ITB_January 2024 by International Thoroughbred

JANUARY 2024

£4.95 • ISSUE 120

NEW SIRES

2024

Paddington and Ace Impact head up the new names on the European roster

We take a close look at racing in Japan and the influence of Northern Farm, and we welcome a new friend to our editorial team

Enduring quality St an d i ng a l o ng s i d e

B AT E D B R E AT H The best value sire of blacktype performers in Britain

£10,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

FRANKEL 2023 Champion Sire in Europe, and Great Britain and Ireland

£350,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

KINGMAN The brilliant Classic-winning miler with global appeal

£125,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

OA S I S D REA M An outstanding source of high-class speed

£15,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

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

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I n t rodu cin g

CHALDEAN The Dewhurst Stakes and 2000 Guineas-winning son of Frankel

£25,000

1st Oct, Special Live Foal

The only 2YO Group 1-winning son of Frankel at stud in Europe Posted a unique sequence of 2YO Group wins Gr.3 Acomb Stakes, Gr.2 Champagne Stakes & Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes (in the second-fastest time ever) Timeform rating 122

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

4 straight Gr.1 wins in just 68 days!

WON

Irish 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1, Curragh on 27th May

WON

St. James’s Palace Stakes-Gr.1, Royal Ascot on 20th June

WON

Eclipse Stakes-Gr.1, Sandown on 8th July

WON

Sussex Stakes-Gr.1, Goodwood on 2nd August

“ He’s a gorgeous horse, very good-looking, very laid back.

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A lovely horse and a proper stallion prospect

John Gosden

By SIYOUNI from a top Wildenstein family New for 2024 Fee: €55,000

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

Gr.1 winning 2yo Classic winning miler

STUD FEE: £15,000 OCT 1ST SLF

“ Kameko was top-class and from what I’ve seen at the sales he could be even more exciting as a sire. I have already bought a few and am sure I will be booking clients mares to him!” Richard Brown, Blandford Bloodstock

Colt x Stacey Sutton

125,000gns

to Blandford Bloodstock

Colt x Golden Spell

160,000gns

to Blandford Bloodstock

“Kameko was clearly an exceptional racehorse breaking the race record in the 2000 Guineas. I really like the colt we bought; he had lots of quality and great presence about him. I am very excited to train him!” Ed Bethell, Gr.1 winning trainer

Andrew Balding, John and Thady Gosden, William Haggas, Roger Varian, Richard Hannon, Archie Watson, Hugo Palmer, Ed Bethell, James Ferguson, Eve Johnson Houghton, Ed Dunlop, Ed Walker, etc.

“ The Kameko’s we sold were lovely forward types with a great walk, they have all been extremely well received by agents and trainers.” Henri Bozo, Ecurie des Monceaux

Colt x Lady McKell

£95,000

to Peter and Ross Doyle/ Richard Hannon

Colt x Glories

€140,000 to Yoshito Yahagi

“ I’ve been so impressed with the Kameko’s. Very straightforward, good-looking, solid horses. I’ve bought a couple of very nice ones and would love to have more!” Richard Hannon, Classic winning trainer

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

BOUTTEMONT NEW FOR 2024

THE FASTEST-EVER SON OF ACCLAMATION TO RETIRE TO STUD

A Group 3-winning sprinter, he won the Prix Hampton over 5f at Chantilly in an electric time of 56.18 seconds “Acclamation's record as a sire-of-sires is a statistical sensation.” – TDN July 2023 Acclamation's stallion sons led by Dark Angel and Mehmas have sired 24 individual Group 1 winners Bouttemont is Acclamation's first son to retire to stud in Ireland since Mehmas in 2017 T: +353 (0)25 36362 • E: info@rathbarrystud.com

ACCLAMATION Proven Multiple Group 1 Sire incl. ROMANTIC WARRIOR Winner of Gr.1 Cox Plate, Gr.1 QE11 Cup (twice), Gr.1 Longines Hong Kong Cup (twice), Hong Kong Derby

KODI BEAR

Sire of 15 Individual Stakes Performers incl. Stakes Winners GO BEARS GO, THUNDERBEAR, CLOUNMACON, MYSTERY ANGEL, etc. and of ROOM SERVICE Winner of the £300,000 2-Y-O Weatherbys Stakes Race

STATE OF REST Four time Gr.1 Winner - Top Rated Older Horse in Ireland and France in 2022 (9.5-10.5f.) Support from renowned breeders with an exceptional book of mares in his first season www.rathbarrystud.com

CHAMPION 2YO impressive winner of Gr.1 Prix J.-L. Lagardère

SEALIWAY

€ 12,000 Live foal

Group 1

QIPCO

CHAMPION STAKES winner ALSO STANDING

INTELLO

€ 8,000 Live foal

Gr.1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner by Galileo Proven Sire of 47 Stakes performers

2023 Yearlings sold for up to €135.000 H A R A S D E B E A U M O N T. C O M

STUNNING SPIRIT

€ 3,000 Live foal

Group Winning miler

By champion Sire Invincible Spirit, out of a full sister to dual Gr.1 winner Rainbow View

First two years old in 2024

ACE IMPACT

NE W IN 2

0 24

€ 40,000 Live foal

Cartier

HORSE OF THE YEAR

UNBEATEN GR.1 PRIX DU JOCKEY-CLUB

GR.1 PRIX DE L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE

Mathieu ALEX + 33 6 26 59 19 18 - mathieu@harasdebeaumont.com Pauline CHEHBOUB +33 6 24 35 57 74 - pauline@harasdebeaumont.com

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It’s Leo

Disruption

Girls Aloud

Christmas Festive action

Leading lists from Weatherbys

The Asian Century

Our new columnist introduces himself We all need to channel our inner Mike Repole, writes Ted Voute

Team Sumbe

Diamond in his eyes

In with the new

Winning US stakes and dam sires of 2023

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Photo finish

It is a tough time for breeders at the moment, but Cathy Grassick outlines the two ITBA seminars planned this spring to help breeders with plans All the best action from Kempton and Leopardstown over the Festive period, which saw an astonishing win for Hewick in the King George NH sires’ table for Britain and Ireland to date, the final table for the Flat season 2023 and an apology David Morgan charts the phenomenal success of Northern Farm, Sunday Racing and it’s associated syndicates which saw them dominate Japanese racing and breeding again

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Jocelyn de Moubray talks with Tony Fry, manager of the expanding Sumbe operation standing two new stallions in 2024, Angel Bleu and Belbek Ciarán De Barra is a young man with big ambitions and tells Ronan Groome all about his newly-formed Diamond Stud Bellewstown, home to new sire for 2024, Marie’s Diamond

A new year and a batch of new sires for 2024 – Paddington heads the list by fee, while the champion Frankel has four new sire sons starting out. We give an in-depth pedigree and performance profile of each new sire at stud for 2024 in Britain, Ireland and France

The Jockeys Jumping at the London International Show at the ExCel Centre before Christmas

Ace Impact

Courtesy of Haras de Beaumont

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it’s leo

Hello everyone! Our new columnist introduces himself... you may have seen him before

EO POWELL? Who is he? The face looks familiar; I have probably seen him at the races, the sales or some other event. If that is your reaction to seeing my name appended to a column this month, fear not. I will try to fill in the blanks. Hopefully, Irish readers of this venerable publication will recognise the name and face. I am now a few lengths past the mid-way stage of my 60s, but I was born into the equine business, though not necessarily guaranteed to be professionally involved. My

late father Brendan, known to all as Benny, managed a number of stud farms throughout his lifetime, was a small breeder himself, and gave something back to the industry when he served a couple of terms as a director of the Irish National Stud. Though my childhood did see me ride to hounds, with the famous Duhallow pack in Cork, and do a small amount of showing, it is fair to say that I was a windy rider, not completely at home over an obstacle. Some discussions at home about perhaps getting me lessons in the art of dressage came to nowt, and my time in

Breeders set to embrace new sire Paddington

N THE category of TMI (too much information), I do have to admit to being a teddy bear collector. It is a fun pastime, owning a Stieff model or two being the grandest of my expectations. One bear who is not in my collection is Paddington (hint, hint Richard Henry!), who originally came from Peru where he was brought up by his Aunt Lucy after he was orphaned when just a few weeks old. Aunt Lucy taught him to speak perfect English, and arranged for him to stow away in a ship’s lifeboat. Eventually, he arrived at Paddington Station in London where he was found by Mr and Mrs Brown, with a label round his neck with the words, “Please Look After This Bear. Thank You.” An iconic figure this creation of Michael Bond is known throughout the world, and epitomises London and Britain for many. When Sue Magnier named a €420,000 yearling son of Siyouni two years ago, she probably had a fair idea that he was above average. How good would have been impossible to say. Just like the bear version, the equine

“..it is fair to say that I was a windy rider, not completely at home over an obstacle

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Paddington was sent to England, returning however on each occasion to Ballydoyle, and the care of Aidan O’Brien. A well-beaten fifth on his debut in what has turned out to be a moderate maiden at Ascot, Paddington looked promising when he opened his account six weeks later at The Curragh. Perhaps he had been over-named, if there is such a phrase, and the fact that he made his second-season bow in a handicap at Naas might suggest that even the wizard of Ballydoyle didn’t fully appreciate the heights his colt could reach.

Most expensive

Paddington then rattled off four Group 1 wins in succession, the Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas, the St James’s Palace Stakes, the Eclipse Stakes and the Sussex Stakes, and now he starts the 2024 breeding season at Coolmore, the most expensive of the new stallions in Ireland. He was a must-see during the recent Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Stallion Trail, and he stands with his sire’s other Group 1-winning sons, Sottsass and St Mark’s Basilica. He is the costliest

of that trio at €55,000. There has been a relatively small number of new sires going to stud in Ireland this season. The stallion ranks in both Britain and France have undoubtedly strengthened in recent years, and this spread has certainly increased competition among the leading European breeding powers. A decade ago, what did the new sires’ list look like? Frankel started at Banstead Manor Stud at an opening fee of £125,000, while next to him on the British list was Nathaniel at Newsells Park for £20,000. Coolmore welcomed Excelebration, whose racing nemesis was Frankel, at €22,500, and So You Think for a fee of €17,500. We all know that most stallion careers end in failure, and that measure can vary greatly, and many of the some three dozen new European sires of 10 years ago are largely forgettable. Paddington is the dearest sire in Europe retiring to stud in 2024. Ace Impact costs the most in France at €40,000, while Modern Games at £30,000 leads the way in Britain. There are 16 sires standing in Europe who command more than Paddington will this year.

it’s leo the saddle petered out. Additionally, it was hard to be compared to my younger brother, a natural, who would go on to have a successful career as a NH jockey, he won the 1988 Grand National at Aintree, and as a trainer. In my teens I developed an interest in pedigrees, initially fuelled by the fact that my father’s then employer, Elizabeth Nelson of Waterloo House Stud, had an extensive library of stud books, form books and catalogues from all over the world. Each week’s post would also bring newspapers from Italy, France and elsewhere, all of which I devoured when the opportunity arose.

Integral part

Fortune struck in early 1976 as I was studying for my final school examinations, with the hope of a place at university to study European Law. My parents wanted this for me. In The Irish Field, later to become an integral part of my life, an advertisement appeared for a person to work in the pedigree department of the fledgling Ballsbridge International Bloodstock Sale, later Tattersalls Ireland.

“In my teens I developed an interest in pedigrees, initially fuelled by the fact that my father’s then employer, Elizabeth Nelson of Waterloo House Stud, had an extensive library of stud books...

During a school break before my final examinations I travelled with my parents to Dublin for an interview, conducted by the company’s chief executive, Michael Opperman, with a grilling also from their bloodstock manager, the late John Clarke. I got the job at the interview, sailed through my exams with no pressure now to secure a place at college, and my first day at work was behind the scenes at the second edition of the Derby Sale. A dozen years of happy service at the company ended just before it moved to its present site at Fairyhouse, though it proved to be a difficult time. The rivalry between Tattersalls, now the owners of the former Ballsbridge Sales, and Goffs, headed by the dynamic Jonathan Irwin, was intense, and the fact that I joined the latter as NH manager did not initially go down well. Thankfully, time proved to be a healer.

Rewarding time

For 15 years I again enjoyed a rewarding time in Kildare Paddocks, growing the NH sales and starting the Land Rover Sale (now the Arkle Sale) to becoming bloodstock

Economic impact

How important is the Irish breeding sector to the country and its economy? The latest report concluded that the thoroughbred equine sector is worth some €800 million, and its economic impact stands in the region of €2.5 billion. This makes it larger than some agricultural sectors and, with some 30,000 people employed across a broad range of activities, it is of vital importance to the Exchequer. Nevertheless, there are unfavourable winds ahead, but hopefully not stormy seas. Last year’s sales returns showed that there are cracks appearing, though they largely affected the lesser-quality stock. Quality still attracts premium values, but all breeders will look more carefully at their mating plans in 2024. When one considers the global woes we are encountering, with climate changes, wars and more, it is remarkable that the breeding sector remains as strong as it is today. I don’t need to tell you that we are producing the raw material for racing, and the global picture for our sport is being bombarded, whether these factors are from within the industry – poor prizemoney the obvious enemy – or from outside factors such as welfare concerns.

Paddington

The dream? A super-group of racing minds

One lesson that could be learned from the Irish experience is that working together is key to moving forward. Yes, we too have our problems, but when it comes to matters of strategic planning, funding and more, we have most sectors represented

directly on the board of Horse Racing Ireland. When they speak on matters, they do so with a united voice, at least in public. No one country can claim that they have a utopian situation, and my annual attendance at the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities gathering in Paris, held just after the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, reminds me so. We look enviously at the likes of Hong Kong, where they might claim to be close to an idyll. However, the Asian region has its challenges also. If Aladdin appeared tomorrow, and offered me three wishes, two would be selfish, while the third would be for the good of racing. What would that final wish be? Well, it is a dream, and unlikely to ever happen, but it would be the establishment of a super-group of the world’s leading racing minds, who would bring about all the changes we need to make racing a sport envied by all. Their task would be clear – get rid of unnecessary drugs, put ownership of the sport in the hands of people who don’t just want to take, take and take more, and ensure that the equine, who is central to what we are all about, has the best welfare regimes in place. It’s not much to ask for really, is it?

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it’s leo director. Fate was to intervene, and an invitation to lunch one day by Matt Dempsey was to change my career trajectory. Matt revealed that the Agricultural Trust, owners of The Irish Farmers Journal, was on the verge of acquiring The Irish Field, Ireland’s only dedicated newspaper for the racing, breeding and sport horse sectors. Founded in 1870, it had a long and glorious history, but The Irish Times, its proprietors, wished to off-load it, and a sale to another trust was their preferred option. Matt wondered if I would take the role of managing editor. The answer was never in doubt, though I did ponder it for a few days. The first issue of the newspaper under my editorship appeared on September 27, 2003, four days after my birthday. While I had been contributing to the paper previously under the pseudonym Mill House, indulging my twin passions for writing and pedigrees, this was a whole new world. Subsequently, for two decades exactly until the issue of September 23, 2023 on my 66th birthday, I contributed at least an editorial, and latterly more columns to the paper.

“Now, in my ‘rewirement’ phase of life, (we don’t mention the other ‘r’ word), I am able to expand my horizons

No retirement

Given the synchronicity of the dates, it was timely to make my 1,045th editorial my last, though I continue to write about breeding, stallions and sales, and some features. Now, in my “rewirement” phase of life, (we don’t mention the other ‘r’ word), I am able to expand my horizons. Imagine my delight then when Sally broached the possibility of my joining International Thoroughbred as a columnist. There was only one response. I admire the team at International Thoroughbred and the publication produced. (By the way, this is not a case of unnecessary flattery as I already have the gig!) The crew publishes a magazine that is immensely readable, topical and global. It truly lives up to its name. Hopefully, as the year progresses, I will be able to add an Irish angle and broad international viewpoint that will be both informative, enjoyable and relevant. There ends my short introduction. If nothing else, it will provide useful cut and paste copy for my obituary – with some positive updates I hope! leobpowell@gmail.com

Derby Sale at Ballsbridge in 1975: the second-ever Derby Sale with a young Leo Powell in attendance, his first day at work for the company Photo courtesy of Tattersalls Ireland

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QUALITY WITHOUT COMPROMISE Lope Y Fernandez Bay, 16.0hh | 2017 Lope De Vega ex Black Dahlia (Dansili)

Physique - Pedigree - Performance £8,500 October 1st

Mutasaabeq

Brown, 16.0hh | 2018 Invincible Spirit ex Ghanaati (Giant’s Causeway)

Bred in the Blue £6,500 October 1st

Rajasinghe

Bay, 15.3hh | 2015 Choisir ex Bunditten (Soviet Star)

Exceptional Value £3,000 October 1st

Stradivarius

Chesnut, 15.3hh | 2014 Sea The Stars ex Private Life (Bering)

Speed - Soundness - Sireline £10,000 Live Foal

Time Test

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

By sire of sires Dubawi £8,500 October 1st

Contact the team today Joe Bradley 07706 262046 | Joe.Bradley@nationalstud.co.uk Jamie Jackson 07794 459108 | Jamie. Jackson@nationalstud.co.uk

ted talks

TED TALKS...

‘s 0,

DISRUPTION

We need to channel our inner Mike Repole, writes Ted Voute

who exist to continue airing their forthright views . As Ed Harper said in his interview in the TDN – we need to take a look at ourselves and take a view as to how we do things: prepare foals, at our animal husbandry, and our horse management. We need to bring ourselves into the modern era and keep reviewing whether we are doing things right. Harper is a mini disrupter – from time to time so is David Redvers, while Eddie O’Leary and Roger O’Callaghan will stir things up in Ireland. I think it’s a good thing – all you need to do is listen to Jamie Railton’s podcast interview with O’Callaghan to realise that all these guys want a better industry. We have been playing the long game, waiting for the unifying industry bodies and learning not

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We can all make changes in each sector to ensure this industry is more successful and appealing to the outside world

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N RECENT podcasts and TDN interviews I have heard many heart-felt and self-effacing comments from participants wishing to improve our industry, in particular an interview by Nick Luck with Mike Repole. It made me look at the British racing industry and ask, where is our own Mike Repole? Love him or hate him he is a disrupter. Are we too “British” to have a disrupter around us? Or are we too scared to upset the apple cart? Certainly, my days with the TBA taught me to join forces in opinion, and that racing as a whole is stronger fighting together rather than singularly. But I’d like to stimulate some disruption and nominate the people

to speak out as we play the game of dominoes hoping that we don’t knock each other down. But, in reality, all we are doing is smoothing over the big problems that need sorting out. Self governance is where it starts. We can all do better and we need more interviews with industry people who are passionate and young, and we need to learn from their criticisms. I don’t agree with everything everyone says, but discussion stimulates thought and ultimately action. I am all for the Thoroughbred Group representing the many stakeholders – as long as it has some teeth and is not frightened to stamp its feet a little instead of trying to pacify everyone. Through the TBA, I learnt that Julian Richmond Watson CBE was a good chairman – he let everyone

have a say and then represented the majority opinion rather than his own, which is very important, but he’s not a disrupter. Peter Savill, who does have disruptive tendencies, has shaken up the racing programme and forced the idea of Premier racing. I fear it is not quite as he envisioned, but at least there is collaborative movement within the British racing industry. The Jockey Club’s racecourse arm, which operates under royal charter, has made great strides to reveal its media rights income of £45/50 million revenue, and has opened its books to 120 separate facets of the industry to explain how it accounts and spends income streams, promising to use 60 per cent of media money for prizemoney. Maybe through The Jockey Club we will eventually see the levels of income from the World Pool? Each sector needs to self review where they are and how they contribute. Harper’s further suggestion is that we need to tighten up presentation of horses at the sale, raise the bar from the smallest to the biggest farms, and find new innovative ways to promote our bloodstock maybe using AI in the future. Sales consignors need to club together and improve the level of horsemanship required to present horses for sale. Perhaps they should look to the showing sector of the horse world for experienced show people who add value to the horses they are showing rather, than being satisfied with using untrained students who tend to learn the craft whilst at a sale. Trade organisations are providing educational platforms, which should be used even more

extensively and trainees should earn certificates to create a higher knowledge of welfare for both humans and horses. Horse ownership needs to need to be more vocal. The UK’s current biggest disrupter is Kia Joorabchian, who readily hires, fires and switches trainers, and is openly forthright in opinion. He comes from the sports world and has very clear expectations as to how his horses are trained and where they run. He will benefit the industry long term, but is not admired by all.

HE ROA pacifies its board members by providing lots of useful discounts on entries, and does fight for better facilities. The board has changed since the Rachel Hood days or those of Sir Eric Parker.

Stallion games THIS SPRING successful and invogue stallions received up to 400 applications for 140-180 places, the ever-growing polaristion in the stallion market evident. Mares who can’t get into these highly popular stallions have a reduced chance of success as breeders are forced to use “chancey” stallions who might be on the rise or are “longer distance” sires. Stallion masters with the indemand sires found it incredibly difficult to assign every good breeder with their requests. No one saw this polarisation

The ROA shouldn’t be frightened to collaborate with owner-breeders more openly and to make more noise regarding prize-money. Many critics felt the nature of horse trading stopped owners from getting involved. We’ve spent years setting up codes of practice and panels to report wrong doing and, from where I stand, I believe we operate a very clean business. Journalist Lee Mottershead did us a favour as a disrupter and, together with the BHA inquirer, rattled a few cages. Not much came out that ended in prosecution, but the industry put in place a well thoughtout monitoring procedure and a route to report unusual activity. Our next project to face head on is animal and human welfare – drug testing humans and horses before we end up with a similar situation as in the US with vocal animal activists. We need to engage by showcasing the good care we

coming as strongly as it has; if they did the stud fees would have been higher. Assigning nominations has changed from a “first-come-firstserved-basis” to only the best mares on the application list getting a place. Some studs have even used their “stallion of the moment” to fill a lesser sire by selling nominations in pairs. All of the above is just a way to fill stallions and it tends to piss people off. But who are we to tell stallion masters how to manage their stallions? It’s so difficult to get a good one and stay at the top of the sires’ lists.

provide, while also educating the public as to what happens with catastrophic injuries and the care taken to prevent them. We need to show everybody how theses horses are fed diets that are intensely researched to produce highly tuned and sound racehorses from birth. Every aspect has to look inwards, including journalism and we need to ask if newspapers only reporting the sensationalised stories because it sells papers? Investigative journalism can still highlight success stories, as well as the disasters. In conclusion I am just trying to point out that each and every one of us can do things better Get better results and breed faster racehorses. In every sector now we try to fight for the best and make things more transparent. We will never be perfect because there is no finite end, but we can all make changes in each sector to ensure the industry is more successful and appealing to the outside world. Our fans have evolved from an aristocratic fan base to a diverse and sometimes younger fan base who might have an attention span of two minutes on a Tik Tok video. Racing can compete – a race does not take much longer and could have a variety of gambling opportunities. Which horse breaks first from the gate? Which horses finishes first? Does horse A beat horse B? Who is first second or third? Who is last? We need to broaden our gambling products to make it more attractive. Denise Coates, the chairwomen of Bet 365, earns £270 million a year, meaning that the tax man earns more than the Jockey Club does in media rights!

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....Girls aloud

NEW YEAR and a new start to the breeding season of 2024. Already, we have had our first foal born at the farm here; the early spring always an occasion with hope and promise for the future. Nobody likes to be pessimistic at the outset of a new year but, after the past sales season, it is clear that we are in the midst of a difficult economic climate. While there were still many top quality horses changing hands for big prices, and the top of the market remains strong, the middle and the lower ends have been difficult for many breeders and consignors. There are a number of different theories and reasons for economic downturn, and certainly the impact of war, as well as recession, inflation and cost of living increases is being felt around the world. It is difficult to see the conditions that some people are facing and not feel a little bit lucky. Despite many challenges facing our industry, we are also blessed with many successes and positives, and we need to bear this in mind. Conscious of the challenges facing many breeders for the season ahead, the ITBA has organised two seminars for January and February. The first had a NH focus and took place (as this magazine was being printed) on Wednesday, January 17 in the Lord Bagenal in County Carlow. The seminar titled, “Jumping into the Future”, included a stellar panel, hosted by Lorna Fowler, trainer and breeder. Joining Lorna was Anthony Bromley of Highflyer Bloodstock, purchaser of high-profile winners Noble Yeats, Kauto Star, Sprinter Sacre and Altior; Walter Connors, vet and consignor from his Sluggara Farm whose graduates are headed by 2016 Gold Cup winner Don Cossack; Bertrand Le Metayer, racing advisor and bloodstock agent who has sourced some of the top French jumpers such as Klairon and Edredon Bleu; Peter Molony, breeder and consignor at Rathmore Stud and Goffs representative who has produced top-class horses such as Bobsworth, Sir Gerhard, Telmesomethinggirl and Honeysuckle; Charles O’Neill, the CEO of Irish Thoroughbred Marketing, and Richard Pugh, the director of Horses In Training sector for Tattersalls Ireland and director of Irish Point to Point Services. We will update with all the views put forward in the next issue of International Thoroughbred, alongside the outcome of discussions held at the second planned seminar. This have a Flat breeding focus and will take place on the eve of Goffs February Sale in the Goffs auditorium on Tuesday, February 6. This seminar will focus on the challenges facing Flat breeders ahead of the coming season and will feature a panel of top class Flat breeders who will discuss the current challenges and offer their opinion on the marketplace. The panel has yet to be announced for the seminar, but I can

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Seminars and award evenings Cathy Grassick, chairman of the Irish Breeders’ Association, outlines the upcoming activities

The Flat breeding seminar in February will follow the same format as last November’s well-attended ITBA Next Generation pinhooking seminr

advise all that this will be an evening not to be missed. The evening will be held in conjunction with the ITBA Next Generation and will follow a similar format to the highly successful and well-attended pin-hooking seminar, which took place in November last year.

AM looking forward to both evenings and getting to meet and chat with so many breeders from both sides of our industry. It is really important, in order to deal with the challenges facing our industry effectively, that we come together to listen and discuss the issues and to find solutions for the problems. These evenings help to build strategy and make plans so that both NH and Flat breeders can move forward into 2024 and beyond with confidence and commerciality. The Irish Thoroughbred Marketing’s Stallion Trail is taking place as I write this and I look forward to filling you in on the many visits to different farms that I get to make. I would similarly love to be making the trip to France to take part in the Route des Etalons, but the mares here have other plans for me! The only social function I have on my horizon is the upcoming ITBA Annual Breeder Awards, which will reward and celebrate the Irish breeding successes of 2023 on the January 27 at the Heritage Hotel. It is wonderful to see Irish Breeders and Irish Bred horses recognised as world leaders in such a competitive industry and the breeders can be proud of the hard work and dedication of the many people working in this industry, who have contributed to this success. The event is also a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge those who have made a lifelong contribution to Irish thoroughbred breeding and the awards are well deserved and a testament to the wonderful people we have working in our industry. It is also an evening full of fun and catching up with friends something to look forward to and to brighten up the dark evenings of January. I look forward to reporting back on all the excitement!

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Stakes winner at 2 and Cartier Champion at 3

First French horse to win the Eclipse since 1960

Record-breaking winner of the Prix du Jockey Club

Winner of 5 races and a Gr.1 performer in France, England and Ireland

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A Christmas feast

Amy Bennett reports on a fantastic week of Festive racing

HRISTMAS IS ALWAYS the season of feasting and what an abundance of delicacies there were to be enjoyed by racing fans between Boxing Day/St Stephen’s Day and New Year’s Day. No fewer than 13 Grade 1 contests took place between Christmas and New Year, spread across both sides of the Irish Sea and encompassing victories for returning heroes and rising stars alike. And that is not to mention a full spread of Grade 2 and 3 and Listed races, as well as a bumper cards of more ordinary fare. So where to begin reviewing the feast? Perhaps with the morsels below.

The bargain buy

Hewick and his trainer Shark Hanlon have redefined the word “bargain”. Purchased for just €850 at Goresbridge as a two-year-old for his owner TJ McDonald, Hewick is one of racing’s true rags-to-riches stories. Since he was signed for by Hanlon’s partner Rachel O’Neill, the now-nine-year-

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old has banked over £613,000 under Rules. An impressive £143,000 of that total came on Boxing Day when the Virtual gelding scored a never-say-die victory in the King George VI Chase (G1) at Kempton, having looked ready to be pulled up at one stage. Bred by William Quinn out of the unraced Oscar mare Ballyburn Rose, he hails from a solid jumping family, with such luminaries as the Grade 1-winning hurdler Artello Tower and the high-class chaser Deep Bramble on the page. It is worth noting that Hewick’s owner signed for the gelding’s foal half-brother by Jet Away at the 2023 Goffs December National Hunt Sale for €20,000, while the star’s is two-year-old half-brother by Affinisea is another to have joined the fold, with Hanlon signing for him at €25,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale in 2022. While a long way from their older sibling’s bargain basement price tag, that duo is also a long way from some of the bidding frenzies we have seen in NH circles in recent years. Hewick’s sire Virtual began his stud career

at Cheveley Park Stud before moving to Woodlands Stud in County Galway, where Hewick was conceived. He moved again in 2022 to stand at Etheridge Farm in Dorset, an operation focused on producing eventers and show horses.

