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£4.95 • ISSUE 92

Too Darn good Darley's son of Dubawi heads up the list of new sires at stud in Europe for 2020

W is for Arc winner

We find out more about Waldgeist's legendary W family and pedigree

Spend wisely Exciting times at Spendthrift with five new recruits joining its talented roster

New names at the top of the NH stats

For the first time Milan and Yeats top the table: will they be there at the end of the season?

Dawn of a new beginning

As we close in on the inaugural running of The Saudi Cup, Tom Ryan answers our Q&A on the world's richest race

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Bated Breath 2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View)

The best value sire of blacktype winners in Europe in 2019 2020 Fee: £12,500 slf

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Expert Eye 2015 b h Acclamation - Exemplify (Dansili)

The Breeders’ Cup Mile Gr.1 winner with 2YO brilliance 2020 Fee: £17,500 slf

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Frankel 2008 b h Galileo - Kind (Danehill)

The fastest sire to 35 Group winners in history with 14% Group winners to runners 2020 Fee: £175,000 slf

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Kingman 2011 b h Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar)

The brilliant miler transferring his talent to his progeny 2020 Fee: £150,000 slf

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Oasis Dream 2000 b h Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave)

Europe’s most consistent source of Gr.1 speed 2020 Fee: £25,000 slf

Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe

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Expert Eye

Breeders’ Cup

MILE GR.1 winner 2yo winner of

GROUP 2

vintage stakes

widest margin

WINNER OF Group 3

JERSEY s ta k e s first foals

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Despite running green at Newmarket, “Calyx achieved the rare feat for a newcomer of recording a rating in excess of 100 Timeform

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He went so fast I lost my hat❞ ❝ Frankie Dettori after partnering Calyx to a runaway success in the Commonwealth Cup Trial-Gr.3 at Ascot

strong, robust, masculine, great talent, “great speed, and a real will to run ” Lord Grimthorpe, racing manager to Prince Khalid Abdullah

• AUSTRALIA • CALYX • CAMELOT • CARAVAGGIO • CHURCHILL • FASTNET ROCK • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • GALILEO • GLENEAGLES • GUSTAV KLIMT • HIGHLAND REEL • HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • MAGNA GRECIA • • MASTERCRAFTSMAN • NO NAY NEVER • ROCK OF GIBRALTAR • SAXON WARRIOR • SIOUX NATION • STARSPANGLEDBANNER • TEN SOVEREIGNS • THE GURKHA • U S NAVY FLAG • ZOFFANY •

NE Just 10 days after his runaway debut success at Newmarket, CALYX won the Coventry Stakes-Gr.2 from triple Group 1 winner Advertise

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Timeform Ratings: 120p at 2 years 124 at 3 years

Calyx always ❝ had that rare brilliance

you only see in champions.

He’s very, very fast and a gorgeous-looking horse with a lovely mind.

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Trainer John Gosden

Out of Group 1 juvenile HELLEBORINE, a full-sister to Group 1-winning 3YO Sprinter AFRICAN ROSE Fee: €22,500 Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: +353-52-6131298. Fax: +353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller, Neil Magee or Hermine Bastide. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon, Paddy Fleming, Cathal Murphy or David Walsh: +353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) +44-7827-795156.

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

Follow the Class of 2019…

Champion First Season Sire in GB and sire of Gr.1 winning sprinter Havana Grey in his first crop Breeders who use him this year will benefit when his best quality crop of over 160 foals hit the racecourse

Stud Fee:

£10,000

COLT EX SUPERSTAR LEO

COLT EX RIPPLES MAID

Out of the Champion 2yo Filly in Europe, half-sister to Gr.3 winner Enticing, the dam of Gr.1 winner One Master, and Stakes winner Sentari.

Half-brother to Gr.2 winner and Gr.1 placed Mikki Charm, out of a multiple Stakes winner.

COLT EX BIJOU A MOI

FILLY EX DELIZIA

Half-brother to Gr.3 winner Robin Hoods Bay.

Dam a winner of the Listed Marygate Stakes.

FILLY EX YSPER

COLT EX SHOWSTOPPA

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

Half-brother to Stakes winner Avengers Queen.

Oct 1st SLF

Sire of 15 Stakes horses including…

KICK ON

ARETHA

TF 115. Winner of the Sovereign Stakes, Gr.3, and Feilden Stakes, L.

Winner of the Matamata Breeders Stakes, Gr.2 and placed in the Manawatu Sires Produce Stakes, Gr.1.

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FASCINO

Winner of the Wellington Stakes, Gr.3.

Winner of the Moonee Valley Fillies’ Stakes, Gr.2.

Triple Gr.1 winning son of Invincible Spirit Sire of 5 Group winners in 2019 Leading First Season Sire in GB Leading First and Second Season Sire in NZ

Stud Fee:

£8,500

Oct 1st SLF

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

HARZAND First 2 year olds in 2020

The only dual Gr.1 winning stallion son of SEA THE STARS. His first yearlings sold for 130,000gns, 120,000gns, â‚Ź135,000, etc. and are now in training with John Gosden, William Haggas, Roger Varian, Dermot Weld, etc.

DARIYAN First 2 year olds in 2020

A Gr.1 winning son of the mighty SHAMARDAL with an exceptional pedigree.

His first yearlings sold for up to €115,000 and are now in training with Simon Crisford, Michael Halford, Freddy Head, Alain de Royer Dupré, etc.

THE AGA KHAN STUDS Success Breeds Success

FIRST YEARLINGS 2020

MONDIALISTE GALILEO - OCCUPANDISTE (KALDOUN)

F I RST F OALS SO LD W I TH AN AVERAGE O F

€37,500 STANDING AT ELWICK STUD Elwick Stud, Sheraton Farm, Co. Durham TS27 4RB

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FEE: £6,000

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14 News

The leading stud farm in Libya has been decimated, new measures to be introduced for bloodstock sales, Sally Duckett believes banning the whip will lead to the demise of racing, while Badger looks far ahead to 2030

20 News

After the Christmas jumps action, Milan and Yeats are heading up the NH sires’ table. Will this new look to the British and Irish jumps’ table remain to the end of the season?

68 French first-timers

Aisling Crowe moves on to examine the major new French and German-based sires standing for 2020

78 W is for Arc winner

New sire Waldgeist’s Arc success was the culmination of a family that has been nine generations in the breeding

96 Making Mischief

Melissa Bauer-Herzog chats with Spendthrift Farm’s Ned Toffey about its champion sire Into Mischief and the farm’s exciting new recruits

103 Stakes-winning sires

The final alphabetical list of 2019’s sires of stakes winners

111 Stakes-winning dam sires

In reverse, Hyperion provide a final list of stakes-winning dam sires of 2019

27 Stallion stats

118 Photos of the month

Leading NH statistics from Weatherbys

Magic Millions winner Away Game

28 Eastern delights

Simon Rowlands reports on a fabulous end to 2019 for Japan with a Group 1 treble in Hong Kong and a wide-margin win in the Arima Kinen for Lys Gracieux

34 Dawn of a new beginning

Q & A with Tom Ryan, the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia’s director of strategy and international racing, about February’s Saudi Cup, the world’s richest race

42 New stallions 2020

Too Darn Hot heads the list of new sires for 2020. Aisling Crowe provides racing and pedigree analysis for this year’s crop of first-season sires in Britain and Ireland

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84 Breeders eying the international market

The French bloodstock boom sees an improvement in quality, yet numbers remain static, writes Jocelyn de Moubray in his European stallion review

90 Bonjour!

Says Haras de la Barbottière to its exciting new sires for 2020, Donjuan Triumphant and Robin Of Navan

Too Darn Hot

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the news

Horses killed and stolen at Al Shaab Stud in Libya LIBYA’S most important stud farm was decimated after gunmen from a local militia group stole every horse at the farm at the beginning of January.

Initally, Al Shaab Stud announced that armed miltia had snatched six stallions and six infoal mares during a 14-hour raid.

And they returned later to kidnap the remaining 30 horses.

The farm’s general manager and veterinarian Dr Amad Eshaab reported the news in a series of social media posts.

Eshaab revealed the

intruders took over the stud, which is located near the capital Tripoli, and looted everything from veterinary equipment to furniture, generators, jars and water pumps.

The initial raid came just hours after reports of an attack on a military academy nearby, and launched against a backdrop of increasing conflict in the region.

According to Al Jazeera,

Tripoli’s Government of National Accord has been facing an offensive launched in April by Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army, which is aligned with a rival government.

Eshaab reported: “An armed group came from Tarhuna city, militia loyal to Haftar, stole six in-foal mares who are about to give birth this month or in February.

Badger looks ahead to...

2030

It is a forecast that is both serious and jovial, and viewed with both optimisim and pessimism!

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Will it be “Sir” Charlie by 2030? And could Donnacha O’Brien be training in Britain, part of an O’Brien training empire?!

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ID YOU REALISE that the last time Sir Michael Stoute was champion trainer was in 2009?

Likewise the last time Ryan Moore won the champion jockeys’ title?

Could we have ever imagined these facts on January 1, 2010? Could we have forecast then that the only names on the NH trainers’ championships for the next decade would be Paul Nicholls and Nicky Henderson?

Or that Richard Johnson and AP McCoy would be the only names on the NH champion jockey trophy for the same period ?

At this time of year, the media is full of forecasts for the next 12 months.

However, few are prepared to look forward to the end of the next decade.

It can only done with a “tongue in

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cheek” attitude, however, I thought that it could be a fun exercise to make a few predictions about the headline makers at the end of 2029.

What is the chance of the leading Flat trainer of 2029 being called Charlie?

To my mind, this is a pretty good bet.

Obviously Charlie Appleby should be around for another decade and he will undoubtedly become a legend amongst trainers. Maybe he will be Sir Charlie by then?

However, Charlie Fellowes and Charlie Hills must come into the reckoning, although Charlie Johnston is my tip for a trainers’ title within the next decade.

William Haggas will likely have just announced his retirement, while Roger Varian, Richard Hannon, Andrew Balding and Ralph Beckett will be

considered the doyens of their trade.

Richard Fahey and Kevin Ryan could both be in based in Hong Kong busy feathering their nests for a comfortable retirement having both taken the decision that their large stables could not be justified by the finances in British racing.

Ed Walker and Archie Watson will be pushing forward Lambourn’s importance. However, Newmarket will have the powerhouses of Thadie Gosden and the newly arrived Donnacha O’Brien, who will be taking forward the British branch of the allconquering O’Brien brothers’ training partnership.

Oisin Murphy will be a world-wide legend in the jockey ranks, but his overseas commitments may well allow one of his challengers to take the domestic title.

the news “Then they entered the stallion barn and stole six stallions. They continued to steal from six in the evening until eight in the morning.

“They shot two horses who were wounded in the legs... no one could provide an ambulance to help the horses.

“We appeal to all humanitarian organisations and all horse organisations to save the horses of Libya.”

And following news of the second attack, he said the stud had been totally devastated.

He said: “Now armed militias from Tarhuna have returned to steal the remaining 30 horses. I expect the worst.

“I stand in front of a stable silenced, my

Raise A Grand: one of the six stolen stallions

The double act

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Most worrying of all will be the dramatic fall in the broodmare numbers in the UK, with small breeders crumbling under the financial pressures of poor prize-money and falling returns in the sale ring

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Cieren Fallon, Tom Marquand and Sean Davis will bring great strength to the jockeys’ tables, but Jason Watson could be the one to give Oisin his biggest challenge.

However, don’t disregard the girls.

Hollie Doyle, Nicola Currie, Jane Elliott and Megan Nicholls will be reasserting the growing importance of women in racing.

The big question on everyone’s lips will be whether Rocco Dettori can rise to the standards of his father.

The NH world will probably be more dominated by only a few individuals.

Jonjo O’Neill Jnr will become the new household name, while Tom Greatrex will transition back to the jumping world with great effect.

Amongst the NH trainers, Dan Skelton will become a legend in his own time, while Harry Fry will lay claims to be another.

On a more serious note, the owner tables will see a seismic change.

Who can replace Prince Khalid Abdullah, Sheikh Mohammed and Sheikh Hamdan? This is an exceedingly worrying matter for British Racing.

Inevitably the Classic division will be dominated by the colours of the Coolmore group partners – Paul Smith, Elektra Niarchos and Mrs MV Magnier.

The King Power colours will have grown dramatically in importance.

Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed will run horses in his own name rather than Godolphin. Qatar Racing will remain a major force, while expect some very strong new names to emerge from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

world is sad, the world is shameful. Militias want to set fire to the stud. They have already burned my heart and soul.

“I cannot believe that my life’s work has been destroyed and the horses have suffered from barbaric people.”

The stud had come under increasing risk in recent months with escalating violence in Libya.

Those horses taken in the attack include Raise A Grand, who won the Solario Stakes at Sandown in 1998, and Eavesdropper, the half-brother to top American stallion A.P. Indy.

The whereabouts of the horses and intentions of the kidnappers are unknown.

The long-expected arrival of substantial Chinese money into our racing will still have failed to materialise.... blame prize-money levels!

Connections earn far more in Hong Kong and Australia.

Identifying the NH leading owners is even more challenging. Ten years on from now will see very few of the current names and colours, but maybe the McManus colours will survive another generation?

The breeding world will be unrecognisable from today.

Many of the current major Newmarket names will have disappeared.

Some of the large acreage in Middle

Eastern ownership will have come to the market and be in new hands.

Coolmore will have expanded into the British stallion scene to facilitate marketing of their stallion interests.

King Power will enter the breeders ranks.

New Chinese money will purchase a major stallion farm purely to expand their shuttling power in both hemispheres.

Most worrying of all will be the dramatic fall in the broodmare numbers in the UK, with small breeders crumbling under the financial pressures of poor prize-money and falling returns in the sale ring.

The stallion ranks will be dominated by sons of Shamardal and Scat Daddy, which will appear in most commercial speed pedigrees.

The Galileo sire-line will be in decline as breeders cannot afford to focus on stamina pedigrees.

The biggest concern will be stopping the export of our best stallion prospects to Japan and America, which will reduce again the number of stallions at stud in the UK. Export of our best breeding females will have been a sad feature of the decade.

The foal crop will worryingly accelerate in its numerical decline as UK breeders fall by the wayside.

The racing programme will have shrunk considerably, with several racecourses closing their gates.

A day at the races will be different in that jockeys will no longer carry whips, the riding weights will have

increased and be referred to in metric terms, as will racing distances... mostly at less than 1600m – certainly no more references to stones and furlongs!

Every horse will be vetted both before and after every race to satisfy welfare concerns.

The bloodstock industry will be governed by a new body.

The only betting opportunities will be through Bet365, which will have a total monopoly for the sport in return for substantial sponsorship of the prize-money funding requirement.

No longer will there be concerns about auction ring practices. Tattersalls and Goffs will have agreed to ensure that reserve prices for each lot will be announced in advance of a sale in the ring.

And, if not sold, then those reserve prices will remain enforceable for a sale for the following 30 days.

All this will have come about because of pressure from the rapid development of the Tattersalls online auctions, which will be held every two weeks.

Breeders will strongly support this initiative for there will be considerable savings in expenses of transport and staff by not sending their stock to the sales grounds.

Will any of the above occur?

Moreover, will I even be around to answer the critics of my growing pessimism?!!

Let’s hope we are all around to review these predictions in 2030! Ed

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California Chrome arrives in Japan where Deep Impact once again dominated in 2019 AT THE beginning of January the Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner California Chrome arrived in Japan for the next stage of his stallion career.

The nine-year-old son of Lucky Pulpit, the winner of seven Grade/Group 1 races and more than $14.7 million in earnings, has stood at Taylor Made Stallions since 2017, but it was announced last November that JS Company of Japan had reached an agreement to purchase the young stallion,

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whose first crop is due to hit the track this year.

He is to stand at Arrow Stud and his 2020 fee is ¥4 million (£27,500).

The 2019 Japanese sires’ table was once again dominated by Deep Impact and sons of the legendary Sunday Silence.

For the eighth consecutive year since 2012, Deep Impact, euthanized last July, won the leading sires’ title.

His year’s prize-money earnings of

....Girls aloud

OSE THE WHIP, we will lose racing. It can’t be stated any more starkly than the that.

The first to go will be NH racing.

Which self-respecting jumps jockey would care to gallop toward a 4ft6in black steeplechase fence on a 16.2hh chaser who has dropped the bridle ten strides out and whose concentration levels on the job in hand are about as focused as Donald Trump is on environmental improvements?

I’d also like to find out which BHA member would be tasked to tell fabulously talented horsemen such as Robbie Power, Richard Johnston or Brian Hughes that they do not have recourse to the tools of the trade that they are used to riding with everyday both on the racecourse and at home, and which the horses understand and are trained to react to?

And that they are to put themselves and their horses in even more danger on daily basis than they do already, while furthermore they will not be allowed to get the most out of their horses in a race?

It would be a little like telling Lewis Hamilton to drive his F1 car with the handbrake on and with little in the way of brakes or steering.

The lazier horses will go to the races, enjoy a fine gallop for threequarters of the race, drop themselves out and make a slow way home.

The argument that jockeys could carry whips for only corrective purposes is flawed.

Where would the line be held? Would a horse actually need to be running out or dramatically drifting before a smack would be deemed acceptable?

What if a jockey is just beginning to get a “feel” that his or her horse is looking at the fence wings and for ways out of the job at hand? Could the rider act then or would he or she be in danger of a fine or ban? How can something that really is so intimate between horse and rider be understood by those watching from the stands?

We’ve seen subjective stewards’ decisions questioned this winter, we don’t need more areas of governance open to interpretation.

After losing the confidence of the jockeys, no-whip racing would quickly lose the support of owners – why should an owner pay to have a

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¥7,773,484,000 (£53,914,000) were the best he has achieved in one season.

Shadai Stallion Station’s Heart’s Cry, another son of Sunday Silence, finished second.

Deep Impact was also the year’s leading sire of two-year-olds, the ninth time he has won the title.

The country’s leading first-season sire was Kizuna. The Shadai-based son of Deep Impact sired 27 winners, including Bien Fait, who won the Hakodate Nisai Stakes (G3).

Kizuna’s earnings of ¥491,530,000 (£3,409,000) were the second-highest achieved by a debut sire in the last 10 years after Deep Impact.

Sally Duckett starts the year with a discussion on the whip... we promise that more than just this issue will be discussed in this column in 2020!

horse in training who develops these tendencies? Just like children some horses learn very quickly just what they can get away with.

An interesting horse is Burbank, winner of the Betway Novices’ Handicap Chase at Newbury on December 28, and he is the one that brought me back to this discussion.

In his post-race interview jockey Jeremiah McGrath said that mid-race the horse had considered dropping himself out, but a couple of smacks saw the horse revitalise, re-purpose and go on to win his race by 9l.

The Racing Post’s in-race comments reported that Burbank “Led until 12th, mistake next and reminders, rallied after four out to lead after next, soon in command, stayed on strongly”.

In the analysis it says Burbank “was receiving reminders and going least well of the leading quartet turning for home, but he jumped back to the front three out and took control from the next.”

Burbank has plenty of ability, but sometimes just needs encouragement to put that talent to the job he has to do.

At the time of writing he was recorded as entered in the Listed Sky Bet Handicap Chase, a race worth £56,000 to the winner. Connections have also stated that the Grand National could be a target for the young staying chaser if he continues to maintain his momentum.

If all goes to plan, he could become a significant horse for the year for his owner Trevor Hemmings.

However, if Burbank had been allowed by McGrath to drift around at Newbury without focus, drop himself out and possibly even pull up, Hemmings might now be aiming the horse, despite possessing ability, for the transfer list.

This is really how small the margins can be.

To conclude, and this certainly is not my area of expertise but even for me it is quite obvious, that if aggregate form can’t be held to some account, that if punters can’t trust horses to put their best into their efforts, then punters will quickly lose faith in the sport as a reasonably educated gambling medium.

Racing all around the world certainly does not need any further reductions in betting turnover.

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New procedures after bloodstock industry review

The Review of the Buying and Selling of Racehorses and Bloodstock in Britain recommended a raft of measures to improve bloodstock industry integrity

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REATER LEVELS of “sale ring education” for all parties, a strengthening of the Code of Practice at bloodstock sales, greater transparency of ownership details and an independent complaints procedure are four of the broad measures that have been put forward by the Bloodstock Industry Forum (BIF) in response to the findings and recommendations made by the British Horseracing Authority’s (BHA) Review of the Buying and Selling of Racehorses and Bloodstock in Britain.

At the end of December 2019 the BHA released an 83-page report detailing various unethical actions in the bloodstock industry with plans to improve the industry’s integrity.

Representatives of stakeholders in the bloodstock industry have pledged to reverse that momentum.

The full release of the report concludes a two-year long, wide-sweeping investigation of the British bloodstock industry. Over 70 people were anonymously interviewed over the course of the investigation.

Justin Felice, a former police officer who led the report, noted that the “vast majority” of the bloodstock industry’s participants conducted themselves within the social and

governing laws in place, but the industry at large has been affected by those who act unscrupulously.

“We have found clear and compelling evidence of widespread instances of breaches of agency and fiduciary duties... which in certain circumstances also constitute potential criminal offences. There are also concerns that certain alleged practices could constitute money laundering and/or tax fraud offences,” wrote Felice.

Tattersalls marketing director Jimmy George, who chairs BIF, formed in September and comprising representatives of the stakeholder groups involved in the buying and selling of racehorses and bloodstock, said: “Work is well underway in producing an all-new, robust Code of Practice which will not only appear in all Tattersalls and Goffs sales catalogues, but will be widely disseminated and available through all BIF member organisations and will be regularly reviewed.

“Crucially, the new Code of Practice sets out to introduce a complaints procedure independent of the industry bodies, with, when necessary, ultimate sanction lying with the BHA whose regulatory and investigative processes the forum believes to be sufficiently robust and confidential to support the

implementation of the new Code of Practice.

“Similarly, every one of the component members of BIF is committed to introducing a more effective programme of education, awareness and communication of appropriate conduct for all participants in the bloodstock industry and to having full harmonisation of the new Code of Practice with the relevant governing bodies in Ireland, with whom BIF has already had extremely positive initial discussions.”

The licensing of agents was a key recommendation put forward by the review, however, Oliver St Lawrence, speaking on behalf of the Federation of Bloodstock Agents (FBA), said: “BIF had lengthy discussions on this topic and it was recognised by all, including the BHA, that the licensing of ‘agents’ in the broadest sense of the word was extremely challenging both logistically and in terms of the international norms applying to buyer participation at bloodstock sales.

“Nevertheless, the FBA is determined to put in place more rigorous requirements surrounding our membership, including an ‘integrity course’ for all, and to establishing membership of the FBA as a recognised and sought after ‘kitemark' of personal and corporate integrity.”

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WE’RE SUPPORTING HIM...

“I believe in my stallion very much; I have high expectations. I want to support him to the best of my ability to make him a successful stallion. Any successful stallion needs good mares.

I want to give him every chance possible.” Imad Al Sagar GILT EDGE GIRL – in partnership with Irish National Stud Winner of Prix de L’Abbaye, Gr.1, dam of TIME’S ARROW Listed winner, half-sister to Gr.2 winner GODFREY STREET, from further family of ARCANO, sire.

MINCE

PRINCESS LOULOU

Dam of Gimcrack Gr.2 winner AJAYA, sire and half-sister to Listed winner TATINA dam of BATED BREATH, sire and CITYSCAPE, sire.

Listed winner and Gr.1 placed from the family of AWZAAN Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes, sire. Half-sister to Stakes placed Easy Target.

LADY WINGSHOT

Gr.3 winner and triple Listed winner. Out of Listed winner and Gr.3 placed sprinter Strut.

NESSINA

SWEET GENTLE KISS

Gr.3 winner and dual Listed winning half-sister to BAHAMA MAMA. From the family of YEATS (sire).

Gr.3 and Listed winner, out of Gr.3 and Listed placed mare from the further family of Champions Gr.1 JAKKALBERRY, sire, Gr.1 CRACKERJACK KING.

STAR OF BRISTOL

MANASAROVA

Half-sister to MASTERCRAFTSMAN multiple Gr.1 winner and Champion 2yo, sire and Famous Gr.1 placed. Further family of SAKHEE and CELESTIAL STORM.

QUEENS HARBOUR

Winner and Stakes placed, from the family of Listed winners CLOON and CELTIC SKY.

PENLIGHT

Half-sister to Gr.1 Dubai World Cup winner MONTEROSSO and Fiorentina, dam of Gr.1 winner SILENT SEDITION and SEVEN STARS, dam of Gr.2 winner HAPPY GALAXY.

ZOTILLA

Half-sister to Champion 2yo filly in France and Gr.1 Breeders Cup Juvenile winner FLOTILLA. Out of the Gr.3 winning LOUVAIN who is a half sister to Gr.1 G FORCE (sire).

Winner at 2, also Listed placed. Out of a half-sister to Gr.2 winner SHAKIS, from the further family of Gr.1 winners and leading sires SINGSPIEL, RAHY, CAMPANOLOGIST, DEVIL’S BAG, etc.

RIVERCAT

Winner out of Gr.3 winner ANJAZ from the family of PERCUSSIONIST Gr.2 and Champion sire NATHANIEL, Gr.1 GREAT HEAVENS.

ALBORAYA

Half-sister to 9 winners including Gr.3 winner TRIP TO RHODUS, Champion Miler BROWNIE, family of TROPICARO, Gr.1.

LE FREAK – in partnership with Irish National Stud

Half sister to 7 winners inc. Coventry Stakes Gr.2 and sire RAJASINGHE.

ROSE OF MIRACLES

VETLANA

Out of Listed winning Gr.2 placed mare. Half-sister to Listed winning SAMEEM. From family of MENHOUBAH Italian Oaks Gr.1.

From the family of European Champion Gr.1 winning mare GOLDIKOVA and Gr.1 winning GOLIKOVA, etc.

MISSY O’GWAUN

TARAWA

Dam of a winner out of Gr.3 winner TARWIYA. Half-sister to Listed placed Tarwila and Tahara dam of GILT EDGE GIRL Gr.1, Tariysha dam of ARCANO Gr.1, sire.

EPIPHANY

Dam of 6 winners inc. Listed winner VIK THE BILLY. Out of winning half-sister to INDIAN HAVEN, COUNT DUBOIS, etc.

Winning sister to Gr.3 winner COSMIC MEADOW. Half-sister to Gr.3 winning BEAUTY O’GWAUN. From the family of Gr.1 winning MILLENARY, sire.

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2yo winning Dark Angel mare. Half-sister to a winner. From the family of Gr.3 winner RED BADGE.

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All change?

There are two new names at the top of the NH sires’ table: will they still be there come the end of April?

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GLANCE AT THE NH stallion tables last autumn looked pretty similar to the last few years – leading the way were the usual crew of Flemensfirth, King’s Theatre, Presenting, Beneficial and Stowaway. Stallions that were either unfortunately already dead or nearing the pensioner ranks.

Through the mid-winter period of this NH season, however there has been a change of guard and two young names have made their way to the top of the tables. Both are, perhaps unsurprisingly, Coolmore-based sires – Milan and Yeats.

Both have made their way to the leader ranks on the NH prize-money tables without the benefit of Grade 1 Christmas winners.

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...the upward moves by both Milan and Yeats are not a shock – the two stallions have been putting in consistently improving performances

In a way, the upward moves by both Milan and Yeats are not a shock – the two stallions have been putting in consistently improving performances on the sires’ table for the last few years with Milan achieving a top five sires’ status since the 2015-17 season, while younger Yeats steadily moving his way up the ladder.

In fact, in a NH piece we helped produce in the autumn for Weatherbys, we identified even at the early stages of the 2019-2020 season Yeats was on target for his best-ever result.

Yeats (Sadler’s Wells), the 2001-born fourtime Ascot Gold Cup winner, is the youngest NH sire in the top 15, aside from Getaway (2003).

His first three-year-old jumps crop

nh racing De Rasher Counter, the son of Yeats, winning the Grade 3 Ladbrokes Chase at Newbury under young jockey Ben Jones.

Inset: winning connections of the Makin’ Bacon Partnership,which includes Paisley Park’s owner Andrew Gemmall (far left), with trainer Emma Lavelle (right)

appeared in 2014 and, while he has been steadily improving on the sires’ table, his fee has actually been heading in the opposite direction. He retired to stud at €10,000 and his covering price has steadily dropped down to €5,000, which he has been available at since 2018.

Conversely, his table position has improved from 75th in 2015-16 to 26th in 2016-17, 13th in 2017-18 and 15th last season.

With 55 winners this season at the time of writing, Yeats’ leading 2019-20 earner is the Galway Plate winner Tudor City, but his leading runner by official rating and performance is the De Rasher Counter, winner of Newbury’s Ladbrokes Trophy Chase (G3).

The rating for the Emma Lavelle-trained

De Rasher Counter is his sire’s best-rated horse to date, and should help ensure that the quality of mares visiting the eight-time Group 1 winners remains on the upgrade

gelding has now improved to 160 and De Rasher Counter is his sire’s best-rated horse.

His efforts should help ensure that the quality of mares visiting the eight-time Group 1 winners remains on the upgrade.

Milan retired to stud for the 2003 spring covering season, the son of Sadler’s Wells having run once as a juvenile (a maiden victory at The Curragh in October), eight times at three, performances which resulted in a third in the Prix Lupin (G1), a close-up fifth place in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) and a fourth in the King Edward VII Stakes behind Storming Home. He then collected two victories – the Great Voltigeur Stakes (G2), in which he reversed form with his Royal Ascot conqueror, and then his standout Classic success in the St Leger.

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Notebook: the son of Samum is making great strides and is now a short price for the Arkle Trophy

Delta Work: jockey Jack Kennedy is all smiles

His final runs of the year came in the Arc de Triomphe (fifth) and the Breeders’ Cup Turf in which he was beaten just threequarters of a length by Fantastic Light.

He was injured on his only four-year-old start and retired to the Coolmore NH ranks.

With form in the book and a fine pedigree to be taking to the NH sphere (he is by Sadler’s Wells and out of Kithanga, a daughter of Darshaan who finished third in the Irish St Leger) he were always expected to be an important NH sire.

Judges were perhaps a little disappointed

In 2019, his sale ring offerings were topped

by Mags O’Toole’s €180,000 purchase of a gelding out of Toledana from Roxborough Stud. He is a half-brother to a French Listed placed hurdle winner and his dam is a Protector half-sister to the Grand Annual (G3) winner Oiseau De Nuit.

At the time of writing, this winter Milan has bagged 55 winners from 230 runners, a winners-to-runners strike rate of 23 per cent.

His leading performer by earnings is Roaring Bull, who has won over £100,000 courtesy primarily of his success in the valuable 3m Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown on December 27. Out of a Presenting mare and trained by Gordon Elliot, if Roaring Bull remains in the good heart through the spring, he could be a contender for major staying handicaps.

Milan’s major graded race performer over Christmas was the admirable Monalee, who after a good front-running performance in the Savills Chase (G1), finished second to Delta Work. Monalee, a nine-year-old bred by Aidan Ahern, is due to be freshened up and will head straight to the Gold Cup. Monalee was continuing the strong run of form for trainer Henry De Bromhead and jockey Racheal Blackmore, the combination’s highest point from a number of good results over the Festive period came in the Racing Post Novices Chase (G1) with Notebook and in the 2m1f Grade 1 Chase at Leopardstown on December 27 with A Plus Tard.

A Plus Tard: it was a strong Christmas season for his sire Kapgarde

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It was an inspired purchase – Notebook has only once in nine subsequent starts finished out of the first two places that his early-produced crops did not immediately create the biggest impact, but his best horse to date, the Jessica Harrington-trained Jezki, arrived in his 2008 crop.

With Jezki’s first Grade 1 hurdle wins coming in 2012, it helped to created some forward momentum for the sire which is beginning to be realised on the track.

Since 2009 Milan’s fee has crept up from €5,000 to this year’s €10,000.

The sire’s best store horse sale came in 2018 when Aiden Murphy for MV Magnier paid €365,000 for Ballyreddin Stud’s half-brother to the three-time Cheltenham Festival winner Alitor.

nh racing There was also the Grade 2 victory with Aspire Tower in the Knight Frank Juvenile Hurdle (G2).

The 150-rated Notebook is an improving seven-year-old son of Samum, out of the Winged Love mare Nova. It is essentially a staying Flat pedigree – Notebook’s halfbrother Nebukadnezar (Lomitas) was a Listed winner over 1m6f in Italy.

Bred by Gestüt Am Schlossgarten, Notebook was bought as a foal for €27,000

by JD Leahy from Corrin Stud at the Goffs December Sale in 2013. After winning his third start in a point-to-point he was offered at the Cheltenham May Sale where he was purchased by Mags O’Toole for £70,000 from John Nallen.

It was an inspired purchase – Notebook has only once in nine subsequent starts finished out of the first two places (when down the field in the Ballymore Novices Hurdle (G1)). He has gone through the ranks nicely now he has switched to fences, his Grade 1 Christmas success represents strong novice form and he is now a 5/1 shot for the Arkle.

Born To Sea is beginning to get some traction as a sire of jumps’ horses The Bromhead-trained A Plus Tard is already a Festival winner having taken the Close Brothers Novices’ Handicap Chase under Blackmore last spring.

He continued to build on that performance at Punchestown last April when third in the Group 1 novice chase and then again this season when second in the Fortrina Chase (G1) before gaining his deserved top level win.

He will have a Festival entry in the Champion Chase, but De Bromhead is leaning toward the longer Ryanair Chase Clan Des Obeaux wining his second King George VI Chase

for the Mme Henri Devin-bred and Cheveley Park Stud-owned six-year-old.

