International Thoroughbred July_August2019

JULY-AUGUST 2019

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August special French feature

Perfect for Ten No Nay Never gets his first three-year-old Group 1 winner with Ten Sovereigns

Arqana consignors

• Fairway Consignment • Gouffern-Taylor Made Sales • Normandie Breeding

Deauville days The European yearling sales season gets underway

Exciting times for Al Shaqab’s young stallion roster

Mr Consistency

Trainer Carlos Laffon-Parias finds a Group-class horse year in, year out

GREAT CARE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING

COULONCES SALES HARAS DU BOIS ROUSSEL

Anna Sundstrom: +33 6 76 74 94 74 coulonces@gmail.com

GREAT RESULTS ON THE RACETRACK

LAURENS Five Gr.1 wins

AROHA 3rd in Gr.3 Albany Stakes, Royal Ascot 2019

ROBOTIQUE DANSEUR Debut winner in 2019

Looking forward to seeing you soon in Deauville, Doncaster and Newmarket.

FRANKEL 2008 b h Galileo - Kind (Danehill)

T H E FA S T E S T T O 30 GROUP WINNERS I N H I STO R Y 14% Group winners to runners

Thank you to all breeders who have supported our stallions and shared in their global success.

Without the support of your mares their success is all but a dream.

The most successful stallion roster of Royal Ascot 2019

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Do my eyes deceive me? Paul Haigh discusses the difficulties with viewing at the July Course, but was impressed by the sight of Ten Sovereigns

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Badgers Bloodstock reports from boutique sales around the world, Masar retires, Sally chats about the whip

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Take Ten

The son of No Nay Never gains his first three-year-old Group 1 winner as Ten Sovereigns finds fast feet to win the July Cup, writes Aisling Crowe

Guillaume Vitse

Times and dates for the Arqana August Sale

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Mr Consistency

Carlos Laffon-Parias finds a Group horse year in, year out – Shaman is his headline act this year

It is all go at Bouquetot

Exciting times for Al Shaqab with first-crop yearling sires Shalaa and Mehmas, promising second-season sires Olympic Glory and Toronado and a batch of sires with first foals

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Olympic Glory

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Sidestep

Leading sire, leading two-year-old sire and leading first-crop sire tables all courtesy of Weatherbys

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Japan collects his Group 1 in Paris

All to play for in the US stallion race

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Melissa Bauer-Herzog gives a mid-season report on stallion performance in the US and sees that it is tight at the top

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French stallion stats

Leading sires, two-year-old sires and first-season stallion tables

European stallion stats

The 1.3 million-guinea son of Galileo fufills his promise at ParisLongchamp, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

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Maturing well

The established stallions in France are maintaining their upward trajectories, reports Adam Potts

The movers and shakers

Simon Rowlands gives a ratings review of the season so far

Photo of the month

The Tattersalls gate men

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It’s a Fairway up

It has been some year for Charles Brière: a farm purchased, pinhook graduate Arizona becomes a Group 2 winner, and his biggest consignment to date heads to Arqana August

Atlantic crossing

The first draft sold by the Gouffern-Taylor Made Sales partnership comes under the hammer at Arqana.

We find out more from Jean-Pierre de Gaste of Gouffern

His own boss

Guillaume Vitse has set up Normandie Breeding and is looking forward to putting a lifetime of experience to good use

Deauville days

Photo by Debbie Burt

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July meeting, Newmarket

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first word Just who is in front? The head-on nature of the July course makes viewing very difficult for spectators

Do my eyes deceive me?

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HE JULY CUP MEETING isn’t quite one of the top ones of the British racing year.

More a high Group 2 than a true Group 1 “festival”. It helps us warm down after Ascot and then get ready for Goodwood, as well as –perhaps even more so – the York Ebor meeting in August.

It isn’t Newmarket’s fault it’s never quite going to make the top grade. It tries so hard. But… well, yes it is really. There weren’t many thunderflies about this year, which may have had something to do with the absence of seriously sultry weather, or the decline in the numbers of

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For much of any race over trips of 1m2f or more the participants appear like specks on a distant horizon

flying insects that worries ecologists so much.

It’s not really the racing that’s to blame. You can hardly complain about another return for 2018 Derby winner Masar, who’d been sidelined until Ascot since his Epsom triumph. We shouldn’t complain about the supporting races either, good solid Group 2s and Group 3s and assorted quality handicaps, although not quite the sort of events on show in Berkshire in June.

It’s the course, you see. It’s a bit boring. Or at least it’s boring as great racecourses go. For much of any race over trips of 1m2f or more the participants appear like specks on a distant horizon, outriders of the Pinkertons

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The head-on nature of the July course makes viewing so difficult and is to the detriment of the racing, writes Paul Haigh of whom (you need to be a bit of an antique film buff) Butch Cassidy turns to Sundance and says “Who are these guys?”.

“These guys”, in this context anyway, are the horses we guys have bet on, and the fact that we don’t really get much idea of who’s at or near the front or even going well until 2f or 3f from the finish is a fundamental reason no one in the rest of the world is ever going to think of Newmarket as a truly great racecourse, or couple of racecourses.

Headquarters, yes. A marvellous place to train, certainly. But because the actual racecourses were

... the actual racecourses were laid out in the days when spectators were actively discouraged

laid out in the days when spectators were actively discouraged, they are never going to hold a candle to the ones where people think mere civilians have an actual right to enjoy a race from start to finish.

I’ve had friendly arguments with a few people about which of the two Newmarket courses is the more distant for the spectator, and we generally come down pretty heavily in favour of the July course, mainly because it doesn’t have the glamour or the history of such landmarks as The Bushes, or The Dip. The July course doesn’t really do landmarks, just those Pinkerton’s guys riding relentlessly and ominously somewhere in the

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The feature event of the meeting doesn’t have these problems, of course. The July Cup, a great race since its first running in 1871, is staged over 6f. So the need for World War II officers’ issue naval binoculars isn’t of immediate concern for the punter still pondering the price of that not-very-well-chilled beer in one of the bars under the stand. But it does have another problem.

The course is very wide and horses spread across it like crows across corn stubble. So, for much of the time, you have only the vaguest idea of who’s in front. And even experienced race readers make mistakes when describing the way races are run.

In this year’s running some made the spectacular howler of alleging that the easy winner Ten Sovereigns “led throughout”. No, he didn’t. The far side group, of which he was a member, were at least 3l or4l behind the group on the stands’ side at halfway and certainly didn’t catch those on the stands’ side until just over a furlong out.

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NTERESTING POINTS about the July Cup, here presented quite at random. The first five home were three-year-olds, all of whom had been prepared for the Guineas before being dropped back in trip.

The sixth home was the Singaporean Lim’s Cruiser. The splendid gelding Limato, who outclassed the opposition in this race in 2016, and who raced in the losing stands’ side bunch where he finished last, is the only horse for a century or so, perhaps the only one ever, to have won at least one British Group race every year for the six years he’s been in training.

The best remark from anyone pre-race came from Aidan O’Brien’s travelling head man Pat Keating while leading Ten Sovereigns round the parade ring. Asked by the elegant Francesca Cumani whether the colt had shown any clear improvement in his homework since his fourth at Ascot in the Commonwealth Cup, he replied on live TV, “If I told you that I’d have to kill you!”.

When you look at the results in the July Cup going all the way back to the 1980s, when such as Marwell, Habibti, Chief Singer, Ajdal and Soviet Star won it after being trained for the Guineas and then dropping back in trip, it becomes obvious that the race is usually won by colts and fillies who haven’t got the Classic mile but have thoroughly enjoyed the return to the 6f at which they excelled as two-year-olds.

This suggests that in spite of its undoubted prestige, the race tends to be of lesser quality than the Guineas.

Prix Jean Prat winner Too Darn Hot

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Possibly the best thing Too Darn Hot has done for his own racing and post-racing career prospects was to fail to squeeze past Telecaster in the Dante

Nothing controversial about that, but the race is often more a consolation prize for those not good enough to beat the best at a mile than it is a test that reveals the identity of the fastest sprinter in the country.

The implication that those who do get the mile in the Guineas could have been champion sprinters if their connections had wanted to take then down that route is a pretty clear one too. Try and imagine what Brigadier Gerard might have done to a July Cup field. Or Frankel.

Now there’s a thought when you think of him 15l clear in his Guineas at half way.

Ten Sovereigns was a worthy winner though, and perhaps an outstanding one. Only Mozart (2001) and Oasis Dream (2003) are reckoned to have produced better performances on the day. So the son of No Nay Never (marvellously named from a line in the great Irish drinking song “The Wild Rover” of which “No Nay Never” is the explosive chorus) is the champion sprinter of Europe?

Well maybe. And maybe not – even if you believe that title means a huge amount when you consider how European sprint champions have performed historically against those from other continents.

Possibly the best thing Too Darn Hot has done for his own post-racing career prospects was to fail to squeeze past Telecaster in the Dante.

If he’d succeeded, given his breeding by Dubawi out of the Singspiel mare Dar Re Mi, he might have spent the season labouring fruitlessly at middle-distances and getting written off as a dazzling teo-year-old who never trained on.

John Gosden still, apparently, has thoughts of the Sussex Stakes over the Goodwood mile. But Too Darn Hot relished the drop back to 7f when bolting up in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Deauville, and if the two ever met at that trip or shorter I wouldn’t want to be betting even a post-Brexit quid against him.

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Motivator Gene could predict whether a horse races or not NEW RESEARCH by scientists at University College Dublin and equine science company Plusvital has established that

genes associated with behaviour, including a gene dubbed the “Motivator Gene”, may play as big a role as a horse’s physical

attributes as to whether a thoroughbred races or not.

Previous studies have shown that less than half of thoroughbred foals born actually race, with durability or the ability of the horse to withstand the rigours of a training regime seen as a critical factor.

Now research published in the scientific journal Animal Genetics has established that there is a genetic contribution

to whether a horse is likely to race and has identified genes associated with behaviour that may be key influencers. On the basis of these results one of these genes, PRCP, may be considered the “Motivator Gene”.

The research team was led

by UCD Professor of Equine Science, Emmeline Hill, who is also chief science officer with Plusvital.

Professor Hill said: “Our

Badger finds working the summer sales circuit a tough gig...

The Goffs London Sale is pretty horse-less, but has become the go-to event to kick off Royal Ascot week

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HE LATEST PHENOMENON on the auction circuit has been the introduction of boutique sales in which a mere handful of prized bloodstock is offered in exotic locations.

In the past three weeks, I have been fortunate enough to attend two of the most glamorous auction events in the global sales calendar.

Set in the grounds of Kensington Palace, the Goffs London Sale is fast becoming the most coveted invitation of early summer.

With the backing of some high-end corporate sponsors, the gathering is a wonderful pre-cursor to Royal Ascot and highlights everything special about being in London in mid-June.

This year the weather behaved perfectly and on a balmy evening with a glorious backdrop, 18 high-

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class racehorses and a couple of very commercially covered broodmares went under the hammer.

Perhaps the major difference from other bloodstock auctions was the absence of horse flesh, with photos and videos highlighting the merits of each lot. The major “hook” for buyers is that a large number of lots are sold with an entry in one of Royal Ascot’s races.

With the assistance of the BHA and Weatherbys, the successful buyer can have his/her colours carried by a runner at the Royal meeting, even the very next day.

While the atmosphere is generally more cocktail party than auction, Goffs yet again found new owners for several six-figure lots.

Unlike very many of the partying international visitors, the Badgers Bloodstock team were working hard on behalf of a syndicate of Melbourne

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enthusiasts and our successful bid for a runner in the Queen Mary Stakes ensured a lively dinner afterwards at a local Kensington hostelry.

Fast forwarding two weeks saw me seated in probably the most impressive “pop-up” auction ring that could ever be imagined.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club transformed its semi-covered paddock at Sha Tin racecourse into an enormous dining arena of reserved tables that surrounded a massive podium where the well known European auctioneer John O’Kelly held court.

Twenty unraced three-year-old geldings went under the hammer in a couple of hours of frenzied bidding from the privileged members of the Hong Kong Jockey Club who had been lucky enough to draw a permit to own a racehorse.

The object of their attention were

horses purchased by the HKJC as yearlings in either Europe or Australasia.

These purchases then spent 18 months of pre-training before shipping to Hong Kong. They will now run on the two Hong Kong tracks that boasts prize-money beyond the wildest dreams of English owners.

This available prize-money is the driver of frenetic bidding and eventual sale proceeds that approached HK$50 million.

The reason for my attendance at this sale was a gift from the HKJC for helping them with the selection of the European yearlings purchased at sales in Goffs, GoffsUK, Tattersalls and Arqana in 2018.

It was really interesting to see how the horses had developed over the intervening period. Prices achieved were often multiples of their original yearling sale price, but there was still little profit for the HKJC for it had

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funded every expense of pre-training, shipping and endless veterinary checks to ensure the successful bidders have a sound racing prospect to chase the enormous prize-money.

The aim of the Club is to annually introduce fresh legs into the population of around 1,000 horses.

How long such horses remain “fresh” was a subject that occupied my mind as I sweltered in a jacket and tie under temperatures of around 30° and exceedingly high humidity... even well after the sun had set.

The locals were better acclimatised than I for the occasion of fine dining, imbibing and were gleefully responding to the auctioneer’s exhortations for another bid! The whole occasion was a wonderful advertisement for the endeavours of the HKJC to promote every part of their racing product.

It is a unique institution, which generates profits from racing and football gambling that enables enormous contributions to the running of Hong Kong through its tax deductions and also fund extensive charitable activities throughout the territory.

Reflecting on my attendance at the two venues, I realised that many readers will not be sympathetic if I bleated about pressures of work and travel!

If you are lucky enough to get an invite, then the Darley stallion parade at Dalham Hall Stud has to be one of the most “spoiling” events of the year.

Now firmly established in the Newmarket July week calendar, two days of parades saw more than 1,000 lucky invitees struggling back to

shown to be associated with voluntary wheel running in mice.

“Our findings support the theory that, just as with humans, motivation to exercise may be a critical factor in maintaining a training regime and achieving a high level of fitness.

“Some horses are just naturally keener for their job than others.

This may manifest directly in the training environment, but it is also possible there are more subtle effects from a younger age.

“The more naturally active foal or yearling in a paddock is likely

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to strengthen better than others that are less naturally motivated to play and move around, and this could have knock-on effects later in life,” she said.

In addition to establishing a genetic link, the scientists developed a new predictive test for determining the chances a thoroughbred has of making a racecourse start in their two and three-year-old racing seasons.

“The prediction model analyses the DNA of a horse and then categorises them as having

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This available prize-money is the driver of frenetic bidding and eventual sale proceeds that approached HK$50 million

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study of 4,500 horses, some who raced and some who did not, has established a measurable genetic link to future racing potential.

“The most important genes appear to be involved in neurological or behavioural traits.

“This is fascinating in the context of trainers’ assessments that a horse’s ‘attitude’ to their exercise regime is among the most important aspects to a positive outcome on the racetrack.

“PRCP has previously been

their cars having feasted on the most amazing spread of food imaginable.

Sheikh Mohammed’s generosity can never be taken for granted and this Badger annually counts his blessings that he is included on the guest list.

And it is not all about food either.

There is a very informative parade of all the Darley stallions, set in magnificent surroundings and beautifully choreographed with an excellent commentary from Nick Luck.

While it is always a pleasure to see Dubawi, my interest peaked with the final entrant. Blue Point certainly did not disappoint and it is not difficult to imagine him becoming the lynch-pin in the future Darley stallion roster.

Similarly classy was the Cheveley Park Stud stallion parade and cocktail party earlier in the week, situated

across the road in the best-of-England parkland of this historic stud.

Racing at the July course is like no other racing experience in the world.

Stepping back in time to thatched buildings amidst stunning trees, the summer racecourse yet again provided some excellent racing, as well as several record times.

This does not imply rock-hard ground – horses will only let themselves fully stretch when they have the fullest confidence in the footing, as provided by the 400 years of undisturbed grassland.

Tattersalls July Sales provides three days of selling and always attracts a large cosmopolitan gathering of buyers.

Over 30 nations were listed as the destination for purchases and competition was strong on most lots.

This should not be a surprise – everyone loves coming to a sale where the weather is warm, daylight lasts until way after the fall of hammer on the last lot and, importantly, there is a wide selection of interest for all buyers.

Who would swap this for the cold, short days of the December Sales at the same venue... especially as most of the buyers came from warmer climes.

There is a strong case for breeders and owners to target this sale as vendors. It was my impression that prices were consistently stronger than for similar lots sold later in the year. Why pay a few extra months of keep (with extra risk) when the buying bench is so strong in July?

Newmarket in July week needs stamina... but it is one of my favourite times of the year.

a high, medium or low chance of making a racecourse start,” added Hill.

“Horses categorised as high are more likely to have a racecourse start, more likely to run in more races, more likely to have higher earnings, but curiously do not have a significantly different sales price.

“This is therefore valuable information that even the most astute in the market currently can not assess from pedigree or by physical assessment.”

British Breeders Scheme planned PLANS FOR A NEW BRITISH BREEDERS PREMIUM SCHEME were annoounced at the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association AGM held in July, reported the Racing Post.

The scheme will be focused initially on British-bred fillies and mares, or fillies and mares bred abroad but sired by British-based stallions.

Chairman Julian RichmondWatson reported the scheme had stemmed from last year’s Economic Impact Study, which exposed “the precarious state of British breeding and in particular a deteriorating position for Britain’s small breeders”.

That led to the establishment of a Breeding Strategy Working Group who formulated the plan.

