ITB_December 2023 by International Thoroughbred

DECEMBER 2023

STALLION REVIEW 2023

£4.95 • ISSUE 119

Racehorses by Clare Brownlow

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INSIDE

> Stephen Collins of Shadwell talks about the recent success enjoyed on the track and its positive impact on the stud > Trainer Julie Camacho looks back at her brilliant Group 1 year with Shaquille > Ace Impact’s breeder Waltraut Spanner explains how she and her husband came to breed the Arc star > Irish trainer Natalia Lupini and partner Craig Bryson enjoyed their first stakes winner in September > PLUS, our yearling sales analysis, pinhooking review and all the season’s stats in our Stallion Fact Book 2023

Enduring quality S t andi n g a l o n g s i d e

B AT E D B R E AT H The best value sire of blacktype performers in Britain

£10,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

FRANKEL 2023 Champion Sire in Europe, and Great Britain and Ireland

£350,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

KINGMAN The brilliant Classic-winning miler with global appeal

£125,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

OA S I S D REA M An outstanding source of high-class speed

£15,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

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

www.juddmonte.com

I nt ro du c i ng

CHALDEAN The Dewhurst Stakes and 2000 Guineas-winning son of Frankel

£25,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

The only 2YO Group 1-winning son of Frankel at stud in Europe Posted a unique sequence of 2YO Group wins Gr.3 Acomb Stakes, Gr.2 Champagne Stakes & Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes (in the second-fastest time ever) Timeform rating 122

QUALITY WITHOUT COMPROMISE Lope Y Fernandez Bay, 16.0hh | 2017 Lope De Vega ex Black Dahlia (Dansili)

Physique - Pedigree - Performance £8,500 October 1st

Mutasaabeq

Brown, 16.0hh | 2018 Invincible Spirit ex Ghanaati (Giant’s Causeway)

Bred in the Blue £6,500 October 1st

Rajasinghe

Bay, 15.3hh | 2015 Choisir ex Bunditten (Soviet Star)

Exceptional Value £3,000 October 1st

Stradivarius

Chesnut, 15.3hh | 2014 Sea The Stars ex Private Life (Bering)

Speed - Soundness - Sireline £10,000 Live Foal

Time Test

Bay, 16.0hh | 2012 Dubawi ex Passage Of Time (Dansili)

By sire of sires Dubawi £8,500 October 1st

Contact the team today Joe Bradley 07706 262046 | Joe.Bradley@nationalstud.co.uk Jamie Jackson 07794 459108 | Jamie. Jackson@nationalstud.co.uk

MUTASAABEQ 2018 Invincible Spirit ex Ghanaati (Giant’s Causeway)

NEW FOR 2024 FROM THE STALLION PRODUCING FAMILY OF NASHWAN,

DEEP IMPACT & BAAEED

GROUP TWO

WINNER OVER 1m

OUT OF

DUAL Gr.1 & CLASSIC WINNER BY SIRE OF SIRES

INVINCIBLE SPIRIT

GHANAATI

BRED IN THE BLUE

Gr.1 winning 2yo Classic winning miler

STUD FEE: £15,000 OCT 1ST SLF

“ Kameko was top-class and from what I’ve seen at the sales he could be even more exciting as a sire. I have already bought a few and am sure I will be booking clients mares to him!” Richard Brown, Blandford Bloodstock

Colt x Stacey Sutton

125,000gns

to Blandford Bloodstock

Colt x Golden Spell

160,000gns

to Blandford Bloodstock

“Kameko was clearly an exceptional racehorse breaking the race record in the 2000 Guineas. I really like the colt we bought; he had lots of quality and great presence about him. I am very excited to train him!” Ed Bethell, Gr.1 winning trainer

...averaged over 4 times his fee “ The Kameko’s we sold were lovely forward types with a great walk, they have all been extremely well received by agents and trainers.” Henri Bozo, Ecurie des Monceaux

Colt x Lady McKell

£95,000

to Peter and Ross Doyle/ Richard Hannon

Colt x Glories

€140,000 to Yoshito Yahagi

“ I’ve been so impressed with the Kameko’s. Very straightforward, good-looking, solid horses. I’ve bought a couple of very nice ones and would love to have more!” Richard Hannon, Classic winning trainer

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

BOUTTEMONT NEW FOR 2024

THE FASTEST-EVER SON OF ACCLAMATION TO RETIRE TO STUD

A Group 3-winning sprinter, he won the Prix Hampton over 5f at Chantilly in an electric time of 56.18 seconds “Acclamation's record as a sire-of-sires is a statistical sensation.” – TDN July 2023 Acclamation's stallion sons led by Dark Angel and Mehmas have sired 24 individual Group 1 winners Bouttemont is Acclamation's first son to retire to stud in Ireland since Mehmas in 2017 T: +353 (0)25 36362 • E: info@rathbarrystud.com

ACCLAMATION Proven Multiple Group 1 Sire incl. ROMANTIC WARRIOR Winner of Gr.1 Cox Plate, Gr.1 QE11 Cup (twice), Gr.1 Longines Hong Kong Cup, Hong Kong Derby

KODI BEAR

Sire of 15 Individual Stakes Performers incl. Stakes Winners GO BEARS GO, THUNDERBEAR, CLOUNMACON, MYSTERY ANGEL, etc. and of ROOM SERVICE Winner of the £300,000 2-Y-O Weatherbys Stakes Race

STATE OF REST Four time Gr.1 Winner - Top Rated Older Horse in Ireland and France in 2022 (9.5-10.5f.) Support from renowned breeders with an exceptional book of mares in his first season www.rathbarrystud.com

LITTLE BIG BEAR

PADDINGTON

THE ANTARCTIC

STALLION

FEE €

ARIZONA (No Nay Never)

5,000

AUSTRALIA (Galileo)

17,500

BLACKBEARD (No Nay Never)

20,000

CALYX (Kingman)

12,500

CAMELOT (Montjeu)

50,000

CHURCHILL (Galileo)

30,000

FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND (Giant’s Causeway)

8,000

GLENEAGLES (Galileo)

17,500

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (Danehill)

8,000

New

LITTLE BIG BEAR (No Nay Never)

27,500

MAGNA GRECIA (Invincible Spirit)

10,000

NO NAY NEVER (Scat Daddy)

150,000

PADDINGTON (Siyouni)

New

55,000

SAXON WARRIOR (Deep Impact)

25,000

SIOUX NATION (Scat Daddy)

27,500

SOTTSASS (Siyouni)

25,000

ST MARK’S BASILICA (Siyouni)

50,000

STARSPANGLEDBANNER (Choisir)

45,000

TEN SOVEREIGNS (No Nay Never)

17,500

THE ANTARCTIC (Dark Angel) WOOTTON BASSETT (Iffraaj)

New

6,000 200,000

Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Jason Walsh, Mark Byrne, Neil Magee or Hermine Bastide Tel: 052 6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon, Paddy Fleming, Cathal Murphy or Barry Kennedy Tel: 025 31966. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) +44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com

Make Believe x Contradict

One of the greatest middle distance horses in recent years, he made history with back-to-back wins on turf and dirt. And being from the family of proven stallions, he looks ready to extend his resume at stud while carrying forward the Dubawi line. €17,500 Live Foal

Lethal Force x Entreat

He was the best european sprinter of his generation. He is Pivotal all about & he stamps them. He has a strong hand to strike early in 2024. €6,000 Live Foal

THEY WON A COMBINED

7 GROUP 1s

YET, THEIR STORY IS JUST BEGINNING

Dark Angel x Cercle de la Vie

A combination of early maturity, toughness and raw class, he is Dark Angel’s most accomplished juvenile colt. Showcasing x Bee Queen

He was tabbed the highest rated French colt in 2022 off a winning score in the Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère. He also brings to stud the kind of pedigree that should make him the hottest prospect in 2024. €7,000 Live Foal

And his pedigree dazzles as much as his fantastic back-to-back Group 1 double at two. €9,000 Live Foal Tony FRY +44 (0)7725 041 815 - tony@sumbe.fr Mathieu LE FORESTIER +33 (0)7 76 37 65 28 - m.leforestier@sumbe.fr

contents december

54 19

Return of mares

First Word

Stallion Fees 2024

Rodin ridden to Breeders’ Cup Glory

62 62

Summer’s brightest star

Meeting of minds

Alan Porter sees Auguste Rodin win the Breeders’ Cup Turf under an inspired ride from Ryan Moore, White Abarrio land the Classic, Justify sire a Grade 1 juvenile fillies double, Curlin score a three-peat and British-trained Big Evs win for first-season sire Blue Point

Putting it all together

Maximum Impact

Yearling sale review

Back to the top

The profits and perils of pinhooking

The number of foals born in Ireland went up in 2023, but down in the UK As the number of stallions standing in the US, UK and Ireland decreases, Lisa George analyses the effect that could have on inbreeding Frankel joins Dubawi at £350,000, and Havana Grey’s fee rises by almost 200 per cent

Adrien Cugnasse tells the story of Ace Impact, the world’s best three-year-old of 2023 and describes the strong relationship between French and German racing With an exciting stallion roster and a slew of promising results on the track, Shadwell is enjoying a fine time of late – Martin Stevens catches up with bloodstock manager Stephen Collins

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Shaquille lit up the racetrack this summer with a stunning sprint race Group 1 double at Royal Ascot and the July Meeting. James Thomas talks with his trainer Julie Camacho and her husband Steve Brown and hears of a season they will never forget

Partners trainer Natalia Lupini and Craig Bryson enjoyed a first stakes winner in September. Ronan Greene meets the couple and learns of their exciting plans for the future In the third and final part taken from Byron Rogers’ Performance Genetics blog, Rogers explains how everything came together in his quest to build a machine-learning programme capable of finding the elite racehorse Jocelyn de Moubray reports on a UK and Irish yearling sales season that was difficult in places, a strong French market influenced by stallion sales, and how stallion fees and inflation have influenced profitability Dr Erwin Koenen looks back at the recent results, often mixed, of the 2023 foal pinhooks that went back through the ring as yearlings

Racehorses

by Clare Bronlow

contents december

STALLION FACT PACK 2023: page 101 102

Leading global stallions 2023

106

Dominance to continue

120

Leading stallion tables

126

It was a summer of Blues

138

Stakes-winning sires

Lord Kanaloa claims top-spot and Frankel is the leading European-based sire on global earnings Dubawi and Frankel continued their control at the top of the European stallion tables and both are set to be there for some time to come From Weatherbys

Darley’s Blue Point took himself to the front of the first-season sires’ list early doors... and stayed there, his Breeders’ Cup hero Big Evs his star performer This year’s list of stakes-winning sires alongside their progeny and their broodmare sires

148

Covering statistics

156

European yearling sale stallion statistics

168

The pack are closing in

182

British and Irish stallion fees 2024

126 A comprehensive list of fees of the leading GB and Irish farms

Our unique table of covering statistics reveal not only last spring’s most popular Flat stallions standing in Britain and Ireland, but also the quality of those books By stallion detailing averages, medians and highest prices Melissa Bauer-Herzog sees Into Mischief once again crowned champion but the others are coming for him

168

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GOOD GUESS

Bay 2020, 16.1 hh

> Group 1 winner at 3 and debut 2yo winner in June > Dual Group winning son of KODIAC a proven Sire of Group producing sires > 420,000gns yearling at Tattersalls Book 1

Fee: €17,500

Out of a PIVOTAL mare • A son of Super Sire KODIAC RACE RECORD

Won 4 races, €329,735, 5½f to 7f, and was placed twice, from 9 starts Won Gr.1

Prix Jean Prat, 7f, Deauville, by 3 lengths beating Chaldean (Gr.1), Meditate (Gr.1), Belbek (Gr.1), Sauterne (Gr.1), and 4 other Group winners.

Won Gr.3

Prix Djebel, 7f, Deauville, beating Belbek (Gr.1) & 2 other Group winners.

Won

Prix d'Orgemont, 5½f, Chantilly, at 2, on debut.

Won

Prix de la Croix des Veneurs, 6f, Chantilly, at 2.

2nd Gr.3

Prix Paul de Moussac, 7f, Longchamp.

3rd

is an “Good Guessclassy horse.

extremely The Prix Jean Prat is always a good test of a three-year-old, being over seven furlongs on a straight track, and he won the race over a strong field very easily. He also came to hand early as a two-year-old, had a very good turn of foot, so he should be an exciting prospect for breeders.

”

Trainer, Fabrice Chappet

Listed Prix Zeddaan, 6f, Longchamp, at 2.

Timeform Rating: 121 PEDIGREE

By KODIAC, the Record-Breaking Champion Sire of 2-year-olds His dam ZYKINA (Pivotal) has produced 3 Black Type horses: GOOD GUESS (Kodiac): see above SPANGLED (Starspangledbanner): won 5 races, incl. Gr.3 Sceptre Stakes JUMIRA BRIDGE (Invincible Spirit): won 7 races, incl. 3rd Listed Westow Stakes

COTAI GLORY

INNS OF COURT

KODIAC

Group 1 producing Sire

A son of Sire of Sires INVINCIBLE SPIRIT

The perennial Champion European Sire

A SUCCESSFUL FIRST CROP SIRE IN 2023

Sire of 43 Group winners, of which 26 are 2yo Group winners

5 Group Winners 19 Black-Type horses From only 3 crops Yearlings and Breeze-Ups in 2023 have made

Sire of Stakes 2yos MEGARRY, GAENARI, LIA FAIL, etc

Yearlings and Breeze-Ups in 2023 have made

160,000gns, €135,000, 100,000gns, £100,000, etc.

Yearlings in 2023 have made €220,000, £72,000, etc.

€500,000, €430,000, 300,000gns, 260,000gns, etc.

Fee: €12,500

Fee: €5,000

Fee: €35,000

MEHMAS

PERSIAN FORCE

STARMAN

Record-breaking Group 1 sire

Gr.2 winner and triple Gr.1-placed at 2

Champion European Sprinter

Sire of 4 Group 1 winners, 15 Group winners & 49 Black-Type horses from only 4 crops

Group sprinting son of MEHMAS

Winner of Gr.1 July Cup and Gr.2 Duke of York Stakes. Timeform rated 125 “He looks like what a sprinter should look like – he’d be a Usain Bolt of the equine world.” – Trainer, Ed Walker

Yearlings in 2023 have made

Winner of Gr.2 July Stakes; 2nd Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes and Gr.1 Prix Morny; 3rd Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes

€500,000, 400,000gns, 390,000gns, €260,000, 220,000gns, etc.

FIRST CROP FOALS 2024

FIRST CROP YEARLINGS 2024

Fee: €50,000

Fee: €8,000

Fee: €10,000

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stallion news

The three-time Group and Grade 1 winner Glass Slippers produced a Dubawi colt foal this spring and visited Frankel

National breeding trends diverging The numbers of foals born and mares bred increases in Ireland, but drops in Britain

N 2023, 13,438 live foals were registered in Britain and Ireland in Weatherbys’ The General Stud Book. This is an increase on the last two years with numbers up from 13,275 in 2022 and 12,920 in 2021. Of this year’s total, 4,356 foals have been registered in Britain compared to 4,518 in 2022. Putting aside the influence of the Covid years of 2020 and 2021, which saw less than 4,300 foals born in Britain, this is the first year since 2013 that the numbers of British-born foals has declined – through the five years from 2013 to 2018 there was general uplift to a height of 4,726 in 2019. Although some registrations are still outstanding, the fall in numbers could be cause for concern. In Ireland, 9,082 foals were registered this year – and increase of 325 from the 8,757 registered in 2022 and 8,638 in 2021. This year’s Irish figure is an increase of four per cent on 2022.

On the broodmare side of the equation, although the total mares covered in Britain and Ireland numbered 18,572, an increase of three per cent on 2022, the above regional trends were repeated with a fall in the mares covered in Britain from 6,610 to 6,186 and an increase in the Irish-based mares with numbers heading upwards from 11,398 to 12,386. The total number of broodmares reported at stud across the two nations in 2023 was 22,600, compared to 22,832 in 2022 and 22,720 in 2021, a decrease of 232 compared to an increase of 112 between 2021 and 2022. Of these mares, 2,456 were not covered of which 957 were in Britain and 1,499 in Ireland. There were 5,912 no returns and 210 mares were barren. The number of stallions increased by two in Britain from 111 to 113 in 2023, while the number of stallions standing in Ireland decreased by three – from 187 at the end of September to 184 in 2023 to date. The leading stallion on number of

coverings in 2023 was Crystal Ocean on 335. Behind Crystal Ocean was Sioux Nation, the leading Flat sire on 289, Vadamos at 273 and Affinisea, who saw 268 mares. To see our own unique table using the Weatherbys covering stats for this year, showing the numbers of mares covered by the major Flat stallions standing in Britain and Ireland, and, importantly for breeders who are making decisions for this spring, the quality of those individual books, go to page 148. Without question Frankel’s 2023 book of 196 fittingly boasted the best quality and included 153 black-type mares and 134 black-type-winning mares Among the Group or Grade 1 winners covered by the son of Galileo were Alpine Star, Blond Me, Coronet, Glass Slippers, Mabs Cross, Madame Chiang, Mecca’s Angel, Mother Earth, Newspaperofrecord, Nezwaah, Pearls Galore, Quiet Reflection, Rougir, Saffron Beach, Sea La Rosa, Sobetsu, Treve, Urban Fox, Wild Illusion and Wonderful Tonight.

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first word

To breed or too inbred?

Lisa George takes a look at the declining number of stallions at stud in the US, Britain and Ireland and discusses the influence that this could be having on thoroughbred inbreeding

N SEPTEMBER 2019 the US Jockey Club decided to cap future stallion books to a maximum of 140. In 2022, following a legal challenge, the Jockey Club’s chairman Stuart S. Janney III reported the “board of stewards is rescinding this rule as it is concerned that the reaction to the rule may divide the industry at a time when there are many important issues that need to be addressed with unity. “We are taking this action for the greater good of the entire industry. The Jockey Club remains committed to the sustainability and welfare of the breed and will continue to invest in programmes and research that will bolster and support the industry in the years to come.” With increasing evidence of potentially harmful levels of inbreeding within the thoroughbred globally, is now the time to openly discuss the challenges faced by the breed and to provide workable solutions to maintain its genetic fitness for the future? The aim is always to encourage constructive debate on the topic between policy makers and breeders worldwide, with any potential changes led by the data rather than opinions. The current data appears to be suggesting these conversations should be had sooner rather than later in order to maintain the current genetics within the breed and diversify it further. Looking at the US Jockey Club’s data alone, the number of stallions decreased by 43 per cent from 2007

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“The decrease in US stallion numbers from 2017 to 2021 appears to have increased the covering books of the most popular stallions, rather than filtering across all the available sires

Stallion book sizes in US, GB/ Ire: 2022 Stallions

Stallions

Book size

US/Can

GB/ IRE

0-50

1,096

87.2

185

57.1

51-100

6.7

18.8

101-150

2.8

13.3

151-200

2.1

7.1

200+

1.2

3.7

to 2021, a loss of almost half of the genetic material from the male side, while, from 2017 to 2021, 15 per cent more stallions than mares were lost from the gene pool. In 2017, 2019 and 2021 a similar number of stallions were covering over 140 mares per year. The concern is, however, that more stallions were covering larger books of 200 or more mares in the years studied. In 2017, 13, or 29 per cent, of the registered stallions covered between 140-150 mares and four sires representing nine per cent covered over 200 mares to a maximum of 264. By 2021, that balance had reversed with only four (10 per cent) of the registered stallions covering books of 140-150 mares, yet 11 (28 per cent) covered books of 200 or more mares up to a maximum of 231. This shows that, of the stallions covering books of over 140, there were over 19 per cent more stallions covering books of over 200 mares by 2021. The decrease in US stallion numbers from 2017 to 2021 appears to have increased the covering books of the most popular stallions, rather than filtering across all the available sires. This has the potential to create genetic bottlenecks at an ever-increasing rate if left unchecked. In the covering years studied, the three per cent of stallions with covering books of 140 or more were covering between 23-25 per cent of the available mare population.

first word A United problem, too?

Within the British and Irish populations, the decline of stallion numbers compared to mares year-on-year is less pronounced, but the problem may already be more advanced in this population. From 2017 to 2021 the US stallion-to-mare ratio increased from 18.9 to 22.8, during the same time frame the British and Irish populations increased from 57.9 to 60.4. In Britain and Ireland in 2017, 11 per cent (46) covered books of 140 or more, with 10 covering books up to 150, and 11 or 24 per cent covering books of 200 or more up to a maximum of 341. By 2021, 15 per cent or 56 stallions covered books of 140 or more, with four (seven per cent) covering books up to 150, and 21 per cent covering over 200 mares to a maximum of 315. Only one stallion covered over 300 mares in each of these seasons. This shows a marginal increase on the number of stallions covering books of over 140, but the number of mares they served increased from 38 per cent to 49 per cent during this time frame, while the stallions covering more than 200 mares alone serviced 12 per cent and 14 per cent of the mares respectively. While assessing this British and Irish breeding data, it should be noted that some of the resulting foals are destined for NH racing, and these may have a reduced return rate to the breeding pool. However, during the period studied the number of foals intended to race on the Flat fell by two per cent with a similar increase in the number intended for NH racing so the impact is likely to be minimal. This data also includes double coverings so some allowances must be made when comparing it directly to the US data.

Thoroughbreds of the future

Following over 200 years of intense selective breeding within closed populations the thoroughbred is showing signs of inbreeding in genomic testing, but it is not yet known how harmful the levels are in the thoroughbred and at what tipping point the breed will need rescuing. Ongoing increases in genetic testing and technology, and increasing data available to monitor any trends, can only help provide more evidence to lead the way and prevent harmful inbreeding occurring on a mass scale. It is hoped that further studies and the decreasing cost of genetic testing will lead to more accurate information on harmful inbreeding and detecting any potential thresholds. Valuable information can be gleaned from other at-risk populations such as rare breeds with breeding challenges, i.e. the Suffolk Punch and Exmoor Pony, and

“In a closed book inbreeding has to go up, but we want to keep it within manageable levels – we need to embrace the science that is available

conservation species which are at the limit of genetic variability due to small remaining populations. Simon Cooper, director, Weatherbys General Stud Book and vice chairman of the International Stud Book Committee, believes we can manage the closed book herd today, alongside ongoing science and research to prevent potential problems several decades down the road. He commented: “In a closed book inbreeding has to go up, but we want to keep it within manageable levels. We need to embrace the science that is available and use it to our advantage. “Using genome-enabled breeding strategies as part of a breeding plan can only be a good thing for the future welfare of the breed. In due course we will be transitioning to SNP testing [testing a segment of the genetic material, a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism] foals which will provide more accurate markers to breed to.” Consultation with breeders is key for the success of any future rules, self-imposed or otherwise, being implemented and for the future of the breed and sport itself. Only by all corners of the industry coming together and working hard for solutions, by having honest and open conversations without blame, can we save the real king of the sport we love – the thoroughbred itself.

Numbers of mares and stallions at stud in US 1991-2021 and ratios Year

Mares

% +/-

Stallions

% +/-

Ratio

1991

64,124

6,696

9.6

2000

59,863

-6.6

4,328

-35.4

13.8

2010

40,841

-31.8

2,771

-36.0

14.7

2019

30,008

-26.5

1,497

-45.9

20.0

2021

27,792

-7.4

1,217

-18.7

22.8

Numbers of mares and stallions at stud in GB & Ire 1991-2021 and ratios Year

Mares

% +/-

Stallions

% +/-

Ratio

1991

21,644

1,062

20.4

2000

24,092

11.3

958

-9.8

25.1

2010

25,171

4.5

573

-40.2

43.9

2019

23,318

-7.4

384

-33.0

60.7

2021

22,696

-2.7

376

-2.1

60.4

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stallion news

Stallion fees for 2024

Frankel breaks further ground matching Dubawi with the joint-highest advertised price ever for a stallion in Europe

TALLION FARMS are often criticised for hiking their sire’s fees, but, after a cautious yearling sales season which saw some spending curtailed at the top and trade at the lower levels difficult, many stallion fees for 2024 have been reduced or remained the same from last year. There will, of course, always be success stories and Frankel, accustomed to seemingly breaking records since the day he was born, continues to provide it – the Juddmonte stallion has joined Dubawi and the pair are the most-expensive sires ever to stand in Europe by advertised fee at £350,000. Dubawi’s fee has not changed since 2023, but Frankel’s has been increased by 27 per cent from last year’s £275,000. The pair will be joined by Wootton Bassett (€200,000, up from £150,000 in 2023), Sea The Stars (€200,000), No Nay Never (€150,000), Lope De Vega (€125,000), Kingman (£125,000) and Night Of Thunder (€100,000) as sires commanding a six-figure fee. They are the same eight as 2023 although Wootton Bassett has leapfrogged in price past his fellow Coolmore-based sire No Nay Never. Ninth and tenth from last year remain in the same position and the same price with Baaeed (£80,000) and New Bay (€75,000). Thirteen sires have had increases for 2024 with Havana Grey leading the way with his fee rising from £18,500 to £55,000 (+197 per cent). The Darley duo of Blue Point (£60,000 from £35,000) and Too Darn Hot (£65,000 from £40,000) have had increases of 71 per cent and 62 per cent respectively. As we go to press, 52 British and Irish stallions have had their fees changed from 2023 and, of those, 39 (75 per cent) had a reduction with just 13 receiving an increase for next year. See our stallion fee table on page 182

Top-priced stallions: 2024 with advertised fees on November 19, 2023

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Frankel.................................. 350,000 Dubawi.................................. 350,000 Wootton Bassett..................... 200,000 Sea The Stars.......................... 200,000 No Nay Never.......................... 150,000 Lope De Vega.......................... 125,000 Kingman................................ 125,000 Night Of Thunder.................... 100,000 Baaeed....................................80,000 New Bay...................................75,000 Too Darn Hot............................65,000 Blue Point................................60,000 Dark Angel...............................60,000 Havana Grey.............................55,000 Paddington................................... 55,000 Camelot...................................50,000 Mehmas...................................50,000 St Mark’s Basilica .....................50,000

Stallions with largest increases Sire

Wootton Bassett continues to get results and is now the third most expensive sire in the UK and Ireland

Fee £/€

Havana Grey..................55,000....... 197 Blue Point.....................60,000......... 71 Too Darn Hot.................65,000......... 62 Sioux Nation..................27,500......... 57 Wootton Bassett..........200,000......... 33 Sea The Moon................32,500......... 30 Frankel.......................350,000......... 27 Calyx.............................12,500......... 25 Coulsty........................... 5,500......... 22 Nathaniel......................17,500......... 16 Bungle Inthejungle........ 7,500......... 15 Without Parole............... 8,000......... 14 Soldier’s Call................... 8,500......... 13

Stallions with largest reductions Sire

After a successful 2023 on the racecourse, Nathaniel has had a 16 per cent price increase to £17,500

Fee £/€

Advertise......................10,000........-50 Time Test....................... 8,500........-43 Bated Breath.................10,000........-33 Magna Grecia................10,000........-33 Iffraaj...........................10,000........-33 Perfect Power ...............10,000........-33 Naval Crown .................10,000........-33 Starman .......................10,000........-33 Invincible Army.............. 5,000........-33

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Ryan sculpts a fine line for Rodin at Santa Anita Auguste Rodin’s rail-running effort sees the son of Deep Impact go from Epsom Derby victory in June to Breeders’ Cup success in November

UGUSTE RODIN’s three-year-old season has been one of a dramatic mix of triumph and disaster, his efforts fluctuating between extremes to a remarkable degree. Beaten 22l in the 2,000 Guineas (G1) as favourite on his seasonal debut, he rebounded to defeat King Of Steel in the Derby (G1) then added the Irish Derby (G1) to his CV. Next time out, Auguste Rodin barely lifted a hoof in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1), but, once again, he showed a 360 degree change in form to capture the Irish Champion Stakes (G1). The season left us to wonder which Auguste Rodin would appear in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1). Happily, it was the “good” Auguste Rodin and, under an inspired rail-skimming ride from Ryan Moore, he scored by three-quarters of a length over North America’s top Turf runner Up To The Mark with Japanese representative Shahryar another half- length back in third. Auguste Rodin is from the final crop of Deep Impact, who would have been 21-years-old this year but for his premature death. The premier son of the breed-shaping Sunday Silence, Deep Impact has been leading stallion in Japan seven times. He is the sire of numerous Japanese champions, amongst them the Triple Crown winner

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Contrail, the dual Horse of the Year Gentildonna and the five-time champion Gran Alegria. On the international scene, his standouts include Loves Only You, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) and a pair of Grade 1 races in Hong Kong, Snowfall, successful in the English and Irish Oaks (G1), Saxon Warrior, victorious in the Racing Post Trophy (G1) and 2,000 Guineas (G1), the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) hero Study Of Man, Fancy Blue, winner of the Prix de Diane (G1) and Nassau Stakes (G1), Beauty Parlour, who annexed the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1) to become the first European Classic winner by a Japanese sire, A Shin Hikari, who took the Prix d’Ispahan (G1) and Hong Kong Cup (G1), Real Steel, winner of the Dubai Turf (G1), and the Australia Grade 1 winners Fierce Impact, Real Impact and Tosen Stardom. Deep Impact’s final crop totalled 13 foals, ten of which have run, and they also include the Group/graded winners Drumroll and Light Quantum. The distaff side of Auguste Rodin’s pedigree is no less impressive. He’s the first runner for his dam, the Galileo matron Rhododendron. She won five races, including the Fillies Mile (G1), the Prix de l’Opera (G1), the Lockinge Stakes (G1), and was several times Group/Grade 1 placed, including when second in the 1,000 Guineas,

the Oaks (G1), and the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1). Rhododendron is a sister to an even better performer in Magical, a highweight in Europe at three, four and five years of age, and successful in seven Group 1 events. They are out of Halfway To Heaven, a Broodmare of the Year and another very talented distaffer, whose three victories at the highest level included the Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1). Halfway To Heaven is by Pivotal, a grandson of Nureyev, who, in turn, is a three-quarters brother to Sadler’s Wells, meaning Rhododendron has the close relatives 2x4 in her pedigree. Halfway To Heaven is half-sister to the Group winner Theann (dam of another good Galileo son in Photo Call, twice a Grade 1 winner in the US, and of two-year-old Group winner Land Force), and to two-time Groupwinning sprinter Tickled Pink. When bred to the first year stallion Saxon Warrior – like Auguste Rodin, a Deep Impact/Galileo cross) – Tickled Pink produced last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) scorer Victoria Road. Cassandra Go, the third dam of Auguste Rodin, was also a speedster, defeating males to take the King’s Stand Stakes (G2), the Temple Stakes (G2) and the King George Stakes (G3), and finish second in the July Cup (G1).

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Conditions perfect for Auguste Rodin to stretch out for Breeders’ Cup Turf success

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breeders’ cup turf races She is half-sister to the Coventry Stakes (G3) winner and Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) second Verglas and her dam, Rahaam, is ancestress of several other notables, including the Melbourne Cup (G1) winner Cross Counter, who is by Galileo’s son Teofilo. Further back, there is a mix of British and Irish Classic strains, and Rhododendron’s sixth dam is Native Street. A daughter of Native Dancer, Native Street’s six black-type successes included the Kentucky Oaks, and she was out of Beaver Street, an imported great-greatgranddaughter of the 1923 Epsom Oaks winner, Straitlace.

Ten furlongs no problem for Inspiral

Inspiral’s deadly turn of foot has seen her emerge victorious in five Group 1 events over a mile. For the Breeders’ Cup meeting, however, her connections eschewed that distance, and pointed her to the 1m2f Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare (G1), the first time she had been asked to go beyond eight furlongs. As so often she was slow out of the stalls and it took her some time to find racing room. When she did, however, she flew and hit the line a neck clear of Irish challenger Warm Heart. Inspiral is one of 27 stakes winners, 21 Group or graded from the sixth northernhemisphere crop sired by Frankel, who has already sired 133 stakes winners, 91 Group or graded, and an astonishing 33 Group or Grade 1 winners. The Cheveley Park Stud-bred Inspiral is out of the 1,000 Guineas (G1) and Coronation Stakes (G1) runner-up Starscope, a daughter of Selkirk. Her grand-dam Moon Goddess is a half-sister to Medicean, whose successes included the Eclipse Stakes (G1) and the Lockinge Stakes (G1), and to the dam of the Japanese graded stakes winner Mondreise. The third dam Mystic Goddess, a daughter of Storm Bird, won the Sweet Solera Stakes, and second in the Queen Mary Stakes (G1). She is half-sister to the Gran Criterium (G1) scorer Sanam and is out of Rose Goddess, who joined Cheveley Park Stud in 1988 when purchased in the US for

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Inspiral: the daughter of Frankel matched paternal sibling Alpinista’s record of six top level wins

$450,000. Rose Goddess is a daughter of Cocarde, a black-type-placed half-sister to the high-class mile to 1m2f horse and important sire Caro.

Three in a row for Dubawi

In the absence of Inspiral, the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) fell to another horse who produced a storming finish with Master Of The Seas closing from near last in a 13-horse field to catch Mawj, this year’s winner of the 1,000 Guineas (G1) and the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1), in the final stride to prevail by a nose. A Group winner at two, three, four and five, Master Of The Seas came within a neck of catching Poetic Flare in the 2021 running of the 2,000 Guineas (G1), but did not win at the highest level until taking the Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1) on his penultimate start prior to the Breeders’ Cup. Master Of The Seas is a son of Dubawi who, after many years as runner-up to Galileo, and then in 2021 to that horse’s son Frankel, finally gained a first leading sires’ title in 2022. Remarkably, Master Of The Seas follows Space Blues and Modern Games as the sire’s third straight winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile, and Dubawi is now responsible for seven individual Breeders’ Cup victors.

Firth Of Lorne, the dam of Master Of The Seas, was a Listed winner in France, and took second in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1). She’s been an outstanding producer as her offspring also include the UAE Oaks (G3) winner Falls Of Lora, dam of Cascadian, a Group winner in England and three times successful in Grade 1 events in Australia, and the Summer Stakes (G1) scorer Albahr, another by Dubawi. She has also produced the Listed winners Latharnach and Etive, and Bint Almatar, the dam of the Australian Grade 1 winner Just Fine. Firth Of Lorne is out of another talented filly in the shape of Kerrera, a Group winner, who also took second in the 1,000 Guineas (G1) and who is also grand-dam of the talented milers Dupont and Pacino. The third dam Rimosa’s Pet won the Princess Elizabeth Stakes (G3) and Musidora Stakes (G3), and produced the five-time Group-winning sprinter/miler Rock City. Rimosa’s Pet’s dam Rimosa is closely related to the Classic-winning brothers Dante and Sayajirao. Complete European domination of the Turf races for older horses was prevented by Nobals, who won the 5f Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) by a neck. The prolific five-year-old gelding has won ten of his 18 starts, and more recently four of

breeders’ cup turf races his last five – all in stakes company – despite having cost just $3,500 at the Fasig-Tipton October Sales as a yearling. Speed certainly would not have been anticipated from Nobals’ pedigree. He is by Frankel’s brother Noble Mission, who was best at 1m2f and the distance over which he took the Champion Stakes (G1) and Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1), and he stayed well enough to win a Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (G1) over 1m4f. Noble Mission initially stood in the US but is now in Japan and has sired 12 stakes winners, eight of them Group or graded, and including Code Of Honor, who took the Travers Stakes (G1) and Jockey Club Stakes

Dubawi is now

responsible for seven individual Breeders’ Cup victors (G1) on Dirt, and Spanish Mission, whose success in England included the Yorkshire Cup (G2) and the Doncaster Cup (G2) at the extreme opposite end of the distance scale to Nobals.

Pearly Blue, the dam of Nobals, won over 1m3f, and is by Empire Maker, whose most prestigious triumph came in the 1m4f Belmont Stakes (G1). His second dam Western Ransom won the Martha Washington Stakes (G3) and the Hilltop Stakes. The third dam Western Wind, a daughter of Gone West, is a sister to the Flying Childers Stakes (G2) winner Raah Algharb, and half-sister to Pharian, successful in the Lancashire Oaks (G3) and Cheshire Oaks. Their dam, Pharlette, is ancestress of several other stakes winners, including the Grade 1-winning Turf horses, Dynaforce and Setewayo.