Boosting a French suffix A Plus Tard is out of the country’s leading NH sire Kapgarde and it was a strong Grade 1 Christmas period for the son of Garde Royale – Fakir D’Oudairies finished second to Notebook, Dolos won early December’s Tingle Creek (G1) for trainer Paul Nicholls, while his highlight came on Boxing Day with Clan Des

Obeaux’s storming 21l King George VI Chase victory. The disappointing performance of Lostintranslation (subsequently given a wind operation) meant that French-breds filled the first three places in the Kempton Boxing Day feature.

The 21-year-old Kapgarde stood at his highest-registered fee of €12,000 last year, but his stock have been repaying his previous breeders and investors in the sale ring last year.

At the Cheltenham December Sale, Betrand Le Metayer spent £210,000 (third top price) on the three-year-old gelding Kalkas, placed on his sole outing over hurdles in France, at the Arqana Autumn Mixed Sale Saubouas Bloodstock went to a yearling top-price of €150,000 for the colt out of No News (Gentlewave).

Flash De Touzaine cost Tom Malone/ Paul Nicholls £125,000 at Cheltenham last May, while at the same venue’s November Sale, Kate Harrington went to £120,000 for Monbeg Stables’s point-to-point graduate Lifetime Ambition.

At the 2019 Derby Sale, Highflyer Bloodstock/Ben Pauling Racing bought Gentleman Valley for €130,000. He is out of a Lando halfsister to the French Grade 2 winner Pindare.

Although Irish-born and originally retired to stand in the Emerald Isle, Born To Sea, the Invincible Spirit half-brother to Sea The Stars, moved to stand in France at Haras des Faunes in 2019 at a fee of €4,000, a price that has been held for 2020.

The stallion has been a disappointing producer of high-grade Flat horses, but as he seemingly produces stock with a preference for a softer surface (hence the move to France), Born To Sea is beginning to get some traction as a sire of jumps’ horses.

The De Bromhead-trained Aspire Tower, who is out of the Pivotal mare Red Planet, was the impressive 18l winner of the Knight Frank Juvenile Hurdle (G2). The gelding was a useful enough campaigner on the Flat (rated 86), but really has found his feet over timber. He is currently heading to The Festival as a market leader for the Triumph Hurdle (G1).

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nh racing route to Cheltenham and that good jumping ground at the big meeting would not hold any fears.

Aspire Tower has something of a mixed pedigree – his unraced dam is by the speed influence Pivotal and she is a half-sister to the stakes race 5f sprinter Pivotal Flame, however the pair are out of the Cheveley Park Studbred 2m Southwell Turf winner Reddening (Blushing Flame).

The family stretches back to the smart sprinter/Irish 1,000 Guineas runner-up Dancing Goddess.

Wave Of The Sea, another by the transferred sire, is trained by Joseph O’Brien for JP McManus. Rated 132, he finished third in that same Leopardstown juvenile race behind Apire Tower, while the sire’s 121-rated Broughtons Admiral won a handicap hurdle at Hereford for trainer Dr Richard Newland.

Born To Sea also got a December handicap hurdle winner Snookered, who is now rated 140.

Sea The Moon, a son of Sea The Stars, is developing into a pretty decent Flat Stallion as evidenced by his Group 2 winner Alpine Star, but his early NH performers have not wasted time in making a strong impression.

This season’s leading British and Irish juvenile hurdlers: above, the Irish-based Aspire Tower (Born To Sea), and, below, Allmankind (Sea The Moon), the runaway Grade 1 winner at Chepstow.

Aspire Tower is by a half-brother to Sea The Stars, Allmankind is by a son of the Gilltown stallion

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LLMANKIND, bred and owned by the Gredley family, was transferred to the winter game and the yard of Dan Skelton after proving difficult to anchor on the Flat and without a set of hurdles to break his stride.

Even in the winter ground at Chepstow in the Corale Finale Juvenile Hurdle (G1) he set off at a pace deemed by many to be too fast, but he maintained his momentum despite the heavy conditions and proved the class that as a 89-rated Flat performer he has up his sleeve.

He is now unbeaten over hurdles, is officially rated 140 and connections have the Triumph Hurdle firmly on the horizon. He was bred by Stetchworth and Middle Park Studs, but hails from a deep Juddmonte pedigree – he is out of Wemyss Bay, an unraced sister to Juddmonte’s Group 1 winner and Derby third Beat Hollow. The pair are out of Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave), winner of the Irish Oaks.

Sea The Moon has had seven runners over timber so far, three have won with Must See The Doc, also rated 140, and Gealach, trained

by Gordon Elliot, the winner of three-year-old maiden hurdle at Punchestown on the last day of 2019. Three Comets, rated 93 on the

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Flat for trainer Roger Varian and now trained

by Luke Comer, who paid 35,000gns for the gelding at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale last October, fell when in contention behind Gealach.

The one-time winner Sea Ducor, trained by Arthur Moore, was the only one to give Aspire Tower a race of it when second in to the subsequent Grade 1 winner in a November

maiden hurdle. The form looks good on two counts – Sea Ducor then finished ahead of Wolf Prince, second to the Aspire Tower at Leopardstown.

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nh stallion stats Leading NH sires in Britain and Ireland 2019-2020: (by prize-money earned to January 6, 2020) Stallion Milan Yeats Flemensfirth King’s Theatre Stowaway Presenting Westerner Beneficial Gold Well Oscar Kayf Tara Getaway Shantou Scorpion Mahler Jeremy Court Cave Kapgarde Midnight Legend Kalanisi Network Martaline Doyen Saint des Saints Arcadio Robin des Champs Beat Hollow Poliglote Black Sam Bellamy Shirocco Saddler Maker Mastercraftsman No Risk At All Sulamani Authorized Fame And Glory Dubai Destination Craigsteel Voix du Nord Brian Boru Winged Love Vinnie Roe Malinas Walk In The Park Arakan Mountain High Galileo Ask

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2004 230 706 £55 81 23.91 8 11 £1,291,208 Roaring Bull 2010 195 575 52 66 26.67 7 7 1,096,916 Tudor City 1998 217 560 55 69 25.35 8 9 1,059,539 Lostintranslation 1997 98 340 40 64 40.82 6 6 1,053,753 Happy Diva 2001 231 629 46 66 19.91 5 7 1,001,827 The Worlds End 1997 225 675 52 74 23.11 5 6 979,756 Slate House 2006 165 524 39 54 23.64 2 2 877,737 Jepeck 1997 160 515 43 61 26.88 2 3 847,877 Na Trachtalai Abu 2006 166 570 59 81 35.54 1 2 844,442 Well Set Up 1998 220 643 48 57 21.82 3 3 811,750 Minella Times 2001 157 407 40 52 25.48 2 4 662,553 Thyme Hill 2011 217 624 54 64 24.88 3 3 655,577 Danny Whizzbang 1999 122 381 47 64 38.52 2 2 640,797 Bun Doran 2008 162 540 36 48 22.22 0 0 604,487 Riders Onthe Storm 2009 177 558 39 49 22.03 1 1 585,216 Chris’s Dream 2008 131 395 35 43 26.72 2 2 542,239 Silver Forever 2004 135 495 32 50 23.70 0 0 532,517 The Big Lense 2004 60 173 18 20 30.00 3 3 518,901 Clan des Obeaux 1998 130 371 39 53 30.00 2 2 506,039 Midnight Shadow 2002 107 300 24 34 22.43 1 2 498,641 The Conditional 2002 51 138 13 23 25.49 2 2 476,357 Borice 2005 84 210 24 28 28.57 2 2 429,698 Warthog 2006 83 300 28 31 33.73 1 2 401,565 Battleoverdoyen 2003 45 115 15 18 33.33 1 1 370,855 Lord du Mesnil 2008 114 374 23 32 20.18 0 0 367,193 Crievehill 2001 80 238 21 32 26.25 2 2 360,370 Robin de Carlow 2003 66 178 18 26 27.27 2 2 350,067 Not So Sleepy 1998 26 64 11 13 42.31 3 3 346,120 Capeland 2004 97 251 30 41 30.93 1 1 338,567 Sam Spinner 2007 118 279 24 32 20.34 1 2 333,343 Casablanca Mix 2005 24 66 8 9 33.33 2 2 328,565 Apple’s Jade 2010 54 198 18 26 33.33 2 2 319,880 Razoul 2013 30 72 14 19 46.67 3 4 311,961 Epatante 2005 73 226 22 29 30.14 1 1 311,138 Honeysuckle 2008 49 147 17 25 34.69 1 1 302,656 Foveros 2013 98 265 25 34 25.51 1 1 299,102 Home By The Lee 2004 67 214 16 24 23.88 0 0 297,742 Elegant Escape 2003 50 195 13 22 26.00 1 1 282,190 Doctor Duffy 2006 24 66 5 8 20.83 2 3 273,809 Defi du Seuil 2005 54 208 15 22 27.78 0 0 270,718 McGroarty 1996 56 146 15 20 26.79 0 0 255,843 Ravenhill 2006 57 202 13 19 22.81 2 2 250,165 Vinndication 2006 69 167 18 22 26.09 1 1 245,750 Harambe 2008 18 51 7 7 38.89 3 3 237,624 Walk In The Mill 2006 56 210 14 24 25.00 1 1 235,305 Sirobbie 2008 51 167 13 18 25.49 1 1 229,580 Stoney Mountain 2002 60 180 13 18 21.67 0 0 203,186 Le Musee 2011 69 207 11 14 15.94 0 0 197,772 Ask Susan

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The Japanese 2019 Horse of the Year Lys Gracieux followed up her Cox Plate (G1) victory in the autumn with success in the Arima Kinen, her third Group 1 victory in 2019.

The Heart’s Cry filly is the sole winner so far out of Liliside (American Post), who was disqualified after her Poule D’Essai Des Poulains (G1) victory.

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Eastern delights

Simon Rowlands rounds up 2019’s international action which saw Japanese raiders grab a Group 1 treble at Sha Tin and Lys Gracieux wipe out her opposition in the Arima Kinen

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HE FOCUS OF attention in world horseracing after the Arc meeting in France and Champions Day in Britain very clearly switches as elite racing is packed up for another year in Europe.

Following the Breeders’ Cup in the US and the Melbourne Cup in Australia into the breach steps Hong Kong and Japan, and while Australia and the US scale down somewhat, both countries still have significant late-year contests.

Perhaps most significant of all in the US was the Cigar Mile Handicap at Aqueduct in early December, which went readily to Maximum Security (New Year’s Day) with a 128 rating from Timeform, making him highest-rated three-year-old in North America of 2019.

Maximum Security was first past the post in all but one of his eight appearances through the year, four of them Grade 1s, but continues to be remembered as much as anything as the horse who was disqualified in the Kentucky Derby.

More recent events have shown that he is as good at 7f and a mile as he was over 1m2f.

His main rival on Timeform figures for three-year-old supremacy is the 127-rated Omaha Beach (War Front), who

The joint-best US juvenile colts, on 118, are the Los Alamitos Futurity winner Thousand Words (Pioneerof The Nile) and Independence Hall won five of his last six starts – including the 7f Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita over Christmas authoritatively from Roadster.

He lost the one that mattered most in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.

Another beaten horse at the Breeders’ Cup stepped forward in the Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos, though anyone who saw how close Bast (Uncle Mo) had raced to a suicidal pace when third in the Juvenile Fillies should not have been surprised that she turned the tables on the runner-up in that Donna Veloce.

Bast followed up in the Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita in January and is now rated 118 by Timeform.

That makes Bast marginally the best of the US juvenile fillies while the joint-best US juvenile colts, also on 118, are the Los Alamitos Futurity winner Thousand Words (Pioneerof The Nile) and Independence Hall (Constitution), the runaway winner of the Nashua Stakes at Aqueduct and who has followed up in the Listed Jerome Stakes .

Sha Tin was the venue of the Hong Kong International Races in early December, and there were enough foreign raiders to justify the “international” element of that title.

There was little to choose between the winners of the four main races on Timeform ratings: Glory Vase (Deep Impact, 127 in the Vase) just shading it over Admire Mars (Daiwa Major, 126, Mile), Beat The Clock (Hinchinbrook, 125, Sprint) and Win Bright (Stay Gold, 124, Cup).

That amounts to three wins for the Japanese-trained horses and just one – Beat The Clock’s – for those trained in Hong Kong.

Exultant (Teofilo, 126 overall, 120 here) and Deirdre (Harbinger, 121, 115 here) might have made more of a fist of it in the Vase on another day, Aethero (Sebring, 125 overall, 122 here) seemed not quite to stay a strongly run 1200m in the Sprint and Beauty Generation (Road To Rock, 132 at the end of 2018, but only 119 in third here) would

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It proved to be a memorable end of season for Japanese horseracing in other respects with Lys Gracieux (Heart’s Cry) following up her win in the Cox Plate (G1) in Australia in October with a magnificent 5l victory in the Arima Kinen at Nakayama, earning a 128 rating from Timeform which would in effect be 132 with her sex allowance factored back in.

Almond Eye (Lord Kanola) finished only ninth in the Arima Kinen weakening late on in a strongly-run race at the longest distance attempted. She is better judged on her 129-rated comfortable win in the Tenno Sho (Autumn) at Tokyo the time before.

There were also big wins at home from Suave Richard (Heart’s Cry) (another to finish behind in the Arima Kinen subsequently) in the Japan Cup at Tokyo in November and by Indy Champ (Stay Gold) (an also-ran in the Hong Kong Mile a few weeks later) in the Mile Championship at Kyoto, both of which were assessed at 125.

Hawwaam (Silvano) became Timeform’s joint-top-rated South African horse of the century on a rating of 126, alongside 2010’s trailblazer J J The Jet Plane Santa Ana Lane on account of that one’s clear-cut T J Smith Stakes win at Randwick in April, with both of them ahead of the colt who beat them in the Everest at Randwick in October, Yes Yes Yes (Rubick).

far behind him judged on his performances in victory and defeat under big weights.

Any discussion of the most improved global performer in the last year has to include the remarkable Skalleti (Kendargent), whose eight wins out of nine started on the All-Weather at Marseilles Vivaux in January, took in success in the Group 2 Prix Dollar at Longchamp on Arc weekend, and culminated with a 124-rated victory in the Group 3 Premio Roma in Italy in November.

Finally, it is worth making due note of the victory of Nao da Mais (T.H. Approval) in the latest installment of the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini Internacional at San Isidro in outer Buenos Aires, Argentina, just before Christmas.

His Timeform Performance Rating in the race of 115 is almost bang on the decade average for winners of a race that has been described as “South America’s equivalent of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe”.

Nature Strip: clear-cut winner of the Darley Sprint Classic. The gelding by Nicconi is the best sprinter in Australia

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HE TAIL-END of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival provided notable wins for Nature Strip (Nicconi) in the Darley Sprint Classic and for the admirably tough Irish-trained filly Magic Wand (Galileo) (who was short-headed by Win Bright in the Hong Kong Cup just a few weeks later) in the Mackinnon Stakes.

Their Performance Ratings – those achieved in the races themselves – were 128 and 119 respectively, and that Nature Strip win has him bang in contention for best sprinter in Australia and, so it follows, one of the best speedsters in the world.

Timeform has him level with

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Yes Yes Yes was a 2016 produce and there looks to be quite a bit of strength in depth among that cohort.

Exceedance (Exceed And Excel) earned the same 125 rating as Yes Yes Yes by winning the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington in November from Bivouac, while Bivouac himself is on 124 and the winner of the Golden Rose at Rosehill in September from Yes Yes Yes and Exceedance.

South African-trained horses have made less of an impact on the world stage of late than has sometimes been the case, but there are a couple of good ones around at present, both carrying the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum colours.

Hawwaam (Silvano) became Timeform’s joint-top-rated South African Horse of the Century on a rating of 126, alongside 2010’s trailblazer J J The Jet Plane, by rattling off a succession of wins in 2019 from 1200m to 2000m.

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the saudi cup

Dawn of a new beginning Tom Ryan, the director of Strategy and International Racing for the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia, chats about February 29th’s inaugural running of The Saudi Cup, the richest race in the world

What has the response been to The Saudi Cup from international horsemen?

The response has been overwhelmingly positive and highly encouraging.

Racing at the very top level has become an increasingly global sport over the past 40 years, and there was an immediate buy-in from well-known owners and trainers, who were extremely keen to support the race.

A lot of thought has gone in to structuring the two-day meeting in order to ensure that it is complementary to the international racing calendar, and the feedback we’ve received indicates there is very much a demand for the event.

Are you pleased with how The Saudi Cup undercard has come together?

There has been no official announcement yet as to the confirmed entries for the other races, but what I can say is that we’re

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“Racing at the very top level has become an increasingly global sport over the past 40 years, and there was an immediate buy-in from well-known owners and trainers

very excited by the level of interest in the supporting races, not just numerically but also in terms of the depth of quality.

It’s probably fair to say that any of the supporting cast of races would be a highlight event on most race days anywhere in the world.

With both Dirt and Turf sprints, a valuable handicap for locally-trained horses, middle-distance and staying Turf contests, a Dirt mile and one of the world’s most valuable races for pure-bred Arabian horses, there is something for everyone and that has been reflected in the level of interest we’ve received from the connections of potential runners.

Why the autumn changes to the race conditions?

Any changes were really more about finessing the race conditions to best serve

the saudi cup the requirements of international racing.

We believe The Saudi Cup can quickly become established as an integral part of the international racing calendar and, as such, we anticipated there would be minor, organic “tweaks” as our ongoing dialogue with trainers and owners continued.

Is everything going to plan?

There is a keen sense of anticipation as we draw close to the inaugural running of The Saudi Cup meeting, but it’s more excitement than any real nervousness.

We are fortunate enough to have an experienced and dedicated team behind the race. It seems unreasonable not to expect a teething problem or two, but that is perfectly normal in an event of this magnitude.

“The commitment of everyone involved in the project at a local level has helped to create the sense of anticipation The time-frame was seemingly tight. Did you ever consider moving the event back a year?

Clearly the time-frame has presented its own set of challenges, but there has been nothing we felt we couldn’t overcome. It is an exciting venture and we all just wanted to begin the journey as soon as we could.

helped to create the sense of anticipation I mentioned, and everyone connected with The Saudi Cup feels this more and more in the city as we draw nearer to the race.

We are lucky to have an extremely dedicated local team who are all determined to show that top-class international racing is perfectly at home in Saudi Arabia.

How are the horses shipping in?

There is a highly detailed horsemen’s guide on The Saudi Cup website, which covers all technical aspects of bringing a horse to Saudi Arabia to compete in the two-day meeting.

All shipping arrangements will be co-ordinated through Luck Greayer Bloodstock Shipping Ltd and its appointed shipping agents, and the entire process aims to be as hassle-free as possible.

Flying horses around the world to compete has been commonplace for decades and we don’t anticipate horsemen experiencing any issues.

In addition, it should be remembered that The Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia has, with extraordinary

generosity, committed to covering the normal costs of return transport by road from the home stable to departure airport, and return air transportation to the country of origin.

Could you give us some detail about the tracks? It is an ambitious plan to install a Turf course in such a short time – is it on target?

Thanks to the hard work and commitment of everyone involved, the Turf track is actually ahead of schedule and we’re very excited to see it in action.

The goal was to produce a fair, fast Turf course with a nice cushion and we’re extremely happy with where we are.

As you are probably aware, the Turf facility has been overseen by the STRI Group, who specialise in grass surfaces for sporting events.

They are the people responsible for, among many others, Lords’ cricket pitches, the grass courts at Wimbledon, the straight mile at Ascot and pitches at three FIFA World Cup tournaments.

Tom Ryan: making the most of the opportunity to be involved in such an “imaginative” project

What has the role been like for you personally?

It’s a truly exciting prospect. From my standpoint there are very few opportunities in a working lifetime to be so involved in such a bold and imaginative project. To be part of a team that is creating an event of this importance from what was – just a matter of months ago – a blank piece of paper, is a tremendous privilege.

Is there a buzz developing in Saudi Arabia as the event approaches?

Absolutely. The commitment of everyone involved in the project at a local level has

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The Dirt surface is world-class at King Abdulaziz racetrack

The feedback from riders in regard to the main Dirt track has been highly encouraging, and they all seem to agree that the course rides fairly, from on and off the pace, and has very little kickback.

How is your new clerk of the course Michael Prosser settling in to his role?

We are extremely fortunate to have someone of Michael’s talent as part of what is already a very strong team. His skill-set will be instrumental to our success.

Michael’s skills as clerk of the course at Newmarket are recognised throughout the global racing industry.

He’s already fully immersed in every aspect of The Saudi Cup project and has been closely involved with the finishing touches to both the Turf course, as well as the other normal clerk responsibilities that he will also assume.

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Bob Turman: track manager of the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia

the saudi cup Racing has been operating in Saudi Arabia at a high level for some years and this new meeting will take the sport forward to an international level

How many racegoers are expected?

The Saudi Cup is a major horseracing event by any standard and, with the high levels of domestic interest, we’re anticipating a good crowd. The level of international interest in the meeting has also been encouraging, something that is helped by the relatively new eVisa system for tourists, which is explicitly designed to simplify the process of visiting Saudi Arabia.

Are tickets for sale online?

Yes, tickets for Kingdom Day and Saudi Cup Day are available online at www.thesaudicup.com What are the facilities for home-based visitors, western visitors and horse connections?

Riyadh is a thriving, modern capital city and,

“The facilities for all horses and their teams are world class – we can’t wait to show them off! as such, has all the facilities that travellers have come to expect in the 21st century.

The King Abdulaziz Racetrack has been hosting top-class racing for many years and its excellent facilities will be very familiar to anyone who has attended a premier racetrack anywhere in the world.

As you’d expect from the level of commitment The Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia has given to the entire Saudi Cup concept, the facilities for all horses and their teams are world class – we can’t wait to show them off!

What about the protocol for western visitors coming to the Islamic country?

As previously mentioned, the new eVisa system will make visiting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a simple process.

The Club will also be assisting connections and invited guests directly with their visa applications as part of the comprehensive destination management offering we will have.

Obviously, there are cultural differences, as there are in many countries around the world, and we are confident that visiting racegoers will want to familiarise themselves

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the saudi cup with the local culture in the same way that they would do before visiting any country.

Horseracing is a universal sport that binds its fans together, regardless of their nationality, and we’re looking forward to welcoming all racegoers, no matter where they come from.

Where can visitors find out more about accommodation and visiting Saudi Arabia?

Prospective visitors can find out much more about the broad range of accommodation available in Riyadh by visiting the Saudi Cup website (www.thesaudicup.com), as well as the excellent Visit Saudi portal (https://visa.visitsaudi.com/).

Will there be any locally trained runners in the big race?

There is a trial event in early February from which the two, top-rated local horses will be invited to participate in the Saudi Cup. Is The Saudi Cup part of a wider strategic plan for the future of Saudi racing and Saudi sport?

I can speak only for the racing side, but we felt there was an opportunity to create a major racing event that would dovetail

“The meeting is intended to be a catalyst for a wider progression of horseracing within the Kingdom perfectly between the Pegasus World Cup and the Dubai World Cup while, of course, underlining that racing is an important and long-established part of the sporting landscape in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

This is something that is often overlooked. The horse, and horseracing, is central to the ancient culture of Saudi Arabia and, as such, holding an event as prestigious as The Saudi Cup is a kind of homecoming for the sport.

Everyone who knows their racing history appreciate that the original source of every thoroughbred running today is right here in the Middle East.

The meeting is intended to be a catalyst for a wider progression of horse racing

within the Kingdom both in terms of quality and scale.

Once the meeting is completed, how will you judge if it has been successful?

The Saudi Cup is already a success in terms of its impact on the global racing community.

There has been a welcoming and enthusiastic response from the industry at large and, as previously mentioned, the race fits naturally into the international racing calendar.

However, clearly, this is year one of what we very much anticipate will become a perennial, and important, race that slowly creates its own illustrious history.

Are there already plans in place for year two and beyond?

The short answer is “yes”! Everyone connected with The Saudi Cup is fully committed to its long-term success, and planning is already underway to achieve those long-term goals over the coming years.

However, for this inaugural race, as the saying goes ‘a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step’.

Step two will begin the morning of the day after on February 30 in Riyadh!

It is full steam ahead for The Saudi Cup!

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Too Darn Hot winning the Sussex Stakes (G1)

New stallions 2020

Too Darn Hot heads up this year’s batch of new sires at stud.

Aisling Crowe runs through individual profiles and outlines options for mare owners €/£50,000>>€/£25,000

Too Darn Hot

Dubawi – Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) Dalham Hall Stud £50,000 An unbeaten champion two-year-old by the sire of 2019’s champion first-season sire from the Aga Khan family of leading sire Darshaan, Too Darn Hot is the most expensive new stallion of 2020.

A home-bred from Lord and Lady LloydWebber’s Watership Down Stud, Too Darn Hot made an eye-catching debut over a mile at Sandown in the August of his two-yearold season. He quickly showed that first impression of him correct with a powerful performance when winning the 7f Group 3 Solario Stakes, beating Listed Chesham Stakes winner Arthur Kitt by 4l.

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He improved again when winning the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster with a strong showing ahead of subsequent Classic winner Phoenix Of Spain and the Group 2 winners Van Beethoven and Dark Vision.

Arguably he put in the best performance of his career in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes when he was an easy winner of the 7f championship race, which has been won by such stallion luminaries as Mill Reef, Storm Bird, Diesis, Shamardal and Frankel.

He was two and three-quarter lengths clear of Group 1 Phoenix Stakes winner Advertise with subsequent Derby hero Anthony Van Dyck third.

After the Dewhurst, Too Darn Hot was given an official rating of 126 making him the highest-rated two-year-old in Europe of 2018.

An interrupted three-year-old preparation meant he missed the 2,000 Guineas for which

he was ante-post favourite, and, with a Derby tilt in mind, he returned in the 1m2f Group 2 Dante Stakes. He suffered the first defeat of his career on the Knavesmire failing to land a telling blow on winner Telecaster, but his second place finish was still ahead of Japan, Nayef Road and Line Of Duty.

With the Derby stamina conundrum mainly resolved, Too Darn Hot returned to a mile for the Irish 2,000 Guineas but lacked the speed of the winner Phoenix Of Spain, and again had to settle for the runner-up spot.

With Epsom off the agenda, as were ideas of trying the 1m2f trip once more, Too Darn Hot’s selected Royal Ascot target was the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes in which he suffered a third successive defeat.

Once more he lacked the finishing kick of his rivals, this time the winner being Circus Maximus, who held off Too Darn

new sires Hot’s stable-mate King Of Comedy with Too Darn Hot in third ahead of Group 1 winners Phoenix Of Spain and Royal Marine.

The 7f Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Deauville was a reputation-salvaging mission for Too Darn Hot and it was a case of mission accomplished on the Normandy coast with a 3l success over Space Blues.

The final start of his career came in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes and it was a successful swansong as he fended off the challenge of Circus Maximus by half a length. Back in the pack were Lord Glitters, Phoenix Of Spain, Zabeel Prince and Accidental Agent.

Too Darn Hot is the fifth runner and fourth winner out of the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes, Yorkshire Oaks and Dubai Sheema Classic winner Dar Re Mi (Singspiel).

She had already produced the Group 3 Musidora Stakes and Group 1 Prix de l’Opera winner So Mi Dar and the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes and Group 1 St Leger third Lah Ti Dar, full-sisters to Too Darn Hot. Her first runner was the Group 2 Prix de Guiche and Group 3 Prix de la Porte Maillot winner and Prix de Chene second De Treville,

After the Dewhurst, Too Darn Hot was given an official rating of 126, making him the highest-rated two-year-old in Europe of 2018 who is at stud in France. Her three-year-old full-brother to Too Darn Hot, now named Darain, was the most expensive yearling sold in Europe in 2018 when purchased for 3.5m guineas by Qatar Racing at Tattersalls October Book 1.

Dar Re Mi has a fantastic pedigree as a half-sister to three Group 1 winners and out of a Group 1-winning half-sister to Darshaan.

Her dam, the Prix Vermeille (G1) and Group 3 Prix de Psyche winner Darara, was bred by the Aga Khan and is a Top Ville half-sister to Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner and influential sire Darshaan (Shirley Heights).

Darara produced six Group 1 performers with the others being the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes and Dubai Sheema Classic winner Rewilding (Tiger Hill), who was also third in the Derby, the Sadler’s Wells’ Group 1 trio of Queen Elizabeth II Cup winner Diaghilev, Darazari, winner of the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes, and Rhagaas who finished third in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club, as well as the Listed winner and Prix du Cadran third Dariyoun (Sharastani) and the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes second Kilimanjaro, a son of Shirley Heights.

She is also the second dam of the Group 2 Goodwood Cup and Prix Kergolay winner Darasim, who was also second in the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup and Prix du Cadran and is a son of Kahyasi.

Third dam Delsy (Abdos) produced ten more winners, including the Group 2 Prix de

British and Irish New Sires 2020: in order of fee (€ and £) Sire

Stallion

Dam

Dam sire

Stud

Fee

Too Darn Hot

Dubawi

Dr Re Mi

Singspiel

Dalham Hall Stud

£50,000

Blue Point

Shamardal

Scarlett Rose

Royal Applause

Kildangan Stud

€45,000

Advertise

Showcasing

Furbelow

Pivotal

The National Stud

£25,000

Ten Sovereigns

No Nay Never

Seeking Solace

Exceed And Excel

Coolmore

€25,000

Calyx

Kingman Helleborine

Observatory Coolmore

€22,500

Magna Grecia

Invincible Spirit

Helleborine

Observatory

Coolmore

€22,500

Waldgeist

Galileo

Waldlerche

Monsun

Ballylinch Stud

€17,500

Masar

New Approach

Khawla

Cape Cross)

Dalham Hall Stud

£15,000

Phoenix Of Spain

Lope de Vega

Lucky Clio

Key Of Luck

Irish National Stud

€15,000

Study Of Man

Deep Impact

Second Happiness

Storm Cat

Lanwades Stud

£15,000

Invincible Army

Invincible Spirit

Rajeem

Diktat

Yeomanstown Stud

€10,000

Soldier’s Call

Showcasing

Dijarvo

Iceman

Ballyhane Stud

€10,000

Crystal Ocean

Sea The Stars

Crystal Star

Mark Of Esteem

Castlehyde Stud

€8,000

Inns Of Court

Invincible Spirit

Learned Friend

Seeking The Gold

Tally Ho Stud

€7,500

Le Brivido

Siyouni

La Bugatty

Dr Fong

Overbury Stud

£7,000

Land Force

No Nay Never

Theann

Rock Of Gibraltar

Highclere Stud

£6,500

Eqtidaar

Invincible Spirit

Madany

Acclamation

Shadwell Stud

£6,000

Flag Of Honour

Galileo

Hawala

Warning

The National Stud

£4,500

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new sires Royallieu winner and Group 1 Prix Royal Oak third Dalara, the dam of Group 1 Hong Kong Vase and Coronation Cup winner Daliapour and his full-brother Dalampour, winner of the Group 3 Queen’s Vase.

Delsy is also the dam of Listed winners Daraydan and Dabara and the Group 3-placed Dalal.

Too Darn Hot features some balanced inbreeding to the highly influential mare Sunbittern through her daughters High Hawk, dam of Singspiel’s sire In The Wings, and High Tern, the third dam of Dubawi.

He is also the fastest of his siblings as his two full-sisters both excelled over further trips than his optimum mile, while dam Dar Re Mi and her siblings were also more stoutly bred. Although he was a miler, he is somewhat of an outlier in his family and may be capable of producing offspring with more stamina than he possessed.

Dubawi is the sire of 2019’s European champion first-season sire Night Of Thunder, which is very encouraging for breeders in line to use Too Darn Hot. Night Of Thunder is out of a Galileo mare but he has no record of success yet with daughters of Singspiel, although inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells has become more apparent with Enable inbred 3x2 to the great patriarch.

Singspiel has sired one runner, a winner, out of a Montjeu mare, which creates the same 3x3 to Sadler’s Wells as would Galileo.

With Sadler’s Wells coming in on the fifth generation of Too Darn Hot’s foals through him, any daughters of Galileo, who is successful when creating inbreeding to Mr. Prospector through Galileo’s dam-sire Miswaki and a son of Mr. Prospector on the dam’s side, would come into the reckoning for Too Darn Hot. Dubawi, too, works well with multiples of Mr. Prospector and has Group 1 winners Postponed, New Bay and Zarak with mares by Mr. Prospector-line sires.

Broodmare sire Singspiel has done very well with Dubawi, but his daughters have also enjoyed success when crossed with Danehill and his sons, while his daughters have clicked with Mr. Prospector-line stallions.

The Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile winner Suedois is out of Cup Cake, a dam by Singspiel, crossed with Le Havre, a grand-s0n of Singspiel’s half-brother Rahy.

Rahy is also the broodmare sire of Giant’s Causeway so perhaps bringing in that inbreeding to Glorious Song through his daughters and his son Shamardal may be worth exploring as Dubawi has Group winners Ispolini and Universal and Listed

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Blue Point: the four-time Group 1 winner is the most expensive new sire in Ireland for 2020

winner Lord North out of Giant’s Causeway mares.

Blue Point

Shamardal – Scarlett Rose (Royal Applause) Darley Kildangan Stud €45,000 The first horse to win two Group 1 races at one Royal Ascot meeting, Blue Point was one of the stars of 2019 and is by a sire who shone brighter than ever last season.

Blue Point was quick, classy and precocious and maintained his form at the highest level for four seasons.