Eligible runners could win bonuses of up to £20,000, while there will be no limit to the number of bonuses won.

Richmond-Watson said: “The racing industry cannot rely forever on other countries producing and exporting enough thoroughbreds to support our racing programme and so I welcome the industry support we have received and look forward to building on the success of British breeding in the future.”

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Derby winner Masar retired to Darley stallion roster AFTER a disappointing run in the Princess of Wales’s Stakes at the July meeting, Masar, the 2018 Derby-winning son of New Approach, has been retired to stud.

Trainer Charlie Appleby said: “He has come out of his last race in good order, but we feel he owes us nothing and the time is right to retire him from racing.

“Masar gave us a wonderful day at Epsom last year when he beat Roaring Lion to become the first Derby winner in the Godolphin blue. I am sure he will be a great addition to the Darley stallion roster.”

A Godolphin homebred, Masar made a

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winning debut at Goodwood in May of his juvenile campaign.

He then finished third in the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot, easily landed the Group 3 Solario Stakes and rounded off his juvenile season with a third in the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère before finishing sixth at the Breeders’ Cup. After wintering in Dubai, Masar returned to a 9l victory in the Group 3 Craven Stakes at Newmarket. He went on to run a close third in the 2,000 Guineas before becoming the first winner of the Derby for Godolphin.

Unfortunately, that was the last time the

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HE WHIP seems to have appeared once again on racing’s discussion list – with a wringing of hands and declarations of woe and cries that the sport is doomed unless action is taken.

Personally, I believe the current whip rules work well creating a sensible line for jockeys to follow and understand that allows full possible effort by themselves so that the best horse wins or their horse is given every chance, without any ugly, anti-welfare, win-at-all costs effort.

We are told by the BHA that things need to change, that in today’s world we need to reassess the use of the whip in racing and that we will need to consider its role in future if the sport is to appeal to the broader public.

Further clarity is needed on this via a full-scale evidence-based report.

What comments have there been from ITV’s viewers once it was announced that Hayley Turner had gone over her number of hits when winning at Royal Ascot?

Would the same people be complaining even if the number was reduced to just one? Were there complaints about the ride before the judgement was announced?

As she crossed the line did viewers object to the ride for welfare reasons?

Set up a street vox-pop to ask if people don’t watch horseracing because of the whip. What about at the racecourses? We have a broad range of people going racing (not necessarily because of the racing) and it is the second-biggest spectator sport in Britain, do all those participants feel that the current riding styles of the jockeys to be offensive? As for punters – ask them who they like to see ride. I’d bet they select the most obviously forceful jockeys.

As for the debate regarding the complete non-use of the whip aside from corrective purposes; I firmly believe this will do nothing to engage viewers, will probably do the reverse and could lead to continual marginalisation of the sport.

Horses are herd animals, very few wish to lead, they need encouragement to do so – they are also a bulky animal that sometimes needs some amount of persuasion to do as requested – anyone who has tried to shove an unwilling equine participant into a lorry or into stalls will understand.

Some horses are plain lazy, some a bit thick; most once they have been racing for a time understand exactly how much they can get away without doing (and that is even with use of the whip).

In addition, and ask any trainer, the further you ask an unmotivated horse to run, the more the chance they have to decline the issue. The lower-level horse, who will happily run around a track doing just enough week in, week out, will often be racing over a shorter distance than optimum.

We had one horse in training who was bought off the Flat to go hurdling;

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colt ran as a three-year-old. He finished fifth on his three-year-old seasonal debut in the Hardwicke Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot before his Newmarket run.

Masar is out of the Cape Cross mare Khawlah, winner of the UAE Derby, and is inbred 3x4 to the amazing blue hen mare, Urban Sea. It was announced at the Darley stallion parade that the dual Royal Ascot Group 1-winning sprinter Blue Point, a son of Shamardal and Scarlett Rose, retired after the Royal meeting, will stand the 2020 covering season at Kildangan Stud in Ireland.

If the whip were banned, what would happen to racing?

Sally Duckett discussess

he hated it. We switched back to the Flat to run over a mile and 1m2f; even once he had gotten to an appropriate mark he was not competitive.

But he had ability and so we dropped him in trip – he won and was placed over 6f under jockeys who put the horse’s head in front only on the line. The horse just did not have time or thought process to decline the issue, and neither was the whip ever used to excess.

Removing the whip would, over a course of time, just lead to an overall reduction in race distances (think 4f) and a further concentration of the racing programme on young sprint-bred horses with fresh legs and enthusiasm to run.

The older week-day horses would disappear and the sport would lack the number of horses to sustain the racing programme. The horses who do try hard would end up being so regularly successful against fields of not-quite-triers that in the end they will be handicapped so heavily that eventually they won’t try either.

Does the public really want to watch a card of uncompetitive sprints?

We’ve been told that the recent stayers’ programme has been subsidised because the public likes to watch longer distance races battled out between the older horses they have got to know. If we eventually move to a whipless world, we aren’t we then working in completely the opposite direction.

We have an industry of reputable trainers, who are highly governed and regulated, but it is not too far a stretch of the imagination to guess what could be done at home by an unscrupulous (or desperate) trainer to ensure that a horse gets out the gates fast and runs that 4f or 5f on adrenaline alone.

If we want to encourage more people to the sport then let’s take a look at what cricket has been up to – it has modernised, it has become relevant, it makes good use of technology and data. Surely that is our first base before we radically change the sport to appease a viewing public of whom we don’t know enough about?

Of course, all rules need constant reassessment and the number of smacks a jockey can give is the obvious first base to look to on welfare grounds alone, aside from taking into account outside viewpoints.

But if the sport is going to radically change to satisfy public opinion there must be an informed appreciation of that perception, as well be ensured racing has communicated successfully to that public and given every chance for there to be an understanding as to the reason why things are as they are.

There should also be a continual monitoring of the number of whip infringements alongside an analysis of the repeat offenders. That will help provide us with informed data as to whether the current rules are working or not.

Otherwise we are in serious danger of talking the sport into a downward spiral.

MUHAARAR Putting CLASS into his 2yos

“She’s a filly we’ve always liked and she was very professional” JIM CROWLEY

RAHEEQ - Winner on debut by 4½ lengths.

“Stakes company surely beckons” EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS

UNFORGETABLE - Dominated Irish maiden by 2½ lengths.

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Take Ten The son of No Nay Never finds fast feet over 6f in the Group 1 July Cup,writes Aisling Crowe

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EN SOVEREIGNS was back to the imperious best of his juvenile season when winning the Group 1 July Cup for the Coolmore partners, trainer Aidan O’Brien and jockey Ryan Moore.

The three-year-old colt is the best so far by his exciting young sire No Nay Never, who also sired Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner Mystery Power on the same card.

It was an important success for Coolmore as the stud’s stallion is now a sire of a Group 1-winning three-year-old sprinter with his first crop.

Ten Sovereigns’ victory in last summer’s Group 1 Middle Park Stakes was the first at the highest level for his sire, who won the Group 1 Prix Morny during his own scintillating juvenile career.

Bred by a group that includes the Hyde family’s Camas Park and Summerhill Studs as well as Lynch Bages, Ten Sovereigns was bought by MV Magnier for 200,000gns during Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Ten Sovereigns represents an exciting stallion prospect for Coolmore as he gives

Above, the July Cup-winning jockey Ryan Moore, below, winning the Group 1 sprint on Ten Sovereigns

their operation an injection of the Danehill blood that brought them so much success in both hemispheres.

His damsire is Darley’s shuttling star Exceed And Excel (Danehill) and, intriguingly, his first three dams were all bred by Sheikh Mohammed’s operation, who purchased his fourth dam, the Grade 1 Fantasy Stakes winner My Darling One, for $1.9m dollars at the 1987 Keeneland November Breeding Sale.

His own dam Seeking Solace was trained

by André Fabre for Godolphin and won once at three and was second in the Prix de la Seine.

Considered surplus to requirements at Darley, she was sold in-foal to Halling at the 2011 Tattersalls July Sale. Purchased by BBA Ireland for 60,000gns, she was then covered

by High Chaparral and the resulting daughter Learza won three times in Europe and was bought by Rabbah Bloodstock for 150,000gns at Tattersalls last December.

Her full-brother Trailboss was a promising youngster before injury intervened, but the four-year-old gelding made his debut earlier this year and won over a 1m4f for trainer Ed Vaughan on June 29.

Ten Sovereigns’ year-younger fullsister was purchased by MV Magnier for 600,000gns at last year’s Tattersalls October

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july meeting racing review Yearling Sale and, named Eden Quay, she holds an entry in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.

Seeking Solace has a yearling full-sister to the dual Group 1 winner.

Veracious went one better than her dam Infallible by winning the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes. The Cheveley Park Stud homebred became the eighth top level winner for her sire Frankel, and the second so far this season after Anapurna’s Oaks triumph.

She continues the remarkable success of Pivotal as a broodmare sire as her win was the sixth Group 1 for him in that role

in 2019 following on from Hermosa’s dual Guineas heroics, Defoe’s Coronation Cup breakthrough and further Group 1 victories for Magical and Advertise.

At this stage of the year, Pivotal looks on course to retain his title as champion broodmare sire with only Galileo coming close to the 26-year-old in that race.

The Falmouth heroine is a third generation homebred for David and Patricia Thompson’s Newmarket farm and her success gives a boost to their homebred second-crop sire Garswood – their dams are three-parts sisters.

Veracious is out of Infallible, who was trained by John Gosden to win the Group 3 Nell Gwynn Stakes in 2008 and finish second in the Coronation Stakes as well as the Falmouth.

She was also fourth to Natagora in the 1,000 Guineas, but has proved her worth as a broodmare having already produced the dual Group 2 Summer Mile Stakes winner Mutakayyef, also placed in the three Group 1 mile contests, from the first crop of Sea The Stars.

She is also the dam of Group 3 Prix de

Two-year-old review

July meeting Group winners for a host of young sires Gleneagles, No Nay Never and Slade Power all hit the scoreboard with juveniles

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OYAL LYTHAM’S VICTORY in the Group 2 July Stakes was nearly as significant for Coolmore’s young stallion roster as the Group 1 July Cup success of Ten Sovereigns – the win was a first Group winner for the farm’s freshman sire Gleneagles, and the second stakes winner for the dual Guineas hero.

The narrow victory showcased the tenacity that Gleneagles’s sire Galileo and “uncle” Giant’s Causeway were noted for and it would seem that Gleneagles is transmitting that willingness and never-say-die attitude in his DNA. Royal Lytham looked beaten when headed by Visinari, but Wayne Lordan’s mount refused to be beaten and battled back to win in the final strides.

Trained by Aidan O’Brien for the Coolmore partners, Royal Lytham was a little unlucky when hampered behind stable companion Arizona in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes on just his second start. He made his racecourse debut just ten days prior to his trip to Royal Ascot, winning over five and a half furlongs at Navan.

He holds entries in the Group 1 Phoenix and Group 1 National Stakes, with the former looking his most likely next assignment.

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....it would seem that Gleneagles is transmitting that willingness and never-say-die attitude Bred by Haras du Logis Saint Germain, Royal Lytham was purchased

by MV Magnier for €180,000 at the Arqana August Yearling Sale, and is bred on a variation of the Galileo-Danzig cross that has brought so much success to Coolmore.

His dam is the Anabaa mare Gotlandia and Galileo has sired Lush Lashes, winner of the Group 1 Coronation Stakes, Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and Matron Stakes (G1), the St Leger winner Capri and his Group 3-winning full-brother Cypress Creek, the Group 2 winner Spiritjim and last year’s

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St Leger third Southern France, out of daughters of Anabaa.

Royal Lytham is the sixth winner and fourth stakes performer for Gleneagles, alongside the Listed Windsor Castle winner Southern Hills, Precious Moments, who was second in the Group 2 Airlie Stud Stakes, and Highland Chief, who finished third in the Listed Chesham Stakes.

His dam Gotlandia won the Listed Prix de Saint-Cyr and was second in the Group 3 Prix de la Grotte before commencing her breeding career.

Royal Lytham is her third foal, her first is the four-year-old Sea The Stars gelding Shareef Star, who won his maiden over 1m2f at Newcastle in May for Sir Michael Stoute. Her second, the Charm Spirit colt Spirit Of Dance, is in training with Fabrice Vermeulen.

Her dam Grenade is a winning daughter of Bering and a full-sister to Glorosia, the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile winner and the dam of four winners, including the German Listed winner and Group 3-placed Gentle Tiger.

The third dam Golden Sea is a half-sister to Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano winner Glity.

Mystery Power, winner of the Group 2 Superlative Stakes is the second Group winner from the second-crop of last season’s champion first-season sire No Nay Never.

Winner of his debut at Haydock in late June, Mystery Power, who is out of the Haafhd mare Gems, handled the step up to Group company with ease to remain unbeaten and add to his sire’s reputation.

The son of Scat Daddy’s second crop was bred from an advertised fee of just €17,500 and so far has produced Mystery Power, as well as the Coventry Stakes winner Arizona and Celtic Beauty, Royal Lytham

july meeting racing review Flore winner Intimation by Dubawi and the Oasis Dream horse Intrinsic, who won the Stewards’ Cup and has his first runners this season from his base at Hedgeholme Stud.

Infallible is a full-sister to the Listed winner Remarkable and the multiple Groupplaced gelding Watchable, who was fourth to Muhaarar in the Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1).

Her two-year old colt by Golden Horn named Galata Bridge is in training with Sir Michael Stoute and she has a yearling fullbrother to Veracious.

Second dam Irresistible is a daughter of

Cadeaux Genereux and winner of the Listed Kilvington Stakes, who was runner-up to Airwave in the Firth Of Clyde Stakes.

Irresistible and Airwave are proving quite influential being the grand-dams of a pair of Group 1 winners – Irresistible is ancestress of the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner and sire Garswood as well as Veracious, while Airwave is the second dam of Churchill and Clemmie.

The third dam Polish Romance is the dam of four winners and the second dam of the Group 3 Prix du Calvados winner Queen Bee

and the Listed Tipperary Stakes winner and Group 1 Prix Morny third Parliament Square.

She is out of the dual American Grade 1 winner Some Romance, a daughter of Fappiano and a half-sister to the Grade 1 Hollywood Turf Cup winner and sire Vilzak.

Veracious is the second Group 1 winner

by Frankel out of a Pivotal mare after Cracksman.

Frankel’s sire Galileo has clicked brilliantly with the Cheveley Park Stud lynchpin – full-sisters Magical and Rhododendron are out of Pivotal’s three-time Group 1-winning

Raffle Prize: the daughter of Slade Power, followed up her Royal Ascot Queen Mary success with a win in the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes

who has been placed twice in Group company.

A bargain buy for just €5,500 at the 2013 Goffs February Sale for Siobhan Ryan, Gems has proven to be wellnamed.

Her offspring have made healthy returns on that initial investment in the sales ring.

Her first foal, a 2014 colt by Zoffany, made €70,000 sold to Bobby O’Ryan

by Seskin Stud at that year’s Goffs November Foal Sale, while the No Nay Never colt, who would be later named Mystery Power, was sold to Mark Dwyer’s Oaks Farm for €110,000 at the 2017 Goffs sale. Last year her Australia colt foal made €56,000 bought by Flash Conroy’s Glenvale Stud.

Saella, her four-year-old daughter

by Canford Cliffs, was second in the Group 3 Prix Miesque at two, while five-year-old Zoffany gelding Fayez is an eight-time winner over trips around a mile to 1m2f.

Gems is a half-sister to the Sweet Solera Stakes winner Peaceful Paradise and to Frank Sonata, the winner of three Listed contests.

Their dam is a half-sister to the Italian champion and four-time Group 1 winner Alhijaz.

Her sire Haafhd, who now stands at Batsford Stud for £2,000, has produced smaller crops than the industy has become accustomed to, but is making a mark as a broodmare sire with his daughters producing the likes of Quiet

Reflection, Ventura Storm, Madhmoon and Queen Of Bermuda.

Raffle Prize confirmed the positive impression of her victory in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot with a comprehensive victory over another Royal meeting winner, the Albany Stakes scorer Daahyeh, in the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes.

Final Song, who was third behind Raffle Prize at Ascot, filled the same position at Newmarket.

Five years to the day after her sire Slade Power’s triumph in the Group 1 July Cup, Raffle Prize, a member of the Darley stallion’s second crop, is successfully showcasing his abilities in his second career.

A Godolphin homebred who races in the colours of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Raffle Prize is also emulating her sire Slade Power – he did the Royal Ascot-Newmarket July meeting double when he added the July Cup to his success in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes.

Slade Power is one of three Group 1 winners by Middle Park and Prix Morny winner Dutch Art – the others being Prix de l’Abbaye heroine Mabs Cross and Garswood, who won the Prix Maurice de Gheest and stands alongside his sire at Cheveley Park Stud.

Raffle Prize is bred along similar lines to Mabs Cross – she is by a son of Dutch Art out of a Pivotal mare.

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july meeting racing review daughter Halfway To Heaven and the Group 1-winning siblings Hydrangea, Happily and The United States out of the Pivotal mare Beauty Is Truth.

Inbreeding to Special through the threeparts brothers Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev may be the answer as to why Galileo and Frankel have done so well with Pivotal’s daughters – 25 per cent of Frankel’s top level winners so far are by Pivotal – while from less than 30 runners Galileo has sired five individual Group 1 winners out of mares by Pivotal.

The Nureyev connection is further seen in three more Group 1 winners by Galileo – last year’s Oaks winner Together Forever and her Group 1-winning full-sister Forever Together are out of Green Room, a daughter of Theatrical, while the three-times Group 1 winner Rip Van Winkle is out of a Stravinsky mare.