A Godolphin one-two in the Turf Mile: Dubawi’s son Master Of The Seas (near) denying Mawj’s dam Modern Ideals three Breeders’ Cup wins in succession

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breeders’ cup dirt races White Abarrio: the only graded winner for sire Race Day, who has been shipped to South Korea

IN THE SPRING OF 2022 when he won the Holy Bull Stakes (G3) and Florida Derby (G1), White Abarrio appeared to be among the best of his crop. However, he could do no better than 16th in the Kentucky Derby (G1), and, although he went onto take second in the Ohio Derby (G3) and third in the Cigar Mile (G1), he didn’t win again until scoring in a 7f allowance contest at Gulfstream Park this March. Following that victory, White Abarrio, moved to the barn of Rick Dutrow Jr., who had only recently completed a ten-year suspension. For his new conditioner, White Abarrio then finished third in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) before producing a devastating performance to take the 1m1f Whitney Stakes (G1) by 6l in the first week of August. That form was far in advance of that shown by his rivals for this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), but since his connections elected to train him up to the championship meeting it was an open question as to whether he made a step forward for his new trainer, or whether that effort was a one-off. Similarly, there were doubts as to whether he would stay the Classic’s 1m2f distance. Those uncertainties notwithstanding, White Abarrio was made the bettor’s choice, and he duly delivered stalking the fast pace of the three-year-old Arabian Knight before taking over at the head of the stretch and then holding off the Japanese challenger Derma Sotagake by a length. White Abarrio is from the third crop of the grey Tapit stallion Race Day. Although he never made his mark at the highest level, Race Day was quite a smart performer, winning the Oaklawn Handicap (G2), the Fayette Stakes (G2) when setting a new track-record for 1m1f at Keeneland, and the Razorback Handicap (G3). White Abarrio is the only graded scorer for Race Day, and the sire was exported to South Korea for the 2021 breeding season. Catching Diamonds, the dam of White Abarrio, is by the all-conquering Into Mischief, but she wasn’t one of that stallion’s

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White Abarrio, the sole stakes winner for exported sire Race Day, wins the Breeders’ Cup Classic for reinstated trainer Rick Dutrow

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breeders’ cup dirt races more distinguished offspring as she failed to make the frame in three starts. She is, however, half-sister to the dam of a more accomplished representative of that sire in Mutasaabeq, winner of the Bourbon Stakes (G3) and third in the Hopeful Stakes (G1). Catching Diamonds is also a half-sister to Cook Cowboy, a three time stakes winner in the US, and also successful in the Burj Nahaar (G3) and Al Shindagha Sprint (G3) in Dubai. Catching Diamonds’ dam, Grand Breeze, is a winning half-sister to the minor stakes winner and stakes-placed Afleet Lass. Another half-sister Irmadohomemra is dam of Juno, a champion two-year-old filly in Brazil, and granddam of another in Love ‘n’ Happiness. A third half-sister Bluegrass Belle produced the Eddie D Stakes (G2) and American Stakes (G3) scorer Pee Wee Reese. Grand Breeze is out of Breeze Lass, a daughter of Faneuil Lass, a multiple graded stakes winner and Grade 1-placed when racing on the West Coast. Faneuil Girl, the dam of Faneuil Lass, also produced one the best daughters of Secretariat in Fiesta Lady, who was successful in the Matron Stakes (G1) and Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G2). Stakes placed herself, Faneuil Girl was a sister to the prolific Faneuil Boy, and to multiple stakes winner Faneuil Hall, who also appears as the fourth dam of the Code Of Honor, the joint-highweighted three-year-old male of 2019 and successful in the Travers Stakes (G1)) and Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1). The family came to the US with the purchase by J. R. Keene of Castleton Stud and through the mare Lady Minting, who was bought for 3,000gns – the highest price of the week – at the 1901 Newmarket December Sales White Abarrio is one of four graded stakes winners to date out of Into Mischief mares, and rather intriguingly, three of the four are by sons or grandsons of Race Day’s grandsire, Pulpit.

From the All-Weather to Breeders’ Cup glory Unusually, given the heights that she has now reached, Idiomatic has spent most of her formative career racing on Turfway Park’s All-Weather track.

Idiomatic: the Juddmonte homebred is out of the First Defence mare Lockdown related to Siskin

Curlin also now

has the honour of being the leading sire of Breeders’ Cup winners with eight to his name The filly broke her maiden on her debut in April 2022, but, after finishing third in a Churchill Downs allowance the following month, Idiomatic didn’t return to the racecourse until last December when she took third in a Turfway Park allowance race. She then clicked off wins in a pair of allowance events and the Latonia Stakes on the All-Weather surface. Second in the Ruffian Stakes (G2) at Belmont Park on her graded debut, Idiomatic then rattled off wins in the Shawnee Stakes (G3), Delaware Handicap (G2), Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) and Spinster Stakes (G1). While that record hinted at championship potential her Breeders’ Cup Distaff Stakes (G1) win put that beyond doubt – she

tracked the front-running Randomized and wore her down to win by a half-length, with the second and third only a nose and a neck in arrears. Idiomatic is by Curlin, a two-time Horse of the Year, who repeated his 2022 feat with three winners on Breeders’ Cup Saturday, in fact, his offspring winning the same three races, two for the second time. Although he hasn’t been able to emulate his sire Smart Strike, who was twice leading sire in North America, Curlin has been an extraordinarily successful sire, particularly of Classic-distance Dirt horses. He currently has 99 stakes winners to his credit, 55 graded, including other champions in Stellar Wind, Malathaat, Nest, Cody’s Wish, Vino Rosso and Good Magic. Curlin also now has the honour of being the leading sire of Breeders’ Cup winners with eight to his name. A Juddmonte homebred, Idiomatic is out of the First Defence (Unbridled’s Song) mare Lockdown. She was a talented performer, taking the Busanda Stakes and running third in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), but is a sister to an even better runner in the champion older mare Close Hatches, herself dam of Grade 1 winner Tacitus. The second dam Rising Tornado, a daughter of Storm Cat, is half-sister to Bird Flown, the dam of another notable

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Cody’s Wish had to overcome a stewards’ enquiry after this bump to hold on to the Dirt Mile win

runner by First Defence in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Siskin. Third dam Silver Star is a sister to European champion two-year-old Xaar, and from the Monroe branch of the Best In Show family. This branch of the family has been in Juddmonte ownership since the farm acquired Monroe from Robert Sangster at the end of her racing career, the better part of 45 years ago. Idiomatic and the graded scorer Electric Forest are the two stakes winners from only 14 starters by Curlin out of Unbridled’s Song mares. It’s interesting that both Curlin and Idomatic’s broodmare sire are both from the Mr. Prospector sire line and from the relatively rare M mtDNA haplotype.

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Power and Wish gallop to glory for the second time

Curlin’s two other scorers on Breeders’ Cup Saturday both took their races for the second consecutive year – Elite Power won the Sprint (G1) and Cody’s Wish the Dirt Mile (G1). Elite Power and Cody’s Wish have careers that run rather parallel – they share the same sire, the same trainer Bill Mott, and the pattern of later development before emerging as near unbeatable after capturing their maiden events. Now a five-year-old Elite Power didn’t break his maiden until early last June on his fourth start. Since then, he’s won eight of his nine subsequent races, including the

Vosburgh Stakes (G2), last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint, the Riyadh Dirt Sprint (G3), the True North Stakes (G1) and the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1). The sequence came to a halt in Elite Power’s last start prior to the Breeders’ Cup when he failed to pull back the front-running Gunite in the Forego Stakes (G1), but he gained revenge powering past Gunite a furlong out before going to score by a length, and guarantee himself a repeat Eclipse Award as champion sprinter. A $900,000 yearling, Elite Power is out of Broadway’s Alibi. A daughter of Seattle Slew’s champion two-year-old Vindication, Broadway’s Alibi won four straight races at two and three, including the Forward Gal Stakes (G2) and the Comely Stakes (G3), before ending her career with a second in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), beaten three-quarters of a length after making most of the running. Broadway’s Alibi is a half-sister to the graded stakes winner Golden Lad, to the black-type-winning R Gypsy Gold, and to the dam of juvenile stakes winner Light Of Broadway. The second dam Broadway Gold, a daughter of Seeking The Gold, won the Astoria Stakes at two, and is a half-sister to the Florida Derby (G1) scorer and sire, Dialed In. The third dam Miss Doolittle was graded stakes placed at two, and is by Storm Cat out of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) winner and champion two-year-old Eliza. Like Elite Power, Cody’s Wish was unraced at two. It took him four attempts to win his maiden the following year, but since then remained unbeaten in nine subsequent outings at 7f. Beyond a mile his sole defeats have come over eight and a half and 1m2f. He was sent off odds-on favorite to make a winning farewell to his racing career in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), and he was pushed to his utmost to catch the frontrunning three-year-old National Treasure – who went wire-to-wire in the Preakness Stakes (G1) earlier in the year – getting up the last stride to score by a nose. The principals did bump in the closing stages, but a stewards’ inquiry left the result unchanged. It’s likely that Cody’s Wish will be a contender, along with White Abarrio, and perhaps Up To the Mark and Idiomatic for

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Goodnight Olive, the Eclipse Award-winning daughter of Ghostzapper, signed off her career with her second victory in the Filly & Mare Sprint

the Horse of the Year Eclipse Award. It’s likely that much of Elite Power’s speed comes from his dam Dance Card. She took the 1m1f Gazelle Stakes (G1) as the fourth of four consecutive victories in five starts at three, but in the second of her only two outings the following year was a fine third beaten just a length for the win to Groupie Doll and Judy The Beauty in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1). She is also dam of the Medaglia D’Oro colt, Endorsed, twice a graded stakes winner in 2023. Dance Card, a daughter of Tapit, is the only black-type winner under her first two dams, although her dam, the Editor’s Note mare Tempting Note, was twice second at that level. Dance Card’s second dam Tempt (Devil’s Bag) is a half-sister to the minor stakes winner and stakes-producer Habar, and is out of Thinghatab, who was successful in the Post-Deb Stakes (G3) and Poinsettia Stakes (G3). This is a branch of the La Troienne family, but one doesn’t reach one of the betterknown channels until Cody’s Wish’s eighth dam La Troienne’s daughter, Baby League. She was only a minor winner, but produced Horse of the Year Busher, the Broodmare of the Year Striking and two other stakes winners. Cody’s Wish descends from Baby League’s daughter Betteefarlee, and Dance Card was the first Grade 1 standard winner produced

by a member of the direct female line all the way back to Baby League.

Olive says Goodnight in style

Another to complete back-to-back Breeders’ Cup victories was Goodnight Olive, who was relatively untroubled to take her second Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) scoring by two and three-quarter lengths from long shots Yuugiri and Three Witches. Like Cody’s Wish and Elite Power, Goodnight Olive didn’t start racing until she was three, when three outings brought maiden special weight and allowance wins. Last year she went four-for-four with victories in the Ballerina Handicap (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Sprint, victories that earned her an Eclipse Award. This term Goodnight Olive kicked off with a win in the Madison Stakes (G1), was third in the Derby City Distaff Stakes (G1), after a rough trip, then rebounded to land the Bed O’Roses Stakes (G2). In her final start before the Breeders’ Cup she was clearly outpointed by a brilliant Echo Zulu – the champion two-year-old filly of 2021, but runner-up to Goodnight Olive in last year’s Filly & Mare Sprint – in the Ballerina Handicap (G1). A much anticipated rematch between the two was denied when Echo Zulu suffered a career-ending injury working at Santa Anita earlier in the month. Goodnight Olive is a daughter of Ghostzapper, one of the best North

American colts of the 21st century and a Horse of the Year who won a Breeders’ Cup Classic, as did his sire the Deputy Minister horse, Awesome Again. Ghostzapper has been a solid sire with 98 stakes winners from 15 crops, 53 graded, 14 Grade 1, including an earlier Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) heroine in the shape of Judy The Beauty. He has also enjoyed success as a broodmare sire, notably of Justify. Salty Strike, the dam of Goodnight Olive, is by Smart Strike. She was an accomplished racemare winning seven black-type events, including the Dogwood Stakes (G3) and the Gardenia Stakes (G3). Her grand-dam Lake Huron won three times and is half-sister to the dam of the good Japanese runner, Eishin Lombard. The third dam My Rainbow is by Lyphard out of Muriesk, a stakes-winning granddaughter of Cosmah, a stakes-winning racemare who is dam of Tosmah, a champion filly at two and three, and of the outstanding sire Halo. Cosmah is also a daughter of Almahmoud, best known as the granddam of Northern Dancer, and since Lyphard is by Northern Dancer, My Rainbow is inbred 4x4 to Almahmoud. Interestingly, the dam of Goodnight Olive, is bred on a version of the Smart Strike/ Deputy Minister cross that supplied Curlin, and Goodnight Olive is a reverse of that cross, and is also inbred to Deputy Minister, as are several good Curlin offspring.

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breeders’ cup juvenile races is a half-sister to the talented but lightlyraced Outwork, who won three of five starts, including the Wood Memorial Stakes (G1). The second dam Nonna Mia took third in the Frizette Stakes (G1) at two. A daughter of Empire Maker, Nonna Mia is three-quarters sister to Cairo Prince, who won the Nashua Stakes (G2) at two and the Holy Bull Stakes (G2), and was favourite for the Kentucky Derby (G1) but suffered a career-ending injury after the latter race. Nonna Mia is out of Bubbette, a stakeswinning daughter of Holy Bull, and the family goes back to That’s That, a sister to the great North American runner Sarazen. That’s That was dam of the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) winner Next Move and her half-sister Sea Change. Her descendants (topically) includes the Niarchos stars Miesque, Kingmambo, East Of The Moon, Study Of Man, Karakontie and Alpha Centuri. Fierceness (12) by City Of Light overcame a wide draw to take the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile

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IERCENESS DEVELOPED a towering reputation when he debuted in a 6f Saratoga maiden special weight in late August sauntering home over 11l clear of his field. The bubble rather burst, however, in the Champagne Stakes (G1) when, having been sent off the odds-on favourite, he lunged at the start and never recovered, trailing home seventh, beaten over 17l. His connections elected to put a line through that effort and Fierceness duly lined up for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) – and the colt redeemed himself in no uncertain terms. After pressing the early pace, the bay was already 2l clear turning for home, and proceeded to draw off for a 6l triumph, a performance that looks sure to see him crowned as champion two-year-old colt. Fierceness is a member of the second-crop

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of City Of Light, a son of Quality Road. A later-developer, City Of Light was an outstanding performer from the tail end of his three-year-old career through to his only start at five winning five of his seven starts from 7f to 1m1f, all at graded level and including the Malibu Stakes (G1), the Triple Bend Stakes (G1), the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) and the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1). Although City Of Light was the hype stallion of the crop, he didn’t make the kind of start his supporters had hoped for with the UAE Oaks (G3) winner Mimi Kakushi the only graded scorer among his six firstcrop stakes winners. Fierceness is the only stakes winner to date from 34 starters in his second crop. Fierceness is also the only runner so far for his dam Nonna Bella, a two-time winner by the Bernardini horse Stay Thirsty. She

Just F Y I one of Justify’s “spectacular” second crop

Odds-on favourite for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) was Tamara, a daughter of Medaglia D’Oro and the great racemare Beholder, a four-time Eclipse Award winner, and three-time Breeders’ Cup winner, including winner of the 2012 Juvenile Fillies. Tamara, who had scored wide-margin victories in her two previous starts – last time out before the Santa Anita meeting winning the Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1) by over 6l – set a fast early pace, but began to fade approaching the stretch. Post-race it was discovered she had a small fracture of a hind splint bone – the injury doesn’t require surgery, and Tamara should be able to resume her career after a rest. As Tamara retreated, Just F Y I, who had been her closest pursuer in the early stages, took command, and lasted home by a neck from long-shot Jody’s Pride. This was the third win in three starts for Just F Y I, who had won the Frizette Stakes (G1) by three and three-quarter lengths. Just F Y I is from the second crop of Scat Daddy’s son Justify, the only winner of the US Triple Crown to retire undefeated. Justify’s first North American crop has produced 11 stakes winners, seven Group or

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Hard To Justify: bred by Yeguada Centurion, she is from the family of the July Cup winner Starman

graded and including the Grade 1 winners Aspen Grove and Arabian Lion. If that was a more than solid start, his second crop has been spectacular. So far, seven of that second generation have won black-type events. They are headed in Europe by City Of Troy, the unbeaten winner of the Superlative Stakes (G2) and Dewhurst Stakes (G1), and the likely European champion two-year-old colt, Opera Singer, a 5l winner of the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1), and likely European champion two-year-old filly, Ramatuelle, the 4l winner of the Prix Robert Papin (G2) and, on the basis of her narrow defeat by the subsequent Middle Park Stakes (G1) winner Vandeek in the Prix Morny (G1), likely to be the fastest two-year-old filly in Europe. In the US, the 2021 crop has already produced not only Just F Y I, but also the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly Turf (G1) winner Hard To Justify, the Jessamine Stakes (G2) winner Buchu and the stakes winner Living Magic. Just F Y I is the third starter and third winner for her dam, the minor stakes-placed Street Cry mare Star Act. She is a half-sister to the dam of Uncle Benny, who won the Futurity Stakes and Allied Forces Stakes and ran second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1).

Just F Y I’s second dam Starrer was an accomplished runner winning five graded stakes, including the Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap (G1) and Santa Maria Handicap (G1). She was a half-sister to an even better mare in Stellar Jane, whose success included the Mother Goose Stakes (G1), the Ruffian Handicap (G1) and the Gazelle Handicap (G1). Starrer is also half-sister to Topliner, who produced the Grade 1 winner Star Billing to Starrer’s sire Dynaformer. The third dam To The Hunt is a stakesplaced three-quarters sister to the speedy and precocious American Royale, a winner of six of eight starts, five of those wins in blacktype company, including the Adirondack Stakes (G2) and Prioress Stakes (G2).

Hard To Justify another Yeguada star in 2023

The day before Just F Y I’s victory the previously mentioned Hard To Justify won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf (G1). After tracking a fast pace, she held off the challenge of European invader Porta Fortuna. Like Just F Y I, Hard To Justify is unbeaten in three starts, and she took the Miss Grillo Stakes (G2) on her previous outing. It’s worthwhile nothing that Hard To

Justify is bred by French-based Yeguada Centurion, which has been one of the success stories of the season and was featured in our August edition. With only three crops on the ground, Yeguada Centurion has also produced this year’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) winner and Prix du Jockey-Club-French Derby (G1) runner-up Big Rock, Blue Rose Cen, winner of Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1), the Prix de Diane (G1) and Prix de l’Opera (G1), as well as the previously mentioned Justify filly Ramatuelle. Hard To Justify is the second foal and second winner for her dam Instant Reflex, a speedy daughter of Quality Road, who won twice on the Turf in California, and ran third to Belvoir Bay in the Senator Ken Maddy Stakes. The second dam Without Delay is a Seeking The Gold half-sister to the Group and graded winners Slow Pace and Funny Duck, and to Slow Sand, the dam of Tampa Bay Derby (G2) victor King Guillermo and grand-dam of the July Cup (G1) winner Starman. The third dam Slow Down is a Seattle Slew half-sister to the multiple graded-winning and Grade 1-placed Olmodavor, and is out of Corrazona, a Group winner in France, and heroine of the Beverly Hills Handicap (G1) in the US. This is a branch of the famous Bourtai family.

Unquestionable an able substitute

Aidan O’Brien lost the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) favourite River Tiber to a vet scratch, but had a suitable replacement on hand in Unquestionable who, after tracking the leaders, switched to the outside to power away to a one and a half length triumph over stable-companion Mountain Bear. This was a first black-type win in six starts for Unquestionable, who had, however, previously taken second in the Prix Jean Luc Lagardère (G1) and the Railway Stakes (G2). Unquestionable is a son of Wootton Bassett, as is River Tiber. A son of Iffraaj (by Zafonic and from the Gone West branch of Mr. Prospector), Wootton Bassett was undefeated in five starts at two, including in the Prix Jean Luc Lagardère (G1).

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breeders’ cup juvenile races However, he failed to hit the board at three and was retired to stud fairly cheaply in France. He wasn’t exactly in demand initially, and had only 23 foals in his first crop and just 18 in his second. One of that first crop, however, was the European champion Almanzor, winner of the Champion Stakes (G1), the Irish Champion Stakes (G1) and Prix du JockeyClub (G1). The high-class winners have continued to come, and for the 2021 breeding season Wootton Bassett moved to Coolmore after purchase by the Irish organisation. From his nine French crops, Wootton

Bassett has sired 40 stakes winners, 27 Group or graded and, in addition to Unquestionable (one of seven stakes winners, five Group/graded from his current two-year-old crop), he’s represented by other Group and Grade 1 winners King Of Steel, Audarya, Bucanero Fuerte, Wooded, Sellie, Incarville and Al Riffa. Unquestionable is out of the Sea The Stars mare Strawberry Lace, who in turn is a daughter of Crying Lightening (Holy Roman Emperor), a Listed winner who also took third in the Sweet Solera Stakes (G3). There is nothing else of real note in the female line until the fourth dam Didina, -a graded winner in the US and Listed

The blisteringly fast Big Evs (Blue Point) lived up to the pre-race hype in the Juvenile Turf Sprint

winner in England. Didina produced two black-type scorers one of which Tantina – the dam of Cityscape and Bated Breath. Further back, this is Monroe’s branch of the Blush With Pride family previously mentioned in connection with Idiomatic. The mating of Unquestionable with a Sea The Stars mare gives a 4x4 inbreeding to the outstanding mare Park Appeal, the grand-dam of Iffraaj and dam of Cape Cross, the sire of Sea The Stars. The same inbreeding is found in Wootton Bassett’s graded winner The Black Album, and in the pedigrees of My Prospero, The Black Princess and Magic Artist, all by Wootton Bassett’s sire Iffraaj.

Big Evs: the European juvenile star

Royal Ascot form was prominent in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1). The Queen Mary Stakes (G2) winner Crimson Advocate set a blistering pace, closely attending by the Windsor Castle Stakes scorer Big Evs, who took over in the stretch and held off the charge of the Norfolk Stakes (G2) victor Valiant Force by a half length. This was the fourth win in six starts for Big Evs, also winner of the Molecomb Stakes (G3) and Flying Childers Stakes (G2). Big Evs is from the first crop of Blue Point. A champion sprinter Blue Point, a son of Shamardal, has made a flying start to his stud career with five individual black-type winners, including the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (G1) heroine, Rosallian. Big Evs and Walfrieda represented two stakes winners for Blue Point out of Oasis Dream mares. His dam Hana Lina is half-sister to Lady Of The Desert, a three-time Group-winning sprinter and three-time Group 1 placed, and dam of the Lowther Stakes (G2) winner Queen Kindly. The second dam Queen’s Logic was an undefeated European champion two-yearold Filly and was a half-sister to Dylan Thomas, the European Horse of the Year, to the 1,000 Guineas (G1) winner Homecoming Queen, and to Remember When, runner-up in the English Oaks (G1) and dam of five black-type winners, including the Derby winner Serpentine.

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Ace Impact was the best three-year-old in the world in 2023, and his story reveals the deep connection between German and French racing industries, writes Adrien Cugnasse Photography by Debbie Burt

OW THAT things have settled down after the amazing performance of French-trained and bred Ace Impact at ParisLongchamp some surprising figures can be noted. The size of the foal crop in France is stable, with a small increase for the last five years, yet the numbers of horses trained in France has dropped by a 1,000 over the last decade. Looking at it from that perspective, it’s not a surprise that so many French-bred horses are winning abroad, but it’s quite unexpected that the best European horse is trained in France.

The co-dependency of French and German racing

Ace Impact was bred in France by the German couple Waltraut and Karl Spanner, and the colt’s story reveals the situation that can be seen on the ground: that French and German racing are very much now two pieces of the same puzzle. With prize-money collapsing in many European countries, owners and trainers have decided to run as often as they can and take advantage of the generous racing programme in France. In return, and more than ever, the French racing system relies on foreign horses to be sustainable, as the Gallic Tote – aka Le PMU – desperately needs runners: there are not enough horses in training in France to support the number of races and the betting turnover. Foreign raiders are completely integrated into the system. Every year they represent 10 per cent of the total runners on the Flat – they compete in the smallest claiming races in the French countryside to Group 1 events in Paris. Forget the dozens of English and Irish horses who cross the Channel for black-type races – among the 5,000 runners who are trained outside of France yet race in the country many come from Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Belgium, and Portugal. However Germany is the biggest provider of runners for the French racetracks – French racing is completely part of the daily life of the German racing community. And the owners of those horses with German trainers understand that if they are going to run their horses so much in France, then their horses in training should have the benefit of French premiums. This is just one reason that has pushed so many German breeders to buy studs in the French countryside, or to board their mares in France. Ace Impact’s breeders Waltraut and Karl Spanner live near to Baden-Baden. They do not come from a racing

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ace impact: the story “France provides a larger programme and the possibility of running with more regularity, on a daily basis and against better quality opposition

background, but a passion for horses brought them to the sport. They have now owned racehorses in Germany for many years, but they decided to relocate their broodmares and horses in training. “We prefer to breed and race in France. Of course, there is the prize-money and the premiums, but it’s not only that,” said Karl Spanner. “France provides a larger programme and the possibility of running with more regularity, on a daily basis and against better quality opposition.” And while they have mentioned that it is not only the premiums that are attractive, Ace Impact has collected them a handsome €272,029. Something not to be ignored! As the couple do not speak French, they have boarded their mares at Haras du Long Champ in Normandy, a stud that is owned and directed by Barbara Moser. “She’s German and that’s a great help for us in terms of communication,”explains Spanner. “She also helps us with our mating plans. We like the fact that Barbara and her partner are at the head of a small farm and they take care of the horses themselves.” With a small mare band and limited funding, Haras du Long Champ is now known in France to punch “above its weight” having bred a dozen Group horses, including the six-time Group 1-placed Light Infantry (Fast Company), but also the Prix de Jockey-Club runner-up Patascoy (Wootton Bassett), the Group 3 winners Mythico (Adlerflug), as well as the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf runner-up Testa Rossi (Dr Fong). They must do something right!

Barbara Moser on Arc day: the Spanners board their mares at Haras du Long Champ in Normandy, enjoy working with Moser and are big supporters of her farm

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An old French line

Ace Impact’s pedigree traces to an old French family, which is based on La Grêlée (Helicon). She was born in 1918 and was a key broodmare at the famous Haras du Mesnil, where Doctor Dino is based now. Her offspring spread around Europe and she is an ancestor of Ouija Board (Cape Cross) and her son Australia (Galileo). Barakat (Bustino), a sister to the high-class Ibn Bey (Mill Reef), comes from the same female line and she was bought in the 1980s by the late Sheikh Hamdan. Barakat did not turn out to be an outstanding broodmare at Shadwell, but she was good enough to deliver the farm with 11 winners, including two minor black-type Flat winners. Angus Gold advised Eric Puerari of Haras des Capucines to buy Tadawul (Diesis), a daughter of Barakat. A feminine filly with imperfect hocks, Tadawul was a decent broodmare, and five of her seven runners were winners. Before being sold to Turkey – where she has produced at least one daughter – she gave birth in Normandy to Absolutly Me (Anabaa Blue).

You could have bought the dam

Although he was a Classic winner with a perfect pedigree Anabaa Blue (Anabaa) failed as a stallion, and when Absolutly Me was a yearling her sire was already known for being a commercial disappointment. Anabaa Blue moved from stud to stud before finally ending up at the Hungarian National Stud. It was not exactly the most commercial profile for Absolutly Me, and Puerari sold her privately to a client of the Chantilly-based trainer Myriam Bollack-Badel. On starting to receive the first bills that every owner is supposed to pay, this client soon realised that having horses was expensive and he decided to sell the yearling filly as soon as possible. Absolutly Me first apepared in public as a supplement to the Osarus November Sale held at Le Lion d’Angers in the west of France countryside. The local (but Classicwinning) trainer Henri-Alex Pantall bought her for €16,500… and she was the top price of the 92 yearlings that were offered that day. (With an average price of €5,422 and only half of the catalogue changing hands, it’s easy to understand why Osarus stopped this sale!) Pantall took home the inexpensive filly and offered her to new clients who wanted to have their horses racing in France, Waltraut and Karl Spanner. Known these days as the French trainer with the biggest number of runners, Pantall trains on his own sand track. His horses very often rarely gallop on the

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grass before their first race, and they usually have a big margin of progress after their debuts. Absolutly Me had been showing plenty of promise to Pantall so he entered her in a good two-year-old mile maiden at Saint-Cloud, instead of opting to take on countryside competition. She won by two and half lengths finishing in front of two fillies who won black-type later in their careers, and won in a very good time. For her second and last start as a juvenile she was entered in the Listed Prix des Sablonnets, a race the trainer had won two decades before with the famous Hasili (Kahyasi). Nantes is not the fairest track of France and Absolutly Me finished third. Unfortunately, although the filly still managed to pick up some Listed placed form through her three-year-old season, she was never the same again. The Spanners tried to give her another chance by sending her to German trainer Michael Figge, a plan that did not work out.

A very good broodmare

At stud Absolutly Me’s broodmare record is almost perfect: she has had five runners, five winners, three black-type horses. The Spanners mated her four times with sons or grandsons of Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) to generate an inbreeding on Allegretta (Lombard) – it is a pedgiree profile very similar to the 2023 Arc third Onesto (Frankel), who is inbred to Urban Sea (Allegretta’s daughter), and the 2021 Arc winner Torquator Tasso (Adlerflug), who’s inbred via Anatevka (Allegretta’s dam). For Absolutly Me this inbreeding produced the modest winner Adlon Rose (Nathaniel), who will be sold in December at the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale by his owners Haras des Etincelles, the Listed-placed

Alessandro (Australia), Ace Impact and Arrow Eagle (Gleneagles), who is an unraced two-year-old in training with Jean-Claude Rouget for the Spanners. She had a foal in 2023 by Waldgeist (Galileo) and was covered by Hello Youmzain (Kodiac) in March and April and then by Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) in May. The 2024 Absolutly Me mating is not planned yet. Of the mare’s mating with Cracksman to produce Ace Impact the stallion was selected not only for the Allegretta inbreeding, but the Spanners reported that they had been really impressed by the son of Frankel as a racehorse. His impressive Prix Ganay (G1) victory certainly provided him a few French-based mares.

Above, Ace Impact going clear to win the Arc, arguably his most impressive performance Below, returning in triumph with jockey Cristian Demuro

He was not bred to be sold

The Spanner are not strictly commercial breeders, and race many of their homebreds often with three or four horses in training. In 2023, the Italian Oaks (G3) third Maylin (Footstepsinthesand) ran in their own colours, and when they started breeding, the dream was to have a Group 1 horse wearing their pink silks. However, when Ace Impact was a yearling, they decided to cut the numbers a little in order to keep things sustainable. There was some thoughts of keeping him, but as he stood out among Haras de Long Champ yearlings the decision was made to have him prepared for Arqana’s August Sale. Serge Stempniak, owner of the colt’s older half-brother Alessandro, asked Rouget to take a look, the trainer liked what he saw and paid €75,000 for the yearling by Cracksman. The price was okay considering that the stallion’s average that year was €64,585 – yet neither was it outstanding as the sale’s average was €163,574.

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“We still have the dam, it’s a waking dream for small breeders like us

The Arc team: a real family affair for owners Gousserie Racing and Ecuries Serge Stempniak, and trainer Jean-Claude Rouget

He was not on the “A” team of Rouget

Rouget admits that Ace Impact was not one of his Classic prospects as a two-year-old. The horse could have debuted in the autumn but, as he was off colour on entry day, Rouget was forced to look at two choices: either a late maiden in November or wait for an easier race in January as a three-year-old. Rouget took the second option, and Ace Impact started in one of the very first maiden races of the 2023 French racing calendar. No one would have ever imagined an Arc winner could come from a Cagnes-surMer Polytrack maiden! From then on and from race to race, the colt progressed impressively, and the first indication of his outstanding ability came at Chantilly where he won the Prix de Suresnes (L) like a superstar. The style of his victory pushed me to try to contact the Spanners, a very discreet couple who remained unknown to most of the French industry members, and on May 8 their first interview was published in Jour de Galop. Ace Impact’s subsequent Jockey-Club victory in a record time produced purchase offers from all around the world. Serge Stempniak made a bold move: he refused the massive figures from Ireland and Asia and accepted Chehboub’s offer to buy half of Ace Impact – even though it was not the biggest price. As a true countryman of France, Stempniak wanted to keep the horse in France

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and he felt confident in his ability to work with his new partners. Kamel Chehboub and Stempniak have the same story: two self-made men from humble beginnings who discovered racing as kids by having a bet on Sunday with family. Both started with small horses bought in claiming races decades ago. And both have started to raise the profile of their investments only recently.

Ecstasy of victory and mixed feelings

At Longchamp, after the Arc victory the Spanners were struggling to realise what had just happened. But who could, right? “Honestly, we find it hard to believe… We won! He always runs the same style... and it’s not good for our hearts to see him this far down the pack!” they laughed then “We are very happy to have our mares with Madame Moser. She does a great job and takes care of the horses perfectly. We still have the dam, it’s a waking dream for small breeders like us.” They would probably tell you they should not have sold Ace Impact. Racing can be cruel at times, as they just had in front of them the horse that could have fulfilled their dreams of Arc victory in their colours. But they still have the dam and she’s only 14.

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The fantastic time enjoyed on the track over the last couple of years has seen a reversal of Shadwell’s recent fortunes; there is a buzz in the air on the stud farm Martin Stevens catches up with the organisation’s European bloodstock manager Stephen Collins

HAT A DIFFERENCE A few years have made for Shadwell. The operation had already embarked on a significant downsizing exercise, reducing its herd and selling land, before its founder Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum passed away in 2021, which led many to wonder whether it would continue at all. But, thanks to a fine run of form for horses bred and bought under the late Sheikh’s expert eye, and his perceptive and passionate daughter Sheikha Hissa taking over the reins, Shadwell enters 2024 in robust health. There has been no shortage of success on the track. Last year Baaeed, a scion of Sheikh Hamdan’s outstanding Height Of Fashion dynasty, won six elite races in a row to be rated the best in Europe since Frankel, while his full-brother Hukum strolled to victory in the Group 1 Coronation Cup in 2022 and came out best of a memorable tussle with Westover in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) this year. The US-based Malathaat was the Eclipse champion three-year-old filly in 2021 and champion older Dirt female the following year. In 2023 the illustrious royal blue silks with white epaulets have been carried to Group 1 victory by not only Hukum but also Alfareeq (Jebel Hatta), Al Husn (Nassau Stakes), Anmaat (Prix d’Ispahan), Danyah (Al Quoz Sprint) and Mostahdaf (Prince of Wales’s Stakes and Juddmonte International). Shadwell also owns plenty of smart two-

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year-olds to suggest that the good times will continue next year and beyond. Alyanaabi won the Tattersalls Stakes (G3) and finished second to City Of Troy in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1), and the unexposed winners Alshinfarah, Elmonjed, Markoon and Murashah all hold abundant promise. The Shadwell stallion roster is also in rude health. The British division, formerly based at Nunnery Stud in Thetford but relocating to Beech House Stud in Newmarket in 2024, features Baaeed, the top miler Mohaather and the newcomer Mostahdaf, while the Irish offering, housed at Derrinstown Stud in County Kildare, contains the commercial bright young thing Minzaal and the widely respected bargain proposition Awtaad. Not bad, all in all, for an operation that was supposedly on the brink of disappearing at the start of the decade. “The only sad thing about the brilliant last couple of years is that Sheikh Hamdan was not here to see the fruits of all his work and dedication,” reflects Shadwell’s European bloodstock manager Stephen Collins at the end of an eventful Flat season. “Next year’s two-year-olds will be the last crop representing his direct involvement. “It’s fantastic that Sheikha Hissa has taken on the family’s interests with such passion and attention to detail, and we’re thrilled she’s achieving so much success. Baaeed is a horse who would headline any owner’s career, but to have the likes of Malathaat, Mostahdaf, Hukum, Anmaat, Al Husn, Minzaal, Alfareeq and Danyah all winning at the highest level internationally within such

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shadwell stallions a short period is fantastic. “After a tough few years, the feeling at Shadwell is very upbeat, as you can imagine. We feel we’re now in a strong position and look forward to the coming seasons both on the track and on our studs.” Baaeed was tremendously popular not just with his owners, but also with the wider breeding community. The son of Sea The Stars was overrun with applications in his first season at Nunnery Stud in 2023 and eventually covered a debut book of 162 mares, 41 per cent of whom were black-type winners in their own racing careers. “We were thrilled with the exceptional quality of the mares put forward by breeders and we’re very grateful for their support for Baaeed in his first season,” says Collins. “It’s a privileged position to be able to select the mares for a stallion, and it wasn’t an easy task. “We wanted to get a good cross-section – younger mares with good race records, proven producers, as well as those who were very well bred. There are a number of more

After a tough few years, the feeling at Shadwell is very upbeat, as you can imagine

precocious types, sprinting pedigrees, as well as milers and middle-distance mares from many of the finest families in Europe. “Sheikha Hissa and the team were very keen to support him with a number of our best mares and we will continue to do so.” Giving more detail about Baaeed’s exceptional introductory book, he adds: “He was limited to 162 mares, and that included 93 stakes performers, ten Group 1 winners and eight dams of Group 1 winners. “To give just a few star names, he covered Deirdre, Eshaada, Nazeef, Persuasive, Queen’s Trust and Search For A Song, as well as the dams of Awtaad, Galileo Gold, Native Trail, Persian King and Ten Sovereigns.