He began his racing career for Godolphin by winning a 6f novice on his debut and quickly followed up with victory in a similar race before running a close second to Mehmas in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes.

Sent to York for the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes, he defeated a field that included The Last Lion and Ardad.

A step-up to Group 1 competition in the Middle Park Stakes followed and a fight with The Last Lion for victory ensued – that was won by the Choisir colt with Blue Point in second and turning the tables from

Goodwood on Mehmas.

Blue Point ended the season by finishing third to Churchill in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes over a stamina-sapping 7f.

A sprinting campaign was the aim for his three-year-old season and the colt got off to a flying start winning the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes at Ascot and beating Harry Angel before taking third in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot behind Caravaggio and Harry Angel.

He was fourth to Harry Angel in the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup before ending his season with a narrow win in the Group 3 Bengough Stakes at Ascot.

He wintered in Dubai and returned to England after a second placing in the Group 2 Meydan Sprint and an outing at Sha Tin. Blue Point’s first run of the European season came at Royal Ascot in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes, the race in which he made the breakthrough into elite company with a commanding victory over Battaash and Mab’s Cross.

He ran three times in England that summer and was third to Alpha Delphini and Mab’s Cross in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes.

new sires Once again he spent the winter in Dubai, but it was a more successful campaign than previously. He remained unbeaten in his three starts culminating with success in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint defeating a field that including the dual Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) winner Stormy Liberal and Belvoir Bay, who would win that race in 2019.

Blue Point’s record-breaking Royal Ascot were his only two appearances in Europe last year and he was retired after his King’s Stand Stakes and Diamond Jubilee double.

Blue Point was bred to be quick and is a three-parts brother to the Group 2 Railway Stakes winner and Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes second Formosina (Footstepsinthesand).

They are the two best foals so far out of the Royal Applause mare Scarlett Rose, the dam of three winners from five runners.

She is a placed half-sister to Tumbleweed Ridge (Indian Ridge), winner of five Group 3 contests – the Horris Hill Stakes, the Prix de la Porte Mailliot and three runnings of the Ballycorus Stakes. He was also placed 26 times including in the Gimcrack Stakes (G2).

She is also a half-sister to Tumbleweed Pearl, a three-time winner by Aragon and the dam of Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes and Listed Marygate Stakes winner Gilded (Redback). She, in turn, is the dam of Fort Del Oro, by Lope De Vega, another son of Shamardal and rated 103, and she won three Listed sprints.

Second dam Billie Blue (Ballad Rock) was placed at three and is the dam of seven winners. She is out of the Listed winner Blue Nose, who was also placed in the National Stakes at two, and produced four winners.

Fourth dam Hill Slipper was a winner at three and placed in the Park Stakes (G3). She is a half-sister to Lovely Kate, who won the Whitehall Stakes and was second in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, and to the Group 2 Pretty Polly Stakes second Tell Katty.

Shamardal had a year to savour in 2019 with three unbeaten juvenile colts and five Group 1 winners.

In the juvenile division he sired the thrilling champion two-year-old Pinatubo, who won the Group 1 National and Dewhurst Stakes, Earthlight was the winner of the Group 1 Prix Morny and Group 1 Middle Park Stakes, and Victor Ludorum took the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère.

His three-year-old daughter Castle Lady won the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Blue Point won his two Group 1 sprints.

It was a memorable year for the stallion sons of Shamardal’s sire Giant’s Causeway as

Advertise was rated 119 and is the best by Showcasing, and indeed, was rated higher than his sire 2,000 Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand sired Group 2 Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes winner Threat and the runaway Goffs UK Yearling Sales Race winner Mum’s Tipple.

Shamardal’s sire Giant’s Causeway has sired over 40 Group/Graded winners out of mares from the Mr. Prospector line and Shamardal has the Group 1 winner and top-class sire Lope De Vega inbred 3x3 to Shamardal’s broodmare sire Machiavellian.

Shamardal also sired the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes winner Mukhadram, and he is out of Timber Country mare, while the multiple Group 3 winner French Navy is out of a First Fleet (Woodman) mare. The Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Emotionless has a dam by Unbridled’s Song, as does Lope De Vega’s Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner Zabeel Prince.

Shamardal’s 2019 Classic winner Castle Lady is out of an Elusive Quality mare and he is the sire of the Group 3 and Listedwinning full-siblings Ihtimaal and Winter Lightning. They are out of a daughter of Dubai Destination.

It would be supposed that Mr. Prospector line mares would suit Blue Point quite well.

Galileo has seven Group 1 winners out of Storm Cat mares and four of them are out of full-sisters to Giant’s Causeway, while another, Ballydoyle, has Mr. Prospector as the sire of her second dam so it would appear logical that mares by Galileo and his sons would visit Blue Point.

Emphasising that point is Shamardal’s Group 1-winning juvenile Earthlight, who was the first Group 1 winner as a broodmare sire for New Approach.

Advertise

Showcasing – Furbelow (Pivotal) The National Stud £25,000 The best son so far of Showcasing retires to

the National Stud as the winner of Group 1 races at two and three. He is the best sprinter to retire to stud in Britain in 15 years.

Advertise announced himself as a colt of promise with an easy success in a 6f Newbury maiden on his debut in May of 2018. That he got to within a length of Calyx in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes on his second start showed that his potential was likely to be fulfilled.

And indeed 0n his very next run in the Group 2 July Stakes at Newmarket he ran out the comfortable winner.

He took on the Ballydoyle battalions in their own backyard in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes and became the first British-trained winner of the race in 21 years when fending off the challenge of So Perfect.

Questions over his stamina surrounded him prior to the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes and a fine second place to the season’s champion two-year-old colt didn’t answer them so he was pointed to Newmarket and the 2,000 Guineas.

There the questions of his ability to stay a mile were well and truly answered in the negative so connections returned him to a sprinting campaign.

The 6f of Royal Ascot’s Commonwealth Cup (G1) proved to be perfect and he was a decisive winner from Forever In Dreams, Hello Youmzain and Ten Sovereigns.

The last-named got the better of Advertise in the Group 1 July Cup when he finished second, though ahead of the Group 1 winners Fairyland, Pretty Pollyana, Brando, Dream Of Dreams and Limato.

The son of Showcasing demonstrated a battling attitude in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest when he had to withstand the challenge of the hardened campaigner Brando inside the final furlong of the six and a half furlong race.

One Master, Pretty Pollyana, Le Brivido and Invincible Army were amongst the vanquished at Deauville.

Advertise had one final start in the Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint but failed to show his true self on heavy ground at Ascot. He retired the winner of five of his ten starts with three further second place finishes.

Bred by Cheveley Park Stud, he is one of two winners out of Furbelow, a Pivotal full-sister to the American Listed winner Red Diadem and winner of a 6f maiden at three.

She is also a three-parts sister to Adorn (Kyllachy), a winner at two, and the dam of Group 2 Richmond Stakes winner Saayerr (Acclamation) and the Group 2 King George third Ornate, a son of Bahamian Bounty.

Advertise’s second dam Red Tiara was

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new sires placed once and is a Mr. Prospector three-parts sister sister to the Japanese sprinter and sire Meiner Love (Seeking The Gold) winner of the Listed Sprinters Stakes, the Centaur Stakes and the Silk Road Stakes.

She is also a half-sister to Miracle Worker, the winning dam of the Listed Whirlaway and Changing Times Stakes winner Peppi Knows.

The third dam Heart Of Joy is a daughter of Lypheor and won the Grade 2 Palomar Handicap and Group 2 Nell Gwyn Stakes and was placed in the 1,000 Guineas, the Irish 1,000 Guineas, the Coronation Stakes and the Grade 1 Ramona Handicap.

She is a half-sister to the Riviera Stakes winner Ataentsic, who is the dam of Grade 2 San Fernando Breeders’ Cup Stakes winner and sire Unbridled Energy.

Advertise was rated 119 and is the best by Showcasing, and indeed, was rated higher than his sire. He is also the second winner of the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup sired by Showcasing after Quiet Reflection.

Showcasing has risen through the stallion ranks from humble origins and the crosses that have produced many of his winners reflect this, but he does show affinity with the

Nureyev line beyond Pivotal.

Soldier’s Call is out of a mare by Iceman, Listed winner De Bruyne Horse has Soviet Star as his dam-sire and the 94-rated Showing Character is out of a daughter of King Charlemagne – so inbreeding to Nureyev may be an option.

Showcasing has also done well with mares

by Cadeaux Genereux and his son Bahamian Bounty with multiple Group 2-winning sprinter and Shadwell Stud young sire Tasleet out of a Cadeaux Genereux mare, the Listed and Group 3 second Life Of Riley has Bahamian Bounty as his dam-sire as do Group 3-placed Shalailah and Show Stealer, who was rated 95 at three.

The Ahonoora sire line has also done well with Showcasing with the full-brothers Mohaather and Prize Exhibit out of an Inchinor mare, while Compton Place is the broodmare sire of the exciting Listed-winning Lady Of France, amongst a number of good winners bred on the cross.

Royal Applause is the broodmare sire of Group 2 winner and Group-1 placed Capella Sansevero and daughters of Acclamation, a son of Royal Applause out of an Ahonoora mare, would appear to suit Advertise well.

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Ten Sovereigns

No Nay Never – Seeking Solace (Exceed And Excel) Coolmore €25,000 A grandson of the much-missed Scat Daddy, Ten Sovereigns is the sixth Group 1-winning juvenile in his direct sire-line, and is the best horse so far from the first two enormously exciting crops of No Nay Never.

He was rated 120 after an unbeaten juvenile campaign that only took in three races, and the buzz Ten Sovereigns created after his debut 7l success in a 25-runner Curragh maiden was unmissable.

He came good on the promise of that run with a facile victory in the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes and he passed his first serious exam with flying colours in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes. Then the highly-regarded Jash attempted to rattle him but to no avail, and the first two came almost 4l clear of a field that included Group 2 winners Emaraaty Ana and Marie’s Diamond, the Group 3 winners Rumble Inthejungle and Sergei Prokofiev and the subsequent Group 2 Boomerang Stakes and Group 3 Jersey Stakes winner Space Traveller.

Despite having a 1m2f winner as his dam there was doubt about Ten Sovereigns’s ability to last the mile of the Guineas due of his scintillating speed, but he was still sent off favourite for the 2,000 Guineas.

Racing prominently on the far side he got his head in front of that 16-strong group near the finish, but eventually finished two heads behind Skardu and Madhmoon in third on the far side, and fifth overall to stands’ side runner Magna Grecia.

He did not sparkle when dropped back to 6f for the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup, but still managed fourth place behind Advertise.

However, at Newmarket for the Group 1 July Cup, the rocket of old returned and he firmly upended the Ascot form with Advertise.

He was a strong winner with his adversary in second almost 3l behind him. The Group 1 winners Fairyland, Pretty Pollyana, Brando, Dream Of Dreams and Limato were all behind Ten Sovereigns in the July Cup. The 5f trip of the Nunthorpe Stakes didn’t appear to play to his strengths and he was then quarantined for an ambitious tilt at the Everest in Australia from where he returned to stud duties alongside his sire.

He is one of three winners so far out of the French Listed second and Group 3-placed mare Seeking Solace (Exceed And Excel).

She is a half-sister to the Group 2 Al Fahidi Fort second Flash Fire (Shamardal), and

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new sires they are two of the seven winners out of the Theatrical mare Flamelet, who won at three and was second in the Group 3 Derrinstown Stud 1,000 Guineas Trial from just three runs.

Flamelet is a half-sister to the Listed Prix de Montretout winner and sire Bezrin (Danzig) and to Firemaid, a winning daughter of Machiavellian.

Firemaid is the dam of Grade 1 Oakleigh Plate winner Shamal Wind, a daughter of Dubawi, and she is also the second dam of the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes winner Al Thakhira, also by Dubawi.

Third dam Darling Flame is by Capote and was placed in the Group 2 Cherry Hinton Stakes.

She is a half-sister to the Group 3 Concorde Stakes and Listed Yasuda Kinen and Keio Hai Spring Cup winner and sire Heart Lake (Nureyev).

Darling Flame is also a half-sister to the dam of Group 3 winner Labirinto and second dam of Brazilian Group 1 winner Tonemai (Wild Event).

Another of her half-sisters is the second dam of Group 2 Nisai Stakes winner Bell Lap (Heart’s Cry).

The fourth dam is the Grade 1 Fantasy Stakes and Grade 3 Oaklawn Oaks winner My Darling One. A daughter of Exclusive Native, she was also placed in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks from just eight starts and is the dam of eight winners.

Ten Sovereigns has an international and stallion’s pedigree as the son of No Nay Never, the European champion first and leading second-season sire, and the grandson of another – his broodmare sire Exceed And Exce earned those laurels in Australia.

No Nay Never has done very well with mares by sons of Danehill – as well as Ten Sovereigns, he also has the Group 2 winner Land Force out of a Rock Of Gibraltar mare, his Listed winner Servalan has an Oratorio dam, while Catcher In The Rye is the damsire of Listed winner and Group 2-placed Never No More. Danehill Dancer is the damsire of Group 1-placed The Irish Rover and the Group 3-placed We Go, and Fastnet Rock is broodmare sire of Neverland Rock.

Danehill himself features as the dam-sire of Listed winner Yesterdayoncemore and is the sire of the second dam of Art Du Val. Inbreeding to mares by Danehill’s sons with Ten Sovereigns would produce 4x3 to Danehill in the pedigrees of the offspring.

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Sovereigns. The Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Arizona and his stakes-winning full-sister Nay Lady Nay are both out of an English Channel mare, Chester House is the dam-sire of the Group 2 winner Chestnut Honey, the Group 3 Albany Stakes-placed Celtic Beauty has a dam by Gulch and the stakes-placed Beechwood Ella is out of a Machiavellian mare.

The Listed winner Yesterdayoncemore has Woodman as the sire of her second dam, as has the Grade 1 Summer Stakes third Vitalogy.

Machiavellian is the sire of the second dam of Listed winner No Needs Never with Miswaki filling that role for the Listed second Ventura Lightning.

Ventura Lightning is out of an El Prado mare and No Nay Never has started well with the Sadler’s Wells line. The Group 2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte and Listed Rose Bowl Stakes winner Shadn has Sadler’s Wells as her broodmare sire, while the Listed Legacy Stakes winner and Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes fourth Tango is out of a Galileo mare.

Ten Sovereigns has a winning half-brother and half-sister by High Chaparral and the Galileo-Exceed And Excel cross produced last year’s Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck so Sadler’s Wells line mares, especially those

by High Chaparral and Galileo, particularly given that Galileo’s damsire is by Miswaki, should suit Ten Sovereigns.

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Calyx

Kingman – Helleborine (Observatory) Coolmore €22,500 Calyx was a high-class juvenile full of potential, is a son of one of the most exciting young sires around in Kingman, and is from a Juddmonte family with Group 1 horses under the first four dams.

Trained by John Gosden for ownerbreeder Juddmonte Farm, Calyx made an immediate impression on his debut winning a 6f novice race on Newmarket’s July course by 5l.

Just ten days later he announced himself as a potential superstar with an easy success in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes. A length behind him in second was Advertise who would go on to win three Group 1 races at two and three.

They were the only two starts Calyx made as a juvenile with injury curtailing his racing ambitions.

He allayed any fears that he was a oneseason wonder with another procession to success in the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes on his three-year-old debut.

Unfortunately, he suffered a pastern injury when meeting with his only defeat when second to subsequent Group 1 winner Hello Youmzain in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes and that would be the last time Calyx raced.

He received a Timeform rating 120p for his Coventry Stakes success and an official rating of 115 making him the third-best colt in Europe over 5f or 6f, despite not competing in a Group 1 contest.

He is from an excellent Juddmonte family and is the first winner out of his dam Helleborine, a classy juvenile who won the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale and the Listed Prix Six Perfections, and finished second in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac.

By top-class miler Observatory, she is a full-sister to the Group 1 Sprint Cup heroine African Rose, who was also finished second in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.

African Rose is the dam of Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes winner and the Group 2 Lowther and Rockfel Stakes-placed Fair Eva (Frankel).

Second dam is the Listed-placed New Orchid, a daughter of Quest For Fame and a half-sister to the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes and National Stakes (G1) winner and sire Distant Music. Their half-sister Allegro Viva is the dam of Group 2 Prix Chaudenay winner Canticum (Beat Hollow).

Northern Dancer appears three times in the fifth generation of Calyx’s pedigree but he has no Sadler’s Wells or Danehill blood Third dam Musicanti was also placed at Listed level and is a Nijinsky half-sister to the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup, Washington DC International Stakes and Suburban Handicap winner and sire Vanlandingham.

She is also a half-sister to the Listed winner and Grade 1 San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap second Jenkins Ferry and to the stakes winner Popular Tune, who is the dam of Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby winner Top Hit and stakes winner Crafty Star.

Musicanti’s Northern Dancer three-parts sister Kamkova is the dam of Keeneland Turf Mile and Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam winner and sire Kirkwall (Selkirk), and is the second dam of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Termagant, a daughter of Powerscourt.

Kingman (Invincible Spirit) has started life as a stallion in spectacular fashion producing a Classic winner from his first crop and siring 17 stakes winners in his first two crops. In some ways he is almost replicating the feats of his paternal half-brother I Am Invincible, a champion first-season sire in Australia, champion two-year-old sire and already twice runner-up in the general sires’ list.

A classy two-year-old, Kingman won the Group 3 Solario Stakes and went on to win four Group 1 races over a mile at three – the Irish 2,000 Guineas, the St James’s Palace Stakes, the Sussex Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois. He was beaten only once in eight races when he was second to Night Of Thunder in the 2,000 Guineas (G1).

His first two crops contain six Group winners and 27 stakes performers headed by the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Persian King.

The crop also included the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam and Prix Guillaume d’Ornano

winner Headman, Sagarius, who was last seen when winning the Group 3 Hampton Court Stakes, and Group 3 Musidora Stakes winner Nausha.

Kingman’s second crop contains Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner and Group 2 May Hill Stakes second Boomer and the Listed winners Alligator Alley, Alocasia and Summer Romance, all of whom were placed in Group 3 contests.

His two-year-olds of 2019 also included Group 2 Juvenile Stakes second Sinawann, Jazzique who was third in the Grade 3 Miss Grillo Stakes and Group 3 Prix Six Perfections third Divine Spirit.

Northern Dancer appears three times in the fifth generation of Calyx’s pedigree but he has no Sadler’s Wells or Danehill blood which makes him a lovely cross for all those mares descended from the two behemoths.

Kingman has already sired Nausha and the Listed winner Fox Chairman out of Galileo daughters, Boomer is out of a Singspiel mare and the Group 2-placed Jazzique is out of a mare by Sadler’s Wells.

Sending speedy mares to Galileo has produced numerous champions so sending Galileo mares to a fast and precocious horse such as Calyx should work – indeed Magna Grecia (Invincible Spirit) is out of a Galileo mare. Mares by High Chaparral and Montjeu should also suit Calyx.

Reinforcing Danzig in pedigrees seems to have worked well for Kingman –Persian King’s dam is a daughter of Dylan Thomas and Danehill Dancer mares have produced two stakes performers for Kingman, so mares by sons and grandsons of Danehill should suit Calyx very well.

Strengthening that even further through inbreeding to Green Desert has already worked very well for Kingman with Cape Cross the broodmare sire of Alligator Alley, Listed winner Raakib Alhawa is out of a Sea The Stars mare and Sinawann is out of a daughter of Anabaa.

Magna Grecia

Invincible Spirit – Cabaret (Galileo) Coolmore €22,500 A first British Classic winner for the brilliant Invincible Spirit, Magna Grecia is also the first of his sons to win Group 1 races at two and three.

A 340,000gns foal purchase by MV Magnier from Norelands Stud, Magna Grecia made his debut late in his two-yearold season but quickly made his presence

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Magna Grecia after his 2,000 Guineas success. By Invincible Spirit, can he follow in the hoofprints of I Am Invincible, Kingman and Cable Bay?

felt winning a Naas maiden over 7f before tackling the Group 3 Autumn Stakes.

There he lost out by a neck to future Classic winner Persian King, but defeated stable companion and subsequent Group 1 winner Circus Maximus and the Group 1-placed Western Australia.

He then moved up to Group 1 company for the Vertem Futurity and in a thrilling finish held on from Phoenix Of Spain in a race that went on to provide the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas winners of 2019, with Circus Maximus behind in third.

Ante-post favourite for the 2,000 Guineas, Magna Grecia made his seasonal debut in the first Classic of the season. Racing in a small group on the nearside of the course, he made his move a furlong from home and nothing could catch him winning by two and a half lengths from subsequent Group 1 winner King Of Change, with Ten Sovereigns, Advertise and Madhmoon in behind.

A torn hamstring sustained in the Irish 2,000 Guineas contributed toward denying him the chance of a Guineas double and kept him off the track for much of the remainder

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of the season. The colt only made it back on to the racecourse for the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes in October, a race won by King Of Change.

He is one of three winners from five runners out of Cabaret, a daughter of Galileo and winner of the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes at two.

Cabaret is a half-sister to the Group 3 Solario Stakes winner Drumfire (Danehill Dancer) and the Pivotal gelding Ho Choi, who won the Listed Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup at Sha Tin and was second in the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes.

They are out of the Lear Fan mare Witch Of Fife, winner of two races at two and third in the Listed Sweet Solera Stakes.

She is a half-sister to the unraced Quiet American mare Quiet Mouse, who is the dam of the Group 3 Park Stakes and Listed Testimonial Stakes winner Ugo Fire (Bluebird), who was also placed in the Group 1 Moyglare and Phoenix Stakes at two.

Another half-sister is the dam of Group 2 May Hill Stakes third Musharakaat (Iffraaj).

Third dam Fife is a winning daughter of

Lomond and a half-sister to Piffle (Shirley Heights), who is the dam of Grade 1 Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes and Group 3 Beresford Stakes winner Frenchpark (Fools Home) and the Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Pearly Shells, a daughter of Efisio.

Pearly Shells is the dam of German Group 3 winner Pearl Banks (Pivotal) and the Listed-winning Monsun filly Pearls Or Passion. She is also the second dam of the 2019 Group 3 Prix de Royaumont winner Pelligrina (Soldier Hollow) and the Listed winners Lucky Lyrca and Pearly Steph.

Invincible Spirit has been a wonderful success story for the Irish National Stud, with his influence reaching across the globe. He is the sire of 18 individual Group 1 winners and his sons are carrying on his legacy at stud.

I Am Invincible has had nine Group 1 winners, and was champion first-season sire and had been champion two-year-old sire as well as twice second in the leading sires’ table.

In the northern hemisphere Kingman has made a successful start to his stud career, with a Group 1 winner already, while Cable Bay’s first crop impressed and he was among

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Waldgeist is a member of one of the best families in Germany, and indeed Europe, of Gestüt Ravensberg’s W-Line, which is descended from Waldrun the top first-season sires in Europe last year.

As discussed elsewhere in this guide, Invincible Spirit has enjoyed particular success with broodmare sires from the Mr. Prospector line, with six of his 18 Group 1 winners bred this way and further one has Machiavellian as the sire of his second dam.

Kingman, his best son on ratings, is out of a Zamindar mare, while another of his stallions sons, Lawman, is out of a daughter of Gulch, and he is also has at least ten more Group winners bred in this way.

Mr. Prospector appears just the once in Magnia Grecia’s pedigree, and at that in the fifth generation is far enough back to allow mares from all branches of Mr. Prospector’s line.

Invincible Spirit’s Group 1-winning sprinter son Mayson is out of a Pivotal mare, while Lawman sired Group 1 winner Harbour Law out of a daughter of Pivotal.

The best broodmare sire of the day has an enormous affinity with Magna Grecia’s broodmare sire Galileo so Pivotal mares or mares by his sons such as Kyllachy, Captain Rio, Excellent Art and Farhh.

Waldgeist

Galileo – Waldlerche (Monsun) Ballylinch Stud €17,500 The only Group 1 winner by Galileo to be retired to stud in Britain and Ireland for 2020 and aimed at the Flat mares, Waldlgeist represents some of the same interests that combined to launch Lope De Vega’s enormously successful stallion career – namely his co-owner and breeder Dietrich

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von Boetticher and Ballylinch Stud.

Waldgeist retires to stud as an Arc winner and the only horse to defeat Enable in 15 starts, denying her bid for racing immortality in the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

That was the crowning achievement of a racing career that encompassed four seasons, four Group 1 victories, nine race wins and Group 1 second.

Trained by André Fabre for a partnership of von Boetticher’s Gestüt Ammerland and Newsells Park Stud, and for a while the Coolmore partners, Waldgeist ran three times as a two year-old.

He made a winning debut in a mile maiden and then was third in a Group 3 contest before claiming the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud from a field that contained four future Group 1 winners.

At three he showed the speed for the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club distance of 1m2f losing first place in the dying strides to Brametot. He was also second in the Group 2 Prix Greffuhle.

He added placed efforts in the Group 1 Irish Derby and the Grosser Preis von Bayern over 1m4f and finished a neck second in the Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes.

At four he added a second Group 1 beating Coronet, Cloth Of Stars and Iquitos in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, and won the Group 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly and Prix Foy in which he defeated Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Talismanic and the Group 3 Prix d’Hedouville.

He was placed behind Enable in the Arc and went travelling at the end of the season taking in the Breeders’ Cup Turf and Hong Kong Vase.

He returned as a five-year-old better than ever and started the season with a defeat of the Prix du Jockey-Club winner Study Of Man in the Group 1 Prix Ganay over 1m2f, and was then third to Crystal Ocean and Magical in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes.

Sent back up to a 1m4f for the Group 1 King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes he finished third behind Enable and Crystal Ocean before winning his second successive Prix Foy at Longchamp in September His dethroning of Enable in the Arc, also saw him defeat Group 1 winners Sottsass, Japan, Magical, Kiseki, French King, Ghaiyyath, Blast Onepiece and Fierement Waldgeist is a member of one of the best families in Germany, and indeed Europe, that of Gestüt Ravensberg’s W-Line, which is descended from Waldrun.

His dam is the Group 3 Prix Penelope winner Waldlerche, a daughter of the great

Monsun. As well as Waldgeist, she is also the dam of the Group 2 Prix de Malleret winner Waldlied, a three-parts sister to Waldgiest by New Approach.

Waldlerche is a half-sister to the Group 1 St Leger and Group 3 Bahrain Trophy winner Masked Marvel, a son of Montjeu who was also third in the Group 1 Coronation Cup and is building a good career as a stallion in France.

She is also a half-sister to the dual German Listed winner Waldnah (New Approach) and they are out of the Falmouth Stakes (G2) second Waldmark (Mark Of Esteem).

Waldmark’s unraced full-sister Waldbeere was a fine producer foaling the multiple Group 3 winner and sire Wiesenpfad (Waky Nao), the dual Group 3 winner Waldpfad (Shamardal) and the Oasis Dream Listed winner Waldtraut, who was third in the Group 1 Preis der Diana.

She is also a half-sister to the Group 1 Deutsches Derby winner and sire Waldpark (Dubawi) and the Listed Derby Trial winner Waldvogel, a son of Polish Precedent.

Waldbeere is also a half-sister to the

new sires Observatory mare Waldjagd, who was second in the Group 2 Diana Trial and is the dam of last year’s Listed Prix de Pont Neuf winner Urwald (Le Havre).

Third dam Wurftaube was a jointchampion three-year-old filly and joint champion older mare in Germany winning the Group 2 Gerling Preis, and St Leger and the Group 3 Furstenberg-Rennen and Hamburger Stutenpreis.

A daughter of Acatenango, she was also second in the Group 1 Deutschland Preis and is the dam of seven winners from eight runners.

She is a half-sister to the three-time Group 3 winner Wurfscheibe (Tiger Hill), who is the dam of Jukebox Jury’s Group 3-winning juvenile Arcatraz.

Wurftaube is also a half-sister to the Listed-placed Wurfspiel (Lomitas), who is the dam of Grade 1 Man O’War Stakes winner Wake Forest.

Waldgeist’s sire Galileo needs no introduction – he is simply the best stallion on the planet with 85 Group/Grade 1 winners and 17 sons at stud who have sired at least

one Group 1 winner, while his daughters are producing Group 1 winners in droves.

His Group 1 winners in 2019 alone included Derby hero Anthony Van Dyck, the dual 1,000 Guineas winner Hermosa, the brilliant Magical, winner of the Irish Champion and Champion Stakes, the Irish Derby winner Sovereign, Cape Of Good Hope, Circus Maximus, Japan, Love, Magic Wand and Search For A Song.

Galileo’s success had its foundations in mares by Danehill and his sons, especially Danehill Dancer, with his best being the champion Frankel, who is out of Kind, a daughter of Danehill.

Galileo has 25 Group 1 winners out of mares by Danehill, Danehill Dancer, Dansili, Exceed And Excel, Holy Roman Emperor, Mozart and Rock Of Gibraltar.

In recent years his affinity with the Storm Cat line has also grown as he covered more speedily-bred mares and he has Group 1 winners Ballydoyle, Clemmie, Churchill, Decorated Knight, Gleneagles, Happily, Marvellous and Misty For Me all out of daughters of Storm Cat.

Masar (New Approach) was bred to win the Derby and is inbred 3x4 to the mare Urban Sea

He has also gelled well with Pivotal mares with the likes of Hermosa, Hydrangea, Love, Magical and Rhododendron having Pivotal as their broodmare sire.

Galileo’s dam-sire Miswaki is a son of Mr. Prospector and crossing Galileo with mares from the Mr. Prospector line has provided plenty of reward with Order Of St George out of a Gone West mare, Red Rocks has a Machiavellian dam, while Ruler Of The World is out of a mare by Kingmambo, as is Ulysses.

As Waldgeist has no Danzig blood in him, speedily-bred Danehill daughters and granddaughters would look ideal for him as would Green Desert line mares. Galileo has Group 1 winners out of mares by Anabaa, Cape Cross and Green Desert himself.

Sprinter and miler types, who have been so successful with Galileo, should also suit Waldgeist and would inject pace into a pedigree that is laden with stamina and with Monsun as his dam-sire.

Pivotal mares, Storm Cat daughters and granddaughters and mares by sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of Mr Prospector should all be tried.

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Masar

New Approach – Khawlah (Cape Cross) Darley Dalham Hall Stud £15,000 Masar is impeccably bred as a relative of Galileo and Sea The Stars and inbred to their dam, the blue hen Urban Sea. He is the second Derby winner to be a son and a grandson of previous Derby winners.

Quick, and good enough, to win the 7f Group 3 Solario Stakes at two defeating the subsequent Group 1-winning miler Romanised in the process, Masar is a Darley home-bred who made a winning debut over 6f, beating Invincible Army by a short head.

On his next start he tackled the Listed Chesham Stakes finishing third to the fillies September and Nyaleti.

Then came his Solario Stakes success before he tried Group 1 company in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère when he was a close third to the filly Happily and the subsequent Classic winner Olmedo.

At three he warmed up for his Classic campaign with victory in the Group 3 Craven Stakes, finishing more than 9l clear of Roaring Lion in third.

Masar was beaten less than 2l into third

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new sires in front of Roaring Lion, Expert Eye, James Garfield and Gustav Klimt.

Then came his date with destiny in the Derby when he provided Sheikh Mohammed with his first winner of the race in the blue of Godolphin. Masar was a commanding winner of the Blue Riband event, once again defeating Roaring Lion, with the dual Group 1 winner Saxon Warrior and future dual Group 1 winner Kew Gardens amongst the vanquished.

An injury prevented Masar from racing again as a three-year-old but he came back into training at four, running twice without showing his old sparkle and was retired.

Masar was bred to win at Epsom – he is a son of Derby winner New Approach, himself a son of Derby winner Galileo who is a halfbrother to Derby winner Sea The Stars, who is by Masar’s broodmare sire Cape Cross. He is the sire of Derby winner Golden Horn, the Oaks winner Ouija Board and broodmare sire of another Derby winner in Australia.

Masar is inbred 3x4 to the great Urban Sea, dam of Group/Grade 1 winners Galileo, Sea The Stars, My Typhoon and Black Sam Bellamy and the Oaks-placed All Too Beautiful and Melikah (third dam of Massar), as well as the Group 3 winner Urban Ocean, the Group 1 placed, Listed winner Born To Sea and the Group-placed Cherry Hinton.

He is the first runner and winner out of the Group 2 UAE Derby and Group 3 UAE Oaks winner Khawlah by Cape Cross. She is a halfsister to Vancouverite (Dansili), winner of the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano and second in the Group 1 Jebel Hatta.

They are two of the five winners produced

by Villarrica, a winner over 11 and 12 furlongs

by Selkirk and out of Melikah, who is by the Derby, the King George and the Arc winner Lammtarra.

Melikah won the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes and was placed in both the Oaks and Irish Oaks and is the dam of nine winners from 11 runners, including the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville winner and the Group 1 Arc third Masterstroke (Monsun), the Group 3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial and Group 3 Meld Stakes winner Moonlight Magic, who was also placed in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes, Royal Line, who was a Group 3 winner by Dubawi, and the Listed winner Hidden Gold, a daughter of Shamardal.

Melikah’s half-sisters have also produced top-class racehorses with All Too Beautiful by Sadler’s Wells producing the Listed Cheshire Oaks winner and Group 1 Oaks, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks-placed Wonder Of

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Phoenix of Spain has Key Of Luck as his broodmare sire, as did the ill-fated Society Rock who made such an impact in his short stallion career Wonders by Kingmambo. She is the dam of the three-year-old So Wonderful, a Group 1-placed War Front filly.