Higher prices

Given the prevalence of big rollers in NH racing in recent times, it is perhaps a little surprising that high-priced sales graduates were not more dominant in the biggest races over Christmas. Most pricey of the Grade 1 winners was Caldwell Potter (Martaline), who made the leap from a maiden hurdle victory to top-level success in the Future Champions Novice Hurdle (G1) with ease at Leopardstown on December 27. The Martaline gelding was snapped up as a three-year-old by Joey Logan for owners Andy and Gemma Brown for €200,000 in Part 1 of the Goffs Land Rover Sale in 2021. A full-brother to the four-time Grade 1 winner Mighty Potter, sadly killed in a fall at Fairyhouse last year, the six-year-old is also

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How the race was won: Hewick was an unlikely winner at the last, but his persistence saw him home to the delight of Shark Hanlon and Gavin Sheehan

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A proud French team returns in triumph after Il Est Francais’ victory in the Kauto Star Novice Chase (G1)

Karaktar really made headlines over Christmas when siring his first top-level winner outside of France, followed by a Grade 2 winner

a half-brother to the Grade 3 winners French Dynamite (Kentucky Dynamite), Indiana Jones (Blue Bresil) and Brighterdaysahead (Kapgarde), all bred by Francois-Marie Cottin. They are out of the Laveron mare Matnie, an unraced daughter of the Grade 2-placed hurdler Lirfox (Foxhound), from a smart jumping family. Having produced a pair of sons by Doctor Dino in 2021 and 2020, Matnie foaled a colt by No Risk At All last year, for breeder Walter Connors. Two weeks later another of Connors’ mares received a big boost when Readin Tommy Wrong triumphed in the re-arranged Lawlor’s of Naas Novice Hurdle (G1) at Naas. Bred by Connors out of the High Chaparral mare Roque De Cyborg, the

winner, unbeaten under Rules, is by Authorized, who was recently repatriated to stud in Ireland from Turkey. Also providing a smart return on a big price tag was Jango Baie, the son of Tiger Groom who was signed for by JP McGrath Bloodstock at £170,000 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale last year. The five-year-old made his own little piece of history by winning the inaugural Formby Novices’ Hurdle (G1) at Aintree, formerly the Tolworth Hurdle, run at Sandown, on Boxing Day. Successful by the narrowest margin in a novice hurdle at Ascot in early November, the now five-year-old stayed on well to win in some style at Aintree.

The young sire (in NH terms) Karaktar has made plenty of friends with his first runners, including via a trio of Grade 3 winners last year. However, the Haras de Cercy-based sire really made headlines over Christmas with his first top-level winner outside of France, followed by a Grade 2 winner for good measure. Il Est Francais became his sire’s first Grade 1 winner when successful at Auteuil in November 2022, and he could scarcely have been more impressive when striding clear over the last to triumph in the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase (G1) at Kempton by 11l for the training partnership of Noel George and Amanda Zetterholm. Bred by Haras de Saint-Voir and out of the Video Rock mare Millesimee, he is from the first crop of Karaktar, who retired to Haras de Cercy for a fee of €2,000 in 2017. That fee has now rocketed to €12,000 after the son of High Chaparral reportedly covered 263 mares last year off a fee of €4,500. Only ten minutes the triumph at Kempton, Kala Conti flew the flag for their sire at Leopardstown when triumphing in the Juvenile Hurdle (G2). Now four, the filly was bred by Patrick Joubert and Ecurie Couderc out of the Roli Abi mare Rolibie de Vindecy. The next reported foal out of the mare, a half-brother by Pour Moi, was foaled in 2022. Twice successful in Grade 3 company at 1m2f, Karaktar was bred and raced by the Aga Khan.

A Point to watch

It is hardly a secret that it pays to keep a close eye on French form in NH racing, but how many people who watched the Prix Jacques de Vienne, an AQPS Grade 1 contest run at Saint-Cloud in November 2021, could have predicted such success for its 1-2? Clearly a few did, as both horses involved now race for different owners and trainers, but even so, when Irish Point defeated Il Est Francais in the extended 1m4f contest on heavy ground, would all those have predicted Grade 1 success for the duo over Christmas two years later? Two days after Il Est Francais romped

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nh racing home at Kempton, Irish Point (Joshua Tree) was an impressive winner of the Christmas Hurdle (G1), run in memory of Jack de Bromhead at Leopardstown. In defeating Asterion Forlonge and Ballyadam the now six-year-old added another top-level success to his victory in last season’s Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (G1). Trained by Gordon Elliott for Brian Acheson’s Robcour, the gelding looks to have a very bright future in the staying division. The gelding’s dam Burkina (Fragrant Mix), who won both on the Flat and over fences, foaled a full-brother to Irish Point last year, now named Major Tree.

Gone but not forgotten

We all know that good sires can come from anywhere, but, historically, it has tended towards one-way traffic when sending stallions to stand in South Africa. Found A Fifty gave lie to that notion when triumphing in the Racing Post Novice Chase (G1) at Leopardstown on St Stephen’s Day, registering a first top-level triumph for his deceased sire Solskjaer. Bred by Orpendale, the son of Danehill was a half-brother to the outstanding stayer and top sire Yeats (Sadler’s Wells). Successful in the Royal Whip (G2) when trained by Aidan O’Brien, Solskjaer found no favour in the northern hemisphere and commenced his stud career in South Africa, standing at Summerhill Stud. After failing to set the world alight in his new home country, he was purchased for only R5,000 by Heversham Park Stud who then negotiated a deal to send him to David Stack’s Coolagown Stud. Despite what would be a short-lived stud career, the sire struck gold in his first season in Ireland, Found A Fifty was conceived that spring and he remains a testament to his well-travelled sire. Found A Fifty’s victory at Leopardstown was not exactly drama-free, as he jumped right throughout, but his price has been slashed for the Arkle in two months’ time. He was bred by Thomas Fahey out of the Gone Fishin mare Fillmein, who scored twice over hurdles and once in a point-to-point, and is a half-sister to the useful jumps mares Rathmuck Native and Field Robin.

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Moore seeing double

Trainer Gary Moore secured a notable cross-card double on December 27 when training the winners of both the Desert Orchid Handicap Chase (G2) at Kempton and, a lorry journey down the M4, the Welsh Grand National (G3) at Chepstow

in the space of an hour. Winless since triumphing in the Clarence House Chase (G1) at Cheltenham in January 2023, Editeur Du Gite showed plenty of pace at Kempton to defeat a very useful yardstick in Nube Negra (Dink) to win the 2m Desert Orchid by 3l.

It was a fine week of results for the Gary Moore team with two high profile winners, including the heavy ground performance of the year with Nassalam’s 34l victory in the Welsh National

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nh racing Bred by Daniel Gerault, the gelding is by Saddex, who stands for a private fee at Blackrath Stud in County Kildare and whose oldest Irish-conceived crop are three-yearolds this year. At the other end of the stamina scale from his stablemate, Nassalam (Dream Well) put up a performance for the ages at Chepstow making light work of the heavy going and extended 3m6f trip to romp home by 34l under stable-based jockey Caoilin Quinn. It marked the seven-year-old’s first win since February 2022, but he has turned in some decent performances in defeat and more is surely to come. Bred by Genetique Obstacle, Nassalam is the first winner from six foals to race out of the unraced Shirocco mare Ramina, whose latest recorded foal is a Saint Des Saints colt born in 2023. The big guns back in action: above, Constitution Hill, and, below, Galopin Des Champs

Chewy the Master

A quick glance at sales results over the last few years show the faith breeders have placed in the progeny of Walk In The Park since his move to Grange Stud in 2016, with the sire dominating in the sales ring as well as on the racecourse. Results from his French-conceived crops have been rewarded with big books, abundance of mares, and the progeny of those big Irish books are now hitting the spotlight. Master Chewy is a member of his sire’s first Irish-bred crop, foaled in 2017, a group that also includes the Grade 1 winners Ashroe Diamond and Facile Vega. Although not yet quite at the level of his paternal half-siblings, the seven-year-old gave warning that he is on the rise when triumphing in the Wayward Lad Novices’ Chase (G2) at Kempton on December 27. Coming into the race off the back of two defeats, he has some questions to answer, but stayed on well to score by just under 5l for Nigel Twiston-Davies and owners Anne-Marie and Jamie Shepperd. He was bred by James Hoare out of Shake The Tree (Shantou), who was placed in a bumper and hails from a family that has done the best of its winning since the 1970s in Australia.

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Special mention must go to two returning heroes who triumphed over the Christmas period. The 2023 Cheltenham Gold Cup (G1) victor Galopin Des Champs has tasted defeat twice since that win, but the eight-year-old by Timos bounced back to winning ways in some style in the Savills Chase (G1) at Leopardstown on 28 December. Travelling strongly throughout, the Willie Mullins-trained gelding stormed clear to defeat the top-class Gerri Colombe (Saddler Maker) by 23l. On the other side of the Irish Sea, Constitution Hill (Blue Bresil) maintained his unbeaten record with an easy victory in the Christmas Hurdle (G1) at Kempton on Boxing Day. The winner’s delayed seasonal bow, following his withdrawal from the rearranged Fighting Fifth (G1) Hurdle earlier in the month, came after a break of 257 days. The margin of victory, nine and a half lengths, was far less than the 17l trouncing he handed to Epatante 12 months earlier, but victory in 2023 was every bit as smooth and easy as we have come to expect, and it would take a brave person to bet against him repeating the dose at the Cheltenham Festival.

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The outstanding dual Group 1 winner The highest-rated Prince of Wales’s victory since Dubai Millennium in 2000 Took the Juddmonte International, defeating multiple Gr.1 winners Paddington and Nashwa 2023’s joint top-rated horse in Europe A half-brother to a dual Gr.1-winning miler and from the family of two Champion sprinters

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stallion statistics Leading British and Irish NH Sires (by prize-money earned to January 9, 2024)

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Stallion

Pedigree

To Stud

Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

Wnrs/Rnrs%

SWnrs

SWs

Walk In The Park Fame And Glory Getaway Kayf Tara Doyen Yeats Soldier of Fortune Westerner Malinas Mahler Milan Shantou Flemensfirth Shirocco Ask Authorized Champs Elysees Ocovango Blue Bresil Camelot Dylan Thomas Doctor Dino Martaline Golden Horn Masked Marvel Beat Hollow Sholokhov Court Cave Mount Nelson Presenting The Gurkha Passing Glance Jet Away Leading Light Zoffany Cokoriko Imperial Monarch Zarak Saddler Maker Kapgarde Spanish Moon Sulamani Jeu St Eloi Saint des Saints Vadamos No Risk At All Nathaniel

Montjeu-Classic Park (Robellino) Montjeu-Gryada (Shirley Heights) Monsun-Guernica (Unfuwain) Sadler’s Wells-Colorspin (High Top) Sadler’s Wells-Moon Cactus (Kris) Sadler’s Wells-Lyndonville (Top Ville) Galileo-Affianced (Erins Isle) Danehill-Walensee (Troy) Lomitas-Majoritat (Konigsstuhl) Galileo-Rainbow Goddess (Rainbow Quest) Sadler’s Wells-Kithanga (Darshaan) Alleged-Shaima (Shareef Dancer) Alleged-Etheldreda (Diesis) Monsun-So Sedulous (The Minstrel) Sadler’s Wells-Request (Rainbow Quest) Montjeu-Funsie (Saumarez) Danehill-Hasili (Kahyasi) Monsun-Crystal Maze (Gone West) Smadoun-Miss Recif (Exit To Nowhere) Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) Danehill-Lagrion (Diesis) Muhtathir-Logica (Priolo) Linamix-Coraline (Sadler’s Wells) Cape Cross-Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) Montjeu-Waldmark (Mark of Esteem) Sadler’s Wells-Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave) Sadler’s Wells-La Meilleure (Lord Gayle) Sadler’s Wells-Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave) Rock of Gibraltar-Independence (Selkirk) Mtoto-D’Azy (Persian Bold) Galileo-Chintz (Danehill Dancer) Polar Falcon-Spurned (Robellino) Cape Cross-Kalima (Kahyasi) Montjeu-Dance Parade (Gone West) Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian) Robin des Champs-Cardounika (Nikos) Galileo-Ionian Sea (Slip Anchor) Dubawi-Zarkava (Zamindar) Sadler’s Wells-Animatrice (Alleged) Garde Royale-Kaprika (Cadoudal) El Prado-Shining Bright (Rainbow Quest) Hernando-Soul Dream (Alleged) Saint des Saints-Ottolina (Saint Cyrien) Cadoudal-Chamisene (Pharly) Monsun-Celebre Vadala (Peintre Celebre) My Risk-Newness (Simply Great) Galileo-Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk)

2008 2013 2011 2001 2006 2010 2010 2006 2006 2009 2004 1999 1998 2007 2011 2008 2010 2015 2010 2014 2008 2010 2005 2016 2015 2003 2004 2004 2009 1997 2017 2005 2015 2015 2012 2014 2014 2018 2005 2004 2011 2005 2016 2003 2017 2013 2013

159 142 202 120 105 123 140 118 76 149 144 82 110 121 56 36 71 83 75 46 68 27 46 32 25 34 58 86 83 70 18 40 61 65 37 28 50 3 16 47 23 24 14 26 29 34 48

431 378 486 281 281 340 346 301 192 377 347 207 263 313 139 89 199 227 162 112 201 58 107 80 52 98 154 240 220 188 47 90 145 205 112 57 115 8 44 107 57 71 30 61 86 77 131

51 42 38 33 29 25 23 29 17 27 24 19 26 27 7 11 16 15 14 14 14 7 11 12 9 9 13 16 16 16 2 9 13 12 7 3 6 2 4 11 9 6 6 4 10 10 6

69 54 49 50 38 32 28 37 26 36 28 25 28 30 14 20 23 20 14 20 18 9 13 18 12 12 16 21 19 17 2 10 17 16 12 3 10 2 7 15 11 11 10 6 13 11 6

32.08 29.58 18.81 27.50 27.62 20.33 16.43 24.58 22.37 18.12 16.67 23.17 23.64 22.31 12.50 30.56 22.54 18.07 18.67 30.43 20.59 25.93 23.91 37.50 36.00 26.47 22.41 18.60 19.28 22.86 11.11 22.50 21.31 18.46 18.92 10.71 12.00 66.67 25.00 23.40 39.13 25.00 42.86 15.38 34.48 29.41 12.50

4 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0

5 3 1 1 2 0 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 3 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 0 1 0

782,899 762,503 523,739 520,731 456,398 412,525 369,241 365,240 349,049 344,420 310,673 299,875 291,100 286,387 261,638 259,041 252,722 241,172 232,321 232,305 232,004 230,813 212,197 207,676 203,756 200,142 194,028 193,411 174,736 169,096 168,030 158,165 157,321 156,120 155,430 154,612 153,153 150,774 144,797 144,045 141,525 139,628 138,109 135,625 131,082 131,063 128,007

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SIRE OF MULTIPLE GROUP WINNER SANDRINE • Winner of the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, beating NO NAY NEVER • Sire of: SANDRINE – Winner of 4 Group races, including Gr.2 Park Stakes (in 2023), Gr.2 Lennox Stakes, Gr.2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and Gr.3 Albany Stakes (also Gr.1-placed x2). Now a Group winner at 2, 3 and 4; • Two year olds in 2023 include top-rated ALMOTAHED (GB) (winner of 3 races in Saudi Arabia) and DARK BLUE SKY (IRE) (winner of 3 races in Hungary).

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Outstanding lifetime winners to runners ratio

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SEA THE MOON

SIRE OF 4 GROUP 1 WINNERS • CHAMPION SIRE IN GERMANY A DUAL CLASSIC SIRE IN 2023 • Sire of 8 individual Group winners of 12 Group races in 2023 incl. FANTASTIC MOON (Gr.1 German Derby, Gr.2 Prix Niel and Gr.3 Derby Trial) MUSKOKA (Gr.1 German Oaks, Gr.3 Brümmerhofer Stuten-Meile and Listed Henkel Stutenpreis). WONDERFUL BOY (Gr.3 Grosser Preis der SWK AG by 10 lengths. A dual winner in 2023, he is the 2024 German Derby favourite).

Yearlings sold in 2023 made up to 575,000gns

Fee: £32,500 (1st October SLF)

STUDY OF MAN

SIRE OF A GROUP 2 WINNING 2YO FROM HIS FIRST CROP A LEADING EUROPEAN FIRST CROP SIRE IN 2023 • Sire of 9 winners of 11 races including DEEPONE (winner of 3 races including Gr.2 Beresford Stakes, The Curragh), GHORGAN (Gr.3 placed), ALACRITY, BIRTHE, FRANCOPHONE, JUBILEE WALK, LINGUA FRANCA, LOOK UPON and SONS AND LOVERS. • The only son of legendary DEEP IMPACT at stud in England, sire of AUGUSTE RODIN – winner of the Gr.1 Epsom Derby, Gr.1 Irish Derby, Gr.1 Irish Champion Stakes and Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf, in 2023.

Fee: £12,500

Yearlings sold in 2023 made up to 220,000gns

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stallion statistics Leading European Flat Sires 2023 (by prize-money earned to December 31, 2023)

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Pedigree

To Stud

Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

Wnrs/Rnrs%

SWnrs

SWs

Frankel Siyouni Kingman Dubawi Lope de Vega Sea The Stars Dark Angel Wootton Bassett Galileo Cracksman Kodiac No Nay Never Churchill Night of Thunder Camelot Muhaarar Gleneagles Australia Nathaniel Havana Grey Sea The Moon Zoffany Starspangledbanner Zarak Invincible Spirit Sioux Nation Golden Horn Deep Impact Dandy Man Charm Spirit Dabirsim Territories Anodin Showcasing New Bay

Galileo- Kind (Danehill) Pivotal- Sichilla (Danehill) Invincible Spirit- Zenda (Zamindar) Dubai Millennium- Zomaradah (Deploy) Shamardal- Lady Vettori (Vettori) Cape Cross- Urban Sea (Miswaki) Acclamation- Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) Iffraaj- Balladonia (Primo Dominie) Sadler’s Wells- Urban Sea (Miswaki) Frankel- Rhadegunda (Pivotal) Danehill- Rafha (Kris) Scat Daddy- Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) Galileo- Meow (Storm Cat) Dubawi- Forest Storm (Galileo) Montjeu- Tarfah (Kingmambo) Oasis Dream- Tahrir (Linamix) Galileo- You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Galileo- Ouija Board (Cape Cross) Galileo- Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) Havana Gold- Blanc de Chine (Dark Angel) Sea The Stars- Sanwa (Monsun) Dansili- Tyranny (Machiavellian) Choisir- Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) Dubawi- Zarkava (Zamindar) Green Desert- Rafha (Kris) Scat Daddy- Dream The Blues (Oasis Dream) Cape Cross- Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) Sunday Silence- Wind in Her Hair (Alzao) Mozart- Lady Alexander (Night Shift) Invincible Spirit- L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) Hat Trick- Rumored (Royal Academy) Invincible Spirit- Taranto (Machiavellian) Anabaa- Born Gold (Blushing Groom) Oasis Dream- Arabesque (Zafonic) Dubawi- Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar)

2013 2011 2015 2006 2011 2010 2008 2012 2002 2019 2007 2015 2018 2016 2014 2016 2016 2015 2013 2019 2015 2012 2011 2018 2003 2019 2016 1899 2010 2015 2014 2017 2015 2011 2017

238 242 264 218 324 258 305 173 162 120 352 211 225 181 177 162 193 194 159 150 181 281 213 104 190 155 137 12 295 134 200 148 125 239 128

1004 1176 1274 857 1598 1016 1794 838 632 487 2210 976 1018 845 790 1020 920 965 725 890 893 1524 1160 549 1145 808 597 56 2057 1034 1426 864 964 1320 630

119 112 134 100 159 111 137 73 69 49 148 85 87 87 67 79 76 77 57 86 74 103 88 56 88 66 62 6 125 69 79 59 69 85 59

171 168 201 147 246 163 218 119 95 81 231 135 129 125 100 128 117 119 93 139 109 142 137 99 138 105 83 9 192 110 122 87 105 120 94

50.00 46.28 50.75 45.87 49.07 43.02 44.91 42.19 42.59 40.83 42.04 40.28 38.66 48.06 37.85 48.76 39.37 39.69 35.84 57.33 40.88 36.65 41.31 53.84 46.31 42.58 45.25 50.00 42.37 51.49 39.50 39.86 55.20 35.56 46.09

31 8 20 26 20 15 11 10 16 5 12 13 7 10 9 7 9 7 7 10 7 5 6 9 5 9 9 2 2 3 1 5 2 7 7

42 10,832,096 15 6,249,091 24 5,924,975 33 5,303,288 23 5,223,476 18 5,085,774 15 4,914,475 15 4,627,996 21 4,560,668 8 4,484,937 15 4,082,052 15 3,464,235 10 3,229,357 11 3,199,418 11 3,057,672 8 3,055,253 13 3,025,015 9 2,710,875 10 2,634,863 13 2,625,753 14 2,569,523 6 2,463,668 7 2,448,720 12 2,373,038 6 2,275,968 16 2,244,677 11 2,240,986 4 2,223,189 2 2,206,027 5 2,190,111 4 2,174,052 6 2,135,198 3 2,120,351 7 2,117,272 7 2,095,678

Dubawi Legend Unfortunately in last month’s edition, our December end-of-year Stallion Review, we suffered a small computer glitch that revealed itself in our unique Covering Stats table. The victim was Compas Stallions’ Starfield Stud-based Dubawi Legend, who was wrongly omitted. His figures are here and as you can see he had a good first season in the covering shed – breeders should have a lot of confidence in him going forwards. He stands this year at a fee of €6,000.

Dubawi Legend (Dubawi) Mares covered in 2023:122 Winning mares: 51, Black-type mares: 12, Black-type winners: 4 The full table can be accessed here: bit.ly/covering_stats

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GREAT STATS

Gr.1 3yo+ winners in Europe

Only Frankel, Dubawi & Sea The Stars have sired more since 2018. None stand for less than €200,000. new Gr.1 winners in 2023 Poptronic & Quickthorn

GREAT WINNERS

Progeny have won the Derby, Oaks, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (x2), Coral-Eclipse, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (x3), British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes, Breeders’ Cup, Nassau Stakes, Irish Oaks, Prix de Diane, Yorkshire Oaks (x2), Goodwood Cup, E.P. Taylor Stakes, Premio Lydia Tesio, etc.

GREAT SALES

2023 yearlings averaged £80,000, mares and HIT in demand.

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Fee: £17,500 1st Oct SLF

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The Asian century Northern Farm leads the tide of success in Japan, a country in which horses are supported (and promoted) like football teams, writes David Morgan

The latest big name in Japan, the four-time Group 1 winner Liberty Island

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N A WORLD OF CONFLICT, uncertainty and misinformation there is at least one absolute truth we can take out of 2023, and we don’t need an IFHA (International Federation of Horseracing Authorities) get-together in London to tell us: Equinox was the world’s indisputable champion. Silk Racing’s superstar announced himself globally when he ran his rivals into submission in Dubai in March, then returned home to triumph in three of the strongest Group 1 races on earth that year. His Japan Cup was particularly awesome. Another truth is that Equinox’s controlling interest, Northern Farm, is continuing to lead the field in Japan, which is well on its way to becoming the 21st century’s most relevant racing sphere. Since Seeking The Pearl nailed a breakthrough offshore Group 1 at Deauville in 1998, Japanese raiding parties have picked off many of the world’s biggest prizes be that in Britain, France, Australia, Hong Kong, or the US. No major arena anywhere is outside of Japan’s scope now. Underpinning this coming of age is the Yoshida family’s decades-long strategy of purchasing of prized breeding stock from around the world, most notably the great stallion Sunday Silence and innumerable good mares. It is true that the central governmentsupervised Japan Racing Association (JRA) makes for an efficient navigator in steering the pari-mutuel-only Japanese racing product: solid administrative management combined with slick marketing campaigns on TV, on downtown billboards and across Japan’s public transport network keep the sport in focus. The JRA’s marketing arm has elevated the sport’s heroes, so capturing new fans and driving the numbers that matter: attendances across 288 race meetings a year pre-Covid averaged about 21,000 and the 2023 figures, when released, should mirror those; the 2022 betting turnover was a 21-year high of about £18 billion; average prize-money per race meeting that same year was the equivalent of around £2.3 million. To give that figure some context, a Dirt

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

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UBETTABELIEVEIT – winner of three races and £116,503 all over 5f including: EBF Novice Stakes Doncaster, LR National S. Sandown, Gr.2 Flying Childers S. Doncaster. Also 3rd Gr.2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, all at 2.

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Brother to Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup winner EQTIDAAR Gr.1 placed at 2, 3 and 4, Gr.2 winner over 7f Off to a great start at stud, multiple winners include LR Pat Eddery Stakes Placed Mascapone, US Stakes-Performer Mas Rapido, Docklands (Royal Ascot winner), Coco Jamboo (3 wins), Granny Budgie (3 wins) Yearlings sold for £45,000, £44,000, £43,000, etc.

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Northern Farm is the leading breeder, but also running in front of everyone with the technical

aspects: every approach to the racehorses, the breeding, the foals, the mares, everything track maiden in January this year carried a total purse of about £57,000. But, alongside the navigator, there in the driver’s seat is the Yoshida family group of companies and, currently working the gears and the accelerator, is the impressive Northern Farm operation, Japan’s leading breeder in 18 of the last 20 years and for the past 13 seasons consecutively. “Northern Farm is a good competitor, but its is ahead of everyone else at the moment,” said Mitsumasa Nakauchida, the trainer responsible for guiding the career of Northern Farm’s latest darling, Liberty Island. Northern Farm’s supremo Katsumi Yoshida

“Northern Farm is the leading breeder, but also running in front of everyone with the technical aspects: every approach to the racehorses, the breeding, the foals, the mares, everything. “It is really important because what the farm is doing is improving everyone else, and they are open, they support lots of different trainers and jockeys.” Equinox and the fillies’ triple crown heroine Liberty Island were the two standouts for Northern Farm during its sparkling 2023, which ended in December with Sunday Racing’s juvenile filly Regaleira making history by winning the Group 1 Hopeful Stakes against colts. Impressively, Northern Farm bred the winners of 17 of Japan’s 25 Group 1 races in 2023 – that includes four Classics, the Japan Cup, both Grand Prix races and both versions of the Tenno Sho – and 14 of those wins went to horses owned by its affiliated racing clubs. Northern Farm is headed by Katsumi Yoshida, who has long been a familiar presence at major sales and Group 1 race days around the world. Lean, angular, astute, a passionate horseman, and exuding gravitas, he is the second of three sons of Zenya Yoshida who established Shadai Farm in 1955 and looked outward. “It all started when Zenya, the patriarch, came to Keeneland and started buying mares all those years ago, and we’ve seen it continue with his sons and now it’s continuing with his grandchildren, they all have that same passion,” says Keeneland’s Chip McGaughey.

“Those pedigrees have been fruitful for the Yoshidas and their breeding programmes, their racing clubs and everything involved. “Katsumi and his son Shunsuke Yoshida, with the rest of the team, are always looking to secure pedigrees that complement the mares at Northern Farm, and also the stallions they have standing at Shadai Stallion Station.” Zenya’s great breeding and racing empire continues under three fraternal strands Katsumi’s Northern Farm being one, with elder brother Teruya Yoshida overseeing Shadai Farm and Haruya Yoshida heading up Oiwake Farm.

HILE INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS of the Yoshida family own horses in their own names, the majority race under the banners of racing clubs associated with Shadai, Northern and Oiwake. These clubs offer ownership shares to the public and are key drivers in maintaining the sport’s popularity. Shadai has Shadai Race Horse Co. Ltd with its famous yellow and black stripes; Oiwake has the G1 Racing Club with its black and red silks, and then there are Japan’s three most successful clubs of recent times – Sunday Racing, Carrot Farm and Silk Racing, all affiliated to Northern Farm. Racing club syndicates are nothing out of the ordinary, but the scale and influence of the Yoshida-connected clubs is extraordinary. In 2022, those five clubs made available more than 188,000 shares in more than 800 horses. Sunday Racing was the JRA’s leading owner in 2023, ahead of Carrot Farm in second, third-placed Shadai, and Silk Racing in fourth, with G1 Racing ranked ninth and Katsumi Yoshida himself 12th on the list. And there was nothing unusual in that, it was Sunday Racing’s seventh leading owner

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japan racing Racing club conditions stipulate that their mares must retire by the March of their sixth year, but that in turn means they do race through multiple seasons, which is why stars such as Almond Eye, Gentildonna, Gran Alegria, and Lys Gracieux were still engaging fans and winning Group 1 races at age five. There is no such limit on colts and, unlike in the US and Europe, it is uncommon for a star Japanese colt to retire to stud at the end of his Classic season. The owners and the fans want to see them tested to prove their status. A couple of months after the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Ace Impact bowed out prematurely with a record of only six

Many of those who invest in a Sunday Racing horse, for example, will support Sunday as if it is their team, like a soccer fan would Katsumi Yoshida title in a row and 14th in 19 years back to 2005: Carrot Farm topped the list in 2014 and 2016. Prior to the Sunday Racing dominance, Shadai Race Horse Co. Ltd which was established in 1980, was the JRA’s champion owner 25 times, including consecutive seasons from 1983 to 2004. This model, emulated by numerous non-Yoshida racing clubs, has proven to be a strength to Japanese racing as it fosters fan participation, turning members into

“owners” and forming deep connections. Many of those who invest in a Sunday Racing horse, for example, will support Sunday as if it is their team, like a soccer fan would. It gives ordinary folks the opportunity to share in the ownership of a champion such as Gentildonna, but also when that mare is, as per agreement, bought back by Northern Farm to breed those club “owners” have an option to invest in that mare’s offspring, such as her Group 1-winning daughter Geraldina.