Frankel’s full-brother Noble Mission sired his first European Group winner when

Inbreeding to Special through the three-parts brothers Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev may be the reason why Galileo and Frankel have done so well with Pivotal’s daughters

Spanish Mission took the opening race of the July Meeting, the Group 3 Bahrain International Trophy.

Bred by St Elias Stables LLC, Spanish Mission was purchased by Barry Lynch at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale for $125,000 from Lane’s End Farm, where the three-times Group 1 winner stood for a fee of $15,000 this year.

Spanish Mission is a member of the sire’s first crop and was bred from a fee of $25,000.

Spanish Mission did not find enough friends at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up and was a 60,000gns vendor buyback by Tally-Ho Stud, who sent him into training with David Simcock.

His track debut came over a mile at Chelmsford in October and stepped up to 1m2f on his second run breaking his maiden at the same track in November.

Subsequently he was a private purchase

by Barry Irwin’s Team Valor and Earle Mack, who between them have campaigned

Veracious: a first Group 1 success for the Cheveley Park Stud homebred daughter of Frankel, the eighth in total for the Juddmonte sire, while she was a sixth Group 1 winner in 2019 for broodmare sire Pivotal

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INVINCIBLE SPIRIT’S BEST 2-YEAR-OLD PERFORMER - EVER. Timeform rating of 123+ at 2. Winner of the Prix Morny Gr.1, the Middle Park Stakes Gr.1, the July Stakes Gr.2 and the Vintage Stakes Gr.2. « We have t wo of Shalaa’s yearlings on offer for the August Sale. They are very nice and stamped by their sire. They are amongst the top horses within our draft.»

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july meeting racing review With Your Spirit, a winning Invincible Spirit half-sister to Group 1 Racing Post Trophy winner Palace Episode and to the dam of the Group 2 Debutante Stakes winner and Group 1 Moyglare Stakes second and Irish 1,000 Guineas third Laughing Lashes.

Their dam is a half-sister to Tejano Run, winner of the Grade 2 Breeders’ Futurity Stakes and second in the Kentucky Derby, to the Grade 2 Jersey Derby and Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner More Royal and to Unbridled Run. She is the dam of Canadian champion two-year-old Spring In The Air and grand-dam of Sweet Loretta, who won the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes.

Also in the family is the remarkable champion Lady Eli who shares her breeder with Duke Of Hazzard and foaled her first offspring in the spring, a colt by War Front.

Spanish Mission: might be on a mission to the St Leger or to the US in the hunt for a $1 million prize

stars including Animal Kingdom and Electrocutionist.

Spanish Mission was second to Private Secretary on his first start in Listed company in Goodwood’s Cocked Hat Stakes in May, and his victory in Newmarket’s 1m5f event shis first attempt at both the trip and Group class.

Spanish Mission could now be supplemented for the St Leger or head Stateside to Belmont in September for a newly created $1m race on Turf.

Spanish Mission is the second Group winner to emerge from Noble Mission’s first crop after Code Of Honor, a homebred for William Farish’s Lane’s End Farm. Successful in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes and second in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes last year, Code Of Honor returned to winning ways days before his paternal half-brother’s victory with success in the Grade 3 Dwyer Stakes. He is being aimed at the Garde Travers Stakes.

Communique added a second Group 2 success to his resume when adding the Princess of Wales’s Stakes to a CV that already includes success in the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Listed Godolphin Stakes.

He is the third Group winner this season for Casamento, who recently completed his first breeding season at Sunnyhill Stud as a dual-purpose sire.

Casamento has enjoyed a purple patch this summer with Communique one of three

Communique: maintained the now dual-purpose sire Casamento’s strong year through 2019

Group winners for his sire in the last few weeks.

His final crop from his stint alongside his sire Shamardal at Darley’s Kildangan Stud includes the Classic winner, the Group 2 Oaks d’Italia heroine Lamaire, while his current crop of two-year-olds, the first of two crops conceived at Dalham Hall Stud, has already produced the Group 3 winner Malotru, who has since been purchased by Spanish Mission’s connections.

Communique, who had been fourth to Defoe in the Coronation Cup, could become his sire’s first Group 1 winner with trainer Mark Johnston planning to tackle some of Germany’s middle distance gems with the Godolphin homebred.

Lot 35 in the Arqana August Yearling sale received a perfectly timed update as the Teofilo filly’s three-year-old half-brother by Lope De Vega won the Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes.

Trained by Paul Cole for Mrs Fitri Hay, Duke Of Hazzard was a €130,000 yearling purchase from the 2017 Deauville extravaganza and was consigned by Haras d’Etreham, who will consign his Teofilo halfsister.

Her page could receive even more blacktype before the sale as Duke Of Hazzard holds an entry in the Group 2 Lennox Stakes at Goodwood.

Bred by Runnymede Farm and Catesby W Clay, Duke Of Hazzard is the first foal out of

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stallion stats Leading sires in Europe 2019: (by prize-money earned to July 16, 2019) Stallion Galileo Shamardal Dubawi Sea The Stars Siyouni Frankel Le Havre Dark Angel Kodiac Nathaniel Invincible Spirit Kingman Lope de Vega Zoffany Kendargent Camelot Oasis Dream Mastercraftsman Dandy Man Pivotal Acclamation Showcasing Casamento Teofilo Exceed And Excel Dream Ahead Bated Breath No Nay Never Zebedee Champs Elysees Iffraaj Footstepsinthesand Dansili Elusive City New Approach Olympic Glory Rajsaman Dawn Approach Rock of Gibraltar Holy Roman Emperor Australia Rip Van Winkle Lawman Soldier Hollow Kyllachy Dutch Art Makfi Arcano

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Breeding

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Sadler’s Wells–Urban Sea (Miswaki) Giant’s Causeway–Helsinki (Machiavellian) Dubai Millennium–Zomaradah (Deploy) Cape Cross–Urban Sea(Miswaki) Pivotal–Sichilla (Danehill) Galileo–Kind (Danehill) Noverre–Marie Rheinberg (Surako) Acclamation–Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) Danehill–Rafha (Kris) Galileo–Magnificient Style(Silver Hawk) Green Desert–Rafha (Kris) Invincible Spirit–Zenda (Zamindar) Shamardal–Lady Vettori (Vettori) Dansili–Tyranny (Machiavellian) Kendor–Pax Bella (Linamix) Montjeu–Tarfah (Kingmambo) Green Desert–Hope (Dancing Brave) Danehill Dancer–Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) Mozart–Lady Alexander (Night Shift) Polar Falcon–Fearless Revival (Cozzene) Royal Applause–Princess Athena (Ahonoora) Oasis Dream–Arabesque (Zafonic) Shamardal–Wedding Gift (Always Fair) Galileo–Speirbhean (Danehill) Danehill–Patrona (Lomond) Diktat–Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) Dansili–Tantina (Distant View) Scat Daddy–Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) Invincible Spirit–Cozy Maria (Cozzene) Danehill–Hasili (Kahyasi) Zafonic–Pastorale (Nureyev) Giant’s Causeway–Glatisant (Rainbow Quest Danehill–Hasili (Kahyasi Elusive Quality–Star of Paris(Dayjur) Galileo–Park Express (Ahonoora) Choisir–Acidanthera (Alzao) Linamix–Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) New Approach–Hymn of the Dawn (Phone Trick) Danehill–Offshore Boom (Be My Guest) Danehill–L’On Vite (Secretariat) Galileo–Ouija Board (Cape Cross) Galileo–Looking Back (Stravinsky) Invincible Spirit–Laramie (Gulch) In the Wings–Island Race (Common Grounds) Pivotal–Pretty Poppy (Song) Medicean–Halland Park Lass (Spectrum) Dubawi–Dhelaal (Green Desert) Oasis Dream–Tariysha (Daylami)

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2002 158 473 2005 162 531 2006 149 419 2010 144 411 2011 181 594 2013 102 288 2010 152 541 2008 265 979 2007 321 1200 2013 135 452 2003 174 625 2015 86 222 2011 190 624 2012 208 749 2008 161 659 2014 141 439 2004 163 625 2010 188 654 2010 225 915 1997 101 370 2004 170 731 2011 151 522 2013 146 532 2008 140 467 2004 171 698 2012 124 497 2013 160 530 2015 85 234 2011 194 860 2010 138 505 2007 168 590 2006 167 622 2001 130 406 2005 126 595 2009 123 353 2015 75 245 2013 148 600 2014 106 302 2003 128 522 2007 152 637 2015 77 231 2011 101 391 2008 139 536 2008 108 370 2003 125 557 2008 131 521 2011 114 466 2011 101 460

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Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs SWs 37.97 32.71 41.61 42.36 31.49 45.09 43.42 30.56 30.52 31.85 37.93 46.51 31.05 29.80 36.02 32.62 28.83 31.91 32.44 38.61 29.41 26.49 28.76 22.85 32.16 33.06 29.37 28.23 32.98 31.88 30.95 30.53 29.23 34.12 33.33 28.00 29.72 20.75 29.68 33.55 29.87 31.68 25.89 46.29 31.20 40.45 27.19 40.59

£

13 19 6,285,126 12 17 2,777,205 11 13 2,335,427 6 9 2,314,638 5 6 2,253,221 10 16 2,168,264 8 8 2,106,767 6 6 1,951,449 6 6 1,804,556 5 5 1,776,566 8 11 1,749,902 8 9 1,653,822 6 7 1,608,376 5 6 1,437,125 4 4 1,368,225 5 5 1,316,031 6 7 1,266,796 6 6 1,228,242 2 2 1,204,696 4 4 1,142,851 2 2 1,139,774 2 2 1,110,026 3 4 978,097 3 5 968,377 3 3 955,093 3 3 946,430 4 4 940,959 6 7 937,691 2 2 937,372 5 6 929,136 2 2 910,377 0 0 899,317 1 1 897,454 1 2 885,910 5 6 863,213 2 3 853,367 0 0 850,692 0 0 833,761 0 0 822,402 1 1 821,770 4 5 752,463 2 2 748,580 2 2 747,620 6 7 746,448 2 3 742,546 3 3 725,209 1 1 712,024 3 3 692,006

In a Deauville deluge

20 years ago this summer, Dubai Millennium won his first G1, the Prix Jacques Le Marois.

The breed – and his blood – have come a long way since. He sired just 56 foals, yet his descendants include no fewer than 50 G1 winners. And counting.

Dubai Millennium’s son and heir is Dubawi, the only British stallion ever to sire 100 Group winners, the world’s best auction sire since 2015, and currently leading all comers as both the top sire of Stakes winners and the number one sire of Group winners in 2019.

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No Nay Never Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 36 76 10 13 27.77 2 2 278,892 Dark Angel Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) 2008 52 107 11 13 21.15 0 0 197,158 War Front Danzig-Starry Dreamer (Rubiano) 2007 17 39 6 7 35.29 1 1 192,887 Gleneagles Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) 2016 18 29 6 7 33.33 2 2 190,872 Dandy Man Mozart-Lady Alexander (Night Shift) 2010 53 136 17 20 32.07 0 0 186,781 Cable Bay Invincible Spirit–Rose de France (Diktat) 2016 32 86 12 17 37.50 1 1 169,116 Zoffany Dansili–Tyranny Machiavellian) 2012 30 58 8 9 26.66 1 1 168,589 Shamardal Giant’s Causeway–Helsinki (Machiavellian) 2005 8 17 3 7 37.50 2 2 158,527 Kodiac Danehill–Rafha) (Kris) 2007 56 123 13 14 23.21 0 0 149,734 Epaulette Commands–Accessories) (Singspiel) 2014 24 68 9 12 37.50 0 0 142,628 Slade Power Dutch Art–Girl Power) (Key of Luck) 2015 15 30 2 4 13.33 1 2 136,809 Bated Breath Dansili–Tantina) (Distant View) 2013 23 41 5 6 21.73 1 1 130,192 Gutaifan Dark Angel–Alikhlas) (Lahib) 2016 46 106 15 17 32.60 0 0 126,618 Lope de Vega Shamardal–Lady Vettori) (Vettori 2011 11 23 5 5 45.45 0 0 116,800 Starspangledbanner Choisir–Gold Anthem) (Made of Gold) 2011 27 55 9 10 33.33 0 0 116,228 Anjaal Bahamian Bounty-Ballymore Celebre (Peintre Celebre) 2016 36 88 5 8 13.88 0 0 113,216 First Defence Unbridled’s Song–Honest Lady) (Seattle Slew 2009 1 3 1 3 100.00 1 2 108,019 Night of Thunder Dubawi–Forest Storm) (Galileo) 2016 21 41 11 12 52.38 0 0 107,146 Society Rock Rock of Gibraltar–High Society) (Key of Luck 2014 19 48 2 2 10.52 1 1 106,547 Sidestep Exceed And Excel–Dextrous) (Quest for Fame) 2016 12 38 4 6 33.33 1 1 105,418 Wootton Bassett Iffraaj–Balladonia) (Primo Dominie) 2012 14 27 5 5 35.71 0 0 105,184 Kheleyf Green Desert–Society Lady) (Mr. Prospector) 2005 16 40 5 7 31.25 0 0 103,295 Kingman Invincible Spirit–Zenda) (Zamindar) 2015 17 33 7 8 41.17 1 1 103,163 Sakhee’s Secret Sakhee–Palace Street) (Secreto) 2009 19 39 6 7 31.57 1 1 101,410 Charm Spirit Invincible Spirit–L’Enjoleuse ) (Montjeu) 2015 16 39 5 6 31.25 0 0 97,842 Siyouni Pivotal–Sichilla ) (Danehill) 2011 24 39 6 7 25.00 0 0 97,223 Penny’s Picnic Kheleyf–Zerky) (Kingmambo) 2014 14 34 5 6 35.71 0 0 96,512 Due Diligence War Front–Bema) (Pulpit) 2016 24 58 7 10 29.16 1 1 96,270 Camacho Danehill–Arabesque ) (Zafonic) 2006 50 122 8 9 16.00 0 0 90,739 Zebedee Invincible Spirit–Cozy Maria) (Cozzene) 2011 28 71 6 6 21.42 1 1 89,102 American Pharoah Pioneerof the Nile–Littleprincessemma) (Yankee Gentleman) 2016 6 9 3 3 50.00 1 1 84,844 Brazen Beau I Am Invincible–Sansade) (Snaadee) 2016 20 46 7 8 35.00 1 1 84,152 Sir Prancealot Tamayuz–Mona Em) (Catrail) 2013 19 54 5 8 26.31 0 0 83,988 Footstepsinthesand Giant’s Causeway–Glatisant) (Rainbow Quest) 2006 21 38 6 7 28.57 0 0 80,157 Power Oasis Dream–Frappe) (Inchinor) 2013 11 30 2 5 18.18 0 0 79,152 Ivawood Zebedee–Keenes Royale) (Red Ransom) 2016 27 72 5 5 18.51 0 0 78,042 Outstrip Exceed And Excel–Asi Siempre) (El Prado) 2016 22 50 6 9 27.27 1 1 75,575 Showcasing Oasis Dream–Arabesque) (Zafonic) 2011 26 46 7 7 26.92 0 0 74,863 Iffraaj Zafonic–Pastorale) (Nureyev) 2007 16 28 4 7 25.00 0 0 73,636 Kendargent Kendor–Pax Bella) (Linamix 2008 15 28 4 4 26.66 0 0 72,568 Bungle Inthejungle Exceed And Excel–Licence To Thrill ) (Wolfhound) 2015 15 40 7 8 46.66 0 0 71,110 Hurricane Cat Storm Cat–Sky Beauty) (Blushing Groom) 2007 6 14 3 6 50.00 0 0 70,561 Oasis Dream Green Desert–Hope) (Dancing Brave) 2004 14 28 3 4 21.42 1 1 70,098 Requinto Dansili–Damson) (Entrepreneur) 2013 15 40 3 4 20.00 1 1 66,560 Acclamation Royal Applause–Princess Athena ) (Ahonoora) 2004 22 49 2 3 9.09 0 0 65,112 Invincible Spirit Green Desert–Rafha) (Kris) 2003 13 28 4 5 30.76 0 0 64,451 Lethal Force Dark Angel–Land Army ) (Desert Style) 2014 23 49 5 6 21.73 0 0 62,707 Coach House Oasis Dream–Lesson In Humility ) (Mujadil) 2015 19 45 4 5 21.05 0 0 59,435

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stallion stats Cable Bay, by Invincible Spirit, is second in the European first-season sires’ list by number of winners and by progeny prize-money earnings.

