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DECEMBER 2020

Stallion Review

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2020

All the facts and stats

High Expectations

by Peter Smith Published by Conversation Pieces Available at www.ascotgallery.co.uk

FEATURING: Adrian Nicoll, Ballylinch Stud, Henk Grewe, Owenstown Stud | IN DEPTH: Yearling sale review by Jocelyn de Moubray

Generations OF SUCCESS

Bated Breath

Kingman

The best value sire in Europe by blacktype performers in 2020 2021 Fee £12,500 1st Oct, Special Live Foal

The Classic winning miler siring Classic winning milers 2021 Fee £150,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal

Expert Eye

Oasis Dream

A top-class 2YO and Breeders’ Cup Mile champion 2021 Fee £12,500 1st Oct, Special Live Foal

The proven source of Group 1 speed 2021 Fee £20,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal

2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View)

2015 b h Acclamation - Exemplify (Dansili)

Frankel

2008 b h Galileo - Kind (Danehill)

The fastest to sire 40 Group winners in history 2021 Fee £175,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal

Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 nominations@juddmonte.co.uk www.juddmonte.com

2011 b h Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar)

2000 b h Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave)

Expert Eye The only Group 1 winning miler by sire of sires Acclamation ALL EYES ON THE FUTURE

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PERSIAN KING The Kingman TRIPLE GR.1 HERO, CLASSIC WINNER AT 3 AND GROUP WINNER AT 2 1st Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Gr.1 - 1st Prix d’Ispahan Gr.1 1st Poule d’Essai des Poulains Gr.1 - 1st Prix du Muguet Gr.2 1st Prix de Fontainebleau Gr.3 - 1st Autumn Stakes Gr.3 at 2 2nd Prix du Jockey Club Gr.1 - 3rd Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Gr.1 Limited to 140 mares

EXCEPTIONAL FIRST NORTHERN HEMISPHERE FOALS Colt out of dual Gr.1 winner La Collina

Filly out of Gr.3 winner Lightening Quick

Colt out of Gr.3 winning 2yo sprinter La Rioja

Filly out of Sudu Queen

Colt out of Stakes placed 2yo sprinter White Bullet

Contact Hannah Wall or Alice Thurtle at Tweenhills T: +44 (0) 1452 700177

Colt out of Dream Of Joy

“I’m even more excited about Zoustar now that I’ve seen his foals. Scopey, muscled with a good walk, they should go down very well at the sales.” The Hon. Peter Stanley, New England Stud and Stanley House Stud

“The Zoustars have everything you want; tremendous presence, correct, incredibly well balanced with a lovely way of moving.” Sara Cumani, Fittocks Stud

“I think these Zoustars are what every breeder hopes for and when they see them they’re going to sell very well.” David Cox, Baroda Stud

“Our Zoustar colt is exactly what we were hoping for from the mating. He has inherited his sire’s imposing physicality with loads of bone and muscle, and a great outlook.” Dr Pat Sells, Chasemore Farm

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EUROPEAN CHAMPION

3-YEAR-OLD SPRINTER BY NO NAY NEVER Unbeaten Gr.1 winner at 2

1 Middle Park Stakes-Gr.1, 6f., Newmarket 1st Round Tower Stakes-Gr.3, 6f., Curragh by 3¾ lengths 1st Maiden, 6f., Curragh by 7 lengths earning TDN Rising Star status st

TEN SOVEREIGNS and his first 6 sires

Brilliant Gr.1 winner at 3

NO NAY NEVER

1st July Cup-Gr.1, 6f., Newmarket by 2¾ lengths defeating the Gr.1 sprinters Advertise, Fairyland and Dream of Dreams in the second fastest time ever

SCAT DADDY JOHANNESBURG HENNESSY STORM CAT STORM BIRD all Gr.1 winning 2YO’s!

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42 blacktype winners and/or producers of blacktype winners amongst his first in-foal mares in 2020!

2021 Fee: €20,000 Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Hermine Bastide, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller, Neil Magee or Mark Byrne. Tel: +353-52-6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon, Paddy Fleming, Cathal Murphy or David Walsh. Tel: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) Tel: +44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com

2020

WONDERFUL TONIGHT

Winner of Gr.1 British Champions Fillies & Mares S., Gr.1 Prix de Royallieu, Gr.3 Prix Minerve

POLICY OF TRUTH Winner of Gr.3 Prix des Chenes

NATIONAL SERVICE Winner of Gr.3 Prix Paul de Moussac

PORT GUILLAUME Winner of Gr.2 Prix Hocquart

NICKAJACK CAVE Winner of Gr.3 Ballyroan Stakes

SKYWARD

Winner of Gr.3 Prix de Reux

HOME OF THE BRAVE Winner of Gr.3 Aurieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Star Handicap

BELLOCCIO

Winner of LR Criterium du Languedoc - Prix Bernard de Marmiesse

In 2020 our graduates gave us some wonderful nights but we couldn't have done it without you all. So a sincere thank you and let's raise a glass to continued success next year. Looking forward to seeing you again soon.

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contents december 14

First Word

News

Leader of the pack

The real deal

Golden years

We recap a year like no other and offer some thoughts to the future We take a look at the stud fees for 2021, we review the Return of Mares which saw 17 stallions cover over 200 mares in 2020, and Cathy Grassick has an eye on Brexit

Loop the Lope

Growing dominance

Reign Supreme

Uncertain sales

Simon Rowlands reviews the year’s global racing scene, three-time Group 1 winner Ghaiyyath top of his ratings and the best horse of 2020 Authentic wins an above-average running of the Breeders’ Cup Classic, while it was a fantastic meeting for the European Turf raiders, writes Alan Porter This year saw Adrian Nicoll celebrate 50 years as a bloodstock agent with BBA Ireland. With Martin Stevens, he looks back at a half century of the bloodstock industry

Not many people will look back at 2020 with pleasure, but John O’Connor of Ballylinch Stud has plenty to smile about. Aisling Crowe discusses with O’Connor the progress of the stud’s stallions Lope De Vega, Make Believe and New Bay German trainer Henk Grewe has won his second domestic trainers’ title in just his sixth year of training. Jocelyn de Moubray meets Grewe, who harbours global ambitions

This year saw yet more top-class graduates emerge from Owenstown Stud, headed by Group 1 winner Supremacy. John Tuthill argues it is all down to the high-quality land on the farm Jocelyn de Moubray reviews this year’s European yearling sales, which produced a fall in turnover equivalent to $60 million

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High Expectations

by Peter Smith

Stallion Review 2020

contents december 110 Leading first-season sires in Europe Statistics courtesy of Weatherbys

114 Leading sires by distance

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

Into Mischief

126 The master list

Hyperion’s table of 2020’s European and Dubai stakes winners, listed by sire and identifying broodmare sires

136 Stallion covering statistics

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

144 Stallion averages

Leading global stallions 2020

Changing nations

Top 100 European sires 2020

Siyouni makes it a best-yet second spot

164 Leading US first-season sires

Top 100 European sires of two-year-olds

164 Leading US Turf sires

Into Mischief moves up the list on the global stage after a superb season for his progeny on the US tracks The year’s biggest news for the older stallion division was the purchase of Wootton Bassett by Coolmore, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

Kodiac is king of a Tally-Ho Stud one-two

100 Leading sires of stakes horses in Europe It has been such a good year for Teofilo

105 Record breaker

Aislnig Crowe reviews performances by the younger stallions, Mehmas the record-breaking highlight

Stallions listed alphabetically showing colt, filly and overall averages achieved at 2020’s yearling sales. Table from Weatherbys

154 Mischief making good

Into Mischief wins his second sires’ title and leads across all divisions, reports Melissa Bauer-Herzog

162 Leading US sires

166 Leading US sires of two-year-olds 168 Stud fees for major British and Irish stallions 2021 194 Race of the year

The Group 1 Sussex Stakes saw Mohaather produce a superb turn of foot to beat a high-class field

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first word

T SEEMS SUCH A LONG TIME AGO now since March, since essentially what will come to be known as the pre-COVID-19 era. Of course, by last March we had been watching lockdown in Italy, and some of us had been to Saudi Arabia when thought had been given towards the concept, “Should I be travelling?”, but still went anyway. In Saudi, there were some travellers from the Far East wearing face masks, there was already a feeling of some discomfort when stood in the busy airport halls, chats with press members from Japan confirmed that this Chinese thing from bats was not nice. But, in reality, life was not too affected. A couple of weeks later at Cheltenham things had stepped up a notch – hand sanitisers had been put out, though largely ignored by the throngs of racegoers – and chats there with German press assured us they had not been to Italy and they were healthy. There were rumours that this thing was a more than just a bad case of flu, large numbers f deaths had begun to be quoted. But, really, the magnitude of events to come were not envisaged by many. Then, life changed, and is still changed. Lockdown. Racing stopped, shops closed, no one could move, pubs and restaurants were empty, Big Brother was watching – and reporting – you. There was overriding fear for the health of vulnerable relatives. The dread of watching those press conferences and seeing death charts ever climbing. Sadly, some lost loved ones, opening up holes in personal lives that will never be filled. The reality of a global pandemic. And then things started to level and fall, and we began to see a brighter horizon. So… hey ho…lockdown it will be only six weeks, the British get-on-with-it attitude will see us through, the health issues will be under some control. We will be back to normality… no more fake enthusiasm for ridiculous home hobbies never to be attempted again, taking part in Raw Egg Challenges, becoming advocates of meetings by Zoom (“Who knew we could do this? Isn’t it great?” we enthused in digital glory)

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Lockdown. Racing stopped, shops closed, no one could move, pubs and restaurants were empty, Big Brother was watching – and reporting – you. There was overriding fear for the health of vulnerable relatives

or exercising like a lunatic with the dog in the sitting room, or stressing how businesses and jobs and work and livelihoods and relationships would survive. Racing returned, first in France and then the UK. All under the mantra of behind-closed-doors, and with a new look, once-in-a-lifetime programme book. There was some argument (as always in this industry) about the best way to go and some stomping of feet, but a way forward was found – Classic dates were reversed, NH racing stopped, Royal Ascot held firm, protocols put in place, no owners allowed. Ireland was a little later, but it got there too. So for the summer Flat season there was some resemblance of business as usual; the programme book found its way back to the routine that has been produced by two centuries of the sport. To all intents and purposes all was the same. Unless, of course, you were at the races. There you were struck by emptiness of stadia designed to hold lots and lots of people, and the importance that the interaction a swell of crowd-emotion can produce. Who knew we were such socially sensitive and emotive, pack creatures? We were born with incredible abilities – good vision, hearing, brains that can analyse and feel emotion… as human beings we seem to like to use them to the full. Of course, some professionals laughed and said how much they preferred the quieter environment, especially for debuting young horses, but it is not a sustainable situation. Professional sport is there for entertainment – racing is lucky as it can tick that off with its betting wings and its TV coverage, but it is there for personal participation, too. So the summer’s calls for crowds to be re-introduced grew, and plans for trial days were put in place... most were cancelled in the chiming of zero hour, but a handful of lucky Warwick regulars got to the races in September and can still claim honours as the only UK racegoers since March. As I write this we are back in UK lockdown, mirroring situations in France and Ireland; the idea that this pandemic was just a short to mid-term issue

first word

When will we see you

again?

The strange year of 2020 continues with second lockdowns and racing still operating behind closed doors. We recap the year that has been and take a look to the future that could be worked around fully extinguished. Racing and some professional sport has continued, the breeding stock sales given the go-ahead, our industry is lucky. You might be reading this in an extended lockdown with that daily press conference graph laughing at us like a sickening grim reaper as it climbs ever upward; or we might now be confident that the circuit breaker has achieved its aims, held COVID-19 dormant for Christmas and the arrival of Santa Claus. Maybe life is just in limbo until the much-heralded vaccine arrives? Who knows? The uncertainty is back in lives and our businesses. This is not going anywhere in a hurry. Most of us have been lucky enough to have enjoyed our lives in a nations largely financially secure and free from war. Aside from the threat of terrorism, our countries have not in recent years had to be concerned with day to day survival. Will that be a memory now with the ever-warring spectre of virus? Will one of these hastly developed vaccines, solutions that governments are clinging to, provide the answer? So where do we go from here? What plans can be made for our horseracing bubble?

Change does not have to be permanent and the right solution is not always discovered immediately

Well, we have learnt that we can adapt and alter and try things new. Any ideas that could be to the improvement of the sport of horseracing could be enactedâ&#x20AC;Ś if they work great, if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, well, we can take a look at the reasons why. Change does not have to be permanent and the right solution is not always discovered immediately. And blame should not be hoisted on those brave enough to take a new step to the future. Now is the chance for those who can make those moves to take them; it is probably the biggest opportunity ever to right some of the wrongs that UK racing has been dealing with for a generation. The current apparent behind-the-scenes mutterings of a new way forward needs finds a public voice. Julia Harrington, the incoming CEO of the BHA, needs support. She is taking over on a war footing, and she and her team will be making tough decisions in an unexpected, unknown environment. This next thought is a call we have put out before, but it is essential that racing is marketed and promoted and run as a business as a whole. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d argue that it is critical for the sport to develop a comprehensive

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first word industry-driven British racing website for racegoers, race fans and those who are one-time-interested. Where is the one-stop shop now? An accessible industry-produced website or hub for people to go to if they want to follow the news? Or to see where racing is scheduled over the next month with an easy online Ticketmaster-type ticket buying process? Bulk buying of tickets over the season with discounts available? What an opportunity it would be to launch something new online with the hoped-for new dawn of crowd racing in 2021? What exciting and innovative options is racing planning to offer if the behind-closed-doors scenario has to continue? On a wider theme, it is so important that, despite Brexit, the unity between British and Irish and European bloodstock is strengthened, that the global appeal of purchasing bloodstock from Europe continues to draw in investors and buyers. That the links between bloodstock and racing are strengthened – that the programme book supports the other and vice versa. That must be at all levels especially for “grassroots” racing, and the under-pressure middle market and below. That bloodstock is recognised for its essential skills at bringing in new owners and participants, for ensuring that cash comes back into the sport instead of flowing elsewhere. That we ensure the racing and bloodstock houses are kept in order from a welfare and drug-use perspective. That anyone who wants to become involved – as an owner, jockey, trainer, breeder, staff member, racegoer – can do so. That this great bloodstock and racing melting pot continues to give opportunities and chances and dreams for all – at whatever level and point they desire. Finally, we offer our congratulations. As we went to press the news was released that the UK government has included a £40 million loan scheme for racing as part of its “Sport Winter Survival Package”. Well done to all who ensured that racing, the country’s second biggest spectator sport, was included. Let’s hope it is just a necessary stop-gap as we return to normality and crowd participation in 2021.

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To an extent racing continued as usual in 2020 and, as always, new champions were found (top to bottom): Ghaiyyath, Palace Pier, Serpentine, Hollie Doyle and Mehmas

CLODOVIL TIGER TANAKA Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac

COULSTY

GREGORIAN

SANTOSHA Gr.3 Princess Margaret Stakes

PLAINCHANT Gr.2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte (Top rated 2yo filly in France, 2020)

BUNGLE INTHEJUNGLE WINTER POWER Gr.3 Cornwallis Stakes

Fees 2021: Bungle Inthejungle €8,000 • Clodovil €5,000 • Gregorian €5,000 • Coulsty €4,000 MAURICE OR MADELINE BURNS Rathasker Stud, Kilcullen Road, Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland. T 00 353 (0)45 876940 M 00 353 (0)86 2500687 or 00 353 (0)86 3774430 E info@rathaskerstud.ie W www.rathaskerstud.com

New in 2021

WOODED GROUP 1 WINNING SPRINTER BY WOOTTON BASSETT

“WOODED stood out from the day he arrived for his good looks and ability. He’s always been very sound, never missing a day’s work. As a racehorse he had so many qualities, class, courage and speed and he fully deserved his Gr.1 win this year.” Trainer Francis-Henri Graffard

AL SHAQAB

1st 2-year-olds in 2021

At stud 2015

AL WUKAIR

ECTOT

OLYMPIC GLORY

Prix Jacques-le-Marois Gr.1 winner at 3, like Dubawi & Kingman before him

Dual Gr.1 winner, Gr.1 winning 2-year-old from the Montjeu sire line

Sire of dual Gr.1 winner ` WATCH ME & top class Group winning 2-year-old ETONIAN

AL SHAQAB RACING

. Haras de Bouquetot, France . +33 (0)2 31 32 28 91 . contact@bouquetot.com . www.alshaqabracing.com

1st 3-year-olds in 2021

1st 2-year-olds in 2021

SHALAA

INVINCIBLE SPIRIT’S BEST 2 YEAR-OLD PERFORMER-EVER 5 BLACKTYPES FROM HIS FIRST CROP

ZELZAL

SEA THE STARS’ FASTEST GR.1 WINNER, CHANTILLY RACECOURSE TRACK RECORD HOLDER OVER THE MILE

SIRES 2021 At stud 2015

At stud 2015

RULER OF THE WORLD

TORONADO

Sire of multiple Gr.1 & Breeder’s Cup winner IRIDESSA from a small first crop

One of the highest % of 2-year-old winners in Europe, inc. Royal Ascot & July Stakes Gr.2 winner TACTICAL

BOBBY’S KITTEN

Bay 2011 by Kitten’s Joy ex Celestial Woods (by Forestry)

A LEADING EUROPEAN FIRST CROP SIRE IN 2020 • ONLY 3YO EVER to win Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint • Won 6 races at 2, 3 and 5 years and $1,424,417 in the USA and Ireland – all on Turf • Sire of 11 individual first crop 2yo winners of 17 races, including Gr.2 Beresford Stakes runner-up MONAASIB (to 18th Nov. 2020) • First stallion son of KITTEN’S JOY (Champion Turf racehorse and multiple US Champion sire) in England and Ireland

SEA THE MOON

Bay 2011 by Sea The Stars ex Sanwa (by Monsun)

A LEADING EUROPEAN SIRE IN 2020 • Sire of 25 individual Black-type horses to date including: ALPINE STAR (Gr.1 winner at 3 in 2020 and Gr.2 winner at 2) QUEST THE MOON (Gr.2 winner and Gr.1-placed in 2020, and dual Gr.3 winner) WONDERFUL MOON (Gr.2 and dual Gr.3 winner in 2020, and Gr.3 winner at 2) • Yearlings sold at the 2020 Tattersalls October Sales Book 1 & 2 made 480,000 gns, 210,000 gns, 200,000 gns, etc., averaging £154,975 – over 10 times his 2018 fee

SIR PERCY

Bay 2003 by Mark of Esteem ex Percy’s Lass (by Blakeney)

A POTENT MIX OF SPEED & STAMINA • Sire of 49 individual Stakes horses including Gr.1 winners WAKE FOREST and SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD, and BERKSHIRE ROCCO (Listed winner, Gr.1 Classic-placed and Gr.2-placed in 2020) • Sire of 84 individual 2yo winners incl. dual winner and Gr.3-placed PERCY’S LAD in 2020 • Yearlings sold at the 2020 Tattersalls October Sales Book 2 made 150,000 gns (x2), 80,000 gns & 50,000 gns, averaging £112,875 – over 16 times his 2018 fee

STUDY OF MAN

Bay 2015 by Deep Impact ex Second Happiness (by Storm Cat)

SON AND GRANDSON OF LEGENDS • Winner of 3 races at 2 & 3, over 1600m - 2100m, including the ‘Stallion Making’ Gr.1 French Derby and £1,033,142 • Only son of DEEP IMPACT (Japanese Super-Sire and multiple Champion) at stud in England • A grandson of the Racing/Breeding Legend MIESQUE, a dual Classic winner and dam of Classic winners KINGMAMBO, EAST OF THE MOON, etc. • Outstanding International Outcross Pedigree

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LANWADES

The independent option TM

First Foals 2021

the news

Stud farms react to COVID-19 Majority of stud fees reduced or held at 2020 levels

TUD FEE season always creates discussion, this year more than ever. And although the 2020 yearling sales performed respectably in the circumstances, there is much commercial uncertainty as to where the bloodstock market will be over the next three years. Stallion farms have reacted accordingly, and many fees have been reduced or remained on a par with 2020. Sixites Icon, who covered 31 mares in 2020, has the had the largest reduction – Norman Court Stud deciding to reduce his fee from £6,000 to just £1,000, a fall of 83 per cent. Highclere Stud has reacted with two innovative plans – 50/50 Terms and Euros4Euros, both designed to help breeders and encourage them to use the farm’s stallions, Cable Bay and Land Force. The 50/50 Terms enables breeders to pay 50 per cent of the nomination cost on October 1, SLF. The remaining 50 per cent will be payable when the progeny is sold at auction as a foal or yearling – and only then if it reaches its Target Price (see Highclere’s website). The remaining 50 per cent is also payable if the breeder places a reserve in excess of the Target Price, or if the breeder decides not to offer the progeny at public auction. The Euros4Euros Terms is to take away some issues around currency exchange for EU-based breeders if they take 50/50

Cable Bay: has a price decrease and new payment option

Terms and sell in euros. The sterling price is directly switched into euros. The majority of stallion farms have reduced prices for much of their rosters, generally between 25 per cent and 33 per cent, only increasing the prices on those stallions who have had particularly strong progeny results this year. All bar two of the Coolmore stallions have either been left on their 2020 fee or have had price reductions – the two with increases are its new sire Wootton Bassett, up from his last French-based fee of €45,000 to €100,000, and Camelot, who has enjoyed a break-out year on the track. His fee has tweaked upwards from €40,000 to €45,000. Darley has reacted in a similar fashion – only Night Of Thunder has had an increase going from

€25,000 to €75,000. Lanwades has dropped all its stallion prices apart from 2020’s Group 1 debut producer Sea The Moon – he has had an uplift from £15,000 to £22,000 The Irish National Stud has reduced all fees – newly arrived Equiano has dropped from his UK price of £6,000 to €3,000. Juddmonte has kept the fees for its big two – Frankel and Kingman – as per 2020. Bated Breath, who enjoyed a good yearling sales season, is also still available at £12,500. The only farm to have given more fee increases than decreases is Ballylinch. John O’Connor chatted to us about how he came to make those decisions, see pages 52-56. Of those stallions retiring to stud the most expensive is Pinatubo, Darley’s threetime Group 1-winning son of Shamardal. He starts off at £35,000. Darley’s Ghaiyyath, rated the best horse in the world this summer, kicks off at €30,000 and Earthlight sets out at €20,000. Tweenhills Stud’s 2,000 Guineas winner Kameko also commands a fee of £30,000. Circus Maximus, the threetime Group 1-winning miler, joins Coolmore’s roster at €20,000. Without Parole, the son of Frankel, winner of the St James’s Palace (G1) and three-time Grade 1-placed, starts off a Newsells at £10,000. The fee for Mohaather, the star of our Race of the Year (see page 171), has yet to be announced.

Top-priced stallions: 2021 (with advertised fees on 17.11.20)

Sire Fee Dubawi........................................£250,000 Frankel........................................£175,000 Kingman.....................................£150,000 Sea The Stars..............................€150,000 Lope De Vega..............................€125,000 No Nay Never..............................€125,000 Wootton Bassett........................€100,000 Invincible Spirit...........................€80,000 Night Of Thunder.........................€75,000 Kodiac............................................€65,000 Dark Angel....................................€60,000 Fastnet Rock.................................€50,000 Camelot.........................................€45,000 Showcasing..................................£45,000 Too Darn Hot ................................£45,000

Stallions with fee increases Sire

Fee

Wootton Bassett....€100,000.............250 Mehmas....................€75,000.............233 Night Of Thunder.....€75,000.............200 Sea The Moon...........£22,500...............50 New Bay....................€20,000...............33 Lope De Vega..........€125,000...............25 Make Believe............€15,000...............25 Elzaam.........................€5,000...............25 Planteur......................€3,000...............20 Camelot.....................€45,000...............12

Stallions with largest reductions Sire

Fee %

Sixties Icon................£1,000.............. -83 Dragon Pulse.............€2,000.............. -66 The Gurkha................€5,000.............. -60 Equiano......................€3,000.............. -55 Golden Horn............£20,000.............. -50 Camacho....................€5,000.............. -50 Markaz.......................€3,000.............. -50 Muhaarar.................£10,000.............. -50 The Last Lion.............£4,000.............. -46 Mastercraftsman....€15,000.............. -40 Nathaniel.................£15,000.............. -40 Cable Bay...................£8,000.............. -46 Rajasinghe.................£3,000 -40 Alhebayeb....................€3,000 -40

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Five Flat sires covered over 200 mares in 2020 And it was Coolmore’s Churchill, who was visited by 250 mares, the spring’s busiest Flat stallion in Britain or Ireland

HE BUSIEST FIVE FLAT STALLIONS IN Britain and Ireland last spring all covered over 200 mares. Overall, there were 17 sires (NH and Flat) in Britain and Ireland who covered 200 or more mares in 2020, down slightly from 19 in 2019. The busiest of those five Flat stallions was Churchill, Coolmore’s son of Galileo covering for his third season. The former champion two-year-old and dual 2,000 Guineas winner was visited by 250 mares. He was followed numbers-wise by two new sires – Tally-Ho Stud’s Inns Of Court, who saw 218 mares, and Coolmore’s Ten Sovereigns, who covered 214 mares. The next two most popular sires were Night Of Thunder (213) and Sea The Stars at Gilltown Stud (206). The other new sires in Britain and Ireland after Inns Of Court and Ten Sovereigns to cover over 150 mares were Kildangan Stud’s Blue Point (198), Magna Grecia at Coolmore (180), Too Darn Hot at Dalham Hall Stud (172), Ballyhane Stud’s Soldier’s Call (164), Calyx at Coolmore (163), Capri at Grange Stud (158) and Highclere Stud’s Land Force (155). As to be expected, Britain and Ireland’s 11-time champion sire Galileo once again covered a book full of outstanding racemares and producers in his 19th northernhemisphere covering season at Coolmore. The 25 Group/Grade 1 winners he received in 2020, included mares such as Again, Alpha Centauri, Amazing Maria, Awesome Maria, Beauty Parlour, Fairyland, Fiesolana, Goldikova, Legatissimo, Mecca’s Angel, Nickname, Pretty Pollyanna, Quiet

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Tally-Ho Stud’s Inns Of Court covered 218 mares last spring, Europe’s busiest new sire of 2020

Reflection, Tiggy Wiggy and Wild Illusion. Breeders was also sent him 21 dams of Group/Grade 1 winners. Three of his 2020 mares are members of both groups – Group 1 winners themselves and the producers of Group 1 winners: Chelsea Rose, the dam of Kew Gardens, Halfway To Heaven, the dam of Magical and Rhododendron, and Red Evie, the dam of Found. Several sires enjoyed an upturn in business in 2020, thanks to a change in circumstances or a good run of progeny results. Night Of Thunder’s strong year on the racecourse in 2019 saw him get seven stakes winners and strong winner-to-runner strike

rates with his first European two-year-olds. The son of Dubawi’s 2020 book of 213 mares was an increase on the 106 for 2019. There was an increase in quality as well – he covered 81 black-type-performing mares in 2020 compared to 17 in 2019. His mares also included the dams of Group 1 winners Arcano, Best Solution, Halfway To Heaven, King Of Change, Margot Did, Nezwaah, Precieuse, Rizeena, Slade Power, Technician, Was and Wonderment. New to stud for 2020, the Darley pair of Too Darn Hot and Blue Point both received quality books - both led their generation of stallions judged by the winning mares and

the news the black-type mares seen last spring. The world lost one of its great stallions in 2019 when Deep Impact died after failing to recover from neck surgery at the Shadai Stallion Station in Japan. The Return of Mares lists six foals by him born in Britain and Ireland this year. Coolmore owns four of those – colts out of the Group 1 winners Hydrangea, Rhododendron, Maybe, who has already produced the Group 1 winner Saxon Warrior by the late sire, as well as a filly out of Minding. Godolphin welcomed a Deep Impact filly out of Hibaayeb, a Grade 1 winner herself and dam of a Group/Grade 1 winner in Wuheida, while the Niarchos family bred a filly by the sire out of Malicieuse, a Galileo half-sister to Maxios.

Several European breeders appear to have looked to other Japanese sires in 2019. There are three 2020 foals recorded in Britain and Ireland by Daiwa Major, a champion sprinter and miler by Sunday Silence whose early crops have contained six elite winners, including the Hong Kong Mile hero Admire Mars. The three are the Wertheimer brothers’ colt out of Dancequest, the Niarchos family’s filly out of Diaphora, and Coolmore’s colt out of the top-class Peeping Fawn. Former world champion sprinter Lord Kanaloa, who produced the brilliant Almond Eye in his first crop, had one foal registered in Britain or Ireland in 2020, a filly out of US Grade 3 winner Guilty Twelve bred by Craig Bennett’s Merry Fox Stud. (Full covering statistics on pages 136-140)

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See pages 136-140 for full stallion returns Figures courtesy of Weatherbys

Peeping Fawn: has a colt foal by Deep Impact

The British and Irish foal crop of 2020 sees reductions to 2016 levels

HE NUMBER OF LIVE FOALS registered to date in The General Stud Book as reported by Weatherbys currently totals 12,778. That is a fall from 13,443 in 2019, a decline of six per cent. Of that total, 4,236 (4,655 in 2019) are registered in Britain and 8,542 (8,788 in 2019) in Ireland. This is a decline across both countries – a combined reduction of 665 foals (five per cent). This, apparently, is due in part to slower registrations

in 2020, but is also in line with global thoroughbred foal crop trends which have seen a decline in the last 15 years of 35,000 foals (28 per cent) from 123,000 in 2005 to 88,000 last year. The percentage ratio of foals between Britain and Ireland moved in favour of Ireland – 33.15 per cent compared to 66.85 per cent in 2020 from 34.63 per cent and 65.37 per cent in 2019. The decline in numbers this year is larger in Britain at a fall of nine per cent compared to Ireland, which has seen a dropoff of three per cent.

According to the returns slightly more foals were born earlier in the season – January (585 vs 564 in 2019) and February (2,268 vs 2,183 in 2019) – at the expense of the three busiest foaling months – March (3,320 vs 3,539 in 2019), April (3,982 vs 4,240 in 2019) and May (2,240 vs 2,392 in 2019). June also saw reductions – 358 vs 472 in 2019. The total number of broodmares reported at stud across the two nations in 2020 is 22,362, a fall of 557 from 22,919 in 2019.

Of these, 2,667 or 11.9 per cent were not covered, and 313 or 1.4 per cent were barren. The number of stallions declined by 20 in Ireland from 252 in 2019 to 232 in 2020, and by three in Britain from 152 in 2019 to 149 in 2020. Due to the unique challenges presented by COVID there are indications that foal registrations were carried out later by some breeders so numbers are expected to change by more than usual in the Supplementary Edition of the Return Of Mares to be published next February.

Foal crop numbers in Britain and Ireland 2010-2020 (% difference + / - year on year) Foals 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 GB

4,552 4,502 4,227 4,302 4,255 4,466 4,597 4,674 4,726 4,655 4,236 (-1)

(-1)

(-6)

(+2)

(-1)

(+5)

(+3)

(+2)

(+1)

(-1)

(-9)

IRE 7,128 6,890 6,884 7,051 7,440 8,205 8,792 9,044 8,987 8,788 8,542

(-26)

(-3)

(-)

(+2)

(+6)

(+10)

(+7)

(+3)

(-0.5)

(-2)

(-3)

TOTAL 11,680 11,392 11,111 11,353 11,695 12,671 13,389 13,718 13,713 13,443 12,778

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New National Hunt sales scheduled in Britain and Ireland TWO NEW NATIONAL HUNT SALES have been planned in Britain and Ireland by major sales companies. Goffs UK has scheduled a new sale of point-to-pointers to be held at Yorton Farm Stud on December 17, following on from the sale staged at the farm by the company on November 12. That auction saw the sale of Jonbon, the full-brother to Douvan who sold for a record-breaking price of £570,000. Tattersalls Ireland has scheduled a new two-day NH store sale for July 14-15, 2021. It is planned to have a similar format to the August National Hunt

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ACK IN THE DECEMBER 2018 issue of this column I wrote about how the issue of Brexit was of great concern to me as we were very much dealing with an unknown set of parameters. Two years down the line and we are no further ahead with Europe, still uncertain as to whether it will be a “No Deal” scenario. No matter what the outcome of those negotiations, breeders must be reassured by the fact that their representative bodies are hard at work both from the EU side and the British side. Safe movements of equines and, indeed animals in general, is something of great importance to all 27 member states and this issue has been brought to the attention of not only national governments but also to Michel Barnier at the head of the EU negotiations. I am personally aware of the excellent behind-the-scenes work that has been carried out by the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association. (ITBA). There have been Trojan efforts carried out not only by the ITBA’s veterinary advisor Des Leadon, but also by Horse Racing Ireland’s chief executive Brian Kavanagh, who both sit on an EU taskforce working on behalf of the wider industry. They will work to ensure that no matter what the outcome of the coming weeks’ negotiations, that the safe transport and well-being of the bloodstock is paramount to everyone involved. The Irish and English bloodstock industries have operated side by side in harmony for centuries, and in more recent times this has extended to include other countries in Europe especially France, Germany and Italy. My hope is that this will continue long into the future, both in the breeding shed and on the racetrack. It has certainly been a golden couple of weeks for Irish breeders in both northern and southern-hemispheres. It started with the impressive win by Sir Dragonet (Camelot) in the Group 1 Cox Plate, a race in which he led home a 1-2-3-4 for Irishbred horses – he was followed by Armory (Galileo), Russian Camelot (Camelot) and Mugatoo (Henrythenavigator). This was achievement was closely followed by a 1-2 in the Group 1 Melbourne Cup, Australia’s “race that stops a nation”.

Sale and will include a select Part I and a Part II for three and fouryear-old NH store horses. “The decision to stage a July Store Sale gives Tattersalls Ireland the opportunity to offer vendors a choice of sales, whilst also adapting to current market trends where purchasers are breaking and putting horses in training at an earlier stage,” said CEO Matt Mitchell. “We feel the introduction of this new store sale will be beneficial to the industry and are confident we will offer a strong catalogue of stores to meet market demands.” The Tattersalls Cheltenham Sale on December 17 is to relocate to

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The Joseph O’Brien-trained Twilight Payment (Teofilo) came home in front of father Aidan’s, Tiger Moth (Galileo). The ever-consistent British-bred Prince Of Arran (Shirocco) put in another amazing performance for trainer Charlie Fellowes with a fastfinishing third place. The attentions of the thoroughbred world then turned to the US for the culmination of the year’s racing for the elite of the European and American racing industries, the Breeders’ Cup. Much to my delight the European-bred horses took centre stage for the Turf races with Irish-bred winners – Aunt Pearl (Lope De Vega) led home an Irish-bred 1-2-3-4 in the Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf, Order Of Australia (Australia) brought home an Irish-bred 1-2-3 in Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile, and Tarnawa (Shamardal) headed an Irishbred 1-2 in the Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf.

HE BRITISH-BRED Glass Slippers (Dream Ahead) demonstrated her characteristic blistering speed winning the Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint when for trainer Kevin Ryan and owner Bearstone Stud. The equally impressive filly Audarya (Wootton Bassett) landed a blow for French-breds when scoring in the Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf for British-based trainer James Fanshawe. In the midst of all of this excitement stateside one would be forgiven for missing yet another amazing performance by an Irish-bred horse in Australia. The incredible globe-trotting feats of trainer Willie Mullins continued unabated when the ever-consistent True Self, a seven-year-old daughter of Oscar, landed the Group 3 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Flemington beating the Joseph O’Brien-trained Pondus, a British-bred son of Sea The Moon. All of this success clearly demonstrates the importance of free movement and travel of horses across the globe, and particularly around Europe. I look forward to European-bred, and in particular Irish-bred, horses continuing to demonstrate their class around the world.

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Simon Rowlands reviews this year’s global racing action and provides his assessments of the best horses in the world in 2020

LEADER of the pack The best horse in the world in 2020 on Simon’s ratings is the three-time 2020 Group 1 winner Ghaiyyath ,and, opposite, the best three-year-old is Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint winner Gamine

ITTLE COULD ANY of us have imagined what was just around the corner as 2019 turned into 2020. But, while a hitherto littleheard-of disease wreaked havoc on the lives and the economies of the world, it is remarkable how much horseracing carried on as normal; on the track at least. Nearly all the year’s major events took place, and many of the minor ones too, mostly behind closed doors.

International travel was reduced but by no means stopped. That is testament to the efforts of the governing bodies and the horsemen and horsewomen around the world. It was a solid, if unspectacular, year on the international ratings front, and one which saw a raft of retirements and injuries before the end. One of those retirements was that of Ghaiyyath, my idea of the best horse to run anywhere in the year, who won emphatically at Meydan, Newmarket (in a

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course record time), Sandown and York, before coming unstuck at Leopardstown, for a rating of 129. That is heady stuff, but not era-defining stuff: Frankel rated in the 140s. British racing managed to stage its Royal Ascot showpiece in its usual slot if with none of the usual pageantry – with Palace Pier in the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) and Alpine Star in the Coronation Stakes (G1) perhaps the best winners. Britain also managed to stage the Classics at their usual homes, though on a slight delay

for the first four of them. Kameko was a good 2,000 Guineas winner in a race-record time, but Serpentine (119) won the Derby from substandard opposition by slipping his field mid-race. He was beaten in two subsequent starts. Love won the 1,000 Guineas and the Oaks in fine style, both backed up by the clock, but disappointingly ran only once after – when winning the Yorkshire Oaks. Galileo Chrome (118) travelled from Ireland to win an up-toscratch St Leger.

simon says... Enable was beaten by Ghaiyyath in the Eclipse (G1), then won a three-runner King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) and another smallfield affair at Kempton, before disappointing at Longchamp in her bid for a third Arc (G1). She was at her very best in 2017 when rated 128 by me. Ascot’s British Champions Day took place on soft ground with Addeybb winning the Champion Stakes (G1) and the French-trained The Revenant (119) the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) in which Palace Pier lost a shoe and came third.

RANCE has been struggling at the top level in recent years, as judged by many of their Group races going to raiders, as well as the declining numbers of French-trained horses in the World’s Best Racehorse Rankings each year. But this year the nation kept the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) at home through Sottsass, who accounted for In Swoop and Persian King (120). Persian King had earlier seemed fortunate to defeat the poorly ridden Pinatubo in the Prix du Moulin (G1), the latter having earlier won the Prix Jean Prat (G1) at Deauville. Deauville was the venue of one of the European races of the season, when Palace Pier beat Alpine Star in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1). Irish-trained horses performed well through the year without a clear superstar in their ranks. It was Magical (120) who

took the scalp of Ghaiyyath in a gruelling Irish Champion Stakes (G1), and Tarnawa (121) who beat first Alpine Star in the Prix de l’Opera (G1) and then Magical in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1)at Keeneland. Siskin (118) in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) was the pick of the Irish Classic winners. The US managed to stage its Triple Crown, if in a different order to usual. There seemed to be little between the winners of the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes (Tiz The Law), Kentucky Derby (G1) (Authentic, with Tiz The Law second) and Preakness Stakes (G1) – the 120-rated Swiss Skydiver the

winner, with Authentic in second. But Authentic thereafter improved to win the Breeders’

Cup Classic (G1), a race in which Maximum Security – earlier winner of the Saudi Cup and Pacific Classic – was only fifth.

Leading Global Rankings (05.11.20) RATINGS PROVIDED BY ROWLANDS RACING & RESEARCH LIMITED Rating

Horse (sire)

Country

Older Horses 129 GHAIYYATH (Dubawi) GBR 125

CLASSIQUE LEGEND (Not A Single Doubt) AUS

124

ALMOND EYE (f) (Lord Kanaloa) JAP

124 BIVOUAC (Exceed And Excel)

AUS

123 ADDEYBB (Pivotal) GBR 123

CHRONO GENESIS (f) (Bago) JAP

123

ENABLE (f) (Nathaniel) GBR

123

MAXIMUM SECURITY (New Year’s Day) USA

123

NATURE STRIP (Nicconi) AUS

123 SOTTSASS (Siyouni)

FRA

Three-year-olds 126

GAMINE (f) (Into Mischief) USA

125 AUTHENTIC (Into Mischief) USA 124

PALACE PIER (Kingman) GBR

123 CONTRAIL (Deep Impact) JAP 122

IN SWOOP (Adlerflug) FRA

121 KAMEKO (Kitten’s Joy) GBR 121 PINATUBO (Shamardal) GBR 121

LOVE (f) (Galileo) IRE

121

TIZ THE LAW (Constitution) USA

120

ALPINE STAR (f) (Sea The Moon) IRE

Two-year-olds 125 JACKIE’S WARRIOR (Maclean’s Music) USA 122 FIRE AT WILL (Declaration of War) USA 121 SEALIWAY (Galiway) FRA 120 ESSENTIAL QUALITY (Tapit) USA 120 ST MARK’S BASILICA (Siyouni) IRE 120 VEQUIST (f) (Nyquist) USA 119 GOLDEN PAL (Golden Pal) USA 119 HOT ROD CHARLIE (Oxbow) USA 118 KEEPMEINMIND (Laoban) USA 118 WEMBLEY (Galileo) IRE

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simon says... That, from Authentic, might have been enough for a horse to be the best three-year-old in the world, but the colt has plenty of competition, including from stable-mate Gamine. That filly’s authoritative win at the Breeders’ Cup came in the Filly & Mare Sprint (G1). She previously won the Acorn Stakes (G1) and the Test Stakes (G1) in phenomenal style and fast times.

