Use of a combination of these two NSAID drugs was also shown to increase risk and severity of ulcers.

2015

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GOLDEN HORN, bred & owned by Anthony Oppenheimer, prepped on Saracen & winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Gr 1, The Derby Gr 1 etc.,

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Mare of the month

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Cloghran

Muhtathir-The Wise Lady (Ganges)

Cloghran at Elevage de Tourgeville: the dam of Robin Of Navan (American Post), winner of November’s Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud

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obin Of Navan’s victory in the Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1) in early November hit the headlines as the first Group 1 success for his trainer Harry Dunlop.

The colt’s triumph also avenged a high-profile disqualification five years earlier, which denied both his sire American Post and his dam’s family a first Group 1 victory.

In May 2010, Liliside, a half-sister to the grand-dam of Robin Of Navan, prevailed in a bobbing finish of heads and necks in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches at Longchamp.

She got the better of Special Duty, who had been awarded the English equivalent of the race, the 1,000 Guineas, in the stewards’ room at Newmarket just two weeks earlier.

The colt’s triumph also avenged a high-profile disqualification five years earlier, which denied both his sire American Post and his dam’s family a first Group 1 victory

Connections of Liliside had little time to enjoy their success however as the klaxon went to signal another Classic stewards enquiry.

It took 75 minutes for the daughter of American Post to be demoted to sixth place, punishment for having impeded the run of Full Steam. The beneficent was once again Special Duty, and Liliside’s connections were left to rue what might have been.

Prior to her Classic misadventure, Liliside had scored in a pair of Listed races and would go on to add another to her tally before the end of her three-year-old season, but the filly never achieved another Group success.

Two years later, Liliside’s full-sister Lily America also added a Listed success to the

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mare of the month family’s record, but the wait for that elusive first Group 1 success would continue until Robin Of Navan blazed a trail at Saint-Cloud.

Robin Of Navan hails from a family nurtured over the last 30 years by the Lepeudry family, whose Elevage de Tourgeville consigned the future Group 1 winner at Arqana’s October Yearling Sale last year.

Purchased then for just €10,000 by Con Marnane, the son of American Post brought more than four times that price tag when re-offered at Arqana during the company’s Saint-Cloud Breeze-Up Sale in May. The Stroud Coleman agency paid €47,000 for the April-born colt, a real bargain as subsequent events would reveal.

Robin Of Navan was bred by Monique Lepeudry, from a family that has enjoyed flashes of brilliance in recent years.

Dating back to a minor family owned by the Duke Of Norfolk following World War II, the family crossed the English Channel to France in the 1960s via the Abernant mare Dilly-Dally.

Having earned a dismissive “of little account” from Timeform during her own light racing career in Britain, Dilly-Dally might not have seemed the most obvious conduit to a line of Group success. However, when bred to The Marshall, winner of the 1966 Prix Jacques les Marois, Dilly-Dally delivered a filly named Maradadi.

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aradadi only made it to the races once, as a three-year-old, but was also afforded a berth at stud, and went on to produce three winners including the prolific Carvinos (Carvin) who amassed 15 victories on the Flat and over fences during his nine-year racing career.

Among Maradadi’s progeny who did not make it to the races was the Lyphard mare Lymara, who produced five winners for Pierre Lepeudry, often in partnership.

Leading the way was the Phaeton colt Lymington, a dual stakes winner in Spain where he was also placed in the Spanish Derby, the Premio Campofrio.

Four years later, Lymara delivered Miller’s Lily, who won two of her 24 starts for the Lepeudrys and would finally give her breeders a good return on the faith they had invested in her family and also begin the family’s strong relationship with American Post.

Miller’s Lily’s first hit was the Ganges filly The Wise Lady, foaled in 2000. Having

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Owner Madam Lepeudry with her Group 1-producing mare.

Cloghran had a colt foal by Lethal Force this spring

The Wise Lady’s third foal may not have been as successful at the races as her siblings, but Cloghran struck gold on her first attempt as dam of Robin Of Navan broken her maiden at Deauville at two, The Wise Lady went on to earn black-type when placed in the Prix du Calvados (G3) run back at the same track 20 days later, and then when runner-up in the Prix Miesque (G3) at Maison-Laffitte on her final start as a juvenile.

She replicated the feat when third in the Prix de Ris-Orangis (G3) for her ownerbreeder at three before retiring back to the family stud.

Once again, The Wise Lady hit on her first start producing the Listed-placed Good Bye My Friend as her first foal. Better was to come with her second foal, the Green Tune colt Melodyman.

