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Stallion Review 2021 All the facts and stats

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STARRING: Frankel, Time Test, Ardad, Cotai Glory, Mehmas, Gun Runner, Starman | IN DEPTH: Yearling Sale Review

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2007 Dansili - Tantina (Distant View)

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The best value sire in Europe by blacktype performers in 2021

The Breeders’ Cup Mile winner with 2YO brilliance

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The leading sire in Europe in 2021 by prize money

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2000 Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave)

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FRANKEL Sire of eight new individual Gr.1 winners in 2021

PERSIAN KING ONE of THE BEST SONS OF KINGMAN IN EUROPE A strong support through a unique partnership...

ersian King raced for Dayton Ltd and Godolphin and following his retirement after his 3rd place in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Gr.1 last year, a unique partnership was created for his stallion career. Both Dayton and Godolphin remained in the ownership and they were joined by a syndicate put together by Etreham including leading breeders from Europe and the United States. This association was instrumental in attracting a very strong first book of 140 mares and it will generate strong support at the sales.

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Colt ex Rue Cambon Purchased for 110,000Gns as a foal and sold for 310,000Gns as a yearling

“I’ve had a lot of luck with Siyouni and I have a feeling that Zoustar is going to be the same. The best yearling I saw at the sales this year was a Zoustar filly, and the three I bought have fantastic minds and are really exceptional movers on the lunge.” Michael Murphy, Longways Stables.

Filly ex Permission Sold for 280,000Gns to Amanda Skiffington

“From the moment I saw her she just caught my eye. She is a lovely filly, a January foal and looks very sharp and early.” Ben McElroy, purchaser of the filly ex Parting Clouds for 77,000Gns.

Buyers of his phenomenal first European yearlings include: Avenue Bloodstock (x3), Peter & Ross Doyle (x3), Longways Stables (x3), Church Farm & Horse Park Stud (x3), de Burgh Equine (x2), Demi O’Byrne/ White Birch Farm (x2), Jason Kelly Bloodstock (x2), Amanda Skiffington, Al Shaqab, Ben McElroy/Stonestreet Stables, Charlie Gordon-Watson, Con Marnane, Federico Barberini, Highclere Agency, Hugo Palmer, Jill Lamb Bloodstock, Kevin Ross, Margaret O’Toole, Oliver St Lawrence, Stephen Hillen, etc.

Colt ex Herecomesthesun Sold for 200,000Gns to Mick Kinane, on behalf of the Hong Kong Jockey Club

“He’s a beautiful first foal, a big athletic strong horse with a great walk – one of the nicest horses we’ve seen at Book 1.” Mick Kinane, purchaser of the colt ex Herecomesthesun for 200,000Gns.

Filly ex Felissa Purchased for 50,000Gns as a foal and sold for 185,000Gns as a yearling Contact Hannah Wall or Alice Thurtle at Tweenhills E: hannah@tweenhills.com E: alice@tweenhills.com T: +44 (0) 1452 700177

Won the sire-making French Derby in course record time!

Triple Gr.1 winner PERSIAN KING

2019 World 3YO Rankings

Nearly 60% of his first foals will be out of black type mares or will be half-siblings to black type performers!

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Other recent winners over the reduced 10½-furlong trip include leading sires SHAMARDAL, LE HAVRE and LOPE DE VEGA!

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this Arc was more about speed than stamina and Sottsass had the best turn of foot David Jennings, RACING POST

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High class 2YO, World Champion 3YO, ‘Arc’ & Prix Ganay-winning 4YO By SIYOUNI, dam by GALILEO and a half-brother to seven-time Gr.1 winner SISTERCHARLIE

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We remember the bloodstock legacies of some of those we have lost Ted Voute departed the US in awe of the Breeders’ Cup meeting and the organisation at Del Mar, Mehmas was the busiest Flat stallion in Europe this spring, and this year’s champion sire Frankel moves up to his highest fee so far

Quick off the mark

Working for the world

Knicks kicked

The son of Paynter made the most of a soft lead in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, while Yibir crowned a fantastic meeting on the Turf for Dubawi

First-season sensations

Written in the Stars

Tim Lane of The National Stud and Simon Sweeting of Overbury Stud talk to Martin Stevens about their new star stallions, Time Test and Ardad James Thomas chats with David Ward, owner breeder of the July Cup hero, Cartier Award sprint winner and new Tally-Ho Stud stallion, Starman

Freshman sire Gun Runner is the year’s leading first-season sire, and tops the global list of two-year-old sires. His early start was a little unexpected but, as Melissa Bauer-Herzog finds out, Three Chimneys Farm is making the most of the opportunity Swordlestown Little has always been run by successful producers Mariann Klay and Des Leadon with a passionate protection of the environment at the forefront of their operations, writes Aisling Crowe, and the farm offers a sustainable blueprint for our industry

Phew!

This autumn’s unexpectedly strong yearling sales gave all in the European bloodstock industry a feeling of “relief bordering on euphoria”, reviews Jocelyn de Moubray, who saw reduced returns at the top, but a vibrant and varied trade though the middle sectors

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The late Deep Impact’s runners have picked up nearly twice the earnings of the progeny of any other global sire The purchase of Wootton Bassett is already paying dividends, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

106 Europe’s leading sires

The end-of-year table will be headed by Frankel for the first time

108 Europe’s leading sires of two-year-olds Dark Angel tops the juvenile sires’ list

113 Continuing an upward trajectory

Aisling Crowe reports on the younger sires at stud, and sees Mehmas build on his record-breaking first year, while new sire sons of Dubawi are making their marks

124 Leading European stallions by distance

168 What is value?

136 Hyperion’s stakes sires

170 Into Mischief builds on 2020

146 The covering statistics

176 Leading US sires

154 Stallion yearling sales

184 British and Irish stallion fees for 2022

We list the leading stallions in each distance category from sprinters through to stayers The list of stakes-winning sires in Europe and the UAE with their winners and broodmare sires Our unique table of covering statistics listing the numbers and the quality of mares seen by stallions in Britain and Ireland Weatherbys statistics by stallion from this autumn’s yearling sales, listing best prices, averages and medians

Tom Wilson crunches the numbers to see which stallions offered value at the sales according to their winners-to-runners ratio The leading US sire is well on the way to breaking his own prize-money earnings record The top US sires, the leading two-year-old sires in the US, the leading freshman sires’ and the top sires on Dirt Stallions listed according to stud and fee for next spring’s covering season

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first word Inspiral winning the Fillies’ Mile, and now the winter favourite for the 1,000 Guineas. She could become a first Cheveley Park Stud homebred winner of the Classic, which would be a fitting tribute to David Thompson’s vision

EATH IS A THIEF. This year it has grabbed and stolen so many, robbed us of some of the best. The bloodstock industry has lost some of its most influential participants – the persona of death seemingly growing in strength in a feeding frenzy fuelled by a pandemic. Death steals people away from their loved ones, but it steals them away from their own visions and creations, from achievements that were still flourishing, from accomplishments that they were continuing to enjoy and watch as growing legacies. Of those we have recently lost in our industry, boy, did they live some lives and accomplish much. This autumn we lost Harry Beeby, who took

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Death steals people away from their loved ones, and it steals them away from their own visions and creations

Doncaster Sales to its pre-eminent position on the bloodstock auction markets, as well as stalwart NH Grand National-winning owner, Trevor Hemmings. Both will continue to be remembered fondly as this NH season runs its course and each man’s influence will be key to so many future results for so many people. Early in 2021, Cheveley Park’s David Thompson passed. Sadly, he failed to see his colours carried to three superb Grade 1 successes at the Cheltenham Festival – Quilixios, the son of Maxios, won the Triumph Hurdle, Allaho took the Ryanair Chase and Sir Gerhard was successful in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper. A Plus Tard ran a fabulous race to finish second in the Gold Cup and Cheveley Park Stud finished off the meeting as leading owner.

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On the Flat, Cheveley Park’s homebred filly Inspiral (Frankel) produced a dominant display to win the Fillies’ Mile and she goes into the winter as a favourite for next spring’s 1,000 Guineas. Her victory was the first top level win for the stud since Veracious won the Falmouth Stakes in 2019, and she could become the farm’s first homebred Classic winner. Inspiral helped Frankel to his first, and one has to think it will be a host of, champion sires’ titles. We can only guess at the delights that Prince Khalid Abdullah would have taken from this glorious feat Trevor Hemmings was a highly successful businessman and racehorse owner, so many have written after his death of his love for the sport, how well he cared for his horses and what a pleasure he was to train and ride for

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first word The late Sheikh Hamdan would have enjoyed the day of his days at Ascot on British Champions day with Shadwell Stud’s three-timer, headlined by the emergence of the unbeaten Baaeed, who is now one of the best colts of his generation. As has already been commented on, his lineage stretches to a Shadwell foundation mare, also one of Sheikh Hamdan’s favourites, Height Of Fashion

achieved by the best horse he bred. Juddmonte Farm is the first non-Coolmore farm to stand the leading sire since Blushing Groom in 1989, a fairly monumental accomplishment. Frankel’s understudy Kingman is enjoying a top ten finish – alongside Coolmore’s Australia the pair are the youngest sires (retired to stud for 2015 season) in the top echelons of the stallion table. Kingman, alongside Frankel and Dubawi, a triumvirate of a British-based stallions in the European top ten. Juddmonte breeding is having a significant impact with even younger sires standing at different farms – New Bay and Time Test are both from the farm’s pre-eminent pedigrees and both are making significant impacts [see our younger sires review, page 113]. The late Sheikh Hamdan would have enjoyed one of the day of his days at Ascot on British Champions day with Shadwell Stud’s three-timer, headlined by the emergence of the unbeaten Baaeed, who is now one of the best colts of his generation. As has already been commented on, his lineage stretches to a Shadwell foundation mare, also one of Sheikh Hamdan’s favourites, Height Of Fashion. We lost owner-breeder Guy Innes-Kerr, the 10th Duke of Roxburghe, in August 2019. The man’s foresight and his love of the British racehorse and the bloodstock industry has been pivotal to one of the best developments of the 2021 British season. As a chairman of The National Stud, The Duke was instrumental in adding Time Test to its roster in 2018, syndicating the stallion and encouraging breeders to use the stallion’s services. A Juddmonte-bred son of Dubawi, the two-time Group 2 winner and dual Grade 1 runner-up was not deemed to be of the required quality to stand at the home farm as a five-year-old, with two already young influential sires on its own roster, so the Duke took the opportunity that the sale of the colt, with his fantastic pedigree, offered The National Stud. “He helped take The National Stud to new places in the last few years, and put a lot of his own time and resource into acquiring Time Test,” said Tim Lane to the Racing Post immediately after the Duke’s death, adding: “I spoke to the Duke on the phone for the last time last week and among the things he said to me was, ‘Just promise you’ll make a success of Time Test’. We’ll do our utmost to ensure that happens for him.” Lane and The National Stud are currently successfully achieving the Duke’s last bloodstock wish – the stallion has had 11 winners of 17 races, including Sheikh Hamdan created Shadwell Stud in the 1980s and the stud has become a global phenomenon. He would have delighted in the emergence of star runner Baaeed

first word two Group 3 winners and a Group 1 third. The vibe at Tattersalls October Book 2 sale was all about Time Test, highlighted by the sale of his sole Book 2 lot, the colt from Ballyvolane Stud who fetched 400,000gns (Lot 1193). The trend continued into Book 3, and the stallion closed-up the Friday session as leading Book 3 sire with 15 lots sold for an aggregate of 595,000gns. He was also second-leading sire by average (of those stallions with more than five lots offered) behind New Bay. The Duke certainly realised that the strength of a national bloodstock industry, in the sale ring and on the track, relies on stallion power. How vital it is to the British industry that stallions with the potential of Time Test could stand in the UK, and be available to breeders and investors at financially attractive prices. And, while some might be wringing their hands after the buoyant Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale –

We can only guess at the delights that Prince Khalid Abdullah would have taken from this glorious feat achieved by the best horse he bred

disappointed that so many horses are being sold to go abroad, crying at the perceived diminishment of quality within the British racing industry – as long as “proper” commercial stallions are continually restocking at the yearling end, then the problem is less evident, the high quality of the “Made in Britain” brand can be maintained. Stallions really are the engine for our industry. With proper stallions on rosters, breeders can make money, and then trainers and owners can make money; stallion power leads to financial power. Nothing can happen without cash funds. Without money in their pockets breeders can not continue to own mares or continue to improve the pedigree standard of their home broodmare bands. A lack of cash is the biggest threat to the industry and leads to a vicious circle of disappointment in the sale ring, a lack of results on the racecourse and a

Prince Khalid Abdullah with Frankel and jockey Tom Queally after the colt won the 2,000 Guineas: the Prince’s best horse has become the best stallion

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first word Harry Beeby in the rostrum at Doncaster Sales with a young Henry on spotting duty besides him. Beeby Snr joined DBS as a partner in 1964 with Ken Oliver and Willie Stephenson. They created a family business that has grown into an internationally important bloodstock concern. Beeby was a managing director of Doncaster Bloodstock Sales from 1976 to 1998 and chairman until 2016. Many have remembered his kindness, his passion for the industry and his willingness to mentor young people

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Those who we have lost over the last two years recognised that our little windy and wet islands of Britain and Ireland are the most perfect places to produce the racehorse

reduction in the pedigree quality on stud farms. The experience of watching Ireland able to stand the best stallions through the 1980s due to its advantageous tax system would very much have formulated the Duke’s views, but also his own experiences as a breeder – despite having his lovely broodmares at Floors Stud, the farm only really hit commercial heights with seven-figure sales in the auction ring after 2014 when the Duke started to patronise stallions such as Frankel and Dubawi. The only way the British industry can survive within its poor prize-money structure is by resale of horses-intraining to jurisdictions that do not possess the Godgiven climate with which we are blessed in Britain and Ireland, or the historic infrastructure that has, for the last 200 years, made the most of the perfect conditions for the growing and racing of thoroughbreds. Those who we have lost over the last two years recognised that our little windy and wet islands of Britain and Ireland are the most perfect places to produce the racehorse. We owe much to the foresight and wisdom of all them. And it is up to us now to do the best we can to protect and nurture their bloodstock legacies. Left, The 10th Duke of Roxburghe. His enthusiasm for the British bloodstock industry found its zenith in the plans to stand and syndicate Time Test at The National Stud. The Duke understood just how important stallion power is to drive forward a bloodstock industry on a national scale

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Bungle Inthejungle EVERY YEAR STEPPING IT UP A LEVEL FIRST CROP! GROUP 3 WINNER

RUMBLE INTHEJUNGLE - MOLECOMB STAKES SECOND CROP! GROUP 2 WINNER

LIVING IN THE PAST - LOWTHER STAKES THIRD CROP! GROUP 1 WINNER

WINTER POWER - NUNTHORPE STAKES

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Coulsty GROUP 1 SIRE

STAKES DOUBLE IN CALIFORNIA IN 2021 GREGORIAN CHANT wins the Gr.3 San Simeon Stakes

SHANTISARA wins the Gr.1 QEII Challenge Cup Stakes

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TED TALKS... Ted was massively impressed with the organisation at Del Mar for the Breeders’ Cup meeting. Everything possible was done for horse and human participants alike, and everyone was welcomed with a smile! One team of pony riders is a real family affair, from left to right, Tom Ellet, Mary Ellet and Cindy Ellet. Mary is riding Rocco and Cindy is on board Sizzler

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A fabulous Breeders’ Cup

S THE FLAT SEASON draws to a close, we find ourselves lauding a new king of our sport – Charlie

Appleby. He has worked from the ground up as did Aidan O’Brien. Our industry education is the core of our business and, time and time again, we see people rising through the ranks to achieve at the top table. For those starting out, the thoroughbred world now has many entry points – from the National Stud courses in England and Ireland to the mighty Godolphin Flying Start and many in between.

I progressed through the ranks the old-fashioned way, a method which might not have changed much down the years, but is now far better structured. Charlie Appleby’s year culminated at Del Mar with three winners all by Dubawi; it is the beginning of a new era that has taken ten years to get to this point. Godolphin has grasped the mantle and is in charge. I have just returned from the meeting having travelled to the US in my role as a member of the board of a small, yet prolific, French stud, and I left in awe of Del Mar. The Breeders’ Cup was the brainchild of John Gaines and was the first major self-help scheme

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developed on a world platform funded by breeders and stallion owners. The racing participants have a team of organisers on hand to guide them through everything that, is or might be, needed for horse and human. During the stay the subliminal marketing and promotion was outstanding, every marketing tool and opportunity was taken advantage of. The Horseman’s Lounge in the hotel was sponsored by Lane’s End Farm and Three Chimneys. Breakfast on the track was branded by Fasig Tipton and Winstar, it left me thinking how well the farms in the US work together for the good of the sport or the business.

Every detail and every person couldn’t be more accommodating. Courtesy cars rolled through the front of the three Breeders’ Cup hotels from 5am to late at night. Visitors were picked up from airports, restaurants and the racetrack with effortless ease by a fleet of cars driven by one smiling driver after the next. There was no need for coaches or buses, or even Uber. The welcome party was mesmerising, featuring synchronised olympic swimmers, acrobatic displays and famous bands. Participants from all over the world met one another with the elite thoroughbred as the common talking point. It’s as close

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as our sport can get to Formula 1. Del Mar, for those that haven’t been there, has a Mexican / ... five and Spanish-type grandstand which holds a crowd of 45,000. six-year-old At no point do you feel horses in the crowded or cramped. Lunch is served over four floors and all UK, who can with great uninterrupted views of be bought the track. It is easy to meet people and mingle. for under The track is oval with the 100,000gns, grass track on the inside. The finishing line is halfway down the can travel out grandstand stretch. to pick up large This year Saturday was a truly international day with winners amounts of from Japan, Europe and the prize-money US. Charlie Appleby had an unbelievable treble, but also, racing abroad unbelieavably, suffered two incidents in the stalls. Japan had two winners, while Coolmore had a winner supplied by Wesley Ward. Personally, I was pleased to see Knicks Go run out the easy winner of the Classic. Mishriff beat him A soft spot in the market in the Saudi Cup, and the form maybe? Stable favourites who clearly validates the decision to can journey out to enjoy some upgrade the Saudi Cup to a sunshine in the Middle East. With a bright young trainer Group 1 after only two years. basing themselves in a central We now start the winter of location I am sure a profitable international races – Japan, Hong business training over the winter Kong and then to the Gulf region, could be developed. while the All-Weather season continues in the UK. The Gulf region is developing A Del Mar racegoer getting into an impressive winter circuit and the swing of things season with incredible prize-money on offer. I have often thought that as the carnival develops in the Gulf a bright young trainer should have a small stable based in the region and travel between Bahrain, Dubai, Saudi and Qatar. Increasingly, five and six-yearold horses in the UK, who can be bought for under 100,000gns, can travel out to pick up large amounts of prize-money racing abroad.

Busy spring days for Mehmas

THREE BESPOKE Flat stallions covered over 200 mares apiece this spring – Mehmas, Wootton Bassett and Kodiac. Mehmas was the fifth busiest sire in Britain and Ireland last year, and the most active Flat stallion covering a book of 292 – up from 118 in 2020. The elite mares covered by Mehmas in 2021, included 28 blacktype-winning mares, including the Group/Grade 1 winners Eva’s Request, Mizdirection, Penelopa and Shotgun Gulch, and the dams of Group 1 winners Glorious Empire, Going Global, Lady Prancealot, Perfect Power and Slade Power. Tally-Ho Stud, home of Mehmas, must at times have resembled Piccadilly Circus last spring as many of its other stallions were also in strong demand from breeders – Kodiac covered 239 mares, Inns Of Court 184 and Cotai Glory 113. After Mehmas and Kodiac, the next busiest Flat sires in Britain and Ireland this year were Churchill (198 mares covered), Lope De Vega (191), Saxon Warrior (191) and New Bay (186). Frankel saw 183 mares (116 black-type mares and 84 black-type winners) and was the most popular stallion standing in England. Earthlight was the most popular new Flat recruit this year, supported with a book of 162 mares at Kildangan Stud, amongst them 113 winning mares and 43 black-type mares. Sergei Prokofiev, a Group 3-winning son of Scat Daddy, was the busiest new Flat sire in Britain with 154 mares (101 winners, 18 blacktype mares) received at Whitsbury Manor Stud. The other fresh faces in British and Irish studs, who covered more than 100 mares in 2021, were Sands Of Mali (152), Mohaather (146), Far Above (142), Ghaiyyath (138), Shaman (134), Sottsass (132), Kameko (114), Way To Paris (110), Circus Maximus (102), Arizona (101) and Galileo Chrome (101). The sire who enjoyed the biggest increase in popularity in 2021 was Coulsty. The Rathasker Stud resident saw only nine mares in 2020, but, with a series of good results, breeders’ attentions were drawn to the son of Kodiac, which resulted in visits from 104 mares this year. It was a similar tale for Kodi Bear, another son of Kodiac. The Rathbarry Stud’s stallion book had dropped to 50 mares in 2020, but there was a real strength in depth to his debut two-year-olds and he was rewarded with an increase in business this year, to 168 mares. See our covering statistics table, pages 146-150

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Top-priced stallions: 2022 (with advertised fees on November 14, 2021)

Sire Fee Dubawi......................................... 250,000 Frankel......................................... 200,000 Kingman...................................... 150,000 Wootton Bassett......................... 150,000 Sea The Stars............................... 150,000 Lope De Vega............................... 125,000 No Nay Never............................... 125,000 Camelot.......................................... 75,000 Night Of Thunder.......................... 75,000 St Mark’s Basilica.......................... 65,000 Invincible Spirit............................ 60,000 Dark Angel..................................... 60,000 Palace Pier..................................... 55,000 Mehmas......................................... 50,000 Too Darn Hot.................................. 45,000

Stallions with largest increases

Frankel to his highest fee yet

ITH THE LOSS of Galileo earlier in the year, the top ranks of British and Irish-based stallions has seen some movement. Our new European champion sire Frankel, who sired his first Derby winner in 2021, has understandably had his fee tweaked upward from £175,000 to £200,000. With his stud mate Kingman standing at a continued £150,000, it means Juddmonte Farms is the only stallion farm, aside from Coolmore, boasting two six-figure stallions. It is a career high for the son of Galileo, and he is now only below Dubawi in terms of stud fees. The Darley sire maintains his £250,000 price, and his three Breeders’ Cup winners reiterated,

if anyone had doubts, as to just which living European sire is better than all the rest. He is now the most expensive stallion at stud in Europe or the US. Wootton Bassett is quickly having his fee hiked up now he is on Irish shores and an opening fee in 2020 of €100,000 has risen to €150,000. He is now Coolmore Stud’s most expensive stallion on its roster. Aside from Norman Court’s stalwart sire Sixties Icon, who has had an increase from £1,000 to £3,000, an increase of 300 per cent, the sire who has had the largest percentage price rise is, unsurprisingly, Ardad. His £4,000 fee of 2021 (dropped from £6,500) is at a career high of £12,500 (212 per cent rise). The son of Kodiac produced a Group 1 winner from his first-crop with Perfect Power’s Middle Park Stakes victory

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in the autumn, and the colt is now holding Guineas hopes for trainer Richard Fahey. Kodi Bear’s flagbearer Go Bears Go shrugged off any impacts of a busy season to finish fourth in the Middle Park behind Perfect Power before going on to take second place in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) behind Twilight Gleaming. Rathbarry has pushed Kodi Bear’s price up from €6,000 to €15,000, a rise of 150 per cent. Mehmas’s consistently strong results has meant that Tally-Ho Stud has taken him up to a €50,000 fee, an increase of 100 per cent. Of the older stallions, the Cheveley Park’s underrated top 35 stallion Mayson has had an increase of £2,000 to a fee of £6,000. He still looks a good value option for a breeder looking for a proven sprint sire.

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Sixties Icon...................... 3,000.......... 300 Ardad.............................. 12,500.......... 212 Kodi Bear....................... 15,000.......... 150 Mehmas......................... 50,000.......... 100 New Bay......................... 37,500............ 87 Time Test........................ 15,000............ 76 Cotai Glory....................... 8,500............ 70 Havana Gold.................. 12,500............ 66 National Defense............ 8,000............ 60 Starspangledbanner.... 35,000............ 56 Wootton Bassett......... 150,000............ 50 Mayson............................. 6,000............ 50 Australia........................ 35,000............ 40 Twilight Son.................... 7,000............ 40

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COTAI GLORY

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Group/Stakes sire in 2021 with 8 BT Horses and 32 individual winners Yearlings in 2021 have made €170,000, 130,000gns, etc.

GALILEO GOLD

A dual First Crop Group 1 Sire in 2021

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Sire of 23 winners, 6 BT Horses and 10.5% BT horses to runners, including: EBRO RIVER – winner Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes & placed Gr.1 National Stakes and OSCULA – placed Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac

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A son of Sire of Sires KODIAC

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Dual Group winning 2yo Sprinter, including the Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes 1st crop yearlings in 2021 have made €100,000, 90,000gns, £90,000, etc.

KODIAC

The PERENNIAL Champion European Sire

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6 Black Type winning 2yos in 2021, including a Group 1 winner A successful Sire of Sires, including Ardad, Coulsty, Kodi Bear, Prince Of Lir, all Group producing sires in 2021

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S A CONTEST, the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) was effectively over after about 50 yards. When his eight opponents elected to allow the miler Knicks Go – a dedicated front-runner stretching out to 1m2f for the first time – an unchallenged lead to all intents and purposes they conceded the race. Left to dictate at his leisure, Knicks Go set swift, but for him, comfortable, fractions. The challengers closed to within a length with a quarter of a mile left to run, but, having had a breather, Knicks Go was able to pick up the pace, and draw away to score by over 2l in a time little more than a half-second off the track-record set by Candy Ride back in 2003. Knicks Go’s sire Paynter is a son of Awesome Again – winner of one of the deepest-ever renewals of the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) – and out of a sister to two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Tiznow. Like Knicks Go, Paynter had his share of ups and downs in his racing career. Unraced at two, Paynter broke his maiden on his debut at three over an extended 5f, and then nearly three months later came within inches of capturing a Classic at more than twice that distance missing by a neck to Union Rags in the Belmont Stakes (G1). Paynter then took the Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) in impressive style, and seemed set to assume leadership of the division. Just days after the Haskell, however, he was struck by a life-threatening combination of colitis and subsequent laminitis. Remarkably, and with heroic efforts from his veterinary team, Paynter not only survived, but recovered so well he was able to return to training at four. He looked better than ever on his return to action, taking a 7f allowance in 1:21.86. That effort earned him a lifetime-best Beyer Speedfigure of 114, but, in four subsequent starts, Paynter proved unable to capture the brilliance of that effort, although he did finish second to that year’s Breeders’ Cup

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Knicks kicked

Given a soft lead, Knicks Go saw out the Breeders’ Cup Classic 1m2f trip in style and gave sire Paynter a first Breeders’ Cup success, writes Alan Porter

breeders’ cup Joel Rosario made the most of the easy lead he was gifted on Knicks Go in the Classic, the son of Paynter was never headed and came home the 2l winner ahead of Medina Spirit

Classic (G1) victor Mucho Macho Man in the Awesome Again Stakes (G1). Retired to stand at WinStar Farms, Paynter has now sired 19 stakes winners in his first four crops of three-year-olds and up. In addition to Knicks Go they include the Pocahontas Stakes (G2) scorer Lazy Daisy, Harpers First Ride, winner of four black-type events including the Pimlico Special Stakes (G3), and Ms Peintour, successful in the Astra Stakes (G3). He stood at just $7,500 in 2021. The dam of Knicks Go is the extremely speedy Kosmo’s Buddy. A daughter of the non-winning but well-bred Outflanker (by Danzig from the immediate family of A.P. Indy), Kosmo’s Buddy had black-type form on Dirt and Turf at two, three and four years of age, and from 5f to a mile. Successful in the Maryland Million Turf Sprint and the Crank it Up Stakes, she also earned places in 12 other stakes events. Kosmo’s Buddy is out of the multiple stakes-placed Vaulted, a daughter of the Mr. Prospector horse Allen’s Prospect. In turn, Vaulted is half-sister to My Sweet Caroline, the dam of Sweet Cassiopeia, a four-time stakes winner of over $650,000 in earnings, and also Grade 2 placed. Kosmo’s Buddy’s second dam Aube D’Or is also a stakes winner and is a half-sister to Countus In, successful in the Matriarch Stakes (G1) and dam of the graded winner Think Red and granddam of Ransom The Moon, winner of back-to-back renewals of the Bing Crosby Stakes (G1). The family goes back to the mare My Beauty, who arrived from Britain at the turn of the last century. She also appears as the fifth dam of Porterhouse, the champion two-year-old colt of 1953. The family is the mitochondrial haplotype N2a by the Achilli claffication, and that same maternal line has not only produced Knicks Go, the highest earner for Paynter, but also Paynter’s own sire Awesome Again, Game On Dude, the highest earner for Awesome Again, as well as Awesome Again’s Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Sir Winston and his millionaire earner Something Awesome. We can also note that Awesome Again is a grandson of Vice Regent (a son of Northern Dancer with a second dam by Windfields) out of a mare by a grandson of Nasrullah,

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breeders’ cup while Medaille D’Oro, sire of Knicks Go’s third dam Aube D’Or, is by a grandson of Nasrullah, out of the great mare Fanfreluche. She was a daughter of Northern Dancer with a second dam by Windfields.

Japan’s Marche Lorraine surprise

It may have been a history-making moment – the first Japanese winner of a Breeders’ Cup event when Loves Only You took the Filly and Mare Turf (G1) – but it wasn’t a tremendous shock as we’ve long-known that Japan produces world-class middle-distance performers, and Loves Only You herself had finished just half a length behind Mishriff in this year’s Dubai Duty Free (G1). What came as a far bigger surprise just a couple of hours later was the triumph of Loves Only You’s compatriot Marche Lorraine in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1). Sent off at odds of nearly 50-1, Marche Lorraine was well off the pace as Private Mission, with Letruska and Shedaresthedevil close at hand, set suicidal early fractions of 21.84 and 44.97. As the early contenders faded Marche Lorraine made a wide run that took her clear in the stretch, and then held off the late

Marche Lorraine, by Orfevre, holds on under Oisin Murphy to win the Distaff for Japan

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charge of Dunbar Road by the slimmest of noses. Marche Lorraine came into the Distaff with only one win in a race recognised internationally as a black-type event, the 2020 Ladies Prelude, but she had captured several other events that would be regarded as stakes level contests in Japan, and was coming off a win in the Monbetsu Breeders’ Gold Cup (G1) in mid-August. Marche Lorraine is also notable for the extensive Japanese roots in her pedigree. She is, like Love Only You, a daughter of Deep Impact from the Sunday Silence line, but both her sire and grandsire, Orfevre and Stay Gold, were bred in Japan, and the female line has been in Japan for more than 80 years. Orfevre himself made a significant international impression. Winner of the Japanese Triple Crown and the Arima Kinen (G1) over older horses at three, the following year he took the Takarazuka Kinen (G1) then travelled to France for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) with a pre-race win in the Prix Foy (G2). In the Arc itself he looked the likely winner when quickening clear in the stretch, but, on the heavy ground, he veered sharply

towards the rail and was caught late by Solemia. He won the Prix Foy (G2) again the following year, and then took second spot in the Arc again, this time behind Treve. Orfevre ended his racing career by winning the Arima Kinen Grand Prix (G1) by 8l. Orfevre has four crops of three-year-olds and up, and has 15 stakes winners, 12 graded, including the four-time Grade 1 winner Lucky Lilac, and Epoca D’Oro, who was successful in the Satsuki Sho (G1). Stay Gold, the sire of Orfevre, also has his own place in Japanese breeding history. In 2001 he upset the established top-class performer Fantastic Light in the Dubai Sheema Classic (G2), the first international victory for a son of Sunday Silence, and then captured the Hong Kong Vase (G1) to become the first overseas Grade 1 winner bred by a Japanese Farm. He’s gone on to sire more than 50 stakes winners, ten of them Grade 1. Marche Lorraine’s dam Vite Marcher is a winning daughter of the imported Deputy Minister horse, French Deputy. Vite Marcher is half-sister to Triumph March, a black-type winner by Special Week, another son of Sunday Silence. The second

breeders’ cup dam Kyoei March, a daughter of Dancing Brave, won the Oka Sho (Japanese 1,000 Guineas), and four other black-type races. The family arrived in Japan in 1930 via the Australian-born mare Shrilly, who through a half-sister to Queen Narubi, also appears as third dam of another Oka Sho heroine, Tosa Mistsura. The family goes back to the AJC Oaks scorer Crossfire, a sister to Arsenal, who lifted the Melbourne Cup in 1886. Remarkably, Marche Lorraine is the first stakes winner from 21 starters by Orfevre out of mares by French Deputy although the cross is actually a rather interesting one. Orfevre is inbred 4x3 to Northern Taste, an intensely inbred horse from the Windfields Farm programme. He was by Northern Dancer, out of a half-sister to Northern Dancer’s sire Nearctic, a pattern that gives a 3x2 inbreeding to Nearctic’s dam, Lady Angela. French Deputy’s grandsire Vice Regent is also by Northern Dancer, and he is out of a half-sister to Northern Taste’s broodmare sire, Victoria Park. Of course, Sunday Silence is by Halo, and his grand-dam Almahmoud is also granddam of Northern Dancer. Marche Lorraine’s Classic-winning second

Remarkably, Marche Lorraine is the first stakes winner from 21 starters by Orfevre out of mares by French Deputy dam Kyoei March is by Dancing Brave, and he is by a son of Northern Dancer, out of a mare by Drone, a horse with a very similar background to Halo, so there is significant accumulation of similar strains. On top of that Marche Laorraine is from the ‘L’ mitochondrial haplotype as are Orfevre, Halo, Sunday Silence, Nearctic, Northern Dancer, Vice Regent, Deputy Minister and Dancing Brave, so the chances of Marche Lorraine having appropriate nuclear DNA for her mitochondrial DNA were high.

Into Mischief scores again

Life Is Good faced his toughest competition in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1). At the head of affairs throughout and setting very sharp fractions – he passed the 6f pole just 0.33 slower than the winning time in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) – Life Is Good powered through the stretch to score by nearly 6l. Life Is Good is another credit for the remarkable sire Into Mischief. A two-year-old Grade 1 winner from the Storm Cat line via Harlan and Harlan’s Holiday, and out of Leslie’s Lady, dam also of the multiple champion Beholder, and of Mendlessohn, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) and UAE Derby (G2) winner, Into Mischief started off at a modest fee, but has enjoyed an astonishing climb through the ranks. Now the dominant sire in North America, he was leading sire of two-year-olds in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and is on his way to a third consecutive overall leading sires’ title. He now has 100 stakes winners to his

credit, 11 Grade 1, including the Horse of the Year and the 2020 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) victor Authentic, the champion three-year-old filly and champion sprint female Covfefe, the champion sprint female Gamine, Mandaloun, who is likely to end up as winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby (G1) once legal machinations have run their course, Goldencents, twice the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), Audible and Practical Joke. Life Is Good is out of Beach Walk, a placed daughter of Distorted Humor out of the stakes-winning and Grade 1-placed Mineshaft mare Bonnie Blue Flag. She is a half-sister to Diamondrella, who captured the Just A Game Stakes (G1) and First Lady Stakes (G1), and was subsequently the dam of the Australian graded scorer Spectroscope. She is also half-sister to stakes winner Highest Honors, and to the dams of graded winner Nikkis Smartypants and Lemieux. The third dam Tap Your Feet was a minor stakes winner, as was her dam the Miswaki mare, Exotic Moves. Life Is Good’s fifth dam Syrian Dancer is a sister to the excellent sprint filly Honorable Miss and to Bailjumper, best known these days as the broodmare sire of Medaglia D’Oro. Life Is Good is one of six stakes winners by Into Mischief out of a Distorted Humor mare, and the second Grade 1 winner following Practical Joke. He also sired Goldencents out of a mare by Banker’s Gold, another son of Distorted Humor’s sire Forty Niner.

Aloha West off the mark in the Sprint

Remarkably, the Sprint was the first black-type success for the four-year-old Aloha West, who didn’t make it to the racecourse until this year. He’d won four of his previous eight races, and had been beaten just a neck by Special Reserve in the Phoenix Stakes (G2). Aloha West is by Danzig’s son Hard Spun. A consistent and versatile performer in a vintage crop, Hard Spun won six black-type events, including the King’s Bishop Stakes (G1), and also took second in the Kentucky

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breeders’ cup Derby (G1), the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and the Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1), and third in the Preakness Stakes (G1). He set a record for a number of firstcrop stakes winners with an initial group that included the champion three-year-old filly Questing. He has since never quite reached the heights that his bright beginning indicated, but he’s been an extremely reliable sire of black-type winners in both hemispheres. Overall, he’s been represented by 14 other Grade 1 scorers, including the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner Spun To Run, this year’s Metropolitan Handicap (G1) victor Silver State, Wicked Strong, Hard Aces, Hardest Core, Hard Not To Love, Zo Impressive, and the Australian pair of Le Romain and Gatting. Aloha West is out of the good sprint mare Island Bound, a daughter of Speightstown whose most notable success came in the Winning Colors Stakes (G3). She is out of A.P. Indy’s stakes-placed daughter Indy Mood For Luv, a half-sister to the graded scorers Savorthetime and Rogue Romance, who also took third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). The fourth dam Katie Love is a half-sister to the brilliant but fragile Ogygian, and to the dam of top-class miler and later leading freshman sire Honour And Glory. The family goes back to the great Tartan Farm foundation mare Cequillo, ancestress of numerous major winners, among them the important sires Fappiano – who would qualify as a breed-shaper, as least in North America – and Quiet American.

