ITB November 2021

NOVEMBER 2021

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British Champions Day saw Baaeed remain unbeaten, part of a three-timer for Shadwell and a fitting tribute to the late Sheikh Hamdan

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> Aisling Crowe chats to Martin Cooney of Jossestown Stud ahead of the sale of Plying, dam of Alcohol Free > Martin Stevens finds out what has happened since the Wildenstein Stables Dispersal five years ago > Tom Wilson unveils some statistical work on successful broodmare sires > Trainer Ado McGuinness’s fine season is not done with yet – Group 1 winner A Case For You travels to Del Mar

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he won not just the French Derby but also the French Guineas, with a burst that made Group 1 rivals look like handicappers.

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Trainers John Gosden and William Haggas look on in disbelief as St Mark’s Basilica destroys their multiple Group 1-winning older horses Mishriff and Addeybb in the Eclipse

Winning the “sire-making” French Derby from subsequent Champion Stakes winner Sealiway

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All eyes on his first European crop of 128 2yo runners in 2022

Colt ex Rue Cambon Purchased for 110,000Gns as a foal and sold for 310,000Gns as a yearling

Filly ex Permission Sold for 280,000Gns to Amanda Skiffington

"We were so taken with Zoustar and have been following him for a while now. I’ve been so impressed with the yearlings I’ve seen by him and am delighted to purchase this colt."

“From the moment I saw her she just caught my eye.

She is a lovely filly, a January foal and looks very sharp and early.”

Charlie Hills, purchaser of the colt ex Miss Work Of Art for 100,000Gns.

Ben McElroy, purchaser of the filly ex Parting Clouds for 77,000Gns.

Buyers of his phenomenal first European yearlings include: Avenue Bloodstock (x4), Peter & Ross Doyle (x3), Longways Stables (x2), Church Farm & Horse Park (x2), Amanda Skiffington, Bryan Smart, Charlie Gordon-Watson, Federico Barberini, Hugo Palmer, Kevin Ross, Margaret O’Toole, Stephen Hillen, etc.

Colt ex Herecomesthesun Sold for 200,000Gns to Mick Kinane, on behalf of the Hong Kong Jockey Club

“He’s a beautiful first foal, a big athletic strong horse with a great walk – one of the nicest horses we’ve seen at Book 1.”

Mick Kinane, purchaser of the colt ex Herecomesthesun for 200,000Gns.

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The stable staff crisis A host of new names join stallion rosters for 2022, Cathy Grassick takes a look back at the yearling sales and British Champions Day

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Total Eclipse of a sire line

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Group 1 glory

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Plying her trade

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Making the most of opportunities

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Broodmare data analysis

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Broodmare stakes winners

Making memories

British Champions Day became “Shadwell Day”, the stud enjoying a three-timer headlined by Baaeed’s win in the QEII, writes Aisling Crowe

Stallion stats

Leading European stallion tables, courtesy of Weatherbys

Torque of the town

Torquator Tasso was a shock winner of the Arc, but the Group 1 success for the son of Adlerflug was not such a surprise for Jocelyn de Moubray

The youth of today

Melissa Bauer-Herzog casts her eye over the leading young sires and two-year-old performances in the US this autumn

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The last instalment of Alan Porter’s analysis of international stallions and their sire lines

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Marco Ghiani receives the British Champion Apprentice award from Lester Piggott

Trainer Ado McGuinness has been on an international roll with A Case for You winning the Group 1 sprint in Paris, and now due to be his first runner in the US Martin Cooney of Jossestown Stud explains to Aisling Crowe why he and partner Elaine Shaw are offering Plying, the dam of Alcohol Free, at this November’s Goffs Breeding Stock Sale Martin Stevens recalls the Wildenstein Stables Dispersal of five years ago, and finds out what has happened since Tom Wilson uses the computer to analyse broodmare sire data This year’s broodmare sires of stakes winners in Europe and the UAE

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WALKED INTO THE LOCAL M&S garage shop last Sunday afternoon to pick up something for supper – two weeks in Newmarket for the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales meant my cupboards were bare.

When I got into the shop the shelves resembled my kitchen. There was almost no fridge food or fresh produce available – no ready-made meals, no fruit or vegetables, no dairy products. It was starkly shocking to see an empty supermarket, and afforded a growing realisation that, should the logistics industry collapse as has been threatened over the past few weeks due to the lack of HGV drivers in Britain, this is what would be the result.

Nations have fallen, riots ensued, and revolutions have been generated over food shortages in those countries that do not have the financial wellbeing to provide for its people.

Britain is a long way from those concerns, but the

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“Simmons estimates that he had to leave vegetables worth upwards of £500,000 to rot in the fields

sight of empty shelves was a realisation as to just how quickly such issues do and could escalate.

And, while a country such as Britain is a long way from those issues, is it really?

Everyone demands cheap food, and food prices have not risen significantly for years.

However, if the pay for an HGV driver needs to be rapidly increased in order to attract anyone to do the job – it has reported that the pay structure for a good driver is already radically different from this time last year – then there is only one way to cover increased wage costs, with an increase in the cost of the end product.

If you add in growing agricultural labour costs – wages in the sector again already having to be increased for exactly the same reasons, some vegetable pickers are now on the equivalent of £30 an hour due to a lack of a local work force prepared to pick vegetables for the historic pay packet that was received for the job – then the price of food will surely

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The cupboards are bare

The lack of HGV drivers in the supply chain industry is replicated in the racing and bloodstock industries, and there must be action before serious issues develop have to increase exorbitantly.

The Telegraph’s feature writer Helen ChandlerWilde visited Cornish-based vegetable farmer David Simmons for an article run in the paper on October 17 and she wrote: “As it stands, the situation could have severe consequences for the British agricultural sector.

“This year, Simmons estimates that he had to leave vegetables worth upwards of £500,000 to rot in the fields, having been unable to recruit enough staff to pick them.

“He sees three ways out of this limbo. Firstly, visa rules could change to allow more “lower-skilled” migrants to take seasonal work on farms. Secondly, food prices could increase to cover the cost of paying British workers even more to attract them. Or, finally, many British farms could shut, costing thousands of jobs and leading to increased food imports instead. “‘The Government is saying we need to invest in better machinery,’ he says. ‘But we can’t with no money

“Firstly, visa rules could change to allow more “lower-skilled” migrants to take seasonal work on farms

coming in. If something doesn’t change, it’s curtains for us all.’”

So what does this have to do with the similarly short-staffed racing industry? In a similar fashion to the labour intensive sectors of the agricultural world, the British industry has relied on cheap labour for years – decades ago workers travelled over the Irish Sea boasting generations of horsemanship, more recently staff have arrived from Europe, South America, India and the Middle East. (As an aside British staff now do the reverse trip to Ireland to work at Ballydoyle, Closutton or Cullentra).

Now that supply has stopped, or many have returned home in Brexit fall-out, the British Conservative government is announcing via its policy of hindsight that it is “pushing for a high-wage, high-performing economy”. All the employment problems, apparently in a Johnson dig at business, are the fault of companies for not investing in machinery to do the manual jobs.

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Many yards are operating with dangerously low levels of experienced staff, a solution needs to be found and worked on before an accident happens

Boris, as far as I aware, there has not yet been a robot who can successfully sweep a yard, feed a horse, and certainly not one with the ability to ride a piece of work.

If there is, I am sure there are plenty of stud farms and training yards who would willingly invest in such a bot.

Just as Simmons the farmer clarifies for the agricultural industry, the racing industry, trainers and stud farms will need to increase pay in order to attract any staff, let alone the best, to work the outside hours as required by life with horses.

With other sectors able to up pay packets, this will become even more of an issue for racing.

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OME OF THE larger yards and stud farms might be able to sustain that additional financial burden, or will have the support base to weather an increase training fees and keep fees, but where does that leave the remaining industry, particularly in this racing world of reduced prize-money funds?

I have already heard tales of yards that are so short on staff they are riding out huge numbers of lots each day, that they are working “round” as a norm; the days of looking after three horses and riding three lots are now long-distant memories recalled as a fond memory over a drink. (And that won’t be affordable soon either if the recently reported rates of inflation in the hospitality industry, due to, yes you can guess, staff attractive wage levels, are true).

Lewis Porteous’s “Big Read” in the Racing Post on October 24 reported that Beck Edmunds, who was crowned Employee of the Year at the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards in February, has left her job at Bryan Smart’s yard and is now working outside of racing. She cites in the article a lack of available staff making her job a misery.

In a yard scenario, without enough good staff, experienced and talented horsemen and women, the level of care and equine attention given has no option but to compromised with possible ongoing implications to safety and welfare. For staff such as Edmunds it is no

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Boris, as far as I am aware, there has not yet been a robot invented who can successfully sweep a yard, feed a horse, and certainly not one with the ability to ride work on a racehorse.

If there is, I am sure there are plenty of stud farms and training yards who would willingly invest in such a bot

fun not being able to do the job properly.

So what would it take for the government to be persuaded to open up the visa system, much as it is promising in order to fill the HGV gap and as Farmer Simmons suggests for the agricultural industry, in order to allow in enough experienced equine staff in to work in our post-Brexit Britain?

A request from the BHA, NTF, TBA or NARS? Or do we have to wait until there is a serious on-yard injury to a member of staff? An injury caused by someone rushing and not focused, just trying to get through the necessary daily jobs? Or injured after falling off an horse that was too fresh because there was not enough staff in a yard to exercise the whole string everyday? A stud farm tractor incident caused by someone not properly trained to use such equipment because no one experienced around to do a job?

Or maybe it will be a welfare case because inexperienced staff fail to notice an issue with a horse?

These are the realities that we are looking at if racing yards and stud farms are understaffed.

Of course, more training courses and PR campaigns can be brought into play to encourage more people to or back to the industry, but that us just too long term, and too late, a solution.

Over 100 job vacancies were posted on the BHA’s careersinracing website between October 1 and October 18, mainly for equine staff, but also for on-the-ground jobs on racecourses, as well as the odd lower to middle level admin job. The problem is now.

If this situation is not dealt with soon, the third option that farmer Simmons see as the only solution for the agricultural industry could well become the reality for the horseracing industry.

By acting quickly and decisively the racing industry found a way successfully through the pandemic, while the integral quality of the horses produced in this country and in Ireland created this autumn’s unexpected hugely buoyant sales season.

Action is needed now to ensure that the quality of our world-leading leading industry is not undermined by a lack of good, top-level equine staff.

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Group 1 winners Palace Pier, St Mark’s Basilica, Starman and Supremacy join the stallion ranks

The four colts take up their new roles at Darley, Coolmore, Tally-Ho and Yeomanstown studs Palace Pier

PALACE PIER, currently heading the mile division of the World Thoroughbred Rankings on 125, and Timeform’s leading older horse on a rating of 132, has been retired to Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud.

The five-time Group 1 winner of the Prix Jacques le Marois (twice), the St James’s Palace Stakes, the Queen Anne Stakes and the Lockinge Stakes, ran twice as an unbeaten juvenile.

His debut in stakes company came in last year’s Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot, a race he won by a length from Pinatubo.

Palace Pier’s 2020 Timeform rating of 132

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was bettered only by Ghaiyyath.

This year, after a Group 2 victory in the Sandown Mile and a top level win in the Lockinge, he completed the Royal Ascot’s Group 1 St James’s Palace and Queen Anne double, a feat also completed by Frankel.

His performance there led jockey Frankie Dettori to exclaim that the son of Kingman was the best miler he had ever ridden.

Palace Pier rounded off his career with a second in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes behind Baaeed.

The highest-rated so far by his sire, Palace Pier is out of Beach Frolic and from Lagardère family of fellow Jacques Le

Marois winner Miss Satamixa.

He ran 11 times, won nine races, finished second and third once and won over £1.7 million in prize-money earnings.

St Mark’s Basilica, the leading three-yearold colt of this season, has been retired to Coolmore.

He is the unbeaten three-year-old winner of four Group 1 races this year – the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, the Prix du JockeyClub, the Eclipse Stakes and the Irish Champion Stakes.

The son of Siyouni has a Timeform rating of 132, and retires on a BHA mark of 127. He is the highest-rated by the Aga Khan Stud’s

the news stallion to retire to stud so far.

As a juvenile, the Coolmore-owned colt finished second over 5f at The Curragh on his lockdown debut in July, fifth in the Phoenix Stakes (G1), won his maiden at The Curragh over 6f in August. He then took third in the National Stakes (G1) before winning the Dewhurst Stakes (G1).

Possibly the colt’s best performance as a three-year-old came when winning the 1m2f Eclipse Stakes, the race saw him quicken clear to leave the older horses Addeybb and Mishriff 3l in arrears.

Fellow 2021 Group 1 winner Starman has been retired to Tally-Ho Stud, with his owner-breeder David Ward retaining a share in the son of Dutch Art. The colt won his first three starts as a three-year-old, his season culminating with a mid-division first outing at Group 1 level in the British Champions Sprint.

He made a winning debut at four in the Group 2 Duke Of York Stakes, a race setting him up for his July Cup (G1) victory which he took with an electric turn of foot.

He beat the leading sprinters such as Dragon Symbol, Creative Force, Oxted,

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Glen Shiel, Brando and Art Power.

He then finished third in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest over half a furlong further on unsuitable soft ground at Deauville and was runner-up over 6f in the Haydock Sprint Cup (G1).

He was retired to stud after a set-back in training when preparing for the British Champions Sprint Stakes.

Supremacy, a son of Mehmas, did not hit the heights of his juvenile career as a three-year-old, but his two-year-old form was of the highest order.

After a debut at Windsor over 6f in June, he broke his maiden in July before going on to take the Group 2 Richmond Stakes at Goodwood at the end of July.

He stepped up to Group 1 success in the Middle Park Stakes coming home ahead of Lucky Vega and Minzaal.

Already resident at Yeomanstown Stud, and available for viewing by breeders through the Goffs Foal and Breeding Stock Sale, his dam is a half-sister to the Group 2 two-year-old winner Xtension and to the dam of the Group 1 winner Harry Angel.

Sons of Lope De Vega join the Irish National Stud and the National Stud, Ubettabelieveit to Mickley THE 6F PHOENIX STAKES (G1) winner Lucky Vega, a son of Lope De Vega, has been retired to the Irish National Stud.

He made a winning debut as a juvenile at Naas over 6f, following that up with a second placing in the Railway Stakes (G2) before his success at the highest level.

A mid-division result in the National Stakes (G1) preceded a second to Supremacy in the Middle Park Stakes (G1).

As a three-year-old he ran in the 2,000 Guineas, the Irish 2,000 Guineas and the St James’s Palace Stakes finishing third, fourth and second.

Bred by Kilcarn Stud, he is one of three winners out of the unraced mare Queen Of

Carthage (Cape Cross), a daughter of the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera winner Satwa Queen.

The National Stud is due to stand Lope Y Fernandez, also a son of Lope De Vega and the first by the sire to retire to stand at stud in the UK. He was placed at the highest

level when second to Palace Pier in the Queen Anne Stakes and to Pinatubo in the Prix Jean Prat.

Timeform rated 120 as a three and four-year-old, he collected third placings in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), the Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1)

Lucky Vega winning the Phoenix Stakes (G1) at The Curragh

and the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) for trainer Aidan O’Brien.

He made his career debut as a juvenile in June at The Curragh, going on to finish second in the Chesham Stakes (L), third in the Vintage Stakes (G2), win the Tower Stakes (G2) and finish mid-division in the Middle Park.

Out of Black Dahlia, a Listed-winning daughter of Dansili, Lope Y Fernandez was a €900,000 Arqana yearling.

Kodiac’s latest son to gain a place in the stallion ranks is Ubettabelieveit, who joins the roster at Mickley Stud.

A Group 2 winner of the Flying Childers Stakes and the National Stakes (L), he also collected a third spot in Keeneland’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1).

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Lagardère and Poulains winner Victor Ludorum retires to Logis THE HEADLINE ACT so far joining the stallion roster in France is Victor Ludorum – the Godolphin-owned and bred son of Shamardal, who hails from the family of Street Cry, retires to Haras du Logis.

Adual Group 1 winner – Victor Ludorum won the Prix Jean Luc Lagardère as a juvenile and then the Poule D’Essai des Poulains. He finished third in the Prix du Jockey-Club behind Mishriff and again behind him in the Group 2 Prix Guillaume.

His best result as a four-year-old in 2021 was a third-place finish to Baaeed and Order Of Australia in the Prix du Moulin.

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half-brother to City Light, a Group 3 winner, is a grandson of Leariva, winner of the Grade 1 Budweiser International.

Soft Light was a Listed winner over 1m4f, and three-time runner-up at Group 2 level over the same trip. He will be standing at Haras de Colleville.

The German stallion list gains the leading juvenile Alson, a son of Aerion who finished second to Victor Ludorum in the Lagardère and went to win the two-horse Group 1 Criterium International in late October.

In the Poulains, he took third, again behind Victor Ludorum, won the Listed Prix Matchem over 7f, and was a runner-up in the

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NOTHER BUSY YEARLING SALES SEASON has almost drawn to a close. It has been very heartening for our industry to see what a vibrant trade was present at auctions across Europe. After the trials and tribulations of Brexit and COVID it was a wonderful relief for vendors, purchasers, and auction houses alike to be able to have sales with a strong foreign presence and with only minor COVID restrictions.

The strong presence of Australian and American buyers at the European yearling sales is a testament to the high regard held for our Turf-bred horses. It is reassuring for the bloodstock industry and for Turf racing in the US to see such major players from the US such as Mike Ryan, Chad Brown, Kenny McPeek, Liz Crow and Klaravich Stables buying with fervor at the major sales.

The Australians were not to be outdone with many major players on the buyers’ sheet such as Danny O’Brien through agent Jeremy Brummitt, the same successful combination who sourced Russian Camelot, as well as Champion Thoroughbreds buying to go to John O’Shea, Bjorn Baker, Brad Spicer, and British-based owner Noel Wilson purchasing to send horses to Annabel Neasham.

When these strengthening markets were combined with busy buyers from across Europe and indeed the world with owners from Japan, Hong Kong and China all prominent in the sales ring, it was a very clear message that the world was bouncing back from the hibernation that had been temporarily imposed due to international COVID restrictions.

This strong trade was without one noticeable high-profile buyer, the late Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum. He was a great man and a much respected and beloved figure on the sales grounds – everybody had such admiration for his quiet and studious demeanour as he carefully looked over the yearlings he inspected.

He was also celebrated for the tremendous contribution that his breeding and racing operation has made to racing across Europe and indeed the world.

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mile Prix Perth to The Lir Jet. He is a half-brother to the Group 2 winner Ancient Spirit, while his third dam is the Preis der Diana winner Amarette (Monsun), a full-sister to the Jockey-Club third Arras.

The Deutsches Derby (G1) winner Windstoss joins the Gestut Rottgen team.

The Markus Klug-trained son of Shirocco ran 29 times, 26 times in stakes races, to win four times. He was successful twice at the highest level in the Deutsches Derby and the 1m4f Preis von Europa, a race in which he also finished third. He filled the same placed position in the Coronation Cup and was fourth in the Prix du Cadran to Princess Zoe.

Cathy Grassick casts her eye over the yearling sales season and British Champions Day

The bloodstock world sends its deepest sympathies and best wishes for the future to his daughter Sheikha Hissa bint Hamdan Al Maktoum, who is now leading the Shadwell operation into a new era.

Indeed, a poignant and fitting tribute to the late Sheikh Hamdan took place at Champions Weekend at Ascot with the day truly belonging to Shadwell and retained rider Jim Crowley as they landed the spoils in three of the day’s races. Two of these major winners were the Shadwell homebreds Baaeed (Sea The Stars) and Eshaada (Muhaarar), who both landed Group 1 races. The sales purchase Aldaary also won the Balmoral Handicap. It was also clearly important to long-standing Shadwell trainers William Haggas, trainer of Aldaary and Baaeed, and Eshaada’s trainer Roger Varian as they paid their respects to the late Sheikh Hamdan and offered their delight for Sheikha Hissa.