From seven starts at two, the colt scored three times, saving the best until last when he romped home by 2l in the Listed Prix Zeddaan at Fontainebleau in the November of his juvenile career.

However, it was The Wise Lady’s fifth foal who would final earn the family a first Group success, leaving aside Lilside’s agonising disqualification.

The Duke Of Marmalade filly Ming Zhi Cosmos, trained by Nicholas Clement, raced for Teo Ah Khing, winning the Premio Sergio Cumani (G3) in September 2014, having previously taken a brace of Listed races during her three-year-old career.

The Wise Lady’s third foal may not have been as successful at the races as her siblings, but Cloghran (Muhtathir) struck gold on her first attempt as dam of Robin Of Navan.

Since delivering the colt, who has now amassed over £200,000 in earnings, Cloghran has produced a colt by the Group 1-winning sprinter Lethal Force, while her own dam, The Wise Lady, has a yearling colt by the top miler Excelebration to continue the line of success.

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stallion stats: leading sires Leading European sires 2015 (by prize-money earned, to November 10, 2015) Stallion Galileo Dubawi Cape Cross Invincible Spirit Shamardal Oasis Dream Danehill Dancer Dark Angel Teofilo Duke Of Marmalade Dansili Fastnet Rock Kodiac Pivotal Mastercraftsman Halling Exceed And Excel Azamour Acclamation High Chaparral Sea The Stars Singspiel Dylan Thomas Iffraaj Siyouni Elusive City Rock Of Gibraltar Lope De Vega Dutch Art Kyllachy Footstepsinthesand Motivator Holy Roman Emperor Makfi New Approach Dalakhani Manduro Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Aussie Rules Lawman Le Havre Verglas Medicean Champs Elysees American Post War Front Nayef Kheleyf Whipper Areion

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Runners

Winners

Races Won

Places

260 203 191 238 226 214 140 206 176 167 167 127 243 168 176 137 220 134 278 167 113 38 165 205 83 176 199 98 156 171 168 82 198 121 156 93 103 143 155 178 120 133 158 110 107 43 122 194 129 118

111 105 94 106 115 89 66 87 78 60 69 49 95 82 65 54 99 61 121 65 48 17 66 94 38 72 75 53 71 64 73 32 82 59 54 36 41 48 67 63 49 66 54 51 43 16 47 80 48 55

156 158 136 166 187 131 107 144 122 104 105 72 161 130 95 82 162 108 169 97 73 28 109 136 59 130 118 78 109 106 126 46 134 86 85 53 60 78 110 89 72 115 85 69 67 26 67 127 71 90

385 305 315 439 406 374 242 398 326 266 241 172 467 283 292 239 418 228 542 265 164 65 326 402 167 345 370 181 247 310 331 140 360 197 210 150 166 232 342 291 163 284 255 167 186 43 226 398 228 252

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Money Won (ÂŁ) 7,191,393 6,633,238 6,079,549 3,894,711 3,570,586 3,447,890 3,305,662 3,261,507 2,995,273 2,988,231 2,682,772 2,498,614 2,371,723 2,185,398 2,154,680 2,089,260 2,080,747 2,003,727 1,998,221 1,901,957 1,887,072 1,784,521 1,753,270 1,711,611 1,676,324 1,673,457 1,667,784 1,553,731 1,488,741 1,396,627 1,396,293 1,395,339 1,379,051 1,360,458 1,327,371 1,317,991 1,315,695 1,312,646 1,299,623 1,297,643 1,211,414 1,194,234 1,159,430 1,158,216 1,150,457 1,150,102 1,101,366 1,079,756 1,063,592 1,035,476

Wnrs to Rnrs %

Av. earnings

42.69 51.72 49.21 44.53 50.88 41.58 47.14 42.23 44.31 35.92 41.31 38.58 39.09 48.8 36.93 39.41 45.00 45.52 43.52 38.92 42.47 44.73 40.00 45.85 45.78 40.90 37.68 54.08 45.51 37.42 43.45 39.02 41.41 48.76 34.61 38.70 39.80 33.56 43.22 35.39 40.83 49.62 34.17 46.36 40.18 37.20 38.52 41.23 37.20 46.61