Race day attendances for 2023 are set to match pre-covid figures of 21,000 per meeting, while 2023’s betting return is at a record high of £18 billion

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japan racing races for two Group 1 wins, while this year in Japan not one but three winners of the Japanese Derby – all bred by Northern Farm – were among the deep field for the Group 1 Arima Kinen at Nakayama. One of the vital fuels to all of this is the continuing investment in quality bloodstock from around the world, be that stallions bought to join the Shadai Stallion Station roster or elite race mares purchased to join the broodmare bands at the farms. “Northern Farm buys in the US and in Europe, and is prolific down in Australia as well; the team is also buying mares down in South America, it’s a smaller world now and that model has really worked for them. “The farm buys the best and breed to the best, and hope they get the best; they’ve made it a focal point of their operations and it’s paid dividends for them,” McGaughey observes.

ND THE BEST does not mean the most fashionable, the most handsome or the most beautifully bred: pedigree is important, but so too is athletic performance. Northern Farm has been especially prolific and successful in purchasing quality breeding mares with proven race track performance. In that regard, Liberty Island is a good case study: a daughter of the late Northern Farm-bred stallion Duramente, a champion sire last year despite his premature passing, she is out of the rags-to-riches Australian Group 1 winner Yankee Rose, purchased privately upon retirement by Katsumi Yoshida for a lot more than the A$10,000 she cost as a yearling. The Northern Farm supremo showed again at breeding stock sales this past autumn that the overall strategy of buying quality mares from around the world is not stopping, even with the yen being weak. At Keeneland in November he picked up the $400,000 Viareggio and at Tattersalls in December his purchases included the 1,000 Guineas first and second Cachet and Prosperous Voyage, bought for more than two million guineas apiece, while the Northern Farm-linked Lake Villa Farm

Prosperous Voyage at Tattersalls: the daughter of Zoffany was purchased by Katsumi Yoshida through the 2023 Tattersalls December Mares Sale Sceptre Session for 2,400,000gns

paid 625,000gns for Mauiewowie, a Listedwinning granddaughter of the Classicwinning Group 1-producing mare Nightime. Northern Farm’s boss was then sighted at Sha Tin in December where he witnessed eight Northern Farm-connected horses contest the Hong Kong International Races. Japan’s failure to take home one of those four Group 1s served as a reminder that JRA horses abroad still face stiff competition, but such is the collective confidence that the reaction to those disappointing defeats felt like a pragmatic “on to the next”. With Hong Kong in mind, it was at the start of the 37th Asian Racing Conference in Seoul, South Korea in May 2018, that the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s (HKJC) supremo Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, wearing his hat as chairman of the Asian Racing Federation (ARF), outlined the need for a “transformational vision for the development of a global brand for racing, all in the context of this most

dynamic of times, the Asian Century.” Hong Kong’s tentacles are stretching ever farther thanks to its World Pool product, as the HKJC does what it does: innovating to counter any decline in domestic turnover and advance its business, the expansion of which is otherwise hamstrung by being essentially a two-track jurisdiction with no breeding industry. Singapore racing’s impending closure and Macau’s feared doom show that not everything is golden in Asia, yet there is enviable strength in Japan, with its successful breeding farms and healthy racing product. And the Yoshida family has been building and developing its brand – brands in fact – for many years. What we see now are the fruits of Zenya Yoshida’s own long game of a “transformational vision,” which has been highly successfully carried on by his sons and his sons’ children.

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HERE WAS NO RESTING on laurels for New Zealand Bloodstock after November’s record-shattering Ready to Run Sale. Instead, the release of the catalogues for Karaka 2024 has launched the countdown to the pinnacle event on the sales calendar. The 98th National Yearling Sales Series will take place at Karaka from Sunday, 28th January to Friday, 2nd February. The catalogues, which are now available to view online, contain an exceptional selection of 682 yearlings in Book 1 and another 442 in Book 2. The National Yearling Sales Series is New Zealand Bloodstock’s flagship event and has launched the careers of countless racetrack stars in recent years. In a season for the ages, Karaka graduates dominated the Group 1 races with a staggering haul across Australasia last season. The triple Group 1 winner Sharp ‘N’ Smart (Redwood) won the Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) in Sydney in the spring, followed by an

elite summer double on home soil in the Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) and the New Zealand Derby (2400m). The $55,000 Book 2 purchase earned more than $3 million during his three-year-old season

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her NZ 1000 Guineas win. Sensational three-year-old fillies Legarto (Proisir) and Prowess (Proisir) each recorded Group 1 wins on both sides of the Tasman Sea – Legarto in the 1600m New Zealand 1000 Guineas and the Australian Guineas, and Prowess in the Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2050m) and the Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m). The momentum of Karaka graduates and Kiwi horses has continued into the spring of 2023, with additional elite-level successes for Ladies Man (Zed) in the Livamol Classic (2040m), Atishu (Savabeel) in the A$3m Champions Stakes (2000m), and Molly Bloom (Ace High) in the New Zealand 1000 Guineas. Catalogue full of black-type The catalogues for Karaka 2024 are loaded with well-credential candidates to follow in some of those famous footsteps. The pedigree pages are saturated with black-type, featuring plenty of progeny of stakes-winning

mares and dozens of siblings to top-class performers. There are siblings to Group 1 superstars such as Prowess, Lucia Valentina (Savabeel), Te Akau Shark (Rip Van Winkle), Turn Me Loose (Iffraaj), Pennyweka (Satono Aladdin), Affaire A Suivre (Astern), Seabrook (Hinchinbrook), Sierra Sue (Darci Brahma), Ruthless Dame (Tavistock) and Manzoice (Almanzor), along with exciting up-and-comers like Coeur Volante (Proisir) and the stakeswinning unbeaten New Zealand two-year-old Velocious (Written Tycoon). The stage will be set for the TAB Karaka Millions race day at Ellerslie The Book 1 catalogue also features the first foals out of Group 1-performed mares Miss Sentimental (Reliable Man), Rondinella (Ocean Park), Evalina (I Am Invincible), Bargain (Ocean Park) and Bavella (Snitzel). Over 100 sires are represented in the catalogues from big names

such as Savabeel, Proisir, I Am Invincible, Justify, Almanzor, Per Incanto, Ocean Park and Snitzel to a big line up of first-season stallions with New Zealand-based Hello Youmzain, Circus Maximus, King Of Comedy, Banquo, Admire Mars and Ancient Spirit to debut. Coolmore Australia’s Tom Magnier confirms the status of the sale as a must-attend event. “You have to take this sale seriously every year because there is always a champion that comes out,” states Magnier. “There’s nowhere in the world that looks after you like New Zealand, the hospitality is fantastic from every farm. “Without a doubt, it is the best week on the sales calendar anywhere in the world.” NZB’s Managing Director Andrew Seabrook is looking forward to the annual yearling harvest. “After the record-breaking sale last week, we are looking forward to seeing that momentum roll into Karaka 2024. “The catalogues are the biggest numbers we’ve had in years and the quality of the pedigrees and types on offer

“The catalogues are the biggest numbers we’ve had in years and the quality of the pedigrees and types on offer matches it easily matches it. “We are buoyed by the demand for our Kiwi horses and our team will be busy in the coming months promoting the sale and getting the best possible buying bench established.” NZB invites you to join them at Karaka 2024 to experience an atmosphere like no other. The welcome will be warm, the drinks will be cold, and the thoroughbreds will be exquisite. Experience NZB for the perfect blend of horses, people and place, while securing yourself the next generation of kiwi talent at Karaka 2024.

DATES FOR THE DIARY January 27: 2024 Karaka Millions Twilight Meeting Book 1: Lot 1 – 682 Day 1: Sunday, January 28 Lot 1-240 from 10am (NZT) Day 2: Monday, January 29 Lot 241-480 from 10am Day 3: Tuesday, January 30 Lot 481-682 from 10am Book 2: Lot 683 – 1125 Day 1: Wednesday, January 31 Lot 683-800 from 11am Day 2: Thursday, February 1 Lot 801-970 from 11am Day 3: Friday, February 2 Lot 971-1125 from 11am The catalogues for Karaka 2024 can be viewed at www.nzb.co.nz

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sumbe new stallions Nurlan Bizakov (right) and Tony Fry at Tattersalls Over the past couple of years the pair have become a frequent sight together at European boodstock sales. At last autumn’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale they spent 1,100,000gns having previously bought yearlings worth €690,000 at the Arqana August Sale Photos from Tattersalls and also courtesy of Sumbe

Sumbe has welcomed two new sires to its Normandy-based farm this spring – the Group 1 Prix de Jean Luc Lagardère winners Angel Bleu and Belbek. Jocelyn de Moubray discusses the new signings with the stud manager Tony Fry

URLAN BIZAKOV AND TONY FRY have become a familiar pair to all of those who spend time at Europe’s bloodstock sales. The two have been working together since meeting in a snow drift in Sussex in 2010 and, over the years since Bizakov’s investment in horses and stud farms, has made them one of the industry’s most significant owner-manager partnerships. Bizakov clearly enjoys attending sales, as well as watching his runners on the big days, and, more often than not, when he is there Fry is alongside him. Bizakov, whose bloodstock holdings have been called Sumbe since 2020, is the owner of around 60 broodmares, 60 horses in training in France and England, as well as Hesmonds Stud in Sussex and the French stud farms Montfort and Mezeray. Montfort is the base of five stallions, three of whom are covering for the first time in 2024 – Mishriff, Angel Bleu and Belbek, as well as Golden Horde, whose first two-yearolds will race this year, and Too Darn Hot’s half-brother De Treville. In 2010, Fry was managing Gainsborough Stud and applied for the post of manager at Hesmonds Stud, near Lewes in East Sussex which had recently been purchased by Bizakov. “It was,” Fry remembers, “about a week after the Newmarket December Sale and there was a heavy snow storm. My drive from Newbury, which would normally take two and a half hours, took more than four and when I finally arrived I was sent out to look for Mr Bizakov whose Mercedes was stuck in a snow drift close by. “I got him out, we talked in the car and

when we eventually made it to Hesmonds we just shook hands and agreed to work together. “I liked him and he took to me and so before discussing terms or plans for the farm we decided to form a partnership.” Bizakov had purchased six mares at the December Sale and these were the only mares at Hesmonds when Fry took up his position. The farm had been owned by Peter Goulandris for a long time and its new owner decided to completely refurbish the place. Some 14 miles of fencing were put in, four new barns were built and the place was transformed into a modern stud farm. “One day we were driving out of Hesmonds,” Fry continues, “and Bizakov turned to me and said, ‘One day I would like to buy a farm in France, too.’ “I was pleased and told him that if he felt that he must be enjoying what we were doing. Some 12 years later an opportunity came up and he decided to buy the Haras de Montfort & Preaux. He also told me one day that he felt in his heart that we would be in this business together for a long time. I was moved, not even my mother says things like that to me, I think about this on the bad days when I have just got a bollocking!” Bizakov’s first involvement in France was buying shares in stallions such as Siyouni and Le Havre and then he used to board mares at Montfort when he was using these stallions. “The previous owners came to us and asked if we might be interested in buying the farm. It was a ready-made farm with stallions we liked and one which we knew well,” Fry explains, “and so we decided to take our chance.”

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sumbe new stallions reasons, “go out and sell stallions if you don’t believe in them yourself. “It may backfire on us, but we are going to send our best mares to our own stallions, big ones, small ones, bay ones, grey ones and chestnut ones and we shall see what we get.” The first of Sumbe’s new sires to be tested will be the Richmond Stakes (G2) and Commonwealth Cup (G1) winner Golden Horde, whose first crop are two-year-olds in 2024. “We have 16 Golden Horde two-yearolds,” Fry says, “who are or will be in training with André Fabre, Christopher Head, Jerome Reynier and Fabrice Chappet. “We liked him when we first saw him, and last year he covered some of our best mares who had been due to go to Mishriff. “I am quietly confident Golden Horde will surprise some people this year and we shall be sending ten to 15 mares to him again this year.” Prince Faisal’s champion Mishriff was, of course,

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stallions: big ones, small ones, bay ones, grey ones and chestnut ones and we shall see what we get Two years later in 2021, Sumbe also bought the de Moussac family’s Haras du Mezeray, which is only four miles or so from Montfort. Today Sumbe’s offices and Bizakov’s own mares are at Mezeray and the stallions at Montfort. “At the time there were only 20 mares and Mezeray is about 450 acres, but then I don’t think a breeder can ever have too much land,” Fry adds. “And today Sumbe has 55 mares based at Mezeray. “We have done some work on the farm but from the beginning the place was impressive and it is obvious that a lot of thought and attention to detail went into its development, everything was clearly done for a reason.” Nearly all of Sumbe’s mares will be covered by one of its stallions this year with only a handful travelling to England or going to those sires in which it owns a share. “You can’t,” Fry

Angel Bleu: the son of Dark Angel

due to beginning covering in 2023, but was unable to do so after breaking a pedal bone in his hind foot when kicking the wall of a padded box. “Mishriff is fully recovered,” Fry is happy to say, “and looking better than ever. He was a champion and was both consistent and tough through a long career. “Money was not the main issue when we were negotiating with the Prince and his manager Ted Voute; their concern was to find the right partner to give the horse every chance. Prince Faisal is sending him six or seven mares, which is more or less half his broodmare band.”

SIDE FROM BEING A multiple Group 1 winner with an official rating of 127, Mishriff also has a very unusual pedigree as he has no Northern Dancer, Sadler’s Wells or Galileo in his first five generations and no inbreeding at all in his first four. On paper this makes him a suitable partner for a high proportion of active mares. The other pair of new sires at Sumbe is the Group 1-winning two-year-olds Angel Bleu and Belbek. Angel Bleu was bred in France at the Haras de Monceaux and was trained by Ralph Beckett to win three major Group races at two – the Richmond Stakes, the Prix Jean Luc Lagardère (G1) and the Criterium International (G1) and, after a curtailed three-year-old season, came back to win the Celebration Mile (G2) at four. “He is a horse we have always liked and we came close to buying into him when he was two,” Fry explains. “We consider him to be a very interesting stallion prospect.” Belbek was also champion two-year-old in France winning the Prix du Bois (G3) and the Lagardère in Bizakov’s own colours trained by Fabre. “If it is possible in this business to say this without sounding soppy,” Fry says, “Belbek is the horse who tugs at our heartstrings – he was the first Group 1 winner bred by Sumbe and was a champion at two.

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Belbek is the horse who tugs at our heartstrings – he was the

first Group 1 winner bred by Sumbe and was a champion at two “Even though he is with the best trainer in the world things just didn’t go to plan at three, but he retired off an excellent Group win beating two of the best milers in France The Revenant and Tribalist.” Belbek’s dam Bee Queen was bought from Juddmonte for only 50,000gns in 2017. She finished fourth on her only two starts in Ireland for trainer Dermot Weld and comes from one of the best Juddmonte families as her second dam is the champion Banks Hill. “Bee Queen is currently in-foal to Wootton Bassett,” Fry adds. “She will probably go to one of our sires this year although as she is a daughter of Makfi she can’t go to Mishriff. “You probably wouldn’t chose to launch three new sires the same year, but in this business you have to take the opportunities when they come up,” Fry sums up Sumbe’s position. “They are all priced to attract long term support and we are not trying to recoup our investments immediately. We have sold a limited number of very reasonably priced breeding rights in Mishriff, Angel Bleu and Belbek to secure the right partners to sustain their careers. “In ten years’ time I hope the boss and our horses are still happy and healthy, and that we will have one or two established top sires here at Sumbe.” Sumbe will have 60 horses in training once all the two-year-olds are allocated with 20 in Britain with Roger Varian and Charlie Johnston, and the remainder in France mainly with Jean Claude Rouget, Christopher Head, Jerome Reynier and Fabre. Head will have nine of these and Fry is one of many to have been impressed by Head achievements. “This guy is coming at things from a different angle,” he explains. “I hope and think that he is going to be superstar and when you believe in a person or a stallion you just have to follow them. “Overall, we have about 45 homebreds in training, while we also bought eight yearlings

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last year in Arqana and Tattersalls headed by the 1.1 million guineas Lope De Vega full-brother to the Champagne Stakes winner Iberian from Ballylinch Stud. “On the whole we are breeding to race and hoping to produce future stallions and broodmares for Sumbe although, of course, there may come a time when it makes sense to sell yearlings to promote our sires. “The boss enjoys his small winners and he

loves having runners in the big races on the big days and being around the sales. This business is lucky to have someone like Mr Bizakov, who has the passion for the game, and the bank balance to make a real investment.” Bizakov’s first involvement with horses was in endurance races in his native Kazakhstan. He bought his first thoroughbred at Tattersalls in 2006 and has carefully but steadily built his thoroughbred holdings ever since. “His original business was phosphates and fertilizers,” Fry adds. “I think these days horses are probably his main business!”

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Ciarán De Barra is looking forward to this spring with his first stallion Marie’s Diamond. De Barra chats with Ronan Groome about his equine career so far, and just how thrilled he is to be standing the tough-running son of Footstepsinthesand

COUPLE OF MONTHS into his traineeship with KPMG, a 23-year-old Ciarán De Barra met with his director to conduct a performance review meeting. “Just one thing, Ciarán,” the director said. “It’s been flagged up by IT that you’ve been spending a lot of time on recreational websites, can you explain that?” “Oh yeah,” came the reply. “That’s irishracing.com. “You see this job is what I’m doing now but I need to be on that website for what I’m going to be doing in the future.” So, 13 years later, perhaps a decision to go down the road of acquiring his own stallion to stand and all the risks that comes with that venture is on brand for a man who has always allowed his ambitions to soar. De Barra has already made a name for himself in the position he held at the Irish National Stud, as well as through his own endeavors to source and sell on stock at the sales. But now the main focus is Marie’s Diamond, the eight-year-old son of

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The stallion moved to the new farm just before Christmas and had brand new facilities to walk into

Marie’s Diamond has everything going for

him and I think he’s going to be a brilliant stallion Footstepsinthesand, who will stand at Diamond Stud Bellewstown (named after its first-ever occupant), in his first season as a stallion this year. A couple of hours after an enjoyable hourlong conversation, the 36-year-old calls me back to have another go at answering one question in particular. “You know I’ve been stumped here all evening trying to think of an answer to that question you asked me about why I’m doing this,” he ponders. “Ambition is one thing and I think I have that to a fault, but I think standing a stallion gives you a chance to impact on the breed greater than anything you could ever achieve in the industry on your own. “I think that is one facet of why I’m doing this, that plus I also want a good value consistent racehorse producing stallion

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in Ireland, like Footstepsinthesand and I hope I’ve got him. I still don’t know what the answer is for sure because all I have thought about so far is

Marie’s Diamond” While De Barra may not fully know why he is doing what he is doing, the certain part is that he is infatuated with the horse he proudly proclaims was the fastest colt to win the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes in over 25 years. In preparation for the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Stallion Trail, which took place on the second week of this month, it has been a hectic few months to get everything in place for his most prized possession to begin his stud career. “He hasn’t actually been here that long,” he says. “He got here just before Christmas. I had him with Robert Honner in Clongiffen just as I was getting stuff set up here. Anyone who follows me on twitter will see there wasn’t a shed on my farm in November, but needless to say, there is a shed here now!” Standing stallions at a relatively young age

has become a more fashionable enterprise these days but it still shouldn’t take away from the risky nature of such a venture into what is a fiercely competitive sector. “I’d say this would be a great project for 10 years down the line,” he muses. “But you know, I think you kind of need to do it at this stage because you need that kind of naive enthusiasm. When the opportunity came up with him, I just thought I want this stallion and let’s go for it!. “Marie’s Diamond has everything going for him and I think he’s going to be a brilliant stallion. There is only one other Footstepsinthesand stallion who has runners in Europe, Shamalgan and he already has a Group 1 winner off limited opportunities [Toskana Belle].” De Barra could talk all day about Marie’s Diamond – more on him later; his joint owner has an intriguing story himself. He comes from the Irish-speaking region of Connemara, County Galway from a little coastal village called An Spidéal. With no racing background, he spent most of his spare time as a teenager playing Gaelic football until he was injured one summer and sat in to watch the Saturday racing with his father. “I was thinking, can we not just stick on a match there or something?” he laughs now. “It was Irish Guineas weekend and I just became engrossed. “It was Henrythenavigator and New Approach in the Irish 2,000 and, whatever it was, the way Henrythenavigator quickened away that day, it just hooked me there and then. I watched the race back on the RTÉ Player about 10 times that evening. “I suppose then the bug got me. I’d say I was nine months with KPMG when I decided I was going off to Kentucky to get some experience. It was actually an easy decision for me but my mother bawled crying when I told her,” he recalls of the trauma adding: “Dad was meant to tell her one weekend. I had come home from Dublin but by the time I was due to head back, he still hadn’t told her! “I had to tell her and she was so upset. In her eyes, I had this grand career developing and I was leaving it all to go and work on a stud farm. I think she has just about come around to what I am doing now!” The Kentucky stud farm was Britannia

marie’s diamond Stud, an operation run by Welsh native Amy Boulton, and De Barra received he got an immersive experience by working in a small team – ideal for that stage of his career. He then came home and worked with Galway trainer Paul Gilligan for another short stint before going back to a stud, but a larger scale operation in the shape of Kedrah House in Cahir, County Tipperary. The game-changer for De Barra was a successful application to join the muchrespected Irish National Stud Breeding Management course.

PON COMPLETION he was selected for the Lady O’Reilly Business Internship (now the Jonathan Fitzpatrick Internship) and then kept on at the Irish National Stud thereafter, going on to launch the Irish National Stud Breeding and Racing Club. “John Osborne [then INS CEO] had earmarked me for the internship at the start so it was in my head that they wanted me and that it could be interesting,” says De Barra. “I got to do so many things you’d always have loved to do, but you need the time and resources to do it, such as researching projects on sales and pedigrees. “For example, at the time the Aga Khan Studs weren’t really using Invincible Spirit, so one project was to research mares with pedigrees that might work and after we presented that, he started to use him. “Another thing was we were just looking at all the premier yearling sales and breaking the yearlings down by criteria, like a page and family racing criteria. “You’re asking what is the correlation here on big prices and small prices and what the page is doing, and ratings and things like that. “Setting up the syndicate was great and it just made sense because the Irish National Stud had already engaged people to be interested in horses and so this was a stepping stone for them to get involved. The

idea or goal was to get people involved in ownership in their own right eventually.” All the time De Barra was at the Irish National Stud, the emphasis was on finding angles, be it in general business or indeed the sales ring, for which he developed his own personal interests. “I started to look at horses abroad, thinking there might be an angle there,” he recalls. “I found a lovely filly in France and put her to a few members of the INS team. We got outbid at €12,000, she went for €15,000, and sold the following year in foal for €130,000. “That was one I missed but it gave me great confidence to put a case to my brothers the following year. “I picked out another filly in France for €10,500 and we sold her in Goffs for €46,000. I then found a filly in the Czech Republic and I got her for €25,000 and we sold her for 100,000gns. “When I think back to it now I had a great opportunity at the Irish National Stud, to be researching really interesting things and it just gave me a great understanding and confidence. I gave me that conviction to go out and find things myself.” Marie’s Diamond was another angle, though needless to say, acquiring him as a stallion is a significantly bigger and longer-term investment. Previous owners Middleham Park and The Wolf Pack syndicate have retained shares and will support the stallion in his career but it’s on De

Barra to give him the best possible chance to succeed in his career at stud and it’s a challenge he is relishing. “I’ve said all along, this horse is my Kendargent,” he asserts. “I’m not treating him like one of those speed stallions that comes in, covers a lot of mares in their first season and if he doesn’t do it in that first season, he’s gone. Guy Pariente just kept supporting Kendargent as well as he could

I had a great opportunity at the Irish National Stud to be researching really interesting things and it just gave me a great understanding and confidence

all the time. There are so many stallions like that and it gives me the belief it can be done. “Kendargent covered 27 mares in his first year. We’re going to push well past that. I want to be getting him up close to three figures and we have a good chance of doing that, and I’m buying mares who will suit him. His previous trainer Roger Fell is sending a couple of mares, and the other people involved with him are going to be

Marie’s Diamond seen here winning the fast-run Group 3 Anglesey Stakes, jockey James Doyle reported post-race that the horse was “very tough and progressive”

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De Barra sees Marie’s Diamond as his “Kendargent” and will be supporting the stallion strongly, as will owner Middleham Park and trainer Roger Fell

I want to be getting him up close to three figures and we have

a good chance of doing that, and I’m buying mares who will suit him

buying his stock to go racing with.” Marie’s Diamond will stand for €6,000 and while De Barra feels that is tremendous value, the proof will be in the pudding, and needless to say, the aim is to give his most prized possession every chance via high quantity and quality mares. “Look, he’s going to have winners, the way he raced himself, he was so genuine and so talented,” he says. “We’re not going to try and reinvent the wheel, I’m just going to do my utmost to give him every chance. “This horse went through a Mark Johnston two-year-old campaign and then continued to hold his form. He basically made his debut in April of his two-year-old career and then ran once a month ever since

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up until October just gone. That is some going, and the big thing is that he was able to go on and do it again. “I think by going with him, you’re giving your mare a really good chance because he was able to train on. If you go for that early speed, it’s a very short window and your horse has to do it as a two-year-old. “This lad did it as a two-year-old but he went on at three and four. He gives you a chance to be a good early two-year-old but also to be that Classic miler, and he was third in a Queen Anne at four. “When he won the Anglesey at The Curragh, he was faster than Caerleon, Woodman, Storm Bird, Johannesburg, Oratorio and Little Big Bear and his time in

the Paradise Stakes over the Rowley Mile is faster than every running of the 2,000 Guineas and the third fastest time by a colt ever up the Rowley Mile.” “If you look at the other horses retired to stud for this year who have Group 1 form as two-year-olds and older, it’s Mac Swiney and Modern Games, but their form was over a mile at two and the same at three and older. “This lad actually gives you a chance at competing in the sprinter juvenile races and then going on. “When you think about what you want to breed, you’d love to breed a really good early two-year-old, but you wouldn’t mind if he could keep on going. “Sure, he did run a lot, but isn’t that what we want for the breed? That is a real positive. I think he will give mares a real chance.” De Barra has taken a real chance, perhaps his biggest leap yet, but suffice to say, he will be doing everything he can to make this move a success.

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Gut instinct Written by: Nichola Reynolds, MSc. Nutritionist at Foran Equine and Connolly’s Red Mills

NYONE WITH A vested interest in optimising the equine athlete’s health, welfare, and performance will be aware of the important role that the hindgut plays in all these things, and how its functioning can impact everything from behaviour and performance, right through to immune health. Over recent years advancing research techniques have allowed a better understanding of how different management regimes can affect the hindgut and its resident microbial population (the microbiome). Owners and trainers have seen first-hand how specific improvements to management regimes can improve hindgut health and in turn have a direct impact on condition and performance.

What is the microbiome?

The equine microbiome is a population of micro-organisms that colonise the hindgut; it is made up of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa. This population of microbes has many functions, but primarily they are there to ferment (digest) fibre through fermentation. A healthy, balanced microbiome is essential for efficient fibre digestion and utilisation. Over recent years we have gained a better understanding of how critical the microbiome is to a healthy immune system, balanced

The latest research into the role of the equine hindgut and its importance to the horse

temperament, and overall wellbeing. Research in the human field has already shown connections between our microbiome and its relationship with performance, recovery, long-term health, emotional well-being, and mental clarity. The healthy and balanced microbiome that we are striving for in our horses relies on a varied and plentiful supply of fibre from forages, including different grasses and conserved forages, such as hay or haylage. Horses naturally forage either in the wild or some domesticated settings. This natural foraging provides a vast array of plant material to satisfy this internal population of microbes and ensures that the fibrolytic, or fibre loving bacteria, remain the dominant microbe. This results in a robust microbiome, which is more capable of resisting certain disruptions, for instance those

caused by management changes and environmental stressors, more readily. For horses where their microbiome is less healthy and more unstable, certain management factors could potentially lead to a much more damaging disruption and thus increased risk of problems including hindgut acidosis.

What is hindgut acidosis?