Baaeed: “We were thrilled with the exceptional quality of the mares put forward by breeders.”

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“He also received sisters to the likes of Alpha Centauri, Danedream, Too Darn Hot, Siyouni and St Mark’s Basilica. I think those figures and names represent a first book of outstanding quality.” Baaeed was already a striking physical specimen but he has reportedly taken another step forward in the early days of his new career. His bombproof temperament also came in handy at stud. “He looks a picture heading into his second season,” says Collins. “The stallion team told me his weight increased by ten per cent during the covering season, which shows what an excellent constitution and temperament he has. We couldn’t be more pleased with him and we can’t wait to see his first foals.”

AAEED’S new studmate Mostahdaf, a Frankel half-brother to the dual Group 1 heroine Nazeef out of the Listed-winning Dubawi mare Handassa, should also attract strong support – especially as his opening fee of £15,000 has been widely hailed as excellent value for money. “Yes, we think we’ve priced him attractively,” acknowledges Collins. “He has all the credentials to be a successful stallion. He has the ability, the looks and the pedigree. “He was an outstanding dual Group 1 winner, the highest-rated Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner since Dubai Millennium, and he defeated Paddington and Nashwa in the Juddmonte International. “Those performances, alongside his six other stakes wins, show what a high-class horse he is. He was always held in high regard as a young horse at Derrinstown and the same when he arrived at Clarehaven. He won on debut over 7f by four and a half lengths. “He’s a quality, well-balanced, imposing individual, with an athletic walk. His pedigree is packed with natural speed, being a half-brother to the top miler Nazeef, and he’s from the same family as champion Group 1-winning sprinters Pastoral Pursuits and Goodricke. His pedigree should make serious appeal to commercial breeders.”

shadwell stallions And presumably he’ll receive some choice Shadwell mares in his first season next year? “Oh yes, we’ll be supporting him strongly ourselves,” affirms Collins. “Sheikha Hissa is very keen to do so. Shadwell will be sending him a number of high-class mares in the upcoming season and plan to do so again in future years.”

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OHAATHER’s stallion career has also been underpinned by invaluable home support. The Group 1 Sussex Stakes-winning son of Showcasing’s first two-year-olds in 2024 will include a filly out of Mostahdaf’s half-sister Nazeef and a colt out of South African Group 1 heroine Majmu. The commercially bred members of his debut crop sold well. A top price of 165,000gns was paid by Sackville Donald for a colt out of Wake Up Call consigned by Jamie Railton to Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, while three other lots also made six-figure sums. Six more Mohaather’s yearlings sold for 75,000gns or more, and another ten realised 50,000gns or more. “We’re very pleased with Mohaather’s first yearlings,” says Collins. “The talk about him is strong and it was great to see that so many good judges were behind him at the sales. We’ve bought three of Mohaather’s first crop, two at last year’s foal sales and a yearling colt at Book 2. “He stamps his stock with his own good looks and athletic action. They look like racehorses and look sharp and early. We’ve supported Mohaather strongly throughout with some of our best mares, and we particularly look forward to campaigning the filly out of Nazeef next year. “Given the fact he was a Group winner at two himself, we have high hopes for 2024.” Baaeed and Mohaather had a rather nice home at Nunnery Stud, with its spectacular stallion barn modelled on Three Chimneys in Kentucky, including a square layout that allows the horses to see each other and a high roof. So what prompted the move to Newmarket? “Beech House Stud has been an integral

Mostahdaf winning his second Group 1, putting in a fine performance in the International Stakes

part of the Shadwell operation ever since its purchase in 1990,” says Collins. “Obviously it exerted a strong influence on the thoroughbred breed as the great Nearco stood his entire stud career there. “By standing our stallions in Newmarket we hope it makes them more accessible to breeders. It’ll also be great to see one of the world’s most historic stud farms back to the forefront of thoroughbred breeding. “Over the summer and autumn the stud has seen a major refurbishment to ensure all facilities are fit for a stallion roster of Shadwell’s calibre. It included renovation of the covering barn and updating of the

We’ve supported Mohaather strongly throughout with some of our best mares, and we particularly look forward to campaigning the filly out of Nazeef next year

stallion boxes once home to bygone greats such as Nearco and champion sire Crepello. “We’ve also converted an existing building into a new office for the stallion and nominations team. We offer the best, safest facilities for our stallions and visiting mares.” Still, it must be an emotional wrench to relocate the stallions from Nunnery Stud, with all its rich history? “It’ll be a sad farewell to the outstanding

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Awtaad was earmarked as one of the best value stallions in Ireland last year, and his achievements in 2023 have cemented his position at the top of that list stallion facilities at Nunnery Stud,” concedes Collins. “Many iconic names have stood there since its acquisition in 1986, including breed-shaping sire Green Desert as well as the great Nashwan. “It will remain our private base for the foaling of all Shadwell’s mares visiting British-based stallions, and will continue as the home of the UK head office.”

INZAAL, a son of record-breaking young sire Mehmas who won the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes at two, ran third in the British Champions Sprint (G1) at three and landed the Hackwood Stakes (G3) and Haydock Sprint Cup (G1) at four, captured the imagination of breeders in his first season at Derrinstown. He covered a bumper book of mares at a reasonable fee of €15,000. “Minzaal was very well received in his first year,” says Collins. “As with Baaeed, we had the problem of having to turn away mares. He ticked a lot of boxes for Irish commercial breeders as the highest-rated son of Mehmas, as well as being a good-looking horse with incredible speed. “He won the Gimcrack and placed in the Middle Park at two and scored a devastating three and three-quarter length victory in the Sprint Cup at four. He covered an excellent limited book of 161 mares and we thank the breeders for that. “The book contained 40 black-type performers and he also covered the dams of Group 1 winners, including Aristia and Marhaba Ya Sanafi, as well as the dams of further Pattern scorers such as Asymmetric, Atomic Force, Believing, Create Belief, Donnerschlag, Happy Romance, Home Of The Brave, One For Bobby, Pretty Baby, Santosha, Secret Weapon, Steel Bull and Youth Spirit.

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“Our hopes are very high for his first foals and there seems to be plenty of momentum behind him heading into year two.” Minzaal’s colleague Awtaad, an Irish 2,000 Guineas-winning son of Cape Cross, hasn’t done much wrong at stud but fell out of favour in recent years, covering as few as 16 mares in 2021 and 38 in 2022. However, after supplying a slew of stakes winners, he has gradually won back breeders. He received 79 mares this year for just €5,000, and he repaid his supporters’ faith with an even better set of results in 2023. “Awtaad was earmarked as one of the best value stallions in Ireland last year, and his achievements in 2023 have only cemented his position at the top of that list,” says Collins. “He had two Group 1 winners – Anmaat in the Prix d’Ispahan and Anisette in the Del Mar Oaks – and two Group 3 winners and a Listed winner. “And all that was on top of him producing one of the highest winners-to-runners

strike-rates in Europe. “He covered a good-sized book in 2023, building on his earlier crops, and we’re hopeful that breeders will recognise what excellent value he offers at €5,000 for 2024.” It’s onwards and upwards for Shadwell next year, then, with more big-race success expected on the track and the roster containing something for everyone, from the blue-chip Baaeed to commercial crackerjack Minzaal. Sheikha Hissa’s infectious enthusiasm in the winner’s enclosure will no doubt win new fans, as well. Just one thing, though. Why couldn’t space be found at either Beech House Stud or Derrinstown for Hukum, a beautifully bred winner of two of the most prestigious races in Britain? He is beginning his stallion career next year at Darley Japan instead. “He was a top-class racehorse and we agree it’s a shame that he didn’t join the Shadwell roster,” says Collins, perhaps alluding to British and Irish breeders’ lamentable disregard for middle-distance and staying achievement when it comes to devising their mating plans. “Sheikha Hissa holds this horse in the highest regard and we retain full ownership. We all felt it was our duty to the horse and the Shadwell operation to place him where he had the greatest chance of success.”

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HAQUILLE HAS BEEN THE HEAVY metal front man of the 2023 Turf season. Sure, he showed his idiosyncrasies from time to time, but his unique flair and immense talent only served to make this top-class sprinter all the more endearing. And, moreover, it is not only the three-year-old’s monstrous successes in the Commonwealth and July Cups that have made him so popular, as his backing band have played their part in this remarkable story, too. Shaquille was born, raised and trained in Malton, with husband and wife team Steve Brown and Julie Camacho responsible for guiding the colt through a career that featured seven wins from nine starts. They may have harnessed Shaquille’s latent ability, but the couple are far too modest to share in his rock ‘n’ roll theatrics. Instead they toasted their Royal Ascot triumph with sandwiches during the car ride home, and pushed the boat out only a little further with a service station pizza following the July Cup. In many ways the low-key celebrations neatly illustrate the couple’s approach to training, as they have made a career out of getting the most out of even the humblest of raw materials. But, as Shaquille and others have shown recently, once they get their hands on the right ammunition they know how to hit the target. And if their feet had not remained so firmly on the ground they may never have come this far in the first place. “I’m a realist so I know the chances of us getting another dual Group 1 winner are slim,” says Camacho as she reflects on the events of the last few months. That pragmatic outlook almost saw the couple quit the training ranks after they endured some leaner years in the not too distant past. “It’s a job where hard work doesn’t guarantee you success and there’s plenty of people who put the hours in and never get the reward they deserve,” says Camacho. So what prompted the decision to carry on? “Like a lot of trainers, you end up thinking ‘Well what else can I do?’,” she says.

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“I think that’s the case for a lot of us, and I’m not sure I fancied going and working for somebody else having been my own boss for so long.” Their perseverance has been rewarded in spades. In 2022 the stable sent out a career-

best tally of 47 British winners, and this year Camacho became the highest-earning female trainer in a single season with a prize-money haul of over £1,250,000. The lion’s share of that sum was supplied by Shaquille who was bred by Martin

Where it began to take stakes-race shape: Shaquille’s win in May’s Listed Carnarvon Stakes

Hughes, co-owner of the colt with Michael O’Shaughnessy and Peter Rawlings, and Michael Kerr-Dineen. Shaquille is the third foal out of the appropriately named Magic, who was sourced privately from Coolmore before going into training with John Gosden. The daughter of Galileo never reached the racecourse but she has more than earned her keep with her achievements in the paddocks. Shaquille was born at Battlefield Stud before heading to Star Cottage Stud, where he was raised under the watchful eye of Camacho’s father, Maurice. Once the son of Charm Spirit was old enough to enter training it would be fair to say that he kept his light hidden under a bushel. “I remember watching him when he cantered up here and you certainly wouldn’t have looked at him and thought ‘wow’,”

Shaquille loomed upsides Little Brown Bear in the Commonwealth Cup (G1) at Royal Ascot and then shrugged him aside for his first Group race victory

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says Camacho. “Not me, anyway. He’s a nice looking-horse, he’d take your eye in that sense, but I never thought he’d go on to achieve what he did. The first time we thought he might be alright, not a Group 1 horse mind, was when we started to work him upsides other horses. That’s when he started to show us a bit more.” Shaquille headed to York for a 7f novice stakes on July 22. The date stands out in the Camacho calendar for reasons other than racing as her brother Gavin married his partner Nicole that same day. “Steve wasn’t going to go to the wedding because we had a first-time-out two-year-old at Thirsk then he was going to go on to York for Shaquille,” Camacho recalls. “My brother was quite upset that Steve wasn’t coming, so he came for the ceremony then drove back to York; we all watched the race on my phone.”

HAT THEY SAW made for an enjoyable watch as Shaquille scythed his way through the 13-runner field before sprinting clear to win by

a length and a half. “I’m not saying I expected him to win, but we thought he’d run well at York,” says Camacho. “When our two-year-olds go to the races then if they’re good enough to win that’s great, but it’s more important that they enjoy the experience and want to do it again. “We are not a betting outfit at all but the team in the yard had a bit on him because he was 100-1 and 50-1 to finish in the first six, which was just silly.” What the wedding guests wouldn’t have seen on the phone was Shaquille’s pre-race antics, which left one of those tasked with saddling him nursing a broken rib. “Day to day he’s not a bother so not in a month of Sundays did we expect him to be like that!” says Camacho. “He’d never been off the place before, but it took us completely by surprise.” After a blip in the Listed Acomb Stakes, Shaquille racked up further juvenile victories at York and Wolverhampton, the latter with the aim of qualifying the promising

youngster for the All Weather Championship Finals Day at Newcastle. The three-year-old contest had been Shaquille’s intended seasonal reappearance, but things didn’t go to plan as he refused to enter the stalls. “Newcastle was a complete disaster

because the winter had all revolved around him running there,” says Camacho. “That was his Derby but he wasn’t having it. The owners were brilliant and Martin was the one picking us up, reminding us there’s always another day and that that’s just horses. Steve and I were gutted though, absolutely gutted.” However, from that point on Shaquille never looked back. His belated seasonal reappearance came at a damp Newmarket on 2,000 Guineas day where he proved a cut above a competitive field in a 6f handicap, with subsequent Listed scorer Washington Heights almost 3l back in second. From there he rolled on to Newbury and the Carnarvon Stakes (L) where he duly made all to score by 2l under regular rider James Doyle. The manner of Shaquille’s breakthrough black-type victory may have been comfortable, although the same cannot be said for connections’ journey down from Malton. “The road was closed and we ended up in Oxford and reversing up the back streets,” Camacho recalls. “It wasn’t fun. We abandoned the car in the car park and Steve got there just in time to take Shaquille off Paige [Harrison, groom]

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The early lead taken by Shaquille (above) in the July Cup was never threatened and the son of Charm Spirit went clear (below) to win by a length and a half

as he was leaving the paddock.” Thankfully, Shaquille’s trip from pillar to post proved much more straightforward. By this stage he was not only a hugely promising runner but also an increasingly valuable stallion prospect. Naturally the conversation turned to Group 1 targets, while the offers began to flood in, some of them more optimistic than others. “When we were having lunch after the Carnarvon Stakes, Martin asked me if we’d had a Group 1 winner before,” she says. “I said that we hadn’t, and he replied ‘Well neither have I, so we’re both Group 1 virgins!’. He was so excited. “We even got a couple of offers for Shaquille while we were having lunch. When one of them came in Martin turned to me and asked what I was laughing at.

“I told him someone from abroad had just offered him ten grand for his horse!” What came next almost defied belief. Shaquille rocked up to the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup where he was sent off the fourth favourite behind Sakheer, Lezoo and the odds-on Little Big Bear. “I get very nervous anyway so I was anxious before the race, although the pressure was off a bit because nobody could see Little Big Bear being beaten – he was the certainty of the meeting,” says Camacho. When the stalls opened Shaquille reared, causing him to break slowly and lose many lengths on his rivals.

“I was standing on my own towards the back of the paddock and I just thought that was it and that he couldn’t possibly do any good after that,” says Camacho. “Then he started to stay on and I thought he was going to be second, which would’ve been a blinder of a run in the circumstances.” Approaching the 2f pole Oisin Murphy had Shaquille on the heels of the leaders, and as the runners dashed inside the

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First at Dullingham SHAQUILLE was the first retiree to Newmarket’s newest stallion farm Dullingham Park, the operation owned by Steve Parkin of Clipper Logistics and Branton Court Stud. There is space for six stallions, and Parkin’s advisor Joe Foley says the team wanted to ensure the first horse with his name above the door was a significant one. “Our methodology here in Dullingham Park is to stand the best stallion prospects we can get our hands on,” says Foley. “They tend to be the best racehorses so we were keen to find as good a prospect as we could. “I first noticed Shaquille as a two-year-old when I saw him ahead of the Acomb Stakes – I thought he was the pick of the paddock. “He came onto our radar at Royal Ascot. Once again he was the pick of the paddock – he’s an imposing, gorgeous-looking horse – and the performance he put in out on the track ten minutes later really awakened our interest in him as a stallion prospect. “He’s obviously a sprinter of the highest class. Not just in 2023, he’s one of the best sprinters I’ve seen in a good while. When you factor in his imposing good looks and his pedigree, we thought he was a horse that we’d really love to have at Dullingham.” Shaquille is set to be introduced at a generous-looking fee of £15,000 and Foley reports there has already been plenty of interest from breeders. “We’ve had a big response since we announced he’d be standing here,” he says. “He’s a horse who captured a lot of people’s imaginations when he was racing so he’s got a big reputation and lots of people are interested in him. We can’t wait to start showing him to people.” Dullingham has already been given the seal of approval by Shaquille’s connections, as Foley adds, “We brought Julie Camacho, Steve Brown and Martin Hughes down here in the autumn. “They were blown away by the facility and what it’s going to be, and they were delighted that Shaquille was the first horse to retire here, especially once they could visualise where he’s going to be living from now on. “That was important to us because he’s been their baby.”

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final furlong he was virtually upsides Little Big Bear and with a podium place secured. Little Big Bear quickened past the pace-setting Swingalong as anticipated, but no sooner had the odds-on favourite worked his way to the front than Shaquille loomed alongside, stuck his head down and began to surge clear. By the time the post came, the margin of victory was a decisive one and a quarter lengths. “It wasn’t until the closing stages when I thought ‘Bloody hell, he’s going to win!’” says Camacho. “It was a bit of a shock. That’s when you let it all out, all the stress and the emotion of the job. Those are the horses that get you up at 4.30 in the morning. Judicial has been an absolute star for us but we’ve never had one like Shaquille before.” Next stop on the roller-coaster was the Group 1 July Cup for another swashbuckling, if somewhat unorthodox, performance. Shaquille again blew the start but was allowed to stride on by Rossa Ryan, and by halfway the pair had nosed to the front. When the jockey asked for more effort 2f out it seemed for all money that too much energy had been expended in the early part of the race. However, there were few moments of worry in the closing stages as Shaquille strode on determinedly to score by a length and half. “Like everybody else, I thought he’d done too much,” says Camacho. “He just kept going though. That was a relief more than anything because there was a bit more expected off him then.” Shaquille was not the team’s only noteworthy success story this season, as a rejuvenated Significantly claimed the Ayr Gold Cup at the end of his first term with the stable. Those accomplishments have seen Camacho thrust firmly into the racing limelight, although when asked if she’s enjoyed the additional attention she replies in typically unassuming fashion, simply saying “It’s just not me.” She says the giddy highs provided by Shaquille haven’t fully sunk in, and that instead the team are still

When we go on holiday and have time to think about things I think we’ll reflect that we’ll never have another year like it!

inclined to be their own harshest critics. And while Shaquille’s departure to stud brings this chapter to a close, the story may not be done just yet. As well as anticipating training some “little Shaqs” in future years, their stable star’s three-parts brother by Cable Bay will be among their 2024 juvenile squad. “When we go on holiday and have time to think about things I think we’ll reflect that we’ll never have another year like it,” she says. “Although if you speak to Steve, because we haven’t had that many winners or done so well with some of the lesser horses, he feels we haven’t had a good year! “We’ll not repeat this season though, so if this is a bad year then we’re in trouble!”

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Natalia Lupini: studied pyschology but horses were always the goal. The business side came together when she and Bryson made their plans

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By Ronan Greene

A meeting of minds

Natalia Lupini and Craig Bryson enjoyed a first Listed winner this summer with Kitty Rose, and the pair have ambitious plans for their exciting training venture

EET NATALIA LUPINI. The Italian psychologist turned racehorse trainer. A young woman making waves in a profession still widely dominated by men. In December she will sit alongside the biggest names in Irish racing at the Horse Racing Ireland Awards via her nomination for the Flat Achievement Award after a brilliant 2023. Meet Craig Bryson. Natalia’s partner. He spent 11 years in Ballydoyle learning from the best. He’s gone from working with a couple of point-to-pointers in his spare time to handling Flat horses in all of his time. Two talented horse people; and the game changed for both Lupini and Bryson when they met a few years ago. They put their heads together and generated a business plan that revolves around sourcing quality stock, largely from breeze-up yards, before and after the sales, to join their base on Grovehill Road, just outside Banbridge, County Down. That plan is coming together more than nicely. When Barnso stayed on stoutly to take a 7f maiden at Dundalk midway through October, it was win number 15 for the year. That was one better than last year and last year was a pretty good year – the break-out year for their operation. That is the tangible measure of progress that every trainer yearns for. “Before I met Craig, I was working with my own horses and running a few horses

Craig Bryson: served his time at Ballydoyle and, seemingly, did not go around with his eyes or ears closed

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for my friends,” Lupini explained. “We put our heads together and turned the operation more into a business to try and find some quality horses to run as two-year-olds, sales prospects of our own. “We’ve been quite lucky with the horses we’ve sourced. We’ve picked up a few new owners, as well. That brings a bit more pressure, but you get more confidence when you see the results on the track, especially when you’re doing that in Ireland. It’s so competitive here, you’re competing against the best trainers and owners in the world, so there is a huge satisfaction there when it comes off.”

EET KITTY ROSE. A daughter of Invincible Army, who was being prepped by Robson Aguiar for the Arqana May Breeze Up Sale when the Brazilian was approached by Lupini and Bryson. They did a deal and instead of heading for Arqana, this filly was put through her paces up the Old Vic at The Curragh. Billy Lee hopped off her and confirmed what her trainer was thinking, a very nice two-year-old. A big, scopey filly, she was given plenty of time before making her debut at the end of August where she ran out an impressive winner of a Naas maiden from the well-regarded Dermot Weld-trained, Aga Khan-owned filly Tannola. She went on to win the Listed Ingabelle Stakes at Leopardstown at the Irish Champions Festival and that was a breakthrough moment, a first Listed win and a win on one of the biggest weekends in the Flat racing world. Yet another key indicator that what Lupini and Bryson were doing was working. The latter explains: “We source a lot of our two-year-olds from the breeze-up yards before they go to the sales or even after the sales. We do that because you just have a wee bit more information about them. “If we have owners and they want to buy nice two-year-olds, you know if you’re buying them in the spring you won’t have as long to wait and you have a better idea of

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The first Listed winner: Kitty Rose taking the Ingabelle Stakes for Lupini and Bryson

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natalia lupini where the horses are. “If you’re buying them in the yearling sales, you’re probably not spending as much, but you’re waiting longer and then there is a greater uncertainty there. “We go to people we trust and rely on and Robson has been very good to us – we’ve had success with horses he has recommended to us before. He thought this filly fitted the bill. “Look, we’ve been lucky with her. “We always said she’d be next year’s filly and this year is a bonus, but for her to go and win at the Irish Champions Festival is huge for us, the owners and everyone in the yard – that is where we want to be competing.” Lupini grew up in Milan but she doesn’t come from a racing background. Indeed her first experience of anything that resembled racing came from family trips to Tuscany, where she saw the famous Palio di Siena, a fierce contest that takes place on the square of the Italian town of Siena. She began working in racing yards in Milan and travelled to Ireland at the age of 19 to gain more experience. She

went back home to complete a psychology degree, but travelled back to Ireland almost immediately after. By then working with horses was the only thing she wanted to do. Abstraction is probably the watershed moment for her career. She bought him for just €6,000 at Goresbridge, put him into training with Sarah Dawson and the horse took her to Dubai for the World Cup Carnival. Seeing first hand how it could be done, Lupini decided to take out her own licence, train for herself and for friends.

were sick for a while so it was a tough start. But I have always kept a positive attitude to training horses and that really got me through. Maybe the psychology studies helped! “My family still all live in Italy. They had no real interest in horses until I started training. They come over and visit now, and enjoy going racing and seeing the set up. “I just loved being in Ireland from when I first arrived. I look at Ireland, the facilities and everything is top class. I think it is one of the best places that anybody can train, and work with horses, and that was always the way I was thinking.” Bryson served an extensive undergrad at Ballydoyle, and the experience he gained there, developing yearlings and two-yearolds first hand, has proved invaluable. “The only way to do it in Ballydoyle is the right way,” he asserts. “I took plenty away from it. The importance of routine, consistency and just doing everything right. Horses thrive off routines so once you get them settled in, that is the way for them to develop. “There are no shortcuts at Ballydoyle. That’s the big thing. Anybody can take horses out and canter them, but it’s the little things that catch you out. Anything small needs to be dealt with straight away. “It’s that honesty with yourself really.” While both Lupini and Bryson bring separate skills and horsemanship, it goes without saying that they work well together, and in turn with their team. The results have helped, of course, with the yard transforming into a progressive outfit that aims to compete in the ultracompetitive scene of juvenile maidens – five of their 15 wins this year came with twoyear-olds. “I think we both find training very enjoyable,” Lupini says. “For me it’s great to have someone to share it with now – the love of horses and training and also an ambition.

It’s so competitive here, you’re competing against the best trainers and owners in the world, there is a huge satisfaction

ER NUMBERS were never big yet she was still able to get big results, more recently through the eighttime winner Blairmayne and Dunum, who cost €2,800. His wins have included this year’s €100,000 Ahonoora Handicap at Galway. “It was tough to get going,” recalls Lupini. “Some things at the start just didn’t work out and the horses

Returning in triumph: Kitty Rose and Billy Lee

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natalia lupini “We discuss the horses a lot and we’ve a great team now in the yard, very dedicated – it helps when you’re getting good results. “We’ve got some really good owners who have supported us well. Maybe we will have more numbers [of horses] next year but at the same time, we want to concentrate on keeping the quality levels high, and improving those levels again. Bryson picks up off that point: “The quality is what we’re after. I couldn’t see us getting to 100 horses. I think if we got to 50 and we were happy with the quality level, that would be ideal. “Staffing is a huge part of it and seems to be an issue for nearly every trainer in Ireland. We have a very good team now, but if you were going to get more horses, you’d need the staff in place beforehand. “If you have too many horses and not enough staff then you have to start cutting corners and that doesn’t work. You need good riders to do this job. “Another big thing for us is involving owners as much as we can. Even if they are happy enough for you to kick on, we try to incorporate them in the plans for each horse, what training we’re doing, what race we are going for and why. “We always want to keep them in the loop because that can improve their experience as well, add another dimension to it.”

After her Listed victory the filly lost her unbeaten record in October’s Group 3 Staffordstown Stakes, but Bryson was very pleased with that run, and the dream is very much alive. “When the owners purchased her, they bought her as a nice horse to have running in nice races,” Bryson explains. “They were getting offered plenty of money and they were going to sell her but they’re happy to keep her in the yard and run next year. She is still valuable at the end of the year then. “We were happy with her at The Curragh. It was her first run over a mile and racing on very soft ground. She got left in front plenty

early, got hassled all the way and did plenty. I think she did well to finish where she did. It was good to get another run into her and we’ve always thought she is one for next year. “It’s great for Natalia and great for the yard that you have those few horses through the winter that you know can compete with the best of them.” Lupini adds: “We always said along the way that she will fill into herself later in the year and will be a proper nice three-year-old. Everyone dreams of a Classic contender. She could be one! “We’ll take it one day at a time, one step at a time. The goal is to improve the quality of horses and compete on the bigger stages.”

The season’s big earner: Dunum (Ivawood) wins the valuable Ahonoora Handicap at Galway

IKE MOST YARDS at this time of year, Lupini’s base now is going through transition with this year’s horses let off, and a section of next year’s horses ready to come in. They bought yearlings, but will once again use their contacts to source more ready-to-go juveniles in the spring. Perhaps more significantly, they can look forward to Kitty Rose going into battle for them again, a plan which seemed quite unlikely only last month. The filly was just about to be sold to American owners when the deal fell through. Her syndicate – Nigel O’Hare, Gary Devlin and the Kabin Racing Syndicate – then also considered entering her in the Champions Day Sale at Ascot, but have now decided to keep her.

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Putting it all together

F YOU HAVE MANAGED to find your way through the first two parts in this series, besides deserving an award for doing so, we hope that you will find what follows ties everything together, and answers the question, “what is the best use case of the technology we have?” Let’s first take a step back and think about the initial purpose of developing Velox, as covered in the first post. What we have aimed to create is a co-pilot that at a yearling sale will act as a filter to enable us to select elite runners far more frequently than the norm. What we also wanted to create was something that was scalable, with no limits to the data that could be added beyond the time taken to do so.

Creating a Selection Pipeline

The scalability had us thinking about the best use case of Velox. If it is possible to effectively examine 100s of horses in a

THIS IS the third article in a three-part series taken from Byron Rogers’ Performance Genetics blog explaining how he has used machine learning and artificial intelligence to find yearlings who have the best chance of becoming elite racehorses. In this piece he explains how things work on a practical basis. Read the previous articles here:

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day (the application can process 20 horses concurrently in an hour and we could scale that up more if we wanted to), then we can start thinking about a population of yearlings as a whole – looking at the first yearling to sold at first yearling sale of the year and treating it exactly the same as the very last yearling to go through the last sale. Bearing in mind that an application is only as a good as the data that it is given, obtaining a clear representation of a horse at the walk or in a posed stance, and a good cardio scan, is vital. We, or at least the programme, also doesn’t succumb to the potential foibles of an agent or trainer who may have seen a previous 2,000 or so yearlings before getting deep into Book 5 of the Keeneland September Sale, or is on their 100th hike back up from Highflyer to the sales ring at Tattersalls; the computer doesn’t get tired. The computer doesn’t get “horse blind” from looking at too many horses during a day, it doesn’t need to reset itself with a cup

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machine learning 3 of coffee to get focused again. It just gets it done the same consistent way for every horse. If one considers the volume of yearlings that are available – say 10,000 yearlings in North America, 6,000 in Europe and the same number in Australia/New Zealand, if we just pick the 6,000 as a sample population we know the following: • Of the 6,000, only roughly 4,500 of these will have enough starts to generate information that can be used to make future predicitions on. • Of the 6,000 only about 180 (three per cent) of a general population like this turn out to be stakes winners, which, to be honest, is what we are aiming to own. It’s a little higher number in some more commercial sales, but lower in the less commercial yearling sales. • Of the 6,000 yearlings about 5,820 you want to avoid at all costs. Sure, there is fun to be had with some of them if you just want to win a race, but buying horses is expensive, racing horses is expensive and thus selection mistakes are expensive. If the goal is to build a “Selection Pipeline”, a series of models applied in sequence that selects a subset of the population, the two important metrics when it comes to the application of the models are: • Precision – or strike rate, for every 100 horses it likes, how many turn out to be elite? The benchmark for a good agent or trainer is 10-12 per cent. • Recall – of the horses it likes that are elite, what percentage is that of all possible elite horses? There is obviously a trade off to be had. Most agents or trainers who are buying have the goal of precision. After all, they only have so many shots to take on goal, so taking a precise shot is better. If a trainer is going to fill their yard up with a dozen horses each spring, it’s better to stuff in as many elite horses in that dozen as they can. Precision comes at the cost of recall. As we become more precise, we discard the horses that are less predictable for whatever reason and focus on those that are more predictable,

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Of the 6,000

yearlings there are about 5,820 you want to avoid at all costs leaving some elite horses to the side. It isn’t possible to perfectly classify all horses in every sale and that is not the goal of Velox and it shouldn’t be the goal of anyone who goes to a yearling sale to buy horses. As we discussed in an earlier post, elite horses come in all different shapes and sizes because they are doing things on different surfaces, at different ages, at different times of their careers. The variation is too much.

Precision and recall

Looking at the data, the hardest type of horse to predict is a filly, racing early in spring as a three-year-old who wins a Group/Graded stakes race over a mile or more on turf in North America. Why? Fillies are slightly harder to predict than colts generally, fillies racing early in the spring as three-year-olds are the ones who have matured as late two-yearolds and have that window to be better than the filly that is going to an improver as summer arrives and they get another growth kick; not many fillies want to run past a mile early in the spring – and the ones who were good sprinters as juveniles don’t try it. Finally, racing at that time of the year on Turf in North America Byron Rogers working at the sales

is about the weakest division of racing there is. Those horses are, of course, the ones that someone cites when they say “your models missed this horse”! We have grown accustomed to this. We understand the rarity of the elite horse which is why people get annoyed when you miss one, but we also understand the process and the data and that you can never get 100 per cent recall – but if you can trust the process, the models will gravitate you towards the elite horse. This is why it is difficult to apply Velox as a “vetting” procedure at the tail of a list supplied by an agent or trainer.

machine learning 3 First, Velox says “no” to a high percentage of horses. If you supplied us with a list of 20 horses and said “let me know what you think”, how do you think the numbers would work? Let’s take a look at a hypothetical population of 1,000 horses, with three per cent elite and use the Biomechanics Model (explained previously) with a threshold of 0.5. So, in a hypothetical population of 1,000 horses, the biomechanics model would select only 30 of them (about three per cent) and have 26 of these correct. So, if someone supplied us with a list of 20, it might be coming back with just one! Thankfully, while the metrics of the model are correct, the model is built on a balanced dataset and thus the hypothetical situation isn’t real because the distribution of probabilities in a real world population falls a little bit differently to what it would if the probabilities were normally distributed. So, in real world data, not an evenly balanced dataset that the machine-learning model has worked on, if we keep the threshold at 0.5, the Precision in a real world population falls from 86.3 per cent to 34.19 per cent and recall from that same number to 60.05 per cent. That seems a fair fall in precision, but when you consider that the best agent or trainer at the sales is batting with a win per cent at about 10-12 per cent, 34.19 per cent is still a significant advantage.

So in our hypothetical population of 1,000, with 30 good ones, but applying the real world precision (34.19 per cent) and recall (64.5 per cent) figures to it, the Biomechanics Model would select approximately 20 elite horses and 59 horses in total. This is 5.9 per cent of the 1,000 from the initial population, so if someone gave us a list of 20 to “vet”, they might get one. These updated values reflect the trade-off between precision and recall. The lower precision has led to more false positives, and consequently, more samples are selected, while the true positives are fewer. But what if to those horses that the Biomechanics Model scores with a probability of 0.5 or higher, 59 horses with 20 of these as elite, we then applied the Conformation Model? Similar to the Biomechanics Model, while in a balanced dataset the Conformation Model has good precision and recall, in a real world dataset it is not nearly as strong. The recall of the Conformation Model is 60.3 per cent, so given that there are 20 elite, it will find 12 of these, but it will do this giving a shortlist of just 31 with a precision or strike-rate of ~40 per cent. By applying the second model, precision

We understand the rarity of the elite horse which is why people get annoyed when you miss one

or strike-rate, of the selection should rise from 34 per cent to 40 per cent. To be honest, while they are independent models, that is, the Biomechanics Model has completely different data to the Conformation Model, I think that they are somewhat analogous in that a horse identified with good shape/conformation, tends to walk in an efficient way which the Biomechanics Model picks up on. So, that sort of relates to why there is a high precision when both models are applied.

Think of it like this:

So that is what we have now done to create a Selection Pipeline. We can implement the Biomechanics Model first, as it has the higher recall so it is keeping more elite horses in the mix, and then the Conformation Model on those that are above the 0.5 threshold for biomechanics. There are a couple of negatives for this approach, the main one being is that at just three per cent of the population, you need to cover a lot of ground to get horses

The Selection Pipeline: artificial intelligence brings all the background work and the various detailed processes together in an outline such as this

The Selection Pipeline There are elite horses that the biomechanics model won’t score > = 0.5 There are elite horses that the conformation model won’t score > = 0.5 There are elite horses that will score well on one model, but not the other

Biomechanics >= 0.5 threshold

Subset of horses that >= 0.5 on both models

Conformation >= 0.5 threshold

Those that score well on both will be rare, but accurate

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machine learning 3 bought, but if there are 6,000 yearlings or so in Europe and more in the US, if you are looking at that 6,000 and it is selecting three per cent of them, that is still 180 to choose from. There is also, even with precision of ~40 per cent, that if you did buy 10 yearlings that you wouldn’t get the four elite horses that you should. It is possible, but unlikely that you end up with less than four and also possible that you would end up with more than four. A positive for this approach however is that it creates a fairly easily achieved, repeatable process towards evaluating yearlings in as much as it is treating the first and last horse at any sale as the same and it also allows you enough room to make decision as a horseman in terms of eliminating those who would not stand up to training. If you really think about the data that is being put into the models, neither the Biomechanics or Conformation models consider how the horse walks towards you or away from you, so any conformation defects from that perspective are down to closer inspection. Equally it has no consideration of height, with actual leg length and relative body length being large determinants of stride length parameters. The Selection Pipeline pushes you towards the elite horse like a co-pilot, but if the horseman is focused on the shortlist that the Selection Pipeline is defining, it doesn’t supplant the view of the horseman on their own experience with what they have seen succeed.