27,659 32,676 31,830 16,364 15,799 16,112 23,612 15,833 17,019 17,894 16,064 19,674 9,760 13,008 12,242 15,250 9,458 14,953 7,188 11,389 16,700 46,961 10,626 8,349 20,197 9,508 8,381 15,854 9,543 8,167 8,311 17,016 6,965 11,243 8,509 14,172 12,774 9,179 8,385 7,290 10,095 8,979 7,338 10,529 10,752 26,747 9,028 5,566 8,245 8,775

stallion stats: leading sires ....Leading European sires 2015 cont (by prize-money earned, to November 10, 2015) Stallion Zebedee Ravenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pass Bahamian Bounty Muhtathir Showcasing Pastoral Pursuits Sir Percy Excellent Art Royal Applause Oratorio Soldier Of Fortune Monsun Mount Nelson Slickly Orpen Zoffany Paco Boy Gold Away Equiano Authorized Bushranger Shirocco Stormy River Montjeu Tiger Hill Doyen Clodovil Falco Turtle Bowl Compton Place Hurricane Run Kendargent Silver Frost Mujahid Intikhab Zamindar Tertullian Monsieur Bond Rip Van Winkle Tamayuz Air Chief Marshal Arcano Elnadim Captain Rio Rail Link Sinndar Peintre Celebre Big Bad Bob Tagula Soldier Hollow

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Runners

Winners

Races Won

Places

142 93 133 77 103 137 141 165 193 117 98 59 93 115 89 75 107 68 122 129 179 115 85 112 83 46 99 59 67 105 65 78 68 89 77 118 87 119 112 76 76 106 54 99 67 60 59 92 66 63

56 43 58 36 43 63 62 60 78 58 40 31 36 36 39 28 42 34 46 48 63 45 36 40 28 28 36 22 27 32 29 30 30 52 35 43 34 29 39 25 24 47 24 45 26 22 25 26 23 27

76 58 85 56 69 98 91 88 97 98 62 42 64 51 61 39 56 56 72 62 85 69 53 60 39 39 68 47 45 50 49 43 45 95 55 57 50 39 54 38 39 60 33 60 43 32 39 37 30 39

297 144 247 156 156 282 267 301 320 281 152 88 172 189 163 91 175 148 177 158 310 185 149 159 140 83 181 87 110 171 115 88 123 268 149 187 203 169 160 132 137 172 95 186 129 92 77 130 117 95

Money Won (ÂŁ) 1,018,643 1,017,559 1,014,974 988,500 987,431 974,643 956,486 947,160 930,034 879,577 875,947 809,051 808,970 805,968 790,936 788,896 769,309 769,123 757,443 757,022 753,252 748,716 724,609 710,806 686,323 672,746 669,776 667,010 664,589 664,441 664,055 660,028 650,539 649,376 644,094 638,480 634,261 631,441 623,997 603,776 599,612 569,864 569,860 559,459 554,517 547,183 542,751 537,933 536,563 529,086

Wnrs to Rnrs %

Av. earnings

39.43 46.23 43.60 46.75 41.74 45.98 43.97 36.36 40.41 49.57 40.81 52.54 38.70 31.30 43.82 37.33 39.25 50.00 37.70 37.20 35.19 39.13 42.35 35.71 33.73 60.86 36.36 37.28 40.29 30.47 44.61 38.46 44.11 58.42 45.45 36.44 39.08 24.36 34.82 32.89 31.57 44.33 44.44 45.45 38.80 36.66 42.37 28.26 34.84 42.85

7,174 10,941 7,631 12,838 9,587 7,114 6,784 5,740 4,819 7,518 8,938 13,713 8,699 7,008 8,887 10,519 7,190 11,311 6,209 5,868 4,208 6,511 8,525 6,346 8,269 14,625 6,765 11,305 9,919 6,328 10,216 8,462 9,567 7,296 8,365 5,411 7,290 5,306 5,571 7,944 7,890 5,376 10,553 5,651 8,276 9,120 9,199 5,847 8,130 8,398

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stallion stats: leading sires of 2yos Leading European sires of 2yos 2015 (by prize-money earned, to November 10, 2015) Stallion Galileo Kodiac Invincible Spirit Dark Angel Zoffany War Front Showcasing Exceed And Excel Acclamation Shamardal Dream Ahead Canford Cliffs Teofilo Iffraaj Roderic O’Connor American Post Equiano Lawman Manduro Siyouni Zebedee Dubawi Kendargent Elnadim Royal Applause Paco Boy Pastoral Pursuits Turtle Bowl Fastnet Rock Holy Roman Emperor Sea The Stars New Approach Le Havre Raven’s Pass Poet’s Voice Compton Place Air Chief Marshal Rock Of Gibraltar Sir Percy Kyllachy Makfi Lope De Vega Sakhee’s Secret Arcano Areion Bushranger Myboycharlie Lilbourne Lad Oasis Dream Elusive City