Put simply hindgut acidosis occurs when the pH (see Box 1) in the hindgut is shifted down the scale to less than pH 6. This change in pH is usually due to a shift in the bacterial population in favour of more lactic acid producing bacteria as well as an increase in the production of Volatile Fatty Acids (VFAs). The change may occur suddenly and cause acute problems, or it may be more of a repeated insult causing a more chronic set of problems, such as:

The pH scale This measures how strongly acidic or alkaline a solution is. Pure water is neutral with a pH of 7. Acidic solutions have values less than 7, and the closer to 0, the more acidic it is. Alkaline solutions have values more than 7, and the closer to 14, the more alkaline it is.

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• Decreased forage utilization • Changes to body condition (usually a loss of condition) • Changes to behaviour and demeanour • Intermittent discomfort • Inappetence • Colic • Decreased absorption of nutrients • Laminitis • Diarrhoea/colitis

How and why does it occur?

Firstly, it’s necessary to understand the function of the hindgut, which is made up of the caecum, large colon, small colon and rectum. It is the most important part of the equine digestive system as it is where fibre is gradually fermented by microbes. This process produces VFA’s, which permeate the lining of the caecum and colon, travelling in the bloodstream and eventually being utilised as an energy source for the horse. VFA’s are a major contributor to the horse’s daily energy demands, even in racehorses where traditionally we tend to rely more heavily on cereals to provide energy. The microbiome works best when their environment, including the pH, remains fairly constant. Certain factors associated with racehorse management increase the risk of the hindgut pH becoming too acidic (i.e. hindgut acidosis) these include: 1) Low forage intake. Adequate forage intake is essential

foran equine advertorial to maintain the population of beneficial fibre fermenting bacteria in the hindgut. These fibre-loving bacteria like a pH of 6.5 to 7.0 and require a steady supply of forage in order to maintain their population. Where forage intake is limited the number of beneficial bacteria decreases as does the pH. This lowering of the pH favours the growth of lactic acid producing bacteria, whilst also further contributing to a decline and reduced efficacy of the fibre-loving bacteria. This shift in the hindgut environment can result in irritation and inflammation along the intestinal mucosa, damaging its absorptive capacity, which if left unresolved will lead to a list of issues as discussed. 2) High cereal/starch diets and large individual meals. In theory the small intestine should be able to manage the digestion of starch efficiently via enzymes such as amylase. However, when the diet contains large amounts of cereals, particularly if these are fed in large meals, inevitable undigested starch makes its way into the hindgut. Here the hind gut microbes easily ferment the starch. Consequently, production of VFA’s is rapidly increased, as is the production of lactic acid, both of which result in a sharp decrease in pH and a much more acidic environment. 3) Increased stress levels. A degree of stress is unavoidable in the racehorse’s day-to-day life. However, where possible minimising stress is important as it can have a major effect of hindgut health. This is not only because stressed horses are less likely to eat, but also because stress can affect the levels of certain hormones (e.g.

How to limit or prevent hindgut acidosis?

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cortisol) in the body. These alterations to hormonal balance can directly impact gut motility, gastric and hindgut pH, the health and variety of the microbiome.

How can I tell if my horse has hindgut acidosis?

Identifying the factors that put a horse at risk of developing hindgut acidosis is clear, but confirming whether it is present is not quite so straightforward. A thorough examination of

the horse, including a faecal assessment (pH and bacterial profiles), as well as knowing their history and management will assist you and your vet. Various new methodologies are being researched, including biosensors. The hope is that these advancing technologies will enabling early detection of developing problems, thereby allowing any necessary dietary or management changes to be implemented early and quickly before any serious issues occur.

Supplementation proves beneficial A recent field study by a team of vets and nutritionists examined the effect of feeding a digestive health supplement (Nutri-Gard, manufactured by Foran Equine) to racehorses in full work. The results showed that when compared to the control group (i.e. those not receiving the supplement) supplementation improved: • faecal pH, indicating a reduction in hindgut acidosis • body condition • faecal consistency • trainers also noted improvements in temperaments, attitude and energy levels

Addressing the management factors which may be predisposing your horse to developing this condition is the best and most appropriate way to limit the damage or prevent the condition altogether. With modern racehorse management, ensuring a robust microbiome exists through natural foraging and maximum forage intake is incredibly challenging, and almost impossible. Whilst we can provide more forage to the racehorse it is not always readily consumed and the nature of commercially produced forages isn’t always all that diverse anyway. From a concentrate feed perspective feeding smaller meals (less than 2kg at any onetime) of low starch feeds, will effectively reduce the risk of undigested starch entering the hindgut, resulting in less, if any, disruption to the more favourable fibrolytic bacteria and ultimately avoiding hindgut acidosis. Likewise choosing feeds that have been formulated to specifically contain ingredients, such as prebiotics and yeast, to support gut health is prudent. Finally, there are some exceptionally well-formulated and scientifically backed supplements designed to support digestive health (see Box 2). Sorcha O’Connor MVB, MSc, lead veterinarian in this study, commented: “Nutri-Gard contains 12 key ingredients to support gastrointestinal health including postbiotics, prebiotics, pectin, beta-glucan, key amino acids and B-vitamins. “I believe the reason we have seen such positive results is because of this unique combination of the ingredients and the way they support the entire digestive system.”

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New sires at stud for 2024

Our pedigree and performance profile featuring the new stallion on this year’s European roster in fee order AS BEFITS the world’s best stallion, Frankel has four sons retiring to stud for this spring’s covering season and, on the back of his first son Cracksman producing Ace Impact, the leading European three-year-old and one of the best horses in the world in 2023, hopes will be high that the Juddmonte sire’s own dynasty will develop further with this quartet.

Positively, a number of new farms in Britain and Ireland have ventured into the stallion business for the first time – Dullingham Park Stud, Diamond Stud Bellewstown and Culworth Grangem while there is further expansion at Sumbe in Normandy, Manton Park in Wiltshire and Capital Stud in Ireland.

A-Z of new European sires for 2024 (Fee in £/€) * Timeform master rating Stallion

Stud

Ace Impact

Haras de Beaumont

Angel Bleu Asymmetric

Fee

Sire-Dam

Dam Sire

TF*

€40,000

Cracksman-Absolutly Me

Anabaa Blue

133

Sumbe

€9,000

Dark Angel-Cercle De La Vie

Galileo

117

Ballyhane Stud

€7,000

Showcasing-Swirral Edge

Hellvelyn

109

Belbek

Sumbe

€7,000

Showcasing-Bee Queen

Makfi

119

Bouttemont

Rathbarry Stud

€5,000

Acclamation-Basilia

Fastnet Rock

113

Castle Star

Capital Stud

€5,000

Starspangledbanner-Awohaam

Iffraaj

*112

Chaldean

Banstead Manor Stud

£25,000

Frankel-Suelita

Dutch Art

122

Dragon Symbol

Whitsbury Manor Stud

£8,000

Cable Bay-Arcamist

Arcano

116

Dubai Mile

Manton Park

£7,500

Roaring Lion-Beach Bunny

High Chaparral

112

El Caballo

Culworth Grounds Farm

£6,000

Havana Gold-Showstoppa

Showcasing

114

Erevann

Haras de Bonneval

€8,000

Dubawi-Ervedya

Siyouni

118

Good Guess

Tally-Ho Stud

€17,500

Kodiac-Zykina

Pivotal

121

Little Big Bear

Coolmore Stud

€27,500

No Nay Never-Adventure Seeker

Bering

122

Lusail

Haras de Bouquetot

€6,000

Mehmas-Diaminda

Diamond Green

113

Mac Swiney

Irish National Stud

€8,000

New Approach-Halla Na Saoire

Teofilo

112

Marie’s Diamond

Diamond Stud Bellewstown

€6,000

Footstepsinthesand-Sindiyma

Kalanisi

*115

Modern Games

Dalham Hall Stud

£30,000

Dubawi-Modern Ideals

New Approach

123

Mostahdaf

Beech House Stud

£15,000

Frankel-Handassa

Dubawi

129

Mutasaabeq

The National Stud

£6,500

Invincible Spirit-Ghanaati

Giant’s Causeway

122

Native Trail

Kildangan Stud

€17,500

Oasis Dream-Needleleaf

Observatory

122

Onesto

Haras d’Etreham

€12,500

Frankel-Onshore

Sea The Stars

128

Paddington

Coolmore Stud

€55,000

Siyouni-Modern Eagle

Montjeu

128

Shaquille

Dullingham Park Stud

£15,000

Charm Spirit-Magic

Galileo

123

The Antarctic

Castle Hyde Stud

€6,000

Dark Angel-Anna Law

Lawman

111

Triple Time

Dalham Hall Stud

£10,000

Frankel-Reem Three

Mark Of Esteem

124

Vadeni

Haras de Bonneval

€18,000

Churchill-Vaderana

Monsun

129

*Timeform top rating, no applicable Timeform master rating

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Paddington: the four-time Group 1 winner became a fan favourite last summer with both the younger generation as well as bloodstock aficionados

PADDINGTON

Siyouni-Modern Eagle (Montjeu) Coolmore Stud €55,000 The four-time Group 1-winning three-yearold has been retired to Coolmore as the most expensive new stallion at stud for 2024 at a fee of €55,000, and that generation-topping price has been set with good reason. The son of Siyouni made waves in the spring of his Classic year, the colt having only had two starts as a juvenile with a fifth place on debut in a 7f maiden at Ascot and then a win at The Curragh in October, also over 7f.

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At three, the well-named colt made a winning debut at Naas over 7f on heavy ground, and was then stepped up to Listed class and a mile at The Curragh in the Tetrarch Stakes for a comfortable length win from Drumroll. The victory propelled him to his first Group 1 challenge in the Irish 2,000 Guineas at the end of May on good ground, and the colt, sent off a 3/1 chance, made good the faith put in him by connections coming home 2l clear of Cairo, Hi Royal and Charyn. After The Curragh victory Aidan O’Brien pinpointed the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1)

and the colt duly turned up at Royal Ascot a month later and ran out the comfortable winner from the 2,000 Guineas winner Chaldean. The Racing Post analysis writes that Paddington won “with authority” posting an “above average performance” and the best since “Kingman’s win in the race in 2014”. The mile all-aged Group 1 Sussex Stakes was put forward as the next likely target and the colt did indeed head to the Sussex Downs, but was given a winning run in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in the interim – a four-runner race which saw him beat the

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is by one of the most important young sires in Europe Classic-winning four-year-old Emily Upjohn by a half-length. It was a soundly-run race, and he struck a blow for the Classic generation That run started to bring comparisons with the original “Iron Horse”, Giant’s Causeway especially as Paddington’s winning run, like the former champion US sire, continued on the Sussex Downs where he saw off Facteur Cheval and Charyn by a length and a half. It was Paddington’s seventh win in succession and the fourth at Group 1 level, the colt having won on a variety of tracks and on different ground conditions. The race led jockey Ryan Moore to claim that the horse was possibly as “good as he has ridden”. He added: “He’s handled everything that we’ve put in front of him, whether it’s a mile, ten [furlongs], good ground, soft. He’s a straightforward horse who thrives on his racing. Someone asked me yesterday if he’d go on this ground and I said he’d go on snow.” That was, though, the last time the colt finished with his head in front – three weeks later in a hot Juddmonte International (G1) he finished third to the front-running Mostahdaf and Nashwa. The post-race review stated that maybe the quick succession of races had caught up the son of Siyouni with Moore saying that the colt felt flatl it was still no disgrace for the three-year-old to finish third to the battled-hardened older pair. Paddington’s final race in the Group 1 Champions Stakes did not go to plan – after running keen he had nothing to give in the straight and faded to ninth on soft ground. In Siyouni, Paddington is by one of the most important young sires in Europe and one that is becoming key to Coolmore. The Pivotal stallion is setting up a strong relationship with mares by Galileo, his leading runners bred on the cross being St Mark’s Basilica and Sottsass, and more

generally with the Sadler’s Wells line. That great sire is in the second generation of Paddington’s dam Modern Eagle (Montjeu) so there could be options to use other descendants – and his second dam Millionaia has produced the Group 3 placed and Listed winner by Authorised. The only influence in his pedigree from Danehill is as the sire of Sichilla, the dam of Siyouni, so those lines could be open for breeders to explore, while Siyouni has had success with mares by Cape Cross and Librettist opening up Green Desert / Danzig. Siyouni’s three-time Group 1-winning filly Ervedya is out of the King’s Best mare Elva, which brings in the Kingmambo cross, and she has bred felow new sire Erevannby Dubawi. Paddington hails from a strong immediate broodmare line – dam Modern Eagle was a Listed winner, Millonaia was Group 1 runnerup in the Prix de Diane, third dam was the Prix Saint-Alary (G1) winner Moonlight Dance and fourth dam Madelia was a jointchampion three-year-old filly in France in 1977 winner of the Diane, the Saint-Alary and the Poule D’Essai des Pouliches (G1). Hopefully, the well-named colt will keep his and his namesake’s name in equine pedigree lights for generations to come.

ACE IMPACT

Cracksman-Absolutly Me (Anabaa Blue) Haras de Beaumont €40,000 The unbeaten highest-rated three-year-old in Europe heads the developing stallion roster at the young Haras de Beaumont standing at a fee of €40,000. Produced by the German breeder Waltraut Spanner from the Listed-placed Anabaa Blue mare Absolutly Me, who has also produced a Listed-placed filly, the yearling colt by Cracksman did not jump out of the page as a one likely to conquer the world when purchased by trainer Jean-Claude Rouget for €75,000. Ace Impact’s family has over the years produced plenty of winners, and a few Listed horses, but nothing with anything nearing the talent of Ace Impact. His second dam Tadawul won once and bred nine winners but no stakes horses, while his third dam, who was a stakes winner, produced two Listed winners from 11 winners. When you get to the fourth dam Rosia Bay (dam of seven winners) there is stronger black-type class as she is the dam of Ibn Bey, a ten-time winner with three international Group 1 victories to his name, and Roseate Tern, winner of the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and

Ace Impact with the after-burners switched to full force in the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

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new sires placed numerous times in Group races. Ace Impact did not race at two, and made his winning debut in the January of his three-year-old season on the All-Weather at Cagnes-Sur-Mer over 1m2f. In April, he won at Bordeaux Le Bouscat on the heavy and then made his way to Chantilly at the beginning of May for the Listed Prix de Suresnes over 1m2f, giving the first indication that he possessed a killer turn of foot. His assignment in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) saw him dominate his field with the subsequent Group 1 victor and race favourite Big Rock second. Ace Impact settled in the rear, and when jockey Cristian Demuro angled out 2f from home, the horse bossed his field in a matter of strides. Kept over the same trip he won the Prix Guillaume d’Ornano (G2) a shade “cosily”,

despite his trainer reported as saying that the son of Cracksman was only 85 per cent ready for that assignment. The run set up Ace Impact as favourite for the Arc, and the colt put in arguably his best-ever performance defeating the consistent Group 1 runner and international campaigner Westover by a length and threequarters. Ace Impact produced the best time figure for the race since Enable’s win in 2017 and prompted his trainer to say that his horse has the best acceleration he had ever seen. It was quickly announced that the horse had run his last race with all connections keen to see him retired to France. The Chehboub family bought into Ace Impact after the Jockey-Club to own him alongside Serge Stempniak, who apparently refused higher offers from international stud farms in order

that the colt would stand in France. Cracksman, the first son of Frankel to stand at stud, has had stakes winners with mares by Lawman, Dubai Destination, High Chaparral, Lando, Gentlewave and Sir Percy, while Frankel’s most successful nicks moneywise so far is with mares by Dubawi, Shirocco, Selkirk and Dutch Art. He has also done well with mares by Oasis Dream and Shamardal.

MODERN GAMES

Dubawi-Modern Ideals (New Approach) Dalham Hall Stud £30,000 Modern Ideals (New Approach), the dam of Modern Games, has been one of the most successful international broodmares over the last couple of years.

Modern Games getting his just rewards in the 2022 Breeders’ Cup Mile, his second Breeders’ Cup victory for the Dubawi colt after the oddly-run Juvenile

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Modern Ideals, the dam of Modern Games, has been one of the

most successful international broodmares over the last couple of years Not only has she produced new Darley sire Modern Games, a dual Breeders’ Cup winner, winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1), the Woodbine Mile (G1) and the Lockinge Stakes (G1), but Modern Ideals is also dam of last season’s 1,000 Guineas (G1) and Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) winner Mawj, who was also second in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), as well as the dual Group 3-placed Modern News. Modern Ideals’ Manduro half-brother is the Haras du Logis-based sire Ultra, winner of the 2015 Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère. Modern Games won four times as a juvenile with his final two victories coming in the 7f Group 3 Tattersalls Stakes at Newmarket and in the US in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Juvenile. Then he was the winner but not the winner (for betting purposes) after he had mistakenly been scratched from the race and then resinstated at the start after Albahr had reared in the stalls. The son of Dubawi made it two top level wins in succession across seasons with a first-time-out victory in the Poulains followed by his third in the Prix de Jockey-Club (G1) behind Vadeni. After a fifth in the Prix Jean Prat (G1) and a second in the Sussex Stakes (G1) to Baaeed he returned to winning ways in the Woodbine Mile (G1), then took a runner-up spot in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes II on soft ground at Ascot before collecting his Breeders’ Cup Turf victory on firm ground. After the win at Keeneland, trainer Charlie Appleby said: “He is a typical Dubawi who won’t lie down and he loves it over here. He grows an inch when he’s here in the US.” The colt duly kicked off his 2023 season stateside with a second in the Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes (G1) and then won his final Group 1 over a mile with victory in the Lockinge Stakes from Chindit. His last career start saw a fourth place on rain-softened ground in the Group 1 Queen Anne to fellow new Darley sire Triple Time, Inspiral and Light Infantry Man.

Sire Dubawi is, upsides Frankel, the best stallion in the world and has had success with such a wide range of broodmare sires. Galileo is his most successful nick and this could be repeated, he is far enough back as sire of New Approach, alongside alternative Sadler’s Wells lines – for instance, Too Darn Hot and Old Persian are out of mares by Singspiel, Monterosso is out of a Barathea mare. Other good horses by Dubawi include Akeed Mofeed (Tiger Hill) and Postponed (Dubai Destination) from Danehill-line stallions, Poet’s Voice (Chief’s Crown) and Makfi (Green Desert) from Danzig line sires. He has a good record, too, with Sea The Stars.

LITTLE BIG BEAR

No Nay Never-Adventure Seeker (Bering) Coolmore €27,500 By the Ashford Stud-based No Nay Never, such an influence for precocity, Little Big

Bear achieved championship honours as a two-year-old with a headline victory in the Phoenix Stakes (G1), and he is one of seven Group or Grade 1 winners by the son of Scat Daddy. Bred by Camas Park, Little Big Bear was a €320,000 Arqana August yearling purchased by Mandore International. Pretty much everything went right for Little Big Bear as a juvenile. After winning on his second start at the beginning of May, Little Big Bear took the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes by a neck from Rocket Rodney, stepped up to Group 3 level for an easy success at The Curragh in the Anglesey Stakes and then gained his Group 1 at the same track when beating Persian Force by 7l. The subsequent race ratings put the renewal as one of the best in recent years and one of the top performances by a juvenile in 2022. Little Big Bear won The Curragh Group 1 despite sustaining an injury when kicking a wall before the race and he did not run again as a juvenile. Aidan O’Brien reported to the press that the horse recovered well, but he did not wish to rush him to prep for the autumn’s Dewhurst Stakes (G1). The colt was next seen out at Newmarket in the 2,000 Guineas when, after running too free on a first start since August, he came home last of the 14 runners over the mile trip.

Little Big Bear: the son of No Nay Never after his first Group race win in the Anglesey Stakes (G3)

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Chaldean: the 2,000 Guineas winner has settled into the lifestyle at Banstead Manor standing alongside his sire and will be receiving mares at £25,000

He righted that effort just three weeks later with victory in the 6f Sandy Lane Stakes (G2) under a Frankie Dettori hands and heels ride. The Haydock form held up well at Royal Ascot with the third-placed Bradsell going to win the King’s Stand Stakes (G1). Little Big Bear looked set to win his own Royal Ascot race – sent off favourite for the Commonwealth Cup (G1), he looked all over the winner until the remarkable run from Shaquille saw the son of Charm Spirit be the one put his head in front on the line. Little Big Bear ran once more in the July Cup (G1), but in-running fractured a bone in his fetlock and came home last. On subsequent retirement news, O’Brien reported that the colt did not get the “rub of the green” in his three-year-old season and added that: “He’s big, scopey, strong, clearwinded and very, very fast – a class sprinter. He could get some serious stock because he is so big and strong”. Little Big Bear’s dam Adventure Seeker by Bering was a Listed winner over 1m2f,

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finished fourth in the E P Taylor Stakes (G1) and third in the Prix Cleopatre (G3). She has also produced the winning Giant’s Causeway Group 3 runner-up Andrea Mantegna and is a half-sister to Along Again, who took third in the Princess Margaret Stakes (3). Little Big Bear’s third dam is the US and European champion Turf horse All Along, winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) and four further Group 1 races in the US and Europe. She is dam of Along All, third toprated juvenile of 1988. The pedigree has plenty of back stamina so it might not be all about speed and precocity for Little Big Bear, and he has none of the popular European lines from Sadler’s Wells, Galileo or Danehill and Green Desert in his pedigree. No Nay Never has produced two top-level winners from mares by Exceed And Excel, and has had wide success with Green Desert line mares and mares by descendants of Sadler’s Wells, in particular High Chaparral. As Little Big Bear’s dam has already

had a Group horse out of a mare by Giant’s Causeway, sons and grandsons of that great influence might be a key indicator.

CHALDEAN

Frankel-Suelita (Dutch Art) Banstead Manor Stud £25,000 After a first start when fifth at Newbury in June, Chaldean, a son of the magnificent Frankel, went through his juvenile year unbeaten. His 7f novice victory came back at Newbury two weeks later, and he made rapid headway in stakes races going forwards to win the Group 3 Acomb Stakes and the Champagne Stakes (G2) over the same trip. In both races he beat the Amo Racing-owned Kodiac colt Indestructible from Michael O’Callaghan’s yard. Chaldean then stepped up to Group 1 success in the stallion-making Dewhurst Stakes winning by a head from Royal

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Gerald Leigh-produced pedigree featuring Markofdistinction Scotsman, big-race jockey Frankie Dettori on board kicking home early and creating a race-winning move. Things came crashing back to earth on Chaldean’s first start of 2023 after Dettori was unseated at the start leaving the colt to gallop home down the Newbury straight alone. Fortunately, no harm, apart from possibly Dettori’s pride, was done and the lack of a proper prep race proved to be no hindrance in the 2,000 Guineas. The colt lived up to his billing in the early season Classic and came home in front and ahead of Hi Royal and Royal Scotsman, Dettori reporting that, after he kicked on and was clear of the second horse, he was “able to enjoy it”, Chaldean was going that easily. The Andrew Balding-trained star rocked up next at the Royal meeting where he took on Paddington in a battle of the year’s 2,000 Guineas winners and, although he came off second best with the slight excuse that he ran a little free, the race proved the worth of the Classic form on either side of the Irish Sea. It was the last time the Frankel colt finished in the placings – he was seventh in the Prix Jean Prat (G1), and disappointed in the Champions Stakes (G1) at Ascot in October. Chaldean offers some speed options for breeders being out of the Dutch Art mare Suelita, who was a sprinter in Italy. She has bred five winners with Alkumakit, Get Ahead and The Broghie Man all stakes winners over 5f and 6f; Chaldean her only offspring so far with stakes form over a mile. Second dam Venoge produced the Cornwallis Stakes (G3) runner-up Outer Space, as well as the dam of the Lowther Stakes (G2) winner Living In The Past. Third dam Horatia was a Grade 3 winner in the US, and dam of Moment In Time, winner of the Pinnacle Stakes (G3), second in the Lancashire Oaks (G2) and third in the E P Taylor Stakes (G1), a little more stamina evident in her form.

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She is also third dam of the fellow new sire for 2024 Castle Star, winner of the Marble Hill Stakes (G3) and second in the Middle Park Stakes (G1). Chaldean’s family traces back to the Gerald Leigh-produced pedigree featuring Markofdistinction, the Queen Elizabeth Stakes II (G1) winner of 1990, who was also third in the Sussex Stakes (G1) of 1989.

VADENI

Churchill-Vaderana (Monsun) Aga Khan Studs €18,000 Vadeni is one of three Group 1 winners so far for the dual Guineas winner Churchill, the son of Galileo who is out of the Storm Cat mare Meow, a daughter of the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) winner Airwave. Vadeni is bred on the successful GalileoMonsun cross being out of Vaderana, the dam of an additional five winners two of whom have been placed at Listed level over 1m2f. It was a prolific Lagardère family with Vaderana a daughter of the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Vadawina (Unfuwain), who also finished second in the Prix Cleopatre (G3) and fourth in the Prix de Diane (G1). She is dam of the Group race winners Vadamar, The Pentagon (Galileo), who was also third in the Racing Post Trophy (G1), and the Listed winner Vedouma (Dalakhani). Third dam Vadaza (Height Of Fashion) was dam of Vazira, also a winner of the SaintAlary, and Veda, a runner-up in the Poule d’Essai Des Pouliches (G1). On his dam’s side Vadeni is free of the influence of Danzig, who has combined so well with the Sadler’s Wells line over the years and so speedy mares from that line might well suit the grandson of Galileo. Vadeni won on his juvenile debut and quickly became a stakes winner with victory in the mile Listed Europeen de l’Everage at Deauville in August.

He went on to take third in the 1m1f Prix de Conde in September at Chantilly on soft ground. He did not run again as a juvenile and after a mid-field finish in April over a mile, on his second start in May at three he upgraded his form to Group 3 status with victory in the 1m1f Prix de Guiche adding a Group 1 Classic to his CV when producing a fine turn of foot to take the Prix du Jockey-Club by 5l from El Bodegon and Modern Games. He built on that effort when supplemented for the Group 1 1m2f Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in which, after again producing that burst of speed, held off the fast-finishing Mishriff. He was third to Luxembourg in the Irish Champions Stakes (G1) when a little unlucky in running and then was a fine second and no match for the winner Alpinista in the Arc de Triomphe (G1) reversing form with Luxembourg and Onesta from the Irish race but never looked like being able to reel in the superb mare. Two runs in 2023 produced a fourth in April’s 1m2f Prix Ganay (G1) and a fifth of six in May at The Curragh.

GOOD GUESS

Kodiac-Zykina (Pivotal) Tally-Ho Stud €17,500 There have been few farms in recent years better able to launch the careers of young stallions and the O’Callaghans of Tally-Ho Stud will be hoping that new recruit for 2024 Good Guess will add to its already burgeoning record. In recent years the stud has been responsible for Cotai Glory and Mehmas, both champion first-crop sires in Europe by winners and prize-money, Danetime (champion first-crop sire), Petardia (champion first-crop sire in Europe), Society Rock (champion first-crop sire in Europe by prize-money, individual winners and winners) as well as Sir Prancealot, Zebedee and Redback, all of whom were champion first-crop sires in Europe by prize-money. Curiously, the stud lynchpin Kodiac was himself never a first-season champion, but is an outstanding sire of two-year-olds and one has been of the best stallions of the past decade.

new sires Good Guess is introduced to breeders at a fee of €17,500 and was bred to be quick being by the aforementioned Kodiac and out of a Pivotal mare. And quick he was, too, winning on his two-year-old debut for trainer Fabrice Chappet in a Chantilly unraced maiden over five and a half furlongs in June. The Cheveley Park Stud-bred reappeared one month later at the same track, this time over 6f and comfortably landed a conditions race. He was then sent in search of blacktype and a step up in grade and was sent to Deauville in August to contest the Group 3 Prix de Cabourg (6f), but weakened inside the final furlong and finished unplaced behind fellow new sire of 2024 The Antarctic. Good Guess was reported post-race to have picked up an injury. Given time to recover, his final juvenile start came back at Deauville in the Listed Prix Zeddann where he made a promising return in third, beaten a length by Secret Angel. Good Guess’s seasonal reappearance at

three was in the Prix Djebel (G3), a traditional Classic trial, and he took the Deauville contest in good style getting up close home by half a length over the useful Breizh Sky with this year’s new Sumbe sire Belbec in third place. That earned Good Guess a tilt at the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) at ParisLongchamp, but, after missing the break, he was never really in contention although he stayed on well and was ultimately only beaten three and a half lengths by surprise winner Marhaba Ya Sanafi (Muhaarar). Returning to ParisLongchamp on his next start he showed that running was all wrong and finished runner-up to Breizh Sky in the Prix Paul de Moussac (G3) over 7f. Connections kept the faith that they had a Group 1 horse on their hands and the colt’s finest hour came next at Deauville in the Prix Jean Prat (G1), which he won impressively under hands and heels from Sauterne, Breizh Sky and Belbec with the 2,000 Guineas winner Chaldean and Hi Royal down the field.