Another contender is Contrail, winner of the Japanese Triple Crown and impressive in the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby), though, at the time of writing, yet to race against his elders. Daring Tact (115) won the Japanese equivalent of the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks, without approaching the level of older females Almond Eye – she was especially impressive in

winning May’s Victoria Mile (G1) at Tokyo – and Chrono Genesis, who ran away with the Takarazuka Kinen (G1) in April. A number of Australia’s races at beyond a mile went to raiders, including Twilight Payment (116) in the Melbourne Cup (G1), Sir Dragonet (120) in the Cox Plate (G1), and Addeybb in the Ranvet Stakes and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1), but it

remains a country packed with elite sprinters. The Group 1 Everest winner Classique Legend and runner-up Bivouac, who won the Sprint Classic (G1) in November, and Nature Strip, second in Sprint Cup but won the T J Smith Stakes (G1) in April, are all world-class on their day but were not the most consistent.

“Best juvenile race of the year did not go to the best horse” IT IS FAIR to say that the two-year-old picture could have been clearer internationally. The best race of the year was probably the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) at Keeneland in November, but the race did not necessarily go to the best colt. Essential Quality swooped late to deny Hot Rod Charlie and Keepmeinmind – thus maintaining an unbeaten record that had also included an emphatic defeat of Keepmeinmind in the Futurity on the same course – but Jackie’s Warrior in fourth was the main victim of a race run at a stronger-than-ideal pace. Jackie’s Warrior went off odds-on and had previously been unbeaten in four starts, including by a wide margin in the Champagne Stakes (G1). On balance, that seems marginally the best piece of form by a juvenile anywhere in 2020. Fire At Will was a surprise but apparently deserving winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf by 3l from 112-rated Battleground, the tricky horse in this being Sealiway, who finished fifth despite things not entirely going his way. Jackie’s Warrior: rated the leading two-year-old in the world this year

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Sealiway had previously been a most impressive 8l winner, in a good time but on much more testing ground, in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (G1) on Arc weekend. It may be that the conditions he requires to run this well are rather narrow, but that win by Sealiway looks just about best by a juvenile in Europe as a one-off. It remains to be seen whether the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) was definitive with 117-rated Princess Noor disappointing in fifth. But the race winner Vequist had looked very good in the Spinaway Stakes (G1), also, and turned the tables readily on 117-rated Dayoutoftheoffice from their meeting in the Frizette Stakes (G1). Aunt Pearl (rated 117) emerged as the best in her division by capturing the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) from 111-rated Irish raiders Mother Earth and Miss Amulet. Golden Pal won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint (G1) by just threequarters of a length from 112-rated Cowan, but was much better than that for a long way and looks a sprinter of some standing for 2021. There was a tendency for the best European juvenile colts to beat each other in turn, but St Mark’s Basilica’s defeat of Wembley and 117-rated Thunder Moon, who had beaten them both in the National Stakes previously, in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) probably deserves to come out best bar, perhaps, Sealiway. The British-trained colts Chindit (Champagne Stakes (G2) winner) and Supremacy (Middle Park Stakes (G1) winner) are just outside the top 10, on 117, as is Irish-trained Mac Swiney, winner of the Futurity Stakes (G1) at Doncaster. The Irish-trained fillies Pretty Gorgeous and Shale traded blows ending up on two wins apiece, but the former can be considered marginally the better (rating of 115 to 111) after her Fillies’ Mile (G1) win over 114-rated Indigo Girl. That last-named rating was also achieved in France by Plainchant and by the US-trained Campanelle, the Queen Mary Stakes (G2) winner at Royal Ascot, among fillies. There are, of course, numerous promising, if lower-profile, youngsters in stables around the world, perhaps none more so than 113-rated High Definition, winner of both his starts in Ireland and a clear favourite for the 2021 Derby at Epsom.

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WENTY-TWENTY has been quite the year. In the US, in addition to a calamitous handling of the world-wide COVID-19 virus, 2020 has also been marked by more civil unrest than at any time since the Vietnam protests of the 1960s and 1970s, and closed out with a nail-biting presidential election followed by the loser refusing to concede. Within the microcosm of a microcosm that is North American racing, however, 2020 has been the year of Into Mischief, the 15-year-old sire, who has made the most spectacular rise through the stallion ranks since his great-grandsire Storm Cat, who retired to stud more than 30 years ago. Into Mischief’s career consisted of just six starts, three each at two and three, scoring in the CashCall Futurity (G1) at two, and in the Damascus Stakes at three. He also took second in the Malibu Stakes (G1), San Vicente Stakes (G2) and Hollywood Prevue Stakes (G3). By Harlan’s Holiday – also sire of champion two-year-old Shanghai Bobby – Into Mischief started at a very modest fee, and at one point was slated to cover at as little as $7,500. He was represented by just 140 foals in his first four crops, but his fifth crop, the first sired after his merit first became apparent, was much larger at 161. That generation saw Into Mischief earn the 2016 title as leading sire of two-yearolds, an achievement he repeated in 2018 and 2019, the latter year when he also took his first overall leading sires’ title. He looks likely to repeat in both categories this term – he has a lead of over $8,000,000 on the overall table – and he’s been represented by an astonishing 27 individual stakes winners in 2020, 11 of them graded. By 2016, Into Mischief’s fee had risen to $45,000, and it’s that crop that has taken

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The real deal Authentic backed up his Kentucky Derby victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He has helped sire Into Mischief produce “the most spectacular rise through the stallion ranks since his great-grandsire Storm Cat.” Alan Porter reviews the Keeneland meeting, which also saw a clean sweep for European raiders in the Turf championships Photography courtesy of the Breeders’ Cup Authentic, the son of Into Mischief, was never headed in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He has retired to Spendthrift Farm alongside his sire at a fee of $75,000

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Into Mischief to new heights supplying him with his first Classic winner when, in early September, his colt Authentic won the much-delayed Kentucky Derby (G1). Authentic was upset by the outstanding filly Swiss Skydiver in an epic battle for the Preakness Stakes (G1), but rebounded on Breeders’ Cup Saturday going wire-to-wire to defeat what may have been the most highly credentialed field gathered for the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) since the 1998 edition was won by Awesome Again. What’s more, he accomplished this feat in style, powering away late to score by over 2l from Improbable – almost certain to be voted an Eclipse Award winner as champion older male – in a time that erased American Pharoah’s standard for 1m2f from the record books. Authentic is out of Flawless, a 7f winner by Mr. Greeley. He is a son of Gone West, a strain frequently found as a successful foil for Into Mischief. Since Into Mischief has been chiefly identified with speed this doesn’t sound like a formula for a middle-distance runner, but Authentic is another fast, long-striding North American horse who starts out quickly and doesn’t slow enough for the closers to reach him – the equine equivalent of 800m world-record holder David Rudisha. Flawless ran just twice breaking her maiden by 13l, but bowed a tendon when narrowly defeated in allowance company on her only other outing. With no black-type in her dam Flawless looked a rather dubious commercial prospect for her owner-breeder Peter Blum, but Flawless’s trainer Bill Mott counselled that Blum shuld “sell all your other mares, but you keep her!” Oddly enough, advice from Mott regarding another brilliant but unsound filly Primal Force led to her acquisition by Frank Stronach. From her came the previously

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breeders’ cup mentioned Awesome Again, as well as champion two-year-old colt Macho Uno. Some stamina comes into the pedigree through Authentic’s unraced second dam, a daughter of Wild Again. He was successful in a tumultuous finish to the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Classic. Authentic’s third dam Really Fancy, a daughter of In Reality, won

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the Anoakia Stakes (G3) at two. She was dam of three minor stakes-placed horses, but through her daughter Dixie Holiday is ancestress of the Golden Shaheen (G1) winner Reynaldothewizard (by the Gone West son, Speightstown, so bred similarly to Flawless), of the Go For Wand Handicap (G1) and Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) winner Seventh Street and to American Gal,

successful in the Distaff Stakes (G1) and Test Stakes (G1). Authentic’s fourth dam Native Fancy won the Hollywood Lassie Stakes (G2). She might be familiar to Europeans as third dam of Undrafted, who travelled from the US to win the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1). Going right back, the family arrived in the US from England in the early 1880s, and

breeders’ cup has supplied an earlier US Classic winner – Hasty Road, who took the 1954 Preakness Stakes. The female line goes back to none other than the great mare Pocahontas. She was dam of Stockwell, who was known as the “Emperor of Stallions”, his brother Rataplan, and half-brother King Tom, broodmare sire of St. Simon.

Tarnawa and jockey Colin Keane gallop to Breeders’ Cup Turf success. The four-year-old daughter of the late Shamardal gave the sire his first Breeders’ Cup victory

The Turf war won by Europe The four championship races on Turf went the way of the overseas raiders, headed by the successes of the Shamardal filly Tarnawa and Audarya by Wootton Bassett

HE BREEDERS’ CUP TURF (G1) went to the Aga Khan’s homebred filly, Tarnawa. She was smart at three, when she won three Group races, but fell short when tried at the highest level running unplaced in the Oaks (G1) and the British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes (G1). She’s been a much more formidable performer this term undefeated in four outings, and she went into the Breeders’ Cup off recent victories in the Prix Vermeille (G1) and Prix de l’Opera (G1). One of 26 Group and Grade 1 winners to represent her sire, the late Shamardal, Tarnawa is out of the black-type-winning Cape Cross mare Tarana. The second dam Tarakala, a daughter of Dr. Fong, won the Listed Galtres Stakes and was Group placed. The family entered the Aga Khan operation when Tarnawa’s fifth dam Tremogia was obtained as part of a wholesale acquisition of the bloodstock of François Dupré. She was by Silver Shark and her dam was the Prix SaintAlary (G1) winner Tonnera, meaning she was inbred 3x3 to Relic. Tonnera was out of Texana, an exceptionally fast filly who won five blacktype races at two, including the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1). Texana had a sister Texanita, who went one better, taking the Prix de l’Abbaye at two and three. Another much-improved four-year-old Audarya took the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1), franking the Breeders’ Cup Turf form in the process. Audarya had gained black-type in the Prix Coronation (G1) at three, but finished offthe-board in minor black-type races over a mile in her first two outings this year.

A step-up in distance to 1m2f brought a change of fortune with wins in a handicap at Newcastle and the Prix Jean Romanet (G1), and she prepped for Keeneland with a third, a length behind Tarnawa, in the Prix de l’Opera (G1). Audarya is from the fourth crop of one of the stallion success stories of the last few years – Wootton Bassett. A son of Iffraaj – by the Gone West horse Zafonic – Wootton Bassett was the champion French two-year-old after victory in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (G1). He was represented by just 23 foals in his first crop, but two of those were black-type winners, one of which was the champion and three-time Group 1 winner Almanzor.

Audarya and Pierre-Charles Boudet

Wootton Bassett added four more stakes winners in his next three crops – all sired at €6,000 and, in addition to Audarya, they include other Group winners Wootton and The Black Album. His fifth crop, the first after he’d been represented by runners and again sired at a €6,000 fee, has produced nine black-type

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breeders’ cup winners, including the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1) scorer Wooded, and Group and Graded winners Tamahere, Guildsman and The Summit, also runner up in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) and Prix de Jockey-Club (G1). The sixth crop, again at that same fee, is headed by this year’s Champagne Stakes (G1) winner Chindit. Wootton Bassett has crops sired at €20,000 and €40,000 to run and for 2021 is to stand for €100,000 at Coolmore in Ireland. He is on the verge of becoming a very important sire. Audarya’s dam, the Green Tune mare Green Bananas, is a pretty good representative of the way that Wootton Bassett has upgraded his mares. Green Bananas did win four races from two to five years, but neither she, her dam nor her grand-dam ever produced a blacktype winner, although the grand-dam, the Anabaa mare Anabaa Republic, was twice Group placed. The third dam Gigawatt is a sister to Jim and Tonic, who was a Group/Graded winner in three different countries his victories including the Hong Kong Gold Cup (G1), and to the dam of Mauralakana, whose principal success came in the Beverly D. Stakes (G1).

Glass Slippers: three G1s in three countries

Winner of the Prix de l’Abbaye last year, and the Flying Five Stakes (G1) this year, Glass Slippers gained her third top level win in a third different country taking advantage of an opening on the rails to grab the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1). Glass Slippers is by Dream Ahead – from the Known Fact branch of the In Reality line – a joint-European champion twoyear-old and champion three-year-old sprinter. Although he’s never hit the heights of fashion, Dream Ahead has sired more than his fair share of talented performers, including other Group 1 winners Al Wukair, Donjuan Triumphant and Dream Of Dreams. Bearstone Stud-bred on both sides of her pedigree, Glass Slippers is a half-sister to the black-type winner Electric Feel and is out of the Mind Games (by Puissance, a son of Thatching) mare Night Gypsy. She was a sister to the black-type

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“Wootton Bassett... is on the verge of becoming a very important sire winner and producer On The Brink, and to the black-type-winning and Group-placed Eastern Romance. The fourth dam Shellshock took third in the 1,000 Guineas (G1), and produced two Group winners. She is ancestress of the Australian Grade 1 winners Maguire and Palentino. Glass Slippers has the brothers Sadler’s Wells and Fairy King 4x3 and carries Thatch, a brother to the grand-dam of that duo. Turf Sprint winner Glass Slippers and Tom Eaves

New top-level winner for Australia

The least expected winner of the weekend was 40-1 shot Order Of Australia, who took the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) by a neck from his stable companion Circus Maximus. This was the first black-type win or place in eight starts for Order Of Australia, who has spent most of his career running over longer trips. Order Of Australia joins this year’s St. Leger (G1) hero Galileo Chrome as the second winner at the highest level for sire Australia. Overall, Australia has 16 stakes winners, 11 Group or Graded in his first two crops. Order Of Australia’s dam Senta’s Dream, an unraced daughter of Danehill, has a previous Breeders’ Cup winner to her name as her daughter Iridessa took the Filly and Mare Turf (G1) in 2019. Like Order Of Australia she is by a son of Galileo – in her case, Ruler Of The World. The second dam Starine was a Listed winner in France, but made her name in the US where she was a three-time graded winner, most notably when preceding her grandchildren as a Breeders’ Cup heroine when taking the Filly & Mare Turf (G1). Starine was the only stakes winner in the first four dams of Iridessa’s pedigree prior to the appearance of Iridessa, and you have to go all the way back to the sixth dam Cherie Noire, who took the Prix La Camargo in France, to find stakes form.

Declaration Of War building top record

The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) went to Fire At Will, who has now won three of his four starts. He broke his maiden in the With Anticipation Stakes then added victory in the Pilgrim Stakes (G2). Fire At Will is from the fourth northern -hemisphere crop of War Front’s European champion older horse, Declaration Of War. Although it’s rather disguised by his extensive peregrinations – he’s stood in Ireland, the US, and most recently Japan, as well as shuttling to Australia – Declaration Of War is building the record of a smart sire. His first four northern-hemisphere crops have produced 24 stakes winners, 12 Group or Graded, including Olmedo, winner of the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1), Decorated Invader and Gufo.

breeders’ cup He’s also had another 11 stakes winners, seven Graded, from his first two Australian crops, among them Melbourne Cup (G1) victor Vow And Declare, and Grade 1 scorers Warning and Winning Ways. Fire At Will is out the Kitten’s Joy mare Flirt, a half-sister to the aforementioned Decorated Invader, who gained his Grade 1 win in the Summer Stakes at two, and added two more Graded events at three. Flirt is also half-sister to stakes winner Jubilant Girl, the dam of the French blacktype scorer, Native American. The second dam Gamely Girl is half-sister to Dr Arbatach, a champion in Puerto Rico, and to French Listed winner, Stern Opinion. Third dam Helstra was by Nureyev out the Santa Anita Oaks (G1) heroine Hail Atlantis. She is also dam of sire Stormy Atlantic.

Pearl adds to Lope De Vega’s resume

Having won a maiden and the Jessamine Stakes (G2) in her first two starts in impressive style, Aunt Pearl made it three straight going wire-to-wire to take the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1). A daughter of the increasingly impressive Lope De Vega (Shamardal), Aunt Pearl is out of the Hurricane Run mare Matauri Pearl. She was a champion three-year-old filly in Scandinavia and a sister to Wekeela, a Group/Graded winner in the US and France and Group/Grade 1 placed. The grand-dam Moonrise is half-sister to Moonlight Melody, dam of Molly Malone, who took the Prix Cadran (G1). Her covering to Lope De Vega’s sire Shamardal produced French Group winner Morgan Le Faye. The third dam Morning Queen is a sister

Into Mischief maintains his Dirt dominance

NTO MISCHIEF was represented by another spectacular three-year-old in Gamine, who stormed home 6l clear in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1). Like Authentic, she scored in a track-record time on what was admittedly an exceptionally fast Dirt surface. She was recording her third Grade 1 victory in four stakes starts, her sole defeat in black-type company coming when third in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) – the nine furlongs there beyond her compass. Gamine is the third foal of her dam Peggy Jane. A New York-bred, Peggy Jane did show above-average ability in that programme winning in state-bred maiden special weight and allowance company, and finishing second in the Windswept Wings Stakes. Peggy Jane was a daughter of the Blushing Groom line horse Kafwain, who stood for just $10,000 in 2008 the year she was conceived. She was the first foal out of Seattle Splash, a mare claimed as a broodmare prospect for $22,500. A daughter of Chief Seattle, Seattle Splash was half-sister to Splasha, a multiple stakes winner and graded stakes performer, also dam of the stakes winner Grand Cash and to Canadian black-type winner Murani. The pedigree subsequently received a

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notable upgrade when Murani produced Dynamic Sky, a 2015 champion Turf horse in Canada. Grand Splash, the dam of Seattle Splash, won four black-type events from 7f to a mile, all at Calder. Grand Splash’s own second dam Little Flota was out of Gaslight. She was a halfsister to the top-class Sailor, a versatile six-time stakes winner who was just below the best of a crop headed by Nashua and Swaps. He later sired the Eclipse Award champions Bowl Of Flowers and Ahoy. Flota, the dam of Gaslight and Sailor, is sister to High Fleet, who took the Coaching Club Oaks in 1936, and was champion threeyear-old filly that year.

Whitmore strikes for the older generation

The open version of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1), run over 6f, went to veteran Whitmore, a seven-year-old gelding making his 38th start and his fourth in this event. Whitmore doesn’t have a pedigree immediately associated with a short-course specialist, and earlier in his career placed in a trio of Kentucky Derby trials before finishing a weary 19th in the race itself. He is by Pleasantly Perfect, who numbered

to the outstanding German racehorse and sire Monsun and half-sister to Morning Light. She is the dam of Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) and Jockey-Club winner Brametot.

Another score for Uncle Mo

British racing got a look at Golden Pal when, on his second start and still a maiden, he finished second in the Norfolk Stakes (G2), beaten a neck by The Lir Jet. Subsequently a decisive winner of the Bolton Landing Stakes on his only other start, Golden Pal started favourite for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) and duly delivered, going wire-to-wire to win by three-quarters of a length. Golden Pal is by the champion two-yearthe Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and Dubai World Cup (G1) amongst his successes. Whitmore is the only stakes winner under his first four dams, but his dam Melody’s Spirit does have a rather intriguing pedigree as she is by Scat Daddy. His sire Johannesburg is by a son of Storm Cat out of a mare by Yarn. Melody’s Spirit’s dam is by Tale Of The Cat, who is by Storm Cat out of Yarn. The first previous black-type in the family comes under the fifth dam French Flag, who produced a trio of stakes-winning siblings by Raja Baba, including Drapeau, who is dam of Hollywood Futurity (G1) winner Swiss Yodeler and sire of a string of speedy performers when standing in California.

Monomoy Girl: simply the best

The Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) saw the wonderful five-year-old mare Monomoy Girl complete a perfect season with victory over her determined pursuer Valiance. It is an effort that will secure her an Eclipse Award as champion older mare to go with the award she earned as champion three-year-old filly. The year marked a remarkable return for Monomoy Girl, who due to injury and illness, was out of action after her first Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) victory in 2018 until this May. Monomoy Girl’s record now places her among history’s great racemares.

old Uncle Mo, who is by Indian Charlie, a great-grandson of Caro. The sire of an amazing 25 stakes winners with his first crop foals of 2013, Uncle Mo has had a tremendous year in 2020 with 22 stakes winners, and 14 Graded, more than any other sire in the US. Golden Pal is the first foal of Lady Shipman, a rocket-like Turf/All-Weather sprinter, who won 13 of 20 starts, including the Royal North Stakes (G3). The family is pretty light in terms of blacktype, although third dam Nannetta did win a pair of restricted California-bred stakes. It was My Boss Lady, the seventh dam of Golden Pal and herself a stakes winner, who produced the most recent previous major stakes winner in the family – the Century Handicap (G1) scorer Landscaper. She has been first home in 14 of 15 starts, 11 consecutively, ten in graded stakes, and eight of them in Grade 1 events. She suffered her one genuine defeat at two when beaten a neck in the Golden Rod Stakes (G2). Her only other loss came in the Cotillion Stakes (G1) where she beat Midnight Bisou, but a loss of concentration saw her chart an erratic course and she was demoted. A day after her Breeders’ Cup victory, Monomoy Girl was sold at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale for $9,500,00 – a world-

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record for a racing/broodmare prospect. She was purchased by Spendthrift Farm, who plan to keep her in training for 2021. Monomoy Girl is from the second crop of Tapizar. A son of three-time leading sire Tapit, Tapizar won the Sham Stakes (G3) at three, but really came into his own at four when he took the West Virginia Governor’s Stakes, San Fernando Stakes (G2) and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1). He has sired 11 stakes winners, six graded with Monomoy Girl his sole Grade 1 scorer.

Monomy Girl (10): the Tapizar mare had to get from a draw on the wide outside to win the Distaff

Monomoy Girl is out of the Henny Hughes (Hennessy) mare Drumette, also dam of this year’s Risen Star Stakes (G2) hero Mr. Monomoy. Drumette is a half-sister to the Knickerbocker Handicap (G3) scorer Drum Major and is out of Endless Parade (by the Seattle Slew horse, Williamstown), a winner of three minor stakes events. The fourth dam My Lady Love is a stakesplaced half-sister to the champion two-yearold filly Heavenly Cause, and is out of the Adirondack Stakes winner Lady Dulcinea. She is an outstanding tap-root mare, an ancestress of nearly 50 stakes winners, including three-time Grade 1 winner Bounding Basque, and By The Moon, successful in the Frizette Stakes (G1) and Ballerina Stakes (G1).

Knicks Go: proves his class in record time

When Knicks Go won the 2018 Breeders’ Futurity (G1), following up with a second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) to the champion two-year-old Game Winner, he appeared to be a potential factor on the Triple Crown trail for the following year. He then, however, suffered ten straight defeats until this February when he took an Oaklawn Park allowance. That proved to be his only start until he re-emerged in October to take another allowance event.

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breeders’ cup Off that effort, Knicks Go started favourite for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), and duly delivered setting a new track-record. Knicks Go’s sire Paynter, a son of Awesome Again out of a sister to Tiznow, won the Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) and was only narrowly defeated by Union Rags in the Belmont Stakes (G1). He has sired 16 stakes winners in his first four crops, with Knicks Go, a member of his second crop, being only one of his four Graded scorers to win at the highest level. The dam of Knicks Go is the speedy Kosmo’s Buddy. A daughter of the well-bred Danzig horse Outflanker, Kosmo’s Buddy owned black-type form on Dirt and Turf, at two, three and four years of age, and over 5f to a mile. Successful in the Maryland Million Turf Sprint and the Crank it Up Stakes, she also earned places in 12 other stakes events. By the beautifully-bred Danzig son Outflanker, Kosmo’s Buddy is out of the multiple stakes-placed Vaulted. In turn, Vaulted is a half-sister to My Sweet Caroline, the dam of Sweet Cassiopeia, a four-time stakes winner of over $650,000, and Grade 2 placed. Kosmo’s Buddy’s second dam Aube D’Or was also a stakes winner, and was a half-sister to Countus In, successful in the Matriarch Stakes (G1), and dam of graded winner Think Red and grand-dam of Ransom The Moon, winner of back-to-back renewals of the Bing Crosby Stakes (G1).

Essential: a Quality son of Tapit

Jackie’s Warrior was sent off the odds-on favourite for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), but the eight and a half furlongs proved a bridge too far and he faded to fourth as Essential Quality came from off the pace for a three-quarters length victory. Essential Quality was winning for the third time in three runs, and had taken the Breeders’ Futurity (G1) on his previous start. Essential Quality is a son of the threetime leading sire Tapit, sire of the previous champion two-year-old colt Hansen, as well as the Eclipse Award-winning champion fillies Untapable, Stardom Bound and Unique Bella. He’s the first winner for his dam, the graded-placed Elusive Quality daughter

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Delightful Colony. She is a half-sister to the champion two-year-old filly Folklore, herself the grand-dam of Contrail. He was a champion two-year-old colt in Japan last year and winner of the Japanese Triple Crown this term. Essential Quality’s second dam Contrive is by Storm Cat out of Fappiano’s daughter Jeano, a winner of five stakes events. Contrive’s dam Jeano descends from the same branch of the La Troienne family, coming down through Striking and her daughter Bases Full, that produced the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Smarty Jones, who like Delightful Quality, was by Elusive Quality.

Nyquist rules wth first-crop

In the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), Vequist reversed the finishing order of the Frizette Stakes (G1) with the Into Mischief filly Dayoutoftheoffice. Vequist had previously broken her maiden by winning the Spinaway Stakes (G1) by over 9l on just her second outing. Vequist is from the first crop of Nyquist, by Uncle Mo, whose sons Outwork and Laoban also have first-crop two-year-old stakes winners in 2020. Nyquist was a brilliant juvenile going fivefor-five with four graded stakes victories, including the Del Mar Futurity (G1), the FrontRunner Stakes (G1) and a win Vequist: the first-crop Grade 1 winner for Nyquist

in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). Nyquist won his first three starts at three, victories that included the Kentucky Derby and he emulated Street Sense as the second horse to complete the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile/Kentucky Derby double. In addition to Vequist, Nyquist has an earlier first-crop Grade 1 winner – Gretzky The Great, who won the Summer Stakes (G1). Vequist is out of the Mineshaft mare Vero Amore, whose most notable effort came when beaten a neck by Stopchargingmaria in the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2). The fifth dam Minstress (The Minstrel) was a black-type winner and Graded stakes placed, and bred an English Group winner in the Red Ransom filly, Cassis. Minstress is also second dam of the Storm Song, the champion two-year-old filly of 1996 and second dam of Order Of St George. Storm Song was by Summer Squall, also sire of Vequist’s third dam Miss Summer Reign, making the Storm Song and Miss Summer Reign three-quarters sisters. Minstress was out of the staying Turf mare Fleet Victress, successful in the Sheepshead Bay Stakes (G2) and New York Handicap (G3) and later ancestress of champion Japanese Dirt horse, Copano Rickey. The family goes back to Anchors Ahead, a sister to one of Man O’ War’s most important sons, War Relic.

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Golden years

Martin Stevens grabs a snapshot of the last 50 years of the bloodstock industry with Adrian Nicoll, who this year celebrated his half century as a bloodstock agent with BBA Ireland

Photography courtesy of Tattersalls and Coolmore

T MAY have been 50 years ago, but Adrian Nicoll can still vividly recall his successful job application to work at BBA Ireland. It helps that the occasion was set against the backdrop of one of the greatest equine feats on the Irish

Turf. Nicoll, the son of Olympic bronze medalwinning show jumper Henry, was 21 and based in South Africa but holidaying in Britain when BBA agent Sir Mordaunt Milner gave him word that the company’s Irish arm was looking for new blood. So Nicoll met BBA Ireland’s legendary founder Tom Cooper at Royal Ascot in 1970, with Cooper inviting the young horseman to Kildare for a formal interview at a time of his choosing. Nicoll opted for the following Saturday when Nijinsky would attempt to become only the third colt to complete the English and Irish Derby double reasoning that, if he didn’t get the job, at least he’d have seen a good horserace. Nijinsky stormed to victory at The Curragh and Nicoll got the job. Both went on to exert an influence on the thoroughbred breed. Nijinsky, of course, sealed the English Triple Crown by winning the St Leger and then siring champions such as Caerleon, Ferdinand, Golden Fleece, Kings Lake, Lammtarra, Shadeed and Shahrastani. Nicoll, meanwhile, played a part in organising the first stallion shuttles to Australia and continued to do so until the

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1980s, when the momentous deal to send Danehill down under was struck. He has also purchased numerous Group 1 winners and their dams in both hemispheres. Nicoll is no longer a partner in BBA Ireland, having sold his stake in the company in recent years, but he might be called an emeritus BBA Ireland agent. And although he has wound down a little, he still buys horses for a select number of clients in Europe and Australia. “I started in the pedigree department, as most people do when they join a bloodstock agency,” Nicolls remembers of his introduction to life at BBA Ireland. “Then I went onto nominations, and that was a different world to what we know now. “In those days we managed something like 20 stallions at 20 different stud farms. And the stallions were covering 45 or 50 mares - 40 for shareholders and five or ten for the stud. All that diversity has gone. The two main stallions at the time were Red God at Loughtown Stud and Sovereign Path at Burgage. “I was also being shown the ropes at the December sales in the early days. Tom Cooper was a great mentor, no doubt about that. He was a marvellous judge of horses and renowned for his integrity. He was far too young when he died at only 64.” A big turning point in Nicoll’s career came in 1974 when he accompanied Jonathan Irwin, a partner in BBA Ireland until he left to run Goffs when the auction house moved to Kildare the following year, on a trip to

adrian nicoll Australia to explore what was then a burgeoning bloodstock market. Robert Sangster joined the journey at London. Already acquainted with Irwin, he invited the BBA Ireland duo to play cards and backgammon with him in the first-class section at the front of the plane. Nicoll had not known Sangster until then, but they went forward as great allies, especially in their ventures in the Australian bloodstock market. “Robert and I became good pals, and when John Magnier innovated shuttling stallions to Australia – initially with Mount Hagen in the late 1970s – I helped locate studs for the horses,” he says. “A lot more followed, including the likes of Green God and Deep Diver, although Godswalk was the first one of any consequence; later followed Danehill. “We sent a lot of mares down there in the 1980s too. Some of those were absolute champions, especially Princess Tracy, who ranks as one of the greatest foundation mares in Australia.” Princess Tracy, a daughter of Ahonoora bred and originally owned by Sangster in Ireland, produced Group 1 winners Danasinga and Tracy’s Element and Group 1-placed Cullen and Towkay. Her descendants include elite performers Alligator Blood, Master Of Design and Typhoon Tracy. “Robert was a huge help, particularly in Australia,” Nicoll says. “He was a great trader. Not only did he buy horses but he also sold them. “I remember when Robert won the Golden Slipper with his homebred Marauding. A gentleman congratulated him and said, ‘I’d love to buy some mares off you’. “Robert surprised him by replying, ‘You can!’. We duly sold him 20 mares, one of whom was Princess Tracy. “Robert was another who died far too young. He was a great friend and I was very fond of him.” Nicoll has also enjoyed plenty of luck buying yearlings in Australia. Most memorably, in 2005 his purchases Serenade Rose and Lotteria won a pair of Group 1s and a Group 2 between them in the space of one week at the Melbourne Cup Carnival. “Australia has been a big place for me,” says Nicoll. “I think it’s the best racing country in the world at the moment. The prize-money is sensational. “I own a share in Personal, one of the leading three-year-old fillies in Australia, and we got more money for finishing second in the Schweppes Thousand Guineas than a friend of mine did for winning two Listed races and a Group 3 in England.” Nicoll has not only signed for many southern-hemisphere stars of the Turf, but he has also bought several top-notchers in Europe on behalf of Australian clients

Above, Godswalk was one of the stallions Nicoll (far left) helped to shuttle to Australia, but it was Danehill (left) who changed everything

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adrian nicoll Oodnadatta (green), a Breeders’ Cup runner for trainer Jessica Harrington. She is out of Bewitched, who was bought by Nicoll for Australian owner Bob Scarborough

Above, Nicoll with John Magnier Below, Robert Sangster, seen here with Lester Piggott. The big-time owner and Nicoll became great friends

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– from the brilliant filly Kooyonga for Joe Throsby to Cabaret, the dam of 2,000 Guineas (G1) hero Magna Grecia and this season’s Dewhurst Stakes (G1) winner St Mark’s Basilica, for Bob Scarborough. “One of the first Australian-owned yearlings I bought was for Joe,” says Nicoll. “I met him at Saint-Cloud with Bart Cummings in 1974.At the Goffs yearling sales the following year I saw a Native Prince filly out of a half-sister to Dignitas, who had been the leading first-season sire in Australia around that time. “I rang Joe and put her up to him and he said, ‘Fine, you can go to Ir15,000gns for her’. “We managed to get her bought for just Ir7,400gns. “She was Piney Ridge, who was beaten a short-head second in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot and won the National Stakes at Sandown when it was a Group 3. “He later ended up with the exceptional filly Kooyonga. She won four Group 1s, including the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Coronation Stakes, and is one of only three fillies to win the Eclipse alongside Pebbles and Enable.” Cabaret, a 13-year-old daughter of Galileo who won the Silver Flash Stakes for Coolmore and was signed for by Nicoll at the Tattersalls December Mares’ Sale in 2011, is among a small band of blue-chip mares in Europe owned by Scarborough, a former chairman of the Moonee Valley Racing Club. Another mare bought by Nicoll on behalf of Scarborough is Bewitched, a multiple Group 3-winning daughter of Dansili who is the dam of Jessica Harrington’s classy twoyear-old Australia filly Oodnadatta, owned in partnership by Scarborough and Coolmore.

“She was kind of obvious,” Nicoll says of Cabaret. “Bob likes buying stakes winners, she was by Galileo and in-foal to Danehill Dancer, and she’s a great-looking individual. “She cost us 600,000gns and got off to a great start as we sold the Danehill Dancer foal for 525,000gns. The filly was named Prance and trained by David Wachman unfortunately she did a hind joint and had screws put in, but for which she would have been much better. Floors Stud sold her Lope De Vega yearling colt for 400,000gns this autumn. “Magna Grecia was always a gorgeous horse from day one, hence he sold for 340,000gns as a foal, and then there was St Mark’s Basilica, who made 1,300,000gns. Bob retained the Siyouni full-brother to St Mark’s Basilica at Book 1 in October [he was a vendor buyback at 650,000gns]. He thought people probably wouldn’t have enough money for him, and he was proved right. “Cabaret is in-foal to Kingman, carrying a colt. Hopefully, one day we’ll get a filly who Bob can keep and breed from.” Nicoll also had a hand in another of this autumn’s major Group 1 winners in Europe having purchased Hazel Lavery, the dam of Queen Elizabeth II Stakes hero The Revenant, as a yearling to race for a partnership including Scarborough. The daughter of Excellent Art, bought as a yearling from Book 1 in 2010 for 100,000gns, was originally conditioned by Nicoll’s longtime collaborator Barry Hills until the trainer passed the licence to son Charlie. She took the scalp of Noble Mission to win the Group 3 St Simon Stakes and was later

adrian nicoll sold as a broodmare for handsome profit. Alongside the Australian exploits, it is Nicoll’s association with Barry Hills for which he is best known. The first Group 1 winner he sourced for the master trainer was Middle Park Stakes (G1) scorer Gallic League, and that colt was followed by the likes of Dark Angel, Hula Angel and Red Clubs, along with numerous other smart performers. Nicoll also bought Just The Judge for Charlie to train, and the daughter of Lawman became a third Irish 1,000 Guineas winner for the agent after Kooyonga and Hula Angel. “It’s been a very lucky race for me,” he says. Oh, and there was Alexander Goldrun, too. Nicoll gave just Ir40,000gns for the Gold Away filly who went on to win five Group 1 races and nearly £2 million in prize-money for trainer Jim Bolger and owner Noel O’Callaghan.

ROM BARGAIN BUY Piney Ridge to big-money broodmare Cabaret and all the Group winners and stallion deals in between, it has been quite the half-century for Nicoll. During that time he has also witnessed enormous change in the bloodstock industry. “If someone in 1970 had been told what it was like today, they wouldn’t believe you,” he says. “It’s been turned inside-out. “For a start, there’s far more emphasis on conformation than in the early days. Back then the top yearlings were all horses with big pedigrees. These days if you have a well-bred yearling who doesn’t come up to scratch physically, they’re back with the rest of them. “The whole showing of horses and methods of preparation have become far more professional, as have the standards applied to purchasing. “Tom Cooper used to buy all of Vincent O’Brien’s horses, but there was no such thing as X-rays at the sales in those days. Coolmore’s vet Bob Griffin would come out and look over the horse, maybe put a stethoscope on it and that was that. There was no vetting, no wind testing. It’s come a long way since then and rightly so, as there is so much more money involved.” Nicoll attributes many of the advances made by the industry to Magnier, another friend and mentor.

“I was very lucky to meet him early on in the piece,” he says. “He was light years ahead of his time. I’d stay with him on weekends when he was living at Grange Stud, and we’d go hunting on Sundays. In fact, it was on one of those hunts where I first met Barry. “We were also very lucky that we had the stallion tax exemption in Ireland as it really allowed the industry here to get going. Ireland was way behind in the late 1960s and early 1970s and now it’s among the best in the world.” Nicoll is not one to bang on about the good old days but, if there is one area in which the past outscores the present, it lies in the fact that professionalism has been won at the expense of pleasure. “Without a shadow of a doubt the 1970s and 1980s were a lot more fun than now,” he says. “There were just so many more individuals who owned horses. “I even got involved in Northern Game, a jumper who won the Triumph Hurdle, with John Horgan and Frank Conroy, Flash’s father. “Those two were mighty characters, the sort you don’t find much these days. “And Robert, of course, was something of a legend. People followed him around; he loved a bet, liked the women. He livened up the industry.” There is still fun to be had, though, as Nicoll is finding as partowner of Personal and with plans to return to Australia to buy more yearlings next year if current events allow. It is very much a case of 50 not out.