He stands at Highclere Stud, this spring of a fee of £6,500

Leading first-season sires in Europe 2019: (by prize-money earned to July 16, 2019) Stallion Gleneagles Cable Bay Gutaifan Anjaal Night of Thunder Sidestep Due Diligence American Pharoah Brazen Beau Ivawood Outstrip Hot Streak Galiway Make Believe Cappella Sansevero Free Eagle Muhaarar Mustajeeb Fountain of Youth Hallowed Crown French Navy

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Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) 2016 18 29 6 7 33.33 2 2 190,872 Invincible Spirit-Rose de France (Diktat) 2016 32 86 12 17 37.50 1 1 169,116 Dark Angel-Alikhlas (Lahib) 2016 46 106 15 17 32.60 0 0 126,618 Bahamian Bounty-Ballymore Celebre (Peintre Celebre) 2016 36 88 5 8 13.88 0 0 113,216 Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo) 2016 21 41 11 12 52.38 0 0 107,146 Exceed And Excel-Dextrous (Quest for Fame) 2016 12 38 4 6 33.33 1 1 105,418 War Front-Bema (Pulpit) 2016 24 58 7 10 29.16 1 1 96,270 Pioneerof the Nile-Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman) 2016 6 9 3 3 50.00 1 1 84,844 I Am Invincible-Sansadee (Snaadee) 2016 20 46 7 8 35.00 1 1 84,152 Zebedee-Keenes Royale (Red Ransom) 2016 27 72 5 5 18.51 0 0 78,042 Exceed And Excel-Asi Siempre (El Prado) 2016 22 50 6 9 27.27 1 1 75,575 Iffraaj-Ashirah (Housebuster) 2016 27 61 5 5 18.51 0 0 56,034 Galileo-Danzigaway (Danehill) 2016 6 14 2 3 33.33 0 0 53,798 Makfi-Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) 2016 16 34 4 5 25.00 0 0 53,790 Showcasing-Madam President (Royal Applause) 2016 10 24 3 4 30.00 0 0 24,080 High Chaparral-Polished Gem (Danehill) 2016 14 20 3 3 21.42 0 0 22,139 Oasis Dream-Tahrir (Linamix) 2016 15 24 2 2 13.33 0 0 21,005 Nayef-Rifqah (Elusive Quality) 2016 3 9 2 3 66.66 0 0 19,436 Oasis Dream-Attraction (Efisio) 2016 18 41 2 2 11.11 0 0 16,928 Street Sense-Crowned Glory (Danehill) 2016 8 18 1 1 12.50 0 0 14,671 Shamardal-First Fleet (Woodman) 2016 5 11 0 0 0.00 0 0 14,259

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Every journey begins with a single step This August, our yearlings will take their first steps in public at the Arqana Yearling Sales.

On view for you.

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Lot 26

Lot 244

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Lot 366

Holy Roman Emperor filly out of a full-sister to Shirocco.

Her juvenile full-brother Roman Turbo won Gr.3 Anglesey Stakes, July 2019.

Dariyan half-sister to this year’s Stakes performer Queendara.

Rajsaman half-sister to Olendon, a Stakes-winning Group 1 performer this year.

New Bay colt from the family of Hernando and Johann Quatz.

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QUALITY IN QUANTITY at the Arqana August Yearling Sales.

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• Gleneagles

• Galileo (2)

• Muhaarar

• Kingman (2)

• Golden Horn

• No Nay Never (2)

• Australia

• Camelot (2)

• Belardo

• Le Havre (2)

• Flintshire

• Wootton Bassett (2)

• Dabirsim

• Zoffany (2)

• Intello

• Shalaa (4)

• Kendargent

• Frankel

• Territories

• Dark Angel

• Sidestep

• Olympic Glory

• Bated Breath

Contact Eric Puerari to organise your visit to Capucines, or find us in Yard A at Arqana, August Yearling Sale, Deauville.

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Sold in August 2017 €160,000 to Jean-Claude Rouget IN 2019 :

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Japan collects his Group 1 in Paris

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HE JUDDMONTE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS attracted a strong field of eight colts, but none of his seven rivals were able to give the favourite, the Aidan O’Brientrained Japan, a real test.

The son of Galileo and Shastye, who was sold by Newsells Park Stud for 1,300,000gns as a yearling, won his first Group 1 race by half a length from Slalom, with Jalmoud and Roman Candle in third and fourth.

The race was run at only a regular early pace and Ryan Moore on Japan was always travelling smoothly and was able to quicken into a decisive lead before his main rivals sorted themselves out behind.

Slalom was caught between horses at just the wrong moment, but finished well to take second place without causing any worry for Japan and Moore.

Slalom, a son of Intello trained by AndrĂŠ Fabre, had won his first three starts, including an easy win in a Group 3 at ParisLongchamp in April before disappointing in the Prix du Jockey-Club.

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A 1.3 million guinea yearling, the son of Galileo steps up to Group1 success, writes Jocelyn de Moubray Jalmoud, a son of New Approach and the Oaks winner Dancing Rain, and trained by Charlie Appleby has won a Listed race over the 1m4f track at ParisLongchamp in May before running below that level over both longer and shorter distances.

The fourth Roman Candle, a son of Le Havre also trained by Fabre, has been running consistently well all season and had been fifth in the Jockey-Club behind Sottsass.

They are three good consistent colts who were put in their place by one who still has the potential to be the best middle-distance horse of his generation.

Japan is the ninth foal out of Shastye and if he is the best of her foals to date they also include his full-sister Secret Gesture who was placed in the English, German and Yorkshire Oaks before being disqualified after an easy victory in the Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes at Arlington.

Their full-brother Sir Issac Newton put up his best performance when fourth in the 1m2f Juddmonte International.

Shastye herself was neither precocious nor fast and did not win her maiden until October as a three-year-old over a 1m5f. She improved at four to be stakes-placed over 1m4f and finished fifth in the Group 2 Lancashire Oaks.

Shastye is a half-sister to the Arc winner Sagamix out of Saganeca, who won her Group race over a 1m5f before being Group 1-placed over 1m4f.

She has proved to be the perfect mate for Galileo and an outstanding broodmare for

euro review Newsells who bought her for 625,000gns in 2005.

Breeding always requires patience and even Shastye took time to establish herself –her first foal died as a two-year-old, the second never raced and the third Secret Gesture was bought back at 230,000gns as a yearling. In the meantime she had also been barren once and slipped her foal once.

It is possible that the best French-trained middle-distance colt didn’t take part in the Grand Prix de Paris.

There have been few easier winners of allowances races this year than Aramhes, who made his opponents look very ordinary indeed when taking a 1m2f race at Chantilly in June after breaking his maiden in a similar style a month before at Maisons Laffitte.

The son of Kendargent and out of a daughter of Monsun is owned by a syndicate headed by Christophe German of Markel Insurance and is one of 12 horses trained in Chantilly by Carla O’Halloran.

The ordinary horses beaten by Aramhes have turned out to be not so bad after all as the second and third, Villa Marina and Shendam, were both easy winners at ParisLongchamp over Bastille weekend.

Aramhes is being prepared for an autumn campaign by his young trainer who had worked with Alain de Royer Dupre before setting up on her own in 2014.

The Deutsches Derby run over 1m4f at Hamburg in early July may not regularly attract an international field, but it remains a valuable race with €390,000 to the winner and it is still the over-riding aim and ambition for every breeder in Germany.

There are few Europeans who breed and race on the scale of Manfred and Janet Ostermann, the brother and sister who breed at Gestüt Hof Ittlingen and race in the stud’s red and white colours.

Laccario’s decisive

Shastye herself was neither precocious nor fast and did not win her maiden until October as a three-year-old over a 1m5f victory in this year’s edition gave them their third Derby winner as an owner following success by the half-brothers Lando and Laroche in the early 1990s, and their fourth as a breeder – they also raised and sold Lucky Speed who won in 2013.

The Ostermann siblings took over the stud from their father Fredi in 1985 and for more than 30 years with the greatest of enthusiasm and a high degree of success they have continued to breed and race primarily in Germany, but also with success all over the world.

They breed about 40 mares a year using the best stallions from all over Europe, and

they keep at least 40 horses in training in Germany, the majority with Waldemar Hickst, Peter Schiergen and Markus Klug, but also two with Andreas Wöhler both by Scalo and including Laccario.

Fredi Ostermann started selling kitchens out of a small shop in Witten close to Dortmund after the war in the late 1940s.

The family business grew into Ostermann, a chain of furnishing superstores, while the stud farm in Werne between Dortmund and Munster has become one the largest and most successful in Germany.

The Ostermanns do offer a few yearlings for sale every year – they sold Lucky Speed as well as Accon, who was third in this year’s edition, but the majority are kept to race in their own colours.

Gestüt Ittlingen has bred and raced many Group 1 winners, but Lando who beat Monsun and Sternkonig to win the German Derby in 1993 has, until now, been by far the best.

The son of Acatenango was trained by Heinz Jentzsch to be a champion at two, three, four and five and achieved an official rating of 127.

He won a total of seven Group 1 races, including the Japan Cup on his final start as a five-year-old and finished an unlucky fourth in Lammtarra’s Arc de Triomphe when racing from a wide draw.

Lando proved to be a useful if not outstanding sire and his best son was probably Scalo, who was trained by Wohler for the Ostermanns.

Scalo disappointed when one of the favourites in the 2010 Derby, but came back to win a Group 2 in Deauville in August and the Group 1 Preis von Europa in Cologne in September at three.

Laccario takes the Deutsches Derby for Gestüt Hof Ittlingen

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Laccario’s jockey Eduardo Pedroza gets a champagne drenching from his fellow riders. It was Pedroza’s first Deutsches Derby win Scalo never quite reproduced this form afterwards. He raced on Lasix in Canada at the end of his career so he was barred from standing in Germany and so since 2013 he has been at stud in France, first at the Haras de Logis Saint Germain. This year he covered a small book of mares off a fee of €2,200 at the Haras de Gelos.

Ittlingen sent Scalo a few mares in each of his first three seasons, but Laccario is far and away the best of his progeny they or anyone else has bred to date.

Laccario’s dam ran four times winning a small maiden on her last start, however, she is by Lomitas and is out of a half-sister to Lando and so joined the ten or so other mares from her female family at Ittlingen.

Since Lando, Ittlingen has sent mares from his family to top sires all over Europe and produced several high-class fillies, including the Italian Oaks winner Lovelyn, the top twoyear-old Love Academy and her daughter the Group 2 winner Longina.

Laccario is inbred to Lando’s dam Laurea 3X3 and is the best colt in the family since Lando himself.

Second on his only start at two, Laccario has looked more impressive on each of his starts at three. He won a maiden in Cologne at the beginning of May and then ran away with a Listed Derby Trial at Dusseldorf at the end of the month winning unchallenged by 3l.

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In his final Derby prep he won the Group 2 Union Rennen comfortably by two and a half lengths from Django Freeman.

The Deutsches Derby itself was dominated by the four colts who had won Group races and had the highest official ratings going into the race. Laccario and Django Freeman had the advantage of low draws, while Quest The Moon and Accon had to race wide round all of Hamburg’s tight turns from their high ones.

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ACCARIO AND EDDY PEDROZA were both in a perfect position behind the leaders on the rails, and once asked for his effort Laccario was well on top, even if Django Freeman was only a length and a quarter behind at the line.

Accon was outpaced when the leaders quickened, but stayed on best of all to take third place from Quest The Moon close home. Quest The Moon had won a Group 3 at ParisLongchamp on his previous start and the English-trained colt Surrey Thunder, who finished fifth, had been placed in stakes and Group races in France too.

The first four are clearly among the best middle-distance colts in Europe.

Laccario has yet to be fully extended and it is still possible he will go on to emulate some of Lando’s exploits. It is more than likely that

he will eventually stand at Gestüt Ittlingen where Lando began his stud career.

The German Oaks will be run over 1m3f at Dusseldorf in early August and the strong ante-post favourite is Akribe, a daughter of Reliable Man trained by Markus Klug for Gestüt Roettgen.

She was second in the Germany’s best race for two-year-old fillies and after disappointing on her seasonal reappearance over a mile stepped up to 1m2f in the Group 2 Diana Trial in early June and ran out an easy 2l winner.

Her main rivals will include Team Valor’s Axana, a daughter of Soldier Hollow who has won two Group races over a mile this year, and Gestüt Schlenderhan’s Ismene, a Tertullian filly out of a Monsun mare who improved when upped to 1m2f to win the Listed BBAG Diana Trial in mid-July.

Racing and breeding in Germany is still focused on winning the Classic races, the Derby over 1m4f for colts and fillies in July and the Diana over 1m3f for fillies in August.

It is probably no coincidence that Japan was bred by the Newsells Park Stud, which belongs to the Jacobs family, Aramhes was bred by Jürgen Winter’s Haras de la Perelle.

The Ostermanns-owned Laccario defeated Django Freeman, who was bred by Gestüt Fahrhof, a foundation established by the Jacobs family with Accon, another colt bred by the Ostermanns, third.

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All to play for in the US stallion race

With Keeneland’s yearling sales on the horizon, Melissa Bauer-Herzog gives us a mid-season review on US stallion performance

Quality Road, seen here at Lane’s End Farm, is currently leading the US sires’ table

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N A DRAMATIC early year of racing in the US, one thing is clear after the first six months – this year’s leading group of sires is making for an exciting season.

As expected, all eyes have been on 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and the stallion hasn’t disappointed.

He came out firing in the spring and early summer with five winners, including the Group 3 winner Maven, the Group 2-placed Monarch Of Egypt and the Listed-placed Saqqara King.

While it was expected he would have success in Europe with Coolmore sending multiple two-year-olds by the stallion to Aidan O’Brien, only one of those stakes horses has come from Ballydoyle.

The major surprise for the stallion so far isn’t that he has found success in Europe, but that all five of his winners have come on Turf.

His early success on the Turf comes just in time for the stallion’s third season in Australia with the precocity of his runners also boding well for how the stallion will be received this season Down Under.

While it was expected that American Pharoah would fire on all cylinders right out of the gate, the surprise of the freshman class has been Florida-based Khozan.

A Distorted Humor half-brother to champion Royal Delta, the stallion leads all freshmen with eight winners from 17 starters.

The stallion comes from a family that only gets better with age so it won’t be a surprise if his progeny continues to improve as we enter the autumn season.

He stands in partnership with Al Shaqab (See the feature on page 60) In a crop that includes the champion Honor Code and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Bayern among the others competing with American Pharoah, 39 stallions have had at least one winner and five have had at least one stakes winner as of July 17.

As many of the major contenders in the first-crop sire battle themselves got better with age when they ran, it won’t be surprising to see the race get tighter in coming months as the major two-year-old races get underway.

Over the past three years, the Pegasus World Cup (G1) has played a large part in the general sires’ title and for Quality Road, it has helped him lead the list by nearly $400,000 as of July 17.

Quality Road’s Pegasus winner City Of Light’s $4 million in earnings plays a big part in his sire’s lead, but Quality Road’s other runners have held their own, too.

First-season sires in US 2019: (by prize-money earned to July 16, 2019) Stallion

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Khozan 17 8 American Pharoah 15 5 Constitution 10 4 Tapiture 20 7 Race Day 10 3 Bayern 12 4 Fast Anna 10 4 Competitive Edge 11 4 Commissioner 12 5 Frac Daddy 7 2 Bourbon Courage 5 2

More than $5.2 million of the sire’s $9.2 million in progeny earnings this year is from another 174 runners with ten placing in stakes races.

Over half-way through the season, the Lane’s End stallion has hit every mark with three Grade 1 winners – including a double in important Classic preps when Roadster and Bellafina won the Santa Anita Derby (G1) and Santa Anita Oaks (G1) on the same day in April.

Another three-year-old won the historic Mother Goose Stakes (G2) and Core Beliefs

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continued the stallion’s success as a sire of older horses in the New Orleans Handicap (G2). He has had five graded stakes winners overall.

But, while Quality Road leads by earnings, it’s more established stallions Tapit and Curlin who lead by stakes winners.

After standing for $300,000 over the past few seasons, breeders who made use of Tapit’s services at $225,000 this season may feel that they are getting a deal.

The sire hasn’t had a Grade 1 winner this year, but he’s had 20 black-type winners – six

Khozan, standing at Journeyman Stud in partnership with Al Shaqab, leads the first-season table

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A stallion who has been well-represented over the years in the Triple Crown, this year was no different for Tapit. The gray was represented by son Tacitus, who hit the board in two Triple Crown races after winning two Kentucky Derby preps, while overall Tapit had three horses run throughout the Triple Crown series.

A versatile sire, Tapit’s runners have won at all distances and on all surfaces around the world. The sire is also starting to become a sire-of-sires – son Tapizar has continued his success started by Monomoy Girl last year with three stakes winners in 2019.

Curlin’s streak of having a horse placed in at least one Triple Crown race a year ended in 2019 with the stallion having no runners in the Classics.

While that was a feather he couldn’t put in his cap this season, he is tied for the leading general sire by graded stakes winners on nine, led by his Grade 1-winning son Vino Rosso. He is another Grade 1 winner from the 2015 crop bred by John Gunther’s Glennwood Farm.

It is already Curlin’s best season in terms of graded stakes winners and he currently sits second by that measure, but he has a way to

The best is yet to come for Kantharos, but Hill ‘n’ Dale already thinks enough of the stallion to have purchased his dual Grade 1-winning son World Of Trouble go catch up to his best season of black-type winners – he sired 26 in 2017 but so far in 2019 is only at 14.

This season’s two-year-old runners will mark a notable milestone for Curlin as his first crop bred from Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm, while his first crop bred on a fee of $100,000 – up from $35,000 in 2015 – already has one

stakes-placed runner in Curlin’s Voyage.

Curlin leads what is a premier roster at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm – five of its eight stallions with two or more crops of racing age having had five or more stakes winners – a feat only matched by the stallions at Lane’s End. Perhaps the most exciting of those stallions for Hill ‘n’ Dale is Kantharos, a stallion who showed enough promise with his early Florida crops to move to Kentucky for the 2017 season.

The best is yet to come for Kantharos, but Hill ‘n’ Dale already thinks enough of the stallion to have purchased his dual Grade 1-winning son World Of Trouble for stud duties starting in 2021.

World Of Trouble leads Kantharos’s five stakes winners in 2019 with his sire also tying three other stallions for the second-most Grade 1 winners of any sire; X Y Jet also provided the stallion a victory at the highest level in Dubai for two Grade 1 winners overall.

The general sires’ list looks a wide-open affair with four months of major racing left.

