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No Nay Never fits the profile as in his career he was fast, precocious, trained on and is a very good physical.

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First word

The handicappers for the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings wake up to racing in Japan and Hong Kong

13 News

Positive tests for cobalt in Australia, Ted Voute discusses the sales levy, racing at Chelmsford City gets underway, and William Huntingdon watches the Magic Millions from his living room

20 Christmas treats

Silviniaco Conti takes himself to the top of the chasing tree after his King George victory on Boxing Day

28 Leading sire lists

Weatherbys leading NH stallions, and leading hurdles and chasing sires

33 US copy

Galileo-War Front is the must-have accessory for US breeders, writes Nancy Sexton

38 Silencing the World

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50 The new boys for 2015

97 Strong start at Magic Millions

We cast a bloodstock eye over the Longines World Rankings

The southern-hemisphere yearling sales season gets off to a flyer

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Alan Porter outlines the profiles of this year’s new European first-season sires

68 New year, new contract

Olivier Peslier talks to Liz Price about his life as a jockey and his hopes for the season ahead

74 A global success story

German racehorses are sought the world over. Jocelyn de Moubray reports

The stallion stats from 2014 are pinpointing some emerging trends for French and German-based sires

94 New Zealand bloodstock Profiles the Karaka yearling sale

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Hyperion’s final list of stakes-winning dam sires of 2014

Continenta l chan stallions ste ge p up to France andthe mark in Germany

114 Growing bones

118 Mare of the month

Plaid Maid, dam of Carruthers, Coneygree and Flintham

122 The database

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German-bred success story s winning the world over

new year, new for Oliviercontract Peslier

Global stakes-winning pedigrees profiled

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107 The dam-sires list

Part II of Dr Joe Pagan’s discussion on equine bone development

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Hyperion’s final list of stakes-winning sires of 2014

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Progress has been made in the French stallion ranks. Jocelyn de Moubray chats to those actively involved in moving things forward

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99 The Master list

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The Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings, and racing in Japan and Hong Kong...

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...come of age

erhaps the most interesting, and certainly the most exciting, aspect of the 2015 Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings, announced on January 20, is that the conclave of the great and the good professional handicappers from jurisdictions around the world have finally come round to agreeing with the amateurs, writes Paul Haigh.

They did so by acknowledging a simple truth which has been evident for about a decade. This is that horses trained in the Orient – and particularly those trained in Japan – are at least on a par with, and in general possibly superior to, those trained in countries which have long been seen as the bases of the sport.

Plenty will argue that the presence in the top two places of Just A Way and Epiphaneia, effortless winners respectively of the 2014 Dubai Duty Free and the Japan Cup, says no such thing. That it means no more than that these two are horses who, on just one occasion each, so far outclassed their rivals that it was impossible, on a handicapping system that does not require performance levels to be reproduced for them to be considered valid, to exclude them from the top slots.

Sceptics may say that the two champions occupation of these positions says no more about the general quality

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....horses trained in the Orient – and particularly those trained in Japan – are at least on a par with, and in general possibly superior....

of Asian racing than Treve’s or Black Caviar’s said about French or Australian racing last year, or that Frankel said about British racing the year before that.

It could be said that the fact that there are seven other Japanese-trained horses in the top 76 (this apparently arbitrary number is chosen because there are so many whose ability the handicappers have found it impossible to separate – there ae 16 clustered on one figure of 120 at joint 46th) is of no more significance than that the Hong Kong miler Able Friend comes immediately after the top two.

Of the next six lumped on 127 his name just comes first in alphabetical order. But if they do so, they miss the significance of this set of ratings.

However much it may be denied – and no-one is saying that handicappers ever act, or have acted, in anything but good faith – there has been a tendency to give benefits of doubt to horses from the world’s more established racing nations, notably the US, and that tendency now seems to have been broken.

The positioning of the brilliant Treve, rightly acclaimed winner of her second Arc, in only eighth place on 126 suggests too that victory in the world’s most famous races is no longer a guarantee of a spot near the top. No one would have objected if Treve, thanks to

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first word her stunning comeback triumph at Longchamp after seeming to have lost her way in the summer, had been rewarded with at least a 128, a mark which would have left her alone in third place after sharing the top spot last year. But strict mathematical principles ruled.

It still seems as though Americans in particular are rewarded with high ratings without ever being tested against foreign opposition, except on their home ground and under home rules, whereas Asian-based horses are required to have proved themselves outside Asia.

But the times seem gradually to be changing. Last year we had a ridiculous situation in which what were arguably the two best performances of the year – by the Japanese sprinter Lord Kanaloa in Hong Kong, and by Orfevre in his farewell race, the Arima Kinen at Nakayama which came after the identity of what were allegedly the world’s joint-best racehorses had been announced.

But even that inequality seems to be in the process of being ironed out. Able Friend owes his position as the highest-rated Hong Kong-trained horse of all time to his performances in Hong Kong. In other words it doesn’t matter anymore whether a horse has shown his or her brilliance at Sha Tin or Santa Anita. Whether that means Able Friend is really any better than previous Hong Kong greats like Silent Witness, Viva Pataca or Vengeance Of Rain is a matter for debate, but anyone who thinks it means that Hong Kong horses are at last getting the credit they deserve from the handicappers can probably be forgiven. There are seven Hong Kong horses in the top 76 and 23 horses in all featured in the ratings: a remarkable return for a jurisdiction with an active equine population of just over 1,200.

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piphaneia owes his position to his victory in the Japan Cup. Just A Way, who might have been an even greater champion if he’d been kept to the distances at which he excelled, admittedly had to travel to the “neutral” territory of Dubai to win himself the world champion’s crown in the Dubai Duty Free, but at least no one made the mistake of judging him on his failure to finish in the first three over the Arc’s 1m4f.

As always the problem arises of how to rate horses who’ve raced in completely different jurisdictions, often on different surfaces, and who therefore have no collateral form available on which to assess them. But no one could really argue with the two at the top.

The other four clustered in third place include, besides Able Friend: Australia, Kingman, The Grey Gatsby and the South African (although now listed as UAE after his transfer to Mike De Kock) Variety Club.

With Treve next in line, the top eight horses in the world were all Turf performers. Following them on 125 is Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Bayern, with Kentucky Derby winner and US Horse of the Year California Chrome just behind him on 124 in joint 11th.

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There are seven Hong Kong horses in the top 76 and 23 horses in all featured in the ratings: a remarkable return for a jurisdiction with an active equine population of just over 1,200

Toast Of New York, WBR rated 124, found his forte on Dirt

the others? Surely not by taking a line through 15l Wolverhampton winner and previous Leicester maiden fifth, Toast Of New York (also 124) whose love of American Dirt transformed him.

How intriguing a race it would have been if that group had met at, say 1m1f. Would the Dirt horses have finished 1,2,3, if it had been run on Dirt in America?

Would they have filled the last three places if it had been run anywhere else on Turf?

We can probably rule out the possibility of Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Main Sequence (124) or Japan’s Gold Ship (124) making any impression on the others, whatever the surface – but what about previously world’s highest-rated Wise Dan, or The Fugue, two more of the 124 brigade?

Is Dubai World Cup winner African Story flattered by his mark of 123 in joint 18th, or the second highest-prize money winner in racing history (after her compatriot TM Opera O) Gentildonna belittled by her apparently insulting 118? Handicapping isn’t easy and sometimes its practitioners have to be forgiven the odd stab in the dark.

Setting fantasy aside though we have to look at the realities. This was the year the Asians joined, indeed surpassed, the big boys. If the same objectivity is applied in years to come, we may find they are going to be very hard to shift.

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ARCHIPENKO

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Positive tests for cobalt in Australia Prohibited drug revealed in horses trained by Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh and Danny O’Brien

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eter Moody, trainer of the Australian wonder mare Black Caviar, was reported to be “devastated” after it was reported on January 13 that his Lidari tested positive for an elevated cobalt level following his second placing in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington in October.

“I’ve no knowledge or understanding as to how this could occur,” said Moody.

“I take great pride in my role in thoroughbred racing in Victoria and strive to manage my business and support my wonderful group of owners and staff with the highest levels of honesty and professionalism.

“I will continue to pursue this goal over the next few months and do everything possible to clear my name.”

A day later, it was revealed that Mark Kavanagh and Danny O’Brien also had horses test positive to the substance.

Kavanagh released a statement saying that Racing Victoria had informed him that one of his

runners, Magicool, had tested positive after winning a Listed race on October 4, 2014.

An inspection of O’Brien’s stable returned three positive samples, horses include the Qatar Racing-owned Caravan Rolls On, who tested positive before finishing eighth in the Lexus Stakes.

“This has come as a complete shock to me as I have always placed great emphasis on integrity and operating within the rules of racing,” Kavanagh said in the statement. “We are, unfortunately, not the only stable in this situation. I am co-operating fully with the Racing Victoria Integrity Services Department to investigate how this could occur, and hopefully we will resolve the matter as soon as possible.”

O’Brien expressed similar sentiments to Kavanagh and added it could not have happened through normal feeding and treatment practices.

“We are examining everything and our vet is going through everything he does,” he told Racing.com. “Obviously it is a

cluster and maybe something will come to light.”

As we reported in January 2014, cobalt, when given in sufficient quantities, has been found to enhance performance.

At a cellular level it causes the body to believe its deprived of oxygen and produce an increased amount of erythropoietin.

Cobalt has similar effects to the blood-doping drug EPO, with Racing Victoria saying the administration of the substance can “allow a horse to perform at a peak level for longer without the onset of fatigue”.

It carries risks of cardiovascular issues, nerve problems, thickening of the blood and thyroid toxicity Post-race testing is difficult, since the substance is detectable only for a short time after dosing The three trainers under the spotlight face bans of up to three years if found to have deliberately doped their horses.

Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey said: “Following receipt of Racing Analytical Services Limited’s report we are conducting investigations into

Derrinstown’s Elnadim put down at age 21 CHAMPION sprinter Elnadim, winner of the July Cup, the Diadem Stakes and a son of Danzig, has been put down at Derrinstown Stud.

He commenced stallion duties at Shadwell Farm in Kentucky in 2001, relocating the following year to Derrinstown.

He sired 11 Group winners,

including the New Zealand Group 1 winner Culminate, winner of the First Sovereign Otaki Maori WFA Stakes, while his best in the northern hemisphere included the Flying Childers (G2) winner Wi Dud and Queen Mary Stakes (G2) heroine Elletelle.

It is as a broodmare sire that the son of Danzig made a big

impression in 2014 – Elletelle is the dam of this year’s Secretariat Stakes (G1) and Cox Plate (G1) winner Adelaide, as well as the Irish 2,000 Guineas and Irish Derby entrant Puissant.

Through 2014 he also achieved his highest-ever price for a yearling sold at auction when his colt out of Vexatious, sold by Grove Stud, was bought by Doyle

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the circumstances that led to the elevated levels of cobalt being detected in race-day samples.

“It is now our priority to gather all the facts to determine the circumstances surrounding each case. We will not be putting a timeline on the completion of this process and will not be commenting on the specifics of each case while our investigations continue.

“Our investigations will determine whether any or all of the trainers will be charged with a breach of the rules of racing.

They have the presumption of innocence and are free to continue racing at this time.”

Bloodstock for 100,000gns.

A Shadwell homebred, Elnadim was one of ten winners from 11 runners out of his dam Elle Seule, a Group 2-winning grand-daughter of Fall Aspen.

Elle Seule also produced the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf, Group 2 winner Khulood and Listed scorer Ashraakat. Fall Aspen was also the grand-dam of Dubai Millennium and is the fourth dam of Intell0.

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Colic halts plans to return Starspangledbanner to Europe STARSPANGLEDBANNER, whose first crop produced the Royal Ascot-winning pair Anthem Alexander and The Wow Signal, subsequent winner of the Prix Morny (G1) at Deauville, will not return to Ireland as expected

for this spring’s covering season.

He suffered a bout of colic at his southern-hemisphere base of Rosemont Stud in Victoria, Australia and it has been decided not to travel him.

The son of Choisir, who has had issues with his fertility, is now fully recovered, but will instead be rested ahead of his third season at Rosemont.

A four-time Group 1-winning sprinter, Starspangledbanner stood at Coolmore in 2011 and

2012, but, after proving to be sub-fertile he was returned to the track, six racecourse efforts which failed to yield a success.

However, after the brilliant start he made with his first twoyear-old runners in Europe last year – his first crop yielded 11 winners from 20 runners, a 55 per cent strike-rate – it was decided to recall him for stud duties in Ireland, plans which have now been aborted.

The Wow Signal: first crop star

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finished up third by average behind Fastnet Rock, who is yet to make his presence felt in the northernhemisphere, and Redoute’s Choice.

He just pipped Exceed And Excel, who sired Le Chef, the gelded winner of the big two-year-old race worth A$1,100,000.

Le Chef’s owner Leonore Saunders runs a cinema in Mt. Isa, the mining town in north-west Queensland, also known as the “rodeo capital of Australia”.

It was there, in the Copper Canyon Cafe, that I was assured by a trainee waitress a lot of locals ordered “black

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There are increasing calls in Australia for vets working in racing stables to be licensed and also subject to the rules of racing

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enerally I am pretty migratory at this time of year, forsaking the high pheasants and the pleasures of skiing – in my case cross-country with fewer dangers and more comfortable shoes – I usually head Down Under.

My trip begins with the Magic Millions, and it is difficult to have a day off between then and Inglis Easter Sales, particularly if I am driving.

The reliable red Rodeo, now a 20-year-old is still on the road, complete with swag and camping gear, but this year is temporarily on loan to Andrew Balding’s ex-pupil assistant Charlie King, who is now working for David Hayes at Lindsey Park, Euroa in Victoria.

It was nearly a baptism of fire for both Charlie and the Rodeo – on their first day there was a large bush fire in close vicinity that resulted in many horses being turned loose with large sections of paddock railing being burnt.

My participation on the Gold Coast this year has been limited to a little live internet and scanning the results.

Sepoy was the standout new sire, with his colt fetching the top price of A$1,200,000. The young Darley sire

lattes”, the ultimate oxymoron.

It is a town with a sense of humour, as just before our breakfast, we had seen a beaten-up woman in the aisles of the supermarket, while I also bought my newspaper in the cigarette department from a “moonlighting doctor”, complete with white coat and stethoscope.

The pair were in fact collecting money for a local charity.

Before the Magic Millions, much of the publicity surrounded Bruce Slade. Previously bloodstock director for Gai Waterhouse and sales purchaser through his Round Table Thoroughbreds, Slade announced that he was joining Henry Field at the young Newgate Stud in the Hunter Valley. It is the southern-hemisphere home to Foxwedge.

James Harron, previously buyer in partnership with Gai Waterhouse, was then seen purchasing for Peter and Paul Snowden, previously the private trainer for Darley until last May. Since the sales, the publicity has dramatically swung to the cobalt chloride positives returned by horses from the stables of Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh and Danny O’Brien.

In humans, it has similar effects to EPO (improving the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood) and started just

like milkshakes (bicarbonate of soda) in harness racing.

Seemingly, the only way out for the trainers may be to shift the blame onto the veterinarians as the testing will be difficult to challenge successfully.

There are increasing calls in Australia for vets working in racing stables to be licensed and subject to the rules of racing.

Racing New South Wales is also looking closely at the development of an “equine biological passport” as is used by the World Anti-Doping Agency to detect gene doping in athletes.

Until all this comes in, I believe we should freeze all samples from Group 1 winners and hold them for future testing, with threat of removing their black-type if giving positive results.

Richard Lancaster, chairman of the British Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, has recently twice thrown his weight behind the zero-tolerance policy of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) regarding anabolic steroids: banning them from birth to retirement.

The BHA itself has undergone radical reshaping with a new chairman and chief executive, as well as new board members. Hopefully Nick

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British prize-money to hit record high for 2015

Helsinge in-foal to Canford Cliffs

The dam of Black Caviar Helsinge is in-foal to Canford Cliffs. Owned by Gilgai Farm, Helsinge is also the dam of fourtime Group 1 winner half-brother All Too Hard (Casino Prince).

Helsinge’s last two yearlings to be offered at auction have sold for A$5 million and A$4 million at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Canford Cliffs (Tagula) is standing at Blue Gum Farm in Victoria. Canford Cliffs’s first

Rust’s bookmaking background will stand him in good stead as we move forward to find the replacement of the levy and facilitating the point of consumption tax.

It is has been an enormous help to have a positive Minister of Sport in Helen Grant, or at least until the general election.

In the meantime in the best tradition of Yes Minister, it may be the “Sir Humphreys” of the BHA, who have most influence.

Rather strangely in a recent article, Bill Barber seemed to want a dictatorial figure such as Bernie Ecclestone in charge, perhaps in tandem with Sepp Blatter.... they would have a combined age of 162!

We certainly do not want Melvyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, to come anywhere near racing. In his one-off role as editor on Radio 4’s Today programme he axed the racing tips as being corrupting!

Fine moral judgement from King, especially at a time when banking morality (perhaps another oxymoron) is still seen to be at an all-time low.

Meanwhile, back in Kingsclere, I am settling final mating plans for my not-so-large broodmare band of three and a half.

Lady Oriande has a foal share due to Redoute’s Choice and will visit Olympic Glory, while Salute The Sun is due to Mount Nelson after a successful “fallopian flush” last spring.

Canford Cliffs

Irish-conceived yearlings sold last year making up to 270,000gns, while his first Australian yearling offered at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale sold for A$100,000 to Mark Kavanagh.

The Norris/Huntingdon-owned Dubawi mare Plebeya, who missed to Dabarsim, goes to Anodin and Lady Melior, a winning Multiplex daughter of Lady Oriande, will visit Phoenix Reach as a maiden. She, hopefully, will then return to the racecourse of racing, the only legal way of changing her hormone levels.

My Jacob sheep have started lambing with some well-marked lambs so far, while the Red Polls cattle have done their pruning job on the Downs with the aim of encouraging growth of the right sward for the Duke of Burgundy butterfly to return. They are all now in winter quarters.

Lady Emma, the Saddleback, has had a nice litter of nine crossbred piglets by a Gloucester Old Spot. One of last year’s produce was reserved for bacon, which was eventually returned to me as a whole side. It took me three evenings to slice and freeze it, a laborious process – fortunately I did not lose a finger.

We have a congregation of magpies close at hand and a very energetic grey squirrel whom I hope to catch during a cold spell with the bait of the fat balls meant for the birds.

Of much more interest and beauty is blue flash of the kingfisher I saw today from my desk on the water’s edge below me. Finally, I hope we can complete the refurbishment and have the B & B up and running in April.

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has announced that projected total prize-money in Britain in 2015 will exceed £130m, creating a new record. This represents an uplift of over £7m on the £123m which was distributed in 2014, which was a record in its own right.

Paul Bittar, former BHA chief executive, said: “It is pleasing that 2015 will see record levels of prize-money being distributed, off the back of what was a previously unmatched figure in 2014.

“An important contributory factor to the totals in 2014 and 2015 are the Prize Money Agreements with the Horsemen’s Group and BHA that have been signed by the vast majority of racecourses. They have provided a framework for increased contributions. In addition, the 2015 figures showcase the sport’s capability of attracting substantial investment from both domestic and international sponsors.

“However, despite progress in recent years there are challenges to be faced and the levels of prize-money in Britain do not reflect a level that British racing’s international standing warrants. We are also conscious of longer-term forecasts, which show that there is work to be done unless a change in Levy legislation is realised. To this end, a consultation from Government regarding racing’s central funding model is imminent and of vital importance to the future health of the sport.”

Of the £130m figure, approximately £4m is formed by the Additional Voluntary Contribution (AVC) made by four contributing bookmakers (William Hill, Ladbrokes, Coral and Betfred). This money is being used as a top-up to prize-money to stimulate more competitive racing. The scheme was developed in consultation with both horsemen and racecourses to assist with covering the cost of sending a runner to the racecourse.

Paul Bittar added: “It is also worth recognising the contribution from the four major retail bookmakers via the AVC Fund. The bulk of the AVC Fund will go towards topping-up prize money for horses down to sixth and eighth place, the intention being to deliver more competitive racing that in turn creates greater revenue for the sport by making it more attractive to punters.

“The number of small-field races remains one of the critical issues currently facing the sport, and other year-end figures published today highlight the task ahead. Incentivising runners through increases in prize-money is one of several initiatives designed to help tackle the issue but ensuring we do all we can as an industry to maximise prize money will always remain integral to this cause.”

Changes in prize-money contribution: 2013, 2014 and 2015

2013 2014 2015

Owners 17.90 19.80 19.80 Racecourses 48.60 54.90 58.40 HBLB 47.80 48.03 48.30 AVC 0.00 0.20 4.30 Total 114.30 123.20 130.80

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Americain moves from the US to Ireland, Overdose heads to Germany Two international stallion announcements were made in the early New Year – 2010 Melbourne Cup winner Americain is to move from Brad Kelley’s Calumet Farm in Kentucky to stand at the Irish National Stud, while sprint-star Overdose is moving to Gestüt Lindenhof in Germany on a leased one-year contract from the Hungarian National Stud.

Americain, a ten-year-old son of Dynaformer who will stand at a fee of €5,000, also won the Prix Vicomtesse Vigier and Prix Kergorlay for trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre.

At Group 1 level he finished third in the 1m4f Hong Kong Vase (G1), fourth in the following

year’s Melbourne Cup, as well as third in the 1m2f Australian Cup (G1) and second in the 1m4f BMW Cup (G1) He has stood for two seasons in Kentucky and shuttled to Swettenham Stud in Australia.

He is out of the Group 2-winning Arazi mare America.

Irish National Stud chief executive John Osborne said: “The handsome Americain will be popular on looks alone and his first foals have his strength and quality.

“He will bring balance to our roster, which is dominated by speed influences. Americain’s pedigree has class in every generation and his sire was revered in America and was a

John Osborne: Americain gives the INS stallion roster “balance”

Classic sire in Europe.

“Americain can emulate that given the support his race record deserves. Mr Kelley will be keen to race his stock.”

Kelley added: “This world champion will produce champions and we want him to become a world-class sire.”

Overdose, also a ten-year-old and a son of Starborough, has will stand at a fee of €4,000.

At three he won the Group 3 Hamburg Trophy and the Group 2 Goldene Peitsche.

He went on to win the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1) that “never was” after the race was voided due to a stall not opening.

In 2011 he finished fourth in the King’s Stand Stakes (G1) just a length behind Prohibit.

He won the Group 3 Premio Carlo & Francesco Aloisi twice - by 10l at three and on the last start of his career at six.

No doubts...

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...for leading sales consignor Ted Voute, who voices his opinion on all things bloodstock and sales-related

he Sales Levy raised its head once again after the 2014 sales season concluded due to the transition to digital sales entry contracts.

In the past in the Vendors Declaration on a paper contract/ entry form, clause 12 automatically agreed to Tattersalls paying the sales levy on the form, while clause 22 in the conditions of sale in the catalogue refers to its existence.

Formerly, it was possible to physically strike the clause on behalf of any international clients or breeders, who, for their own reasons, did not wish to contribute. With the new digital contracts, the opting out must take the format of a written instruction.

The levy, which currently stands at 0.75 per cent, has an “opt-out-inwriting” clause within two weeks of the end of any given sale. In practice, many overseas owners do not get their statement of account until after the time given.

Many national companies use a similar contractual technique to renew existing contracts, for example, the Racing Post App requires you to switch off auto-renew in settings, as does The Times, The Telegraph and even Talk Talk on their phone contracts.

Many horses-in-training are now entered by trainers or their offices online with no facility to opt-out until the sale statement arrives.

And with the growing dominance of consignors, many breeders do not enter their own yearlings anymore and, again, may not be aware of the deduction until long after the event.

Many first-time overseas vendors have no benefit from the services that the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association (TBA) give all of us in the UK as members. I understand that the TBA derives a lot of its financial

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support from the sales levy, but many overseas vendors are currently unaware of their gift to English breeders.

Many discussions have taken place in the past and procedures put in place to thank contributors of sizable contributions. Many large-scale vendors have made arrangements to contribute once a year using their own criteria for the size of their contribution, or otherwise.

I have argued that this is a voluntary contribution, and although it is the lifeline for the TBA, it is out-dated in its present format. In a world of accountability and best practice, this voluntary contribution should either be made mandatory or should be re-formatted so that those who wish can opt-out at the point of entry.

The TBA is a fantastic organisation that as a past council member I am very proud of, but we must not fund it in the hope that clients of the various sales companies do not notice that they are not obligated to contribute.

Current payment of the sales levy falls into three categories: 1. The people who consciously pay each year with the knowledge it is going to support the TBA; 2. The people that have contributed unknowingly as they may have thought it a compulsory payment or otherwise; 3. The people who opt out to either not pay or arrange separate payment directly to the TBA, some of these people may already contribute in other ways.

I urge the TBA to revisit the contribution system and to give it greater transparency and to introduce a better system to unsubscribe. Surely to derive an income knowing that each and every contributor is knowledgeably supporting an outstanding association must be the current way to move forward.

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The “Great” re-opening

Our photographer Trevor Jones was on hand for the opening of Chelmsford City, the racecourse previously known as Great Leighs and now owned by Betfred. The day accordingly went well, and although there were a few teething problems with facilities around the track for the paying public, jockeys and trainers were pleased with the All-Weather surface, albeit the riders felt that it was riding a little on the “slow” side.

The first race, below and right, was won by Tryster and jockey Adam Kirby for trainer Charlie Appleby and Godolphin. Appropriately, Kirby is the winning-most and the “go-to” jockey on the All-Weather in Britain, while Shamardal, sire of Tryster, also has an excellent record on the artificial surfaces.

What particularly delighted many of the connections was the above-average level of prize-money on offer: let’s hope it is a continuing trend.

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nh racing Impeccable: Silviniaco Conti with jockey Noel Fehily put in a faultless display of jumping.

Trainer Paul Nicholls believes that successful treatment of an ulcer problem has been key to the horse flourishing this season

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Christmas treats

Sue Montgomery sees Silviniaco Conti take himself to the top of the staying chasing tree

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OR ALL THE HYPE and attention that the Cheltenham Festival generates through the season (and like the marketing and hysteria surrounding Christmas, it all seems to start earlier and earlier) it is a fact that the occasion’s showcase event, the Gold Cup, identifies the champion staying chaser much less often than the division’s mid-season highlight, the King George VI Chase.

In the past 30 runnings when the two

races have been won by different horses, only on nine occasions was the Gold Cup winner judged superior to that of the King George. According to last year’s Anglo-Irish classifications, Lord Windermere, who beat On His Own a short-head at Cheltenham, was rated 8lb inferior to the Kempton hero Silviniaco Conti.

Given the style of Silviniaco Conti’s second success in the William Hill-sponsored Boxing Day feature, it will take some performance in March to top it.

King George hero: Silviniaco Conti gave French-breds a ninth successive win in the Festive Grade 1

And it may well come from himself.

The French-bred set the standard for the season with a commanding all-the-way victory that consolidated his position as favourite for the Gold Cup. After the dust settled on the always-informative Festive programme in Britain and Ireland, he was generally available at 11-4, with the only other contender in single betting figures Road To Riches, winner of the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown.

Silviniaco Conti gave his trainer Paul Nicholls a ninth King George victory. The nine-year-old does not have the flashing brilliance of his stable’s five-time winner Kauto Star, who also had the pace to win at the top level over 2m in two Tingle Creek Chases; he is more akin to his stable’s dual winner See More Business, a thorough stayer of the highest class.

The chasing careers of Nicholls’s first genuine star and his latest celebrity bear comparison.

Silviniaco Conti has won five Grade 1s to See More Business’s three (including two Betfair Chases, which did not exist in his predecessor’s time). Both won their first King Georges at the age of seven, both have Charlie Hall Chases and editions of the 3m1f contest at Aintree on their CVs. And both upped their game after the application of headgear, blinkers for See More Business and the moremodern cheekpieces for Silviniaco Conti.

The one prize still missing from Silviniaco Conti’s record is, of course, the Gold Cup. See More Business won his (in 1999 between his two King Georges) at the second attempt, having been unluckily carried out by an injured rival at his first.

If all goes to plan, Silviniaco Conti will be trying to make it third time lucky. In 2013, he fell three out when travelling conspicuously well, and last year he led over the last before wavering on the run-in to finish fourth, less than 2l behind the winner.

Nicholls is adamant that stamina – at a premium in the Gold Cup, which was originally founded as a Grand National trial on a demanding track with a stiff uphill finish – is not an issue for the gelding; rather, he points to his charge’s physiological problem of painful stomach ulcers, now resolved.

Discomfort-free this season, and with his sometimes lazy attitude sharpened by the cheekpieces, Silviniaco Conti produced a career-best in the King George. He was aided by a masterclass of front-running by rider Noel Fehily, who determined to make the 3m contest a thorough test of stamina and set

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Silviniaco Conti’s comprehensive King George success eliminated most of his Kempton rivals from the Gold Cup reckoning

Road To Riches, a first Grade 1 winner for sire Gamut, is from the son of Spectrum’s first crop

his mount into a relentless heartbeat rhythm with which none of his rivals could cope. It was just a pleasure to watch.

Silviniaco Conti, who runs in the colours of Chris Giles and Jared Sullivan’s Potensis, had four and a half lengths to spare over Dynaste, who was followed in by the winner’s stablemate Al Ferof.

Irish raider Champagne Fever, who had looked the main threat on the home turn, faded to fourth.

“He’s better than he was last year, because he’s stronger, and we’re still learning about him,” said Nicholls of the winner. “The Gold Cup is the target and I have no doubt about him staying. He gallops all day and I hope he can show his true colours at Cheltenham.”

The son of Dom Alco, bred in the Allier region by Patrick Joubert from a mare by smart middle-distance performer Altayan, gave horses foaled in France a ninth successive King George success, and an 18th in all. And for the first time in the race, there was a French-bred clean sweep.

Silviniaco Conti is a member of the AQPS (autre que pur-sang) racing strain, as were another five of the ten individual French-bred King George winners.

The first was Nupsala, whose shock defeat of Desert Orchid back in 1987 focussed attention on AQPS horses, now ubiquitous in Britain and Ireland but then something of

a novelty; the others have been The Fellow, Algan, First Gold and Edredon Bleu.

Kauto Star and Long Run are thoroughbreds, as were the first two Frenchbred King George winners Manicou and Mandarin as well as this year’s second and third Dynaste (Martaline) and Al Ferof (Dom Alco).

AQPS horses are genetically largely thoroughbred, owing their identity – which is guarded with pride by their breeders – to a bit of rough or mystery in their pedigrees many generations back.

In Silviniaco Conti’s case it is the unrecorded distaff origins of his 1930-foaled seventh dam Saratoska.

Dom Alco, who died five years ago at Cercyla-Tour, is responsible for three other Grade 1 winners in Al Ferof (also out of an Altayan mare), Grands Crus and Neptune Collonges.

The last-named also gave Nicholls the Grand National and the stable’s candidates for this year’s Aintree feature includes another by the sire – Unioniste, a widemargin winner at Sandown in early January.

Silviniaco Conti’s comprehensive King George success eliminated most of his Kempton rivals from the Gold Cup reckoning.

At the Festival, Dynaste will defend his Ryanair Chase title, Champagne Fever is likely to join him in the 2m5f race and Nicholls would like to drop Al Ferof even further back in distance to the Champion Chase.

It takes a “proper” horse to win the King George and Gold Cup in the same season, as the names of the mere nine to have done so testify: Cottage Rake (1948-49), Limber Hill (1955-56), Saffron Tartan (1960-/61), Arkle (1965-66), Desert Orchid (1988-89), Best Mate (2002-03), Kicking King (2004-05), Kauto Star (2006-07, 2008-09) and Long Run (2010-11).

Riches on the Road to Cheltenham?

Ireland’s top mid-season test in the division, the Lexus Chase, has a relatively short history having been first run over 3m in 1992.

Since then three winners have used it as a springboard to Gold Cup success: Best Mate (2003-04), Denman (2007-08) and Synchronised (2011-12).

The notion that good health, and consequent superior athletic performance, Left, jockey Bryan Cooper enjoys his Lexus Chase success, his first big win since he broke his leg at the Festival in 2014

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nh racing starts from the inside has been notably illustrated not only by Silviniaco Conti, but by Road To Riches, whose eyecatching improvement this season has been, according to trainer Noel Meade, the result of a change of diet.

The eight-year-old, a Grade 3 winner as a novice hurdler, showed a glimpse of his innate ability as a novice chaser in December 2001, when he finished third to Don Cossack and Carlingford Lough in a Grade 1 at Fairyhouse. But since putting his Galway Plate rivals to the sword by 11l under 7lb conditional rider back in July he has blossomed dramatically, and is now rated Ireland’s top chaser.

Road To Riches, who races for Gigginstown House Stud, notched his first Grade 1 prize when he comfortably saw off Rocky Creek, Boston Bob and First Lieutenant in the JNwine.com Champion Chase at Down Royal, and he took another stride forward in the Lexus.

In a fast-run contest jockey Bryan Cooper was content to cede his mount’s customary trailblazing position to On His Own and, after a slight flat spot before the turn in as Sam Winner joined the party, stayed on strongly to lead on the run-in.

The Gamut gelding was a length and a half clear of On His Own at the line, with Silviniaco Conti’s stablemate Sam Winner third, followed in by Boston Bob and Carlingford Lough. The last two Gold Cup winners Lord Windermere and Bobs Worth were the last two finishers.

The Leopardstown 3m puts more emphasis on stamina than that at Kempton and the first four home all have the Gold Cup on their radar rather than any drop back in distance.

Road To Riches has yet to race over further, but Meade has few doubts.

“The way he came home you’d have to say it’s all systems go for Cheltenham and the Gold Cup,” he said, “and it was great to see the way he battled.”

Gamut, who beat all bar Vinnie Roe in an Irish St Leger at four, won a Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud at five and is from one of the best Ballymacoll families, his dam being a half-sister to top-class stayer Sought Out. The Spectrum horse started his second career at Sunnyhill Stud, where Road To Riches was bred as one of his first crop, and he moved last year to Rosshill Farm in County Galway.

Road To Riches, out of an unraced Over The River sister to Grade 2 chase winner Sullane River, is his sire’s only Graded winner

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to date. He was sold as a yearling for €8,000 before his acquisition by Gigginstown for £155,000 as a five-year-old, 12 days after taking a Sligo maiden point-to-point.

O’Leary team and Sadler’s Wells flying high

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Faugheen was visually impressive, apart from a blunder at the last, but the race did lack depth and Mullins himself still judges “The Fly” his best Cheltenham prospect

The Christmas and New Year programme was particularly rewarding for Michael O’Leary’s colour bearers with victories in five of Ireland’s eight Grade 1 races.

Backing up Road To Riches were Lieutenant Colonel, who confirmed his World Hurdle credentials with a defeat of Jetson in the Christmas Hurdle at Leopardstown, and the three novices Clarcam (Racing Post Novices Chase at Leopardstown), Don Poli (Topaz Novices Chase at Leopardstown) and McKinley, who took the first top-level race ever run at Naas, the Lawlor’s Hotel Novices’ Hurdle.

But for numbers, the festive period belonged to Sadler’s Wells.

Of the 26 Graded races run, nine were won by his sons, including five of the 14 Grade 1s available, as the table shows. And not just the usual suspects were involved – the hugely promising Bristol De Mai, who ran away with the Finale Juvenile Hurdle at Chepstow, is a first Graded at any level winner for Saddler Maker, who stands at Cercy la Tour. The 17-year-old raced a few times without success, but is out of a half-sister to Don Poli’s sire Poliglote, another by Sadler’s Wells.

The 14-times Flat champion’s presence in the jumping world is unprecedented.

The first Graded winner by one of his sons was Dato Star, who announced his own sire Accordion’s worth by taking the Cheltenham Festival Bumper in 1995. Between then and the Tolworth Hurdle won by the King’s Theatre gelding L’Ami Serge on January 3 this year, 48 stallions by Sadler’s Wells have been responsible for the winners of 603 Graded races.

Of course, opportunity has helped as once the coming (during the 1996-97 season) of Istabraq, who was by the great horse himself, emphasised the possibilities, the bandwagon started rolling.

But the figures are remarkable nonetheless – the next best on the list, Alleged, has 16 sire sons with offspring who have won 223 Graded races.

Sadler’s Wells is the only stallion to have sired winners of the Derby (Galileo and High Chaparral) and Cheltenham Gold Cup (Synchronised) and the 2013-14 season produced another milestone when King’s Theatre (died in 2011), Oscar and Milan (both

King conquers again: Hurricane Fly stretches to take the last in the Ryanair Hurdle. Can the son of Montjeu repeat the feat once again at The Festival?

at Grange in County Cork) gave him a clean sweep on the sires’ table.

Don’t mess with the best: The Fly

The horse who holds the Grade 1 win record, the 2011 and 2013 Champion Hurdle hero Hurricane Fly, is grandson Montjeu. The Willie Mullins-trained gelding took his toplevel total to 21 with a gritty half-length defeat

of reigning champion Jezki in the Ryanair Hurdle at Leopardstown.

Flat-bred Hurricane Fly, who races for George Creighton and Rose Boyd, remains undefeated in nine runs at the County Dublin track, and was given the ovation he deserved.

Though his zest for racing clearly remains undimmed at the age of 11, younger legs – chiefly those of his own stablemate Faugheen

– are now preferred in the Cheltenham betting.

The seven-year-old, by the deceased Trempolino horse Germany, is unbeaten in his eight runs anywhere. In the Neptune Investment Management Novices Hurdle at Cheltenham last year he came home clear (with such as Lieutenant Colonel and Cole Harden behind) and in thewilliamhill.com

Grade 1 winners Christmas/New Year Race

Winner

Sire

Dam sire

Bred

Feltham Novices’ Chase, Kempton

Conygree

Karinga Bay

Ardross

Christmas Hurdle, Kempton

Faugheen Germany Trempolino

Ireland

King George VI Chase, Kempton

Silviniaco Conti

Dom Alco

Dom Pasquini

France

Racing Post Novices Chase, Leopardstown

Clarcam

Califet

Freedom Cry

France

Paddy Power Chase, Leopardstown Twinlight

Muhtathir

Elmaamul

France

Future Champions Novices Hurdle, Leopardstown

Sizing John

Midnight Legend

Night Shift

GB

Finale Junior Hurdle, Chepstow

Bristol De Mai

Saddler Maker

GB

Sadler’s Wells

France

Lexus Chase, Leopardstown Road To Riches Gamut

Spectrum

Ireland

Topaz Novices Chase, Leopardstown

Sadler’s Wells

Ireland

Ryanair Hurdle, Leopardstown Hurricane Fly

Don Poli Poliglote Montjeu

Sadler’s Wells

Ireland

Christmas Hurdle, Leopardstown

Kayf Tara

Sadler’s Wells GB

Challow Hurdle, Newbury Parlour Games

Lieutenant Colonel

Monsun

Konigsstuhl

Tolworth Hurdle, Sandown

L’Ami Serge

King’s Theatre

Sadler’s Wells

Lawlor’s Hotel Novices Hurdle, Naas

McKinley

Kheleyf Green Desert GB

GB Ireland

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Sire of Gr.1 winning sprinters GARSWOOD and SLADE POWER in 2014.

Yearlings in 2014 made up to 340,000gns.

MAYSON £6,000

FEE:

Gr.1 July Cup winner and INVINCIBLE SPIRIT’s highest rated sprinter.

First crop foals in 2014 made up to 90,000gns.

First foals in 2015

INTELLO FEE:

£25,000

MEDICEAN FEE:

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Classic winning Champion son of GALILEO from a superb family.

Sire of 10 Gr. 1 winners including leading sire, DUTCH ART. Yearlings in 2014 made up to 400,000gns.

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FEE:

£15,000

Sire of top class sprinters SOLE POWER and STEPPER POINT in 2014.

Yearlings in 2014 made up to 320,000gns.

First foals in 2015

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£10,000

Champion UK Sprinter by DARK ANGEL. The fastest horse ever over 6f at Newmarket.

FEE:

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Yearlings in 2014 made up to 380,000gns.

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Gr.1 winning sprinter by DUTCH ART from a very fast family.

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nh racing Christmas Hurdle at Kempton he came home virtually alone.

Faugheen was visually impressive, apart from a blunder at the last, but the race did lack depth and Mullins himself still judges “The Fly” his best Cheltenham prospect, the one with the form in the book.

The Champion Hurdle second favourite The New One (King’s Theatre) is unbeaten in his five runs since his generally judged unlucky third behind Jezki last March.

Initially everything was looking fine, with a no-nonsense victory in the Grade 2 International Hurdle at Cheltenham in mid-December, but a laboured win in the Champion Hurdle Trial at Haydock cast doubts.

Faugheen is now the highest-rated of the three Grade 1 winners by the deceased Germany, the others being Captain Cee Bee and Conna Castle.

The gelding, who carries Rich Ricci’s pinkand-green, was bred in County Galway by John Waldron from the unraced Accordion

mare Miss Pickering, and sold by him as a foal for €4,000. Faugheen was headhunted to the Ricci team after winning his four-year-old maiden point at Ballysteen.

Progeny of two stallions – both by Sadler’s Wells – notched Graded race doubles over Christmas/New Year.

Lieutenant Colonel, by Overbury Stud-based Kayf Tara, was backed up by Champion Chasebound Special Tiara’s springheeled display in the Grade 2 Desert Orchid Chase at Kempton.

As well as L’Ami Serge, King’s Theatre had Carrigmoorna Rock, who presented her OLBG Mares’ Hurdle case in the Grade 3 mares’ contest at Leopardstown.

Unionist: ante-post fancy for Grand National

L’Ami Serge: is out of a Phardante mare from the family of Triumph Hurdle winner Snow Drop

A triumphant season for Kayf Tara

Lieutenant Colonel, bred by Heather Calzini in County Durham from the minor bumper winner Agnese, whose second dam Millie Grey is out of a half-sister to Champion Hurdle winner Beech Road, topped a particularly good run for 21-year-old dual Ascot Gold Cup winner Kayf Tara, who had 11

winners in the eight days from Boxing Day. The festive period was largely the province of horses bred for their game. Coneygree is a half-brother to Hennessy Gold Cup hero Carruthers (and in the Feltham Chase gave his sire Karinga Bay a first Grade 1, seven years after his death); Clarcam is out of a half-sister to Auteuil Grade 1 winner Bonbon Rose (and likewise was a first at the top in Britain and Ireland for Boardsmill-based Califet) and even Parlour Games, who is out of top-class Flat middle-distance mare Petrushka, is by Monsun, whose sons are now sought-after jump sires.