All Too Beautiful also produced the Group 3-placed Sparrow by Oasis Dream, who in turn is the dam of last year’s Group 3 Chester Vase winner Sir Dragonet, a son of Camelot who was fourth in the St Leger.

Cherry Hinton, who achieved least on the track of Urban Sea’s offspring, has done rather better as a broodmare. The daughter of Green Desert is the dam of Group 1 Irish Oaks and Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Bracelet and the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes winner Wading, both by Montjeu.

Wading’s four-year-old Dansili daughter Just Wonderful emulated her dam by winning the Rockfel and was twice placed in Group 1 races last year.

Cherry Hinton is also the dam of the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks winner Athena (Camelot), who was also placed in two more Group 1 races, and her full-sister Goddess, a Group 3 winner last year.

With the proliferation of Urban Sea’s genes in Masar’s DNA, something different is called for when looking at mares.

Given that strong Urban Sea influence, mares by Pivotal could be a good match for Masar given that Galileo has sired four Group 1 winners out of Pivotal mares, Sea The Stars also has a Group 1 winner by Pivotal, and Cracksman, a grandson of Galileo, is out of a daughter of Pivotal.

Danehill and Danehill Dancer have worked quite successfully with New Approach with 2020 Classic contender Military March out of a Danehill mare as is the Group 2 and multiple Listed winner Nearly Caught, who was also placed in a Group 1.

Jalmoud, a Listed winner who was third

in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris last year is out of Dancing Rain, the Group 1 Preis der Diana winner by Danehill Dancer.

New Approach had his first Group 1 as a broodmare sire in 2020 with the top-class French juvenile Earthlight, successful in the Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes. He is by Shamardal whose daughters, and those of his son Lope De Vega, should be considered for Masar.

Phoenix Of Spain

Lope De Vega – Lucky Clio (Key Of Luck) Irish National Stud €15,000 A Classic-winning miler from the hottest sire line right now, Phoenix Of Spain has the potential to be a pivotal stallion for the Irish National Stud.

The grey is one of nine individual Group/ Grade 1 winners sired by the brilliant Prix du Jockey-Club and Poule d’Essais des Poulains winner Lope De Vega.

Phoenix Of Spain broke his maiden on just his second start and was immediately upped in grade for the Group 2 Acomb Stakes where he produced a class performance for a comfortable win.

Then he tackled Too Darn Hot in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster and he proved best of the rest beating the Group 2 Railway Stakes winner Van Beethoven in the process. He displayed class and courage in the Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy when battling hard with Magna Grecia and went down by just a head to the future 2,000 Guineas winner.

Phoenix Of Spain skipped that first Classic to wait for the Irish 2,000 Guineas and trainer Andrew Balding’s decision proved to be a shrewd one – the son of Lope De Vega a decisive 3l winner from the European champion two-year-old Too Darn Hot, with Magna Grecia further down the field.

Phoenix Of Spain ran four more times over a mile with a fifth place, less than 3l behind Circus Maximus in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin his best effort – all four horses ahead of him were Group 1 winners.

He is one of seven winners from seven runners so far for Lucky Clio, a daughter of Key Of Luck who failed to win but was placed on three occasions as a three-year-old.

Four of her winners are black-type performers with two rated 107 – the Azamour gelding Central Square, a three-time winner who was third in the Group 3 Royal Whip Stakes, and Lucky Beggar (Verglas), the winner of seven races and placed 29 times,

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new sires including in the Listed Free Handicap and Listed Rockingham Stakes.

Lucky Clio is also the dam of the 102-rated King’s Best gelding Kingsdesire, who won twice and was third in the Group 3 Dee Stakes.

Lucky Clio is a half-sister to the dual Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein winner Special Kaldoun, a son of Kaldoun who also has four Group 3 races to his name and is at stud in France.

She is also a half-sister to the Listedplaced filly Privalova (Alhaarth), while third dam Macedoin is a half-sister to the Grade 1 Gamely Handicap winner La Koumia.

Phoenix of Spain has Key Of Luck as his broodmare sire, as did the ill-fated Society Rock who made such an impact in his short stallion career, while Phoenix Of Spain’s sire Lope De Vega is by Shamardal. He had such an outstanding year in 2019, siring the unbeaten juvenile colts and Group 1 winners Victor Ludorum, Earthlight and Pinatubo, crowned European champion, and the Royal Ascot sprint king Blue Point.

Lope De Vega himself had two new Group 1 winners in 2019 with Zabeel Prince gaining a richly deserved win in the Prix d’Ispahan, Santa Ana Lane added a fifth Group 1 sprint success to his resume in Australia, while Manuela De Vega failed by a neck to reel in Nancho in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin.

He also had four stakes winners in his juvenile crop of 2019 with three successful at Group 3 level – the Round Tower Stakes winner Lope Y Fernandez, Ecrivain in the Prix des Chenes, while Max Vega (Dalakhani) won the Zetland Stakes. Platinum Star (Acclamation) was successful in the Listed Champion Two-Year-Old Trophy at Ripon.

Lope De Vega has enjoyed a high level of success with mares by Danehill and his sons with 33 per cent of his Group 1 winners having either Danehill or one of his sons as their broodmare sire.

The European champion two-year-old Belardo is out of a Danehill mare, Santa Ana Lane has Fastnet Rock as his broodmare sire and Grade 1 Natalma Stakes winner Capla Temptress is out of a Dansili mare.

Lope Y Fernandez is another to have Dansili as his broodmare sire, while the multiple Group 2 winner and Group 1 Falmouth Stakes second Very Special is out of a Danehill mare.

Lope De Vega has two lines to Mr. Prospector in his pedigree but in common with other sires bred on similar lines, such as No Nay Never, the introduction of a third and

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different strain of Mr. Prospector can also prove successful, although Lope De Vega’s Group 3 winner Burnt Sugar has three lines of Machiavellian in her pedigree.

Zabeel Prince is out of an Unbridled’s Song mare as is the Listed winner and Group 1-placed Consort, while No Nay Never has Group 2 winners Arizona and Chestnut Honey out of English Channel and Chester House mares, and incidentally his Group 1 winner Ten Sovereigns is out of an Exceed And Excel mare.

Study Of Man

Deep Impact – Second Happiness (Storm Cat) Lanwades Stud £15,000 The first son of the legendary Deep Impact to retire straight to stud in England, Prix du Jockey-Club winner Study Of Man has an exquisite female family.

From one of the Niarchos family’s most treasured pedigrees, the Classic winner is a fascinating stallion prospect for Lanwades.

Trained by Pascal Bary for the Niarchos family, Study Of Man won his only start at two and was second in the Group 3 Prix La Force over 1m1f on his seasonal debut at three.

A commanding victory in the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe over the Prix du Jockey-Club trip made him a leading contender for that Classic and he duly delivered at Chantilly winning in an easier manner than the winning margin would suggest. Behind him that day were Group 1 winners Intellogent, Olmedo and Flag Of Honour.

He failed to win again in three more 2018 starts, but was only four and a half lengths behind Enable in the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on his final run of the season.

At four he returned in the Group 1 Prix Ganay where he found only Waldgeist too good and he filled the same position in the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan behind Zabeel Prince.

In the Group 3 Prix Messidor he was tried over a mile for the first time since his debut at two and was beaten less than 2l into second.

His pedigree is exquisite – he is out of the Storm Cat mare Second Happiness, a daughter of the wonderful Miesque.

Study Of Man is a full-brother to Tale Of Life who was successful at two and four in France, and he is a half-brother to the Bagosired trio of Zen, Mambo Nephew and Happy.

The first two were winners and while Happy was unraced she is the dam of winners Waterboy (Stormy River), who was stakes placed, and Franklyn, a son of Archipenko.

Second Happiness, who ran only three times and was placed once, is a full-sister to the winner Ama. She is the dam of five winners, including the Listed winner Lunar Maria (Dubawi).

It is Second Happiness’s half-siblings, especially the ones by Mr. Prospector, who have enshrined their dam Miesque in the bloodstock pantheon.

Second Happiness is a half-sister to the Group 1 Poule d’Essais des Poulins, Prix du Moulin and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Kingmambo, who became a champion sire and is a leading broodmare sire.

Her Mr. Prospector half-sister Monevassia is the dam of Group 1 Moyglare Stakes and Prix Marcel Boussac winner Rumplestiltskin, who in turn is the dam of Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks winner Tapestry, herself the dam of Group 3 winner John F Kennedy.

Monevassia is also the dam of the Group 3 winner I Am Beautiful and the second dam of Japanese Group 1 winners Real Steal (also a Dubai Turf winner) and

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new sires Loves Only You, who are closely related to Study Of Man as they are by Deep Impact and out of a Storm Cat three-parts sister to Second Happiness.

Also by Mr. Prospector out of Miesque is the Group 3 Prix de Ris-Orangis winner and Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest and Prix de la Forêt second Miesque’s Son, who is the sire of Group 1 winner Whipper.

Miesque has produced the Listed, Group 2 and 3-placed Inventing Paradise to Mr. Prospector.

By the Niarchos family’s own Private Account is Miesque’s best daughter East Of The Moon, who won the Group 1 Prix de Diane, the Prix Jacques le Marois and the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches.

She is dam of Group 3 winner Moon Driver and the second dam of Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois, the Irish 1,000 Guineas, the Coronation Stakes and the Falmouth Stakes winner Alpha Centauri, who was European champion three-year-old miler in 2018, and her half-sister the Group 2 Debutante Stakes winner Alpine Star.

By A.P. Indy, Miesque produced the Group 3 Meld Stakes winner and Group 1 International Stakes-placed Mingun, who is a sire in America, and she produced the Listed winner Moon Is Up to Woodman.

Moon Is Up is the dam of South African Grade 1 winner Amanee (Pivotal) and the second dam of the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile and Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner and successful first-season sire Karakontie (Bernstein) .

By another Niarchos great in Nureyev, Miesque was a full-sister to the French Listed winner Massaraat, who is the second dam of Group 2 Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Silent Honor (Sunday Silence), the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Silkwood (Singspiel) and the Listed-placed Shrill.

Massaraat is also the second dam of Indian Petal (a full-sister to Silkwood), the dam of 2019’s Grade 1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes and Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic winner Old Persian.

Miesque is also a half-sister to Yogya (Riverman), who is the dam of Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile heroine Six Perfections (Celtic Swing).

She is the dam of Group 2 winner Planet Five (Storm Cat) and the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Yucatan (Galileo).

Study Of Man’s sire is also regally bred as a son of Sunday Silence and out of the Group 1 Aral Pokal winner and Group 1 Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks-placed Wind In Her Hair

by Alzao.

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Like Invincible Army, Cable Bay is by Invincible Spirit and out of a daughter of Diktat, and he has been a revelation in his first season with runners She is out of Burghclere, who was bred by The Queen, a daughter of the 1,000 Guineas and Prix de Diane winner Highclere, also the dam of Fillies’ Mile winner Height Of Fashion. She is best known as the dam of 2,000 Guineas, the Derby, the Eclipse and the King George winner Nashwan, the Group 1 Champion Stakes, the International Stakes, the Dubai Sheema Classic and the Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner Nayef, and the Group 2 Princess Of Wales’s Stakes winner Unfuwain.

She is also the second dam of the 1,000 Guineas and Coronation Stakes winner, Ghanaati.

Study Of Man is inbred by 5x4x4 to Northern Dancer, but the breed-shaping sire would only appear twice in the fifth generation of his foals, which is not too dissimilar to the pattern found in the pedigree of Deep Impact’s 2,000 Guineas and Vertem Futurity winner Saxon Warrior.

This creates scope for mares by Galileo, the dam-sire of Saxon Warrior, along with daughters of Sadler’s Wells, his sons such as High Chaparral, Montjeu and In The Wings, along with grandsons such as Camelot, Frankel and New Approach.

Deep Impact has worked very well with Mr. Prospector line mares, with Machiavellian and Lycius both broodmare sires of two Group 1 winners apiece.

Unbridled’s Song, King Kamehameha, Elusive Quality, Smarty Jones, and El Condor Pasa all appear as dam-sires of Group 1 winners by Deep Impact.

Tapit’s broodmare sire Unbridled is also the dam-sire of Gran Alegria, successful in the 2019 Group 1 Oka Sho (1,000 Guineas).

As already mentioned Mr. Prospector is the sire of Monevassia, the second dam of Real Steel and Loves Only Me, and the sire of the second dam of another Deep Impact Group 1 winner in Jour Polaire, while his son Fappiano fills the same position in the pedigree of two more of Deep Impact’s Group 1 winners.

Study Of Man’s pedigree is also free of Danzig which brings Danehill and Green Desert and their sons and grandsons into play.

Deep Impact sired the Group 1 winner Satono Ares out of a Danehill mare, while the Group 1 winner Mikki Isle has Rock Of Gibraltar as his broodmare sire.

Other Danzig-line sires whose daughters have produced Group 1 winners by Deep Impact include Bertolini who is the dam-sire of champion Gentildonna, Librettist and Orpen.

Invincible Army

Invincible Spirit – Rajeem (Diktat) Yeomanstown Stud €10,000 A classy sprinter by the global sire Invincible Spirit and bred on the same cross as one of 2019’s breakout first-season sires Cable Bay, Invincible Army brings toughness, soundness and consistency to a fine pedigree.

Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock, Invincible Army is a son of the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes winner Rajeem. She is by Diktat meaning that Invincible Army’s pedigree is pure speed on speed.

Trained by James Tate for Saeed Manana, Invincible Army was a high-class juvenile who finished second on debut to the future Derby hero Masar.

He won a novice race on his second start and that set him up for a string of placed efforts in Group company in the Group 2 July Stakes, the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes behind subsequent Group 1 winner Havana Grey, and in the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes to another horse who would win a Group 1, Sands Of Mali.

He gained a deserved success in the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes in which he beat paternal half-brother and subsequent Group 1 Commonwealth Cup winner Eqtidaar.

He ended his juvenile season with second place in the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes won by James Garfield.

At three he won the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes again defeating Eqtidaar, and was then second by a nose to Sands Of Mali in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes.

The horse who beat the Duke Of York winner Invincible Army over six furlongs in May at two.

And who beat Horse of the Year and Champion miler Roaring Lion all three times they met.

(And then there’s that brilliant Derby win...)

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New Approach – Khawlah (Cape Cross)

new sires A couple of disappointing efforts followed and he was put away for the remainder of the year but returned at four to win the Listed Cammidge Trophy on his debut.

He followed up with victory in the Group 2 Duke Of York Stakes and also claimed the Group 3 Chipchase Stakes.

He mixed it with the best sprinters finishing third to Fairyland in the Group 1 Flying Five Stakes and ahead of Soldier’s Call, Soffia and Mab’s Cross, before finishing fourth in the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye, defeating Fairyland, Mab’s Cross, Battaash and Gold Vibe.

Invincible Army retires with a record of six wins, all over 6f, and eight places over the same trip and the minimum distance from 19 starts.

He is the best of two winners so far out of Rajeem, who is a half-sister to three mares who have produced black-type horses.

They are headed by the unraced Cape Cross mare Poldhu, who is the dam of 2019’s Group 3 Fred Darling Stakes winner Dandhu (Dandy Man).

Her Mtoto half-sister, the unraced Sister Golightly, is the dam of Group 3-placed Jeanne Girl (Rip Van Winkle) and the Italian Listed placed Jack Boy (Hawk Wing).

Their Kyllachy half-sister Grand Mary is the dam of South African Listed-placed filly Mary O’Reilly.

Invincible Army’s second dam Magic Sister is by Cadeaux Genereux and is a full-sister to the European champion two-year-old filly Hoh Magic, who won the Group 1 Prix Morny, the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes and the Listed Dragon Stakes. She also finished third in the Group 1 July Cup and Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes.

They are out of Gunner’s Belle, a winner of three races, the dam of six winners, and a half-sister to the sire Crimson Beau (High Line), winner of the Group 2 Prince of Wales’s Stakes and second in the Group 1 Eclipse and International Stakes.

Like Invincible Army, Cable Bay is by Invincible Spirit and out of a daughter of Diktat, and he has been a revelation in his first season with runners.

Cable Bay was the leading first-season sire in Britain and Ireland on earnings and second in Europe by the same metric.

His best performer was the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes and Listed Dragon Stakes winner Liberty Beach, who was second in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes.

Interestingly, she is inbred 4x4 to Warning, who is the sire of Diktat and the grandsire of Liberty Beach’s dam-sire

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Avonbridge, so replicating that pattern with Warning or even closer with Diktat or his sons such as Dream Ahead could work very well for Invincible Army.

Cable Bay is also the sire of Ropey Guest, who was placed in six Group contests at two including the Group 3 Zetland Stakes, the Somerville and Horris Hill Stakes, and the dual Listed-placed filly Isabeau.

Ropey Guest has Oratorio as his broodmare sire, and Pivotal is the dam-sire of Isabeau.

Invincible Spirit has an impressive record with mares by sons and grandsons of Mr. Prospector and Cable Bay has the Group 3 third Separate out of a Gulch mare, while Jouska, also placed in a Group 3, is out of a daughter of Kingmambo.

Soldier’s Call

Soldier’s Call

Showcasing – Dijarvo (Iceman) Ballyhane Stud €10,000 An exciting addition to the Irish stallion ranks, Soldier’s Call offers one of the few opportunities available in Ireland to to tap into the Oasis Dream branch of the Green Desert sire-line.

Soldier’s Call was a high-class racehorse at two and three and is a son Showcasing, who has made such a rapid ascent up the stallion ladder with Group 1 winners Advertise and Quiet Reflection heading a list of 20 individual Group winners.

Bred to be quick, Soldier’s Call was all that on the track, and he excelled over 5f.

Out early with a debut second in May, he broke his maiden at the second attempt and then provided trainer Archie Watson and owner Steve Parkin of Clipper Logistics with their first Royal Ascot winner when successful in the Listed 5f Windsor Castle Stakes.

He was then third in the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes and made the breakthrough at Group level for himself, and Watson, when winning the Group 3 Prix d’Arenberg.

He made the step up to Group 2 level in a scorching renewal of the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes winning in a record time.

He was went agonisingly close to winning at Group 1 level finishing a head and a short-head third in the Prix de l’Abbaye to Mab’s Cross and Gold Vibe. Those behind included Group 1 winners Battaash, Sioux Nation, Havana Grey and Alpha Delphini.

As a three-year-old he performed consistently at the highest level and was second to Battaash in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes and third to Blue Point in the

Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes, beating horses of the calibre of Ten Sovereigns, Fairyland and Mab’s Cross.

He was also fourth to Fairyland in the Group 1 Flying Five Stakes, again beating Mab’s Cross. He also was placed in the Group 2 Sapphire Stakes and the Listed Westow Stakes.

Soldier’s Call has a pedigree full of speed and precocity as a descendant of the Group 2 Flying Childers and Queen Mary Stakes winner Abeer, who was also placed in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes, the Group 2 Cherry Hinton and the Lowther Stakes and Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes.

His dam Dijarvo also performed to her best over 5f winning the Listed Prix de la Fleche at two, but she was Grade 3-placed at four over 7f.

new sires Stakes third Sharpthorne, whose two wins were at 6f.

She is a Sharpen Up daughter of Abeer and a half-sister to the Listed winner Cloud Forest.

It is a Juddmonte family up to Thicket, who was bred and raced by Prince Khalid Abdullah’s operation.

Showcasing’s best offspring represent a number of sire lines with the Polar Falcon branch of Nureyev appearing the best so far with Soldier’s Call and Advertise, who is out of a Pivotal mare.

The Inchinor branch of Ahonoora’s line has also provided Showcasing with 2019 Group 3 Greenham Stakes winner Mohaather, as well as full-sister Prize Exhibit, who won at Grade 2 and 3 level and was Grade 1 third in the Del Mar Oaks. So mares

by Inchinor and Indian Ridge could work and Soldier’s Call would bring speed to daughters of Notnowcato.

The Group 1 Commonwealth and Haydock Sprint Cup winner Quiet Reflection is out of a Haafhd mare, while the Group 2 winner and sire Tasleet is out of a mare by Cadeaux Genereux.

Showcasing’s son Capella Sansevero, winner of the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes, third in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes and second in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes, sired the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Pierre Lapin from his first crop.

He is out of a Royal Applause mare and Royal Applause’s son Acclamation, is out of a mare by Ahonoora, so his daughters would look ideal candidates for Soldier’s Call.

€/£10,000>>€/£5,000 She is from the only crop of the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Iceman, who was also placed in the Group 1 Middle Park, the Dewhurst Stakes and the Group 2 Champagne Stakes for owner-breeder Cheveley Park Stud.

He was a Polar Falcon three-parts brother to the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes winner Virtual from the family of Entrepreneur and Exclusive.

Dijarvo is a half-sister to Baileys Applause, a winner by Royal Applause and the dam of the Group 2 Lowther and Duchess of Cambridge Stakes third, and Group 3 Grangecon Stud Stakes third Mamba Noire (Iffraaj).

His second dam Thicket is a daughter of Wolfhound, a winner at two, the dam of eight winners and out of the Listed St Hugh’s

Crystal Ocean

Sea The Stars – Crystal Star (Mark Of Esteem) Coolmore Beeches Stud €8,000 A fascinating recruit straight to the NH stallion ranks, Crystal Ocean displayed talent, class and heart during a 17-race career in which he never once finished outside of the first three.

Despite butting heads with Cracksman and Enable, the Sir Michael Stoute-trained son of outstanding champion and leading sire Sea The Stars earned an official rating of 129 and a Timeform mark of 131.

He made one start at two finishing second in a 7f maiden beaten just a neck. At three he broke his maiden on his first start winning over 1m2f and then followed up with a pair of Group 2 thirds in the Dante Stakes and the

King Edward VII Stakes.

He made the Group race break-through on his next start in the Group 3 Gordon Stakes and then failed by just half a length to win the St Leger finishing second to another new Coolmore NH stallion, Capri.

Behind him that day at Doncaster was paternal half-brother and brilliant stayer Stradivarius, the subsequent Group 1 Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling and the future Group 1 winners Coronet and Defoe.

He won his first three starts at four taking in the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes and Group 3 Gordon and Aston Park Stakes.

On his second Group 1 attempt he finished half a length second to Poet’s Word in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes before finishing second to Enable over 1m4f at Kempton and then filling the same position behind Cracksman in the 1m2f Group 1 Champions’ Stakes.

Kept in training as a five-year-old he won back-to-back renewals of the Gordon and Aston Stakes before gaining a deserved first Group 1 success defeating Magical in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.

He gave Enable 3lb in the 2019 King George and went down by just a neck, giving his all in a thrilling battle up the Ascot home straight. He then attempted to give 7lb to Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris winner Japan in the Group 1 Juddmonte Stakes losing out by just a head to his younger rival, again giving everything.

That would prove to be his final start as he suffered a career-ending injury on the gallops while training for the Arc and Champions’ Stakes.

He is one of 12 Group 1 winners by the wonderful Sea The Stars who is operating on a 12 per cent lifetime stakes winners to runners ratio and a brilliant 68 per cent of his runners so far have won.

Crystal Ocean is the highest-rated of his progeny so far, but he is also the sire of the star stayer Stradivarius, Star Catcher, who won a trio of Group 1 races in 2019 – the Irish Oaks, the Prix Vermeille and the British Champions’ Fillies and Mares Stakes – after her Ribblesdale Stakes win.

Along with Crystal Ocean and Stradivarius, she was one of three Royal Ascot Group winners for Sea The Stars in 2019.

Of particular note for breeders is the success Sea The Stars has had with daughters of Sadler’s Wells – Taghrooda, who on ratings is the second best by her sire, leading a list of Group winners that includes Storm The Stars, Knight To Behold, Almodovar and Raa Atoll, while Star Catcher is out of a mare by Horse

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new sires Chestnut, a grandson of Sadler’s Wells who stood in South Africa.

Given the proliferation of stallions by Sadler’s Wells, Crystal Ocean looks a standout for mares by him, Saddler’s Hall, Old Vic, Milan, Cloudings and Yeats.

Sea The Stars also has five winners from six runners out of Montjeu mares, headed by Listed winner Tashaar. Daughters of Montjeu and his sons including Camelot, Walk In The Park and grandsons such as Pour Moi and his son Wings Of Eagles also come into consideration.

The 2,000 Guineas, Derby and Arc hero also has a perfect record with Linamix mares and an 80 per cent strike rate with Monsun’s daughters so mares by the likes of Martaline, Slickly, Shirocco, Manduor, Getaway and Gentlewave are also suitable.

Dubai Destination’s daughters should definitely be given a chance as his sire Kingmambo is the broodmare sire of two Group 1 winners by Sea The Stars in Cloth Of Stars and Zelzal.

For owner-breeders and those willing to overlook the vagaries of fashion, Crystal Ocean, a top-class performer as an older horse, should be considered for Flat mares.

Inns Of Court

Invincible Spirit – Learned Friend (Seeking The Gold) Tally-Ho Stud €7,500 A precocious son of Invincible Spirit who maintained his class through four seasons of tough competition, Inns Of Court brings a fine French pedigree to Irish breeders.

Bred by Darley and trained for Sheikh Mohammed’s operation by André Fabre, Inns Of Court was a talented performer over 5f to a mile, and he made a winning debut over 7f at two, his only start that season.

He won over the same trip on his seasonal reappearance at three and was held in high-enough esteem to be pitched straight into Group 1 company for the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, in which he finished a creditable sixth.

Dropped in grade and trip for his next start in the Group 3 Prix du Palais-Royale he returned to winning ways and followed up with a second Group 3 success in next in the Prix de la Porte Maillot, again over 7f.

He stepped up to Group 1 level once more for the Prix Jacques le Marois and was unlucky to lose out to Al Wukair by a short head with dual Dubai World Cup winner Thunder Snow a neck behind in third.

As a four-year-old he won the Group 3

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Prix des Ris-Orangis and once more came agonisingly close to making that Group 1 breakthrough, this time a short head behind One Master in the Prix de la Forêt giving her 4lb, and finishing ahead of Gustav Klimt, James Garfield, Polydream and Teppal.

He was also fourth in three Group 3 races at four, over 6f and 7f.

His final season saw him win again, for the fourth year in a row, this time dropping back to 5f for the Group 2 Prix de Gros-Chene having beaten City Light in the 6f Listed Prix Servalan. He retires with a record of seven wins and seven places from 18 starts.

Inns Of Court is bred on the very successful cross of Invincible Spirit over Mr. Prospector-line mares as his dam is

by Seeking The Gold. She is a half-sister to 2019’s Group 1 Kikuka Sho and Tenno Sho (Spring) winner Fierement, a son Japan’s outstanding Deep Impact.

They are out of Lune D’Or (Green Tune), who won the Group 1 Premio Lydia Tesio, the Group 2 Prix de Pomone and the Prix de Malleret, and was placed in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks.

Lune D’Or is a Green Tune daughter of the Listed Grand Prix de Compiegne winner Luth d’Or (Noir Et Or), who is a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix du Moulin, the Prix Jacques le Marois winner and the European champion three-year-old Luth Enchantee, who was also placed in the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

She is the second dam of the Grade 3 Damsel Handicap and Group 3 Prix de Chloe winner Kumba Mela, who was placed in the Group 1 Prix Morny and Prix Marcel Boussac.

Invincible Spirit has Group 1 winners out of mares by Galileo, Pivotal and Indian Ridge so mares by these sires should suit Inns Of Court, while Shalaa is out of a War Chant mare, so has a double helping of Danzig in his pedigree. It means that mares by other Danzig-line sires are options for Inns Of Court –the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Muthmir is out of a Danehill mare.

Invincible Spirit over Diktat has produced the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Invincible Army and leading first-season sire Cable Bay, so mares by Diktat and his Group 1-winning sire son Dream Ahead are also suitable for Inns Of Court.

Le Brivido

Siyouni – La Bugatty (Dr Fong) Overbury Stud £7,000 The highest-rated winner of the Group 3

Land Force: leads the Richmond Stakes field

Jersey Stakes, Le Brivido was a classy, consistent and tough runner by one of the best stallions in Europe.

Le Brivido impressed many at the 2016 Deauville Breeze-Up when clocking one of the ten fastest times on the day translating into his €105,000 sale to Ted Voute from Longways Stables.

He made an instant impact when winning his racing debut for André Fabre over six and a half furlongs at Chantilly, giving weight to subsequent Grade 1 winner Uni. That was his only start at two, but the following season he won a 6f conditions race on his debut and went down fighting in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, losing out in a thrilling finish by a head to Brametot.

He bounced back to victory in the Group 3 Jersey Stakes, earning an official rating of 121 for his neck victory over Spirit Of Valour.

It would prove to be his final win for Fabre, and his last run of his three-year-old season.

He ran once at four in France before his transfer to Ballydoyle for his five-year-old season. He ran in the Group 1 Lockinge, the Queen Anne and the Diamond Jubilee Stakes,

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finishing fifth in all three races.

He is out of the Dr Fong mare La Bugatty, a placed half-sister to the multiple Listed winner and sire Dansant (Dansili), and to the dam of the Group 3 winner Noblesse Oblige (Myboycharlie), Italy’s champion two-yearold filly in 2018.

His second dam La Balagna won three times at three and four and is a Kris halfsister to the multiple Listed-placed filly Folle Tempete, out of the Listed winner Belle Tempete by Lovely Dancer.

Siyouni is one of the big success stories in French breeding of recent years with the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère winner now standing for €100,000 after siring the likes of Laurens, Ervedya, Spectre and Siyoushake.

In fact his trajectory mirrors that of his own sire Pivotal who started off at a fourfigure fee and at his peak was advertised at £85,000.

Both Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector are doubly represented in the fifth generation of Le Brivido’s pedigree which doesn’t preclude mares descended from them to feature prominently in Le Brivido’s book.

Siyouni’s sire Pivotal has gelled remarkably well with Galileo mares and Siyouni’s Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner Sottsass is out of a Galileo mare, while Ervedya is out of a mare by King’s Best, a half-brother to Galileo’s dam Urban Sea. King’s Best is a son of Kingmambo whose sire Machiavellian is the sire of Siyouni’s Group 1-placed daughter Volta so Galileo mares and those by his sons should definitely be considered for Le Brivido, as should mares

by Machiavellian and his sons and grandsons.

The six-time Group 1 winner Laurens by Siyouni is out of a Cape Cross mare and that cross or of other Green Desert line sires, such as Oasis Dream, would be worth trying with Le Brivido.

Land Force

No Nay Never – Theann (Rock Of Gibraltar) Highclere Stud £6,500 A high-class colt from the first crop of the scintillating young sire No Nay Never and a grandson of the brilliant Cassandra Go, Land

Force has speed, precocity and looks to burn.

Bred by Mrs Evie Stockwell, Land Force was a €350,000 Goffs Orby yearling purchased by MV Magnier.

The colt was sent to work straight away making his debut the following April at Naas and placing third behind subsequent Listed winner Dadoozart.

Stepped up to 6f for his next run, he duly obliged and was pitched straight into Listed company finishing third behind Fairyland (also owned by Mrs Stockwell), who would go on to win two Group 1 races, and Van Beethoven, subsequent winner of the Group 2 Railway Stakes.

Sent to Royal Ascot for the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes (a race previously won by No Nay Never and Johannesburg), he finished a half-length third.

Remaining at the Norfolk’s 5f trip, he tackled the Listed Tipperary Stakes next and gained his first stakes victory which he quickly followed up with when successful in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes at Goodwood.

Both No Nay Never and Johannesburg won the Group 1 Prix Morny, which was the natural next step for Land Force, who finished fourth in the Group 1 on his penultimate start in Europe. Purchased by Yulong Investments to race in Australia, he made just one start for his new connections and has returned to Europe to begin his stallion career.

Land Force certainly has one of the most prolific Group 1 families behind him as he is a half-brother to the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes and Grade 1 Ladies First Stakes winner Photo Call, a daughter of Galileo who was purchased for $2.7m at Keeneland last November by Katsumi Yoshida.

They are out of Group 3 Summer Stakes winner Theann, a Rock Of Gibraltar halfsister to Group 1 Irish 1,000 Guineas, the Nassau Stakes and the Sun Chariot Stakes winner Halfway To Heaven.

By Pivotal, Halfway To Heaven is the dam of Galileo’s Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes, Champion Stakes, Tattersalls Gold Cup and British Champions’ Fillies and Mares Stakes winner Magical, her full-sister Rhododendron, winner of the Fillies’ Mile, the Prix de l’Opera and the Lockinge Stakes, and their full-brother Flying The Flag, who won the Group 3 International Stakes.

Theann is also a half-sister to Tickled Pink, a dual Group 3-winning sprinter by Invincible Spirit, and to the winning Pivotal mare Allez Alaia, whose Dark Angel filly made 1,050,000gns at Tattersalls Book 1 last October.

Land Force’s second dam is Cassandra Go,

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new sires an Indian Ridge mare who won the King’s Stand Stakes (G2), as well as the Group 3 Temple Stakes and St George Stakes, and she was second in the Group 1 July Cup. She is a half-sister to Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner and Irish 2,000 Guineas third and sire Verglas (Highest Honor).

She is also a half-sister to the Nashwan mare Aricia, the dam of Listed winners Oh Beautiful and Freedom’s Light (Galileo) and Face The Facts (Nathaniel).

Third dam Rahaam was by Secreto and out of the Mr. Prospector mare Fager’s Glory which adds a third line of Mr. Prospector to the two in No Nay Never’s pedigree.

Land Force’s sire No Nay Never seems to be taking on the mantle left by his sire Scat Daddy. From the same crop as Land Force comes Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and July Cup winner Ten Sovereigns. No Nay Never was third in the table of leading two-year-old sires in Great Britain and Ireland based on earnings, behind only Galileo and Shamardal.