Where are we now?

We have a dataset now of just over 3,350 yearlings that are now active (have 3+ starts and are three-year-old’s or older) and those with a threshold of over 0.5 for both the Biomechanics Model and the Conformation Model. This list of 111 yearlings that appear on “the shortlist” is 3.3 per cent of the 3,350, so it is a select list. Of those that make the list, 52 of these, almost 47 per cent of them, are now elite runners (have a race rating of 3.0 or better).

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...faster horses

have a longer diagonal step length than slower horses, and that step length is positively correlated with velocity The volume selected at 3.3 per cent is slightly higher than it should be given the modeling (at three per cent), as is the precision (elite to shortlist) at almost 47 per cent (compared to 40 per cent), but the difference between what the modeling says should be elite, and what is appearing as elite, is just eight horses, so we are comfortable that is in the bounds of expectation. If we were wanting to be really clever we could create a model that used the two probabilities of the Biomechanics and the Conformation models to create a new

meta-model, but for our purpose right now, it is good enough for us just to use the 0.5 threshold for both models as a selection cutoff – two well trained models saying “yes” to a yearling is enough.

Future Improvements

As we have mentioned in previous posts, we have set up Velox now so that the models iterate each month, learn and improve based on ever increasing datasets. We will do some tinkering along the way, probably increasing the cutoff for the Race Rating to be considered an elite horse so we have less Listed class horses and more Group class horses, but as far as the models themselves are concerned, we can’t see much to change. From above we have also shown how the combined probabilities in a selection pipeline of the Biomechanics and Conformation model put you in a very strong position for a “shortlist”, but what else could be done to improve the yearling selection pipeline? Well, as discussed above, the current selection pipeline gets down to selecting ~3 to 3.5 per cent of all horses. That is fairly

It has been found that the diagonal movement and distance in a gallop correlates to speed

machine learning 3 specific, but if you think about the volume of horses that are available – if we just pick the 6,000 as a sample population and are able to put everything through the Selection Pipeline, that is still 210 horses that it would potentially select. If we consider that there are: • 30 per cent that we can’t buy because they are too expensive or we get outbid on • 30 per cent that we won’t buy because they have a conformation flaw or have a vetting issue that sees them as a high risk. • that leaves us with 40 per cent we can buy If we were to apply the Selection Pipeline as above and can buy 40 per cent of the 210 that the selection pipeline that is still 84 horses, which is a lot of horses. So what could be done to improve it and increase the precision or strike rate from 45 per cent to above 50 per cent without giving away too much of the 3-3.5 per cent or 210 horses?

The diagonal distance: the final answer?

There were two things that have been percolating in my brain at the same time, and have come together as an avenue of research that I think is worth investigating. The first was from this paper, “Effects of fatigue on stride parameters in Thoroughbred racehorses during races”.* They had some interesting findings in the paper, the most interesting of which was that diagonal step length (the distance between the lead hindlimb and trail forelimb) was associated with racehorse performance – faster horses have a longer diagonal step length than slower horses, and that step length is positively correlated with velocity. It’s this diagonal distance when you look at a horse at full gallop. So the longer that diagonal distance is, the faster the horse is, or at least the better it is in dealing with fatigue. So that got me thinking, what if that relates to yearlings at the walk? Everyone who looks at horses has been told to look at the “overstep” of the horse as it is somewhat easy to do and there is a belief it is correlated to stride length and efficiency.

So the longer that

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diagonal distance is, the faster the horse is, or at least the better it is in dealing with fatigue

We look at the near forelimb, and see how far over the hind forelimb travels past it. But what if that is wrong and instead of looking at that, we should be looking at this? That distance is nearly impossible to pick up with the human eye as the horse walks (I’ve tried, as have others, it is really hard to measure by eye). Of course, we are making a presumption that what occurs at the walk is related to what occurs at the gallop, but it is an avenue of research I think worth investigating. The second part is also related to the above I believe. If we go back and look at the data, when we look at the Biomechanics video, frame by frame as the horse walks from left to right, and start to work out where in the video the predictions are most accurate, it turns out (unsurprisingly) that this is when the horse is walking perpendicular to the camera. So the idea I have now is to examine the data generated by the horse as it is being “walked with” by the camera. Again, we won’t know the distance from the horse to the camera, but we will still be able to generate some novel data and take a closer look at the data to see if the hypothesis about diagonal step length at the walk is related to it at the gallop (I have a feeling it is, but it is also related to bone lengths and angles to generate the distance). It is a matter of training a new neural network model to place the markers that we are interested in on the horse, generating the data, and testing the hypothesis. * Yuji Takahashi, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Kazutaka Mukai, Hajime Ohmura

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4 [1.40]

[% of starters]

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Sire of a Classic winner in 2023 Marhaba Ya Sanafi 1st Poule d’Essai des Poulains Gr1 Longchamp rd 3 Prix du Jockey Club Gr1 Chantilly

Israr

1st Princess Of Wales’s Stakes Gr.2 Newmarket 2nd Cumberland Lodge Stakes Gr.3 Ascot 2nd The Aston Park Stakes Gr.3 Newbury

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1st Green Flash Handicap Gr.3 Del Mar 1st San Simeon Stakes Gr.3 Santa Anita

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1st Racing Bengough Stakes Gr.3 Ascot

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2nd July Cup Stakes Gr.1 Newmarket

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2023 was his best year so far on the track with 22 Stakes performers including:

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yearling sales

Financial pressures

Some yearling sales this autumn did well yet others were very difficult, writes Jocelyn de Moubay. He argues that the issues are more involved

than mere market correction – recent inflationary pressures have had a significant influence, and the rise in leading stallion fees over the last seven years has hit on profitability. However, many commercial breeders in France have still done very well recently, and it is not just because of premiums

Major European sales % change in 2023 compared with 2019

Tattersalls 1 & 2

-6.40

BBAG Sept

-7.30

Arqana A + V2+ O

+18.0

Goffs Orby

+14.0

Goffs Premier

-17.0

Combined

0.60

HERE WERE MOMENTS during the European yearling sales season when it may have felt as if the good times were still rolling, there were individuals who made seven-figure sums at Arqana, Goffs and Tattersalls, However, this year, all involved realised that something has changed since the pre-Covid years of plenty. At the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale, 391 yearlings were sold for a total of 95.4 million guineas, down by 25 per cent from 2022’s record sale. After the event we were told that this fall was only to be expected, the 2022 sale had been an exceptional one and it was normal the market should return to an earlier level. This would have been a more convincing argument if it had been put forward by anybody before the sale started, although at the same time it is obviously true that the $18 million spent by Richard Knight at the 2022 sales had a significant effect on the overall market.

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The October Book 1 top lot: the son of Frankel was sold by Hascombe and Valiant Stud for 2,000,000gns to MV Magnier and White Birch Farm (Lot 266) Photo: Alisha Meeder | Tattersalls

yearling sales Major European sales 2019-2023 (+/- % change year on year, in $)

Wathnan Racing was a new

2019

buyer of yearlings and its agent Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock became the leading buyer in terms of numbers and the third-biggest in terms of money spent

Nos Sold

Aggregate $ (m)

% change

Tattersalls 1 & 2

1,017

204.0

-1.0

BBAG Sept

136

8.9

30.0

Arqana A + O

908

73.0

7.0

Goffs Orby

362

47.0

-5.0

Goffs UK Premier

376

23.0

-3.0

2,799

356.0

Tattersalls 1 & 2

1,006

178.0

-13.0

BBAG Sept

148

7.2

-19.0

Arqana S + O

916

67.2

-10.0

Goffs Orby

308

27.3

-42.0

Goffs UK Premier

313

14.4

-37.0

2,691

294.0

-18

Tattersalls 1 & 2

1,025

202.0

13.0

BBAG Sept

146

7.9

11.0

Arqana A + O

962

81.1

21.0

Goffs Orby

370

47.0

72.0

Combined

2020 The fall in the aggregate at what has long been Europe’s most expensive yearling sale did, of course, mean that by the end of the season the overall

market was down, even if, in dollar terms, the total decline in aggregate was only five per cent as the strong sales at Goffs and Arqana made up for some Photo: Goffs

Combined

2021

Goffs UK Premier Combined

357

18.2

26.0

2,860

356.0

21.0

1,057

222.0

10.0

2022 Above, Goffs Orby top lot, by Frankel and out of Multilingual, bought by MV Magnier for €1,850,000 (Lot 525), and, below, the Arqana top lot. The son of Dubawi sold by Haras d’Etreham fetched €2,400,000, and was purchased by Oliver St Lawrence (Lot 214)

Tattersalls 1 & 2 BBAG Sept

149

7.9

-0.5

Arqana A + S+ O

1,062

80.5

-0.7

Goffs Orby

407

49.4

5.1

Goffs Premier

345

17.7

-2.7

Combined

3,020

378.0

6.0

Tattersalls 1 & 2

1,017

191.0

-14.0

BBAG Sept

164

8.25

4.0

Arqana A + V2+ O

742

86.6

7.6

Goffs Orby

385

53.6

8.5

Goffs Premier

327

19.0

7.3

Combined

2,635

358.0

-5.3

2023

Photo: Laura Green

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yearling sales of the loss of turnover in Newmarket. The aggregate at October Book 1 and 2 combined was down by 14 per cent on 2022’s record year. Turnover at Arqana’s major yearling sales and the Goffs Orby sale both rose by about eight per cent. Godolphin and the Coolmore partnership were once again the major buyers spending around $45 million together and, as has also been the case for many years, accounting for between 10-15 per cent of the market at Europe’s best yearling sales. Wathnan Racing was a new buyer of yearlings and allowed its agent Richard Brown and Blandford Bloodstock to become the leading buyer in terms of numbers and the third-biggest in terms of money spent. Blandford has many other clients, but Wathnan has been a major new investor in yearlings

Turnover at Arqana’s major yearling sales and the Goffs Orby Sale both rose by about eight per cent

Photo: Alisha Meeder | Tattersalls

Shadwell’s big spend of 1,600,000gns on this daughter of Frankel and out of Millisle, sold by Watership Down Stud (Lot 492)

as well as in horses-in-training. Another newcomer at the very top of the market was Nurlan Bizakov’s Sumbe, the buyer of a 1.1 million guineas Lope De Vega colt from Ballylinch Stud at October 1 and in total ten yearlings for $4.6 million. Middle Eastern buyers play an important role in the market for select yearlings in Europe and, aside from Godolphin and Wathnan, several other buyers were active at the top of the market hailing from Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Major yearling purchasers by spend: 2021

Major yearling purchasers by spend: 2020

Purchased

Spend ($ millions)

MV Magnier

20.0

Godolphin

17.0

19.0

Blandford

13.0

12.0

Stroud/Coleman

11.0

8.3

Sackville Donald

9.1

6.3

AC Elliott

7.9

6.1

Olivier St Lawrence

7.4

6.1

Mike Ryan

5.4

Rabbah

4.1

Al Shira’aa

5.4

Al Shaqab

4.0

White Birch

4.0

Varian/Ryan

3.5

Hong Kong Jockey Club

3.4

David Redvers

3.2

Rabbah

2.9

Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millions)

Godolphin/Stroud/Coleman

36.0

MV Magnier

Shadwell

Oliver St Lawrence White Birch Sackville Donald Mike Ryan

Hong Kong Jockey Club

2.9

Combined

327

110.0 (37% of total)

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Klaravich Stables

Combined

386

2.0 109.0 (31% of total)

FIRST

YEARLING

2024

UBETTABELIEVEIT

MASSAAT

KODIAC – LADY LISHANDRA (MUJADIL) Fee: £5,000 1st Oct S.L.F

TEOFILO - MADANY (ACCLAMATION) Fee: £3,000 1st Oct S.L.F

By KODIAC - World Record Holder for 2-y-o winners, Champion European Sire of 2-y-os 2020, Sire of emerging young sires Ardad, Prince of Lir, Coulsty and Kodi Bear, all Gr.1 producers

By Teofilo, sire of 15 Gr.1 winners

UBETTABELIEVEIT – winner of three races and £116,503 all over 5f including: EBF Novice Stakes Doncaster, LR National S. Sandown, Gr.2 Flying Childers S. Doncaster. Also 3rd Gr.2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, all at 2.

UBETTABELIEVEIT

Brother to Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup winner EQTIDAAR Gr.1 placed at 2, 3 and 4, Gr.2 winner over 7f Off to a great start at stud, multiple winners include LR Pat Eddery Stakes Placed Mascapone, US Stakes-Performer Mas Rapido, Docklands (Royal Ascot winner), Coco Jamboo (3 wins), Granny Budgie (3 wins) Yearlings sold for £45,000, £44,000, £43,000, etc.

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yearling sales a 1.6 million guinea Frankel filly from Watership Down. Two other buyers who made their mark in 2023 were Jean-Claude Rouget and the

The group also included Shadwell, which spent more than it had done in the years since the death of Sheikh Hamdan, including purchasing

Major yearling purchasers by spend: 2022 Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millions)

Godolphin

41.8

MV Magnier/White Birch

22.6

Richard Knight

18.4

Stroud/Coleman

11.0

Blandford

9.6

AC Elliott

6.1

Sackville Donald

5.1

Oliver St Lawrence

4.5

Klaravich Stables

4.3

Rabbah

4.3

Hong Kong Jockey Club

4.1

Al Shira’aa

3.1

Combined

400

131 (35% of total)

Major yearling purchasers by spend: 2023 Buyer

Purchased

Spend (millions)

Godolphin

24.8

MV Magnier/White Birch

21.0

Blandford

17.0

Stroud/Coleman

15.4

AC Elliott

13.0

Olivier St Lawrence

11.0

Al Shaqab

7.3

F Barberini

5.6

Shadwell

5.5

JC Rouget

5.2

Sumbe

4.6

Richard Knight

4.4

Klaravich Stables

4.4

Hong Kong Jockey Club

4.3

Rabbah

3.3

Combined

494

197 (55% of total)

British-based Italian Frederico Barberini. Rouget signed for 42 yearlings, mainly at Arqana but also at October Book 2. Given that he bought Ace Impact for €75,000 and Almanzor for €100,000 it is not surprising his owners should have confidence in him to select their yearlings. Barberini originally made his name by buying cheap and successful yearlings for Italian clients, but these days he buys at every level of the market for influential owners such Steve Parkin and Gerard Augustin Normand among others. Important international buyers included Mike Ryan and Klaravich Stables, loyal clients of the October Book 1 Sale and the Hong Kong Jockey Club, who spent around $4 million as it had in 2022. Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm was active again, even if this year it bought mainly in partnership with Coolmore. There is strong international demand for the best European yearlings and, despite the fall in the aggregate at October Book 1, overall these sales combined returned a turnover of $358 million, more or less the same as the $356 million they had returned in 2019, the year before the pandemic. Looking at the figures there will be many who believe this was a necessary correction after a year in which one of the biggest buyers failed to complete his purchases and that the outlook for the future remains strong. The problem is that this “corrective” view fails to take

The problem is that this ‘corrective’ view fails to take account of the inflationary period we have lived through

account of the inflationary period we have lived through and, in particular the rise in the cost of the best stallions, for those commercial breeders who

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yearling sales do not own them. From 2010 to 2018 the aggregate at Tattersalls October Book 1 increased every year in real terms and in only eight years the total went from 55 million guineas to 120 million guineas in 2023 sterling, a rise of 120 per cent. Yet from 2018 to 2023 the aggregate in real terms went from 120 million guineas to 95.4 million, a fall of around 20 per cent. The same trend is there if you look at October Book 1 and 2 together, from 2019 to 2023 the aggregate fell by 19 per cent in real terms and the average by 27 per cent. The aggregate at the 2023 October Book 1 was 95.4 million guineas, which in real terms is similar to the 93.7 million guineas returned in 2015.

HE big difference, for those producing the yearlings for sale is the change in stud fees during this period. Aside from Galileo, whose fee was private, the other leading sires by average price at the 2015 October Book 1 were Dubawi, Invincible Spirit, Oasis Dream and Shamardal, who stood at £85,000, £56,000, £91,000 and £43,000 in 2013 (in sterling prices of 2023). Move forward to 2021 when the yearlings at this year’s October Book 1 were conceived and the leading sires by average were Dubawi, Frankel, Kingman and Lope De Vega standing at £250,000, £175,000, £150,000 and £105,000 respectively. For commercial breeders trying to sell at the top of the market the costs are just not the same.

...the successful French sires

of this period, Wootton Bassett, Siyouni and Le Havre were all syndicated and so the huge profits they generated were widely shared by France’s commercial breeders Although there were, of course, still some very profitable sales, the margins have been greatly reduced as the prices at market have not kept pace with general inflation, let alone with rise in the nomination fees of the most popular sires. In France, the market is on a different trend altogether. Between 2010 and 2019 the aggregate at the Arqana August Sale rose by 45 per cent in real terms, so a significant increase but not the same as the rise of the October Book 1 in the period.

Since 2019 the trend has been different, too, but this time a positive one for the French market with aggregate at the August and October Sales combined rising by 10 per cent in real terms and the average by 17 per cent between 2019 and 2023. Looking back over the whole period from 2010 to 2023, the aggregate at the October Book 1 has risen by 72 per cent in real terms, and at Arqana’s August Sale by 66 per cent, with the growth coming before 2019

for October 1 and since 2021 for Arqana August. The French market is perhaps more competitive due to the strong domestic demand, but the main difference is in the stallion market. The French stallion market is more competitive as the major stallion farms in Britain and Ireland are not directly present, but above all the successful French sires of this period, Wootton Bassett, Siyouni and Le Havre were all syndicated and so the huge profits they generated were widely shared by many of France’s commercial breeders. In Britain and Ireland the yearling market has not kept pace with general inflation and the rise in the fees of the best stallions, and few of these are syndicated making the margins for those aiming to breed to sell at the top of the market tighter still.

The 2023 Arqana yearling sales saw improved returns, and French breeders have had a good time of late

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Frankel’s fastest son Winner of the prestigious Gr.1 St. James’s Palace Stakes Like his father….only faster! First yearlings sold for €160,000, 120,000gns, etc. Fee: £8,000 1st Oct SLF

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pinhooking results

Every year, pinhookers buy almost 1,000 foals in Britain and Ireland with the plan to sell on as yearlings the following year. But how profitable has foal pinhooking been recently?

Pinhooking: profit or loss?

Dr Erwin Koenen reports on the returns and risks for a pinhooking venture Profits in 2023?

T1: Average cost and revenues of foal pinhooking in 2023 Purchase cost of a foal

-£42,267

Keep cost

-£12,000

Revenue yearling

+£63,828

Profit

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£9,561

This colt (above) by Cracksman is a half-brother to Givemethebeatboys. Photo: Tally-Ho Stud

He was sold in October Book 1 as a yearling for 410,000gns by Tally-Ho Stud to Blandford Bloodstock. He was purchased as a foal for €48,000

Close to 1,500 foals were purchased at the Goffs and Tattersalls foal sales in 2022. Of these 62 per cent were resold at one of the major yearling sales in 2023 (Goffs Premier, Tattersalls Ireland September, Goffs Orby and Tattersalls October). We used the average costs and revenues of these 929 pinhooks to estimate their profitability. The costs include the purchase cost of the foal and an assumed keeping cost of £12,000. Revenues consist of the yearling hammer price minus sale commissions. The average pinhooking profit in 2023 was £9,561, representing an average return on investment (ROI) of 18 per cent. However, at the individual pinhook level, profits can vary widely from the average. For example, one of the most successful pinhooks was realised by Tally-Ho Stud, who sold the Cracksman ex Dromana colt for 410,000gns. The foal only cost the farm €48,000. At the same time, five pinhookers lost more than 90 per cent of their investment. Many pinhookers sold only one yearling, whereas three Irish pinhookers sold 20 or more.

pinhooking results T2: Pinhooking results by sire in 2023 (20+ yearlings) Sire

Cost

ROI

Blue Point

69,293

114

Havana Grey

55,656

111

Earthlight

69,306

Sergei Prokofiev

44,612

Showcasing

62,541

Mehmas

79,856

Kodiac

67,609

Tally-Ho Stud, Lynn Lodge Stud and Yeomanstown Stud realised an average ROI of 51 per cent, 25 per cent and 22 per cent, respectively. Profitability varied greatly by sire as well (Table 2). The deviations from the average most likely relate to changes in expected yearling prices based on new information since the 2022 foal sales. This implies that especially young sires with limited information can have extreme results. For example, after the summer seasons they have enjoyed the young sires Blue Point and Havana Grey realised a very high ROI, because their racing offspring far exceeded market expectations. As the future foal market incorporates this new information, their deviations from the average may become less extreme in the future.

High risks

Although pinhooking can deliver significant profits, it is generally perceived as a high-risk venture. To get a more detailed view of the variation in pinhooking ROI within and across seasons, the results of 8,276 sold pinhooks since 2015 were analysed in a similar way as the 2023 results.

T4: Average cost, realised ROI and percentage of profitable pinhooks after ranking foals by expected ROI.

T3: Percentage of individual pinhooks grouped by ROI ROI

>100% profit

31 – 100% profit

0 – 30% profit

1 – 30% loss

>30% loss

During this period, pinhooking ROI was on average 12 per cent and varied across years. In 2017 and 2022, the ROI exceeded 20 per cent, while in the Covid year 2020, pinhookers lost an average of one per cent. The high risk of pinhooking is also illustrated by the variation in ROI of individual pinhooks. Only 39 per cent of the pinhooks were profitable (Table 3), while 41 per cent lost more than 30 per cent.

Sire 1 – 50

Cost 121,274

ROI 35

% profitable 58

51 – 100

81,341

101 – 200

68,999

201 – 500

51,619

501+

31,941

-7

This also implies that, from a risk management perspective, it is wise for an investor to participate in multiple pinhooks simultaneously.

Statistics can improve profitability What exactly makes a foal a successful pinhook is the secret of the trade. However, statistical analyses of historical data indicates that many factors such as stud fee, pedigree, gender and the offspring’s race results affect ROI. That is why pinhookers can benefit from expertise in quantitative genetics. Breeding programmes for other livestock species regularly

Art and science

Opposite: Jimmy Murphy of Redpender Stud sold the colt by Earthlight out of Dettoria to Ben McElroy / Amo Racing for 325,000gns having bought as a foal for 78,000gns. The colt’s second dam Lady Acquitaine produced this year’s Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner, Lake Forest

use advanced statistical models to assist both breeders and producers. The thoroughbred industry could use similar methods to shortlist pinhooking candidates. Table 4 indicates how a more data-driven approach may affect the financial details of pinhooking. The multiyear dataset was used to rank foals within each sale by their predicted ROI. Foals with better rankings (based on predicted ROI) also had, on average, a higher ROI. For example, the realised average ROI of the Top 50 foals was 35 per cent, whereas foals with a rank higher than 500 (roughly the bottom half of the catalogue) lost seven per cent. Although this data shows us that pre-selection clearly improves the profitability, it is important to realise that even in the best group 42 per cent of pinhooks still lost money.

Photo: Tattersalls

Pinhooking is profitable on average but involves great financial risk. Data-driven preselection can help pinhookers to reduce risks and improve their financial results. When adding a solid scientific foundation to the currently used practical methods, the art of pinhooking can truly excel.

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global sires

Leading

global sires

2023

FRANKEL’s power continues to grow and grow – despite standing in Britain with its low prize-money, his international results are so immense that he has achieved progeny global prize-money earnings putting him amongst the Japanese and US sires. It is a significant achievement. After the lean spell endured by Godolphin on the racecourses in Europe, a member of the press announced the demise of veteran Dubawi as a significant global influence. The writer of that piece perhaps should have taken a look at this table and seen the season out before making such broad unfounded assumptions.

Frankel: his might is global

Leading 2023 global sires by earnings (Listed by overall international earnings through to November 5, 2023). Leader in each category in bold) STALLION

Country

Lord Kanaloa (JPN) Deep Impact (JPN) Duramente (JPN) Into Mischief Frankel (GB) Kizuna (JPN) Maurice (JPN) I Am Invincible (AUS) Kitasan Black (JPN) Heart’s Cry (JPN) Dubawi (IRE) Orfevre (JPN) Curlin American Pharoah So You Think (NZ) Gun Runner Deep Field (AUS) Uncle Mo Henny Hughes Quality Road Zoustar (AUS) Snitzel (AUS) Drefong Rulership (JPN) Sinister Minister Epiphaneia (JPN) Starspangledbanner (AUS) Harbinger (GB) Savabeel (AUS) Practical Joke Munnings Lope de Vega (IRE)

Japan Japan Japan United States England Japan Japan Australia Japan Japan England Japan United States United States Australia United States Australia United States Japan United States Australia Australia Japan Japan Japan Japan Ireland Japan New Zealand United States United States Ireland

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B-T Stakes wnrs

B-T Stakes performers

Earnings ($)

8 11 12 25 34 5 8 1 6 7 37 5 12 9 14 1 14 5 16 4 2 5 4 5 10 7 8 12 20

9 14 14 47 58 7 9 1 7 9 63 6 22 18 32 2 32 6 25 13 1 4 6 5 6 21 8 22 31 47

35,434,872 25,615,000 23,648,163 23,582,497 22,744,412 22,687,394 21,850,933 19,834,499 19,184,038 19,074,219 18,171,831 17,674,806 17,189,626 15,829,538 15,738,995 15,583,228 15,370,908 15,300,442 14,813,769 13,873,889 13,793,628 13,729,134 13,544,310 13,165,376 13,002,986 12,475,283 12,342,850 12,001,014 11,720,192 11,691,882 11,645,772 11,404,984

global sires Leading 2023 global sires by earnings cont... (Listed by overall international earnings through to November 5, 2023) STALLION

Country

B-T Stakes wnrs

B-T Stakes performers

Earnings ($)

Not This Time Kingman (GB) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Justify Hard Spun More Than Ready Toronado (IRE) Street Boss Siyouni (FR) Constitution Dark Angel (IRE) Violence Daiwa Major (JPN) Frosted Sea The Stars (IRE) King Kamehameha (JPN) Kantharos Tapit Medaglia d’Oro Galileo (IRE) Twirling Candy Hokko Tarumae (JPN) No Nay Never Pride Of Dubai (AUS) Sebring (AUS) Candy Ride (ARG) Mikki Isle (JPN) Arrogate Written Tycoon (AUS) Dundeel (NZ) Tonalist Street Sense Pyro Good Magic Goldencents Just a Way (JPN) Majestic Warrior Ghostzapper Cairo Prince Fastnet Rock (AUS) English Channel Dialed In Capitalist (AUS) Nyquist Speightstown Declaration of War Teofilo (IRE)

United States England Ireland United States United States United States France United States France United States Ireland United States Japan United States Ireland Japan United States United States United States Ireland United States Japan Ireland Australia Australia United States Japan United States Australia Australia United States United States Japan United States United States Japan Japan United States United States Australia United States United States Australia United States United States Japan Ireland

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

22 41 14 25 23 14 6 8 23 23 30 21 5 18 35 8 22 19 17 39 23 3 29 2 1 16 3 17 12 16 2 17 21 1 2 16 19 7 20 15 21 20 9 16

11,356,499 11,336,483 11,219,440 10,755,549 10,709,293 10,582,405 10,567,112 10,564,174 10,384,575 10,247,204 10,219,609 10,114,785 10,062,826 10,026,697 10,011,819 10,003,250 9,897,112 9,834,929 9,796,210 9,687,056 9,340,894 9,337,692 9,192,678 9,009,996 8,930,365 8,893,463 8,881,653 8,820,925 8,781,650 8,708,850 8,701,385 8,586,235 8,370,266 8,352,199 8,331,721 8,275,740 8,186,041 8,183,709 8,098,143 8,021,008 8,003,787 7,976,051 7,922,868 7,920,523 7,911,401 7,864,289 7,764,230

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DARK ON TOP OF THE WORLD AGAIN IN 2023 CHAMPION SPRINTER SIRE 2023 CHAMPION SPRINTER MILER SIRE 2023

Also standing:

INVINCIBLE ARMY

SHAMAN

SUPREMACY

SW from First Crop

First 2YOs 2024

First Yearlings 2024

ANGEL LEADING EUROPEAN SIRES OF SPRINTERS/MILERS IN 2020 Sire 1 DARK ANGEL 2 KINGMAN 3 INVINCIBLE SPIRIT 4 DUBAWI

Wnrs

Wins

BT Wnrs

Total £

75 43 60 38

109 57 8 52

9 10 6 8

2,110,556 1,934,995 1,555,441 1,553.041

*Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. to 02.11.20, stallions standing in Ireland and Britain

LEADING EUROPEAN SIRES OF SPRINTERS/MILERS IN 2021 Sire 1 DARK ANGEL 2 KINGMAN 3 DUBAWI 4 FRANKEL

Wnrs

BT Wnrs

Gr.1 Wnrs

Total £

145 71 87 65

16 11 20 11

3 2 13 3

5,891,868 5,337,931 4,772,397 3,720,681

*Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. to 02.11.21, stallions standing in Ireland and Britain

LEADING EUROPEAN SIRES OF SPRINTERS/MILERS IN 2022 Sire 1 DARK ANGEL 2 DUBAWI 3 KINGMAN 4 LOPE DE VEGA

Winners

Wins

BT Performers

154 89 88 92

221 128 124 130

46 41 29 25

*Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. to 24.10.22, stallions standing in Ireland and Britain

LEADING EUROPEAN SIRES OF SPRINTERS/MILERS IN 2023 Sire 1 DARK ANGEL 2 KINGMAN 3 KODIAC 4 FRANKEL

Wnrs

BT Wnrs

Gr.1 Wnrs

Total £

108 87 119 45

15 19 18 19

2 1 1 6

4,740,609 4,318,795 4,123,925 4,065,028

*Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. to 08.11.23, stallions standing in Ireland and Britain

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Dominance to continue

The big guns Frankel and Dubawi look set to stay at the top for a while longer, writes Jocelyn de Moubray, but there are a number of stallions who could make a significant impact to European breeding through next season and beyond

Dubawi

E CAN BE SURE THAT, come the autumn of 2026, when the products of 2024 matings will be offered for sale as yearlings, the top two sires in Europe will be Frankel and Dubawi. Juddmonte’s Frankel has now had seven crops of three-year-olds to race and has long since reduced to silence the early doubters who thought his progeny lacked speed. Frankel is now the sire of 31 Group 1 winners and 24 European Group 1 winners. He is, though, a sire of middle-distance horses; his progeny’s average winning distance is 9.5f and 65 per cent of their

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Frankel

One difference between Frankel’s record and that of his sire Galileo or grandsire Sadler’s Wells is that most of his progeny enjoy firm ground

wins at three come over further than 1m2f. One difference between Frankel’s record and that of his sire Galileo or grandsire Sadler’s Wells is that most of his progeny enjoy firm ground, and among current European sires only Ardad and Toronado have a higher proportion of their wins on firm or good to firm ground. The ability to act on firm ground is not essential for the progeny of a top stallion in Europe, but it makes success in Japan, the US or Australia far more likely. Dubawi’s 14th crop of three-year-olds was not one of his best with only one Group 1 performer in Europe, the filly Never Ending Story. However, Darley’s champion sire has

older sires an excellent crop of two-year-olds, which already includes the Group 1 winners Ancient Wisdom and Henry Longfellow,

as well as the Group 1 performers God’s Window and Portland. Dubawi’s progeny are on average faster

than Frankel’s, 19 per cent of his three-yearold wins come at less than a mile and 50 per cent at less than 1m2f and his progeny have

Leading European sires of 3yos: 2018, 2019 and 2020 crops (results by percentage of G1 performers to foals, 3yos of 2021, 2022 and 2023, to October 25, 2023) STALLION

By JdM

Fee 2019

Foals

BTP

% of foals

BTW

% of foals

G1 perf

% of foals

Frankel

£175,000

432

17.00

11.00

4.20

Dubawi

£250,000

391

17.00

10.00

3.10

Zarak

€12,000

142

15.00

8.60

2.80

Camelot

€40,000

274

11.00

3.60

2.20

Mehmas

€10,000

297

9.00

3.00

2.00

Sea The Moon

£15,000

262

7.30

3.10

1.90

Saxon Warrior

€30,000

112

9.80

4.50

1.80

Cracksman

£25,000

118

3.40

1.70

Kingman

£75,000

409

11.00

6.40

1.70

Sea The Stars

€135,000

386

11.00

6.00

1.60

New Bay

€15,000

194

6.70

2.60

1.50

Ulysses

£17,500

143

5.60

2.80

1.40

Kendargent

€17,000

152

7.90

2.60

1.30

Lope de Vega

€80,000

392

12.00

5.60

1.30

No Nay Never

€100,000

318

6.60

2.50

1.30

Soldier Hollow

£30,000

151

11.00

6.00

1.30

Starspangledbanner

£17,500

260

5.80

3.10

1.20

Wootton Bassett

€40,000

245

8.20

2.40

1.20

Churchill

€35,000

269

5.20

3.00

1.10

Muharaar

£30,000

285

5.30

3.20

1.10

Teofilo

£40,000

182

8.20

4.40

1.10

Australia

€35,000

360

6.10

1.90

1.00

Havana Grey

£8,000

107

7.50

5.60

0.93

€100,000

386

11.00

3.90

0.88

The Grey Gatsby

€7,000

119

5.00

4.20

0.84

Gleneagles

€30,000

285

8.10

4.20

0.70

Sioux Nation

€12,500

144

6.30

4.20

0.69

Galiway

€3,000

159

6.90

5.70

0.63

Almanzor

€35,000

163

6.70

1.80

0.61

Belardo

€10,000

201

3.50

1.00

0.50

Night of Thunder

£15,000

205

6.80

3.90

0.49

Showcasing

£55,000

222

7.70

3.20

0.45

Dark Angel

£85,000

462

6.10

1.70

0.43

Nathaniel

£25,000

234

5.60

3.40

0.43

Invincible Spirit

€120,000

252

6.00

2.40

0.40

Oasis Dream

£30,000

289

4.20

1.70

0.35

Golden Horn

£50,000

217

6.50

2.80

Harry Angel

£20,000

7.60

5.40

Zelzal

€8,000

8.50

3.20

Siyouni

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older sires Leading European sires of 3yos: 2018, 2019 and 2020 crops (results by percentage of G1 performers to foals, by year retired to stud, 3yos of 2021, 2022 and 2023) STALLION

Fee 2019

Foals

BTP

% of foals

BTW

OLDER SIRES Frankel Dubawi Lope de Vega Sea The Stars Soldier Hollow Siyouni Camelot Teofilo Wootton Bassett Kendargent Showcasing Dark Angel Invincible Spirit Starspangledbanner Nathaniel Oasis Dream

£175,000 £250,000 €80,000 €135,000 £30,000 €100,000 €40,000 £40,000 €40,000 €17,000 £55,000 £85,000 €120,000 £17,500 £25,000 £30,000

432 391 392 386 151 386 274 182 245 152 222 462 252 260 234 289

75 66 46 43 17 42 29 15 20 12 17 28 15 15 13 12

17.00 17.00 12.00 11.00 11.00 11.00 11.00 8.20 8.20 7.90 7.70 6.10 6.00 5.80 5.60 4.20

46 37 22 23 9 15 10 8 6 4 7 8 6 8 8 5

409 262 318 360

44 19 21 22

11.00 7.30 6.60 6.10

285 159 205 217 285

23 11 14 14 15

297 194 201

To stud 2015 (5th crop of 3yos in 2023) Kingman £75,000 Sea The Moon £15,000 No Nay Never €100,000 Australia €35,000 To stud 2016 (4th crop of 3yos in 2023) Gleneagles €30,000 Galiway €3,000 Night of Thunder £15,000 Golden Horn £50,000 Muhaarar £30,000 To stud 2017 (3rd crop of 3yos in 2023) Mehmas €10,000 New Bay €15,000 Belardo €10,000 To stud 2018 (2nd crop of 3yos in 2023) Zarak €12,000 Zelzal €8,000 Almanzor €35,000 Ulysses £17,500 Churchill €35,000 The Grey Gatsby €7,000 To stud 2019 (1st crop of 3yos in 2023) Saxon Warrior €30,000 Harry Angel £20,000 Havana Grey £8,000 Sioux Nation €12,500 Cracksman £25,000

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G1 perf

% of foals

11.00 10.00 5.60 6.00 6.00 3.90 3.60 4.40 2.40 2.60 3.20 1.70 2.40 3.10 3.40 1.70

18 12 5 6 2 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 3 1 1

4.20 3.10 1.30 1.60 1.30 0.88 2.20 1.10 1.20 1.30 0.45 0.43 0.40 1.20 0.43 0.35

26 8 8 7

6.40 3.10 2.50 1.90

7 5 4 2

1.70 1.90 1.30 1.00

8.10 6.90 6.80 6.50 5.30

12 9 8 6 9

4.20 5.70 3.90 2.80 3.20

2 1 1 0 3

0.70 0.63 0.49 0 1.10

27 13 7

9.00 6.70 3.50

9 5 2

3.00 2.60 1.00

6 3 1

2.00 1.50 0.50

142 94 163 143 269 119

21 8 11 8 14 6

15.00 8.50 6.70 5.60 5.20 5.00

12 3 3 4 8 5

8.60 3.20 1.80 2.80 3.00 4.20

4 0 1 2 3 1

2.80 0 0.61 1.40 1.10 0.84

112 92 107 144 118

11 7 8 9 4

9.80 7.60 7.50 6.30 3.40

5 5 6 6 4

4.50 5.40 5.60 4.20 3.40

2 0 1 1 2

1.80 0.00 0.93 0.69 1.70

older sires the same success on all types of going, as well as on the All-Weather. Dubawi’s success as a sire of stallions, with Night Of Thunder, Zarak, Too Darn Hot already well established, will ensure that he is fully booked until the end of his stud career. If nobody will disagree with Frankel and Dubawi’s excellence any further conclusions from all of this data will be more subjective. It is never easy to compare the record of stallions as there are so many variables at play. It is why it is always interesting to compare the records of stallions who retired to stud the same year (see table opposite), and to look at stallions’ achievements with two or three-year-olds over a two or threeyear period. Everyone who is interested will draw different conclusions from the data presented here, but before moving on to some subjective ideas of my own another objective truth is that the current market gives an extraordinarily high value to twoyear-old success. Extraordinary only in the sense that the best sires by proportion of Group 1-performing two-year-olds over the last two years are Frankel, Dubawi, New Bay and Wootton Bassett; not sires known especially for their precocious stock. And then if you look at the programme of Pattern races, juvenile Group races account for less than 25 per cent of the total, and of the 75 per cent of Pattern races run for three-year-olds and older horses, nearly half are run over 1m2f or further. Sires who produce stakes-winning two-year-old sprinters can see their fees rise quickly by 300-750 per cent, but it is ever

Sires ranked by European Group 1 winners 3yo’s and upwards 2018-2023 By JdM Frankel Dubawi Sea The Stars Nathaniel Siyouni Camelot Kingman Lope de Vega Teofilo Dark Angel Invincible Spirit

...it is ever more difficult for a middle-distance sire to attract consistent support

24 15 11 7 7 6 5 5 5 4 4

more difficult for a middle-distance sire to attract consistent support, and proven Group 1 producers, such as Nathaniel and Australia have seen their fees reduced in an attempt to do so. Newsells Park’s Nathaniel is the most surprising case of all as the son of Galileo has produced seven European Group 1 winners from his first six crops, including a great champion Enable and a Derby winner in Desert Crown and yet his fee has generally fallen since he retired to stud. Stallions are judged on their ability to produce early two-year-olds, yet the racing programme still provides far better opportunities for middle-distance horses at three and upwards, and every year the major horses-in-training sales reveal the demand for three-year-olds with the ability to perform over 1m2f or further.

