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BRADSELL
Tasleet-Russian Punch (Archipenko)
The National Stud
£10,000
The Coventry Stakes (G2) winner who became a top-class sprinter at three and four, Bradsell has been retired to the National Stud and offers British breeders a fast and consistent first-season sire option.
Bradsell was a better racehorse than his sire Tasleet, who won the Group 2 Duke Of York Stakes and is related to Battaash.
Bred by Deborah O’Brien, Bradsell made 12,000gns at the Tattersalls Somerville Sale when he was bought by trainer Harry Dunlop and Highflyer Bloodstock.
Mark Grant breezed him at the Goffs UK Breezee Up Sale where he made £47,000 to Blandford Bloodstock and just a month later he made a winning debut at York for Archie Watson and Victorious Racing.
Stepped up immediately into elevated company, he proved he belonged there with defeat of Persian Force in the sprint at Royal Ascot.
Bradsell raced just once more at two, when fourth to Little Big Bear in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.
At three, on his first two runs, he was third in the Group 3 Commonwealth Cup Trial and in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes, but back at Royal Ascot and dropped to 5f for the first time, he proved a revelation beating the excellent Highfield Princess to win the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes.
Bradsell would remain racing over 5f for the remainder of his career and that year went on to finish close thirds to Live In The Dream and Highfield Princess in the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1).
After a down-the-field run in the Flying Five Stakes (G1), he was found to have an injury, which could have been career threatening.
He made a superb recovery to return to competitive action in August last season winning on his season debut.
In fact, he won his first three starts in 2024 going from a Listed win at Deauville to pick up his second and third Group 1 successes in the Nunthorpe Stakes and Flying Five Stakes.
He finished runner-up to Makarova in the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1), whom he had beaten previously. The final start of his career was in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.
Bradsell is the only Group 1 winner by Tasleet, who is also the sire of Group 3 Prix Allez France winner and Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet second American Sonja, who is out of a mare by Kodiac. His final British-bred crop are juveniles of this year.
As well as being an outlier for his sire, Bradsell is the best performer by far in the first five generations of his family and the only Group winner.
His dam is the Listed Radley Stakes winner Russian Punch by Archipenko, and she is the only other black-type performer in five generations.
FANTASTIC MOON
Sea The Moon-Frangipani (Jukebox Jury)
Gestüt Ebbesloh
€9,000
The 2023 Deutsches Derby (G1) and 2024 Grosser Preis von Baden (G1) winner is the most high-profile stallion to retire to stud in Germany for 2025.
One of four individual Group 1 winners by Lanwades Stud’s Sea The Moon, Fantastic Moon is the first of two consecutive Deutsches Derby winners bought as a yearling at BBAG by syndicate Liberty Racing.
He was consigned by his breeders Stauffenberg Bloodstock and bought for just €49,000, a figure that was eclipsed by his three-parts brother by Sea The Stars who was sold for 700,000gns to Juddmonte at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.
Days later Willingham went to 725,000gns for their dam Frangipani, offered in-foal to Sea The Moon.
A winner at two, Frangipani was bred and raised by Graf und Grafin von Stauffenberg and is a Jukebox Jury half-sister to Scandinavian Group 3 Fearless Hunter (Alhaarth).
Fantastic Moon is her first foal and her second, the now four-year-old Fang Mich (Starspangledbanner) has won and was placed at three in Germany. She has a threeyear-old Masar filly named Fire And Ice.
Her first foal is the winner of seven of his 15 starts and was Germany’s joint-champion two-year-old colt of 2022, winning the Group 3 Preis de Winterfavoriten.
At three, he also won the Group 2 Prix Niel over Feed The Flame and added the Group 2 Grosser Preis der Badenischen Wirtschaft at four to his top level victories.
PUCHKINE
Starspangledbanner-Vadyska (So You Think)
Haras de Beaumont
€8,500
The Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner is one of eight individual top-level victors by Starspangledbanner, who have won around the globe from Santa Anita to Sha Tin.