By Group winners, he was Europe’s best second-crop sire with seven Group winners, one more than Kingman. They included the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Arizona, placed in the Group 1 Prix Morny, the National and the Dewhurst Stakes, as well as the Group 3 Sommerville Tattersalls Stakes winner and Dewhurst third Wichita, the Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner Mystery Power and Shadn, successful in the Group 2 Criterium de Maisons-Lafitte.

No Nay Never has done very well with mares by Danehill and his sons with Exceed And Excel as the broodmare sire of Ten Sovereigns, but, as Land Force is out of a Rock Of Gibraltar mare, they are ruled out.

Galileo and Sadler’s Wells are the damsires of Shadn and the Listed winner Tango, while Peintre Celebre is the dam-sire of Listed winner All The King’s Men, which suggests daughters of Pivotal and perhaps Kyllachy.

No Nay Never has done well with mares by sons and grandsons of Mr. Prospector, and while there are three lines tracing to him in Land Force’s pedigree, just one of them will appear within the first five generations of his foals, so perhaps it would be unwise to rule out such mares.

Eqtidaar

Invincible Spirit – Madany (Acclamation) Shadwell Stud £6,000 A Group 1 winner by Invincible Spirit, whose sons are building an empire across the globe, Eqtidaar is a Shadwell home-bred

Mares by Mr. Prospector-line sires should suit Eqtidaar as, looking through Invincible Spirit’s best performers, many are out of descendants of the great sire who was bred for pure speed.

One of 18 Group 1 winners by the Haydock Sprint Cup winner Invincible Spirit, Eqtidaar won the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot defeating other top level winners Sands Of Mali, Sioux Nation and Unfortunately.

Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, he broke his maiden first time out and was placed in the 6f Group 3 Sirenia Stakes on his only other start at two.

His three-year-old career encompassed a second placing in the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes at Ascot and a fourth in the Listed Carnarvon Stakes before his Royal Ascot Triumph, for which he earned an official rating of 114.

Eqtidaar is a half-brother to Massaat (Teofilo), who won the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes, finished second in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and third in the Prix du Moulin (G1). They are two of the three winners so far out of the Acclamation mare Madany, who won twice and was placed on four further occasions, all over 6f.

From a wonderful Knocktoran and Kilfrush Stud family, she is a daughter of the winning Law Society mare Belle De Cadix and a half-sister to the French Listed winner Zeiting. She is dam of Group 2 winner Combat Zone (Refuse To Bend) and the Group 3-winning Teofilo full-brothers Scottish and Royal Empire.

She is also the dam of the Group 3 placedMontjeu filly Bikini Babe and her Pivotal half-sister Zut Alors, also placed in a Group 3 and who is best known as the dam of Group 1 Poule d’Essais des Poulains winner Precieuse (Tamayuz).

Belle De Cadix is also the dam of the

Group 3 Prix du Bois winner and Group 2 Prix Robert Papin second Dolled Up

by Whipper.

Sire Invincible Spirit added a first British Classic winner to his growing list of accomplishments in 2019 with the victory of Magna Grecia in the 2,000 Guineas, while his young European sire sons Kingman and Cable Bay are writing headlines for themselves.

Kingman produced a Classic winner from his first crop, the Group 1 Poule d’Essais des Pouliches winner Persian King and his Coventry Stakes winner Calyx will stand at Coolmore in 2020.

Cable Bay’s first runners made a real splash with the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes runner-up supplying 25 winners in Europe on a winners to runners ratio of 37 per cent.

He had seven black-type horses, four of them Group performers, headed by the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes and Listed Dragon Stakes winner Liberty Beach.

In Australia, such is the success of I Am Invincible that he was chosen to be Winx’s first mate. A champion first-season sire, champion sire of two-year-olds and second overall in the Australian sire’s list for the past two seasons, the five-time winner has carried all before him and is the sire of nine individual Group 1 winners.

Eqtidaar’s dam-sire Acclamation was himself a classy sprinter from two to four, and is no slouch as a sire either with nine sons at stud and five individual Group 1 winners including Breeders’ Cup Mile hero Expert Eye. The combination of Invincible Spirit and Acclamation is pure speed on speed and an affordable, but high-quality option for mare owners.

Mares by Mr. Prospector-line sires should suit Eqtidaar as, looking through Invincible Spirit’s best performers, many of them are out of descendants of the great sire.

Kingman’s dam-sire is Zamindar, Territories is out of a Machiavellian mare as is Hooray, while National Defense is out of a Kingmambo mare.

Signs Of Blessing and Inns Of Court have Seeking The Gold as their broodmare sire and Speaking Of Which is out of a daughter of Mr. Prospector himself.

Acclamation also has an affinity with mares from that sire line, particularly daughters of Machiavellian, who is the broodmare sire of Dark Angel, of the multiple Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed young sire Mehmas, while Harbour Watch is out of a Woodman mare.

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new sires Flag Of Honour

Galileo -Hawala (Warning) The National Stud £4,500 Flag Of Honour is an eye-catching dualpurpose stallion acquisition for The National Stud as a Classic-winning son of Galileo from a family of top-class performers.

Bred by Barronstown Stud out of the Warning mare Hawala, Flag Of Honour was trained by Aidan O’Brien for the Coolmore partners.

He won his maiden over 7f at two and then

went on to win the 1m1f Group 3 Eyrefield Stakes at Leopardstown on his final start that season.

At three, he finished third in the Group 3 Prix Noailles over the Prix du Jockey Club course and distance.

Stepped up to the Leger trip of a 1m6f for the Group 2 Curragh Cup he showed admirable qualities to win. He added another success at the distance in the Group 3 Irish St Leger Trial Stakes.

With two victories at the trip under his belt, Flag Of Honour was favourite to add

Flag Of Honour: bought by NH owner Trevor Hemmings, the son of Galileo is at the National Stud

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the main event to his list of honour and he provided breeders David and Diane Nagle with a weekend to remember winning the Irish St Leger 24 hours after Kew Gardens, also bred by the couple, won the St Leger at Doncaster.

Last year Flag Of Honour ran four times, finishing second behind the brilliant Magical in the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, the Group 2 Mooresbridge Stakes and the Group 3 Alleged Stakes, all races at around 1m2f.

Flag Of Honour comes from an Aga Khan family and is a half-brother to four black-type horses including a trio of Danehill Dancer horses – the Group 3 Minstrel Stakes winner and Group 1 Phoenix Stakes second Air Chief Marshall, the Listed Redcar Two-Year-Old Trophy and Free Handicap winner Misu Bond, and Foxtrot Romeo, who was second in the Irish 1,000 Guineas.

He is also a half-brother to the dual Listed winner and Group 3-placed Slip Dance, a daughter of Celtic Swing who is also the second dam of last season’s Grade 1 Beverley D Stakes second Awesometank.

A winner over a mile Hawala is the dam of 12 winners so far and is a Warning half-sister to the Group 3 winner Afaf (Spectrum), the Group 1-placed Listed winner Zack Hall (Mutathir) and the Group 3-placed Zack Dream (Dream Well).

They are out of the Dancing Brave mare Halawa, a winner at three and a half-sister to the Listed Trigo Stakes winner Hasainiya, who is the dam of dual Listed winner Hasanka.

They have a Alzao half-brother called Hanzanar, who was second in the Beresford Stakes.

A son of Galileo, who has 17 sons at stud who have sired at least one Group 1 winner, Flag Of Honour has plenty going for him.

He is inbred 4x5 to Northern Dancer through Galileo and Lyphard, is inbred 5x5 to Hail To Reason through his sons Bold Reason and Roberto, and 5x5 gender balanced inbreeding to Native Dancer through his son Mr. Prospector on his sire’s side and daughter Where You Lead on his dam’s side.

There is no Danzig blood in his pedigree and Northern Dancer would appear in the fifth generation of his foals.

Given Galileo’s affinity with Danzig-line sires, especially Danehill and his son Danehill Dancer, who works well with Flag Of Honour’s dam, mares by Danehill, Danehill Dancer and their sons, as well as the Green Desert sire-line should suit Flag Of Honour.

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new European sires The son of Siyouni, City LIght

The future looks bright Exciting new options for European-based breeders, writes Aisling Crowe City Light

Siyouni – Light Saber (Kendor) Haras d’Etreham €7,000 City Light is the first son of Siyouni to retire to stud in France and the Group 1-placed six-year-old boasts a very attractive French pedigree.

He made a winning debut over a mile at two and when dropped back to 5f and 6f at three was a winner and second in the Group 3 Prix Texanita over five and half furlongs.

He was also second in the Listed Prix Marchand d’Or over a furlong further and filled the same position in the seven and a half furlong Listed Prix Luthier.

City Light developed with age and experience and at four won the 5f Group 3 Prix Saint Georges and finished second to Merchant Navy in the

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Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes.

As a five-year-old he won the 7f Group 3 Prix du Pin and was a close second to One Master in the Group 1 Prix de la Forêt, his final start. In total he had 22 runs, winning seven races and being placed in nine times.

He is a half-brother to the Listed winner Busybeingfabulous (Soldier Of Fortune) and the Authorized colt Soft Light, who was placed in the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville, the Prix Hocquart and the Listed Prix de l’Arve at three last year for JeanClaude Rouget.

They are out of the Kendor mare Light Saber, who was successful over a mile at three. She is a half-sister to the Listed winner and Group 3-placed Athanor (Ashkalani), who is the dam of the Listed winner Grandes Illusions (Kendor) and the second dam of Grade 1 Prix Jean Stern winner Santa Bamba.

His second dam Leariva (Irish River) won the Grade 1 Budweiser International Handicap, the Group 2 Prix d’Astarte and the Group 3 Prix d’Exbury.

She is a daughter of the Group 2 Prix de Malleret, the Group 3 Prix de la Nonette winner and the Group 1 Prix Vermeille second Leandra (Luthier), and a half-sister to the Group and Grade 2 winner Lexa (Sanglamore) and the Group 1 Prix Royal Oak third Alesso (Alleged).

City Light is one of 20 Group winners by Siyouni, a son of Pivotal and winner of the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère. He was also placed in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat, the Prix du Moulin and the St James’s Palace Stakes at three.

Siyouni is a half-brother to the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes winner Siyouma (Medicean) and their dam Sichilla is a

new European sires Danehill half-sister to the Group 1 winner and sire Slickly (Linamix).

Siyouni sired this year’s Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner Sottsass, one of three Group 1 winners by the Aga Khan Stud-based stallion. His previous winners at the highest are the multiple Group 1 winner Laurens and Ervedya, a triple Group 1 winner.

Siyouni is also the sire of the Group winners and Group 1 performers Siyoushake, Volta, Spectre and Le Brivido.

Sottsass has Galileo as his dam-sire, while Laurens is out of a Cape Cross mare and Ervedya is a grand-daughter of King’s Best.

Volta’s dam-sire is Machiavellian, the grandsire of King’s Best, which suggests that line works well with Siyouni.

Daughters of Cape Cross and his sire Green Desert, along with his sire sons such as Oasis Dream and Invincible Spirit, are also an option for City Light.

Given that there is no Sadler’s Wells blood in City Light’s first five generations although he is a representative of the Nureyev sire line, he offers a valuable cross for daughters and granddaughters of Galileo, especially as Siyouni’s dam-sire is Danehill.

Considering the Slickly connection then mares by Linamix or his sons might be a good option for City Light, too.

Best Solution

Kodiac – Al Andalyya (Kingmambo) Gestüt Auenquelle €6,500 A Group 1 winner over 1m4f, Best Solution demonstrated that progeny by Kodiac are not just all about speed and precocity, although he did break his maiden over 6f at two and won the Group 3 Autumn Stakes over a mile as a juvenile before finishing second to this year’s Arc hero and fellow new stallion Waldgeist in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud.

Behind him that day were future Group 1 winners Capri, The Taj Mahal, Rekindling and Wings Of Eagles, who went on to win the Derby.

Trained by Saeed bin Suroor for Godolphin, a stint in Dubai for Best Solution beckoned between his first and second seasons which saw him run twice at Meydan before winning the Listed Lingfield Derby Trial on his first start back in England.

The highlight of his three-year-old career was a second place behind Iquitos in the Group 1 Grosser Dallmayr Preis and he ended the year with victory in the Group 3 St Simon Stakes.

The blend of Kodiac’s speed with the stamina influences of his maternal line produced the middle-distance performer Best Solution At four, Best Solution came into his own.

After another winter in Dubai which saw him win one of four starts at Meydan, he returned to England better than ever, racking up four wins in a row.

That run of success started with the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes. He then went on a European tour securing his first Group 1 win in the Grosser Preis von Berlin and adding a second in the Grosser Preis von Baden, defeating a field that included Defoe, Iquitos, Windstoss and Dschingis Secret.

He then travelled Down Under to take the Group 1 Caulfield Cup in a tight finish before running a creditable eighth in the Melbourne Cup (G1).

Kept in training at five he made two starts, but failed to show his former sparkle.

Bred by Cecil and Martin McCracken, he was a 32,000gns Tattersalls December Foal Sale purchase by Emerald Bloodstock.

Offered for sale by Tom Hassett’s Monksland Stables as a yearling at the Tattersalls October Book 2 Yearling Sale he made 90,000gns bought by John Ferguson on behalf of Godolphin.

His yearling full-brother made 175,000gns as a foal in 2018 and was subsequently sold

by Timmy Hyde’s Camas Park Stud for 200,000gns at Book 1.

Best Solution boasts a fine pedigree with his third dam the top-class Juddmonte producer Eva Luna.

The Park Hill Stakes (G2) winner is the dam of the Sadler’s Wells pair: the Group 1 St Leger winner and sire Brian Boru and the Listed winner Kitty O’Shea. She is the dam of Listed winner and Group 1-placed Kissable (Danehill Dancer), who is herself the dam of

Grade 1 American Oaks third Amandine.

Her Beat Hollow son Sea Moon, who is standing his fourth season at stud in Ireland in 2020, won the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes and Hardwick Stakes (G2) and was placed in the Group 1 St Leger and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Eva Luna’s Group 2 Prix de Royallieuwinning daughter Moon Search is by Rainbow Quest and the unraced Soviet Moon, another daughter of Sadler’s Wells, is the dam of the Derby and Arc winner Workforce.

Best Solution’s second dam Kushanrenkova is a full-sister to Soviet Moon, Brian Boru and Kitty O’Shea.

Trained by Aidan O’Brien, she won the Group 3 Noblesse Stakes over 1m4f and is the dam of four winners, including the Listed Preis Winterkonigin Trial-winning filly Kosmische (Fastnet Rock) and her fullbrother, the Group 2 Prix Hocquart second Cape Clear Island.

Her Kingmambo daughter Al Andalyya is the dam of Best Solution.

Best Solution’s dam-sire, the brilliant Kingmambo, has excelled in that role with his daughters producing the likes of Group 1 winners Camelot, Midday, Cloth Of Stars, Ulysses, Ruler Of The World, Zelzal, National Defense, Cross Counter, Big Arthur Maids Causeway, Duke Of Marmalade and Buratino.

Camelot, Ruler Of The World and Duke Of Marmalade have all sired Group/Grade 1 winners at stud, with Camelot full of promise at this stage of his career.

As a sire Kodiac is noted for precocious and speedy offspring, demonstrated once more by his position as champion European sire of two-year-olds by winners and holding the world record for the most two-year-old winners in a year.

Best Solution is one of four Group 1 winners sired so far by the Danehill halfbrother to Invincible Spirit, with the others – Tiggy Wiggy, Fairyland and Hello Youmzain – all winning over 5f or 6f.

The blend of Kodiac’s speed with the stamina influences of his maternal line produced the middle-distance performer Best Solution, who, on official ratings is the best horse by Kodiac.

Kodiac’s daughter Fairyland is out of a Pivotal mare, while Hello Youmzain and Group 3 winner Gifted Master have dams by Shamardal.

It would therefore seem logical that mares

by Pivotal, who is the outstanding broodmare sire currently alive, and daughters of Shamardal and his son Lope De Vega would suit Best Solution.

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new European sires Donjuan Triumphant

Dream Ahead – Mathuna (Tagula) Haras de la Barbottiére €4,000 The Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint winner Donjuan Triumphant is one of two newcomers at Haras de la Barbottiére for 2020.

A tough, sound and talented horse who raced at a high level for five seasons, Donjuan Triumphant brings pace to France as a son of a European champion sprinter Dream Ahead, a son of Diktat.

Bred by Pat and Brid Cosgrove at Kilcarn Park Stud from the first crop of the five-time Group 1 winner Dream Ahead, Donjuan Triumphant was a breeze-up colt bought by Middleham Park Racing from Lynn Lodge.

Sent into training with Richard Fahey first and then Andrew Balding following his purchase by King Power Racing, Donjuan Triumphant ran 37 times in five seasons, winning seven races and finishing in the places on 14 further occasions.

At two he won the Group 2 Criterium Maisons-Laffitte and the Listed Rockingham Stakes both over 6f, and never finished out of the first four in eight starts that year, including in the Group 1 Criterium International.

As a three-year-old he was second to Quiet Reflection in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes on his seasonal reappearance and filled the same position behind Signs Of Blessing in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.

He changed yards for his four-year-old season to win over 6f and 7f, but returned to his best form at five when successful in the Listed Wentworth Stakes. He was also placed in the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup and British Champions’ Sprint.

As a six-year-old, he had six starts culminating in his Group 1 success.

He is the best of four winners from seven runners so far produced by the Tagula mare Mathuna, who was successful over 6f at two in France. She is also the dam of the Listed Ascendant Stakes winner Caledonian Spring (Amadeus Wolf).

Mathuna is a half-sister to the Group 3 Prix Chloe winner Wilside (Verglas), who is the dam of French Listed winner Sarignan.

Another half-sister is the dual French Listed winner and Grade 2 Bayakoa Handicap second Round Heels, a daughter of Daggers Drawn.

His second dam Sigonella (Priolo) is an unraced half-sister to the Listed Prix du Courcelles winner and Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club third Sestino (Shirley Heights).

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Donjan Triumphant is from a good French family that has been exposed to speed influences and shows that it responds to that injection of pace in a positive way Donjan Triumphant is from a good French family that has been exposed to speed influences and shows that it responds to that injection of pace in a positive way.

Broodmare sire Tagula was quick and precocious winning the Group 1 Prix Morny and Group 3 July Stakes at two. He added the Group 3 Supreme Stakes at three, and finished third in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains.

Dream Ahead is the sire of Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois winner Al Wukair, whose second crop is due in 2020, and the Group 1-placed sprinter Dream Of Dreams.

With an official rating of 118, Donjuan Triumphant is behind just this pair in the rankings of Dream Ahead’s progeny.

Dream Ahead has a perfect winners to runners ratio with the offspring of Acclamation mares, while Dream Of Dreams and the Group 2 Vintage Stakes winner Dark Vision are both out of Dansili mares.

With daughters of Machiavellian producing Al Wukair and the 107-rated Dream Today, it suggests that mares by Dansili and other sons by his sire Danehill, along with daughters and grand-daughters of Machiavellian and his sons and grandsons, would suit Donjuan Triumphant.

The Taj Mahal

Galileo – You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Haras de la Haie Neuve €4,000 The Taj Mahal has one of the best pedigrees of any sire retiring to stud in 2020 as a son of the incomparable Galileo and a full-brother to Group 1 winners Gleneagles, Marvellous

and Happily and to the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Coolmore.

His dam You’resothrilling won the Group 2 Cherry Hinton Stakes and is a full-sister to the legendary Giant’s Causeway, the leading New York-based sire Freud, and the dam of Group 1 winner and sire Decorated Knight.

She is also a half-sister to the dam of Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Storm The Stars, while dam Mariah’s Storm (Rahy) won the Grade 2 Lassie Stakes.

The Taj Mahal began his racing career, like his siblings, with Aidan O’Brien. He ran eight times at two winning his maiden over 7f and finishing third in the Killavullen Stakes (G3), as well as placing in three further races.

At three he was placed in Group 1 contest in three continents starting with the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) at Chantilly before finishing second to future Breeders’ Cup winner Oscar Performance in the Secretariat Stakes (G1) at Arlington. His year ended with a run the Emirates Stakes in Flemington.

He remained in Australia for the rest of his racing career and won two renewals of the Group 2 Zipping Classic over 1m4f. He also showed his versatility and speed with success in the mile Group 3 JRA Cup. As a stallion he possesses enormous potential as a son of Galileo, who has 17 sons at stud who have sired Group/Grade 1 winners, and as a full-brother to the dual 2,000 Guineas hero Gleneagles, who enjoyed plenty of success with in 2019.

His “uncle” Giant’s Causeway won three sires championships in North America and was leading first-season sire in Europe, while his son Shamardal and grandson Lope De Vega are ruling in Europe.

The Taj Mahal is inbred 3x4 to Northern Dancer and 5x5 to Hail To Reason through his sons Bold Reason and Roberto, but is completely free of Danzig blood making him an ideal stallion for the numerous branches of Danzig that proliferate in Europe.

Gleneagles’s three stakes winners in 2019 are all out of mares by various Danzig line sires with Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner Royal Dornoch out of Bridal Dance (Danehill Dancer), Royal Lytham, the winner of the Group 2 July Stakes and third in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes is out of an Anabaa mare, while Royal Ascot winner Southern Hills is out of a daughter of Invincible Spirit.

His Group 3-placed daughter Tabera has a dam by Oratorio and the broodmare sires of his other winners include Oasis Dream, Broken Vow, Exceed And Excel, Holy Roman Emperor, Danehill, Dansili, Diktat, Lawman, Rock Of Gibraltar and Fastnet Rock.

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Marmelo (Duke Of Marmalade) enjoying a roll ahead of his fine second in the 2018 Melbourne Cup

First Eleven

Frankel – Zenda (Zamindar) Yeguada Torreduero €3,500 First Eleven is one of the most exciting stallions to start his stallion career in Europe this year and possibly the best-bred stallion to begin his career in Spain.

The five-year-old is a Juddmonte homebred through and through as a son of Prince Khalid Abdullah’s undefeated champion Frankel, the sire of ten individual Group 1 winners from his first four crops of runners.

He also hails from one of Juddmonte’s most prolific stallion-producing families as a half-brother to the four-time Group 1 winner Kingman, whose victories included the Irish 2,000 Guineas, the St James’s Palace Stakes and the Prix Jacques le Marois.

Rated 134 by Timeform, the son of Invincible Spirit has made a scintillating start to his stallion career siring Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Persian King and Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Calyx in his first crop.

His second includes Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner Boomer and the Listed winners Alligator Alley, Alocasia and Summer Romance.

First Eleven and Kingman are out of the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner and Coronation Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup second Zenda, a Zamindar half-sister to the champion two-year-old and

champion sprinter and leading sire Oasis Dream.

First Eleven’s second dam Hope is a Dancing Brave full-sister to Group 1 Irish Oaks winner Wemyss Bight, who is the dam of Group and Grade 1 winner and sire Beat Hollow.

She is also a half-sister to Trellis Bay (Sadler’s Wells), a Listed-placed winner and the dam of Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar). She was a Listed winner and is the dam of Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner New Bay, a son of Dubawi whose first crop hits the track in 2020.

Another half-sister to Hope is Coraline, who is by Sadler’s Wells and is the dam of Group 1 Prix du Cadran winner and sire Reefscape, the Group 2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier winner and Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup third Coastal Path and the leading French NH sire Martaline (Linamix).

First Eleven, unsurprisingly given their respective sire-lines, stayed much further than Kingman and won over 1m3f and twice at a furlong further.

Trained by John Gosden, he was second over a mile as a juvenile, third in the Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes and was just a neck behind Baghdad in the King George V Stakes at Royal Ascot as a threeyear-old.

Frankel’s stellar career exploded into life in 2019 when he sired two British Classic winners – the Oaks heroine Anapurna and

Logician, winner of the St Leger.

His Group 1 winners in 2019 also included the Falmouth Stakes (G1) winner Veracious and Quadrilateral, successful in the Fillies’ Mile (G1).

Two of Frankel’s Group 1 winners – Cracksman and Veracious – are out of mares

by Pivotal, while his St James’s Palace Stakes winner Without Parole has Lemon Drop Kid as his broodmare sire. Eminent, placed in four Group 1 races and the winner of a Group 2 and 3, is out of a Kingmambo mare.

Frankel has done very well with mares by Mr. Prospector-line sires with seven of his progeny rated 110 or higher out of mares by the great stallion or his sons and grandsons.

With Mr. Prospector in the third generation of First Eleven’s pedigree, there are options for breeding mares from this line to him.

Interestingly Anapurna, who also won the Group 1 Prix Royallieu in 2019, is out of a Montjeu mare making her inbred 3x3 to Sadler’s Wells. Mares by Montjeu and other Sadler’s Wells sons such as High Chaparral, El Prado and his grandsons also an option for First Eleven.

Marmelo

Duke of Marmalade – Capriolla (In The Wings) Haras du Grand Courgeon €3,500 Consistent, sound and durable, Marmelo offers plenty of potential as a dual-purpose stallion as he commences his career.

Beaten just a length in the Melbourne Cup, giving the winner Cross Counter 9lb, Marmelo was a classy and dependable stayer for trainer Hughie Morrison.

Bred by Deepwood Farm Stud, the son of Duke Of Marmalade began his racing career at three breaking his maiden on just his third start. He immediately stepped up to Pattern company for the 1m7f Listed Prix Michel Houyvet when he finished second.

Remaining at that trip for his next start, in the Group 2 Prix Chaudenay, he finished third and ended his first racing season with second place in the Listed Prix Vulcain.

He won the Group 3 Prix de Barbeville on his seasonal debut at four giving weight and a beating to subsequent Group 1 winner Bateel.

Marmelo was second to Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Talismanic in the Group 2 Prix Maurice Nieuil then beat Desert Skyline in the Group 2 Prix Kergolay. His first trip to Australia saw him attempt both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups for the first time.

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He returned in 2019 as a six-year-old, beating subsequent Group 1 Aspetar in the Group 3 John Porter Stakes and ending his career with a second Prix Kergolay success.

He is the best of seven winners from eight runners so far out of the In The Wings mare Capriolla, whose other winners include the Group 3 Henry II Stakes winner Vent De Force (Hurricane Run) and the Grade 3 winning hurdler Atalan by Azamour.

Capriolla is a half-sister to the Group 3 Lingfield Derby Trial winner Saddler’s Quest (Saddler’s Hall) and the Listed winners Serenhill (Sabrehill) and Quiz Mistresss, a daughter of Doyen.

Their unraced Dr Devious half-sister Seren Devious is the dam of Group 3 Prix Thomas Byron Circumvent winner by Tobougg.

Second dam Seren Quest is by Rainbow Quest and was a winner at three in England.

Marmelo’s sire Duke Of Marmalade now stands at Drakenstein Stud in South Africa, but his European crops contain the Group 1 St Leger and British Champions’ Fillies’ and Mares’ Stakes winner Simple Verse, the Group 1 Prix de Diane winner Star Of Seville, the Group 1 Deutsches Derby winner Nutan and the Ascot Gold Cup hero Big Orange.

As a son of Danehill, it is expected that Duke Of Marmalade’s best horses are out of mares by Sadler’s Wells and his sons.

However, Star Of Seville is out of a Selkirk mare, while Group 3 winner Hall Of Mirrors has Indian Ridge as his dam-sire. The Listed winner and Group-placed Count Of Limonade’s broodmare sire is Darshaan.

Wannabe Better, winner of the Group 3 Ballycorus Stakes, is out of a Shirley Heights mare. With Marmelo, this would create inbreeding to Shirley Heights, who is the broodmare sire of Marmelo’s dam-sire In The Wings, while Duchess Of Andorra, another Group 3 winner, has a Cadeaux Genereux dam.

Quaduna is also a Group 3-winning daughter of Duke Of Marmalade and she is out of a mare by Monsun, while Listed winner Morning Frost has Keltos as her broodmare sire – all these sire lines give plenty of options for breeders.

There is also the prospect of inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells, the sire of Marmelo’s broodmare sire In The Wings, with the outstanding Enable inbred 3x2 to the great stallion.

His third dam Resooka was unraced, but is a half-sister to Kerali, by High Top, the mare who began a Juddmonte dynasty as the dam of blue hen Hasili and her full-sister Arrive (Kahyasi). The fourth dam Sookera won the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes.

Belgian Bill is bred on the same cross as Australian Group 1 winner Helmet – by Exceed And Excel and out of a Singspiel mare.

Helmet’s best progeny so far is the Dubai World Cup winner Thunder Snow, who is out of a Dubai Destination mare. That would suggest Dubai Destination mares for Belgian Bill, along with mares by his sire Kingmambo and his sons, including Lemon Drop Kid, King’s Best and Rule Of Law. Buratino, the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner and Group 1 Middle Park Stakes second by Exceed And Excel, is out of a Kingmambo mare.

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Belgian Bill after success at Royal Ascot

Belgian Bill

Exceed And Excel – Gay Romance (Singspiel) Haras de la Taillis €3,000 Longevity was the hallmark of Belgian Bill – he ran 62 times over seven seasons, winning eight races, finishing second nine tines and third in five of them.

His greatest success was in the Listed Anatolia Trophy in Turkey and he was also second in the Group 3 Prix Quincey and placed in three more Listed races.

He is out of the winning Singspiel mare Gay Romance, who is a half-sister to the multiple Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile, Eddie Read Handicap and Turf Classic Stakes-placed Hawksley Hill (Rahy).

Gay Romance is also a half-sister to the dam of Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye winner, Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) second and Hong Kong Sprint third Benbaun (Stravinsky).

Belgian Bill’s second dam Gaijin is by Caerleon and is a winning half-sister to the Group 3 winner Thousla Rock.

Soldier Hollow – Divya (Platini) Gestüt Westerberg €3,000 Destino was a classy middle-distance performer in his native Germany and is a full-brother to 2017 German Horse of the Year and Group 1 winner Dschingis Secret, who is commencing his second season at stud in France.

Successful in the Group 3 Fritz-Henkel Stiftung Rennen over 1m4f at Hamburg on his final start, the lightly-raced son of Soldier Hollow ran in the colours of that stallion’s owner and Destino’s owner-breeder Gestüt Park Wiedingen.

Trained by Markus Klug, Destino was a neck second to Welstar in the 2018 Group 1 Deutsches Derby and won over 1m1f at two.

He was also second in the Group 2 1m3f Oppenheim-Union-Rennen.

He is a full-brother to four winners, all of them black-type horses, starting with the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin and Group 2 Prix Foy winner Dschingis Secret, who was also third in the Group 1 Deutsches Derby and Grosser Preis von Bayern.

Sister Diana Storm was placed in the Group 2 T von Zastrow Stutenpreis and the Group 3 Mitglieder des Hamburger Stuten Preis, while young full-brother Dschingis First was placed in two Group 3 contests at three last year.

They are out of the winning Platini mare Divya, who is a full-sister to the Group 3 winner Deva, the dam of multiple Group 3 and Listed winner Devastar (Areion). Deva

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Robin Of Navan ran 36 times, 30 times in stakes races. He won six races (including a Group 1 and four Group races) and was second or third 12 times

is the second dam of Dhaba, Germany’s champion two-year-old filly of 2015 and a daughter of Areion, who won the Group 3 Preis der Winterkoenigin.

Destino’s second dam Diana’s Quest is a winning daughter of Rainbow Quest and is also the dam of French Listed winner Dragon Fly (Acatenango) and Duke d’Alba, a son of Monsun who was also a Listed winner.

She is out of the Northern Dancer mare Diana Dance and is a half-sister to the Listed performer Dorlando by Kris.

Soldier Hollow, a son of In The Wings, is Germany’s most popular and expensive stallion standing at €25,000 in 2020.

Resident at Gestüt Auenquelle, the 20-year-old multiple Group 1 winner and globe-trotter is the sire of seven individual Group 1 winners, including Destino’s Deutsches Derby conqueror Weltstar and the multiple Group 1 winners Ivanhowe and Pastorius, out of a Monsun mare.

Ivanhowe has Sternkoenig as his dam-sire, as does Weltstar, so mares by Monsun and Sternkoenig and their sons or grandsons should be tried with Destino.

Given his own family’s success with Areion the elder statesman of German bloodstock should also be considered.

Robin Of Navan

American Post – Cloghran (Muhtathir) Haras de la Barbottière €3,000 The consistent Robin Of Navan was a wonderful flag-bearer for trainer Harry Dunlop and his team, competing at the

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highest level for five seasons.

The son of Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère and Racing Post Trophy winner American Post is his sire’s best offspring to date as a winner of the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud.

During his juvenile season he broke his maiden over 7f and won the Group 3 Prix de Conde and the Listed Criterium du Fonds over a mile.

At three he was second in the Group 1 Premio Roma and the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe and won the Group 3 La Coupe at four.

He was also second in the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan by a neck and fourth to Ribchester in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin.

Robin Of Navan put in some good performances in defeat as a five-year-old and returned at the age of six in 2019 to win the Group 2 Meilen Trophy and finish third in the Group 2 Premio Vittorio di Capua.

In total, he ran 36 times over five seasons, winning six races (five stakes) and finished second or third 12 times, 10 times in stakes races, ranging in distance from 7f to 1m4f Robin Of Navan is the first foal out of the Muhtathir mare Cloghran, who has gone on to produce the Group 3 Prix la Force-placed My Pleasure (Lethal Force) and the dualwinning miler Tillet (Rock Of Gibraltar).

Cloghran is out of The Wise Lady, who was placed in the three Group 3 races (twice at two) and is the dam of Group 1 Singapore Cup third and Group 3 Premio Sergio Cumani winner Ming Zhi Cosmos (Duke Of Marmalade) and Melodyman (Green Tune), successful in the Listed Prix Fontainebleu.