CHAMPIONS DAY delivered on all fronts with a great day’s racing which included such wonderful moments as Trueshan and Hollie Doyle’s delightful reunion to land the Long Distance Cup Group 2 for trainer Alan King, Charlie Appleby and William Buick rounded off their stellar season with the impressive victory for Creative Force (Dubawi) in the Champion Sprint Stakes Group 1, and the race for the trainers’ title and jockeys’ titles went to the wire with Charlie Appleby coming out on top for the trainers and Oisin Murphy beating William Buick by only two winners in the jockeys’ title.

The ever-consistent Sealiway (Galiway) had a well-deserved moment of glory landing the Champions Stakes for trainer Cedric Rossi, jockey Mikael Barzelona and owners Haras de la Gousserie.

It was a wonderful moment for the French breeder and “stallion-maker” Guy Pariente, Galiway standing alongside his successful stallions Kendargent and Goken all of whom he has strongly supported at Haras de Colleville.

Pariente, bred this horse Sealiway from a mare whom he had bred himself and is by Kendargent, who is a massive rising star in the broodmare sire ranks.

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DAMAAR Won Novice Stakes at Sandown

ZAIN NIGHTS Won Novice Stakes at Newbury

Damaar, like other the Decorated Knights, has shown a great attitude in his training and displayed it well in his race today.

He was the last one off the bridle and quickened up nicely.

It’s always an extra thrill to win with the progeny of horses that you have trained like Decorated Knight who won three very memorable Group One races for Beckhampton.

His son Zain Nights showed himself like his sire to be tough and talented in winning at Newbury and I’m sure he will progress again next year.

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John Gosden, trainer Also trainer of the very promising KNIGHT OF HONOUR

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WIND YOUR NECK IN Won Novice Stakes at Salisbury

SILVER BULLET LADY Won Conditions Stakes at Salisbury

Placed in course and distance novices on his first two starts and the pick of these weights on adjusted RPRs, won well... a useful performance - he was strong at the line.

Silver Bullet Lady was very impressive today... once she got into the stride of things and hit the cutaway she showed a great turn of foot to make up a lot of ground.

Racing Post David Evans, trainer

Hollie Doyle, jockey Silver Bullet Lady produced a very impressive performance to win on debut at Salisbury. A great start for Decorated Knight with his first runner to produce a 5f winner out of a mare Desert Icon who stayed 10f.

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Making memories British Champions Day became a race day tribute to the late owner-breeder Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, writes Aisling Crowe

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racing review The Muhaarar Group 1 one-two: his daughters, the three-year-old Eshaada and the year-older Albaflora, fight out the finish to the British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes, the younger filly was successful by a short head

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HE TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the QIPCO-sponsored end-of-season extravaganza at Ascot belonged to the breeding empire founded by the late deputy ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum.

His Shadwell Estate Company, which is now headed by his daughter Sheikha Hissa, won three of the six races on the card, including two Group 1 races, both of which were won by homebreds. Both owned their existence in some shape or form to the 1981 Group 1 Fillies’ Mile winner Height Of Fashion purchased by Sheikh Hamdan from her owner-breeder The Queen.

Height Of Fashion continues to be a major influence in so many of the pedigrees of Shadwell’s top-class performers, but Champions’ Day also saw Shadwell’s young stallion, the champion three-year-old sprinter Muhaarar, not only gain his first Group 1 winner but also his first Group 1 runner-up as he sired the one-two in the British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes.

The son of Oasis Dream, who won the Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint Stakes on this card in 2015, broke his Group 1 duck as a stallion in style as his daughters Eshaada and Albaflora served up a thrilling finish.

In a tight finish that needed the judge to confirm the result, Eshaada was declared the winner by a nose for Shadwell, jockey Jim Crowley and trainer Roger Varian over Kirsten Rausing’s homebred four-year-old Listed winner Albalfora, trained by Ralph Beckett.

They were more than 3l ahead of the

Height Of Fashion continues to be a major influence in the pedigrees of Shadwell’s top-class performers and she was to the fore once again at Ascot triple Group 1 winner Snowfall, who had beaten Albaflora into second in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks.

“To sire the first two in a Group 1 on a day when the European racing and breeding industry is watching is fantastic,” said Shadwell’s marketing and nominations manager Tom Pennington. “Albaflora, already a Listed winner this year, has been a model of consistency and her day will come, but it was great to see the pair of them giving their all up the Ascot straight. They both showed a fabulous will to win.

“Muhaarar has had a very good year, especially with his fillies, and this has capped it off perfectly,” added Pennington.

Eshaada made a winning debut at two, her only start as a juvenile, and was plunged

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racing review into Listed company on her seasonal reappearance at three when she won the Haras de Boquetot Fillies’ Trial at Newbury.

She was then second in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes to Loving Dream, who went on to become her sire Gleneagles’ first Group 1 winner in the Prix Royallieu at ParisLongchamp on Arc weekend.

She disappointed when down the field behind Snowfall and Albaflora at York but, freshened up by her trainer for this test, she proved her mettle at the highest level.

A glimpse at her pedigree shows where that talent comes from.

She is the third foal out of Muhawalah, who is a Nayef fullsister to the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois and Prix Jean Prat winner Tamayuz, who heads the stallion roster at Shadwell’s Irish division at Derrinstown Stud.

Their dam Al Ishq is by Nureyev and is a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner and sire Anabaa Blue and out of the Group 3 winner Allez Les Trois, a Riverman half-sister to the great Urban Sea. Muhawalah has a two-year-old fullbrother to Eshaada named Moonis and a Kingman colt foal on the ground. She was covered by Sea The Stars.

As Nayef’s presence in her pedigree attests, Eshaada provides another link to Height Of Fashion.

“It goes all the way back to the foundations that Sheikh Hamdan laid 35 years ago when he bought Height Of Fashion, and to see her still having such an impact on pedigrees is phenomenal,” remarked Pennington.

“After everything that has happened this year, for the team and the staff to have a day like this and for Height Of Fashion to be such a big influence on the results, is

These marquee days are what we all do it for and it is fabulous for everyone involved at Shadwell – it is such a huge team effort”

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The unbeaten Baaeed outpoints Palace Pier in the QEII. It was a race of the highest order – Palace Pier had himself only been beaten once before this race, and jockey Frankie Dettori said after Royal Ascot that the horse was the best miler he had ridden

amazing. It is incredibly sad that Sheikh Hamdan is not here to be a part of it.

“However, his legacy will live on and Sheikha Hissa was ecstatic following today’s results.

“These marquee days are what we all do it for and it is fabulous for everyone involved at

Shadwell – it is such a huge team effort.”

Height Of Fashion’s direct descendant Baaeed will eventually stand alongside Muhaarar at Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud in Norfolk, or at Derrinstown Stud in Ireland, that much is certain after he dethroned Palace Pier in the Group 1

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racing review Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, but when he will join the trio, that includes Tasleet and Eqtidaar, is the question.

“Baaeed is a serious horse. He’s unbeaten, already a dual Group 1-winning miler and has proven himself to be right out of the topdrawer beating Palace Pier.

“It is incredibly exciting to think what he can go on and develop into next year,” said Pennington, articulating the excitement that the unbeaten three-year-old has generated for racing fans and pedigree enthusiasts alike.

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The unbeaten Baaeed only stepped onto a racecourse in the heat of competition for the first time in June and the bay colt has answered every question posed to him with aplomb.

He upgraded from winning a Leicester maiden to Listed success at Newmarket in July, followed by his Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes win at Goodwood and then success in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin before his triumph over the top-class field of milers in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

Baaeed is the year-younger full-brother of

the four-time Group 3 winner Hukum, who has won at trips of up to 1m6f. They have an older winning half-brother by Dansili named Khasban, who was a winner over a mile and 1m2f.

They are out of the 1m2f Listed Prix de Liancourt winner Aghareed, who is a daughter of the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Lahudood (Singspiel).

Their fifth dam is Height Of Fashion.

Baaeed and Hukum are bred on the extremely successful cross of Sea The Stars

racing review with Kingmambo – the 2,000 Guineas, Derby and Arc winner has eight black-type winners from 20 runners (all races), which is an astonishing 40 per cent.

Sea The Stars is, like Muhaarar, a grandson of Sheikh Hamdan’s dual Group 1-winning sprinter and influential sire Green Desert.

Shadwell has enjoyed plenty of success breeding to Sea The Stars during his stud career with the Group 1 Oaks and King George VI Stakes winner Taghrooda, Mutakayyef and Terebellum, who were

multiple Group 2 winners, and the Group 1-placed and the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Al Aasy amongst the best performers Shadwell has bred by Aga Khan Stud’s six-time Group 1 winner.

“Shadwell has had great success with Sea The Stars and we’re thrilled to have bred arguably his best miler.

“Baaeed also descends from our iconic blue-hen Height Of Fashion and it gives everyone great satisfaction that the foundations Sheikh Hamdan laid during the organisation’s infancy are the

cornerstone of our success today,” smiled Pennington.

Choose Me scores again

John Tuthill’s Choisir mare Choose Me produced her second Champions Day winner when Creative Force won the Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint, astoundingly the first runner at the meeting for his all-conquering trainer Charlie Appleby.

The three-year-old gelding is the 46th individual Group 1 winner for his sire Dubawi, who is accustomed to glory on this card, as is Creative Force’s dam, the Listed Fairy Bridge Stakes winner Choose Me. The 16-year-old is the dam of 2017 Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Persuasive, who was also placed at Group 1 level in the Matron Stakes (twice) and the Sun Chariot Stakes for Cheveley Park Stud and John Gosden.

The daughter of Dark Angel has a two-year-old Frankel filly named Persist and yearling colt by the champion, too. Her foal of this year is by Creative Force’s sire and she returned to Dubawi in 2021.

Choose Me has a two-year-old full-brother to Persuasive named Mr Zero. A full-sister to the pair made €230,000 to Amanda Skiffington at Goffs Orby Sale last month.

Choose Me has no recorded foal this year, having been covered by Kingman.

She is also the dam of the Listed Distaff Stakes winner Tisbutadream and has a perfect record with all six of her foals to race so far winning.

Creative Force cost Godolphin €400,000 at the 2019 Goffs Orby Sale. He has also won the Group 3 Jersey Stakes and the Listed Carnarvon Stakes this year, and was also second in the Group 2 Lennox Stakes. Trainer Appleby is excited about his potential as a sprinter in the future.

“Creative Force is a typical Dubawi who should get better with age. The sprint division is there for someone to take the mantle next year and we’ve been looking for a new star sprinter since Blue Point was

Creative Force (blue) starts to go clear of the field in the British Champions Sprint, with last year’s winner Glen Shiel (beige) in second

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The British Long Distance Cup, won by Trueshan (far right), was a messy race and caused some controversy – Frankie Dettori (Stradivarius) moaned afterwards about the ride and actions of the young jockey Dylan Browne McMonagle on board Baron Samedi (not in shot) saying that: “It was a disgrace. The kid [Dylan Browne McMonagle] in front of me did everything possible to get me beat.”

retired, so hopefully this horse can be a fun horse for the next year or two. There’s a hole there to be filled and I think he is a young enough horse to do that.”

“I’m delighted for the horse because he has been on the go. He was out at the Craven Meeting, rose through the ranks and came here to win the Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot.”

Changing of the guard complete in stayers

Last year, Trueshan announced himself as a stayer of potential with his victory over dual Irish St Leger heroine Search For A Song in the Group 2 British Champions Long Distance Cup. This year the son of Planteur has gone on to confirm himself the best stayer around

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Planteur stood in France for seven seasons and transferred to Chapel Stud this year, with Trueshan’s emergence shining the spotlight on him just at the right time

winning the Group 1 Goodwood Cup and defeating Stradivarius in the Group 1 Prix du Cadran, another horse to race on Arc weekend and shine on Champions Day. The five-year-old gelding, ridden by Hollie Doyle, dethroned the king Stradivarius with victory in the Group 2 event which kick-started Champions’ Day with the chesnut champion only third on the rain-softened ground.

Trainer Alan King said: “I haven’t been this nervous for a long time. I was just a bit worried that it had only been two weeks since France – he was quite a handful to saddle today, so we got away with it.

“Let’s hope we get a wet Royal Ascot as it would be lovely to run him in the Gold Cup,” he added.

Trueshan was bred in France by Didier

SHALAA MEHMAS Sire of 2021 Gr.1 Del Mar Oaks winner GOING GLOBAL and of 2-year-old Gr.1 winner SUPREMACY, from his first crop

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In 2021, Sire of a Gr.1 winner in each hemisphere TRIBHUVAN 1st United Nations Stakes Gr.1 MASKED CRUSADER 1st William Reid Stakes Gr.1

Sire of 2021 Gr.1 Prix Jean Romanet winner GRAND GLORY, also Classic-placed in the Prix de Diane Gr.1 and the sire of dual Gr.1 winner WATCH ME AL SHAQAB RACING

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racing review Blot and was sold for just €8,000 at the 2017 Osarus September Yearling Sale by Haras de Clairefontaine to Pegasus Bloodstock.

He provided a return on that investment when sold by Thomond O’Mara’s Knockanglass Stables to Highflyer Bloodstock and trainer Alan King at the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up Sale for 31,000gns.

He ran once at two and won four of his five starts at three. As a four-year-old he won the Listed Tapster Stakes at Haydock and the Persian Punch Stakes on his first attempt at 1m6f. Last year’s victory over Search For A Song was both his first run in a Group race and his first try at the 2m trip.

His sire Planteur is by Danehill Dancer and comes from the Wildenstein family of Peintre Celebre; he is out of the unraced

Giant’s Causeway mare Plante Rare, who is a half-sister to Policy Maker.

Planteur won the Group 1 Prix Ganay at four and was second to Lope De Vega in the Prix du Jockey Club. He was also placed in the Grand Prix de Paris, Prix d’Ispahan and twice in the Dubai World Cup. Planteur stood in France for seven seasons and transferred to Chapel Stud this year, with Trueshan’s emergence shining the spotlight on him just at the right time for Chapel.

Sealiway is champion for France

The breeding accolades after the Champion Stakes belonged to Haras de Colleville, which not only bred the winner Sealiway, his dam Kensea and raced his second dam, but also

stand his sire and broodmare sire.

Already a Group 1 winner at two, when defeating the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Nando Parrado and the subsequent Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner Laws Of Indices in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère, Earlier this year, Sealiway finished second to St Mark’s Basilica in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club and fifth in the Arc just 13 days before his Ascot triumph.

Sealiway transferred to the yard of trainer Cedric Rossi from that of his uncle Freddie after his Classic second, but Mikael Barzalona, who was on board for his first Group 1 victory, was in the saddle at Ascot and expressed his delight at the success.

“We had a good draw, he broke well, settled well and we had a good position – it was good. Sealiway showed plenty of stamina

Cheveley Park winner Tenebrism a first Group 1 score for Caravaggio

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GROUP 1 WINNER in his first crop means that the following year’s marketing and promotion writes itself. For Coolmore’s young sire Caravaggio the Old Master himself couldn’t have painted a better picture for the stud’s stallion brochure when his daughter Tenebrism returned from a lengthy absence to fly home in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes.

The bay filly has been exemplary for her sire giving him his first winner from just his second runner when making a successful debut in a Naas 5f maiden at the end of March.

Not raced since then, she certainly seemed a little ring rusty and was last out of the gates, but about halfway through the race she suddenly came alive and Ryan Moore was able to unleash a devastating turn of foot that allowed Tenebrism to hunt down and overtake the runaway Listed Ripon Champion Two-Year-Old Trophy winner Flotus.

The Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes and Group 3 Albany Stakes winner Sandrine finished 3l behind in third.

Tenebrism is one of four black-type winners from the first crop of Caravaggio, who was transferred to Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky for the 2021 breeding season.

Intriguingly all four of them are fillies and, as well as Tenebrism, include the Group 2 Debutante Stakes and Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes winner Agartha, who was also second in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes and fourth in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac, Dizzy Bizu, who was Caravaggio’s first stakes winner when emerging victorious in the Listed Prix la Fleche, and the Wesley Ward-trained Her World, who won the

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Tenebrism (near side)

Tyros Stakes at Monmouth Park.

Caravaggio is to date the sire of 21 winners from 74 runners with a stakes winners-to-runners record of 5.4 per cent.

Of course, the stallion is only one element in the genetic mix and Tenebrism comes from an outstanding maternal line.

She is also the first Group 1 winner for her dam Immortal Verse, who beat Goldikova to win the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois and was also successful in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes for Robert

racing review in the Arc, but today he showed plenty of speed. He is an excellent horse. He deserved to prove his talent like he did today.”

He was sold by his breeder to Paul Nataf for €62,000 at the Arqana August Yearling Sale and is owned by the Chehboub family’s Haras de la Gousserie and his breeder Guy Pariente. It was a magical fortnight for the Chehboub family whose colours were also carried to victory by Rougir in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera.

Sealiway is from the second crop of Galiway and has a fascinating pedigree as he is inbred 3S x 4D to the Wertheimers’ Blushing Away and 4S x 5D to Kenmare.

The Champion Stakes winner is a son of the Kendargent mare Kensea, who won the Listed Prix Herod at Chantilly.

She has a two-year-old full-brother to Sealiway, who was sold for €110,000 at

Arqana’s August Sale to MAB Agency, and their yearling full-sister was knocked down to Trotting Bloodstock for €360,000 at Deauville in August.

Kensea produced a full-brother to Sealiway this spring.

Sealiway’s triumph put the seal on a fantastic season for Pariente’s Normandy farm. Earlier in the summer, Kendargent, who has been a star for the stud for a decade, finally got the Group 1 winner he deserved with the victories of Skalletti in the Prix d’ Ispahan and Grosser Dallmayr Preis.

Dubai Honour, a gallant runner-up to Sealiway, also ran on Arc weekend – winning the Group 2 Prix Dollar proving that the short gap between the two meetings no barrier.

Trained by William Haggas for Mohammed Obaida, the three-year-old

Collet and her owner-breeder Robert Strauss. She sold for a then European record price of 4.3m guineas at the 2013 Tattersalls December Mare Sale, bought by MV Magnier.

Tenebrism is the fourth foal and first Group winner at any level for Immortal Verse, who has clocked up transatlantic air miles as a broodmare. She was covered this spring by Wootton Bassett.

Immortal Verse is a daughter of the outstanding broodmare sire Pivotal, and her full-sister Go Lovely Rose is the dam of Listed Ben Marshall Stakes winner Roseman (Kingman). They are out of the Sadler’s Wells Listed Prix La Camargo winner Side Of Paradise, which means they are inbred 4x4 to the brilliant mare Special.

Side Of Paradise is a half-sister to the champion sprinter and sire Last Tycoon, the Group 2 Premio Melton winner and sire Astronef and the Group 3 Prix du Bois winner The Perfect Life.

Her half-sisters have been extraordinarily successful at stud with the Listed-placed Save Me The Waltz foaling the Group 1 winners Valentine Waltz and Sense Of Style, Tender Is Thenight is the dam of the Group 1 winner Tie Black, while Zelda is the dam of Group 2 winner Zipping and Group 3 winner Zelding, who is the second dam of the Group 1 winners Hydrangea, Hermosa and The United Stakes. They are all out of her Pivotal daughter the Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chene winner Beauty Is Truth.

Ballylinch’s rising star

New Bay was one of the stand-out first-season sires in 2020 with 13.3 per cent stakes horses-to-runners. The son of Dubawi has maintained that level of black-type winners and runners this season, so it is no surprise really that, in his first group of runners, he would get a Group 1 winner.