Good Guess’s final racecourse reappearance was the following month in August where he was unplaced behind Inspiral in the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois. Good Guess was purchased for 420,000gns at the Tattersalls Book 1 October Yearling Sale 2021 and is one of two stakes winners out of the unraced Zykina, the other being Spangled, the winner of five races including Doncaster’s 7f Sceptre Stakes (G3). Zykina earned her place at stud by virtue of her dam – she is a daughter of four-time Group 1 and 1,000 Guineas (G1) winner Russian Rhythm. Kodiac has produced seven Group 1 winners and, aside from Pivotal, Good Guess and Fairyland’s dam sire, they are out of mares by Kingmambo (Best Solution and El Bodegon), Namid (Campanelle), Shamardal (Hello Youmzain) and Kheleyf (Tiggy Wiggy). Shamardal is his most successful nick, his union with Acclamation mares has also done well, as well as Green Desert line mares from various descendants.

Vadeni, having put that turn of foot to good use, came home ahead of Mishriff (near side) and Native Trail in the Group 1 Coral Eclipse at Sandown

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Oasis Dream-Needleleaf (Observatory) Kildangan Stud €17,500 Native Trail becomes the latest in a long line of unbeaten two-year-olds to retire to Darley following in the footsteps of Pinatubo, Too Darn Hot, Earthlight and Palace Pier. Like Pinatubo, Native Crown ended his first year racing as the champion European two-year-old, but succeeded where the above failed in winning a Classic in his second season. The Haras d’Haspel British-bred son of Oasis Dream has the unusual distinction of being a Classic winner sold as a foal at Arqana December in 2019 to Sam Sangster, as a Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling where he was offered by Kildaragh Stud and bought by Mags O’Toole) and, finally, as a two-yearold at the 2021 Craven Breeze Up. At that April sale he was sold by Oak Tree Farm to Goldolphin for 210,000gns. Native Trail arrived at the races with a tall reputation and was sent off at odds-on for his debut at Sandown in June which he won

going away by 4l from Royal Patronage in a maiden over 7f. He was then pitched immediately into stakes company at Newmarket and landed the Group 2 July Stakes where he held off the strong finish of Masekela with favourite Dhabab back in third. He was successful again third time out and was an impressive winner of the Group 1 National Stakes over 7f at The Curragh, accounting for the odds-on favourite Point Lonsdale in second and Ebro River third. All of his two-year-old starts came over 7f and his final juvenile race was the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) in which he took up the running inside the final furlong and comfortably landed the Group 1 prize by 2l from Dubawi Legend with future top level winner Bayside Boy in third. Connections then took Native Trail down the tried and tested route to the Classics and the colt picked up where he left off when readily taking Newmarket’s Group 3 Craven Stakes stretching 3l clear of Claymore and Hoo Ya Mal.

In the 2,000 Guineas he had every chance inside the final furlong but was unable to claw back his ill-fated stablemate Coroebus, going down by just under a length with subsequent multiple Group 1 winner Luxembourg in third. Sent to The Curragh for the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Native Trail added his name to the winning Classic record repelling New Energy and Wexford Native in the final furlong. In July, he was given the chance to take on his elders and over a new trip when he lined-up for the 1m2f Eclipse Stakes (G1) at Sandown. In a small but high-class field Native Trail took up the running inside the final furlong but the spring’s Prix du JockeyClub winner Vadeni swept on the outside, Native Trail just lost second place to Mishriff in a pulsating finish. Native Trail’s final race at three was the 1m2f Group 1 International Stakes, a race in which he could never land a blow behind runaway winner and champion Baaeed, running flat and eased down finishing fifth. Native Trail raced twice as a four-yearold finishing second to Mutasaabeq in the

Native Trail: wins the first of three Group 1 races when successful in the Vincent O’Brien National Stakes beating Point Lonsdale and Ebro River

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new sires Group 2 Bet365 Mile at Newmarket and then finishing midfield in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1), a race won by Triple Time a fellow Darley new sire for 2024. Native Trail is one of two winners out of Needleleaf (Observatory), who is a sister African Rose, victorious in the Group 1 Haydock Park Sprint Cup, and to French Group 3 winner Helleborine, who is the dam of promising young sire Calyx (Kingman). Native Trail’s sire Oasis Dream goes well with Selkirk mares, Sadler’s Wells line mares and Galileo, as well as those from the Mr. Prospector lines of Machiavellian and Kingmambo in addition to out-crosses such as Indian Ridge, Linamix and Warning.

MOSTAHDAF

Frankel-Handassa (Dubawi) £15,000 Beech House Stud Mostahdaf certainly has all the credentials to succeed in his second career being a dual Group 1-winning son of Frankel out of a Dubawi mare, herself twice a winner at the top level. He was Europe’s joint top-rated horse of 2023 and is from the immediate family of two champion sprinters. John and Thady Gosden’s colt was unraced at two, but he hit the ground running as a three-year-old winning his first two starts in March and April before gaining his first black-type success in the Listed Heron Stakes over a mile at Kempton in May. Sent immediately to Royal Ascot to the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes he was hampered and finished down the field behind Poetic Flare. That was to be the only blot on his threeyear-old campaign as he bounced straight back from that to win his next two starts – the Listed Fortune Stakes over a mile at Sandown from Escobar and in October when upped in trip he landed the Group 3 Darley Stakes over 1m1f from Bedouin’s Story. Clearly showing an affinity for Sandown he debuted on his seasonal reappearance the following April comfortably taking the Group 3 Gordon Richards Stakes with Foxes Tales in second. A month later, back at Sandown, he was second behind Bay Bridge in the Brigadier Gerard Stakes (G3). His next start came at the Royal meeting

Mostahdaf: by Frankel and out of a Dubawi mare, he had a fantastic international season in 2023

in the Group 2 1m4f Hardwicke Stakes when second to Broome and the Derby hero Hurricane Lane. Mostahdaf was described by his trainer as having run flat next time out in the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes (G2) at Newmarket’s July meeting, going quickly from having every chance inside the last furlong to stopping quickly and eased down. Given some time off he reappeared in September at Kempton to comfortabe land the Group 3 September Stakes from Dubai Honour before his final race of the season when unplaced in bottomless ground behind Alpinista in the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Mostahdaf’s five-year-old campaign was very much an international one and without doubt also his best, the son of Frankel acting well on the generally fast surfaces abroad and fast summer surfaces at home. His first start of 2023 was in February where he trounced the opposition by 7l in the valuable 1m2f Neom Turf Cup. He then headed to Dubai’s World Cup meeting where he kept on well in fourth in the Sheema Classic (G1) behind the superstar Equinox with Westover and Zagrey placed. On his third seasonal start at Royal Ascot he avenged his two previous defeats there with a stunning 4l victory in the Group 1

Prince Of Wales’s Stakes ahead of a field that included the multiple Group 1 winners Luxembourg, Adayar, My Prospero and Bay Bridge. That victory was followed by another 1m2f Group 1 success two months later when he beat Nashwa and Paddington in the International Stakes at York. His final start came at Santa Anita where he was unplaced behind Auguste Rodin in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf. Shadwell’s homebred son of Frankel is out of the Dubawi mare Handassa, who was a dual winner in Ireland, including the Listed Garnet Stakes over a mile at Naas and was considered highly enough to contest the Derrinstown 1,000 Guineas Trial when fourth. She is dam of four winners and Mostahdaf’s half-sister Nazeef (Invincible Spirit) won seven races at three and four years, including the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes and Group 1 Falmouth Stakes, Newmarket, both run over a mile. Handassa’s second dam Star is also dam of the champion sprinters Goodricke and Pastoral Pursuits, both by Bahamian Bounty. With a talented dam sire to back up, Mostahadaf pedigree provides a union of the world’s best Turf stallions and he is a very exciting stallion for the Shadwell roster.

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Charm Spirit-Magic (Galileo) Dullingham Park Stud £15,000 Shaquille starts his new career at the newly renovated and bespoke Dullingham Park Stud the stallion having been the sprint sensation of 2023 providing both his sire and trainer with their first Group 1 winners. Martin Hughes’ homebred son of Charm Spirit had a style of racing that was both brilliant and erratic, both in evidence as he scorched through a summer of sprinting success. Shaquille was born, raised and trained in Yorkshire with the husband and wife team of Julie Camacho and Steve Brown responsible for guiding the colt to a career record of seven wins from nine starts. Shaquille made his debut over 7f in a July two-year-old maiden at York, always travelling easily and ridden out to the line. That was enough for connections to pitch him into Group company which they did next time out in the Group 3 7f Acomb Stakes at the same track. Things didn’t go to plan that day – the colt took too keen a hold and weakened a furlong out in the race won by subsequent 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Chaldean, fellow new sire of 2024. Shaquille returned to York for an October novice over 6f where he made virtually all to win by one and a half lengths. Kept busy he was to race once more that season and made most of the running to land a December novice at Wolverhampton. He kicked off his three-year-old season with a comfortable success on Guineas weekend at Newmarket in a competitive 6f handicap winning off a mark of 94 and by almost three lengths, and just two weeks later gained his first black-type success in the Listed Carnarvon Stakes at Newbury. Pushed along early he once again made all and despite hanging left won by 2l from Desert Cop and Aesop’s Fables. What was to follow was extraordinary and almost defied belief. Sent to Royal Ascot for a tilt at the Group 1 6f Commonwealth Cup, Shaquille entirely blew the start, rearing up as the stalls opened and losing many lengths. Connections had given up all hope, but at the 2f pole jockey Oisin Murphy had managed

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Shaquille: the dual Group 1 winner was the first stallion resident at Dullingham Park Stud

Shaquille starts his new career at the newly renovated and bespoke Dullingham Park Stud, the stallion having been the sprint sensation of 2023 to get Shaquille on to the heels of the leaders. At the furlong pole Little Big Bear had the race at his mercy, but Shaquille put his head down and began to surge clear, the margin of victory one and a quarter lengths. That performance was quickly followed by further Group 1 success in Newmarket’s 6f July Cup (G1). Again Shaquille blew the start, but he was allowed to stride on by jockey Rossa Ryan and the colt scorched clear of his rivals. Despite connections thinking he’d done too much he still had plenty in hand at the finish winning by a length and a half from Run To Freedom with the Group 1 winners Kinross, Khaadem and Little Big Bear behind. Shaquille was to have one final run in the Haydock Park Sprint but he trailed home last, his trainer unable to give any explanation.

Shaquille’s dam is the 2014 Galileo mare Magic, who was unraced but is a sister to Birch Grove, a three-time winner including the Listed Prix Luth Enchantee over 1m4f. They are out of Danehurst (Danehill), the champion older mare in Italy of 2002 whose wins included the Group 2 Flying Five Stakes at The Curragh (5f). She was also placed in the Golden Jubilee Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot and third in the July Cup (G1). Charm Spirit is by Invincible Spirit (Green Desert), so many of the trends for the Irish National Stud’s flagship sire will apply here. Breeders will need to take note that Shaquille’s dam Magic is by Galileo so a cross from a Sadlers’ Wells line mare may suit, but the cross needs to a distance. Pivotal is a very successful cross with Invincible Spirit, alongside Indian Ridge.

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Onesto reappeared on Irish Champions weekend and only

gave best to Luxembourg in the Group 1 Irish Champions Stakes ONESTO

Frankel-Onshore (Sea The Stars) Haras d’Etreham €12,500 Nicolas de Chambure is developing an exciting roster of young Flat stallions at his Haras d’Etreham – City Light has his first three-year-olds in 2024, Hello Youmzain and Persian King have their first runners and they will be joined this spring by Frankel’s son and new sire of 2024 Onesto. A Tattersalls Book 1 October Sale yearling of 2020 from Glenvale Stud, the colt was shrewdly purchased by Mike Akers for 185,000gns.

He was resold the following April at Ocala to Hubert Guy for $535,000 and sent into training with Fabrice Chappet in France. He ran twice as a juvenile, winning on his debut over a mile in an unraced maiden at Chantilly in September before filling the runner-up position in a 7.5f conditions race at Deauville a month later. As a three-year-old he was pitched straight into Group race company and finished 10th, beaten just 4l by Welwal in the Prix de Fontainebleu at ParisLongchamp over a mile in April. The colt was stepped up in trip for his next start in the 1m2f Group 2 Prix Greffuhle at

Saint-Cloud he was held up in rear but ran on strongly and won going away from Agave in second with Sir Bob Parker third. That form was more than good enough to earn him a place in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) a month later, but he ended up too far back in the Classic and could only manage fifth behind Vadeni, El Bodegon and Modern Games. He was to gain revenge on El Bodegon on his next outing and was triumphant in the Group 1 1m4f Grand Prix de Paris having been held up in rear, shaken up and driven to beat Simca Mile at the line. Onesto reappeared on Irish Champions weekend and only gave best to Luxembourg in the Group 1 Irish Champions Stakes with Vadeni, Mishriff, Stone Age and Alenquer behind. Two more three -year-old runs followed – an unplaced effort in Alpinista’s Prix de l’Arc

The Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris winner Onesto by Frankel has joined Haras d’Etreham’s young stallion roster and is standing at a fee of €12,500

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new sires de Triomphe (G1) before he travelled to Tokyo where he ran a decent race in the Japan Cup (G1) beaten 4l into seventh behind Vela Azul having been denied a clear run when the race got going in earnest. Onesto stayed in training as a four-yearold racing four times, all at the highest level and took a best-placed third behind Inspiral in the Prix Jacques Le Marois, seventh to Auguste Rodin in the Irish Champion Stakes, and sixth to the same horse in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita. Onesto retired the winner of three races and with three placings to gain earnings of £1,168,830. He was fourth top-rated threeyear-old of 2022. His dam Onshore (Sea The Stars) was unraced and Onesto is her sole winner to date. She earned her place in the breeding shed as her second dam Kalima (Kahyasi) is an own-sister to Juddmonte blue hen Hasili and she comes from the immediate family of Banks Hill, Cascique, Intercontinental, Dansili, Heat Haze, Romantica and Champs Elysses. Mares by Dansili or Champs Elysses would give some duplication and repetition of Danehill. Urban Sea, the dam of Sea The Stars and great dam of Frankel, has already been repeated in the pedigree.

TRIPLE TIME

Frankel – Reem Three (Mark Of Esteem) Dalham Hall Stud £10,000 Triple Time becomes the second son of Frankel to retire to Dalham Hall Stud where he’ll stand alongside paternal sibling Cracksman, sire of unbeaten Prix du JockeyClub and Arc de Triomphe winner Ace Impact, and who has made a promising start at stud from just two crops to race. Lightly-raced, Triple Time saw the racecourse eight times in three seasons, winning four of those races, placing twice and earning a career-high rating of 121 with earnings of £527,907. Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum’s homebred made his debut for trainer Kevin Ryan in June of his two-year-old season and stayed on well into third in a decent 6f Leicester maiden. A month later over slightly further he

Triple Time’s

career-defining performance came in Royal Ascot’s Queen Anne Stakes (G1)

Triple Time: after winning the Ascendent Stakes

finished second in a Haydock 7f novice with fellow Darley new sire of 2024 Modern Games back in fifth place. He then romped home in impressive fashion over a mile back at Haydock, making all and careering away to win by over 9l. On his fourth and final juvenile start he was sent in search of black-type which he duly landed in Haydock’s Ascendant Stakes (L), once again making most of the running. An early-season injury at three prevented Triple Time from taking his chance in the 2,000 Guineas and Kevin Ryan said at the time: “Triple Time is a very, very good horse – he’s a special talent. I was devastated when he went wrong before the Guineas because I thought we had a real chance.” The colt made his belated seasonal debut at three winning the mile Group 3 Summer

Mile in September and then ran in France on Arc weekend when seventh of ten in the Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein. At four, Triple Time’s career-defining performance came in Royal Ascot’s curtain raiser the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) when he repelled the outstanding Inspiral (also by Frankel). He made most of the running and came home clear of several other new sires of 2024, including Modern Games, Angel Bleu, Native Trail, Mutasaabeq, Lusail and the nowexported Chindit. His final start was in an ultra-competitive Prix du Jacques le Marois (G1) when fifth behind Inspiral, Big Rock and Light Infantry Man. Triple Time is out of the Mark Of Esteem mare Reem Three (2003), winner of three races as a three-year-old and placed second in Newcastle’s Listed Hoppings Stakes over 1m2f for Luca Cumani. She is dam of nine winners, including Ajman Princess (Teofilio), who was victorious in the Prix Jean Romanet (G1) and Goodwood’s Listed Daisy Warwick Stakes, Ostilio (New Approach), winner of the Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein, Cape Byron (Shamardal), winner of the 6f Bengough Stakes (G3), the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary third Imperial Charm (Dubawi), Third Realm (Sea The Stars), a dual Listed winner including Lingfield’s Derby Trial Stakes, and the Lope De Vega gelding Captain Winters, winner of the Listed Heron Stakes at Kempton. Reem Three’s 2012 unraced daughter Rosaline is dam of the 117-rated juvenile Rosallion (Blue Point) whose three wins last year included the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagerdère at ParisLongchamp.

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new sires ANGEL BLEU

Dark Angel-Cercle De La Vie (Galileo) Sumbe €9,000 A new recruit under the Sumbe banner for 2024, Angel Bleu comes from a deep family – his dam Cercle De La Vie is a Galileo full-sister to the exceptional duo of Highland Reel and Idaho, while his second dam Hveger is a sister to champion Elvstroem and a half-sister to the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes winner Haradasun. Angel Bleu was himself a champion French two-year-old and is a very attractive prospect for breeders looking to inject speed and quality into their mares. Angel Bleu was a €100,000 private

purchase from Monceaux in the rescheduled Arqana August (September) Sale of 2020 and was sent into training with Ralph Beckett for owner Marc Chan. An early two-year-old, he ran twice before the end of April placing third first time out then winning on his second start in a 5f Salisbury maiden. Stepped up to 6f he won a Pontefract conditions race leading connections to take up an option at Royal Ascot in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes in which he was unplaced. He returned to Ascot the following month for the 7f Listed Pat Eddery Stakes in which he was headed by Godolphin’s New Science in the last 100yds, but with subsequent 1,000 Guineas winner Cachet behind in third.

A great training performance by Beckett saw Angel Bleu reappear just three days later at Goodwood’s Glorious meeting and his ambition was rewarded when the Dark Angel colt kept on well to win the 7f Group 2 Vintage Stakes gaining revenge of Berkshire Shadow in second. He was then given a rest before an autumn campaign which yielded stunning results. In the space of just over two weeks he was sent to Paris to contest two juvenile Group 1 races, and won them both. The first of those was at ParisLongchamp on Arc weekend where he was pushed out to win the 7f Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère from Noble Truth and Ancient Rome before heading to Saint-Cloud where once again he

Dragon Symbol: has returned to breeder Whitsbury Manor Stud, standing at a fee of £8,000

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new sires underlined his superiority over Ancient Rome keeping on well over the mile trip to win the Criterium International (G1). Injury interrupted Angel Bleu’s threeyear-old career and he raced just three times with a best effort coming when third in the 7f Greenham Stakes (G3) at Newbury. He was found to be lame having ran fifth, beaten just 4l, in a high-class renewal of the Group 1 Sussex Stakes won by Baaeed and behind Modern Games, Alcohol Free and Bathrat Leon. Kept in training at four, it was a season that yielded two further victories: in May he rallied gamely to hold off Holguin in the 7f Haydock Spring Trophy (L) and later that summer, back at the scene of his Vintage success, he won Goodwood’s Group 2 Celebration Mile beating Knight and Charyn. The likeable colt retired the winner of seven races with four placings and earnings of with £613,687. Sumbe’s owner Nurlan Bizakov admitted that prior to the colt’s retirement he had unsuccessfully tried to buy into the colt previously– first after the horse had won the second of his French juvenile Group 1s and thereafter when he was injured as a threeyear-old but his valuation at the time was slightly apart. Angel Bleu’s dam Cercle De La Vie was only ordinary on the racetrack with one second-placing from five starts, but as a Galileo daughter of Hveger she was always assured of a place as a broodmare and, in addition to Angel Bleu, is dam of an unraced €1,500,000 Arqana August 2020 Siyouni colt bought by Oliver St Lawrence. Her dam Hveger was hugely successful with her Galileo sons as Highland Reel (champion and seven-time Group 1 winner), Idaho (dual Group 2 winner, placed in Irish Derby (G1)) and Cape Of Good Hope, winner of the 1m2f Group 1 Caulfield Stakes in Australia clearly demonstrate.

DRAGON SYMBOL

Cable Bay-Arcamist (Arcano) Whitsbury Manor Stud £8,000 A crack sprinter, the multiple Group 1 performer Dragon Symbol starts his second career this spring returning to his breeder’s

Whitsbury Manor Stud for 2024. Ed Harper of Whitsbury said of the son of Cable Bay: “In the helter-skelter world of sprinting it is very rare to find elite level consistency, but Dragon Symbol put together a sequence of five top-class performances every month from the Sandy Lane in May to the Nunthorpe in August, marking him down as an exceptional sprinter.” Although unraced as a two-year-old, Dragon Symbol made up for lost time and by May 2, 2021 as a three-year-old he had run and won his first four races. His debut for trainer Archie Watson in a Wolverhampton 6f novice stakes was full of promise and he won eased down by three and a half lengths. He repeated that feat in almost identical fashion next time out in a Newcastle novice once again making virtually all and pushed out, this time coming home ahead of Dajraan by 4l. Connections then took a handicap route with him and, racing off of a mark of 84, he gave a 5l slamming to his opposition over 6f at Kempton. On his fourth start, he was sent to Hamilton where he was once again impressive, winning the 5f conditions race again by a wide margin. By the end of May his rating had shot up 22lb to 107 prompting connections to take their chances in Haydock’s Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes a race in which, despite racing alone near the stands’ side, Dragon Symbol failed by just a nose to catch Rohaan (Mayson). The natural route to take going forwards was Royal Ascot’s Commonwealth Cup (G1) and racegoers witnessed a ding-dong battle throughout the final furlong between Dragon Symbol and Campanelle, Wesley Ward’s ultra-fast daughter of Kodiac, with Dragon Symbol digging deep and getting up on the line with 5l back to the third. Controversially, however, the stewards deemed that Dragon Symbol had carried the filly wide and the placings were reversed with Watson’s colt harshly demoted to second. Dragon Symbol took on his elders in a field of 20 next time out in the Group 1 July Cup, again running a huge race this time only bettered by the year-older Starman with a host of genuine Group 1 horses behind. A drop in grade was to follow, but certainly

not a drop in quality as he was sent to Goodwood for the Group 2 King George Qatar Stakes. Slowly into stride he ran on well not quite catching the French-raider Suesa, but with the subsequent Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Glass Slippers and sprint legend Battaash behind. He was to gain yet another Group 1 placing next time out when third to Winter Power in the Nunthorpe. It can certainly be said that Dragon Symbol never ducked an issue and the following month he turned up at The Curragh for the Group 1 Flying Five just missing out on a place when fourth to Romantic Proposal, the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint and Prix de l’Abbaye winner A Case Of You and Glass Slippers. With just the one domestic sprint Group 1 left in the calendar of course Dragon Symbol turned up, but he was too free and finished down the field in the Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot in October. Dragon Symbol remained in training at four and raced six times between May and September. His sole win of 2022 was in a Hamilton conditions race, but he also took second in the Listed Achilles Stakes at Haydock and was fifth twice behind Highfield Princess in both the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) and in the Group 1 Flying Five at The Curragh. Dragon Symbol’s 2013 dam Arcamist (Arcano) won once and her other winner is Celtic Champion (Adaay), winner of two races over 6f at two and three years. Her Havana Grey colt foal of 2022 was sold to Philip Stauffenberg at the Tattersalls December Sale for 250,000gns and was resold at the same venue the following October to Godolphin for 600,000gns. Dragon Symbol’s pedigree is pretty clear of any close-up dominant influences with only Green Desert appearing twice as grand-sire of Cable Bay, and great grand-sire of Arcamist.

EREVANN

Dubawi-Ervedya (Siyouni) Haras de Bonneval €8,000 Why change a winning formula if something has worked well before? Georges Rimaud, manager for the Aga

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Erevann was at his best over a mile, undoubtedly thanks

to the speed he inherited from his broodmare sire Khan Studs in France, certainly thinks so and on announcing that the farm would be standing Erevann, a homebred son of Dubawi, for 2024 he said: “It gives us great pleasure to announce the addition of Erevann to our stallion roster. “Not only did he prove himself a tough and consistent performer on the racecourse, but he also has an extremely attractive pedigree, being a son of sire of sires Dubawi out of a champion daughter of Siyouni. “In fact, Erevann boasts a similar profile to Zarak. Both Erevann and Zarak won the Prix de Saint-Desir as two-year-olds, and both are sons of Dubawi out of multiple Group 1-winning Aga Khan Studs-bred mares. “Both also have pedigrees free of Sadler’s

Wells, giving breeders plenty of options when devising mating plans. Where they differ is that Erevann was at his very best over a mile, which is undoubtedly thanks to the speed he inherited from his broodmare sire.” Trainer Jean-Claude Rouget sent Erevann to Deauville in October 2021 for his sole two-year-old start in the mile Prix de SaintDesir which he won by just under a length. Typical of the French back-end maidens it was a large field of 15 and a strong one including the subsequent Group winners Al Hakeem, Tribalist and Simca Mille. He was seen early as a three-year-old and in March kept on well to land the Prix Comrade conditions race at Saint-Cloud before repelling Triballist once again when

getting up in the final stride to win the Prix Paul de Moussac (G3) at Chantilly. He reappeared in the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois in August only losing out by just two necks in third to the champion Inspiral (Frankel) in a strong renewal which also featured the Group 1 winners Order Of Australia, Prosperous Voyage and Gunieas winner Coroebus down the field. Put away until Arc weekend Erevann was sent to the Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein a race he won cosily from The Revenant. Erevann stayed in training at four racing five times and on his seasonal debut was third to Tribalist in the Group 2 Prix du Muguet at Saint-Cloud and filled the same position on his final career start to Horizon Dore in the Group 2 Prix Dollar on Arc weekend. He is out of Ervedya the joint fourth toprated two-year-old filly in Europe in 2014, who won seven races at two and three years including the Coronation Stakes (G1), the mile Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (G1), and Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1).

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NEW FOR 2024

new sires MAC SWINEY

New Approach-Halla Na Saoire (Teofilo) Irish National Stud €8,000 Mac Swiney nearly had the distinction of becoming the first Classic winner subsequently sold at a UK or Irish online auction when offered by Goffs in January 2023. Ultimately, however, he was bought back by his trainer Jim Bolger and will stand this spring at the Irish National Stud with Bolger citing that he wanted the horse to stay in Ireland as he had a dozen mares he would like to send to him. Mac Swiney, a son of New Approach, is Bolger-bred through and through having bred Mac Swiney’s dam Halla Na Saoire, her sire Teofilo and Halla Na Saoire’s own dam Siamsa. New Approach himself was trained by the master of Glebe House racking up an unbeaten juvenile career record winning two Group 1s and then the Epsom Derby at three. Mac Swiney raced six times at two years and improved on his debut fifth placing to record his first win in a Curragh maiden in July over 7f. Pitched into stakes company next time out he gradually weakened in Leopardstown’s Group 3 Tyros Stakes in a strong field that included Group 1 winners Van Gogh and State Of Rest. He reappeared that same month winning the Group 2 Futurity Stakes over 7f at The Curragh in August staying on strongly at the finish and exacting revenge on the unplaced Van Gogh. His final two juvenile starts were both Group 1 races – the first of those was the National Stakes at The Curragh won by Thunder Moon with Mac Swiney hampered a furlong out and finished down the field. The second was a victorious one when, sent to Doncaster for the Futurity Stakes over a mile, he kept on well beating Godolphin’s One Ruler with Baradar further back in third. At three, Mac Swiney raced eight times, six times at Group 1 level, but he kicked off his season in Leopardstown’s Group 3 Derby trial

Mac Swiney, the Guineas-winning son of New Approach, will available to breeders at a fee of €8,000

finishing fourth to subsequent Epsom Derby favourite Bolshoi Ballet (Galileo). Despite staying on over those 1m2f his trainer decided to drop him back to a mile for his next start in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and was rewarded handsomely with Mac Swiney making all and holding off the fellow Bolger-bred and trained Poetic Flare, winner of the English equivalent and subsequent St James’s Palace Stakes victor to both, the pair clear of Irish National Stud sire Lucky Vega 3l back in third. Mac Swiney was then sent to Epsom for the Derby and ran a creditable race finishing fourth to Adayar. Connections persisted with the Derby route and he was sent to The Curragh, but weakened into sixth behind Hurricane Lane.

His next two starts saw him unplaced in both the International at York and the Boomerang Mile, but he returned in good style on British Champions Day when third to Sealiway with Mishriff, Adayar, Addeybb and Al Aasy behind in the Champion Stakes (G1). Mac Swiney raced three times as a fouryear-old and his best placing was fourth to Aikhal in the Group 3 International Stakes at The Curragh over 1m2f. He retired the winner of four races and £624,697. Mac Swiney’s unraced dam Halla Na Saoire has produced one other winner – named Slaney Street he was trained by Bolger to win two races at two and three years. Her dam Siamsa (Quest For Fame) also won two races for Glebe House and the best of her three winners was Light Heavy (Teofilo),

Mac Swiney, a son of New Approach is Bolger-bred through and through having bred

the stallion’s dam Halla Na Saoire, her sire Teofilo and Halla Na Saoire’s own dam Siamsa 84

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new sires who won three races at three years, including the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial (G2), the 1m2f Ballysax Stakes (G3) and he was also third in the Irish Derby (G1). Siamsa’s Montjeu daughter Halla Siamsa is dam of five winners the best of whom was the Bolger-trained Parish Hall (Teofilo), jointthird top rated two-year-old colt in Europe in 2011, winner of £428,631 and six races, including the Dewhurst Stakes (G1). Mac Swiney is in-bred to Galileo who is his grand-sire (as the sire of New Approach) and great grand-sire via Teofilo, the sire of Halla Na Saoire. This rules out such options for breeders. However, there is no Danehill, Danzig, Green Desert, Kingmambo, Mr. Propsector or Pivotal in the bloodline, which opens things up for breeders with mares from those lines. New Approach has had good success with mares by such sires as Cape Cross, Dubawi, Danehill and Shamardal.

