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JANUARY 2021

£4.95 • ISSUE 101

NEW YEAR >>> NEW SIRES

We profile the new names on the Flat rosters

BREXIT...COVID-19... EXCHANGE RATES

A bloodstock forecast by Jocelyn de Moubray

Aisling Crowe meets Derek Iceton of Tara Stud and Micheál Orlandi of Starfield Stud to chat about new sires River Boyne and Far Above

Let's jump into 2021!

Generations OF SUCCESS

Bated Breath

Kingman

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

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

Expert Eye

Oasis Dream

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

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

2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View)

2015 b h Acclamation - Exemplify (Dansili)

Frankel

2008 b h Galileo - Kind (Danehill)

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

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

2011 b h Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar)

2000 b h Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave)

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

Galileo’s sons are making a significant impact at stud “Galileo further underlined his growing importance as a sire of sires with his stallion sons supplying a slew of significant winners of their own. The top 35 in last year's British and Irish sires' table featured no fewer than five of Galileo's sons.

Most prominent of those was the 11th-placed Australia, who enjoyed something of a breakthrough year thanks to Galileo Chrome's St Leger success… swiftly followed by the Grade 1 victory of Order Of Australia in the Breeders' Cup Mile, and supplemented by Group 2 wins for Cayenne Pepper and Leo De Fury...

One place below Australia was Frankel...”

James Thomas, Racing Post Bloodstock, 4th January 2021

Galileo Chrome, 1st St Leger Stakes-Gr.1 Order of Australia, 1st Breeders’ Cup Mile-Gr.1

• ARIZONA • AUSTRALIA • CALYX • CAMELOT • CHURCHILL • CIRCUS MAXIMUS • 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 • SOTTSASS • • STARSPANGLEDBANNER • TEN SOVEREIGNS • THE GURKHA • U S NAVY FLAG • WOOTTON BASSETT •

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Group/Stakes winners.

14 yearlings made upwards of €100,000 (top price €665,000).

Weanlings sold for €165,000, €145,000 etc.

9 Gr.1 performers to date (fellow fourth crop sire Kingman has 5)

A brilliantly-bred Epsom Derby-Gr.1 winner like his sire Galileo 2021 fee €25,000 Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Hermine Bastide, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller, Neil Magee or Mark Byrne. Tel: +353-52-6131298.

David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon, Paddy Fleming, Cathal Murphy or David Walsh. Tel: 353-25-31966/31689.

Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) T: +44-7827-795156. E: sales@coolmore.ie W: www.coolmore.com

The fastest 2000 Guineas winner in history Gr.1 winning 2yo

“The highest-rated El Prado line males are Roaring Lion, Medaglia d’Oro, Kameko and Kitten’s Joy. Of these only Kameko won a Gr.1 at two, and he is the only Gr.1 winning son of Kitten’s Joy out of a Group winner.

This combined with his correct conformation and tremendous constitution mean he is ideally suited to a wide range of mares.”

Michael Youngs Bloodstock Consultant

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

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TRIPLE GR.1 WINNER WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL PEDIGREE

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John Gosden * T&Cs apply, see www.bluediamondstud.co.uk

Fee: €7,500 1st Oct. Contact: Gary Swift or Patrick Diamond at Irish National Stud • Tel: +353 (0)45 521251

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Frodon nicked it

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NH stallion stats

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ITV racing enjoys a Christmas high RIP David Thompson, the groundbreaking Horse Racing and Safety Integrity Act in the US and Cathy Grassick talks digitial bloodstock Aisling Crowe reviews the Christmas NH action that saw the late French-based stallion Nickname gain Grade 1 success as both a sire and as a damsire courtesy of Weatherbys Jocelyn de Moubray assesses the impact these external influences might have on UK and European-based sales companies in 2021

New names in Ireland

Tara Stud looks forward to standing River Boyne, whiile Starfield Stud is the base for new sire Far Above

New sires for 2021

Full profiles in fee order

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The master list

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The damsire list

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Hyperion’s final 2020 table listing the progeny of stakes-winning sires Hyperion’s list of stakes-winning damsires with progeny names and their sires

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Jumping action over Christmas

Jumping into 2021

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ITV racing enjoys Xmas high

Despite the year that 2020 threw at us, the channel has gone from strength to strength

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HE LAST RIGHTS had long been adminstered to terrestrial TV. First, courtesy of the arrival of Sky, then with the advent of freeview and even more multi-channels, followed by the digital explosion of online viewing, social media, Netflix and the growing transitory nature of the younger generation of viewers who pick and choose what they want, when they want and how they want to view.

The static nature of a TV set working to a year’s worth of planned scheduling by the TV companies is now out of kilter with the incessant right-left scrolling of a mobile phone as it picks up endless and multitudinous entertainment options from around the globe for demanding users.

And if terrestrial TV has only just been able to lever itself away from the grave of long-lost technologies, hanging on by its plug sockets to avoid the fate of such as the Fax machine and the round-dial phone, sport was deemed to be the first to tip the balance into the oblivion.

Outside and live sports coverage is expensive and difficult to produce, its days are unpredictable and, aside

For TV producers racing came with an audience dislike of whip use, as well as the ever-present threat of injury to horses

from the god that is football (but whose rights are generally too expensive for terrestrial), many sports are of niche interest to a small collection of anoraked fans, and too long in the running to hold the gaze and attention spans of the millennials.

And of all sports, racing was deemed the worst of the lot.

Racing has long been believed to be unintelligible for most with its bizarre and strange lingo, and in the UK was perceived to only involve two sets of participants – a group of oddly small and often sullen athletes and a Downtown Abbey-esque class set left in limbo from a bygone pre-war era.

For TV producers racing also came with a growing audience dislike of whip use, as well as the ever-present threat of injury to horses which, aside from the “live” TV sadness that could cause, was likely to result in a wave of protest letters and emails.

Aside from bookmakers the sport was losing out as a suitable advertising medium and sponsorship for a commercial TV station.

With these pressures, a changing and declining viewership and an expensive product to buy, when Channel 4, which had been resposonsible for the sport for 30 years and had done it proud, left the sport in 2016 considering it not worth the money, racing could have feasibly started to disappear from our main TV screens. The downward spiral could have become a free fall.

ITV’s subsequent initial deal in 2016 was to cover the poster fixtures, including the Cheltenham Festival, Grand National, the Derby and Royal Ascot on its main channel with an additional minimum of 34 days annually on the main ITV The last day of “normal” ITV Racing coverage in 2020 was on Gold Cup day, the team seen here interviewing Paul Townend after Al Boum Photo’s victory.

ITV has to be appauded for its coverage throughout the rest of last year which, despite the difficulties, continued to build on its viewership growth achieved in 2018 and 2019

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first word channel, with another 60 shown on ITV 4.

With hindsight, the deal really was a pivotal point for racing, particularly with background of increasing calls from the anti-racing lobby.

We could be literally looking at a very different level of exposure for racing, merely limited to the industry channels and with only a few blue-chip meetings reaching the big screen, and an overwhelming negative public attitude.

The triumphs of ITV Racing’s producers and its presenters, headed up by Ed Chamberlin, should not be underestimated, and should be rightly applauded.

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TS achievements through this very difficult 12 months meant that the team was able to boast a Boxing Day King George viewership of 1.4 million, the latest positive result on the back of 18 months of improved viewing figures.

The easy argument that there has been little else for people to do through the on-off lockdown year of 2020 (something seeping in to the first quarter of 2021, the trend of moving bloodstock sales days has already been resumed) so the bored population has had to “resort” to watching racing. But there is more to it than that.

The footings were put in by ITV Racing in 2017, the team finding a way to interest and engage the Saturday viewer. Crucially, the show started to tell more stories, and for all who are involved in marketing now know, content marketing and story telling is now king.

These stories are away from the more concentrated gambling content that Channel 4 had become a little fixated upon, have opened up the sport so that viewers can gain a closer understanding and empathy with racing’s stories.

The show talks to all – from the lad leading up his or her pride and joy, to the one-horse owner nervously biting finger nails before the off, to the trainer with his first chance of a Saturday horse to the industry-scale ownership and bloodstock vehicles of the Coolmore and Maktoum entities.

The need to keep the entertainment flowing has meant that new racecourses and lesser races and lesser name jockeys and trainers have found their time on terrestrial TV. The lockdown world of zoom conversations has also been enlightening. Obviously, these live zooms are often with people in the team’s contact books because there is a need to get on air who they can – there are no on-track owners with the fancied horses to encircle in the parade ring. It means these interviews are often with connections whose horses are not always the highest-profile in the field.

A case in point was Nina Carberry’s live owner’s interview before her Dinard Rose ran at Cork in the New Year. The meeting was only on screen due to other cancellations, the producers rightly feeling that coverage of live sport is preferable to a show of New Year replays.

Carberry was interviewed ahead of the race, her horse sent off a 13/2 chance. She explained why she still owns the

The last published statistics by the BHA from 2018 show that, of the 93,004 runners that year, 202 horses were fatally injured, 0.2 per cent of runners.

Of course, any number above zero is still too high, but a fatality level of less than one per cent is probably a far lower figure than many would have believed

Champs Elysees mare (Irish-owned horses are not always sold on for massive profit) and that the horse had a chance but it might not be her day. The exchange will have meant that many will have kept their eyes on the five-year-old who, though not devoid of ability with a useful rating 121, came home beaten 21l by the winner.

Such coverage just makes racing all the more real.

The breadth of the coverage that the sport has shown on ITV Racing through lockdown and in recent weeks, in particular, also has to have beeen a good thing regarding welfare perceptions.

I don’t have the statistics to hand but my understanding would be that the big days of racing lead to more injuries.

Then the horses and jockeys are running and riding to the edge of their athletic capabilities, taking legitimate chances in the hope they can get a winning edge for the big prize.

Whilst it is not to say that anyone is trying any the less on the more “normal” days of racing, but the usual Saturday and mid-week races are just less pressurised.

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T MEANS that if only the big days are on TV, viewers will just have a greater chance of seeing an injured horse. However, watching the sport this autumn, thankfully, viewers will have seen few bad injuries.

Perhaps this could lead to a greater realisation that this is actually how day-to-day racing operates?

The published statistics by the BHA from 2018 show that, of the 93,004 runners that year, 202 horses were fatally injured, 0.2 per cent of runners. Of course, any number above zero is too high, but a fatality level less than one per cent is probably far lower than many would have believed.

The focus of broad coverage on just the big days leads to an unbalanced view of the sport. Showing the “lower grade” days is no less the spectacle and, if properly managed, with well-produced and good stories told, will still give enjoyment and entertainment to the casual and regular viewer. It might even just entice a few into ownership as viewers can see that owning racehorses is an achieveable goal, is not just the preserve of the uber-wealthy playing at the top, that ownership can be fun lower down the grades.

Furthermore, the mystic, magic and attraction that racing offers, which had perhaps started to dwindle with the sport seen just as a betting format or a drinking day out, will return.

ITV Racing succeeds in doing a difficult job well, and with a simplicity that lets the sport do the talking. The recent post-Christmas Tier 4 coverage, with the presenters based at Kempton behind podiums, away from the action, and without resort to glitzy studios or pre-recorded features, proves that gadgets and drum rolls are not required for a talented team who knows its job.

With a deal done between ITV and the Racecourse Media Group until 2023, it seems everyone is a winner, the TV company seemingly confident in its commercial ability of racing to enable it to pay off its investment.

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Ground-breaking US ruling

After an eight-year campaign, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act becomes law ON DECEMBER 27, President Donald Trump signed into US law the Horseracing Integrity and Safety (HISA) Safety Act, concluding an eight-year campaign to end racing’s medication abuses in the country.

The ruling represents the biggest single change to the operation and management of US horseracing for a generation.

The HISA includes a ban on race-day doping, and the establishment of a uniform national standard for rules and regulations for US horseracing to be overseen by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

It is landmark legislation that will directly

address the safety and welfare of racehorses and the integrity of the sport through better anti-doping measures and racetrack safety standards.

The doping of US racehorses has been the subject of Congressional attention over the past five years. The focus was brought to a head last spring with the indictment of over 30 trainers and veterinarians, including Jason Servis, the trainer of Maximum Security, winner of the inaugural running of the Saudi Cup in 2020 and three Grade 1s in the US, for operating a well-planned and operational doping ring.

The new bill has the support of major US welfare groups as well as key players in the horseracing industry, including all three Triple Crown racetracks as well as the Coalition for Horse Racing Integrity (CHRI), which includes groups such as The Jockey Club, the Breeders’ Cup, Keeneland Racecourse, the New York Racing Association, The Stronach Group and the Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association The patchwork of regulations across the US’s 38 racing jurisdictions has undermined the public’s confidence in horseracing, The HISA has the potential to radically change the operation of US racing, training and racehorse management

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the news threatened the integrity of competition, and endangered human and equine athletes.

Enactment of the HISA will address these problems head-on, while helping to enhance the perception of the industry.

“We don’t allow doping of athletes in cycling, baseball, and other professional sports,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action.

“It should be a no-brainer to forbid this form of cheating and dangerous treatment of horses in American thoroughbred racing.”

Allondra Stevens, founder of Horses For Life Foundation, said: “2020 was a horrific wake-up call for US horseracing. The year was plagued by an alarming number of catastrophic racehorse deaths and the federal indictment of nearly 30 individuals involved in illegal horse doping rings.

“Passing HISA into federal law is the necessary reform the sport so desperately needs, one that will protect the horses, the jockeys, and the industry itself.”

US Congressman Andy Barr: pushed for the Act

“With today’s passage of HISA in Congress we are in the final stretch of achieving the most transformational and consequential reform of the thoroughbred horseracing industry since enactment of the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978,” said Congressman Andy Barr, who with Paul Tonko took the bill to Congress.

“For almost a decade, I have worked with industry stakeholders and my Congressional colleagues to build consensus around reforms that will protect equine athletes and strengthen confidence and international competitiveness in the sport.

“I am proud to champion this historic, bipartisan legislation with Congressman Paul Tonko and Leader McConnell.”

Tonko added: “Our Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act puts the well-being of our horses and jockeys front and center, delivering commonsense medication reforms and track safety standards that will restore public trust and confidence.”

Key Provisions THE HISA will create the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, which will be a private, independent, self-regulatory and non-profit organisation.

The horseracing industry will finance its establishment and administration. The authority will be responsible for developing and implementing a horseracing anti-doping and medication control programme, as well as a racetrack safety programme.

The Authority

The Authority will be governed by a nine-member board of directors.

Five of those members will be independent of the industry, and four members will be experts from the following sectors: owners and breeders, trainers, racetracks,

veterinarians, state racing commissions, and jockeys.

To assist with the development of these programmes, the board will establish an anti-doping and medication control standing committee and a racetrack safety standing committee, both controlled by independent members outside the industry.

Anti-Doping Programme

The Authority will be required to create a set of uniform anti-doping rules, including lists of prohibited substances and methods, protocols around the administration of permitted substances, and laboratory testing accreditation and protocols.

The list of permitted and prohibited substances and practices will be developed after taking into consideration

international anti-doping standards and veterinarian ethical standards, alongside consultations with racing industry representatives and the public.

The new nationwide rules would replace the current patchwork of regulatory systems that govern horseracing’s 38 separate racing jurisdictions.

For services related to enforcement, the Authority will enter into an agreement with the US Anti-Doping Agency, which has a proven track record of conducting anti-doping and medication control activities for all US Olympic athletes.

Its approach can be adapted to horseracing.

Racetrack Safety Programme

The Authority will also create

a racetrack safety programme, consisting of a uniform set of training and racing safety standards and protocols.

This will include racetrack design and maintenance, oversight of human and equine injury reporting and prevention, as well as the procedures for undertaking investigations at racetrack and non-racetrack facilities related to safety violations.

The Authority will create an accreditation programme to ensure that racetracks comply with these safety procedures, and, in order, to continue to gather information on racetrack safety, the Authority will establish a nationwide database of racehorse safety, performance, health, and injury information within one year of the establishment of the programme.

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david thompson RIP

David Thompson April 4,1937-January 4, 2021

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AVID THOMPSON CBE, leading businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, ownerbreeder, and owner of Cheveley Park Stud, has died of at the age of 84. He suffered a short illness.

He and his wife Patricia purchased Cheveley Park Stud, Newmarket, in 1975 and quickly established the stud as a major power on the Flat – themselves becoming pre-eminent owner-breeders and the farm the largest privately-owned stud and stallion operation in the UK. Just two years after the farm’s purchase the couple stood their first stallion – their own Gimcrack Stakes winner Music Boy. From just a first crop of 17 foals, he became his generation’s leading first-season sire.

Patricia Thompson writes on the farm’s website: “In 1975 my husband, David, and I purchased Cheveley Park Stud then in receivership, having dwindled down to 270 acres [from over 7,000]. The property, at the time, was not at its best but we could see our dream. Now, as Newmarket’s oldest stud farm, Cheveley Park Stud has taken on a new lease of life.

“It is a flourishing stud that embraces every element of the wonderful sport of racing. We are proud to stand five stallions, own 140 broodmares, of which some 60 are stakes winners and/or stakes producers, consign quality drafts at the sales, and race one of the biggest strings in Britain and Ireland with more than 120 horses in training with 18 trainers.”

David Thompson was one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs and businesmen of the 1970s and 1980 as co-founder of Hillsdown Holdings, one of the UK’s largest food businesses.

Thompson had previously worked as a

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meat trader at Smithfield Market and helped his father float his business in 1966.

He met lawyer Harry Solomon in the 1960s and he soon became Thompson’s legal counsel advising him as he purchased interests in other companies.

In the mid-1970s, they formed Hillsdown to manage their investments in such fields as timber, stationery, and securities more efficiently. They set out to “wring value from businesses where others saw none” and in doing so Thompson and Solomon built a company that has had a significant impact on food production in the UK. Hillsdown Holdings’ growth acquisitions began in earnest in 1981, when the company made its first big purchase of Lockwoods Foods Limited, a bankrupt cannery bought for £3.5 million.

The following year Imperial Group’s poultry, egg, and animal-feed businesses was bought for £39 million. In 1985, Hillsdown Holdings made 42 acquisitions in 20 months, stunning London’s financial community with the pace of its activity.

By then Hillsdown had become the largest British producer of eggs, poultry, meat, and canned goods, and was second in the timber business.

In 1986, Hillsdown strengthened its ability to help develop small companies on a financial basis by launching the Hillsdown Investment Trust, it acquired Fairview New Homes, one of the largest homebuilders in south-east England, and started to expand beyond British shores with its purchase of Maple Leaf Mills, a Canadian food conglomerate, for £169 million.

In early 1989, Thompson sold his final 14.5 per cent share in the company for £154 million. Thompson had first stepped down from an active role in the company in April 1987, when he sold half his 30 per cent share. Solomon remained in charge of

Hillsdown following Thompson’s retirement and, in June 1989, the company was renamed Premier Foods.

It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Cheveley Park has been synonymous sine the 1980s with breeding and racing high-quality fillies to retire back to the farm’s broodmare band.

The Thompsons have enjoyed top level and Classic success at home and abroad with 1,000 Guineas heroine Russian Rhythm and Prix de Diane (G1) winner Confidential Lady.

The homebred filly Queen’s Trust won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita in 2016, while Persuasive won the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Champion’s Day in 2017.

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THER CLASSY FILLIES raced by the couple include performers such as Echelon, Red Bloom, Integral, as well as the Fillies’ Mile and Coronation Stakes heroine

Nannina.

In recent years, the homebred stallion Pivotal has very much been the stud’s flagbearer. Winner of the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) and the King’s Stand Stakes (G2) for trainer Sir Mark Prescott, he is the sire of 241 stakes performers, 86 Group winners and 32 Group 1 winners, the most recent being Geal Shiel, winner of the British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot.

As a broodmare sire he has also excelled – his daughters have produced such luminaries as Cracksman, Love, Magical, Main Sequence, Advertise, Golden Horde, Rhododendron and, in Japan, Mikki Rocket.

The 28-year-old sire is now retired. He is

by Polar Falcon, who also stood at Cheveley having been purchased as a three-year-old

david thompson RIP

Success at the Cheltenham Festival 2020 with the unbeaten Envoi Allen: right, Patricia Thompson with son Richard Thompson and grandson George

by the Thompsons and for whom he won the Lockinge Stakes (G2).

Another horse also bought in training by the Thompsons was from the alternative end of the distance spectrum – Grand National winner Party Politics. He was purchased from David Stoddart shortly before the Aintree triumph in 1992.

Recently the couple’s interest in owning jump horses has been reignited, and the progress made by Envoi Allen, the unbeaten Grade 1 and Cheltenham Festival Ballymore Novice Hurdle winner, has been a highlight.

In the red, white and blue colours, Ballyadam won a Grade 1 in November, while A Plus Tard gained top-level success in the Savills Chase (G1) at Leopardstown over Christmas, setting himself up for a tilt at the Cheltenham Gold Cup. In December, Cheveley Park purchased the winning point-to-pointers Grangeclare West and Guilly Billy at the Tattersalls Cheltenham December (Newmarket) Sale for £430,000 and £310,000.

Cheveley Park Stud’s managing director, Chris Richardson, said to the Racing Post: “David Thompson was a very generous,

Pivotal wins the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) in 1996

meticulous, sometimes unpredictable man, who always had a certain charm. He inspired everyone with his insatiable enthusiasm for business which, thankfully, included a love of racing and breeding, alongside his wife, Patricia and their family.

“He had tremendous foresight and would often ask a question, knowing full well the

answer. I always tried to be prepared, as one never knew when the thrill and challenge of another equine adventure would catch his imagination. His latest venture into NH racing proved a huge success and gave him so much pleasure.

“DBT’s recent visit to the Cheltenham Sale held in Newmarket, and to the stud, gave him and all here, so much joy. He certainly enriched the lives of all those he met and who knew him. He will be much missed.”

The Thompson Family Charitable Trust has become one of the largest charitable foundations in the UK, having already donated over £70 million to a wide variety of medical, educational, social, artistic and other charities, whilst maintaining an endowment for future donations of more than £100 million The Trust is also the largest donor to Haileybury UK, Thompson’s Alma Mater, donating around £4m in recent years.

The Thompsons were awarded the CBE jointly for their charitable work.

As well as his wife, Thompson is survived by three children, Richard, Rosalind and Katie, and seven grandchildren.

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ESPITE THE MANY restrictions that we have all had to get used to in this new COVID-19 world, stud farms across Europe are in full preparation for the breeding season with foal watch well underway. Watchful eyes are cast over the heavily pregnant mares as breeders eagerly await this year’s crop of superstars.

All of this has only been possible due to the hard work of everyone in the bloodstock world. Whether it has been industry bodies working in conjunction with governments to keep racing and breeding open for business, or the excellent work and dedication of stud and stable staff – we should be proud of the collective effort from the whole industry.

Trainers, owners, breeders, stable and stud staff have all had to comply with all of the rules and regulations necessary to keep people safe and well. With all of this to take on board there is no doubt that 2020 was a challenging year for so many people in so many ways.

COVID-19 has provided many unforeseen challenges for the entire bloodstock business, but all around the world bloodstock professionals have banded together to come up with creative and effective solutions in order to keep the show on the road.

One of the greatest examples of this is the huge leap forward that has been made in respect of digital marketing and social media for the bloodstock industry.

In the past 12 months we have seen sales companies adapt to the new landscape of online sales with both enthusiasm and inventiveness.

The government-imposed COVID-19 restrictions resulted in a number of successful sales taking place completely digitially, such as the successful Goff’s Autumn Yearling Sale.

There has also been an adoption of online bidding at actual physical sales by auction houses worldwide thereby allowing bidders to take part in the buying process, no matter their location or the travel restrictions in place. This is something which has been a huge step forward for the industry and definitely a benefit – as they say necessity is the mother of invention!

There has also been a huge improvement in vendor-produced photos and videos and, wearing my bloodstock agent’s hat, this is something of which I am very much in favour.

It makes the job so much easier if a consignor has produced professional and well-taken photos or videos. We can show these to any clients unable to attend sales, and can use them as a sales tool to help our short lists.

That said, there is no point putting up bad photos or videos, but the standard has dramatically improved and this has really assisted our job – I wholeheartedly endorse this move and encourage vendors to keep up the trend.

This month has also seen the successful ITM Irish Stallion Trail move online and become the ITM Irish Stallion Showcase 2021.

It is showcasing over 20 Irish stud farms which stand world-leading

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The Irish Stallion Trail has moved online for 2021

stallions, giving everybody a chance to get behind the scenes, access the stallions and to see the beautiful farms where they are based – and all without having to leave the comfort of their own homes.

This virtual showcase is all over social media and is getting a great response so far. It also includes interviews and online forums about the breeding industry in Ireland and the amazing stallions based in the Emerald Isle.

It is a great way to promote stallions in the midst of a lockdown and reveals the benefits to the industry for having embraced social media platforms. ITM is to be highly commended for the great work that it has put into this showcase.

Thoroughbred Tales is another social media initiative that has gone from strength to strength during lockdown and a great wide variety of bloodstock and racing industry professionals have been involved.

Trainer Fergal O’Brien, Ferdlant Stud and Australia-based Irish vet Eoin Kelly have all used the account to promote their businesses and show people behind the scenes.

Thoroughbred Tales now reaches a wide cross-section of society with almost 8,500 followers on the Twitter platform alone and, hopefully, a lot more to come.

This spring, the Thoroughbred Tales team is launching a competition on Twitter called #FoalPhotos2021 to be run in conjunction with Weatherbys and Thoroughbred Advertising and there are three amazing prizes on offer for the best foal photos of the 2021 season.

Each of the three winners will receive a complete set of Weatherbys publications for the year, as well as a copy of the Thoroughbred Business Guide – something no breeder should be without! So get the cameras out and get snapping those gorgeous new arrivals – the foals of 2021.

There is no doubt that the past 12 months have been challenging and that there are still some difficult times ahead. The world still has a long way to go to recover from this virus, but there has definitely been some resulting benefits. We can start 2021 with hope and positivity of a strong bloodstock industry working together to overcome our issues with ingenuity and creativity.

New in 2021

ROMANISED

DUAL GROUP 1 & CLASSIC WINNER IN IRELAND & IN FRANCE Group performer at 2, Classic winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas Gr.1 at 3, Impressive victor of the coveted Prix Jacques le Marois Gr.1 at 4.

By Holy Roman Emperor out of a full sister to Gr.1 performer Sights On Gold, and a three-part brother to multiple Gr.1 winner & Champion Designs On Rome.

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AL WUKAIR

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

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

Sea The Stars’ fastest Gr.1 winner, Chantilly racecourse track record holder over the mile

1st 3-year-olds in 2021

Proven sires

SHALAA

OLYMPIC GLORY

TORONADO

Invincible Spirit’s best 2-year-old performer Ever. Sire of 5 Stakes performers from his first crop.