That it was Saffron Beach only added to the excitement as the

gelding is from the first of just two European crops sired by Pride Of Dubai, who was champion first-season sire in Australia last year.

The dual Group 1-winning son of Street Cry is from a pre-eminent stallion family as he is out of Al Anood, a Listed-placed Danehill half-sister to Group 1 winner Rafha, the dam of Invincible Spirit and Kodiac, who is also by Danehill, and it’s the family of Mishriff.

Haggas hinted that Dubai Honour may next be sent on his travels in search for that Group 1 success.

“He’s another that has made great progress. I was thinking that the Hong Kong Cup might suit him. He would enjoy that long straight and seems to run well right handed. I don’t know about Australia for him yet,” remarked the trainer.

filly is also the first Group 1 winner for trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam.

Saffron Beach won both of her starts at two, including the Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes, and she returned at three to finish second to Mother Earth by just a length in the 1,000 Guineas.

She won the Group 3 Atalanta Stakes to prepare for the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes in which she comprehensively turned the tables on Mother Earth, defeating the dual Group 1-winning daughter of Zoffany by 3l with Dreamloper, by New Bay’s stud companion Lope De Vega, a head behind in third.

Excitingly, owners Ben Sangster and James Wigan confirm they intend to keep Saffron Beach in training as a four-year-old.

She was bred by China Horse Club, a shareholder in New Bay, and the Club was immediately rewarded in the sales ring by the 450,000gns Blandford Bloodstock paid for the Australia half-sister to Saffron Beach, sold by Ballylinch on the opening day of the Tattersalls October Book 1.

Dam Falling Petals won over 7f at two and is a Raven’s Pass three-parts sister to Huntdown, who was third in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes for Godolphin.

Falling Petals was bought for €235,000 from the Darley draft at the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale in 2016 and is a half-sister to Continua, the dam of Group 3-winning sprinter and Group 1 first-season sire Cotai Glory.

Second dam Infinite Spirit is by Maria’s Mon and was second in Pontefract’s Listed Silver Tankard Stakes. She is a full-sister to the Listed Prix des Sablonnets winner Moquette out of the Group 3 Matron Stakes winner Eternal Reve by Diesis. She was also second in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes and the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Stakes at Keeneland.

Falling Petals producd a full-brother to Saffron Beach in the spring and was returned to New Bay.

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stallion stats Leading European Flat sires 2021: (by prize-money earned to October 19, 2021) Stallion

Breeding

Frankel Galileo Sea The Stars Dubawi Siyouni Dark Angel Adlerflug Lope de Vega Kingman Zoffany Shamardal Wootton Bassett Australia Kodiac Le Havre Kendargent Camelot No Nay Never Invincible Spirit Oasis Dream Gleneagles Night of Thunder Mehmas Dandy Man Galiway Footstepsinthesand Nathaniel Showcasing Iffraaj Dawn Approach Mastercraftsman Muhaarar Acclamation Make Believe Mayson Exceed And Excel Dabirsim Territories Intello Power Bated Breath Dream Ahead Teofilo New Bay Toronado Anodin Rajsaman Golden Horn

Galileo-Kind (Danehill) Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Cape Cross-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) Pivotal-Sichilla (Danehill) Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) In the Wings-Aiyana (Last Tycoon) Shamardal-Lady Vettori (Vettori) Invincible Spirit-Zenda (Zamindar) Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian) Giant’s Causeway-Helsinki (Machiavellian) Iffraaj-Balladonia (Primo Dominie) Galileo-Ouija Board (Cape Cross) Danehill-Rafha (Kris) Noverre-Marie Rheinberg (Surako) Kendor-Pax Bella (Linamix) Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) Green Desert-Rafha (Kris) Green Desert-Hope (Dancing Brave) Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo) Acclamation-Lucina (Machiavellian) Mozart-Lady Alexander (Night Shift) Galileo-Danzigaway (Danehill) Giant’s Causeway-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) Galileo-Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) Oasis Dream-Arabesque (Zafonic) Zafonic-Pastorale (Nureyev) New Approach-Hymn of the Dawn (Phone Trick) Danehill Dancer-Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) Oasis Dream-Tahrir (Linamix) Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) Makfi-Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) Invincible Spirit-Mayleaf (Pivotal) Danehill-Patrona (Lomond) Hat Trick-Rumored (Royal Academy) Invincible Spirit-Taranto (Machiavellian) Galileo-Impressionnante (Danehill) Oasis Dream-Frappe (Inchinor) Dansili-Tantina (Distant View) Diktat-Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) Galileo-Speirbhean (Danehill) Dubawi-Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar) High Chaparral-Wana Doo (Grand Slam) Anabaa-Born Gold (Blushing Groom) Linamix-Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) Cape Cross-Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination)

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50.93 31.50 50.24 51.17 37.69 42.48 43.75 41.07 41.75 36.42 52.13 41.93 40.62 37.43 46.73 45.34 35.98 36.58 43.65 36.95 47.01 49.57 44.19 39.65 40 34.40 34.05 36.52 42.29 34.37 35.10 40.88 39.47 41.97 38.18 44.88 33.03 47.74 31.72 41.57 42.19 37.06 33.58 50.70 39.56 44.73 38.31 41.32

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20 34 7,373,584 17 22 5,227,183 19 31 5,180,460 26 31 4,878,209 13 20 4,571,399 15 18 3,942,976 7 11 3,875,099 13 15 3,487,435 10 15 3,162,023 9 11 3,132,902 9 1a1 2,794,482 9 11 2,686,736 10 19 2,663,336 12 12 2,630,697 8 12 2,575,210 3 8 2,407,574 7 7 2,173,110 8 11 2,150,868 6 8 2,053,073 6 10 2,050,340 9 12 1,931,262 7 12 1,917,355 10 12 1,851,776 5 7 1,764,314 6 6 1,713,994 2 5 1,691,101 3 5 1,689,248 3 3 1,687,446 6 7 1,673,355 3 5 1,669,869 3 3 1,668,658 4 5 1,665,730 6 8 1,604,770 3 4 1,585,777 3 4 1,582,422 7 10 1,573,479 0 0 1,549,002 1 1 1,511,828 6 7 1,465,512 4 5 1,457,983 3 4 1,440,617 1 2 1,374,308 6 6 1,279,745 3 4 1,249,101 5 5 1,245,615 1 1 1,229,509 0 0 1,217,195 4 4 1,194,519

A Derby hero, a Champion juvenile and a Champion sprinter. Now with first foals heading for the sales ring – and the winners’ enclosures of tomorrow. Masar, Too Darn Hot and Blue Point.

They’re breeding the future.

stallion stats Leading European broodmare sires 2021: (by prize-money earned to October 19, 2021) Stallion

Breeding

Galileo Dansili Pivotal Cape Cross Montjeu Oasis Dream Danehill Dancer Dubawi Rock of Gibraltar Nayef Invincible Spirit Toylsome Shirocco Shamardal Exceed And Excel Kingmambo Danehill Dalakhani Acclamation Kendargent Teofilo Selkirk Raven’s Pass Sadler’s Wells Green Desert Anabaa Monsun Peintre Celebre Singspiel Sea The Stars High Chaparral Street Cry Verglas Intikhab Giant’s Causeway King’s Best Zamindar Holy Roman Emperor Medicean Elusive City Royal Applause Iffraaj Lawman Oratorio Dylan Thomas Elusive Quality Hard Spun Authorized

Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Danehill-Hasili (Kahyasi) Polar Falcon-Fearless Revival (Cozzene) Green Desert-Park Appeal (Ahonoora) Sadler’s Wells-Floripedes (Top Ville) Green Desert-Hope (Dancing Brave) Danehill-Mira Adonde (Sharpen Up) Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) Danehill-Offshore Boom (Be My Guest) Gulch-Height of Fashion (Bustino) Green Desert-Rafha (Kris) Cadeaux Genereux-Treasure Trove (The Minstrel) Monsun-So Sedulous (The Minstrel) Giant’s Causeway-Helsinki (Machiavellian) Danehill-Patrona (Lomond) Mr. Prospector-Miesque (Nureyev) Danzig-Razyana (His Majesty) Darshaan-Daltawa (Miswaki) Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) Kendor-Pax Bella (Linamix) Galileo-Speirbhean (Danehill) Sharpen Up-Annie Edge (Nebbiolo) Elusive Quality-Ascutney (Lord At War) Northern Dancer-Fairy Bridge (Bold Reason) Danzig-Foreign Courier (Sir Ivor) Danzig-Balbonella (Gay Mecene) Konigsstuhl-Mosella (Surumu) Nureyev-Peinture Bleue (Alydar) In the Wings-Glorious Song (Halo) Cape Cross-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Sadler’s Wells-Kasora (Darshaan) Machiavellian-Helen Street (Troy) Highest Honor-Rahaam (Secreto) Red Ransom-Crafty Example (Crafty Prospector) Storm Cat-Mariah’s Storm (Rahy) Kingmambo-Allegretta (Lombard) Gone West-Zaizafon (The Minstrel) Danehill-L’On Vite (Secretariat) Machiavellian-Mystic Goddess (Storm Bird) Elusive Quality-Star of Paris (Dayjur) Waajib-Flying Melody (Auction Ring) Zafonic-Pastorale (Nureyev) Invincible Spirit-Laramie (Gulch) Danehill-Mahrah (Vaguely Noble) Danehill-Lagrion (Diesis) Gone West-Touch of Greatness (Hero’s Honor) Danzig-Turkish Tryst (Turkoman) Montjeu-Funsie (Saumarez)

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Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs SWs 40.29 37.58 42.38 39.11 42.90 41.29 34.56 42.96 32.75 34.93 33.80 50.00 35.71 41.35 44.17 49.49 39.35 37.39 38.86 41.17 38.75 35.56 37.63 31.03 35.95 36.41 40.93 43.33 37.37 52.50 35.71 45.77 27.74 41.37 42.30 35.44 32.87 36.54 35.32 36.22 32.84 36.60 34.05 40.25 34.17 44.62 42.30 32.69

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£

34 9,040,254 25 4,776,849 18 4,416,324 9 4,365,452 10 4,324,340 17 4,175,191 21 4,033,629 16 3,854,293 12 2,953,612 10 2,732,035 4 2,699,420 3 2,588,609 6 2,502,333 12 2,454,653 5 2,333,846 12 2,329,666 11 2,308,523 9 2,277,563 12 2,256,972 5 2,188,865 8 2,123,029 8 2,053,701 5 2,046,695 5 2,039,094 6 1,893,829 11 1,868,710 10 1,863,109 5 1,747,474 5 1,728,385 7 1,597,597 3 1,437,867 9 1,433,918 2 1,407,077 3 1,387,378 6 1,385,191 8 1,364,113 4 1,331,640 4 1,327,540 6 1,316,105 2 1,304,727 4 1,279,114 3 1,271,420 3 1,219,458 6 1,178,890 4 1,164,461 8 1,131,792 3 1,119,318 4 1,118,368

The journey to succ GROUP 1 WINNERS

GROUP 2 WINNERS

GROUP 3 WINNERS

DECORATED KNIGHT

AL JAZZI

NAZANIN

b. 2012 Irish Champion Stakes Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup Gr.1 Jebel Hatta Gr.1 Meld Stakes Gr.3 Winter Derby Trial Stakes LR Equiworld Festival Stakes LR

AUTHORIZED

b. 2004 Derby Stakes Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy Gr.1 Juddmonte International Stakes Gr.1 Dante Stakes Gr.2

ARAAFA

b. 2003 Irish 2000 Guineas Gr.1 St James’s Palace Stakes Gr.1

b. 2013 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes Gr.2 Atalanta Stakes Gr.3 Snowdrop Fillies’ Stakes LR Dick Hern Fillies’ Stakes LR

AJAYA

b. 2013 Gimcrack Stakes Gr.2

SAYIF b. 2006

Diadem Stakes Gr.2

HAMOODY

b. 2004 Richmond Stakes Gr.2

TARIQ

b. 2004 Betfair Cup Gr.2 Jersey Stakes Gr.3 King Charles II Stakes LR

b. 2019 Firth Of Clyde Fillies’ Stakes Gr.3

EXTRA ELUSIVE

b. 2015 Winter Hill Stakes Gr.3 Rose Of Lancaster Stakes Gr.3

EUGINIO

b. 2014 Darley Stakes Gr.3

SHADEN

b. 2013 Firth Of Clyde Stakes Gr.3

ORVAR

b. 2013 International Trakya Gr.3

GWAFA

b. 2011 Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle Gr.3

PRINCESS NOOR

b. 2011 Princess Margaret Stakes Gr.3

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GREEN DESTINY

b. 2007 Strensall Stakes Gr.3 Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial Gr.3

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LISTED WINNERS

LISTED WINNERS

MAJOR WINNERS

AYRAD

FOURHOMETWO

AMTIYAZ

b. 2011 Tapster Stakes LR Gala Stakes LR

PRINCESS LOULOU b. 2010 Gillies Fillies’ Stakes LR

b. 2018 Dubai Duty Free Celebration Stakes LR

b. 2017 Copper Horse Handicap

VIK THE BILLY

b. 2013 John Smith’s Cup Strensall Stakes Gr.3 Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial Gr.3

GREEN DESTINY

b. 2015 Premio Perrone LR

DAWN OF HOPE

NOURIYA

b. 2013 Prix Petite Etoile LR

b. 2007 John Musker Fillies’ Stakes LR Lyric Stakes LR

DANCHAI

b. 2013 John Smith’s Cup

JUSTINEO

SHARP NEPHEW

b. 2005 Usk Valley Stud Stakes LR International Trial Stakes LR

b. 2009 Scarbrough Stakes LR Prix Hampton LR

YUFTEN

b. 2013 Balmoral Handicap

TOOFI

LOULWA

b. 2013 Tattersalls Millions Median Auction Trophy

b. 2004 River Eden Fillies’ Stakes LR

THE GRAND VISIR b. 2013 Ascot Stakes

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Torque of the town Torquator Tasso’s Arc victory was not such a surprise to Jocelyn de Moubray

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euro racing Anyone who read Jocelyn de Moubray’s European racing feature in the last issue would have seen that he put forward Torquator Tasso as a high-class performer.

Hopefully, readers took the colt’s 100/1starting price!

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ORQUATOR TASSO created a huge surprise when winning the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for Gestüt Auenquelle, his young trainer Marcel Weiss, who is based in Mulheim, and jockey Rene Piechulek.

The son of Adlerflug may have been sent off a 72-1 shot, but there was no fluke at all about his comfortable three-quarter length and short-head defeat of two of the race’s favourites Tarnawa and Hurricane Lane.

In many ways Torquator Tasso won a race which was not run to suit him – he won despite the slow early pace and being forced to race wide without cover from his draw in box 12. He won because at the end of the race he showed the best tactical speed – he ran the final 400m seven per cent faster than his race average and was able to hold the challenges of Tarnawa and Hurricane Lane, running the fastest of the entire field when covering the final 200m in 12.44s.

France Galop’s excellent tracking figures show that he ran further than any other runner – a full 3m further than Tarnawa and 2m further than Hurricane Lane.

If the race had gone his way Torquator Tasso would surely have won more even comfortably, and by further.

His win was, however, a huge surprise for many observers. He reduced the commentators on the French racing channel to an embarrassed silence, while in England the general reaction was that the only explication for such an upset was the impossibly heavy ground. A freak win by a horse particularly suited to extreme conditions which signified little.

Those who read my column last month will not have been all that surprised as I pointed out then that Torquator Tasso has been a high-class performer for two seasons now. He came very close to beating last year’s Arc runner up In Swoop in the Deutsches Derby and on his previous start had beaten this year’s Derby winner Sisfahan to win the Grosser Preis von Baden in an excellent time, one which had only been bettered in recent years by Borgia, Pilsudski and Lando, all of whom were placed in the Arc on their subsequent start.

Torquator Tasso had an unblemished record as a four-year-old as, before Baden-

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Baden, he had looked very good indeed when winning a Group 2 in Hamburg by four and a half lengths on his second start of the year.

He had finished second to Kirsten Rausing’s very high-class Frankel filly Alpinista in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin with the subsequent Grade 1 winner Walton Street behind him in third.

The British racing press pays little or no attention to racing in Germany and so its dismissal of Torquator Tasso’s chance before the race was hardly a surprise. It is strange that the French racing world is almost equally oblivious and dismissive of racing on the other side of the Rhine.

Equidia shows German racing live on a fairly regular basis, it pays German racecourses to run early in the day to fit into their schedule, and German-trained horses have become a part of most days’ racing in France.

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That Arc-winning feeling: Rene Piechulek celebrates on Torquator Tasso

ERMAN-TRAINED HORSES have already won more than 180 races in France this year, as well as the Arc. If German horses are good enough to win races regularly in France – Listed races, big handicaps, two-year-old races and more or less every other type of race, too – it shouldn’t be all that surprising that the best German-trained horses are good enough to compete in the best races.

Torquator Tasso’s Arc was in several different ways an extension of long term trends in the race.

Of the 20 Arc winners in the 21st century he is, after Danedream, the second to be trained in Germany, while France has had nine winners, Britain five and Ireland four.

However, if you include Waldgeist, who is

by Galileo and from a German female family –he is out of the Monsun mare Waldlerche from the famous ‘W’ family developed by Gestüt Ravensburg – this year’s winner is the third Arc winner with a strong German heritage from the last nine years.

This is surprising indeed when you compare the number of foals born each year in Germany, about 850, compared to the 20,000 born in France, England and Ireland, but then Germany is the last European

euro racing country where more or less every breeder is trying to produce a horse to run over 1m4f.

The Arc is often won by outsiders. Enable is the only favourite to have won recently and other surprises have included Solemia at 33-1, Danedream at 20-1, Waldgeist at 13-1 and Treve 11-1.

If you go further back Urban Sea, the dam of Galileo and the Arc winner Sea The Stars, won the race at 37-1 back in 1993.

The Arc is different from every other middle-distance race in Europe. Its prestige, huge prize-money and place in the calendar means that it always attracts a strong, competitive field, and more often than not, the best horses over 1m4f from France, England, Ireland, Germany and Japan.

This makes it a difficult race to be sure about in advance, but those of us who follow German racing had the impression Torquator Tasso is a very good horse – but he could only prove that ability by taking on the best outside his own country.

The same is, of course, true of Godolphin’s pair Hurricane Lane and Adayar – they had looked very good when winning Classic races in England and Ireland, but still had to prove themselves against the best from further afield.

While the sectional time experts such as Simon Rowlands have shown that the Arc is not always run at a strong pace, it is always a competitive race and only the dual winners Treve and Enable have won by more than 2l in recent years.

The other trend highlighted again by this year’s race is how difficult this most competitive of races has become for threeyear-old colts. In recent years only Golden Horn and In Swoop have managed to finish first or second at three, and there is a long list of top class three-year-olds, starting with Hurricane Lane and Adayar, who tried and failed to do so.

When the Prix du Jockey-Club was still run over 1m4f, the French-trained threeyear-old colts used to win regularly, horses such as Dalakhani, Montjeu, Peintre Celebre, but since then the only one to do so was Rail Link back in 2006.

Hurricane Lane is the first winner of the Grand Prix de Paris in July to play any role in the finish of the same year’s Arc since Rail Link won both races in 2006. For a three-

year-old to have a chance of winning the Arc it has, it appears, to run in a Classic race over 1m4f beforehand, and the Grand Prix de Paris has not been able to take on the role the Jockey-Club used to have.

In England and Ireland the 1m4f Classic races are just not as competitive as they were even just ten years ago. The only Frenchtrained three-year-old colt to finish in the first two in the Arc recently was In Swoop, who had run in a Classic race over 1m4f

The other trend highlighted again by this year’s race is how difficult this most competitive of races has become for three-year-old colts

when narrowly defeating Torquator Tasso in the Deutsches Derby in Hamburg.