But there is always an exception and the cuckoo in the nest was McKinley. The fiveyear-old is by the Green Desert horse Kheleyf, who has had only six other jumps winners, and never before one at Graded level.

McKinley is out of an unraced half-sister (albeit by Montjeu) to a Prix De La Forêt winner, but at Naas he outstayed rivals by Scorpion, Germany and Flemensfirth.

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stallion stats Leading British and Irish NH sires 2014-15: (by prize-money earned, to January 14, 2015) Stallion KING’S THEATRE (IRE) PRESENTING (GB) OSCAR (IRE) BENEFICIAL (GB) MILAN (GB) KAYF TARA (GB) FLEMENSFIRTH (USA) WESTERNER (GB) OLD VIC DOM ALCO (FR) DEFINITE ARTICLE (GB) GAMUT (IRE) DANEHILL DANCER (IRE) VINNIE ROE (IRE) DR MASSINI (IRE) CLOUDINGS (IRE) SHANTOU (USA) GENEROUS (IRE) ALFLORA (IRE) GOLD WELL (GB) HERON ISLAND (IRE) MONTJEU (IRE) BRIAN BORU (GB) GALILEO (IRE) KARINGA BAY MIDNIGHT LEGEND (GB) WINGED LOVE (IRE) DUBAWI (IRE) VOIX DU NORD (FR) ANSHAN STOWAWAY (GB) GOLAN (IRE) ALDERBROOK (GB) FRUITS OF LOVE (USA) AUTHORIZED (IRE) OVERBURY (IRE) BLUEPRINT (IRE) SCORPION (IRE) KAPGARDE (FR) CRAIGSTEEL (GB) POLIGLOTE (GB) AZAMOUR (IRE) RUDIMENTARY (USA) HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) GERMANY (USA) EXIT TO NOWHERE (USA) KING’S BEST (USA) ACCORDION REVOQUE (IRE) HERNANDO (FR)

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Winners

Races Won

236 99 334 99 264 65 273 69 254 60 220 60 256 60 148 42 141 39 35 12 109 33 47 8 23 7 80 26 90 22 61 18 80 23 79 28 93 21 59 20 79 26 43 13 85 20 57 21 57 13 110 28 64 23 21 6 17 10 49 10 47 13 69 11 60 15 56 15 27 11 78 20 38 11 57 13 31 7 59 19 17 8 30 8 26 11 59 12 14 3 51 11 30 13 28 9 44 11 27 10

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courtesy of Weatherbys Money Won (£)

306 1,776,361 353 1,136,706 283 1,013,676 315 1,006,123 252 813,225 215 790,021 251 776,904 170 635,692 171 571,110 37 442,024 121 345,110 47 326,120 30 322,781 96 306,672 80 291,085 70 288,569 91 285,498 93 284,035 99 283,981 66 283,368 78 281,351 58 267,879 83 261,527 55 247,776 61 246,827 131 244,991 60 244,834 16 240,458 26 234,267 50 231,555 43 211,725 69 202,248 54 185,777 70 168,537 32 167,011 87 164,114 55 160,509 45 160,181 35 157,327 67 153,525 16 153,011 36 151,768 33 150,772 60 150,728 10 150,335 44 150,078 40 149,297 18 147,213 43 141,880 26 139,565

Wnrs to Rnrs % 41.94 29.64 24.62 25.27 23.62 27.27 23.43 28.37 27.65 34.28 30.27 17.02 30.43 32.5 24.44 29.5 28.75 35.44 22.58 33.89 32.91 30.23 23.52 36.84 22.8 25.45 35.93 28.57 58.82 20.4 27.65 15.94 25 26.78 40.74 25.64 28.94 22.8 22.58 32.2 47.05 26.66 42.3 20.33 21.42 21.56 43.33 32.14 25 37.03

Av. earnings 7,527 3,403 3,840 3,685 3,202 3,591 3,035 4,295 4,050 12,629 3,166 6,939 14,034 3,833 3,234 4,731 3,569 3,595 3,054 4,803 3,561 6,230 3,077 4,347 4,330 2,227 3,826 11,450 13,780 4,726 4,505 2,931 3,096 3,010 6,186 2,104 4,224 2,810 5,075 2,602 9,001 5,059 5,799 2,555 10,738 2,943 4,977 5,258 3,225 5,169

Gr.1 winners, Gr.1 prospects 3 Group winners/ performers in his first-crop • Dark Reckoning, Strath Burn & Lola Beaux • 2015 2yos from a second book of 143 mares • Second crop yearlings sold for €135,000, €120,000, €90,000, €85,000, €80,000, £75,000, £75,000, etc.

Acclamation ex Entente Cordiale (Ela-Mana-Mou) Fee: £8,000 1st Oct SLF Strath Burn – 2nd Prix Robert Papin Gr.2 & Cornwallis Stakes Gr.3

Sire of 10 Group winners/ performers in 2014 • 9.4% black-type winners to runners (3yo+), second only to Galileo in GB/IRE • 2014 Group/Stakes winners include Berkshire, Purr Along (1,000,000gns filly) & Volume (700,000gns filly) Rock of Gibraltar ex Independence (Selkirk) Fee: £6,000 1st Oct SLF Berkshire – won Royal Lodge Stakes Gr.2 & Darley Stakes Gr.3

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stallion stats Leading British and Irish sires of Hurdlers 2014-15: (by prize-money earned, to January 14, 2015) Stallion KING’S THEATRE (IRE) KAYF TARA (GB) PRESENTING (GB) OSCAR (IRE) FLEMENSFIRTH (USA) MILAN (GB) DANEHILL DANCER (IRE) BENEFICIAL (GB) MONTJEU (IRE) OLD VIC SHANTOU (USA) VINNIE ROE (IRE) WESTERNER (GB) GALILEO (IRE) DEFINITE ARTICLE (GB) AUTHORIZED (IRE) GERMANY (USA) HERON ISLAND (IRE) MIDNIGHT LEGEND (GB) SCORPION (IRE) BRIAN BORU (GB) HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) GOLD WELL (GB)

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Runners

Winners

Races Won

Places

Money Won (£)

Wnrs to Rnrs %

Av. earnings

151 151 197 170 161 167 22 147 35 87 60 60 106 47 74 25 11 53 70 39 62 44 42

56 37 47 35 31 30 7 26 12 22 17 17 20 16 21 11 3 12 16 11 13 9 10

92 45 59 48 40 40 11 33 22 26 23 24 24 19 29 17 5 18 19 18 22 11 16

166 132 167 142 136 124 29 139 45 80 58 58 77 45 54 29 7 34 70 26 46 46 47

892,394 451,879 445,354 420,745 347,971 343,703 312,754 270,788 252,364 237,562 208,590 199,552 198,407 194,830 168,238 162,721 148,091 146,832 145,300 140,630 137,513 133,526 131,234

37.08 24.50 23.85 20.58 19.25 17.96 31.81 17.68 34.28 25.28 28.33 28.33 18.86 34.04 28.37 44.00 27.27 22.64 22.85 28.20 20.96 20.45 23.80

5,910 2,993 2,261 2,475 2,161 2,058 14,216 1,842 7,210 2,731 3,476 3,326 1,872 4,145 2,273 6,509 13,463 2,770 2,076 3,606 2,218 3,035 3,125

Money Won (£)

Wnrs to Rnrs %

Leading British and Irish sires of Chasers 2014-15: (by prize-money earned, to January 14, 2015) Stallion KING’S THEATRE (IRE) BENEFICIAL (GB) PRESENTING (GB) OSCAR (IRE) MILAN (GB) WESTERNER (GB) DOM ALCO (FR) FLEMENSFIRTH (USA) OLD VIC GAMUT (IRE) KAYF TARA (GB) ANSHAN DR MASSINI (IRE) ALFLORA (IRE) CLOUDINGS (IRE) KARINGA BAY GENEROUS (IRE) GOLD WELL (GB) VOIX DU NORD (FR) WINGED LOVE (IRE) POLIGLOTE (GB) STOWAWAY (GB) ACCORDION

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107 47 142 36 142 42 105 25 106 27 43 17 22 7 90 18 69 17 9 2 41 11 42 9 47 14 46 9 24 8 34 8 29 14 17 8 9 6 30 11 8 5 17 6 23 6

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120 804,502 148 689,547 146 604,364 111 539,092 99 432,066 65 399,803 19 389,148 86 371,361 82 330,129 8 258,402 46 248,721 40 222,978 36 218,494 56 200,125 30 185,883 32 179,293 39 155,253 13 145,769 10 142,350 31 137,733 10 127,286 17 126,542 14 124,934

courtesy of Weatherbys 43.92 25.35 29.57 23.80 25.47 39.53 31.81 20.00 24.63 22.22 26.82 21.42 29.78 19.56 33.33 23.52 48.27 47.05 66.66 36.66 62.50 35.29 26.08

Av. earnings 7,519 4,856 4,256 5,134 4,076 9,298 17,689 4,126 4,784 28,711 6,066 5,309 4,649 4,351 7,745 5,273 5,354 8,575 15,817 4,591 15,911 7,44 5,432

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Galileo and War Front:

the must-have combination for US breeders Nancy Sexton reports from Keeneland’s January Sale which saw Up, the Galileo half-sister to Dutch Art, sell for $2.2 million

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S far as Kentucky breeding stock auctions are concerned, two names currently rule the roost – Galileo and War Front.

The combination, specifically high-performing Galileo mares in-foal to War Front, has become a particularly potent commercial one in recent years, accounting for three seven-figure transactions in 2013 and 2014. The sales included Betterbetterbetter, who topped the 2013 Fasig-Tipton November Sale when selling for $5.2 million to Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm, and the 2014 Keeneland November sale-topper Aloof, a Group 3 winner who was also recruited to join Pope’s broodmare band when sold for $3.9 million.

Thus, it was always going to be short odds that this year’s renewal of the Keeneland January Sale would feature more of the same given the presence of Up, a Classic-placed Galileo mare catalogued in-foal to War Front.

Campaigned by the Coolmore triumvirate, Up took the 2012 Blandford Stakes and ran second in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1) for Aidan O’Brien. Not only that, she is a half-sister to Dutch Art. As a result, it was no surprise to see her end the week as the sale’s sole seven-figure horse, selling for $2.2 million to Robert Naify and Jan Vandebos’s RanJan Racing. A Californian, Naify bred and owned last year’s John C Mabee Stakes winner Moulin De Mougin.

Up was followed into the ring by her first foal, a weanling daughter of War Front who sold for $800,000 to Solis/Litt on behalf of LNJ Foxwoods. Both were sold by Four Star Sales, who ended the sale as the secondleading consignor behind Taylor Made Sales.

Up was the most expensive horse to change hands at the January Sale since the sale of Irish Cherry to Southern Equine Stables for

Kerry Cauthen of consignor Four Star Sales

$2.7 million in 2008.

Her weanling is likely to be retained

by Larry, Nancy and Jaime Roth’s LNJ Foxwoods to race, according to Katey Caddel of Solis/Litt, who handled bidding duties.

Although a relatively new operation, LNJ Foxwoods also made their presence felt at the 2014 January Sale when paying $750,000 through Solis/Litt for Life Happened, the dam of Grade 2 winner Vyjack.

Though the top price of $2.2 million eclipsed last year’s high of $775,000, the sale’s figures failed to keep pace with 2014. With 948 horses sold for a total of $35,305,500, the average dropped seven per cent to $37,242, while the median suffered a greater decline falling 20 per cent to $16,000.

However, that’s not to say that it was a tricky renewal. The sale lost one of its stars with the early withdrawal of Twirl, another stakes-performing Galileo mare in-foal to War Front.

Once the sale was underway, another potential star, the Grade 3-placed Foxy Danseur, who was the only mare catalogued in-foal to Tapit, was scratched along with her weanling filly by Medaglia D’Oro. Champion Blind Luck, who realised $2.5 million when Mark Dedomenico bought out his partners in 2011, did make it to the ring, but was bought back for $1.4 million. She has bred two foals for Dedomenico, but was offered having aborted her foal by Midnight Lute.

That left the 2009 Vagrancy Handicap winner Carolyn’s Cat, by Forestry, as the third-most expensive lot of the sale at $450,000. Dan Hall of Hidden Brook signed for the mare, who is in-foal to Blame.

As ever, there was also an international flavour. Shadai Farm made two notable purchases during the first session, going to $400,000 for Listed winner Premier Steps and $230,000 for the Grade 3-placed Orion Moon.

Like Up, both mares are Europeanbreds – Premier Steps is a daughter of Footstepsinthesand, while Orion Moon is a Manduro half-sister to the Group 1-placed Orion Star – and both had shown good form in Europe prior to their transfer to the US. Premier Steps, in particular, proved early on with Tom Dascombe that she had been a smart £24,000 yearling purchase

by SackvilleDonald, thanks to placings in the 2012 Albany Stakes (G3) and Prix du Calvados (G3).

While Shadai operated at the top end of the market, there was healthy activity in the

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Calumet Farm, an operation which is rapidly gaining a reputation for thinking outside the box, has drafted in Red Rocks from Italy

The War Front weanling daughter of Up (Galileo)

middle to lower end of the markets from a range of international buyers, including those hailing from Europe, South America and the Middle East. Particularly active was BBA Ireland as the purchaser of nine lots worth $714,000, including the stakes-placed Giant’s Causeway mare Magical Steps, who cost $350,000.

Taking into account results out of this winter’s various American breeding stock sales alone, there’s no doubt that demand for the cream of European bloodstock is growing stronger.

And as long as those classy European mares continue to be offered to an American audience in-foal to War Front, that current demand is unlikely to falter.

Of course, it’s not all about War Front.

Tapit, the runaway champion US sire of 2014, has several high-class turf runners to his credit, including Grade 1 winner Tapitsfly.

In response, he has received support from several major breeders with European ties,

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among them Juddmonte and the Maktoum family, allowing for the possibility of greater international prominence down the line.

John Gosden’s unbeaten three-year-old Christophermarlowe appeals as a colt who could promote Tapit in Europe this summer.

Galileo, meanwhile, appears to have every chance of making his presence even more strongly felt in North America. US breeders looking access his line have no shortage of options following the retirements of Magician to Ashford Stud and Noble Mission to Lane’s End Farm.

Brad Kelley’s Calumet Farm, an operation which is rapidly gaining a reputation for thinking outside the box, has drafted in Red Rocks from Italy.

Galileo’s first Kentucky son, the now Japanese-based Cape Blanco, has 170 mntwo-year-olds in his first crop, while Treasure Beach covered 101 mares during his first season in Florida.

Their popularity offers an insight into the belief that American breeders have in Galileo, which should carry over on to the likes of Magician and Noble Mission until proven otherwise.

History-making moment on the track

Obviously, the Sadler’s Wells line is currently thriving in the US thanks to El Prado and his sons Kitten’s Joy and Medaglia D’Oro. The year opened in good style for the latter, whose son Mshawish bagged the Fort Lauderdale Stakes at Gulfstream Park on January 10 to become the first North American Graded stakes winner for owner Al Shaqab Racing.

History wasn’t just confined to Mshawish that day, however, as his victory came on the same card that Parranda took the Marshua’s River Stakes on her first start for Christophe Clement.

An $800,000 purchase out of the FasigTipton November Sale, the English Channel mare is the first North American Graded stakes winner for The China Horse Club.

She could be next seen at the China Equine Cultural Festival in Singapore in February.

With the turn of the New Year, attention

has now turned to the Kentucky Derby trail.

Sitting atop of the Derby point standings is the Scat Daddy colt El Kabeir, last year’s Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes winner who impressed when the near 5l winner of his three-year-old debut, the Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct.

Calculator, a Florida-bred son of $2,500 stallion In Summation, was another to turn in an eye-catching performance, in his case when the 4l winner of the Sham Stakes at Santa Anita Park.

He descends from Tamerett, the dam of Known Fact, and shares his third dam Amo with Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford. However, In Summation was a Grade 1-winning sprinter, which tempers enthusiasm for Calculator’s ability to last the Kentucky Derby distance.

Any Kentucky Derby hopeful has a tall act to follow in last year’s hero California Chrome, who was crowned America’s Horse of the Year and champion three-year-old colt at the Eclipse Awards in late January at Gulfstream Park in Florida.

By Lucky Pulpit, who once stood for $2,500, and out of Love The Chase, who once won an $8,000 tag, California Chrome started 2014 for co-owner and breeders Steve Coburn and Perry Martin competing against fellow California-breds.

By the year’s end, he had been sent out by popular trainer Art Sherman to win season highlights such as the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Santa Anita Derby and Hollywood Derby. He also ran a game third to Horse of the Year finalist Bayern in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Untapable, whose four Grade 1 victories included the Kentucky Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Distaff, dominated the three-year-old filly, while Juddmonte’s Close Hatches, a triple Grade 1 winner during the 2014 season, was named champion older filly.

The European import Main Sequence, who was a Horse of the Year finalist off the back of his unbeaten sequence of four Grade 1 turf wins, picked up champion turf male and champion older male honours for the Niarchos family.

Among the two-year-old division, it was American Pharoah, the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and FrontRunner Stakes (G1) winner, who picked up champion male honours despite being forced to miss the Breeders’ Cup. Take Charge Brandi, who sprang a surprise in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’, was crowned champion two-year-old filly.

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Sea The Stars ex Sanwa (Monsun)

Brilliant winner of the Group 1 German Derby by 11 lengths and a Champion 3yo

£15,000

New for 2015

❚ Winner of 4 races (3 at Group level) at 2 and 3, 8f to 12f, from just 5 starts. ❚ Rated 127 by Timeform ❚ Out of a full sister to Group 1 Classic winners: SAMUM (Champion Sire in Germany), SCHIAPARELLI and SALVE REGINA. ❚ The first son of Champion SEA THE STARS to retire to stud.

ARCHIPENKO

Kingmambo ex Bound (Nijinsky)

£10,000

Sire of a Group 1 winner with his first crop ❚ Sire in 2014 of: MADAME CHIANG (Group 1 & Group 3) LADY PENKO (FR) (Listed winner & Group 1 placed) RUSSIAN PUNCH (2yo Listed winner) ❚ The Leading Sire of 2yos in Europe in 2014 by % winners to runners (64%) (at 15.12.14) ❚ The Leading 2nd Crop Sire in Europe in 2014 by % winners to runners (55%) (to 31.12.14) ❚ The Joint Leading Active Sire in Europe in 2014 by % winners to runners (55%) (to 31.12.14) ❚ Sire of 16 individual 2yo winners in 2014, including: CLONARD STREET (Group 2 placed), MARABEA (Group 3 placed), GROOR (Listed placed twice), MEDRANO (Listed placed).

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AUSSIE RULES

£7,000

Danehill ex Last Second (Alzao)

Classic winning miler – Dual Gr.1 winner at 3 ❚ Sire in 2014 of 11 Stakes horses, including: FIESOLANA (Group 1 Matron Stakes) and Listed winners AUSSI CELEBRE, BERTINORO, DINKUM DIAMOND, KRAMULKIE. ❚ Also sire of 21 individual 2yo winners in 2014.

His 2014 yearlings have made up to 210,000gns.

LEROIDESANIMAUX Candy Stripes ex Dissemble (Ahonoora)

£14,000

Eclipse Award winning Champion Turf Horse in the USA ❚ Won 9 races and $1.6m, incl. 3 Group 1’s over 1m on turf. ❚ Sire of World Champion ANIMAL KINGDOM and of the winners of over $19m. ❚ Also sire of 11 individual 2yo winners in 2014. ❚ A mare in foal to Leroidesanimaux sold for €320,000 in 2014.

First European foals in 2015

An exceptional outcross for Europe’s mares

SIR PERCY

Mark Of Esteem ex Percy’s Lass (Blakeney)

£7,000

Unbeaten Champion 2yo and Classic winning Champion 3yo ❚ Sire in 2014 of 13 Stakes horses, including: Group 3 winner WAKE FOREST, Group 3 and Listed winner LADY PIMPERNEL, Listed winners NAFAQA (at 2, also Gr.2 placed), LADY TIANA and INDIGO LADY. ❚ Also sire of 13 individual 2yo winners in 2014. ❚ A mare in foal to Sir Percy sold for 220,000gns in 2014. info@lanwades.com • www.lanwades.com • Tel: +44 (0)1638 750222 • Fax: +44 (0)1638 751186 All 2015 fees on 1st October Special Live Foal terms

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Silencing the World T

he 2014 edition of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings saw history made, as a pair of Japanese-bred runners, Just A Way (our cover star) and Epiphaneia occupied first and second places.

We’ve mentioned before that Sunday Silence, a US Horse of the Year, who retired to stud in Japan in 1991, more or less single-handedly raised the standard of Japanese breeding to one truly competitive on the world stage.

And sure enough, Sunday Silence appears in the pedigrees of both Just A Way and Epiphaneia, although in neither case through his outstanding stallion son Deep Impact.

He made his own little piece of history in the shape of Beauty Parlour, whose victory in the 2012 renewal of the French Poule d’Esssai des Poulains (G1) made her the first Japanese-sired horse to win a European Classic.

Just A Way, who earned his rating with a stunning victory in the Dubai Duty Free (G1), is by Heart’s Cry, himself winner of the Dubai Sheema Classic (G1), a son of Sunday Silence, and out of a mare by Irish-bred Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero, Tony Bin. Just A Way’s dam Sibyl, a daughter of Wild Again, was imported in utero. His grand-dam Charon was a top-class US racemare – she took the CCA Oaks (G1) – but had a relatively obscure pedigree, being a daughter of Mo Exception out of a Sir Wiggle mare.

She was sold for $250,000 at the 1998 Keeneland November Sales as an 11-year-old carrying the dam of Just A Way. Sibyl apart she produced nothing else of note in either Japan or the US.

Stallion Sunday Silence had a profound impact on Japanese bloodstock, writes Alan Porter, and his influence has been hugely important in this year’s Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings

Epiphaneia’s only win in the year came in front of the vast crowd at Tokyo racecourse when sucessful in the Japan Cup. The son of Symboli Kris S. beat the best racehorse in the world (according to the Longines handicappers) Just A Way, who finished a 4l second.

A race of the year: the Japan Cup

Epiphaneia won only once in 2014, but that win came by way of a 4l triumph over Just A Way – not at his best over the 1m4f distance – in the Japan Cup (G1).

Epiphaneia is a son of Symboli Kris S.

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Bred in the US but owned by Japanese connections, Symboli Kris S was a champion three-year-old in Japan in 2002, champion older horse in 2003 and also carried off honours as Horse of the Year in both seasons.

He is a son of the Roberto stallion Kris S. – so from the same Hail To Reason male line as Sunday Silence – out of a mare by Seattle Slew’s son, Gold Meridian.

Epiphaneia’s dam Cesario is a Japanesebred daughter of the Sunday Silence horse, Special Week.

Cesario was not only a champion threeyear-old filly in Japan, but also made her name on the international stage taking the American Oaks (G1) at Hollywood Park.

She is out of the Sadler’s Wells mare Kirov Premiere, who raced in both Ireland and the US achieving her most notable triumph when defeating colts in the Rutgers Handicap (G3).

Sunday Silence

world rankings She is a sister to French Listed scorer Theatre Critic, and a half-sister to the US stakes winner Quintillion, to Be Discreet, the dam of Gothenberg the champion older miler in Germany and Italy, and to Wheeler’s Wonder, the dam of Prix de Royallieu (G1) heroine Anna Pavlova.

Kirov Premiere is out of Querida, who is a half-sister to the top-class sprinter/miler Chief Singer.

Gold Ship: the stamina factor

Japanese breeding also supplied Gold Ship – by Sunday Silence’s son Stay Gold – the joint-top horse in the “extended” distance equal with the Melbourne Cup (G1) winner Protectionist, a son of Monsun.

Japan has been one major breeding area that has embraced, rather than shunned stamina, and – the Sunday Silence factor aside – one has to wonder whether this policy is beginning to pay dividends?

Shamardal joins the world table

Two other horses from outside Europe or the US were among the quintet of equal-thirdrated horses ranked 127.

The Australian-bred and Hong Kongtrained Able Friend, and the South African Variety Club.

Able Friend is by Shamardal (Giant’s

Longines world’s best racehorse rankings 2014: rated 130-117 Rating

Horse

Sire

Dam (Damsire)

130 129 127 127 127 127 127 126 125 125 124 124 124 124 124 124 124 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 122 122 122 122 122 122 122 122 121 121 121 121 121 121 121 121 121 120 120 120 120 120 120 120 120 120 120

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Heart’s Cry Symboli Kris S Galileo Mastercraftsman Invinicible Spirit Shamardal Var Motivator Offlee Wild Sea The Stars Lucky Pulpit Thewayyouare Awesome Again Dansili Stay Gold Aldebaran Wiseman’s Ferry Candy Ride Pivotal Curlin Holy Roman Emperor Galileo Oratorio Even Top Sea The Stars Dansili Redoute’s Choice Captain Rio High Chaparral Galileo Galileo Invincible Spirit Choisir Dubawi Le Vie Dei Colori Encosta De Lago Unbridled’s Song Deep Impact Dylan Thomas Shamardal Dubawi Heart’s Cry Dubawi Sebring High Chaparral Into Mischief Tapit Into Mischief Monsun Sky Gold Galileo High Chaparral Dane Friendly O’Reilly Mastercraftsman

Sibyl (Wild Again) Cesario (Special Week) Ouija Board (Cape Cross) Marie Vison (Entrepreneur) Zenda (Zamindar) Ponte Piccolo (Volksraad) La Massine (Secret Prospector) Trevise (Anabaa) Alittlebitearly (Thunder Gulch) Sanwa (Monsun) Love The Chase (Not For Love) Claire Soleil (Syncline) Worldy Pleasure (Devil His Due) Twla Tharp (Sadler’s Wells) Point Flag (Mejiro McQueen) Ikat (Pivotal) Lisa Danielle (Wolf Power) Common Hope (Storm Cat) Blixen (Gone West) Palace Rumor (Royal Anthem) Summer Trysting (Alleged) Absolutelyfabulous (Mozart) Almaaseh (Dancing Brave) Taille De Guepe (Septieme Ciel) Ezima (Sadler’s Wells) Dance Routine (Sadler’s Wells) Estelle Collection (Starvinsky) Parfore (Gold Brose) Stareel (Zabeel) Kind (Danehill) Velouette (Darshaan) L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) Acidanthera (Alzao) Wonder Why (Tiger Hill) Goodwood March (Foxhound) Lovely Jubly (Lion Hunter) Take Charge Lady (Dehere) Catequil (Storm Cat) Leukippids (Sadler’s Wells) Magic Tree (Timber Country) Kazeem (Darshaan) Admire Teresa (Helissio) Forest Storm (Galileo) Diana’s Secret (Anabaa) Wana Doo (Grand Slam) Golden Works (Banker’s Gold) Settling Mist (Pleasant Colony) Golden Works (Banker’s Gold) Patineuse (Peintre Celebre) Point Flag (Mejiro McQueen) Elletelle (Elnadim) Polished Gem (Danehill) Lan Force (Blu Air Force) Iguazu’s Girl (Redoute’s Choice) Audacieuse (Rainbow Quest)

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AMERICAIN Winner of the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup • Timeform rated 127 A pedigree with class in every generation, his sire was revered in America and a classic sire in Europe.

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South African Variety Club wins in Hong Kong

Causeway), a horse who had a break-out season in 2014, compounded by the stellar start made by the first crop two-year-olds by his son, Lope De Vega.

Able Friend’s dam Ponte Piccolo is by Volksraad, a Green Desert son and a standout sire in New Zealand. Incidentally, both Giant’s Causeway’s sire Storm Cat and Volksraad are Northern Dancer/Secretariat crosses.

Variety Club: the highest-rated from South Africa since 2004

Another from the Storm Cat line is the South African-bred Variety Club. The highest-rated horse to emerge from that country since the ratings began in 2004, Variety Club defeated Able Friend in the Champions Mile (G1) in Hong Kong, and also took the Godolphin Mile (G2) in Dubai.

He is by Var, a US-bred son of Forest Wildcat, who took the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1), and who has since become a major sire in South Africa.

Variety Club, who is out of a mare by Woodman’s close relative Secret Prospector, will commence stud duties in South Africa in 2015.

Leading three-year-olds: all European

On the stallion front, the future looks bright in Europe if performance – as reflected in the

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Galileo King Kamehameha Soldier Hollow Deep Impact Bernstein Put It Back O’Reilly Choisir Dubawi Curlin King Kamehameha Tapit First Samurai Macho Uno Jet Master Street Cry Shamardal Pivotal Heart’s Cry Galileo Purim Arakan More Than Ready O’Reilly Dutch Art Nadeem Master Command English Channel Hard Spun Offlee Wild Pleasant Tap Special Week Shirocco Deportivo High Chaparral Hard Spun Teofilo Silvano Reset Scat Daddy Jump Start Deep Impact Lasting Approval Deep Impact Exceed And Excel Anabaa Bernardini Silvano Sakura Bakushin O Le Vie Dei Colori Tamayuz Elusive City Pins Kyllachy Texas Fever

Rumplestiltskin (Danehill) L To The Victory (Sunday Silence) L Indigo Girl (Sternkoenig) L Princess Olivia (Lycius) L Sun Is Up (Sunday Silence) M In My Side (Clackson) M Iguazu’s Girl (Redoute’s Choice) M Leela (Montjeu) M Birjand (Green Desert) S Magical Ride (Storm Cat) I Madam Cherokee (Cherokee Run) I Fun House (Prized) M Greenery (Galileo) M Auburn Beauty (Siphon) M Little Indian (Al Mufti) I Talented (Bustino) I Love Excelling (Polish Precedent) I Gull Wing (In The Wings) L Virtue (Taiki Shuttle) L Love Me True (Kingmambo) L My Twilight Dancer (Twilight Agenda) L Danetime Out (Danetime) M Enchanted Rock (Giant’s Causeway) M Kristique M, L Girl Power (Key Of Luck) S So Gorgeous (Brief Truce) S Mother (Lion Hearted) I California Sunset (Deputy Minister) I Moyne Abbey (Charismatic) M, I Alittlebitearly (Thunder Gulch) S Seeking The Sky (Storm Cat) S Toho Gaia (Unbridled’s Song) E Treble Heights (Unfuwain) E Grenoble (Marignan) I Lips Arrow (Big Shuffle) I Lillybuster (Housebuster) I Night Visit (Sinndar) I National Vixen (National Assembly) I Dane Belltar (Danewin) I Global Gold (Pleasant Tap) L Idealidad (Roy) L Superior Pearl (Timber Country) L Condicionada (Rainbow Corner) L Donna Blini (Bertolini) L Asi Siempre (El Prado) M Born Gold (Blushing Groom) M Kenbelle (Kenmare) M National Vixen (National Assembly) M Rosy Mist (Sunday Silence) M Whipped Queen (Kingmambo) M Flanders (Common Grounds) S Ellington (Express Duke) S Exodus (Kaapstad) S Demerger (Distant View) S Sirina (Rainbow Corner) I, L

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Texas Fever Gold Allure Not For Sale Tapit Street Boss Any Given Sunday Texas Fever Tapit Henny Hughes First Defence Afleet Alex Ghostzapper Albert The Great City Zip Meo Universe Montjeu Stay Gold Take Risks Deep Impact Fuji Kiseki Sebring Kitten’s Joy Cacique Monsun Good Journey Rock Of Gibraltar Danehill Dancer Dynasty Monsun O’Reilly Dynasty Hurricane Run Nayef War Front Danehill Dancer Dalakhani Singspiel Notnowcato Danehill Dancer Deep Impact Trade Fair Footstepsinthesand Pins Dandy Man Daiwa Major Exceed And Excel Mossman

Sirina (Rainbow Corner) I, L Copano Nikita (Timber Country) I American Whisper (Quiet American) I Settling Mist (Pleasant Colony) L Champagne Royale (French Deputy) M Refugee (Unaccounted For) M Sirina (Rainbow Corner) M Free Spin (Olympio) M Leslie’s Lady (Tricky Creek) M Rising Tornado (Storm Cat) M Concinnous (El Corredor) M Danceinthesunlight (A.P. Indy) M Mullen Road (Distant View) M Danzig Matilda (Repriced) S First Violin (Dixieland Band) E Dance Parade (Gone West) E De Laroche (Danehill) E Pondiki (Sicyos) E Historic Star (Falbrav) I Isla Cozzene (Cozzene) I, L Mica’s Pride (Bite The Bullet) I Reachfortheheavens (Pulpit) I, L Es Que (Inchinor) I Desert Bloom (Pilsudski) I Madame Flurry (Perugino) I Princess Sofia (Pennekamp) L Crystal Star (Mark Of Esteem) L Champers (Restructure) L, M Desert Bloom (Pilsudski) L Winning Spree (Zabeel) L Si Senorita (CordonaI I) M Tonnara (Linamxi) M Rifqah (Elusive Quality) M Wandering Star (Red Ransom) M Dievotchka (Dancing Brave) M Echelon (Danehill) M High Maintenance (Highest Honor) M Polished Gem (Danehill) M Brazilian Samba (Sadler’s Wells) M Carla Power (Caerleon) M Swizzle (Efisio) M Arazena (Woodman) M Golden Gamble (Oregon) M Umlani (Great Commotion) S Higashi Lynx (Tony Bin) S Truly Wicked (Rubiton) S Action Annie (Anabaa) S

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ratings – and pedigree are anything to go by.

In a three-way tie as the leading three-yearolds in the world were Australia, Kingman and The Grey Gatsby.

The first two retire to stud for 2015 (as do last year’s joint top-rated three-year-olds, Toronado and Olympic Glory, one to England and to France).

Australia is, of course a son of the allconquering Galileo, and out of the great racemare, Ouija Board.

Kingman is by Invincible Spirit, who has another ace miler retiring to stud in the shape of Charm Spirit, and out of a half-sister to the highly successful Oasis Dream, a son of Invincible Spirit’s sire, Green Desert.

The Grey Gatsby remains in training, but he has ensured continued popularity for his sire, the 2013 leading first-crop sire, Mastercraftsman (Danehill Dancer).

Like Mastercraftsman, Galileo’s half-brother Sea The Stars was represented by his first three-year-olds in 2014, and he delivered all that his supporters might have hoped.

His year was highlighted by a trio of Group 1 winners in the Oaks (G1) and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) heroine Taghrooda, who is the top-rated three-year-old filly in the world, runaway German Derby (G1) scorer Sea The Moon, rated just below the top trio of three-year-old colts and at stud in Britain for 2015, as well as Variza, who took the Prix Saint-Alary (G1).

Leading three-year-olds Rating Horse 127 127 127 125 125 124 124 123 123 122 121 120 120 120 120 120 120 120 120

Australia (GB) Kingman (GB) The Grey Gatsby (IRE) Bayern (USA) Sea The Moon (GER California Chrome (USA) Toast Of New York (USA) Shared Belief (USA) Taghrooda (GB) Charm Spirit (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Adelaide (IRE) Free Eagle (IRE) Karakontie (JPN) Kingston Hill (GB) Priore Philip (ITY) Tapestry (IRE) To The World (JPN) Tonalist (USA)

Sire Galileo Invinicible Spirit Mastercraftsman Offlee Wild Sea The Stars Lucky Pulpit Thewayyouare Candy Ride Sea The Stars Invincible Spirit Dubawi Galileo High Chaparral Bernstein Mastercraftsman Dane Friendly Galileo King Kamehameha Tapit

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The first Gr.1 winning son of leading European sire SHAMARDAL to stand in the UK. 2 length winner of 2014 Coral-Eclipse (Gr.1) beating the winning time of: NATHANIEL, TWICE OVER and SO YOU THINK. 2015 Fee - £7,000 (1st JAN, SLF)

MUKHADRAM

NAYEF Gulch - Height Of Fashion

2014: 51% winners/runners with his European 3YOS.* 2014 Group performers: Gr.2 British Champions Long Distance Cup winner FORGOTTEN RULES, Gr.3 Jersey Stakes winner MUSTAJEEB, Gr.3 winner SNOW SKY and Gr.1 placed TASADAY. NAYEF

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2015 Fee - £5,000 (1st JAN, SLF)

MAWATHEEQ Danzig - Sarayir

A Group winning last son of DANZIG with a winning first crop of 2YOS.

2015 Fee - PRIVATE

SAKHEE Bahri - Thawakib

Sire in 2014 of dual stakes winning sprinter TIMELESS CALL.

2015 Fee - PRIVATE

Also standing in England SAKHEE

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HAAFHD Alhaarth - Al Bahathri

2014: Sire of Gr.1 winner JUNOOB.

2015 Fee - £3,000 (1st OCT) Standing in France

MUHTATHIR

Elmaamul - Majmu

A leading sire in France with a winners/runners strike rate of 40%.

2015 Fee - €7,000 (1st OCT, Live Foal) Standing in Italy

MUJAHID Danzig - Elrafa Ah

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MUJAHID

Leading Italian based sire in Italy for the 3rd consecutive year.

2015 Fee - €5,500 (1st OCT, SLF)

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world rankings Leading sprinters (5f-6.5f) Rating Horse 123 123 122 120 120 119 118 118 118 118 118 118 118 117 117 117 117 117

Lankan Rupee (AUS) Terravista (AUS) Chautauqua (AUS) Goldencents (USA) Lucky Nine (IRE) Slade Power (RE) Bayern (USA) G Force (IRE) Spalato (NZ) Aerovelocity (NZ) Sahara Sky (USA) Sterling City (AUS) Sole Power (GB) Peniaphobia (IRE) Copano Richard (JPN) Amber Sky (AUS) Work All Week (USA) Buffering (AUS)

Leading intermediate (9.5f-10.5f Sire Redoute’s Choice Captain Rio Encosta De Lago Into Mischief Dubawi Dutch Art Offlee Wild Tamayuz Elusive City Pins Pleasant Tap Nadeem Kyllachy Dandy Man Daiwa Majorq Exceed And Excel City Zip Mossman

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In a neat piece of symmetry, while Australia is by Galileo out of a mare by Cape Cross, Taghrooda is by a Cape Cross halfbrother to Galileo, out of a mare by Sadler’s Wells, the sire of Galileo.

Of course, Sadler’s Wells and Danzig (the sire of Cape Cross) also combine in the pedigree of the magnificent Treve, whose return to form in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) earned her a rating as the world’s top female.

Bloodstock anarchy in the US Top three-year-old filly Taghrooda (Sea The Stars)

Leading milers (6.51f-9.49f) Rating Horse 130 127 127 127 125 124 124 123 123 122 122 122 122 121 121 121 121

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Just A Way (JPN) Kingman (GB) Able Friend (AUS) Variety Club (SAF) Bayern (USA) California Chrome (USA) Wise Dan (USA) Palace Malice (USA) Military Attack (IRE) Charm Spirit (IRE) Olympic Glory (IRE) Akeed Mofeed (GB) Gold-Fun (IRE) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Dissident (AUS) Toronado (IRE) Will Take Charge (USA)

Sire Heart’s Cry Invinicible Spirit Shamardal Var Offlee Wild Lucky Pulpit Wiseman’s Ferry Curlin Oratorio Invincible Spirit Choisir Dubawi Le Vie Dei Colori Dubawi Sebring High Chaparral Unbridled’s Song

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If from, a pedigree point of view, we can find a pleasing consistency in the top Europeanbreds, when we turn to North America anarchy seems to reign.

The top trio were the controversial Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) victor Bayern, the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) winner California Chrome, beaten a nose and a neck in the Breeders’ Cup, and last year’s champion two-year-old Shared Belief.

He missed the Classics, but suffered only one defeat when fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic after losing all opportunity at the start.

Bayern is by Offlee Wild, who was sold to Turkey this October. He is a 15-year-old son of Wild Again from the family of the excellent sire Dynaformer.

Offlee Wild did get the champion two-Yearold filly She Be Wild in his first crop, but, as his sale indicates, very little else of note.

The distaff side of Bayern’s pedigree is more prepossessing. His dam, a half-sister to the July Cup (G1) scorer Bertolini, is out

127 127 125 124 124 124 124 123 123 123 123 123 123 122 122 121 121 121

Australia (GB) The Grey Gatsby (IRE) Bayern (USA) California Chrome (USA) Toast Of New York (USA) The Fugue (GB) Game On Dude (USA) Shared Belief (USA) Designs On Rome (IRE) Magician (IRE) Military Attack (IRE) African Story (GB) Cirrus Des Aigles (FR) Dundeel (NZ) Noble Mission (GB) Kizuna (JPN) Blazing Speed (GB) Al Kazeem (GB)

Sire Galileo Mastercraftsman Offlee Wild Lucky Pulpit Thewayyouare Dansili Awesome Again Candy Ride Holy Roman Emperor Galileo Oratorio Pivotal Even Top High Chaparral Galileo Deep Impact Dylan Thomas Dubawi

Leading long-distance (10.51f-13.5f Rating Horse 129 126 125 124 124 123 123 123 122 121 121 120 120 120 120 120

Epiphaneia (JPN) Treve (FR) Sea The Moon (GER) Gold Ship (JPN) Main Sequence (USA) Taghrooda (GB) Flintshire (GB) Cirrus Des Aigles (FR) Telescope (IRE) Mukhadram (GB) Admire Rakti (JPN) Kingston Hill (GB) Tapestry (IRE) To The World (JPN) Ivanhowe (GER) Spielberg (JPN)

Sire Symboli Kris S Motivator Sea The Stars Stay Gold Aldebaran Sea The Stars Dansili Even Top Galileo Shamardal Heart’s Cry Mastercraftsman Galileo King Kamehameha Soldier Hollow Deep Impact

Leading extended (13.51f+) Rating Horse 120 120 118 118 117 117 117 117 116 116

Protectionist (GER) Gold Ship (JPN) Toho Jackal (JPN) Brown Panther (GB) Sounds Of Earth (JPN) Leading Light (IRE) Fenomeno (JPN) Tac De Boistron (FR Hokko Brave (JPN) Win Variation (JPN)

Sire Monsun Sky Gold Special Week Shirocco Meo Universe Montjeu Stay Gold Take Risks Marvelous Sunday Heart’s Cry

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In a neat piece of symmetry, Australia is by Galileo out of a mare by Cape Cross, and Taghrooda is by a Cape Cross half-brother to Galileo, out of a mare by Sadler’s Wells of Aquilegia, an Alydar daughter who is a graded stakes-winning sister to the champion two-year-old filly Althea. The pedigree also has links to several of the European stars mentioned above – Bayern’s third dam Courtly Dee is grand-dam of Green Desert.