Quality Road currently leads, but there are two stallions less than $1 million behind him with two others less than $3 million behind and posed to strike if their runners put in a few top-level performances.

Leading sires in US 2019: (by prize-money earned to July 16, 2019) Stallion Quality Road Into Mischief Tapit Giant’s Causeway Curlin Candy Ride Speightstown Lookin At Lucky Kitten’s Joy Street Sense War Front Uncle Mo Hard Spun Scat Daddy The Factor Medaglia D’Oro Kantharos Twirling Candy Ghostzapper Midnight Lute Malibu Moon

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Rpt Wnrs 22 26 26 21 29 21 32 18 23 31 15 22 40 19 38 17 20 27 27 31 22

s BT SWrs 8 9 20 3 14 10 6 3 6 8 7 7 5 13 10 6 5 7 6 5 6

BT SWs

GSWrs

10 11 26 8 20 10 7 3 7 9 10 9 6 15 10 9 10 9 9 8 7

G1

5 4 9 3 9 7 3 3 4 5 6 4 3 4 2 3 2 3 2 1 1

Leading performer

3 City of Light 1 Audible - Tacitus 1 Bricks and Mortar 1 Lady Apple - Vekoma - Matera Sky 1 Country House 1 Henley’s Joy - McKinzie 2 War of Will - Moon Colony 1 Out for a Spin 1 Mr Melody - Cistron - Elate 2 X Y Jet 2 Concrete Rose 1 Guarana 1 Midnight Bisou - Come Dancing

Earnings 9,218,735 8,886,032 8,625,497 7,193,659 6,453,461 6,184,353 5,622,416 5,253,544 5,177,597 5,047,010 5,040,720 4,992,394 4,983,470 4,930,384 4,892,013 4,829,247 4,827,161 4,801,590 4,647,633 4,443,000 4,442,935

CADRAN GRADUATES LIGHTING UP THE RACETRACK IN 2019 ROMAN CANDLE (3C Le Havre),

winner of the Prix Greffulhe (Gr.2), Saint-Cloud (01/05) and 5th in the QIPCO Prix du Jockey Club (Gr.1)

RISE HIGH (5G Myboycharlie),

PHOCÉENE (3F Olympic Glory), Winner of the Prix Rose de Mai (Listed), Saint-Cloud (10/03) and 2nd in the Prix Pénélope (Gr.3) (01/05)

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Simon Rowlands provides a mid-year global ratings catch-up

HE WORLD OF HORSERACING is nothing if not eventful. But, if it is possible to have a quiet year in the sport, then 2019 has been one to this point.

The various Classics around the world have failed to produce a superstar, Winx has been retired, and last year’s Arc one-two, Enable and Sea Of Class, have been seen just once each, with the last-named’s career over as she fights for her life following colic.

These things are all relative, of course. There is zero sense of disappointment about the continued contribution of Hong Kong’s Beauty Generation, a winner four times early in 2019 and, on 132, Timeform’s highest-

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Beauty Generation is not only very good, but very consistent and he has won his last nine starts, all of them at Sha Tin. He dropped to 1400m to dish out a beating to the sprinter Beat The Clock in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup in February and saw off all-comers with ease in the Champions Mile when last seen in April.

Beat The Clock himself ran to 124 in winning the Chairman’s Sprint at the same Sha Tin meeting in April, when crack Australian sprinter Santa Ana Lane (130 rating when winning T J Smith Stakes at Randwick previously) was only fourth.

Winx had nine straight wins under her belt as long ago as 2016, and she signed off for good

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at a remarkable 33 in a row in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick in April.

Her 134 Timeform rating makes her one of the very best fillies/mares in history, though she goes to stud still two points behind fellow Australian Black Caviar.

Japan’s female star Almond Eye travelled to Meydan in March to win the Dubai Turf with a 124 performance compared to her Timeform peak of 126, but has since been beaten at a shorter distance back at home.

The European Classic crop is still sorting itself out – for which, perhaps read “are beating one another”.

There is little to choose between the winners of the 2,000 Guineas, or equivalent, in Britain (Magna Grecia, Timeform 124),

France (Persian King, 122) and Ireland (Phoenix Of Spain, 125), with all three having been beaten since.

Hermosa won the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket and The Curragh, the latter with considerable authority while earning a 119 rating before succumbing to 120-rated Watch Me – an also ran behind 112-rated Castle Lady in a messy French version – in the Coronation Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot.

There is little in it between the various Derby winners with the hero in a blanket finish at Epsom, Anthony Van Dyck, on 125 but beaten since by Sovereign (123) in a tactical affair at The Curragh.

Sottsass (123p) promises to be better than them both after breaking the course record in

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Leading Timeform horses (18.07.19) Rating Horse

Sire

Older Horses 133 BATTAASH

Dark Angel

131 BLUE POINT

Shamardal

131 CRYSTAL OCEAN

Sea The Stars

129 BENBATL

Dubawi

129 ENABLE

Nathaniel

129 SEA OF CLASS

Sea The Stars

128 THUNDER SNOW

Helmet

127 KEW GARDENS

Galileo

127 MAGICAL

Galileo

127

STRADIVARIUS

Sea The Stars

127 WALDGEIST

Galileo

126 DEFOE

Dalakhani

126 OLD PERSIAN

Dubawi

125 BEST SOLUTION

Kodiac

125 DREAM OF DREAMS Dream Ahead 125 GHAIYYATH

Above, Beauty Generation took the Champions Mile at Sha Tin in April, a ninth win in succession.

He is now on a 132 Timeform mark and is the highest-rated horse ever in Hong Kong

Dubawi

125 INNS OF COURT Invincible Spirit 125 MASAR

New Approach

125 MATTERHORN

Ravens Pass

Right: last year’s champion European juvenile Too Darn Hot returned to Group 1-winning form in the Prix Jean Prat and is back to a Timeform rating of 127 Three-year-olds

beating Persian King in the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly.

Neither Anapurna (113p at Epsom) nor Channel (112p at Chantilly) has achieved very much by Oaks-winning standards, but the “p” on their ratings indicates the likelihood of better still to come.

Then again, a couple of other three-year-olds in Europe have stamped their authority in recent weeks, if only after two or three defeats.

Too Darn Hot returned to his champion two-year-old best of 127 when winning the Prix Jean Prat over 1400m at Deauville by 3l from Space Blues, and Ten Sovereigns (126) beat Advertise by a similar margin in a 6f July Cup at Newmarket in which three-year-olds filled the first five positions.

The European Classic crop is still sorting itself out – for which, perhaps read “are beating one another” Advertise’s 123-rated Commonwealth Cup win had been one of the highlights of a rain-affected Royal Ascot, but was surpassed in ratings terms by the victories of the nowretired Blue Point in the King’s

Stand Stakes (131) and Diamond Jubilee Stakes (127), and by Crystal Ocean in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.

The last-named ran a new personal best 131 figure in beating Magical by one and a quarter lengths, with Waldgeist (127 when winning the Prix Ganay at Longchamp a couple of months earlier) in third.

Magical, who had landed a weak Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh the start before, went on to run a reappearing Enable to half a length less in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, with Timeform leaving the pair on 127 and 129 respectively.

Enable is the best active female racehorse in the world now that Winx is out of the way.

Other notable Royal Ascot wins went the way of Lord

129 TEN SOVEREIGNS No Nay Never 127 TOO DARN HOT

Dubawi

126p KING OF COMEDY

Kingman

125 ANTHONY VAN DYCK

Galileo

125 PHOENIX OF SPAIN Lope De Vega 124p JAPAN

Galileo

124 ADVERTISE

Showcasing

124 CALYX

Kingman

124 MAGNA GRECIA Invincible Spirit 123p SOTTSASS 123 MADHMOON

Siyouni Dawn Approach

123 SOVEREIGN

Galileo

122p QUORTO

Dubawi

122p SIR DRAGONET

Camelot

122 BROOME

Australia

122 CIRCUS MAXIMUS 122 PERSIAN KING

Galileo Kingman

121 TELECASTER

New Approach

120 WATCH ME

Olympic Glory

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Leading Timeform horses (18.07.19) Rating Horse

Sire

Two-Year-Olds 112p PINATUBO

Shamardal

111p MYSTERY POWER No Nay Never 111p SISKIN

First Defence

110p ARIZONA

No Nay Never

109p A’ALI

Society Rock

109p ROYAL LYTHAM

Glitters in the Queen Anne Stakes (123), Stradivarius in the Gold Cup (122 compared to 127 the year before) and Circus Maximus in the St James’s Palace Stakes (122), though the last-named might have been fortunate to beat King Of Comedy (126p) and Too Darn Hot under an enterprising Ryan Moore ride.

The US Triple Crown failed

to identify an outstanding performer with the Kentucky Derby (“won” by Maximum Security with a 123 figure, then awarded to Country House on 120), Preakness (War Of Will, 118) and Belmont (Sir Winston, 118) going to different colts, the last two a bit below the usual standard.

The five-year-old City Of Light ran away with the Pegasus

World Cup at Gulfstream Park in January, though Timeform has his effort at 130 and third-placed Accelerate still on 131 from his efforts in 2018.

The Dubai World Cup winner Thunder Snow (128, though only 121 on Turf) then turned up in the Met Mile Handicap at Belmont in June and was beaten narrowly by Mitole (128) and the unlucky McKinzie (129).

Gleneagles

109 PLATINUM STAR Lope De Vega 109 RAFFLE PRIZE

Slade Power

108p JUAN ELCANO

Frankel

Mystery Power: now number two on the juvenile rankings

108p THREAT Footstepsinthesand 108p VISINARI

Dark Angel

108 GUILDSMAN Wootton Bassett 108 VENTURA REBEL Pastoral Pursuits 107p SUMMER ROMANCE Kingman 106 STRIVE FOR GLORY

Dialed In

105p LIBERTY BEACH

Cable Bay

105p MONARCH OF EGYPT American Pharoah 104p BOMB PROOF

Society Rock

104p GOLDEN HORDE

Lethal Force

104 DAAHYEH

Bated Breath

104 FORT MYERS

War Front

104 SPARTAN FIGHTER

Dutch Art

Siskin: wins the Railway Stakes

Mystery Power (No Nay Never) remains unbeaten in the Superlative Stakes, taking his Timeform rating to 111

THESE ARE EARLY DAYS in the two-year-old season in the northern hemisphere, but a few youngsters have already emerged as potential major players in the months ahead.

At Royal Ascot, Pinatubo was a good winner of the Chesham Stakes with a 112 rating, Arizona (110) had to work hard to win the Coventry Stakes and Raffle Prize (106) just ran down the Wesley Ward-trained Kimari in the Queen Mary Stakes.

Raffle Prize then defeated the Albany Stakes winner Daahyeh under a penalty in the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes at Newmarket, smashing the course record and posting a 109 form rating.

That July Meeting also saw a convincing Superlative Stakes success from Mystery Power,

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who has been rated 111p as a result.

Siskin missed both Royal Ascot and Newmarket, but advanced his standing further and made it three wins out of three with a 111p-performance in victory in the Railway Stakes (G2) at The Curragh in June.

Nonetheless, at this stage, Timeform’s highestrated juveniles anywhere are the first three fillies in the Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga – Comical (115), Kiss The Girl (114) and Shippy (113).

Top two-year-olds at the year’s end are usually rated in the low-to-mid 120s (older horses around 10lb higher).

There is still plenty to play for as we move fully into the second half of the year.

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> August23-September 1: Tatihou Festival Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Manche Folk music festival which takes place at low tide when the island of Tatihou is accessible on foot.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year > August 24: Diner sur la Digue Cabourg, Calvados A huge picnic table spreading along the seafront

> August 9-25: Foire d’été Dieppe, Seine-Maritime One of Normandy’s biggest summer fun fairs

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Every season Chantilly-based trainer Carlos Laffon-Parias produces a Group-class horse – this year the Poulains runner-up Shaman is his headline act Jocelyn de Moubray chats with...

Mr Consistency

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HANTILLY HAS always attracted trainers and wanna-be trainers from all over the world The leading trainers based at France’s premier training centre have come from Britain and Ireland, from Argentina, Australia, Poland, Egypt or Spain. Some stayed, became French and even started dynasties of French horse people, others, however many years they had spent in France, held on to their nationality and, after making their mark in French racing, returned home.

Carlos Laffon-Parias, a leading trainer in France for nearly 30 years and the first Spanish trainer to win the Przx de l’Arc de Triomphe, would not hesitate to place himself in the second category.

“My family comes from Seville,” he says, “and I was brought up in Madrid. When the racecourse in Madrid closed down in 1988 I was an amateur jockey as my grandfather and many other members of my family had been before me.

“I had started to ride regularly in the southwest of France and rode my first winner in Paris for Jonathan Pease at about this time.

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carlos laffon-parias “I could no longer stay in Spain, however, I met my wife Patricia in Madrid and her father is Spanish.

“At home we have always spoken Spanish, I wouldn’t allow my children to speak French in the house when they were younger, and when I decide to retire from training we shall return home. Chantilly is the best place to train racehorses, but the only thing keeping me in France is the horses.”

Laffon-Parias is a young man compared with many of France’s other leading trainers, and if he speaks about retirement his career shows no signs at all of decline.

He has around 65 horses in his stable, down from the 120 or so he had in 2012 when he won the Arc with Solemia, but he continues to enjoy great success with Group 1 performers more or less every season.

At the time of writing Laffon-Parias has had had 22 wins in France this season, winning with 20 per cent of his runners and earning around €1.1 million in prize-money, which places him in seventh place in the trainers’ table with significantly fewer runners than the remainder of the top ten.

This year he has already had two Group 1 performers – the Wertheimer-owned three-year-old colt Shaman, second in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, and the fouryear-old gelding Ziyad, who was beaten only a short neck in the final strides of the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

He has never been a small trainer – in his first year training in 1993 he was competing in Group races with Wessam Prince, a colt owned by Maktoum Al Maktoum. Just two years later in 1995 he won more than 30 races.

Since then he has trained a succession of top-class horses, including Solemia, Left Hand, Silasol, Keltos, Falco and Recoletos among many others.

He has trained for the same people for many years, and throughout his career he has trained mainly for people who breed their own horses.

At the beginning it was Maktoum Al Maktoum, and then the Wertheimer brothers, the Hinojosa family and the Marinopoulos family.

“Once you find a good client,” he reckons, “unless a trainer doesn’t do their job correctly there is no reason why you should lose them.”

When owner Leonidas Marinopoulos decided to cut back the family’s racing operation Laffon-Parias lost 40 horses in six months. He seems happy with the reduced numbers, particularly as for him the biggest change he has experienced during his years

Far left, trainer Carlos Laffon-Parias, trainer of Shaman (pictured), who finished second in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and fifth in the St James’s Palace Stakes

Once you find a good client unless a trainer doesn’t do their job correctly there is no reason why you should lose them in Chantilly is difficulty in finding the right people to work in his stable.

“Working with horses is clearly a job which requires passion. Why else would anyone want to work the long hours, the weekends?” he queries. “My impression is that in France at least there are fewer and fewer people who share this passion for horses and racing. As a trainer my daily routine has changed little over the last 30 years, but it has become

harder and harder to find the right people to work with me.”

For Laffon-Parias his passion for the sport was there early in his life and continues to shine today after 40 years living and working in the racing world.

“My grandmother used to take me racing to watch my grandfather ride,” he remembers.

“I never considered becoming a professional, many of my family rode as amateurs, and being an amateur gave me the opportunity to travel and to meet racing people all over the world.”

Laffon-Parias won 150 races and rode alongside amateurs such as Marcus Armytage and Tim Thomson Jones. And the people he met included his wife Patricia, the daughter of the French trainer Criquette Head, and her first husband the Madrid lawyer, Jose Ramon Lomba Recarte.

When the racecourse in Madrid closed down Laffon-Parias moved to Chantilly to continue his career as an amateur jockey and to become assistant to his mother-in-law. He stayed for four years, widening further his circle of acquaintances, and in 1993 he started out as a trainer on his own in Chantilly.

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carlos laffon-parias Two horses trained by Laffon-Parias are now standing at the Head family’s Haras du Quesnay – Attendu, a son of Acclamation and a multiple Group winner who has just completed his second season, and Recoletos, the winner of the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp and the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan and retired to stud duties this year.

“When I look at the best races for older milers this year I have a little regret that Recoletos is not still racing!” he rues.

“However, his owner Dario Hinojosa is a breeder more than an owner and dreams of making him into a top stallion.We bought some mares for Recoletos in December last year and he will have every chance.

“As we saw at Ascot this year Recoletos is not the only top horse his sire Whipper produced.

“Recoletos, though, has always been very like his maternal family. I trained his granddam Pharatta, a daughter of Fairy King who won the Prix de Sandringham and he is very like her physically.

“I have to thank the Wertheimer brothers for their support, I work with them in complete confidence and there has never been a problem between us

Shaman going to post in the Poulains. He is owned by the Wertheimer brothers, with whom Laffon-Parias has a great relationship

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“Recoletos was beaten only a short head and a length in the Prix du Jockey-Club by Brametot and Waldgeist, and he was drawn 12 of 12 and so with more luck he might even have won.

“When he went to Royal Ascot last year the authorities insisted he needed a vaccination.

He hated injections and was so worked up he was not able to show his form at all. He was a very high-class horse from a mile to 1m2f.’

As Laffon-Parias explains, with the Jockey-Club run over 1m2f, anybody who has a high-class miler in France is tempted to try the race. This year Laffon-Parias and the Wertheimer brothers were able to resist the

temptation with Shaman after his second in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains; the owners had other horses for the race.

Instead, Shaman ran at Ascot finishing fifth over a mile in the St James’s Palace Stakes.