Ce Ce another feather in the cap for the late Elusive Quality in Filly & Mare Sprint Ce Ce is a daughter of the late Gone West horse Elusive Quality, who was 22 when she conceived. He was a member of a remarkable cohort of stallions, including Distorted Humor, Awesome Again, Indian Charlie, Tale Of The Cat, Grand Slam and Stormy Atlantic. Oddly enough, Elusive Quality, Distorted Humor and Indian Charlie – three of the brightest stars in that illustrious constellation – all retired at fees of $10,000, compared to the most expensive member

Ce Ce overcame coming around the wide outside on the home bend to win the Filly & Mare Sprint

One wonders if Elusive Quality and Distorted Humor would have even got an opportunity at stud these days of that intake Coronado’s Quest, whose initial fee was $75,000. One wonders if Elusive Quality and Distorted Humor would have even got an opportunity at stud these days, and certainly Elusive Quality’s race-record would make him a marginal proposition. Although he’d shown talent at three, when he was beaten just a nose by the far more determined Honour And Glory in the King’s

Bishop Stakes (G1), and at four, when his sole victory saw him take a 7f allowance at Gulfstream Park in a new track-record, it wasn’t until he was five that Elusive Quality gained his first black-type victories. Both those came on the Turf – in the Jaipur Handicap (G3) over 7f and the Poker Handicap (G3) over a mile. Even though he did establish a new world record of 1:31.63 in the second event, a horse who took so long to fulfil his potential, who ultimately did so on Turf, and who also had the reputation of not being the most enthusiastic individual, might not have been the hottest proposition these days. That said, Elusive Quality did have undeniable raw talent, good looks and, as a son of Gone West from a very successful branch of a famed family going back to twice champion racemare Vagrancy, a very attractive pedigree. Happily, he threw to those traits and with his combined northern and southern hemisphere crops he’s sired 137 stakes winners, 56 Group or Graded, and 17 Group or Grade 1.

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breeders’ cup They include some truly outstanding individuals, amongst them the champion three-year-old and Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) victor Smarty Jones, Quality Road, who we will consider later as sire of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) winner Raven’s Pass, successful in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) in England and the Breeder’s Cup Classic (G1), the European champion two-year-old filly

Elusive Katie, the European champion twoyear-old filly Certify, the champion US sprint female Maryfield, and Sepoy, winner of the Golden Slipper (G1) at two and the highestranked sprinter of his age on the World Thoroughbred Rankings at three. Ce Ce is now the third consecutive Grade 1 winner from her female line – dam Miss Houdini (Belong To Me) annexed the Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1), while

second dam Magical Maiden took the Starlet Stakes (G1) and Las Virgenes Stakes (G1). Miss Houdini has had a very successful career as a broodmare – Ce Ce is a half-sister to the talented performer Papa Clem, who took the San Fernando Stakes (G2) and Arkansas Derby (G1), and was also fourth in the Kentucky Derby (G1). Magical Maiden also appears as the second dam of English sprinter Moviesta,

Gun Runner enforced his position as leading freshman sire

HE BREEDERS’ CUP JUVENILE events cemented the first-crop sire sensation Gun Runner as the leading freshman sire, and also the leading sire of two-yearolds, so ending the three-year reign of Into Mischief, who looks set for runner-up spot this time. Gun Runner entered the Breeders’ Cup meeting with five first-crop stakes winners, four graded and two Grade 1. One of those Grade 1 winners Echo Zulu secured herself the two-year-old filly championship after going wire-to-wire to secure an easy win in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), while Pappacap, a Grade 2 winner earlier in the year, was a courageous, if well-held, runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). It’s no surprise to see Gun Runner doing well as a sire – he was a top-class runner, Horse of the Year in 2017, is by the undefeated Candy Ride, himself a very successful stallion, and he is out of a Giant’s Causeway mare from a good family. However, few would have expected him to be this good, this early. He didn’t start himself until the September of his two-year-old season, and, after winning a maiden and an allowance race, he finished fourth in a Grade 2 in the final start of the campaign. At three, he did win four graded stakes, but for most of the year he was just a cut below the top – second in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) and Pennsylvania Derby (G2), and third in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Travers Stakes (G1). He broke through at the highest level late November in the Clark Handicap (G1). Despite that rigorous three-year-old campaign, Gun Runner went on to win six of his final seven starts. His sole defeat came when second to Arrogate in the Dubai World Cup (G1), and his triumphs included the Stephen Foster Handicap (G1), the Whitney Stakes (G1), the Woodward Stakes (G1), the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and, in his only start at five, the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1). Echo Zulu has been the star of his first crop winning all four of her starts by wide margins with a 4l margin in the Spinaway Stakes (G1) and a 7l win in the Frizette Stakes (G1). Echo Zulu’s dam Letgomyecho (Menifee) was a very talented

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Echo Zulu: the well-bred filly is a first-crop star for Gun Runner

runner. She started just four times, but won the first three of those, including the Stonerside Forward Gal Stakes (G2). She’s been a very successful producer as she’s dam of four other black-type horses, including the H. Allen Jerkens Stakes (G1) victor Echo Town, and J Boys Echo, successful in the Gotham Stakes (G3). This is a family that been a lively recently – Letgomyecho’s stakeswinning half-sister Soundwave is dam of Dean Martini, who took the Ohio Derby (G3) last year, while another half-sister Echo Harbor produced the Sapling Stakes (G3) winner Western Smoke and the Santa Anita Derby (G1) second One Lucky Dane. Echo Town’s second dam Echo Echo Echo is a stakes-placed grand-daughter of the stakes-placed Tatallah. That mare only produced one stakes winner, the Del Mar Junior Miss scorer Joi’ski, but she’s granddam of Engine One, who took the Vosburgh Handicap (G1). She is ancestress of numerous other good winners in the US, Europe, South America, and Japan, including other US

breeders’ cup successful in the King George Stakes (G2) and Renaissance Stakes (G3), while the third dam Gils Magic was a tremendously successful broodmare. In addition to Magical Maiden, she also produced graded winner Magical Mile and the stakes winner Magical Sister, and she’s ancestress of 21 stakes winners, most notably champion two-year-old Good Magic. Ce Ce is one of four Group or Grade 1

winners and 18 stakes winners for her sire out of mares by sons of Danzig, but there are also some interesting pedigree patterns. Elusive Quality is by a Raise A Native line stallion out of a Northern Dancer line mare, with a Sir Gaylord (Turn-to) line second dam. Miss Houdini is by a stallion who is a Northern Dancer/Raise A Native cross with a Turn-to line second dam, and her own dam is also Sir Gaylord line.

Grade 1 winners Singletary, Pool Play and Voodoo Dancer. The family goes back through Tatallah’s dam, the champion two-year-old filly Leallah, to the notable tap-root mare Oval. The branch which descends from Leallah’s granddam Colosseum has produced many notable performers, among them the champion Turf horse Manila, the champion two-year-old filly Champagne Room, the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) heroine Blue Prize, St. Nicholas Abbey, who took the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), the champion French two-year-old Targowice, the Prix de Diane (G1) winner Lacovia, White Muzzle, successful in the Italian Derby (G1), and the major sires Miswaki and Southern Halo. Echo Zulu is inbred to Storm Cat through Giant’s Causeway, the broodmare sire of Gun Runner, and through Harlan, the sire of Menifee, with both Giant’s Causeway and Menifee being extended Storm Cat/Nasrullah crosses. Remarkably, all five of Gun Runner’s stakes winners feature a double of Storm Cat, and the Hopeful Stakes (G1) winner Gunite, and Kip Deville Stakes scorer Concept, are inbred to Giant’s Causeway.

Corniche: Quality Road’s son set to be champion

The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) also went to an undefeated individual who looks certain to be voted champion of his division. Corniche’s task in the Breeders’ Cup was made easier when the undefeated New York Grade 1 winner and ante-post favourite Jack Christopher was scratched the day before. That left Corniche with a fairly simple task to make all and score by nearly 2l from Pappacap, who tried hard but never looked like winning. Unlike Echo Zulu, Corniche is by a well-established first-string sire in Elusive Quality’s son, Quality Road. A brilliant runner who won four Grade 1 races, and set trackrecords from an extended 6f to 1m1f, Quality Road has already sired good horses, including the champion three-year-old filly Abel Tasman, the champion two-year-old filly Caledonia Road, and other Grade 1 winners City Of Light – a red-hot sales sire with his first crop yearlings in 2021 – Bellafina, Dunbar Road, Spring Quality, Hootenanny, Roadster, Salty, Illuminant and Klimt. Corniche’s dam Wasted Tears was a durable and accomplished racemare who won 12 times, including victories in the John C. Mabee

In addition, the dam of Elusive Quality is a Northern Dancer/Sir Gaylord cross, while the dam of Miss Houdini is Sir Gaylord/ Northern Dancer cross, with the Northern Dancer through the three-quarters brothers Hero’s Honor and Magesterial. Admiring, the granddam of Hero’s Honor and Magesterial, is a three-quarters sister to Straight Deal, the granddam of Belong To Me, a grandson of Northern Dancer.

Stakes (G2), the Jenny Wiley Stakes (G2), the Honey Fox Stakes (G3) and three wins in the Oujia Board Distaff Handicap (G3). She won at up to 1m1f, which bodes well for Corniche’s potential to stretch out to Classic distances next year. Wasted Tears is by the Blushing Groom grandson Najran and is out of the stakes-winning Greinton mare Wishes And Roses, so a product of an extended version of the once hugely successful Blushing Groom/Nijinsky combination. Overall, the family has been producing plenty of black-type but little of it major, but if we go back to the sixth dam, The Garden Club, she is ancestress of the champion older horse Mineshaft, Flagbird, who was successful in the Premio Presidente della Repubblica (G1), this year’s Canadian Oaks winner Munnyfor Ro, and the further Grade 1 winners Prospectors Delite, Tomisue’s Delight, Mr. Sidney, Little Belle, Dickinson and Runup the Colors. The family goes back to Striking, one of the legion of important runners and producers by War Admiral out of daughters of La Troienne. Interestingly, the family didn’t get a reinforcement of La Troienne until the cross with Beau’s Eagle, who goes tail-female to Striking’s magnificent sister, Busher.

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Yibir was on fire

Godolphin’s Dubawi gelding annexed the Breeders’ Cup Turf

WINNER OF HIS last two starts at two Yibir was gelded after his first three outings of this year, and the operation seems to have had the desired effect – he’s won four of his five subsequent starts taking the Bahrain Trophy Stakes (G1), the Great Voltigeur Stakes (G2), the Jockey Club Derby Invitational Stakes and, recently, the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) when his turn of foot saw him run down Broom to score by a half a length. Yibir is the 48th Group or Grade 1 winner for his sire Dubawi, who was also represented by the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) victor Space Blues and the Juvenile Turf (G1) scorer Modern Game. As far as Yiber’s pedigree is concerned his victory gained some compensation for his full-sister Wild Illusion, who was beaten a neck in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) in 2018. That defeat aside, Wild Illusion proved herself at the highest level, taking the Nassau Stakes (G1), the Prix de l’Opera (G1) and the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) and she also finished second in the Oaks (G1).

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William Buick celebrates his third Breeders’ Cup win of 2021 after success on Yibir in the Turf. The gelding’s dam Rumh was bought as a yearling by John Ferguson Bloodstock from Gestüt Karlshof at the 2009 October Book 1 Sale for 300,000gns. The daughter of Monsun has now bred two horses who have won seven-figures in prize-money earnings. She has a two-year-old by Golden Horn and was covered by Sea The Stars this spring

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breeders’ cup Yibir is also half-brother to the black-type-winning filly Really Special and to the Group-placed Ceratonia. His dam, the Dubai mare Rumh, was a black-type winner and is a three-quarters sister to Royal Highness, a Group winner, multiple Group 1 placed in Europe and successful in the Beverly D. Stakes (G1) in the U.S. Rumh is also a three-quarters sister to the German black-type scorer Realeza, both out of the champion German two-year-old filly Royal Dubai. The third dam Reed Dubai is half-sister to the dams of Electrocutionist, whose successes included the Juddmonte International (G1), the Dubai World Cup (G1) and Gran Premio di Milano (G1), and the Deutsches Derby (G1) scorer Robertico. Reem Dubai is out of Gesedah, a Groupwinning half-sister to the great stayer, Ardross.

Loves the heroine for Japan

In the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1), Loves Only You closed well to gain the win by a half length – in doing so she became the first Japanese horse to win a Breeders’ Cup event. Loves Only You has top-class domestic form – she won the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) in 2019 – but also has some notable international efforts to her name. She has been in excellent fettle this year taking the Kyoto Kinnen (G2), finishing second just a half a length behind Mishriff in the Dubai Sheema Classic (G1), won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup (G1) in Hong Kong, and was also second in the Sapporo Kinen (G2). Loves Only You is by the late Deep Impact, Horse of the Year and Triple Crown winner in Japan, and the outstanding runner and sire to represent Sunday Silence. In addition to numerous standouts in Japan, most recently the 2020 Japan Triple Crown winner Contrail, Deep Impact has made a tremendous impact overseas. In Europe he has 19 stakes winners, 14 of them Group class, and six at Group 1 level, including this year’s English and Irish Oaks (G1) heroine Snowfall, Saxon Warrior, who won the 2,000 Guineas (G1), the Prix de Diane (G1) winner Fancy Blue, Study Of Man, successful in the Prix du Jockey (G1),

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and Beauty Parlour, who took the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1). Loves Only Me, the dam of Loves Only You, clearly has a marked affinity for Deep Impact – the mating had already produced, Real Steel, winner of the Dubai Turf (G1), and the stakes-winning and graded-placed Prodigal Son. A daughter of Loves Only Me is dam of the graded-winning Deep Impact colt Terzetto. Loves Only Me is by Storm Cat out of Monevassia, a sister to Kingmambo, and she is a half-sister to the European champion two-year-old filly Rumplestiltskin, dam of the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) heroine Tapestry. The third dam is the mighty Miesque, who in addition to her triumphs in Europe, won two runnings of the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1). She is dam of five stakes winners and, as well as Kingmambo, they include East Of The Moon, successful in the Prix de Diane (G1) and the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1). Miesque is also ancestress of numerous other good runners, including Study Of Man, who being by Deep Impact out of a Storm Cat mare is closely related to Loves Only You, as well as Alpha Centauri, Alpine Star, Discoveries and Karakontie. We have mentioned Loves Only You, Real Steel and Study Of Man as notables by Deep Impact, and the cross has been remarkably

effective with 12 stakes winners from only 69 starters, 11 Group or Graded, and nine Group or Grade 1, also including Deep Impact’s excellent young sire son, Kizuna.

Space swept away the Blues

In the Turf Mile, Space Blues ended his racing career on a high – he out-kicked the front-running Smooth Like Strait to take the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1). This was his third straight win following success in the City of York Stakes (G2) and Prix de la Forêt (G1). In fact he’s won eight of his last ten starts, including another

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breeders’ cup string of five starting in summer 2020 and including three Group races, among them the Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1) in which he demonstrated that he had enough speed to beat Hello Youmzain over 6f. Space Blues’ dam Miss Lucifer, a daughter of Noverre, gained a Group win in the Challenge Stakes (G2). She is also dam of Shuruq, who won a trio of graded events in Dubai, including the Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1 (G2) and UAE Oaks (G3), as well as the International Istanbul Trophy (G3) in Turkey. In turn, Shuruq is dam of Antoinette, a Group winner and Group 1 placed on Turf in the U.S. His second dam Devil’s Imp (Cadeaux Genereux) is out of High Spirited, a sister to the Premio Roma (G1) scorer High Hawk. High Spirited is dam of the Group winners Amfortas and Legend Maker, dam of the 1,000 Guineas (G1) winner Virginia Waters. What’s rather interesting about this pedigree is that High Spirited is by Shirley Heights out of the notable tap-root mare Sunbittern, while Dubawi is out of the

Italian Oaks (G1) heroine Zomaradah, who is by a son of Shirley Heights out of a granddaughter of Sunbittern. Space Blues is also one of seven stakes winners, four Group class, by Dubawi out of Rahy line mares.

A Golden Turf Sprint

Last year’s Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) scorer Golden Pal returned to show blistering speed to win the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) by a length and a quarter without being pushed to his limit. He also won the Skidmore Stakes at Saratoga last year, and the Quick Call Stakes (G3) and Woodford Stakes (G2) this term. Golden Pal has also made two visits to Britain. He showed tremendous pace to lead last year’s Norfolk Stakes (G2) until tiring late and going down by a neck by The Lir Jet. This year he challenged for the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1), but, after appearing to be travelling easily on the lead, faded badly after being headed 2f out.

Golden Pal is by the North American champion two-year-old Uncle Mo, who descends from the Caro branch of Grey Sovereign via Siberian Express, In Excess and and Indian Charlie. Uncle Mo sired a record-breaking 25 stakes winners, 14 graded in his first crop, among them the champion two-year-old colt and the Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Nyquist. He’s continued to do well – with six crops aged three-year-old or older he has 73 stakes winners to his name, ten Grade 1. Golden Pal’s dam Lady Shipman is by another champion two-year-old in Unbridled’s Song’s son Midshipman, a horse who has generally done his best work as a sire of fillies, including several who were best on Turf. Lady Shipman is among the best of those – she won 13 of her 20 starts, 11 of them black-type events, including the Royal North Stakes (G3). She also took second in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1). The immediate family is fairly light, but the third dam Nanetta, by Lyphard’s son

Modern Games, who is out of a half-sister to Group 1 winner Ultra and Group 3 winner Synopsis, shrugged off the pre-race confusion to win the Juvenile Turf

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breeders’ cup Falstaff, won a pair of restricted Californiabred stakes. Eventually the family goes back to La Troienne via her granddaughter Striking. But it’s My Boss Lady, the seventh dam of Golden Pal, a stakes winner and out of Striking, so giving Golden Pal a double of Striking, who produced the most recent previous major stakes winner in the family, the Century Handicap (G1) scorer Landscapper.

Modern comes good in the Juvenile Turf

After considerable drama at the start, which saw Albahr scratched and then his stable-companion Modern Games scratched before being reinstated, Modern Games showed good turn of foot to take the Juvenile Turf by a length and a half over the US representative, Tiz The Bomb. The first of the three record-breaking 2021 Breeders’ Cup winners for Dubawi, Modern Games is out of the New Approach mare, Modern Ideals. She is a half-sister to another good two-year-old in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (G1) scorer Ultra, as well as to Synopsis, who took the Prix Minerve (G3). The second dam Epitome is by Nashwan out of the Mr. Prospector mare Proskona, a champion three-year-old filly in Italy, and a Group winner there and in France. Proskona is dam of the Grade 1 winner Calista, and ancestress of more than 20 stakes winners, the most notable being Act One, winner of the Criterium International (G1) and Prix Lupin (G1). Proskona is out of an even more notable tap-root mare in Konafa from whom descend such horses as the Classic-winning champion siblings Hector Protector and Bosra Sham, the Hong Kong superstar Golden Sixty, Ciro and Shanghai.

Pizza: puts Fastnet Rock in the spotlight

In the Juvenile Filly Turf, Pizza Bianca, making only her third start, charged from the rear to score by a half length from another late closer, the European challenger Malavath. She’d won an eight and a half-length maiden on her debut, then run second to

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Wild Beauty in the Natalma Stakes (G1). Pizza Bianca is by the veteran Danehill son Fastnet Rock. A champion sprinter in Australia, Fastnet Rock has twice been a champion sire in that country. A more versatile sire than he was a runner, he’s also been very successful with his northern -hemisphere-sired horses with 46 stakes winners from eight crops, including current two-year-olds. In addition to Pizza Bianca, they include the English Oaks (G1) heroine Qualify, and the Group 1 winners One Master, Fascinating Rock, Rivet, Zhukova, Laganore, Diamondsandrubies and Intricately. Pizza Bianca is the first foal of her dam White Hot, a daughter of Galileo who did not run but who had cost 1,250,000gns as a yearling at Tattersalls October in 2014. Her price becomes understandable when looking at her pedigree – she is a sister to Dawn Patrol, a Group winner who ran third in the Irish Derby (G1), and to the black-type scorer Kissed. She is a three-quarters sister to the English Derby (G1) victor Pour Moi, to Gagnoa, a multiple Group winner who took second in the Prix de Diane (G1), the Prix Saint-Alary (G1) and third in the Irish Oaks

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RITISH BREEDERS operating on a small to medium budget have yearned for commercially credible proven sires at affordable fees for several seasons now. It appears their prayers have been answered with the emergence of freshmen Ardad and Time Test as exciting young stallions this year. Up to early November, the Overbury Stud resident Ardad had supplied 21 winners, including the Prix Morny (G1) and Middle Park Stakes (G1) hero Perfect Power, the Sirenia Stakes (G3) scorer Eve Lodge and the

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Coventry Stakes (G2) third Vintage Clarets. The National Stud’s Time Test, meanwhile, had notched 11 winners from just 38 runners and they included Rocchigiani and Romantic Time, both winners at Group 3 level, and Tardis and The King’s Horses in Listed contests. However, his highest-rated runner is Gavin Cromwell’s likeable filly Sunset Shiraz, who finished placed in the Group 2 Debutante Stakes, the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1), the Weld Park Stakes (G3) and Staffordstown Stud Stakes (L) before winning a Gowran

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Above, Ardad, the son of Kodiac, below, Time Test by Dubawi. After a “long discussion” reports Sweeting, Ardad is to stand at an affordable fee of £12,500 next year, while The National Stud’s Time Test has been allotted a still-competitive price of £15,000. Both studs are particularly keen to look after their loyal client base and supportive breeders

Park maiden by 6l in October. Both sires have enjoyed significant increases in the average price for their second crop of yearlings. Ardad’s figure has gone from 15,327gns in 2020 to 52,552gns with a high of 190,000gns paid by Manor House Stud for a filly sold by Norris Bloodstock out of the winning Dark Angel mare Be My Angel. Time Test’s yearling average has risen from 34,090gns for his first crop to 48,261gns for the second, highlighted by Alastair Donald’s purchase of a halfbrother to Oaks third Harlequeen for 400,000gns.

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There are a lot of smaller investors who’ve landed fantastic touches with Ardad’s foals and yearlings, and hopefully we can get a few more!

That colt had been pinhooked by vendor Ballyvolane Stud for just 56,000gns. Ardad was quick out of the blocks with his debut runners, getting off the mark with a first winner in early April and then shining at Royal Ascot thanks to Perfect Power taking the Norfolk Stakes (G2) and Vintage Clarets running third in the Coventry Stakes (G2). A fast start by the sire was to be expected, as he is by Kodiac and from a highly precocious family, and he won the Windsor Castle Stakes (L) and the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes in his own career. But what has been a very pleasant surprise is how his progeny have held their form throughout the season, and that he was still getting new winners deep into the autumn. “Ardad has exceeded all expectations and there’s no doubt that trainers think his runners will train on at three, from what they’ve been telling us about them,” says Overbury Stud’s manager Simon Sweeting. “We won’t know for sure until we get there, of course, but some pretty shrewd judges have been buying Ardad’s second crop of yearlings. Con Marnane has bought five, I believe, and the Doyles and Stephen Hillen have bought a couple each. I don’t think all those top operators would be so eager to buy them if they thought he was a flash in the pan. “Look at Perfect Power, too. Richard Fahey could have run the horse again after he won the Middle Park, but I think he knows there’s a lot of progression still to come and he was mindful of the colt’s three-yearold career when he made plans for his back-end campaign.” Considering Ardad has made such an encouraging start, it is a little surprising that connections have elected to increase his fee to only £12,500 for 2022. The general consensus is that they could have charged a fair bit more. Sweeting explains that the decision was informed by a desire to do best by his loyal clientele, many of whom are not in possession of bottomless pockets, and is in recognition of the sire potentially having a quieter time of it with

his progeny further down the line. He covered only 26 mares in 2020 before breeders inundated him with 156 this year after it became apparent he might be something special. “We had a lot of discussions about Ardad’s fee over a long period of time,” says Sweeting regarding the sire, who was bought by Richard Brown from the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale for £170,000 on behalf of his owner Abdullah Saeed Al Naboodah. “We wanted to be sensible – my clients over the past 20 years or so are not huge studs, able to spend large sums of money on nominations; they’re smaller operations that have to be a bit careful. I was very mindful of that, and my partners in the horse were conscious of it, too. “Also, I hope it doesn’t happen, but we have to acknowledge that he could have a quieter season in a couple of years’ time, and I don’t want to be dragging the price back down a long way if he does. I would rather the fee went up steadily in smaller increments, than going up and back down.” Summing up the joy of standing Ardad, Sweeting says: “There are a lot of smaller investors who’ve landed fantastic touches with his foals and yearlings, and hopefully we can get a few more breeders to do the same, then so much the better. Hopefully, the new fee will help everybody a little bit, while ensuring the horse keeps on his upward trajectory, too. “It’ll be fascinating to see what he can do with bigger books and slightly better mares. The only way is up, I would have thought. We’ll have to wait and see about that, but it’s very exciting.”

POSITIVE MOOD has also taken hold on the opposite side of England from Gloucestershire, as Time Test continues to shine for the National Stud team in Newmarket. Stud director Tim Lane says: “I saw just how talented Time Test was when I was managing Oakgrove Stud, and John Deer had horses with Roger Charlton at Beckhampton. Time Test was a belting looking horse with the most wonderful attitude, and showed amazing speed on the gallops. “Time Test was unlucky not to win a Group 1, but it was just as well for us that he didn’t. If he had, we probably wouldn’t have ended up with him, he’d be standing at Banstead Manor Stud instead!” Time Test, bred and raced by the late Prince Khalid Abdullah, is by Dubawi out of Criterium de Saint-Cloud heroine Passage Of Time, a Dansili half-sister to high-

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Perfect Power (yellow) starting to go clear to win the Middle Park Stakes (G1): the 2,000 Guineas is on the colt’s hit list for 2022

class pair Father Time and Timepiece from the family of dual Champion Stakes victor Twice Over. He was sent out by Charlton to win four Group races, including the Joel Stakes (G2) and York Stakes (G2), and to run fourth in the Group 1 Juddmonte International and third in the Eclipse Stakes (G1). He hit the crossbar at the highest level twice more after being sent to Chad Brown in the US, running second in the Manhattan Stakes and Fourstardave Handicap. Asked to put his finger on exactly why Time Test is doing so well as a sire – apart from the many qualifications listed above – Lane says: “There’s just something in him, a deep-seated need to try his hardest for you. It might be a trait that Dubawi has passed down, as you see it a lot in his stock, too: they try and try for their jockeys. “He became quite poorly at one point in the past covering season, but even when he was at his worst he would still want to go into the covering shed as he was walked past it. That’s him all over. He would never let you down.” Lane has a strong emotional attachment to Time Test, as he was the first stallion he secured for the National Stud himself after he took over the reins of the operation in 2017. The late Duke of Roxburghe was also instrumental in the horse’s acquisition in his role as The National Stud chairman, and shared Lane’s passion for making the horse. “I won’t lie, when I got to The National Stud and

Toronado left the roster I wrongly took it personally and felt pretty low about it for a while,” says Lane. “But it made me even more determined to make a success of the stud and bring its stallion roster up to scratch, I wanted all the team here to be proud of the horses we stand and together we’d make money for the operation. “So it’s been amazing that only a few years later we’ve got to the point that we have a successful sire in Time Test, who’s in strong demand from around the world, and Aclaim who’s also doing really well with lots of winners this autumn and a very good winners-torunners strike-rate.”

HE CHANGE IN CULTURE that Lane instigated at The National Stud, which has no doubt played a role in the rise of Time Test, is an open-mindedness in accepting applications to the stallions and a preparedness to help breeders as much as possible, to engender goodwill and repeat custom. “One thing I said to the team from the outset is that we don’t turn mares down,” says Lane. “Even if we might not necessarily agree with the mating, we’ll take the booking and talk to breeders. I’m not in the business of grading mares, or dictating to people how they should mate them. “We’ve also looked after people when they’ve had bad luck, and I think that’s one of the benefits of being an

...some pretty shrewd judges have been buying Arad’s second crop of yearlings. Con Marnane has bought five, and the Doyles and Stephen Hillen have bought a couple each

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We’ve got 150 mares on Time Test’s book already – it’s been carnage! It’s amazing, all the friends I have now. I’ve never so popular!”

Tim Lane, The National Stud’s stud director

Time Test’s son Rocchigiani winning the Group 3 in Germany, one of four stakes winners for the sire in 2021

independent stallion farm: there can just be a bit more kindness, and helpful gestures here and there, so the breeder knows we’re all in it together to make the stallion a success.” Time Test’s attractive credentials and The National Stud’s customerfriendly approach have helped ensure that the stallion has covered healthysized books throughout his career, even in traditionally stickier years. He was sent 92 mares in his second season in 2019, 125 in his third season in 2020 and 160 mares in his fourth season in 2021. Just how popular Time Test and Ardad have made themselves this year became

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apparent in a Tattersalls online sale of breeding rights in November – with one for each stallion on offer. The right to send one mare to Time Test in each season that he stands at The National Stud was bought by Blandford Bloodstock on behalf of an undisclosed client for 100,000gns, while the right that offered similar access to Ardad at Overbury Stud was purchased by the same agency for Wardley Bloodstock for 75,000gns. Both Overbury and The National Stud now face the high-class problem of standing over-subscribed stallions, which means having to disappoint a number of breeders by putting up the “fully booked” sign early. In fact, that might have already happened by the time you come to read this. “Yes, it’s inevitable,” says Sweeting. “We’re going to cover a sensible-sized book with Ardad, and we’ve already received more applications than we have places for, so we’re going to have to reject some mares. “But I’d rather it was that way than the opposite case. It’s just a fact of life when you’re lucky enough to have a popular stallion. The good thing is we look like we’ll be in a position to have his book done and dusted by the Tattersalls Breeding Stock Sale.” Lane reports that breeders have also nearly knocked him over in the rush to book nominations to Time Test. “We’ve got 150 mares on his book already – it’s been carnage!” he laughs. “It’s amazing, all the friends I have now. I’ve never been so popular!”

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starman’s breeder Starman starting to go clear for that landmark Group 1 victory in the July Cup, inset, jockey Tom Marquand congratulated by owner Sue Ward

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James Thomas chats with David Ward,owner breeder of Starman, Group 1 winner, the Cartier Award-winning sprinter and new resident at Tally-Ho Stud 54

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ERHAPS THE GREATEST INSIGHT into David Ward’s outlook as an owner-breeder comes when he is asked to nominate the high point of the racing career of his homebred July Cup winner Starman. It is tempting to assume that that breakthrough Group 1 triumph would be Ward’s abiding memory of Starman’s time on the track, and naturally he recalls that day at Newmarket fondly, saying the success

rates a “once-in-a-lifetime experience.” However, racing and breeding are endeavours that move people in different ways, and Ward says that Starman’s demolition of a relatively humble Doncaster novice stakes on just his second outing in August 2020 was the performance that had the most profound effect. “I’ve never really thought about it,” he says, followed by the kind of pause that suggests the question is suddenly being given considerable consideration.

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starman’s breeder “Strangely, his second race at Doncaster really lit the flame for me. That really was a transformational performance.” He continues: “I remember I called my mother up afterwards and explained to her that I’ve been to Doncaster hundreds of times and seen thousands of horses run there but my horse, on his first run on Turf, broke the track record. “That’s when the penny really dropped that he was going to be something special. When he won at Doncaster that was much more of a revelation, whereas when he won the July Cup it was a confirmation, because I knew what he was by then.” To get a better perspective on Ward’s relationship with racing, it helps to understand how he first became interested, then involved, in the sport. It was through his father, Donald, who had in turn inherited an interest from his father, that Ward was introduced to racing with childhood trips to courses such as Goodwood and York. He continued as a spectator well into his adult life, by which point he had assumed a senior role within the family’s sizeable recycling business. When his father passed away, Ward decided to take stock and in 2011 he took the step from onlooker to owner, something he did not only for himself, but as a nod to the man who had introduced him to the sport many years earlier. “I lost my father around 15 years ago and he’d

When he won at Doncaster that was much more of a revelation, whereas when he won the July Cup it was a confirmation, because I knew what he was by then

always contemplated having a horse but never did,” says Ward. “So, after losing him, I thought I would do it not just for myself, but because it was something my father would’ve enjoyed me doing too. That was the main reason I took the leap.” His initial purchases were sent into training with Tom Dascombe, who introduced Ward to bloodstock agent Ed Sackville, a trusted ally to the present day. Among those early acquisitions was a daughter of Montjeu sourced from the 2011 Goffs Orby Yearling Sale at a cost of €50,000.

AMED NORTHERN STAR and sent into training with Dascombe, the filly broke her maiden in a modest contest at Bath midway through a light three-year-old campaign. However, what followed proved to be far more significant as Northern Star went on to produce Ward’s first homebred winner, the Kodiac mare Sunday Star, and, more significantly, Starman himself. “I struggle to recall quite what I was thinking at the time, but my brief to Ed Sackville was to find a filly by Montjeu,” Ward says. “I was keen on Montjeu, so I had breeding in the back of my mind even at that stage. “I remember we’d picked her out and, bearing in mind I was a pure novice at this stage, I can still see her in my mind’s eye going around the parade ring at Goffs and thinking what a fabulous-looking filly she was. “It was very much a case of when I saw her I knew she was the one. Maybe it’s fate, who knows, but it’s all flowed since.” Sackville proved to be in particularly good form on that Tuesday evening some ten years ago – just nine lots before signing for Northern Star he purchased a Red Clubs filly from Tally-Ho Stud. She turned out to be Sky Lantern, whose daughter Snow Lantern landed the Falmouth Stakes a little over 24 hours before Starman’s July Cup strike. While that serendipitous double reaffirmed Sackville’s skills to the masses, Ward plainly already held the agent in the highest regard. “We’ve got a strong friendship and a great working relationship and we just hit it off straight away,” says Ward on his association with Sackville. “He’s heavily involved with everything; the horses I buy, which stallions I send the mares to, strategy now that Starman has gone to stud. He’s been instrumental in everything that I do from a racing and breeding perspective.” The team in the winners’ enclosure at Newmarket racecourse after Starman won the Group 1 July Cup

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starman’s breeder An early-season victory in the Group 2 Duke Of York Stakes under jockey Oisin Murphy set up 2021 for the son of Dutch Art

While Ward has been able to call upon the counsel of Sackville as his bloodstock interests have flourished, he has had to progress without Northern Star, who was tragically lost after delivering her third foal, the Kingman filly Lodestar, in 2018 Starman was the result of Northern Star visiting Dutch Art in 2016 when the Cheveley Park Stud resident stood at a career-high fee of £40,000. It did not take long for connections to realise that the decision to breed to the son of Medicean had been a wise move. Ward remembers a young Starman impressing almost as soon as he was born on March 31 in 2017, and then repeating the feat once he went into training with Ed Walker. While they had to wait until mid-July of his threeyear-old season to get Starman to the racecourse, with connections opting to give the strapping individual due time to mature, Ward says he was always content the colt would be worth waiting for. “He was a nice strong foal and he showed Ed plenty as a two-year-old,” says Ward. “Ed is pretty patient, and being an owner-breeder that suits me well as I’m not operating on a commercial enterprise so there’s no rush. “He’s a big horse so we gave him plenty of time, but Ed always knew he was a nice horse. We didn’t know quite how nice, but we certainly knew he wasn’t going to be running in class five handicaps!” While Starman takes his moniker from the David Bowie track, Ward explains how the name was initially earmarked for another of Northern Star’s progeny.

“Northern Star was in-foal to Kingman and I was wondering what I could name a colt with that pedigree,” he says. “Starman was a combination of the two and when I looked the name up it was available, so I actually booked the name for a colt, who turned out to be a filly! “I still thought it was appropriate so I gave the name to Northern Star’s colt; it turned out to be a portent of something wonderful.” Latent talent saw Starman overcome greenness to make a successful debut in a Lingfield maiden before the Doncaster track record-breaking performance that Ward holds so dear. A first black-type success soon followed when he ran away with the Listed Garrowby Stakes at York on his penultimate outing at three before he was bogged down in a soft-ground British Champions Sprint Stakes (G1).Normal service was resumed when Starman returned at four with victory in a hot running of the Duke Of York Stakes (G2) – the subsequent Group 1-winning sprinters Oxted and Emaraaty Ana were amongst those in arrears. That Group 2 success saw Starman installed as ante-post favourite for the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1) only for torrential rain to scupper his chances and force connections to declare him a non-runner.

He’s a big horse so we gave him plenty of time, but Ed always knew he was a nice horse. We didn’t know quite how nice, but we certainly knew he wasn’t going to be running in class five handicaps!”

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I wanted to give him the best opportunity I could to make this part of his journey as successful as the first part was, and I think Tally-Ho will give him that chance

However, any frustrations felt after Royal Ascot were quickly banished by what came next. He faced 18 rivals in a competitive Group 1 July Cup, including the previous year’s winner Oxted and the improving three-year-olds Creative Force, Dragon Symbol and Rohaan. Things appeared to be going awry when Starman found himself tangled in traffic with just over 2f to run, and matters looked like getting even worse when Oxted’s right-hand drift created something of a roadblock. However, once Tom Marquand angled Starman into open water, he quickened into the lead in striking fashion. “I don’t think I’ll ever have another moment like the July Cup,” says Ward. “I couldn’t really see him until he started to get in the clear around a furlong out, but watching him power home was a once-in-alifetime experience. It was just fantastic.” As an independently-owned, bona fide stallion prospect, Starman had not only developed into a top-class racehorse but a hugely sought-after commercial commodity.