The Wise Lady is a half-sister to Liliside,

a Listed winner by American Post disqualified after winning the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches. She is dam of 2019 Japanese star Lys Gracieux. The daughter of Heart’s Cry won the Group 1 Cox Plate, the Takarazuka Kinen and the Arima Kinen to add to her success in the 2018 Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Commerative Cup. Another half-sister to The Wise Lady is Golden Lily (Dolphin Street), the dam of the 2018 Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Lily’s Candle (Style Vendome).

Third dam Miller’s Lily is a daughter of Miller’s Mate – she won twice and is also the dam of the Listed winner Lily America, again

by American Post.

American Post is descended from Madrilene, the ancestress of High Top and Old Vic amongst others, and is from a good Juddmonte family. He is also the sire of multiple US Grade 2 winner Itsinthepost, the Group 3 winner Gaining and the Scandinavian Group 3 winner and Listed James Seymour Stakes second Quarterback.

He is a son of Bering whose dam-sire is Lyphard and Robin Of Navan’s dam Cloghran is inbred to Lyphard – the son of Northern Dancer appears three times in the first five generations of his pedigree.

Robin Of Navan is also inbred to Mill Reef, through his sons Shirley Heights and Miller’s Mate, but despite the proliferation of Northern Dancer blood (he also appears twice himself) there is a complete absence of Danzig in Robin Of Navan’s pedigree.

Interestingly, apart from Robin Of Navan, and Quarterback, American Post’s best progeny are grand-daughters of Danehill.

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W is for Arc winner The 2019 Arc de Triomphe winner and new Ballylinch Stud sire Waldgeist hails from the famed “W” family

Jocelyn de Moubray traces the pedigree from Gestüt Ravensberg’s 1949 purchase of Waldrun, to its recent developments by Newsells Park Stud with the mare Waldlerche, the dam of Waldgeist

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ALDGEIST’S VICTORY in the 2019 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was significant in many ways.

The chestnut son of Galileo gave his trainer André Fabre a record eighth win in France’s most celebrated race.

It gave his sire a second Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner following Found allowing him to emulate his sire Sadler’s Wells, who produced the Arc winners Carnegie and Montjeu.

It was also a second Arc for Waldgeist’s co-breeder Dietrich von Boetticher’s Gestüt Ammerland, also the breeder of Hurricane Run. In 2020, Waldgeist starts his stud career based at Ballylinch Stud in Ireland alongside Lope De Vega who raced in the same Ammerland colours.

Waldgeist’s Arc win and his impressive career were also a crowning achievement for two other studs.

For Newsells Park Stud, the British farm where Waldgeist was raised and where his dam Waldlerche and grand-dam Waldmark have always been based, it was a new pinnacle which fulfilled the ambitions Klaus Jacobs held when he bought the farm at the beginning of the 21st century.

Gestüt Ravenberg is a small stud in the north-west of Germany at Gutersloh, which is

found between Munster and Hanover.

Ravensberg is small by any standards with only three active mares and yet the current owner Johann Delius, and his father before him, have succeeded in nurturing a female family which has become one of the most potent in Europe.

The six-year-old mare Waldrun was purchased for the stud in 1949 and this winning daughter of Alchemist founded the dynasty which made the stud famous in Germany and has led, nine generations later, to Waldgeist and several other international Group 1 winners of recent years.

Klaus Jacobs, the Swiss-based German born industrialist, purchased Newsells Park in 2000.

In his mid-60s the chocolate, coffee and temporary employment tycoon’s plan was to emulate his father Walther Jacobs, who had founded Gestüt Fährhof in Germany and made it the country’s leading stud farm.

“One of the first things Mr Jacobs did was to buy a few filly foals,” says Gary Coffey, Newsells Park Stud’s racing manager. “When I first visited the stud the following summer for my job interview Robert Acton, who was then the general manager, showed me a group of yearling fillies in a paddock and asked me what I thought of them. I said I liked the chestnut although she looked a little fat – the chestnut filly was Waldmark.”

Waldmark had been bought privately from

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Arc-winning connections: left Newsells Park’s Dr Andreas Jacobs and his wife Natalie, and, right, Dietrich von Boetticher and his wife Annabel

Ravensberg and was the second foal of the top race-mare Wurftaube, who had marked a revival of Ravensberg’s fortunes with a six-win sequence as a three-year-old which saw the daughter of Acatenango named Germany’s champion three-year-old filly in 1996.

Wurftaube broke her maiden on her second start over 1m2f in May and then went on to win five more, including Group races in Hamburg and Baden-Baden and ending her three-year-old season by winning the Group 2 German St Leger by 11l.

She returned at four to win another Group 2 and finish second to the Clive Brittain-trained Luso in the Group 1 WGZ Bank Deutschlandpreis, but was not quite as good as she had been at three.

Waldmark, who comes from the third crop of Mark Of Esteem, was sent into training with Sir Michael Stoute.

“She was a good filly,” Coffey says. “She won her only start at two and then we ran her in the Oaks at Epsom, but she didn’t stay.

Waldmark had a lot of speed and she should have won the Falmouth Stakes in Newmarket, which was a Group 2 in those days, but got a poor ride and finished second.”

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“Waldmark had a lot of speed and she should have won the Falmouth Stakes in Newmarket was not surprising that she went twice to visit Sadler’s Wells in her first three seasons producing two ordinary colts and in between a filly by Peintre Celebre.

“The first Sadler’s Wells colt was a yearling when I arrived at Newsells,” says general manager Julian Dollar. “He was big and slow and looked like a dinosaur!

“The Peintre Celebre filly was on the small side, but she was athletic and we sold her well in Deauville; the boss was talking about buying her back, which I wasn’t sure was the best policy, but she went for €210,000.”

Waldmark’s next two foals were a colt

by Montjeu (Masked Marvel) and a filly by Monsun (Waldlerche), both sold at Deauville.

The Arc winner as a foal at Newsells Park Stud

profile waldgeist “We had two Montjeu colts in our draft in Deauville in 2009,” adds Dollar. “I remember the Coolmore team asking us to walk the pair around the yard together. In the end Coolmore didn’t bid on Masked Marvel and, once he had reached his reserve, the only real interest came from Jeremy Brummit, who bought him for Bjorn Nielsen.”

Klaus Jacobs died shortly afterwards, before the Montjeu colt reached the racecourse and when Waldmark was only just in-foal to Germany’s top stallion Monsun.

“Masked Marvel was a top racehorse,” Dollar remembers. “His St Leger win was a big moment for the stud – it was not our first Group 1 winner, but it was the first Classic.

“The following year I used to go regularly to John Gosden’s to watch Nathaniel, our new purchase, work and every time he was beaten easily by Masked Marvel.

“For some reason Masked Marvel didn’t reproduce his best on the racecourse at four, but in the mornings he was still very good indeed.”

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ALDLERCHE went to the Arqana sale in August 2010, a filly from Monsun’s €150,000 crop.

At that point her dam had produced four foals, but only one minor Compiegne winner, Gifted Icon.

“Waldlerche was a correct yearling even if she was big and a little plain,” Dollar continues. “She was like so many of the family, just not one of the pretty little oil paintings people are looking for at yearling sales.

“I think if we offered the fillies from this family as broodmares everyone would understand and would want to buy them, but as yearlings they are not what the market values.”

In the end, von Boetticher bought half of her in partnership with Newsells to go into training with Fabre.

Waldlerche was a good racehorse. She won her only start at two and a Group 3 over 1m2f on her seasonal debut at three.

She had some problems afterwards and only made two more starts finishing fourth in a Group 3 and then second in a Listed on her final start.

“Andreas Jacobs, who’d taken over responsibility for Newsells from his father, was in South Africa that winter at the same time as Christy Grassick,” explains Dollar.

“And they made a plan together that

“Waldgeist was an amazingly tough and sound horse.

It will be a long time before we breed another one as good as he was!

Waldlerche would go to Galileo and the yearling would go into training with Fabre for a partnership between Coolmore, Newsells and Ammerland.”

The foal turned out to be Waldgeist.

Like his dam and grand-dam Waldgeist won on his two-year-old debut before surpassing both of them by winning the Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud beating Best Solution and Capri, who both went on to be multiple Group 1 winners.

At three he was probably unlucky not

to win the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) when he was just impeded for a vital stride or two before losing a short head verdict to Brametot.

Waldgeist made his next start in the Irish Derby (G1) and his connections were expecting him to improve over the longer trip and to go close to winning.

He finished only fourth behind Capri and for a few weeks his future was in the balance as various offers from abroad where considered. Next time he raced, beaten in a Group 3 at Ascot, Waldgeist was owned by a partnership between Ammerland and Newsells alone.

As a four-year-old Waldgeist recovered his verve, at five he was probably better still and his career finished with his come-frombehind victory over Enable, Sottsass and Japan in the Arc. “Waldgeist was,” Dollar maintains, “an amazingly tough and sound horse. §It will be a long time before we breed another one as good as he was!

“The Arc win was an emotional moment for all of us. He is the grandson of Klaus Jacobs’ favourite mare, from a wonderful German family and a champion. I think if you had told Mr Jacobs back at the beginning of

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Coffey agrees saying: “Waldgeist was a horse with a great turn of foot and one who never gave up. And as far as I am aware he never took a lame step during his four seasons with Fabre – we seriously considered keeping him in training as a six-year-old.”

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N THE END the partners von Boetticher and Newsells decided Waldgeist deserved to have his chance as a stallion and he was retired to Ballylinch.

“We certainly believe in him as a sire,” adds Dollar, “and we will be sending him four or five mares this spring.”

After Waldlerche, Waldmark produced two non-winners by Manduro, a colt and 2011 filly named Bright Beacon, whose first foal named Al Dabaran was a Listed winner and Groupplaced at two in 2019.

She was followed by Waldnah, a New Approach filly, who won a Listed race for Newsells and has been retained as a mare.

Waldmark was then barren for five years before producing a 2017 Frankel filly called Waldfabel, who is in training with John Gosden, and a Sea The Stars colt in 2019 who Dollar describes as “really, really nice”.

Waldlerche, meanwhile, has produced the Group 2-winning filly Waldlied, the very useful Sea The Stars colt Waldstern, who died in a training accident before he had the chance to fulfill his potential, followed by the Kingman colt Waldkonig. Her 2018 Galileo filly has gone into training with Fabre.

Waldlerche is currently in-foal to Dubawi and will return to Galileo again in 2020.

“We were,” recalls Dollar, “very surprised there was not more interest in Waldkonig when he went to the October Book 1 Sale as a yearling. I thought he was a crackerjack, a bit on the leggy side perhaps, but with so much quality and so athletic.”

In the ring the only person interested at 600,000gns was co-breeder von Boetticher, who was happy to let Newsells retain 25 per cent share in the colt.

“Waldkonig didn’t go into Gosden’s main yard until August,” Coffey explains.

“Mr Gosden has always liked him and was very keen to get a run into him at two to give him the experience.”

At Wolverhampton in December, Waldkonig beat his ten rivals very easily, winning eased down by 9l.

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“We certainly believe in Waldgeist as a sire and we will be sending him four or five mares this spring often lead on to the best races, but given the recent history of this family and the combination of speed and stamina Waldkonig displayed in the extended mile on this racing debut, everything is still possible.

To return to Ravensberg and its “W” family Waldrun, who started the dynasty and its forest or “wald” names, produced a Deutsches Derby winner Wildere in 1958, as well as the dam of another, Waidwerk, in 1965.

The family returned to prominence with Wurftaube in 1996 and, if it is her direct descendants who have made a real mark, other recent winners from the family include the Group 1 winners Wake Forest and Wonderment.

Wurftaube, who died in 2019 at the age of 26, produced the 2011 Deutsches Derby winner Waldpark (Dubawi) and her first four daughters have already produced international stakes horses.

Her first foal Waldbeere, a full-sister to Waldmark, is owned by Gestüt Brummerhof and although she never raced has already produced three black-type winners headed by the Shamardal gelding Waldpfad, a Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed in England in 2019.

She has an unraced three-year-old Kingman colt called Waldkonigin in training with Dominic Moser.

Wurftaube’s 2002 daughter of Halling, Waldblume, has produced a Sea The Moon filly Waldblumchen. She came out of a claimer to finish third in a Listed at ParisLongchamp in 2019.

And then Waldjagd, a Group-placed daughter of Observatory owned by the Haras de Saint Pair, has produced Urwald, the winner of a Listed race at ParisLongchamp in 2019 and who stays in training at four in 2020.

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The descendants of one mare have kept Ravensberg competitive in the best races for 70 years now and although there are, of course, many ordinary descendants of Waldrun too, Waldlerche, born some 60 years later, has to be one of the best mares based in Europe today.

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Siyouni Pivotal Boneval FR 117 133 190 224 191 191 151 Dabirsim Hat Trick Grandcamp FR 142 80 161 198 185 107 Recorder Galileo Montfort & Preaux FR 152 89 Shalaa Invincible Spirit Al Shaqab FR 158 151 170 Almanzor Wootton Bassett Etreham FR 140 108 Zarak Dubawi Bonneval FR 134 119 Olympic Glory Choisir Al Shaqab FR 166 119 160 132 163 Wootton Basset Ifraaj Etreham FR 29 73 69 126 113 130 126 Reliable Man Dalakhani Annebault FR 56 56 66 65 127 48 Dream Ahead Diktat Ballylinch FR 113 97 146 116 70 122 57 Al Wukair Dream Ahead Boquetot FR 116 120 Le Havre Noverre Monfort & Preaux FR 87 179 199 189 155 110 149 Garswood Dutch Art Huderie FR 99 57 88 102 38 The Grey Gatsby Mastercraftsman Petit Tellier FR 99 97 Toronado High Chaparral Boquetot FR 152 110 97 98 44 Hunter’s Light Dubawi Darley FR 109 109 97 82 Whitecliffsofdover War Front Haie Neuve FR 94 63 Birchwood Dark Angel Huderie FR 93 94 Myboycharlie Danetime Mezeray FR 176 52 53 143 84 59 Pastorius Soldier Hollow Hetraie FR 48 28 50 57 81 86 Galiway Galileo Colleville FR 41 89 76 97 Zelzal Sea The Stars Boquetot FR 76 67 Lawman Invincible Spirit Grandcamp FR 181 108 107 120 92 75 61 Kendargent Kendor Colleville FR 180 175 165 130 132 75 49 Ultra Manduro Darley FR 73 61 Dariyan Shamardal Aga Khan Fr 90 70 96 Attendu Acclamation Quesnay FR 66 49 Martinborough Deep Impact Grandcamp FR 71 63 46 Goken Kendargent Hougenet FR 93 61 34 Ectot Hurricane Run Boquetot FR 60 77 Intello Galileo Quesnay FR 139 111 128 147 58 56 Anodin Anabaa Quesnay FR 138 107 86 54 141 Manduro Monsun Darley FR 79 92 60 143 90 51 52 Ruler of the World Galileo Boquetot FR 79 94 69 47 77 Muhtathir Elmaamul Mezeray FR 113 68 44 60 28 47 67 French Fifteen Turtle Bowl Logis Saint Germain FR 65 42 52 74 39 50 Ivawood Zebedee Mont Goubret FR 160 50 39 45 Sommerabend Shamardal Saint Arnoult FR 68 64 50 36 43 Bow Creek Shamardal Darley FR 38 36 37 Scissor Kick Redoute’s Choice Etreham FR 64 35 24 Motivator Montjeu Quesnay FR 136 122 98 45 45 33 54 Evasive Elusive Quality Grandcamp FR 40 90 175 56 48 32 32 Elvstroem Danehill Petit Tellier FR 68 52 32 28 Penny’s Picnic Kheleyf Hoguenet FR 59 72 81 118 27 39 Born To Sea Invincible Spirit Faunes FR 139 91 182 102 26 10 100 Cloth of Stars Sea The Stars Darley FR 120 Seahenge Scat Daddy Haie Neuve FR 105 Recolletos Whipper Quesnay FR 85 Seabhac Scat Daddy Saint Arnoult FR 80 Dscinghis Secret Soldier Hollow Saint Arnoult FR 50

Helmet Exceed and Excel Fahrhof Ger 121 126 128 130 150 71 Soldier Hollow In The Wings Auequelle Ger 103 106 89 96 112 63 Adlerflug In The Wings Schlendher Ger 19 43 47 47 72 59 Isfahan Lord of England Ohlerweiherhof Ger 86 55 Protectionist Monsun Roettgen Ger 59 54 Tai Chi High Chaparral Ohlerweiherhof Ger 31 23 17 32 43 44 Amaron Shamardal Etzean Ger 55 50 43 Areion Big Shuffle Etzean Ger 58 67 39 29 23 40 Lord of England Dashing Blade Etzean Ger 52 35 29 47 41 37

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Breeders eying the international market The French bloodstock boom sees improved quality, but numbers remain static, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

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LTHOUGH THE quality of horses by French-based sires is higher than ever before, the numbers of French registered foals has remained more or less stable. This is even despite the fact that around 12 sires have covered more than 100 mares in each of the last three seasons, and at ever higher fees.

Siyouni, Le Havre, Wootton Bassett and Almanzor will lead the way again in 2020 standing at €100,000, €50,000, €40,000 and €35,000 and are all certain to cover at least 100 mares.

At the beginning of the last decade this level of investment in French stallion fees, and income for the stallion shareholders, was unthinkable after three decades during which the stallion business in France was quite unable to compete with thAT in Britain and Ireland.

The balance of trade has been transformed and yet the number of foals born annually has remained around 5,500 for more than ten years.

The boom in the French stallion business has been at the top of the

Siyouni all the rage

In France, Haras de Bonneval’s Siyouni is likely to be at the height of fashion at the 2022 yearling sales – even more so than now.

The son of Pivotal’s biggest crop will be three-year-olds in 2020, but he has two large crops of three-year-olds to follow produced at a fee of €40,000 in 2017 and €75,000 in 2018.

Siyouni produced his first champion three-year-old colt Sottsass from his first €20,000 crop, and his first €30,000 crop included 37 individual two-year-old winners in Europe, putting him behind only Kodiac and Dandy Man. There seems every reason to expect his results to continue to improve.

Siyouni’s progeny act on all types of going as well as on the All-Weather and, although 33 per cent of his three-year-old wins are over less than a mile, with the right mares he gets horses who stay middle-distances.

Not surprisingly his progeny are in demand and race all over the world and his most expensive yearlings of 2019 will go into training in Britain, Ireland, the US as well as in France.

market and enjoyed mainly by those producing for the international market or aiming to compete at the highest level.

In Germany the story has been different. Since the death of Monsun in 2012 the country has not produced another international stallion – despite Soldier Hollow’s qualities he is still best known as a jumping sire in Britain and Ireland.

The number of foals born in Germany has dropped by 37 per cent since the beginning of the century to the current mark of only 850.

Several of the country’s leading breeders invested in Maxios, one of Monsun’s best sons, only to be disappointed after he had covered around 100 of the country’s best mares in each of his first four years at stud.

Germany’s breeders have continued to specialise in producing sound, middle-distance horses and over the coming decade it is possible that the country’s decline will be reversed by the demand for this type of thoroughbred from Australia and Japan.

Dabirsim has the numbers

Dabirsim has covered a lot of mares since moving to the Haras de Grandcamp in 2016, but whereas during his first two seasons in France he covered at €9,000, in 2018 he covered 185 international mares at €30,000.

The son of Hat Trick’s first French-bred crop of two-year-olds has not restored the standing he had at the end of 2017, but it did produce a respectable 18 two-year-old winners, including the top prospect Celestin, a Fabrice Chappet-trained colt who won his last two starts by over 4l and 6l, including a Listed race.

In 2022, Dabirsim will have a lot of well bred three-year-olds running for him. His progeny tend to be milers and to act on good ground or better and they have an outstanding record on All-Weather tracks.

Young sires well patronised

Sottsass

The next four French sires by the number of mares covered in 2018 have all yet to have runners.

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european stallions Zarak’s progeny will reach the racecourse in 2021.

Shalaa has attracted strong support from breeders and in the sales ring. Using him in 2020 will be a risk if he doesn’t produce two-year-old winners as his commercial star will wane quickly; but if his first crop get good reslts, he will be more popular still in 2022.

Almanzor is the best racehorse at stud in continental Europe, and Zarak is probably the best bred one, and so it is not surprising they have both attracted strong support at Etreham and Bonneval.

Recorder only ran three times, but he is a two-year-old Group winner by Galileo out of a two-year-old Group-winning dam, and at Montfort & Preaux he attracted a big first book of mares.

Olympic fillies popular

Boquetot’s Olympic Glory has always been popular with breeders as he has averaged 150 mares a year over his first five seasons at stud.

In the sales ring things have become more difficult for those offering his progeny and in 2019 his yearling fillies recorded an average price twice as high as his colts.

For the time being Olympic Glory’s best progeny have been the Group 1-performing fillies Watch Me and Grand Glory.

With only one crop of three-year-olds to race it is too soon to see if this bias towards females will be a long-term trend.

A more surprising trend to emerge from his first crop of three-year-olds is that his progeny do not seem to be the fast precocious two-year-olds he was himself. No less than 40 per cent of the wins by his three-year-olds came over further than 2000m and only 10 per cent at less than a mile.

Wootton Bassett: an international sire?

By 2022 it is very likely that Etreham’s Wootton Bassett will have joined Siyouni and Le Havre as an international sire.

The son of Iffraaj’s last crop produced at a low fee, he stood at €6,000 in 2016, were two-year-olds of 2019 and included several high-class performers such as Helter Skelter, Wooded, The Summit and Guildsman among a total of 19 two-year-old winners.

For the next two years Wootton Bassett stood at €20,000 and received plenty of support from his new international syndicate.

His progeny act on all types of ground and the All-Weather and, while they are mainly milers, he does get middle-distance horses from mares with stamina.

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Wootton Bassett has the advantage of being an outcross to a large proportion of European-based mares as he has no Danehill or Sadler’s Wells in his pedigree Wootton Bassett has the advantage of being an outcross to a large proportion of European-based mares as he has no Danehill or Sadler’s Wells in his pedigree.

His best horses to date are not out of mares from these sire lines either, but that is probably only a reflection of the mares a horse standing at €6,000 in France is likely to receive.

Protectionist: Group performer from two to six

Le Havre: likely to improve further

Montfort & Preaux’s Le Havre is another hugely successful outcross sire. His threeyear-olds of 2019 were his first since he was re-syndicated and his fee went from €7,000 to €20,000.

The result was a string of high-class performers headed by the Group 1 winner Villa Marina. His next three crops of three-year-olds were conceived at €35,000 and then for two years he stood at €60,000 and so his results are very likely to improve further.

Le Havre’s progeny tend not to be precocious and, while many are middledistance performers, he has some excellent fast horses from fast mares. They act on all types of ground, but have a slight preference for soft ground and the All-Weather.

French imports on the up

Annebault’s Reliable Man and Grandcamp’s Dream Ahead started their stud careers in Germany and Ireland, but both will have significant representation in France between now and the 2022 yearling sales.

Reliable Man has proved to be a sire of middle-distance horses, even if his best progeny are more than capable of winning as two-year-olds.

His first two German crops included three Group winners and his son Erasmus, who retires to stud in France in 2020, could have become the best recent German-bred runner, if his career had not been prematurely ended.

Reliable Man has also produced two Group 1 winners in Australia and the very useful Reliable Team in Hong Kong. It will be a surprise if there are not some good-class performers from his large first French crop, who will be three in 2022.

Dream Ahead is a sire of sprinters and was represented by no fewer than four Group 1 speedsters in 2019.

His first French-sired progeny will be two-year-olds of 2020 and he will have a large crop of French-bred three-year-olds to race for him in 2022.

Dream Ahead’s progeny tend to act well on both soft ground and the All-Weather which tends to make them well suited to racing in France.

Next year will be key for many

The Haras de Bouquetot’s Al Wukair, a son of Dream Ahead who won the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois, is from the same generation of sires as Recorder,

european stallions Almanzor and Zarak and will have his first runners in 2021.

It will be an important year for Frenchbased sires as others who received strong support in their first two seasons at stud include Petit Tellier’s Prix du Jockey-Club winner The Grey Gatsby, Haie Neuve’s Whitecliffsofdover, a son of War Front, Huderie’s Birchwood, a son of Dark Angel, Boquetot’s Ectot, a son of Hurricane Run, and Zelzal, a son of Sea The Stars. There was also Quesnay’s Attendu, a son of Acclamation, as well as Ultra, a son of Manduro who won a Group 1 at two and stands at Haras du Logis.

Four new sires to stud in 2019 attracted strong support and they included two juvenile stakes-winning sons of Scat Daddy– Seahenge, who stands at Haie Neuve, and Seabhac, who stands at Saint Arnoult.

The others were the top French performers Cloth Of Stars at Logis and Recolletos at Quesnay.

Changes afoot for older stallions

Finally, three other older French-based sires who are likely to improve their stature between now and 2022 include Le Hetraie’s Pastorius, Colleville’s Galiway and Quesnay’s Intello.

Pastorius is probably the best son of Soldier Hollow to date and his last German crop, who are two-year-olds of 2020, is his biggest to date. He covered more than 80 mares in his first two seasons in France.

From limited opportunities he has an excellent record with a high winners to runners ratio and several high-class performers such as Dalika in the US and Schabau in Australia.

Galiway made a good start with his first twoyear-olds in 2019 and there seems every reason to expect his progeny to improve with age.

The son of Galileo produced five two-yearold winners from his 11 runners, including the high-class Group winner Kenway. He has three bigger crops to come.

Intello, another Wertheimer-bred son of Galileo, will be very popular on his return to Quesnay after spending two years at Cheveley Park Stud in England.

His first French crop of two-year-olds had 14 two-year-old winners, including the Classic prospect Pao Alto and the very useful winners such as Mannix and the Arqana sales race winner Into Faith.

He covered 147 mares at Quesnay in 2017 and so his profile may well be transformed between now and the 2022 yearling sales.

Ultra: the son of Manduro is one of a number of French sires who will have first runners in 2021

German sires headed by Soldier Hollow

The list of German sires whose reputation is on-the-up is, of course, a far shorter one.

The best stallions in Germany are far from youngsters.

Auenquelle’s 20-year-old Soldier Hollow enjoyed his best year to date with his French runners in 2019 with the three-year-old stakes winners Pelligrina and Amarena, and his yearlings were well received at Arqana.

Etzean’s Areion is even older at 25, but still enjoyed his best-ever year and his first Group 1 winner in Alston, now in training with André Fabre, as well as the German Group-winning two-year-old colt Rubaiyat.

Schlenderhan’s Adlerflug covered his biggest books to date in 2017 and 2018 at a five-figure fee and so has a chance to make a break-through over the next two seasons.

The two young German-based sires who have a chance of making an international reputation are Etzean’s Amaron and Rottgen’s Protectionist.

Amaron is just the type of horse German breeders appreciate as he ran a total of 22 times winning Group races at two, three, four, five and six.

His sire Shamardal has never been more popular, and he has a high-class female line,

too, as his third dam won the Prix Marcel Boussac at two.

Two-year-old racing is of limited significance in Germany and so even if Amaron did produce several useful-looking winners there, the star of his first crop of two-year-olds was the John Gosden-trained Run Wild, who was placed in Group and stakes races in France and England.

Run Wild has given his sire a chance and Amaron will be popular in 2020.

Protectionist has his first two-year-olds in 2020. Although the son of Monsun is best known as a Melbourne Cup winner, he was also a winner at two and beaten only a nose in a Group 3 on his second and final juvenile start.

He also raced 22 times and was a Group/ stakes performer at two, three, four and six, having failed to shine when trained in Australia at five.

He comes from the top international family of Pawnese and Stradivarius.

Protectionist stayed, but he had great tactical speed and after being injured at three he was trained to win the Melbourne Cup. He has been given a chance not least thanks to the support of his owner Australian Bloodstock and of Rottgen where he stands.

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Haras de la Barbottière welcomes Group 1-winners, Donjuan Triumphant and Robin Of Navan for 2020. Sally Ann Grassick chats with Sophie Rouselle

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NE FRENCH STUD FARM which is anticipating a very busy and exciting year in 2020 is Haras de la Barbottière as the farm has two new recruits on its stallion roster this season – the Group 1

British Champion Sprint winner Donjuan Triumphant and the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Robin Of Navan.

Located near Sable in the heart of the Sarthe region, south of Normandy, Haras de la Barbottière was set up in 1993 by Sophie Rouselle and Jean Claude Werle.

Both originally Parisians, the pair made the decision to invest in 123 acres of land in the west of France. Rouselle, who was working as a sales person for veterinary products, found herself becoming more involved in the horseracing industry and eventually she took out her amateur jockey licence and a trainer’s licence.

The couple spent the early years developing the infrastructures and facilities of the farm before moving permanently to Barbottière in 2000 to develop a breaking and pre-training centre, alongside their existing breeding operation.

They have since purchased a further 185 acres of land and Werle’s son Stephane has joined the team as director, while Rouselle occupies the role of manager.

The stud now comprises of 296 acres with 30 stables and nine foaling boxes, while the pre-training part of the farm includes facilities such as a 6f sand gallop and a three and a half furlong jump gallop.

“At the end of 2010, Pascal Noue of Haras de la Hetraie approached us about

Haras de la Botterière in the Sarthe region, south of Normandy and not too far from Le Mans, was bought by Sophie Rouselle (top, left) and Jean Claude Werle in 1993

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haras de la barbottière the possibility of standing two stallions at Barbottèrie,” explained Rouselle.

“There were a lot of obstacles to overcome in starting such a new venture. We had to build a new yard, independent from the pre-training centre, and a covering shed, but we welcomed the challenge.

“We started off with two stallions Apsis and Great Pretender for our first season in 2011 and things have just grown from there.”

Since then many stallions have passed through the gates of Barbottière, including the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes winner Monitor Closely, the ex-Godolphin-owned Group 2 Hungerford Stakes winner Shakespearean and Zambezi Sun, who won the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris for Pascal Bary in the colours of Prince Khalid Abdullah.

The current team of stallions features Group 1 Deutsches Derby winner Nicaron, who joined the team in 2015 and whose first French crop of foals have already proved themselves around Auteuil as three-year-olds.

Nicaron covered 160 mares in 2019 and broke the record of covers for a stallion standing in the west of France.

He stands alongside Chanducoq, who won on the Flat as a two-year-old and was later placed over hurdles for owner-breeder-trainer Jean-Paul Gallorini. The son of Voix Du Nord will have his first crop of foals this spring.

The two new recruits to the farm will mark a new chapter for Barbottière and for the region as a whole.

“Donjuan Triumphant is a completely new type of stallion for the west of France as we have no sire of sprinters in the area,”says Rouselle.

“I think this is a niche that has not been exploited here before. We are so lucky to be able to acquire this horse – he was such a warrior on the track and won a Group 1 by beating eight other Group 1 winners!

“It couldn’t have happened at a better time than just before he retired to stud – that success at Ascot in the Group 1 British Champion Sprint was magnificent.

“One of our clients decided that he wanted to invest in a stallion and it was bloodstock agent Richard Venn who put forward Donjuan Triumphant to us.

“There has been a lot of interest for him already as we have put him at a very affordable covering fee of €4,000 live foal. It is also encouraging that there are a few mares from England booked into him already.”

A son of Oasis Dream, Donjuan Triumphant started his career with trainer Richard Fahey for whom he won the Group 2 Criterium de Maisons Laffitte as a two-year-

Donjuan Triumphant: the son of Dream Ahead collecting his Group 1 on British Champions Day

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haras de la barbottière old before ending the year with a fourth place behind Johannes Vermeer in the Group 1 Criterium International.

As a three-year-old he finished second to Quiet Reflection in a Group 2 at Haydock followed by a second place in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest over six and a half furlongs at Deauville.

He seemed to lose his way towards the end of 2016 and he started the following year in the care of trainer Andrew Balding and in the blue and white colours of King Power Racing.

That year he succeeded in several handicaps and was placed at Listed level, but he was a horse who seemed to improve with age and one to relish a challenge.

He finished off 2018 with a return to the top level when fourth to The Tin Man in the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup and third to Sands Of Mali in the Group 1 British Champion Sprint at Ascot.

He returned to Ascot the following year and pulled off a shock 33/1 success in the same race when beating top-class sprinters such as One Master, Advertise and Mabs Cross.

Robin Of Navan was a stalwart of the Harry Dunlop yard for some time and took his connections all over Europe, and indeed the world, since buying him at the Arqana Breeze Up Sales for €47,000 in 2015.

A son of American Post, he won five stakes races over three separate years, including the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud. He

“‘Robin’ is a French horse first and foremost, so he is very attractive to French breeders was also placed in ten other stakes races stretching from Germany to Italy and in France and Britain.

Although trained in Britain, Robin Of Navan is equally well known in France – not only was he bred by Monique Lepeudry at Haras de Tourgeville, but he also raced on French soil a remarkable 18 times.

His career earnings ended up at £520,792, and that is without including his French premiums.

Robin Of Navan was known for his tenacity and durability; he put up strong performances in whatever country he turned up in right until the end of his racing career.

“Robin Of Navan was such a tough fighter and the story of how we came acquire him is very similar to that of Donjuan Triumphant,” reports Rouselle.

“We had hoped to get Robin Of Navan at

the end of 2018, but his owners decided that they wanted to keep racing him for another year. We were disappointed when we heard the news and thought that we had no chance of getting him as we knew that there were other French studs interested in standing him, too.