Sire of dual Gr.1 winner WATCH ME & Group winning 2-year-old ETONIAN. One of the best values in Europe in 2021.

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

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Along the right lines Since 1989, our bloodlines have been a proven source of Group 1 performers and influential sires

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Hurricane Run

Lope de Vega

bred by Gestüt Ammerland

bred by Gestüt Ammerland

Aunt Pearl

Lope de Vega

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Matauri Pearl

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nh racing

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Main picture and inset, Frodon, a son of the late Nickname, gallops to an unexpected Grade 1 King George VI Chase victory under regular jockey Bryony Frost, and, bottom inset, Bravemansgame takes the Grade 1 Challow Hurdle.

He is out of Genifique, a mare by Nickname

RODON’S THRILLING all-theway success in the King George at Kempton provided not only a Christmas racing highlight for jockey Bryony Frost and racing fans but served as a reminder of how great a loss his sire Nickname’s early death was to NH breeding.

French breeder Philippe Gasdoue sent his homebred Country Reel filly Miss Country, a winner over hurdles on her final start at three, to Nickname for her first covering in what was the young stallion’s third and final season at stud. The resulting foal was Frodon, now a nine-year-old, and the best of Miss Country’s four foals to run so far.

She also has a four-year-old Great Pretender gelding named Paolo, and he made a winning debut over hurdles at Fontainebleu, exactly a month before

Frodon nicked it The son of Nickname stole Kempton’s Christmas highlight, and the late French sire gained further honours in the New Year period as a Grade 1-winning damsire, writes Aisling Crowe 22

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Nickname sadly stood for just three seasons at Haras de Victot, a consequence of both his untimely death at 12 and his unusual career trajectory for a NH stallion who raced in Ireland.

He was the best son of Lost World, a Group 1-winning two-year-old by Last Tycoon, who is also the sire of Nadiya De La Vega, Tatenen and Free World.

Bred by Sylvie Wildenstein, Nickname made his debut over hurdles at three and won the Grade 3 Prix General de SaintDidier that season, adding the Grade 1 Prix Alain Du Breuil-Course des Haies d’Ete des Quatre Ans the following season.

He reappeared at five, no longer under the Wildenstein silks, and won the Grade 2 Prix Leon Rambaud for his new owner Antoine Van De Beuque.

He changed hands once more, this time to Claudia Jungo, and moved to Ireland and the yard of Martin Brassil, who also trained that season’s Grand National winner Numbersixvalverde.

Nickname was a rare specimen in Irish NH racing as an entire horse, but that did not prevent him becoming a high-class 2m chaser.

His Irish career spanned three seasons and 15 races – in 14 completed starts he was first or second 12 times with the highlight of his Irish sojourn his triumph in the Grade 1 2m1f chase at Leopardstown’s Christmas Festival. He also won back-to-back renewals of the Normans Grove Chase, the Fortria Chase, the Newlands Chase, the Tied Cottage Chase andt he Paddy Fitzpatrick Memorial Novice Chase (all Grade 2s), as well as the Grade 3 An Uaimh Chase.

Nickname returned to France for his stud career and he left 185 foals behind from those three seasons at stud. As well as Frodon, now a dual Grade 1 winner, he is the sire of Grade 1 Ascot Chase winner Cyrname, who is a stable companion of Frodon.

The exploits of the early crops by his incredibly promising younger half-brother, No Risk At All, who was a Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed on the Flat, combined with the talent his own offspring undoubtedly possess, makes his early death in 2011 appear a greater loss with each passing year.

Many of Nickname’s daughters were classy racemares, which should help him remain in pedigrees for years to come.

One of the best of them, the multiple Grade 3 winner Corscia, should have her

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nh racing first runner later this year. Her first foal, a three-year-old filly named Dee Day One, is

by Saint Des Saints.

However, Nickname has already made his mark in that sphere – he is broodmare sire of Bravemansgame, who won the Challow Hurdle (G1) at Newbury on his fourth start over timber. A point-to-point winner and a £3740,000 Tom Malone/ Pauk Nicholls Tattersalls Cheltenham Sale purchase in March 2019 from Monbeg Stables (previously bought as a store horse at the Derby Sale), he only made his debut over hurdles in October. His future must be a exciting for owners John Dance and Bryan Drew.

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AINT DES SAINTS’ position as one of the very best living NH sires is securely cemented, but he is another French sire – this time one that is alive – that is a stand out as a broodmare

sire, too.

The daughters of Haras d’Etreham’s gorgeous black son of Cadoudal have produced six individual Grade 1 winners with the latest of them coming at Leopardstown over Christmas.

Saint des Saints has 48 registered yearlings with 59 two-year-olds and 68 three-year-olds Appreciate It, who hails from the final crop of Jeremy, won the Future Champions’ Novice Hurdle for Willie Mullins and Paul Townend, and was bred in Ireland by Barmakin Limited and South Lodge Stud out of Sainte Baronnes.

She is also the dam of the Grade 2 Kennel Gate Novices’ Hurdle second Danny Kirwan (Scorpion) and her Soldier Of Fortune four-year-old Saphir Blue Star is in training with François Nicolle.

Her Jukebox Jury yearling made €70,000 to Richard Rohan of Ballincurrig House Stud at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale in December and she was covered by

Nube Negra: bred by Spanish breeder Cuadra Internorte takes the Desert Orchid Chase (G2)

Westerner last year.

Second to stable companion Ferny Hollow in last season’s Champion Bumper, Appreciate It won the Grade 2 bumper at the Dublin Racing Festival and was third to Envoi Allen, another star with Saint Des Saints as his broodmare sire, in a four-yearold maiden point-to-point at Ballinaboola when trained by Pat Doyle. He had bought him from Walter Connors’ Sladoo farm for €60,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale.

Cheveley Park Stud’s unbeaten superstar Envoi Allen, winner of November’s Grade 1 Drinmore Chase to add a fifth top level triumph to his haul, is not the only giant of the game with Haras d’Etreham’s NH kingpin as his broodmare sire.

The brilliant Douvan was probably the first great horse to advertise what Saint Des Saints’ daughters can achieve in the breeding paddocks.

Saint Des Saints is also the damsire of Grade 1 Grande Course des Haies des Tres Ans winner De Bon Couer and Adrien Du Pont, who won the Grade 1 Finale Juvenile Hurdle.

Last season’s Grade 3 County Hurdle winner Saint Roi was second in the Grade 1 Morgiana Hurdle this season and is another with Saint Des Saints as his broodmare sire.

As is Figuero who won the Grande Steeple-chase des Quatres Ans last season and was second in the Grade 1 Grand Steeple-chase de Paris. Both horses are Grade 3 winners this season.

Now 21, Saint Des Saints is standing for €15,000, the fifth year in a row he has stood at this fee and a reflection of his status.

Last season he covered 78 mares, the same number as in 2019. Saint des Saints has 48 registered yearlings with 59 two-yearolds and 68 three-year-olds, who are sure to bring high prices if they find themselves in a store sale in the summer.

Spain joins the Christmas party

The novelty factor of a Spanish suffix attached to a graded winner in England is negated by the obvious talent that Nube Negra, winner of the Grade 2 Desert Orchid Chase for the Skelton brothers and owner Tom Spraggett, possesses.

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A clean round of jumping by Shan Blue (Shantou) stretches The Big Breakaway’s chasing technique at the last in the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase (G1)

His victory was a little overshadowned by his beating of Altior, but Nube Negra has enough of his own ability for the result to stand inspection.

Nube Negra’s birth in Spain is also tempered by his French heritage, but his defeat of Altior had those not familiar with the Spanish bloodstock scene frantically searching for information.

He is by Dink, who was champion threeyear-old miler of Spain with victory in the Premio Cimera, the Spanish 2000 Guineas, and was later successful over jumps.

Dink is a very well-bred son of Poliglote and a half-brother to the dam of Listed Seymour Cup winner Sysmo. His Woodman dam comes from one of the greatest female families in the stud book – her second dam is a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix SaintAlary winner Comtesse De Loir and to Santa Quilla, who is the dam of Pasadoble, herself the dam of the legendary Miesque.

Dink stands at Haras de la Bareliere and for 2020 his fee was €1,500.

Nube Negra is out of the Highest Honor mare Manly Dream, who was bred in France and purchased as a yearling for €18,000 at Arqana by Stamina Turf. She raced in Spain and France and was successful over 1m2f on the Flat in Madrid.

A previous runner-up in the Grade 1 Henry VII Novice Chase, Nube Negra became only the second horse to lower the colours of Altior. After the victory jockey Harry Skelton explained that it was through a Spanish showjumping friend of his Olympic champion father Nick that Nube Negra was purchased from the Flat in Spain.

Tom Spraggett, who owns Nube Negra, subsequently bought his four-year-old full-brother Noche Negra and he has joined his elder brother, while Skelton also acquired their two-year-old full-brother.

Three in a row for Sharjah in the Matheson Hurdle (G1). The son of Doctor Dino was runner-up in last year’s Champion Hurdle. Can he go one place better this March?

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CLASSIC WINNER, CLASSIC SIRE

MAKE BELIEVE. MISHRIFF

€15,000

Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club Gr.2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano LR Newmarket Stakes

124+

Leading Second Crop Sires in Europe in 2020 Sire

Group Winners

Wnr/Rnrs*

by prize money

Total €

1

Night Of Thunder

5

44%

1,476,697

2 3

MAKE BELIEVE Gleneagles

3 2

47% 37%

1,304,104 1,048,239

4

Golden Horn

0

41%

970,312

5

Muhaarar

2

41%

765,728

* in GB & Ireland • Statistics by stallionguide.com

ROSE OF KILDARE

Gr.3 Musidora Stakes Gr.3 Oh So Sharp Stakes Gr.3 Firth Of Clyde Stakes

114

TAMMANI

LR Prix Isonomy 2nd Gr.3 Prix Daphnis

111

BALLYLINCH STUD

BELIEVE IN LOVE Gr.3 Prix Belle de Nuit 3rd Gr.2 Park Hill Stakes

115

OCEAN FANTASY

Gr.3 Preis der Winterkönigin 3rd Gr.2 Diana-Trial German Champion 2yo Filly

103

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nh racing Dam Manly Dream is in-foal to Dink again and currently resides at Yeguada Torreduero, but she is entered in the Arqana February Sale where the 14-year-old is sure to spark plenty of interest from NH breeders across Europe.

Incidentially, although there was a Spanish-bred NH graded race winner over the Christmas period, there was not one GB-bred winner of a NH stakes race and the only British-based stallion to be successful was Nathaniel.

Retired stars sire Grade 1-winning novices

The retirement of Shantou and Flemensfirth in 2020 brought an end to an era in NH breeding – they were the last sons of the great dual Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Alleged at stud.

The nature of the game means that both stallions will be represented at the highest level for another decade to come and with 37 yearlings from the final crop of Flemensfirth, and Shantou covering a handful of mares in 2020, there will surely be more Grade 1 winners to join the ranks of Imperial Call, Flemenstar, Tidal Bay, The Storyteller and Briar Hill.

The paternal half-siblings were born just a year apart, with Flemensfirth the elder of the two, and the Christmas meetings on both sides of the Irish Sea showcased the ability of the Group 1 winners’ best performers with both the sires recording Grade 1 novice chase wins on St Stephen’s Day. First up was Burgage Stud’s Shantou whose Shan Blue put in an exhibition of jumping to claim Kempton’s Grade 1 Kauto Star Novices’ Chase for the Skelton brothers and owner Colm Donlon.

Now a seven-year-old, Shan Blue is an out and out product of the Conolly family’s Burgage Stud as he is out of a mare by the enormously influential Bob Back, Shantou’s predecessor at the Leighlinbridge-based farm.

Shan Blue was bred by Desmond Amond and consigned by Lorna and Harry Fowler’s Rahinston Stud as a foal at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale 2014 where he made €14,000 to Andy Slattery.

He won his point-to-point on debut at four for Slattery and was next seen in a bumper

at Skelton’s local track Warwick where he finished third behind Chantry House. Second to Shishkin in the Listed Sidney Banks Memorial Novice Hurdle at Huntingdon, he was also third in the Grade 2 Leamington Novices’s Hurdle at Warwick.

Skelton always expected him to excel over fences and he hasn’t disappointed, the sixyear-old gelding unbeaten in three starts.

“I was delighted with his jumping and it is his jumping that won it for him, ultimately it is his jumping that makes him a good horse,” said Skelton. “As a hurdler he was better than average, of course, but not by a great deal. The public wouldn’t have heard of Shan Blue as a hurdler, but I think as a chaser he is significantly better. You perhaps might see him at 3m next time.”

Half an hour later in Limerick, Colreevy won the second Grade 1 of her career, the mare producing a brave comeback after making a hash of the second last to take the Faugheen Novice Chase for Willie and Danny Mullins.

Impressive performance by Shishkin

Bred by the Flynn family of Dungarvan out of the Saddler’s Hall mare Poetic Girl (whose year-younger Presenting gelding January Jets won a 2m1f beginners’ chase for Henry de Bromhead at Leopardstown a day later) Colreevy was retained by her breeders and sent point-to-pointing. Unfortunately, she fell in the mares’ maiden at Lemonfield won by the subsequent Listed bumper and hurdles winner Posh Trish. Colreevy was next seen the following December at Fairyhouse where she won a mares’ bumper.

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HIRD BEHIND SUBSEQUENT Champion Bumper winner and the fellow Mullins-trained Flemensfirth mare Relegate in the Grade 2 mares’ bumper at the Dublin Racing Festival, she won the Grade 3 mares’ bumper at the Punchestown Festival of 2018.

Colreevy did not grace a racecourse then for almost a year, but on her second start at six won the Grade 1 bumper at the Punchestown Festival.

She had four starts over hurdles last season, winning once and placing second behind Minella Melody in a Grade 3 mares’ hurdle at Fairyhouse last January. She has run twice over fences this season and is unbeaten in both starts, looking another top class prospect for her sire as a fine, big scopey mare.

Winning rider Danny Mullins said: “It was a good performance. She was always very good to jump at home from day one, and the aim today was a clear round and hopefully we’d be in the mix down over the last two.

“I knew she’d keep galloping as she is very tough, but not fast — and once Paul [Townend, on Asterion Forlonge] fell, it opened things up. There is a good programme for mares nowadays, and the Flynns will be delighted because they will probably breed from her and she is now a Grade 1 winner in bumpers and over fences.”

Flemensfirth stood his final three seasons at €15,000, while Shantou’s fee was also at its highest for his last three breeding seasons at €10,000.

With the oldest of those crops aged just two in 2021, it is a fair assumption that their best runners are yet to come.

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stallion stats Leading NH sires in Britain and Ireland 2020-21: (by prize-money earned to January , 2021) Stallion

Breeding

Stowaway Flemensfirth Yeats Getaway Shantou Oscar Beneficial Presenting Westerner Jeremy Mahler Milan Gold Well Midnight Legend Fame And Glory Court Cave King’s Theatre Martaline Kayf Tara Kapgarde Shirocco Doyen Kalanisi Arcadio Scorpion Dubai Destination Beat Hollow Saint des Saints Malinas Nathaniel Sulamani Poliglote Dylan Thomas Nickname Born To Sea No Risk At All Ask Sholokhov Saddler Maker Black Sam Bellamy Network Authorized Robin des Champs Mastercraftsman Great Pretender Dark Angel Coastal Path Voix du Nord

Slip Anchor-On Credit (No Pass No Sale) 2001 204 Alleged-Etheldreda (Diesis) 1998 202 Sadler’s Wells-Lyndonville (Top Ville) 2010 221 Monsun-Guernica (Unfuwain) 2011 272 Alleged-Shaima (Shareef Dancer) 1999 136 Sadler’s Wells-Snow Day (Reliance II) 1998 172 Top Ville-Youthful (Green Dancer) 1997 117 Mtoto-D’Azy (Persian Bold) 1997 201 Danehill-Walensee (Troy) 2006 153 Danehill Dancer-Glint In Her Eye (Arazi) 2008 134 Galileo-Rainbow Goddess (Rainbow Quest) 2009 189 Sadler’s Wells-Kithanga (Darshaan) 2004 219 Sadler’s Wells-Floripedes (Top Ville) 2006 159 Night Shift-Myth (Troy) 1998 125 Montjeu-Gryada (Shirley Heights) 2013 206 Sadler’s Wells-Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave) 2004 147 Sadler’s Wells-Regal Beauty (Princely Native) 1997 64 Linamix-Coraline (Sadler’s Wells) 2005 97 Sadler’s Wells-Colorspin (High Top) 2001 137 Garde Royale-Kaprika (Cadoudal) 2004 75 Monsun-So Sedulous (The Minstrel) 2007 164 Sadler’s Wells-Moon Cactus (Kris) 2006 98 Doyoun-Kalamba (Green Dancer) 2002 102 Monsun-Assia (Royal Academy) 2008 136 Montjeu-Ardmelody (Law Society) 2008 157 Kingmambo-Mysterial (Alleged) 2004 54 Sadler’s Wells-Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave) 2003 59 Cadoudal-Chamisene (Pharly) 2003 46 Lomitas-Majoritat (Konigsstuhl) 2006 75 Galileo-Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) 2013 53 Hernando-Soul Dream (Alleged) 2005 71 Sadler’s Wells-Alexandrie (Val de L’Orne) 1998 24 Danehill-Lagrion (Diesis) 2008 80 Lost World-Newness (Simply Great) 2009 6 Invincible Spirit-Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2013 46 My Risk-Newness (Simply Great) 2013 35 Sadler’s Wells-Request (Rainbow Quest) 2011 72 Sadler’s Wells-La Meilleure (Lord Gayle) 2004 69 Sadler’s Wells-Animatrice (Alleged) 2005 34 Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2004 89 Monsun-Note (Reliance II) 2002 51 Montjeu-Funsie ( Saumarez) 2008 59 Garde Royale-Relayeuse (Iron Duke) 2001 68 Danehill Dancer-Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) 2010 63 King’s Theatre-Settler (Darshaan) 2006 42 Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) 2008 27 Halling-Coraline (Sadler’s Wells) 2010 23 Valanour-Dame Edith (Top Ville) 2006 18

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Rnrs

Runs 594 534 653 777 400 480 395 565 454 436 557 597 479 376 528 509 194 247 318 198 393 292 279 382 476 170 164 112 182 145 199 62 232 15 139 84 196 186 97 184 145 154 179 162 112 89 54 57

Courtesy of Weatherbys Wnrs 56 61 48 61 41 40 33 46 38 44 45 42 39 34 45 37 19 37 23 22 31 19 25 25 25 14 16 13 22 19 18 9 16 3 15 11 15 18 9 19 14 16 14 13 13 4 9 5

Wins 79 77 71 74 57 53 44 60 50 58 54 46 63 43 60 52 25 44 31 27 40 31 29 33 29 19 23 17 31 27 24 11 21 4 19 11 22 27 11 25 17 18 23 18 17 7 12 7

Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs SWs 27.45 30.20 21.72 22.43 30.15 23.26 28.21 22.89 24.84 32.84 23.81 19.18 24.53 27.20 21.84 25.17 29.69 38.14 16.79 29.33 18.90 19.39 24.51 18.38 15.92 25.93 27.12 28.26 29.33 35.85 25.35 37.50 20.00 50.00 32.61 31.43 20.83 26.09 26.47 21.35 27.45 27.12 20.59 20.63 30.95 14.81 39.13 27.78

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

£

7 899,712 7 868,007 4 807,026 0 695,234 7 686,952 3 669,213 5 658,959 3 650,977 3 621,869 6 601,394 2 545,167 3 542,054 5 536,970 0 516,780 4 508,213 2 501,547 5 445,283 2 402,400 4 398,159 2 382,684 1 357,687 4 350,006 2 339,555 1 310,532 2 306,725 3 292,741 5 292,209 1 246,184 2 244,972 4 238,766 1 235,751 3 210,830 1 209,547 2 209,072 2 206,525 3 202,270 0 201,334 1 200,871 1 200,477 0 200,007 0 195,381 1 178,424 1 169,322 1 165,533 1 163,251 2 162,674 2 160,661 1 156,413

New for

2021

MOHAATHER Showcasing - Roodeye (Inchinor)

He clearly has many attributes breeders should want to replicate and it is a well-worn cliché that a prospective stallion ticks all the boxes but in the case of - Martin Stevens, Thoroughbred Stallion Guide Mohaather, it would be hard to disagree.

Won a vintage renewal of the Group 1 Sussex Stakes in a faster time than Kingman

His sire’s best son OR: 123 | TF: 129 Also standing Eqtidaar (£5,000),

Fee: £20,000

Muhaarar (£10,000) & Tasleet (£5,000)

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Jan 1st, SLF

stallion stats Leading sires in Europe 2020 (final): (by prize-money earned to December 31, 2020) Stallion

Breeding

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

Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2002 Pivotal-Sichilla (Danehill) 2011 Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) 2006 Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) 2008 Invincible Spirit-Zenda (Zamindar) 2015 Danehill-Rafha (Kris) 2007 Shamardal-Lady Vettori (Vettori) 2011 Cape Cross-Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2010 Giant’s Causeway-Helsinki (Machiavellian) 2005 Noverre-Marie Rheinberg (Surako) 2010 Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2012 Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) 2014 Kendor-Pax Bella (Linamix) 2008 Green Desert-Rafha (Kris) 2003 Polar Falcon-Fearless Revival (Cozzene) 1997 Iffraaj-Balladonia (Primo Dominie) 2012 Galileo-Kind (Danehill) 2013 Mozart-Lady Alexander (Night Shift) 2010 Galileo-Speirbhean (Danehill) 2008 In the Wings-Aiyana (Last Tycoon) 2010 Galileo-Ouija Board (Cape Cross) 2015 Diktat-Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) 2012 Sea The Stars-Sanwa (Monsun0 2015 Danehill-L’On Vite (Secretariat) 2007 Oasis Dream-Arabesque (Zafonic) 2011 Giant’s Causeway-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2006 Linamix-Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) 2013 Danehill Dancer-Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) 2010 Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo) 2016 Dansili-Tantina Distant View) 2013 Invincible Spirit-L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) 2015 Galileo-Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) 2013 Hat Trick-Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 Exceed And Excel-Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) 2013 Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) 2004 Danehill-Patrona (Lomond) 2005 Danehill-Hasili (Kahyasi) 2010 Anabaa-Born Gold (Blushing Groom) 2015 Montjeu-Funsie (Saumarez) 2007 Makfi-Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) 2016 Galileo-Park Express (Ahonoora) 2009 Dubawi-Dhelaal (Green Desert) 2011 Dubawi-Bright Tiara (Chief’s Crown) 2012 Invincible Spirit-Laramie (Gulch) 2008 Galileo-Impressionnante (Danehill) 2014 In the Wings-Island Race (Common Grounds) 2008 Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 Invincible Spirit-Cozy Maria (Cozzene) 2011

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Rnrs

Runs

236 268 233 337 190 404 292 211 154 200 322 230 185 222 104 140 178 281 148 67 155 150 114 178 213 230 194 201 107 197 158 169 194 117 204 206 118 116 81 77 144 122 165 168 150 153 156 181

823 1291 767 1747 626 2083 1267 764 709 828 1610 912 1130 1090 477 616 567 1647 626 266 574 844 442 1000 1104 1146 1213 904 434 940 900 726 1027 683 1122 1088 591 653 349 375 542 750 970 879 636 705 651 1133

Wnrs 96 110 98 132 87 152 118 79 62 78 119 85 76 94 37 42 72 103 48 20 55 55 46 82 85 80 66 64 52 68 68 63 60 49 78 81 42 44 25 33 44 53 64 44 48 68 59 76

Wins 131 169 132 192 111 208 173 112 97 122 171 112 120 127 61 61 105 154 72 27 83 90 59 110 121 129 99 97 74 107 100 92 85 86 112 119 58 71 35 50 61 82 97 59 64 107 76 120

Wnrs/Rnrs 40.67 41.04 42.06 39.16 45.78 37.62 40.41 37.44 40.25 39.00 36.95 36.95 41.08 42.34 35.57 30.00 40.44 36.65 32.43 29.85 35.48 36.66 40.35 46.06 39.90 34.78 34.02 31.84 48.59 34.51 43.03 37.27 30.92 41.88 38.23 39.32 35.59 37.93 30.86 42.85 30.55 43.44 38.78 26.19 32.00 44.44 37.82 41.98

SWnrs SWs 30 11 16 12 14 11 11 15 14 9 5 9 7 7 5 8 11 4 9 4 8 3 8 4 4 6 0 5 9 3 3 5 2 4 4 4 6 4 2 3 7 1 4 3 4 11 4 1

£

37 6,387,491 12 4,566,486 25 3,209,987 15 2,775,970 18 2,723,263 15 2,719,869 14 2,634,128 20 2,584,119 19 2,392,689 11 2,325,670 5 2,301,149 15 2,085,851 9 1,943,449 14 1,927,073 7 1,908,486 10 1,779,239 13 1,703,682 5 1,655,241 15 1,640,764 4 1,601,904 9 1,551,046 5 1,470,583 10 1,447,986 4 1,438,156 5 1,432,519 6 1,417,978 0 1,397,489 10 1,356,491 10 1,343,943 4 1,339,101 6 1,324,060 7 1,304,532 2 1,302,853 10 1,288,355 4 1,231,765 4 1,227,232 7 1,213,431 5 1,193,186 4 1,179,380 5 1,153,537 9 1,138,578 1 1,119,460 4 1,110,562 5 1,101,915 5 1,076,048 12 1,073,724 4 1,065,855 1 1,064,990

Masar: Royal Ascot juvenile

and the third Derby winner in the Urban Sea family.

An all-star first book: four G1 winners, the dams of two more and sisters of 25 G1 winners. It’s a great year to use him.