New Bay and Wootton Bassett into the elite

To revert to some personal judgments it looks to me as if Wootton Bassett, New Bay, Zarak and Galiway are all going to confirm their positions as elite stallions

New Bay: had a good crop of juveniles in 2023

Changes in fees for successful sires over recent years (*named foals)

By JdM

STALLION

1st Fee

Fee 2024

% +/-

Euro G1 Wnrs

% of foals*

Camelot Sea The Moon Australia Nathaniel No Nay Never Mehmas Havana Grey

€25,000 £15,000 €50,000 £20,000 €20,000 €12,500 £8,000

€50,000 £32,500 €17,500 £17,500 €150,000 €50,000 £55,000

100 117 -65 -12 650 300 587

6 3 3 7 4 2 1

0.80 0.56 0.49 1.00 0.61 0.54 0.50

Nos 3yo of crops 6 5 5 6 6 4 1

AWD (fs) 10.3 9.6 10.2 11.2 6.9 6.6 6.0

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older sires between now and 2026. Wootton Bassett’s first Coolmore-sired progeny will reach the track in 2024, but his last two crops from the Haras d’Etreham

have shown what a buy he was for the Irish stud. Some of his three-year-olds, who had looked very good early on, failed to fulfill their potential, but King Of Steel is among

the best of the generation, and Wootton Bassett’s final French-sired two-year-olds include the Group 1 winner Bucanaro Fuerte and three other Group 1 performers.

Leading European sires by black-type performers percentage to named foals by foal crop (ordered by the percentage of the 2020 foal crop, 30+ foals) STALLION Frankel

2010

2011

2012

- -

By JdM

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Camelot

- -

Havana Grey

Zarak

Dubawi

Kingman

Lope de Vega

Mehmas

Night of Thunder

Saxon Warrior

No Nay Never

Sea The Stars

Sioux Nation

Siyouni

Soldier Hollow

Harry Angel

Nathaniel

8.30

Dark Angel

Kodiac

Sea The Moon

Invincible Spirit

Kendargent

Almanzor

Australia

Galiway

- 10

Showcasing

Wootton Bassett

Gleneagles

- 14

Muhaarar

- 7

Acclamation

Teofilo

Cracksman

The Grey Gatsby

Churchill

Oasis Dream

New Bay

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Belardo

GR.1 SIRE BY LOPE DE VEGA

EUROPEAN CHAMPION 2YO Won Gr.1 Dewhurst & Gr.1 Lockinge 25 Stakes winners/performers (11 in 2023) inc... GOLD PHOENIX

Won Gr.1 Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes (2023) Won Gr.2 Del Mar Handicap (2023 & 2022) Won Gr.2 Eddie Read Stakes (2023) 4th Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf (2023 to Auguste Rodin)

Bearstone Stud

The source of speed

58% 3yo winners/runners

Only Frankel (£350,000) & Siyouni (€200,000) ranked higher

2023 yearlings sold for €100,000, €80,000, €60,000, 45,000gns, 45,000gns, 40,000gns, €40,000, etc.

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older sires Wootton Bassett covered as many mares in his first two years at Coolmore as he had in his last four at Etreham and so within a year or two it should become clear what type of sire he will become. At Etreham, he was able to produce all types of horses from two-year-olds to sprinters, milers and middle-distance horses. The third crop of Ballylinch’s New Bay was not as good as the first two, but his fourth, two-year-olds of 2023 from a stud fee of €15,000, includes three of the best European juveniles with the Group 1 performers Alcantor, Shuwari and Devil’s Point. The son of Dubawi is going to have many more horses to run for him over the coming seasons having covered 390 mares in 2021 and 2022. As far as stamina and going preferences go New Bay is similar to his sire Dubawi with 50 per cent of his three-year-old wins coming at less than 1m2f and his progeny on the whole act on all types of ground and the All-Weather. New Bay has had top runners in England, Ireland, France and Germany and will attracted support from breeders all over Europe.

Zarak and Galiway making strong early marks

The Aga Khan’s Zarak, a son of Dubawi and the great racemare Zarkava, is still at the beginning of his stud career but his first two crops produced at a fee of €12,000 have been consistently well above average and his three-year-olds of 2023 include Marquisat and Rashford in France, as well as Straight and Princess Zelda in Germany. All could compete at a high level in 2024. He, too, has covered more mares in recent years, 162 in 2022, and though he has had few runners in England and Ireland so far, in France and Germany he has proved to be an excellent source of middle-distance runners on all types of going. The Haras de Colleville’s Galiway made his mark with his first four crops of threeyear-olds all of which came from a €3,000 fee. His success with these three-year-olds puts him second among the sires of his

Mehmas: the stallion has got a big year ahead with a large book of juveniles due to run

Leading European sires of 3yos of 2023: by % of black-type performers to named foals By JdM STALLION

Fee 2019

BTP

G1 wins

Zarak

€12,000

24.0

4.10

Frankel

£175,000

23.0

5.10

Camelot

€40,000

20.0

1.70

Kingman

£75,000

17.0

2.90

Dubawi

£250,000

17.0

1.10

Lope De Vega

€80,000

14.0

1.60

Night Of Thunder

£15,000

14.0

1.80

Sea The Stars

€135,000

13.0

1.0

Saxon Warrior

€30,000

12.0

2.20

Siyouni

€100,000

12.0

2.40 4.50

Sea The Moon

£15,000

11.0

Nathaniel

£25,000

11.0

0.0

Galiway

€3,000

11.0

0.0

Havana Grey

£8,000

9.8

1.20

Wootton Bassett

€40,000

9.3

1.90

Harry Angel

€20,000

9.0

0.0

Gleneagles

€30,000

9.0

1.20

Kodiac

€65,000

8.2

1.50

Sioux Nation

€12,500

8.1

0.90

No Nay Never

€100,000

8.0

3.10

Mehmas

€10,000

8.0

2.50

Cracksman

£25,000

4.4

2.20

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older sires Thunderbear (blue cap) wins the World Trophy Stakes (G3). He is a son of Kodi Bear and was bred by Killarkin Stud out of the farm’s Raven’s Pass mare Speronella

generation by the proportion of stakes horses to foals, behind Gleneagles who started out at €60,000 and ahead of Night Of Thunder, Golden Horn and Muhaarar. The son of Galileo’s fifth crop, produced at a fee of €10,000, includes his second Group 1 winner Sunway, the full-brother to the Prix Jean Luc Lagardère and Champion Stakes winner Sealiway.

Galiway covered 350 mares in 2021 and 2022 and so will have plenty of runners in the years to come.

Key year for Mehmas and Night Of Thunder Two other young sires who could also make a bigger mark before 2026 are Tally-Ho’s Mehmas and Darley’s Night Of Thunder.

Both are already accepted by the market and have covered large books at greatly increased stud fees, but after outstanding first crops. For Mehmas, his two-year-olds of next year will decide his future as the son of Acclamation had 158 yearlings offered for sale. For Night Of Thunder next year may

Leading European sires of middle-distance horses: by % of G1 performers to named foals 2019-2020 crops (av winning distance>9f)

By JdM

STALLION

Fee 2019

Foals

BTP

% of foals

BTW

% of foals

G1 perf

% of foals

Frankel

£175,000

271

21.00

15.00

6.30

Zarak

€12,000

145

17.00

10.00

4.10

Camelot

€40,000

158

12.00

5.10

3.20

Sea The Moon

£15,000

197

10.00

5.60

3.00

Ulysses

£17,500

144

6.30

4.20

2.10

Sea The Stars

€135,000

254

13.00

7.10

2.00

Cracksman

£25,000

118

5.90

5.10

1.70

Teofilo

€40,000

126

8.70

4.80

1.60

Australia

€35,000

262

8.00

4.60

1.50

Soldier Hollow

€30,000

11.00

7.60

1.30

Nathaniel

£25,000

181

7.70

3.90

1.10

The Grey Gatsby

€7,000

120

6.70

4.20

0.83

Almanzor

€35,000

168

7.70

4.20

0.60

Kendagent

€17,000

9.30

6.70

Golden Horn

£50,000

124

16.00

4.80

Galiway

€3,000

110

4.50

3.60

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Saxon Warrior’s daughter Lumiere Rock winning the Moyglare “Jewels” Blandford Stakes (G2), the filly was amongst the best of her generation in 2023

well be decisive, too, as the son of Dubawi produced 31 two-year-old winners from his first crop of 136 foals since his fee rose significantly, including the talented Group 1 performers Verspertillo and Omellaia. Night Of Thunder generally produces faster horses than either New Bay or Zarak, 80 per cent of his three-year-old wins have been at less than 1m2f, and his progeny often appreciate soft ground. Mehmas is mainly a sire of sprinters, 75 per cent of his three-year-old wins come at less than a mile and his progeny often appreciate All-Weather tracks.

Bigger books for Ardad and Kodi Bear

Other sires who will have many more runners over the next two years than they have had recently include Overbury Stud’s Ardad and Rathbarry’s Kodi Bear. Kodi Bear and Ardad had successful first crops on the racecourse in 2020 and 2021,

but have had few runners from their subsequent small crops, and yet both covered around 350 mares in 2021 and 2022 and had 82 and 49 yearlings offered for sale in 2023 respectively.

Some “climbers” to note

Camelot and Sea The Moon have achieved enough to suggest they could easily be standing at higher fees

There are many others who can be considered as either underrated by the market or as possible climbers over the coming years. Among the sires who had their first three-year-olds in 2023 Havana Grey and Sioux Nation have had the warmest welcome from the market but Cracksman, Saxon Warrior and Harry Angel have all shown enough to suggest they too could be established stallions by 2026. Cracksman’s progeny have done better in France and Germany where they were

given time, and it is no small achievement to produce a champion and a Classic filly in his first crop. Saxon Warrior’s first three-year-olds may not have been quite as good as they looked at one point, but his daughter Lumiere Rock was among the best of her generation and he had several other useful stakes horses. Harry Angel has among the best ratio of winners-to-foals among the sires with one crop of three-year-olds to race and his best Al Dasim didn’t run again after looking good in Dubai at the beginning of the year.

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older sires Darley’s son of Dark Angel has some promising two-year-olds from his second crop, including A Lilac Rolla. Muhaarar will stand in Normandy for the first time in 2024 and although he didn’t turn out to be a sire of high-class sprinters like himself he has had more Group 1 performers over the last three crops than either Night Of Thunder or Gleneagles, who retired to stud at the same time. Finally, to return to some underrated middle-distance sires, Camelot and Sea The Moon have achieved enough to suggest they could easily be standing at higher fees.

Sea The Moon’s Classic winner Fantastic Moon

Coolmore’s Camelot has sired seven European Group 1 winners from his first seven crops, two of whom, Luxembourg and Los Angeles, were also juvenile Group 1 winners. Lanwades’ Sea The Moon had great success in Germany this year with the Group 1 Derby and Oaks winners Fantastic Moon and Muskoka, as well as Classic performers Kassada and Sea The Lady, which is logical as the son of Sea The Stars covers many German-owned mares. Both Camelot and Sea The Moon’s progeny tend to be at their best on soft or good ground.

Leading European sires of two-year-olds 2020 and 2021 crops: by % of G1 performers to named foals with at least two crops to race, to October 24, 2023 By JdM STALLION

Fee 2019

Foals

BTP

% of foals

BTW

% of foals

G1 perf

% of foals

Wootton Bassett

€40,000

197

Dubawi

£250,000

208

6.10

4.10

2.50

9.10

5.30

2.40

New Bay

€15,000

138

Frankel

£175,000

236

2.20

1.40

2.20

3.00

1.70

No Nay Never

€100,000

2.10

245

11.00

6.10

Lope de Vega

2.00

€80,000

262

4.60

1.50

1.90

Kingman

£75,000

211

5.20

1.90

1.40

Dark Angel

€85,000

227

7.00

3.10

1.30

Night of Thunder

£15,000

192

3.60

2.10

1.00

Saxon Warrior

€30,000

193

3.60

2.10

1.00

Bungle Inthejungle

€12,000

112

2.70

0.89

Showcasing

£55,000

234

4.30

2.10

0.85

Mehmas

€10,000

127

9.40

2.40

0.79

Cotai Glory

€ 5,000

130

5.40

3.80

0.77

Camelot

€40,000

151

3.30

2.00

0.66

Havana Grey

£8,000

196

11.00

5.10

0.51

Gleneagles

€30,000

199

4.00

2.00

0.50

Siyouni

€100,000

234

3.00

0.85

0.43

Churchill

€35,000

260

2.30

1.20

0.38

Sea The Stars

€135,000

267

2.20

0.37

Kodiac

€65,000

281

8.20

2.50

0.36

Sioux Nation

€12,500

213

8.00

2.80

Invincible Spirit

€120,000

170

3.50

2.40

Starspangledbanner

€17,500

184

7.60

2.20

Zarak

€12,000

135

5.20

1.50

Dandy Man

€12,500

234

3.00

1.30

Acclamation

€40,000

115

5.20

0.87

Harry Angel

£20,000

157

3.80

0.64

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Stallion

Pedigree

To Stud

Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

Wnrs/Rnrs%

SWnrs

SWs

Frankel Siyouni Kingman Dubawi Sea The Stars Lope de Vega Dark Angel Galileo Wootton Bassett Cracksman Kodiac No Nay Never Night of Thunder Churchill Camelot Gleneagles Muhaarar Australia Nathaniel Havana Grey Sea The Moon Zoffany Starspangledbanner Zarak Deep Impact Golden Horn Invincible Spirit Dandy Man Sioux Nation New Bay Charm Spirit Territories Showcasing Anodin Dabirsim Exceed And Excel Mastercraftsman Le Havre Iffraaj Fastnet Rock Rock of Gibraltar Mehmas Oasis Dream Saxon Warrior Galiway Footstepsinthesand Blue Point

Galileo-Kind (Danehill) Pivotal-Sichilla (Danehill) Invincible Spirit-Zenda (Zamindar) Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) Cape Cross-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Shamardal-Lady Vettori (Vettori) Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Iffraaj-Balladonia (Primo Dominie) Frankel-Rhadegunda (Pivotal) Danehill-Rafha (Kris) Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo) Galileo-Meow (Storm Cat) Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Oasis Dream-Tahrir (Linamix) Galileo-Ouija Board (Cape Cross) Galileo-Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) Havana Gold-Blanc de Chine (Dark Angel) Sea The Stars-Sanwa (Monsun) Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian) Choisir-Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) Dubawi-Zarkava (Zamindar) Sunday Silence-Wind in Her Hair (Alzao) Cape Cross-Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) Green Desert-Rafha (Kris) Mozart-Lady Alexander (Night Shift) Scat Daddy-Dream The Blues (Oasis Dream) Dubawi-Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar) Invincible Spirit-L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) Invincible Spirit-Taranto (Machiavellian) Oasis Dream-Arabesque (Zafonic) Anabaa-Born Gold (Blushing Groom) Hat Trick-Rumored (Royal Academy) Danehill-Patrona (Lomond) Danehill Dancer-Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) Noverre-Marie Rheinberg (Surako) Zafonic-Pastorale (Nureyev) Danehill-Piccadilly Circus (Royal Academy) Danehill-Offshore Boom (Be My Guest) Acclamation-Lucina (Machiavellian) Green Desert-Hope (Dancing Brave) Deep Impact-Maybe (Galileo) Galileo-Danzigaway (Danehill) Giant’s Causeway-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) Shamardal-Scarlett Rose (Royal Applause)

2013 2011 2015 2006 2010 2011 2008 2002 2012 2019 2007 2015 2016 2018 2014 2016 2016 2015 2013 2019 2015 2012 2011 2018 1899 2016 2003 2010 2019 2017 2015 2017 2011 2015 2014 2005 2010 2010 2007 2009 2003 2017 2004 2019 2016 2006 2020

227 231 245 202 241 312 297 157 161 110 346 195 174 216 170 183 159 191 150 142 172 273 209 99 12 129 183 289 146 125 132 142 229 121 190 166 188 160 184 71 38 165 198 118 86 196 105

904 1052 1129 792 914 1433 1634 594 735 448 2019 865 770 921 713 823 910 898 659 800 803 1382 1052 483 54 540 1029 1856 723 565 904 772 1171 809 1229 856 884 755 976 302 211 931 1068 515 445 1089 341

109 103 118 95 102 150 128 66 69 44 138 74 79 75 62 76 69 73 56 75 69 98 85 53 6 60 85 117 62 56 58 56 81 59 65 65 67 76 59 28 15 72 60 45 36 71 41

155 149 173 137 148 227 196 89 108 71 212 118 112 110 90 111 111 112 91 125 99 133 125 93 9 80 129 178 96 87 89 81 111 90 99 106 102 110 86 39 27 107 98 64 57 109 56

48.01 44.58 48.16 47.02 42.32 48.07 43.09 42.03 42.85 40.00 39.88 37.94 45.40 34.72 36.47 41.53 43.39 38.21 37.33 52.81 40.11 35.89 40.66 53.53 50.00 46.51 46.44 40.48 42.46 44.80 43.93 39.43 35.37 48.76 34.21 39.15 35.63 47.50 32.06 39.43 39.47 43.63 30.30 38.13 41.86 36.22 39.04

30 6 20 24 15 18 10 16 10 4 12 13 9 7 9 9 6 7 7 10 6 5 6 9 2 9 5 2 9 7 3 3 6 1 1 4 4 4 5 4 2 5 1 5 6 1 5

41 10,603,136 13 5,894,975 24 5,625,559 31 5,154,539 18 4,907,814 21 4,900,224 14 4,668,529 20 4,471,875 15 4,442,312 7 4,382,218 15 3,906,084 15 3,288,734 10 3,060,892 10 3,036,240 11 2,944,134 13 2,919,968 7 2,848,326 9 2,624,261 10 2,600,799 13 2,513,092 13 2,427,016 6 2,334,303 7 2,331,389 12 2,267,816 4 2,220,615 11 2,182,618 6 2,142,978 2 2,052,798 15 2,040,267 7 1,983,824 5 1,979,012 4 1,977,049 6 1,950,385 2 1,902,905 4 1,883,233 4 1,868,255 5 1,845,903 4 1,804,119 7 1,775,356 8 1,734,358 5 1,652,787 8 1,650,829 1 1,610,722 5 1,575,256 7 1,458,227 1 1,445,931 8 1,405,425

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Courtesy of Weatherbys

Stallion

Pedigree

To Stud

Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

Wnrs/Rnrs%

SWnrs

SWs

Toronado Ribchester Intello Almanzor Fast Company Mayson Teofilo Holy Roman Emperor Shalaa Kendargent Roaring Lion Acclamation Justify Harry Angel Belardo Profitable Cotai Glory Bated Breath Soldier Hollow Olympic Glory Pedro the Great Goken Al Wukair Camacho Caravaggio Gutaifan Ulysses Awtaad Zoustar Zelzal Excelebration El Kabeir Dream Ahead Bungle Inthejungle Too Darn Hot Tasleet Shamardal Outstrip Tamayuz Hunter’s Light Myboycharlie Reliable Man Prince of Lir New Approach Make Believe Adaay Twilight Son

High Chaparral-Wana Doo (Grand Slam) Iffraaj-Mujarah (Marju) Galileo-Impressionnante (Danehill) Wootton Bassett-Darkova (Maria’s Mon) Danehill Dancer-Sheezalady (Zafonic) Invincible Spirit-Mayleaf (Pivotal) Galileo-Speirbhean (Danehill) Danehill-L’On Vite (Secretariat) Invincible Spirit-Ghurra (War Chant) Kendor-Pax Bella (Linamix) Kitten’s Joy-Vionnet (Street Sense) Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) Scat Daddy-Stage Magic (Ghostzapper) Dark Angel-Beatrix Potter (Cadeaux Genereux) Lope de Vega-Danaskaya (Danehill) Invincible Spirit-Dani Ridge (Indian Ridge) Exceed And Excel-Continua (Elusive Quality) Dansili-Tantina (Distant View) In the Wings-Island Race (Common Grounds) Choisir-Acidanthera (Alzao) Henrythenavigator-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) Kendargent-Gooseley Chope (Indian Rocket) Dream Ahead-Macheera (Machiavellian) Danehill-Arabesque (Zafonic) Scat Daddy-Mekko Hokte (Holy Bull) Dark Angel-Alikhlas (Lahib) Galileo-Light Shift (Kingmambo) Cape Cross-Asheerah (Shamardal) Northern Meteor-Zouzou (Redoute’s Choice) Sea The Stars-Olga Prekrasa (Kingmambo) Exceed And Excel-Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) Scat Daddy-Great Venue (Unbridled’s Song) Diktat-Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) Exceed And Excel-Licence To Thrill (Wolfhound) Dubawi-Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) Showcasing-Bird Key (Cadeaux Genereux) Giant’s Causeway-Helsinki (Machiavellian) Exceed And Excel-Asi Siempre (El Prado) Nayef-Al Ishq (Nureyev) Dubawi-Portmanteau (Barathea) Danetime-Dulceata (Rousillon) Dalakhani-On Fair Stage (Sadler’s Wells) Kodiac-Esuvia (Whipper) Galileo-Park Express (Ahonoora) Makfi-Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) Kodiac-Lady Lucia (Royal Applause) Kyllachy-Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad)

2015 2018 2014 2018 2011 2013 2008 2007 2017 2008 2019 2004 2019 2019 2017 2018 2018 2013 2008 2015 2014 2017 2018 2006 2018 2016 2018 2017 2019 2018 2013 2018 2012 2015 2020 2019 2005 2016 2009 2016 2010 2014 2017 2009 2016 2017 2017

114 127 106 115 152 137 98 173 163 111 78 158 36 110 115 185 132 136 101 125 89 73 99 155 95 102 109 98 119 79 51 98 118 109 62 54 64 111 85 75 80 98 54 94 103 117 109

746 660 546 555 824 924 484 921 849 574 367 885 133 522 701 903 737 746 530 733 531 432 583 910 393 718 452 549 502 428 320 528 693 676 178 277 271 731 432 458 555 568 406 485 536 729 598

51 48 45 46 59 68 41 67 57 38 40 56 19 58 49 68 50 52 46 48 45 25 36 47 33 45 32 45 40 33 22 37 37 44 22 17 31 52 27 32 34 43 25 32 38 44 40

94 70 66 63 80 123 64 100 78 51 67 80 27 83 71 95 94 74 65 73 56 41 49 76 48 79 39 73 58 50 38 59 48 69 30 32 36 86 43 56 54 62 42 48 54 73 55

44.73 37.79 42.45 40.00 38.81 49.63 41.83 38.72 34.96 34.23 51.28 35.44 52.77 52.72 42.60 36.75 37.87 38.23 45.54 38.40 50.56 34.24 36.36 30.32 34.73 44.11 29.35 45.91 33.61 41.77 43.13 37.75 31.35 40.36 35.48 31.48 48.43 46.84 31.76 42.66 42.50 43.87 46.29 34.04 36.89 37.60 36.69

0 1 4 1 2 1 4 3 1 4 3 4 5 4 0 4 3 1 4 2 2 3 1 1 4 1 5 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 4 2 4 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 1 3

0 1 6 2 3 1 4 4 2 4 3 4 8 4 0 4 4 1 4 2 2 6 2 1 6 1 5 3 3 1 4 5 1 2 6 2 4 5 3 0 1 2 1 1 2 1 3

1,402,646 1,377,531 1,345,350 1,343,490 1,331,522 1,329,547 1,328,423 1,328,316 1,317,480 1,271,877 1,253,040 1,205,778 1,203,294 1,186,160 1,170,057 1,169,127 1,159,911 1,095,397 1,079,369 1,057,886 1,052,753 1,050,131 1,040,216 1,034,618 1,029,751 1,017,943 1,016,553 1,011,783 972,927 962,085 957,457 954,244 916,032 911,224 901,698 896,171 894,586 865,004 851,966 844,849 825,808 814,384 807,259 801,702 797,253 788,087 782,083

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stallion statistics Leading European sires of two-year-olds 2023 (by prize-money earned to November 7, 2023)

Courtesy of Weatherbys

Stallion

Pedigree

To Stud

Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

Wnrs/Rnrs%

SWnrs

SWs

No Nay Never Blue Point Havana Grey Wootton Bassett Kodiac Justify Dubawi Too Darn Hot Gleneagles Lope de Vega Night of Thunder Ten Sovereigns Frankel Dark Angel Starspangledbanner Calyx New Bay Siyouni Sioux Nation Soldier’s Call Inns of Court Caravaggio Mehmas Sea The Stars Galiway Invincible Spirit Kingman Goken El Kabeir Territories Churchill Bungle Inthejungle Dandy Man Expert Eye Phoenix of Spain City Light Camelot Showcasing Profitable Saxon Warrior Harry Angel Cotai Glory Shalaa Zoustar Invincible Army U S Navy Flag Zarak

Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) Shamardal-Scarlett Rose (Royal Applause) Havana Gold-Blanc de Chine (Dark Angel) Iffraaj-Balladonia (Primo Dominie) Danehill-Rafha (Kris) Scat Daddy-Stage Magic (Ghostzapper) Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) Dubawi-Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Shamardal-Lady Vettori (Vettori) Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo No Nay Never-Seeking Solace (Exceed And Excel) Galileo-Kind (Danehill) Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) Choisir-Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) Kingman-Helleborine (Observatory) Dubawi-Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar) Pivotal-Sichilla (Danehill) Scat Daddy-Dream The Blues (Oasis Dream) Showcasing-Dijarvo (Iceman) Invincible Spirit-Learned Friend (Seeking the Gold) Scat Daddy-Mekko Hokte (Holy Bull) Acclamation-Lucina (Machiavellian) Cape Cross-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Galileo-Danzigaway (Danehill) Green Desert-Rafha (Kris) Invincible Spirit-Zenda (Zamindar) Kendargent-Gooseley Chope (Indian Rocket) Scat Daddy-Great Venue (Unbridled’s Song) Invincible Spirit-Taranto (Machiavellian) Galileo-Meow (Storm Cat) Exceed And Excel-Licence To Thrill (Wolfhound) Mozart-Lady Alexander (Night Shift) Acclamation-Exemplify (Dansili) Lope de Vega-Lucky Clio (Key of Luck) Siyouni-Light Saber (Kendor) Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) Oasis Dream-Arabesque (Zafonic) Invincible Spirit-Dani Ridge (Indian Ridge) Deep Impact-Maybe (Galileo) Dark Angel-Beatrix Potter (Cadeaux Genereux) Exceed And Excel-Continua (Elusive Quality) Invincible Spirit-Ghurra (War Chant) Northern Meteor-Zouzou (Redoute’s Choice) Invincible Spirit-Rajeem (Diktat) War Front-Misty For Me (Galileo) Dubawi-Zarkava (Zamindar)

2015 2020 2019 2012 2007 2019 2006 2020 2016 2011 2016 2020 2013 2008 2011 2020 2017 2011 2019 2020 2020 2018 2017 2010 2016 2003 2015 2017 2018 2017 2018 2015 2010 2019 2020 2020 2014 2011 2018 2019 2019 2018 2017 2019 2020 2019 2018

63 105 70 48 87 16 44 62 40 62 66 67 47 64 56 42 41 51 44 68 77 24 53 57 15 43 49 28 23 42 73 38 74 41 37 30 32 73 72 44 38 36 31 43 49 52 21

208 341 299 124 359 46 108 178 97 124 176 220 98 220 193 136 139 120 138 270 320 73 225 111 36 144 101 130 84 163 195 176 315 160 108 113 69 279 249 120 130 139 102 112 166 205 51

27 41 35 14 35 9 18 22 19 21 30 23 12 22 21 16 12 19 15 22 23 5 20 16 5 20 15 6 6 14 18 11 20 14 14 15 10 20 22 9 19 13 12 11 12 13 9

37 56 53 23 50 15 27 30 22 29 34 33 17 27 26 22 18 20 20 29 33 9 28 16 7 24 18 11 11 18 23 17 27 18 18 18 13 24 27 10 28 21 13 17 15 22 11

42.85 39.04 50.00 29.16 40.22 56.25 40.90 35.48 47.50 33.87 45.45 34.32 25.53 34.37 37.50 38.09 29.26 37.25 34.09 32.35 29.87 20.83 37.73 28.07 33.33 46.51 30.61 21.42 26.08 33.33 24.65 28.94 27.02 34.14 37.83 50.00 31.25 27.39 30.55 20.45 50.00 36.11 38.70 25.58 24.48 25.00 42.85

8 5 5 6 4 3 5 4 1 2 3 3 4 2 3 2 2 0 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1

9 8 8 7 4 6 8 6 1 3 3 4 5 2 3 2 2 0 4 1 1 3 2 0 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 1

1,565,670 1,405,425 1,372,357 1,286,944 1,087,793 915,872 903,516 901,698 848,051 811,041 717,143 710,787 698,181 684,507 664,866 613,299 548,940 545,592 545,130 531,037 527,612 480,448 473,442 414,637 397,215 385,552 380,488 371,245 363,518 360,097 349,579 349,468 345,465 342,718 335,707 332,010 328,441 327,749 323,431 314,915 312,029 306,254 301,997 295,562 284,371 273,479 268,768

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It was a summer of Blues Darley’s Blue Point dominated the first-season sires’ title from the get go

Blue Point’s Group 1 winner Rosallion: the colt, who is out of the New Approach mare Rosaline, seen here winning the Prix Jean Luc Lagardère

TALLION FEES don’t always translate into stud success, but the two sires atop of this season’s first-season sires’ league table were the two who commanded the highest fees when retiring to stud in 2020, and they represent Darley. The champion sprinter Blue Point retired to the stud’s Irish branch at Kildangan Stud alongside his brilliant sire Shamardal, whom he resembles enormously, while Too Darn Hot, a European champion two-year-old, was the new recruit to the Dalham Hall

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roster headed by his sire Dubawi. Successful in the Gimcrack at two and placed in the Dewhurst and Middle Park, Blue Point came into his own at four and five when he won four Group 1 sprints, including the Diamond Jubilee and King’s Stand at Royal Ascot of 2019. Given his juvenile exploits and his status as an elite sprinter it should come as no surprise that he was so quick off the blocks. The sire’s first crop is high on both quantity and quality with his 100 runners the most representatives of any Europeanbased first-season sire in 2022.

Blue Point’s 44 winners are also the most for that cohort as are their prize-money earnings, while his two top level winners and his ten black-type performers represent the peak. His first Group 1 winner was the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère and Listed Pat Eddery Stakes winner Rosallion. Richard Hannon’s colt is a homebred for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid and boasts the owner-breeder’s brilliant broodmare Reem Three as his second dam. Rosallion’s dam is an unraced New Approach full-sister to the Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein winner

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Blue Point’s 41 winners are also the most for that cohort as are their prize-money earnings, while the eight black-type performers represent the peak Ostilio and closely related to the Group 1 winners Triple Time (Frankel) and Ajman Princess (Teofilo). Big Evs was the first stakes winner for Blue Point and that victory came, appropriately, at Royal Ascot in the Windsor Castle Stakes. Michael Appleby’s colt continued as a standard bearer for his sire across the season, adding his fantastic Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint victory to his previous haul that included the Molecomb Stakes (G3) and Flying Childers Stakes (G2). He is out of the Oasis Dream mare Hana Lina and that Juddmonte champion sprinter is also the broodmare sire of the Listed Alson-Trophy winner Waldfrieda. Her dam, Waldtraut, was a Listed winner and third in the Preis Der Diana and is a half-sister to the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes winner and Group 1 Sprint Cup third Waldpfad by Shamardal from the famed W family of Waldgeist, Masked Marvel and Vauban. The Green Desert line is also the source of the broodmare sires of Blue Point’s May Hill Stakes (G2) and Sweet Solera Stakes (G3) third Les Bleus (Invincible Spirit) and Storm Miami (Sea The Stars), who was runner-up in the Marwell Stakes.