By strange co-incidence, Bayern stems from the same female line as California Chrome – his fifth dam Judy Rae is the seventh dam of California Chrome.

The branch of the female line that in days gone by had supplied Kentucky Derby winners Clyde Van Dusen, Iron Liege and Swaps, has been less impressive in the immediate generations preceding California Chrome.

In fact, his dam Love The Chase, by Woodman’s three-quarters brother Not For Love, was purchased by her breeders from other members of a partnership they were involved in after Love The Chase scored her only victory, a maiden event at Golden Gate for fillies to be claimed for $8,000.

California Chrome’s sire Lucky Pulpit is a son of Pulpit – also sire of Tapit, North America’s champion sire of 2014 – but although he was graded stakes placed at around two and three, he suffered from wind

problems, and his only black-type victory came when he captured the Smile Stakes over 5f on turf as a four-year-old.

Standing in California, he was advertised to cover at $2,500 live foal last year, although, to be fair, even prior to the appearance of Lucky Pulpit, a member of his fourth crop, he was shaping as a useful regional sire.

Shared Belief: hidden talent

Shared Belief, who didn’t get any of the honours this year – Bayern being the pick of the handicappers, and California Chrome voted as champion three-year-old and Horse of the Year – may well actually have been the best of the trio.

He is rather more conventionally bred, although unfortunately he is a gelding.

His sire Candy Ride, bred in Argentina, didn’t exactly have the most fashionable of pedigrees. He is a son of Ride The Rail (by the Fappiano horse, Cryptoclearance) out of mare

by French-raced Candy Stripes (Blushing Groom) an excellent sire in South America but a serious disappointment with this US shuttle crops.

Shared Belief is out of the Storm Cat mare Common Hope and so bred on a cross that

Leading Turf runners Rating Horse 130 129 127 127 127 127 127 126 125 124 124 124 124 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123

Just A Way (JPN) Epiphaneia (JPN) Australia (GB) The Grey Gatsby (IRE) Kingman (GB) Able Friend (AUS) Variety Club (SAF) Treve (FR) Sea The Moon (GER) The Fugue (GB) Gold Ship (JPN) Main Sequence (USA) Wise Dan (USA) Designs On Rome (IRE) Magician (IRE) Military Attack (IRE) Cirrus Des Aigles (FR) Taghrooda (GB) Flintshire (GB) Cirrus Des Aigles (FR) Military Attack (IRE) Lankan Rupee (AUS) Terravista (AUS)

Sire Heart’s Cry Symboli Kris S Galileo Mastercraftsman Invinicible Spirit Shamardal Var Motivator Sea The Stars Dansili Stay Gold Aldebaran Wiseman’s Ferry Holy Roman Emperor Galileo Oratorio Even Top Sea The Stars Dansili Even Top Oratorio Redoute’s Choice Captain Rioo

Leading All-Weather runners Rating Horse 123 123 120 118 116 116 115 115 115 115 115

Shared Belief (USA) African Story (GB) Goldencents (USA) Sterling City (AUS) Prince Bishop (IRE) Rich Tapestry (IRE) Long John (AUS) Shuruq (USA) Big Macher (USA) Judy The Beauty (CAN) El Padrino (NZ)

Sire Candy Ride Pivotal Into Mischief Nadeem Dubawi Holy Roman Emperor Street Cry Elusive Quality Beau Genius Ghostzapper Mr Nancho

Bayern (right) beats Toast Of New York (centre) and California Chrome in the Breeders’ Cup Classic

Leading Dirt runners Rating Horse 125 Bayern (USA) 124 California Chrome (USA) 124 Toast Of New York (USA) 124 Game On Dude (USA) 124 California Chrome (USA) 123 Palace Malice (USA) 121 Will Take Charge (USA) 120 Tonalist (USA) 120 Goldencents (USA) 119 Ride On Curlin (USA) 119 Hokko Tarumae (JPN) 119 Untapable (USA) 119 Lea (USA) 118 COMMANDING CURVE (USA) 118 V E DAY (USA) 118 WICKED STRONG (USA) 118 SAHARA SKY (USA)

Sire Offlee Wild Lucky Pulpit Thewayyouare Awesome Again Lucky Pulpit Curlin Unbridled’s Song Tapit Into Mischief Curlin King Kamehameha Tapit First Samuraii Master Command English Channel Hard Spun Pleasant Tap

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Coach House breaks the juvenile course record at Royal Ascot when finishing 2nd in the Norfolk Stakes Gr.2 to No Nay Never

COACH HOUSE OASIS DREAM EX LESSON IN HUMILITY (MUJADIL)

PRECOCIOUS & FAST

BY A CHAMPION SPRINTER & SIRE

2yo 5f Stakes winner & Norfolk Stakes 2nd

of leading first-season sire Showcasing

FROM A TOP CLASS SPRINT FAMILY out of a Gr.1 sprinter

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“Coach House was a high class and precocious two-yearold whose career was cut short by injury” Aidan O’Brien

world rankings has proved very strong for Candy Ride.

Common Hope is a half-sister to the Grade 1-winning Key Phrase, and three-quarters sister to Key Phrase’s Storm Cat son, the very rapid minor stakes winner Yankee Gentleman.

The fourth dam Rich And Rare won the Cheveley Park Stakes, and was champion two-year-old filly in England in 1957.

Prospector) – a terrible disappointment at stud – out of a mare by Pivotal.

However, his grand-dam Burning Sunset is

by Caerleon out of the Shirley Heights mare Lingerie, also dam of the Oaks victress Light Shift, and of the excellent siblings Shiva and Limnos (both by Hector Protector, a horse whose sire Woodman has some pedigree similarities to Aldebaran).

Toast: out of a Danzig mare

Magician top-rated US retiree

We should also give a quick mention to Toast Of New York, who was rated the equal of California Chrome and above Shared Belief on the basis of his close second in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

He ran four times at two in England, scoring on the All-Weather at Wolverhampton in his final two starts. Sent to Meydan, he captured the UAE Derby (G2) before making the trip to the US where he finished sixth in the Belmont Derby International (G1) on turf.

Second to Shared Belief on the AllWeather, he was making his first start on Dirt when so nearly upsetting the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Toast Of New York is from the only US crop of Criterium International (G1) scorer Thewayyouare (Kingmambo), who now stands at Coolmore in Ireland.

His dam Claire Soleil is by the Danzig horse Syncline, out of French-bred Claire Marine, a two-time Grade 1 winner on the turf in the US.

Game still a Dude on the Dirt

The top Dirt older horse was the seven-yearold gelding Game On Dude, a now-retired son of veteran sire Awesome Again, the leading stallion son of Deputy Minister.

He was rated equal with the top US-trained turf runners Wise Dan (by Hennessy’s son, Wiseman’s Ferry) and Main Sequence.

The champion older horse, champion turf horse and Horse of the Year for 2012 and 2013, Wise Dan’s 2014 season was disrupted by colic surgery and injury.

The top US Dirt entire was Palace Malice, a member of the first crop of two-time Horse of the Year, Curlin, and who remains in training in 2015.

The top-rated horse retiring to stud in the US this year is actually Magician (Galileo), winner of the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1).

He’s rated at 124, a pound above Frankel’s brother and Magician’s fellow Galileo son Noble Mission, who will also kick off his stud career in Kentucky this year.

The top US Dirt horses retiring to stud for 2015 are last year’s champion three-year-old colt Will Take Charge (Unbridled’s Song), who rates a pound above another of the new intake, the two-time Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) captor Goldencents, who is by the up-and-coming Storm Cat line horse, Into Mischief.

Australia heads the speed division again

On the speed end of the scale, we’ve become used to the Australians being a dominant force in the sprint ranks, and it is true again in 2014 with Lankan Rupee and Terravista

Leading three and four-year-old fillies Rating Horse 126 123 120 119 117 117 117 117 117 117

Treve (FR) Taghrooda (GB) Tapestry (IRE) Untapable (USA) Beholder (USA) Close Hatches (USA) Iotapa (USA) Harp Star (JPN) Esoterique (IRE) Integral (GB)

Sire Motivator Sea The Stars Galileo Tapit Henny Hughes First Defence Afleet Alex Deep Impact Danehill Dancer Dalakhani

Leading mares Rating Horse 124 118 117 116 116

The Fugue (GB) Gentildonna (JPN) Silent Achiever (NZ) Thistle Bird (GB) Appearance (AUS)

Sire Dansili Deep Impact O’reilly Selkirk Commands

holding joint-top position.

Lankan Rupee is a son of veteran Danehill son Redoute’s Choice, a three-time champion sire in Australia, who will soon have a couple of French-conceived shuttle crops at the races.

Lankan Rupee’s dam Estelle Collection is a group-winning daughter of European champion sprinter Stravinsky (Nureyev), out of a sister to the top-class runner and successful sire Grosvenor.

Magician: the 2013 Irish Classic and Breeders’ Cup-winning son of Galileo retires to Ashford Stud as the highest-rated new stallion in the US

Sequence not an obvious stayer

Main Sequence, voted the champion US turf horse, went four-for-four, ending the year with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1).

A quick glance at his pedigree wouldn’t have led to the conclusion that he would have been at his best over 1m4f as he’s by the champion US sprinter Aldebaran (Mr.

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world rankings Terravista is by Pivotal’s Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte (G2) scorer Captain Rio, out of an outstanding producer called Parfore, who has bred four other stakes winners, including Dubawi’s Grade 1-winning son, Tiger Tees, and Hong Kong Horse of the Year, Super Easy.

Parfore’s sire Gold Brose is a New Zealandbred son of the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) winner Huntingdale (by Habitat’s son, Double Form), and Terravista has Nureyev and his threequarters brother Yeats – the Vincent, not Aiden O’Brien-trained one – the broodmare sire of Gold Brose 4 x 4.

The European sprinters were topped by Slade Power, another who joins the stallion ranks in 2015.

He is a son of Dutch Art, a stallion who enjoyed a career year in 2014, and who has another Group 1-winning sprinter retiring to stud in the shape of Garswood.

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Terravista is by Pivotal’s Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte (G2) scorer Captain Rio, out of an outstanding producer called Parfore, who has bred four other stakes winners G Force tops the three-year-old sprinters

The joint top three-year-old sprinters on Dirt were the previously mentioned Bayern (not a bad achievement considering his biggest win came at 1m2f), and on turf, G Force.

The latter, whose ranking was earned with a triumph in the Betfred Cup (G1), is

by Nayef’s young son Tamayuz (from the immediate family of Galileo and Sea The Stars), out of a the stakes-winning Common Grounds mare, Flanders. She is dam of two other stakes winners, including Louvain, the Group winner who produced Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly Turf (G1) and French Poule d’Essaie des Poulains (G1) heroine, Flotilla.

For the first time, South American-trained runners were included, with the top place of the 20-rated horses going to Brazilian-bred and trained, Bal A Bali.

He is a son of US shuttler Put It Back, who is by the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) winner Honour And Glory, from the Relaunch branch of In Reality.

The dam is by the good Brazilian runner and sire, Clackson (by I Say, who was third in SeaBird’s Derby, back in 1965), but her second dam is by the US-raced Ogygian, a half-brother to the dam of Honour And Glory.

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Name

Sire

Dam (Dam sire)

119 118 117 117 117 117 116 116 116 115 115 115 115 115 115 114 114 114 114 114 114 113 113 113 113 113 112 112 112 112 112

Belardo (IRE) Charming Thought (GB) Elm Park (GB) Found (IRE) Ivawood (IRE) Tiggy Wiggy (IRE) Gleneagles (IRE) Richard Pankhurst (GB) The Wow Signal (IRE) Dick Whittington (IRE) Estidhkaar (IRE) Hootenanny (USA) Kodi Bear (IRE) Limato (IRE) Vert de Grece (IRE) Anthem Alexander (IRE) Full Mast (USA) John F Kennedy (IRE) Muhaarar (GB) Ol’ Man River (IRE) Territories (IRE) Cappella Sansevero (GB) Epicuris (GB) Kool Kompany (IRE) Toocoolforschool (IRE) Toscanini (IRE) Burnt Sugar (IRE) Cursory Glance (USA) Ervedya (FR) Maftool (USA) Peace And War

Lope De Vega Oasis Dream Phoenix Reach Galileo Zebedee Kodiac Galileo Raven’s Pass Starspangledbanner Rip Van Winkle Dark Angel Quality Road Kodiac Tagula Verglas Starspangledbanner Mizzen Mast Galileo Oasis Dream Montjeu Invincible Spirit Showcasing Rail Link Jeremy Showcasing Shamardal Lope de Vega Distorted Humor Siyouni (FR) Hard Spun War Front

Danaskaya (Danehill) Annabelle’s Charm (Indian Ridge) Lady Brora (Dashing Blade) Red Evie (Intikhab) Keenes Royale (Red Ransom) Kheleyf’s Silver (Kheleyf) You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Mainstay (Elmaamul) Muravka (High Chaparral) Sahara Sky (Danehill) Danetime Out (Danetime) More Hennessy (Hennessy) Hawattef (Mujtahid) Come April (Singspiel) Tiny Petal (Grand Lodge) Lady Alexander (Night Shift) Yashmak (Danzig) Rumplestiltskin (Danehill) Tahrir (Linamix) Finsceal Beo (Mr Greeley) Taranto (Machiavellian) Madam President (Royal Applause) Argumentative (Observatory) Absolutely Cool (Indian Ridge) Spring Surprise (Hector Protector) Tuzla (Shamardal) Lady Livius (Titus Livius) Time Control (Sadler’s Wells) Elva (King’s Best) With Intention (Mr Greeley) More Oats Please (Smart Strike)

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Prince A. A. Faisal Godolphin Qatar Racing & Kingsclere Racing Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier Carmichael Jennings Potensis B’stock, C Giles & Merriebelle Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier Ms Rachel D. S. Hood Al Shaqab Racing Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor Mrs Olive Shaw Mr Paul G. Jacobs Britannia Thoroughbreds 1 Mr Noel O’Callaghan Mr K. Abdullah Mrs Magnier/Tabor/Flaxman Stables/Smith Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum Mrs John Magnier,Mr M.Tabor & Mr D.Smith Godolphin Qatar Racing Limited Mr K. Abdullah Kool Kompany Partnership Ontoawinner 6, M Hulin, E Burke Godolphin De La Warr Racing Merry Fox Stud Limited H.H. Aga Khan Godolphin Sheikh Suhaim Al Thani/QRL/M Al Kubaisi

Trainer Roger Varian GB Charlie Appleby GB Andrew Balding GB Aidan O’Brien IRE Richard Hannon GB Richard Hannon GB Aidan O’Brien IRE John Gosden GB John Quinn GB Aidan O’Brien IRE Richard Hannon GB Wesley A. Ward USA Clive Cox GB Henry Candy GB Roger Varian GB Edward Lynam IRE Mme C. Head-Maarek FR Aidan O’Brien IRE Charles Hills GB Aidan O’Brien IRE A. Fabre FR G. M. Lyons IRE Mme C. Head-Maarek FR Richard Hannon GB K. R. Burke GB M. Halford IRE Richard Hannon GB Roger Varian GB Jean Claude Rouget FR Saeed bin Suroor GB Olly Stevens GB

STALLIONS 2015

OLYMPIC GLORY

New in 2015

TORONADO

New in 2015

Choisir & Acidanthera (Alzao) Gr.1 winner at 2, 3 & 4, race record holder € 15,000 LF . Standing at Haras de Bouquetot, FR

High Chaparral & Wana Doo (Grand Slam) Undefeated Gr.2 winning 2yo, European Champion 3yo £ 15,000 1st Oct SLF . Standing at the National Stud, GB

STYLE VENDOME

PLANTEUR

Anabaa & Place Vendome (Dr Fong)

1st Foals in 2015

Classic Gr.1 winner, track record holder €10,000 LF . Standing at Haras de Bouquetot, FR

1st Foals in 2015

Danehill Dancer & Plante Rare (Giant’s Causeway)

Multi-millionaire Gr.1 winner € 6,000 LF . Standing at Haras de Bouquetot, FR

OLYMPIC GLORY . PLANTEUR . STYLE VENDOME . BOBY DI JOB : Standing at Haras de Bouquetot, FR BENOIT JEFFROY : +33 (0)6 59 59 41 16 . AUDREY LEYVAL : +33 (0)6 19 07 33 48 . AL SHAQAB RACING : contact@alshaqab-racing.com TORONADO : Standing at the National Stud, GB : JAKE WARREN : +44(0)7730 272 895 . Jake@highclerestud.co.uk

new sires

New boys for 2015

Alan Porter profiles this year’s exciting list of European first-season sires

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he crop of stallions retiring to stud in Europe this year is one of the strongest we can recall. It features a pair of Epsom Derby winners in Australia and Ruler Of The World, both by Galileo the leading sire of the era, Sea The Moon, a spectacular Classic winner by Galileo’s stellar half-brother and first crop Classic sire Sea The Stars, two brilliant three-year-old milers in Kingman and Charm Spirit, Olympic Glory and Toronado who were the world’s jointleading three-year-olds of 2013 and who both added Group 1s to their resumés in 2014, Slade Power and Garswood, a pair of Group 1-winning sprinters by hot young sire Dutch Art, as well as the fastest European juvenile of 2013, No Nay Never.

In addition, there is also a host of fast and precocious horses with breakout potential.

ALHEBAYEB

gr. 2010 Dark Angel – Miss Indigo (Indian Ridge) Tara Stud €5,000 Alhebayeb showed himself to be a typically speedy and precocious representative of his male-line with a win in the July Stakes (G2), second in the Horris Hill Stakes (G2) and Windsor Castle Stakes as well as a third in the Stubbs Stakes (L).

He is a half-brother to the Scarbrough Stakes winner Humidor (by the Danehill horse Camacho), while his dam is halfsister to the Pretty Polly Stakes winner Musetta. His grand-dam is a half-sister to graded stakeswinning sprinter Vanderlin, and she is out of Massorah, a champion three-year-old sprinter in Italy.

Danzig is a strain that is strongly indicated here, and Alhebayeb’s sire Dark Angel has already produced four stakes winners on the cross, including

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his Group 1 winner Lethal Force, who is out of a Desert Style mare.

Green Desert, who should do very well here (fellow new Dark Angel sire Heeraat is out of a mare by the former Shadwell sire), and Danehill (who worked with the dam, and who would be interesting through Holy Roman Emperor), as well as Chief’s Crown via Be My Chief, Grand Lodge and Key Of Luck, the latter being broodmare sire of a Dark Angel Group winner.

Another cross that’s worked under Dark Angel and appeals here is Sadler’s Wells via Barathea.

ALBAASIL

b. 2008 Dansili – Wrong Key (Key Of Luck) Longdon Stud £1,750 A winner of eight races from two to five, Albaasil also finished second in the Al Fahidi Fort Stakes (G2).

His sire Dansili already has

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On a less heady note, while the class of the group is stellar, we’re not as blown away in terms of variety. Of the horses noted, all but the sons of Dutch Art (Mr. Prospector via Machiavellian) are from the Northern Dancer line, and all but No Nay Never (by Scat Daddy, a great-grandson of Storm Cat) descend from Northern Dancer via Sadler’s Wells or Danzig.

France has supplied some recent alternatives in the shape of Le Havre (Blushing Groom line) and Kendargent (Kalamoun), and in addition to the previously mentioned Dutch Art, Mr. Prospector has a standard bearer in Dubawi.

Still, some alternatives in Europe to the dominant duo of Sadler’s Wells and Danzig would be nice to see, and maybe in future there is scope for a stallion such as a son of Deep Impact, or a fast Sir Tristram-line horse like Pierro.

three Group-winning producing sire sons, including the Group 1 sires Rail Link and Strategic Prince. A half-brother to juvenile sprint stakes winner Wrong Answer, Albaasil is out of stakes winner Wrong Key, a sister to Group winner Right Key. Albaasil has an unusual pedigree as both his sire and dam are Danzig/Kahyasi crosses.

Dansili, who has produced 18 Group or Grade 1 winners, has has done well with Mr. Prospector, including through Distant View (Group 1 winner Emulous and Group 2 winner Bated Breath), Kingmambo, Machiavellian (Zoffany), Zafonic (Zambezi Sun) and Zamindar.

Dansili has worked well over Shirley Heights through Darshaan (Dank), Dalakhani, Mark Of Esteem, Dashing Blade and Deploy, over Sharpen Up through Selkirk, Kris and Diesis, and In Reality through Known Fact and Warning.

Since Kahyasi, duplicated here,

is a Nijinsky /Blushing Groom cross, Quest For Fame, who is a reverse of that cross, could be interesting, and the Blushing Groom line in general would be positive.

Albaasil is a Northern Dancer/ Northern Dancer cross, but it could be worth Northern Dancer through Sadler’s Wells – Dansili’s Group 1 winner Flintshire is out of a Sadler’s Wells mare.

ANODIN

b. 2010 Anabaa – Born Gold (Blushing Groom) Haras du Quesnay €7,500 A brother to the wonderful Goldikova, Anodin was a pretty useful performer in his own right.

Successful in the Prix Paul de Moussac (G3), he also earned places in five Group 1 events, including when second in the Prix d’Ispahan (G1), Prix Jacques Le Marois (G1) and the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), beaten a fast diminishing length.

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Australia: the wonderfully bred and dual Classic-winning son of Galileo has a first-season fee of €50,000 and is open to crossing with Danehill mares

In addition to being a brother to Goldikova, Anodin is a halfbrother to the excellent Galikova, who is by Sadler’s Wells’s son, Galileo.

Anabaa has also enjoyed success with Northern Dancer through Sadler’s Wells’s threequarters brother Nureyev, Storm Bird/Storm Cat, Night Shift and Nijinsky, whose son Caerleon and grandson Green Tune have both sired stakes winners out of Anodin’s dam.

Anabaa enjoyed success with Mr. Prospector through Miswaki – sire of Group 2-placed Dalghar – Woodman (Group 1-placed Passager), Gone West, Gulch, Kingmambo and Machiavellian.

Anabaa also worked well with Roberto and Sharpen Up. His consistent Group 1 performer and winner Plumania was out of Featherquest, a Rainbow Quest mare and a half-sister to Groom Dancer, broodmare sire to two Anabaa stakes horses.

Blushing Groom, who is on Anodin’s dam side, might produce an interesting mix.

AUSTRALIA

ch. 2011 Galileo – Ouija Board (Cape Cross) Coolmore €50,000 Few stallions have retired to stud with as many Classic credentials as Australia.

An Epsom (G1) and Irish Derby (G1) winner, he is by a stallion who won the same two Classics before embarking on a career that has placed him amongst the all-time greats, while his dam is an English and Irish Oaks (G1) heroine who was an international superstar.

Australia is in the happy position of being a son of Galileo who is open to his sire’s most prolific cross, that with Danehillline mares.

Australia’s broodmare sire Cape Cross is from the same

Danzig line as Danehill, but he has crossed very well back with Danehill (Able One), while Galileo’s son Teofilo, who is out of a Danehill mare, has done very well when crossed over other branches of Danehill.

Mr. Prospector hasn’t been the strongest foil for Galileo or Teofilo, although he did get Ruler Of The World out of a mare by Kingmambo, who is also the sire of Ouija Board’s graded-winning half-brother Voodoo Prince.

However, New Approach, who is by Galileo out of a mare

by Ahonoora, has done well with Mr. Prospector, including through Machiavellian and his son Street Cry, Gone West and his son Zafonic (Sultanina), Seeking The Gold (grandsire of Dubawi so bringing in the Darley sire) and Fusaichi Pegasus.

Not surprisingly, Galileo and sons have done well with Shirley Heights, notably through Darshaan (Treasure Beach is out of a Mark Of Esteem mare).

Galileo and sons have done well back over Sadler’s Wells’s three-quarters brother Nureyev, including getting the Classic winner Talent out of a mare

by Peintre Celebre, as well as Group 1 winners out of mares

by Stravinsky and Theatrical – Rip Van Winkle and Together Forever.

The Irish 1,000 Guineas winners Marvellous and Misty For Me are both out of Storm Cat mares.

BATTLE OF MARENGO

b. 2010 Galileo – Anna Karenina (Green Desert) Ballyhane Stud €6,000 A two-time stakes winner at two, including when successful in the Beresford Stakes (G2), Battle Of Marengo added the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial (G3) and Ballysax Stakes (G3) to his tally at three.

He’s out of the stakeswinning Green Desert mare

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new sires Anna Karenina, a half-sister to the Group-winning and Group 1-placed Windsor Palace. His grand-dam is by Mr. Prospector out of a sister to the champion US two-year-old Rockhill Native.

Battle Of Marengo is bred on a very similar cross to Australia being out of a Green Desert mare, and is likely to benefit from similar mares, with the Danehill line claims being backed up by the fact that his dam is halfsister to a Danehill Dancer group winner.

Indian Ridge/Ahonoora is another strain that has thrived with both Galileo and Green Desert.

BUNGLE INTHEJUNGLE

b. 2010 Exceed And Excel – Licence to Thrill (Wolfhound) Rathasker Stud €5,000 A tough and speedy juvenile who took the Cornwallis Stakes (G3) and Molecomb Stakes (G3), Bungle Inthejungle also ran second in the Flying Childers Stakes (G2).

He is by Danehill’s Australian champion sprinting son Exceed And Excel, who is probably as good a sire of early two-year-olds as there is anywhere in the world at the moment.

Bungle Inthejungle is a brother to 6f stakes winner Waveband.

The second dam Crime Of Passion was another sharp and early sort winning the Cherry Hinton Stakes (G3), taking second in the Queen Mary Stakes (G2) and third in the Prix Robert Papin (G1).

While staying mares wouldn’t be ideal, Bungle Inthejungle is likely to be well-suited by Sadler’s Wells line mares, Exceed And Excel having done very well over that line. Bungle Inthejungle is out of a mare by Wolfhound, who was by Nureyev, a three-quarters brother to Sadler’s Wells.

Outstrip, by Exceed And Excel and out of an El Prado mare, won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

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Fairy King, the brother to Sadler’s Wells, would duplicate Nureyev and are other potential positive ways of picking up on this family.

Excelebration, Exceed And Excel’s three-time Group 1 winner, is out of an Indian Ridge mare bringing in some fast strains, while Exceed And Excel is is also very good with Mr. Prospector.

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Battle Of Marengo is bred on a very similar cross to Australia being out of a Green Desert mare

BURWAAZ

b. 2009 Exceed And Excel – Nidhaal (Observatory) Hedgeholme €2,500 This Listed-placed sprinter is another son of Exceed And Excel.

He’s bred for speed on both sides of his pedigree as he’s out of Nidhaal, who won the 6f Dick Poole Stakes (L) and was threetimes stakes placed, including when second in the Princess Margaret Stakes (G3).

Nidhaal is inbred to Mr. Prospector, but Burwaaz is free of the Thong family that has worked so well under Exceed And Excel through Sadler’s Wells, Fairy King and Nureyev.

Burwaaz’s broodmare sire Observatory comes from the family of Storm Bird, who could be interesting here.

CHARM SPIRIT

b. 2011 Invincible Spirit – L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) Tweenhills Farm & Stud £25,000 Group 1 placed at two, Charm Spirit became a mile ace at three winning five of six starts, all Group races, including the Prix Jean Prat (G1), Prix de Moulin de Longchamp (G1) and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1).

Charm Spirit is by Invincible

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Bungle Inthejungle: a precocious dual Group 3-winning juvenile

Spirit, who has got off to a bright start as a sire of sires with four of his sons getting Group/Graded winners, including Lawman, who became a Classic sire with his first crop, Australian young stallion I Am Invincibile, sire of the Group 1 winner Brazen Beau, who is out of Danzig line mare, and Zebedee, whose first crop included Ivawood, a son of Keenes Royale, a mare by Red Ransom.

Invincible Spirit has done very well with Mr Prospector line mares, including through Machiavellian (Hooray) and his son Medicean, and with Lemon Drop Kid which suggests his sire Kingmambo and sons, including Miswaki, broodmare sire of Born To Sea, Gulch, the broodmare sire of Lawman, and, of course, Zamindar (Gone West) the sire of

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Kingman’s dam Zenda.

The Ahonoora line through Indian Ridge and Inchinor has done well. Amongst others to have worked well under Invincible Spirit are Roberto, including Kris S., Red Ransom and Silver Hawk, Rainbow Quest, while inbreeding to Invincible Spirit’s broodmare sire line of Sharpen Up. From the Northern Dancer standpoint, since he’s out of a Sadler’s Wells line mare, Charm Spirit should be suited by Nureyev, and we can note that Invincible Spirit sired Group 1 winner Mayson out of a mare by Nureyev’s grandson, Pivotal.

COACH HOUSE

b. 2011 Oasis Dream – Lesson In Humility (Mujadil) Bucklands Farm & Stud £3,000 A sharp two-year-old Coach House won his maiden by 6l, and followed up with a decisive win in the 5f Marble Hill Stakes (L).

He also finished a length second to No Nay Never in the Norfolk Stakes (G2) in a race run

TWO EXCITING NEW SIRES FOR 2015

Moohaajim Gr.2 Winning & Dual Gr.1 Placed 2-Y-O

by Gr.1 Champion Cape Cross

Cape Cross

Green Desert Park Appeal Kingmambo

Thiella

Theoretically

Danzig Foreign Courier Ahonoora Balidaress Mr Prospector Miesque Theatrical Aspern

A Leading 2-Y-O in GB/IRE • Winner of Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes over 6f at Newbury • 2nd in Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes (to Reckless Abandon, btn a neck) • Placed in Gr.1 Prix Morny • Winner of Maiden over 6f at Ascot • Rated 116 as a 2-Y-O in GB/IRE versus Reckless Abandon (117), Olympic Glory (116), Gale Force Ten (115), Toronado (113), Sir Prancealot (111), Bungle Inthejungle (109) and Alhebayeb (105) in the same year A Classic 3-Y-O Contender • Placed in the Gr.3 Greenham Stakes to Olympic Glory • Unfortunately injury in the Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket prevented him from achieving his Classic potential

Xtension Dual Gr.1 Winning Miler & Gr.2 Winning 2-Y-O by a Gr.1 winning Champion son of Zafonic A Leading 2-Y-O in GB/IRE • Winner of Gr.2 Vintage Stakes over 7f at Goodwood UK PU .Y *V]LU[Y` :[HRLZ [V *HUMVYK *SPќZ • 3rd in Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes (only beaten a neck and a nose) • Winner of Maiden over 6f at Goodwood • Rated 116 as a 2-Y-O in GB/IRE versus successful young sires Showcasing (117) and Siyouni (117)

Xaar Cape Cross Great Thiella Joy

Green ZafonicDesert Park Monroe Appeal Kingmambo Grand Lodge Theoretically Cheese Soup

Gone Danzig West Zaizafon Foreign Courier SirAhonoora Ivor Best Balidaress In Show Chief’s Mr Prospector Crown LaMiesque Papagena Spectacular Theatrical Bid Avum Aspern

A Classic Performing 3-Y-O • Placed in the Gr.1 Stanjames.com 2000 Guineas, Gr.1 Irish 2000 Guineas and Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat A Tough International Dual Group 1 Winning Miler • Winner of the Gr.1 BMW Champion’s Mile in Hong Kong in 2011 and 2012, defeating Lucky Nine (Triple Gr.1 Winner) in 2011, and Gr.1 Winners Glorious Days, Lucky Nine, Ambitious Dragon, Able One, Cityscape, etc. in 2012

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From the Northern Dancer standpoint, since he’s out of a Sadler’s Wells line mare, Charm Spirit should be suited by Nureyev in two-year-old course record time, and took third in the Railway Stakes (G2).

He’s bred for speed on both sides of the pedigree as he’s not only by Oasis Dream – also sire of 2014 freshman hot-shot Showcasing – but also out of the Ballyogan Stakes (G3) winner and multiple Grade 1-placed performer Lesson In Humility, a champion older female sprinter in Ireland.

Although he wouldn’t want speed to stamina extremes, Coach House’s dam – a Northern Dancer/Thatch cross – encourages crossing with Sadler’s Wells, Fairy King and Nureyevline mares.

Northern Dancer through Nijinsky should work well here, as might Storm Cat, a three-quarters relative to Coach House’s broodmare sire, Mujadil.

Oasis Dream’s Group 1 winners Jwala and Charming Thought are out of Indian Ridge mares, while Power was out of a mare by Inchinor, also by Ahonoora.

The brilliant Midday, was

by Oasis Dream and out of a Kingmambo mare, bringing in all the Mr. Prospector line mares.

From the Mill Reef line there has been success for Oasis Dream with daughters of Daylami, Doyoun, Deploy, Mark Of Esteem and Slip Anchor.

Other good crosses include Sharpen Up, through Selkirk, who has done particularly well

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and is the most successful cross for Oasis Dream getting runners such as Monitor Closely, Bye Bye Birdie and Main Aim. Group 1 winner Prohibit is out of a Warning line mare

DUNADEN

b. 2006 Nicobar – La Marlia (Kaldounevees) Overbury Stud €3,000 The much-travelled Dunaden was a Group winner in France, but he also numbered the Melbourne Cup (G1), Caulfield Cup (G1) and Hong Kong Vase (G1) amongst his triumphs.

Dunaden is by the Indian Ridge stallion Nicobar, a multiple Group-winning miler. Dunaden has a pedigree that is an effective outcross for most commercial strains.

We’ll particularly note that there has been plenty of success for Indian Ridge with Northern Dancer, including with Danzig (via both Green Desert and Danehill), Sadler’s Wells, Nijinsky (particularly Caerleon) and Night Shift.

Breeders might like to take note of Dunaden Breeders’ Club, which has lucrative funds on offer to the breeders of winning two or three-year-olds from the sire’s first crop.

ES QUE LOVE

br. 2009 Clodovil – Es Que (Inchinor) Rathasker Stud €5,000 This super-tough campaigner made the 48th start of his career when defeating Toormore in the Lennox Stakes (G2).

Other good efforts include seconds in the Abernant Stakes (G3) and Sandy Lane Stakes, and thirds in the Duke Of York Stakes (G2) and Hackwood Stakes (G3).

He’s by Danehill’s Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1) winner Clodovil and is a three-quarters brother to the Hong Kong Vase (G1) victor Dominant (Cacique).

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His second and third dam are both stakes winners, and he is from a very solid French family.

Es Que Love is a Northern Dancer/Ahonoora cross, as are Acclamation and New Approach, albeit from different branches of Northern Dancer.

One of Clodovil’s best runners, Nahoodh, is out of a mare by Indian Ridge and from the same Ahonoora male line, so crossing back directly could pay dividends.

Clodovil has two stakes winners, including his best performer and also a new sire Gregorian, out of Cadeaux Genereux mares.

From the Northern Dancer line, Clodovil has enjoyed success over Sadler’s Wells, including Montjeu (Kanes Pass); over Nijinsky, including Royal Academy (Beacon Lodge) and Storm Bird’s son, Mujadil, the dam sire of Clodovil’s good two-year-old filly Miss Lahar.

There are also Clodovil stakes winners out of mares by Darshaan, Diesis, Thatching, Zafonic and Acatenango.

GALE FORCE TEN

b. 2010 Oasis Dream – Ronaldsay (Kirkwall) Irish National Stud €5,000 Smart at two when second in the Norfolk Stakes (G2) and third in the Middle Park Stakes (G1), Gale Force Ten improved at three to win the Patton Stakes and Jersey Stakes (G3) and finish second in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1).

Gale Force Ten is out of the Warwickshire Oaks (L) winner Ronaldsay (Kirkwall), a half-sister to the dam of the graded stakes winner Pickle (Piccolo), who is, in turn, dam of the multiple stakes-winner Gusto (Oasis Dream).

His grand-dam Crackling is a half-sister to the champion Irish two-year-old filly Bianca Nera (Salse), winner of the Moyglare Stud Stakes.

Bred on the same Green Desert/Sharpen Up cross as Invincible Spirit, Gale Force Ten is going to like many of the same strains as previously mentioned for Coach House.

It’s also worth mentioning that the similarly bred Invincible Spirit has enjoyed success with mares that gave inbreeding to Mr. Prospector.

GARSWOOD

b. 2010 Dutch Art – Penchant (Kyllachy) Cheveley Park Stud £7,000 A stakes winner and Group placed at two, Garswood took the European Free Handicap and Lennox Stakes (G2) at three, and in 2014 on his final start at four captured the Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1).

By Medicean’s fast-emerging young sire son Dutch Art, Garswood is out of a three-quarters sister to the Group-winning and multiple Group 1-placed Infallible (Pivotal). The grand-dam is the stakes-winning sprinter Irresistible (Cadeaux Genereux).

Dutch Art is sire of four stakes winners out of mares from the Danzig sire line (Danzig already appearing in Garswood as sire of his third dam) from daughters of Danehill (Ladys First), Foxhound (Dutch Masterpiece), Kheleyf (Green Desert) and Key Of Luck, the dam sire of Slade Power.

Danzig/Sharpen Up combinations, such as Danehill Dancer and Invincible Spirit might do well, as might Danzig/ Mr. Prospector.

With the Sadler’s Wells branch of Northern Dancer, Dutch Art has stakes winners from mares

by Montjeu (Lady Dutch) and Singspiel (Caspar Netscher) Sharpen Up, particularly through Diesis (broodmare sire of Arabian Falcon) and Kris look good here.

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Art has had two stakes winners out of Mr. Prospector line mares both with dams from sons of Kingmambo – Dubai Destination (Dutch Connection) and King’s Best (More Than Sotka).

GREGORIAN

gr. 2009 Clodovil – Three Days In May (Cadeaux Genereux) National Stud £4,500 Effective in top company from 6f to a mile, Gregorian took the

Hungerford Stakes (G2), Diomed Stakes (G3) and Criterion Stakes (G3). He was also eight times stakes-placed, including when second in the Prix Jean Prat (G1), and third in the July Cup (G1), Queen Anne Stakes (G1) and St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1).

A brother to the smart Manderley, Gregorian is by Clodovil, whom we’ve discussed with reference to Es Que Love.

Gregorian’s dam is a half-sister to stakes-winning and Group

1-placed Balmont Mast (by Balmont, who is by the Nureyev stallion Stravinsky), and to Group 1-placed Crazee Mental (Magic Ring, who was by Green Desert). Crazee Mental is the dam of the prolific Premio Loco, who is by Prized, a son of the Roberto stallion, Kris S. Gregorian is obviously going to suit many of the strains we mention with regard to Es Que Love. He also strikes as a horse who would be suited by Sharpen

Up, particularly through either Kris or Diesis.

HEERAAT

b. 2009 Dark Angel – Thawrah (Green Desert) Mickley Stud £4,000 A son of a horse who is emerging as an exceptional speed sire, Heeraat gained a Group victory in the Hackwood Stakes (G3).

A half-brother to the stakeswinning and Group-placed

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new sires juvenile Ambiance, Heeraat is out of a half-sister to the Golden Jubilee Victor (G1) Malhub.

We’ve covered some of the preferences of Heeraat’s sire Dark Angel when looking at Alhebayeb – who coincidentally is, like Heeraat, a half-brother to a stakes winner by the Danehillline stallion Camacho – and it’s likely that many of the same strains will suit.

In general, duplicating Heeraat’s broodmare sire line, that of Danzig, should be positive, and for those who like to experiment, we’ll note that Heeraat’s dam is bred on the same Green Desert/Ahonoora cross as Cape Cross.

JOSHUA TREE

b. 2007 Montjeu – Madeira Mist (Grand Lodge) Haras du Grand Courgeon €3,500 Winner of the Royal Lodge Stakes (G2), Joshua Tree compiled the unique record of

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A son of a horse who is emerging as an exceptional speed sire, Heeraat gained a Group victory in the Hackwood Stakes (G3) taking three additions of the Canadian International Stakes (G1), as well as finishing second in another renewal.

He also gained another European Group victory in the Prix Kergorlay (G2).

By a stellar son of Sadler’s Wells, Joshua Tree is out of the graded stakes-winning Madeira Mist, while his grand-dam is out of the Coronation Stakes (G1) winner and multiple stakes producer, Magic Of Life.

Montjeu and his sons have done well with Darshaan, the cross producing five Group 1 winners, including one of Montjeu’s Derby winners, Pour Moi.

The cross has also worked via Darshaan’s son Mark Of Esteem, the broodmare sire of Aaim To Succeed and Masked Marvel.

Montjeu’s son Authorized has particularly clicked well with the line getting My Ambivalent and Nichols Canyon out of mares by Darshaan and Dalakhani.

Hurricane Run’s best so far is Ectot, out of a Linamix mare, while Motivator’s Treve is out of Trevise, an Anabaa mare.

However, the Quesnay stallion’s other Group 1 winner Risasiyna, successful in the Prix l’Opera, is out of Ridafa (Darshaan).

Montjeu has proved effective over Mr. Prospector, producing Motivator, as well as Leading

Light from Gone West mares.

Zafonic, a son of Gone West, is broodmare sire of four Montjeuline stakes winner.

Daughters of Machiavellian (Alessandro Volta), Seeking The Gold (Biographer), Woodman (Frozen Fire), Kingmambo (Camelot), Forty Niner (King Of Rome) and Distant View have worked well with Montjeu.

Joshua Tree is out of a Danzig line mare, via Grand Lodge, but crossing back over Danzig might do well, with Montjeu and sons having also enjoyed success with Danzig through Anabaa, Danehill and Green Desert.

Montjeu has also done well with Northern Dancer through Last Tycoon (Roman Emperor).

KINGMAN

b. 2011 Invincible Spirit – Zenda (Zamindar) Banstead Manor €55,000 Another headliner in what seems

The 2014 miling star: Kingman is the most expensive new sire for 2015 standing at Banstead Manor for a fee of £55,000

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ALHEBAYEB THE NEXT DARK ANGEL?

ALHEBAYEB

GR, 2010, 16.0HH, BY DARK ANGEL EX MISS INDIGO (INDIAN RIDGE)

Gr.2 July Stakes winner at 2

By DARK ANGEL from a Classic family with speed

Beat 17 Group/SWs, including RED DUBAWI, GALE FORCE TEN and BUNGLE INTHEJUNGLE. Half brother to 6 winners out of an INDIAN RIDGE half sister to Gr.1 Classic placed MUSETTA.

A 170,000gns yearling – the top priced DARK ANGEL of his year First season fee: €5,000 (1st October)

“He was a very sharp and talented two-year-old for us, and he kept his form well. He was top-class and a gorgeous individual; he’s sure to get some early types. We love his sire line and we’ll be having a look at them at the yearling sales in due course!”