ÂŁ14,000 Oct 1, SLF Dalham Hall Stud, UK

stallion stats Leading sires of two-year-olds in Europe 2020 (final): (by prize-money earned to Deember 31, 2020) Stallion

Breeding

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

Danehill-Rafha (Kris) 2007 119 Acclamation-Lucina (Machiavellian) 2017 101 Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2002 64 Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2012 90 Pivotal-Sichilla (Danehill) 2011 67 Mozart-Lady Alexander (Night Shift) 2010 75 Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) 2006 72 Invincible Spirit-Laramie (Gulch) 2008 38 Shamardal-Lady Vettori (Vettori) 2011 64 Kodiac-Lady Lucia (Royal Applause) 2017 64 Kendargent-Gooseley Chope (Indian Rocket) 2017 37 Invincible Spirit-Taranto (Machiavellian) 2017 64 Oasis Dream-Arabesque (Zafonic) 2011 66 Acclamation-Midnight Angel Machiavellian) 2008 81 Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 55 Lope de Vega-Danaskaya (Danehill) 2017 51 Danehill-L’On Vite (Secretariat) 2007 47 Choisir-Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) 2011 40 Street Cry-Al Anood (Danehill) 2017 37 Kodiac-Hawattef (Mujtahid) 2017 50 Galileo-Kind (Danehill) 2013 70 Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) 2004 60 Dark Angel-Alikhlas (Lahib) 2016 68 Kyllachy-Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad) 2017 80 Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) 2014 59 Iffraaj-Balladonia (Primo Dominie) 2012 42 Dansili-Tantina (Distant View) 2013 42 Oasis Dream-Frappe (Inchinor) 2013 28 Galileo-Park Express (Ahonoora) 2009 31 Dubawi-Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar) 2017 38 Giant’s Causeway-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2006 63 Tamayuz-Mona Em (Catrail) 2013 30 High Chaparral-Wana Do (Grand Slam) 2015 41 Invincible Spirit-Zenda (Zamindar) 2015 64 Galileo-Danzigaway (Danehill) 2016 17 Invincible Spirit-L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) 2015 47 Invincible Spirit-Ghurra (War Chant) 2017 59 Exceed And Excel-Bergamask (Kingmambo) 2017 46 Kodiac-Esuvia (Whipper) 2017 37 Clodovil-Three Days In May (Cadeaux Genereux) 2015 10 Exceed And Excel-Accessories (Singspiel) 2013 54 Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo) 2016 32 Kendor-Pax Bella (Linamix) 2008 39 Oasis Dream-Tahrir (Linamix) 2016 58 Galileo-Impressionnante (Danehill) 2014 39 Hat Trick-Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 55 Danehill Dancer-Sheezalady (Zafonic) 2011 51 Galileo-Chintz (Danehill Dancer) 2017 51

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Rnrs

Runs 454 447 154 304 187 299 159 142 144 269 147 203 246 277 181 171 199 162 120 204 150 209 244 275 134 96 131 100 83 110 184 133 126 146 61 198 159 225 154 47 194 95 117 161 94 205 186 155

Wnrs

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49 55 28 36 24 20 27 9 12 23 15 19 26 29 20 13 16 16 10 17 24 20 19 22 17 17 13 12 7 12 19 11 16 27 6 17 18 12 13 6 16 13 12 20 10 15 14 14

68 79 35 44 36 32 35 13 17 34 23 23 34 33 22 21 19 20 18 25 26 25 29 27 21 23 22 18 11 18 19 17 21 31 10 24 20 17 19 12 19 17 15 24 13 15 16 15

Wnrs/Rnrs 41.17 54.45 43.75 40.00 35.82 26.66 37.50 23.68 18.75 35.93 40.54 29.68 39.39 35.80 36.36 25.49 34.04 40.00 27.02 34.00 34.28 33.33 27.94 27.50 28.81 40.47 30.95 42.85 22.58 31.57 30.15 36.66 39.02 42.18 35.29 36.17 30.50 26.08 35.13 60.00 29.62 40.62 30.76 34.48 25.64 27.27 27.45 27.45

SWnrs SWs

£

9 13 1,195,769 4 5 1,047,484 4 5 816,531 4 4 767,173 3 3 745,738 4 5 598,435 4 4 507,034 2 3 504,276 4 4 495,026 0 0 444,480 2 3 437,898 2 2 405,193 2 2 395,195 2 2 381,269 1 1 375,781 4 6 372,791 0 0 363,803 2 2 360,158 5 6 358,263 1 1 353,342 1 1 345,343 2 2 343,909 3 4 335,690 1 2 325,338 1 2 314,590 1 2 312,506 2 3 303,575 2 4 300,090 2 3 296,385 2 3 291,829 0 0 287,841 2 3 282,910 1 2 281,027 1 1 265,411 1 2 263,141 1 1 261,884 0 0 261,685 0 0 258,490 1 1 255,109 2 6 254,037 0 0 250,663 1 1 250,120 2 2 248,507 1 1 247,382 1 1 233,926 0 0 233,489 0 0 232,748 1 1 231,697

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By the statistical freak Farhh - 15% SW to runners Out of a Shamardal mare from the Gr.1 family of the brilliant Benbatl.

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Far Above

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My Dream Boat

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Brexit... exchange rates...

COVID.... Maktoum influence

Jocelyn de Moubray looks to the future and assesses the influence of the above on the prospects for the European bloodstock sales companies in 2021 36

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As we went to press there is still much unknown as regards the influence Brexit will have on the movement of horses between England, Ireland and the European continent, but one thing is likely to be certain is that it will be more expensive and more time consuming with possible isolation periods required, border inspections and health certificates

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OR ONCE IT seems most unlikely that European bloodstock sales in 2021 will resemble those of the previous year.

COVID-19 will continue to disrupt the movement of people and horses, but now there is a vaccination programme underway throughout Europe there are reasons to hope the virus’s stranglehold on racing, breeding and everything else in life will be relaxed during the year.

And in any event COVID is, unfortunately, can now be called “a known unknown”.

The unknown unknown for the 2021 sales season is the full effect Brexit will have on the movement of horses between Britain and the EU. At the time of writing nobody appears to be sure what the new regulations will entail.

The UK government’s own website is far from clear on the subject and the British

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The worst case, if it turns out to be reality, will have a dramatic impact on the European bloodstock and racing business Horseracing Authority’s advice echoes this lack of clarity.

The UK government states that before

permanent or temporary export or movement of an equine from Britain to the EU various requirements will have to be met including, “you’ll need to keep the animal separate from other equines which do not have equivalent health status for at least 30 days” and “you’ll also need to keep the animal on a holding in GB under veterinary supervision for 90 days” and finally “an official vet must confirm that you’ve met these requirements before you export the equine.”

So we all know where we are then.

Does this mean, for instance, that a horse purchased at a British auction will have to be held in GB on a holding for 30 or 90 days before being moved to the EU? Will British-trained runners in France or Ireland have to be kept on a special holding for 90 days prior to movement ?

These and many others questions will have to be resolved, along, of course, with the problem posed by VAT requirements for equine imports and exports from Britain.

It would seem that in the best-case scenario horse movement between Britain and the EU will now be more timeconsuming and expensive than it was previously, and in the worst case, with VAT bonds required, as well as 30, 40 or 90 days quarantine required, it will become next to infeasible on a temporary basis.

The worst case, if it turns out to be reality, will, of course, have a dramatic impact on the European bloodstock and racing business, which has become entirely accustomed to seamless movement of horses between Ireland, Britain, France and the rest of Europe.

Brexit: still the great unknown

The Brexit transition period which lasted from the referendum held in 2016 to the end of 2020 was, on the other hand, very positive for the high-level bloodstock sales held in Britain.

During this period the movement of horses and people was unchanged, whilst within minutes of the result of the referendum being announced sterling lost 25 per cent of its value against the US dollar, the Japanese yen, the Euro and most other major international currencies (graphs left).

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european bloodstock forecast Few of the major players at high-level yearling auctions are reckoning in sterling and so a 25 per cent depreciation in the pound translated into a big drop in prices paid by those who make the market.

The graph showing turnover at the combined Tattersalls October Book 1 and 2 Yearling Sales (graphs right) in current US dollar prices shows that 2016 was the lowest recorded aggregate in recent years.

It takes time for buyers to appreciate a change in the terms of trade, but in 2017, 2018 and 2019 the market returned to the level attained before the Brexit vote.

In sterling terms the story is a different one with the market more or less the same in 2014, 2015 and 2016 before rising significantly for 2017, 2018 and 2019. The difference is the change in the terms of trade for those buyers reckoning in currencies other than sterling.

The effect of currency movements on the bloodstock market is generally underappreciated, but it is an international business, and at most of the international European bloodstock auctions the major buyers are reckoning in a different currency

to that in which they are bidding.

The year 2007 is included in the graphs showing turnover in dollar terms as it was the peak year of the previous cycle before the financial crisis of 2008 changed the market.

The European yearling market has yet to return to the same level in dollar terms, and in the mean time the pound has lost 40 per cent of its value measured against the dollar.

In October 2007, £1= $2.1 but by October 2020 £1 = $1.3.

The Euro has lost about 15 per cent of its value against the dollar during this period, but has actually gained value against the dollar since 2016.

Tattersalls: Maktoum support

To return to the Tattersalls yearling sales as long as the movement of horses between Britain and Ireland remains relatively straightforward there is no reason why the firm should not maintain its dominant position accounting for between 55-60 per cent of the European market.

The new US buyers and the success of

their purchases in the US has added to the sales’ standing and there is little prospect of sterling regaining its pre-2016 value against the dollar in the short to medium term.

The Maktoum family has accounted for at least 20 per cent of the turnover at the major European yearling sales every year for more or less as long as any of those involved can remember. This alone ensures Tattersalls’ dominant position.

The other stallion owners are, of course, obliged to support the progeny of their stallions in the dominant market, if that is where future values are decided.

There will come a day when the Maktoum family does not determine the market.

When that happens the position of Tattersalls may come under threat, but if it looked for a time as if 2020 was going to be the turning point, by the end of last year’s Tattersalls October sales it was clear the moment of reckoning was still in the future.

Goffs: Orby Sale rebound possible?

For Goffs and its vendors 2020 must have felt like that moment as turnover at the Goffs Orby Sale – moved to Doncaster due to COVID restrictions – and at the Doncaster Premier Sale both fell by around 40 per cent.

Looking at the long-term comparison Goffs’ principal Irish yearling sale has seen its share of the European market fall from 20 per cent in 2007 to closer to 10 per cent in 2020.

In 2007, the two sales were, of course, entirely separate, but there has been a long-term decline at the premier Doncaster yearling sale too.

The factors which drove the success of the Goffs Irish yearling sales at the beginning of the century have gone; the property and credit booms brought to an abrupt end by the financial crisis.

The years from 2016-

Until Maktoum support for Tattersalls comes to an end, it will be difficult for any other company to make inroads to the Newmarket firm’s dominant position

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european bloodstock forecast 2019 were good ones for the sale which looked to be on an upward curve with new buyers from the Middle East and the US present and a resurgent domestic market. Neither of these positives could be transferred to Doncaster under the COVID restrictions.

The problem for Goffs is not just how to attract international buyers when the terms of trade are so favourable for Britain, but its supply, too. Irish vendors account for close to half of the yearlings on offer at the major sales in Britain and are also well represented at Arqana.

There is every reason to expect the Orby yearling sale to rebound if it takes place in a COVID-free Ireland in 2021. There has recently been plenty of inward investment from the US and elsewhere in the Irish bloodstock business and there must be a possibility this will help build domestic demand in Ireland.

If a weak currency is the best sales argument for Britain, in Ireland, as in France, it is the place and the setting which counts, together with the domestic market.

European yearling sales 2015-2020: prices in current $

All sales

Doncaster: change of focus?

The problem for Doncaster and its Premier Sale is that the currency argument is not relevant for its market.

The sale was built-up with great success around a specialisation in fast precocious horses, and yet this type of yearling has everless international appeal.

If the domestic market is depressed than it is inevitable that demand at the Premier Sale will be, too. It may be that Doncaster will have to rethink its brand and its selection criteria if it is to grow after COVID. The virus has changed many commercial priorities and in the bloodstock world reduced prize-money and access to racecourses has made potential resale values more important than ever.

Arqana: international market key

Arqana has succeeded, with plenty of assistance from Siyouni, Le Havre, Wootton Bassett and the PMU among others, in growing the turnover at its yearling sales.

Turnover at the usual August sales comes

Aclose to matching in real terms where it was before the financial crisis of 2008, while turnover at the October yearling sale has more or less doubled.

Nobody can doubt that in financial terms France has the best racing system in Europe

and the success of the PMU, likely in the long run to be boosted by COVID which has meant the group has speeded up a long overdue growth in digital betting, suggests that in France domestic demand is set to grow in the short to medium term.

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european bloodstock forecast The problem with the French system is that success of its prize-money and premiums is such that French-bred yearlings are more attractive to those who wish to race in France than to those who plan to race elsewhere. The change in the terms of trade with Britain has not helped in this respect.

A second-related problem is that the major European stallion owners – Darley, Shadwell, Juddmonte and Coolmore – appear to have less interest in French racing, and fewer racehorses based there than was the case in the past.

It seems a very long time ago that Godolphin was based in France and that many of Juddmonte’s best racehorses were trained in Chantilly.

Arqana is in a stronger position than Goffs. The system in France ensures a strong domestic market, and thanks to some degree to its premiums, only a handful of Frenchbred yearlings are sent to be sold abroad.

For the time being Haras des Monceaux, whose draft accounts for somewhere between 25-33 per cent of most August Sales, has remained entirely loyal to its domestic market.

If Arqana is to compete successfully at the very top of the yearling market it needs to attract international buyers and those who are not interested in racing in France. This is surely why the sales company has decided to return to an August date for its principal yearling sale.

Deauville in September proved to be an excellent environment for a yearling sale, the weather is invariably better than in August, the town empties out after “la rentrée”, and without racing the French trainers and professionals can concentrate on the sale.

However, the buyers from Asia, the US, Australia and elsewhere that the sale needs are far more likely to make the trip in August when the town is buzzing and there is topclass racing to watch, too.

Is the future bright?

It may seem far away in early January with relentless bad news around us, but there is every reason to expect the European and British economies to rebound sharply in 2021.

Leading economic forecasters predict

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...after the Spanish influenza pandemic there were some boom years and significant new investors such as the Aga Khan, even if the years of deflation disguise this

growth of around five per cent over the year, and if the bloodstock market showed remarkable resilience during the COVID year it could well be prone to a post-COIVD exuberance in 2021, too.

The bloodstock market in the early 1920s probably has little relevance to today’s market. It was centered on the sales in Doncaster, however after the Spanish influenza pandemic there were some boom years and significant new investors such as the Aga Khan, even if the years of deflation disguise this in the figures. There was incidentally plenty of horse movement across the Channel at the time with the British-trained Lemonora winning the Grand Prix de Paris in 1921 and Pierre Wertheimer’s Epinard taking Goodwood by storm in 1923.

After months without being able to go racing or travel many potential buyers may be more enthusiastic than ever.

And the switch to digital enjoyment of racing may encourage international investment in racing in each of the three main European breeding countries for different reasons.

So as long a reasonable solution to the movement of horses can be found there is every reason to expect the 2021 bloodstock sales to be better than those of 2020.

The attractions of Deauville in August outweigh other reasons for continuing a September yearling sale and, at present anyway, Arqana’s major yearling sale is set to return to its usual date

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New for Ireland A

Aisling Crowe meets Derek Iceton at Tara Stud and Micheál Orlandi at his new Starfield Stud to discuss their new stallions for 2021, River Boyne and Far Above

TALE OF TWO STALLION FARMS; one in its infancy and the other with a long and storied history, but both facing the future fuelled by the dreams of success that are carried by their new stallions.

For Tara Stud in County Meath, a farm that is more than a century in existence, where Key Of Luck, sire of the Aga Khan’s Group 1 King George and Irish Derby hero Alamshar, dominated the first decade of this century, new recruit River Boyne represents a new dawn in a land where people have built monuments to mark the rising of the sun for more than 5000 years.

It’s a homecoming of sorts for the sixyear-old, who was bred by the Tara Stud’s Iceton family and who spent his formative months in the historic Boyne Valley.

But sentiment has no part to play in the business of making a successful stallion and it was not involved in the decision to purchase the horse for his stud career.

River Boyne would not have returned to Tara from three years racing in the US if those involved in his career were not firmly convinced he possesses everything that breeders demand of a modern stallion with all the credentials required to be a success.

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“He has a tremendous mind and he refused to lose, I’ve never trained a horse who was more professional” Naturally, stud manager Derek Iceton followed River Boyne’s Californian odyssey from afar, maintaining lines of communications during his time in Jeff Mullins’ barn. Like many others, Iceton was impressed both by the horse’s talent and the tenacity and appetite he demonstrated during a career that took in 25 races, all but three of them in America.

“He is a Grade 1-winning son of Dandy Man, who was thoroughly consistent, genuine and tough throughout his years in

training,” says Iceton, who runs the County Meath 1,000-acre enterprise split between tillage, beef and horses with his wife Diana.

“He is a very good-looking horse who takes the eye, correct with plenty of bone and a great walk. Anyone who sees him will be impressed by him.”

The couple bred River Boyne out of the Mark Of Esteem mare Clytha and sold him to Joe Foley, who stands River Boyne’s sire Dandy Man at Ballyhane Stud, at Goffs November Foal Sale in 2015.

The catalogue for Goffs’ most recent foal sale proudly displays River Boyne as one of the sale’s star graduates. It was one of three separate sales catalogues to feature the Grade 1-winning miler – the handsome bay also the cover star of Goffs’ Sportsmans Sale catalogue and adorning the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training tome as well.

His appearance on the front of that particular publication stems from his purchase by the Cohen family’s Red Baron Farm and Rancho Temescal from that sale as a two-year-old after making three starts for Gordon Elliott and Nick Bradley Racing, who had bought him from Ballyhane Stud as a yearling for €65,000.

Swapping the Meath rain for the Santa Anita sunshine seemed to suit River Boyne, although the adaptable horse also seemed to

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Above, River Boyne with Flavien Prat nose out Desert Stone to win the Grade 2 Mathis Brothers Mile Stakes at Santa Anita, and, below, the son of Dandy Man defeats Got Stormy to win the Grade 1 Kilroe Mile

display no difficulties re-acclimatising to the Irish weather when he returned to Tara from California this autumn.

A well-balanced horse with an impressive physicality, he made an immediate impact in California winning his maiden just weeks after shipping to the West Coast, where his dam’s half-brother Ventiquattrofogli had previously won the Grade 2 Colonel FW Koester Handicap. Something of a globe trotter, he was also third in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes and a Group 3-winning miler in Germany.

River Boyne quickly asserted himself over his peers and at the end of his three-year-old season he had won two Grade 2 contests including the Twilight Derby, a Grade 3 race and two more Listed events and had finished second to another Irish import, Raging Bull, in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby.

As a four-year-old he finished second in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile and, kept in

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river boyne and far above training at five, rewarded connections with his Grade 1 triumph, one of seven graded race wins he recorded during his career.

“River Boyne was everything you look for in a racehorse,” commented trainer Jeff Mullins. “He has beautiful conformation and an explosive turn of foot, he was an all-round professional. He has a tremendous mind and he refused to lose, I’ve never trained a horse who was more professional. His win in the Grade 1 Kilroe Mile put the icing on a tremendous career.”

It also provided him with the opportunity for a second career, as a stallion, and he arrives onto the market at a time when his sire’s stock has never been higher.

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IVER BOYNE is the most recent of three Group 1 winners sired by Dandy Man, and his success in the Frank E Kilroe Mile last March heralded the best season yet for the now 18-year-old whose most expensive and best bred foals have yet to race.

In 2020, River Boyne was one of five stakes winners for his sire who was also represented

by Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes and Group 3 Albany Stakes winner Dandalla, Group 3 Dick Poole Stakes winner Happy Romance and the Listed winners Ventura Diamond, Royal Address and Big Time Baby, who was also second in the Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize.

As well as those already mentioned, Dandy Man sired the Group-placed twoyear-old colts Escape Route and Lord Of The Lodge during a highly successful season.

That track success was reflected in the sales ring, particularly at the year-ending Goffs’ November Foal Sale in December where Dandy Man’s average price across the three days was €37,606 which was higher than the sale average. One third of the foals

by Dandy Man sold at Goffs in December brought at least €50,000. In a year where commercial realities are more pertinent than ever, River Boyne’s €5,000 fee which is one third of his sire’s offers breeders exceptional value for money.

Putting financial considerations to one side, what River Boyne offers breeders is Group 1 winning class allied to speed,

soundness and longevity. It’s an irresistible combination.

“He has the heart of a lion, loved racing off the pace and had a real kick. You watch his races and you see that push-button acceleration. I think commercial breeders need to take a very serious look at him, he’s excellent value and when you see the success Dandy Man enjoyed last year on the track and in the sales ring, River Boyne makes excellent sense,” Iceton adds.

Speedster: Far Above

Mícheál Orlandi only opened the gates to Starfield Stud outside Mullingar in County Westmeath 12 months’ ago, but already the farm has welcomed two new additions to its team of sires under Orlandi’s Compas Stallions brand, including the Group 1 St Leger winner Galileo Chrome.

Fellow new arrival Far Above comes from the other end of the racing spectrum as a Group 3-winning sprinter, and the pair have joined the quartet of Compas Stallions at Starfield headed by Kuroshio, who has returned from Australia, along with the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner My Dream Boat, Capella Sansevero, the sire of Group 2 Mill Reef winner Pierre Lapin and Smooth Daddy, a Grade 3-winning son of Scat Daddy with his first yearlings this year.

While the stallions are new to Starfield, Orlandi is not. His family home is across the road from the stud farm, which was an Irish governmentowned forestry before Orlandi’s parents

bought it and transformed it from a farm that grew trees to one that produced that produced show jumpers. Returning home to the shores of Lough Owel and growing a stallion business was important to him.

“As the stallion business grew, my ambition was always to stand them in Westmeath, but it had to be the right time where I could develop a stud farm that was suitable for stallions and was aesthetically pleasing too,” explains Orlandi.

“The timing was important. Over the previous couple of years, especially with Kuroshio and Smooth Daddy joining the roster, I was confident that if I took the plunge, I could sustain and run a stud farm.

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river boyne and far above “It’s purpose-built and I put plenty of thought into how it works and it is quite efficient; the feedback from breeders is very positive and the stallions love it.”

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ERITAGE IS important to Orlandi, whose family roots lie in Ireland and Italy. The identity of his Compas brand – stallions, equine and racing – was also deeply thought through and planned to be successful.

“Conscious of the importance of a clear, strong, relatable brand, I liked the concept of the compass. The compass is a symbol of guidance, and importantly, of moving in the right direction. It has the added benefit of being recognisable and also of translating into many languages and cultures.

“I opted away from including my own name in the business as it was not a name synonymous with Irish racing and breeding.

It also allowed me to have a bit of fun creating a brand image and personality that will transpose time. I was very keen to use the Irish spelling of Compås as I am proud of my Irish heritage and the Irish language.

It also provides a small point of difference, much like my name, Micheål,’ he adds.

The thought process behind his brand identity, even that very concept, might seem a radical departure for an industry where many still stick rigidly to the traditional way of doing things.

It’s an approach that Orlandi and Jack Cantillon, with whom Orlandi has teamed up to stand Far Above along with his racing owner Sheikh Dalmook, have taken to the marketing campaign.

Along with the more prosaic merchandising items of jackets and hats, albeit in an unmistakeable shade of yellow which was chosen as it is the

“For him to win the Palace House so emphatically showed great guts and mental strength. It was this, along with his immense physical and lightning speed, that impressed... predominant colour of Sheikh Dalmook’s silks, Far Above-branded craft beer was available prior to Christmas and the enterprising pair has some more novel ideas to get their stallion’s name out there.

“We feel that the game might benefit from a new fresh approach in the way it sells/ markets itself. While the nuts and bolts of the business will always remain the same, we feel that it is time to show our wares to a new demographic.

“Social media content has the ability to travel the world at the press of a button.

We are trying to make it fun and enjoyable for people and make things as positive as we can. Much like any marketing or advertising campaign, it doesn’t guarantee mares, but if the breeding rights sold or nominations booked are anything to go by, we will be doing more of it going forward. We have mares coming from Italy, France, UK and all across Ireland to Far Above The Group 3 Palace House Stakes

Far Above’s yellow-themed merchanise: Left, beer, every breeders’ favourite, and, right, jackets and hats.

Both are part of the exciting new marketing plans Orlandi and stallion partner Jack Cantilion have in mind for the son of Farhh

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winner Far Above is the first venture between Orlandi and Cantillon and he explains how it came about.

“You are always on the lookout for a new stallion, dreaming again of the one that could be the next game-changer and I know Jack Cantillon and admire what he is doing with Syndicates Racing, he’s a real mover and shaker and very enterprising.

“He mentioned that if a stallion opportunity came up he would be interested in getting involved. When Far Above became available, we knew he was the one for us.”

Far Above is one of nine black-type winners by the Group 1 Lockinge and Champion Stakes winner Farhh who has just 80 runners to date, giving him a stakes winners-to-runners percentage of 11.25 placing him amongst the elite.

Grandsire Pivotal’s influence over Far Above and his electric burst of speed to win the Palace House stakes last season for James Tate, marked him out as the one for Orlandi and Cantillon’s project.

“I’ll never forget his victory in the Palace House on Guineas weekend and the way he won. He suffered his career-ending injury in the race, but galloped through the line, winning in remarkable style. For him to win so emphatically that day showed great guts and mental strength. It was this, along with his immense physical and lightning speed, that impressed me so much.

“He is by a statistically excellent stallion in Farhh, from the Pivotal line and out of a mare, by Shamardal, who is probably one of the best sires of all time. He has a great pedigree too, so he has the whole package.”

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New sires 2021 Aisling Crowe gives us the low down on the major new stallions at stud in Britain, Ireland and Europe for 2021 British and European New Sires for 2021: in order of fee (€ and £) Stallion Stud

Sire

Dam

Damsire

Fee

Pinatubo

Dalham Hall Stud

Shamardal

Lava Flow

Dalakhani

£35,000

Ghaiyyath

Kildangan Stud

Dubawi

Nightime

Galileo

€30,000

Persian King

Haras d’Etreham

Kingman

Pretty Please

Dylan Thomas

€30,000

Sottsass

Coolmore

Siyouni

Starlet’s Sister

Galileo

€30,000

Hello Youmzain

Haras d’Etreham

Kodiac

Spasha

Shamardal

€25,000

Kameko

Tweenhills Stud

Kitten’s Joy

Sweeter Still

Rock Of Gibraltar

£25,000

Mohaather

Nunnery Stud

Showcasing

Roodeye

Inchinor

£20,000

Circus Maximus

Coolmore

Galileo

Duntle

Danehill Dancer

€20,000

Earthlight

Kildangan Stud

Shamardal

Winters Moon

New Approach

€20,000

Wooded

Haras de Bouquetot

Wootton Bassett

Frida la Blonde

Elusive City

€15,000

Without Parole

Newsells Park Stud

Frankel

Without You Bebe

Lemon Drop Kid

£10,000

Golden Horde

Montfort et Preaux

Lethal Force

Entreat

Pivotal

€10,000

Arizona

Coolmore

No Nay Never

Lady Ederle

English Channel

€7,000

King Of Change

Derrinstown Stud

Farhh

Salacia

Echo Of Light

€7,000

Romanised

Haras de Bouquetot

Holy Roman Emperor

Romantic Venture

Indian Ridge

€7,000

Sergei Prokofiev

Whitsbury Manor Stud

Scat Daddy

Orchard Beach

Tapit

£6,500

Sands Of Mali

Ballyhane Stud

Panis

Kadiania

Indian Rocket

€6,500

Elarqam

Haras de Saint Arnoult

Frankel

Attraction

Efisio

€6,000

Far Above

Starfield Stud

Farhh

Dorraar

Shamardal

€6,000

Shaman

Yeomanstown Stud

Shamardal

Only Green

Green Desert

€6,000

Threat

Haras du Mont Goubert

Footstepsinthesand

Flare Of Firelight

Birdstone

€6,000

Van Beethoven

Haras de Grandcamp

Scat Daddy

My Sister Sandy

Montbrook

€6,000 £5,000

Legends Of War

March Hare Stud

Scat Daddy

Madera Dancer

Rahy

Tip Two Win

March Hare Stud

Dark Angel

Freddie’s Girl

More Than Ready

£5,000

River Boyne

Tara Stud

Dandy Man

Clytha

Mark Of Esteem

€5,000

Southern Hills

March Hare Stud

Gleneagles

Remember You

Invincible Spirit

£4,000

Rumble Inthejungle

Norman Court Stud

Bungle Inthejungle

Guana

Dark Angel

£3,500

Almanaara

Mickley Stud

Shamardal

Midnight Angel

Machiavellian

£3,000

Yafta

Dark Angel

Swiss Dream

Oasis Dream

Haras de Saint Arnoult

€2,500

Hey Gaman

Haras du Taillis

New Approach

Arsaadi

Dubawi

€2,250

Portamento

Hedgeholme Stud

Shamardal

Octave

Unbridled’s Song

£1,500

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new sires Pinatubo

Shamardal – Lava Flow (Dalakhani) £35,000 Dalham Hall Stud The highest-rated two-year-old since Celtic Swing, by one of the great sires and from a stallion-producing family; Pinatubo offers so much to breeders.