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Winners

53 20 104 34 56 21 69 31 75 28 17 10 52 22 68 28 88 31 49 22 45 17 68 29 24 9 53 21 42 14 25 7 63 22 52 16 31 11 29 14 78 22 50 22 43 18 16 6 57 23 46 14 30 13 24 12 50 14 65 18 32 4 35 7 31 12 36 15 56 15 27 7 33 11 50 12 46 14 53 16 45 18 30 14 49 14 46 17 20 5 72 16 29 11 64 20 44 12 29 7

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Money Won (£)

43 1,659,954 183 1,120,906 86 1,035,674 104 998,742 91 788,896 16 765,017 81 700,047 94 623,147 130 551,444 51 549,845 62 510,384 87 463,829 24 445,901 67 442,451 65 388,126 31 384,139 62 349,379 63 348,761 32 340,722 43 311,666 128 307,851 47 305,594 43 305,296 18 289,126 80 287,465 55 285,898 64 283,154 36 270,219 40 268,405 60 263,121 33 260,934 34 257,297 27 250,514 49 247,766 50 246,643 23 245,517 52 241,262 64 231,199 65 229,272 59 221,659 56 221,643 32 217,549 88 197,000 58 196,485 19 194,389 72 193,126 34 188,872 81 187,723 35 184,933 29 179,273

Wnrs to Rnrs % 37.73 32.69 37.50 44.92 37.33 58.82 42.30 41.17 35.22 44.89 37.77 42.64 37.50 39.62 33.33 28.00 34.92 30.76 35.48 48.27 28.20 44.00 41.86 37.50 40.35 30.43 43.33 50.00 28.00 27.69 12.50 20.00 38.70 41.66 26.78 25.92 33.33 24.00 30.43 30.18 40.00 46.66 28.57 36.95 25.00 22.22 37.93 31.25 27.27 24.13

Av. earnings 31,320 10,778 18,494 14,475 10,519 45,001 13,462 9,164 6,266 11,221 11,342 6,821 18,579 8,348 9,241 15,366 5,546 6,707 10,991 10,747 3,947 6,112 7,100 18,070 5,043 6,215 9,438 11,259 5,368 4,048 8,154 7,351 8,081 6,882 4,404 9,093 7,311 4,624 4,984 4,182 4,925 7,252 4,020 4,271 9,719 2,682 6,513 2,933 4,203 6,182

stallion stats: leading sires of 2yos ...Leading European sires of 2yos 2015 (by prize-money earned, to November 10, 2015) Stallion Excellent Art Approve Dutch Art Kheleyf Bahamian Bounty Scat Daddy Mastercraftsman Country Reel Frozen Power Pounced Cape Cross Fast Company Lord Of England Dansili Wootton Bassett Soldier Hollow Big Bad Bob Intense Focus Diamond Green Footstepsinthesand Stormy River Medicean Sunday Break (Jpn) Kittenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joy Archipenko Rip Van Winkle Slickly Azamour Sehrezad Heliostatic Whipper Namid Danehill Dancer Diktat Desert Prince Pour Moi Never On Sunday Zanzibari Baltic King Blu Air Force Tagula Tamayuz Dick Turpin Duke Of Marmalade Vocalised Ramonti Hard Spun Clodovil Aussie Rules Sixties Icon

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Runners

Winners

Races Won

Places

Money Won (ÂŁ)

30 39 40 54 35 9 39 11 61 16 34 36 17 38 14 19 41 30 16 25 17 31 12 10 22 37 23 13 1 16 22 12 23 8 19 20 9 7 16 13 12 23 30 27 17 7 5 21 20 20

6 14 15 15 13 7 6 5 17 9 10 16 8 12 4 7 8 10 6 8 5 6 5 3 8 9 5 2 1 4 3 3 5 3 9 6 4 2 6 5 2 5 4 8 5 4 2 7 6 6

9 23 21 17 15 7 7 7 18 14 11 21 8 14 7 10 9 14 7 8 6 10 7 6 13 10 7 3 3 9 3 5 5 7 16 8 8 4 9 12 2 7 6 8 6 8 3 9 8 8

45 70 30 74 50 10 46 18 57 20 31 43 16 33 28 15 35 51 26 33 23 25 23 8 25 25 27 6 1 11 22 16 16 5 46 13 19 14 22 32 7 21 26 25 30 3 6 27 32 22