HILE WARD speaks of being flattered by all the interest from studs keen to stand Starman, including the phone call Sackville received barely 30 seconds after the horse crossed the line in the July Cup, he is candid in his assessment of the process that followed and it is clear that he did not get into racing and breeding to mix business and pleasure. “It was fantastic and it wasn’t all wrapped up in one as the journey changed at that point,” he says on finding Starman a berth at stud. “For someone like me to get a horse such as him with only the second horse that I’ve bred, it was flattering to get the offers but it was tinged with a sort of sadness as well, the thought that someone could take him away from you. “My overriding desire was for him to become a stallion, the thought of having bred a horse who could go on to a career at stud was wonderful, but it brought with it different things to think about, and they weren’t always the easiest things to think about.” After much deliberation and no shortage of offers, Ward opted to send Starman to Tally-Ho Stud in County Westmeath where the O’Callaghan family have recently applied a midas touch to the likes of Kodiac, Mehmas and this year’s leading first-crop sire Cotai Glory. “Tally-Ho is such a good nursery at getting stallions to become a success,” says Ward. “And he means something to them, and that was

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David and Sue Ward will be at this year’s breeding stock sales on the hunt for mares for their new stallion

ultimately the deciding factor. “They viewed Starman as their biggest investment and the best horse they’ve bought. The farm is on an upward curve and wanted a stallion of increased standing, and I think he fitted the bill. He’s a magnificent-looking horse and he’ll appeal to their client base. “I wanted to give him the best opportunity I could to make this part of his journey as successful as the first part was, and I think Tally-Ho will give him that chance. I’ve retained a percentage ownership of the horse so I have ten nominations to him, which is quite a big commitment. I’ll throw everything I can at him to play my own small part.” Starman can expect a visit from another of Ward’s headline names in runaway York Listed winner Primo Bacio, but that will have to wait until at least 2023 as the daughter of Awtaad is being kept in training next year and will bid to land a Group 1 prize. Ward has other exciting breeding prospects on the go too – Sunday Star is set to visit Frankel, while Lodestar is in-foal to Dutch Art carrying a three-parts relation to Starman. Another mare, New Day Dawn, is closely related to Mohaather, and is in-foal to his sire Showcasing. Given his broodmare band currently numbers less than the ten mares he plans to send to Starman, Ward says he is looking to supplement his numbers. “I tend to buy fillies so I’ve got a number in training and half a dozen broodmares,” he says. “I will be at Goffs and Tattersalls looking for mares to support Starman; mares that are probably going to be expensive based on how strong trade has been, but it’s a nice problem to have. Having my mares going to my own stallion, gosh, how lucky am I?” Given the considerable investment, both emotional and financial, Ward has put into racing, here’s hoping he continues to have the kind of luck that money simply cannot buy.

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Quick off the mark

Three Chimneys Farm is making the most of the fast start made by its leading US freshman sire Gun Runner, writes Melissa Bauer-Herzog

This year’s leading global first-season sire Gun Runner at Three Chimneys. He is to stand at a fee of $125,000 for 2022, inset, the son of Candy Ride winning the $16 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park in 2018

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T IS A FARM THAT has stood great stallions such as Seattle Slew, Dynaformer and Rahy, but the last eight years have seen Three Chimneys Farm go through many changes after a controlling interest was bought by the Borges-Torrealba family in 2013. A changing of the guard has also meant a changing of the philosophy behind the farm’s herd of horses, and both the stallion roster and the broodmare band have been restructured in keeping with the farm’s new goal to produce horses that could be added to its own breeding pool. With that in mind, the roster was revamped to include a younger group of stallions to fit in with the ownership’s vision. “We focus on breeding, we have a broodmare band we’ve established and one of our main goals is to breed or purchase, and then race, a top colt who we can retire to the farm,” explains Rebecca Nicholson of the Three Chimneys stallion nominations and marketing team. “It is such a competitive industry behind those top stallions prospects, it’s extra special when you can breed some of those horses or purchase them.” A roster built around that goal has taken shape in recent years with the farm raising, racing, and retiring three of the seven stallions on the roster. All but one of the stallions on the current roster, retired after the farm was purchased, were co-owned

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three chimneys by Three Chimneys for at least part of their racing career. While much has changed on the roster, one thing has stayed the same – proven stallion Sky Mesa is still anchoring the stallion division. A stalwart on the farm’s list, the 21-year-old stallion has been at Three Chimneys since he entered stud in 2004. According to Nicholson he has provided support through the quieter years when the younger stallions didn’t have runners. “You talk about a proven sire or a ‘value’ horse, you can’t find anything better than Sky Mesa,” she says. “I think having him, proven and with runners, helped with that transition to a younger stallion roster and kind of lent support.”

HAT YOUNG ROSTER has paid off for the farm with 2013 Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Palace Malice – one of the first stallion prospects purchased after the new ownership bought into the farm – siring Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) winner Structor in his first crop. But no stallion has paid off more than Gun Runner, who fits perfectly into Three Chimneys’ new goals. Privately purchased by Three Chimneys as a short yearling and raced in partnership with Winchell Thoroughbreds, Gun Runner proved to be among the best of his crop with six Grade 1 victories. The stallion improved with age, but was still good enough as a three-year-old to win two Triple Crown prep races and finish third in that year’s Kentucky Derby. He blossomed into a top four-year-old, who registered four of his six career Grade 1 victories that year and earned Horse of the Year honours. He stood at $70,000 in his first year at stud in 2018, and he bred 171 mares as one of the most popular first-year sires. Gun Runner’s first crop wasn’t expected to show their best until they were at least three as the stallion himself only ran three times as a juvenile – that was until Red Run gave him his first winner in May. On August 8, Gun Runner registered his first stakes winner with Grade 2 winner Pappacap lighting a fuse that would see the stallion quickly rise to the top of the

...we’re seeing Gun Runner match up well with Storm Cat and to mares who had a lot of early speed freshman ranks. A day later, and on the opposite side of the country, Wicked Halo won the Adirondack Stakes (G2). Weekend doubles became the name of the game for Gun Runner – at the beginning of September he enjoyed a Grade 1 double

at Saratoga. Those two winners introduced everyone to the year’s top US filly with Echo Zulu’s win in the Spinaway Stakes (G1) followed by Gunite’s win in the next day’s Hopeful Stakes (G1). Gun Runner quickly rose to the top of the US freshman ranks and, at the Breeders’ Cup, he caught the world’s eye when the two from Saratoga proved themselves on the championship stage. Echo Zulu all but locked up leading honours when becoming the sixth juvenile Breeders’ Cup winner by a freshman in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), while Pappacap finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). Gun Runner now looks likely to break Uncle Mo’s 2015 freshman earnings record before the year is up, but, even more exciting for Three Chimneys, is the other list Gun Runner leads by more than $1.5 million. “After the Breeders’ Cup he really did

Funtastic: Three Chimneys stands the son of More Than Ready, a relation to Gun Runner

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three chimneys secure his spot as the leading two-year-old sire,” notes Nicholson. “Not only is Gun Runner the leading worldwide freshman sire [by earnings] but also the leading two-year-old sire worldwide, which is pretty significant, so we’re really excited about him.” The Three Chimneys nominations team has already found some breeding trends that work with Gun Runner, and they think that plays a part in giving the stallion early runners who should get better with time. “I think it was a little bit unexpected that he would get these early two-year-olds, being that Gun Runner really continued to get better with age,” continues Nicholson. “At three, four, and five he really started to excel – we’re happy with how his two-year-olds are going “As a mating perspective we’re seeing Gun Runner match up well with Storm Cat and to mares who had a lot of early speed, which is what’s tending to suit him with these early two-year-old types.” Gun Runner sits at the top of the Three Chimneys 2022 roster at $125,000, but Three Chimneys stalwart stallion Sky Mesa, above, the statue remembering one of its best

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though he’s at a fee that takes him out of the running for most mares, his success has also helped some of Three Chimneys less expensive and younger stallions yet to have runners. “You get a lot more foot traffic through the doors and shines the spotlight on some stallions such as Funtastic, who we stand here for $5,000,” explains Nicholson. “He’s a half-brother to Saint Liam and to the dam of Gun Runner so that’s one stallion whose popularity I’ve seen rising a little bit this year, just by being closely related to Gun Runner and breeders seeing how he’s done. “Having a flagship stallion such as Gun Runner just offers more traction to the farm with more breeders wanting to come here.” One thing Three Chimneys hasn’t shied away from is buying and breeding for a variety of types of horses and that’s reflected on the farm’s roster. The farm’s unproven stallions are a perfect example. The 6f Grade 1 winner Volatile is expecting his first foals next year, while the 1m3f Grade 1-winning Funtastic, a Turf horse, will see his first juveniles on the track at the same time. Among those with proven runners is also Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Palace Malice and champion racehorse Will Take Charge, who has sired stakes winners at both sprint and route distances. For Nicholson, standing stallions who fit a variety of mares makes sense with many divisions in racing seeing an increase in popularity. “With racing today and the high percentage of Turf races, I think it is important to have some variability on the roster,” she said. “On our roster we have Dirt, Turf, sprinters, routers and have difference in the price range as well. “A lot of those [less expensive] stallions are really the bread and butter of it all and get a lot of traction as well. “So I think it’s important standing stallions on both ends of the roster in terms of price range so you’re able to serve a wider variety of clients.” It is still early days for Three Chimneys’ stallion plans, but with Gun Runner setting the pace, it looks like they’re well on their way to producing both racehorses and successful stallions for years to come.

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Working for the world

Aisling Crowe meets Mariann Klay and Des Leadon at Swordlestown Little, a farm they have been managing for 20 years with environment at the core of what they do – the couple setting a blueprint for sustainable stud farm management Photography by Mariann Klay

CCORDING TO THE SCIENTISTS climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity, an existential crisis that threatens life on earth like none previously faced in the entirety of human history. November’s COP26 in Glasgow was billed as perhaps our final opportunity to arrest the emissions fuelled destruction of the only home we have. Agriculture in its various forms stands in the harsh glare of the beams searching for those sectors on which the blame for earth’s destruction can be easily laid, but not so easily remedied. Equine agriculture, while not pursued with nearly the same intensity as beef farming or cereal growing enterprises are in some areas of the globe, does have a role to play in the rehabilitation of agriculture’s image and in leading the way to a more sustainable climate and habitable world. This is the passionately held belief of Mariann Klay and Des Leadon of Swordlestown Little Stud and it is one that

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she articulates eloquently and demonstrates beautifully on their farm, where sustainable agricultural practices and stud farming in harmony with nature have been the couple’s guiding principles since before Greta Thunberg was even born. “I really believe that this is important and that stud farming can have a positive role to play in developing and promoting sustainable agriculture practices,” states Klay.

“I think in stud farming we do have a great opportunity to do more for the environment than in other sectors of agriculture because we have less pressure; we don’t have to produce high milk proteins and high milk yields or have the grass full of nitrogen to produce those or to achieve daily weight gains.” Words are easy and don’t cost much but actions are more difficult. Klay, and her husband Leadon, are putting in the hard yards to create a stud farm that is sustainable and fits with its environment. But the problems we face are simultaneously global and local, and solutions of both natures are required. On the local level a battery storage station is proposed for nearby Dunnstown, not far from Swordlestown Little, and it is currently going through the planning appeals process.

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The development of the Swordlestown Little pond was a lockdown project for Mariann Klay and Des Leadon, who aim to create a wildlife haven for a variety of plants and animals

The station would house 76 battery storage units, each the size of a shipping container, to generate electricity. Alongside this storage facility, a 220kv electricity substation would be built as would a grid connection to an existing substation. The environmental impact of thousands of lithium-ion cells, not just on the local area outside Naas, which is close to Punchestown racecourse and over 20 stud farms, but on the countries where the lithium is extracted and the people who work in that industry, worries Klay greatly. There is not much more anyone can do but continue to campaign and fight against the facility, which has been refused planning permission by Kildare County Council but has organisation has appealed that decision to the national body, An Bord Pleanala. This, and more, are issues that the

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We do have the best opportunities of all the farming enterprises, we can get away from a ‘manicured approach’ breeders of Lilbourne Lad and Dinozzo are passionate about, and have been for years. Mariann is Swiss, and grew up on a farm in a country where recycling was something everybody did without the need for public information campaigns or government levies. So Klay and Leadon are busying themselves creating a stud farm that is rich in biodiversity, where the fields, which are nourished by organic fertiliser, still bear the scars of the ridges that failed to yield to a potato harvest 150 years ago during the great hunger which ravaged Ireland. Pollinator corridors, creating a haven for wildlife to exist in harmony with the agricultural enterprise, are seen as vitally important and one way in which stud farms can become more environmentally sustainable, as is the careful nurturing of the habitats that are found in abundance on studs around the world. “The hedges are probably one of the most important features on a stud farm for nature, be it birds or be it invertebrates, so we cut them on a two or three-year rotation and we only breast them, we don’t top them,” says Klay. “We have strips of grass around the farm that we don’t cut, we leave and mow it once a year. We planted a little woodland of deciduous broadleaf trees and put in new hedges,” she points out on a tour of the land. Many people embarked on home-based Photos taken by Klay of some of the inhabitants and plants on the farm, she and Leadon are focused on making a habitat for all

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The UK’s Leading 2nd Crop Sire 2021 (races won) with 5 BT winners, including the Group winners TWILIGHT JET and ARIA IMPORTANTE. 2021 yearlings have made up to 135,000gns Fee: £7,000 (1st Oct. SLF)

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Sire of 4 Group 1 winning sprinters including the 2021 Gr.1 July Cup winner STARMAN.

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swordlestown little Klay and Leadon want to ensure that the pastureland at Swordlestown Little is not just made up of a single sward, but is formed by a variety of grass species

projects to busy themselves through the long weeks of pandemic lockdown and Klay and Leadon were no different. Their lockdown project was the creation of a wildlife pond, which has become home to a variety of species. The couple adopts a different approach to the management of grazing as well, with the emphasis on a diverse sward rather than a grassland monoculture. “Rotational grazing is very important and sheep and cattle from neighbouring farms graze the land here when they are needed,” outlines Klay. “Our grassland is multispecies and very diverse, we are not great believers in reseeding because the ground takes a long time to settle afterwards and I don’t like that monoculture rye grass. The horses love the multi-species approach and cattle do very well here too.” It has forced her to reconsider a previously held belief too. “The horses put on a lot of bone here too, I always scoffed at that talk, but maybe there is something in it,” she confides. “Even foals that I think might be a bit light of bone, if I can keep them to yearling stage I can see the difference in their bones after that year on the grass. “I think on stud farms we need to get away a little bit from the manicured approach and we need to think of leaving areas

The hedges are probably one of the most important features on a stud farm for nature, be it birds or be it invertebrates alone and reserving them for nature. We do have the best opportunities of all the farming enterprises, we can get away from a ‘manicured approach’; stud farming lends itself to that kind of management but people need to let go of the approach that prevails now.” Like her husband, who is a worldrenowned clinician, Klay is a veterinary surgeon with neonatal medicine a particular focus. However, she is keen to turn that scientific background and rigour to the questions posed by climate change for equine agriculture. On a global, or more accurately, European level through the European Federation

of Thoroughbred Breeders’ Associations (EFTBA), Klay is hoping to receive support for a proposed research project that would investigate sustainable agricultural practices and then develop a template approach to calculate the carbon footprint of a stud farm. With the information available, breeders and farm managers would then be able to make the adjustments necessary to reduce their carbon footprint. There is already research being conducted in this area for other forms of agriculture, but not for stud farming. She expands a little on what the research would entail: “It would include two or three research partners in universities, as this has to be done properly, and compare farms in different leading European racing nations. It should be a pan-European approach.” Klay is keen to get involved in the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association’s recently announced objective of studying carbon emissions and biodiversity levels on Irish stud farms in 2022. Radical action will be needed in all sectors of society if the country is to stand a chance of meeting the government’s ambitious plans to reduce carbon emissions by half in a little over eight years. “Des and I have been doing this for 20 years and we have experience and knowledge of what works and what doesn’t work in a

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swordlestown little stud environment,” she adds. On a misty autumn afternoon, the grey of the Irish sky cannot hide the fruits and berries which gleam like jewels in the hedges that surround the paddocks of Swordlestown Little where the foals happily graze, their morning’s work done. The stocking density on the land is low. Klay and Leadon have just half a dozen broodmares of their own, along with a few boarders. Swordlestown Little is proof that this more inclusive and harmonious approach works.

HE AFOREMENTIONED Lilbourne Lad, who won the Group 2 Railway Stakes and was runner-up in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes for Richard Hannon, was born and raised in this environment. As was Dinozzo, a son of Lilbourne Lad bred by Swordlestown, who went on to become a Group 3 winner in Hong Kong and finish third in the Group 1 Hong Kong Gold Cup. Last year, the farm sold two of the three Frankel foals that jointly topped the 2020 Goffs November Foal Sale, including the half-brother to Dinozzo. Clearly the approach works for both the sales ring and the track. Klay, who held an amateur jockey’s licence and rode out for John Oxx for nigh on 30 years, which is where she met her husband, is still working hands-on with the mares and foals as the stud celebrates 20 years in business. Along with two assistants her day begins with handwalking the foals – Swordlestown Little consigned at this year’s Goffs November Foal Sale with the memories of the farm’s best day in the ring still in mind. “That was a fantastic day, just an unbelievable experience,” she says of the extraordinary 35 minutes at Kildare Paddocks last December when four Frankel foals sold in quick succession. “They were the four most expensive foals in the sale, with three of them, including Swordlestown Little’s homebred colt and a filly consigned on behalf of a client, making €440,000 apiece. “For my little farm to have two Frankel

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The pair of Frankel foals sold by Swordlestown Little at Goffs last year, both making €440,000 each

foals to sell was amazing. You don’t really know what’s going to happen at the sales, you’re focused on getting them there in the best possible health and shape and you’re not really aware of it at the time. “It’s only later that you can appreciate what has happened. It only sinks in later. It was the same when we bred and sold the Galileo half-brother to Lilbourne Lad. It is only later on that it sinks in. While you have them you are so focused on getting them to the sale and doing your best with, the same as you are for every foal. It is only when they are gone that you sit back and realise just what has happened.” The identity of the buyers of Dinozzo’s half-brother made it an extra special. “It was quite incredible for me to have a foal good enough for Juddmonte to buy. That was just wonderful and I was so delighted. I have been to see him a few times and he is developing so well and I am looking forward to seeing him on the track.” His dam Nisriyna did not have a foal in 2021, but she is in-foal to Wootton Bassett. The Frankel filly sold by Swordlestown last year is a half-sister to Group 2 Prix de la Nonette and Dahlia Stakes winner Terebellum, who gave Circus Maximus a

proper fight in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes last year. Terebellum’s Sea The Stars full-sister was catalogued at Goffs this month. “She is an early foal and her pedigree alone is probably enough to recommend her, but she is a really nice foal, lovely and correct,” is how Klay describes the latest daughter of the Group 3 Brownstown Sakes winner Marvada from the family of Group 1 winners Charge d’Affaires and Collateral Freedom. Any foal bred by Klay and Leadon is getting off to the most fortunate of starts as Swordlestown Little is a model stud farm in every sense. The attention to detail is no surprise to anyone who knows them and it is reflected in the standard of the foals sold each year at Goffs. But their futures, as of the humans who breed and care for them, are inextricably linked with the health of the land. As most of the world’s leaders congregated in Glasgow this month attempting to agree on solutions for the existential crisis that grips the planet, one small stud farm in County Kildare stands as a beacon of hope, a local solution with global relevance to a problem that is both local and global.

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Europe’s most expensive yearling of the year is by Dubawi and out of the Galileo mare Typique. She cost €2,500,000, was sold by Haras d’Etreham and bought by Charlie Gordon-Watson for Lady Bamford

PHEW!

Jocelyn de Moubray reports on an overall feeling of relief for all in the bloodstock industry as the European yearling sales outperformed expectations According to Jocelyn de Moubray, although the top of the market was a little tight, the middle market was very strong and many consignors finished up the 2021 yearling sale season with a “shared feeling of relief bordering on euphoria”

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October Book 1 top lot was the Newsells Park Stud-consigned daughter of Sea The Stars out of Best Terms (Lot 411), bought by Godolphin for 1,500,000gns. She was led up by a delighted Elody Swann, the year’s earlier winner of the 2021 Godolphin Stud Person of the Year award

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The Goffs Orby Sale top lot: by Galileo and out of the Scat Daddy mare Nickname, the filly was sold by Baroda Stud, bought by MV Magnier for €1,500,000 (Lot 152). Magnier bought the top two lots at the sale and spent €3,814,998, the biggest outlay by him at the Orby since 2013

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NCE AGAIN a European yearling sales season which started out clouded in doubts and trepidation ended

with widely shared relief bordering on euphoria. Inevitably the decent sales results have been followed by announcements of rises in stallion fees and ever-longer lists of European stallions who

Major European sales 2017-2020 (% change year on year in $) 2018

Nos Sold

Aggregate

% change

1,023

207

BBAG Sept

157

6,85

-25

Arqana A + O

805

68,4

-10

Goffs Orby

326

49,2

Goffs UK Premier

400

23,7

-12

Tattersalls 1 & 2

Combined 2,711 355

-1

2019 Tattersalls 1 & 2

1,017

204

-1

BBAG Sept

136

8,9

Arqana A + O

908

Goffs Orby

362

-5

Goffs UK Premier

376

-3

Combined 2,799 356

2020 Tattersalls 1 & 2

1,006

178

-13

BBAG Sept

148

7,2

-19

Arqana S + O

916

67,2

-10

Goffs Orby

308

27,3

-42

Goffs UK Premier

313

14,4

-37

Combined 2,691 294 -18 2021 Tattersalls 1 & 2

1,025

202

-2.40

BBAG Sept

146

7,98

16.00

Arqana A + O

962

81,1

19.00

Goffs Orby

370

-4.50

Goffs UK Premier

357

18,2

-23.00

Combined 2,860 356 0.28

covered more than 150 mares during the last breeding season. Despite the pandemic and the death of Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, one of the most prolific buyers of yearlings in the modern or any other era, the bull run in the bloodstock market and, above all, in the stallion market shows no sign of having reached its peak. Looking at the European yearling market in dollar terms, the currency most buyers are probably reckoning in and in order to take into account fluctuations in exchange rates over the longer term, the results are remarkably stable. In 2021 the major yearling sales in England, Ireland, France and Germany recorded a turnover of $356 million, up by 21 per cent from the COVID year of 2020, but more or less the same figure as in both 2018 and 2019. During this time the turnover at Tattersalls October Book 1 and 2 Sales fell by about two per cent, which is, of course, something which would have appeared impossible without the support of Shadwell, which used to spend between $20 – $30 million a year

on yearlings in Europe alone. The sales company which has seen the most significant increase during the period is Arqana, whose turnover at the combined August and October sales has risen from $68 million to $81 million this year, up by 19 per cent. This rise in aggregate at the major French yearling sales is largely due to Arqana’s excellent October Sale in 2021, which was up by 46 per cent from the turnover recorded in 2018. The Deauville October market was transformed by buyers who has been unable to purchase at the previous week’s Tattersalls October Sale, as well as by an October debut presence of several American buyers, headed by Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm and Klaravich Stables. If the market in Newmarket

Ben McElroy, the yearling buyer of Twilight Gleaming, returned to Tattersalls this year, buying seven lots, including a daughter of Kodiac that he described as the “nicest yearling he had ever seen in Europe” (Lot 1049)

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sales review They do not have exactly the same perceptions as the major European buyers and are not always looking for the same type of horse, which has helped to diversify the demand. The more European-sold yearlings racing in the US the more likely it is their number will include major winners, which will in turn encourage others to come and try their luck

was not significantly affected by the absence of Shadwell, this, too, was largely the result of the busy American buyers. Brant and Klaravich were joined in Newmarket by many others including Mike Ryan, Ben McElroy, Liz Crow, Solis/ Litt and Bridlewood. American buyers of European yearlings are slowly but surely changing the bloodstock market.

The Goffs UK Premier Sale top lot, a son of Harry Angel out of Red Box (Exceed And Excel) bought by Alex Elliott for £220,000 from Houghton Bloodstock. He was one of 25 yearlings bought under Elliott’s name at the premier yearling sales in 2021

at the European sales. The strong results at the year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf races is a clear indication of the strength of the European horses on the grass surface in the US. In the circumstances it is not surprising Arqana is considering moving its August Sale to the early September slot it used during the COVID year of 2020. If it is the American buyers who are driving growth in the European market, it makes sense to hold its primary sale at a time between the Saratoga race meeting and the Keeneland September Sale when the major US buyers could be available for a trip to Deauville.

.....it is not surprising Arqana is considering moving its August Sale to the early September slot it used during the COVID year of 2021

Return to form at Goffs Orby

Goffs Orby Sale bounced back from its disastrous 2020 COIVID-affected English version, and its 2021 turnover of $47 million was only four per cent off its 2018 level. The Orby Sale, at present, is not as significant for the European stallion market as the Tattersalls October sales and so future growth depends upon

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attracting buyers from outside Ireland, which means these days from outside Europe. If, and when, the pandemic ceases to interfere with travel arrangements this will become a far easier task, and a Breeders’ Cup-winning graduate such as Twilight Gleaming will clearly help the cause.

Major yearling purchasers by spend in $: 2018 Buyer

Purchased

Stroud/Coleman/Godolphin 98

Spend ($ millons) 42.0

Major yearling purchasers by spend in $: 2019 Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millons)

Shadwell 74 21.0

Godolphin/Stroud/Coleman 61

MV Magnier

19.0

Shadwell 89 27.0

Sackville Donald

16.0

MV Magnier/Westerberg 18

15.0

12.0

Ryan/White Birch/Klaravich 47

13.0

8.3

Sackville Donald

12.0

6.1

Varian/Kevin Ryan

9.9

Rabbah 55 5.4

David Redvers

7.6

Hong Kong Jockey Club 21

5.1

Rabbah 49 5.4

Roger Varian

4.2

Hong Kong Jockey Club 12

Phoenix Thoroughbreds 24 David Redvers

Hillen/Devin/Ryan 20

Combined

9 434

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139 (39% of total)

Combined

369

40.0

3.6 134 (38% of total)

sales review is probably the overall total. The major buyers spent less in real terms, only $110 million compared with between $130-$135 million in 2018 and 2019. And this is how the market felt from Deauville in August through to the October sales – more difficult than ever to sell at the very top of the market, but with a strong and more varied demand than usual in the middle market. This trend can also be seen in some of the figures for stallion averages and median prices. Frankel, for instance, has become the champion European sire for the first time this year and has enjoyed an outstanding season becoming universally accepted as an exceptional sire, and yet his yearling average and median were both down on the figures he achieved in 2019. If the European yearling market has succeeded in maintaining its level despite the difficult circumstances of recent years one part of the bloodstock

The Goffs Premier Sale at Doncaster remains on a downward trend with its turnover in dollar terms falling by 30 per cent from 2017 to 2021. Its problem appears to be that it has specialised in a sector of the market which is no longer growing. The European yearling market is maintaining the same level due to the export market, and the equine sectors doing the best are those which attract the greatest number of foreign buyers.

Reductions at the top, vibrant and varied middle market

The listing of major buyers is more approximate than ever now that the Maktoum family is spending less and not at all through the Shadwell banner. Al Shira’aa Farms returned to the market buying expensive yearling fillies after a break of a few seasons. Otherwise the most significant aspect of these figures

Major yearling purchasers by spend in $: 2020 Buyer

Purchased

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MV Magnier was the leading buyer of 2021 by spend, Coolmore’s largest outlay at the yearling sales in recent years

Major yearling purchasers by spend in $: 2021 Spend ($ millons)

Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millons)

Godolphin/Stroud/Coleman 57

36.0

MV Magnier

19.0

Godolphin 22 17.0

20.0

Shadwell 47 12.0

Stroud/Coleman 55

Oliver St Lawrence

11.0

8.3

Sackville Donald

9.1

White Birch

6.3

A.C. Elliott

7.9

Sackville Donald

6.1

Oliver St Lawrence

7.4

Mike Ryan

6.1

Mike Ryan

5.4

Rabbah 54 4.1

Al Shira’aa

5.4

Al Shaqab

White Birch

4.0

Varian/Ryan 11 3.5

Hong Kong Jockey Club

3.4

David Redvers

3.2

Klaravich Stables

2.0

2.9

Rabbah 32 2.9

Hong Kong Jockey Club Combined

37 10 11 327

4.0

110 (37% of total)

Combined

316

96 (27% of total)

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sales review market which is booming is the horses-in-training sector. Many of these sales are conducted privately, and perhaps in the future a significant proportion will be done through on-line virtual sales, however, at the time of writing the two major European horses in training sales, Arqana’s Arc de Triomphe Sale and Tattersalls October Horses In Training Sale, have returned excellent results. These two sales together have

seen their dollar turnover rise by 25 per cent since 2018. International demand from the Middle East, Australia and the US, in particular, is changing the value of proven horses in training. The listing of the horses sold at these sales in 2021 for €200,000 or more shows clearly that three and four-yearolds with a rating of 100 and above, or the clear potential to achieve one in the near future, are now valuable international commodities.

HIT Sales compared: 2018 to 2021 2018

No sold

Tatts HIT

Aggregate $ (millions)

1,049

4.9

Arqana Arc

Combined 1,073

2021 Tatts HIT

1,003

Arqana Arc

5.5

Combined

1,037

51 (+24%)

Top-priced horses in training sold in Europe in October 2021 Name

Sex

Age

Sire

Dam

Sale

Rating

Penja

Camelot

Just With You

Arc

110

Grocer Jack

Oasis Dream

Good Donna

Tatts

113

Saiydabad c 3 Blame

Sakylia

Boltaway

Dubawi

Provisio

Dancing King

Free Eagle

Tabera

Best distance (m)

Price

Buyer

Country

2,000

€1,200,000

Blandford

Ger

2,000

700,000gns

Najd Stud

Arc 114

2,100

€575,000 Narvick

Tatts

2,400

400,000gns

Najd Stud

Agnetha

Tatts

108

2,800

380,000gns

Blandford

f 3 Gleneagles

Temida

Arc 111

2,000

€400,000 Oceanic

Makram

Make Believe

Spontaneous

Tatts

106

2,400

340,000gns

Blandford

Horoscope

No Nay Never

Inca Wood

Tatts

111

1,600

325,000gns

BBA Ireland

My Frankel

Frankel

My Special J’s

Tatts

106

2,400

310,000gns

Najd Stud

Old Flame

Invincible Spirit

Lillyfire

Tatts

1,400

250,000gns

Snowden Racing

Fundamental

Dark Angel

Integral

Tatts

106

1,400

240,000gns

Najd Stud

Wink of an Eye

Dubawi

Momentary

Tatts

2,300

230,000gns

BBA Ireland

King of Clubs

Intello

Queen Arabella

Tatts

2,000

230,000gns

Waterhouse

Aus

Matthew Flinders g

Siyouni

Cascata

Tatts

107

1,600

230,000gns

A. Neasham

Aus

SA Aus SA

Youth Spirit

Camelot

Roscana

Tatts

112

2,400

230,000gns

G. Waterhouse

Aus

Pied Piper

New Approach

Pure Fantasy

Tatts

101

2,000

225,000gns

Andrew Brown

Motorious

Muharaar

Squash

Tatts

1,400

220,000gns

Boomer Bldsk

Adhamo

Intello

Foreign Tune

Arc

110

2,100

€250,000

H Guy

Cash Equity

Toronado

Funny Crazy

Arc

104

2,000

€245,000

Mandore

Classic Lord

Lord Of England

Classic Diva

Tatts

2,800

200,000gns

OSL

Strawberry Rock g

Rock of Gibraltar

Strawberry Vodka Tatts 100

2,400

185,000gns Maher

Pleasant Man

Galileo

Melito

Tatts

101

2,800

175,000gns

Malone/Nicholls

Leopards Park

Siyouni

Basanti

Arc

101

1,600

€200,000

Hamed Al Jehani

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sales review As an aside, the French market for horses-in-training continues to suffer from its lack of a commercial ratings system. More or less every buyer at the Tattersalls sales will have looked at either Timeform or the Racing Post ratings before making a decision, whereas in France there is no independent ratings system at all. This listing also shows how different the horses-in-training market is from the yearling market. Of the 23 horses sold for Є200,000 or more, 75 per cent raced over 1m2f or further, and for half of them it was further. This is a listing of horses who are suited to racing over middle-distances and many are by stallions whose progeny are rarely, if ever, accepted into the select yearling sales. The yearling market is focused on a small selection of fashionable and new sires, but value in the horses-in-training market comes from success and soundness. When the bloodstock world gathers again for the breeding stock sales any such concerns will have been cast aside.

The yearling sales were good, many breeders and pinhookers made a profitable return on their investments, and all of them and many of those who didn’t, will be

happy to return to the market. This is the way the bloodstock market works, and it is a system which has worked over a number of years and has

survived a succession of shocks. We all tend to believe that the near future is likely to resemble the recent past, which more often than not it does.

Sold by Ronald Rauscher, the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Grocer Jack (Oasis Dream) fetched 700,000gns at the Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale, the second-highest price given at public auction in 2021 for a horse-in-training. After some active bidding around the ring, the five-year-old was bought by the sale’s leading buyer Najd Stud, representative Saad bin Mishraf is seen leaning against the rail on the right

The tail is wagging the dog IF THERE IS A CONCERN for the future outside of the general feeling of relief that neither COVID nor the disappearance of a major buyer has dented the market, it lies in the way the yearling market appears to adapt to the stallion market rather than the other way around. The stallion market, with its combination of high fees and huge books for the most fashionable stallions, creates a risky environment for those commercial breeders hoping to compete at the top of the market. Those who are unwilling, or unable, to take the risk of paying to use the super sires, the obvious alternatives are either foal shares or using new and unproven sires. It may well not be in the interests of those trying to buy potential racehorses as yearlings if the offer at the select sales is made up of the progeny of a small selection of stallions, many new sires and by

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yearlings offered by a partnership between the stallion owner and the breeder. These trends are amplified by the selection process for the major yearling sales. If the sales companies make the selection for the best sales by stallion alone it becomes ever more risky to consider using any other stallion than the most fashionable sires. The yearling market is driven by the stallion market; after all nearly all of the statistics analysing sales performance is focused on the supply side. It is easy to find up-to-date statistics for stallion averages and medians, the rise or fall of each sale’s turnover, average and even, these, days each segment of its market. However, there are no figures readily available in Europe for the proportion of winners or stakes winners sold in each sale or by each vendor, or any other of the type of statistics which might help a new buyer, decide where and when and from whom to buy.

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Recording a faster time than Mabs Cross, Marsha, Profitable, Equiano and Dandy Man.

Timeform Rating higher than leading stallions Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Dark Angel, No Nay Never and Showcasing.

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

LEADING FIRST SEASON SIRE BY BLACK TYPE WINNERS Stakes performers to date include Gr.1 placed SUNSET SHIRAZ, Gr.3 winners ROMANTIC TIME, ROCCHIGIANI, and Listed winners TARDIS & THE KING’S HORSES Only DUBAWI, KODIAC and WOOTTON BASSETT have had more 2yo Stakes winners this season Largest crops still to come, having covered 380 mares in the last three seasons including 160 quality mares in 2021 Yearlings sold for up to 400,000gns Outstanding son of the great sire of sires DUBAWI

“Time Test has had a great year, he looks very good, his stats are good – I will definitely be using him next year! He will be very popular with breeders.” John Foley of Ballyvolane Stud

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Leading I global sires 2021

NTO MISCHIEF CONTINUED his rise through the global stallion ranks, the only sire able to get in amongst the dominant Japanese sires by progeny prize-money earnings. The stunning Breeders’ Cup meeting for Dubawi sealed the deal on a top season of black-type winners and performers for the Darley stallion – and much improved on 2020 – his 41 winners and 65 stakes horses up from 23 and 41 in 2020. Frankel makes his first appearance in the top 15 global sires and it must be expected this is an upward move that will be continued for the next few years.