“He will run over further in future,” says Laffon-Parias. “I would rather he had been closer to the pace at Ascot as he has done before, and he had a moment of hesitation before running on again too late. Perhaps we should’ve gone to Chantilly after all!”

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HE WERTHEIMER BROTHERS are the biggest supporters of the Laffon-Parias stable and they have 37 horses with him.

They won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe together with Solemia, came within a short head of winning the Jockey-Club with Prospect Park, and he has looked after many top fillies for them from Goldamix to Impressionnante, the dam of Intello, Solemia, Silasol and Left Hand, the winner of the Prix Vermeille in 2016.

“I have to thank the Wertheimer brothers for their support,” he adds. “I work with them in complete confidence and there has never been a problem between us.

“We discuss all the plans together in detail, but they have never forced me to run in a race against my wishes. I have no say in which of their horses come into my stable, but I am very happy to have those I am allocated.”

Laffon-Parias has changed little over the last 30 years. He might be in his mid-50s, but he has the physique of the amateur jockey he once was.

He is always at the races when he has a runner, dressed in a close-fitting jacket and tie; he is almost alone amongst his fellow trainers in France in not changing the way he presents himself at the races.

He speaks about his horses with enthusiasm and attention, and his results continue to speak for themselves.

He does, however, frequently speak about retiring while showing no signs of actually doing so!

“I love what I do,” he explains, “but I don’t want to be doing this when I am 70!

“Training horses is a passion but not an easy one, you work seven days a week for most of the year.

“I am lucky to have the wife I have but I missed out on some other parts of my life. I never went on holiday with my children when they were young.

“I chose to make my passion my life, but one day Patricia and I will return to Spain.”

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Haras de Bouquetot’s manager Benoit Jeffroy

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L SHAQAB is developing its presence in the stallion market and this summer is an important one for Sheikh Joaan’s young operation.

Shalaa, who swept through his juvenile season with four Group race triumphs, including at the top level in the Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes, has his first yearlings going through the sales ring at Deauville.

His foals made quite the impression at the sales last winter and expectations are high that they can dazzle in the heat of the summer.

Mehmas, winner of the July Stakes (G2), the Richmond Stakes (G2) and runner-up in the National Stakes (G1) also shone in Al Shaqab’s silks in his only season to race.

The son of Acclamation is represented at the sales on the Normandy coast this August by his first yearlings.

Tough, talented and precocious, he stands at Tally-Ho Stud where the O’Callaghan family and Al Shaqab have thrown their combined heft behind him.

Olympic Glory and Toronado are a little further down the road in their development and both are enjoying their moments in the sun at a pivotal time for their stallion careers.

Benoit Jeffroy, manager of Al Shaqab’s beautiful Normandy base at Haras de Bouquetot, provides some insight into Al Shaqab’s growing global thoroughbred reach, stretching from Qatar to France, America and beyond.

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Shalaa and Mehmas have first-crop yearlings selling this autumn, progeny by second-season sires Olympic Glory and Toronado are doing well on the racetrack, first foals on the ground this spring for Al Wukair, Zelzal, Brametot and Ectot ...

It’s all go

at Bouquetot Aisling Crowe chats with manager Benoit Jeffroy about the stud’s progress, stallions and plans for the future Photos courtesy of Al Shaqab and Haras de Bouquetot

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al shaqab Olympic Glory sired his first Group 1 winner with his first-crop daughter Watch Me winning the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, a timely boost for this year’s yearlings, and an important result for a young sire. How much satisfaction did you get from that success and has it increased interest in his yearlings catalogued for Deauville?

It gave us great satisfaction indeed as very few stallions can produce a Group 1 winner at Royal Ascot with their first crop.

He has also got a Classic filly as well with Grand Glory’s third in the Group 1 Prix de Diane.

It is perfect timing coming into sales season, but his offspring were starting to show

their true quality by March which helped him to fill his book of mares this year again, with 166 mares covered this past season.

Obviously such performances should help his yearlings at the sales this year.

Shalaa, the European champion two-year-old of 2015, has first yearlings for sale in Deauville, with nine catalogued in the premier sale.

You have supported him with your best mares, including Treve – can you name some more?

Shalaa probably had the best book of mares ever covered by a first-season sire in France and the quality of his book has

“Shalaa probably had the best book of mares ever covered by a first-season sire in France been repeated each year since he arrived here at Haras de Bouquetot, with mares visiting from Ireland, England and France.

Treve is one of the 17 Group 1 performers and the 22 dams of Group 1 performers covered by Shalaa in his first two

seasons, which also included Breeders’ Cup winners Zagora and Mizdirection, the multiple Group 1 winners Qemah and La Cressonniere, as well as the dams of Avenir Certain and The Fugue.

This season again, Shalaa has been strongly supported by breeders from all over Europe.

Al Shaqab Racing and our associates have sent him about 40 mares, including the likes of Grade 1 Madison Stakes winner Shotgun Gulch, the dam of blacktype horses Watan and Rabdan.

His book also included the Group 1 performer and Group 3 winner Zghorta Dance.

What has impressed you most about his stock? What

Olympic Glory: hit the heights early this season with his first crop of three-year-olds when Watch Me took the Group 1 Coronation Stakes

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“We think Mehmas matches what a lot of people are looking for – his progeny look as though they are fast and precocious types

Toronado: a leading European second-season stallion, and sire of the third highest-earning juvenile in Australia

sort of feedback have you received from breeders and consignors? How many homebreds by him do you think you will retain?

Our homebreds all show substance and great quality in their coat and head, they are very much stamped by their sire.

The feedback from both breeders and consigners so far has been strong, and that quality was confirmed with Shalaa recording the highest average price at the foal sales last year for a first-season sire.

We hope he will do the same with his yearlings. We will retain ten homebreds, who will go into training with our trainers in England and France.

Do you anticipate buying many of his yearlings next month?

Our team will see them all, and then it’s up to Al Shaqab Racing’s directors to decide which ones suit our needs.

Mehmas also has five yearlings catalogued in the two Deauville sales, what reception do you anticipate they will receive?

We think Mehmas matches what a lot of people are looking for – his progeny look as though they are

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Al Wukair x Dogaressa: a two-week old colt born at La Motteraye. He is out of a sister to multiple Group-placed and Premio Regina Elena (G3) third Zobenigo

fast and precocious types, which is what the market wants.

We have seen a lot of his foals and they are attractive two-yearold types. One shouldn’t forget that this horse beat Blue Point at Goodwood in the Richmond Stakes, and was also placed second to Churchill in the Group 1 National Stakes and third in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes.

Toronado has been doing well in Europe and is a leading second-crop sire, but arguably he has been

“Toronado imparts a high-cruising speed to his progeny and they like fast ground doing even better in the southern hemisphere.

Do you think there is any reason for that?

Toronado is one of the leading

sires of three-year-olds in Europe by number of winners, and by ratio of winners to runners.

He already has eight black-type horses with his first crop of three-year-olds so a Group 1-winning horse should not be too far away!

Toronado imparts a highcruising speed to his progeny and they like fast ground so we look forward to seeing them perform over the summer.

His sire High Chapparal seems to do well as a sire of sires in Australia with Its A Dundeel and So You Think also proving successful there.

Brametot x Lady’s Secret: seven-week-old filly , who was born at La Motteraye. Lady’s Secret finished third in the Irish Oaks (G1) and second in the Lancashire Oaks (G3)

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Al Wukair x Hazely: dam is a daughter of multiple stakes winner Sentimental Value. The colt is bred by Mrs F Perree

What are the shuttle plans for the Al Shaqab stallions this year?

Shalaa is on his way to Arrowfield Stud for his third season and as Invincible Spirit has proved such an influential sire in Australia, he is sure to be popular again with breeders.

Toronado returns to Swettenham Stud, and his fee has increased to A$27,500 after the great start his first runners have made.

Mehmas stands alongside Galileo Gold, whose first

Brametot x Ouezy: six-week-old filly at Haras de Montfort.

Dam closely related to Ectot and half-sister to Most Improved

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Ectot x Blue Lullaby: filly bred at Haras de Cisai, seen at three weeks. Dam is a half-sister to Croco Rouge, and Alidiva, dam of Sleepytime, Taipan and Ali-Royal

foals were born this year, at Tally Ho Stud, how did this partnership come about?

Tally Ho had approached us about stallion prospects and when Mehmas came along, we thought he would be suited to stand in Ireland.

This first partnership was most successful, and we were delighted to be able to continue it with Galileo Gold.

Tally-Ho Stud has done a great job with both these stallions and are giving them every chance; all we can hope for now is that they’ll be successful sires!

We also have some very nice foals by Galileo Gold at home.

You also stand Mshawish with Taylor Made Farms and leading first-season US sire Khozan in partnership with Journeyman Stud – what was Al Shaqab’s thinking in developing partnerships with studs in other countries? How do these partnerships work?

We all bring our ideas to the table within the team and at the end of the day Sheikh Joaan makes the final decision.

Zelzal x Al Wathna: eight-week-old colt born at Coolmore. Al Wathna won the Group 2 Prix de Malleret, from the family of 1m2f Listed winner Lake Palace

Ectot x Blue Note: three-week-old colt at Haras de Grandcamp. Dam is a sister to three black-type horses, including champion Bourrée

“Mshawish has every chance to succeed in America – he was a tough horse on the grass and Dirt and is by Medaglia D’Oro,

Bradley Weisbord, our US racing and bloodstock representative, finalised these ventures.

Mshawish has every chance to succeed in America – he was a tough race horse both on the grass and Dirt and is by Medaglia D’Oro, who is a fantastic sire.

Khozan, who is a Distorted Humor half-brother to the champion Royal Delta and this year’s Grade 1 Maker’s 46 Mile winner Delta Prince, is showing a lot of promise as a stallion and is the leading first-crop sire in the US at the moment.

We have mares residing

Zelzal x Ascot Glory: Ecurie Ascot-bred colt at five weeks. He is out of a G2-placed mare from the family of Amazer and Delighter

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al shaqab permanently in the US to support both sires.

Our aim in the US is also to try to develop our interests and support our stallions. We have also opened up here in Europe, as we stand syndicated horses such as Zelzal and Al Wukair.

Do you think the partnerships system is a method that other operations could implement to develop their

“We have stallions all over the world and the idea is to keep developing this and hopefully finding a good one

international reach beyond their base country?

Everyone does what they believe is the best so that their horses have the best chance of succeeding at stud.

We cannot say what is right or wrong, but we try to stand stallions where we believe they will be attractive to breeders.

You have a significant number of stallions with their first foals on the

ground this year and quite a few new recruits to stud, how do you balance such a rapid expansion and what are the future plans and ambitions for Al Shaqab?

It is a key time for a young stud...

We have plenty of hope for each of these stallions.

We have stallions all over the world now and the idea is to keep developing this and hopefully finding a good one who will boost the system.

Shalaa: an exciting year as his yearlings hit the sales and trainers’ yards. Full details, see our supplement “Stallions with first yearlings 2019”

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It has been a big year for Charles Brière and Fairway Consignment with a farm bought, a Royal Ascot Group 2 winner pinhooked and its biggest Arqana August draft catalogued Photography by Debbie Burt Back in May, we met Brière with his yearlings at the new farm.

He is here with a Holy Roman Emperor colt out of Shomus (Tiznow), due to sell at the Arqana August Sale (Lot 178)

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HARLES BRIÈRE and the young Fairway Consignment had achieved several important firsts over the last year.

Brière has found Fairway Consignment’s first permanent base, not far from St Julien-le-Faucon in the Vallee d’Auge in Normandy, only 40kms south of Deauville and close to the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval and the Ecurie des Monceaux.

There is a new American barn and paddocks for the yearlings, but work has yet to begin on the house itself.

“It is a relief to have found somewhere,” Brière says, “as I have been in three different places since returning to France in 2014. I wanted to find somewhere not too far away from Deauville and the coast. I was born in Paris and grew up close to the city and, although I may be a country person, I didn’t want to end up in the middle of nowhere!”

He also achieved his first major winner as a consignor and pinhooker.

Brière and his partners bought a No Nay Never colt at the 2017 Tattersalls December foal sale for 65,000gns from Houghton Bloodstock. This was a lot of money for the sire as No Nay Never’s top-priced colt at the sale made 75,000gns.

“We liked No Nay Never, the colt’s physique and his pedigree as his dam is a half-sister to the dam of Dabirsim,” recalls Brière. “He didn’t walk but we felt that he would improve as he grew.”

The opinion turned out to have been a series of good calls. By the time the 2018 Arqana August Sale came around No Nay Never had developed into a leading first-season sire with more than 15 winners and several Group and stakes performers.

Fairway’s colt was the only one in the sale in Deauville and had progressed sufficiently to sell for €260,000 to MV Magnier.

And this was just the beginning. After finishing second on his debut the colt, now called Arizona, won his maiden by 8l at The Curragh at the end of May and then went on to Royal Ascot to win the Group 2 Coventry Stakes.

Another first came a little earlier at the end of 2018 when Brière felt secure enough to take on his first full-time employee after several winters where he took care of the mares and young horses on the farm alone.

“I enjoy being on the farm alone,” he says, “but obviously it is a plus to have somebody who can share the daily tasks and take care of anything the horses need.”

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fairway consignment the sales – last year Fairway and partners invested in eight – Fairway also takes a few mares for the breeding season before the yearling preparation starts.

Brière, who is now in his early 30s, was not born into the racing world.

“My father was a banker and my mother a painter,” he explains, “and I was not supposed to end up doing this. When I first realised there was little point my continuing with academic studies my mother in particular was very supportive and told me to follow the path I wanted.

“My interest in horses began through riding when I was young. Once I had switched to a practical agricultural course I was sent by chance to do some work experience at the Haras de Hoguenet. It was my first contact with the racing and breeding world.”

It is a world he has lived in ever since, beginning with six months working for Bill Dwan at Castlebridge Farm in Ireland.

“When I arrived I knew little and didn’t even speak English! I used to work with a French/English phrase book in my back pocket,” he remembers.

From Castlebridge he moved on to Coolmore. “I worked in every different branch during my years at Coolmore,” he says, “although most of my time was spent with yearlings and I worked at the sales in Newmarket for both Barronstown and Glenvale.

“I did work with the stallions, but I realised I wanted to work with yearlings. Things change more quickly with the young stock and there are more decisions to be made.

“I spent some weeks at Ballydoyle with Aidan O’Brien, too, and it was he who helped me to find a position working for Peter O’Callaghan at Woods Edge Farm in Kentucky.”

O’Callaghan, who is the son of Gay and Annette O’Callaghan of Yeomanstown Stud, has built up Woods Edge into one of the leading consignors and pinhookers in Kentucky, prepping and consigning around 80-90 yearlings each season mainly for the Keeneland September Sale and the Fasig-Tipton October Sale.

“It was very hard work, but I learnt a great deal,” summarises Brière. “Being young and working in Kentucky was a great and enjoyable experience, but I wanted to come back to Europe. My first plan was to find a position as a yearling manager on one of the established farms in France.

“I didn’t find anything suitable and after working at the Haras de Bouquetot for six months decided to set up on my own.”

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fairway consignment Leading the way is a filly by Kendargent and out of Make Up, due to head to Arqana October.

Behind is a Dabirsim filly out of Asternox. She sells at Osarus

“Things change more quickly with the young stock and there are more decisions to be made The first Fairway Consignment draft appeared at the 2015 Arqana August Sale where it sold two yearlings, including a Kendargent colt for €105,000.

“We had bought the Kendargent colt for €55,000 as a foal at the Arqana December Sale, so it was a good beginning.”

Brière chose the name Fairway after a place near Palm Beach which meant something to him. It was only later that he realised it is also the name of a champion belonging to Lord Derby, who raced in the 1920s, and of what was once the biggest bloodstock agency in France run by Alain Decrion and Guy Armengol!

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VER THE LAST FOUR YEARS Fairway has grown quickly. In 2019 it will present 13 in the main part of the August Sale and a handful more in the V2 sale which

follows it.

It will offer its first draft of yearlings in Newmarket with two due to go to October Book 2 and over the yearling season in total it will offer some 50-60 yearlings at Arqana, Osarus and Tattersalls.

“I want to experience the market in Newmarket as a consignor,” reasons Brière.

“The future is unclear with Brexit, but clearly as a consignor you need to have the option of going to sell in different places.”

For the immediate future Fairway’s business plan is to focus on consigning and buying foals to resell. Yearling preparation and consigning is a seasonal business, even if the season lasts from June when the prep begins to the February sale.

Brière has a regular team who work with him for the prep and the presentation at the sales during this period.

For the pinhooking he has worked with Hubert Guy, the US-based French bloodstock agent.

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fairway consignment “Hubert was one of the first to propose working with me,” he explains. “And with other partners we bought seven or eight foals together last year. There was a time when there were few good foals on offer at Arqana and, as a result, there were few Irish pinhookers. It produced some opportunities, but this is changing fast and the quality of foals on offer in France is better.”

Fairway’s 2019 Arqana August draft includes a No Nay Never colt out of Je t’Adore, who was bought for 120,000gns as a foal in Newmarket as well as a Showcasing colt out of Just Joan who made 130,000gns at the same sale.

At the beginning of the sales prep Brière is, of course, positive about all of his draft.

One relatively cheap buy he enthuses about is a colt from the first crop of Dariyan out of a half-sister to the Wertheimers’ good threeyear-old Shaman, who was bought for only 16,000gns and will sell on the Monday of the August Sale.

“I do spend time when I can drawing up lists of pinhooks and trying to understand which ones worked and why. Do you want to go for the physique without the pedigree or do you need both?