Above, St Mark’s Basilica wins the Dewhurst (G1). The half-brother to Magna Grecia is out of Cabaret, who was purchased by Nicoll for Scarborough

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SHAMAN Shamardal x Only Green

BEAUTIFULLY BRED TOP CLASS SON OF SHAMARDAL NEW FOR 2021

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GROUP 2 WINNER OF PRIX D’HARCOURT 2ND GROUP 1 FRENCH 2,000 GUINEAS (to Persian King)

SHAMAN (IRE) (2016) Chesnut Colt

Shamardal (USA) Only Green (IRE) (2006)

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SHAMAN (IRE): 5 wins at 2 to 4, 2020 in France and £532,933 inc. Prix d'Harcourt, Gr.2, Prix La Force, Gr.3 and Prix Omnium II, L., placed 6 times viz. 2nd Emirates Poule d'Essai des Poulains, Gr.1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois, Gr.1, Prix Francois Boutin, L., 3rd Prix Ganay, Gr.1, Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein, Gr.2 and Prix des Chenes, Gr.3. 1st dam ONLY GREEN (IRE): 3 wins at 3 in France and £114,570 inc. Prix de Saint-Cyr, L. and Prix du Pont-Neuf, L., placed twice inc. 3rd Prix Imprudence, Gr.3; dam of 4 previous foals; 6 runners; 6 winners inc.: GREEN SWEET (USA) (12 c. by Smart Strike (CAN)): 3 wins in Australia and in France and £179,161 inc. Prix Omnium II, L. and Albury Gold Cup, L. Fresh Strike (IRE) (13 f. by Smart Strike (CAN)): 2 wins at 3 in France and £25,638 and placed 3 times; dam of a winner: My Kurkum (GB) (c. by Dariyan (FR)): winner at 2, 2020 in France and placed viz. 3rd Prix des Chenes, Gr.3. SHAMAN (IRE) (16 c. by Shamardal (USA)): see above. Situveux (IRE) (19 f. by Siyouni (FR)), yearling. 2nd dam ONLY SEULE (USA): winner at 2 in France; dam of 14 foals; 11 runners; 9 winners inc.: OCCUPANDISTE (IRE) (f. by Kaldoun (FR)): Champion older mare in France in 1997, 6 wins at 2 and 4 in France and £197,378 inc. Prix de la Foret, Gr.1 and Prix Maurice de Gheest, Gr.1; dam of winners inc.: MONDIALISTE (IRE): 5 wins at home, in Canada, in France and in U.S.A. and £1,255,008 inc. Arlington Million S., Gr.1 and Ricoh Woodbine Mile S., Gr.1, 2nd Breeders' Cup Mile, Gr.1 and 3rd Prix Jean Prat, Gr.1; sire. IMPRESSIONNANTE (GB): 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France and £175,390 inc. Prix de Sandringham, Gr.2, 2nd Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, Gr.1; dam of INTELLO (GER) (6 wins at 2 and 3 at home and in France and £1,359,934 inc. Prix du Jockey Club, Gr.1, 3rd Poule d'Essai des Poulains Le Parisien, Gr.1, Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Gr.1 and P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois, Gr.1; sire). ONLY ANSWER (GB): 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France and £127,989 inc. Prix de Saint-Georges, Gr.3 and Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert, Gr.3. PLANETAIRE (GB): 2 wins at 3 in France and £71,602 inc. Prix Pelleas Prix Ecole Blondeau, L., 3rd La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3. Desertiste (GB): 2 wins in France; dam of KALAHARA (GB) (2 wins at 2, 2020 in France inc. Prix d'Arenberg, Gr.3, 3rd Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.2), SASPARELLA (FR) (2 wins at 2 in France inc. Prix Eclipse, Gr.3). ONLY GREEN (IRE) (f. by Green Desert (USA)): see above. Ensemble (FR): winner at 3 in France; dam of winners inc.: Desert Haze (GB): 3 wins at 3 and £42,259, 2nd Irish Stallion Farms EBF Cooley S., L. and 3rd Betfred Conqueror S., L.; also placed in France. Buck Aspen (USA): winner at 3 in France; dam of winners inc.: Indian Chief (IRE): 5 wins and £54,372, 3rd Betfred Dante S., Gr.2. Solosole (USA): unraced; dam of winners inc.:

Rock of Nassau (FR): 8 wins in France and £182,226, 2nd Grand Prix de la Riviera Cote d'Azur, L. Okalea (IRE): winner at 3 in France; dam of MENEAS (FR) (10 wins in France and £139,209 inc. Criterium du Fonds Europeen de L'Elevage, L.). 3rd dam ELLE SEULE (USA) (by Exclusive Native (USA)): 3 wins at 3 in France inc. Prix d'Astarte, Gr.2; dam of 12 foals; 11 runners; 10 winners inc.: ELNADIM (USA): Jt Champion 3yr old sprinter in Europe in 1997, Champion older sprinter in Europe in 1998, 5 wins at 3 and 4 and £198,441 inc. Darley July Cup, Gr.1; sire. MEHTHAAF (USA): Champion 3yr old filly in England in 1994, 4 wins at 2 and 3 and £237,257 inc. Irish 1000 Guineas, Gr.1, 3rd Coronation S., Gr.1 and P. Fresnay-le-Buffard Jacques Le Marois, Gr.1; dam of winners inc.: NAJAH (IRE): Champion 3yr old filly in Italy in 2001, 2 wins at 3 at home and in Italy and £45,595 inc. Premio Lydia Tesio - Darley, Gr.2. Tanaghum (GB): winner at 3, 2nd EBF Harvest S., L.; dam of MATTERHORN (IRE) (9 wins at 3 to 5, 2020 at home and in U.A.E. and £597,812 inc. Emirates Airline Al Maktoum Challenge R3, Gr.1), TACTIC (GB) (3 wins at 3 and 4 and £90,961 inc. At The Races Curragh Cup, Gr.3), BANGKOK (IRE) (3 wins at 3 and 4, 2020 and £241,000 inc. bet365 Classic Trial, Gr.3, 2nd King Edward VII S., Gr.2), YAAZY (IRE) (2 wins at 3 in France inc. Prix Joubert, L., 3rd Prix de Malleret, Gr.2); grandam of RIBCHESTER (IRE), (Jt Champion 3yr old miler in Europe in 2016, Champion older miler in Europe in 2017, 6 wins at home and in France and £2,639,988 inc. Lockinge S., Gr.1, Queen Anne S., Gr.1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Gr.1 and P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois, Gr.1, 2nd Queen Elizabeth II S., Gr.1 (twice), Sussex S., Gr.1, 3rd Sussex S., Gr.1, 2000 Guineas S., Gr.1, DP World Dubai Turf, Gr.1; sire), CONVERGENCE (IRE) (4 wins at 2 and 3 inc. Ballycorus S., Gr.3). KHULOOD (USA): 3 wins at 2 and 3 and £60,349 inc. Shadwell Stud Nell Gwyn S., Gr.3; dam of winners inc.: ADOOL (IRE): 2 wins at 3 inc. EBF Hurry Harriet S., L., 3rd Meld S., Gr.3. ASHRAAKAT (USA): 3 wins at 2 and 3 inc. Sceptre S., L. and Charlotte S., L., 2nd Shadwell Stud Nell Gwyn S., Gr.3; dam of winners. Museeb (USA): 4 wins, £115,749 viz. winner at 3, 2nd King Charles II S., L. and 3rd Thoroughbred S., L.; also 3 wins in U.S.A., 2nd My Frenchman S. Jawlaat (USA): 3 wins at 2 and 3 and £23,242; dam of winners inc.: Khulan (USA): winner at 2 and 2nd Peugeot Lowther S., Gr.2; grandam of INTENSE LIFE (IRE) (8 wins in Italy and £115,474 inc. Premio Citta' di Napoli, L. and Premio Omenoni, L.). Toujours Elle (USA): dam of winners inc.: TOTO LE HEROS (USA): 4 wins in Italy inc. Premio Botticelli, L. 4th dam FALL ASPEN (USA) (by Pretense): 8 wins in U.S.A. inc. Matron S., Gr.1; Own sister to Mccracken (USA); dam of 14 foals; 13 runners; 13 winners inc.: HAMAS (IRE): 5 wins at 3 and 4 and £152,001 inc. July Cup, Gr.1; sire. TIMBER COUNTRY (USA): Champion 2yr old colt in U.S.A. in 1994, 5 wins in U.S.A. and £1,032,432 inc. Champagne S., Gr.1, Preakness S., Gr.1 and Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Gr.1, 3rd Kentucky Derby, Gr.1; sire. NORTHERN ASPEN (USA): 5 wins at home, in France and in U.S.A. inc. Gamely H., Gr.1, 2nd Santa Ana H., Gr.1; dam of winners. FORT WOOD (USA): 3 wins in France inc. Grand Prix de Paris, Gr.1; sire. ELLE SEULE (USA): see above. COLORADO DANCER: 3 wins at 3 in France inc. Prix de Pomone, Gr.2, 3rd Prix Vermeille, Gr.1, Yellow Ribbon H., Gr.1; dam of winners. BIANCONI (USA): 3 wins at 3 and £80,303 inc. Racal Diadem S., Gr.2; sire. MAZZACANO: 3 wins at 3 and 4 and £83,835 inc. Goodwood Cup, Gr.3. PRINCE OF THIEVES (USA): 2 wins at 2 and 3 in U.S.A. and £237,650 inc. Santa Catalina S., L., 3rd Kentucky Derby, Gr.1.

5 WINS, 6 PLACES • RETIRED SOUND RACED ON ALL SURFACES TIMEFORM 119 GAY O’CALLAGHAN: 353 (0)87 256 5561 DAVID O’CALLAGHAN: 353 (0)86 836 6554 ROBERT O’CALLAGHAN: 353 (0)85 119 1288

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Not many will look back at 2020 with pleasure, but the Flat racing year has given John O’Connor of Ballylinch Stud plenty to smile about. He chats with Aisling Crowe about the progress the farm’s stallions have made as they propel the farm to the highest echelon Photography courtesy of Ballylinch Stud

HIS YEAR has been a momentous one for Ballylinch Stud as both a stallion station and a breeding farm. The young stallion roster, headed by Lope De Vega, is developing it into one of the most influential independent farms in Europe, while the farm recently celebrated its third Breeders’ Cup winner as a breeder. At the helm remains John O’Connor, quietly steering the historic home of The Tetrarch into its current prime position as the home of some of Europe’s most exciting stallions. Lope De Vega is the leader and established head of a quintet of very young stallions. Next to him is Make Believe, who has had just two crops of racing age, then come first-season sires New Bay and Fascinating Rock. Last year’s Arc hero Waldgeist joined the team and covered his first book of mares in the spring. Lope De Vega hit the ground running with his first crop, and has been on a steep upward trajectory ever since, explains O’Connor. “I suppose the big thing for him is that he kicked off really quickly – he was European champion first-crop sire and sired a European champion in his first crop [Belardo] so it gave him a very quick launch into his stallion career,”says O’Connor.

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“His fee has steadily risen since then, but every year he has been over-full so he has always justified the fee rises. While they have been rising steadily, we have never jumped him by a big proportion so while his fee has been rising the market has always agreed that the figure was fair so we are happy with that. “I think his sales average reflects the quality of mares that he is now covering. “The list of mares coming to him in next spring includes some stellar names that I am delighted to see. When you see the list of mares covered in 2020, and particularly the ones coming in 2021, there are a lot of household mares amongst those mares. “I think the big thing about Lope De Vega is that, as the quality of mares has risen, his results have in parallel. He started off very well obviously, but I think you will see that he will keep improving because he can handle a wide variety of pedigrees and stamina attributes.” It’s no wonder that O’Connor is excited by the calibre of mares visiting Lope De Vega and the limitless potential for the future. A quick glance through the mares who were in his 2020 book reveals stars such as the 2019 Oaks winner Anapurna, Talent, Thistle Bird and Wuheida, and Group 1-producing dams such as Anna Law, Blanc De Chine, Lava Flow and Yummy Mummy.

Now the sire of 12 individual Group 1 winners after Lucky Vega’s success in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf triumph of Aunt Pearl, a second winner of the race for her sire after Newspaperofrecord in 2018, and still just 13, what factors lie behind Lope De Vega’s ascent from a very good sire to the ranks of elite stallions? O’Connor, always an engaged and thoughtful conversationalist, pauses to consider for a few moments. “I think it is the level of athleticism he transmits,” he says. “When I make yearling notes, and I look at lots of Lope De Vegas, consistently I will write, ‘Great mover, very good walker, great easy walk’. That will be a consistent theme. He just tends to get stock with very athletic movement, a good physique as well; he can breed a good-looking yearling and that’s now being reflected as he climbs through the ranks in bigger and bigger prices. I think it is his consistency in delivery of athleticism that makes him so good. “The other thing he does is transmit a lot of speed, it was probably an unprecedented thing – I don’t think I’ve seen it before – that a French Derby winner sired a Cornwallis winner [Royal Razalma] in his first crop, it’s a bit unusual. “He can get a very fast horse out of a very fast mare – he has a number of Group 1

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Above, a mare and foal at Ballylinch Stud, County Kilkenny. Ballylinch Stud was founded by Major Dermot McCalmont in 1914 to stand the amazing racehorse and influential stallion, The Tetrarch. The stud and farm was owned by the McCalmont family until 1986 when it was purchased by Tim Mahony and his family. John O’Connor, below, joined the stud in 1988. December 2014 saw the stud change hands for just the third time in 100 years bought by US businessman John Malone and wife Lesley

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winners at 5f and 6f – but he can also add some speed to the middle-distance type mare, like Aunt Pearl’s dam Matuari Pearl. He is versatile in that sense and that gives him greater options. “In general, they are very willing, generous horses. Sometimes they will do too much and you will see an odd one wearing a hood to try and get them to relax a bit and contain their energy – they really want to run.” Looking at the pedigree influences O’Connor attributes the late Shamardal, as well as his inbreeding to Machiavellian. “Shamardal is a very fine influence, while his own dam had a lot of speed and precocity; she was a stakes-winning two-year-old. “Also, the influence of Machiavellian is not a negative, I think it’s a positive. He is in-bred to Machiavellian and we have seen a number of stallions with Machiavellian close up who have succeeded in recent times, maybe that’s not a coincidence. “We bred a number of stakes winners by Machiavellian ourselves, including an important mare for the farm Pharmacist [dam of Ballylinch’s first Breeders’ Cup winner Red Rocks], she was a stakes-winning Machiavellian that we raced.” New Bay emulated Lope De Vega by winning the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) and the son of Dubawi has made an excellent start to his own stud career. He has one of the finest stakes horses-torunners ratios amongst the European first-season stallions of 13.3 per cent and is the sire of the unbeaten Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes winner Saffron Beach and the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner New Mandate from just 30 runners so far. “He actually only ran around November at two so the fact that he has got them much more precocious than himself is a very good sign,” smiles O’Connor. “He is a young stallion with a really big pedigree – he is both by a top stallion and from a top stallion-producing family so has a lot going for him. “He was a very good racehorse – he was

second in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains to Make Believe then he won a very good Prix du Jockey-Club from Highland Reel, who was a very high-class horse “André Fabre, who has been quite influential in terms of the stallions that we stand here, had a lot of regard for him and he strongly recommended him to me when I went to see him. “We are delighted that he is delivering on that promise and his stats are indicating that he is a superior young sire coming through; I would be very optimistic that he will build on that. Next year could be a really big breakthrough year for him. “He probably has everything that it takes so all he needs now is a little bit of luck.”

“I’ve been in the stallion business long enough to know that the proportion of stallions who really do well is not high! Make Believe, one of whose two Group 1 wins came at New Bay’s expense, is a year further into his stud career at Ballylinch, where the green shoots of a Dubawi sire-line are beginning to blossom. Already he has reached a significant milestone of siring a Classic winner in his first crop with the triumph of Mishriff in the Prix du Jockey-Club for owner-breeder Prince Faisal, who raced Make Believe. “It is most stallion masters’ dream and one that doesn’t come true very often!” reflects O’Connor. “I’ve been in the stallion business long enough to know that the proportion of stallions who really do well is not high! “You value the run of luck that you get if

ballylinch stud you have more than one at a time; we are very lucky at the moment. “Make Believe is a horse who has managed to convert a lot of people on the way through. “He is a grandson of Dubawi, which I always thought was very significant, and he was a very good racehorse himself. He broke the track record set by Dream Ahead when he won the Forêt – so he had speed and still he stayed well enough to win a Guineas. “I think he has made a very good start. He backs up his high-class horses with a very good winners-to-runners ratio and I think the trainers like their attitude to racing and their will to win. He will establish himself and we are very pleased with how he is going.”

ISHRIFF’S GROUP 1 success on the track led to increased prices in the ring for Make Believe whose yearling average jumped over 30 per cent, while New Bay recorded an astonishing rise to 66,664gns in his yearling average. Lope De Vega added two more Group 1 winners and recorded a yearling sales average of 172,676gns from 67 horses sold so far in Europe this year, bred off a fee of €60,000. The trio bear out the idea that success on the track leads to gains at the sales. With that success in mind, yet in an unsettling year with much uncertainty clouding our vision, O’Connor and his team had to strike a delicate note when deciding to increase the fees for all three stallions mentioned. Lope De Vega now stands for €125,000, an increase from the €100,000 fee he commanded for the past two years. In Ireland only Sea The Stars boasts a higher advertised fee than the son of Shamardal. New Bay will stand at €20,000 for 2021, returning him to the figure at which he retired to stud, while Make Believe received a more modest increase to €15,000 from €12,000, still below the fee in his first year of €20,000. Once again O’Connor thoughtfully lays out the reasoning behind the fees set for 2021 for Ballylinch’s three kings. “We put plenty of thought into it and we considered the changed circumstances since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

“On the other hand, the business has continued on and the successful horses are the successful horses. Ironically, Lope De Vega, who is the most expensive horse on the farm, has received a large number of applications already and the quality of mares make me smile when I think of them. “It is also fair to say that both of the younger stallions, New Bay and Make Believe, have made an impression on the market and we are now seeing the really top breeders using both of those stallions. “You can only hope that you have got it right when you make your decision on your fees, but those figures were a little bit influenced by the number of applications we received before the fees were announced. We knew the popularity of the horses and I think we were pretty careful in that we didn’t over-jump any of them. “We responded to what they have done on the racecourse and in the sales ring. “In my opinion the racecourse should be the primary arbiter of whether a stallion is doing well. If you get the success on the track, in general, commercial success will follow that. I think sometimes we get confused between commercial success in the sales ring, which is fleeting unless it is backed up by success on the racetrack. I am delighted our horses are doing it on the track, and that allows us to fix their fees accordingly.” Many smaller breeders with aspirations to use stallions whose success and popularity – which are sometimes equated but are two distinct concepts – prompted fee increases reacted with dismay this autumn when seeing how stallion fees in general were priced. It has been argued by some that the higher fees will only serve to widen the growing chasm between those at the top and the bottom, with the middle tumbling into the abyss. O’Connor thinks for a few seconds before giving a well-thought out and cogent reply that considers deeper, serious issues that need redressing in the industry, namely the low levels of prize-money in some jurisdictions. “There is some merit to that argument, but I think it reflects back more so on the poor prize-money, I think that is a bigger reason for that than anything else,” he says. “There are perfectly capable stallions who can get you a winner, and even a good

The two young Ballylinch Stud stallions who have created an impact in 2020. Above, the Classic-producing leading second-season sire Make Believe, and, below, New Bay. The Group 2 winner New Mandate and Group 3 winner Saffron Beach are the leading progeny from his first-crop of runners and offer big hopes for 2021

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“To say that the ‘good ones make money and the bad ones don’t’ is too simplistic – there are horses with the potential to be good racehorses not selling well, the reason is prize-money... The Arc winner Waldgeist: his first foals will be born in 2021

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winner, who are no longer popular because prize-money is so poor that racing horses has become less attractive for people to invest in the ordinary horse. “You can see it happening in America where even the big operators are coming together to form these syndicates that buy a bunch of high-class horses, and you get other people who would prefer to buy a proven horse. “There is a big need to address the issue of making racing at least fun, and that doesn’t cost you too much. “I think addressing the prize-money issue is a big part of that and I think, to be fair HRI [Horse Racing Ireland] has recognised that and has really tried hard to keep prize-money up. There is no doubt that the cost of training horses and raising horses have increased, exponentially I would have thought, over the last 20 years. “Prize-money is a huge factor in making the bloodstock business work.” Continuing O’Connor adds: “Part of the reason why young stallions are priced as they are in terms of their stud fees is how difficult it is to buy a young stallion prospect. “It is fair to say that most of the stallion prospects are owned by operators who have

their own stallion farms. “It means there are a smaller number of horses who are available for independent studs to buy. “Generally that brings about a competitive process between those studs which usually means that these stallion prospects make a lot of money – that is a big factor in the pricing of them. If they cost a lot to purchase they have to make some kind of business sense.”

HERE ARE NO easy answers or simple solutions to these problems, but a collaborative approach between governing bodies across Europe, an approach that O’Connor has always championed in his committee roles over the years, is the one he believes is required if a solution is to be found. “I don’t think there is a simple answer to any of these things, they are all intertwined, but I think the most important part of the equation is the ownership experience and the appetite for buying racehorses. “That is where the middle-market is under pressure and I think it is fair to say that we hear every year comments from people saying the good horses sold well and the bad ones couldn’t be sold. “To a certain extent that is a very simplistic argument because every year you will see high-class horses, fillies such as Miss Amulet, Mrs Danvers, Rose Of Kildare who were sold for very small prices. “To say that the ‘good ones make money and the bad ones don’t’ is too simplistic – there are horses with the potential to be good racehorses not selling well. The reason is prize-money is not sufficient to make it attractive to buy the ones who are not ‘obvious’. “There is a difference between a good horse and one that makes a lot of money, and that is a very important aspect of it I think. “A lot of it is to do with how racing is funded and the relationship between prize-money and betting turnover. Different countries have taken different approaches and countries such as Australia, Japan and Hong Kong have taken a certain approach and they have good levels of prize-money. “Consequently horses have a very good value and the opposite applies here.”

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Growing dominance Trainer Henk Grewe has won his second German championship in just his sixth year of training. Jocelyn de Moubray chats to the man taking German racing by storm

HE COVID YEAR HAS BEEN a difficult one for every trainer in Europe, but for Henk Grewe it has been nevertheless a remarkably successful one. At the time of writing he is sure to be champion trainer in Germany for the second time – with 52 wins he is more than 10 clear of his closest rival Markus Klug. To have won consecutive championships in his home country in only his fifth and sixth full seasons as a trainer is some achievement, but his success and ambitions are set to allow him to compete with the top trainers in Europe in the years to come. He has already done so – after all his stable’s 65 wins across Germany, France and

Sunny Queen: the daughter of Camelot won the Group 1 Grosser Preis Von Bayern in November

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Italy in 2020 include 22 black-type races, 13 Group races and two Group 1s. The only trainers to have won more Group races in Europe in 2020 are the O’Brien’s – Aidan and Joseph – John Gosden and Charlie Appleby. This is a fact worth repeating. The 37-yearold Grewe in only his sixth full season as a trainer with around 90 horses in his Cologne stable has won more Group races in Europe this year than, to give only the names of the others high up on the list, Andre Fabré, Jean Claude Rouget, Francis Graffard, Mark Johnston, Andrew Balding, Jessica Harrington, and all of the other European trainers aside from the aforementioned four. Grewe’s Group 1 wins came with Darius Racing’s Donjah in Cologne in August, and with Sunny Queen carrying the colours of Gaynor Rupert’s Cayton Park Stud. She won at Munich in November – both fillies were, as have many of Grewe’s best winners, purchased as yearlings at BadenBaden.

henk grewe His other leading performers in 2020 included Stall Wasserfreunde’s Wonderful Moon, who was only fifth when favourite for the Deutsches Derby (G1) but who won a Group 2 and two Group 3s, Thorin, who won a Group 3 in Deauville, and the two-yearold filly Noble Heidi, who won Germany’s top juvenile race, the Preis der Winterkonigin (G3), as well as races at Chantilly and Compiegne. Finally, Isfahani won the Premio Guido Berardelli (G3) at Chantilly on her only start to date. Over Breeders’ Cup weekend, Grewe’s ambitions for his stable were revealed. On the two days he ran 14 different horses on six different tracks in four different countries, and if Donjah’s run at Keeneland didn’t go to plan, the stable ended up with five wins, including a Group 1 and two Group 3s in Munich, Rome, Milan and Croise Laroche. “It was,” says Grewe, “a little bit crazy! I went to Munich, my wife Natascha was in Kentucky, my assistant went to Italy and we just about had enough people to go to Croise Laroche, Nancy and to look after the

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henk grewe horses who stayed in Cologne. “At the moment we only have 25 people working for the stable so it was a busy, and successful weekend.” Donjah was Grewe’s first runner in the US. “We had,” he recalls, “runners in Canada two years ago, but she was the first in the US. I don’t yet know exactly what went wrong and why she collided with the rail on the backstretch, but she has been a great filly and her next target is the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale in Deauville in December.” He was a little surprised by Sunny Queen’s win in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern. “I had been disappointed when she didn’t win her race before, a Group 3 in Hanover,” he explains. “Although, with hindsight, I think what she needs is a strongly run race and a long testing straight, which is what she got in Munich. “She will stay in training next year and now she is a Group 1 winner we will try and win Group races with her in France and England.” His other three-year-old star, the Sea The Moon colt Wonderful Moon, will also stay in training with the aim of winning big races outside Germany. “He, too, likes a strongly run race as he has a high cruising speed,” Grewe expands. “He looked very good on his seasonal debut in Cologne, but we were not altogether happy with him after the Derby and gave him a long break. “I could see in his work after his comeback race that he was back to his best and he won very well on his last start in Hanover at the end of October. “As a four-year-old, I think he will improve on what he has done so far.” Grewe will start the 2021 season with 120 horses in his care, including around 50 two-year-olds.

He and his partners and owners bought yearlings in Baden-Baden and also in Deauville where they spent about €600,000 in September and October on yearlings by the likes of Frankel, Lope De Vega, and Siyouni. “We have bought more expensive yearlings this time,” Grewe confirms. “In the past we have rarely spent as much as €100,000 on any horse. We gave €70,000 for Noble Heidi in Baden-Baden, which was far too much for an Intello filly with her pedigree, but I loved her and it has turned out all right.” Grewe is based on the racecourse in Cologne and trains, like many of Germany’s other top trainers including Peter Schiergen and Waldemar Hickst, mainly on the new Dirt track which was completed in 2019. “It was the obvious place to start from as it has good facilities and is close to most of the best racecourses in Germany and not far from France,” he adds. Grewe had been a jockey beforehand and rode 290 winners working with, amongst others, Mario Hofer. “I always had trouble keeping my weight under control,” he says, “and I always wanted to train.”

“Working for a company gives me the time to concentrate on training and the horses

Two of this year’s stars: above, Donjah after winning the Group 1 Preis von Europa, and, below, Wonderful Moon wining a Group 3 at Hanover in October

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henk grewe He retired from race riding before he was 30 and went to work with Sascha Smrczek, who trains in Dusseldorf, before starting out on his own in 2014. Grewe does not work for himself, but for the company Grewe Holsbach Training & Racing GmbH. The company is a partnership between himself, Christoph Holschbach, Bruno Faust of Gestüt Karlshof and Lars Baumgarten. “This business arrangement suits me,” Grewe says. “I take fewer risks than most trainers and get paid a salary as well as a percentage of prize-money and the sale of horses. Working for a company gives me the time to concentrate on training and the horses. We discuss some of the big decisions together, we did for instance agree together to ask Andrasch Starke to become the stable jockey last year, but I am the trainer.” At the beginning the property developer and racehorse owner Christoph Holschbach was behind the company, but in 2017 Grewe and Holschbach asked Faust and Baumgarten to join them.

Wohler, Peter Schiergen’. “He replied, ‘I didn’t say they are bad trainers, I said I am the best!’ “At the time he had around 30 horses in his stable who were mainly handicappers and claiming horses. I quickly decided to join the company, I like to invest in gifted young people.” After observing the stable and Grewe closely for three years Baumgarten sees various different reasons why Grewe is so successful. “First, he is a workaholic,” he says. “Henk doesn’t want to drive a Porsche or have a private plane, he wants to win races and that is what he is focused on from first thing in the morning to last thing at night. “And then he seems instinctively to know the right level for each of horses. Very early in their careers he tells you which are Group horses, which are handicappers, which will be best at two and those who will progress later. “This insight allows him to place his horses

“Henk doesn’t want to drive a Porsche or have a private plane, he wants to win races

Opposite page, base, owner-breeder Lars Baumgarten. The German sports agent is one of the partners in the training business Grewe Holsbach Training & Racing GmbH. Baumgarten observes that Grewe seems “instinctively to know the right level for each of his horses”

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Below, Noble Heidi (Intello) after winning the Group 3 Preis der Winterkonigin

AUMGARTEN has been a prominent owner and breeder in Germany for some years and is also a leading sports agent in Germany. His company Baumgarten Sports and More represents top footballers and tennis players, including among others the ex-world number one Angelique Kerber. In 2017, Baumgarten first sat down with Grewe to talk about horses, training and his future. “I had, of course, known of him before,” Baumgarten remembers. “He once rode for me at Krefeld, but I had never spoken to Henk for more than a minute at a time before. “I am used to talking to young gifted people in sports, that is my business, and one of the first things Henk said to me was, ‘I am the best trainer in Germany!’ “I said, ‘But there is Markus Klug, Andreas

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henk grewe so well and decide where, when and over which distance they should be racing. “He feeds each of his horses every morning and they are as fit as they can be when they go to the races.” Baumgarten believes that Grewe is very “clear” in his mind and has the “mental capacity and an approach to training that makes him extraordinary”. Grewe himself has expressed his delight that German Racing is now being shown free-to-view online. “Now everyone can watch German racing live from anywhere in the world and the broadcasts are of a high standard”

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THER ASPECTS come to mind too, but Baumgarten admits that is hard to pinpoint any one reason why Grewe is so good at training horses. “I took a friend to watch the morning work the other day,” he continues.“It was someone who knows little about horses and racing. “We watched the Grewe string go past and then the horses of Schiergen and of Hickst. “My friend said that he couldn’t see any difference between the way the different stables worked and, of course, he was right, but what makes the difference is what you don’t see standing on the side of the track. “I work with gifted sports people every day and I have come to understand how important their mental capacity is to their success. “Angelique [Kerber], for example, is not the most gifted tennis player of her generation, but she worked very hard and is very strong mentally. A top athlete has to have a balance between their conscious and unconscious mind. “They have to believe in themselves, and they have to stay down to earth. I believe that Henk is clear in his mind and in the way he expresses himself. “I think he would be a success at the top level anywhere in the world, it might take him time to adapt to a new environment but in the end he would succeed. He reminds me of the young Jurgen Klopp, whom I met 15 years ago. “There have similarities – Klopp was just an average footballer, Henk an average jockey, but they both have a mental capacity and an approach to training which makes them extraordinary.” Grewe himself is too focused

on his training to ask or answer this type of question. “Training is,” he says obliquely, “very easy when you have an excellent team around you and high-class horses.” For the time being he plans to stay in Cologne and Germany but doesn’t rule out that there may come a time when that will change. “Unfortunately,” he says, “in Germany a trainer is not allowed to have two different bases and so I can’t have a stable in France as well as one in Germany.” This has been an excellent year for the stable, but, of course, a difficult one too, and the number of wins is down from the last two seasons as is the prize-money won. “The spring was very difficult,” he agrees, “particularly as we didn’t know when we were going to start racing again. It is difficult to prepare horses if you don’t know if they are going to race in four weeks, eight weeks or perhaps not at all until next year. We just didn’t know, but we did manage to win three Group races on the first two days racing.” The difficult year did produce some positives for the future. In Germany for the first time racing was shown live free to view on the German Racing website. “I had been arguing for this for some time,” Grewe adds. “Beforehand you had to subscribe and the images looked as if they came from the 1980s. Now everyone can watch German racing live from anywhere in the world and the broadcasts are of a high standard.” If Grewe is cautiously optimistic about German racing he is most at ease speaking about his own horses. For 2021 he will have Wonderful Moon and Suuny Queen to take on the best older horses in Europe, and amongst his two-year-olds of 2020 he speaks particularly highly of Noble Heidi, the Isfahan filly Isfahani and, of his colts, the Soldier Hollow colt Virginia Storm and Sisfahan, a son of Isfahan who broke his maiden in Lyon in November. There is also the Pastorius colt Django Unchained, who was second in the Criterium de la Vente d’Octobre Arqana (the Arqana October sales race) on Arc weekend. If the recent past is a guide, this batch are likely to be winning Group races, both in Germany and further afield.

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Aisling Crowe chats to John Tuthill of Owenstown Stud after a year that enjoyed a highlight with Supremacy’s Group 1 Middle Park victory. Tuthill argues that he owes his success to the fantastic land at Owenstown, explains that he is reassessing 2021 covering plans for his mares and would dearly love to see prize-money improve in Britain and Ireland

UPREMACY, one of this season’s outstanding juvenile colts, successful in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and Group 2 Richmond Stakes, spent his formative months in the North Kildare paddocks that once formed part of the famous estate belonging to the Earls of Kildare. Owenstown Stud is the nursery where Supremacy was born and reared, just as the Group 1 winners Excelebration and Persuasive were before him. Supremacy’s dam Triggers’ Broom is a permanent resident at the farm of John Tuthill, breeder of those star milers, where her owners Kangyu Racing International Owenstown Stud’s modest John Tuthill

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board seven mares to support their stallion Cotai Glory, a member of the same Tally-Ho Stud team as Supremacy’s sire Mehmas. Tuthill’s joy at the success of Supremacy is warm and genuine: “It’s always a thrill when horses that you’ve looked after go on and be successful, it’s great, it is what we live for really. To have a Group 1 winner on the farm is great and when clients have that bit of success, it gives everyone such a boost and it is wonderful,” he smiles. Kangyu International Racing is a group of Hong Kong businessmen, headed up by the Honourable Kenneth Lao. They raced Cotai Glory and when he went to stud they kept a stake in him and created a small breeding operation centred around Cotai Glory, and set out to buy some mares to go to him. “In a year when things have been difficult in Hong Kong it was a real note of positivity for the fledgling breeding operation,” adds Tuthill. The breeder’s voice becomes animated with enthusiasm when he speaks of Art Power, the three-year-old colt who won the Group 3 Lacken Stakes and was just a nose and two half-lengths fourth in the Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint Stakes in October. “He is so exciting and I didn’t half shout at the television! My throat was sore after that race!” exclaims the delighted breeder. “He was beaten less than a length by horses who are six and eight years old, that was a proper run. If he strengthens up into next year, he is going to be a serious horse.” Art Power is a son of Dark Angel, a stallion with whom the Owenstown broodmares have developed a fruitful partnership. He is also the sire of Choose Me’s

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owenstown stud Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Persuasive. Art Power’s dam Evening Time, a Listed-winning daughter of Keltos, is back in-foal to Yeomanstown Stud’s leading sire. Art Power and Persuasive are members of two families that Tuthill has developed with Art Power tracing back to Shadow Casting, a Juddmonte-bred mare purchased by his late aunt Averil Whitehead, breeder of the brilliant stallion Indian Ridge. Sent to the Kendor stallion Keltos, Shadow Casting produced Evening Time, who won two Listed races and was twice placed at Group 3 level. She is the dam of Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes winner Penny Pepper, who has joined her dam in the Owenstown broodmare band, Morning Frost, who is a Listed winner in France, and Art Power the latest of her black-type winners. “Penny Pepper is in-foal to Night Of Thunder and Evening Time is in-foal to Dark Angel, as luck would have it,” says Tuthill. “There’s a lot about Dark Angel that fits Evening Time in my view, and I am happy with that cross,” he says of the mating that produced Art Power. “Keltos had very few offspring so there isn’t a lot to go on because there are so few. It means to a certain extent you are sort of in the dark trying to discover what works.” Hecuba is another Juddmonte-bred mare acquired by Tuthill’s late aunt and she produced the Listed Waterford Testimonial Stakes winner Shanghai Glory and

“I just have a farm on great land, it is fantastic land for thoroughbreds, there is no denying that Choose Me, a Listed-winning Choisir mare. She has been her dam’s most successful broodmare daughter so far producing Persuasive, as well as the Listed winner Tis But A Dream, by Dream Ahead, in successive years. Her yearling Dark Angel colt was purchased by Sackville Donald this year for 100,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 1. She has a 2020-born filly foal by Dark Angel, her final daughter. Whether homebreds or boarders, graduates of the Owenstown nursery have excelled over the last decade, but Tuthill is modest to a fault and dismisses any suggestion that he has any particular

influence over the career trajectories of the horses once they have left his watchful stewardship. “There are a lot of factors and my input stops at the sales so it is very much in the hands of the trainers, the jockeys, the work riders, the grooms. After my little bit of influence ends, there is a lot more and all credit goes to them,” he says modestly. “I just have a farm on great land, it is fantastic land for thoroughbreds, there is no denying that. “But, as regards what I do, I try to produce a racehorse first, then I hope that the one I have bred before that particular one turns out to be good enough to bring a decent price in the sales!”

UTHILL’S CONCENTRATION always is to breed an athlete, looking beyond the sales ring to the horse’s future career on the track, and he has assembled a strong team which begins with the staff on the farm and encompasses vets, farrier, feed company. “I breed to sell as yearlings, which doesn’t make it any easier, but I try to produce an athlete and a racehorse. I hope that, by the time my influence stops, I have produced an athlete, and if what I have produced goes out and wins a maiden as a two-year-old or as a three-year-old I feel that is as much as I can have done. I have sown the seed and it is

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owenstown stud others that nuture and grow it to fruition.” Luck, he emphasises, is also a vital component and he points to the story of the Tuthill-bred three-time Group 1 winner Excelebration. He had the misfortune to be born in the same year as Frankel and finish runner-up to that extraordinary horse in three further Group 1 contests. Luck isn’t the only variable in life beyond our control as this surreal year has demonstrated in abundance and the full consequences of the global pandemic will only be known years from now. What is already clear, however, is the impact it is already having on the economic well-being of the world, an impact that has a direct effect on the bloodstock industry as demonstrated this autumn at the yearling sales. “There’s a lot of uncertainty and worry for people and that is bound to have an effect on the demand for racehorses,” says Tuthill, adding: “Discretionary spend is much reduced which is understandable, and Brexit is looming. “We are 58 days out from Brexit [at the time of interview] and we do not know what is going to happen yet. “It could be a nightmare, or they could do a deal which works out and things don’t change, which would be great.” As a consequence of the significant drop in sales prices and the continuing uncertainty created by COVID and Brexit, Tuthill is, in common with many breeders, reconsidering his plans for 2021 including. “It has made me look very long and

“This has been going on for decades, effectively you win so little as an owner it is pretty much a rosette and a pat on the back, like at Pony Club!

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hard at which mares I cover, and what I cover them with and what price range each covering will be in. “Price has got to be a huge factor because the yearling sales were very, very tough and that’s something we have to look at and by necessity we have to cut our cloth.”

OWEVER, Tuthill believes that the current hazy economic atmosphere is only compounding a critical issue that has bedevilled the racing and breeding industries in Ireland and Britain especially; the chronic lack of investment in prize-money that has resulted in a looming crisis of ownership. “The yearling sales put everything into sharp focus really, and what is at the back of it is decades of poor prize-money,” he says. “For instance, if you could be sure that if you won a 0-60 handicap or a Class 4 handicap in the UK the prize-money would cover a year’s training fees then you would encourage a whole lot of enthusiasts into owning a horse, because it would be within their grasp to have an inexpensive hobby. “But, at the moment, to balance the books you have to get a bit of form and sell. You are doing away with your bit of fun because you have to sell to be able to get anywhere. “Owners should be able to decide – for

instance, if a horse has won once and been placed twice so training fees are covered for the year, they should be able to decide either to sell now with a bit of form and buy another one, or carry on and next year try to do the same. “If you can then build a bit of a day out at the races with your pals at the same time, then the whole experience becomes so much better. “The equation is so badly wrong that it is turning people away; it has caused undue pressure on everybody and it has been cumulative. “This has been going on for decades, effectively you win so little as an owner it is pretty much a rosette and a pat on the back, like at Pony Club! “In terms of the costs of training, of breeding, of buying a yearling it doesn’t stack up.” Looking at other countries with broader access for owners and greater participation in the sport, the common denominator is a Tote monopoly which funds higher prizemoney levels. A similar model for here, would be the answer in his ideal world “Throughout the COVID pandemic, the industry has kept going and it would be nice if we could manage to do something through the levy to underpin the prize-money, that would be my dream,” Tuthill confides.

Excelebration (by Exceed And Excel and out of Shower (Indian Ridge)) winning the QEII Stakes in 2012

THE 10 FURLONG WORLD CHAMPION €5,000

FASCINATING ROCK. Dual Group 1 winner and Timeform Rated 127

ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING SIRES €125,000

LOPE DE VEGA.

Sire of 12 individual Gr.1 winners on 4 continents

CLASSIC WINNER, CLASSIC SIRE €15,000

MAKE BELIEVE.

Sire of 5 first crop Stakes winners including MISHRIFF

CLASSIC WINNING DUBAWI €20,000

NEW BAY.

Outstanding first crop of 2yos include Group winners NEW MANDATE & SAFFRON BEACH

THE BEST GALILEO SINCE FRANKEL €17,500

WALDGEIST.

4 Gr.1s including the Arc from ENABLE, SOTTSASS, MAGICAL & GHAIYYATH

BALLYLINCH STUD

Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland

AUNT PEARL by LOPE DE VEGA

Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf 118p – the highest rated 2yo Filly by

Bred by Ballylinch Stud and Ecurie des Charmes

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Uncertain sales

“Although the results of the major 2020 European yearling sales were a success in the circumstances, they still represented a loss equivalent of some $60 million for vendors” Photography courtesy of the sales companies Statistics by Jocelyn de Moubray

FTER THREE YEARS of stability and a longer period during which the market’s shifts were relatively insignificant, the European yearling sales were upended by the COVID pandemic in 2020, writes Jocelyn de Moubray. At various moments during the year there was real fear that there would not be any bloodstock sales at all and so for the major sales to end up only 18 per cent down on aggregate on 2019 will be seen by many as a success. I find the best way to look at overall trends in the European market is to put all the figures into US dollars. In this way the fluctuations in the exchange between sterling

and the euro are evened out, and when you look at the list of leading buyers, who continue to account for around 40 per cent of the market, it is safe to assume many are doing their own reckoning in dollars rather than in the local currencies. The sales were, of course, different this year. Goffs was obliged to move the Orby, its flagship Irish sale, to Doncaster in England due to COVID-19 restrictions and Arqana had to change the format of its sales – it held sales in September and October rather than the usual August and October. It also had to compress the August Sale, V2 Sale and October sales into two sales, the Osarus September Sale was cancelled and some of those horses were added to an extended Arqana October Sale.