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Montjeu and his sons have done well with Darshaan, the cross producing five Group 1 winners an exceptional crop, Kingman won seven of eight starts, including the Prix Jacques Le Marois (G1), the Sussex Stakes (G1), the St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1) and Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1), displaying a devastating turn of foot each time.

What’s more Kingman has a pedigree to match his performances as he’s by Invincible Spirit out of the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1) winner Zenda (Zamindar), herself a half-sister to Oasis Dream, who is, of course, a son of Invincible Spirit’s sire, Green Desert.

Kingman is out of a Mr. Prospector line mare, and crossing him back over other Mr. Prospector lines might prove profitable.

Distant View, Machiavellian and his son Medicean, Lemon Drop Kid, suggesting his sire Kingmambo, Miswaki, Gulch and his sons Nayef and Thunder Gulch, Seeking The Gold, as well as Woodman and his son Mujtahid have all worked under either Invincible Spirit or Oasis Dream.

Zafonic, a brother to Kingman’s broodmare sire Zamindar, could also be interesting, as could mixing extended family member Oasis Dream.

Invincible Spirit (see Charm Spirit) has done well with Sadler’s Wells, including through Montjeu, Barathea, High Chaparral, Galileo and In The Wings.

Northern Dancer through Nureyev (particularly Pivotal), and through Nijinsky and Storm Bird should also be good.

Other strains that have appeal are Roberto, including Kris S., Red Ransom and Silver Hawk,

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Rainbow Quest and Sharpen Up.

KINGSBARNS

b. 2010 Galileo – Beltisaal (Belmez) Coolmore €6,000 Kingsbarns stamped himself as one of the top juveniles of his generation with a win the Racing Post Trophy (G1), an effort that earned him a ranking behind only champion two-year-old Dawn Approach.

He didn’t add to the win column in his subsequent efforts, but did underline his class with a third in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) at three.

One of the growing band of Galileo sons, Kingsbarns is free of that sire’s number one cross of Danehill, while he is also half-brother to the graded stakes winner Sweet Still, who is by Danehill’s son, Rock Of Gibraltar.

Kingsbarns is also a halfbrother to the Group winner Belle Artiste, who is by Namid, from the Indian Ridge/Ahonoora line, which works under Galileo.

In addition, Kingsbarns should suit most of the other strains mentioned with regard to other sons of Galieo considered previously.

KUROSHIO

b. 2010 Exceed And Excel – Arctic Drift (Gone West) Overbury Stud €3,000 This reverse shuttler (from Darley Australia) was a typically fast and precocious son of his sire.

He won or placed in four stakes at two, including taking the Maribyrnong Trial Stakes, one the earliest juvenile races of

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note in Australia, and the Blue Diamond Prelude (G3).

Kuroshio trained on at three to defeat good older horses in the 5f McEwen Stakes (G2).

From a top US family, Kuroshio is a brother to graded stakes winning two-year-old Believe’n’Succeed (dam of Grade 1 winner Bounding) and to stakes winner Agulhas.

His second dam Storm Cat’s daughter November Snow won the Alabama Stakes (G1) and Test Stakes (G1) and is also granddam of Grade 1-winning sprinter, Morning Line.

Further back this is also the family of the very successful sire, Green Dancer.

We’ve discussed many of the strongest crosses for Kuroshio’s sire Exceed And Excel

regarding Bungle Inthejungle and Burwaaz.

Kuroshio is open to what has been a particularly strong affinity for Exceed And Excel, that with stallions from the Thong family, notably Sadler’s Wells, Fairy King and Nureyev.

Kuroshio is out of a Mr. Prospector line mare, and he should also do well when crossed back over mares from that line, with daughters of Zafonic, Zamindar and Xaar looking interesting.

MASKED MARVEL

b. 2008 Montjeu – Waldmark (Mark Of Esteem) Haras d’Etreham €3,000 A winner on his debut at two Masked Marvel trained on to win

new sires Masked Marvel, the St Leger-winning son of Montjeu, hails from a leading German Classic family. He is standing at Haras d’Etreham for 2015

Other branches of Northern Dancer that have done well under Cape Cross include Nijinsky (through Royal Academy, Kahyasi and Nijinski) and from Cape Cross’s own Danzig sire line, Danehill.

Crossing Moohaajim back over his broodmare sire line of Mr. Prospector might pay dividends – Sea The Stars’s wonderful dam Urban Sea is by Miswaki.

Cape Cross and his sons have stakes winners out of mares by Woodman, Gulch, Thunder Gulch and Nayef, Proud Citizen and Zafonic (both

by Gone West).

Cape Cross and sons have also sired stakes winners out of mares descending from Sharpen Up through Kris (Behkabad), Diesis and Selkirk.

MORPHEUS

a trio of black-type races at three, including the Bahrain Trophy (G3) and, in course-record time, the St. Leger (G1).

In addition to being a Classicwinning son of Montjeu, Masked Marvel is out of Group-placed Waldmark, a mare from a Classic German family.

We’ve discussed Montjeu in depth with regard to Joshua Tree, but it could also be worth considering trying German strains such as Monson, the sire of Waldmark’s Group-winning half-sister Waldlerche.

In the pedigree we find the German Derby (G1) winner Waldpark (Dubawi), Waldvogel, a Group winner by Polish Precedent, while Waldtraut, a stakes-winning Group 1 performer by Oasis Dream, is out of an unraced Mark Of Esteem

sister to the dam of Masked Marvel.

With Mark Of Esteem as a broodmare sire, Efisio and his sire Formidable, Noverre and Exchange Rate, would give the duplication of Native Partner found in such runners as Avenir Certain, Reckless Abandon and Bribon.

MOOHAAJIM

b. 2010 Cape Cross – Thiella (Kingmambo) Rathbarry Stud €5,000 Another sharp early sort from the Green Desert line, Moohaajim won the Mill Reef Stakes (G2) and finished second to Reckless Abandon in the Middle Park Stakes (G1).

Moojaahim was one of the best

juvenile runners for Cape Cross, who is particularly known as the sire of Sea The Stars and Ouija Board.

Moohaajim is out of the Kingmambo mare Thiella, a daughter of the Group winner and Grade 1-placed Theoretically, a half-sister to graded stakes winner Niagara Causeway.

Moohaajim’s dam is inbred to Nureyev, which suggests Sadler’s Wells, particularly as Cape Cross has sired stakes winners out of mares by Sadler’s Wells himself (Laaheb), as well as out of mares

by Barathea (Hatta Fort) and In The Wings (Treat Gently).

Taghrooda, Sea The Stars’s leading performer to date, is out of Ezima (Sadler’s Wells), while Sea The Moon, the Gilltown Sud stallion’s Classic-winning colt, is out of a Monsun mare.

b. 2010 Oasis Dream – Kind (Danehill) Tally-Ho Stud €6,000 Morpheus, a three-time-winning miler, owns an outstanding Juddmonte pedigree as he is a half-brother to none other than Frankel, as well as to European champion older horse Noble Mission, and Group winner Bullet Train.

He’s also a brother to the speedy multiple stakes winner Joyeuse.

Morpheus is going to be suited by many of the strains mentioned with regard to previously discussed sons of Oasis Dream above, but Galileo, the sire of Frankel, and broodmare sire of an Oasis Dream Group 2 winner, as well as Sadler’s Wells and sons, are going to have obvious appeal.

MR MEDICI

b. 2010 Medicean – Way For Life (Platini) Hedgeholme Stud £1,250 A winner and Group-placed in Ireland, Mr Medici turned into a

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Precocious: No Nay Never revealed his considerable juvenile talent at Royal Ascot in the Norfolk Stakes and then at Deauville in the Prix Morny

star in Hong Kong where he took the Champions and Chater Cup, Queen Mother Memorial Cup (G1)and Premier Plate.

Mr Medici is by Medicean, who has a hot sire son in Dutch Art. Mr Medici is a half-brother to stakes winner Viapervita (Spectrum), his dam is a stakesplaced three-quarter sister to the Group winner Wins Fiction, and a half-sister to champion German two-year-old filly Waitowin.

Other notables under the second dam are champions Wild Romance, Win For Sure and Wild Coco.

Mr Medici, who is free of Northern Dancer, is open to most of the strains that have worked well under Medicean and Dutch Art (see Garswood), which would suggest Danzig, including through Danehill and Green Desert, Nijinsky through Caerleon and Generous, Sadler’s Wells via Barathea, Singspiel and Montjeu.

Nureyev, including through Polar Falcon, Pivotal and Zilzal, has options, while Blushing

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Crossing Moohaajim back over his broodmare sire line of Mr. Prospector might pay dividends Groom, including through Rahy and with Spectrum popping up again in this analysis as the dam sire of Dutch Art, as well as Efisio.

MUKHADRAM

b. 2009 Shamardal – Magic Tree (Timber Country) Nunnery Stud £7,000 One of the very best runners for Shamardal, who is not only a red hot sire but also sire of leading European 2014 freshman Lope De Vega, Mukhadram numbers the Eclipse Stakes (G1), the York Stakes (G2) and the Brigadier Gerard Stakes (G3) amongst his triumphs.

He was also four time Group/ Grade 1-placed, including in the Dubai World Cup (G1).

Mukhadram is out of a halfsister to the juvenile champion

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Kirklees, and to the high-class stayer Mastery, winner of the St. Leger (G1) and Hong Kong Vase (G1). Mukhadram is a great grand-son of the Group 1-winning sprinter Cherokee Rose.

Shamardal, crossed with Danzig line mares, has produced five Group 1 winners, and successful branches include Danehill, Green Desert, Bertolini and Polish Precedent. Casamento is out of an Always Fair mare, a son of Danzig, Able Friend is out of Volksraad (Green Desert) mare, while Lope De Vega is out of Lady Vettori, whose sire Vettori is from the Machiavellian line.

Shamardal has done well with mares from the Sadler’s Wells branch of Northern Dancer, including through Barathea, Singspiel and Imperial Ballet.

Shamardal has also enjoyed success with Sadler’s Wells’s brother Fairy King and with his three-quarters brother Nureyev.

Shamardal has crossed successfully with Northern Dancer through Nijinsky, including through Caerleon and his son Generous, Whiskey Road, and Lomitas.

Other proven crosses are Ahonoora through Indian Ridge, Inchinor and Rainbow Quest.

NO NAY NEVER

b./br. 2011 Scat Daddy – Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) Coolmore €20,000 Trained in the US, No Nay Never crossed the Atlantic twice as a two-year-old proving himself Europe’s fastest juvenile in 2013, taking the Norfolk Stakes (G2), in a new two-year-old course record, and the Prix Morny (G1).

No Nay Never started just three times at three, and was as swift as ever finishing second in the Swale Stakes (G2) on Dirt, capturing the Woodford Stakes (G3) over 5f on turf, leading

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No Nay Never crossed the Atlantic twice as a two-year-old proving himself Europe’s fastest juvenile in 2013 from start to finish, and coming within a stride of carrying off the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) after setting blistering early fractions.

No Nay Never’s sire Scat Daddy (by “world champion” two-year-old Johannesburg) was a Grade 1 winner at two and three.

The leading US freshman sire of 2011, Scat Daddy has continued to sire high-class winners over a wide variety of distances and on both Dirt and turf.

No Nay Never’s grand-dam, the very speedy Comical Cat, is a half-sister to the St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1) winner Half A Year, and two-year-old graded race scorer Winning Pact.

Scat Daddy follows Johannesburg, Hennessy, Storm Cat and Storm Bird as the fifth consecutive generation of his male line to have won a Grade 1 at two.

Scat Daddy has been particuarly successful with the Mr Prospector line ,from which No Nay Never hails, but he has had two stakes winners out of Danzig line mares, and No Nay Never appears to have a pedigree that will appreciate Danzig through Danehill.

There are also Scat Daddy graded stakes winners out of mares descending from Northern Dancer through Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev, while El Prado and Barathea have produced Group 1 winners to other stallions inbred

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A son of Choisir and out of a dam by Alzao, Olympic Glory could be particularly suited by Sadler’s Wells line mares

to Mr Prospector.

No Nay Never will supply Mr. Prospector 4 x 5 in the pedigree of those offspring, but No Nay Never might cross well back over Mr. Prospector-line mares through such as Kingmambo and sons, Dubawi and Nayef.

There are already two Scat Daddy Grade 1 winners out of Blushing Groom line mares, including one out of a Fantastic Light mare. Rainbow Quest line mares also looking a possibility.

It might also be interesting to experiment with mares by Zafonic, Zamindar or Xaar, while mares from the Alydar branch of the Raise A Native line are also contenders, in view of the success with Storm Cat and Hennessy.

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OLYMPIC GLORY

b. 2010 by Choisir – Acidanthera (Alzao) Haras de Bouquetot €15,000 The joint top-rated three-yearold in the world in 2013, Olympic Glory had top-class at two, three and four, his seven Group wins including the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (G1), Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1), Lockinge Stakes (G1) and Prix de la Forêt (G1).

Olympic Glory is by Danehill’s son Choisir, a champion at two in Australia and a champion sprinter in Europe, whose first top-class sons with runners is Starspangledbanner.

Choisir has crossed well over a variety of Northern Dancer line mares. From the Sadler’s Wells line mares, he and Starspangledbanner have sired

two Group 1 winners, including Obviously, who is out of a Montjeu mare, and The Wow Signal from a High Chaparral mare.

Starspangledbanner’s Group 2 juvenile winner Anthem Alexander is out of the Night Shift (Northern Dancer) mare Lady Alexander.

There are two Group winners out of Storm Cat line mares, and the Choisir/Nijinsky cross has done well, producing three stakes winners out of mares by Storm Cat’s close relative, Royal Academy.

There are also two Choisir stakes winners out of mares by Last Tycoon and Linamix.

Choisir has sired several of his best out of mares from Australian sire lines, but from other strains

new sires frequently found in Europe, we can note six stakes winners out of Mr. Prospector-line mares (Mr Prospector always doing so well with grandsire Danehill), while there has also been success with mares descending from Indian Ridge and Thatching.

RULER OF THE WORLD

ch. 2010 Galileo – Love Me True (Kingmambo) Coolmore Stud €15,000 Ruler Of The World earned a ranking as European champion three-year-old with a victory in the Epsom Derby (G1), which was achieved on just his third start.

He also defeated Flintshire and Spiritjim for the Prix Foy (G2) at four.

Like another Epsom Derby (G1) winner in this crop, Ruler Of The World is a son of Galileo, while he is also halfbrother to European champion Duke Of Marmalade.

His dam is a three-parts sister to Lemon Drop Kid, while his third dam is the brilliant mare, Lassie Dear.

The outstanding Group 1 Deutsches Derby winner, Sea The Moon, who is standing at Lanwades Stud, has a fabulous pedigree and was rated 125 on the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings

Ruler Of The World is another Galileo free of Danehill, and as Duke Of Marmalade is a son of the former champion sire Danehill, Danzig line mares are strongly indicated here.

Ruler Of The World has both Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev, which suggests adding more of either, or their relative Fairy King.

SEA THE MOON

b. 2011 Sea The Stars – Sanwa (Monsun) Lanwades Stud £15,000 Sea The Moon was the winner of four of his five starts, three of them Group events, and included a runaway victory in the Deutsches Derby (G1), which earned him a rating as the world’s joint-top rated racehorse in his distance category.

Sea The Moon has a stellar Classic pedigree as he is from the first crop of Sea The Stars, and out of Sanwa (Monsun), who is a sister to Deutsches Derby (G1) winner and Classic sire Samum, to German Derby (G1) winner Schiaparelli, to Deutsches Derby (G1) runner-up and Preis des

Ruler Of The World: the champion European three-year-old in 2013

Diana (G1) winner Salve Regina, and to the dam of Group 1 winner Sortilege.

Sea The Stars is a half-brother to Sadler’s Wells’s brilliant sire-son Galileo, Samum sired a Deutsches Derby (G1) winner out of a mare by a grandson of Sadler’s Wells, and Sea The Stars sired Taghrooda out of a Sadler’s Wells mare, so that strain is obvious place to start. It will be worth experimenting with Galileo and sons to give inbreeding to Urban Sea. A sister to the dam of Sea The Moon produced a Group 1 winner by a son of Danehill, who is also broodmare sire of a Sea The Stars Group winner, while a half-sister came up with a Group 1 winner by Dalakhani.

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new sires Sea The Stars has also enjoyed success with Mr. Prospector through Zafonic (broodmare sire of Sea The Stars’s Group 1 winner Vazira) and Kingmambo, and he has a pair of stakes winners out of Kris mares.

SLADE POWER

b. 2009 Dutch Art – Girl Power (Key Of Luck) Kildangan Stud €20,000 Sprint star Slade Power captured eight stakes events, six at Group level, and stamped himself at the top of his division in 2014 with victories in the July Cup (G1) and Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1).

He’s by Dutch Art, whom we’ve previously looked at with regard to Garswood.

Slade Power’s dam is the

sprint winner Girl Power. She is a grand-daughter of Balqis, who won the Premio Primi Passi (G3) at two, and is a sister to the multiple stakes winner Amazing Love, grand-dam of 2014 US Grade 1-winning sprinter The Big Beast (Yes It’s True).

Slade Power – whose dam is by a three-quarters brother to Anabaa – is an example of the successful cross of Dutch Art with Danzig line mares, but crossing him back over this line also appeals.

Mares by Anabaa, himself a champion sprinter, could be fruitful with Slade Power, while the Danehill and Green Desert branches are also good possibilities.

If not looking for straight speed, Sadler’s Wells is another

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Sommerabend’s dam is the stakes winner Sommernacht and is by the great sire Monsun from a topclass German family

Alan Porter feels that “mares by Anabaa, himself a champion sprinter, could be fruitful with Slade Power” (below)

Northern Dancer strain that appeals here.

Over a mare descending from Sadler’s Wells’s three-quarters brother Nureyev, Dutch Art has sired the Group 1 winner Garswood, who is out of a mare

by Pivotal’s son, Kyllachy.

SOMMERABEND

b. 2007 Shamardal – Sommernacht (Monsun) Haras de Saint Arnoult €3,500 This durable miler won seven black-type races, and was better than ever in 2014 at the age of seven when he won the Prix de la Porte Maillot (G3), Prix Edmond Blanc (G3) and Prix du Muguet (G2).

Another by the Giant Causeway stallion Shamardal – one of the sire stars of 2014 – Sommerabend is a half-brother to the Group winner Sommertag and stakes winner Sinnerman.

Sommerabend’s dam is the stakes winner Sommernacht and is by the great sire Monsun from a top-class German family.

Sommerabend is going to be suited by many of the same strains mentioned in connection with Shamardal’s son, Mukhadram, and he is without Northern Dancer’s influence.

We can note that Sommerabend is also halfbrother to two stakes winners

by Tiger Hill, a son of Danehill, suggesting that strain should work well.

SUN CENTRAL

ch. 2009 Galileo – Bordighera (Alysheba) Elusive Bloodstock €2,000 The very well-bred Sun Central won five of ten starts, gaining a pair of black-type tallies in the Chester Handicap and John Smith’s Silver Cup. Sun Central is a half-brother to George Washington, a champion at two and three, and to the champion European older

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new sires horse, Grandera.

Sun Central is likely to be a good cross for most of the dam sires that we’ve mentioned with regard to Galileo sons previously.

His two outstanding halfbrothers are both by stallions from the Danzig line.

Toronado

b. 2011 High Chaparral-Wana Doo (Grand Slam) National Stud £15,000 Winner of the Sussex Stakes at three and the Queen Anne (G1) at four, this son of High Chaparral was best over a mile. Toronado only ran outside of stakes company on his debut, and collected nine win and placed efforts from 12 starts, running in some of the best races over the distance in every season.

Many of High Chaparral’s best have been in the southernhemisphere, so most comments written before regarding grandsons of Sadler’s Wells apply bearing in mind that Toronado’s own dam is by Grand Slam, a grandson of Mr Prospector, while High Chaparral himself is out of a Darshaan mare.

Toronado is closely related to Casamento, a son of Shamardal, a grandson of Storm Cat, which brings in options, while he is out of the Danzig-line sire Always Fair.

Shamardal has also crossed well back over Machiavellian (his dam sire Helsinki is by Darley’s former champion), which also brings in Mr Prospector.

Xtension

Br. 2007 Xaar-Great Joy (Grand Lodge) Rathbarry Stud €5,000 Xtension kicked his career off as a two-year-old picking up a Group 2 placing in the Coventry Stakes, a Group 2 win in the Vintage Stakes and a Group 1 third in the Dewhurst Stakes.

The following year he added a

Xtension: mixed it with the best in Europe and Hong Kong for four seasons and made a total of 33 career starts

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Toronado only ran outside of stakes company on his debut, and collected nine win and placed efforts from 12 starts fourth in the 2,000 Guineas (G1) and a third in the Prix Jean Prat (G1) before he was sold to Hong Kong interests to race for trainer John Moore.

For his new connections he ran 25 times gathering up two Group 1 successes, both victories coming in the Champions Mile, and a Group 1 third in the Hong Kong Mile to Able One. He also finished fifth in the Dubai Duty Free (G1) behind Cityscape.

A son of the Zafonic (Gone West) stallion Xaar, he has little Northern Dancer so offers an outcross option. Zafonic’s best sire son so far is Iffraaj, who is out of a Nureyev mare.

He has combined well with Danehill (Chriselliam and Turn Me Loose), Statue Of Liberty and so Storm Cat-line stallions (Rizeena), and the Blushing Groom line – Hot Streak is out of a Housebuster mare, a grandson of Blushing Groom.

Zafonic himself also did well with Rainbow Quest, and, of course, with Sadler’s Wells.

War Command

b. 2011 War Front-Wandering Star (Red Ransom) Coolmore €15,000 A son of hot sire War Front, a son of Danzig, War Front burst to prominence when a 6l winner in the Coventry Stakes (G2).

From there he went on to be a Group 1 third in the Phoenix

Stakes before collecting the Futurity Stakes (G2) and then the Dewhurst (G1).

The best his three-year-old year yielded in three starts was a fourth in the St James’s Palace (G1) to Kingman.

Given that the current flavour of the month is mixing Galileo with War Front (and so his sire Danzig), Galileo, paternal siblings and sire Sadler’s Wells are obvious places to start for War Command. The Grade 2 winner for War Front, Summer Front, is out of an El Prado mare.

War Front’s Group 1 winner Declaration Of War is out of a Rahy mare so offering the Blushing Groom line options, as well as Fantastic Light and Noverre, who are sons of Rahy.

As The Factor is out of a Miswaki mare and Peace And War from a Smart Strike mare, it appears as if Mr Prospector-line dams could also be successful.

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JOINT CHAMPION 2YO & CHAMPION 3YO SPRINTER Five-time Gr.1 winning Champion at 2 and 3 years, winning the Prix Morny; Middle Park Stakes; July Cup; Haydock Sprint Cup and Prix de la Foret.

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New Year,

new contract

Olivier Peslier, France’s best export since “red wine and cheese”, talks to Liz Price about his experiences as a jockey, his career goals ahead and life out of the saddle

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rankie Dettori once said that if there was any other jockey he would like to be, it would be Olivier Peslier.

The charismatic Frenchman, who in the early days of his career used to amuse the British press no end by telling them that the rise at Epsom was not high, when really what they were asking was when did he know that High-Rise was going to win the Derby, is without doubt one of the most successful and versatile jockeys of this era.

For some inexplicable reason though, the four-time Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe-winning jockey does not immediately get a mention when talk at the dinner table turns to racing’s greats.

Yet, as soon as it comes to a finding a jockey for a British Classic, his phone rings.

It happened as early as 1998 when he got the call to partner outsider High-Rise in the Epsom Derby, in 2007 when he successfully guided outsider Cockney Rebel in the 2,000 Guineas and again at the end of 2014 when he was snatched up by owner Craig Bennett with the hope of riding Cursory Glance in the 2015 edition of the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket.

That phone call was welcome news to Peslier, but sadly, the following call that she will miss the Guineas through injury a blow, though hopes are high that she will be ready for the Coronation Stakes.

It was through the autumn when the headline hit that Peslier’s contract with the Wertheimer brothers was not to be renewed.

The jockey is very philosophical about

the end of a partnership that produced the likes of triple Breeders’ Cup Mile champion Goldikova, Arc winner Solemia and Prix du Jockey-Club victor, Intello.

“I think I was the only one who wasn’t surprised by the news,” says Peslier. “I had a successful relationship with the Wertheimer brothers for 12 years. That is a very long time.

“In fact, today jockeys get exchanged on a regular basis and some don’t even last a season. It’s like musical chairs out there!”

He pauses and then smiles: “Before the Wertheimer contract, I had an eight-year contract with Daniel Wildenstein and at the same time I also had a contract with the Lucayan Stud in England. So I think I did ok, don’t you agree?”

According to his big chum Dettori, he has definitely done more than just ok. In fact, the news that he was back on the market had barely made the front page when he was signed up by HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani.

For the last few years, Olive, as he is known to his friends, had been a regular visitor in Qatar and was on board Very Nice Name when third to St Nicholas Abbey in the 2013 Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan.

“I have been riding for Sheikh Abdullah for a while now,” explained Peslier. “He has horses with Alban de Mieulle in Qatar and Freddy Head in France and we have had some nice winners together.”

Only a few days after the partnership was made official, Peslier carried HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani’s colours to his first Group 1 victory in Britain when Charm

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STIMULATION

BY A CHAMPION 2YO & CHAMPION SPRINTER FROM THE

DANEHILL SIRE LINE

Won or placed 11 times from 16 career starts, 14 of which were in pattern company.

Career earnings: £230,695 (6-7f).

MULTIPLE STAKES SIRE WITH HIS FIRST CROP IN 2014

Won Gr.2 Challenge Stakes, 7f, Newmarket, beating a field of 14 Stakes winners, incl.

Balthazaar’s Gift (Gr.2), Duff (Gr.2), Captain Marvelous (Gr.2), Major Cadeaux (Gr.2), etc.

TONGUE TWISTA winner, 3rd Gr.2 Duchess of Cambridge S.

Won LR 2nd

Free Handicap, 7f, Newmarket.

Gr.2 Lennox Stakes, 7f, Goodwood, beaten a neck by Paco Boy at level weights, beating Arabian Gleam (Gr.2), etc.

TIMEFORM 121 DEFEATED 9 GROUP 1 WINNERS AND 54 STAKES WINNERS

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UNION ROSE winner, 2nd LR Windsor Castle S, Royal Ascot, 4th LR Dragon S. Also MARSH PRIDE, CLASSIC FLYER, MAGIC MAC, etc.

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olivier peslier Spirit lifted the Queen Elizabeth Stakes II on QIPCO British Champions Day. At the age of 42, France’s most likable export outside red wine and cheese is still flying high, proving that he is just as keen as he was 20 years ago. In fact, when other jockeys might start contemplating a future that does not include daily travelling and dieting, Peslier is very much looking forward to the new season.

But then the Mayenne-born jockey has never conformed to stereotypes. While his choices have been obvious ones, he stands out as one of only a handful of jockeys to have worked as André Fabre’s stable jockey without being apprenticed to him.

He also understood more than others how important it is to promote himself and he became one of the first jockeys in France to have his own website. Although, as he cheekily admits, he only had the site developed as an easy way to communicate with his massive Japanese fan base,

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I think it is important to talk to your employer and I will always say what I believe in my role as a jockey

accumulated in the early 2000s when he regularly lifted Japan’s most valuable races such as the Japan Cup, the Arima Kinen and the Tenno Sho. In the end, he did learn enough Japanese phrases to get by and his English today is (unfortunately) much too good to provide the press with new anecdotes, but communication is still high on his list.

“I think it is important to talk to your employer,” he says, suddenly becoming very serious. “I will always say what I believe in my role as a jockey.

There are many decisions Charm Spirit’s two Group 1 wins in 2014 took Peslier ever nearer to riding a career total of 100 Group and Grade 1 victories

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olivier peslier which are not mine to make, as they remain with the trainer, but I like following my horses closely and obviously I like to talk to my boss about them.”

Just sitting on a horse and steering it in the right direction is not enough for Peslier, who instead of golf and skiing, lists his favourite pastime as paintballing. And not just as a hobby – he is far too competitive for that.

He captains a team that has competed on a national and international level and has even been vice-captain of France.

He is always good for a surprise, but when he sold up in Chantilly to move nearly 800km south close to the French surfing paradise of Biarritz, there were some who wondered if he might just have had enough of racing.

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he move to the coast had nothing to do with retirement and everything to do with making the most of life. Freshly married to racehorse owner Emilie, he simply doesn’t see any need or reason to live in Chantilly, even though it is France’s premier training centre and home to many of the trainers for whom he rides.

With the old team: Alain and Gerard Wertheimer

He explains: “You might not believe it, but in all the years that I was jockey to André Fabre, I think I rode just one gallop at Chantilly. And last year, I think I only went three times to the training grounds to ride a gallop for a trainer.

“I won’t be telling you anything new, but a lot of trainers actually prefer to have their lads on them, rather than a jockey.

“And then the way racing is today, we start early in the day and it is difficult for jockeys to ride gallops and then be on time at the races.

“Where Emilie and I live now, we are very close to the Biarritz airport. There are three flights to Paris in the morning and three

Peslier big-race wins 2013-14 Race

Horse Trainer

Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Sponsored by Qipco (Group 1) Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein (Group 2) Prix de Meautry Lucien Barriere (Group 3) Prix Quincey Lucien Barriere (Group 3) Prix de Lieurey (Group 3) Prix Jean Prat (Group 1) Prix de Ris-Orangis (Group 3) Prix Paul de Moussac (Group 3) Prix de Saint-Georges (Group 3) Prix Djebel (Group 3) Prix De Seine-Et-Oise (Group 3) Connolly’s Red Mills Cheveley Park Stakes (Group 1) Prix du Prince d’Orange (Group 3) Prix La Rochette (Group 3) Prix de Meautry Lucien Barriere (Group 3) Prix Messidor (Group 3) La Coupe (Group 3) Prix Paul de Moussac (Group 3) Prix du Jockey Club (Group 1) Seymour Pierce Henry II Stakes Pour Moi Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary (Group 1) Prix Ganay (Group 1) Prix Penelope (Group 3) (3yo Fillies) (Turf) H H The Emir Trophy Tbreds International (Local Group 1)

Charm Spirit Solow Coulsty Solow Bawina Charm Spirit Thawaany Charm Spirit Catcall Charm Spirit Kolonel Vorda Intello Karakontie Myasun Intello Slow Pace Anodin Intello Gloomy Sunday Silasol Pastorius Ferevia Very Nice Name

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flights in the evening and I can make a return journey in one day in just as much time as it takes to drive from Longchamp to Chantilly.

And unlike Chantilly, where I didn’t have much to do in the evening, here, time is filled with lots of activities.”

He jumps up, unable to maintain his composure just at the thought of all the things he could do right now. His eyes gleam when he says: “Look right now, it is winter and yet it isn’t dark. In Chantilly its pitch black by now. Emilie and I have a few horses here that we look after and I can do that now because I’m home early.”

He sounds very grown up when he adds: “And the weather here is fantastic. It is warm all the time, which makes it much easier to keep my weight in check as you usually tend to eat more when it is cold.

“And I keep myself fit with looking after our land. I cut wood, I work the fields and then I might have a game of boules.”

He glances over to Emilie and laughs: “I was away for a few days and as a surprise she built me an area next to the house so that we could play boules. Isn’t that great?”

Ah, maybe not quite as grown-up then rather just very, very French. And also quite endearing. Peslier has never let anyone dictate his life and not so long ago he decided that he would not just manage his racing career, but also his extracurricular activities and interests.

“I just don’t want to entrust my outside interests into the hands of some managers or advisors as I do feel that you lose touch if you don’t involve yourself enough,” he says. “I like to know what is going on in my life and it’s great fun to be proactive. And I’m just very lucky that I have a wife who shares the same interests and goals as I do.”

The pair certainly have the same sense of adventure. Passing their scuba diving test was too mundane for Mr and Mrs Peslier, so they decided to take it further and travel to a lake in the Pyrenees to experience what it would be like to dive under several feet of ice. Crazy?

“No, not at all,” laughs Peslier. “It’s just nice to do different things. We are both very passionate about horses and sport. And we both have the same goals.”

There it is again. Olivier Peslier all grown up. His career is going well, he is once more under contract, he seems happier than ever, the weight is not an issue and he confirms what Dettori knew already: backing Peslier for the 2015 season should definitely figure amongst any racing enthusiast’s New Year’s resolutions.

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A global success story

German-bred horses are winning the world over, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

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surprisingly large number of excellent middle-distance and staying thoroughbreds are bred in Germany.

This is hardly a secret, German-bred Group and Grade 1 winners have, after all, become a regular feature of international results, and with

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fewer than 800 thoroughbred foals born each year the success of German-bred and sired horses at the highest international level continues to be exceptional.

If the qualities of German-bred and raised horses have been acknowledged and written about for some years, the last few seasons have seen further significant developments.

Danedream and Novellist, two Germanbred, owned and trained horses were successful in Europe’s best middle-distance races. In 2013 and 2014, Monsun joined the southern-hemisphere’s most famous stallions Zabeel and Sir Tristram by siring two different winners of the Melbourne Cup – Fiorente and Protectionist.

german-breds Owner Dr Christoph Berglar hugs trainer Andreas Wöhler after Novellist’s 2013 success in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. It was just the start of international success for the pair with their German-bred horses – in 2014 they followed up in Australia in the Melbourne Cup with Protectionist

In conjunction, and without necessarily making headlines, many of the new buyers attracted to Germany by these and other high-profile successes have enjoyed a quick and positive return.

In England and Ireland, German-bred horses may still be considered by many to be too backward and too stamina-laden to be of prime interest for Flat racing, but in Australia, the US, Japan and elsewhere some of the leading players have decided that German horses are more than worthy of a detour.

On a visit to some of Germany’s leading stud farms in 2014 a representative of Katsumi Yoshida’s Northern Farm produced

a list of German mares belonging to Northern Farm and to Teruya Yoshida’s Shadai Farm.

“I think,” he said, “we probably have the world’s best collection of German mares.”

As well as being a sales consignor and breeder Ronald Rauscher is also racing and breeding manager to Dr Christoph Berglar, the owner and breeder of Novellist and Protectionist.

Rauscher has played a major role in developing the Australian interest in German racing and breeding.

“In the summer of 2011,” Rauscher remembers, “an Australian agent put me in touch with Australian Bloodstock, a prominent racing partnership run by Luke Murrell and Jamie Lovett. They were looking for a potential Melbourne Cup horse and the first we chose together was Lucas Cranach.”

A son of Mamool, Lucas Cranach was then a four-year-old trained by Sascha Smrczek and had won a Group 2 in Hamburg in June before finishing fifth to Danedream in a Group 1 in Berlin.

“Lucas Cranach ran really surprisingly well in the Melbourne Cup,” Rauscher continues, “as he had an interrupted preparation.

“Anthony Freedman came to Newmarket to oversee his work during quarantine and then he went on to finish an excellent fifth in the Caufield Cup on his first Australian start.”

The three weeks between the Caufield Cup and the Melbourne Cup were not straight forward, but Lucas Cranach finished third in the big one – in the lead with a furlong to run he was beaten only just over a length by Dunaden and Red Cadeaux. He then won a Group 2

on his next start the following February, but persistent leg problems led to his retirement to stud in 2013.

Not surprisingly Australian Bloodstock was keen to look for more German horses. and in December 2011 the company purchased Mawingo from Gestüt Schlenderhan, a son of Tertullian who won the Group 1 Doomben Cup the following year and is now at stud in Australia too.

In 2012, the collection expanded with the Lomitas filly Salomina, a three-year-old who had won both her starts to that point. For her new owners Salomina won a Group 3 in Hamburg and then the Group 1 Preis der Diana at Dusseldorf.

She never made it to Australia as after her

Sales consignor, breeder and racing manager, Ronald Rauscher has been working closely with Australian Bloodstock sourcing German horses deemed as possible contendors for the Melbourne Cup

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...after Protectionist had finished second in a Group 2 in Baden-Baden last June, we felt we had a genuine Melbourne Cup hope Classic victory she was sold to Japan where she has a yearling filly by Deep Impact and is currently back in-foal to Deep Impact.

“Australian Bloodstock were very interested in buying Novellist, however he was not the right horse to sell to Australia.

“But, after Protectionist had finished second in a Group 2 in Baden-Baden last June, we felt we had a genuine Melbourne Cup hope. He was not suited to the short straight in Baden-Baden, but Flemington has a long straight and we knew he would stay.

“The main question mark was the ground

as Protectionist is not suited to really firm going. We did a deal whereby he would run in the Prix Kergorlay for Dr Berglar, in the Caufield Cup and Melbourne Cup for a 50/50 partnership between Dr Berglar and Australian Bloodstock, who would then take full possession of the horse.

“Trainer Andreas Wöhler sent two people and his vet to Australia with Protectionist and went twice himself to oversee his major work before the big race.

“Protectionist is now with trainer Chris Lees and although I haven’t had any detail,

I know they have big plans for him over the coming months.”

Protectionist didn’t just win the Melbourne Cup, he ran away with it winning by 4l. He is a five-year-old now, but an injury at two and a collision with a stray deer at three has meant that he has made only ten starts to date.

There is no logical limit to what he may still achieve on the racecourse.

Since his win German horses, and, of course, sons of Monsun, have been more sought after than ever before. Lee and Anthony Freedman have bought Germany’s leading four-year-old of 2014 Ivanhowe, a son of Soldier Hollow who defeated Sea The Moon in the Grosser Preis von Baden.

One of the country’s most promising three-year-olds Shimrano is now part-owned

by Australian interests. Shimrano is a son of Monsun bred by Gestüt Brummerhof, who

Protectionist takes the Melbourne Cup under Ryan Moore. The son of Monsun was particularly suited by Flemington’s long straight

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ANODIN

Anabaa – Born gold [Blushing groom]

Full-brother to gOLDIKOVA (gr.1)

Prix Paul de Moussac gr.3 2nd Breeders' Cup Mile gr.1, Prix Jacques Le Marois gr.1, Prix d'Ispahan gr.1 3rd Prix du Moulin de Longchamp gr.1, Queen Anne Stakes gr.1 € 7,500 L.F.

FUISSÉ

green Tune – Funny Féerie [Sillery]

e best son of gREEN TUNE !

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MOTIVATOR

Montjeu – Out West [gone West]

Sire of 47 Group/Stakes performers inc. the champion TRÊVE, historic double Arc winner € 15,000 L.F.

YOUMZAIN

Sinndar – Sadima [Sadler's Wells]

An exceptional record !

Good European start for his first 2yos with 9 wins, 17 places ! (To Dec. 2014) € 3,000 L.F.

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German-bred horses are enjoying great success in Australia, it is because not only do they stay but they also have speed won his only juvenile start by 9l at Hanover last October.

“German racing and breeding has,” Rauscher says, “changed a great deal over recent years. When I started out working at Gestüt Rottgen there was an outcry when the stud sold Strong Gale to Ireland as a jumping stallion and the champion race filly Anna Paola to Sheikh Mohammed.

“Since then there has been a lot of investment in Germany and people’s attitude to racing and selling abroad has been transformed.

“Protectionist is, for example, a son of Monsun, but he comes from an international family first developed by the Wildensteins.

Some of Germany’s top stallions such as Acatenango or Monsun produced typical ‘German’ types standing over a lot of ground with a straight hind leg, but then others like Big Shuffle and Dashing Blade, both of whose daughters are having a big influence, were different physical types altogether.

“German-bred horses are enjoying great success in Australia and it is because not only do they stay but they also have speed. Many of the best horses in Germany can also be bought, which is not always the case in the other major European racing countries.”

Most of Dr Berglar’s mares are now based in Kentucky, although he still has two or three in Germany. His horses in training with Wöhler in Germany include Prana, an unraced three-year-old Siyouni half-sister to Protectionist, and Nightlight Angel, a twoyear-old Manduro half-sister to Novellist.

“We are sending Ponte Tresa to Japan to be covered by Novellist and we plan to buy more mares to send to him,” Rauscher explains.

“We did think about sending Protectionist’s dam Patineuse, but, for the time being, she will stay in Europe.”

If Australia’s racing partnerships have enjoyed great success with horses bought in training in Germany, aside from Australian Bloodstock, OTI Management have won good races with Ibicenco and Pakal, and there has been several new international buyers at the Baden-Baden yearling sales in recent years.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s first buy

Fred Seitz of Brookdale Farm extending his European contacts with Benoit Jeffroy at the Keeneland November Sale in 2014

turned out to be the multiple winner Bullish Smart, a son of Soldier Hollow who was champion griffin (imported two-year-old) for the 2013-2014 season.

John McCormack bought two fillies who are now in training in France with Freddy Head on behalf of George Strawbridge at the 2013 sale.

Turfperle, a daughter of Areion, was beaten only a short head by the Group winner Moonee Valley in the Prix des Marettes in Deauville last August, while Narvick International bought three yearlings at the same sale for Japan. Two of them, Santa Fe Chief, a half-sister to Salomina, and Leapfrog, an Azamour colt, were placed on their twoyear-old debuts.

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third new Baden-Baden buyer who has had a lot of success with German breds is Fred Seitz, from Kentucky’s Brookdale Farm.

“I just love the German thing!” Seitz exclaims. “In Germany you can buy a horse for anywhere in Europe, and pretty much for anywhere in the world.

“The bloodlines available there are of such quality that it is possible to get anything, and my impression is that many of the breeders

there are particularly diligent.

“They tend to be very focused on looking for the right pedigrees and crosses.”

Seitz’s own German heritage meant that he had started to follow German racing and breeding from a distance, but he has now made two trips to the September Sale.

In 2013 he purchased a Lord Shanakill colt in Baden-Baden for €34,000, which then resold for $185,000, around four times as much, as a two-year-old in Florida.

Seitz returned in 2014 and bought four more yearlings, including a Dalakhani colt who is now in training with Dermot Weld for Calumet Farm and two colts currently in training in Florida.

“The first German horse we bought,” he remembers, “was the Dashing Blade mare Proudeyes who we got in Newmarket. We had a lot of luck selling babies out of her and so once my wife Sarah Seitz was asked to become the US representative of the sales company we felt we had to go. So far it has worked out well.

“The Lord Shanakill is in training in Florida and not far off a race and we also bought a Montjeu filly on the first trip, who is in training with Luca Cumani for a partnership between Brookdale and Jon Kelly.

“The two colts we bought last year by Areion and Excellent Art are going well and we shall decide nearer the time whether to offer them at a two-year-sale or keep and race them in partnerships. I certainly hope to be able to go to Germany again this year.’