“Luckily, Richard Venn gave us the opportunity to acquire ‘Robin’ as we had been the first to inquire about purchasing him.

“He is a French horse first and foremost, so he is attractive to French breeders with being

by American Post out of a Muhtathir mare.

“We have been hearing a lot about Muhtathir as a broodmare sire and I think Robin will be a dual-purpose sire as there are a lot of NH breeders interested in him.”

With new stallions comes more work as it is not an easy task launching the career of a fledgling sire, but Rouselle is looking forward to the challenge.

“I am hopeful that these two new stallions will mark the start of an exciting time for the stud and we are very hopeful for the future,” she remarks.

“Having two stallions of such quality as Donjuan Triumphant and Robin Of Navan will bring new clients to the stud and that can only be a good thing for our business.

“We have always worked with jump stallions in the past so having Flat sires will open up a new world for Barbottière. I, for one, am excited to see where they take us.”

Robin Of Navan won five stakes races in a five-year career, his wins including the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud.

He won or placed 19 times at stakes level and is seen here winning the Group 2 Meilen Trophy last July

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Spend wisely Exciting times at Spendthrift with five classy new stallions joining the farm’s talented roster, writes Melissa Bauer-Herzog

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HEN SPENDTHRIFT FARM rang in 2020, the team had more than usual to be excited about. The farm’s foundation sire Into Mischief (Harlan’s Holiday) had notched up his first leading sires’ title in 2019 and, looking ahead, the farm has five new stallions to launch for 2020.

Into Mischief stood his first season in 2009 for a fee of $12,500 before dropping to $7,500, but the son of Harlan’s Holiday has become the poster boy for Spendthrift Farm’s Share The Upside programme, as an original member of the industry-changing concept.

Spendthrift’s general manager Ned Toffey, who has been with the farm since Into Mischief retired, always believed after seeing the stallion’s early success that a title would come eventually, but is still excited to see the stallion rewarded.

“You think of all the great sires through the

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“It’s a credit to all the breeders who have supported Into Mischief and he is just a remarkable horse, but none of this happens without our breeders

years that have had leading sire title by their name so it’s just an honour,” says Toffey.

“It’s a credit to all the breeders who have supported Into Mischief and he is just a remarkable horse, but none of this happens without our breeders.

“We’ve very appreciative to them for all their efforts in getting him there, this is very much the breeders’ honour as much as anything else.

“He’s a remarkable horse and, with the patronage of our breeders, it’s something that felt like it was going to happen sooner or later. Now it has, we couldn’t be happier about it.”

Just as exciting for the farm is the addition of another son of Into Mischief to the roster with his Grade 2-winning two-year-old Maximus Mischief joining the fold as a “Share The Upside” stallion.

He joins Into Mischief’s 2019 champion second-crop son Goldencents who has already proved that his sire has the potential

spendthrift farm to become a sire of sires.

“Maximus Mischief is just a horse that people were really excited about because he was such a talented two-year-old and as a son of Into Mischief, he booked up very quickly,” reports Toffey.

“He was Into Mischief’s fastest two-yearold, he was a big beautiful horse who had a tremendous ability at two but who just ran into some issues.

“Into Mischief is showing that he can be a sire of sires and we’re very excited about what this horse can be and he’s one that breeders can take advantage of on the Share The Upside.”

Maximus Mischief is just one new stallion popular with breeders on the roster, and he is joined by a duo of Breeders’ Cup winners, a leading three-year-old and a Godolphin Mile (G2) winner.

Vino Rosso won two Grade 1 races in 2019, including the Breeders’ Cup Classic, and is the spitting image of his sire Curlin.

But he was one of those talented horses born in the wrong generation and his considerable talents were often overshadowed by others.

Vino Rosso was bred from the same Glennwood Farm crop as the Triple Crown winner Justify, who overshadowed his threeyear-old successes. It looks as “Vino” may again lose out, this time to his new stud-mate Mitole (Eskendereya) for an Eclipse award.

But, even though he might miss the award, Toffey is excited for the stallion’s prospects, the farm having searched sometime for a son of Curlin whom they believed was good enough to stand at the farm.

“Obviously Vino is a Breeders’ Cup Classic winner so what more needs to be said?” smiles Toffey.

“Curlin has now established himself as one of the best sires in the business and we’ve been looking for the right son of Curlin to stand. This is a horse is a beautiful animal and looks very similar to Curlin, but maybe a prettier version, so we’re really excited.

He’s just a horse whose career really came together.”

As for that horse who may steal away that Eclipse Award honour, Mitole beat the best field assembled this year in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) and will certainly be named an Eclipse Award finalist for Horse of the Year, in addition to taking home champion sprinter honours.

“I think Mitole has to be considered a very legitimate case for Horse of the Year,” says Toffey, before explaining: “He was one bad break at Saratoga short of being undefeated

Maximum Mischief: the Grade 2-juvenile winner joins sire Into Mischief at Spendthrift for 2019

“Mitole’s Met Mile was probably the best single field of any race assembled this year and he was a very impressive winner

on the year. It’s a pretty long list of really good horses that he beat throughout the year either sprinting or stretching out to a mile.

“Mitole’s Met Mile was probably the best single field of any race assembled that year and he was a very impressive winner – right up on the pace and he asserted himself down the stretch. He’s a remarkable horse so he’s a very legitimate contender for Horse of the Year.”

It’s rare to have a horse on a farm roster capable of eclipsing the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, let alone eclipsing both recent Breeders’ Cup winners, but that is exactly

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spendthrift farm what Omaha Beach will do when he arrives on the farm after the Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1).

The colt was heading for Kentucky Derby (G1) favouritism in 2019 before being scratched from the race only days before loading into the gate.

One of the most highly regarded threeyear-olds in the nation, Omaha Beach has three Grade 1 victories on his CV, including the late-December Malibu Stakes and benefits from stallion updates on both sides of his family.

A

HALF-BROTHER to the champion Take Charge Brandi (Giant’s Causeway), the freshman sire is by emerging sire-of-sires War Front, whose son Declaration Of War has had a banner year with his runners in 2019.

On the female side of Omaha Beach’s family, his dam’s half-brother Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy) was repatriated to the US from South Korea this autumn after top performances by runners in his first three crops.

“Omaha Beach added another notch on his belt with a really impressive win in the Malibu where he just really toyed with the competition and it looked like a paid workout,” recalls Toffey.

“He’s just a tremendously talented horse, a son of War Front – an incredibly influential sire line all over the world – and he comes from the current pre-eminent American

Coal Front: a good-looking son of Stay Thirsty

female family in Take Charge Lady.

“He’s just as good a stallion prospect as you can imagine. He’ll run in the Pegasus and then come to Spendthrift and stand at stud.

He’s a beautiful animal and we couldn’t be more excited to have him”.

The new sires on the roster are rounded

Spendthrift had been keen to stand a son of Curlin and Vino Rosso (below) has the right profile

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out by Coal Front (Stay Thirsty).

A Share The Upside offering, Coal Front’s biggest moment came in the 2019 Godolphin Mile (G2) in which he beat Heavy Metal (Exceed And Excel) by three-quarters of a length.

Coal Front’s good-looks have persuaded breeders to book their mares to the son of Stay Thirsty.

“This is a horse whose single most impressive feature is his physical,” Toffey explains of the stallion’s popularity achieved once he came to Spendthrift.

“He’s just beautifully made, a spectacularlooking individual. He was tremendously talented and I know Todd Pletcher felt like this was the most talented two-year-old in his barn.

“He had a few setbacks that kept him from really putting together the kind of resume from a racing standpoint, but nevertheless, he was just a very talented racehorse who was never quite able to show what he could do. He is a gorgeous animal and beautifully bred.”

With a full roster of 22 stallions, most early in their careers, the future is looking bright for Spendthrift Farm.

While it would be easy to dwell on the heydays of decades gone past at the farm, Toffey is sure that the latest chapter in the Spendthrift stallion barn will be just as exciting as the past.

“We have a lot of very nice horses and we’re very excited about the future with a lot of our horses here, so fingers crossed and hopefully we’ll be talking about more of the same in years to come.”

Goldencents: leading second-crop sire of 2019

A classical landscape fit for thoroughbreds.

Coach House

Hellvelyn

Pearl Secret

2yo Stakes winning sire & 26 winners in 2019

Proven source of 2yo speed

Gr.2 winning sprinter by speed sire Compton Place

SIRE OF 2YO STAKES WINNER & GR.1 PLACED SUMMER SANDS Plus Stakes performer The Cruising Lord. 26 individual winners in 2019 from limited opportunities.

SIRE OF TOP 2YO FILLY MRS DANVERS As well as 2yo Group and Stakes winners/performers Ardenode, Bonnie Grey, Hellofahaste, La Rioja, Mister Trader.

CONSISTENT 5F STAKES WINNER Won 3 Group/Stakes races and Gr.1 placed 3 times, all over 5f.

ROYAL ASCOT 2YO SPRINTER And 5f Stakes winner.

BY CHAMPION SPRINTER & SIRE OASIS DREAM Sire of sires including Showcasing.

Out of a Gr.1 sprinter.

Fee: £4,000 1st October LFFR

Summer Sands – Wins the Redcar Two Year Old Trophy L, a week after finishing third in the Middle Park Stakes Gr.1.

Chapel Stud Ltd Chapel Lane, Bransford, Worcestershire WR6 5JQ 01452 717 342 www.chapelstud.co.uk

Plus many tough, high-class multiple winning sprinters including 2019 Stakes performer Hells Babe, Quench Dolly, Little Boy Blue, Wrenthorpe, etc.

FIRST YEARLINGS REALISED £55,000, 50,000gns, 35,000gns, £32,000, £30,000, etc.

Averaging over 4x his stud fee.

2020 TWO-YEAR-OLDS SET TO BE HIS BEST EVER

In training with Michael Bell, Richard Fahey, Richard Hannon, Karl Burke, Henry Candy, Charlie Hills, Tom Dascombe, Michael Dods, David Barron, etc.

Fee: £3,000 1st October LFFR

Fee: £4,000 1st October

Mrs Danvers - Unbeaten 5-time winner including Cornwallis Stakes Gr.3, St Hugh’s Stakes L and Weatherbys Super Sprint.

“She is a very strong, athletic, good-moving filly.”

Henry Candy, re £55,000 Pearl Secret filly ex Speed Princess

Roisin Close 07738 279 071 roisin@chapelstud.co.uk

Coach House In partnership with Whitsbury Manor Stud and Trickledown Stud

Pearl Secret Daniel Creighton 07597 945 219

KOROPIK

Bay 2014 by Kodiac – Kathoe (Fayruz)

GROUP WINNING SPRINTER

BY KODIAC

By Kodiac, record-breaking Champion Sire of 2YOs out of Kathoe, by leading sprint sire Fayruz. From the immediate family of Champion 2YO Woodstream.

RACE RECORD Won 2 races at 2 & 3, 6f and placed twice incl. Gr.3 Chipchase S, 6f, Newcastle, beating Aeolus (Gr.3) and 5 other Stakes Winners.

FEE 2020:

£200 Oct 1st

Mahsoob

Bay 2011 by Dansili – Mooakada (Montjeu)

FIRST YEARLINGS 2020 By sire of sires Dansili, out of MOOAKADA by Champion and outstanding broodmare sire MONTJEU.

RACE RECORD Won 5 races including 9f Earl of Sefton Stakes, Gr.3 Newmarket and 10f Wolferton Stakes, LR Royal Ascot.

Timeform Rated 120

FEE 2020:

£1,250 Oct 1st

INTRINSIC

Bay 2011 by Oasis Dream – Infallible (Pivotal)

OFF TO A GOOD START AT STUD Sire of dual winner Najm and multiple placed horses from his first few runners. From a Stakes winning family including MUTAKAYYEF and INTIMATION and half-sisters VERACIOUS (won Atalanta S. Gr.3) and ALAADEL (3-time winner incl. on debut at 2).

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

FEE 2020:

£1,750 Oct 1st

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

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

stakes sires

The 2019 sires’ list SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2019

Horses are listed under their sire with the respective broodmare sire in brackets.

Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including December 31, 2019 Data from Hyperion Promotions Academy Award Captain America (Mujadil)

LL

Acclamation Garrus (Medicean) Magical Dreamer (Indian Ridge) Pretreville (Fusaichi Pegasus) Tabarrak (Intikhab)

L L L L

Afleet Alex Dolkong (Broken Vow)

L

Air Chief Marshal Red Torch (Fasliyev)

L

Al Kazeem Aspetar (Dansili) Alhebayeb Abama (Iffraaj) Aurelius In Love (Red Ransom) Talk Or Listen (Noverre)

L 3L L

American Post Caravagio (Mizoram) Robin Of Navan (Muhtathir)

L 2

Arcano Secret Sharp (Acclamation) Shenanigans (Mujadil) Spinning Memories (Hard Spun) Warnaq (Teofilo) Arch Estihdaaf (Ghostzapper)

Australia Bangkok (Darshaan) 3 Broome (Acclamation) 33 Buckhurst (Green Desert) 33 Cayenne Pepper (Elusive Quality) 3 King Carney (Dansili) L Mohican Heights (Shirley Heights) L Sir Ron Priestley (Danehill Dancer) 3 Western Australia (Cadeaux Genereux) L Authorized Ashrun (Areion)

3

Approve El Astronaute (Footstepsinthesand)

13 L 23 23L L

12

American Pharoah Maven (Any Given Saturday)

Appel Au Maitre Appelina (Hernando)

Areion Alson (Galileo) Emerita (Green Tune) Itobo (Lomitas) Rubaiyat (Lomitas) Sun At Work (Royal Solo)

LLL

L

L L 3L L

3

Bated Breath Breathtaking Look (Iffraaj) Daahyeh (Oasis Dream) Faccio Io (Manduro) Les Hogues (Peintre Celebre) Maid In India (Indian Ridge) Space Traveller (Galileo) Viadera (Beat Hollow) Worth Waiting (Sadler’s Wells) Beat Hollow Diamond Hill (Sabrehill) Bernardini Capezzano (Unbridled’s Song) Blu Air Force Thunderman (Unbridled’s Song) Zan O’bowney (Fasliyev)

3L

3 23 L L 3L 23 L 2

Bungle Inthejungle Living In The Past (Cadeaux Genereux) 2 Cable Bay Liberty Beach (Avonbridge)

L

Camacho Lorelei Rock (Statue Of Liberty)

L

Camelot Accon (Dubawi) 3 Alexander James (Hard Spun) L Alounak (Rail Link) 3 Bolleville (Dubai Destination) L Degraves (Danehill Dancer) 3 Downdraft (Trempolino) LL Goddess (Green Desert) 3L Lady Wannabe (Duke Of Marmalade) L Latrobe (Shamardal) 3 Pink Dogwood (Shamardal) L Sir Dragonet (Oasis Dream) 3 Skyward (Giant’s Causeway) L Wait Forever (Holy Roman Emperor) L

Canford Cliffs Cliffs Art (Areion) History Writer (Hawk Wing) Salouen (Galileo)

22 2 2

3L

Cacique Colomano (Zilzal)

Campanologist Django Freeman (Acatenango) Rolando (Lomitas) Winterfuchs (Lomitas)

Casamento Communique (Kris S) Lamaire (Kalanisi) Malotru (Dubawi) Champs Elysees Being Alive (Pursuit Of Love) Billesdon Brook (Manduro) Dame Malliot (Galileo) Durance (Lando) Elisa Again (Shirocco) Spirit Of Appin (Barathea) Way To Paris (Cozzene) Withhold (Fantastic Light) Charm Spirit Kick On (Marju)

Choisir Psychedelic Funk (Galileo) Clodovil Duca Di Como (Elusive Quality) Shining Emerald (Zafonic)

L 13L 2L 3L LL 3 2 L

3L

L

3LL L

Coach House Summer Sands (Ishiguru)

L

3 L 3

Croco Rouge Monsieur Croco (Dananeyev)

L

L L L

Dabirsim Celestin (Elusive City) Pizzicato (Touch Down) Rose Flower (Lomitas)

L L L

L

1

Born To Sea Born With Pride (Monsun)

L

Cape Cross Cartiem (Zamindar) Mixology (Marju) Scentasia (New Approach) Vivid Diamond (Hurricane Run)

Brazen Beau Avengers Queen (Showcasing)

L

Cappella Sansevero Pierre Lapin (Cadeaux Genereux)

LL L

3 L LL L

2

Dalakhani Defoe (Pivotal) Dandy Man Dandhu (Cape Cross) Dr Simpson (Singspiel) Lady Kaya (Singspiel) Nitro Boost (Whipper)

12

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stakes sires Dansili Bristano (Pivotal) Crossed Baton (Beat Hollow) Dubai Warrior (Galileo) Glance (Efisio) Mootasadir (Galileo) Set Piece (Kingmambo) Dark Angel Battaash (Lawman) Dark Lady (Oasis Dream) Fanaar (Royal Academy) Fox Power (Kyllachy) Happy Power (Selkirk) Khaadem (Footstepsinthesand) Shelir (Dalakhani) Thammin (Desert Style) Dawn Approach Dadoozdart (Bernardini) Dariyza (Selkirk) Madhmoon (Haafhd) Declaration Of War Agincourt (Royal Applause) Assiro (Red Ransom) Bayshore Freeway (Fasliyev) Olmedo (Pivotal) Valdermoro (Empire Maker) Deep Impact Bartaba (Anabaa) Fancy Blue (Sadler’s Wells) Love So Deep (Sadler’s Wells) Muette (Peintre Celebre) Savarin (Refuse To Bend) Desert Prince Coccoloba (Orpen) Dialed In Strive For Glory (You And I) Doctor Dino Villa Rosa (Kahyasi) Dragon Pulse Legendary Lunch (Hansel) Dream Ahead Archer’s Dream (Acclamation) Donjuan Triumphant (Tagula) Dream Of Dreams (Dansili) Forever In Dreams (Green Tune) Glass Slippers (Mind Games) Raucous (Acclamation) Dubawi Al Dabaran (Manduro) Al Hilalee (Authorized)

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3 L L L L L

122 3 L L L L L L

L L 3

L 23 L 3 3

L L L L 3

L

L

3L

L

L 1 L L 13L L

L 2

Ambition (New Approach) 3 Anna Nerium (Old Vic) 3 Benbatl (Selkirk) 2 Coronet (Darshaan) 11 D’bai (Green Desert) 2 Duneflower (Shamardal) L Ghaiyyath (Galileo) 12 Glorious Journey (Dansili) 2 Gm Hopkins (Lomitas) 3 Ispolini (Giant’s Causeway) 33 King’s Command (Octagonal) 3 Lah Ti Dar (Singspiel) 2 Lord North (Giant’s Causeway) L L Magical Touch (Machiavellian) Mashael (Galileo) L Military Law (Desert Prince) L Moonlight Spirit (Monsun) 3 Muntazah (Rahy) 33 Nashirah (Galileo) L North America (Yankee Victor) 22 Old Persian (Singspiel) 12 Plumatic (Anabaa) 2 Poetic Charm (Danehill) 22 Queen Of Desire (Invincible Spirit) L Royal Line (Lammtarra) 3 Space Blues (Noverre) L The Revenant (Excellent Art) 223L Too Darn Hot (Singspiel) 11 Uae Jewel (Galileo) L Due Diligence Good Vibes (Compton Place) Sir Boris (King’s Best) Streamline (Compton Place)

3L L 3

Duke Of Marmalade Marmelo (In The Wings)

23

Dutch Art Exhort (Pivotal) Mabs Cross (Pivotal) Perfection (Pivotal) Positive (Makfi) Preening (Danehill Dancer) Volfango (Peintre Celebre)

L 3 L 3 L L

Eishin Dunkirk I Kirk (Johannesburg)

LL

Elnadim Mr Lupton (Docksider)

2

Elusive City King David (Montjeu) Elzaam Playa Del Puente (Galileo) Waitingfortheday (Lagunas) Epaulette

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L 3

Insignia Of Rank (Dixie Union) Lapulced’acqua (Authorized) Stela Star (Sea The Stars) Equiano Dakota Gold (Mark Of Esteem) Equilateral (Oasis Dream) Gustavus Weston (Cape Cross) Evasive Quindio (Dyhim Diamond) Singstreet (Sinndar) Trois Mille (Mujadil)

L 3 3

LL L 3

L L 3

Exceed And Excel L Likala (Motivator) Magnetic Charm (Maria’s Mon) L Rebecca Rocks (Pivotal) L Royal Intervention (Jeune Homme) 2 3 Secret Ambition (Singspiel) 3L Excelebration Barney Roy (Galileo) Inverleigh (Fast Company) Speak In Colours (Verglas)

L L 3L

The Conqueror (Noverre) Excellent Art Above The Rest (Tiznow) Primitivo (Danehill Dancer)

LL

L L

Farhh Blue Sky Dreamer (Teofilo) Dee Ex Bee (Seeking The Gold) Elegiac (Singspiel) Far Above (Shamardal) King Of Change (Echo Of Light) Move Swiftly (Bertolini) Wells Farhh Go (Galileo)

L 33 L L 1L 2 L

Fast Company Safe Voyage (Mujadil)

3L

Fastnet Rock One Master (Pivotal) Orlaith (Piccolo)

1 L

Field Commission Drafted (Darn That Alarm)

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stakes sires French King after winning the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin.

He was the first Group1 winner for French Fifteen (Turtle Bowl) and is out of Marina Piccola (Halling)

Finjaan Brian Ryan (Kheleyf) First Defence Siskin (Oasis Dream) Footstepsinthesand Elaire Noire (Exceed And Excel) Marianafoot (Anabaa) Marie’s Diamond (Kalanisi) Threat (Birdstone) Frankel Anapurna (Montjeu) Delaware (Oasis Dream) Dream Castle (Dubawi) Elarqam (Efisio) Fount (Chester House) Learn By Heart (Danehill Dancer) Logician (Daylami) Master Of Reality (Darshaan) Mehdaayih (Gone West) Mirage Dancer (Green Desert) Obligate (Oasis Dream) Quadrilateral (Mizzen Mast) Sun Maiden (Kingmambo) Suphala (Kingmambo)

3 12L L L L 22

11L 3L 123 2LL 3 3 12 3 2L L 2L 1 3L 3L

Veracious (Pivotal)

1

Festive Star (Diesis) West End Girl (Dansili)

Free Eagle Justifier (Invincible Spirit)

L

Gregorian Greach (Marju) Queen Jo Jo (Siphon)

French Fifteen French King (Halling) Sestilio Jet (Fasliyev)

122 3

Fuisse Tour To Paris (Kendor)

L

Galileo Anthony Van Dyck (Exceed And Excel) 1 L Armory (Danehill Dancer) 23 Birch Grove (Danehill) L Blenheim Palace (Storm Cat) 3 Blissful (Danehill) L Cape Of Good Hope (Danehill) L Circus Maximus (Danehill Dancer) 1 1 L Constantinople (Danehill) 3 Delphinia (Danehill Dancer) L Falcon Eight (Danehill) L Giuseppe Piazzi (Xaar) L Hermosa (Pivotal) 11 Innisfree (Fastnet Rock) 2 Japan (Danehill) 112 Kew Gardens (Desert King) 2 Klassique (Footstepsinthesand) 3 Lancaster House (Oasis Dream) L Love (Pivotal) 13 Magical (Pivotal) 11123 Mogul (Danehill) 2 Mohawk (Encosta De Lago) 3 Mount Everest (Celtic Swing) L Nayef Road (Danehill Dancer) 3 Norway (Kingmambo) 3 Pablo Escobarr (Dansili) L Peach Tree (Pivotal) 3 Sapa Inca (Holy Roman Emperor) L Search For A Song (Danehill) 1L Solage (Cape Cross) L South Sea Pearl (Darshaan) L Southern France (Anabaa) 3 Sovereign (Danehill Dancer) 1 Up Helly Aa (Aussie Rules) L Waldgeist (Monsun) 112 Galiway Kenway (Kendargent)

3L

Gladiatorus Presley (Celtic Swing)

L

Gleneagles Royal Dornoch (Danehill Dancer) Royal Lytham (Anabaa) Southern Hills (Invincible Spirit)

2 2 L

Golden Horn

L 3

L L

Halling Desert Encounter (Invincible Spirit) 3 3 3 Harbinger Deirdre (Special Week)

1

Harbour Watch Pyledriver (Le Havre)

L

Heeraat Aberama Gold (Band On The Run)

Hold That Tiger Holdthasigreen (Muhtathir) Holy Roman Emperor Fullness Of Life (Stravinsky) Piece Of Paradise (Indian Ridge) Richenza (King’s Best) Roman Turbo (Monsun) Romanised (Indian Ridge) Hot Streak Flaming Princess (Marju) Iffraaj Beshaayir (Mister Baileys) Fountain Of Time (Kheleyf) Ifrachy (Kyllachy) Judicial (Marju) Mythical Magic (Octagonal) Powerful Breeze (Echo Of Light)

Invincible Spirit Aloe Vera (Galileo) Beauty Filly (Malibu Moon) Big Brothers Pride (Green Tune) Firebird Song (Pivotal) Inns Of Court (Seeking The Gold) Invincible Army (Diktat) Lethal Promise (Elusive Quality) Magna Grecia (Galileo) Make A Challenge (Street Cry) Trethias (Selkirk)

L

L L 3 L 2L 23L L 1 L L

Ivawood Chares (Titus Livius) Sopran Ival (Elusive City)

L L

Jukebox Jury O’juke (Peintre Celebre)

L

L

Helmet Anda Muchacho (Shamardal) 33 Swedish Dream (Giant’s Causeway) L Taamol (Montjeu) L Thunder Snow (Dubai Destination) 1 Henrythenavigator Called To The Bar (Unfuwain)

Party Goer (Byron)

23L

13

3 L L 3 12 L

2 L L LL 2 2

Intello Folamour (Selkirk) In Front (Shirocco) Pao Alto (Dashing Blade) Regal Reality (Medicean) Slalom (Selkirk) Tresorerie (Anabaa) Young Rascal (Clodovil)

L L L 3 3 L L

Intense Focus Awesometank (Lawman) Just Sherry (Viking Ruler)

L LL

Kamsin Ladykiller (Lord Of England) Lips Queen (Zinaad) Nica (Santiago)

3L 3 L

Kantharos X Y Jet (Lost Soldier)

1

Karakontie Kenzai Warrior (Lemon Drop Kid)

3

Kendargent Eleni (Danehill Dancer) L Famous Wolf (More Than Ready) L Ken Colt (Mujahid) L Morando (Indian Rocket) 33 Skalleti (Muhaymin) 223L Soleil Marin (Montjeu) 3

Kingman Alligator Alley (Cape Cross) L Alocasia (Kingmambo) L Boomer (Singspiel) 3 Calyx (Observatory) 3 Fox Chairman (Galileo) L Headman (King’s Best) 22 King Of Comedy (Selkirk) L Nausha (Galileo) 3 Persian King (Dylan Thomas) 13 Private Secretary (Darshaan) L Raakib Alhawa (Sea The Stars) L Roseman (Pivotal) L Sangarius (Empire Maker) 3 Summer Romance (Statue Of Liberty) L Twist ‘N’ Shake (Danehill Dancer) L King’s Best King Malpic (Verglas)

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L

3 L 1

Kodiac Barys (Mr Greeley) L Fairyland (Pivotal) 1 Fox Champion (Red Rocks) 2 Hello Youmzain (Shamardal) 12 Jash (Dutch Art) L L Shades Of Blue (Verglas) Silk Forest (Sadler’s Wells) L Silva (Dutch Art) 3L Sporting Chance (Giant’s Causeway) L Tifosa (Acclamation) L Kuroshio Kurious (Cozzene) Kyllachy Kachy (Dubai Destination) Soffia (Amadeus Wolf) Lawman Be My Sheriff (Machiavellian) Forest Ranger (Anabaa) Monica Sheriff (Montjeu) Le Havre Cherisy (Grand Slam) Normandel (King’s Best) Olendon (Sunday Break) Platane (Nayef) Roman Candle (Sunday Break) Suedois (Singspiel) Surrey Thunder (Indian Ridge) Tapisserie (Dutch Art) Urwald (Observatory) Villa Marina (Peintre Celebre) Volskha (Montjeu)

3L

L 23L

L 2 3

L 3 L 3 2 3 L L L 13 L

L

Lemon Drop Kid Funny Kid (Danzig) Red Verdon (Choisir)

L 3

Lethal Force Golden Horde (Pivotal) Librettist Pretending (Machiavellian)

Literato Sagauteur (Linamix) Lonhro Mountain Hunter (Daylami)

33L

2

Lord Of England Kabir (Midyan) Kronprinz (Sholokhov) Luxor Finesse (Eagle Eyed) Make Believe Ocean Fantasy (Dansili) Rose Of Kildare (Sixties Icon) Tammani (Sadler’s Wells) Makfi Anna Magnolia (Slip Anchor) Mkfancy (Muhtathir) Petit Fils (Orpen)

L

L

L 3

2

3 33 L L 1 3

Mastercraftsman Agente Segreto (Diktat) L Agrotera (King’s Best) L Master’s Spirit (Sicyos) L Still Standing (Giant’s Causeway) L Technician (Sadler’s Wells) 123L Vintager (Orpen) 23

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Medicean Namos (Areion) Mizzen Mast Flambeur (Kingmambo)

3 L

Motivator Hopeful (Monsun) Madeleine Must (Compton Place) Palpitator (Take Risks)

3 L L

Mount Nelson Iskra (Bartok) Spirit Of Nelson (Invincible Spirit) Yulong Gold Fairy (Dutch Art)

3 3L 3

Mr Sidney Mr Satchmo (Linamix)

L

Muhtathir Mille Et Mille (Monsun)

L

Mujahid Close Your Eyes (Galileo) Dirk (Docksider)

L 3

Mukhadram Romsey (Kheleyf)

L

1

Manduro L Diluvien (Polish Numbers) Good Question (Olden Times) L High As A Kite (One Cool Cat) L Square De Luynes (Dashing Blade) 3 3 3 Time To Choose (Orpen) LL

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Diamanta (Fantastic Light) 3LLL

Lope De Vega Antonia De Vega (Duke Of Marmalade) L Duke Of Hazzard (Invincible Spirit) 2 3 L Ecrivain (Danehill Dancer) 3 3 Feliciana De Vega (Oratorio) Four White Socks (Green Desert) 3 Lope Y Fernandez (Dansili) 3 Max Vega (Dalakhani) 3 Noor Sahara (Van Nistelrooy) L Palomba (Monsun) L Phoenix Of Spain (Key Of Luck) 1 Platinum Star (Acclamation) L Raise You (Galileo) L Tosen Gift (Montjeu) L Zabeel Prince (Unbridled’s Song) 13 Lord Kanaloa Almond Eye (Sunday Silence)

Le Vie Infinite Armageddon (Altieri)

Leroidesanimaux Zaaki (Sadler’s Wells)

Lilbourne Lad Surrounding (Doubletour)

Naaqoos Bakoel Koffie (Dyhim Diamond)

L

Night Colours (Green Desert) 2 Pocket Square (Dansili) 3 Thunderous (Dalakhani) L Under The Stars (Invincible Spirit) 3 No Nay Never Arizona (English Channel) 2 Art Du Val (Rainbow Quest) L Chestnut Honey (Chester House) 2 L L Mystery Power (Haafhd) 2 Never No More (Catcher In The Rye) L Nikisophia (Indian Ridge) 3 Servalan (Oratorio) L Shadn (Sadler’s Wells) 2L L Tango (Galileo) Ten Sovereigns (Exceed And Excel) 1 Wichita (Dashing Blade) 3 Noble Mission Spanish Mission (Street Cry) Oasis Dream Azano (Hurricane Run) Imaging (Dubai Destination) Polydream (Green Tune) Sharja Bridge (Acatenango) Shine So Bright (Sir Percy) Well Of Wisdom (Sunday Silence) Ogatonango The Tiger (Kendor) Olympic Glory Lucky Lycra (Pivotal) Phoceene (Helissio) Watch Me (Galileo)

Nathaniel 2L Amorella (Dubawi) Channel (Dansili) 1 Dashing Willoughby (Dylan Thomas) 2 Enable (Sadler’s Wells) 111 Mutamakina (Danehill) L Tamniah (Rock Of Gibraltar) 3

Orpen Le Baol (Beat Hollow) Pretty Baby (Gold Away) Oscar True Self (Mukaddamah)

Nayef Musa D’oriente (Mujahid)

Outstrip Flippa The Strippa (Verglas)

New Approach Flop Shot (Dansili) Hey Gaman (Dubawi) Impulsif (Kingmambo) Jalmoud (Danehill Dancer) Military March (Danehill) New York Girl (Giant’s Causeway) Potemkin (Big Shuffle) Sameem (Dubai Destination) Telecaster (Shirocco)

Night Of Thunder Cacciante (Raven’s Pass) Keep Busy (Danetime) Molatham (Pivotal)

L

3 3L 3 L 3 3 3 L 2

L L L

Paco Boy Beat The Bank (Diktat) Mission Boy (Second Empire) Paddy O’Prado Plata O Plomo (Cherokee Run)

3

3 3L 3 L 2L L

L L L 13

L 3 L

L

22 L LL

Pastorius Master Bloom (Miesque’s Son)

3

Pedro The Great Happy Bere (Kaldoun) Pedro Cara (Akarad)

L L

Peintre Celebre Power Euro (Galileo) Sword Peinture (Haafhd)

L L

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One of Martin Stevens First Crop Sires to Watch in 2020 as featured in Racing Post “Estidhkaar was one of the surprise packages among those sires with their first delegations to the yearling sales in 2019, with 44 lots sold in Britain and Ireland for an average of more than five times the €5,000 cost of their conception. Roger Varian, Shadwell, and the Doyles were among the buyers of the seven who cost 50,000 guineas or more.