Space Blues: interesting stallion prospect

Not every race on Arc day was slowly run as, despite the heavy ground, Space Blues and, to some degree, Pearls Galore and the Japanese-trained Entscheiden, put up a spectacular time in the Group 1 Prix de la Forêt over 7f.

Godolphin’s Charlie Appleby-trained son of Dubawi came from well off the pace to catch Pearls Galore and Entscheiden, who had been with the leaders from the start, to win by 2l in a time of 1m22.97, faster than three of the previous four runnings of the race.

All three were slowing down and ran the final 200m slower than their race average, but it is remarkable they were still travelling as fast as they were, and none of the others who had waited behind were ever able to get into the race at all.

The five-year-old Space Blues had looked very good when winning the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest in Deauville last year in a similar come-from-behind style.

Space Blues will be a very interesting

Space Blues winning the Forêt with William Buick having come from behind off a fast pace

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BOBBY’S KITTEN Bay 2011 by Kitten’s Joy – Celestial Woods (by Forestry)

Sire of a dual Group winning 2yo in 2021 ❚ ONLY 3YO EVER to win the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint ❚ Sire of 2yo filly SANDRINE, winner of the Gr.2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and the Gr.3 Albany Stakes in 2021 ❚ Also sire of 23 first crop winners and 8 second crop 2yo winners to date in 2021, incl.: HEAT OF THE MOMENT, HELVETIQUE, MELODRAMATICA, BOONDOGGLE, SILVER KITTEN, FIGHTING KING and CECIL STREET LAD

SEA THE MOON Bay 2011 by Sea The Stars – Sanwa (by Monsun)

A Leading European Group 1 Sire ❚ Sire of 33 Black-type horses including: Gr.1 & Gr.2 winnner ALPINE STAR. His 2021 Black-Type winners include: Gr.2 winner PRETTY TIGER, Gr.3 winners SAGAMIYRA and FAVORITE MOON, and Stakes winners MERCEDES, NOBLE MUSIC and PADOVANA ❚ Yearlings sold at 2021 Tattersalls October Sales Book 2 made 300,000gns, 280,000gns, etc.

SIR PERCY

Bay 2003 by Mark of Esteem – Percy’s Lass (by Blakeney)

A Potent Mix of Speed & Stamina ❚ Undefeated Champion 2yo; Champion 3yo and Derby winner ❚ Sire of 49 Black-type horses including: Gr.1 winners SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD and WAKE FOREST; and Group winners ALYSSA, LADY TIANA, SIR ANDREW, PANTSONFIRE, LADY PIMPERNEL, ALLA SPERANZA, etc. ❚ Also sire of 87 lifetime individual 2yo winners ❚ Yearling sold at 2021 Tattersalls October Sales Book 2 made 120,000gns

STUDY OF MAN

Bay 2015 by Deep Impact – Second Happiness (by Storm Cat)

Son and Grandson of Legends ❚ Winner of 3 races at 2 & 3, including the ‘Stallion Making’ Gr.1 French Derby (2,100m; 10½f), and £1,033,142 ❚ The only son of DEEP IMPACT (Japanese Super Sire & multiple Champion) at stud in England ❚ Supported by Europe’s leading breeders in his first season

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euro racing stallion prospect when the time comes as, aside from his looks and ability, he is more or less an outcross as he has no Danzig or Sadler’s Wells in his pedigree. He is also inbred to Shirley Heights, as are many of Dubawi’s best progeny.

First Group 1 win for Territories

The 1m2f Group 1 Prix de l’Opera for fillies and mares was another of the championship races to attract a full, international and competitive field and, against the run of results, the finish was contested by the French-trained fillies Rougir and Grand Glory.

This was a race run at a modest pace and yet the first three all came from well off the pace with Rougir running the final 400m seven per cent faster than her race average and getting up in the final stride under Maxime Guyon to defeat Grand Glory and Lanfranco Dettori.

Rougir, a daughter of Territories trained in Marseilles by Cedric Rossi for the Haras

Rougir had finished third in the Prix Marcel Boussac a year before and is the only one of the fillies who contested the finish that day to be still competing successfully at the highest level

de la Gousserie, was winning her first race of the year but had gone close or looked unlucky on more or less all of her previous six starts.

Rougir had finished third in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac a year before and is the only one of the fillies who contested the finish that day to be still competing successfully at the highest level.

The Gianluca Bietolini-trained Grand Glory has been similarly tough and consistent coming back to her very best at five after being beaten less than a length into third in the Prix de Diane as a three-year-old.

A Case Of You gets up on the line

There was another win in the last stride in the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye when A Case Of You, a three-year-old son of Hot Streak, caught the huge outsider Air de Valse, who had looked sure to win for most of the race, to win by a short head and give his trainer Adrian McGuiness a first Group 1 winner (see pages 61-64).

Rougir (nearside) under Maxime Guyon, who is keeping a close eye on his opponents as he times his run successfully

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French-trained fillies dominated the finish of the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac after two of the favourites, the Andre Fabre-trained Fleur D’Iris and the Joseph O’Brien-trained Agartha, went off too fast in front.

Fabre’s other runner, the Wootton Bassett filly Zellie, was given the most patient ride of all and came late under Oisin Murphy to win impressively by a length and three-quarters from the Zarak filly Times Square, who had looked like the winner when going into the lead with 200m to run.

This pair finished clear and are probably both high-class fillies for the future. Zellie gave her remarkable sire Wootton Bassett a fifth Group 1 winner from five crops of racing age, and her dam Sarai is the first daughter of Nathaniel to produce a Group 1 winner.

taken a decisive lead.

Dettori and Angel Bleu went past Noble Truth in the final 200m to win well by three-quarters of a length with Ancient Rome finishing best of another threequarters length behind in third.

Angel Bleu is his sire Dark Angel’s first juvenile Group 1 winner, and yet another top horse out of a Galileo mare.

He was sold for €100,000 by the Haras des Monceaux at the Arqana September Sale in 2020. This was his seventh start of the year for trainer Ralph Beckett has he had made his debut at Leicester in April.

It was a muddling race and not the strongest, but this race has become an excellent guide to the future as its recent winners include the top stallions Siyouni and Wootton Bassett, who won in 2009 and 2010.

The future looks bright for Bleu

New Bay success in Germany

The Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère was run immediately after the Marcel Boussac and, having gone too fast too soon on Fleur D’Idris, Mickael Barzalona decided to holdup the Fabre-trained Ancient Rome well off the early pace.

By the time Ancient Rome was allowed to make his run the race was over as Angel Bleu and Noble Truth had already

Juvenile success: above, Angel Bleu’s trainer Ralph Beckett with jockey Frankie Dettori after the son of Dark Angel won the Lagardère, and, below, Oisin Murphy with Zellie (Wootton Bassett) after Boussac success. Both victories broke new ground for their sires and broodmare sires

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Germany’s best race for two-year-old colts was won in a brilliant style by Gestüt Winterhauch’s Sea Bay, who raced 9l clear of his rivals on soft ground to win unchallenged.

Unfortunately, the son of New Bay came out of the race with a hairline fracture and had to be operated on immediately.

Sea Bay was certainly favoured by a fine tactical decision from his trainer Henk Grewe and jockey Adrie de Vries, who had agreed beforehand to race on the far side of the track coming out of the stalls and then to come up the stands’ side in the straight.

Sea Bay was bred by Gestüt Etzean and this valuable victory assures the stud of the title of champion breeder in Germany, a championship which is keenly followed and appreciated by the principal rivals.

Run by Ralf Kredel for the Weill family, Etzean has bred the winners of 21 races in Germany this year, including Sea Bay and the Preis der Diana winner Palmas.

Sea Bay was sold as a yearling for €155,000 at the BBAG September Sale.

Sea Bay is the fourth Group winner from the first two crops of Ballylinch Stud’s promising sire New Bay, a son of Dubawi who managed to finish third in the Arc as a three-year-old.

Sea Bay is also, like many of the best Dubawi’s, inbred to Shirley Heights.

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us racing Major General (Constitution) wins the Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes and books himself a spot in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile

The youth of today

As we close in on the pivotal Breeders’ Cup meeting, Melissa Bauer-Herzog runs her eye over some of the leading young sires and two-year-old performances in the US this autumn

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N WHAT COULD be described as a “golden era” of young sires in US racing, this season has proved jus what a strong bunch there is around with many of the major Breeders’ Cup juvenile prep races seeing top three finishes from runners by first, second, or third-crop sires.

The third-crop sire Constitution has been in the headlines since Classic winner Tiz The Law was a top two-year-old from his first crop and the success is continuing in 2021.

The WinStar Farm-based son of Tapit has had five juvenile stakes performers headed

by Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) contender Major General.

That colt earned his spot in the Juvenile through the “Win and You’re In” berth

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offered with success in the Iroquois Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs in late September – a race in which he beat Tough To Tame, who is by second-crop sire Speightster, by a neck.

Another young sire Connect was a stand-out on the same card – Hidden Connection romped home in the Pocahontas Stakes (G3) for a spot in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1).

Lane’s End’s freshman sire Connect has made a tremendous impact in the juvenile divisions this year with Hidden Connection’s 9l romp over fellow first-crop sire Gormley’s Mama Rina just the start.

Five days later people would have been excused for not paying much attention to Connect’s newest winner Rattle N Roll.

He’d had a rough go of it at Saratoga on

his second start and was looking to break his maiden in his third start at Churchill Downs, the track where he had debuted.

He won the September 23 race by 3l and impressed connections so much they decided to send him to the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) just two weeks later.

That proved to be a fortuitous plan.

Rattle N Roll made the Grade 1 success look even easier than his maiden-breaking victory with a 4l length victory. He has gained an automatic spot in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile to give Connect at least two potential starters in the race.

Multiple freshmen sires have made their impact felt this autumn, but none more than Gun Runner.

He has a $500,000 lead over second-

us racing placed Connect in the freshman sires’ rankings (late October) by prize-money earned, but Gun Runner also leads most of the stakes categories amongst those in his generation.

Gun Runner, whose stud fee was raised to $125,000 for the 2022 season, is the sire of four graded stakes winners. Though the Breeders’ Cup is yet to take place, Gun Runner almost certainly has a champion in his first crop – he has sired two Grade 1 winners headed by the dual Grade 1 winner Echo Zulu.

The filly boasts the best resume of any juvenile this year and, even if she runs badly in the Juvenile Fillies, it will be hard for another filly to take the championship away from her.

Gun Runner’s 38 runners (as of October 20) include three Grade 1 performers. Since 2015, only Nyquist has had more Grade 1 performers as a freshman than Gun Runner and no freshman in that period has sired more than two Grade 1 winners from his first crop of two-year-olds.

Since 2015, only Nyquist has had more Grade 1 performers as a freshman than Gun Runner It hasn’t been unusual for freshmen to sire champions in recent years, however.

Nyquist was a champion from his sire Uncle Mo’s first crop in 2015 and he sired his own champion in 2020 (Vequist) during his freshman year. Between the two, the 2018 leading first-season sire Cross Traffic sired a champion, as well.

The freshmen have been performing

admirably in the juvenile ranks, but Into Mischief continues to prove he’s the top stallion in the US, no matter where you look.

The sire of 24 stakes winners and 61 stakes performers in 2021 – nearly double the amount of stakes performers of any other US sire this year – and on track to match his record-breaking 2020 season, Into Mischief’s two-year-olds are again proving to be a force to be reckoned with.

His daughter Ain’t Easy won the Chandelier Stakes (G2) by over 4l on October 1 and, two days later, another daughter Gerrymander finished second to the aforementioned Echo Zulu in the Frizette Stakes (G1).

His son Goldencents also gave him his first Grade 1 winner as a sire-of-sires when Going To Vegas dug deep to win the Rodeo Drive Stakes (G1).

Into Mischief is already proving to be a successful broodmare sire with the 65 runners out of his daughters, including four stakes winners and seven stakes performers.

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us racing But it is Goldencents who is his first sire son to make a serious impact with his own progeny.

That may not be the case for much longer, however. While Into Mischief has many successful racehorse sons waiting for their foals to hit the track, the extremely popular triple Grade 1 winner Practical Joke has his first two-year-olds this year.

One of the most in-demand young stallions in the breeding shed, and whose progeny were popular in the sales ring, Practical Joke’s five stakes performers are led by Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed Wit. Wit continued his campaign through New York’s top juvenile races in early October, but ran into the potential Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) favourite in Jack Christopher in the Champagne Stakes (G1).

Moving straight from maiden special weight company to Grade 1 level, Jack Christopher has helped to take his sire Munnings up the grade to the top of the US stallion ranks with over a 2l victory in the Grade 1, and with Wit nearly 10l behind him in third.

With his progeny enjoying their best season on the track, Munning was fully

booked this year, and he has proven to work with a variety of mares.

None of his 16 stakes winners of this year share a broodmare sire and only three of his 35 stakes performers of 2021 are out of the same broodmare sire – Tapit – with two of those being full-sisters.

Munnings was given a fee rise in 2021, and gets a price rise again in 2022 – his $85,000 stud fee is the third-most expensive on the Coolmore US roster behind Uncle Mo and Justify.

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HE LATE GIANT’S CAUSEWAY was bred to just around 50 mares in his final three years at stud, but in October he showed that he is still a major influence.

His evergreen son United has been a consistent presence on the stakes scene since 2019 and he earned a popular victory with a nose win in the John Henry Turf Championship (G2).

But though he put in an smart performance, United was overshadowed by Giant’s Causeway’s final two-year-old crop.

The sire died through the early part of the

2018 breeding season, only covering nine mares that year. According to The Jockey Club he had just four live foals, but on October 9 two of those foals caught the eye at Keeneland.

Classic Causeway had broken his maiden by an impressive 6l at Saratoga in September and trainer Brian Lynch made the decision to step him up to Grade 1 level.

While that plan didn’t result in a victory, the colt’s third placing in the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) gave Giant’s Causeway his 77th juvenile stakes performer.

Two races later, Giant’s Causeway saw his final crop’s winner-to-starter percentage go to 50 per cent when Giant Game broke his maiden by 3l.

It has been reported that Classic Causeway is skipping the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), but he and Giant Game both have a chance to help their sire hit a milestone next year – posthumously siring his first-ever US Classic winner.

The stallion was successful at that task in Europe, siring winners of the 2,000 Guineas (G1), 1,000 Guineas (G1), Prix du Jockey Club (G1), Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1), and Preis der Diana (G1).

Munnings is a son of Speightstown and stands at Ashford at a fee of $85,000 for 2021.

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THE CHAMPIONS OF TOMORROW BRED FROM MARES FOUND TODAY AT THE TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE 29th November – 2nd December 2021 2021 Global Group winning two-year-olds out of Tattersalls December Mare Sale graduates

Group 1 ZELLIE – Prix Marcel Boussac

dam SARAI purchased for 55,000gns

TENEBRISM – Cheveley Park Stakes

dam IMMORTAL VERSE purchased for 4,700,000gns

PERFECT POWER – Prix Morny & Middle Park Stakes dam SAGELY purchased for 42,000gns

NATIVE TRAIL – Dewhurst Stakes & National Stakes dam NEEDLELEAF purchased for 60,000gns

Group 2 VELOCIDAD – Airlie Stud Stakes

dam ASTRANTIA purchased for 8,500gns

CATURRA – Flying Childers Stakes

dam SHOSHONI WIND purchased for 47,000gns

BERKSHIRE SHADOW – Coventry Stakes dam ANGEL VISION purchased for 600,000gns

ATOMIC FORCE – Prix Robert Papin

dam ATLAS SILK purchased for 20,000gns

WINGS OF WAR – Mill Reef Stakes

dam FUTOON purchased for 3,000gns and latterly for 100,000gns

Group 3 ARMOR – Molecomb Stakes

dam HESTIA purchased for 24,000gns

CORAZON – Prix d’Arenberg

dam DISKO purchased for 10,000gns

DREAMFLIGHT – Prix Thomas Bryon

dam DREAM PEACE purchased for 2,700,000gns

EVE LODGE – Sirenia Stakes

dam SANDY TIMES purchased for 6,500gns

HAVE A GOOD DAY – Prix de Cabourg

dam BLACK MEYEDEN purchased for 2,200gns

MAJESTIC GLORY – Sweet Solera Stakes dam BELLA NOUF purchased for 325,000gns

MISE EN SCENE – Prestige Stakes dam GADFLY purchased for 105,000gns

NAMURA CLAIR – Kokura Nisai Stakes dam SUN QUEEN purchased for 50,000gns

NAZANIN – Firth of Clyde Stakes

dam WOODLAND SCENE purchased for 70,000gns and latterly for 6,000gns

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Total Eclipse of the sire line I T N 1981, the year in which his cornerstone book “The Classic Racehorse” was published, the late Peter Willett penned an article which we reprinted in the June-July issue of International Thoroughbred in which he pondered how a relatively small number of sires have wielded a disproportionate influence on the

HIS WINNOWING DOWN of sire lines is actually just the continuation of a 300-year process.

The Acaster Turk was the first horse to be recognised as a leading sire in England and Ireland when he headed the list in 1721, the year before the Darley Arabian finished on top.

There were several other stallions who were not from the Darley Arabian, Byerley Turk or Godolphin Arab lines that also headed the leading sires’ list. They include the Thoulouse Barb in 1723, the Bloody Buttocks Arabian in 1739, and Bald Galloway (by St. Victor’s Barb) in 1725.

The D’Arcy White Turk founded a male line that saw two great-grandsons take the title – Fox in 1731 and 1735, and Bay Bolton seven times from 1724 to 1734, with his son Bolton Starling scoring in 1744.

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continuing development of the thoroughbred.

In our final installment, Alan Porter brings the series together and argues that the “Eclipse wipeout” was in fact caused by his descendant Phalaris and, that although sire line variability has diminished over the years, the international outcross has in fact created more broadly bred horses than previously.

Speed, or at least acceleration, was also the driving force behind the way in which the Northern Dancer line swept away older European Classic strains in the 1980s and 1990s

The last leading sire in England and Ireland not to descend from one of the three “founding fathers” was Crab, who topped the list for the third time in 1750. He was by another leading sire –Alcock’s Arabian, who was a son of Curwen’s Bay Barb.

Looking back and with the benefit of hindsight, the “Eclipse wipeout” of other sire lines was really ensured by the advent of Phalaris.

A faster horse than the most fashionable stallions of his day, his progeny allied that speed with an ability to run at least middledistances.

The damage was done with a pair of brothers bred on the Phalaris/Chaucer cross – Pharos and his brother Fairway, and Pharamond and his brother Sickle.

At one stage all stood at the head of sire lines of their own.

Pharos is sire of Nearco and through him

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appears in the male line of Northern Dancer, while Sickle is in the male line of Native Dancer and so of Mr. Prospector.

Speed, or at least acceleration, was also the driving force behind the way in which the Northern Dancer line swept away older European Classic strains in the 1980s and 1990s.

A point made by Willett which I agree with, and which these pedigrees bring out, is that it really is a small number of horses who wield a disproportionate influence.

Northern Dancer is a Nearco (Pharos)/ Native Dancer (Sickle) cross, with a second dam by Mahmoud.

Mr. Prospector is by a son of Native Dancer (Sickle) out of a mare by a son of

Nasrullah (by Nearco out of Mumtaz Begum, a three-quarters sister to Nasrullah).

Going further, Halo is Nearco line through Royal Charger (three-quarters brother to Nasrullah) and his dam is by a grandson of Pharamond (brother to Sickle) out of a mare

by Mahmoud.