Brookdale is also a shareholder in Gestüt Fahrhof’s stallion Maxios having bought into the horse after seeing him in Newmarket during the December sales.

“I wish there were more Monsun’s to come,” rues Seitz. “But as there aren’t it made sense to try Maxios and we bought Kaiserwurde, a half-sister to the Deutsches Derby winner Kamsin in December, and she is going to be covered by Maxios.”

Few if any breeders in Germany are focusing on raising two-year-old winners.

“If you sent a German two-year-old to Australia,” Rauscher says, “it would drown very quickly.”

However in the new global thoroughbred market it is not only two-year-old racing which attracts customers, and many of those who are looking for soundness, and staying horses with speed, are now going to Germany to do their shopping.

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BAHAMIAN BOUNTY Yearling average of 57,777gns in Books 1 and 2 of 2014 Tattersalls October Sale 2014 STAKES WINNERS: BRETON ROCK NEW PROVIDENCE MICKS YER MAN CODE RED TAKE TEN DONNERSCHLAG

Hungerford Stakes (Gr.2) Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes (Gr.3) Racing Post Pavillion Stakes (L) Doncaster Stakes, (L) Shadwell Jebel Ali Sprint (L) Badener Roulette Preis Benazet Rennen (L)

DICK TURPIN Top yearlings sold for 70,000gns in 2014 and achieved averages of over 57,000gns Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale average of £25,500 First crop of 2YO runners in 2015

PASTORAL PURSUITS 17 individual 2yo winners and a winners/runners strike rate of 45% (GB/IRE 2yos of 2014) 2014 STAKES PERFORMERS: LOUIE DE PALMA KIBAAR PASTORAL GIRL VEILED INTRIGUE AL MUTHANA END OF LINE MAJOR CRISPIES NEARLY NOT MINE

2nd Qatar Bloodstock Richmond Stakes (Gr.2) 3rd Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes (Gr.2) 2nd Juddmonte Princess Margaret Stakes (Gr.3) 2nd Chartwell Fillies’ Stakes (Gr.3) 3rd Prix du Pont-Neuf (L) 3rd Cantor Fitzgerald Heron Stakes (L) 3rd Bathwick Tyres Carnarvon Stakes (L) 3rd Premio Royal Mares (L)

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European Champion 3yo

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GREGORIAN

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BAHAMIAN BOUNTY

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3 time Group winner 4 times Gr.1 placed Defeated 15 Gr.1 winners

Sire of over 50 Stakes performers (12 Group winners, 19 Listed winners) Limited Book

First crop of yearlings have gone to leading trainers: Richard Hannon, Charlie Hills, Kevin Ryan, Richard Fahey and Henry Candy

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Moving on up

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othing in the bloodstock business is as profitable as a successful stallion. For the first time in more or less living memory, there will be several stallions in France standing at €15,000 or more in 2015, including Le Havre, Kendargent, Siyouni, Motivator, Makfi and Olympic Glory.

Successful stallions not only make money for their owners, but also for breeders, the owners of their best progeny, and, of course, for the sales companies and agents involved in the market.

In 2014, Arqana sold yearlings by Le Havre, Siyouni and Kendargent for more than €4 million, and these three sires alone gave a huge boost to the October yearling sale.

Three of Le Havre’s progeny were among the top prices at the Arc de Triomphe horses-in-training sale and over the year Michael Wallace spent €2.5 million on sons and daughters of Le Havre sold in training by Arqana on behalf of The China Horse Club.

There are several more or less high profile sires who retired to stud in France, but who have yet to have progeny of racing age.

Sheikh Joaan Al Thani’s Al Shaqab Stud stood new sires Planteur and Style Vendome

in 2014 and this pair have been joined for 2015 by Olympic Glory, the multiple Group 1-winning son of Choisir. He was fully booked at €15,000 long before Christmas.

The first Motivator’s conceived at the Haras du Quesnay will be yearlings in 2015, and the Head family stud have Goldikova’s full-brother Anodin as a new stallion in 2015. Intello will be coming to the stud after starting his stud career at Cheveley Park.

Others who could well make a name for themselves over coming seasons include the Haras de La Cauvinière’s Rajsaman, a son of Linamix who has more than 90 two-year-olds in 2015, the Haras de Logis Saint Germain’s French Fifteen, the Haras de la Hetraie’s George Vancouver, the Haras d’Etreham’s Wootton Bassett, the Haras de Hoguenet’s Penny’s Picnic and the Haras du Logis’s Rio de la Plata and Masterstroke.

Two studs which have made a conspicuously successful effort to obtain and promote new stallions in recent seasons are the Aga Khan Studs, home of champion 2014 first-season sire Siyouni, Redoute’s Choice in 2013 and 2014, Makfi in 2015 and Charm Spirit in 2016.

At a different level, but also with great success, Eric Lhermite’s Haras de Grandcamp has been developing a decent stallion roster.

Left, Siyouni, and, below, new recruit to the Aga Khan Studs, Makfi on a three-year contract deal

It has been all change in the French stallion ranks over the last couple of years.

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french stallion scene If Siyouni was the champion first-season sire, two others to make an excellent start Evasive and Zanzibari, who are both at Grandcamp, as is Tin Horse, a Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) winner whose first foals sold particularly well, and Vision D’Etat, whose progeny have also been well received by the market.

“Evasive and Zanzibari are both owned by small partnerships,” Lhermite explains, “while Tin Horse belongs to the Marquesa de Moratalla and Vision D’Etat is still in ownership with his original owners Jacques Detre and Mme Eric Libaud.

“Grandcamp stands the stallions and our main contribution has been to support them with our own mares. At the beginning I used them myself and then when my clients saw that I was making money selling their progeny many of them decided to send their mares as well.

“In 2014, we sent out a total of 450 contracts for the group as a whole.”

Grandcamp has a lot of clients as it

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...better stallions attract better mares which, in turn, will achieve better results and attract more investment in breeding in France

Evasive: had a good first year with his two-year-old crop and is fully booked at 130 mares for 2015

prepares and sells some 50 yearlings every year. “I don’t do a great deal of marketing or selling,” adds Lhermite, “it is more a question of setting an example and building a group of clients who are happy to follow and support our stallions.”

He has no doubt at all that there have been major changes in the French stallion market. “I get the strong impression,” he says, “that there will be fewer mares leaving to be covered abroad, and many more travelling to France to be covered.

“As things stand we have no room to take any more mares for the breeding season and every other stud I ask is also already fully booked for the season. Up to now, stallions based in France have had to make a name, while covering mares of only second and third-class quality.

“The market has become more professional, which makes it tough for some of the old-fashioned small breeders with a few acres and a mare or two, but I certainly have had plenty of breeders who board mares asking for advice to buy new and better mares.

“I think, and hope, that we have now embarked on a virtuous circle, better stallions attract better mares which, in turn, will achieve better results and attract more investment in breeding in France.”

When it comes to choosing potential stallions Lhermite is open minded. “For me,” he says, “the only sensible rule is that there isn’t one. However, like Eric Lhermite with his wife Isabella: an exciting stallion roster is emerging at Grandcamp

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Youngstock reared at Grandcamp: when it comes to selecting potential stallions, Lhmerite says “the only sensible rule is that there isn’t one!”

everyone else I am looking for good-looking horses and I think that, on the whole, the pedigrees currently in France tend to lack speed.”

He is optimistic about the future of his own sires, and in particular for Evasive.

“He is fully booked for 2015 with around 130 mares and with his looks and pedigree – he is from the family of East Of Moon and Miesque – there is no limit to how high he can go if the results continue to be excellent.”

For the Aga Khan Studs and its French manager Georges Rimaud the wakeup call came in 2012 when France Galop announced that it was reducing the premiums given to French-bred horses by sires based abroad.

“Whatever the rights or wrongs of that argument it acted as an alert for us and others about the quality of stallions standing in France,” he admits. “We have been in partnership in Australia with Arrowfield for some time, but it was right at that moment that they approached us about the possibility of standing Redoute’s Choice for two seasons.”

Redoute’s Choice’s French-bred horses will be yearlings and foals of 2015, but it was a huge success by the stud to attract 200 mares over the two seasons at €70,000 and €60,000.

Aga Khan Studs manager Georges Rimaud: has been proactively improving the quality of stallions standing at Bonneval

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....when Sheikh Fahad raised the possibility of us standing Makfi we were immediately interested Siyouni retired to the Haras de Bonneval in 2011 and so for these two seasons there were two popular horses covering at the Aga Khan’s French stud.

“Sinndar is getting on now and at 19 it did not make sense to bring Redoute’s Choice back for a third season and so we were looking for a horse with an interesting genetic potential,” says Rimaud.

“In 2011 we were part of a group of French-based breeders who made an offer for Makfi and so when Sheikh Fahad

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For us the timing is not about making profits immediately, but giving the horses the best chance of proving themselves raised the possibility of us standing the horse we were immediately interested.”

The agreement between Sheikh Fahd and the Aga Khan Studs does, for the time being, cover both Makfi and Charm Spirit for the next three covering seasons.

Charm Spirit is a son of Invincible Spirit, the winner of Group 1s in France and England, who will start his stud career at Tweenhills in England in 2015.

Makfi will cover at Bonneval in 2015 until 2017, while Charm Sprit will be at Bonneval in 2016. “We have not taken shares in either horse, but believe in both of them and in the future the agreement could easily include other horses, or even Siyouni.

“I would like to see the real and psychological barriers between the different European breeding countries broken down.

We are in a European market and it seems to me to make sense to stand horses where they are best suited at a particular moment within the major breeding countries.

“For us the timing is not about making profits immediately, but giving the horses the best chance of proving themselves as stallions.”

Just like Lhermite, Rimaud is hopeful about future developments in the French stallion business.

“As long as France Galop succeeds in maintaining the current standing of French racing, which admittedly is not sure to happen, I am,” he says, “confident about the future of breeding in France. There is no doubt that the quality of stallions here has improved and importantly there are going to be more mares coming to France for the 2015 season than in any recent year.

“We need more quality stallions, stallions who can stand for €10,000 and more and who have a real genetic potential.

“When I look through the book of Aga Khan mares I am often struck by the fact that nearly all of the good producers are by well-known stallions, in breeding quality counts.”

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Continental change

Jocelyn de Moubray takes a statistical look at stallion performance in France and Germany through 2014, and sees new emerging trends

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he French stallion market has been transformed by the appearance of three new international sires, who began their careers in Normandy and now look almost certain to remain there for years to come.

These statistics underline once again that the Haras de Colleville’s Kendargent, the Haras de la Cauvinière’s Le Havre and the Haras de Bonneval’s Siyouni are top class stallions who will attract support from all over Europe.

All three have enough progeny on the ground to make sure that they will remain in the limelight over the years to come.

Kendargent’s profile will change dramatically over the next few years as, after four small crops from this year, he will have

Leading French and German stallions by % rated 110+: Older stallions Sire

Foals 09-11

Motivator Kendargent Hurricane Run Lord Of England

110+

%

95+

%

182

11 6.00 23 13.00

97

5 5.20 12 12.00

203

7

3.40

21

10.00

92

3

3.30

7

7.60

Authorized

333

9 2.70 38 11.00

Muhtathir

183

4 2.20 19 10.00

Areion

95

2 2.10 9 9.50

Literato

50

1 2.00 3 6.00

Soldier Hollow

100

2

2.00

11

11.00

Rail Link

201

4

2.00

19

9.50

Manduro

318

6 1.90 27 8.50

Whipper

237

- 1.70 18 7.60

Orpen

137

2 1.50 11 8.00

American Post

104

1

0.96

14

13.00

Sinndar

137

1 0.72 14 10.00

Elusive City

326

2

0.62

23

7.10

Diamond Green

194

0

0.00

5

2.60

Muhaymin

37

0 0.00 1 2.70

Samum

121

0 0.00 9 7.40

Tertullian

104

0 0.00 7 6.70

Cockney Rebel

154

0

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Kendargent gets plenty of good and early two-year-olds and most of his better progeny run at around a mile

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4

2.60

at least 90 two-year-olds every season, several of which will go into training outside France.

Any sort of statistics are only relevant once the sample size is significant, but even if each of Kendargent’s first four crops were too small to avoid the possibility of distortions, the fact that all four produced a high percentage of top-class horses suggests strongly that the horse’s success will only grow now.

Kendargent gets plenty of good and early two-year-olds and most of his better progeny run at around a mile.

Le Havre has always been well supported, not least by his owner Gerard Augustin Normand, but the son of Noverre is already a Classic sire and, if he is not primarily a twoyear-old sire, his better horses have all shown promise at two and continued to improve throughout their three-year-old career.

Le Havre has produced good winners over every distance from 5f to 2m.

Siyouni is, of course, not quite as proven as the other two having only had one crop to race to date. However, the son of Pivotal could hardly have made a better start and, if nothing else, looks likely to be a top two-yearold sire. He has, however, already had several good winners over a mile – Bourree won Germany’s top two-year-old fillies’ race over a mile on soft ground, and if he is likely to continue to produce early two-year-olds and sprinters, it is also very likely that he will get milers and even 1m2f horses depending upon the mares he is sent.

Siyouni’s half-sister by Medicean, Siyouma, a was a top filly over 1m2f, while his threeyear-old half-sister by Galileo, Sayana, was second in one of the better maidens of the year on her only start over a mile in

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Foals 2011

Rnrs

Wnrs

W/R

110+

%

95+

93

66

32

48

4

4.30

16

Myboycharlie 53

37

17 46

2

3.80

4 7.50

Adlerflug

36

26

14 54

1

2.80

6 17.00

Soldier of Fortune

87

61

22

1

1.10

3

Naaqoos

56

39

19 49

0

0.00

1 1.80

Le Havre

Deauville in October.

The fourth French-based sire among Europe’s best stallions is the Haras du Quesnay’s Motivator, who managed to raise his profile again in 2014 despite not having any three-year-olds to run for him.

The son of Montjeu has a couple of relatively quiet seasons to come before his first French foals are three-year-olds in 2017, but as long as Treve remains in training he too should maintain his high profile.

Several of the other stallions imported to France after beginning their careers elsewhere enjoyed successful seasons in 2014.

Authorized’s first French foals will be born this year, and the Haras du Logis’s stallion is another son of Montjeu who appears to be well-suited to the French racing programme.

He has enjoyed high profile success with horses such as Ambivalent, Hartnell and Elite Army since moving to France.

Rail Link moves to France for the 2015 season and will attract plenty of support at the Haras de Cercy La Tour, in the centre of France near Moulins, whether or not Epicurus goes on to further Group 1 success as a three-year-old.

The stallions, which attract the most mares in France, as elsewhere in Europe, tend to be

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those likely to produce fast and precocious horses, however there is still a demand for the middle-distance sires Motivator and Authorized – they covered 122 and 95 mares respectively in 2014.

Two other imports whose first French foals made a mark in 2014 are the Haras du Mezeray’s Whipper and the Haras de Granges’s Diamond Green.

Whipper’s first French foals were three in 2014 and were more successful as a group than those the son of Miesque’s Son had

% 17.00

3.40

produced in Ireland – they included the highclass filly Mayhem and several other Group and stakes horses.

Diamond Green is a son of Green Desert who stands in the south-west of France. He made little impact in Ireland, but his first French two-year-olds included plenty of winners and at least three who look as though they could develop into Group or stakes-class horses.

Two younger imports who could make their mark over the coming seasons are the Haras du Mezeray’s Myboycharlie and the Haras de Bonneval’s Makfi.

Myboycharlie stood for two seasons at the National Stud and his first French foals are two-year-olds this year. The son of Danetime’s small first crop included the Grade 1 winner Euro Charline and with two large crops to run over the coming seasons he is another sire who could be very popular by 2017.

Makfi moves to Bonneval from Tweenhills in England for the 2015 season. The son of Dubawi attracted large books of mares during his four years in England, but his yearlings sold disappointingly in 2014 averaging only 25,000gns in Britain.

Six of his seven most promising two-year-

Leading French and German stallions by % 95 rated+: stallions with first two-year-olds 2014 Sire Zanzibari

Foals 12 43

Rnrs

Wnrs

W/R

10 23 5 50

95+

%

3

30

Foals 13 29

Foals 14 19

Siyouni 74 43 58 19 44 10 23 65 55 Makfi Evasive

109

46 42 19 41

7

15

96

90

31

13 42 5 38

2

15

31

26

Alexandros 22

12 55 5 42

1

8

18

17

Air Chief Marshall

70

28

40

10

36

2

7

86

80

Silver Frost

72

38

53

4

11

Youmzain 56

12 21 2 17

1

2

63

51

0

0

53

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Choose a French sire – our stallions for 2015 COCKNEY REBEL

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A great racehorse Winner of both English and Irish 2000 Guineas Sire of 8 Stakes horses e.g. GROOVEJET - 2nd Park Hill Stakes (Gr.2) In total 23 individual winners in 2014 so far !

Top class producer of juveniles COCK OF THE NORTH - 3rd Superlative Stakes (Gr.2) and 4th Solario Stakes (Gr.3).

A total of 10 individual juvenile winners so far in 2014!

Successful national hunt sire COCKNEY SPARROW - Winner Scotish Champion Hurdle (Gr2), OLBG. COM Mares’ Hurdle (L..) and 2nd in Fighting Fifth Hurdle (Gr.1)

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Fast and precocious Winner of Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte (Gr.2) and 3rd in Middle Park Stakes over 6 furlongs A son of champion sire INVINCIBLE SPIRIT Sire of Gr1 Winners KINGMAN, CHARM SPIRIT, LAWMAN, MAYSON, MOONLIGHT CLOUD etc.

A proven sire of juveniles In 2nd place in European statistics with his first crop of 2-year-olds in 2012 by number of winners.

Sire of CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS, winner of Calcutta Million (Gr.2), The Queen Elizabeth II Cup (Gr.3), and hurdler LINDENHURST - 3rd Tayto Hurdle (Gr.3)

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An excellent racehorse Winner of 7 Stakes races (4 group races), including Prix du Muguet (Gr.2), Prix de Porte Maillot (Gr.3), Prix Edmond Blanc (Gr.3).

On distances ranging from 7 furlongs to a mile, he beat Gr.1 horses ESOTERIQUE, VORDA, KENHOPE, VEDA, DESERT BLANC and ANODIN. From the first crop of champion sire SHAMARDAL, out of a dam by MONSUN from a classic German family.

First season at stud in 2015 A really good-looking stallion with great conformation

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Two older imports, whose commercial appeal has waned with age but who continue to produce consistently, are the Haras d’Etreham’s Elusive City and the Haras de Bonneval’s Sinndar.

Elusive City’s first French three-year-olds performed respectably, but his three-yearolds of 2015 look to be a stronger group headed by the promising juvenile winners Elka, Indy Cass, Raison d’Etre and Slew Of Fortune.

Sinndar produced the Grosser Preis Von

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DSW21 (German St Leger) winner Kaldera, as well as the French-bred two-year-old Pennyking, who won a valuable sales race in Germany.

Muhtathir and Literato have stood in France all of their careers and, if the Haras du Mezeray’s Muhtathir is a veteran, he is still a consistent source of high-class horses on the Flat and over jumps.

Literato, a son of Kendor who stands at the Haras de la Reboursière, has never attracted numbers of mares despite having produced the Grade 1 winner Alterite and in 2014 no fewer than five of his seven two-year-old runners were winners.

Siyouni was the champion first-season sire in France, but two others made excellent starts – Evasive and Zanzibari, who both

Elusive City’s first French three-year-olds performed respectably, but his three-year-olds of 2015 look to be a stronger group

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Soldier Hollow

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9

56

4

44

3

19

57

111 66

Elusive City

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33

35

11

33

6

18

44

38

31

17

Tertullian 30 11 37 3 27

2 18

Hurricane Run

16

6

37

2

33

1

17

2

12

Le Havre

85

24

28

3

13

4

17

99

51

Diamond Green

50

20

40

9

45

3

15

37

17

Motivator 43 13 30 4 31

2 15

34

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Areion

4 14

45

47

Literato 20 7 35 5 71

1 14

28 19

Lord Of England

3

57

64 28 44 9 32 44

21

48

7

33

14

35

Orpen

52 14 27 4 29

2 14

23

7

Sinndar

40 14 35 2 14

2 14

19

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Adlerflug 30 9 30 2 22

1 11

25 23

Muhtathir 29 10 34 2 20

1 10

35

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Whipper 64 29 45 7 24

3 10

51

25

Authorized 66 21 32 7 33

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9

78

24

Cockney Rebel

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34

45

13

38

3

8

35

15

American Post

49

26

53

7

27

2

7

50

26

Muhaymin 32 14 44 6 43

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7

20

27

Manduro 50 18 36 5 38

1

5 114

37

Soldier of Fortune

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5

80

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Naaqoos 58 30 52 5 17

85

20

24

1

3

29

43

Myboycharlie 50 23

0

0

65

90

46

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5 22

Samum 25 4 16 2 50 0 0 25 37 Rail Link

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10

28

2

20

1

10

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There is no doubt that Gestüt Ammerland’s Hurricane Run, sire in 2014 of Ectot, is a stallion of international standard stand at the Haras de Grandchamp.

They have similar profiles as both were high-class racehorses without winning top races and are by US sires from high-class female families.

Evasive, a son of Elusive Quality, was bred and raced by Cheveley Park Stud, winning the Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes at two and then finishing sixth in the 2,000 Guineas and fourth to Mastercraftsman in the St James’s Palace Stakes. His dam is a daughter of Storm Cat and the champion racemare East Of The Moon.

Despite standing at only €3,000 his firstcrop includes the Group winner and highclass prospect Evasive’s First, the winner of five races with an official rating of 110, as well as the Listed winner Piment Rouge.

Zanzibari is a son of Smart Strike and the Group-winning filly Zinziberine. He was bred by Elizabeth Fabre and trained by her husband André Fabre.

He ran four times as a two-year-old winning a Group 3 over 6f before finishing fifth in the Prix Morny, less than a length behind Arcano, Special Duty and Canford Cliffs. Zanzibari’s first crop included three useful horses – Mme Fabre’s Baghadur, the Group-placed Thank You Bye Bye and Zeppelin.

Solider Hollow: has had small crops but got Ivanhowe last year and has Classic prospects for 2015

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The German stallion market was changed by the arrival of the new sires Maxios, Dabirsim, Pastorius and Reliable Man in 2014.

There are so few mares in Germany that such new competition will make it difficult for some of the older sires.

Of the German sires who have runners there are nevertheless several who look to be high-class sires.

There is no doubt that Gestüt Ammerland’s Hurricane Run, sire in 2014 of Ectot, is a stallion of international standard, but it is only from 2015 that he will start to have reasonably sized crops after years of sub-standard fertility.

Others who stand out include Gestüt Etzean’s Lord Of England and Gestüt Auenquelle’s Soldier Hollow, who are now more than confirming their early promise, while Gestüt Harzburg’s Adlerflug made an excellent start with his first three-year-olds.

Lord Of England is a son of Dashing Blade and the sire of the 2014 Group 1 Preis de Diana winner Feodora, who is now owned by Teruya Yoshida and trained by Fabre.

His seven 2014 two-year-old winners

included several good-looking prospects for 2015.

Strawberry, a half-sister to the 2014 Group 1 winner Sirius, won her only start at Bremen in November, and the Waldamar Hickst-trained colt Mohadjer, was an easy winner at Argentan on his sole start.

Soldier Hollow is the sire of the Group 1 winner Ivanhowe, now in training in Australia, and his first large crop since he began to be noticed are two-year-olds of this year.

He has only a total of 16 three-year-olds, but remarkably they include some real Classic prospects in Nymeria and the two Markus Klug-trained fillies, Weichsel and Maha Kumari, the winners of a Listed and a valuable sales race.

Both Lord Of England and Soldier Hollow produce more precocious and faster horses than are usually associated with German breeding. A high proportion of their progeny ran as two-year-olds and many of them are 1m2f horses rather than 1m4f performers.

The latest arrival among the proven German sires is Adlerflug, who like Soldier Hollow is a son of In The Wings. He was the second-highest rated of all of his sire’s progeny, behind only Singspiel, and comes from the family of Galileo and Sea The Stars – his second dam Alya is a full-sister to Allegretta, the second dam of the two Irish stars.

His first crop recorded a high proportion of winners to runners and included the Chantilly Group winner Wunder, who stays in training with Klug, and the Gestüt Schlenderhanowned colt Ito, who looked very good when winning by a wide magins during the summer before disappointing on his last start.

Adlerflug is also sire of the Listed winner Swacadelic and some useful handicappers in France such as Laguna Boy and Invillino.

Gestüt Rottgen’s Kamsin, a Derby-winning son of Samum, cannot yet be considered as a proven sire, but he is certainly promising.

He had just one foal born in 2011, the Listed-winning colt Amazonit, while his 17 three-year-olds of this year already include Sakamira, a Listed winner in Italy.

A total of 18 foals of racing age is too small a sample from which to draw any firm conclusions, but Kamsin has made a good start.

Finally, among German sires who have had runners, the two veterans Gestüt Evershorst’s Areion and Gestüt Schlenderhan’s Tertullian, both 20-year-olds this year, continue to produce good horses.

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he global reach of thoroughbred racing is ever-expanding and with the prominence of shuttle sires the best sires from the northernhemisphere are influencing pedigrees in the southern-hemisphere, a great example is New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series.

Commencing on January 26, this year is the 89th renewal of the sale in New Zealand. The sale has produced some of the best horses to come out of Australasia, the most recent dualhemisphere champion being So You Think (NZ) (High Chaparral).

Bred in New Zealand and sold at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Karaka Premier Sale, So You Think first took Australia by storm, winning five Group 1 races as dominant three and fouryear-old including two Group 1 Cox Plates, the weight-for-age championship of Australia.

The son of High Chaparral proved just as successful in the northern-hemisphere, winning further Group 1 races, cementing his place as one of the world’s best racehorses with a combined 10 Group 1 wins.

This month’s sale will see the first crop of So You Think offered at auction with seven yearlings by him catalogued in the Premier Sale.

So You Think’s sire High Chaparral began his stallion career in the southern-hemisphere at New Zealand’s Windsor Park Stud. His first crop produced four Group 1 winners, including So

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You Think. All of High Chaparral’s southernhemisphere Group 1 winners were either bred or conceived in New Zealand with his latest star being Kiwi racehorse Dundeel, winner of six Group 1 races in Australia.

This year’s sale will see 16 progeny of High Chaparral up for auction at the picturesque Karaka Sales Complex in New Zealand.

High Chaparral is one of numerous successful shuttle sires to stand in New Zealand.

This year’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales Series is example to a number of successful sires achieving results in both the north and south.

A wave of young sires who are beginning to make a name for themselves in both hemispheres are represented at the sale.

Iffraaj is establishing himself as a producer of quality horses and celebrated his first Group 1 winner in New Zealand late last year through leading three-year-old Turn Me Loose (NZ), adding to his four European Group 1 winners.

Iffraaj has 28 horses entered in the National Yearling Sales Series.

Standing alongside Iffraaj in New Zealand at Haunui Farm is Showcasing, whose oldest progeny are now two-year-olds in New Zealand.

A leading first-season sire in Great Britain last season, Showcasing already has a Group 2 winner to his credit through his son Showboy (NZ), the top qualifier for the $1m Karaka Million – New Zealand’s richest race.

Showcasing has 32 horses catalogued in the sale.

Another sire whose first two-year-olds are making an impact already is Makfi, the sire of recent Group 3 winner Marky Mark (NZ). The sire of 21 winners from his first crops, Makfi is represented by 21 yearlings at the sale.

Rip Van Winkle has made a strong start to his career with Dick Whittington becoming his first Group 1 winner from his first crop of two-year-olds. Rip Van Winkle was the leading first-season sire at last year’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales Series and has another strong crop of 53 yearlings at this year’s sale.

The first progeny of freshman sires are always looked forward to by buyers and this year sees 15 first-season sires represented in the Premier Sale alone. Among the group are six shuttle sires, including So You Think with seven horses catalogued in the Premier Sale.

Derby winners Cape Blanco and Pour Moi both have large drafts entered in the sale, while another son of High Chaparral Redwood is wellrepresented along with Dalghar and Uncle Mo. With less than 4,000 foals born in New Zealand each year, the thoroughbred industry can be considered boutique on an international scale. Despite small crop sizes, New Zealand horses perform with distinction around the world.

Kiwi horses composed just under six per cent of the racing population in the competitive

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Australian racing scene last season yet won 20 per cent of Group 1 races in the country, headlined by star galloper Dundeel.

The small foal crop equates to a smaller number of horses being sold at auction. New Zealand Bloodstock is responsible for just over 20 per cent of the auctioned yearling crop in Australasia, yet graduates of the auction house have won 36 per cent of Group 1 races in the past three seasons, the most of any Sales company.

Last season saw 15 Group 1-winning yearling graduates for New Zealand Bloodstock, the most of any auction house in Australasia.

It was on the big stage where the kiwis exceled. The inaugural ‘The Championships’ pooled together $20m worth of prize-money over two days of racing and it was the kiwis who claimed the biggest stake. Half of the Group 1 races at The Championships were won by horses carrying the New Zealand suffix.

Karaka graduate Sacred Falls (NZ) (O’Reilly) claimed his second successive victory in the Group 1 Doncaster Handicap, which is now the richest mile handicap in the world.

The Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes was to be Dundeel’s swansong and he finished his racing career in the best possible fashion, running out a convincing winner of the weightfor-age feature.

Kiwi three-year-olds were to the fore with Criterion (NZ) (Sebring) winning the Group 1 Australian Derby and Rising Romance

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Last season saw 15 Group 1-winning yearling graduates for New Zealand Bloodstock, the most of any auction house in Australasia (NZ) (Ekraar) winning the Group 1 Australian Oaks.

Producing three-year-olds is a strength of New Zealand’s with 35 per cent of all Group 1 three-year-old races in Australia won by Kiwi horses. The new season has already produced another Derby winner with Preferment (NZ), a son of the great New Zealand sire Zabeel, winning the Group 1 VRC Derby during the famed Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Asia is an area of strength for New Zealand horses as well. Over a third of all winners in Hong Kong and Singapore are kiwi-bred.

Proving that Kiwi horses can compete with the best in the world was Aerovelocity (NZ) (Pins), a scintillating winner of the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint at the highly esteemed Hong Kong International Meeting.

Singapore was taken by storm in 2014 by Kiwi War Affair (NZ) (O’Reilly), who won five of his eight starts in the year, including three races at Singapore Group 1 level. Already the

champion two-year-old of Singapore, War Affair is in line for the champion three-yearold and Horse of the Year crowns at this year’s upcoming awards.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series comprises three separate sale sessions: the Premier, Select and Festival Sales.

The Premier Sale (January 26-27) features world-class pedigrees and some of the best yearlings of the Australasian crop.

The Premier Sale of 443 lots will see the progeny of over 90 stakes winners go under the hammer, along with siblings to over 90 stakes winners.

The three-day Select Sale (January 28-30) has a growing reputation of a value sale that delivers exceptional results, with seven individual Group 1 winners last season alone while the Festival Sale (February 1) is where pinhookers and bargain hunters will be on the lookout for a value buy that will return a fast profit.

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Australian record for a yearling sold at auction by a first-season sire – the chestnut colt by Sepoy fetching A$1,200,000. He was sold by Segenhoe Farm and bought by the Kentucky-based Spendthrift Farm.

Segenhoe had purchased Sister Madly from the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale as a stud prospect for A$1 million.

She was a Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed, ironically finishing behind Sepoy.

“The number one is always physique,” said Spendthrift’s Ned Toffey, who outbid Hong Kong’s George Moore for the colt.

“He’s a classy physical – just a classy looking horse. He has a great walk and looks the part.

“He looks to us like a solid Australian horse and, of course, there was enough page there.”

Spendthrift Farm bought three lots through the sale, and all

Horse

Consignor

1,200,000 c. Sepoy x Sister Madly Segenhoe Stud 1,050,000 f. Fastnet Rock x Response Newgate Farm 850,000 f. Sepoy x Celebrity Girl Mill Park 800,000 f. Exceed And Excel x Speedy Rossa Amarina Farm 775,000 c. Snitzel x Starlevie Berkeley Park Stud

Buyer

Sire

Bought Aggregate 4,795,000 4,495,000 3,360,000 2,247,500 2,105,000 2,030,000

have remained in the country in training with John Hawkes.

Brisbane trainer Danny Bougoure went to A$800,000 to secure the Exceed And ExcelSpeedy Rossa filly from Amarina Farm.

“We thought she was probably one of the better fillies in the sale,” said Bougoure. “The Exceed And Excel-Testa Rossa Ross has worked well. We had to set our sights a little high, but we bought her.”

British-based John Warren teamed up with Coolmore’s Tom Magnier and The China Horse Club to secure the SnitzelStarlevie colt from Berkley Park Stud.

“We did not want to get beaten as he was a very important colt

Top Lots Magic Millions 2015 (A$) Price

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Southern-hemisphere yearling sales season gets off to a flyer on the Gold Coast he strong yearling season seen in the northern hemisphere through the autumn was repeated in the first southernhemisphere yearling sale of 2015, the Magic Millions Yearling Sale.

While the figures did not top the statistics produced in those halcyon days of 2007 and 2008, the sale produced the best return seen since then.

“It’s well above expectations.

This is a seriously good sale,” said Magic Millions managing director Vin Cox said. “The depth in the market has been amazing.’’

Cox said international buyers were more prominent on Thursday after being “blown out of the water’’ on the first day.

“I think they recalibrated and stepped up to the plate,” he said.

The top lot created an

Magic Millions Bk1 leading buyers by aggregate (A$)

Purchaser Spendthrift Farm China Horse Club China Horse Club Dan Bougoure Tom Magnier, John Warren, China Horse Club

Fastnet Rock Redoute’s Choice Sepoy Snitzel Exceed And Excel So You Think

Sold Average 17 380,147 19 366,579 26 286,346 43 243,488 11 240,000 16 234,688

The record-breaking son of Sepoy

and we put a team together to try and bank him as I thought he was the colt of the sale,” said Warren.

The China Horse Club also bought two fillies – by Fastnet Rock and Sepoy – the second and third top prices at the sale.

The sale gross climbed to over A$92 million with an average price of over A$170,000 and a clearance rate of 86 per cent.

Exceed And Excel is heading the Australian two-year-old sires’ list after Le Chef became his 92nd black-type winner with victory in the A$2 million Magic Millions Classic. The Darley sire is now more than A$1.1 million ahead of Not A Single Doubt and Snitzel in this year’s table.

Owner Lenore Saunders purchased Le Chef from the Widden Stud’s 2014 Magic Millions draft for A$120,000 from profit she made selling a coffee shop business in Mt Isa. “It is a dream come true. We race horses all over North Queensland and in the south. To win a race like this leaves me almost speechless,” she said.

Exced And Excel had 11 lots sell for up to A$800,000 at this year’s Magic Millions Sale at an average price of A$240,000.

The son of Danehill has returned to Ireland’s Kildangan Stud for the 2015 northern season where he is standing at a fee of €40,000.

Magic Millions 2015 Book 1 (A$) Year

Offered

Sold

% sold

2015 630

539 85

2014 602

521 86

Aggregate (%+/-) Average (+/-) 92,022,500 (+22) 75,082,500

170,728 (+18) 144,122

Median (%+/-) 130,000 (+8) 120,000

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The master list Hyperion’s final list of stakes-producing sires in Europe & UAE, 2014 Horses are listed under their sire with the broodmare sire in brackets.

Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe & UAE Academy Award Ragazzo (Pips Pride) Acclamation Absolutely So (Selkirk) An Saighdiur (Brief Truce) Athenian (Danehill Dancer) Justice Day (Rock Of Gibraltar) Rocky Ground (Indian Ridge) Roero (Titus Livius) Wentworth (Mark Of Esteem) Act One Ocean Tempest (Unfuwain) Adlerflug Swacadelic (Monsun) Wunder (Dashing Blade) Agnes Gold Energia Fribby (Nugget Point)

3LL L L L L L LL L LL L 3L L

Amadeus Wolf Avabin (Linamix) Hamza (Alhaarth) Papagena Star (Acatenango)

L 3 3

American Post Ameenah (Anabaa) American Devil (Selkirk)

3 3

Anabaa Blue Machucambo (Zafonic) Antonius Pius Rock Of Ridd (Pivotal)

LL LL

Approve Accepted (Cadeaux Genereux)

L

Aqlaam Moonee Valley (Nayef)

3

Araafa Aeolus (Mind Games)

L

Arakan Sruthan (Mark Of Esteem) Toormore (Danetime)

3 3

Arcano Misterious Boy (Tobougg)

3L

Arch Albasharah (Seeking The Gold) Pomology (Diesis)

L 2

Archipenko Lady Penko (Danehill) Madame Chiang (Robellino) Russian Punch (Beat Hollow)

L 13 L

Areion Flamingo Star (Acatenango) Namera (Tannenkonig) Palace Prince (Tiger Hill) Red Lips (Zinaad)

33 L L L

Astronomer Royal Stellar Path (Verglas)

L

Aussie Rules Aussi Celebre (Peintre Celebre) Bertinoro (Galileo) Dinkum Diamond (Lomitas) Fiesolana (Kris S) Kramulkie (Zafonic)

L L L 1 L

Authorized A Soldier’s Life (Zafonic) Ambivalent (Darshaan) Answered (Lear Fan) Battalion (Halling) Daksha (Rahy) Hartnell (Anabaa) Honor Bound (Mark Of Esteem) Lacy (Oasis Dream)

L 2 L L 3 3L L 3L

Avonbridge Avon Pearl (Compton Place)

3

Azamour Azari (Whipper) Dolniya (Indian Ridge) Glorious Protector (Hector Protector) Irish Rookie (Observatory) Mind Of Madness (Oasis Dream)

L 2L L L L

Bahamian Bounty Breton Rock (Rock Of Gibraltar) Code Red (Montjeu) Donnerschlag (Diktat) Mick’s Yer Man (Pivotal) New Providence (Giant’s Causeway) Take Ten (Emarati)

2L L L L 3 L

Beat Hollow Fly With Me (Highest Honor) Vote Often (Generous)

2 3

Bernstein Inis Meain (Runaway Groom) Karakontie (Sunday Silence) Omaticaya (Gulch)

L 1 3

Bertolini Coprah (Selkirk) Lucky Serena (Intikhab)

L LL

Big Bad Bob Brendan Brackan (Unfuwain) Cherie Good (Xaar)

L L

Big Brown Darwin (Silver Ghost)

L

Big Shuffle Feuerblitz (Acatenango)

L

Blu Air Force Bettolle (City On A Hill)

L

Byron Gordon Lord Byron (Intikhab)

2

Camacho Hay Chewed (Titus Livius) My Catch (Barathea)

L L

Candy Ride Sloane Avenue (A P Indy)

L

Canyon Creek Menardais (Rahy)

L

Cape Cross Asmar (Mtoto) Cape Magic (Zamindar) Convergence (Nayef) Guest Of Honour (Royal Academy) Lesstalk In Paris (Linamix) Star Lahib (Lahib) Tarana (Dr Fong) Token Of Love (Fantastic Light) Windhoek (Mister Baileys) Zurigha (Docksider) Captain Rio Ainippe (Darshaan) Carlotamix Calvin Williams (Charge d’Affaires) Catcher In The Rye Anaerobio (Potrillon) Marvi Thunders (Elmaamul) Celtic Swing Ansgar (Pennekamp) Champs Elysees Avenue Gabriel (Gone West)

L L L 2L 3 2L LL L LL L L LL 2 L 233 L

Eastern Belle (Dubai Destination) Jack Naylor (Nashwan) Lustrous (Hernando) Regardez (Efisio) Xcellence (Xaar)

L 3L L L 3

Choisir Glory Awaits (Foxhound) Olympic Glory (Alzao)

2L 11

Clodovil Es Que Love (Inchinor) Gregorian (Cadeaux Genereux) Kanes Pass (Montjeu) Tigrilla (Sadler’s Wells)

2 3 L L

Compton Place Pearl Secret (Rossini) Shifting Power (Alzao)

L L

Dalakhani Gothic Dance (Polar Falcon) Guardini (Dynaformer) Integral (Danehill) Mireille (Sadler’s Wells) Second Step (Sadler’s Wells) Seismos (Dashing Blade) Silk Sari (Rainbow Quest) Terrubi (Diesis) Vedouma (Unfuwain)

3 3 112 L L 3 2L 2L L

Dandy Man Extortionist (Oasis Dream)

3

Dane Friendly Priore Philip (Blu Air Force)

112

Danehill Dancer Esoterique (Dancing Brave) Here Comes When (Spinning World) Hillstar (Mark Of Esteem) Osaila (Entrepreneur)

13 22 3 3

Dansili Big Break (Quest For Fame) 3 Brisanto (Pivotal) 3 Carla Bianca (Linamix) 3LL Continuum (Sadler’s Wells) L L’Amour De Ma Vie (Smoke Glacken) 2 Miss France (Tirol) 1 Muteela (Zafonic) LL Nabucco (Caerleon) L The Fugue (Sadler’s Wells) 1 Visoriyna (Linamix) L We Are (Inchinor) 1

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stakes-winning sires Dark Angel Boomshackerlacker (Barathea) Bronze Maquette (Proud Citizen) Estidhkaar (Danetime) Mecca’s Angel (Atraf)

L L 22 3L

Dashing Blade Kicky Blue (Law Society) Sirius (Monsun)

L 1L

Deep Impact Gentildonna (Bertolini)

1

Denounce Danzeno (Groom Dancer)

3

Deportivo Gailo Chop (Marignan)

233L

Desert Prince Lili Moon (Acatenango)

L

Diktat Dikta Del Mar (Limpid)

L

Duke Derby (Medaaly) Hall Of Mirrors (Indian Ridge) Ming Zhi Cosmos (Ganges) Quaduna (Monsun) So Many Shots (Lando) Venus De Milo (Galileo) Wannabe Better (Shirley Heights)

L 3 3LL 3L 3LL 3 3

Dutch Art Dutch Connection (Dubai Destination) 3 Garswood (Kyllachy) 1 Slade Power (Key Of Luck) 113 Terre Brune (Kheleyf) L Dyhim Diamond Abdel (Glauco) Wag’n Tail (Groom Dancer)

LL L

Dylan Thomas Captain Cat (Sadler’s Wells) Dylan Mouth (Noverre) Final Score (Hernando) Pether’s Moon (Tirol) Porsenna (Hussonet) Ralston Road (Galileo)