179,229 176,088 175,889 171,855 163,127 162,356 161,233 160,702 150,703 150,261 147,117 139,755 133,271 131,694 130,200 130,196 128,721 127,804 117,905 116,892 115,738 115,070 112,481 111,469 111,178 110,110 109,687 106,180 105,814 105,728 104,961 102,290 100,343 98,329 98,283 96,903 95,465 92,519 92,225 87,937 87,937 86,900 85,243 84,701 84,470 84,027 83,204 83,074 82,473 81,899

Wnrs to Rnrs % 20.00 35.89 37.50 27.77 37.14 77.77 15.38 45.45 27.86 56.25 29.41 44.44 47.05 31.57 28.57 36.84 19.51 33.33 37.50 32.00 29.41 19.35 41.66 30.00 36.36 24.32 21.73 15.38 100.00 25.00 13.63 25.00 21.73 37.50 47.36 30.00 44.44 28.57 37.50 38.46 16.66 21.73 13.33 29.62 29.41 57.14 40.00 33.33 30.00 30.00

Av. earnings 5,974 4,515 4,397 3,182 4,661 18,040 4,134 14,609 2,471 9,391 4,327 3,882 7,839 3,466 9,300 6,852 3,140 4,260 7,369 4,676 6,808 3,712 9,373 11,147 5,054 2,976 4,769 8,168 105,814 6,608 4,771 8,524 4,363 12,291 5,173 4,845 10,607 13,217 5,764 6,764 7,328 3,778 2,841 3,137 4,969 12,004 16,641 3,956 4,124 4,095

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stallion stats: leading first-season sires Wootton Bassett: progeny by the Haras d’Etreham stallion have average earnings of £9,300.

His leading performer is the French Listed winner Almanzor (Maria’s Mon)

Leading first-season sires in Europe 2015: (by prize-money earned, to November 10, 2015) Stallion Zoffany Dream Ahead Canford Cliffs Roderic O’Connor Poet’s Voice Lilbourne Lad Frozen Power Wootton Bassett Sehrezad Pour Moi Never On Sunday Dick Turpin Shakespearean Elusive Pimpernel Milanais Twirling Candy Loup Breton Soul City Trajano Cape Blanco Kingsfort Out Loud Atlantic Sport Dream Eater Sidpour Wiener Walzer Slickly Royal Galidon Frozen Fire Paddy O’Prado Gio Ponti Risk Crise

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Winners

Races Won

Places

Money Won (£)

75 45 68 42 56 64 61 14 1 20 9 30 5 16 3 1 4 7 2 15 13 3 5 3 5 7 1 1 2 3 1 2

28 17 29 14 15 20 17 4 1 6 4 4 2 5 2 1 1 2 0 2 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1

39 25 38 20 26 22 18 7 3 8 8 6 4 7 2 2 1 3 0 2 1 2 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1

91 62 87 65 50 81 57 28 1 13 19 26 12 16 11 3 10 6 7 12 12 6 13 7 10 2 3 4 2 5 2 2

788,896 510,384 463,829 388,126 246,643 187,723 150,703 130,200 105,814 96,903 95,465 85,243 52,562 46,112 44,575 37,777 29,942 24,687 20,116 17,283 14,509 14,018 12,971 11,588 11,435 10,388 10,271 9,610 4,929 4,827 3,969 2,930

Wnrs to Rnrs % 37.33 37.77 42.64 33.33 26.78 31.25 27.86 28.57 100.00 30.00 44.44 13.33 40.00 31.25 66.66 100 25.00 28.57 0 13.33 7.69 33.33 20 0 40 14.28 0 100 50.00 0 0 50.00

Av. earnings 10,519 11,342 6,821 9,241 4,404 2,933 2,471 9,300 105,814 4,845 10,607 2,841 10,512 2,882 14,858 37,777 7,485 3,527 10,058 1,152 1,116 4,673 2,594 3,863 2,287 1,484 10,271 9,610 2,464 1,609 3,969 1,465