Unbeaten in a six-race juvenile career that culminated in his coronation as Europe’s champion two-year-old with a

Pinatubo wins the National Stakes (G1).

It was a highly impressive performance and the son of Shamardal became Timeform’s highest-rated juvenile for 25 years

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lofty Timeform rating of 131, Pinatubo was a breathtaking winner of the Group 1 National Stakes for Godolphin, Charlie Appleby and William Buick.

He ended a season that began with a debut maiden success with victory in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes, having also won Goodwood’s Group 2 Vintage Stakes and the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Never out of the first three in his ten starts, Pinatubo added the Group 1 Prix

Jean Prat at three when dropped back to 7f following Group 1-placed efforts over a mile in the 2000 Guineas, St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix du Moulin.

He is the only son of the brilliant Shamardal on Darley’s Dalham Hall team providing British breeders with easy access to an outstanding sire line.

Shamardal, who was European champion two-year-old, winning the Dewhurst and Vintage Stakes just like his son, has sired

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26 individual Group/Grade 1 winners and is the broodmare sire of five more and has established his branch of the Giant’s Causeway line as one of the best stallion lines in the world.

His son Lope De Vega, who emulated Shamardal by winning the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix du JockeyClub, is amongst the global elite and added two more juvenile Group 1 winners last season – Lucky Vega, successful in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes, and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf winner Aunt Pearl to give him 13 individual top level winners.

Lope De Vega’s son Belardo enjoyed a successful start to his stud career with four black-type winners from his first crop of runners in Europe and a Listed winner i n New Zealand. Belardo won the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes and was European champion two-year-old so a distinctive pattern has emerged.

Pinatubo’s maternal line is a noted stallion-producing family – he is out Lava Flow, a winning Dalakhani half-sister to the Group 1-placed juvenile Strobilus, and his third dam El Jazirah is an unraced full-sister to the Group 1 Prix de Diane winner Rafha.

She is the founding matriarch of a dynasty that includes Group 1 winners Invincible Spirit, Mishriff, Nayarra and Uni. As well as the half-brothers Invincible Spirit, who is the sire of 20 individual Group 1 winners, and the record-breaking juvenile sire Kodiac, now the sire of five individual Group 1 winners, this family has also produced Pride Of Dubai, Australia’s champion first-season sire of last season.

His first European crop of runners returned 14 per cent stakes winners-torunners, placing him firmly amongst the elite stallions.

Pride Of Dubai’s early success is a positive omen for Pinatubo – the exciting young sire

is a son of Street Cry, who is a full-brother to Shamardal’s dam Helsinki.

With Sadler’s Wells appearing just once in his pedigree, and that in the fifth generation, Pinatubo can be used on a wide variety of mares. Shamardal has a good record with the former champion sire’s daughters, granddaughters and indeed great-granddaughters – fellow Darley new sire Earthlight has New Approach as his damsire.

Shamardal has also clicked very well with daughters of Cape Cross – Tarnawa, winner of three Group 1 contests in 2020, including the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, as well as the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner Emaraaty Ana, are two of the nine winners from 14 runners bred on this cross.

Mares by Cape Cross’s sire Green Desert should also suit Pinatubo and complement his juvenile speed and precocity.

Ghaiyyath

Dubawi – Nightime (Galileo) €30,000 Kildangan Stud Ghaiyyath retires to Kildangan Stud as the world’s highest-rated racehorse of 2020 and with the title of Cartier Horse of the Year following Group 1 triumphs in the Coronation Cup, Eclipse and International Stakes.

Great things were expected of the Dubawi horse from birth and he immediately gave notice of his immense potential when topping the Goffs November Foal Sale in 2015. He sold for €1.1 million, the highestprice for a colt foal in the world that year.

Winner of the Group 3 Autumn Stakes at two for Godolphin and Charlie Appleby, Ghaiyyath was restricted to just a single start at three but it was a successful one with a trip to Longchamp yielding victory in the Group 3 Prix du Prince d’Orange.

He stepped into Group 1 company in the Prix Ganay at four when third behind subsequent Arc winner Waldgeist and Study Of Man, later victorious in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club, before he made his breakthrough at the highest level in the Grosser Preis von Baden.

He came into his own at five warming up for his triumphant final season with success in the Group 2 named for his grandsire at Meydan before beating Group 1 winners Anthony Van Dyck, Stradivarius and Defoe in Epsom’s Coronation Cup (G1).

He was dropped back to 1m1f for the Eclipse and put in an impressive frontrunning performance to defeat Enable and Japan before going on to make it a hat-trick of Group 1 victories in the International at York. His final start was in the Irish Champion Stakes in which Magical exacted revenge for her defeat at York.

The five-year-old is bred on the excellent Dubawi-Galileo cross that is responsible for exciting young sire Night Of Thunder, who Ghaiyyath joins on the Kildangan roster for 2021.

Ghaiyyath is a half-brother to Zhukova, successful in the Grade 1 Man O’War Stakes, out of Nightime, the first Classic winner by Galileo when successful for the Weld family in the Irish 1,000 Guineas.

Night Of Thunder has made a scintillating start to his stud career with ten individual Group winners and a further seven Listed winners from his first two crops.

Adding in an extra strain of Sadler’s Wells through some of his other stallion sons has not done any harm at all with Night Of Thunder’s Group 2 Oaks d’Italia winner Auyantepui out of a daughter of Montjeu, while his Group 3 Schwarzgold Rennen winner and Group 2 German 1000 Guineas second No Limit Credit has Barathea as her broodmare sire.

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new sires The two main branches of the Danzig line – Green Desert and Danehill – have gelled particularly well with Night Of Thunder, suggesting mares bred on similar lines should suit Ghaiyyath. Night Of Thunder has the Group 2 Premio Dormello winner Night Colours out of a mare by Green Desert himself, while Cape Cross is the damsire of Group 3 Snow Fairy Stakes winner and Group 2 Blandford Stakes second Thundering Nights. The Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes winner Under The Stars has Invincible Spirit as her broodmare sire.

Mares by Danehill’s sons Dansili, Danetime, Dylan Thomas and Clodovil have all produced stakes performers when bred to Night Of Thunder. Dansili is the broodmare sire of the Group 3 Prix des Reservoirs winner Pocket Square and Qaader who was second in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes.

The Group 1 Flying Five Stakes second and Listed Prix Yacowlef winner Keep Busy is out of the Danetime mare Look Busy.

Persian King: retires to Haras D’Etreham

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Sottsass is out of a young mare who is rapidly ascending to the highest echelons of global broodmares Persian King

Kingman – Pretty Please (Dylan Thomas) Haras d’Etreham €30,000 A Classic-winning colt with a rich Wildenstein family, Persian King was a Group winner at two, three and four and, as a son of Kingman, is a member of the globally influential Invincible Spirit sire line.

Bred by Dayton Investments and trained by André Fabre, Persian King won twice at two in France before travelling to Newmarket for the Group 3 Autumn Stakes in which he defeated the subsequent 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Magna Grecia.

He made a winning seasonal reappearance at three in the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau over a mile, a race which proved to be a warm-up for his success in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1). His bid for a Classic double was denied by Sottsass, who finished 2l ahead in the Prix du Jockey-Club.

As a four-year-old he returned to win the Group 2 Prix de Muguet over a mile at Saint-Cloud, a precursor to his victory in the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan. Next time out he was fourth in the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois to Group 1 winners Palace Pier, Alpine Star and Circus Maximus but returned to winning ways in the Prix du Moulin (G1), beating Pinatubo, Circus Maximus, Siskin, Victor Ludorum and Romanised.

An ambitious attempt at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was next and the first time Persian King had raced over 1m4f. The four-year-old finished 2l third to Sottsass, the same distance that separated them in the

Prix du Jockey-Club of 2019.

Persian King is the most expensive new stallion to retire to stud in France for the 2021 season, and the first by Kingman (second in Europe after Calyx), who has made such an impressive start to his own stallion career.

The son of Invincible Spirit is the sire of three Group/Grade 1 winners from his first three crops, Persian King joined by the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois winner Palace Pier and November’s Grade 1 Hollywood Derby winner Domestic Spending.

Interestingly, inbreeding to Mr. Prospector features in the pedigrees of both Domestic Spending and Palace Pier.

Kingman’s damsire is the Gone West stallion Zamindar with Palace Pier out of a mare by Nayef, a grandson of Mr. Prospector, while Domestic Spending has Street Cry as his broodmare sire.

Kingman also has the Group 2 Prix Eugene-Adam winner Headman out of a mare by King’s Best (Kingmambo) and the Listed winner and Group 3-placed Alocasia out of a mare by King’s Best’s sire Kingmambo. The Group 3 Hampton Court Stakes winner Sangarius is out of a daughter of Empire Maker.

With Persian King having only Zamindar as the Mr. Prospector influence within the first five generations of his own pedigree, mares whose own pedigrees feature Mr. Prospector or one of his many descendants should surely be amongst the first booked into him.

That idea is reinforced by the noted affinity of Persian King’s grandsire Invincible Spirit with mares from those particular sire lines, of which Kingman is a prime example.

Kingman’s Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes runner-up Roseman is out of a mare by the brilliant broodmare sire Pivotal, who would also work – Perisan King is from the family of Nureyev’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Prix du Jockey-Club and Grand Prix de Paris winner and sire Peintre Celebre.

With no Sadler’s Wells influence in his pedigree, he is an excellent choice for mares

by Galileo and Montjeu – already Kingman has Group 3 Musidora Stakes winner Nausha, the Listed winner and Group 2 York

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Hello Youmzain (Kodiac) keeps his nose ahead after making most to win the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1) at the 2020 Royal Ascot meeting

Stakes second Fox Chairman and the Grade 3 Monmouth Stakes second Serve The King from daughters of Galileo.

Persian King’s own pedigree has two strains of Danzig as he has the champion Dylan Thomas (Danehill) as his broodmare sire and he is also inbred to the full-brothers Kris and Diesis – the latter is the damsire of Dylan Thomas and the former is broodmare sire to Invincible Spirit.

His dam is a close relation to the Group 1 Prix Ganay winner and sire Planteur out of a Giant’s Causeway half-sister to the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville winner and sire Policy Maker (Sadler’s Wells), the Group 2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil winner and sire Pushkin and Group 3 Lancashire Oaks winner Place Rouge.

His fourth dam is a full-sister to the brilliant mare Pawneese, who is the ancestress of the brilliant Stradivarius and Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist.

Sottsass

Siyouni – Starlet’s Sister (Galileo) Coolmore €30,000 An Arc and Prix du Jockey-Club winner bred on a variation of the outstanding GalileoPivotal cross, Sottsass is an exciting new recruit to the Irish stallion ranks.

Bred by Ecurie des Monceaux, he was

the most expensive Siyouni yearling sold at the 2017 Arqana August Sale when he was sold for €340,000 to Oceanic Bloodstock.

The agency bought the colt on behalf of Peter Branch’s White Birch Farm, who had privately purchased his three-year-old halfsister Sistercharlie after her second place in the Group 1 Prix de Diane.

Sottsass is from Siyouni’s first five-figureproduced crop bred in 2015. A good-looking colt who really took the eye, he was sent into training with Jean-Claude Rouget and won his maiden on the second of his two runs that season. At three, he won the Listed Prix des Suresnes on his way to victory in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club in which he defeated the Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Persian King.

He was then given the traditional Arc preparation for a three-year-old colt with a break after his Classic success before returning to win the Group 2 Prix Niel before a good third in the Arc to Waldgeist and Enable ahead of Japan, Magical and Ghaiyyath.

Kept in training at four he beat fellow new stallions Way To Paris and Shaman in the Group 1 Prix Ganay, was fourth behind Magical and Ghaiyyath in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes before his return to Paris for his second, and successful, shot at Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Sottsass is out of a young mare who is

rapidly ascending to the highest echelons of global broodmares. Starlet’s Sister is a Galileo full-sister to Group 3 Prix Cleopatre winner Leo’s Starlet and a half-sister to Listed winner and Grade 1 Clement L Hirsch and Prix Saint Alary-placed Anabaa’s Creation, who is the dam of the Group 3-placed Create A Dream.

Starlet’s Sister has excelled as a broodmare – her first foal is the US champion Turf female Sistercharlie, winner of seven Grade 1 contests, including the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf for Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm, while her third foal is the Group 3 winner and Grade 1 Flower Bowl Stakes second My Sister Nat. It would appear there is still much more to come from the family as Starlet’s Sister has a two-year-old filly by Dubawi, who made €2.5m to Oliver St Lawrence at the Arqana Select Sale last September, as well as a yearling full-sister.

Sottsass was one of four 2020 Group 1 winners for Siyouni, winner of the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère for his owner-breeder HH The Aga Khan, with the others the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Dream And Do, Etoile, who won the E P Taylor Stakes, and St Mark’s Basilica who was successful in the Dewhurst and who is also out of a Galileo mare.

Siyouni has Group 1 winners with broodmare sires from the Mr. Prospector

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new sires and Storm Cat lines and does very well with the Giant’s Causeway line – the Grade 1-placed Siyoushake is out of a mare by the Iron Horse himself, while the Group 1-placed fillies Marietta and Walk In Marrakech have Shamardal as their damsire.

Lope De Vega is the broodmare sire of Siyouni’s Group 2-placed colt Devil.

Sottsass is inbred 4x4 to Mr. Prospector’s son Miswaki on his dam-side and he has four lines of Mr. Prospector in the fifth generation of his page, although these would all be in the sixth generation of his foals’ pedigrees.

Siyouni’s brilliant six-time Group 1 winner Laurens is out of a mare by Cape Cross and one of four winners from eight runners bred this way, while Dream And Do has Librettist as her broodmare sire.

Siyouni’s own broodmare sire is Danehill and inbreeding to Danzig through the Green Desert and Danehill lines has already worked for him so mares by Cape Cross, Oasis Dream, Invincible Spirit, Sea The Stars and Kingman should suit Sottsass.

Siyouni’s sire Pivotal has a good record with Sadler’s Wells mares

think that Hello Youmzain should do well in his second career.

Hello Youmzain was only once out of the first five in his 12 career starts, winning five of them, including two Group 1 sprints.

At two he made a winning debut over 6f in late August and was beaten a short head on his second start. Trainer Kevin Ryan then sent him to Maisons-Lafitte for the 6f Group 2 Criterium, his first foray into Group company and he defeated the Group 3 Firth Of Clyde Stakes winner Queen Of Bermuda with ease.

A spread plate didn’t help his cause in the Group 3 Greenham Stakes on his seasonal reappearance at three, but he still managed fourth behind Mohaather. He was dropped back to 6f for the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes when he lowered the colours of Calyx, and was less than 2l behind Advertise in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot, finishing third ahead of Ten Sovereigns who went on to win the July Cup (G1).

Given a mid-season break by Ryan, he was next seen in the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock when he gained his first Group 1 success defeating top level winners The Tin Man, Brando, Fairyland and Dream

Hello Youmzain

Kodiac-Spasha (Shamardal) €25,000 Haras d’Etreham The first son of Kodiac to stand in France and the first Group 1-winning sprinter by him to retire to stud, Hello Youmzain will also shuttle to New Zealand for the southernhemisphere season where he will stand at Cambridge Stud, which has part-owned him since 2019.

Kodiac’s stallion sons have made promising starts to their stud careers with Coulsty siring an impressive 13 per cent stakes winners-to-runners from limited opportunities, while Kodi Bear sired the Listed winner Cobh and four Group placed horses in his first crop.

Prince Of Lir has the Group 2 Norfolk stakes winner and Group 1 Phoenix Stakes second The Lir Jet from his first crop, while Adaay was leading British-based first-season sire on winners in 2020.

Given that Hello Youmzain was a better racehorse than all of those and is in possession of a better pedigree, it is natural to

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Kameko, the son of Kitten’s Joy, gets his Classic success in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket. He stands at Tweenhills Stud at a fee of £25,000

Of Dreams. After that triumph he was sold

by Jaber Abdullah to Haras d’Etreham and Cambridge Stud.

Kept in training at four, he made his seasonal debut in Royal Ascot’s Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes and prevailed over Dream Of Dreams and Sceptical in a thrilling finish. The final 100yds of the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest appeared to stretch his stamina resources and he was nabbed in the shadow of the post by Space Blues.

Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock out of the Shamardal mare Spasha, he is a half-brother to the Group 2-winning two-year-old Royal Youmzain, who was third in the Deutsches Derby and the Grosser Preis von Berlin (G1).

His Elnadim half-sister Zuhoor Baynoona won the 5f Listed Lansdown Stakes at three and was third in the Listed Marygate Stakes as a two-year-old.

Their dam Spasha has produced four stakes winners from four runners as her seven-year-old Youmzain gelding Sagalway was also third in the Listed Prix Maurice Caillault on the Flat and won a Grade 2 juvenile hurdle for Willie Mullins.

Spasha is an unraced half-sister to the

new sires Royal Ascot Listed Hampton Court Stakes winner Persian Majesty out of Spa, an unraced Sadler’s Wells half-sister to the Grade 2 Hardwick Stakes winner Sandmason.

Spa is also a half-sister to the Machiavellian mare Subterfuge, whose branch of the family has been very successful in Australia and New Zealand so explaining the attraction of Hello Youmzain to Cambridge Stud.

She is the dam of the Group 2 winner and the multiple Group 2-placed Shania Dane, and amongst her many black-type-winning descendants is the Group 1 Sires Produce Stakes winner Summer Passage (Encosta De Lago).

Hello Youmzain has three lines of the great mare Natalma in the first five generations of his pedigree as Northern Dancer appears twice in the fourth generations along with his half-sister Spring Adieu.

Kodiac has done very well with Pivotal – his Group 1 winner Fairyland is out of Queenofthefairies (Pivotal) – while Tiggy Wiggy is out of a Kheleyf mare, bolstering the good record the Tally-Ho Stud-based sire has with Green Desert descendants.

Kodiac’s first Group 1 winner Best Solution is out of a Kingmambo mare, while Kodi Bear is out of a mare by another descendant of Mr. Prospector in Mujtahid.

Kameko

Kitten’s Joy-Sweeter Still (Rock Of Gibraltar) Tweenhills Farm and Stud £25,000 The Tweenhills and Qatar Racing teams will be hoping for much better luck with this son of Kitten’s Joy (El Prado) after the sad demise of the ill-fated Roaring Lion after just one season at stud.

The 2,000 Guineas winner offers breeders an alternative Sadler’s Wells line than the Galileo lineage that dominates European breeding as he is a son of the seven-time champion Turf sire of North America, Kitten’s Joy, who was also crowned North America’s champion sire of 2018.

Bobby’s Kitten was the first son of Kitten’s Joy to retire to stud in Europe and the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner has made a good start to his stallion career at Lanwades Stud with 25 per cent winners-to-

runners from his first crop.

Although born and bred in Kentucky, Kameko’s female family is European – his dam Sweeter Still was bred by Ann Marie O’Brien and the daughter of Rock Of Gibraltar is a half-sister to the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy winner Kingsbarns (Galileo).

Sweeter Still, a winner of the Grade 3 Senorita Stakes, is also a half-sister to the Group 3 Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial winner Belle Artiste.

The deeper reaches of the pedigree bring in a host of talented performers, including the three-time Group 1 winner and sire Rip Van Winkle and the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup winner Danish, who is the second dam of African Story, winner of the Dubai World Cup (G1).

Bred by Calumet Farm, Kameko cost just $90,000 as a yearling at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale and was sent into training with Andrew Balding. He made a winning debut over 7f at Sandown in July 2019 and returned to that track for his second start when he finished a nose second in the Group 3 Solario Stakes.

Upped in class and trip for the Group 2

new sires Royal Lodge on his next run he was again a close second, this time a neck to Royal Dornoch.

The Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy was transferred to Newcastle’s All-Weather because of bad weather, but the changed circumstances didn’t inconvenience Kameko who was a comfortable winner over Group 2 Beresford Stakes winner Innisfree.

The subsequent Group 1 winner Mogul was back in fourth.

Having emulated his dam’s half-brother in winning the final juvenile Group 1 of the season, hopes were high that he could improve on that relation’s record at three.

His seasonal reappearance came in the 2,000 Guineas itself and he was a narrow winner, finishing a neck ahead of Wichita, with the champion two-year-old Pinatubo third.

Much discussion preceded his run in the Derby with stamina doubts and stallion considerations aired publically, but in the end he was allowed take his chance. The runaway nature of Serpentine’s win didn’t fully answer those stamina questions around Kameko, who was just half a length and a nose behind the second Khalifa Sat in fourth with Mogul once again behind.

He was dropped back to a mile for the Group 1 Sussex Stakes in which he clashed with Irish 1000 Guineas winner Siskin, dual Royal Ascot Group 1 winner Circus Maximus, Wichita and Mohaather. Stuck for room at a vital stage in the race he was fourth, eased down by jockey Oisin Murphy.

The 1m2f of the Juddmonte International at York looked tailor-made for Kameko and he travelled well into the race, but the ground seemed to have gone against him and he ended up fourth behind Ghaiyyath, Magical and Lord North.

Dropped in class and trip for the Group 2 Joel Stakes, Kameko returned to winning ways with a comfortable success over a field that included Group 1 winners Benbatl and Zabeel Prince.

He ended his racing career back in the state of his birth running behind Order Of Australia in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Many of Kitten’s Joy’s best performers hail from US sire lines that are not readily available in Europe, but Roaring Lion was out of a Street Sense mare so Machiavellian and

Mr. Prospector lines might well suit Kameko, particuarly as Kitten’s Joy also has a good record with Grand Slam (Gone West by Mr. Prospector) mares.

The much heralded Sadler’s Wells/ Danehill cross could also find an angle through sires sons of the latter.

Mohaather

Showcasing-Roodeye (Inchinor) £20,000 Nunnery Stud Mohaather is a handsome son of Showcasing, bred by Gaie Johnson Houghton from a family she has nurtured to the very highest level.

He is out of her Inchinor mare Roodeye, also dam of the multiple American Grade 2 winner Prize Exhibit, who was third in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks and is a full-sister to Mohaather.

Roodeye is also the dam of the stakesplaced Harbour Master (Harbour Watch) and the second dam of Accidental Agent, successful in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes.

Third in the Listed Dick Poole Stakes and successful over 5f at two, Roodeye is one of

five black-type performers out of Roo, second in the Listed Firth Of Clyde Stakes over 5f.

Also amongst those black-type performers out of the Rudimentary half-sister to Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner Bannister is the Group 1 Prix Morny and Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes runner-up Gallagher.

Roo is also a half-sister to the unraced dam of Astaire, winner of the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes.

Mohaather has a pedigree brimming with juvenile talent and precocity and he was no slouch himself.

Sold by Hillwood Stud to Shadwell for 110,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 2 Sale, he was sent into training with Marcus Tregoning and made three starts in a little over a month at the end of the 2018 Flat season.

Second on debut over 6f at Newbury, he went one better on his second start and then took the Group 2 Horris Hill Stakes in fine fashion.

He returned at three and was a cosy winner of the 7f Greenham Stakes (G3) at Newbury, but Mohaather made just one other start that year in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot six months later.

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new sires At four he started his season in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot where he met trouble in running, but enjoyed a much happier return to Ascot in June 2020 when he got to the winner’s enclosure after his impressive success in the Group 2 Summer Mile.

He showed off an electric burst of speed in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood when he managed to extricate himself from trouble.

Still with work to do entering the final furlongs, he produced an exciting burst of speed seeing off Group 1 winners Circus Maximus, Siskin and Kameko. Sadly, that was to be his final race with injury forcing his retirement to stud.

Northern Dancer appears three times in the fifth generation of Mohaather’s pedigree, while his son Lyphard pops up twice. As they are so far back – they will be in the sixth generation of Mohaather’s foals – and as, unusually, none of the Northern Dancer lines are that of Sadler’s Wells it means Mohaather is an option for mares by Sadler’s Wells, Galileo, Montjeu and their sons and grandsons.

With no Sadler’s Wells in his pedigree and all that Northern Dancer blood it is even more unusual that he is also free of Danehill.

Inbreeding to Danzig through Danehill and Green Desert is more successful than duplicating Danehill so sending mares who are daughters and granddaughters of Danehill to Mohaather is also an option.

Showcasing’s 2020 Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Alkumait is inbred 3x3 to Green Desert through his second dam Venoge and Oasis Dream.

Two of Showcasing’s stallion sons – the Group 1 winner Advertise and the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Soldier’s Call – have sons of Polar Falcon as their broodmare sire. As Nureyev would be in the fifth generation of Mohaather’s foals so broodmares from similar lines would also be an option.

Circus Maximus

Galileo-Duntle (Danehill Dancer) €20,000 Coolmore Twice a Group 1 winner at Royal Ascot, Circus Maximus is one of six individual

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Circus Maximus: was a three-time Group 1winner and is out of the Group 2 winner Duntle

Group 1 winners bred on the excellent Galileo-Danehill Dancer cross.

He was successful three times at the highest level over a mile for Aidan O’Brien, Coolmore and his owner-breeder, the Niarchos family’s Flaxman Stables.