Anthony Stroud did little buying work for Godolphin until the yearling season moved to Tattersalls. At Newmarket he was busy throughout Book 1 and Book 2. Godolphin signed for 22 horses in Book 1, three in Book 2. Three lots went down to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock in Book 1, and 29 in Book 2

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In order to make a comparison between 2019 and 2020 for the Arqana sales I have added 50 per cent of the Osarus 2019 September Sale to the

total of the Arqana August and October sales. Although the results of the major 2020 European yearling sales were a success

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yearling sale review Major yearling purchasers by spend in millions: 2017 ($)

Major yearling purchasers by spend in millions: 2020 ($)

Buyer

Purchased

Spend (millons)

Purchased

Spend (millons)

Godolphin 58 31.7

Godolphin/Stroud/Coleman 57

36.0

Sackville Donald

MV Magnier

19 .0

106

27.3

Shadwell 87 25.4

Shadwell 47 12.0

Coolmore & partners

18.7

Oliver St Lawrence

R Varian

11.8

Rabbah 75 7.7 HKJC

27 6.7

K Radcliffe

Combined

404

4.5 134m (37% of total)

8.3

White Birch

6.3

Sackville Donald

6.1

Mike Ryan

6.1

Rabbah 54 4.1 Al Shaqab

4.0

Varian/Ryan 11 3.5

Major yearling purchasers by spend in millions: 2018 ($) Buyer

Purchased

Spend (millons)

Stroud/Coleman/Godolphin 98

David Redvers

3.2

Hong Kong Jockey Club

2.9

Combined

327

42.0

Shadwell 74 21.0 MV Magnier

19.0

Sackville Donald

16.0

Phoenix Thoroughbreds 24 David Redvers

12.0

8.3

Hillen/Devin/Ryan 20

6.1

Rabbah 55 5.4 Hong Kong Jockey Club 21 Roger Varian Combined

5.1

9 434

4.2 139 (39% of total)

Major yearling purchasers by spend in millions: 2019 ($) Buyer

Purchased

Godolphin/Stroud/Coleman 61

Spend (millons)

15.0

Ryan/White Birch/Klaravich 47

13.0

Sackville Donald

12.0

Varian/Kevin Ryan

9.9

David Redvers

7.6

Rabbah 49 5.4 Hong Kong Jockey Club 12 Combined

369

At various moments during the year there was real fear that there would not be any bloodstock sales at all

40.0

Shadwell 89 27.0 MV Magnier/Westerberg 18

110 (37% of total)

3.6 134 (38% of total)

in the circumstances, they still represented a loss of some $60 million for vendors. Looking ahead to a time when it will once again be simple to travel and attend race meetings, this year’s sales starkly revealed the extent to which the British and Irish yearling market depends upon the buying of the Maktoum family. The figures given for

purchases of the leading buyers are only an estimate as only the sales companies and the buyers themselves know the actual figures. However, even if the figures are an estimate, there is no doubt whatsoever that the Maktoum family, buying principally through Godolphin, Shadwell, Rabbah and Stroud Coleman, not only reduced its overall spending, by about 30 per cent from $72 million to $52 million, but also it changed its distribution. In 2019, Shadwell was the leading buyer at the Goffs UK Premier Sale in Doncaster spending around 11 per cent of the aggregate; this year it did not appear to buy at the sale all. At the 2019 Orby Sale between them Shadwell and Godolphin spent nearly €5 million. That spend was less than £500,000 between them at the sale this year at Doncaster. The difference was felt in Europe, too. Godolphin reduced its spending by €3 million at

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yearling sale review Major European sales % change 2019-2020 local currencies Sale

Nos Sold

Aggregate

% change

Tattersalls 1

369

£82,400,000

-23

Tattersalls 2

637

£48,400,000

-5

BBAG Sept

148

€6,160,000

-23

Arqana S+O

916

€57,400,000

-16*

Goffs Orby

308

£21,000,000

-43

Goffs UK Premier

313

£11,100,000

-38

* see explanation page 76

Arqana in September compared with August in 2019 and by €1.75 million at the BBAG sale in Baden-Baden. This year, the Maktoum family’s buying was focused more than ever on the Tattersalls October Book 1 and 2 sales.

At the sales considered Shadwell bought 47 yearlings, 46 of which were at the Tattersalls October sales. About 90 per cent of the Maktoum family spending on yearlings in Europe in 2020 took place at Tattersalls October.

Left, top, the colt by Starspangledbanner (Lot 165) topped the Goffs UK Premier Sale, sold by Coulonces Sales to Richard Ryan for £170,000 Middle, the Goffs Orby Sale top lot – by Oasis Dream out of Princess De Lune, Lot 343 sold by Round Hill Stud for £450,000 to Shadwell Left, bottom left, the top-priced colt at Tattersalls Book 1 was Lot 174 by Kingman ex Galicuix sold by Houghton Bloodstock to Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock for 2,700,000gns, bought on behalf of Bahrain-based clients Below, the top-priced colt at Arqana September was Lot 199, by Galileo sold by Ecurie des Monceaux to MV Magnier for €2,000,000

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Godolphin reduced its spending by €3 million at Arqana in September compared with August 2019 and by €1.75 million at the BBAG sale Maktoum family spending was down at October Book 1 (22 per cent), and October Book 2 (seven per cent), but at both sales it accounted for a

similar proportion of the overall aggregate, 24 per cent at October Book 1 and 27 cent at October 2. These changes in the way the Maktoum family chose to buy yearlings in 2020 compared with previous years go a long way to explaining the results recorded by the various sales.

any way linked to the quality of horses on offer. There were other buyers, such as Phoenix Thoroughbreds and Shawn Duggan, who had been significant in 2019 at both Goffs and Arqana, who

were not active in 2020. The top of the market at Arqana’s sales was clearly down on 2019. In total, Arqana sold eight yearlings for more than €500,000 and 32 for more than €250,000 in 2020, a fall of 18 at

Major European sales 2017-2020 (% change year on year in $ million)

Difficult year

It was a tough year for Goffs UK, which saw the aggregate at its Premier Sale fall by 38 per cent in sterling, and for Goffs the aggregate for the relocated Orby Sale fell by 43 per cent. It was not only the Maktoum family, who spent significantly less at Goffs in 2020 than in 2019. MV Magnier, Coolmore and the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) were other major buyers to reduce their spending at the two companies’ sales. This all added up to a significant fall in revenue for the vendor, and it is hard to imagine this was in

2017

Nos Sold

Aggregate

% change

Tattersalls 1 & 2

962

198

14 2

BBAG Sept

165

9.1

Arqana A + O

842

Goffs Orby

373

Goffs Premier

376

Combined 2,718

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2018 Tattersalls 1 & 2

1,023

207

BBAG Sept

157

6.85

-25

Arqana A + O

805

68.4

-10

Goffs Orby

326

49.2

Goffs Premier

400

23.7

-12

Combined 2,711 The Book 2 top lot was a colt by Lope De Vega (Lot 945) out of Loch Ma Naire, sold by Newsells Park Stud to Godolphin for 675,000gns

358

355

-1

1,017

204

-1

BBAG Sept

136

8.9

Arqana A + O

908

Goffs Orby

362

-5

Goffs Premier

376

-3

2019 Tattersalls 1 & 2

Combined 2,799

356

2020 Tattersalls 1 & 2

1,006

178

-13

BBAG Sept

148

7.2

-19

Arqana S + O

916

67.2

-10

Goffs Orby

308

27.3

-42

Goffs Premier

313

14.4

-37

294

-18

Combined 2,691

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2021 S A L E S D AT E S

February Sale February 4 - 5 Broodmares, Fillies/Horses in Training & Yearlings Craven Breeze Up Sale April 12 - 14 Europe’s Premier Breeze Up Sale Guineas Breeze Up & Horses In Training Sale April 29 - 30 Two Year Olds & Horses In Training July Sale July 5 - 9 Horses/Fillies In Training, Broodmares, etc. August Sale August 30 - September 2 Horses/Fillies In Training, Broodmares, etc.

October Yearling Sale Book 1 October 5 - 7 Europe’s Premier Yearling Sale Featuring the £20,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus Book 2 October 11 - 13 Book 3* October 14 - 15 Book 4* October 15 - 16 *Featuring the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes Autumn Horses In Training Sale October 25 - 29 The World’s Largest Horses In Training Sale December Sale Yearlings November 22 Foals November 24 - 27 Breeding Stock November 29 - December 2 Broodmares, Fillies/ Horses In Training, etc. All dates subject to alteration

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yearling sale review the higher bracket and 45 for the second range from 2019. However, the remainder of the French yearling market held remarkably well and the combined Arqana September and October Sale, together with half of the Osarus September Sale, ended up with an aggregate down by 16 per cent in euros and only 10 per cent in dollars. Some of the big international buyers who normally attend the August Sale were at neither September nor October in 2020, but the French racing system and the prize-money on offer for all horses, but particularly for French-breds, appears to be more attractive than ever. At the huge October Sale, which lasted five days and saw 710 yearlings go through the ring,

Sire sale popularity changing?

the proportion sold was higher on Day 5 (83 per cent) than it had been on Day 1 (79 per cent). Al Shaqab played an important role at Arqana and was the leading buyer at the October Sale with 19 lots bought for a €1.7 million spend, many by one of its own stallions.

Godolphin BBAG reduction

Turnover at the Baden-Baden September Sale was down 23 per cent in euros, but this was hardly surprising when Godolphin spent €1.75 million, the equivalent of 28 per cent of 2020’s aggregate, less than it had in 2019. There again the domestic market held up surprisingly well in the circumstances.

WHEN THE market changes so does the type of horse most rewarded by it. Looking at the list of stallions ranked by the percentage change in their yearling average between 2019 and 2020 (see table overleaf), it seems there is a definite trend towards horses bred to be at their best over middle-distances and away from fast, precocious types. Of the 17 sires whose averages progressed by more than 10 per cent many are clear middle-distance sires – Teofilo, Sir Percy, Farhh, Sea The Moon, Nathaniel, Intello, Reliable Man and Adlerflug. The best returns come, of course, from those sires who were still relatively cheap in 2018 and whose standing has risen since, but if we knew how to pinpoint these in advance commercial breeding would be a simple affair! Juddmonte’s Kingman was clearly a great bargain at £55,000 in his fourth season at stud in 2018. Among sires with second-crop yearlings few saw their average progress significantly from 2019 to 2020, and the biggest movers were the Haras de Colleville’s Goken, whose average was up some 130 per cent to £40,000, followed by Ballylinch’s

Tattersalls surprise

Vendors, and no doubt the sales company itself, were nervous before Tattersalls October, understandably so given what had happened at Goffs. However, from Day 1 of October Book 1 it was obvious that the stallion owners – Coolmore, Godolphin and Shadwell – were going to support the sale, and the US-based buyers were going to once again play an important role. The Maktoum family and Coolmore’s buys made up nearly 40 per cent of the aggregate, while Mike Ryan, and Demi O’Byrne for Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm, another eight per cent of the total aggregate.

Ryan and Brant bought fewer horses than they had when acting together in 2019, but once again they spent nearly $13 million. Lope De Vega is fast becoming the European sire for the US, Ryan and Brant bought five by the Ballylinch sire between them, but they also bought yearlings by a range of other stallions, including the unproven sires Almanzor, Ribchester and Caravaggio. October Book 2 was even more of a surprise finishing with the third-highest sale aggregate of all-time and only 150,000gns off the recordbreaking sale in 2019. The Maktoum family and its agents spent nearly 30 per cent of the aggregate,

New Bay, up 80 per cent to £70,000 and Tally-Ho Stud’s Mehmas up 70 per cent to £55.000. Five first-crop yearling sires stood out from the others. Coolmore’s Caravaggio was the only one to record an average of more than £100,000, but Etreham’s Almanzor, Coolmore’s Churchill, Darley’s Ribchester and Cheveley Park’s Ulysses all finished with averages of £60,000 or higher. Profitable, Time Test and Zarak were three whose first yearling average was considerably higher than their first foal average in 2019. Mike Ryan: bought 17 lots in Book 1, all heading stateside

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of stress beforehand, but were pleasantly surprised and rewarded in Newmarket with by far the strongest market of the year.

So what of the future?

None of those involved at a high level in the commercial yearling market hold many illusions about its true nature.

Stallions ranked by change in average from 2019-2020 (All figures in £’s) Sire

2018 fee

2019 average

Teofilo £36,000 58,800 Bated Breath £10,000 22,000 Sir Percy £7,000 24,600 Dabirsim £27,000 18,200 Farhh £10,000 36,200 Galiway £2,700 17,500 Sea The Moon £15,000 49,200 Starspangledbanner £13,000 40,300 Make Believe £13,000 22,000 Wootton Bassett £18,000 69,800 Nathaniel £20,000 41,300 Intello £20,000 34,600 Kingman £55,000 298,000 Kendargent £20,000 29,600 Reliable Man £6,000 21,400 Adlerflug £13,500 33,300 Oasis Dream £30,000 75,900 Night of Thunder £15,000 80,900 Galileo private 640,000 Dubawi £250,000 549,000 Sea The Stars £123,000 195,000 Lope De Vega £55,000 174,000 Invincible Spirit £109,000 169,000 Camelot £27,000 88,000 Holy Roman Emperor £13,000 41,400 Mastercraftsman £22,000 53,700 Kodiac £45,000 89,100 Siyouni £68,000 185,000 Frankel £175,000 411,000 Zoffany £22,000 60,300 Showcasing £35,000 87,500 Australia £27,000 78,800 No Nay Never £22,500 142,000 Exceed And Excel £45,000 69,400 Golden Horn £60,000 84,000 Soldier Hollow £27,000 46,000 Iffraaj £40,000 69,900 Muharaar £30,000 73,400 New Approach £30,000 82,000 Dark Angel £76,000 163,000 Le Havre £54,000 108,000 Gleneagles £36,000 75,100

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2020 average

Stats by JdeM

% difference

130,000 48,100 51,600 35,400 68,700 33,000 75,900 59,100 31,700 99,000 57,800 47,200 398,000 37,800 25,800 39,000 84,800 88,800 686,000 580,000 206,000 183,000 177,000 83,500 37,800 48,200 80,100 164,000 354,000 50,500 73,100 64,900 114,000 55,200 67,000 36,000 51,800 47,500 52,000 114,000 60,100 40,000

121 119 110 94 90 89 54 47 44 42 40 36 34 28 21 18 12 9 7 5 5 5 4 -5 -8 -10 -10 -11 -14 -16 -16 -18 -20 -20 -20 -22 -26 -35 -37 -43 -44 -47

x 2018 fee 3.6 4.8 7.2 1.3 6.9 12.0 5.1 4.5 2.4 3.7 2.9 2.4 7.2 1.9 4.3 2.9 2.8 5.9 n/a 2.3 1.5 3.3 1.6 3.1 2.9 2.2 1.8 2.4 2.0 2.3 2.1 2.4 5.1 1.2 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.6 1.7 1.5 1.1 1.1

...it seems there is a definite trend towards horses bred to be at their best over middle-distances and away from fast, precocious types For years the figures have shown clearly that the return on an investment in expensive mares, stallion nominations or both is always going to depend upon the decisions of a small handful of people. This year showed both what a sales season could be like without the support of the key players at Goffs, and what is it still like when the same people are buying as enthusiastically as ever as they did at Tattersalls October Book 2. What the future will hold and how commercial vendors should be planning for the 2021 covering season is anybody’s guess, but it surely looks as though in the medium term the trend is more likely to be downwards rather than a return to the recent past. Sire yearling averages pages 144-150

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global sires

Leading T global sires 2020

HE BIG MOVER this year is US sire Into Mischief (ninth in 2019) as his emerging dominace in America continues – he has improved across all categories. The Japanese-based sires Lord Kanaloa and Heart’s Cry have flipped positions, while fellow Shadi Stallion Stationbased sire Orfevre is building momentum. Coolmore sire Camelot appears on this table for the first time. Reflective of the year’s COVID-19 falls in European prize-money (particularly British) Galileo’s total earnings are halved from 2019’s of over $24 million.

Camelot

Leading 2020 global sires by earnings (listed by overall earnings through to November 9, 2020. Leader in each category in bold) STALLION

Country

International B-T Stakes wnrs

B-T Stakes horses

Deep Impact (JPN) Japan 31 Lord Kanaloa (JPN) Japan 14 Heart’s Cry (JPN) Japan 7 Into Mischief United States 27 Orfevre (JPN) Japan 6 Rulership (JPN) Japan 2 King Kamehameha (JPN) Japan 8 Gold Allure (JPN) Japan 3 Exceed And Excel (AUS) Ireland 6 Not A Single Doubt (AUS) Australia 1 Daiwa Major (JPN) Japan 2 South Vigorous Japan 1 Kinshasa no Kiseki (AUS) Japan 4 Henny Hughes Japan 1 Kizuna (JPN) Japan 4 Snitzel (AUS) Australia - Uncle Mo United States 21 Epiphaneia (JPN) Japan 2 Galileo (IRE) Ireland 31 New Year’s Day Japan 2 Fastnet Rock (AUS) Ireland 3 Medaglia d’Oro United States 5 Tapit United States 11 I Am Invincible (AUS) Australia 1 Teofilo (IRE) Ireland 11 Harbinger (GB) Japan 3 Kurofune Japan 3 Pyro Japan 1 Lope De Vega (IRE) Ireland 13 Dubawi (IRE) England 23 Pierro (AUS) Australia 1 Speightstown United States 13

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Earnings ($) 62,620,117 33,908,188 24,492,847 19,421,908 19,335,722 18,814,935 18,242,111 16,189,938 15,914,298 15,686,645 15,404,595 14,995,992 14,942,777 14,214,983 14,146,155 13,521,351 12,720,198 12,704,790 12,658,642 12,640,685 12,593,952 12,137,185 11,505,142 11,402,760 10,998,022 10,637,591 10,606,739 10,535,141 10,519,498 10,419,304 10,336,807 10,143,341

global sires ... continued Leading 2020 global sires by earnings (listed by overall earnings through to November 9, 2020) STALLION

Country

B-T Stakes wnrs

B-T Stakes horses

Screen Hero (JPN) Japan 1 Written Tycoon (AUS) Australia - Curlin United States 15 Frankel (GB) England 14 More Than Ready United States 9 Savabeel (AUS) New Zealand 1 Hard Spun United States 7 Sebring (AUS) Australia - I’ll Have Another United States 2 Stay Gold (JPN) Japan 3 So You Think (NZ) Australia 1 Just A Way (JPN) Japan 4 The Factor United States 5 Munnings United States 10 Declaration of War Japan 9 Victoire Pisa (JPN) Japan 2 Siyouni (FR) France 13 All Too Hard (AUS) Australia - Sinister Minister Japan - Camelot (GB) Ireland 9 Shamardal Ireland 15 City Zip United States 9 Midnight Lute United States 5 Zoustar (AUS) England - Smart Missile (AUS) Australia - Street Sense United States 8 Eishin Flash (JPN) Japan 1 Black Tide (JPN) Japan - Majestic Warrior Japan 4 Bernardini United States 6 Smart Falcon (JPN) Japan 1 Dark Angel (IRE) Ireland 13 Kitten’s Joy United States 7 Candy Ride (ARG) United States 7 Deep Brillante (JPN) Japan 2 Tavistock (NZ) New Zealand - Novellist (IRE) Japan - Constitution United States 6 Empire Maker United States 1 Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Australia 1 Zoffany (IRE) Ireland 5 Street Boss United States 3 War Front United States 12 Dunkirk Japan 1 Turtle Bowl (IRE) Japan 3 Goldencents United States 6 American Pharoah United States 10

2 - 29 36 19 2 16 1 2 4 1 5 12 21 23 3 29 - 1 26 24 15 6 - 1 14 1 1 4 14 1 24 12 19 3 - 1 17 5 3 24 12 27 1 3 13 14

Earnings () 10,121,260 9,677,191 9,626,580 9,538,699 9,190,047 9,128,673 9,005,600 8,889,654 8,805,805 8,709,093 8,702,549 8,589,956 8,336,760 8,236,964 8,195,496 8,049,928 7,999,748 7,819,991 7,466,941 7,396,416 7,379,145 7,373,665 7,347,902 7,318,604 7,305,720 6,836,430 6,805,277 6,746,676 6,724,825 6,690,140 6,545,546 6,476,141 6,409,314 6,403,205 6,335,775 6,327,459 6,196,115 6,146,591 6,091,065 6,043,249 5,994,364 5,886,731 5,846,597 5,828,292 5,824,126 5,778,941 5,758,545

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Changing Nations Wootton Bassett’s transfer was the biggest stallion news in 2020, reports Jocelyn de Moubray who goes on to review the progeny racing year for established stallions

Wootton Bassett’s results just kept on improving through 2020

T HAS NOT been a year or a racing season like any other and for once in 2020 the most significant development in the European stallion business didn’t come on the racecourse. A racing season with some two months taken out and a completely new Classic schedule saw, nevertheless, the emergence of some new stars among Europe’s stallions. But, for the future and as a reflection of where the business currently is, nothing will have as great an impact as the announcement in August that Coolmore Stud had purchased Wootton Bassett from the Haras d’Etreham and its partners. Wootton Bassett will stand at Coolmore in 2021 and, what makes this so significant, is that one of the world’s leading stallion farms should believe it is in their interests to pay what must have been a lot of money

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....nothing will have as great an impact as the announcement in August that Coolmore had purchased Wootton Bassett

for a 12-year-old son of Iffraaj, who had started his stud career standing at the Haras d’Etreham for €6,000 and who had attracted only 70 mares in his first two years at stud. Etreham bought Wootton Bassett at the end of his racing career for the price of a good yearling. His first crop produced from only 15 named foals the multiple Group 1 winner and European champion three-yearold Almanzor. When the Coolmore deal was concluded in August, Almanzor was his sire’s only Group 1 winner, though by then he had also produced the Group 3 winners Wootton, The Summit and The Black Album. No one would have doubted that Wootton Bassett was a very promising sire – and one who had succeeded in making an international mark, despite having started his career covering a handful of mainly average mares in France at a low fee. The

older stallions Leading sires of European 3yos 2020 (by % rated 95+, October 25, 2020)

By JdM

Sires

Foals Winners % SW % 110+ % 95+ %

Galileo

131 46 35 17 13.0 11

Adlerflug

33 9 27 3 9.1 3

8.4 36

27.0

9.1 6 18.0

Lope De Vega

136

3.7

1.5

15.0

Sea The Stars

100

8.0

3.0

15.0

Siyouni

161 41 25 5 3.1 1

0.6 23 14.0

Dubawi

126 39 31 3 2.4 3

2.4 16 13.0

Soldier Hollow

7.5

1.5

10.0

New Approach

2.6

5.1

9.0

Iffraaj

94 24 26 0

0 0

0 8

8.5

Teofilo

88 17 19 3 3.4 2

2.3 6

6.8

Invincible Spirit

111

1.8

0.9

6.3

Le Havre

130

3.1

1.5

6.2

Oasis Dream

1.1

5.6

Dark Angel

164

1.2

0.6

4.9

Showcasing

102 21 21 1 1.0 1

Holy Roman Emperor

Kendargent

80 15 19 0

1.4

1.0 4

4.0

1.4

2.9

0 0

0 2

2.5

Mastercraftsman 82 16 20 2 2.4 0

0 2

2.4

Kodiac

0 4

2.4

169 42 25 0

0 0

Retired to stud in 2012 (fifth crop three-year-olds)

Wootton Bassett Zoffany

158 45 28 0

8.5

2.4

0 1

0.6 11

10.0 7.0

Retired to stud in 2013 (fourth crop three-year-olds) Frankel

78 27 35 6 7.7 5

Nathaniel

89 28 31 1 1.1 0

0 6

6.7

Bated Breath

4.5

1.1

6.4 14 18.0 4

Retired to stud in 2014 (third crop three-year-olds) Camelot Intello Dabirsim Reliable Man

136 33 24 4 2.9 3

2.2 13 10.0

86 25 29 1 1.2 1

1.2 5

6.0

111 24 22 1 0.9 1

1.0 6

5.4

4.7

Retired to stud in 2015 (second crop three-year-olds) Kingman Sea The Moon

106 45 42 10 74

9.4

3.8 22

21.0

4.1

2.7

12.0

Australia

102 29 28 4 3.9 2

2.0 11 11.0

No Nay Never

120

0.8

Anodin

2.5

65 18 28 2 3.1 0

8.3

0 5

8.0

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older stallions surprise was that Coolmore was prepared to pay quite so much to secure Wootton Bassett. The answer is in all probability down to his pedigree, as well, of course, of what Wootton Bassett has achieved from the opportunities he has had to date with around 200 progeny of three years and older from five crops. You only to have to look at the pedigrees of Europe’s leading sires, the pedigrees of the yearlings presented at Europe’s select sales or the list of the sires who cover the most mares to see the problem which Wootton Bassett could help Coolmore to solve. Stallions at any time or geographical situation are only successful if they are well suited to the mare pool available to them. The problem for the owners of a large number of Europe’s best mares is that they have a genetic background very similar to the stallions around them. The success of Sadler’s Wells, Green Desert and Danehill and of their sons and daughters and descendants, coupled with the success of Urban Sea in producing two elite sires in Galileo and Sea The Stars, has meant that many of the most sought-after breeding stock have a very similar makeup. Dubawi and Lope De Vega have emerged as elite sires in recent years, but it is in no small part due to the fact that neither Sadler’s Wells, Green Desert, Danehill nor Urban Sea appear in their pedigrees. Wootton Bassett has made an exceptional start to his career and he, too, is free of all of the most common elements among Europe’s best mares. Since the sale Wootton Bassett’s record has improved further. His first large crop of three-year-olds in 2020 included a Group 1 winner in Wooded, as well as a string of high-class horses such as Waltham, Tamahere, Guildsman, The Summit and Speak Of The Devil, while his four-year-old daughter Audarya has become another Group 1 winner. His two-year-olds include the British Group winner Chindit and the promising French two-year-olds Midlife Crisis, and the filly Al Hawra, who is out of a Galileo mare. Wootton Bassett has consistently returned results far above the average from each of his five crops to race. His high-class progeny appear to be split

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Alpine Star: Sea The Moon’s first Group 1 winner

evenly between colts and fillies and his progeny tend to be tough physically and mentally with around 90 per cent reaching the racetrack and many continuing at a high level of form over a long period. He has high-class horses over all distances from 5f to 1m4f, and on all types of going as well as on the All-Weather. And, above all, Wootton Bassett can cover mares from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those with combinations of, and inbreeding to, Sadler’s Wells, Danehill, Green Desert and Urban Sea. The idea, we can safely assume, is that once Wootton Bassett covers some of the best mares in Ireland he will be able to secure a place among the elite sires. In the meantime, he had been covering large books of good mares at Etreham and he will have plenty to run for him between now and 2025 when his first Irish crop will be three.

Mr Consistency: Galileo

The table of the best sires of three-year-olds over a rolling four-year period doesn’t

really change very quickly. Galileo and Dubawi have been at the top for some years now, while Teofilo, New Approach and Invincible Spirit are also veterans and regulars at the top of this listing. Galileo continues to be the most consistent of all stallions despite his age, though the 2020 three-year-crop for both Dubawi and Invincible Spirit was below their usual high standard. Sea The Stars turns 15 in 2021 and his record will change over the coming years – since 2017 he has been covering significantly more mares going up to between 150-200 a year from around 100 during his early years at stud. The youngest of the leading proven sires are Lope De Vega and Siyouni, who were both born in 2007. They started out as relatively cheap sires and both could easily have better results still over the coming years. In the years covered by these tables, Lope De Vega stood at between €12,000 and €45,000, whereas over the years to come his fee has gone up to between €50,000 and €100,000. It is a similar story for Siyouni. His fee during the years 2013-2017 was between €7,000 and €30,000, and was subsequently was increased to between €45,000 and €100,000. Lope De Vega has proved to be a successful sire in the US, which will obviously add to his commercial appeal, and, just at the moment the market appeared to be wary of Siyouni colts, the Aga Khan Studs’ sire produced an Arc winner in Sottsass and a Dewhurst winner in St Mark’s Basilica. The stallions on the tables are listed separately until they have had six crops of three-year-olds to race because nearly every stallion will cover fewer mares of a lower quality in their third, fourth and fifth seasons at stud. Those who retired to stud in 2012, 2013 and 2014 are likely to see better results over the coming years, while those who retired in 2015 and 2016 may have a few quieter immediate seasons. Even Frankel covered fewer mares in his third and fourth years at stud, but, from this

older stallions year’s two-year-olds, he has covered 150-200 mares at a high fee and so his results are likely to improve. In any event he and his fellow Juddmonte sire Kingman are clearly going to be elite sires for as long as they are healthy and covering.

More in the pipeline

Nathaniel and Bated Breath are both likely to have better results from 2021 as they covered their biggest books in 2018 following the success of their early crops. Camelot has attracted large books from the moment he retired to stud, but now has the additional appeal of his success in Australia. Kingman’s success is such that his place among the elite is assured, and, of the others who retired to stud in 2015, Sea The Moon and No Nay Never could yet join him. Lanwades Stud’s Sea The Moon’s second crop of three-year-olds was better than his first with Alpine Star winning a Group 1 in England and Wonderful Moon proving

Leading sires of European 3yos 2014-2017 crops (3yos of 2017-2020) (by % rated 95+)

By JdM

Sire

Foals (14-16)

110+

95+

Galileo

552

52 9.4 131 24.0

Dubawi

480

30 6.2 100 21.0

Sea The Stars

386

4.4

18.0

Lope de Vega

420

2.4

15.0

New Approach

344

4.1

13.0

Teofilo

346

13 3.8 44 13.0

Invincible Spirit

435

2.5

13.0

Siyouni

493

6 1.2 60 12.0

Soldier Hollow

265

Adlerflug Le Havre

88 434

1.1

12.0

4 4.5 10 11.0 6

1.4

8.8

Iffraaj

394

Dark Angel

632

3 0.7 30 7.6

Kodiac

639

8 1.3 44 6.9

Oasis Dream

366

1.7 1.4

48 25

7.6 6.8

Mastercraftsman 503

4 0.7 34 6.8

Holy Roman Emperor

386

Showcasing

327

3 0.9 14 4.3

Kendargent

442

3 0.6 28 3.2

1.0

5.4

Retired to stud in 2012 (fifth crop three-year-olds)

Bated Breath: biggest book covered in 2018

Wootton Bassett

189

Zoffany

487

5 1.0 30 6.2

2.6

10.0

Retired to stud in 2013 (fourth crop three-year-olds) Frankel

385

Nathaniel

424

1.2

13.0

1.4

7.8

Bated Breath

31 8.1 83 22.0

Retired to stud in 2014 (third crop three-year-olds) Camelot

393

3.1

12.0

Intello

253

2.0

9.0

Reliable Man

145

0.6

6.9

Dabirsim

272

1.0

5.5

Retired to stud in 2015 (second crop three-year-olds) Kingman

209

4.8

22.0

Sea The Moon

173

2.3

13.0

No Nay Never

193

1.0

12.0

3.0

10.0

Australia

213

Anodin

157

1 0.6 10 6.0

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Deutsches Derby winner In Swoop. He is by Adlerflug, whose 2000m+ progeny stats are impressive

himself among the best of his generation in Germany. The son of Sea The Stars had an excellent sales season with his yearlings and is one of the few sires to stand at a higher fee in 2021 than in 2020. No Nay Never stood at €25,000 or less for his first four seasons at stud before the success of his first crop of two-year-olds propelled his fee to €100,000 and then €175,000. From 2022, No Nay Never’s two-year-olds will be from a different type of mare. Among those with their first three-yearolds in 2020, Night Of Thunder, Golden Horn, Galiway and Make Believe are amongst those who have made a real mark. Darley’s Night Of Thunder is clearly a good stallion, even if his best three-yearolds did not really progress after looking so good at the beginning of the strange COVID season (See pages 105-110).

Surprise package: Adlerflug

There are only seven sires who produced three per cent or more of their foals with a rating of 110 or higher in this crop of three-year-olds – Galileo, Dubawi, Kingman, Frankel, Sea The Stars, New Approach and Adlerflug.

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If there is a surprise in this elite group it is Gestüt Schlenderhan’s Adlerflug. He is not a young sire, this is his eighth crop of three-year-olds, the son of In The Wings

took a long time to attract significantsupport. His three-year-olds of 2020 were conceived at a fee of €12,000 and include three Group 1 horses – In Swoop, Torquator Tasso and Dicaprio – three of the best middle-distance three-year-olds in Europe – from a crop of only 33 foals. The final table (below) shows the figures for three-year-olds from the last four years of those sires with more than 50 per cent of their three-year-old wins over 1m2f, the middle distance sires. Again it is no surprise to see Galileo, Frankel and Dubawi at the top of this listing – Frankel’s record is close to that of his sire and likely to improve over the coming years. Sea The Moon, Nathaniel and Adlerflug all look to be excellent value for those interested in this type of horse when you compare their stud fees with most of the others in the table. The table also suggests there is an opening for a middle-distance sire with a different pedigree. On this listing Dubawi, Golden Horn, Le Havre, Mastercraftsman and Anodin are the only ones without Sadler’s Wells and/or Urban Sea in their pedigree.

Sires with >50% of 3yo winners over 2000m or further 2014-2017 crops (by % rated 95+)

By JdM

Sire

Foals 110+ % 95+

Galileo

552

9.4

131

24.0

Frankel

385

8.1

22.0

Dubawi

480

6.2

100

21.0

Sea The Stars

386

4.4

18.0

Golden Horn

15.0

344

4.1

13.0

Teofilo

346

3.8

13.0

Sea The Moon

173

2.3

13.0

New Approach

Nathaniel

424

1.2

13.0

Camelot

393

3.1

12.0

Adlerflug

4.5

11.0

Australia

213

3.0

10.0

Intello

253

2.0

9.0

Le Havre

434

1.4

8.8

Gleneagles

107

1.9

8.4

Reliable Man

145

0.6

6.9

Mastercraftsman

503

0.7

6.8

Anodin

157

0.6

6.0

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stallion stats Leading 100 sires in Europe 2020 (by prize-money earned to November 13, 2020) Stallion

Breeding

Galileo Siyouni Dubawi Kingman Dark Angel Kodiac Lope de Vega Sea The Stars Shamardal Zoffany Le Havre Camelot Pivotal Invincible Spirit Kendargent Wootton Bassett Frankel Teofilo Adlerflug Dandy Man Australia Dream Ahead Sea The Moon Holy Roman Emperor Showcasing Mastercraftsman Night of Thunder Footstepsinthesand Nathaniel Rajsaman Bated Breath Charm Spirit Excelebration Champs Elysees Acclamation Authorized Dabirsim Make Believe New Approach Exceed And Excel Lawman Anodin Poet’s Voice No Nay Never Makfi Soldier Hollow Intello Oasis Dream

Sadler’s Wells - Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2002 Pivotal - Sichilla (Danehill) 2011 Dubai Millennium - Zomaradah (Deploy) 2006 Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) 2015 Acclamation - Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) 2008 Danehill - Rafha (Kris) 2007 Shamardal - Lady Vettori (Vettori) 2011 Cape Cross - Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2010 Giant’s Causeway - Helsinki (Machiavellian) 2005 Dansili - Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2012 Noverre - Marie Rheinberg (Surako) 2010 Montjeu - Tarfah (Kingmambo) 2014 Polar Falcon - Fearless Revival (Cozzene) 1997 Green Desert - Rafha (Kris) 2003 Kendor - Pax Bella (Linamix) 2008 Iffraaj - Balladonia (Primo Dominie) 2012 Galileo - Kind (Danehill) 2013 Galileo - Speirbhean (Danehill) 2008 In the Wings - Aiyana (Last Tycoon) 2010 Mozart - Lady Alexander (Night Shift) 2010 Galileo - Ouija Board (Cape Cross) 2015 Diktat - Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) 2012 Sea The Stars - Sanwa (Monsun) 2015 Danehill - L’On Vite (Secretariat) 2007 Oasis Dream - Arabesque (Zafonic) 2011 Danehill Dancer - Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) 2010 Dubawi - Forest Storm (Galileo) 2016 Giant’s Causeway - Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2006 Galileo - Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) 2013 Linamix - Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) 2013 Dansili - Tantina (Distant View) 2013 Invincible Spirit - L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) 2015 Exceed And Excel - Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) 2013 Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi) 2010 Royal Applause - Princess Athena (Ahonoora) 2004 Montjeu - Funsie (Saumarez) 2007 Hat Trick - Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 Makfi - Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) 2016 Galileo - Park Express (Ahonoora) 2009 Danehill - Patrona (Lomond) 2005 Invincible Spirit - Laramie (Gulch) 2008 Anabaa - Born Gold (Blushing Groom) 2015 Dubawi - Bright Tiara (Chief’s Crown) 2012 Scat Daddy - Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 Dubawi - Dhelaal (Green Desert) 2011 In the Wings - Island Race (Common Grounds) 2008 Galileo - Impressionnante (Danehill) 2014 Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave) 2004

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To Stud

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Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

230 257 213 176 322 391 274 196 150 308 191 217 103 215 173 132 174 146 60 274 149 145 110 170 208 189 104 217 166 189 189 156 114 116 198 80 186 76 137 194 160 112 161 151 120 151 136 198

782 1139 700 574 1583 1875 1127 681 648 1454 723 826 432 976 983 544 522 578 237 1460 518 742 406 893 972 818 399 996 661 1034 823 797 617 544 1005 321 868 336 496 920 780 563 859 588 654 639 566 943

94 102 87 78 121 137 109 70 56 115 72 78 32 85 72 36 71 44 16 97 52 52 41 76 77 61 50 72 63 63 60 56 43 41 74 22 53 33 42 69 42 38 58 58 52 63 44 58

128 153 117 98 171 189 160 99 87 161 112 102 53 116 107 52 100 68 23 144 77 83 54 103 109 92 69 112 88 89 94 84 71 55 104 31 75 48 58 100 56 60 87 72 77 99 57 90

Wnrs/Rnrs 40.86 39.68 40.84 44.31 37.57 35.03 39.78 35.71 37.33 37.33 37.69 35.94 31.06 39.53 41.61 27.27 40.80 30.13 26.66 35.40 34.89 35.86 37.27 44.70 37.01 32.27 48.07 33.17 37.95 33.33 31.74 35.89 37.71 35.34 37.37 27.50 28.49 43.42 30.65 35.56 26.25 33.92 36.02 38.41 43.33 41.72 32.35 29.29

SWnrs SWs 30 10 15 12 12 10 11 13 13 5 7 9 5 7 6 8 12 9 3 4 8 3 8 4 4 5 9 6 4 0 3 3 4 6 4 2 2 3 7 4 3 4 4 4 1 11 4 3

37 6,352,060 11 4,335,958 24 3,079,071 16 2,595,446 15 2,576,810 14 2,570,088 15 2,495,262 18 2,431,610 17 2,282,857 5 2,188,348 9 2,179,470 15 1,959,097 7 1,823,483 14 1,793,915 8 1,770,666 10 1,673,321 14 1,669,891 15 1,579,294 3 1,546,208 5 1,543,344 9 1,495,511 5 1,393,527 10 1,385,700 4 1,342,147 5 1,339,987 10 1,293,191 10 1,284,345 6 1,268,457 6 1,247,848 0 1,234,133 4 1,213,836 6 1,194,431 10 1,174,165 7 1,167,729 4 1,153,614 4 1,153,451 2 1,145,024 5 1,126,902 9 1,103,454 4 1,102,313 5 1,058,905 5 1,053,506 4 1,029,148 4 1,024,250 1 1,018,377 12 993,101 5 981,347 3 959,040

stallion stats ...continued Leading 100 sires in Europe 2020 (by prize-money earned to November 13, 2020) Stallion

Breeding

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Rnrs

Mehmas Zebedee Iffraaj Maxios Toronado Power Mayson Gleneagles Dansili Dutch Art Manduro Elusive City Golden Horn Areion Rio de La Plata Olympic Glory Sir Prancealot Rock of Gibraltar Lethal Force Sakhee’s Secret Penny’s Picnic Clodovil Helmet Air Chief Marshal Fast Company Equiano Camacho Arcano Harbour Watch Fastnet Rock Elzaam Epaulette Muhaarar Sepoy Starspangledbanner Planteur Casamento Deep Impact Dragon Pulse Kheleyf Appel Au Maitre Raven’s Pass Cable Bay Dawn Approach Jukebox Jury Motivator Cape Cross Lord of England