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stallion stats: leading 2nd-season sires Leading second-season sires in Europe 2015: (by prize-money earned, to November 10, 2015) Stallion Siyouni Lope De Vega Makfi Zebedee Showcasing Paco Boy Equiano Silver Frost Rip Van Winkle Air Chief Marshal Arcano Fast Company Approve Youmzain Starspangledbanner Vale Of York Lord Shanakill Zanzibari Evasive Alexandros Prussian Vision D’etat Gladiatorus Vocalised Vertigineux Alfred Nobel Fuisse Hellvelyn Mawatheeq Stimulation Cima De Triomphe Gris De Gris Spanish Moon Blame Alex The Winner Polan Le Cadre Noir On Est Bien Mullionmileanhour Tiberius Caesar Konig Turf Shaweel Buck’s Boum Temple City Eclair Du Fada Vol De Nuit Midships Arabian Gleam Toni Blue Motarassed

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Runners 83 98 121 142 103 107 122 68 112 76 106 95 92 39 26 61 48 28 32 24 40 23 29 32 17 49 34 47 23 37 18 14 12 11 4 2 17 6 16 1 16 24 8 1 2 9 4 14 3 2

Winners 38 53 59 56 43 42 46 30 39 24 47 42 28 16 15 24 18 8 11 9 18 8 16 10 6 15 7 12 11 10 9 6 4 5 1 2 7 1 4 1 3 5 3 0 1 1 1 2 0 1

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Places 167 181 197 297 156 175 177 123 160 137 172 146 167 62 44 138 98 46 56 41 143 23 83 49 25 59 31 69 49 50 46 18 25 12 5 3 36 15 20 2 15 29 6 1 13 12 11 10 7 1

courtesy of Weatherbys Money Won (£) 1,676,324 1,553,731 1,360,458 1,018,643 987,431 769,309 757,443 650,539 623,997 599,612 569,864 480,854 401,396 376,920 362,961 362,492 354,541 327,440 286,954 190,577 159,459 155,646 149,776 143,311 141,085 139,595 139,512 119,539 105,173 101,157 97,689 96,747 84,728 79,080 75,270 74,069 69,083 68,876 58,283 49,613 43,334 43,219 28,760 21,725 17,789 16,802 15,114 13,768 11,434 11,319

Wnrs to Rnrs % 45.78 54.08 48.76 39.43 41.74 39.25 37.70 44.11 34.82 31.57 44.33 44.21 30.43 41.02 57.69 39.34 37.50 28.57 34.37 37.50 45.00 34.78 55.17 31.25 35.29 30.61 20.58 25.53 47.82 27.02 50.00 42.85 33.33 45.45 25.00 100.00 41.17 16.66 25.00 100.00 18.75 20.83 37.50 0 50.00 11.11 25.00 14.28 0 50.00

Av. earnings 20,197 15,854 11,243 7,174 9,587 7,190 6,209 9,567 5,571 7,890 5,376 5,062 4,363 9,665 13,960 5,942 7,386 11,694 8,967 7,941 3,986 6,767 5,165 4,478 8,299 2,849 4,103 2,543 4,573 2,734 5,427 6,910 7,061 7,189 18,817 37,034 4,064 11,479 3,643 49,613 2,708 1,801 3,595 21,725 8,894 1,867 3,778 983 3,811 5,659

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stallion fees: 2016 Major British and Irish stallion fees 2016 (including % change compared with 2015) Stud / stallion Ballyhane Arakan Battle Of Marengo Dandy Man Elzaam Frozen Power Red Jazz

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Ballylinch Beat Hollow €6,000 €6,000 Dream Ahead €15,000 €17,500 16.60 Intense Focus €7,000 €5,000 -28.57 Lawman €25,000 €25,000 Lope de Vega €40,000 €45,000 12.50 Make Believe (New) - €20,000 Banstead Manor Stud Bated Breath £10,000 £10,000 Cacique £12,500 £12,500 Champs Elysees £10,000 £8,000 Dansili £100,000 £85,000 Frankel £125,000 £125,000 Kingman £55,000 £55,000 Oasis Dream £75,000 £75,000

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Bearstone Firebreak £4,500 £4,500 Fountain Of Youth (New) - £5,000 Major Cadeaux £3,500 £3,500 Bucklands Coach House £3,000 £3,000 Hellvelyn £3,000 £2,000 Cheveley Park Stud Dutch Art £40,000 £40,000 Garswood £7,000 £5,000 -28 Kyllachy £15,000 £15,000 Lethal Force £10,000 £10,000 Mayson £6,000 £5,000 -16 Medicean £8,000 £7,000 -12.50 Pivotal £45,000 £45,000 Coolmore Australia €50,000 €50,000 Camelot €25,000 €25,000 Canford Cliffs €15,500 €17,500 12.9 Excelebration €17,500 €15,000 -14.28 Fastnet Rock Private Private Footstepsinthesand €10,000 €10,000 Galileo Private Private Gleneagles (New) - €60,000 Henrythenavigator €15,000 €7,500 -50 Holy Roman Emperor €20,000 €17,500 -12.50