He is the only foal out of the Niarchos family’s Group 2 Royal Ascot winner Duntle, who was first past the post in the Group 1 Matron Stakes and placed in the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) and Prix Rothschild (G1).

She is the best foal produced by Lady Angola, a Lord At War three-parts sister to the Grade 1 Turf Classic Stakes winner Honor At War, who was twice runner-up in the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile.

Lady Angola is also a three-parts sister to La Gueriere (Lord Of War), who won the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup and is the dam of Empire Maker’s Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes winner Icon Project, herself the dam of Grade 2 winner Fashion Business (Frankel).

La Gueriere is the second dam of

Munnings, who stands at Coolmore’s Kentucky base and is the sire of two Grade 1 winners and six Grade 1-placed winners.

Circus Maximus was a high-class miler whose tenacity would surely have seen him excel in the Roman chariot racing venue for which he is named. A tough colt with enormous battling qualities who hated being headed in a race, he was out of the first four just four times in a career that lasted three seasons.

At two he won his maiden at Gowran over a mile before finishing third behind subsequent Group 1 winners Persian King and Magna Grecia in the Group 3 Autumn Stakes.

He was just a length fourth to Magna Grecia and Phoenix Of Spain in the Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy.

His three-year-old season began with success in the Listed Dee Stakes at Chester.

In the Derby itself, he was far from disgraced finishing sixth over a trip that was too far for him.

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new sires James’s Palace Stakes (G1) on his next run, he gained his breakthrough success at the highest level defeating King Of Change and Too Darn Hot with Phoenix Of Spain and Royal Marine further back.

Too Darn Hot beat him by half a length in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes, but then Circus Maximus won a tight Group 1 Prix du Moulin by a nose from Romanised, with fellow Group 1 winners Line Of Duty, Olmedo and Phoenix Of Spain filling third, fourth and fifth places. He finished 2019 off with fourth behind Uni in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

He made it two Group 1 wins from two appearances at Royal Ascot with his thrilling and hard-fought victory over Terebellum in the Queen Anne Stakes. Podium positions followed in four of his five subsequent starts at four, all at Group 1 level, including the Sussex Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Circus Maximus’ breeding combines two of the most prevalent stallions in Europe, and he is bred along similar lines to two successful stallion sons of Galileo, Teofilo and Frankel, who are out of mares by Danehill.

With Danehill one generation further back in the pedigree of Circus Maximus, covering mares by sons of Danehill will create 4x3 inbreeding.

Interestingly, Teofilo sired the 2020 Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak winner Subjectivist out of a mare by Danehill Dancer. He is also the sire of South African Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Brazuca, who is out of a Choisir mare, while Frankel has sired the Group 2 winner and Group 1 Coolmore Classic second Miss Fabulass out of a Redoute’s Choice mare and two Group 3 winners with Danehill Dancer as their broodmare sire.

Both Frankel and Teofilo have sired Group 1 winners with daughters of Montjeu – Anapurna and Parish Hall respectively – so inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells through Montjeu is not ruled out for Circus Maximus.

The pair, along with Prix du Jockey-Club winner and sire Intello, who is also bred on the Galileo-Danehill cross, works well with Green Desert line mares.

In 2020, Teofilo sired two Group 1 winners out of daughters of Oasis Dream – the Melbourne Cup hero Twilight Payment and Tawkeel, who won the Prix Saint-Alary – and he is also the sire of Prix Jean Prat (G1)

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With Danehill one generation further back in the pedigree of Circus Maximus, covering mares by sons of Danehill will create 4x3 inbreeding winner Havana Gold, whose broodmare sire is Desert Style (Green Desert).

Frankel has the Group 1 Metropolitan Handicap winner Mirage Dancer with a daughter of Green Desert, while Oasis Dream is the broodmare sire of Frankel’s Group 2 Prix de Sandringham winner and Group 1 Prix Rothschild third Obligate, and Delaware, winner of the Group 3 Prix Daphnis.

Frankel is the sire of 2020’s Group 3-winning juvenile Kalahara, who is out of a Green Desert mare and from the family of Intello, whose first Group 1 winner Intellogent has Kheleyf as his broodmare sire.

Galileo’s affinity with Pivotal is well-documented and his sons seem to have inherited that genetic compatibility.

Two of Frankel’s 11 individual Group 1 winners are out of Pivotal mares, while Oaks winner Talent is by New Approach out of a mare by Peintre Celebre.

The Storm Cat and various branches of the Mr. Prospector lines should also work with Circus Maximus.

Galileo has a phenomenal strike-rate with mares by Storm Cat, while Frankel has five stakes winners, including the Group 1 winner and sire Without Parole, out of mares from the differing Mr. Prospector sire-lines.

Teofilo’s first Melbourne Cup winner, Cross Counter, has a dam by Machaivellian.

Earthlight

Shamardal-Winters Moon (New Approach) €20,000 Kildangan Stud One of Shamardal’s three individual Group 1-winning two-year-olds of 2019, a feat not achieved previously in the history of the Pattern, Earthlight takes the place vacated by his late sire in Darley’s Irish roster.

A quick and precocious colt with a high-class pedigree and champion’s race record at two, Earthlight offers breeders excellent value and entrance into a sire-line that is one of the best in the world.

A Darley homebred, Earthlight was forward enough to make his racecourse debut in June of 2019. It was the first of six starts at two, and he remained unbeaten in his first seven runs. He won a 5.5f maiden at Maisons-Lafitte on debut and a fortnight later made it two from two when stepping up to 6f at Deauville.

Less than four weeks later he won his third race, the Group 3 Prix de Caubourg, again over 6f at Deauville. The Group 1 Prix Morny was next on the agenda and he outclassed a strong field that included Raffle Prize, Golden Horde, Arizona and A’Ali to win.

André Fabre sent him to Newmarket for the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and he came from behind to win a shade cosily from Golden Horde.

Ordinarily two Group 1 success in two different countries would ensure champion juvenile status, but he was denied by the once-in-a-generation Pinatubo, another Darley homebred son of Shamardal, along with the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère winner Victor Ludorum.

Earthlight made it seven wins in succession when taking the Listed Prix Kistena and was a length fourth in a blanket finish in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest behind Space Blues, Hello Youmzain and Lope Y Fernandez and ahead of Golden Horde, Wooded and Wichita.

The bare three-parts of a length margin of victory in the 7f Group 3 Prix du Pin belies the ease with which he won. His final shot at Group 1 glory at three was denied by the hattrick-winning One Master in the shadow of the Longchamp winning post in the Group 1 Prix de la Forêt, when he finished a neck second to her.

new sires He is the first Group 1 winner as a broodmare sire for New Approach and, although stamina abounds in his family, the precocity and speed he demonstrated should dispel any doubts over his ability to get horses in his own likeness.

Dam Winter’s Moon was a winner at two and third in the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile and she is a half-sister to Mandaean (Manduro), who won the Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud at two.

She is also a half-sister to Wavering (Refuse To Bend), winner of the Group 1 Prix Saint Alary and the dam of two Group 2-placed horses by Shamardal’s close-relation Street Cry. She is also a half-sister to Lavender And Lace, the dam of Group 2 Superlative Stakes second Maxi Boy. Second dam Summertime Legacy is a juvenile Group winner of the Group 3 Prix des Reservoirs, and she was also third in the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary at three.

She is out of an El Gran Senor half-sister to Derby winner Golden Fleece and to Officer’s Wife (Secretariat), who was Grade 2 and Grade 3-placed and is the dam of Group 3 winner Dance Treat (Nureyev) and second dam of South Easter (Galileo), winner of the Group 3 Dee Stakes.

The striking chestnut colt by Shamardal has so much to recommend him to breeders, not least that he is one of the more affordable Shamardal sons at stud.

One of Shamardal’s key attributes was his success with a number of different broodmare sires – his 26 individual Group 1 winners (and counting) have 25 different broodmare sires with only one – Tobougg represented twice.

Tobougg’s sire Barathea is also broodmare sire of a Group 1 winner by Shamardal, as is his sire Sadler’s Wells, who is the dam sire of Shamardal’s Group 1 Prix de l’Opera winner Baltic Baroness.

Obviously, the Galileo branch of Sadler’s Wells line is responsible for Earthlight, but Sadler’s Wells will be in the fifth generation of Earthlight’s foals so daughters of Montjeu, along with granddaughters of Barathea, could suit the young stallion .

Shamardal’s brilliant stallion son Lope De Vega sired last year’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf winner Aunt Pearl with a daughter of Hurricane Run.

Mares by sons of Danzig have provided Shamardal with Group 1 winners Able Friend, Amaron, Casamento and Dunboyne Express, while Danzig’s grandson Cape Cross is the broodmare sire of Shamardal’s 2020 triple Group 1 heroine Tarnawa.

Lope De Vega is the sire of last season’s Group 1 Phoenix Stakes winner and Middle Park Stakes second Lucky Vega, who is out of a mare by Cape Cross.

Shamardal is out of a Machiavellian mare and close inbreeding to Machiavellian produced Lope De Vega.

The 2019 Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Castle Lady is out of a mare by Elusive Quality, from the Gone West branch of Mr. Prospector, while Lope De Vega’s Group 1 Prix Ganay winner Zabeel Prince has Unbridled’s Song as his dam-sire.

Belardo’s Group 2 Rockfel Stakes winner Isabella Giles is out of a mare by Dubawi, while the Group 3 Park Stakes winner Elysium is out of a broodmare sire from the Woodman branch of Mr. Prosector’s line; suggesting that inbreeding to differing strains of Mr. Prospector, whose son Miswaki is the broodmare sire of Galileo, is an option.

Lope De Vega has done very well with

mares by Danehill and his sons with five of his 12 individual Group 1 winners, 41.67 per cent of his total, bred this way.

His European champion two-year-old Belardo is out of a mare by Danehill, while multiple Australian Group 1 winner Santa Ana Lane and Group 1 Lightning Stakes winner Gytrash have Fastnet Rock as their broodmare sire.

Holy Roman Emperor is the damsire of Lope De Vega’s first Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Newspaperofrecord and Grade 1 Natalma Stakes winner Capla Temptress has Dansili as her broodmare sire.

Belardo has clicked very well with mares from the Danehill Dancer line, creating inbreeding to the great stallion.

The Group 3 Prix Miesque and Listed Redcar Two Year Old Trophy winner Lullaby Moon is out of a daughter of Indesatchel, and the Listed Criterium de Languedoc winner Belloccio has Mastercraftsman as his broodmare sire.

Earthlight with his Galileo genes should suit mares by Danehill’s sons and grandsons, particularly Danehill Dancer, the broodmare sire of six Group 1 winners by Galileo.

Earthlight: the son of Shamardal hails from a sire line that is currently “one of the best in the world”

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Wootton Bassett – Frida La Blonde (Elusive City) Haras de Bouquetot €15,000 The first Group 1-winning sprinter by Wootton Bassett to retire to stud, Al Shaqab will hope that Wooded can fill the void left in France following the departure of Wootton Bassett to Ireland.

Wooded is one of only a trio of three-yearold colts to win the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1) in the past 30 years, the others being Dayjur and Total Gallery.

Bred by Gestüt zur Kuste when Wootton Bassett’s stud fee was just €6,000, Wooded made €90,000 bought by Al Shaqab at the Arqana October Yearling Sale. He was sent into training with Francis-Henri Graffard and made four starts at two, all over 7f.

His first victory came on his second start, in a maiden at Deauville’s August meeting, and he followed that up with a narrow defeat to Kenway in the Group 3 Prix La Rochette.

Wooded’s final run at two ended with third place in the Group 3 Prix Thomas Byron.

Dropped back to 6f for his seasonal reappearance, Wooded claimed his first black-type success in the Group 3 Prix

Texanita and he then was fourth to Pinatubo in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat over 7f in his first attempt at the top level.

He ran just twice over the minimum trip.

His first attempt resulting in a second place to Air De Valse in the Group 3 Prix de Petit Couvert before his triumphant swansong at Longchamp where he defeated the previous year’s winner Glass Slippers, who went on to win the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1), by a neck.

Wooded is the second foal of his dam Frida La Blonde, who was placed three times in her career over 6.5f and 7f. Her first foal Beat Le Bon is a full-brother to Wooded and he was second in the Listed Redcar TwoYear-Old Trophy and the Group 3 Sovereign Stakes. Interestingly, Wooded’s broodmare sire, the Group 1 Prix Morny winner Elusive City, is out of a mare by Dayjur.

Frida La Blonde is a full-sister to Fred Lalloupet, who was a Listed winner at 6f in France and placed at Listed and Group level from 5f to 6f.

She is also a half-sister to Mon Pot Le Gitan (Thunder Gulch), who was a Listedwinning sprinter.

Their dam Affirmed Friend was bred by Ballymacoll Stud and sported their famous

Without Parole back at Newsells Park. The son of Frankel is standing at £10,000 for his first season

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silks in the early part of her career.

The daughter of Triple Crown winner Affirmed was a black-type performer from 6f to a mile, winning the Listed Criterium d’Evry. She is from the family of the sire, Norfolk and Cornwallis Stakes winner and Prix de l’Abbaye third Magic Ring.

Like his sire, Wooded has a very clear outcross pedigree and, as Wootton Bassett has had Group race success so far with mares

by Maria’s Mon (Almanzor), Green Tune (Audarya), Oasis Dream, Giant’s Causeway, Street Cry, Trade Fair, Acatenango and American Post, it would be a good place for breeders to start.

Without Parole

Frankel – Without You Babe (Lemon Drop Kid) Newsells Park Stud £10,000 Naturally much of the focus on Without Parole has been due to his sire Frankel – the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes winner being just the second son of Juddmonte’s champion to retire to stud in England.

Without Parole attraction as a stallion is not just all about his sire – he also has a formidable female family to provide a strong foundation on which he can build a successful stallion career.

Bred by John and Tanya Gunther at Newsells Park in the same year that they bred Justify in Kentucky, Without Parole is out of the Lemon Drop Kid mare Without You Babe, which makes him a half-brother to the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tamarkuz.

The Shadwell Farm sire made an impressive start to his stud career in Kentucky from a small first crop of 29 two-year-olds in 2020. From just 14 runners the son of Speightstown sired five winners, including the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes winner Red Flag, who is out of a Stormy Atlantic mare.

Without You Babe is also the dam of Listed Violet Stakes winner She’s Got You (Kingman) and the unraced First Samurai mare Lemon Gin, whose first foal to race is the stakes winner Best Of Me (Super Saver).

Her half-brother by Bernadini is the Grade 1 Cigar Mile and Travers Stakes winner Stay Thirsty, who is the sire of

new sires and Blushing Groom.

The Australian Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Frankel filly Miss Fabulass is also inbred 3x3 to Danehill.

Without Parole’s pedigree is free of the Green Desert line of Danzig and Frankel has sired the Group 1 Metropolitan Handicap winner Mirage Dancer and Group 3-winning juvenile Kalahara out of Green Desert mares.

The Group 2 winner Obligate, the Group 3 winner Delware and the Listed winners Mori and Obligate have Oasis Dream as broodmare sire, while Invincible Spirit is the damsire of Frankel’s Listed Pebbles Stakes winner Rubilinda.

Golden Horde

Golden Horde (Lethal Force) was a talented juvenile, seen here winning the Richmond Stakes (G2)

Grade 1 winners Mind Control, Golden Leaf and Jack Of Hearts.

Stay Thirsty is one of two Grade 1 Belmont Stakes runners-up out of the Storm Bird mare Marozia, the other being Andromeda Hero (Fusaichi Pegasus).

He won the Grade 3 Fred W Hooper Handicap and was placed four times at the highest level. Marozia also foaled the Listed winner and Grade 1 Champagne Stakes third Superfly (Fusaichi Pegasus), so Without Parole’s female line has an affinity with the branches of the Mr. Prospector sire line.

Without Parole’s third dam Make Change (Roberto) was placed in nine Grade 1s, including the American Oaks and Mother Goose Stakes. Her best runner was the Listed Prix Isola Bella winner Time Changes (Danzig).

Without Parole is inbred 5x4 to Mr. Prospector through Urban Sea’s sire Miswaki and Lemon Drop Kid. Frankel has also produced the Group 2 winner

and Group 1-placed Eminent and Group 3 winners Last Kingdom, Sun Maiden and Suphala along similar lines – they are out of mares by Lemon Drop Kid’s sire Kingmambo.

Frankel’s sire Galileo has an excellent record with Pivotal mares and Frankel is also starting to work well with the leading broodmare sire – Group 1 winners Cracksman and Veracious are both out of daughters of Pivotal.

There is no inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells or Danehill in Without Parole’s pedigree allowing for a duplication of either, or both of these stallions, in his progeny.

Frankel’s Group 1 Oaks winner Annapurna is out of a Montjeu mare so inbred 3x3 to Sadler’s Wells, while he has Group 3 winners Cunco and Learn By Heart and Listed winner Majestic Noor out of mares by Danehill Dancer so inbred 3x3 to Danehill. Majestic Noor is also inbred to Allegretta, Mr. Prospector, Northern Dancer

Lethal Force – Entreat (Pivotal) Montfort Et Preaux €10,000 The Group 1 Commonwealth Cup winner Golden Horde strongly resembles his broodmare sire Pivotal, and if he proves to be even one quarter of the sire that Pivotal has been then he will handsomely reward Nurlan Bizakov’s faith in standing him at his farm in France.

The Kazakh-born owner and breeder purchased the chesnut to be the first stallion to stand under the Sumbe banner, the new name for Hesmonds Stud and Haras de Montfort et Preaux.

Golden Horde begins his stud career alongside Le Havre and Recorder in Normandy.

Bred by James Cloney’s Cn Farm, Golden Horde is the first Group 1 winner by the Diamond Jubilee and July Cup winner Lethal Force, who moved to France for the 2020 breeding season.

Bought for £65,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale by Lethal Force’s trainer Clive Cox, Golden Horde was more successful as a juvenile than his precocious sire, who was fourth in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes. Although he finished one placed lower in the Coventry than Lethal Force, Golden Horde went on to become one of the best of his peers at two.

Winner of Goodwood’s Group 2 Richmond Stakes over 6f he then engaged in a rivalry with Earthlight that saw him lose out to the son of Shamardal in both the Prix

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Cox sent Golden Horde straight in to the deep end at three, kicking off his season in the Commonwealth Cup, and it proved a masterstroke – the good-looking chestnut was a convincing winner of the 6f Group 1.

He contested the July Cup on his next start and was a good third, a length and a half behind Oxted, with Group 1 winners, including Hello Youmzain, behind.

His only race over further than 6f came in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest and his finishing position of fifth doesn’t tell the entire story as he was just a length and a half behind the winner Space Blues.

Golden Horde comes from the outstanding family of Serena’s Song On his final start, in the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock, he finished third behind another Cn Farm-bred horse, Dream Of Dreams, and the subsequent Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint winner Glen Shiel.

Golden Horde comes from the outstanding family of Serena’s Song – his second dam River Saint is a Riverman halfsister to the great champion, who became a brilliant broodmare.

The winner of 11 Grade 1 races, she went on to foal Sophisticat, successful in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes, and is the second dam of Group 3 winner Souphala.

Her colt by Unbridled named Harlington won the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap and is the broodmare sire of recent Group 1 Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes winner Grenadier Guards (Frankel).

Her Listed-winning Mr. Prospector daughter Serena’s Tune is the dam of Jim Bolger’s Group 3 winner and sire Vocalised, and the second dam of the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes and Metropolitan Handicap winner,

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the promising young stallion Honor Code.

He is sire of Grade 1 winner Honor AP in his first crop.

In Europe the most successful branch of this family until now has been that of Roundhill Stud’s Princess Serena, an Unbridled’s Song mare out of Serena’s Sister, who is a full-sister to the Hall of Fame inductee.

Princess Serena is the dam of nine winners, including the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner Zabeel Prince (Lope De Vega) and the Group 2 winner and Swettenham Stud sire Puissance De Lune, a son of Shamardal. She is also the second dam of Group 1 Moyglare Stud and Coronation Stakes winner Rizeena, a daughter of Iffraaj.

Golden Horde’s damsire Pivotal does extremely well in that role when his daughters are crossed with Galileo, and as Golden Horde, as well his sire and grandsire (Dark Angel) are Group 1-winning sprinters, he possesses the speed that should suit daughters and granddaughters of Galileo.

Golden Horde’s pedigree is also completely free of Sadler’s Wells, which makes him suitable for a wide variety of mares.

Likewise, Danehill is absent from Golden Horde’s pedigree, which frees him up for mares by the influential sire and his sons and grandsons.

Lethal Force has produced the Group 2 July Stakes second and Group 3 Pavilion Stakes third Koncheck out of a daughter of Danzero, who was Danehill’s first Group 1 winner, while Danehill’s son Exceed And Excel is the broodmare sire of Lethal Force’s Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes third Mokaatil.

Green Desert would appear in the fourth generation of the pedigrees of Golden Horde’s foals, through Desert Style who is the broodmare sire of Lethal Force.

There are pointers in his pedigree that suggest the Shamardal line is one worth exploring with the success that the Princess Serena branch of the family has enjoyed with Shamardal and Lope De Vega.

Serena’s Song’s Group 1-winning daughter Sophisticat and Grade 3 winner Schramsburg are by Storm Cat, sire of Giant’s Causeway.

Both the Serena’s Song branch of the

family and Golden Horde’s line work well with Mr. Prospector blood – Golden Horde is a half-brother to the Listed Pipalong Stakes winner Exhort (Dutch Art) and their dam Entreat is a half-sister to Producer, a Group 2 and 3 winner by Dutch Art. Serena’s Song has the Grade 2 winner Harlington (Unbridled), the Listed winner Serena’s Tune by Mr. Prospector himself (her grandson Honor Code is by A.P. Indy therefore inbred to Mr. Prospector) and the Listed winner Serene Melody by Street Cry. Serena’s Song and River Saint also have a Grade 3-winning half-sister by Raise A Man, son of Raise A Native, named Vivid Imagination.

Of course, Lope De Vega is inbred to Machiavellian.

Arizona

No Nay Never – Lady Ederle (English Channel) Coolmore €7,000 Arizona was a high-class juvenile and is from the No Nay Never branch of the Scat Daddy sire line, which is in pole position to be the major conduit for Scat Daddy blood in Europe.

An impressive winner of a Curragh maiden by 6l on his second start, Arizona followed that up with victory in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes for Ballydoyle and Ryan Moore.

The handsome colt was also placed behind Pinatubo in two Group 1 contests at two, finishing third in the National Stakes at The Curragh and then getting much closer to

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Arizona finished his two year-old-career with fifth place in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf less than 2l behind the winner Structor. Three starts in Group 1 races at three failed to yield further success for Arizona.

He is a full-brother to the Grade 2 Mrs Revere Stakes and Grade 3 Matchmaker Stakes winner Nay Lady Nay, who was also third in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Stakes. They are the first two runners out of Lady Ederle, an English Channel half-sister to Group 3 winner Fathayer and to the dam of Dabirsim, successful in the Group 1 Prix Morny and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère.

Second dam Bright Generation is by Rainbow Quest and won the Group 1 Oaks d’Italia and was second in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes. She is a half-sister to the dam of Holy Moon, a Listed winner who has produced five Group winners, three of them at Group 1 level, including the brilliant but ill-fated Sea Of Class.

Inbreeding to Mr. Prospector is a feature in a significant proportion of this sire line’s successful horses and Arizona is inbred 4S x 5S x 4D to the great stallion, but only two of those lines will feature in his foal’s pedigrees and in the fifth generation at that.

Scat Daddy’s success was partly due to his compatibility with a vast array of broodmare sires, with nearly as many different damsires as Group winners.

No Nay Never has already demonstrated much of that versatility at this point in his stud career, but he has also shown a marked affinity with Danzig bloodlines; his Group 1-winning son Ten Sovereigns is out of a mare

by Exceed And Excel, while last season’s Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Alcohol Free has Hard Spun as her damsire.

No Nay Never has done particularly well with mares by Danehill and his sons – as well as Ten Sovereigns he also has Land Force, Need I Say More, Never No More, Servalan and Yesterdayoncemore from the line.

The Green Desert branch of Danzig’s line works well with Oasis Dream, Cape Cross and Sea The Stars all appearing as broodmare sires of stakes winners by No Nay Never.

Arizona’s pedigree is free of Sadler’s Wells, Danehill and Green Desert, which makes him a suitable prospect for many mares.

King Of Change

Farhh – Salacia (Echo Of Light) Derrinstown Stud €7,500 King Of Change was the first Group 1 winner

by Farhh, who has excellent statistics from his small crops.

The Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner is one of 14 stakes horses from just 80 runners by Farhh, who has an 11.25 per cent stakes winners-to-runners ratio.

One of the best three-year-old milers of his

The day of days for King Of Change came when the son of Farhh won the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes

generation, King Of Change never finished out of the first two in his six starts, all runs coming at around mile.

Trained by Richard Hannon, he was second on both his runs at two which came at the tail end of the season.

He then belied his inexperience in the 2000 Guineas, in which he finished second to Magna Grecia, despite having only won his maiden less than a month previously and never having run in a Group race prior to contesting the Classic.

Given a break after his Classic exertions, he next ran in the Listed Fortune Stakes at Sandown in September and made the winning breakthrough at black-type level there.

He followed that up with a return to Group 1 company and victory over a mile at Ascot on British Champions’ Day, beating a field that included Veracious, Mohaather, Phoenix Of Spain, Magna Grecia, Lord Glitters, Benbatl, Accidental Agent and his own half-brother, the Group 2 Celebration Mile winner Century Dream (Cape Cross).

That was to prove his sixth and final start, efforts to return him to the racecourse as a four-year-old failing.

He is one of three winners out of Salacia, a daughter of Echo Of Light and the Group 3 Prix Fille de l’Air winner Neptune’s Bride (Bering).

It’s an international family as Neptune’s Bride has produced stakes-placed winners in Japan, France and the UAE. Third dam Wedding Of The Sea (Blushing Groom) won the Group 3 Prix de Ris-Orangis.

Of the 15 stakes performers sired by Farrh, he has succeeded well with the Machiavellian and Seeking The Gold lines of Mr. Prospector.

King Of Change is bred this way – his damsire Echo Of Light is from the only crop of Dubai Millennium, while Farrh’s Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed son Dee Ex Bee is out of a full-sister to Dubai Millennium.

The Listed winner Fa Ul Sciur has Dubai Destination as her broodmare sire, while Machiavellian’s son Storming Home is the damsire of Group 2-placed Makawee.

Pivotal and Galileo go together like rhubarb and custard and Farhh has a Group 3 winner and a Group 3-placed winner out of Galileo mares, while Teofilo is the broodmare sire of Farhh’s Listed winner Blue Sky Dreamer and the Group 3-placed Sky Defender.