Dubawi

Leading 2021 global sires by earnings (listed by overall earnings through to November 9, 2021). Leader in each category in bold) STALLION

Country

International B-T Stakes wnrs

B-T Stakes horses

Deep Impact (JPN) Japan 25 31 Lord Kanaloa (JPN) Japan 13 16 Into Mischief US 26 66 King Kamehameha (JPN) Japan 5 7 Heart’s Cry (JPN) Japan 8 9 Kizuna (JPN) Japan 10 11 Rulership (JPN) Japan 6 7 Dubawi (IRE) England 41 65 Orfevre (JPN) Japan 4 5 Epiphaneia (JPN) Japan 3 5 Henny Hughes Japan 2 3 Frankel (GB) England 24 48 Make Believe (GB) Ireland 4 7 Ghostzapper US 14 21 Medaglia d’Oro US 13 22 Snitzel (AUS) Australia - - Daiwa Major (JPN) Japan 3 4 Tapit US 13 33 Curlin US 16 38 Speightstown US 12 31 Maurice (JPN) Japan 3 4 I Am Invincible (AUS) Australia - - Paynter US 6 12 Nicconi (AUS) Australia - - Savabeel (AUS) New Zealand - - Uncle Mo US 11 24 Kinshasa no Kiseki (AUS) Japan 2 3 Hard Spun US 8 17 Street Boss US 10 17 So You Think (NZ) Australia 1 1 South Vigorous Japan 2 3 Galileo (IRE) Ireland 20 53

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Earnings ($) 59,232,191 31,935,235 22,394,724 21,771,175 21,663,245 21,014,350 19,998,597 19,122,606 18,575,227 17,689,972 17,087,241 16,609,753 15,138,549 15,096,379 14,681,088 14,478,965 14,445,621 14,300,602 14,061,643 13,987,211 13,901,881 13,399,990 13,033,029 12,927,094 12,577,902 12,468,320 12,438,597 12,363,421 12,004,716 11,861,362 11,856,190 11,780,846

global sires Leading 2021 global sires by earnings cont... (listed by overall earnings through to November 9, 2020) STALLION

Country

International B-T Stakes wnrs

B-T Stakes horses

Sebring (AUS) Australia - - Munnings US 18 37 Fastnet Rock (AUS) Ireland 5 10 Duramente (JPN) Japan 2 3 Exceed And Excel (AUS) Ireland 9 13 Toronado (IRE) France 7 13 Screen Hero (JPN) Japan 5 5 Zoustar (AUS) England 1 1 Kingman (GB) England 18 27 Sinister Minister Japan 1 2 Lope de Vega (IRE) Ireland 14 38 Dark Angel (IRE) Ireland 20 35 Pyro Japan - 1 Written Tycoon (AUS) Australia - - Constitution US 11 29 Kurofune Japan 2 3 Shamus Award (AUS) Australia - - Twirling Candy US 8 22 Deep Field (AUS) Australia 1 1 Street Sense US 9 15 More Than Ready US 7 17 All Too Hard (AUS) Australia 1 1 Declaration of War Japan 6 18 American Pharoah US 14 25 Siyouni (FR) France 16 33 Zoffany (IRE) Ireland 12 21 Sea The Stars (IRE) Ireland 22 37 Quality Road US 9 23 The Factor US 3 10 Majestic Warrior Japan 4 5 Tavistock (NZ) New Zealand - - Makfi (GB) Japan 2 4 Not A Single Doubt (AUS) Australia 1 2 Harbinger (GB) Japan 1 2 Just a Way (JPN) Japan 1 2 Real Impact (JPN) Japan 1 1 Super Saver Turkey 3 7 Gold Allure (JPN) Japan 2 3 Leontes (JPN) Japan 2 3 English Channel US 11 20 I’ll Have Another US 1 2 Kitten’s Joy US 6 15 Candy Ride (ARG) US 12 18 Per Incanto New Zealand - - Eishin Flash (JPN) Japan - 1 Gold Ship (JPN) Japan 2 3 Star Witness (AUS) Australia 1 1

Earnings () 11,694,872 11,655,342 11,643,987 11,642,188 11,534,530 11,399,926 11,112,123 10,840,523 10,770,236 10,543,159 10,504,426 10,334,287 10,304,339 10,157,893 10,059,822 10,055,561 9,878,073 9,836,585 9,756,924 9,708,656 9,688,002 9,677,407 9,442,418 9,265,442 9,133,037 8,972,121 8,970,295 8,858,921 8,798,300 8,726,667 8,682,064 8,661,041 8,582,738 8,499,058 8,229,971 8,199,038 8,176,241 8,041,673 8,019,003 8,001,782 7,972,305 7,870,105 7,608,127 7,529,706 7,430,597 7,400,930 7,398,345

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older stallions Wootton Bassett was an expensive purchase for Coolmore, but the investment already looks to be paying off

THE BIG GAMBLE

Coolmore’s 2020 investment and purchase of promising sire Wootton Bassett looks as though it is already paying dividends, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

F COOLMORE’S PURCHASE OF WOOTTON BASSETT looked like a bold move a year ago, it has since been revealed a shrewd investment for the future. Not only did Wootton Bassett cover 244 mares at fee of €100,000 in his first season based at the Irish stud, but, even before the end of the covering season, the good racecourse results of his progeny had added further to the considerable

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momentum already behind the horse. Wootton Bassett has achieved exceptional results since retiring to stud at the Haras d’Etreham at a fee of only €5,000. His first two-year-olds hit the racecourse in 2015 and, even though Almanzor had looked promising at two, it was not until the Jean-Claude Rouget-trained colt’s brilliant three-year-old career in 2016 that Wootton Bassett started to attract more, and better, mares. What is remarkable about his record

is that neither the rise in fee – though his two-year-olds of 2021 were conceived at a fee of still just €20,000 – nor the size of each year’s book – the number of foals a year has gone from 15 in his first crop to an average of 80 over the last three years – has changed his consistently excellent results. Right from the beginning, around four per cent of Wootton Bassett’s foals have achieved a rating of 110 or higher and 12 per cent a rating of 95 or higher.

older stallions Leading Euro sires 3yos crops 2016-2018 (3yos of 2019, 2020, 2021 by % rated 110+, October 31, 2021)

Right from the beginning, around four per cent of Wootton Bassett’s foals have achieved a rating of 110 or higher and 12 per cent a rating of 95 or higher This season there were more horses running for him, and so more Group winners and Group 1 winners, and now with an international reputation his progeny have the chance to compete successfully in England and Ireland, as well as in France. Incarville became Wootton Basset’s fourth Group 1 winner in the Prix de Saint Alary in May, while right from the moment his two-year-olds started to run, his 2019 crop put together exceptional results. At the time of writing, Wootton Bassett has had 17 two-year-old winners, including the best three juveniles trained in France – the Group 1-winning filly Zellie, the Group 1-placed colt Trident and the unbeaten Group winner Topgear. He has also had Group 2 winners in both Ireland and England – Atomic Jones and Royal Patronage. Wootton Bassett’s first Irish crop will not begin to race until 2024, but there is every reason to expect his last two Etreham crops, produced off a €40,000 fee, to include several more Group 1 and Group winners. It is impossible to say why the son of Iffraaj has turned out to be such an outstanding stallion, but there is little doubt that his pedigree has been a help. Wootton Basset has no inbreeding within four generations and Sadler’s Wells, Danehill, Green Desert and Urban Sea do not appear in his pedigree, which means that, on paper, he is suited to the vast

STALLION

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Foals 110+ % 95+ %

Galileo 394 44 11.0 120 30.0 Sea The Stars 363 21 5.8 77 21.0 Dubawi 401 23 5.7 94 23.0 Lope de Vega 389 21 5.4 68 17.0 New Approach 234 9 3.8 28 12.0 Wootton Basset 208 8 3.8 22 11.0 Invincible Spirit 316 9 2.8 39 12.0 Dark Angel 502 14 2.8 54 11.0 Teofilo 215 5 2.3 18 8.4 Starspangledbanner 136 3 2.2 10 7.40 Siyouni 431 8 1.9 55 13.0 Le Havre 397 7 1.8 38 9.6 Showcasing 315 5 1.6 18 5.7 Kodiac 517 8 1.5 33 6.4 Iffraaj 358 5 1.4 16 4.5 Holy Roman Emperor 239 3 1.3 16 6.7 Dandy Man 358 4 1.1 20 5.6 Soldier Hollow 201 2 1.0 25 12.0 Mastercraftsman 262 2 0.7 18 6.9 Kendargent 274 2 0.7 15 5.5 Acclamatiion 231 1 0.4 11 4.8 Oasis Dream 287 1 0.3 21 7.3 Retired to stud in 2013 (fifth crop three-year-olds)

Frankel Nathaniel Bated Breath

324 22 6.80 82 25.0 255 3 1.20 24 9.4 258 3 1.20 14 5.4

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

Camelot Intello Reliable Man Dabirsim

381 14 3.70 44 12.0 244 3 1.20 17 7.0 171 1 0.58 9 5.3 291 0 0 6 2.0

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

Kingman Australia No Nay Never Sea The Moon Anodin

352 18 318 11 296 9 252 7 220 1

5.1 4.0 3.3 2.8 0.4

69 20.0 37 12.0 26 8.8 28 11.0 14 6.0

Retired to stud in 2016 (second crop three-year-olds)

Night Of Thunder Cable Bay Gleneagles Make Believe Muharaar Galiway Golden Horn

161 167 209 127 200 78 190

7 6 5 2 3 1 1

4.3 3.6 2.4 1.6 1.5 1.3 0.5

29 18.0 14 8.4 27 13.0 15 12.0 17 8.5 10 13.0 33 17.0

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older stallions majority of mares in Europe. On top of this he seems to match successfully with a wide variety of different mare types. His Group 1 winners to date are out of mares by Maria’s Mon, Green Tune, Nathaniel, Elusive City and Azamour, all very different types of sire. Wootton Bassett’s best progeny tend to run as two-year-olds, but as three-year-olds and older they have excelled at distances from 5f to 1m6f, and his best horses are evenly split between colts and fillies. If there is anything common to the majority of them it is a strong constitution and a calm temperament.

Next year key for the top gang of three Wootton Bassett is the older sire on the

steepest upward trajectory, but there are several others whose circumstances will be transformed between now and 2024, when the progeny of 2022’s coverings will be offered for sale as yearlings. For the strong group of sires who retired to stud in 2015, the 2022 season will prove to be decisive as their first big crops, conceived after their initial stud successes in 2018, reach the racecourse. This will be particularly true for Kingman, No Nay Never and Sea The Moon, who have been the leaders of the group from the word go. Kingman had 80 two-year-olds in 2021, and he will have 180 in 2022, similarly No Nay Never will go from 90 to 150 and Sea The Moon from 70 to a 115.

In all three cases their second and third crops did not match the success of their first, but they have achieved enough to expect all three to make a significant mark in the future. This group also includes Australia, whose disappointing first crop of two-year-olds put his long term future in doubt. However, Coolmore’s son of Galileo has proved to be a consistent sire of middle-distance horses and his fourth crop of two-year-olds already includes two Group 1 performers, Sisoko and Point Lonsdale. The final member of the group whose reputation looks set to rise is Anodin, who moves to the Haras de la Haie Neuve for the 2022 season. The son of Anabaa’s first two crops

Sea The Moon: next year will be a big one for him with a first crop of over 100 due to hit the racecourse, conceived after success in 2018

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older stallions included Group winners in France, the US and Hong Kong and, after a quiet year, he has a couple of promising two-year-olds in Anobe and Saramouche. He will have 90 two-year-olds in 2022, up from less than 30 this year. Among the sires who retired to stud in 2015, Night Of Thunder is still the leader with the Group 2 winner Suesa his best rated in 2021. The Darley stallion could have a relatively quiet year in 2022 as he covered significantly fewer mares in his second, third and fourth seasons. He should return to the limelight when his foals of 2021 reach the racecourse in 2023.

In a commercial market, which puts emphasis on the new, it is very difficult for any sire to continue to attract support

One of this group whose reputation was enhanced in 2021 was Coolmore’s Gleneagles. He was, along with Golden Horn, the most expensive of them during his first year at stud, and has turned into a consistent sire of middle-distance horses and had his first Group 1 winner with Loving Dream in France and a Classic winner in Germany courtesy of the filly Novemba. Darley’s Golden Horn has sired a high proportion of good horses in each of his crops to date, even if he has lacked the stars which could have been expected from such a top racehorse. The final member of this group whose

Galiway: is heading toward the elite band of French sires, courtesy of Sealiway and five other stakes horses in this year’s three-year-old crop

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BOBBY’S KITTEN Bay 2011 by Kitten’s Joy – Celestial Woods (by Forestry)

Sire of a dual Group winning 2yo in 2021

£7,000

❚ Winner of the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint ❚ Sire of 2yo filly SANDRINE, winner of the Gr.2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and the Gr.3 Albany Stakes in 2021 ❚ Also sire of 23 first crop winners and 9 second crop 2yo winners to date in 2021, including: FIGHTING KING (Listed-placed), BETTER HALF, BOONDOGGLE, CECIL STREET LAD, HEAT OF THE MOMENT, HELVETIQUE, MELODRAMATICA and SILVER KITTEN

SEA THE MOON Bay 2011 by Sea The Stars – Sanwa (by Monsun)

A Leading European Group 1 Sire ❚ Sire of 33 Black-type horses including: Gr.1 & Gr.2 winnner ALPINE STAR. His 2021 Black-Type winners include: Gr.2 winner PRETTY TIGER, Gr.3 winners SAGAMIYRA and FAVORITE MOON, and Stakes winners MERCEDES, NOBLE MUSIC and PADOVANA

£25,000

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SIR PERCY

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

A Potent Mix of Speed & Stamina

£7,000

❚ Undefeated Champion 2yo; Champion 3yo and Derby winner ❚ Sire of 50 Black-type horses incl.: Gr.1 winners SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD and WAKE FOREST; and Group winners ALYSSA, LADY TIANA, SIR ANDREW, PANTSONFIRE, LADY PIMPERNEL, ALLA SPERANZA, etc. ❚ Also sire of 87 individual 2yo winners including promising Listed winner KAWIDA in 2021 ❚ Yearling sold at 2021 Tattersalls October Sales Book 2 made 120,000gns

STUDY OF MAN

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

Son and Grandson of Legends ❚ Winner of 3 races at 2 & 3, including the ‘Stallion Making’ Gr.1 French Derby (2,100m; 10½f), and £1,033,142 ❚ The only son of DEEP IMPACT (Japanese Super Sire & multiple Champion) at stud in England ❚ Supported by Europe’s leading breeders in his first season

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older stallions in view. In a commercial market, which puts emphasis on the new, it is very difficult for any sire to continue to attract support. The combination of huge books for the super-sires and the “appeal of the new” makes it difficult for the remainder i.e. the majority of older sires to attract enough mares to maintain a visible presence on the racecourse and in the sales ring.

success has taken him from an opening fee of €3,000 to €30,000 in 2022 is the Haras de Colleville’s Galiway. Sealiway, from his second crop, became his first Group 1 winner as a two-year-old in 2020 and surpassed that achievement this year as a three-year-old with a placed effort in the Prix du Jockey-Club and a win in the Group 1 Champion Stakes at Ascot. Sealiway is not the only horse who is taking the son of Galileo into the elite bracket of French sires – Galiway has five other stakes horses from his 48 three-year-olds of 2021. My figures in these tables are divided up by the year stallions retired to stud as it is impossible to judge any stallion’s true level until it has had at least four crops of three-year-olds to race. Of course, by this stage many have already dropped out through lack of success or inability to attract sufficient mares to remain

The big four will stay busy

Two of the best older sires in Europe died during 2021, Galileo and Adlerflug, which will open up opportunities, but Dubawi, Sea The Stars, Lope De Vega, Siyouni and Frankel will cover large books of mares at high fees for as long as they are physically able to do so. All four have consistently, and over a number of years, produced results far above

Frankel: 2021’s champion sire

Leading European sires by black-type performers percentage to named foals by foal crop (ordered by the 2018 foal crop)

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STALLION 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Adlerflug

- - 10 13

0 0 0 0 21 24

Galileo

23 26 27 22 23 20 25 31 29 20

Dubawi

24 13 23 22 24 25 21 20 13 16

Frankel Kodiac

- - - -

- 26 28 22 18 15

13 0 5 11 12 20 7 15 7 14

Lope de Vega -- - 0 24 21 19 16 11 15 14 Sea The Stars - - 18 34 17 14 15 17 15 13 Soldier Hollow 26 0 0 0 19 13 12 21 16 13 Shamardal 11 21 17 20 14 13 16 18 11 11 Siyouni

- - 0 14 18 8 15 11 15 9

Invincible Spirit 13 13 19 17 12 15 12 19 4 9 Acclamation 17 14 12 5 11 8 8 11 13 8 Teofilo

15 14 12 11 11 16 16 17 10 8

Showcasing - - - 13 9 7 9 12 6 8 Kendargent -- 12 0 0 14 9 6 4 4 7 Dark Angel 14 12 11 10 11 10 17 14 8 7 New Approach - 18 17 7 9 5 14 14 8 6 Dansili

20 23 15 11 22 13 14 18 8 6

Le Havre

Nathaniel

- - - - - 13 10 8 4 3

Oasis Dream 18 9 25 18 10 6 8 14 5 2 Pivotal

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Leading European sires by Group 1 performers percentage to named foals by foal crop (ordered by the results from the 2018 foal crop)

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STALLION 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Galileo

5.0 9.70 6.20 8.10 7.20 8.40 8.60 11.0 11.0 7.00

Dubawi

9.0 4.30 4.10 11.0 5.70 4.50 5.60 4.60 1.60 4.20

Adlerflug Frankel Teofilo

- - 5.00 3.30 0 0 0 0 8.80 4.10 -

0 9.10 6.80 5.90 3.90 3.70

4.0 4.60 2.20 1.50 3.80 3.00 1.90 1.50 2.20 3.50

Sea The Stars -

- 5.20 4.60 5.80 4.40 2.30 3.00 4.00 2.90

Kendargent

- 1.90

Kodiac

- 2.90 0.70 0.90 0.60 2.10 0.00 1.90

Lope de Vega -

- 4.80 4.10 1.20 2.70 3.50 3.70 1.80

Le Havre

- 3.20 0.00 1.70 1.80 0.00 4.00 1.50 1.80

0 2.00 0.00 0.80 0.90 0.00 2.60

New Approach - 6.50 1.90 1.90 1.00 0.00 4.70 1.20 0.00 1.40 Soldier Hollow 4.30

Siyouni

0 2.60 2.80 2.80 3.50 1.50 1.80 0.70

Dark Angel 5.90

0 10 0.00 2.70 0.00 1.50 1.30

0 2.90 1.70 3.50 1.20 2.40 1.70 1.80 0.60

the average and the results of Dubawi, Siyouni and Lope De Vega, in particular, have not been unduly changed by the dramatic rise in their covering fee, while Sea The Stars and Frankel have always been expensive sires. Siyouni and Lope De Vega both retired to stud in 2011 at €7,000 and €15,000 respectively. Lope De Vega has been the more consistent in the years since, while Siyouni has kept coming up with the Classic winners and champions such as Sottsass and St Mark’s Basilica.

Better mares doesn’t necessarily equate to better results for fast sires

It seems that it is more complicated for sires of fast horses and two-year-olds to maintain their results after a significant change in stud fees. Looking at the table of European sires by crop from 2009 to 2018 it is striking that neither Dark Angel or Showcasing have been rarely matched the success of their first crop, despite the fact that their fees have gone from €10,000 to €85,000 for the former and from £5,000 to £55,000 for the later. The lesson is probably that the more expensive mares are not necessarily the ones most suited to every sire. Oasis Dream’s

stud career followed a similar trend with a spectacular first crop a high fee and then a gradual diminuendo, even if he has a twoyear-old champion in 2021 and has become a leading active broodmare sire.

Ups and downs for Starspangledbanner and Bated Breath, but things going right now Other older sires who look to be on the way up in the market’s esteem include Starspangedbanner and Bated Breath. Coolmore’s Starspangledbanner’s fertility problems nearly ended his stud career, but his last two crops of three-year-olds have included 16 stakes horses, 12 per cent of his 135 named foals. The fee for Juddmonte’s Bated Breath has edged up from £8,000 to £12,500, but not without some ups and downs along the way as his book has varied from only 70 mares some years to 140 in others. In 2021, Bated Breath’s three-year-olds included the high-class Makaloun in France, while his two-year-old crop featured the talented Sacred Bridge in Ireland. He may finally achieve the consistent support needed to maintain a position in the market. His progeny are well suited to fast ground and All-Weather tracks and so not surprisingly he has had success in the US.

A middle-distance conundrum

If it is difficult for all older sires to compete with the super-sires, it is perhaps more so for the middle-distance sires than any other category. Galileo’s death creates an opportunity for some but nevertheless Dubawi, Sea The Stars and Frankel are going to be covering many of the best middle-distance mares, not leaving many for the remainder. Coolmore’s Camelot, Australia and Gleneagles may pick up some of the mares who would once have gone to Galileo. Sea The Moon has been given his chance in England, and Nathaniel’s first progeny after the emergence of his champion Enable have shown promise as two-year-olds in 2021. In France, the best young middledistance sire is Galiway, but the French race programme doesn’t encourage breeders to produce 1m4f three-year-olds. In Germany, even Adlerflug never received the mares his excellence deserved. Without him German breeders, who are looking to produce Derby and Oaks winners, do not have a great deal of choice at home. Soldier Hollow will be a 22-year-old in 2022 and there is a real need for one of the younger sires to make a significant mark.

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Named foals

Runners

Winners

W/R

By JdM 110+

Siyouni 117 55 18 33 0 Frankel 132 58 28 48 1 Wootton Basset 67 47 17 36 3 Dubawi 107 56 24 43 3 Acclamation 74 50 19 38 0 Sea The Moon 67 28 13 46 0 Anodin 30 16 5 31 0 Olympic Glory 43 25 7 28 0 Kingman 81 36 12 33 1 Oasis Dream 66 37 13 35 1 Bated Breath 84 45 16 36 1 Dark Angel 157 88 37 42 3 Starspangledbanner 80 54 20 37 2 Dabirsim 98 53 23 43 0 Australia 106 40 12 30 2 Camelot 63 29 6 21 1 Kodiac 161 107 39 36 2 No Nay Never 90 59 23 39 1 Teofilo 54 20 6 30 0 Dream Ahead 50 32 10 31 0 Reliable Man 66 24 7 29 0 Showcasing 99 75 27 36 0 Lope De Vega 119 66 20 30 0 Sea The Stars 95 28 11 39 1 Bungleinthejungle 41 30 9 30 0 Nathaniel 84 32 7 22 0 Invincible Spirit 70 36 13 36 0 Dandy Man 56 46 7 15 0 Holy Roman Emperor 91 48 14 29 0 Iffraaj 110 63 20 32 0 Havana Gold 108 64 25 39 0 Retired to stud in 2016 Gleneagles 62 31 15 48 0 Muharaar 86 52 17 33 0 Night of Thunder 66 37 13 35 0 Retired to stud in 2017 Shalaa 62 40 9 23 0 Twilight Son 57 32 10 42 1 Goken 32 18 6 33 0 Kodi Bear 52 36 15 42 1 New Bay 46 30 13 43 1 Mehmas 102 80 35 44 2 Territories 61 41 14 34 0 Adaay 59 46 10 22 0 Buratino 45 27 10 37 0 Bobby’s Kitten 53 27 7 26 0 The Gurkha 57 32 10 42 1

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% 0 1.70 6.40 5.40 0 0 0 0 2.80 2.70 2.20 3.40 3.70 0 5.00 3.40 1.90 1.70 0 0 0 0 0 3.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0

- 3.10 - 2.80 3.30 2.50 - - - - 3.10

95+ 11 11 8 9 7 4 2 3 4 4 5 10 6 6 4 3 11 6 2 3 2 6 5 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

% 20.0 19.0 17.0 16.0 14.0 14.0 13.0 12.0 11.0 11.0 11.0 11.0 11.0 11.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 9.4 8.3 8.0 7.6 7.1 6.7 6.3 5.6 4.3 4.2 3.2 3.1

5 16.0 3 5.8 1 2.7

5 4 2 4 3 6 2 2 1 1 1

13.0 13.0 11.0 11.0 10.0 7.5 4.9 4.3 3.7 3.7 3.1

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stallion stats

Leading European sires 2021: (by prize-money earned to November 9, 2021) STALLION

Breeding

To Stud

Courtesy of Weatherbys Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs SWs

Frankel

Galileo–Kind (Danehill)

2013 225 963 114 193 50.66 21 36 7,574,584

Sea The Stars

Cape Cross–Urban Sea (Miswaki)

2010

209

910

104

161

49.76

5,259,139

Dubawi

Dubai Millennium–Zomaradah (Deploy)

2006

231

949

120

198

51.94

5,086,414

Galileo

Sadler’s Wells–Urban Sea (Miswaki)

2002

227

830

31.27

4,796,638

Siyouni

Pivotal–Sichilla (Danehill)

2011

270

1267

104

148

38.51

4,735,975

Dark Angel

Acclamation–Midnight Angel (Machiavellian)

2008

351

1944

156

237

44.44

4,232,87

Adlerflug

In the Wings–Aiyana (Last Tycoon)

2010

407

42.52

4,043,632

Lope de Vega

Shamardal–Lady Vettori (Vettori)

2011

289

1389

121

179

41.86

3,669,986

Zoffany

Dansili–Tyranny (Machiavellian)

2012

296

1549

110

154

37.16

3,277,994

Kingman

Invincible Spirit–Zenda (Zamindar)

2015

190

777

117

42.10

3,247,777

Kodiac

Danehill–Rafha (Kris)

2007

389

2177

147

215

37.78

2,901,431

Shamardal

Giant’s Causeway–Helsinki (Machiavellian)

2005

121

567

52.89

2,882,604

Wootton Bassett

Iffraaj–Balladonia (Primo Dominie)

2012

161

771

103

40.99

2,857,688

Australia

Galileo–Ouija Board (Cape Cross)

2015

168

743

110

39.88

2,771,451

Le Havre

Noverre–Marie Rheinberg (Surako)

2010

193

908

128

45.59

2,754,035

Kendargent

Kendor–Pax Bella (Linamix)

2008

166

1054

116

45.18

2,574,020

Camelot

Montjeu–Tarfah (Kingmambo)

2014

224

1029

117

37.05

2,391,888

No Nay Never

Scat Daddy–Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality)

2015

167

731

38.32

2,222,794

Oasis Dream

Green Desert–Hope (Dancing Brave)

2004

191

1121

117

38.74

2,146,116

Invincible Spirit

Green Desert–Rafha (Kris)

2003

200

1118

126

43.50

2,127,966

Gleneagles

Galileo–You’resothrilling (Storm Cat)

2016

157

754

116

47.77

2,096,649

Night of Thunder

Dubawi–Forest Storm (Galileo)

2016

126

580

48.41

1,974,484

Mehmas

Acclamation–Lucina (Machiavellian)

2017

186

981

126

43.54

1,902,936

Dandy Man

Mozart–Lady Alexander (Night Shift)

2010

239

1636

153

39.33

1,856,919

Iffraaj

Zafonic–Pastorale (Nureyev)

2007

236

1240

102

148

43.22

1,820,189

Showcasing

Oasis Dream–Arabesque (Zafonic)

Footstepsinthesand Giant’s Causeway–Glatisant (Rainbow Quest)

2011

234

1241

134

38.88

1,794,209

2006

222

1214

130

33.78

1,780,656

Mastercraftsman

Danehill Dancer–Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair)

2010 193 983

36.26

3 1,756,487

Nathaniel

Galileo–Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk)

2013

146

674

34.24

1,749,809

Galiway

Galileo–Danzigaway (Danehill)

2016

203

40.47

1,735,082

Muhaarar

Oasis Dream–Tahrir (Linamix)

2016

165

795

41.21

1,731,997

Dawn Approach

New Approach–Hymn of the Dawn (Phone Trick)

2014 132 704

34.84

5 1,718,015

Dabirsim

Hat Trick–Rumored Royal Academy)

2014

233

1273

114

36.48

1,709,875

Mayson

Invincible Spirit–Mayleaf (Pivotal)

2013

167

1072

113

38.92

1,680,225

Acclamation

Royal Applause–Princess Athena (Ahonoora)

2004

195

1163

118

40.00

1,678,101

Exceed And Excel

Danehill–Patrona (Lomond)

2005

179

1018

127

45.25

1,620,749

Make Believe

Makfi–Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer)

2016

456

42.85

1,618,349

Intello

Galileo–Impressionnante (Danehill)

2014

151

719

34.43

1,604,127

Territories

Invincible Spirit–Taranto (Machiavellian)

2017

120

602

47.50

1,576,407

Bated Breath

Dansili–Tantina (Distant View)

2013

180

988

123

41.66

1,534,639

Teofilo

Galileo–Speirbhean (Danehill)

2008

138

622

36.23

1,500,131

Power

Oasis Dream–Frappe (Inchinor)

2013

554

43.33

1,485,343

Dream Ahead

Diktat–Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux)

2012

150

774

39.33

1,467,433

New Bay

Dubawi–Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar)

2017

327

55.40

1,357,993

Anodin

Anabaa–Born Gold (Blushing Groom)

2015

119

806

44.53

1,317,213

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stallion stats Leading European sires of two-year-olds 2021: (by prize-money earned to November 9, 2021) STALLION

Breeding

Dark Angel

Acclamation–Midnight Angel (Machiavellian)

Courtesy of Weatherbys

To Stud

Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

2008

309

Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs SWs 41.17

1,219,965 1,004,505

Wootton Bassett

Iffraaj–Balladonia (Primo Dominie)

2012

124

35.55

Mehmas

Acclamation–Lucina (Machiavellian)

2017

333

44.44

936,542

Frankel

Galileo–Kind (Danehill)

2013

139

49.05

915,093

Kodiac

Danehill–Rafha (Kris)

2007

109

434

36.69

891,482

Oasis Dream

Green Desert–Hope (Dancing Brave)

2004

150

41.46

836,650

Caravaggio

Scat Daddy–Mekko Hokte (Holy Bull)

2018

245

30.43

737,201

Cotai Glory

Exceed And Excel–Continua (Elusive Quality)

2018

315

38.27

709,687

Ardad

Kodiac–Good Clodora (Red Clubs)

2018

226

36.20

681,527

Dubawi

Dubai Millennium–Zomaradah (Deploy)

2006

135

44.82

676,648

Showcasing

Oasis Dream–Arabesque (Zafonic)

2011

290

36.00

582,373

No Nay Never

Scat Daddy–Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality)

2015

161

48.07

578,709

Galileo Gold

Paco Boy–Galicuix (Galileo)

561,679

2018

211

37.50

Starspangledbanner Choisir–Gold Anthem (Made of Gold)

2011

191

37.03

560,990

Siyouni

2011

142

33.92

536,647

Pivotal–Sichilla (Danehill)

Profitable

Invincible Spirit–Dani Ridge (Indian Ridge)

2018

312

29.26

527,640

Havana Gold

Teofilo–Jessica’s Dream (Desert Style)

2014

241

41.53

524,985

Churchill

Galileo–Meow (Storm Cat)

2018

212

32.39

506,488

Acclamation

Royal Applause–Princess Athena (Ahonoora)

2004

177

38.00

497,604

168

41.66

481,148

Kodi Bear

Kodiac–Hawattef (Mujtahid)

2017

Zarak

Dubawi–Zarkava (Zamindar)

2018 27 80 13 17 48.14 2 2 474,814

Bated Breath

Dansili–Tantina (Distant View)

2013

171

36.17

460,178

El Kabeir

Scat Daddy–Great Venue (Unbridled’s Song)

2018

146

29.54

460,031

Gleneagles

Galileo–You’resothrilling (Storm Cat)

2016

118

50.00

427,720

Dabirsim

Hat Trick–Rumored (Royal Academy)

2014

191

36.06

391,284

New Bay

Dubawi–Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar)

2017

44.82

386,314

Zoffany

Dansili–Tyranny (Machiavellian)

2012

141

25.58

385,046

Fast Company

Danehill Dancer–Sheezalady (Zafonic

2011

205

23.07

377,244

Australia

Galileo–Ouija Board (Cape Cross)

2015

26.19

368,023

Pedro the Great

Henrythenavigator–Glatisant (Rainbow Quest)

2014

128

35.13

364,874

Aclaim

Acclamation–Aris (Danroad)

2018

252

35.93

342,927

Twilight Son

Kyllachy–Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad)

2017

120

32.35

340,772

Iffraaj

Zafonic–Pastorale (Nureyev)

2007

185

31.25

328,552

Lope de Vega

Shamardal–Lady Vettori (Vettori)

2011

146

31.25

322,491

Recorder

Galileo–Memory (Danehill Dancer)

2018

175

15.55

305,872

Adaay

Kodiac–Lady Lucia (Royal Applause)

2017

201

21.73

297,874

Mastercraftsman

Danehill Dancer–Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) 2010 43 130

13.95

1 1 284,682

Galileo

Sadler’s Wells–Urban Sea (Miswaki)

2002

22.22

282,246

Muhaarar

Oasis Dream–Tahrir (Linamix)

2016

163

32.07

281,354

Kingman

Invincible Spirit–Zenda (Zamindar)

2015

30.76

277,117

Ribchester

Iffraaj–Mujarah (Marju)

2018

186

24.56

272,786

War Front

Danzig–Starry Dreamer (Rubiano)

2007

83.33

269,805

Shalaa

Invincible Spirit–Ghurra (War Chant)

2017

137

24.39

266,200

Time Test

Dubawi–Passage of Time (Dansili)

2018

30.55

255,834

Camelot

Montjeu–Tarfah (Kingmambo)

2014

20.00

251,405

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young stallions Tally-Ho’s second-season sire Mehmas has moved forward again

Continuing an upward trajectory In 2021, second-season sire Mehmas built on his record-breaking debut, while sons of Dubawi are making their presence felt in the young sire ranks, writes Aisling Crowe

ONY AND ANNE O’CALLAGHAN, and their sons Roger and Henry, have built an extraordinarily successful independent farm at Tally-Ho Stud, and their stallions have established the Westmeath farm as one of the best in Europe. Mehmas swept all before him when claiming the crown of champion first-season sire last year, the seventh Tally-Ho resident to hold that title, and he has continued that scorching start to his stud career this season, leading the race to be champion secondseason sire. He is second only to Tally-Ho’s kingpin Kodiac for the title of champion two-year-old sire on winners and has actually surpassed

the elder statesman in European juvenile earnings this year. A year behind Mehmas are his stud mates Cotai Glory and Galileo Gold and both have made their mark with their first runners in 2021. At the time of writing Cotai Glory is leading first-season sire on earnings and winners and fourth behind his stud mates and Dark Angel in the two-year-old sires’ table, while the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes winner and Group 1 National Stakes third Ebro River is one of 20 winners from the first crop of 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Galileo Gold. Like Mehmas, he stands at Tally-Ho in partnership with owners Al Shaqab Racing, and the link with Tally-Ho has borne fruit

for Sheikh Joaan Al Thani’s bloodstock operation. The highlight of 2021 for Mehmas was the emergence of a second Group 1 winner from his first crop with the victory of Going Global in August’s Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks. Bred by Horse Racing Ireland’s chairman Nicky Hartery out of the Invasor mare Wrood, she was sold for just €15,000 at Goffs Sportsmans Sale to Pioneer Racing and won a Dundalk handicap for Michael Halford before she was acquired by CYBT and Saul Gavertz. Transferred to the Californian sunshine and the barn of Phil d’Amato she won the Providencia Stakes and Honeymoon Stakes, both Grade 3 races at Santa Anita, before her second place finish in

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young stallions the Grade 2 San Clemente Stakes at Del Mar and her breakthrough at the highest level. Going Global is one of ten stakes winners for the son of Acclamation in 2021 with others, including the Group 2 July Stakes and Gimcrack Stakes winner Lusail. He was the second winner of that York race for Mehmas after the 2020 winner Minzaal, who went on to finish third in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot in June. Another member of Mehmas’s first crop to go on and win at Group level this season was Fayathaan, who claimed the Group 3 Premio Parioli (Italian 2,000 Guineas). As well as Lusail, Mehmas’s second crop boasts the likes of Group 2 Criterium de Maisons Lafitte winner Malavath, Caturra, who won the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes, and the unbeaten Group 3 Anglesey Stakes winner Beauty Inspire. In his first two crops are 16 individual stakes winners giving him a stakes winnersto-runners percentage of 8.08 per cent. The strong results on track led to a significant increase in the average price of his yearlings sold in Europe so far this year, jumping from 49,417gns in 2020 to 75,277gns at the time of writing.

The results achieved by Cotai Glory’s first runners naturally had a positive impact at the sales this year –his average price increased to €42,114, a jump of 69.5 per cent from 2020 His advertised fee in both 2018 and 2019 was €10,000 – those who were brave enough to support Mehmas in his third season at stud were certainly handsomely rewarded in the sales ring. His highest-priced yearling colt sold so far

in 2021 was out of C’est Ma Soeur (Oratorio), who made 250,000gns to Donnacha O’Brien at Tattersalls October Book 2 Sale. It was a fine return on the 38,000gns that Yeomanstown Stud paid for the chestnut colt at December Foal Sale where he was sold by Patrick Turley’s Kingsfield Stud. The most expensive yearling filly from the third crop of Mehmas was also sold at Tattersalls, although this time in the prestigious surrounds of Book 1. A daughter of Country Madam, a Medaglia D’Oro half-sister to the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Invincible Army, she also brought a winning bid of 250,000gns purchased by Mike Ryan from Mountain View Stud. She, too, was a successful pinhook having made 75,000gns as a foal to JC Bloodstock, sold by Mickley Stud. Mehmas has only 60 registered yearlings and 77 foals so his number of runners will be lower than in his first two seasons, but, even with an increased fee of €25,000 in 2021, he was inundated with mares and covered his biggest book to date – a whopping 292 mares. We can expect more of the same off his new €50,000 fee for 2022. Following closely in Mehmas’s hoofprints

Mehmas’s highest-priced colt of 2021 was sold by Yeomanstown Stud, bought by Donnacha O’Brien for 250,000gns in the October Book 2 Sale

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young stallions in Westmeath is Cotai Glory, who currently has 31 winners from 80 first-crop runners, and leads the standings on earnings and winners and six ahead of his closest pursuer. His best to date is the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin and Group 3 Prix du Bois winner Atomic Force, who will continue his racing career in Hong Kong for owner Siu Pak Kwan. He is one of seven black-type performers from the first crop of the Group 3 winner and Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes runner-up. They include the Group 2 Coventry Stakes second Eldrickjones and Pearl Glory, who was third in the Group 3 Dick Poole Stakes. He has 87 yearlings and 63 foals registered and he covered 113 mares this spring. The results achieved by Cotai Glory’s first runners naturally had a positive impact at the sales this year – the average price for his yearlings being 29,785gns. So far this year he has been the sire of five six-figure yearlings. His first crop was conceived at an advertised price of €6,000, which was decreased to €5,000 for his second season. He has moved back up to €8,500 for 2022. His most expensive yearling was sold at Goffs Orby – a half-brother to the Group 1-placed Acklam Express (Mehmas) made €170,000 to Highflyer Bloodstock from Ballymorris Stud. The most expensive filly from his second crop is also a half-sister to a Listed winner by

Leading second-season sires European 3yos 2021 (by rated 110+, October 31, 2021) STALLION

Foals 110+

New Bay

Mehmas

127

Territories

106

Isfahan

Goken

By JdM

95+

5.8

3.9 14 11.0

2.8 12 11.0

1 2.5 3 7.5 1

1.7 6 10.0

The Gurkha

104

0.9

Shalaa

106

1 0.9 6 5.7

Twilight Son

116

Shalaa

Named foals

4.3

Belardo

0 6 7.1

Protectionist

0 4 6.9

Mehmas, in her case Mehmento, winner of the Surrey Stakes. She was sold by Tally-Ho to the Doyles for 130,000gns at Book 1. Cotai Glory also had a filly out of the Listed fourth Lady Mega make £88,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale. Again she was sold by the O’Callaghans to the Doyles. Galileo Gold emulated Mehmas by producing a Group 1-winning juvenile in his first crop – the National Stakes winner Ebro River who represented the same combination of Al Shaqaab Racing and Hugo Palmer as his dual Group 1-winning sire.