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2016 Fee

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Ivawood (New) - €9,000 Kingston Hill (New) - €6,000 Mastercraftsman €40,000 €35,000 -12.50 Most Improved €5,000 €4,000 -20 No Nay Never €20,000 €17,500 -12.5 Pour Moi €12,500 €10,000 -20 Power €8,000 €8,000 Requinto €4,000 €5,000 25 Rip Van Winkle €25,000 €12,500 -50 Rock of Gibraltar €12,500 €10,000 -20 Ruler Of The World €15,000 €10,000 -33.33 So You Think €12,500 €12,500 Starspangledbanner €25,000 €15,000 -40 War Command €15,000 €15,000 Zoffany €12,500 €45,000 260 Dalham Hall Brazen Beau (New) - £10,000 Casamento €5,000 €5,000 27.81 Dubawi £125,000 £225,000 80 Farhh £12,000 £8,000 -33 Golden Horn (New) - £60,000 Helmet €10,000 £8,000 2.24 Iffraaj £22,500 £22,500 New Approach £80,000 £60,000 -25 Outstrip (New) - €5,000 Poet’s Voice £12,000 £12,000 Sepoy £15,000 £15,000 Derrinstown Haatef €2,000 €2,000 Intikhab €6,000 €5,000 -16.60 Tamayuz €15,000 €12,500 -16.60 Gilltown Born To Sea €10,000 €10,000 Sea The Stars €125,000 €125,000 Hedgeholme Doncaster Rover £2,000 tba Intrinsic (New) - £1,750 Mr Medici £1,500 tba Westlake £2,500 tba Highclere Cable Bay (New) Paco Boy

- £9,000

£6,500 £6,500

-

-27

Irish National Stud Big Bad Bob €9,000 €9,000 Dragon Pulse €6,000 €5,000 -16.60 Elusive Pimpernel €1,000 €1,000 Free Eagle (New) - €20,000 Famous Name €4,000 €4,000 -

stallion fees: 2016

Stud / stallion

2015 Fee

2016 Fee

Gale Force Ten Invincible Spirit Worthadd

€5,000 €100,000 €6,000

€5,000 €120,000 €5,000

% + /20 -16.60

Kildangan Cape Cross €20,000 €20,000 Dawn Approach €35,000 €35,000 Epaulette €7,000 €7,000 Exceed And Excel €40,000 €40,000 French Navy (New) - €4,000 Fulbright (New) - €4,000 Hallowed Crown (New) - €7,000 Night Of Thunder (New) - €30,000 Raven’s Pass €20,000 €15,000 -25 Shamardal €70,000 Private Slade Power €20,000 €20,000 Shooting To Win (New) - €7,000 Teofilo €50,000 €50,000 Lanwades Archipenko £10,000 £10,000 Aussie Rules £7,000 £7,000 Leroidesanimaux £14,000 £14,000 Sea The Moon £15,000 £15,000 Sir Percy £7,000 £7,000

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Llety Stud Sayif £3,000 tba Stimulation £3,000 tba Mickley Captain Gerrard £3,500 £2,750 -21 Heerat £4,000 £4,000 Multiplex £3,500 £2,750 -21 Phoenix Reach £5,000 £5,000 Morristown Camacho €7,500 €7,500 Dark Angel €27,500 €60,000 118 Gutaifan (New) - €12,500 Newsells Equiano £8,000 £7,000 -12.50 Mount Nelson £6,000 £5,000 -16.60 Nathaniel £20,000 £20,000 Norman Court Stud Sixties Icon £6,000 £5,000 -16.60 Norton Grove Stud Monsieur Bond £5,000 £4,000 -20 Oak Grove Al Kazeem - £12,000 Avonbridge £2,000 tba -

Stud / stallion

2015 Fee

2016 Fee

% + /-

Overbury Cityscape £4,500 £4,500 Delegator £4,000 £4,000 Fast Company €7,500 £4,000 -31 Rathasker Stud Bungle Inthejungle €5,000 €5,000 Clodovil €10,000 €10,000 Es Que Love €5,000 €5,000 Rathbarry Acclamation €35,000 €30,000 -14.28 Lilbourne Lad €7,500 €5,000 -33.33 Moohaajim €5,000 €4,000 -20 Tagula €4,000 €4,000 Xtension €5,000 €4,000 -20 Shadwell Muhaarar (New) - £30,000 Mukhadram £7,000 £7,000 Nayef £5,000 £5,000 Sakhee Private Private