Parkin out of his May Hill winner and Fillies’ Mile runner-up Agnes Stewart, claimed the Moyglare Stud Stakes at The Curragh during Irish Champions Festival. The Karl Burke-trained filly had previously been successful in the Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes. Too Darn Hot hails from an outstanding female line of the Aga Khan Studs – his second dam Darara won the Prix Vermeille and is a full-sister to Darshaan – so perhaps it is to be expected that Too Darn Hot has excelled with his first-crop daughters. Three of his four Group winners are fillies with the Group 2 May Hill Stakes and Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner Darnation and the brilliantly named German Group 3 winner Carolina Reaper amongst his best performers. His sons are none too shabby either with

Alyanaabi, runner-up to City Of Troy in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1), leading home a one-two for Too Darn Hot in the Group 3 Somerville Stakes. Interestingly, Carolina Reaper and Boiling Point, who was second in that Group 3, are out of Shamardal mares, while the Australian Group 3 third Arabian Summer has Shamardal’s close relation Street Cry as his broodmare sire. Worldwide the Too Darn Hot-Shamardal cross has three winners from six runners with two black-type performers. Darnation has Galileo as her broodmare sire and, given the affinity between Dubawi and Galileo, the cross has 50 per cent winners-to-runners. With Too Darn Hot’s dam Dar Re Mi by Singspiel, the cross also produced 5x4 inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells.

Ten Sovereigns took the Coolmore stakes title

Coolmore launched three new stallions onto the market in 2020 – the Group 1 Middle Park and July Cup winner Ten Sovereigns, the 2,000 Guineas hero Magna Grecia, and Calyx, the first crop Coventry Stakes winner by Kingman. Ten Sovereigns, a son of No Nay Never, heads the internal Coolmore battle on stakes

Ten Sovereigns: has produced 11 stakes performers, including the Group 3 winner Inquisitively

Too Darn Hot was smokin’ through the summer

As an unbeaten champion juvenile and the most expensive of the 2020 intake of stallions, Too Darn Hot had quite the weight of expectation upon him. The Group 1 Prix Jean Prat and Sussex Stakes winner has delivered on that with a Group 1 winner among the 22 he has sired from 59 runners. On stakes winners and earnings, only Blue Point has bettered the son of Dar Re Mi. He beat Blue Point to that first Group 1 win when Fallen Angel, a homebred for Steve

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young stallions winners, winners and prize-money but Calyx has the better winners-to-runners ratio. Ten Sovereigns took a little bit of time to ignite, perhaps a surprise given his sire’s reputation for precocity, but not when Ten Sovereigns’ own race record is taken into account. The Group 3 Round Tower Stakes winner made his debut in late August of his juvenile season. His best performer is the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes and Listed Roses Stakes winner Inquisitively, who was third behind Big Evs at Royal Ascot. A half-brother to the Listed Boadicea Stakes third Pixeleen, he is out of the Mind Games mare Ballyalla. The Listed Premio Coolmore winner Mysterious Shadow and Asean, successful in the Listed Curragh Stakes, complete his trio of stakes winners. He has 11 black-type performers in total with two of them inbred to Danehill, the sire of Ten Sovereigns’ own broodmare sire Exceed And Excel, through their dam sires and they are from the same female line. Asean is the first foal out of the winning Zoffany mare Eria, who is a daughter of Eirnin, a winning Galileo three-parts sister to the Listed Garnet Stakes winner Queen Titi, and her Fastnet Rock daughter Ask Me Nicely is the dam of Kalispera by Ten Sovereigns, and placed in three Group contests this season. Calyx has 17 winners from just 46 representatives, which is the second fewest of the top ten, but two of those winners are Group winners. Persian Dreamer’s victory in the Group 2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes was the first this generation of sires.

Calyx has 16

winners from just 41 representatives, which is the second fewest of the top ten, but two of those winners are Group winners Classic Flower won the Criterium de Maisons-Lafitte (G2) and was second in the Prix Six Perfections (G3) and third in the Prix Robert Papin (G2). Calyx is also the sire of Dewhurst third Eben Shaddad, who filled that position in the Group 3 Somerville Stakes, and the Norfolk Stakes (G2) second Malc is another son of Calyx, who comes from the same Juddmonte family as Native Trail. Both Persian Dreamer and Eben Shaddad have Galileo as their broodmare sire and three of the four best members of Calyx’s first crop, on official ratings, are out of daughters of the Coolmore colossus. It’s a nick to watch as all five runners bred this way are winners with two stakes performers, and the

cross generates 5x5 inbreeding to Mr. Prospector. Calyx is a son of Kingman and the third member of Coolmore’s team of first-season sires for this season also represents the Invincible Spirit sire line. He is the 2,000 Guineas and Futurity Trophy winner Magna Grecia, the Invincible Spirit elder halfbrother to champion three-year-old St Mark’s Basilica. Magna Grecia’s first crop has yielded the Listed Prix Yacowlef winner Myconian and Thekingofmyheart, who was second in the Listed Junioren Preis. He has nine winners from 51 runners.

Stakes winners for Inns Of Court and Invincible Army

The less expensive sons of Invincible Spirit who have their first runners this year – Inns Of Court and Invincible Army – also sired a stakes winner apiece. Inns Of Court stands at Tally-Ho Stud and has 22 winners from 75 runners with the Listed Blenheim Stakes winner Megarry the best of them. He is one of four blacktype performers for the Group 2 Prix du Gros Chene winner, who sired a 1-3 in that Fairyhouse contest. Megarry has Acclamation as his broodmare sire and Acclamation’s own sire, Royal Applause, is the damsire of Inns Of Court’s daughter Gaenari, who has been second in the Listed Tipperary Stakes and the Prix de la Vallee Auge (L). Yeomanstown Stud’s Invincible Army has the least representatives of Invincible Spirit’s first-crop stallion sons this year, but has sired 12 winners from 44 runners. His highest-ranked offspring is the Listed Ingabelle Stakes winner and the Group 3 Silken Glider Stakes second Kitty Rose.

Soldier’s Call got the numbers on the board and the strike rate Among the more expensive stallions at the upper end of the table, Soldier’s Call stands out. The Group 1-placed son of Showcasing retired to Ballyhane Stud at an advertised

The Group 2 winner Haatem (Phoenix Of Spain)

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young stallions fee of €10,000, but only Blue Point and Ten Sovereigns have sired more winners than him and with 22 winners from 69 runners, his 33 per cent strike rate is better than that of those on similar fees. Soldier’s Call is the sire of Dawn Charger, successful in the Group 3 Prix Eclipse and placed in the Criterium de Maisons-Lafitte and Prix d’Arenberg for Karl Burke. His offspring also include the Group 3 Dick Poole Stakes second Dorothy Lawrence, who was also placed in two Listed races. World Of Darcy is another with a pair of Listed placings on his record, while King Collector was a Listed runner-up at the San Siro.

who was runner-up to City Of Troy in the Group 2 Superlative Stakes. Phoenix Of Spain is also the sire of the 99-rated Spanish Phoenix who narrowly missed out on black-type when fourth three-parts of a length behind Array in the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes. Both Haatem and Spanish Phoenix have Green Desert line broodmare sires. The Ger Lyons-trained Spanish Flame was fourth in the Group 2 Futurity Stakes to subsequent Group 1 National Stakes winner Henry Longfellow, with the second and third that day – Islandsinthestream and Portland – subsequently Group 1-placed themselves.

Phoenix has risen to prominence

Don’t ignore City Light and Study Of Man

The Irish National Stud’s Phoenix Of Spain is another stallion punching above his weight with the Irish 2,000 Guineas winner having a 39 per cent winners-to-runners ratio. His 16 winners are headed by the Group 2 Vintage Stakes winner Haatem,

In France, City Light has yet to record a stakes winner, but Haras d’Etreham’s son of Siyouni has the best strike-rate of any of those with more than four runners. The Group 3 winner and Group 1 Diamond Jubilee and Prix de la Forêt winner

has 15 winners from 30 runners with the Group 3 Prix des Chenes third Rock The Kasbah, the sole black-type performer. Deep Impact’s Prix du Jockey Clubwinning son Study Of Man, a grandson of the great Miesque, would not have been expected to excel as a sire of two-year-olds but has eight winners from 20 first crop runners, headed by the Group 2 Beresford Stakes winner Deepone. Trained by Paddy Twomey for Vimal and Gillian Khosla, breeders of Group 1 winners Together Forever (dam of unbeaten Dewhurst winner City Of Troy), Forever Together and Lord Shanakill, Deepone represents a variation of the cross that produced Auguste Rodin and Snowfall amongst others and is a contender for Classic honours next season. Given that Study Of Man raced once over a mile at two and was second in both the Prix Ganay and Prix d’Ispahan at four, there is surely more to come from the Lanwades Stud sire next season and beyond.

Not too bad a bunch

Havana Grey, Sioux Nation, Saxon Warrior and Cracksman head a fine list of second-season sires

AVANA GREY AND SIOUX NATION were top of the class in 2022 and, 12 months on, they sit atop the European table of secondseason sires. Whitsbury Manor Stud’s exciting young sire is establishing a sprinting branch of the Galileo line and he heads the list on prizemoney and stakes winners, with the added distinction of siring that vital Group 1 winner in his second crop. Sioux Nation’s sire Scat Daddy never raced outside of North America, but is a powerful influence in Europe first through No Nay Never, and now his final crop Phoenix Stakes winner, who tops the standings on individual Group winners. The unbeaten Vandeek blazed a trail

across the summer and early autumn with the 625,000gns Tattersalls Craven BreezeUp Sale topper outperforming his sire Havana Grey by winning not one but two juvenile Group 1s. Vandeek first advertised his potential with his breeze and confirmed that promise when making a winning debut at Nottingham that more than suggested bigger prizes were within his grasp. He came good on that in his next start winning the Group 2 Richmond Stakes comfortably and then managing to concede weight and narrowly repel the challenge of Ramatuelle in the Prix Morny (G1). His Middle Park Stakes (G1) victory over Task Force and River Tiber was visually his most impressive performance of the season and only City Of Troy is rated higher than

Vandeek among this season’s juvenile colts. Bred by Maywood Stud, he is out of the Exceed And Excel mare Mosa Mine. The cross of Havana Grey with Darley’s excellent dual hemisphere sire has also produced the Listed City Plate winner and multiple Listed-placed Holguin from Havana Grey’s first crop, and his second-crop Listed winner Royal Grey. There are only five runners bred on this cross which creates 5x3 inbreeding to Danehill, who is the broodmare sire of Teofilo, grandsire of Havana Grey. The cross is heavy on Danzig blood as Havana Grey is inbred to Green Desert as well as carrying a line back to Danehill. Havana Grey’s first two crops have yielded seven individual Group winners and eight Listed winners. Danehill-line sires Holy

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young stallions Roman Emperor, Dansili and Foxwedge also feature as broodmare sires of his stakes winners. His two-year-olds of 2023 are bolstered by the Group 2 July Stakes winner Jasour, Elite Status, successful in the Prix du Cabourg and Listed National Stakes, and the Listed Prix de la Valle d’Auge winner Graceful Thunder All these winners have been bred at fees that are much less than the £55,000 Havana Grey will cost next season. His first crop were conceived when his fee was advertised at £8,000, while it was just £6,500 for his second. Sioux Nation was never a contender for Classic honours; the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes, Group 2 Norfolk Stakes winner and grandson of a Sprint Cup third, was destined to be fast but his first crop produced the 1,000 Guineas third Matilda Picotte. A talented juvenile winning the Listed Bosra Sham Stakes and finishing second in a pair of Group 2 contests – the Lowther and

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Balanchine Stakes – she led the chasing pack behind Mawj and Tahiyra at Newmarket. Seven furlongs proved to be the ideal distance for the filly, who won the Group 2 Challenge Stakes and the Group 3 Sceptre Stakes and is the highest-rated colt or filly from the first two crops of Coolmore’s very popular young sire. With ten individual Group winners from his first two crops, Sioux Nation was once again one of the most popular sires in Britain and Ireland this year covering 289 mares at Coolmore’s Castlehyde Stud. Only the NH-oriented Crystal Ocean was busier in the covering shed than Sioux Nation. Matilda Picotte has a fascinating pedigree as her broodmare sire is the Group 1 Phoenix and National Stakes winner One Cool Cat, who is a son of Storm Cat. Sioux Nation is inbred to Storm Cat’s sire Storm Bird and therefore Matilda Picotte is inbred 5x3 to Storm Cat and 5x4 to Storm Bird. She’s also inbred 4x4x5 to Mr Prospector.

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young stallions This season, Sioux Nation, who has Oasis Dream as his broodmare sire, has sired six individual Group winners with the multiple Group 3 winner Brave Emperor flying the flag around Europe. His first crop also includes the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes winner Ocean Quest, who was fourth in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup, the Group 3 Ballycorus Stakes winner Ocean Jewel and the Listed winner and Italian 1,000 Guineas second Estrosa. The Group winners from his second crop are Indian Run, who won the Listed Acomb Stakes, and Round Tower Stakes (G3) winner Letsbefrankaboutit. Inbreeding to Green Desert has proven successful for breeders using Sioux Nation and even close inbreeding to Oasis Dream has worked, too. Ocean Quest is out of an Aqlaam mare, while the Group 2 Airlie Stud Stakes second Gunzburg has Showcasing as her broodmare sire. Ocean Quest has Green Desert himself as her broodmare sire, while the American stakes winner and Grade 2 Penn Mile Stakes second Behind Enemy Lines is out of a mare by Invincible Spirit. Brave Emperor and Indian Run have sons of Danehill as their broodmare sires.

A Warrior class

Saxon Warrior stands at Coolmore’s Fethard headquarters and was the second busiest

Flat sire in Ireland after Sioux Nation, covering 264 mares this year. That number was no doubt influenced by his first-crop Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Victoria Road. That first crop developed well as threeyear-olds, something that was anticipated given their Futurity Trophy-winning sire added the 2,000 Guineas at three and engaged in thrilling duels with Roaring Lion in the Eclipse and Irish Champion Stakes, with the star-crossed son of Kitten’s Joy prevailing narrowly in both. With Victoria Road absent for much of the season, it was left to others to pick up the mantle for their sire and the burden was taken up by a talented filly. Lumiere Rock won the Group 3 Silken Glider Stakes last season and doubled her Group tally in the Blandford Stakes (G2) on Irish Champions Weekend. She was also third to Blue Rose Cen in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera and runner-up behind Warm Heart in the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2). Greenland, out of the Canford Cliffs mare Aktoria, won the Group 3 Prix Greffuhle and was third to Big Rock in the Prix la Force and they joined juvenile Group 3 winner

Inbreeding to Green Desert has proven

successful for breeders using Sioux Nation and even

close inbreeding to Oasis Dream has worked, too

Saxon Warrior: the sire of 16 stakes performers, including two Group race winners

Moon Bay to make it four individual Group winners from his first crop. His three-year-olds included the French Listed winners Thornbrook and Zulu Warrior, while his second crop has produced the Listed Grand Criterium de Bordeaux winner Sans Voix and Group 2 Gran Criterium second Borna. Victoria Road is out of an Invincible Spirit mare, while daughters of Gold Away, Canford Cliffs and Giant’s Causeway have foaled his other Group winners. Danehill Dancer, Smart Strike and King’s Best are the dam sires of other stakes performers by Saxon Warrior.

Angel flying high

Harry Angel has proven to be a hit in Australia and sired his first Group 1 winner Down Under, but his first-crop European star Marshman, who was second in the Gimcrack at two, won the Group 3 Prix Sigy. Al Dasim is also a first-crop Group 3 winner courtesy of his victory in the Nad Al Sheba Turf Sprint. Vicious Harry, who was his sire’s first winner, and a consistently placed runner at stakes level as a juvenile, finally landed a Listed win in the Prix de Bonneval in October this year. Cadeau Belle and Iconic Moment were also Listed winners this season from the champion sprinter’s first crop. The best performer from his second crop is Roger Teal’s Flying Childers Stakes (G2) third and Cornwallis Stakes (G2) second Roasario. Marshman has Galileo as his broodmare sire while Cadeau Belle is out of a mare by Galileo’s first Derby winner, New Approach.

Roaring Lion loss

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young stallions Group 1 winners in their first crops. Zoustar’s Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Lezoo added the Listed Hopeful Stakes to her resume in 2023, while he also sired the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes winner Starlust and Listed St Hugh’s Stakes winner Miaharris from his second crop. His late studmate Roaring Lion left just a single crop but that includes the Group 1 winner Dubai Mile, the Group 3 Sovereign Stakes winner Embesto, the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes winner Running Lion and Middle Earth, who was successful in the Noel Murless Stakes (L). Interestingly Dubai Mile and Middle Earth are inbred to Sadler’s Wells, with High Chaparral and Galileo respectively as their broodmare sires. Embesto is out of an Iffraaj mare, which crosses Sadler’s Wells with his three-parts brother Nureyev.

Scat Daddy’s torch carried for the future

The more affordable, and French-based sons of Scat Daddy have also enjoyed a fruitful season with Seabhac, whose stud career began with the late Larissa Kneip, siring two Group winners. The Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes winner is out of Curlin Hawk, a Curlin half-sister to the Preakness Stakes (G1) and the Belmont Stakes (G1) winner and sire Afleet Alex. Standing at just €3,000 and with just 54 runners across his two crops of racing age, Seabhac has sired this year’s Group 2 MehlMuhlens Rennen winner Angers and Rue Boissonade, successful in the Group 2 Prix de Malleret. Seahenge won the Group 2 Champagne Stakes and was third to US Navy Flag and Mendelssohn in the Dewhurst Stakes. He retired to Haras de la Haie Neuve at €5,000 and his younger brother Max Player won the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup. His first European crop contains the Listed Prix de l’Arve winner Winter Pudding, while in Argentina, where Scat Daddy first shot to prominence, he is the sire of the Grade 1 winner Romance Sea.

returning in triumph to Royal Ascot to win the King’s Stand Stakes and becoming his sire’s first Group 1 winner. The sire added a second stakes winner this year with American Sonja winning the Listed Prix Volterra.

Cracksman on Impact

On prize-money, Cracksman is the leading second-season sire due to the earnings of his outstanding, unbeaten son Ace Impact. The brilliant winner of the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) and Prix Guillaume d’Ornano (G2) is rated just a pound lower than Equinox and was the best three-year-old in Europe this season. Ace Impact wasn’t the only stakes winner for the son of Frankel this year. Cracksman is also the sire of the Deutsches Derby (G1) third Weracruz, who won the Listed Grosser Preis der Sparkasse in Hannover. He sired two further three-year-old Listed winners in France – the Aga Khan’s Shembala, who won the Prix Joubert and was third to subsequent Group 1 winner Double Major in the Group 2 Prix Chaudenay, and the Listed Prix Caravelle winner Cracksmania.

We can’t leave out Justify

Technically Justify shouldn’t be on this list as he stands in America, but the Triple

Crown winner has made a major impact in Europe and in City Of Troy and Opera Singer is the sire of the highest-rated juvenile colt and filly in training in this continent. The unbeaten Dewhurst Stakes (G1) winner and the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) winner are from his second crop and two of the four European Group winners Justify sired in 2023. Ramatuelle, the Prix Robert Papin (G2) and Prix du Bois (G3) winner who was second in the Prix Morny to Vandeek, is also from his second crop, while Group 3 Snow Fairy Stakes winner Red Riding Hood is a three-year-old. His Listed Michael John Kennedy Memorial Stakes winner and Group 3 Royal Whip second Unless is also from the first crop, as is Listed-placed Shamwari. The Royal Lodge third Capulet, Zetland Stakes second Gasper De Lemos and Listed Prix de Liancourt third Secretive are from his second. So far he has sired 19 winners from 36 runners in Europe with five stakes winners for a stakes winners-to-runners ratio of just under 14 per cent. It’s head and shoulders above any European-based sire in this cohort although none of them would have covered the calibre of mare that Justify did. Opera Singer has Sadler’s Wells as her broodmare sire and, bar Ramatuelle, Shamwari and Secretive, his other European stakes performers are out of mares by Galileo.

Cracksman: now the sire of eight stakes performers, and has been particularly successful in France

Bradsell continued his Royal affair for Tasleet Tasleet’s star continues to be Bradsell with his first-crop Coventry Stakes (G2) winner

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stallion statistics Leading European first-season sires of 2023 (by prize-money earned to November 7, 2023)

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Stallion

Pedigree

To Stud

Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

Wnrs/Rnrs%

SWnrs

SWs

Blue Point Too Darn Hot Ten Sovereigns Calyx Soldier’s Call Inns of Court Phoenix of Spain City Light Invincible Army Land Force Magna Grecia Study of Man Advertise Masar Best Solution Fas Demarchelier Air Vice Marshal Eqtidaar Earnshaw Omaha Beach The Irish Rover Waldgeist Le Brivido Fa Ul Sciur Palace Prince Taj Mahal Tornibush Donjuan Triumphant Roman Candle Crystal Ocean

Shamardal-Scarlett Rose (Royal Applause Dubawi-Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) No Nay Never-Seeking Solace (Exceed And Excel) Kingman-Helleborine (Observatory) Showcasing-Dijarvo (Iceman) Invincible Spirit-Learned Friend (Seeking the Gold) Lope de Vega-Lucky Clio (Key of Luck) Siyouni-Light Saber (Kendor) Invincible Spirit-Rajeem (Diktat) No Nay Never-Theann (Rock of Gibraltar) Invincible Spirit-Cabaret (Galileo) Deep Impact-Second Happiness (Storm Cat) Showcasing-Furbelow (Pivotal) New Approach-Khawlah (Cape Cross) Kodiac-Al Andalyya (Kingmambo) Fastnet Rock-Sotka (Dutch Art) Dubawi-Loveisallyouneed (Sadler’s Wells) War Front-Gold Vault (Arch) Invincible Spirit-Madany (Acclamation) Medaglia d’Oro-Emily Bronte (Machiavellian) War Front-Charming (Seeking the Gold) No Nay Never-Shelley Beach (Danehill Dancer) Galileo-Waldlerche (Monsun) Siyouni-La Bugatty (Dr Fong) Farhh-Rosa Del Dubai (Dubai Destination) Areion-Palace Princess (Tiger Hill) Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Dream Ahead-Celenza (Dansili) Dream Ahead-Mathuna (Tagula) Le Havre-Holy Dazzle (Sunday Break) Sea The Stars-Crystal Star (Mark of Esteem)

2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020

105 62 67 42 68 77 37 30 49 58 58 23 50 43 15 14 2 3 25 3 3 3 18 19 6 3 9 2 5 4 4

341 178 220 136 270 320 108 113 166 229 165 55 183 104 44 62 7 5 76 7 10 11 35 54 20 14 25 10 12 11 7

41 22 23 16 22 23 14 15 12 17 9 7 15 7 4 1 2 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 1

56 30 33 22 29 33 18 18 15 20 15 9 16 9 4 1 2 3 6 2 1 2 2 1 5 0 1 0 1 0 1

39.04 35.48 34.32 38.09 32.35 29.87 37.83 50.00 24.48 29.31 15.51 30.43 30.00 16.27 26.66 7.14 100.00 33.33 16.00 33.33 33.33 33.33 11.11 5.26 50.00 0.00 11.11 0.00 20.00 0.00 25.00

5 4 3 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

8 6 4 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1,405,425 901,698 710,787 613,299 531,037 527,612 335,707 332,010 284,371 234,827 219,729 207,634 185,598 175,586 79,785 67,452 55,318 55,299 50,471 35,137 31,588 31,544 28,961 28,213 28,115 25,277 24,704 15,423 13,679 13,491 7,370

Leading European second-season sires of 2023 (by prize-money earned to November 7, 2023)

Courtesy of Weatherbys

Stallion

Pedigree

To Stud

Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

Cracksman Havana Grey Sioux Nation Saxon Warrior Roaring Lion Justify Harry Angel Zoustar Tasleet Expert Eye

Frankel-Rhadegunda (Pivotal) Havana Gold-Blanc de Chine (Dark Angel) Scat Daddy-Dream The Blues (Oasis Dream) Deep Impact-Maybe (Galileo) Kitten’s Joy-Vionnet, by Street Sense) Scat Daddy-Stage Magic (Ghostzapper) Dark Angel-Beatrix Potter (Cadeaux Genereux) Northern Meteor-Zouzou (Redoute’s Choice) Showcasing-Bird Key (Cadeaux Genereux) Acclamation-Exemplify (Dansili)

2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019

110 142 146 118 78 36 110 119 54 109

448 800 723 515 367 133 522 502 277 529

44 75 62 45 40 19 58 40 17 35

71 125 96 64 67 27 83 58 32 56

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Wnrs/Rnrs % SWnrs 40.00 52.81 42.46 38.13 51.28 52.77 52.72 33.61 31.48 32.11

4 10 9 5 3 5 4 3 2 2

SWs

7 13 15 5 3 8 4 3 2 2

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The master list SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2023

Horses are listed under their sire with the respective broodmare sire in brackets. Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe (all nations) and UAE up to and including November 7, 2023 Data from Weatherbys Acclamation Bouttemont (Fastnet Rock) Garrus (Medicean) Makarova (Sea The Stars) Orne (Excelebration) Aclaim Purosangue (Avonbridge) Adaay Hey Honey (Sir Percy) Adlerflug Goliath (Shamardal) India (Peintre Celebre) Lordano (Dubawi) Al Wukair La Mehana (Dansili) Albert Dock Tempesti (Bachelor Duke) Alex The Winner Palerma (Mineshaft) Almanzor Castle Way (Nayef) Amaron Aggenstein (Alkalde) Valpolicella (Dashing Blade)

L 3 L 3

Appel Au Maitre Good Fortune (Academy Award) Seneschal (Slickly)

L L

Areion Calif (Rock of Gibraltar) Zerostress (Diktat)

L 13 33L

Bobby’s Kitten Sandrine (Pivotal)

Bolt D’oro Bold Discovery (Arch)

Born To Sea Tulipa Chope (Panis) 23 3

L Australia Adelaide River (War Front) 3 Broome (Acclamation) 2 Canberra Legend (Fastnet Rock) L Elounda Queen (Mastercraftsman) 3 Point Lonsdale (Acclamation) 23 Shamida (Azamour) 33 Tasmania (Adlerflug) L Waipiro (Danehill Dancer) 3

Animal Kingdom Big Call (Scat Daddy)

L 3L L 22

Cape Cross Passion And Glory (Street Cry)

Bow Creek Breizh Eagle (Country Reel)

Brazen Beau Astral Beau (Sea The Stars) Vadream (Shamardal)

L 3L

Bungle Inthejungle Givemethebeatboys (Dutch Art) Il Sindacalista (Titus Livius) Supereroe (Al Kazeem)

3 L L

Buratino Mangiafuoco (Redback) Snapraeterea (Alamshar)

L L

2 2

Caravaggio Amabile (Teofilo) L Porta Fortuna (Holy Roman Emperor)1 3 3 Tenebrism (Pivotal) L Tiber Flow (Raven’s Pass) 3 Charm Spirit Kick On (Marju) Lord Charming (Authorized) Shaquille (Galileo)

LL 3 11L

Churchill Blue Rose Cen (Jeremy) 1113 Grand Alliance (Dubai Destination) 3 Ladies Church (Rio de La Plata) L Prime Art (War Front) 3 Sprewell (Redback) 3 The Foxes (Darshaan) 2 Unconquerable (Oasis Dream) L Yashin (Dansili) 3

Awtaad Al Qareem (Teofilo) Anmaat (Halling)

3L 1

Bated Breath Kimi Orenda (Numerous)

Calyx Classic Flower (Garswood) Persian Dreamer (Galileo)

Birchwood Loliwood (Konig Turf) Woodchuck (Dunkerque)

L L

Camacho Ballymount Boy (Footstepsinthesand) L

City of Light Mimi Kakushi (Vicar)

Camelot Aguirre (Dubawi) Dancing Gemini (Australia) Dancing Tango (New Approach) Los Angeles (Dansili) Luxembourg (Danehill Dancer)

Clodovil Duca di Como (Elusive Quality)

Cloth of Stars Birr Castle (Turtle Bowl)

3L L

Panjari (Anabaa) Pensee du Jour (Dansili) Sevenna’s Knight (Galileo) Sober (Lope de Vega)

American Pharoah Above The Curve (Galileo)

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Blue Point Action Point (Exceed And Excel) Big Evs (Oasis Dream) Rosallion (New Approach) Shady Lady (Tobougg) Waldfrieda (Oasis Dream)

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L L L 1 1

stakes-winning sires Gregarina (Galileo) Deep Impact Auguste Rodin (Galileo) Drumroll (Galileo) Domedriver Almacado Gree (Daliapour) Dream Ahead Turn Cartwheels (Linamix)

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Cotai Glory Excellent Truth (Teofilo) Hotline Bling (Aussie Rules) Tiger Belle (Acclamation)

3 L 3L

Counterattack Maigret (Dabirsim) See Hector (New Approach)

L 33

Cracksman Ace Impact (Anabaa Blue) Cracksmania (Gentlewave) Shembala (Dubai Destination) Weracruz (Lando)

112L L L L

Curlin Elite Power (Vindication) Dabirsim Horizon Dore (Enrique)

223L

Daiwa Major Double Major (Dansili)

Dandy Man Happy Romance (Marju) Novus (Montjeu)

L 3

Dansili Chichester (Halling)

Dark Angel Alfareeq (Cape Cross) 1 Alflaila (Oasis Dream) 2 Angel Bleu (Galileo) 2L Art Power (Keltos) 122 Berkshire Shadow (Oasis Dream) L Fanaar (Royal Academy) 3 Got To Love A Grey (Layman) L Heredia (Mastercraftsman) 3L Khaadem (Footstepsinthesand) 1 Mutasarref (Mawatheeq) L Sacred Angel (Haatef) 3 The Antarctic (Lawman) 3 De Treville

111 3

Dunkerque Coachello (Rock of Gibraltar) Dylan Thomas Norge (High Chaparral)

2L LL L

Elvstroem Watch Him (Galileo)

Elzaam Moracana (One Cool Cat)

Equiano Equality (Invincible Spirit)

Exceed And Excel Danelo (Authorized) Manaafith (Dubawi) Mawj (New Approach) Sacred (Blame)

L L 1 3

Dubawi Aablan (Hard Spun) 3 Al Husn (Sea The Stars) 13L Al Nayyir (Manduro) LL Al Suhail (Shirocco) 2 Ancient Wisdom (Dalakhani) 13 Arabian Crown (Dubai Destination) 3 L Boogie Woogie (Galileo) L Calmly (Danehill Dancer) L Dance Sequence (Street Cry) 3 Dancing Goddess (Shamardal) L Discovery Island (Shamardal) 3 Eldar Eldarov (Sea The Stars) 1 Emily Dickinson (Montjeu) 2L Final Gesture (Galileo) L Henry Longfellow (Galileo) 12 Highland Avenue (Shamardal) 3 Jewel House (Dansili) L Kemari (Pivotal) L Lazuli (Fasliyev) L Lord North (Giant’s Causeway) 13 Master of The Seas (Danehill) 22 Modern Games (New Approach) 1 Never Ending Story (Camelot) 3 Ottery (Monsun) 3 Prince Eiji (Pivotal) 3 Rogue Millennium (Nayef) 2 San Antonio (Galileo) L Siskany (Dansili) 3 The Revenant (Excellent Art) L Valiant Prince (Footstepsinthesand) 2 2 Warren Point (Dubai Destination) L Yibir (Monsun) L Due Diligence Folgaria (Azamour)

El Kabeir Azure Blue (Oasis Dream) Budrio (Sinndar) Dragon Leader (Oasis Dream)

Excelebration Moss Tucker (Pastoral Pursuits) Sean (Areion)

13L 3

Expert Eye Juniper Berries (Lethal Force) Snellen (Sea The Moon)

3 L

Farhh Tiffany (Sadler’s Wells) Tribalist (Nathaniel) Fascinating Rock Virtual Rock (Aussie Rules)

L 233

Fast Company Checkandchallenge (Dalakhani) L Hard One To Please (New Approach) 3 L Fastnet Rock Buckaroo (Galileo) Fenelon (Galileo) Poker Face (Galileo) Via Sistina (Galileo)

L LL 23L 12

Flatter Sound Money (Aldebaran)

Footstepsinthesand Lost Empire (Duke of Marmalade)

Frankel Adayar (Dubawi) Al Asifah (Lawman)

3 L

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stakes-winning sires Arrest (Intikhab) 33 Chaldean (Dutch Art) 1 Courage Mon Ami (Lemon Drop Kid) 1 Darkaniya (Selkirk) 2L Diego Velazquez (Acclamation) 2 Flight Leader (Empire Maker) 3 Hans Andersen (Arcano) 3 Hurricane Lane (Shirocco) 2 Inspiral (Selkirk) 11 Jannah Rose (Indian Ridge) 123 Kelina (Oasis Dream) 12 Left Sea (Dubawi) L Maxux (Danehill Dancer) 3 Military Order (Dubawi) L Mostahdaf (Dubawi) 113 Nano Nagle (Dubawi) L Nashwa (Pivotal) 1 One For Bobby (Invincible Spirit) 3L Regal Jubilee (Medicean) L Sapphire Seas (Street Cry) L Soul Sister (Dansili) 13 Spirit Dancer (Oasis Dream) 3 Task Force (Hennessy) L Time Lock (Dubawi) 3L Triple Time (Mark of Esteem) 1 Voodoo Queen (Distorted Humor) L Westover (Lear Fan) 1 With The Moonlight (Dubawi) 22 Ylang Ylang (Shamardal) 13 Free Eagle Bolthole (Acclamation) Lips Freedom (Big Shuffle)

LL L

French Navy Layfayette (Holy Roman Emperor)

Full Drago Enigma Dei Grif (Orpen)

Galileo Content (Dark Angel) Espionage (Mastercraftsman) Falcon Eight (Danehill) First Minister (Giant’s Causeway) Foniska (Big Bad Bob) Free Wind (Duke of Marmalade) Grosvenor Square (Cape Cross) Jackie Oh (Rock of Gibraltar) Library (Dansili) One Evening (Pivotal) Peking Opera (War Front) Roberto Escobarr (Dansili) Russian Emperor (Fastnet Rock)

3 L 3 3 L 2 3 3 L L L 3 L

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Salt Lake City (Kyllachy) L Savethelastdance (Scat Daddy) 1L Tower of London (Anabaa) L Warm Heart (Fastnet Rock) 112L Galileo Gold Goldana (Pivotal) Galiway Engaliwe (Slickly) Harry Way (High Rock) Rubis Vendome (Kendargent) Showay (Caradak) Sunway (Kendargent) Vauban (Hurricane Run)

3L L 3 3 1 3

Gleneagles Araminta (Medicean) Freville (Le Havre) Insinuendo (Danehill Dancer) Jack Darcy (Rainbow Quest) Lajoscha (Torrential) Melo Melo (Excellent Art) Mill Stream (Hellvelyn) Shavasana (Duke of Marmalade) Vero Atleta (Danehill Dancer)

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

Goken Fang (Muhtathir) Go Athletico (Sageburg) Zorken (Bertolini)

3 3LL LL

Golden Horn Caius Chorister (Soldier of Fortune) 3 Douriann (Exceed And Excel) L El Caney (Sadler’s Wells) L Fortunino (Duke of Marmalade) L Goldenas (Medaglia d’Oro) 2 Gregory (Galileo) 2L Haskoy (Nathaniel) 3 Trawlerman (Monsun) 2L Wonderful Times (Galileo) L Gutaifan Popmaster (Clodovil)

Harzand Caught U Looking (Mastercraftsman) 3 Go On Carlras (Dubawi) 3

Harry Angel Al Dasim (Dansili) Cadeau Belle (New Approach) Iconic Moment (Iffraaj) Marshman (Galileo)

3 L L 3

Invincible Army Kitty Rose (Choisir)

Invincible Spirit Danyah (Galileo) Egot (Street Cry) Ghostwriter (Champs Elysees) Kylian (Roderic O’Connor) Mutasaabeq (Giant’s Causeway) Mystic Pearl (Dark Angel)

1L L 2 L 22 L

Iquitos Drawn To Dream (Hurricane Run) Mr Hollywood (Hurricane Run)

L 3

Isfahan Bukhara (Samum)

Havana Grey Elite Status (Swiss Spirit) Funny Story (Dansili) Graceful Thunder (Verglas) Great State (Foxwedge) Holguin (Exceed And Excel) Jasour (Bahamian Bounty) Mammas Girl (Elnadim) Royal Grey (Exceed And Excel) Shouldvebeenaring (Equiano) Vandeek (Exceed And Excel)

3L L L L L 2 3 L L 112

Heart’s Cry Continuous (Galileo)

James Garfield Man With The Plan (Lilbourne Lad)

Heeraat White Lavender (Rip Van Winkle)

Juniper Tree Ascot Brass (Definite Article)

Helsinki Espen Hill (Inchrory)

Highland Reel Warnie (Footstepsinthesand)

Justify City of Troy (Galileo) Opera Singer (Sadler’s Wells) Ramatuelle (Raven’s Pass) Red Riding Hood (Galileo) Unless (Galileo)