Sir Ivor, who similarly advanced the cause of the Turn-to line, was by a grandson of Royal Charger, and his dam was by a son of Mahmoud out of a mare by Pharamond.

Even the dam of A.P. Indy is a Nasrullah (Nearco)/Pharmond cross.

Phew!

Not to be left out, a single mare has also wielded a disproportionate influence in pedigrees of late.

Almahmoud (Mahmoud) is the grand-dam of Northern Dancer, of Halo, and of Arctic Tern (the horse that extended Sea-Bird’s sire line in Europe), and fourth dam of Danehill, who was inbred to Almahmoud’s daughter, Natalma, and Machiavellian, whose dam was inbred to Almahmoud.

In Northern Dancer, Halo (as sire of Sunday Silence) and Danehill we have three horses who reshaped breeding in Europe, Japan and Australia.

The sub-heading of Willett’s article also mentions that the “few truly great sires defy the most enormous odds.”

That’s not always the case as many began their stud careers with everything in their

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sire lines Phalaris would not have ended up standing at Lord Derby’s stud if someone had bought him for £5,000 in 1914 Photo: Rouch Library

favour, but we can reflect that perhaps Phalaris, the greatest game changer of the last century, wouldn’t have retired to Lord Derby’s stud had he been able to find a buyer at the price of £5,000; Northern Dancer, the epochal sire of the second half of the century, was deemed too small to reach a reserve of $25,000 as a yearling; Mr. Prospector, who rose as counterpoint

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to Northern Dancer, had a racing career cut short by multiple injuries and retired to stud as a regional stallion in Florida rather than to Kentucky, and Sunday Silence, a seminal influence if ever there was one, was passed over twice as a yearling, and then rejected en masse by breeders in his home country.

Although the process of reducing down sire line variability has been a continuous

one over the centuries it’s doubtless been accelerated by the trend to bigger books, the difficulty of filling stallions in their second, third and fourth seasons and the likelihood that a stallion will be sold to a breeding backwater before he’s had more than the scantest opportunity.

Of course, the bigger sizes have dramatically decreased the number of

sire lines Northern Dancer: was deemed too small as a yearling and failed to make his $25,000 reserve

stallions at stud, and it’s likely that several major links in modern sire lines would not receive an opportunity in the current environment.

Paradoxically though, while there is concern about a reducing gene pool, current top performers have a marked trend towards pedigrees with a much higher number of “Unique Ancestors” within ten generations

than major runners of stallions in the early to mid-19th century.

For example, ten generation Unique Ancestor scores for Phalaris, Pharos, Hyperion and Nearco, are 625, 630, 617 and 674.

In a study of 12,000 contemporary commercial yearlings (foaled 2014), TrueNicks found that the 85 Group or

Grade 1 winners in the sample had a range of Unique Ancestors at ten generations between 753 and 1,012, and no Group or Graded winner had a score lower than 745.

This shift is probably down to something that Willett identified as the “international outcross.”

In the late 1970s and through most of the 1980s a bloodstock bubble caused imports

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sire lines Top, Sunday Silence at Shadai Stallion Station, Hokkaido Japan. He was passed over as a yearling and then as a stallion by breeders in the US Mr. Prospector (below) was initially retired to stud as a regional stallion in Florida, and then became North America’s leading freshman sire of 1978. He transferred to stand at Claiborne in 1980. He topped the North American sires’ list in 1978 and 1979 and, from 1,195 named foals, he sired 182 stakes winners – 15.1 per cent

to major racing countries – particularly to the US – from all across the globe, and it’s likely that this resulted in somewhat more outcrossed pedigrees.

It’s also worth remembering that horses such as Phalaris, Pharos, Hyperion and Nearco were far nearer the founding ancestors, who were much less talented athletes than their descendents, and narrowing what was then a fairly heterozygous gene pool would have at that point likely been beneficial.

Talk of whole pedigrees reminds that “sire line” doesn’t equal “influence.”

The only unique feature about the male line is the y-chromosome, and it carries very little genetic material, none as far as we know that impacts athletic performance.

This is unlike the direct female line, which is the source of the mitochondria. Thus a stallion may no longer be represented by a sire line, but that doesn’t mean their influence is gone from the breed.

For example, as we’ve seen Herod’s male-line is very likely soon to be gone, but, as we mentioned early on, he has the greatest marginal contribution to the genetic make-up of the breed, and is also the founder who has the greatest popular influence.

So, if from a sentimental standpoint it’s sad to see some of the historic names we’ve loved cease to be represented by a sire line, we do have the compensation that their influence on the breed may remain undiminished.

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Group 1 glory A Case For You’s Abbaye victory was a first success for trainer Ado McGuinness at the highest level, and the Irishman is now chasing Grade 1 victory in the US

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T HAS BEEN A BUSY MEDIA STINT for Irish trainer Ado McGuinness – a google search of his name reveals zoom interviews, features and TV appearances most of which have taken place within the last month.

He has become an object of this media scrutiny after his Lusk-based yard produced A Case Of You to win the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1) at ParisLongchamp on Arc day, giving McGuinness a first Group 1 victory in his training career.

“We’re an overnight success after 20 years of training!” laughed McGuiness on our own zoom call.

“It is the result of a lot of quite hard work and long graft. We’ve gathered together a nice team of horses now, and we’ve been able to spend some nice money and have invested quite wisely in some horses.

“It doesn’t always work out when you invest in horses, but thank god it’s worked out, we’ve got new guys in and it’s going ok for us.”

Over the past four or five years, McGuinness, alongside his cousin and assistant trainer Stephen Thorne, has bought a lot of horses in training, mainly at public auction at the Tattersalls and Goffs Autumn HIT sales, and at the Tattersalls July HIT Sale. It has become a lucrative source of winners for the team, and good ones, too.

However, A Case Of You in a slightly different tact, was bought privately from Irish producer John McConnell. He had run the horse three times for himself – after a first time out third in a maiden at Bellewstown, the colt, a son of Hot Streak, broke his duck over 7f last September at Dundalk and then followed up in the Anglesey Stakes (G3) at The Curragh – the race a frequent precursor of three-year-old talent. The victory gave McConnell his own first Group race success.

Post-race the trainer admitted that he wanted to

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ado mcguinness A Case Of You finishing out his race strongly, snatching Abbaye victory on the line to give McGuinness his first Group 1 success

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sell the horse, but he did want him to stay in the yard. McGuinness and Thorne had other ideas and picked the horse up as a Guineas possible for owner Gary Devlin.

Plans were big in the training yard in Lusk, hopeful that a potential Guineas horse had been purchased, it was a radical upgrade of ambition and a change of approach for McGuinness.

He explains: “Look, you will be sitting at home watching Paris or watching the Breeders’ Cup and you’ll be saying you know, ‘I’d love to get there, but I know I never will.’

“Most of the horses good enough to take an Irish trainer on those journeys would be sold on – we’d have to sell because we can’t afford to keep them.

“But you’d love to be there – I think anybody watching horseracing, looking at race days such as those, would feel the same.

“At the start of the year the Paris journey was not something that we had in mind when we were making the plan for A Case Of You. “When we bought him he had won over six, but people were saying he wanted further and we thought he was going to be Guineas horse.”

The colt won on his first start for the new yard at Dundalk in March over 6f, but finished 12th of 12 behind Poetic Flare in the Listed Ballylinch Guineas Trial over a 7f.

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Commonwealth Cup – the colt took a keen hold, and returned with a missing shoe.

After a month off and a regroup through July, his next outing saw him finish third in the Phoenix Sprint Stakes (G3) over 6f at The Curragh, he then went a place better over a furlong shorter in the Group 1 Flying Five on Champions Weekend before collecting on the big day in France.

“Basically, his first outing over 5f was in a Group 1!” laughs the trainer, adding: “He had been showing us a lot of tactical speed at home. He is very fast, and that’s why we decided to go down that road.

“There’s a lot of trial and error in horseracing no matter how good a trainer you are or what you do.

We all make mistakes and there’s nobody gonna turn around and say, ‘Well, I know it all!’”

The colt now has another trip planned: this time in a plane and stateside, the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint the next ambitious target.

McGuinness confirms: “The horse is in great form, and he will have travelled over before your readers see this.

“He worked yesterday [October 19] and was very good. We’re very happy with him and hopefully we can keep him as healthy as we can for the next two or three weeks. It will be my first trip to America.”

McGuinness admits that while he enjoys the travelling experience he would perhaps prefer to be back with the horses in the yard.

“Listen, I suppose I did enjoy Paris and I was at Ascot on British Champions Day, but I’d rather be at home on my tractor doing the gallops and watching

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my horses!” he says, before reflecting: “But to be in the position to go out is a thrill. I’m going out on Monday and the horses will be out of the two-day quarantine when I get there so I can see him out.

“He is quite a sensible horse – he eats, he sleeps, he drinks, so it’s great. When we travelled him to France on the long boat all he did was sleep and eat!”

Taking on the US sprinters in their back yard is no easy feat, so does his trainer think that A Case Of You has that inherent and required speed to take them on?

McGuinness says: “He is very fast, and how this horse really excels is that he is as fast in his last furlong as he is in his first furlong. He finishes very strong, and a really good 5f horse needs to finish strong.

“At the start of the year when we ran him at Dundalk, and we’d only had him I think six or seven weeks, we destroyed Logo Hunter, who was the top sprinter in Ireland in the middle of the summer as well as Jack Davison’s horse [Mooneista]. We gave one 5lb and the other 10lb – and we beat them 3l and 4l on a fast surface!

“So it doesn’t worry me – he handles soft ground, but I think he’ll be better on a better surface.”

And while this is McGuinness’s first trip west, it is not a first racing trip abroad – last year he went east running horses in Dubai and, on the same clashing weekend, in Doha and Saudia Arabia.

It was a successful mission. Bowerman won the mile Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cup, giving the yard its first international success, while Saltonstall finished an honourable fourth in Riyadh picking up £36,496 for his efforts.

Sourcing horses to target these sorts of races is very much on the agenda for the team moving forward – McGuinness goes through the catalogues, while Thorne despatches himself to the sales responsible for buying under his Shamrock Thoroughbreds and syndicate banner.

The partnership with Thorne kicked off the development of a strategy to bring a more commercially sound footing to the yard.

“There was a big squeeze in this country back in 2006 and 2007,” recalls McGuinness.

“It was just really really difficult and basically I called myself

Assistant trainer Stephen Thorne putting in the hard yards at the Horses in Training Sales Photo: Laura Green, courtesy of Tattersalls

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You look at their form and you don’t want one with too many miles on the clock, you want them quite fresh, you don’t want them with 20 or 25 runs on them

a ‘survival trainer’ because that’s all you were doing, just trying to survive, just to stay going and it was very hard.

“Ireland is probably the hardest country in the world to train horses because we have the best horses, some of the best trainers, and the biggest operations in the world to compete against. We’d always we’ve be looking at offers, all the time to sell on horses just to keep going.

“Steven is a cousin, he’d worked with me and then went off to work in Australia before getting on the Flying Start – he did a lot of travels and met a lot of people. He came back and I thought he was only home for Christmas, but he came up to me and said, ‘Do you mind if I stay around?’

“I said, ‘Great!’ We had a good chat and we decided that we had to try and up the ante, try and get better horses. We bought one or two cheap-ish horses, and it worked well, Steven’s syndicate went well.

“I met our yard sponsor Bart O’Sullivan – I met him by chance on the beach – and he introduced us to the Dooley brothers.

“We got some capital into the yard, found some nice horses and worked it from there.

“The Dooley brothers love coming over and they love Galway and they’ve had a lot of winners at Galway over the last few years – we’ve won a lot of the big races at Galway, three consecutive runnings of the Colm Quinn Mile, and that probably really helped us to move forwards.”

Of the effort that goes into sourcing at the horses in training sales, McGuinness outlines.

“There is a lot of hard work at the sales and you just don’t go to the sales with money and buy horses – you know you have a lot of work to do.

Bowerman winning the ITM Cup in Doha, a first international race win for the team

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“You look at their form and you don’t want one with too many miles on the clock, you want them quite fresh, you don’t want them with 20 or 25 runs on them.

“There’s a lot of things you have to look in to, and we have bought some really nice horses but who came with problems – Saltonstall was a horse who had bled. Bowerman was the same and he had a screw in a joint as well, but he was very lightly raced, even though he was a five-year-old.

“Some people won’t go near a horse such as him, but for us, as he’d only had a few runs, there was not much wear and tear; if they are high-class horses then you have a good chance of keeping them.”

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LLIED TO McGuinness’s natural horsemanship – the son of a vegatable farmer, the horse interest first developed for him in the showjumping sphere – the god-given facilities at the yard could be a key factor in helping these horses get over any issues they might arrive with.

The beach is only a three-minute box drive away (it used to be in riding distance but the ongoing development of the local town has rendered that too dangerous) and on the easy days many of the horses head to the beach for a spa day.

“In most yards the day after galloping, they will go on the walker, be thrown out into the paddock or have jog around the gallop, but we take them down to the beach, walk them knee-high in the water, give them a little canter and then go back in the water,” explains the trainer.

“I think if they are a bit achy and sore it must be a whole lot better than having a jog around the gallop.

“I suppose it is like a bit of therapy as well – when you walk across the beach you know you’re gonna feel really good after it,” he smiles.

The lucrative prize-money opportunities is the main reasoning behind the journeys overseas, but there is little more strategy, too.

“The prize-money is obviously a massive attraction and the organisations cover a lot of expenses, too,” he says, before adding: “But it is also just great to get out. You know you will meet people and it’s all about trying to attract more owners to your yard and get more people in.

“It’s quite a hard thing to do to attract new clients and we have to go and approach them, they don’t come to us.

“But you need to have good horses to be able to go to these places and they don’t come cheap!”

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broodmare plying Plying: the daughter of Hard Spun and dam of the three-time Group 1 winner Alcohol Free

Martin Cooney of Jossestown Farm explains to Aisling Crowe how, from a short list of just two, he and partner Elaine Shaw ended up buying the dam of Alcohol Free, and how they have how come to the decision her to offer her at this month’s Goffs Breeding Stock Sale Photos of Plying courtesy of Goffs and Jossestown Farm

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ACING IS BUILT ON dreams, grand, modest and everything in between, but each and every single one is the rocket fuel that keeps the ship of dreams in orbit.

When Martin Cooney of Jossestown Farm walked into the Goffs sales complex in November 2018, he and his partner Elaine Shaw had studied the catalogue for the company’s November Breeding Stock Sale in detail, and were of the view that they should select mares they felt offered them the best opportunity of a quick return on their investment.

With the research done and the list completed Cooney and Shaw, who works at Kiltinan Castle Stud, where she is heavily involved in foaling the mares, honed-in on two mares who fulfilled the necessary criteria.

The first mare exceeded their budget so they were left with a single shot at buying the young, in-foal mare with the potential they had come to Goffs with the intention of purchasing. Their chosen one was the then eight-year-old Plying, a daughter of Hard Spun who had won twice at three in France for Henri-Alex Pantall and Sheikh Mohammed.

The plan came to fruition, she was knocked down to Jossestown Farm at €21,000 from the draft of Jockey Hall Stud; the duo happy with their work.

Out of the Fairy King mare Nasaieb, who was third in the Listed National Stakes at two for Clive Brittain, Plying may not have been a star on the track but she has exceeded all expectations as a broodmare.

So what was it that Cooney saw in the

She had a great head on her and she had a grand action, with a deep girth and she was in-foal to Starspangledbanner mare, who had produced just one runner at the time of the 2018 sale?

“She had a great head on her and she had a grand action, with a deep girth and she was in-foal to Starspangledbanner,” Cooney explains of the logic and reasoning that guided their selection of Plying, adding: “The sire was going quite well at the time and the reasoning behind our decision was that, if the foal was any way good looking, then we would make back the price of the mare with a bit of luck the following year.”

His experience with blue-chip bloodstock began long before he bought Plying – Cooney started out his working life at Kiltinan Castle, the farm from which he eventually acquired his other broodmare Danehill Dreamer, a half-sister to the Group 1 winners Summoner and Compton Admiral and to the dam of Group 1 winner The Fugue.

All his family has had a stint working in stud farms, away from the family farm where his father also bred NH horses and where Cooney inherited his love of horses. Cooney

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broodmare plying went on to work in the racing side of the business, riding his first winner between the flags for Enda Bolger.

“I spent a couple of years down there with Enda and that was a good education,” he smiles, recalling his formative experiences in the industry. “I spent a couple of years with Harry Fry in England, as well, and I worked for Mouse Morris here, too.”

His time at Fry’s Dorset yard coincided with that of the Champion Hurdler Rock On Ruby, who hails from a similar area of Tipperary as Cooney. It’s a time he remembers with fondness, but the land and farm called him home, as it has done for generations of Irish people.

“I now work with PJ Colleville, near Rosegreen, breaking Flat and NH horses, and he is a top horseman and I have learned so much from him,” he adds.

This month Cooney and Plying will return to Goffs in a very different position than the

I don’t know but it’s probably like when you’re at an All-Ireland final and Tipp is winning, there’s just that adrenaline rush

one they were in when the Hard Spun mare boarded the box from Naas to Jossestown Farm, near Fethard in Tipperary three years’ ago.

Plying’s No Nay Never foal, who was sold at Goffs’ two days before her dam, is now the triple Group 1 winner Alcohol Free.

It is quite the pedigree transformation.

The first two races that have produced this metamorphosis are eloquently recalled by Cooney.

“That first moment that was just unbelievable. I’m not joking, the first time round I nearly felt like throwing the telly through the window and the second time was the same thing,” he remarks of Alcohol Free’s victories in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes and Coronation Stakes for trainer Andrew Balding, owner Jeff Smith and jockey Oisin Murphy.

“You’re just waiting for the race to come, everyone’s anxious and you’re just watching

Plying had a Gleneagles filly foal this year and is carrying a filly by Lope De Vega. Her 2019 foal is called Hooked On You, and is in training with Karl Burke

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broodmare plying it and wanting it be over. Suddenly you see that she is going to win, I can’t explain the feeling.

“I don’t know but it’s probably like when you’re at an All-Ireland final and Tipp is winning, there’s just that adrenaline rush.”

After that Cheveley Park victory in 2020 there was the initial fleeting consideration of whether Plying should be sold; putative offers were drifting in the ether. A conversation with Balding convinced Cooney that Alcohol Free was no one-hit wonder and that more glory awaited the No Nay Never filly this year if her luck held, so Cooney and Shaw made the decision to hold on to their valuable asset by then in-foal to Gleneagles.

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HAT DECISION has been rewarded with the 2021 threeyear-old Group 1 victories for Alcohol Free – after the Coronation Stakes she went on to defeat the 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Poetic Flare in the Sussex Stakes.

Aside from the Group 1 success, there has been further movement on the pedigree page since that purchase by Cooney in 2018.

Plying’s 2016 Camelot colt was named Alexander James and is now the Listed Prix Le Fabuleux winner.

And what of the Starspangledbanner foal?

She was bought for 130,000gns at last year’s Tattersalls December Yearling Sale

by Creighton Schwartz Bloodstock, fulfilling those initial hopes harboured by Cooney when purchasing Plying.

Now named Hooked On You she is in training Karl Burke for John and Jess Dance.

She has run twice and finished third in a novice fillies’ race at Kempton last time out.

Plying has also moved forward in the covering shed – she is carrying a daughter of the top-class international sire Lope De Vega, while this year’s Gleneagles halfsister to the triple Group 1 winner has successfully been weaned off her dam and is at Jossestown Farm.

But owning the young dam of a triple Group 1 winner and a Listed winner when you have a business to develop and a future to build creates its own dilemma and it resides in the harsh space where the

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It’s not because of what she has done, but it’s ‘her’ at home; she’s there nearly three years now and you’re not just going to forget about her… romance of the dream and the pragmatism of the business collide.