-

Tally-Ho Baltic King €3,000 €1,500 -50 G Force (New) - €8,000 Kodiac €25,000 €45,000 80 Morpheus €6,000 €5,000 -16 Sir Prancealot €6,000 €5,000 -16 Society Rock €8,000 €6,000 -25 Zebedee €10,000 €8,000 -20 Tara Alhebayeb Aljamaaheer (New)

€5,000 €5,000 - €4,000

-50

The National Stud Dick Turpin £4,000 £3,000 -25 Gregorian £4,500 £4,500 Pastoral Pursuits £4,000 £4,000 Roderic O’Connor €7,500 £9,000 64 Toronado £15,000 £15,000 Tweenhills Harbour Watch £7,500 £7,500 Havana Gold £8,500 £8,500 Hot Streak (New) - £7,000 Whitsbury Due Diligence (New) - £6,500 Foxwedge £7,000 £7,000 Showcasing £15,000 £25,000 66 Swiss Spirit £4,500 £4,000 -11 Stallion fees for French and German-based sires will be listed in the January 2016 issue

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photo of the month: Cartier Awards 2015

From top left (clockwise): After 25 years Arnaud Bamberger presented the Cartier Awards for the last time as he retires from his role at Cartier.

The Oppenheimer family: Anthony Oppenheimer receives the Horse of the Year Award for Golden Horn with daughters Arabella (left) and Emily, and wife Antoinette.

Chanelle McCoy, Lisa Hancock and AP McCoy with Jack Berry (red shirt) after he was given the Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit for “Jack’s House” .

Denise Lewis (left) and Victoria Pendleton with Laurent Feniou, managing director of Cartier UK. Jockeys Frankie Dettori and William Buick enjoy the night out and reflect on the horses they have ridden though the year – they were the only jockeys to ride Golden Horn in a race.

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Le Havre b / b r. ( I R E ) 2 0 0 6 • N ove r r e - M a r i e R he i n be r g

Classic Sire and proven source of Black Type!

LEADING SIRES OF SPRINTERS/MILERS (3yo+, 1000m-1800m) in Europe 2014 – 2015

IN ORDER OF PERCENTAGE OF BLACK TYPE WINNERS TO RUNNERS Sire

Runners

Black Type Winners

% BTW/Rnrs

1 LE HAVRE 2 GALILEO

80 126

8 11

10 8.73

3 4 5 6

71 63 167 55

6 5 13 4

8.45 7.94 7.78 7.27

FASTNET ROCK LOPE DE VEGA DUBAWI STREET CRY

Statistics supplied by Hyperion Promotions Ltd to November 1st

Also standing:

• RAJSAMAN : top class miler by champion sire Linamix. First Crop Yearlings in 2015 have made up to €67,000.

• AIR CHIEF MARSHAL : one of the leading French 2 yo sire in France by Danehill Dancer LA

CAUVINIÈRE

Sylvain Vidal +33 (0)6 20 99 10 15 haras@lacauviniere.com • Mathieu Alex +33 (0)6 26 59 19 18 malex@lacauviniere.com

Gr.1 winners from his first crop!

Kingston Hill The Grey Gatsby Amazing Maria

Amazing Maria wins the Prix Rothschild Gr.1

2015 Leading European Third Crop Sires

(IN ORDER OF WORLDWIDE EARNINGS - EUROPEAN CROPS ONLY ) STALLION SWS GWS EARNINGS £ 2016 FEE € APPROX £ 1 MASTERCRAFTSMAN 14 2 FASTNET ROCK 10 3 Sea The Stars 13

Stakes winners in 2015

7 7 5

3,366,495 2,918,529 2,342,070

35,000 Private 125,000

25,000 Private 90,000

Hyperion Promotions, 1st Nov.

including Group winners

Aidan O Brien’s Even Song scored by 3½ lengths at Leopardstown

sure” “She´s an Oaks filly foONr OG HUE JOCKEY COLM O´D

“This was impressive” RACING POST

EUROPEAN CHAMPION 2YO IN 2008 EUROPEAN CHAMPION FIRST CROP SIRE IN 2013 EUROPEAN CHAMPION SECOND CROP SIRE IN 2014 THE LEADING THIRD CROP SIRE IN 2015

Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh Tel: +353-52-6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy. Tel: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) Tel: +44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com