Runners

6.7

Kodi Bear

Winners

62 40

Twilight Son

Goken

32 18

By JdM W/R

110+

9 23 0 10

7.0

Galileo Gold is the sire of three black-type winners from just 56 runners, which is 5.26 per cent stakes winners-to-runners. His best daughters include Oscula, who won the Group 3 Prix Six Perfections and was third in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac, and the Listed Empress Stakes winner System. He is also the sire of the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin third and Listed Ripon Two-Year-Old Trophy second Hellomydarlin, the Group 3 Prix Francois Boutin third The Wizard Of Eye and

Second-season sires of European 2yos 2021 (by rated 95+, October 31, 2021) STALLION

12.0

6 33 0

% 0 3.1 0

95+

5 13.0 4

13.0

2 11.0

Kodi Bear

2.8

11.0

New Bay

3.3

10.0

Mehmas

102 80

35 44 2

2.5

7.5

Territories

61 41

14 34 0

4.9

Adaay

59 46

10 22 0

4.3

Buratino

45 27

10 37 0

3.7

Bobby’s Kitten

3.7

The Gurkha

3.1

Belardo

50 31

6 19 0

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young stallions Goldana, who was third in the Listed Grosser Preis der Mehl Muhlens Stiftung. On the back of such a successful first season his yearling average has risen from 20,000gns last year, coming in at 27,520gns for 41 sold. His top price was the €95,000 colt bought by Peter Nolan and Noel Meade towards the end of the Goffs Sportsmans Sale. Sold by Vinesgrove Stud, he is the first foal out of the winning Dutch Art mare Dutch Monarch, a granddaughter of the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Regal Rose. Nolan also bought Galileo Gold’s most expensive offspring at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale, a colt offered by Baroda Stud out of the Concorde and Brownstown Stakes (G3) winner Miss Sally. A half-brother to four winners he made £70,000. In comparison to his stud mates, Galileo Gold has smaller crops to supply him with stakes winners. He has 62 yearlings registered, but just 27 foals. He covered 38 mares last year and again this season, but those numbers are certain to climb in 2022.

Dubawi: the sire of sires

The second wave of stallions by Dubawi represent something of a second coming for the record-breaking British-based stallion as the founder of a patriarchal lineage. First, there was Night Of Thunder, Dubawi’s 2,000 Guineas and Lockingewinning son, who was the breakout success, somewhat unexpectedly, of his peer group. Now with three crops of racing age, Night Of Thunder made the breakthrough as a Group 1 sire in 2021 with top-level winners in both hemispheres. Thundering Nights provided him with his first northern-hemisphere Group 1 when she narrowly defeated Santa Barbara in the Pretty Polly Stakes for Joseph O’Brien and Shapoor Mistry. She is one of 24 stakes winners from just 220 winners so far sired by Night Of Thunder. A year behind Night Of Thunder is New Bay. Ballylinch Stud’s Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner has the best winners-torunners ratio of any second-crop stallion in Europe this year at 56 per cent. The closest any other European second-

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New Bay: sire of 56 per cent winners-to-runners

crop stallion comes to this is the 52 per cent winners-to-runners sired by Harzand. New Bay also has one of the best stakes winners-to-runners ratios amongst secondcrop stallions at five per cent, which is bettered only by Mehmas and Protectionist amongst his active peers in Europe. His season was crowned by the success of Saffron Beach in the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket, a first Group 1 winner for her sire and her trainer Jane Chapple Hyam. New Bay is also the sire of this season’s Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Bayside Boy, who was also placed in both the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and Vertem Futurity Trophy (G1) for Roger Varian, Teme Valley Racing and Ballylinch Stud. His second crop also includes the Group 3 Preis der Winterfavoriten winner Sea Bay, the Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes runner-up Cresta, as well as the Listed Blenheim Stakes third Mise Le Meas. Both his first and second crops were covered at a fee of €20,000, which dipped to €15,000 for his third and fourth crops. That third crop consists of 67 registered

yearlings and 44 of them have sold for an average price of 58,536gns, which is nearly four times his covering fee. Ten of those have sold for at least €100,000 with the most expensive being the colt out of the unraced Munnings mare Praden from the family of Barathea and Gossamer. He made 260,000gns at Book, when sold by Baroda Stud to Aguiar Bloodstock and Amo Racing. At Arqana’s Deauville Yearling Sale, John and Thady Gosden went to €320,000 to secure a New Bay filly out of Borgia’s Best, an unraced Lope De Vega daughter of the Group 1 Deutsches Derby and Grosser Preis von Baden winner Borgia. His crop sizes have been consistent for his first four seasons and he has 60 registered foals on the ground. He was hot property for the 2021 breeding season and covered 186 mares at an advertised fee of €20,000. Apart from being sons of Dubawi, what New Bay also has in common with Time Test and Zarak, the first season stallions who are also making waves with their stakes strikerate, is a strong female family. New Bay comes from one of Juddmonte’s most prolific stallion-producing families of the past two decades. His second dam, the Listed-placed Trellis Bay, is a Sadler’s Wells full-sister to Coraline whose sons include the Group 1 winner Reefscape and the Group 2 winners Martaline and Reefscape. She is also a half-sister to the Oaks winner Wemyss Bight, dam of the Group 1 winner and sire Beat Hollow (Sadler’s Wells) and, significantly for Flat breeders, Trellis Bay is a half-sister to Hope, the dam of Oasis Dream and the second dam of Kingman. Unlike New Bay, Night Of Thunder and Zarak, Time Test did not win a Group 1, but the Group 2 winner does boast a strong Juddmonte family. His dam Passage Of Time won the Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud for Sir Henry Cecil and is a Dansili full-sister to the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes winner Father Time and a half-sister to the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes winner Timepiece. Like New Bay, Time Test has a second dam by Sadler’s Wells in his case Clepsydra, who is a half-sister to the Listed winner Double Crossed, the dam of dual Group 1 Champion Stakes winner and South African sire Twice Over. She is also a half-sister to

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global stallions Sacred Shield, dam of last year’s Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes winner Viadera (Bated Breath). On pedigree, Zarak has quite a bit in common with New Bay as he, too, is out of a Zamindar mare – his dam being the great, undefeated Zarkava, and is also inbred to Mill Reef. The Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint Cloud winner is a half-brother to the Listed winner and Group 1 Prix de Vermeille third Zarkamiya (Frankel) and the Listed Prix Charle Lafitte winner Zaykava, a daughter of Siyouni. Zarkava herself is a half-sister to the Group 3 and Listed winner Zarshana (Sea The Stars). Zarak is the sire of 13 winners from 29 runners, which at 45 per cent is the best strike rate of any of this year’s European first-season sires with more than five runners. He is also the sire of four black-type

On pedigree, Zarak has quite a bit in common with New Bay as he, too, is out of a Zamindar mare performers in those 29 runners, headed by the Group 3 Preis der Winterkoenigen winner Lizaid. He also has the Listed Grosser Preis der Mehl Muhlens Stiftung-winning filly Parnac. His two Group-placed offspring both achieved their black-type in Group 1 contests with Times Square finishing runnerup to Zellie in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac, while Purplepay was third in the

Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud. So far, Zarak’s second crop has contained two six-figure yearlings with the most expensive to date a filly out of Nidina, a Hurricane Run half-sister to the three-time Group 1-placed Joanna, and to Cazlas, an Australian Group 1 winner and Hong Kong Vase (G1) runner-up. She was sold by Anna Sundstrom’s Coulonces Sales to Paddy Twomey at Arqana’s October Yearling Sale. The other six-figure buyer for a Zarak yearling so far this year is US trainer Kenny McPeek, who bought the son of Armure Bleue at Arqana’s August Yearling Sale for €100,000. Consigned by Domaine de l’Etang his third dam is the multiple Group 1 winner Aquarelliste. Time Test’s statistics make for hugely impressive reading and The National Stud and all the partners in the Group 2 Joel Stakes and York Stakes winner could scarcely have wished for a better first season.

First-season European-based sires (by % rated 95+) By JdM STALLION Zarak

Named Foals

Rnrs

Wnrs

W/R %

110+

95+

60 29 13 45 1 3.8 5 19.0

Almanzor

60 27 7 26 0

0 4 15.0

Ectot

31 13 5 38 0

0 2 15.0

Zelzal

37 22 9 41 0

0 3 14.0

The Grey Gatsby

13.0

El Kabeir

12.0

Time Test

12.0

1.8

11.0

Galileo Gold Churchill

119 70 22 31 0

Profitable

107 83 24 29 0

National Defense

0 7 10.0 0 7

8.4

7.7

Ardad

75 58 20 34 1 1.7 4

6.9

Ribchester

94 59 14 24 0

6.8

Al Wukair

Ulysses

80 33 13 39 0

Cotai Glory Acclaim

105

30 79

11 31

37 39

0 0

86 62 21 34 0

0 4 0

0 2 0

0 3

6.7 6.1 5.1 4.8

Recorder

83 42 7 17 0

0 2

4.0

Highland Reel

2.6

Decorated Knight

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young stallions All that is missing from his repertoire is a first crop Group 1 winner, but he does have Sunset Shiraz, who finished third to Discoveries and Agartha in the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1) at The Curragh on Irish Champions’ Weekend. Time Test is the sire of the Group 3 winners Rocchigiani (Baden-Baden’s Zukunft’s Rennen), Romantic Time, who was successful in the Dick Poole Stakes (G3), the Listed St Hugh’s Stakes winner Tardis, as well as The King’s Horses, who won the Listed Premio Criterium Nazionale and was third in the Group 3 Premio Primi Passi. Placed in three Group/Grade 1 contests, Time Test is operating at 10.53 per cent stakes winners-to-runners, which is significantly higher than any other European first-season sire. He has 11 winners from 38 runners with just 74 two-year-olds. He also, like New Bay and Zarak, does not have the crop sizes of some of his rivals which makes his success all the more significant. He has 55 yearlings of this year and his largest crop is his third, which numbers 85 registered foals. He covered a much increased book this year of 160 which puts Time Test in an exciting position for the future. All of these stallion sons of Dubawi were Group winners either at three or four, which bodes well for the ability of their progeny to train on.

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Second-season sires Mehmas and Protectionist boast the leading stakes winners-to-runners ratio with Protectionist, the 2014 Melbourne Cup winner, leading the way on 7.41 per cent. Protectionist stands at Gestüt Röttgen and is a rare son of Monsun who has been allowed the opportunity to develop as a Flat stallion. He is the sire of 10 second-crop winners from 27 runners with the best so far the Group 2 Diana Trial winner and Group 3 Mehl-Muehlens Trophy second Amazing Grace. He is also the sire of the Group 3 Bavarian Classic winner Lambo, who was also third in the Group 3 Prix Hocquart. Interestingly, both horses have sons of Danehill as their broodmare sire – Rock Of Gibraltar for Lambo and Danehill

Zarak: the well-bred son of Dubawi is the sire of the Group 3 winner Lizaid and the Group 1 performers Times Square and Purplepay

Dancer in the case of Amazing Grace. His first crop also contains the Listedplaced juvenile Milka, perhaps not something that one would expect of a stallion who excelled at 1m4f and further, but Protectionist also finished a nose second in the mile Group 3 Herzog von Ratibor Rennen at two. The Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden winner from the family of Peintre Celebre has stood at a fee of €6,500 throughout his stud career and has 37 two-year-olds and 31 yearlings registered. Awtaad, meanwhile, was a classy miler, who beat Galileo Gold to win the Irish 2,000 Guineas and was third to that horse and The Gurkha in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes. He also beat Custom Cut and Hit It A Bomb when winning the Group 2 Boomerang Stakes at Leopardstown for Chris Hayes and Kevin Prendergast. Awtaad came into his own as a three-yearold and his progeny appear to be exhibiting similar traits – his first crop posting improved results as they progress, just like their sire. His second crop has produced five winners from just 18 runners so far with Calithea being a Listed winner, while Austrian Theory finished third in the Group 2 Vintage Stakes at Goodwood for Mark Johnston and Dr Jim Walker. This season the first crop boasts this

season’s Group 3 Desmond Stakes winner Create Belief, who became Johnny Murtagh’s first Royal Ascot winner as a trainer when successful in the Sandringham Handicap. Awtaad is also the sire of this season’s Listed Michael Seely Memorial Fillies’ Stakes winner Primo Bacio, who was fifth, just a length and half behind the winner, in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes. Another first-crop daughter to earn black-type is Sir Edmund Loder’s homebred Bellosa, who won the Listed King Charles II Stakes for Jane Chapple-Hyam and Richard Kingscote. All of Awtaad’s stakes winners in Europe to date are fillies. In America he is the sire of Listed Zuma Beach Stakes winner and the Listed Del Mar Juvenile Turf Stakes second Ebeko, who beat subsequent Grade 1 winner State Of Rest in a Curragh maiden at two. Awtaad’s yearling average saw 24 members of his second crop sell for an average of €25,256. So far this year his average rests at 25,139gns for 38 yearlings sold but a far cry from his first-crop yearling average. His advertised fee for his first four seasons at stud was €15,000, dropping to €10,000 in 2021, and again to €5,000 for 2022. He has 68 yearlings in his third crop and 39 registered foals on the ground, but covered just 16 mares in the spring.

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With all the attention on his more famous paternal half-brother Caravaggio, who supplied the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Tenebrism in his first crop this year, El Kabeir has quietly gone about compiling the winners and positioning himself as an affordable source of Scat Daddy genes for European breeders. His winners-to-runners rate is remarkably similar to that of Caravaggio’s at 30 per cent compared to the now Kentucky-based stallion’s 31 per cent strike rate. El Kabeir’s three black-type winners make up nearly seven per cent of his runners. El Kabeir is the sire of Group 2 Premio Gran Criterium and Listed Premio Giuseppe de Montel winner Don Chicco, who is bred on similar lines to Sioux Nation, Scat Daddy’s other winner of the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes. Bred by Mickley Stud, Harc Syndicate and K Whitehouse the grandson of Oasis Dream cost just £8,500 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale. El Kabeir’s highest-rated colt in the UK and Ireland boasts form that ties in with

Wings Of Eagles, a son of Pour Moi has surprised many observers with a Listed-winning juvenile amongst his 14 runners the best juveniles around – Masekela’s immediate victim in the Listed Denford Stakes was Bayside Boy, who went on to win the Group 2 Champagne Stakes and finish third in both the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes and the Group 1 Vertem Futurity. Prior to his Listed victory Masekela finished second to the champion two-year-old colt Native Trail in the Group 2 Superlative Stakes. Other first crop sons to have posted blacktype performances are Harrow, who was third in the Group 3 Somerville Tattersall

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Stakes and Rerouting, also third in the Group 3 Solario Stakes. In Italy, his daughter Sa Filonzana deadheated with Awtaad’s daughter Calithea in the Listed Premio Repubbliche Marinare. In the sales ring, his yearling average moved up to 25,424gns for 45 sold. His most expensive second-crop yearlings were both sold at Tatteralls by Yeomanstown Stud. The half-brother to Listed winners Queen Of Love and Dark Liberty made 130,000gns to Sackville Donald at Book 2, while the full-brother to Egyptian God, the most expensive yearling colt from El Kabeir’s first crop when purchased by Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm for 125,000gns, almost matched that figure at Book 1 when selling for 120,000gns to Richard Ryan. El Kabeir’s fee for each of his first three seasons was €8,000, reduced to €6,000 for the 2021. He has 62 yearlings and 43 foals and covered 43 mares this year.

Derby winner off the mark as a stakes sire

Precocity was not a quality one expected to be associated with the offspring of the 2017 Derby winner Wings Of Eagles, especially as he was relocated to Coolmore’s NH division after just one season at stud at his birthplace, Haras de Montaigu. However, Wings Of Eagles, a son of Pour Moi, has surprised many observers with a Listed-winning juvenile amongst his 14 runners. Blue Wings won the Prix Delahante (L) over a mile for her owner-breeder JeanPierre-Joseph Dubois, her second win in four starts. She was runner-up in both of the others and is the third runner and winner out of the Invincible Spirit mare Blue Mood, who is out of a three-parts sister to Camacho and a half-sister to Showcasing. She is one of three winners so far from that first crop by Wings Of Eagles, who won a mile maiden and was fourth in the Listed Zetland Stakes over 1m2f at two. He has two further placed runners and has a stakes winners-to-runners rate of 7.14 per cent. Wings Of Eagles’s first crop numbers just 36, but since his transfer to Ireland he has covered larger books and has 155 yearlings and 136 foals registered, the majority of which are destined for the NH sphere.

young stallions Leading European first-season sires 2021: (by prize-money earned to November 9, 2021) STALLION

Breeding

To Stud

Rnrs

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Runs

Wnrs

Wins

%Wnrs/Rnrs SWnrs SWs

Caravaggio

Scat Daddy–Mekko Hokte (Holy Bull)

2018

245

30.43

737,201

Cotai Glory

Exceed And Excel–Continua (Elusive Quality)

2018

315

38.27

709,687

Ardad

Kodiac–Good Clodora (Red Clubs)

2018

226

36.20

681,527

Galileo Gold

Paco Boy–Galicuix (Galileo)

2018

211

37.50

561,679

Profitable

Invincible Spirit–Dani Ridge (Indian Ridge)

2018

312

29.26

527,640

Churchill

Galileo–Meow (Storm Cat)

2018

212

32.39

506,488

Zarak

Dubawi–Zarkava (Zamindar)

2018 27 80 13 17 48.14 2 2 474,814

El Kabeir

Scat Daddy–Great Venue (Unbridled’s Song)

2018

146

29.54

460,031

Aclaim

Acclamation–Aris (Danroad)

2018

252

35.93

342,927

Recorder

Galileo–Memory (Danehill Dancer)

2018

175

15.55

305,872

Ribchester

Iffraaj–Mujarah (Marju)

2018

186

24.56

272,786

Time Test

Dubawi–Passage of Time (Dansili)

2018

30.55

255,834

Birchwood

Dark Angel–Layla Jamil (Exceed And Excel)

2018

168

20.00

204,671

Al Wukair

Dream Ahead–Macheera (Machiavellian)

2018

35.29

201,430

Highland Reel

Galileo–Hveger (Danehill)

2018

108

24.32

191,368

Zelzal

Sea The Stars–Olga Prekrasa (Kingmambo)

2018

37.50

190,122

Almanzor

Wootton Bassett–Darkova (Maria’s Mon)

2018

25.92

132,112

Ulysses

Galileo–Light Shift (Kingmambo)

2018

36.36

125,443

Johnny Barnes

Acclamation–Mahalia (Danehill)

2018

13.63

121,878

Decorated Knight

Galileo–Pearling (Storm Cat)

2018

33.33

114,836 105,694

The Grey Gatsby

Mastercraftsman–Marie Vison (Entrepreneur)

2018

21.05

National Defense

Invincible Spirit–Angel Falls (Kingmambo)

2018

38.46

90,609

Wings Of Eagles

Pour Moi–Ysoldina (Kendor)

2018

25.00

84,692

Ectot

Hurricane Run–Tonnara (Linamix)

2018

38.46

78,760

Mattmu

Indesatchel–Katie Boo (Namid)

2018

40.00

74,891

Postponed

Dubawi-Ever Rigg (Dubai Destination)

2018

10.00

69,370

Ultra

Manduro-Epitome (Nashwan)

2018

40.00

61,842

Mondialiste

Galileo - Occupandiste (Kaldoun)

2018

12.00

52,487

Counterattack

Redoute’s Choice - Kisma (Snippets)

2018

14.28

52,247

Leading European second-season sires 2021: (by prize-money earned to November 9, 2021) STALLION

Breeding

Mehmas

Acclamation-Lucina (Machiavellian)

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To Stud

Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

2017

186

981

126

%Wnrs/Rnrs SWnrs SWs 43.54

£ 1,902,936

Territories

Invincible Spirit-Taranto (Machiavellian)

2017

120

602

47.50

1,576,407

New Bay

Dubawi-Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar)

2017

327

55.40

1,357,993

Pride Of Dubai

Street Cry-Al Anood (Danehill)

2017

334

35.29

1,105,352

Shalaa

Invincible Spirit-Ghurra (War Chant)

2017

115

498

34.78

1,070,496 1,009,341

Kodi Bear

Kodiac-Hawattef (Mujtahid)

2017

478

44.94

Twilight Son

Kyllachy-Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad)

2017

120

615

42.50

979,561

The Gurkha

Galileo-Chintz (Danehill Dancer)

2017

102

428

41.17

769,982

Goken

Kendargent-Gooseley Chope (Indian Rocket)

2017

349

45.90

694,853

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b. 2012 Irish Champion Stakes Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup Gr.1 Jebel Hatta Gr.1 Meld Stakes Gr.3 Winter Derby Trial Stakes LR Equiworld Festival Stakes LR

AUTHORIZED

b. 2004 Derby Stakes Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy Gr.1 Juddmonte International Stakes Gr.1 Dante Stakes Gr.2

ARAAFA

b. 2003 Irish 2000 Guineas Gr.1 St James’s Palace Stakes Gr.1

b. 2013 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes Gr.2 Atalanta Stakes Gr.3 Snowdrop Fillies’ Stakes LR Dick Hern Fillies’ Stakes LR

AJAYA

b. 2013 Gimcrack Stakes Gr.2

SAYIF b. 2006

Diadem Stakes Gr.2

HAMOODY

b. 2004 Richmond Stakes Gr.2

TARIQ

b. 2004 Betfair Cup Gr.2 Jersey Stakes Gr.3 King Charles II Stakes LR

b. 2019 Firth Of Clyde Fillies’ Stakes Gr.3

EXTRA ELUSIVE

b. 2015 Winter Hill Stakes Gr.3 Rose Of Lancaster Stakes Gr.3

EUGINIO

b. 2014 Darley Stakes Gr.3

SHADEN

b. 2013 Firth Of Clyde Stakes Gr.3

ORVAR

b. 2013 International Trakya Gr.3

GWAFA

b. 2011 Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle Gr.3

PRINCESS NOOR

b. 2011 Princess Margaret Stakes Gr.3

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LISTED WINNERS

MAJOR WINNERS

AYRAD

FOURHOMETWO

AMTIYAZ

b. 2011 Tapster Stakes LR Gala Stakes LR

PRINCESS LOULOU b. 2010 Gillies Fillies’ Stakes LR

NOURIYA

b. 2007 John Musker Fillies’ Stakes LR Lyric Stakes LR

SHARP NEPHEW

b. 2005 Usk Valley Stud Stakes LR International Trial Stakes LR

b. 2018 Dubai Duty Free Celebration Stakes LR

b. 2017 Copper Horse Handicap

VIK THE BILLY

b. 2013 John Smith’s Cup Strensall Stakes Gr.3 Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial Gr.3

b. 2015 Premio Perrone LR

DAWN OF HOPE b. 2013 Prix Petite Etoile LR

JUSTINEO

b. 2009 Scarbrough Stakes LR Prix Hampton LR

GREEN DESTINY

DANCHAI

b. 2013 John Smith’s Cup

YUFTEN

b. 2013 Balmoral Handicap

TOOFI

LOULWA

b. 2013 Tattersalls Millions Median Auction Trophy

b. 2004 River Eden Fillies’ Stakes LR

THE GRAND VISIR b. 2013 Ascot Stakes

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leading sires by distance

Top 100 European sires of sprinters (5f-6f) in 2021 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 29, 2021) STALLION Dark Angel (IRE) Mehmas (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Dandy Man (IRE) Mayson (GB) Showcasing (GB) Dream Ahead (USA) Acclamation (GB) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Cable Bay (IRE) Starspangledbanner (AUS) Kodi Bear (IRE) Lethal Force (IRE) Bated Breath (GB) Ardad (IRE) Dutch Art (GB) Twilight Son (GB) No Nay Never (USA) Equiano (FR) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Cotai Glory (GB) Havana Gold (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Hot Streak (IRE) Gutaifan (IRE) Profitable (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Brazen Beau (AUS) Pivotal (GB) Siyouni (FR) Wootton Bassett (GB) Caravaggio (USA) Oasis Dream (GB) Zebedee (GB) Fast Company (IRE) Adaay (IRE) Slade Power (IRE) Dabirsim (FR) Raven’s Pass (USA) Sepoy (AUS) Camacho (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Galileo Gold (GB) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Due Diligence (USA) Swiss Spirit (GB) Pedro The Great (USA)

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Runners

Winners

160 142 242 174 105 145 68 128 91 94 61 81 62 84 88 50 35 74 86 112 69 62 72 56 32 74 37 50 95 73 36 70 28 87 39 43 77 77 80 80 54 76 33 49 101 82 31 30 45 75 23

60 57 69 56 39 54 27 40 30 35 19 31 23 33 28 19 11 31 25 34 20 26 27 15 10 22 12 11 29 20 11 21 6 17 13 9 19 22 17 21 17 22 7 16 24 22 10 8 11 22 9

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W/R % 38 40 29 32 37 37 40 31 33 37 31 38 37 39 32 38 31 42 29 30 29 42 38 27 31 30 32 22 31 27 31 30 21 20 33 21 25 29 21 26 31 29 21 33 24 27 32 27 24 29 39

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Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

542 586 968 903 497 599 264 546 404 412 252 294 236 439 329 176 149 275 253 481 337 229 273 190 74 288 104 218 368 232 88 284 127 209 94 114 267 372 276 289 205 216 109 201 408 215 93 96 168 335 66

81 83 100 88 65 75 43 60 41 55 28 41 33 66 38 28 16 53 36 46 34 38 39 28 16 39 17 25 49 27 13 35 7 18 18 11 24 31 24 30 27 25 13 26 36 29 13 16 20 31 15

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

Earnings 1,435,166 1,338,472 1,322,211 1,225,168 1,157,129 1,046,054 990,730 831,760 744,141 699,555 698,084 697,507 672,856 651,636 648,368 629,269 619,851 607,851 603,297 599,992 598,971 585,245 571,242 555,526 531,849 526,525 479,724 472,450 438,303 429,961 422,051 409,352 407,506 387,449 385,374 383,871 380,677 379,166 371,206 370,711 364,673 358,223 347,072 345,332 328,816 311,421 308,235 294,352 284,239 269,872 248,288

leading sires by distance

...continued European sires of sprinters (5f-6f) in 2021 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 29, 2021) STALLION Territories (IRE) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Shalaa (IRE) Sir Prancealot (IRE) Goken (FR) Garswood (GB) Ivawood (IRE) Kheleyf (USA) Bobby’s Kitten (USA) Requinto (IRE) Frankel (GB) Charm Spirit (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Elzaam (AUS) Muhaarar (GB) Elusive City (USA) Harbour Watch (IRE) Coach House (IRE) Society Rock (IRE) Ribchester (IRE) Kingman (GB) Heeraat (IRE) Toronado (IRE) Kyllachy (GB) Clodovil (IRE) Outstrip (GB) Sommerabend (GB) El Kabeir (USA) Pastoral Pursuits (GB) Charming Thought (GB) Anjaal (GB) Birchwood (IRE) Aclaim (IRE) Markaz (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Olympic Glory (IRE) Rajsaman (FR) War Front (USA) Excelebration (IRE) Helmet (AUS) Epaulette (AUS) New Bay (GB) Orientor (GB) Bahamian Bounty (GB) Prince Of Lir (IRE) Intense Focus (USA) Zoffany (IRE) Roderic O’connor (IRE) Choisir (AUS)

Runners

Winners

46 49 51 27 42 47 30 37 27 38 28 54 57 52 65 33 24 53 26 36 48 71 36 36 24 50 29 25 31 15 37 20 51 25 37 26 19 18 24 47 40 19 11 10 36 9 52 10 7

13 22 10 10 6 8 9 11 6 12 9 15 16 15 18 8 9 18 11 6 9 9 6 8 9 10 6 6 12 5 12 5 14 10 7 6 5 6 9 12 7 5 7 4 9 4 6 5 4

W/R % 28 45 20 37 14 17 30 30 22 32 32 28 28 29 28 24 38 34 42 17 19 13 17 22 38 20 21 24 39 33 32 25 27 40 19 23 26 33 38 26 18 26 64 40 25 44 12 50 57

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Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

136 195 138 107 139 143 115 165 77 184 75 175 194 171 185 120 101 249 129 94 112 280 85 192 117 153 99 63 164 87 149 78 160 84 106 71 57 55 89 138 136 42 89 99 131 40 103 74 40

14 31 13 18 7 12 18 19 9 19 12 19 18 19 21 11 15 27 17 11 13 13 9 13 14 18 8 6 18 9 17 6 16 13 8 7 6 7 14 15 12 7 14 10 11 5 6 12 8

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

239,134 231,522 229,234 224,473 223,549 223,456 217,953 216,087 203,146 199,496 197,547 195,667 192,778 191,034 190,191 186,420 181,372 178,762 173,525 172,082 169,114 163,487 153,603 151,368 150,387 148,713 147,884 146,362 139,337 137,828 130,921 130,262 126,135 121,758 119,307 117,661 117,321 116,399 115,940 113,655 112,215 112,204 111,588 111,022 110,895 108,174 107,655 106,233 105,078

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Top 100 European sires of milers (7f-8f) in 2021 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 29, 2021) STALLION Dubawi (IRE) Kingman (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Frankel (GB) Lope De Vega (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB) No Nay Never (USA) Dawn Approach (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Kodiac (GB) New Bay (GB) Australia (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Territories (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Shalaa (IRE) Toronado (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Muhaarar (GB) Gleneagles (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Dabirsim (FR) Acclamation (GB) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Bated Breath (GB) Soldier Hollow (GB) Camelot (GB) Charm Spirit (IRE) Mehmas (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Zarak (FR) Dandy Man (IRE) The Gurkha (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) New Approach (IRE) Showcasing (GB) Power (GB) Cable Bay (IRE) Sea The Moon (GER) Excelebration (IRE) Awtaad (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Sir Prancealot (IRE) Churchill (IRE)

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Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

147 131 245 181 112 169 162 79 110 109 88 133 113 233 55 74 155 80 82 97 84 93 79 111 91 83 114 151 120 142 109 75 71 90 89 77 87 23 125 68 107 68 136 41 70 59 56 60 118 61 59

66 45 72 55 45 58 38 21 31 29 22 46 25 57 19 16 44 25 19 26 19 28 28 31 28 32 35 29 32 28 32 31 11 25 20 23 17 9 30 23 18 14 21 11 18 18 22 18 23 23 18

45 34 29 30 40 34 23 27 28 27 25 35 22 24 35 22 28 31 23 27 23 30 35 28 31 39 31 19 27 20 29 41 15 28 22 30 20 39 24 34 17 21 15 27 26 31 39 30 19 38 31

402 388 914 565 297 498 470 168 344 318 296 460 420 771 137 168 493 257 176 328 233 331 239 358 245 255 364 424 434 442 390 233 170 333 287 220 219 55 443 196 295 162 380 158 270 154 194 190 384 273 135

90 63 99 75 70 66 50 34 46 43 35 59 38 72 28 23 55 37 21 33 25 42 39 40 38 43 47 39 39 34 47 43 14 29 31 24 20 12 42 28 24 18 25 14 28 27 34 31 29 34 21

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Stakes wins 17 12 9 9 10 7 5 8 7 5 4 6 6 3 4 6 2 0 4 0 3 5 4 2 5 1 4 0 3 3 1 10 2 0 4 1 1 2 0 1 2 2 1 2 0 3 2 4 0 1 2

Earnings 2,489,402 2,394,522 2,167,091 1,753,948 1,602,594 1,536,707 1,494,033 1,452,897 1,375,561 1,357,463 1,222,732 1,017,065 998,321 861,249 792,500 773,125 727,609 712,886 670,919 655,323 640,237 612,580 588,426 577,563 569,051 565,564 560,652 547,407 541,334 516,063 480,705 455,562 451,506 442,356 440,113 433,426 418,257 408,529 397,228 392,185 390,185 384,866 381,948 380,160 378,522 376,128 367,545 363,053 362,403 358,331 353,904

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...continued European sires of milers (7f-8f) in 2021 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 29, 2021) STALLION Goken (FR) War Front (USA) Nathaniel (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Lawman (FR) Elzaam (AUS) Rio de La Plata (USA) Zebedee (GB) Camacho (GB) Intello (GER) Gutaifan (IRE) Rajsaman (FR) Helmet (AUS) Dutch Art (GB) Poet’s Voice (GB) The Wow Signal (IRE) Caravaggio (USA) Pride Of Dubai (AUS) Starspangledbanner (AUS) Pedro The Great (USA) Areion (GER) Belardo (IRE) Anodin (IRE) Mayson (GB) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Dream Ahead (USA) Epaulette (AUS) Raven’s Pass (USA) Kheleyf (USA) Sidestep (AUS) Twilight Son (GB) Outstrip (GB) Galileo Gold (GB) Pivotal (GB) Buratino (IRE) War Command (USA) Slade Power (IRE) Estidhkaar (IRE) Sepoy (AUS) Vadamos (FR) Swiss Spirit (GB) Lethal Force (IRE) Make Believe (GB) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Alhebayeb (IRE) Olympic Glory (IRE) Morpheus (GB) Recorder (GB) Maxios (GB)

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Runners

Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

44 38 51 65 80 80 44 73 115 58 106 64 103 53 66 8 49 55 79 49 68 63 59 105 64 76 68 53 60 29 69 75 40 39 58 46 67 52 66 55 69 79 44 53 55 59 42 37 35

15 12 7 18 23 21 14 20 24 10 16 17 22 19 18 2 10 14 15 12 11 19 10 21 12 17 22 20 14 8 16 19 9 12 13 12 16 17 17 14 15 16 14 13 11 10 11 7 9

34 32 14 28 29 26 32 27 21 17 15 27 21 36 27 25 20 25 19 24 16 30 17 20 19 22 32 38 23 28 23 25 23 31 22 26 24 33 26 25 22 20 32 25 20 17 26 19 26

131 121 105 239 310 267 163 298 388 155 320 207 337 220 251 24 110 161 196 145 198 212 179 341 208 265 272 201 213 108 221 251 96 104 188 140 219 169 220 154 239 270 169 156 225 157 161 91 88

17 14 8 21 30 31 22 29 32 15 23 24 26 31 27 3 12 21 18 17 12 26 15 27 15 24 36 24 22 10 20 27 11 16 19 18 21 19 19 17 28 26 15 19 14 12 18 8 12

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

346,320 343,796 330,263 325,469 322,622 316,017 313,497 312,151 310,773 310,682 306,944 303,162 301,865 299,884 296,773 294,116 292,788 292,376 290,858 289,332 286,063 284,858 282,312 281,212 272,660 262,855 257,651 255,633 250,096 246,440 240,230 235,535 222,724 211,634 211,592 206,105 205,867 205,855 205,514 201,234 200,897 197,095 191,947 191,848 190,730 190,636 190,450 190,281 187,818

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Top 100 European sires of intermediate runners (9f-10f) in 2021(by prize-money earned (£) to October 29, 2021) STALLION Siyouni (FR) Galileo (IRE) Galiway (GB) Frankel (GB) Le Havre (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Make Believe (GB) Sea The Stars (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Australia (GB) Lope De Vega (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB) Pride Of Dubai (AUS) Zoffany (IRE) Gleneagles (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Olympic Glory (IRE) Intello (GER) Camelot (GB) Shamardal (USA) Anodin (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Territories (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Dabirsim (FR) Sea The Moon (GER) Kodiac (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Adlerflug (GER) Kingman (GB) New Approach (IRE) Rio de La Plata (USA) Soldier Hollow (GB) Pivotal (GB) Toronado (IRE) Rajsaman (FR) New Bay (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Charm Spirit (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Power (GB) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Motivator (GB) Myboycharlie (IRE) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Tamayuz (GB) Dawn Approach (IRE) Golden Horn (GB)

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Winners

108 104 28 105 113 88 39 123 95 86 125 67 20 116 85 57 74 78 117 48 79 40 49 86 109 60 78 94 49 71 63 54 86 34 65 97 29 63 56 56 72 31 79 88 40 54 41 56 31 55 64

24 18 9 33 33 30 10 42 23 19 25 18 4 31 29 8 20 19 28 15 23 13 15 21 27 15 12 21 16 17 14 13 15 9 14 14 13 20 9 13 13 9 15 16 7 16 15 9 5 11 14