Acclamation - Lucina (Machiavellian) 2017 98 Invincible Spirit - Cozy Maria (Cozzene) 2011 179 Zafonic - Pastorale (Nureyev) 2007 231 Monsun - Moonlight’s Box (Nureyev) 2014 115 High Chaparral - Wana Doo (Grand Slam) 2015 142 Oasis Dream - Frappe (Inchinor) 2013 104 Invincible Spirit - Mayleaf (Pivotal) 2013 147 Galileo - You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) 2016 116 Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi) 2001 118 Medicean - Halland Park Lass (Spectrum) 2008 135 Monsun - Mandellicht (Be My Guest) 2008 106 Elusive Quality - Star of Paris (Dayjur) 2005 114 Cape Cross - Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) 2016 106 Big Shuffle - Aerleona (Caerleon) 2001 92 Rahy - Express Way (Ahmad) 2013 92 Choisir - Acidanthera (Alzao) 2015 109 Tamayuz - Mona Em (Catrail) 2013 100 Danehill - Offshore Boom (Be My Guest) 2003 115 Dark Angel - Land Army (Desert Style) 2014 125 Sakhee - Palace Street (Secreto) 2009 105 Kheleyf - Zerky (Kingmambo) 2014 90 Danehill - Clodora (Linamix) 2004 74 Exceed And Excel - Accessories (Singspiel) 2013 172 Danehill Dancer - Hawala (Warning) 2011 77 Danehill Dancer - Sheezalady (Zafonic) 2011 136 Acclamation - Entente Cordiale (Ela-Mana-Mou) 2011 154 Danehill - Arabesque (Zafonic) 2006 188 Oasis Dream - Tariysha (Daylami) 2011 107 Acclamation - Gorband (Woodman) 2013 94 Danehill - Piccadilly Circus (Royal Academy) 2009 83 Redoute’s Choice - Mambo in Freeport (Kingmambo) 2013 94 Commands - Accessories (Singspiel) 2014 139 Oasis Dream - Tahrir (Linamix) 2016 123 Elusive Quality - Watchful (Danehill) 2013 127 Choisir - Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) 2011 84 Danehill Dancer - Plante Rare (Giant’s Causeway) 2014 64 Shamardal - Wedding Gift (Always Fair) 2013 141 Sunday Silence - Wind in Her Hair (Alzao) 2007 17 Kyllachy - Poetical (Croco Rouge) 2013 141 Green Desert - Society Lady (Mr. Prospector) 2005 105 Starborough - Rotina (Crystal Glitters) 2012 70 Elusive Quality - Ascutney (Lord At War) 2009 99 Invincible Spirit - Rose de France (Diktat) 2016 101 New Approach - Hymn of the Dawn (Phone Trick) 2014 144 Montjeu - Mare Aux Fees (Kenmare) 2013 65 Montjeu - Out West (Gone West) 2006 79 Green Desert - Park Appeal (Ahonoora 2000 73 Dashing Blade - Loveria (Los Santos 2007 75

Runs 390 985 966 561 624 523 748 444 491 663 458 671 333 531 502 447 516 609 580 621 509 460 757 538 608 760 936 616 481 309 424 657 451 620 371 361 701 50 634 660 401 419 460 591 270 337 331 311

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Wins

44 68 62 44 49 44 51 44 43 52 31 36 45 39 41 39 42 39 46 43 31 29 56 33 39 45 52 52 38 23 31 43 45 46 35 20 35 4 47 36 37 32 27 34 25 25 34 26

65 99 97 59 73 71 74 63 57 74 45 53 71 55 55 51 67 48 68 73 45 55 72 50 57 74 70 74 62 27 45 60 54 66 42 32 58 6 71 63 62 38 46 49 39 37 46 41

Wnrs/Rnrs 44.89 37.98 26.83 38.26 34.50 42.30 34.69 37.93 36.44 38.51 29.24 31.57 42.45 42.39 44.56 35.77 42.00 33.91 36.80 40.95 34.44 39.18 32.55 42.85 28.67 29.22 27.65 48.59 40.42 27.71 32.97 30.93 36.58 36.22 41.66 31.25 24.82 23.52 33.33 34.28 52.85 32.32 26.73 23.61 38.46 31.64 46.57 34.66

SWnrs

SWs

4 5 949,417 1 1 906,315 1 2 905,800 4 5 905,160 1 2 891,900 3 5 852,372 2 3 846,598 5 7 844,976 4 5 839,730 5 6 829,204 4 5 828,662 1 1 814,715 1 1 804,865 7 7 797,975 0 0 794,808 4 6 783,865 2 3 779,339 2 2 722,728 1 1 721,044 2 4 718,523 0 0 715,832 6 13 710,460 0 0 697,659 0 0 689,056 1 3 688,331 1 4 688,305 1 1 679,116 2 3 673,895 3 4 669,951 2 3 644,000 1 3 639,357 1 1 637,571 2 3 616,323 4 4 614,356 3 3 612,629 3 4 605,978 1 1 605,333 2 3 598,328 1 2 597,171 0 0 596,812 1 2 587,060 2 4 580,032 2 2 576,436 1 1 571,497 3 4 568,025 1 1 562,014 3 4 560,969 3 6 560,528

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stallion stats Leading 100 sires of two-year-olds in Europe 2020 (by prize-money earned to November 13, 2020) Stallion

Breeding

Kodiac Mehmas Galileo Zoffany Siyouni Dandy Man Lawman Lope de Vega Dubawi Goken Adaay Territories Showcasing Belardo No Nay Never Pride Of Dubai Starspangledbanner Dark Angel Kodi Bear Frankel Holy Roman Emperor Acclamation Gutaifan New Bay Twilight Son New Approach Camelot Sir Prancealot Bated Breath Wootton Bassett Toronado Gregorian Footstepsinthesand Galiway Power Shalaa Night of Thunder Kingman Buratino Prince of Lir Helmet Kendargent Exceed And Excel Charm Spirit Fast Company Muhaarar The Gurkha Air Force Blue

Danehill - Rafha (Kris) Acclamation - Lucina (Machiavellian) Sadler’s Wells - Urban Sea (Miswaki Dansili - Tyranny (Machiavellian) Pivotal - Sichilla (Danehill) Mozart - Lady Alexander (Night Shift) Invincible Spirit - Laramie (Gulch) Shamardal - Lady Vettori (Vettori) Dubai Millennium - Zomaradah (Deploy) Kendargent - Gooseley Chope (Indian Rocket) Kodiac - Lady Lucia (Royal Applause) Invincible Spirit - Taranto (Machiavellian) Oasis Dream - Arabesque (Zafonic) Lope de Vega - Danaskaya (Danehill) Scat Daddy - Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) Street Cry - Al Anood (Danehill) Choisir - Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) Acclamation - Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) Kodiac - Hawattef (Mujtahid) Galileo - Kind (Danehill) Danehill - L’On Vite (Secretariat) Royal Applause - Princess Athena (Ahonoora) Dark Angel - Alikhlas (Lahib) Dubawi - Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar) Kyllachy - Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad) Galileo - Park Express (Ahonoora) Montjeu - Tarfah (Kingmambo) Tamayuz - Mona Em (Catrail) Dansili - Tantina (Distant View) Iffraaj - Balladonia (Primo Dominie) High Chaparral - Wana Doo (Grand Slam) Clodovil - Three Days In May (Cadeaux Genereux) Giant’s Causeway - Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) Galileo - Danzigaway (Danehill) Oasis Dream - Frappe (Inchinor) Invincible Spirit - Ghurra (War Chant) Dubawi - Forest Storm (Galileo) Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) Exceed And Excel - Bergamask (Kingmambo) Kodiac - Esuvia (Whipper) Exceed And Excel - Accessories (Singspiel) Kendor - Pax Bella (Linamix) Danehill - Patrona (Lomond) Invincible Spirit - L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) Danehill Dancer - Sheezalady (Zafonic) Oasis Dream - Tahrir (Linamix) Galileo - Chintz (Danehill Dancer) War Front - Chatham (Maria’s Mon)

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Rnrs

2007 112 2017 98 2002 60 2012 79 2011 56 2010 70 2008 32 2011 57 2006 57 2017 31 2017 62 2017 56 2011 62 2017 47 2015 50 2017 33 2011 37 2008 73 2017 49 2013 67 2007 42 2004 56 2016 59 2017 30 2017 71 2009 28 2014 48 2013 29 2013 36 2012 36 2015 38 2015 10 2006 56 2016 15 2013 24 2017 48 2016 29 2015 51 2017 42 2017 36 2013 46 2008 31 2005 43 2015 45 2011 47 2016 50 2017 47 2017 9

Runs 409 390 145 265 153 251 115 125 129 122 232 178 214 142 156 104 144 243 175 134 165 189 199 97 220 74 111 115 106 79 114 40 156 46 74 133 82 120 182 134 161 92 118 172 157 137 133 53

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Wnrs

Wins

44 44 26 34 21 18 8 11 23 14 21 18 24 11 19 10 15 25 17 23 13 18 15 11 17 6 14 11 10 13 14 6 16 5 8 15 12 23 11 12 14 11 16 11 12 15 13 3

61 65 33 41 31 30 12 16 28 22 30 21 31 19 21 17 18 29 23 25 16 23 23 17 22 9 17 16 18 18 19 12 16 9 13 17 16 27 16 17 16 14 19 16 14 18 14 5

Wnrs/Rnrs 39.28 44.89 43.33 43.03 37.50 25.71 25.00 19.29 40.35 45.16 33.87 32.14 38.70 23.40 38.00 30.30 40.54 34.24 34.69 34.32 30.95 32.14 25.42 36.66 23.94 21.42 29.16 37.93 27.77 36.11 36.84 60.00 28.57 33.33 33.33 31.25 41.37 45.09 26.19 33.33 30.43 35.48 37.20 24.44 25.53 30.00 27.65 33.33

SWnrs SWs

8 12 1,141,133 4 5 949,417 4 5 803,174 4 4 739,954 3 3 683,694 4 5 571,236 2 3 493,565 4 4 478,484 3 3 452,556 2 3 406,074 0 0 402,722 2 2 378,067 2 2 363,954 4 6 355,327 1 1 355,002 5 6 352,100 2 2 349,850 2 2 348,783 1 1 334,467 1 1 331,980 0 0 330,199 2 2 324,047 3 4 295,243 2 3 286,967 1 2 285,647 2 3 279,437 1 2 273,188 2 3 270,670 2 3 268,467 1 2 264,565 1 2 262,541 2 6 252,111 0 0 251,778 1 2 249,674 2 4 249,119 0 0 240,031 1 1 237,602 1 1 236,880 0 0 234,160 1 1 232,353 0 0 229,676 2 2 228,006 1 1 221,132 1 1 217,893 0 0 212,480 1 1 211,406 1 1 211,293 0 0 205,193

stallion stats

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Breeding

Intello American Pharoah Teofilo Arcano Dabirsim Sea The Stars Penny’s Picnic Epaulette Elzaam Le Havre Iffraaj Bobby’s Kitten Mayson Mujahid War Front Sepoy Myboycharlie Olympic Glory Clodovil Oasis Dream Free Eagle Anjaal Fastnet Rock Kheleyf Dragon Pulse Australia Gleneagles Invincible Spirit Isfahan Soldier Hollow Coulsty Rajsaman Cable Bay Scissor Kick Golden Horn Awtaad Bungle Inthejungle Pastorius Dream Ahead Dariyan Al Shemali Pedro the Great Pomellato Style Vendome Brazen Beau Morandi Camacho Equiano

Galileo - Impressionnante (Danehill)

To Stud

Rnrs

2014 30 2016 11 Galileo - Speirbhean (Danehill) 2008 16 Oasis Dream - Tariysha (Daylami) 2011 22 Hat Trick - Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 49 Cape Cross - Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2010 43 Kheleyf - Zerky (Kingmambo) 2014 31 Commands - Accessories (Singspiel) 2014 30 Redoute’s Choice - Mambo in Freeport (Kingmambo) 2013 28 Noverre - Marie Rheinberg (Surako) 2010 35 Zafonic - Pastorale (Nureyev) 2007 55 Kitten’s Joy - Celestial Woods (Forestry) 2017 35 Invincible Spirit - Mayleaf (Pivotal) 2013 52 Danzig - Elrafa Ah (Storm Cat) 2001 11 Danzig - Starry Dreamer (Rubiano) 2007 12 Elusive Quality - Watchful (Danehill) 2013 32 Danetime - Dulceata (Rousillon) 2010 36 Choisir - Acidanthera (Alzao) 2015 30 Danehill - Clodora (Linamix) 2004 10 Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave) 2004 51 High Chaparral - Polished Gem (Danehill) 2016 21 Bahamian Bounty - Ballymore Celebre (Peintre Celebre) 2016 28 Danehill - Piccadilly Circus (Royal Academy) 2009 25 Green Desert - Society Lady (Mr. Prospector) 2005 12 Kyllachy - Poetical (Croco Rouge) 2013 41 Galileo - Ouija Board (Cape Cross) 2015 36 Galileo - You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) 2016 39 Green Desert - Rafh (Kris) 2003 33 Lord of England - Independent Miss (Polar Falcon) 2017 9 In the Wings - Island Race (Common Grounds) 2008 32 Kodiac - Hazium (In the Wings) 2017 23 Linamix - Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) 2013 28 Invincible Spirit - Rose de France (Diktat) 2016 37 Redoute’s Choice - Back Pass (Quest for Fame) 2017 15 Cape Cross - Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) 2016 39 Cape Cross - Asheerah (Shamardal) 2017 47 Exceed And Excel - Licence To Thrill (Wolfhound) 2015 11 Soldier Hollow - Princess Li (Monsun) 2014 10 Diktat - Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) 2012 16 Shamardal - Daryakana (Selkirk) 2017 23 Medicean - Bathilde (Generous) 2013 11 Henrythenavigator - Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2014 12 Big Shuffle - Passata (Polar Falcon) 2010 16 Anabaa - Place Vendome (Dr Fong) 2014 23 I Am Invincible - Sansadee (Snaadee) 2016 25 Holy Roman Emperor - Vezina (Bering 2017 11 Danehill - Arabesque (Zafonic 2006 33 Acclamation - Entente Cordiale (Ela-Mana-Mou 2011 39 Pioneerof the Nile - Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman)

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

Courtesy of Weatherbys Wnrs/Rnrs

76 7 10 28 7 9 42 5 8 81 13 17 159 12 12 84 14 15 106 10 13 84 7 9 103 9 14 65 10 11 139 11 14 131 9 14 179 14 15 33 4 6 37 8 11 112 11 15 121 8 10 83 9 11 45 5 13 141 12 15 50 5 5 111 8 15 55 4 5 68 7 12 131 10 13 77 9 9 103 12 15 69 11 11 19 5 5 64 8 11 89 7 13 85 5 6 124 7 11 45 5 8 79 11 11 108 10 10 50 5 9 17 2 2 60 5 6 82 6 7 41 4 6 53 4 5 78 5 6 93 3 4 95 8 11 47 3 6 103 7 8 136 10 12

23.33 63.63 31.25 59.09 24.48 32.55 32.25 23.33 32.14 28.57 20.00 25.71 26.92 36.36 66.66 34.37 22.22 30.00 50.00 23.52 23.80 28.57 16.00 58.33 24.39 25.00 30.76 33.33 55.55 25.00 30.43 17.85 18.91 33.33 28.20 21.27 45.45 20.00 31.25 26.08 36.36 33.33 31.25 13.04 32.00 27.27 21.21 25.64

SWnrs SWs 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 199,339 1 198,168 2 197,074 1 189,522 0 185,396 0 181,643 0 181,554 0 180,041 0 178,548 1 178,096 0 176,248 0 173,987 0 168,908 1 167,342 3 165,475 1 164,297 0 162,926 1 158,060 3 157,876 1 155,724 0 153,854 0 152,845 1 152,681 0 150,998 2 150,709 0 148,819 0 146,765 0 145,849 1 145,559 1 140,253 2 130,297 0 129,623 0 127,225 0 126,342 0 125,801 0 125,288 3 122,801 0 120,659 0 120,566 0 111,077 0 107,628 0 107,480 0 106,477 0 103,787 0 102,491 0 100,433 0 99,344 0 98,955

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Rnrs

Wnrs

W/R

Stakes placed

Galileo (IRE) 210 28 13 23 Dubawi (IRE) 204 15 7 16 Sea The Stars (IRE) 184 13 7 12 Shamardal (USA) 142 13 9 8 Kingman (GB) 170 12 7 13 Dark Angel (IRE) 310 12 4 10 Teofilo (IRE) 141 9 6 9 Frankel (GB) 156 12 8 18 Lope De Vega (IRE) 261 11 4 12 Invincible Spirit (IRE) 207 7 3 4 Camelot (GB) 198 9 5 17 Soldier Hollow (GB) 137 11 8 4 Kodiac (GB) 378 9 2 18 Siyouni (FR) 252 10 4 14 Wootton Bassett (GB) 123 8 7 3 Australia (GB) 134 8 6 3 Night Of Thunder (IRE) 95 8 8 7 Le Havre (IRE) 181 7 4 4 New Approach (IRE) 131 7 5 5 Kendargent (FR) 167 6 4 6 Excelebration (IRE) 108 4 4 0 Sea The Moon (GER) 98 7 7 7 Clodovil (IRE) 67 5 7 0 Mastercraftsman (IRE) 166 5 3 3 Champs Elysees (GB) 111 6 5 5 Gleneagles (IRE) 108 5 5 6 Areion (GER) 89 6 7 6 Dutch Art (GB) 126 5 4 4 Nathaniel (IRE) 156 4 3 4 Pivotal (GB) 93 4 4 7 Zoffany (IRE) 285 5 2 12 Dandy Man (IRE) 256 4 2 6 Dansili (GB) 111 4 4 7 Maxios (GB) 104 4 4 5 Intello (GER) 130 4 3 3 Mehmas (IRE) 93 4 4 4 Pride Of Dubai (AUS) 31 4 13 1 Dream Ahead (USA) 137 3 2 3 Lawman (FR) 144 3 2 1 Al Kazeem (GB) 28 4 14 0 Footstepsinthesand (GB) 184 4 2 2 Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 158 4 3 8 Reliable Man (GB) 62 4 6 1 Poetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voice (GB) 152 4 3 2 No Nay Never (USA) 141 4 3 4 Acclamation (GB) 190 4 2 5 Bated Breath (GB) 180 3 2 11 Cape Cross (IRE) 71 3 4 1

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Stakes wins

Gp wnrs

Gp placed

G1 wnrs

35 25 18 24 11 12 18 10 7 18 7 6 16 7 9 15 4 5 15 7 4 14 4 13 14 7 9 14 2 6 13 4 12 12 5 4 12 6 12 11 5 7 11 4 3 9 6 4 9 5 3 9 5 3 9 5 3 9 4 2 9 3 1 8 3 4 8 3 2 8 2 4 7 4 4 7 2 6 6 3 7 6 2 1 6 3 3 6 2 5 5 3 7 5 2 1 5 3 4 5 1 4 5 3 1 5 2 3 5 3 1 5 3 3 5 2 1 4 1 1 4 0 3 4 2 2 4 0 2 4 1 1 4 3 3 4 2 4 4 3 2 4 2 0

Stakes starts

8 712 4 662 2 629 3 593 2 537 1 1,458 4 531 0 475 1 1,036 1 905 1 736 0 558 2 1,729 3 1,091 2 505 1 480 0 355 1 671 1 467 0 923 1 565 1 351 1 412 0 697 1 489 0 401 0 481 0 596 1 608 2 398 1 1,266 0 1,278 0 456 0 482 0 533 1 360 0 89 2 681 1 697 0 105 0 798 0 786 0 254 0 780 1 529 0 935 0 775 0 314

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Record breaker

In 2020, Mehmas broke the record for number of winners sired by a first-season stallion. Aisling Crowe reviews the results for the year’s new sires with runners and analyses the progress made by 2020’s second-season sires

HE O’CALLAGHAN FAMILY of Tally-Ho Stud sure know a thing or two about making champion first-season sires, with this year’s title-holder the seventh Tally-Ho stallion to wear that crown and the fourth since 2014. He emulates Society Rock, his muchmissed predecessor at the Westmeath farm, in winning the title on both prize-money and winners and by siring a Group 1 winner in his first crop. That came courtesy of the Middle Park Stakes hero Supremacy, who also won the Group 2 Richmond Stakes for Clive Cox. Mehmas also smashed the European record of 37 individual winners for a first-season sire, a record previously held by Iffraaj in 2011, with 44 and still counting as the season drew to a close. What makes the success of Mehmas

What makes the success of Mehmas even more extraordinary is that he has achieved all that he has despite the truncated European season

even more extraordinary is that he has achieved all that he has despite the truncated European season, which was shut down for more than two months due to the pandemic. The highlight of a sensational season had to be his amazing 1-3 in the Middle Park – the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner Minzaal taking bronze behind Supremacy. They were two of the four stakes winners from the first crop of the Group 2 July and Richmond Stakes winner, who also sired the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes winner and Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes second Method, as well as the Listed Roses Stakes winner Acklam Express. His stakes winners-torunners percentage worked out at 4.08 per cent. His stakes horses-to-runners percentage was strong – he sired ten stakes performers overall, including the Group 2 Gimcrack and Group 3 Sirenia Stakes third Mystery Smiles

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younger stallions and the Group 3 Mercury Stakes second Muker. He achieved a stakes horses-torunners percentage of 10.2 per cent. His phenomenal ability to get winners rewarded breeders who were brave enough to take a chance on him in his second season – his yearling sales average reflecting his racecourse success at a time when sales prices were generally down significantly. Mehmas recorded an average of €49,417 for 66 yearlings sold in Europe this autumn, up from €27,996 last year from a smaller offering of 100 in 2019. He also doubled his number of six-figure yearlings to 11 in 2020 with a top price of 320,000gns given for Cregg Stud’s colt out of Ashtown Girl achieved at the

Tattersalls October Book 2 Sale. Blandford Bloodstock’s Tom Goffs said at Tattersalls after purchase that the sire has been doing “extraordinary things”. Ashtown Girl is a daughter of Exceed And Excel, and Mehmas’s first-crop has demonstrated an affinity with Danehill line sires – Minzaal is out of a Clodovil mare, while Mystery Smiles has former Tally-Ho resident Danetime as his broodmare sire. Three of Mehmas’s four Listed-placed horses have Danehill sons as their dam-sires. The most expensive filly from his second-crop was a half-sister to Group 3 Goldene Peitsche winner K Club, sold for €330,000 by The Castlebridge Consignment to Hugo Merry at the Goffs Orby Sale in

Doncaster. Her dam Big Boned is a Street Sense mare.

Pride of Dubai: the stakes sire

Statistically, two stallions stood out above their peers with excellent stakes winners-torunners percentages. Pride Of Dubai, already crowned champion first-season sire in Australia, transfered that success to the northernhemisphere with a staggering five stakes winners from just 32 runners, the best by far of any European stallion with first runners. Considering that his dam Al Anood is a full-sister to Kodiac and half to Invincible Spirit, it doesn’t come as a major shock that

Second-season sire Night Of Thunder keeps it rolling forward

HE LEADING FIRST-CROP sire of 2019 based on stakes winners kept the bandwagon rolling in 2020, proving that his phenomenal first season was no fluke. Night Of Thunder is now the sire of 15 European stakes winners from his first two crops of runners, he added eight more stakes winners in 2020 to the magnificent seven from last year. His best three-year-olds include the Group 3 Jersey Stakes winner Molatham, a first Royal Ascot winner for the 2,000 Guineas and Lockinge-winning stallion, a Classic winner in Auyantepui, who took the Group 2 Oaks d’Italia, while another daughter, No Limit Credit, was second in the Group 2 German 1,000 Guineas and won the Group 3 Schwarzgold-Rennen. His first-crop also includes the Listed UAE 1,000 Guineas winner and Group 3 UAE Oaks second Dubai Love and the Listed winner and Group 1 Flying Five Stakes second Keep Busy. Three of his ten Group winners to date are out of mares by Green Desert or his sons and he has two Group winners with sons of Sadler’s Wells as their broodmare sires. Unsurprisingly, his yearlings were hot

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property at the sales with a clearance rate of 86 per cent for those offered and an average price of 82,621gns for 42 sold. Darley switched him from Kildangan Stud to Dalham Hall for his third and fourth seasons, and his fee in 2018 was £15,000. He had 16 yearlings sell for more than €100,000 in 2020 with the most expensive Pier House Stud’s colt out of Surprise (Anabaa Blue), who made 250,000gns to Shadwell at Book 2. The colt is inbred 4x4 to Allegretta and provided the Morrin brothers with quite the return – he was purchased for 52,000gns by Peter and Ross Doyle from Houghton Bloodstock at the 2019 December Foal Sale. The most expensive filly from his third crop sold at Book 1 to Sackville Donald, who went to 200,000gns to secure Mount Coote Stud’s half-sister to the Listed Redcar Two-Year-Old Trophy winner Wick Powell, descended from one of Meon Valley Stud’s great foundation mares, Reprocolour. Night Of Thunder’s fee has been increased from €25,000 to €75,000.

Make Believe: making waves

A stallion getting a Classic winner from his first crop really is hitting the jackpot and

in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner Mishriff, Ballylinch Stud’s Make Believe had the perfect start to his stud career. Mishriff defeated a field that included France’s champion two-year-old of 2019 Victor Ludorum, who won the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains, and the subsequent Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Order Of Australia. Make Believe had been overshadowed by his contemporaries in 2019, but the tough Mishriff, also finished second in Saudi Arabia in February, and followed up Classic glory with a win in the Prix Guillaume d’Ornano (G2). He is one of five stakes winners so far by the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner, who is also the sire of Rose Night Of Thunder

younger stallions a family, which has produced such top class sires, should come up with another one, especially as Pride Of Dubai is a Group 1-winning son of Street Cry. The market for Pride Of Dubai’s first crop of northern-hemisphere yearlings wasn’t particularly strong last year, but the proving ground of any horse is the racecourse not the sales ring, and stallions should be judged on those efforts and not the price tag of their offspring. Pride Of Dubai has a remarkable 15.6 per cent stakes winners-to-runners ratio which at this point places him amongst the elite stallions in Europe. On that metric he is second on the list of leading sires of two-year-olds in Europe

Of Kildare. Winner of the Group 3 Oh So Sharp and Firth Of Clyde Stakes for Mark Johnston at two, she added the Group 3 Musidora Stakes in 2020 and was second in the Group 2 German 1,000 Guineas. Unbeaten at two, and a dual Group 1 winner over a mile at three, Make Believe is transmitting that ability to train on from two to three to his progeny. All of his stakes-winning two-year-olds performed at stakes level at three, while Mishriff and the Group 3 Prix Belle de Nuit winner and Group 2 Park Hill Stakes second Believe In Love improved on their two-year-old form. Make Believe has an impressive 51 per cent winners-to-runners record, while his 12 per cent stakes winners-to-runners strike-rate places him amongst the top sires operating anywhere in the world. His yearling sales were headed by the full-brother to Rose Of Kildare, who made 175,000gns sold to Blandford Bloodstock from Oghill House Stud at Book 2. Make Believe is out of a Green Desert mare, but has no Sadler’s Wells or Danehill in his pedigree.

The rest of the class of 2016

Gleneagles sired 44 winners and five stakes winners through 2020 behind only Night Of Thunder on both counts from this group of sires. His leading performer was Silence

behind only Kodiac, and ahead of Galileo, Zoffany, Dandy Man, Lope De Vega, Siyouni and Dubawi. Contemporaries Mehmas and Belardo also make the top ten with four stakes winners apiece. Belardo is another of this year’s class to graduate with honours as the sire of three individual Group winners and a Listed winner for a stakes winners-to-runners rate of 8.5 per cent, the third best of the group. Pride Of Dubai’s best runners include the Group 2 Premio Dormello and Listed Premio Coolmore winner Telepathic Glance, as well as the Group 3 Eyrefield Stakes winner Flying Visit and Star Of Emaraaty, who won the Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes. He is also the sire of the Listed Star Appeal

Pride Of Dubai: put together a good 2020 record

Please, fourth to Miss Yoda in the Preis der Diana (G1). The first crop by Haras de Colleville’s Galiway exceeded expectations and his second includes leading juvenile Sealiway. Liberty Beach continued to fly the flag for Highclere Stud’s Cable Bay collecting third spots in the Group 1 King’s Stand and the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye. The Invincible Spirit sire was visited by 100 mares in 2020. Muhaarar had a real flourish in the autumn. He got his first Group 3 winners – Mujba, who won the Horris Hill, always a well-regarded juvenile race, while threeyear-old filly Paix took the Prix du Lutece. The supplemented Baradar ran well for a Group 1 third in the Futurity Stakes, Alba Rose finished third in the Rockfel

Stakes (G2), the same place also filled by Giulian in the Anglesey Stakes (G3), while Albaflora backed up a Musidora Stakes (G3) second and a Great Voltigeur (G2) fourth with second to St Leger runner-up Berkshire Rocco in the Noel Murless Stakes (L). Golden Horn’s season had a quiet beginning, but the son of Cape Cross turned it around with a succession of winners, and useful ones, in the autumn, headed by the 108-rated Stag Horn and Lady G, rated 101. Gold Maze also picked up a Group 3 third, Nemean Lion a Group 2 second, while the André Fabre-trained Godolphinowned and bred Botanik finished a good short-neck second in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud.

Leading sires of European 3yos stallions retired to stud 2016 (by rated 95+)

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Sire

Foals (2017)

110+

95+

Night Of Thunder

3.10

17.0

Golden Horn

15.0

Galiway

10.0

1.9

8.4

Gleneagles

107

Muharaar

103

0 0 8 7.8

Make Believe

2.4

7.3

Cable Bay

1.0

6.2

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younger stallions (G3), Measure Of Magic, third in the Flying Childers Stakes (G2), the Acomb Stakes (G3) third Broxi, and Zetland Stakes (G3) third Mystery Angel.

Stakes winner and Group 3 Killavullan Stakes second Zaffy’s Pride and Fancy Man, who won the Listed Ascendant Stakes and was second in the Listed Stonehenge Stakes. Sadly, Pride Of Dubai shuttled for just two northern-hemisphere seasons to Coolmore’s Fethard base from the Hunter Valley.

A surprise from France

Stallions by Kodiac are proving to be their father’s sons

Coulsty is another first-season sire who defied expectations, and happily he is still in Ireland at Rathasker Stud. The son of Kodiac produced four stakes performers in his first crop, two of them stakes winners, a remarkable feat given that he has been represented by just 23 runners at the time of writing. That strike rate gives him an 8.7 per cent stakes winners-to-runners rate, the best of all the European-based first season sires. Rathasker Stud’s Maurice Burns has a track record of success, and 2020 will be a memorable year for the right reasons for him and his family. Not only did Coulsty repay their faith, and those of the breeders who supported him, but the stud’s stalwart stallion Clodovil sired a new Group 1 winner – the Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Tiger Tanaka, who also won the Group 3 Prix Francois Boutin and was second in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin. Coulsty is a son of Kodiac and he enjoyed a brilliant start to his stallion career with his daughter, the David Loughnane-trained Santosha, successful in the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes following on from her third place in the Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes. Coulsty also sired the Listed Premio Repubblicche winner Suicide Squad, the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes third Coulthard, and the Listed Montrose Stakes third Coul Queen from just 23 runners and a first crop of only 45 registered foals. Coulsty has only 12 yearlings for 2020 registered, with only four of them sold at public auction this year so far. The highest price achieved was 23,000gns at Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale at Newmarket for a colt out of Universal Circus a half-sister to the dam of Rose Of Kildare, sold by Rathasker to Highfield Bloodstock.

Adaay: an honourable second to Mehmas

From small numbers, Coulsty has made the bloodstock industry sit up and take notice, and his fee for 2021 has remained an affordable €4,000. Whitsbury Manor Stud’s Adaay followed Mehmas – the son of Kodiac siring 21 winners. He failed to get a stakes winner, but did sire the Group 3 third Doctor Strange and two Listed-placed horses. He had 62 runners who started 230 times – his horses living up to their expected precocity. His fee has been held at €5,000 for 2021. Prince Of Lir was the talk of the bloodstock world after his son The Lir Jet won impressively on his June debut at Yarmouth. He was sold to Qatar Racing ahead of his Royal Ascot Norfolk Stakes (G2) victory where he beat subsequent Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Golden Pal. The Lir Jet went onto pick up Group 2 and Group 1 runner-up spots in France. Prince Of Lir, another son of Kodiac seemingly able to transmit the Tally-Ho Stud’s patriarch’s precocity, also got two Listed-placed runners and overall 12 winners from 33 runners – a 33.33 per cent strike rate. Kodi Bear developed a similar profile with his first crop – he got 17 winners (fourth on the list) at a 34.69 per cent strike rate and one stakes winner – Cobh, who won the Listed Stonehenge Stakes and finished third in Royal Lodge Stakes (G2). Rathbarry Stud’s sire also got four Group-placed runners – Scarlet Bear, who was second and third in the Firth Of Clyde Stakes (G3) and the Dick Poole Stakes

Goken was the surprise package – he got winners early with the quicker resumption of racing in France, but his fast start achievements were not eclipsed and the Haras de Colleville sire continued to get winners through the year and stakes horses, too – Go Athletico and Livachope both Group 3 winners. The son of Kendargent rounded off the year with a 49 per cent winners-to-runners per cent. It is likely that the sire will continue to have the strong support of his farm, and his 2021 fee of €15,000 looks warranted.

Autumn was strong for New Bay

New Bay’s future looks exciting courtesy of his two stakes winners – Royal Lodge Stakes (G2) winner New Mandate and Oh So Sharp Stakes (G3) winner Saffron Beach. Both are types who should improve as three-year-olds with the latter with a Classic campaign planned. The son of Dubawi rounded the year off with 11 winners and a 36.33 per cent strike rate. He has had a €5,000 fee increase to €20,000 – read all the thoughts about the hopes for his future with John O’Connor of Ballylinch Stud on pages 52-56.

Twilight in the mix too

Twilight Son achieved a top five spot by winners on 17. The Cheveley Park Stud was only behind Mehmas on number of runners his stock precocious and sound. His Group 3 winner Aria Importante achieving that winning highlight in July, winning four races in total and going on to finish second in the Gran Criterium (G2).

Territories: interesting sire in the making

Territories, Darley’s Group 1 Prix Jean Prat-winning son of Invincible Spirit, hit the stakes board with Rougir, winner of the Prix des Reservoirs (G3) and third home in the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1), the Italian Listed

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younger stallions winner Fulgentia, as well as with Teresa Mendoza, who finished second in the Round Tower Stakes (G3). He is one of the seven first-crop sires to sire two stakes winners or more. He also got four Listed placed runners – three in Italy and William Blight, third in the Ascendant Stakes. His top BHA-rated horse was Royal Scimitar, trained by Clive Cox for Al Mohamediya Racing. He ran just three times and, after winning on his debut, collected fourth placings in the Acomb Stakes (G3)

and in the Listed Flying Scotsman Stakes. Territories got three new winners of four races from the beginning of October to November, including Aldaary, who is two from two for William Haggas and was impressive at Leicester, as well as debut winner Star Jewel. The filly looks above average – her novice race 1.2 seconds faster than the second division of the same race. Territories looks an interesting sire waiting to happen and could be value for breeders as he has been given a small fee reduction to £10,000 from £12,000.