Bred by Alain Jathiere, Puchkine is the fourth foal out of the unraced So You Think mare Vadyska, who is also the dam of Listed-placed Shalaa filly Slevka.
They are the only two winners from five runners foaled by Vadyska. She also has a two-year-old Almanzor colt named Boulgakov in training with Jean-Claude Rouget and a yearling son of Muhaarar.
Jathiere retained Puchkine and sent him into training with Rouget. The colt made a winning debut at two over 7f at La Teste de Buch and was unbeaten in three starts as a juvenile.
His winning streak came to an end in his second start at three, his first in Listed company, when second in the Prix Aymeri de Mauleon at Toulouse to See You Around, a daughter of Siyouni.
Puchkine next contested the Poule D’Essai des Poulains (G1) in which he was ninth and followed that with a fourth in the Group 3 Prix Paul Moussac to Lazzat.
On his next start he was a something of a surprise winner of the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat, and it was after this Deauville victory that Gousserie Racing and Gerard-Augustin Normand bought into him.
He had one more start, in the 6f Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest, which was won by Lazzat.
He has joined Ace Impact at Haras de Beaumont for the 2025 season.
His dam is an unraced half-sister to the Listed Diana Trial winner Romina Power and they are out of the Italian Listed winner Rockatella, who was Group 3 placed in Germany and Italy.
The daughter of Rock Of Gibraltar is from the family of the Group 1 winner Lyric Of Light, who is by Street Cry, as well as three Group 1 winners and performers in Australia.
GO BEARS GO
Kodi Bear-In Dubai (Giant’s Causeway)
Springfield House Stud
€8,000
The third of three Amo Racing colts taking up stallion duties in Ireland this year, Go Bears Go will stand in Tipperary at Springfield House Stud.
A classy juvenile from the second crop of Kodi Bear, Go Bears Go was bred by Micheal Ryan whose Al Eile Stud sold him for £50,000 as a yearling at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.
Bought by Robson Aguiar, he was a successful breeze-up project who made 150,000gns to Alex Elliott buying for Amo Racing at the Tattersalls Craven Sale.
Less than a month later, Go Bears Go made a winning debut for trainer David Loughnane at Ascot and he followed up with second place to Perfect Power in the Norfolk Stakes (G2) at the Royal meeting. The colt duly won his next start at The Curragh taking the Group 2 Railway Stakes, returning a month later for the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes in which he was third to Ebro River.
Go Bears Go was a busy juvenile, running seven times and just failing to add a third win to his name when second in the Grade 2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint on his final race of the season.
There was no let up at three when he made eight starts including when making a successful seasonal debut in the Group 3 Commonwealth Cup Trial at Ascot.
He also won the Group 3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes on his return to The Curragh and was runner-up to Minzaal in the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes.
He remained in Kentucky following the 2022 Breeders’ Cup moving to the barn of Wesley Ward who trained him for his fouryear-old career.
Go Bears Go failed was switched back to Europe ahead of the 2024 season but three runs as a five-year-old yielded little.
Go Bears Go won four of his 22 career starts and is a half-brother to Dubai Rainbow (Tamayuz), the winning dam of last season’s Group 3 Prix Six Perfections second Royalty Bay, who is by Kodi Bear’s sire Kodiac.
Go Bears Go’s dam In Dubai has produced six winners and is a winning Giant’s Causeway half-sister to Group 1 Prix de l’Opera and Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes winner Nahrain (Selkirk), the dam of the Dubai Turf and Caulfield Stakes winner Benbatl (Dubawi) and last year’s 1,000 Guineas winner Elmalka (Kingman).
Another half-sister, Doratti, is the second dam of Group 3 winner Far Above (Farhh), who made a decent start with his first twoyear-olds in 2024.
The second dam of Go Bears Go is Bahr (Generous), winner of the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2) and Musidora Stakes (G3) and was placed in the Oaks (G1) and the Irish Oaks (G1).