DUBAI MILE

Roaring Lion-Beach Bunny (High Chaparral) Manton Park £7,500 Dubai Mile has retired to Manton Park as the young farm heads into its second covering season in business. By the ill-fated Roaring Lion, he has the task as the only son of the Group 1 winner at stud with the chance to keep his sire’s name in pedigrees for years to come. Bred by Skymarc Farm, he is out of the High Chaparral mare Beach Bunny, a winner at two, Listed winner at three and Group 1 runner-up in the 1m2f Pretty Polly Stakes (G1) as a four-year-old, a race in which she had finished fourth the previous year. She has produced nine winners, including the Listed winner and Group 3-placed sprinter Naadir (Oasis Dream) and the twoyear-old Listed winner Beach Belle (Invincible Spirit), who also achieved a Group 1 fourth

placing in the Phoenix Stakes as a juvenile and has bred the Lope De Vega 7f Australian Group 3 winner Surf Dancer, a Listed winner and BHA rated 107 before shipping Down Under. Beach Bunny comes from a high-class family as a grand-daughter of Miss Tahiti (Tirol), a French champion juvenile and winner of the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1). Dubai Mile lived up to his pedigree heritage and was successful in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud having won two previous races as a juvenile and finished second in the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes. As a three-year-old he took fifth in the 2,000 Guineas (G1), was down the field in the Epsom Derby (G1) and ran once more when fourth to King Of Steel in the King Edward VII Stakes (G2). Dubai Mile’s sire Roaring Lion, a son of the US stallion Kitten’s Joy and a great grandson of Sadler’s Wells, has done so well with the

Dubai Mile: the son of Roaring Lion being ridden here last May by Emma Bedford on the Middleham gallops for trainer Charlie Johnston

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Asymmetric is open to any pedigree lines and breeders might

be wise to back up the stallion’s speed and juvenile influences likes of Giant’s Causeway, Kingmambo, Dynaformer, Danehill and descendants. With the mare Sweeter Still, a daughter of Rock Of Gibraltar, Roaring Lion produced Kameko, the Group 1 winner at stud just over the county lines at Tweenhills in Gloucestershire. Beach Bunny’s dam sire High Chaparral is a son of Sadler’s Wells so Dubai Mile’s pedigree has the great sire crossed 4x3. The great crosses of Sadler’s Wells and Danehill could be some effect here

ASYMMETRIC

Showcasing-Swirral Edge (Hellvelyn) Ballyhane Stud €7,000 The Richmond Stakes (G2) winner and Prix Morny (G1) third is a son of Showcasing, bred by Redpender Stud out of the Hellvelyn mare Swirral Edge, a dual winner over 5f and 6f with one of her successes coming as a two-year-old. She comes from a fast family as a daughter of a half-sister to the 5f Group 2 and the Group 3 juvenile winner Wunders Dream, successful in the Flying Childers and the Molecomb Stakes. Since producing Asymmetric, Swirral Edge’s 2020-born Mill Stream (Gleneagles) has become a Group 3 winner of the 6f Prix de Meautry and twice ran in Group 1 sprints when far from disgraced with a good sixth and eighth finish in double-digit fields. Mill Stream was a 350,000gns October Book 1 yearling, while Asymmetric cost Stephen Hillen 150,000gns at the Craven Breeze-Up. Sent into training with Alan King, the colt won on his first two starts before a second in the Group 2 July Stakes to Lusail and then going one that one place better in the Richmond. He built on that Goodwood effort with a third place in the Prix Morny (G1) to Perfect Power and Viva Chaleur. He transferred to the states for his three-

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year-old season and collected a placing at Listed level and a Grade 2 fourth before returning to Europe for his four-year-old career. After success on a belated seasonal debut at Deauville over 5f, he collected third in the Group 3 Prix du Petit Couvert. Being by Showcasing and out of a mare by Hellvelyn, Asymmetric is open to any pedigree lines and breeders might be wise to back up the stallion’s speed and juvenile influences. Showcasing has done well with a variety of mares, including stallions such as Inchinor (Prize Exhibit), Pivotal (Advertise), Haafhd (Quiet Reflection), Inchinor (Mohaather) and Cadeaux Genereux (Tasleet). Shamardal, Dubawi, Teofilo, Dansili and King’s Best have also enjoyed success with the Whitsbury Stud sire.

BELBEK

Showcasing-Bee Queen (Makfi) Sumbe €7,000 Belbek has headed home for his stallion career, the son of Showcasing having been bred by the Nurlan Bizakov-owned Sumbe in Normandy, which is now developing its stallion roster apace (See page 44). Belbek is out of the Makfi mare Bee Queen, who was bought by Hesmonds Stud from Juddmonte in 2017 and has transferred into Bizakov’s ownership. She hails from one of Juddmonte’s leading pedigrees being a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Sangarius and the Group 3 performer Emergent. She is out of Trojan Queen (Empire Maker), a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet winner Romanti. The pair are out of the talented Banks Hill, a Group 1-winning sister to Dansili, Intercontinental, Cacique and Champs Elysees. Belbek is one of four Group 1 winners by Showcasing, the new stallion successful in the Prix Jean Luc Lagardère (G1) in 2022 after a win in the Group 3 Prix du Bois and a fourth

placing in the Prix Robert Papin (G2). He took a third placing in the Group 3 Prix Djebel on his three-year-old debut, was a respectable sixth placing in the Prix Jean Prat, fifth in the Prix du Moulin, third in the Prix Daniel Wilderstein and won the mile Prix Perth (G3) on his career conclusion. In his 12 career starts he ran over 6f to a mile and only over the 8f trip on his last three career starts. Many stallions will be open for the son of Showcasing although Green Desert features 3x4, Dubawi is in his third generation and Danehill in the fourth as sire of Banks Hill. There is no Galileo or Sadler’s Wells in his pedigree.

MUTASAABEQ

Invincible Spirit-Ghanaati (Giant’s Causeway) The National Stud £6,500 The three-time Group 2-winning miler has joined the National Stud from Shadwell and the son of Invincible Spirit is due to stand at an opening fee of £6,500. Mutasaabeq hails from a fine pedigree being out of Ghanaati (Giant’s Causeway), winner of the 2,000 Guineas and the Coronation Stakes (G1), runner-up in the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1), and third in the Sussex Stakes (G1). She is a half-sister to the Group 3 middledistance horse Mawatheeq and the Group 2 stayer Rumoush, and is a grand-daughter of Height Of Fashion, the dam of the influential stallions and talented runners Nashwan, Nayef, Unfuwain and Mukddaam. Mutasaabeq made his one start as a juvenile a winning one and then reappeared at three when successful over 7f at Newmarket in April. He then returned to the Rowley Mile for his second three-year-old start and finished mid-division in the 2,000 Guineas. He went on to win a 7f conditions race at Haydock in July but, after a run at Goodwood, he was not seen again until the following April when successful at Thirsk in a conditions race. He then put together a consistent run of form at Group level with placings in the Group 2 bet365 Mile at Sandown, Epsom’s Group 3 Diomed Stakes, Ascot’s Summer Mile (G2), Goodwood’s Celebration

new sires Mile (G2) before gaining a deserved victory in the Joel Stakes (G2) at Newmarket, his last start of that season. He again made a winning reappearance in 2023 going a place better in the bet365 Mile (G2) at Newmarket and was fifth in the Lockinge Stakes (G1). A couple of down-the-field outings in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) and the City Of York Stakes (G2) preceded a successful career finale with victory back in the Joel Stakes. Invincible Spirit has been successful and produced Group 1 winners from Galileo and Sadler’s Wells line stallions, Machiavellian and Pivotal (his most successful money-wise nick), Dubawi, Indian Ridge and Acclamation. Invincible Spirit’s own stallion son Kingman is by Zamindar and from the Gone West branch of the Mr. Prospector line, while his highest-earner Moonlight Cloud out of a mare by Spectrum by Rainbow Quest.

EL CABALLO

Havana Gold-Showstoppa (Showcasing) Culworth Grounds Farm £6,000 A first stallion to stand at Culworth Grounds Farm, El Caballo is a son of Havana Gold and out of Showstoppa – connections will be hoping he can repeat the recent outstanding feats of Whitsbury Manor sire Havana Grey, also a son of Havana Gold. Trained by Karl Burke, El Caballo won six races, two victories coming on his second and third starts as a two-year-old over 5f and 6f. His three-year-old career got off to the best possible start as he won his first four races, which created a winning streak of six from the May of his juvenile year to May as a three-year-old culminating with victory in the Sandy Lane Stakes (G2) on his first attempt in Group race company. En route he had picked up the 7f Listed Spring Cup in March on the All-Weather at Lingfield. He ran down the field in the Commonwealth Cup (G1) and was not seen again until the spring of 2023 when his two starts of the year saw a best-placed third at Haydock in the John O’Gaunt Stakes (G3) over 7f. Havana Grey is out of a mare by Dark Angel, so that gives obvious hints to breeders when considering mares for El Canbello. The young sire’s Group 1 winner Vandeek

is out a mare by Exceed And Excel and he has had three stakes horse out of mares by the Australian-born sire. The Whitsbury Manor Stud stallion has also enjoyed success with horses out of mares by Bahamian Bounty, Swiss Spirit, Elnadim, Holy Roman Emperor, Cadeaux Genereux, Equiano and Dansili. Grandsire Teofilo has had great results with Dubawi, Mark Of Esteem, Oasis Dream and Sinndar.

LUSAIL

Mehmas-Diaminda (Diamond Green) Haras de Bouquetot €6,000 Lusail, a son of Mehmas, ran 16 times, won four races, was placed four times and achieved a Group 1 placing once. He ran mainly over 6f and 7f and never beyond a mile. He had six outings as a juvenile winning on debut and a further three times, twice victorious at Group 2 level in the July Stakes (G2) from Asymmetric, and the Gimcrack Stakes, both over 6f. Trainer Richard Hannon said after the York victory: “Lusail is a very uncomplicated horse and he’s proved he gets seven. “To a point, he’s not really been in his coat

all year. The best thing we did was not go to Royal Ascot with him. “He won that with a penalty and I’m delighted. This is the one two-year-old who really has the class and the scope for next year. He’s undoubtedly a Guineas horse. He’s in the Middle Park, Dewhurst and the Lagardere and he’ll take one of those on.” On his last start at two he took fourth place in the Champagne Stakes (G2). He did not win again but was campaigned strongly as a three-year-old with his four starts in Group 1 races achieving a sixth in the 2,000 Guineas, second in the St James’s Palace Stakes, third in the Prix Jean Prat and fifth in the Prix du Moulin. His 2023 season saw him have four starts and, after a run in Riyadh, he finished fourth in the Listed Paradise Stakes and sixth in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes. He hails from a speedy family being out of the juvenile-winning Diamond Green mare Diaminda, who won over 6f at two and was placed fourth in the Listed Dick Poole Stakes. She is a half-sister to the Group 1 winner Fayr Jag, winner of the Golden Jubilee Stakes. Mehmas has done particularly well with Green Desert and Danehill line mares, and mares by Lope De Vega, New Approach, Sleeping Indian and Pivotal will suit.

Lusail: the speedily bred Group 1-placed son of Mehmas at Haras de Bouquetot in Normandy

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DUBAWI LEGEND #SonOfLegendaryDubawi

€6 FE ,0 E 00

Second highest rated 2yo of his generation

2nd Gr.1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes to European Champion 2yo Native Trail. Group winning sprinter as a 3yo.

A higher rated 2yo than his contemporaries

GR.1 2YO

BY DUBAWI

Dubawi Legend Modern Games Ghaiyyath Night Of Thunder Naval Crown Space Blues New Bay

OR as a 2yo 2024 Fee €6,000 115 £30,000 114 €25,000 111 €100,000 109 €10,000 104 €16,000 90 €75,000 n/a

122 mares in his first season

FAR ABOVE #FarAboveTheSpeedLimit

€5 FE ,0 E 00

Won 5f Palace House in blistering speed

Timeform Rating higher than Dark Angel, Kodiac, Invincible Spirit, No Nay Never, Showcasing, Mehmas & Havana Grey.

First yearlings realised 70,000gns, 65,000gns, etc.

GROUP WINNER UNDEFEATED OVER 5F/6F

TIMEFORM: 122

Purchased by James Tate, Ard Erin Stud, Blandford Bloodstock, SackvilleDonald, Linehan Bloodstock, Rabbah Bloodstock, Highflyer Bloodstock, Hyde Park Stud, Peter & Ross Doyle, Razza Latina, etc.

Over 320 mares covered in first three seasons at stud

Dubawi Legend

Far Above

Kuroshio

Galileo Chrome

King Of Change

Standing at Starfield Stud, Ballynagall, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland N91 K8Y9

KING OF CHANGE #BestMilerOfHisGeneration

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Timeform: 126. Beating the best of his generation... Gr.1 winners - Magna Grecia, Benbatl, The Revenant, Mohaather, Veracious, Phoenix Of Spain, Lord Glitters, Accidental Agent, Ten Sovereigns, Emaraaty Ana & Set Piece. Also 2nd Gr.1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas.

First yearlings realised up to 70,000gns

ER G MIL NINETH 1 WINELIZAB GR.THE S STAKE II QUEEN OF

Purchased by Henry Candy, Nick Bell, Blandford Bloodstock, Kevin Blake, Adam Potts x3, Linehan Bloodstock, Ger Lyons, Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock, Derryconnor Stud, Danny Murphy, etc.

KUROSHIO #SpeedDating

€5 FE ,0 E 00

Sire of Stakes horses Kairyu & Panic Alarm in 2023 Plus Gr.1 sprinter Savatoxl, and Gozen, Kurious, Dunkerron, Daphinia, Siculi, etc in Europe.

Making his mark amongst... ...the best sires of 2yo Group winners in Ireland in 2023 inc. Frankel, Dubawi, Galileo, Wootton Bassett, Too Darn Hot, No Nay Never, Kodiac, Sioux Nation, Night Of Thunder, etc.

SIRE SPRINTEXCEL GR.1EXCEE D AND BY

2023 yearlings realised up to €60,000

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new sires MARIE’S DIAMOND

Footstepsinthesand-Sindiyma (Kalanisi) Diamond Stud Bellewstown €6,000 Marie’s Diamond was a tough and durable performer, a smart two-year-old Group winner and retires to Ciarán De Barra’s newly-formed Diamond Stud Bellewstown for 2024. The winner of seven races and £367,461, Marie’s Diamond is a son of Footstepsinthesand and is from the immediate Aga Khan family of the champion Sinndar. Marie’s Diamond was quick to show his ability and made a winning racecourse debut in April of his two-year-old career landing a 5f Leicester novice first time out. He won his fourth start at two where he made all in a Chester showing an impressive turn of foot and that was enough for connections to step him up in grade and he reappeared two weeks later when a fine second to Van Beethoven in the 6f Group 2 Railway Stakes. He then won the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes beating subsequent Grade 1 winner Viadera. Kept busy by his trainer Mark Johnston, he also took second in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes at Goodwood and ran fourth in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes behind Ten Sovereigns. Marie’s Diamond thrived on his racing and by the end of May 2019 had already raced four times as a three-year-old recording a best-placed third in the Listed Surrey Stakes to Space Blues, and a fourth in the Group 2 Mehl-Mulhens Rennen. His first win as a three-year-old came in a 7f conditions race at Haydock and he backed that up next time out over a mile winning Pontefract’s Pomfret Stakes (L). His early four-year-old season saw him place third in the Lady Wulfruna (L) first time out, scoot to victory in the Listed Paradise Stakes on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile and then take a fine third to Circus Maximus in Royal Ascot’s Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes. Marie’s Diamond showed an affinity for Newmarket placing twice in the Group 3 Darley Stakes and the James Seymour Stakes (L) in October on ground that was softer than the valiant colt’s preferred surface. Marie’s Diamond was back in action at

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No stallion in the

stud book has won or placed in as many stakes races from two years of age as Marie’s Diamond

Newmarket for his seasonal reappearance as a five-year-old when second behind My Oberon in the Group 3 Earl of Sefton Stakes. The son of Footstepsinthesand clearly took his racing well and in an 11-race season he also won an Ayr handicap over a mile. Remarkably, he ran a further 15 times at six, bookending the season with four races at

Meydan in January/February 2022 and two in Bahrain in December. He also collected placings in the Group 3 Superior Mile Stakes to Triple Time, the Group 3 Strensall Stakes, the Zabeel Turf (L), the Ganton Stakes (L), the Pomfret Stakes (L) and the Listed Doonside Cup. Eleven further starts as a seven-year-old demonstrated he’d not lost any appetite for racing. No stallion in the stud book has won or placed in as many stakes races from two years of age as Marie’s Diamond. He is the only son of Footstepsinthesand standing in Britain or Ireland. He is out of Sindiyma and is therefore a half-brother to Sikandarabad (Dr Fong), a stakes winner and multiple Group 1 placed,, including when third in Randwick’s Group 1 Metropolitan Handicap in Australia. Marie’s Diamond’s second dam is a sister to dual Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

The Antarctic: the full-brother to Battaash has been given a first fee of €6,000 at Castle Hyde Stud

new sires winner and champion Sinndar. Trainer Mark Johnston said of him “Marie’s Diamond was a tough and consistent performer and a pleasure to train. He has the perfect blend of precocity and progression, and showed a special constitution that is rare in the modern thoroughbred”.

THE ANTARCTIC

Dark Angel-Anna Law (Lawman) Castle Hyde Stud €6,000 New to Coolmore for 2024, The Antarctic was not only a Group 3 two-year-old winner and dual Group 1-performing juvenile but is also full-brother to sprint race champion Battaash and is priced at €6,000. Emulating his older brother The Antarctic was also an early juvenile sort and, like his brother, made a winning two-year-old debut with his success coming in a 5f Tipperary maiden in April. He reappeared three weeks later winning a Naas conditions race over 5f. That early promise was enough for trainer Aidan O’Brien to allow him to take his chance at Royal Ascot in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes where he finished seventh behind shock winner The Ridler – it was the only run at two that The Antarctic was unplaced. Kept busy, he reappeared a fortnight later where third beaten just a short neck in the Listed Tipperary Stakes. Connections turned their eyes to a summer campaign in France where he raced three times in succession: first up when second to stablemate Blackbeard in Chantilly’s Group 2 Prix Robert Papin before regaining the winning thread in the Group 3 Prix de Cabourg over Deauville’s straight 6f. He returned two weeks later for Deauville’s premier juvenile race the Prix Morny (G1) picking up third place once again behind Blackbeard, beaten 2l. That was the same margin behind his stablemate when runner-up to Blackbeard in his final start at two in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket. As a three-year-old, The Antarctic was seen out early again and made his season debut with a third in the Committed Stakes (L) over five and a half furlongs at Navan. He gained revenge the following month

The Group 3 Prix de Meautry winner Bouttemont has joined his sire Acclamation at Rathbarry Stud

when holding off Ocean Quest’s challenge in the Group 3 Lacken Stakes over the slightly longer 6f at Naas. The Antarctic raced just twice more when unplaced in both the Jersey Stakes (G3) and Haydock’s Group 1 Sprint Cup. The Antarctic raced 12 times winning four races with five further placings. A good-looking colt he was a 750,000gns Tattersalls Book 1 October yearling of 2021 bought by MV Magnier from Ballyphilip Stud. His dam Anna Law’s Lope De Vega yearling filly of 2022 named Go Big Or Go Home was a 1,800,000gns Book 1 purchase by Richard Knight, and her Blue Point yearling of 2023 was knocked down to Godolphin, for 1,500,000gns. Anna Law, a daughter of Invincible Spirit (Green Desert), has been remarkably more successful as a broodmare than on the racetrack where in four starts, all at two,saw her beat only two home having finished last in two races and second-last in the others. To date Battaash and The Antarctic are her only two winners – she is likely to have a whole lot more to come judging by her recent sales results and coverings. Dark Angel has had a great success with mares by Oasis Dream, Footstepsinthesand and Choisir. Breeders could also look to alternative lines of Green Desert and double him up or look to Danehill line sires.

BOUTTEMONT

Acclamation-Basilia (Fastnet Rock) Rathbarry Stud €5,000 Rathbarry was one of the first studs to announce a new sire for 2024 and it was as far back as early August last year that the farm press released that Bouttemont would stand alongside his sire for the coming season in association with a partnership of Jack Cantillon and Kevin Blake. The six-year-old son of Acclamation out of the Fastnet Rock mare Basilia retires the winner of six races and £222,627. Purchased by his trainer Yann Barberot for €125,000 at the Arqana August Yearling Sale, Bouttemont made the first of his two juvenile starts at Deauville in August when second in a race for unraced maidens. He was sent to ParisLongchamp a month later where he won a mile colts and geldings maiden by a length and a half. At three, his one victory came in a 6f conditions race in August at Deauville. Kept in training as a four-year-old he flourished in 2022 and his seasonal debut in March was a winning one where he landed a 6f conditions race from Midlife Crisis over Chantilly’s All-Weather track. His trainer, clearly having an eye for the programme book as well as a yearling, duly sent him to Newcastle next time out and his

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new sires foresight was rewarded when Bouttemont won the valuable All Weather Sprint Championship in April with a first prize of £77,310. Given a short break and back on French soil Bouttemont next ran in Deauville’s Group 3 Prix de Ris-Orangis (6f) keeping on into fourth place behind Garrus. His stakes race success immediately followed when in September he won the Group 3 Prix de Meautry once again at Deauville and once more keeping on well in the closing stages. Connections were keen for him to race on at five and he was shipped to Dubai in January although three races at Meydan failed to gain a placing. He resumed a summer campaign back at home and was rewarded with third place in the Listed Prix Servanne at Chantilly, the same position in a Saint-Cloud conditions race before dropping back to 5f and winning the Listed Prix Hampton at Chantilly. His final start produced a fine second in

the Group 3 Mercury Stakes at Dundalk (5f). Bouttemont is the first foal of Basilia, twice a winner as a three-year-old in France and placed three times. Her 2019 filly Baseema (Make Believe) won an All-Weather maiden for Andre Fabre last year and her year-younger Anodin gelding Balsamand won a race in Germany. Rathbarry will hope Bouttemont can follow in his father Acclamation’s footsteps as the sire of 31 Group winners, including the Group 1 winners Romantic Warrior, Marsha, Equiano, Expert Eye, Aclaim and Dark Angel.

CASTLE STAR

Starspangledbanner-Awohaam (Iffraaj) Capital Stud €5,000 Multiple World Champion showjumper Ger O’Neill has been rapidly expanding his thoroughbred interests in recent years and it is to his rebranded Capital Stud where Castle

Bred for speed: Castle Star, by Starspanglebanner, hails from the extended family of Chaldean

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Star will take up stud duties this spring. Castle Star was bred to be quick and showed consistent form throughout his career of 12 races, which saw him finish outside of the first three just once in his six juvenile starts. An early two-year-old, Castle Star made his debut in an April, his trainer Fozzy Stack sending him to Cork for a 5f maiden going down on the line by a short head into second. Stepped up to 6f two weeks later at The Curragh he finished runner-up once more, only failing by a short head to catch Aidan O’Brien’s Glounthaune. He was to gain black-type success on his next start and comfortably won the Listed First Flier Stakes at The Curragh, easily accounting for Loveday and Missing Matron over 5f. His fourth race that year, still in mid-May, was almost a carbon copy of that previous success and he easily landed the Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes, once again at The Curragh stepped back to 6f. He reappeared on Irish Derby weekend and finished a good second in a large field behind Go Bears Go in the Group 2 Railway Stakes, returning the following month when fourth behind Ebro River in the Phoenix Stakes (G1). His final juvenile start was as impressive as it was unlucky – sent to Newmarket to contest the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes he was denied a clear run at a vital stage and was just held by Perfect Power going down only half a length. Asked to train on at three Castle Star missed out on a place in all his starts. Castle Star is out of the 2013 mare Awohham (Iffraaj), who was a dual juvenile winner for trainer Richard Fahey. Castle Star is the best of her three winners to date, the others being Zingaro Bay (Zoffany), a six-race winner in Sweden, and Oman (Australia), who won two races at three. Castle Star’s second dam is Horatia (Machiavellian), winner of the Matchmaker Stakes G3 Monmouth Park. Horatia is dam of five winners, one of whom is Vonage whose own daughter Suelita (Dutch Art) is dam of fellow new sire of 2024 and last year’s 2000 Guineas winner Chaldean.

STANDOUT STATISTICS BTW

BTH

GSH

G1SH

1 Muhaarar

9 [4.55]

22 [11.11]

14 [7.07]

5 [2.53]

2 Siyouni

8 [2.81]

25 [8.77]

14 [4.91]

4 [1.40]

[% of starters]

TDN : 15/11/2023 - Standing France - Worldwide Earnings - by G1 Stakes Horses

SPEED TALENT DURABILITY & EXCELLENCE... The stallion to follow in 2024! €14,000 Live Foal STANDING AT HARAS DU PETIT TELLIER Eric Puerari: +33 6 07 34 38 24 - ericpuerari@wanadoo.fr Jean-Daniel Manceau: +33 6 30 30 81 27 - jdmanceau.capucines@gmail.com

Sire of a Classic winner in 2023 Marhaba Ya Sanafi 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains Gr1 Longchamp 3rd Prix du Jockey Club Gr1 Chantilly st

Israr

1st Princess Of Wales’s Stakes Gr.2 Newmarket 2nd Cumberland Lodge Stakes Gr.3 Ascot 2nd The Aston Park Stakes Gr.3 Newbury

Motorius

1st Green Flash Handicap Gr.3 Del Mar 1st San Simeon Stakes Gr.3 Santa Anita

Annaf

1st Racing Bengough Stakes Gr.3 Ascot

Run to Freedom

2nd July Cup Stakes Gr.1 Newmarket

Photographies : Z. Lupa / RacingPost photos

2023 was his best year so far on the track with 22 Stakes performers including:

Trevaunance

2nd Preis von Europa Gr.1 Cologne Conception publicitaire : Agence G

Belardo

GR.1 SIRE BY LOPE DE VEGA

EUROPEAN CHAMPION 2YO Won Gr.1 Dewhurst & Gr.1 Lockinge 26 Stakes winners/performers (12 in 2023) inc... GOLD PHOENIX

Won Gr.1 Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes (2023) Won Gr.2 Del Mar Handicap (2023 & 2022) Won Gr.2 Eddie Read Stakes (2023) 4th Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf (2023 to Auguste Rodin)

Bearstone Stud

The source of speed

58% 3yo winners/runners

Only Frankel (£350,000) & Siyouni (€200,000) ranked higher

2023 yearlings sold for €100,000, €80,000, €60,000, 45,000gns, 45,000gns, 40,000gns, €40,000, etc.