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W/R % 22 17 32 31 29 34 26 34 24 22 20 27 20 27 34 14 27 24 24 31 29 33 31 24 25 25 15 22 33 24 22 24 17 26 22 14 45 32 16 23 18 29 19 18 18 30 37 16 16 20 22

Starts

Wins

270 190 75 233 290 189 101 284 290 211 313 187 48 376 224 143 208 212 295 109 285 111 128 263 361 142 167 215 131 138 162 194 208 78 180 289 73 212 113 173 138 84 214 196 110 187 158 187 67 151 112

33 21 10 48 45 42 14 49 32 25 31 23 6 38 37 11 25 26 38 15 29 18 19 26 29 21 14 24 17 23 17 19 18 12 20 16 22 25 12 15 16 10 20 18 9 17 18 10 7 15 14

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Earnings 2,213,458 1,789,430 1,241,785 1,105,794 964,042 963,371 912,160 837,101 829,168 750,223 737,366 731,776 667,229 635,807 613,650 569,727 567,983 559,051 542,089 529,376 517,250 509,268 509,167 500,346 496,030 415,321 379,525 374,137 368,006 364,733 351,074 349,592 343,597 333,057 325,930 323,846 280,201 279,107 272,703 271,786 263,469 261,320 261,072 247,234 242,936 235,197 232,818 223,600 219,101 218,170 212,939

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...continued European sires of intermediate runners (9f-10f) in 2021 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 29, 2021) STALLION Helmet (AUS) Teofilo (IRE) Maxios (GB) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Style Vendome (FR) Showcasing (GB) Whipper (USA) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Mukhadram (GB) Muhaarar (GB) Lawman (FR) French Fifteen (FR) Ruler Of The World (IRE) Kheleyf (USA) Manduro (GER) Blame (USA) The Gurkha (IRE) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Excelebration (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Outstrip (GB) Farhh (GB) War Command (USA) Makfi (GB) Alhebayeb (IRE) Stormy River (FR) Areion (GER) Sommerabend (GB) Deep Impact (JPN) Hunters Light (IRE) Pedro The Great (USA) Awtaad (IRE) Lord of England (GER) Dansili (GB) Zanzibari (USA) Shalaa (IRE) Mayson (GB) Bated Breath (GB) Campanologist (USA) Declaration Of War (USA) Distorted Humor (USA) Medaglia D’Oro (USA) Authorized (IRE) Sidestep (AUS) Belardo (IRE) Flintshire (GB) Tin Horse (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) Dariyan (FR)

Runners

Winners

58 62 56 43 34 45 25 41 52 54 66 33 14 36 39 1 44 46 48 46 37 17 43 46 29 38 31 37 11 43 26 30 32 36 30 41 36 50 12 12 7 10 24 32 30 9 22 49 28

14 15 15 9 8 8 9 9 17 11 14 7 5 9 8 1 12 5 12 10 10 6 11 5 5 5 11 7 3 6 7 3 8 7 8 7 8 9 5 3 3 2 4 5 8 4 5 8 4

W/R % 24 24 27 21 24 18 36 22 33 20 21 21 36 25 21 100 27 11 25 22 27 35 26 11 17 13 35 19 27 14 27 10 25 19 27 17 22 18 42 25 43 20 17 16 27 44 23 16 14

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Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

168 131 144 107 147 114 100 123 121 106 156 96 49 106 114 6 105 136 139 99 91 44 105 150 73 104 94 120 26 95 93 56 82 71 73 73 86 110 52 31 14 24 47 87 75 19 92 117 91

20 17 19 12 11 10 16 11 21 11 17 8 7 11 9 4 15 6 14 10 11 6 16 5 6 7 17 9 4 10 7 6 8 7 9 7 13 9 10 6 4 3 5 11 13 5 6 9 4

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

209,957 209,003 205,097 198,783 196,096 185,731 182,018 178,024 174,550 165,960 165,762 161,380 160,583 158,672 156,788 155,210 154,893 152,992 150,254 147,065 146,623 145,979 140,281 139,160 138,134 134,689 133,106 130,118 128,642 124,522 124,310 120,516 119,783 119,303 118,382 117,026 115,336 110,573 108,645 107,407 106,717 106,643 105,720 104,056 104,045 102,690 102,682 102,560 102,516

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Top 100 European sires of middle-distance runners (11f-13f) in 2021(by prize-money earned (£) to October 29, 2021) STALLION Frankel (GB) Adlerflug (GER) Sea The Stars (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Camelot (GB) Deep Impact (JPN) Le Havre (IRE) Australia (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Muhaarar (GB) Golden Horn (GB) Isfahan (GER) Kendargent (FR) Nathaniel (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Gleneagles (IRE) Intello (GER) Lord of England (GER) Rajsaman (FR) Power (GB) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Teofilo (IRE) Manduro (GER) Anodin (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Make Believe (GB) Motivator (GB) Galiway (GB) Harbour Watch (IRE) Kingman (GB) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Olympic Glory (IRE) Champs Elysees (GB) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Soldier Hollow (GB) Siyouni (FR) Dansili (GB) Wootton Bassett (GB) New Approach (IRE) Archipenko (USA) Stormy River (FR) Makfi (GB) Authorized (IRE) Excelebration (IRE) Zanzibari (USA) Planteur (IRE) Ruler Of The World (IRE) Arcano (IRE)

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Runners

Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

82 57 112 109 23 121 7 92 82 68 28 79 13 63 73 79 55 76 38 86 15 55 65 41 56 85 85 26 33 16 16 35 23 51 46 31 33 55 50 39 35 53 28 39 41 28 36 24 33 22 29

31 19 33 28 8 34 3 28 25 24 11 30 2 17 19 21 14 14 9 19 3 20 18 14 20 15 19 8 12 6 4 7 5 10 13 10 9 19 9 12 5 8 10 8 14 8 7 9 14 7 3

38 33 29 26 35 28 43 30 30 35 39 38 15 27 26 27 25 18 24 22 20 36 28 34 36 18 22 31 36 38 25 20 22 20 28 32 27 35 18 31 14 15 36 21 34 29 19 38 42 32 10

202 156 285 252 56 314 24 229 201 167 86 220 30 192 205 216 137 219 95 281 45 151 165 140 189 214 220 60 111 33 37 73 45 151 132 128 101 122 107 96 79 109 73 139 138 69 96 97 140 58 75

42 28 45 32 8 40 5 38 36 34 11 41 2 23 25 28 18 22 11 29 5 23 26 19 26 15 25 9 18 7 5 8 8 14 14 15 17 21 10 18 8 9 12 13 15 11 7 12 16 11 3

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Earnings 3,641,327 3,380,662 1,816,792 1,392,564 1,184,923 898,271 866,260 816,864 758,854 690,331 632,294 590,037 551,466 508,198 502,739 446,232 430,405 416,873 391,684 375,633 373,286 364,152 338,686 310,993 306,066 296,646 292,348 289,491 277,884 261,470 247,087 227,233 224,539 216,402 214,517 210,841 199,882 192,701 185,425 177,850 177,569 177,093 176,894 174,402 170,144 167,745 166,217 162,572 157,658 156,896 155,189

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...continued European sires of intermediate runners (11f-13f) in 2021(by prize-money earned (£) to October 29, 2021) STALLION Silver Frost (IRE) Charm Spirit (IRE) French Fifteen (FR) Sea The Moon (GER) Dark Angel (IRE) Myboycharlie (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Rio de La Plata (USA) The Gurkha (IRE) Prince Gibraltar (FR) Reliable Man (GB) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Helmet (AUS) Iffraaj (GB) Dabirsim (FR) Martinborough (JPN) Farhh (GB) Cape Cross (IRE) Lawman (FR) Mukhadram (GB) Dawn Approach (IRE) Maxios (GB) Casamento (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Poet’s Voice (GB) Palace Episode (USA) Style Vendome (FR) Born To Sea (IRE) Dariyan (FR) Toronado (IRE) Kodi Bear (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) War Command (USA) Youmzain (IRE) Outstrip (GB) Tin Horse (IRE) Montmartre (FR) Sri Putra (GB) Tertullian (USA) Bated Breath (GB) High Chaparral (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) Tamayuz (GB) American Pharoah (USA) Evasive (GB) Sir Percy (GB) Distorted Humor (USA) Free Eagle (IRE)

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Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

25 29 31 59 38 40 37 43 20 18 25 34 26 40 52 53 18 17 22 49 33 35 49 49 33 35 16 34 28 23 36 7 23 35 28 27 32 20 27 12 23 13 29 13 9 22 40 3 27

8 5 7 10 9 9 9 9 5 6 9 9 5 7 12 6 9 7 5 7 10 7 12 10 6 7 6 7 8 7 11 2 5 8 7 3 6 6 4 4 5 3 8 3 0 6 6 0 5

32 17 23 17 24 23 24 21 25 33 36 26 19 18 23 11 50 41 23 14 30 20 24 20 18 20 38 21 29 30 31 29 22 23 25 11 19 30 15 33 22 23 28 23 0 27 15 0 19

119 89 75 129 95 114 100 115 41 60 76 126 71 104 139 145 64 53 53 139 94 73 119 146 84 93 81 102 72 63 94 19 48 111 96 68 90 58 92 31 58 50 68 33 18 69 95 4 76

14 8 9 13 11 9 10 10 6 10 11 10 5 11 13 10 10 10 5 12 16 9 12 14 6 10 9 8 11 8 13 2 5 9 9 5 6 8 5 5 10 4 10 5 0 8 9 0 8

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

154,790 151,963 149,128 148,677 147,751 147,516 147,456 137,660 137,107 135,882 134,272 133,920 133,110 132,996 130,665 130,503 130,090 127,561 126,768 126,629 126,474 126,194 125,697 123,045 122,162 122,146 112,967 112,624 112,153 111,891 104,476 104,216 103,635 103,360 99,348 97,387 92,972 92,337 90,945 90,579 89,244 89,050 83,990 83,349 82,717 80,667 80,245 79,351 79,315

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Top 100 European sires of stayers (14f+) in 2021(by prize-money earned (£) to October 29, 2021) STALLION

Runners

Winners

W/R %

Starts

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Sea The Stars (IRE) 42 16 38 100 21 Galileo (IRE) 59 13 22 129 13 Planteur (IRE) 12 3 25 26 5 Teofilo (IRE) 39 13 33 105 18 Frankel (GB) 37 8 22 81 11 Le Havre (IRE) 32 9 28 60 9 Kendargent (FR) 22 6 27 66 9 Mastercraftsman (IRE) 45 10 22 128 10 Authorized (IRE) 25 6 24 65 7 Power (GB) 9 1 11 11 1 Zoffany (IRE) 32 8 25 104 12 Nathaniel (IRE) 46 10 22 123 11 Camelot (GB) 48 11 23 105 15 Australia (GB) 33 9 27 74 13 Dubawi (IRE) 26 5 19 47 5 Born To Sea (IRE) 20 4 20 49 5 Golden Horn (GB) 35 8 23 69 10 Champs Elysees (GB) 34 10 29 102 11 Gleneagles (IRE) 16 4 25 31 5 Motivator (GB) 17 2 12 33 3 Jukebox Jury (IRE) 17 6 35 44 7 Free Eagle (IRE) 12 4 33 24 7 Intello (GER) 26 5 19 52 7 Noble Mission (GB) 4 2 50 9 2 Farhh (GB) 8 0 0 17 0 Make Believe (GB) 13 4 31 36 6 Lope De Vega (IRE) 31 6 19 59 8 Dunaden (FR) 5 3 60 20 5 Cape Cross (IRE) 13 2 15 44 2 Dansili (GB) 24 6 25 67 8 Excelebration (IRE) 12 2 17 35 3 Rail Link (GB) 12 2 17 18 2 Iffraaj (GB) 16 4 25 43 7 Fastnet Rock (AUS) 17 7 41 32 8 Rip Van Winkle (IRE) 12 2 17 20 2 Harbour Watch (IRE) 6 3 50 15 3 Maxios (GB) 15 1 7 37 2 New Approach (IRE) 24 6 25 53 8 Canford Cliffs (IRE) 20 5 25 46 7 Sea The Moon (GER) 16 2 13 28 2 Oasis Dream (GB) 12 3 25 35 3 Shamardal (USA) 11 2 18 21 2 Youmzain (IRE) 9 3 33 24 3 Style Vendome (FR) 9 3 33 23 3 Adlerflug (GER) 19 5 26 30 5 French Fifteen (FR) 11 2 18 30 2 Galiway (GB) 7 2 29 12 2 Cityscape (GB) 9 3 33 20 3 Helmet (AUS) 19 4 21 50 9 Sir Percy (GB) 18 5 28 54 6 Mount Nelson (GB) 12 4 33 27 6

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Earnings

6 900,668 7 790,375 3 746,915 4 742,864 2 698,633 2 367,944 3 330,143 1 293,543 1 254,127 1 244,713 1 238,521 0 230,160 1 229,364 2 221,314 1 220,704 0 214,994 1 195,611 0 188,485 1 188,295 0 187,287 3 184,715 1 181,790 1 166,453 1 165,384 0 153,177 1 138,988 0 121,815 0 105,189 0 99,625 0 99,539 0 95,519 0 95,181 0 94,514 0 93,982 1 89,249 1 86,494 0 84,929 1 81,476 0 74,786 1 74,210 1 67,980 0 67,194 1 66,586 0 66,154 1 65,097 0 63,495 1 61,588 0 61,194 0 61,027 0 60,276 0 59,007

NEW FOR 2022 BRILLIANTLY FAST ROYAL ASCOT 2YO WINNER

A’ALI

b. 2017 SOCIETY ROCK – MOTION LASS (MOTIVATOR)

Winner of 5 races and £261,716, incl:

WON Gr.2 Norfolk Stakes, 5f Royal Ascot on just his second start WON Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin, 51/2f Deauville WON Gr.2 Flying Childers Stakes, 5f Doncaster WON Gr.2 Sapphire Stakes, 5f Curragh WON Gr.3 Sprint Stakes, 5f Sandown 4th Gr.1 Nunthorpe Stakes, 5f York (to Battaash) 3rd Gr.2 Meydan Sprint, 5f Meydan FEE 2022: £7,500 “A’Ali was a top-class sprinter and certainly one of the fastest 2YOs I have ridden. He travelled very well in his races and had push button acceleration which made my life easy. I was lucky enough to ride both Mehmas and Ardad and A’Ali must have a top chance of replicating their success at stud.” Frankie Dettori, jockey MEADOW FARM STUD Contact: Catherine and Robert Dallas • Tel: 07840585800 Newtown, Ramsbury, Wiltshire SN8 2PP • Email: office@meadowfarmstud.co.uk

FEE

€125,000

FEE

€17,500

FEE

€37,500

FEE

€15,000

BALLYLINCH STUD

Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland

ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING SIRES

LOPE DE VEGA. Chesnut | 2007 | 16.0 hh (1.62m) | To Stud 2011

Sire of 13 individual Gr.1 winners and 149 career Black Type horses

CLASSIC WINNER, CLASSIC SIRE

MAKE BELIEVE. Bay | 2012 | 16.1 hh (1.65m) | To Stud 2016

Sire of Gr.1 Classic winning World Champion MISHRIFF

FIRST SEASON SENSATION

NEW BAY.

Chesnut | 2012 | 16.0 hh (1.62m) | To Stud 2017 Gr.1 sire and the LEADING sire in Europe by winners to runners

THE BEST GALILEO SINCE FRANKEL

WALDGEIST.

Chesnut | 2014 | 16.0½ hh (1.64m) | To Stud 2020 4-time Group 1 winner of a vintage Arc and Timeform Rated 132 First foals made up to €180,000 and averaged €55,000

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stakes sires

The master list SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2021

Horses are listed under their sire with the respective broodmare sire in brackets. Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including October 31, 2021 Data from Hyperion Promotions Acclamation Accakaba (Medicean) Bjorn (Oasis Dream) Canonized (Dutch Art) Garrus (Medicean) Louliana (Showcasing) Oh This Is Us (Hawk Wing)

2L L L 3 L 3L

Archipenko Aleas (Invincible Spirit) Merveillo (Montjeu) Ardad Eve Lodge (Footstepsinthesand) Perfect Power (Frozen Power)

L L

3 112

Areion Rubaiyat (Lomitas) Zavaro (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Adlerflug Alenquer (Areion) In Swoop (Tiger Hill) Loft (Dubawi) Mythico (Monsun) Quebueno (Areion) Ricla (Highest Honor) Torquator Tasso (Toylsome) Walkaway (Monsun)

23 23 L 2 L L 112 3

Ajaya Fourhometwo (King’s Best)

Australia Arrival (Oasis Dream) L Bangkok (Darshaan) 2L Broome (Acclamation) 123L Epona Plays (Oratorio) 23 Fernando Vichi (Sir Percy) L Goolwa (Pivotal) L Mare Australis (Rainbow Quest) 1 Order Of Australia (Danehill) 2 Point Lonsdale (Acclamation) 23L Sir Ron Priestley (Danehill Dancer) 2 2 L Sugar Beat (Distorted Humor) L

Anodin Narcos (Iffraaj) Appel Au Maitre Suspicious Mind (Hernando) Arcano Cirano (Footstepsinthesand) Eulaila (Pounced)

136

L 2

Authorized Euchen Glen (Kingmambo) Mighty Blue (Peintre Celebre) Soft Light (Kendor) Awtaad Bellosa (Canford Cliffs) Calithea (Redoute’s Choice) Create Belief (Makfi) Primo Bacio (Arcano) Bated Breath Agiato (Dubai Destination)

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Belardo Elysium (Hawk Wing) Blame Saiydabad (Oasis Dream)

Adaay Have A Good Day (Black Minnaloushe) 3 Honey Sweet (Harbour Watch) L

American Pharoah Willow (Danehill)

Makaloun (Dalakhani) Sacred Bridge (Beat Hollow) Space Traveller (Galileo)

2L 3

Blu Air Force Thunderman (Unbridled’s Song) Bobby’s Kitten Sandrine (Pivotal) Born To Sea Il Decamerone (Lucky Story) Brazen Beau Logo Hunter (Mujadil) Vadream (Shamardal) Windstormblack (Sakhee’s Secret) Bungle Inthejungle Winter Power (Titus Livius)

3L L L

Buratino Snapraeterea (Alamshar)

L L 3 L

Cable Bay Atalis Bay (Holy Roman Emperor) Collinsbay (Kyllachy) King’s Lynn (Kyllachy) Liberty Beach (Avonbridge)

Camacho Mo Celita (Motivator)

3 3L L

With Thanks (Kheleyf) Camelot Luxembourg (Danehill Dancer) Moll (Duke Of Marmalade) Nerium (Alkalde) Penja (Sunday Break) Sir Lucan (Oasis Dream) Yesyes (Dansili) Youth Spirit (Fastnet Rock)

12 L 2 3 L L 3

Campanologist Victory Chime (Teofilo)

Canford Cliffs Jin Jin (Okawango)

Cape Cross Century Dream (Echo Of Light) Passion And Glory (Street Cry) Walton Street (Encosta De Lago)

L 3 2L

1LL

Caravaggio Agartha (Dylan Thomas) Dizzy Bizu (Kodiac) Tenebrism (Pivotal)

23 LL 1

Center Divider Wishformore (Hernando)

LL 3 3

L 3 L 2

Champs Elysees Elisa Again (Shirocco) La Lune (Pivotal)

L 3L

Charm Spirit Fantastic Spirit (Fantastic Light) Kick On (Marju) Lord Charming (Authorized)

L LL L

stakes sires Choisir Qaysar (Titus Livius)

Lollipop Girl (Xaar) Mooneista (Intikhab) The Highway Rat (Whipper)

Churchill Ladies Church (Rio De La Plata) Snaffles (Singspiel) Vadeni (Monsun)

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Dansili Acanella (Oasis Dream) Diadora (Tertullian)

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Clodovil Duca Di Como (Elusive Quality) Majestic Colt (Dubawi)

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Dariyan Mister Saint Paul (Elusive City)

Cotai Glory Atomic Force (Dansili)

Dandy Man Dandalla (Elnadim) L Happy Romance (Marju) 3L Hastalavistababy (Exceed And Excel) L

Dark Angel Althiqa (Shamardal) Angel Bleu (Galileo) Art Power (Keltos) Ateem (Montjeu) Berkshire Shadow (Oasis Dream) Came From The Dark (Fasliyev) Exalted Angel (Camacho)

Angel Bleu: Dark Angel’s first Group 1-winning juvenile

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Final Song (Rahy) Indie Angel (Sir Percy) Khaadem (Footstepsinthesand) Mangoustine (Zamindar) Musetta (Elusive Quality) Real World (Dubawi) Sky Angel (Whipper) Sonaiyla (More Than Ready) Top Rank (Authorized) Wings Of War (Kodiac)

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Dawn Approach Georgeville (Dansili) Lunar Space (Danehill) Poetic Flare (Rock Of Gibraltar)

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Declaration Of War Caprice Des Dieux (Dansili) Match Maker (Zafonic) Nazanin (Act One) Deep Impact Harajuku (Galileo) Katara (New Approach) Snowfall (Galileo)

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Distorted Humor Ebaiyra (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Dream Ahead Dream Of Dreams (Dansili)

Dubawi Al Suhail (Shirocco) Albahr (Street Cry) Benbatl (Selkirk) Concert Hall (Galileo) Coroebus (Teofilo) Creative Flair (Shamardal) Creative Force (Choisir) D’bai (Green Desert) Declaring Love (Dalakhani) Dilawar (Azamour) Dubai Future (Street Cry) Glorious Journey (Dansili) Goldspur (Arch) Highland Avenue (Shamardal) Kemari (Pivotal) Lazuli (Fasliyev) Lord North (Giant’s Causeway) Maamora (Azamour) Maria Amalia (Kheleyf) Master Of The Seas (Danehill) Maydanny (Efisio)

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Military Law (Desert Prince) Modern Games (New Approach) My Oberon (Sea The Stars) Nash Nasha (Lawman) Naval Crown (Dansili) Philomene (Dansili) Rebel’s Romance (Street Cry) Soft Whisper (Sea The Stars) Space Blues (Noverre) Thunder Drum (Galileo) Valloria (Peintre Celebre) Ya Hayati (Street Sense) Yibir (Monsun) Dunkerque Coachello (Rock Of Gibraltar) Dutch Art Starman (Montjeu) Stormbringer (Royal Applause) E Dubai Saltarin Dubai (Fitzcarraldo) El Kabeir Don Chicco (Oasis Dream) Masekela (Doyen) Sa Filonzana (Tamayuz)

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

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Elzaam Limiti Di Greccio (Galileo) Wren’s Breath (Shamardal)

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Empire Maker Mnasek (Yankee Gentleman)

Equiano Apollo One (Tobougg) Equilateral (Oasis Dream) Gustavus Weston (Cape Cross) Estidhkaar Belcarra (Lomitas)

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Exceed And Excel Attimo Fuggente (Mastercraftsman) 2 3 L Chil Chil (Diktat) 3 Choux (Pivotal) L Double Or Bubble (Dalakhani) L Great Ambassador (Montjeu) L

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stakes sires Libre (Teofilo) Sacred (Blame) Secret Ambition (Singspiel)

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Excelebration Lord Bay (Selkirk) Ottoman Emperor (Tertullian) Queenship (Galileo) The Conqueror (Noverre)

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Exosphere Ocean (Compton Place)

Falco Dima (Sinndar)

Fast Company Light Infantry (Kyllachy) Safe Voyage (Mujadil) Symphony Perfect (Rip Van Winkle)

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Fastnet Rock Fenelon (Galileo) Joie De Soir (Galileo)

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Fed Biz Zenden (Sharp Humor)

First Defence Tilsit (Dansili)

Flatter Mouheeb (Eltish) Panadol (Dixieland Band)

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Flintshire Cheshire Academy (Sunday Break)

Footstepsinthesand Marianafoot (Anabaa) Mums Tipple (Xaar) Frankel Adayar (Dubawi) Alpinista (Hernando) Big Five (Sinndar) Dreamflight (Dansili) Hurricane Lane (Shirocco) Inspiral (Selkirk) John Leeper (Intikhab) Juan Elcano (Daylami) Light Refrain (Elusive Quality) Majestic Glory (Dansili) Master Of Reality (Darshaan)

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Mehnah (Shamardal) Mohaafeth (Sea The Stars) Mostahdaf (Dubawi) Outbox (Street Cry) Petricor (Dansili) Rumi (Cape Cross) Sibila Spain (Darshaan) Snow Lantern (Red Clubs) Triple Time (Mark Of Esteem)

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Free Eagle Dancing King (Big Shuffle)

French Navy Layfayette (Holy Roman Emperor) Opasan (Groom Dancer)

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Frozen Power Frozen Juke (Tiger Hill)

Gale Force Ten Galtee Mist (Spectrum)

Galileo Amhran Na Bhfiann (Green Desert) 2 Armory (Danehill Dancer) 2 Bolshoi Ballet (Anabaa) 33 Emperor Of The Sun (Redoute’s Choice) L Empress Josephine (Danehill Dancer) 1 Forbearance (Fastnet Rock) 3L Free Wind (Duke Of Marmalade) 23 Interpretation (Dansili) L Japan (Danehill) 33 Joan Of Arc (Storm Cat) 13 Lancaster House (Oasis Dream) 3 Lone Eagle (Duke Of Marmalade) L Love (Pivotal) 1 Magical Lagoon (Lagunas) 3 Nayef Road (Danehill Dancer) L Roberto Escobarr (Dansili) L Search For A Song (Danehill) 3 Galileo Gold Ebro River (Balmont) Oscula (Big Bad Bob) System (Royal Applause) Galiway Esope (Poliglote) Galik (Kendargent) Gregolimo (Kendargent) Kenway (Kendargent) Sealiway (Kendargent) Vauban (Hurricane Run)

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Loving Dream: the filly was a first Group 1 winner for Gleneagles

Ghostzapper Mystic Guide (A P Indy) Gleneagles Baby Rider (Oasis Dream) Insinuendo (Danehill Dancer) Jumbly (Selkirk) Loving Dream (Danehill Dancer) Novemba (Dubai Destination) Seisai (Danehill Dancer) Some Respect (Oratorio) Tabera (Oratorio) Too Soon To Panic (Oratorio) Velocidad (Dansili) Goken Miss Louna (Redback) O Trasno (Green Tune) Golden Horn Ad Infinitum (Hawk Wing) Golden Pass (Raven’s Pass) Quenelle D’or (Nayef) Sun Of Gold (King’s Best) Goldencents Nocentsinkentucky (Mr Greeley)

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Gris De Gris Padron (Anabaa)

Harbour Watch Baron Samedi (Haafhd) Brunch (Makfi) Pyledriver (Le Havre) Tis Marvellous (Oasis Dream)

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Havana Gold Chipotle (Makfi) Fearby (One Cool Cat) Havana Red (Bering)

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Helmet Cantocorale (Street Cry)

Highland Reel Atamisque (Pounced) Hot Streak A Case Of You (Key Of Luck) Royal Ashirah (King’s Best) Iffraaj Fast Raaj (Raven’s Pass) Forest Of Dean (Royal Applause)

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stakes sires The dual Group 1 winner Trueshan was one of three stakes winners for Planteur in 2021

Le Havre Brokeback Mountain (Trempolino) Darzan (Arch) Glycon (Singspiel) Jupyra (Galileo) Karlarina (Speedmaster) Solsticia (Galileo) Ville De Grace (Arch) Waliyak (Sea The Stars) Wonderful Tonight (Montjeu) Lemon Drop Kid Red Verdon (Choisir) Sherbet Lemon (Danehill Dancer)

Judicial (Marju) Kitty Marion (Kyllachy) Land Of Legends (Singspiel) Only The Brave (Hernando) Reshabar (Tamayuz) Intello Adhamo (Invincible Spirit) Anasia (Shamardal) Bubble Smart (Grand Lodge) Dawn Intello (Giant’s Causeway) Djo Francais (Polish Precedent) Waldbiene (Observatory) Into Mischief Man Of Promise (Speightstown) Invincible Spirit Babylone (Galileo) Blown By Wind (Street Cry) Egot (Street Cry) Hello You (Pivotal) Ideal Beauty (Elusive Quality) Loch Lein (Maria’s Mon) Pearls Galore (Pivotal) Isfahan Sisfahan (Kendargent) Ivawood Hurricane Ivor (Royal Applause)

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Jukebox Jury Daring Light (Areion) Memphis (Lomitas) Noa Lea (Makfi) Samoa (Lord Of England) Juniper Tree Ascot Brass (Definite Article) Kallisto Aff Un Zo (Platini) Marlar (Fath) Kendargent Skalleti (Muhaymin) Skazino (Muhaymin) Tokyo Gold (Dalakhani) Kheleyf Keyflower (Lope De Vega)

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Kingman Kinross (Selkirk) 23 Masen (Smart Strike) L Megallan (Champs Elysees) 3L Noble Truth (Frankel) L Oriental Mystique (Archipenko) L Palace Pier (Nayef) 1112 Parent’s Prayer (Exceed And Excel) 3 Reina Madre (Falbrav) 3 Save A Forest (Galileo) L

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Summer Romance (Statue Of Liberty) 2 Waldkonig (Monsun) 3 Wirko (Mount Nelson) L Kiss The Kid Extravagant Kid (With Distinction)

Kizuna Deep Bond (King Halo)

Kodi Bear Diablotine (Septieme Ciel) Go Bears Go (Giant’s Causeway) Measure Of Magic (Titus Livius) Mystery Angel (Dark Angel)

L 2 LL L

Kodiac American Bridge (Dutch Art) Bear Story (Galileo) Campanelle (Namid) Cloudy Dawn (Pivotal) El Bodegon (Kingmambo) Fast Attack (Lope De Vega) Geocentric (Indian Ridge) Glounthaune (Nayef) Island Of Love (Shamardal) Loveisthehigherlaw (Shantou) Medahim (Noverre) Straight Answer (Mizzen Mast) Wild Majesty (Forest Wildcat)

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Lope De Vega Berneuil (Dansili) Cadillac (Dansili) Dreamloper (Teofilo) Duhail (Singspiel) Duke De Sessa (Cape Cross) Ecrivain (Danehill Dancer) El Drama (Peintre Celebre) General De Vega (Grand Slam) Lope Y Fernandez (Dansili) New Science (Galileo) Parchemin (Teofilo) Rodaballo (Singspiel) Summerghand (Xaar) Sweet Lady (Dansili)

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Lord Of England Palmas (Surumu) Queen Rouge (Dubawi) Stex (Law Society)

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Make Believe Believe In Love (Kahyasi) Mishriff (Raven’s Pass) Noticeable Grace (Olden Times)

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Makfi Chilly Filly (Rock Of Gibraltar) Manduro Iresine (Oasis Dream) Square De Luynes (Dashing Blade)

3L 33

Markaz Corazon (Kodiac)

Mastercraftsman Discoveries (Rahy) Lilac Road (Shamardal)

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stakes sires Tribal Craft (Galileo) Maxios Cirona (Titus Livius) Liberty London (Medicean) Mayson Laugh A Minute (Dansili) Oxted (Choisir) Rohaan (Acclamation) Medaglia D’Oro Magny Cours (A P Indy) New Trails (Mr Prospector) Mehmas Beauty Inspire (Zamindar) Caturra (Sleeping Indian) Fayathaan (Elusive Quality) Keeper Of Time (Mustanfar) Line Of Departure (Pivotal) Lusail (Diamond Green) Magnanimous (Danehill Dancer) Malavath (New Approach) Mehmento (Invincible Spirit) Power Under Me (Arakan) Mingun Stormy Ocean (Inchrory) Motivator Hamish (Sakhee) Lady Day (Fuisse) Monty (Anabaa) Mount Nelson Dato (Grand Slam) Mshawish Bellharbour Music (Blame) Muhaarar Albaflora (Galileo) Ataared (Dansili) Auria (Diktat) Eshaada (Nayef) Mujahid Tiaspettofuori (Dashing Blade) Nathaniel Bubble Gift (Grand Lodge) Lady Bowthorpe (Verglas) Nationalista (Amadeus Wolf)

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National Defense Twilight Gleaming (Dansili)

New Approach Bel Aristo (Tiger Hill) Mac Swiney (Teofilo) Silent Escape (Pivotal)

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New Bay Bay Bridge (Multiplex) Bayside Boy (Anabaa) Saffron Beach (Raven’s Pass) Sea Bay (Lord Of England) Night Of Thunder Highfield Princess (Danehill) Keep Busy (Danetime) Rumbles Of Thunder (Halling) Sopran Basilea (King’s Best) Suesa (Orpen) Thunder Kiss (Teofilo) Thundering Nights (Cape Cross)

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No Nay Never Alcohol Free (Hard Spun) 113 Armor (High Chaparral) 3 Horoscope (Timber Country) L Nymphadora (Pivotal) L Royal Commando (Acclamation) L Singforthemoment (Cadeaux Genereux) L Visualisation (Sadler’s Wells) L Zain Claudette (Speightstown) 23 Noble Mission Spanish Mission (Street Cry) Novellist Praetorius (Sicyos)

Oasis Dream Al Tariq (Harlan’s Holiday) Azano (Hurricane Run) Erasmo (Efisio) Fambrus (Montjeu) Grocer Jack (Doyen) Native Trail (Observatory) Vertiginous (Indian Ridge)

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Olympic Glory Grand Glory (Daylami) Jannah Flower (Motivator)

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Paco Boy Paco (Leroidesanimaux)

Pedro The Great Angelinka (Giant’s Causeway)

Penny’s Picnic Best Sixteen (Take Risks) Pradaro (Zilzal)

L 2

Pioneerof The Nile Irish Freedom (Smart Strike)

Pivotal Earlswood (Galileo) Kaspar (Sternkoenig) Last Empire (Komaite) Solene Lilyette (Dalakhani) Varkesha (Sea The Stars)

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Planteur Plantstepsdream (Footstepsinthesand) L Road To Arc (Exit To Nowhere) 2 Trueshan (General Holme) 112 Power Helvic Dream (Danehill Dancer) 1 Laws Of Indices (Exceed And Excel) 1 Sonnyboyliston (Dylan Thomas) 1L Wakanaka (Kodiac) 3 Pride Of Dubai Dubai Honour (Montjeu) Just Beautiful (Makfi)

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Profitable Head Mistress (Street Cry) Mr Professor (Alhaarth) Quick Suzy (Marju)

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Protectionist Amazing Grace (Danehill Dancer) Lambo (Rock Of Gibraltar)

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Raven’s Pass Romantic Proposal (Diktat)

Red Jazz Jazz Explosion (Candy Ride)

Red Rocks Light Of Darkness (Danehill)

Reliable Man Adrian (Desert Style) Naida (Banyumanik)

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Ribchester Flaming Rib (Excelebration) Rio De La Plata Fort Payne (Meshaheer) Moderator (Danehill Dancer) Tahlie (Lahint)

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Rip Van Winkle Rip Van Lips (Areion)

Rock Of Gibraltar Haparanda (Daylami) Rocky Sky (Elusive City) Sharoka (Areion)

L L L

Roderic O’Connor Ornais (Henrythenavigator)

Ruler Of The World La Petite Coco (Konigstiger) Northern Ruler (Monsun)

23 3

Sakhee’s Secret Rose Secret (Celtic Swing)

Samysilver Queen Rouge (Dutch Art)

Sans Frontieres Jason The Militant (Desert King)

Saonois La Parence (Kaldounevees)

Sea The Moon Mercedes (Adlerflug) Noble Music (Sholokhov) Padovana (Blame) Pretty Tiger (Zamindar) Sagamiyra (Rock Of Gibraltar)

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Sea The Stars Adhafera (Lemon Drop Kid) L Al Aasy (Shamardal) 33 Alpen Rose (Holy Roman Emperor) 3 Baaeed (Kingmambo) 113L Baptism (Holy Roman Emperor) 3 Bharani Star (Dubawi) L Burgarita (Alzao) L Hukum (Kingmambo) 333L Lavender’s Blue (Danehill Dancer) 2 L Light Stars (Monsun) L Manobo (Nayef) 2L

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stakes sires Raabihah (Kingmambo) 2 Reach For The Moon (Sadler’s Wells) 3 Sea La Rosa (Hernando) L Sea Of Sands (Peintre Celebre) 3 Sheraz (Dalakhani) L Star Safari (Muhtathir) 3 Stradivarius (Bering) 223 Teona (Authorized) 1L Third Realm (Mark Of Esteem) L Valia (Dansili) 2 Sepoy Salute The Soldier (Street Cry)

Shalaa King Shalaa (Turtle Bowl) No Speak Alexander (Dandy Man)

L 13

Shamardal Algiers (Platini) Canvassed (Dansili) Emaraaty Ana (Cape Cross) Fleur D’iris (Redattore) Global Giant (Dalakhani) Queen Power (Unbridled’s Song) Romantic Song (Street Cry) Solid Stone (Arch) Sublimis (Samum) Tarnawa (Cape Cross) Victor Ludorum (Kaldounevees) Zakouski (Octagonal)

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Showcasing Asymmetric (Hellvelyn) Panama Red (Lawman) Urgent Appeal (King’s Best)

Sidestep Real Appeal (Green Desert)

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Sir Percy Kawida (Archipenko)

Sir Prancealot Haven Park (Tiz Wonderful)

Siyouni Acer Alley (Lemon Drop Kid) Lights On (Inchinor) Meu Amor (Oasis Dream) Mise En Scene (Galileo) Policy Of Truth (Selkirk) Reve De Vol (Dubawi)

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Seachange (Sadler’s Wells) She Do (Lawman) Shine For You (Sir Percy) St Mark’s Basilica (Galileo) Tertius (Shamardal) Txope (Acclamation) Wally (Motivator) Who Knows (Poliglote) Slade Power Master Matt (Exceed And Excel)

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Speightstown Midnight Sands (Shamardal) My Generation (Maria’s Mon) Switzerland (Indian Charlie)

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The Gurkha Best Of Lips (Silver Frost) Invite (Peintre Celebre)

23 L

The Wow Signal Coeursamba (Anabaa)

Time Test Rocchigiani (El Corredor) Romantic Time (Sir Percy) Tardis (Equiano) The King’s Horses (Kheleyf)

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Toronado Bois D’argent (Daylami) Illykato (Acclamation) Mouillage (Cape Cross) Tactical (Makfi) Toro Strike (Smart Strike)

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Twilight Son Aria Importante (Orpen) Little O’kelly (Pastoral Pursuits) Twilight Jet (Exceed And Excel) Twilight Spinner (Diktat)

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Victory Gallop Call To Victory (Mountain Cat)

War Command Artistic Rifles (Elusive Quality) Flag’s Up (High Chaparral)

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War Front Ancient Rome (Sadler’s Wells)

Whipper Lord Glitters (Homme De Loi)

Stormy River Stormy Pouss (Green Desert)

Street Cry Volcanic Sky (Diktat) Zainhom (Storm Cat)

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Tamayuz Zeyaadah (Act One)

Teofilo Brasilian Man (Oasis Dream) Dubai Fountain (Dubawi)

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Stormy Atlantic Stormy Antarctic (Doyen)

Territories Rougir (Elusive City) The Grey Gatsby Mylady (Dabirsim)

Soldier Hollow Alaskasonne (Sternkoenig) Auenfurst (Waky Nao) Axana (Sleeping Indian) Deia (Platini) Dibujaba (Areion) Es La Vida (Manduro) Flamingo Girl (Silver Hawk) Marshmallow (Pivotal) Reine D’amour (Big Shuffle) Rosacea (Zamindar) Russian Souffle (Laroche) Sahib’s Joy (Monsun) Sconset (Monsun)

Starspangledbanner Aristia (Kalanisi) Castle Star (Iffraaj) Flotus (Invincible Spirit) Hermana Estrella (Lord Shanakill)

Scope (Efisio) Subjectivist (Danehill Dancer) Twilight Payment (Oasis Dream) Without A Fight (Dubawi)

Win River Win Zafer Atesi (Pharly)

Wings Of Eagles Blue Wings (Invincible Spirit)

Wootton Bassett Atomic Jones (Turtle Bowl) Attagirl (Pastoral Pursuits) Chindit (Oasis Dream) Ilaraab (Soviet Star) Incarville (Azamour) Royal Patronage (Dalakhani) Speak Of The Devil (Indian Rocket) Topgear (Giant’s Causeway) Victoria Placa (Daylami) Zellie (Nathaniel)

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Youmzain Control Tower (Monsun)

Zanzibari Coeur De Pierre (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Zarak Lizaid (Wiener Walzer) Parnac (Sageburg)

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Zebedee Lord Riddiford (Barathea) Pogo (Diktat)

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Zelzal Zelda (Orpen)

Zoffany Astadash (Galileo) Brigante Sabino (Galileo) Camorra (Muhtathir) Foxes Tales (Galileo) Lismore (Whipper) Maker Of Kings (Galileo) Mother Earth (Green Desert) Pensiero D’amore (King’s Best) Perseverants (Distorted Humor)

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2017 - 1m67

A FANCY RECRUIT FOR 2022!