33 122L 12 233 2 L

Distorted Humor Cursory Glance (Sadler’s Wells) Interpret (Interprete) Nawwaar (Rahy) Surfer (Ocean Crest) Wind Fire (A P Indy)

13 L L L L

Doyen Good Donna (King’s Best) Molly Le Clou (Big Shuffle) Quiz Mistress (Rainbow Quest) Vif Monsieur (Big Shuffle) Virginia Sun (Lomitas)

3 L L 3 L

Elusive Quality Beauty Parlor (Sadler’s Wells) Certify (Doc’s Leader) Royalmania (Lode) Shuruq (Noverre)

Dr Fong Los Cerritos (Arazi)

3

Empire Maker Brooch (Dansili)

Dubai Destination Berlin Berlin (Generous)

L

Equal Stripes Cooptado (Ride The Rails)

L

Equiano Dark Reckoning (Oasis Dream)

3

Dubawi Al Kazeem (Darshaan) Al Thakhira (Green Desert) Arabian Queen (Barathea) Bawina (Sadler’s Wells) Dancing Sands (Danzig) Fair Dubawi (Nashwan) Heartily (Daylami) Kiyoshi (Sri Pekan) Muraaqaba (Zafonic) Narniyn (Alhaarth) Nausica Time (Daylami) Night Of Thunder (Galileo) Postponed (Dubai Destination) Prince Bishop (Prospect Bay) Prince Gagarin (Sadler’s Wells) Raphinae (Alzao) Red Dubawi (Homme De Loi) Sarinda (Vettori) Sheikhzayedroad (Highest Honor) Wannabe Yours (Grand Lodge) Duke Of Marmalade Big Orange (Fasliyev) Collateral Risk (Invincible Spirit)

100

3 L 2 3L L L L 3 3 3 3 1 2L 123 L L 23 L 2L 3 LL L

Dynaformer Flying Officer (Diesis)

L

Early March Got Fly (Loup Solitaire)

L

Evasive Evasive’s First (Oasis Dream) Piment Rouge (Marignan) Even Top Cirrus Des Aigles (Septieme Ciel)

L 2 L 233 3L

3L L 111

Exceed And Excel Amber Sky (Rubiton) Cotai Glory (Elusive Quality) Majestic Mount (Warning)

1 3 L

Excellent Art Artwork Genie (Brief Truce) Graphic (Night Shift) Lady Lara (Selkirk)

L 3L L

Exchange Rate Ball Dancing (Silver Hawk)

L

Fast Company Baitha Alga (Fantastic Light)

2L

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Fastnet Rock Fascinating Rock (Polar Falcon) Palace (Rainbow Quest) Qualify (Galileo) Smuggler’s Cove (Sadler’s Wells) Table Rock (Sadler’s Wells)

33 L 3 L L

Firebreak Caledonia Lady (Mark Of Esteem)

L

First Defence Privet Hedge (Private Account)

L

Flying Spur Mushreq (Jeune)

L

Footstepsinthesand Baby Foot (Oasis Dream) Celestial Path (Hawk Wing) Imperiator (Green Desert) J Wonder (Danehill) Kaspersky (Grand Lodge) Sandiva (Mark Of Esteem)

L L L 33 L 3

Galileo Adelaide (Elnadim) 3 Altano (Lando) 3 Australia (Cape Cross) 111 Be My Gal (Danehill Dancer) 3L Dalkova (Marju) L Dare To Achieve (Linamix) L Dazzling (Danehill) L Ernest Hemingway (Darshaan) 3 Eye Of The Storm (Shirley Heights) 3 Faufiler (Celtic Swing) L Forever Now (Darshaan) L Found (Intikhab) 1 Freedom’s Light (Nashwan) L Galiway (Danehill) L Gatewood (Selkirk) 3LL Gleneagles (Storm Cat) 123 Gospel Choir (Pivotal) 22 Highland Reel (Danehill) 2 John F Kennedy (Danehill) 3 Kingfisher (Halling) L Magician (Mozart) 3 Marvellous (Storm Cat) 1 Mekong River (Danehill) 3 Noble Mission (Danehill) 11133 Observational (Cadeaux Genereux) L Orator (Air Express) L Orchestra (Danehill) 3 Planetaire (Kaldoun) L Roheryn (More Than Ready) L Ruler Of The World (Kingmambo) 2 Secret Gesture (Danehill) L Spiritjim (Anabaa) 23L Tapestry (Danehill) 1 Telescope (Darshaan) 2 Together Forever (Theatrical) 1L Gentlewave My Old Husband (Apeldoorn) Wevanella (Highest Honor) Ghostzapper United Color (Langfuhr) Golan Missunited (Don’t Forget Me)

LLL L

Slade Power, one of Dutch Art’s two Group 1 winners in 2014

Gold Away Indignant (Bering)

L

Green Desert Nine Realms (Rainbow Quest)

L

Haafhd Noble Protector (Alzao)

L

Haatef Big Violett (Kheleyf)

L

Halling Cavalryman (Highest Honor) Certerach (Danehill) Empoli (Acatenango) Entree (Gone West) Hard Spun Maftool (Mr Greeley)

223 2 1 LL 3

L

Hawk Wing Bank Of Burden (Pivotal)

333L

3L

Heart’s Cry Just A Way (Wild Again)

1

stakes-winning sires Windy King (Alysheba)

L

Iffraaj Benvenue (Be My Guest) Biraaj (Nayef) Dibajj (Royal Applause) Forjatt (Danzero) Hot Streak (Housebuster) Magic Artist (Cape Cross) Peace Society (Sholokhov) Prince Of All (Lycius) Rafeej (Mizaaya) Rizeena (Statue Of Liberty)

1 L L 3 2 3 L L L 1

Indesatchel Aetna (Mind Games) Mattmu (Namid)

L 2L

Invincible Spirit Alea Iacta (Galileo) 3 Apache Spirit (Sadler’s Wells) L Army Bulletin (Sunday Silence) L Beach Belle (High Chaparral) L Charm Spirit (Montjeu) 11133 Citron Spirit (Lemon Drop Kid) 3 Grendisar (Mark Of Esteem) LL High Celebrity (Storm Cat) 3 I’m Yours (Robellino) L Inspiriter (Fasliyev) L Kingman (Zamindar) 11113 Local Time (Medicean) 3 Russian Soul (Indian Ridge) 3 Signs Of Blessing (Seeking The Gold) 3L That Is The Spirit (Acatenango) L Jeremy Baino Hope (Highest Honor) Kool Kompany (Indian Ridge) Pearl Of Africa (Sportsworld)

High Chaparral Beautiful Heroine (Kingmambo) Contributer (Exit To Nowhere) Free Eagle (Danehill) Frine (Cardoun) High Jinx (Surumu) Lucky Lion (Big Shuffle) Toronado (Grand Slam) Western Hymn (Cape Cross) Holy Roman Emperor Amarillo (Royal Academy) Freedom Holder (Vindication) Hoku (Cadeaux Genereux) Mango Diva (Desert King) Pinturicchio (Peintre Celebre) Rich Tapestry (Sadler’s Wells) Spicy Jam (Sri Pekan) Hurricane Cat Bodhi (Orpen) Hurricane Run Andry Brusselles (Dansili) Ectot (Linamix) Golden Guepard (Danehill) Hurricane Red (Trempolino)

L LL 3 2L 1L 123 1 23 33 L L 2 3L 3 LL 3 L 23 L L

L 22L L

Kamsin Amazonit (Chief Singer) Sakamira (Zieten)

L L

Kendargent Goken (Indian Rocket) Kenfreeze (Indian Rocket) Kenhope (Chato) Kenouska (Exceed And Excel)

3 L L L

Kheleyf Majestic Queen (Danehill) Virtual Game (Sadler’s Wells)

3 L

King’s Best Meleagros (Royal Academy) My Year Is A Day (Fasliyev) Navajo Chief (Rainbow Quest) Regarde Moi (Night Shift)

L L L L

Kitten’s Joy Jolly Good Kitten (Saint Ballado) Steaming Kitten (Salt Lake) Kodiac Coulsty (In The Wings) Jamesie (Night Shift) Kodi Bear (Mujtahid) Patience Alexander (Sadler’s Wells) Terror (Redback) Tiggy Wiggy (Kheleyf)

L 3L 3L 3 L L L 12L

Kouroun Bamiyan (Verglas) 3

Kyllachy Kyllachy Queen (King Charlemagne) Penitent (Bishop Of Cashel) Sole Power (Distant View) Stepper Point (Compton Place)

L 3 113 3L

Lawman Agnes Stewart (Dalakhani) Secret Pursuit (Inchinor)

2 L

Layman Gammarth (Indian Ridge)

3

Le Havre Auvray (In The Wings) Avenir Certain (Mark Of Esteem) La Hoguette (Zamindar) Orbec (Fasliyev) Queen Bee (Kyllachy) Summer Surprice (Royal Academy) Le Vie Dei Colori Eldo River (Ashkalani) Tullius (Kingmambo)

23L 112 L L 3 L LL 2

Lemon Drop Kid Cannock Chase (Horse Chestnut)

3

Librettist Emily Of Tinsdal (Dashing Blade)

L

Linngari Garlingari (Poliglote) Mr Pommeroy (Rahy)

L L

Lomitas Ever Strong (El Gran Senor)

3

Lope De Vega Belardo (Danehill) Burnt Sugar (Titus Livius) Hero Look (Daylami) Royal Razalma (Flying Spur)

1L 3 2 3

Lord Of England Feodora (Greinton)

1

Loup Solitaire Malki d’Aze (April Night)

L

Makfi Cornwallville (Cadeaux Genereux)

L

Mamool Orsino (Platini)

3

Manduro Fractional (Royal Academy) Meerjungfrau (Dashing Blade) Pitch (Storm Cat) Ribbons (Marju) True Story (Darshaan)

23 3 L 1 L

Marchand De Sable Coco Sun (Gairloch)

L

Mark Of Esteem Sir Oscar (Polish Precedent)

L

Martino Alonso Ginwar (Celtic Swing) Money Drop (Barathea) Mastercraftsman Kingston Hill (Rainbow Quest)

3LL L 1

Master Carpenter (In The Wings) The Grey Gatsby (Entrepreneur) Vague Nouvelle (Mr Greeley)

3L 112 3L

Medaglia d’Oro Belle d’Or (Rainbow Quest) Mshawish (Thunder Gulch)

L 2

Medicean Medley Chic (Orpen) Nordico (Diktat)

L 3

Merchant Of Venice Alcohuaz (Hussonet)

LL

Meshaheer El Suizo (Hamas)

L

Mizzen Mast Full Mast (Danzig)

13

Monsieur Bond Chookie Royale (Woods Of Windsor) Ladies Are Forever (Danetime) Move In Time (Machiavellian)

L 3L 1

Monsun Almandin (Tiger Hill) Bathyrhon (Be My Guest) Estimate (Darshaan) Longina (Medicean) Manatee (Galileo) Pinzolo (Barathea) Protectionist (Peintre Celebre) Vadamos (Peintre Celebre)

2 3 2 2 2 L 22 L

Montjeu Berling (Danehill) Bracelet (Green Desert) Gallante (Machiavellian) Guajara (Big Shuffle) Leading Light (Gone West) Montclair (Platini) Mount Athos (Slip Anchor) Ol’ Man River (Mr Greeley) Vintage Nouveau (Danehill)

L 123 1 L 133 3 L 2 L

More Than Ready Nucifera (Kingmambo)

L

Moss Vale Harlem Shake (Mujadil) Izzthatright (Alzao)

3L L

Most Welcome Angel Light (Diaghlyphard)

LL

Motivator Cocktail Queen (Selkirk) Pallasator (Ezzoud) Robin Hoods Bay (Rainbow Quest) Shahah (Olden Times) Sky Hunter (Silver Hawk) Treve (Anabaa)

23 L 3 3 3 1

Mount Nelson Berkshire (Dr Devious) Emerald Star (Caerleon)

3 3

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stakes-winning sires Purr Along (Mountain Cat) Special Meaning (Sky Classic) Volume (Peintre Celebre) Muhtathir Eyeful (Bering) Hippy (Highest Honor) Silas Marner (Kendor) Mujahid Brex Drago (Barathea) Cleo Fan (Best Of The Bests) Vallecupa (Hawk Wing)

3 L L L 3L L L L L

Mull Of Kintyre Mull Of Killough (Indian Ridge)

3

Multiplex Superplex (Fly To The Stars)

L

Myboycharlie Euro Charline (Common Grounds) Salai (Sahm) Nadeem Mujaarib (Lahib) Sterling City (Brief Truce) Namid Rangali (Kingmambo) National Emblem Shea Shea (Jallad) Nayef Forgotten Rules (Danehill) Mustajeeb (Elusive Quality) Nayef Dancer (Shareef Dancer) Snow Sky (Dansili) Sparkling Beam (Nureyev) Tasaday (Mujahid) Verdetto Finale (Roi Danzig) New Approach Majestic Jasmine (Street Cry) Parish Boy (Rainbow Quest) Sultanina (Zafonic) Norse Dancer Norse King (Barathea) Norse Prize (Sinndar) Notnowcato Custom Cut (Danehill) Oasis Dream Aktabantay (Falbrav) Bermuda Reef (Acatenango) Charming Thought (Indian Ridge) Cladocera (Pivotal) Ertijaal (Seeking The Gold) Flying Jib (Mizzen Mast) Fountain Of Youth (Efisio) Free Port Lux (Monsun) Goiania (Black Sam Bellamy) Gomati (Orpen) Joyeuse (Danehill) Minalisa (Selkirk) Mirza (Primo Dominie) Muhaarar (Linamix)

L L 2 1 2L 3 2 33 L 3L L LL L L L 13 3 L 233LL 3 3L 1 L L 3 3 23 L L L L 3L 2

Naadirr (High Chaparral) Rafaadah (High Chaparral)

L L

One Cool Cat Catcall (Polish Precedent)

3

Oratorio Eton Forever (Zilzal) High Duty (Montjeu) Scream Blue Murder (Bluebird) Tenor (Persian Bold) Viztoria (Darshaan)

L L 3 L L

Orpen Orpello (Almutawakel)

3

Osorio Seperate Opinion (Robellino)

L

Paco Boy Beacon (Acclamation) Smaih (Black Sam Bellamy)

2L 3

Peintre Celebre Edelmira (Indian Ridge) Nicolosio (Alkalde) Phoenix Reach Elm Park (Dashing Blade)

3 L 12L

Piccolo Music Master (Bin Ajwaad)

3

Pivotal African Story (Gone West) Calyxa (Lando) Eagle Top (In The Wings) Eton Rifles (Danehill) Evita Peron (Ela-Mana-Mou) Maarek (Indian Rocket) Marsh Daisy (Lammtarra) Shamkala (Intikhab)

1 3L 2 L L 2 L 3

Point Given Energia El Gigante (Pitu Da Guanabara)

L

Pomellato Kamellata (Exit To Nowhere)

L

Primo Valentino Clever Cookie (Ela-Mana-Mou)

L

Pyrus Arkaitz (Medicean)

L

Quality Road Hootenanny (Hennessy)

L

Rail Link Epicuris (Observatory) Trip To Rhodos (Mark Of Esteem)

13 L

Ramonti Uniram (Pursuit Of Love)

L

Raven’s Pass Alonsoa (Barathea) Malabar (Nashwan) Redbrook (Homme De Loi) Richard Pankhurst (Elmaamul)

L 3 L L

Red Clubs Targaryen (Alzao)

LL

Refuse To Bend Clorofilla (Great Commotion) Refuse To Bobbin (Daggers Drawn) Without Fear (Kahyasi)

3 1 33

Rip Van Winkle Dick Whittington (Danehill) I Am Beautiful (Mr Prospector)

13 3

Rock Of Gibraltar Ajaxana (Lycius) Celtic Rock (Celtic Swing) Daria (Big Shuffle) Prince Gibraltar (Pennekamp) Raydara (Marju) Rock Of Romance (Indian Ridge) Savanne (Galileo) Sennockian Star (Pivotal) Spoil The Fun (Night Shift)

2 L L 2 2 3 3 L 3

Rockport Harbor Over The Ocean (Mt Livermore)

L

Royal Applause Fresles (Celtic Swing) Musical Comedy (Alzao) Sir Maximilian (Lujain)

L L LL

Russian Blue Vodkato (Monsun)

L

Sagamix Siljan’s Saga (Saint Cyrien)

2

Sakhee Timeless Call (Nordico)

L

Sakhee’s Secret Salford Secret (Sinndar)

3L

Sea The Stars Afternoon Sunlight (Kris) All At Sea (Alzao) Anipa (In The Wings) Behesht (Kris) Hadaatha (Linamix) Sea The Moon (Monsun) Sivoliere (Kingmambo) Taghrooda (Sadler’s Wells) Vazira (Zafonic) Zarshana (Kahyasi)

3 L L L L 123 L 11L 13 3L

Selkirk Cubanita (Hernando) Queen Of Ice (Polar Falcon) Tested (Danehill) Thistle Bird (Marchand De Sable)

3 LL 3L 13

Shamardal Alkasser (King’s Best) Amaron (Bertolini) Amy Eria (Octagonal) Baltic Baroness (Sadler’s Wells) Bow Creek (Most Welcome) Excellent Result (Sadler’s Wells) Fintry (Indian Ridge) French Navy (Woodman)

L 33 L 1LL 22L 2 23L 3LL

Hidden Gold (Lammtarra) Ihtimal (Dubai Destination) Lightning Moon (Peintre Celebre) Lucida (Street Cry) Mukhadram (Timber Country) Pelerin (Singspiel) Sharestan (Ashkalani) Sommerabend (Monsun)

L 3L 3 2 1 L 3 233

Shantou Toe The Line (Charnwood Forest)

L

Shirocco Brown Panther (Unfuwain) Chameur (Hernando) Keshiro (Danehill) Sholokhov Al Quintana (Big Shuffle) Night Wish (Monsun) Showcasing Accipiter (Silver Hawk) Cappella Sansevero (Royal Applause) Toocoolforschool (Hector Protector) Silvano Vercingetorix (National Assembly)

133 L L L L L 3L 2 1

Singspiel Jamr (Monsun) Pale Mimosa (Danehill) Solow (Highest Honor) Take Cover (Magic Ring)

3 2L 23 2L

Sinndar Eye In The Sky (Linamix) Kaldera (Dai Jin)

L 3L

Sir Percy Indigo Lady (Glenstal) Lady Pimpernel (Belong To Me) Lady Tiana (Danehill Dancer) Nafaqa (Mujahid) Wake Forest (Lomitas)

L L L L 3

Sixties Icon Audacia (Fraam)

L

Siyouni Bourree (Lomitas) Ervedya (King’s Best) Mocklershill (Loup Solitaire) Souvenir Delondres (Almutawakel) Sky Mesa Mr David (Belong To Me) Slickly Dartagnan d’Azur (Highest Honor)

3 3 L 3L L 3L

Smart Strike Smoking Sun (Caerleon)

2

Soldier Hollow Ivanhowe (Sternkoenig) Maningrey (Surumu) Weichsel (Konigsstuhl)

112 L L

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L

Speightstown Calypso Beat (Johannesburg) Farmah (Orpen) Tropics (Taj Alriyadh)

L 3L L

Starspangledbanner Anthem Alexander (Night Shift) The Wow Signal (High Chaparral)

2 12

Stormy River Mr Gotham (Octagonal) Stormyra (Act One)

L L

Street Cry Cat O’Mountain (Storm Cat) Daraybi (Night Shift) Etaab (Green Desert) Long John (Night Shift) Qewy (Barathea) Tearless (Sadler’s Wells)

3 L L 3 L L

Sunday Break Danza Cavallo (Mark Of Esteem)

L

Take Risks Tac De Boistron (Sicyos) Tamayuz G Force (Common Grounds) Royal Spring (Pivotal) Thawaany (Desert King) Teofilo Amralah (Diesis) Bocaiuva (Mutakddim) Chance To Dance (Royal Academy) Crystal Diamond (Dancehall) Fate (Alleged) Havana Beat (Desert Prince) Inyordreams (Averti) Livia’s Dream (Dr Fong) Parish Hall (Montjeu) Rio Tigre (Kingmambo) Simba (One Cool Cat) Tarfasha (Groom Dancer) Tobann (Indian Ridge)

13 1 L 3 3L L L L 3 L L L 3 L L 23 3

Valonia (Desert King) Tiger Hill Baroness Daniela (Barathea) Fuscetta (Lando) Narrow Hill (Silver Hawk) Tonitruant Up Todate Du Casse (Seurat)

L LL L LLLL L

Trans Island Intransigent (Efisio)

LL

Vale Of York Fontanelice (Choisir)

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War Chant Tarooq (Seattle Dancer) Time Chant (Tale Of The Cat)

L LL

War Front Due Diligence (Pulpit) Giovanni Boldini (Old Trieste) Guerre (Hennessy) The Great War (Pulpit)

L LL L L

Whipper Einsteins Folly (Danehill) Kalsa (Desert King) Mayhem (Cozzene) Sun On The Run (Bluebird)

L L L L

Var Variety Club (Secret Prospector)

23

Zafeen Aventador (Rainbows For Life) Son Cesio (Dansili)

L L

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Zamindar Air Pilot (Dr Devious) Barley Mow (Spinning World) Commemorative (Oasis Dream) Luannan (Linamix) Zand (Kahyasi)

L L 3 L L

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Zebedee Ivawood (Red Ransom)

Tertullian Baiadera (Tannenkonig) Eric (Bollin Eric) Guiliani (Monsun)

L 3 L

Verglas Abraxa (Compton Place) Go For Goal (Sadler’s Wells) Grandeur (Desert Sun) Let’sgoforit (Seattle Slew) Steps (Vettori) Vert De Grece (Grand Lodge)

T. H. Approval Gaga A (Quinze Quilates)

3L

Thewayyouare Toast Of New York (Syncline)

2

Vespone Goldy Espony (Highest Honor)

Tagula Limato (Singspiel)

LL

Three Valleys Ice Love (Cape Cross)

L

Vocalised Steip Amach (Noverre)

3

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Adelaide (Ireland) Winner of the 2014 Cox Plate

Admire Rakti (Japan) Winner of the 2014 Caulfield Cup

Heeraat INTRODUCING

Bay 2009, 16.1hh (1.65m) DARK ANGEL – THAWRAH (GREEN DESERT)

THE LOOKS

A 140,000gns yearling (top priced of his sire’s crop).

THE SPEED

GROUP WINNING SPRINTER OF 5 RACES, and 11 LENGTH WINNER of his maiden at 2.

THE PEDIGREE

By DARK ANGEL out of a half sister to the Gr.1 winning sprinter and Gr.1 sire MALHUB Half brother to Stakes winner AMBIANCE (TFR 103) out of a GREEN DESERT half sister to Gr.1 Golden Jubilee Stakes winner MALHUB (TFR 126) and full sister to the dam of multiple Group winner and Gr.1 Classic placed YELLOW ROSEBUD (TFR 117), etc.

HEERAAT wins the Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes in a time almost 2 seconds faster than INVINCIBLE SPIRIT.

The fastest winner of the Hackwood Stakes since 2001

Family of DANDY MAN, ANTHEM ALEXANDER, SUDIRMAN, GENTILDONNA, etc.

(faster than INVINCIBLE SPIRIT and 5 other Gr.1 winners of the race).

The same DARK ANGEL – GREEN DESERT cross as LETHAL FORCE

Won

“Heeraat was a thoroughly genuine colt blessed with a fabulous temperament and plenty of ability.

He handled all types of ground.” – WILLIAM HAGGAS

“Heeraat is a very good looking horse who has been admirably tough and consistent.

If he passes on his looks and tremendous attitude, he will do very well as a stallion.” – ANGUS GOLD

Retires to MICKLEY

Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes, 6f, Newbury, 2013 (above) in the fastest time since 2001 beating Gr.1 winner KRYPTON FACTOR (at levels).

Won Maiden Stakes, 6f, Pontefract, at 2, by an easy 11 lengths.

2nd (nk) Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes, 6f, Newbury, 2014, beating Gr.2 winner ES QUE LOVE (at levels).

2nd (nk) LR City Walls Stakes, 5f, York, to Gr.1 Nunthorpe Stakes winner JWALA (rec. 5lbs), beating two other Gr.1 winners.

Defeated 43 Stakes winners (5 Gr.1 winners) Rated 5lbs superior to DARK ANGEL

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broodmare sires

Dam-sires list Hyperion’s final list of dam-sires of stakes winners in Europe & UAE, 2014 Horses are listed under their sire with the broodmare sire in brackets.

Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe & UAE A P Indy Sloane Avenue (Candy Ride) Wind Fire (Distorted Humor) Acatenango Amie Noire (Soldier Of Fortune) Bermuda Reef (Oasis Dream) Empoli (Halling) Feuerblitz (Big Shuffle) Flamingo Star (Areion) Lili Moon (Desert Prince) Papagena Star (Amadeus Wolf) That Is The Spirit (Invincible Spirit) Acclamation Beacon (Paco Boy)

L L L 3L 1 L 33 L 3 L 2L

Act One Stormyra (Stormy River)

L

Air Express Orator (Galileo)

L

Alhaarth Hamza (Amadeus Wolf) Narniyn (Dubawi)

3 3

Alkalde Nicolosio (Peintre Celebre) Alleged Fate (Teofilo)

L 3

Almutawakel Orpello (Orpen) Souvenir Delondres (Siyouni)

3 3L

Alysheba Windy King (Hurricane Run)

L

Alzao All At Sea (Sea The Stars) Izzthatright (Moss Vale) Musical Comedy (Royal Applause) Noble Protector (Haafhd) Olympic Glory (Choisir) Raphinae (Dubawi) Shifting Power (Compton Place) Targaryen (Red Clubs)

L L L L 11 L L LL

Anabaa Ameenah (American Post) Hartnell (Authorized) Spiritjim (Galileo) Treve (Motivator)

3 3L 23L 1

Apeldoorn My Old Husband (Gentlewave)

LLL

April Night Malki d’Aze (Loup Solitaire)

L

Bin Ajwaad Music Master (Piccolo)

3

Chato Kenhope (Kendargent)

L

Arazi Los Cerritos (Dr Fong)

3

Bishop Of Cashel Penitent (Kyllachy)

3

Chief Singer Amazonit (Kamsin)

L

LL 3

Black Sam Bellamy Goiania (Oasis Dream) Smaih (Paco Boy)

L 3

3L

Blu Air Force Priore Philip (Dane Friendly)

Ashkalani Eldo River (Le Vie Dei Colori) Sharestan (Shamardal) Atraf Mecca’s Angel (Dark Angel) Averti Inyordreams (Teofilo) Barathea Alonsoa (Raven’s Pass) Arabian Queen (Dubawi) Baroness Daniela (Tiger Hill) Boomshackerlacker (Dark Angel) Brex Drago (Mujahid) Money Drop (Martino Alonso) My Catch (Camacho) Norse King (Norse Dancer) Pinzolo (Monsun) Qewy (Street Cry) Be My Guest Bathyrhon (Monsun) Benvenue (Iffraaj)

L L 2 LL L L L L 3 L L 3 1

Beat Hollow Russian Punch (Archipenko)

L

Belong To Me Lady Pimpernel (Sir Percy) Mr David (Sky Mesa)

L L

Bering Eyeful (Muhtathir) Indignant (Gold Away)

L L

Bertolini Amaron (Shamardal) Gentildonna (Deep Impact) Best Of The Bests Cleo Fan (Mujahid) Big Shuffle Al Quintana (Sholokhov) Daria (Rock Of Gibraltar) Guajara (Montjeu) Lucky Lion (High Chaparral) Molly Le Clou (Doyen) Vif Monsieur (Doyen)

33 1 L L L L 123 L 3

112

Bluebird Scream Blue Murder (Oratorio) Sun On The Run (Whipper)

3 L

Bollin Eric Eric (Tertullian)

3

Brief Truce An Saighdiur (Acclamation) Artwork Genie (Excellent Art) Sterling City (Nadeem)

L L 1

Cadeaux Genereux Accepted (Approve) Cornwallville (Makfi) Gregorian (Clodovil) Hoku (Holy Roman Emperor) Observational (Galileo)

L L 3 L L

Caerleon Emerald Star (Mount Nelson) Nabucco (Dansili) Smoking Sun (Smart Strike)

3 L 2

Cape Cross Australia (Galileo) Ice Love (Three Valleys) Magic Artist (Iffraaj) Western Hymn (High Chaparral) Cardoun Frine (High Chaparral)

111 L 3 23 2L

Celtic Swing Celtic Rock (Rock Of Gibraltar) Faufiler (Galileo) Fresles (Royal Applause) Ginwar (Martino Alonso)

L L L 3LL

Charge d’Affaires Calvin Williams (Carlotamix)

LL

Charnwood Forest Toe The Line (Shantou)

L

Choisir Fontanelice (Vale Of York)

33LL

City On A Hill Bettolle (Blu Air Force)

L

Common Grounds Euro Charline (Myboycharlie) G Force (Tamayuz)

L 1

Compton Place Abraxa (Verglas) Avon Pearl (Avonbridge) Stepper Point (Kyllachy)

L 3 3L

Cozzene Mayhem (Whipper)

L

Daggers Drawn Refuse To Bobbin (Refuse To Bend)

1

Dai Jin Kaldera (Sinndar)

3L

Dalakhani Agnes Stewart (Lawman)

2

Dancehall Crystal Diamond (Teofilo)

L

Dancing Brave Esoterique (Danehill Dancer) Danehill Belardo (Lope De Vega) Berling (Montjeu) Certerach (Halling) Custom Cut (Notnowcato) Dazzling (Galileo) Dick Whittington (Rip Van Winkle) Einsteins Folly (Whipper) Eton Rifles (Pivotal) Forgotten Rules (Nayef) Free Eagle (High Chaparral) Galiway (Galileo) Golden Guepard (Hurricane Run) Highland Reel (Galileo) Integral (Dalakhani) J Wonder (Footstepsinthesand) John F Kennedy (Galileo) Joyeuse (Oasis Dream)

13 1L L 2 233LL L 13 L L 2 3 L L 2 112 33 3 L

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broodmare sires Keshiro (Shirocco) Lady Penko (Archipenko) Majestic Queen (Kheleyf) Mekong River (Galileo) Noble Mission (Galileo) Orchestra (Galileo) Pale Mimosa (Singspiel) Secret Gesture (Galileo) Tapestry (Galileo) Tested (Selkirk) Vintage Nouveau (Montjeu) Danehill Dancer Athenian (Acclamation) Be My Gal (Galileo) Lady Tiana (Sir Percy)

L L 3 3 11133 3 2L L 1 3L L L 3L L

Danetime Estidhkaar (Dark Angel) Ladies Are Forever (Monsieur Bond) Toormore (Arakan)

22 3L 3

Dansili Andry Brusselles (Hurricane Run) Brooch (Empire Maker) Snow Sky (Nayef) Son Cesio (Zafeen)

L 3L 3L L

Danzero Forjatt (Iffraaj) Danzig Dancing Sands (Dubawi) Full Mast (Mizzen Mast)

3 L 13

Darshaan Ainippe (Captain Rio) Al Kazeem (Dubawi) Ambivalent (Authorized) Ernest Hemingway (Galileo) Estimate (Monsun) Forever Now (Galileo) Telescope (Galileo) True Story (Manduro) Viztoria (Oratorio)

L 3 2 3 2 L 2 L L

Dashing Blade Elm Park (Phoenix Reach) Emily Of Tinsdal (Librettist) Meerjungfrau (Manduro) Seismos (Dalakhani) Wunder (Adlerflug)

12L L 3 3 3L

Daylami Heartily (Dubawi) Hero Look (Lope De Vega) Nausica Time (Dubawi) Desert King Kalsa (Whipper) Mango Diva (Holy Roman Emperor) Thawaany (Tamayuz) Valonia (Three Valleys) Desert Prince Havana Beat (Teofilo) Desert Sun Grandeur (Verglas)

108

L 2 3 L 2 3 L L LL

Diaghlyphard Angel Light (Most Welcome) Diesis Amralah (Teofilo) Flying Officer (Dynaformer) Pomology (Arch) Terrubi (Dalakhani) Diktat Donnerschlag (Bahamian Bounty) Nordico (Medicean) Distant View Sole Power (Kyllachy)

LL 3L L 2 2L L 3 113

Docksider Zurigha (Cape Cross)

L

Doc’s Leader Certify (Elusive Quality)

2

Don’t Forget Me Missunited (Golan) Dr Devious Air Pilot (Zamindar) Berkshire (Mount Nelson)

3L L 3

Dr Fong Livia’s Dream (Teofilo) Tarana (Cape Cross)

L LL

Dubai Destination Dutch Connection (Dutch Art) Eastern Belle (Champs Elysees) Ihtimal (Shamardal) Postponed (Dubawi)

3 L 3L 2L

Dynaformer Guardini (Dalakhani) Efisio Fountain Of Youth (Oasis Dream) Intransigent (Trans Island) Regardez (Champs Elysees) El Gran Senor Ever Strong (Lomitas)

3 3 LL L 3

Ela-Mana-Mou Clever Cookie (Primo Valentino) Evita Peron (Pivotal)

L L

Elmaamul Marvi Thunders (Catcher In The Rye) Richard Pankhurst (Raven’s Pass)

L L

Elnadim Adelaide (Galileo)

3

Elusive Quality Cotai Glory (Exceed And Excel) Mustajeeb (Nayef)

3 33

Emarati Take Ten (Bahamian Bounty)

L

Entrepreneur Osaila (Danehill Dancer)

3

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The Grey Gatsby (Mastercraftsman) Exceed And Excel Kenouska (Kendargent) Exit To Nowhere Contributer (High Chaparral) Kamellata (Pomellato)

112 L LL L

Leading Light (Montjeu) Grand Lodge Kaspersky (Footstepsinthesand) Vert De Grece (Verglas) Wannabe Yours (Dubawi)

L 1 3

Grand Slam Toronado (High Chaparral)

1 3

Ezzoud Pallasator (Motivator)

L

Falbrav Aktabantay (Oasis Dream)

Great Commotion Clorofilla (Refuse To Bend)

3

Fantastic Light Baitha Alga (Fast Company) Token Of Love (Cape Cross)

2L L

Green Desert Al Thakhira (Dubawi) Bracelet (Montjeu) Etaab (Street Cry) Imperiator (Footstepsinthesand)

Fasliyev Big Orange (Duke Of Marmalade) Inspiriter (Invincible Spirit) My Year Is A Day (King’s Best) Orbec (Le Havre)

LL L L L

Fly To The Stars Superplex (Multiplex)

L

Flying Spur Royal Razalma (Lope De Vega)

3

133

Greinton Feodora (Lord Of England) Groom Dancer Danzeno (Denounce) Tarfasha (Teofilo) Wag’n Tail (Dyhim Diamond)

L 123 L L 1 3 23 L

Gulch Omaticaya (Bernstein)

3 L L

Foxhound Glory Awaits (Choisir)

2L

Halling Battalion (Authorized) Kingfisher (Galileo)

Fraam Audacia (Sixties Icon)

L

Hamas El Suizo (Meshaheer)

L

Gairloch Coco Sun (Marchand De Sable)

L

Galileo Alea Iacta (Invincible Spirit) Bertinoro (Aussie Rules) Manatee (Monsun) Night Of Thunder (Dubawi) Qualify (Fastnet Rock) Ralston Road (Dylan Thomas) Savanne (Rock Of Gibraltar) Venus De Milo (Duke Of Marmalade)

Hawk Wing Celestial Path (Footstepsinthesand) Vallecupa (Mujahid)

L L

3 L 2 1 3 L 3 3

Hector Protector Glorious Protector (Azamour) Toocoolforschool (Showcasing)

L 2

Hennessy Guerre (War Front) Hootenanny (Quality Road)

L L

Hernando Chameur (Shirocco) Cubanita (Selkirk) Final Score (Dylan Thomas) Lustrous (Champs Elysees)

L 3 12 L

High Chaparral Beach Belle (Invincible Spirit) Naadirr (Oasis Dream) Rafaadah (Oasis Dream) The Wow Signal (Starspangledbanner)

L L L 12

Ganges Ming Zhi Cosmos (Duke Of Marmalade) 3 L L Generous Berlin Berlin (Dubai Destination) Vote Often (Beat Hollow)

L 3

Giant’s Causeway New Providence (Bahamian Bounty)

3

Glauco Abdel (Dyhim Diamond)

LL

Glenstal Indigo Lady (Sir Percy)

L

Gone West African Story (Pivotal) Avenue Gabriel (Champs Elysees) Entree (Halling)

1 L LL

Highest Honor Baino Hope (Jeremy) Cavalryman (Halling) Dartagnan d’Azur (Slickly) Fly With Me (Beat Hollow) Goldy Espony (Vespone) Hippy (Muhtathir) Sheikhzayedroad (Dubawi) Solow (Singspiel)

L 223 3L 2 3L 3L 2L 23

broodmare sires Wevanella (Gentlewave)

L

Homme De Loi Red Dubawi (Dubawi) Redbrook (Raven’s Pass)

23 L

Horse Chestnut Cannock Chase (Lemon Drop Kid) Housebuster Hot Streak (Iffraaj) Hussonet Alcohuaz (Merchant Of Venice) Porsenna (Dylan Thomas) In The Wings Anipa (Sea The Stars) Auvray (Le Havre) Coulsty (Kodiac) Eagle Top (Pivotal) Master Carpenter (Mastercraftsman) Inchinor Es Que Love (Clodovil) Secret Pursuit (Lawman) We Are (Dansili) Indian Ridge Charming Thought (Oasis Dream) Dolniya (Azamour) Edelmira (Peintre Celebre) Fintry (Shamardal) Gammarth (Layman) Hall Of Mirrors (Duke Of Marmalade) Kool Kompany (Jeremy) Mull Of Killough (Mull Of Kintyre) Rock Of Romance (Rock Of Gibraltar) Rocky Ground (Acclamation) Russian Soul (Invincible Spirit) Tobann (Teofilo)

Zand (Zamindar) Zarshana (Sea The Stars) Kaldoun Planetaire (Galileo)

L 3L L

3

Kendor Silas Marner (Muhtathir)

L

2

Key Of Luck Slade Power (Dutch Art)

113

Kheleyf Big Violett (Haatef) Terre Brune (Dutch Art) Tiggy Wiggy (Kodiac)

L L 12L

LL 2 L 23L 3L 2 3L 2 L 1 1 2L 3 23L 3 3 22L 3 3 L 3 3

Indian Rocket Goken (Kendargent) Kenfreeze (Kendargent) Maarek (Pivotal)

3 L 2

Interprete Interpret (Distorted Humor)

L

Intikhab Found (Galileo) Gordon Lord Byron (Byron) Lucky Serena (Bertolini) Shamkala (Pivotal)

1 2 LL 3

King Charlemagne Kyllachy Queen (Kyllachy) Kingmambo Beautiful Heroine (High Chaparral) Nucifera (More Than Ready) Rangali (Namid) Rio Tigre (Teofilo) Ruler Of The World (Galileo) Sivoliere (Sea The Stars) Tullius (Le Vie Dei Colori)

L L L 2L L 2 L 2

King’s Best Alkasser (Shamardal) Ervedya (Siyouni) Good Donna (Doyen)

L 3 3

Konigsstuhl Weichsel (Soldier Hollow)

L

Kris Afternoon Sunlight (Sea The Stars) Behesht (Sea The Stars)

Lemon Drop Kid Citron Spirit (Invincible Spirit)

3

Limpid Dikta Del Mar (Diktat)

L

Linamix Avabin (Amadeus Wolf) Carla Bianca (Dansili) Dare To Achieve (Galileo) Ectot (Hurricane Run) Eye In The Sky (Sinndar) Hadaatha (Sea The Stars) Lesstalk In Paris (Cape Cross) Luannan (Zamindar) Muhaarar (Oasis Dream) Visoriyna (Dansili)

L 3LL L 23 L L 3 L 2 L

Lode Royalmania (Elusive Quality)

L

Lomitas Bourree (Siyouni) Dinkum Diamond (Aussie Rules) Virginia Sun (Doyen) Wake Forest (Sir Percy)

3 L L 3

Loup Solitaire Got Fly (Early March) Mocklershill (Siyouni)

L L

Lujain Sir Maximilian (Royal Applause) Lycius Ajaxana (Rock Of Gibraltar) Prince Of All (Iffraaj)

2 L

3 L

Machiavellian Gallante (Montjeu) Move In Time (Monsieur Bond)

1 1

Kris S Fiesolana (Aussie Rules)

1

Magic Ring Take Cover (Singspiel)

2L

Kyllachy Garswood (Dutch Art) Queen Bee (Le Havre)

1 3

Marchand De Sable Thistle Bird (Selkirk)

13

Lahib Mujaarib (Nadeem) Star Lahib (Cape Cross) Lammtarra Hidden Gold (Shamardal) Marsh Daisy (Pivotal)

2 2L L L

Marignan Gailo Chop (Deportivo) Piment Rouge (Evasive) Marju Dalkova (Galileo) Raydara (Rock Of Gibraltar) Ribbons (Manduro)

Invincible Spirit Collateral Risk (Duke Of Marmalade)

L

Jallad Shea Shea (National Emblem)

3

Lando Altano (Galileo) Calyxa (Pivotal) Fuscetta (Tiger Hill) So Many Shots (Duke Of Marmalade)

L

Langfuhr United Color (Ghostzapper)

L

L

Law Society Kicky Blue (Dashing Blade)

L

Mark Of Esteem Avenir Certain (Le Havre) Caledonia Lady (Firebreak) Danza Cavallo (Sunday Break) Grendisar (Invincible Spirit) Hillstar (Danehill Dancer) Honor Bound (Authorized) Sandiva (Footstepsinthesand) Sruthan (Arakan) Trip To Rhodos (Rail Link) Wentworth (Acclamation)

L

Medaaly Duke Derby (Duke Of Marmalade)

Jeune Mushreq (Flying Spur) Johannesburg Calypso Beat (Speightstown) Kahyasi Without Fear (Refuse To Bend)

33

LL

Lear Fan Answered (Authorized)

3 3L L 3LL

233L L L 2 1 112 L L LL 3 L 3 3 L L L

Medicean Arkaitz (Pyrus) Local Time (Invincible Spirit) Longina (Monsun)

L 3 2

Mind Games Aeolus (Araafa) Aetna (Indesatchel)

L L

Mister Baileys Windhoek (Cape Cross)

LL

Mizaaya Rafeej (Iffraaj)

L

Mizzen Mast Flying Jib (Oasis Dream)