A Dark Angel half brother to champion juvenile Toormore, and a dual group 2 winner at 2 himself, he has every right to make a bold start with his debut runners and is available at a negligible €5,000.”

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stakes sires Albigna: the daughter of Zoffany wins the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1). She is out of Freedonia, a Group 2-winning Selkirk mare from the family of Domedriver

Ruler Of The World’s leading filly Iridessa, who is out of a Danehill mare

Penny’s Picnic Ilanga (Big Shuffle) Patzefredo (Rock Of Gibraltar) Pivotal Addeybb (Kingmambo) Broderie (Hard Spun) Hereby (Hernando) Keystroke (Selkirk) Siyarafina (Azamour) Planteur Plegastell (Muhtathir) Poet’s Voice Invitational (Shamardal) Montsarrat (Entrepreneur)

3 L

3L L L 3 1

L

L L

Red Jazz Snazzy Jazzy (Byron) Urban Beat (Blues Traveller)

L L L L 3

Redoute’s Choice Danceteria (Cadeaux Genereux) 1 3 L Enbihaar (Trempolino) 222L Spotify (Green Tune) 3 Reliable Man Akribie (Haafhd) Ernesto (Niniski)

108

Rock Of Gibraltar Kastasa (Galileo) Matematica (Galileo) Ziyad (Sillery)

3 L 2

L 3L

Ruler Of The World Iridessa (Danehill)

11

Sageburg Qualisaga (Konigstiger)

LL

Sakhee’s Secret Eagleway (Street Cry) Out Of Time (Rainbow Quest) Rose Secret (Celtic Swing) Sicomoro (Galileo) Samum Abadan (Dalakhani)

2 L

L L

2 L

Sakhee Red Tea (Pivotal) L L

3 L L

Rip Van Winkle Keep On Fly (Duke Of Marmalade) Shailene (Cozzene)

Roderic O’Connor Milltown Star (Red Clubs) Miss O Connor (Lujain)

Point Of Entry Plus Que Parfait (Awesome Again) Raven’s Pass Gorgeous Noora (Invincible Spirit) Ibn Malik (Storm Cat) Lady Galore (Johannesburg) Matterhorn (Darshaan) Raven’s Corner (Oasis Dream)

Requinto Great Scot (Mr Greeley) Mild Illusion (Shamardal) Only Time (Nayef) Rio De La Plata Do It In Rio (Agnes World) Paloma Ohe (Big Shuffle)

Scalo Laccario (Lomitas)

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L 233L LL L

L

12L

Scat Daddy Divine Image (Ishiguru) Hidden Message (Green Desert) Qabala (Empire Maker) Sergei Prokofiev (Tapit) So Perfect (Songandaprayer) Sea The Moon Alpine Star (Rahy) Enjoy The Moon (Medicean) Hamariyna (Danehill Dancer) Preciosa (Areion) Privilegiado (Singspiel) Quest The Moon (Rock Of Gibraltar) Wonderful Moon (Lomitas)

3L L 3 L 3

2 L 3 L L 3 3

Sea The Stars Call Me Love (Rainbow Quest) 23 Crystal Ocean (Mark Of Esteem) 1 3 3 Dalgarno (Kingmambo) L Fanny Logan (Manduro) 3LLL Lavender’s Blue (Danehill Dancer) 3

Raa Atoll (Sadler’s Wells) 2 Rakan (Teofilo) L Sextant (Sadler’s Wells) L Soudania (Monsun) 3L Star Catcher (Horse Chestnut) 1112 Star Terms (Exceed And Excel) L Stradivarius (Bering) 11222 Terebellum (Elusive City) 2 Sepoy Indian Blessing (Halling) Lanana (Dylan Thomas) Shamardal Alzire (Galileo) Aviatress (Unbridled’s Song) Blue Point (Royal Applause) Cape Byron (Mark Of Esteem) Castle Lady (Elusive Quality) Di Fede (Caerleon) Earthlight (New Approach) Hazapour (Daylami)

L L

L L 11123 3 13 L 113 3

stakes sires Sottsass (Galileo) Tertius (Shamardal) Walk In Marrakesh (Shamardal)

12L L L

Slade Power Raffle Prize (Pivotal)

22

Society Rock A’ali (Motivator) Band Practice (Zafeen) Corinthia Knight (Grand Lodge)

222 L L

Soldier Hollow Amarena (Tiger Hill) Axana (Sleeping Indian) Ghislaine (Doyen) Joplin (Samum) Pelligrina (Monsun) Serena (Big Shuffle) Shalona (Lord Of England) Wish You Well (One Cool Cat)

L 33 L L 3 L L LL

Speightstown San Huberto (Rail Link)

LL

Spring At Last Victor Kalejs (Mr Greeley)

L

Starspangledbanner Millisle (Indian Ridge)

1L

Stay Thirsty Coal Front (Mineshaft)

2

Stormy Atlantic Stormy Antarctic (Doyen)

Ickworth (Interprete) L Morgan Le Faye (Lomitas) 23L Pinatubo (Dalakhani) 112L Queen Power (Unbridled’s Song) L Shafran Mnm (Oasis Dream) L Shaman (Green Desert) 3L Skardu (Iffraaj) 3 Subway Dancer (Galileo) 2 Tarnawa (Cape Cross) 233 Victor Ludorum (Kaldounevees) 1 Waldpfad (Mark Of Esteem) 33 Showcasing Advertise (Pivotal) Lady In France (Compton Place) Mohaather (Inchinor) Say Good Buy (Lomitas) Tropbeau (Dansili) Sidestep Real Appeal (Green Desert)

11 L 3 L 23

L

Silver Frost Cnicht (Cape Cross) Mc Queen (Darshaan) Silverwave (River Mist) Sir Prancealot Copper Knight (Oasis Dream) Sir Dancealot (Danehill Dancer) Sixties Icon Nagano Gold (Monsun)

Siyouni Al Raya (Bahamian Bounty) City Light (Kendor) Devil (Lope De Vega) Dream And Do (Librettist) Etoile (Authorized) Laurens (Cape Cross) Maqsad (Galileo) Nice To See You (Johannesburg)

23

Street Sense Bye Bye Hong Kong (Tiznow) L L L

L 22

L

3 3 3 3 3 1 L L

L

Style Vendome Diamond Vendome (Kendargent) Style Presa (Pleasant Tap) Tagula Limato (Singspiel) Tai Chi Nancho (Paolini) Tamayuz Mustashry (Green Desert) Tapit Wissahickon (Nureyev) Teofilo Amazing Red (Peintre Celebre) Cross Counter (Kingmambo) Donjah (Mt Livermore) Eliade (Dansili)

3 3L

3

13

12 3L

L 2 2 L

Flight Risk (Nordico) Guaranteed (Toccet) Twilight Payment (Oasis Dream)

3LL L 2L

Tertullian Ismene (Monsun)

L

Torok Rhythm Divine (Unaccounted For)

2

Toronado Alwaab (Compton Place) Stone Tornado (Danehill Dancer) Taos (Sunday Break) Wasmya (Danehill Dancer)

L L L L

Vocalised Cimeara (Galileo)

L

Voix Du Nord Line Des Ongrais (Midyan)

L

War Command Isaan Queen (Invincible Spirit)

L

War Front Etoile (Sadler’s Wells) Fort Myers (Galileo) Happen (Sadler’s Wells) Munitions (Tapit)

3 L 3 3

Whipper Lord Glitters (Homme De Loi) Pontille (Highest Honor)

1 L

Wiener Walzer Nacida (Banyumanik)

L

Windsor Knot Dersu Uzala (Be My Guest)

L

Wootton Bassett Helter Skelter (Soave) Wootton’s Colt (Dansili)

L L

Zamindar Air Pilot (Dr Devious)

L

Zebedee Adelinda (High Chaparral) Buonasera (Oratorio) Major Jumbo (Mizzen Mast)

L 3 L

Zoffany Albigna (Selkirk) Dolphin Vista (Mozart) Encapsulation (Iffraaj) Gold Tyranny (Hennessy) Main Edition (Woodman) Pensiero D’amore (King’s Best)

12 L L L 2L L

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stakes dam sires

The 2019 dam sires’ list THE FINAL LIST OF DAM SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2019 Horses are listed under their broodmare sire with their sire in brackets.

Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE ro December 31, 2019. Data from Hyperion Promotions

Acatenango Django Freeman (Campanologist) Sharja Bridge (Oasis Dream)

3 L

Awesome Again Plus Que Parfait (Point Of Entry)

2

Azamour Siyarafina (Pivotal)

1

Bahamian Bounty Al Raya (Siyouni)

3

Band On The Run Aberama Gold (Heeraat)

Byron Party Goer (Intense Focus) Snazzy Jazzy (Red Jazz)

L L

Shailene (Rip Van Winkle) Way To Paris (Champs Elysees)

L 2

Cadeaux Genereux Danceteria (Redoute’s Choice) 13L Living In The Past (Bungle Inthejungle) 2 Pierre Lapin (Cappella Sansevero) 2 Western Australia (Australia) L

Dalakhani Abadan (Samum) L Max Vega (Lope De Vega) 3 112L Pinatubo (Shamardal) Shelir (Dark Angel) L L Thunderous (Night Of Thunder)

L

Dananeyev Monsieur Croco (Croco Rouge)

L

L

Banyumanik Nacida (Wiener Walzer)

Caerleon Di Fede (Shamardal)

L

Akarad Pedro Cara (Pedro The Great)

L

Barathea Spirit Of Appin (Champs Elysees)

3

Altieri Armageddon (Le Vie Infinite)

L

Bartok Iskra (Mount Nelson)

3

Be My Guest Dersu Uzala (Windsor Knot)

Cape Cross Alligator Alley (Kingman) Cnicht (Silver Frost) Dandhu (Dandy Man) Gustavus Weston (Equiano) Laurens (Siyouni) Solage (Galileo) Tarnawa (Shamardal)

L

Beat Hollow Crossed Baton (Dansili) Le Baol (Orpen) Viadera (Bated Breath)

Catcher In The Rye Never No More (No Nay Never)

L L L

Celtic Swing Mount Everest (Galileo) Presley (Gladiatorus) Rose Secret (Sakhee’s Secret)

L L LL

Danehill Birch Grove (Galileo) Blissful (Galileo) Cape Of Good Hope (Galileo) Constantinople (Galileo) Falcon Eight (Galileo) Iridessa (Ruler Of The World) Japan (Galileo) Military March (New Approach) Mogul (Galileo) Mutamakina (Nathaniel) Poetic Charm (Dubawi) Search For A Song (Galileo)

L L L 3 L 11 112 3 2 L 22 1L

Cherokee Run Plata O Plomo (Paddy O’prado)

LL

Danehill Dancer Armory (Galileo) Circus Maximus (Galileo) Degraves (Camelot) Delphinia (Galileo) Ecrivain (Lope De Vega) Eleni (Kendargent) Hamariyna (Sea The Moon) Jalmoud (New Approach) Lavender’s Blue (Sea The Stars) Learn By Heart (Frankel) Nayef Road (Galileo) Preening (Dutch Art) Primitivo (Excellent Art) Royal Dornoch (Gleneagles) Sir Dancealot (Sir Prancealot) Sir Ron Priestley (Australia) Sovereign (Galileo) Stone Tornado (Toronado) Twist ‘N’ Shake (Kingman) Wasmya (Toronado)

23 11L 3 L 3 L 3 L 3 3 3 L L 2 22 3 1 L L L

Danetime Keep Busy (Night Of Thunder)

L

Acclamation Archer’s Dream (Dream Ahead) Broome (Australia) Platinum Star (Lope De Vega) Raucous (Dream Ahead) Secret Sharp (Arcano) Tifosa (Kodiac) Agnes World Do It In Rio (Rio De La Plata)

Amadeus Wolf Soffia (Kyllachy)

L 33 L L L L

23L

Anabaa Bartaba (Deep Impact) Forest Ranger (Lawman) Marianafoot (Footstepsinthesand) Plumatic (Dubawi) Royal Lytham (Gleneagles) Southern France (Galileo) Tresorerie (Intello)

L 2 L 2 2 3 L

Any Given Saturday Maven (American Pharoah)

3

Areion Ashrun (Authorized) Cliffs Art (Canford Cliffs) Namos (Medicean) Preciosa (Sea The Moon) Aussie Rules Up Helly Aa (Galileo) Authorized Al Hilalee (Dubawi) Etoile (Siyouni) Lapulced’acqua (Epaulette) Avonbridge Liberty Beach (Cable Bay)

3L L 3 L L 2 3 3 3L

Bering Stradivarius (Sea The Stars)

11222

Bernardini Dadoozdart (Dawn Approach)

L

Bertolini Move Swiftly (Farhh)

2

Big Shuffle Ilanga (Penny’s Picnic) Paloma Ohe (Rio De La Plata) Potemkin (New Approach) Serena (Soldier Hollow)

3 L 3 L

Birdstone Threat (Footstepsinthesand)

22

Chester House Chestnut Honey (No Nay Never) Fount (Frankel)

L L L 3 3 1 L 233 L

2LL 3

Choisir Red Verdon (Lemon Drop Kid)

3

Clodovil Young Rascal (Intello)

L

Blues Traveller Urban Beat (Red Jazz)

L

Compton Place Alwaab (Toronado) Good Vibes (Due Diligence) Lady In France (Showcasing) Madeleine Must (Motivator) Streamline (Due Diligence)

Broken Vow Dolkong (Afleet Alex)

L

Cozzene Kurious (Kuroshio)

L 3L L L 3 3L

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stakes dam sires Dansili Aspetar (Al Kazeem) Channel (Nathaniel) Dream Of Dreams (Dream Ahead) Eliade (Teofilo) Flop Shot (New Approach) Glorious Journey (Dubawi) King Carney (Australia) Lope Y Fernandez (Lope De Vega) Ocean Fantasy (Make Believe) Pablo Escobarr (Galileo) Pocket Square (Night Of Thunder) Tropbeau (Showcasing) West End Girl (Golden Horn) Wootton’s Colt (Wootton Bassett) Danzig Funny Kid (Lemon Drop Kid) Darn That Alarm Drafted (Field Commission) Darshaan Bangkok (Australia) Coronet (Dubawi) Master Of Reality (Frankel) Matterhorn (Raven’s Pass) Mc Queen (Silver Frost) Private Secretary (Kingman) South Sea Pearl (Galileo) Dashing Blade Pao Alto (Intello) Square De Luynes (Manduro) Wichita (No Nay Never) Daylami Hazapour (Shamardal) Logician (Frankel) Mountain Hunter (Lonhro) Desert King Kew Gardens (Galileo) Desert Prince Military Law (Dubawi) Desert Style Thammin (Dark Angel) Diesis Festive Star (Golden Horn)

12 1 L L 3 2 L 3 3 L 3 23 3 L

L

112

Doubletour Surrounding (Lilbourne Lad) Doyen Ghislaine (Soldier Hollow) Stormy Antarctic (Stormy Atlantic) Dr Devious Air Pilot (Zamindar) Dubai Destination Bolleville (Camelot) Imaging (Oasis Dream) Kachy (Kyllachy) Sameem (New Approach) Thunder Snow (Helmet)

3 2

Thunder Snow: the dual Dubai World Cup winner is out of Eastern Joy, a Dubai Destination mare

3LLL

L 23

L

L 3L L L 1

33

3 11 3 L L L L

L 333 3

3 12 L

2

L

L

L

Diktat Agente Segreto (Mastercraftsman) L Beat The Bank (Paco Boy) 22 Invincible Army (Invincible Spirit) 2 3 L Dixie Union Insignia Of Rank (Epaulette)

Docksider Dirk (Mujahid) Mr Lupton (Elnadim)

L

Dubawi Accon (Camelot) Amorella (Nathaniel) Dramatic Queen (Kitten’s Joy) Dream Castle (Frankel) Hey Gaman (New Approach) Malotru (Casamento) Duke Of Marmalade Antonia De Vega (Lope De Vega) Keep On Fly (Rip Van Winkle) Lady Wannabe (Camelot) Dutch Art Jash (Kodiac) Silva (Kodiac) Tapisserie (Le Havre) Yulong Gold Fairy (Mount Nelson) Dyhim Diamond Bakoel Koffie (Naaqoos) Quindio (Evasive)

Dylan Thomas Dashing Willoughby (Nathaniel) Lanana (Sepoy) Persian King (Kingman) Eagle Eyed Finesse (Luxor) Echo Of Light King Of Change (Farhh) Powerful Breeze (Iffraaj) Efisio Elarqam (Frankel) Glance (Dansili)

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3 2L 3 123 3L 2

L 2 L

L 3L L 3

L L

2 L 13

Elusive City Celestin (Dabirsim) Sopran Ival (Ivawood) Terebellum (Sea The Stars) Elusive Quality Castle Lady (Shamardal) Cayenne Pepper (Australia) Duca Di Como (Clodovil) Lethal Promise (Invincible Spirit)

L L 2

13 3 3LL L

Empire Maker Qabala (Scat Daddy) Sangarius (Kingman) Valdermoro (Declaration Of War)

3 3 3

Encosta De Lago Mohawk (Galileo)

3

English Channel Arizona (No Nay Never)

2

Entrepreneur Montsarrat (Poet’s Voice)

1L 2

2LL L

Excellent Art The Revenant (Dubawi)

1 L

Fasliyev Bayshore Freeway (Declaration Of War) L Red Torch (Air Chief Marshal) L Sestilio Jet (French Fifteen) 3 Zan O’bowney (Blu Air Force) L Fast Company Inverleigh (Excelebration)

L

Fastnet Rock Innisfree (Galileo)

2

Footstepsinthesand El Astronaute (Approve) Khaadem (Dark Angel) Klassique (Galileo)

L L 3

Fusaichi Pegasus Pretreville (Acclamation)

L

L

2 Exceed And Excel Anthony Van Dyck (Galileo) Elaire Noire (Footstepsinthesand) Star Terms (Sea The Stars) Ten Sovereigns (No Nay Never)

Fantastic Light Diamanta (Maxios) Withhold (Champs Elysees)

1L L L 1

223L

Galileo Aloe Vera (Invincible Spirit) Alson (Areion) Alzire (Shamardal) Barney Roy (Excelebration) Cimeara (Vocalised) Close Your Eyes (Mujahid) Dame Malliot (Champs Elysees) Dubai Warrior (Dansili)

L 13 L L L L 2L L

stakes dam sires Fort Myers (War Front) Fox Chairman (Kingman) Ghaiyyath (Dubawi) Kastasa (Rock Of Gibraltar) Magna Grecia (Invincible Spirit) Maqsad (Siyouni) Mashael (Dubawi) Matematica (Rock Of Gibraltar) Mootasadir (Dansili) Nashirah (Dubawi) Nausha (Kingman) Playa Del Puente (Elzaam) Power Euro (Peintre Celebre) Psychedelic Funk (Choisir) Raise You (Lope De Vega) Salouen (Canford Cliffs) Sicomoro (Sakhee’s Secret) Sottsass (Siyouni) Space Traveller (Bated Breath) Subway Dancer (Shamardal) Tango (No Nay Never) Uae Jewel (Dubawi) Watch Me (Olympic Glory) Wells Farhh Go (Farhh) Ghostzapper Estihdaaf (Arch) Giant’s Causeway Ispolini (Dubawi) Lord North (Dubawi) New York Girl (New Approach) Skyward (Camelot) Sporting Chance (Kodiac) Still Standing (Mastercraftsman) Swedish Dream (Helmet) Verde E Rosa (Zoffany)

L L 12 3 1 L L L L L 3 L L L L L L 12L 23 2 L L 13 L

3

33 L 3 L L L L L

Green Tune Big Brothers Pride (Invincible Spirit) Emerita (Areion) Forever In Dreams (Dream Ahead) Polydream (Oasis Dream) Spotify (Redoute’s Choice) Haafhd Akribie (Reliable Man) Madhmoon (Dawn Approach) Mystery Power (No Nay Never) Sword Peinture (Peintre Celebre) Halling French King (French Fifteen) Indian Blessing (Sepoy) Hansel Legendary Lunch (Dragon Pulse)

L 3L

3 L L 3 3

2 3 2 L

High Chaparral Adelinda (Zebedee)

L

Highest Honor Pontille (Whipper)

L

L L

Homme De Loi Lord Glitters (Whipper)

1

1112

L

Hurricane Run Azano (Oasis Dream) Vivid Diamond (Cape Cross)

3 L

Iffraaj Abama (Alhebayeb) Breathtaking Look (Bated Breath) Encapsulation (Zoffany) Skardu (Shamardal)

L 3 L 3

Hawk Wing History Writer (Canford Cliffs)

L In The Wings Marmelo (Duke Of Marmalade)

Indian Ridge Magical Dreamer (Acclamation) L Maid In India (Bated Breath) 3L Millisle (Starspangledbanner) 1L Nikisophia (No Nay Never) 3 Piece Of Paradise (Holy Roman Emperor) L Romanised (Holy Roman Emperor) 1 2 Surrey Thunder (Le Havre) L Indian Rocket Morando (Kendargent)

Holy Roman Emperor Sapa Inca (Galileo) Wait Forever (Camelot)

Horse Chestnut Star Catcher (Sea The Stars)

L L 3L

Hennessy Gold Tyranny (Zoffany)

LLL L

122 L

Hard Spun Alexander James (Camelot) Broderie (Pivotal) Spinning Memories (Arcano)

Helissio Phoceene (Olympic Glory)

Hernando Appelina (Appel Au Maitre) Hereby (Pivotal)

23

33

Interprete Ickworth (Shamardal)

L

Intikhab Tabarrak (Acclamation)

L

Invincible Spirit 333 Desert Encounter (Halling) Duke Of Hazzard (Lope De Vega) 2 3 L Gorgeous Noora (Raven’s Pass) L Isaan Queen (War Command) L Justifier (Free Eagle) L Queen Of Desire (Dubawi) L Southern Hills (Gleneagles) L Spirit Of Nelson (Mount Nelson) 3L Under The Stars (Night Of Thunder) 3 Ishiguru Divine Image (Scat Daddy) Summer Sands (Coach House)

3L L

L Inchinor Mohaather (Showcasing)

3

Jeune Homme Royal Intervention (Exceed And Excel) 2 3

L

Madhmoon is out of Aaraas by Haafhd. As a dam-sire the stallion had three Group winners in 2019

Gold Away Pretty Baby (Orpen)

3

Gone West Mehdaayih (Frankel)

2L

Grand Lodge Corinthia Knight (Society Rock)

L

Grand Slam Cherisy (Le Havre)

L

Green Desert Buckhurst (Australia) D’bai (Dubawi) Four White Socks (Lope De Vega) Goddess (Camelot) Hidden Message (Scat Daddy) Mirage Dancer (Frankel) Mustashry (Tamayuz) Night Colours (Night Of Thunder)

Real Appeal (Sidestep) Shaman (Shamardal)

33 2 3 3L L L 12 2

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stakes dam sires Wonderful Moon (Sea The Moon)

3

Lope De Vega Devil (Siyouni) Lord Of England Ladykiller (Kamsin) Shalona (Soldier Hollow)

3 3L L

Lost Soldier X Y Jet (Kantharos)

1

Lujain Miss O Connor (Roderic O’Connor)

3L

Machiavellian Be My Sheriff (Lawman) Magical Touch (Dubawi) Pretending (Librettist)

L L 3L

Makfi Positive (Dutch Art)

3

Leading second-season sire Kingman and dam-sire King’s Best produced the dual Group 2 winner Headman

Malibu Moon Beauty Filly (Invincible Spirit)

L

Johannesburg I Kirk (Eishin Dunkirk) Lady Galore (Raven’s Pass) Nice To See You (Siyouni)

Manduro Al Dabaran (Dubawi) L Billesdon Brook (Champs Elysees) 1 3 L Faccio Io (Bated Breath) L Fanny Logan (Sea The Stars) 3LLL

Kahyasi Villa Rosa (Doctor Dino)

Romsey (Mukhadram) LL L L

3L

Kalanisi Lamaire (Casamento) 2 Marie’s Diamond (Footstepsinthesand) L Kaldoun Happy Bere (Pedro The Great) Kaldounevees Victor Ludorum (Shamardal)

Key Of Luck Phoenix Of Spain (Lope De Vega) Kheleyf Brian Ryan (Finjaan) Fountain Of Time (Iffraaj)

114

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

L

1

Kendargent Diamond Vendome (Style Vendome) 3 Kenway (Galiway) 3L Kendor City Light (Siyouni) Pump Pump Palace (King’s Best) The Tiger (Ogatonango) Tour To Paris (Fuisse)

Kingmambo Addeybb (Pivotal) Alocasia (Kingman) Cross Counter (Teofilo) Dalgarno (Sea The Stars) Flambeur (Mizzen Mast) Impulsif (New Approach) Norway (Galileo) Set Piece (Dansili) Sun Maiden (Frankel) Suphala (Frankel)

L

3 L L L

1

3 L

King’s Best Agrotera (Mastercraftsman) Headman (Kingman) Normandel (Le Havre) Pensiero D’amore (Zoffany) Richenza (Holy Roman Emperor) Sir Boris (Due Diligence) Konigstiger Qualisaga (Sageburg) Kris S Communique (Casamento)

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Lando Durance (Champs Elysees) Lawman Awesometank (Intense Focus) Battaash (Dark Angel)

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Lemon Drop Kid Kenzai Warrior (Karakontie)

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Librettist Dream And Do (Siyouni)

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Linamix Mr Satchmo (Mr Sidney) Sagauteur (Literato)

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Lomitas Gm Hopkins (Dubawi) Itobo (Areion) Laccario (Scalo) Morgan Le Faye (Shamardal) Rolando (Campanologist) Rose Flower (Dabirsim) Rubaiyat (Areion) Say Good Buy (Showcasing) Winterfuchs (Campanologist)

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Mark Of Esteem Cape Byron (Shamardal) Crystal Ocean (Sea The Stars) Dakota Gold (Equiano) Waldpfad (Shamardal)

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Medicean Enjoy The Moon (Sea The Moon) Garrus (Acclamation) Regal Reality (Intello) Midyan Kabir (Lord Of England) Line Des Ongrais (Voix Du Nord) Miesque’s Son Master Bloom (Pastorius) Mind Games Glass Slippers (Dream Ahead)

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Robin Of Navan (American Post)

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More Than Ready Famous Wolf (Kendargent) Motivator A’ali (Society Rock) Likala (Exceed And Excel)

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Mozart Dolphin Vista (Zoffany)

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Mr Greeley Barys (Kodiac) Great Scot (Requinto) Victor Kalejs (Spring At Last)

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Mt Livermore Donjah (Teofilo)

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Muhaymin Skalleti (Kendargent) Muhtathir Holdthasigreen (Hold That Tiger) Mkfancy (Makfi) Plegastell (Planteur)

Mujadil Captain America (Academy Award) L L Safe Voyage (Fast Company) 3L Shenanigans (Arcano) L Trois Mille (Evasive) 3

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Mujahid Ken Colt (Kendargent) Musa D’oriente (Nayef)

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Mukaddamah True Self (Oscar)

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Nayef Only Time (Requinto) Platane (Le Havre)

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New Approach Ambition (Dubawi) Earthlight (Shamardal) Scentasia (Cape Cross)

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Niniski Ernesto (Reliable Man)

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Nordico Flight Risk (Teofilo) Noverre Space Blues (Dubawi) Talk Or Listen (Alhebayeb) The Conqueror (Excelebration) Nureyev Wissahickon (Tapit) Oasis Dream Copper Knight (Sir Prancealot) Daahyeh (Bated Breath) Dark Lady (Dark Angel) Delaware (Frankel) Equilateral (Equiano) Lancaster House (Galileo) Obligate (Frankel) Raven’s Corner (Raven’s Pass) Shafran Mnm (Shamardal) Sir Dragonet (Camelot) Siskin (First Defence) Twilight Payment (Teofilo) Observatory Calyx (Kingman) Urwald (Le Havre)

Octagonal King’s Command (Dubawi) Mythical Magic (Iffraaj)

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Oratorio Buonasera (Zebedee) Feliciana De Vega (Lope De Vega) Servalan (No Nay Never)

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Rahy Alpine Star (Sea The Moon) Muntazah (Dubawi)

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Rail Link Alounak (Camelot) San Huberto (Speightstown)

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Orpen Coccoloba (Desert Prince) Petit Fils (Makfi) Time To Choose (Manduro) Vintager (Mastercraftsman)

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Rainbow Quest Art Du Val (No Nay Never) Call Me Love (Sea The Stars) Out Of Time (Sakhee’s Secret)

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Shirocco Elisa Again (Champs Elysees)

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Sunday Break Olendon (Le Havre) Roman Candle (Le Havre) Taos (Toronado)

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Sunday Silence Almond Eye (Lord Kanaloa) Well Of Wisdom (Oasis Dream)

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Van Nistelrooy Noor Sahara (Lope De Vega)

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Tagula Donjuan Triumphant (Dream Ahead) 1 Take Risks Palpitator (Motivator)

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Tapit Munitions (War Front) Sergei Prokofiev (Scat Daddy)

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Teofilo Blue Sky Dreamer (Farhh) Rakan (Sea The Stars) Warnaq (Arcano)

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Verglas Flippa The Strippa (Outstrip) King Malpic (King’s Best) Shades Of Blue (Kodiac) Speak In Colours (Excelebration) Who’s Steph (Zoffany)

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Viking Ruler Just Sherry (Intense Focus)

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Whipper Nitro Boost (Dandy Man) Woodman Main Edition (Zoffany)

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Xaar Giuseppe Piazzi (Galileo)

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Yankee Victor North America (Dubawi)

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Tiger Hill Amarena (Soldier Hollow) Titus Livius Chares (Ivawood)

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You And I Strive For Glory (Dialed In)

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Zafeen Band Practice (Society Rock)

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Zafonic Shining Emerald (Clodovil)

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Tiznow Above The Rest (Excellent Art) Bye Bye Hong Kong (Street Sense)

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Touch Down Pizzicato (Dabirsim)

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Zinaad Lips Queen (Kamsin)

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Siphon Queen Jo Jo (Gregorian)

Shamardal Anda Muchacho (Helmet) Duneflower (Dubawi) Far Above (Farhh) Hello Youmzain (Kodiac) Invitational (Poet’s Voice) Latrobe (Camelot) Mild Illusion (Requinto) Pink Dogwood (Camelot) Tertius (Siyouni) Walk In Marrakesh (Siyouni)

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Trempolino Downdraft (Camelot) Enbihaar (Redoute’s Choice)

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Unaccounted For Rhythm Divine (Torok)

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Unbridled’s Song Aviatress (Shamardal)

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WAY GAME, a daughter of leading southern hemisphere two-year-old sire Snitzel, won the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic on the Gold Coast in mid-January.

The Cieron Mahler-trained filly is out of the Elusvie Quality mare Elusive Wonder, dam of the Group 3-placed daughter of Snitzel, Modern Wonder Mahler reported to the Australian press that he was emotional after claiming his first Magic Millions.

“I don’t know what it is as I’ve had some big wins in this career, but I’ve never been quite this emotional,” he said.

“We’ve put a lot of time and effort into our two-year-olds this year and to culminate with a Magic Millions win is unbelievable.”

The win was even better for the filly's all-female group of owners – Miss H Mathiesen, Mrs D Q House, Ms N Carroll, Mrs K M Mathiesen, Miss P Mathiesen, Mrs K L Mathiesen and Miss M K Mathiesen – they took home an additional $325,000 as part of the Magic Millions Racing Women’s Bonus.

Away Game was a Magic Millions 2019 Gold Coast Yearling Sale purchase by Kerri Radcliffe from Mill Park Stud for A$425,000.

One of the filly’s work riders in the run-up to the race was Saffie Osborne, daughter of British trainer Jamie.

With Mick Channon’s son Michael the strapper of Shraaoh to win the Sydney Cup last April following up with The Everest

The Magic Millions Barrier draw took place on the Gold Coast beach and further entertainment was provided for those who attended with three “beach races”, horses ridden by jockeys and celebrities

winner Yes Yes Yes in October, maybe this is phenomenon that is developing a unique form line all all of its own.

So when you next fancy a big race bet in Oz, watch out for the next runner that has British trainer’s child either in charge of the strapping or work riding responsibilities.

Ahead of racing, thousands of people flocked to Surfers Paradise Beach on the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions barrier draw

Away Game is by Snitzel, who is the current leading sire of two-year-olds in Australia with six winners from 16 runners and earnings of A$1,818,640

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where part of the entertainments included three beach races (see above) in which both professional jockeys and celebrities took part.

NRL legend Billy Slater, Zara Tindall and polo sensation Nacho Figueras saddled up alongside champion jockeys to race the thoroughbreds down the beach.

Apparently it was okay if in front, if behind riders just got sand kicked in their faces.

The filly is owned by an-all female partnership who also collected women’s bonus, while Maher’s travelling fore(wo)man Christine Duffy is leading up

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2019 YEARLINGS SOLD FOR 825,000 GNS, 575,000 GNS, €500,000, etc.

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She is a smashing filly with a lovely head and she is very much in the mould of her sire. It's great to have such a good foal out of a maiden mare.

TDN Value Sires Podium U S Navy Flag (€17,500): with his fee reduced, now is the time to roll the dice that his first 2-year-olds will come out running.

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European Champion 2YO & Champion 3YO sprinter by sire of sires War Front.

First in-foal mares sold for €525,000 (Goffs November Sale-topper), €490,000 etc.

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

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