Territories

Leading European first-season sires 2020: (by prize-money earned to November 13, 2020) Stallion

Breeding

Mehmas Goken Adaay Territories Belardo Pride Of Dubai Kodi Bear New Bay Twilight Son Shalaa Buratino Prince of Lir The Gurkha Air Force Blue Bobby’s Kitten Isfahan Coulsty Scissor Kick Awtaad Dariyan Morandi Estidhkaar Vadamos Markaz Charming Thought Swipe Exosphere The Last Lion Martinborough Protectionist Harzand Fascinating Rock Ajaya

Acclamation - Lucina (Machiavellian) 2017 Kendargent - Gooseley Chope (Indian Rocket) 2017 Kodiac - Lady Lucia (Royal Applause) 2017 Invincible Spirit - Taranto (Machiavellian) 2017 Lope de Vega - Danaskaya (Danehill) 2017 Street Cry - Al Anood (Danehill) 2017 Kodiac - Hawattef (Mujtahid) 2017 Dubawi - Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar) 2017 Kyllachy - Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad) 2017 Invincible Spirit - Ghurra (War Chant) 2017 Exceed And Excel - Bergamask (Kingmambo) 2017 Kodiac - Esuvia (Whipper) 2017 Galileo - Chintz (Danehill Dancer) 2017 War Front - Chatham (Maria’s Mon) 2017 Kitten’s Joy - Celestial Woods (Forestry) 2017 Lord of England - Independent Miss (Polar Falcon) 2017 Kodiac - Hazium (In the Wings) 2017 Redoute’s Choice - Back Pass (Quest for Fame) 2017 Cape Cross - Asheerah (Shamardal) 2017 Shamardal - Daryakana (Selkirk) 2017 Holy Roman Emperor - Vezina (Bering) 2017 Dark Angel - Danetime Out (Danetime) 2017 Monsun - Celebre Vadala (Peintre Celebre) 2017 Dark Angel - Folga (Atraf) 2017 Oasis Dream - Annabelle’s Charm (Indian Ridge) 2017 Birdstone - Avalanche Lily (Grand Slam) 2017 Lonhro - Altitude (Danzero) 2017 Choisir - Mala Mala (Brief Truce) 2017 Deep Impact - Halwa Song Nureyev) 2017 Monsun - Patineuse (Peintre Celebre) 2017 Sea The Stars - Hazariya (Xaar) 2017 Fastnet Rock - Miss Polaris (Polar Falcon) 2017 Invincible Spirit - Nessina (Hennessy) 2017

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Rnrs 98 31 62 56 47 33 49 30 71 48 42 36 47 9 35 9 23 15 47 23 11 34 41 39 19 11 5 27 15 12 17 15 12

Runs 390 122 232 178 142 104 175 97 220 133 182 134 133 53 131 19 89 45 108 82 47 109 131 142 68 35 28 90 46 20 43 45 38

Courtesy of Weatherbys Wnrs 44 14 21 18 11 10 17 11 17 15 11 12 13 3 9 5 7 5 10 6 3 9 8 6 7 5 3 5 1 1 4 3 3

Wins 65 22 30 21 19 17 23 17 22 17 16 17 14 5 14 5 13 8 10 7 6 10 12 7 7 5 5 5 1 1 4 5 4

Wnrs/Rnrs 44.89 45.16 33.87 32.14 23.40 30.30 34.69 36.66 23.94 31.25 26.19 33.33 27.65 33.33 25.71 55.55 30.43 33.33 21.27 26.08 27.27 26.47 19.51 15.38 36.84 45.45 60.00 18.51 6.66 8.33 23.52 20.00 25.00

SWnrs SWs 4 2 0 2 4 5 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

5 949,417 3 406,074 0 402,722 2 378,067 6 355,327 6 352,100 1 334,467 3 286,967 2 285,647 0 240,031 0 234,160 1 232,353 1 211,293 0 205,193 0 173,987 1 145,559 2 130,297 0 126,342 0 125,288 0 111,077 0 100,433 1 88,590 0 83,654 0 82,422 0 68,291 0 67,995 0 63,827 0 58,687 0 46,427 0 45,198 0 44,365 0 38,378 0 37,408

TRIPLE GR.1 WINNER WITH

Filly ex Lady Wingshot

Dam Gr.3 winner and dual Listed winning half sister to BAHAMA MAMA

Colt ex Shaden

Dam three time winner inc. Gr.3 from the family of Champion Older Horse LAHIB (Gr.1, Sire)

Colt ex Nouriya

Dam Dual Listed winner, dam of Gr.2 Duke Of Cambridge winner ALJAZZI

Filly ex Lost Icon

A half sister to Listed winner, ELUSIVE BEAUTY

Looking forward with anticipation to next year 123 mares covered in 2020 www.BlueDiamondStud.co.uk/dk

Galileo - Pearling (Storm Cat)

AN EXCEPTIIONAL PEDIGREE First crop yearlings Going into training with trainers including

Marco Botti

Roger Charlton

John Gosden

Mark Johnston

Adrian Keatley

Sir Mark Prescott

John Quinn

Roger Varian

“I have been impressed with the Decorated Knight’s yearlings at the sales and am looking forward to training Decorated Knight’s half-brother to Aljazzi who was a Group 2 winner at Royal Ascot.” John Gosden

Standing at

in 2021 €7,500 Oct. 1st

Contact: Gary Swift or Patrick Diamond at Irish National Stud • Tel: +353 (0)45 521251

leading sires by distance

Top 100 European sires of sprinters (5f-6f) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION Kodiac (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Dandy Man (IRE) Dream Ahead (USA) Mehmas (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Lope De Vega (IRE) Acclamation (GB) No Nay Never (USA) Mayson (GB) Zebedee (GB) Equiano (FR) Siyouni (FR) Lethal Force (IRE) Showcasing (GB) Bated Breath (GB) Starspangledbanner (AUS) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Sir Prancealot (IRE) Cable Bay (IRE) Adaay (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Power (GB) Dutch Art (GB) Dabirsim (FR) Dubawi (IRE) Goken (FR) Wootton Bassett (GB) Sepoy (AUS) Charm Spirit (IRE) Excelebration (IRE) Gutaifan (IRE) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Camacho (GB) Shamardal (USA) Kheleyf (USA) Society Rock (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Gregorian (IRE) Air Force Blue (USA) Kyllachy (GB) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Swiss Spirit (GB) Kodi Bear (IRE) Arcano (IRE) Territories (IRE) Epaulette (AUS)

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Winners

246 154 181 70 80 34 110 64 117 79 102 110 116 78 71 111 99 48 86 51 64 45 33 39 72 38 51 51 28 23 27 65 61 22 95 47 102 39 53 44 83 75 26 7 61 30 82 35 39 36 55

66 39 56 24 34 10 26 19 40 27 30 39 31 26 27 33 23 18 22 14 14 16 11 16 14 14 19 13 8 9 8 19 14 6 21 14 25 8 15 13 11 14 8 2 17 9 18 9 13 10 8

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W/R % 27 25 31 34 43 29 24 30 34 34 29 35 27 33 38 30 23 38 26 27 22 36 33 41 19 37 37 25 29 39 30 29 23 27 22 30 25 21 28 30 13 19 31 29 28 30 22 26 33 28 15

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Wins

779 425 760 258 294 143 399 195 466 234 356 482 466 226 263 396 289 180 244 155 192 144 89 129 194 126 183 146 73 75 67 220 192 53 265 178 385 115 199 162 187 224 86 39 225 94 315 94 171 70 152

86 51 81 34 49 18 40 33 53 33 41 56 48 37 37 47 36 23 31 18 23 21 13 20 23 23 27 18 10 13 9 29 18 12 25 21 31 12 26 18 11 21 11 4 28 11 25 12 16 11 8

Stakes wins 12 7 5 2 5 3 2 1 1 2 3 0 3 0 1 1 2 3 5 3 2 0 2 3 0 4 3 0 4 2 2 2 1 5 1 3 0 3 0 2 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0

Earnings 1,413,252 1,068,856 997,410 799,884 799,372 595,039 565,295 547,301 542,008 532,917 513,622 499,801 494,038 485,877 436,996 432,550 422,412 401,681 372,309 319,704 309,198 305,842 296,074 279,687 275,606 275,308 274,615 272,330 263,937 263,616 260,467 249,611 238,636 236,119 233,291 232,442 230,706 229,240 220,654 216,387 206,642 201,044 199,250 195,440 189,686 187,264 179,984 178,918 177,299 177,224 176,884

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...continued European sires of sprinters (5f-6f) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION Prince Of Lir (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Twilight Son (GB) Toronado (IRE) Brazen Beau (AUS) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Due Diligence (USA) Helmet (AUS) Muhaarar (GB) Anjaal (GB) Raven’s Pass (USA) Iffraaj (GB) Clodovil (IRE) Es Que Love (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) War Front (USA) Pastoral Pursuits (GB) Belardo (IRE) Kingman (GB) Slade Power (IRE) Harbour Watch (IRE) Bahamian Bounty (GB) Captain Gerrard (IRE) Hot Streak (IRE) Evasive (GB) Garswood (GB) Alhebayeb (IRE) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Havana Gold (IRE) Frankel (GB) Ivawood (IRE) Lawman (FR) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Elnadim (USA) Bobby’s Kitten (USA) Shalaa (IRE) Poet’s Voice (GB) Heeraat (IRE) Paco Boy (IRE) Sommerabend (GB) Sayif (IRE) Elzaam (AUS) Sidestep (AUS) Royal Applause (GB) Red Jazz (USA) Lilbourne Lad (IRE) Fuisse (FR) Rajsaman (FR) Galiway (GB)

Runners

Winners

27 42 45 32 49 53 34 50 47 51 23 74 30 15 62 26 28 25 40 54 37 17 28 41 25 30 25 53 40 13 36 40 53 8 18 27 36 55 19 22 10 41 13 23 13 14 3 20 5

10 9 12 8 17 12 9 13 13 11 7 12 10 8 9 9 8 6 13 10 12 7 10 8 5 10 5 10 8 5 9 6 11 2 3 6 7 10 5 2 2 9 7 8 4 5 3 4 3

W/R % 37 21 27 25 35 23 26 26 28 22 30 16 33 53 15 35 29 24 33 19 32 41 36 20 20 33 20 19 20 38 25 15 21 25 17 22 19 18 26 9 20 22 54 35 31 36 100 20 60

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Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

85 152 125 90 160 164 127 145 122 139 86 173 103 45 164 59 143 56 90 153 119 85 133 147 79 91 80 143 107 30 102 103 185 33 52 63 108 186 72 66 34 138 40 116 45 69 12 58 14

11 12 16 11 21 15 16 17 14 16 10 16 13 8 10 9 10 9 13 13 17 10 18 11 6 12 6 12 12 6 11 7 14 2 4 6 12 14 12 3 3 11 8 13 5 9 4 5 5

1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1

171,933 170,845 170,668 168,940 164,710 164,243 163,565 159,096 157,554 150,960 149,328 148,493 148,287 141,393 138,906 138,829 137,895 136,475 135,802 134,599 134,235 129,534 122,778 119,647 114,501 114,446 113,508 112,335 110,296 104,663 103,352 99,810 98,912 97,551 96,595 95,987 92,675 92,583 90,802 90,353 89,058 88,928 88,746 88,056 87,633 84,464 83,237 82,034 81,947

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Top 100 European sires of milers (7f-8f) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION Kingman (GB) Galileo (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Shamardal (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Showcasing (GB) Lawman (FR) Bated Breath (GB) Wootton Bassett (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Areion (GER) New Approach (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Acclamation (GB) Kendargent (FR) Charm Spirit (IRE) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Frankel (GB) Sea The Moon (GER) Toronado (IRE) Dream Ahead (USA) Fast Company (IRE) Soldier Hollow (GB) Poet’s Voice (GB) Elzaam (AUS) Le Havre (IRE) Camelot (GB) Clodovil (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Dabirsim (FR) Excelebration (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Intello (GER) Mujahid (USA) No Nay Never (USA) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Olympic Glory (IRE) Dutch Art (GB) Kitten’s Joy (USA) Sir Prancealot (IRE) Dandy Man (IRE)

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Winners

134 88 123 180 98 135 235 203 173 233 117 92 116 83 100 72 75 135 122 110 106 73 89 44 102 96 86 92 99 62 73 80 45 41 126 75 145 124 71 48 90 66 75 109 64 77 57 81 26 67 133

47 36 50 55 31 45 56 54 38 53 35 18 28 16 33 25 16 32 29 22 25 25 23 10 28 21 17 32 29 11 11 16 13 11 24 20 28 28 17 15 16 21 16 29 14 13 13 18 6 16 24

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W/R % 35 41 41 31 32 33 24 27 22 23 30 20 24 19 33 35 21 24 24 20 24 34 26 23 27 22 20 35 29 18 15 20 29 27 19 27 19 23 24 31 18 32 21 27 22 17 23 22 23 24 18

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Starts

Wins

299 202 291 517 295 468 762 609 449 723 343 325 339 213 358 270 177 389 371 354 352 277 172 103 300 321 237 246 376 161 180 157 185 116 335 266 385 349 175 188 207 175 140 304 218 261 131 240 65 216 400

62 41 65 69 41 58 73 70 53 70 45 26 42 19 41 32 24 43 38 29 33 42 27 14 35 30 25 45 37 17 19 20 23 13 31 27 40 37 22 22 20 25 16 32 18 20 16 23 10 27 29

Stakes wins 11 10 12 4 6 8 7 2 6 0 3 3 1 6 2 6 5 4 3 2 0 3 2 2 0 3 3 6 3 3 1 3 5 3 1 2 0 3 2 1 2 3 0 1 0 1 3 1 3 0 0

Earnings 1,602,513 1,576,804 1,441,226 1,417,509 1,065,547 1,036,343 1,007,963 980,512 890,160 781,569 714,637 628,577 610,623 588,238 585,330 536,146 501,661 488,734 476,390 463,016 462,184 439,592 437,683 431,231 422,661 415,127 410,517 406,324 402,431 399,691 394,130 393,702 384,585 379,646 368,838 368,307 363,517 356,050 350,840 328,894 322,499 304,291 302,399 302,382 301,592 301,409 298,571 293,634 290,546 286,264 280,872

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...continued European sires of milers (7f-8f) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION War Front (USA) Makfi (GB) Rajsaman (FR) Whipper (USA) Galiway (GB) Gutaifan (IRE) Mayson (GB) Muhaarar (GB) Helmet (AUS) Gleneagles (IRE) First Defence (USA) Camacho (GB) Canford Cliffs (IRE) Dansili (GB) Pride Of Dubai (AUS) Make Believe (GB) Sepoy (AUS) Kheleyf (USA) Zebedee (GB) Pivotal (GB) Arcano (IRE) New Bay (GB) Australia (GB) Roderic O’connor (IRE) George Vancouver (USA) Teofilo (IRE) Alhebayeb (IRE) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Territories (IRE) Free Eagle (IRE) Epaulette (AUS) Anodin (IRE) Intense Focus (USA) Orpen (USA) American Pharoah (USA) Dawn Approach (IRE) Cable Bay (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) Raven’s Pass (USA) Desert Prince (IRE) Evasive (GB) Sommerabend (GB) The Gurkha (IRE) Starspangledbanner (AUS) Swiss Spirit (GB) Lethal Force (IRE) Rio de La Plata (USA) Pounced (USA) Pedro The Great (USA)

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Winners

46 53 76 31 15 83 80 87 108 67 8 111 70 51 22 60 73 62 100 53 60 25 65 37 49 48 51 79 37 53 96 51 32 25 14 91 68 26 62 52 57 37 40 54 73 83 45 48 36

12 17 14 8 4 17 18 18 26 18 4 17 14 13 8 16 25 11 21 11 20 9 14 8 10 11 10 18 7 12 17 9 11 7 5 12 13 10 11 11 12 7 9 15 16 15 11 17 8

W/R % 26 32 18 26 27 20 23 21 24 27 50 15 20 25 36 27 34 18 21 21 33 36 22 22 20 23 20 23 19 23 18 18 34 28 36 13 19 38 18 21 21 19 23 28 22 18 24 35 22

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Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

121 176 238 143 43 235 272 195 327 172 37 351 225 133 52 166 225 211 308 151 213 58 139 127 164 140 184 225 90 134 257 146 120 105 30 242 197 95 155 174 190 142 86 127 227 210 122 160 112

16 23 19 17 5 23 26 22 34 22 5 22 20 16 12 21 28 21 27 16 25 14 16 9 13 14 15 25 9 14 24 9 16 9 6 16 17 16 12 16 14 8 9 16 20 18 13 27 9

4 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 4 0 1 0 1 1 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0

280,249 276,931 275,770 262,567 255,155 250,308 249,778 249,298 247,312 247,032 244,922 239,617 238,099 234,661 231,221 231,071 230,201 229,720 228,430 225,897 223,681 221,905 219,701 218,629 211,637 209,039 207,703 205,191 202,526 200,751 194,488 192,863 184,305 183,330 182,673 181,219 180,424 180,298 180,037 173,544 171,946 171,092 168,773 167,657 164,493 163,120 161,918 155,600 153,764

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Top 100 European sires of intermediate runners (9f-10f) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION Galileo (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Make Believe (GB) Wootton Bassett (GB) Le Havre (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Australia (GB) Siyouni (FR) Shamardal (USA) Camelot (GB) Pivotal (GB) Deep Impact (JPN) Sea The Moon (GER) Teofilo (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Rajsaman (FR) Lope De Vega (IRE) Anodin (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Kingman (GB) Makfi (GB) Intello (GER) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Champs Elysees (GB) Frankel (GB) Rio de La Plata (USA) Poet’s Voice (GB) Dabirsim (FR) Nathaniel (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Dansili (GB) Soldier Hollow (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Charm Spirit (IRE) Golden Horn (GB) Power (GB) Gleneagles (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Olympic Glory (IRE) Excelebration (IRE) Dawn Approach (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Manduro (GER) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Motivator (GB) War Command (USA) Tin Horse (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Toronado (IRE) Youmzain (IRE) Epaulette (AUS)

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Winners

101 69 36 58 111 95 74 98 59 112 19 7 48 77 110 105 107 70 85 56 74 69 85 49 68 57 64 87 77 61 62 81 77 53 57 33 44 55 62 52 55 32 50 58 36 51 37 47 61 32 44

25 16 8 11 28 23 24 22 15 30 5 1 11 12 20 21 27 17 20 9 19 14 19 10 14 16 12 9 15 11 12 20 19 11 18 11 11 11 13 12 9 10 15 9 11 17 9 12 11 8 10

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W/R % 25 23 22 19 25 24 32 22 25 27 26 14 23 16 18 20 25 24 24 16 26 20 22 20 21 28 19 10 19 18 19 25 25 21 32 33 25 20 21 23 16 31 30 16 31 33 24 26 18 25 23

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Wins

182 128 69 130 260 254 160 226 128 259 38 9 102 154 250 321 211 201 157 106 200 168 198 114 110 185 165 227 163 148 136 173 163 144 109 95 86 164 148 148 119 63 131 179 100 116 122 131 129 86 113

30 19 11 18 39 28 35 26 20 32 7 2 13 18 26 29 32 22 23 10 24 15 24 10 19 19 18 12 18 15 12 23 19 18 21 17 14 12 17 14 12 12 16 10 13 22 15 16 13 11 12

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Earnings 1,664,695 900,894 733,538 655,202 641,097 617,225 615,494 595,485 575,224 551,375 548,969 458,719 425,265 423,761 421,687 406,667 385,816 382,610 363,713 352,284 347,503 315,133 280,737 276,072 275,871 270,783 266,019 264,966 264,350 264,221 254,416 239,726 237,137 229,713 228,017 226,463 215,746 215,232 211,405 207,773 207,056 204,521 201,900 198,156 194,399 189,206 187,891 182,164 167,188 162,815 162,492

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...continued European sires of intermediate runners (9f-10f) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION Lord of England (GER) New Approach (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Planteur (IRE) Casamento (IRE) Raven’s Pass (USA) Iffraaj (GB) Maxios (GB) Elusive City (USA) Hurricane Cat (USA) Evasive (GB) Dutch Art (GB) Blu Air Force (IRE) Myboycharlie (IRE) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) Whipper (USA) Canford Cliffs (IRE) Pour Moi (IRE) Style Vendome (FR) Zanzibari (USA) Kitten’s Joy (USA) Kodiac (GB) Bated Breath (GB) Farhh (GB) Silver Frost (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Pedro The Great (USA) Hunters Light (IRE) Galiway (GB) Joshua Tree (IRE) Helmet (AUS) Acclamation (GB) Kingsalsa (USA) Areion (GER) Cityscape (GB) Free Eagle (IRE) French Fifteen (FR) George Vancouver (USA) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Slickly (FR) Royal Applause (GB) Palace Episode (USA) Born To Sea (IRE) Exceed and Excel (AUS) American Pharoah (USA) Mujahid (USA) Lawman (FR) Clodovil (IRE)

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Winners

32 62 58 39 80 46 75 60 45 24 41 39 8 27 43 31 33 57 25 40 31 29 62 49 15 27 59 34 22 18 9 50 32 18 37 26 44 30 38 35 35 15 20 48 31 11 31 61 25

7 10 11 8 10 6 13 14 5 7 6 10 2 7 6 10 7 14 8 6 6 6 8 7 7 4 5 5 6 5 3 5 6 6 11 5 9 7 6 9 5 2 7 4 5 6 9 5 3

W/R % 22 16 19 21 13 13 17 23 11 29 15 26 25 26 14 32 21 25 32 15 19 21 13 14 47 15 8 15 27 28 33 10 19 33 30 19 20 23 16 26 14 13 35 8 16 55 29 8 12

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Stakes wins

Earnings

79 125 114 109 206 83 175 146 130 70 120 91 31 98 111 84 79 139 74 96 59 53 139 104 44 79 133 90 50 43 27 118 76 61 91 75 84 90 83 92 121 44 73 101 72 25 103 135 71

9 10 13 11 14 7 15 17 5 10 7 15 3 9 8 12 9 15 8 6 8 6 10 8 10 4 5 6 9 5 5 7 8 6 13 8 10 10 8 11 5 4 9 5 7 6 11 5 5

3 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

161,552 160,058 158,601 149,847 147,502 143,834 143,427 137,922 137,762 136,642 134,140 132,551 131,334 130,042 128,296 124,836 124,042 122,194 121,223 119,215 113,156 109,400 109,228 108,598 106,838 103,305 101,919 101,426 101,255 99,530 98,661 98,523 98,201 96,827 95,592 90,531 89,692 89,571 89,442 89,066 86,624 84,322 83,298 81,018 80,674 80,586 80,480 80,389 79,866

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Top 100 European sires of middle-distance runners (11f-13f) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (Â£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION Galileo (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Adlerflug (GER) Sea The Stars (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Authorized (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Camelot (GB) Champs Elysees (GB) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Kingman (GB) Frankel (GB) Teofilo (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Golden Horn (GB) Rajsaman (FR) Maxios (GB) Shamardal (USA) Kendargent (FR) New Approach (IRE) Australia (GB) Makfi (GB) Anodin (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Outstrip (GB) Manduro (GER) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Excelebration (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Jukebox Jury (IRE) Harbour Watch (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Dansili (GB) Intello (GER) Sea The Moon (GER) Gleneagles (IRE) Casamento (IRE) Soldier Hollow (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Rio de La Plata (USA) Free Eagle (IRE) Lawman (FR) Motivator (GB) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Olympic Glory (IRE) Samum (GER) Iffraaj (GB) Style Vendome (FR) Reliable Man (GB) War Command (USA)

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Winners

102 41 35 95 85 50 95 102 76 89 19 43 67 65 46 86 52 20 45 48 71 66 51 54 17 14 63 41 28 68 29 15 16 43 58 44 32 59 48 26 44 21 49 36 45 37 10 41 21 35 29

25 6 7 29 24 13 29 25 12 22 4 16 17 23 20 20 15 4 18 9 12 14 13 12 5 3 10 12 9 17 9 4 6 12 9 14 7 12 9 5 10 2 9 8 7 8 1 9 8 8 6

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W/R % 25 15 20 31 28 26 31 25 16 25 21 37 25 35 43 23 29 20 40 19 17 21 25 22 29 21 16 29 32 25 31 27 38 28 16 32 22 20 19 19 23 10 18 22 16 22 10 22 38 23 21

Starts

Wins

196 89 97 241 169 119 210 229 187 232 38 85 148 149 97 263 151 35 152 96 128 188 131 110 49 31 167 137 69 160 75 39 25 102 135 101 68 165 102 78 101 56 114 86 99 90 30 101 69 87 65

28 9 11 40 27 15 40 30 16 29 4 19 20 30 30 24 18 5 24 12 13 18 16 13 7 3 15 18 12 20 13 8 6 16 11 15 8 17 15 8 10 2 11 13 8 11 1 13 12 10 7

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Earnings 2,164,572 1,657,910 1,353,922 1,175,239 626,584 623,530 604,302 578,217 544,131 474,466 436,367 403,935 351,816 343,945 341,941 329,098 305,688 292,285 290,130 285,177 283,848 274,343 263,190 261,773 261,009 260,033 255,433 252,142 236,635 211,915 211,763 211,540 208,794 201,700 197,384 197,144 192,300 185,887 176,381 174,116 166,376 157,650 153,876 151,496 149,913 146,065 143,222 132,116 129,289 124,375 116,392

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...continued European sires of intermediate runners (11f-13f) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Planteur (IRE) Stormy River (FR) Sir Percy (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Palace Episode (USA) Lord of England (GER) Youmzain (IRE) Spirit One (FR) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Poet’s Voice (GB) Zambezi Sun (GB) Mount Nelson (GB) Linngari (IRE) Myboycharlie (IRE) Sixties Icon (GB) Farhh (GB) Zanzibari (USA) Cape Cross (IRE) American Post (GB) Pour Moi (IRE) Muhaarar (GB) Muhtathir (GB) Sidestep (AUS) Distorted Humor (USA) Slickly (FR) Sunday Break (JPN) French Fifteen (FR) Tin Horse (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Wootton Bassett (GB) Mukhadram (GB) Power (GB) Gemix (FR) Cityscape (GB) Halling (USA) Evasive (GB) Kitten’s Joy (USA) George Vancouver (USA) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Kodiac (GB) Rip Van Winkle (IRE) Campanologist (USA) Pedro The Great (USA) Born To Sea (IRE) Diamond Green (FR) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Gold Away (IRE) Kentucky Dynamite (USA)

Runners 37 30 28 45 35 21 32 30 18 32 45 17 23 23 16 25 16 21 37 30 40 17 22 18 4 26 17 21 28 20 31 23 15 9 19 9 17 17 26 33 33 34 18 16 40 21 27 7 14

Winners 8 7 8 5 5 6 9 5 5 8 8 5 6 6 6 5 6 3 6 4 7 6 4 4 2 4 5 3 4 5 2 4 2 4 5 2 4 3 5 4 4 5 5 5 7 3 4 2 4

W/R % 22 23 29 11 14 29 28 17 28 25 18 29 26 26 38 20 38 14 16 13 18 35 18 22 50 15 29 14 14 25 6 17 13 44 26 22 24 18 19 12 12 15 28 31 18 14 15 29 29

Starts 87 122 90 99 75 71 77 67 60 54 94 67 72 86 67 54 30 51 70 91 88 33 63 51 9 85 49 49 80 56 74 39 35 31 45 29 49 33 62 66 67 102 56 52 88 83 58 36 46

Wins 10 8 9 7 7 8 11 5 6 9 8 7 11 9 8 5 8 5 6 5 7 7 5 6 3 7 8 4 4 5 3 6 2 6 7 3 5 5 6 5 5 7 8 7 8 3 4 5 4

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Earnings 116,309 115,044 112,752 110,872 109,214 109,131 108,516 103,064 101,771 100,699 98,288 95,951 95,381 94,282 91,660 91,617 89,371 86,516 86,005 82,893 82,435 80,849 80,285 77,696 76,386 75,620 73,098 72,712 72,267 71,962 71,940 71,843 70,474 69,500 69,169 68,792 67,597 67,070 65,960 64,652 64,509 64,480 64,469 63,510 63,202 62,748 62,474 62,333 61,265

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Top 100 European sires of stayers (14f+) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (Â£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION Galileo (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Adlerflug (GER) Sea The Stars (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Authorized (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Camelot (GB) Champs Elysees (GB) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Kingman (GB) Frankel (GB) Teofilo (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Golden Horn (GB) Rajsaman (FR) Maxios (GB) Shamardal (USA) Kendargent (FR) New Approach (IRE) Australia (GB) Makfi (GB) Anodin (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Outstrip (GB) Manduro (GER) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Excelebration (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Jukebox Jury (IRE) Harbour Watch (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Dansili (GB) Intello (GER) Sea The Moon (GER) Gleneagles (IRE) Casamento (IRE) Soldier Hollow (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Rio de La Plata (USA) Free Eagle (IRE) Lawman (FR) Motivator (GB) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Olympic Glory (IRE) Samum (GER) Iffraaj (GB) Style Vendome (FR) Reliable Man (GB) War Command (USA)

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Winners

102 41 35 95 85 50 95 102 76 89 19 43 67 65 46 86 52 20 45 48 71 66 51 54 17 14 63 41 28 68 29 15 16 43 58 44 32 59 48 26 44 21 49 36 45 37 10 41 21 35 29

25 6 7 29 24 13 29 25 12 22 4 16 17 23 20 20 15 4 18 9 12 14 13 12 5 3 10 12 9 17 9 4 6 12 9 14 7 12 9 5 10 2 9 8 7 8 1 9 8 8 6

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Starts

Wins

196 89 97 241 169 119 210 229 187 232 38 85 148 149 97 263 151 35 152 96 128 188 131 110 49 31 167 137 69 160 75 39 25 102 135 101 68 165 102 78 101 56 114 86 99 90 30 101 69 87 65

28 9 11 40 27 15 40 30 16 29 4 19 20 30 30 24 18 5 24 12 13 18 16 13 7 3 15 18 12 20 13 8 6 16 11 15 8 17 15 8 10 2 11 13 8 11 1 13 12 10 7

Stakes wins 10 1 3 10 4 3 3 5 4 3 0 3 4 4 1 0 4 3 1 2 2 1 2 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 3 1 1 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0

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...continued European sires of stayers (14f+) in 2020 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 3, 2020) STALLION Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Planteur (IRE) Stormy River (FR) Sir Percy (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Palace Episode (USA) Lord of England (GER) Youmzain (IRE) Spirit One (FR) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Poet’s Voice (GB) Zambezi Sun (GB) Mount Nelson (GB) Linngari (IRE) Myboycharlie (IRE) Sixties Icon (GB) Farhh (GB) Zanzibari (USA) Cape Cross (IRE) American Post (GB) Pour Moi (IRE) Muhaarar (GB) Muhtathir (GB) Sidestep (AUS) Distorted Humor (USA) Slickly (FR) Sunday Break (JPN) French Fifteen (FR) Tin Horse (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Wootton Bassett (GB) Mukhadram (GB) Power (GB) Gemix (FR) Cityscape (GB) Halling (USA) Evasive (GB) Kitten’s Joy (USA) George Vancouver (USA) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Kodiac (GB) Rip Van Winkle (IRE) Campanologist (USA) Pedro The Great (USA) Born To Sea (IRE) Diamond Green (FR) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Gold Away (IRE) Kentucky Dynamite (USA)

Runners

Winners

37 30 28 45 35 21 32 30 18 32 45 17 23 23 16 25 16 21 37 30 40 17 22 18 4 26 17 21 28 20 31 23 15 9 19 9 17 17 26 33 33 34 18 16 40 21 27 7 14

8 7 8 5 5 6 9 5 5 8 8 5 6 6 6 5 6 3 6 4 7 6 4 4 2 4 5 3 4 5 2 4 2 4 5 2 4 3 5 4 4 5 5 5 7 3 4 2 4

W/R % 22 23 29 11 14 29 28 17 28 25 18 29 26 26 38 20 38 14 16 13 18 35 18 22 50 15 29 14 14 25 6 17 13 44 26 22 24 18 19 12 12 15 28 31 18 14 15 29 29

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Stakes wins

Earnings

87 122 90 99 75 71 77 67 60 54 94 67 72 86 67 54 30 51 70 91 88 33 63 51 9 85 49 49 80 56 74 39 35 31 45 29 49 33 62 66 67 102 56 52 88 83 58 36 46

10 8 9 7 7 8 11 5 6 9 8 7 11 9 8 5 8 5 6 5 7 7 5 6 3 7 8 4 4 5 3 6 2 6 7 3 5 5 6 5 5 7 8 7 8 3 4 5 4

0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

116,309 115,044 112,752 110,872 109,214 109,131 108,516 103,064 101,771 100,699 98,288 95,951 95,381 94,282 91,660 91,617 89,371 86,516 86,005 82,893 82,435 80,849 80,285 77,696 76,386 75,620 73,098 72,712 72,267 71,962 71,940 71,843 70,474 69,500 69,169 68,792 67,597 67,070 65,960 64,652 64,509 64,480 64,469 63,510 63,202 62,748 62,474 62,333 61,265

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The master list SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2020

Horses are listed under their sire with the respective broodmare sire in brackets. Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including October 31, 2020 Data from Hyperion Promotions Acclamation Al Siq (King’s Best) Pretreville (Fusaichi Pegasus) Testa (Whipper) Ventura Tormenta (Oasis Dream) Adlerflug Dicaprio (Acatenango) In Swoop (Tiger Hill) Torquator Tasso (Toylsome) Al Kazeem Aspetar (Dansili) Harper (Averti) Saint Lawrence (Oasis Dream) Usak (Giant’s Causeway) Alhebayeb Lustown Baba (Danehill Dancer) Amaron Run Wild (Cadeaux Genereux)

L 3 L 2

L 1 1

2 L L L

American Pharoah Ocean Atlantique (Giant’s Causeway) L Pista (Galileo) 2L Van Gogh (Sadler’s Wells) 1 Anjaal Aztec Parade (Fasliyev)

Anodin Directa (Darshaan) Harmless (Pivotal) Neige Blanche (Muhtathir)

L L 3

Appel Au Maitre Suspicious Mind (Hernando)

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Approve El Astronaute (Footstepsinthesand) Waady (Jade Robbery) Arcano Bonita Queen (Refuse To Bend) Rusumaat (Shamardal) Spinning Memories (Hard Spun) Areion Alson (Galileo) Freestyler (Swedish Shave) Lancade (Sabiango) Rubaiyat (Lomitas) Schwesterherz (Singspiel) Sun At Work (Royal Solo) Wonnemond (Surako)

Makaloun (Dalakhani) L 2

L L 3L

L L 2 3 L L 3

Australia Bangkok (Darshaan) Buckhurst (Green Desert) Cayenne Pepper (Elusive Quality) Epona Plays (Oratorio) Galileo Chrome (Dansili) Leo De Fury (Danehill Dancer) Mare Australis (Rainbow Quest) Patrick Sarsfield (Lawman)

L 3 2 3 1L 2 L 3

Authorized Euchen Glen (Kingmambo) Santiago (Cape Cross)

33 12

Belardo Elysium (Hawk Wing) Isabella Giles (Dubawi) Lullaby Moon (Indesatchel) Bernardini Capezzano (Unbridled’s Song) Blu Air Force Thunderman (Unbridled’s Song) Brazen Beau Dubai Station (Iffraaj) Bungle Inthejungle Acapulco Gold (Mujahid) Winter Power (Titus Livius) Cable Bay Jouska (Kingmambo) Liberty Beach (Avonbridge)

3 23 3L

Cape Cross Century Dream (Echo Of Light) Nkosikazi (Daylami) Walton Street (Encosta De Lago)

3 3LL

23 3 L

3 Casamento Malotru (Dubawi)

L 3L

L L

Bahamian Bounty Tarboosh (Oasis Dream)

Camelot Bolleville (Dubai Destination) L Current Option (Exceed And Excel) 3 L English King (Zafonic) L Even So (Danehill) 1L King’s Harlequin (Invincible Spirit) 3 L Lady Wannabe (Duke Of Marmalade) 3 L Light My Fire (Orpen) L Skyward (Giant’s Causeway) 3 Sunny Queen (Darshaan) LL

Bated Breath Breathtaking Look (Iffraaj) Cairn Gorm (Dalakhani)

3 3

Campanologist Oriental Eagle (Big Shuffle)

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Canford Cliffs Cima Emergency (Singspiel) Jin Jin (Okawango)

Champs Elysees Dame Malliot (Galileo) Durance (Lando) Elisa Again (Shirocco) Heliac (Galileo) Way To Paris (Cozzene) Withhold (Fantastic Light)

2 2 3 L 12 L

Charm Spirit Fantastic Spirit (Fantastic Light) L Kick On (Marju) 33LL Time Scale (Holy Roman Emperor) L City Zip Dariyma (Danehill Dancer)

Cityscape Urban Icon (Shamardal)

Clodovil Certain Lad (Galileo) 3L Duca Di Como (Elusive Quality) L L L L L Majestic Colt (Dubawi) LLL Silberpfeil (Royal Applause) L Steel Bull (Equiano) 3 Tiger Tanaka (Zoffany) 13

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Santosha, the winner of the Princess Margaret Stakes (G3) at Ascot, was one of two stakes winners this season for 2020 first-season sire Coulsty

Coulsty Santosha (Zoffany) Suicide Squad (Dutch Art)

3 L

Croco Rouge Monsieur Croco (Dananeyev)

Curlin Gladiator King (Hennessy)

Dabirsim Celestin (Elusive City) Velma Valento (Echo Of Light)

L L

Dandy Man Dandalla (Elnadim) Happy Romance (Marju) Royal Address (Shamardal) Ventura Diamond (Zamindar)

23 3 L L

Dansili Berlin Tango (Sadler’s Wells) Dubai Warrior (Galileo) Runnymede (Sadler’s Wells) Sorrel (Dalakhani) Dark Angel Althiqa (Shamardal) Art Power (Keltos)

3 3 3L L

L 3

Battaash (Lawman) Fantasy Lady (Shamardal) Gussy Mac (Dansili) Happy Power (Selkirk) Hareem Queen (Shamardal) Indie Angel (Sir Percy) Mountain Angel (Groom Dancer) Mubtasimah (Anabaa) Sonaiyla (More Than Ready) Top Rank (Authorized) Dawn Approach Poetic Flare (Rock Of Gibraltar) Deep Impact Fancy Blue (Sadler’s Wells) Katara (New Approach) Desert Prince Coccoloba (Orpen) Distorted Humor Ebaiyra (Rock Of Gibraltar) Dominus Parsimony (Lil E Tee) Dragon Pulse Wealth Of Love (Definite Article)

112 L L 23 L L L L L 3

11 L

Dream Ahead Dark Vision (Dansili) Dream Of Dreams (Dansili) Glass Slippers (Mind Games)

2L 12 1

Dubawi Al Suhail (Shirocco) L Ambition (New Approach) 2 Anna Nerium (Old Vic) L Benbatl (Selkirk) 22 Fonthill Abbey (New Approach) 3 Ghaiyyath (Galileo) 1113 Glorious Journey (Dansili) 2L Gm Hopkins (Lomitas) 3 Indigo Girl (Montjeu) 2 Lazuli (Fasliyev) 3L Lord North (Giant’s Causeway) 13 Maamora (Azamour) 3 Master Of The Seas (Danehill) 2 Onassis (Rock Of Gibraltar) LL One Ruler (Shamardal) 3 Secret Advisor (Galileo) 3L Space Blues (Noverre) 123L The Revenant (Excellent Art) 12 Wafy (Giant’s Causeway) 3

Dunaden Ranch Hand (High Chaparral)

Dutch Art Bowerman (Danehill) Brad The Brief (Kendargent) Exceptional (Falbrav) Starman (Montjeu) Volfango (Peintre Celebre)

3 3L L L L

Eishin Dunkirk I Kirk (Johannesburg)

Elusive City King David (Montjeu) National Service (Allied Forces)

L 3

Elzaam Champers Elysees (Mark Of Esteem) 1 3 L English Channel Emblem Storm (High Chaparral)

Epaulette Amica Nostra (Royal Applause)

Equiano Dakota Gold (Mark Of Esteem) Equilateral (Oasis Dream)

3LL L

Es Que Love Que Amoro (Mr Greeley)

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stakes sires Estidhkaar Belcarra (Lomitas)

Exceed And Excel Lady Princess (Invincible Spirit) Miss Celestial (Azamour) Sceptical (Trippi)

L L L

Excelebration Barney Roy (Galileo) 1112 Bounce The Blues (Cadeaux Genereux) L Speak In Colours (Verglas) 23 The Conqueror (Noverre) 3LLL Farhh Far Above (Shamardal)

Fast Company Safe Voyage (Mujadil)

22L

Fastnet Rock Monday (Galileo) One Master (Pivotal)

L 13

First Defence Siskin (Oasis Dream) Tilsit (Dansili)

Footstepsinthesand Dardenne (Muhtathir) Elaire Noire (Exceed And Excel) Hateya (Dansili) Mariafoot (Rock Of Gibraltar) Marie’s Diamond (Kalanisi) Wannacry (Green Desert) Foxwedge Foxtrot Lady (Danehill Dancer)

Frankel Alpinista (Hernando) Call The Wind (Inchinor) Collide (Daylami) Elarqam (Efisio) Franconia (Pivotal) Frankly Darling (Daylami) Kalahara (Green Desert) Majestic Noor (Danehill Dancer) Master Of Reality (Darshaan) Queen Daenerys (Storm Cat) Restiany (Kendargent) Veracious (Pivotal)

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1 3

L L L L L L

L 23 L 3 LL 2 3 L L L L L

Free Eagle Khalifa Sat (Tenby)

Golden Horn Gold Wand (Mr Greeley)

Frozen Power Frozen Juke (Tiger Hill)

Goldencents Wildman Jack (Orientate)

Fuisse Tour To Paris (Kendor)

Galileo Amma Grace (Danehill) L Anthony Van Dyck (Exceed And Excel) 2 Armory (Danehill Dancer) 3 Circus Maximus (Danehill Dancer) 1 Dawn Patrol (Darshaan) 3 Delphi (Oasis Dream) 3L Divinely (Intikhab) 3 High Definition (Fastnet Rock) 2 Keats (Air Express) L Laburnum (Danehill) L Lancaster House (Oasis Dream) 3 Lone Eagle (Duke Of Marmalade) 3 Love (Pivotal) 111 Lovelier (Choisir) L Magic Attitude (Exceed And Excel) 3 Magic Wand (Dansili) 2 Magical (Pivotal) 111 Mogul (Danehill) 13 Nayef Road (Danehill Dancer) 3 Nobel Prize (Danehill) 3 Pablo Escobarr (Dansili) 3 Passion (Anabaa) 3 Peaceful (Stravinsky) 1 Russian Emperor (Fastnet Rock) 3 Search For A Song (Danehill) 1 Serpentine (Danehill Dancer) 1 Shale (Holy Roman Emperor) 13 Snow (Desert King) 3 Tiger Moth (Mujadil) 3 Galiway Sealiway (Kendargent) Wanaway (Indian Rocket) Gleneagles Freyja (Danehill) Measure Of Time (Theatrical) Royal Dornoch (Danehill Dancer) Silence Please (Machiavellian) Tabera (Oratorio) Goken Go Athletico (Sageburg) Livachope (Soave)

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L L 3 L 3LL

3 3L

Gregorian Plainchant (Doyen) Queen Jo Jo (Siphon)

23L 3

Gutaifan Fev Rover (High Chaparral) Sardinia Sunset (Compton Place) Sopran Poseidone (Verglas)

2L L L

Harbour Watch Baron Samedi (Haafhd) Pyledriver (Le Havre) Seaside Song (Singspiel)

2 22 L

Havana Gold Tabdeed (Peintre Celebre)

Heeraat Freed From Desire (Avonbridge)

Helmet Taamol (Montjeu)

Henrythenavigator Called To The Bar (Unfuwain) Gerardino Jet (Dalakhani)

3 L

Holy Roman Emperor Apadanah (Adlerflug) Numerian (High Chaparral) Romanised (Indian Ridge) Valeria Messalina (Arch)

L L 2 3

Hot Streak A Case Of You (Key Of Luck)

Hunter’s Light Irska (Medicean)

Hurricane Cat Hurricane Dream (Siyouni)

Iffraaj Judicial (Marju) 3L Major Partnership (Polish Precedent) L Intello In Front (Shirocco)

Noble Heidi (Orpen) Pao Alto (Dashing Blade) Regal Reality (Medicean)

3 3 3

Intense Focus Aviateur (Teofilo) Party Goer (Byron)

3 3

Invincible Spirit Ancient Spirit (Galileo) Cloak Of Spirits (Pivotal) Make A Challenge (Street Cry) Nazeef (Dubawi) Repartee (Johannesburg) Stunning Spirit (Dynaformer) Traisha (Galileo)

LL L LLLL 112L L 3 L

Joshua Tree Top Max (Cape Cross)

Jukebox Jury Arktis (Acatenango) Princess Zoe (Tiger Hill)

L 1L

Kamsin Nica (Santiago) Kendargent Batwan (Indian Rocket) Ken Colt (Mujahid) Nickajack Cave (Montjeu) See The Rose (Xaar) Skalleti (Muhaymin) Tokyo Gold (Dalakhani)

3 L 3L 3 23 L

Kingman Alocasia (Kingmambo) L Chachnak (Danehill Dancer) 33 Cormorant (Dansili) 3 Fearless King (Makfi) 2 Love Is You (Dansili) L Palace Pier (Nayef) 11 Parent’s Prayer (Exceed And Excel) L Persian King (Dylan Thomas) 112 Posted (Darshaan) L Queen Of Love (Exceed And Excel) L Sinawann (Anabaa) 3 Summer Romance (Statue Of Liberty) 3

Kitten’s Joy Crossfirehurricane (Maria’s Mon) Kameko (Rock Of Gibraltar)