3

Monsun Free Port Lux (Oasis Dream) Guiliani (Tertullian) Jamr (Singspiel) Night Wish (Sholokhov) Quaduna (Duke Of Marmalade) Sea The Moon (Sea The Stars) Sirius (Dashing Blade) Sommerabend (Shamardal) Swacadelic (Adlerflug) Vodkato (Russian Blue)

23 L 3 L 3L 123 1L 233 L L

Montjeu Charm Spirit (Invincible Spirit) Code Red (Bahamian Bounty) High Duty (Oratorio) Kanes Pass (Clodovil) Parish Hall (Teofilo)

11133 L L L 3

More Than Ready Roheryn (Galileo) Most Welcome Bow Creek (Shamardal)

L 22L

Mountain Cat Purr Along (Mount Nelson)

3

Mozart Magician (Galileo)

3

Mr Greeley Maftool (Hard Spun) Ol’ Man River (Montjeu) Vague Nouvelle (Mastercraftsman)

3 2 3L

Mr Prospector I Am Beautiful (Rip Van Winkle)

3

Mt Livermore Over The Ocean (Rockport Harbor)

L

Mtoto Asmar (Cape Cross)

L

Mujadil Harlem Shake (Moss Vale)

3L

Mujahid Nafaqa (Sir Percy) Tasaday (Nayef)

L LL

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BEARSTONE STUD BEAR IN MIND THE BEARSTONE STALLIONS

50%+

That was the 3yo winners to runners ratio achieved by both our stallions in 2014

FIREBREAK

MAJOR CADEAUX

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broodmare sires Mujtahid Kodi Bear (Kodiac)

L

Mutakddim Bocaiuva (Teofilo)

L

Namid Mattmu (Indesatchel)

2L

Nashwan Fair Dubawi (Dubawi) Freedom’s Light (Galileo) Jack Naylor (Champs Elysees) Malabar (Raven’s Pass)

L L 3L 3

National Assembly Vercingetorix (Silvano)

1

Nayef Biraaj (Iffraaj) Convergence (Cape Cross) Moonee Valley (Aqlaam)

L L 3

Night Shift Anthem Alexander (Starspangledbanner) Daraybi (Street Cry) Graphic (Excellent Art) Jamesie (Kodiac) Long John (Street Cry) Regarde Moi (King’s Best) Spoil The Fun (Rock Of Gibraltar) Nordico Timeless Call (Sakhee) Noverre Dylan Mouth (Dylan Thomas) Shuruq (Elusive Quality) Steip Amach (Vocalised)

2 L 3L 3 3 L 3 L

122L 233 3

Nugget Point Energia Fribby (Agnes Gold)

L

Nureyev Sparkling Beam (Nayef)

L

Oasis Dream Baby Foot (Footstepsinthesand) Commemorative (Zamindar) Dark Reckoning (Equiano) Evasive’s First (Evasive) Extortionist (Dandy Man) Lacy (Authorized) Mind Of Madness (Azamour)

L 3 3 3L 3 3L L

Observatory Epicuris (Rail Link) Irish Rookie (Azamour)

13 L

One Cool Cat Simba (Teofilo)

Pursuit Of Love Uniram (Ramonti)

L

Peintre Celebre Aussi Celebre (Aussie Rules) Lightning Moon (Shamardal) Pinturicchio (Holy Roman Emperor) Protectionist (Monsun) Vadamos (Monsun) Volume (Mount Nelson)

Quest For Fame Big Break (Dansili)

3

L 3 3L 22 L L

Quinze Quilates Gaga A (T. H. Approval)

Pennekamp Ansgar (Celtic Swing) Prince Gibraltar (Rock Of Gibraltar)

233 2

Persian Bold Tenor (Oratorio) Pips Pride Ragazzo (Academy Award) Pitu Da Guanabara Energia El Gigante (Point Given) Pivotal Bank Of Burden (Hawk Wing) Brisanto (Dansili) Cladocera (Oasis Dream) Gospel Choir (Galileo) Mick’s Yer Man (Bahamian Bounty) Rock Of Ridd (Antonius Pius) Royal Spring (Tamayuz) Sennockian Star (Rock Of Gibraltar) Platini Montclair (Montjeu) Orsino (Mamool) Polar Falcon Fascinating Rock (Fastnet Rock) Gothic Dance (Dalakhani) Queen Of Ice (Selkirk) Poliglote Garlingari (Linngari)

3LL L 333L 3 L 22 L LL L L 3 3 33 3 LL L 3 L

Potrillon Anaerobio (Catcher In The Rye)

2

Octagonal Amy Eria (Shamardal) Mr Gotham (Stormy River)

L L

Private Account Privet Hedge (First Defence)

3

L

Polish Precedent Catcall (One Cool Cat) Sir Oscar (Mark Of Esteem)

Primo Dominie Mirza (Oasis Dream)

Olden Times Shahah (Motivator)

L L

3 3L L L

L

LL

Pulpit Due Diligence (War Front) The Great War (War Front)

Orpen Bodhi (Hurricane Cat) Farmah (Speightstown) Gomati (Oasis Dream) Medley Chic (Medicean)

Ocean Crest Surfer (Distorted Humor)

Old Trieste Giovanni Boldini (War Front)

L

Prospect Bay Prince Bishop (Dubawi) Proud Citizen Bronze Maquette (Dark Angel)

3L L 123 L

Rahy Daksha (Authorized) Menardais (Canyon Creek) Mr Pommeroy (Linngari) Nawwaar (Distorted Humor) Rainbow Quest Belle d’Or (Medaglia d’Oro) Kingston Hill (Mastercraftsman) Navajo Chief (King’s Best) Nine Realms (Green Desert) Palace (Fastnet Rock) Parish Boy (New Approach) Quiz Mistress (Doyen) Robin Hoods Bay (Motivator) Silk Sari (Dalakhani)

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

Rainbows For Life Aventador (Zafeen)

L

Red Ransom Ivawood (Zebedee)

22

Runaway Groom Inis Meain (Bernstein) Sadler’s Wells Apache Spirit (Invincible Spirit) Baltic Baroness (Shamardal) Bawina (Dubawi) Beauty Parlor (Elusive Quality) Captain Cat (Dylan Thomas) Continuum (Dansili) Cursory Glance (Distorted Humor) Excellent Result (Shamardal) Go For Goal (Verglas) Mireille (Dalakhani) Patience Alexander (Kodiac) Prince Gagarin (Dubawi) Rich Tapestry (Holy Roman Emperor) Second Step (Dalakhani) Smuggler’s Cove (Fastnet Rock) Table Rock (Fastnet Rock) Taghrooda (Sea The Stars) Tearless (Street Cry) The Fugue (Dansili) Tigrilla (Clodovil) Virtual Game (Kheleyf)

L L 1LL 3L L 33 L 13 2 L L L L 3 L L L 11L L 1 L L

Sahm Salai (Myboycharlie)

L

Saint Ballado Jolly Good Kitten (Kitten’s Joy)

L

Saint Cyrien Siljan’s Saga (Sagamix)

2

Salt Lake Steaming Kitten (Kitten’s Joy)

3L

Redback Terror (Kodiac)

L

Ride The Rails Cooptado (Equal Stripes)

Seattle Dancer Tarooq (War Chant)

L

L

Seattle Slew Let’sgoforit (Verglas)

3L

Robellino I’m Yours (Invincible Spirit) Madame Chiang (Archipenko) Seperate Opinion (Osorio)

L 13 L

Secret Prospector Variety Club (Var)

23

Rock Of Gibraltar Breton Rock (Bahamian Bounty) Justice Day (Acclamation)

2L L

Seeking The Gold Albasharah (Arch) Ertijaal (Oasis Dream) Signs Of Blessing (Invincible Spirit)

L L 3L

Roi Danzig Verdetto Finale (Nayef)

L

Rossini Pearl Secret (Compton Place)

L

Royal Academy Amarillo (Holy Roman Emperor) Chance To Dance (Teofilo) Fractional (Manduro) Guest Of Honour (Cape Cross) Meleagros (King’s Best) Summer Surprice (Le Havre)

33 L 23 2L L L

Royal Applause Cappella Sansevero (Showcasing) Dibajj (Iffraaj)

3L L

Rubiton Amber Sky (Exceed And Excel)

1

Selkirk Absolutely So (Acclamation) American Devil (American Post) Cocktail Queen (Motivator) Coprah (Bertolini) Gatewood (Galileo) Lady Lara (Excellent Art) Minalisa (Oasis Dream)

L 3 23 L 3LL L L

Septieme Ciel Cirrus Des Aigles (Even Top)

111

Seurat Up Todate Du Casse (Tonitruant)

L

Shareef Dancer Nayef Dancer (Nayef)

L

Shirley Heights Eye Of The Storm (Galileo) Wannabe Better (Duke Of Marmalade)

3 3

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broodmare sires

The brothers Zamindar (left) and the deceased Zafonic (above) had a fine time of it through 2014 as broodmare sires – headlined by their Group 1 performers Kingman, Sultanina and Vazira Sholokhov Peace Society (Iffraaj) Sicyos Tac De Boistron (Take Risks) Silver Ghost Darwin (Big Brown) Silver Hawk Accipiter (Showcasing) Ball Dancing (Exchange Rate) Narrow Hill (Tiger Hill) Sky Hunter (Motivator)

L 13 L L L LLLL 3

Singspiel Limato (Tagula) Pelerin (Shamardal)

LL L

Sinndar Norse Prize (Norse Dancer) Salford Secret (Sakhee’s Secret)

L 3L

Sky Classic Special Meaning (Mount Nelson)

L

Slip Anchor Mount Athos (Montjeu) Smoke Glacken L’amour De Ma Vie (Dansili) Spinning World Barley Mow (Zamindar) Here Comes When (Danehill Dancer) Sportsworld Pearl Of Africa (Jeremy) Sri Pekan Kiyoshi (Dubawi) Spicy Jam (Holy Roman Emperor)

112

L 2 L 22

Statue Of Liberty Rizeena (Iffraaj) Sternkoenig Ivanhowe (Soldier Hollow) Storm Cat Cat O’Mountain (Street Cry) Gleneagles (Galileo) High Celebrity (Invincible Spirit) Marvellous (Galileo) Pitch (Manduro)

1 112 3 123 3 1 L

Street Cry Lucida (Shamardal) Majestic Jasmine (New Approach)

2 L

Sunday Silence Army Bulletin (Invincible Spirit) Karakontie (Bernstein)

L 1

Surumu High Jinx (High Chaparral) Maningrey (Soldier Hollow)

1L L

Syncline Toast Of New York (Thewayyouare)

2

Taj Alriyadh Tropics (Speightstown)

L

Tale Of The Cat Time Chant (War Chant)

LL

Tannenkonig Baiadera (Tertullian) Namera (Areion)

L L

L

Theatrical Together Forever (Galileo)

1L

3 LL

Thunder Gulch Mshawish (Medaglia d’Oro)

2

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Tiger Hill Almandin (Monsun) Palace Prince (Areion)

2 L

Timber Country Mukhadram (Shamardal)

1

Tirol Miss France (Dansili) Pether’s Moon (Dylan Thomas)

1 233

Titus Livius Burnt Sugar (Lope De Vega) Hay Chewed (Camacho) Roero (Acclamation)

3 L LL

Tobougg Misterious Boy (Arcano)

3L

Trempolino Hurricane Red (Hurricane Run)

L

Unfuwain Brendan Brackan (Big Bad Bob) Brown Panther (Shirocco) Ocean Tempest (Act One) Vedouma (Dalakhani)

L 133 LL L

Verglas Bamiyan (Kouroun) Stellar Path (Astronomer Royal)

3 L

Vettori Sarinda (Dubawi) Steps (Verglas)

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he main role of the equine skeleton is to provide structural support. In addition to bones, the skeletal system also includes tendons, ligaments, and cartilage. Each element of the musculoskeletal system must be functioning correctly in order for the horse to travel soundly. Bones must oppose muscular contraction to create movement and withstand the forces of the applied loads resulting from the horse’s weight, speed and interactive forces with racetrack surfaces.

The bones of the skeleton determine structural correctness and balance. A horse’s conformation determines how efficiently the horse moves. Thus the relationships of alignment, length and angle of the bones of the skeleton have tremendous effects on athletic ability and long-term soundness of horses.

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A horse galloping at race speed will place three times its body weight in force on the lower limb. There is a complicated support system for the skeleton as muscles, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, joint lubricants, and hoof structures help dissipate the forces of locomotion. Ultimately, however, the strength of the bones of the legs must bear the loads created by exercise and training.

Acute malfunction of the skeletal system is most often related to the amount of bone mineral found in the cannon bone.

Strength of bone is derived from a mineralised cartilage framework. Bone is a dynamic tissue and is therefore responsive to forces placed upon it. Bone also responds to changes in the amounts and ratios of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium in the horse’s diet. In addition, copper, zinc, manganese, vitamins A and D and other nutrients have

significant effects on bone development.

If the horse is fed a well-balanced and wellfortified diet, then the largest single factor affecting bone strength is exercise.

The remodelling of bone in response to exercise involves removing bone cells via osteoclasts (cells that destroy bone so that it can be replaced with stronger bone) and then building bone with osteoblasts (cells that make the cartilage matrix and are eventually mineralised).

One theory of bone remodelling is that osteoclastic precursors recognise a change in the mechanical properties of bone, which signals the need for increased structural strength of new bone.

While the exact signal for remodeling is unknown, the effective signal is strain.

Strains result from deformation of an object by a force. The faster the horse runs, the

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higher the amount of strain on bones. Getting enough strain to signal an increase in bone development, while not straining the bone to the point of fracture, is a difficult balancing act.

Recent research supports the idea that bone shape and mechanical and chemical properties can be affected by exercise, or lack thereof, from birth throughout the life of the horse. Research from the Netherlands reported significantly lower (37 per cent Âą 4 per cent) bone density of the third tarsal bone of the hock of five-month-old foals that were housed in box stalls compared to pastureraised and box-raised foals, who were sprinttrained from one day of age.

However, the authors caution against the sprint training of foals because of possible negative long-term effects.

In another study from Michigan State

University, researchers kept 17 weanling Arabian horses in stables for 24 hours per day, on pasture 12 hours/day, or on pasture 24 hours/day for 56 days. Nutrient intakes were standardised.

The 12-hour pasture turnout group and the full-time pasture turnout group had increased bone mineral contents. Cannon bone circumference increased in both the pasture group and the 12-hour pasture groups, but not in the stabled group.

The take-home message is to try to keep foals, weanlings and yearlings turned out at least 12 hours a day.

Kentucky Equine Research studied the skeletal adaptations associated with the onset of training in thoroughbreds.

When yearlings leave the breeding farm and enter training, major changes occur in their skeletons, with much of this change due to alterations in housing and exercise.

However, nutrition may also play a role.

Bone density, size and shape were tracked in 15 thoroughbred yearlings as they entered race training. Monthly radiographs of the cannon bone were taken using a reference standard.

Bone mineral content (BMC) was calculated, and plasma concentrations of calcium, phosphorus and osteocalcin (a hormone signaling bone growth) were also measured monthly. The yearlings entered training (Day 0) in late November on a Kentucky farm. Horses were confined in stalls for approximately six hours per day.

The training intensity at this time was low, consisting of 15-20 minutes per day jogging in a paddock.

In late December (Day 28) the horses were moved to a Kentucky training center

When yearlings leave the breeding farm and enter training, major changes occur in their skeletons, with much of this change due to alterations in housing and exercise where little or no turnout was available. For the remainder of the study, the horses were confined in stalls for approximately 23 hours per day.

In January and February (Day 28- 84) the horses (now two-year-olds) were lightly exercised in an indoor arena. Training intensity increased in March (Day 84-112) after which horses were kept at an intense level of training.

Bone mineral content of the cannon bone dropped from the day the horses went to the training center, Day 28, until Day 84. During this time the horses were confined to stables with only light exercise. Weather conditions improved, the horses were moved out to the training track, and training intensity increased.

As exercise intensity increased, BMC of the cannon bone increased to levels present prior to being confined and lightly exercised.

Plasma osteocalcin levels dropped slightly from Day 0-84 when the horses were

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This study demonstrated that total confinement in stables can lead to bone de-mineralisation and a reduction in bone density

A small amount of early speed work in young racehorses can help signal bone formation

confined and in light training.

Levels increased from Day 84-112 when the horses began intense exercise, suggesting an increase in bone formation. Plasma calcium also dropped significantly from Day 28 to 84.

There was a large increase in plasma calcium levels when training intensity increased.

Plasma phosphorus followed a similar pattern of change with exercise.

These results, along with previously published information, emphasise the importance of exercise to bone strength.

Confinement of greater than approximately 12 hours may result in decreased BMC, and jogging and easy work will not “turn on” or signal the bone-building mechanism.

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orses in training require speed work introduced early.

It probably does not take more than breezing just under a 1/8 of a mile to signal bone formation.

While lots of jogging and slow galloping may help with a horse’s cardiovascular fitness, this programme is not going to strengthen bone sufficiently to meet the rigours of racing.

Horses, who are confined for long periods of time due to injury or illness, are particularly vulnerable to bone demineralisation that may predispose them to fractures when they resume training. To combat this bone loss, KER has developed a dietary supplement called Duraplex.

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Duraplex is a proprietary mixture of nutrients designed to improve bone density in horses. It contains minerals and vitamins known to play a role in bone formation as well as a source of milk basic protein (MBP).

In rats, dogs and humans, MBP has been shown to stimulate osteoblastic collagen production and suppress bone destruction by osteoclast cells. Studies conducted in Japan with exercised thoroughbreds have reported increases in serum osteocalcin and decreases in serum ICTP with MBP. These studies, conducted by the JRA, also reported greater increases in bone density during training in supplemented horses compared to controls.

KER tested the product’s effectiveness at improving bone density in thoroughbreds given paddock turnout, treadmill exercise or complete stable confinement.

Twelve thoroughbreds (eight two-year-olds and four six-year-olds) were used in a fivemonth, three-phase study.

Throughout the study the horses were housed in stables at night. During the first 28 days of the study (Phase A) the horses were turned out daily for four to five hours in paddocks wearing muzzles to prevent grazing.

During Phase B of the study the horses were exercised for 12 weeks on a treadmill and mechanical walker. During Phase C of the study the horses were confined in stables for 28 days without exercise.

The horses were blocked by age and randomly assigned to a control and treatment group. The treatment group (four two-year-

olds and two six-year-olds) received the basal diet, plus 120g Duraplex per day.

To estimate changes in bone density, radiographs of the cannon bone were taken on a bi-weekly basis. An aluminum step wedge was exposed simultaneously with the cannon bone as a reference standard.

Radiographic bone aluminum equivalencies (RBAE) were recorded and bone mineral content (BMC) was calculated.

During the training phase (Phase B) of the study the horses alternated exercising three days per week on a high-speed treadmill and three days per week on a mechanical walking machine.

At the conclusion of the training phase the horses entered a confinement phase in which they were keep in stables 24 hours/day for a four-week period. Bone density was estimated from radiographs of the cannon bone at 0, 14 and 28 days of confinement.

During the Phase A turn-out period, the BMC of the Duraplex group increased and there was a trend for BMC to be higher in the treated group compared to the control group, but these differences disappeared during Phase B when exercise on the treadmill and mechanical walker was introduced.

When the horses were confined in stalls BMC were unchanged in the Duraplex-treated group, but there was a drop in the BMC of the control horses.

This study demonstrated that total confinement in stables can lead to bone de-mineralisation and a reduction in bone density. Duraplex supplementation helps lessen the loss. This may be particularly important in racehorses and foals recuperating from orthopaedic surgery.

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The Hennessy winner Carruthers is the best so far out of Plaid Maid, but Coneygree (right), winner of the Kauto Star Novices Hurdle (G1), is not far behind

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n the closing pages of his outstanding autobiography Mince Pie For Starters, published in 2003, the late Lord Oaksey wrote of his hopes for the future for the three-month-old Kayf Tara colt foal he had bred out of his mare Plaid Maid.

He writes that Tony McCoy, who partnered the mare, nicknamed Rosie, to three of her five victories in the Oaksey colours, “paid her the ultimate compliment of saying that ‘she tries as hard as I do.’”

Twelve years after penning those lines, Lord Oaksey is sadly no longer with us to witness the success of Rosie’s foals, but he was able to enjoy the greatest moment of that Kayf Tara foal, now named Carruthers, when he triumphed in the 2011 Hennessy

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Carruthers’s best days may well be behind him, but he has two younger siblings with plenty to look forward to

Gold Cup, a race that Oaksey won aboard Taxidermist in 1958 as an amateur jockey.

In his book, Oaksey also wrote of a bet struck by Sean Magee, who placed £10 at odds of 1000-1 with William Hill, that the future Carruthers would win either the Cheltenham or Ascot Gold Cup. Now aged 12, it looks likely that Carruther’s fourth place behind Imperial Commander in the Cheltenham Gold Cup of 2010 will remain the closest he comes to winning that bet, which would have benefited the Injured Jockeys’ Fund.

Carruthers’s best days may well be behind him, but he has two younger siblings with plenty to look forward to.

On the last Saturday before Christmas, Flintham, a full-brother to Carruthers, scored

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mare of the month in a novices’ handicap hurdle at Ascot, and then, just six days later, Coneygree shone at Kempton’s King George meeting when triumphing in the Kauto Star Novice Chase (G1) by 40l.

Coneygree, by the late Karinga Bay, had already sounded the bell of his promise when taking a brace of Grade 2 novice hurdles in the 2012-13 season, when he also finished a close third to At Fishers Cross and The New One in another Grade 2 hurdle at Cheltenham in January 2013.

That was his last run until November 2014, when he returned to win a Grade 2 novice chase at Newbury’s Hennessy meeting, having been controversially withdrawn at the start 11 days earlier at Plumpton.

In an incident-packed race at Kempton that saw only three finishers, Coneygree showed that he can keep both his cool and his jumping skill, and he looks well priced at around 16-1 for the RSA Chase (G1) at the Cheltenham Festival.

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laid Maid was herself a useful enough performer, recording five wins from her 19 starts and finishing in the first three on a further eight occasions.

Trained by Mark Bradstock for his father-in-law, the mare showed a definite affinity for Exeter, all four of her victories over fences came at the Devon track. She also finished runner-up in the Devon National on her penultimate start.

Bradstock has noted on his website that Plaid Maid was “bought extremely cheaply... for a couple of thousand pounds”, and her achievements have clearly far exceeded that price tag.

By Executive Perk, Plaid Maid was out of Tipperary Tartan, a daughter of the Group 3 winner Rarity, and out of the Busted mare Colourful, who finished second in the Cheshire Oaks (G3) and the Listed Scarborough Stakes of 1972.

Colourful was a half-sister to Pink Gem (Crepello), who had gone one place better than her half-sister when winning the Cheshire Oaks in 1967. She also took the Park Hill Stakes (G2) in the same season, and finished runner-up in the Musidora Stakes.

Bred by Peter Tellwright, Tipperary Tartan won a sole maiden start on the Flat at Navan as a three-year-old, before going on to a long career at stud, producing 13 live foals.

Tipperary Tartan’s very first foal was undoubtedly her best racecourse performer. A

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Flintham: trainer Mark Bradstock feels that the dual novice hudle winner will be better once chasing

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Coneygree showed that he can keep both his cool and his jumping skill, and he looks well priced at around 16-1 for the RSA Chase (G1) son of Ile de Bourbon, Destriero was trained

by Andrew Geraghty to win the 1991 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (G1) at the Cheltenham Festival on just his third race under Rules, defeating the subsequent Champion Hurdle victor Granville Again. Destriero did not scale those heights again, although he did add a Grade 3 win over hurdles to his tally at Punchestown, by which time he was trained by his owner Noel Furlong.

Tipperary Tartan’s Glacial Storm foal Storm Of Gold, born the year after Plaid Maid, also looked set for top successes when he finished third in the 1999 Challow Hurdle (G1), but he never quite converted

that promise, with his four victories coming in more moderate company, including the Ludlow Gold Cup Hunter Chase.

Raise A Storm (Fourstars Allstar) triumphed twice over hurdles and twice on the Flat for David Wachman, before transferring to the US where he blossomed over the American-style hurdles, winning four times including two Listed hurdles at Little Everglades in Florida, a far cry from Sligo where he won his final outing over hurdles in Ireland.

Two more members of Tipperary Tartan’s brood were successful on the racecourse. her first foal, Stevere (Blakeney) won twice in selling hurdle company, and Bootlegger (Be My Native) won once on the Flat and over hurdles in the colours of Sue Magnier when trained by Aidan O’Brien.

Sadly Plaid Maid did not enjoy such a lengthy broodmare career as her own dam, dying in 2009, the year in which she foaled Flintham. She left behind six foals, with a pair of sons by Alflora and Carstaires foaled in between her most talented sons.

Her sole daughter is Maid Of Oaksey, by Overbury, who was winless in four starts in bumpers but is now aiming to continue her dam’s legacy at stud where she was bred to Malinas last year.

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UAE NATIONAL DAY CUP, L, Abu Dhabi, December 7, 1600m 1 Nine Realms (GB) 5 b g Green Desert (USA) - Bourbonella (GB) (Rainbow Quest (USA)) 2 Nawwaar (USA) 5 ch c Distorted Humor (USA) - Mostaqeleh (USA) (Rahy (USA)) 3 Derbaas (USA) 8 b c Seeking The Gold (USA) - Sultana (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) Danzig

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LINCOLN MKX ENTISAR STAKES, L, Meydan, December 18, 2000m 1 Cooptado (ARG) 4 b c Equal Stripes (ARG) - Coordinada (ARG) (Ride The Rails (USA)) 2 Storm Belt (USA) 5 b/br c More Than Ready (USA) - Mari's Thunder (USA) (Thunder Gulch (USA)) 3 Farrier (USA) 6 b c Tapit (USA) Wild Vision (USA) (Wild Again (USA))

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LINCOLN MKC DUBAI CREEK MILE, L, Meydan, December 18, 1600m 1 Surfer (USA) 5 ch c Distorted Humor (USA) - Surf Club (USA) (Ocean Crest (USA)) 2 Ennobled Friend (USA) 4 b c Malibu Moon (USA) - Seek To Soar (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) 3 Busker (USA) 6 ch c Street Cry (IRE) - Adonesque (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) Mr Prospector Forty Niner File DISTORTED HUMOR ch 93 Danzig Danzig's Beauty Sweetest Chant SURFER ch c 2009 Storm Bird Ocean Crest S S Aroma SURF CLUB b/br 98 Pass The Tab Horns Gray Cox's Angel

AL TAYER MOTORS GARHOUD SPRINT, L, Meydan, December 18, 1200m 1 Rafeej (GB) 5 b c Iffraaj (GB) Muffled (USA) (Mizaaya (GB)) 2 Conveyance (USA) 7 gr/ro c Indian Charlie (USA) - Emptythetill (USA) (Holy Bull (USA)) 3 Sholaan (IRE) 5 b g Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Jazz Up (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux) Gone West Zafonic Zaizafon IFFRAAJ b 2001 Nureyev Pastorale Park Appeal RAFEEJ b c 2009 Riverman Mizaaya Exclusive Order MUFFLED ch 97 Believe It Sound It Soundings

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LONGINES AL MAKTOUM CHALLENGE ROUND 1, G2, Meydan, January 9, 1600m 1 Surfer (USA) 6 ch c Distorted Humor (USA) - Surf Club (USA) (Ocean Crest (USA)) 2 Frankyfourfingers (FR) 5 b c Sunday Break (JPN) - Texaloula (FR) (Kendor (FR)) 3 Haatheq (USA) 8 b c Seeking The Gold (USA) - Alshadiyah (USA) (Danzig (USA)) Mr Prospector Forty Niner File DISTORTED HUMOR ch 93 Danzig Danzig's Beauty Sweetest Chant SURFER ch c 2009 Storm Bird Ocean Crest S S Aroma SURF CLUB b/br 98 Pass The Tab Horns Gray Cox's Angel

SHADWELL FARM JEBEL ALI STAKES, L, Jebel Ali, January 9, 1800m 1 Jutland (GB) 8 b g Halling (USA) Dramatique (GB) (Darshaan) 2 Mawhub (GB) 6 b g Singspiel (IRE) - Native Blue (GB) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) 3 Silver Galaxy (GB) 4 b c Galileo (IRE) - Silver Pivotal (IRE) (Pivotal (GB))

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USA CHILUKKI STAKES, G2, Churchill Downs, November 1, 8f 1 Molly Morgan (USA) 5 b f Ghostzapper (USA) - Capitulation (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) 2 Street Girl (USA) 4 b f Street Hero (USA) - Kristy Beethoven (USA) (Kris S (USA)) 3 Enchanting Lisa (USA) 4 b f War Chant (USA) - Lisa Danielle (USA) (Wolf Power (SAF)) DISCOVERY HANDICAP, G3, Aqueduct, November 1, 9f 1 Protonico (USA) 3 b/br c Giant's Causeway (USA) - Alpha Spirit (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) 2 Bay of Plenty (USA) 3 b/br c Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Kotuku (GB) (A P Indy (USA)) 3 Just Call Kenny (USA) 3 b/br c Jump Start (USA) - Green Jeans (USA) (Green Dancer (USA)) GOLDIKOVA STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, November 2, 8f 1 Filimbi (USA) 4 gr/ro f Mizzen Mast (USA) - Flute (USA) (Seattle Slew (USA)) 2 Strathnaver (GB) 5 b f Oasis Dream (GB) - River Belle (GB) (Lahib (USA)) 3 Wall of Sound (GB) 4 b f Singspiel (IRE) - Veiled Beauty (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) TEMPTED STAKES, G3, Aqueduct, November 2, 8f 1 Jacaranda (USA) 2 ch f Congrats (USA) - Baffled (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA))

international database 2 Paulassilverlining (USA) 2 b f Ghostzapper (USA) - Seeking The Silver (USA) (Grindstone (USA)) 3 Save Rock And Roll (USA) 2 ch f Super Saver (USA) - Miss Mary Pat (USA) (Service Stripe (USA)) NASHUA STAKES, G2, Aqueduct, November 2, 8f 1 Blofeld (USA) 2 gr/ro c Quality Road (USA) - Storm Minstrel (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 2 El Kabeir (USA) 2 gr/ro c Scat Daddy (USA) - Great Venue (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 3 The Truth Or Else (USA) 2 ch c Yes It's True (USA) - Lakenheath (USA) (Colonial Affair (USA)) RIVER CITY HANDICAP, G3, Churchill Downs, November 8, 9f 1 Villandry (USA) 5 ch c Mr Greeley (USA) - Al Beedaa (USA) (Swain (IRE)) 2 Hamp (USA) 4 ch g Sky Mesa (USA) - Vienna Affair (GB) (Red Ransom (USA)) 3 Under Control (BRZ) 6 b g Northern Afleet (USA) - Heavenly Dancer (BRZ) (Fitzcarraldo (ARG)) LONG ISLAND HANDICAP, G3, Aqueduct, November 8, 12f 1 Aigue Marine (GB) 5 b f Galileo (IRE) - Aiglonne (USA) (Silver Hawk (USA)) 2 Danza Cavallo (FR) 3 b f Sunday Break (JPN) - Tropical Mark (GB) (Mark of Esteem (IRE)) 3 Maximova (USA) 4 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Honoria (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) AUTUMN STAKES, G2, Woodbine, November 9, 1600m 1 Lukes Alley (CAN) 4 b c Flower Alley (USA) - Vaulcluse (CAN) (A P Indy (USA)) 2 War Correspondent (USA) 4 b c War Front (USA) - Tempo West (USA) (Rahy (USA)) 3 Midnight Aria (CAN) 4 b c Midnight Lute (USA) Shebandowana (CAN) (Mt Magazine (USA))

BOB HOPE STAKES, G3, Del Mar, November 15, 7f 1 No Problem (USA) 2 ch c Munnings (USA) - Brief Tears (USA) (Orientate (USA)) 2 Alright Alright (USA) 2 ch c Munnings (USA) - Afare (USA) (Meadowlake (USA)) 3 St Joe Bay (USA) 2 b/br c Saint Anddan (USA) - Dream Ride (USA) (Honor Glide (USA)) MRS REVERE STAKES, G2, Churchill Downs, November 15, 8f 110yds 1 Sparkling Review (USA) 3 b f Lemon Drop Kid (USA) - Pleasant Review (USA) (Pleasant Tap (USA)) 2 Lady Lara (IRE) 3 b f Excellent Art (GB) - Shanty (GB) (Selkirk (USA)) 3 Kiss Moon (USA) 3 b/br f Malibu Moon (USA) - Kiss The Devil (USA) (Kris S (USA)) COMMONWEALTH TURF STAKES, G3, Churchill Downs, November 15, 8f 110yds 1 Heart To Heart (CAN) 3 b c English Channel (USA) - Ask the Question (USA) (Silver Deputy (CAN)) 2 Other Cheek (USA) 3 b c Smart Strike (CAN) - Nice Nelly (USA) (Seattle Slew (USA)) 3 Bashart (USA) 3 b c War Front (USA) - Busy Windsong (USA) (Clever Trick (USA)) RED SMITH HANDICAP, G3, Aqueduct, November 15, 11f 1 Dynamic Sky (CAN) 4 b/br c Sky Mesa (USA) - Murani (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) 2 Big Blue Kitten (USA) 6 b c Kitten's Joy (USA) - Spent Gold (USA) (Unaccounted For (USA)) 3 Margano (USA) 5 b c Dynaformer (USA) - La Ville Rouge (USA) (Carson City (USA)) BESSARABIAN STAKES, G2, Woodbine, November 16, 1400m 1 Hillaby (CAN) 4 b f Distorted Humor (USA) - Sealy Hill (CAN) (Point Given (USA))

2 Disco Barbie (USA) 4 ch f Pure Prize (USA) - Cimmaron Lady (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 3 Sky Treasure (USA) 4 ch f Sky Mesa (USA) - Preemptive Attack (CAN) (Smart Strike (CAN)) TROPICAL TURF HANDICAP, G3, Gulfstream Park West, November 22, 9f 1 Lubash (USA) 7 b c Freud (USA) Nasty Cure (USA) (Cure The Blues (USA)) 2 Reporting Star (USA) 4 b/br g Circular Quay (USA) - Classic Beauty (USA) (Sword Dance) 3 Grand Tito (USA) 4 b/br c Candy Ride (ARG) - Golden Arches (FR) (Common Grounds) MY CHARMER HANDICAP, G3, Calder, November 22, 9f 1 Daring Kathy (USA) 3 b f Wildcat Heir (USA) - Dare to Mambo (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 2 Cushion (GB) 4 b f Galileo (IRE) Attraction (GB) (Efisio) 3 Lilbourne Eliza (IRE) 4 b f Elusive City (USA) - Midnight Partner (IRE) (Marju (IRE)) DELTA DOWNS PRINCESS STAKES, G3, Delta Downs, November 22, 8f 1 Take Charge Brandi (USA) 2 ch f Giant's Causeway (USA) Charming (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) 2 Skipalute (USA) 2 bl f Midnight Lute (USA) - Skipstone (USA) (Montbrook (USA)) 3 Majestic Presence (USA) 2 ch f Majestic Warrior (USA) - Shining Victory (USA) (Victory Gallop (CAN)) DELTA DOWNS JACKPOT STAKES, G3, Delta Downs, November 22, 8f 110yds 1 Ocho Ocho Ocho (USA) 2 b/br c Street Sense (USA) - Winner (USA) (Horse Chestnut (SAF)) 2 Mr Z (USA) 2 ch c Malibu Moon (USA) - Stormy Bear (USA) (Storm Cat (USA))

3 Far Right (USA) 2 ch c Notional (USA) - Zindi (USA) (Vindication (USA)) RED CARPET HANDICAP, G3, Del Mar, November 22, 11f 1 Three Hearts (USA) 4 b f Hat Trick (JPN) - Secret Heart (SAF) (Fort Wood (USA)) 2 Lady of Gold (USA) 4 b f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Ron's Lady (USA) (Elhayq (IRE)) 3 Lady Pimpernel (GB) 4 ch f Sir Percy (GB) - Angeleno (IRE) (Belong To Me (USA)) CARDINAL HANDICAP, G3, Churchill Downs, November 22, 9f 1 Strike Charmer (USA) 4 b f Smart Strike (CAN) - Cat Charmer (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 2 Pappascat (USA) 4 b f Scat Daddy (USA) - Redmeansgo (USA) (Red Ransom (USA)) 3 Antonia Autumn (USA) 5 b/br f Bernstein (USA) - Chipeta Springs (USA) (Alydar (USA)) KENNEDY ROAD STAKES, G2, Woodbine, November 23, 1200m 1 Calgary Cat (CAN) 4 ch c Cowtown Cat (USA) - Big Sink Star (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) 2 Sharp Sensation (USA) 4 b/br c Sharp Humor (USA) - Accusation (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) 3 Black Hornet (CAN) 4 b/br g Pioneering (USA) - Start Stinging (USA) (Siphon (BRZ)) MIDNITE LUTE STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, November 27, 6f 110yds 1 Distinctiv Passion (USA) 5 b/br c With Distinction (USA) - Dance Forthe Green (USA) (West By West (USA)) 2 Heir Of Storm (USA) 5 b c Wildcat Heir (USA) - Tiz What It Waz (USA) (Tiznow (USA)) 3 Appealing Tale (USA) 5 b/br c Tale of The Cat (USA) - Appealing Bride (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA))

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international database HOLLYWOOD TURF CUP STAKES, G2, Hollywood Park, November 27, 12f 1 Finnegans Wake (USA) 5 b c Powerscourt (GB) - Boat's Ghost (USA) (Silver Ghost (USA)) 2 Patrioticandproud (USA) 5 b/br g Proud Citizen (USA) - Luvina (CAN) (Forest Wildcat (USA)) 3 The Pizza Man (USA) 5 b g English Channel (USA) - I Can Fan Fan (USA) (Lear Fan (USA)) FALLS CITY HANDICAP, G2, Churchill Downs, November 27, 9f 1 Frivolous (USA) 4 b/br f Empire Maker (USA) - Sixty Rocketts (USA) (Belong To Me (USA)) 2 Don't Tell Sophia (USA) 6 b f Congaree (USA) - Lost Expectations (USA) (Valid Expectations (USA)) 3 Molly Morgan (USA) 5 b f Ghostzapper (USA) - Capitulation (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) FALL HIGHWEIGHT HANDICAP, G3, Aqueduct, November 27, 6f 1 Salutos Amigos (USA) 4 b g Salute The Sarge (USA) - Sarasota (ARG) (Luhuk (USA)) 2 Mewannarose (USA) 4 ch c Bwana Charlie (USA) - Darby Rose (USA) (Red Bullet (USA)) 3 Captain Serious (USA) 3 b g Successful Appeal (USA) - Madame Diva (USA) (Mr Greeley (USA)) SEABISCUIT HANDICAP, G2, Hollywood Park, November 28, 8f 110yds 1 Kaigun (CAN) 4 ch c Northern Afleet (USA) - Cruising Kris (CAN) (Kris S (USA)) 2 Za Approval (USA) 6 gr/ro g Ghostzapper (USA) - Win Approval (USA) (With Approval (CAN)) 3 Tom's Tribute (USA) 4 ch c Lion Heart (USA) - Halloween Fun (USA) (El Prado (IRE)) CLARK HANDICAP, G1, Churchill Downs, November 28, 9f 1 Hoppertunity (USA) 3 b c Any Given Saturday (USA) - Refugee (USA) (Unaccounted For (USA))

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2 Rainha Da Bateria (USA) 2 ch f Broken Vow (USA) - Amelia (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Don't Blame Me (USA) 2 b/br f Blame (USA) - Forestier (USA) (Forestry (USA))

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1 Classic Point (USA) 5 ch f Flatter (USA) - Discerning (USA) (Langfuhr (CAN)) 2 Princess Violet (USA) 3 b f Officer (USA) - Lady Rapper (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 3 Moment in Dixie (USA) 5 b/br f Dixieland Band (USA) - Ellie's Moment (USA) (Kris S (USA)) HOLLYWOOD DERBY, G1, Hollywood Park, November 29, 10f 1 California Chrome (USA) 3 ch c Lucky Pulpit (USA) - Love the Chase (USA) (Not For Love (USA)) 2 Lexie Lou (CAN) 3 b f Sligo Bay (IRE) Oneexcessivenite (USA) (In Excess) 3 Talco (FR) 3 ch c Pivotal (GB) Trylko (USA) (Diesis) HAWTHORNE GOLD CUP HANDICAP, G2, Hawthorne, November 29, 10f 1 Red Rifle (USA) 4 ch c Giant's Causeway (USA) - May Night (USA) (Gulch (USA)) 2 Mister Marti Gras (USA) 7 ch g Belong To Me (USA) - Miss Marta (USA) (Cure The Blues (USA)) 3 Call Me George (USA) 4 b/br c Point Given (USA) - Sassy Chimes (USA) (Chimes Band (USA)) NATIVE DIVER STAKES, G3, Del Mar, November 29, 9f 1 Big Cazanova (ARG) 5 ch c Giant's Causeway (USA) - Gem Bob (USA) (Morning Bob (USA)) 2 Blue Tone (USA) 5 b g Birdstone (USA) - Princess Cart (USA) (Cartwright (USA)) 3 Avanzare (USA) 4 b g Grand Reward (USA) - Turn the Tide (USA) (Theatrical) JIMMY DURANTE STAKES, G3, Del Mar, November 29, 8f 1 Ol' Fashion Gal (USA) 2 ch f Sky Mesa (USA) - Little Hussy (USA) (Horse Chestnut (SAF))

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1 El Kabeir (USA) 2 gr/ro c Scat Daddy (USA) - Great Venue (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 2 Imperia (USA) 2 b/br c Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Cocoa Beach (CHI) (Doneraile Court (USA)) 3 Eagle (USA) 2 ch c Candy Ride (ARG) - Sea Gull (USA) (Mineshaft (USA)) GOLDEN ROD STAKES, G2, Churchill Downs, November 29, 8f 110yds 1 West Coast Belle (USA) 2 gr/ro f Tapit (USA) - Splendid Solution (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 2 No Fault of Mine (USA) 2 b f Blame (USA) - Single Solution (USA) (Flatter (USA)) 3 Heart's Song (USA) 2 b/br f Desert Party (USA) - Secret Psalm (USA) (Cryptoclearance (USA)) REMSEN STAKES, G2, Aqueduct, November 29, 9f 1 Leave The Light On (USA) 2 ch c Horse Greeley (USA) - Lantern Glow (USA) (Mineshaft (USA)) 2 Frosted (USA) 2 gr/ro c Tapit (USA) - Fast Cookie (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN)) 3 Keen Ice (USA) 2 b c Curlin (USA) - Medomak (USA) (Awesome Again (CAN)) DEMOISELLE STAKES, G2, Aqueduct, November 29, 9f 1 Condo Commando (USA) 2 b/br f Tiz Wonderful (USA) - Yearly Report (USA) (General Meeting (USA)) 2 Calamity Kate (USA) 2 b f Yes It's True (USA) - Justmeandmyshadow (USA) (Tiznow (USA)) 3 Angela Renee (USA) 2 b f Bernardini (USA) - Pilfer (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN))