FANCY PERFORMANCES A Group 1 winning 2-year-old – he won the Gr.1 Critérium de Saint-Cloud over 1m2f on just his third start - leading from pillar to post!

A FANCY PEDIGREE By Makfi, from the exciting DUBAWI sire line which has produced the Gr.1 sires MAKE BELIEVE & NIGHT OF THUNDER. Out of the MUTHATHIR mare FANCY GREEN, dam of three foals of racing age: Fancytastic - Listed placed & winner of the Grande Course de Haies de Bordeaux (hurdles) leading from pillar to post. Classic prospect MY FANCY who won his 2yo maiden leading from pillar to post!

€4,000 L.F

ELARQAM

1st foals in 2022 €5,000 L.F

GB . 2015 . 1m65

A CLASSIC PEDIGREE By undefeated champion FRANKEL out of 5-time Gr.1 heroine ATTRACTION

OUTSTANDING CONFORMATION A 1,600,000 gns Tattersalls Book 1 purchase by Shadwell

A GROUP WINNING 2YO Unbeaten at 2, winning the Tattersalls Stakes Gr.3 over 7 furlongs at Newmarket

A TOP PERFORMER

His toughness and consistency earned him a rating of 122 - making him one of the highest-rated sons of FRANKEL

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SEABHAC

1st 2yos in 2022

€4,000 L.F

By the legend SCAT DADDY. Group 3 winner on the turf in the U.S.A. Yearlings sold for an average of €30,625 at Arqana October all bred off a €5,000 nomination fee.

€3,500 L.F

SOMMERABEND A son of SHAMARDAL, sire of Champions & sire of sires. A consistent source of winners. Consistently in the top 20 leading French sires.

STORMY RIVER

€2,000 L.F

Group 1 winner, Group 1 placed in three racing seasons from 2-4yo.

€2,500 L.F

1st foals in 2022

YAFTA

DARK ANGEL x OASIS DREAM x INDIAN RIDGE and from the Stakes family of SWISS LAKE. Dual winner as a 2-year-old over 1.200m, winner of the Hackwood Stakes Gr.3. Rated 116.

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Sire of 24 Stakes winners - including French Champion 2yo SANS EQUIVOQUE

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Stallion covering stats 2021

The covering sire table includes sires who have covered 20+ mares in England or Ireland in 2021. Some dual-purpose sires are included and the figures will include their NH mares. STALLION

Acclamation (GB) Aclaim (IRE) Advertise (GB) Ardad (IRE) Arizona (IRE) Australia (GB) Bated Breath (GB) Belardo (IRE) Blue Point (IRE) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Cable Bay (IRE) Calyx (GB) Camacho (GB) Camelot (GB) Churchill (IRE) Circus Maximus (IRE) Cityscape (GB) Cotai Glory (GB) Coulsty Cracksman (GB) Dandy Man (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Dawn Approach (IRE) Decorated Knight (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Due Diligence (USA) Earthlight (IRE) Elusive Pimpernel (USA) Elzaam (AUS) Eqtidaar (IRE) Equiano (FR) Expert Eye (GB) Far Above (IRE) Farhh (GB) Fascinating Rock (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS)

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First year at stud

2021 standing

2004 IRE 2018 GB 2020 GB 2018 GB 2021 IRE 2015 IRE 2013 GB 2017 IRE 2020 IRE 2015 IRE 2016 GB 2020 IRE 2006 IRE 2014 IRE 2018 IRE 2021 IRE 2014 GB 2018 IRE 2017 IRE 2019 GB 2010 IRE 2008 IRE 2014 IRE 2018 IRE 2006 GB 2016 GB 2021 IRE 2012 IRE 2013 IRE 2020 GB 2011 IRE 2019 GB 2021 IRE 2014 GB 2017 IRE 2005 IRE

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Mares covered 2021

100 65 121 156 101 162 148 182 183 105 68 105 41 170 198 102 29 113 104 84 176 180 42 44 138 72 162 84 92 35 65 90 142 39 26 55

Winners

BT mares

52 32 75 75 46 96 94 97 127 53 30 50 20 117 123 59 21 52 48 64 90 133 19 22 119 41 113 12 48 19 35 58 69 27 8 25

From Weatherbys BT-winning mares

18 6 25 15 4 40 36 28 62 16 4 15 6 63 46 18 4 6 10 23 15 64 2 4 93 2 43 1 4 5 2 14 14 9 1 9

10 2 15 9 2 24 18 14 33 5 1 5 1 39 25 9 1 0 5 19 5 34 0 2 72 1 21 1 0 0 1 9 6 6 0 7

covering statistics STALLION

Footstepsinthesand (GB) Frankel (GB) Free Eagle (IRE) Frontiersman (GB) Galileo (IRE) Galileo Chrome (IRE) Galileo Gold (GB) Ghaiyyath (IRE) Gleneagles (IRE) Golden Horn (GB) Gregorian (IRE) Gustav Klimt (IRE) Harry Angel (IRE) Harzand (IRE) Havana Gold (IRE) Havana Grey (GB) Highland Reel (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Hunting Horn (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) Inns of Court (IRE) Invincible Army (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Jack Hobbs (GB) Jukebox Jury (IRE) Kameko (USA) Kessaar (IRE) Kew Gardens (IRE) King of Change (GB) Kingman (GB) Kodi Bear (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Kuroshio (AUS) Land Force (IRE) Lightning Spear (GB) Lope de Vega (IRE) Magna Grecia (IRE) Make Believe (GB) Masar (IRE) Massaat (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Mayson (GB) Mehmas (IRE) Mohaather (GB) Muhaarar (GB) Nathaniel (IRE) National Defense (GB)

First year at stud

2005 2013 2016 2019 2002 2021 2018 2021 2016 2016 2015 2019 2019 2017 2014 2019 2018 2007 2021 2007 2020 2020 2003 2018 2013 2021 2019 2021 2021 2015 2017 2007 2014 2020 2019 2011 2020 2016 2020 2019 2010 2013 2017 2021 2016 2013 2018

2021 standing

IRE GB IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE GB IRE GB GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB GB IRE IRE IRE GB GB IRE GB IRE GB GB GB IRE

Mares covered 2021

101 183 48 78 45 101 38 138 36 82 50 51 76 76 83 125 104 75 82 103 184 112 127 163 175 114 41 198 70 178 168 239 104 118 33 191 128 157 99 69 114 71 292 146 37 136 35

Winners

BT mares

54 14 150 116 18 2 15 2 39 31 23 6 15 2 82 41 19 5 55 15 23 1 21 1 48 9 18 4 45 6 64 5 55 18 33 8 16 70 23 69 13 51 14 74 42 22 2 26 3 86 43 17 5 17 5 35 8 147 121 90 9 127 60 38 5 57 11 17 4 162 131 64 23 82 31 74 25 44 4 60 15 45 4 170 67 98 43 18 2 55 17 18 5

BT winning mares

2 94 0 0 22 4 1 24 3 9 1 1 3 2 3 1 6 3 0 11 3 5 23 0 0 25 0 1 2 96 2 31 2 7 3 99 10 14 18 1 9 2 28 26 1 9 1

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covering statistics

The Darley three: above left, Blue Point, saw 183 mares in 2021, one less than fellow new stallion Inns Of Court. Above right, Too Darn Hot who covered 163 mares, 56 black-type winners, and, right, Pinatubo. He covered 152 mares, 116 winners, 66 black-type mares and 42 winning black-type mares

STALLION

New Approach (IRE) New Bay (GB) Night of Thunder (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Oasis Dream (GB) Order of St George (IRE) Outstrip (GB) Phoenix of Spain (IRE) Pinatubo (IRE) Postponed (IRE) Prince of Lir (IRE) Profitable (IRE) Rajasinghe (IRE) Raven’s Pass (USA) Ribchester (IRE) River Boyne (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Rumble Inthejungle (IRE) Sands of Mali (FR) Saxon Warrior (JPN)

First year at stud

2009 2017 2016 2015 2004 2019 2016 2020 2021 2018 2017 2018 2019 2009 2018 2021 2003 2021 2021 2019

2021 standing

GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE GB IRE GB GB IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE

Mares covered 2021

27 186 177 183 115 312 30 108 152 100 52 168 36 46 150 56 38 39 152 191

Winners

14 127 146 122 68 24 19 59 116 45 22 89 22 30 82 23 17 19 99 113

BT mares

6 61 100 78 23 3 3 20 66 5 1 22 4 10 30 1 3 3 19 43

BT-winning mares

3 35 67 48 13 1 1 7 42 1 0 11 1 3 12 0 0 0 7 24

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covering statistics STALLION

Sea The Moon (GER) Sea The Stars (IRE) Second Thought (IRE) Sergei Prokofiev (CAN) Shaman (IRE) Showcasing (GB) Sioux Nation (USA) Sir Percy (GB) Sixties Icon (GB) Soldier’s Call (GB) Sottsass (FR) Starspangledbanner (AUS) Study of Man (IRE) Tamayuz (GB) Tasleet (GB) Ten Sovereigns (IRE) Teofilo (IRE) Territories (IRE) Time Test (GB) Too Darn Hot (GB) Twilight Son (GB) U S Navy Flag (USA) Ulysses (IRE) Waldgeist (GB) Washington DC (IRE) Way To Paris (GB) Western Frontier (USA) Wings of Eagles (FR) Without Parole (GB) Wootton Bassett (GB) Youmzain (IRE) Zoustar (AUS)

First year at stud

Mehmas (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB) Kodiac (GB) Churchill (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Saxon Warrior (JPN) New Bay (GB) Inns Of Court (IRE) Blue Point (IRE) Frankel (GB) No Nay Never (USA)

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2015 GB 2010 IRE 2019 IRE 2020 GB 2021 IRE 2011 GB 2019 IRE 2008 GB 2009 GB 2020 IRE 2021 IRE 2011 IRE 2020 GB 2009 IRE 2019 GB 2020 IRE 2008 IRE 2017 GB 2018 GB 2020 GB 2017 GB 2019 IRE 2018 GB 2020 IRE 2019 GB 2021 IRE 2021 IRE 2018 IRE 2021 GB 2012 IRE 2011 IRE 2014 GB

Busiest Flat stallions in spring 2021

Stallion

2021 standing

Mares 292 244 239 198 191 191 186 184 183 183 183

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172 165 50 154 134 156 61 26 30 159 132 168 83 45 34 152 83 123 160 163 62 59 118 109 30 110 30 135 84 244 30 97

BT mares

BT-winning mares

128 70 120 88 26 3 101 18 60 12 109 43 23 3 14 2 12 1 82 15 87 50 92 36 60 24 25 6 24 3 81 27 47 22 68 13 94 27 121 80 48 9 29 10 77 28 62 29 20 3 17 4 16 1 5 1 39 13 188 128 2 1 43 25

49 64 1 8 6 25 0 1 0 11 31 15 18 2 2 15 11 5 15 56 6 6 17 14 0 3 0 1 8 90 1 16

Stallions who saw most winning mares in 2021

Stallions who saw most b-type winners 2021

Stallion

Wootton Bassett (GB) Mehmas (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Frankel (GB) Kingman (GB) Night of Thunder (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Sea The Moon (GER) Kodiac (GB) New Bay (GB) Blue Point (IRE)

Mares 188 170 162 150 147 146 133 128 127 127 127

Lope de Vega (IRE) Kingman (GB) Frankel (GB) Wootton Bassett (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Night of Thunder (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Too Darn Hot (GB) Sea The Moon (GER) No Nay Never (USA) Pinatubo (IRE)

Mares 99 96 94 90 72 67 64 56 49 48 42

stallion yearling averages Top sires in Europe by yearling averages in 2021

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Sire Average

Sea The Stars: was the sixth-best sire by yearling average in 2021, but as Jocelyn de Moubray identifies in his sale review (pg 80-85), all the averages for the top sires were down from their figures posted in 2020

Dubawi 480,753 Galileo 467,342 Frankel 317,738 Kingman 219,898 Justify 219,263 Sea The Stars 182,598 Shamardal 182,173 Lope De Vega 176,854 Siyouni 166,748 No Nay Never 165,158 Camelot 154,366 Mendelssohn 132,129 Wootton Bassett 130,294 Invincible Spirit 110,239 Dark Angel 103,221 Kodiac 102,491 Night Of Thunder 94,084 Goken 91,411 Showcasing 89,454 Farhh 85,002

Stallion yearling averages 2021 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

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Acclamation Aclaim Adaay Adlerflug Affaire Solitaire Air Force Blue Al Wukair Albert Dock Almanzor Amarillo Amaron American Devil American Pharoah Anjaal Anodin

49 3,035,063 61,940 280,612 24 75,564 25 48,861 33 580,316 17,585 85,034 15 19,908 18 15,649 30 447,883 14,929 65,000 20 15,415 10 13,957 9 323,980 35,997 72,279 4 43,367 5 30,102 16 94,812 5,925 11,054 10 6,079 6 5,669 2 24,660 12,330 19,558 1 5,102 1 19,558 37 738,945 19,971 93,537 22 19,016 15 21,371 2 10,204 5,102 6,803 2 5,102 0 0 49 4,003,565 81,705 425,000 31 82,186 18 80,876 4 17,433 4,358 6,378 4 4,358 0 0 21 340,137 16,197 44,218 12 14,101 9 18,991 2 8,503 4,251 5,952 0 0 2 4,251 5 358,844 71,768 85,034 2 70,017 3 72,936 13 100,599 7,738 22,000 7 9,637 6 5,522 37 590,185 15,950 62,075 20 16,265 17 15,581

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stallion yearling averages STALLION Arcano Ardad Areion Arrigo Attendu Australia Awtaad Bated Breath Battle Of Marengo Belardo Birchwood Blu Constellation Blue Bresil Bobby’s Kitten Born To Sea Bow Creek Brametot Brazen Beau Bungle Inthejungle Buratino Cable Bay Camacho Camelot Cappella Sansevero Captain Chop Caravaggio Charm Spirit Charming Thought Chemical Charge Churchill City Of Light Cityscape Clodovil Cloth Of Stars Cotai Glory Counterattack Cracksman Dabirsim Dandy Man Dariyan Dark Angel Dartmouth Dawn Approach De Treville Decorated Knight Desert Prince Diamond Boy Doctor Dino Doyen Dragon Dancer Dragon Pulse

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6 48,468 8,078 13,605 30 1,563,524 52,117 190,000 16 392,858 24,553 97,789 2 21,599 10,799 19,048 11 189,626 17,238 30,612 79 6,136,309 77,674 450,000 38 955,286 25,139 66,327 35 1,142,922 32,654 230,000 2 3,401 1,700 2,551 42 951,778 22,661 85,034 31 245,323 7,913 17,007 3 8,503 2,834 4,252 12 308,095 25,674 41,905 13 200,997 15,461 67,000 18 175,595 9,755 23,810 5 68,877 13,775 25,510 3 52,296 17,432 25,510 32 395,004 12,343 45,000 49 1,338,406 27,314 106,293 27 186,460 6,905 27,000 5 71,024 14,204 40,000 87 2,133,792 24,526 220,000 43 6,637,753 154,366 1,020,408 3 12,841 4,280 9,354 3 23,809 7,936 11,054 36 1,974,550 54,848 229,592 33 485,195 14,702 85,000 4 47,807 11,951 20,000 5 56,547 11,309 29,762 92 5,879,261 63,905 440,000 2 86,769 43,384 46,769 20 285,282 14,264 42,857 5 75,578 15,115 45,000 37 1,470,242 39,736 238,095 61 1,816,914 29,785 144,558 16 332,484 20,780 63,776 71 3,519,940 49,576 410,000 42 956,491 22,773 85,034 115 3,953,308 34,376 246,599 16 153,486 9,592 26,361 79 8,154,495 103,221 750,000 2 3,619 1,809 2,857 14 162,271 11,590 18,707 7 123,726 17,675 44,218 20 260,276 13,013 47,619 4 33,163 8,290 9,354 2 30,476 15,238 28,571 6 115,408 19,234 34,014 3 61,292 20,430 32,381 2 9,265 4,632 8,503 55 509,488 9,263 43,810

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4 12 10 1 4 43 17 16 2 22 18 2 8 8 9 4 2 17 20 16 2 54 22 0 1 22 18 1 4 54 1 13 2 19 31 8 43 22 63 9 40 1 9 3 6 1 1 3 1 2 36

10,203 2 3,826 70,325 18 39,978 31,972 6 12,188 19,048 1 2,551 13,392 7 19,436 76,992 36 78,489 22,636 21 27,164 30,031 19 34,864 1,700 0 0 20,059 20 25,523 8,526 13 7,064 2,125 1 4,252 26,250 4 24,523 12,139 5 20,775 9,778 9 9,731 10,841 1 25,510 22,959 1 6,378 10,189 15 14,785 26,328 29 27,994 9,007 11 3,848 12,262 3 15,500 21,672 33 29,196 205,496 21 100,801 0 3 4,280 11,054 2 6,377 48,852 14 64,271 11,940 15 18,017 10,000 3 12,602 12,648 1 5,952 63,993 38 63,779 40,000 1 46,769 15,714 7 11,571 27,738 3 6,700 49,812 18 29,100 29,413 30 30,170 23,862 8 17,697 50,941 28 47,479 22,141 20 23,469 30,189 52 39,449 7,558 7 12,208 116,541 39 89,560 762 1 2,857 11,829 5 11,161 11,196 4 22,534 21,754 14 9,267 8,503 3 8,220 28,571 1 1,905 25,998 3 12,471 32,381 2 14,455 4,632 0 0 10,704 19 6,533

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stallion yearling averages STALLION

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Dream Ahead Dschingis Secret Dubawi Due Diligence Dutch Art Earl Of Tinsdal Ectot El Kabeir Elm Park Elusive City Elusive Pimpernel Elzaam Equiano Estidhkaar Exceed And Excel Expert Eye Falco Farhh Fascinating Rock Fast Company Fastnet Rock Footstepsinthesand Fountain Of Youth Fracas Frankel Free Eagle French Navy Frontiersman Fulbright Galileo Galileo Gold Galiway Garswood George Vancouver Gleneagles Goken Golden Horn Gregorian Guignol Guiliani Gustav Klimt Gutaifan Harry Angel Harzand Havana Gold Havana Grey Hawkbill Heeraat Helmet Herald The Dawn Highland Reel

25 472,381 18,895 72,279 10 19,899 15 18,225 4 25,935 6,483 11,054 2 8,716 2 4,251 27 12,980,340 480,753 2,040,816 13 407,059 14 549,183 3 66,381 22,127 52,381 2 29,940 1 6,500 2 53,197 26,598 36,190 1 36,190 1 17,007 6 18,283 3,047 4,252 4 3,507 2 2,126 9 244,048 27,116 59,524 3 41,950 6 19,699 45 1,144,092 25,424 130,000 30 26,241 15 23,789 5 51,871 10,374 17,857 3 13,322 2 5,952 4 163,265 40,816 127,551 2 71,853 2 9,779 5 78,657 15,731 46,769 4 7,972 1 46,769 36 476,525 13,236 61,224 23 12,281 13 14,926 9 82,830 9,203 16,190 5 8,928 4 9,547 17 82,790 4,870 10,629 13 4,733 4 5,314 42 2,397,132 57,074 190,476 22 48,953 20 66,007 59 2,474,788 41,945 290,000 26 45,081 33 39,474 5 16,762 3,352 7,619 5 3,352 0 0 13 1,105,027 85,002 350,000 8 96,726 5 66,243 11 277,161 25,196 100,000 8 21,843 3 34,138 69 1,436,517 20,819 85,714 38 24,861 31 15,864 10 651,164 65,116 150,000 5 49,524 5 80,708 54 1,927,035 35,685 535,714 29 52,296 25 16,417 7 26,447 3,778 8,095 6 3,203 1 7,228 2 3,401 1,700 2,551 0 0 2 1,700 37 11,756,327 317,738 925,000 21 352,897 16 271,592 35 568,179 16,233 150,000 22 21,910 13 6,626 5 19,983 3,996 5,952 2 5,314 3 3,118 2 24,762 12,381 23,810 1 23,810 1 952 4 13,350 3,337 7,228 3 3,599 1 2,551 22 10,281,530 467,342 1,275,510 12 365,782 10 589,214 41 1,128,353 27,520 80,782 20 25,888 21 29,075 17 950,680 55,922 323,129 9 27,872 8 87,478 7 106,720 15,245 61,905 4 5,251 3 28,571 2 14,456 7,228 7,653 0 0 2 7,228 71 2,725,400 38,385 350,000 40 44,686 31 30,256 2 182,823 91,411 127,551 1 55,272 1 127,551 33 1,064,335 32,252 150,000 15 41,793 18 24,301 23 319,342 13,884 115,000 11 9,915 12 17,523 2 10,204 5,102 5,527 2 5,102 0 0 7 163,266 23,323 114,796 3 12,755 4 31,250 37 581,476 15,715 57,143 19 20,057 18 11,132 32 430,997 13,468 42,517 18 15,268 14 11,154 64 2,539,416 39,678 209,524 29 60,448 35 22,468 7 106,285 15,183 70,000 5 19,726 2 3,826 40 1,235,879 30,896 100,000 18 45,098 22 19,277 85 2,224,241 26,167 104,762 48 30,076 37 21,096 5 41,004 8,200 12,000 3 6,933 2 10,102 2 7,619 3,809 6,667 1 952 1 6,667 14 179,847 12,846 30,612 10 10,246 4 19,345 3 11,905 3,968 4,252 2 4,252 1 3,401 25 565,656 22,626 63,776 14 19,727 11 26,316

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stallion yearling averages STALLION Holy Roman Emperor Hot Streak Hunter’s Light Iffraaj Intello Invincible Spirit Isfahan It’s Gino Ito Ivawood Jack Hobbs James Garfield Jimmy Two Times Johnny Barnes Jukebox Jury Jungle Cat Justify Karakontie Kendargent Kessaar Kheleyf Kingman Kingston Hill Kitten’s Joy Kodi Bear Kodiac Kool Kompany Kuroshio Langtang Lawman Le Havre Le Vie Infinite Lethal Force Lightning Spear Linda’s Lad Literato Lope De Vega Lord Of England Lucayan Lucky Lion Make Believe Manduro Markaz Massaat Master Carpenter Mastercraftsman Maxios Mayson Mehmas Mendelssohn Milan

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47 1,087,193 23,131 76,531 29 28,245 18 14,893 14 88,932 6,352 17,000 10 5,672 4 8,051 4 32,738 8,184 17,007 2 5,739 2 10,629 41 1,564,556 38,159 170,000 20 31,131 21 44,853 13 447,896 34,453 119,048 9 40,974 4 19,780 37 4,078,879 110,239 480,000 20 93,124 17 130,376 10 156,460 15,646 25,510 7 16,399 3 13,888 2 6,802 3,401 5,952 2 3,401 0 0 6 63,775 10,629 22,109 3 14,455 3 6,802 10 59,183 5,918 12,755 6 4,691 4 7,759 6 103,334 17,222 38,095 4 19,166 2 13,333 30 526,345 17,544 80,952 11 20,655 19 15,743 9 67,601 7,511 18,707 9 7,511 0 0 15 131,376 8,758 22,109 8 12,542 7 4,433 2 32,755 16,377 20,000 2 16,377 0 0 8 229,670 28,708 60,000 5 17,934 3 46,666 6 1,315,578 219,263 450,000 3 300,000 3 138,526 3 43,673 14,557 32,313 1 32,313 2 5,680 18 597,364 33,186 110,544 7 34,924 11 32,081 52 1,495,228 28,754 90,000 29 37,611 23 17,587 5 51,020 10,204 17,007 3 10,771 2 9,353 78 17,152,081 219,898 1,100,000 41 243,680 37 193,545 2 16,327 8,163 9,524 1 9,524 1 6,803 7 545,374 77,910 255,102 2 138,027 5 53,864 30 999,076 33,302 175,000 11 51,329 19 22,865 129 13,221,427 102,491 475,000 67 94,513 62 111,113 4 18,286 4,571 9,524 3 5,079 1 3,048 33 396,902 12,027 102,041 22 12,922 11 10,236 2 4,677 2,338 2,551 0 0 2 2,338 19 391,221 20,590 68,027 8 15,890 11 24,008 47 3,207,987 68,255 230,000 15 74,473 32 65,339 4 40,816 10,204 19,558 2 15,306 2 5,102 3 19,429 6,476 8,000 3 6,476 0 0 11 332,333 30,212 78,000 8 32,903 3 23,036 2 28,571 14,285 16,190 1 12,381 1 16,190 2 17,007 8,503 11,905 2 8,503 0 0 92 16,270,634 176,854 725,000 53 171,769 39 183,765 12 369,048 30,754 102,041 6 33,871 6 27,636 2 6,378 3,189 3,827 1 3,827 1 2,551 3 9,355 3,118 4,252 3 3,118 0 0 34 868,067 25,531 93,537 16 36,172 18 16,072 5 65,475 13,095 27,211 3 15,306 2 9,778 4 33,470 8,367 19,048 3 8,617 1 7,619 31 443,563 14,308 42,857 17 13,366 14 15,451 3 3,600 1,200 1,600 0 0 3 1,200 53 1,855,291 35,005 170,000 30 37,125 23 32,239 6 60,799 10,133 20,408 1 4,677 5 11,224 20 404,733 20,236 71,429 15 18,817 5 24,495 48 3,613,302 75,277 250,000 30 82,492 18 63,251 5 660,647 132,129 276,361 1 276,361 4 96,071 2 33,027 16,513 30,476 1 30,476 1 2,551

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stallion yearling averages STALLION

Sold

Millowitsch Mondialiste More Than Ready Motivator Mr Owen Muhaarar Mukhadram Myboycharlie Nathaniel National Defense New Approach New Bay Night Of Thunder No Nay Never Noble Mission Nutan Oasis Dream Olympic Glory Order Of St George Oscar Performance Outstrip Panis Parish Hall Passing Glance Pastorius Pearl Secret Pedro The Great Penny’s Picnic Pether’s Moon Pillar Coral Pivotal Poet’s Word Polish Vulcano Pomellato Postponed Pounced Pour Moi Prince Gibraltar Prince Of Lir Proconsul Profitable Protectionist Rajasinghe Raven’s Pass Recoletos Recorder Red Jazz Reliable Man Requinto Ribchester Roaring Lion

5 88,435 17,687 8 81,071 10,133 2 151,537 75,768 8 303,878 37,984 11 73,554 6,686 57 1,554,387 27,269 10 107,705 10,770 9 153,060 17,006 39 1,672,732 42,890 18 247,539 13,752 22 654,264 29,739 44 2,575,598 58,536 40 3,763,374 94,084 61 10,074,663 165,158 6 410,170 68,361 4 22,109 5,527 59 4,581,102 77,645 29 374,150 12,901 3 51,020 17,006 2 53,571 26,785 15 89,165 5,944 7 31,887 4,555 3 59,215 19,738 3 36,191 12,063 5 77,839 15,567 6 28,555 4,759 39 652,210 16,723 10 102,138 10,213 5 91,239 18,247 2 3,810 1,905 10 397,795 39,779 3 24,371 8,123 2 51,446 25,723 4 22,534 5,633 8 136,323 17,040 5 34,013 6,802 2 62,075 31,037 4 34,863 8,715 15 146,208 9,747 2 17,556 8,778 77 2,991,077 38,845 14 330,357 23,596 4 11,095 2,773 16 246,803 15,425 26 485,968 18,691 21 320,485 15,261 9 62,925 6,991 15 373,723 24,914 2 18,677 9,338 65 2,884,416 44,375 48 3,491,136 72,732

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39,116 25,714 93,537 119,048 14,456 110,000 27,211 48,469 270,000 60,000 150,000 272,109 375,000 925,000 100,000 11,054 420,000 76,531 20,408 51,020 22,109 20,408 49,524 23,810 39,116 13,000 42,517 38,265 40,000 1,905 70,000 15,000 44,218 8,503 62,000 11,054 51,871 13,605 40,000 16,156 425,000 85,034 4,762 42,517 89,286 102,041 20,408 187,075 14,000 350,000 450,000

3 7 1 3 6 35 4 7 16 9 9 21 22 30 3 2 31 15 3 2 6 3 2 1 1 3 19 4 4 0 9 2 1 1 3 1 2 2 7 1 41 10 1 11 10 10 6 7 1 35 31

21,542 2 11,904 10,938 1 4,500 58,000 1 93,537 46,202 5 33,054 6,731 5 6,632 28,485 22 25,336 10,450 6 10,983 19,557 2 8,078 28,929 23 52,602 16,686 9 10,818 42,247 13 21,079 70,911 23 47,236 112,261 18 71,868 148,299 31 181,473 57,471 3 79,251 8,716 2 2,338 77,634 28 77,657 10,062 14 15,943 17,006 0 0 26,785 0 0 5,745 9 6,076 7,511 4 2,338 29,226 1 762 23,810 2 6,190 16,190 4 15,412 4,018 3 5,500 18,394 20 15,136 10,204 6 10,220 22,619 1 762 0 2 1,905 36,421 1 70,000 7,900 1 8,571 7,228 1 44,218 4,677 3 5,952 16,255 5 17,511 5,952 4 7,015 31,037 0 0 7,227 2 10,204 7,398 8 11,802 1,400 1 16,156 42,185 36 35,041 28,103 4 12,330 3,000 3 2,698 18,701 5 8,217 17,772 16 19,265 11,875 11 18,338 8,716 3 3,543 13,301 8 35,076 14,000 1 4,677 43,550 30 45,338 84,212 17 51,797

stallion yearling averages Profitable: the Darley sire’s top-priced yearling of 2021 was a colt out of Cynthiana sold by Ringfort Stud to Oliver St Lawrence for 425,000gns in October Book 1

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Rock Of Gibraltar 3 37,415 12,471 28,912 3 12,471 0 0 Ruler Of The World 8 85,290 10,661 23,810 5 6,853 3 17,007 Sakhee’s Secret 4 45,067 11,266 18,707 1 18,707 3 8,786 Saxon Warrior 64 4,851,551 75,805 459,184 36 84,724 28 64,338 Scissor Kick 2 14,881 7,440 11,905 1 11,905 1 2,976 Sea The Moon 63 3,917,090 62,176 300,000 38 64,956 25 57,949 Sea The Stars 82 14,973,065 182,598 1,500,000 40 172,895 42 191,839 Seabhac 17 286,138 16,831 65,476 9 16,770 8 16,900 Seahenge 31 482,991 15,580 51,020 19 18,528 12 10,912 Shalaa 67 1,841,822 27,489 119,048 39 26,347 28 29,080 Shamalgan 5 47,194 9,438 14,456 1 6,803 4 10,097 Shamardal 9 1,639,558 182,173 560,000 6 193,333 3 159,852 Shirocco 2 14,881 7,440 7,653 1 7,653 1 7,228 Showcasing 83 7,424,713 89,454 450,000 47 98,005 36 78,290 Sioux Nation 105 3,489,143 33,229 215,000 45 43,918 60 25,213 Sir Percy 9 222,725 24,747 120,000 6 31,327 3 11,587 Sixties Icon 3 99,343 33,114 90,000 1 90,000 2 4,671 Siyouni 52 8,670,918 166,748 1,275,510 27 195,745 25 135,431 Smooth Daddy 18 282,157 15,675 114,286 14 17,690 4 8,622 Soldier Hollow 18 1,146,260 63,681 595,238 11 40,043 7 100,826 Sommerabend 3 14,455 4,818 8,503 3 4,818 0 0 Starspangledbanner 84 4,867,626 57,947 220,000 45 60,111 39 55,452 Storm The Stars 2 16,803 8,401 10,000 1 10,000 1 6,803 Style Vendome 3 102,891 34,297 85,034 1 2,551 2 50,170 Supplicant 2 9,779 4,889 8,503 2 4,889 0 0 Taareef 6 51,870 8,645 15,306 3 8,220 3 9,070 Tagula 5 32,737 6,547 10,204 2 5,952 3 6,944 Tai Chi 16 174,744 10,921 32,313 6 14,243 10 8,928 Tamayuz 25 864,505 34,580 130,000 11 46,289 14 25,380 Tasleet 48 1,211,791 25,245 80,000 30 27,134 18 22,097 Telescope 6 15,115 2,519 6,190 3 2,244 3 2,793

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stallion yearling averages Zoustar: the reverse shuttle stallion posted the third-highest yearling average for a first-crop sire in Europe

STALLION Teofilo Territories The Grey Gatsby The Gurkha The Last Lion Time Test Toronado Twilight Son U S Navy Flag Ultra Ulysses Unfortunately Vadamos Vanishing Cupid Swi) Vocalised Waldpark Walk In The Park War Command Washington Dc Whipper Whitecliffsofdover Wiesenpfad Wild Chief Wings Of Eagles Wootton Bassett Zanzibari Zarak Zazou Zelzal Zoffany Zoustar

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Filly Average

30 1,895,231 63,174 187,075 12 64,427 18 62,339 42 1,092,518 26,012 93,537 24 30,051 18 20,626 22 379,254 17,238 93,537 10 13,988 12 19,947 11 117,121 10,647 19,558 6 11,763 5 9,308 3 8,351 2,783 5,000 2 2,900 1 2,551 24 1,145,973 47,748 400,000 14 62,619 10 26,930 13 588,911 45,300 119,048 9 44,743 4 46,556 27 762,439 28,238 135,000 15 34,580 12 20,311 45 2,488,920 55,309 246,599 16 51,173 29 57,591 17 156,462 9,203 63,776 7 5,952 10 11,479 22 1,198,205 54,463 300,000 14 68,163 8 30,489 17 243,378 14,316 62,000 11 17,222 6 8,988 9 160,968 17,885 40,000 5 17,476 4 18,397 2 11,905 5,952 6,803 0 0 2 5,952 2 11,479 5,739 8,503 2 5,739 0 0 3 22,534 7,511 17,007 0 0 3 7,511 3 135,714 45,238 85,000 3 45,238 0 0 4 103,218 25,804 52,381 4 25,804 0 0 29 380,238 13,111 50,000 20 12,663 9 14,108 2 8,503 4,251 5,527 0 0 2 4,251 13 99,062 7,620 18,707 7 7,592 6 7,652 2 9,779 4,889 6,378 0 0 2 4,889 2 51,020 25,510 25,510 1 25,510 1 25,510 3 31,619 10,539 15,238 3 10,539 0 0 45 5,863,233 130,294 425,170 23 143,215 22 116,785 2 17,857 8,928 10,204 2 8,928 0 0 28 1,101,829 39,351 93,537 11 37,350 17 40,645 2 16,157 8,078 11,905 1 11,905 1 4,252 21 767,006 36,524 144,558 9 31,935 12 39,965 107 4,337,213 40,534 350,000 55 36,051 52 45,276 68 4,771,782 70,173 310,000 28 74,659 40 67,032

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Where was the value?