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Romanised

Holy Roman Emperor – Romantic Venture (Indian Ridge) Haras de Bouquetot €7,000 Romanised is from one of the great Moyglare Stud families, and was a dual Group 1-winning miler by Holy Roman Emperor who could be considered very unlucky not to add a third top level triumph.

From the all-conquering Danehill line, Romanised was a precocious juvenile and won on his debut in April for trainer Ken Condon. He was also second to subsequent Derby hero Masar in Sandown’s 7f Group 3 Solario Stakes.

At three, he showed plenty of pace and determination when overcoming a poor start to win the Irish 1,000 Guineas from US Navy Flag and Gustav Klimt with Elarqam further down the field.

At four, Romanised won the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois from Shaman, Line Of Duty, Watch Me and Study Of Man and was just a hair’s breadth behind Circus Maximus in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin.

That year he also won the 7f Group 2 Minstrel Stakes at The Curragh and was fourth in both the Lockinge Stakes (G1) and Queen Anne Stakes (G1). Kept in training at five, he won the Minstrel Stakes for a second time to finish a 20-race career with a record of five wins and five top four finishes.

Romanised is a three-parts brother to Holy Roman Emperor’s Hong Kong champion Designs On Rome, who was also second in the Group 1 National Stakes at The Curragh at two.

His dam Romantic Venture is an Indian Ridge full-sister to Sights On Gold, winner of the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes and second in the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase. She is also a half-sister to the Grade 2 American Derby winner and Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes fourth Simple Exchange (Danehill).

She is the dam of three further winners, including the Group 3 winner Rock Of Romance (Rock Of Gibraltar) and the Listed winner Fictional Account (Stravinsky).

Sire Holy Roman Emperor is a truly internationally successful stallion with 47 individual Group winners, 42 Listed winners and 13 individual global Group 1 winners.

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Romanised is a three-parts brother to Holy Roman Emperor’s Hong Kong champion Designs On Rome, who was also second in the Group 1 National Stakes Two of his Group 1 winners, including Romanised’s three-parts brother, were successful in Hong Kong as was the Group 2 winner Charles The Great. His progeny are very successful in that jurisdiction where soundness and longevity are prized.

The combination of the genes of champion two-year-old Holy Roman Emperor and sprinter Indian Ridge should appeal to breeders looking for speed and precocity, allied to the toughness he showed throughout his racing career.

Romanised is inbred to Northern Dancer, 4S x 4S x 5D through Danzig, Fanfreluche and The Minstrel but lacks any Sadler’s Wells blood.

He also has three lines to Northern Dancer’s dam, the great Natalma, through Holy Roman Emperor. Bringing in Natalma and her famous son through Sadler’s Wells has brought Holy Roman Emperor the Group 1 winner Rich Tapestry, and he has Group winners out of mares by Sadler’s Wells sons, including Galileo and High Chaparral.

Holy Roman Emperor is also the broodmare sire of last season’s Moyglare Stakes (G1) winner Shale (Galileo), who is out of the 1,000 Guineas winner Homecoming Queen.

Sergei Prokofiev

Scat Daddy – Orchard Beach (Tapit) Whitsbury Manor Stud £6,500 A quick and precocious colt from the final crop of Scat Daddy, Sergei Prokofiev is an exciting recruit for Whitsbury Manor Stud.

Powerfully built and with a fascinating pedigree, the Canadian-bred brought a winning bid of $1.1m from MV Magnier at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in 2016, illustrating just how handsome a colt Sergei Prokofiev has always been.

He was an early two-year-old and made his debut in April. He then finished second to the subsequent Group 1 Moyglare Stakes winner Skitter Scatter at Dundalk over 5f.

Less than a fortnight later, he won a 5f maiden by more than 7l and then took the Listed Rochestown Stakes, again over the minimum distance.

The 6f of the Group 2 Coventry Stakes didn’t faze him and he finished just a neck behind Advertise on the far side, the pair a length behind winner Calyx, who raced on the near side. Two further attempts over 6f, albeit in Group 1 company, were unsuccessful but when returned to his favoured 5f for the Cornwallis Stakes (G3), Sergei Prokofiev was once more a winner, despite a tricky passage.

On his seasonal reappearance at three he won the Listed Cork Stakes over 5.5f at Navan and he was fourth behind Mabs Cross in the Group 3 Palace House Stakes. He had two more starts in quick succession at three and ran twice at four, but he failed to recapture his earlier form.

There is a lot of Mr. Prospector in Sergei Prokofiev’s pedigree – he is inbred 5S x 3s x 5D to him and inbred 4D x 4D to his grandson Unbridled. He is also inbred 4S x 4D to the full-sisters Preach and Yarn, as is Scat Daddy’s Triple Crown-winning son Justify.

Yarn’s daughter Myth is the dam of Scat Daddy’s sire Johannesburg and her daughter Preach is the dam of Pulpit whose son Tapit is the broodmare sire of Sergei Prokofiev.

Although two of those lines of Mr. Prospector will not appear in the pedigrees of Sergei Prokofiev’s foals, and Unbridled will be back in the fifth generation of their pedigrees, if breeders are looking to add further lines of Mr. Prospector they might look at the Machiavellian or Gone West lines.

Sergei Prokofiev is also inbred 4S x 5D to Nijinksy, but he is free from any Sadler’s

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by Galileo, Montjeu and their sons and grandsons, in particular those who might need some pace injected into their pedigrees, should suit.

Danzig appears once, in the fourth generation of Sergei Prokofiev’s pedigree, and therefore will be a generation further back in his foals.

Neither of his main European conduits, Danehill and Danzig, are represented so mares by Danehill and his sons, and by sons and grandsons of Green Desert, both of which have been successful with No Nay Never, should also be considered.

Sands Of Mali

Panis – Kadiania (Indian Rocket) Ballyhane Stud €6,500 A Group 1-winning sprinter by a grandson of Mr. Prospector and with a broodmare

sire from the Ahonoora line, Sands Of Mali offers something different from many of his contemporaries at stud, and yet genes that are proven as some of the best in the world.

A fast horse and a very impressive looker, which was reflected in his position as the third-most expensive horse at the Tattersalls Ascot Breeze-Up Sale where he was purchased by Matt Coleman for the Cool Swan Partnership, Sands Of Mali developed into a top-class sprinter.

Sent to Richard Fahey’s yard, he made the step into Group 2 company in the Gimcrack Stakes at York having won his maiden over 6f on just his second start. His performance in winning the Gimcrack showed he belonged at the top – he beat Invincible Army and Cardsharp, who had previously won the Group 2 July Stakes.

At three, he won his first two starts – the Group 3 Prix Sigy and Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes – and failed by a nose to win the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup when winning

the race on the stands’ side behind only Eqtidaar who came down the centre of the track.

His final start of the season in the British Champions’ Sprint brought him Group 1 Glory defeating Harry Angel by a length with fellow Group 1 winners Brando, The Tin Man, Limato, Librisa Breeze and Dream Of Dreams all behind. He was placed twice over 6f at four, his optimum trip.

He is by Panis, who was a Group winner over mile in France and is by Miswaki, a Group 1 winner at two who was also second in the Group 1 Prix Morny.

Miswaki’s best stallion son is Black Tie Affair, who is better known as the broodmare sire of Group 1 winner and multiple Group 1 sire Mastercraftsman.

Miswaki’s main influence in pedigrees is through his brilliant daughter Urban Sea, the dam of Galileo and Sea The Stars.

Sands Of Mali is out of a mare by Indian Rocket, who is also the damsire of France’s

The new Whitsbury Manor sire Sergei Prokofiev is inbred to Mr. Prospector as well as Nijinsky but does not have any Sadler’s Wells blood in his pedigree

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new sires leading 2020 first-season sire Goken, who was a Group 3-winning sprinter and placed in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes.

Amongst the 15 winners from 37 runners sired by Goken in 2020 were the Group 3 winner and Group 2 second Go Athletico (Sageburg) and the Group 3 winner Livachope (Soave), as well as the Group 3 second Axdavali (Kodiac), who was also fourth in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin.

counting, including young sires Verrazano and champion Gun Runner, who has his first runners in 2020, while Shamardal’s daughters have produced five Group 1 winners so far including Awtaad and Hello Youmzain.

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Elarqam

Frankel – Attraction (Efisio) Haras de Saint Arnoult €6,000 The offspring of two iconic horses from this century, Elarqam is the first son of Frankel to retire to stud in France.

Bred by the late Duke of Roxburghe out of Attraction, the first filly to win both the 1,000 Guineas and Irish 1,000 Guineas, Elarqam was the fourth-most expensive yearling colt at the 2016 Tattersalls Book 1 October Sale when selling to Shadwell for 1.6m guineas.

Unbeaten in both his starts at two, he showed he had inherited some of his parents’ genes with success in the Somerville Stakes (G3) over 7f on his first step into pattern company. He was fourth to Saxon Warrior in the 2,000 Guineas on his debut at three and just half a length third to Thundering Blue in the York Stakes (G2).

He won two 1m2f Listed contests at four and beat Addeybb to win the Group 2 York Stakes a year after his third place in the race.

His best Group 1 performance was his third place behind Japan and Crystal Ocean in the International at York in 2019.

Elarqam was kept in training as a fiveyear-old and signed off his racing career with success in the Group 3 Legacy Cup over 1m3f, the furthest distance he raced over.

His sire Frankel, like his sire Galileo, has worked very well with mares by Pivotal and two of his 11 Group 1 winners have Pivotal as their broodmare sire.

Frankel’s first Group 1 winner Soul Stirring is out of a mare by Monsun and mares by him and sons such as Shirocco and Manduro and grandson Ultra should be considered.

The Machiavellian-line broodmare sires also work well with Frankel, and Galileo, which should also appeal for Elarqam.

Elarqam after galloping at Newmarket

Far Above

Farhh – Dorraar (Shamardal) Starfield Stud €6,000 An inexpensive yearling who developed into a six-figure breeze-up horse, Far Above looked an exciting embryonic sprinter until injury forced his retirement.

He is the first foal out of Dorraar, who raced six times at three, winning once over 7f and being placed twice at that trip.

Her dam is a Dubai Millennium half-sister to Group 1 Prix de l’Opera and Grade 1 Flower Bowl Stakes winner Nahrain (Selkirk), who is in turn the dam of Dubawi’s Group 1 Dubai Turf winner Benbatl.

Unraced at two, Far Above made a winning debut over 7f at three and was fourth in the King Charles II Stakes on his next start.

Dropped to 6f for a Windsor novice next time, he showed plenty of speed to go clear, and then won the Prix Kistena at Deauville on his fourth and final run of the season.

Off the track for 11 months, he won the Group 3 Palace House Stakes at Newmarket on his only start of 2020, showing an impressive turn of foot in victory.

Far Above is one of nine stakes winners

by Farrh and is a grandson of Shamardal, a significant pedigree pointer as he and his sire Giant’s Causeway look like leaving a lasting mark on the breed.

Giant’s Causeway is the broodmare sire of 26 individual Grade 1 winners and

Shamardal – Only Green (Green Desert) Yeomanstown Stud €6,000 Shaman has a stallion’s pedigree as a son of the brilliant Shamardal from the Wertheimer’s brilliant Only Seule branch of Fall Aspen’s family, and yet he is the most affordable son of Shamardal at stud in Ireland.

Trained by Carlos Laffon-Parias, the Wertheimer homebred ran five times at two winning twice including on debut over 7f at Chantilly and at 7.5f in Deauville.

He was also second in the Listed Prix François Boutin and third in the mile Group 3 Prix des Chenes. At three he won the Group 3 Prix La Force and the Listed Prix Omnium before his second behind Persian King in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains.

He was also second to Romanised in the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois beating Group 1 winners Line Of Duty, Watch Me and Study Of Man, and also finished third in the Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein on Arc weekend.

He stepped up in trip last season and won the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt over 1m2f, defeating Group 1 winners Trip To Paris and Sottsass, and was third to that pair in the Group 1 Prix Ganay.

Shaman has a wonderful pedigree – he is out of the Green Desert mare Only Green, a Listed winner and Group 3-placed halfsister to the champion Occupandiste. She is the dam of Group 1 winner and sire Mondialiste, and second dam of Group 1 winner and Group 1 sire Intello.

She is also the second dam of Kalahara (Frankel), a Group 3 winner at two in France last year. Second dam Only Seule is a winning half-sister to the July Cup winner and sire Elnadim and the 1,000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf, the third dam of Ribchester.

His third dam is Elle Seule, winner of the

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new sires Group 2 Prix d’Astarte and a half-sister to Group 1 winners and sires Hamas, Fort Wood and Timber Country, and to the Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Colorado Dancer, the dam of Dubai Millennium.

His fourth dam is the Grade 1 Matron Stakes winner and blue hen Fall Aspen, dam of eight graded winners and the Listed winner and Kentucky Derby third Prince Of Thieves.

Threat

Footstepsinthesand – Flare Of Firelight (Birdstone) Haras du Mont Goubert €6,000 Threat was a high-class juvenile and hails from a beautiful Niarchos-produced family that has relatives already embarking on stud careers in Europe.

Bred at Ringfort Stud, Threat was the most expensive foal by Footstepsinthesand sold at auction in 2017 making 100,000gns to Capital Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Sale.

He was trained by Richard Hannon for Cheveley Park Stud and was a precocious racehorse and made a winning debut over 5f at Newmarket’s Guineas meeting.

He ran six times at two, winning three times adding the Group 2 Gimcrack and Railway Stakes to his debut success. Threat was also a close second to Arizona in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes and second to Golden Horde in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes.

His best result in three runs at three was fifth in the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) and his three career wins came over 5f, 6f and 7f.

Threat is the first foal out of Flare Of Firelight, a Birdstone half-sister to the Listed winner That Which Is Not out of the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Shiva (Hector Protector).

She is a half-sister to Light Shift, who gave the late Sir Henry Cecil his final Oaks winner, and is the dam of the Group 1 Eclipse and International Stakes winner Ulysses (Galileo), whose first foals are two-year-olds this year.

She is also a half-sister to Burning Sunset, a Listed winner and dam of Group 2 winner Smoking Sun and of the Group 3-placed Ikat, who produced the triple Grade 1 winner and champion Main Sequence (Aldebaran).

Another half-sister is the dam of champion and Group 1 winner Cloth Of Stars (Sea The

Stars) and she is also a half-sister to the Group 2 winner and sire Limnos.

The 2,000 Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand is from the only European crop of Giant’s Causeway and one of two main conduits for the Iron Horse in Europe, the other being Shamardal.

Van Beethoven

Scat Daddy – My Sister Sandy (Montbrook) Haras de Grandcamp €6,000 The Group 2 Railway Stakes winner is a powerfully-built horse, who looks like the precocious and fast two-year-old that he was.

Van Beethoven ran eight times in his juvenile season making his debut in a 5f Newmarket maiden at the Craven meeting and then winning on his second start over 6f at Naas.

He was then second in the 6f Listed Marble Hill Stakes to Fairyland, who went on to win the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes.

A fourth to Soldier’s Call in Royal Ascot’s Listed Windsor Castle Stakes preceeded his Railway Stakes win, while his best result at two was fourth in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, behind Group 1 winners Too Darn Hot and Phoenix Of Spain.

His highlight at three was a second place in the mile Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes.

Although Canadian-bred and with a top class American female family, Van Beethoven has many facets of his pedigree that will be familiar to European breeders.

He is out of the winning Montbrook mare My Sister Sandy, a full-sister to the Listed winner and the Grade 3 third Exotic Bloom, the dam of triple Grade 1 winner Stopchargingmaria

by Tale Of The Cat. My Sister Sandy is also a half-sister to the Listed

winner and Grade 3 second See Tobe and the Listed-placed filly See Alice.

The pedigree of Van Beethoven is free from Sadler’s Wells and Danzig with their sire Northern Dancer appearing just once in the fifth generation. Van Beethoven should be suitable on paper for a significant majority of mares.

No Nay Never has done particularly well with the two main branches of Danzig’s sire line, with his two northern-hemisphere Group 1 winners coming from this source.

His Group 1 July Cup and Middle Park Stakes winner Ten Sovereigns is out of a mare

by Exceed And Excel, while his 2020 Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Alcohol Free has Danzig’s son Hard Spun as broodmare sire.

The Group 2 winner Land Force is out of a Rock Of Gibraltar mare and No Nay Never has had Group and Listed winners with daughters of Cape Cross, Oasis Dream and Sea The Stars. Scat Daddy sired the Group 1 winner and young sire Sioux Nation out of a daughter of Oasis Dream

Legends Of War

Scat Daddy – Madera Dancer (Rahy) March Hare Stud £5,000 Another new sire from the final crop of Scat Daddy, Legends Of War is a Grade 3-winning

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new sires sprinter, who was a precocious juvenile and won a 6f maiden on debut at York’s Dante meeting.

Legends Of War topped the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale in 2018 selling for 900,000gns to Stephen Hillen. He was sold

by Mayfield Stables having been a $200,000 yearling purchased at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Sale.

Sent into training with John Gosden, he made a winning debut a month after his breeze-up appearance and won a 6f Newbury novice in July. Legends Of War was also second in the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes and fourth in the Flying Childers Stakes (G2) and Criterium de Maisons-Lafitte (G2).

He was transferred to the US and the barn of Doug O’Neill after his two-year-old season where he won the Grade 3 Franklin-Simpson Stakes on Kentucky Down’s 6.5f Turf track and was also successful over 5f on Turf at Del Mar. Despite his US origins, his family is a French one and his dam’s breeding is very European.

She is a daughter of Rahy and out of a Danehill Dancer mare named Maxie Arte, Rumble Inthejungle wins at Royal Ascot

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a Listed winner over a mile on Turf at Del Mar. Maxie Arte’s dam is a winning Shardari full-sister to the Group 3 Prix Minerve winner Linnga and a half-sister to the dam of Lidakiya, dam of the dual Group 1 winner and sire Linngari and second dam of Mont Ormel, victorious in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris.

The additional lines of inbreeding to Mr. Prospector with which Scat Daddy and No Nay Never have found success that should be possible with Legends Of War, who doesn’t have a trace of Mr. Prospector within the first five generations on his dam side.

His pedigree is free of Sadler’s Wells and Green Desert, which makes him an option for both those lines of broodmare sires, and both have enjoyed success with No Nay Never and Scat Daddy, who is the sire of Group 1-winning sprinter Sioux Nation out of a mare

by Oasis Dream. Sadler’s Wells himself is the damsire of Group 3 winner Shadn by No Nay Never, while No Nay Never has 25 per cent stakes winners-to-runners with mares by Galileo.

River Boyne

Dandy Man – Clytha (Mark Of Esteem) Tara Stud €5,000 The first son to retire to stud by the internationally successful stallion Dandy Man, River Boyne is one of three top level winners by his sire.

Successful in the Grade 1 Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes at Santa Anita last spring, River Boyne finished outside the first four just three times in a 21-race career which lasted four seasons.

Trained initially by Gordon Elliott, River Boyne ran three times for his Irish connections at two before he was sold to Red Baron’s Barn and Rancho Temescal at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale.

His new owners shipped him to California and the Jeff Mullins barn at Santa Anita where he made a winning debut, still just two.

At three he won the Grade 2 Twilight Derby over 9f and the Matthis Brothers Mile (G2), the Grade 3 La Jolla Handicap, two Listed contests and finished second to Raging Bull in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby.

As a four-year-old he was second in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile Stakes and was kept

in training at five when he won the Grade 1 Frank E Kilroe Mile and the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes. He won nine stakes races, seven of them Group contests, between a mile and 9f.

He is not the first member of his family to find gold in California as his dam’s halfbrother Ventiquattrofogli won the Grade 2 Colonel FW Koester Handicap at Santa Anita.

He had also had a successful European racing career – he won the Group 3 Ostermann Pokal and finished third in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes.

Clytha is also a half-sister to the Listed winner Irish Fighter and the dam of Listed winner and Group 3 placed sire Elasos.

Second dam India Atlanta is a half-sister to Group 3-winning miler Sinyar and to the winning dam of Group 3 winner Campfire Glow.

Rumble Inthejungle

Bungle Inthejungle – Guana (Dark Angel) Norman Court Stud £3,500 From the first crop of Bungle Inthejungle, the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes winner and Group 1 Middle Park Stakes third was bred to be fast.

His sire won the Cornwallis and the Molecomb, both 5f Group 3 contests, and his dam is an unraced daughter of the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Dark Angel.

Rumble Inthejungle is from a family of precocious and quick horses – his dam is a three-parts sister to the Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner and the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf-placed Birchwood, who is at stud in France.

Rumble Inthejungle’s dam Guana Bay is an unraced Cadeaux Genereux three-parts sister to Prince Sabo, who won the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and the Group 3 Palace House Stakes and was the sire of Fire Up The Band.

She is also a half-sister to the Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chene and Group 3 Molecomb Stakes and Prix du Petit Couvert winner Millyant (Primo Dominie), who is the dam of dual Group 3 Prix du Petit Couvert winner Mirza, a daughter of Oasis Dream.

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

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

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

52% winners to runners

Won Gr.2 Prix d’Noailles

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new sires Her Never So Bold half-sister Bold Jessie was a Listed winner and produced the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner and sire Abou Zouz and the Listed Surrey Stakes winner Jentzen, both by Miswaki.

Third dam Jubilee Song (Song) was a winner at three and is a full-sister to the multiple Group and Graded-placed Shark Song, who is the third dam of Australian Group 2 winner and Group 1 third Rosden.

She is also a half-sister to the third dam of Lady Macapa, yet another winner of the Group 3 Prix du Petit Couvert in the family of Rumble Inthejungle. He is one of five stakes winners from the first three crops of Bungle Inthejungle, who is the sire of 2020’s juvenile Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes winner Winter Power and Listed Prix des Reves d’Or winner and Group 1 Prix Morny fourth Acapulco Gold.

Tip Two Win

Dark Angel – Freddie’s Girl (More Than Ready) £3,500 March Hare Stud A Listed-winning son of Dark Angel, who was second to Saxon Warrior in the 2,000 Guineas and fourth to Without Parole in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes, Tip Two Win is one of 63 individual stakes winners out of daughters of the brilliant shuttle sire More Than Ready, including last season’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Structor.

Owned and bred by Anne Cowley, Tip Two Win was never out of the first three in six starts at two, and he made a winning debut over 6f before stepping up to 7f successfully in the Listed Flying Scotsman Stakes.

He was also second to Elarqam in the Group 3 Somerville Stakes and filled the same position in the 6f Listed Two-Year-Old Trophy at Ripon.

He wintered in Doha where he won the Qatari Group 2 Al Bidddah Mile as a threeyear-old, before returning to Roger Teal’s yard for his Classic campaign. In five starts at four and five, his best result was fifth in the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes over 6f at Newbury last summer.

Tip Two Win’s family is deeply American and his second dam Carib Gal is an Awesome Again unraced half-sister to Bema, the Listed-winning dam of Listed Lacken

Stakes winner and Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes second Due Diligence. A son of War Front, Due Diligence made an exciting start with his first crop of two-year-olds in 2019.

Lethal Force, winner of the Diamond Jubilee Stakes and July Cup, is the first son of Dark Angel to sire a Group 1 winner at stud – Commonwealth Cup winner Golden Horde.

Tip Two Win is inbred 4S x 5D to Mr. Prospector via Machiavellian, damsire of Dark Angel, and Woodman, who is More Than Ready’s damsire. He is also inbred 5S x 4D to Halo, broodmare sire of Machiavellian and grandsire of More Than Ready.

Almanaara

Shamardal – Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) Mickley Stud £3,000 One of the most affordable sons of Shamardal at stud in England, Almanaara is an exciting stallion prospect based on his pedigree.

He is a half-brother to leading European sire Dark Angel and is bred along similar lines to the brilliant Lope De Vega, being even more closely inbred to Machiavellian than the sire of 13 individual Group 1 winners is.

Almanaara was a tough and sound racehorse who ran 18 times over six seasons, excelling over sprint trips.

From three runs at two for Dermot Weld and Shadwell, who paid 370,000gns for him from Ballylinch Stud at Book 1, his best was second place in a 7f Limerick maiden. He ran three times for Weld at three and broke his maiden in a Tipperary 7.5f maiden.

Almanaara moved to Doug Watson in Dubai before his four-year-old career and over three seasons ran 12 times over 5f to 7f. His final victory was a defeat of Groupwinning sprinter Caspian Prince over 5f at Meydan during last year’s Dubai Carnival.

He is a half-brother to four winners, including the Listed winner and Mill Reef Stakes(G2) second Angel’s Pursuit, out of the unraced Machiavellian mare Midnight Angel, making him 3S x 2D to Machiavellian.

Midnight Angel’s dam Night At Sea was a Listed-winning sprinter by Night Shift and is a half-sister to the Listed second Vikings Bay. Mares by Acclamation might be a good fit with Almanaara reinforcing speed and adding precocity.

Southern Hills

Gleneagles – Remember You (Invincible Spirit) March Hare Stud £3,000 The first son of Gleneagles to retire to stud, Southern Hills was also the first stakes winner for his sire winning the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes.

That success was the highlight of Southern Hills’ career on his third and final start at two.

Obviously, he had shown speed and precocity at Ballydoyle as he made his debut in the 5f Listed Marble Hill Stakes when fifth to Siskin.

He was second by a neck in a maiden over course and distance before Royal Ascot.

Southern Hills raced three times at three with seventh place in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup the best of his efforts.

He is one of seven black-type winners from the first two crops of the champion two-yearold and 2,000 Guineas winner Gleneagles.

Southern Hills is inbred 4x4 to the blue hen Allegretta through her daughter Urban Sea and her Group 1 2,000 Guineas-winning son King’s Best, who is the broodmare sire of Remember You, the dam of Southern Hills.

He is the first foal of the winning two-yearold Remember You, a daughter of Invincible Spirit, who was second in the Round Tower Stakes (G3) and third in the Listed Cork Stakes.

Yafta

Dark Angel – Swiss Dream (Oasis Dream) Haras de Saint Arnoult €2,500 An attractive colt who topped the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale when making Yafta: sex-balanced linebred to Ahonoora

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new sires £280,000 to Shadwell in 2016, then the jointhighest price in the sale’s history.

Yafta is a grandson of Lordship Stud’s excellent producer Swiss Lake and the grey son of Dark Angel boasts a pedigree that is pure speed and precocity.

His sire is a Group 1-winning two-year-old and his dam Swiss Dream is a three-time Listed-winning sprinter, who won over 5f at two and is by the July Cup (G1) winner and top class sire Oasis Dream.