Cooney is developing the equine element of Jossestown Farm where Plying currently lives with Danehill Dreamer, the only two mares that he currently owns. A sheep and Alcohol Free winning the Sussex Stakes (G1)

suckler cattle enterprise, along with a NH pinhooking operation, he is expanding with a new barn being built alongside all the necessary facilities that will allow him to operate the boarding, foaling and consigning business which he is developing.

Releasing the equity in Plying would enable him to create the business and farm that he aspires to.

“I have only two Flat mares at the moment and I have a couple of boarders already, but I hope to increase those numbers and offer foaling facilities, as well as sales consigning for clients,” he outlines. “It has been a slow process, but it is finally coming around.

“I think there might be an opening in the locality for the foaling element and if people see that you are doing things properly, they will support you,” is his assessment.

Making the decision to offer Plying for sale at Goffs was a difficult one and the days and weeks of agonising which surely preceded it are audible when he speaks of the choice he wrestled with.

He is honest enough to allow a glimpse of those conflicting emotions and thoughts, which were finally resolved by the decision to put the mare on the market.

“I would love to keep Plying, but what she is worth would do a lot more for me in life, and she’s too valuable to probably be sitting in my field,” he confides.

It is a bittersweet choice.

“There’s a happy side to it, you’re absolutely thrilled that she has bred a Group 1 winner and a Listed winner from five foals, but the other side of it is sad because you’re selling her.

“You’re obviously hoping she makes as much as she can but it’s hard to see her go, you do grow attached to them. It’s not because of what she has done, but it’s ‘her’ at home; she’s there nearly three years now and you’re not just going to forget about her…”

Cooney has complete belief in the mare.

Right from the moment he bought her he had a conviction that she was going to be a success and that faith remains unshakable.

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Dispersal sales offer unique opportunities for breeders and investors, and five years ago the Wildenstein Stables Dispersal took place at the Goffs Orby and Breeding Stock sales.

Already two Grade 1 winners and a juvenile Group 1 performer have emerged – Martin Stevens takes a look at what has happened over the last five years

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COMPLETE DISPERSAL of a major breeder’s stock is the holy grail for buyers and sales companies alike.

Owners and breeders relish being able to buy lots from families who haven’t come onto the market in years, confident that the horses are being moved on for no other reason than the vendor’s farm is winding down.

Auction houses, meanwhile, will not only receive all the extra commission generated by those sales, but they can also expect other lots in the sale to attract more interest, on the principle that a rising tide lifts all boats.

Sadly, those dispersals are often after a prominent breeder’s death, and we will be seeing one such through the remainder of this year and into next as many of the horses who have, would have or would have produced stock to run in the blue and white colours of Sheikh Hamdan are to be sold to new homes and stud farms.

The continuing ongoing results of the Wildenstein dispersal reveals just what opportunites such a scattering of stock can create.

Five years ago Goffs won the right to conduct the truly momentous dispersal, as David Wildenstein brought the curtain down on decades of racecourse success enjoyed by his uncle Alec and grandfather Daniel by putting the majority of the Wildenstein Stables horses on the market.

“I was tipped the wink by Christy Grassick

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at Coolmore, who is also a board director at Goffs,” recalls the company’s chief executive Henry Beeby. “He mentioned to me that this dispersal would be coming, and that I should sharpen my pencil and be prepared to make a move for it.

“I spoke to David Wildenstein at some length, we gave a presentation, and there was some to-ing and fro-ing. That year, during yearling inspections when I was waiting to hear if our bid had been successful, I did something I’ve never done before – I took a phone into the field.

Usually I’d think it was disrespectful to the person whose horses you’re looking at.

“I said to Hamish Alexander, who was inspecting yearlings with me, to carry on looking at the horses, and so it was in the middle of a field in County Kildare that David Wildenstein agreed to use Goffs rather above any other auction house to stage the dispersal.”

And so the Wildenstein Stables dispersal, excluding the Ballymore Thoroughbred horses owned by Diane Wildenstein, commenced at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale in September 2016.

The Castlebridge Consignment presented the lots to the sale, just as they had for the Paulyn Dispersal in the same sale ring three years earlier.

Some 17 yearlings were sold, ranging in price from the €1.4 million paid by Godolphin for the Dubawi colt out of Poule d’Essai des Pouliches heroine Beauty Parlour

Her 2016 foal Blowout (Dansii) is a Grade 1 winner of this year and is a Breeders’ Cup hopeful

wildenstein dispersal 5yrs on

Making the most of

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wildenstein dispersal 5yrs on to the €5,000 given by Tim Easterby for a Pour Moi colt out of a three-parts sister to Aquarelliste.

As it turned out, Airplane, as Easterby’s bargain basement purchase was named, won twice as many races and a little more prize-money than Being There, Godolphin’s seven-figure Dubawi acquisition who won a Newmarket maiden at two for Charlie Appleby but did little thereafter.

Jeremy Brummitt snagged a bargain when signing at €50,000 for an Orpen filly out of the Gold Away mare Premiere Danseuse – she was resold by Johnny Hassett’s Bloodstock Connection to Blandford Bloodstock for €190,000 at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale. Named Pretty Baby, she was trained by William Haggas to win five races, two at Group 3 level.

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HINA HORSE CLUB also did well to secure Paths Of Glory, a Mastercraftsman colt closely related to Pretty Baby, for €60,000. He won four races and climbed to a BHA rating of 98 for Hugo Palmer before moving to Australia, where he won a Group 3 at Randwick for Richard and Michael Freedman this April.

But what turned out to be the most significant yearling transaction in the dispersal, for more than one reason, was Eugenio Colombo’s purchase of a son of Dark Angel and the Listed-placed Mr Greeley mare Rosa Bonheur for €90,000.

The colt was named Raging Bull, was shipped to the US to join the barn of Chad Brown, and carries the colours of Peter Brant – more of whom later. He has won seven of his 21 starts, including the Hollywood Derby (G1) at three, the Shoemaker Mile (G1) at five and the Maker’s Mark Mile (G1) this year at six, and has hit the board in another six Grade 1 events.

He is due to start his stallion career at Gainesway next spring.

“Raging Bull is a knockout physically,” says Gainesway’s general manager Brian Graves. “His six triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures and his performances over 14 Grade 1 events are impressive.

“His sire Dark Angel has become one of

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Some 17 yearlings were sold, ranging in price from the €1.4 million paid

by Godolphin for the Dubawi colt out of Poule d’Essai des Pouliches heroine Beauty Parlour to the €5,000 given

by Tim Easterby

the most influential sires in international racing.”

A one-off horses in training section was tacked onto the end of the Orby Yearling Sale that year to accommodate the two and three-year-olds in the Wildenstein Stables Dispersal.

Results from this part of the auction made it clear that Brant – an industry kingpin in the 1980s and 1990s who co-owned Kentucky Derby (G1) victor Swale, bred another Kentucky Derby winner in Thunder Gulch and raced Triptych in the latter stages of her career – was determined to buy his way back into the upper echelons of the sport.

Joseph Allen, acting on behalf of Brant’s White Birch operation, bought the top lot Pavini, a daughter of Dubawi and the Group 2 winner Peinture Rare, for €600,000, Azzedine, a Dansili half-brother to Prix du Moulin runner-up Akatea, for €300,000, and Painter’s Muse, a Smart Strike half-sister to Pavini, for €60,000.

Alan Quartucci also successfully bid €270,000 for Asterina, a Dalakhani half-

Raging Bull: a yearling purchase out of the Mr Greeley mare Rosa Bonheur. The 2015-born colt

by Dark Angel is now a three-time Grade 1 winner and earner of over £1.1 million in prize funds.

He is due to start his breeding career at Gainesway Farm at a fee of $10,000

wildenstein dispersal 5yrs on sister to Azzedine and Akatea, and Colombo signed at €90,000 for the Elusive Quality filly Andira, both on Brant’s behalf.

The dispersal continued at the Goffs November Sale, starting with 17 foals, all with mouth-watering pedigrees.

Joseph Allen once again put White Birch on the buyer’s docket for five of those lots, headed by a Dansili filly out of Beauty Parlour at €450,000.

Blowout, as she was named, has proved money well spent by winning five of her 14 starts for Chad Brown, including the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes at Keeneland in October. She might also distinguish herself further this autumn in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1).

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HE TOP-PRICED FOAL did not end up being knocked down to Brant, though. It was instead Shadwell’s Stephen Collins who landed the stunning Siyouni filly out of Amerique, a Listedplaced daughter of Galileo and Aquarelliste, for €775,000.

Maqsad, as she came to be known after

Stone Age (green) finishing second to Atomic Jones in the Group 2 KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes, he went on to finish second in the Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1). He is out of the Anabaa mare Bonanza Creek, who was bought by White Birch for €270,000

having her name changed from A Nous La Liberte, was sent out by William Haggas to win the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes by 5l and, although she didn’t show that level of form again, she has become a treasured member of the Shadwell broodmare band.

She gave birth to her first foal, a Kingman colt, in February and is back in foal to Sea The Stars.

However, it was the breeding-stock portion of the Wildenstein Stables Dispersal that created the most thrilling episodes of sales-ring drama, though, especially as Brant chose that moment to finally sweep into Kildare Paddocks.

There were 28 fillies and mares up for grabs, and White Birch signed for ten of those, including the most expensive of all,

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wildenstein dispersal 5yrs on Beauty Parlour, at €1.6 million, Maqsad’s dam Amerique at €975,000, Beauty Parlour’s half-sister Blue Kimono cost him €675,000, Akatea’s dam Altamira was a €530,000 purchase, he went to €410,000 for Peinture Rare, while the Listed winner Lady Of Kyushu cost him €310,000.

Ironically, though, it was two of the three cheaper broodmare purchases who have done best for Brant in the breeding shed at this early stage.

Bonanza Creek, a winning Anabaa half-sister to Prix de Diane heroine Bright Sky who cost “just” €270,000, is the dam of this year’s Group 2 KPMG Champions Juvenile and Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1) runner-up Stone Age, while Marunouchi, a winning daughter of Peintre Celebre, who was a relative steal at €90,000, has produced Agador, a 6l scorer in a Mont-deMarsan maiden for Jean-Claude Rouget in September on his sole start.

A few other breeders managed to bag themselves bargains, too.

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TALL PARTHENAUE from Germany bought Beata, a winning Silver Frost half-sister to Bonanza Creek and Bright Sky, for €88,000.

The first foal she has produced is Best Of Lips, a son of The Gurkha who was the wide-margin winner of the Group 2 Union-Rennen at Cologne in June.

Crispin de Moubray gave €85,000 for Parade Music, a winning daughter of Giant’s Causeway, on behalf of Jean-Claude Seroul and that mare’s first foal is Morton, a New Bay colt who has won three races and finished a close second in Listed company for Jean-Pierre Gauvin this season.

Meanwhile, James McHale and Larry Stratton paid €55,000 for Venetian Beauty, an unraced Lear Fan full-sister to Prix de l’Opera winner Verveine.

She was already the dam of Listed-placed Vermont, and the purchase was gilded by Vengeur Masque, then merely a dual winner in France on her catalogue page but now the winner of two Group 3s and runner-up in the Group 1 Sydney Cup. McHale and his father Chris have since bred this season’s Newmarket novice stakes

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In all, the Wildenstein foals brought €3,267,500 in revenue and the mares made €9,159,000 winner and Sweet Solera Stakes (G3) third Value Theory by sending Venetian Beauty to Gleneagles.

In all, the Wildenstein foals brought €3,267,500 in revenue and the mares made €9,159,000. Added to the €7,817,000 amassed at the Orby Sale, the whole dispersal generated receipts of more than €20.2 million. Brant is estimated to have contributed €7.7 million to that total.

“We knew Eugenio was buying for Peter Brant at the Orby Sale, but we didn’t know then that Peter was going to get quite so stuck in, though it was wonderful that he did,” says Beeby.

“It was a nice tie-up. When Peter came to Goffs in November I went to greet him in the hospitality rooms we’d put aside for him. He said it was nice to meet me, and I replied that we’d met before. He looked at me askance, and I told him that I’d once worked for him and it really threw him.

“I explained that I was working for Fasig-Tipton when he bought a controlling share in the company in 1987, and he seemed to think that was vaguely amusing, or at least he was polite enough to say he found it amusing!

“I was an intern then, only 21 years old, and he gave a big speech that we all went and Big spender: Peter Brandt Photo courtesy of the Breeders’ Cup

listened to on the eve of the sale. It was great to have him here, he seemed to enjoy it all, and although he hasn’t been back since he has done plenty of business with us, most notably through Demi O’Byrne.”

Reflecting on the delights of a dispersal, Beeby adds: “They’re great to get, but they only come up once in a while. We won the right to hold the Paulyn dispersal, we won the Wildenstein dispersal, but we missed out on the Ballymacoll Stud dispersal. Still, two out of three ain’t bad.

“Every auction house hopes to secure them, they’re a huge vote of confidence, and we were probably the outsiders of two, if not three, to get the Paulyn and Wildenstein dispersals. So it was pleasing that both vendors went on record saying they were delighted with how things went, they liked our service, and were pleased with the results.”

The hunt continues for the next heavyweight dispersal at Goffs. The sale of some of Shadwell stock as part of its downsizing in the wake of Sheikh Hamdan’s death, while not a total clear-out, will no doubt still attract plenty of buyers this winter.

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The ladies’ men

Tom Wilson examines leading broodmare stallion statistics from this year and then goes back to accumulated results since 2008

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HIS MONTH we are looking into various aspects of performance across horseracing through the application of data by analysing broodmare sire performance.

In this article we aim to assess which broodmare sires are delivering the best returns

on the track, and by also delving deeper into the data, assessing those broodmare sires who are performing over and above expected levels and who could offer value to breeders.

Let’s start with performance in 2021 and focus in on stakes races across UK and Ireland.

We’ll start with looking at raw wins – which broodmare sires

have the best win records in stakes races over the course of the past year?

Galileo performs the best as a broodmare sire in terms of total wins delivered in stakes races this year with a grand total of 23 wins from 212 runs (see table below).

His stakes winners included: • Snowfall (Deep Impact x

Leading broodmare sires in Britain and Ireland 2021 by stakes race wins Broodmare sire

Runs

Wins

Win

Places

Place

Races

Galileo (IRE)....................................................212..............................23..............................10.85............................... 58.....................................27.36.................................150 Danehill Dancer (IRE).................................121..............................17..............................14.05............................... 36.....................................29.75...................................96 Dansili................................................................. 98..............................14..............................14.29............................... 32.....................................32.65...................................91 Pivotal................................................................. 92..............................14..............................15.22............................... 26.....................................28.26...................................78 Dubawi (IRE).................................................... 45..............................11..............................24.44............................... 18.....................................40.00...................................42 Acclamation..................................................... 59..............................10..............................16.95............................... 16.....................................27.12...................................57 Kingmambo (USA)........................................ 37................................ 9..............................24.32............................... 16.....................................43.24...................................35 Oasis Dream...................................................115................................ 9................................ 7.83............................... 28.....................................24.35...................................99 Danehill (USA)................................................. 75................................ 8..............................10.67............................... 17.....................................22.67...................................69 Shamardal (USA)............................................ 57................................ 8..............................14.04............................... 24.....................................42.11...................................54 Makfi................................................................... 23................................ 7..............................30.43..................................7.....................................30.43...................................23 Diktat.................................................................. 28................................ 6..............................21.43............................... 13.....................................46.43...................................27 Nayef (USA)...................................................... 13................................ 6..............................46.15..................................8.....................................61.54...................................13 Arch (USA)........................................................ 18................................ 6..............................33.33............................... 10.....................................55.56...................................18 Dalakhani (IRE)................................................ 47................................ 6..............................12.77............................... 17.....................................36.17...................................45 Titus Livius (FR)............................................... 18................................ 6..............................33.33..................................8.....................................44.44...................................17 Teofilo (IRE)....................................................... 46................................ 6..............................13.04............................... 18.....................................39.13...................................42 Selkirk (USA).................................................... 39................................ 6..............................15.38............................... 13.....................................33.33...................................35 Street Cry (IRE)................................................ 26................................ 5..............................19.23............................... 12.....................................46.15...................................25 Cape Cross (IRE).............................................. 68................................ 5................................ 7.35............................... 21.....................................30.88...................................64

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Best In The World) • St Mark’s Basilica (Siyouni x Cabaret) • Maker Of Kings (Zoffany x Desire Moi) • Earlswood (Pivotal x Field of Miracles) • There was one win apiece for the following; Queenship, Limiti Di Greccio, Mise En Scene, Concert Hall, Bear Story, New

broodmare sire stats Science, Angel Bleu, Astadash, Albaflora, Tribal Craft, Save A Forest, Foxes Tales and Space Traveller.

In terms of win percentage it’s actually Nayef who tops our rankings with an impressive haul of six wins from 13 runs

and a strike rate of 46.15 per cent in stakes races in UK and Ireland across 2021.

Those six wins have been yielded from three individual runners – Palace Pier (Kingman x Beach Frolic), Eshaada (Muhaarar x Muhawalah)

Top performing broodmare sires vs the market Broodmare sire

Wins

Expected wins

WAX

Pivotal........................................... 14.........................................9.41......................................+4.59 Makfi...............................................7..........................................3.06......................................+3.94 Dubawi (IRE).............................. 11.........................................7.49......................................+3.51 Arch (USA)....................................6..........................................2.49......................................+3.51 Titus Livius (FR)...........................6..........................................2.49......................................+3.51 Hawk Wing (USA).......................4..........................................0.66......................................+3.34 Diktat..............................................6..........................................2.78......................................+3.22 Danehill Dancer (IRE)............. 17......................................13.96......................................+3.04 Nayef (USA)..................................6..........................................3.06......................................+2.94 Dansili........................................... 14......................................11.37......................................+2.63

and Glounthaune (Kodiac x Khaimah).

Pay special attention to the records of Titus Livius and Makfi. Titus Livius has delivered six stakes wins from his broodmares this year from 18 runs. Those six wins have again been contributed by three individual runners : • Winter Power (Bungle Inthejungle x Titian Saga) • Qaysar (Choisir x Coco Demure) • Measure Of Magic (Kodi Bear x Lilly Be) Makfi, who now stands in Japan, has had a sensational year as a broodmare sire and his winners included Chipotle (Havana Gold x Lightsome), Just Beautiful (Pride Of Dubai x Astrelle), Brunch (Harbour Watch x Granola), Create Belief (Awtaad x Girl Of The Hour)

and Tactical (Toronado x Make Fast).

Congratulations also to Danehill Dancer for delivering 17 stakes wins in 2021 from 14 individual runners out of 12 individual mares.

Makfi, who now stands in Japan, has had a sensational year as a broodmare sire

Left, Galileo is once again the leading broodmare sire in terms of stakes wins. Below, the Listed winner Brunch is out of Granola, a mare by Makfi

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broodmare sire stats Searching for value

under-valued by the market, and as such could represent value opportunities.