Tom Wilson crunches the numbers to see which stallions outperformed the market this autumn

E NOW have the opportunity to reflect and analyse trends in the yearling market, whilst comparing against ontrack performance to assess whether certain sires may be being under-valued or overvalued based on sales ring returns compared to racing performance. We aggregated sales results at Arqana, Tattersalls UK and Ireland, plus Goffs UK and Goffs and have converted purchase prices to sterling in order to enable comparison. On my figures, Dubawi leads my top 20 sales list with an average purchase price across the 27 yearlings purchased of £495,037. The average purchase price across all lots was £58,845 giving Dubawi a performance above the average purchase price of all lots of £436,191. Kingman tops the list in terms of total purchase prices across all lots from the yearling sales so far in 2021, with 80 yearlings purchased for a total of £18,308,900. In all, £309,646,312 was spent on yearlings sold in the

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sales ring at the above sale houses between August and November 10, and Kingman accounted for 5.91 per cent of all total sales, Lope De Vega for 5.44 per cent and Sea The Stars 4.84 per cent. In terms of the lowest average and total value of purchases, of sires with more than 10 yearlings sold through the ring, Estidhkaar at £4,915, Hot Streak at £5,009 and Ivawood at £5,985 were the lowest purchase value performers. As a side note, an interesting metric for breeders and purchasers may be the ratio of yearlings by sire who were returned unsold. Of sires sending more than three yearlings to the sale, Finsceal Fior was the sire who returned the largest proportion of stock unsold, with all three yearlings failing to be purchased through the ring. Of the sires with the fewest number of yearlings returned unsold, or the largest proportion sold if you may, Havana Grey translated positive buyer reviews with a strong performance through the ring, with only 1/85 (1.18 per cent) yearlings sent to the sales returning unsold. For reference, the average

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Sires with the lowest number of unsold yearlings and that performance against the market average of unsold horses per stallion STALLION

Unsold

Havana Grey Expert Eye No Nay Never Oasis Dream Sea The Moon Camelot New Bay Sea The Stars Frankel Lope De Vega Ardad Kingman Siyouni Golden Horn Ulysses Zoustar Gleneagles Mehmas Iffraaj Cracksman

Total

% unsold % Unsold v Avg

1 85 1.18 -5.47 1 65 1.54 -5.11 1 65 1.54 -5.11 1 62 1.61 -5.04 1 53 1.89 -4.76 1 47 2.13 -4.52 1 46 2.17 -4.48 2 89 2.25 -4.40 1 41 2.44 -4.21 3 98 3.06 -3.59 1 32 3.13 -3.53 3 95 3.16 -3.49 2 57 3.51 -3.14 1 28 3.57 -3.08 1 26 3.85 -2.80 3 77 3.90 -2.76 3 75 4.00 -2.65 2 50 4.00 -2.65 2 49 4.08 -2.57 3 71 4.23 -2.43

across the entire yearling pool was 6.6 per cent of the lots listed in total returned unsold. Frst-season sire Expert Eye was well fancied by purchasers with only 1/65 (1.54 per cent) of his yearlings returning unsold, while the older No Nay Never rounds out the top three.

Can we determine value purchases?

The question then becomes, are we able to determine which sires may be under-estimated by the market and could represent value based on the yearling purchases that we’ve seen in 2021? Based on what we are seeing

stallion sales Leading stallion winners-to-runners (with more than 30 runners)

by TW

Le Havre (IRE) 52 23 44.23 New Bay 57 25 43.86 Wootton Bassett 32 14 43.75 Dubawi (IRE) 166 72 43.37 Night Of Thunder (IRE) 88 38 43.18 Frankel 162 69 42.59 Gleneagles (IRE) 101 41 40.59 Sir Prancealot (IRE) 50 20 40.00 Dream Ahead (USA) 45 18 40.00 Mehmas (IRE) 142 56 39.44 Dansili 46 18 39.13 Dutch Art 57 22 38.60 Ardad (IRE) 50 19 38.00 Shamardal (USA) 79 30 37.97 Sea The Stars (IRE) 140 53 37.86 Requinto (IRE) 43 16 37.21 Poet’s Voice 57 21 36.84 Cable Bay (IRE) 79 29 36.71 Zebedee 60 22 36.67 Pastoral Pursuits 30 11 36.67

in terms of track performance is this spend providing value to buyers? In order to quantify this we will use a performance metrics of winners-to-runners ratio for the 2021 Flat season. We will then compare these against the purchase prices of yearlings to assess potential value purchases.

Winners to runners ratio

Of horses with more than 30 individual runners competing in races across UK and Ireland in the 2021, Le Havre tops our performance list with 23 of his individual runners going on to win on the track, that’s a ratio of 44.23 per cent. New Bay rounds out in second position with a ratio of 25/57 43.86 per cent. Coolmore’s great big hope

for the future Wootton Bassett rounds out the top three with a winners-to-runners ratio of 14/32 43.75 per cent. In order to explore which sires may be offer value when compared to their on track performance, let’s now compare the average purchase prices of yearlings compared to the winners-to-runners ratio that they have achieved on the track this Flat season. I ranked horses by winnersto-runners with their average yearling purchase price. Despite seeing their yearlings increase significantly in value, I believe that Mehmas and Night Of Thunder still offer good value to purchasers. Le Havre, New Bay, Gleneagles and Dream Ahead yearlings appear to offer great track returns for prices this autumn.

Havana Grey (top) and Dream Ahead: both looking good on the stats

Winners to runners compared to average purchase price STALLION Average Purchase Price Le Havre New Bay Wootton Bassett Dubawi Night Of Thunder Frankel Gleneagles Dream Ahead Mehmas Ardad Sea The Stars Free Eagle Territories Dark Angel Belardo The Gurkha Kingman Awtaad Make Believe Camelot

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WTRR

70,521 44.23 62,049 43.86 131,261 43.75 495,037 43.37 87,925 43.18 322,125 42.59 39,981 40.59 23,335 40.00 71,965 39.44 44,981 38.00 194,443 37.86 17,084 36.36 24,599 36.36 103,140 36.36 23,176 35.85 9,881 35.00 228,861 34.56 20,666 34.48 26,940 34.43 158,553 34.15

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The outstanding sire has had another stellar year and is set to break his own prize-money record, writes Melissa Bauer-Herzog

Into Mischief breaking records

HILE MOST PEOPLE don’t want to re-live 2020, the team at Spendthrift Farm is more than happy in that its stalwart stallion Into Mischief has enjoyed a near-repeat of last year. Few stallions can better a year in which they sired a Horse of the Year and broke the earnings record – but Into Mischief is one. As of November 7, the stallion was in striking distance of breaking his own 2020 record of $22,506,085 prize-money won in a season, a year which also saw him become the fastest North American stallion ever to sire 100 black-type winners. The stallion also sired his sixth Breeders’ Cup winner when Life Is Good won the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), while last year’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) winner Gamine finished third in the same race this year. One question still remains for Into Mischief, however – will he become the first stallion to sire two consecutive Kentucky Derby (G1) winners? The stallion’s Grade 1 Haskell Stakeswinning son Mandaloun also finished second in the Kentucky Derby in May. The results still pending after the winner Medina Spirit came up with a positive drug test, but Into Mischief may join an elite group of 19 stallions to sire multiple Kentucky Derby winners, if his son is declared the winner. One spot Into Mischief doesn’t control on the general sires’ list is most Grade 1 winners and performers of 2021 – that honour goes to Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm’s Curlin.

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Curlin: turning things around in style

The two-time Horse of the Year got off to such slow start at stud that he only saw 54 mares in 2013 when his first crop was three, but Curlin’s story has changed dramatically. In 2022, he’ll be standing for $175,000 on the back of this season that saw him sire 37 stakes performers as of November 7 with five Grade 1 winners. Curlin is the sire of two of the best threeyear-old fillies in North America this year with three-time Grade 1 winner and likely champion Malathaat and Cotillion Stakes

winner Clairiere. Those two topped off their season finishing third and fourth against their elders in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) only a few months after giving Curlin the exacta in the Alabama Stakes (G1). Curlin’s three-year-olds are from his first crop conceived off a $150,000 stud fee and, giving a peek into the future, they also account for three of his five Grade 1 winners this year. It’s almost guaranteed that breeders with A.P. Indy-line mares will be taking a close look at Curlin and his sons.

us stallions romped to a 4l victory in the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) only two weeks after breaking his maiden in his third start. He looked like a serious contender for this year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) before having to be scratched due to a suspected abscess just a week before the race. Connect was represented in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) by his Grade 3 winner Hidden Connection, who finished fourth at Del Mar. Connect, too, has already proven to have an affinity with the A.P. Indy line, but it is worth noting that two of his five stakes performers are out of Awesome Again mares, including Hidden Connection. The stallion is also proving to love the Storm Cat line – one of his stakes horses is out of a mare by a Storm Cat son and another out of a mare by a Storm Cat grandson.

Gunning for glory

Into Mischief: by the end of the year will have broken his own progeny earnings record which he created in 2020 Photo: Autry Graham / Spendthrift Farm

Three of Curlin’s five Grade 1 winners this year were out of mares by A.P. Indy and son Bernardini, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Of his 85 career stakes winners and 45 graded stakes winners, nine of the stakes winners are out of A.P. Indy mares and nine are out of A.P. Indy grand-daughters, who have also produced seven of his graded stakes winners. Though it is a small sample with Curlin only having a few sire sons with racing age foals, they have also produced three stakes performers out of A.P. Indy granddaughters.

Continuing to Connect

If his first runners continue their success past his freshman year, Curlin’s first-crop sire Connect may prove to be the best of his sons in the shed. He is second only to Gun Runner in the freshman sires’ title race by earnings and is tied with Caravaggio at the top the leader board by number of winners. A Grade 1 winner himself, Connect has sired five stakes performers and two stakes winners in 2021, led by the Grade 1-winning Rattle N Roll. That colt proved that he is a tough runner in early October when he

Though it’s one of the strongest freshman crops seen in many years, Gun Runner has put together a no holds barred campaign with his first runners, and the Horse of the Year has already secured champion freshman sires’ honours by nearly every measure. The sire of two Grade 1 winners and four graded stakes horses coming into November, Gun Runner held a nearly $2 million earnings lead after the Breeders’ Cup. He also became the second straight freshman sire to have a champion in his first crop – his daughter Echo Zulu confirmed her superiority in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, while the stallion was also represented in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with runner-up Pappacap. The stallion’s fee has more than doubled from $50,000 in 2021 to $125,000 and for good reason. His $3,521,956 in progeny earnings after Breeders’ Cup weekend is nearly $2 million more than any freshman sire end-of-year earnings since Uncle Mo ended his freshman season with earnings of $3,670,354 in 2015. Gun Runner’s earnings are just $1 million shy of likely the champion second-season sire Not This Time.

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Not This Time is looking like the much-needed US heir apparent to the late Giant’s Causeway. His first starters hit the ground running in 2020 and haven’t looked back. The stallion is firing at nearly 11 per cent stakes winners and 58 per cent winners-to-runners. His first crop is responsible for all three of his graded stakes winners, led by last year’s Del Mar Debutante (G1) winner Princess Noor, but five of his stakes winners are from his juvenile crop. Not This Time is one of two second crop Giant’s Causeway sons in the top five by earnings with Protonico, the sire of Kentucky Derby (G1) and Awesome Again (G1) winner Medina Spirit from only 17 runners in 2021. That colt accounts the majority of Protonico’s progeny earnings.

Uncle Mo becoming a noted sire of sires

Gun Runner: clear leading freshman sire with earnings nearly $2 million ahead of his nearest pursuer Photo: Melissa Bauer-Herzog

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Last year’s champion freshman sire Nyquist (Uncle Mo) sits in second just behind Not This Time by earnings and has the most stakes performers of any second-season sire with 17. Through 2021 to early November, the stallion had not registered a 2021 graded stakes winner, but he did have five stakes winners and seven graded stakes performers, led by two Grade 1-placed runners. Hailed as an emerging sire-of-sires last year, Uncle Mo continues to build that title in 2021. Led by Nyquist, he has three sons in the top 10 among second-season sires by earnings and with Uncle Lino in 17th. Standing for $4,000 in Maryland, Uncle Lino is registering 60 per cent winners from runners this year led by three stakes performers. Uncle Mo himself is having another productive season on the track. His three-year-old son Golden Pal equalled the Del Mar track record in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) and Yaupon won the Forego Stakes (G1) to lead his 11 stakes winners and 24 stakes horses in 2021. Yaupon is retiring to Spendthrift Farm for 2022, while Coolmore has said, if he doesn’t retire, the Royal Ascot meeting could again be on Golden Pal’s agenda in 2022.

WELL BRED, TOUGH & CONSISTENT STAKES WINNER

GR.1 SIRE OF CHAMPION STAYER TRUESHAN

HIGH-CLASS STAYER BY MONTJEU

WON/PLACED IN 8 STAKES RACES

STAKES PRODUCER ON THE FLAT AND OVER HURDLES New dual Gr.1 winner Trueshan and new Gr.2 winner Road To Arc in 2021.

WON/PLACED IN 5 STAKES RACES

OUTSTANDING PEDIGREE Half-brother to 5 Stakes horses descending from the legendary Fall Aspen. “Bangkok has the ability, looks and temperament to be a top-class performer at stud. He has courage and a constitution second to none.” Andrew Balding, trainer

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57% WINNERS TO RUNNERS

BY A LEADING NH INFLUENCE IN MONTJEU Plus a half-brother to 4 Group horses including German Derby winner Wiener Walzer, sire of Grade 1 winner Adagio.

HIGHEST EARNING SON OF DANEHILL DANCER Gr.1 winner and won/placed in 12 Stakes races.

“Walzertakt is a very interesting addition to the GB NH stallion ranks bred on the same cross as Camelot.” Richard Venn, bloodstock agent

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PLANTEUR BANGKOK WALZERTAKT HELLVELYN INDIAN HAVEN

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Al Kazeem

bay 2008, 16.1hh by Dubawi - Kazeem (Darshaan) Four-time Gr.1 winner by DUBAWI Won Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 2015, Gr.1 Coral-Eclipse, 2013, Gr.1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes, 2013, & Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 2013 Joint Champion Older Horse in Europe in 2013 (9.5f-10.5f ) Timeform rated 128 in three consecutive seasons Sire of Group 1 winner ASPETAR, Stakes-winning 3yo miler USAK and Stakes-winning 2yos HARPER and SAINT LAWRENCE 13% Stakes winners to runners for his colts 2021 coverings included Group 1-placed mares Daahyeh and Ferevia

STANDING AT OAKGROVE STUD Oakgrove Estate, St Arvans, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, NP16 6EH For Nominations Contact: David Hilton: 07595 951248 Email: david@oakgrovestud.com

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LEADING BRITISH SIRES OF 2YOS by black type winners to runners in Europe 2017 - 2021

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5.8

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5.19

4 NEW APPROACH

4.64

5 FRANKEL

Gr.1 Preis von Europa winner ASPETAR in action at Chantilly

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Leading US sires 2021: (by prize-money earned by northern-hemisphere runners to November 8, 2021) ($) STALLION

Foals

Rnrs

Wnrs

BTWnrs

% Rnrs

BTH

GSWnrs

G1Wnrs

Progeny Earnings

Into Mischief 1127 418 225 26 6.2 66 12 4 21,743,109 Ghostzapper 1070 207 100 13 6.3 21 6 1 15,008,944 Curlin 989 243 115 16 6.6 38 12 5 13,641,408 Paynter 396 194 1117 6 3.1 12 1 1 13,013,939 Tapit 1463 243 110 13 5.3 33 9 1 12,990,992 Speightstown 1213 233 123 12 5.2 31 8 2 12,722,752 Munnings 732 289 154 18 6.2 37 6 2 11,652,662 Hard Spun 1158 288 141 8 2.8 17 4 2 10,763,071 Uncle Mo 972 278 138 11 4.0 23 5 2 10,423,982 Twirling Candy 626 258 136 8 3.1 22 3 2 9,811,210 Street Sense 1018 248 119 10 4.0 16 3 0 9,058,364 Constitution 290 188 97 11 5.9 30 5 0 8,791,066 Quality Road 737 230 111 9 3.9 23 3 1 8,760,863 English Channel 786 194 106 11 5.7 21 7 3 7,903,482 Medaglia d’Oro 1539 211 90 13 6.2 21 8 1 7,657,833 Candy Ride 1537 214 107 12 5.6 18 7 1 7,589,190 American Pharoah 423 245 90 14 5.7 25 4 1 7,516,790 Kitten’s Joy 1649 307 131 6 2.0 16 2 1 7,386,803 Goldencents 452 256 134 6 2.3 18 3 1 7,144,616 Liam’s Map 287 161 76 9 5.6 16 4 2 6,940,792 Union Rags 633 239 99 5 2.1 14 2 0 6,775,309 Malibu Moon 1906 234 117 3 1.3 16 1 0 6,752,420 Dialed In 547 215 110 4 1.9 11 2 1 6,664,359 Maclean’s Music 495 203 101 6 3.0 16 3 2 6,542,352 Flatter 1032 164 89 6 3.7 11 4 1 6,454,032 Tapiture 349 232 120 4 1.7 12 0 0 6,350,839 Midshipman 581 212 111 11 5.2 21 3 0 6,320,590 More Than Ready 1724 251 105 7 2.8 17 5 1 6,319,672 Cairo Prince 448 226 116 6 2.7 13 0 0 6,232,751 The Factor 543 289 132 3 1.0 10 2 0 6,219,966 Violence 540 220 96 5 2.3 18 1 1 6,074,319 Bernardini 1172 189 80 8 4.2 16 4 1 6,069,587 Temple City 730 259 111 3 1.2 15 1 0 5,762,713 Pioneerof the Nile 775 186 86 6 3.2 14 3 0 5,739,464 Kantharos 564 216 113 1 0.5 9 0 0 5,674,072 Distorted Humor 1677 179 87 5 2.8 10 3 0 5,631,268 City Zip 1255 139 68 8 5.8 11 4 0 5,561,019 Flat Out 453 211 120 6 2.8 7 2 0 5,481,416 First Samurai 755 185 97 5 2.7 16 1 0 5,386,668 Street Boss 780 213 114 10 4.7 17 0 0 5,386,474 Congrats 1039 239 129 5 2.1 8 1 0 5,251,857 Fed Biz 378 206 108 4 1.9 11 2 1 5,192,971 War Front 875 177 82 9 5.1 23 4 0 5,119,713 Oxbow 411 163 86 2 1.2 7 1 1 5,117,862

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RUMBLE INTHEJUNGLE Bungle Inthejungle ex Guana (Dark Angel)

HE’S READY TO RUMBLE

A pedigree full of Speed & 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

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Leading US sires of two-year-olds 2021: (by prize-money earned by northern-hemisphere runners to November 8, 2021) ($) STALLION

Foals

Gun Runner Into Mischief Quality Road Connect Nyquist More Than Ready Cairo Prince Practical Joke Midshipman Not This Time Munnings Caravaggio Goldencents Classic Empire Stay Thirsty Union Rags Jimmy Creed American Pharoah Liam’s Map Twirling Candy Tapiture Kantharos War Front Runhappy Street Sense Street Boss Frosted Klimt Speightster Carpe Diem Fed Biz Candy Ride (ARG) First Samurai Gormley Unified Curlin Exaggerator Keen Ice Violence Cupid Mohaymen Brethren Kitten’s Joy Maclean’s Music Astern (AUS)

110 46 20 5 10.9 6 1127 70 21 3 4.3 10 737 33 8 2 6.1 2 106 64 24 2 3.1 5 195 48 18 3 8.2 9 1724 49 14 4 4.4 6 448 45 25 2 4.4 5 120 50 16 3 6.0 5 581 40 11 2 5.0 7 189 38 16 4 10.5 5 732 36 12 3 8.3 8 125 76 23 4 5.3 8 452 72 23 1 1.4 5 100 45 13 2 4.4 5 402 40 15 3 7.5 6 633 54 13 0 0 3 342 46 16 0 0 7 423 47 15 2 4.3 3 287 33 7 2 6.1 4 626 38 11 1 2.6 3 349 61 19 2 3.3 4 564 46 16 0 0 3 875 29 14 2 6.9 6 186 38 13 3 7.9 4 1018 36 13 2 5.6 3 780 37 14 2 5.4 6 219 46 16 2 4.3 4 131 68 19 0 0 4 214 39 13 2 5.1 4 310 40 16 0 0 2 378 45 20 0 0 3 1537 34 11 1 2.9 2 755 39 14 0 0 3 106 48 18 1 2.1 3 98 34 12 3 8.8 3 989 30 4 1 3.3 5 228 55 21 2 3.6 2 123 62 16 0 0 1 540 49 12 1 2/0 2 120 50 15 2 4.0 3 71 37 12 2 5.4 2 207 16 7 1 6.3 2 1649 40 11 1 2.5 3 495 39 10 1 2.6 2 69 28 9 1 3.6 4

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4 2 3,521,956 1 0 2,036,150 1 1 1,883,544 2 1 1,681,056 0 0 1,666,067 2 0 1,454,165 0 0 1,434,537 1 0 1,420,283 0 0 1,285,666 0 0 1,193,117 1 1 1,172,706 2 1 1,162,215 0 0 1,152,820 0 0 1,146,666 0 0 1,109,692 0 0 1,099,318 0 0 1,080,399 0 0 1,064,543 1 1 1,042,368 1 1 1,014,596 0 0 1,003,162 0 0 971,313 2 0 971,306 0 0 964,979 0 0 927,846 0 0 924,840 0 0 923,462 0 0 923,420 0 0 860,045 0 0 843,841 0 0 840,133 0 0 837,025 0 0 799,717 1 0 796,093 0 0 788,905 1 1 786,450 0 0 778,329 0 0 768,301 0 0 759,642 0 0 757,320 1 0 757,305 0 0 748,620 0 0 745,121 0 0 743,945 1 0 740,599

Cape Premier Yearling Sale The 12th renewal of the Cape Premier Yearling Sale will take place on 6th February 2022 at De Grendel Wine Estate (established in 1720), which overlooks Table Bay and Table Mountain. Savour acclaimed De Grendel wines and contemporary Cape cuisine in a panoramic setting. Within 20 minutes of Cape Town city centre, De Grendel celebrates a 300-year heritage through generations of the Graaff family. Pieter Graaff is owner of the highly successful Lammerskraal Stud in Ceres, Western Cape. Wine-tasting and farm-tours are also available.

The Inaugural Cape Premier Yearling Sale took place in 2011 and has since produced 44 G1 winners. The sale now offers a restricted race to the value of R7,5 million (South Africa’s richest race) with a winning stake of R5 million. The CTS Gold Rush is for 3yo graduates (colts & fillies) of the CPYS. South Africa’s premier yearling sale has always been a favourite of International buyers as well as local connoisseurs of the South African thoroughbred. Please contact Jo Knowles (admin@cthbs.com) for assistance with bookings and accommodation.

SOUTH

AFRICA’S

RICHEST

RACE

Seamus Burns’ colt AMBIORIX (SAF) (2020 CPYS Graduate) - Winner of the Gold Medallion G1.

Contact: Grant Knowles (MD) E: grant@cthbs.com M: +27 (0) 82 882 9774 or Jacques Chowles (Sales Manager) E: jchowles@cthbs.com M: +27 (0) 79 459 3022 W: www.capethoroughbredsales.com

us stallion tables

Leading first-season US sires 2021: (by prize-money earned by northern-hemisphere runners to November 8, 2021) ($) STALLION

Gun Runner Connect Practical Joke Caravaggio Classic Empire Klimt Gormley Unified Keen Ice Cupid Mohaymen Astern (AUS) American Freedom Divining Rod Shaman Ghost Stanford Bal a Bali (BRZ) Arrogate Mastery Valiant Minister

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110 46 20 5 10.9 6 106 64 24 2 3.1 5 120 50 16 3 6 5 125 76 76 4 5.3 8 100 45 13 2 4.4 5 131 68 19 0 0 4 106 48 18 1 2.1 3 98 34 12 3 8.8 3 123 62 16 0 0 1 120 50 15 2 4 3 71 37 12 2 5.4 2 69 29 9 1 3.4 4 105 48 14 0 0 1 65 30 12 0 0 1 58 34 13 1 2.9 2 66 27 12 0 0 2 84 39 11 1 2.6 1 94 23 5 9 0 0 100 41 8 9 0 0 34 10 1 1 10 1

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4 2 3,521,956 2 1 1,681,056 1 0 1,420,283 2 1 1,162,215 0 0 1,146,666 0 0 923,420 1 0 796,093 0 0 788,905 0 0 768,301 0 0 757,320 1 0 757,305 1 0 741,436 0 0 650,972 0 0 582,049 0 0 552,083 0 0 512,829 0 0 486,638 0 0 450,128 0 0 406,824 0 0 403,555

Leading US Dirt sires 2021: (by prize-money earned by northern-hemisphere runners to November 8, 2021) ($) STALLION

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Into Mischief Ghostzapper Curlin Paynter Tapit Speightstown Munnings Hard Spun Street Sense Constitution Quality Road Twirling Candy Union Rags Dialed In Maclean’s Music Uncle Mo Tapiture Candy Ride (ARG) Flat Out

1127 1070 989 396 1463 1213 732 1158 1018 290 737 626 633 547 495 972 349 1537 453

340 156 205 165 193 165 238 220 204 151 179 203 204 184 172 201 216 160 200

168 64 90 93 80 82 107 96 92 70 77 98 81 85 85 82 100 80 115

20 7 14 5 10 9 13 4 9 9 3 5 5 3 4 4 3 7 6

5.9 4.5 6.8 3 5.2 5.5 5.5 1.8 4.4 6 1.7 2.5 2.5 1.6 2.3 2 1.4 4.4 3

47 11 31 8 23 21 28 11 13 24 14 14 13 9 11 11 9 9 7

11 3 12 1 6 7 5 2 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 3 0 4 2

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

16,880,275 11,870,922 11,489,291 11,281,833 10,725,798 10,050,250 8,151,111 7,444,730 7,089,924 6,653,156 5,957,396 5,804,729 5,781,593 5,643,878 5,432,050 5,289,718 5,264,366 5,259,777 5,158,323

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

NEW FOR 2022

By KODIAC - World Record Holder for 2-y-o winners, Champion European Sire of 2-y-os 2020, Champion European Sire (winners) 2020 – Sire of Group 1 winners Campanelle, Hello Youmzain, Best Solution, etc. plus emerging young sires Ardad, Prince of Lir, Coulsty and Kodi Bear, all Gr.1 producers 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.

ALMANAARA

MASSAAT

SHAMARDAL - MIDNIGHT ANGEL (MACHIAVELLIAN) Fee: £3,500 1st Oct S.L.F

TEOFILO - MADANY (ACCLAMATION) Fee: £4,000 1st Oct S.L.F

By world class stallion and sire of sires SHAMARDAL

By Teofilo, sire of 6 Gr.1 winners in 2020

Half brother to DARK ANGEL

Brother to Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup winner EQTIDAAR

Won 4 races from 3 to 7 years, 5-7.5f, £137,904, and was placed four times

Gr.1 placed at 2, 3 and 4 • Gr.2 winner over 7f

FIRST CROP FOALS 2022

Top Blood at excellent value

First-crop yearlings sold for £45,000, £44,000, £43,000, £40,000, etc.

Enquiries: Richard Kent T: 079 73 315722 • E: mickleystud@btconnect.com • www.mickleystud.co.uk Or Clare Lloyd Tel: 07875 673260 email: karinga@btinternet.com

Do your mares deser>e the >ery best?

Bosra Sham, Authorized, Mishriff: all bred or raised on Ted’s land, the last two under his management. Prince AA Faisal’s Mishriff and Godolphin’s Walton Street are the two 2021 Group 1 winners Ted raised for clients on Voute Farm.

Call ted >oute and ask about keeping your stock on the land that makes champions INTERESTED? Mobile +44 (0)7836 671571 Office +44 (0)1789 751222 US cell +1 859 777 7210 ted@voutesales.com

stallion fee tables Fees for major British & Irish Flat stallions 2021-2022 (inc % change 2020 to 2021) (European fees will be published in next month’s issue) STUD / STALLION

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Ballyhane Stud Dandy Man €15,000 €15,000 0 Elzaam €5,000 €5,000 0 Prince Of Lir €3,500 €4,000 14 Sands Of Mali €6,500 €5,000 -23 Soldier’s Call €7,500 €7,500 0 Ballylinch Stud Lope De Vega €125,000 €125,000 0 Make Believe €15,000 €17,500 16 New Bay €20,000 €37,500 87 Waldgeist €17,500 €15,000 -16 Banstead Manor Stud Bated Breath £12,500 £15,000 20 Expert Eye £12,500 £10,000 -20 Frankel £175,000 £200,000 14 Kingman £150,000 £150,000 0 Oasis Dream £20,000 £20,000 0 Bearstone Stud Dream Ahead £12,000 £7,500 -25 Mattmu - £2,500 Washington DC £4,500 £3,500 -22 Chapel Stud Bangkok NEW - £3,000 Hellvelyn £2,500 £2,500 Indian Haven Private £1,500 Planteur £3,000 £4,000 33 Walzertakt €2,500 £2,500 0 Cheveley Park Stud Dutch Art Private Private Mayson £4,000 £6,000 50 Twilight Son £5,000 £7,000 40 Ulysses £10,000 £10,000 0 Coolmore Stud Arizona €7,000 €6,000 -14 Australia €2,000 €35,000 40 Calyx €16,000 €12,500 -12 Camelot €60,000 €75,000 25 Churchill €30,000 €25,000 -17 Circus Maximus €20,000 €12,500 -38 Footstepsinthesand €12,500 €12,500 0 Gleneagles €25,000 €15,000 -40 Gustav Klimt €4,000 €4,000 0 Highland Reel €10,000 €10,000 0 Holy Roman Emperor €12,500 €10,000 -20 Magna Grecia €18,000 €17,500 -3 No Nay Never €125,000 €125,000 0 Rock Of Gibraltar €5,000 €5,000 0 Saxon Warrior €20,000 €20,000 0

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Sioux Nation €10,000 €10,000 0 Sottsass €30,000 €2,000 -17 Starspangledbanner €22,500 3€5,000 56 St Mark’s Basilica NEW - €65,000 Ten Sovereigns €20,000 €17,500 -12 US Navy Flag €12,500 €12,500 0 Wootton Bassett €100,000 €150,000 50 Dalham Hall Stud Cracksman £17,500 £17,500 0 Dubawi £250,000 £250,000 0 Farhh Private Private Golden Horn £20,000 £10,000 -50 Harry Angel £12,500 £12,500 0 Iffraaj £20,000 £17,500 -12 Masar £14,000 £14,000 0 New Approach Private Private Palace Pier NEW - £55,000 Pinatubo £35,000 £35,000 0 Postponed £7,500 £6,000 Territories £10,000 £10,000 0 Too Darn Hot £45,000 £45,000 0 Derrinstown Stud Awtaad €15,000 €5,000 -66 King Of Change €7,000 €6,000 -14 Tamayuz €10,000 €7,000 -30 Gilltown Stud Harzand €8,000 €5,000 -37 Sea The Stars €150,000 €150,000 0 Hedgeholme Stud Intrinsic £1,500 tbc Portamento £1,500 £1,750 16 Highclere Stud Cable Bay £8,000 £8,000 0 Land Force £5,000 £5,000 0 Irish National Stud Decorated Knight €7,500 €7,500 0 Dragon Pulse €2,000 €2,000 0 Elusive Pimpernel €2,500 €2,000 -20 Equiano €3,000 €2,000 -33 Free Eagle €8,000 €5,000 -60 Invincible Spirit €80,000 €60,000 -25 Lucky Vega NEW - €15,000 Nando Parrado NEW - €6,000 National Defense €5,000 €8,000 60 Phoenix Of Spain €12,500 €12,000 -4 Kildangan Stud Belardo €10,000 €9,000 -10

stallion fee tables STUD / STALLION

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Blue Point €40,000 €40,000 0 Earthlight €20,000 €18,000 -20 Ghaiyyath €30,000 €25,000 -17 Night Of Thunder €75,000 €75,000 0 Profitable €10,000 €12,500 25 Raven’s Pass €7,500 €7,500 Ribchester €17,500 €12,500 -29 Space Blues NEW - €17,500 Teofilo €30,000 €30,000 0 Lanwades Stud Bobby’s Kitten £7,000 £7,000 0 Sea The Moon £22,500 £25,000 11 Sir Percy £7,000 £7,000 0 Study Of Man £12,500 £12,500 0 Meadow Farm Stud A’Ali NEW - £7,500 Mickley Stud Almanaara £3,000 £3,500 16 Massaat £4,000 £4,000 0 Ubettabelieveit NEW - £5,000 National Stud Aclaim £9,500 £6,000 -36 Advertise £25,000 £25,000 0 Flag Of Honour £3,000 £2,500 -16 Lope Y Fernandez NEW - £8,500 Rajasinghe £3,000 £3,000 0 Time Test £8,500 £15,000 76 Newsells Park Stud Nathaniel £15,000 £15,000 0 Without Parole £10,000 £8,000 -20 Norman Court Stud Rumble Inthejungle £3,500 £3,500 0 Sixties Icon £1,000 £3,000 300 Nunnery Stud Mohaather £20,000 £15,000 -25 Tasleet £5,000 £5,000 0 Eqtidaar £5,000 £5,000 0 Oakgrove Stud Al Kazeem Private Private Overbury Stud Ardad £4,000 £12,500 212 Cityscape £4,000 £4,000 0 Jack Hobbs £3,000 £3,000 0 Rathasker Stud Bungle Inthejungle €8,000 €8,000 0 Coulsty €4,000 €4,000 0

STUD / STALLION Gregorian

2021 Fee €5,000

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% + /-

€4,500 -10

Rathbarry Stud Acclamation €27,500 €27,500 0 James Garfield €4,000 €4,000 0 Kodi Bear €6,000 €15,000 150 Springfield House Stud Unfortunately €4,500 €3,500 -22 Starfield Stud Cappella Sansevero €4,000 €4,000 0 Far Above €6,000 €5,000 -16 Kuroshio €6,000 €5,000 -16 Smooth Daddy €4,000 €4,000 0 Tally-Ho Stud Cotai Glory €5,000 €8,500 70 Galileo Gold €5,000 €7,000 40 Inns Of Court €5,000 €5,000 0 Kessaar €5,000 €5,000 0 Kodiac €65,000 €65,000 0 Mehmas €25,000 €50,000 100 Starman NEW - €17,500 Tara Stud Alhebayeb €3,000 €3,000 0 Estidhkaar €5,000 €3,000 -40 River Boyne €5,000 €5,000 0 Tweenhills Farm & Stud Havana Gold £7,500 £12,500 66 Kameko £25,000 £20,000 -20 Lightning Spear £5,000 £5,000 0 Zoustar £25,000 £25,000 0 Whitsbury Manor Stud Adaay £5,000 £5,000 0 Due Diligence £6,000 £5,000 -16 Havana Grey £6,000 £6,000 0 Sergei Prokofiev £6,500 £6,000 -8 Showcasing £45,000 £45,000 0 Yeomanstown Stud Dark Angel €60,000 €60,000 0 El Kabeir €6,000 €6,000 0 Invincible Army €7,500 €7,500 0 Shaman €6,000 €5,000 -16 Supremacy NEW - €12,500 -

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race of the year

International Thoroughbred’s race of 2021 Race: Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes, British Champions Day | Winner: Baaeed

THE BEST two milers in Europe went head to head – Palace Pier looking to retain his status before going to stud, the challenger Baaeed out to usurp the title holder, retain his unbeaten status and step up to mark himself out as the colt of his generation. The pair battled up the straight, giving their all, with the latter just getting on top on the line. Lady Bowthorpe, who finished third, arguably ran the race of her life.

Enjoy the race again, using this link: https://bit.ly/ITB2021raceoftheyear or use the link on the image to play the race Alternatively, on your web browser, go to: issuu.com/internationalthoroughbred/docs/ITB_December2021

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Choose Excellence!

CLASS

PRECOCITY

PEDIGREE

CHAMPION 3YO SPRINTER IN EUROPE Winner of Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup (6f.)

A BRILLIANT 2YO Winner of Gr.2 Richmond Stakes (6f.) 2nd Gr.1 Middle Park (6f.)

From the proven Acclamation sire line - just like MEHMAS!

Timeform Rating: 122

WWW.SUMBE.FR Mathieu ALEX +33 (0)6 26 59 19 18 - malex@sumbe.fr Tony FRY +44 (0)7725 041 815 - tony@sumbe.fr

€ 8,000 LF

Wootton Bassett European Champion 2YO and one of Europe’s most exciting sires

Fee: €150,000 Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: +353-25-31966. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Website: www.coolmore.com

ITB_ December 2021

Articles inside

Where was the value?

Into Mischief breaking records... again

Continuing an upwrd trajectory

The big gamble

PHEW!

Working for the world

Quick off the mark

Written in the Stars

First-season sensations

Yibir on fire

Knicks kicked

Ted Talks...

FIRST WORD