3L 12

stakes sires Kodi Bear Cobh (Royal Applause) Kodiac Bahrain Pride (Sea The Stars) Campanelle (Namid) Frenetic (Forest Wildcat) Hello Youmzain (Shamardal) K Club (Street Sense) Nando Parrado (Roy) Ubettabelieveit (Mujadil) Umm Kulthum (Shamardal) Zoetic (Zamindar) Lawman Be My Sheriff (Machiavellian) Pretty Gorgeous (Compton Place) Salonlove (Bluebird) Le Havre Bebeautiful (Three Valleys) Glycon (Singspiel) Motamarris (Anabaa) Normandy Bridge (Silver Hawk) Port Guillaume (Turtle Bowl) Vaucelles (Teofilo) Wonderful Tonight (Montjeu) Lemon Drop Kid Mark Of Approval (Speightstown) Red Verdon (Choisir) Leroidesanimaux Le Don De Vie (Selkirk) Lethal Force Golden Horde (Pivotal)

L 12 LLL 1 3 2 2L 3 L

23 12 L

L 3 L 3 2 2 113

L 2L

Librettist Pretending (Machiavellian)

Lilbourne Lad Its The Only Way (Barathea) Surrounding (Doubletour)

L L

Lope De Vega Angel Power (Aussie Rules) 3L Antonia De Vega (Duke Of Marmalade) 3 L Arapaho (Dansili) L Cadillac (Dansili) 2 Kalifornia Queen (Sinndar) 2 La Barrosa (Montjeu) 3 Lucky Vega (Cape Cross) 1 Manuela De Vega (Daylami) 23

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Parchemin (Teofilo) Simeen (Oasis Dream) Surf Dancer (Invincible Spirit)

L L L

Method (Iffraaj) Minzaal (Clodovil) Supremacy (Arcano)

L 2 12

Lord Kanaloa Know It All (Rainbow Quest)

Mesnil Des Aigles Air De Valse (Poliglote)

Lord Of England Peaches (Sholokhov) Queen Rouge (Dubawi) Stex (Law Society)

L L 23LL

Make Believe Believe In Love (Kahyasi) Mishriff (Raven’s Pass) Rose Of Kildare (Sixties Icon)

3 12L 3

Makfi Mykiss (Turtle Bowl)

Manduro Good Question (Olden Times) Soul Train (Special Nash) Square De Luynes (Dashing Blade) Time To Choose (Orpen)

L 3 3 L

Mastercraftsman Barrington Court (Desert Prince) Cabaletta (Galileo) Extra Elusive (Hennessy) Masterwin (Monsun) Quian (Monsun)

L L 33 LL 3L

Masterstroke Miss Extra (Keltos)

Maxios Elle Memory (Roi Danzig) Euclidia (Galileo) Liberty London (Medicean) Walderbe (Dai Jin)

L L L 23

Mayson Maystar (Multiplex) Oxted (Choisir)

L 13

Medaglia D’Oro Magny Cours (A P Indy) Medicean Namos (Areion) Mehmas Acklam Express (Vale Of York)

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Motivator Thalyia (Anabaa)

Mount Nelson Spirit Of Nelson (Invincible Spirit)

Muhaarar Mujbar (Acclamation) Paix (Montjeu)

3 3L

Muhtathir Mille Et Mille (Monsun)

Mujahid Vis A Vis (Intense Focus)

Nathaniel Alkandora (Medicean) L Dashing Willoughby (Dylan Thomas) 3 L Enable (Sadler’s Wells) 13 Lady Bowthorpe (Verglas) 3 Nayef Musa D’oriente (Mujahid)

New Approach King’s Caper (War Chant) Loxley (Nayef) Mac Swiney (Teofilo) Magic Lily (Danehill Dancer) New Treasure (Congaree) Ostilio (Mark Of Esteem) Potemkin (Big Shuffle) Telecaster (Shirocco) Ziegfeld (Oasis Dream)

2 2 12 22 3 L 3 23 L

New Bay New Mandate (Authorized) Saffron Beach (Raven’s Pass)

2L 3

Night Of Thunder Auyantepui (Montjeu) Dubai Love (Dylan Thomas) Lady Penelope (Nayef) Molatham (Pivotal) No Limit Credit (Barathea) Stormy Girl (Clodovil)

2L L L 3 3 L

Thundering Nights (Cape Cross) Thunderous (Dalakhani) Under The Stars (Invincible Spirit)

3 2 L

No Nay Never Alcohol Free (Hard Spun) Love Locket (Sea The Stars) Moss Gill (Oasis Dream) Wichita (Dashing Blade)

1 3 L 2

Noble Mission Spanish Mission (Street Cry)

Oasis Dream Cloud Surfing (Montjeu) Erasmo (Efisio) Well Of Wisdom (Sunday Silence)

L L LL

Olympic Glory Etonian (Indian Charlie)

stakes sires Etonian wins the Solario Stakes (G3) at Sandown. He is a son of Olympic Glory, whose progeny put together a respectable stakes record for the sire in 2020: one Group 1 win, three Group 3 victories and two Listed

Redoute’s Choice Enbihaar (Trempolino) Reliable Man Adrian (Desert Style) Akribie (Haafhd) Moonlight Man (Pentire) Quiet Times (Street Cry)

L L L L

Requinto Only Time (Nayef)

Rock Of Gibraltar Kastasa (Galileo) Ten Year Ticket (Byron)

L L

Ruler Of The World Wonderful World (Giant’s Causeway)

Sakhee’s Secret Granatina (Rakti) Out Of Time (Rainbow Quest) Samum Zamrud (Zieten)

Grand Glory (Daylami) Lucky Lycra (Pivotal) Watch Me (Galileo) Outstrip Gold Trip (Dubai Destination)

3L 3 1L

L L 2L

Pastoral Pursuits Ventura Rebel (Firebreak)

Peintre Celebre Power Euro (Galileo)

Pivotal Addeybb (Kingmambo) Glen Shiel (Big Shuffle) Last Empire (Komaite) Romola (New Approach)

Planteur Agnes (Sadler’s Wells) Road To Arc (Exit To Nowhere) Trueshan (General Holme)

1L 13 L L

Poet’s Voice Andromaca (Royal Applause) Nature’s Colors (Sunday Silence) One Voice (Nayef) Song Of Life (Haafhd)

L L 3 L

Pounced Chiaro Di Luna (Intikhab)

Power Helvic Dream (Danehill Dancer) 3 Laws Of Indices (Exceed And Excel) 2 Wakanaka (Kodiac) LLL

Pride Of Dubai Fancy Man (Galileo) Flying Visit (Teofilo) Star Of Emaraaty (Ad Valorem) Telepatic Glances (Hurricane Run) Zaffy’s Pride (Singspiel)

Prince Of Lir The Lir Jet (Green Desert)

Raven’s Pass Lemista (Arcano) Matterhorn (Darshaan) Pisanello (Peintre Celebre)

Red Jazz Urban Beat (Blues Traveller)

3 2LL

Sea The Moon Alignak (Alzao) L Alpine Star (Rahy) 1 Pondus (Green Desert) L Preciosa (Areion) L Privilegiado (Singspiel) 3 Quest The Moon (Rock Of Gibraltar) 2 Tickle Me Green (Groom Dancer) L Wonderful Moon (Lomitas) 233 L 3 3 2L L

23L 1 L

Sea The Stars Al Aasy (Shamardal) Baptism (Holy Roman Emperor) Conte De Fee (Tiger Hill) Eagles By Day (Golan) Fanny Logan (Manduro) Hukum (Kingmambo) Miss Yoda (Sholokhov) Raabihah (Kingmambo) Sea Of Faith (Monsun) Stradivarius (Bering) Terebellum (Elusive City) Valia (Dansili) Volkan Star (Azamour)

3 L L 3 2 3 1L 3L L 11 2 2L 3L

Sepoy Leopoldina (Verglas) Mighty Gurkha (Royal Applause)

L 3

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stakes sires Punita Arora (Pivotal) Salute The Soldier (Street Cry)

L 3

Shakespearean Les Vertus (Lomitas)

Shamardal Algiers (Platini) All Rumours (Deep Impact) Alzire (Galileo) Earthlight (New Approach) Global Giant (Dalakhani) Good Effort (Distorted Humor) Half Light (Singspiel) Pinatubo (Dalakhani) Royal Crusade (Dansili) Shaman (Green Desert) Tarnawa (Cape Cross) Victor Ludorum (Kaldounevees) Zakouski (Octagonal) Showcasing Alkumait (Dutch Art) Mohaather (Inchinor) Sweet Gardenia (Monsieur Bond) Tropbeau (Dansili)

L L L 3L L L 3L 1 3 2 113 1 2L

2 12 L 3

Sidestep Step By Step (Acatenango)

Silver Frost Cnicht (Cape Cross)

Sir Percy Berkshire Rocco (Shirocco) Sir Prancealot Miss Amulet (Oasis Dream) Prince Lancelot (Moss Vale) Sixties Icon Nastase (Clodovil) Siyouni Darkness (Makfi) Dream And Do (Librettist) New Harzburg (Acatenango) Policy Of Truth (Selkirk) Rajani (Monsun) Simona (El Prado) Sottsass (Galileo) St Mark’s Basilica (Galileo) Wally (Motivator) Zaykava (Zamindar)

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In a close finish for the Preis der Diana (G1), Miss Yoda (blue) beats Zamrud (far side) and the Soldier Hollow filly Virginia Joy (yellow). Soldier Hollow and Lope De Vega both have 11 stakes winners on this chart, joint fifth

So You Think Think Of Me (Big Shuffle)

Society Rock A’ali (Motivator)

Soldier Hollow Amarena (Tiger Hill) Emoji (Manduro) Flamingo Girl (Silver Hawk) Go Rose (Lando) Reine D’amour (Big Shuffle) Sanora (Martillo) Sommelier (Dashing Blade) Thorin (Big Shuffle) Virginia Joy (Doyen) Wai Key Star (Danehill) Wangari (Shirocco)

L L L L 3 3L L 3 3 3 L

2L L

L 1 L 3 L 3 11 1 L L

Speightstown San Huberto (Rail Link) Sarookh (Green Desert)

Tagula Limato (Singspiel)

Twirling Candy Fore Left (Unbridled’s Song)

Tamayuz Zeyaadah (Act One)

Uncle Mo Lipizzaner (Fastnet Rock)

Temple City Kimbear (Sky Mesa)

Universal Universal Order (Raven’s Pass)

War Front Alkaraama (Speightstown) Battleground (Galileo) Military Style (Galileo) So Wonderful (Kingmambo)

L 2L 3 L

Teofilo Brasilian Man (Oasis Dream) Donjah (Mt Livermore) Gear Up (Toccet) Get Shirty (Monsun) Saiga (Orpen) Satomi (Haafhd) Subjectivist (Danehill Dancer) Tawkeel (Oasis Dream) Twilight Payment (Oasis Dream)

3 1 13 L L 2L 13L 12 23

Territories Fulgentia (Dr Fong) Rougir (Elusive City)

L 3

The Factor Chiefdom (Storm Cat)

2 L 3

The Gurkha Best Of Lips (Silver Frost)

The Wow Signal Glory Maker (Vespone)

Style Vendome Styledargent (Kendargent)

Toronado Tactical (Makfi)

Super Saver Down On Da Bayou (Empire Maker)

Twilight Son Aria Importante (Orpen)

Starspangledbanner Aloha Star (Excellent Art) Dickiedooda (Oratorio) Millisle (Indian Ridge) Stormy River Stormy Pouss (Green Desert)

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Wiesenpfad Kellahen (Tannenkonig) Wootton Bassett Audarya (Green Tune) Chindit (Oasis Dream) Dream Works (Verglas) Speak Of The Devil (Indian Rocket) Tamahere (Giant’s Causeway) The Summit (Acatenango) Waltham (Turtle Bowl) Wooded (Elusive City)

1 2L L L L 3 L 13

Zebedee Pogo (Diktat)

Zoffany Lyzbeth (Galileo) Minaun (Green Desert) Mother Earth (Green Desert) Pythagoras (Galileo) Thunder Moon (Sadler’s Wells)

L 3 3 L 1

#FarAboveTheSpeedLimit

He has electric pace like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen. The fastest horse Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever trained. James Tate, trainer

NEW FOR 2021

Palace House winner & undefeated over 5f & 6f

Blistering victory in the stallion-making Gr.3 Palace House Stakes.

Timeform Rating: 122

Higher than Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Dark Angel, No Nay Never & Showcasing.

By the statistical freak Farhh - 15% SW to runners

Out of a Shamardal mare from the Gr.1 family of the brilliant Benbatl & Nahrain.

Cappella Sansavero

Far Above

Smooth Daddy

My Dream Boat

Kuroshio

Standing at Starfield Stud, Ballynagall, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland N91 K8Y9

KUROSHIO #SpeedDating

19% Black-Type horses to named foals

More than any other third-crop sire in Europe from limited first crops. S TA L L I O N S

HIGH-CLASS JUVENILE AND SPRINTER BY

EXCEED AND EXCEL CAPPELLA SANSEVERO #SpeedDating

PROVEN SON OF

SHOWCASING

250 mares in 2019 and 2020

SMOOTH DADDY #SmoothDating

TOP CLASS GROUP WINNER BY

SCAT DADDY

Sire of Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Pierre Lapin in his first crop

Tough and consistent Group turf winner

Precocious Group winning 2yo

First 5 sires all Gr.1 winning 2yos

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covering statistics

Stallion covering stats 2020

The covering sire table includes sires who have covered 20+ mares in England or Ireland in 2020. Some dual-purpose sires are included (and the figures will include their NH mares) Stallion

First year at stud

Acclamation Aclaim Adaay Advertise Anjaal Ardad Australia Awtaad Bated Breath Belardo Berkshire Blue Point Bobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitten Bungle Inthejungle Buratino Cable Bay Calyx Camacho Camelot Capri Caravaggio Charm Spirit Churchill Cityscape Conduit Cotai Glory Cracksman Dandy Man Dark Angel Dawn Approach Decorated Knight Doyen Dragon Dancer Dragon Pulse Dubawi Due Diligence

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2020 standing

Mares covered 2020

2004 IRE 2018 GB 2017 GB 2020 GB 2016 IRE 2018 GB 2015 IRE 2017 IRE 2013 GB 2017 IRE 2019 IRE 2020 IRE 2017 GB 2015 IRE 2017 IRE 2016 GB 2020 IRE 2006 IRE 2014 IRE 2020 IRE 2018 IRE 2015 GB 2018 IRE 2014 GB 2010 IRE 2018 IRE 2019 GB 2010 IRE 2008 IRE 2014 IRE 2018 IRE 2008 IRE 2009 GB 2013 IRE 2006 GB 2016 GB

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85 74 52 138 10 26 73 64 140 116 201 198 31 81 85 100 163 61 156 158 120 15 250 35 18 100 112 159 163 32 122 62 39 40 155 100

BT mares

From Weatherbys BT winning mares

44 13 6 41 7 1 22 1 86 35 15 7 1 1 13 2 1 47 17 10 37 15 7 98 34 15 56 12 4 18 3 1 144 82 52 24 1 33 6 1 39 4 2 57 12 4 79 28 18 21 6 3 98 43 26 11 - 70 25 10 9 2 1 165 79 50 20 3 1 - - 47 9 1 65 31 23 79 12 5 120 64 38 16 4 57 15 8 8 1 6 - 10 - 130 114 94 60 6 1

covering statistics Stallion

First year at stud

2020 standing

Mares covered 2020

El Kabeir 2018 IRE Elusive Pimpernel 2012 IRE Elzaam 2013 IRE Eqtidaar 2020 GB Equiano (FR) 2011 GB Estidhkaar 2017 IRE Exceed And Excel 2004 IRE Expert Eye 2019 GB Falco 2009 GB Farhh 2014 GB Fascinating Rock 2017 IRE Fast Company 2011 IRE Fastnet Rock 2005 IRE Flag of Honour 2020 GB Footstepsinthesand 2005 IRE Fracas 2009 IRE Frankel 2013 GB Free Eagle 2016 IRE French Navy 2016 IRE Frontiersman 2019 GB Fulbright 2016 IRE Galileo 2002 IRE Galileo Gold 2018 IRE Gleneagles 2016 IRE Golden Horn 2016 GB Gregorian 2015 IRE Gustav Klimt 2019 IRE Gutaifan 2016 IRE Harbour Law 2019 GB Harry Angel 2019 GB Harzand 2017 IRE Havana Gold 2014 GB Havana Grey 2019 GB Heeraat 2015 GB Highland Reel 2018 IRE Holy Roman Emperor 2007 IRE Hot Streak 2016 GB Idaho 2019 IRE Iffraaj 2007 GB Inns of Court 2020 IRE Invincible Army 2020 IRE Invincible Spirit 2003 IRE Jack Hobbs 2018 GB James Garfield 2019 IRE Jukebox Jury 2013 IRE Kessaar 2019 IRE Kingman 2015 GB

Winners

71 165 60 74 43 61 95 105 43 73 46 19 46 40 169 5 175 105 23 102 2 120 38 173 111 42 70 11 27 121 142 53 130 17 139 120 5 204 95 218 139 145 134 31 145 42 179

BT mares

BT winning mares

30 2 22 1 1 20 - 39 6 2 22 1 1 30 4 1 59 22 12 65 31 21 6 - 43 17 6 16 3 2 8 3 1 28 12 9 11 - 85 17 6 4 1 138 106 88 48 11 5 9 - 16 2 2 1 - 104 91 75 19 2 1 115 60 39 81 38 25 19 3 2 32 5 2 6 - 7 1 72 20 11 39 9 5 29 6 2 78 12 2 7 - 72 21 8 71 18 9 3 - 18 2 59 24 15 86 19 5 81 27 8 83 51 31 13 2 1 20 2 15 2 1 14 1 152 119 97

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covering statistics Stallion

First year at stud

2020 standing

Mares covered 2020

Kingston Hill 2016 IRE Kodi Bear 2017 IRE Kodiac 2007 IRE Kuroshio 2014 IRE Land Force 2020 GB Le Brivido (FR) 2020 GB Lightning Spear 2019 GB Lope de Vega 2011 IRE Lucky Speed 2016 IRE Magna Grecia 2020 IRE Make Believe 2016 IRE Marcel 2017 IRE Masar 2020 GB Massaat 2019 GB Mastercraftsman 2010 IRE Mayson 2013 GB Mehmas 2017 IRE Milan 2003 IRE Muhaarar 2016 GB Mukhadram 2015 GB My Dream Boat 2018 IRE Nathaniel 2013 GB National Defense 2018 IRE New Approach 2009 GB New Bay 2017 IRE Night of Thunder 2016 IRE No Nay Never 2015 IRE Oasis Dream 2004 GB Ocovango 2015 IRE Ol’ Man River 2017 IRE Order of St George 2019 IRE Outstrip 2016 GB Parish Hall 2017 IRE Pastoral Pursuits 2006 GB Pearl Secret 2017 GB Phoenix of Spain 2020 IRE Pivotal 1997 GB Postponed 2018 GB Prince of Lir 2017 IRE Profitable 2018 IRE Rajasinghe 2019 GB Raven’s Pass 2009 IRE Ribchester 2018 IRE Rock of Gibraltar 2003 IRE Saxon Warrior 2019 IRE Sea The Moon 2015 GB Sea The Stars 2010 IRE

Winners

184 49 166 132 155 56 42 178 57 180 117 63 146 83 85 61 114 92 48 35 23 101 43 48 106 213 193 108 132 45 247 71 32 21 39 148 28 121 46 156 25 62 129 25 166 164 206

BT mares

BT winning mares

14 3 1 27 4 1 86 37 9 65 9 3 85 22 9 30 9 7 19 3 3 143 106 72 5 - 109 56 26 66 18 6 14 - 99 35 24 51 6 3 47 17 8 34 3 2 52 8 4 6 1 30 11 4 23 3 3 3 - 70 30 19 18 6 5 32 15 10 58 27 12 144 81 53 140 88 53 70 38 22 7 - 5 1 22 3 1 38 2 1 9 1 1 14 2 2 18 4 1 89 20 6 21 12 10 76 20 8 17 -- 81 22 9 16 3 32 13 9 64 23 9 12 2 1 104 37 21 112 41 24 153 113 89

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First year at stud

2020 standing

Mares covered 2020

Shamardal 2005 IRE Showcasing 2011 GB Sioux Nation 2019 IRE Sir Percy 2008 GB Sixties Icon 2009 GB Smooth Daddy 2019 IRE Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Call 2020 IRE Starspangledbanner 2011 IRE Study of Man 2020 GB Tagula 1997 IRE Tamayuz 2009 IRE Tasleet 2019 GB Ten Sovereigns 2020 IRE Teofilo 2008 IRE Territories 2017 GB The Gurkha 2017 IRE Time Test 2018 GB Too Darn Hot 2020 GB Twilight Son 2017 GB U S Navy Flag 2019 IRE Ulysses 2018 GB Unfortunately 2019 IRE Vadamos 2017 IRE Valirann 2015 IRE Vendangeur 2014 IRE Vocalised 2011 IRE Waldgeist 2020 IRE Washington DC 2019 GB Wings of Eagles 2018 IRE Youmzain 2011 IRE Zoffany 2012 IRE Zoustar (AUS) 2014 GB

Busiest Flat stallions in spring 2020 Stallion Churchill (IRE) Inns of Court (IRE) Ten Sovereigns (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Blue Point (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Magna Grecia (IRE) Kingman (GB) Lope De Vega (IRE) Frankel (GB)

140

Mares 250 218 214 213 206 198 193 180 179 178 175

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31 165 158 21 31 37 164 140 71 6 42 51 214 80 153 57 125 172 79 143 119 50 160 109 20 16 117 39 241 59 158 124

BT mares

BT winning mares

24 19 15 125 58 31 97 15 3 7 - 18 2 16 1 1 100 38 13 86 27 8 55 26 18 2 - 28 10 4 21 1 111 38 20 39 21 13 86 13 8 29 4 2 79 14 6 137 97 70 53 8 4 75 20 10 80 36 22 26 2 1 23 2 3 - 2 - 5 - 83 42 27 22 3 1 17 3 2 - - 94 27 13 94 52 35

Stallions who saw most winning mares in 2020

Stallions who saw most b-type winners 2020

Stallion

Churchill (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Kingman (GB) Blue Point (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Frankel (GB) Too Darn Hot (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Showcasing (GB)

Mares 165 153 152 144 144 143 140 138 137 130 125

Kingman (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Frankel (GB) Galileo (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Too Darn Hot (GB) Night Of Thunder (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Blue Point (IRE) Churchill (IRE)

Mares 97 94 89 88 75 72 70 53 53 52 50

Shadwell Stallions

First Foals 2021

E QTIDAAR

Group-1 winning sprinter by leading sire of sires, Invincible Spirit

Fee: £5,000

Jan 1st, SLF

M UHAARAR

The best son of Oasis Dream and sire of high-class juveniles BARADAR and MUJBAR

Fee: £10,000

Jan 1st, SLF

First Yearlings 2021

T ASLEET

New

M OHAATHER

Group 1 sprinter from the family of BATTAASH

Fee: £5,000

Jan 1st, SLF

The best son of SHOWCASING

Won a vintage renewal of the Group 1 Sussex Stakes in a faster time than Kingman Group winner at two, three and four Get in touch to discuss terms Discover the Shadwell stallions: www.shadwellstud.com | nominations@shadwellstud.co.uk Contact Richard Lancaster, James O’Donnell on +44 (0)1842 755913 or Tom Pennington on +44 (0)7736 019914 | tpennington@shadwellstud.co.uk and Ellen Bishop on +44 (0)7826 205155 | ebishop@shadwellstud.co.uk

OR: 123 | TF: 129

NEW IN 2021! ELARQAM

bay 1m65

€6,000 L.F

A Classic pedigree

by undefeated champion FRANKEL out of 5-time Gr1 heroine ATTRACTION.

Outstanding conformation

a 1,600,000 gns Tattersalls Book 1 purchase by Shadwell.

A top-class racehorse a performer at Group level every year from 2 to over 7f to 11f. The second-highest rated

son of FRANKEL worldwide, with a rating of 120 - only beaten by CRACKSMAN who stands at a fee of £17,500

2 yo

1st Tattersalls St. Gr.3 (Newmarket,7f), 1er British EBF Novice St. (York, 7f).

3 Yo

3rd York St. Gr.2 (York, 1m2½) 4th 2000 Guineas St. Gr.1 (Newmarket, 1m) 4th Sovereign St. Gr.3 (Salisbury, 1m).

4 yo

1st York St. Gr.2 (York, 1m2½) 1st Festival St. L. (Goodwood, 1m2) 1st Gala St. L. (Sandown, 1m2)

3rd International St. Gr.1 (York, 1m2½) 3rd Wolferton St. L. (Ascot, 1m2) 4th Earl Of Sefton St. Gr.3 (Newmarket, 1m1).

5 yo

1st Legacy Cup St. Gr.3 (Newbury, 1m3) 2nd Brigadier Gerard St. Gr.3 (Haydock, 1m2).

YAFTA

grey 1m61

€2,500 L.F

A perfect pedigree for speed,

reuniting the leading sires DARK ANGEL, OASIS DREAM and INDIAN RIDGE

Out of the Stakes-winning sprinter SWISS DREAM, daughter of exceptional mare SWISS LAKE (dam of 4 Group performers SWISS SPIRIT, SWISS DIVA, SWISS DREAM and Swiss Franc).

A dual-winning juvenile, his best performance

came when winning the Hackwood Stakes (Gr.3) over 6f where he beat Group 1 winner DREAM OF DREAMS. Effective over distances from 5½f – 7f, he earned an official rating of 110. L ARISSA KNEIP • +33 (0)6 27 60 21 09 • larissa@haras-de-saint-arnoult.com

1st yearlings in 2021 €5,000 L.F

DSCHINGIS SECRET

6 Group wins, voted HORSE OF THE YEAR 2017 in Germany. The best son of champion sire SOLDIER HOLLOW

SEABHAC

1st yearlings in 2021

€5,000 L.F

Gr.3 Winner on turf in the US as a juvenile. Son of the phenomenal SCAT DADDY, sire of 26 Gr.1 winners.

€4,500 L.F

SOMMERABEND

A son of the extraordinary SHAMARDAL, sire of champions and sire of sires A sure source of winners

TIBERIAN

€2,000 L.F

A top-class racehorse, three-time Group winner, with an impressive physique. Free of the bloodlines of CADOUDAL, SADLER’S WELLS & MONSUN

€2,000 L.F

STORMY RIVER Group 1 winner, Group 1 placed from 2 - 4 years old. Sire of 22 Stakes horses.

L ARISSA KNEIP • +33 (0)6 27 60 21 09 • larissa@haras-de-saint-arnoult.com

stallion yearling averages Kingman’s yearling average increased from 270,678gns in 2019 to 378,752gns in 2020. The Juddmonte sire also achieved his top-priced yearling to date – the Tattersalls Book 1 Day 1 top lot, the colt out of Galicuix (Lot 174), who was sold by Houghton Bloodstock to Oliver St Lawrence for 2.7 million guineas

Top sires in Europe by yearling averages in 2020

(Gns)

Sire Average Galileo 669,854 Dubawi 546,248 Kingmam 378,752 Frankel 337,556 Sea The Stars 194,207 American Pharoah 191,636 Lope De Vega 172,676 Invincible Spirit 168,114 Motivator 154,156 Siyouni 151,590 Shamardal 133,333 Teofilo 124,310 Dark Angel 107,804 No Nay Never 102,722 Wootton Bassett 89,879 Almanzor 84,885 Fastnet Rock 83,480 Night Of Thunder 82,621 Churchill 82,079 Oasis Dream 80,704 Camelot 79,014

Stallion yearling averages Stallions with two or more lots sold, listed alphabetically and showing aggregate, average and colt and fillies’ figures from sales in Europe. Vendor buy-backs excluded. In guineas, compiled by Weatherbys. Some dual-purpose stallions included Sire Name

Sold

Acclamation Aclaim Adaay Adlerflug Affaire Solitaire Air Force Blue Al Kazeem Al Wukair Alhebayeb Almanzor Amaron American Devil American Pharoah Anjaal Anodin

51 2,699,982 52,940 300,000 36 64,727 15 24,652 47 1,185,667 25,226 145,000 22 32,439 25 18,879 39 542,704 13,915 50,000 19 17,473 20 10,534 17 485,068 28,533 68,604 11 31,110 6 23,809 4 34,704 8,676 16,142 1 4,842 3 9,954 6 224,807 37,467 105,000 3 62,872 3 12,063 5 49,500 9,900 35,000 2 3,750 3 14,000 22 426,553 19,388 76,675 8 17,857 14 20,263 8 50,347 6,293 27,441 8 6,293 0 0 52 4,414,039 84,885 250,000 30 90,074 22 77,809 13 117,031 9,002 22,599 9 9,999 4 6,759 2 10,089 5,044 6,053 0 0 2 5,044 2 383,273 191,636 258,273 1 258,273 1 125,000 7 19,285 2,755 4,762 6 2,797 1 2,500 7 121,469 17,352 64,568 2 17,756 5 17,191

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stallion yearling averages Sire Name

Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

Arcano Ardad Areion Attendu Australia Authorized Awtaad Bated Breath Beat Hollow Belardo Birchwood Black Sam Bellamy Blu Constellation Blue Bresil Bobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitten Born To Sea Bow Creek Brametot Brazen Beau Buckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boum Bungle Inthejungle Buratino Cable Bay Califet Camacho Camelot Cappella Sansevero Captain Chop Caravaggio Champs Elysees Charm Spirit Charming Thought Churchill Cityscape Clodovil Clovis Du Berlais Coach House Cotai Glory Coulsty Counterattack Court Cave Dabirsim Dandy Man Dansant Dariyan Dark Angel Dartmouth Dawn Approach De Treville Declaration Of War Decorated Knight

4 33,089 8,272 20,177 2 4,842 2 11,702 51 735,299 14,417 52,381 29 12,880 22 16,443 8 207,023 25,877 60,533 5 12,026 3 48,964 10 206,619 20,661 58,111 5 29,217 5 12,106 61 3,642,677 59,716 575,000 37 68,790 24 45,726 2 150,533 75,266 90,000 1 90,000 1 60,533 21 504,064 24,003 80,000 11 31,458 10 15,801 52 2,301,212 44,254 290,000 33 48,825 19 36,314 2 11,234 5,617 8,571 1 2,663 1 8,571 39 586,428 15,036 60,000 22 17,284 17 12,127 27 421,440 15,608 48,426 12 13,866 15 17,003 7 71,536 10,219 20,000 5 13,126 2 2,952 3 26,633 8,877 12,106 2 7,263 1 12,106 8 239,997 29,999 57,143 6 36,031 2 11,904 20 180,942 9,047 25,000 12 9,120 8 8,937 2 62,954 31,477 56,497 0 0 2 31,477 2 13,164 6,582 8,878 0 0 2 6,582 11 166,016 15,092 37,127 6 16,033 5 13,962 20 159,639 7,981 20,952 14 7,823 6 8,351 3 48,328 16,109 29,055 3 16,109 0 0 26 487,816 18,762 95,238 19 19,479 7 16,816 14 118,969 8,497 21,905 8 9,805 6 6,753 19 409,246 21,539 150,000 14 25,660 5 9,999 3 26,068 8,689 17,756 2 12,308 1 1,452 29 534,276 18,423 77,000 19 23,592 10 8,602 36 2,844,509 79,014 340,000 18 79,275 18 78,753 2 8,429 4,214 7,000 2 4,214 0 0 4 87,975 21,993 36,320 2 18,160 2 25,827 56 4,400,767 78,585 205,000 32 88,047 24 65,968 9 183,006 20,334 45,000 7 21,286 2 17,000 19 179,026 9,422 16,949 11 8,291 8 10,978 13 136,095 10,468 25,000 9 12,000 4 7,023 67 5,499,298 82,079 350,000 41 78,114 26 88,330 10 88,405 8,840 23,000 5 7,995 5 9,685 2 71,000 35,500 50,000 2 35,500 0 0 2 15,047 7,523 14,286 2 7,523 0 0 4 18,300 4,575 8,000 4 4,575 0 0 61 1,363,013 22,344 180,000 43 29,278 18 5,779 4 54,214 13,553 23,000 2 14,357 2 12,750 13 221,550 17,042 49,233 9 19,505 4 11,501 2 12,911 6,455 7,666 2 6,455 0 0 60 1,915,032 31,917 146,893 32 28,497 28 35,826 49 1,365,400 27,865 75,000 29 32,992 20 20,430 2 4,841 2,420 2,421 2 2,420 0 0 7 105,327 15,046 24,213 3 17,756 4 13,014 80 8,624,367 107,804 420,000 43 97,198 37 120,130 2 15,495 7,747 14,527 2 7,747 0 0 4 13,690 3,422 5,500 3 3,896 1 2,000 2 88,781 44,390 72,639 0 0 2 44,390 3 86,166 28,722 40,000 2 39,047 1 8,071 17 346,906 20,406 41,905 8 17,601 9 22,899

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Desert Prince Diamond Boy Divine Prophet Doctor Dino Doyen Dragon Pulse Dream Ahead Dubawi Due Diligence Earl Of Tinsdal Ectot El Kabeir Elm Park Elusive City Elusive Pimpernel Elvstroem Elzaam Epaulette Equiano Estidhkaar Exceed And Excel Excelebration Farhh Fascinating Rock Fast Company Fastnet Rock Feuerblitz Flemensfirth Footstepsinthesand Fountain Of Youth Frankel Free Eagle French Navy Fulbright Gale Force Ten Galileo Galileo Gold Galiway Garswoo Geordieland George Vancouver Getaway Gleneagles Goken Golden Horn Gregorian Guiliani Gutaifan Harzand Havana Gold Heeraat

4 32,282 8,070 13,720 0 0 4 8,070 6 52,861 8,810 16,949 5 10,088 1 2,420 8 135,285 16,910 44,762 6 17,301 2 15,738 3 63,761 21,253 28,249 2 27,038 1 9,685 8 88,535 11,066 20,177 6 12,576 2 6,537 10 106,243 10,624 36,190 6 8,818 4 13,333 27 595,102 22,040 64,568 20 20,698 7 25,877 20 10,924,976 546,248 2,100,000 12 590,288 8 480,188 20 239,824 11,991 76,190 12 16,043 8 5,913 4 5,649 1,412 2,421 3 1,076 1 2,421 12 213,510 17,792 44,391 5 25,188 7 12,509 56 1,422,256 25,397 180,000 32 23,335 24 28,147 4 56,498 14,124 20,178 3 14,259 1 13,721 6 54,882 9,147 21,792 2 8,474 4 9,483 8 39,463 4,932 8,474 6 5,501 2 3,227 5 78,289 15,657 48,426 4 17,554 1 8,071 15 164,980 10,998 36,190 12 9,661 3 16,349 2 5,333 2,666 3,333 2 2,666 0 0 16 150,673 9,417 42,000 6 11,416 10 8,217 12 91,948 7,662 38,095 9 9,438 3 2,332 25 1,255,065 50,202 225,989 12 48,321 13 51,939 8 176,273 22,034 57,143 7 23,452 1 12,106 13 777,740 59,826 130,000 8 57,866 5 62,961 13 129,540 9,964 20,952 5 9,585 8 10,201 49 1,253,193 25,575 260,000 24 20,097 25 30,834 22 1,836,567 83,480 240,000 13 75,473 9 95,045 2 6,457 3,228 3,632 1 2,825 1 3,632 3 70,621 23,540 32,284 2 28,248 1 14,124 36 1,044,704 29,019 128,571 21 33,006 15 23,438 8 65,429 8,178 40,000 2 3,714 6 9,666 28 9,451,573 337,556 2,000,000 15 279,984 13 403,984 15 114,914 7,660 17,142 11 8,640 4 4,968 3 8,065 2,688 5,000 2 3,629 1 806 3 16,612 5,537 15,000 3 5,537 0 0 2 5,245 2,622 4,035 2 2,622 0 0 22 14,736,796 669,854 3,400,000 11 413,808 11 925,900 52 1,068,767 20,553 82,000 31 21,904 21 18,558 9 238,903 26,544 92,817 8 27,340 1 20,178 12 102,351 8,529 22,857 8 9,118 4 7,351 2 1,713 856 952 1 761 1 952 3 33,899 11,299 20,178 2 13,721 1 6,457 15 215,941 14,396 27,619 11 16,784 4 7,828 37 1,346,778 36,399 150,000 18 36,559 19 36,247 13 433,621 33,355 84,746 9 33,383 4 33,293 15 948,059 63,203 350,000 7 40,379 8 83,175 7 71,232 10,176 55,238 3 20,223 4 2,640 6 56,093 9,348 30,670 4 11,400 2 5,246 37 640,598 17,313 185,000 26 14,780 11 23,299 3 55,689 18,563 37,127 2 9,281 1 37,127 74 1,514,761 20,469 150,000 37 27,796 37 13,142 8 42,664 5,333 22,000 5 3,780 3 7,920

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Hellvelyn 5 27,486 5,497 17,143 4 6,571 1 1,200 Helmet 12 109,802 9,150 48,426 4 5,391 8 11,029 Highland Reel 52 1,541,979 29,653 320,000 33 36,562 19 17,652 Hillstar (Gb) 5 31,556 6,311 8,474 4 6,880 1 4,035 Holy Roman Emperor 47 1,616,999 34,404 235,000 31 40,389 16 22,808 Hot Streak 15 154,904 10,326 25,000 7 9,132 8 11,371 Hunterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Light 9 68,765 7,640 20,985 7 9,131 2 2,421 Iffraaj 49 2,357,068 48,103 250,000 28 59,644 21 32,715 Imperial Monarch 5 8,714 1,742 3,389 5 1,742 0 0 Intello 11 475,051 43,186 95,000 6 62,332 5 20,211 Invincible Spirit 21 3,530,403 168,114 600,000 15 173,410 6 154,874 Isfahan 12 108,556 9,046 24,213 9 10,402 3 4,977 Jack Hobbs 20 166,181 8,309 22,857 8 14,582 12 4,126 Johnny Barnes 10 112,996 11,299 16,949 7 9,800 3 14,797 Jukebox Jury 6 73,771 12,295 20,985 3 11,924 3 12,666 Kalanisi 2 7,666 3,833 6,860 1 6,860 1 806 Kapgarde 2 47,618 23,809 40,952 1 40,952 1 6,666 Kayf Tara 9 205,507 22,834 38,095 6 27,459 3 13,582 Kendargent 15 515,858 34,390 169,492 7 20,583 8 46,471 Kingman 26 9,847,560 378,752 2,700,000 15 452,044 11 278,808 Kingston Hill 10 89,838 8,983 27,000 6 9,693 4 7,920 Kittenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joy 2 87,143 43,571 50,000 2 43,571 0 0 Kodi Bear 36 718,158 19,948 104,762 22 24,429 14 12,907 Kodiac 110 8,370,143 76,092 420,000 64 90,992 46 55,360 Lawman 24 796,004 33,166 150,000 11 37,993 13 29,082 Le Havre 40 2,151,644 53,791 325,000 22 57,486 18 49,275 Lethal Force 15 140,287 9,352 23,000 11 8,707 4 11,125 Literato 3 29,864 9,954 12,914 3 9,954 0 0 Lope De Vega 67 11,569,294 172,676 900,000 43 200,634 24 122,583 Lord Of England 13 190,477 14,652 41,969 5 16,464 8 13,519 Luck Of The Kitten 5 33,492 6,698 13,720 2 9,079 3 5,111 Lucky Lion 4 11,703 2,925 4,036 3 3,094 1 2,421 Lucky Speed 2 10,330 5,165 6,456 2 5,165 0 0 Mahler 5 28,567 5,713 14,285 3 7,586 2 2,904 Make Believe 20 550,252 27,512 175,000 11 44,487 9 6,765 Malinas 6 29,133 4,855 12,106 3 6,725 3 2,985 Malossol 3 9,684 3,228 4,035 1 4,035 2 2,824 Manduro 3 39,549 13,183 20,985 2 16,546 1 6,457 Markaz 12 111,960 9,330 17,756 11 9,225 1 10,476 Martinborough 2 21,792 10,896 13,721 2 10,896 0 0 Mastercraftsman 50 2,274,134 45,482 325,000 33 34,222 17 67,340 Mattmu 3 10,285 3,428 6,190 2 3,476 1 3,333 Maxios 20 353,032 17,651 50,040 13 19,215 7 14,747 Mayson 19 241,967 12,735 44,762 12 15,230 7 8,457 Mehmas 66 3,261,532 49,417 320,000 35 50,663 31 48,010 Milan 7 77,880 11,125 20,177 2 14,124 5 9,926 Mondialiste 8 156,119 19,514 60,000 5 28,333 3 4,817 Morandi 4 100,080 25,020 58,111 3 33,091 1 807 Motivator 3 462,470 154,156 419,693 1 20,178 2 221,146 Mount Nelson 19 210,877 11,098 44,390 10 15,173 9 6,571 Muhaarar 47 2,049,974 43,616 169,491 27 33,687 20 57,020