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US stakes-winning sires 2023

From Weatherbys

Sires of stakes winners in the US and Canada in 2023 Horses are listed under their sire with the respective broodmare sire in brackets. Includes Grade (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in US and Canada to 31/12/2023. American Special races not included Adaay Balnikhov (First Defence)..............................3 Always Dreaming Saudi Crown (Tapit).........................................1 American Pharoah Flag of Honour (Stratum)..............................2 Forbidden Kingdom (Five Star Day)..........2 Jody’s Pride (Scat Daddy)..............................L Marketsegmentation (Medaglia d’Oro)....1,3,L Pioneering Spirit (Giant’s Causeway).... L,L Promiseher America (Unbridled’s Song).3 Tahoe Sunrise (Tale of The Cat)...................L Window Shopping (Tapit).............................2 Amira’s Prince Sister Otoole (Distorted Humor)................L Animal Kingdom Regal Realm (Empire Maker)........................3 Anodin Neige Blanche (Muhtathir)...........................L Army Mule A Little Frisky (Zensational)..........................L Danse Macabre (Blame)............................. 3,L

One In Vermillion (Any Given Saturday).1,L Arrogate Abeliefinthislivin (Pulpit)...............................3 Affirmative Lady (Stephen Got Even).......2 Arcangelo (Tapit)...................................... 1,1,3 Fun To Dream (Maria’s Mon).........................2 Liberal Arts (Tribal Rule).................................3 Linda’s Gift (Tapit).............................................3 Mr Fisk (Manduro)........................................ 3,L Petulante (Uncle Mo)......................................3 Secret Oath (Quiet American).....................2 Artie Schiller Yamato (Shaniko).............................................L

Astern Chase The Chaos (Uncle Mo).......................L Awtaad Anisette (Teofilo)....................................... 1,1,2 Bahamian Squall Spirit Wind (Awesome of Course)..............3 Bated Breath Breath Away (Nayef).......................................L

Bayern Speed Boat Beach (Pioneerof The Nile)...1

Brethren Clapton (Afleet Alex)...................................2,3

Belardo Gold Phoenix (Mizzen Mast)................ 1,2,2

Brody’s Cause Paluxy (Master Command)...........................L

Bernardini Art Collector (Distorted Humor).................1 Fast And Shiny (Lion Hearted).....................L Main Event (Unbridled’s Song)...................2 West Will Power (Wild Event)...................2,2

Bucchero Book’em Danno (Ghostzapper)..................L

Blame Litigate (Mineshaft).........................................3 Wet Paint (Street Cry)...........................1,3,3,L

Cairo Prince Cairo Consort (Street Cry)......................... 3,L Noted (Proud Citizen)................................. L,L Tony Ann (In Excess)........................................2 Wave of Goodness (Lonhro).........................L

Blue Point Big Evs (Oasis Dream).....................................1 Boboman O’Connor (Touch Gold)..............................2,3 Bolt D’oro Instant Coffee (Uncle Mo).............................3 Major Dude (Distorted Humor)..............2,3 Ruby Nell (Not For Love).........................3,L,L Tamara (Henny Hughes)................................1 Thirty Thou Kelvin (Midshipman)..............L

Bungle Inthejungle Manhattan Jungle (Acclamation)..............L

Cajun Breeze Dean Delivers (Yes It’s True)..........................3 Calyx Zona Verde (Dark Angel)...............................3 Can The Man Beer Can Man (Dynaformer)........................L Candy Ride

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us stakes-winning sires Candied (Roaring Fever)................................1 Candy Man Rocket (Forestry).................. 3,L Confidence Game (Bernardini)...................2 Geaux Rocket Ride (Uncle Mo)............... 1,L Heavenly Sunday (Giant’s Causeway)..2,3 Hit Show (Tapit).................................................3 Lovely Ride (Tiznow).......................................L Salute The Stars (Malibu Moon)..................L Touch’n Ride (Niigon)......................................3 Caravaggio Maltese Falcon (Galileo).................................3 Whitebeam (Oasis Dream)........................1,3 Carpe Diem Angel Nadeshiko (Arch).................................3 Charming Thought Amy C (Exceed And Excel)........................ 3,L City of Light Eye Witness (Mr Greeley)...............................L Fierceness (Stay Thirsty).................................1 Gaslight Dancer (Medaglia d’Oro).............L Classic Empire Angel of Empire (To Honor And Serve).1,2 Classy Edition (Bernardini)............................3 Interstatedaydream (Uncle Mo)............. L,L Clubhouse Ride Brickyard Ride (Southern Image)...............3

Tripolina (Street Boss).....................................L Webslinger (Hard Spun)............................. 2,L Conveyance Nobody Listens (Chapel Royal)............... 3,L Cotai Glory Spirit And Glory (Invincible Spirit).............L Coulsty Shantisara (Dalakhani)...................................2 Cross Traffic Defining Purpose (Strong Hope)............1,3 Here Mi Song (Dehere)...................................3 Jill Jitterbug (A P Warrior)..............................L Maple Leaf Mel (City Place).......................3,3 Cupid Carson’s Run (Henny Hughes).....................1 Duke Of Love (Smart Strike).........................3 Curlin Bright Future (Bellamy Road).......................1 Clairiere (Bernardini)...................................1,1 Cody’s Wish (Tapit)...............................1,1,1, 2 Crupi (Malibu Moon)................................... L,L Elite Power (Vindication)....................... 1,1,2 Idiomatic (First Defence)................ 1,1,1,2,3 Lord Miles (Majestic Warrior).......................2 Nest (A P Indy)...................................................2 Raging Sea (Storm Cat)..................................3 Scarlet Fusion (French Deputy)...................3 Solo Album (Arch)............................................3

Collected Conclude (Proud Citizen).......................... 2,L Kalik (Street Cry)................................................2 Taxed (Yankee Gentleman)..........................2

Daddy Long Legs Cheetara (Thunder Gulch)............................L

Competitive Edge Ryvit (Medaglia d’Oro).............................3,L,L

Dansili Set Piece (Kingmambo).............................1,3

Congrats Bango (Smart Strike).......................................L

Danzing Candy Yo Yo Candy (Two Punch)..............................3

Connect Implicated (Tale of The Cat)..........................3 Rattle N Roll (Johannesburg)............... 3,3,3 The Alys Look (Harlan’s Holiday).................L Witwatersrand (Medaglia d’Oro)................3

Declaration of War Big Invasion (Curlin)..................................... 2,L Hopper (Caesour).............................................3

Constitution Aspenite (Candy Ride)....................................L Law Professor (Ghostzapper)................... L,L Surveillance (Mizzen Mast)...........................L Treason (Speightstown).................................2

Deep Impact Auguste Rodin (Galileo).................................1 Dialed In Defunded (Touch Gold).............................1,2 Distorted Humor

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Anarchist (Elusive Quality)........................2,3 Balladeer (Galileo)............................................2 Calibrate (Dynaformer)..................................L Durante (Pioneerof The Nile).......................3 Five Star General (Bernardini).................. L,L Tufani (Mineshaft)............................................L Divisidero Vote No (More Than Ready).........................L Dominus Thin White Duke (Distorted Humor).........L Dubawi In Italian (Redoute’s Choice).....................1,1 Lake Lucerne (Awesome Again).................L Master of The Seas (Danehill)..................1,1 Salesman (Highest Honor)............................2 Siskany (Dansili)................................................2

Fast Anna Dreaming of Kona (Maria’s Mon)................L First Dude Maryquitecontrary (Mecke)..................... 2,L Flameaway Dreamfyre (Sky Mesa).................................3,3 Flashback Offlee Naughty (Offlee Wild)...................2,3 Flatter Flattery (Unbridled’s Song)...........................L Pass The Champagne (Distorted Humor).2 Search Results (Candy Ride).........................3 Flintshire Surge Capacity (Warrior’s Reward).... 1,3,3

E Dubai Eastern Bay (Polish Numbers)......................3

Frac Daddy Daddysruby (You and I).................................1

Empire Maker Queen Goddess (Lemon Drop Kid)...........3

Frankel Inspiral (Selkirk).................................................1 McKulick (Makfi)................................................2 McKulick (Makfi)................................................3

English Channel Anglophile (Kitten’s Joy)................................3 Channel Maker (Horse Chestnut)...............2 Cross Border (Empire Maker).......................L Far Bridge (Kitten’s Joy)..................................1 Malleymoo (Lonhro)........................................L Spooky Channel (Kitten’s Joy).....................2 Two Emmys (Buddha)................................. 3,L War Like Goddess (North Light).............1,3 Enticed Shimmering Allure (Wild Again)................L Es Que Love Hong Kong Harry (Gold Away)....................2 Exaggerator Candidate (Pure Prize)....................................L Skippylongstocking (War Chant)...........2,3 West Saratoga (Uncle Mo)............................3 Exceed And Excel Mawj (New Approach)....................................1 Exosphere Easter (Exceed And Excel).........................2,2 Fascinating Rock Earls Rock (Shamardal)...................................3

Freud Therapist (Smart Strike).............................1,2 Frosted Be My Sunshine (Kitten’s Joy)......................L Frost Point (Timber Country)................... 3,L Ice Dancing (Henny Hughes).......................3 Post Time (Fairbanks)......................................L Sister Lou Ann (Kitten’s Joy).........................L Galileo Bolshoi Ballet (Anabaa)..................................1 Higher Truth (Duke of Marmalade)...........2 Gallant Son Fast Buck (Falstaff)...........................................3 Gemologist Le da Vida (Gstaad)..........................................L Get Stormy Get Smokin (Smoke Glacken)......................2 Ghostzapper Goodnight Olive (Smart Strike).......... 1,1,2 Moira (Unbridled’s Song)..............................2 Our Flash Drive (Dynaformer).................2,3

us stakes-winning sires Rhyme Schemes (Distorted Humor).........2 Spirit of Makena (Gilded Time)................2,3 Two Ghosts (Distorted Humor)...................3 Wolfie’s Dynaghost (Dynaformer)......... 2,L

Honor Code Honor D Lady (Blame)....................................3 Honor Marie (Smart Strike)...........................2 Medoro (English Channel)............................L

Giant’s Causeway Eons (Hansel)......................................................L Giant Game (More Than Ready).................3

Il Doge Planetario (Crimson Tide)..........................2,3

Girvin Closethegame Sugar (Magna Graduate).L Damon’s Mound (Stroll).................................2 Dorth Vader (Yonaguska)..............................2 Faiza (Smart Strike).................................. 2,3,3 Good Magic Dornoch (Big Brown)......................................2 How Did He Do That (Storm Cat)........... 3,L Mage (Big Brown).............................................1 Muth (Uncle Mo)...............................................1 Reincarnate (Scat Daddy).......................... 3,L Scotland (Speightstown)...............................L Good Samaritan Can Group (Street Sense)..............................2 Secret Money (Distorted Humor)..............3 Gun Runner Chatalas (Indian Charlie)................................2 Disarm (Tapit).....................................................3 Echo Zulu (Menifee)................................ 1,2,3 Gunite (Cowboy Cal)................................1,L,L Il Miracolo (Tapit)..............................................3 Intricate (Distorted Humor)..........................2 Life Talk (Bernardini)........................................2 Locked (Malibu Moon)...................................1 Red Route One (Tapit)................................ 3,L Shotgun Hottie (Malibu Moon).............. 3,L Society (Tapit)....................................................3 Vahva (Harlan’s Holiday)............................2,3 Wicked Halo (Tapit)..........................................L Gutaifan Fev Rover (High Chaparral)................... 1,1,2 Hard Spun Bold Journey (Super Saver)...................... 3,L Loyalty (Elusive Quality).............................2,3 Millie Girl (Smart Strike).............................3,3 Really Good (Smart Strike)............................L Spun Glass (Songandaprayer).....................3 Two Phil’s (General Quarters)...................3,3 Hat Trick Macadamia (Northern Afleet).................1,3

Into Mischief Atone (A P Indy)................................................1 Doppelganger (Quiet American)...............1 Everso Mischievous (Medaglia d’Oro)......2 Frank’s Rockette (Indian Charlie)................3 General Jim (Curlin).....................................2,3 Gerrymander (Hard Spun)............................L Gina Romantica (Unbridled’s Song)..........1 L J’S Emma (Pulpit)...........................................L Lane Way (Aldebaran).....................................2 Newgate (Majestic Warrior)..........................3 Occult (Empire Maker)....................................3 Played Hard (Tiznow)......................................1 Pretty Mischievous (Tapit).................1,1,1,2 Rocket Can (Tapit)............................................3 Three Witches (Tale of The Cat)...................3 Timberlake (Lookin At Lucky)......................1 Jack Milton Watsonville (Kitten’s Joy)...............................2 Jess’s Dream Dreaming of Snow (Old Fashioned)..........L Jimmy Creed Casa Creed (Bellamy Road).......................1,3 Joey Freshwater (More Than Ready).........3 Private Creed (Sky Mesa)...............................2 Slider (Congrats)...............................................L Justify Arabian Lion (Distorted Humor).................1 Aspen Grove (More Than Ready)...............1 Buchu (Galileo)..................................................2 Hard To Justify (Quality Road).................1,2 Just F Y I (Street Cry)....................................1,1 Living Magic (Footstepsinthesand)....... L,L Verifying (Repent)............................................3 Kantharos Bay Storm (Midshipman)...............................2 Harlan Estate (Arch).........................................L Lady Radler (London News).........................3 Karakontie Foreign Relations (Mr Sidney).....................3 She Feels Pretty (More Than Ready)..........1

The three-time Grade 1 winner Pretty MIschievous (left) by Into Mischief

Keen Ice Mano Dura (Bernardini).................................L

Lookin At Lucky Lucky Score (Royal Academy)......................2

Khozan Foggy Night (Stormy Atlantic)....................3 Me And Mr C (Dynaformer)...................... L,L

Lope de Vega Carl Spackler (More Than Ready)...........2,3 Faith In Humanity (Fastnet Rock)...............3 Program Trading (Oasis Dream)..............1,1

Kingman Queen Picasso (Danroad)..............................3 Ready To Venture (Sea The Stars)...............3 Technical Analysis (Sea The Stars).......... L,L Turf King (Acclamation).................................3 Kitten’s Joy Catnip (Silent Name).......................................3 Mission of Joy (Smart Strike)....................3,3 New Year’s Eve (Elusive Quality).................L Laoban Today’s Flavor (Speightstown)....................L

Lea Nagirroc (Zamindar)........................................L Poppy Flower (Excellent Art)........................3 Lemon Drop Kid Conglomerate (Lion Hearted).....................3 Henrietta Topham (Cozzene).......................3 Value Engineering (Dynaformer)...............2

Lord Nelson Alva Starr (Into Mischief)...............................2 Lord Bullingdon (Leroidesanimaux).........L Super Chow (Warrior’s Reward)..................L Macho Uno Award Wanted (Cherokee’s Boy)................L Maclean’s Music Dance To The Music (Congrats)...................3 Mommasgottarun (Tiznow).........................3 Malibu Moon Last Samurai (First Samurai).....................3,3 Miss Dracarys (Speightstown).....................2 Nothing Like You (Brother Derek).......... 2,L Mark Valeski Frosted Grace (Thunder Gulch)..................3 Martinborough Elusive Princess (Elusive City)......................3

Liam’s Map Dr B (Proud Citizen).........................................3 Roses For Debra (Bernardini)................... 3,L

Mastercraftsman Master Piece (Proud Citizen)........................2 Romagna Mia (Rip Van Winkle)...................3

Literato Beaute Cachee (Hurricane Run).................L

Mastery Midnight Memories (Midnight Lute)........3

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us stakes-winning sires Surprisingly (Arch)............................................3 McCraken Release McCraken (Indian Charlie)............L Medaglia d’Oro Ballet Dancing (Unbridled’s Song)............3 Botanical (Blame)..............................................L Endorsed (Tapit)............................................2,3 Golden Canary (War Front)...........................L Mehmas Chez Pierre (Orpen).........................................1 Quattroelle (Stormy River)........................2,3 Mendelssohn Austere (Observatory)....................................L Committee of One (Smart Strike)..............L Midnight Lute Golden Bandit (Street Sense).......................L Kirstenbosch (Belong To Me)...................3,3 Midnight Storm Runaway Storm (Run Away And Hide)....3 Midshipman Amidst Waves (Into Mischief)......................L Mineshaft Hoist The Gold (Tapit).................................2,2 Senor Buscador (Desert God)......................2 Mitole V V’S Dream (Tapit)..........................................3 Mizzen Mast Caravel (Congrats).....................................1,2,L Stitched (Into Mischief)..................................2 Mo Town Accidental Hero (Chatain).............................3 Key of Life (Harlan’s Holiday).................... 2,L Mo Stash (Smart Strike)..................................3 Mohaymen Crypto Mo (Forty Tales)..................................3 Elm Drive (Indian Charlie)......................... L,L More Than Ready Bubble Rock (Giant’s Causeway)................L Consumer Spending (Scat Daddy)........3,3 Emmanuel (Hard Spun)......................... 3,3,3 More Than Looks (Harlan’s Holiday)..........3

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Mr Big Ceiling Crusher (Indian Charlie)..............1,3

Orb Sunbird (After Market)....................................3

Mr Speaker Three Technique (Harlan’s Holiday)...........2

Orpen Didia (Rainbow Corner)...........................2,3,L

Muhaarar Motorious (Pastoral Pursuits)...................3,3

Oscar Performance Endlessly (Langfuhr)....................................3,3 Red Carpet Ready (Street Sense)............2,3 Tumbarumba (Street Sense)........................L

Munnings Dancing Duchess (Congrats).......................L Eda (Lemon Drop Kid)................................2,3 Ginobili (Sharp Humor)..................................L L Street Lady (Scat Daddy)............................L Nimitz Class (Flatter)........................................L Nothing Better (Duke of Marmalade)......L Prince of Jericho (Medaglia d’Oro)............L Zozos (Forestry)............................................. 3,L National Defense Twilight Gleaming (Dansili)..........................L New Approach Bold Act (Dubawi)............................................3 Night of Thunder Sopran Basilea (King’s Best)..........................3 No Nay Never No Nay Hudson (Malibu Moon)..................L Noble Mission Nobals (Empire Maker)...............................1,2 St Anthony (Invincible Spirit).......................L Vergara (Street Cry)..........................................3

Not This Time Arzak (Tapit)........................................................2 Cogburn (Saintly Look)..................................3 F Five (Lion Heart)............................................L Gigante (Empire Maker)..........................2,L,L Next (Awesome Again)...........................2,3,L Sibelius (Pulpit).............................................. 3,L Up To The Mark (Ghostzapper)........... 1,1,1 Nyquist Flying Connection (Quiet American).... L,L Johannes (Congrats).......................................L New York Thunder (Midshipman).......... 2,L Nysos (Bernardini)............................................3 Randomized (Elusive Quality).................1,2 Slow Down Andy (Square Eddie)...............1 Xigera (Black Tie Affair)...............................2,3

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Outwork Brightwork (Malibu Moon)....................1,3,L

Missed The Cut (Sea The Stars)....................3 National Treasure (Medaglia d’Oro)..........1 Pipit (Medaglia d’Oro).....................................L Ryder Ryder Ryder (Hennessy)....................L Wadsworth (Medaglia d’Oro)......................L Race Day White Abarrio (Into Mischief)..................1,1 Ransom the Moon Canadiansweetheart (War Pass).................L Reload Patches O’Houlihan (Silent Name)........3,3

Overdriven Chess Master (Chester House).....................L Paynter Headland (Najran)............................................L Pioneerof The Nile Anaconda (Medaglia d’Oro).........................L Matareya (Bernardini).....................................1 Mohawk Trail (Indian Charlie).................. 3,L Palazzi (Indian Charlie)...................................3 Pioneer of Medina (Eskendereya)..............3 Southlawn (Uncle Mo)....................................2 Steady On (Storm Cat)....................................L Tawny Port (Macho Uno)...............................L Point of Entry Highestdistinction (Sightseeing)........... 3,L Practical Joke Becky’s Joker (Elusive Quality).....................3 Howl (Indian Charlie)......................................L Little Vic (Rock Hard Ten)...............................3 Practical Move (Afleet Alex)......................1,2 Shidabhuti (Candy Ride)................................L Skelly (Bwana Charlie)....................................3 Tejano Twist (Cuvee).................................... 3,L

Revolutionary R Calli Kim (More Than Ready)....................3 Runhappy Happy American (Quiet American)...........3 Nutella Fella (Candy Ride).............................1 Smile Happy (Pleasant Tap)..........................2 Saxon Warrior Freydis The Red (Shirocco)............................L Sea The Moon Selenaia (Declaration of War)......................3 Sea The Stars Ottoman Fleet (Motivator)...........................2 Star Fortress (El Prado)....................................3 Shackleford Oeuvre (Kitten’s Joy)........................................L Stilleto Boy (Marquetry).................................1 Yuugiri (Medaglia d’Oro)........................2,L,L Shanghai Bobby King Kumbalay (Flower Alley).....................L

Protectionist Amazing Grace (Danehill Dancer).............3

Slumber Fluffy Socks (Kitten’s Joy)...............................2

Pure Prize Red Knight (Skip Away)..............................1,3

Solomini Wynstock (Flatter)............................................2

Quality Road Agate Road (Gemologist)..............................2 Aspray (Galileo).................................................2 Forever Dixie (Dixie Union)...........................L Hopkins (Salt Lake)..........................................3 Integration (Scat Daddy)...........................2,3

Souper Speedy Il Malocchio (Sligo Bay)..................................3 Speightster Hot And Sultry (Medaglia d’Oro)............ 3,L Straight No Chaser (Johannesburg).........3

us stakes-winning sires Speightstown Gold Sweep (Giant’s Causeway).................L Panther Island (Ghostzapper)......................L Prince of Monaco (Medaglia d’Oro)......1,3 Starspangledbanner Duvet Day (Montjeu)......................................L Papilio (High Chaparral).................................2 Straight Talking Swayin To And Fro (Warrior’s Reward).....3 Street Boss Accomplished Girl (Twirling Candy).........2 Street Sense First Mission (Medaglia d’Oro).....................3 Never Explain (Forestry).................................3 Otto The Conqueror (Shackleford)............L Whelen Springs (Pure Prize).........................3 Summer Front Stay Hot (Smart Strike)...................................3 Sungold Infinite Patience (Louis Quatorze)......... L,L Tamarkuz Two Rivers Over (Cowboy Cal)....................L Tamayuz Prince Abama (Mr Greeley)...........................3 Tapit Charge It (Indian Charlie)..............................2 Congruent (Stormy Atlantic)........................L Fort Bragg (Shanghai Bobby)......................3 Pauline’s Pearl (Dixie Union).....................2,3 Personal Best (War Front)..............................3 Proxy (Include)...............................................2,3 Tapit Trice (Dunkirk).....................................1,3 Tyson (Smart Strike).....................................2,3

Du Jour (Bernardini).................................... 2,L Queen Ofthe Temple (Read the Footnotes).....L Souper Blessing (Summer Bird)..................L Teofilo Eternal Hope (Dubawi)...............................2,3 Nations Pride (Oasis Dream)........................1 The Grey Gatsby Mylady (Dabirsim)............................................3 The Gurkha Big Everest (Whywhywhy).....................L,L,L Tonalist Betsy Blue (Yonaguska)..................................L Lightning Tones (Lightnin N Thunder).....L Trappe Shot One Timer (Blame)...........................................L Twirling Candy Ag Bullet (Forestry)..........................................L Dream Shake (Street Cry)..............................2 Evvie Jets (Consolidator)........................2,L,L Exaulted (Gilded Time)...............................1,3 Gear Jockey (Tapit)...........................................2 Move To Gold (Unbridled’s Song)..............L Where’s Chris (Lemon Drop Kid).................L Uncaptured Havnameltdown (Put It Back)......................2 Lightening Larry (Malibu Moon)............ L,L Uncashed (War Chant)...................................L Yes I Am Free (Yes It’s True)...........................3

Tapiture Repo Rocks (Not For Love).....................3,3,L

Uncle Mo A Mo Reay (Pioneerof The Nile)..............1,3 Adare Manor (Giant Gizmo)..............1,2,2,2 Airosa (Street Cry).............................................L Arabian Knight (Astrology).......................1,3 Dude N Colorado (Street Cry)......................L Falconet (Summer Bird)............................. L,L Kingsbarns (Tapit)............................................2 Souper Hoity Toity (Speightstown)...........3

Tapizar Gentle Soul (Muqtarib)...................................L Wild On Ice (Grand Slam)..............................3

Union Rags Caramel Swirl (Smart Strike).....................2,3 Wet My Beak (Speightstown)......................L

Tapwrit Victory Formation (Smart Strike)................L Temple City

Upstart Green Up (Two Punch)...................................L Prerequisite (Smart Strike)............................2 Trademark (Creative Cause)..................... 2,L

Mylady by The Grey Gatsby wins the Grade 3 The Very One Stakes

Zandon (Creative Cause)...............................2 Verrazano Goodie Goomer (Eddington).......................L Vino Rosso The Wine Steward (To Honor And Serve).3 Violence Dr Schivel (Mining For Money)...................2 Drew’s Gold (Vindication).............................L Forte (Blame).............................................. 1,2,2 Gala Brand (Lord of England)......................3 Lost Ark (A P Indy)............................................L Love To Shop (Uncle Mo)...............................L Newgrange (Empire Maker).....................2,2 Order And Law (Shakespeare).....................3 Raise Cain (Lemon Drop Kid)................... 3,L Vronsky Closing Remarks (Unusual Heat).....2,2,2,2 The Chosen Vron (Tiz Wonderful)..............1 War Front Ancient Rome (Sadler’s Wells).....................3 Annapolis (Unbridled’s Song)......................L Full Count Felicia (Galileo)......................... 3,L Liguria (Woodman)..........................................L

Safeen (Dynaformer).......................................3 Seal Team (Medaglia d’Oro).........................2 Smokin’ T (Ghostzapper)............................ 3,L Teena Ella (Henny Hughes)...........................3 Verstappen (Peintre Celebre).......................2 War At Sea (Street Cry)...................................3 War Bomber (Indian Ridge)..........................2 We Miss Artie Artie’s Storm (Tiznow).....................................3 West Coast West Sunset (Vindication).............................L Will Take Charge I’mgonnabesomebody (Big Brown)..........L Miss Yearwood (Awesome Again).............L Princess Bettina (First Dude)........................L Wootton Bassett Unquestionable (Sea The Stars)..................1 Zarak Parnac (Sageburg)............................................2

Zoffany Paris Secret (Tomorrows Cat).......................3

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Starspangledbanner ex Awohaam (Iffraaj)

NEW FOR 2024

Brilliant Gr.1 2yo sprinter

Broke his maiden in the Listed First Flier Stakes at the Curragh Followed up with an effortless win in the Gr.3 Marble Hill Stakes “It's not often you see someone taking a pull a furlong out. He's very straightforward, has a great constitution, bounces out of his races & is uncomplicated.” trainer, Fozzy Stack after the Gr.3 Marble Hill

Close runner-up in the Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes when denied a clear run

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A SIRE LINE NOT TO BE MISSED! Danzig - Danehill - Danehill Dancer - Choisir Starspangledbanner - CASTLE STAR

By proven Gr.1 sire Starspangledbanner Out of a half-sister to Gr.3 Pinnacle Stakes winner & Gr.1 E. P. Taylor Stakes-placed Moment In Time From the immediate family of Gr.1 Dewhurst & Gr.1 2000 Guineas winner Chaldean His grandam is by MACHIAVELLIAN - damsire of Mehmas, Dark Angel, Shamardal etc.