She is a half-sister to the Group 3 Prix de Meautry and Prix de Petit Couvert winner Swiss Diva, who is the dam of Listed Criterium de Vitesse winner Poetry, and to the Group 3 winner and Group 2-placed sprinter and sire Swiss Spirit, as well as Swiss Franc, who was placed in the Coventry, Gimcrack and July Stakes (all G2).

Second dam won the Listed St Hugh’s Stakes and the Lansdown Stakes and was second in the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes.

She has a perfect record as a broodmare with all 12 of her foals running and winning. It is also the further family of the Group 2 King George Stakes winner and Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes second and sire Anita’s Prince.

Swiss Lake is a daughter of Indian Ridge, and sex-balanced linebreeding to Ahonoora is a feature of Yafta’s pedigree. Ahonoora’s daughter Princess Athena is the dam of Dark Angel’s sire Acclamation.

Yafta showed soundness and toughness in a career that lasted four seasons and took in 18 races. He was twice a winner at two and won the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes at three with subsequent Group 1 winner Dream Of Dreams in third. He was also second by a head in the Group 3 Abernant Stakes and third in the Group 2 City Of York Stakes at four, all over 6f.

Hey Gaman

New Approach – Arsaadi (Dubawi) Haras du Taillis €2,250 A Classic-placed miler bred along similar lines to the excellent young sire Night Of Thunder, Hey Gaman offers a pedigree possessing three lines of Ahonoora, not something that is replicated in many stallions currently at stud.

Ahonoora appears through Hey Gaman’s sire New Approach whose dam Park Express

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is a daughter of Ahonoora, and through Hey Gaman’s second dam Arsad, who is by Cape Cross, another leading sire with Ahonoora as his damsire, and out of Astuti who is granddaughter of Ahonoora.

Hey Gaman is a son of New Approach and out of the Dubawi mare Arsaadi so bred on a variation of the Dubawi-Galileo cross that has produced the dual Group 1 winner and sire Night Of Thunder and last year’s top-rated racehorse and new sire for 2020 Ghaiyyath.

On the track Hey Gaman excelled at the intermediate trip of 7f winning the Group 3 Prix du Palais-Royal and Listed King Richard III Stakes at that trip and placing in the Lennox Stakes and Minstrel Stakes, both 7f Group 2 contests.

He was also second in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains and third in the Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein over the same course and distance.

Hey Gaman ran seven times at two winning three times. Two of those victories came over 6f and the third at 7f, and he was a neck second to Seahenge in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster.

Night Of Thunder is the sire of ten Group winners from his first two crops, and three of them are out of mares by Green Desert and his sons. Green Desert would be in the fifth generation of the pedigrees of Hey Gaman’s foals, as he is in Night Of Thunder’s foals, so mares by Invincible Spirit, Oasis Dream and their sons might work with him.

Portamento

Shamardal – Octave (Unbridled’s Song) Hedgeholme Stud £1,500 Portamento’s sire and broodmare sire are outstanding – he is a son of Shamardal and out of a mare by Unbridled’s Song – he is inbred 4S x 5D to the great Mr. Prospector through the two, distinct lines, and also inbred 4D x 4D to Caro, broodmare sire of Unbridled’s Song.

He certainly got Caro’s grey genes and, potentially much more importantly, the influential DNA from the stallion.

Although he is from a sire line descended from Northern Dancer, who appears once in the fifth generation of his pedigree, and he is free from the influence of Sadler’s Wells, Danehill and Green Desert making him an outcross for the majority of mares.

Broodmare sire Unbridled’s Song is one of the the main conduits for the Fappiano line of Mr. Prospector; the champion sire and Breeders’ Cup winner is the broodmare sire of stallions including Carpe Diem (by Shamardal’s sire Giant’s Causeway), Maclean’s Music and Tourist amongst others.

Portamento is bred in the purple – his dam Octave won the Grade 1 Mother Goose Stakes and the Coaching Club American Oaks and was placed in six more Grade 1 races.

She is the dam of three winners, including Portamento, and is a half-sister to Grade 2 Top Flight Handicap winner Belle Cherie and Listed Square Stakes winner Be Mine Tonight, both by Belong To Me. They are out of Belle Nuit, a Listed winner and half-sister to the dual Grade 1 winner Ms Eloise.

Portamento ran 38 times in six seasons and won six races at the ages of two, three and six. A winner over 5f and 6f at two, he was second in the 6f Listed Doncaster Stakes and the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes at three and at seven was third in the Group 2 Meydan Sprint to Blue Point, both 6f races.

Portamento: is out of the dual Grade 1 winner Octave

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the master list

The master list

THE FINAL LIST: SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2020 Horses are listed under their sire with the respective broodmare sire in brackets.

Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including December 31, 2020 Data from Hyperion Promotions

Acclamation Al Siq (King’s Best) Pretreville (Fusaichi Pegasus) Testa (Whipper) Ventura Tormenta (Oasis Dream) Adlerflug Dicaprio (Acatenango) In Swoop (Tiger Hill) Mythico (Monsun) Torquator Tasso (Toylsome) Al Kazeem Aspetar (Dansili) Harper (Averti) Saint Lawrence (Oasis Dream) Usak (Giant’s Causeway) Alhebayeb Lustown Baba (Danehill Dancer) Amaron Run Wild (Cadeaux Genereux) American Devil Lupo Nero (Okawango)

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

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Harmless (Pivotal) Hayzum (Teofilo) Neige Blanche (Muhtathir) Appel Au Maitre Suspicious Mind (Hernando) Approve El Astronaute (Footstepsinthesand) Waady (Jade Robbery) Arcano Bonita Queen (Refuse To Bend) Rusumaat (Shamardal) Spinning Memories (Hard Spun) Areion Alson (Galileo) Freestyler (Swedish Shave) Lancade (Sabiango) Rubaiyat (Lomitas) Schwesterherz (Singspiel) Sun At Work (Royal Solo) Wonnemond (Surako) Australia Bangkok (Darshaan) Buckhurst (Green Desert) Cayenne Pepper (Elusive Quality) Epona Plays (Oratorio) Galileo Chrome (Dansili) Leo De Fury (Danehill Dancer) Mare Australis (Rainbow Quest) Patrick Sarsfield (Lawman) Authorized Euchen Glen (Kingmambo)

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Santiago (Cape Cross) Bahamian Bounty Tarboosh (Oasis Dream)

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

3 3 3L

Belardo Belloccio (Mastercraftsman) Elysium (Hawk Wing) Isabella Giles (Dubawi) Lullaby Moon (Indesatchel)

L 3 23 3L

Bernardini Capezzano (Unbridled’s Song) Blu Air Force Fulminix (Peintre Celebre) Thunderman (Unbridled’s Song) Brazen Beau Dubai Station (Iffraaj) Bungle Inthejungle Acapulco Gold (Mujahid) Winter Power (Titus Livius) Cable Bay Collinsbay (Kyllachy) Jouska (Kingmambo) Liberty Beach (Avonbridge) Camacho With Thanks (Kheleyf)

Camelot Bolleville (Dubai Destination) L Current Option (Exceed And Excel) 3 L English King (Zafonic) L Even So (Danehill) 1L King’s Harlequin (Invincible Spirit) 3 L Lady Wannabe (Duke Of Marmalade) 3 L Light My Fire (Orpen) L Skyward (Giant’s Causeway) 3 Sunny Queen (Darshaan) 1LL Campanologist Oriental Eagle (Big Shuffle) Canford Cliffs Cima Emergency (Singspiel) Jin Jin (Okawango)

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Cape Cross Century Dream (Echo Of Light) Nkosikazi (Daylami) Walton Street (Encosta De Lago) Casamento Malotru (Dubawi) Champs Elysees Dame Malliot (Galileo) Durance (Lando) Elisa Again (Shirocco) Heliac (Galileo) Way To Paris (Cozzene) Withhold (Fantastic Light) Charm Spirit Fantastic Spirit (Fantastic Light) Kick On (Marju)

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the master list Time Scale (Holy Roman Emperor)

L

City Zip Dariyma (Danehill Dancer)

L

Cityscape Urban Icon (Shamardal)

L

Clodovil Certain Lad (Galileo) 3L Duca Di Como (Elusive Quality) L L L L L Majestic Colt (Dubawi) LLL Silberpfeil (Royal Applause) L Steel Bull (Equiano) 3 Tiger Tanaka (Zoffany) 13 Coulsty Santosha (Zoffany) Sopran Aragorn (Carson City) Suicide Squad (Dutch Art)

3 L L

Croco Rouge Monsieur Croco (Dananeyev)

L

Curlin Gladiator King (Hennessy) Dabirsim Celestin (Elusive City) Velma Valento (Echo Of Light) Dandy Man Dandalla (Elnadim) Happy Romance (Marju) Royal Address (Shamardal) Ventura Diamond (Zamindar) Dansili Berlin Tango (Sadler’s Wells) Dubai Warrior (Galileo) Runnymede (Sadler’s Wells) Sorrel (Dalakhani) Stylistique (Oasis Dream) Dark Angel Althiqa (Shamardal) Art Power (Keltos) Battaash (Lawman) Fantasy Lady (Shamardal) Gussy Mac (Dansili) Happy Power (Selkirk) Hareem Queen (Shamardal) Indie Angel (Sir Percy) Mountain Angel (Groom Dancer)

88

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23 3 L L

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Mubtasimah (Anabaa) Sonaiyla (More Than Ready) Top Rank (Authorized) Dawn Approach Poetic Flare (Rock Of Gibraltar) Deep Impact Fancy Blue (Sadler’s Wells) Katara (New Approach) Desert Prince Coccoloba (Orpen) Distorted Humor Ebaiyra (Rock Of Gibraltar) Dominus Parsimony (Lil E Tee) Dragon Pulse Wealth Of Love (Definite Article) Dream Ahead Dark Vision (Dansili) Dream Of Dreams (Dansili) Glass Slippers (Mind Games) Dubawi Al Suhail (Shirocco)

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11 L

L

23

L

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

LL Dunaden Ranch Hand (High Chaparral) 2L 12 1

L

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

L

3 3L L L

Volfango (Peintre Celebre) Eishin Dunkirk I Kirk (Johannesburg) Elusive City King David (Montjeu) National Service (Allied Forces)

L

LL

L 3

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

L L

Epaulette Amica Nostra (Royal Applause)

L

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

3LLL L

Es Que Love Que Amoro (Mr Greeley)

L

Estidhkaar Belcarra (Lomitas)

L

the master list Exceed And Excel Harry’s Bar (Efisio) Lady Princess (Invincible Spirit) Miss Celestial (Azamour) Sceptical (Trippi)

Frozen Juke (Tiger Hill) L L L L

Excelebration Barney Roy (Galileo) 1112 Bounce The Blues (Cadeaux Genereux) L Speak In Colours (Verglas) 23 The Conqueror (Noverre) 33LLL Farhh Far Above (Shamardal) Fast Company Safe Voyage (Mujadil) Fastnet Rock Monday (Galileo) One Master (Pivotal)

3

22L

L 13

First Defence Siskin (Oasis Dream) Tilsit (Dansili)

1 3

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

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Foxwedge Foxtrot Lady (Danehill Dancer) Frankel Alpinista (Hernando) Call The Wind (Inchinor) Collide (Daylami) Elarqam (Efisio) Franconia (Pivotal) Frankly Darling (Daylami) Kalahara (Green Desert) Majestic Noor (Danehill Dancer) Master Of Reality (Darshaan) Restiany (Kendargent) Veracious (Pivotal) Free Eagle Khalifa Sat (Tenby) Frozen Power

3

L 23 L 3 LL 2 3 L L L L

L

Fuisse Tour To Paris (Kendor)

L

2

Galileo Amma Grace (Danehill) L Anthony Van Dyck (Exceed And Excel) 2 Armory (Danehill Dancer) 3 Circus Maximus (Danehill Dancer) 1 Dawn Patrol (Darshaan) 3 Delphi (Oasis Dream) 3L Divinely (Intikhab) 3 High Definition (Fastnet Rock) 2 Keats (Air Express) L Laburnum (Danehill) L Lancaster House (Oasis Dream) 3 Lone Eagle (Duke Of Marmalade) 3 Love (Pivotal) 111 Lovelier (Choisir) L Magic Attitude (Exceed And Excel) 3 Magic Wand (Dansili) 2 Magical (Pivotal) 111 Mogul (Danehill) 13 Nayef Road (Danehill Dancer) 3 Nobel Prize (Danehill) 3 Pablo Escobarr (Dansili) 3 Passion (Anabaa) 3 Peaceful (Stravinsky) 1 Russian Emperor (Fastnet Rock) 3 Search For A Song (Danehill) 1 Serpentine (Danehill Dancer) 1 Shale (Holy Roman Emperor) 13 Snow (Desert King) 3 Tiger Moth (Mujadil) 3 Tuscan Gaze (Rainbow Quest) 2

Galiway Galova (Dashing Blade) Kenway (Kendargent) Sealiway (Kendargent) Wanaway (Indian Rocket) Gleneagles Freyja (Danehill) Measure Of Time (Theatrical) Royal Dornoch (Danehill Dancer) Silence Please (Machiavellian) Tabera (Oratorio) Goken Go Athletico (Sageburg) Livachope (Soave)

L L 1L L

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3 3L

Golden Horn Gold Wand (Mr Greeley)

L

Goldencents Wildman Jack (Orientate)

3

Gregorian Plainchant (Doyen) Queen Jo Jo (Siphon)

23L 3

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

2L L L

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

2 22 L

Havana Gold Tabdeed (Peintre Celebre)

3

Heeraat Freed From Desire (Avonbridge)

L

Helmet Taamol (Montjeu)

L

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

3 3 3

Intense Focus Aviateur (Teofilo) Party Goer (Byron)

3 3

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

3 L

L L 2 3

Hot Streak A Case Of You (Key Of Luck)

3

Hunter’s Light Irska (Medicean)

3

Hurricane Cat Hurricane Dream (Siyouni)

L

Iffraaj Judicial (Marju) 3L Major Partnership (Polish Precedent) L

LL

LL L LLLL 112L L 3 L

3

Joshua Tree Top Max (Cape Cross)

LL

Jukebox Jury Arktis (Acatenango) Princess Zoe (Tiger Hill) Santa Rita (Act One)

L 1L L

Kamsin Nica (Santiago)

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

Intello In Front (Shirocco)

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

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

2

3 L 3L 3 23 L L

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

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Surrounding (Doubletour)

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

Lope De Vega Angel Power (Aussie Rules) Antonia De Vega (Duke Of Marmalade) Arapaho (Dansili) Cadillac (Dansili) Kalifornia Queen (Sinndar) La Barrosa (Montjeu) Lucky Vega (Cape Cross) Manuela De Vega (Daylami) Parchemin (Teofilo) Simeen (Oasis Dream) Surf Dancer (Invincible Spirit)

Kodi Bear Cobh (Royal Applause) Kodiac Bahrain Pride (Sea The Stars) Campanelle (Namid) Captain Magnum (Dark Angel) Frenetic (Forest Wildcat) Havana Love (Galileo) Hello Youmzain (Shamardal) K Club (Street Sense) Nando Parrado (Roy) Ubettabelieveit (Mujadil) Umm Kulthum (Shamardal) Zoetic (Zamindar) Lawman Be My Sheriff (Machiavellian) Pretty Gorgeous (Compton Place) Salonlove (Bluebird) Le Havre Bebeautiful (Three Valleys) Extreme Fast (Motivator) Glycon (Singspiel) Karlarina (Speedmaster) Motamarris (Anabaa) Normandy Bridge (Silver Hawk) Port Guillaume (Turtle Bowl) Vaucelles (Teofilo) Wonderful Tonight (Montjeu) Lemon Drop Kid Mark Of Approval (Speightstown) Red Verdon (Choisir)

3L 12

L

L 12 L LLL L 1 3 2 2L 3 L

23 12 L

L L 3 L L 3 2 2 113

L 2L

Leroidesanimaux Le Don De Vie (Selkirk)

L

Lethal Force Golden Horde (Pivotal)

1

Librettist Pretending (Machiavellian) Lilbourne Lad Its The Only Way (Barathea) Johnny Drama (Whipper)

90

L

23 3L L 2 2 3 1 23 L L L

Lord Chaparral Aldrodovar (Desert King)

L

Lord Kanaloa Know It All (Rainbow Quest)

3

Lord Of England Peaches (Sholokhov) Queen Rouge (Dubawi) Stex (Law Society) Make Believe Believe In Love (Kahyasi) Mishriff (Raven’s Pass) Rose Of Kildare (Sixties Icon) Makfi Mykiss (Turtle Bowl)

L L 23LL

3 12L 3

L

Manduro Good Question (Olden Times) LLL Soul Train (Special Nash) 3 Square De Luynes (Dashing Blade) 3 Time To Choose (Orpen) L Mastercraftsman Barrington Court (Desert Prince) Cabaletta (Galileo) Extra Elusive (Hennessy) Masterwin (Monsun) Quian (Monsun) Masterstroke Miss Extra (Keltos)

LL L 33 LL 23L

2L

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

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Walderbe (Dai Jin)

23

Mayson Maystar (Multiplex) Oxted (Choisir)

L 13

Medaglia D’Oro Magny Cours (A P Indy)

LL

Medicean Namos (Areion)

333

Mehmas Acklam Express (Vale Of York) Method (Iffraaj) Minzaal (Clodovil) Supremacy (Arcano)

L L 2 12

Mesnil Des Aigles Air De Valse (Poliglote)

3L

More Than Ready Important Mission (Cactus Ridge) Motivator Thalyia (Anabaa) Mount Nelson Dato (Grand Slam) Spirit Of Nelson (Invincible Spirit) Muhaarar Mujbar (Acclamation) Paix (Montjeu)

L

L 3

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Mujahid Vis A Vis (Intense Focus)

2

L

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

2L 12 22 3 L 3 23 L

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

2L 3

Night Of Thunder Auyantepui (Montjeu) Dubai Love (Dylan Thomas) Lady Penelope (Nayef) Molatham (Pivotal) No Limit Credit (Barathea) Stormy Girl (Clodovil) Suesa (Orpen) Thundering Nights (Cape Cross) Thunderous (Dalakhani) Under The Stars (Invincible Spirit)

2L L L 3 3 L L 3 2 L

L

Muhtathir Mille Et Mille (Monsun)

Mukhadram Badram (Orpen)

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

L

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

1 3 L 2

Noble Mission Spanish Mission (Street Cry)

2L

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

L L LL

Olympic Glory Etonian (Indian Charlie) Grand Glory (Daylami) Lucky Lycra (Pivotal) Watch Me (Galileo)

3 3L 3 1L

Outstrip Gold Trip (Dubai Destination)

2

Pastoral Pursuits Ventura Rebel (Firebreak)

3

Peintre Celebre Power Euro (Galileo)

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Pivotal Addeybb (Kingmambo) Glen Shiel (Big Shuffle) Last Empire (Komaite) Romola (New Approach) Saltonstall (Winged Love) Planteur Agnes (Sadler’s Wells) Road To Arc (Exit To Nowhere) Trueshan (General Holme)

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

1L 13 L L L

L L 2L

L L 3 L

Polish Vulcano Sir Polski (Lando) Pounced Chiaro Di Luna (Intikhab)

3

LL

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

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

L 3 3 2L L

Prince Of Lir The Lir Jet (Green Desert) Raven’s Pass Lemista (Arcano) Matterhorn (Darshaan) Pisanello (Peintre Celebre) Red Jazz Jazz Explosion (Candy Ride) Urban Beat (Blues Traveller) Redoute’s Choice Enbihaar (Trempolino) Reliable Man Adrian (Desert Style) Akribie (Haafhd)

2

23L 1 L

L 3

22

L L

Moonlight Man (Pentire) Quiet Times (Street Cry)

L L

Requinto Only Time (Nayef)

L

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

L L

Roderic O’Connor Ornais (Henrythenavigator)

L

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

L

Saint Anddan Thegreatcollection (Cactus Ridge)

L

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3 2LL

2

Sea The Moon Alignak (Alzao) L Alpine Star (Rahy) 1 Pondus (Green Desert) L Preciosa (Areion) L Privilegiado (Singspiel) 3 Quest The Moon (Rock Of Gibraltar) 2 Tickle Me Green (Groom Dancer) L Wonderful Moon (Lomitas) 233 Sea The Stars Al Aasy (Shamardal) Alpen Rose (Holy Roman Emperor) Baptism (Holy Roman Emperor) Boerhan (Fasliyev) Cepheus (Van Nistelrooy) Conte De Fee (Tiger Hill) Eagles By Day (Golan) Fanny Logan (Manduro) Hukum (Kingmambo) Miss Yoda (Sholokhov) Raabihah (Kingmambo) Sea Of Faith (Monsun) Stradivarius (Bering) Terebellum (Elusive City) Valia (Dansili) Volkan Star (Azamour)

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

L L 3 L 3

Shakespearean Les Vertus (Lomitas)

L

92

Shanghai Bobby Black Horus (El Prado) Showcasing Alkumait (Dutch Art) Mohaather (Inchinor) Sweet Gardenia (Monsieur Bond) Tropbeau (Dansili) Sidestep Step By Step (Acatenango)

Sepoy Chamade (Authorized) Leopoldina (Verglas) Mighty Gurkha (Royal Applause) Punita Arora (Pivotal) Salute The Soldier (Street Cry)

Shamardal Algiers (Platini) All Rumours (Deep Impact) Alzire (Galileo) Earthlight (New Approach) Global Giant (Dalakhani) Good Effort (Distorted Humor) Half Light (Singspiel) Pinatubo (Dalakhani)

Royal Crusade (Dansili) Shaman (Green Desert) Tarnawa (Cape Cross) Ummalnar (Highest Honor) Victor Ludorum (Kaldounevees) Zakouski (Octagonal)

L L L 3L L LL 3L 1

Silver Frost Cnicht (Cape Cross) Sir Percy Berkshire Rocco (Shirocco) Sir Prancealot Miss Amulet (Oasis Dream) Prince Lancelot (Moss Vale) Sixties Icon Nastase (Clodovil) Siyouni Darkness (Makfi) Dream And Do (Librettist) Honey Cake (Dansili) New Harzburg (Acatenango) Policy Of Truth (Selkirk) Rajani (Monsun) Simona (El Prado) Sottsass (Galileo) St Mark’s Basilica (Galileo) Wally (Motivator) Zaykava (Zamindar) So You Think Think Of Me (Big Shuffle)

Society Rock A’ali (Motivator) Soldier Hollow Amarena (Tiger Hill)

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L

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

L L L 3 3L L 3 3 3 L

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

2 L

Starspangledbanner Aloha Star (Excellent Art) Dickiedooda (Oratorio) Millisle (Indian Ridge)

2 L 3

Stormy River Sky Power (Indian Rocket) Stormy Pouss (Green Desert) Style Vendome Styledargent (Kendargent)

L L L

Super Saver Down On Da Bayou (Empire Maker)

3

Tagula Limato (Singspiel)

3

Tamayuz Zeyaadah (Act One)

L

Temple City Kimbear (Sky Mesa)

2

Teofilo Brasilian Man (Oasis Dream) Donjah (Mt Livermore) Gear Up (Toccet) Get Shirty (Monsun) Saiga (Orpen) Satomi (Haafhd) Subjectivist (Danehill Dancer) Tawkeel (Oasis Dream) Twilight Payment (Oasis Dream) Territories Fulgentia (Dr Fong) Rougir (Elusive City) The Factor Chiefdom (Storm Cat)

3 1 13 L L 2L 13L 12 23

L 3 3

The Gurkha Best Of Lips (Silver Frost)

3

The Wow Signal Glory Maker (Vespone)

L

Toronado Tactical (Makfi)

2L

Twilight Son Aria Importante (Orpen)

3L

Twirling Candy Fore Left (Unbridled’s Song)

3

Uncle Mo Lipizzaner (Fastnet Rock)

L

Universal Universal Order (Raven’s Pass) War Front Alkaraama (Speightstown) Battleground (Galileo) Military Style (Galileo) So Wonderful (Kingmambo) Wiesenpfad Kellahen (Tannenkonig) Wootton Bassett Audarya (Green Tune) Chindit (Oasis Dream) Dream Works (Verglas) Speak Of The Devil (Indian Rocket) Tamahere (Giant’s Causeway) The Summit (Acatenango) Waltham (Turtle Bowl) Wooded (Elusive City)

LL

L 2L 3 L L

1 2L L L L 3 L 13

Youmzain Control Tower (Monsun)

L

Zebedee Pogo (Diktat)

L

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

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Acatenango Arktis (Jukebox Jury) Dicaprio (Adlerflug) New Harzburg (Siyouni) Step By Step (Sidestep) The Summit (Wootton Bassett)

L L L L 3

Acclamation Mujbar (Muhaarar) Act One Santa Rita (Jukebox Jury) Zeyaadah (Tamayuz)

3

L L

Chamade (Sepoy) New Mandate (New Bay) Top Rank (Dark Angel) Averti Harper (Al Kazeem) Avonbridge Freed From Desire (Heeraat) Liberty Beach (Cable Bay) Azamour Maamora (Dubawi) Miss Celestial (Exceed And Excel) Volkan Star (Sea The Stars)

L 2L 3

L Carson City Sopran Aragorn (Coulsty) L L

3 L 3L

3

Barathea Its The Only Way (Lilbourne Lad) No Limit Credit (Night Of Thunder)

Adlerflug Apadanah (Holy Roman Emperor)

L

Bering Stradivarius (Sea The Stars)

11

Air Express Keats (Galileo)

L

Allied Forces National Service (Elusive City)

3

Alzao Alignak (Sea The Moon)

Big Shuffle Glen Shiel (Pivotal) Oriental Eagle (Campanologist) Potemkin (New Approach) Reine D’amour (Soldier Hollow) Think Of Me (So You Think) Thorin (Soldier Hollow)

13 L 3 3 L 3

L

Ad Valorem Star Of Emaraaty (Pride Of Dubai)

Anabaa Motamarris (Le Havre) Mubtasimah (Dark Angel) Passion (Galileo) Sinawann (Kingman) Thalyia (Motivator) Arcano Lemista (Raven’s Pass) Supremacy (Mehmas)

Bluebird Salonlove (Lawman) L L 3 3 L

23L 12

Arch Valeria Messalina (Holy Roman Emperor) 3 Areion Namos (Medicean) Preciosa (Sea The Moon) Aussie Rules Angel Power (Lope De Vega) Authorized

94

333 L

L 3

L

Blues Traveller Urban Beat (Red Jazz)

3

Byron Party Goer (Intense Focus) Ten Year Ticket (Rock Of Gibraltar)

3 L

Cactus Ridge Important Mission (More Than Ready) L Thegreatcollection (Saint Anddan) L Cadeaux Genereux Bounce The Blues (Excelebration) Run Wild (Amaron)

L L

Candy Ride Jazz Explosion (Red Jazz)

L

23 Cape Cross Cnicht (Silver Frost)

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L

L

Choisir Lovelier (Galileo) Oxted (Mayson) Red Verdon (Lemon Drop Kid)

L 13 2L

Clodovil Minzaal (Mehmas) Nastase (Sixties Icon) Stormy Girl (Night Of Thunder)

2 L L

Compton Place Pretty Gorgeous (Lawman) Sardinia Sunset (Gutaifan)

12 L

Congaree New Treasure (New Approach)

3

Cozzene Way To Paris (Champs Elysees)

12

Dai Jin Walderbe (Maxios)

23

Dalakhani Cairn Gorm (Bated Breath) Gerardino Jet (Henrythenavigator) Global Giant (Shamardal) Makaloun (Bated Breath) Pinatubo (Shamardal) Sorrel (Dansili) Thunderous (Night Of Thunder) Tokyo Gold (Kendargent)

3 L L 3L 1 L 2 L

Dananeyev Monsieur Croco (Croco Rouge) Danehill Amma Grace (Galileo) Bowerman (Dutch Art) Even So (Camelot) Freyja (Gleneagles) Laburnum (Galileo) Master Of The Seas (Dubawi) Mogul (Galileo) Nobel Prize (Galileo)

L

L 3 1L L L 2 13 3

Search For A Song (Galileo) Wai Key Star (Soldier Hollow) Danehill Dancer Armory (Galileo) Chachnak (Kingman) Circus Maximus (Galileo) Dariyma (City Zip) Foxtrot Lady (Foxwedge) Helvic Dream (Power) Leo De Fury (Australia) Lustown Baba (Alhebayeb) Magic Lily (New Approach) Majestic Noor (Frankel) Nayef Road (Galileo) Royal Dornoch (Gleneagles) Serpentine (Galileo) Subjectivist (Teofilo) Dansili Arapaho (Lope De Vega) Aspetar (Al Kazeem) Cadillac (Lope De Vega) Cormorant (Kingman) Dark Vision (Dream Ahead) Dream Of Dreams (Dream Ahead) Galileo Chrome (Australia) Glorious Journey (Dubawi) Gussy Mac (Dark Angel) Hateya (Footstepsinthesand) Honey Cake (Siyouni) Love Is You (Kingman) Magic Wand (Galileo) Pablo Escobarr (Galileo) Royal Crusade (Shamardal) Tilsit (First Defence) Tropbeau (Showcasing) Valia (Sea The Stars)

1 3

3 33 1 L 3 3 2 L 22 L 3 3 1 13L

L 2 2 3 2L 12 1L 2L L L L L 2 3 3 3 3 2L

Dark Angel Captain Magnum (Kodiac)

L

Darshaan Bangkok (Australia) Dawn Patrol (Galileo) Directa (Anodin) Master Of Reality (Frankel) Matterhorn (Raven’s Pass) Posted (Kingman) Sunny Queen (Camelot)

L 3 3L L 1 L 1LL

Dashing Blade Galova (Galiway) Pao Alto (Intello)

L 3

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The damsire list

THE FINAL LIST: DAMSIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2020 Horses are listed under their damsire with the respective mare sire in brackets.

Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including December 31, 2020 Data from Hyperion Promotions

Sommelier (Soldier Hollow) Square De Luynes (Manduro) Wichita (No Nay Never) Daylami Collide (Frankel) Frankly Darling (Frankel) Grand Glory (Olympic Glory) Manuela De Vega (Lope De Vega) Nkosikazi (Cape Cross) Deep Impact All Rumours (Shamardal) Definite Article Wealth Of Love (Dragon Pulse) Desert King Aldrodovar (Lord Chaparral) Snow (Galileo)

L 3 2

L 2 3L 23 3

L

LL

L 3

Desert Prince Barrington Court (Mastercraftsman) L L Desert Style Adrian (Reliable Man)

L

Diktat Midtown (Dubawi) Pogo (Zebedee)

L L

Distorted Humor Good Effort (Shamardal)

Doubletour Surrounding (Lilbourne Lad)

LL

L

Doyen Plainchant (Gregorian) Virginia Joy (Soldier Hollow) Dr Fong Fulgentia (Territories) Dubai Destination Bolleville (Camelot) Gold Trip (Outstrip)

Velma Valento (Dabirsim)

L

L

Efisio Elarqam (Frankel) Erasmo (Oasis Dream) Harry’s Bar (Exceed And Excel)

3 L L

L 2

El Prado Black Horus (Shanghai Bobby) Simona (Siyouni)

23L 3

Dubawi Isabella Giles (Belardo) 23 Majestic Colt (Clodovil) LLL Malotru (Casamento) L Nazeef (Invincible Spirit) 112L Queen Rouge (Lord Of England) L Duke Of Marmalade Antonia De Vega (Lope De Vega) Lady Wannabe (Camelot) Lone Eagle (Galileo) Dutch Art Alkumait (Showcasing) Suicide Squad (Coulsty) Dylan Thomas Dashing Willoughby (Nathaniel) Dubai Love (Night Of Thunder) Persian King (Kingman) Dynaformer Stunning Spirit (Invincible Spirit) Echo Of Light Century Dream (Cape Cross)

3L 3L 3

2 L

3L L 112

L 3

Elnadim Dandalla (Dandy Man)

23

Elusive City Celestin (Dabirsim) Rougir (Territories) Terebellum (Sea The Stars) Wooded (Wootton Bassett)

L 3 2 13

Elusive Quality Cayenne Pepper (Australia) Duca Di Como (Clodovil)

2 LLLLL

Empire Maker Down On Da Bayou (Super Saver) Sangarius (Kingman)

L

Equiano Steel Bull (Clodovil)

3

3

23

L 2 3 L L

Excellent Art Aloha Star (Starspangledbanner) The Revenant (Dubawi)

2 12

Exit To Nowhere Road To Arc (Planteur)

L

Falbrav Exceptional (Dutch Art)

L

Fantastic Light Fantastic Spirit (Charm Spirit) Withhold (Champs Elysees)

L L

Fasliyev Aztec Parade (Anjaal) Boerhan (Sea The Stars) Lazuli (Dubawi)

L L 3L

3 L

Encosta De Lago Walton Street (Cape Cross)

Exceed And Excel Anthony Van Dyck (Galileo) Current Option (Camelot)

Elaire Noire (Footstepsinthesand) Laws Of Indices (Power) Magic Attitude (Galileo) Parent’s Prayer (Kingman) Queen Of Love (Kingman)

2 3L

Fastnet Rock High Definition (Galileo) Lipizzaner (Uncle Mo) Russian Emperor (Galileo)

2 L 3

Firebreak Ventura Rebel (Pastoral Pursuits)

3

Footstepsinthesand El Astronaute (Approve)

L

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the master list: damsires Forest Wildcat Frenetic (Kodiac) Fusaichi Pegasus Pretreville (Acclamation)

LLL

3

Galileo Alson (Areion) L Alzire (Shamardal) L Ancient Spirit (Invincible Spirit) LL Barney Roy (Excelebration) 1112 Battleground (War Front) 2L Cabaletta (Mastercraftsman) L Certain Lad (Clodovil) 3L Dame Malliot (Champs Elysees) 2 Dubai Warrior (Dansili) 3L Euclidia (Maxios) L Fancy Man (Pride Of Dubai) L Ghaiyyath (Dubawi) 1113 Havana Love (Kodiac) L Heliac (Champs Elysees) L Kastasa (Rock Of Gibraltar) L Lyzbeth (Zoffany) L Military Style (War Front) 3 Monday (Fastnet Rock) L Pista (American Pharoah) 2L Power Euro (Peintre Celebre) L Pythagoras (Zoffany) L Secret Advisor (Dubawi) 3L Sottsass (Siyouni) 11 St Mark’s Basilica (Siyouni) 1 Traisha (Invincible Spirit) L Watch Me (Olympic Glory) 1L General Holme Trueshan (Planteur)

2L

Giant’s Causeway Lord North (Dubawi) 13 Ocean Atlantique (American Pharoah) L Skyward (Camelot) 3 Tamahere (Wootton Bassett) L Usak (Al Kazeem) L Wafy (Dubawi) 3 Wonderful World (Ruler Of The World) L Golan Eagles By Day (Sea The Stars) Grand Slam Dato (Mount Nelson) Green Desert Buckhurst (Australia)

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3

L

3

Kalahara (Frankel) Minaun (Zoffany) Mother Earth (Zoffany) Pondus (Sea The Moon) Sarookh (Speightstown) Shaman (Shamardal) Stormy Pouss (Stormy River) The Lir Jet (Prince Of Lir) Wannacry (Footstepsinthesand)

3 3 3 L L 2 L 2 L

Green Tune Audarya (Wootton Bassett)

1

Inchinor Call The Wind (Frankel) Mohaather (Showcasing)

23 12

Groom Dancer Mountain Angel (Dark Angel) Tickle Me Green (Sea The Moon)

L L

Indesatchel Lullaby Moon (Belardo)

3L

Indian Charlie Etonian (Olympic Glory)

3

Indian Ridge Millisle (Starspangledbanner) Romanised (Holy Roman Emperor)

3 2

Haafhd Akribie (Reliable Man) Baron Samedi (Harbour Watch) Satomi (Teofilo) Song Of Life (Poet’s Voice)

L 2 2L L

Hard Spun Alcohol Free (No Nay Never) Spinning Memories (Arcano)

1 3L

Hawk Wing Elysium (Belardo) Hennessy Extra Elusive (Mastercraftsman) Gladiator King (Curlin) Henrythenavigator Ornais (Roderic O’connor)

3

33 33

L

Hernando Alpinista (Frankel) Suspicious Mind (Appel Au Maitre)

L 3L

High Chaparral Emblem Storm (English Channel) Fev Rover (Gutaifan) Numerian (Holy Roman Emperor) Ranch Hand (Dunaden)

L 2L L L

Highest Honor Ummalnar (Shamardal) Holy Roman Emperor Alpen Rose (Sea The Stars) Baptism (Sea The Stars) Shale (Galileo)

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L

L L 13

Time Scale (Charm Spirit) Hurricane Run Telepatic Glances (Pride Of Dubai) Iffraaj Breathtaking Look (Bated Breath) Dubai Station (Brazen Beau) Method (Mehmas)

L

2L

3 3 L

Indian Rocket Batwan (Kendargent) Sky Power (Stormy River) Speak Of The Devil (Wootton Bassett) Wanaway (Galiway)

3 L L L

Intense Focus Vis A Vis (Mujahid)

2

Intikhab Chiaro Di Luna (Pounced) Divinely (Galileo)

LL 3

Invincible Spirit King’s Harlequin (Camelot) 3L Lady Princess (Exceed And Excel) L Spirit Of Nelson (Mount Nelson) 3 Surf Dancer (Lope De Vega) L Under The Stars (Night Of Thunder) L Jade Robbery Waady (Approve) Johannesburg I Kirk (Eishin Dunkirk) Repartee (Invincible Spirit) Kahyasi Believe In Love (Make Believe)

Kalanisi Marie’s Diamond (Footstepsinthesand) L Kaldounevees Victor Ludorum (Shamardal)

1

Keltos Art Power (Dark Angel) Miss Extra (Masterstroke)

3 2L

Kendargent Brad The Brief (Dutch Art) Kenway (Galiway) Restiany (Frankel) Sealiway (Galiway) Styledargent (Style Vendome)

3L L L 1L L

Kendor Tour To Paris (Fuisse)

2

Key Of Luck A Case Of You (Hot Streak)

3

Kheleyf With Thanks (Camacho)

3

Kingmambo Addeybb (Pivotal) Alocasia (Kingman) Euchen Glen (Authorized) Hukum (Sea The Stars) Jouska (Cable Bay) Raabihah (Sea The Stars) So Wonderful (War Front) King’s Best Al Siq (Acclamation) Kodiac Wakanaka (Power)

1L L 33 3 L 3L L

L

LLL

Komaite Last Empire (Pivotal)

L

Kyllachy Collinsbay (Cable Bay)

L

Lando Durance (Champs Elysees) Go Rose (Soldier Hollow) Sir Polski (Polish Vulcano)

2 L 3

2

LL L

3

Law Society Stex (Lord Of England)

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Le Havre Pyledriver (Harbour Watch)

22

Librettist Dream And Do (Siyouni) Lil E Tee Parsimony (Dominus)

23 L L

Makfi Darkness (Siyouni) Fearless King (Kingman) Tactical (Toronado)

L 2 2L

Marju Happy Romance (Dandy Man) Judicial (Iffraaj) Kick On (Charm Spirit) Mark Of Esteem Champers Elysees (Elzaam) Dakota Gold (Equiano) Ostilio (New Approach) Martillo Sanora (Soldier Hollow)

Mastercraftsman Belloccio (Belardo)

98

Mind Games Glass Slippers (Dream Ahead)

1

Monsieur Bond Sweet Gardenia (Showcasing)

L

Monsun Control Tower (Youmzain) Get Shirty (Teofilo) Masterwin (Mastercraftsman) Mille Et Mille (Muhtathir) Mythico (Adlerflug) Quian (Mastercraftsman) Rajani (Siyouni) Sea Of Faith (Sea The Stars)

L L LL L 3 23L L L

Montjeu Auyantepui (Night Of Thunder) Cloud Surfing (Oasis Dream) Indigo Girl (Dubawi) King David (Elusive City) La Barrosa (Lope De Vega) Nickajack Cave (Kendargent) Paix (Muhaarar) Starman (Dutch Art) Taamol (Helmet) Wonderful Tonight (Le Havre)

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

The Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment was one of the six Oasis Dream broodmare sired winners in 2020

by Galileo or out of a descendant of the champion sire

L

Machiavellian Be My Sheriff (Lawman) Pretending (Librettist) Silence Please (Gleneagles)

Maria’s Mon Crossfirehurricane (Kitten’s Joy)

L 3 L 3

1

Lomitas Belcarra (Estidhkaar) L Gm Hopkins (Dubawi) 3 Les Vertus (Shakespearean) L Rubaiyat (Areion) 3 Wonderful Moon (Sea The Moon) 2 3 3

Manduro Emoji (Soldier Hollow) Fanny Logan (Sea The Stars) Isfahani (Isfahan)

Medicean Alkandora (Nathaniel) Irska (Hunter’s Light) Liberty London (Maxios) Regal Reality (Intello)

L 2 3

More Than Ready Sonaiyla (Dark Angel)

3 3L 33LL

13L 3LLL L

3L

L

Motivator A’ali (Society Rock) Extreme Fast (Le Havre) Wally (Siyouni)

L

Muhtathir Dardenne (Footstepsinthesand) Neige Blanche (Anodin)

L 3

L

3L Moss Vale Prince Lancelot (Sir Prancealot)

Skazino (Kendargent)

L

23 L L

Mujadil Safe Voyage (Fast Company) Tiger Moth (Galileo) Ubettabelieveit (Kodiac)

2 3L 3 L L

Noverre Space Blues (Dubawi) 123L The Conqueror (Excelebration) 3 3 L L L

L

Nureyev Firnas (Dubawi)

Multiplex Maystar (Mayson)

Mt Livermore Donjah (Teofilo)

1

Namid Campanelle (Kodiac)

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New Approach Ambition (Dubawi) Earthlight (Shamardal) Fonthill Abbey (Dubawi) Katara (Deep Impact) Romola (Pivotal)

L L L

L L

23

2L 3 L 11

Mujahid Acapulco Gold (Bungle Inthejungle) Ken Colt (Kendargent) Musa D’oriente (Nayef)

Mr Greeley Gold Wand (Golden Horn) Que Amoro (Es Que Love)

Muhaymin Skalleti (Kendargent)

22L 3 2L

Loxley (New Approach) One Voice (Poet’s Voice) Only Time (Requinto) Palace Pier (Kingman)

Nayef Lady Penelope (Night Of Thunder)

12

L

Oasis Dream Brasilian Man (Teofilo) Chindit (Wootton Bassett) Delphi (Galileo) Equilateral (Equiano)

L

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L

Poetic Flare (Dawn Approach) Quest The Moon (Sea The Moon)

3 2

Pentire Moonlight Man (Reliable Man)

L

Roi Danzig Elle Memory (Maxios)

L

Roy Nando Parrado (Kodiac)

2

Royal Applause Amica Nostra (Epaulette) Andromaca (Poet’s Voice) Cobh (Kodi Bear) Mighty Gurkha (Sepoy) Silberpfeil (Clodovil)

L L L 3 L

Royal Solo Sun At Work (Areion)

L

Sabiango Lancade (Areion)

2

Pivotal Cloak Of Spirits (Invincible Spirit) Franconia (Frankel) Golden Horde (Lethal Force) Harmless (Anodin) Love (Galileo) Lucky Lycra (Olympic Glory) Magical (Galileo) Molatham (Night Of Thunder) One Master (Fastnet Rock) Punita Arora (Sepoy) Veracious (Frankel) Platini Algiers (Shamardal) Poliglote Air De Valse (Mesnil Des Aigles)

Lancaster House (Galileo) Miss Amulet (Sir Prancealot) Moss Gill (No Nay Never) Saint Lawrence (Al Kazeem) Simeen (Lope De Vega) Siskin (First Defence) Stylistique (Dansili) Tarboosh (Bahamian Bounty) Tawkeel (Teofilo) Twilight Payment (Teofilo) Ventura Tormenta (Acclamation) Ziegfeld (New Approach) Octagonal Zakouski (Shamardal) Okawango Jin Jin (Canford Cliffs) Lupo Nero (American Devil) Old Vic Anna Nerium (Dubawi) Olden Times

3 2L L L L 1 L L 12 23 2 L

2L

3LL L

L

Good Question (Manduro)

LLL

Oratorio Dickiedooda (Starspangledbanner) L Epona Plays (Australia) 3 Tabera (Gleneagles) 3LL Orientate Wildman Jack (Goldencents) Orpen Aria Importante (Twilight Son) Badram (Mukhadram) Coccoloba (Desert Prince) Light My Fire (Camelot) Noble Heidi (Intello) Saiga (Teofilo) Suesa (Night Of Thunder) Time To Choose (Manduro) Peintre Celebre Fulminix (Blu Air Force) Pisanello (Raven’s Pass) Tabdeed (Havana Gold)

L LL 1 L 111 3 111 3 13 L L

L

3L

Polish Precedent Major Partnership (Iffraaj)

L

Rahy Alpine Star (Sea The Moon)

1

Rail Link San Huberto (Speightstown)

2

Rainbow Quest Know It All (Lord Kanaloa) Mare Australis (Australia) Out Of Time (Sakhee’s Secret) Tuscan Gaze (Galileo)

3 L 2LL 2

3 Rakti Granatina (Sakhee’s Secret) 3L L L L 3 L L L

3 L 3

Raven’s Pass Mishriff (Make Believe) Saffron Beach (New Bay) Universal Order (Universal) Refuse To Bend Bonita Queen (Arcano) Rock Of Gibraltar Ebaiyra (Distorted Humor) Kameko (Kitten’s Joy) Mariafoot (Footstepsinthesand) Onassis (Dubawi)

Sadler’s Wells Agnes (Planteur) Berlin Tango (Dansili) Enable (Nathaniel) Fancy Blue (Deep Impact) Runnymede (Dansili) Thunder Moon (Zoffany) Van Gogh (American Pharoah)

L 3 13 11 3L 1 1

Sageburg Go Athletico (Goken)

3

Santiago Nica (Kamsin)

2

Sea The Stars Bahrain Pride (Kodiac) Love Locket (No Nay Never)

L 3

3

12L 3 LL

Selkirk Benbatl (Dubawi) Happy Power (Dark Angel) Kinross (Kingman) Le Don De Vie (Leroidesanimaux) Policy Of Truth (Siyouni)

22 23 L L 3

L

23 12 L LL

Shamardal Al Aasy (Sea The Stars) Althiqa (Dark Angel) Fantasy Lady (Dark Angel) Far Above (Farhh) Hareem Queen (Dark Angel)

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Singspiel Cima Emergency (Canford Cliffs) Glycon (Le Havre) Half Light (Shamardal) Limato (Tagula) Privilegiado (Sea The Moon) Schwesterherz (Areion) Seaside Song (Harbour Watch) Zaffy’s Pride (Pride Of Dubai) Sinndar Kalifornia Queen (Lope De Vega) Unique Diamond (English Channel) Siphon Queen Jo Jo (Gregorian) Sir Percy Indie Angel (Dark Angel) Sixties Icon Rose Of Kildare (Make Believe) Siyouni Hurricane Dream (Hurricane Cat) Sky Mesa Kimbear (Temple City)

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Telecaster: the Group 3 winner is by Sir Percy and out of a Shirocco mare

Soave Livachope (Goken) Special Nash Soul Train (Manduro)

Kellahen (Wiesenpfad)

2 L

3

L

Tenby Khalifa Sat (Free Eagle)

3 3 22

3

Speightstown Alkaraama (War Front) Mark Of Approval (Lemon Drop Kid)

L L

Teofilo Aviateur (Intense Focus) Flying Visit (Pride Of Dubai) Hayzum (Anodin) Mac Swiney (New Approach) Parchemin (Lope De Vega) Vaucelles (Le Havre)

Statue Of Liberty Summer Romance (Kingman)

3

Theatrical Measure Of Time (Gleneagles)

3

Three Valleys Bebeautiful (Le Havre)

L

Storm Cat Chiefdom (The Factor) Stravinsky Peaceful (Galileo)

1

Street Cry Make A Challenge (Invincible Spirit) L L L L Quiet Times (Reliable Man) L Salute The Soldier (Sepoy) 3 Spanish Mission (Noble Mission) 2L

Street Sense K Club (Kodiac) Sunday Silence Nature’s Colors (Poet’s Voice) Well Of Wisdom (Oasis Dream)

3

Tiger Hill Amarena (Soldier Hollow) Conte De Fee (Sea The Stars) Frozen Juke (Frozen Power) In Swoop (Adlerflug) Princess Zoe (Jukebox Jury)

3 3 L 12 L 2

L

L

L L L 1 1L

Titus Livius Winter Power (Bungle Inthejungle)

3L

Toccet Gear Up (Teofilo)

13

L LL

Toylsome Torquator Tasso (Adlerflug)

Surako Wonnemond (Areion)

3

Trempolino Enbihaar (Redoute’s Choice) Vadalda (Nathaniel)

L Swedish Shave Freestyler (Areion) Tannenkonig

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Trippi Sceptical (Exceed And Excel)

Vale Of York Acklam Express (Mehmas)

L

Van Nistelrooy Cepheus (Sea The Stars)

L

L

Verglas Dream Works (Wootton Bassett) Lady Bowthorpe (Nathaniel) Leopoldina (Sepoy) Sopran Poseidone (Gutaifan) Speak In Colours (Excelebration)

L 3 L L 23

Vespone Glory Maker (The Wow Signal)

L

Whipper Johnny Drama (Lilbourne Lad) Testa (Acclamation)

L L

Winged Love Saltonstall (Pivotal)

L

Xaar See The Rose (Kendargent)

3

Zafonic English King (Camelot)

L

Zamindar Ventura Diamond (Dandy Man) Zaykava (Siyouni) Zoetic (Kodiac)

L L L

Zieten Zamrud (Samum)

2

1

3

2

Unbridled’s Song Capezzano (Bernardini) Fore Left (Twirling Candy) Thunderman (Blu Air Force)

L

3L

3

3 3 3L 3 3 L L L

L 2 L

Unfuwain Called To The Bar (Henrythenavigator) 3

Speedmaster Karlarina (Le Havre)

L 3

Turtle Bowl Mykiss (Makfi) Port Guillaume (Le Havre) Waltham (Wootton Bassett)

22 L

L

Zoffany Santosha (Coulsty) Tiger Tanaka (Clodovil)

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

Tough and talented top-class 2-y-o Winner of 4 races and placed 6 times from 10 starts incl: WON Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes, 6f Newmarket, beating multiple Gr1 winner and Champion Blue Point WON Gr.3 Sirenia Stakes, 6f Kempton.

WON LR Dragon Stakes, 5f Sandown WON Brocklesby Stakes, 5f Doncaster 2nd Gr.2 Norfolk Stakes, 5f Royal Ascot 2nd Gr.2 Flying Childers Stakes, 5f Doncaster 2nd Gr.3 Molecomb Stakes, Glorious Goodwood

FEE 2021:

£4,000 Oct 1st

Portamento

Gr 2012 Shamardal - Octave (Unbridled’s Song)

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

FEE 2021:

£1,500 Oct 1st

INTRINSIC

Bay 2011 by Oasis Dream – Infallible (Pivotal)

off to a good start at stud 31% winners to runners, incl. multiple winner Najm and multiple placed horses from his first few runners. From a Stakes winning family incl.

MUTAKAYYEF and INTIMATION and half-sisters VERACIOUS (won Atalanta S. Gr.3) and ALAADEL (3-time winner incl. on debut at 2).

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

FEE 2021:

£1,500 Oct 1st

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

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

photo of the month: Christmas action

Above, Earth Moor (Ask) and Richard Johnson jump the last in the MansionBet’s Bet 10 Get 20 Novice Chase at Newbury. The race was won

by Paint The Dream (Brian Boru) for trainer Fergal O’Brien and jockey Connor Brace.

Right, Paul Townend and Chacun Pour Soi get a flyer on their way to winning the Grade 1 Paddy’s Rewards Club Chase at Leopardstown.

It was the Policy Maker gelding’s third Grade 1 success. The nine-year-old also finished second in the same race in 2019 behind A Plus Tard, winner of the Savills Chase (G1) at Christmas.

Chacun Pour Soi is Timeform rated 176, the top-rated horse currently in Britain or Ireland.

Policy Maker, a son of Sadler’s Wells, stands at the County Kildare Blackrath Stud.

The 20-year-old’s fee is listed as private, his last advertised fee in 2019 was €2,000.

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n a e p o r u E g in Lead

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Gr1 winner

at Royal Ascot (6f)

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

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He has also got his second career off to a bright start, with his debut crop of foals earning rave reviews and realising as much as 280,000gns at Tattersalls and ¥41 million (£293,000/€322,000) at the JRHA Select Sale.

Having covered a total of 331 mares across his first two books, among which are 88 (27 per cent) stakes performers, he looks well up to building on his early momentum, all of which makes a 2021 fee of €20,000 - down from €27,500 - look appealing.

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He was without doubt the most talented horse I’ve sat on.

The cruising speed and turn of foot he showed in the Guineas was something I’ve never experienced before or since.

Donnacha O’Brien, 05/01/21

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Winning the 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1

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Unbeaten Gr.1 winner at 2, brilliant Guineas winner at 3

By Japanese super-sire DEEP IMPACT & out of unbeaten European Champion 2YO Filly MAYBE (by GALILEO) The leading first crop weanling sire of 2020 with 16 sold for an average of over €105,000

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