Let’s move on to explore those broodmare sires, who may be

Broodmare sires by win percentage since 2008 (also rivals beaten analysis) Broodmare sire

Runs

Wins

Win %

Rivals Beaten %

RB vs Avg

Shamardal (USA)

3,522

487

13.83

53.93

3.93

Street Cry (IRE)

2,155

295

13.69

55.33

5.33

Kingmambo (USA)

5,279

705

13.35

54.07

4.07

Galileo (IRE)

10,000

1,331

13.31

54.22

4.22

Intikhab (USA)

2,182

284

13.02

53.24

3.24

Mark Of Esteem (IRE)

5,544

719

12.97

53.10

3.10

Highest Honor (FR)

2,216

285

12.86

52.76

2.76

Dubawi (IRE)

2,731

351

12.85

52.13

2.13

354

12.53

Storm Cat (USA)

2,825

52.71

2.71

Diktat

3,704 461 12.45

50.83

0.83

Rahy (USA)

3,529

52.96

2.96

Pivotal

10,000 1233 12.33

52.65

2.65

Daylami (IRE)

3,051

375

12.29

51.85

1.85

Cape Cross (IRE)

6,789

830

12.23

51.71

1.71

Danehill (USA)

13,459

1,637

12.16

53.02

3.02

439

12.44

We have used a metric called Wins-Against-Expectation (WAX), which calculates the win expectation given to a horse by the market, based on their expected win probability at Betfair SP. This then allows us to assess whether the runners are performing above or below the level of expectation set by a very efficient market.

See overleaf for the top performing broodmare sire versus the market.

Broadening our scope

I like to use a broader dataset than in-year analysis in any analysis work that I do, so let’s broaden the data set.

We went back to 2008 and compared the performance of broodmare sires in that time period.

Shamardal comes out as the highest performing broodmare sire on win percentage with 487 wins from 3,522 runs from his mare’s foals.

The percentage rivals beaten is a further performance metric that we use to measure performance as it compares all layers of performance through a race and not just the win, par here is 50 per cent.

We can also use the average official rating achieved of progeny to provide an angle on performance, with Storm Cat, Kingmambo, Galileo and stalweart broodmare sire Darshaan rounding out the podium positions here.

We also measure performance by assessing the number of horses produced and the level of ability that they manage to achieve on the track.

Leading broodmare sires by number of horses produced and percentage of horses rated over 110

Broodmare sires by average rating

Broodmare Sire

Broodmare sire Horses

Horses

OR90+

OR100+

OR110+

OR90+

OR100+

OR110+

Average OR

Storm Cat (USA)...........................234........................71..............................47..................................20.............................. 30.34........................20.09.........................8.55

Storm Cat

234

82.45

Danehill (USA)..............................953.....................287........................... 162..................................81.............................. 30.12........................17.00........................ 8.50

Kingmambo

371

81.70

Kingmambo (USA).....................371.....................107..............................69..................................29.............................. 28.84........................18.60........................ 7.82

Galileo

882 81.05

Mr Prospector (USA)..................169........................52..............................32..................................12.............................. 30.77........................18.93........................ 7.10

Darshaan 763 80.89

Darshaan........................................763.....................242........................... 133..................................52.............................. 31.72........................17.43........................ 6.82

Street Cry

176

80.85

Rahy (USA).....................................238........................73..............................40..................................16.............................. 30.67........................16.81........................ 6.72

Mr Prospector

169

80.48

Nureyev (USA)..............................205........................48..............................24..................................13.............................. 23.41........................11.71........................ 6.34

Danehill 953 80.20

Bishop Of Cashel........................... 81........................15.................................8.................................... 5.............................. 18.52.......................... 9.88........................ 6.17

Shamardal 281 79.89

Anabaa (USA)...............................262........................71..............................43..................................16.............................. 27.10........................16.41........................ 6.11

Rahy

Shirley Heights............................250........................62..............................34..................................15.............................. 24.80........................13.60........................ 6.00

Anabaa 262 79.20

Highest Honor (FR) ...................155........................38..............................22.................................... 9.............................. 24.52........................14.19........................ 5.81

Sadler’s Wells

Mark Of Esteem (IRE).................331........................84..............................49..................................19.............................. 25.38........................14.80........................ 5.74

Pivotal

Distant View (USA).....................162........................35..............................16.................................... 9.............................. 21.60.......................... 9.88........................ 5.56

Montjeu 417 79.06

Linamix (FR)..................................277........................74..............................44..................................15.............................. 26.71........................15.88........................ 5.42

Highest Honor

Sadlers Wells (USA)................. 1498.....................399........................... 213..................................79.............................. 26.64........................14.22........................ 5.27

Dynaformer 146 78.53

Singspiel (IRE)...............................446........................86..............................46..................................22.............................. 19.28........................10.31........................ 4.93

Linamix 277 78.53

Rainbow Quest (USA)...............698.....................165..............................96..................................34.............................. 23.64........................13.75........................ 4.87

Seeking The Gold 212

78.27

Salse (USA).....................................124........................25..............................11.................................... 6.............................. 20.16.......................... 8.87........................ 4.84

Giants Causeway 276

78.26

Elusive Quality (USA).................229........................43..............................23..................................11.............................. 18.78........................10.04........................ 4.80

Dansili

573 78.09

Peintre Celebre (USA)................317........................61..............................35..................................15.............................. 19.24........................11.04........................ 4.73

Mark Of Esteem

331

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79.77 79.19

724 79.13 155

78.72

78.01

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Broodmare stakes sires 2021 Broodmare sires of stakes winners in Europe and UAE in 2021 Horses are listed under their broodmare sire with the respective sire in brackets. Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including 17.10.21 Acclamation Broome (Australia)................................1 2 3 L Illykato (Toronado)...........................................L Point Lonsdale (Australia)......................2 3 L Rohaan (Mayson)..........................................2 3 Royal Commando (No Nay Never)............L Txope (Siyouni)..................................................L

Anabaa Bayside Boy (New Bay)...................................2 Bolshoi Ballet (Galileo)................................3 3 Coeursamba (The Wow Signal)...................1 Marianafoot (Footstepsinthesand).1 3 3 L Monty (Motivator)........................................ L L Padron (Gris De Gris).......................................L

Act One Nazanin (Declaration Of War)......................3 Zeyaadah (Tamayuz).......................................3

Arakan Power Under Me (Mehmas).........................L

Adlerflug Mercedes (Sea The Moon)............................L Alamshar Snapraeterea (Buratino)............................. L L Alkalde Nerium (Camelot).............................................2 Allied Forces National Service (Elusive City).....................L Alzao Burgarita (Sea The Stars)................................L Amadeus Wolf Nationalista (Nathaniel).................................L

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Arcano Primo Bacio (Awtaad).....................................L Arch Goldspur (Dubawi)..........................................L Solid Stone (Shamardal).........................3 3 L Ville De Grace (Le Havre)...........................3 L Archipenko Oriental Mystique (Kingman)......................L Areion Alenquer (Adlerflug)...................................2 3 Daring Light (Jukebox Jury).........................L Dibujaba (Soldier Hollow)......................... L L Quebueno (Adlerflug)....................................L Rip Van Lips (Rip Van Winkle).......................2 Sharoka (Rock Of Gibraltar)..........................L

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Authorized Lord Charming (Charm Spirit).....................L Teona (Sea The Stars)..................................1 L Top Rank (Dark Angel)....................................L Avonbridge Liberty Beach (Cable Bay).............................2

Big Shuffle Dancing King (Free Eagle).............................3 Reine D’amour (Soldier Hollow).............3 L Black Minnaloushe Have A Good Day (Adaay).............................3

Azamour Dilawar (Dubawi)..............................................3 Incarville (Wootton Bassett).........................1

Blame Bellharbour Music (Mshawish)....................3 Padovana (Sea The Moon)............................L Sacred (Exceed And Excel)........................2 3

Balmont Ebro River (Galileo Gold)............................1 L

Cadeaux Genereux Singforthemoment (No Nay Never)..........L

Banyumanik Naida (Reliable Man).......................................L

Camacho Exalted Angel (Dark Angel)..........................L

Barathea Lord Riddiford (Zebedee)..............................L

Candy Ride Jazz Explosion (Red Jazz)...............................L

Beat Hollow Sacred Bridge (Bated Breath)...................3 L

Canford Cliffs Bellosa (Awtaad)...............................................L

Bering Stradivarius (Sea The Stars)................... 2 2 3

Cape Cross Emaraaty Ana (Shamardal)...........................1 Gustavus Weston (Equiano).....................2 3 Mouillage (Toronado).....................................L Rumi (Frankel)................................................2 3

Big Bad Bob Oscula (Galileo Gold).......................................3

broodmare stats Tarnawa (Shamardal)......................................3 Thundering Nights (Night Of Thunder)...1 Celtic Swing Rose Secret (Sakhee’s Secret).................. L L Champs Elysees Megallan (Kingman)....................................3 L Choisir Creative Force (Dubawi).........................1 3 L Oxted (Mayson).................................................1 Red Verdon (Lemon Drop Kid)....................L Compton Place Ocean (Exosphere)...........................................3 Dabirsim Mylady (The Grey Gatsby).............................L Dalakhani Declaring Love (Dubawi)...............................L Double Or Bubble (Exceed And Excel).....L Global Giant (Shamardal)..............................L Makaloun (Bated Breath)..............................3 Royal Patronage (Wootton Bassett)......2 3 Sheraz (Sea The Stars).....................................L Solene Lilyette (Pivotal).................................L Tokyo Gold (Kendargent)..............................2

Moderator (Rio De La Plata).........................L Nayef Road (Galileo)........................................L Seisai (Gleneagles)...........................................L Sherbet Lemon (Lemon Drop Kid)............L Sir Ron Priestley (Australia)....................2 2 L Subjectivist (Teofilo)....................................1 2 Danetime Keep Busy (Night Of Thunder)....................L Dansili Ataared (Muhaarar).........................................L Atomic Force (Cotai Glory)........................2 3 Berneuil (Lope De Vega)................................3 Cadillac (Lope De Vega).................................3 Canvassed (Shamardal)..................................3 Caprice Des Dieux (Declaration Of War)..L Dream Of Dreams (Dream Ahead)........1 L Dreamflight (Frankel)......................................3 Georgeville (Dawn Approach)....................L Glorious Journey (Dubawi).......................2 3

Interpretation (Galileo)...................................L Laugh A Minute (Mayson).............................L Lope Y Fernandez (Lope De Vega).............L Majestic Glory (Frankel).................................3 Naval Crown (Dubawi)...................................L Petricor (Frankel)...............................................L Philomene (Dubawi).......................................3 Roberto Escobarr (Galileo)............................L Sweet Lady (Lope De Vega)..........................L Tilsit (First Defence).........................................2 Twilight Gleaming (National Defense).....L Valia (Sea The Stars).........................................2 Velocidad (Gleneagles)..................................2 Yesyes (Camelot)...............................................L

Sibila Spain (Frankel).......................................L Dashing Blade Square De Luynes (Manduro)..................3 3 Tiaspettofuori (Mujahid)................................L Daylami Grand Glory (Olympic Glory)...................1 3 Haparanda (Rock Of Gibraltar)....................L Juan Elcano (Frankel)......................................L Victoria Placa (Wootton Bassett)................L Definite Article Ascot Brass (Juniper Tree).............................L

Dark Angel Mystery Angel (Kodi Bear)............................L

Desert Prince Military Law (Dubawi).....................................2

Darshaan Bangkok (Australia)......................................2 L Master Of Reality (Frankel)............................L

Desert Style Adrian (Reliable Man).................................3 L

Broome: this year’s Listed, Group 3, 2 and 1 winner helped Acclamation to a good 2021 as a broodmare sire

Dandy Man No Speak Alexander (Shalaa)...................1 3 Danehill Highfield Princess (Night Of Thunder).....L Japan (Galileo)...............................................3 3 Light Of Darkness (Red Rocks)....................3 Lunar Space (Dawn Approach)...................L Master Of The Seas (Dubawi).......................3 Order Of Australia (Australia).......................2 Search For A Song (Galileo)..........................3 Willow (American Pharoah)..........................L Danehill Dancer Amazing Grace (Protectionist)....................2 Armory (Galileo)................................................2 Ecrivain (Lope De Vega).................................3 Empress Josephine (Galileo)........................1 Helvic Dream (Power).....................................1 Insinuendo (Gleneagles)...........................2 3 Lavender’s Blue (Sea The Stars)...............2 L Loving Dream (Gleneagles)......................1 2 Luxembourg (Camelot)..................................2 Magnanimous (Mehmas)..............................L

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broodmare stats Diamond Green Lusail (Mehmas)............................................2 2 Diktat Auria (Muhaarar)...............................................L Chil Chil (Exceed And Excel).........................3 Pogo (Zebedee).................................................L Romantic Proposal (Raven’s Pass)..........1 L Twilight Spinner (Twilight Son)..................L Volcanic Sky (Street Cry)................................3

Dylan Thomas Agartha (Caravaggio)..................................2 3 Sonnyboyliston (Power)............................1 L Echo Of Light Century Dream (Cape Cross)........................L Efisio Erasmo (Oasis Dream).................................3 L Maydanny (Dubawi)........................................L Scope (Teofilo)...................................................L

Distorted Humor Perseverants (Zoffany)....................................L Sugar Beat (Australia)......................................L

El Corredor Rocchigiani (Time Test)..................................3

Dixieland Band Panadol (Flatter)................................................L

Elnadim Dandalla (Dandy Man)...................................L

Doyen Grocer Jack (Oasis Dream)........................3 3 Masekela (El Kabeir).........................................L Stormy Antarctic (Stormy Atlantic)...........L

Eltish Mouheeb (Flatter)............................................3

Dubai Destination Novemba (Gleneagles)...................................2 Dubawi Adayar (Frankel)............................................1 1 Bharani Star (Sea The Stars)..........................L Dubai Fountain (Teofilo)................................L Loft (Adlerflug)..................................................L Majestic Colt (Clodovil)..............................3 3 Mostahdaf (Frankel).................................3 L L Queen Rouge (Lord Of England)................L Real World (Dark Angel)..........................2 3 L Reve De Vol (Siyouni)......................................L Without A Fight (Teofilo)...............................L Duke Of Marmalade Free Wind (Galileo).......................................2 3 Lone Eagle (Galileo).........................................L Moll (Camelot)...................................................L Dutch Art American Bridge (Kodiac).............................3 Canonized (Acclamation)..............................L Queen Rouge (Samysilver)...........................L

Elusive City Rocky Sky (Rock Of Gibraltar)......................L Rougir (Territories)...........................................1

Fantastic Light Fantastic Spirit (Charm Spirit)......................L Fasliyev Came From The Dark (Dark Angel)............3 Lazuli (Dubawi)..................................................3 Fastnet Rock Forbearance (Galileo)..................................3 L Youth Spirit (Camelot)....................................3 Fath Marlar (Kallisto)..................................................L Fitzcarraldo Saltarin Dubai (E Dubai).................................L Footstepsinthesand Cirano (Arcano)..................................................L Eve Lodge (Ardad)............................................3 Khaadem (Dark Angel)...................................L Plantstepsdream (Planteur).........................L Forest Wildcat Wild Majesty (Kodiac).....................................L

Elusive Quality Artistic Rifles (War Command)....................3 Duca Di Como (Clodovil)........................... L L Fayathaan (Mehmas).......................................3 Ideal Beauty (Invincible Spirit)....................3 Light Refrain (Frankel).................................3 L

Frozen Power Perfect Power (Ardad)............................. 1 1 2

Encosta De Lago Walton Street (Cape Cross).......................2 L

Fuisse Lady Day (Motivator)......................................L

Equiano Tardis (Time Test)..............................................L

Galileo Albaflora (Muhaarar).......................................L Angel Bleu (Dark Angel)............................1 2 Astadash (Zoffany)...........................................3 Babylone (Invincible Spirit)..........................2 Bear Story (Kodiac)...........................................3 Brigante Sabino (Zoffany).............................L Concert Hall (Dubawi)....................................3 Earlswood (Pivotal)......................................3 3 Fenelon (Fastnet Rock)...................................L Foxes Tales (Zoffany).......................................3 Harajuku (Deep Impact)................................3

Exceed And Excel Hastalavistababy (Dandy Man)...................L Laws Of Indices (Power).................................1 Master Matt (Slade Power)............................L Parent’s Prayer (Kingman).............................3 Twilight Jet (Twilight Son)............................3 Falbrav Reina Madre (Kingman).................................3

Frankel Noble Truth (Kingman)...................................L

IN NEXT MONTH’S ISSUE: 2021’s sires of stakes winners

Joie De Soir (Fastnet Rock)............................L Jupyra (Le Havre)..............................................L Limiti Di Greccio (Elzaam).............................L Maker Of Kings (Zoffany)...........................3 3 Mise En Scene (Siyouni).................................3 New Science (Lope De Vega).......................L Queenship (Excelebration)...........................L Save A Forest (Kingman)................................L Snowfall (Deep Impact)......................1 1 1 3 Solsticia (Le Havre)...........................................L Space Traveller (Bated Breath).....................L St Mark’s Basilica (Siyouni).................1 1 1 1 Thunder Drum (Dubawi)...............................3 Tribal Craft (Mastercraftsman).....................3 General Holme Trueshan (Planteur)................................. 1 1 2 Giant’s Causeway Angelinka (Pedro The Great)........................L Dawn Intello (Intello)......................................3 Go Bears Go (Kodi Bear).................................2 Lord North (Dubawi).......................................1 Topgear (Wootton Bassett)..........................3 Grand Lodge Bubble Gift (Nathaniel)..............................2 2 Bubble Smart (Intello)....................................3 Grand Slam Dato (Mount Nelson)......................................L General De Vega (Lope De Vega)........... L L Green Desert Amhran Na Bhfiann (Galileo).......................2 D’bai (Dubawi)...................................................2 Mother Earth (Zoffany)...............................1 1 Real Appeal (Sidestep)...............................2 3 Stormy Pouss (Stormy River)........................L Green Tune O Trasno (Goken)..............................................L Groom Dancer Opasan (French Navy)....................................L Haafhd Baron Samedi (Harbour Watch)..................3 Halling Rumbles Of Thunder (Night Of Thunder).L L Hard Spun Alcohol Free (No Nay Never)................ 1 1 3

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broodmare stats Harlan’s Holiday Al Tariq (Oasis Dream).................................3 L Hawk Wing Ad Infinitum (Golden Horn).........................L Oh This Is Us (Acclamation)......................3 L Hellvelyn Asymmetric (Showcasing)............................2 Henrythenavigator Ornais (Roderic O’connor).............................L Hernando Alpinista (Frankel)..................................1 1 2 L Only The Brave (Iffraaj)...................................L Suspicious Mind (Appel Au Maitre).......3 L Wishformore (Center Divider).....................3 High Chaparral Armor (No Nay Never)....................................3 Flag’s Up (War Command)........................ L L Highest Honor Ricla (Adlerflug).................................................L Holy Roman Emperor Alpen Rose (Sea The Stars)............................3 Atalis Bay (Cable Bay)......................................L Baptism (Sea The Stars)..................................3 Layfayette (French Navy)...............................L Homme De Loi Lord Glitters (Whipper)..............................1 2 Hurricane Run Azano (Oasis Dream).......................................L Vauban (Galiway)..............................................L Iffraaj Castle Star (Starspangledbanner)..........3 L Narcos (Anodin)................................................L

Indian Rocket Speak Of The Devil (Wootton Bassett).....L

Laroche Russian Souffle (Soldier Hollow)................L

Invincible Spirit Adhamo (Intello)...............................................3 Aleas (Archipenko)...........................................L Flotus (Starspangledbanner).......................L Mehmento (Mehmas).....................................L

Law Society Stex (Lord Of England)...................................L Lawman Nash Nasha (Dubawi).....................................L Panama Red (Showcasing)...........................L She Do (Siyouni)................................................L

Kahyasi Believe In Love (Make Believe)....................3

Le Havre Pyledriver (Harbour Watch)..........................1

Kalanisi Aristia (Starspangledbanner).......................L Kaldounevees La Parence (Saonois).......................................L Victor Ludorum (Shamardal).......................3 Keltos Art Power (Dark Angel)..................................3 Kendargent Galik (Galiway)...................................................L Gregolimo (Galiway).......................................L Kenway (Galiway).............................................L Sealiway (Galiway)...........................................1 Sisfahan (Isfahan)..............................................1 Kendor Soft Light (Authorized)...................................L Key Of Luck A Case Of You (Hot Streak)........................1 3