Fee:

€5,000

Darragh McCarthy +353 (0) 87 670 0758

Ger O’Neill +353 (0) 86 384 4560

Jerry Horan +353 (0) 87 416 1729

Joe Sinnott + 353 (0) 87 644 7223

stakes-winning dam sires

US stakes-winning dam sires 2023

From Weatherbys

Dam sires of stakes winners in the US in 2023 Horses are listed under their broodmare sire with the respective sire in brackets. Includes Grade (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in the US to 31/12/2023. American Special races not included A P Indy Atone (Into Mischief)......................................1 Lost Ark (Violence)...........................................L Nest (Curlin)........................................................2 A P Warrior Jill Jitterbug (Cross Traffic)............................L Acclamation Manhattan Jungle (Bungle Inthejungle).L Turf King (Kingman)........................................3 Afleet Alex Clapton (Brethren).......................................2,3 Practical Move (Practical Joke)................1,2

After Market Sunbird.................................................................3 Aldebaran Lane Way (Into Mischief)...............................2 Anabaa Bolshoi Ballet (Galileo)....................................1 Any Given Saturday One In Vermillion (Army Mule)................ 1,L

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Arch Angel Nadeshiko (Carpe Diem)..................3 Harlan Estate (Kantharos)..............................L Solo Album (Curlin).........................................3 Surprisingly (Mastery).....................................3 Astrology Arabian Knight (Uncle Mo).......................1,3 Awesome Again Lake Lucerne (Dubawi)..................................L Miss Yearwood (Will Take Charge).............L Next (Not This Time).................................2,3,L Awesome of Course Spirit Wind (Bahamian Squall).....................3 Bellamy Road Bright Future (Curlin)......................................1 Casa Creed (Jimmy Creed)........................1,3 Belong To Me Kirstenbosch (Midnight Lute)..................3,3 Bernardini Clairiere (Curlin).............................................1,1 Classy Edition (Classic Empire)....................3 Confidence Game (Candy Ride).................2

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Du Jour (Temple City)................................. 2,L Five Star General (Distorted Humor).... L,L Life Talk (Gun Runner).....................................2 Mano Dura (Keen Ice).....................................L Matareya (Pioneerof The Nile).....................1 Nysos (Nyquist).................................................3 Roses For Debra (Liam’s Map).................. 3,L

Bwana Charlie Skelly (Practical Joke)......................................3 Caesour Hopper (Declaration of War)........................3 Candy Ride Aspenite (Constitution)..................................L Nutella Fella (Runhappy)...............................1

Big Brown Dornoch (Good Magic)..................................2 I’mgonnabesomebody (Will Take Charge)..... L Mage (Good Magic).........................................1

Search Results (Flatter)...................................3 Shidabhuti (Practical Joke)...........................L

Black Tie Affair Xigera (Nyquist).............................................2,3

Chapel Royal Nobody Listens (Conveyance)................ 3,L

Blame Botanical (Medaglia d’Oro)...........................L Danse Macabre (Army Mule)................... 3,L Forte (Violence)......................................... 1,2,2 Honor D Lady (Honor Code)........................3 One Timer (Trappe Shot)...............................L

Chatain Accidental Hero (Mo Town)..........................3

Brother Derek Nothing Like You (Malibu Moon)........... 2,L

Chester House Chess Master (Overdriven)...........................L

Buddha Two Emmys (English Channel)................ 3,L

City Place Maple Leaf Mel (Cross Traffic)..................3,3

Cherokee’s Boy Award Wanted (Macho Uno).......................L

stakes-winning dam sires

Randomized (right): by Nyquist and out of the Elusive Quality mare French Passport wins the Alabama Stakes (G1) at Saratoga

Congrats Caravel (Mizzen Mast)..............................1,2,L Dance To The Music (Maclean’s Music)....3 Dancing Duchess (Munnings).....................L Johannes (Nyquist)..........................................L Slider (Jimmy Creed).......................................L Consolidator Evvie Jets (Twirling Candy)....................2,L,L Cowboy Cal Gunite (Gun Runner)................................1,L,L Two Rivers Over (Tamarkuz).........................L Cozzene Henrietta Topham (Lemon Drop Kid).......3 Creative Cause Trademark (Upstart).................................... 2,L Zandon (Upstart)..............................................2

Crimson Tide Planetario (Il Doge)......................................2,3

Dabirsim Mylady (The Grey Gatsby).............................3 Dalakhani Shantisara (Coulsty).........................................2 Danehill Master of The Seas (Dubawi)...................1,1 Danehill Dancer Amazing Grace (Protectionist)....................3 Danroad Queen Picasso (Kingman).............................3 Dansili Siskany (Dubawi)..............................................2 Twilight Gleaming (National Defense).....L Dark Angel Zona Verde (Calyx)...........................................3

Declaration of War Selenaia (Sea The Moon)...............................3

Curlin Big Invasion (Declaration of War)........... 2,L General Jim (Into Mischief)......................2,3

Dehere Here Mi Song (Cross Traffic).........................3

Cuvee Tejano Twist (Practical Joke)..................... 3,L

Desert God Senor Buscador (Mineshaft).........................2

Distorted Humor Arabian Lion (Justify)......................................1 Art Collector (Bernardini)..............................1 Intricate (Gun Runner)....................................2 Major Dude (Bolt D’oro).............................2,3 Pass The Champagne (Flatter).....................2 Rhyme Schemes (Ghostzapper).................2 Secret Money (Good Samaritan)................3 Sister Otoole (Amira’s Prince).......................L Thin White Duke (Dominus).........................L Two Ghosts (Ghostzapper)...........................3 Dixie Union Forever Dixie (Quality Road)........................L Pauline’s Pearl (Tapit)..................................2,3 Dubawi Bold Act (New Approach).............................3 Eternal Hope (Teofilo).................................2,3 Duke of Marmalade Higher Truth (Galileo)......................................2 Nothing Better (Munnings)..........................L Dunkirk Tapit Trice (Tapit)...........................................1,3 Dynaformer Beer Can Man (Can The Man)......................L Calibrate (Distorted Humor)........................L Me And Mr C (Khozan)............................... L,L

Our Flash Drive (Ghostzapper)................2,3 Safeen (War Front)...........................................3 Value Engineering (Lemon Drop Kid)......2 Wolfie’s Dynaghost (Ghostzapper)........ 2,L Eddington Goodie Goomer (Verrazano)........................L El Prado Star Fortress (Sea The Stars).........................3 Elusive City Elusive Princess (Martinborough)..............3 Elusive Quality Anarchist (Distorted Humor)...................2,3 Becky’s Joker (Practical Joke).......................3 Loyalty (Hard Spun).....................................2,3 New Year’s Eve (Kitten’s Joy).........................L Randomized (Nyquist)................................1,2 Empire Maker Cross Border (English Channel)..................L Gigante (Not This Time)..........................2,L,L Newgrange (Violence)................................2,2 Nobals (Noble Mission)..............................1,2 Occult (Into Mischief).....................................3 Regal Realm (Animal Kingdom).................3 English Channel Medoro (Honor Code)....................................L

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stakes-winning dam sires Eskendereya Pioneer of Medina (Pioneerof The Nile)..3 Exceed And Excel Amy C (Charming Thought)..................... 3,L Easter (Exosphere)........................................2,2 Excellent Art Poppy Flower.....................................................3 Fairbanks Post Time (Frosted)..........................................L Falstaff Fast Buck (Gallant Son)...................................3 Fastnet Rock Faith In Humanity (Lope de Vega).............3 First Defence Balnikhov (Adaay)............................................3 Idiomatic (Curlin)............................... 1,1,1,2,3 First Dude Princess Bettina (Will Take Charge)...........L First Samurai Last Samurai (Malibu Moon)....................3,3 Five Star Day Forbidden Kingdom (American Pharoah)......2 Flatter Nimitz Class (Munnings)................................L Wynstock (Solomini).......................................2

Galileo Aspray (Quality Road).....................................2 Auguste Rodin (Deep Impact)....................1 Balladeer (Distorted Humor)........................2 Buchu (Justify)...................................................2 Full Count Felicia (War Front)................... 3,L Maltese Falcon (Caravaggio)........................3 Gemologist Agate Road (Quality Road)...........................2 General Quarters Two Phil’s (Hard Spun)................................3,3 Ghostzapper Book’em Danno (Bucchero).........................L Law Professor (Constitution).................... L,L Panther Island (Speightstown)...................L Smokin’ T (War Front).................................. 3,L Up To The Mark (Not This Time).......... 1,1,1 Giant Gizmo Adare Manor (Uncle Mo)....................1,2,2,2 Giant’s Causeway Bubble Rock (More Than Ready)................L Gold Sweep (Speightstown)........................L Heavenly Sunday (Candy Ride)...............2,3 Pioneering Spirit (American Pharoah).L,L Gilded Time Exaulted (Twirling Candy).........................1,3 Spirit of Makena (Ghostzapper)..............2,3

The Alys Look (Connect)................................L Three Technique (Mr Speaker)....................2 Vahva (Gun Runner)....................................2,3 Hennessy Ryder Ryder Ryder (Quality Road).............L Henny Hughes Carson’s Run (Cupid).......................................1 Ice Dancing (Frosted)......................................3 Tamara (Bolt D’oro)..........................................1 Teena Ella (War Front).....................................3 High Chaparral Fev Rover (Gutaifan)................................ 1,1,2 Papilio (Starspangledbanner)......................2 Highest Honor Salesman (Dubawi)..........................................2 Horse Chestnut Channel Maker (English Channel).............2 Hurricane Run Beaute Cachee (Literato)...............................L In Excess.................................................. Tony Ann (Cairo Prince)..................................2 Include Proxy (Tapit)....................................................2,3

St Anthony (Noble Mission).........................L Johannesburg Rattle N Roll (Connect)........................... 3,3,3 Straight No Chaser (Speightster)...............3 Kingmambo Set Piece (Dansili).........................................1,3 King’s Best Sopran Basilea (Night of Thunder)............3 Kitten’s Joy Anglophile (English Channel)......................3 Be My Sunshine (Frosted).............................L Far Bridge (English Channel)........................1 Fluffy Socks (Slumber)....................................2 Oeuvre (Shackleford)......................................L Sister Lou Ann (Frosted).................................L Spooky Channel (English Channel)...........2 Watsonville (Jack Milton)...............................2 Langfuhr Endlessly (Oscar Performance)...............3,3

Lemon Drop Kid Eda (Munnings).............................................2,3 Queen Goddess (Empire Maker)................3 Raise Cain (Violence)................................... 3,L Where’s Chris (Twirling Candy)...................L

Footstepsinthesand Living Magic (Justify).................................. L,L

Gstaad Le da Vida (Gemologist).................................L

Indian Charlie Ceiling Crusher (Mr Big).............................1,3 Charge It (Tapit)................................................2 Chatalas (Gun Runner)...................................2 Elm Drive (Mohaymen).............................. L,L Frank’s Rockette (Into Mischief).................3 Howl (Practical Joke).......................................L Mohawk Trail (Pioneerof The Nile)......... 3,L Palazzi (Pioneerof The Nile)..........................3 Release McCraken (McCraken)....................L

Forestry Ag Bullet (Twirling Candy)............................L Candy Man Rocket (Candy Ride)............ 3,L Never Explain (Street Sense)........................3 Zozos (Munnings)......................................... 3,L

Hansel Eons (Giant’s Causeway)................................L

Indian Ridge War Bomber (War Front)................................2

Hard Spun Emmanuel (More Than Ready)............ 3,3,3 Gerrymander (Into Mischief).......................L Webslinger (Constitution)......................... 2,L

Into Mischief Alva Starr (Lord Nelson).................................2 Amidst Waves (Midshipman).......................L Stitched (Mizzen Mast)...................................2 White Abarrio (Race Day)..........................1,1

Lonhro Malleymoo (English Channel).....................L Wave of Goodness (Cairo Prince)...............L

Invincible Spirit Spirit And Glory (Cotai Glory)......................L

Lookin At Lucky Timberlake (Into Mischief)............................1

Flower Alley King Kumbalay (Shanghai Bobby).............L

Forty Tales Crypto Mo (Mohaymen)................................3 French Deputy Scarlet Fusion (Curlin).....................................3

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Gold Away Hong Kong Harry (Es Que Love).................2 Grand Slam Wild On Ice (Tapizar).......................................3

Harlan’s Holiday Key of Life (Mo Town).................................. 2,L More Than Looks (More Than Ready).......3

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Leroidesanimaux Lord Bullingdon (Lord Nelson)....................L Lightnin N Thunder Lightning Tones (Tonalist).............................L Lion Heart F Five (Not This Time)......................................L Lion Hearted Conglomerate (Lemon Drop Kid)..............3 Fast And Shiny (Bernardini)..........................L London News Lady Radler (Kantharos).................................3

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PROVEN GR.1 SIRE OF SPEED

64 Stakes winners/performers Inc. Gr.1 winning sprinters GLASS SLIPPERS, DREAM OF DREAMS, DONJUAN TRIUMPHANT, and Gr.1 miler AL WUKAIR.

Promising broodmare sire

From just eight crops already the broodmare sire of Gr.1 horses – Poptronic, Lightsaber, Texas, and many more. A great outcross.

Bearstone Stud

The source of speed

Leading Sires of Gr.1 Sprinters from 2019 to 2023 No Nay Never

Fee €150,000

G1W G1Wins 4 6

Dream Ahead £6,500

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3 3

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stakes-winning dam sires Lord of England Gala Brand (Violence).....................................3 Louis Quatorze Infinite Patience (Sungold)....................... L,L Macho Uno Tawny Port (Pioneerof The Nile).................L Magna Graduate Closethegame Sugar (Girvin)......................L Majestic Warrior Lord Miles (Curlin)............................................2 Newgate (Into Mischief)................................3 Makfi McKulick (Frankel)........................................2,3 Malibu Moon Brightwork (Outwork)..............................1,3,L Crupi (Curlin).................................................. L,L Lightening Larry (Uncaptured)............... L,L Locked (Gun Runner)......................................1 No Nay Hudson (No Nay Never).................L Salute The Stars (Candy Ride)......................L Shotgun Hottie (Gun Runner)................. 3,L Manduro Mr Fisk (Arrogate)......................................... 3,L

Prince of Jericho (Munnings).......................L Prince of Monaco (Speightstown).........1,3 Ryvit (Competitive Edge).......................3,L,L Seal Team (War Front).....................................2 Wadsworth (Quality Road)...........................L Witwatersrand (Connect)..............................3 Yuugiri (Shackleford)................................2,L,L Menifee Echo Zulu (Gun Runner)........................ 1,2,3 Midnight Lute Midnight Memories (Mastery)....................3 Midshipman Bay Storm (Kantharos)....................................2 New York Thunder (Nyquist).................... 2,L Thirty Thou Kelvin (Bolt D’oro)....................L Mineshaft Litigate (Blame).................................................3 Tufani (Distorted Humor)..............................L Mining For Money Dr Schivel (Violence).......................................2 Mizzen Mast Gold Phoenix (Belardo).......................... 1,2,2 Surveillance (Constitution)...........................L Montjeu Duvet Day (Starspangledbanner)..............L

Maria’s Mon Dreaming of Kona (Fast Anna)....................L Fun To Dream (Arrogate)...............................2 Marquetry Stilleto Boy (Shackleford)..............................1 Master Command Paluxy (Brody’s Cause)....................................L Mecke Maryquitecontrary (First Dude).............. 2,L Medaglia d’Oro Anaconda (Pioneerof The Nile)...................L Everso Mischievous (Into Mischief)..........2 First Mission (Street Sense)...........................3 Gaslight Dancer (City of Light)....................L Hot And Sultry (Speightster).................... 3,L Marketsegmentation (American Pharoah).1,3,L National Treasure (Quality Road)...............1 Pipit (Quality Road)..........................................L

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More Than Ready Aspen Grove (Justify)......................................1 Carl Spackler (Lope de Vega)...................2,3 Giant Game (Giant’s Causeway)..................3 Joey Freshwater (Jimmy Creed)..................3 R Calli Kim (Revolutionary)...........................3 She Feels Pretty (Karakontie).......................1 Vote No (Divisidero).........................................L Motivator Ottoman Fleet (Sea The Stars).....................2 Mr Greeley Eye Witness (City of Light).............................L Prince Abama (Tamayuz)..............................3 Mr Sidney Foreign Relations (Karakontie)....................3 Muhtathir Neige Blanche (Anodin).................................L

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Muqtarib Gentle Soul (Tapizar).......................................L

Pleasant Tap Smile Happy (Runhappy)..............................2

Najran Headland (Paynter)..........................................L

Polish Numbers Eastern Bay (E Dubai)......................................3

Nayef Breath Away (Bated Breath).........................L

Proud Citizen Conclude (Collected).................................. 2,L Dr B (Liam’s Map)..............................................3 Master Piece (Mastercraftsman).................2 Noted (Cairo Prince).................................... L,L

New Approach Mawj (Exceed And Excel)...............................1 Niigon Touch’n Ride (Candy Ride)............................3 North Light War Like Goddess (English Channel)....1,3 Northern Afleet Macadamia (Hat Trick)................................1,3 Not For Love Repo Rocks (Tapiture)..............................3,3,L Ruby Nell (Bolt D’oro)...............................3,L,L Oasis Dream Big Evs (Blue Point)..........................................1 Nations Pride (Teofilo)....................................1 Program Trading (Lope de Vega)............1,1 Whitebeam (Caravaggio)..........................1,3 Observatory Austere (Mendelssohn)..................................L

Offlee Wild Offlee Naughty (Flashback)......................2,3 Old Fashioned Dreaming of Snow (Jess’s Dream).............L Orpen Chez Pierre (Mehmas).....................................1 Pastoral Pursuits Motorious (Muhaarar)................................3,3 Peintre Celebre Verstappen (War Front)..................................2 Pioneerof The Nile A Mo Reay (Uncle Mo)................................1,3 Durante (Distorted Humor)..........................3 Speed Boat Beach (Bayern)..........................1

Pulpit Abeliefinthislivin (Arrogate).........................3 L J’S Emma (Into Mischief)............................L Sibelius (Not This Time).............................. 3,L Pure Prize Candidate (Exaggerator)...............................L Whelen Springs (Street Sense)....................3 Put It Back Havnameltdown (Uncaptured)..................2 Quality Road Hard To Justify (Justify)...............................1,2 Quiet American Doppelganger (Into Mischief)....................1 Flying Connection (Nyquist).................... L,L Happy American (Runhappy)......................3 Secret Oath (Arrogate)...................................2

Rainbow Corner Didia (Orpen)...............................................2,3,L Read the Footnotes Queen Ofthe Temple (Temple City)..........L Redoute’s Choice In Italian (Dubawi)........................................1,1 Repent Verifying (Justify)..............................................3 Rip Van Winkle Romagna Mia (Mastercraftsman)..............3 Roaring Fever Candied (Candy Ride).....................................1 Rock Hard Ten Little Vic (Practical Joke).................................3

stakes-winning dam sires Royal Academy Lucky Score (Lookin At Lucky).....................2 Run Away And Hide Runaway Storm (Midnight Storm)............3 Sadler’s Wells Ancient Rome (War Front)............................3 Sageburg Parnac (Zarak)....................................................2 Saintly Look Cogburn (Not This Time)................................3 Salt Lake Hopkins (Quality Road)..................................3 Scat Daddy Consumer Spending (More Than Ready)....3,3 Integration (Quality Road)........................2,3 Jody’s Pride (American Pharoah)...............L L Street Lady (Munnings)..............................L

Reincarnate (Good Magic)........................ 3,L Sea The Stars Missed The Cut (Quality Road)....................3 Ready To Venture (Kingman).......................3 Technical Analysis (Kingman).................. L,L Unquestionable (Wootton Bassett)..........1 Selkirk Inspiral (Frankel)................................................1

Shaniko Yamato (Artie Schiller)....................................L

Sligo Bay Il Malocchio (Souper Speedy)......................3

Sharp Humor Ginobili (Munnings).........................................L

Smart Strike Bango (Congrats)..............................................L Caramel Swirl (Union Rags)......................2,3 Committee of One (Mendelssohn)............L Duke Of Love (Cupid)......................................3 Faiza (Girvin)............................................... 2,3,3 Goodnight Olive (Ghostzapper)......... 1,1,2 Honor Marie (Honor Code)...........................2 Millie Girl (Hard Spun).................................3,3 Mission of Joy (Kitten’s Joy)......................3,3 Mo Stash (Mo Town)........................................3 Prerequisite (Upstart)......................................2 Really Good (Hard Spun)...............................L Stay Hot (Summer Front)...............................3 Therapist (Freud)...........................................1,2 Tyson (Tapit)...................................................2,3 Victory Formation (Tapwrit).........................L

Shirocco Freydis The Red (Saxon Warrior).................L Sightseeing Highestdistinction (Point of Entry)........ 3,L

Shackleford Otto The Conqueror (Street Sense)...........L Shakespeare Order And Law (Violence).............................3

Silent Name Catnip (Kitten’s Joy).........................................3 Patches O’Houlihan (Reload)...................3,3

Shamardal Earls Rock (Fascinating Rock).......................3

Skip Away Red Knight (Pure Prize)...............................1,3

Shanghai Bobby Fort Bragg (Tapit)..............................................3

Sky Mesa Dreamfyre (Flameaway).............................3,3 Private Creed (Jimmy Creed).......................2

Smoke Glacken Get Smokin (Get Stormy)..............................2

Unquestionable (Wootton Bassett) is out of a Sea The Stars mare, one of four stakes winners in the US in 2023 out of mares by the son of Cape Cross

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new sires dam sires stakes-winning Songandaprayer Spun Glass (Hard Spun).................................3 Southern Image Brickyard Ride (Clubhouse Ride)................3

Golden Bandit (Midnight Lute)...................L Red Carpet Ready (Oscar Performance).2,3 Tumbarumba (Oscar Performance)..........L Stroll Damon’s Mound (Girvin)...............................2

Speightstown Miss Dracarys (Malibu Moon)......................2 Scotland (Good Magic)..................................L Souper Hoity Toity (Uncle Mo)....................3 Today’s Flavor (Laoban)..................................L Treason (Constitution)....................................2 Wet My Beak (Union Rags)............................L

Summer Bird Falconet (Uncle Mo).................................... L,L Souper Blessing (Temple City)....................L

Square Eddie Slow Down Andy (Nyquist)..........................1

Super Saver Bold Journey (Hard Spun)......................... 3,L

Stay Thirsty Fierceness (City of Light)................................1

Tale of The Cat Implicated (Connect)......................................3 Tahoe Sunrise (American Pharoah)...........L Three Witches (Into Mischief)......................3

Stephen Got Even Affirmative Lady (Arrogate)..........................2 Storm Cat How Did He Do That (Good Magic)....... 3,L Raging Sea (Curlin)...........................................3 Steady On (Pioneerof The Nile)...................L Stormy Atlantic Congruent (Tapit).............................................L Foggy Night (Khozan).....................................3 Stormy River Quattroelle (Mehmas)................................2,3 Stratum Flag of Honour (American Pharoah).........2 Street Boss Tripolina (Constitution)..................................L Street Cry Airosa (Uncle Mo).............................................L Cairo Consort (Cairo Prince)..................... 3,L Dream Shake (Twirling Candy)...................2 Dude N Colorado (Uncle Mo)......................L Just F Y I (Justify)...........................................1,1 Kalik (Collected)................................................2 Vergara (Noble Mission).................................3 War At Sea (War Front)...................................3 Wet Paint (Blame)..................................1,3,3,L Street Sense Can Group (Good Samaritan)......................2

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Strong Hope Defining Purpose (Cross Traffic).............1,3

Tapit Arcangelo (Arrogate).............................. 1,1,3 Arzak (Not This Time)......................................2 Cody’s Wish (Curlin)..............................1,1,1,2 Disarm (Gun Runner)......................................3 Endorsed (Medaglia d’Oro)......................2,3 Gear Jockey (Twirling Candy)......................2 Hit Show (Candy Ride)....................................3 Hoist The Gold (Mineshaft).......................2,2 Il Miracolo (Gun Runner)................................3 Kingsbarns (Uncle Mo)...................................2 Linda’s Gift (Arrogate).....................................3 Pretty Mischievous (Into Mischief).1,1,1,2 Red Route One (Gun Runner).................. 3,L Rocket Can (Into Mischief)...........................3 Saudi Crown (Always Dreaming)...............1 Society (Gun Runner)......................................3 V V’S Dream (Mitole)........................................3 Wicked Halo (Gun Runner)...........................L Window Shopping (American Pharoah).2

The Chosen Vron (Vronsky)............................ Tiznow Artie’s Storm (We Miss Artie)........................3 Lovely Ride (Candy Ride)...............................L Mommasgottarun (Maclean’s Music).......3 Played Hard (Into Mischief)..........................1

War Chant Skippylongstocking (Exaggerator)........2,3 Uncashed (Uncaptured)................................L

To Honor And Serve Angel of Empire (Classic Empire)...........1,2 The Wine Steward (Vino Rosso)..................3

War Front Golden Canary (Medaglia d’Oro)...............L Personal Best (Tapit)........................................3

Tomorrows Cat Paris Secret (Zoffany)......................................3

War Pass Canadiansweetheart (Ransom the Moon).... L

Touch Gold Defunded (Dialed In)..................................1,2 O’Connor (Boboman).................................2,3

Warrior’s Reward Super Chow (Lord Nelson)............................L Surge Capacity (Flintshire).................... 1,3,3 Swayin To And Fro (Straight Talking)........3

Tribal Rule Liberal Arts (Arrogate)....................................3 Twirling Candy Accomplished Girl (Street Boss).................2 Two Punch Green Up (Upstart)...........................................L Yo Yo Candy (Danzing Candy).....................3 Unbridled’s Song Annapolis (War Front).....................................L Ballet Dancing (Medaglia d’Oro)................3 Flattery (Flatter).................................................L Gina Romantica (Into Mischief)..................1 Main Event (Bernardini).................................2 Moira (Ghostzapper).......................................2 Move To Gold (Twirling Candy)..................L Promiseher America (American Pharoah)........... 3

Thunder Gulch Cheetara (Daddy Long Legs).......................L Frosted Grace (Mark Valeski)........................3

Uncle Mo Chase The Chaos (Astern).............................L Geaux Rocket Ride (Candy Ride)............ 1,L Instant Coffee (Bolt D’oro).............................3 Interstatedaydream (Classic Empire).... L,L Love To Shop (Violence)................................L Muth (Good Magic).........................................1 Petulante (Arrogate)........................................3 Southlawn (Pioneerof The Nile)..................2 West Saratoga (Exaggerator).......................3

Timber Country Frost Point (Frosted).................................... 3,L

Unusual Heat Closing Remarks (Vronsky)................2,2,2,2

Tiz Wonderful

Vindication

Teofilo Anisette (Awtaad)..................................... 1,1,2

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Drew’s Gold (Violence)...................................L Elite Power (Curlin)................................... 1,1,2 West Sunset (West Coast).............................L

Whywhywhy Big Everest (The Gurkha)........................L,L,L Wild Again Shimmering Allure (Enticed)........................L Wild Event West Will Power (Bernardini)....................2,2 Woodman Liguria (War Front)...........................................L Yankee Gentleman Taxed (Collected)..............................................2 Yes It’s True Dean Delivers (Cajun Breeze)......................3 Yes I Am Free (Uncaptured)..........................3 Yonaguska Betsy Blue (Tonalist)........................................L Dorth Vader (Girvin)........................................2 You and I Daddysruby (Frac Daddy).............................1 Zamindar Nagirroc................................................................L Zensational A Little Frisky (Army Mule)............................L

From Weatherbys

NEW BAY. DUBAWI’S SENSATIONAL SIRE SON

Sire of Gr.1 winners SAFFRON BEACH, BAY BRIDGE & BAYSIDE BOY

Sire of Gr.1 2yos in 2023

only Dubawi & Wootton Bassett had more

FEE: €75,000

2023 yearlings made up to €1,650,000

ALCANTOR

Top Rated 2yo Colt trained in France 05/01/24 Won Gr.3 Prix Thomas Bryon 2nd Gr.1 Criterium International

SHUWARI

3rd highest rated 2yo filly trained in Britain 05/01/24 Won LR Star Stakes 2nd Gr.1 Fillies’ Mile

DEVIL’S POINT

Won Maiden Stakes by 4½ lengths 2nd Gr.1 Futurity Trophy

BALLYLINCH STUD T h o m a s t o w n , C o . K i l k e n n y , I r e l a n d

Te l : + 3 5 3 ( 0 ) 5 6 7 7 2 4 2 1 7 • i n f o @ b a l l y l i n c h s t u d . i e • w w w. b a l l y l i n c h s t u d . i e

DARK ON TOP OF THE WORLD AGAIN IN 2023 CHAMPION SPRINTER SIRE 2023 CHAMPION SPRINTER MILER SIRE 2023

Also standing:

INVINCIBLE ARMY

SHAMAN

SUPREMACY

SW from First Crop

First 2YOs 2024

First Yearlings 2024

ANGEL LEADING EUROPEAN SIRES OF SPRINTERS/MILERS IN 2020 Sire 1 DARK ANGEL 2 KINGMAN 3 INVINCIBLE SPIRIT 4 DUBAWI

Wnrs

Wins

BT Wnrs

Total £

75 43 60 38

109 57 8 52

9 10 6 8

2,110,556 1,934,995 1,555,441 1,553.041

*Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. to 02.11.20, stallions standing in Ireland and Britain

LEADING EUROPEAN SIRES OF SPRINTERS/MILERS IN 2021 Sire 1 DARK ANGEL 2 KINGMAN 3 DUBAWI 4 FRANKEL

Wnrs

BT Wnrs

Gr.1 Wnrs

Total £

145 71 87 65

16 11 20 11

3 2 13 3

5,891,868 5,337,931 4,772,397 3,720,681

*Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. to 02.11.21, stallions standing in Ireland and Britain

LEADING EUROPEAN SIRES OF SPRINTERS/MILERS IN 2022 Sire 1 DARK ANGEL 2 DUBAWI 3 KINGMAN 4 LOPE DE VEGA

Winners

Wins

BT Performers

154 89 88 92

221 128 124 130

46 41 29 25

*Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. to 24.10.22, stallions standing in Ireland and Britain

LEADING EUROPEAN SIRES OF SPRINTERS/MILERS IN 2023 Sire 1 DARK ANGEL 2 KINGMAN 3 KODIAC 4 FRANKEL

Wnrs

BT Wnrs

Gr.1 Wnrs

Total £

108 87 119 45

15 19 18 19

2 1 1 6

4,740,609 4,318,795 4,123,925 4,065,028

*Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. to 08.11.23, stallions standing in Ireland and Britain

GAY O’CALLAGHAN: 353 (0)87 256 5561 DAVID O’CALLAGHAN: 353 (0)86 836 6554 ROBERT O’CALLAGHAN: 353 (0)85 119 1288 www.yeomanstown.ie

photo finish: jockeys jumping at Christmas THE POPULAR MARKEL JOCKEYS JUMPING, run in aid of The Injured Jockeys Fund, returned to the London International Horse Show, held before Christmas at the ExCeL, London. Two teams of five world-class jockeys put their jumping skills to the test in front of a packed arena – all in aid of the fantastic charity. Ryan Moore, who was crowned Longines World’s Best Jockey for the fourth year in a row while riding in Hong Kong at December’s International meeting, captained the winning team of Tom Scudamore, Joanna Mason, Sam Twiston-Davies and Harry Skelton. Moore jumped around clear until knocking the last and joker fence; the same can not be said of his opposing captain, the record-breaking, 20-time NH champion jockey AP McCoy – he fell off at the same fence, again hitting the ground at the event. McCoy’s team included the 2016 champion Flat jockey Jim Crowley, Harry Cobden, Lily Pinchin and Kielan Woods. It was a fun night for all, and reportedly well supported on the ground by many non-participating Ryan Moore jockeys, who were out and about and enjoying a fun night at the show. The funds raised go to support the IJF and the evening helps raise the great charity’s profile. Despite the great evening’s entertainment thoughts of the recently injured Flat and former NH jockey Graham Lee were uppermost in many minds. www.injuredjockeys.co.uk Jim Crowley

The winning team, left to right: Ryan Moore (captain), Lily Pinchin, Harry Skelton, Sam Twiston-Davies and Tom Scudamore

Photo courtesy of London International Horse Show and by Peter Nixon

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