12 13 23 3 L

Holy Roman Emperor Geography (Montjeu) Roman Mist (Muhtathir) Vischio (Muhtathir)

3 3L L

Kallisto Aff Un Zo (Platini)

Kendargent Alpenblume (Hernando) Kendly (Excellent Art) Skalleti (Muhaymin) Skazino (Muhaymin)

L L 2 L

Kessaar Melfi (One Cool Cat)

Kingman Age of Kings (Fastnet Rock) Candleford (Norse Dancer) Cell Sa Beela (Galileo) Coppice (Observatory) Crack of Light (New Approach) Epictetus (Selkirk) Feed The Flame (Montjeu) Habana (Speightstown) Kinross (Selkirk) Laurel (Danehill)

3 L L L L 3L 1 2 22 L

I Am Invincible Lady Hamana (Shamardal)

Iffraaj Audience (Oasis Dream) 3 Fast Raaj (Raven’s Pass) 3LL My Prospero (Sea The Stars) L Spanish Honey (Unbridled’s Song) L State Occasion (Royal Applause) L

Harbour Watch Pyledriver (Le Havre)

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Vicious Harry (Encosta de Lago)

Inns of Court Megarry (Acclamation)

Intello Clever Candy (Dubawi) Junko (Dynaformer) Maud Gonne Spirit (Cape Cross) Regal Reality (Medicean)

LL 13 L 3

Based in Italy with a roster of quality international stallions giving European breeders and stallion owners the benefit of 120 years of experience

STALLIONS 2024 ADAAY MUKHADRAM

(2012 Kodiac) Speed and precocity Prolific Stakes Sire in GB, FR, ITY & USA

(2009 Shamardal) Gr.1 winner with a cracking pedigree Consistent sire of BT winners

ALBERT DOCK

POUNCED

(2012 Deep Impact) Gr.3 winner in Japan Sensational first 2 crops ITY Champion Sire 2022

(2007 Rahy) Breeders Cup Winner at 2 Has sired Gr.1 winners, Champions & Sires

ARCANO

TUSCAN GAZE

(2007 Oasis Dream) Gr.1 Winner Outstanding broodmare sire ITY Champion sire 2021 & 2023

(2017 Galileo) Derby Italiano winner by the great Galileo 1st crop yearlings of 2024

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stakes-winning sires Mashhoor (Montjeu) Merkur (Oasis Dream) Mr Moliere (Sea The Stars) Naranco (Galileo) Nostrum (Dubai Destination) Opera Mundi (Galileo) Remarquee (Champs Elysees) Sauterne (Aragorn) Sounds of Heaven (Galileo) Sparkling Plenty (Frankel)

3L L L 3 L L 3 1L L L

Kitasan Black Equinox (King Halo)

Kizuna Bathrat Leon (New Approach)

Kodi Bear Clounmacon (Danehill Dancer) Thunderbear (Raven’s Pass)

L 3

Kodiac Atlantic Coast (Oasis Dream) City Code (Elusive City) Evina (Sepoy) Good Guess (Pivotal) Indestructible (Rip Van Winkle) Magical Sunset (Medicean) Olivia Maralda (Fasliyev) Pipsy (High Chaparral) Relief Rally (Fayruz) Rogue Lightning (Acclamation) Star of Mystery (Shamardal) Zarinsk (Arch)

3 L L 13 3 3 L L 2 L L 233

Kuroshio Kairyu (Lope de Vega) Lawman Immensitude (Elusive City) Muhalif (Platini) Le Havre Eliyass (Azamour) Fakarava (Teofilo) Have Dancer (Fasliyev) Le Destrier (Dubawi) Romina Power (Rock of Gibraltar)

142

Mika d’O (Sakhee)

Lope de Vega Admiral de Vega (Dansili) 3 Autumn Starlight (Galileo) L Beauvatier (Sea The Stars) 3L Captain Winters (Mark of Esteem) L Cosmic Vega (Pivotal) L Curvature (Galileo) L Diamond Vega (Dragon Pulse) L Hooking (Dubawi) LL Iberian (High Chaparral) 2 King of Conquest (Teofilo) L Manisha (Montjeu) L Moon de Vega (Azamour) L Nina’s Lob (Peintre Celebre) L Novakai (Nathaniel) L Place du Carrousel (Duke of Marmalade) 2 3 Royal Rhyme (Kingmambo) L Salocin (Dalakhani) L Spring Promise (Dansili) L Lord Kanaloa Panthalassa (Montjeu)

L L L L L

Mastercraftsman Ability (Pivotal) Coltrane (Montjeu) Giavellotto (Galileo) Starry Heavens (So You Think)

L 23 2 L

Mayson Honey Girl (Sir Percy)

Medaglia d’Oro White Moonlight (Dubawi)

Mehmas Amorevole (Rio de La Plata) Believing (Kodiac) Dha Leath (Observatory) Power Under Me (Arakan) Takeko (Elusive Quality)

LL 3LL L 3 L

Mind Your Biscuits Derma Sotogake (Neo Universe)

Moohaajim Let’s Go Crazy (Dayjur)

Lord of England Extrabunt (Tai Chi) Wintertraum (Sternkoenig)

L 2

Morandi Westminster Night (Ballingarry)

Magna Grecia Myconian (Choisir)

Morpheus Incantatrice (Soviet Star)

Make Believe Sajir (Invincible Spirit) Self Belief (Lope de Vega)

L 3

Malibu Moon Valiant Force (Quality Road) 3L L

12 2L

Marcavelly Chaika (Medaglia d’Oro)

Mark Valeski Isolate (Unbridled’s Song)

Martinborough

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Myboycharlie Lastotchka (Muhtathir)

Nathaniel Chesspiece (Shamardal) Harbour Wind (Pivotal) Poptronic (Dream Ahead) Quickthorn (Oasis Dream) Sumo Sam (Lope de Vega) Understated (Makfi) Zeeyara (Dansili)

L L 12 1L 22 L L

Neatico Stella (Green Tune)

New Approach Bold Act (Dubawi)

New Bay Alcantor (Medicean) Bay Bridge (Multiplex) Jumby (Acclamation) Savvy Victory (Mount Nelson) Shuwari (Sir Percy) Tregony (Daylami) Vafortino (Invasor)

3 3 3 L L L L

Night of Thunder Al Musmak (Kitten’s Joy) Arabian Legend (Monsun) Fix You (Iffraaj) Flight Plan (Pivotal) Global Storm (Street Cry) Highfield Princess (Danehill) Isaac Shelby (Heliostatic) Romantic Style (Dream Ahead) Thunder Roll (Pivotal) Vespertilio (Dansili)

L L L 2 2 12 3 L L 2

Manduro Iresine (Oasis Dream) The Good Man (Galileo)

Markaz Lord Massusus (Haafhd)

Motivator Hamish (Sakhee) Mount Nelson Une Perle (Invincible Spirit)

Lethal Force Commanche Falls (Mark of Esteem) 3 L L Lion Heart Grasyas (Okawango)

Lookin At Lucky Tall Boy (Scat Daddy)

Muhaarar Annaf (Storm Cat) 3L Byline (Tagula) L Israr (Sea The Stars) 2 Marhaba Ya Sanafi (Galileo) 1 Run To Freedom (Bin Ajwaad) L Sicilian Defense (More Than Ready) L Sparks Fly (Tagula) L

Mukhadram Lady Ewelina (Polish Precedent)

Multiplex Shanroe (Hernando)

No Nay Never Array (Oasis Dream) 2 Caroline Street (So You Think) 3 Henry Adams (Galileo) 3 His Majesty (Sixties Icon) L Lake Forest (El Prado) 2 Les Pavots (Oasis Dream) 2L Little Big Bear (Bering) 2 Matrika (High Chaparral) 2 Midnight Mile (Galileo) L Mountain Bear (Holy Roman Emperor) L Nymphadora (Pivotal) L The Fixer (Kodiac) L Visualisation (Sadler’s Wells) 2L

stakes-winning sires

Relief Rally by Kodiac winning the Group 2 Lowther Stakes. She was one of 12 stakes winners for the sire in 2023

Noozhoh Canarias All Iron (Nathaniel) Not This Time Sibelius (Pulpit)

Best Flying (Big Shuffle) Breizh Sky (Anabaa)

Phoenix of Spain Haatem (Cape Cross)

Nyquist Crimson Advocate (Proud Citizen)

Oasis Dream Empore (Alkalde) Miqyaas (Singspiel)

L 2

Olympic Glory Game Run (Exceed And Excel) Shiffrin (Pioneerof The Nile) Orfevre Silver Sonic (Tony Bin) Ushba Tesoro (King Kamehameha) Outstrip Kolossal (Samum) Nastaria (Monsun) Oxbow Tuz (Pulpit) Paco Boy Captain Chorus (Singspiel) Pastorius Parol (Big Shuffle) Pedro The Great

2 3

3 1

Pivotal Dear My Friend (Teofilo) Plesant Jane (Sea The Stars)

Pomellato Amellata (Iffraaj) Pride of Dubai Just Beautiful (Makfi)

Profitable Kerdos (Holy Roman Emperor) Kimngrace (Exceed And Excel) Mitbaahy (Invasor) My Eyes Adore You (Cape Cross)

Scotland Yard (Curlin)

Raven’s Pass Son of Corballis (Exceed And Excel)

Reliable Man Derida (Azamour) North Reliance (Desert King)

L 3

Ribchester Maliparmi (Azamour)

Rio de La Plata Fort Payne (Meshaheer)

Roaring Lion Embesto (Iffraaj) Middle Earth (Galileo) Running Lion (Dansili)

3 L L

L L

Planteur Plantstepsdream (Footstepsinthesand) L L Trueshan (General Holme) 12

Prince of Lir Live In The Dream (New Approach) 33L LL

L 3

L L L L

Rock of Gibraltar Big Rock (Sea The Stars) Rock Joyeux (Kendargent) Ruler of The World Northern Ruler (Monsun)

133L L

Lumiere Rock (Gold Away) Sans Voix (Peintre Celebre) Thornbrook (Danehill Dancer) Zulu Warrior (Smart Strike)

2 L L L

Sea The Moon Assistent (Kallisto) Fantastic Moon (Jukebox Jury) Kassada (Soldier Hollow) Moonu (War Front) Muskoka (Peintre Celebre) Term of Endearment (Montjeu)

22L 123 3 3L 13L 3

Sea The Stars Akua’rius (Monsun) Al Aasy (Shamardal) Andromede (Authorized) Calistoga (Shamardal) Daramethos (Dansili) Desert Hero (Dubawi) Emily Upjohn (Barathea) Hukum (Kingmambo) Life In Motion (Refuse To Bend) Ottoman Fleet (Motivator) Rainbow Sky (Exceed And Excel) River of Stars (Adlerflug) Rosscarbery (Authorized) Sea Silk Road (Doyen) Sea Theme (Whipper) Sweet Memories (Sadler’s Wells)

L 3L L L L 3 1 13 L 3 L 3 3 13 L L

Seabhac Angers (Holy Roman Emperor) Rue Boissonade (Galileo)

2 2

Seahenge Winter Pudding (Iron Mask)

Sepoy Salute The Soldier (Street Cry)

Shalaa Shalromy (Lope de Vega)

22 L L L L L

Protectionist Lotterbov (Adlerflug) Powerful Aggie (Amadeus Wolf)

L L

Samysilver Talentuosa (Azamour)

Shamardal Algiers (Platini) Emaraaty Ana (Cape Cross) Jir Sun (Medicean) Pink Crystal (Power) Royal Champion (Street Cry) Western Writer (Medaglia d’Oro)

Quality Road Cairo (Galileo)

Saxon Warrior Greenland (Canford Cliffs)

Showcasing Asymmetric (Hellvelyn)

Russian Cross Russipant Fal (Forest Wildcat)

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Alessio (Adlerflug) Eternal Hope (Dubawi) Nations Pride (Oasis Dream) Naval Power (Dubawi) West Wind Blows (Machiavellian)

3 L 13 L 3

Territories Geologist (Dutch Art) Master (Kyllachy) Que Tempesta (Danehill Dancer) Regional (Dansili)

L 3 2 1L

The Grey Gatsby Grey Tornado (Kendargent) Indian Wish (One Cool Cat)

L LL

L 2 3 3L 3 L

The Gurkha Bahja Del Sol (Seeking The Gold) Best of Lips (Silver Frost) Miramis (Observatory)

LL 3 L

Too Darn Hot Alyanaabi (Kitten’s Joy) Carolina Reaper (Shamardal) Darnation (Galileo) Fallen Angel (Lawman)

3 3 23 13

Torok Go Hero (Strike The Gold)

Zarak

Belbek (Makfi) Cold Case (Dream Ahead) Dramatised (Turtle Bowl) Get Ahead (Dutch Art) Swingalong (Shamardal) Sidestep Best Lightning (Big Shuffle)

3 3 2 L 3

Sioux Nation Brave Emperor (Holy Roman Emperor) 3 3 3 L Estrosa (High Chaparral) L Indian Run (Danehill Dancer) 3 La Gite (Tertullian) 2 Letsbefrankaboutit (Acclamation) 3 Matilda Picotte (One Cool Cat) 23 Ocean Jewel (Green Desert) 3 Ocean Quest (Aqlaam) 3L Sioux Life (Rip Van Winkle) LL Sir Percy Nayeli (Pivotal) Sir Prancealot Rio Natal (Azamour)

Siyouni God Blessing (High Chaparral) L Mqse de Sevigne (Sevres Rose) 11 Noble Title (Aqlaam) L Paddington (Montjeu) 1111L Sivka Burka (Giant’s Causeway) L Tahiyra (Cape Cross) 111 Witch Hunter (Orpen) 2 Soldier Hollow Augustus (Lord of England) Dishina (Areion) Tamfana (Zoffany) Winning Spirit (Shirocco) Soldier’s Call Dawn Charger (New Approach)

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L L 3 L

Speightstown Switzerland (Indian Charlie) Starspangledbanner Aussie Girl (Galileo) Carla’s Way (New Approach) Dun Na Sead (Hurricane Run) Exxtra (Raven’s Pass) Laulne (Montjeu) Maturlo (Camelot) Street Sense Road Bloc (Imperialism) Study of Man Deepone (Galileo) Summer Front War Chimes (Muhtathir) Swipe Iron Butterfly (Orientate) Tai Chi Arnis Master (Kendargent) Mansour (Tillerman) Tamayuz Simca Mille (Pivotal) Tapiture Go Soldier Go (Thunder Gulch) Tasleet American Sonja (Kodiac) Bradsell (Archipenko)

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War Command Flag’s Up (High Chaparral)

War Front Random Harvest (Pivotal)

Washington DC Washington Heights (Kodiac)

Wootton Bassett American Flag (American Post) Balsam (Doyen) Bucanero Fuerte (Elusive City) Chindit (Oasis Dream) Geminiano (Black Sam Bellamy) Grey Man (Linamix) King of Steel (Verglas) Quickstep (Dansili) River Tiber (Arcano) Zabiari (Duke of Marmalade)

3L L 12 3LL L 3 12 L 2 3

Zanzibari Coeur de Pierre (Rock of Gibraltar)

Zarak Crown Princesse (Zafeen) Haya Zark (Elusive City) Princess Zelda (Dai Jin) Rashford (Sinndar) Shagara (Monsun) Straight (Henrythenavigator) Village Voice (Street Sense) Zagrey (Slickly) Zarakem (Mastercraftsman)

3 33 3 L 3 2 3L 1 LL

Zelzal Knock On (Acclamation)

Zoffany Foxes Tales (Galileo) Gallerist (New Approach) Irish Action (Kingmambo) Prosperous Voyage (Mizzen Mast) Rajinsky (Namid)

L 3L L 3 L

Zoustar Lezoo (Red Clubs) Miaharris (Holy Roman Emperor) Starlust (Invincible Spirit)

L L 3

L Toronado Global Heat (Dansili)

Twilight Son Beautiful Diamond (Lethal Force) Twilight Jet (Exceed And Excel) Vetiver (New Approach)

L L L

U S Navy Flag Ocean Vision (Mr Greeley)

3 3

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L 1

Ten Sovereigns Asean (Zoffany) L Inquisitively (Mind Games) 3L Mysterious Shadow (High Chaparral) L L Teofilo

Vocalised Clever And Cool (Whipper)

Ulysses Mighty Ulysses (Cape Cross) Passenger (War Front) Peripatetic (Lear Fan) Piz Badile (Elusive Quality) White Birch (Dutch Art)

3 3 L L 3

Unfortunately Perdika (Kheleyf)

Vadamos Luisa Casati (Duke of Marmalade) Spycatcher (Red Clubs)

L 3

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covering statistics

Stallion covering stats 2023

The covering sire table includes sires who have covered 20+ mares in England or Ireland in 2023. From Weatherbys Some dual-purpose sires are included and the figures will include their NH mares. STALLION

First year at stud

Mares covered 2023

Winners

BT mares

BT-winning mares

A’Ali

2022

Acclamation

2004

Aclaim

2018

Advertise

2020

Alkumait

2022

121

Ardad

2018

154

Arizona

2021

180

Arrigo

2016

Australia

2015

111

Awtaad

2017

Baaeed

2023

162

131

Bated Breath

2013

Bayside Boy

2023

134

Behesht

2018

Belardo

2017

Blackbeard

2023

195

109

Blue Point

2020

190

118

Bungle Inthejungle

2015

Calyx

2020

202

Camelot

2014

167

110

Caturra

2023

109

Churchill

2018

227

154

Circus Maximus

2021

Cotai Glory

2018

192

Coulsty

2017

Cracksman

2019

167

110

Dandy Man

2010

Dark Angel

2008

166

116

Dick Whittington

2017

Dream Ahead

2012

Dubawi

2006

137

120

104

Due Diligence

2016

Eagles By Day

2022

148

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covering statistics The 22 black-type-winning mares seen by Havana Grey in 2023 a atep forward from the nine he covered in 2022. It will be a lot more again in the spring of 2024

STALLION

First year at stud

Earthlight

2021

Elzaam

2013

Equiano Far Above

Mares covered 2023

Winners

BT mares

BT-winning mares

128

2011

2021

Farhh

2014

Footstepsinthesand

2005

Frankel

2013

196

181

153

134

Ghaiyyath

2021

188

130

Gleneagles

2016

146

Gregorian

2015

Harry Angel

2019

161

Havana Grey

2019

164

119

Holy Roman Emperor

2007

Iffraaj

2007

Inns of Court

2020

164

Invincible Army

2020

120

Invincible Spirit

2003

Kameko

2021

Kessaar

2019

King of Change

2021

Kingman

2015

157

123

Kodi Bear

2017

161

Kodiac

2007

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First year at stud

Mares covered 2023

Winners

BT mares

BT-winning mares

Kuroshio (AUS)

2014

Land Force

2020

130

Lauro

2010

Lope de Vega

2011

177

140

Lope Y Fernandez

2022

152

Lucky Vega

2021

147

Magna Grecia

2020

128

Make Believe

2016

Masar

2020

113

Massaat

2019

Mayson

2013

Mehmas

2017

244

155

Mekhtaal

2019

Minzaal

2023

161

Mohaather

2021

Nando Parrado

2022

Nathaniel

2013

171

Naval Crown

2023

119

New Bay

2017

177

126

Night of Thunder

2016

170

127

No Nay Never

2015

190

142

101

Oasis Dream

2004

Palace Pier

2022

131

Perfect Power

2023

100

Persian Force

2023

132

Phoenix of Spain

2020

Pinatubo

2021

129

Profitable

2018

Rajasinghe

2019

Raven’s Pass

2009

River Boyne

2021

Sands of Mali

2021

Saxon Warrior

2019

264

195

Sea The Moon

2015

140

Sea The Stars

2010

180

138

Sergei Prokofiev

2021

155

Shaman

2021

Showcasing

2011

147

100

Sioux Nation

2019

289

148

Soldier’s Call

2020

190

Sottsass (FR)

2021

101

Space Blues

2022

198

118

Space Traveller

2023

186

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First year at stud

Mares covered 2023

Winners

BT mares

BT-winning mares

St Mark’s Basilica

2022

173

123

Starman

2022

198

Starspangledbanner

2011

198

121

State of Rest

2023

115

Stradivarius

2023

120

Study of Man

2020

Supremacy

2022

143

Tasleet

2019

Ten Sovereigns

2020

209

111

Teofilo

2008

Territories

2017

The Gurkha

2017

Time Test

2018

Too Darn Hot

2020

157

105

Twilight Son (GB)

2017

Ubettabelieveit

2022

105

Ulysses

2018

Unfortunately

2019

Waldgeist (GB)

2020

Walzertakt (GER)

2017

Without Parole (GB)

2021

Wootton Bassett (GB)

2012

221

152

100

Zoustar (AUS)

2014

Busiest Flat stallions in spring 2023

Stallions who saw most winning mares in 2023

Stallions who saw most b-type winners 2023

Stallion

Mares

Stallion

Mares

Stallion

Mares

Sioux Nation

289

Saxon Warrior

195

Frankel

134

Saxon Warrior

264

Frankel

181

Dubawi

Mehmas

244

Mehmas

155

Wootton Bassett

Churchill

227

Churchill

154

Sea The Stars

Wootton Bassett

221

Wootton Bassett

152

Kingman

Ten Sovereigns

209

Sioux Nation

148

No Nay Never

Calyx

202

No Nay Never

142

Lope de Vega

Space Blues

198

Lope de Vega

140

Baaeed

Starman

198

Sea The Stars

138

New Bay

Starspangledbanner

198

Baaeed

131

Night of Thunder

Frankel

196

Ghaiyyath

130

St Mark’s Basilica

Blackbeard

195

Night of Thunder

127

Saxon Warrior

Cotai Glory

192

New Bay

126

Mehmas

Blue Point

190

Kingman

123

Ghaiyyath

No Nay Never)

190

St Mark’s Basilica

123

Churchill

152

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RUMBLE INTHEJUNGLE Bungle Inthejungle ex Guana (Dark Angel)

HE’S READY TO RUMBLE...

A pedigree full of Speed and Precocity Two Year Old Sprint Group Winner and Group 1 placed Only son at stud of the sire of Group 1 winner Winter Power £3,500 (1st Oct. SLF)

SIXTIES ICON Galileo ex Love Divine (Diesis)

Breeder of WINNERS! Over 50% winners/runners

THE BEST VALUE AROUND £3,000 + VAT (1st Oct. SLF)

Nominations Contact: Keith Evans +44 (0)7770 561115 or +44 (0)1794341158 Email: office@normancourtstud.co.uk

Norman Court Stud Rectory Hill, West Tytherley, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 1NF Tel: +44 (0) 1794 341158 www.normancourtstud.co.uk

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stallion yearling statistics Photo courtesy of Darley

Top sires in Europe by yearling averages in 2023 (gns)

Pinatubo: the son of Shamardal achieved the highest-average for a stallion with first-crop yearlings in 2023

Sire

Average

Dubawi Frankel Kingman Siyouni Wootton Bassett Justify Lope De Vega Sea The Stars Galileo Night Of Thunder No Nay Never Pinatubo Blue Point Camelot Ghaiyyath Kitten’s Joy Too Darn Hot Teofilo Caravaggio

550,947 492,007 257,896 232,142 231,890 215,260 214,259 204,645 203,852 172,066 166,050 139,550 135,247 125,587 119,281 113,797 112,011 111,866 111,282

Stallion yearling averages 2023 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 included. In guineas, compiled by Weatherbys. Some dual-purpose stallions included. STALLION

Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

Acclamation (GB) Aclaim (IRE) Adaay (IRE) Adlerflug (GER) Advertise (GB) Affinisea (IRE) Al Kazeem (GB) Al Wukair (IRE) Albert Dock (JPN) Almanzor (FR) Amarillo (IRE) Amaron (GB) American Pharoah (USA) Arcano (IRE) Ardad (IRE)

58 19 4 9 48 14 5 23 2 63 2 13 5 3 52

2,836,511 217,744 28,057 799,464 659,373 172,356 123,428 327,856 14,328 2,147,175 7,585 160,977 546,443 22,757 1,121,603

48,905 11,460 7,014 88,829 13,736 12,311 24,685 14,254 7,164 34,082 3,792 12,382 109,288 7,585 21,569

235,988 60,683 16,000 252,845 40,000 27,813 80,000 33,713 10,114 252,845 4,214 21,913 270,000 14,328 75,853

29 16 3 4 22 11 4 11 1 32 0 8 3 1 21

57,126 12,577 8,352 75,550 15,893 13,102 10,857 13,983 10,114 35,418 0 12,747 119,779 14,328 19,888

29 3 1 5 26 3 1 12 1 31 2 5 2 2 31

40,684 5,500 3,000 99,452 11,912 9,411 80,000 14,503 4,214 32,703 3,792 11,799 93,552 4,214 22,707

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stallion yearling statistics STALLION

Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

Areion (GER) Arizona (IRE) Arrigo (GER) Attendu (FR) Australia (GB) Awtaad (IRE) Bande (IRE) Bated Breath (GB) Belardo (IRE) Best Solution (IRE) Birchwood (IRE) Blu Constellation (Ity) Blue Bresil (FR) Blue Point (IRE) Bobby’s Kitten (USA) Born To Sea (IRE) Brametot (IRE) Buck’s Boum (FR) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Buratino (IRE) Cable Bay (IRE) Calyx (GB) Camacho (GB) Camelot (GB) Capri (IRE) Caravaggio (USA) Chachnak (FR) Churchill (IRE) Circus Maximus (IRE) City Light (FR) Cityscape (GB) Cloth Of Stars (IRE) Cotai Glory (GB) Coulsty (IRE) Counterattack (AUS) Court Cave (IRE) Cracksman (GB) Crystal Ocean (GB) Dabirsim (FR) Dandy Man (IRE) Dariyan (FR) Dark Angel (IRE) Dawn Approach (IRE) De Treville (GB) Decorated Knight (GB) Destino (GER) Dink (FR) Donjuan Triumphant (IRE) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Dream Ahead (USA) Dubawi (IRE)

10 48 4 8 50 5 3 74 74 23 11 6 15 85 5 4 13 2 59 6 17 46 11 50 2 3 3 91 27 43 4 19 51 60 11 2 32 11 14 81 10 101 8 2 14 11 4 4 2 14 24

252,002 944,042 38,609 16,590 2,120,038 91,756 23,599 3,442,396 1,039,136 327,012 77,368 19,384 388,287 11,496,036 45,401 14,328 146,650 15,592 1,179,473 58,154 235,608 1,280,293 184,757 6,279,393 7,417 333,847 143,279 5,434,544 397,341 1,056,920 41,856 252,844 1,365,645 939,246 197,220 11,378 2,331,472 169,826 347,241 2,096,755 103,709 7,787,714 80,912 21,914 79,225 128,108 30,476 28,655 13,063 203,541 13,222,744

25,200 19,667 9,652 2,073 42,400 18,351 7,866 46,518 14,042 14,217 7,033 3,230 25,885 135,247 9,080 3,582 11,280 7,796 19,991 9,692 13,859 27,832 16,796 125,587 3,708 111,282 47,759 59,720 14,716 24,579 10,464 13,307 26,777 15,654 17,929 5,689 72,858 15,438 24,802 25,885 10,370 77,106 10,114 10,957 5,658 11,646 7,619 7,163 6,531 14,538 550,947

46,355 64,762 20,952 5,000 180,000 30,000 8,428 260,000 84,282 36,241 22,756 6,743 49,524 1,500,000 15,171 5,057 41,298 9,271 84,282 17,699 80,067 71,429 44,762 716,393 6,068 176,991 92,710 3,000 60,000 96,924 16,856 39,612 113,780 69,111 58,997 7,164 410,000 32,027 84,282 130,000 33,333 850,000 33,713 15,171 21,913 48,883 18,095 11,799 8,428 32,027 2,022,756

4 25 4 6 26 2 2 41 41 14 5 3 11 45 4 1 7 2 36 4 9 26 8 28 0 2 2 34 18 23 2 10 26 37 6 2 19 6 6 43 5 54 2 1 6 8 2 1 1 11 16

27,391 24,205 9,652 1,781 49,138 14,164 7,585 41,319 14,981 16,705 8,512 5,057 29,169 145,558 11,112 2,107 12,100 7,796 22,035 9,060 18,127 32,762 19,091 158,327 0 78,428 65,318 72,834 17,150 26,183 9,428 15,297 33,085 16,190 20,017 5,689 100,379 19,525 22,053 23,433 10,703 69,658 9,692 15,171 4,776 13,485 11,428 7,585 4,635 11,531 468,920

6 23 0 2 24 3 1 33 33 9 6 3 4 40 1 3 6 0 23 2 8 20 3 22 2 1 1 57 9 20 2 9 25 23 5 0 13 5 8 38 5 47 6 1 8 3 2 3 1 3 8

23,739 14,734 0 2,950 35,101 21,142 8,428 52,979 12,875 10,347 5,801 1,404 16,856 123,647 952 4,073 10,324 0 16,791 10,956 9,057 21,423 10,675 83,919 3,708 176,991 12,642 51,897 9,848 22,735 11,500 11,097 20,216 14,791 15,423 0 32,635 10,535 26,864 28,661 10,038 85,662 10,254 6,743 6,321 6,742 3,809 7,023 8,428 25,565 715,002

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Dream Ahead

PROVEN GR.1 SIRE OF SPEED

64 Stakes winners/performers Inc. Gr.1 winning sprinters GLASS SLIPPERS, DREAM OF DREAMS, DONJUAN TRIUMPHANT, and Gr.1 miler AL WUKAIR.

Promising broodmare sire

From just eight crops already the broodmare sire of Gr.1 horses – Poptronic, Lightsaber, Texas, and many more. A great outcross.

Bearstone Stud

The source of speed

Leading Sires of Gr.1 Sprinters from 2019 to 2023 No Nay Never

Fee €150,000

G1W G1Wins 4 6

Dream Ahead £6,500

Kodiac Dark Angel

3 3

5 5

€35,000 €60,000

(Active sires, 5f-6f, 3yo+ by Marray Thoroughbred Services)

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stallion yearling statistics STALLION

Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

Due Diligence (USA) Dutch Art (GB) Earl Of Tinsdal (GER) Earnshaw (USA) Earthlight (IRE) Ectot (GB) El Kabeir (USA) Elarqam (GB) Elm Park (GB) Elusive Pimpernel (USA) Elvstroem (AUS) Elzaam (AUS) Eqtidaar (IRE) Equiano (FR) Estidhkaar (IRE) Expert Eye (GB) Far Above (IRE) Farhh (GB) Fas (IRE) Fascinating Rock (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Fighting Irish (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Frammassone (IRE) Frankel (GB) Free Eagle (IRE) Frontiersman (GB) Galileo (IRE) Galileo Chrome (IRE) Galileo Gold (GB) Galiway (GB) Getaway (GER) Ghaiyyath (IRE) Gleneagles (IRE) Goken (FR) Golden Horde (IRE) Golden Horn (GB) Goliath Du Berlais (FR) Gregorian (IRE) Guiliani (IRE) Gustav Klimt (IRE) Gutaifan (IRE) Hard Spun (USA) Harry Angel (IRE) Harzand (IRE) Havana Gold (IRE) Havana Grey (GB) Hello Youmzain (FR) Helmet (AUS) Hey Gaman (GB) Highland Reel (IRE)

13 4 5 5 71 9 12 12 4 3 2 18 9 20 3 34 51 4 5 4 21 4 26 2 34 9 2 3 2 12 55 6 63 9 37 24 15 2 20 4 2 25 2 31 7 41 65 80 8 3 16

164,962 282,048 15,170 32,027 5,662,869 81,332 71,116 144,430 19,385 2,697 5,900 244,349 128,385 188,257 19,806 321,771 755,491 285,000 37,084 35,397 2,050,633 41,298 627,360 1,904 16,728,260 53,099 36,190 611,557 1,686 172,651 3,221,077 62,898 7,514,749 521,571 1,192,584 611,932 405,488 49,726 169,845 86,810 4,382 224,610 181,743 965,482 78,381 1,041,961 5,911,871 5,233,489 50,568 17,700 108,301

12,689 70,512 3,034 6,405 79,758 9,036 5,926 12,035 4,846 899 2,950 13,574 14,265 9,412 6,602 9,463 14,813 71,250 7,416 8,849 97,649 10,324 24,129 952 492,007 5,899 18,095 203,852 843 14,387 58,565 10,483 119,281 57,952 32,232 25,497 27,032 24,863 8,492 21,702 2,191 8,984 90,871 31,144 11,197 25,413 90,951 65,418 6,321 5,900 6,768

46,355 135,000 4,635 8,428 325,000 21,070 21,913 33,713 5,900 1,011 4,214 80,000 50,000 45,714 16,856 30,476 70,000 100,000 13,485 21,070 425,000 16,013 114,286 952 2,000,000 23,599 35,238 325,000 843 50,000 260,000 35,398 1,050,000 325,000 117,994 67,425 100,000 25,284 35,000 75,853 3,371 21,070 175,000 155,000 25,284 100,000 600,000 260,000 12,642 9,271 30,341

7 3 5 2 47 6 7 9 1 1 2 10 6 13 2 19 30 2 1 3 8 3 14 2 25 2 1 2 1 8 24 3 28 6 13 11 9 2 16 1 1 15 2 18 5 23 30 46 4 2 8

15,566 85,127 3,034 5,689 81,917 8,919 8,209 13,812 5,057 1,011 2,950 9,860 12,659 11,097 9,481 10,175 15,919 60,000 5,900 10,254 28,291 11,659 30,612 952 448,587 6,321 952 143,278 843 19,685 60,630 13,521 134,762 76,323 36,630 29,845 18,098 24,863 9,361 3,793 3,371 9,917 90,871 41,117 11,125 29,430 117,956 63,164 7,374 4,214 5,847

6 1 0 3 24 3 5 3 3 2 0 8 3 7 1 15 21 2 4 1 13 1 12 0 9 7 1 1 1 4 31 3 35 3 24 13 6 0 4 3 1 10 0 13 2 18 35 34 4 1 8

9,333 26,667 0 6,883 75,530 9,271 2,730 6,704 4,776 843 0 18,217 17,476 6,284 843 8,562 13,232 82,500 7,796 4,635 140,330 6,321 16,566 0 612,620 5,779 35,238 325,000 843 3,792 56,965 7,444 106,897 21,211 29,849 21,817 40,433 0 5,014 27,672 1,011 7,585 0 17,336 11,378 20,281 67,805 68,468 5,267 9,271 7,690

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stallion yearling statistics STALLION

Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

Hillstar (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Hot Streak (IRE) Hunting Horn (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) Inns Of Court (IRE) Intello (GER) Invincible Army (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Isfahan (GER) Ito (GER) Jack Hobbs (GB) James Garfield (IRE) Jet Away (GB) Jimmy Two Times (FR) Johnny Barnes (IRE) Jukebox Jury (IRE) Justify (USA) Kameko (USA) Kapgarde (FR) Kendargent (FR) Kessaar (IRE) Kew Gardens (IRE) King Of Change (GB) Kingman (GB) Kitten’s Joy (USA) Kodi Bear (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Kuroshio (AUS) Land Force (IRE) Lawman (FR) Le Brivido (FR) Le Havre (IRE) Lethal Force (IRE) Lightning Spear (GB) Linda’s Lad (GB) Lope De Vega (IRE) Lord Of England (GER) Luck Of The Kitten (USA) Lucky Lion (GB) Madhmoon (IRE) Magician (IRE) Magna Grecia (IRE) Mahler (GB) Make Believe (GB) Masar (IRE) Massaat (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Masterstroke (USA) Maxios (GB) Mayson (GB)

3 23 2 2 28 85 17 70 51 19 5 13 10 6 8 14 12 4 55 2 22 17 4 31 37 6 98 145 29 43 13 22 43 6 11 2 73 19 5 2 7 8 56 2 50 30 19 36 4 11 21

28,234 597,174 37,927 12,811 665,789 1,228,103 495,574 1,123,872 4,130,659 385,585 20,481 125,208 163,681 44,231 46,355 95,659 181,948 861,041 2,922,398 61,070 541,105 192,890 26,456 574,879 9,542,176 682,783 2,683,001 9,312,714 344,552 564,134 231,776 167,299 3,122,320 41,299 139,413 10,667 15,640,931 233,460 21,070 4,214 65,739 42,984 1,234,272 23,598 1,041,800 851,786 194,051 853,435 51,429 144,594 377,613

9,411 25,964 18,963 6,405 23,778 14,448 29,151 16,055 80,993 20,293 4,096 9,631 16,368 7,371 5,794 6,832 15,162 215,260 53,134 30,535 24,595 11,346 6,614 18,544 257,896 113,797 27,377 64,225 11,881 13,119 17,828 7,604 72,612 6,883 12,673 5,333 214,259 12,287 4,214 2,107 9,391 5,373 22,040 11,799 20,836 28,392 10,213 23,706 12,857 13,144 17,981

15,171 101,138 28,656 9,271 82,000 185,419 113,780 145,000 589,971 75,853 6,743 20,952 75,853 15,238 14,328 13,485 37,084 337,126 261,273 40,000 67,425 33,333 9,271 76,190 900,000 400,000 150,000 362,410 50,569 61,905 84,282 18,542 269,701 14,328 58,000 9,524 1,100,000 25,284 6,743 2,950 21,070 16,013 84,282 11,799 65,740 3,000 26,000 110,000 20,952 38,095 114,286

3 14 2 1 11 38 9 39 29 10 3 8 4 3 3 4 3 0 27 2 9 9 4 12 24 4 48 82 19 23 7 9 17 2 8 1 38 9 4 0 3 4 32 2 30 15 13 18 3 8 12

9,411 33,504 18,963 3,540 23,080 17,443 39,705 22,957 85,204 17,951 4,916 12,734 8,609 11,035 4,495 8,638 21,351 0 74,193 30,535 19,776 11,381 6,614 16,670 287,813 156,695 29,950 60,687 12,434 15,330 23,298 7,725 36,032 9,271 8,051 9,524 235,115 10,816 4,424 0 11,799 6,531 22,187 11,799 26,040 37,360 9,919 23,523 12,381 12,705 15,508

0 9 0 1 17 47 8 31 22 9 2 5 6 3 5 10 9 4 28 0 13 8 0 19 13 2 50 63 10 20 6 13 26 4 3 1 35 10 1 2 4 4 24 0 20 15 6 18 1 3 9

0 14,234 0 9,271 24,229 12,026 17,277 7,372 75,442 22,896 2,865 4,666 21,540 3,708 6,574 6,110 13,099 215,260 32,827 0 27,931 11,307 0 19,727 202,665 28,000 24,907 68,831 10,830 10,577 11,448 7,520 96,529 5,689 25,000 1,143 191,615 13,611 3,371 2,107 7,585 4,214 21,844 0 13,028 19,425 10,849 23,889 14,286 14,316 21,279

YEAR for

golden

Karaka graduates...