“Are some foals too good-looking, and others not good looking enough?”

Brière turns over the questions. There are, of course, no definitive answers, and as the O’Callaghan family and others have shown the only answer which find the solutions are hard work and experience.

Fairway Consignment Arqana August lots Lot Horse

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49 f 86 f 102 c 103 c 113 c 119 f 122 c 167 f 178 c 181 c 196 c 265 c 316 c 349 f 357 c 374 f 477 c

Siyouni Camelot No Nay Never Showcasing Zoffany Fastnet Rock Shalaa Free Eagle Holy Roman Emperor Intello Intello Dariyan Camelot Pride Of Dubai Bated Breath Holy Roman Emperor Myboycharlie

Apple Charlotte First of Many Je T’Adore Just Joan Last Jewel Madame Chow Maiden Tower Sarai Shomus Silvaplana Three Owls Fresh Strike Palme Royale Sphere Of Grace Toinette Almahroosa Premier Acclaim

The last of this quartet is an Elusive Quality filly out of Earth Goddess, due to sell at Tattersalls October Book 2

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Atlantic crossing Five exciting yearlings catalogued at Arqana August Sale kick off the new US-European partnership between Haras des Gouffern and Taylor Made Sales Melissa Bauer-Herzog and Aisling Crowe chat with Jean-Pierre de Gaste in the first of a two-part series from both sides of the Atlantic Photographs courtesy of Haras de Gouffern

The links between the French-based stud Haras de Gouffern and the US-based consignor Taylor Made Sales stretch back to the 1970s

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AST YEAR US consignor Taylor Made Sales Agency and French stud Haras de Gouffern announced that it was to offer a joint-consignment at the 2019 Arqana yearling sales.

Taylor Made sold its first European draft at this year’s Tattersalls December Mare Sale and the yearling consignment is a continuation of a push into European markets.

This is the first time a major US-based consignor has sold at the Arqana August Sale.

As explained here by Jean Pierre de Gaste of Gouffern, who also runs its commercial arm International Thoroughbred Consultants (ITC), a bloodstock and consultancy agency, the links between the two businesses are a development of the international work the pair have already collaberated on in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia. In reverse, Taylor Made is ITC’s point of contact in the US. The yearlings offer buyers an exciting mix of European and American bloodlines and de Gaste explains how the parntership came about, the ongoing plans for the joint-venture and gives details of the five yearling catalogued at Arqana.

How did the Gouffern-Taylor Made association begin?

“I have known the Taylor family for a long time, I knew Joe Taylor [father of the present Taylor Made chairman Duncan] from 1973 when I spent a year in Kentucky.

“Joe was manager of Gainesway Farm – Taylor Made’s stallion barn was then in what became the Keeneland library.

“I always maintained a strong relationship with Duncan afterwards; we have the same view and approach to the business and people, we share the same ethic.

“We have already worked quite a lot together in the Middle East. I bought a lot of stallions, broodmares and horses-in-training for Saudi Arabia and the UAE and Taylor Made were very much involved in that.

“In 2001 we bought Attractive Crown, the dam of last year’s Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Bateel from Taylor Made, for Al Asayl, which I was managing at the time, so we have worked a lot together over the years.

“A few years’ ago ITC and Taylor Made came to an agreement – we would represent Taylor Made in France and the Middle East, and Taylor Made would represent us in America.

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gouffern taylor made “Alexandra Saint Martin joined us from Arqana in 2015 where she worked in communication and marketing, and she has built this consignment project with Taylor Made.”

What are the future plans for the partnership?

“We are taking it step by step to a higher level, but we are starting in a modest way as we want to consolidate.

“Our goal is also to sell French-bred yearlings in Kentucky with Taylor Made.

We are presenting five yearlings together in Deauville this August and we will gradually increase our consignments.”

How do you think the European buyers will react?

“I believe everybody involved in racing in Europe and the US knows the horses from both sides of the Atlantic.

“You see it at the breeze-up sales with American-breds selling to European buyers and European breeders running their horses

“We are initiating something in the yearling market that is already happening with breeze-up horses and breeding stock in the US so what we are doing here at Haras de Gouffern with Taylor Made is not something unique.

“We are initiating something in the yearling market that is already happening with breeze-up horses and breeding stock.

“It is a small move, nothing exceptional, but we are trying to develop and improve relationships.”

What is the philosophy?

“One thing I believe is very important in Europe, especially France, Ireland and Britain, is that there is too much attached to tradition and people are afraid to change.

“The establishment is opposed to change and new ideas because it is afraid of losing its status and exclusivity so it prevents progress.

“I was involved in arranging the sponsorship of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

by Qatar back in 2007 and at the time it was considered scandalous to have an Arabian race before the thoroughbred races on Arc day, which was a condition of the sponsorship.

“French trainers were disgusted by the idea of having thoroughbreds racing on the same track, and after the Arabian horses, but look at what that sponsorship has done!

“It brought the Emir and his family into thoroughbred racing as they were immensely impressed by the Arc and thoroughbred racing.

“Sheikh Joaan went on to found Al Shaqab and it also brough Sheikh Fahad into the

Haras de Gouffern, in the Normandy region of Pays D’Auge, not far from Haras National du Pin, was purchased by de Gaste in 1998

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“The family increased their involvement in racing and this sponsorship brought a lot more investors and sponsors into the thoroughbred business and QIPCO is now a major racing sponsor.

“By going off the beaten track and against the wishes of the establishment, we can find new solutions and new ideas to move our industry forward.

“That is what we are trying to do with the Gouffern-Taylor Made consignment, but I believe that any innovation should proceed in small, logical steps, which is how we are working on this project. It is not a revolution but a form of evolution.”

Next issue we chat to Duncan Taylor of Taylor Made Farms The Gouffern-Taylor Made partnership is just really mimicking what is already happening in the wider bloodstock market place

The Gouffern-Taylor Made Sales Arqana August yearlings Lot 92: colt by Giant’s Causeway ex Grey Lina (Empire Maker)

He is a handsome colt, very like his damsire Empire Maker. He is very typical of him, but he has the French touch as well as he is grey and gets that from Linamix, sire of his second dam.

He has a lot of class about him and his Myboycharlie half-sister Royal By Nature is a nice horse in the US. It is a European family, however – his second dam was a Listed winner and Group 3-placed in France and it is very much a French family.

The family is doing well in Europe and should appeal to European buyers.

Lot 159: colt by Gutaifan ex Sakarya (Duke Of Marmalade)

He has a fantastic pedigree and is from a very active family – highlighted by the Grand Prix de Paris victory by the exciting Aidan O’Brien-trained Galileo colt Japan. His dam Shayste is a close-relation to Sakarya (Duke Of Marmalade) It is going to be a very interesting time for this colt. He comes from a typical French family, but it is such a top Classic family that it is successful worldwide.

Gutaifan has made a fantastic start to his stallion career and is the leading first-crop sire with 13 winners already. If he is anything like his father Dark Angel then he is going to be very successful.

Lot 184: colt by The Gurkha ex Skimmia (Mark Of Esteem)

He is a lovely-looking horse and is built as a speed horse with a lot of muscle; he looks a typical speed horse or miler.

He, too, has a very strong pedigree as a half-brother to Julie’s Love, who was a Listed winner in Europe and America.

Their dam is a half-sister to Melbourne Cup (G1) winner Rekindling and she is a half-sister to Puce so it is the family of Magic Wand, who was recently second in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes, Happen who won the Group Three Athasi Stakes this year and champions Chiquita, Alexandrova and Magical Romance.

It is a marvellous family.

Lot 281: colt by Iffraaj ex Imperialistic Diva (Haafhd)

We have been quite lucky with our yearlings as their pedigrees are receiving updates and this colt has a pedigree that is very much up to date.

His half-sister Mia Diva was bought by Phoenix Thoroughbreds for 230,000gns at the Craven Breeze-Up and won her maiden at Catterick on July 1.

I believe the Phoenix Thoroughbreds team thinks quite highly of her and is expecting quite a lot of her.

His three-year-old half-sister is Queen Of Bermuda, who did very well last year winning the Group 3 Firth of Clyde Stakes and was transferred to the US. She is in training there and has finished third in a stakes race this year already, but is expected to do very well once she has fully adapted to training there.

We are very lucky to have yearlings from families that are alive and should keep improving.

Lot 315: colt by Union Rags ex Palazzo Babe (Rahy)

The Union Rags colt has a much more American pedigree although his dam is by Rahy, who, as a son of Blushing Groom is very well-known and successful in Europe.

Despite his US pedigree, he has a more European conformation and looks as though he would suit the style of racing in Europe much better. He has taken a lot from Rahy.

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HEN HE TURNED 45 Guillaume Vitse and his wife Camille decided that if they didn’t set up their own business soon they would probably never do so.

And so in 2018, after 11 years working with Guy Pariente at the Haras de Colleville, Vitse took over the Haras du Lieu Calice, near Beauvron-en-Auge.

He presented his first draft at the Arqana V2 Sale under the name Normandie Breeding and went on the prepare drafts for Osarus, and the Arqana yearling and breeding stock sales.

After his first full breeding season keeping mares for clients from Britain and Germany, Vitse will start off the new yearling season with four lots catalogued at Arqana in August, two in the main sale and two in the V2.

This year’s Arqana August Sale is down in numbers and there are 12 fewer horses catalogued for the weekend select sessions.

Of the 345 lots in the sale more than a third will be presented by the four biggest consignors – Haras des Capucines, Ecurie des Monceaux, La Motteraye and the Haras d’Etreham.

“There are not many high-class yearlings available to consign for August,” reasons Vitse, “and if I want to have a bigger draft I realise I am a newcomer and will have to prove myself with the work I do.”

Work and the need to “prove yourself” are two concepts which come up frequently in conversation with Vitse.

He was born and brought up in the breeding world and is as aware as anybody that it is never straightforward to find and maintain a place in such a competitive environment.

Vitse’s father Jean Patrick Vitse was the manager of the Haras de la Verrerie when it was owned by Elie de Brignac, a prominent breeder in France from the late 1960s and one of the founders of the Agence Française, the forerunner to Arqana.

De Brignac died suddenly in 1985 and only a few months later his colt from the first crop of Golden Fleece, a half-brother to the Prix de Diane winner Dunette, was sold at Deauville

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Jocelyn de Moubray chats with Guillaume Vitse, who has set up Normandie Breeding and is keen to put a lifetime of experience to good use.

At Arqana August, the Normandie Breeding draft includes the Holy Roman Emperor full-sister to Roman Turbo, this July’s winner of the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes

guillaume vitse Vitse at his farm in Normandy – he gained experience in England, Ireland and the US before returning to France and helping set up Haras de Colleville, where he worked for 11 years

guillaume vitse for the new record price of 9 million francs.

This is the equivalent of more than £2 million in today’s money and was not topped at Deauville until Melikah, the half-sister to Galileo, made 10 million francs in 1998.

After de la Verrerie, Vitse Snr moved to the Haras de la Bois Roussel where he was the assistant to the manager Louis Champion.

Bois Roussel belonged to the Comtesse Batthyany and the horses raised on the farm at the time included the half-siblings Galetto and Gabina, both Group 1 winners.

“Gabina was a top filly,” Vitse Jnr remembers, “she would have won more than just the Prix de la Forêt but she was born at a difficult time and had to race against the likes of Miesque, Soviet Star and Indian Skimmer.’

After finishing school, Vitse set out to gain international experience working in England, Ireland and Kentucky.

His first stop was at Plantation Stud, then owned by Lord Howard de Walden and the

home of Derby winner Slip Anchor.

“Slip Anchor was already beginning to look a little disappointing,” recalls Vitse. “For my second breeding season I was sent to work at Thornton Stud in Yorkshire where Kris was based.

“All the mares due to visit Kris were boarded on the stud and they were, of course, a fabulous collection.”

Did he ever meet Lord Howard de Walden?

“He came once during my time,” Vitse replies, “and we were told to stand up straight and say ‘Good morning, mi Lord!’”

Vitse moved on to spend a breeding season at Coolmore and some time breaking in yearlings at Kildangan Stud, then run by Michael Osborne. “I was already too big to ride,” he says, “and it was there I learnt how to work young horses in long reins.”

Afterwards it was Kentucky and Lane’s End. Vitse has an old photo which shows him in shorts with a large grin holding A.P. Indy, and a yearling he looked after who turned out

Vitse is concentrating on boarding a select band of mares and is keen to make a name for himself by proving his ability from the beginning again

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to be Lemon Drop Kid, a Classic winner and multiple Grade 1 winner.

On his return to France, Vitse initially struggled to find the right position, but spent time working for Henri Devin at the Haras du Mesnil and doing yearling seasons at the Haras du Montaigu and the Haras d’Ommeel before meeting Guy Pariente and taking on the task of building the Haras de Colleville.

Pariente and Vitse are both strong characters and their working relationship lasted 11 years.

During this time the Haras de Colleville was transformed from a rundown cattle farm into one of the leading stud farms in France and Europe.

Kendargent was transformed from an obscure sire standing at €1,000 to one with an international reputation covering large books of mares at €22,000.

The stud sold a Kendargent full-sister to Restiadargent for 525,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale, and in 2016

guillaume vitse a Frankel colt out of Restiadargent herself for €520,000 in Deauville.

The yearlings sold also included the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Style Vendome and the multiple Group winner Morando.

The stud bred, raised and raced three Group 1 performers at Royal Ascot in Restiadargent, Kenhope and Goken – in 2012 Restiadargent came within a head and neck of beating Black Caviar and Moonlight Cloud as a three-year-old in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, one of the best races run at the Royal meeting in recent years.

His trip to Ascot to watch Restidargent run at Royal Ascot is one of Vitse’s best memories of his Colleville years.

“Monsieur Pariente took us in a private plane and we were back on the farm by early evening,” he remembers. “And what a run, she was only three and was even a little unlucky when caught behind the winner.

“She gave everything that day and was

“There are not many high-class yearlings available to consign for August and if I want to have a bigger draft I realise I am a newcomer and have to prove myself never anywhere near as good again.”

Vitse picked up an idea of Pariente’s determination early on when Colleville’s owner decided to bring Kendargent back from the US – the son of Kendor had won at Hollywood Park – and stand him as a stallion.

“When Monsieur Pariente announced the news to me I was not even sure you were allowed to stand a stallion in France who hadn’t won a Group race!” Vitse remembers.

“He told me then that Kendargent was going to be the best stallion in France and you have to admire Monsieur Pariente’s determination and the way he managed the horse.

“He gave us the means to work to this end and for six or seven years until the results came he wouldn’t be swayed from his objective. Kendargent may not be a very top stallion, but he is a very good one and I am sure he will be an excellent broodmare sire too. He is by Kendor out of a mare by Linamix, two stallions who were outstanding broodmare sires.”

If Pariente has vision and determination he also taught Vitse the importance of communication.

“We spoke nearly every day,” Vitse says, “and Monsieur Pariente spent a lot of time on the farm. He showed me how important it is

guillaume vitse to communicate with everybody involved in a business.”

When asked what he regretted the most on leaving Colleville, Vitse is quick to reply: “Galiway! When Monsieur Pariente asked me the same question close to the end of my time there I gave him the same answer.”

Galiway is a son of Galileo and the Danehill mare Danzigaway, and he has stood at the Haras de Colleville since 2016.

His first foals are two-year-olds and have made a promising start with the two useful winners Kenway and Galiciana, both out of Kendargent mares, from his first five runners.

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“We were looking for a new stallion,” says Vitse, “but were in no hurry as we wanted to find one who would suit Colleville’s Kendargent mares.

“We were standing together in the paddock at Longchamp before Prestige Vendome ran in the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau when we first really noticed Galiway.

“Galiway had speed, and is by Galileo out of a fast Danehill mare, and he was then, and still is, a magnificent individual.”

Galiway was trained by André Fabre for the Wertheimer brothers and had finished second in a Group 3 at Newbury as a two-year-old.

He disappointed after finishing third in the Fontainebleau in both the Poule d’Essai and the Prix du Jockey-Club before coming back at the end of the year to win a Listed race.

Then next time Vitse happened to ask about Galiway he was told the colt was due to be gelded!

“Pierre Yves Bureau had assumed we were no longer interested in him as a stallion as he hadn’t won a Group race. I told him we were even more interested as the price was going to be lower now!” Vitse laughs.

Vitse himself is joint breeder of a twoyear-old Galiway colt By The Way, who was a promising third on his debut in June.

Normandie Breeding is for the time being concentrating on looking after its clients’ mares during the breeding season and preparing yearlings for Arqana August and October as well as the Osarus September sale.

“I want,” he explains, “to do things correctly. We are not the cheapest boarding farm in Normandy, but the aim is do things correctly, every day.

“It is the same with the yearlings. The plan is to remain at a reasonable size so we can do the work properly and walk them by hand.

If you get too big staff quickly becomes an issue.”

Normandie Breeding’s select four in August include a Dariyan filly (Lot 244), half-sister to this year’s stakes performer Queendara, and a Holy Roman Emperor filly (Lot 26) out of Swish, a full-sister to Shirocco.

Her juvenile full-brother Roman Turbo trained by Michael Halford won the Anglesey Stakes (G3) in July.

The two for the V2 include a Rajsaman (Lot 353) half-sister to Olendon, a stakes-winning Group 1 performer this year for Gerard Augustin Normand and Pascal Bary who is now in training in the US. “I want,” he summarises, “to be known for my work. If people say Vitse he is not straightforward or he is difficult, but he does a good job, I will be happy with that.”