COMELY STAKES, G3, Aqueduct, November 29, 9f 1 Snowbell (USA) 3 gr/ro f Tapit (USA) - Burmilla (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 2 Shayjolie (USA) 3 b f Indian Charlie (USA) - School for Scandal (USA) (Is It True (USA)) 3 Dame Dorothy (USA) 3 b f Bernardini (USA) - Vole Vole Monamour (USA) (Woodman (USA)) CIGAR MILE HANDICAP, G1, Aqueduct, November 29, 8f 1 Private Zone (CAN) 5 b g Macho Uno (USA) - Auburn Beauty (USA) (Siphon (BRZ)) 2 Secret Circle (USA) 5 b c Eddington (USA) - Ragtime Hope (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Bourbon Courage (USA) 5 b c Lion Heart (USA) - Shine Forth (USA) (Carson City (USA)) BERKELEY HANDICAP, G3, Golden Gate, November 30, 8f 110yds 1 Pepper Crown (USA) 4 b c Peppered Cat (USA) - Crown This Lady (USA) (Crowning Storm (USA)) 2 G G Ryder (USA) 3 ch c Chhaya Dance (USA) - Stormy Gigi (USA) (Storm Boot (USA)) 3 Stryker Phd (USA) 5 b c Bertrando (USA) - Striking Scholar (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN)) MATRIARCH STAKES, G1, Del Mar, November 30, 8f 1 La Tia (USA) 5 b/br f City Place (USA) - La Adelita (USA) (Sky Classic (CAN)) 2 Queen of The Sand (IRE) 4 ch f Footstepsinthesand (GB) - Lough Mewin (IRE) (Woodman (USA)) 3 Discreet Marq (USA) 4 gr/ro f Discreet Cat (USA) - To Marquet (USA) (Marquetry (USA)) CECIL B DEMILLE STAKES, G3, Del Mar, November 30, 8f 1 Conquest Typhoon (CAN) 2 b c Stormy Atlantic (USA) - Swanky Bubbles (CAN) (Ascot Knight (CAN))

international database 2 Stormy Liberal (USA) 2 b c Stormy Atlantic (USA) - Vassar (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) 3 Rock Shandy (USA) 2 b c Lemon Drop Kid (USA) - Panthera (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) BAYAKOA STAKES, G2, Laurel, December 6, 8f 110yds 1 Tiz Midnight (USA) 4 b f Midnight Lute (USA) - Tough Tiz's Sis (USA) (Tiznow (USA)) 2 Warren's Veneda (USA) 4 ch f Affirmative (USA) - More Cal Bread (USA) (Flying Continental (USA)) 3 Legacy (USA) 4 b/br f Sightseeing (USA) - Royal Flush (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN)) VALEDICTORY STAKES, G3, Woodbine, December 7, 2800m 1 Turkish (USA) 5 ch c Istan (USA) Tresor (USA) (Pleasant Tap (USA)) 2 Pender Harbour (CAN) 6 ch g Philanthropist (USA) - Uproar (CAN) (Hail The Ruckus (CAN)) 3 Royal Blessing (USA) 5 ch c Kitten's Joy (USA) - Kamaina Rose (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) STARLET STAKES, G1, Laurel, December 13, 8f 110yds 1 Take Charge Brandi (USA) 2 ch f Giant's Causeway (USA) Charming (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) 2 Feathered (USA) 2 b f Indian Charlie (USA) - Receipt (USA) (Dynaformer (USA)) 3 Maybellene (USA) 2 b f Lookin At Lucky (USA) - Greathearted (USA) (Giant's Causeway (USA)) SUGAR SWIRL STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, December 13, 6f 1 Merry Meadow (USA) 4 b f Henny Hughes (USA) - Merryland Monroe (USA) (Allen's Prospect (USA)) 2 Wildcat Lily (USA) 4 ch f D'Wildcat (USA) - French Jubilee (USA) (French Deputy (USA)) 3 Ol Donyo (USA) 4 ch f Curlin (USA) - Royal Tigress (USA) (Storm Cat (USA))

LOS ALAMITOS FUTURITY, G1, Laurel, December 20, 8f 110yds 1 Dortmund (USA) 2 ch c Big Brown (USA) - Our Josephina (USA) (Tale of The Cat (USA)) 2 Firing Line (USA) 2 b c Line of David (USA) - Sister Girl Blues (USA) (Hold For Gold (USA)) 3 Mr Z (USA) 2 ch c Malibu Moon (USA) - Stormy Bear (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) MATHIS BROTHERS MILE STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, December 26, 8f 1 Alert Bay (USA) 4 b/br g City Zip (USA) - Hickory (CHI) (Dushyantor (USA)) 2 Home Run Kitten (USA) 4 ch c Kitten's Joy (USA) - Grand Slam Girl (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 3 Awesome Return (USA) 4 b c Decarchy (USA) - Awesome Broad (USA) (Mr Broad Blade (USA)) MALIBU STAKES, G1, Santa Anita, December 26, 7f 1 Shared Belief (USA) 3 b/br g Candy Ride (ARG) - Common Hope (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 2 Conquest Two Step (USA) 3 b/br c Two Step Salsa (USA) Homesteader (CAN) (Pioneering (USA)) 3 Chitu (USA) 3 ch c Henny Hughes (USA) - Sea Gift (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) LA BREA STAKES, G1, Santa Anita, December 26, 7f 1 Sam's Sister (USA) 4 ch f Brother Derek (USA) - Kittery Point (USA) (Include (USA)) 2 Taris (USA) 4 b f Flatter (USA) Comedy (USA) (Theatrical) 3 Thank You Marylou (USA) 4 ch f Birdstone (USA) - Menifeeque (USA) (Menifee (USA)) ROBERT J FRANKEL STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, December 27, 9f 1 Lady Pimpernel (GB) 4 ch f Sir Percy (GB) - Angeleno (IRE) (Belong To Me (USA))

2 Diversy Harbor (USA) 3 b f Curlin (USA) - Motokiks (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Three Hearts (USA) 4 b f Hat Trick (JPN) - Secret Heart (SAF) (Fort Wood (USA)) MR PROSPECTOR STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, December 27, 6f 1 Speechify (USA) 4 b/br c Harlan's Holiday (USA) - Preach It (USA) (Saint Ballado (CAN)) 2 Risk Factor (USA) 4 gr/ro c Stormy Atlantic (USA) - Samantha O (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 3 Mongolian Saturday (USA) 4 b g Any Given Saturday (USA) - Miss Hot Salsa (USA) (Houston (USA)) LA PREVOYANTE HANDICAP, G3, Gulfstream Park, December 27, 12f 1 Irish Mission (CAN) 6 ch f Giant's Causeway (USA) - Misty Mission (CAN) (Miswaki (USA)) 2 Tabreed (GB) 6 b f Sakhee (USA) - Za Aamah (USA) (Mr Prospector (USA)) 3 Photo Call (IRE) 4 b f Galileo (IRE) - Theann (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)) W L MCKNIGHT HANDICAP, G3, Calder, December 27, 12f 1 Divine Oath (USA) 4 b c Broken Vow (USA) - Rejoicing (USA) (Forestry (USA)) 2 Fixador (BRZ) 5 b c Crafty C T (USA) - Nein (BRZ) (Know Heights (IRE)) 3 Manchurian High (USA) 7 ch c The Daddy (USA) - Corredor's Wind (USA) (El Corredor (USA)) DAYTONA STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, December 28, 6f 110yds 1 Bettys Bambino (USA) 4 b/br g Unusual Heat (USA) - Brite Betty (USA) (High Brite (USA)) 2 Lil Bit O'fun (USA) 6 ch c Langfuhr (CAN) - Dash of Humor (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) 3 Sweet Swap (USA) 5 ch c Candy Ride (ARG) - Fair Exchange (USA) (Storm Cat (USA))

SANTA YNEZ STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, January 3, 6f 110yds 1 Seduire (CAN) 3 gr/ro f Elusive Quality (USA) - Holy Eclair (CAN) (Holy Bull (USA)) 2 Callback (USA) 3 b f Street Sense (USA) - Quickest (USA) (Forest Wildcat (USA)) 3 Xoxo (USA) 3 b f Majestic Warrior (USA) - Text Queen (USA) (Strong Hope (USA)) SAN GABRIEL STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, January 3, 9f 1 Finnegans Wake (USA) 6 b c Powerscourt (GB) - Boat's Ghost (USA) (Silver Ghost (USA)) 2 Patrioticandproud (USA) 6 b/br g Proud Citizen (USA) - Luvina (CAN) (Forest Wildcat (USA)) 3 Power Ped (USA) 5 b g Powerscourt (GB) - Madame Blackfoot (USA) (Black Minnaloushe (USA)) OLD HAT STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, January 3, 6f 1 Ekati's Phaeton (USA) 3 b/br f Tale of Ekati (USA) - Seventh Veil (USA) (Capote (USA)) 2 R Sassy Lass (USA) 3 b/br f Exclusive Quality (USA) - Sassy Bear (USA) (Cherokee Run (USA)) 3 Fashion Alert (USA) 3 b f Old Fashioned (USA) - Titan Queen (USA) (Tiznow (USA)) DANIA BEACH STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, January 3, 7f 110yds 1 Night Prowler (USA) 3 ch g Giant's Causeway (USA) - Mary's Follies (USA) (More Than Ready (USA)) 2 A Lot (USA) 3 b c Tapit (USA) Overly Tempting (USA) (In Excess) 3 Croninthebarbarian (USA) 3 b/br c Stroll (USA) - Sweet Ober Melissa (USA) (Tale of The Cat (USA)) JEROME STAKES, G3, Aqueduct, January 3, 8f 1 El Kabeir (USA) 3 gr/ro c Scat Daddy (USA) - Great Venue (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA))

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international database 2 Nasa (USA) 3 b c Smarty Jones (USA) - Shootforthestars (USA) (Seattle Slew (USA)) 3 General Bellamy (USA) 3 b/br c Bellamy Road (USA) - Sweet Again (USA) (Awesome Again (CAN)) MONROVIA STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, January 4, 6f 110yds 1 Shrinking Violet (USA) 5 ch f Congaree (USA) - Lets Get Cozzy (USA) (Cozzene (USA)) 2 Heat Trap (USA) 6 ch f Unusual Heat (USA) - Trapunto (USA) (Deposit Ticket (USA)) 3 Velvet Mesquite (USA) 5 b/br f In Excess - Mesquite (USA) (Huddle Up (USA)) SHAM STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, January 10, 8f 1 Calculator (USA) 3 gr/ro c In Summation (USA) - Back to Basics (USA) (Alphabet Soup (USA)) 2 Rock Shandy (USA) 3 b c Lemon Drop Kid (USA) - Panthera (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Pioneerof the West (USA) 3 b/br c Pioneerof the Nile (USA) - Del Mar Cat (USA) (Forestry (USA)) SAN PASQUAL STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, January 10, 8f 110yds 1 Hoppertunity (USA) 4 b c Any Given Saturday (USA) - Refugee (USA) (Unaccounted For (USA)) 2 Appealing Tale (USA) 5 b/br c Tale of The Cat (USA) - Appealing Bride (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 3 Blue Tone (USA) 6 b g Birdstone (USA) - Princess Cart (USA) (Cartwright (USA)) MARSHUA'S RIVER STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, January 10, 8f 110yds 1 Parranda (USA) 6 ch f English Channel (USA) - Dynamic Feature (USA) (Rahy (USA)) 2 Skylander Girl (CAN) 4 b/br f Stroll (USA) - Heliotrope (USA) (Northern Score (USA)) 3 Why Katherine (CAN) 6 ch f Whywhywhy (USA) - Include Katherine (CAN) (Include (USA))

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HAL'S HOPE STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, January 10, 8f 1 Lea (USA) 6 ch c First Samurai (USA) - Greenery (USA) (Galileo (IRE)) 2 Confrontation (USA) 5 b/br g War Pass (USA) - Successfully Sweet (USA) (Successful Appeal (USA)) 3 Prayer For Relief (USA) 7 b/br c Jump Start (USA) - Sparklin Lil (USA) (Mr Sparkles (USA)) FORT LAUDERDALE STAKES, G2, Gulfstream Park, January 10, 8f 110yds 1 Mshawish (USA) 5 b/br c Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Thunder Bayou (USA) (Thunder Gulch (USA)) 2 Grand Tito (USA) 5 b/br c Candy Ride (ARG) - Golden Arches (FR) (Common Grounds) 3 Fredericksburg (USA) 5 ch g Speightstown (USA) - Choreograph (USA) (Dynaformer (USA))

WORLDWIDE Myer Empire Rose Classic, G1, Flemington, November 1, 1600m 1 Bonaria (AUS) 6 b f Redoute's Choice (AUS) - Decidity (AUS) (Last Tycoon) 2 Sweet Idea (AUS) 4 ch f Snitzel (AUS) - Flidais (AUS) (Timber Country (USA)) 3 Catkins (AUS) 5 gr f Dubawi (IRE) - Salix Caprea (AUS) (Catbird (AUS)) Sire: REDOUTE'S CHOICE. Sire of 119 Stakes winners. In 2014 BONARIA Last Tycoon G1, HAMPTON COURT Broken Vow G1, LANKAN RUPEE Stravinsky G1, HONORINE Honour And Glory G2, MAJMU Hussonet G2, TANGO'S DAUGHTER Anabaa G2, A TIME FOR JULIA Jade Hunter G3, LILLIBURLERO General Nediym G3, PANZER DIVISION Hussonet G3, SCISSOR KICK Quest For Fame G3, SEASIDE Hennessy G3, ABIDEWITHME Zabeel LR, LA

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AMISTAD Riverman LR, ROCK MAGIC Bubble Gum Fellow LR. 1st Dam: Decidity by Last Tycoon. unraced. Dam of: 1998: TIME OUT (g Rory's Jester) Illawarra Mercury 2yo Classic G3.

2000: LEGALLY BAY (f Snippets) Sweet Embrace S G3, 2nd Silver Shadow S G2, T J Smith S G2, 3rd Oakleigh Plate G1, William Reid Australia S G1. Dam of JOLIE BAY (f Fastnet Rock: Vil's Pie Roman Consul S G2, 2nd Coolmore Stud Ascot Vale S G1) 2001: Provoking (f Snippets) unraced. Broodmare.

2002: Chatoyant (f Flying Spur) unraced. Dam of MONTSEGUR (f New Approach: TBV Thoroughbred Breeders' S G3, 3rd Coolmore Silver Shadow S G2) 2003: Exhibit (f Octagonal) unraced. Dam of Light Touch (f Charge Forward: 2nd Cleanevent Dequetteville S LR) 2004: Elusive Elle (f Elusive Quality) unraced.

2007: Super Horse (g Flying Spur) unraced.

2008: BONARIA (f Redoute's Choice) Myer Empire Rose Classic G1, Premier Signs Mannerism S G3, Schweppervescence Matron S G3 (twice), 2nd Blazer Rose of Kingston S G2, Snow White Maintenance Ladies Day Vase G3, 3rd Routleys Bakery Geoffrey Belmaine S G3.

Broodmare Sire: LAST TYCOON. Sire of the dams of 157 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BONARIA Redoute's Choice G1, BLACK TYCOON Blackfriars G2, CLUSTER Fastnet Rock G2, DANCES ON STARS Snitzel LR, JACQUINOT BAY Galileo LR, MIDNITE PROMISE Librettist LR, TALES OF FASHION Tale of The Cat LR. The Redoute's Choice/Last Tycoon cross has produced: BONARIA G1, DARIANA G1, ESTEE G1, MASTER OF DESIGN G1, SHAAHEQ G1, DRUMBEATS G2, CHIARAMONTE G3, LUCKY UNICORN G3, METALLURGICAL G3, PROVENCE LR, Strong Choice G3, Tracy's Choice LR.

Danzig Danehill Razyana REDOUTE'S CHOICE b 96 Canny Lad Shantha's Choice Dancing Show BONARIA b f 2008 Try My Best Last Tycoon Mill Princess DECIDITY b 93 Twig Moss Class Pirouette

Longines LKS Mackinnon Stakes, G1, Flemington, November 1, 2000m

1 Happy Trails (AUS) 7 ch g Good Journey (USA) - Madame Flurry (AUS) (Perugino (USA)) 2 I'm Your Man (FR) 5 b/br g Cape Cross (IRE) - Via Saleria (IRE) (Arazi (USA)) 3 Farraaj (IRE) 5 b g Dubai Destination (USA) - Pastorale (GB) (Nureyev (USA))

Sire: GOOD JOURNEY. Sire of 10 Stakes winners. In 2014 - HAPPY TRAILS Perugino G1, GRIANTE Strategic G3, DANCINGTOTHESTARS In Excess LR, LOTION Danehill Dancer LR, SINO BRILHANTE Export Price LR. 1st Dam: MADAME FLURRY by Perugino. Winner in Australia.

Dam of: 2006: PETRAEUS (g General Nediym) Winner in Australia.

2007: HAPPY TRAILS (g Good Journey) 6 wins in Australia, Emirates Cantala S G1, Longines LKS Mackinnon S G1, Turnbull S G1, Dato Tan Chin Nam John F Feehan S G2, Spring Gully Spring S G3, 2nd Hyland Race Colours Underwood S G1, Sportingbet WS Cox Plate G1, NZ Bloodstock Memsie S G2, Yallambee Classic G2, Flinders Lane Frank Packer Plate G3, 1300 Australia Red Anchor S G3, 3rd Santos Coffee Queen Elizabeth S G1, Vic Tab Quaddie Shaftesbury Ave H LR. 2008: Chickitty Chick (f Tobougg) 2009: Heart of A Lion (g Lion Heart) 2 wins in Australia, 3rd Lightning S LR.

international database 2010: Unique (c Henny Hughes) unraced.

2011: (f Dane Shadow) Broodmare Sire: PERUGINO. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - HAPPY TRAILS Good Journey G1, BLUE RIBBON Royal Academy LR. Northern Dancer Nureyev Special GOOD JOURNEY ch 96 Private Account Chimes of Freedom Aviance HAPPY TRAILS ch g 2007 Danzig Perugino Fairy Bridge MADAME FLURRY ch 2000 Warmington Flurry Sudi

Tenno Sho (Autumn Emperor's Cup), G1, Tokyo, November 2, 2000m 1 Spielberg (JPN) 5 b c Deep Impact (JPN) - Princess Olivia (USA) (Lycius (USA)) 2 Gentildonna (JPN) 5 b f Deep Impact (JPN) - Donna Blini (GB) (Bertolini (USA)) 3 Isla Bonita (JPN) 3 b/br c Fuji Kiseki (JPN) - Isla Cozzene (USA) (Cozzene (USA))

Age: 2-5; Starts: 14; Wins: 6; Places: 5 Earnings: ÂŁ2,000,684 Sire: DEEP IMPACT. Sire of 52 Stakes winners. In 2014 GENTILDONNA Bertolini G1, HARP STAR Falbrav G1, MIKKI ISLE Rock of Gibraltar G1, SHONAN PANDORA French Deputy G1, SPIELBERG Lycius G1, VERXINA Machiavellian G1, KIZUNA Storm Cat G2, LAST IMPACT Timber Country G2, SATONO NOBLESSE Tony Bin G2, SMART LAYER White Muzzle G2, WORLD ACE Acatenango G2, DECIPHER Dubai Millennium G3, EXTRA END Garde Royale G3, MARTINBOROUGH Nureyev G3, QUATRE FEUILLES Tejano Run G3, STAPHANOS Kurofune G3, TOSEN STARDOM End Sweep G3, ULIULI French Deputy G3, A SHIN HIKARI Storm

Cat LR, BELL CANYON French Deputy LR, MOONLIT LAKE Sinndar LR, MEISHO BUSHIDO Storm Creek LR.

1st Dam: PRINCESS OLIVIA by Lycius. 3 wins at 2 in USA. Dam of: 2001: HE'S SOUPER (g Alphabet Soup) 6 wins in USA. 2002: FLOWER ALLEY (c Distorted Humor) 5 wins at 3 and 4 in USA, Travers S G1, 2nd Dodge Breeders' Cup Classic G1. Sire.

2003: LUDINGTON (g Black Minnaloushe) 6 wins at 4 and 5 in USA. 2004: Flowerette (f Victory Gallop) unraced. Dam of Arraignment (g Include: 5 wins at 3 to 5 in Canada, USA, 3rd British Columbia Derby G3) 2007: Blooming Alley (f Symboli Kris S) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in Japan, 3rd Sankei Sports Sho Flora Tokubetsu G2.

2008: TOSEN RA (c Deep Impact) 4 wins at 2, 3 and 5 in Japan, Mile Championship G1, 2nd Tenno Sho (Spring Emperor's Cup) G1, 3rd Kikuka Sho (St Leger) G1.

2009: SPIELBERG (c Deep Impact) 6 wins at 2 to 5, 2014 in Japan, Tenno Sho (Autumn Emperor's Cup) G1, Principal S LR, 3rd Mainichi Okan G2, Mainichi Hai G3, Kyodo News Service Hai S G3.

Broodmare Sire: LYCIUS. Sire of the dams of 26 Stakes winners. In 2014 - SPIELBERG Deep Impact G1, AJAXANA Rock of Gibraltar G2, ORPHEUS Forestry LR, PRINCE OF ALL Iffraaj LR, SOL INVICTUS King Charlemagne LR.

The Deep Impact/Lycius cross has produced: SPIELBERG G1, TOSEN RA G1.

Halo Sunday Silence Wishing Well DEEP IMPACT b 2002 Alzao Wind In Her Hair Burghclere SPIELBERG b c 2009 Mr Prospector Lycius Lypatia PRINCESS OLIVIA ch 95 Sadler's Wells Dance Image Diamond Spring

Coolmore Stud Ascot Vale Stakes, G1, Flemington, November 1, 1200m 1 Brazen Beau (AUS) 3 br c I Am Invincible (AUS) - Sansadee (AUS) (Snaadee (USA)) 2 Delectation (AUS) 3 b g Shamardal (USA) - Grace And Power (USA) (More Than Ready (USA)) 3 Kuro (NZ) 3 br c Denman (AUS) Distinctive Lass (AUS) (Orientate (USA)) Sire: I AM INVINCIBLE. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BRAZEN BEAU Snaadee G1, VINNIE EAGLE Danehill Dancer G3, FULD'S BET O'Reilly LR, LEEDS Peintre Celebre LR. 1st Dam: Sansadee by Snaadee.

3rd Black Opal S G3. Dam of: 2007: A Few Good Men (g Domesday) unraced.

2011: BRAZEN BEAU (c I Am Invincible) Coolmore Stud Ascot Vale S G1, Sydney City Toyota Roman Consul S G2, Bollinger Champagne Classic G2, 2nd Tatts Group J Atkins S G1, Mitavite BRC Sires' Produce S G2.

Broodmare Sire: SNAADEE. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BRAZEN BEAU I Am Invincible G1, FAT AL Al Maher LR. The I Am Invincible/Snaadee cross has produced: BRAZEN BEAU G1, Tetsuko G2.

Green Desert Invincible Spirit Rafha I AM INVINCIBLE b 2004 Canny Lad Cannarelle Countess Pedrille BRAZEN BEAU br c 2011 Danzig Snaadee Somfas SANSADEE bl 2000 Bletchingly Sansapa Nearctic Answer

Aami Victoria Derby, G1, Flemington, November 1, 2400m 1 Preferment (NZ) 3 b c Zabeel (NZ) - Better Alternative (AUS) (Flying Spur (AUS))

2 Bondeiger (AUS) 3 b/br c War Pass (USA) - Debutante Robe (JPN) (Admire Vega (JPN)) 3 Nozomi (AUS) 3 b c Street Cry (IRE) - Rose of Danehill (AUS) (Danehill (USA))

Sire: ZABEEL. Sire of 166 Stakes winners. In 2014 - PREFERMENT Flying Spur G1, LEEBAZ Polish Precedent G3, REZONED Flying Spur G3, ZEPHYRON Danehill G3, BRAYROAN Danehill LR, MAYTHEHORSEBEMAGIC Centaine LR. 1st Dam: Better Alternative by Flying Spur. unraced. Dam of: 2009: Loophole (c Lonhro) unraced.

2010: REZONED (f Zabeel) Sportingbet South Aus. Fillies Classic G3.

2011: PREFERMENT (c Zabeel) Aami Victoria Derby G1, 2nd Emsley Lodge Racing Geelong Classic LR.

Broodmare Sire: FLYING SPUR. Sire of the dams of 53 Stakes winners. In 2014 - PREFERMENT Zabeel G1, MOONOVERMANHATTAN Manhattan Rain G2, THUMP Red Ransom G2, TRAITOR Mossman G2, DOTHRAKI Mossman G3, REZONED Zabeel G3, ROYAL RAZALMA Lope de Vega G3, ATMOSPHERICAL Northern Meteor LR, HARD BABY Unaccounted For LR, PURE PURRFECTION General Nediym LR, ROAD TRIPPIN' Charge Forward LR. The Zabeel/Flying Spur cross has produced: PREFERMENT G1, ZYDECO G1, REZONED G3.

Sir Ivor Sir Tristram Isolt ZABEEL b 86 Nureyev Lady Giselle Valderna PREFERMENT b c 2011 Danehill Flying Spur Rolls BETTER ALTERNATIVE b 2003 Canny Lad Ancient Lights Hello Lottie

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international database Emirates Melbourne Cup, G1, Flemington, November 4, 3200m 1 Protectionist (GER) 4 b c Monsun (GER) - Patineuse (IRE) (Peintre Celebre (USA)) 2 Red Cadeaux (GB) 8 ch g Cadeaux Genereux - Artisia (IRE) (Peintre Celebre (USA)) 3 Who Shot Thebarman (NZ) 6 b g Yamanin Vital (NZ) - Ears Carol (NZ) (Carolingian (AUS))

Age: 2-4; Starts: 10; Wins: 5; Places: 5 Earnings: ÂŁ2,186,765

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 114 Stakes winners. In 2014 - FIORENTE Pilsudski G1, PROTECTIONIST Peintre Celebre G1, ALMANDIN Tiger Hill G2, ESTIMATE Darshaan G2, LONGINA Medicean G2, MANATEE Galileo G2, BATHYRHON Be My Guest G3, MIDSUMMER SUN Kingmambo LR, PINZOLO Barathea LR, VADAMOS Peintre Celebre LR, NEXT ROUND Caerleon LR.

1st Dam: Patineuse by Peintre Celebre. unraced. Dam of: 2009: PRIMATIST (g Manduro) 4 wins at 3 in France, Germany.

2010: PROTECTIONIST (c Monsun) 5 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Germany and Australia, Emirates Melbourne Cup G1, Darley Prix Kergorlay G2, Lucky Speed Hansa Preis G2, Preis SWB Derby Trial LR, 2nd G. P. der Badischen Unternehmer Rennen G2, Grosser Preis Herzog von Ratibor Rennen G3, Preis von Dahlwitz LR, 3rd Iffezheimer Derby-Trial LR. 2011: Pescara (f Samum) in training.

2012: Prana (f Siyouni) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of the dams of 34 Stakes winners. In 2014 AFRIKABURN Trippi G1, PROTECTIONIST Monsun G1, LIGHTNING MOON Shamardal G3,

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The Monsun/Peintre Celebre cross has produced: PROTECTIONIST G1, VADAMOS LR, Pure Brise G1.

Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung MONSUN br 90 Surumu Mosella Monasia PROTECTIONIST b c 2010 Nureyev Peintre Celebre Peinture Bleue PATINEUSE b 2004 Distant Relative Parisienne Poughkeepsie

Crown Victoria Oaks, G1, Flemington, November 6, 2400m 1 Set Square (AUS) 3 b f Reset (AUS) - Dynastar (AUS) (Zeditave (AUS)) 2 Thunder Lady (NZ) 3 b f Mastercraftsman (IRE) Thunderchine (AUS) (Thunder Gulch (USA)) 3 Golconda (AUS) 3 b/br f Snitzel (AUS) - Eureka Jewel (AUS) (Semipalatinsk (USA)) Sire: RESET. Sire of 27 Stakes winners. In 2014 - FAWKNER Danewin G1, SET SQUARE Zeditave G1, DISPOSITION Testa Rossa LR. 1st Dam: Dynastar by Zeditave. unraced. Dam of: 2005: Rothschild Lad (g Okawango) unraced.

2011: SET SQUARE (f Reset) Crown Victoria Oaks G1, New Zealand Bloodstock Ethereal S LR. Broodmare Sire: ZEDITAVE. Sire of the dams of 29 Stakes winners. In 2014 - SET SQUARE Reset G1, ANGELS BEACH Bel Esprit LR, EXCITES ZELADY Excites LR.

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Zeditave Assertive Lass Sommes Sound SET SQUARE b f 2011 The Judge Zeditave Summoned DYNASTAR b 93 Star Way Clarice Minnie Sue

Sothys New Zealand 2000 Guineas, G1, Riccarton Park, November 8, 1600m

1 Turn Me Loose (NZ) 3 b c Iffraaj (GB) - Indomitable (NZ) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Rockfast (AUS) 3 b c Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Gypsy Princess (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) 3 Prince Mambo (NZ) 3 b c Thewayyouare (USA) - Grace Park (NZ) (Danske (NZ))

Sire: IFFRAAJ. Sire of 23 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BENVENUE Be My Guest G1, RIZEENA Statue of Liberty G1, TURN ME LOOSE Danehill G1, HOT STREAK Housebuster G2, FORJATT Danzero G3, MAGIC ARTIST Cape Cross G3, DIBAJJ Royal Applause LR, KISSES Marscay LR, PEACE SOCIETY Sholokhov LR, PRINCE OF ALL Lycius LR, RIDING SHOTGUN Snippets LR.

1st Dam: Indomitable by Danehill. unraced. Dam of: 2011: TURN ME LOOSE (c Iffraaj) Sothys New Zealand 2000 Guineas G1, DHL Hawke's Bay Guineas G2, 3rd James & Annie Sarten Memorial S G3.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 277 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BELARDO Lope de Vega G1, COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, DICK WHITTINGTON Rip Van Winkle G1, FENOMENO Stay Gold G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, INTEGRAL Dalakhani G1, MISS

MOSSMAN Mossman G1, NOBLE MISSION Galileo G1, STEINBECK Footstepsinthesand G1, TAPESTRY Galileo G1, TURN ME LOOSE Iffraaj G1, CERTERACH Halling G2, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, FOREVER LOVED High Chaparral G2, FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G2, GALLATIN Street Cry G2, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G2, PALE MIMOSA Singspiel G2, SEEK AGAIN Speightstown G2, SOLICIT Street Cry G2, CHIVALRY Street Cry G3, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G3, J WONDER Footstepsinthesand G3, JOHN F KENNEDY Galileo G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MEKONG RIVER Galileo G3, NAYELI More Than Ready G3, ORCHESTRA Galileo G3, TESTED Selkirk G3, ZEPHYRON Zabeel G3, BERLING Montjeu LR, BRAYROAN Zabeel LR, COOLDINI Bernardini LR, DAZZLING Galileo LR, EINSTEINS FOLLY Whipper LR, ETON RIFLES Pivotal LR, GALIWAY Galileo LR, GOLDEN GUEPARD Hurricane Run LR, ICONIC Bel Esprit LR, JOYEUSE Oasis Dream LR, KESHIRO Shirocco LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LADY PENKO Archipenko LR, LUCKY RAQUIE Encosta de Lago LR, MOONLESS Helike LR, NOZOMI Street Cry LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, SECRET GESTURE Galileo LR, TUKIYO Haradasun LR, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro LR, VINTAGE NOUVEAU Montjeu LR, WHITLAM Elusive Quality LR, BALLYGLASHEEN Galileo LR.

The Iffraaj/Danehill cross has produced: CHRISELLIAM G1, FIX G1, TURN ME LOOSE G1, Liberating LR.

Gone West Zafonic Zaizafon IFFRAAJ b 2001 Nureyev Pastorale Park Appeal TURN ME LOOSE b c 2011 Danzig Danehill Razyana INDOMITABLE b 2003 Sadler's Wells Kwan Commanche Belle

international database Emirates Cantala Stakes, G1, Flemington, November 8, 1600m

1 Hucklebuck (AUS) 4 b/br g Elvstroem (AUS) - Kondari (NZ) (O'Reilly (NZ)) 2 Lucky Hussler (AUS) 5 b c Husson (ARG) - Talaq Dancer (AUS) (Black Hawk (GB)) 3 The Cleaner (AUS) 7 b g Savoire Vivre (GB) - Dash of Scotch (AUS) (Blessington (AUS)) Sire: ELVSTROEM. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2014 HUCKLEBUCK O'Reilly G1, OUTBACK JOE Nassipour G2.

1st Dam: Kondari by O'Reilly. unraced. Dam of: 2010: HUCKLEBUCK (g Elvstroem) Emirates Cantala S G1, Yellowglen Chatham S G3, C S Hayes Debonair S G3, Polytack Gothic S LR, Dominant Durbridge S LR, 2nd Carbine Club S G3.

Broodmare Sire: O'REILLY. Sire of the dams of 37 Stakes winners. In 2014 - COSTUME Savabeel G1, HUCKLEBUCK Elvstroem G1, I DO No Excuse Needed G1, IRISH FLING Darci Brahma G1, STEPS IN TIME Danehill Dancer G1, CHINTZ Savabeel G2, SACRED STAR Flying Spur G2, HOPFGARTEN Mossman G3, ORATOR'S DAUGHTER Oratorio G3, THE DIAMOND ONE Tale of The Cat G3, FULD'S BET I Am Invincible LR, IGGI POP Savabeel LR, INCLUDE Gallant Guru LR, KINGDOMS High Chaparral LR, MARITIMO Pins LR, WANABEFAMOUS Star Way LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana ELVSTROEM b 2000 Marscay Circles of Gold Olympic Aim HUCKLEBUCK b/br g 2010 Last Tycoon O'Reilly Courtza KONDARI b 2004 Scenic Kirtlington Acushla Marie

Darley Victoria Racing Club Classic, G1, Flemington, November 8, 1200m 1 Terravista (AUS) 5 ch c Captain Rio (GB) - Parfore (NZ) (Gold Brose (AUS)) 2 Chautauqua (AUS) 4 gr/b g Encosta de Lago (AUS) - Lovely Jubly (AUS) (Lion Hunter (AUS)) 3 Lankan Rupee (AUS) 5 b c Redoute's Choice (AUS) - Estelle Collection (NZ) (Stravinsky (USA)) Sire: CAPTAIN RIO. Sire of 26 Stakes winners. In 2014 TERRAVISTA Gold Brose G1, LADY ROYALE Catbird G2, AINIPPE Darshaan LR, WHOSYOURMASTER Wild Rampage LR. 1st Dam: PARFORE by Gold Brose.

Winner in Australia. Dam of: 2002: ININTHREE (f Generous) 2 wins in New Zealand.

2003: OUR LUKAS (g Generous) Professional Air Brisbane H LR, Channel 7 Ipswich Cup LR (twice), XXXX Gold Strawberry Road Reckless H LR, Darley Seymour Cup LR, 2nd Carlton Mid Lord Mayor's Cup G3.

2004: OUR BOY LUKAS (g Faltaat) 9 wins in Australia.

2006: FRUSTRATING (f Stravinsky) 2 wins in Australia.

2007: TIGER TEES (g Dubawi) 11 wins in Australia, bloodstock.com.au The Galaxy G1, 3rd Schweppes All Aged S G1.

2008: SUPER EASY (c Darci Brahma) Champion 3yr old in Singapore in 2011-12. Singapore Guineas LR, Lion City Cup LR, Patron's Bowl LR, Jumbo Jet Trophy LR, Paititi Gold Trophy LR, Three Rings Trophy LR, E W Barker Trophy LR, Singapore 3yo Sprint LR, Singapore 3yo Classic LR, 2nd Stella Artois Eclipse S G3, 3rd Kris Flyer International Sprint G1. Sire.

2009: TERRAVISTA (c Captain Rio) Darley Victoria Racing Club Classic G1, Bowermans Ofice Shorts H G2, Southern Cross Frederick Clissold S G3, Liverpool City Cup G3, Show County Quality H G3, 2nd Stanley Dewalt Festival S LR. 2010: BALL OF MUSCLE (g Dubawi) Winner in Australia.

Broodmare Sire: GOLD BROSE. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2014 - TERRAVISTA Captain Rio G1, TIGER TEES Dubawi G1, INTIMATE MOMENT Dubawi G3, SHEZHARDTOCATCH Elusive City G3.

The Captain Rio/Gold Brose cross has produced: IL QUELLO VELOCE G1, TERRAVISTA G1, DONNA CATTIVA LR, Are You Devious LR. Pivotal

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Fearless Revival CAPTAIN RIO ch 99 Miswaki Beloved Visitor Abeesh TERRAVISTA ch c 2009 Huntingdale Gold Brose Cryptic Verse PARFORE ch 97 Twig Moss Classy Twiggy Enchantress

Grande Premio Diana (Oaks), G1, Cidade Jardim, November 8, 2000m 1 Birkin Bag (BRZ) 3 f Elusive Quality (USA) - Princesa Rafaela (USA) (Woodman (USA)) 2 Last Kiss (BRZ) 3 f Elusive Quality (USA) - Last Bet (BRZ) (Know Heights (IRE)) 3 Leading Hat (BRZ) 3 b f Top Hat (BRZ) - Leading Cat (BRZ) (Roi Normand (USA)) Sire: ELUSIVE QUALITY. Sire of 95 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BIRKIN BAG Woodman G1, BONAPARTE Know Heights G1, LAST KISS Know Heights G1, CERTIFY Doc's Leader G2, DESEJADO MAGEE Spend A Buck G2, DESERT DREAM Matisse II G2, SHURUQ Noverre G2, ANGER Thunder Gulch G3, ENTERPRISING A P Indy G3, SAI DE BAIXO Royal Academy G3, BEAUTY PARLOR Sadler's Wells LR, COLORADO GIRL Midnight Tiger LR, MR UTOPIA Choisir LR, ROYALMANIA Lode LR, TENOSSUH Hussonet LR, WHITLAM Danehill LR, DEMONSTRATIVE Quiet American LR. 1st Dam: Princesa Rafaela by Woodman. Winner in Brazil, 2nd

Grande Premio Adayr Eiras de Araujo G2. Dam of: 2011: BIRKIN BAG (f Elusive Quality) Grande Premio Diana (Oaks) G1, 3rd G.P. C. G. e Carlos Telles Rocha Faria G2.

Broodmare Sire: WOODMAN. Sire of the dams of 183 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BIRKIN BAG Elusive Quality G1, SOLID APPEAL Successful Appeal G2, BALANCE OF POWER Silver Train G3, DAME DOROTHY Bernardini G3, FRENCH NAVY Shamardal G3, AMAZING GRACE Hurricane Run LR, ARASIN Footstepsinthesand LR, DEADLY TRUTH Bold Truth LR. Mr Prospector Gone West Secrettame ELUSIVE QUALITY b 93 Hero's Honor Touch of Greatness Ivory Wand BIRKIN BAG f 2011 Mr Prospector Woodman Playmate PRINCESA RAFAELA ch 2005 Effervescing Sweet Eternity Sweet Honey

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2015 editions March: NH edition

June: Summer Classics

Sire: ELUSIVE QUALITY. Sire of 95 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BIRKIN BAG Woodman G1, BONAPARTE Know Heights G1, LAST KISS Know Heights G1, CERTIFY Doc's Leader G2, DESEJADO MAGEE Spend A Buck G2, DESERT DREAM Matisse II G2, SHURUQ Noverre G2, ANGER Thunder Gulch G3, ENTERPRISING A P Indy G3, SAI DE BAIXO Royal Academy G3, BEAUTY PARLOR Sadler's Wells LR, COLORADO GIRL Midnight Tiger LR, MR UTOPIA Choisir LR, ROYALMANIA Lode LR, TENOSSUH Hussonet LR, WHITLAM Danehill

August: featuring France September: Irish focus

October: the Best of British November: Broodmare sires December: Stallion review

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Our European bloodstock man Jocelyn de Moubray with his family (daughter Rosie and son Arthur) took time out from his writings on January 11 to march in Grenoble in the aftermath of the shooting of 12 people in the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday, January 7.

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demonstration which saw two million people turn out to show their solidarity with the satirical magazine and their support of freedom of speech.

The website of Charlie Hebdo went offline shortly after the shooting, and when it returned it bore the legend Je Suis Charlie (I Am Charlie) on a black background.

The Je Suis Charlie slogan was first

used on twitter and spread to the internet at large.

Je Suis Charlie trended at the top of Twitter hashtags on January 7, the day of the attack. By the following afternoon it had appeared more than 3.4 million times, and was being used nearly 6,500 times per minute.

By the Friday, it had appeared more than 5 million times.

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3rd Gr.1 Prix Ispahan, 1 length from champions GOLDIKOVA and CIRRUS DES AIGLES By champion sire LINAMIX (15 Group 1 winners), closely related to 2yo Gr.1 winner Rosanara

was probably one of the best son of Linamix we’ve seen. Like his sire, he has a great turn of foot. ” FREDDY HEAD

184 mares covered in 2013 – 150 mares in 2014, including the dams of AVENIR CERTAIN : Prix de Diane Gr.1 and Poule d’Essai des Pouliches Gr.1, TAC DE BOISTRON : Prix Royal Oak Gr.1 (twice), AUVRAY : Prix Chaudenay Gr.2, Prix de Lutece Gr.3, LA HOGUETTE : 3rd Prix Jean Prat Gr.1, CRISOLLES : 2nd Prix de La Nonette Gr.2

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“truly a top-class colt”

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A HALF-BROTHER TO DUKE OF MARMALADE FROM THE SIRE PRODUCING FAMILY OF A.P. INDY AND LEMON DROP KID

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NEW FOR 2015

• FEE €15,000 (£11,250)

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh.

Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon, Cathal Murphy or Jim Carey: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.