Prowess (NZ) (Proisir) Multiple Group One Winner Karaka 2021 Book 1, NZ$230,000

In a season for the ages, Karaka graduates dominated the Group One landscape with such class, resilience and range that commentators took the words right out of our mouths. From a staggering haul in the Spring to an audacious display at The Championships, waxing lyrical about tenacious New Zealand thoroughbreds has been all too easy. Book 1 28 – 30 January Book 2 31 January – 2 February www.nzb.co.nz

stallion yearling statistics STALLION

Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

Mehmas (IRE) Mekhtaal (GB) Mendelssohn (USA) Millowitsch (GER) Mohaather (GB) Moises Has (FR) Mondialiste (IRE) More Than Ready (USA) Motivator (GB) Mount Everest (IRE) Muhaarar (GB) Mukhadram (GB) Nathaniel (IRE) National Defense (GB) New Approach (IRE) New Bay (GB) Night Of Thunder (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Oasis Dream (GB) Old Persian (GB) Order Of St George (IRE) Outstrip (GB) Passing Glance (GB) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Persian King (IRE) Phoenix Of Spain (IRE) Pillar Coral (GB) Pinatubo (IRE) Planteur (IRE) Poet’s Word (IRE) Polish Vulcano (GER) Portamento (IRE) Postponed (IRE) Prince Gibraltar (FR) Prince Of Lir (IRE) Profitable (IRE) Protectionist (GER) Rajasinghe (IRE) Raven’s Pass (USA) Recoletos (FR) Recorder (GB) Red Jazz (USA) Reliable Man (GB) Ribchester (IRE) Rio De La Plata (USA) River Boyne (IRE) Robin Of Navan (FR) Romanised (IRE) Rumble Inthejungle (IRE) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Sands Of Mali (FR)

163 3 2 4 57 2 2 2 2 5 7 2 31 7 2 76 51 74 51 3 17 3 7 8 78 44 3 58 4 15 2 2 16 3 11 86 10 3 10 14 4 2 7 59 5 23 2 45 4 2 65

11,512,195 29,920 41,298 42,983 2,405,068 31,121 20,649 117,994 48,883 39,612 120,072 13,063 1,625,284 40,455 57,295 7,463,193 8,775,408 12,287,720 2,715,331 16,013 207,501 12,000 53,809 75,011 3,829,353 963,506 9,375 8,093,942 30,000 104,172 29,498 12,000 100,739 25,369 199,886 1,333,925 154,234 42,238 166,450 234,303 87,254 10,536 243,995 800,635 77,961 159,288 7,164 1,168,140 20,500 8,428 845,630

70,626 9,973 20,649 10,745 42,194 15,560 10,324 58,997 24,441 7,922 17,153 6,531 52,428 5,779 28,647 98,199 172,066 166,050 53,241 5,337 12,205 4,000 7,687 9,376 49,094 21,897 3,125 139,550 7,500 6,944 14,749 6,000 6,296 8,456 18,171 15,510 15,423 14,079 16,645 16,735 21,813 5,268 34,856 13,570 15,592 6,925 3,582 25,958 5,125 4,214 13,009

421,408 16,856 23,599 25,284 165,000 21,429 13,485 71,639 41,298 16,013 42,141 11,799 425,000 20,228 43,810 1,390,645 556,258 500,000 335,000 8,428 24,442 7,500 24,762 21,070 300,000 80,067 5,478 500,000 11,429 21,070 16,856 11,000 18,095 19,048 130,000 117,994 63,211 25,714 42,000 42,141 35,000 6,743 117,994 70,000 29,499 28,000 3,793 143,279 8,000 4,214 58,997

92 0 1 3 29 2 1 0 0 4 3 1 17 3 0 43 30 39 34 3 13 2 6 7 41 24 1 35 2 10 2 1 11 1 4 54 6 1 4 7 3 1 2 37 2 18 1 26 2 0 32

79,496 0 17,699 12,361 50,179 15,560 7,164 0 0 8,428 13,485 11,799 63,647 1,966 0 88,724 150,196 171,815 52,825 5,337 13,419 5,250 8,333 10,294 57,649 22,258 2,697 131,610 10,952 9,279 14,749 11,000 5,668 19,048 11,887 16,190 18,612 9,524 13,286 16,976 22,904 6,743 23,388 11,413 29,499 7,014 3,793 20,340 8,000 0 13,874

71 3 1 1 28 0 1 2 2 1 4 1 14 4 2 33 21 35 17 0 4 1 1 1 37 20 2 23 2 5 0 1 5 2 7 32 4 2 6 7 1 1 5 22 3 5 1 19 2 2 33

59,133 9,973 23,599 5,900 33,923 0 13,485 58,997 24,441 5,900 19,904 1,264 38,805 8,639 28,647 110,546 203,310 159,626 54,075 0 8,261 1,500 3,810 2,950 39,613 21,464 3,339 151,633 4,047 2,275 0 1,000 7,678 3,160 21,762 14,362 10,640 16,357 18,884 16,495 18,542 3,793 39,443 17,197 6,321 6,606 3,371 33,646 2,250 4,214 12,170

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stallion yearling statistics Sea The Moon’s top-priced yearling of 2023, was this filly out of Jazzi Top, sold by Meon Valley Stud to Shadwell for 575,000gns

STALLION

Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

Sans Frontieres (IRE) Saxon Warrior (JPN) Scalo (GB) Schiaparelli (GER) Sea Moon (GB) Sea The Moon (GER) Sea The Stars (IRE) Seabhac (USA) Seahenge (USA) Sergei Prokofiev (CAN) Shalaa (IRE) Shamalgan (FR) Shaman (IRE) Shirocco (GER) Sholokhov (IRE) Showcasing (GB) Sioux Nation (USA) Sir Percy (GB) Siyouni (FR) Smooth Daddy (USA) Soldier Hollow (GB) Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) Soldier’s Call (GB) Sottsass (FR)

2 86 2 3 2 80 61 2 7 84 15 8 71 2 3 84 30 5 52 4 12 10 69 65

5,239 3,996,598 5,810 10,001 17,278 5,265,860 12,483,366 17,278 93,553 2,908,461 173,619 98,187 1,304,897 9,439 35,398 4,966,671 1,670,308 81,328 12,071,392 15,591 368,730 99,317 1,606,896 5,066,640

2,619 46,472 2,905 3,333 8,639 65,823 204,645 8,639 13,364 34,624 11,574 12,273 18,378 4,719 11,799 59,127 55,676 16,265 232,142 3,897 30,727 9,931 23,288 77,948

3,810 252,845 3,810 4,286 8,850 575,000 650,000 13,485 35,398 220,000 23,599 21,913 80,000 5,225 16,856 370,000 261,273 40,000 1,854,193 9,271 75,853 20,000 190,000 442,478

1 49 2 2 2 42 32 2 4 55 8 5 39 1 2 45 16 1 29 2 9 6 33 30

3,810 41,423 2,905 4,048 8,639 58,138 161,533 8,639 10,746 36,676 10,219 12,642 17,636 5,225 13,485 55,250 59,293 40,000 245,313 5,899 35,023 12,760 22,127 86,601

1 37 0 1 0 38 29 0 3 29 7 3 32 1 1 39 14 4 23 2 3 4 36 35

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5,664,912 144,965 930,038 7,164 15,845 39,189 23,599 59,840 135,692 410,305 278,704 13,063 23,582 2,834,544 2,461,063 951,581 535,305 36,831 151,286 632,939 7,392,758 670,459 3,372 714,884 275,689 966,539 83,693 7,810 93,805 24,357 137,549 12,642 1,257,627 252,423 254,826 48,884 78,071 34,555 22,402 22,334 20,395 1,183,380 1,407,940 23,652,837 10,114 95,659 36,241 5,714 2,899,272 718,115 1,955,469

70,811 72,482 30,001 3,582 7,922 6,531 7,866 8,548 9,692 20,515 19,907 6,531 2,947 51,537 111,866 25,041 19,826 3,683 11,637 12,410 112,011 26,818 1,686 28,595 13,128 21,966 9,299 3,905 8,527 4,059 8,596 4,214 26,200 12,020 31,853 8,147 6,005 6,911 11,201 5,583 5,098 35,860 25,598 231,890 3,371 9,565 18,120 2,857 65,892 28,724 39,109

337,126 92,710 220,000 5,057 13,485 18,542 10,957 23,599 18,542 85,714 75,000 8,428 8,095 400,000 400,000 78,000 69,111 12,642 36,190 59,048 450,000 109,566 1,686 152,381 37,927 160,000 57,143 4,000 22,756 8,428 21,913 6,743 125,000 46,355 71,429 32,027 20,952 12,642 15,238 7,585 12,642 134,850 117,994 1,250,000 5,900 26,970 34,555 4,762 353,982 126,422 120,000

43 0 20 0 2 6 1 2 8 12 8 2 3 23 14 22 16 3 9 30 40 12 1 14 11 26 6 1 5 5 11 2 23 10 5 3 7 5 1 2 4 16 28 59 2 5 2 1 22 16 26

77,794 0 37,718 0 7,922 6,531 10,957 16,435 10,482 20,412 21,238 6,531 5,555 47,953 105,956 28,924 19,023 4,073 11,419 14,709 129,600 26,829 1,686 34,178 15,730 27,064 13,035 4,000 12,524 4,332 10,473 5,057 33,995 13,274 43,447 2,247 5,125 6,911 15,238 4,846 5,098 36,332 28,721 256,032 4,214 11,209 18,120 4,762 85,766 24,733 40,552

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62,696 72,482 15,970 3,582 0 0 6,321 5,394 8,638 20,670 18,132 0 1,383 54,113 122,209 19,702 20,993 3,515 12,128 9,126 84,952 26,808 1,686 21,490 10,265 14,603 1,826 3,810 5,197 2,697 4,467 2,528 19,029 10,880 12,530 14,047 7,031 0 7,164 6,321 0 35,415 22,360 198,765 1,686 7,922 0 952 46,018 35,819 37,546

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MISCHIEF ruled again, but the pack is coming By Melissa Bauer-Herzog

Gun Runner and Curlin had good years, but 2023 saw Justify come of age with his second crop and the son of Scat Daddy could have champion two-year-olds on both sides of the Atlantic

ITH BREEDERS’ CUP weekend firmly in the rearview mirror, the racing season in the US is close to being wrapped up and for the fifth straight year, Into Mischief is all but guaranteed another champion sires’ title. The only stallion with progeny earnings of over $20 million in the US in 2023, he won’t reach his record-breaking mark of $28,106,800 of 2022 but he continues to set the pace for all stallions in the country.

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While it wasn’t a typical year for Into Mischief, who didn’t have a Breeders’ Cup winner for the first time since 2018, his “under par performance” proved to be enough for him to have a large lead in all but two of the stakes categories for leading sires, as well. As of November 5, he led all stallions with 25 stakes winners, 48 stakes performers, 14 graded stakes winners, and 28 graded stakes performers. While he had a large lead in many of those stakes categories, he tied with Gun Runner’s

11 Grade 1 performers at the top of that list. Gun Runner again continues to impress with the three crops of racing age he has had so far, and he not only leads his generational sires’ table but also is amongst the best on the general sires’ list in many categories. Sitting third by earnings after Breeders’ Cup weekend, Gun Runner registered another year with multiple Grade 1 winners, three of those showed off the sire’s versatility. His juvenile Locked won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity, and though both Echo

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since his freshman year so it’s no surprise to see him as the one in the shadow of Into Mischief. One challenger who has come to prominence this year – and he features in the European report, too – is Justify. That stallion left Breeders’ Cup weekend tied with Into Mischief by number of Grade 1 winners at six. An undefeated Triple Crown winner, it was guaranteed from the time Justify won the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes that he’d be attracting a stellar book of mares. When he was snapped up to stand at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud he would be set for a top book, and the stallion hasn’t disappointed with the quality of runners he put out. The one surprising thing going into the fall though was, perhaps, that he only had two Grade 1 winners from his first two crops. Arabian Lion became his sire’s first Grade 1 winner almost exactly five years to the day after he won the Triple Crown in the 7f Woody Stephens Stakes (G1). Versatility has been the name of the game with Scat Daddy sons and Aspen Grove showed that Justify is no different when she won the 1m2f Belmont Oaks (G1) on Turf a month later. But, outside of those two, and Verifying finishing a close second in April’s Grade1 Blue Grass Stakes, Justify had been pretty quiet at the top level until October. When Opera Spinger crossed the line in front in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac in France, it seemed to open the Justify floodgate. The following weekend Just F Y I showed that his progeny can handle the slop with victory in the Grade 1 Frizette Stakes, and then City Of Troy annexed the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes in Newmarket the next weekend. The stallion’s success culminated at Santa Anita on the first Friday of November though when daughters Just F Y I and Hard To Justify won back-to-back Breeders’ Cup races with Just F Y I’s win in the Grade

Gun Runner has been a standout sire since his freshman year so it’s no surprise to see him as the one in the shadow of Into Mischief

Justify at Ashford Stud in Kentucky Photo courtesy of Coolmore

Zulu and Gunite won Grade 1s their juvenile season they both registered another success at the top level as four-year-olds this year. Gun Runner himself got better with age so it’s no surprise to see his runners competing at Grade 1 level throughout their careers, though it is interesting to note that he seems to be siring smart sprinters as well as distance runners. Gun Runner himself never won a race over less than a mile with all of his Grade 1 victories coming over 1m1f or further. Gun Runner has been a standout sire

1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, almost definitely securing her Eclipse championship honours, one race before Hard To Justify remained undefeated in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. It is likely that Justify will have champion juveniles on two different continents with City Of Troy also looking like he’ll get champion two-year-old male honours in Europe. Not surprisingly, Justify’s stud fee has doubled to $200,000 in 2024 after his early October successes, putting him just $50,000 less than Into Mischief and Gun Runner. Those two are joined by Curlin as the most expensive stallions in North America this year, while Quality Road joins Justify in the $200,000 club. As of this writing, nine stallions will be standing for $150,000 or more in 2024 with all but Flightline, who stands for $150,000, down from the $200,000 he stood for this season, having at least three crops of racing age on the track.

The Curlin’s dozen

Curlin had another big year with his 12 stakes winners in 2023, led by five Grade 1 winners. The stallion is almost guaranteed to have at least two Eclipse champions after Idiomatic won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff and Elite Power repeated in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint, both running for Juddmonte. Named last year’s champion male sprinter, Elite Power’s only loss of 2023 came at the hands of Gun Runner’s Gunite when second in the Grade 1 Forego Stakes in August before he turned the tables in November when the pair finished first and

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Maximus Mischief: it is a tight race for freshmen sires’ title, but the son of Into Mischief headed up the list as we went to press in November

second at the Breeders’ Cup. Elite Power retired after that race and is set to stand for $50,000 in 2024 – second only to Curlin son Cody’s Wish, who joins the Darley roster at $75,000. After a few quiet years in the stallion barn after losing Arrogate in 2020, Juddmonte stands both Elite Power and Mandaloun (Into Mischief). A homebred for Juddmonte, Idiomatic burst onto the scene in January with a 6l romp at Turfway Park. The filly won all three of her starts at the track this season, culminating in the Latonia Stakes on March 25 for her first stakes victory before stepping up to graded stakes company in the Grade 2 Ruffian. She finished second to Pass The Champagne, but got back in front for the rest of the year, and included in her five-race win streak after the Ruffian were three straight Grade 1 victories. The streak of success will have some debating if she should also take Horse of the Year honours. Curlin may also have a third champion

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on his hands in the older Dirt male category after Cody’s Wish also won three Grade 1s and finished third in the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes. The only thing that may stand in that four-year-old’s way when it comes to taking home the Eclipse Award is the horse whom he finished third to in that race. White Abarrio (Race Day) finished eighth in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup to kick off the year before a drop in class to an allowance optional claimer saw him visit the winner’s circle. Switched to Rick Dutrow Jr.’s barn after controversy with his former trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., he finished third to the aforementioned Cody’s Wish in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap before back-to-back victories in the Whitney Stakes (G1) and the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). White Abarrio’s successes are a boon for the South Korea breeding industry, who purchased his sire Race Day in late 2020 and will see his first crop of Korea-breds hit the track next year.

Spendthrift freshmen have a stranglehold on the first crop sires’ list this year with four of their five freshmen filling out the top four spots by earnings and the fifth sitting 13th. Their leading freshman Maximus Mischief is proving to be a good stallion for the farm in more ways than one since he is by their champion Into Mischief. Spendthrift has put a lot of stock not only in Into Mischief as a sire but also as a sire-ofsires with three sons currently on the roster, including Horse of the Year Authentic, who has first runners in 2024. Maximus Mischief leads by number of winners on 29 as of November 5 eight ahead of his studmate Mitole with the four Spendthrift stallions also taking the top four spots in that category as well. But, when it comes down to the first-crop sires’ championship, which is determined by earnings, Maximum Mischief may still not end up the champion. The top four are separated by just $94,270 with the fifth-place stallion $225,000 behind him. Most of the major juvenile races have already run so this could be a race that goes all the way until the final card on December 31. That fifth place stallion by earnings is none other than Scat Daddy’s son Flameaway, who leads all freshmen with his three stakes winners in 2023. The stallion sees a rise in his fee in 2024, going from $7,500 to $20,000. His three stakes winners means Scat Daddy sons lead both the first and second crop sires’ list by number of stakes winners with Justify filling that spot in every stakes category as well as earnings. That championship sires’ battle is another close one with Good Magic $368,465 behind Justify after Breeders’ Cup weekend. The Curlin son made his own splash earlier this year as the sire of Grade 1 Kentucky Derby winner Mage and is second to Justify in every stakes category as well. Good Magic has seen a steady climb in his stud fee the last two years, going from $30,000 to $50,000 from 2022 to 2023 then getting another bump to $125,000 in 2024.

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Foals

Rnrs

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BTWnrs

% BTW/Rnrs

BTH

GSWnrs

G1Wnrs

Progeny Earnings

Into Mischief Curlin Gun Runner Uncle Mo Quality Road American Pharoah Munnings Not This Time Hard Spun Practical Joke Kantharos Violence Tapit Twirling Candy Constitution Candy Ride Tonalist Street Sense Arrogate Justify Good Magic Ghostzapper Cairo Prince English Channel Nyquist Goldencents Frosted Dialed In More Than Ready Speightstown War Front Malibu Moon Bernardini Kitten’s Joy Liam’s Map Tapiture Maclean’s Music Midshipman Pioneerof The Nile Classic Empire Bolt d’Oro Speightster Distorted Humor Connect Mendelssohn

1,493 1,187 322 1,315 938 653 1,022 347 1,387 378 800 708 1,594 842 509 1,746 359 1,205 301 302 224 1,234 628 934 424 766 432 715 1,932 1,396 983 2,088 1,352 1,850 472 555 620 733 816 248 236 404 1,779 259 319

441 228 193 296 238 281 341 191 297 257 307 237 199 272 248 200 169 261 151 159 139 197 269 203 210 331 220 236 277 210 148 237 196 272 197 293 220 232 133 148 151 236 178 169 200

189 119 102 141 127 118 160 93 131 125 162 130 79 138 124 97 84 119 68 62 59 87 115 82 89 156 104 116 116 99 66 107 84 114 108 140 116 120 75 70 74 114 88 83 86

25 12 14 14 17 9 12 12 9 8 10 12 9 10 11 9 4 7 10 13 11 10 8 9 8 7 8 4 6 7 12 6 3 4 7 7 5 6 14 6 8 3 5 7 4

5.7 5.3 7.3 4.7 7.1 3.2 3.5 6.3 3.0 3.1 3.3 5.1 4.5 3.7 4.4 4.5 2.4 2.7 6.6 8.2 7.9 5.1 3.0 4.4 3.8 2.1 3.6 1.7 2.2 3.3 8.1 2.5 1.5 1.5 3.6 2.4 2.3 2.6 10.5 4.1 5.3 1.3 2.8 4.1 2.0

46 22 32 32 27 20 31 22 24 22 22 21 19 23 23 16 13 17 17 24 17 16 20 22 20 22 18 16 14 20 19 12 8 16 15 17 9 17 22 11 21 13 12 12 13

14 9 10 5 6 4 2 6 4 5 2 6 7 4 2 7 0 3 7 10 4 7 2 6 5 0 3 1 4 2 8 3 2 2 1 1 2 0 5 2 4 1 3 2 0

6 5 3 3 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 6 2 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

22,242,397 17,184,265 15,491,516 14,892,994 13,893,228 12,062,854 11,659,509 11,562,373 10,550,232 10,472,580 9,878,280 9,764,516 9,673,404 9,419,996 9,170,178 8,866,768 8,688,640 8,604,160 8,591,734 8,531,805 8,360,744 8,236,928 8,192,546 8,043,196 7,943,069 7,938,845 7,842,760 7,824,806 7,760,363 7,705,812 7,063,165 6,981,044 6,898,192 6,887,359 6,869,671 6,838,149 6,814,306 6,795,255 6,749,533 6,637,668 6,501,528 6,392,353 6,226,088 6,008,960 5,901,430

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BOBBY’S KITTEN Sire of multiple Group winner SANDRINE

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Sire of: SANDRINE – Winner of 4 Group races, including Gr.2 Park Stakes (in 2023), Gr.2 Lennox Stakes, Gr.2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and Gr.3 Albany Stakes (also Gr.1-placed x2). Now a Group winner at 2, 3 & 4, MONAASIB – Gr.2 placed, KITTY KITANA – Gr.3 placed x 2, FIGHTING KING (Listed-placed), etc. Two year olds in 2023 include top-rated ALMOTAHED (GB) (in Saudi Arabia) and DARK BLUE SKY (IRE) (in Hungary).

Lanwades bred/owned and Andrew Balding trained SANDRINE, now a Group winner at 2, 3 & 4 following her success in the Gr.2 Park Stakes at Doncaster in 2023.

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Justify Constitution Into Mischief Mendelssohn City Of Light Gun Runner Maximus Mischief Vino Rosso Mitole Omaha Beach Munnings Practical Joke Flameaway Street Sense Good Magic Twirling Candy Kantharos Speightstown Quality Road Bolt d’Oro American Pharoah Audible Uncle Mo Palace Malice Goldencents Khozan Frosted Cairo Prince Dialed In Classic Empire Nyquist Outwork Hard Spun More Than Ready Tapiture Liam’s Map Karakontie Take Charge Indy Bucchero Midshipman Enticed Arrogate Street Boss Stay Thirsty Catalina Cruiser

302 509 1,493 319 188 322 121 150 142 112 1,022 378 106 1,205 224 842 800 1,396 938 236 653 130 1,315 436 766 340 432 628 715 248 424 358 1,387 1,932 555 472 247 406 142 733 95 301 909 568 93

56 74 70 68 35 35 63 70 67 50 68 64 54 42 36 48 59 24 34 37 43 54 54 67 58 53 44 27 35 33 42 37 48 47 61 36 24 46 31 36 40 23 40 34 42

22 22 14 23 12 13 28 18 21 19 18 19 16 16 11 20 22 10 10 17 11 14 15 18 18 20 13 5 15 11 13 12 14 15 18 11 11 13 10 7 17 8 11 11 10

7 2 1 2 1 3 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 1 5 2 2 2 3 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0

12.5 2.7 1.4 2.9 2.9 8.6 3.2 1.4 3.0 4.0 2.9 4.7 5.6 2.4 13.9 4.2 3.4 8.3 8.8 2.7 2.3 3.7 3.7 3.0 3.4 1.9 2.3 7.4 5.7 6.1 2.4 2.7 0 0 3.3 2.8 8.3 4.3 6.5 5.6 2.5 4.3 2.5 0 0

10 4 4 3 5 6 4 8 4 8 3 9 4 5 7 4 6 4 3 4 2 8 6 3 4 2 4 3 6 4 1 1 1 1 5 4 3 3 4 3 2 5 2 1 2

6 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

4 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

4,339,113 1,996,482 1,930,470 1,908,550 1,804,993 1,686,213 1,683,538 1,633,283 1,616,934 1,596,275 1,572,399 1,495,205 1,464,717 1,413,921 1,408,084 1,381,562 1,294,001 1,291,681 1,267,285 1,240,037 1,201,739 1,190,153 1,188,035 1,149,563 1,139,314 1,044,895 1,037,507 1,025,766 982,175 982,077 953,063 918,076 897,379 896,838 879,473 862,840 857,428 857,427 856,604 838,785 831,122 824,339 815,295 746,164 732,630

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Leading first-season US sires 2023: (by prize-money earned by northern-hemisphere runners to November 8, 2023) ($) STALLION

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Maximus Mischief Vino Rosso Mitole Omaha Beach Flameaway Audible Enticed Catalina Cruiser Solomini Copper Bullet World Of Trouble Catholic Boy Coal Front Demarchelier Yoshida Divisidero Preservationist Pavel St Patrick’s Day Leofric

121 150 142 113 106 130 95 93 66 34 77 93 44 62 83 21 69 17 64 47

63 70 67 50 54 54 40 42 32 18 33 47 25 27 30 8 35 9 26 17

28 18 21 19 16 14 17 10 9 5 13 9 8 10 6 1 9 4 4 4

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

3.2 1.4 3.0 4.0 5.6 3.7 2.5 0 3.1 5.6 0 0 4 0 0 12.5 0 0 0 5.9

4 8 4 8 4 8 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 2 1 0 2 1 1

0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Glengarry The Wine Steward V V’s Dream Hot Beach Dreamfyre My Mane Squeeze Shimmering Allure Hidden Class Soloshot Copper Tax Jimmythetooth Thomas Aquinas Xtreme Diva Double Your Money Yatta Vote No Fainor’s Filets Petty Filet Jive Roanan Goddess

1,683,538 1,633,283 1,616,934 1,596,275 1,464,717 1,190,153 831,122 732,630 692,476 689,189 586,315 577,184 523,937 496,335 427,955 370,258 349,098 281,942 258,860 258,331

Leading US Dirt sires 2023: (by prize-money earned by northern-hemisphere runners to November 8, 2023) ($) STALLION

Foals

Rnrs

Wnrs

BTWnrs

% BTW/Rnrs

BTH

GSWnrs

G1Wnrs

Progeny Earnings

Into Mischief Curlin Gun Runner Uncle Mo Munnings Practical Joke Quality Road Tapit Arrogate Violence Good Magic Tonalist Street Sense American Pharoah Dialed In Candy Ride Bernardini Goldencents Not This Time

1,493 1,187 322 1,315 1,022 378 938 1,594 301 708 224 359 1,205 653 715 1,746 1,352 766 347

333 186 171 203 271 212 176 155 124 191 117 137 217 179 202 151 159 285 152

137 92 84 93 124 94 80 57 57 94 47 67 101 63 91 70 68 117 70

19 9 14 8 11 8 6 5 10 7 11 3 6 6 3 7 2 7 6

5.7 4.8 8.2 3.9 4.1 3.8 3.4 3.2 8.1 3.7 8.4 2.2 2.8 3.4 1.5 4.6 1.3 2.5 3.9

35 18 31 17 23 21 15 14 17 13 14 12 12 11 14 8 6 18 12

11 7 10 4 2 5 3 5 7 5 4 0 2 2 1 5 2 0 2

4 5 3 3 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 1

16,425,202 14,823,246 14,135,079 10,081,588 8,471,668 8,455,395 8,348,660 7,812,075 7,782,155 7,499,087 7,417,711 7,318,604 6,932,299 6,890,465 6,353,882 6,187,001 5,958,526 5,850,786 5,792,054

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Ballyhane Stud Asymmetric * 7,000 Dandy Man 15,000 tba Elzaam 4,000 tba Prince Of Lir 3,000 tba Sands Of Mali 5,000 tba Space Traveller 6,500 tba Ballylinch Stud Bayside Boy 15,000 15,000 0 Lope De Vega 125,000 125,000 0 Make Believe 10,000 10,000 0 New Bay * 75,000 75,000 0 Waldgeist 12,500 10,000 -20 Banstead Manor Stud Bated Breath 15,000 10,000 -33 Chaldean * 25,000 Frankel 275,000 350,000 27 Kingman 125,000 125,000 0 Oasis Dream 20,000 15,000 -25 Bearstone Stud Belardo 6,500 5,500 -15 Dream Ahead 7,500 6,500 -13 Beech House Stud Baaeed 80,000 80,000 0 Mohaather 15,000 12,500 -16 Mostahdaf * 15,000 Capital Stud Alkumait 5,000 5,000 0 Castle Star * 5,000 Chapel Stud Bangkok 3,000 3,000 0 Planteur 4,000 4,000 0 Cheveley Park Stud Twilight Son 7,000 6,000 -14 Ulysses 10,000 9,000 -10 Coolmore Stud Arizona 5,000 5,000 0 Australia 25,000 17,500 -30 Blackbeard 25,000 20,000 -20 Calyx 10,000 12,500 25 Camelot 60,000 50,000 -16 Churchill 30,000 30,000 0 Footstepsinthesand 10,000 8,000 -20 Gleneagles 17,500 17,500 Holy Roman Emperor 10,000 8,000 -20 Little Big Bear * 27,500 -

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Magna Grecia 15,000 10,000 -33 No Nay Never 175,000 150,000 -14 Paddington * 55,000 Saxon Warrior 35,000 25,000 -28 Sioux Nation 17,500 27,500 57 Sottsass 25,000 25,000 0 Starspangledbanner 50,000 45,000 -10 St Mark’s Basilica 65,000 50,000 -23 The Antartic * 6,000 Ten Sovereigns 17,500 17,500 0 Wootton Bassett 150,000 200,000 33 Culworth Grounds El Caballo * 6,000 Dalham Hall Stud Cracksman 17,500 17,500 0 Dubawi 350,000 350,000 0 Farhh Private Private 0 Harry Angel 10,000 10,000 0 Iffraaj 15,000 10,000 -33 Masar 14,000 10,000 -28 Modern Games * 30,000 Palace Pier 50,000 45,000 -10 Perfect Power 15,000 10,000 -33 Pinatubo 35,000 35,000 0 Territories 10,000 10,000 0 Too Darn Hot 40,000 65,000 62 Triple Time * 10,000 Derrinstown Stud Awtaad 5,000 5,000 0 Minzaal 15,000 15,000 0 Diamond Stud Marie’s Diamond * 6,000 Dullingham Park Stud Shaquille * 15,000 Soldier’s Call 7,500 8,500 13 Gilltown Stud Sea The Stars 180,000 200,000 11 Highclere Stud Land Force 5,000 tba Irish National Stud Elusive Pimpernel 2,000 2,000 0 Equiano 2,000 2,000 0 Invincible Spirit Private Private Lucky Vega 15,000 12,500 -16 Nando Parrado 6,000 6,000 0 Phoenix Of Spain 12,000 10,000 -16

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Kildangan Stud Blue Point 35,000 60,000 71 Earthlight 15,000 15,000 0 Ghaiyyath 25,000 25,000 0 Native Trail * 17,500 Naval Crown 15,000 10,000 -33 Night Of Thunder 100,000 100,000 0 Raven’s Pass 7,500 7,500 0 Space Blues 16,000 16,000 0 Teofilo 30,000 30,000 0 Lanwades Stud Bobby’s Kitten 6,000 5,000 -16 Sea The Moon 25,000 32,500 30 Study Of Man 12,500 12,500 0 Manton Park Stud Aclaim 10,000 8,000 -20 Advertise 20,000 10,000 -50 Dubai Mile * 7,500 Mickley Stud Massaat 4,000 3,000 -25 Ubettabelieveit 5,000 5,000 0 National Stud Lope Y Fernandez 8,500 8,500 0 Mutasaabeq * 6,500 Rajasinghe 3,000 3,000 0 Stradivarius 10,000 10,000 0 Time Test 15,000 8,500 -43 Newsells Park Stud A’Ali 5,000 5,000 0 Nathaniel 15,000 17,500 16 Without Parole 7,000 8,000 14 Norman Court Stud Rumble Inthejungle 3,500 3,500 0 Sixties Icon 3,000 3,000 0 Oakgrove Stud Al Kazeem Private Private 0 Overbury Stud Ardad 12,500 12,500 0 Caturra 6,500 5,000 -23 Rathasker Stud Bungle Inthejungle 6,500 7,500 15 Coulsty 4,500 5,500 22 Gregorian 4,500 4,500 0 Rathbarry Stud Acclamation 27,500 25,000 Bouttemont * 5,000

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Kodi Bear 15,000 15,000 0 State Of Rest 25,000 20,000 -20 Springfield House Stud Mayson 6,000 4,250 -19 Unfortunately 3,500 3,000 -14 Starfield Stud Dubawi Legend 6,500 6,000 -9 Far Above 5,000 5,000 0 King Of Change 6,000 5,000 0 Kuroshio 5,000 5,000 0 Tally-Ho Stud Cotai Glory 12,500 12,500 0 Inns Of Court 5,000 5,000 0 Good Guess * 17,500 Kodiac 40,000 35,000 -12 Mehmas 60,000 50,000 -16 Persian Force 10,000 8,000 -20 Starman 15,000 10,000 -33 Tara Stud River Boyne 5,000 3,500 -30 Tweenhills Farm & Stud Kameko 15,000 15,000 0 Lightning Spear 5,000 5,000 0 Whitsbury Manor Stud Dragon Symbol * 8,000 Havana Grey 18,500 55,000 197 Sergei Prokofiev 6,000 6,000 0 Showcasing 45,000 45,000 0 Yeomanstown Stud Dark Angel 60,000 60,000 0 Invincible Army 7,500 5,000 -33 Shaman 5,000 5,000 0 Supremacy 10,000 10,000 0

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photo finish: the melbourne cup

THE MELBOURNE CUP was won by Without A Flight, a son of Teofilo and bred in Ireland by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum out of the Dubawi mare Khor Sheed. She is now in Yulong ownership. The first four home were bred in Europe, the fifth Daqiansweet Junior produced in New Zealand and then European dominance resumes. It is not until you reach the ninth horse Vow And Declare that an Australianbred features in the results, only one of two runners in the Group 1 field bred in the continent.

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