Inchinor Lights On (Siyouni)...........................................L Inchrory Stormy Ocean (Mingun)................................L

King Halo Deep Bond (Kizuna).........................................2

Indian Charlie Switzerland (Speightstown).........................3

Kingmambo Baaeed (Sea The Stars)........................1 1 3 L El Bodegon (Kodiac)........................................3 Euchen Glen (Authorized).........................3 L Hukum (Sea The Stars)........................3 3 3 L

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Lahint Tahlie (Rio De La Plata)...............................2 L

Intikhab John Leeper (Frankel).....................................L Mooneista (Dandy Man)............................2 L

Kheleyf Maria Amalia (Dubawi)...................................L The King’s Horses (Time Test).......................L With Thanks (Camacho).................................L

Indian Ridge Geocentric (Kodiac).........................................L

Lagunas Magical Lagoon (Galileo)...............................3

Vertiginous (Oasis Dream)............................L

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Lemon Drop Kid Acer Alley (Siyouni)..........................................3 Adhafera (Sea The Stars)................................L Asymmetric: a Group 2 winner for broodmare sire Hellvelyn

Raabihah (Sea The Stars)...............................2 King’s Best Fourhometwo (Ajaya).....................................L Pensiero D’amore (Zoffany)..........................L Royal Ashirah (Hot Streak)............................L Sopran Basilea (Night Of Thunder)........3 L Sun Of Gold (Golden Horn)..........................L Urgent Appeal (Showcasing).......................L Kodiac Corazon (Markaz)..............................................3 Dizzy Bizu (Caravaggio).................................L Wakanaka (Power)...........................................3 Wings Of War (Dark Angel)...........................2

Leroidesanimaux Paco (Paco Boy).................................................L Lomitas Belcarra (Estidhkaar)........................................3 Memphis (Jukebox Jury)...............................L Rubaiyat (Areion)..........................................2 L Lope De Vega Fast Attack (Kodiac).........................................3 Keyflower (Kheleyf).........................................L Lord Of England Samoa (Jukebox Jury).....................................L Sea Bay (New Bay)............................................3 Lord Shanakill Hermana Estrella (Starspangledbanner).3

Komaite Last Empire (Pivotal)........................................3

Lucky Story Il Decamerone (Born To Sea)........................L

Konigstiger La Petite Coco (Ruler Of The World)......2 3

Makfi Brunch (Harbour Watch)................................L Chipotle (Havana Gold).............................. L L Create Belief (Awtaad)....................................3 Just Beautiful (Pride Of Dubai)................3 L Noa Lea (Jukebox Jury)..................................L Tactical (Toronado)..........................................L

Kyllachy Collinsbay (Cable Bay)....................................3 King’s Lynn (Cable Bay)...................................L Kitty Marion (Iffraaj).........................................3

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broodmare stats

As a broodmare sire Nathaniel has had only six runners so far, yet Zellie is already the Group 1 winner of the Prix Marcel Boussac

Manduro Es La Vida (Soldier Hollow)............................L Maria’s Mon Loch Lein (Invincible Spirit)..........................L My Generation (Speightstown)..................L Marju Happy Romance (Dandy Man)................3 L Judicial (Iffraaj)...................................................L Kick On (Charm Spirit)................................ L L Quick Suzy (Profitable)...................................2 Mark Of Esteem Third Realm (Sea The Stars)..........................L Triple Time (Frankel)........................................L Mastercraftsman Attimo Fuggente (Exceed And Excel).2 3 L Medicean Accakaba (Acclamation)............................2 L Garrus (Acclamation)......................................3

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Liberty London (Maxios)........................3 3 L

Mr Prospector New Trails (Medaglia D’oro)..........................L

Meshaheer Fort Payne (Rio De La Plata).........................L

King David (Elusive City)................................L Merveillo (Archipenko)...................................L Starman (Dutch Art)....................................1 2 Wonderful Tonight (Le Havre).................2 2

Mizzen Mast Straight Answer (Kodiac)...............................L

More Than Ready Sonaiyla (Dark Angel).....................................3

Monsun Light Stars (Sea The Stars).............................L Mythico (Adlerflug)..........................................2 Northern Ruler (Ruler Of The World).........3 Sahib’s Joy (Soldier Hollow)..........................L Sconset (Soldier Hollow)...........................3 L Vadeni (Churchill).............................................L Waldkonig (Kingman).....................................3 Yibir (Dubawi)................................................2 3

Motivator Jannah Flower (Olympic Glory)..................L Mo Celita (Camacho).......................................L Wally (Siyouni)........................................2 3 3 L

Montjeu Ateem (Dark Angel).........................................L Dubai Honour (Pride Of Dubai)..............2 2 Fambrus (Oasis Dream)..................................L Great Ambassador (Exceed And Excel)....L

Mountain Cat Call To Victory (Victory Gallop)....................2

Namid Campanelle (Kodiac).......................................1

Mr Greeley Nocentsinkentucky (Goldencents)........ L L

Nathaniel Zellie (Wootton Bassett)............................1 L

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Muhaymin Skalleti (Kendargent)...........................1 1 2 3 Skazino (Kendargent)............................. 2 2 3 Muhtathir Camorra (Zoffany)............................................3 Star Safari (Sea The Stars)..............................3 Mujadil Logo Hunter (Brazen Beau)...................... L L Safe Voyage (Fast Company)........................L Mustanfar Keeper Of Time (Mehmas)............................3

broodmare stats Chindit (Wootton Bassett)............................3 Don Chicco (El Kabeir)....................................L Equilateral (Equiano)...................................2 L Iresine (Manduro).........................................3 L Lancaster House (Galileo).............................3 Meu Amor (Siyouni).........................................L Saiydabad (Blame).......................................3 L Sir Lucan (Camelot)..........................................L Tis Marvellous (Harbour Watch)............. L L Twilight Payment (Teofilo)............................3 Observatory Native Trail (Oasis Dream)..................... 1 1 2 Waldbiene (Intello)..........................................2 Octagonal Zakouski (Shamardal).....................................2 Okawango Jin Jin (Canford Cliffs)......................................2 Olden Times Noticeable Grace (Make Believe)...........3 L One Cool Cat Fearby (Havana Gold).....................................L

Nayef Eshaada (Muhaarar).....................................1 L Glounthaune (Kodiac)....................................3 Manobo (Sea The Stars).............................2 L Palace Pier (Kingman)..........................1 1 1 2 Quenelle D’or (Golden Horn).......................L New Approach Katara (Deep Impact)......................................L Malavath (Mehmas).........................................2 Modern Games (Dubawi)..............................3 Noverre Medahim (Kodiac)............................................L Space Blues (Dubawi).................................1 2 The Conqueror (Excelebration)............L L L Oasis Dream Acanella (Dansili)..............................................3 Baby Rider (Gleneagles).................................2 Berkshire Shadow (Dark Angel)..................2 Bjorn (Acclamation).........................................L Brasilian Man (Teofilo)....................................L

Oratorio Epona Plays (Australia)...............................2 3 Some Respect (Gleneagles)...................... L L Tabera (Gleneagles).........................................3 Too Soon To Panic (Gleneagles)..................L Orpen Aria Importante (Twilight Son)............3 L L Suesa (Night Of Thunder)...................... 2 3 3 Zelda (Zelzal)......................................................L Pastoral Pursuits Attagirl (Wootton Bassett)............................L Little O’kelly (Twilight Son)...........................L

Cloudy Dawn (Kodiac)....................................3 Goolwa (Australia)............................................L Hello You (Invincible Spirit)..........................2 Kemari (Dubawi)...............................................2 La Lune (Champs Elysees).........................3 L Line Of Departure (Mehmas).......................L Love (Galileo)......................................................1 Marshmallow (Soldier Hollow)................3 L Nymphadora (No Nay Never)......................L Pearls Galore (Invincible Spirit)...............3 3 Sandrine (Bobby’s Kitten)..........................2 3 Silent Escape (New Approach)....................L Tenebrism (Caravaggio).................................1 Platini Aff Un Zo (Kallisto).......................................3 L Algiers (Shamardal).........................................L Deia (Soldier Hollow)......................................L Poliglote Esope (Galiway).................................................3 Who Knows (Siyouni)......................................3 Polish Precedent Djo Francais (Intello)........................................L Pounced Eulaila (Arcano)..................................................2 Rahy Discoveries (Mastercraftsman)....................1 Final Song (Dark Angel).................................3 Rainbow Quest Mare Australis (Australia)...............................1 Raven’s Pass Fast Raaj (Iffraaj)................................................3 Golden Pass (Golden Horn)..........................L Mishriff (Make Believe)...............................1 1 Saffron Beach (New Bay)...........................1 3

Rock Of Gibraltar Chilly Filly (Makfi)..............................................L Coachello (Dunkerque)..................................L Coeur De Pierre (Zanzibari)..........................L Ebaiyra (Distorted Humor)........................2 3 Lambo (Protectionist).....................................3 Poetic Flare (Dawn Approach).............1 1 L Sagamiyra (Sea The Moon).......................3 L Zavaro (Areion)..................................................3 Royal Applause Forest Of Dean (Iffraaj)...................................3 Hurricane Ivor (Ivawood)...............................3 Stormbringer (Dutch Art)..............................L System (Galileo Gold).....................................L Sadler’s Wells Ancient Rome (War Front)............................3 Reach For The Moon (Sea The Stars).........3 Seachange (Siyouni)........................................L Visualisation (No Nay Never)........................L Sakhee Hamish (Motivator)..........................................3 Sakhee’s Secret Windstormblack (Brazen Beau)..................3 Samum Sublimis (Shamardal)......................................L Sea The Stars Mohaafeth (Frankel)....................................3 L My Oberon (Dubawi)......................................3 Soft Whisper (Dubawi)............................... L L Varkesha (Pivotal).............................................L Waliyak (Le Havre)........................................3 L

Red Clubs Snow Lantern (Frankel)..................................1

Selkirk Benbatl (Dubawi)..............................................2 Inspiral (Frankel).........................................1 2 L Kinross (Kingman)........................................2 3 Lord Bay (Excelebration)................................L Policy Of Truth (Siyouni)................................3

Redattore Fleur D’iris (Shamardal)..................................3

Septieme Ciel Diablotine (Kodi Bear)....................................L

Pharly Zafer Atesi (Win River Win)...........................2

Redoute’s Choice Calithea (Awtaad).............................................L Emperor Of The Sun (Galileo)......................L

Pivotal Choux (Exceed And Excel)............................L

Rio De La Plata Ladies Church (Churchill)..............................L

Shamardal Al Aasy (Sea The Stars)................................3 3 Althiqa (Dark Angel)........................................2 Anasia (Intello)............................................... L L Creative Flair (Dubawi)...................................L Highland Avenue (Dubawi)..........................L

Peintre Celebre El Drama (Lope De Vega)...............................L Invite (The Gurkha)..........................................L Mighty Blue (Authorized)..............................L Sea Of Sands (Sea The Stars)........................3 Valloria (Dubawi)..............................................L

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broodmare stats Island Of Love (Kodiac)...................................L Lilac Road (Mastercraftsman)......................L Mehnah (Frankel).............................................L Midnight Sands (Speightstown)................3 Tertius (Siyouni).................................................L Vadream (Brazen Beau)..................................3 Wren’s Breath (Elzaam)...................................L Shantou Loveisthehigherlaw (Kodiac).......................L Sharp Humor Zenden (Fed Biz)...............................................1 Shirocco Al Suhail (Dubawi)............................................2 Elisa Again (Champs Elysees).......................L Hurricane Lane (Frankel)....................1 1 1 2 Sholokhov Noble Music (Sea The Moon).......................L Showcasing Louliana (Acclamation)..................................L Sicyos Praetorius (Novellist).......................................L Silver Frost Best Of Lips (The Gurkha).........................2 3 Silver Hawk Flamingo Girl (Soldier Hollow)....................3 Singspiel Duhail (Lope De Vega)....................................2 Glycon (Le Havre).........................................2 3 Land Of Legends (Iffraaj)...............................2 Rodaballo (Lope De Vega)............................2 Secret Ambition (Exceed And Excel)....2 3 Snaffles (Churchill)...........................................L Sinndar Big Five (Frankel)...............................................L Dima (Falco)........................................................L Sir Percy Fernando Vichi (Australia).............................L Indie Angel (Dark Angel)...............................2 Romantic Time (Time Test)...........................3 Sleeping Indian Axana (Soldier Hollow)...............................3 L Caturra (Mehmas).........................................2 L

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Smart Strike Irish Freedom (Pioneerof The Nile)............3 Toro Strike (Toronado)....................................3 Spectrum Galtee Mist (Gale Force Ten).........................L Speedmaster Karlarina (Le Havre)..........................................L Speightstown Man Of Promise (Into Mischief)..................L Zain Claudette (No Nay Never)...............2 3 Statue Of Liberty Summer Romance (Kingman).....................2 Sternkoenig Alaskasonne (Soldier Hollow).....................L Kaspar (Pivotal)..................................................2 Storm Cat Joan Of Arc (Galileo)....................................1 3 Zainhom (Street Cry).......................................L Street Cry Albahr (Dubawi)................................................L Blown By Wind (Invincible Spirit)...............3 Cantocorale (Helmet).................................. L L Dubai Future (Dubawi)...................................L Egot (Invincible Spirit)................................ L L Head Mistress (Profitable).............................L Outbox (Frankel)...............................................L Passion And Glory (Cape Cross)..................3 Rebel’s Romance (Dubawi)...........................2 Salute The Soldier (Sepoy)........................1 2 Spanish Mission (Noble Mission)...............2 Street Sense Ya Hayati (Dubawi)...........................................L Sunday Break Cheshire Academy (Flintshire)....................3 Penja (Camelot).................................................3 Surumu Palmas (Lord Of England)..........................1 L Take Risks Best Sixteen (Penny’s Picnic)........................L Tamayuz Reshabar (Iffraaj)...............................................L Sa Filonzana (El Kabeir)..................................L

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Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) winner Winter Power is out of a Titus Livius mare Teofilo Coroebus (Dubawi)..........................................3 Dreamloper (Lope De Vega).........................3 Libre (Exceed And Excel)...............................L Mac Swiney (New Approach)......................1 Parchemin (Lope De Vega)...........................L Thunder Kiss (Night Of Thunder)...............3 Victory Chime (Campanologist).................L Tertullian Diadora (Dansili)...............................................L Ottoman Emperor (Excelebration)............3 Tiger Hill Bel Aristo (New Approach)...........................L Frozen Juke (Frozen Power).........................L In Swoop (Adlerflug)...................................2 3 Timber Country Horoscope (No Nay Never)...........................L Titus Livius Cirona (Maxios)..................................................3 Measure Of Magic (Kodi Bear)................. L L Qaysar (Choisir).................................................L Winter Power (Bungle Inthejungle)...1 L L Tiz Wonderful Haven Park (Sir Prancealot)..........................L Tobougg Apollo One (Equiano).....................................L Toylsome Torquator Tasso (Adlerflug).................. 1 1 2 Trempolino Brokeback Mountain (Le Havre).................L

Turtle Bowl Atomic Jones (Wootton Bassett)................2 King Shalaa (Shalaa)........................................L Unbridled’s Song Queen Power (Shamardal)............................2 Thunderman (Blu Air Force).........................2 Verglas Lady Bowthorpe (Nathaniel)....................1 2 Whipper Lismore (Zoffany)..............................................3 Sky Angel (Dark Angel)..................................L With Distinction Extravagant Kid (Kiss The Kid).....................1 Xaar Lollipop Girl (Dandy Man).............................L Mums Tipple (Footstepsinthesand)..........L Summerghand (Lope De Vega)..............3 L Yankee Gentleman Mnasek (Empire Maker).................................3 Zafonic Match Maker (Declaration Of War)........3 L Zamindar Beauty Inspire (Mehmas)..............................3 Mangoustine (Dark Angel)...........................L Pretty Tiger (Sea The Moon).....................2 L Zilzal Pradaro (Penny’s Picnic).................................2 Courtesy of Hyperion Promotions

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

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By KODIAC - World Record Holder for 2-y-o winners, Champion European Sire of 2-y-os 2020, Champion European Sire (winners) 2020 – Sire of Group 1 winners Campanelle, Hello Youmzain, Best Solution, etc. plus emerging young sires Ardad, Prince of Lir, Coulsty and Kodi Bear, all Gr.1 producers UBETTABELIEVEIT – winner of three races and £116,503 all over 5f including: EBF Novice Stakes Doncaster, LR National S. Sandown, Gr.2 Flying Childers S. Doncaster. Also 3rd Gr.2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint all at 2.

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By world class stallion and sire of sires SHAMARDAL

By Teofilo, sire of 6 Gr.1 winners in 2020

Half brother to DARK ANGEL

Brother to Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup winner EQTIDAAR

FIRST CROP FOALS 2022

Won 4 races from 3 to 7 years, 5-7.5f, £137,904, and was placed four times Top Blood at excellent value

Gr.1 placed at 2, 3 and 4 • Gr.2 winner over 7f First-crop yearlings sold for £45,000, £44,000, £43,000, £40,000, etc.

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photo of the month: champion apprentice, marco ghiani Marco Ghiani (right) receiving his award from the legendary Lester Piggott

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ARCO GHIANI was crowned this year’s British Champion Apprentice winner on British Champions Day at Ascot by the former 11-time champion jockey, the 85-year-old Lester Piggott.

Ghiani, who finished 16 winners clear of his closest challenger Saffie Osborne, won the All-Weather Championships title last winter, and made the most of that momentum heading into the Turf season.

The 22-year-old has ridden 51 winners since May 1, including a first Royal Ascot success on Godolphin’s Real World in the Royal Hunt Cup and a first Group race victory on the same horse in the Group 3 Strensall Stakes at York.

Born in Sardinia, Ghiani moved to Newmarket at the age of 16.

After a stint at the British Racing School, he honed his riding and language skills with trainer Luca Cumani before joining fellow Newmarket handler Stuart Williams on Cumani’s retirement in December 2018.

Ghiani, who rode out his claim at Yarmouth on July 1, said: “To be crowned champion apprentice is a dream come true and I am very

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thankful to all the people who have helped me along on this journey.

“The British Racing School played a big part in my development.

Without them, I probably wouldn’t be here because my father wanted me to do everything properly rather than just working in a yard and not having a clue what I was doing.

“It was quite hard here for the first couple of years. I did not know anything of England and couldn’t speak very good English, so it was hard to communicate. I almost moved back home but Luca persuaded me to stay, and a few months later I got my licence.

“Stuart Williams raised me up after Luca retired. He gave me my first winner and has supported me with lots of rides. He has been very supportive, and I am very grateful for it.

“I was just about to lose my claim when I rode my first Royal Ascot winner. I couldn’t really believe what I’d done, it was such a good feeling, and I did not want to jump off the horse afterwards – I just wanted to stroke him!

“I do not have to look after my claim anymore, so the ambition now is to ride as many winners as I can and maybe ride a few horses for some of the big trainers.”

GOLDEN HORDE © Agence G / Z. Lupa

GROUP 1 WINNER AT ROYAL ASCOT

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CHAMPION 3YO SPRINTER IN EUROPE Winner of Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup (6f.)

A BRILLIANT 2YO Winner of Gr.2 Richmond Stakes (6f.)

2nd Gr.1 Middle Park (6f.)

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The only British Classic winner by INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Half-brother to ST MARK’S BASILICA.

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The fastest son of KINGMAN. Out of a full-sister to the dam of NATIVE TRAIL.

TEN SOVEREIGNS

Middle Park Stakes winner and European Champion 3YO Sprinter

by NO NAY NEVER.

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