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Mukhadram My Dream Boat Myboycharlie Nathaniel National Defense New Approach New Bay Night Of Thunder Night Wish No Nay Never Noble Mission Oasis Dream Ocovango Olympic Glory Outstrip Panis Passing Glance Pastorius Pearl Secret Pedro The Great Penny’s Picnic Pether’s Moon Pillar Cora Pivotal Poet’s Voice (Gb) Postponed () Pounced () Pour Moi () Pride Of Dubai Prince Gibraltar Prince Of Lir Profitable Protectionist Rajsaman Raven’s Pass Recorder Red Jazz Reliable Man Requinto Ribchester Rock Of Gibraltar Ruler Of The World Sageburg Sakhee’s Secret Sandmason Schiaparelli Scissor Kick Scorpion Sea Moon Sea The Moon Sea The Stars

5 62,252 12,450 52,000 3 20,166 2 876 3 26,988 8,996 12,913 1 12,913 2 7,037 11 169,895 15,445 32,284 7 11,472 4 22,397 37 1,994,234 53,898 280,000 21 55,577 16 51,693 13 168,112 12,931 71,429 6 9,428 7 15,934 15 668,748 44,583 180,952 10 53,111 5 27,526 33 2,199,919 66,664 400,000 20 92,133 13 27,481 42 3,470,112 82,621 250,000 25 91,609 17 69,404 2 6,053 3,026 3,228 0 0 2 3,026 60 6,163,352 102,722 650,000 31 131,913 29 71,518 5 208,093 41,618 90,000 4 42,975 1 36,190 27 2,179,034 80,704 428,571 17 67,234 10 103,605 2 13,557 6,778 7,101 2 6,778 0 0 27 394,473 14,610 55,238 12 12,896 15 15,980 25 218,014 8,720 40,355 12 9,706 13 7,810 6 124,293 20,715 48,426 4 14,124 2 33,898 3 23,332 7,777 20,952 3 7,777 0 0 2 9,281 4,640 7,667 2 4,640 0 0 16 112,666 7,041 20,952 8 7,035 8 7,047 26 529,863 20,379 48,426 13 20,891 13 19,867 4 66,182 16,545 20,985 2 20,177 2 12,913 4 49,523 12,380 23,810 4 12,380 0 0 3 39,547 13,182 24,213 3 13,182 0 0 16 981,764 61,360 180,000 12 56,610 4 75,609 4 61,000 15,250 21,000 2 15,000 2 15,500 25 783,597 31,343 145,000 11 36,321 14 27,432 4 18,159 4,539 8,071 1 8,071 3 3,362 2 5,730 2,865 4,439 1 4,439 1 1,291 22 406,414 18,473 60,000 10 13,917 12 22,269 2 14,528 7,264 8,878 0 0 2 7,264 17 221,980 13,057 38,095 13 15,134 4 6,309 85 3,417,672 40,207 160,000 39 44,598 46 36,485 9 242,131 26,903 68,604 7 20,984 2 47,619 7 100,238 14,319 68,604 6 14,688 1 12,107 12 162,845 13,570 33,333 7 15,687 5 10,606 30 471,890 15,729 56,497 18 17,360 12 13,283 2 77,143 38,571 71,429 2 38,571 0 0 27 604,693 22,396 80,710 13 14,696 14 29,545 2 47,619 23,809 30,476 2 23,809 0 0 66 3,998,395 60,581 350,000 33 46,139 33 75,024 3 56,533 18,844 42,857 3 18,844 0 0 6 43,177 7,196 16,949 3 6,321 3 8,070 2 19,773 9,886 14,124 2 9,886 0 0 2 33,091 16,545 24,213 0 0 2 16,545 5 16,784 3,356 6,618 5 3,356 0 0 5 28,568 5,713 12,380 3 7,777 2 2,618 7 87,168 12,452 25,827 5 12,591 2 12,106 2 3,590 1,795 2,380 2 1,795 0 0 2 8,716 4,358 8,071 2 4,358 0 0 43 2,662,533 61,919 480,000 24 77,738 19 41,936 50 9,710,393 194,207 700,000 26 167,271 24 223,389

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Shalaa 50 2,567,479 51,349 290,000 28 47,287 22 56,519 Shamalgan 5 53,267 10,653 14,931 1 10,492 4 10,693 Shamardal 3 400,000 133,333 200,000 2 100,000 1 200,000 Shantou 3 35,511 11,837 13,720 3 11,837 0 0 Shirocco 3 29,862 9,954 17,756 3 9,954 0 0 Sholokhov 9 84,134 9,348 19,370 5 12,065 4 5,951 Showcasing 59 4,003,882 67,862 310,000 31 74,267 28 60,771 Sir Percy 12 569,061 47,421 150,000 7 67,785 5 18,912 Siyouni 55 8,337,471 151,590 680,000 32 117,630 23 198,838 Slade Power 12 100,064 8,338 50,000 7 12,351 5 2,721 Smokem Kitten 3 49,232 16,410 25,827 1 25,827 2 11,702 Soldier Hollow 11 259,080 23,552 60,533 6 24,549 5 22,356 Soldier Of Fortune 16 210,347 13,146 26,666 10 17,867 6 5,279 Sommerabend 2 7,264 3,632 4,036 2 3,632 0 0 Spanish Moon 3 17,303 5,767 7,667 3 5,767 0 0 Speightstown 2 56,320 28,160 36,320 1 20,000 1 36,320 Spill The Beans 4 25,421 6,355 10,000 2 6,210 2 6,500 Starspangledbanner 53 2,915,186 55,003 360,000 36 65,146 17 33,523 Stormy River 2 11,703 5,851 6,457 2 5,851 0 0 Swiss Spirit 8 35,244 4,405 9,524 3 6,139 5 3,365 Tagula 5 44,182 8,836 19,048 4 10,440 1 2,420 Tai Chi 5 29,055 5,811 14,528 2 5,649 3 5,918 Tamayuz 23 797,477 34,672 170,000 14 28,003 9 45,047 Telescope 5 44,783 8,956 15,738 4 10,838 1 1,428 Teofilo 8 994,480 124,310 309,524 7 139,993 1 14,528 Territories 39 904,810 23,200 160,000 25 28,720 14 13,342 The Grey Gatsby 16 341,577 21,348 104,923 9 30,061 7 10,146 The Gurkha 27 623,223 23,082 72,000 12 20,402 15 25,225 The Last Lion 8 103,404 12,925 30,000 6 15,611 2 4,869 Time Test 35 1,183,784 33,822 150,000 21 37,664 14 28,059 Toronado 17 405,973 23,880 76,675 11 27,074 6 18,025 Twilight Son 33 569,581 17,260 70,000 17 21,775 16 12,462 Ultra 14 131,154 9,368 24,213 8 9,079 6 9,752 Ulysses 36 2,055,659 57,101 320,000 27 69,854 9 18,843 Universal 2 9,524 4,762 7,619 1 7,619 1 1,905 Vadamos 22 678,190 30,826 220,000 15 35,919 7 19,914 Valirann 2 5,568 2,784 3,631 2 2,784 0 0 Walk In The Park 5 65,067 13,013 28,248 2 21,186 3 7,565 Walzertakt 2 4,035 2,017 3,228 2 2,017 0 0 War Command 17 150,325 8,842 26,634 12 8,102 5 10,618 Watar 2 3,618 1,809 2,857 2 1,809 0 0 Westerner 5 39,948 7,989 13,720 4 8,373 1 6,456 Whitecliffsofdover 10 233,253 23,325 108,959 5 34,786 5 11,864 Wings Of Eagles 8 196,932 24,616 48,426 4 37,126 4 12,106 Wootton Bassett 61 5,482,677 89,879 600,000 32 85,093 29 95,161 Workforce 3 17,350 5,783 7,666 3 5,783 0 0 Yorgunnabelucky 2 4,874 2,437 2,857 2 2,437 0 0 Youmzain 2 32,283 16,141 18,563 2 16,141 0 0 Zarak 26 794,312 30,550 90,395 12 22,996 14 37,025 Zelzal 20 313,156 15,657 56,497 11 20,067 9 10,268 Zoffany 48 2,315,473 48,239 580,000 27 43,410 21 54,447

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DANEHILL DANCER

STAKES PRODUCER ON THE FLAT AND OVER HURDLES

TRUESHAN Winner of 7 races from 11 runs including the Gr.2 British Champions Long Distance Cup at Ascot by 7l.

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Trueshan, Edidindo, Agnès, Domagnano, Plegastell, Road To Arc, Henry Brulard, Manguzi, Over Reacted, Golconda, Marinka, Milos and Fly d’Aspe.

Won/placed in 12 Group/ Stakes races winning over £2.2m including:

52% winners to runners

Won Gr.2 Prix d’Noailles

Won Gr.1 Prix Ganay-Prix Air Mauritius Won Gr.2 Prix d’Harcourt

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us review Into Mischief is well on his way to breaking Tapit’s global progeny earnings record for a year. As we went to press, the Spendthrift Stud sire (opposite) was just $400,000 off the record

N WHAT IS quickly turning into a golden era of stallions around the world, Into Mischief has become the King of North America on track to win his second straight general sires’ championship. The sire of a Kentucky Derby winner (G1) and two Breeders’ Cup race winners this year, the Spendthrift stallion is also set to break Tapit’s 2016 progeny earnings record by the end of the year. Sitting at $19,517,782 in worldwide earnings as of November 12, Into Mischief needs just under $400,000 in worldwide earnings to hit the mark. It has been a banner year for the 15-yearold, who ended the Breeders’ Cup with both Gamine and Authentic winning their races in track record times. His two-year-old filly Dayoutoftheoffice also finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1). The stallion earned a deserved fee increase to $225,000 for 2021, but before the fee was even announced, he had already been booked full. There are plenty of other options for breeders looking for Into Mischief blood however, with six of his sons slated to stand in Kentucky in 2021. Joining Goldencents and Maximus Mischief at Spendthrift is the likely Eclipse champion three-year-old the Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Authentic for $75,000, while, across town from Spendthrift, Taylor Made introduces the Best Pal Stakes (G2) winner Instagrand for $7,500. Into Mischief leads the sires’ tables in

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us review nearly every category, except for graded stakes winners, with that honour going to Uncle Mo, who also ties for the lead by graded stakes horses. The sire of 14 graded stakes winners this year, Uncle Mo had eight Grade 2 winners with 10 of his graded stakes winners born in 2017 and two born in 2018. While the stallion wasn’t able to get a Grade 1 winner before we went to press, Uncle Mo capped off the main part of the season with his colt Golden Pal winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2), with Lipizzaner fourth in the same race. The stallion showcased his prowess as both a sire and a grand-sire during the Breeders’ Cup’s Friday races when he also sired the Juvenile Fillies third-placed Girl Daddy. Meanwhile, three of his first sons to go to stud saw their own runners perform admirably. Darley’s Nyquist followed in his sire’s footsteps with a Breeders’ Cup winner in his first crop and WinStar Farm’s Uncle Mo duo

of Laoban and Outwork also had placers in the races. Leading all freshmen in nearly every category, Nyquist looks set to lock up both the freshman championship and bag a champion in that first crop after Vequist’s win in the Juvenile Fillies. If he is able to do that, he’ll again follow in his sire’s footsteps – Nyquist himself was a two-year-old champion from Uncle Mo’s first crop. Benefitting from his first “post-Nyquist” crops on the track this year, Uncle Mo has put together the best results of his stallion career and really is becoming a sire of sires. Nyquist is almost certainly the champion freshman sire, while Laoban and Outwork sit third and fourth in the freshman race by earnings. Uncle Mo’s late stablemate Giant’s Causeway has a secure line to carry on his influence in Europe, but in the US the success of his line lands squarely on Not This Time’s shoulders. The freshman has done admirably and is

Nyquist: the US champion freshman sire, son of Uncle Mo and sire of Grade 1 winner Vequist

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Benefitting from his first “post-Nyquist” crops on the track this year, Uncle Mo has put together the best results of his stallion career leading all freshmen by winners and stakes horses – his top performer being the Grade 1 Debutante Stakes winner Princess Noor. Retired to Taylor Made after his juvenile season, Not This Time has attracted top mares in nearly each of his first four crops, a factor which will surely keep him in the headlines for the next few years. Among the two-year-olds he has for next season is a filly out of Leslie’s Lady, a halfsister to Into Mischief and Beholder. It is no surprise that American Pharoah is again the leader of his generation, heading the second-season sires’ ranks in nearly every category. Fans and horsemen alike were a little concerned in September when the stallion was still lacking an all-important Grade 1 winner, but, as usually happens, that was an omission quickly remedied. Only a week after Pista finished second in the Group 1 Prix de Royallieu, Harvey’s Lil Goil gave American Pharoah his first Grade 1 winner when taking the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup. She went onto finish a close third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) less than a month later. Two weeks later, Van Gogh proved that the stallion can get top-class juveniles as well with a 4l victory in the Criterium International (G1) at Saint-Cloud. The sire of 10 stakes winners and 14 stakes

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us review horses in five countries this year, American Pharoah is just one stakes winner behind Night Of Thunder. While he sits third by earnings behind two Japanese stallions among all northernhemisphere second-crop sires, he tops all northern-hemisphere sires of the same generation in nearly every other category. The 2021 breeding seasons sees multiple stallions moving to Kentucky, but the most welcome surprise for many breeders is Lane’s End Farm securing a deal with the Turkish Jockey Club to bring Daredevil back to the US. Exported to Turkey at the end of 2020, Daredevil has had a break-out year with a one-two in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) courtesy of Shedaresthedevil and Swiss Skydiver, the latter going on to win the Preakness Stakes (G1). The first stallion to sire both an individual Kentucky Oaks and Preakness winner from his first crop, the stallion returns to Kentucky at a stud fee of $25,000 after standing his final season at WinStar Farm for $7,500 in 2018.

Sandwiched between American Pharoah and Daredevil on the second-season sires’ list is Constitution, who leads all sires in his class by stakes performers on 17. The WinStar Farm stallion’s first crop was led by three-time Grade 1 winner Tiz The Law this year, alongside Grade 2 winner Laura’s Light for six stakes winners overall. Bucking the fee trend WinStar followed when setting its 2021 fees this autumn, Constitution’s fee has been raised to $85,000. As has been the case around the world, most northern-hemisphere stallions have seen a decrease in fees for 2021. Even the top sires in the US have been given price reductions – War Front drops to $150,000 (from $250,000), Medaglia D’Oro to $150,000 (from $200,000) and Tapit to $185,000 (from $200,000). It means that only Into Mischief standing for $200,000 or more in the US for 2021. For Claiborne’s president Walker Hancock, the decision to reduce stud fees on in-demand stallions was an easy one. “In these unprecedented times, we felt it

would be irresponsible to raise or keep some stud fees the same as last year, despite our stallions having outstanding success in the sales ring and on the racetrack,” he said. “It is now more important than ever that we do what is best for the sustainability of our industry.” In another sign of the times, alongside the lowered fees, is the number of stallions set to retire. While many of the big names are joining studs in 2021, as of this writing, the number of stallions listed as retiring in North America on the Blood-Horse’s Stallion Register currently sits at 38. That number is less than half of the 89 listed as retiring in 2020, while 101 new sires joined rosters in 2019. While the Stallion Register doesn’t list every single stallion retiring each year, it has proven to be a good barometer on what the freshman sire ranks look like every year. Even if the number doubles by the start of breeding season it will be the smallest number of freshmen to retire in over a decade. Shedaresthedevil leads home Swiss Skydiver in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), a one-two for young sire Daredevil. The winner went on to finish third in the Spinster Stakes (G1) and the runner-up won the Preakness Stakes (G1). In third is Gamine, who went on to win the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1). Daredevil has been brought back to the US from Turkey to stand at Lane’s End Farm for 2021

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Grand Prix de CompiĂ¨gne Oil on canvas, 2018

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us stallion tables Leading US sires 2020: (by prize-money earned by northern-hemisphere runners to November 8, 2020) Stallion

Rnrs

Into Mischief Tapit Uncle Mo Curlin Speightstown Munnings City Zip Midnight Lute The Factor Candy Ride (ARG) Hard Spun More Than Ready Kitten’s Joy Street Sense Goldencents Constitution English Channel Bernardini Twirling Candy Paynter Malibu Moon Tapizar Quality Road Lookin At Lucky Medaglia d’Oro Ghostzapper War Front Mucho Macho Man Violence American Pharoah I’ll Have Another Congrats Blame Temple City Cairo Prince Kantharos Daredevil First Samurai Flat Out Empire Maker Union Rags Distorted Humor Giant’s Causeway Midshipman Lemon Drop Kid Maclean’s Music Gemologist Pioneerof the Nile

393 167 246 101 293 143 270 125 227 118 272 137 192 106 148 73 274 136 219 99 277 114 234 96 340 134 239 107 198 91 122 50 22 88 198 78 232 114 209 101 227 96 206 85 207 78 179 86 217 74 207 87 186 72 73 44 206 102 157 60 208 107 272 121 144 60 257 105 174 83 17 88 73 31 166 77 200 95 219 89 188 82 197 80 134 49 190 89 185 86 147 68 203 96 174 75

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Wnrs

BT Wnrs

BT performers

27 11 21 15 14 10 9 5 5 7 7 9 7 8 5 6 9 6 6 8 5 3 8 6 6 4 12 3 8 10 2 3 4 4 3 5 3 2 4 1 - - 5 8 4 5 3 5

57 27 36 30 23 20 15 7 12 19 16 21 12 15 12 17 14 14 14 17 12 6 17 11 23 16 25 5 15 14 2 12 16 13 13 12 3 8 12 6 7 12 10 17 8 10 6 7

GSWnrs 11 10 14 7 8 5 4 4 3 3 3 4 3 4 3 2 5 2 3 3 1 2 3 3 2 3 6 2 3 6 0 0 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 3 0 2 2 1 1

Chief Earner Authentic Tacitus Golden Pal Global Campaign Mozu Superflare Warrior’s Charge Improbable Midnight Bisou Factor This Vekoma Antoinette Rushing Fall Gendarme Savvy (JPN) By My Standards Tiz the Law Channel Maker Art Collector Collusion Illusion Knicks Go Moon Over Miami Monomoy Girl Dunbar Road Wells Bayou Golden Sixty (AUS) Theodora B. Flavius Mucho Gusto No Parole Cafe Pharoah Another Truth (JPN) Last Judgment Nadal Kimbear Dean Martini Cowan Swiss Skydiver Shivaji Flat Out Speed Hargreaves (JPN) Excession Newton Tesoro United Relentless Dancer Field Pass Jackie’s Warrior Horologist Thousand Words

Earnings ($) 19,173,708 10,894,582 10,288,314 9,551,274 8,915,157 8,234,629 7,334,220 7,304,683 6,523,623 6,345,289 6,160,651 6,068,075 5,961,784 5,791,405 5,753,227 5,718,207 5,661,656 5,454,343 5,429,499 5,413,774 5,309,153 5,302,919 5,268,106 5,264,595 5,225,611 5,187,081 5,113,994 5,058,564 4,966,497 4,834,694 4,693,494 4,515,668 4,406,783 4,201,800 4,165,205 4,035,784 4,020,733 3,870,348 3,859,658 3,806,852 3,801,830 3,799,032 3,746,245 3,725,587 3,720,872 3,640,999 3,626,322 3,593,837

FIRST YEARLINGS 2021

Rated 121 by Timeform

Champion 3yo sprinter & the only son of ZOFFANY at stud in Britain

By ZOFFANY - who has sired more than 130 winners this season, 35 of them 2yos including Group 1 winner Thunder Moon, one of his 25 black type horses this year.

Use

a British Stallion for a chance to WIN £20,000 in the Great British Bonus Scheme For full details of the Great British Bonus Scheme visit www.greatbritishbonus.co.uk

Fee: £4,500 Oct 1st SLF Tel: 07974 948755 or 01630 647197 www.bearstonestud.co.uk

us stallion tables Leading first-season US sires 2020: first-season US sires 2020: (by prize-money earned by northern-hemisphere runners to November 8, 2020) Stallion Nyquist Not This Time Laoban Outwork Upstart Air Force Blue Speightster Frosted Exaggerator Brody’s Cause Reload Mshawish Hit It a Bomb

Rnrs

Wnrs

BT Wnrs

33 14 43 18 29 6 39 11 42 15 36 12 42 9 41 11 52 11 21 6 13 7 31 10 13 5

BT performers

2 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1

3 4 4 2 2 1 3 3 2 4 4 0 3

GSWnrs

Chief Earner

Earnings ($)

2 Vequist 2,203,691 1 Princess Noor 1,163,306 1 Simply Ravishing 1,033,350 0 Outadore 966,489 0 Reinvestment Risk 723,256 0 Chief Little Hawk 706,697 0 Dreaming of Drew 613,734 0 Travel Column 610,750 0 Color of Dawn 481,924 1 Sittin On Go 445,978 0 Sunsprite 389,006 0 Risky Reward 374,032 1 Weston 355,478

Leading US Turf sires 2020: (by prize-money earned by northern-hemisphere runners to November 8, 2020) Stallion

Rnrs

English Channel Kitten’s Joy More Than Ready War Front Uncle Mo The Factor Into Mischief Speightstown American Pharoah City Zip Medaglia d’Oro Twirling Candy Hard Spun Lemon Drop Kid Temple City Giant’s Causeway Sir Prancealot (IRE) Lookin At Lucky Arch Tapit Candy Ride (ARG) Ghostzapper Munnings Kantharos Silent Name (JPN) Point of Entry Blame Curlin Get Stormy Malibu Moon

175 59 268 75 171 50 144 50 169 53 178 60 179 49 131 41 114 37 113 40 147 130 50 142 30 118 35 165 45 83 24 105 39 91 34 41 11 136 30 120 27 105 20 146 37 87 26 75 20 79 25 83 17 104 24 62 20 115 21

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Wnrs

BT Wnrs

BT performers

8 6 8 10 8 3 8 5 7 6 4 3 3 3 3 2 3 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 3 5 2 1 4 1

13 11 20 21 13 7 19 12 9 12 13 5 4 7 9 5 7 5 4 9 7 7 6 4 4 9 9 5 5 3

GSWnrs 5 2 4 6 5 2 3 4 5 2 1 0 1 2 0 2 2 2 3 3 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 3 0

Chief Earner

Earnings ($)

Channel Maker 4,545,631 Gendarme 4,316,161 Rushing Fall 4,173,153 Flavius 4,114,512 Golden Pal 3,653,633 Factor This 3,438,528 Largent 3,226,922 Mozu Superflare 3,071,208 Harvey’s Lil Goil 2,454,228 Pixelate 2,414,083 Golden Sixty (AUS) 2,273,333 Taishan 2,113,323 Meikei Die Hard (JPN) 2,029,661 Field Pass 2,028,759 It Can Be Done 2,013,118 United 2,004,924 Beau Recall (IRE) 1,998,232 Fancy Liquor 1,955,352 Arklow 1,892,551 Tapit Today 1,786,720 Rideforthecause 1,710,512 Theodora B. 1,687,108 Alda 1,644,081 Cowan 1,514,412 Silent Poet 1,513,941 Emro 1,507,868 Dontblamerocket 1,490,705 Standard Deviation 1,465,473 Got Stormy 1,417,225 Moon Over Miami 1,398,785

EXCEPTIONAL FIRST CROP FOALS

MASSAAT TEOFILO - MANANY (ACCLAMATION)

Bay filly ex FLIRT IN A SKIRT

Bay filly ex DELIZIA

Bay colt ex ICKY WOO

Look out for them at the upcoming foal sales Standing at MICKLEY STUD Enquiries: Richard Kent T: 079 73 315722 • E: mickleystud@btconnect.com • www.mickleystud.co.uk Or John Walsh Bloodstock T: +353 (0)86 2558945

us stallion tables Leading US sires of two-year-olds 2020: (by prize-money earned by northern hemisphere runners to November 8, 2020) Stallion Into Mischief Nyquist Tapit Uncle Mo Not This Time Khozan Maclean’s Music Laoban Kantharos Outwork American Pharoah Dialed In Tapiture Cairo Prince Munnings Oxbow Violence Liam’s Map Constitution Curlin First Samurai Twirling Candy Upstart Air Force Blue Speightstown Union Rags War Front More Than Ready Speightster Frosted Temple City Gemologist Kitten’s Joy Street Boss Cajun Breeze Hard Spun Medaglia d’Oro Silent Name (JPN) Midshipman Street Sense Exaggerator Orb Bernardini Point of Entry Malibu Moon Sir Prancealot (IRE) Brody’s Cause Pioneerof the Nile

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Rnrs

Wnrs

BT Wnrs

BT performers

GSWnrs

80 28 4 11 33 14 2 3 3 12 2 4 38 10 4 6 43 17 2 4 24 10 3 5 36 14 2 5 28 6 2 4 36 15 1 4 39 11 2 2 53 17 1 2 57 13 2 2 58 21 1 3 46 17 0 4 50 14 1 3 37 11 2 4 40 12 3 5 38 9 2 2 38 12 2 8 30 9 4 5 33 12 2 3 41 14 0 3 42 15 0 2 36 12 0 1 29 10 1 3 44 13 0 3 29 12 2 4 33 8 2 4 41 9 2 3 41 11 0 2 43 9 2 4 37 9 2 35 7 1 2 35 11 1 6 11 5 1 1 44 12 0 2 28 8 1 4 21 5 1 1 38 10 1 4 29 10 1 1 52 11 0 2 40 8 0 2 35 10 0 3 23 6 1 2 32 7 1 2 29 11 2 3 21 6 2 4 25 7 1 2

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Earnings ($)

2 Dayoutoftheoffice 2,547,844 2 Vequist 2,203,691 2 Essential Quality 2,032,286 2 Golden Pal 1,491,452 1 Princess Noor 1,130,197 0 Princess Secret 1,076,08 1 Jackie’s Warrior 1,063,524 1 Simply Ravishing 1,033,000 0 Cowan 1,006,175 0 Outadore 965,330 1 Van Gogh 923,040 1 Get Her Number 899,401 0 Hulen 882,986 0 Cecile’s Chapter 862,322 0 Alda 837,610 0 Hot Rod Charlie 833,544 1 Dr. Schivel 830,280 0 Crazy Beautiful 823,423 0 Alexandria 816,865 0 King Fury 790,857 1 Plum Ali 789,260 0 Rombauer 783,437 0 Reinvestment Risk 723,256 0 Chief Little Hawk 706,697 1 Lady Speightspeare 657,511 0 Spielberg 655,105 2 Battleground 626,498 0 Ready to Repeat 613,896 0 Dreaming of Drew 602,698 0 Travel Column 590,750 0 It Can Be Done 582,327 0 Party At Page’s 543,334 0 Flown 534,336 0 Our Man Mike 520,740 0 Breeze On By 515,940 0 Spun d’Etat 511,850 0 Ingrassia 509,404 0 Master Spy 504,942 0 Taylor’s Tourist 502,276 1 Cazadero 484,152 0 Color of Dawn 481,287 0 Eagle Orb 478,227 0 Oliviaofthedesert 477,306 0 Emro 472,431 0 Fauci 454,987 1 Miss Amulet (IRE) 451,480 1 Sittin On Go 445,978 0 Arrest Me Red 415,707

The Last Lion b 2014 Chosir - Mala Mala (Brief Truce)

Tough and talented top-class 2-y-o Winner of 4 races and placed 6 times from 10 starts incl: WON Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes, 6f Newmarket, beating multiple Gr1 winner and Champion Blue Point WON Gr.3 Sirenia Stakes, 6f Kempton. WON LR Dragon Stakes, 5f Sandown WON Brocklesby Stakes, 5f Doncaster 2nd Gr.2 Norfolk Stakes, 5f Royal Ascot 2nd Gr.2 Flying Childers Stakes, 5f Doncaster 2nd Gr.3 Molecomb Stakes, Glorious Goodwood

FEE 2021:

£4,000 Oct 1st

Portamento

Gr 2012 Shamardal - Octave (Unbridled’s Song)

tough and durable sprinter/miler by sire of sires shamardal Winner of 6 races and placed 9 times incl: WON EBF maiden, 6f Goodwood (beating Estidhkaar) WON Onox Novice Stakes, 5f Lingfield WON EBF Stallions Conditions Stakes, 6f Haydock WON Conditions Stakes, 5f Wolverhampton WON 6f Handicap, Wolverhampton WON Wenjiang-Meydan Classic, 1m Jima Lake 2nd Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes, 6f Newbury (to Gr.1 winner Strath Burn) 2nd LR Doncaster Stakes, 6f Doncaster 3rd Gr.2 Meydan Sprint, 5f Meydan (to Blue Point)

FEE 2021:

£1,500 Oct 1st

INTRINSIC

Bay 2011 by Oasis Dream – Infallible (Pivotal)

off to a good start at stud 31% winners to runners, incl. multiple winner Najm and multiple placed horses from his first few runners. From a Stakes winning family incl. MUTAKAYYEF and INTIMATION and half-sisters VERACIOUS (won Atalanta S. Gr.3) and ALAADEL (3-time winner incl. on debut at 2).

RACE RECORD Winner of the Glorious Goodwood, Stewards’ Cup – in record 1 min 10.27 secs A race he won in a faster time than LOCHSONG or DANETIME.

FEE 2021:

£1,500 Oct 1st

CONTACT Andrew Spalding • T: 01325 730209 or M: 07990 518751 • E: andrew@hedgeholmestud.co.uk

Hedgeholme Stud, Winston, Darlington, Co. Durham DL2 3RS - www.hedgeholmestud.com

stallion fee tables Fees for major British & Irish Flat stallions 2020-2021 (inc % change 2020 to 2021, *new sires) (European fees will be published in next month’s issue) Stud / stallion

2020 Fee

2021 Fee

% + /-

Ballyhane Stud Dandy Man €15,000 €15,000 0 Elzaam €4,000 €5,000 25 Prince Of Lir €4,000 €3,500 -12.5 Sands Of Mali* - €6,500 n/a Soldier’s Call €10,000 €7,500 -25 Ballylinch Stud Fascinating Rock €7,000 €5,000 -28 Lope De Vega €100,000 €125,000 25 Make Believe €12,000 €15,000 25 New Bay €15,000 €20,000 33 Waldgeist €17,500 €17,500 0 Banstead Manor Stud Bated Breath £12,500 £12,500 0 Expert Eye £17,500 £12,500 -28 Frankel £175,000 £175,000 0 Kingman £150,000 £150,000 0 Oasis Dream £25,000 £20,000 -20 Bearstone Stud Washington DC £5,000 £4,500 -10 Chapel Stud Helvellyn £3,000 £2,500 -16 Pearl Secret £4,000 £3,000 -25 Planteur €2,500 £3,000 20 Cheveley Park Stud Dutch Art Private Private n/a Mayson £5,000 £4,000 -20 Pivotal Private Private n/a Twilight Son £7,000 £5,000 -28 Ulysses £15,000 £10,000 -33 Coolmore Stud Arizona* - €7,000 Australia €27,500 €25,000 -9 Calyx €22,500 €16,000 -28 Camelot €40,000 €45,000 12 Churchill €30,000 €30,000 0 Circus Maximus* - €20,000 Fastnet Rock €60,000 €50,000 -16 Footstepsinthesand €15,000 €12,500 -16 Galileo Private Private n/a Gleneagles €35,000 €25,000 -28 Gustav Klimt €6,000 €4,000 -33 Highland Reel €12,500 €10,000 -20 Holy Roman Emperor €15,000 €12,500 -16 Magna Grecia €22,500 €18,000 -20 Mastercraftsman €25,000 €15,000 -40 No Nay Never €175,000 €125,000 -28 Rock Of Gibraltar €6,000 €5,000 -16 Saxon Warrior €27,500 €20,000 -27

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2020 Fee

2021 Fee

% + /-

Sioux Nation €12,500 €10,000 -20 Sottsass* - €30,000 Starspangledbanner €22,500 €22,500 0 Ten Sovereigns €25,000 €20,000 -20 The Gurkha €12,500 €5,000 -60 US Navy Flag €17,500 €12,500 -28 Wootton Bassett €40,000 €100,000 250 Zoffany €22,500 €20,000 -11 Dalham Hall Stud Charming Thought £5,000 £4,000 -20 Cracksman £25,000 £17,500 -30 Dubawi £250,000 £250,000 0 Farhh £12,000 Private n/a Golden Horn £40,000 £20,000 -50 Harry Angel £20,000 £12,500 -37 Iffraaj £30,000 £20,000 -33 Masar £15,000 £14,000 -6 New Approach £30,000 Private n/a Outstrip £5,000 £4,000 -20 Pinatubo* - £35,000 Postponed £10,000 £7,500 -25 Territories £12,000 £10,000 -16 Too Darn Hot £50,000 £45,000 -10 Derrinstown Stud Awtaad €15,000 €10,000 -33 Haatef €2,000 €2,000 0 King Of Change* - €7,000 0 Markaz €6,000 €3,000 -50 Tamayuz €10,000 €8,000 -20 Gilltown Stud Harzand €8,000 €8,000 0 Sea The Stars €150,000 €150,000 0 Hedgeholme Stud Intrinsic £1,750 £1,500 -14 Portamento - £1,500 The Last Lion €7,500 £4,000 -46 Highclere Stud Cable Bay £15,000 £8,000 -46 Land Force £6,500 £5,000 -23 Irish National Stud Decorated Knight €9,000 €7,500 -16 Dragon Pulse €6,000 €2,000 -66 Elusive Pimpernel €3,000 €2,500 -16 Equiano €6,000 €3,000 -55 Free Eagle €12,500 €8,000 -36 Invincible Spirit €100,000 €80,000 -20 National Defense €8,000 €5,000 -37 Phoenix Of Spain €15,000 €12,500 -16

stallion fee tables Stud / stallion

2020 Fee

2021 Fee

% + /-

Kildangan Stud Belardo €10,000 €10,000 0 Blue Point €45,000 €40,000 -11 Buratino €5,000 €5,000 0 Earthlight* - €20,000 Ghaiyyath* - €30,000 Night Of Thunder €25,000 €75,000 200 Profitable €12,000 €10,000 -16 Raven’s Pass €10,000 €7,500 -25 Ribchester €20,000 €17,500 -12 Teofilo €40,000 €30,000 -25 Lanwades Stud Bobby’s Kitten £8,000 £7,000 -12 Sea The Moon £15,000 £22,500 50 Sir Percy £7,000 £7,000 0 Study Of Man* £15,000 £12,500 -16 Mickley Stud Heeraat £5,000 tbc Massaat £5,000 tbc Almanaara* - tbc Morristown Camacho €10,000 €5,000 -50 Dark Angel €85,000 €60,000 -29 El Kabeir €8,000 €6,000 -25 Invincible Army €10,000 €7,500 -25 Shaman* - €6,000 Newsells Park Stud Nathaniel £25,000 £15,000 -40 Without Parole* - £10,000 Norman Court Stud Rumble Inthejungle* - £3,500 Sixties Icon £6,000 £1,000 -83 Nunnery Stud Eqtidaar £6,500 £5,000 -23 Mohaather* - tbc Muhaarar £20,000 £10,000 -50 Tasleet £6,000 £5,000 -16 Oak Grove Stud Al Kazeem Private Private n/a Springfield House Stud Unfortunately €5,500 €4,500 -18 Overbury Stud Ardad £6,500 £4,000 -38 Cityscape £5,000 £4,000 -20 Jack Hobbs £4,000 £3,000 -25 Rathasker Stud Bungle Inthejungle €12,000 €8,000 -33

Stud / stallion

2020 Fee

2021 Fee

% + /-

Clodovil €8,000 €5,000 -37 Coulsty €4,000 €4,000 0 Gregorian €6,000 €5,000 -16 Rathbarry Stud Acclamation €35,000 €27,500 -21 Kodi Bear €6,000 €6,000 0 James Garfield €6,000 €4,000 -33 Tagula €4,000 Private n/a Starfield Stud Cappella Sansevero €4,000 tbc Far Above* - tbc Kuroshio €6,000 tbc Smooth Daddy €5,000 tbc Strath Burn €4,000 tbc Tally-Ho Stud Cotai Glory €5,000 €5,000 0 Galileo Gold €7,500 €5,000 -33 Inns Of Court €7,500 €6,000 -20 Kessaar €8,000 €5,000 -37 Kodiac €65,000 €65,000 0 Mehmas €7,500 €25,000 233 Vadamos €6,000 €5,000 -16 Tara Stud Alhebayeb €5,000 €3,000 -40 Estidhkaar €5,000 €5,000 0 River Boyne* - €5,000 The National Stud Aclaim €9,500 £9,500 0 Advertise €25,000 £25,000 0 Flag Of Honour €4,500 £3,000 -33 Rajasinghe £5,000 £3,000 -40 Time Test £8,500 £8,500 0 Tweenhills Farm and Stud Havana Gold £10,000 £7,500 -25 Kameko* - £25,000 Lightning Spear £5,000 £5,000 0 Zoustar £30,000 £25,000 -16 Whitsbury Manor Stud Adaay £5,000 £5,000 0 Due Diligence £8,500 £6,000 -29 Havana Grey £6,500 £6,000 -7 Sergei Prokofiev* - £6,500 Showcasing £55,000 £45,000 -1

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race of the year

International Thoroughbred’s race of 2020 Race Group 1 Qatar Sussex Stakes, Goodwood | Winner: Mohaather (Showcasing)

MOHAATHER, a son of Showcasing, went into the Goodwood showpiece a 3/1 chance on the basis of his last-time-out Group 2 Summer Mile victory. The Marcus Tregoning-trained runner had previously finished mid-division in the Queen Anne (G1) at Royal Ascot when denied a clear run, and having missed top-level opportunities earlier in his career, the colt was out to prove his Group 1 class on favoured fast ground. He travelled strongly throughout at Goodwood, jockey Jim Crowley sitting him midfield buried behind the leaders. Turning into the straight, Crowley had to sit and suffer, waiting for a gap to appear – nothing came and the jockey had to resort to shuffling to the back and pulling wide, around the whole field, to get daylight with just a furlong left to run. Once Mohaather got that clear passage, the colt put on the after-burners and ate the ground in the last half furlong. As the commentary says, “he came late on to grab victory”. At one point there was a fear the line would come too quick; at the line Mohaather turned that doubt into a comfortable and deserved win. In doing so he beat six Group 1 winners and performers, and gave the Tregoning team a first Group 1 success since Sir Percy’s Derby victory in 2006. Enjoy the race again, using our QR code above. Download a QR app to your smartphone, hold it in front of the Q code above and you will be taken to the online version of this page. The video will automatically start (or you might need to press the play arrow) Alternatively, on your web browser, go to: issuu.com/internationalthoroughbred/docs/itb_december2020/170

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GOLDEN HORDE

an e p o r u E g in d a Le

3 yo S p r i n te r

Gr1 winner

at Royal Ascot (6f)

€10,000 LF HARAS DE MONTFORT & PRÉAUX Mathieu ALEX +33 (0)6 26 59 19 18 I Tony FRY +44 7725 041 815 www.montfort-preaux.com

Fo New r2 02 1 Group 1 form at 2 years

1st Maiden, Gowran Park, by 2 lengths 4th Futurity Trophy-Gr.1, Doncaster, beaten only a length

Dual Group 1 winner at 3

1st St James's Palace Stakes-Gr.1, Royal Ascot, like other multiple Gr.1 winning milers and top sires Kingman, Frankel, Shamardal, Giant’s Causeway, Kingmambo etc. 1st Prix du Moulin de Longchamp-Gr.1, Longchamp 1st Dee Stakes-L., Chester 2nd Sussex Stakes-Gr.1, Goodwood

Group 1 winner at 4 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 3rd

Queen Anne Stakes-Gr.1, Royal Ascot Sussex Stakes-Gr.1, Goodwood Breeders’ Cup Mile-Gr.1, Keeneland Prix Jacques Le Marois-Gr.1, Deauville Prix du Moulin de Longchamp-Gr.1, Longchamp

Defeated 17 Gr.1 winning milers including:

TOO DARN HOT, PERSIAN KING, KAMEKO, SISKIN, PHOENIX OF SPAIN, ROMANISED, MOHAATHER etc.

ITB_December 2020

Articles inside

International Thoroughbred's Race of the Year

Record breaker

Changing Nations

Uncertain sales

Reign Supreme

Growing dominance

Loop the Lope

Golden years

Into Mischief maintains Dirt dominance and Monomy Girl (pic) rules supreme

The Turf war won by Europe

The real deal

Simon says...

When will we see you again?

Mischief making good