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Maturing well Adam Potts takes a look through this year’s French stallion list and finds there is still more to come from the older names, while there is an exciting batch of new stallions coming through the ranks

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AST YOUR MINDS BACK TO 2012, and the French stallion roster lacked strength. Elusive City was the country’s most expensive stallion at just €15,000 — a far cry from the late 1990s when the country boasted an influential group of stallions which included such names as Linamix and Anabaa.

Now ten French-based stallions stand for at least €15,000 with Siyouni commanding a six-figure fee. This reflects a rising standard of stallions, which will help mares remain at home for coverings rather than crossing the Channel, as well as attracting breeders from abroad.

The country’s attractive owner and breeder premiums have played their part in improving the standard of bloodstock in France, however, the exploits of Siyouni, Le Havre and Wootton Bassett — who all started out at fees €7,000 and under, have given owners confidence that a young stallion can make a name for himself in France, if he is good enough.

It spoke volumes for French bloodstock that Redoute’s Choice’s owners thought

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France a suitable location for him to shuttle to when he began doing so in 2013.

The stallions mentioned above have all performed pleasingly this year. Siyouni added a third top-flight winner to his tally when Sottsass won the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1), beating the Poule d’Esssai des Poulains winner Persian King.

Since January, Siyouni has had 15 horses reach the frame at stakes level cementing himself as a world-class sire. His best progeny are likely still to come, and that’s in spite of his current crop of three-year-olds having been bred off a fee of just €20,000.

The same case can be made for Wootton Bassett, whose two and three-year-olds this year were bred off fees of €6,000 and €4,000 respectively.

His first crop of foals produced off a €20,000 fee are yearlings this year, thus the best is yet to come.

His fee rise was mostly due to producing Almanzor, winner of the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) and British and Irish Champion Stakes, in his first crop.

Since then, he has also produced the Group-1 placed miler Wootton and last year’s Prix du Jockey-Club runner-up Patascoy, which helped his fee surge again to €40,000 in 2019.

This year, the established sires are blazing the trail on the sires’ table, but there are some younger sires exceeding expectations.

Olympic Glory set a high bar when getting the Group 1 winner Watch Me, who beat Hermosa when winning the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Another smart filly who is advertising Olymic Glory’s stallion credentials is Grand Glory, who was beaten just under a length in the Prix de Diane behind Channel.

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french stallions Hannon, Olympic Glory won the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère at two and the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. He has proven he is capable of siring top-flight horses, and his current record of two stakes winners is expected to rise as the season progresses.

Le Havre leads the way by number of winners in France, closely followed by Kendargent.

Le Havre has already sired ten stakes winners in 2019 putting him right in the top half-dozen of sires standing in Europe, ahead of the likes of Siyouni and Sea The Stars on this statistic.

The 2009 Prix du Jockey-Club winner has been a revelation at stud, having stood initially for only €5,000.

Given a leg up by his owner Gerard Augustin-Normand, who has bought and raced plenty of his progeny, he has sired 31 black-type winners, three of whom won Group 1s.

Despite his fee being trimmed to €45,000 this year from €60,000, Le Havre is still a sire gathering momentum.

Last year’s sales yearlings were highlighted by 12 yearlings fetching at least €100,000, headed by a half-sister to Home Of The Brave who realised 850,000gns in Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. Godolphin, Shadwell and Al Shaqab all signed for his yearlings last year.

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NE SIRE who has produced plenty of winners from limited numbers is Penny’s Picnic.

In fact, Penny’s Picnic and his sire Kheleyf both lead the way as leading sires by numbers of two-yearold winners this year – five apiece.

A most precocious juvenile, Penny’s Picnic started out in March of his two-year-old season winning his first three starts over four and a half furlongs to 5f, including a Listed race that June.

In the autumn of that year, he scored in two Group races over 6f, and he appears to be injecting such precocity into his progeny.

A first-season sire performing well with his first crop of juveniles is the Australian shuttle sire, Sidestep.

However, his main protagonist so far is his southern hemisphere runner Kiamichi, who won the highly influential Golden Slipper in Australia.

Sidestep stood for three seasons at Haras du Logis for just €4,000, and so far from a first crop of only 62 northern-hemisphere

Penny’s Picnic and his sire Kheleyf both lead the way as leading sires by numbers of two-year-old winners this year – five apiece foals, he has notched four winners from nine runners in France.

They are led by 5f Listed winner Real Appeal, already a three-time winner and who belied his yearling price tag of €9,000 when making £265,000 at the Goffs London Sale.

Another Paulussiere/Marnane runner is Wheels On Fire, who was similarly bought cheaply at €16,000. He has already won that back in prize-money, winning a conditions race at Bordeaux, took his place at Royal Ascot and finished second in a 5f Listed race at Vichy in July.

A lack of support from breeders meant Sidestep didn’t stand in the northernhemisphere this year. It seems it was a missed opportunity. If he does return for the 2020 season, one would bet Sidestep will receive a more substantial book on his return.

At the time of writing the only other French-based sire with more than one winner – the French two-year-old scene always a

little behind Britain’s – is Galiway, who stands at Haras de Colleville.

A well-bred son of Galileo from the family of Gold Away, he won his first start as a two-year-old and his last start at three – the Listed Prix Le Fabuleux. In the interium he finished second in the Horris Hill Stakes (G3), third in the Prix de Fontainebleu (G3), fifth in the Prix d’Essai des Poulains (G1) and ninth in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1).

He has stood at a fee of €3,000 in his four years at stud. Both of his winners, Kenway and Galician, are out of Kendargent mares.

Of the second-season sires, Toronado has maintained progress numerically and with 16 winners the son of High Chaparral tops the French list by numbers. He has had a healthy batch of stakes horses around the globe and just needs one to covert at a higher level.

The Haras du Quesnay’s stallion Anodin, the brother to Goldikova, has also continued to build on his debut year despite the fact that things have not gone to plan in 2019 for his leading performer of 2018, the Group 1-placed Anodor. Anodin has had 14 winners so far.

However, the best is still to come for those French sires who have experienced significant fee rises recently. Their book quality is rising with their fee, which should boost their percentage of stakes runners.

Siyouni and Le Havre already sit in the top ten leading European sires this year by prizemoney. The French group of stallions is much healthier, and the country has a diverse range of stallions, which can often result in value, even with the lucrative premiums aside.

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french stallion stats Leading sires in France 2019: (by prize-money earned to July 15, 2019) Stallion

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Wins

Stakes wnrs

Siyouni (FR) 125 39 31 418 51 Le Havre (IRE) 117 51 44 428 68 Kendargent (FR) 133 47 35 543 63 Dubawi (IRE) 40 16 40 92 19 Shamardal (USA) 31 12 39 95 20 Kingman (GB) 18 7 39 37 9 Rajsaman (FR) 125 37 30 514 47 Galileo (IRE) 30 10 33 79 14 Nathaniel (IRE) 22 7 32 78 10 Elusive City (USA) 96 33 34 441 41 Lope De Vega (IRE) 46 14 30 127 17 Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) 42 18 43 212 24 Air Chief Marshal (IRE) 85 32 38 433 40 Evasive (GB) 90 19 21 382 31 Makfi (GB) 65 19 29 264 28 Invincible Spirit (IRE) 52 18 35 151 19 Frankel (GB) 22 10 45 52 13 Olympic Glory (IRE) 48 14 29 159 18 Motivator (GB) 72 14 19 245 20 Orpen (USA) 41 18 44 179 27 Penny’s Picnic (IRE) 52 21 40 215 26 Dark Angel (IRE) 38 10 26 134 15 Intello (GER) 33 7 21 92 8 Dabirsim (FR) 62 13 21 198 19 Oasis Dream (GB) 43 14 33 159 16 George Vancouver (USA) 68 15 22 293 19 New Approach (IRE) 27 9 33 70 11 Anodin (IRE) 63 12 19 206 19 Wootton Bassett (GB) 50 16 32 149 17 Pivotal (GB) 25 10 40 89 16 Style Vendome (FR) 57 11 19 224 15 Mastercraftsman (IRE) 47 11 23 157 11 Sea The Stars (IRE) 32 16 50 88 16 Toronado (IRE) 28 16 57 81 21 Rio de La Plata (USA) 50 12 24 214 17 Zoffany (IRE) 41 9 22 142 10 Tin Horse (IRE) 60 18 30 263 20 Zanzibari (USA) 33 12 36 149 17 Kheleyf (USA) 50 11 22 216 18 Showcasing (GB) 22 10 45 98 17 Authorized (IRE) 36 12 33 108 14 Kodiac (GB) 36 10 28 100 12 Sommerabend (GB) 35 10 29 109 11 French Fifteen (FR) 28 8 29 107 9 Camelot (GB) 31 10 32 91 16 Spirit One (FR) 41 12 29 171 18 King’s Best (USA) 23 6 26 126 12 Soldier Hollow (GB) 31 11 35 82 13

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1,865,108 1.62 1,804,034 1.79 1,159,780 1.08 1,106,245 5.08 847,422 2.88 830,882 2.47 768,353 0.76 723,272 5.23 703,793 1.70 695,820 0.89 593,488 1.13 565,120 0.93 545,578 0.79 525,434 0.73 521,509 0.83 507,995 1.34 493,812 3.50 485,347 1.47 432,829 0.73 418,025 1.15 416,250 1.03 397,674 1.03 382,031 1.13 378,434 0.75 374,177 1.06 372,302 0.72 366,947 0.94 363,485 0.71 355,744 1.20 352,913 1.58 352,678 0.74 340,500 0.84 336,929 2.07 332,836 0.89 323,495 0.80 320,515 0.91 314,341 0.65 302,011 1.11 284,833 0.54 283,606 1.03 280,648 0.70 279,409 0.81 278,155 0.99 276,362 1.48 271,802 1.41 270,802 0.85 270,420 1.23 263,319 0.89

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french stallion stats Leading sires of two-year-olds in France 2019: (by prize-money earned to July 15, 2019) Stallion

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Sidestep (AUS) 9 4 44 32 6 Kheleyf (USA) 16 5 31 40 7 Penny’s Picnic (IRE) 14 5 36 34 6 Wootton Bassett (GB) 13 4 31 24 4 Power (GB) 2 2 100 14 5 Kendargent (FR) 12 4 33 22 4 Hurricane Cat (USA) 6 3 50 14 6 Epaulette (AUS) 4 3 75 13 5 Charm Spirit (IRE) 11 3 27 22 3 American Devil (FR) 4 2 50 12 3 Galiway (GB) 5 2 40 13 3 Sommerabend (GB) 10 3 30 18 3 Lucayan (FR) 6 2 33 14 3 Siyouni (FR) 12 2 17 20 2 Dabirsim (FR) 11 2 18 17 2 Lope De Vega (IRE) 5 3 60 9 3 American Pharoah (USA) 2 1 50 2 1 Zoffany (IRE) 6 2 33 14 2 Evasive (GB) 11 1 9 20 2 George Vancouver (USA) 4 1 25 9 2 Dandy Man (IRE) 5 2 40 13 2 Pedro The Great (USA) 7 1 14 14 2 Style Vendome (FR) 7 1 14 22 1 Rio de La Plata (USA) 6 1 17 22 1 War Command (USA) 2 1 50 4 2 Anjaal (GB) 3 1 33 8 3 Elusive City (USA) 6 2 33 17 2 Rajsaman (FR) 10 1 10 21 1 Elvstroem (AUS) 3 1 33 7 1 Sakhee’s Secret (GB) 3 1 33 4 2 Silver Frost (IRE) 4 2 50 15 2 Dark Angel (IRE) 6 0 0 10 0 Ivawood (IRE) 3 1 33 9 1 Bated Breath (GB) 6 1 17 9 1 Shamardal (USA) 1 1 100 2 2 Oasis Dream (GB) 2 1 50 2 1 No Nay Never (USA) 4 1 25 5 2 Planteur (IRE) 5 0 0 19 0 Kingman (GB) 3 1 33 6 1 Dragon Pulse (IRE) 2 1 50 4 2 Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 4 1 25 6 1 Orpen (USA) 3 1 33 10 1 Gutaifan (IRE) 3 1 33 8 1 Zebedee (GB) 2 2 100 2 2 Milanais (FR) 5 1 20 14 1 Gleneagles (IRE) 4 1 25 5 1 Big Bad Bob (IRE) 2 1 50 9 1 Showcasing (GB) 4 1 25 5 1

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Earnings 104,291 103,415 96,566 78,415 74,830 71,789 70,586 65,614 55,498 54,150 53,803 49,914 48,655 48,436 46,878 44,449 43,943 43,357 42,272 38,548 38,103 33,914 33,345 33,097 32,810 31,795 30,828 30,302 30,301 29,973 29,490 28,990 27,925 27,708 27,223 26,936 26,070 25,290 25,278 24,225 22,689 21,558 21,533 20,148 19,362 17,764 17,202 16,956

french stallion stats Leading second-crop sires in France 2019: (by prize-money earned to July 15, 2019) Stallion Kingman (GB) Olympic Glory (IRE) Anodin (IRE) Toronado (IRE) Sommerabend (GB) Charm Spirit (IRE) Sea The Moon (GER) Alhebayeb (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Lucayan (FR) Waldpark (GER) War Command (USA) Joshua Tree (IRE) Garswood (GB) Australia (GB) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Magician (IRE) Slade Power (IRE) Gemix (FR) Very Nice Name (FR) Noble Mission (GB) Gregorian (IRE) Boby Di Job (BRZ)

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18 7 39 37 9 48 14 29 159 18 63 12 19 206 19 28 16 57 81 21 35 10 29 109 11 33 10 30 100 12 13 5 38 47 7 13 3 23 53 5 11 3 27 29 4 12 2 17 37 3 9 2 22 36 4 7 2 29 26 4 6 3 50 23 3 3 0 0 13 0 7 1 14 13 2 4 2 50 12 3 1 1 100 4 2 7 1 14 22 2 6 1 17 14 3 4 1 25 18 1 2 1 50 4 1 3 0 0 5 0 3 1 33 5 1

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Leading first-crop sires in France 2019: (by prize-money earned to July 15, 2019) Stallion Sidestep (AUS) Galiway (GB) American Pharoah (USA) Anjaal (GB) Ivawood (IRE) Gutaifan (IRE) Gleneagles (IRE) Outstrip (GB) French Navy (GB) Make Believe (GB) Night Of Thunder (IRE) Prince Gibraltar (FR) Due Diligence (USA) Hot Streak (IRE) Evasive’s First (FR) Hunters Light (IRE) Amarillo (IRE) Red Dubawi (IRE) Muhaarar (GB)

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Starts

AEI

830,882 2.47 485,347 1.47 363,485 0.71 332,836 0.89 278,155 0.99 257,197 0.84 187,771 1.04 123,520 0.49 89,099 1.45 78,899 0.83 70,663 0.98 64,152 0.54 60,386 0.91 57,564 0.45 48,876 1.28 35,888 0.36 34,591 0.9 34,160 0.69 31,364 0.67 29,383 17,624 1.37 16,919 0.59 11,639

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Stakes wnrs

9 4 44 32 6 5 2 40 12 3 2 1 50 2 1 3 1 33 8 3 3 1 33 9 1 3 1 33 8 1 4 1 25 5 1 4 1 25 6 1 3 0 0 6 0 2 1 50 2 1 1 1 100 1 1 3 1 33 6 1 5 1 20 8 1 1 0 0 3 0 5 0 0 7 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 7 0 1 0 0 1 0

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104,291 1.13 53,803 1.15 43,943 1.82 31,795 0.39 27,925 0.37 21,533 0.35 17,764 1.36 13,044 0.44 12,712 0.36 12,152 0.43 12,116 0.65 10,338 10,155 0.51 8,008 0.28 5,293 0.14 3,122 2,862 2,426 1,210 0.18

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A wealth of experience: the Tattersalls gate men at the 2019 July Sale after the retirement plans for Eddie Edwards (braces) were announced.

From the left, Mick Wallace, Paul Cullam, Mick Brand, Barrie Cooper, Eddie Edwards and Paul Quigley.

There are a considerable number of years and experience in racing between the six and all are former jockeys, work riders and racing staff.

Edwards, aged 83, has spent a lifetime in racing beginning at Sommerville Lodge before he was called away on National Service.

On resuming work he joined trainer George Collins before moving on to work for John Oxley.

After then generally working in Newmarket, he joined Tattersalls 16 years ago aged 67 (already post-retirement age for ‘normal’ individuals) to work in the stable yard, later moving to help man the sale ring.

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BLACK TYPE HORSES IN 2019

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Sylvain VIDAL • +33 (0)6 20 99 10 15 I Mathieu ALEX • +33 (0)6 26 59 19 18

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I think he’s going to prove the archetype of what Gleneagles will deliver; very genuine horses like Galileo his father.

James Willoughby on Royal Lytham, Racing TV

ROYAL LYTHAM, bred by Haras du Logis Saint Germain, scored for Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore partners, in the July Stakes-Gr.2 at Newmarket on 11th July

Also from his first crop...

SOUTHERN HILLS: won Windsor Castle Stakes-L.R., Royal Ascot PRECIOUS MOMENTS: second in Airlie Stud Stakes-Gr.2, Curragh HIGHLAND CHIEF: third Chesham Stakes-L.R., Royal Ascot ULTRA VIOLET: 8-length Maiden winner first time out, Newmarket

Champion 2YO & European Champion 3YO Miler by GALILEO. Out of an own-sister to GIANT’S CAUSEWAY.

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 052-6131298. Fax: 052-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller, Neil Magee or Hermine Bastide. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon, John Kennedy or Cathal Murphy: 025-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) +44-7827-795156.

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